#This is a cruel move

[alystar00]

I am rewatching Ice Age 2 and like

I love it, I grew up with this movie

But it's so cruel towards Manny.

Like, the first movie showed us his past. We watched the humans killing his partner and their child (and his decision to help the baby anyway)

How would you feel if after such a tragedy everyone says that you're the last of your kind?

#Ice age 2 #This is a cruel move #Really #Manny #Ice age

[sweetvillainjude]

forever thinking about Cardan absentmindedly running his finger along the curve of Jude’s ear while they were lying side by side under the stars

#and then realising it in shame and pulling away! #oh early jurdan…. #everyone moved on but i stayed right there......... #this was one of the scenes that made me go from 'cardan? eh whatever jude deserves better' to 'OHMYDJKFHEKJL jurdan crumbs help me save me' #jude x cardan #jurdan #tfota #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #the cruel prince

[breakbleheavens]

No rules in breakable heaven

CRUEL SUMMER The Eras Tour — Mexico City, Mexico (Night 4) | August 27, 2023

#tswiftedit #taylorswiftedit #tswiftgif #taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour #lover #cruel summer #flashing tw #*mine #*2023 #*gifs #1k #mine: eras tour #mine: lover #she did some different moves this time asdfkljsh and also n2 where she walked straight after the bridge instead of turning #I have watched way too many cruel summer tiktoks lol

[nellasbookplanet]

In the wake of FCG' fate I've been thinking about death in ttrpgs, and how it kind of exists on three levels:

There’s the gameplay level, where it only makes sense for a combat-heavy, pc-based game to have a tool for resurrection because the characters are going to die a lot and players get attached to them and their plotlines.

Then there’s the narrative level, where you sort of need permanent death on occasion so as not to lose all tension and realism. On this level, sometimes the player will let their character remain dead because they find it more interesting despite there being options of resurrection, or maybe the dice simply won’t allow the resurrection to succeed.

Then, of course, there’s the in-universe level, which is the one that really twists my mind. This is a world where actual resurrection of the actual dead is entirely obtainable, often without any ill effects (I mean, they'll be traumatized, but unless you ask a necromancer to do the resurrection they won’t come back as a zombie or vampire or otherwise wrong). It’s so normal that many adventurers will have gone through it multiple times. Like, imagine actually living in a world where all that keeps you from getting a missing loved one back is the funds to buy a diamond and hire a cleric. As viewers we felt that of course Pike should bring Laudna, a complete stranger, back when asked, but how often does she get this question? How many parents have come and begged her to return their child to them? How many lovers lost but still within reach? When and how does she decide who she saves and who she doesn’t?

From this perspective, I feel like every other adventurer should have the motive/backstory of 'I lost a loved one and am working to obtain the level of power/wealth to get them back'. But of course this is a game, and resurrection is just a game mechanic meant to be practically useful.

Anyway. A story-based actual play kind of has to find a way to balance these three levels. From a narrative perspective letting FCG remain dead makes sense, respects their sacrifice, and ends their arc on a highlight. From a gameplay level it is possible to bring them back but a lot more complicated than a simple revivify. But on an in-universe level, when do you decide if you should let someone remain dead or not? Is the party selfish if they don’t choose to pursue his resurrection the way they did for Laudna? Do they even know, as characters, that it’s technically possible to save someone who's been blown to smithereens? Back in campaign 2, the moment the m9 gained access to higher level resurrection they went to get Molly back (and only failed because his body had been taken back by Lucien). At the end of c1, half the party were in denial about Vax and still looking for ways to save him, because they had always been able to before (and had the game continued longer it wouldn’t have surprised me had they found a way). Deanna was brought back decades after her death (and was kind of fucked up because of it). Bringing someone back could be saving them, showing them just how loved and appreciated they are. Or it could be saving you, forcing someone back from rest and peace into a world that's kept moving without them because you can’t handle the guilt of knowing you let them stay gone when you didn’t have to. How do you know? How would you ever know?

#cr spoilers #sometimes i think about how oryms backstory has it baked in that will was magically impossible to bring back #while yasha was simply not powerful enough in either magic or connections to bring zuala back #and by the time she was years had gone by and yasha had moved on and bringing zuala back would've been cruel and selfish #similar to how deanna was brought back but now she was left behind and alone #speaking of could you ever truly move on from grief in a world like that? #how do you accept the inevitability of death when it isn’t necessarily permanent? #no wonder delilah and sylas went evil to keep each other alive #no wonder laerryn accidentally caused the calamity in trying to break through the planes #the hubris of a world like this would be UNREAL #as would the bitter feelings from everyone who knows this power exists but can’t access it bc they’re like. a farmer #critical role #long post #nella talks cr #cr3 spoilers

[happypeachsludgeflower]

The true blasphemy of literature is the romanticization of romance. They make it beautiful—all soft words, and elegant lines—and enchanting, with magic sparkling in the margins.

And you can feel it in the depths of your soul, an unexplored ocean of laughter and tears and dreams all melded together.

The yearning of a kiss that brushes against the steady and so so warm pulsing beat of life—against the smooth skin of a lovers neck. The desperation to touch another being and feel that they’re alive, right there next to you—right there, and never leaving.

To love and be loved is a jewel among treasures and all that we each seek—all that we each desire.

It burns and it burns and it burns.

“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

“Come home and break my heart, if you must.”

“Occasionally, Fate pulls itself together again and Time is always waiting.”

“And perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“By you, I am forever undone.”

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”

“A heart’s a heavy burden.”

“My sweet nemesis.”

“If you have to go, you know I will go with you.”

and then?

and then.

The book is over.

And you remember that love like that doesn't exist.

Not in the real world.

And all you can do is cry.

#howls moving castle #song of achilles #tsoa #the song of achilles #howl’s moving castle #cruel prince #queen of nothing #the wicked king #the cruel prince #the queen of nothing #the starless sea #pride and prejudice #romance #fantasy romance #literature #powerful quotes #romantic quotes #madeline miller #diana wynne jones #holly black #jane austen #erin morgenstern #love quote

[jazzkrebber]

"a woman with knives ready to kill you!" WHERE⁉️⁉️

#pretty boy better get out my way ITS MY TURN #MOVE KAZ #MOVE CARDAN #MOVE NEZHA #WHOS NEXT #kaz brekker #cardan greenbriar #yin nezha #inej ghafa #jude duarte #fang runin #six of crows #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #leigh bardugo

[cupiidzbow]

i love you objectums i love you fictosexuals i would take a bullet for you and i mean that wholeheartedly

#like I will jump in front of moving traffic for you. #people are so cruel to you like wtf are you gonna do abt it 🤨🤨🤨 I’ll beat your ass #txt

[pjharvey]

why are they making a documentary about the depp vs heard trial amber has been through enough! that trial should not even have been public in the first place

#like she is FINALLY experiencing peace and getting to move on with her life this is just unbelievably cruel

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) // Anne Carson

#just thinking abt how li lihuan’s life was never his until he remade it into something he knew he was never going to be able to keep #& even then not really when so much of it was formed in the shadow of what had once made him #& as soon as he’d found something. someone. to live for. he couldn’t. #when your myth becomes your god and your future fractures you into a pawn. ruled by the actions of those surrounding you #who get to move you as another piece in their own game. and your personhood is lost. until the one person you meet who loved you first as a #legend begins to know you truly and love you as a person & as yourself. to the point that reconciling you as the same myth becomes a cruel #ty. to see what you have & to know you are going to lose it. to look at your soulmate. the person who knows you #in your bones. your best friend. and to be seen. and to know you cannot keep him. ANYWAY. #mysterious lotus casebook #bet y’all thoguht i was over them I. AM NOT. i will never be. holy fuck. never. #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #fang xiaobao #di feisheng #mlc #mlcedit #cdrama #parallels

[love-and-books320]

 crazy how cardans entire family got killed in one scene and then it was glossed over the rest of the series and there was no expansion on that. literally nobody cared 

#Like not even cardan #They all just moved on like it was a regular fucking tuesday #What was that #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #twk #the queen of nothing #qon #the folk of the air #tfota #the greenbriars #tcp

[starheirxero]

For the record, I think soooo much about a potential AU where Eclipse really commits to the "false hope" plan and grits his teeth through every act because he's like "the more I seem genuine and the more they believe me, then the worse they'll feel when I finally stab them in the back!!" and every act of kindness he commits is under his idea of "oh man they're falling for my act sooo hard rn"

and then when he's eventually been completely integrated as at least a friend to the celestial siblings, he sits back and goes "man. now would be a great time to betray them right?" and then he finally looks at it all and realizes he doesn't truly want that now and he's just like "oh. oh." and is probably wildly conflicted and emotional about it

#xero says things #xero thoughts and rambles #i can only imagine that there's a MASSIVE breakdown over the fact he's in an okay and happy situation now #because now he doesn't know how to move forward. he doesn't know what comes next. #when he was cruel and evil then he knew that he could expect someone to come for revenge. he knew he could expect the same hatred back. #so now the floor has caved underneath him and there's probably a long moment where he tried to go /back/ to those ways just to feel a- #-sense of normalcy again. but now his feelings and hus enviroment have changed and he can't commit to that as wholly #so it's a slow but steady process of the sibling's getting eclipse a ground to stand on methinks. or smth. yk #tsams #eclipse #sun and moon show #sams eclipse

[botanycrewmember]

List of Shen Qiao’s incredible violence that lives in my head

(spoilers throughout the entire Qian Qiu/Thousand Autumns novel)

I've seen people complain that Shen Qiao should go apeshit or that he's too soft and forgiving, so I've compiled an (incomplete) list of the times Shen Qiao canonically goes apeshit/shows absolutely no forgiveness.

Beating up a gang of thugs while blind and threatening to poke their eyes out so they become just like him.

Castrating a serial r*pist. 

Stabbing a man through the heart with a branch.

Taking a group of people hostage and forcing them (with threats of grievous bodily harm) to eat all the food they dumped on the ground because hello, people are starving to death literally one city wall away, assholes.

Pushing an opponent he just killed to the ground because he decided the guy doesn’t deserve a dignified death. 

Threatening to cut people into smithereens and demonstrating how he would do it.

Straight up killing two would-be child-murderers in the span of 10 seconds. 

Condemning a man to a fate worse than death as punishment (twice). 

#qian qiu #thousand autumns #shen qiao #meng xishi #his boundless kindness is made more significant once you consider the amount of harm he's capable of doing #this man looked at the immensely cruel world he lives in and said 'well i better try not add to the atrocities' #then situation forces his hand and he goes 'incredible violence it is then' #also it's interesting how many people think he's forgiving when he's simply moving on #just because he is no longer mad at them doesn't mean he's forgiven or forgotten the transgression #in the case of Chen Gong he literally REFUSES to let go of what that kid did to survive an impossible situation #like what exactly do you expect him to do with a sword hanging over his head sir #text post

[calla-lilly]

#andromeda six #nobody talk to me im busy hyperfixating on this #im still on this page i cant move on #they literally banged last ep but i fear this is what has me on a chokehold #edit: why is it that when i'm not on his route i'm playing matchmaker for him and my sister???! that's just cruel 😭

[leafatlaw]

not like a big deal or anything, but I strange way I see jimmy being characterized, is still being in love with Tango. And like Scott too, but that is less common. And like I get the appeal of it (Ranchers 4 life), but it always seems very out of character, to me at least.

Because the thing is, Jimmy is very moved on from Scott and Tango, hell even from southernlanders and The Bad Boys. It’s his thing, he shakes off these old lives and relationships very easily, maybe the most easiest of everyone in the series. In a world of people never leaving the desert, or dogwarts, jimmy has escaped them all Scott free( get it ?). And he doesn’t look back ever.

A canon interpretation of this is because jimmys always out first, he never has to watch his allies die, or his base blown up, he gets to get out before things get messy, he’s the canary the warning of bad things to come. But because of this he’s never had to deal with the grief or sadness that comes with surviving. He’s never had to bury someone or deal with finding replacement allies, he’s free from all that.

And so it’s easy for him to move on, but his allies don’t, they don’t have that luxury. They try to get him back, or try to team with him again, but it’s never the same and the result is always the same. The canary doesn’t hold on to anything, be that hate or love

#sparrow speaks #traffic smp #jimmy solidarity #this is all slash lighthearted I swear on god #And if this makes anyone upset I’m so sorry #It’s a v minor complaint #It’s just odd #Like no he’s not in love with tango still did you see him in session 4? #Jimmy actually probably goes after his former lovers with more of a vengeance than normal #He doesn’t love them anyone #It’s not that he’s cruel or anything he’s just #Moved on #life series #trafficblr #the life series #traffic series #okay tagging donw

[chryblossomjjk]

just found out that jungkook interacts with people who aren’t me

#cold cruel world out there tsk tsk #also lil life update friends ! #working full time n going to school full time n also doing extracurricular activities is really not the move #i struggle w toxic productivity and it’s really really destroyed my mental and physical health #so ive busted my behind to save up enough money #to be able to support myself on a part time work schedule until i graduate woohoo ! #hoping to have more time to indulge in hobbies #which includes being on here and writing and interacting #i miss you all dearly #ty for everything #like the fact that yall still send sweet things in my inbox when ive been p inactive for like this whole year is super nice and sweet and ye #im sorry i haven’t been responding #but i read them and they do make my day and i love you #and i hope to pick things up again soon #glimpse of us is going to be a banger i fear #ive sat on it for so long that ive perfected this storyline #from metaphors to small details to foreshadowing to non linear storytelling that all forms together in the ends yep #just need to write it which is the hard part 👉👈 #but im excited #this the type of story to leave you in a funk for a few days lol and im so excited to share #hope you’re all doing well #and you are also prioritizing your health and well-being #you deserve time for yourself #not even deserve tbh #it’s legit a necessity like pls #you deserve it

[imthursdaysyme]

Guilt

#stranger things #drawing #steve harrington #robin buckley #stobin #that moment where you know each other so well #so you can hurry each other the most #imaging them saying things they regret and don't mean bc they know it'll hirt #and both instantly rearing back #looking at each other hesitantly in shock #instant apologies out of their mouths cause they just hurt the person they love #they said things mean and cruel #and they look at each other #staring #waiting #Waiting for the other to move #waiting for the other to say something #do something #worrying with every shallow breath that they ruomed it #ruined what they had with each other #the safety they felt #all bc they got angry #and their coping mechanisms came out #they used the knowledge the other so safely placed with them in a jab #and so they wait #and stare at the others shock laden face #and hope that they didn't break it #anyway #art #digital art