#down to raise him up

[shenzuns]

ok not to post ooc again but. imagine being so wrong, imagine posting Such a wrong take on a character dynamic so u can interject ur fave into the scenario yet again.

yes this is about jiang cheng getting sidelined by wei wuxian, and don’t get me wrong, i like wei wuxian as a character! but it’s really insufferable to read bad takes about how jc isn’t a good uncle to jin ling, or isn’t his favorite, or that jin ling was failed by everyone except wei wuxian when u know damn well that’s just bias talking. 

jin ling didn’t even Trust wwx at the end of the story so what on gods earth are u talking about

also when people forget to acknowledge that jin ling is spoiled silly when near jiang cheng and gets more love From jiang cheng than he presumably ever would from his own clan like. literally can u just plaster ‘i hate jiang cheng’ onto ur post and get it over with instead of making the most doo doo claims about jiang cheng’s relationship to jin ling and how he ‘failed’ him. god

#𝟶𝟶𝟶. 𝙳𝚄𝙼𝙱𝙵𝚄𝙲𝙺 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁 ，𝙳𝚄𝙼𝙱𝙵𝚄𝙲𝙺 𝙽𝙾𝚅𝙴𝙻. — ( out. ) #posting this here bc. well SBHSMSDFMK it's danmei it counts just not #the muse of the blog #but regardless! yeah this is annoying #and it's why wwx is such a difficult character for me to enjoy #bc the fandom makes him utterly unenjoyable #by putting every other character #down to raise him up #like u defeat the purpose. #his character is not #likable to me bc he makes up for what jiang cheng lacks #his character is Likable bc he has qualities that make him a likable character #much in the same way jiang cheng does #if u dont like jc thats fine #but what are all these bad takes #i don't know how else to express to u #that jc did as much as he feasibly could to take care of jl given that jl wasn't #in his care it was a kindness from that clan #and! he had to not only #recover from the awful trauma lotus pier experienced but rebuild it #LIKE I JUST I DON'T. I DON'T GET IT LMAO it's so very canonical that #jin ling values jiang cheng very highly and it's the same way #they are each other's only families and the trust there is beyond words #U CAN SAY THAT WWX WOULD MAKE A GOOD UNCLE OR CARES ABOUT JL OR THAT JL CARES FOR WWX #WITHOUT PUTTING DOWN JC #IT IS NOT THAT HARD GIRL #anyways.

[freyadragonlord]

What Han Yoojin thinks his life is like:

What Han Yoojin's life is actually like:

#the amount of canon dialogue where people openly discuss locking this man up or tying him down #is outstanding #and deserved #he is a menace #sctir #my s class hunters #the s classes that i raised #my s rank hunters #han yoojin #han yoohyun #bak yerim #sung hyunjae #song taewon #yoo myeongwoo #hyj #hyh #shj

[notllorstel]

making the eldest trolls siblings interact

#trolls #trolls band together #John dory #viva #dickory #fanart #Started with hey how about the elder bros john dory and dickory? wouldn’t that be fu- #🧠: KILL #on it boss🫡 #based on the hcs (must track down) i’ve seen of Dickory raising Hickory by himself #learning that all of branch’s brothers left him with his grandmother but didn’t even check in on him over the years #maybe Dickory deserves one kick at each of the bros he says… #hickory: this is how he shows care. branch: 🥺 #meanwhile dickory preparing a run up to hit the brozones like a bowling ball to pins😤 #anyway enemies to lovers #Viva gets one big hit for dickory tricking/bounty hunting poppy in twt. then bffs

[landfilloftrash]

seeing ghosts everywhere you go?

are they all in your head or are they here causing that chill in your bones?

#my art #Ace Attorney #Miles Edgeworth #Phoenix Wright #Gregory Edgeworth #Manfred von Karma #i think the concept of him seeing Actual Ghosts is delightful and should be expanded upon because YES. GET HAUNTED BITCH (affectionate)— #however; Metaphorical ones. Things he didn’t expect to see after Gregory was gone #the boy you have raised being like his father in every way you did not expect and it blind siding you every time no matter how you prepare #and the man who finally takes you down from your pedestal of godhood having the same gumption and determination #as the only man who could go against you toe to toe in court and scarred you in more ways than one #Manfred von Karma sees ghosts; it’s just up to your interpretation whether or not they’re real or crafted from his own guilt #rea rambles in the tags #small side note; it is *so* incredibly fun to draw him clutching his shoulder I’m sorry if you notice it a lot from me. ok thats it thank u #rea’s trash

[oddberryshortcake]

I think the Knight of Dawn being "a coward who is unable to stand up for what is right and does as he's ordered to" and "someone who cares deeply about his family and did everything he could so that Silver could live a happy and normal life in the future" are two statements that can coexist.

#And Lilia knows this too which is huge #I love the complexities brought up in this chapter #I love how it really weighs in on Lilia's desire for world peace because war turns normally compassionate people do to terrible things #and no one wins when babies are orphaned #I love how far an act of kindness can go too #The Knight warned Lilia about Henrick's plan to kidnap the egg and gave Lilia an opening to escape #and 400 years later Lilia rescued Silver from his blessing turned curse and raised him and loved him the way his parents would've wanted #I love this fairytale #and the Knight is in the wrong but its kind of sad to see him being reduced down to his worst action #He's a tragedy but there's more to a person than just who they are at their worst #I'm gonna lose my mind when part 5 comes over here im sorry for what I become #twst #twst chapter 7 #twst spoilers #twisted wonderland #twst silver #twst knight of dawn

[mlobsters]

supernatural s1e16 shadow (w. eric kripke)

aka the first time i had a full-tilt meltdown over this show.

#supernatural #eric kripke #spn 1x16 #sam and dean #sam winchester #dean winchester #mygifs #spngifs #sam and dean mush #how to feel about your brother #like watching soon to be exes-the relationship is clearly over and one flaying themselves open showing their squishy insides #trying to make it work but the other is gently shutting them down and saying it's over #wholly lost my shit about this. late enough in s1 where we know this is A LOT of (too much?) emotional vulnerabilty for dean #but also way too early in any show's run to expect this level of emotional vulnerability and guts being strewn about #truly threw me for a loop. but it certainly set the stage for where they would go with sam and dean over the years #Dean's little eyebrow raise to the “I'd do anything for you” and sad half smile “could be” just punch me in the gut #and that sweet open expression talking about being together and a family again. ugh. such a rarity to see that on him #and Sam's “i don't want them to be” absolutely crushing. in the kindest manner. #but by the end dean's got his walls back up. oh my heart.

[lacomandante]

Sharpe helping Antonia to walk along the path to Tio Ramon's house. Her hand is so small in his, her feet unsteady, but she is so determined and he is so, so proud of her, his baby girl.

#;my art #sharpe #richard sharpe #antonia sharpe #(i rarely post my art bc i am VERY shy but. i had to do this) #(i doodled this back in october but was possessed to do something with it bc i love them SO much) #(its not perfect but i wanted to have fun and antonia is just SO important to him...everything he loves in the world) #(ramon and teresa are sitting on the porch drinking lemonade and watching sharpe and antonia go up and down the path) #(and Antonia looks up at her papa with so much love and joy in her eyes and Sharpe is almost bowled over by it) #(a family!!! at last a family!! and they are all happy and sharpe gets to raise her bc i said so) #(i have like two other sharpe and antonia pieces almost done too i didnt realize how many i had)

[americankimchi]

it's so hard to take star wars seriously nowadays because i'll watch someone get skewered by a lightsaber and then somehow walk it off with a bacta patch and a slap on the ass. like you're telling me a weapon that can carve furrows into foot-thick solid durasteel doors, dripping melted slag in its wake, when applied to the flesh of a sentient being leaves behind nothing more than superficial damage. like be so ffr. "it cauterizes the wound instantly" this is not a little cut. this is not minor burns. you were IMPALED BY A BEAM OF PLASMA. your ORGANS have been COOKED. your BLOOD has BOILED. your BONES were INCINERATED. what are you TALKING ABOUTTTTTT

#personal #I CANNOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY #you do not grow up with the OT and the PT watching people get cut down instantly and then just #GESTURES FURIOUSLY AT THE MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF PEOPLE GETTING A LIGHTSABER THROUGH THE GUT #AND JUST WALKING IT OFF!!!!!!!! SOMETIMES RIGHT AFTER THE FACT!!!!!!!!!!!! #LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN #WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT #i tried desperately to justify it in the ST movies because rey was established as having like #anakin-levels of force bullshit so why not. i mean anakin couldn't force heal for shit but whatever. #it's not like him having the ability to force heal would've neatly sidestepped the MAIN CONFLICT OF EPISODE 3 OR ANYTHING #STILL MADE MY EYEBROWS RAISE WHEN SHE HEALED KYLO. BUT I TRIED TO LOOK PAST IT. OUT OF GOOD FAITH. MOSTLY DESPERATION. #BUT WHAT! DO! YOU! MEAN!!!!! THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WALK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPALEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY LIGHTSABER!!!!!!!!!! #ON THE REGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I GUESS QUI GON DYING WAS A FUCKING. SKILL ISSUE???????? #???????????????????????? #i need to go lie down. #dont talk 2 me about maul coming back in tcw it's an old wound i refuse to examine #''but in legends—'' i put my hand over your mouth so lovingly. No. <3 #i love star wars SO MUCH but they need 2 stop impaling people on lightsabers if they dont want them to be dead #LOP OFF A LIMB INSTEAD #okay im done. thank u for letting me yell it's all out of my system now #im back on the ''i love star wars'' train again <33

[webshood]

i feel a little unhinged today so i wanna share a little something with y'all :)))

imagine this scenario, so Batman and the JL accidentally going to another earth, it looks exactly like their earth, but there's small details that change everything about this world

one of them is that there's no Batman, the Martha and Thomas Wayne never died in this earth and thus Bruce never became Batman

this earth's Bruce is cheerful, genuinely happy, he's in a relationship with Clark after they meet at a Wayne gala, they had good chemistry and when Clark asked this Bruce out he accepted it, he's now the Justice League's doctor

Batman has not revealed his identity to his league yet, but he has a crush on Clark to some degree and seeing how happy his counterpart is with their own Supes, leaves a sour taste on his mouth

Batman is not good with romantic relationships, but his heart still aches and he's kinda pissy about the whole situation, trying to go back home as soon as possible, the other JL members with him are a little weirded out about his insistence in coming back as soon as possible and they even send Diana to calm him down

Bruce from this earth notices their tension and decides to host a dinner so they can relax a little bit before going home, because when Batman is antsy everyone else becomes a little antsy too and when this affects his own Supes he sees the need to do something

everyone is eating and chatting away, when Bruce mentions he's turning 35 soon and Batman freezes, he's noticed that Bruce didn't mention Dick or Jason in any point of their conversation (Dick should he turning eighteen and Jason been recently adopted)

so he jumps from his seat and literally steals someone's cellphone and start to look for his children, Dick's parents died, but his boy is nowhere to be found, when he looks for Jason there's only one mention of his baby and it's alongside the news of Willis Todd imprisonment

when he starts to pack up the invisible jet for a trip to Hong Kong so he can kidnap his little girl, Bruce asks him to wait and keep calm, tries to reason with him, about how "You don't even know this children here, this is not your earth"

that's when the illusion falls

no matter how good of a life this bruce has, no matter who he's dating, no matter that he doesn't have the childhood trauma witnessing the death of his parents caused, because even if he's not from this earth, they're still his children. this Bruce might be happy, but Batman wouldn't ever be happy without his children, there's no romantic love that can compare to being utterly bullied by his kids everyday

when the league travels back to their earth, Bruce might be able to try and ask Superman out for a date, but he has to absolutely smother his kids in long and tight bear hugs first, because he can't even imagine life without them

bonus: Batman tracks down every single one of his kids (minus Damian because this earth's Bruce never meet Talia) on that earth and contacts his significant others/exes that are safe enough to raise a kid, but nuts enough to 100% believe that he's from another earth, each of them has their own little kid now

#dc comics #bruce wayne #batfam #batfamily #superbat #khoa lookin' down to Jason and Cass after he kidnapped them because his soulmate from another earth said he should: #Dick waking up to find his bank account with way more money than he had in the morning and someone made a college fund for him #tim brushing selina's cats because she promised him cookies #Steph's mom being called by a lawyer because her 'deceased' aunt left her a lot of money under the condition that she gets a divorce #duke's bio father receiving a work opportunity in new york #bruce is trying to raise his 6 ½ kids even if one of them doesn't actually exist #sorry dami no dad for u :// #batman #jason todd #dick grayson #duke thomas #cassandra cain #tim drake #stephanie brown

[nanatsuyu]

saying kandrew wouldn't work romantically because they have a habit of snapping their teeth at each other about their potentials and that kevin wouldn't respect andrews no's in a sexual context because he pushes his buttons on court is such a bad faith argument that misses nearly all of their canon relationship development

#i have my own Personal reasons why kandreil probably wouldnt work in the long go of it #but thats not the argument i see most days which is mostly #“kevin cant take no for an answer about anything ever” which js incredibly not true #always just sounds like an argument to raise neil up by putting kevin down in a “youll never be him” way which lol #anyways soapbox kicked out #aftg text

[mauveflowers]

Seeing Yoohyun seething in a crappy plastic lawn chair is sending me help…..

#tsctir #s classes that i raised #sctir #han yoojin #hyj #han yoohyun #hyh #he’s just like. Big Mad #but then the chair squeaks under him when he gets up..:. #who gave him this chair it couldn’t have been there before hahhaa #STW like maybe if you sit in this shitty chair you’ll calm down

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why doesnt wally just cut sallys arms off while she sleeps?

hey now c'mahn she's just a lil guy

Wally would never and i wouldn't make him. Nightlight!Sally protection squad - assemble!

#lights out wally would rather get torn apart than raise a hand to sally #there's a Reason he either hides from her or tries to calm her down instead of taking Drastic Measures #she's his beloved neighbor... he wouldnt hurt his neighbor thats so Un-Neighborly #and he wouldn't let anyone else do it either #he loves his friends so so much why would he hurt them... even if they dont feel actual pain its still a No for him #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au #like... wally doesnt really understand why itd be Wrong to do it #but he understands that its unpleasant to be 'hurt' and also he doesnt like seeing his neighbors Damaged yk yk #the Arm™️ is a tenuous exception #there's a reason he keeps it instead of sewing it back on right away. #he doesnt understand that keeping it is Kinda Really Fucked Up #his thought process behind it is 'well. barnabys not using it anyway and i want to keep him with me but i cant risk the rest of him' #wally: this is perfectly rational and well thought out #literally everyone else: THE FUCK IT IS-

[ganondoodle]

its kinda weird to think but in my comics story ghirahim is probably the most 'normal' one of the main characters

he still has his dad master after all

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #i keep thinking i need to make ghirahim more fked up but then i remember that happens through losing the only thing he cares about #...and in my story not jsut demise but also hylia and fi bc yes he likes all of them #i keep feeling like im letting down ghirahim fans bc hes not yet like in skyward sword #and thats two points im worried about bc demise isnt the kind of evil monster most might expect #and yes demise i ghirahims dad- more or less literally #he is forged from a part of demises own spirit AND was raised by him like a son #and while losing their home fked them both up ghirahim still cared the most about demise #:^)))

[rawliverandgoronspice]

behold: my second least favorite string of words in the entirety of Tears of the Kingdom.

(it's a little less transparent why this time so I'll explain my thoughts under the cut)

So why do I not like this?

In so many words: because if you remove it, the scene still works, but you lose the moral certainty of what is going on.

This single sentence does so much legwork for the entire game (the kind I dislike), to the point where I'm about 60% sure it's the product of a rework that realized how ambiguous Rauru's position was as the Good Rightful King and needed to nervously reassure the players that Ganondorf Is and Always Was the Invader, Actually.

(no matter that it leaves the gerudos in this awkward in-between state of both invaders and victims, while never dwelling in the specifics of their history and their own agency in the entire thing; brushed off as a sin they have to expiate through loyalty to the winners of that particular strife, but without explicitely blaming them either to avoid the implications of what that would have looked like)

If you remove it, not only do you lose a pretty clunky line that detracts from Ganondorf's intimidating presence (who is he even speaking to? who needs to hear this right now?) that honestly speaks for itself when it comes to his experience with warfare, but also you lose any tension and any mystery regarding why he is attacking in the first place.

You also... kind of rob Ganondorf's motivations of their meaning. "Hyrule will bow down before me" leads to asking... why? What does he want? What does he see in those lands? And what little we get with Rauru and then Link during the final fight begs more questions; why do you prefer hardship to peace? Why do you value strength? What leads you to want to rule a land devoid of survivors, become a king without a kingdom? I don't think we ever get satisfactory answers. If you remove this sentence, on the other hand... Subtextually, it becomes pretty clear that his motivations is that he felt threatened by Rauru's power, which is ripe with subtext and questions about whether this is a legitimate reaction, whether his "no survivor" stance is due to a feeling of betrayal when his own people turned against him post the Demon King shenanigans... I'm not saying it would fix the entire game's writing, far from it, but it would already do *so much more*.

(genuinely, I think he could have stayed completely silent during the Molduga Assault, speaking only in the Show of Fealty before going completely nuts after Sonia's murder, and it would have worked MUCH better in terms of characterization but anyway anyway

EDIT: ALSO!!! that way he wouldn't speak hylian to fellow gerudos, which is weird inherently)

Without this line, the core of the tension between the gerudos and Hyrule comes front in his conversation with Rauru; it allows the cause of his hostility to be Rauru's invitations, that he would have taken as a threat, and would have still made him warlike and domineering without making him cartoonishly flat, because, once again, Rauru is not acting in a particularly more legitimate way when Zelda arrives in Ancient Hyrule; and it would have been... fair to point that out. And make for better characterization for Rauru, and Sonia, and Mineru, and everybody. But the priority was for Hyrule to be pictured as unquestionably holy; always legitimate, always truthful, always beautiful, always just.

Also, and this is more of a nitpick but: why would Ganondorf want Hyrule, specifically, to bow down before him also? Was he at war with the rest of the disparate tribes before, and just carried on his ambitions to the very very newly-founded kingdom as they allied under a new banner? (though it seems to be implies the lands were crawling under monsters in a generic sense, and not Ganondorf's attacks in particular) Why would he even consider Hyrule a legitimate entity worth taking over then, if it is so new, born from the will of a powerful rival, founded by what is basically a stranger to these lands? Why would he covet something so young instead of destroying it and just calling the lands Gerudo Lands II or Grooseland or something?

I don't think any of that was even accounted for, because, beyond everything else: to me, this sentence is so clearly and painfully crammed in here to shield Hyrule from any potential blame and immediately characterize Ganondorf as Bad without having to remove any of the causes that could lead one to side-eye Rauru's little pet project as equally questionable.

Beyond the clumsiness, it is cowardly --and, I think, a little damning.

#totk #totk critical #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #ganondorf #gerudos #rauru #tl:dr it is cowardly and reveals that nintendo knew about the Implications to some degree #sometimes less is more #really in that case less would have been so much more #it is literally ganondorf's first chronological line #yeah sure it tells you everything about the guy but #it's also such a bold commitment to flatness and self-righteousness that... yeah #and before I hear any “at least Rauru wasn't using force” I mean as far as we know though? #the constructs attack anyone deemed an “invader” on sight one of the things rauru does is to apologize for this #(I reread Rauru's initial dialogue in the Sky Islands and it would have been SO GOOD if any ambiguity would have been allowed) #(like the thing about Constructs mindlessly pursuing their useless tasks forever disquieting him...) #(yeah buddy so true that could uhhh almost be a metaphor for something else regarding purpose and lineage or something wow) #and even if he didn't use force directly the power dynamics and repeated invitations are still undeniably questionnable #like my guy why do you want everybody to kneel down to you what's up with that do we unpack this or #at least ganondorf was like.... born and raised a king (not that it excuses anything but he inherited pre-existing traditions) #so did zelda #she was born in an imperfect system and did whatever she could about it #rauru *crowned himself* #he *made* the system

[puppyeared]

i think the reason why im so drawn to spirit tracks and pkmn scarvi is that having the legendary/princess as a companion rather than a goal that marks the games completion makes me feel satisfied the way i would after helping a friend

my brother always teases me about how I still havent finished botw after almost 7 years bc "id rather be out picking flowers" which i wont say is untrue. and yes i know Zeldas been holding off ganon for 100 years, yes i can get some sort of idea what her relationship with link was like by recalling memories and going through her diary. ive always loved botw for its unique storytelling and setting which makes it stand out, because it lets you get to know who you're saving.

but because theyre memories, it only works if theres something for the player to investigate that already happened. its retroactive (but effective nonetheless)

on the other hand, spirit tracks does something similar but instead of having the player try to piece together memories and interpret them as a spectator, you actually have an opportunity to get to know zelda yourself by talking to her and working together. besides making it a gameplay mechanic, giving the player control over how they interact with zelda makes it so much more personable.

and I find that making the goal feel personal instead of an obligation gives me more of a reason to work towards it. I know what kind of person botw zelda was but as the player, shes still very much a stranger to me. but spirit tracks zelda? thats my friend!!!! she invited me to go to the beach after we get her body back!!! i dont want to whip her to make her move faster thats mean :(

you know how hostage negotiators are trained to introduce themselves and get to know the person theyre negotiating with because its harder to hurt someone when you know what their favorite food is? its kinda like that, because it feels like im helping a friend than being told or led to do smth

and although i havent played scarvi myself, i feel an attachment to koraidon and miraidon even just watching playthrough clips because its like!! thats my weird scaly dog!! it loves sandwiches and we're friends!!! you know!!!!!!

#i dont normally write long posts like this but i think ive been trying to put this into words for a long time and it finally happened #my cloth mother spirit tracks zelda and my wire mother lttp zelda #ACTUALLY ANOTHER THING when i was a kid i always felt guilty when i had to catch the legendary at the end of the game #because to me it was like 'i know none of this is real but if i capture you and have you under my thumb am i robbing the world of something #normal thoughts for a 10 year old to have #when i talked to my brother abt this he was like 'i mean yeah the point is to dunk on the NPCs what were you expecting' and i mean i think #i get that its supposed to feel rewarding because the legendary is THE reward. but it doesnt feel right and i dislike he feeling of pushing #others down to get ahead. i guess u can argue sun/moon does smth similar where you have nebby with lillie #but lillie still ends up handing nebby over to the player and i STILL feel bad because im like shit man you raised that little guy #and koraidon/miraidon feels less like a reward but more like overpowered motorcycle lizard that is just so oupydog. and i love him #and in spirit tracks i went out of my way doing some of the side quests bc zelda asked nicely and honestly that was enough for me #i think all of this boils down to.. i feel very protective abt things i care abt so stories that give me a reason to care hits harder #this can also go the other way bc i CRIED when i finished links awakening because i KNEW every person and im responsible for #literally the end of their world. like. there was a family with 5 kids. marin loved singing and cared about me. she was my FRIEND #i just. ugh. i have too many feelings rn. i kinda wanna draw more spirit tracks link and zelda i think that wld make me feel better #yapping #diary #loz #pokemon

[poorlittleyaoyao]

once again I am thinking about how CQL went out of its way to delete JGY and QS's preexisting backstory from the novel so JGY didn't sleep with her till their wedding night, presumably to make him More Villainous(TM), yet also went out of its way to establish that this was a revolting experience for him and he hated it, which in many ways is more concerning than the original concept would have been so like. why.

#Terror fandom is small and chill and academic enough that we have actually interacted with the showrunners in a fun normal way #and gotten some REALLY GREAT analysis and commentary out of it #and GOD what I wouldn't give to sit down with the CQL showrunners and be like 'what was happening here' #bc for every 2 batshit 'what is moral complexity? we just don't know' adaptation changes #there's 1.25 woobifying moments found nowhere in the novel whatsoever #like!!! what was going on!!! #my money is on them really wanting to making him sympathetic and while having him Raise Good Points About Society was off the table #they could get away with upping the 🥺🥺🥺 factor