#let alone worse

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

barbie is greta gerwig’s redemption arc even if a lot of the people memeing barbie have no respect for her as a filmmaker and i’m happy and excited for that because i feel she’s been unfairly targeted by The Discourse. but one big thing that has bothered me more about the anti-barbie discourse is also the lack of respect for her as a filmmaker but it’s even worse because it punished her for having authorial intent while making a blockbuster based on existing IP, and trying to balance that as a filmmaker while adapting mattel’s very first live action barbie movie. nearly every review has noted that she was somewhat successful in this endeavor. but even if she wasn’t, she did what the generic male directors of male-led franchises rarely ever do, and in her very first blockbuster as well. whether or not it was intentional and whether one was even aware of it, a lot of the anti-barbie discourse was sexist, or became so quickly. and that’s not cool and is actually very annoying

#it was a very glaring double standard #and it moved beyond merely critizing the feminist reband of barbie itself in the culture #and instead made a whole bunch of uncharitable assumptions and sometimes even took a hostile posture against a fucking movie #specifically directed by a woman who has earned more respect than anybody wants to give her #that should say so-called feminist rebrand #like sure some people have been OD about barbie but that is almost always the case #people were OD as fuck about the cashgrab ass spiderman movie from last summer or whenever that was #and about the spiderverse cartoons #so why pray tell was this different lol #let alone worse #this is ONE movie not a franchise that has taken over the entire cultural landscape and perhaps irreparably damaged the film ecosystem #there was that one post that was literally like. barbie is different than marvel or the lego movie because uhhh its for adults #like yeah and so were those #but superhero and legos for boys barbie for girls so barbie bad #grow up!!!

[theoldkyokodied]

The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic

#bloodweave #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale x astarion #astarion x gale #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #yes this is about astarion helping gale defeat mystra and take her place with the crown in exchange for gale helping him with the ritual #the ‘they can make each other worse’ part of their relationship turned to the max #I enjoy them being reluctantly soft for each other more but from time to time I just think about how powerful they could get together #toxic evil boyfriends. take love and twist it up until it’s unrecognisable #I like to think that astarion approached gale with that offer after realising no one else in camp is gonna help him #and that he can use gales own hunger for power which backfired when astarion actually became emotionally invested in gale #and after gale kept his word despite everyone’s concerns astarion changed his plan from not fullfilling his end of the bargain to actually #helping gale kill mystra (mostly so that gale could belong to him and him alone. and letting him take the place as a god bc having a god #at you beck and call is definitely appealing. especially one as eager to please as gale) #anyway what I want to say with this is please please please let me kill mystra i don’t even care if the weave gets destroyed again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

"See you tomorrow"

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 4 [prev parts]

#better drawn mdzs #MDZS Disco Elysium AU #mdzs au #Lan wangji #wei wuxian #yiling laozu #Happy Belated Halloween! #digital art #Thank you all for your patience as I drove myself into a madness only known by those lost at seas alone. #I put a lot of time into this one! It's not perfect but I am very happy with it + I am so happy to put down the tablet pen. #Digital art has some nice features but I'm sticking with traditional! I need a month to recover from the 2+ weeks of torture. #Okay lets talk about the AU and the comic now #Disco elysium has some of the best existential-horror-dream sequences I have ever seen. #The dialogue here is heavily inspired by The Final Dream - A scene I'd love to talk about more were it not so heavy with spoilers. #My AU is a lot more complex than a simple character swap but I really felt like LWJ + YLLZ fit this scene. #The final dream is about being unable to move on from a lost love. From something You made holy. From something You ruined. #It is about realizing that no matter how smart you are or what you offer or how you try to change - #You will never be able to turn back time. You will never ever be able to fix what is broken. That you also have been broken for a long time #You are a fuck-up who worships the nail covered ground of someone who did not want to be holy. And even though it hurts- #You cannot let this nightmare go. The pain keeps the love close. It is worse to forget. You promised to remember. #WWX died thinking LWJ disliked him. LWJ lost someone he thought was revolted by his love.

[the-force-awakens]

Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.

#swedit #starwarsedit #starwarsblr #star wars #poe dameron #flashing gif #nym.gifs #thinking about how in the stuff pre tfa he just. he wants to be a /pilot/ he wants to be a /soldier/ because he doesn't want to have to #carry the burden of the moral calls and the weight of so many people's lives in his hands #especially when strategies go /wrong/ #'point me at the bad guys and let me do my thing' #he works alone SO often. #and there's something so genuinely tragic that poe's just. /so/ good at what he does that he ends up catapulting himself into the position #that. he didn't want. #and the thing that /pushed/ him into joining the resistance to prevent from happening again (losing someone he cares about under his #command /keeps/ happening). and worse he ends up in these positions where he /could/ blame himself for things that /aren't/ his call. #like u know he's got to feel responsible for the village on some level not to mention fuckin /kijimi/ #it was /his/ idea to go there #the world should've protected you. instead you've been chosen to protect it. #what an honor. what an injustice. #not all of these fit this theme but mostly i just wanted to focus on his reaction/responses to some of the bigger tragedies in the trilogy #and tbh there's also. plenty more shots.

[turtleblogatlast]

No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.

The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.

And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.

He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt splinter #rise splinter #he’s not perfect as I’ve said #and he’s got a whole slew of flaws and faults #but he’s a person - we are all flawed #he loves his sons dearly dearly dearly even if he struggles along the way to show that #parenting is not easy! especially as a traumatized mutant who is forced to do it alone #side note but I think this is one of the reasons why it kiiiiiinda ruffles my feathers to see so many people assign parentification to Raph #and in turn make Splinter out to be way worse and way more distant than he is in canon? #like idk I just don’t see what so many others see ig but maybe that’s just me #i guess my thoughts are like- let parents have flaws without villainizing them? #they’re still parents even if they mess up? #we can discuss the repercussions of a parents actions on a child while not casting that parent as an awful person #parents are peopleeee #I could go on but yeahhh #idk it bothers me seeing splinter’s efforts undermined when he’s been through so much #idk if ppl realized this by now but I love me some flawed characters #tho I do think in this fandom the ones whose faults are discussed the most are like #Splinter mostly then Draxum then Leo #of the main cast #and in Splinters case in particular his faults are made to cover his good qualities which makes me sad #because he is SO INTERESTING #they’re all flawed characters and tbh so interesting because their flaws are ALSO their strengths in many aspects

[starry-bi-sky]

realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards

*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #clone^2 #danny fenton is a clone #like i dont even need to traumatize you worse the pure explorative options from this aLONE is enough to feed me for a week. #like. tucks hair behind ear let me shatter you into glass pieces then glue you back together babe. i can put you back together so good. #i'm missing a few shards because some parts of you broke into such small pieces i couldn't pick them back up again so you'll be missing a #few chunks of yourself that you'll never get back but that's okay. you'll still be a resemblance of your old self :] #don't let anakin (me) listen to late night sad songs he makes angst. #hhh imagine being stuck in a house for two weeks where you can hear your parents torturing ghosts in the basement and not only that but #you're the only person who can undERSTAND the ghosts. how many times did he see his parents drag in a ghost with whatever capturing device #they made recently? iirc the thermos was like. brand new in episode one right? but gOD the trauma this alone would cause #nobody touch me im cooking rn i need to think about how this would impact danny. like obvs it would fuel into a developing obsession to #keep his parents away from ghosts and to help the dead but what *else.* i need to refine my becoming phantom ficlet i wrote back in winter #raaa #and like even after two weeks they were *still capturing ghosts* danny just wasn't in the house 24/7 at the time. #*but those two fucking weeks man* #i need to sleep on this first before i make any major moves bc i know im tired but i am having thOUGHTs

[honeypleasejustkillme]

i need space but i can’t be alone

#actually bpd #actually mentally ill #bpd fp #bpd #actually borderline #bpd shitposting #bpd favorite person #bpd vent #bpd problems #bpd mood #when i’m alone the thoughts get worse #but i always feel bad for not letting people have breaks so i force myself to be alone sometimes

[extravagav]

Yk I never did truly recover from the sick fic chapter

#one day im gonna make a post overanalyzing every single frame from this chapter bc its just so good #everything from how confused sakura looks at the idea of them coming to visit him when hes sick #to suo suggesting they leave bc he knows them staying here the now will only make him worse/uncomfortable which is the last thing he needs #bc yeah although he shouldn't and doesnt have to hes used to dealing w/ things like this alone #hes convinced he needs to and thats not smth you can just expect to change from one visit #still i need my hurt/comfort sick fic sequel please and thank you #so we can get a full circle of sakuras character development where he actually lets them help/asks for it #and NO im NOT projecting 🙅‍♀️ #i DONT just wanna see my son getting comforted through his sickness when hes at his most vulnerable nuh uh 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ #wind breaker #wind breaker spoilers #sakura haruka #ALSO ALL THIS ^^ WITHOUT EVEN MENTIONING THE REASON HES SICK IN THE FIRST PLACE LIKE???? #MY SON WAS SO EMOTIONALY CONFLICTED AND CONFUSED THAT HE GAVE HIMSELF A FEVER 😭😭😭😭 #ALSO also i seriously cannot get iver how scared he looks in the last panel like ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ #ok im going off in these tags rn i need to stop fr

[mozzaremi]

[evakant]

han sooyoung 1863 (and her specifically) offering eternal sleep to yoo joonghyuk is an act of mercy and.... and, god, it was kindness

#orv spoilers #your god (who does not yet know she's your god) looks at you and goes #sacrifice your connections to all of these people #suffer alone for so long you become a shell of a man #and at the end i promise i'll make this world (which you love so so much) as safe as it can be #not as safe as we would want it. we cannot save it in that way #but we can hit pause and at least stop it from getting any worse #this is the best peace i can offer it and you #and then. then you can go to sleep. you can stop. #i've made you walk for so long now just a few more steps and i'll let you rest #orv #han sooyoung #yoo joonghyuk #orv.txt #fra.txt #yoohan #their dynamic in 1863 makes me insane in hindsight #and she doesn't know she made him but the fact that she alone was able to offer this to him........ #of course. of course it was her. it couldn't be anyone but.

[worstloki]

Thor tries to pick up the designated driver pilot role after feast parties and off-realm adventures following Loki’s death but it soon becomes apparent that the only decent pilot left on the team is Fandral and he’s insufferable if you drink excessively and don’t let him join

#Thor not tending to be in the mood to drink after Loki dies bc his emotions drop and he hates it btw #or worse his body sees it as an excuse to start feeling things and that’s almost worse #so anyway better to just avoid it for a while #so he volunteers to fly everyone back home #they all know how to pilot of course #it just becomes very clear very soon that knowing how does not make one good at it #passable sure but when everyone has a headache or is on the verge of passing out you don’t want a ride that upsets any stomaches #you don’t want people losing their balance or clutching their heads from spinning when you’re driving in a straight line back to the palace #aaaand Volstagg is throwing up over the side of the skiff. oh no not again this is unbelievable #maybe walking would be better next time #but no one wants to walk after that!!! #what if they abruptly need to use a bathroom #it’s not acceptable to use the side of a road in Asgard I think #let alone when you’re a group of prestigious warriors #of course we have members of the group with a piloting licence!!! we just WANTED to walk!!!

[pinkgrapefloyd]

daniel larusso & terry silver / the smallest man who ever lived

#daniel larusso #cobra kai #terry silver #the karate kid 3 #tkk3 #the karate kid #giddy up girls it's hurt/no comfort o'clock #i don't even like the first half of this song but goddamn... the second half just grabbed me and wouldn't let go #and said 'this is about terry and daniel' #everything about daniel's reaction to silver in ck season 4&5 is just so heartbreaking to me. the anger. the grief. the guilt. #the absolute terror in his face. the unspoken implications. it's all so heavy to me. the sauna scene alone... jesus christ #i have so many feelings about tkk3 #terry silver i will rip out your blood vessels with my bare hands #the smallest man who ever lived #pinkgrapefloyd #pinkgrapefloydedit #also i'm sorry the ck screencaps are so much worse than the tkk ones. these were the best ones i could find #web weaving

[salty-an-disco]

Ouugh.. having Spectre Feels

#she never got a chance #she could’ve been so many different things #but we didn’t let her #we went at her with steel-cold intent and killed her before she could be anything #now her bones are sitting on the floor #and she’s only a vaporous. transient. thing #not quite there. but still attached enough to your perception to be able to interact with you #and despite the obvious resentment. despite having reason to hate you completely and want you dead #she’s kind. she’s understanding. she’s *playful* #she already died. why waste time being mean? #when they still have the chance to do right by you? #and. seemingly. there is nothing else they can do to hurt you (right?) #so she gives you another chance #because the alternative is being alone and stuck forever in a place that never changes #and that’s a fate worse than death to her #OUUUUUGH #stp-posting #sal rambles #(in the tags. lmao. sorry) #slay the princess #the spectre

[robynator]

it would be fun if it turns out amc!louis did actually eat the baby. it took him an awful long time to deny that and i would not put it past him to lie to make himself look better in that situation (which he is more than willing to do)

#amc!louis could stand to be a worse person and i stand by that #make that man more fucked up #let him commit atrocities that are his and his alone #let him be a terrible person #he is not a perfect princess locked up in the tower by either lestat or armand with no agency whatsoever #a victim yes but a predator as well (like they all are) #which is also why i desperately hope they'll keep in him knowing about what happened with claudia and staying with armand regardless #also he could always commit more arson #him burning shit down was one of my favourite parts of iwtv (the book) #my point is #👏make👏him👏worse👏 #did not expect to put a whole essay in the tags but it's been on my mind a while #louis de pointe du lac #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire

[joeythefrog]

One thing that always confused me about newsies is how literally to quote Pulitzer: all but ONE got away.

And I just don’t agree. While yes I get that is a tragedy in Jack being able to save everyone but one of the ones he needed the most I much prefer the far more realistic point: there weren’t all that many people coming out of that.

They were against, as phrased by David: the goons, an entire army, dozens of goons and the cops, and-

He got cut off, implying there was much more because he was ramping up to a whole list. There were literally dozens of grown men against a group of unruly street kids. And fun fact! Guns had been invented by then and cops did carry them.

I just don’t see how it’s possible they all got out

I think there were dozens of kids taken to the refuge, others shot and beaten to death on the streets with the injured soon to follow. Those who were injured crawling and limping out of newsies square to die in an alley or weeks later due to sicknesses and infections gained.

For the first time there are more beds than children in the Manhattan lodging house and when they have a bath for those who managed to make it back the water is still warm and clean by the last kid.

#newsies #let them get hurt and die #it’s a lot darker than cannon but if we are being reall here… #they are so tragic #I love them #David and Les staying at the Lodge for the night because they can’t walk home without crumpling in an alley tighter and joining the others #the others having all died in alleyways alone and scared #also I just love the HC that this all happens in winter to make it worse #and that’s why Spot didn’t send Brooklyn because they are all vulnerable in winter #fansies #newsies fandom

[itafushin]

past wukong meeting current macaque is so,,, so,,, you know ?? because imagine how taken aback wukong is because he can obviously tell somethings different about this mac but it doesnt matter to him because he thinks mac looks so pretty and then theres mac.

macaque is so conflicted because here he is, face to face with a wukong from before everything went to shit. a wukong that still cares about him and keeps him around. a wukong that looked at him like he put the stars in the sky. how the hell is he meant to feel about that?

#🏮 #shadowpeach #also like. if mks there wukong def thought he was their cub #which makes it worse because now macaque had to explain that no they didnt have a kid together but also #hes so flustered and taken aback by the accusation because he didnt even know wukong ever thought about something like that #let alone with him #theyre so so stupid im so tired of them #lego monkie kid #lmk