#not exclusively violence

[scattered-winter]

I love looking at a piece of media that is, objectively, bad, and thinking "I could fix her"

#mads has gotten me into overwatch and i refuse to play it because the execution is...meh. but . i am side eyeing the CONCEPT. #its the found family torn apart and slowly stitching back together despite all the loss and trauma and bad blood #its the getting fucked over by the government they used to serve -> becoming vigilantes to keep saving the world #but on their OWN terms not the government's. #its the individuals rising up and making a difference in the ways they can. through music and creativity and invention #not exclusively violence #i just. ughhhh rotating this So Hard rn #im beating my brain away from making a dc au because i have too many complex aus already #but there are so many PARALLELS #widowmaker = talon!dick #soldier 76 = red hood #also getting MAJOR ghostbat vibes from reaper76 not gonna lie #NOPE NUH UH WE ARE CAPPING IT THERE CHIEF #I CANT LET MYSELF THINK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THEN IT'LL GET AWAY FROM ME AND IT'LL BE A WHOLE THING #BAD WINTER! BAD!!!! #anyway. failed media my beloved and detested. i can fix it #winter speaks #gen:lock 🤝 overwatch #Good Concepts That Make Me Insane (/pos) that are executed in a Not Great Way that makes me insane (/neg)

[kidovna]

reality

#artovna #stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #byler fanart #I was gonna make a fluffy comic about their first ilys for my birthday but I’ve been so busy and this is the only thing I haven’t posted yet #so happy birthday to me and rip to them 💀 #this is actually the most on brand thing I can do bc I live for angst #tw: blood #tw: death #tw: gore #tw: violence #this is a tumblr exclusive bc I don’t want to risk insta flagging it 🙏🏽

[royalarchivist]

Mike with his dogs and the knitted Richarlyson Barb made: 😄

Mike, two seconds after logging back into QSMP: [WAR AND VIOLENCE]

#QSMP #Mikethelink #Badboyhalo #Bad #Mike #May 9 2024 #Never a calm day on the server with these two #Frickin Bad rolling up like a valkyrie on a phoenix was so out of left field LMAO #Mike has now stolen the phoenix #BBH #I say ''WAR AND VIOLENCE (and Badboyhalo)'' as if those are two mutually exclusive things #but I really shouldn't be surprised by anything at this point #(not even Bad showing up with battle music blaring riding on a phoenix like a Valkyrie).

[trans-androgyne]

They always say “read Whipping Girl” but never warn you how often the book is hostile towards or just straight up wrong about transmasculine & non-binary people whenever they’re brought up. Like I’m starting to see why so many people who say that are transandrophobic tbh

#transandrophobia #exorsexism #whipping girl #mine #she’s almost exclusively brought them up to be critical about them #and has made several false claims or generalizations about them #I’m still reading through but maybe I’ll list them at a later point #e.g. trans men feel safer after transition + don’t rlly experience violence + aren’t sexualized #& that genderqueer/nby people can often be ‘binary-phobic’

[maggiecheungs]

“utena is a bit like a shoujo equivalent of evangelion” = a common and inevitable comparison that is admittedly not a bad elevator pitch, giving an idea of utena's symbolism and the genre tropes it engages without requiring an essay-length summary of its plot and themes

“utena is evangelion for the girlies” = SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPP

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #do NOT girldinnerify utena ffs #the whole show is literally designed to deconstruct the concept of 'the girlies'!!! #also yes it engages with shoujo themes and its main characters are female but it's not exclusively for women??? #utena has a large cult following consisting of people of all genders 😭 #like. i get 'for the girlies' has become a funny tiktok meme or whatever but . #maybe don't apply 'jokey gender essentialist stereotypes' to the 'gender stereotypes are a destructive tool of patriarchal violence' show #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #ellistxt #hmmmm should i rewatch nge next

[doberbutts]

Google: hello I recommend this show to you based on your interest in 1600s Japanese modern period dramas and animations

Me: oh actually this show is pretty neat, I like that the Japanese characters actually speak Japanese and not *winkwink* they're totes talking in Japanese but for the viewer's sake they're using English *winkwink* and from the sound of it traditional Japanese at that because this is sounding very antiquated and out of date compared to my rough knowledge of modern Japanese

Show: :)

Show: have 10 minutes of a character being tortured by being boiled to death in a large cast iron pot :)

Me: ...

Me: WHY

#Seems otherwise good but #I wish shows had better warning than 'may contain violence' #Like yeah it's a samurai show of fucking course it has violence #I'm expecting to see people's heads get chopped off not Human Soup #I know I know it's an actual torture method that was used back then but come on #At least narratively I had plenty of warning so I muted the fuck out of that shit and looked away until he wasn't actively dying on screen #And tbf most of it was background noise during an exclusively Japanese dialogue bit so I could just read the subtitles and not listen #Also maaaaajor yikes on the origin of the English word 'Japanese' #English speakers don't be racist challenge: impossible

[starflungwaddledee]

teaser wip of a bigger comic... six pages!! drama! fighting! wings!

miiight've gone a little overboard with some of these kirbtober prompts... (': this one also includes 'another dimension', which i missed, and 'knight', which isn't for a few days. still gotta figure out exactly how i'll do tones, but i'll try to have it up on time tomorrow for 'ancient'!

#kirbtober #kirbytober #my art #i guess this also serves as a heads-up for anyone who only exclusively wants to see very cute nice things #full comic has canon-typical violence and a bird throws a bat into the floor pretty hard #galacta knight #meta knight #i mean he's implied by lightning!galaxia but yknow

[st-just]

Okay there's many popular fandom tropes that I Do Not Vibe With,but one of the ones that just most makes me go 'what a fucking waste' is the tendency for people to look at a dynamic, like, centered and based around a betrayal or hatred born of curdled love or frayed ties or being tragically at odds because of their most strongly held principles and then go 'yeah but what if every single fanwork you ever see in your life were vaguely sketched AUs where nothing ever went wrong and we replaced the central dramatic motor of the entire thing with quirky cafe dates or having fun at a waterpark or something?'

#this is most recently but not at all exclusively about Arcane #hate and violence on planet earth #<- just using this general inconsequential media bitching tag I think

[brucewaynehater101]

The number of times I've seen people argue that Bruce is a decent father and that he is not abusive absolutely blows my absolute mind.

Yes, you can hc whatever version of Bruce you want. You can even blame it all on bad writers or reject canon. You can claim comic!Bruce isn't your Bruce and main a different version of him. Those are all valid.

However, you can NOT say that he has ever been justified for hitting his kids. There is no excuse for him willingly laying his hands on his kids. It doesn't matter if the person is drunk, drowning in grief, lost in emotions, whatever. Hitting kids is not okay.

Continually, the physical abuse is a very obvious sign of Bruce being a shit dad in the comics. On top of that, there is so much emotional abuse and manipulation as well. He's shitty as fuck to his kids and there's no reason this is okay. He may love those kids, but that doesn't excuse his behaviors.

Anyways, reject canon Bruce all you want. There's certain aspects of other characters I reject, and DC stands for Disregard Canon. Feel free to have whatever version of Bruce you desire.

What is NOT okay is excusing or accepting canon Bruce's actions/behaviors as acceptable.

#dc comics #dc universe #batman #bruce wayne #I've seen people argue that bruce can hit his kids because they are all vigilantes #what kind of stupid ass logic is that? #tw child abuse #tw abuse #i don't like getting into arguments with people but some of these excuses floor me #“they're both adults” no. that's not how child-parent relationships work #even after a kid becomes an adult the parent still has some level of power over the kid and the relationship is not equal #bruce is and has been the adult for their entire relationship. he's the parent #even if they weren't parent and child people should not be resorting to violence to solve arguments #people out here arguing Bruce isn't a shitty dad at all and still deny it when shown empirical evidence #good dad bruce is great (and shown in some media) but isn’t universal #blame the writers or say you don't accept that version of bruce but don't say he isn't canonically shit #yes bruce can still love his kids and be abusive. the two aren't mutually exclusive #bruce wayne bashing

[theggning]

Different anon than who spoke to sapphire-weapon but holy shit give me ALL of your metaltango thoughts from both OG and Remake please! That pairing is somethin' else.

ALL of them? Oh, anon, there's far too many for that... I do have plenty of thoughts though so if there's any specifics you might like do feel free to ask.

What I will do here is lay out some differences between Leon and Krauser's relationship (hypothetically romantic or otherwise) between OG and the remake and thus two different flavors of metaltango. Because Leon and Krauser are both pretty different characters between versions, *especially* Krauser, the differences make for some really interesting contrasts.

OG METALTANGO:

Leon and Krauser literally meet for the first time during Operation Javier (Darkside Chronicles version.) They are much more equal in standing and prestige, where Krauser is a career soldier with years of experience under his belt and Leon is the government's golden boy. There is kind of a gesture towards Krauser feeling jealous of Leon for this reason, but... well, there's kind of a lot of vague gestures made about Krauser's motivations that have always struck me as silly. (Poorly executed, to say the least.)

Because they meet for the first time on OJ and Krauser is immediately injured, any canon-compliant relationship between the two is going to have to happen in the aftermath/weeks and months after the mission. I've always kind of liked the idea that Leon befriends Krauser and they spend this time hanging out while Krauser is sidelined/in rehab to recover from his injuries. This has kind of been my go-to headcanon here, because otherwise there just really isn't any time for these two to even befriend one another apart from what's depicted in canon.

Once he decides to join up with Wesker to get his arm fixed/POWERRRR, Krauser fakes his death in a helicopter crash. This is presumably the source of the scars on his face in OG. Also, because he was discharged from the military, we are left to assume this helicopter crash happened while he was doing mercenary work (OG Krauser is said to work as a mercenary when he's not on duty with the military, because he feels unfit for normal society outside of the battlefield.)

OG Krauser works for Wesker, is genuinely loyal to him, and seems to genuinely enjoy his job. He joins up with the cult perhaps a few weeks before Ashley's kidnapping... and it is implied that the kidnapping was his idea to begin with to win Saddler's trust? Which it does not, incidentally. But I guess Saddler decides to opportunistically capitalize on the kidnapped head of state's daughter anyway. (OG Los Illuminados are a bunch of incompetent chucklefucks and their plans are completely doomed from the get go, ask me sometime.)

OG Krauser is sent by Saddler specifically to kill Leon, a task which he takes up with gusto due to... I don't know actually. If there's one constant with Krauser it's that his hatred for Leon is never really adequately explained, though at least the remake gives us a boatload of subtextual interpretations. I think OG metaltango is funniest if you interpret Krauser's grudge against Leon as the over-the-top actions of a jilted ex who left Leon on read when he got the breakup text (and also faked his death.) Anyway, one thing that really strikes me is how much fun Krauser seems to be having in OG. He's like, genuinely delighted to be attempting to murder Leon and with his plans to hand Leon's corpse over to Wesker once he's dead. (Put a pin in this one, it's a BIG change in remake.)

Leon is a lot more irritated with Krauser in OG and at least doesn't show an *unwillingness* to fight back. Only once Krauser has fallen does he lament that he "used to be a good guy..." He also seems really upset at Saddler boasting that he never trusted Krauser and the implication that Saddler was only using him.

Ada being the one to "really" kill Krauser in OG is dumb and has always been dumb, imo, and is more than likely an artifact of OG SW's clumsy development and what assets they had to work with.

REMAKE METALTANGO:

okay there is... a LOT more to work with here. Chiefest and most obviously, Krauser is now Major Krauser, and was Leon's commanding officer/mentor. This gives the two of them a much closer and more personal relationship, as well as 4+ whole years to work with, timeline-wise (Operation Javier happened in 2002.)

The mentor/student relationship provides another really delicious power dynamic to work with, shipping-wise. Yes, it's inappropriate for a military officer to have an affair with one of his subordinates, but we are also right in the middle of Don't Ask Don't Tell here so it's also literally forbidden for a soldier to be anything but heterosexual and still keep their job. Also consider, it's hot? Also like, bruh... if you're looking for Pure Wholesome Shipping Dynamics you are looking in the wroooooong ship.

Krauser is fulltime military this time around, no merc work to speak of (or at least no evidence of it.) He also never fakes his death in the remake. He has current contacts within the Secret Service AND is running around using his REAL NAME and ACTUAL military credentials to buy ordnance for Saddler (per SW,) there is absolutely no way we're meant to believe this man is legally dead.

There is evidence that Krauser showed special attention or favoritism to Leon, at least a little bit. Not only is Leon allowed to keep his hair while training (getting your head shaved/your hair cut short is like Basic Training Day One stuff,) but in the opening cutscene we see Leon and Krauser training in private in what appears to be a storage room- not a normal training space. Leon is the government golden boy here, but Krauser is also in charge of a whole unit of special forces guys. Somebody is getting private tutoring from the Major.

Leon respects and trusted Krauser. Krauser is said to have always been "an asshole" but also a man of honor. He is suggested to have been a difficult commanding officer, but also one who cared very deeply about his men and is traumatized by their avoidable deaths in OJ. (This one's my personal opinion, but I really can't stand the interpretation of Krauser having been an awful abusive piece of shit from the get go. Kind of wrecks the tragedy of his fall for me when he was always a cruel bastard. Why exactly would Leon trust, respect, want to emulate, or mourn such a person?)

So you could kind of intuit some trauma into OG Krauser, if you squinted. But there is absolutely no question that remake Krauser is suffering from some pretty massive PTSD. Along with his general unhingedness, all of his actions fit perfectly when viewed through a lens of a very, very traumatized man, used and abandoned by the government he trusted, desperate to gain the power that could have saved his men, and himself-- and the power to keep himself relevant so he can't be used and hurt again. I interpret that Krauser had his face scarred in OJ as well (he doesn't have the scars in the flashback scene with Leon.)

Remake Krauser joined Los Illuminados of his own free will, because they offered him the power to fix his crippled arm-- and the aforementioned power to unsuccessfully "fix" his trauma. But also, maybe it's just me, but I feel like remake Krauser does not give a fuck about the cult. He's loyal to Saddler, yes, but he openly disbelieves the cult religion ("Faith is for the weak, only power matters.") He commands the island mercs and helped set up the defenses, but he's also out here buying warheads under his own name. There is no way he doesn't think he's going to be caught by the U.S. sooner than later-- he just doesn't care. None of his notes read to me like somebody who genuinely thinks the cult has a chance to take over the world. Krauser joined these idiots so he could drink the juice, now the juice is all gone and he's still empty inside.

OG Krauser seemed to be having fun and set up his Leon deathmaze/training ground/mating display for a laugh. Remake Krauser, on the other hand, seems absolutely batshit out of his mind at this point-- alternating between the maze being a "final lesson" for Leon and a deathwish enactment mechanism for himself. Like... between Krauser's general demeanor and the "finish what happened two years ago" talk, this does not feel like a fight that Krauser wants to walk away from, whether or not he kills Leon. If OG Krauser killed Leon, he planned to bag him up and present him to Wesker like a trophy. If remake Krauser did... like, what's he going to do? Can you possibly picture him washing his hands of his blood and going back to work for Saddler? Because I sure can't. (I have a much longer meta piece in mind for this point... like I want to dissect the remake Krauser boss fight and his motivations therein at some point. Let me know if this sounds interesting.)

Remake Leon absolutely does not want to fight Krauser. Krauser forces every single encounter the two of them have. Even though Leon says "you won't get away with this" after Luis' death, he has absolutely no desire nor intention to hurt or kill Krauser back. He asks, over and over, if Krauser is "sure about this" and tries to talk sense into him. He is ready to straight up run away from the boss fight the first chance he gets.

I could probably write a whole other essay on Krauser's final moments and Leon stabbing him, which was one of the most shocking and powerful moments of the remake for me for several reasons. Like... god damn. Did anybody else think Leon was going to do the whole "I'm not like you and I won't do it" thing? (Though arguably it was more heroic/merciful/kind of Leon to put Krauser out of his misery here. Krauser clearly wanted it!!)

I was going to go to Capcom and chain myself to the doors in protest if they put the dumb stupid Krauser boss fight redux in Separate Ways after THAT absolutely poetic ending for him. Glad they didn't. Glad they actually showed Wesker picking up his corpse this time rather than handwaving it offscreen years after the fact.

If somebody has a heterosexual explanation for that picture of Leon in Krauser's tent, I'd certainly like to hear it. Because... bruh.

Well that felt extremely disjointed and pointless... But I hope it was useful or at least gave you some delicious food to feast on? (Or other ideas to interrogate me about, lmao.) Krauser is my favorite RE villain. For OG Krauser it was mostly for comedy reasons, but I am absolutely delighted that the remake gave him some real genuine pathos and a really compelling relationship with Leon.

Anyway, tl;dr metaltango, OG or remake: I ship it and I think it would be hot if they banged.

#resident evil #resident evil meta #metaltango #leon s kennedy #jack krauser #kreon #re4make #re4make spoilers #so not only is krauser my favorite re villain #but luis is my favorite re side character #so you can imagine the stress i felt at the blorbo on blorbo violence present in the remake #thanks for the referral sapphire-weapon #i have a lot of thoughts on resident evil it turns out #i am a multishipper to the core though so don't think i am exclusively here for metaltango ;) #gg answers

[deoidesign]

"Is Adam ever going to face racism because like… that seems extremely relevant for some of these time periods lol"

I won't be saying this twice.

No.

I think it's inappropriate for me as a white writer to put him through racism that I am incapable of writing from a personal point of view.

I also find it gratuitous at best to depict "historical accuracy" for racism, when suspension of disbelief is had for homophobia, magic, time travel, and historical accuracy in general.

I don't care about historical accuracy. Sorry. Read a different comic.

#sometimes demanding historical accuracy is violence lol #literally stop looking at black people exclusively through a lense of racism #I know I'm being super serious about this. but it is very serious to me #people have been asking me this THE ENTIRE COMIC #let it go #I wont make people be racist to him #tw racism #rant #racism #racism is something that is enacted on people #it is violence #so 1: why do you want to see it #and 2: why are you acting like its an intrinsic part of someone's being? #it's not. #not art #text post

[nonsensegnomes]

kinda crazy song choice for this dirties (2013) trailer i just unearthed...

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#or: my final answer is that estrogen would NOT save her lmaoooo #the dirties #the dirties 2013 #zapruder film #my vids #video #AMV #my post #you may be thinking wow this looks like it has even less pixels than the original! #& that's actually the intended effect!!! #i was trying to really lean in to the digital disintegration aesthetic of 00s home video footage #that looks like it was shot on a bargain bin camcorder or possibly those early go-pros used exclusively to capture sick skating flips #so basically just like early webseries ntbts lol #guns tw #gun violence tw #um.... like schoolyard bullying homophobia/transphobia warning? #warning for the most stomach-upsettingly real depiction of the mortification of being misunderstood ever put to film?? #unreality tw #school shooting tw

[bi4demibuddie]

I want Buck and Eddie's roles reversed. I want Buck hurt or in undeniable danger while Eddie can’t do much for him, the same way Buck couldn’t when Eddie got shot. I need Eddie screaming and scrambling the same way Buck did when he thought he had lost Eddie after the cave in. I want Eddie to realize that he loves Buck, and to break down in the possibility of loosing the love of his life, co parent of his child and best friend.

#woke up and chose violence i guess #in my defense i'll say i was feeling really angsty today #also friendly reminder that someone can both be your best friend and your significant other #they are not mutually exclusive #buddie

[tumblasha]

europe is so interesting. they treat me like a cute kid, backpacking across europe at age 21. the next second they ask me why i'm responsible for gun violence in the united states.

#it's just so irritating #after my first night out in barcelona i introduced myself as peruvian exclusively #bc fjweiaofjreaogehw #they care sm abt american ex-pats gentrifying lisbon #(which is a problem) #but they don't care about literally any of the other clear as fucking day problems in their continent #i introduced myself as american #(texan moving to californian) #and then asked for my opinions on anti-queer laws; pro-gun laws; and why i still 'support' the country #i just happen to live therefjewiaofjreioag #this one parisian thought that we never learned abt the renaissance like #how much do u wanna bet they never learned abt any usa renaissances (harlem; french language rebirth in louisiana; etc) #cw: gun violence mention #gun #gun mention #so at least now i know i can't live in europe long-term #dash rambles #tonight is a night to think abt my spain speed-run #and then move on to portugal where hopefully they understand me #if it weren't for the tourism (english-speakers) i would've been in trouble in barcelona bc catalan doesn't sound as spanish-y as it reads

[onlytibki]

One thing not many people are noting that OPLA got absolutely right about Zoro's character:

For the early stages, this man is a SERIAL KILLER first, pirate second.

Even after taking on the pirate label full time, the only reason he wasn't known by a similar reputation to Kid's, is because he's a massive fucking softie with a big-brother complex the size of the ship.

Zoro takes one look at [Rika's first attempt at onigiri, Chopper's young but steady hands, the little kids crowding him at Water 7] and immediately melts into a green goop with three swords tied to it.

#one piece #so many people called him out about making a living through blood and violence #including himself! #in OPLA #and it's great #Roronoa Zoro #has a soft heart and blood on his swords and the two things are not mutually exclusive #edited bc there were no kids at Enies Lobby #thank God #can you imagine if they found some munchkin about to walk through the Gates? oof

[cctinsleybaxter]

tumblr shadowbanning my post where i rate every couch emoji...

#hate and violence on planet earth #well i'm not remaking it to figure out what the problem was and i'm certainly not marking it mature; blog-exclusive i guess #aeces