#or else kneeling

[peridotsarelongterm]

The DeForest Kelley Westerns FB page just posted this, from the filming of Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957). Think that’s De over on the left, with leggy hitched up (wild guess 😝).

#deforest kelley #western!de #gunfight at the ok corral #50s westerns #but seriously #i love that every man in this shot is standing normally #or else kneeling #this wasn’t some kind of stance he learned doing westerns #this was just de #de’s funny sitting habits strike again #sort of

[andy-clutterbuck]

The Ones Who Live | 1x06

#THE SNARLS #Rick Grimes #* #rg #The Ones Who Live #excuse me but The Nose™ #his n e c k #bram stoker is outside #he wants to talk #sweaty curls were the best ones #H A N D S #rogue fuzzies #richard pls #bout to invest in those kneeling pads people who garden a lot use #when else do you snarl? #HMMMMMM #*cash register noise* *glass breaking*

[whateveryeah]

DAEMON TARGARYEN CROWNS HIS WIFE RHAENYRA TARGARYEN

#her coronation was so beautiful and intimate 🥹 #the fact that he kneeled first then everyone else <3 #house of the dragon #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon x rhaenyra #daemyra #otp <3

[itsxroxannex]

Kneel before the King 👑

Passive was left clueless on what's happening around him.

Passive Kingmare belongs to Jokublog

#passive nightmare sans #nightmare sans #dreamtale fanart #undertale #Kneel or else he cri

[glue-thief]

at this point isagi is the only option for kaiser bc he's the only one who won't take kaiser's toxic manipulative "i need a dog that will submit to my malice"/"if one is to erode his heart..." bullshit

#did you see isagi when kaiser demanded him to kneel #he went FUCK NO and now he's turned that around on him 😭😭 #something something these two need to be together bc them being with anyone else would be terrible #blue lock #bllk #kaisagi #kiis #isagi yoichi #yoichi isagi #michael kaiser

[smile-files]

snowfolks

#dandy's doodles #<- it's art and i have nothing else to tag it as #snow #snow sculpture #snowman #i spent an hour or two yesterday on the trip just making these #i had to sit and kneel in the snow so i ended up really really cold and wet and stiff... but it was worth it!! #(and i got to take a nice hot shower afterwards. all's well that ends well!)

[finelinens]

eh i'll post this here for you guys, why not.

#forgot to sign it whatev #gamer4gamer relationship #kneel down 4 bestie #he's just a polite boy nothing else #art tag #fanart tag #dnf fanart #dreamnotfound fanart #mature art tag

[pseudonymphomania]

HELLO ITS ME, YOUR DAILY DIALUCI ALARM. NB LESSON 38. COUPLE FIGHT, MARRIAGE COUNSELING, KNEELING, SLEEPING BEAUTY. No further comments.

#dialuci #obey me diavolo #obey me lucifer #diavolo x lucifer #obey me dialuci #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me spoilers #We are being fed #I thought diavolo hugged Lucifer like everyone else but noooooo #the screen shook and we were all shook when dia KNEELED #obey me screenshot

[scintillyyy]

tim bothering helena at home is delightful, but have we considered

tim bothering helena at sunday mass

#tim and helena #he needed to bug her about a case. helena's church reputation will never recover from this. #tim does not kneel when everyone else does and now people are looking at them #there's an old woman glaring daggers at them. helena can't sink any further into the pew than she already has #tim does charm the old ladies at the breakfast in the gymnasium afterwards tho

[braceletofteeth]

Sion begging Hongseok to believe in him (01x02) // Hongseok begging to be punished in Sion's place (01x06)

#you make me dance #song sion #jin hongseok #parallels #gifset #* #// #when people kneel to save themselves is pitiful #but when they do it to save someone else... #I'd say ''how the turns table'' but Hongseok was on Sion's side from day one so it doesn't really apply to them 😔

[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

[agnesandhilda]

struggling to be mature about the one chapter 262 translation I was able to find

#bolo liveblogs #they could've just translated isagi's line here as ''kneel before me'' like everyone else did but nooooooo #blue lock #bllk

[outism-had-a-purpose]

Every time an artist draws Outis as handsome, mean, and visibly aged, someone ascends to nirvana

#outis #assorted outisms #limbus company #i miss my wife. i miss my fictional already married to someone else wife tails #her butch middle aged swag has got me kneeling on the floor clutching my chest coughing

[dusts-coffin]

You know, I always wondered why there's so few instances of Abaham/Alucard shipping. Honestly, the dynamics of that would be really interesting to explore--Though, I know It'd probably be mega unhealthy or the power dynamic would be a little too extreme, it would be very neat to see more of it.

Like, I understand why Alutegra is a thing, same with Andercard, but I really want Abraham/Alucard for some reason.

It's just the idea of the literal Dracula being made submissive by a human man that really tickles my brain, ngl. There's massive appeal and a lot of potential in a powerful and vicious monster being made into an obediant pet by someone objectively less powerful.

Especially when the dom/sub aspects come into play, because, in my personal opinion, Alucard is a bottom/sub-- at the very least, he is a bratty submissive, he likes people that can force him to obey and listen. He wants people that are very firm and strong willed, and hates people that are weak.

Abraham kinda fits the bill to a T, he's a very strong willed man who probably commands obedience and is a natural leader. He would very likely have the ability to make Alucard listen and bide by his rules. Unfortunately, we don't see a lot of him or Abraham/Alucard dynamics in the anime/manga and that is a damned shame.

#hellsing #alucard #vladcard #Abraham Van Helsing (Hellsing) #Abraham/Alucard #I need to see Dracula bottoming so damn bad #Alucard has such sub/brat energy its ridiculous #TAME! THAT! BRAT! #Unginged rambling sorry lol #Also anyone else notice Alucard *loves* to kneel? #That man is sub as hell #Gaycard #AbeVlad #AbeCard

[happyk44]

thinking about spy for olympus hermes again and how hades catches him and how hermes is prepared to be sent out, prepared to lie through his teeth so he doesn't get in trouble with his father for being caught and how hades frowns at the idea of hermes thinking he's going to be let go because why would he when hermes could get in trouble for it and "you ate the fruit, didn't you" "...yes" "then ask yourself, why would i risk the suffering of something that's mine?"

#hermes x hades #happy talks greek mythos #hermes #hades #hermes could lie very easily but the problem is that in this world zeus is heavily paranoid and hermes very much is NOT the only spy he has #and hermes is v aware of that. even if he doesn't know who or how. is it pasithea? is it on purpose? by accident when she visits olympus? #what about ares who is friendly with thanatos and keres? or philotes who is the sibling of so many of the tartarus crew? #how many of them are intentional like he is? and how many are accidental? telling stories unaware of the malicious focus to their words #its easy to keep a lie going forever when there's no one else to refute your words #anyway hades is well aware of who his brother is and he doesn't really care and hermes wishes he would because The Guilt #(he hates The Guilt. rarely ever felt it before and suddenly it's all he feels kneeling at his uncle's feet #begging for forgiveness that's already been delivered before he could even lower himself to the ground) #okay i need to go to sleep and stop rambling before this turns into a bigger thing byeeeeeee

[divinekangaroo]

A short while back, I received a beloved comment on a very old re-uploaded fic which offered a "between 'XXXX' and 'YYY' is [superlative] piece of writing, haunting me for years" so i go Hmm! I have no memory of this specific section! and look it up and

it's a description of a median strip

i mean, it's a good description of a median strip, and once i re-read it i certainly remember contemplating carefully and exactly what i was trying to convey, but it is, in actual fact, a description of a median strip

#this doubt forever strikes because man that was actually a good piece of writing what was i on? who was i? who was this person writing good? #but was that the peak of my existence!!!??!???!?!?? i shall never surmount this description!! *sobs* #the door doored doorily in the wall which was a wall which was a thing other than a wall but clearly not a door #the door in the other wall was open but no one noticed #so busy they were.staring at the doorily door which being closed was the only door that embodied the doorness of being a door #in a wall #don't forget the wall #did i mention the wall because there's also walls #everywhere.and don't forget the eyes are doors too.opening and closing like doors.interiors and exteriors.right? #no roof tho #this being an architectural metaphor for how domestic ruins entrap and stagnate! residential architectural forms are rooms of doom! dooooom #there is a floor though because floors are where people have to kneel grovel puke fall and draw outlines of the bodies that were never ther #sigh sigh sigh self deprecation this deadly deadly sin #whilst i battle with editing and cutting giant chunks of similar type descriptions which seem less than relevant; and wondering 'but would- #--that rando piece of distorted-elevator-reflection-description have become someone else's powerful haunting piece?' who knows... #my writing #editing man. 20000x harder than writing