every day the urge to create a beautiful prince character that falls in love with some isekai villainess grows stronger and soon i fear the iron grip i have on my self-control will falter
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With the revelation that Orym had a feeling Laudna killing Bor'dor would give Delilah a foot in the door again, and let it happen even as Laudna turned to him as a lifeline to stop herself. And with the Expanse and its characters on the brain. I'm just thinking about how sometimes, even in the absence of evil necromantic soul parasites, the important question isn't "is mercy the morally correct choice?" it's "is revenge the right choice for us?" It's about self-preservation. About staying the person you want to be. The person you need to be to keep putting one foot in front of the other every day. The person you can look at in mirror every morning. It's about knowing your friend will be disproportionately burdened by that choice and chosing to intervene. Not even necessarily to stop the killing altogether, just to stop your friend from hurting themself in the process. ("You're not that guy" but "I am that guy." "It's not about [them]. It's about us." "It wasn't mercy. It was vanity. I didn't want to think of myself as someone who wanted vengeance.")
In that moment Laudna needed someone to step in for her. To take the weight off her shoulders. I don't think Laudna wants to be the kind of person who kills to satisfy feelings of revenge (even without the threat of an evil necromancer hiding in her soul). Imogen pulled her back from the brink before. But this time she wasn't there. And Orym, in her stead, let her fall. When he could have chosen to intervene. Ashton too, to an extent, although in the moment it was Orym that Laudna looked to for restraint. Either of them could have made the kill instead. That this also put Delilah back in the picture... well that just makes this situation all that much worse. How does it feel to know that your friends let you free-fall into the dark? How does it feel knowing you let your friend free-fall into the dark? Worse, how does it feel to know you gave them that final shove over the precipice?
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I had to get off of Twitter earlier because people were insinuating that Jon Moxley would do what Punk has done, and I'm so sorry, but that's tantamount to blasphemy for me. Don't ever speak on Mox like that. He would never crawl back to a company that he felt had truly killed his passion for the one thing he loves to do in this world (besides make beautiful, sweet, nasty love with his smoking hot wife. His words, not mine). Wwe tried to bury him hard, from his kayfabe persona to his literal character. He kept his head down, spoke his truth, but did not outwardly disparage the company. He simply stated why he left and why he came to AEW: To wrestle and tell stories. It wasn't the money because he's already stated he had more than enough money to consider not wrestling again at all once he left WWE. But he loves to wrestle and that's why he left. That's why he re-signed with AEW for another 5 years; his passion for this sport and respect for his fans are evident. I don't think yall can say the same for the Jesus guy. He quite literally has built a cult of personality around himself so that no matter what he does he has an echo chamber of sycophants (affectionate) chanting his name even when it truly isn't deserved. How many times can your idol deliberately let things blow up in his (and by proxy yall's) face and give you empty apologies before you start to go, "I like the guy but he's super inconsistent with what he says vs what he does." ?
Either way, don't yall go putting that evil on Jon Moxley. My man stands on business and is about his bag through and through. Look back over his career and see how the only person who has ever had bad shit to say about him is the one person who willingly went back to WWE after they supposedly ruined his life and almost killed him.
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AKHDMCUKSNDM Hours after essentially giving up on getting an education job I got an email back for a position I applied to literally yesterday?? which would be an after school teacher at a private school in the richy rich part of town which is actually so so funny to me but well. it's a job
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