#-prior to his death

[melongumi]

me, seeing yet another fic tagged “Canon Jiang Cheng Characteristics”: just tag it character bashing you sanctimonious cowards. you don’t decide what canon is

#let the record state that jiang cheng was a GOOD BOY who grew into worse versions of himself after-- #repEATEDLY losing everything he cared about #let the record state that jiang cheng loves his brother (BROTHER; not subordinate) #let the record state that WEI WUXIAN HAS HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITY TO BEAR for the degeneration of his political relationship with jiang sect- #-prior to his death #and can i just say how frustrating it is that there's no apparent agreed-upon meaning for this fucking tag? #i have clicked on a few fics so tagged because i am unfortunately not immune to boredom or an interesting summary. #i have seen it mean anything from OUTRIGHT BULLSHIT even less charitable than the donghua characterization (derogatory) #i have seen it mean ACTUAL canon-compliant characterization featuring teenage angst and good intentions #i have seen it mean things in between and things out of left field. I HATE IT #GOD just. i see it and all i can hear is ''it's not bashing it's canon!! [says bullshit that was never in the book or show]'' #''it's canon therefore you can't criticize me'' #IT'S FUCKING NOT #also have y'all SEEN jiang cheng's wiki page these days? That writing does NOT meet standards for unbiased writing. #i feel like this has been getting worse and worse over the past year. what the FUCK is going on. #IMPORTANT ADDITION: jiang cheng's 'worse versions of himself' were STILL BETTER THAN MOST OF THE ASSHOLES HE HAS TO WORK WITH

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #participated in altades' dance collab :3 very grateful for the opportunity and many thanks to them for organizing this! #there was a lot of vw arc choices... but i went for the leonof arc bc it's a dear vw moment to me #i think a lot of the leonof arc further breaks down vash's ideology and for the readers - together with ww- to learn that his ideals aren't #pure naivety and that vash knows he's at an odd standpoint with himself. he's criticized ww for shooting rai-dei just prior when ww had don #so on the behalf of vash but here he thanks him for killing on behalf of his home and its genuine. bc vash's presence - although it's not #his fault - he was the reason leonof and gray had gotten to the ship and killed people there. that's the guilt he has to live with and #despite his anger he'd still resolute not to kill. meanwhile ww just did what he had to - beating down on a seemingly immortal monster but #at the core made up of many lives he had to take and i feel as the fight dragged on - his own mentality waned. committing active carnage #while remembering the orphanage... and bearing that guilt alongside the words vash left with him during rai-dei's death #only for vash to thank him afterwards what he's done and for apologizing for pushing his beliefs on ww when he had no solutions of his own #anyway. i just have so an immense love for this arc bc they just got around to appreciating each other in weird ways. though ofc its still #weird and confusing for ww bc every new info on vash it'll just be strange to him as someone who's human #ruporas art

[reineydraws]

wanted: marine hunter takanome mihawk

#shanks: oh i want him alright #dracule mihawk #takanome mihawk #one piece #one piece fanart #op fanart #i accidentally went way extra on this than i intended to 💀 i got bored waiting for my brother + my phone was charging #it was just supposed to be a b&w sketch with his eyes yellow or red but it got out of hand when i was like 'maybe i'll do skin for funsies' #ah well. im really starting to get into painting with this one brush. one day i'll merge it with the style i use more #cuz rn i tend to break out the painting only when i wamt smth a liiiiittle👌 more realistic. #i stress that 'little' bc calling my style 'realistic' in any sort of way feels inaccurate lol #i digress #i love imagining marine hunter mihawk being some teenage punk between the ages of 17 and 23 #idk when he became a warlord but if he had this epithet even before roger's death that would put him in mid-to-late teens #since at roger's execution he was 19 amd already had yoru #so it's kinda funny to imagine the marines being hunted by some teenager with dramatic sideburns and an even more dramatic sword #last post of the year! :) #i had no chill this month. pls dont expect anything on my blog again till march lol. #(im half-serious; im going on vacation for all of february and i have some prior pieces i need to focus on in jan haha. we'll see tho!)

[decarbry]

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #aizawa shouta #Aizawa fan art #eraserhead #so my favorite take on Aizawa's life post-UA is where he just. continues to spiral #after they graduate he continues to pull away from Hizashi and Nem until they hardly ever hear from him. it's like pulling teeth getting hi #on the phone and impossible to see in person. working himself to death in the underground hero world and making pennies #sometimes so deep in it that he has bouts of houselessness but refuses to ask anyone for help. for YEARS. #so when his friends finally pry themselves an opening they find him at rock bottom and are the only real reason he gets pulled out of it at #all to become the Aizawa we know in canon #he spends the next few years after leaving UA and prior to joining an agency as a self-described terrible friend and all he's good for is #being an underground hero so he runs himself down to do so #I love fics that focus on this era it's so good #they get Dark but that's how I like em #more of that please #and all of my Aizawa art adheres to this telling of his past #even in the Yabureme AU #(but not Immolation AU lmao)

[faggyangel]

ik we've said this a million times but im obsessed with the way klaus is constantly surrounded by death and trauma and darkness yet he's such a vibrant and lively and compassionate person who continuously puts love and kindness into the world because he knows how dark it can get. just klaus who uses his dying breath to allow luther to say goodbye to sloane because he knows what its like not to be able to say goodbye

#he knows he KNOWS #he knows how dark the world can get he served in a needless war surrounded by death #and he just keeps giving love to people when they need it and even when they dont #thinking about him comforting sloane a women he met two days prior and has spent 5 minutes with when his own brother dies #im just gsgeuaknajalajdiwow #klaus hargreeves #ik we say this all the time but i cant stop thinking about compassionate and considerate he is #the umbrella academy #5k

[charmwasjess]

headcanon that Dooku didn't go to any nefarious lengths to get Sifo-Dyas's Archives password to delete Kamino, he just thought hard about everything he knew about him from their years of friendship, typed in "bootylicious123", and it worked on the first try.

#count dooku #sifo dyas #headcanon #tales of the jedi #star wars prequels #honestly this plot point never made any sense to me #if he's covering up Sifo's death and the Clones why use his account and if he's dead/missing isn't activity on his account suspicious? #the only thing that does make sense is that of course Dooku would know his password because of their prior years of codependency

[snake-snack-stede]

tell me why david jenkins thought this was okay

arguably the most evil parallel

#pete lying about his prior work experience vs. lucius in episode 6 and 10 #I cry :) #ofmd #our flag means death #gifs #lucius spriggs #black pete ofmd #edward teach

[thefightinfoggy]

The 60s mike murdock creation is so funny from foggys perspective in retrospect cause

Matt: yeah daredevil is actually my twin brother, hes totally real despite you never meeting him or seeing even pictures of him, nor me ever mentioning him before throughout our entire time knowing each other.

Foggy (never told matt about candace but choosing to be contrarian): oh yeah? If hes so real I want to meet him.

Like matt is lying about having a made-up twin brother and foggy has been lying about not having a very real younger sister

#daredevil #matt murdock #foggy nelson #im looking this as the canon events prior to real boy mike cause genuinely so much would have to be diff to make this arc still work #like mike would 100% have to be in on it cause suddenly matt would be putting a giant target on his back which i dont think hed do that to #and also this arc ends with THE DEATH OF MIKE MURDOCK like #so yeah for the sake of this post its before

[space--butterflies]

I've seen a lot of shows with lackluster finale, but never has the finale of a show actively ruined the rest of the series for me like Watching and Dreaming

#toh critical #toh salt #Luz's actions in the prior seasons meaning nothing #because the titan just gave her the glyphs #she didnt earn anything #belos being made to a villain whos just evil for the sake of being evil #all the goddamn retcons #hunter still becoming caleb anyway completely ignoring his character arc of NOT being caleb #the fucking collector being made into a uwu soft boy who doesnt know any better whe. #when we SAW in earlier episodes he fucking knew what death was and was EXCITED to see everyone die from the draining spell #just... the only episodes i could possibly re-watch are the season 1 finale #hollow mind and thanks for them #THE SHOW SAYING LMAO SIKE AND MAKING LUZ THE GODDAMN CHOSEN ONE ANYWAYY??? #EVEN AFTER EPISODE FUCKING 2 MADE A POINT OF SAYING SHES NOT??? #lmao i hate this show

[almoststedytimetravel]

It's sad fact that I always seem to forget that Koromaru first awakened to a persona because he saw Junpei sulking. This dog saw a that sad, pathetic, wet cat of a man with no where to go and in his little doggy brain thought, "I'd die for this man."

#Koro-chan I love you so much! #The answer was so real for that #we're going to show you everyone's reason for awakening a Persona and Koromaru's is going to share his scene with Junpei #because the death of his previous owner is actually what triggered his second awakening #Like Koro is generally shown as being under Ken's care #and we know Aigis looked after him prior to Ken moving back into the dorm #but I choose to believe Junpei get's joint custody of Koro #Also the headcannon that Koro's initial persona was Argos (Odysseus' dog) is my favourite #Persona 3 #Persona #junpei iori #Koromaru #I'm pretty sure this is Koro's reason for sticking with Junpei in the answer #I am one of five Persona 3 The Answer defenders ama

[pointyfruit]

AAAAAAAA guess who's about to get waaassteeeeeeed!

#the whiplash #not only from being brought back from the dead #but from all the new stuff that has been invented and built #not to mention all the people from his time in the cult are dead #it's a new world #he's existed for thousands of years prior to his death #so he should be okay... hopefully... #he'll adjust #cult of the lamb #leshy #leshy cotl #cotl leshy #cotl narinder #the one who waits #there's drinks! #sins of the flesh

[anistarrose]

After rewatching the Thanks For Watching trilogy, I actually have to double down on my controversial opinion: Hunter never having to directly face off against Belos again after Thanks to Them is actually super satisfying and cathartic in an understated, underrated way. He said everything he needed to say after the worst thing that Belos ever did to him, and from then on, he didn't know it yet but he was free. I'm so happy for him.

#he was in so much pain when he was focused on vengeance in FTF. it's such a moment of relief when WAD lets him breathe #the owl house #the owl house hunter #emperor belos #i don't even think hunter's arc was *completely* unscathed by cancellation-induced pacing issues #i think he would've benefitted from more time to sit with flapjack's death and to flesh out the new magic (esp limitations) #(i think they could've spun up an interesting new angle on the disability metaphor if they'd had like... #an A-plot and two B-plots across half a season. give some payoffs to his prior glyph usage maybe) #but with the cancellation they couldn't have given him that time without taking any away from luz (or others but mostly luz) #and to be clear: i think they made the right choice #because hunter is a great character but nonetheless one that the fanbase needs to be reminded is not the protagonist #anyways he might be the TOH character for which the ending stuck the least for me... BUT the fact that i still enjoyed it overall #is really a testament to the crew handling the cancellation in the best way humanly possible. IMO

[aparticularbandit]

real talk, though.

if vision quest is about white vision regaining his memories. even if she's dead, wanda should be in that.

you can't give me wandavision and then pretend that vision's memories wouldn't largely involve wanda. or you can, but then that would carry a through line of wanda caring more about vision than he does about her (or, at least, that his priorities were/are different - which you can support with infinity war and his decision to go jump into battle and leave wanda once he noticed the avengers needed his help). and regardless, she would and should still be part of those memories.

that would be the best place to confirm or deny what the mcu official timeline is speculating re: wanda's death because a white vision who truly regained his memories would also probably seek her out, depending on how he relates to those memories, even if he doesn't accept them into who he is or decides to be.

#musings #mcu #vision mcu #mcu vision #vision #vision quest #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #wandavision #still big on 'no body no death' here #but like - this was a thing that got brought up in some of my discussions post-dsmom #where. was. white. vision. #if he got all his memories back at the end of wandavision why did he just. completely. never show up not go be with wanda like. #wv ended with 'we will meet again' which SHOULD BE WHITE VISION because he had his memories back #but he just peaced out into nowheresville #and disappeared #and has subsequently been mia for however many projects at this point #at least agatha has the agnes excuse - and also that for the past ten years of marvel stuff prior she was good at staying out of the way #i mean i guess this plays into why kamala doesn't know who he is #if she was 16 in ms. marvel that means she would have been 11 when the snap happened it makes since that she doesn't know him #ANYWAY #THOUGHTS #I HAVE THEM SOMETIMES

[gaelicfiddle]

I think I can hear him out there

Philip holding Milius' body in the aftermath of William Hamleigh's attack at the Kingsbridge fair.

(Inspired by the painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 " by Ilya Repin)

#the pillars of the earth #ken follett's the pillars of the earth #the pillars of the earth spoiler #POTE spolier #tw: death #tw: blo0d #prior Philip #philip of gwynedd #milius #my art #ok first ever attempt with procreate and of course i had to draw this #it's just...i always wondered what may have been like the moment when philip actually gets to see what happend to his friend #so that's it #i'm hurting myself doing this i know #fan art #pillars of the earth

[wellnoe]

if it were up to ME i would have pulled the teen o5 to the present day like. pretty much immediately after charles faked his death and while everyone still thought he was dead. bc then to me you get the fun thing of the o5 x-men being forced together in the future at a time when they are becoming more separated in their present, and you also get the fun dynamic of all the x-men in the 'present' being mad at scott for killing xavier while all the o5 x-men are mad at jean for lying about xavier being dead.

#like i think the dynamic of the o5 x-men being like. completely unable to process scott killing xavier bc they are actively mourning his #death is so fun to me #also like. the decision to pull the teen x-men from as early as they did in the timeline is baffling to me #like i know it was done to make things logistically easier and not have to deal w early canon #(an impression furthered by writers refusing to engage/retconning stuff about jean's life prior to the x-men) #but to me all the fun of the teen x-men's premise is having to deal w the silver age canon #so if that's not part of the story i lose interest #which is part of why i do not care about the teen x-men or whatever we call them to make it clear who we're talking about #w.me

[hypnogogyc]

morning doodles

#mike probably doesnt mind the cold after his death and that makes oliver very sad #tma spoilers #oliver got alot more creative with his appearance post death but prior to it he probably dressed very reserved i think #graham folger #graham in my hc was very academic and they met in philosophy class or something cause they both needed the credit #and was so rooted in his logic that he refused to let oliver in much on his paranoia #until he lost himself too much to tell anyone #i think things got tense and it didnt end on a greeeat note #crack idea oliver goes around and unburies all his exes in the apocalypse #oliver banks #mike crew #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #tma art #my art