#BUT HES DEAD??

[faeriecap]

when i was at avengers campus with my friends one of them was like look! captain america! and bc fatws was airing at the time i turned towards his balcony and screamed “WHERES SAM WILSON I WANT THE REAL CAPTAIN AMERICA” at him. cant take me anywhere

#i can’t go anywhere with neurotypicals anymore #my mom told me off for being unhinged when i was literally just having fun #i knew it would make my bestie laugh #I SWEAR IF DISNEYLAND STEVE ROGERS HAS TEN THOUSAND FOLLOWERS I AM ONE OF THEM IF HE HAS ONE IT IS ME #BUT HES DEAD?? #apologies to that friend of steve tho sorry bestie i love u ur doing amazing sweetie #i speak #captain america meme #captain america #sam!cap #sam wilson #steve rogers #avengers campus #disneyland #disney california adventure #avengers #marvel #mcu #marvel shitpost #fatws #falcon and the winter soldier #face character #mcu shitpost #adhd

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[ciderbird]

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

#historians are out there beefing with ppl who died over 200 years ago. good for them #history #history memes #this isn’t really about anyone in particular #but I did read the most hilariously bitter takes on alexander I #not that it’s hard to poke fun at his vanity and indicisive nature but like. he was just a poor little meow meow #although I have some weird grudges against dead ppl as well *cough* Catherine II *cough*

[dystopiansocietystraw]

when i tell you i had an aneurysm

#rdr2 #red dead redemption community #red dead redemption 2 #spider georg #this is where he lives!!!!

[oaxleaf]

love myself a cockroach of a character. i look at them and go ”how is that fucker not dead? they should be dead. they should be dead ten times over. how are they not?” and 90% of the time the answer is a combo of sheer stubborness and homosexuality

#arthur lester #he’s about 15% scar tissue by now i can’t not include him #also: #izzy hands #i know he’s dead and buried now #but i haven’t watched ep 8 yet and anyways he still had like five fakeouts before that

[ato-dato]

One mans barber can be another mans nemesis.

#my red dead years are coming in handy now #btw #aziraphale was about to tell a story about how he was mugged at gunpoint #before he was so rudely interrupted #i kinda missed drawing cowboys idkkk #anyway #good omens #good omens comic #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #aziracrow #ineffable partners #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #crowley #anthony crowley #ineffable cowboys #cowboy au #cowboy Crowley #1880s fashion #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing #comic #fan comic

[gvalesdraws]

scribble from my playthrough. there is definitely a statue of astarion somewhere in baldurs gate because we wouldn't survive without him

#like. he managed to win at least 4 difficult fights by himself by stealthing + attacking from the dark while everyone else was lying dead #art #my art #baldurs gate #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3 #bg fanart #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 astarion #astarion #baldurs gate shitpost

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

#flaco #tw animal death #tw animal sickness #better dead than fed is a horrific mindset #zoo animal welfare #screenshot feat the WCS's inability to remember to remove their editorial template from highly sensitive press releases round 2 #colored text #people who loved the ideal of him more than the reality of him #congrats #you killed this owl #I'm still so mad that people who wanted him to stay loose got all sorts of media attention for the elegies they wrote when he died

[parkore]

made a guy btw

#comes back from the dead a lil evil but he still has sm love in his heart so its okay #dnd #my art

[eternallovers65]

Ngl if I had a child with Poseidon, the God of the Seas, and had to pay swimming lessons for my son because he was scared of water, I'd be cursing Poseidon forever like you don't show up, don't pay child support and now you can't even help your actual ocean spawn to swin????

#like my girl sally a saint because you could see she wanted to tell him so bad he would be okay because hes poseidon son #dead beat dad indeed omd #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson #poseidon

[mirrorhouse]

∞ RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2

#red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #rdr #rdr2 #arthur morgan #rdr2edit #gamingedit #* #rdr2* #what's he reading....

[pokeberry5]

boy hostage (spiritual successor to this)

big brother to the rescue:

#back at it again at krispy kreme #sart #tim drake #dick grayson #dc #dick & tim #some of my favorite things about canon are a) dick being (ferally) protective of tim #and b) that gotham villains refer to robin and nightwing as brothers #idk i love drawing tim a little bloody #he's ok!!! dick got to him on time im realizing he kinda looks dead #oh OTHER favorite thing is those panels of vigilantes where all u can make out of their features are their glowing eyes #(my excuse for not drawing tim's belt is that if he had it he'd've escaped so they must have gotten it off him)

[samglyph]

Ideal Gravity Falls reboot for me would be if they just released a movie, takes place ten+ years in the future, Dipper and Mabel are adults now going back to gf for the summer and you know there’s a lot of like serious tonal shifts from the original work in that it actually plays a bit more in the horror and drama space that Disney might not have let it originally and one of those dramatic notes could be that when they get to the shack the grunkles aren’t there to greet them and no one really mentions it but they’re talking about stan in the past tense and maybe Dipper gets really defensive every time he’s brought up and this goes on for two hours and we’ve reached the climax and at the last moment it’s revealed that stan and ford aren’t dead or anything they just got pulled over for speeding and Stan got arrested for punching a cop

#gravity falls #dipper is defensive because ford texted him and he’s annoyed because he knows they’re going to ask him to post bail #ford is still legally dead

[likopinina]

#spino posting kinda night #meme #shitpost #spinosaurus #tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurus rex #spinosaurus aegyptiacus #paleontology #he sure is dead #both are in fact

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Pizza sim’s plot is just the Afton’s fighting

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #michael afton #scrap baby #scraptrap #william afton #elizabeth afton #fnaf #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Pizza sim really is just a line up of characters who want Michael dead #and Michael is on that list too 💀 #Half the fnaf games truly is just Afton’s fighting each other #SCRAP BABY!! IS HERE!! #truly I just wanted to draw her #her design is so cool #Poor Michael just gotta sit there as the other two argue #he hoping if he stays quiet they’ll just forget he’s there #man’s waiting out the clock cause he legally can go at 6am #LETS GO PIZZA SIM ENJOYERS 🩵🩵

[desos-records]

suddenly struck with thoughts about the devastating concept of Jason Todd

because he was good. because he had a bleeding heart despite every reason not to. he loved school and was good at it. he was the first to be adopted, with little pretense of guardianship. he did everything he could to be a perfect Robin and live up to an impossible ideal. he only ever wanted Bruce and Dick to like him.

because he met Bruce in the same place and on the same day that Bruce's parents died--the single defining moment of Batman's existence. and he made Batman laugh. he hit the Dark Knight, Terror of Gotham, with a tire iron. he wasn't afraid of the man who turned fear into a weapon.

because he couldn't save his mother from herself, but he tried. because he was too good not to try and save the woman who gave him up. too good to play the Joker's game. the crowbar didn't kill him, the bomb did. he died knowing he wouldn't make it and tried anyway. he died a hero.

because other Robins have died, but none of them put an irrevocable tear in the mythos of Batman. because Jason Todd always dies, in every universe. he dies for the sins of his father. he was put to death by popular vote, sacrificed by the crowd. doomed by the narrative and doomed by the audience. the boy who only ever tried to prove he was good enough--wasn't good enough.

because he has every reason to be angry. because he didn't ask to be murdered, didn't ask to be brought back, and when he did everyone acted like he was better off dead. Bruce tried to kill him and nearly succeeded. he's blamed for his own death and blamed for his resurrection. he can never come home because the house is haunted by his own ghost.

because he's been the hero, the victim, and the villain. because his family and his writers and his universe don't know what to make of him. they don't know how to look his tragedy in the eye. and how can you?

it hurts to look at the hero who cannot be good enough, the victim who will only ever be angry, the villain who can sometimes be right. the audience hates to feel complicit and, in this exceptional case, they are.

#don't look at me #the writing potential of jason is so often wasted #death in the family still haunts me tho #jason todd #dc #red hood #he could be an exploration of tragedy #on the level of rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #but nooooo #robin #batman #dc comics