#Cruelty of Hope

[magikkittenz]

It had to be done

#had a Lot of feelings about these two the other day #they’re driving me crazy. do you think they looked each other in the eye when they killed each other. how the respawn was an act of cruelty #rather than mercy. that it was like replaying the same terrible nightmares over and over again? #terrible for them I hope they get better <- makes it worse #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 soldier #tf2 demoman #art #boots n bombs #drawingz by meh #blood cw

[ladyofthenoodle]

“adrien wasn’t bothered by chloe’s behavior until it affected him” okay first of all it’s literally affected him since origins because it impacted the assumptions his classmates made about him but okay. i’ll grant that his disapproval of her has gotten harsher as it has hit him closer to the heart.

BUT i would like to offer an alternative perspective: this is the first time that adrien has seen chloe’s actions cause long term damage. while hawkmoth is at large, chloe’s actions usually lead to someone being akumatized - a big consequence, yes, but one where the damage is fixed with the toss of a lucky charm and some catharsis or opportunity for growth for the victim. yes, chloe hurts people and she’s mean and it’s wrong, and adrien never approves of how she treats people, but at the end of the day he’s willing to give her another chance after the day is saved. tomorrow is a new day full of possibilities and chloe can try again to be a good person, because the mess she made today was cleaned up.

this is the first time adrien has seen the way chloe’s actions continue to cause harm, months and years after the fact. this is the first chance he’s had to condemn her not for the abstract idea of how one should treat other people or the short term consequence of an akuma, but for causing lasting psychological harm to someone that doesn’t go away even after the akuma is defeated or they learn something about themselves or they get support and love from their friends. because even after all that, marinette still can’t take adrien’s hand. what chloe and kim did is burned into her psyche in a way she can’t easily heal from. and this is the first time adrien has really seen that, has seen that chloe isn’t just mean but causes lasting damage to people’s spirits. so i think yes, he reacts this way because it’s his girlfriend and it’s impacting his relationship with her, but he also reacts this way because he’s finally able to see the long term consequences of her actions in a concrete way.

#and i hope this will help him make some connections regarding how some other people’s cruelty can have long term effects #*cough cough* gabriel #and how maybe each missing dinner isn’t just an isolated instance of bad behavior that gabe can recover from #but something that has had a long term impact on adrien and his own ability to form relationships #please let him make that connection #miraculous ladybug #ml derision

[wolfythewitch]

TikTok don't take down my videos unnecessarily challenge FAILED

#fuCK YOU #IM MAD #This happens too much times your system is so shit #oh yes let me take down this warrior of the mind animatic for ANIMAL CRUELTY #i hope your conglomerate ass gets bought out by elon musk and turned into a dumpster fire worse than it currently is #i hope some millionaire buys you out and systematically strips you of your brand and identity until you bevome only a footnote in mass recol #lection

[hatteymcstache]

"I might get punished" || THE DARK LORDS STORY

Yeah this is a pretty heavy one 😭

Anyways, because of Gundhams past it's a part of his trauma response.

He tends to apologize even if it means he didn't do anything wrong; especially if he may get snitched on by an adult. He also tells himself not to cry as a mantra, cause he's fearful of being seen as week and doesn't want to worsen the situation.

Mahiru enabling a lot of Hiyoko's behavior has always grinded my gears; Hiyoko having a weird joy in hurting little animals??? Even more livid 8) I wanna do a followup comic for their confrontation soon!

#tw: parental abuse #tw: bullying #tw: animal cruelty #danganronpa #danganronpa hope au: like a family #danganronpa au #gundham tanaka #celestia ludenberg #hiyoko saionji #mahiru koizumi #hattey's art

[volitioncheck]

nvm this is still on my brain. kim does not like to watch harry suffer… to say that kim takes satisfaction in harry’s pain is a huge misconstruing of his character.

the “getting thrashed like a schoolboy” line comes from a board game, lol. it’s a tease, not a cruelty. there’s never any line that implies that Kim enjoys seeing Harry taking actual morale damage.

he can be amused if you fail a check, but the check is always relatively inconsequential, and again, Harry isn’t taking damage in these.

Failing to pry the trash bin open:

Failing to shatter Ruby’s lorry window:

(also in both of these examples he only responds smugly if you choose for Harry to stubbornly dig in his heels. if Harry gets huffy, Kim teases. If Harry backs down right away Kim won’t rub it in, which feels significant to me! it reminds me of that recent post goin around about Kim meeting your energy!)

and here’s some reactions to failed checks where he does take damage.

Failing the jump to get your cloak:

Failing to break down Plaisance’s door:

he’s not laughing if Harry’s taking damage because he’s not a dick lol.

aaaaand here’s some other instances of morale/health damage and kim’s reactions.

alternate dialogue for failing the harbor jump:

after the call with precinct 41:

seeing bullet holes in the wall:

most significant examples to argue this point for me come when harry has done something to jeopardize the RCM’s image. which kim goes on and on about the importance of maintaining— and yet even here, he still extends worry and assurance.

telling Billie about her husband and handling it badly:

hardie authority check failure cock carousel:

aaaaand the car. this line is one of the most mask-off kim moments we get in the game in my opinion, honestly.

tying this back to the schoolboy line— that line doesn’t show up if you have a negative reputation with Kim. if you have <1 rep, it gets replaced with him calling it “about four hours of our lives that we'll never get back,” lol.

it’s affectionate ribbing!! twisting it into anything else is bizarre 2 me lmao!

anyways. kim is a foil to every other cop we meet in the game specifically because he doesn’t view harry as a punching bag or a lost cause. gottlieb does nothing but sling jabs and glib jokes about harry’s health. torson+mclaine and the others laugh at harry’s panic attack over the radio. in response to harry’s suicide-by-car attempt(!!!!) jean yells about RCM budget. all kim’s lines in response to harry’s check failures and health-damage are consistent, explicit textual contrast against the callousness of the rest of the RCM. twisting kim’s character here requires a bad faith interpretation of the whole game.

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #sometimes i think that fandom Hot Takes get posted just for the sake of contrasting with the majority interpretation of the media #which can be fun lol. i personally love being a pretentious contrarian when the shoe fits. #keyword when the shoe fits #sometimes it just comes off as #the thing where positive interpretations of the thing are somehow seen as lesser or naive #which i feel is so antithetical to DE’s core philosophy #it’s not naive to interpret a hopeful story as hopeful #it’s not naive to interpret a kind character as indeed kind #kindness has as much literary value as cruelty in storytelling #overcorrecting for the sake of overcorrecting in this case just feels very. meanspirited #i don’t want to come off as antagonizing because we are all just posting about a video game on tumblr dot com at the end of the day #it’s okay to Have Differing Opinions On Media #but like. there’s a reason the post Did Not Resonate lol #oh also if anyone has a link to the other post i referenced i’d love to link it in the post properly i just couldn’t find it </3 #me talking

[fredoesque]

see the THING about goodsir and stanley is that goodsir may be way less inclined to act cruelly but he has a far greater capacity for it.

#no listen to me bc stanley is cruel out of uncaringness #oh your toes are getting snipped off? well don't expect any coddling he's got better things to do #but that's the extent of it he doesn't care to hurt anyone either #(and yes obviously carnevale shows that he very much can hurt people but even then the hurt is not his /goal/ #it's a necessary evil so he can help people. of all things) #in contrast with goodsir who cares so so much about things and about doing them right #including. when pushed far enough. cruelty #the terror #i hope people know whenever i make a mean post about goodsir i do like him #i just think one of his best qualities is that he kinda sucks <3 #also tbc having a capacity doesn't mean living up to it. it just means you could

[cryptidwithacopiccollection]

More attorneys!

This is fanart of my two favorite scenes from @vonpharma's fic Take One Down, I love the writing sm and i may or may not have re-read it like 4 times.

Happy birthday Wendy!

#my art #art stuff #ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #maya fey #franziska von karma #franmaya #pearl fey #pearls face. im am so proud of it. also the ominous franziska cloud. #i am. very tired but also very happy. especially with the 1st one of the second part #I am also an energy vampire but like... in reverse. #i make ppl happy and then feed off their happiness. its great :D #In a system that survives on cruelty the best way to fight back is to be kind. #love my silly lesbians! #also happy birthday wendy!! i hope you had a good day :>>>

[ohello0]

Every new piece of information I see coming out of Al-Shifa and the surrounding area is more devastating than the last.

Kidnappings, torture, point blank executions, new reports from those on the ground of the IOF raping and killing women, I have no words.

Western media will undoubtedly be silent about this most recent atrocity as they’ve been silent on, ignored, or sugarcoated everything else the last six months.

#when evidence of the IOFs cruelty and torturous nature comes to light I doubt the New York Times will cover it like they did #the debunked ‘Hamas mass rape’ story #it never had to come to this #every single media outlet politician zionist celebrity and influencer are complicit and culpable #free palestine #rape tw #I hope every IOF member dies actually #israel will perish #death to israel #death to imperialism #death to empire

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

i dont know how to explain it but to me udad and hnoc are like opposites of each other. (Under read more, cause it is loooooonnnnng)

With udad the situation everyone is in is bonkers shit. The world they live in is absolutely shithole of a place that exploits everyone but the richest of the rich and the people there cant escape even after their death. Every single one of them is bitter and depressed and wronged and just wants to survive and they'll do anything to survive even if it meant killing the other one. All the natural part of that world is long dead and only thing exists is this cold dark metallic hellscape of a city that swallowed its own planet like a cancer. Almost all the songs are just how everyone was exploited, used, wronged, and discarded they were. Ulysses is a drunk fallen 'hero' completely guilt ridden by their role in Illium's fall. They had lost everyone and everything even before the album began. They spent so much of their throughout album getting their shit beat in. They, Heracles, and Orpheus go to Hades (Ashes) in hopes to be freed whether as a request, through theft, or through a deal. And Ashes all but set them all up to die for their own amusement (which btw very sexy of them <3 but that is besides the point). There seemed to be no hope for them.

And yet, despite everything the ending is so hopeful. We know that Ulysses would die, if it wasnt obvious from the title of the album itself it certainly becomes obvious when we learn how their world works. And yet they died a happier ending, they escaped the curse of their city and died reunited with their love. Ulysses died under an oak tree in a grassy fields, among nature which was thought to be dead since The City's takeover. Ulysses died being warmed by sunlight, a right denied to so many others like them. Ulysses died at dawn.

And then there is hnoc. Hnoc starts heroic. Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere take over Camelot from the corrupt Stone clan through their skills and teamwork. They turn it into a place of safety with all three of them incharge. Their lives are hard and filled with violence and hatred and fear and the world they live is harsh and unforgiving. But they still have each other, and they still care for the people around them. There is nature like scorpions and vultures despite it being a space station. The album has songs about love and being in love, about hope of peace, about power of faith. Everyone wants to survive and they are willing to work together to do it. Arthur is embittered by his "daughter's" death but still has his partners to keep him grounded and is ruler/sheriff of a powerful town with lots of knights working for him. What is more, the tragedy that hardened both Arthur and Gawain can be healed because the person they mourn isnt dead, he is Mordred and he is here to make amends. Arthur, Gawain, and Galahad go to Merlin (Brian) to seek aid, and he gives them advice that truly could have saved them, because Merlin really did wanted to save them and the entire station. There seemed to be hope for them.

And yet in the end it meant nothing. It was all for nothing. Alfred and Gawain did not listen to Brian's advice and ended up sealing theirs and everyone else's fate. Galahad did take Brian's advice and it destroyed him in a self sacrifice that ended up being for nothing. Mordred tried so hard for peace but at the end seeing the hatred and cruelty of his world hardened him to the core. Gawain's hatred turned peace talks into war and turned him into sawage barbaric monster he thought Saxons to be. Arthur's hardened core did not let him hope that his child could ever return to him and ended up not giving Mordred even a chance. What could have saved everyone Fort Gallfridian ended up turning into what destroyed Fort Gallfridian whether it be the GRAIL or Mordred. Almost all of them died a pointless avoidable death. And Arthur? Arthur lost everything. He lost his partners, he lost his chance to embrace his son, he lost his home, he lost his people. He may have survived but at the end he lost everything. High noon over Camelot. We didnt understand what it truly meant (all of them dying in the sun) until it was too late.

Ulysses shoots once, and it led to their happy ending. Gawain shoots once, and it led to everyone's tragedy. 3 shots all for Ulysses and it killed them. 3 shots for Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and it hurt Arthur but never killed him. Ulysses was the only one who got to die under the sun, Arthur was the only one who didnt die in the sun.

#I dont know if last part with the sun is because sun represented both warm hope and scorching cruelty #Or because the band is british #ulysses dies at dawn #high noon over camelot #the mechanisms #ashes o'reilly #drumbot brian #udad ulysses #hnoc mordred #gawain hnoc #mordred hnoc #arthur hnoc #hnoc #guinevere hnoc #lancelot hnoc #galahad hnoc #the mechs #udad orpheus #udad #empty thoughts #I think similarly tbi and ouatis can also be said to be opposites

[knowlesian]

“what if something being scary doesn’t make it bad” is one of those nearly bulletproof fictional angles for me like i am already in from moment one tell me more about how the terrifying and/or grotesque is not necessarily evil

#oh yellowjackets i love you #mirror tai is a fuckin revelation this season #she is Amoral not IMMoral #like a storm or an avalanche: no mercy and no cruelty #a storm does not hate you: it is merely Being A Storm #god i hope i’m right about where they’re going on this #the way they use new context in this show to change what we think we know about people #so good! so meta

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Eps. 1, 40, and bonus // Mahmoud Darwish

#do u ever think abt. how the sea was never a grave for fang duobing. because he always believed #li xiangyi lived. that he was alive. and safe. and elsewhere. #and then what a cruelty. to have encountered someone so made for you & you for him that the world as u both know it #is continually redefined to the point that your old dream #born out of a place of achievement is replaced with a new one of hope and love and care #that the ocean was a gift to fang duobing because it is what saved li xiangyi the first time. #and then he made it his final and silent grave. #just. god. god. god. #mysterious lotus casebook #mlc #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #fang xiaobao

[evakant]

thinking about yoo joonghyuk and how he is not meant to give up, not ever. but then! what do you do when the person who created you strolls in and says actually, this one time you'll have to give up. not right away, sure, but you will have to give up.

1863rd round the author comes in and talks to him directly and makes him the husk of a man we find a few days away from The End, the one whose only desire seems to be to just get there (the last step of han sooyoung's plan) and die.

she is the only one who can make him give up like that, if not for the single point of failure she wove into his very being — the very reason he cannot ever truly give up

kim dokja shows up, changes the trajectories of both of their lives for fucking ever, and in general fucks everything up so spectacularly yoo joonghyuk can do nothing else but split himself in two

because he wants to live.

#fra.txt #orv spoilers #orv #yoohan is so delicious to me personally. as a dynamic #the fact that it's HER (1863!hys) who writes twts !!! #she has already made yhj go through so much. she literally made him..... THAT in his own story in the 1863rd round #do you understand? of the things she puts him through in that webnovel #probably nothing comes close to the cruelty of what they decide on in round 1863 #i'm sure someone more eloquent than me has touched on this before #but the orv brainrot doesn't spare me just because of that #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #kim dokja #rs: maybe not all hope was lost #rs: because of your story #yoohan #yoohankim

[catoscloves]

thinking about the scene in book!tbosas where teslee (district three female) was being attacked by the horrifying snakes and she nonverbally pleaded with mizzen (district four male) for help. and he only shook his head, not moving to help her - but the book specifically stated that this was more out of stunned fear/horror than any kind of menace or glee at teslee's imminent death.

and he wasn't even from her district too. they were not in an alliance. she literally had no reason to expect any assistance from him, but district divisions & sectionalism didn't matter when she was scared and in pain. none of these divisions of districts one, two, three, four, five through twelve matter!!! not when children are suffering and dying as penance for a just war that ended several years ago! it's as if the narrative is trying to tell you there is no difference between a suffering/dying child from one district or another.

#'i am snow's slave. that's why i killed cato & cato killed thresh & thresh killed clove & clove tried 2 kill me' #'remember who the real enemy is' #the only person responsible is snow #or the tyrannical govt in place before snow became president #etc etc etc #like it's such a recurring theme throughout the series that katniss herself takes pains to reinforce several times #yes she had to kill these ppl because her survival & peeta's demanded for it to happen #but she knew that people that she despised like cato or clove or enobaria or any other career tributes #were just as much victims of the capitol's cruelty as people she genuinely did not want to see dead like thresh/rue #also I'm thinking about how teslee begged mizzen to help her even though that's literally the opposite of the entire idea of the Games #('how can one have an ally in the hunger games?' - coryo himself) #and katniss saying 'you don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope' #teslee's last hope was some random middle school aged murderous boy from another district that she didn't know before any of this #and idk that's just getting to me #anna reads tbosas #anna reads thg #mizzen tbosas #teslee tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[punkymaysnark]

Me? Oh, I'm feeling fine.

An anaconda was shot dead but I'm fine. A beautiful anaconda was shot dead but I'm fine. A beautiful anaconda who was the largest snake in the world was shot dead but I'm fine. A beautiful anaconda who was the largest snake in the world was shot dead by a trophy hunter just for the bragging rights but I'm fine. A beautiful anaconda who was the largest snake in the world was shot dead by a trophy hunter just for the bragging rights within a month of being advertised to the world by scientists after a decade of living peacefully but I'm fine. You hear me? I'mfineI'mfineI'mfineI'mfineI'mfineI'mfine

#tw animal death #tw animal cruelty #tw hunting #FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU #i hate you all #i hate humanity #within a month. WITHIN. A. MONTH. OF BEING DISCOVERED. SHE DIES. #i hope poachers get coralled and forced into a pot of boiling oil #ana julia #this is my supervillain origin story #vovózona

[shallowseeker]

having a cas day ooooof

cas sundays

such an interesting guy, really

#i love the interesting ones #the hope-faith-cruelty tightrope #cas stuff #spn vs nihilism #cas military career and struggling w all that entails #cas existential crises and resilience he builds from it

[damianbugs]

hey yeah sure come in to my room just step over the strange came-from-completely nowhere au (bruce is taken in by carmine falcone following his parents death) and ignore this new, distressingly similar yet also random au (jason is taken in by two-face following willis' murder). we are very normal here

#if youve seen vinland saga then yeah. thats what this is #harvey: this kid wants to kill me. i'll raise him to do so. if anything can kill me it'll be something of my own creation. i control death #jason: I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill him (cant do it) #bruce: harvey where the FUCK did u get that #its actually far more tragic and. emotionally grotesque than this. #because willis died hoping jason wouldnt follow #so its more #jason: I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill him #harvey: ur old man never spoke about at work. didnt want to even risk letting u into this work. i see cruelty in you that he didnt want to #bruce: HARVEY WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THAT #bruce wayne #jason todd #two face #harvey dent