#NOR HE IS JUSTIFIABLE

[theitaliansalad]

spoilers for that scene in 1x10 under the cut.

so. that scene. the choking “kink” scene. 

Daemon doesn’t grab Rhaenyra by the neck because he doesn’t love her or because he wants to hurt her. he grabs her by the neck because Daemon is a fucked up human being. he’s violent and chaotic and messy. he is incapable of dealing with his own emotions. he has no control over himself.  

he acts insane throughout the whole episode. Rhaenyra herself says so. he tries to keep his mind occupied at all times, preparing for war, because if he lets himself feel, he’s gonna crumble. 

it’s not that he doesn’t feel. it’s that he feels too much and doesn’t know what do to about it. 

he grabs her by the neck because in the mist of grief and anger and desperation, he just found out that the brother he loved so dearly and that he so insistently tried to protect - Viserys, his big brother, he’s never trusted him. never. never had any intention of trusting him. not once. not at all. 

Daemon is the kind of person who kills his wife by smashing her head with a rock. 

so he grabs Rhaenyra by the neck. and she kind of laughs when she realises that Daemon doesn’t know. he does not know because his own brother kept their family secret from him. 

Daemon grabs her by the neck but it’s not about Rhaenyra and Daemon as a couple. 

it’s not about Rhaenyra at all.

#HE'S NOT DEFENDABLE OF COURSE #NOR HE IS JUSTIFIABLE #HE IS SIMPLY INSANE #house of the dragon #house of the dragon spoilers #hotd spoilers #hotd 1x10 spoilers #don't stop to the surface #daemyra #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon and rhaenyra #viserys targaryen #let's just stop living of fanfiction guys #i still loved them so much #they're not ruined #they're simply insane #team black #team targaryen #i'm begging guys

[suncaptor]

I think there's nothing wrong or that far off by headcanoning John as physically abusive but you must ask yourself: do I think that's the only legitimate way to make sense of why his abuse was so traumatising compared to what is shown in canon? do I understand that the physical abuse wasn't the sole traumatising factor for Sam & Dean? Do I take neglect & psychological abuse seriously or am I making it worse to try to make it valid?

#this is absolutely absolutely not about people who are victims of physical abuse who relate to sam&dean nor is it about people who are #taking psychological abuse as seriously #but you are either not in the circles ive been if you have not seen this phenomenon #incoherents #tw abuse #spn #supernatural #john winchester #john #also if you can recognise john as abusive can you also recognise dean as such 🙃🙃 when dean shows more abusive behaviour on screen #but he is lovable and traumatised and the main character and is justified?

[sasperine]

i love how the quote “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing” is often cited as a sort of aphorism when in context it's just rodya hard projecting all his problems onto poor sonya. like please do not take any sort of advice from a man who unironically compares himself to napoleon. he is not qualified

#rodya's worst sin is that he committed murder actually #and he didn't even do it well #he feels this deep sense of regret because he ascribed meaning to a senseless action and followed through before understanding it's futilit #like imo rodya doesn't commit murder for money. that's how he justifies it to himself but his motivation comes from insecurity #he want to be the type of person he describes in his theory #and so neither the money nor the murder cannot bring him satisfaction because they weren't what he was looking for #he's a mess emotionally he can't reflect on his actions because he can't come to terms with them and so he avoids his problems #(real) #and he's doing it in this scene! by ascribing his feelings to sonya as a way to commiserate with someone he sees as less morally wrong #that way he can avoid feeling morally culpable even though he is #sonya is to rodya what rodya is to svidrigailov #jesus christ these notes are long oopsie #and i still have more to say lol #crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky

[mxtxfanatic]

If we’re really gonna get into any hypotheticals of what Shen Jiu’s response would have been to Yue Qingyuan admitting why he didn’t rescue the former, then let’s not forget that the only scenario in which Shen Jiu can see himself forgiving Yue Qingyuan’s “failure” is if Yue Qingyuan dies in the attempt. This is, of course, referring to the whole Bingge ambush thing, but this also refers to how before Shen Jiu reunited with first disciple Yue Qingyuan, he was comforting himself with the thought that the reason Yue Qingyuan never returned was because he had died. She Jiu was literally imagining holding a little funeral for him, because in his mind, Yue Qingyuan is useless without him. The fact that Yue Qingyuan not only survived on his own but ended up living the dream that Shen Jiu wanted (again, in his mind since we know that yqy was not living “the dream”)? That was what had Shen Jiu pissed.

#svsss #human metas mxtx #anyways i cannot believe y’all have me defending yqy this hard #sj is the asshole in their relationship #just because something hurt you does not mean your hurt #justifies perpetually lashing out #sj having ‘hero’s remorse’ because he felt like his life was ruined #by his saving yqy is NOT yqy’s fault nor responsibility #and dude had YEARS to get over it

[wynandcore]

So everyone that I love is stuck

because this, that, the other,

and the state fucked up.

#I wanna beat up CLU 2 with a bat and then roundhouse kick him into the stratosphere #never sympathized with him nor do I think what he did is in any way justified #i hope he explodes #😁 #tronblr #tron #Tron legacy #clu tron #clu 2.0 #clu 2 #also ‘quorra has damage’ acknowledgment because they really didn’t wanna focus on her backstory in legacy huh #she acts like her life hadn’t started before she met Flynn and I know she talks about her first meeting w him but something about her feels #like she’s acting as if she’s only known the life she lived w Flynn #does any of this make sense? no I just have thoughts and I vomit em out #tron quorra #quorra #quorra tron #art tag

[whitmore]

did me and the people in the tag watch the same tubbo stream am i imagining the part where tubbo sought out bolas because he had a bounty on cellbit and found both him and roier while they were keeping to themselves in the caves. like am i missing something

#eleanor.txt #qsmp #i feel like i’m seeing the opinion that roier and/cellbit wanted to or initiated that fight and i don’t think that’s true #did tubbo not swim his ass down there to kill cellbit for a bounty #justifiably so like i’m not bashing him for it that was his bounty he was doing as told #but roier nor cellbit started that fight . come on #qsmp discourse

[sword-dad-fukuzawa]

I am definitely a "will defend Knives rights AND wrongs" kinda person but yeah seeing people try and say the plant merging thing was consensual had me immediately thinking of Domina. That is the most blatant "Oh Knives is a big hypocrite" moment. Yet rarely see anyone talk about it which sucks cause it's an interesting point to jump off and talk about how far he was willing to go and how far he strayed from his original goal. Anyways thank you for that post your so right about Knives

Nodding!! Nodding. I'm gonna be 100% transparent and say I either missed or didn't read the part where it's said the planet merger with his dependent sisters was something they all agreed to so I just err on the side of "sure alright I'll believe it." And Vash is, like, complicated in the context of Knives's character. That's a whole can of worms on its own. It's the case of Domina that has me going,,,nnno, it can't have been a 100% consensual. I read that chapter like. Twice just to take it all in. He absorbs her in one of the most horrifying examples of his disregard for the autonomy of others in the whole manga, because he doesn't bat an eye about it. His whole focus is on the imminent fight with Vash. It's Chronica and the Earth Federation clawing at the ship and the controls trying to save her and it's Chronica crying her eyes out when she realizes Domina's just. Gone. Completely lost to the hivemind. She doesn't have a personality in there or a mind of her own. And Knives uses them all up like a damn battery by the end of the manga in a vicious parody of a Last Run.

You bring up a great point that it really shows how far Knives strays from his goals. He's a means-justify-the-ends villain through and through, but the ends changed over the course of Trimax and I feel that the actual reductive take is thinking he's consistently doing this for the good of all Plants.

Knives is erratic, violent, and ultimately driven by deep seated fear and rage. Does he have a point in that Plants are being recklessly abused and exploited by the people of Gunsmoke? Sure. That's kind of a given. But the way he goes about it veers so far into batshit crazy territory that it hurts him, the people he's trying to save, and everyone around him regardless of their stake in the matter.

#thank you for the ask it made me think a lot !! #millions knives #truly and genuinely i spend most of my day thinking about this guy #he's a complicated figure. neither entirely justified nor entirely unjustified. #to me declaring that he was completely and utterly right just takes away from a lot of the fun of his character #but that's just me other people are free to opine as they please

[vorakh]

jean vicquemare sucks in many many ways but when he says "i can't laugh because i'm depressed" i feel sick i genuinely go feral i am filled with unknown violent energy

#not because he is depressed of course #but because he uses his depression as an excuse to justify his vileness #not a brain doctor here but being a huge piece of shit as a person is neither a symptom nor a cure for depression #there's probably more going on in tbat head of his but hardly an excuse for his violent ableism and racism (and sexism?) #fuck jean vicquemare my besties hate jean vicquemare

[aquaticfilly0]

I'm watching Good Omens for the first time after seeing it making waves on Tumblr. I love Neil Gaimans works, and so I decided to finally sit down and watch it, only to have every single thought of the show wiped from my subconscious at the sight of that child taking a massive, teeth first, bite out of his ice cream. I no longer care about the plot, I no longer care about the demon and angel, I want a play by play of this child's life that led him to think that that is ok. I need to know exactly what went wrong for this child to have such a thought cross his mind, and then act on it. Armageddon could happen for all I care as long as that ice cream biting child is wiped off the earth for his sins

#good omens #he could be the real anti christ for all we know #one day that child will have to justify himself to God #and God is not so forgiving #nor does that child deserve his forgiveness

[iratusmus]

honestly the thing that bugs me the most about the woobification of scourge is like. these people are somehow forgetting like 90% of his entire personality. namely that his greatest ambition is more or less to be the ultimate schoolyard bully who faces 0 repercussions for his actions. like he talks about becoming king of the multiverse or whatever the heck but he never really... theres no actual reason to it. he's got no real longterm goal. he's not interested in remaking the world in his own image, or enacting any sort of real agenda, or even being worshiped like a god. he just wants to be able to kick people while theyre down and face absolutely no consequences for anything he does. scourge is very much the kind of person who would go to a playground to kick children down the slides or push them off the swings or something because he's incredibly petty and immature and frankly a loser

like honestly speaking the "i want to be king of the multiverse!1!!!" crap really just reads like he took his brief knowledge of comic book villains and said "ok . sonic is a good person who wants everybody to be free. and i cant be anything like sonic. so i am going to be a bad person who controls other people" but on the most surface level humanly possible (aka in name only) because the truth is he has absolutely no real interest in becoming a ruler or a conqueror or anything of the sort. he's got nothing he actually wants to do with that outside of other people not being able to tell him he cant do whatever he wants. namely, beating the snot out of people he doesnt like. which is almost everybody to exist. something interesting to be said about him trying so hard to separate himself from being a derivative of prime!sonic that his identity still ends up looping back around to being a derivative of prime!sonic but in a different direction, but thats a discussion for another time. REGARDLESS back to my main point.

like. ok mb25yl!shadow becomes king of mobius to enact his incredibly skewed idea of the peace that maria wanted for earth, eggman wants to conquer mobius to remake it in his own image and also build a themepark, finitevus wants to burn everything to the ground because people were the real virus all along and nature is the only one that has it figured out and everybody on this rock is frankly too stupid to deserve to live, and scourge…. became "king" of moebius (read: beat up a bunch of gang leaders and called himself that) and for… what exactly. absolutely nothing. he has no grand ambitions or goals or anything he just wants to be a schoolyard bully and thats about it. hes just an incredible loser. this is also a key component in why hes so so funny. side note but if your redesign removes the inherent tackiness of his design that is no longer scourge.

tldr every day scourge the hedgehog wakes up and chooses to be an incredibly awful immature little brat/playground bully with an appallingly tacky sense of fashion and this is like 90% of his personality and if you dont like that, might i suggest... making an oc?

#sonic #sth #scourge the hedgehog #archie sonic #iratusmus.txt #like theres really no justification for his actions #no being (presumably) neglected as a child doesnt count #i would offer there is an incredibly interesting discussion to be had on morality in regards to moebius #and whether the people of moebius actually have free will to do what they want #or if they're bound to be the more or less moral opposite of their prime counterparts #or alternatively if that connection goes two ways and if a moebius character changes their mainline counterpart swaps appropriately #BUT that is a topic for another time. what was i saying originally... #OH YEAH honestly if any sonic would be justified in going completely ape and killing everybody i'd say that prime archie sonic is #the amount of crap he has to put up with on a daily basis... like man if i were in his shoes id just go completely feral #but thats neither here nor there. anwyays people stop uwu-ifying scourge thats not scourge anymore

[sennqu]

Will being unable to lie to Mike is so ingrained in his characterization that him actually doing so for the first time feels like such a huge, notable, and intentional moment. Especially with how it dominoed to Mike's monologue. Like honestly Will lying to Mike was a bigger and more affecting story twist to me than Henry saying he was the big bad all along.

#like sure ok. a lot of things happened in Vol. 2 that was really sloppy writing #but in this instance i have to admit it was pretty good #we actually have seasons of evidence to point to how much Will hates lying to Mike #so him doing so for the first time becomes a Big Deal without being out of character because of the context #while for Henry... we literally did not even have hints he or his family existed until this season #so the twist feels unearned #(not to mention i hate that the cosmic horror has been apparently just been some guy all this time?? but that's neither here nor there) #ku blarghs #strangely blogging #will byers #byler #*without being too out of character i mean. because it still was. just justifiable

[lemonhemlock]

What themes George used with Rhaenyra and Aegon in the book?

the main theme for both of them, like in most of FB, is kingship, so what makes a "good" king/queen, what is power in the first place, how do you receive it, how to wield it etc. add to that the theme of hubris - house targaryen cannibalizing itself and sowing the seeds for its future destruction. and, also, the theme that follows through the entirety of the series - corruption - power as a means to its own ends, not for the betterment of society - “why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

when asked the question put to shireen, "who would you prefer, aegon or rhaenyra?", you should be going "oh, well, on the one hand this, on the other hand that" and it should lead to a debate on political structures and how societies are organized and how laws are enacted in society and what is the nature of law anyway etc. instead the show turned it into "rhaenyra obviously bc aegon is a literal danger to society".

so when people say that aegon should be even darker bc this is game of thrones and everyone is mean and dark and awful so stop being a crybaby about it, like, ok, but there is a limit as to how far you can push this without sacrificing the balance of this story.

bc this is not the kind of story in which maegor reborn kills saint rhaenyra and does her this great injustice of erasing her queenship from the history books. not that it's a moralistic children's tale either, but, if the lopsidedness between them would have skewed so much in rhaenyra's favour, she would have received a more heroic death or died on her own terms at least

#it /would/ be targnation who have no problem hyperbolizing aegon's evils #bc they're used to stanning dany and since dany is a martyr in their eyes #who was betrayed and unjustly murdered #they came to believe that asoiaf is really /that/ kind of a series #in which the hero gets murdered bc of how grimdark it is #so if it happened to dany; why couldn't it happen to rhaenyra too? #this way they come to believe her death wasn't justified in any way #and aegon just killed her bc he was a mean villain #not bc she deserved to be punished by the narrative; oh no #so yeah long story short too!dark!aegon kind of messes too much with the construction of the story for me #you'd be sacrificing the integrity of the political themes for the chance of exploring the darker human psyche via the vehicle of aegon #which isn't going to happen anyway bc the show is not interested in a sophisticated portrayal of that #nor does it have the space/time to do it properly #so you'd just be making a bad trade-off #ask #anon #hotd critical [storytelling] #hotd critical [aegon] #hotd critical [rhaenyra] #aegon ii targaryen #but you know just like you have the extreme of puriteens on the one hand #you inevitably get the other end of the spectrum where people call you a prude for not agreeing to go balls to the walls crazy dark #in absolutely every instance #not saying that dark!aegon enjoyers are like that (i'm one of them) #but there is a reasonable space between whitewashing vs acknowledging that there's a limit on the possible darkwashing #in order for the narrative to still make sense as it is

[non-plutonian-druid]

i feel like we as a society dont do enough with the fact that five had long hair for like, his whole life. Do i think he took care of it well enough for it to be possible to braid it? no. is that going to stop me from drawing it in a braid? of course not. Featuring delores judging five’s math skills and a mysterious hand injury bc i got sick of drawing five’s hand halfway through

[ID: A digital drawing of Five at approximately age 30 sitting crosslegged with his back mostly to the viewer. He is gesturing and probably talking about math to Delores, who is a human person sitting behind him and braiding his hair. There are little blue flowers in the braid. Delores is wearing a floral sundress and looks skeptical at whatever Five is saying, while Five is wearing heavily patched clothing and has two of his fingers bandaged. End ID.]

#tua #the umbrella academy #five hargreeves #dolores tua #dolores hargreeves #i still think the fact that thats a tag that exists is delightful. but like in a way that hurts me #mostly i am giving five a braid because braids are fun but if i were to give my fake deep thoughts they are as follows: #i feel like putting his hair in a braid would be like #one of the few ways that he has to control his appearance? a gesture at making himself feel like he can Look Nice #that is neither wasting resources nor takes too long #same with the flowers #flowers are right there! shit does eventually start growing back! and many of them are not super useful so like. #picking them and putting them in his hair or giving them to delores is Nice is Convenient and Does Not Take Very Long #which adds up to Nice Thing He Can Do For HImself That Is Both Possible And Justifiable #thanks for coming to my ted talk #my art

[danny-chase]

That sounds interesting! I like Jason but how much I like him is inverse to how much writers expect up to find him actions correct. He’s obviously in the wrong and does bad things, I don’t like it when I’m supposed to be rooting for him or feel overly bad for him 😂

Yeah!!! That's pretty much how it goes for me as well 😅

#he's not a poor little meow meow or babygirl to me. nor do i think he's somehow justified for the people he murdered #i think there's reasons behind why he kills that like are understandable but doesn't excuse his actions #and honestly i think he makes a fantastic tragedy in that anger is his fatal flaw and perhaps all the mess could have been averted #but i don't really want to soften him? for the au i want to think about if i engaged with canon jason in all his murderous glory #what would it take for him to actually reform? #and i think that's a useful thought excercise #the way I'm just rambling in the tags lmao #asks

[limitverge]

rebirth!

#tags contain very light spoilers!!!!! #i've been enjoying it! #currently very busy w classes and such so i haven't had much of an opportunity to progress very far #and ive only had it a handful of days but i can appreciate a lot of what theyre doing :] #of course i am .. very wary when it comes to zack's involvement specifically #i am curious to see where they take his story but i must reiterate time and time again that i. as a zack blog (lol). am very #very very very dependent on and interested in zack's death as a monolith in the narrative #and i do not think i will be changing that soon.. nor do i have much interest in aus in which he survives #(same goes for aerith) #(<- i have metas to write on that) #however.. i am still very early on in the game (still in ch2 -.-) #and i can recognize the need to justify a remake.. esp a remake of something so mythologized and important to #media and culture as the original game was..... ohhh the narrative masterpiece that 1997 is........ #so taking this “remake” in such a vastly different direction is nice! #but just to ramble a bit further .. im not a big fan of much of anything contemporary ff..... anything put out from 14-16 i just rlly #havent been able to get into personally.. the methods of story telling and the over reliance on pretty anime graphics #to cover up any weaknesses in character and scenario writing... #and i think thats where the most glaring vices in rebirth have been thus far.. other than the padding for time with fetch quests #(as was in remake) #ok ok my opinions

[m4niackkyun]

Hi. (Announcement in the tags)

#uhmm...i don't know how to explain this... #so my family has been having a lot of trouble lately #mostly our relationship with our step father #there's been ups and downs..well..more on the downer side. the only main reason my mother married him was because of..well.. #money..as trash as that sounds. i can't deny the fact that I've been able to continue my studies due to his financial support. #i don't want to justify anything that i've probably done wrong to him but emotionally right now—i'm simply scarred to the point where— #I don't think I could heal without professional help. I've been struggling a lot with it ever since of what he did #i felt disgusted. dirty. I felt lost. I didn't want to forgive him. maybe this is the punishment i have to endure because I didn't have it— #—in me to forgive him. I know the principles of my religion and it is stated that one must always find forgiveness towards others. #no matter how big their mistake is. but you see—I'm not God. I am human. my kindness isn't as grand and as big as Him. #my patience is limited and so is my forgiveness #that applies the same to my mother. my mother is a very patient person when it comes to her husband. but yet again she isn't an angel— #nor is she God. she is also human and has limits to what she could handle and what she could forgive and forget. #they argued tonight. and I don't think it'll slide or end well like the past arguments. and I'm sorry to say but— #I won't be able to be active all that much either. #without him now I'll probably have to look for part time jobs. which is gonna limit how active I will be here and on my main account #I will probably go into an indefinite hiatus for some time #maybe I'll come back...maybe I won't. hopefully I will. just...pray for me that I have it in me to continue doing what I love and— #—sharing these little bits of what I do in my free time with you. #I won't have the time to reply to anything for the time being. college tests are on the way and I have to prepare myself for— #—the better or worse. #if things go downhill and you don't hear from me for a long while. then this will probably be my last post here. #I'll still be able to reply to messages on other platforms #but I just don't have the emotional stability to talk right now. No it's gonna be fine. I have faith in me and God. #I know that He doesn't put His children into burdens that none of them could handle. #and if He thinks I could handle this. then I will. and I can. He is with me and so is all of your faith. #that puts me in a sense of reassurance a little hahah... #yeah.. so...I'll see you then..bye.