#Tara Young

[aondaneedles]

#this truly is the round of tara #poor girl wants to fall in love but can't #for some reason #sims #sims 2 #sedona gameplay #tara young #malik thompson

[ah-jiing]

A young Wizard’s best friend.

#my art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #tara bg3 #tara the tressym #young Gale

[sillypenguinwitch]

okay so i'm not trying to make this a ~thing~ or a hot take or whatever, but can we talk about how all the hyped up queer shows still predominantly feature mlm couples? i'm not saying there aren't wlw shows/movies or the mlm-focused shows don't also feature wlw characters/couples, just... they either get nowhere near the same amount of hype, have some other main plot, end with at least one of them dying or experiencing something traumatic, get cancelled after one season in the middle of their arc, or they're not the main couple. And that's not to discount the representation you can get from secondary characters of course but just... ugh I want a heartstopper or rwrb or young royals or skam or love, simon or i don't even know... with girls. And I know I'm not the first person to bring this up and I know it's not that simple, but seeing all the hype for heartstopper and rwrb this week makes my heart ache a little bit so i needed to say this somewhere.

#and tara and darcy are super cute and great but they're not the main couple #and this isn't a dig at heartstopper or rwrn or any of the other things mentioned *at all* #i love them all i promise #i just also have more room to love a cute queer sapphic teen show too #oh and i know they're not teenagers in rwrb but y'all know what i mean #like the cutesy hyped gay media #that could have some angst but ultimately it's cute and about the main couple #so like something like yellowjackets is great but just not what i'm talking about #and i know some skam universes/seasons have had wlw main characters - i love fatou and kieu my on Druck (Skam Germany) #but og evak and some other evak versions clearly got the most hype #heartstopper #young royals #rwrb #skam #druck #gay media #queer media

[stoppingoftheheart]

OTPs are like drugs, and im addicted to several of them

#heartstopper #nick x charlie #narlie #tara x darcy #taoelle #tao x elle #stranger things #byler #will x mike #steddie #steve x eddie #ronance #robin x nancy #red white and royal blue #alex x henry #young royals #wilhem x simon #wilmon #the hunger games #katniss and peeta #everlark #ill lyk if i think of anymore #op bug

[variousqueerthings]

kendra: introduced as the single black female recurring heroic character, given a tragic backstory, and then killed without exploring it in service to white pain

buffy: consistently put through intensely bad experiences and then getting yelled at/judged by her friends and family for emoting about it in any way

tara: one of the most prominent examples of bury your gays in tv history

cordelia: framed as deserving of constant poor treatment because she used to be mean, forcibly supernatural impregnated twice, the second time fridgeing her

harmony: consistently treated in casually misogynistic ways for being "ditzy," existing almost solely for this purpose throughout

darla: brought back from the dead to have a "destiny" pregnancy storyline that culminates in her being killed for the weirdest written character in either of the shows to be born

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #angel #buffy summers #cordelia chase #tara maclay #kendra young #harmony kendall #darla #first poll lol

[doggyjjm]

#tna generation me max and jeremy buck posting. sigh #also i've never seen anybody mention it but I think it's really cute that matt/x always called him jer...can't help but give him a nickname #special interest #wrasslin #tara #aew #tna #hyperfixation #the elite #young bucks #generation me #matt jackson #nick jackson #max buck #jeremy buck #wrestling gifs

[raisedbythetv89]

Sometimes I just sit and imagine what btvs could have been like if the women characters and their perspectives were TRULY centered and what all could have been.

How much wasn’t explored

How angel gets his own show but is completely reliant on the presence of Cordelia and the most interesting story lines revolve around her, darla, and drusilla. And how they needed Spike, the most female gaze male character, to even have a 5th season

How Riley gets to live and be a hero with a hot badass wife but Tara, Anya, and Kendra all are dead

How much xander’s abusive, toxic monologues passing judgment on everyone but himself often serve as the “facts or true reality” of the narrative rather than the rantings of a jealous, bitter, repressed, weak and pathetic boy

So much of the show is about a woman but still with men and men’s opinions, needs, desires at the center. We can see jane and marti’s efforts to center women’s narratives more especially in season 6 and 7 but much like I mourn what the first 32 years of my life could have been without patriarchy, what could have been for this show with so many incredible women that left so much potential unrealized.

Fan fiction is a reclamation of this lost potential. It’s a powerful and radical thing to do. Correcting the narrative to center who should have been centered all along heals the parts of us society wants us to neglect within ourselves for the sake of men (or straight people or white people or cis people) and their own narratives. It’s a way to decenter men not only in our real life spaces but our fictional ones too

#female gaze #decentering men #btvs #cordelia #tara mclay #kendra young #kendra btvs #drusilla btvs #darla btvs #anti riley finn #anti xander harris #anti angel #buffy summers

[fate-motif]

here's the character traits i think predisposes characters in the jigsaw franchise to get brainwashed by jigsaw and become a jigsaw killer themselves:

they have to believe that they did something wrong, and that they atoned for it when jigsaw tested them

they have to be already somewhat comfortable making life or death decisions for other people

we all know pee-paw's self-help seminar from hell isn't just an alleged self-help seminar, but doubles as retributive justice in case the person fails (in his eyes). so whoever is offered to join up with jigsaw has to be comfortable with both sides of the ideological operation in play. it's not enough that they were severely traumatized and have a hole in their lives that they could fill by being part of this cult, though those things really predisposes them for the brainwashing. multiple characters were targeted to join the jigsaw movement and did not feel the vibe, so i think i have it isolated to these two traits.

further thoughts under the cut

how we see this in the apprentices

this puts all three main character mainline franchise jigsaw apprentices in a very clear light, really. amanda thinks john helped her overcome her addiction and redeemed her for the things she did as an addict. lawrence acknowledges how he neglected his family and took them for granted so hard that he cut off his foot for them even though there was no guarantee they would be alive when he got out. hoffman is perhaps the one that feels he owes john the least (since he at least partially came in on the scheme purely through blackmail) but considering his intense passion for brutally punishing the guilty i think it's safe to say john testing him jolted him out of the apathetic, drunken stupor he had been living in since his sister was killed, and that he thinks that's a good thing.

(your mileage may vary as to whether logan nelson blamed himself for john's cancer going undetected, but as a coroner he seems to take his job extremely seriously. if john sparing his life caused him to take action in appreciating his life in any way, i think it's fair to say that it got him to give his everything when at work.)

and as for the life or death decision making for others, it's crystal clear at least to me why the people that joined up did. two are doctors and one is a cop. these are professions where making life or death decisions for others is required, even if you're doing everything you can to save someone's life. amanda isn't either a cop or a doctor but having been an ex-con i think it's safe to say the high risk environment may have predisposed her to feel more comfortable taking decisions that may lead to someone's death.

and it's not really a coincidence that it's cops and doctors, either. both policing and healthcare are embedded in the themes of the saw franchise. john kramer thinks jigsaw is a doctor that doubles as a cop; healing a sickness if the patient is worthy, killing them if they aren't. that's why i think a lot of traps that people like to claim 'don't work' because the players aren't being tested for a flaw or misdeed still suit the jigsaw ethos perfectly. because pee-paw may act high and mighty but what matters most to him is the retributive justice aspect of the traps. and this is the same for all his apprentices as well.

except for brad and ryan, really, but they're more than anything victims of saw 3d's rushed writing. they're only there to help lawrence stop hoffman, since a disabled oncologist might struggle to take down the armed and dangerous cop turned serial killer. even then i can sort of squint and see those two as thanking jigsaw for intervening on letting this one woman ruin their friendship and make them commit crimes when she didn't value them. the atoning aspect, weak as it is, may be complimented by the fact that jigsaw just netted himself a couple of honest-to-god psychopaths because they didn't look even a little remorseful to have to kill their girlfriend when they reached their truce. oh, well.

but what i like about my conclusions is that they really explain why the victims who were set up to be brainwashed failed

not every jigsaw game victim would make a good apprentice

yes, up front: john kramer has lost his mind when he thinks anyone would ever want to join his sick little crusade. most people do not want to kill and can't find killing in most capacities to be vile. also most people's reactions after being tortured would be to immediately try and attack their torturer. and yet the madman actually netted three people to help him out. it's such an insanely lucky number, really, proven by the fact that hoffman tries to recruit two cops and fails.

two cops. one of them had engaged in police brutality, let a colleague cover for him, and respected and defended colleagues that engaged in it. the other one may have been a little too classy to punch suspects in the face, but the way he treats jill tuck speaks to the opposite of any respect for people's dignity. both of them are fine murdering jigsaw game victims who were only attacking under the extreme circumstanced they were in! and yet they didn't even hesitate when hoffman tried to sell them on the life of being jigsaw, the ultimate policeman!

because neither of them thought they had anything to atone for.

while rigg has an entire library of things to atone for, what hoffman wants him to regret and feel bad for is letting his desire to save people affect the people around him. maybe if hoffman had any kind of emotional intelligence he could have pitched his traps to make him consider his actions on others, but instead all his arguments came down to 'look at these weak, pathetic people. they're sick, deep down, so it doesn't matter if they die when we torture them'. which rigg was never going to believe. he saw his desire to save people as innately good and unchangeable, which is correct, of course. it's just that the actions he takes are absolutely hopeless to actually save anyone in hoffman's eyes, because that desire makes him careless but in mine because policing saves no one. so of course he could never have become a jigsaw killer, because his traps did not make him think he had something to atone for.

as for strahm, hoffman didn't even bother brainwashing him, and that's why obviously he was never going to get in that coffin. the water cube trap was a straightforward execution. strahm had already seen a jigsaw trap mutilate perez for no reason other than to get them off his trail. by the time he reaches the coffin there was nothing in the world that could have convinced strahm to join hoffman.

it really speaks to how far gone and twisted hoffman is that in either of these cases, especially strahm's, hoffman thought there would be a chance either of them would even think about joining forces with him.

could any other jigsaw victims have made good apprentices?

i have a couple of ideas.

before we get to the candidates i'm going to address the apprentice adam angle, because it's a common au and everyone loves adam and wants him to be alive. also because it's a fun angle for chainshipping. this is your opening to send me chainshipping fanworks where larry tries to brainwash adam into joining him! but as it stands in canon i don't think adam would have found it in him to join the serial killers because he's not the kind of guy with a developed killer instinct. yes, he's depressed and suicidal in the original script. yes, the bathroom game makes him say out loud he wants to stop taking his family for granted. but he killed zepp in the very urgent scenario of trying to stop zepp from shooting lawrence, and i don't think he has it in him to deliberately put people in torture games where it's very likely they'll die. especially since, before jigsaw, adam had never met anyone he would actually find it in him to kill on purpose. though neither had lawrence, so i will give the adam apprentice girlies a point there.

the writers of the first movie say that zepp was having a blast when he kidnapped gordon’s family so he’s clearly he’s got the killer instinct needed for the job. the problem is that even john would be able to tell by a glance that zepp wouldn’t be able to stop himself from indiscriminately harming people as opposed to using violence for their ideological leanings. there’s a reason he was poisoned instead of merely asked to join. so while a rare find in that he might have already been primed to be a serial killer already, we all know john loves his delusion of doing violence for a higher purpose and zepp would ruin that illusion very quickly.

the only candidates i think would have been perfect otherwise would be brit and mallick from the fatal five. i've mentioned this before but they feel like they've atoned for their crimes through their game and were delusionally euphoric by the end of it. and so long as the victims chosen were on the scummier end of things, i could see both of them prompted into villainy.

you know who else got prompted into villainy? brett abbott. which is kind of insane to say considering he's a kid and i feel for him even though he did literally murder a man. it's just very hard for me to hate a kid suffering under institutional injustices even though he let that suffering out through murder. but all i'm saying is that under the right trap brett and the fatal five survivors were the more ideal candidates for apprenticeship... if only john was there.

yeah. hoffman doesn't have it in him to coax anyone into anything. he's a homemade nail bomb, not a leader. he would probably even dismiss brit and mallick right off the bat over their now missing hands, and you can't tell me he would have the patience to groom a teenager like brett. amanda and lawrence are also not exactly winning in the charm department. so really once the cult's charismatic leader kicked the bucket their way of life was doomed to eat itself from the inside out.

which is exactly what happened.

... don't ask me to think very hard about anyone in jigsaw because i've forgotten 95% of that movie

#saw franchise #saw x #jigsaw killer #john kramer #amanda young #mark hoffman #lawrence gordon #logan nelson #jill tuck #adam faulkner stanheight #adam faulkner #adam stanheight #brit stevenson #mallick scott #daniel rigg #peter strahm #brett abbott #tara abbott

[justfriendsbestthings]

Watching Heartstopper but all I can think about is them ☹️

#young royals #just wilmon things #wilmon #heartstopper #Charlie and Nick say Hi and I’m sitting there like ‘yes ok but Wilmon’ #anyway loved s2 it was very good #enjoyed Mr. Farouk and Tara Darcy the most I think

[shittykinaesthetics]

Shitty Tara Markov aesthetic: "oh i support women's wrongs" "why can't we let women be mean" "more terrible female characters" some of you bitches couldn't even handle terra. sit down before she rightfully goes full cain on your ass

#tara markov #terra #teen titans #terra teen titans #young justice #the judas contract #tara markov aesthetic #terra aesthetic #teen titans aesthetic #terra teen titans aesthetic #young justice aesthetic #the judas contract aesthetic #tara markov kin #terra kin #teen titans kin #terra teen titans kin #young justice kin #the judas contract kin #dc comics #dc comics aesthetic #dc comics kin #dc #dc aesthetic #dc kin #dckin #shitty aesthetic tm

[oddlypurpleghosts]

#Gay #Lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia #tarlos #tk x carlos #tk strand #carlos reyes #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #shameless #charlie spring #nick nelson #heartstopper #wilhelm x simon #young royals #tara x darcy #kurt x blaine #santana x brittany #glee #wylan van eck #jesper x wylan #jesper fahey #shadow and bone

[aondaneedles]

#the stupic cow set off the sprinklers... #sims #sims 2 #sedona gameplay #tara young #malik thompson

[bethaven]

In love with love itself

Something I've been thinking about lately, while reflecting on sexuality/attraction/identities, is how I more than anything is attracted to love, like, in love with love itself. I've always felt so strongly about love in its very core, how it can change lives, open doors, take you on new journeys, ruin you and completely take over, weither you want it or not (I'm mostly talking about romantic love here, but other types are applicable too). Nothing gets me more emotional than love, weither it is irl, on screen or somewhere else, and I'm supper-sappy even though I sometimes don't want to admit that. While Disney's Fairytale Weddings was still on Disney+ I used to watch it from tile to time when my hope in humanity was totally lost. I cried and cried everytime, even the 10th time I saw the same couple say their I dos. Quite ridiculous to be honest. But it's something about people, gazing into each other's eyes with the strongest feeling that nothing else matters, that just gets to me.

I always cheer for the lovers on screen to end up with each other. But the love story also has to be written in a good, genuine way. Not necesarily realistic, just honest and important (don't get me started on the very ridiculous love story in Whip it, for example..).

In real life I cry when friends fall in love and I truly love watching them together. Like yesterday, one of my closest friends told me she got together with this girl she liked for a while and I got so emotional that I cried and sent her some money for their first date.

It's a bit irrational and I truly can't explain it. But I'll always stand in the corner with love, cheering it on, weither it's romantic love or other types of love.

#heartstopper #alice oseman #charlie spring #nick nelson #osemanverse #nick x charlie #love #tara jones #darcy olsson #tao xu #elle argent #jatp #julie and the phantoms #dash and lily #young royals #wilmon #miss fisher's murder mysteries #phrack #glee #klaine #sex ed netflix #sex education #motis #ginny and georgia #garcus

[thund3randrain]

STRAIGHT people? On MY screen? Nope, never happened ever. Now, back to the gays :)

#jayden's thoughts #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #queer community #gay gay homosexual gay #young royals #wilmon #heartstopper #nick x charlie #tara x darcy #red white and royal blue #firstprince

[daily-sloop-john-b]

I know we all love to say "fuck mystra" this and/or Gale's Folly (subtitled: How Could You Be Such A Callous Idiot)—but really, Gale and Mystra are primarily REALLY BAD at communicating. The whole issue started when Mystra a) couldn't provide a satisfying answer to Gale's desire for more, b) Gale decided that instead of being vulnerable and working through it, he'd do a Secret Project(TM), c) Gale didn't bother telling Mystra what said project was, and/or she only vaguely warned him off it. And then Gale rolled a nat 1 on his arcana check, and then a second nat 1 for insight b/c the DM was attempting to take mercy on him and was staring at Gale and the book, worrying 4d6 under the table while not breaking eye contact and saying, very slowly, "...are you sure?"

#there are so many problems with their relationship #primarily Gale's lack of literally anyone else besides Tara and his mom that aren't caught up in this thing #and also the power differential #but if we take mystra in act 3 at her word #she would've eventually opened up to gale #he was just too young for him to have more than a taste of what was *really* important to her #(she's a goddess—so ymmv about how important /meaningful sex is to her) #and Gale didn't mean to release the karsite weave in the first place #(NVM he somehow thought mystra *broken* or less of herself) #he was trying to give her back a piece of herself #He just entirely misread the entire situation #for the record #this is not mystra-positive #fuck mystra #and fuck all the other gods #just that if they were in a different genre besides high fantasy mythic adventure story prologue #this could've been a great comedy of errors #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #mystra #(gosh I hope people still know what 4d6s are for...)

[psychofreakforc]

Sam: Tara, i'm ho- hello people that don't live here.

Mindy: *laying on the couch watching a movie surrounded by energy drinks and chips* what's up sam?

Chad: *in the kitchen eating SAM's food that he didn't know was SAM's food when SAM's name was literally written on it with DON'T TOUCH IT UNLESS YOU'RE TARA*

Sam: *sigh*

Sam: where's the only person who lives here?

Tara: *hiding under the table rocking back and forth* save me! they've been here all day.

#chad and mindy have no idea of what provacy is #and they are literally two kids in adult size #tara now knows how sam felt when she used to babysit them when they were young #tara carpenter #sam carpenter #carpenter sisters #core 4