#although i will defend

[bloodybellycomb]

I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

#mine is shakespeare #hamlet #specifically #although i will defend #romeo and juliet #to the ends of the earth #also #the iliad #the odyssey #literature #writing #classics #although it can be so much more than just books #i also think that I would defend the story of kingdom hearts like this as well #probably homestuck too #completely unironically #birdy chirps

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship' #it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

[boygirlctommy]

me when theres a loud angry big-hearted red-coded kid with a pet spider*: holy shit

reminder my commissions are open :D

#my post #my art #mcyt #dsmp #dream smp #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi pd #dakota cole #ctommy #tommyinnit #SHROUD !! AND BOBO!! THE CROSSOVER WE DESERVE #frfr though they are so similar and i did not realize until a WHILE into pd why it was i liked dakota so much #although i mean there is the major difference that dakota wants more than anything to be a hero and to save people. meanwhile tommy just #wants to live his fucking life. tommy would be team 'lets retire and go bowling'

[cemeterything]

i think the funniest thing about me as a person is that i'm often a nervous wreck and terrified of trying new things or screwing up, but my disrespect for authority is so strong that the second someone tries to suggest that i can't do something because they won't let me or don't believe i'm capable of it, it completely overwrites my anxiety and makes me determined to prove them wrong right then and there. unfortunately combined with my general impulsiveness and impatience this used to make me very easy to manipulate if you understood this about me as well as leading me to take some really stupidly dangerous risks (until i started working on my self awareness and critical thinking), but it did also lead to several very funny moments in my life where someone misplaced a lot of confidence in my inability to fight back and got their shit rocked when i stepped up and called their bluff.

#🐉 #reverse psychology is my greatest weakness even when im aware of it theres a part of me that wants to go against it #just to prove that i can #however it does come in handy when people assume i wont fight them after i warn them i will if they overstep a boundary ive made clear #and they cross the line anyway and get the shock of their life when i lash out in self defence #although im trying to work on nonviolent deescalation and walking away because thats not a sustainable way to defend myself #and could get me in a lot of trouble. so. #like yeah i gave them a fair warning but at the end of the day if someone tells you i bit them and has a circle of teeth marks #on their hand and theres visible blood staining my teeth no amount of 'well i did warn them' is #gonna get me off the hook and stop me from being perceived as the bad guy in that scenario. especially if there are no witnesses.

[voltrohgodwhat]

Context:

#NO #mom no #ily but NO #oh no #this was not the first or last time I was grilled about what I am writing and I have to come up with something different every time #“Oh you know. Stuff.” #a tragedy #a literal tragedy #horror you wouldn't like it #it's not finished #a space opera???? #disappointing my family goals #I cannot explain to her that my current life purpose is just inflicting sadness and pain but for just one dude who isn't even mine #she would be sad #vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender #writing #although the coffee table book would indeed be mine

[psychotrenny]

"Neurospicy" is one of those words that is so painfully awful it wraps back around into being hilarious

#although obviously anyone who throws it around unironically isn't worth taking seriously #last time I saw it being used like that was when someone said that gay people needed to defend Target from bigots #I hope I don't need to explain to anyone how ridiculous that is

[professorsta]

Frenchie is a scammer he's a killer he's the best at sewing on the revenge he was the first to create a pyramid scheme he invented fan fiction while lying to the British he believes cats are the devil so he dressed up as one when pillaging his best friend is a drag queen his immediate idea when getting his first ever room was to create a reading nook he suggested breaking the legs and arms off their captives and make them into a table he said the best way to handle things is to bottle it up and never talk about it he's allergic to peanuts but thought he was cursed he became Blackbeard's first mate and immediately tried to say no then offered to throw himself off the boat. His lute got destroyed after season one but he picked up another different instrument and has been plucking away on that throughout the show like a fucking savant. He's not in the church but he will be crossing his heart towards god in dire moments he put flowers in his hair for the calypso party he never stopped gazing at Izzy when he was singing he worked in the service industry and that's how he learned to smooth talk and fly under the radar he sold fake Stede merch to pirates he is either the clumsiest person during the worst of times or the most agile. Everyone said they'd rather have Stede for a captain than the fool shaking his ass at the captives tied to the mass, now he's walking from the wheel shouting directions as the New Captain of the Revenge. He likes buttercream cake 🥹

#hes my favorite #CHARACTER #FRENCHIE!! #frenchie #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #I will defend him to my last dying breath #he's not a a sweet innocent babe #he's charaismatic and shameless because he's a scammer/con artist #he bottles everything up man is Emotionally constipated #he saw horrors on the revenge and didn't even blink an eye you're crazy #if you think he hasn't seen worse before #he jokes cus that's a coping mechanism but mans fucked like the rest of them #he's more 'meek' (I guess that's the word although I could also say Intelligently hesitant) #is because he's a smart smooth talker #and it isn't until later where he Has to become a killer #but if you notice he has to dawn a symbol #the cat #because killing isn't something that comes naturally to him he has to channel the idea of a cat do to so #that says so much about him #he's brave and or emotionally cut off enough #to where he can kill not out of want but need #and then pack it all away cus it would eat him alive morally and emotionally #so instead the one of the nicest guys in the show can barely give emotion support #because it would mean also possibly facing his own shit #I LOVE FRENCHIE #he's tough he's a fool #I just hate when people see him as a victim or someone to protect #frenchie is a badass #he's the most character ever

[thelordofgifs]

hahaha imply that Maglor was a useless incompetent foster parent and Maedhros was the brains of the operation doing all the practical and emotional childcare for comedic effect again. go on do it. I dare you.

#kidnap fam #this post brought to you by one too many incorrect quotes posts crossing my dash #and like #you can dislike fluffy kidnap fam interpretations and defend elwing all you want!! I support that! #(although I am personally a fan of the emotionally fraught and complicated but ultimately loving version) #BUT for the love of god stop erasing Maglor’s character arc I am BEGGING you #where is the evidence that he was bad with children? he had five younger brothers!!! #and you are never going to convince me that Maedhros was remotely functional enough to help with the twins in any meaningful way #anyway I’m taking this far too seriously ik but it IRKS me

[forcedhesitation]

this undeniably has to be one of the worst opinions I've seen about this season. like out of the plentiful failures season 4 had... you really couldn't choose one to talk about? max's mental health was one of the only things that I felt season 4 handled pretty damn well.

I do think it could have been better written, yes. the ending of her arc in season 4 was....insulting at best.

but overall? the show does a great job of addressing that max actually hated billy (she literally fucking admits to wishing for his death) and that her grief is more complicated than just missing a person. because she wasn't missing a person! she was ultimately glad billy was gone. but even in death, he torments her.

she watched a person she grew up with be brutally murdered by some fleshy abomination, RIGHT in front of her. her shitbag step father bailed on her and her mother after billy died, forcing them to move to the trailer park. her mother abuses alcohol and is never home because she's always working so they can afford to live in the trailer park. her friend group has been split in two by the byers moving away, which took el away from her too. she doesn't know how to reach out to lucas, deep down doesn't feel she deserves his love & concern, despite lucas' best efforts (vecna literally taunts her with lucas turning on her at the final confrontation). she wished so badly to have someone like steve in billy, but she knows that billy would never be that person. he was the complete opposite & she can't just have steve in his place. she mourns the brother she never had. she is devastated by the way billy still hurts her, even after he's gone.

she's what. fourteen??? when this all happens?

like the death of an abuser is never so simple as "hooray! I am so very joyous now that the source of my pain is gone!" the damage an abuser inflicts on you is not some cut to the skin that can be healed and one day forgotten. it's so much more tortuous than that. especially for a child.

#stranger things #thoughts about media #“her trauma was so unserious because I cannot critically engage with a TV show in a way that transcends clout chasing on social media" #stranger things fans on twitter continuing to prove that they are the worst. business as usual I suppose. #I only clicked the trending tag because I figured little lord zionism had once again said something repulsive. #or that another cast member had defended his or the other lunatic's odious words. #nope. schnapp apparently has no work lined up after st5. which is lovely news. may he rot thoroughly. #and then this ridiculous post. #you know. the smallest spark of recognition flickered in my mind when I saw the user's url. so this can't be the first time. #however- I did not have them blocked. HA! they sure are now! although I'm sort of curious what awful opinions they've shared before. #eh- but most certainly not curious enough to waste my time and risk reading some utter garbage about steve. #the block button is not enough for those who slander steve's good name.

[guckies]

I wanna explain why I dislike q!bbh because of the purgatory event. Because personally I feel like some people misunderstand why some of us do. So warning from now if you dont wanna see q!bbh neg

Last warning this is qbbh critical and my opinion! If you don’t want to see that stuff then move on. ALSO IT IS MY INTERPRETATION OF RP DONT LIKE IT THEN TELL YOUR STREAMER TO NOT RP OR GO TOUCH GRASS.

It’s because once purgatory is over, he will find a way to blame it all on someone else and not take responsibility for his actions. And we know he will because he’s done it the entire event and before on the island. It’s as if he is playing the villain because he wants to be the hero. Yet there is no concrete evidence to match his actions it’s just what he feels.

Yes his rp can be based on his emotions but right now it’s just the same thing over and over without trying a different way it becomes so boring and barely rp since he’s the only one wanting to doing it during those times.

He excuses a lot of his actions because it’s red team and you can try to tell me someone who he does the same for but he doesn’t. Which makes him their villain, he literally even admitted to basically torturing them.

His actions are categorically top 3 shitty; he’s borderline obsessed with red, he doesn’t listen to his leader, he’s not always a team player and has ruined his friendship with others because he believes he’s right 100% of the time. This isn’t everything bc you can do your own research. Yeah that can be his rp but people can dislike his character rp.

At the end most will just forget it too because that’s what they always do and not everyone is “rping” the entire event despite some doing a little or joking about it. Someone will talk about how he’s the egg babysitter, then he’ll play it up and they forget about purgatory because they’ve got bigger fish to fry. Which I don’t like, it excuses things he’s done and I would rather he have done it so that others can feel betrayed and not want to be as trusting of him, instead of it just going back to normal because then what was it for. But in my opinion those who were “tormented” by bad in purgatory shouldn’t let it go. Because with this “lore” i would 100% think about how he would easily kill or destroy someone else for selfish reasons on quesadilla.

My problem with his character now is that he’s trying to play the hero by winning the event yet majority of the time it comes with no evidence or agreement and at the downfall of others who are meant to be his friends. So yeah his actions are going to make him a villain. He has no idea who the cursed team is only a small clue that reveals not much and he’s only really discussed it about once with others. If he believes his team is the ones who need to win then don’t you think he should try to discuss it with them via their leaders yet they just give up cause of Bad’s previous actions which has doomed blue team.

Also a small thing about his rp, if he’s in rp 90% of the time especially during this event then he should be prepared for backlash. Because yeah rp can be battles and destruction but if it’s the same thing over and over with no one else rping then maybe it’s time to get meta and think about something else to do because it becomes boring for everyone. It’s just him doing the same thing and then getting shocked when red does the same in retaliation.

BUT THIS IS JUST ME AND MY OPINIONS. You don’t like, you can move on and live your life or fucking block me I really don’t care.

#but this is about me and my opinions and thoughts. you can disagree but that’s your thoughts. #i warned you so dont get butthurt in replies. if you don’t like them move tf along. #turning off reblogs for this one but replies are on although will probably not reply #tormentted in quotes bc it’s subjective to the persons rp #im tagging as normal bc this is an analysis of bbh and why i dont like him rn #qsmp purgatory #qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp bbh #bbh neg #bbh critical #not tagging qsmp neg bc this isnt qsmp neg #tagged bbh neg bc i dont want bbh defenders misconstruing and shitting on my thoughts and feelings #qsmp discourse #is this discourse idk? #qsmp discussion

[boingfessions]

#oingo boingo #only a lad #confession #oingoboingoconfession #(How DARE you to say that about “on the outside” shame on you) #(although we all have different opinions i guess) #(idk I think I have the urge to defend On The Outside because I feel identified like is my song lol)

[fizzy-soda-cans-ohyea]

lowkey obsessed and kinda hyper-fixating on NPMD rn, but it's also making me feel badly nostalgic for some older Starkid shows....mainly Starship, my favorite show of theirs still so no surprise there lol. Sadly alot of the old shows of theirs (understandably) don't get the same kind of attention as the new musicals-unless it's something like the AVPM trilogy. Obviously, I get it, yknow, their newer stuff has more sincere and original stories to get attached to, and well, they are NEW...

But also I need more starship fanfics right neow

#I am starship's biggest defender #I am it's number one hype man #I LOVE that stupid ass musical to death #although while I love Junior Up and Taz im a bit disappointed a majority of fan content regarding starship mainly focuses on them yknow #still love all of them tho #also so hard being a pincer fan-hardly anybody is rushing to make fanart or fics about that giant ass scorpion lmao #rambling #starkid #starkid productions

[koukaaa-descent]

I am so good at romanticizing things I talk about, but None of it makes sense afterwards . many such cases, like., like...

(cut for the sake of length, huge paragraph filled with wordy nonsense about the nutcracker below; same flavor as the bracken/masked thing because i am normal and i like writing what comes to mind)

There is a heart inside of that which is man-made. It is not living. There is a heart inside of something which is made by man, crafted with cold, foreign care. There is a heart within an empty thing, which swallows the body's desire within itself. It is filled with viscera. It is filled with life when it should not be. A creature takes that which is dead and gone and reanimates its corpse with itself.

There is a heart inside of the machine and, should you listen closely, it beats. A machine made for war has no need for a song. Yet, this creation sings, whistles, and trills. Marching, animated by a foreign heart, using the body which knows the movements yet remembers none of them. There is no brain nor any series of written code; within it lies only a heart.

(An eye.)

Marching, marching, for what reason? There is no war to fight. There is nothing left to guard, no great people left to defend, no terrible enemy to defeat. The body is a shell. The dry flesh surrounding a terrible heart, which poisons it and devours it, gnawing at the carefully-crafted wood, tasting the age-old paints that once made pride.

What reason does it have to fight? There is no reason. It is a place in which a ghost haunts. It is a hall filled with a thousand footsteps, each more distant than the last. The wood is a dream that has been carefully cracked apart. The metal is a wish that nobody has ever spoken out loud. The flesh, the heart, paint rubbing away from softened wood, a decaying corpse exhumed before empty rooms.

Within its organs, driven deep into its flesh (into an eye, which sees nothing of beauty), there is a song. There is a song, still. What drove mankind to create machines that could sing? The whim of a bored artist. The wonder of a passionate engineer. Perhaps it was a flaw in the beginning, one made fundamental with the desire to see beauty during a desolate time. There is a sort of beauty in its image; a machine of war, marching in-between corpses, whistling, singing, and thrumming.

Whistling, singing, and thrumming.

#lethal company #lethal company nutcracker #i confess that although it's never said outright this entire thing is about the nutcracker #something so strangely beautiful to me about something which was likely a guard #decaying in the aftermath of something terrible #left with nothing to guard and nobody to defend #with no terrible enemy to fight #its a specific flavor of melancholy that i enjoy in a creature #machines that sing when it is unneeded of them make me emotional. okay..

[fizzy-dizzie]

Me when I get forced out of consuming spider-man fan content because its ALL tainted TO THIS DAY by all the ppl who thinks he acts like "m-m-m-mister stark im scared 🥺🥺" and even for Peter outside of the MCU fandom, the fanon MCU peter effect bleeds onto them too

#and the thing is I will defend MCU peters character time and time again #when everyone thinks of mcu peter they think of his fanon not his canon #i hate what c.2018 mcu fandom made him into #the thing was I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE #Ive grown to hate what i once was #although i wasnt all that into the canon back then anyway just the fandom stuff bc it was my first fandom #its impossible to find fics true to his ACTUAL character #and the thing is i never got super into any of the alternate spiderverse spider totems or that fandom #i have no other options #Peters always been my guy i just cant read abt him #anyway i guess i gotta go read my comics for content #(i struggle to read comics so hard like just the style of it) #spiderman mcu #spiderman #spider man #peter parker #fanon vs canon

[links-hella-fine-booty]

The whole "ascended vs spawn" debate on whether or not you're a decent human on what you decide for a fictional man or that you don't actually like him is tiring. He's not real and not fucking you either way

Tiktok sucks

#you can like a character with flaws when recognizing flaws #im so tired of people saying if you like ascended astarion that you dont like him #bitch BOTH are so interesting i love how he slowly becomes what he hated #not because “sexy vampire” but for seeing another pov of his character #also so what if someone else likes him because of those other scenes #FOCUS ON YOU IGNORE THEM YOU LIKE HIM FOR YOUR OWN REASONS #its giving danganrompa and i wont elaborate #dont even get me started on other topics revolving Astarion #yall just stay in your lanes and dont worry about what someone else is doing #although i do feel hypocritical trying to defend his feelings on poly but thats for another time

[dandelionstep]

one thing about the recent allegations specifically against george i don’t know if i should say but i kind of wish / hope we would / will get some kind of comment from CCs who have been closer with him (at least in the past) on the situation. this whole thing is a lot more cut and dry than the allegations against dream were and while i think it’s absolutely callous to believe not making a statement = support i also think all of the allegations against different creators recently show that even people you wouldn’t think would tolerate or perpetuate abusive behavior can be completely different behind the scenes

#txt #kind of thinking about bad although i KNOW he doesn’t really talk about this kind of stuff at all #like he didn’t talk about forever and i get that but forever also had literally no CC defenders #but also people like gumi and ant and such too like. i don’t think any of these people would tolerate this #but like… i don’t know them @__@ and i don’t want to just get jumpscared one day if i just ASSUME the best of them #i dunno. it’s weird and somewhat sefish i think but i wanted to talk about it a little