#but he actually seeks power?

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

guy who so desperately tries to find god. who wants to have faith in a higher authority to guide him out of the hole he's in. from the weight of guilt from simply existing, as the person he is. but every time he thinks he's answered his higher calling it turns out he's made the Morally Incorrect choice and his path to goodness and holiness was the road to the devil all along

#now trusting god will give you a way out? there's your real crime!!! #guy betrayed by the protestant promise of a direct connection with god. but is also somehow. joan of arc. #see he never achieves actual martyrdom tho bc he's not allowed to stay dead lmaooo #sam somehow the most unintentionally catholic AND protestant character of all time #dean the atheist who sees religious predestination as the curse it is from the get go. framed as the narrative's Real Moral Authority #but also in the process reifying patriarchal familial power n authority. very very important Value of the Church #i don't think it's that deep. the show's attempt at critiquing christianity. but the way it reinforces christian cultural values??? #'religious predestination and absolute faith in a higher authority...bad' #nice nice ok tell me more? #“so you should put your faith in family. in your patriarch (big brother)” #????????? #the thematic incoherence of it all. it's like the world's stupidest puzzle box to me. i can't leave it alone. #sam = maybe i can find god thru following my destined path. wait oh shit. #cas = maybe i can find god thru rebellion and seeking my own destiny. wait oh shit. #dean = god is fucking dead and me i also feel not so good #the “guy who so desperately wants to find god parallel” <- me coming out as a secret sastiel fan #both of them...finding god in de-[sniper on the roof kills me in one shot] #spn bible studies #j.txt

[iirulancorrino]

Movies that attempt something different, that recognize that less can indeed be more, are thus easily taken to task. “It’s so subjective!” and “It omits a crucial P.O.V.!” are assumed to be substantive criticisms rather than essentially value-neutral statements. We are sometimes told, in matters of art and storytelling, that depiction is not endorsement; we are not reminded nearly as often that omission is not erasure. But because viewers of course cannot be trusted to know any history or muster any empathy on their own — and if anything unites those who criticize “Oppenheimer” on representational grounds, it’s their reflexive assumption of the audience’s stupidity — anything that isn’t explicitly shown onscreen is denigrated as a dodge or an oversight, rather than a carefully considered decision. A film like “Oppenheimer” offers a welcome challenge to these assumptions. Like nearly all Nolan’s movies, from “Memento” to “Dunkirk,” it’s a crafty exercise in radical subjectivity and narrative misdirection, in which the most significant subjects — lost memories, lost time, lost loves — often are invisible and all the more powerful for it. We can certainly imagine a version of “Oppenheimer” that tossed in a few startling but desultory minutes of Japanese destruction footage. Such a version might have flirted with kitsch, but it might well have satisfied the representational completists in the audience. It also would have reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a piddling afterthought; Nolan treats them instead as a profound absence, an indictment by silence. That’s true even in one of the movie’s most powerful and contested sequences. Not long after news of Hiroshima’s destruction arrives, Oppenheimer gives a would-be-triumphant speech to a euphoric Los Alamos crowd, only for his words to turn to dust in his mouth. For a moment, Nolan abandons realism altogether — but not, crucially, Oppenheimer’s perspective — to embrace a hallucinatory horror-movie expressionism. A piercing scream erupts in the crowd; a woman’s face crumples and flutters, like a paper mask about to disintegrate. The crowd is there and then suddenly, with much sonic rumbling, image blurring and an obliterating flash of white light, it is not. For “Oppenheimer’s” detractors, this sequence constitutes its most grievous act of erasure: Even in the movie’s one evocation of nuclear disaster, the true victims have been obscured and whitewashed. The absence of Japanese faces and bodies in these visions is indeed striking. It’s also consistent with Nolan’s strict representational parameters, and it produces a tension, even a contradiction, that the movie wants us to recognize and wrestle with. Is Oppenheimer trying (and failing) to imagine the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians murdered by the weapon he devised? Or is he envisioning some hypothetical doomsday scenario still to come? I think the answer is a blur of both, and also something more: In this moment, one of the movie’s most abstract, Nolan advances a longer view of his protagonist’s history and his future. Oppenheimer’s blindness to Japanese victims and survivors foreshadows his own stubborn inability to confront the consequences of his actions in years to come. He will speak out against nuclear weaponry, but he will never apologize for the atomic bombings of Japan — not even when he visits Tokyo and Osaka in 1960 and is questioned by a reporter about his perspective now. “I do not think coming to Japan changed my sense of anguish about my part in this whole piece of history,” he will respond. “Nor has it fully made me regret my responsibility for the technical success of the enterprise.” Talk about compartmentalization. That episode, by the way, doesn’t find its way into “Oppenheimer,” which knows better than to offer itself up as the last word on anything. To the end, Nolan trusts us to seek out and think about history for ourselves. If we elect not to, that’s on us.

#what I'm reading #oppenheimer #nuclear power #inject this entire essay into my veins #part of what makes oppenheimer such a powerful movie is how closely it hews to its subject matter #except for the hearing plotline we see what he sees. we feel what he feels #the people who were building the bombs never saw its effects. they lived in a tiny town deliberately cut off from the rest of the world #and when their labors bore fruit they heard about it on the radio like everyone else in the country #oppenheimer included. inventing something doesn't give you special power into what it actually looks like when it's used. that's the danger #the idea that oppenheimer would have been better or more respectful if there had been some random cut to people in japan or the new mexico #desert being bombed frankly strikes me as incredibly gauche #and the idea that this movie needs to encompass every aspect of the bombings because it would be unrealistic or unfair to expect people #to seek out any additional knowledge that can't be found in a blockbuster movie is just so insulting to our collective intelligence

[cornerful]

Sméagol and the Gift

'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.

'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'

Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.

When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.

It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.

Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.

If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.

#lotr newsletter #suicide mention in tags #haunted by the au in which gollum goes into the fire with the ring On Purpose #bc he still couldnt separate himself from it but frodo's compassion had somewhat released him from its evil #in a way an honor to frodo's quest and in a way an act of mercy to be able to give up the self-torment #which gives me shrimp feelings bc of the everything but also back to the original point that it is so tragic that death is all that awaits #bc death is natural and that was taken from him. what is the will to live in the absence of natural death? #smth deeply horrible about that #matt bugg screaming we'll be dust. so famous and rent free #lotrn325 #damn it im having more thoughts #wraiths vs gollum: discuss #the nature of the ring kept affects the nature of its possession no? those rings were made FOR thralldom #sauron has power over gollum but not That Much and his own ring is all abt the domination #what would a 2000 year old gollum even be like ._. #the wraiths are probably even more tragic bc at this point they're like...undead. even death isn't freedom #on that topic what happened to the witch-king's spirit fr #I'm pretty sure he isn't ever actually called that in the book but it's epic and gender and way snappier than lord of the nazgul #anyway shoutout to i think yambits for breaking the lore and giving them peace that was sick #where's my gollum rehab fic #i know he's a horrible little man who is constantly trying to murder my boys but i love him so #the au...gollum gaining the willpower to destroy himself because he was given trust and kindness and companionship for once. FUCKED UP. #fucked up horrible i need a minute. being shown compassion and then becoming more self-compassionate. epic #that compassion entailing seeking the freedom of death your soul was denied bc this is fantasy and somehow the exact #arc that usually leads to fighting to live is now flipped. HUH. #yeah jirt alluded to his motivation being For Frodo but i maintain that the willingness to die is HUGE there and extremely relevant #me and my red string keeping me company #ugh tag championships i win i think but at what cost #who wants to spin around miserably in a pool like franknfurter with me as we listen to gollum's song #tam you're already invited i have a floaty for u

[darkpoisonouslove]

Hi! For the ask game. For your delightful Shadow Queen fic, Breakfast, how do you think Regina's relationship with Facilier developed over time from the point where your fanfiction diverged from canon to the story itself?

Edit: OH, MY FUCKING GOD! I just noticed this was in the queue. I thought I posted it. So sorry for that! I definitely was not ignoring this ask! I've had it written since August 30th. I don't know what happened.

Hi! Glad you like the fic!

To be fair, I don't really have anything deep about him (obviously) deciding to abandon his quest for power in favor of his relationship with Regina. I was kind of riding on the proof in the show that he would put Regina and her feelings over everything else. His interest in the dagger was completely unmotivated and I think they just had it as a built-in setup for killing him off. I imagine the idea was that he was somehow tempting Regina into her old patterns of wanting everything and reverting to villainy (much the same as Rumple manipulating her for the better part of her life, especially since Facilier was practically Rumple 2.0) except that that went nowhere because he was just So. Good! for her. I'm really not sure what happened in the writers' room but anyway, my idea with the story was just "axe the moment of Facilier's death because it was stupid (and more than questionable) and from there it will all happen naturally since the dagger is also gone once Rumple dies". Those were pretty much the only obstacles between them and with them removed, I really think that the two of them would have been a couple.

I wish I could give a more detailed answer but, truly, Facilier had so little screen time and development that we are completely in the dark on his story or his motives. Instead, I just rolled with him being written as total husband material. You know, I am willing to entertain the idea that there might have been some need to process emotions and heal from Robin's death on Regina's side simply for the realization that the universe sent her Facilier after Daniel's death and then returned him to her after Robin's death. Almost as if they were meant to be together (btw, I have a sort of meta/kinda rewrite about the whole soulmate story with Robin that would bridge canon and this nicely but I'll have to work on it some other time) and help her find herself again when she feels like she's lost in grief.

#once upon a time #ouat #shadow queen #regina mills #facilier #meta #sort of? #ask #intothewickedwood #regal shadows #what i also got from trying to answer this was the idea of an au where facilier is sort of actually trying to tempt regina to the dark side #telling her that they could easily end gothel's plans if she teamed up with him in the full glory of the evil queen #meaning not being restricted by the label of hero and resorting to murder #i mean is it really a bad thing to end a genocidal maniac? is it truly wrong to seek power if you ultimately use it to protect loved ones? #on the one hand i want regina to have grown enough to not fall for this and retain her progress #(and relationship with henry but hey! he's cursed rn and there's no need to bring him into this; he need never learn about it) #but on the other hand i just want her to go apeshit and kill a bitch #they knew evil queen + witch doctor team-up would be too powerful and stylish; it would overshadow everything else

[i-bring-crack]

Currently floating in the deep void of the universe with yall but thinking about Antares finding his vessel in Haein who is force to become a vessel from such a young age and takes a toll on her body as well as mental state (she has seen the timelines before them and boi) but during that time she is also forcing him to slowly accept emotions over the course of the series so by the end of the story we have a human who slowly has transitioned to a Souless Monarch and an Emotionless Monarch who has become human.

#solo leveling #sung jin woo #cha hae in #sl antares #sl ashborn #id like to think that antares loving someone isnt in the same way as humans love #its in the way of debt actually and Ashborn had once been there to save him so of course since hed save his life he will now be there to #repay it one day but Ashborn is freakishly strong so there was never a point where his life was threathenen #until the fight with the rulers where he wasnt there to witness or even help him out so the debt doubles in a way but at the same time 'he' #is alive and doesnt need to pay the debt back. so theres a conflict there. #like thats why dragons are so loyal bc there is no love ingrained in their system but rather they repay their debt of being brought into #life and being cared for by following the dragons around them. for their life is so precious because their life is the most extraordinary #thing in this unvirse #and whoever tries to protect it gets a personal guard until they can repair their debt #and whoever tries to harm it will be looked down and hurt upon because they dared to try and take a powerful species for themselves when #they are below them #of course the dragon too seeks revenge for the hurt theyve been done but if they have descendants or other dragons they helped those too. #for the debt. will also try to protect the person that has been hurt.

[scary-grace]

idk why people want the author of the original work to read their fanfic. i’m pretty sure if the original authors of the fandoms I’m in read my stuff they’d have questions about my motives, my morals, and my sanity, in that order

#horikoshi: heroes don’t kill people and present mic is a side character #me: actually Mic is the most powerful one in the series and he can kill everybody if he wants to #meanwhile I feel like tolkien would take one look at seeking a friend and scream #clown hours

[skitskatdacat63]

Quick question, how old is Seb in the boy king au when they get married, I'm asking because I was rereading the fic & directors cut from September and you said he’s so obsessed with calling Seb little. Is Seb shorter than Nando or is Nando trying to feel a bit taller when actually he is a itty-bitty war criminal kitty? If Seb is shorter but still has time to grow how badly will Nando take it

Hello! This one is much easier to answer than your other one(You're really making me think deeply, thank you 🥺), so I think I can answer this pretty quickly(hopefully)

So you've probably noticed that I don't mention actual years too much which is just bcs the timeline is so vast and I've not decided on a lot 😭. But they basically have the same age gap as modern day, so I'd say they were born in 1681 and 1687 respectively(which matches up well enough with the real world history.) Irl, the war that I'm canon divergencing away from takes place 1701-1714, so stuff regarding when their coronation and marriage happens is somewhere in there. So I'd say Nando becomes king in like, 1705 and then they marry somewhere between then and 1710(when seb ideally becomes emperor??)

So to answer your actual question. Seb is def taller than Nando by the time they get married. But in that ficlet, Fernando is obsessed with calling Seb small because he wants to make himself feel bigger!! It's less about actual height and more about power dynamics. He's belittling him by literally calling him little! And it's also about Nando being older than him. Seb became a king as a boy(hence boy king), whereas Fernando became a king as an adult so he calls him little because he still sees him as that little boy king who is too young to have that amnt of power.

They first met pretty young, not knowing what their future would be like, and didn't really see each other for a while. And so until they meet again, when the marriage plans start happening, their perceptions are: Nando thinks of Seb as some little boy king, and Seb has a childish crush. So it's very odd for Nando to suddenly now meet this kid, all grown up, and he's now taller and even more powerful. So I think Nando still associates Seb with that image in his mind, thus calling him little all the time.

Conclusion: Fernando IS shorter, and he wears heels and calls Seb little all the time as a way to cope

#ahhhh you will never get a short answer from me... #i kinda see nando as being like Napoleon in this way #hes aware of his height and aware that hes shorter #and hes not ashamed of it in the broader context #i.e. he doesnt feel the need to pretend to be taller w people like jense or mark #^ bcs hes already at a higher level of power than them so he feels comfortable and satisfied #but SEB he feels more insecure with bcs seb obviously has more power #so he is seeking every possible way to belittle him and puff himself up! #so wearing heels. wearing elaborate clothes. calling seb little and nicknames etc etc #little as in small as in inferior ;;;; #also to answer your question: yes he is unbelievably irritated when he realizes seb grew up to be taller than him #he cant even win in height </3 #thank you always for the interesting asks!!! #i get so fucking excited when i see youve sent me an ask bcs its very fun prompts!!! #and i loveeeeee to world build more and elaborate on stuff ive not really talked abt on here yet!! #so please. send as many as you want all the time :) #catie.asks. #catie.rambling.txt #*also...me when i skew away from saying actual ages LMAO #i domt like to set things in stone like ages and years bcs WHAT IF ITS INNACURATE OR SMRH #boy king au

[starlooove]

Ok like i know the whole no metas in Gotham thing is a lot more nuanced than most fans take it BUT I kinda like fanon interpretation here just bc I want Duke to have a network of metas connected in Gotham

Edit: I always make the full post in the tags but honestly it derailed so much that I think my point isn’t even necessarily entirely abt Duke and metas but basically I like Duke and everyone else does by default now. If y’all won’t woobify him the way I want I’ll do it myself

#like #imo I think it’s funny if Gotham citizens took the idea of no metas in Gotham way too literally #to the point of ostracization #funny was not the right word there but im not going back so anyways I meant interesting #and Duke himself doesn’t rlly give a fuck #he discovered his powers post the whole Batman thing and he personally knows that the way Bruce sees it is not the way the average gothamite #-sees it but he also knows that Batman doesn’t do much to actively dissuade them but he also knows PSAs are not how barman operates and that #-if he brought it to Bruce’s attention brucie wayne would have a lot to say on it in a way that Batman couldn’t but also also #-ppl OUTSIDE of Gotham and even withing Gotham use the meta thing to their advantage and it’d be a shitstorm so he needs to wait and plan #which sucks. #anyways this is all to say that Duke is friends with literally everyone in a way that other members of the batfam can’t be due to #the intersections of his identity. take that as you will. #and honestly if we wanna go an X-men type route #metas that ARENT heroes are treated a lot worse even if they’re not villains but they know they can trust the signal #Duke as the signal not limited to gothams bat signal but as a signal to everyone that there’s someone in their corner #remember that post that was like canon Duke is who everyone wants fanon dick to be #Duke is actually friends with everyone everywhere ever that’s just his charisma #dick doesn’t wanna be Batman but part of him does do that paranoid hiding info seeking info mission above all else kinda thing #I don’t think Duke would do that #I feel like Duke WOULD put community first and if he had a team I think he’d be the type to trust them with the info he knows #like y’all know the whole Kaldur thing in YJ? I think Duke is the type have either vetoed the plan or told the whole team #which isn’t better or worse (im not gonna get into ALL of it now) but diff #this is turning into a Duke Meta (pun intended) And honestly imma make a whole separate post Abt that ftw #anyways Gotham metas aren’t heroes bc they aren’t allowed to be but Duke gives them a chance #and even if they choose not to take it they know that it’s there and that warms them up a little #warm for a gothamite anyways #og batfam and then meta batfam #even if the other bats have friends that are Metas they WILL flock to Duke and they all hate it lmao #Tim slowly getting all his friends stolen #the entire flashfam is fighting a custody battle for Duke as we speak

[bassiter2]

i'm realizing through this book i'm reading (same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the pacific northwest) that like... yknow the conflation between homosexuality and pedophilia. well i've realized why that is, and that it's more than just all "sexual perversions" getting lumped together by homophobes. but also insanely enough more mundane

it's literally that for many decades, the only concept most people were able to have of gay men were through the lens of it being a crime. aka arrest records and the newspapers telling you who got put in jail last night. obviously gay men who were only having consensual sex with other gay adult men did get caught sometimes, but you could only catch them if they were doing it in public, if you were sneaking around in their private home, or if someone involved ratted them out. and if you ratted someone out, whatever motivation you might have, you were also ratting yourself out, so why would you do that? but if you were underage, especially if it was non-consensual, you wouldn't be in trouble at all. so of course the majority of the "immoral acts" charges are going to be between an adult and a minor.

not only that but apparently "youth" in referring to a young person used to literally mean anyone under the age of 21. and the vast majority of charges that read "engaged in immoral acts with a youth" it's referring to like a 17 y/o or even 18 or 19. so then ppl in later decades read that and misinterpreted it too.

and that's literally it lol..... it feels obvious in hindsight but i never would have thought about it. crazy what bias confirmation does.

#i'd highly recommend the book and also Gay New York btw #they're both centered around the same time period and the emergence of gay culture #(and emergence of the widespread concept of gay as something you can BE instead of just something you do-- #--specifically one of the many degenerate things done by lower classes and immigrants #prior to the white middle class becoming aware that their own could do it too. and what that meant for concepts of gender and sexuality) #just different parts of the US. but the pacific northwest one centers mostly on the aftermath of a specific scandal #and it's CRAZY #a lot of modern gay culture would probably be different if not for the actions of like one gay kid #who ratted out portland's whole secret gay community in 1912 bc he got caught shoplifting and thought that info would protect him #i wish i could ask him now if that was worth it. god #anyway i do also think that as for actual cases of gay adult-minor relations. the criminalization of homosexuality in the first place #is partially to blame. like at least for some of it #bc surely part of the motivation there is specifically seeking out boys who do NOT have the social power to be homophobic to you #ntm homophobia in general giving men an idea of needing to be the masculine one. and youth is automatically more 'feminine' #not an excuse just an explanation btw. yeah just my 2 cents #ok to rb

[franeridan]

actually my favorite trope in one piece is when something very bad happens and then luffy's typical luck does something to fix it only for luffy to fuck it up and make it even worse and the cycle keeps on repeating a few times over and you're just sitting there wondering when lady luck will just give up on this dumb idiot already, love that

#ie when chopper brought big mom to udon convincing her there was food there #and the food was actually there by luck #but luffy ate it #then big mom blamed queen #but luffy said it was him actually #absolutely fantastic that whole sequence of events was just me sitting there wondering when #the circle of stupidity would close itself #luffy's luck is so insanely powerful that god made him a colossal idiot to stop him from becoming king of the pirates too soon actually #if he weren't this outrageously dumb he'd have found his way to laugh tale at age seven while playing hide and seek with ace and sabo lbr #no if he actually was there at some point and simply hadn't realized and just left i wouldn't even be surprised #that's just something that would happen to him

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

it's wild because over the years i've gone from shipping nive with some degree or other of fluff/happy endings (or at least hopeful ones; or if it does end badly, it's due to external factors) to just unabashedly wanting them to make each other Worse

#lorien legacies #nive #LL nive #LL number nine #LL number five #five's shifting blame for his behavior onto other people/factors versus nine's gleefully seeking out targets to hurt #in situations where the power dynamic is in his favor; or he plans for it to be #and escalating every single time they make any move to set boundaries or push back; or otherwise not take it lying down #because he KNOWS there will not be consequences for his actions; other than a finger wag from someone who does #have the power to do something; because he's the group's ~lovable impulsive jerk~ and everyone will tell victims to ~get used to it~ 🙃 #and he keeps doing this and acting like he has that same power in the situation past the point where he doesn't #and is shit at actually evaluating that point; and then goes surprisedpikachu.png when there are ACTUALLY consequences #and then immediately starts trying to gloss it over and act like everything's fine when he KNOWS he fcked up past what was worth it #and then he does it again later!!! his entire relationship to a victim past the point where he can't establish /control/ to hurt them #is a) punishing them for it relentlessly; b) trying to turn other people against them/get said people on his side about targeting them #and c) is constantly CONSTANTLY pushing and pushing and pushing to trap them again where he can hurt them and get away with it #all while their only options are to be punished for standing up for themselves; or finally snapping and lashing out #and getting punished for THAT #they both have yikes beliefs re: potential abuse rhetoric that they need to address to grow past and get better #but i am significantly less sympathetic to nine's bc he fully gets away with it by the narrative's standards #and then DOESN'T address it even when he has years of breathing room; support; and Basic Fckin Maslowe Needs to do so #whereas five's circumstances from the end of UaO onward are... holy shit Not That at All; and extremely do not give him that chance #and EVEN THEN he's still grown beyond the initial steps of unraveling that logic; and continues to improve #whereas nine just gets worse and worse and becomes a MAGA ass piece of shit who has an entire persecuted; genocided race to do this to #anyway. need to write fic about them #lorien legacies tag #LL crit tag #shipping #abuse cw #dyn: lost boys

[prettyboykatsuki]

i love dottore as a character he's so interesting

#i like it because i actually dont find him arrogant #or at least i dont think his arrogance is exactly what people think it is #because arrogance usually implies that someone believes themselves to be somehow all knowing #but i truthfully think that dottore as a whole doesnt think that of him #his like? pride seems to come from how he views himself as a 'true' scholar #and i think it can be argued that he IS #abandoned ethics or conviction he is genuinely seeking answers to questions few understand #and he's not like incredibly powerhungry #exploitative? evil? yes but not power hungry to me #i really like him as a character he is intriguing

[egregiousderp]

i have a question that ive been thinking about for a while

Whats ur favorite pokemon?👀

I have several plushes so all of them get honorary talks. (So I have Squire the Cubone, Soup the Sobble, and Heelies the Helioptile. With Azula the Torchic, Whippet the Bulbasaur, and Red the charmander in storage.)

If you were fighting me as a gym leader though I’d be one of those asshole gym leaders who makes you do a double battle with Pants the Slowking and Wonderboy the Rhydon so I can check out your Pokémon teamwork dynamics. (I LOVE Rhydon and Slowking. But that’s because these are the two I raised together in my Go team.)

I used to have a whole six slot team planned out for if you wanted to get a badge off me, so you’d have to use all your own six team slots, and my Pokémon tend to be tricky things that cover one another’s gaps and weaknesses. (I know my second tier involved Nanii, my Sceptile. Who’s named for @naniiebim —the person who created my icons here and on discord.)

Let’s see…

I LOVE Wobbuffet and Makuhita.

My favorite legendary hands down is Raikou because Raikou is freaking chill as shit. (Oh, you’re an ex team rocket member who’s an electric trainer? I choose you to wield my power. And if it changes you for the better then I’m going to pretend not to notice. Oh, there’s a salon maiden who’s also a trainer? Free hair care and nails done? Yeah I’m good with this. SO. CHILL.) but also because it’s the first legendary I ever caught in Go. (Not for lack of trying.)

And I caught mine RIGHT after hurricane Irma.

(My Raikou is still named Irma. And I have a Raikou pin I sometimes wear at work with a little Wizard!Kakashi next to it.)

I bond with my pixels in a normal way. I am very normal. 😐

I haven’t done anything for the later generations because I don’t have a switch. It’ll trickle into Journeys or into Go and I’ll develop favorites then.

You uh. Might have to narrow down by type and watch me explode about my favorite ones in Go. ^^;;;;

#Skuun answers #wee lees yes #ALU MY SON YOU CAN’T ASK AND THEN NOT SHARE YOUR OWN WITH YOUR FATHER #Wonderboy was an immaculate conception spontaneous egg in my inventory and my first Rhydon. he has a 96 IV and just basically. doesn’t talk. #he’s very chill. #Pants is a rescue who got her tail chopped off and developed…sentience. #she’s a Slowking who doesn’t know a single water move (and knows flamethrower) #Wonderboy is a Rhydon who knows Surf because his BFF was a water type #one day I want to draw myself with them and I’ll be arguing with Pants and we each have a glass of wine and Wonderboy’s just there #sipping his tea and minding his business and letting Holyoke play hide and seek on him #most of my most powerful Pokémon in go are egg hatches and they…do not have battling personalities in my mind #like…Rocketship? my garchomp? he’s a big wiggly burrowing dragon dog who thinks he can sneak up on you #and then wag you to death with his happy tail #and Sherbet my Dragonite is dumb as a post and makes herself sick sneaking into the freezer to eat ice cream and cry because it’s COLD #Nanii’s actually competent and viciously fast #and is usually followed around by a bunch of archen who think it’s their dad #(he’s taught them all dragon claw but is also rather bewildered by fatherhood.)

[vhgr]

alicent hightower & control.

i think alicent is fascinated by it. we have to understand that alicent is not the kind of person to burst at any given chance. no, those fits only happen at specific times. they happen when she has no more room left to occupy. alicent doesn't grasp for control because she's losing her stance, she does it because it feels good. this comes in little doses, at first. until the eventful appearance of the green dress. then, alicent fully steps up as the queen. she steps up as someone who wants to count, who no longer wishes to blend in the background. but control is much more than just entertaining your authority on others just because you can. control can be present in the little things. alicent grasps for control, because it's a comfort. alicent likes to step her foot down; but that always comes with testing her limits. and depending on the situation, she likes the thrill of that. albeit, in truth, what would be ideal, is balance; and i mean on a personal level. either with someone with whom alicent doesn't have to be authoritative with, or someone who can challenge her reins, without compromising her.

#* ──── 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 » character study . #ive said it before and ill say it again #alicent and loki actually have quite a couple of interesting parallels if you wanna call them that #at some point tom said something in an interview #i cant find it but what he said was something like #loki is in truth seeking self esteem through his pursuit of power #control and a throne or what have you is just the exterior of it #the shell of it #naturally loki doesnt realise his own insecurity #alicent is #naturally #*but* #i think this is something they potentially share #alicent too finds her confidence reaching for power #because never before has she stood steady on her feet or been sure of who she is and what she wants #and yeah you can say oh anyone confident likes control #well #not really #if youre confident in who you are you are not this restless #youre self assured #alicent isnt #but this is a leverage she can hold on to #she wants control #she likes it #she wouldnt mind letting go of it if possible #but it isnt' #when will she find her mobius 😔 #or even her fandral 😔

[polux-aka-hyakunana]

Just some tag thoughts in this fine raining morning before I work 🌠

#i wish one day i have the guts to develop and talk more about my guardian ocs #in most of my comics they are just avatars to my thoughts throughout the season content #but i did some alfa-16 lore content that was actually well received so i should try doing more #the exo lore is just so so good and intriguing i do want to explore more of that in my baby hunter #i promise she's more than an elsie simp skdijwjdjsjfj #like... i portrait alfa as a silly and expressive character but she does have a strong dark side within her that powers up her stasis #for years she was a lonewolf seeking to be strong without relying on others #and that could be something to explore in exo dreams since she would hate getting attached to people she would nightmare about later #she might relate to the drifter when it comes to priorize self survival but at the same time she endangers herself a lot to test her limits #(tragically for her im not that skilled but i wanna pretend shes better than I'll ever be sjfjsjfjis) #meanwhile az (aka denka the warlock) is the complete opposite and yet seeks the same survival guts #az follows the bomb logic tip to toe he's the supporter on the fireteam and relies a lot on others #since the day on twt i began to answer questions about him i also got super interested in what lore az got in him #like... being first rezzed instants before the red war and having these first days of guardian life as a normal guy #living in the farm as a refugee until he restores back his light and now he returns that help #getting attached to the vanguard especially cayde and later seeking vengeance on forsaken #being afraid of his darkness while alfa wants to get deeper to control it #tHERE SO MUCH NOT ORGANIZED LORE IN MY HEAD I WISH I COULD EXTERNALIZE EVERYTHING #meanwhile my titan is nonexistent lmao

[chisatowo]

Wowzie the gang is all here! Only two of them have names, but it's ok Ill figure smth out

#keese draws #oc art #ocs #oc posting #pls prepare for me to be a lil annoying with the self rbs on this one </3 #anyways I can FINALLY actually talk abt this story a lil bit now!! #Im still refining things but basically the main pov is the middle kid who used to be a tree and the son of an old powerful being #but one day his mom's forest got burned down and he died :( #but its ok he got better but only thousands of years later in an new body and hes trying to figure out what happened to him and his mom #pretty early on he ran into stanley and quartez who were two half siblings from the kingdom that most the other stories take place in #they had to leave and are mostly just wanderinf and trying to survive and stanley decides to help this odd lil fella out #the guy to the far right was found next in the region that the main kids mom used to control #they were being possesed by a magic user after being infected with this tree parasite but they managed to break the wizard's staff and #pacify the parasite mostly because of quartez getting possesed tbh but they found them too #they were here because they read of an anchient artifact and tried to find it and got possesed in tge process #now they have no idea where they are or how long theyve been possesed so party member aquired woo 🎉 #but theyre more interested in whatever is going on with these losers anyways so they sugguest that they try seeking out an old god that #lives deep in the dangerous waters of the seemingly endless ocean with the help of some of their magic #so they go down there main kid gets dragged away buy the kid to the far left but the big ocean lady manages to catch them both and is like #hi little ones whats up have my blessing #and the main kid is like can u bless my friends too? #and shes like ya hold on and summons the other three there #and meanwhile the eel girl is quietly freaking the fuck out because shes been raised with the goal of killing this lady #long story short she brings them home to subtly ask her parents what to do with them because thered been rumors that one of them has a #super powerful magic item that holds the power of another old god that might give them the strength to kill the ocean lady #and theyre like ok ok. lets not shed blood that we dont need to since the ocean god has her eyes on these guys and we dont want her #suspecting anything so just like tag along with them and gain their trust and then either steal it or have them give it to you #so then she joined the gang too yippee #and then ~stuff~ happens or whatever #thats the basic run down of the squad but I have more I just do not have the energy to go through everything rn dydkgdjsy