#danger at every turn

[berryshiara]

Chapter 27 Daughters of War!

A Wedding, a foot race, and a witnessing. Please enjoy. Tell me your favorite parts!

#AC Valhalla #eivor varinsdóttir #randvi #randivor #au Eivor and Randvi are opposing counsels of war for their tribes #enemies to lovers #political intrigue #danger at every turn

[spitblaze]

in case ur having trouble figuring out why using a news article of a singular person who happens to be a minority who did something really bad isnt good proof that the entire minority is evil. allow me to explain by way of this xkcd comic

#spitblaze says things #i just. do not know where tr/-anspho/-bes get off #posting one(1) article of some transfem lady who did something horrendously shitty #and then go 'well clearly this is how all of them are #thats a lie. i know how. its confirmation bias #if you gather enough individual news articles you could convince anyone of anything probably #every time i see te/-rfs doing that i wanna go 'ooh i can play this game too!' #and then post a bunch of articles of people getting killed by vending machines and drawing the conclusion #that vending machines are dangerous killers and we cant have them anywhere near children lest they turn into one themselves

[pumpkinrootbeer]

sorry for haymitch posting constantly but the funniest thing to me is in his games there was nothing outwardly suggesting everything was poison but his paranoid ass saw fresh water and went "it's a trap" and the hilarious part is he was right

#:v #haymitch abernathy #the hunger games #Like his survided the hardest most dangerous games by not trusting anything #except mayslee and then you know. she dies bc he figured out the forcefield #The focus on forcefields in cf does drive me a little bit insane #in a good way I like the imagery of something used to trap being used as a weapon against the captors #does make me go a little crazy thinking about what this says abt haymitch tho #sure drunk 40 yr old who had his family murdered and was forced to watch 46 kids die isn't going to trust anyone #but why does a 16 yr old kid expect something horrible at every turn #to the point he only trusts someone after they save his life KINDA LIKE KATNISS HUH . #sorry those two drive me insane........... #Like yeah haymitch is also just incredibly clever to figure out the tricks but it says a lot abt his upbringing #healthy kids with healthy families don't expect everything to kill them is all I'm saying

[tartarduck]

on a sunny day, i'll bring a bouquet of your favourite flowers, and wait downstairs at your door.

#tears of themis #luke pearce #the caption is a translation of one of his lines from the bakerlon card #this is after he reveals the reason why he talked to rosa as if she was a stranger and never responded to her letters #it turns out luke got involved in (surprise surprise) kind of dangerous stuff #and this is the line he says when rosa asks him what he actually wanted to do when he met her #yknow #instead of treating her like a COMPLETE STRANGER #anyway it bothers me a lot that luke pearce only ever asks for the simplest things #but he never gets the chance to act on these desires until literal years go by #all the while feeling guilty about wanting these things at all #haha i'm having a great night thinking about how this is the case for luke in every single au #please let luke have a happier previous life sometime... please #doodle

[rxttenfish]

while aaravi remains firmly within "yeah miranda has a difficult personality and isn't very easy to get along with + has many rough edges which are slowly being worked on but still going to be an issue" after having been very much so within the camp that miranda is a Vexing Bitch upon first contact/getting to know her, she DOES go from "miranda is unpredictable and dangerous as a merfolk and large macropredator and her emotions are inscrutable and random" to "merfolk aren't very hard to understand or predict and it's very easy to stay on the safe side if you keep basic rules in mind and don't freak out the second something unexpected happens"

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #miravi.txt #just. thinking about it! #thinking about specifically how merfolk (like most other animals) growl/hiss specifically as a deterrent #like if you start really upsetting miri and she wants space and you to Please Stop #she will probably turn her face away from the other person or turn her body away from them #while growling or hissing and pulling her fins back #and will open her mouth to bare her teeth or gape her mouth open to show her teeth (including heavily panting) #where the point is ''i will hurt you if you touch me/get closer/dont stop so please dont do that'' #but a lot of people read it as her being either obtuse (if she turns away from them) #or outright aggressive for the showing of teeth and growling #when shes really not. shes being very polite in merfolk terms in giving multiple chances to avoid violence #shes going ''i am worried i might have to hurt you so please reconsider'' in a way thats very readable if youre another merfolk #who will then step away or give her her space and switch the tone of the conversation #to see whats wrong #whereas her being more deliberately aggressive/violent usually comes with minimal vocal cues at all #or (if shes specifically threatening someone such as in the case of getting aggressive over perceived threats to her social bonds) #she will often turn towards them and open her mouth and flare her fins #often deliberately closing the distance and making herself appear Extra Large #she WILL growl here but will never hiss (hissing being a more defensive sound) #and will often smack her tail against the ground or show her claws or otherwise demonstrate how large and how scary she is #as a deliberate point of ''you crossed a line and this is what is going to happen to you if you dont make it up right now'' #which! both require VERY different responses but might look similar to a human! #and might end up coming off as unpredictable or random in her actions and cruelty! #when shes not! shes just doing things the way a merfolk does them #which means aaravi realizes VERY quickly after learning about all of this #just how many cues miranda gives that people are starting to make her uncomfortable and feel Not Okay #that are ignored or written off because theyre merfolk cues #merfolk are very tolerant of stress but have basically no concept of escalation of violence for that reason #because if youve ignored every chance to prevent something dangerous up until the point it goes too far

[discountsoysauce]

I talk about Victor and Eli a lot but like. I wanna take a minute to talk about Stell. Mostly bc I'm thinking of my fic rn and how helpless he is to his situation despite being the director of EON. He's supposed to be in charge of the entire operation and yet there are constantly things he either has no knowledge of or no control over. And that's So interesting to me

#stell isnt helpless by any means but he also has very little control over his own operation #he wants to do what he can to protect the public from dangerous people while also not bringing harm to anyone he doesnt have to #and yet hes constantly undermined and pressured by the board of directors into going against his own morals and instincts #and hes just such a character dude #i loved writing the Eli manipulation scene because it shows just how powerless Stell feels in his own operation #and how Eli uses that to get what he wants #like in canon but under different circumstances #unfortunately hes probably not gonna appear again for a good while if ever #but ugh hes such an interesting character #hes clearly against what happened to Eli with Dr Haverty #but he thinks its okay to keep all EOs in cages forever #he doesnt want violence but hes pushed into it at every turn #he just wants to have some agency #vicious ve schwab #director stell #vengeful ve schwab #villains series #vicious #vengeful #villains duology #im talking about my time travel fic but also about canon

[lixues-fang]

I can see why some people are upset about the pit madness concept with Jason, but I still think it's a great tool for having actually literally affected his mental health. It's not about his anger. Jason's anger comes from his core, and all of the decisions he made because of his anger were his alone—but I do think the madness should fuck him up in that way that his hands shake and he gets so angry when he shouldn't. When theres no reason to be. When people are just talking or breathing or living in the background and it being irritating and overstimulating is what triggers the biochemistry that was affected by the pit to turn that to eleven. To try and make him respond like it's a threat. The smallest things set him off to a higher degree than they normally would—not every time, but often enough he has to check himself and really get a focus on regulating his emotional state. On forming a healthy relationship with his patience. It should keep his adrenaline too high, so he thinks he can keep going and going past when anyone should in a fight, and no one knows to tell him to stop because he seems fine and he genuinely thinks he is. It doesn't affect his vision, but it triggers a hypervigilance and hypersensitivity to what's around him—and the paranoia he already suffers with takes that and runs; turning shadows into people long enough he thinks to grab at his guns before he cools off.

#jason todd #like no it obv shouldnt wholly change and be the catalyst for all of his choices #but its fun to let it fuck him up just a little to the left #make all of the problems that shouldve been minor escalate and make it more difficult to fight his own mental illnesses #it puts him in danger before he even realizes and when he (finally) is more connected with his family he learns and works to regulate that #aka i have autism and i think jason should have Autism+ (Lazarus edition) #er... ig that would be -Autism since it sucks a little more KAJSJAJD #anyways heres my two cents bc im literally planning a fic abt it LMFAO #i dont think it should make him angry i think it should turn his anger into something that takes like gasoline- that he has to actively #avoid feeding or it could explode #i want it to be something that forces him to become Better than every negative emotion hes relied on to keep going. #i want it to force him to find kindness.

[tea-earl-grey]

i'm not super into star trek novels and the beta canon and whatnot but i'm so glad that i read Last Best Hope because it really makes Picard s1 infinitely better on rewatch (and i say this as a Picard enjoyer/defender). like 100% recommend if you're even a little bit interested in Picard era worldbuilding.

#i feel like a lot of people complain on tumblr complain about the star trek universe being too static and milquetoast liberal #and then completely ignore picard s1 and s2 #(and a decent bit of discovery for that matter) #where some pretty massive changes happen in universe that are SO INTERESTING #and we get to see complex politics and character drama and stuff that feels MEANINGFUL #and it feels like realistic fallout from the changes the federation went through in ds9 during the dominion war #and yes it is darker and not as optimistic as tng era but imo every season is hopeful in different ways #(synths being accepted by starfleet. the jurati!borg turning the borg into a healing force. s3 healing broken bridges between characters) #i'll always prefer the longer more episodic shows just because i feel like we know the characters better and i have my critiques about #every season of picard #but on a whole i really love it #i just wish we could get more of the characters and politics and worldbuilding without defaulting on “the galaxy is in danger!” plots #star trek picard #my posts

[sommerregenjuniluft]

Cowboy Remus

@greenvlvetcouch @crushofdoves

#he’s tired from running around in our heads all day #did he get the scar from a dangerous rodeo? #or did he whip himself in the face like a pubescent dumbass at age 13?? #this is actually cropped because i hated his the bottoms turned out so ill probably update this #just know he has long ass legs #he’s a damn tree in every universe #remus lupin #and his bony wrists my beloved #lune’s art

[byanyan]

fledgling verse byan finding themself painfully tempted at times to just completely give in to the beast... because they're exhausted and depressed and in pain and the beast doesn't have to deal any of that... and maybe some people deserve to be torn to shreds... maybe they deserve the opportunity to be the monster for once instead of the victim... and it'd be so much easier to just let go and lose control...

...but, tired and hurt as they are, they're also being afraid of losing themself, losing all the pieces that make them who they are as a person, all these things they spent their life fighting so hard to maintain & protect - which includes their control over themself........

#thinking about them in their worst moments losing that grip on their beast... and finding some enjoyment & even freedom in it in the moment #maybe enough so that they let it happen a little more often... but slowly come to the horrific realization that the more they let it out #the harder it gets to rein it back in. the harder it gets to maintain control. #I'm just dabbling with ideas rn but it could be a fun little conflict to play with #and considering how horrendously depressed baby vamp byan is..... #it'd be so easy for them to spiral into this battle with themself/the beast...... :) #I mean I guess in a way it boils down to the conflict that every vamp faces but like. #I'm looking at it more specifically from the angle of a mentally unstable teenager who kinda wants to die #but kinda wants to tear the world down too... #and has this option where they CAN kind of just.... turn everything off AND have the satisfaction of being dangerous & destructive #idk idk u know me. I'm secretly always thinking about fledgling verse adhgjsg #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don't @ me. #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ verse: fledgling.

[girldewar]

when the poll ends do you mind sharing what you vs your friend thought the key hockey concept was? I'm so curious !

yes !! so skill play ended up winning, but if you combine the two categories of fighting and physical play, they add up to way more. this came up because i'm currently going through a whole emotional journey around violence in sport and the way personal choice, bodily autonomy, and the monolith of sports culture can overlap and conflict. that's not super important but i think more people should think about it because it's a really interesting and tough topic. anyway, i was talking to my friend from rural BC, and we were talking about violence/physicality as an inherent part of hockey or if there was a way to mitigate dangerous injury while still maintaining the spirit of hockey as a sport.

she was of the opinion that physical play, fighting, all of that were essential to hockey, and there was no way to play the same game without them. i'm still working on what my opinion is, but i'm finding that more and more i come down on the side of, hey, all of these injuries are unnecessary and there's no reason for hockey -- contact sport though it may be -- to be this dangerous and injurious. there's a lot of reasons i feel this way, but one of the biggest ones is that when i think of hockey -- when i think of the most important, joyous, exciting moments in hockey, moments that made me genuinely love this sport and the place it holds in my life -- i think almost entirely about skill play. what makes hockey worth watching for me is the speed, the skill, the insane passes and bad-angle goals. kirill kaprizov sidney crosby trick shot type shit. when those players have room to play, i love this sport like nothing else.

my friend, on the other hand, isn't wrong when she says that overall, the impression people have of hockey tends toward violence. even if they haven't thought about it enough to pass judgment, the vast majority of people think first of checks and fights.

the problem i have is that a lot of times, skill players are stifled by physical play. i like puck possession, but checking turns that into an almost irrelevant part of nhl hockey, and i like when superstars have space to do insane things, but if they're injured half the year because every fourth liner in the league pretty much has free reign to headhunt without the refs blowing the whistle, i don't get to see any of that. it's the same reason i'm annoyed with the way kirill's been treated in the league -- he's a phenomenal player who can do unparalleled things on the ice, but his production has been down because he got injured a couple seasons ago and hasn't had the space (or protection from further injuries, looking at you, dops) to heal it fully and get back to form. in what world is that the best that hockey can be? i'd rather every skill player gets long, obnoxious nhl careers than keep fistfights in a sport that really doesn't need them, but i'm aware i'm in the tiny minority there.

#also the reason fighting is such an institution is because the dops is shit and refs don't call dangerous plays against skill players #& especially european skill players #but You Know #& don't get me started on the whole enforcer cte thing which um. doesn't just go away because you 'got rid' of enforcers. now you just have #actual skilled players going and getting their lights punched out every week. im sure that's fine for them #sorry this sort of turned into me on my soapbox but what it comes down to is: i don't like physical play but i'm aware that the Zeitgeist #can't imagine hockey without it and that's just something i have to figure out how to feel about #ask #anon #also i think this comes from having my sports background mostly in performing arts #like sports are a performance you know. why wouldn't you try to present the best most beautiful version of your sport possible #long post

[anachronistic-falsehood]

looking through dsmp characters' wiki pages and looking at the statuses of their pets and seeing "dead" "dead" "dead" "missing" "dead" "alive" "missing" "dead" vs. looking through qsmp characters' pets and seeing "alive" "alive" "alive" "alive" "alive" like god. server wracked with constant war and destruction vs island full of friends and family and love. hellmurder smp vs love and communication island. i don't know where i'm going with this it just makes me want 2 lay down and stare at the ceiling for a few hours

#qsmp #dsmp #like. man #dsmp constantly filled with danger at every turn and still people kept trying to love. they kept getting pets and making friends #knowing that at some point they would likely die somehow in some brutal manner in a war or used as blackmail etc etc etc #they kept trying. they kept trying to care and love and for some people that tendency was beaten out of them #but for others they kept it. and kept trying to keep things to love. #quesadilla island is not perfect but they are ALLOWED to love. they all CARE. they protect each other and their beloved pets #the only thing that might try to wrench that away from them is the federation but ther are many characters who hate the feds #and are just WAITING for a chance to jump at them to protect the people and things they care about #the dsmp characters fought to love and most of the time they lost. they gave up. #the qsmp characters have fought for love. they are still fighting for it and will continue to for as long as it takes for love to prevail #ARE YOU HEARING ME #whiskeys word soup

[iamthemaestro]

had a character development moment today where I realized maybe I simply do not have a healthy relationship to classical music anymore

#i always felt terrible about 'losing interest' but it never felt right to say that #partially as a music student but partially because i *love* classical music I always have and I still do #so perhaps it's not that i've lost interest #for lack of a better term i just can't be normal about it anymore #it just. exhausts me #like i wish i could just turn the analysis brain off even for a moment #and just enjoy it #but it's ironic because the analysis brain is a result of the fact that i love it so much #idk. i just want to be able to listen without it feeling like it has to be a source of self-improvement. #without it feeling like an educational endeavor every single time #i love learning about it but if you turn every single interaction you have with a thing into a learning interaction #it does kind of eat away at the fun you have with it if you're not careful #because at a certain point you stop thinking about what you enjoy about it and what you love about it #in favor of what you can glean from it #and like. if you just think about that out of context. that's not a healthy form of love #idk. ironically enough maybe i need to not immediately jump to the score videos #i think i need to just listen to things again #like I don't actually Need to know how they work immediately. that information is going to be there regardless #i can just. try to listen again #idk. very specific problem to have #the things you go through when you spend your life so intensely steeped in one art form #i would be more normal about it if i was less intimate with it in a way. it's a double edged sword #because at least i know it's this thing i carry with me so deeply and so permanently #this thing that has ingrained itself into my very being and the way i think #it's as dangerous as it is wonderful #i just wish i could wield it better #anyway. #composerposting #mine

[grinchwrapsupreme]

One thing Being Human does really well is show the different ugly ways trauma can manifest - anger, sadness, becoming convinced of things that aren't true - and how conflicting traumas can result in actively hostile relationships

#don't click on the tags unless you want to read so so much #being human uk #i was thinking about this a lot especially wrt the first ep of season 2 where george is being SUCH an ass to nina #and it's a great example of like #they are both going through something extremely traumatic #like to the point where they cannot support one another at all #nina's whole perspective of the world has just changed and she may now be a monster #meanwhile george has killed someone - the thing he's feared most since the beginning - and they didn't show it but #presumably he would have woken up covered in herrick's viscera #like those are two insane things to process no matter who you are #and annie and mitchell cannot help them so they're both just lashing out at each other wondering why no one cares #george and nina have to relive the trauma of being infected every month when they change and go through that painful process #mitchell relives the trauma of being turned every time he feeds or sees the victim of a different vampire #all three of them have to be reminded they are monsters and are a danger to everyone around them #including themselves #and annie relives her trauma every goddam day living in that house #and every time she sees owen #whether she realizes it or not #and she tries to remedy this by feeling needed #and that's another thing about the show!! #how all of them show specific responses to trauma #george and nina react with fear and intense anger #mitchell reacts with a stand-in for addiction - seeking substances or trying desperately to avoid those substances #annie reacts with memory loss and the desire to be needed #and all four of them react by trying to have a normal life while being convinced that they can never have one #and so much more!! #the scene in the second episode where tully tries to kill himself and george just walks away? #that is not normal!! #george is so convinced of being a monster that he will behave like a monster #yes he goes back for him but that initial response is so indicative of what the trauma has done to him so early into the show

[feralsteddie]

mid-apocalypse Steve with a shaved head is living rent free in my mind rn

#steve harrington #he struggles for a long time before he can actually manage to do it #but the occasional supply shipment the government actually lets through only has so much #and in the long run it was just… easier. felt better than letting it get all lank and dirty #robin did it too. In solidarity at first but then because she likes the buzzed feeling #and yeah when Steve occasionally looks into a grimey mirror it’s hard to see who he was before everything. #underneath the scars that trace all the way back to ‘83 and lack of puffed up mullet #but there wasn’t a lot of time for a hair routine in between swinging a bat at monsters anyways #the only attention he can spare for hair those days is when it’s his turn to wash and braids Max’s- still out after all that time #and when one of the other little kids with too long hair ask #because not all the lifers got out before it was sealed. too many kids stayed behind in the wasteland #but Steve was always good at three things anyways. Hair. Babysitting. and sticking himself into danger so no one else had to. #so it’s kind of fine that his hair was gone. better in some ways. less time to have to avoid looking at himself in the mirror #more time to take care of the others #Robin always affectionately runs her hand over his head anyways. pressed a quick kiss to every scar on his scalp #(if he survives he grows his hair nearly to his shoulders. treats caring for it like a ritual.) #(but that’s only if he lives) #pyreposting #something something his go to self-soothe being touching his hair and no longer being able to

[dreampearls]

for all that i might compare colleis writing to scara with scara working as a weird sort of mirror world alternate look into collei if she wasnt smited by misogynistic writing decisions. scaras writing is not all that good either

#like his whole thing w rebirth and tying that into sumeru as a whole + paralleling nahida is well done #but if youre to take his quest at face value it think it can very easily and very dangerously come across as going #''well. Killing myself is the answer.'' and then that . not actually being meaningfully refuted #<- which okay arguable. they do take the time to say he was wrong for it. which is. a whole other thing on how genshin handles #suicide/self sacrifice in the first place. but i digress. its just the fact that materially him attempting to erase his existence #..did kind of absolve him from his problems. WHICH. AGAIN. complicated topic. ik its meant to tie in with his rebirth thing but wholesale #divorcing him from his past without any catharsis of punishment or consequence probably isnt the best way to go about it #like i dont think everyone forgetting their memories of him is in of itself bad writing tbh its a very interesting angle #to approach a character who is obviously seeking self punishment but being being denied it at every turn #but we all know genshin is not approaching his character from this angle