#death to the side: who the fuck-

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't think i posted doodles of Sundown Summer's loyal steed! he's a starry appaloosa. a... starpaloosa. constelloopa. appastella. he has a body count written in blood

#fun fact his character is Years older than sundown #he was originally a bounty hunter who happened to be a weird cartoon horse #i wonder if i can find any of his original doodles in an old sketchbook... #he looks pretty different but still Similar to his og design! #nah thats a lie. thats a blatant fucking lie lmao #he's kept the hat & the eye and the mane/tail #the sideburn is a new development #i like this spruced up design better! he has more Character to him! #scribble salad #forced idiots <3 #oc #original character #they love each other very much <3 #wlw mlm solidarity to the max #if anyone looks at sundown wrong he Will stomp them to death with his hooves #they were quite literally made for each other! #honestly someday i want to do a animatic for them w/ centaurworld's 'i was searching for you' song #bc Yeah. i have a scene in mind for them where that pretty much happens #oh to have a loyal gay murderous horse by my side... #man im so happy with his colors and overall design #not sure with sundown's colors but hmmmm its good enough for now #ill workshop it #he was almost a lighter blue w/ a black blanket and white stars #but i took one look and my brain went That Is Yeehaw Princess Luna so uhhhh this is better!

[imthursdaysyme]

Seeing Ghosts

#stranger things #drawing #art #digital art #nancy wheeler fanart #nancy wheeler #barb holland #nancy and barb #fanart #I this this entire arc with barb is the sadest thing #and people go and turn it into some horrible thing Nancy did or Steve did #to like chose a side but I love Nancy and Steve and it is cruel to try and place the blame of her fucking death in one or both of them #like I’m sorry hoW WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW SHED GET FUCKING TAKEN BY A DEMOGORGKN #JFC #anyway #let it be sad #let the be children who made mistakes without villinizing them #bc that’s you refusing to understand multidimensional characters as well as not understanding children and mistakes and morality #anyway I have such a rant on that but I’ll leave it there #I’m in my sad Nancy era

[perfectlyvalid49]

I heard someone say that the reason people are reacting so strongly to what’s happening in Palestine is because seeing what’s happening is causing them moral harm (A moral injury can occur in response to acting or witnessing behaviors that go against an individual's values and moral beliefs.) And this take actually really frustrated me, because I’m not really sure they understood the full implications of what they were saying.

Because if people are so upset about Palestine due to receiving moral harm, then we have to ask why there was no same outpouring of rage when Hamas attacked on October 7th. When people were taken hostage, raped, burned alive, murdered and the corpses desecrated to the point where some of the bodies may never be identified – the same people who are outraged now were silent then.

The way I see it is that there’s one of two things happening here (they’re both rooted in antisemitism, just manifesting in different ways). One option is that there is no moral injury – this is just an excuse to be antisemitic. The other option is that there is moral harm being caused, but then we have to ask why the same moral harm wasn’t caused when it was Israelis under attack, and the only answer I can come up with is that their morals are ok with those things as long as they’re happening to the correct people (this could be straight antisemitism, but it could also be leftists loving violence against oppressors, but viewing Israeli children as oppressors comes from antisemitism).

Honestly, I think there’s a stronger argument for the first option, given that most of the people who are so upset about Palestine don’t seem to care about the Uyghurs, what’s happening in Syria or Myanmar or any of the other places where equally bad stuff is happening. And I almost think that’s a good thing? It’s possible to be antisemitic without actually seeing Jews as subhuman, but I can’t think of a way to be morally offended by the deaths of Palestinian children but not Israeli children, without classifying Israeli children as subhuman in some way. So, option one is still bad, but option two is worse.

I just think that if you’re going to claim that the reason for the way people have been acting is that it’s an expression of pain caused by moral harm, when no such pain was present when it was Jews under attack, then it leads to the question of what the heck are these people’s morals anyway? It’s not the excuse you think it is, it’s an indictment.

#jumblr #antisemitism #judaism #israel/palestine #I'm fucking tired of people making excuses for the antisemitism #obviously this only applies to people who are offended by deaths on one side and not the other #and if you're experiencing moral harm from the deaths of Israelis and not Palestinians - that's just Islamophobia and is just as bad

[vermin-disciple]

I know the fandom latched onto the 'Jeff's Inn by the Sea' thing early on as some sort of romantic idealized Retirement Goals (TM) endgame, but to me this has always sounded less 'domestic bliss' and more 'unmitigated disaster,' and the finale has definitely not changed my opinion on that. Like I'm giving this venture about a week before both of them are metaphorically clawing the curtains and gnawing the furniture. And the only reason I'm giving them that long is because I'm assuming they spend the majority of that first week screwing each other's brains out (with a few intermittent breaks for incompetent attempts at house renovation). Anne and Mary's antique shop really feels like foreshadowing here. Or at least a warning.

Glad they've got a chance to fail at something together, though (other than communicating about their relationship). Love that for them.

#getting the former crew involved might help on the 'not going stir-crazy' front #but I'm not sure how much it would help on the 'running a functioning business' side of things #you just know that anyone who isn't skiving off work to fuck in the guestrooms will be busy fleecing the customers #(assuming they have any customers) #stede's greatest innovation is somehow inventing fire insurance just before they burn the place down #I do actually have more serious thoughts on this aspect of the finale that I may elaborate on in future #but which basically boil down to finding it dissatisfying as an ending in several respects but seeing the potential in it for a third seaso #if we get one #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #meta #our flag means death #vermin rites

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 4/??

THE HIGH PRIESTESS; ⤉ spirituality, higher power, mystery, subconscious ⤈ hidden motives, secrets, repressed intuition, cognitive dissonance THE EMPRESS; ⤉ motherhood, femininity, nurturing, harmony ⤈ smothering, negligence, lack of growth, insecurity THE EMPEROR; ⤉ fatherhood, structure, authority, control ⤈ tyranny, domination, recklessness, rigidity

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #ffxiv:tma #oh boy a 3 for 1 deal!!! #ty to fheythfully for your portrait tutorial!! :D #my game crashed when i was making this and i was about ready to pass away #the idea for this was 'haunted family paintings' with a dash of dorian gray #i intentionally fucked up the facial expressions with crimes & used photoshop filters to achieve the decaying effect of the reverse #for the people who don't know the tatlongharis (aka paris' maternal family via andromache): #the priestess is their aunt cassandra / the empress is their grandma hecuba / the emperor is their grandad priam #paris never met their grandma because she died way before paris was born #how did she die? priam accidentally caused her death but she (and cassandra) predicted she would die b/c they have the echo #so there you go :) #also i tried to match the crowns to the card names but i don't think i got close lol #body horror cw #just in case #notice how hecuba's face is all mangled while priam's flesh is wasting away. like the rotten corpse he is #as per usual flip your phone around to see the reverse sides #🏵️

[mummer]

still sorting out how to feel about it but fuck ncuti was just insantly beyond all expectations. King

#i feel sad his first appearance was sort of playing second fiddle to tennant and he didnt get a proper regen or anything #but i am soooooo excited for him to get started in earnest #plot wise probably my favorite of the specials but that was pretty unhinged #my full conclusion is that rtd is the most self indulgent showrunner alive which works for him but is also very Apparent lmao #doc who #doctor who spoilers #like whys ncuti feeling like a companion/side character in his own show like???? #as someone who isnt a tengirl it’s like. Okay. #also as someone who enjoyed the donna tragedy SORRY #like these specials were really not For Me which is fine. but lets get going cmon 💪 #i’ll just never be a happy ending enjoyer i need it to be at least bittersweet which is why i like this show lol. too happy booooo #me and capaldi being like ITS SAD. ITS ABOUT DEATH. rtd putting his hands in his ears and playing with action figures #which he has the right to do i wish him nothing but happiness also 14 and 15 sjould have fucked

[bookshelfdreams]

related to the latest discourse, can we perhaps NOT tell people to go kill themselves even if - and this may be hard to understand! - even if we disagree with their TV show hot takes. can we agree that being mean on anon is shitty, cowardly behaviour and indefinitely worse than expressing an opinion on the Caring Too Much About Fandom website.

thank you.

#is2g #who does this. were you raised in a barn. did no one teach you how to talk to other human people. #ik empathy and compassion may be too much to ask but can yall at least acquire some basic fucking manners #im talking to 'my side' here. btw. someone sent a msg like this to that izzy positivity blog & its not cool #whoever did this: youre worse than them i hope you realize that #our flag means death #well sort of

[pansyfemme]

youd think that my housemates would think that yelling loudly at their video games at 1am on a school night might be impolite. you’d think

#at least they’ve seemed to have stopped making fun of me loudly when i can clearly hear them #turns out going to housing and reporting the death threat one of them made against me worked. funny #i need to get out of this fucking place #i have everyone official on my side and im waiting for further action to be taken and to have a convo about all the harassment ive been #facing in this dorm but its kind of killing me a little bit #i hate being scared to be out in the common area or kitchen while all they do is laugh at the stupid trans freak who dares to exist

[tiptapricot]

Thinking ab Liu Kang… thinking about a god who thinks he has lived this new life well, has learned the rises and falls of divine existence and knows what to expect, only to remember he is just a boy given too much power when he reaches a present he cannot control. Faces he used to laugh with, people he has seen grown old, different and changed, but so much the same. Events he thought he had avoided repeating themselves, his timeline slipping from underneath him for the first time possibly in millennia. What is a god meant to do when he cannot escape his own mortality, cannot escape the ghosts yet to come, the blood he must prepare to have spilled at his feet? What is a god meant to do when he cannot fathom his own power? When he is still just a boy so scared to be champion, but must now hold the weight of the universe on his shoulders?

#liu kang #mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #mk1 #characters that make me want to shoot myself into space #god…. I cannot fucking imagine what it must be like. to see people that are your friends but also souls you made #a world you shaped but not down to every detail #who you thought you’d grown to expect the shifting nature of only for it to be altered so fully #does he look at Kung Lao and wonder how long he will stay laughing at Raiden’s side #does he look at Raiden and wonder how long he will stay calm before the shadows come for him #does he think of children yet to be conceived #bodies yet to be broken #and mourn them before their time? #does he remember the split memories of the netherrealm and his death at Raiden’s hand? #does he remember all the good from his young self? #the friends banding together across timelines and the friends he saw fall at his side? #can he go through that again? again and again and again? #what do gods fear? #the fruit is talking again

[symphonyofsilence]

Learning about the Yunmeng Shuangjie and the Nieyao drama through Wei Wuxian's and Nie Mingjue's points of view.

#'AITA for avoiding my brother like the plague after being back from the dead after learning he's been looking for me this whole time #And denying him an explanation about how & why I accidentally killed our BIL & started a massacre that resulted in our sister's death #And orphaned our nephew. And talking back to him and telling him off instead of even looking slightly apologetic #when he berates me for telling our nephew whom I accidentally orphaned he lacks maternal education? #And then without even saying so much as a hi to my brother when entering his home bringing a stranger #(that I've been spending all my time with instead of going home and giving an explanation to the brother that has suffered so much bc of me #Bc it was the easier thing to do) #To his ancestral shrine and then teaming up with my boyfriend to beat him up in his own ancestral shrine when he gets upset? #And then telling him that all I did for him (& kept from him) was bc I owed his family and then leaving him behind bleeding #metaphorically & literally (both bc of me) and not even asking him how he is before running to fuck in the bushes with my boyfriend? #*sigh* I thought Jiang Cheng would always be on my side and Lan Wangji opposite us.' #'AITA for making numerous attempts on the life of my marginalized sworn brother and ex-subordinate who has risked his life saving mine #& kicking him down the stairs & offending his mother & going to kill him again #after I told him why he won't just kill himself for the betterment of the world after he refused #To risk his life & safety doing something he had no authority to do after he tried to explain his situation to me?' #mdzs #cql #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #wei ying #jiang cheng #yunmeng shuangjie #jiang wanyin #yunmeng bros #twin heroes of yunmeng

[graceful-not]

this guy joining Echo in Ninjago Characters I AM Going To Be Thinking About Forever btw.

#ninjago #ninjago liveblog #ninjago okino #They really gave me a side character whos an NPC guide in a video game (but doesnt know it) and then made him Find Out and fall into a #a depression about his entire lifes purpose being for naught and that his entire worldnis fucking fake and then have him break free of his #of his coding and Go To The Real World #im. hes so everything #BUT THE SCENE WHERE HES TRAINING AND FAILING TO PROPERLY GUIDE HIS PLAYERS OVER AND OVER AND OVER BC THEYRE TREATING IT LIKE A GAME BC THEY #BC THEY HAVE MULTIPLE LIVES BUT THEIR DEATHS ARE REAL /TO HIM!!!/ HE HAS TO WATCH ALL THAT AND IT MEANS SOMETHING TO HIM BECAUSE #BECAUSE GUIDING THE PLAYERS IS HIS WHOLE PURPOSE!!!! BUT TO THEM HES JUST THE TUTORIAL HELPER CHARACTER!!! AUAU #i do also like Racer 7. An NPC /programmed to lose/‚ only there to add a challenge to the actual players and yet she NEVER STOPS TRYING... #but she always crashes at the exact same spot in the race. every. time. #AUUGH.

[skelelephant]

john lynch in armour save me…

john lynch in armour…

save me john lynch in armour…

#I’ve been thinking about wolfstan all goddamn day #in between being absolutely fucking miserable #i think he was in love with griff #they were in the army together. they fought side by side. they deserted together #they became MERCENARIES together #and [SPOILERS FOR THE BLACK DEATH 2010] #GRIFF SAID HE WAS GLAD IT WAS WOLFSTAN WHO KILLED HIM #LISTEN. LISTEN TO ME #GRIFF WAS GOING TO EMBRACE HIM WHEN WOLFSTAN STABBED HIM #GRIFF WRAPPED HIS ARMS AROUND WOLFSTAN AND THEY FELL TOGETHER AS GRIFF DIED #I’m sorry I’m having a moment #I’ve been drawing him all night #sun in an empty room

[chibi-scone]

It’s been said before and the fact that I’m an Izzy simp aside like having a character who survives the most certain death shit ever (shooting himself in the head at point blank) and literally being nicknamed by another character “indestructible” and then become a symbol of protection for a whole group of people die from a fucking bullet to the side that was established in universe to have no vital organs in order to “atone for his sins” or however you wanna spin it and have him say he wants to go after (see point one) literally trying to kill himself in the show that is literally about growth and betterment of the self in a cruel world that wants you dead and where the main (and mostly queer) characters survive the most batshit insane injuries is like COSMICALLY stupid writing like I don’t even understand how you get there and the fact that it’s supposed to be a kind/ happy/meaningful ending is beyond me

#and Izzy’s whole speech to Ricky before that could be interpreted as what like #being about even if you kill and try to eradicate queer people we’ll always be here #and then have RICKY deal the killing blow ???? #wahhhh it’s symbolic #ok it would’ve been more symbolic to have the fucking queer character live like idc you’re all stupid god bless #ofmd critical #tbd #maybe #oh and then I mean not even talking about how it’s supposedly all good #because the main gays who had borderline no redeeming qualities this season had their picket fence ending #literally what’s the point of having Ed come back from the dead #so he can learn that death is not the answer and that there’s love and betterment for him #and have that whole scene with Jim and Archie where they refuse to kill one another because there’s more to life than the cards #they’ve been dealt and they can be the difference #JUST TO HAVE THAT ENDING #my god I just #sorry if you guys are sick of me ranting about ofmd like 5 months after the shit show supreme #but these are like all thoughts that I’ve just had in my head for months but tried to forget #and now they’re just spilling out like idc anymore #ppl have made so many good posts that all say what I think but ig I still need to rant myself jvhsjnv #how long can your neck be for it to allow you to bury your head so deep in the sand #where you truly believe this is good writing idk #side note but gifs of cats randomly blowing up are my favourites #‘Izzy bettered himself before dying so it’s aaaallll good’ hits you hits you #stupid ass shit argument but also that was across maybe a week and dude was piss drunk dissociative half the time

[pyrrhiccomedy]

THE WHITE DOOR

He never called her “the woman he loved” until she was dead in his arms. 

Her killer was a a man whom Bastian admired; but Bastian wronged him anyway, and he was savage and exacting in his vengeance. So: Bastian too is savage and exacting, and far less admirable. 

Though revenge provided no abatement of his grief, it was required by the circumstances.

It is not enough by far.

He readies his companions to set out for the continent of Death itself. He knows only one man who has been there, and that man returned blinded, bitter, and heartbroken: but the dark prince loves his wife, and a knife will not keep him from her. Nor will the endless miles of the white countries, nor the threat of mutilation, nor the will of any God.

He expects horror. He will bring it himself.

His wise wife, his fairy wife: he trusts she knows that he is coming.

#in the depths of the plague our protagonist sets out to reckon with Death Itself #first of all a thousand props to Emily who did not break character for a second when Bastian found his wife murdered #she roleplayed it to the hilt #exacted a terrible revenge #and then immediately started making plans to set out for the White Door: #the dreaded gateway to the empires of the dead #along the way Bastian discovered how much each of his companions truly loved him #that although he started out viewing all of them as merely tools to facilitate his rise - he has been good to them #he took care of his people #and - to his grief-stricken amazement - they rallied to his side in his calamity #the dark prince - the villain of so many other stories - is more than just the hero of his own #he is the hero of theirs #and soon: the hero of his wife's #I'm so fucking feral to go to the white countries and watch Bastian face The Horrors to save his beloved y'all I'm going Ape Shit #heretic #dice matters

[deadqueernoldor]

Nghhh chewing on finweans and realizing how self-sacraficial is so deeply instilled in that family, and that that particular trait is prevalent in each generation.

Finwe knew he couldnt win against Morgoth, but he could try and protect his grandchildren. He fought regardless.

Fingolfin knew he couldnt twin against Morgoth in 1-on-1. He fought regardless.

Finrod knew he would die on his quest for Beren, and still fought the wolf to save his friend. He did.

Celebrimbor knew he could protect others by dying, protecting the knowledge about the rings. He did.

It stands to reason that Elladan, Elrohir or Arwen, would have come upon a similar fate.

#sometimes it just hits me with a sledgehammer like that family (esp the feanorian side) is portrayed as selfish a lot #(instert 'justice for caranthir for tslling Angrod to fucking stick with the people who arent hiding in Menegroth from Morgoth'-agenda) #(insert 'feanor was a selfish prick by abandoning the others in aman and forcing his sons to re-swear the oath upon his death' rant) #but i still think they are actually more opputunistic when you REALLY want to put a word ending with -istic there #feanor saw the opportunity to leave aman. fuck the brother he never liked. feanor only needs the people who'll be loyal to his family anyway #curufin saw the opportunity to get support form those of nagothrongld after he and celegorm had to flee like cowards from the dragons #which. for two people who i think have immense pride in their battle skill and strength must have been a HUGE ego blow #celegorm saw the opportunity to either: fuck over doriath and thingol by keeping luthien as political leverage (i dont think he's have #forced himself on her intimately. so fuck that. idc man. leave that shit away from me. he's an asshole but not a rapist imo anyway) #or: get a silmaril out of this mess SOMEHOW. #maedhros saw the opportunity of a possibly successful assault on angband after the silmaril quest of B+L and immediately began warplanning #and realistically speaking you cant tell me that maedhros didn't see the opportunity to casually drop the fact that it was HIS brothers and #HIMSELF holding basically all the eastern lands of beleriand in safety by closing off the Gap of Maglor while... where have you heard vague #rumours of turgon and ⅓ of the nolofinwean people maybe possibly not having died after suddenly disappearing? yeah. thought so. #just the opportunity to make slight political jibes available to shut anyone up about them being selfish #this is a weird post idk where this is going i stopped thinkig halfway though the second sentence #somehow that tag rant veered from self-sacraficial to opportunistic. didnt have that on my bingo card

[guruguruguruguru]

the longer i sit with it the more it really gets me how nobody ever really mentions obito and rin before obito's reveal in shippuden. kakashi vaguely mentions his old friends and i think other characters allude to the tragedy of kakashi's past but rin and obito themselves are lost to time. something about that is so fucking haunting and so gutting. you would think it would be a pretty big deal that two kids from the same class died within a year of each other, but the nine tails attack probably wiped so much clean that nobody could really carry the grief... still, when we see their class in flashbacks, we recognise almost everyone else, so... there's something really sad and hopeless about their absence...

there's a lot a LOT to say about it from a lot of different angles and i don't really feel like going into meta posting territory i just have big feelings about it you know? and to me i guess obito encapsulates a lot of the anger. for the people who get left behind and forgotten. and that can mean a lot of things

#two of my classmates died on separate occassions in short span of time in high school and i wont claim that grief because #i didnt know either of them well but i did feel a lot of anger and overwhelming hopelessness. that life keeps relentlessly going on #even when people get left behind #it feels so unfair and so painful... there are so many more aspects to it though as well #like people who are left behind in other ways due to circumstance or class or race or etc etc- often a combination of those factors #and obito as a kid reminds me a lot of a good friend i had when i was little who was late to class every day #because of those outside circumstances #and again someone in high school who i was late WITH every day. because ya #and i feel very big about that. and about rins death as something so fucking preventable #the tragedy also of baby teacher minato who was so so not ready to be in charge of anyone. but. that's something else #anyway i guess i just really feel a connection with that anger and despair #sorru was watching niji and felt fucking insane about it #obito and rin are like two sides of one thing. maybe of one person. of one concept #part of why i'm so so crazy about obito being trans is because i see him as also using rin's memory as a conduit for #his anger and grief about his own lost younger self. hence: baby obito is also a little girl #i think they are best friends. its so important. idk none of this is wider narrative meta #its just my feelings about them in particular #haunting dead girl and the ghost who has to carry on and can't rest