#i love humanise villains

[pinkpabli]

We can talk on how Ogata is out of his mind and that he is rotten inside but let's not forget that everything started because he thought his mother wasn't loved by his father and by killing her he hoped to be wrong.

#he was a momma boy okay #i know he's out of his mind shut up #i love humanise villains #golden kamuy #ogata hyakunosuke #gk meta

[whatudottu]

This just in, local bisexual disaster finds his taste in women in need of a rain check- is the imagined kabedon suggestive enough to need a tag?

Hey what if Tranformers Prime really emphasised that Airachnid was very much a poacher and that her schtic as an (albeit temporary on her part) interrogator of the Decepticons were skills she had taken from poaching endangered game and mounting them on her walls?

#airachnid #tfp airachnid #breakdown #tfp breakdown #transformers #tfp #humanformers #maccadam #fanart #do i ship these two together? no. but do i stare intently as breakdown is 'intrigued' by airachnid? yeah sure #breakdown is married to his husband but he is not immune to m/f thoughts #as a breakdown fan you may think that i am far too fond of airachnid to make that statement true but like problematic women 😌 #gave airachnid that full safari hunter look because i'm not the best at sci-fi clothes outside of like- cloaks but like my girl poaches ya? #gaston behaving ass- uses antlers in all of her decorating ass #takes photos of her standing over rhinos she's shot- doesn't even do it for the money does it for the fun and trophy of it #literally villainous and probably something that could have been more compelling than 'oh i have a torture rivalry for arcee' #let's just say that arcee knows after her experience with airachnid that apparently human skin is too thin to taxidermy #a fact (among her personal experience under airachnid's tools) that haunts her very much #besides in a more human-based setting it's not as if airachnid can come equipped with organic webbing #she loves her nets and probably drop any form of humanisation at the tip of a hat #a safari hat #we stan a problematic queen #or maybe i do- she is imagining pinning breakdown like one would a butterfly (at the least graphic) #ask to tag #for the kabedon part of the whole bi breakdown section #who's brain just immediately shortcutted and went 'kabedon' instead of probably a more literal butterfly pinning #because 'hot lady'

[sansadaynes]

need moots to watch love like the galaxy

the main girl is if arya and sansa were merged into one character and the main guy is such a freak in the best way possible because he may have fallen for her earlier but he was whipped for life when she used her necklace chord to pull out an arrow from his chest and he kept the bloody arrow as a souvenir

#ALSO it features her rebelling against certain societal norms but not in a girlbossy cringy way #and a lot of the villainous female characters that would just be relegated to bitches #get humanised and often you pity them or root for their goals over the main characters #ALSO empress and main consort get on?? and even if their interests are antithetical to each other they love and respect each other?? #ALSO she gets to call out main guy for making decisions without her even if his intention is to protect her #and she's not presented as crazy or ungrateful and its dealt with in a mature way? #love like the galaxy #its on netflix in a bunch of countries but i think all the episodes have been uploaded with eng subtitles on youtube #gif warning #also she has other romantic interests who aren't just killed off or made evil for no reason to make room for main couple

[aeirithgainsborough]

also like don’t get me wrong i fucking loved that episode 10/10 will watch again and cry 7283 more times about it. BUT. they rlly said in that episode its okay to prioritise your person and do what you have to do to protect them above a wider community and the greater good you are deserving of a happy ending versus in the game where bill ends up alone as a result of his survivalist/isolationist tendencies even though the narrative of tlou2 punishes and villainises joel for doing the same thing and id argue even goes as far as to say he deserved to be brutally beaten to death for it

#like ofc he’s gonna pick ellie over anything else lmao she’s his world? #in reality ppl pick their ppl over other things like that’s life that’s love that’s community #(ellie and joel are a community albeit a very small one tho ofc that community grows in jackson) #even the surgeon can’t say that he’d do the same thing he wanted to do to ellie if it was his kid on the table #bcus of course he can’t #but joel is made a villain for it and u can’t pretend he wasn’t cus the narrative doesn’t defend his choice once #it doesn’t even allow him to tell ellie what actually happened in that hospital and defend himself #it just forces him to take it for two years #it makes ellie not speak to him for 2 years after everything they did to help each other survive including the events of left behind #which only affirms joel was in the wrong especially when you throw in the humanising of jerry with the zebra scene #like no he’s not a bad person he saves zebras! #and then you have last nights ep which allows bill to prioritise one person over anything else and celebrates it #but joel deserves to be brutally murdered for doing the same thing #smh #all that game does is punish joel lmaooooo especially through ellie which just. hurts so fucking much #anyway anyway #tlou1 #tlou2 #the last of us spoilers #im not trying to tag hate btw i just don’t wanna spoil any of it for ppl who haven’t played

[ziskandra]

papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

twisted palm tree ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t people say you'd like but you feel kinda meh about love regardless? (adjusted because most of your favs are fictional villains that Fandom says you shouldn't like)

papyrus: hilariously every song in my spotify on repeat playlist atm is from my meresino playlist. anyway the first that came up when I shuffled was rabbit hole by aviva

i swear I have whole AViVA albums on this playlist oops, listen this flavour of dark pop just works so well for them.

and as for why this song in particular:

I could say I'll take you

I could say I'll make you

But underneath all I plan to do, to do is break you

You could be my breakthrough

Watching demons wait 'til

I leave you, and they can initi-niti-nitiate you

[…]

I will always wait for you

I'll always be waiting

I will always follow you

'Cause you cannot escape me

Need I say more?

twisted palm tree: firstly can I just how much I love how that you had to twist this because loving villains I shouldn’t is basically my entire brand 🥲

It actually took me a while to think of a character that people assume I love that I don’t really have strong feelings about, and in the end the only answer I could come up with is Bellatrix Lestrange from HP (with the caveat that I don’t know how the fandom portrays her bc I don’t seek out content about her).

The reason I usually love villains is that I find them relatable — either because they remind me of the worst parts of myself, or because they remind me of people I’ve encountered irl, and I like deconstructing what makes people capable of such cruelty through the safer space of fiction because it makes me a) less vulnerable to manipulation irl and b) more sympathetic to people who I wouldn’t see eye-to-eye with. I think growing up as a Young Undiagnosed Autistic, I’ve always been mystified by the concept of being cruel on purpose, and I’ve always wanted to understand it more, and the reasons behind it (even if the reason is as simple as ‘maintaining the status quo because the person in power wishes to remain so’)

Anyway, yeah, I don’t find Bellatrix interesting for the same reasons I don’t find Voldemort interesting, but my favourite HP characters nonetheless are pretty revelatory about me: Dolores Umbridge, Rita Skeeter, Petunia Dursley … I am much more interested in analysing the type of cruelty I am more likely to encounter irl!

get to know me ask game

#asha answers #as a kid i was obsessed with umbridge to the point i dressed as her for book week #so nothing about me has really changed #except no-one called me an abuse apologist back then #honestly not to get too deep on main #but a part of the reason i’m fascinated by female villains in particular is because i did grow up with an abusive mother #and the coping mechanism that worked the best was humanising her #and it took me a long time for me to even acknowledge she was abusive #like it makes me feel uncomfortable to say now even tho she was even physically abusive towards me! #like the emotional abuse was worse but usually people recognise physical abuse more easily #so yeah it fucks me right off when people call randos on the internet abuse apologists because god forbid #anyone want to explore their own abuse in a safe space #a huge part of my healing was reconciling my own trauma was acknowledging my childhood abuse #and reconciling it with the fact i still wanted to repair my relationship with my mum #and that I HAD A CHOICE about whether to reconcile or not #and that I can love who she is now (after years of her own healing) #and still acknowledge that she Fucked Me Up #anyway agency is very important to me for obvious reasons #and if someone tells me i shouldn’t do something I wanna do it more oops #asha’s villain manifesto #mxkelsifer

[thewritingalex]

The point of the Abbess is, she knows what she’s doing is absurdly cruel. She faces it head on and admits it without reservation. She is evil because this does not give her pause. She is evil because she says, I know what I am doing and it is worth it, and nothing is worth it there is nothing EVER that could be worth it.

The Baroness is also aware that what she is doing is absurdly cruel, but she will not admit it. She will not face it head on. She will hem and haw and say, “But it’s for the better,” as if that means the cruelty doesn’t count anymore.

The Abbess believes her cruel actions are improving the world, but she knows that this does not make them less cruel. The Baroness thinks that if something is ultimately for the better, then it isn’t even really bad to begin with--even when it is really, really bad--and it is childish and stupid to complain.

#ängeln och draken #the alex #the amount of people in this novel who are known only by their Title #every single major authority figure except for hansen (the prime minister) and wilhelm (the head of the confessional office) #it wasn't on purpose but i think it makes sense #all of the people known only by titles are less humanised by the narrative #you're supposed to find them less sympathetic #the professor is a buffoon and felix loves him but he also fears him #the baroness and the abbess are as above. villanous #and the lord (of monsters) is Ambigously Villainous #they are all people defined by their positions of authority #whereas hansen is a coward and wilhelm bitter. both are trapped *by* their roles and *aware* that they are trapped by their roles #aware of the fact that it makes them worse people #anyway

[sometimesraven]

Unpopular writing opinion:

We need more absolutely vile, unlikeable villains. There’s a place for villains you can "babygirl" but I’m bored of it. Give me the most nasty disgusting villains that will make me cringe into the earth you cowards.

There's this entire thing that's cropped up around 'likeable' or 'relatable' villains where, instead of being a cautionary tale about how we can all end up there or how people who seem lovely can actually be vile, it's become "uwu babygirl isn't evil after all"

And like there's a place for it! I like my fair share of babygirl villains! Hell I was there all the way back when Thor was released and Loki kicked off the popularisation of this trend!

I'm just,,, bored of it now. Especially when I'm seeing people do the whole babygirlification process on real-ass human beings???? It's gone too far.

Give me vile.

Give me the eugenicist who wants to eradicate 'imperfections' because he thinks he's an agent of God

Give me an abusive horrible parent but don't tell me they're trying just show me from their kid's eyes the catharsis of getting them the fuck out of their life

Give me the fuckin westboro baptist church for elves or someshit i don't care, just give me something I can hate with my entire being so that I can feel the rush of vindication when they inevitably get defeated.

There's too many irredeemable, vile people in real life. Especially as a trans person right now, it's easy to fall into despair when I see how untouchable those people seem to be, and how many people will defend them based on their motivations or some other "relatable" bullshit.

Give me a story that shows they're not as untouchable as they seem. Give me a story that shows there's always hope for the downtrodden; that the vile, horrible people trying to destroy us are just that, and they don't deserve a single tear. Stop trying to humanise our abusers, because we know they're humans but they don't care that we are too.

Just once, give me someone I can sink my teeth into and tear apart without the slightest touch of empathy. Give me what I can't have in real life.

#this got a lil more personal than i intended oops #writing opinions #writing community #villain characters #writing villains #urban fantasy #authors of tumblr #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #authorblr #indie author #queer author #neurodivergent author #but hey 'be the change you want to see' #my villain is irredeemable and untouchable #i will destroy him

[dandunn]

That post on here about humanising horrible people like cops and nazis and how it makes you uncomfortable because it forces you to realise that YOU could also be that person if circumstances were different really makes me think abt mother 3 and how shigesato itoi rly seems to understand that.

Like especially the big pigmask general who you would see as any other boss monster and think nothing about beating his ass. It's like no. He LOVES the DCMC to the point where you can distract him with a pamphlet for the band and make him so jealous he forgets to fight you.

It's a pretty funny moment but it's also a theme when you talk to the other pigmasks and realise they're just Dudes. They've been more or less forced into doing this to get a better life sort of like the combine footsoldiers in half life 2 who haven't been augmented yet. (except you don't really meet them on a human level at all. Apart from like. Barney who's a double agent but I digress.)

It's also really easy to hate the big bad pokey/porky because he was already a total bastard in earthbound and he's only gotten worse.

But then you also realise he's a perpetual child who was never allowed to grow up thanks to abuse/circumstances and he took the easy way out by siding with the villain. Never to the point where you excuse his horrible actions but you also understand how he got there.

#Mother 3 i love you #Such a fucking smart game I swear to God #mother #earthbound

[myheroblogs]

Man, the whole thing with Yoichi and Kudou parting ways is a bit more heartbreaking if you consider the fact that just moments before, Yoichi had to deal with the death of his brother.

Despite everything that he has done, despite everything that has happened, Yoichi still loved his brother. Even though his brother was cruel, he still acknowledges that AFO took care of him when there was no one else. All they had was each other.

His anger in ch 193 wasn't done out of hate, but concern for his brother. Like how a loved one would get angry when they recognize you doing something that isn't good for your well-being.

Nana and Yoichi are in the same position, both having their close relatives on the villain side, but while Tenko has the hope of being saved, AFO is far gone. And while Yoichi has long accepted this, that doesn't mean he won't be affected by the loss of his brother.

We saw Yoichi's expression when AFO gets defeated. People talk about it being a "bombastic side eye", but to me, it's more so sorrowful.

Not long afterwards, we have Yoichi talk like this:

"Don't cling to sentimentality"

"Bringing down Tomura Shigaraki is our reason for still existing"

Yoichi was silently trying to process his brother's death here. Alone. Not even Kudou knows.

And not long after the death of your only family, you're forced to say goodbye to the one person who would still be there for you after all that? The very first person who valued you as a fellow human being?

Damn, I'd break down and cry too.

On a side note, some people are unhappy that the OFA Users are often calling the shots here. But am I the only one who noticed that Yoichi's the only one who doesn't do this at all?

Yoichi's the one who interacted with Midoriya the least. He's the only OFA User who actually doesn't tell Midoriya what to do. The only times he came out to interact with him was whenever he feels like Midoriya's life could be in danger, or that time when he tried to reassure him in Ch 193.

Even when trying to cope with his brother's death, starting to give up on the whole "saving" thing, he never really came out to talk to Midoriya to try to change his mind. He's only in the OFA space the entire time with the other users.

Yoichi doesn't say anything cause he just trusts Midoriya to make the calls. (Hence his "this fight has long been passed to the successors") But he also trusts the other users, so he lets them do their thing.

He's also the one who humanises Tomura, calling him a "successor" like Midoriya, making him an equal. En later calls him out on this, saying the opposite.

Yoichi's the best OFA vestige and he deserves the entire world. Gives this man a darn break. T_T

#bnha #mha #ofa #afo #one for all #all for one #bnha manga #mha manga #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #bnha 413 #mha 413 #bnha 411 #mha 411 #bnha 412 #mha 412 #yoichi shigaraki #midoriya izuku #kudoichi #bnha manga spoilers #mha manga spoilers #bnha meta #mha meta

[nadiawritessomething]

My headcanons on 42!Miles, because I love him and how complex a character he is.

He doesn't draw much because he has little time for it, but he still loves it in his rare free moments

He canonically speaks Spanish very well and often switches to it during the dialogue without realising it, at the most interesting and intriguing parts of the story.

And he never repeats what is said or translates it, because he is as adamant about Spanish as his mother. Didn't get the point? Well, that's your problem.

He is good at memorising and creating combat elements, having learnt to rely solely on his trained strength and agility.

He has been actively involved in the development of all his technical aids with his uncle Aaron, and is actually quite knowledgeable about the subject.

He tries to make his speech clear and correct, but actually lapses into an unintelligible amount of Spanish cursing once he gets pissed off.

In addition to the last headcanon, has a glory of parasites words and insertions.

He likes to speak clearly and to the point, in short phrases, and what Miles 1610 will answer in a series of sentences, he can answer in one word.

But this does not apply to the story of how his technical gizmos, ropes and sneakers work. He can explain every single cog in the mechanism of their operation for a long time and in a scrupulous manner, but he has never had an interlocutor on this topic.

He also loves to talk about comics, but has long since lost contact with the company he used to discuss them with in his early school days

This was before he became a Prowler, because this "job" actually forced him to distance himself from his past, and from the small circle of friends he had, leaving only his mother and uncle.

As for comic books: he loves old-school comics with the most simple, peaceful plots, and is constantly angry at how the "heroes" always win and the "villains" always get what they deserve. However, every time he was offered something new and more realistic to read, he refused because he believes that he only needed to look out the window to see real injustice and cruelty.

He usually keeps his hands in his pockets, and people think that this is part of his "thief image", but in fact his fingers just get very cold.

He paints his nails black.

He definitely had his "Who's Morales?" and "How could you.. imagine that?" moments, although they had a slightly different mood and atmosphere.

He has a rather simple, light sense of humour, and when he finds out that he can do black humour quite well, he doesn't really like that part of himself.

And he would like to use some of his jokes in a fight, but he believes that he should be as serious and impenetrable as possible in the eyes of society, and so he never does.

To the last headcanon: he really hasn't smiled normally in YEARS, except for giving his mum a strained smile, but that's not because he's a "cold abuser", it's because he's a TRAUMATISED CHILD.

This world has taught him that he has to be strong and steely, showing no weaknesses, if he wants to continue to carry what he brings to this universe, and Miles has no choice but to obey it.

And that's why his mask of an "emotionless bearer of justice" who locks all "unnecessary" feelings deep inside him has almost merged with his true identity with who he WAS before his father's death, but he has no choice. He can only continue to be what he has irrevocably become. He chose it as his parth in life.

He is a vigilante who relies very strongly on a sense of justice and morality, but his notions of justice and morality are his own, and it is almost impossible to connect them with the typical image of a "hero".

(Just as it is impossible to connect them with the typical image of a villain. He is literally a humanisation of the concept of "grey morality")

Spiders can't stand him (lol)

He likes hot food.

And his mum.

Therefore, he puts his interests and the protection of his family above any risks and others.

#across the spiderverse #atsv #miles 42 #prowler miles #miles morales #aaron davis #hedcanons #earth 42 #earth 42 miles #Wait until this blog gains some audience #And I will upload a whole essay about how I see his character #And you can try to destroy me #but I will not back down from my words #Just wait

[sukunasbabygirl]

I think something that needs to be understood is that Wittebane fans understand that the brothers and Evelyn aren’t the main characters of the show, we understand the true focus is on characters like Luz, Eda, King, the Hexsquad etc, I mean I love those characters just as much.

The reason I’m personally frustrated, and many other enjoyers of the wittelore are as well, is because it was genuinely built up. We weren’t fixated on small crumbs, we were fixated on an entire story that was relevant to the world of the isles today and the characters today, we were fixated on something that made the antagonist both irredeemable yet human. Which, sidenote, I’ve made a few posts before on why it’s important that we have more villains who are both humanised yet irredeemable and why I loved Philip for that, so you can imagine how he was treated in the finale bothered me quite a bit, I digress however.

In Thanks to Them especially there were set ups that we never really got answers for, and there is a difference between show not tell and… show half of it but not the rest, which feels like what they did. We don’t actually know how Caleb found his way to the isles, or why there were clues to find the Titan blood, or how Philip got there afterward, being as he seemed to have arrived later than Caleb but had no idea in TTT where the Titan blood was. These all feel like questions that could be given very quick answers too.

They hinted at Philip’s guilt multiple times but never really went anywhere with it, and with how the finale played out, it would be better if they just didn’t show it at all. And I have so many feelings about how his death played out but I’m struggling to word them all right now, I know it was the intent to humiliate him and that’s fine, but the way it was executed was such a jarring tonal flip and to me at least, narratively, didn’t feel all that satisfying in the long run?

Also the fact that it’s confirmed now that the Titan was looking out for Luz… does bother me a lot, considering the early themes of the show. The fact they were just two humans who made their choices, and Luz looked to the sky and saw the light and Philip didn’t, it made them so interesting as foil characters, especially as Philip believed the isles was hiding the glyphs from him. But that was the thing, it wasn’t, at least not originally.

Back to the Wittebanes though, you can absolutely leave most of their story vague and told through portraits while also addressing the stuff that probably should be known, and honestly I feel like removing the Collector would allow this. I don’t hate the Collector, when he was originally introduced I found them fascinating as a character, for both his parallels to Philip and to Luz, but in the end, he didn’t exactly add much narrative or theme-wise to the story, which wouldn’t be a problem if these weren’t the final episodes, and he honestly felt under-utilised. Also there’s so many little confusing contradictions with their character. I feel like he could have been written to tie in with the wittelore and also remain a foil to Luz which would have worked well, but in the end it came off as very messy and the storylines didn’t really connect, which is a bit of a problem for a finale.

I know the show was cancelled and cut short, but the Collector we know was a decision made after they found this out, so it feels like we may have gotten more wittelore originally, which would have kept the story and themes cohesive. I think I’m starting to repeat myself now, and I’ve gone off on a bit of an unrelated tangent. I just have so many thoughts and nowhere to put them, and this episode really didn’t feel like The Owl House to me, it just lacked that same emotional flare that focused more on character and story beats in big fights than the shock value or enormity.

I wasn’t so keen on For the Future after rewatching and I think a lot of the arguably wasted screen time during that episode, causing a lack of proper set up for this episode, definitely affected things.

I love this show and I always will, and if you enjoyed the episode then I am so glad you did, these are just my own personal, very complicated feelings on things.

#toh critical #the owl house critical #toh #the owl house #toh criticism #hopefully most people have the critical tags blocked I don’t wish to make people feel negatively if they enjoyed it and don’t feel the same #toh spoilers

[ravelights]

So it looks like this chapter does confirm that All for One did feel remorse for Killing Yoichi, and we know he killed Yoichi cause it's been stated All for One killed all the past user except for the forth. Considering this is the first time we've every seen All for One cry, it's pretty safe to assume All for One, for how messed up it was, did love his brother.

What interesting here is that All for One is showing cold anger, he's crying but his face is completely stoic, and even when a bullet was aimed at his head he barely reacted. He basically shut himself down, his normal shading around his eye is around his lower face, so we can only see he's eyes. This is the closet we have ever gotten to All For One being humanised in some way.

Ironically here All for One reminds me a little of how Izuku was looking/acting during the Villain hunt arc, clearly upset but shutting down all other emotions so he was emotionless. Which is interesting cause it means AFO was trying to get Izuku to act like him when he lost Yoichi, which explains why Izuku was starting to look like a villain more specifically like a demon.

All for One was literally turning Izuku into an earlier version of himself because he knows that the version of himself that lost.

I make a longer meta on how Izuku is a "good" version of All for One and how Tomura is an "evil" version of Yoichi later, but TLDR I think AFO plan is to recreate the battle between his brother and himself but switching the roles so that he wins the battle instead.

#Man Izuku was acting a lot like All for One did back in the day #I think i just found the purpose of the villain hunt arc #All for One was literally trying to turn Izuku into the past version of himself and Tomura into a past version of Yoichi #except he failed #bonus points that AFO is holding the second user much the same way Tomura did with bakugou when they were fighting #bnha #bnha spoilers #bnha meta #All for one #izuku midoriya #bnha manga spoilers

[bonefall]

NGL: Stuff like Brambleclaw being a terrible namer is like. really fun but also kinda hits with the 'he;s not some meglomaniacl villain hes just a shitty guy'. like. you could see squirrelflight finding that really endearing. IDK if this is some mastermind shit, or if i'm just reading wayyyyy to into this, but i like how you give characters that are pretty bad dudes very humanising qualities. Especially when they're silly/cute. Kinda reminds you that like. theyre like. a person. well. cat but yknow. and they chose to do bad shit, with influence from their past, rather than being inherently terrible. 👍

YEAH MAN, that's what I'm SAYING

Abusers, ideologues, and other terrible people are not masterminds. They aren't born evil. They're not inherently smart OR stupid. They can love, they can be funny and polite, they do things they believe are justified and want to be good people. They don't think of themselves as villains.

Evil isn't complex. It's really, really not. I feel like that's the #1 cause of confusion when I get a question like, "Why does this person do this malicious act, when it's bad/inconsistent/mean?" The answer is always simple;

They wanted to control someone.

They wanted something and didn't mind who they hurt.

Spite and short-sightedness.

Look for anything deeper and you will not find it. Heroics are complex, being a good person is ongoing and changes over time. We're in a constant state of growing. Malice is childishly simple; it feels good to get what you want.

With Bramblestar especially... it always goes back to what I said here, when talking about the idea of an Evil!Bramble. He's a person, and you ruin everything that's so interesting about him by stripping away that nuance. Squilf and Bramble loved each other, truly, and legitimately. He can be charming. He can be nice. He still hurts her. Reconcile with this.

He is not wiser for what he went through, as a child. His pain doesn't make him better. Man's just a jerk... that's it.

#Sparkpelt deserves that scene from God The Devil and Bob #Where Bob finds out his dad isn't in Hell #And it INFURIATES him #If you haven't seen that scene btw you should. I really love that series #Especially if you're religious OR are like me where you aren't but are still fascinated by more human takes on biblical figures #Btw just... as a side note I am intrigued by how many of my followers are christian. It surprises me? I love you guys tho but like... #I really don't hold back in my critique of hierarchical religion #I'm glad that I am respectful enough to not alienate you guys though #I'm glad you're finding something meaningful too #I am an A-A-A-ATHEIST though with a hard ATH #I just never thought I would have so many religious people following along #OH BTW I hope all my Jewish followers are having a meaningful and somber Yom Kippur* #Bone babble #* = edited I'm an idiot

[moodymisty]

Hi! Anon that wrote the huge ask about the yandere Night Lord (and implied yandere Salamander) scenario (the one with the in between pink coloured words), Ive been having thoughts about it again. And you know, the whole Knight fighting a Dragon dynamic becomes really funny when you think about how narrative-wise, all space marines are dragons.

A space marines, just like dragons. Are big huge monstercreatures who (in most cases) randomly arrive into a settlement of innocent people and wreak havoc all over the place (destroying cities, killing innocents, probably stealing some stuff if its a xenos settlement, and so on and so forth). They’re powerful, clever, and very hard to kill. You must kill them nonetheless. But the only difference between them and dragons is that space marines are, theoretically, on your side. They’re humanised enough for you to overlook the atrocities they commit. They’re doing this because it will help out humanity in the long term, they’re doing this because their primarch said so, they’re doing this because they think its right. But in the end it all boils down to how they have no other option, or a better way of phrasing it: its all that they can do. They’re made to kill. They’ve been irreparably transformed into something horrible and theres no going back from that, and its not like they had any choice in the matter either. You could even say that this mirrors the trope of someone’s greed and ego being the cause of a dragon to appear in a story (that someone in question being The Emperor)

So i find it kind of funny that in this scenario the Salamander sees himself as a knight. Like babe! You’re no different from any other space marine!! The fact that his legion interacts with people more doesn’t change who he is. He has just convinced himself that what he is, is noble. Like he’s some sort of symbol of hope and strength instead of being a walking talking murder weapon. He’s a dragon thats been brought up to think his scales are chainmail and that his claws are swords, that he’s totally not like his traitorous cousins, that he’s humanity’s loyal house dog instead of a fire breathing beast chained to a leash.

Yes he is fighting to save you, yes he loves you more than words could ever express. But to an outsiders perspective this isn’t a brave hero battling a monster to save his beloved, its two serpents fighting over the most sparkling jewel in a treasure hoard

I vehemently adore all of this. Particularly the part about how they think of themselves; As from their view of the story, they're the hero, but another might view them as the villain. Forgive my unfiltered, unrevised ramblings.

It reminds me of a moment from (I believe it was Unremembered Empire? forgive me if I'm wrong) where the Night Lords are waging war on Macragge and the civilians are seeing other Astartes besides the Ultramarines in action for the first time and realizing that, holy shit, these guys are actually horrifying. And looking at their 'protectors' in a whole new light. The Ultramarines proclaim they're different because they choose to be, but we've seen before that even the friendliest of space marines can change their tune when they feel it appropriate.

But back on topic. Salamanders.

Something relevant would be that even their beloved might possibly view them as that brave hero, at first. But as time goes on, they might see cracks in that visage and realize that the man guarding them is more beast than man, holding back a near animalistic desire for carnage. We know that even the most loving of Salamander is more than capable of being an emotionless killer when he desires it. Hell, you could even say it's a core part of them; It's not like you can muzzle a dragon. You can at best point them in the direction you want them to go.

Your Salamander might spare you some of the goriest of details, or the darkest parts of him, but you can see the tail wrapped around you, and how you're kept so close not only because of your safety, but also because he sees you as his. You're the treasure he's found, you're the jewel that rests on top of a pile of gold, and you're not going anywhere. He always looks at you(his treasure) fondly, but there's a possessiveness in his eyes that only gets worse over time.

Other Salamanders are seen as threats and thieves if they get too close. He's the hero of this story, duty bound to protect you even if he has to get his hands bloody. It's all for a purpose, therefor he's leagues different than the Night Lords that act as his chapter's opposite.

If you ever have to do your job or duty, and interact with other Salamanders or other members of humanity he's always right there; Guarding his treasure. And while he might technically be on a leash, it's extremely taught.

#Misty's book club #can you tell i really like the symbolism of Astartes being referred to as animals? #being beasts bred for a purpose with little outside of it? free will having been taken? even while free their minds changed irreparably? #even if they're angels and above humanity you can't deny that their creation makes them only useful for one purpose and denies them a life #outside of it. even if they manage to break the leash the collar still stays with them forever #space marine x reader #warhammer 40k x reader #the yandere salamander saga

[existential-labrador]

After the episode I felt really icky about Rupert getting a backstory. Interestingly we had been discussing Rupert on discord a couple of days beforehand and someone asked if we thought he’d be redeemed or given backstory since the show is about people being neither good nor bad. I felt this wouldn’t happen for Rupert as for me the show is more about the choice to be good or bad, to be kind or not and about people being able to change with support and love. Rupert has had those things but takes them for granted, scoffs at them or abuses them. I think he’s capable of change but doesn’t want to. Also someone pointed out him being a narcissist and for me, I didn’t want anything close to redemption because he is an abuser and my instinct was like, hell no.

However, after voicing my feelings of ick post episode out loud (to my Husband, not just my house/my dog 🐶 ) I immediately began to change my mind about the decisions they made this episode because I realised that whole thing with Rupert wasn’t about him, it was about Rebecca and her being able to move on.

I know that all sounds obvious on the surface but I guess I felt weird they had humanised him until I realised that Rebecca was only able to move on once she stopped thinking of him as this all powerful evil villain - or as she called him ‘The Devil’ - who had this hold over her, and saw him reduced to being a human. And it makes perfect sense that the audience needed to see him that way too.

Also, as much as as seeing him ‘beaten’ would have felt great, not only have we discussed how bad that path would have been for Rebecca, but also it’s not as powerful.

When she rejected him the way she did, the look on his face, it was incredible. She made herself so big for that meeting and she made him look so small in that moment. And it wasn’t just that he had been rejected, it was the realisation that he no longer had power over her. And to a power hungry, abusive, manipulative narcissist, there’s nothing scarier.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #rebecca welton #rupert mannion

[biggsodorcitystories]

Redward meets Edward

This scene has been playing in my head for the longest time.

Timesplitters: Future Perfect was one of my favourite PS2 games simply for the (admittedly silly) humour. But when I came to Tumblr and discovered @hkpika07 and the wonder that is their Redward, I kept thinking of the following scene:

But with Edward and his past self (although not as villains.), if Edward went back in time to advise/steer/warn/strong-arm/other his younger self.

Humanised designs and perfect Redward concept belong to @hkpika07 I just draw because I love seeing them!

#ttte #biggsodorcitystories #hkpika07 #ttte humanized #bscs art #not my au #bscs rambling #timesplitters future perfect #timesplitters #ttte edward #ttte redward #edward my beloved #redward my beloved #gift art #Youtube