#i wanna talk about them for hours

[ananke-xiii]

There's a line from s11e20 "Don't call me Shurley" that got stuck into my little nogging and it's when Chuck tells Metatron "You were just the closest angel to the door when I walked into the room".

Now assuming that Chuck is a lying liar who lies I still like this line because it says way more about Chuck than about Metatron. Then Chuck goes on and delivers his cheap shot: "There's nothing special about you, Metatron. Not then… not now".

(Little aside: AND THEN Amara comes in a few episodes later and calls Metatron "The secretary"?! I mean, how can people not love her? Yes, she might have eaten a few souls so what? Sue her! He brother has eliminated WORLDS because Dean wouldn't bend the knee to him, who's the crazy sibling, huh? *insert a meta about Dean only willing to bend the knee to Cas in Purgatory and all the entendres intended*).

Anyway, for all his pettiness and shrewdness (Metatron is a great villain and I will die on this hill), Metatron replies with surprising grace:

"And I don't care if I was just the angel nearest the door. You picked me. Your light shined on me – Me! Oh, and the warmth. But then you left me. You left all of us."

My little fragile heart trembled a little to these words because... well, it's like the OG trauma, isn't it? To be chosen by your parents, to be loved unconditionally, to be somebody's favorite person... Oh, the warmth.

And so it hit me, I finally saw why I love SPN's angels so much. They are ALL (Cas included) a bunch of children screaming and kicking their feet because they want to be loved, thinking that if they follow their orders, if they fulfill their duties they will be loved.

They are all Lucifer minus the action and the mark.

These are Chuck's words to soothe Lucifer in "We Happy Few": I did. I was supposed to love all creation equally. I wasn’t supposed to have favorites. But you… You were mine. I gave you the Mark because I loved you the most, because I thought you were strong enough to bear it. And when I saw that I was wrong… When I watched my choice devour my most cherished son, I hated myself, and so I punished you. And I am so sorry."

Yes, Chuck is a lying liar who lies. Maybe he chose Lucifer because he was the one closest to the door. Who knows? Chuck doesn't care. Every angel's deepest desire is to be loved by God, to be the chosen one, to be his favorite. Which is both sad and... human? I guess it's a tragedy from the human perspective but maybe the human perspective is limited.

I don't really like the finale with Jack as God for a variety of reasons but, conceptually, the idea of a half-angel and half-human (Kelly Kline you will NOT be forgotten) becoming god is not that bad (Hello Jesus!). Especially if the half-angel part is theoretically (well in pratice too but I mean biology what amirite?)Lucifer's. Because, as Sam says in "We Happy Few": I-I can’t believe I’m actually about to say this, but… um. Lucifer is right.

At the end of the day, SPN as a narrative, did, in a very convoluted and maybe unintentional way, agree with Lucifer.

Like, Lucifer was right. And I know that if we put on our morality glasses Lucifer is evil incarnate etc but honestly? By the same lensens, the whole heavenly host is kinda evil. They ALL (Cas included) did a lot of pretty horrible stuff. All the horror and the pain for a God that doesn't care.

So I guess what should have been explored in Dabb's era was not so much nurture vs nature but more "what does it mean to be half-angel?" 'Cause really, ALL angels are a little bit like Lucifer. And if no angel really represents "good" what are we, humans, left with? Does the question "nurture vs nature" even makes sense?

There's really nothing SPECIAL about any of us, humans, angels, demons, monsters. We ALL want to just be chosen and loved unconditionally. It turns out angels are not that different from humans, aren't they?

#spn #supernatural #spn brainrot #metatron #chuck shurley #lucifer #amara #i'm fascinated by lucifer and amara #i wanna talk about them for hours #sam had to agree with luficer that was awkward #spn finale #jack kline #spn season 11 #spn season 15 #spn angels

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

"Murder is Werewolves" - Batman

I don't got the SPOONS to do this thought train justice, I have seriously been trying to write this thing for MONTHS so just, idk, have this half baked skeletal outline of the essay I guess:

I don't believe that Batman's no-kill rule is primarily about rehabilitation or second chances.

His refusal to believe that Cassandra could have killed someone when she was eight years old because "how could a killer understand my commitment not to kill" is absolute fucking MOON LOGIC from a rehabilitationist standpoint. No jury on the planet would think for even a second that she could reasonably be held accountable for her actions in that situation! Her past cannot condemn her to being incapable of valuing human life under a rehabilitation centering framework. However, Batman's reasoning makes perfect sense if he believes that killing is a spiritually/morally corrupting act which permanently and fundamentally changes a person, and that corruption can never be fully undone.

Dick Grayson killing the Joker is treated both narratively and by Batman as an unequivocally WIN for the Joker. The Joker won by turning Nightwing into a killer. Note that this is during a comic in which the Joker transforming people was a major theme! Batman didn't revive the Joker because the Joker deserved to live; he revived the Joker to lift the burden on Dick.

His appeal to Stephanie when she tried to kill her dad is that she shouldn't ruin her own life. He gives no defense of Cluemaster's actual life. Granted this is a rhetorical strategy moment and should be taken with a generous pinch of salt, but it fits in the pattern.

When Jason becomes a willful killer, he essentially disowns him, never treats him with full trust ever again, and... Well, we can stop here for Bruce's sake. Bottom line is that his actions towards Jason do not lead me to believe that he thinks Jason can become a better person without having his autonomy taken from him, either partially or fully.

The Joker is, for better or worse, the ultimate symbol and vessel of pure, irredeemable evil in DC comics now. He hasn't been just another crook in a long time. He will never get better, he will only get worse. If you take it to be true that the Joker will not or can not rehabilitate, then there's no rehabilitationist argument against killing him.

Batman does not seem to consider it a possibly that he'll rehabilitate. Batman at several points seems to think that the Joker dying in a manner no one could have prevented would be good. Yet Batman fully believes that if he killed the Joker, he himself would become irredeemable.

Batman's own form of justice (putting people into the hospital and then prison) is fucking brutal and clearly not rehabilitative. He disrespects the most basic human rights of all criminals on a regular basis. It is genuinely really, really weird from a rehabilitationist standpoint that his only uncrossable line is killing... But it makes perfect sense if he cares more about not corrupting himself with the act of killing than the actual ethical results of any individual decision to kill or not kill.

In the real world cops are all bastards because they are too violent to criminals, even when that violence doesn't lead to death. Prison is a wildly evil thing to do to another human being, and you don't use it to steal away massive portions of a person's life if your goal is to rehabilitate them. In the comic world, Batman is said to be necessary because the corrupt cops are too nice to criminals and keep letting them out of jail. I don't know how to write a connector sentence there so like I hope you can see why this bothers me so damn much! That's just not forgiveness vibes there Batman!!

I want to make special note here of the transformative aspect. You don't simply commit a single act when you kill, no, you become a killer, like you might become a werewolf.

The narrative supports this a lot!

Why did Supes go evil during Injustice? He killed the Joker. Why did Bruce become the Batman Who Laughs? Bruce killed the Joker. Why was Jason Todd close to becoming a new Joker during Three Jokers? Because he killed people, to include the Joker.

Even if these notions of redemption being impossible aren't the whole of his reasoning (people never have only one reason for doing what they do) it is a distinct through-line pattern in his actions and reasoning, and it is directly at odds with notions of rehabilitation, redemption, and second chances.

So why does he give so many killers second chances?

Firstly because this doesn't apply to all versions of Batman. Some writers explicitly incorporate rehabilitation and forgiveness into his actions. You will be able to provide me with examples of this other through-line pattern if you go looking for them. The nature of comics is to be inconsistent.

Secondly the existence of that other pattern does not negate the existence of this one. People and characters are complex, and perfectly capable of holding two patterns of belief within themselves, even when they conflict to this degree. You can absolutely synthesize these two ideas into a single messy Batman philosophical vibescape.

Finally and most importantly to this essay: he has mercy on killers the same way that werewolf hunters sometimes have mercy on someone who is clearly struggling against their monsterous nature, especially if they were turned in exceptional circumstances or against their will. They understand that they are sick, damned beasts, cursed to always be fighting against themselves and the evil they harbor within. It is vitally kind to help them fight themselves by curtailing their autonomy in helpful ways and providing them with chances to do some good to make up for their eternal moral deficiency.

I think in many comics Batman views killers as lost souls. Battered and tormented monsters who must be pitied and given mercy wherever possible. (The connections to mental health, addiction, and rampant, horrifying ableism towards people struggling with both is unavoidable, but addressing it is sadly outside of the scope of this essay.)

Above all, the greatest care possible must be taken to never, ever let yourself become one of them, because once you have transformed the beast will forever be within you growing stronger.

To Batman, it is the most noble burden, the highest mercy, the most important commandment: Thou shalt suffer the monsters to live.

#batman #batman negative #batsalt #okay hopefully that will let peeps who don't wanna see me rant against bats avoid this? #i could write several books on the moral and ethical philosophies at play in the Batfam tbh #I'm like kinda mostly happy with this #pretty good for being slammed out in three hours while baking brownies #inspired muchly by my friend's talk about Batman acting in accordance with Presbyterian predestination #and how he is one of the most carceral of all superheroes #all people merely revealing through their actions what sort of person they already are #punishing them in the hopes they can suffer enough penance on earth to escape hell #how that can look like rehabilitation or redemption at a glance #but functions in a fundamentally different way #anyway hope this mess was an interesting read! #damian's tomfoolery

[alpacacare-archive]

let sans rest day, featuring the entire skelefam! cus brain rot 

#i wanted to draw more but my wrist rlly hurts and im tired lmfao #i had to do this today cus i missed both of the let papyrus say fuck days #one day i will tag a post with that tag #one day #but for now #letsansrest #he deserves it #can we get some appreciation for this wonderful wonderful guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i love him so much #i could talk about him for hours #this entire family has me in a choke hold #pap doesnt know how to relax tm #gaster is liquid tm #also listened to. sm. ytpmvs while drawing this. sans would absolutely love ytpmvs wont he #assuming he isnt making them #i also need to draw/at least sketch a dtiys that i really wanna do #its them also #shocking i know #so im not going to bed <3 #gn yall i love you so so much <333!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #sans #papyrus #gaster #skelefam #dadster

[stardustneeko]

"I hope that we meet in another life..."

#you ever be working on a starshipping thing for so long it makes you wanna do a different starshipping thing #been drawing a thing for hours and did this in about 30' to cool down ig #anyway let's talk about how their unique positions lend themselves to so many interesting ways to explore the challenges they have to deal #canonically it's sorta a “rule” that some problems with the universe can only be solved by the protagonists #but in the end they are only humans who for most of the stories are children #can one day a disaster come to seek one of them that's so great that only one of them is the “chosen one” to make it out alive? #or maybe their very coexistence in the same universe causes problems #but they want!!! to!! be!! together!!!!!! because they've always followed their hearts and it feels deeply wrong that they can't #hm i need to draw more angst is what i think #starshipping saturday #is sad #sorry #starshipping #yugioh #yusei fudo #yugioh gx #yugioh 5ds #jaden yuki #judai yuki #art by neeko #sketch #fanart #digital art

[moominpopzz]

SPOILERS FOR PD S1 :3

hello demonkicks nation..

a shittily done sorta-kinda-animatic for you all because I could not stop thinking about Dakota having a nightmare of Ashe with this audio

#anyone wanna talk ab demonkicks with me for hours on end #I’m so normal about them #so so normal I definitely won’t start screaming and going ‘okokokok so’ over and over again #smiles #jrwi #jrwi pd #prime defenders #ashe winters #jrwi fanart #jrwi prime defenders #dakota cole #demonkicks #jrwi demonkicks #moomins gallery<3

[nyaagolor]

One of my absolute favorite post-game dynamics in SV has to be Penny and Arven. The concept of this bulky, initially standoffish but secretly sweet / cute / goofy dude being best friends with a scrawny, socially anxious transgirl felon with enough snark to make a grown man cry is the funniest dynamic I've seen in a while. It's like having a great dane who is best friends with a super aggressive stray kitten

#she helps him with his math homework and he makes her hidden veggie pasta so she doesn't develop a vitamin deficiency #arven #penny #pokemon sv #i don't wanna clog their tags more than I already have but god I could talk about them for HOURS #mod vex

[andtheyreonfire]

goro akechi has been dead for 7 slutty, slutty years

#well. 4 if you say royal takes place in 2019 #persona 5 #2/2 #akechi goro #goro akechi #persona 5 royal #p5r spoilers #it's not 2/2 yet in my timezone. but it is spiritually i think #my brain hurts and i just wanna buy the zine but i gotta finish the assignment uuuuuuuuuu #i think i'm out of it but i can't tell if this source is just. not even addressing why these practices are argued to be abusive #or he's just doing it purposely #''oh it's not 40 hours a week!!! it's an Average of 40 hours a week!!! and it's more like 30-35'“ #''ohh people have called out the past use of electro-shock therapy...don't they know we only used it for dangerous behaviors????'' #''ohhh well if any one was actually abused in these practices they should contact the authorities'' we are talking about CHILDREN #book-licker. i am so tired. why do you mention studies and then not source them in your references. #anyways i should be having my autism times now that's what i mean yeah

[best-enemies]

Got to season 7 on my CSI rewatch and I need to talk about the final scene in s07e11, where Grissom is saying goodbye to Sara before leaving to go on his sabbatical. I mean, look at him. Look at what he does with his hands. *Agressively* Look at himmmmm. He's just a little puppy in love. And he does this right before whispering, "I'll miss you". I'm afraid I'm not gonna make it y'all

#sadly he whispered the last line so quiet and gently the captions didn't catch it but i'm glad i did #he's SO FUCKING SWEET #can't believe i'm bawling my eyes out over a middle aged man doing cute kawaii hand thingy #i wanna marry him so bad #like i wanna put a ring on his finger and i want to have meals with him and do house chores with him #and watch tv on the couch with him until we both fall asleep but i wake up and put a blanket over him #i want to make him hot chocolate #i want to listen to him talk about bugs even though most of them gross me out #i will literally DIE if i don't marry gil grissom #“oh but he's fictional” LIKE THAT WILL STOP ME #i will be thinking about this scene for the rest of my life #how sara didn't drop everything and made out with him right then and there is beyond me #i mean they could've closed the door right. ever heard of making out at work? fuck the rules #you're already breaking one by dating in the first place #csi #gsr #please someone talk to me about the hand thingy please it's been hours i have not recovered

[smittyw]

i wanted to make some dinky elevator pitch introductions for my fav ocs because.. i dont talk about them very coherently it seems. or at all! what!!

to finally make up for that i'll put my extended edition under the cut below. love peace taco grease and stay frosty forever

so from what i gather in my notes, razz is the only recognizable one around here who got their lore blasted from a megaphone the second i came up with it. after that i got shy.. i was too busy having thoughts to ever explain who molly and Q were or where they came from. and its been like 2 years. well!

nat and molly are formerly codependent childhood friends and funhouse mirror versions of each other who split paths after high school. theyre like if two besties fated to be a detective duo spat on fate's shoes and ran off in different directions to do the same thing but badly & alone.. molly actually hit the books to become a private investigator, champion of truth and justice, while nat hit the pavement to become a paparazzo, champion of clickbait. they hate each other a lot but given the slightest chance they will attach at the hip again and drain the life from each other.

Q is later to the party, a terminally exhausted college dropout and shut-in with a notable (anonymous) presence in the online music scene. every slight inconvenience in his life is a straw and when the last one hits boy is he ready to just drive into the sunset or maybe the ocean or maybe just live in his car and stop talking to people forever. if the band they joined out of peer pressure makes it big or they get found out for their alter ego its so over..but luckily they started dating the most nosy and paranoid idiot alive & inadvertently pissed off the second most nosy and paranoid idiot alive in the process, so surely nothing like that could ever happen

these goobs run in slightly different circles that overlap juuust enough to be a problem, and its hard not to run into the most annoying eccentrics in their unserious version of LA slightly stuck out of time. if i were reintroducing lore important characters itd include plenty more than just them (eg freddy mysteriously missing from this description of events as if he isnt also there) but imho i have no obligation to pay attention to anything outside the range of my hyperfixation blast. the important thing to me rn is just to let yall know what the hell im talking about when i make stupid jokes everyday about girlies who dont exist <3

#ocs #oc intros #nat #molly #qamar #id in alt text #partial id #thank u for reading or if u didnt wanna read thank u for looking at them #this has been in the works for a while but in the form of much more detailed portraits i gave up on as a viable format #fuck that. maybe i'll use the wips for later tho #pls feel free to ask whatever u please about these fellers i could talk abt them for hours but i shant unprompted

[cyberscratch]

A new ref for Lemmy, and an official design and introduction of Limmy in This Universe Has Lemons In It! Limmy was created by the Guardian of the Lemonverse (any pronouns) as an attempt to stop Lemmy from what they are doing, which is creating portals to travel through various universes and dimensions to have fun. Not only is that a risk for the balance of the universe, but GotL just dislikes this kid having fun and wants to see them stopped.

Not wanting to do it in it's own hands, it created Limmy, an angel dog meant to be an direct opposite to Lemmy. Limmy, however, doesn't do much to stop Lemmy, other than following them and bickering. Their relationship is very Tom and Jerry rivalry-esk.

(Names color coded for myself to read easier due to the similar names!)

Fun fact, Limmy was originally going to be based on limes (Lime Angel), but I kept that concept for GotL - and made them more angel-like instead.

#GotL as he has been named for the time being uses any pronouns but it/he are the most used just saying #also this little story/oc universe has been planned for a while so i find it funny that GotL has basically the same motivations #miguel in across the spiderverse minus the trauma and more godly power #i just always had an fascination with like...the idea of the universe...multiverses...different dimensions and traveling across them #ive included this in most if not all my oc projects like this actually! at first mostly inspired by gravity falls #which is literally my favorite cartoon ever #i am watching a 2 and a half long video on the timeline rn its so good please watch it its by hana hyperfixates. while working on this i #watched their first 2 hour long gravity falls video. literally newest favorite video essay project? its very good it talks about queerness #in gravity falls and its their passion project and its so obvious there was a lot of effort put into it. anyways away from my tangent i go #'lemmy' put my actual tags here #oc art #character design #oc ref #ref #tuhlii #this universe has lemons in it #lemon demon #UNSURE again if i wanna use '-core' tags on this. i dont like using them much anymore and im only gonna use 'weirdcore' for some kind of #music bc theres no specifics to what type of music i exactly like that lemmy is also based on aside from lemon demon of course #[Lemmy] #[Limmy] #guz art #[2023] #fun fact! i spent like 20+ or so minutes stressing over GotL's possible name until i settled on this goofy title! #its meant to found goofy. like at first you think its gonna sound cool and then youre hit with 'lemonverse' #which it...technically is! where lemmy is from it's like... a connected bunch of worlds and universes and just places all based on #lemon demon songs and other content. tuhlii is basically a love letter to ena + lemon demon + old/childhood internet ?

[crybaby-bkg]

I love mythology so much and it’s taking everything in me to not write a full fledge fic about a Cupid and Psyche au omfg

justttttt Cupid Bakugou who is just so, so fucking beautiful. he’s always been recorded by other mortals for being akin to sunlight himself—all golden hues and sharp angles and high cheekbones and massive wings. wings that span as wide as an entire village, that sparkle when the light hits them, loud when they beat to send him soaring into the skies above. but his mouth? his attitude?

everyone always wonders why he was never the god of war, instead. but he’s damn good at his job, with his arrows propped up on his back, swift with discharging them into another stupid mortal who’s fallen for the local towns idiot. but hey, they’re in love, and it’s his job to enforce that love go over well.

and then he sees you—the most beautiful mortal, that you’re even compared to the gods, to his mother. he wants you so bad, if not to treasure and keep you against his side as he travels over the oceans cold waters, than to keep you safe from the vile men who want you as their partner and the disgusting women who envy you for having it all.

omg and the part where he takes you to stay in his palace and asks you not to ever look at his face???? it’s killing him, to wear that mask to your nightly dinners, to be able to look at the soft curve of your mouth when you frown and ask him to reveal himself. to be able to look at how you stare back at him, eyes pretty and furious, frustrated and mad, wanting to go back on the conditions you agreed upon because having to sit across from him without seeing him is absolute torture. I am. vibrating.

#I’m so sad bc I’ve been having so many ideas without having the energy to actually write them #I know it’s bc this past semester was hard on top of other things #but I really just wanna get back into the groove of things #but yes omg I LOVEEEE mythology #I’m taking a mythology class next semester and I’m genuinely so excited for it!!!! #would not be surprised if I started an entire mythology series on ao3 after that class LOL #I’ve written war god bkg before and I loved it #omg it pissed me off so bad when ppl were like “war god bkg is so cliche 🙄’ #girl eat my dick HOW ABOUT THAT #I also kinda love psyche bkg too ngl #I sat here for like an hour tryna figure out which one he could be lmfao #bc him as psyche where he’s SO beautiful and is so pissy about not being able to see you UGH he’d be such a brat and I’d love it #also if you haven’t read the story of Cupid n psyche pls do it’s so good #I’m sorry I’m talking so much I just really love mythology #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #bakugou treats! 🍬

[nicks-disks]

my two favourite ghost ocs they're just so silly 🤭🤭🤭

They also hate each other but they also wanna kiss so bad

#I will talk about these queers for HOURS #i wanna gnaw on them like chewing gum #they're a “two sides of the same coin” typa deal they're so silly together #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts oc #ocs #gays

[musicalchaos07]

Jonathan still in his pajamas, drinking his orange juice and getting asked how his first time was. While Nancy is fully dressed, quiet as a mouse and looking at him like that is the funniest moment in stranger things I'm sorry I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

#he's just trying to mind his own bussiness and shes like you better tell this stranger it was the best night of your life #they had to pull the car over several times to make out on the way home #thats the only way to explain them leaving at like 9-10am and not getting home until 7:30pm when its a 5 ish hour drive #... the timeline of the last 3 episodes of s2 bothers me i dont wanna talk about it #me: I'm gonna take a break me editing: AND ANOTHER THING #stranger things #jancy #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler

[silusvesuius]

n*loth's mind got rewired to fruit-salad-thoughts-abt-t*lvas Mode the moment he slapped him like a bitch and t*lvas didn't even have anything to say to dat. he's in such obedient Doormat mode that all he can do is turn his face in disdain away like a damsel and tear up a little bit why am i talking li8ke this actually happened, let me cook though

#text #it's cause i wanna draw this but don't get around to it i literally spend all night thinking of this #abuse // #I GUESS #don't give the person that cares too much about the intricacies of abusive pairings... Ummm.. nel/vas #T*LVAS MY DELICATE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENahAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGG #he'd run out to cry about it and be like Wow it's crazy how nonchalant master n*loth is about putting his hands on me 🙄🙄 #he cares.. but not in a good way; now he wants to tear your skin open to see how you'd react #hurl #i think t*lvas would just be very professional about it he'd be like (getting mistreated) Okay then 😊 #i didn't enchant this staff right so n*loth locked me in a dark basement for 12 hours (said casually) #n*loth would find this trait literally perfect #t*lvas' focus on staying very formal would play into his obliviousness too lol #whatever i don't even ccare Also talking about them on a wednesday should be banned for me but okay

[swingstep]

i dont remember this episode of demon slayer... ft. my kny oc, kana! c:

#kimetsu no yaiba #kny #zenitsu agatsuma #zenitsu #nezuko kamado #nezuko #kny oc #i am being so so so brave about this (<== talking about their ocs) #you ever make a guy just so your faves can beat them up. yea <333 #but. i wanna post more ocs so. what better way t start than [reads writing on hand] #spending 6+ hours on 'just a sketch i promise i promise i p--'

[kingkatsuki]

Do you ever think about the pet peeves you’d have if you were dating your fave?

#like I know Bakugou would leave his gauntlets anywhere around the house #so I’d accidentally stub my toe on them or have to hoover around them #and he’d always tell me that he’ll move them in a second but he doesn’t #Shindou leaves the loo seat up every fucking time #and then he mocks me when I try to complain to him about it #Kiri always tries to cuddle or get into bed filthy after a bush patrol day #like I’m talking covered in soot from Bakugou’s quirk or sweat or blood #and he just whines and says he’s sleepy he doesn’t wanna shower #so I end up having to run a bath for him at any hour of the day