#im conflicted a lot.......

[chironshorseass]

the thing is, we were never meant to sympathize with luke when he betrays percy. we aren’t meant to see his inner turmoil. we aren’t meant to see hesitancy, or regret. it’s meant to be a slap in the face. luke takes percy to the woods knowing full well what he’s about to do. in tlt kronos orders him to kill percy because he’s too volatile; kronos said so himself when percy hijacked luke’s dreams and began to figure out there were bigger things at play. the thing is, when kronos orders luke to kill percy, he doesn’t hesitate. that’s the point!!! it is essential that luke is so blinded by rage and vengeance for the gods that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants (the god’s destruction). percy accuses luke that kronos is using him, but he just retaliates that the gods do the same, and they do!!! but see, the thing is, luke’s whole point is that he’s so focused on the god’s injustices that he forgets what’s important. he goes for the “greater good” but he destroys his family, his life, in the process. by attempting to dismantle a system, he turns to another system that follows the same oppressive logic. THAT is why luke fails. THAT is why it’s so important he be blinded by rage, because it’s his inevitable, tragic end. he’s doomed by the narrative from the start. yes, we’re meant to be surprised by his betrayal because of how cold and calculating it is, but also it’s important to set the grounds for luke’s character to be this angry, vengeful boy because later on we come to understand why it is that he made those choices. we see annabeth’s side of things and percy’s side. we see luke’s side. we see many sides. we see a man who is too far gone yet comes to understand, in the end, that he’s been doing more harm than good to those he was supposed to protect (annabeth is the most obvious example). we get a complex character who won’t hesitate to kill but who also won’t hesitate to sacrifice himself so that he can save the family he has left.

the thing is, luke was supposed to be angrier in the show. percy was supposed to be angrier in the show. they’re both foils. luke is what percy could become, if percy lets his anger win. so, to change—even if it’s only slightly altering—their characters, is to change the point of the story. because luke tries to kill percy in his betrayal and later percy tries to kill luke but then percy starts to understand luke…until luke is gone and kronos is gone yet the gods don’t change but percy does. and percy’s initial anger is supposed to transform and he’s supposed to see what luke saw and the cycle continues. the thing is, it’s not even one of the worst changes the show made, yet it’s still so, so telling that they failed to see why it’s important to let your characters do bad things, to make mistakes, because that’s how a story can carry on. that’s how you give a story depth.

#pjo adaptation #pjo tv show #rick crit #i have a lot of thoughts #pjo show crit #luke castellan #percy jackson #im talking abt pjo her btw even if i do reference hoo yet hoo wasn’t good either so all the conflict abt the gods not changing was there ye #never adressed. percy sympathizing with luke was never adressed either #yet it’s what would be natural especially since it was mentioned once #THATS ENOUGH FOR ME THO. u can’t tell me percy came to understand luke and that he’d do the same if he were in his shoes and annabeth or #some other loved one was taken from him because of the gods U JUST CANT

[oifaaa]

What is your preferred explanation for Bruce’s no kill rule?

Personally a combo of Bruce was severely traumatised as a child watching his two parents be murdered in front of him to the point he literally can not watch someone die in front of him without it triggering him and he knows himself well enough to know that if he can justify killing one person then he can justify killing another and he's sure he will not have the self control to stop once he gets started

#ask #plotbunny-bundle #this is why i personally dont like when writers try to get around Bruce's no kill rule #by having him be like #oh im not killing you but im not gonna save you #bc it feels more like the writers trying to find their own loop hole around bruces no kill rule #bc like so many writers dont really understand bruces no kill rule #so like most comic characters who have had multiple writers #you have conflicting narratives #and people can say well bruce was will to let kgbeast die why couldnt he just let joker die #well bc 2 different people wrote those stories #this is were you kinda have to pick your canon or say bruce is a hypocrite #which like bc of the way comics are written #gonna have a lot of characters like that

[harbingersecho]

you will accept chaos, by choice or by force!

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #havik #mk havik #mk #art #mine #*23 #cw gore #cw blood #LOVE this guy. gory body control? that's the dream. plus he's a conflict escalator <3 #idk what he was rly doing in the last timeline tho bc im too lazy to read the comics or even a synopsis of them lol. but im looking forward #to this iteration a lot. the characters seems much closer to the og timeline which is fun #i'm frothing with envy btw bc mk1 isn't coming to ps4 and my laptop sucks dick... it looks so good that im rly tempted to get a ps5 #i restarted this like three times btw lol. struggled and im still not sure abt it but i like his face in this so. im publishing it

[chipsncookies]

Grandpas 👴

#pokemon #adaman #irida #pla #pearl clan founder #diamond clan founder #chips's work #i have a lot of free time so i decided to finish this #please ignore any inaccuracies #im sure the founders rly love their grandchildren. sad we never see them #theyre dum for creating and passing over their conflict to the kids. but thats their flaw thats being human i think

[puppyeared]

Been LOVING your lil magician folks recently please continue they're beautiful and very cute and cool and also very well-designed!! 🥺❤️

thank you for the kind words !!! im not much of a writer, but i do have some sort of story in mind for them.. theyre bitter rivals who end up as roommates bc of their scatterbrained elderly landlord lol

#idk how much of it im gonna keep or change but thats basically the gist of it ^_^ #i dont know if i could ever write a solid linear story bc im very indecisive and tend to change things a lot so most of what i make ends up #very abstract or nonlinear.. just short drabbles or stuff that can be slotted into a general setting or premise #although i do want to challenge myself to try and write some sort of enemies/rivals to friends because i have a huge weak spot for that #dynamic!! i tend to be a little soft on my characters which i think has to do with me being a conflict avoidant person. so maybe exploring #this kind of dynamic will help me experiment with my sense of storytelling. although i cant promise it will be written well lol #im also thinking of making their story part of a bigger world so kinda like an omnibus?? i have another story in mind i think i can fit int #the same canon and itd be funny if theres like a bunch of wacky going ons between different apartment tenants nichijou style #but we'll see!!! thank you for your interest in these little shits!!!! #my art #myart #my oc #oc #presto #shuffle #house of cards #oc talk #ask #doodles #yapping

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

my blog was getting a bit miserable (completely intentional) so here's asher

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #redactedverse #art #illustration #redacted asher #asher isn't my favourite but he's like... a solid base #not plain or particularly well-rounded but he's sort of a protagonist without being the main character y'feel #maybe im just imperium projecting but asher is either at the centre or in close orbit of a LOT of conflicts #he's so cool i'd high five him

[lovely-v]

Okay crazy that Doctor Who has now created an infinite David Tennant loophole where there can bring him back at any time for any reason 😭

#veesaysthings #doctor who #doctor who spoilers #im conflicted about this #because on one hand I do adore his Doctor. but this is just the craziest thing ever. #and I was always bothered by the fact that the doctor as a character just accumulates trauma forever. so this is kinda a nice ending. #and now ncuti’s doctor can start from a clean slate #so lots of opinions on it. #also the fact that both Rose Tyler and Donna got a souvenir David Tennant 💀💀

[orb-the-watchman]

Something I've wondered even since I beat bugsnax and thinking about the sequel I wonder what you guys think

#personally it'd be sad to see old characters not return but a lot of the grumpuses conflicts were solved in the first game so #I trust YH to make new characters that are just as good if not better than the first cast if that's the case #but also with AJ's message at the end of the game it seems like YH is thinking about exploring some of the characters more? #so if a sequel ever happens im inclined to think the last option is gonna happen #bugsnax #orb ponders

[rookflower]

Potential Thunderclan deputy candidates!

#watch it be none of these guys lmao #warrior cats #warriors #wc #thunderclan #lionblaze #ivypool #twigbranch #cinderheart #lilyheart #sparkpelt #spotfur #ivy is the obvious fandom favourite choice but im.. hesitant about it #personally my money is otherwise on twig or lily but i would like cinderheart a lot #and sparkpelt deserves something for all the bullshit writing she's put up with this arc #id like spotfur the most but she seems the least likely cause shes never had an apprentice #cant do lionblaze again... im not strong enough... (tho he could be an interesting conflict source maybe possibly idk?) #anyways! i need to redesign lion + twig again sometime bc lion just looks like pissed off brackenfur and i still dont like this twig design

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I'm frightened of you knowing who I am but, could you possibly give me your frank frankly theories pretty please idc if you only have like 2.1 I want them regardless of how many you have.

mayhaps?

ah man i wish i had some to give! i think all of my Frank theories (at present) are tied into other theory posts! he simply doesn't have a lot to chew on yet

#unlike say - wally or eddie - he doesn't have a lot of incriminating information #there's a bunch of little puzzle pieces: #the multiple hims in their house on the map / not having a backstory in his bio / im sure theres more but i cant recall it rn #but the little things we have so far are - imo - so disconnected thats it like. man idk what to do with these yet #i can very lightly speculate that he'll probably play a big role in 'looking behind the curtain' as it were #just since he's the serious Knowledge Guy #and i can imagine that out of everyone he's most likely to pursue the truth if he starts to Notice that things arent what they seem #i also imagine that that miiiiight clash with wally? #cause if frank goes 'holy shit none of this is real' its also likely that he might try to tear down the illusion / something similar #meanwhile wally seems deadset on Restoring the neighborhood and keeping things the same #could be conflict there! wait does that count as a theory? i may have lied to you #sorry my thought process works best when rambling - constant stream of thought can knock new things loose up there yk yk #rambles from the bog #homebogging #wh speculation #and dont even worry about it - i dont even know who i am! i know no one and nothing and everything is a nebulous void!

[heterophobiclanwangji]

my favorite bingqiu fic idea i’ll never get around to writing is a no transmigration au where shen yuan was born as shen jiu’s older twin brother who died at the qiu estate, but shen jiu somehow managed to capture his soul so some of shen jiu’s rocky cultivation is that he’s trying to further his own cultivation while also preserving/repairing shen yuan’s soul. shen yuan finally reforms when shen jiu and liu qingge are in the spirit caves before sha hualing’s invasion, so he would be 15/16 at the same time that binghe is 15. so he’s shen jiu’s older brother AND his twin AND much younger than he is AND insists on calling binghe his luo-shixiong to shen jiu’s increasing dismay

#scum villain #svss #bingqiu #shen jiu #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #luo binghe #for clarification the idea is that it's a canon divergence from pidw #so like in pidw timeline the confrontation between lqg and sj goes poorly lqg dies and sy's soul dissipates #whereas here it goes well lqg is alive and sy is resurrected #sy has no knowledge of what happened in the intervening years. this will become a conflict #sy is deep in his gremlin era and also obviously traumatized/not the spoiled young master the peak lords assumed of sj #that combined with saving lqg from his qi deviation bridges some of the gap between sj and the other lords #though im not sure what kind of impact it would have on the tension between sj and yqy #sj used an extreme method to capture and nurture sy's soul which would raise a lot of uncomfortable questions #so anyone who is not a peak lord is led to believe sy is his estranged younger brother or illegitimate son #meanwhile sy has an innate fondness for lbh and doesn't understand sj's hatred for him. this will become a conflict almost immediately #lbh is nervous about sy at first but sy is savvy and nice to him and lbh quickly latches onto his sticky shidi #the immortal alliance conference plays out basically the same way with the addition of sj rationalizes it as protecting his brother from lbh #sy does NOT witness this and has no idea about lbh being a demon or sj's part in his 'death' #and spends the next three years sincerely mourning lbh. this will become a conflict later #so overall sj is still a terrible person but there's room to explore that and let him grow #like forcing him to confront the fact that he's repeating the actions of people he hated and maybe understanding that lbh (and even sy) #would be justified to hate him and not forgive him for everything he's done #though i think sy eventually would and sj and lbh would have a painful reconciliation #for spice you can throw in sy accidentally freeing tlj as per scum villain canon #and maybe the sowers accusation still happens with the added element of sy/sj identity confusion #& the appearance of qht pushes the sy identity reveal #sy is more willing to tell qht the truth about her brother than sj was in pidw #possibly this reopening of old wounds sours the sy/lbh reunion

[negitivemintt]

even with the new 1.6 update i wasnt too interested in stardew bcuz.. im just busy and ik i dont have the time to pour my heart and soul into that game again and originally on my main farm, i married alex, but eventually divorced him after seeing shanes heart events and i married him.

BUT NOW AFTER SEEING ALL THIS ART OF HARVEY ON TUMBLR. IM KINDA GOING INSANE AND IM HONESTLY A HUGE SAPIOSEXUAL AND I KINDA NEED HARVEY SO BAD. I LOVE SMART AND NERDY GUYS AND UGHH the way u people draw him I NEED HARVEY. but im still in love with shane.. and i wanna stay married to him on my main farm...... and like.. what does one do.. LIKE IK I NEED TO MAKE A NEW FARM WHEN 1.6 COMES OUT ON SWITCH ANYWAYS... BUT I NEED HARVEY NOW BUT NOT ENOUGH TO START A TOTALLY NEW FARM AND WORK OFF OF THAT... FUCK ME DUDE UGHH ALSO I HAVE ALEXS KID STILL.

#stardew valley #sdv #stardew shane #stardew harvey #stardew alex #anyways im so conflicted #and u guys have to stop drawing harvey so... GIHTBNEDF #gosh.. #but also dont cuz i wanna see much much more of him <3 #i have literaly never liked harvey before this day.. like at all #honestly i kinda resented him #like a lot #i hated him #BUT NOW I NEED HIM #ugh.. #minty rant

[ofthehands]

Question for TCM fans: What do you think the reason is that there's such a big age gap between Drayton and the rest of his brothers? Like I wouldn't be surprised if the real reason is that Hooper wrote him as a nebulous old man then decided later that he's their brother, but now that it's the canon we have, what do you think the in universe reason is?

I tend to lean towards the idea that they share a mother, but have different fathers, and that she had Drayton quite young, though the twins and Drayton share a pretty strong resemblance (though again it could be a total casting coincidence lol).

I think it also could be possible that they all share parents, and there's more (deceased) Sawyer siblings than we see, with Drayton, the twins, and Bubba being the only to survive to adulthood + avoid leaving the home, with the younger brothers likely being dependent on Drayton from a very young age + their parents being out of the picture by then. I feel like this one takes a big more stretching/ expanding on scraps of canon, bc I got this idea almost entirely from the Cornbugs song Buried Child, in which Chop Top sings about buried children (go figure lol), particularly these lines -

Which seem out of place with the way the Sawyers behave. Like we've never seen them kill kids, but I would imagine they would, and don't expect they'd treat them any differently from other victims. So in my mind it makes sense the buried nameless child "gone too soon" could be another Sawyer sibling.

Idk, there's a lot of explanations that could make sense, these are just the two I go with most often. What's your ideas?

#tcm #tcm analysis #i know the cornbugs arent true canon technically but i count it when it doesnt conflict with pre-existing canon #also i know Leatherface (2017) filled in the family tree abit but they yassified Drayton and twinkified bubba so im chosing to ignore it lol #tcm2 #texas chainsaw massacre #also i didnt expand on it a whole lot bc i feel it just makes sense but a part of the different dads theory is that i think that #happens pretty often irl #my older brother and i have about a 20 year age gap bc we have different dads lol

[weirdw00d]

felt like shit, slept all day, and then ate myself into a stupor. i do feel better now though. the brisket burger healed me

#ffl meeting was the highlight of the day and then the mood went dooowwnnn #i just want to move to california and live with my partner lmao. lol even #venting #also im having so many gender feelings again and am thinking about going back on T #but at the same time im also Conflicted bc T really helped in the past but there were some things i really wasnt a fan of #if my work wasnt so image based a lot of this wouldnt be a problem #and of course just missing my partner doesnt help #anyway gonna go play the sims

[rottenusedangel]

Uhhh you know my aesthetic is overall dark, yk mostly black, some bold jewelry and makeup, overall just alt I could say. But due to childhood trauma I'm also drawn to cute soft things and that's a big conflict because I want to be dark but also I regress a lot in my head so:( I buy cute stuff and then get mad that it won't fit my aesthetic but also :333 cute cute healing my inner child

#txt #no idea if someone gets it i hope so #but yea i dont like to admit but i regress #i hate it but also it brings me comfort and joy so...but then the aestheticssss #idk im very conflicted about a lot of things #no idea who i am

[sugaploom]

"saltburn doesnt have any messages its just a wacky movie" its literally about how one mans lust and obsession for something and someone out of his grasp cause him to commit horrible acts to an entire family. he forfeits everything that he Is and becomes something crazy and new and fucked up in order to accomplish this goal. whats not clicking

#saltburn spoilers #saltburn #it has a LOT of meaning...... just not what knives out was about #it isnt so much a class conflict movie (it is but not to the knives out extent) #but it IS about obsession in several different ways #how much oliver wants this rich life #how much oliver wants felix but is never able to be satisfied #so he ends up in a large mansion thats empty. no one but him and his thoughts #his desires were empty #it was about power #i could write an entire essay on this but im not an english major #so it will stay in my head #but theres so much to dissect about thsi movie