#its all a ploy

[fauxintellectual]

I feel like a crazy conspiracy theorist whenever I talk about healthcare since so many healthcare professionals are down to tell me the behind the scenes and telling how much insurance companies suck ass

#ITS ALL A PLOY #there are things we know scientifically will actually make life better and people will be less sick #BUT a lot of this info has been casted into the dark #why??? to keep people sick because being ill is expensive and the lines the pockets of Big Pharma #also then there's just healthcare professionals who are crazy and line having patients sick and suffering so they have work to do

[sp0o0kylights]

New WIP I'm cruelly abandoning: Steve tells Eddie he has a tattoo.

Yes he got it while drunk.

No Eddie cannot see it.

Yes it is in fact on his ass, great deduction skills, did Dustin help?

No, Steve isn't telling Eddie what it is either.

Yes, Eddie's reactions are funny, actually though Steve refuses to admit his are "unnecessarily cruel"

And finally

"You wanna find out what it is so badly, Munson, you can come take my pants off yourself."

#all this and its a < #as in the cone part of an ice cream cone #bc he chickened out halfway throug #so now its just #< #eddie plans on teasing steve relentlessly about it but cant as Steve was using this whole thing as a sex ploy #and everytime Eddie starts #steve goes “oh this tattoo?” #and flashes his ass #its a cycle truly #steddie

[pomegranatesandribcages]

hannibal s4 but abigail is still alive and alana and margot are chasing han and will across europe in attempt to rescue abigail but everytime they do will and han steal her back and its just a back and forth pirate esque rivalry romcom with a laugh track

#my pitch for s4 bryan fuller pls hire me <3 #this is my design #its actually all just a ploy to keep abigail alive i love her too much #hannibal #will graham #nbc hannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #murder husbands #hannibal nbc #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #alana bloom #margot verger #abigail hobbs #txt #txt post #hanniblogging #fannibal #hannibal memes #hannibal meme #🫀

[spacedace]

Fuck whatever DC is doing with the al Ghul's characterizations and story lines, I've decided that from now on the al Ghul's are gonna be DC's version of the Addams Family instead.

Now I don't mean just give the various al Ghul's the exact personalities of the various Addams and call it a day. That's boring, that erases all the interesting parts of the al Ghuls, that's just using "find & replace" and not actually adding anything. I mean give them the vibes of the Addams Family.

Keep the al Ghul's as the al Ghul's with all their scheming and machinations and world domination attempts but give them all the unhinged energy, the casually insane view of the world, the deranged levels of love and devotion for family. Make them that group where objectively they are batshit insane but also you cannot argue with the fact that they are indisputably the most stable and functional family in the entire universe.

They're creepy, they're kooky, they're mysterious and spooky. Ra's many opulent homes and impenetrable fortresses are a museum and the al Ghul's really are a screa-um whenever people come to see-um (or when they lay waste upon their enemies in a surprise attack that has been planned for months and is just the first domino in a series that will ultimately lead to achieving a far greater goal).

They all love each other and want each other to be happy, they express this primarily with stabbing and murder attempts (its fine, death is a thing that happens to other people).

And forget the League of Assassins being a cult. Just make the whole vast globe spanning organization a collection of cousins/aunts/uncles/dear old friends ect. No one (not even the al Ghuls, if they cared to keep track of such things) is sure who is actually related to them and who just got absorbed into the ever expanding family tree based on their vibes being right.

(Is Sensei Ra's father you ask? Well he's certainly someone's father - probably.

Anyway have you heard about Cousin Cheshire? Despicable poisoner of a young woman, capable of the most horrific things imaginable - yes she is the sweetest dear. Like I was saying though, she just had a baby!

Everyone in the family is just so excited to throw a baby shower to celebrate! Ubu has really gone all out with the spike traps, he does so love getting to welcome a new addition to the family.

Talia of course has cultivated a brand new strain of the most toxic plants imaginable to make a brand new kind of necrotizing poison. You know, as a nice little romantic gift for Cousin Cheshire and that young man of hers. It really is so important to make sure you take time for you and your partner to go on dates and have a few pitched battles to the death on dark rooftops in the pounding rain when you have children.

Now there is some to-do about it all of course, you know how family get together can be. Everyone is arguing over who should get to give little Lian her first weapon and what it should be. Nyssa is pushing for grenades but Ra's is insisting on a sword - he's traditional like that you know - but Dusan has the vote so far on throwing knives. You know the kind that have the little divots along the edges of the blades them to make it easier to get the poison you dip them in to stick.)

I'm just saying that the al Ghuls should be a delightful cross between the Bond Villains they were originally conceived as and the lovingly unhinged Addams Family. It just feels correct in my heart.

(Again keep the interesting aspects of the characters and the nuances of who each of them are like their drive to save the world through destroying humanity and their strong environmentalist leanings and their constantly playing 5D chess and everything, but like, take away the racism and the cartoonishly evil for no reason bullshit and give them some fun feral energy to go along with it).

#batman #ra's al ghul #al ghul family #talia al ghul #nyssa raatko #cheshire dc #sensei dc #no more racism and fucked up dark family dynamics #the al ghuls aggressively adore each other #violence and schemes is their love language #in the full au version of all of this i'd like to imagine how canon plot points change with the al ghuls having these vibes #Just imagine Damian still trying to kill Tim when he first ends up in Bruce's care #but instead of it being a ploy to get rid of a threat its because he's just so excited to meet one of his big brothers #and attempted murder is just how you tell someone in your family that you love them #Tim just SO CONFUSED because Damian is talking so animatedly about how happy he is to get to have some brotherly bonding with Tim #while ACTIVELY trying to run him through with a sword #idk how things change with Cass exactly but i feel like they would in this #like either David Cain isn't an absolute monster or the al ghuls catch wind of what he's doing & are like #This is NOT how al ghuls treat family! what is this shameful behavior! She can't even insult you while you fight! #fighting and violence is a perfectly healthy way to express your love but only if there's actually LOVE involved! #The Heretic & other Damian clones still get made but only because Talia just misses her son so much that she makes more of him #Nyssa has just been bopping around the world for a few centuries & pops up every now and then to have a death match with her baby sister #i just have a lot of strong feelings about the al ghuls deserving better and combined that with the vibes of my favorite unhinged family #Dick still hates Talia but Talia takes all his insults as her darling step son telling her how much he loves her #which only drives Dick even crazier #Tim rocks up to the League of Assassins during his whole trying to prove Bruce is alive thing already seen as an al ghul #Oh yeah that's Cousin Timothy he's one of Talia's kids - never met a truer al ghul in your life #You see how he blew up all those bases? Ra's cried he was so proud #Ra's spoils his grandkids absolutely rotten which is giving Bruce SO MANY gray hairs

[greensaplinggrace]

i'm still so mad about how supposed alina fans think it's actually better that she isn't as attached to or compassionate toward the darkling as she is in the books. like it isn't more empowering to her or less sympathetic to the villain when she acts like a one dimensional darkling hating paladin in the show, it's just a deliberate stripping of anything unacceptable about alina's complex feelings or emotions regarding her traumas that don't fit into a neatly ordered box of 'perfect victim' and 'empowered female'.

people will really see a female character get sanded down into a performative caricature and think that it's better for her because she's been fictionally lobotomized into thinking acceptably to the masses. like ok, just say you fucking hate trauma survivors and go.

#alina starkov #grishaverse #shadow and bone #i think about that darklina anti who was so happy the writers #'were brave enough to not make alina as attached to the darkling' #because apparently it's annoying and really just a ploy to sympathize with the abuser from a narrative perspective #like come on #have you considered #that people have complex relationships with their traumas? #have you #sorry but this psses me off its not even about darklina its about #misinterpreting alina's relationship with him as something that it isn't #because youre all predisposed to resenting a character so much #that you overlook every other characters' personality

[noknowshame]

god 2.2 is such a good flint episode. getting flirted with by thomas via quotes about partnership then cutting immediately to him alone in a corner staring at silver. using his legitimate heart-wrenching remorse about gates as a tool in his scheme to get back the captaincy. Hennessy's response to the bar fight clearly establishing he's had an ongoing history of getting way too attached to people. the "good luck with... whatever this is" (amused). the "if you're trying to impress me, it isn't working" (oh no. affectionate). orchestrating a scenario that ends with him sinking an entire ship and loosing several of his own men, the total death-count probably in the higher dozens, just so he could get back in charge in as little time as possible. the "so what do they fear?" (loudly implied "me"). being so sexily competent that everyone does what he says even though they wanted to kill him two days ago. the way it's presented that he learned the ~power of optimism~ <3 :) from thomas and is now using that optimism to Commit Great Violence (very funny). and of course, most importantly, flint's brand new kickass coat

#no. 2... love it when characters use their sincere emotions as a clever ploy embedded in some other scheme. the classic jimmy mcgill #theres so much more i missed. #failing to get dufresne to talk to him about books #'you have to raise your colors at just the right time to get them to lower theirs' #the bar fight getting started in the first place because of classism #being ridiculed for ever believing he could belong in civilized society #episode of all time #<- what i will also be saying for the forseeable future about each next episode after this #but this one is good because its episode X and we all... we all know that X mar– #black sails

[maretriarch]

instead of redesigning to be princess tiana themed they should've made this the splash mountain experience

#i think the fact they replaced it with their One black princess as a very like hamfisted on the nose appeasement is going to age badly too #like it comes off as... marketing ploy than geniune care of being anti racist but thats all businesses about everything #like they waited until their backs were against the wall and riots were happening to do it its like uncouth #they should've done it still but like fhdhjdjskd i guess i just wish it was out of the goodness of their hearts which is impossible for any #company to do

[rainybraindays]

I am

Legitimately so fucking irritated

They dangle this teaser in front of us, give us such little news and information on the season in general, I'm forced to watch my peers constantly fantasize about him getting his heart broken by the woman he loves, and now, in a teaser for his season, we get his brother having a moment with his wife and basically nothing else

#rip ripping my hair out <<<3 #saw someone mocking polin fans because “kanthony stays winning” your honor I do not fucking care #I'm frustrated i it so bad to want to see the ENTIRE FUCKING SHIP #how hard would it have been to play a clip with him #legitimately how difficult would that have been. #this is literally just a ploy to get people who liked s2 to watch s3 and a.) you're all falling for it b.) its making me unreasonably upset #this is shit marketing because its damn near making me want to drop and I'm literally obsessed with this seasons leads.

[harvestmoth]

menou….

#hi sorry. please read executioner and her way of life #ive been rereading it lately my bad #volume 7 come out in like two months and im more excited about that than i should be #sorry rejuv people but this has all been a ploy to get maybe at least one person to give it a shot #thisll end soon though im sure and ill go back to melia posting probably #actually id probably still been posting about executioner things but. well. rejuv #im not gonna tag this cause theres nothing to it but im still posting it on its own #mostly because i dont really wanna draw rn and i hate sitting on things and not posting them #. even though i. dont really post things on their own here very much anymore. my bad ill do that more with not rejuv things

[bebryzy]

i need this fandom to hyperanalyze the gun shot wounds again like they did when ch 109 came out because i need coping

#bsd #bsd spoilers #bungou stray dogs #bsd season 5 #please like its even less wounds than ch 109 showed #and yea chuuya shot extra but no extra blood or anything was shown so likely just for the ploy right??? #like come on even showing the fukuzawa atsushi and dazai all at the end is just paralleling the hopeless situation they seem to be in right #but they wouldnt kill atsushi hes the protag so like #would that imply they are all gonna be okay somehow??? #id hope so but even i know this is absolutely a stretch #mypost

[lesbianisopod-removed]

amphibia fans when anne exhibits a single flaw

#i s2g anne could scratch her nose in the background for 2 seconds and there'd be 60 essays #about how it's all part of sashas manipulative ploy since she was 6 years old #amphibia #sasha waybright #logs #ITS ESPECIALLY EMBARRASSING WHEN ITS ADULTS SAYING IT TOO LIKE SHES YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE YOUR NIECE? #YES im still hung up on sprigs birthday the response to that ep was infuriating

[dadturnedbarbarian]

are you fucking kidding me

#the long con #fucking hermie #HERMAN???? #thats the worst part about all of this #actually its that normal felt like the only one on his side was hermie and it was all a ploy #im sick to my stomach #dndads #dungeons and daddies #hermie unworthy #normal oak

[nyphren]

as someone who has no emotional attachment to cayde whatsoever (i was literally not here for it lol) ppl being bitchy about his fans being happy are really annoying ngl

if your big complaint about him coming back is "god his fans are SO annoying, they are already flooding the tags whaaa".... you are being just as insufferable tbh

#'people are happy. how annoying' like bRUH #like i understand fans being annoying sometimes but jesus let people get excited about their faves in peace #mute the tag block the fans and move on #i do understand being concerned about the story btw #i think its a valid concern overall #but as someone who never got to meet cayde at all im okay with it so far #'it cheapens his death' i was not here for his death susan #i only heard about the man #him coming back - even if just for a bit or just as a memory or whatever - at least gives me an opportunity to interact with an important+ #character bungie decided i just wont meet bc of the sunsetting #it can be just a ploy to hype the final shape? sure #can it also be an opportunity for new players to meet someone everyone just wont shut up about? yeah! #can it still be a good plot point in general? yeah #can it be bad writing? also yeah! #ppl are going full christmas turkey about this #dying on the eve of the thing in question #anyway #destiny 2 #ren.txt #destiny

[morganlefag]

there's nothing like actually being in Hamlet that makes me hate the Hamlet Tumblr Gays™️ more

#hate is too strong of a word i say this with love as a former Hamlet Tumblr Gay™️ myself #its just a symptom of tumblr's habit to reduce any piece of media down to the close two young men to ship #and ignore or even outright villanize the female characters #its not that theres anything wrong with queer readings of hamlet!! the production im in is doing that! (albeit not with hamlets character) #but i am PLEADING put down the tragic danish boyfriends for 5 seconds and have some fun exploring claudius or ophelia or GERTRUDE!! #this was all actually a ploy to talk about gertrude actually. please talk to me about gertrude.

[beleth]

Trying to explain to my coworker that the spectre of Anxiety is a Constant in my life and i have never, not once, felt Safe, Ever in my life.

Even leaving my house makes me anxious x10000000

#I have been like this since childhood and my parents thought it was all a ploy for attention so ultimately i got very little help. Its fine.

[videogamelover99]

i’ve seen a lot of people talking about chuuya losing his trust in dazai and how it will lead dazai into accepting his feelings, finally having The Talk(TM), and apologizing. what’s your opinion on it?

Dropping this She Ra clip for...reasons: https://youtu.be/-1UicFp5DnI

#right before that was adora saying 'I never hated you!' which...ouch #for ppl not having watched shera spoilers i guess #'you'll have have to see the people you've hurt' flashing back to chuuya akutagawa atsushi Q #tbh i wouldnt want chuuya to lose his TRUST in dazai but i DO want a push for dazai to step it up like in DHC #the 'if youre gonna push people away then why am i trying' deal #but one that makes it clear its dazai's CHOICE #tbh im growing more and more convinced with the telephone scene and the 'what if chuuya joined the ada with dazai' thing #that the BIGGEST reason they weren't closer and weren't actual friends is bc Dazai kept pushing him away and chuuya could read the room #and he wasnt gonna bother for someone who didnt want him there #its literally dazai doing smth shitty and chuuya parsing if its 'i wanna get a rise out of you' shitty or 'i dont want you here' shitty #sure he pushes other ppl away too but they arent demanding like chuuya is #they dont expect as much from him #when oda made it clear he had for dazai's own sake dazai went and did it #bsd #asks #soukoku #remember how chuuya's first show of trust was after he demanded dazai explain why he decided to live? yeah #hes not ready to give more away #he almost commits suicide in front of oda and then tries to convince him it was all a PLOY like #dazai is a mess