#life has been cruel

[briannabug]

beautiful art by @/softshivers on instagram,

(( they also wrote a beautiful caption i recommend checking out the post <33 ))

#softshivers #instagram artist #artworks #life has been cruel #but i will be kind #kinderwhore #kitschy #uploads #found on instagram #little lambs #pink aesthetic #artworks ☆ #dear online diary ୨୧

[mikakuna]

i see this jason todd who actually looks his very young age (instead of the 30yr old man that comics like to portray)

and feel my heart breaking just imagining bruce beating him up, almost killing him, mind-breaking him, and just overall being a total piece of shit father towards him.

a huge chunk of the reason why people don't view bruce's actions towards jason as abusive or wrong is because jason doesn't look his age. he's drawn to be this 35yr old father of three who looks even older than dick (and way too on par with bruce) that people see their fights as one between batman and any of his regular rogues. when they fight, it just looks like batman is fighting a man his age and not an actual young person. it doesn't look like batman is fighting his son who's barely even drinking age (and who def wasn't drinking age in utrh). their fights are portrayed in a way that eliminates the very real power struggle between them.

this applies to jason's entire character as well. a lot of people don't sympathize with how he died or his actions as robin or his fights with the other bats because he doesn't look his age. he always looks older and scarier than everyone else. tim has many sympathizers from the titans tower incident because jason just looked like a grown man fighting a 12yr old (even tho i disagree, tim was built and like 17 lmfao).

anyways, i just wish comics would actually draw jason to look his age, which literally ranges from 19 to early twenties. he's young- so young, and it's so annoying to see him drawn and written as someone older than even bruce.

#the way everyone in jason's robin run saw him as this adult despite him being 12-15 #like what the fuck #just because a child has experienced more than the average adult doesn't make him any less of a child #it's like the typical groomer thought process #if jason was shown younger in arkham knigjt for example there'd be less people calling him whiny #they showed 15yr old jason's torture scenes like he was a 25 yr old #he should've been shown as the small child he was #it would've put more perspective into how cruel and fucked it was of the rogues to torture a literal child #and then bruce almost killing him in rhato... #now imagine if jason looked his age there #honestly this all just feeds into the idea that jason feels too small for his big body #imagine being this tiny kid growing up and then dying and coming back to life as this tank #arghhhhh!!!!! #jason todd #red hood #batman #jason peter todd #bruce wayne #jason todd deserves better

[canisalbus]

To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.

#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche #he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure #his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint #I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing #do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity #but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do) #people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it #Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona #he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies #in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water #essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries #eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition #and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help #and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary #towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise #and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him #answered #anonymous #Machete #Vaschete lore #he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high #and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death

[inblackwoods]

I know it's incredibly late, but at last! My piece for the Yeehawgust prompt "Yee-caw."

Additionally, I have no justification for making Jack Seward cool and capable of befriending corvids. I just thought that in a high fantasy western au, purely for the aesthetics, he could be a suspicious surgeon type.

Close up because I'm trying new brushes

#Yeehawgust #Dracula #Jack Seward #John Seward #nabiscart #I usually make Jack very pathetic baby but I'm sick of that what if he were cool now #Meaning I've been thinking he might be desperate for authority #I like to think he was born a nobody and was picked on for most of his life #So he compensated for his weaker stature and lower social status by climbing the social ladder tooth and nail #To own an entire asylum at an incredibly young age #Just to feel as though he has some amount of control- authority- maybe even respect if he's lucky #He has a complex now and it's constantly battling with his emotionality and compassion #Do I be ruthless and cruel to get authority or do I be kind and risk looking like a softie #He just breaks down and looks sad and insane instead

[zukkaoru]

sorry i'm thinking abt megumi's incessant desire to be the first to die vs. the narrative keeping him alive despite and how the most tragic ending for him is not actually dying, but being left behind. for megumi, the worst fate is living a long life

#megumi growing up assuming he will be the first to die out of those he loves #bc gojo is the Strongest and tsumiki is a non-sorcerer so they should both be Safe while megumi is just. megumi #vs megumi at 15 having lost tsumiki gojo nobara nanami etc etc and knowing it's only a matter of time before he loses yuuji too #megumi not knowing how to be the survivor because he never thought he'd live long enough to have to say goodbye #also sometimes i think abt that post that was like... remember in thg how katniss' motivation for Everything is saving prim? #and then prim still died at the end because the world they lived in could not allow someone so good to live? it could not allow #katniss the One thing she wanted most #yeah so like. everything megumi is doing and has done has been for tsumiki. it's all been for her #but the world they live in is cruel and tsumiki is too good of a person #and when has megumi ever been granted anything he's wanted? why should the world allow him his one biggest desire of tsumiki's safety? #and what is megumi supposed to do when he outlives the one person who has been by his side - the one person he wanted most to save #how is he supposed to live a long life when everyone he cares about is gone? how is he supposed to care about new people? #what's that one quote that's like. a son or a husband can be replaced but who can grow me a new brother #no one can replace tsumiki. megumi cannot find a new sister #yes losing gojo and yuuji would be devastating. but at the end of the day megumi has known yuuji for only a few months #and gojo was already a replacement for his father #tsumiki has been with him longest and she's always been megumi's main motivation #she's the reason he didn't go to the zenin clan. she's the reason he was trained by gojo. she's the reason they're all in the culling games #trying to fix it from the inside and running on a time limit #and what happens if he CAN'T save her. what happens if. like katniss and prim. despite EVERYTHING. tsumiki still has to die #THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF TSUMIKI #BECAUSE MEGUMI WANTS TO SAVE HER #DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRAGEDY IN BEING ALIVE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #sorry i'm not normal about fictional sibling dynamics. btw if you even care #hello grace here #jjk spoilers #update i just realized it's not even 7am. as you can tell i'm having a great time today

[viiinz]

everyday I think about him (Ippolit Terentyev)

#idk why of all characters he's the one that has left such an impression on me but oh boy #it's been over a year since I've read his 'explanation' and everything that followed and it hasn't left my mind since #ippolit terentyev #the idiot #god all he wanted was some sympathy and recognition #and they just make fun of him #literally all this boy wants is to be taken seriously and no one does #they either laugh at him or beg him to shut up #because his vulnerability and the fact that he's dying makes them so uncomfortable #and he's so ashamed as well over his own vulnerbility #that even when people aren't laughing at him he'll imagine they are #and people blame him for being self absorbed?? like of course he is!! #he's EIGHTEEN and DYING #this is a teenager who's just come to the realisation that he has no agency over his life whatsoever #and that all that awaits him are the cruel laws of nature #he has a right to be upset about that #he's literally the man condemned to death that myshkin talked about #and yes he's ridiculous and awkward and not always right and incoherent and all that #and he can really be insufferable and contemptuous and unfeeling towards others #and even the state he's in doesn't really serve as an excuse for that #yet i feel bad for him #and he's such a teenager too he's so insecure and just wants to impress the people around him #and yes he's doing it for attention #of course he wants attention #can you blame him?? #all he wants is to be heard #to feel like his life mattered #but instead everyone's just begging him to shut up #like they're just waiting for him to kick the bucket so the uncomfortable ordeal can be over with #sorry i just have a lot of thoughts about Ippolit and I'm being very incoherent because i didn't plan on typing all this lol

[smoosnoom]

something i enjoy so much about attack on titan is its constant slogan of "life is a cruel place but it is also very beautiful" and how well it's reflected in the main trio of eren, mikasa, and armin

you have the complete right end of this theme reflected in eren who is almost entirely aggression, always insisting on fighting because the world is cruel place and its kill or be killed with him, no middle ground, and this leads to his and the world's destruction in the rumbling, which he leads with this idea

on the complete other end you have armin whose view is always set on the ocean, always set on a free world and with hope driving him forward, a huge emphasis placed on the second part of the phrase, "the world is so beautiful" and he is constantly seeking out that beauty, ultimately guiding their fates outside of the walls and meeting the reality of the world that really awaits them

they are complete opposites in this manner, but i think what's so great is this coming to meet in the conversation they have in the paths, where armin and eren both shoulder on the blame for the destruction of the world. both extremes are to blame, both out of balance and not quite right for the world

enter mikasa, however, who i think is the right middle for this - she shows this in both killing and kissing eren right after, killing him because life is cruel place, but kissing him anyway, because life is beautiful. she brings an end to the rumbling and brings balance to two extremes

#anyway i was just thinking about this #ive been . aot has been on my mind a lot #i loveeee the quote mikasa says . life is so cruel but it is also very beautiful #like yea thats literally it #and the entire story #is just an affirmation of this #like ohhh it breaks my heart . but thats literally the point #anyway sorry for this post that literally no one asked for #going right back to my hiatus Lol #aot #attack on titan #um #eren yeager #or #eren jaeger #??? hello whcih one is it ... #ok anyway #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #shingeki no kyojin #snk #ok #bye #/moon #i just . had to get this out of my head

[idyllic-affections]

so i haven't even played the fontaine archon quest, but i have witnessed many spoilers! whether this actually applies and relates to the archon quest, i am unsure, but i think it's worth mentioning:

i would like to let you all know that attributing a person's poor behaviors to dispositional factors (their personality, their inherent nature, their disposition, etc) while giving no consideration to their circumstances, completely neglecting to consider that perhaps there is a circumstantial reason that the person in question is behaving a certain way, is a social bias known as the fundamental attribution error.

people are allowed to be and even should be pissed about how furina was treated because the fae is absolutely infuriating when it happens. from what i understand, everyone in fontaine fell victim to this effect. and it is infuriating to see that happen. 👍

#aphelion speaks 🌸 #genshin impact #i was an ap psych student and this has been bothering me for quite some time. seeing all the posts about her situation and + #+ no-one mentioning this bias kind of bothered me. it's... cruel and shitty to assume the worst of someone like everyone did to furina. + #+ and that bothered me. so as a writer a character designer AND someone who really likes psychology... here's my two cents! #defending my girlie with my life idc idc 🤝🤝🤝 #furina defender FOR LIFE #genshin fontaine #furina #focalors

[camgoloud]

you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons

#‘out of nowhere’ she says like she hasn’t been doing a lot of reading/thinking recently about various tragic messy breakups #and the later regrets of the parties involved #anyway. tell me not to text her #it’s been over two years since the last time we talked… absolutely no reason to break that streak now. lord give me strength #she was really fucking mean to me! like objectively intentionally unwarrantedly cruel! it ruined an entire year of my life #and fundamentally changed me as a person on a deep level! there’s a lot of things i used to like about myself that i don’t think i’m ever #going to get back #and yet every once in a while we have to do the whole ‘maybe i could make things right’ song and dance 😔 #the thing is most of the time i’m not even really angry with her anymore like enough time has passed since all the shit went down that #really i just sort of look at her behavior and feel sad. both because of the impact on me but also because of the ‘that’s really how you #felt you needed to act towards someone who cared about you? you couldn’t have just expressed your feelings in an honest and productive way #instead of just lashing out in the cruelest possible way and ruining the entire relationship beyond hope of repair?’ #and i feel bad and sorry that it went that way and honestly i kind of pity her and hope she’s gotten some of her shit worked out #so i’m not like. actively pissed off at her anymore. but also i can’t think about her without thinking about the worst year of my life so 🙃 #i don’t actually feel that trying to reopen that door would be very healthy for me at least #we did try a Reconciliation of sorts a couple of months after the initial falling-out and while it was kind of helpful for me in that she #like. apologized lmao. and affirmed that i wasn’t crazy and she did in fact On Purpose say the most hurtful things she possibly could have #said to me given the information she had at her disposal. and that i really had not done anything to her that could warrant that. etc. #it also left a sour enough taste in my mouth that i just don’t see a future where the two of us spending time together is enjoyable for me #and yet… the regret will always live inside me i think. maybe if i were a stronger person… #caseyposting

[rocicrew]

discuss

#the expanse #no pls do bc my brain is not forming thoughts rn & i need Some feedback for the gifset #miller i did not add bc he is nowhere on this chart #neither nice nor bitch but soggy #bobbie does not care abt being nice or a bitch she's direct #drummer will Do the thing she sees no matter if it's right or cruel but that Has shaped her #chrisjen has been cruel and will use any means to get her way but she is nice in a diplomatic way even when she cusses out everyone #clarissa can be very polite but she was also on a life sentence for multiple homicides... #amos 'it was nice not having worry abt being on the right team' therefore edging towards kind he just can't see it #naomi is kind but if you're not one of the 5/6 people she likes good luck she doesn't care abt being nice to you #(but she would still be kind) #prax is a good bean #holden is nice and kind (but also can be a whiny little bitch(affectionate)) #alexs primarily trait Is Being Nice to everyone and cares abt helping people but he's also been a deadbeat bad for 9 books so 🤷‍♀️

[alexjcrowley]

I love kenstewy I do but I still think about when with my mom I saw the first episodes of Succession and Stewy was introduced and they were in the bathroom and Stewy did a line of coke after asking Kendall if he wanted some but Kendall said he was sober and my mom didn't even look at me and said "Friends don't do coke next to recovered addict" and then stayed silent for the rest of the scene. And I still think about it. What does this say about Stewy.

#maybe this is more about my mom than stewy #but yes I can't wrap my head around this #I mean it may have to do with my mom that she is a doctor #first autopsy she ever did when she was young was a couple of guys #in their 20s they died because of heroin I think #she has seen stuff #and also I am obsessed with trainspotting you know #so why. why did he do that line of coke next to kendall #'he wasn't thinking he is just as much of an addict' not that we have seen though not that we have been told #there's something so casually cruel #'he didn't think' there's cruelty there in not thinking about sniffing coke next to your best friend who just recovered #I am haunted I am #stewy you've been ready to lay your life's at kendall's feet #that line. why did you do that line #kendall roy #stewy hosseini #kenstewy #brainworm #succession #tw drugs #tw addiction #tw death

[hella1975]

im thinkign about him

#'andrew never heals' if i could have taken nora's writing apparatus off her and set it on FIRE i would have #yeah let me just write this tormented character that has been traumatised by every single person in his life #including but not limited to people who were DIRECTLY in official positions designed to help him #and it's left him violent and cruel and possessive and i actively call him a monster and every single character views him badly #either consistently or at least for a little while and regularly dismisses him and his behaviour #and he never heals. he never learns to say i love you. is that not a good story haha?? am i crazy for that? i feel crazyyyy #like the courts there to pursue justice? forced him on mania-inducing drugs that completely altered his personality #the foster system? dont get me started #his family? nice try! #his teammates? getting warmer but we're still not there! #his very readers that supposedly have the benefit of omniscient narrative perspective? nope! #like WHAT FUCKING GIVES #what if i started killing. idc if there are hundresd THOUSANDS of you andrew-antis give me a knife and a vodka shot i will WIN #andrew minyard #aftg

[dailykillermoth]

the Official winner of the Ultimate D-List Villain Tournament™ is...

KILLER MOTH !!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

#first. no we are not biased on killermoth.com no one saw this coming i swear. #second. this man has never won anything in his entire life let him have this. #AND THIRD. i SWEAR i did not plan this but him winning on april fools is some sorta cruel fate.. #d list tournament #ty for sticking this one out yall it was fun even if it May have been predictable gfjfdhf #firefly vs polka dot man will forever be iconic to me #im gonna shut up in these tags now & just make a follow up post in a bit ok byee #btw sorry this is late i just woke up 👍

[s1ithers]

this might be the bleakest thing that's ever happened to me in a videogame

#i held on for 12 real life minutes hoping something different would happen.... 🙈 #idk if that was more or less cruel...... #cahara honey i am So sorry i got all ur limbs cut off & left u to starve to death in the flesh pit that was on me that was My Bad #i'll avenge uuu 😭 #fear and hunger spoilers #f&h #god bless ppl's fucked up indie projects #i've been in such a shit bleak mood & this game has been my serotonin dispenser 100/10 #something so comforting abt type of game that acts so player-hostile it sort of warps around to black humor #tender loving care for the despair-prone #that's what darkest dungeon really got that the sequel didn't quite; i think

[mediumsizedpidegon]

thinking about Shang Qinghua as a calamity again...

#svsss #shang qinghua #technically counts as tgcf? #just the idea of sqh dying and coming back is so compelling because in canon he literally just going through the motions. he's given up. #he doesn't WANT to die (from mbj's hand– from cang qiong's fall) but that's all he sees. it's the only end he can imagine to his story. #so the act of getting him to the point where he WANTS to stay– where it doesn't matter that death has come to take him he's not DONE YET is #revolutionary to his character (his ‟character‟– his role as well) in of itself and requires some canon divergence to justify it #and it's INTENSELY interesting to imagine him getting there #Imagine: An Ding is cruel. It is cruel and inefficient and its cruelties only make it more so. Sqh is ‟awarded‟ with the role of Peak Lord #of An Ding (this crown of barbed wire). And sqh doesn't MEAN to change the plot but– it's awful here! It's so awful that it's OFFENSIVE #and before sqh knows it two years have passed and An Ding is a mess of growing pains: of infrastructure torn down and rebuilt #but it's... better. It's hard work. It undeniably sucks and makes sqh cry from frustration all the time! Balancing the fixing of all the #shit his shizun left broken while staying on top of his usual duties is a procession of sleepless nights and little pains. (perhaps sqh has #growing pains too. change is hard for all that it's necessary.) #and then– and THEN! He's on his way to a trade meeting or spying for mbj or something else: it's doesn't matter. #And however the stage is set sqh dies and– sqh's life is finally starting to NOT suck! yqy has been asking for his future plans and sqh has #been answering. qqq found a scrap of a picture book he wrote when he was a senior disciple and demanded he finish it because it #‟had potential to increase literacy‟! He has a second command that he trusts won't stab him at the slightest provocation! His life is busy #and more than a little hellish but it's HIS. He's changed things even he didn't mean to. #An Ding's HIS. he got rid of the assholes and poured so much WORK into the people left and then the people who came later. #All of it boils down to this: it's unfair. it's too soon. it wasn't supposed to happen like this. #and so sqh dies for the second time and screams himself back to existence if not life. #the system cracking beneath his teeth– puppeteer turned to power for the puppet to consume. #(So there is a ghost on An Ding for all that only the ghost knows it.)

[yourcreepyneighborhoodelftwink]

WIP Image bc I needed to draw them cuddling before I passed away

#life has been so cruel to them they deserve to just spend the rest of their lives being soft with each other #creepypasta #ben drowned #ticci toby #ticcidrowned #wip #honey art