#place of atrocities

[electoons]

I love the college of winterhold. everyone there is casually deranged and there's like an alarming number of students and staff who threaten you immediately when they meet you. it's always one of the first questlines I do. which makes it even funnier when you get made the arch-mage of the college. I'm level 12 and got through this questline knowing exactly 3 spells. what do you mean you want me to lead the college. this school CANNOT be an accredited institution

#i ask if anyone wants this job and everyone starts whistling and checking their phones #their magic phones. theyre scrolls #mia.txt #tes #skyrim #oh wait no i forgot j'zargo wants the position and actively wishes you were dead so he can be archmage #and nirya as well. you know what maybe its a good thing im the archmage because im never there #i drop in every few weeks for 10 minutes then leave. the place pretty much runs itself right #reddit says “they have a bullying problem” yeah i know i married him #and he's the new archmage's special little princess and he can do whatever he wants forever. call the police about it #dont bring your piddly ass problems to the archmage shes busy girlbossing (committing widescale atrocities) #(update to clarify the princess is enthir. short king scored a 6'5“ dommy mommy orc with the biggest strap in tamriel congratulate him NOW) #(huge W for the bisexual mer community #L for skyrim as a whole because they were both already insufferable enough on their own and now theyre making each other worse)

[hakusins]

cw // mentions of cannibalism + cults in the description

sydney the cannibal, the irredeemable, the hypocrite, the liar, the oath breaker, the sinner, the butcher, the flesh robber, the library keeper

lord when @digenerate-trash first put the idea of cannibal + cult leader!sydney during an apocalypse in my head, i had never found peace since. so here's my interpretation of sydney in the forgotten au!

#forgotten au / apocalypse au #HERE YOU GO HEHEHEHE #comic is still in the works #BUT FOR NOW HERE IS THE DESIGN OF CANNIBAL! SYDNEY #though i may love eden and whitney... sydney holds a special place in my heart #my little church boy... #go commit atrocities #sydney the faithful #sydney the fallen #dol sydney #fan art #art #mine #my fan art #my art #degrees of lewdity #dol #dol related #cannibalism cw #cult cw #iM SO PROUD OF THE VEIL BTW HEHEHEH

[windmill-ghost]

Probably the one millionth person to observe this, but it seems like Americans can intimately understand for themselves that citizens of their state have little control over the actions of the state, don't necessarily agree with or understand the actions of the state, and might be actively harmed by the actions of the state... but have a lot of trouble imagining that this could also be true for people in other parts of the world.

#i thinhgt that people. are not actually that different across state or geographic divides. htere is probably #solidarity to be had. with most people #god am i a fuckin anarchist? maybe. i was about to be like 'direct you anger at the right place. the government' #but im RIGHT #not just the US government but you know a lot of it us the US government. Atrocities Georg #wg speaks

[alaraxia]

there’s no rule that says you can’t make your villain armor hot

#omg Akrasia hiiiiiiiiii #how can herald and ortega be scared of this??? cmon look how smoochable they are #anyway vesper’s villain persona is Akrasia #they hate me for my good looks and also the atrocities #fallen hero #fallen hero rebirth #fallen hero retribution #fh:r #villain armor #akrasia is a favorite word of mine I’m glad I found an excellent place to use it #you KNOW Akrasia’s got fancams of them kicking hero’s asses #digital art #OC vesper

[queen0fm0nsterz]

thinking about the Lady again and she actually is the Character Ever.

Starting off with her design. How ridiculously simple it is, right? Her yukata is plain brown and has a single layer, her wig (and yes, I am positive what she wears is not her hair but a wig soley because of how easily it comes undone... that kind of hairstyle is meant to STICK when done with actual hair) has no decorations befitting a woman of her powerful status and her mask is nothing but... empty. You could mistake her for a mannequin and you wouldn't even be wrong. It's by design, after all: she is as insanely important, as a figure, as she is anonymous as a person.

But then, it's with amusement that you note that that boring, unexpressive mask is called the "Rascal's mask" when unlocked. It's such an oddly affectionate nickname stemming from a person so utterly despicable. And then you notice her hair. Her long, black hair that should be hidden under her wig, as the hairstyle goes, but are instead hanging out freely. Not very traditional at all, right? You could almost read it as a small act of defiance of... something. Now, what that thing is, I doubt even she knows. Maybe it's just her way to seek individuality without having to step into zones she does not want to touch.

And then, of course, the lack of shoes. It's not uncommon for people to wear slippers in the house - especially for the Japanese - but she just... doesn't. In that small, small way, she is similar to Six - and every other child in the Maw running around barefoot. Except she's above running, of course. She's got the privilege of floating like a ghost so that she may never touch the ground.

(The only time when this rule is broken is when she fights Six, poetically enough. You can see her visibly step back.)

These strange little things are the first things that push you to wonder about her as a person. Not the title, not the Lady of the Maw: the individual behind the mask. Who is that person? What is she like? Is there a way to answer these questions? I think yes, if you know where to look - but is it worth to ask these questions considering what she does?

That depends on you. Me personally, I think there is narrative worth to be found in what she has to hide. Her foil, Six, finds value in the aspects of herself she does not hide: she is very unapologetic in her selfhood. The Lady isn't, for the most part.

(I wonder if that would make her envious of her younger counterpart in a different context?)

Frankly, looking back on her choice of attire, the fact that her personal bedroom is barely decorated is not surprising. She only has the essentials: a bed, the vase with the key, a few pictures of importance (of people long forgotten, herself included no doubt) and... an ungodly amount of misplaced clothes all over her quarters. All the same yukata, repeated over and over, maniacally folded and arranged in towers, but never where they're supposed to be.

A bedroom is the reflection of yourself. Of your inner world. The fact hers looks so barebones is quite telling about who she is. Or isn't. She herself may have some trouble trying to figure that one out.

I think that, in a vacuum, it's easy to assume that the reason she's so displeased by her reflection is soley out of vanity. That is definitely part of it, but I don't think that's all there is. Because after seeing the mannequins that all look just like her, the four women in the picture who also wear her same exact clothes... and that hidden quote.

This quote, which is from Alice in Wonderland. Specifically from a conversation in which Alice expresses how she doesn't recognise herself anymore because of how many times she grew big and small during the course of the day. She is not the same person she was before entering Wonderland.

I find the way she clings to the dolls and the music box to be much more... sombre when keeping this in mind. In a way, that scene is reminiscent of Monster Six clinging to her music box in the chaos of the Tower; an attempt to attach to something safe. For the Lady, it's even more personal. Those are her toys. Her song. No one can take them from her and claim them as theirs. These materialistic tomes are physical proof of her identity. She likes dolls, and she likes to sing that song from her music box. Surely, that much is something.

But a ceramic toy and an old music box are not really enough to placate the inner turmoil. Hence the broken mirrors, the hidden statues... the hung down portraits with their eyes scratched out - from times of the past. There is a person looking back in the mirror which she does not recognise. That can't be her, right?

It isn't. The reflection is but a faux image of her outward appearence. The inside, however... much like this concept art shows, she is melting away. Rapidly decaying no matter how much she tries to stick to her youth.

Because at the end of the day, that's what she's doing, no? The toys, the music box, her appearence... all of it, just to cling a bit more to the person she used to be. Point being that I doubt even she remembers what she used to be.

You'd think a person like this would be inclined to feel at least some sympathy for all the lost children wandering the Nowhere. A sense of kinship, perhaps, or even just... basic human compassion. She has proved to have very human emotions, after all. This is where she proves you wrong. Whenever you think she's stepped the lowest, she always goes lower.

In her humanity, she is brutal. Relentless, ruthless. She offers no sympathy to anyone and has no empathy to spare either. She is very much aware of what's going on under her roof: she not only allows the Maw to continue being the way it is in spite of having the power to change things, but she actively engages in its despicable practices. She has petrified children in her quarters, as well as their ashes - of which the use is unclear - and then she is responsible for the Nome population and exploitation being so large and so eerily heavy. She's twisted necks, broken bones, murdered innocents.

The Shadow Children are, to me, one her greatest offenses. I don't think they serve any particular purpose other than... being there because she wanted to make them. Children ripped away from their life because of her whims. Not even in death can they rest because she can get her hands on their souls. They're nameless, forgotten shadows with blank masks: they're just like their creator, in that way. Ripped of all individuality and devoid of everything.

Everything she sees, the Lady devours. Not a creature is safe from her shadows and her wrath, especially if they come and actively intrude in her activities. She's twice as aggressive if the Maw is at stake.

The Lady's personal bedroom has another motif piece which I did not previously mention: the Maw wallpaper. While Roger and the Chefs have wallpapers that portray them with her, the Lady... does not. She only has the Maw. She's not part of that picture.

The Lady can't let the Maw change its ways. She is the Maw. The Maw must survive: so must she. To change the Maw would mean challenging herself enough to bring about a change; to her, who does nothing but lament what she lost, that would be too much effort. Too outside of the comfortable zone where she can survive in peace. Miserable, but unbothered.

... For the most part. Until Six comes around.

#the lady #carols.txt #ln meta #{dude i dont even know where i was going with this #if it seems like this post comes from a place of love it does #not at her as a person but like as a character. i find her so interesting and i feel oddly tender about her writing #usually when this happens its because i see pieces of the person i could have been in a character (like scaramouche for example) #but this time its from the completely opposite perspective #i am a person with a very clear idea of who i am. i know what my identity is and i am not afraid to express it #so witnessing a character with such a confused identity is both alien and fascinating to me #i wanted to focus more on her atrocities and how capitalism is what changes a person but its... 2 am and i am sick rn #i spent an hour literally vomiting my ramblings on this post #as a person and what she stands for i despise her. as a character i wish to put her in a security blanket and see how she gets out #this post feels terribly personal for some reason. like whatever . shes not even allat #im lying she literally IS allat #idk i love well written female characters who feel like people and dont fit in a specific convenctional box. sue me #< goes for six too #not opening *that* can of worms rn but. yeah} #little nightmares

[charlesoberonn]

One time in high school we went to the Yad Vashem museum (the main Holocaust museum in Israel) and the guide told us a story about one time when a delegation from Rwanda visited the museum. They told him that they came there so they could "learn how to remember" because their own genocide was already being forgotten and not taught to the next generation.

Later in the tour, he showed an exhibit of the various circus performances that happened just outside the Warsaw Ghetto. He talked about how while Jews were suffering and being slaughtered, other people were living normally like nothing was happening. And that made him think about how while the Rwandan Genocide was happening, he was probably at home watching TV.

That tour stuck with him, and his story stuck with me.

#story time #holocaust #genocide mention #history #but also right now #genocides and other atrocities and humanitarian crises are still happening #in China and in Yemen and Ethiopia and Ukraine and Sudan and Afghanistan and Venezuela and so many more places

[hyperfixatedfandomer]

Currently in my “Quaritch is in fact just as evil as his human counterpart, but heavily tones it down because Spider will cut him off completely if he doesn’t” phase 😭

#idk what to think anymore #he def has a bit of an identity crisis I mean how can he not #but he def doesn’t seem to have much of a problem with committing atrocities #he only has a problem with Spider having a problem with that #so he cuts corners constantly bc otherwise Spidey will tell him to go to a place where the sun don’t shine #don’t get me wrong #the ‘I’m an asshole to everyone but I don’t want to hurt you specifically’ is a cute trope #but he’s definitely not getting redeemed #avatar spider #spider socorro #avatar 2 #avatar way of water #avatar quaritch #miles quaritch #recom quaritch

[dramarants]

i only want love triangles if it's whatever fucked up polygon junmo kicheol and euijeong have going on

#the worst of evil #ranting #idk how to articulate how juicy it is #junmo's fierce protectiveness of his wife - he trusts her but can't help his jealousy fear or frustration while trapped in the situation #euijeong hurting but putting her own life on the line worried for her husband while unpacking the memories of her first love #she can't help but sympathize with kicheol and what he's endured; haven't seen much of how she feels rn but it must be c o n f l i c t e d #(not necessarily even in a romantic way but wanting to root for a person chasing their goals who was once so important to you) #(all while grieving her mother without the support of her literal goddamn spouse by her side) #and kicheol. also grieving and trying to establish a place for himself and his crew yet drawn to junmo despite the red flags #his panic and desperation when jungmo bled out on him which must have triggered his own memories of losing taeho #junmo who has every reason to despise kicheol barely concealing his general rage but protects him like it's second nature at every turn #all while conflicted as a bystander to atrocities (and now willfully leaving another cop to die to protect himself his wife and the mission #getting mentally and physically pummeled left and right just bc his superiors demand it from him #all to please euijeong's family by using the promotions to prove himself and get rid of the stigma weighing him down #like !!! #and haven't even touched on kicheol wooing euijeong against his buddy's wishes and in such a pure heart fluttering way #accepting the risk for a second chance to bathe in the bright light she used to shine on his life #OMG AND BIBI'S ENTRANCE!! junmo realizing her interest gives him leverage and agency but struggling to use it to his advantage #it's soooo messy and i'm obsessed #that funeral arc is gonna haunt me for years #as is the tension during the pat down which def was supposed to be like a gang pride/dignity/lack of power against the jp folks thing #also testing their relationship and responsibilites as leader subordinate #but felt charged around whether kicheol would protest or junmo would accept the manhandling in totally different 👀 ways #goddamn i wrote an essay and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the meat of the show #tldr; i have many many feelings and for once the 'love triangle' isn't making me gauge out my own eyeballs #it's about power it's about raising the stakes and revealing things about the characters w/o dominating the plot

[craycraybluejay]

The political climate right now as a queer writer with a deep appreciation for the arts and especially literature is fucking abysmal. Writer friends are yelled at to delete queerness or violence from their stories. And you still think this is just about someone getting in a hissy fit over Blorbo 1 being too young for Blorbo 2 and someone writing about them fuckin.

#anti anti #anti censorship #queer writers #writerblr #writers on tumblr #yell at politicians and jfc yell at corporations that work with publishing #us politics #this is like someone saying closet antisemites uncloseting themselves in wake of the atrocities going on in gaza isnt an issue bc its online #well online is a place too #AND this reflects on real life. random jewish diaspora who have no personal stake in whats happening in israel and palestine #have been getting harassed and threatened and worse for the sin of being a jew #just because its 'online' does not mean its not also a problem irl-- even bigger irl #maybe you're the one that's so chronically online if you think things that happen online stay there forever #creators have been doxxed online. it's not inconsequential. its not funny. im not laughing. #hate the high horse stance of 'its not on my front yard so therefore doesnt exist and youre stupid for caring' #conservatives think like this too #well *I* dont personally know any queer people so its alright if they get murdered as long as my gas prices might go down #fuck you i got mine kind of ideology #well fuck you too

[hermit-frog]

that Ukrainian dude looked scared af while Rashid is living his best life👀

#interview with the vampire #iwtvedit #louis de pointe du lac #jacob anderson #assad zaman #tvedit #iwtv #amc iwtv #out of pure curiosity how does one applies to this job? #i have a very sensitive neck and i hate blood #i guess i'm not suited for it😔 #am i trying to distract myself from the #atrocities that took place in ep5? maybe #iwtv spoilers #*gif #Armand #Vampterview

[blood-starved-beast]

hi hello just came here to say that i *really* enjoyed your musings on lady maria, you just analyse her in such a realistic scrupulous way it's very delectable♡

Thanks! I'll admit my interpretations are a bit atypical to what the fandom usually sees of her ( I mean, I have discussions on other platforms about this). But I just, as someone who has worked in Research involving animals that ultimately have to be put down for science, how the narrative presents Maria is very damning.

We first learn of Maria from the patients at the Research Hall, not having known of her beforehand other than vaguely alluded to via the Doll and the Hunter's Bone. The patients who are medically/scientifically tortured, dissected/vivisected, are living in abject squalor, are being turned into giant heads and are literally losing their minds, and their bodies dumped to rot as fertilizer in the gardens (for the flowers Maria loves I might add) once they no longer serve their purpose. And yet, they love her. These people tortured and denied any form of humanity cling to her like she were a Saint, like the Virgin Mary even, despite her not actually doing anything to improve or prevent the situation.

That is a very powerful first impression - that Maria cared enough about these subjects to give them kindness enough that they automatically cling to her yet lacks the absolute empathy to actually, you know, not experiment on them. That mentality is necessary when working with research animals, but these are people. And that initial impression is not something I can easily overlook regardless of what her actual aim was with the laboratory. This impression is heighten if you take the popular fan interpretation that Maria had some affection for Saint Adeline. Like, oh boy.

What that leaves me to interpret then, is that Maria at best someone of compromised morals, at worst someone who is somewhat two-faced. To assail her failing morals, her kindness is meant to be more self-gratifying, to "prove" to herself that she is a better person than she actually is. It is, in part, a performance cause at the very least it is not reality. There is delusion there but unlike some male Bloodborne simps on reddit it's cause she's deluding herself at the very least, or at most she is doing enough to give the impression she is helping somewhat. You know, like those rich fucks who hand out water bottles during a crisis and then go "that's enough philanthropy for one day :)" while being in a position of power to do actual meaningful change and doing nothing. Or that even if she is an awful person, there are people who are worst than her out there. And maybe that's enough.

I do think she gets to a point that she realizes it though. How fucked up she is/what she's done. That in part of is ultimately what kills her, that and the ultimate futility of her actions, how she slowly chipped and chipped away whatever person she was when she started to ultimately become the monster of her own creation. No better than the Vileblood family she rejected at first (if not worse than them in some respects). But instead of doing anything more meaningful about that Heel Realization she kills herself, dooming herself to being constantly minded that amongst all the Living Failures, she herself reigns Supreme.

#Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower #Bloodborne #my meta #and that's not going into some of her lines #I consider them secondary canon but it's interesting how she at first condescends to you to give you trinkets in her room #then baits you if you keep talking to her to kill her #and if you return becomes Pissed and calls you insufferable #that says a lot I think #also says a lot that Fromsoftware deleted that and replaced it with someone arrogant enough to assume your intentions #and tries to kill you to prevent your knowledge under the guise of “protecting you” from the getgo #when knowledge of atrocities is how you prevent them from reoccurring in the first place #Insane woman she is catered directly to ME

[lieu-rey]

my genshin oc huitzilin! hes from natlan👀

#genshin impact #genshin oc #genshin impact oc #oc #gi #his design is a bit all over the place but its ok #hes a claymore user #..i have so many claymore user ocs kfndmfn #anyway sorry if hes kind of an eyestrain lmao #he was gonna be a bow user but now he primarily uses a claymore #someones gonna say hes brown anemo diluc and im gonna have to commit atrocities<3 #he may change some more bc im honestly not too sure about his leg situation but ill figure it out eventually ckndmfnd #my art #lieurey

[usareiis]

Twitter getting obsessed with conspiracy theories about where redacted is makes me feel so fucking terrible when there is so much worse going on that people are literally begging you to pay attention to but instead you want to focus on scenarios you made up in your head and play true crime detective

#i saw five hundred women tweeting things like i am going to sound soo crazy at work talking about this 🤣🤣 #you need to get the fuck off of twitter number one #ik i sound like i am on twitter too much but i genuinely have just been clicking on what's trending these past few days i have been sick #and its like yes the royal family sucks for five thousand reasons but there are actual atrocities happening right in front of our eyes #that are not a fucking mystery and you guys would rather think of literally anything else #based off of nothing. like i have been a billion tweets the past few days confidently listing off scenarios they know have happened to her #like yay you're so true crime you figured it out and its not even like these people care about women's well being either bc i saw all... #...kinds of nasty shit said about her when she said she was sick in the first place and all kinds of bad comments about how sick pregnancy. #...makes her feel so obviously on the most basic level you don't care about women to act like you now have a narrative from a true crime... #...podcast to project to someone. like you guys will get so distracted by anything #don't get me started on the oscars #everything feels so fucking bleak lately i also don't know how stuff like the election doesn't make everyone feel like they're losing it #like yeah the guy in the movie that's supposed to be about being a girl sang a little song does no one realize how all they're talking... #...about is the guy yet #wait no they're more worried about a bad photoshop than the massive amount of pictures of dead people my bad

[cosmicallyavg]

everyone talks about thirteen traveling to the past and being arrested for wearing trousers, or perhaps how there was literally an episode where they tried to drown her for being a witch, but where's the talk about her traveling to the 1940s and having to escape being lobotomized??? in this essay i will

#like i know lobotomies are actually a really sensitive topic and we should joke about it #but lets be real. #it probably would have been a comcern if she traveled to the wrong place and the wrong time #they could easily twist the lobotomy epidemic into something alien #and they could have showcased how much of an atrocity that era of medicine was #and how sexist and misogynistic it was #if i were writing for dw i would have made that and the trousers happen #real womens problems yk #the witches was a slay tbh #like they were bold for that #anyways #doctor who #thirteenth doctor #thirteen #SHOULDNT* #THE FIRST TAG SHOULD SAY SHOULDNT INSTEAD OF SHOULD 💀

[roboraindrop]

[vibrating at a frequency that could shatter glass]

I am feeling very Normal about Chucky. Mhm. Yes sir. Very Normal indeed.

#Most of our ship takes place before the possession but. thinking about carrying around doll Chucky n helping him commit atrocities #like. the way Ti.ff holds + treats him like a baby kinda rubs me the wrong way. ma'am that is a whole grown ass man #i would treat him with more respect than that. i think it's little differences like that that he'd appreciate #little ways that i treat him better (': #I am also thinking once again about us going through a ceremony to bind ourselves to each other. #outside of marriage obviously bc marriage is overrated n i dont think he'd do it again after Ti.ff #We make a sacrifice to Damballa by killing together n use the blood for a spell that binds us deeper than marriage ever could #and y'know what. he doesnt regret it. not for a damn second. #rain rambles #Dollface #Netflix and Kill

[softwarmfur]

walks to the front of the stage pigeon toed with my head down. um does anybody want to see this drawing i did of my evilwoman. *scuffs my shoes together*

#you have to clap and cheer for her tho even if she is just the worst. or ill blow the fucking lid off this place #btw when i say shes evil i mean evil. it seems nobody wants to step up and excuse women of atrocities these days......