#potential violence

[finelythreadedsky]

i've been reading a lot about fundamental differences between homer and tragedy and one interesting thing is the preoccupation of tragedy with the conflicts of women's loyalties to their natal and marital families, which manifests in so many tragedies putting women in situations where they are forced to choose sides in conflicts between their husbands/fathers/brothers/sons (eg medea chooses her husband over her father and brother, antigone chooses her brother over her future husband and potential children, procne chooses her sister and father over her husband and son, creusa remains dedicated to her father and his lineage instead of her husband and his). women are supposed to forge chains between men by their marriages and tragedies are so often interested in what happens to those connecting links when things go sour.

and that's just totally absent in homer, there's never any tension between icarius and odysseus or between eetion and the house of priam or between autolycus and laertes or between tyndareus and either paris or menelaus and agamemnon. most of the time either father-in-law or son-in-law is totally absent from the narrative. there's nothing that would put a woman in the position of mediating between the family she was born into and the family she married into.

but you know who in homer does experience this tension between loyalty to natal and marital families? hector. in iliad 6 andromache begs him to adopt a more defensive strategy because she and their son will be totally lost if he dies, and hector speaks of having to fight for his father's glory and his own. andromache and astyanax will suffer if hector dies well and bravely fighting for a lost cause, but priam will benefit. hector even acknowledges that after troy's fall it will be andromache who suffers most, not priam or hecuba-- for them the memory of hector's glory will be a consolation, while for her it will only be more pain. hector is torn between his father and his wife, the family he was born into and the family he has created through marriage.

#tragedy is so freaked out about women's dual loyalties but is ALSO freaked out about endogamy and incest. double bind i guess. #theres a bit of something like this in phoenix's backstory but that all happens within the same household and is sort of inverted #and therefore is also the rare moment of hostility and potential violence between kinsmen in homer #mine #iliadblogging

[haydardotjpg]

Blood sticks, sweat drips Break the lock if it don't fit A kick in the teeth is good for some A kiss with a fist is better than none

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wait what do you mean a red string of fate ties us together but all we do is strangle each other with it. what do you mean this string can only stretch and tangle but never break and yet we keep biting and gnawing on it to try to free ourselves from it anyway.

#taimizu #mizu x taigen #taigen x mizu #taizu #blue eye samurai #mizu #taigen #there was an attempt #i love that my last art of them is super soft and warm and tender and this one is them at their most toxic #i must stress that both of these are important to their dynamic <3 #early taimizu = toxic crazy insane #late-game taimizu = soft yearning tender sweet growing together etc #at least that's how it is in my delusional mind bcs lbr taimizu are NOTTT capable of tenderness YET #but their scene together in the forge is proof that they do have potential to be soft and playful and happy together <33 #but anyway this post is not about that. this post about them both being feral murderous bitches who get turned on by violence <3 #lol i keep saying it but it's TRUE so i'll say it again—they HAVE the range honey!!!!! #ok i'm done

[nyaiiaii]

girls who turn yellow together ♡

#zombiecleo #pearlescentmoon #limited life smp #limited life fanart #love when they do things like this yaaaas stare into each others eyes with future violence on the mind #my art #maybe i will redraw this... it has potential

[syn0vial]

funniest part about the bounty hunter wars by K.W jeter is how palpatine thinks he's screwing boba fett over by hiring him to take down the bounty hunters' guild, completely ignorant to the fact that boba is a sicko who thinks making himself public enemy #1 of every bounty hunter in the galaxy sounds like the most fun he's had in ages.

it's literally like,

palpatine: that fool boba fett doesn't know that he is but a pawn in my nefarious plot to sow desperation and discord among the bounty hunters of the galaxy. he will be completely unprepared for the torrent of violence and retribution he is about to unleash upon himself. how wonderful it is to make a creature complicit in the workings of its own destruction! >:) boba, like 2 pages later: i can't wait to sow desperation and discord among the bounty hunters of the galaxy 😊 it's going to be sooo fun when my actions unleash a torrent of violence and retribution against me 😃 can't wait!

#palps: i'm going to make this bounty hunter's life a lawless crucible of unendurable violence and enmity that cannot be escaped #boba: JOKE'S ON YOU‚ I'M INTO THAT SHIT #also there's the potential implication that at least part of the reason palps is doing this is to fuck with vader #bc vader made the mistake of mentioning a particular interest in boba to palps #so of course palps is like ''MUAHAHA NOW YOU HAVE TO WATCH AS I PSYCHOLOGICALLY DESTROY THIS MAN'' #like sir. that man was psychologically destroyed long before you got here #you're just giving him enrichment now #look. he's playing with his food #jeter!boba you have so much wrong with you and i love you #boba fett #emperor palpatine #star wars #the bounty hunter wars #k.w jeter

[hallowclave]

She para on my humans till I [GRUESOME SOUNDS OF BUG FUELED VIOLENCE]

Redraw of a skitter design I did a little over a year ago, comparison under the read more

And the sketch. As a little treat. Just for you.

#taylor Herbert #parahumans #parahumans worm #worm #my art #I’m sorry it’s so dark her hair being black and her suit also being black is so irritating to me #eyes changed to red to mimic a fly. face mask had a minor change to mimic the head of an ant better #antennae got a little extra prong to mimic ant pincers and also bc hollow knight fan #boots got a steel toe for maximum violence potential #suit padding was actually referenced off of motorcycle armor instead of just winging it #no skirt or belt because I don’t think the former looked good and I didn’t want to draw the latter #even if it’s not canonically accurate she needs some form of armor. Taylor your vital organs. they’re in danger. #iirc she DID put knee pads and stuff on when she first started out. and yet she refuses to wear a helmet. inevitable TBI moment. #in terms of general art stuff the posing looks so much better. look who learned about contrapposto. #and improved (a little) at anatomy. not really on costume design but we’re taking baby steps. #I’d like to thank the wormblr fans for recirculating the og post every three months or so for getting me out of my art block #nothing will make you draw faster than seeing your old art go around. #i promise I’ll finish worm one day 🫡 #end of patch notes/ted talk/etc

[calypsolemon]

Everyone on this website talks about the choice to not have children to end the terrible cycle of familial abuse or whatever but I feel like nobody on here wants to talk about the more mundane and pressing reality of wanting children but being paralyzed by the understanding that bringing them into our current society inherently means traumatizing them in some small way simply because there are no good options.

Like. Dont want to put a child through public school because public school sucks, but homeschool is isolating and private school is not an option for ppl with no money. Dont want to raise a child with a forced gender but attempting to raise a child neutrally may socially isolate them or cause authorities to question your parenting methods. Don't want to raise a child in an isolated suburb where they have nowhere to travel independantly but affordable housing with ample room for families in city environments are basically nonexistent.

It can be hard not to feel judgemental of yourself for wanting to bring a child into the world at all under these conditions. Unlike with refusing to continue the "cursed bloodline" or whatever, there's just no personal pride one can take in deciding not to have kids because the world would force me to make choices that hurt them irregardless of my desires.

#and this isn't me saying i do or don't want kids but rather #these are my main worries with the possibility of having children #also i think this is a seperable issue from worrying about kids just getting hurt in the normal human way #i don't want to shield my future child from any possible negative experiences like #heartbreak and loss and things like that are very normal #but I'm talking institutional. im talking the little violences that made my actual abuse so easy to hide #and the systems that further traumatized me #the fact that id just have to put my potential child through them too just... sucks.

[aroaceleovaldez]

I need to see more demigods who bite. Like jason totally feels the need to bite stuff, and leo half-jokingly suggests getting him a chew toy (like a dog). Nico absolutely bites to show affection, (maybe not willy nilly like jason but still) like just randomly biting people he's close with shoulders or hands because he just loves them so much (jason both bite to express affection and stim)

Anyways petition to normalize neurodivergent people who bite as a form of expressing affection or stimming.

oh absolutely. I actually have a tier list of "which of the Argo II crew & co are most likely to bite:"

Jason gnaws on people to show affection. He is extremely "Everything I love belongs in my mouth and everything I hate belongs between my teeth." He mostly stopped doing it for awhile cause of the whole "being trained to be the Perfect Praetor™" and having to mask a lot more, but he picked it up again a bit when he and Reyna became friends cause she didn't care and then more with the Argo II crew. He definitely hoards chewlery. He also definitely bit Krios real bad when they were fighting, if not outright killed him with his teeth.

Nico is a younger sibling. He has no qualms against biting in fights, any fight, but he does associate biting with fights. Jason tries to friendly-bite him one time and Nico just takes it as declaration of war and they end up tussling for like five minutes. After he gets used to Jason though he picks it up a bit too, mostly just chewing on people's hands. Also I 100% hc that when he was in Tartarus he just went full teeth-and-claws mode to survive. Honestly he bites more in regular combat and even training than Jason does, mostly just cause he's not above fighting dirty. If it works, it works. Also I hc he has sharp canines and is small so he might as well.

Frank's third but only on technicality cause shapeshifting. When he's human he's pretty much equal level to everybody else which is "only bites as a last resort."

Everybody else is pretty on-par with each other but Percy is probably just sliiightly more likely to bite not for any particular reason, he just considers it a valid fight tactic in a pinch (unlike Nico, who just considers it a general fight tactic). Also he got the oral stim adhd vibes. He has a lot of chewlery. They're all sea-themed, of course. Thalia is also pretty equal to Percy in terms of "biting as a valid fighting tactic."

Annabeth is also like. She's less likely to bite than Percy but more likely to than the rest of the crew. It's just a valid battle tactic under certain scenarios to her (and that includes training). She does consider it a low-blow though. She's also definitely got the oral stim adhd too. Lots of chewlery, rip her pencils and pens, etc etc. Her and Percy probably have a shared chewlery collection.

Piper is not the bitey type but she does have little to no formal combat training so yknow, wet cat technique. I do also totally believe she'd also have a chewing stim though. Like yknow how I draw her with the little braid sidebangs? Yeah she definitely chews on those and that's part of why she wears her hair like that. The other reason is that braiding it is one of her other stims.

#pjo #riordanverse #jason grace #nico di angelo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #piper mclean #headcanon #headcanons #adhd #Anonymous #ask #yippee stimming hcs #not gonna tag Frank or Thalia cause they're only passingly mentioned #im just very amused by the potential of Jason ''bites affectionately'' Grace vs Nico ''younger sibling'' di Angelo #Jason: [friendly bite] :) || Nico: SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH. OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY. || Jason: *MISTAKE MISTAKE MISTAKE-* #the difference between Jason and Nico is that if Jason intends to bite in combat he *means it.* he is taking a chunk out of his opponent. #he also does it rarely but would prefer to do it more. he's willing to bite in combat he just doesn't cause he was trained otherwise #Nico meanwhile bites as casual violence but may also take a chunk out of opponents if opportunity presents itself #cause Nico was trained to fight scrappy when not relying on skeletons #Jason also bites affectionately but Nico doesn't he's just stimming. Percy is also just stimming #long post // #i have actually thought about this genre of hc a lot before #i have opinions about the argo II crew's biting habits

[canisalbus]

Hello I made you some more art!! IDK Why your little guys have just stuck in my brain as of late but yeah I'm just on a roll I guess!

This piece was inspired by wondering who was present around Machete's assassination, and how people around him would react to his downfall. So I had the idea for a portrait of a final lover's embrace, as Vasco holds his dying beloved in bloodsoaked arms.

I tried my best with the clothing -- especially the shoes -- and I think I did a pretty good job but BOY were they hard! XD Anyways, I hope you like this one, it was a blast to draw! I love machete sm istg <3

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#Machete #Vasco #own characters #coldandfoggy #gift art #hhhhadgasjgdshad??? #THIS #¿¿¿¿¿ #congratulations you've managed to deliver some immense mental damage through the ethers #and I mean that as a compliment I live for the moments when art just really Hits You Where It Hurts #loving the way the scarlet red of Machete's cassock blends seamlessly with the pool of blood #Vasco's expression speaks volumes #he was always a very touchy feely person so thinking of their final embrace just puts a pit in your stomach #poses like this are tricky but Machete looks appropriately limp and lifeless and at peace in a way that's cruelly ironic #the halo is a nice touch it kind of evokes pietà imagery #the clothing and the shoes look fine I wouldn't have guessed you had issues with them if you hadn't mentioned it #just a grand old liver punch this one #damn son #thank you for drawing the sad dog guys I'm very flattered they've made an impression! I know I'll be agonizing over this piece for a while #some potentially upsetting lore musings!! violence and tragedy and stuff: #I haven't cemented the chain of events yet but I believe he was ambushed by a single assailant when he was alone #either early in the morning or late evening #he didn't manage to put up much of a fight that time the first stab punctured a lung and the second nicked a carotid artery #I believe you lose consciousness in a minute or so and generally bleed out in less than three #Vasco wouldn't have been informed of the murder because why would he be and even if he somehow found out very quickly #the distance between Rome and Florence is roughly 250 km don't quote me on this but it looks like it'd take at least 4 days on horseback? #I think but I don't know how horses work to be honest #maybe they had some sneaky correspondence going on but if there was a pause in communications it wouldn't have been a cause for concern #so it's highly likely he'd only find out when he rolled in town for another business trip #and Machete had been buried weeks or months ago

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

we need more feminist horror

#there is so much potential there #rambling #the beauty industry… anti ageing… dieting…. #female gender roles as a demon haunting you… #the prison of femininity… #menstruation pregnancy abortion as body horror #subversing horror tropes of female exploitation and male violence… #men as monsters… the patriarchy as a haunted house… competition between women as curse… #or just female slashers and serial killers who are not sexy for the female gaze #liberal feminism encouraging ‚sex work‘ as a cult #as some sort of commentary #WITCHES… the last girl becoming ‚evil‘ but what really is evil… #intergenerational female trauma… #male religion > occult horror #zombie as symbolism of trauma… #MOTHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS

[luck-of-the-drawings]

FOR A BEAT OF HEART, THE BREATH IS SHOT. AND WITHIN A BREATH, THE HEART IS CAUGHT. THE PIPES ARE BURSTING, UNDER GREAT STRESS, BOLTS TORN ASUNDER, MAKING A MESS. A FINAL COUGH, A FINAL RETCH, A GOREY SLOUGH, CLAIMED BY WRETCH.

#cw gore #jrwi riptide #jrwi riptide spoilers #chip jrwi #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #I LLOOOVE POETRYYY I LOVE MAKING WORDS RHYME IN STRANGE WAYS AND DESCRIBING VISCERA AND VIOLENCE OR WAHTEVER. YKNOW WHAT ELSE I LOVE #CHHHIIIIIIIBBOOOOO MY BEAUTIFUL MAAANN WWHAT. WHAT HAPPENED. OH MY GOD. IVE BEEN SAYING FOREVER. I NEEED CHIP TO GET SCARIER. #HE HAS THE POTENTIAL! I KNOW HE DOES! HAUNTED BOY WITH THE HAUNTED EYES WHAT TRAUMAS HAVE YOU SEEN? AND WERE THEY YOUR FAULT? THINK ABOUT I #EVERY FAMILY HAS CRUMBLED AROUND HIM. HIS BIRTH FAMILY CRUMBLED BEFORE HE KNEW IT. HIS SECOND FAMILY DROWNED. THIRD BURNED TO THE GROUND #AND SHALL THIS NEXT FAMILY JOIN THEM? CHIIIIP YOU UNFORTUNATE BOY YOU HAVE WITNESSED SO MUCH CALAMITY #YOU ARE CALAMITY BOYYY AHAHAHAHA DONT YOU SEEE!! ZOMBIFIED AND DEAD. TRUELY MORE HAUNTED THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS WILL BE FUN #THE FIRE HURTS WHEN IT BURNS TOO LONG. BUT NOW YOUR NERVES ARE DEAD AND YOUR MIND IS FREE. BURN THIS CORPSE AS YOU WISH TO GET WHAT YOU WAN #CHIP IS NOT THE FIRE HE IS THE MATCH. I LOVE THAT IDEA SO MUCH IM SO PROUD OF IT. OHHH AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE CORRUPTION #bizly mentioned that chip wants to be a good captain. in his most corrupted state however. he would be the BEST captain.. #thAT DOESNT MEAn hes gonna just suddenly be all controlling. the BEST captain keeps his crew safe. keeps them together. keeps them alive. #and chip is doing just that! he doesnt need to stop being a good captain just bc of the corruption! he just needs to be the BEST CAPTAIN #AND THATS SUBJECTIVE BABY!! im so excited to see where chips zombie arc goes. neeeed him to get scarier and just a little more fucked up. #neEED HIM TO PERFORM ABHORANT ACTIONS THAT HAVE JAY N GILL GOING ' dude woah what the fuck...' #RIGHT I SHOULD TALK ABT MY ART TOO. this one took TOO LONGGGstarted out witha sketch how did it end up like this... #the heart and the blood KILLED ME. LOOK AT MY RENDERING LIKE HWAAATT #better not see any more mistakes after i post this.... i cant fight withit anymore....STILL RLY PROUD THO.. #I WAnted to make it visually LOOK like the grossest vomiting sound possible #i want it to make your throat feel uncomfortable. am i achieving that? i hope i am. thats tubes dude!!! like cmahn!

[kazamajun]

Thinking thoughts today about the contrasting yet similar ways both of them lost whole chunks of their lives

#both happened as a result of battle - albeit she won and he lost #both missing out on time with each other and their kid #THE CONTRASTS AND HOW IT REFLECTS THEIR NATURES are what's interesting to me tho #look at how fucked up kazuya is. his devil wings are shredded like grated cheese and he's covered in scars and wounds. it's all violence #not to mention being a lab rat which is a pretty hellish panopticon even if you consent to it #meanwhile jun is alone and isolated on sacred land for her recovery. she looks peaceful. no visible signs of harm #the completely different vibes match who they are as people. #ngl tho i do still think a seven year coma is horrific and potentially guilt inducing + traumatizing + scary and all that #this is just commentary on the ~aesthetics~ #tekken #val rambles #kazjun

[randomrandy]

Been reading a bunch of humans are space orcs related things and it’s reminded me how much I love the concept.

The base concept, humans are actually really scary/unique to aliens, already has so much world-building built into it ‘cause now you have to figure out what kind of intergalactic society would find humans strange/dangerous. How you go about it all really depends on what aspects of humanity you want to explore, that’s really the heart of the concept. It’s a fun way to write an outsider pov on humanity and very explicitly explore some interesting themes while also getting to fuck around with space sci-fi stuff!

Idk, I’m having writing thoughts and may have binge read too much stuff. I just like aliens and contemplations on humanity okay?

#humans are space orcs #I tend to gravitate to the more positive takes on humanity #cause yeah we do war and violence and so so so many terrible things #but we also do so many wonderful kind and amazing things #the duality of the potential for increadable cruelty and increadable love #and some humans choose to be cruel #but some humans choose to love #and isn’t that fascinating?

[mugwot]

#her turn to be spooky scary!! #you go girl give us nightmares! #for real i want her to go a little bit apeshit maybe brake something #she deserves it yk #welcome home #julie joyful #tw scopophobia #welcome home puppet show #my art #i love me a girl so full of hidden potential for violence <3 i am projecting <3 #i also love me some blur apparently #just makes everything look a bit dream-like in a creepy kind of way

[starystruck]

I just turned some clips into stary,,, erm

AWWW!! These are so cute and real to me wtf tysm for sharing these with me!! I especially love the first one, I can see it happening in dire circumstances 👀

#answered #submission #reminder to everyone that Gary can fight!! #he chooses kindness but could potentially switch to violence... #but these r sooooooso perfect love these!!

[scoobiesminyard]

Andrew Minyard by GarnYarn (not my art)

#full credits to the artist (reposted with permission) #sorry i had to actually make my own post because i couldnt find it on here to reblog and im OBSESSED #i mean firstly the style is so pretty and how does one even do hands that well?!? #but also like thats my favourite andrew ever potentially???? #its different to the usual white blonde super bony version which i LOVE #i also love that i can understand how he projects violence and apathy but i can also see a nugget of like the worlds softest heart deep down #i can see how both dan and neil would interpret this andrew in such stark ways #like literally this is what im picturing from now 🥹 #his glare!! #anyway #garnyarn #andrew minyard #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #tfc #andreil

[novelconcepts]

Totally obsessed, by the way, with adult Van and Tai choosing the same half-masks they wore to Doomcoming. Two halves of a whole. Two people hiding from the world as long as it means hiding together. Van, who hasn’t let anyone in apart from “getting needs met”. Tai, who doesn’t even let her own family in. But they wear these masks that complete each another, as they wore them back in ‘96, knowing they took them off for one another specifically. Just. Keep thinking about that, for no reason in particular.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #yj meta #taivan #especially thinking about how those masks were explicitly to help van feel comfortable #how she let tai remove it in a moment of absolute intimacy while the rest of the team was devolving into violent acts #and how now they wear them again as they prepare to descend not back into that teenage love #but into potential violence all over again #still two halves. still completing one whole. as if on instinct