#sigh... i guess.

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

Been stewing on this for a few days (might be controversial, but I don't really care)

I think my issue with takes that unironically excuse or downplay the impact of c!Quackity torturing c!Dream has nothing to do with misinterpreting authorial intent; we have no way to be absolutely sure what's going through the writer's head, and even if we did, everybody sees fiction differently.

Nor does it have anything to do with the morality of enjoying a fictional person's suffering. Because once again, that's all very subjective, the people suffering aren't real, and to be fair, sometimes it can be cathartic to watch a villain get everything they've done thrown back tenfold.

It's just that reading c!Quackity's story like that is... boring.

Like, even if you don't give two shits about c!Dream's feelings - and you shouldn't have to - there's so much other interesting stuff to work with!

I want to dig deep into how trauma affects the way a person processes their life and how they judge who is worthy of their trust. How people determine when others have crossed a moral line, how someone can continue to justify themselves even after they cross those very same lines, and what happens when they realize they've become the bad guy and still don't stop.

I want to watch how someone can be desensitized to constant violence, and the way it leaves marks that you can't scrub out. How you can ward off your own trembling at the memories of dead eyes and destroyed homes with slightly different examples of the same. How your gut sinks when you discover that the vicious thing inside you that you thought was given a safe, healthy, cathartic outlet is leaking into the world of the innocent.

I want to understand how you can carry a knife in one hand and wedding rings dangling on a chain from the other, held as far apart as you can reach, because you can't bear to cross those lines and stain something that was supposed to safe and peaceful and good. How you can look the child you're trying to avenge in the eyes and lie to him because you've felt his pain, but you also know he's kinder and better than you, and it's already enough that one person looks at you with fear, and you can't bear to see that fear mix with disappointment. How you can lie awake thinking about blank lines of paperwork and the grime beneath your nails and sly smiles and lost bets and broken promises (and screams and sobs that stopped being soothing a long time ago), and wonder what happens when the same sharp edge is turned against you and the ones you love, too.

I want to see how you can choose to put the blade down, change your plans, and trick your fuming heart into believing that it's not weakness or guilt holding you back. That it's all going to be worth it. That both of you are going to get what you deserve (and you already know what that is, that you're heading to the same place in hell as everyone you despise, that there's no turning back anymore, that you are irreparably soiled by what you've done here, and that your only hope is to leave a message behind and hope that someone, anyone, will remember you fondly-)

I want to question what it really means to "deserve" something, and wonder how much it really matters. I want to see the good, the bad, and everything in between. I want to see somebody go to the darkest depths imaginable, and still choose to return.

The prison arc and by extension the rest of the Las Nevadas arc is the perfect place to explore all of that. So why not?

#dsmp #c!quackity #tw torture #tw abuse #fandom critical #discourse #sigh... i guess. #please don't take this as a personal attack on anyone #i just wanted to pour out a few thoughts

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

#tomgreg #succession #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #shiv roy #roman roy #kendall roy #yeah no im not tagging everyone thats too much #this is me going 'how much implications themes and symbolism can i fit in one painting' #yes i gave rose shivs haircolor. if we ever find out how she looks like and its not like this im just gonna pass away i guess #but yeah i hope yall connect the dots #i put waaay too much thought and work into this. i was googling pictures of all the actors as kids just for reference (sigh) #honestly kinda wanted to make tom and greg link pinkies as like. a pinkie promise. but that was too hard to draw in this angle #at least not without obstructing the view of the ring which is important to see so ya #my fave is actually the tomshiv wedding pic i went off with that. i love them... they should have run away to become sheep farmers fr fr #anyway im so glad im done with this UGH!! finally i can draw smth else without being like oh noooo i need to finish this #i see a lot of you wondering why there is no portrait of logan but one of ewan #it's bc the placement of the painting represent their standing. logans portray would not hang next to the stairs #his present portrait hangs at the end of it. all the way up at the top. alone and withering away #basically the picture you see underneath ewan to the right? its where toms parents would be. the right side of the wall is tom and gregs #and the left one is the roy siblings theirs. since they grew up rich rich. and tom and greg didn't #but ya thats why ewan hangs here and logan does not :)

[the-patrex]

the kilt look is my bestest of friends. just so you know.

#doctor who #ncuti gatwa #14th doctor #the doctor #.....sigh #15th doctor #<- tagging like this against my will #thats my art tag I guess

[egophiliac]

giving the people what they want (jokes about spreadsheets)

anyway, Twst continues to prove that it is aimed at me specifically by giving us not one, but now TWO extended scenes of characters being incredibly difficult about signing an NDA. you just don't get this anywhere else.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #gif warning #gifs that tempted the gods and lost warning #azul specifically is making everyone's lives difficult by insisting on actually reading things before he signs him #like some kind of nerd who actually cares about his rights or whatever #no but i love that for him #(i have only a few more postcards left to unlock him...sigh...) #anyway vil just went full scarlett o'hara over here and made it WORK #i am sad we didn't get to see the infinity tiara though #in my mind it's three feet tall and looks like a bejeweled crown rack of lamb #this is why some things are better left to the imagination i guess

[sheasshovel]

I heard we’re making a ddvau fandom now…. Im so crazy for him(bo)

ddvau by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 :3

#gtws #fanart #gtws fanart #ddvau #ddvau fanart #digital art #seriously #though there is a criminally small amount of ddvau!scar fanart out there #sigh #be the change you want to see in the world #i guess

[blended-ice]

“He’s the only one I knew that could pound whiskey like a sailor then keep up with me on the dance floor.”

aka my take on Alastor and Mimzy back when they were still alive!

#I want them to be the comedic dynamic duo of all time #both have bizzare questionable morals both kill people but both care about each other #Alastor: sweetheart you can’t keep hitting people with cars #Mimzy: but listen dollface the bitch deserved it this time I swear! #A: *sigh* guess we’ll have to move again #or #M: Al the fuck are ya doin? there’s blood all over my brand new WHITE CARPET #A: well maybe next time you should buy something patterned! hides stains better! #they would be so annoying #hazbin hotel #alastor #mimzy #id in alt text #fanart #peas n guac

[lesbianphan]

do you guys think the reason PJ decided to babysit Phil wasn't only because of his concerning monster-fucking video, but actually cause Dan texted him like PLEASE HELP HE'S GONNA MAKE EVERYTHING GREEN, so he had to like... keep Phil busy before the forever home was destroyed or...?

#dnp #dan and phil #how close am i to the truth philip #PJ was sent by Dan Howell to protect the phouse #he was like pls he's having a CRISIS and texting me pictures of everything turning green I'm gonna die #so PJ was like sigh I guess I'll babysit him for a while

[clarissasbakery]

more tpot 10 doodles

#my art #illustration #fan art #character design #art #my artwork #my art! #tpot spoilers #the power of two #tpot #bfdi #battle for dream island #bfdi book #bfdi pillow #bfdi pin #bfdi barf bag #sigh… #pillowbook #i GUESS #bfdi humanized #bfdi fanart

[eggcats]

the quickest way to disable the voxtech drone cameras isn't to actually do anything to them, its for alastor to look directly into them and (make his distortion not too bad) and then wink and blow a kiss at it

vox overloads himself and knocks out all the cameras he's currently connected to every time

#hazbin hotel #radiostatic #hazbin hotel vox #vox #alastor #hazbin alastor #staticradio #the visual is just so funny to me #angel voice 'yo smiles we got one of those spy cameras looking in one of the guest windows' #alastor *popping up from the shadows and looking directly at it* *sigh* 'i guess i have no choice ' *wink kiss* #spy camera short-circuiting and dying and the distant voice of vox yelling from vee tower #hazbin vox #mine #fic

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

oh m ygod lets fUCKING GO another leftist cquackity enjoyer :sob: im so tired of telling people that minecraft politics =/= real life politics. I can support the torture of c!dream and him being in prison and also be a prison abolitionist you dumb fucks (not at you)

Ethically and narratively, c!Dream's torture is a frightening abuse of power that symbolizes the psychological and moral decline of its perpetrator, enabler, and victim alike. Despite the target having committed his own crimes and deserving to be held accountable in some fashion, an act as extreme, traumatic, and demonstrably ineffective as torture not only failed to extract a valuable life-saving asset or ensure the long-term welfare of the vulnerable, but desensitized all those involved to gratuitous violence and increased the likelihood of more bloodshed to come. c!Quackity was clearly spiralling to his darkest point over the course of the Las Nevadas arc, his reckless and vindictive actions will inevitably be reflected back on himself and those he loves, and were this situation to take place in our own world, I would fully and firmly oppose them.

...But come on, y'all. Look at his little suspenders and his little lopsided smile and his little speeches about moving forward from loss and his little gifts he gives to help his friends and his little wedding pavillion decorated with flowers and fountains and lanterns that the ones he cherished most never got to see. Don't you see how sad he is? Don't you want him to be happy? Doesn't he deserve to heal and grow and live in peace? Doesn't he deserve to go just a little bit apeshit now and then, as a treat? Those red splotches on his shirt just symbolize how full of love and passion he is, I promise, guys please-

#but yes 100% agreed that enjoying a character's story =/= agreeing with everything they say and do #[insert a joke about my url] #and don't worry. i'm not one of those people who thinks you're a monster for enjoying a fictional character's fictional punishment #i have... complicated thoughts on the prison arc but i very much enjoy the memes #dsmp #c!quackity #c!dream #tw torture #asks #discourse #sigh... i guess.

[mokadevs]

day 13: goddess

#arknights #pramanix #kjera #minifemslashfeb2024 #kiki draws #had 2 different ideas i was deciding between for todays prompt #and then did neither of them!! #sorry i guess im drawing arknights and only arknights for femslashfeb. Le Sigh #in my defense theres a lot of good arknights yuri so can you blame me

[skybulb]

i am writing this at 7:10 am

#amphibia #amphibia fanart #sasha waybright #my art #sashannarcy #to me #the sasha trans comic #lyricomic i guess #it’s finally real #song is i just sighed by los camp

[rontra]

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the school festival, part 1

well, it's important to learn how to organize and problem-solve independently, but it's also important to learn that you can & should ask for help when you need it. right? (looking at kawakami) RIGHT?

i miss becky so bad i need maid time soon

#failteacher yuri NOW #persona 3 #isako toriumi #persona 5 #sadayo kawakami #emergence of kitty kawakami... k.. kawakitty... <- bad job #it's “part 1” because i couldnt keep adding pages. so i guess i get no becky time next ep either. sighing and meowing

[butchkelev]

feeling like a pathetic boy tonight i would love to make out and pant and moan and grind and fuck till i sleep

#wouldn’t take long admittedly i am sleepy.! #man. man sigh. i took some pics today i’ll post later :P two different little sets nothin super special #wearing my glasses in them i guess that’s kind of new? #t4t nsft

[implalazz]

They r funny to me

#🔩.my twisted mind #🔩.my art #sure #I guess this qualifies as art #sad that this is the first & probably only dunmeshi fanart I’ll ever post #sigh….. #labru #laikabu #this was kind of based on a fic I read teehee :3 #mostly just my own faggotry though

[whollyjoly]

i was viscerally reminded of backwards ball cap!buck in jinx (4x06) and this demanded to be made

#i made this in like two minutes so now you all have to see it too #i love him your honor #AND GUESS WHAT!!! THIS IS CANON!!!!! #BI BUCK IS CANON!!!!! #still not over it actually #bi buck #evan buckley #911 abc #911 on abc #clown car support squad #y'all really enable my insanity and this is the outcome #idk whether to say thank you or your welcome or im sorry #em's memes #guess i gotta add this to the masterlist #sigh #mine