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panthermouthh · 4 months

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

#Frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic lit art #victor frankenstein #happy new year lads #ive been thinking about nothing else but them for the past 3 days #been trying to figure out a decent design for victor and i think im getting closer #he needs to have a cruelness to him #and he needs to be kind of pathetic #someone who the creature could snap in half yknow #and i need to make the creature more Mean looking but it just feels right to draw him sad and despairing #THAT BEING SAID i think i did a good job here hehe #henry is next :)))#my art #illustration

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blueboyluca · 10 months

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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

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samwwise · 8 months

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good omens 2 + @screenshotsofdespair

#goodomensedit #goodomensgifs #good omens #good omens 2 #screenshots of despair #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #honestly i wanted to have some fun but in the end it just made me sad #usercaptainflint #rainbowbonnet #userstede #myedits

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mushtoons · 7 months

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episode 9 is going to fucking kill us

#sorry sorry ik we said we were going into the void #but we got really sad and decided drawing fionna and cake would make us feel better #we were right #back to the void of despair we go /hj /lh #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake #winter king #candy queen #simon petrikov #adventure time #mycel doodles

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lei-llustrations · 6 months

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Master of Lotus Pier Master of my Heart

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#In the official art from ChangYang adult Jc has his hair half down so that’s my canon #I feel like in another universe JC probably had a Zuko yells at storm in despair moment #jiang cheng #sad purple uncle #mdzs #mdzs fanart #yunmeng shuangjie #jiang wanyin #my art

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annabelle--cane · 1 year

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"ugh I hate grimdark" well I love seeing fucked up shit. I want to see characters solely make each other worse in brand new and beautiful ways. I want events to go catastrophically wrong nearly every time and I only say "nearly" because I want there to be just enough hope that it can get brutally squashed at an unexpected tragedy. I want there to be no morally good characters, only fucked up little weasels. sorry.

#sad endings!!!! unclear moral lessons!!!!! indulgence in despair!!!!!!#marina marvels at life

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oodlesodoodles · 8 months

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I couldnt finish. Got too sad.

#Disco elysium #So at first i didnt have an idea for an end panel that was kinda cheesey looking and so i was just going to leave it #But then i was like what even is this? Is it a declaration of despair? Is it some kind of masturbation? Is it fake doom tourism?#So i wasnt going to post it. It just felt cruel and inappropriate #But then i was like if even a fictional bombing serves a purpose at all its to radicalize the youth #Thats annette at the end btw. Besides the lorry drivers shes probably the only one not there at the time #Its a declaration of despair btw #Im so sad #Oh fuck i forgot to tag #Hanging #Death #Flashbacks

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koraesrambles · 7 months

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Batman #138

Just kill me now. Throw me into the sun. Rip out my insides. Any of that would be less painful than this panel. I want to die. I want to hug a huge murder man. I want to cry. I want Dick to show up and hug this huge murder man. Someone save him. Someone help him. THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE.

My baby 😭

#Batman 138 #batman spoilers #gotham war spoilers #jason todd #red hood #I'm still loving gotham wars because I like sadness and despair #seriously want to cry #my baby boooooooy

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buttfrovski · 7 months

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did.. he wear a suit for stan's birthday?

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#i'm prolly like the last person on earth to notice this #south park #butters stotch #stan marsh #if it was mentioned in the episode i wouldnt remember #i don't want to remember #this episode makes me horribly sad and i will be inconsolable for days on end #the irrevocable despair that episode bestows me could make frankenstein weep

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nefertiti-fooling-fellow · 8 months

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What if Aziraphale knew what kind of effect it would have when he offered to restore Crowley to full angelic status. What if Crowley walking away was what he wanted? What he needed to keep him safe? Aziraphale just never expected the kiss.

What if “Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death,” wasn’t just the name of a coffee shop, but also a threat? What if all of the lies we saw him told (Job’s children…The Miracle…), the performances we saw him put on (The Jane Austen ball…the Magician act) was all a lead up to his biggest lie yet? “You’re demons, you’re evil.”

What if that was what Aziraphale thought he needed to do to keep Crowley from putting himself in danger to “rescue” him one last time?

What if Aziraphale didn’t want to reform Heaven so much as he wanted to rip it up by the roots and tear it apart, so it can never hurt Crowley again?

What if he knew.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce #this is a whole lot of nothing #my brain is a melted cocktail of despair and sadness #I needed season 3 like yesterday #it’s fun to speculate #but I think that it’s also an incredible character arc if Aziraphale truly still believed Heaven could still be changed #BUT it’s suspicious as hell that we never actually saw Aziraphale’s reaction to the Metatron’s initial offer #im just SAYING. ITS SUSPICIOUS #And I also just love BAMF!Aziraphale marching into Heaven to fuck it UP

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aquapede · 3 months

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oh damsel we're really in it now

#slay the princess #stp #the damsel #stp the damsel #scribbles #her portraits right before the shifting mound takes her makes my heart hurt #the way she leans into the cup of the hand. so desperate to be palatable and loved but that gentle touch makes her look almost sad #but not entirely despairing just. theres a desperation and pain but also relief #princess i love you. slams my fists against the wall #EDIT: FORGOT THE IMAGE ID WHOOPS. its there now

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strawlessandbraless · 10 months

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Dean Winchester is Saved!

Headcanon where Castiel broadcasted ‘Dean Winchester is saved’ twice. Once when he raised the righteous man from hell, and again when he sacrificed himself for the man he loved ✨

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fearandhatred · 6 months

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i will never be able to describe how angel crowley makes me feel. but it's like feeling the emotions of 15 different hozier songs at once and that should tell you how serious it is for me

#fearandhatred #it's like fondness but also sadness and despair and longing and bittersweetness and also confusion for some reason and did i mention sadness #good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley #angel crowley

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hajihiko · 1 year

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Yall ready for angst

let's see if THIS readmore works yknow what no no readmore. We suffer