#the story and characters immaculate

[mikuyuuss]

“You'll see my face in every place

But you can't catch me now”

#this makes me want to revisit the og trilogy bc i feel like i wasnt able to fully appreciate it as a kid #lucy gray baird #the hunger games #tbosbas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #thg fanart #hunger games #my art #coriolanus snow #tbosbas fanart #snowbaird #so i just watched this movie and loved it all #the cast and acting??? chefs kiss #the story and characters immaculate #the outfits ! #their dynamic… interesting also lucy is such a mood stan women in arts #rachel zegler #tom blyth #tbosas

[viikkah]

Lady Gaga as The Countess

|Not mine - all credits to the original gifmakers|

#american horror story #ahs #ahs hotel #the countess #elizabeth cortez #lady gaga #absolute queen #goddess #ahs fandom #lgtbq characters #ahs: hotel #mother monster #beautiful ppl #iconic #all credits to the original gifmakers #not mine #queen 👑 #her style is immaculate #celebs #horror #women of horror

[96percentdone]

It is deeply frustrating to me that it is a relatively common opinion that Amame murdering Uru was a moral good because it was "justice", and she "stopped Uru." To be clear, they're right that he needed to be stopped. His plan was evil, whether he has the sanity to parse that or not (and he demonstrably does not), but I think that's entirely beyond the point of the claims about the morality of Amame's actions. Whether or not Uru was in the wrong (he was by every possible metric) is not a worthwhile question to ask when it comes to evaluating what justice is.

First, and I cannot emphasize this enough, Amame literally didn't stop him. She just objectively didn't! Yes, he died, but the present day half of the plot plays out fucking anyway because it turns out the genocidal maniac had contingency plans to carry out his scheme! His guys do it for him! He says in his own tapes he planned for this just in case! Is that stopping him? The Nirvana Initiative gets as far as the genocide missile launching before his plan is actually ended. I cannot stress this enough; ya boi straight up almost won at KILLING EVERYONE posthumously. Sorry, but the in universe team "Amame did nothing wrong" is like suffering terminal hindsight bias, which is hilarious, because all of them were literally there when Uru almost killed everyone on the earth from beyond the grave.

Moreover, because Amame (and Gen who is helping her) spend that entire period of time trying to keep the murder a secret, she ends up actively getting in the way of stopping his plan until on the day of the initiative she finally steps forward because she can't take the pressure and the guilt any longer. She keeps critical information about the exact problem they are dealing with--like the fact that the guy they're looking for is fucking dead--a secret on purpose! Whether or not the police would have gotten anywhere faster if he lived is irrelevant; her actions for what actually happened made things worse. And there's a good reason for this! It's the same reason she is utterly ravaged by guilt for her own actions, despite how hard she tries to convince herself and the world she has no regrets: murder is always wrong, and Amame wanted revenge.

Revenge murder really isn't this incredible healing force people can hype it up to be in their heads. Amame says she went because she wanted to hear what he had to say. She wanted closure. Now of course he's severely out of his mind and everything he said in that moment pissed her off, understandable, and she'd have to wait like 100 years for him to maybe parse he was wrong, so okay, but did the revenge work? "I'm going to make you suffer the same pain..." She waits for him to be conscious when she kills him, she is explicitly out to make him hurt, but like...was it actually effective? No, lmao. The funny thing is, that first line we see of that flashback where she kills him is Uru referencing his own torture: "Yes, this world is an imperfect one. I was put through much hardship." At this point, even if he didn't tell her the details, we the players know he was held prisoner in a cell for over two decades and had his organs harvested so frequently anesthetics stopped working on him. We are being deliberately reminded of this fact so that when Amame says her classic one-liner, we'll know it was for nothing.

Revenge isn't justice. You can convince yourself that it will be satisfying, it's what he deserves, it's what you deserve to do, but what's left when it's over? What did you really gain? Amame didn't gain anything. This didn't heal her at all. She still mourns her father the same, only now she has to deal with new, worse problems of her own making. She spends the last of her free days catatonic from fear and guilt, she hates that she betrayed Shouma and Gen and her actions will force her to leave them, because she lost sight of what matters most in the name of punishment. It will never matter that Uru was wrong. Amame killed Uru for the same reasons he killed her father, and Horadori, and Jin; how could she ever be right? The fallout of her actions on her own psyche and on the world at large is the greatest proof of that.

If your definition of justice is just "we destroyed the bad guy most responsible for the problem" your definition of justice is worthless. The world is not meaningfully made better by punishing wrongdoers, but by healing the social and political ills that lead to their creation and that ravage to the victims they left behind.

#hope.txt #doi amame #amame doi #aini #nirvana initiative #aitsf #my meta #truly the most frustrating part of this is this is a common opinion with amame likers #and its like #do you guys actually like the character that was written or what #do you respect her story at all #do you respect the immaculate tragedy to her writing at all or just the idea of sad killer girl uwu #i forgot to tag uru #to be fair to me tho im the only bitch who posts in there #uru somezuki #somezuki uru

[bluest-planet]

Saw spidiverse when it came out Thursday and it went so hard, possibly one of my favorite movies ever, I love everyone in it and I'm excited for next year (I think?) When they release the followup!

That being said. Team chaiflower. It's so cute.

#blue speaks #across the spiderverse #ig? #uh and #chaiflower #might do smth with that #this goes by saying that gwen is absolutely in love with miles just as he is with her make no mistake i love those two #but this is what fanon and fanfic is for #Pavitr is Miles' besties to maybe more 👀 in my mind like #u can so easily do the 'you saves and helped me in my time of need so il do the same ive got ur back' and theyre just both so #cute #genuinely got me being like omg the 4 kids can be poly actually heart WARMED but also theyre all amazing platonic besties #the chemistry between actors? IMMACULATE #they genuinely seem like such a neat group all 4 together that they can have any dynamic #which is so hard to pull off with 4 characters w/o it falling a lil flat or one sided #and even if they dont all share the same amount of screen time #they have SUCH an impact on the story and themes and on each other i just #chefs kiss

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

anyway I just finished replaying red dead redemption 1 and holy fucking shit it’s about how in the end john never found redemption even though he did everything right and everything he was supposed to and how he was still killed for his past crimes and sins. it’s about how john and abigail did all this for their son so he could live the life he deserved and not grow up in violence and abuse like they did, it’s about how jack resented his father for leaving and was scared he’d do it again but how he nonetheless looked up to him and all he wanted to do was make his father proud. about how had has dreams about being a politician, a writer, an adventurer and in the end gave it all up and became an outlaw to avenge his father, which is the last thing john ever wanted him to be. but he did it for his father, for love, and for revenge, and thus continuing the circle of violence . it’s about the undeniably tragedy of it all.

#this game is SO GOOD and I HATE IT SO MUCH #stupid tragedy game making me feel a lot of stupid feelings why did I finish it in the middle of the night that was stupid. #now I’m just sitting here being devasted and I have waaay to many thoughts to be able to sleep. #they were soooo INSANE for making this game #it’s no wonder it’s one of the best games ever despite some pretty big flaws #but the story is soooo immaculate #again I can’t believe they made this game in 2010 and it’s still so renowned and it’s just as good and enjoyable as it was #back then. like it’s been 12 years and it’s still holds up and it’s just amazing. #(rdr2 actually added some more depth to certain characters which makes the 1st even more impactful) #but my point still stand; A HELL OF A GAME!!!! #devestating tragedies where the character was doomed from the start my beloved <3 #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 1 #red dead redemption 2 #john marston #abigail marston #jack marston #rdr1 #rdr2

[pawthorn]

Every time I think, “Damn, why is Brennan so good at actual play,” I remember that he spent hours and hours each day playing one on one and group rpgs with growing up.

Like, the equivalent of a piano prodigy, but for finding dramatic story arcs, building complex characters that fit the narrative so very well, and staying in the pocket of role play to devastating effect.

#brennan lee mulligan #there are many awesome rp-ers right now #few have the triple threat of #1) immaculate character creation #2) dramatic story-beat awareness #3) in-character decisiveness/ knowing EXACTLY what their character thinks and would do moment to moment #it’s brennan and lou and aabria and emily and travis and jasmine #actually murph too #to be clear my very favs aren’t this way #like zac and tal are slower and a bit less flashy and really compelling to me #but dang is it compelling to watch people who are like fireworks in actual play

[wickedhawtwexler]

i think the main reason i never write fantasy is because i'm always too lazy to come up with magic systems, so i make shit up on the fly and it's always absolutely insane

#“what's your story about?” “dark magic” “what kind of dark magic?” “idk. some kinda spooky shit” #the vibes are immaculate. my characters are all insane women. the plot? i don't know her #m.txt

[esthelle18]

I—

holy—

y’all this episode is a HYPE TRAIN

#interstitial infinity #this might be my favorite episode yet for the sheer amount of character growth/regression everybody’s getting #and the action/atmosphere #mob going 100 was incredible and it somehow wasn’t even the most intense development #it’s increasingly obvious that this group is genuinely dedicated to one another’s characters and overall story fulfillment and it’s FUN #between shadow and audrey co-lecturing mob and al wrangling small apex kids #the ‘emergency parenting’ vibes are immaculate today #trish is in her villain era and I love that for her but I’m scared to find out what her number is #the active in-character use of meta and genre awareness is extremely clever #also #the team dynamic keeps shifting and it’s fascinating. like a multi-genre kaleidoscope #I am now even more commited to these relationships I didn’t know existed before this podcast

[kenway]

playing aitsf. it’s very good

#ha ha funny jokes aside the story and gameplay are fun and mizuki is an immaculate character

[karmelarts]

my dnd group disbanded a few months back and i never got to complete my character arc:’( anyway here’s some character designs i did bc i have nowhere else to put them

#caleb’s story was going to be IMMACULATE #mel says stuff #art #character design #dnd #dungeons and drawings

[james-stark-the-writer]

oh. praying for her lmao, girlie, best to get off of socials while you can, for your own sanity.

and the rest of you lot, don't fucking watch the show. especially not with how zionist the game narrative was.

#james talks #the last of us #tlou #interesting casting choice ig but let's see if her performance will be as mediocre as Pedro's or as immaculate as Bella's #it looks more and more like S02 will be young Abby training and Ellie in Jackson so it'll be exploring shit the games didn't #i mean i'm probably not gonna watch it given all the zionism of the sequel as much as i think it's a masterpiece— #but it is interesting at least. #i think it's likely they either end S02 with THE scene or when Abby gets a lead about them during Christmas and S03 is the actual game #i mean i think it'll be a proper fucking disaster more than likely bc TLOU2's story would fundamentally never be the same bc of how much— #the first season changed every character's purpose and how much TLOU2 relied on familiar cycles and ideas how Ellie's character arc's— #potential was butchered bc she and Joel just do not have the relationship for the story of Part II to make any fucking sense in this world— #and Dina's dream was just stolen and given to Joel in S01 bc that was something they wanted to do in S02 ig and make Dina even less of a— #character and i don't think i want to see them butcher it even more than they did the story of the first game— #(and you can look up my thoughts on that on my 'the last of us' tag if you want) #especially bc of how much i adore the second game even beyond how much of it is framed in a zionist lens.

[wildflowercryptid]

would you guys still like me if i said galar was one of my favorite regions? you probably wouldn't... whatever... just forget it.... 😔

#listen the game and story has some major problems but i had a blast playing it and really ended up loving it #i feel like the biggest draw of galar is the characters. they're all very fun and their designs? immaculate. 😩 #(this does not apply to the royal twins /lh) #also it's the first game i've ever completed the dex for! #and the first pkmn game i've got both versions of the game for (i got shield secondhand) #ngl i feel like a lot of ppl are too harsh on it #i wouldn't be surprised if it ended up having a fandom resurgence later on like dppt unova or kalos have #and i will be the hipster scoffing in the corner #jk i'll just be happy that ppl actually enjoy galar like i do #the actual reason why ya'll would stop liking me is that i'm a borderline rose apologist #(i still think he's a shitty dude but i do think he has the potential to be redeemable.) #(that opinion might change once we get the pokemas's galar villain arc.) #pokemon #mj.txt

[darth-does-stuff]

my second piece for @ts-storytime's 2022 big bang! please please go check out @the-panmixxia they are an incredibly fun and cool person!! this piece was so fun to draw

#they werent able to finish their story but!! from what i had read they have incredibly writing skills and you should 100% check them out #god i absolutely loved drawing this #i havent drawn armor before that much and it surprisingly turned out?? really fucking well? #and it was fun!! gold star 10/10 a+ #wasnt able to color it because my schedule was. augh #but i absolutely love this piece #ts storytime 2022 submission #ts storytime 2022 #sanders sides #ts #ts roman #roman sanders #ts patton #patton sanders #i wanted to add logan as well but i had no time rip #i may come back to this piece and fully finish it.... #but for now take these two dumbasses <3 /pos #btw their character designs for this? immaculate i loved all of them sm #tumblr stop eating my quality CHALLENGE

[coconut530]

ohhhhhh everyone stop what you’re doing and go read The Sandman: Waking Hours

#The Sandman: Waking Hours #The Sandman: Waking Hours Spoilers #The Sandman #god #this has to be one of the best Sandman stories ever #First off the a r t #I simply cannot get over it #Second like the characters #Ruin is precious cinnamon roll boi I adore him so much and I’m so happy for how everything turned out for him #Jophiel oh my goodness like the coolest angel friend you could ever have #Heather we love our sorceress girls with strange names #And HER GREAT GRANDPARENTS whaaaaaaa #DANIEL #I LOVE DANIEL #Just him combined with the immaculate art style is like my favorite thing #He had some sick outfits #And this was also the first like realll story I read that’s like just him and his exploits in the dreaming so it was cool to see him #characterized formally like this #All of these plot points coming together with new ones AUGH so good #Honorable mention Lindy is best mom she’s so cool I want to be her #The ending was all I could ever want in anything #I may draw Ruin or Daniel in the coming days #Who knows when you’ll see it but I will do it #Go read this guys #Seriously #Well read Sandman proper first #Then this #perfect short evening read

[existingtm]

Biggest grievance is that MochiJun is not legally allowed to rewrite Harry Potter and have it published

#it would be immaculate #the story would be unparalleled #can you imagine the characters in her style #her art would be perfect for the aesthetic #harry potter #mochijun #jun mochizuki #pandora hearts #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas

[holocephal1]

i am once again drawing ghosts fic fanart

this time, a few doodles of @spacerangersam's great fic The Haunting of Button Manor, which i absolutely loved reading- its such a clever idea, and so well executed ^^

#im having a little too much fun #but its okay #ghosts #ghosts fanart #bbc ghosts #the brainrot continues #theyre just so fun to draw. i love this story and the characters in it the vibes are immaculate #i wanted to draw clover but i couldnt get it looking right :< #its ok