#they were all doomed from the very start

[bardicblast]

Van der Linde Isaac - "CoS is actually a western" is such a concept ever since i saw somebody pointing that out i kept thinking about it

i rant about the redesign a bit:

so i went ahead and redesigned him to fit the rdr2 setting entirely, i cant give him a full on wolf arm, so i gave him burn scars on his face, that he hides all the time with a scarf or a bandana. hat in the back to replace the hoodie's shape. he is most comfortable using the rolling block rifle plus a knife. he would probably play a lot of five finger fillet.

plus, he gets his arm blown off at one point (not from finger fillet!! i swear), probably during the saint denis robbery, then dies during the guarma chapter, bc there is no way he would survive longer than that

also i cant have him choose sides at chapter 6 when i know he has blind loyalty

#dnd #red dead redemption 2 #curse of strahd #dnd art #dnd bard #dnd character #artists on tumblr #dungeons and dragons #rdr2 #rdr2 fanart #rdr2 oc #this game is so damn good #mashing my two interests together and coming out with these that only cater to me only dfghhj no thoughts only cowboys #i became too attached to the van der linde gang and now that im at ch6 i feel so devastated bc of recent events #they were all doomed from the very start #just like us in CoS wooooo #not me drawing him in maximum detail for a silly au #isaac i will get you a character card style illustration one day i swear #btw in this au it was his friend who burned his face:) i am withholding his lore until i finish that one drawing

[raiiny-bay]

alien emoji

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 render #sims 4 #myedits #AUverse #bow #dhestyn #kelly #sue #gaston #good news i didn't forget how to make things #this still isn't the band edit i had planned to do but idk it's kind of fun i guess #i used the blender compositor for some of the effects :-) #looking at it now it kind of ended up being an unintentional remake of that one bandAU edit i did forever ago #i never did like that one #the lighting was. not good. #but anyway! look at me posting my other OCs for once! #stella & marky are not in the band but #stella sells merch for them at their shows & marcus very lovingly tells them how much their music sucks #btw they actually are a band in canon. they perform in their high school talent show & everything #they don't get big at all though & they kind of just... give up on it after a while #kel is the only one out of the 5 of em who actually knows anything about making music #so they were doomed from the start really #this AU is literally the exact same as canon but they get mildly famous #probably played at warped tour or something when that was still a thing lol

[introspectivememories]

NICO: WE SHARED THE LIFT THIS MORNING! I WAS GOING TO THE POOL TRAMPOLINE WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS AND HE WAS GOING TO THE RACETRACK. PINKHAM: VERY DIFFERENT LIVES YOU'RE CURRENTLY LEADING.

#that line from nico is like /the/ modern brocedes thesis to me #like this is their happy ending!!! it is not the one they dreamed of all those years ago in greece but is a happy ending. #it's not multiple shared championships or racing against each other for years or anything their 13 year-old-selves would've dreamed up but #it is them achieving their dreams. lewis has 7 wdcs and is aiming for an 8th. nico has a loving wife and 2 daughters he'd die for. they are #both doing the things they love. would it have been nice if those dreams included each other? yeah. would it have been nice that when ppl #mention their names it would be to talk about what great friends they are instead of how they tore each other apart? absolutely! but they #were doomed from the start. so maybe it doesn't matter that they didn't get their traditional 'happy ending'. at least they had a happy #start and a semi-happy middle. at least they have the lift to see each other. at least nico's daughters get to keep lewis in their lives in #a way nico will never get to again. they will never share a bowl of frosties again but at least their roots are so thoroughly tangled #together that they can never look back without haunting each other. at least they still have that. #anyway for all the non-americans who reblog or like this. the poem is 'the road not taken' by robert frost. very famous in america #every middle/high schooler has to analyze/read this poem at some point. i don't know how popular he is outside of america so i thought id #leave a note ig. #anyway. i am going crazy and i need to lie down. that 2nd line was sooo hard to find a photo for. wth does 'hence' even mean??? #brocedes edit #brocedes #f1 web weaving #f1 #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #f1 edit #nr6 #lh44 #web weaving

[americanprometheuss]

i can literally talk abt them and their doomed love story for HOURSSSS

#rhaenyra targaryen #asoiaf #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #dance of the dragons #team black #team green #a song of ice and fire #hotd #sapphic #wlw #were they doomed from the very start? yes but do i love them all the same? yes. #grrm you silly man…the things we could have had… #if nobody got me i know the rhaenicent shippers got me

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

alright chat . it's time for "dissecting the inherent tragedy of transformers: botbots and the relationships in them":

toxic doomed yuri edition ( referring to these two ↑ )

(yes, i made this picmix myself 4 this. i have no regrets. also no tl;dr because you guys NEED to read this)

something i want y'all to understand is that it is Not about the idea that spud wasn't loved. he was VERY much loved by everyone, ESPECIALLY burgertron.

the whole point is that he sabotaged himself in the process of ruining someone else's life, someone who valued him and his word above others. he and burgertron BOTH let their ego get in the way of their personal lives, the only difference is that burgertron at least had the dignity to swallow his pride and apologise when it mattered most.

He gave spud a second chance because he loved him. because he recognised that he does deserve redemption, and above all else, he wants spud to know he cares, even if that means he'll never see him again, or they'll never be friends. (Even in light of the "sidekick" comment, i genuinely don't think he held any inherent malice in that statement. even if burgs was an egotist, he still loved him.)

the worst thing burgertron did in their relationship was be unaware, and im sure that despite his ego, he never meant for spud to get hurt. that's why he went out of his way to protect him, when he couldve just stood there and let spud get put on the back of a truck to never be seen again. it would have been easy.

but he didn't. he did the hard thing. the Right thing. he stood up for someone who never did the same for him.

Spud Was Loved. Spud Is loved. and sometimes love isn't going to look pretty, or manifest in holding hands and cuddling, and it isn't all rainbows and sunshine. it can hurt. it can be letting go of someone who you hurt by accident, who you never meant to harm, but it happened anyways because you made the fatal mistake of being oblivious.

And that's what Burgertron did. he let Spud go, because he understood they both needed time to heal on their own terms. regardless of if he's mad at him or not, he does still harbor positive feelings for him, and he stood up for him during times he probably shouldn't have. If he ACTUALLY hated spud, he wouldn't have stuck his neck out for him at bot prom. or believe spud when he was lying through his teeth in the games.

And that's what makes them so tragic. perhaps in another world, another life, they'd have been Actual good friends, who truly stuck by each other. maybe things would have been different.

But we'll never know that now, will we?

#botbots tag 🏪 #tf botbots #botbots #transformers botbots #media analysis #character analysis #picmix #gif warning #burgertron #spud muffin #they make me feel SHRIMP emotions you dobt GET IT #they were DOOMED from the start not of their own volition but because of other people deciding what their roles were going to be #and they obviously coped with that in their own very different ways that clashed with one another!!!!!! #but despite all of that burgertron is still WILLING to pick up the pieces if it means spud is going to be ok #because it's not about his ego or fame anymore. it's about how much he loves his friends even if their dynamic is soured #their breakup was messy and awful and resulted in a lot of pain #but he's not going to let his anger get the best of him: he WANTS spud to get better #he wants HIMSELF to get better #i want season 2 so fucking bad holy shit PLEASE #the themes of loss and growth are so important in this show it has just hit me #FUCKKKKKKK #im gonna be insane about this forever

[skitskatdacat63]

I'm looking at 2009 vettonso pics with cofi rn and they're so AUGHHHHH 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Seriously like, calm before the storm, they don't know what's going to happen in the following seasons, they're quite cute with each other, etc. Actually their dynamic in these is similar to what they were like in the later years but the difference of "not knowing what's gonna happen yet" vs. "they've been through so much together and have both come out on the other side."

I mean I'm so vettonso-brained rn, as you know, so take this with a grain of salt, but for me it's like, Fernando looking at Seb like "hmmm who is this rookie, he reminds me of myself when I was in his position"

STOP BEING SO SOFT, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME 😭😭😭

#my personal thesis on vettonso is: #'two people who are very similar and have very paralleled careers but have been pitted against each other + #from the start so they cant see and appreciate those similarities because irs what they hate most about the other + #but then when they're both in the twilights of their careers they come to find they do in fact relate and like each other' #always interesting to me how their careers are slightly offset but parallel each other super well #but then the theoretical end is seb being accepting of his fate and passing the torch onto fernando so he can do what seb couldnt #but just the: baby at str/minardi youngest wdc -> ferrari failure and watchinf the new generation take over -> sent out to pasture kinda #sorry that is sooooooo depressing how i jjst wrote that LMAO #but again so so so happy that fernando is over here breaking the cycle and plotline by doing the things at Aston that seb was unable to #anf that hes onlt able to do those things because of all thw work seb put in 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #feeling emotional today over THEM #theres just something to me how simialr they are but how they were forced into conflict #bcs looking at all of these 2009 pics. look at the potential of softness!!!! but they were always doomed to be enemies #anyways #in the au this would be them meeting before they know about the succession drama #theyre just two young royals who are meeting for a bit 🥺🥺🥺 #and theyre like ah this guy!! pretty cool!!! and then it all falls apart #vettonso #catie.rambling.txt

[bobzora]

it's always funny to me when people misunderstand akechi's main/only motivation/plan to be like. just killing his father because dude if that Was his plan everyone would be in a much better position. like everyone would be way better off. Instead,

#bobtalk #p5 spoilers #very very common misunderstanding. however *insert engine room scene here* #like that would be the typical way of going about things yes. and very probably way way easier also. however. when is he ever typical #the plan is so so so so so so so so so so so so stupid. and has so much collateral damage. it's all very tragic you know. lol. #akc voice im going to bring him to the peak of his career and reveal that im his son! he couldnt do any of this without me!! #ill ruin him forever!! #shido voice cant wait to have him killed <-knew he was his son from the beginning because he looks just like his mother. #it was utterly doomed from the very start. he killed all those people and ruined all those lives for a whole lot of nothing(tm) #akc voice i am in control here. i am in control of this. i've one over on him. <-does he know (he does not know) #akc voice look at me!! look at me!! no look away!! i cant stand you!! look at me!! #like hm. yeah you made this plan when you were 15 or so didn't you. #i think about him like an unordinary amount. if you were curious. i have lots of thoughts about this guy. #a lot of them. a lot a lot of them. hope this helps

[little-devil-town]

they are so important to me,,

#ough what if we were doomed from the start but chose to define our own relationship against all odds.. #what if you were created to replace another but found a way to love anyway..what if we could be together despite the history we have... #sorry I finished episode2 and im having thoughts about them LMAO #they're a QPR btw #not friends not dating but a secret third thing that they wont tell you #little devil town #beebo speaks #lucid #puppet #qpr #queer platonic relationship #it is so important to me that people recognize thats what their relationship is- #like they act very much romantic towards one another dont get me wrong #they love each other more than life itself #but they dont want to define their relationship in the 'typical' way if that makes sense #im rambling smile

[puppyeared]

uhh. uhhhhh

#realistically i knw that if i went thru with making animatics for all of these songs I think my hand would fall off BUT. i have brainrot #half of these songs are either here bc of the vibe or because i listened to the lyrics and read analyses and put 2 much effort than i had t #ALSO LISTEN. LISTEN BODYBAG IS EXACTLY EVERYTHING I IMAGINE WHENEVER I THINK OF WUKONG AND MACAQUES RELATIONSHIP OK #two birds and baby hotline is also kind of self explanatory. although most of the jack stauber songs are mostly for vibe #bitter water is a very specific flavor of pining / unhealthy outlook. kind of has like an insatiable vibe to it but idk how to name it #i want soap to be a healing song but maybe im just being optimistic. im here for the vibes although i feel like if swk and macaque were #actually to make up i think they would go into it kicking and screaming. and im frustrated because i cant find a song to match that #except maybe bodybag which AGAIN. THEY ARE SO FUCKING STUPID THATS HOW THEYRE GONNA HEALL FLYING BARK PLS #what if it doesnt end well also feels like a doomed narrative to me. like if you think about it from how their relationship might have st #started (and im probably taking from how everyone romanticizes their relationship as something really innocent or sweet at the start which #i am also not immune to that). but knowing them it is also a very good possibility thats not the case at all. what it is i dont know #primadonna also strikes me as a swk song but like msotly because he serves cunt. on that note I like to imagine rose colored boy as swk to #MK.BECAUSEEE i love how MK brings out the best in people AND AND AND!! 5000 year old immortal who has seen some shit come on people 'and i #have taken my glasses off' COME ON LOOK ATIT. you could also argue that could be macaque to MK and it would make sense #Spotify #Lego Monkie kid #lmk #yapping #playlist #monkie kid

[orc-apologist]

it's funny how when you'll give actual explanations as to why people are racist or transphobic or something similar, like how that happens and why it's happening now out of all times, that go beyond "white people/cishet people evil" so many people will instantly attack you for "apologia"

I think it kinda comes from this idea that identity politics has pushed that people of the unmarked categories like male white and cishet can't possibly struggle with things in life. but economic crises, which we have been in for 16 years now, affect everyone that's not part of the ruling class. prolonged economic instability alienates people from the status quo, from established parties, rhetoric and such. they begin to look elsewhere for solutions. the powers that be know to counteract this with reactionary politics. using scapegoating they'll promise the return to an (often imaginary) better yesterday, the very definition of reactionary politics.

these ideas sound plausible and actionable. things used to be better after all. those scapegoats used to not be there (as visibly) after all.

the way of solving this isn't to go "waaahh people are evil and fascism is back, woe is me" but to a) point out that these reactionary politics are not going to solve the problem because they are not the cause b) point out the actual cause of the problem (capitalism) c) offer actual alternatives (organizing, strikes, expropriating the bourgeoisie, and eventually total labor democracy)

#and no fascism isn't back and it's not going to be back in most of the western world #there's a difference between a military or police dictatorship which is what the US might degenerate into under trump #and actual fascism #most of the things everyone points to as fascist aren't actually fascist they're just reactionary #even genocide isn't unique to fascism. israel for example is a liberal democracy and it's still committing genocide. #all you need for genocide is a class society. its political manifestation is irrelevant tho some forms are certainly easier to do a genocid #in #it's important to understand that so you have no illusions in liberal democracy which is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie #fascism isn't this generally evil society that we are constantly at the brink of falling back into #it was a very specific historical phenomenon #in which the petty bourgeoisie were used by totalitarian reactionaries as a battering ram against the working class #to violently suppress labor organization strikes and the potential downfall of capitalism and the rise of socialism #that was its role in germany italy and spain #it wouldn't work anymore today in the western world because the petty bourgeoisie has dwindled in numbers #as they are doomed to in the monopolization process of capitalist market anarchy #they are no longer a significant percentage of the population and no longer have the numbers to suppress the working class like that #because that's what differentiates fascism from a military dictatorship for example #a military dictatorship is a small group of people violently wrangling control of the state from its current holders #and abusing ALL of society for their personal gain. including the ruling class. marxists call this bonapartism #because napoleon bonaparte was the first to do so under capitalism #most importantly this means a military dictatorship does not have a mass base and relies on ruling by the sword #which makes it highly unstable and turns all of society against it #fascism was so dangerous because it DID have a mass base! the petty bourgeoisie! #vast amounts of them were in total support of fascist rule and actively pursued it. it wasn't just a small group of people. #this made the systems a lot more stable and a lot more powerful because they had large parts of society at their bidding #that sort of power and stability can no longer occur because their social base has mostly disappeared #they can whip up enough reactionary anger in the working class to perhaps GET to power #but as soon as a fascist politician starts going after unions strikes wages #launching the incredibly direct attacks against the working class that fascism always did #that voter base is going to turn against them very quickly

[scattered-winter]

adashi.........arkos......................i think i have a Type......

#and that type is relationships that were Doomed By The Narrative from the Very Start #god. godddd god god god god god god im thinking about arkos again. they were so fucked in the head for fucking real oh my god #adashi doesnt make me as insane as arkos does just because the doomed by the narrative insane adashi lives in my head Only #but arkos????? brother i get to see pyrrha be doomed by the narrative and then haunt every moment of the narrative after her death #On The Fucking Screen. #like what the fuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #rwby was fucked in the HEAD for leaving an actual physical space for pyrrha in every single jnpr scene after she died oh my god. #fucked. in. the. head. #godddddddddddddd this is gonna be an all day thing huh. god damn it i wanted to WRITE tonight but instead im gonna be crying. #neat neat cool we love this. we love this sooo much. #oh forever fall sung by casey williams from rwby volume 6 we're REALLY IN IT NOW #winter speaks #rwby #arkos #adashi #voltron

[heiressofdoodles]

Do you ever look at your character designs closer and their actions and realize you've accidentally doomed them from the start? That somehow their own fate had wormed its way into what they do and look like long before anything even happens to them?

#no like legit #Aeon is a black (dark blue) cat which are associated with bad luck #Kaseki has purple fur which is an evil color in Japanese culture #Kamenshi has very dark blue feathers and could be considered to be a raven or crow #all of which are associated with general bad luck and doom #i just never noticed until now that i somehow got across the idea that they were all doomed from the start #especially Galacta Knight because I imagine him to be an owl #yet another omen of death and dispair! #how did i not notice #galacta knight #aeon #kaseki #kamenshi #character design #character creation

[nightingaletrash]

The thing about Marian is that Anders - someone she never really liked or got along with, and whom she eventually hated and executed - continues to haunt her.

In the ‘Flemeth rescues Hawke from the Fade’ theory/hc, Marian ends up on the same path that Anders walked. She does the very thing she condemned him for; she allows herself to become possessed by a spirit of justice (because Mythal certainly was one, change my mind), and now she seeks the avenge a historic (and personal) wrong by bringing about a reckoning, one that will almost certainly result in countless deaths for which there can be no forgiveness.

And if I know Marian, it’ll be a job to convince her that she’s anything like Anders now. And even if she knows, she doesn’t care anymore.

#da2 #dai #marian hawke #anders #he's literally her ghost he's haunting her even after all these years #she never really liked him and even years on she feels completely justified in killing him #but he's haunting her and she's becoming him and they were both doomed from the very start #because one longed for freedom and the other caught the eye of a witch

[erstwhilesparrow]

"today my Fun And Chill Evening Activity will be watching those last couple of double life session 6 povs i wanted to watch and then i will do footnotes!" i said to myself. i was too optimistic!! it turns out, my actual Fun And Chill Activity tonight will be lying face down on the floor weeping and wailing about scott and pearl!!

#sparrowsong #they *almost* reconciled!! they got THIS close!! #they made each other laugh and they talked about their feelings and they were working together and #it was STILL so very much the thing it was!! #“ough... they were doomed from the start.... wahhhh....” <- guy who fully knew they were doomed from the start #in fact. guy who WANTED them to be doomed from the start #me sowing vs me reaping etc etc #i had already been spoiled for the ending and YET. here i am! so very sad despite all my foreknowledge!! #double life

[orcelito]

And NOW brain is in too much "!!!" Mode to even Attempt to write

It's OK it wasn't in writing mode tonight anyways

#speculation nation #it's like if you had a wandering cat that u were trying to corral into a gate #but then someone hung tuna on the roof so like HELL that cat's going in that gate now #honestly at this point i should just try to sleep hfkshfj i did not sleep very well last night #TOOOOOTALLY not bc of my Monster Consumption at 8-10pm. of course not. #....yea writing was doomed from the start today. BUT i have a very good scene idea and i am going to really enjoy what happens #all u guys need to know for it rn is goro listening in on a phone convo with the exact face of '>:/?' #disgruntled confusion. im gonna have so much fun playing that out. #IF I GO TO SLEEP NOW then maybe i can get some writing done in the morning. we'll see 🤔 #discacc shit

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

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#girl i have so many teshes thoughts its INSANE #me starting with haha actually this ship has no basis i just want to Put Tesilid Through It #but over the past few months of brainrotting their dynamic is now like. #what if we were doomed from the start and there was never anything either of us could do to save the other #(not even talking about the regression but rather the stigma bearer thing and how they have no social power) #(but also the regression thing) #what if we loved each other throughout all the lifetimes but there could never be a happy ending. tragedy dogs our footsteps #what if we were 'guy who has a good head on his shoulders and recognises our low social positions and looks out for his friends in similar #predicaments' x 'guy who is way too giving and this is bad bc the world is out to get him and he loves ppl too much to care about #the danger to himself' #what if we were 'guy who is way too giving' x 'guy who wants to protect him but Cant' #doomed ships..... #swings hestio around i like you SO much. i need to put you under a microscope and in a fish tank #(statements that should not ever be viewed by people outside of tumblr) #some of my fic outlines has notes that are like 'wow if they had the transmigrators privilege this wouldnt even have been a problem' #and im suddenly very appreciative of canon #god bless canon tesilid may you be happy. not my fanfic tesilid though im making him miserable #anyway. the more i think about it the more interesting hestio's internal conflict could be #it's about being so acutely aware of how shit their lives already are that he knows having a r/s that is frowned upon would just #make things worse #also i am very much hooked by the fact that like. nowadays i keep seeing ship posts about 'killing myself in front of you to change the #trajectory of your life forever' #for teshes its the opposite. hestio is desperately trying to make sure tesilid doesnt off himself #and also its not hestio dying that changes the trajectory of tesilid's life forever it's hestio confessing #and somehow this inflicts more pain on tesilid in the long run #which is extremely funny bc for all the notes that ive written abt teshes hestio has only confessed like umm. checks notes. 3 times #1. drunk (tesilid is not in the room) 2. the world is ending #like if hestio had managed to take this to the grave like he had originally planned then this could have been avoided #but the tragedy is that tesilid lives thru this multiple times so at least ONE time hestio's going to blab and that forever changes things #crying in fic writing being stupidly hard