#tw child death mention

[kadextra]

Still thinking about that scene after the Richas no-armor near death scare, with q!Bad taking him & q!Felps to the church cemetery

How it started with Bad explaining that the other day, him and Dapper came to the cemetery to sing happy birthday for the eggs who passed on. Then him just bluntly telling Richas:

“Do you want us to celebrate your birthday here one day?

Like… that hit hard. for q!Bad this statement carries a lot of personal weight- he was there for each egg death, and felt each harder than the last. seeing a death message in chat genuinely scares him to the point he’s developed these crazy trauma reflexes to go save them. every single month on the eggs’ birthday he visits the graves to leave presents and sing, tells them about the happenings on the island, how their parents are doing, how much everyone misses them. that he’s still doing the best he can to protect their siblings.

Seeing Richas endanger himself with that risky behavior is rightfully upsetting.

But he still explained to Richas that he’s not trying to scare him by bringing him to this place and saying all this about life and death, he’s trying to educate & show that there’s so many people on the island who care about Richas and would be upset if something happened to him. especially if it was some silly death that could’ve been easily prevented if he just protected himself better with armor. he hopes that Richas could understand that, even just a little.

And before leaving, Bad made sure to take a moment to speak directly with the graves:

“See, guys? Don’t worry. I’ll do everything I can to keep your sibling safe, okay? ….Even if it’s from himself.”

gut punch. this whole scene hurt. but we all really love this little egg sooo much <3

#It was a bit of tough love but I think richas really needed to be taught that lesson #qsmp #qsmp richarlyson #qsmp badboyhalo #tw child death #tw child death mention #and reminder that this is all rp #richarlyson’s admin is playing a really great character of a child that is learning about these consequences #and having these serious talks #im impressed

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Okay so y’all know how I talk about the Main Universe just adopting random evil family members from other universes and helping them redeem themselves?

What if the evil dimensions all just decided mutually to become a family and meanwhile all their Evil Plans™️ don’t work together and then they just have that one sweet one in the family they adopted from another dimension and are sheltering from their crimes.

Like one day, Feral Moon is trying to bite a kid’s head off, Evil Sun is trying to kidnap someone from another dimension again, Evil Lunar is trying to blow up an orphanage, Evil KC is working on a way to bomb the daycare for the tenth time. And then, meanwhile, they just have sweet little bean Blood Moon in the corner asking Lord Eclipse for uppies (and of course he caves).

#sun and moon show #sams #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf evil sun #fnaf sunless moon #fnaf ganymede #fnaf lunara #kill code moon #fnaf bloodmoon #lord eclipse #fnaf pulsar #snoweytrashposts #snoweytalks #snoweyrambles #snoweyrants #tw child death mention #tw death mention #tw bomb mention #tw kidnapping mention

[wolfsbanesparks]

I think Fawcett could finally realize homeless kids are going missing if a more high status kid goes missing, someone from an influential family. Say like, mary, maybe. No one noticing Billy going missing, but Mary? The city goes on a search for her all over, and I think that would hurt a lot for the missing/dead kids.

You're definitely right to think that Fawcett (and the world in general) would take notice of a high profile kid such as Mary going missing.

And it would be so painful for Billy and the other missing kids to be forced to face the fact that they don't matter as much to other people as someone who had money/status/family connections. A part of the psychological torture they endure is directly related to the fact that people don't know/don't care that they are missing.

I love that you're getting really into this! You clearly understand the reasoning behind why certain victims are chosen over others.

#ask me whatever you want y'all #shazam #billy batson #dc captain marvel #mary bromfield #mary batson #fanfic asks #tw child death mention #tw torture mention #y'all are so good at coming up with ideas for this fic

[jaxxsoxxn]

Do you think boomer would ever be comfortable talking about his son’s death? I mean losing the kid is way harder.

Or he hasn’t never told anyone he ever had a son and when he just mentioned it out of the blue everyone’s like surprise and I can just imagine Harley saying oh my God you have a kid can we see him and Boomer just said it’s so normally you can’t, he’s dead he got murdered anyway, I’m hungry 

I feel like Boomer doesn't deal well with death of people close to him. He probably just doesn't actually think of it as a thing that happened, but more like as a fact - my son was also ginger, he was young, he died.

He gets into his feelings only when he has to recall the way he died and it's like it happens all over again. I'd say it's something like shock for him, just staying way longer than for normal people.

Digger can be childish, but he's also kinda... Apathetic to most things that happen around him. Most people would probably tie the "he's dead" under it, but I feel like Harley, ex psychologist, would try to get some more information and with every push, it'd just make Boomer more jumpy, more scared.

If the kid would die in front of him, I imagine he'd remember every single detail. Especially since I hc it that the kid died at his 8th bday. (you know, just for fun)

So, for me, it would be way more like the second version.

~~~

The squad was mostly tired right now. The after-mission high was slowly dying out, when they sat down in the random Gotham fast-food and Flag went to get their orders in. The subject was technically started by Harley, one of her painted nails pointed at a kids meal with a toy.

"Ya think we should get it for my gal and Toyboy?" she said, a genuinely happy smile on her face. "And the toys aren't bat-themed!"

Shark grabber the menu and pulled it almost comically close to his face, while Floyd rolled his eyes.

"Zoey has been into green lantern theme lately, though she says Wonder Woman is still her favourite..." he mumbled, trying to keep his typical for Gotham look.

"My kid loved the toys back in Australia, doubt he'd like them here though."

Boomer said, shocking most of them. Deadshot looks at him with worry mixed with anger, while Shark tries to decide if it's another weird joke. Only Harley smiles wider, though there's slight surprise in her eyes, too.

"Ya have a kid? Oh me, are they ginger like ya? How old are they? Why haven't we met em?! Do ya have pictures?" her voice is delighted at the idea, even though a smaller Digger doesn't sound so great.

"Uh, ye, a son, yeah, eight and he's dead, been dead for a while, so I don't have pictures." he counts the answers out on his fingers, missing how everyone freezes. Before anyone tries to say more, he softly whispers under his breath, like it's a memory hitting him suddenly: "I didn't have money for his burial..."

And Harley catches the shake of his hand, the tremble of his voice and the way his eyes look down in shame and something so close to self-hatered that it makes her stomach flip.

By the time food comes, Boomer's acting like he never said anything, eating with vigor of someone who didn't have a meal for weeks. The rest of them just send each other worried stares in silence, poking at the food and trying to regain their appetite.

#idk #probably bad english #bsing trough life #ssktjl #Somehow not Boomerflash! #captain boomerang #digger harkness #george harkness #George “Digger” Harkness #tw child death #Tw child death mention #Rip Owen you would love Batdonald #suicide squad kill the justice league #suicide squad #I love em my favourite forced found family #It's not that he's not feeling bad about it it's that he never let himself grieve #He's stuck in space between the loss and the grief and it doesn't matter because his kid is dead anyway

[lordevening]

cannot stop thinking about qBad and his self sabotaging, self-sacrificing, untrusting yet caring personality.

He’s such a guy that you can’t help but feel tragic about. He’s put himself in a box of taking responsibility for the eggs’ lives so early on, and lived so unselfishly in order for the other parents to not have to face the same griefs and to prevent them from going over the edge from loss. (ie him being the first to witness Slime’s insanity and it almost costing his son’s life)

He’s got such a huge savior complex that I don’t think he even realizes how fucked up it is that he has been labeled as THE ISLAND BABYSITTER. In which, in the context of the island’s systems and rules, he’s essentially in charge of their children’s survival when the other parents can’t. Thus holding increasingly weight and stakes.

And having that responsibility—albeit light-hearted and funny—be placed on top of his head like a crown, has boxed him and warped his sense of self so much to the point that it has become self-harm.

We see this pressure to be THE PROTECTOR finally manifesting in his appearance, and his actions now. He’s willing to cut down anyone who gets in his way of finding the eggs and returning them to everyone’s lives.

The cause is so noble, but executed so goddamn bad that he’s hurting himself AND his friends in the process.

#q bbh is a sad sad man #qsmp #qsmp character analysis #tw child death mention #tw self destructive behavior #tw self harm mention

[sunlitmcgee]

SOMETIMES!!! the child murderer in the freaky bunny costume. is simply a freaky loser who likes to kill children. his motive is that he's a fucked up sicko who kills kids because they're small and killing them makes him feel strong. sometimes!!!! the murderer!!! is murdering people!!!! because killing people is FUN!!!!!!

#fnaf movie spoilers #william afton #YES i know there's stuff in the game lore #about him trying to revive his kids n shit #i just prefer him as a fucked up Guy. ykno? fun for me #sometimes easier and simplier is more fun!!!! #tw child death mention

[mywingsareonwheels]

Ugh, that thing Russell Lewis does...

... of dropping in devastating or revealing character information in off-hand bits of dialogue or the info on a tombstone you see for one second or this this that and the other. Right up until the final episode.

Some of the things that are really blink-and-you’ll-miss-it the first time around if you’re not careful:-

Bright lost his daughter. While way posher than most of the characters he’s still not from quite as upper class a background as his wife (who cheated on him at least once, though they weathered it). Her nickname for him means “tiger”. He doesn’t seem to have fit in comfortably at any point with anyone, perhaps indeed until he starts to bond more closely with Fred and Morse in the last 2-3 series.

Win was stalwartly in London for at least part of the Blitz. She once met a guy with a foot fetish who flirted with her and she’s still tolerantly amused decades later.

Constance was less than 20 when she had Morse. (AAAAAAAH.) (Everything about her marriage to Cyril sounds horrifying frankly.)

Max is gay and has a lost love (“and one was fond of me” / ”the one that got away”)

Fred grew up without indoor plumbing and generally in fairly intense poverty, he and Charlie at least (presumably Billy and I suspect their mother too) were physically abused by their father (who was an alcoholic).

Also on Fred: he was already an anti-fascist in the 1930s including when it meant joining with one of his colleagues (Sgt Vimes, who Sam was probably named after) against the rest. (Frankly Fred is the king of the “devastating info that is easily missed”, and that last point regards some moderately obscure knowledge to decode but it’s solid once you have that.)

Jakes’s non-Blenheim Vale background was very poor too, given his familiarity with the “Never-Neverland” of the kind of housing estate that replaced the kind of slum that Fred grew up in.

Dorothea has had a fricking epic past doing war correspondence etc..

Sam was bullied at school and didn’t tell his father because he was worried about how he would react.

Jim was brought up by his apparently rather obnoxious and judgemental grandmother, which might explain the desperate need to fit in and get on at all costs, as well as the extremely skilled peacemaking at times. He might have been in the navy before the police, though that’s a bit more uncertain.

Trewlove went to a posh enough school to have serious chess-playing as a thing. (She’s definitely the only person at the station with a comparable class background to Bright’s.)

And so on; I know I’ve missed out plenty of things here and especially I know there’s some info about Win that’s on the tip of my brain and I can’t quite remember. (I think she’s from Blackpool originally, e.g. and misses the sea? And did some war work outside London?) I weirdly couldn’t think of anything significant that’s not already foregrounded about Joan, Box, Fancy, or Monica; help me out here lovelies. :-) 

This is on top of eveeeeerything about Morse, which is far more foregrounded but even he has things dropped in very casually sometimes.

Goodness they’re all so messy and I love them all so very very much. <3 (Though also: I so very much wish that Lewis gave just *more* to his women characters. I have the obvious reservations about Joan’s arc (I *like* Strange, but... hmmmmmmmmmm), and the obvious wishing that Monica and Trewlove especially had had far far more to do.)

#itv endeavour #tw child death mention #tw child abuse mention #tw alcoholism mention #reginald bright #win thursday #constance morse #max debryn #fred thursday #peter jakes #dorothea frazil #sam thursday #jim strange #shirley trewlove #endeavour morse #endeavour s9 #endeavour spoilers #russell lewis

[its-elvie-innit]

I'm so really impatient for when wilbur finds out about the egg deaths in canon, as the unique experience of someone who knew them all before and left before they passed. Missa is different, he wasn't that concerned with it because he wasn't that close to them, he left like pretty early, so most people didn't let him know. But wilbur like, knew those kids. He wasn't close, but he Knew the eggs and he knew their names. When he finds out about Bobby, I want to know what he feels like knowing it could have even happened to his kid, that it could be happening. I'm really excited about it.

#wilbur soot #qsmp #qsmp wilbur #tw child death #tw child death mention

[angie-j-kay]

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Gods, so many of these characters are living with ghosts, metaphorically speaking. Billy's still mourning the loss of Tracey's grandparents, and her mother on top of that. Elias has lost several beloved humans over the course of his reeeeeeeeeeeeeally long life, as well as... well, that would be a spoiler. Tracey's carrying her mother's loss, naturally. Even Larson lost her child, years ago. They live with it like we all do, I suppose. You wake up in the morning, feeling okay until you remember that oh yeah, that person's not there anymore, and you try to make it through the day without breaking down over that. One day, you wake up and realize that you've figured out how to keep going without them, and you kinda hate yourself a bit for that, but it's the only way to continue.

Except for Larson. That woman went on a freaking CRUSADE.

#what you cast out #writeblr #tw child death mention

[kadextra]

sooo many qsmp scenes from today rolling around in my head

The screams. the raw, agonizing, sobbing screams of q!Forever in the cage, begging for it to stop please stop. they still haunt me in a way I can’t put into words. how everyone present to create this trap were people who really didn’t want to do this, but had no other choice because they love him so much. him finally taking the antidote and fainting, everyone sitting beside as comfort. because it’s all about the love, and q!Forever is loved and now he is safe. (the entire scene really gave me goosebumps and brought me to tears)

The heroic actions of q!Pac, even under the influence of the risus pills. he stuck by his mission to develop the reality dose antidote despite everything. imagining him shaking, bleeding, hurt and in mental distress all alone as he works in the dark chume labs is so painful, but he did it in order to save his family- and Succeeded. q!Pac is not weak, he is a hero and I hope he knows that without his brave actions the island would literally be doomed.

The song coming from the cemetery in the dead of night, but there is no sunshine, only crashing thunder and the cold rain pouring on monochrome q!Bad, collapsed by the eggs’ gravestones more hopeless and alone than ever before. him returning to an empty home for another day… but this time just completely losing it. the music fitting q!Bad’s scary erratic shaking as he ran through the halls- quickly to be replaced with calculated, eerie calm when he reached the basement to greet his… guest. i’m scared for what he will do.

#this entire week has been a FEAST for incredible acting and lore #so obsessed massive brainrot it’s so so good #qsmp #qsmp forever #qsmp pac #qsmp badboyhalo #EVERYONE IS AMAZING #tw drugs #tw child death mention

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Muzan: Why is there a baby? I hear a child crying.

Akaza: Okay, her mother died in the house I was hiding in from the sunlight. At this point, it’s been a few months of taking care of her so I’ve just accepted being a dad by now.

Muzan: Fine, keep it.

Akaza: Really?

Muzan: You think I’m going to be able to convince the single most stubborn demon I’ve ever created that he should’ve killed a child? Especially when the baby’s a girl, you’re a feminist, and you’ve already been at this for months now? I think I’d rather tell a tree to start walking because it’d be easier.

Akaza: So who wants to meet my daughter?

Douma: I do!

Akaza: Except you.

#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #kny #muzan kibutsuji #akaza #douma #incorrect demon slayer quotes #incorrect quotes #source: my brain #tw death mention #tw child death mention #aka my missing 4am post

[wolfsbanesparks]

Once again, I'm going to run in here because I thought of another theory while writing my previous ask.

A bit of an old rogue, but the possibility of the culprit being "Aunt Minerva" is believable (I think?). She is a bit of a crime boss and handles stuff in the criminal underworld of Fawcett. So it's not far-fetched to say she would employ people under her to do the deed of capturing homeless and missing children. Why? Maybe she wants to be young again and regain her youth so she can live freely without the pain of her aging body dragging her down. Like a dark magic spell is what she has in store to complete her ritual to be young again. Or maybe it's science experimenting on these kids to capture their youth.

This very well could be a bananas crazy theory, but I'm certain one of these days I'll think of a theory and be right about something! Or be completely wrong, haha. I'm having fun, so it's great 👍

I actually really enjoy pretty much all of Aunt Minerva's comic appearances! I would love to see her brought back in modern comics just to see what kind of havoc she should cause.

I'm not saying she's the killer but it definitely sounds like something she'd be willing to do. She is delightfully selfish so killing kids for eternal youth sounds right up her alley!

Thanks for the theory! I've said it before but these are such fun and I love reading them!

#ask me whatever you want y'all #shazam #billy batson #dc captain marvel #fanfic asks #aunt minerva #tw child death mention #but seriously if y'all dont know Aunt Minerva i recommend looking her up

[scintillyyy]

it is actually really important to me that in canon bruce really did grow to love and care about* tim immensely as he trained and got to know him (the absolutely concern for tim during rite of passage! how carefully he trained him, how patient he was with him as tim was first learning!) rather than the popular fanon idea that he was a jerk who refused to love tim ever because his heart was frozen forever from the loss of jason and he lowkey resents tim for existing/taking jason's place.

because the former, to me, is a much more powerful and meaningful story about how life moves on after tragedy (because it does. it has to.) and that even though something has happened that you will grieve for the rest of your life, you are able to open up and connect yourself to the world again. idk, in my job and personal life i have met so many different kinds of people who have been through so many different kinds of loss (loss of parents, loss of spouses, loss of babies/children), people who will grieve their losses as long as they're alive, but are able to continue living and find genuine fulfillment and love in their in lives, despite their grief. it's just so important to me when stories show this, the moving on of life after tragedy.

(*ik, ik bruce canonically is not great and is often a jerk to tim, but he's not a jerk because he doesn't love tim, he's a jerk because he's bruce. there's a difference to me at least!)

#tim drake #bruce wayne #batman #dc #tw child death mention #tw death mention

[despite-everything-im-not-here]

Opinion on FINAGLC

i assume you are talking about Flowey Is Not A Good Life Coach. correct me if i am wrong.

opinion under the cut.

it has been a while since i last read it, but i have read it three times in the past. each time, i was struck with how much papyrus’ story resonated with me. it was such a heart-wrenchingly real depiction of someone going through that kind of abuse, and there were moments where i saw myself in him. this fic helped me start to recognize the ways i was being abused. and for that, i am grateful.

that being said, i absolutely despise this fic for its portrayal of flowey. others have said it better, but this author seems to misunderstand flowey on a fundamental level. in this fic, flowey is portrayed as an emotionless husk who is cruel and sadistic for the sake of it and cannot be changed because he is incapable of real emotion or caring about others in any meaningful way, so it’s in his nature. apparently. besides being yet another iteration of a deeply ableist trope, this portrayal of flowey completely contradicts what he is actually like in the game.

firstly, flowey is not cruel ‘by nature’. he CHOSE to be cruel when he didn’t have to. and he was never cruel for the sake of it. he did awful things to stave off unbearable boredom and sate his curiosity. i do not say this to ‘justify’ his actions. quite the opposite. if flowey really was cruel and sadistic because of his ‘nature’, something he CANNOT CONTROL, how could he possibly be responsible for his actions? he made the CHOICE to torture and kill people COMPLETELY of his own volition, and he is not proud of his actions. he’s so ashamed of himself that he condemns himself to the fate of staying alone in the underground for the rest of his life, tending to his lost sibling’s grave.

secondly, flowey isn’t emotionless either. in fact, he is the MOST emotional character in undertale. he even cries on screen at least three times, which is more than any other character (asgore cries twice and napstablook only once). he seems to deal with emotional numbness, but he never says that he can’t feel anything AT ALL, just that he can’t feel anything FOR ANYONE. he also says that he can’t truly care about anyone, but he has been proven to care about others many times (ie; the true route when he begs ‘chara’ not to reset and to let everyone live their lives, the times he took care of toriel, the fact he never has anything bad to say about papyrus, his secret admiration for sans). it’s not that he doesn’t care about anyone, it’s just that he conflates not feeling love and empathy for someone with not truly caring about them.

lastly, but not leastly, flowey IS asriel. i don’t really feel like explaining why right now, so for now i’ll just let this post do it for me.

another thing that really bothers me about this fic is that it’s just not a good or accurate rendition of papyrus and flowey’s relationship. in undertale, flowey seems to think very highly of papyrus and i think a lot of it has to do with his of unwavering belief that everyone can choose to do the right thing and make a change for the better. because it challenges his beliefs that the world is kill or be killed and that he is beyond redemption. papyrus challenges him to think critically about how he views the world and himself.

they have a lot in common too. they both put up a front all the time, they both feel like no one really understands them, they’re both painfully lonely, they both have a sibling they would do anything for. i think because they had so much in common, flowey felt closer to papyrus than anyone since chara was alive.

i think what finally made flowey go from considering papyrus as his friend to considering him as just another character was when he realized that he was getting predictable and boring just like everyone else. his words of encouragement and admonishment started to ring hollow. it became just lines of dialogue to him. i think that flowey thinking of the world as a game is his way of coping with derealization rather than just plain disregard for the people who live in it. it gives him a sense of control and comfort.

but i digress. all this to say that papyrus is really important to flowey and the significance of their friendship cannot be understated.

in this fic however, papyrus is flowey’s favorite because he just can’t quite figure out what makes him tick. he is oh so fascinated by his staunch pacifism because it makes no sense to him. he wants to figure out what would break his will and get him to murder. he has no real respect or admiration for papyrus. he just sees him as a toy.

in conclusion, Flowey Is Not A Good Life Coach, while a moving story and an excellent depiction of the effects that extreme abuse can have on someone, is also an abominable portrayal of flowey and his relationship with papyrus.

verdict: i really don’t like this fic and i never want to read it again.

#this was cathartic. i like when people ask what i think about things. thank you anonymous. #utdr #undertale #flowey is not a good life coach #flowey asriel #flowey #flowey the flower #flowey undertale #papyrus #the great papyrus #papyrus undertale #safeutdr #utdr thoughts #asks #tw abuse mention #tw ableism #tw child death mention #all caps warning

[sneakyboymerlin]

Remember when I got into that string of fights a while back because people were exposing their lack of ethics with incredible takes like:

Uther’s persecution of magic was totally justified because magic is dangerous! It corrupts people!

Merlin had no reason to be afraid of Arthur, he was just being irrational! It’s not like thousands of lives were at stake here! He owed Arthur his private information about how Arthur has unwittingly traumatized him!

Simultaneously, there’s no way Arthur could have known that magic isn’t inherently evil because he’d ~never~ seen magic used for good (despite events going as far back as 1x04 or even 1x03)

Merlin withholding personal information from the people who were a constant threat to his life for being “born wrong” was morally repugnant! He should’ve exposed himself with the information his oppressors would kill him for, to give them a chance to change their minds! There’s totally no other way they could form different opinions!

Arthur deserved to know about Merlin’s magic, despite his condemnation of all things magic which threatened Merlin’s safety, because Arthur was kind or merciful in so many things except, noticeably, magic! Merlin should’ve trusted him!

Uther and Arthur are the REAL victims of the people who they oppress, so they have no choice but to slaughter thousands, children included!

Those were certainly times.

I remember saying at one point that if I knew someone was homophobic, I simply wouldn’t come out to them as gay, because they haven’t earned my trust in that regard. Anything they’ve done for me, they did while believing me to be straight. They likely wouldn’t treat me the same if they knew. Likewise, if a gay person had abused them at one point, it still wouldn’t give them the right to stereotype all gay people as abusive, or to support anti-gay campaigns. Homophobia has no justification. It’s just bigotry.

I said this multiple times, but every response was: “Well that’s different! Magic is actually dangerous!”

Here is what I said (paraphrased):

“If the potential dangers of magic were really the problem—and not just Uther’s excuse to justify banning it—then Uther could always just ban certain spells instead of committing genocide. Same with Arthur, really. But these characters wrongly believe that magic is inherently corrupt, because that worldview is easier to swallow than the hard truth.

“Criminalizing magic is like blaming massacres on all tools when they’re only performed with particular weapons: should whisks be considered a danger because some people murder with military grade assault rifles? Clearly, banning whisks doesn’t solve the problem. Likewise, when a sorcerer gets executed for using magic in the kitchen, Uther has effectively equated this harmless act to malicious crimes like murder. Was there ever a problem with magic itself, or does Uther perhaps have ulterior motives for banning it?

“If murder is already illegal, then banning murder by means of magic is unnecessary—all forms of murder, magical or not, are illegal by default. Making magic illegal does not prevent crimes that are already illegal; it only criminalizes innocent magic use, which means that people are prosecuted and found guilty for anything from using magic for chores to simply being loosely associated with a magical person.

“Uther’s laws helped no one but himself, because they weren’t designed to serve any other purpose. Nothing was accomplished, except that dehumanizing crimes such as trafficking and murder became legal as long as the victim had magic.”

To this, I was told that I “wasn’t understanding.”

What wasn’t I understanding? That people genuinely believe the ban on magic was okay? That they don’t have the slightest inkling of how oppression works, or how their justifications for hypothetical scenarios show their gullibility to real world bigotry? Why even bother defending a fictional character’s fictional genocide?

The ban on magic is ultimately a metaphor for the persecution of a marginalized religion (it’s literally called “The Old Religion”). To support Uther’s (and Arthur’s) claims that magic is inherently dangerous—despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary—is worrying at the least, considering the real life ramifications of fiction.

If you’re forsaking your morals to defend the inexcusable actions of a fictional character or two, then you value your entertainment more than real human lives. Likewise, you shouldn’t excuse any form of bigotry just because you like the person who is perpetuating it. If you can’t even stand by your supposed morals when it comes to fictional characters, there is no chance you will stand by them with real people. Most Arthur stans like him because they believe in his capacity for change, but this acknowledges that he is wrong and needs to change. The less like Uther he is, the better! My Gwaine-stanning is also reliant on him changing his views and accepting responsibility for them. We don’t get to make excuses for their unfair biases!

Merlin and other magical peoples are the victims of their oppressors, not the other way around. It really is that simple, and it pains me to see the hoops people will jump through to dismiss this.

#merlin meta #my meta #merlin emrys #fandom critical #bbc merlin #even the ‘magic IS dangerous’ thing grates at me cause I see that excuse all day every day #reminds me of ‘well those gays ARE dangerous. look at what THIS gay person did! ALL gay ppl are like that one bad person!’ #it’s not like everyone who has power of some kind is being discriminated against here cause it’s got nothing to do with whether they’re #powerful or not—the powerful ones are just examples used to inspire fear of magic/bias against them #Uther drowned literal children and slaughtered bloodlines. that’s not self-defense even preemptively. it’s genocide. #it was always about Uther wanting someone to blame for his wife’s death #there’s nothing magic did that wasn’t possible by non-magical means. magic is just one means of doing things when a person isn’t able to #do it a different way. it should be about the act itself that is being committed. NOT the means by which it’s done. #the point is that they’re really not that different in any way that matters #why did I just post merlin discourse that’s been sitting in my drafts for months you may ask? just wanted to put it out there tbh #cluttering the place up and all #tw genocide mention #tw child death mention #long post for ts

[eruthiawenluin]

The biased news coverage is unbelievable. This was on Apple News, in every Apple user’s side bar. The headline, the fear-mongering, the conspiracy theorizing, compare it to the actual facts provided within the article itself.

Now compare that to the very deliberate use of passive voice in this headline:

No one bombed the hospital and killed people, people are dead, there was an explosion.

Notice how, when it comes to the Israeli hostages, journalists are quick to put out unchecked misinformation and dish out theories, but when it comes to Israel bombing this hospital, the headlines are slow and careful to come out, giving Israel time and the benefit of the doubt until they can release a statement of innocence.

Compare that to everyone hopping on the claim that Hamas is beheading babies and raping Israelis, despite their own released hostages claiming they received humane treatment within the confines of the Geneva Convention. Biden himself publicly repeated the terrorism claims, despite how the rumor (read: racist propaganda) was never confirmed. The Palestinian resistance is labeled terrorism with no evidence, whereas the world stops and waits for Israel to make excuses for every war crime they commit. It is not a war between Israel and Palestine, Israel is an occupying colonial force, and the Palestinians are an indigenous population facing genocide by their hands.

The news cycle CANNOT be trusted right now. Be careful what you read. Be careful what you take as fact.

#this is why your reading comprehension and understanding of writing rhetoric is important. #people are out there feeding you lies. #free palestine #palestine #apartheid #tw child death mention #tw sa mention