#tyrants destroyed

[roseredfingers]

The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict on him. Thus, at first, I would have been content with an electoral defeat, a cooling of public enthusiasm. Later I already required his imprisonment; still later, his exile to some distant, flat island with a single palm tree, which, like a black asterisk, refers one to the bottom of an eternal hell made of solitude, disgrace, and helplessness. Now, at last, nothing but his death could satisfy me.

Vladimir Nabokov, Tyrants Destroyed

#vladimir nabokov #tyrants destroyed #words words words

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

brennan lee mulligan: old king cole was-

me: omg a mechanisms reference

brennan lee mulligan: -a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he so he called for his pipe and-

me: king you’re getting the lyrics wrong this is so embarrassing for you

#i know it’s not a reference and the mechs based it upon the rhyme obviously #but by now I’m so much more used to the ‘old king cole was a Brutal old soul and a Bloody old soul had he’ #like you’re telling me old king cole DOESNT have a gun brennan?? #this is suuuuch a niche overlap so I doubt anyone there can read this and go ‘get me too!’ #buuut if you’re reading this and loving how the new d20 season is a horror take on fairytales u should check out once upon a time in space! #it takes place in the outer space in the future and it’s a mix of old classic fairytales! #features old king cole as a tyrant ruler cinderalla as a lesbian from a destroyed planet who’s about to wed snow whites sister etc etc #it’s really good! #dimension 20 #d20 #brennan lee mulligan #Neverafter #d20 neverafter #the mechanisms #once upon a time in space

[caduschka]

Still obsessed over the implications of Cronus with no memories being a fundamentally good and helpful person.

#Class of the titans #class of the titans cronus #Does he outright have to decide to not follow his instincts of wanting to do good? #Does he wake up every day and choose to be evil? #Because whatever could have actually made him that way otherwise #The whole story hinges on him being a power hungry tyrant #From him killing his father to wanting to destroy his children #So why is he actually somehow somewhat a good person underneath that #It certainly makes for a fun episode premise but it doesn't really feel thought through #Don't get me wrong I love everything about this though #Jesus christ he just saved Theresa #He has a protective streak holy shit #gnawing on him #He's my little freak 🥴🥴

[mydaylight]

Marisa Coulter + Antigone, Sophocles: Antigone faces Creon // Marisa faces Hugh McPhail

Antigone: So for me, at least, to meet this doom of yours is precious little pain. But if I had allowed my own mother's son to rot, an unburied corpse— that would have been an agony! This is nothing. And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. (Antigone, Sophocles)

Marisa Coulter: There's probably a great deal that's mysterious to you, my Lord President, starting with the relations between a mother and her child. If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care--the care! --of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches--if you thought I would expose my child to that, my Lord President, you are more stupid than you take me for." (The Amber Spyglass, Phillip Pullman)

#hdm #hdmedit #hdmsource #marisa and antigone #antigone #marisa coulter #irene papas #ruth wilson #his dark materials #*mine #marisa 🤝 antigone #calling the tyrants trying to boss them around fools #see how neat the two quotes fit together! #there will probably be more of this #I'm too obsessed with the parallels between marisa and antigone #also antigone really destroyed creon with that line #this line of marisa's is one of my favourites #calling the magesterium a bunch pervs to their faces #she's so valid for that #though it makes you wonder she must have been subjected to it :(((

[drumlincountry]

uhmmm it's so hard to come up with new years resolutions b/c my two basic desires are "find peace" and "go to war"

#like DESTROY EVERYTHING THAT DESTROYS YOU. WE GLADLY FEAST ON THOSE WHO WOULD CONSUME US. #CAST DOWN EVERY TYRANT #STRANGLE THE LAST KING WITH THE ENTRAILS OF THE LAST PRIEST etc etc #I would like to be motivated by board games...nice dinners...dancing...painting #my resolutions are always like 1. have a nice gay time :) 2. forge myself into a weapon of war #3. unlearn the traumatic programming that makes me feel i must become a weapon of war #4 .be a weapon of war tho #5. go on more walks :D #me fein

[sualne]

Heyo, you've mentioned that in your AU Crocodile isn't going to try to destroy Alabasta, so I was wondering if his end goal is still Utopia but he's going to try other methods or if he has a complete different end goal?

im thinking his main goal is to secure a safe future for luffy, this version of croc started baroque works and his schemes after luffy was born, so if he's aiming for a utopia of sort it'll mostly be for his kid.

#crocau ask #a 'it's all for you' 'thanks i hate it' sort of thing #the answer is a bit vague because im not sure how else to explain. canon croc's goals.... what are they really. whats up in his head. #an utopia is meant to be a good thing but for someone like him. what does that look like? why does he need pluton for it? is he trying to g #with that 'destroying redline is the final goal' theory thing? why does a villain that'll kill thousands like its nothing and calls out ppl #for having dreams and hopes work towards smth as idealistic as and impossible as an utopia? whats up with him. i really love the parallel #of embodiment of hope and freedom luffy vs nihilistic tyrant who got fucked over and lost all hopes to become pirate king. if their goals #turns out to have been similar all along. man. the croc intrigues me.

[ruthlesslistener]

Finally another soul master hater- like I like his whole aesthetic but seriously fuck that balloon toad looking soul stealing shaman kidnapping rich ass tyrant

Soul Master is one of the very few characters in the game (other than the Radiance) that legitimately creeps me out, except that he doesn't have the 'biblically accurate angel' vibe that balances out that terror with a healthy dose of awe. He's just a selfish rich man with absolutely no value for any life other than his own, and even if his arena sets you up for the dead baby pit and the question of whether mass loss of life for the 'greater good' is worth it with PK later on, I personally find his cruelty far more abhorrent. The Pale King, at the very least, had the excuse of not realizing that the vessels were sapient beings (and the Path of Pain gives us a good idea of just how terrible that realization was to him), and the vessels died young with relatively quick deaths via falling, before they had much of a chance to live at all. It's horrifying, but it's also a tragedy, and that accidental cruelty is part of what makes the whole deal so terrible and unforgivable. You can, to an extent, sympathize with the Pale King and White Lady (though not by much lmfao), and their self-punishment and guilt for what they've done is pretty damn evident. The horror of the Vessel Plan is that it was created out of a desperate, toxic sort of love- a love for Hallownest- and that love blinded and poisoned the minds of the Pale Gods to drive them to acts of unfathomable cruelty against their own children. It's a tragedy.

The bugs that the Soul Master kidnapped and experimented on, however, were mortal beings that already had a life, family, and friends who loved them. They were vulnerable, and he murdered them in a myriad of grotesque ways under the pretense of trying to figure out how to 'cure' the Infection when all he really wanted was to gain enough power to become a god himself. When the Pale King- aka perpetrator of mass infanticide on the scale of millions- told him to stop, he reacted with indignation and hatred, because how dare he be told to value the lives of others above his own. The studies of the Soul Sanctum might have started out with good intentions, as a genuine desire to understand how soul works and to test the limits of what mortals can create with it, but it ultimately accumulated into a grotesque killing-grounds because some selfish with a lust for power wished to become more than what he was. It's an exploitation that's uncomfortably close to reality, and thus evokes a lot more vitrol and hatred as a result. At least in me.

#hollow knight #anon #reply #soul tyrant #soul master #not to make pk sound any better lmfao #but i think that destroying a bunch of defective automatrons bc you dont realize theyre alive #is a whole fuck of a lot less terrible than 'yeah these were people i just dont think they were valuable'

[parasite-core]

Shadowheart was so mad at Addy over finding out he was the one who started the cult of the Absolute, and for him not telling them. Even though Addy didn’t know before just then either. And they all know he has amnesia and he made no secret of this being a surprise to him while talking to Gortash.

Shadowheart, my girl, *you* have amnesia, have a little empathy.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #Adramelek didn’t even agree to join Gortash like come on how much better could he have done? #as much as I love Durge x Gortash #Addy cares about Karlach too much to let Gortash get away with what he did to her #so unlike Calio Addy is not going to take him up on his offer #he is going to destroy the Iron Watch and then come for the Tyrant’s head #this is not anti-Shadowheart btw I love SH to death #I’m just baffled by her reaction in this particular instance #like no one else in the party was mad at Addy #if more people were mad I’d be like ‘okay it’s a party-wide thing which sucks but it is what it is’ #but it was only SH who yelled at me #the other person with amnesia who you’d think would be sympathetic to me learning something that horrific about my past #when Addy has been consistently trying to be a good person ever since being ordered to kill Isobel and refusing #like he is *clearly* not that person anymore and he has been very open about everything he does remember when it comes up #she was the second person he told about remembering he was a Bahaalspawn despite that being a dangerous thing to admit #I’m just really baffled by this writing choice I guess

[jheselbraum]

"oot Link committed atrocities" this and "oot Link is a war criminal" that you know who I never see mentioned in these "uh holy shit the Gerudo desert is fucking empty in Twilight Princess and that has some awful implications" discussions?

This little shit:

Like I'm sorry we're not gonna acknowledge that if oot Link was running around then oot Zelda was too, and that she would've been the one giving the orders? We're just gonna gloss over that?

#look i have Opinions about the differences between tp and ww now that ive played oot #cause you can make the case that the gerudo are still around in ww just chilling on their newfound coastline #i dont remember ww Ganondorf ever implying that they were wiped out in the flood #i dont think adult timeline Zelda was a perfect leader by any stretch #especially if her successor incurred the wrath of the gods and got the kingdom destroyed #but like #she would've been raised by impa among common folk and under the reign of a tyrant #child timeline zelda meanwhile spent her whole life with the silver spoon of the monarchy in her mouth #i think they both grew into very different people

[snowboyclarkov]

Cross-Bey Polls - 1: LUS - RYU

In Beyblade Burst, many of the people can be considered as equivalents to people from the Metal Saga or the original. They are also often considered to be weaker than the previous generation bladers. With that, I've made 7 polls of Burst vs. Metal/OG to see who comes closest to defying this. This is the first poll - White Tyrant vs. Dragon Emperor.

#beyblade #metal fight beyblade #beyblade metal saga #beyblade burst #lui shirasagijo #lui shirosagi #ryuga kishatu #ryuga #lúinor #l-drago #white tyrant #winter knight #frozen ogre #dragon emperor #longinus #guilty lúinor #guilty longinus #l-drago destroy #l-drago destructor

[softquietsteadylove]

Kinda missing the Ice Queen/Tyrant King AU!

Maybe you can write something where Gilgamesh and Thena are in a business meeting with some powerfull people but they are disrespecting and insulting them both greatly (especially Thena) so Gil truly gets angry. You decide if he destroys something or hits someone. An anger never seen before wich even surprises Thena.

It started out reasonably within expectation.

Some old associates of Gil and his family were coming into town, looking to procure some American 'goods' for their business at home in Korea. The negotiations made sense to hold between the visiting associates and Thena and Gil collaboratively.

They had met in Gil's office, in Koreatown. Negotiations went smoothly and it seemed that everyone was on the same page about how business would be conducted going forward.

And then they got a little too 'friendly'.

Word had spread back in Korea about Gil and his sham of an engagement. The Little Heiress and her family had not taken it lightly, airing their disagreement with Gil's entire family all too openly. The family had their reputations to worry about and apparently Gil was being labelled as a failure and embarrassment to the family and its business.

And yet somehow what they had to say about Thena was even worse.

They seemed to be under the impression that she wouldn't understand what they were saying in Korean. And while she hadn't extrapolated every single word exchanged, she understood more than enough to hear them cracking jokes about her being a whore.

"That's enough," Gil advised them, and in English--in no mood to entertain their gossiping (shit talking).

"Come on, Hyung," they both snickered while Thena merely sat there. "The only one who's a bigger slut than you in this situation is her!"

Thena kept quiet.

"Yeah, you chose this one over the Heiress?" the other one barked in laughter. "Great tits, I guess, but a little bony, no?"

"You say one more word about her," Gil growled at them, his fists clenching audibly.

"The fucking better be good--and I mean 'better than daddy's money' good!"

Gil rose from his chair slowly, an expression on his face like nothing Thena had ever seen before. And she had seen him work--he had seen her work. But this... "You don't talk about my wife like that."

"Please," the other snorted, jabbing his thumb in the direction of Thena's chair, blessedly separate from the small couch the two men were sharing. "This bitch? I don't know what kind of spell she put on you with that puss-"

Thena blinked, her hair rustling from the speed with which Gil had crossed the distance from between his desk and landed a punch dead centre in the speaker's face. He toppled over the back of the couch and rolled on the rug a few times, already screaming about his shattered nose cartilage and the bone being scrunched into his skull.

She had heard the impact of bone on bone.

The other one looked at Thena, who was as cold as ice (obviously). He looked at Gil, holding up his hands. "Okay, okay, look, we took it too far. We-"

"Apologise."

Thena barely moved her eyes as the man knelt down in front of her, begging her pardon for his words.

"Beg," Gil commanded, pressing his shoe against the man's head, driving him closer to the floor.

"Please, Ice Queen," the stranger snivelled, truly and deeply afraid of the wrath of the Tyrant King. "I beg your forgiveness."

Thena looked up at Gil, who was visibly deciding whether or not to crush in the head of the man like a can of beer. She drew her lace up around her shoulders, utterly unfazed as his business partner continued to writhe in agony behind them. "It's up to Gilgamesh."

"Hyung," the man cried, his head still being held down by Gil's foot, "p-please, I'll never--I'll never speak badly of your wife again!"

"You're right," Gil acquiesced, stepping off his head and dragging him up to his knees by his hair to look him in the eye. "You'll never speak disrespectfully about her again. And just as a form of insurance-"

They all knew what was coming: the prepayment--the deposit, as it were.

Gil wound back for a full force swing, punching the guy so squarely in the throat he choked and gagged, his adam's apple seeming to completely crumble into his neck.

Thena looked over at the mess of a meeting, both men writhing in pain, unable to speak or perhaps even breathe. "They'll make a mess of your floor."

Gil swiped his swinging fist off with his pocket square and tossed the handkerchief down onto the head of the one struggling the most to breathe. "So I'll tell their escorts to take them to the hospital instead of the hotel."

Thena remained seated, watching with a mild expression as he paged his building reception to do just that, also muttering about a carpet cleaning service to come for blood and whatever other substances were expelled while the men were fighting for their lives.

Gil sighed, ending the call and leaning on his desk. He looked up at Thena.

She loosened her lace just faintly. "I don't know if I've ever seen you so angry. And I heard about the threat you made to Eros to send him across the pond again."

"Yeah, but you didn't see it," he chuckled, although his usual lightness hadn't quite returned to him yet. "And I think you and I both have every right to be mad about the things they said about you."

"Like what?" Thena asked facetiously, having understood a minimum of 90% of it.

"Nice try, Princess," Gil managed a smile, walking out from his desk again and going to her side. He leaned on the armrest of her singular chair (he was never going to let those slime balls sit close enough to be within arm's reach of her). "I know you know what they were saying."

She thought she had kept her learning Korean concealed from him. But there would be time to worry about what gave her away later; she smiled up at him coyly, "Gilgamesh, being a woman in any business requires becoming accustomed to being called a slut and a harlot and any variation thereupon. They said nothing I haven't heard before."

"Well I couldn't let them say it when I was here," he grumbled, tapping the side of her elbow where her lace was resting, only to slip his hand under it and up to her bare shoulder. "Sorry."

Thena gave him a raise of her brow, "I think you rather like it when I let you act all macho and territorial."

"Let me?" he snickered before leaning down to kiss her cheek, whispering with his lips all but pressed against her skin. "I am macho, and territorial."

Thena allowed the gentle affection, despite not being entirely alone for it. Or perhaps it was because the evidence was so abundant that this man was willing to do absolutely anything for her, and her honour. She lifted a hand, patting his cheek lightly, "a bit of a showoff, is what you are."

Gil pulled back and offered a small smirk, but it was a hint of his genuine smile, at least. "Well, did it work?"

#Ice Queen/Tyrant King AU #Gil would never allow anyone to talk about his Thena like that #Thena just there like #well they're men and they barely respect the women in your family #I didn't expect them to have good things to say about me #but Gil is like well they damn well better #they do get taken to the hospital #they both need reconstructive surgery #and Gil's family is like will you please stop destroying our connections with other crime families #and he's like no #friendship ended with my family my new best friend is my wife #also he knows that she's been working on her Korean #because every once in a while #when she thinks he isn't looking (which he always is) #she won't mask her reaction to what he's saying in a meeting or over the phone or whatever #that and she's not very good at hiding her smile when he compliments her #which he thinks is super cute #it's why he didn't say anything sooner #because he likes saying sweet things about her in Korean #and watching her have to pretend she doesn't understand him #calling her the most beautiful woman in the world #or calling her his dove #or his snow angel #these two idiots #work spouses to actual spouses relationship evolution at its peak

[theskyexists]

Really wanna work on my multiplayer game idea again.... Hmmrrm.

#you start in the world as a weak creature with a soul shard and you gotta bury that to create a respawn point #if you bury it with others' youre in a guild together #you can gather stuff to build a camp then a village then a city #which will attract villagers who are basically lore versions of automating crafting tasks #crafting is not fast and never becomes faster for yourself #the villagers have names and needs #they leave if their needs are not met depending on loyalty also #they die and have kids #meanwhile - you and your guild are able to build the city by raiding into the shadowworld filled with ghosts of great settlements #there is a whole system of laws and privileges and hierarchy #that members can adjust - from authoritarian to democratic #only this level of people can build...etc. #to create a bureaucracy #but then how can you destroy a tyrant? or a tyrannical empire? #grab them soul shards and shatter them #also when a settlement falls - how is this determined? - heart got destroyed and all soul shards returned to their owners - and the heart is #not reestablished within a day - the settlement becomes a dungeon in shadowlands #with bosses that reflect players whos soul shard were shattered #my stuff #personal #anywayyy you build huge guild cities together! :)))

[banukaihelpme]

"portray avad's true feelings and thoughts about his situation without making him sound whiny" challenge.

am i winning yet? no.

#i have thoughts #writing shenanigans #listen his gf is dead #the court sucks #he will forever be known as the son of a tyrant #factions of nobles and sun-priests are cheering for him to fail #he has no friends #the city is barely recovering from the civil war and now he has to deal with the death of his cousin #and the political fallout of the embassy Massacre #and the big ass machines popping up in the sundom #and now there's a plague destroying all the food sources #and he's expected to sit on that throne day in and day out listening to noblemen complain about taxes and outlanders taking muh jobz #and dealing with jahamin and his ilk #not to mention he probably has to watch for attempts on his life on the daily #and he probably still feels guilty over ersa having to take over when it came time to unalive his pops #listen homeboy is TIREDT #and i vow to make it so much worse for him #because DRAMA

[theseasideskies]

Laurence wished to press him further, to understand more, but refrained; a man’s honor could only be in his own keeping, and Laurence could understand, a little. He himself would gladly have accepted death as the price of escaping some dishonorable act, certainly before treason; and he would have preferred death to shameful torment, which would seek to break him. But to endure death was not the same as to seek it by his own hand.

Oh buddy you have no idea how true that rings, what with your memory lost and all lmao

#temeraire #blood of tyrants #i always loved the moments in this book when laurence still has amnesia but he's with temeraire and all their friends #a very direct way for laurence to confront how he's changed over these 8 years #i'm still struck by the line where laurence asks himself if temeraire's comfort was at the expense of his discipline and character #then later when his memories are back he knows that fighting for kings for their petty squabbles is‚ itself‚ a stain on one's honor #he realizes that if one claims to be defending what they love‚ but would easily destroy it if commanded‚ then that person is a coward #in short: laurence learns ACAB

[fortunatelylovelytyrant]

It's been a month since I've been around my friends ever since I started the Something Wicked This Way Comes series, but it's finally finished and I'm actually pretty proud of it.

#tyrant speaks #fic writing #it's on ao3 if you wanna read it #uwu I am not liable to destroyed emotions

[timeisacephalopod]

Lmao so apparently my idiot sibling who I will not be able to cut off as thoroughly as I'd like thanks to my mom being too nice and loving her stupid waste of life ass said, in response to me pointing out how insanely sexist she is, no. I'm the sexist one and that's hilarious for a billion reasons, but mostly because ain't no sexist going to spend four years getting an I Hate Sexism Degree. No, obviously having a gender studies degree does not mean a person isn't sexist automatically (the rancid politics of anti porn and anti sex work feminism of the 70's showed how awful feminists can be to women, let alone the long history of racism and anti queerness), but I do think having a gender studies degree probably means you're less likely to be sexist.

But sure, person who doesn't listen or respect SHIT unless it's got a penis attached, I'M the sexist one. Dumb fuck probably doesn't even know what sexism is.

#winters ramblings #my mom told me that amd i jad a good laugh and was like WHAT lmao is she actually THAT fucking stupid? #of course the answer is yes but of all my flaws- of which there are many- sexism doesnt and in fact has NEVER hit the list #because ive been a VICTIM of sexism my whole assed life im not going to buy into it and assume that if no penis is involved #the person is a lying rancid harpy looking to destroy me at all costs like my idiot sibling. ANYTHING a man says is GOSPEL #but anything a woman says needs to be under such a heavy cloud of suspicion she wont ever believe you no matter HOW true #whatever you said was. but if i were a MAN oh id get WORSHIPED at the alter #fuckin im sexist ok ask men who have run into me if THEY think that because it takes 2 seconds fora sexist to make themselves #known and it takes just as short of a time for me to react in a way that suggests i dont agree #and i have NEVER nor WOULD i ever worship a man like hes more impressive than the idea of GOD #in fact in general i go out of my way to ensure men in my life are WELL aware of where i think ALL our places are #and generally thats an equal footing. but yeah im not shocked the dumb fuck who will do ANYTHING for men who BEAT her kids #calls ME sexist for pointing out shes never ONCE treated a woman with a SPECK of respect and in fact thinks her CHILDREN #acting like dicks is THE SAME as GROWN MEN being abusive tyrants because to her girls and grown men are THE SAME #except that grown men get to do whatever while girls are expected to be perfect Or Else because they dont have the Penis of Freedom #but sure im sexist for pointing out treating CHILDREN like they should have more accountability and responsibility than #GROWN MEN is disgusting and CLEARLY bigoted. silly me children SHOULD be held to a higher standard of behavior than grown men!