#violence in nature

[nemfrog]

Reptiles at war. Adventures in New Guinea. 1894.

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#book cover #snake #crocodile #blue #gold gilt #violence in nature #nemfrog #1894 #19th century #1k

[off-brandhipster]

A fish meets its end

#photography #bird #fish #violence in nature #wildlife #heron

[panthermouthh]

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

#frankenstein #mary shelley #gothic literature #monster #gothic lit #gothic art #illustration #my art #Alternative caption: he asked for no pickles >:( #I wanted to get a more clear lightning theme in here but eh I think it turned out well enough #victors face says: yes I made this abomination against nature. and what? #ok enough of them getting along time to return to the insanity and violence

[vriskan8or]

let her go

#homestuck #vriska serket #terezi pyrope #vriska #terezi #vrisrezi #mic_art #screencap redraw of that one utena scene woohoo #vrisrezi and utenanthy dont share many similarities but there are some interesting parallels that can be drawn #like theyre all characters who are devoted to the respective roles they think they have #utena needs to be a prince and vriska needs to be a hero #terezi needs to cast vriska as the villain so that she can be the one to bring her to justice while anthy #is resigned to her role as the rose bride and is cast as a witch by others (and herself in a way...) to justify her suffering #im too tired to put into words all the other shit rattlign around in my brain but something something vriska society violence princes utena #something interesting to note is that in the rgu stabbing scene utena is walking to the left while is hs vriskas walking to the right #which i think is mostly a cultural difference due to english being read left to right while japanese is read right to left #changing which direction is percieved as forward #which could be read further into but could also just be the natural flow of the scene or whateevr #idk i need to peruse ohtori.nu again i looooove reading utena essays

[dreadark]

#Violence is in our nature. 👍 #arknights #post

[high-voltage-rat]

I think it's fascinating that the quotes:

"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."

"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."

"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."

came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:

"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."

"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."

"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"

...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.

#everyone always talks about the more dramatic bits of rvb with the speeches and the 8+ seasons of plot development as the anti-war part #but the comedicization of the violence and death that the characters go through. the tongue-in-cheek gung-ho attitudes. #the way that they're so desensitized to the idea of death or gruesome injury to the point that it's!!! a comedy show!!! #all of that is just as much a statement of the fucked up nature of war!!! #it's like Col. Flagg and Frank Burns in M*A*S*H. they're so simultaneously into and detached from the war and it's a STATEMENT #idk I'm just. thinking about my favourite anti-war media. drawing mash-rvb parallels. and suddenly had to scream about it #might reread the paper on rvb being anti-war media. for enrichment. #not video games #late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #rvb #red vs blue

[bacchuschucklefuck]

she turns, makes direct eye contact with you, smiles,

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #buddy dawn #cw: blood #cw: gore #cw: violence #hello this is the first post on this blog. welcome. I need to offload my art somewhere outside of my usual sphere #anyways yeah. yeah #I just think making direct eye contact with the person your murder victim is supposed to mirror before murdering them is kinda vibe #thinking abt kipperlily and kristen and how kipperlily was meant to be riz's foil but #genuinely kristen works so much better as foil for her instead. like how would beardsley ever not have swooped in to steal this off of #murph's plate. order vs chaos. embracing the rules vs rejecting them for having always fallen through the crack by your nature #so my busted ass brain saw this moment of kipperlily KILLING kristen's foil and I went insane like she took him out of the equation #HE is no longer kristen's foil. KIPPERLILY is now. deranged I need to draw this Immediately #kristen seeing kipperlily with true sight... smiling at her..... the interference that now narratively connects them do you see #can anyone hear me. hello

[cemeterything]

tumblr only lets you have up to 12 options in a poll so this is just going to have to be a normal "reblog and share in the tags" post, but anyway which entity's statements in the magnus archives are your favourites? mine are the slaughter statements, even though my favourite entities are actually the desolation and the end

#🐉 #ill admit im biased because of the grifters bone statement #but even though pretty much every slaughter statement is just 'grandpa: the war' for 20 minutes #i really enjoy the meditations on violence and the nature of humanity #im also a war history freak so it appeals to me when i hear about a war ive studied like hey i know that guy #tma

[gallifreyanhotfive]

#big finish does it like no one else #👌 #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #big finish #big finish doctor who #big finish audios #dw eu #doctor who eu #doctor who expanded universe #eighth doctor #ace mcshane #fifth doctor #peri brown #scherzo #natural history of fear #graphic #tw: graphic depictions of violence #description of injury #polls

[schnuffel-danny]

Maddie is a hypocrite, she'd also instantly cheer up if she got to defenestrate someone for fun

#danny phantom #vlad masters #jack fenton #maddie fenton #danny phantom fanart #college trio #thinking about the three idiots and the natural slavic drive for violence

[nemfrog]

Attacked by an eagle. Chatterbox. 1903.

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#children's magazine #eagle #eagles #birds #attack #attacks #trouble #violence in nature #danger #nemfrog #early 1900s #out of nowhere

[off-brandhipster]

Triumphant house sparrow, full of wrath and bugs

#bird #photography #sparrow #violence in nature #wildlife

[wherethelightrots]

Psmd doodles in honor of me reaching the epilogue

#psmd #pokemon super mystery dungeon #pmd #pmd4 #art #pokemon mystery dungeon #torchic #snivy #nuzleaf #mew #spoilers #? #sorta? #no context spoilers maybe #nuzleaf and ran(the torchic) reunite and they do that #violence is a natural response for ran in a lot of situation especially this one #take down that old man #i dont know of its obvious but i dont know how to lineart #nor do i have the patience for it #those who do are built different

[reegis]

i know that Jonny’s vague & poetic™️ description of Ulysses was just for the Drama of it all but the idea of Ashes meeting Ulysses, as Hades, and then just refusing to tell him what they looked like is so funny to me.

Jonnys like Ashes.. Ashes don’t be a dick about this just TELL ME WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE its for the album jfc come on!! And Ashes just like …… nah :^)

#followed by gratuitous violence #naturally #the mechanisms #ulysses dies at dawn #jonny d'ville #ashes o'reilly

[returning-to-her]

Whenever someone says, “Humans are the most destructive species on Earth,” remind them it's not humans. It's men. Men are destructive. Stop blaming women for men’s failings.

Watch my matriarchal sermons at

#patriarchy #radical feminism #divine female #anti patriarchy #mother nature #radfem #womensrights #womenempowerment #radical feminist #women power #male violence #returning to matriarchy #matriarchy #scapegoat #humanity

[novelconcepts]

In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.

The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.

And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.

#yellowjackets #yj meta #van palmer #i simply cannot ever accept people blindly hating ANY of the girls for their actions at the end of S2 #because by that point it's not about personality flaws or errors of judgement or teenage bullshit #it's survival. it's literally do or die. #be mad at the stuff they did the first few weeks out there. THAT was in their control. #but by the end of S2 it's 'do i want to live? cool. then this is the next step. there IS nothing else. we are eating belts.' #every once in a while on instagram or somewhere i see a hot take like 'oh this whole thing is THIS girl's fault' #and it's like no no. no--apart from misty busting the black box--NOTHING these girls do will change the fact of their situation #they might make it worse or make it more palatable but in the end #it's the purity of man vs. nature as a story #and any of them getting darker. more logical. more pragmatic. just means they're putting another day breathing first. #the human element of it comes in with the faith and the ritual and the acceptance of violence--but the violence was coming either way #'this place cannot be argued with. and that is how we survive: by giving into that.' exactly. liv hewson you genius. exactly.