#who is as pacifist as i am

[mirage-of-the-virtuoso]

Y'know what? Maybe I'm crazy for this, but I am curious if others had similar things with their characters.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 pact commander #pact commander #polls #for Chrysallus he has always felt drawn to the dragons. but he has never wanted to kill them-- #--but others based his wyld hunt on Caithe's; who believes her's to be killing Zhaitan #Chrys wants to; in some way; coexist with the dragons. but given the circumstances was an impossible task #up until Aurene; that is. then; he finds a dragon that basically shares his purpose. #before Aurene; he wondered if he was meant to be Mordremoth's champion. but resisted because he doesn't want to be-- #--a pawn used to destroy the world #he is a pacifist and a kind-hearted sylvari. he wants to help; to understand; to be the support misunderstood souls needed-- #--when they have been forsaken by others. he can't do that as a corrupted dragon minion #sorry i am rambling. please share your stories!! OwO

[fiapple]

Okay, you know that scene in Catwoman v.1 where Selina begs Maggie to scream, cry, lash out, & curse her rather than turn to a darker version of herself?

I need you to understand that, if it were written with any sense of integrity, that would be the attitude Bruce has towards Jason post-resurrection. At least after becoming privy to the fact that Jason does not personally blame Bruce for his death.

In my opinion, Bruce would sell his arm for a penny on a streetcorner providing it gave Jason non-homicidal means of coping, for Jason to view him as responsible, as a second murderer. For him to curse "hereoism", & vigilantes, & the whole fucking lifestyle- decry it as an unbelievable farce & leave it all behind to go back to being Jason Todd of Crime Alley, who only did what he had to do to survive. Bruce would be so far beyond willing to carry that weight if it meant his boy would be off the track of his homicidally self-destructive rampage. If it meant Jason realizing he is more than just a revenant, that he is alive, that he can have a life.

The only way it makes any sense to me is if Bruce would accept, even embrace a world in which Jason views him as a horrible dad, an irredeemable piece of shit who is directly responsible for his murder, if it just meant that Jason did not have to utterly sacrafice his sense of humanity & compassion to make it through the world. He'd give near anything for it or it makes no sense. That's his son. His son who was dead but is now alive, for all he does not seem to grasp that himself.

Also he should have let Jason pop the clown. Not even for ethical reasons, but in the chase of giving Jason a chance at the realization in the world they do live in where Jason will not allow himself to view Bruce that way. Because he refuses to harm his son, or let him be taken in another explosion. Not when he just got him back, not when his son has not even gotten the chance to truly come back to life.

(I also think it would be a far more interesting jumping-off point post-utrh for Jason, but that's somewhat besides the point.)

#like when it's said bruce should be continually grieving for jason it shouldn't just be for robin jay but a jay who sees his value as a #human being rather than near-nothing more than a symbol of violent retribution. #and i stand by that. #but yeah this is also why i think the idea of Leslie being majorly involved in Jason's immediate post utrh arc would have been genius. #like she is literally the epitome of “i am going to critique vigilantism both politically & as a coping mechansim” in the bat mythos & more #over she would be Jason's ideological diometric opposite at that point as a pacifist & they have a history together meaning it would not #only be some who witnessed the climate of Gotham in the aftermath of his death but also someone who knew HIM before it. & like positioning #them as not neccessarily opposing sides while still being in conflict at first only for that to lead to development over time as jason heal #& WITH HER CONNECTION TO THE GOTHAM WORKING CLASS TO TOP IT OFF... we were robbed. #it also fits with my personal heavy insistence that Jason's healing arc have nothing to do with Bruce for like... a solid couple in-univers #years. it's important for jason to heal with agency & his own ideological growth & emotional reconciling. #bruce wayne #bruce & jason #dc #dc comics #jason todd #dc meta #batman meta #red hood

[wingsofhcpe]

final update: I read the summary of all episodes of Picard s2-3 in Wikipedia and I've decided not to continue watching s2 or get to s3. I'm perfectly satisfied with season 1 and will instead proceed to write my alternative s2 longfic and be happy reading friends' fics instead!

S2 and 3 officially do not exist for me! I am FREE.

#mar watches star trek picard #I'll miss liveblogging this show but hey. time to watch the original series instead! #also the fic idea literally came to me in a dream and i am now disproportionately invested in it #star trek picard #i love how it feels like each season was written by a completely different person who had never spoken to the other 2 before lmao #'yeah agnes becomes the new super kind and pacifist borg queen in s2... but then in s3 she decides to assimilate all & has to be killed' #excellent plot 11/10 no holes or bullshit whatsoever #anyway back to reading rogue elements now.

[jyndor]

nelson mandela was on the terrorist watchlist until like 2008

its just something I think about sometimes

#terrorist is a term that means very little tbh #this is not to condone terrorism because i know some of you fools will think that is what i am saying #it is just important to critically engage with why certain people or organizations are called terrorists... #and if they will be forever #i am a pacifist myself but i am also someone who knows history

[weed-cat]

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#how do i express that while it is not realistic or even desirable for everyone to strive for a monastic life or a life dedicated to pacifism #i think it's actually a really fucking important perspective to exist in the world. we need true pacifists among us. not all of us. but som #not everyone can or should dedicate themselves to meditating on and preserving the inherent sacredness of life BUT SOMEONE HAS TO. #i see a lot on here about how it's not immoral and is in fact necessary to fight back against bigotry by any means necessary #but i am of the opinion that it goes both ways. #i think it's stupid and naive and self important to believe that fighting against oppression and establishing peace are one and the same #individualism has poisoned you guys so bad that you're walking around thinking that there's a specific philosophy or mindset #that is the opposite of oppression and that every progressive should eventually arrive at. it isn't true. it doesn't exist. #that's my problem with [redacted] too but yall aren't ready for that one. #you guys are full of ideas that you think are new and radical but are irrevocably based in a western perspective #diversity in society means diversity in mentality. #someone who commits themselves to doing no harm to anyone or anything ever is not an inherent enemy or in antithesis to leftism. #this feels like such a 'making up a guy to get mad at' thing as im typing it but i don't think it is. #i think it's dishearteningly common for passionate and angry progressive fighters to assert that the only way to make a better world #is for everyone to feel and think and act like them and throw out or convert anyone who doesn't. #i don't think it's productive. i think it alienates and individualizes people who ultimately want the same ends and should be collaborating #okay im done now

[kazoologist]

One of the older women I sometimes sit with at the synagogue this morning apparently has ten relatives who are apparently missing. The rabbi said she thinks they might be hostages. Her mother died a month ago. The other woman I sit with always stands for the mourners Kaddish, and when I saw them last they were holding hands

#personal #i just. I don’t know how to hold the suffering of this community. In my brain. I want to convert. I feel safe and happy when I’m with them #But god if I don’t feel so young and useless talking with them these days. #I can’t even give them the understanding bc I’m a gentile. I don’t know the issues like they do. I can’t even say the prayers right #They like to tease me for mumbling my way through the hebrew prayers. It’s my Midwestern accent to them #delete later #dont rb. I just. Man. #I couldn’t stay for Torah service today. I was rattled by the prayer and I needed to do stuff today. #It feels so childish to wish for peace and it feels so hypocritical to want a world without violence when I’m such an angry person myself #But how am I supposed to feel when a woman who sent me home with a plate of brownies the night I met her bows her head in prayer for the sa #Safety of relatives in a war zone mere weeks after she finishes the mourning prayer for her mother who escaped the holocaust #I am twenty two and not even very good at it. #And every week I sit with a bunch of old women who have more scars than I’ll ever count. #I don’t know. I’m rambling because the fact that having ten relatives missing is just. Unfathomable to me. #When Ukraine got invaded we at least were able to account for my friends family with relatively less trouble. Not that it was better. I sti #Can’t read about Ukraine for more than three minutes #But I could keep the scale in check to stop the worst spirals #I want to be a pacifist. I want to make the world better. But I’m barely keeping myself from drowning just as it is.

[iamdeltas]

I apologize for being a huge butthurt SU fan on main today.

It will happen again. Probably whenever another story driven cartoon's finale occurs and people use that to bash SU too.

Honestly the only thing making that a "probably" is that I can't think of any current story driven cartoons right now.

#i mean there was dead end paranormal park but... *shakes fist at netflix* #tgamm and mmadd have like. background arcs ig but theyre more episodic so i don't count them #but yeah. what I'm getting at is that--like I've said before--pretty much every non-SU modern story #driven cartoon kills off its big bads but every time it happens it feels like the entire animation fandom thinks #it's the first time it's ever happened and TAKE THAT STUPID STEPHEN GALAXIES! #like literally the only other story driven cartoon this century i can think of that didn’t kill off its big bad #was atla and there was disk horse over that bit too! 'oh no how dare this 12 year old raised in a pacifist culture #not want to murder a guy!!!!!!' #i do have issues with that resolution but only because i still think the lion turtle thing came out of nowhere #hmm. i guess technically lok is in the same 'didn't kill its big bad' boat but that's more complicated #since it had seasonal villains and not One Main Big Bad #anyway. that's besides the point #my real point is that i am and forever will be a butthurt su fan who's sick of everyone shitting on it all the time #and i will end up demonstrating that again in the future #so i also apologize preemptively #s says some words

[soldier-poet-king]

Decided that instead of framing exercise as a thing I have to do for my brain (though that is also true) it is instead my angry time (TM). The stronger I get the more absolute insane repressed violence I get to release. I WILL learn to box or fight one day. I've been too timidly afraid BC I'm small and round and soft looking (we hate to see it) but mother I crave safe productive expressions of violence

#why is it the pacifists who always have the repressed anger issues #i want to box or swordfight. or do SOMETHING fighty #i don't want to actually hurt anyone ever. i dont even like killing bugs it makes me feel bad #i just need to like. deal with the inexplicable rage #and so general cardio to recover what i had pre covid + strength training would be good #i used to be so fuckin strong i wanna be jacked agsin y'all #like yes i will obvs have to be gentle with my hip but im doing physio and as long as i dont stretch it one particular way it's fine #i will ask myPT this week when i see him #but mostly. if i cant be loved im going to be insanely strong #its not about looks its about anger and feeling competent #franposting #anyway yes. i am just. frothing at the mouth #i need a tangible goal #maybe it is lifting #trying a 2week free trial at a 24hr place not too far from me #its not the one with the pool but that one was TOO far id never motivate myself #this one. is middle. respectable not planet fitness my behated. #bonus its 24 hrs so if i need to be insane at 4am bc mental illness i can

[gregmarriage]

was thinking last night, as i was falling asleep, that caring abt what ppl think is so BORING and EXHAUSTING and i’m so OVER IT

#i can’t be bothered to give a shit anymore fr fr #doesn’t mean i don’t *not* care sometimes bc like literally no one in the world truely gives NO shits but still #i’ve also lived with anxiety my whole life and i have autism and my brain is weird for many different reasons imao #but yeah i’m not smoking that shit no more #i don’t wanna fucking feel like i did when i was 16 and was subconsciously masking and felt like shit all the time #literally ppl just have to deal with me #i’m weird sometimes i’m cringe i talk too loud #i have a cane and i can and will hit you with it if pushed too far #i am a pacifist but some people really are the exception to that rule #take me as i am fuckers <3 #ppl who like for ME are the best #my love for you is unconditional just like yours for me <3 #honestly just i’m general if your love for someone has conditions you don’t love that person let’s be real here #if you have to push them to be something you want them to be you don’t love THEM you love the image you’ve created in your head for them to #be #anyways i’m rambling lol #but yeah #gwen rambles #gwenposting

[a---fire---inside]

#metamoro #fabrizio moro #Ermal Meta #Giving fanservice cause he might take the intellectual writer personaggio but he can't lose MM fans #So who am i to not post this since the photo he chose from #Sanremo 2018 #Is very #Relevant for my writing #Nell'ipotesi grande #Wild child #Bleeding me #Da uomo a uomo mano nella mano #(Fucking antiNato fake pacifists ill never forget)

[dokitm-arch]

well, then again, what do i expect from a fandom who laughed their ass off at ganyu pointing her arrow at the tsunami in an attempt to freeze it during shenhe’s story quest, forgetting she is a 3000+ year old half qilin who fought during the archon war? not much, if i gotta be honest. 😐

#👹 ` ⟪ ooc. ⟫ / SHUT UP PLUTO. #i am - what the kids call - snapping and had enough of constant character mischaracterizations #literally laughing at ganyu who is an IMMORTAL CREATURE for planning to do the exact same thing shenhe did #absolutely no diss to my girl shenhe i fucking love her with my whole being and appreciate her #but come on you guys. #if ganyu wasnt so torn with herself and already a gentle soul who is a pacifist #im 99.9999999999999999999999 percent sure she wouldve smacked more than half the fandom for the disrespect #.... if shenhe hasnt done that already that is.

[goldensunset]

listening to old school steven universe soundtrack again 10 dead 15 injured

#i am so nostalgic it’s not funny #i understand the message of su:f and all but. it is dead to me. it doesn’t exist to me. i want to enjoy this pacifist childhood feeling #this is the media that fundamentally shaped who i was in my formative years #peach rambles #su

[contradictivs]

the way ryder could have successfully used the ‘low training score so everyone assumes you’re not a threat’ tactic if he wasn’t such a fighty bitch

#( tell me to shut up ; ooc. ) #why am I so fascinated by that game tactic anyway ?? dunno #but like he really could have gotten away with it (mostly) if he didn’t end up fighting cato #also I think people would be wary about him anyways if they know who liam is #some people (or even bits of the audience) still not thinking he’s a serious threat because he’s ‘nice’ and tries to be a pacifist

[illdothehotvoice]

I am thinking about Sans undertale again 😔

#he is SUCH an interesting and cook character but like #Not for the reasons everyone says he is??? #My guy just wants his family and home back and can never get it #and i just fjdndjsjfjsjdg #In the pacifist route when he finally realizes that like #yeah this situation sucks. it sucks SO SO much but at the very least he can find happiness here and he has a family who loves him here #we don't know where he's from we don't know what that life was like #i have my own thoughts on what it could be but i hope we get some answers to that in dr fjdbfnsjfg #anyways i am a firm believer in Sans and Papyrus in DR are the same ones in UT and we can't see Papyrus yet because it'll reveal too much #hee hee *is very excited for DR Papyrus so people can finally realize how cool and deep a character he is fjdnfnsjf* #anyways here's my daily reminder Sans doesn't remember timelines he's just aware they exist

[theamazingannie]

Spent four years studying psychology, including childhood development, only for everything I say regarding the subject to be dismissed because I don’t know what I’m talking about

#just as a fact: if you consistently react with violence and aggression your kids will react with violence and aggression #even if that’s not what you explicitly taught then that is what they will learn #i am a pacifist who believes that we should talk things out and try to understand people #(in normal situations i dont mean like nazis) #but when someone upsets me I yell and I throw things and sometimes punch things #and i dont want to react that way and I try really hard not to #but that is the way i was raised to react because that is what my parents do #and it’s something that really negatively had affected my life #but Im not allowed to call my parents out for it because they’ll get mad #(and react with aggression which completely proves my point and yet they miss it) #like i just want to sit down and have a conversation with them about how they’re actions have hurt me and my siblings #but Im not allowed to #and it’s just so frustrating because I’m all grown up and I can leave #but i have to still watch them raise my brother the way I was raised and watch them continue to fuck it up #the only difference is my brother hasn’t learned to hide his feelings and tolerate it like me and my sister did #so he acts out in ways that gets him caught and in trouble #i did way worse things when I was his age but I didn’t get caught #because that was another lesson we were taught #you Can do whatever you want you just aren’t allowed to get caught #sorry for the trauma dump i was just having a good day and now it’s all ruined #cuz my brother punched a kid at school and got in trouble and my parents just found out and my dad is mad #mostly about my brother not telling him but it’s hard to talk about something you did to someone so angry when you don’t know what theyll do #god and They wonder why I’m so desperate to stay here as less time as possible #I’ve only been back three days and each day has had something go wrong because they don’t know how to control their emotions

[kuroaka]

things that i love reading in fics w reader insert but irl i would run away crying:

- mafia

#really i think it’s so ‘omg he can buy me anything and will scare away anyone who even looks at me strange’ #but then irl i would be like ‘chill let’s not cause any trouble’ bc i am a pacifist i think #mentally ill ? #.alice’s inner thoughts —