I think what makes Antony Starr's portrayal of Homelander such a great villain is that his motivation throughout the entire series has always been love and it SHOWS. It's twisted and warped but all Homelander wants is love. He wants to be loved and season 3 did a great job of pushing this to the forefront, as well as showing us that - despite how tall and old he is - he's just a kid. He never matured emotionally because he never received the proper love and attention as a kid, so his whole moral system is warped. That smile at the end, where the crowd cheered for him straight-up murdering an innocent civilian, was so much like the kind a kid gives after doing something funny for a crowd where you can see the wheels turning, going "this will earn me attention." Soldier Boy read him correctly that he was needy, which is why his perfect defeat isn't death but total irrelevance.
And, on the flip side, Billy's anger at the world - which has been such a common motivator amongst villains - is his driving force to combat Homelander and be the 'hero'.
The usual motivators between heroes and villains have been flipped and presented with so much care it's amazing.
The Boys put so much intention and thought into all their character choices and that's what makes the end product not only a masterpiece, but one of the most brilliant satires of our generation.
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GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY i'm never doing backgrounds ever again [<< needs to practice backgrounds]
anyways have another self indulgent piece cause the art powers let me channel them again. I like how this one turned out kind of
also please look at these patterns i made for the wallpaper that i spent far longer than i should have on
my friend told me to put the background as one of those old 70s wallpapers and gave me a single one and i used it as a reference and ran with it so BOOM a red and beige version of a wall paper or whatever B)
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When you finally learn that human nature is not fixed and can in fact change for the better, do you accept this fact and strive to become a positive impact on the world around you, or do you jump off a bridge about it?
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𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄.
Share at least 5 songs that you associate with or remind you of your muse!
✧ Regression — Ayanga.
Too much of the past for one to memorize
Too many words remained for one to read through the lines
The ebb and flow of the crowd, floods the world and paradise
Along the path of time
Every night brings a dream, but the day relentlessly keeps me awake
All the rest will be torn up whenever a choice is made
Every living soul in the fray, striving for their own safe place
Life is too long to end at grave
[...] Just a drop of water suffices
Still, I wish to embrace the world with my thoughts
A eulogy
Time to leave where I have stood so long
Letting you go recover traces overlapped
Ends, then begins
✦ Moon Shadow — Elsword.
I would suddenly remember, merciless pain
never felt before
Agonizing hours that seeped into that singular
painful memory, so even if, you
Apologize countless times, repeatedly,
You can never get that moment back again.
In this never-ending timeline that turns like clockwork,
I will raise my shimmering blue blade against the torturous shackles
I won't be able to escape away from.
[...] Even if I can wake up
and find a chance to run far, far away
What I would dream of, instead, is to wake up repeatedly
to slash away my endless nightmare.
✧ Sorrows of Strays & Fading Memories — HOYO-Mix.
✦ Midnight Reflections — HOYO-Mix.
✧ Swear on the Sword — Maplestory.
On the day I was alone, my back turned and full of hope
raise your head and face the path of the sun
It's full and overflowing
a prayer of peace for all of us
Your long-cherished desire and desperate wish,
buried in the high waves
Even if it is buried and collapsed,
don't turn back.
Your weakness and fear will be forgotten now,
I will triumph in your name and my name
We'll be together for countless days together,
it will make an endless journey.
Tagged by: @apocryphis (thank you ♥︎)
Tagging: Whoever wants to do this, feel free to take it from me!
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i'm sorry and like yes it was bad i don't disagree of tourse ☝ but all the right moves starring nancy the slut wheeler was So cinematic... inspired... slay of the century... the panache. the flair. that steve had asked her the day previous to go to that movie with him and then used that as the framing device and like SURE. tommy was the one who physically painted it but is that the point of it all. that tommy was semi-canonically in love with steve. the reverb on the slap nancy gave him after i think she really fucking hit him for that his hair literally vibrates and he's also like. in semi-tears for all 5 minutes of that scene. It is cinematic quality small town bullying IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE SAME they could've just sprayed it on the wall. on the school. on the window even. HAD to be the marquee... also i've joked b4 that steve had to be talked down from using like pigs blood and they had to be like ew no we'll just use red paint c'mon man and steve's like whatever (wanted to be dramatic as possible).. STARRING ROLE it's beautiful i love it. and to be then beaten up in the alleyway behind the theatre when the original scene was supposed to be STEVE on top of jonathan beating the shit out of HIM and they decided to swap it... gosh... gosh...
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As grateful as Goro is that the Thieves took down Shido and kept that promise to him, there's no denying how much of a failure he feels he is for how everything transpired. He spent years working on his plan to tear Shido down. Everything was planned to the last detail with counter plans in place on the chance that things ended up going in a different direction. But he never accounted for the Thieves emerging just for them to throw wrench after wrench into everything he meticulously put into place. As if that wasn't bad enough, he never anticipated Shido reading him look a worn-torn novel.
He always had doubts about Shido really being that oblivious throughout their entire partnership. But he always brushed it away as anxiety because he couldn't afford the panic that doubt would inevitably bring. But Shido knowing all along and knowing which buttons to push to get Goro to comply stings the most. He hates how naive he is for being so desperate for any sort of attention and affection, and that Shido knew it too. Was the last few years of his life really worth it when it all amounted to this? He never had the upper hand, and now he gets to die alone in the dark, cold bowels of his father's ship to a puppet with his face.
His revenge was ripped right from his hands ––– if it was even his to grasp in the first place. And when he's brought back on that cold December night it's not what he wished for, but at least he can give a testimony of his own and help push Shido behind bars. But that's especially fleeting, and when he finds himself miraculously released and able to go free his anger is incomprehensible. Now he has all the time in the world to lament his failures and shortcomings. How even when he thought he was succeeding he was only destroying himself further by playing right into the hand of the man he hates the most. His anger has become destructive in the wake of knowing that he was never good enough as he trashes what little things he has in his apartment.
His palms are bleeding from smashing his mirror onto the floor, bed turned over and sheets ripped to shreds, and clothes sopping wet with hair clinging to his face as he screams into the tiled floor of his shower when it becomes abundantly clear that he was forced into a game he could never win.
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I AM FREE FROM WORK!
Also trying to think of ship names for my trolls ships but tbh. Someone referred to Clay and Hazel as Clayzel and tbh. TBH. It’s so cute. I might be sticking with it for them.
I’ve also developed Hazel’s lore and her relationship with Clay pretty quickly, they took me by STORM. And this is probably the. Biggest slow burn out of all my ships. When I have the time I’ll tell y’all more about it. 💕
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