#HE SACRIFICES HIMSELF FOR ONE MAN

[khruschevshoe]

There is something to be said for the automatic gut reaction I have every time I hear the four knocks in the End of Time that cannot be compared to. The way that my breath hitches immediately. The way that my eyes start to burn with tears and I dont stop crying until Matt Smith's face appears onscreen fifteen minutes later. The combination of foreshadowing and music cues and David Tennant's facial acting that burned itself into my brain when I first watched it at age 14 as the perfect, exquisite mix of writing, music, and filmic cues that I point to anytime anyone wants a fantastic example of emotional storytelling. The tragedy. The beauty of sacrificing himself for one man after his whole Time Lord Victorious arc. Saving his friends one last time. Hiding his face from Rose in those final seconds but still going to see her one last time. "You're gonna have a great year." Catch me crying into my pillow rn-

#doctor who #end of time #tenth doctor #tenrose #rose tyler #eleventh doctor #YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS EPISODE DID TO ME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL #THE DAMAGE THIS DID TO MY FORMATIVE MIND #TEN THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE #HE HAD SO MUCH LEFT TO GO #AND AFTER SPIRALLING FOR SO LONG AND BECOMING THE TIMELORD VICTORIOUS #HE SACRIFICES HIMSELF FOR ONE MAN

[turtleblogatlast]

Imagine little Leo having trouble sleeping so he ends up watching tv and movies with Splinter to pass the time. Splinter often just passes out in his chair, but Leo likes the company anyway.

One day, Leo’s rifling through the movies his dad brought back for them (usually 70s and 80s stuff - Splinter has a bias) and he gasps.

Leo runs over to Splinter and holds up a copy of The Last Unicorn, begging that they watch it that night.

Splinter remembers absolutely nothing about the movie, but hey it’s got a unicorn and it’s animated so it’s gotta be fine, right? So he turns the movie on and passes out near immediately.

He’s woken up roughly an hour and a half later by Leo climbing up onto his chair and sobbing hysterically into his chest.

The movie is now one of Leo’s favorites.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt splinter #Leo: you wouldn’t let ME leave would you? #Splinter: no of course not my son! #but it was never a matter of letting by those left #rather it is a choice by those leaving #it’s one of the many moments that flashes through Splinters mind when he hears his boy sacrifice himself #anyway leo loves unicorns so obviously he gets to be emotionally devastated and terrified by the last unicorn like the rest of us #he considers forcing his brothers through the same emotional turmoil he went through #but he hides the movie instead #wanting it to be something just for him #man this really hits harder for all those ‘future leo lives’ AUs huh

[ultimateinferno]

With proper Space Age Cosmere just over the horizon, from what we've seen, Sanderson is very good at making the cultures he already had us fall in love with fucking infuriating from an outside perspective. Like damn, with Sixth of Dusk and The Sunlit Man, Scadrians are a bunch of fucking bitches, aren't they?

#''oh Scadrial is such a fun world. My first foray into the cosmere. metallic arts are so cool.'' #*[Meets a Scadrian anywhere but there]* ''I"m going to fucking deck you.'' #''Why should we have told these people who subsist on human sacrifices how to survive without human sacrifices?'' #Felt is the only one who's got it right. He doesn't delude himself into believing he's non-interventionist that he doesn't bother trying #but he also doesn't stick his dick into everything. He'll try to help where he can and knows when he can't. #The best worldhopper. #cosmere #cfsbf #mistborn #ssp4 #ssp4 spoilers #the sunlit man #cosmere spoilers

[vigilskeep]

Whenever I think about your Keir I think about Bethany telling Anders he reminds her of Malcom. I’m sure that won’t ever affect Keir ever.

bethany is my favourite mage bc she never misses with that psychic damage

but really he and anders aren’t even a thing in act 1 so it’s less like “PLEASE stop comparing my crush to our father” and more like “oh fuck off i spend my entire life trying to act like our dad and one (1) mage rolls up and suddenly he’s dad??”

#the bethany anders keir weirdness about malcolm is so real #because bethany says ‘you remind me of him (generally positive)’ in act 1 #but in later acts i think she’s still seeing the same thing just with a different uhhh mindset #seeing the way her dad wanted her to be something she wasnt and strive for something she was never sure was worth the sacrifice #how he tried to make decisions about what was best for other people. how he risked lives etc #whereas anders also has his own perception of malcolm which i think is quite... idealised #it means a lot to him that a mage raised a family that loved him. and hes envious of it #but thats definitely a standard anders is making up. if anders and malcolm really met we’d have to cast a barrier between them within five #minutes. for their own safety. #whereas keir in some ways saw a more complete version of his father from the beginning #but he also believes those more uhh flawed abrasive damaging sides are necessary. of course he does he repeats them #his father may not have been the easiest man in the world to live with but he always did what he had to #and kept his word and held himself to the same standards as others #but oh wait here’s the legacy dlc with the steel chair— #anyway my point being that u get these 3 in a room and theyre talking abt 3 entirely different malcolms. carnage #i dont think it would naturally occur to keir to compare anders to malcolm #but hed be like. ‘i GUESS?’ when bethany said it #honestly anders one of the things that’s kind of disillusioning abt malcolm bc like #i mean say what you like about my man anders but he was never all talk #not to dismiss the courage it took for malcolm to escape & raise a family #but thats one thing. insisting on using your abilities to help people & to go BACK for those still in the circle is kind of another #a lot of dialogue implying malcolm talked a big game about mage rights #but apart from raising a daughter who hates herself what did he actually do. #sorry thats mean but you see my point #and its not just justice that makes anders like that. sure he was more scared and hopeless about the circle #but his instincts are to help. you wouldnt catch malcolm going back to help against darkspawn even when told to run #and my malcolms also. gruff. stoic. serious. a man of few words. he does not do bits or tell you about his cat #if keir hears bethany compare anders to malcolm and at all agrees it’s not really anything about personality #he’s saying yeah i guess anders does seem like a good mage and a good man. thats the only commonality he would jump to #these tags got incredibly away from me

[asideoftrashplease]

Detangling JC, his motivations, & his feelings on WWX (i)

JC and WWX have a very fraught history, and while WWX’s role as the narrator makes it very clear what his feelings towards JC are, JC’s feelings towards WWX and motivations seem a lot murkier. He goes from treating WWX as a brother, to mounting a siege in a concerted attempt to take his life. His actions and motivations in the aftermath of WWX’s resurrection are also subject to interpretation. This meta provides argument for my interpretation of his feelings and motivations throughout these events.

LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD

It is clear from the outset that JC cared deeply about WWX (I wish I did not have to make a case for this because it should be obvious, but there are some who believe that JC did not love WWX). Although he holds bitterness and resentment towards WWX due to his family situation and their rivalry, he cares about WWX and is protective of him. This shines through especially in times of mortal peril. 

When WWX was trapped in the Xuanwu cave, he travelled without stopping to find people to rescue WWX. The trip should have taken 10 days, but because he drove himself to exhaustion in his desperation to save WWX, he only took 7 days.

When WWX is in danger of being discovered by the Wens after the burning of Lotus Pier, he uses himself as bait to draw them away from WWX despite the risk to his own life, which eventually leads to his capture and the loss of his core.

SO WHERE DID THINGS GO WRONG

Things started to take a turn after the Sunshot Campaign. I believe a few key events caused resentment and confusion to build and grow in JC over time:

WWX’s refusal to carry his sword, which put political pressure on YMJ

His decision to break out the Wen Remnants, without consulting or informing JC, with put more pressure on YMJ

His decision to defect from YMJ, effectively (in JC’s mind) picking the Wens over YMJ and his brotherhood with JC

His actions at Qiongqi Path which killed JZX — while we know from WWX’s POV what happened, JC and JYL have no idea what went down except from the claims of the surviving Jin cultivators

His attack on the 4000 cultivators at the Nightless City, which ultimately cost JYL’s life

It’s evident that JC is increasingly bewildered, angered, and hurt by WWX’s actions. It’s clear that he’s confused, and just CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY WWX IS ACTING THIS WAY. All the while, resentment is building in him that he has to clean up WWX’s messes, all while WWX’s actions undermine him as a leader and brings up childhood insecurities and jealousies. But his love for WWX drives him to continually stand by WWX and believe in him — even grudgingly, complainingly, and with growing resentment. Even up to the attack at the Nightless City, even after JZX’s death, he still seems to believe in WWX.

This last event, the attack at the Nightless City, seems to be the turning point where he stops believing in WWX, so I want to cover this particular event in more detail:

A “pledge conference” is being attended by QHN, GSL, LLJ, and YMJ. This conference is a ceremonial affair, centered around their pledge to eradicate WWX and the Wen remnants. It begins with them honoring the fallen with a toast, but while the other three sect leaders make the toasts, JC goes through the motions of the toast with visible unhappiness, and then conspicuously says nothing to honor the dead.

I feel this action needs to be understood in the context of the ceremony. They are standing in the Nightless City, where their comrades died in the final battle to take down QSW, a battle which WWX contributed to greatly. They are pouring the wine on the ground where the bodies lie to honor the fallen: “Here we honor our fallen. Rest in peace.” (Uncontroversial) “Now in the name of our fallen, we will eliminate the Wens who killed them — and the Yiling Patriarch!” (Controversial because WWX was brother in arms to these soldiers, and JGS is stirring shit because he wants the Yin Tiger Seal.)

JC knows the controversial bit is coming, so while the other sect leaders one by one say things like “rest in peace” and “may they live on” he dumps the wine on the ground and refuses to say anything. He is the only one, of the four with cups, who does not speak.

When WWX appears, the others all draw their weapons, but JC reaction is different: “JC’s pupils shrunk. Blue veins lined the back of his hand.” From this sentence alone, it may not seem clear what he’s feeling, but based on the rest of his actions in this scene, I would guess that he’s shocked and appalled that WWX would dare to appear before such a large and hostile mob, A MOB THAT IS CURRENTLY PLEDGING TO KILL HIM AND SCATTER HIS ASHES, thus recklessly and what seems like arrogantly endangering his own life.

After an increasingly hostile exchange between WWX and the mob, JGS calls for everyone to set up the battle arrays to seal WWX in, with the intention of killing him there. But when WWX calls up the corpses buried under them to defend himself, it’s stated that all the sects were in disarray, except for YMJ, which seems to indicate that WWX’s corpses were not attacking the YMJ delegation — and the YMJ cultivators were not fighting the corpses either.

This all seems to indicate that despite JZX’s death, despite the fact that JC has NO FUCKING CLUE what the hell happened at Qiongqi Path, despite the fact that he’s no doubt been fed lies and biased reports from the surviving Jin cultivators, and despite the fact that WWX is currently unleashing an undead army on all of them — he still believes that there’s another side of the story. He doesn’t even know WHAT that story is, but he believes in WWX— grudgingly, and with growing disbelief, confusion, and incredulity—  he still believes, BLINDLY, in WWX.

THE TURNING POINT

In the ensuing chaos, JYL is killed, and WWX finally snaps in his grief, unleashing a hellish and completely uncontrolled bloodbath upon the assembled cultivators. It is estimated that this killed three thousand people, severely decimating the cultivation world’s population.

The siege begins after this attack, and we know from the prologue that the siege was headed by JC, and that he was the one behind key tactical maneuvers (designed using his intimate knowledge of WWX’s weaknesses) that allowed them to eventually sack the Burial Mounds. In the aftermath, he was the main person credited by the cultivation world for the defeat of the Yiling Patriarch. When WWX meets JL at Dafan, he corroborates this by revealing, through the narration, that JGS was the second-biggest contributor to the siege — after JC, who was the biggest contributor.

I know that there are other popular interpretations of JC’s motivations here. I will name two:

He participated in the siege only due to political pressure — after what WWX did at the Nightless City, he couldn’t NOT condemn him or the cultivation world would have turned on YMJ too

He participated in the siege hoping to take WWX alive and bring him back home to discipline privately

But I don’t subscribe to either of these interpretations. I believe he FULLY intended to kill WWX. Firstly, if he was only participating in the siege due to political pressure, why contribute so vitally to the siege, why take a leading role and design tactical maneuvers to bring WWX down? He could have just done as he’d done previously, which was to participate perfunctorily in “opposition” against WWX, but contributing as little as possible, or nothing at all.

Secondly, some may argue that he was trying to capture WWX alive. But before this, he had always given the impression of being extremely cautious, to the point of inaction when maybe action would have been better. JC is VERY risk-averse. His characterization before the siege is that he’d rather do nothing than do something even potentially risky. The intention of everyone else was to kill WWX, NOT to capture him. As such, the risk that WWX would be killed in battle is extremely high. Even if by some miracle, he managed to capture WWX alive despite the best efforts of everyone else to murder him, it would be really difficult to stop the other sects from executing him, and getting permission to take him home and keep him under house arrest. It would be a safer bet to try to sabotage the siege from the inside, which is not what he did. In fact, he did the opposite. He was leading the siege viciously and with intent.

So I believe that he fully intended to kill WWX, which means the turning point was JYL’s death. Up to her death, JC still believed in WWX. After her death, however, the very last we see of him is him clutching JYL’s body, completely in shock, having not yet processed her death. I believe his last words to WWX should hint to us what caused the snap from blind faith to blind hatred. These words were: “Didn’t you say you could control it?! Didn’t you say it would be fine?!” To which WWX (who is having 99 fucking breakdowns all at once) finally admits that he was wrong, and that he can’t actually control it.

My belief is that this incident made JC realize that JYL’s death (and JZX’s as well) was largely caused by WWX’s loss of control over his demonic cultivation, and IMPORTANTLY, JC’s inaction re: WWX’s method of cultivation and his seeming descent into violent radicalism. Despite all the warning signs, the growing escalations, the increasingly violent confrontations with increasingly large death tolls— he continued to believe in WWX, even when he could no longer understand or predict WWX’s actions. Everyone told him “you need to reign him in” “he’s going off the rails” “he’s a danger to us all” and JC didn’t take them seriously because he BELIEVED IN and TRUSTED WWX.

And now his sister is dead, his month-old nephew is an orphan, and WWX has massacred three thousand people in a single night, likely including members of YMJ, in a total loss of control and conscience. I think that was the turning point, the crux of the betrayal.

I believed in you. I defended you. I stuck my neck out for you. But you scorned my help. You rejected and discarded me. You betrayed my trust.

You don’t give a shit about me.

You don’t give a shit about anyone else.

I BELIEVED in you, and YOU BETRAYED ME.

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NOTE: Right now this meta is getting a little long, so I think this is a good place to maybe cut it in thirds? Part II should cover the siege, WWX’s death, and the 13 years in between, and Part III should cover JC’s actions and motivations after WWX’s resurrection. As the next parts have not been written, I can’t link it! But when Part II is done, I will edit the post to include a link below the cut:

[Part 2 is still in progress!]

#canon jiang cheng #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #yunmeng shuangjie #twin prides of yunmeng #mdzs #meta #man this is fucking depressing #this is written from jc's perspective but i will NEVER stop being sad about WWX #i will never stop thinking about how he was driven to this point #initially you might attribute some of his downfall to hubris #hubris that he thought he could control this dark power #when it was stated no one ever succeeded #but the core reveal subverts this #it makes you realize that maybe the hubris #was tinged with no small amount of desperation #i think he never expected how difficult it would be to LIVE through the sacrifice #to lose his cultivation #he fucking brutalized himself out of love for jc #and he has to live with the trauma of that brutalization #when he happened upon this power #he was desperate to believe that he could keep it #and in the end #demonic cultivation took away EVERYTHING he cared about #it destroyed him and his life completely #and he died alone #in a terribly violent and horrific way

[ryuichifoxe]

For the anon who wanted to see the boys curled up together, watching movies. The second sketch is a little older now and this is an excuse to post it here Anyway, I want you to know that Em was fascinated with bad movies in his Sidestep days. Ortega knows this and they both subject Chen to the best worst films because they delight in his occasional reaction. They also consistently fall asleep on him. Em is usually the first one out because he's not used to feeling safe and being squished between them is Warm.

#this just in Chen has two dogs and one cat haha #second pic was before I decided that Em cuts his hair at some point #the anatomy in the 2nd bugs me but we're gonna ignore that #bare chest #didn't feel like designing the leg tattoos so I lazily slapped something on there #ortega #steel #sidestep #steelchargestep #ryu plays fallen hero #ryu art #will Em even get a happy ending man idk #but we're gonna pretend that he's not the kinda guy to sacrifice himself #he's certainly trying to convince himself he's no longer that man #but I know this grumpy boy enough to know better #anyway we're gonna pretend he gets to live somewhat happily with his boyfriends #yes Em encourages the beard as much as he thought the mustache was cute #yes he liked the mustache and will fight some of y'all on it #emery becerra

[quickhacked]

bones please spare some isaac facts...tell me about the vibes and lore and everything you want. also what's his fave blood type to drink if he has one perhaps..(i'm taking notes)

HEHEHE THANK YOU SM i have so much to say about this man. but also he hasn't existed for very long in my brain yet so there's still many things missing from his lore currently. but here is a start for you :^)

isaac is a couple centuries old by now and from a (currently unnamed) bloodline that's a bit different from other bloodlines. all vampires have double fangs, their puncture fangs which are the regular ones they use to draw blood with, and their venomous fangs, which only come out when they want to change someone. for isaac's bloodline, the venomous fangs are a lot smaller which makes them less painful to extend and the process is quicker; but at the same time, even the smallest mistake in dosage could kill a victim rather than change them. this is why his bloodline is very small in comparison to others and changing a human into a vampire is always done in a big ritual rather than on impulse, to make sure they get the right dosage. this is how isaac was turned into a vampire :(

his bloodline is also more likely to have their feral sense (uncontrollable mode in which they hunt for blood until they're no longer feral) activated which is why they have to feed regularly and CANNOT miss any meals unlike other bloodlines who can usually miss a meal or two. their feral sense can sneak up on them without a warning and it will cause them to go feral until either their hunger or their "urge" (something vamps get sometimes when they want to change other humans. it's like a vampire ovulation) is sated. this is why many vampires of isaac's bloodline are pretty rich or important people who have other vampires working for them to provide them with enough blood so they'll never go feral by accident

isaac is VERY different from his bloodline though. he grew up in a modest family somewhere in the east of the united states and after he was turned he hid himself away in an old abandoned chapel for many many years, feeding on wildlife and the occasional unfortunate soul who wandered too far into the woods. he ended up hunted down by heavenly, my other oc for this story, who is a vampire hunter but at that point was still very young and on his first ever vampire hunt without his father; heavenly was unable to kill isaac and let him go, after which isaac moved to jericho :]

jericho is a big city on the west coast of the united states and it's essentially a vampire hub, in the sense that the government knows about the existence of vampires but isn't telling the general public but the general public tends to also know about the existence of vampires but it's also not uncommon to come across people who've never heard of them. but at the same time it's also not a huge shock to find out that vampires exist. and in jericho there's many of them and it's like a safe haven for them. am i making sense here

anyway isaac runs a church in jericho now! it's less used as an actual church and more just a homeless shelter and general shelter and community center and food bank AND blood bank all in one, for humans and vampires alike, and he's a very important member of the community he lives in :^) he really wants to help people and improve lives despite the reputation of his bloodline

it's at the same time pretty dangerous for him to be in such a lively place because if he misses a meal even once he could go on a murderous rampage. but it's a risk he's willing to take, knowing he's making a difference and not wanting people to lose their stability in life because he decides to leave or something like that

i don't have much for the story yet but the idea is that heavenly shows up in jericho give or take 2-3 decades after first meeting isaac and they reunite :^) heavenly ends up helping isaac with the blood shortage crisis and also ends up as his personal blood bag because he's a freak and a weirdo who likes getting his blood sucked by vampires. and also he's gay for isaac. and i get him. me too

#asks #envergothash #ask:isaac #oc asks #THANK U FOR THIS RENA. I AM GOING INSANE ABOUT THIS STORY SO MUCH RIGHT NOW #literally the second my brain gave me the prompt 'vampire priest' i knew it was over for me. and man is it over for me #i'm still putting together the lore for all the bloodlines and age categories and stuff but i have a pretty solid idea for isaac's bloodlin #they're VERY scary when feral you really do not want to run into one of them when they're feral. eyes entirely white and all that #super super fast and agile and because of the venomous fangs that are smaller and faster they don't have to like #stay in one place a lot. which is part of why they're so fast #also another thing. he will sometimes just drain a human from their blood entirely just to prevent himself from going feral #it's a sacrifice he's willing to make to keep others safe. which makes the fact that his name is isaac even tastier #and there's also something about heavenly's name being That. and then ending up together with isaac. also heavenly is trans btw

[supahstarrr]

the ballroom... and the FITS!?!?! i have to say a prom/ballroom chapter is literally one of the best and unique ideas ive ever seen in a fangan ronpa

#so now that im on chapter 4... i have a few theories #either teru or haru or mikako (most likely teru or mikako) dies and satsuki is the killer #because of kinjo ACTUALLY being in a situation where people have to kill and sacrifice themselves for him (and the others) #im having a feeling his views will be a main topic that will be touched on in chapter 5. like this man will BREAK idk man #perhaps he will kill himself #the mix of killing and him being the one that people will have to sacrifice their lives for will drive him to like. break. #because of the ''majority over minority'' is so ingrained in his beliefs- he'll probably kill himself to make the group less #so there will be less sacrifices? #the parts of the series is isnt as long as i thought as much as the others AND the motivate likely hints to a sacrifice

[dutybcrne]

Okay Wrioney thoughts: they could make for a Pretty Good Beauty & the Beast au ngl-

#//Smth abt that scene where Lyney gets hexkin SHOT by Sigewinne jcncb #//Where he begs Wrios to take him instead; and leave Lynette and Freminet alone #//V Belle-coded #☆ ┆ ( .ooc. ); #//Plus HEY #//Who can say no to Wrios bein a Big Beefy Beast AMIRIGHT- #☆ ┆ ( .wrioney. ); #//The personality differences would be so Stark tho lmao #//It’s like if the Beast was Chill and Belle just had. ZERO chill #//Sinilar concept tho; Beast needs to be loved to turn back #//Except a twist—beast himself needs to Accept that love is real and genuine too #//Bc Wrios getting cursed would prolly be less bc he was a brat who pissed off a faerie #//Rather bc he killed his parents and that was a No No; so he got cursed #//Unfair in both cases; for different reasons #//And then on the sib trio’s side; it’s them and infiltrating the manor for Info a la canon; and that’s how Lyney does his sacrifice #//Lyney running away like Belle did maybe bc he assumed his sibs were actually in harms way and booked it #//If not; like Belle; got spooked by Wrios bc he poked around too much and came Too Close to the man’s truth #//Wrios would prolly be less protective over his rose for his own sake; more bc of his staff & Sigewinne #//She can be like their Chip & Mrs Potts rolled into one lmao #//Jurieu & Lourvine are Obvi Lumiere and Cogsworth #//Gaston is #//Idk Taru prolly ndbfb #//Neuvi prolly being the faerie who cursed Wrios; but hating every second of it like in canon #//Thus giving him a kinder curse and easier way out (so he believed) than most others would have #//Idk #//Lmao

[theclearblue]

When I'm able to have a coherent thought again I'll be making a long rambling post about the Nothing Happened scene in Thriller Bark because what the fuck. What the fuck was that I'm going actually insane over it

#just finished thriller bark haha #i'm not exaggerating y'all i was sobbing and i'm still actively crying over it #the love that they all have for each other that zoro has for his crew and luffy #the fact that sanji also tried to sacrifice himself and zoro knocks him out #and when he comes to goes looking for zoro and doesn't tell anyone in order to protect both luffy and zoro #i should keep a tracker over how many times this show about a rubber man makes me cry #it's a lot #one piece #thriller bark #roronoa zoro #luffy #sanji

[quillkiller]

get to know me!!!

thank u for the tag @themuseoftheviolets 💕

rules: name one of your favorite book, season, movie, drink, color, animal, character, song, & hobby

book: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo / season: spring / film: happy together (wong kar-wai, 1997) / drink: ice coffee with vanilla flavor / color: pink / animal: rats / character: sun bak / song: that moon song by gregory alan isakov / hobby: going to the movies

im too sleepy and its 2am to tag people but please if we’re mutuals i want to know all of u so consider urself tagged<3

#debated between steven from haunting of hill house and sun bak for way too long…….. #same with titanic and happy together #titanic is unironically one of my top 5 favorite films #like thats a lesbian love story right there #the symbolism #the mise-en-scene #the female liberation jack offers her when he sacrifices himself #<— thats a dyke #the forced proximity creating a space where they can be equal despite being man and woman #<— also lesbian symbolism #the way jack isnt cals equal even if theyre both men #i could go ON. #and someday i might #rose being in charge during the sex scene #jack shaking and being nervous #FEMALE LIBERATION AND EMPOWERMENT #anyway! titanic is genuinely my favorite lesbian movie #goodnight #dont fucking ever say to me ’there was room on the door’ THATS NOT THE POINT #THE POINT WAS HIS SACRIFICE SO ROSE COULD LIVE #AND CHOOSE HER OWN NAME #choosing to be ’lesser’ in the end also equals choosing her happiness and freedom #lesbian! fucking! symbolism! #i wrote an essay about this and got a B #it was my first film essay

[hellonoblesky]

Me when exactly what I expected to happen happens

#Dave Filoni interview. Fuck this shit man #turtledove yells into the abyss #I wanted thr grysk and the Chiss that’s all I wanted #Like yeah I expected him to fuck it up but come ON man #He isn’t a one dimensionally Bad Guy dude isn’t A Good Guy but he has motives and driving forces #Like oh never mind the Grysk war or his loyalty to his people so strong that he would sacrifice himself to save them #Never mind the entire like 6 books you can reference from. Never mindddd lolllll

[vampiiric]

i loved the new spiderverse but miguel is so funny when you think about it. yes hes sad but the whole reason he's an antagonist at all is that he assumes miles is a good person and gets REALLY mad about it. like hes not wrong but he's very angry about it

#he's a well written antihero imo and i hope we see more of him #like i really love how much he's guided by his past mistake and how he wants to protect people from the guilt he feels #but he's guided by that guilt !! and because he can't undo what he feels he did he wants to prevent it in the future #but he knows people are good and spidermen want to help people. thus why he's mad at miles. because miles doesn't know #so he just.... saves someone. #he doesnt know about canon events or timeline stability or anything he just sees people in need of help and someone who can't #help everyone. so he joins in. and he doesnt even think twice. #and one selfish action from miguel- one he thought would have no consequences- caused all of his guilt and his lashing out. #but miles didn't disrupt anything selfishly. sure hes not perfect hes 15 he wants to be independent. he wants a lot. but he's a kid! #as spider-man though- when he's being spider man instead of miles morales #there's not a selfish bone in his body when someone needs help. he saves someone he's never met just because he could. #i subscribe to the theory that the spot is causing the dimensions to break down instead of canon event disrupton #which informs a lot of my thoughts #but miguel seems to me like someone who is genuinely by all metrics a good person #who does what he thinks is right and if given the chance would sacrifice himself to save the universe he saw dissolve #but that doesnt make him right. that makes him someone who wants to fix something unfixable #who knows he can't #so in trying to 'fix' it by preventing it from ever happening again he becomes so obsessed with it it never leaves him #like we only see a bit of this and i'm extrapolating #and everyones interpretations are gonna be different #but like. he's an effective antihero because he is a good person who thinks that to cause overall good you have to do bad things #which is a really interesting mentality! #and he's someone who has allowed himself to become trapped in guilt. and he's lashing out about it. #honestly i want to see him and earth-42 miles interact. i want to see more earth 42 miles tbh. like that's the same miles! #but his circumstances were so different that he had to grow into someone entirely new. #i hope earth-42 miles gets to do good in his dimension and change things for the better #because. and im not a comics fan so feel free to correct me. #something at least movie miles has is so much passion and dedication to a cause. he's creative and smart #and earth-42 miles. i am entirely confident. has those too!! i want to see him flourish. i want to see him be his best self #thanks for coming to my tag ramble

[nosfelixculpa]

i dont think ive ever talked abt this here but forever obsessed w/ the difference in aerrow vs carver fights 1x01 nd 2x08

like in 1x01 aerrow has literally just been knighted and has never fought in a one on one Real Fight which shows by the way hes just yeeting himself on the offensive like the child has no concept of Defense in that fight hes just angry

and hes still angry in 2x08 but hes not letting it make him reckless all his movements r Calculated and Seasoned and also way more defensive which is expected since he fought A Lot in between these episodes

and ALSO he can only do his fancy little move in 1x01 bc carver pisses him off but 2x08 hes just doing it for the drama of it all for the cameras dahling

its good choreography choices brent

#creations #gifs #tv #cartoon #animation #storm hawks #sh #dhx media #nerdcorps #asaph fipke #aerrow #carver #2x08 is still one of the BEST fights in the show the choreography is so good man #also never forget that aerrow took a direct hit to the face purely for the DrAMA an icon #but the fact they made sure to show how he actually learns how to fight through the seasons good for them nd also good for him #like u can see in his first fight with the dark ace too that hes just throwing himself @ him which is why he loses nd almost dies #like hes still a reckless little shit who likes self sacrifice;; too much but not rly when it comes to fights #but other stuff man he needs to chill #should i compile all his near death experiences should i do that #for now take this #srry some of the 2x08 ones r a bit glitchy it is the price

[talentforlying]

WHY DID THE AUTHOR KILL YOU OFF?

DEATH AS REDEMPTION. some things cannot be forgiven. what a shame, then, that so many consider forgiveness to be the be-all, end-all of character redemptions. or that forgiveness in itself is the redemption. whatever sins you committed, whatever actions weigh your soul down, the author has decided that you cannot make up for it . . . and so they will not let you try. no, you will not even be allowed to try and put as much positivity into the world as possible. ( you cannot restore the balance, but surely you could do something? )

instead, there is only one thing to do: sacrifice yourself. you'll take a bullet meant for the hero, or tackle the villain off a cliff, ( dooming you both, ) or you'll use the last of your magic to get everyone else out safely. when the heroes speak of your death, they will act as if you have undone all your wrongs, as if dying was the holiest gift you were capable of giving.

i cannot help but wonder . . . how much more could you have done, if you had only been given the chance?

tagged by: yoinked tagging: y'all

#STARES DIRECTLY AT DCEASED DEAD PLANET. STARES DIRECTLY AT LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. #there's another one but i can't fuckin think of it rn #i'm so serious when i say that constantine's best chance at redemption will Always be living #because he ALREADY sacrifices himself Again and Again for everyone else #and he just needs to live long enough for people to recognize that about him (glasgow empathy virus my beloved) #but CONSTANTINE will always think that the best way to be redeemed is to die and i hate him for that #( character study. ) A WALKING PLAGUE OF A MAN.

[dhampirwomen]

"the ivashkovs were a royal family, one of the wealthiest and most powerful. they were the kind of people who thought they could get anything they wanted and walked over those in their way."

-rose hathaway, frostbite

#vampire academy #the ivashkovs #the ivashkovs are prob the best example in va of the way royal moroi exploit dhampirs and reinforce cisheteropatriarchal moroi supremacy #the unjust and oppressive standards of their society are believed and reinforced by all characters to different levels #but it really hits its peak with the ivashkovs #as the family with the most power in the series they're symbols of the inherent injustice and corruption of that power #(anyone and everyone below them including other royals like tasha aren't immune) #tatiana daniella and adrian are sexually interested in dhampirs (ambrose and rose) but that doesn't make them any less moroi supremacist #in fact the way ambrose and esp rose are objectified is one of the biggest way moroi supremacy and misogyny is reinforced #daniella wants dhampir women enslaved with compulsion #tatiana's idea of a compromise is putting 16 yo dhampirs on the front lines #she slutshames and threatens rose's career for having the gall to be *checks notes* sexually harassed by tatiana's royal nephew #nathan's casual constant supremacy and support for oppressive policies speaks for itself #and adrian direspects violates and gaslights rose while telling himself he respects women's consent and did it all for love #one of the most fascinating levels of adrian's character is the way he mirrors the rest of his family tbh #and i feel like it gets disregarded bc it doesn't make him sympathetic even tho it makes him more interesting #(from a watsonian analysis pov) #his contempt/resentment for dimitri a working class dhampir man long predates last sacrifice #he always disregards rose's will and happiness if it conflicts with his own #and he has double standards for dhampirs even if he has no moral ground to stand on #(it's ok if adrian tries to seduce rose while she's dating mason but it's an outrage when rose cheats on adrian etc) #i should prob tag this #anti adrian ivashkov #even tho it isn't really an anti take but ik his stans prob won't want to see it #queue*