#Hoping it's the better of two evils

[tomatoart]

back seat cycle side kick

#claire redfield #sherry birkin #resident evil 2 #resident evil fanart #resident evil #re2 #sorry for making claire say something so badly dad core #redraw of an official art piece from re2og i think! i loved it smmmmmmm its so cute #sorry for missing two weeks of posting i havent had much time to relax :[ i hope to chnage that if i feel better WHICH I HOPE!

[mewvore]

Well mostly because it sounds like you want Trump back in the white house

are you one of those people who thinks mocking Democrats and left leaning politicians for their behavior and disagreeing with them in the midst of their hypocritcal actions is equal to being Republican? If so, just so you know, you're totally allowed to criticize the political party you find yourself associated with rather than just accept their behavior on the basis that "they aren't as bad as the other side at least". It comes free with your tax money that pays their salary

#ask and mew shall receive #Fun fact the lesser of two evils argument is just as fantastical as the hope for a good politician is #Going down the ladder one rung at a time instead of jumping down just means you'll get to the bottom much slower #And if they're taking us all down one rung at a time with them they better be glad the most their constituents can do is bitch loudly

[princekirijo]

Imma be honest with you chief this week has not been fun. At all

#oh boy i had a terrible three days time to go tell my tumblr followers about it! #ah no but jokes aside y'all. #i started my job on monday and i actually like it so far! #i haven't done any actual work or anything quite yet cause its all onboarding at the moment #but so far so good! all my colleges are lovely #so you might ask why is this one of the worst weeks of my life? two words #FOOD. POISONING. #this shit is straight up EVIL #im doing better today thank god but yesterday??? omfg #“look im being uber dramatic here but when am i not to be fair” #But seriously #ill try not to go into too much detail but. 10 hrs. yeah. #my throat feels like someone has shoved a metal ball down it #i havent eaten anything today #and I'm missing two days of training over this 😭 #this is so embarrassing first week on the job and boom food poisoning knocks me out for two of them #im gonna be the food poisoning guy 😭 #i hope y'all are having a better time than i am

[constantvariations]

If Salem obliterated Vale, does that mean she has its relic?

#rwde #ozpin said it was better hidden than the rest and ive been so curious abt it ever since #bc he's got two options for accessing it: the fall maiden who killed him and is working for his genocidal ex or the missing summer maiden #(seriously oz why the absolute shit do you not have a skeleton key for these vaults) #this was like. THE reason i wanted the story to go back to Vale. i wanted so bad to see what 'better hidden' meant #ngl i was hoping for smth like it not being hidden in the conventional sense but rather chose its wielder for their qualities #mayhaps someone w a simple honest soul #but alas. vale is destroyed offscreen w only a single sentence to convey the horror and tragedy #since patch was close to Vale does that mean Tai is dead too? Raven was the last person to see him and he aint w her so... #dude's probably dead right? or did the writers forget he existed again? #either way fuck that epilogue. i cant believe im prefering the half episode exposition dump ending but it truly is the lesser of evils

[surreal-duck]

more oc stuff 🎉 i love divorce

#duck ocs #duck scribbles #doodles #i love toxic yuri 👍 #suddenly wanted a last min addition to my art fight chara list so i scrambled to put these together some time ago jkdsjkgdhsgd #its a mess but. its legible i hope #anyways theyre in their what. mid/late 30s. theyre in love they hate each other they know each other better than anyone else they tried to #kill each other several times theyre childhood friends they both want to fix things they both cant forgive the other theyve been in and #still are in love with the other theyd rather die than say it out loud. the usual #nikolai on the left is a questionable mentor figure !! olivia on the right one of the guys trying to take the main 5's powers for this #evil (?) group shes part of and joining it being the cause of how the two drifted apart in the first place #well their relationship is irreparable. probably. who knows i havent thoguht that far (lie) (i have) (theyre fine now. no theyre not)

[phoenixcatch7]

If there's one thing I like more than time travel it's crossover reincarnation, so.

Botk link reincarnated as Damian Wayne.

An incredible weapon master of all types, but especially prodigious with a sword - he was beating knights at the age of 4 and with his memories as intact as they get for him I can see that goalpost moving even further (probably with traps and tricks, a 3yo doesn't exactly have great bodily control).

He's an excellent survivalist, agile, strong, durable, cunning and creative. He can move like a feather in the breeze, strike from behind with ease. His first kill, an animal, did not stir him as it did the other children. With his poise, grace, skills, obedience, he ought to be ra'as' finest assassin in the making, a jewel in the crown of the league.

Except he never speaks a word. Half his targets escape unscathed. He skates by true punishment on the merit of his skills and achievements in other missions. Testing has shown it is not a physical deformity that prevents his speech, but not even talia has been able to coaxe a word from him past his second birthday.

It is a defect ra'as is growing more and more frustrated by, as each attempt to fix these two final flaws ends in resounding failure. Less extreme solutions are running dry.

Talia fears those solutions. Her child does too, she knows. For them, there is a possible solution, more extreme than anything ra'as would tolerate.

She sends him out of the league. To his father.

To Gotham.

#'gee phoenix that sure sounds like that dp x dc you're normally rattling on about' yeah lol I steal tropes and sell them on the black market #Anyway this has been slowly rotisserie-ing in my head for a while I just like shaking canon like a magic 8 ball #I'd love to explore how link would react to Gotham and how he might see getting suddenly dumped in a found family as the youngest #And how that contrasts with both his expectations in the league and his role as the saviour last hope of a whole country #Because that kid cannot have a modern interpretation of killing. Like monsters? Kill with prejudice loot the corpses. #The yiga might have a little more hindsight understanding and he never killed them anyway but zero hesitation blowing them up #And ganon is so far removed from the concept of 'killing is bad' because a) human??? Monster??? B) literally the problem #C) he's been killing people so it'd even out d) everyone wants him dead So Bad e) been killed already like a dozen times what's one more #I get the feeling he'd assign the same role to the joker like 'widely considered the source of all evil. 'died' several times and came back #personal source of absolute misery for several heroes. Killed many' = slay the monster. Straightforward. #Like yes link always chooses kindness and has a strong morality and Opinion on killing people it's just a lot would be solved #By hitting the joker until he stopped making life miserable for everyone and if that means permanently well that's kind of link's job. #And like with Jason the bats understand that a lot better than they pretend to. But that is a 10yo who should not be thinking like that. #I think it'd be interesting to see how that'd change their reactions to 'Damian'. Like he holds a very similar opinion to og and Jason he #Just goes about it completely differently. #And I'd love to explore the differences between two fictional worlds and how they can go from pretty much the most black/white morality #To probably one of the greyest areas while still holding near identical themes and methods of dealing with that. #Found family compassion as a weapon against evil and copious amounts of weapons and cool gear lol #Also link should keep the arm he's earned it. Reincarnating with all his memories knocked a few other things loose I'd imagine #Mostly because all the loz games I've played have absolutely altered the way I view any link and also I love referencing them. #Damian with telekinesis and infinite glue would be great. A tiny 10yo sword master choosing instead to drop a dumpster on you #In between hurt comfort link beginning to bond with his family and begin to speak and learn sign language from cass #There's also the sound of explosives and a small figure clinging to a flying door as it crosses the Gotham night skies #Speaking of cass I bet her and link would be great friends in this au. #batman #batfam #bruce wayne #loz au #Loz #loz totk

[rapiersquadron]

saltburn was such a dumb movie man

#i watched it tonight since i have to stay in the next couple days before i see family for covid protocol reasons and i just #there are like two or three other movies that do this premise better #someone called it the untalented mr. ripley and i would add it's like if a really dumb guy plagiarized parasite #the grave fucking/menstrual sex/bathwater scenes are all designed in a lab to go viral on tiktok and yet are SO TAME #this is a movie for 18 yr olds who watch maybe one new movie a year to go crazy about #anyway yeah it's well shot and acted but the script is contemptible (not that i expected much from someone who wrote promising young woman) #also it's just really funny to me that this cartoonishly evil class parasite is of course sexually deviant like YAWWWN #i hope ms. fennell finds new material

[aceghosts]

OC Kiss Week 2023: Hunter Delaney & Charlie Berger

*Charlie belongs to @detectivelokis

#myedits #Hunter Delaney #Charlie Berger #ockiss23 #oc kiss week #oc kiss week 2023 #Resident Evil OC #Uncharted OC #this is my first time making anything like this #so I hope it came out okay Amanda #I used Charlie's uncharted verse since I thought it might work better for these two #anyway I hope you like this #thank you for letting me use Charlie #she is genuinely one of my favorite OCs on this site

[merrysithmas]

so i am reading The Book of Sith and it is really hitting me how STRONG Anakin was to overcome literally thousands of years of Sith consolidation of power and END it. he ended the Sith 🤯 all of the powerful Sith lords that came before him, all of the endless century-long brutal wars between the Sith and Jedi, the unrest in the galaxy -- the Force, through torment, put Anakin in a position to end it. And he did.

through the book we learn that the Sith have been placing sleeper agents in Jedi & Republic society for thousands of years - calling them forth to upend peace when least expected (such as Dooku, a high ranking person in Serenno culture). and i fully believe that's what the Force did in return, finally, with Anakin as Vader. Anakin in Vader was the Force's sleeper agent.

The Force had to create and torment someone so good that he would fall because of his weakness (LOVE) and yet be strong enough to withstand 20 years of guilt and torture on the Dark Side, so strong that he'd return to the Light and end the Sith from within, as one of them.

the Force created Anakin to fall. he was the Chosen One, the damned one, the demi god, the unlucky one, the hated one -- but the hero. it is why he found peace as a force ghost. a tragic hero.

Like!!! Vader, personally, after killing his Master, had the ability to instantly absorb ALL of Sidious' power - ten thousand years of malignant potent strength. Vader would be literally all-powerful...

and he rejected it 🥹😭😫

he outright rejected it for Luke, for Leia. he rejected it for love. he wasn't even tempted after Sidious died! he rejected the entire Sith lineage since Darth Bane, tore it to shreds and let it wither and die just so he could look at his son with "his own eyes". Luke (& Leia) - the whole reason he began the first assured steps to his fall in the first place. A desperation to save his children & padme.

he was so strong in the Light that he didn't claim the dark throne. but he not only didn't claim it - he destroyed it. for his children and everyone else in the galaxy. so that they might never know the pain and torture he endured on the Dark Side as Sidious' slave.

the book (which is, granted, "Legends") makes it clear under the Rule of Two that the apprentice never gets any Sith power. they are starved of it, servants of it, and slaves. the Sith Master keeps all of the dark power and the apprentice has nothing, is nothing. is treated as meat and Palpatine notes they are "easily replaceable when their usefulness runs out".

Anakin was the easiest target for him and he was manipulated since he was 9 years old. no mother to protect him. Sidious threw away Maul, Tryanus, and Vader of course was next.

but in the end he overcame all that: the Force's tragic destiny for him via the prophecy, Palpatine's evil manipulation of him as a small child, the lure of a hundred generations of Sith power, the evil he was conducted to commit under the duress of Palpatine to save his family (and the boundless guilt he felt for it), and the ultimate rank of a potential rule as Emperor Vader.

he rejected it all the second he got another chance - horrified at his fall the first time, bearing the burden of the prophecy (Anakin the Betrayer), taking responsibility for the acts he commited even though he was a demi god who was destined and thus never had any real free will.

he was a slave his entire life - born & died as one. he was only ever free in death.

and he was free in death because the moment he finally had a true choice of his own - after he fulfilled the Prophecy and ended the Sith - he chose to end the Sith, and let peace prevail.

at his truest form, finally given his own agency, he chose the Light.

anakin is a hero.

#anakin skywalker #sob #when ppl say he was -pure evil- im like ok are we seeing the same source material #being PURE EVIL and commiting evil are two diff things #he definitely commited evil acts as both anakin & vader #(and he had an ego and alter ego on top of it) #(like i think of the dark side as deluding such as a substance abuse - he isnt REALLY vader but vader is there in control regardless) #(and he is helpless to this alter ego as his prime ego is not strong enough) #but anyway #he commited evil but he wasnt evil at his soul - that is the whole point of hope in star wars and the whole point of luke skywalker #a person who believes in good #that anyone even someone who has made the worst mistakes (even if he was destined to!) can be saved with understanding and compassion #and it is only through compassion ultimately that we can make the world better - even if at times there us no choice but to act in defense #compassion must always prevail #and by 'saved' i mean can know himself as more than his mistakes and capable of what one wills despite the past #that there is always hope someone might come back from the dark #and to not damn this possibility with hate and scorn #even if we cant MAKE it happen it is possible #and in anakin's case he had a prophecy and his REAL moment of choice was when it was fulfilled #and he chose to do good #and he CHOSE IT BECAUSE LUKE WAS THERE TO BELIEVE HE COULD AND TO LOVE AND HELP HIM AND SHOW HIM IT WAS POSSIBLE #ugh my soul #it was possible for him to choose good

[dykethang]

i think mothers day simply should not exist. why are we forcing literally everyone to be celebrating people just for giving us life. what if i want to avoid the notion but i can't because it's everywhere

#kāhu caws #if i get a message from my mother on another fake account. do not think i could tolerate that #is she too into her meth to bother? i hope so but her methposting is pretty prolific #why do i have to have two severely abusive parents huh. no escape other than just like #leaving. like i went to the other island to get away lol #and still she persists in block evading and ignoring my very clear boundaries #which are DO NOT FUCKING CONTACT ME UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES #she's a special kind of evil for some things she did. and she says we can put it all behind us. time changes people #like sure. ok. you wanted to kill me and you knew about [redacted] and did nothing among other things. #i cannot and will not ever be able to put that behind me #abuse cw / #in the tags and not really detailed just. sigh. #i hope there's nothing this year but loud radio silence. it's for the better

[rottingcompost]

the fact that at this point i dont even feel depressed or scared or anxious whenever i get reminded of my abuser and i instead get angry and start thinking and sometimes even saying the most venomous shit about her and wishing death on her. shes not really in my life much at all anymore but it still pisses me off and i still have to see her occassionally and at this point i feel like next time she tries to come to my apartment i wont even let her in and tell her to play in traffic or something.

#ramblings #i just realized while typing this since i wonder why she showed up in my thoughts again this week #her birthday is today #i hope she dies. #genuinely im so angry that i ever had to share my life with her #and im still angry that she still is the tumor on my family that is ruining it #genuinely it would be so much better for pretty much all of us if she died #i have wanted to make fun of her to friends lately but tbh only like. two or three of my friends even know her enough to understand my ange #and even then i dont think it would be very fair to them to basically go on an insane rant about my abuser because im mad #i should get my anger out in some other way #vent #it fucking sucks too because her sister and her mother are extremely sweet and i honestly kinda like being around them #how the hell did she turn out to be such a vile and terrible creature when her sister and mom are absolutely amazing #also doesnt make it much better when she talks shit about her sister and makes her out to be evil when like???? #shes actually a nice person unlike you!!!!

[daydadahlias]

I just really love you and hope you have a wonderful week 🥺❤️

aww thank u so much anon !! ily2 <3

#not to trauma dump on main but what a horrible last two weeks ive had <3 #oh what a horrible horrible little time it has been <3 #but ! im working on this week being better! #and i hope that happens :) #pigeon #anon #thank u for loving me btw ive felt a little evil and hated lately so <3 a nice change up

[pinkopalina]

as a huge batjokes shipper i want batman and joker to hate each other in the sense they dont really hate each other, they just have really different goals and see their own version of potential in the other and right now hate is the best word for their situationship. they both love the other for what they could be but neither of them wants to be what the other one wants, and that's equally as frustrating as it is necessary for them to keep existing in their current roles. they're deadlocked and that fate surrounding each other is kind of the point -- we both have to be like this, the opposite of what the other wants, for us to keep existing at all, and for giving me that gift i both love and hate you. it's an agreement. i think the hate that's there now is born from an intense underlying love.

i think batman "hates" joker for being so amazing and smart and cunning, for being able to create grand gestures and schemes, to pull people together under his charisma and make them all believe in something, for being as extraordinary as he is but batman hates that he uses it to hurt people. he hates that joker can't channel his energy into doing something good for the world, that he hurts himself and others just because he wants to be batman's greatest enemy. i think batman wants to help joker but also hates him at this point for joker exhausting him, constantly getting hurt both emotionally and physically by him, joker never trying to improve his situation, throwing away other people's lives, showing batman he loves him by lashing out and hurting him. batman hates joker because he loves his rogues, he wants to help them, and he knows they can do better. he wants to live in a gotham that doesn't need batman but he still needs to be needed, because when there's no batman, what is bruce going to be? without joker, he will continue being batman, but it's an empty crusade. some of my favorite interactions between harvey and bruce are the ones where harvey thanks bruce for "always being there for me, never giving up on me, my very best friend." even with someone like harvey, bruce can still hold onto that hope for his rogues, never give up on them, keep going for them, even if it puts them through the cycle one more time.

i think joker hates batman in the most toxic way possible, but it's still love. i just think he's selfish and doesn't want batman to think about anyone else but him, the same way he operates for batman, but if he must think about other people then joker will make it as amazing as possible! i think he hates batman for wasting his time on ordinary people, people who are so boring that batman claims he has to protect and serve and love them but joker thinks it's all surface-level. batman won't kill joker but he'll leave room for people dying in his crusade. it's a choice he allows, and even if joker knows that's a morally fucked up way to put someone in a box, he doesn't care. batman is the type of person to train himself mentally and physically for decades and dress up in a half-silly-half-menacing costume so that everyone can have an idea about him. batman himself is not normal, and joker knows that and loves that! why is he wasting his time trying to save people that use him, abuse him, don't want him to be the best he can be? i think joker's motivations for loving batman and lashing out as if he hates him lie somewhere in between extreme admiration -- like i truly believe in your cause and that you're the right person to do it, but i'm so angry at you for wasting your time on other people and i'm so hurt and jealous that you choose them over me, just so you can be a hypocrite and let them die if i want them to anyways -- and anger at his hypocrisy -- like it's easy for joker to dedicate himself to chaos and just being in batman's life by putting batman in situations that force him to be a better and better hero, but how can batman sit there and choose and pick what morals he'll uphold and who gets to live and who gets to die?

i want to be your greatest enemy because you are the greatest hero ever, and the only way you and i can keep being the best at what we do is if we do it together, because of what we both believe in.

#does this make sense. they love each other because theyre perfect for each other #but in order to create that perfection they have to do things that build resentment #and in order to ebb that resentment they have to be in constant flux. back and forth. ebb and flow. good and evil. chaos and order. #obsession and indifference.... the two themes i think we miss out on the most bc it hurts when indifference is the opposite of love #and obviously these two cannot be indifferent toward the otther #but when they have plots that do they really fucking hurt! #like when lex luthor comes into the picture and helps joker and joker starts to make batman a little jealous #like okay maybe i dont need you to obsess over maybe any strong ideals can overtake me if u lnow what i mean #and then suddenly batmans gotta prove how well he knows joker and has to be on top of him at all times #um anyways i hope these kind of! made sense!!!!!!!!! djhdkjghijsdfhksdfh #like ideally i think joker just wishes he had batman all to himself but knows he has to share #and hes such a jealous baby that he makes it hard for batman bc of it #and batman is like yes joker jesus fucking christ i love you too but you have to let me have friends #and u have to stop killing people #and jokers like why are you friends with murderers and liars and thieves but IM BAD? #and batmans like bc i actually love everyone and want to help you all and that includes u #and jokers like jo fuck you hypocrtie hahaha see at least in my loneliness i have no laurels to rest on #and bruce is like i may struggle with my morals often but that is only because im always figuring out the best way to keep helping everyone #and if i lose sight of that ill go blind and be like you and then u wont have me anymore #lol sometimes funny tag convos get the dynamic better than the meaty posts #long post #anyways sorry i just havee 2937973957273 thoughts about them and so does everyone and i wanna throw my hat in

[themthistles]

not even joking i would kill for some kind of beyond evil sequel focusing on jihwa. it doesn't even have to be a full time drama. a mini-series, a movie, anything is fine i just need it

#she has so much potential as a character but the show just didn't. have. time for her #and i'm always sad about it #jwds don't need to be there like they can be referenced or make a guest appearance idc #jihwa works in a violent crimes unit #you're telling me there can't be a compelling story about a woman with decades of unpacked trauma #encountering worst of humanity everyday but desperately trying to believe in the goodness of it and through it in the goodness of self #you're telling me we can't have an arc of her finally forgiving herself for leaving for doubting for wanting more for herself #there's so much that can be explored #literally do none of you ever think about you're better than me you're all better than me i hope jeongje did it i'm a monster right #do you never think about i'm sorry but what i wanted was to run away not to be consumed by your desires #do you never head in hands over i never got in your way once i let you do whatever you wanted and now you're telling me not to cross over #she's always delivering lines of all time and for what #actually i take it back #dongsik can be there #series focusing on jh&ds's relationship would slap #also kim shinrok and shin hakyun as leads #their sheer acting power alone would blast brain outta my skull please and thank you #have not had interest in watching anything recently beyond evil let me fucking go let me care about something else PLEASE #promise of upcoming shim nayeon thriller drama with two female leads is the only thing keeping me afloat tbh #whenever that happens

[delicatebluebirdruins]

choices

in RE1 Hd remasterthere are 6 endings for Jill and Chris the canonical events are Chris saving Jill with Barry and Rebecca still being amongst the living and the mansion being destroyed after you fight the Tyrant for the second time

the endings are basically the same with the playable and supporting characters being swapped

Rebecca/ Barry can be killed in the mansion and on the helipad fighting the tyrant a second time

Jill/ Chris could be left to rot

Revelations 2 has a choice that you don't actually know is a choice until later on

you are fighting a boss (Neil Fisher) and he has Claire pinned if Claire shoots him that leads to Moira actually dying and Natalia being taken over completely by Alex Wesker

Moira shooting him leads to her being found by Evgeny who teaches her to survive and she does she finds Barry's badge and spends time looking for him and saves him and Natalia where they make their escape meeting up with Claire who turns up with a helicopter leading to another boss with Alex .Claire providing air support and Barry fighting her properly on the ground (fire bombs)

Re7 has you choose between Mia and Zoe

choosing Mia is the good ending

Zoe has Mia and Zoe die, with Mia having to be a extra boss

and Zoe does die how she looks in the boat is the same as when Marge dies we just don't see her crumble

imagine if we had a third option? and it was Ethan picking himself (its hard to realise you're infected with something if you have no idea how it is spread... the mold is somewhat airborne)

#end of zoe #in the hopes of person wondering why we could choose zoe was a option #resident evil #ethan winters #mia winters #resident evil 7 #resident evil biohazard #chris redfield #jill valentine #i have almost all the endings for chris but jill? i have two #guess which one i have played the most? #the answer is Jill #so I need to be better with my saves so I can just make a list and go through it all from before the save #moira burton #claire redfield #barry burton #resident evil revelations 2 #rere 2 #i need to play rere 2 #i want the secret files

[silverislander]

prof said congrats for writing up a proposal so early i am going to get a good grade in. well this is literally going to be graded. but yk the meme

#i really hope its decent proposals are really hard for me to write. i never really understand how much im supposed to say #also i dont plan stuff in advance! i hate drafts and proposals why cant i just jump in and run w my topic #i dont Know exactly what im going to cover just yet can i get back to you once ive covered it #levi.txt #i spent One page just opening the two page proposal so. i know it needs some cleaning up #but the last time i wrote one of these i only got a 75 (not a bad grade but i could do significantly better) bc. and i am not kidding. #i wrote a several page intro abt the themes of a story i was super pumped to write. and forgot the /plot characters and title/ #a 75 was honestly generous. that prof already liked me and knew my work so i got very lucky #also i just think the guy im working with for my essay is so cool and i want to impress him bfhshsk #ive taken 2 classes with him before he is so smart and so enthusiastic. i was 1 of only 3 who was there for every class both times #everyone whos helped me has been so cool and very nice to me i want to do a good job and prove that im as capable as they think #and also jesus fucking christ ive worked so hard for this degree PLEASE #if i dont get honours im walking into the forest laying down and letting the fae take me as they will #side note: i have 1.5 movies left (its late and im finishing army of the dead tomorrow + watching evil dead rise)!! thats so exciting #theyve (mostly) been really fun and i feel like i have a really good general idea of where im going w my essay now #the movie eras are starting to kind of organize themselves into coherent themes in my mind #i think its smth along the lines of racism/xenophobia -> social change -> satanic panic -> action and militarism -> prejudice/bias #and i actually think were in smth of a thematic reckoning w zombies rn as a culture that im excited to discuss!! #for so long weve accepted that zombies arent people but weve really been starting to interrogate that since abt the mid 2010s #w tropes like searching for a cure (not just a vaccine) or movies like warm bodies or evil dead where you can truly turn back #and im really excited to see where the future takes the zombie genre!!