#and the ends don't always justify the means

[minervas-hand]

Right to fear, wrong to believe

Just had a horrible realization and needed to meta it out.

How different they were before Edinburgh, when Crowley was sucked down into Hell.

Look at this flirty babygirl in the Bastille:

I mean could he climb that tree any faster?

(This is why I really like fics that place a more physical relationship here, pre-Bastille or just post-Bastille, because c'mon look at them. )

In S1 the next thing is 1862 and Crowley asking for insurance (with a cane ffs). And Aziraphale freaking out with his "fraternizing" BS. It's jarring, until we get 1827 filled in for us in S2.

@takeme-totheworld notes in this post:

Crowley sure went from "our respective head offices don't actually care how things get done" and "nobody ever has to know" to "walls have ears" FAST after Edinburgh. And Aziraphale went from looking at Crowley with hearts in his eyes to "I've been FrAtErNiZiNg" just as quickly. I'm more convinced than ever that Edinburgh was the first time Crowley ever actually got caught and punished for fucking around with Aziraphale/doing good deeds/whatever it was they yanked him back down to Hell for, and it scared the absolute shit out of both of them and changed the whole tone of their relationship after that.

Yes! - it's clear to me as well that the Edinburgh graveyard was a very bad turning point, where they both saw that Hell was listening and would intervene. And it did change their relationship drastically, for over a century and a half (really, until looming Armageddon loosened up the stakes for them).

But what about Heaven?

See the thing is, we know Azi's been worried about Heaven watching him for the past 6000 years.

But they haven't.

[GIFs posted by starrose17]

All this time, and Heaven had not seen them together. Hadn't noticed. Had not even LOOKED.

I want to mention what @starrose17 says about this here in this post:

What I love about this is her choice of words, “went back through the Earth Observation files.” This implies that these photos were already filed somewhere meaning somebody had to have been watching them which meant somewhere in the depths of the bureaucratic heaven there’s an underpaid angel clerk tasked with watching angels on Earth, and he’s been hording photos of his favourite Angel/Demon couple not reporting them to Michael because he wants to see what happens.

And that's exactly what this fic covers!: Spying Omens by @ednav

(Give this a read, it's fabulous.)

While I am here for this being exactly how that happens, the other scenario is colder and worse - there's no one watching, at all. It's just filing automatically and never seen until some Scrivener is called to pull a file.

From @fuckyeahisawthatat's comment here :

I found this scene to be quite chilling, actually. Not only is the idea of Heaven as a surveillance state brilliant (way to make “God is always watching” sound way more ominous) but this is exactly how modern surveillance states work. They don’t actively watch everybody all the time. That’s not physically possible for humans, and even if it is metaphysically possible for Heaven, it’s not a very efficient use of resources. Surveillance states watch people they deem “suspicious.” And once you’ve been put in the category of “suspicious,” they have massive amounts of data that they can comb through to collect a lot of information about you–to retroactively build a case justifying why you’re suspicious, to collect information about where you go and who you associate with, etc.

Yes.

So we either have secret collusion in the rank and file, or we have a surveillance state that is constantly reinforced to its subjects for fear's sake, for control.

(Well, it obviously could be both.)

BUT my point is… Up until Edinburgh, Hell has not been watching (or caring at least). And up until near the end of Armageddon't, neither has Heaven.

Oh, my poor Angel. Thousands of years, of denying yourself, of pushing Crowley away, of carrying around a tension that is it's own constellation.

After 1827 you might have reason, but for the 5000+ years before that?

Thousands of years and Heaven was not watching nor cared.

You were right to fear. And you were wrong to believe.

And that just breaks my heart.

#okay gonna go reread Spying Omens again because that's my headcanon now #I hope Azi tears out the Earth Observation cams or servers or whatever it is #where's Murderbot when you need a good hack #good omens meta #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens

[crownedwille]

I've come to the conclusion that loving young royals doesn't mean I can't be critical about it, maybe especially bc I love the show so much I have such strong feelings about it, good and bad and I can love parts of canon and agree with it and appreciate it but I don't have to love it all. I have accepted that it's okay if I don't accept the ending and I don't have to force myself to support it. It's okay to not agree with all of canon and it's okay to not side with all of the creators' intentions/views. Loving a show doesn't mean you have to take everything the writers say on face value and that's the only version that is allowed to exist. Canon isn't everything and fandom is about curating your own experience that makes you happy and not miserable. You don't have to dismiss canon in every aspect and ignore it entirely, that's certainly not what I want but there is a fine line between being canon respectful, allowing some parts to exist and sometimes, yes, you just have to say "fuck canon" and move on for your own sanity and wellbeing

#especically in the first two weeks of a new release everyone is feelings lots of intense emotions ranging from ecstatic to angry #everything in between is a part of it and i know i'm also feeling very strongly about it right now #i always try to stay levelheaded and rational and see things from an objective pov and be diplomatic about discourse #i don't want any of what i say drift off too much into meaningless hate instead of the constructive criticism it's supposed to be #but when you feel so strongly about something and sometimes you really just wanna say yeah i fucking hate it lol #but i always try to explain why and give understandable arguments and not just blindly hate on something #for example - I'm aware there are fans who have some problems with s2 and don't love the season whereas i do and it's my fave #and there is a difference between expressing some criticism and justified concerns which you can understand where it comes from #and those who are just like 'oh it's a horrible season. it was so shitty and we should get rid of it' which is dumb hate and just not true #and i can't support people like that and take them seriously #i can have my own issues with s3 from a subjective pov which can also include some justified criticism as well #but also still acknowledge it as a truly good piece of tv media and the quality is top notch #and that's why you have such high expectations and have critique because it is so good and sets such a high standard #yrtalk #with that being said i understand ppl not wanting to see any critic about it if they are riding the high of happy wilmon endgame #but that doesn't mean that i can't express my own opinions on my own blog and i will continue to do so #and maybe one day i will feel differently and accept or even like the ending who knows #but it doesn't have to happen. it's fine if it does but it's also fine if it doesn't

[moe-broey]

I was maybe halfway into this when I realized this could have been an edit but. Can anyone hear me

#fire emblem #feh #LIKE YEAH THAT WHOLE MONOLOGUE WAS AN ACT. BUT THIS IS MORE TO DEMONSTRATE #how triandra REFUSES to look past her guilt at all costs. she is ALWAYS so quick to condemn herself #meanwhile alfonse given the right circumstances under the right pressure. #he will go full sicko mode. #LIKE .... AUGHHHHH i can't fully capture it but. they have complete opposite mental/emotional approaches to what they had to do. #AND complete opposite attitudes about it. like alfonse is absolutely remorseful over gustav #and the abuse/neglect he got from gustav is way more nuanced than triandra's father adding even more complexity to it #but like. alfonse's greatest strength and weakness (i like to believe anyway lmfao) is he is practical. #LIKE. TO ALFONSE. the ends justify the means. meanwhile triandra did what she had to and yet #still WHOLEHEARTEDLY believes she's in the wrong for it. like two wrongs don't make a right. #even though her and peony's situation WAS life or death. she still sees what she had to do as #a crime she can never be absolved from. #am i making sense. i am unmedicated. #fe alfonse #fe triandra #my art

[fluentisonus]

while we're talking about it though that's something really fundamental to spock's character I think in a way I don't always see discussed, that by joining starfleet he's making the explicit and intentional choice that he'd rather be seen as a perfect example of an alien amongst humans than as an imperfect vulcan amongst vulcans. I see this framed a lot as him being more accepted in starfleet than he was on vulcan, and I really don't think that's the case at all: he's still very attached to vulcan, and we see all the prejudice he has to face and how little he's understood in starfleet. but what it comes down to is that he'd rather exist in a place where no one understands him and so he has nothing to prove -- even if that means being very alone -- than in a place where he's surrounded by the familiar & meaningful but everyone can see the ways he can't quite fit. if that makes sense

#obviously in the end he's not alone bc he has them all but that was never a guarantee or even something he could have hoped when he joined #thoughts #star trek #tos #I don't like how the vulcans are treated in a lot of discussions around spock imo. there's a weird angle everyone seems to have that he's #better off with humanity & with humans that I think is simply not true #like I'm not trying to deny that he had it rough there or say that they were always kind to him but this impression of them all as rigid & #xenophobic is a bit. eh #part of the reason he feels like he can't be on vulcan is because he was raised w vulcan culture & traditions -- which he stil follows! bc #they mean a lot to him -- and he feels like he can only do that all properly away from vulcan #which obvs isn't really a great solution either #but I think a lot of people misunderstand the whole learning that emotion is okay sometimes from tmp as retroactively justifying that #humans were right about emotionals & vulcans were wrong. which is like the opposite of the point. the point is that he can have both #& they don't have to mutually exclude one another and he can be a good vulcan while also being comfortable with being half human #he wouldn't be happy being human either. #and there's nothing inherently harmful about vulcan beliefs he just had to come to an understanding of them that made sense to him #& that worked for him rather than forcing himself into a misunderstanding of them that didn't suit him #anyways.

[makerofmadness]

ok can people like not normalize telling others kys EVEN IF THEY'RE GENUINELY BAD PEOPLE??? Like sorry if I don't think it's right to say things that can be genuinely triggering for particularly mentally ill folk under any circumstance when you can just be creative and come up with literally anything else to say but I don't think that basic human respect should just be revoked like a privilege. It's basic for a reason.

Like, no matter how disgustingly vile a person is, I'm not gonna respond to them by saying "I am in your walls" because you shouldn't say that to ANYONE and enabling that is dangerous. "What if they're not mentally ill" you don't always know that

Like genuinely you are a bad person if you say these things even if the person you're saying it too is worse. that doesn't exempt you from criticism and thinking that it does is just setting you up to hurt an innocent person that you may have misunderstood. That's the biggest danger of this. People will inevitably use it against people who ARE right because they THINK they're in the wrong.

#I've been seeing posts lately and they genuinely concern me especially since they kinda. Muddy otherwise good important posts. #Ask to tag #I'm considering just blocking and unfollowing people over this but I'm scared it may look as if I'm doing that because of their cause #And not because I think that the ends don't always justify the means

[helpimstuckinafandom]

JUSTICE FOR DAVINA CLAIRE I'M SO FUCKING SERIOUS FUCK OFF OH MY FUCKING GOD

#CAMI AND DAVINA GONE IN ONE EPISODE??!?!!?? #YOU CAN'T BE FUCKING FOR REAL #(davina perma died an episode later both they both died in one episode right before that) #also this season has been slacking on marcel and the ep post-davina's death kicked him up several notches #he said all the shit i take issue with about the always and forever family bs #he hit that shit out of the park #also camille's death being all about comforting klaus fucking pissed me off #it was until she was scared right at the end that it was more about her #and her last words COULD have beenthe immortality line. but then they had to have her bolster klaus again instead #at least we got others mourning her after #but davina???? #those bitchass ancestors forced her boyfriend to kill her then nearly shredded her soul #and she could've been resurrected. but of course fucking family came first #she had to die screaming for mercy alone as the ancestors tried to carve her soul from fucking existence #(and though i'm mad at elijah and freya for it it makes sense for them to do it #(what pissed me off was them and klaus then telling marcel that they were justified and he should just suck it up and understand) #(like no take the consequences let the man mourn) #(freya claiming family to kol too like girl i don't know you. and this 'family' loves you more than it ever loved me) #(y'all only love me on my deathbed) #(if being family means we kill each other's partners [which happens time and time again] then fuck being in this family) #like i don't actually want the mikaelsons dead. but also i hope super vampire marcel kills you all #hope kol gets away from you people because you are not family to him. you aren't. #but mostly davina. poor fucking davina #her and kol are my bonnie and enzo - finally finding someone who will choose them not just use them #only for death at the hand of allies #davina clair was an abused teenager you all used and who justifiably hated y'all #and she deserved more than to die like this. die basically three fucking times over still helping in the end #truly have not seen a witch this blatantly used and mistreated since the bonnie bennet #davina claire #the originals

[musical-chick-13]

I'm the LAST person to suggest that you have to preface every single comment you make about a character/fictional relationship/etc. you like with a reminder that you Know™ it's pRoBLeMaTiC, but I DO question what the point of acting genuinely for real like there were no problems is.

#I don't even mean in a 'what would it look like if this relationship were healthy' or 'what if this character were a good person' #because I think that's interesting to explore and I have several things I'm working on with elements of that #but I genuinely will hear people go 'there ARE no flaws in this thing' with their whole chest in a completely serious manner #when they could just. talk about how they like the thing without that qualification? and I feel like... #...idk. just because *I* am someone who enjoys horrible characters and deranged unhealthy fictional relationships #I feel like it's a disservice to act like there were never any faults or problems or [insert applicable noun here] at all? it gets rid of #the narrative complexity that's present #I was talking to long-distance best friend last night and I went on a rant about how I wouldn't like jaime as much if he actually WAS as #Super For Real Actually A Completely Good Person Who Was Never Flawed In Any Way as some people act like he is. #it's BECAUSE he does shitty things and isn't A Super Good Person™ that makes him particularly interesting #if you want to imagine a version of this story where he doesn't act horribly and is a 100% Stand Up Guy then go for it you don't need to #justify that by saying that that is completely for real without exception who he actually is in canon? #(this wasn't even the example that brought this on. he's one of many MANY examples.) #and you know I could write a story (I won't) where like. idk altena for example. handles her issues and doesn't become The Antagonist™ #where she gets therapy and ends up with a fulfilling life where she participates in society as a more well-adjusted person. #but again it would be an INCREDIBLE disservice to the way this character (a complicated fascinating character) is written to act like #she was Always Like That or that this turn of events was intended by the story or that She Genuinely Never Did Anything Wrong Actually #it's less 'oh people are having sympathy for [xyz] in a story context that I think isn't merited' & it's more 'acting like this is the way #the story was all along and the way it was meant to be interpreted all along is a misreading of the text and I don't think that's fair' #mel's media criticism

[nostalgia-tblr]

Literally just realised that the plot of That Fucked-Up Dark Sylkius Fic That Doesn't Even Have It's Own File (Yet) is basically just "anything and everything i do to make my OTP bang is justified, up to and including removing their ability to meaningfully consent to banging each other." Which is... interesting? Damn, is this fic secretly about Mobius as an especially toxic shipper??

I had realised there was the possibility of a few of the hypothetical readers of that story just going "awww, that was kind of fucked up... BUT AT LEAST MY OTP BANGED so that makes it okay and so i consider this story be cute and fluffy. *hearteyes*" but I hadn't made the connection otherwise.

Also because as POV Character Mobius would have the gift of Self-Justification In The Narrative where he's like "yeah but I didn't JOIN IN which I wanted to do but I didn't because that would be wrong and I would never do a wrong thing. engineering dubcon scenarios for other people is fine, however, as long as i am personally convinced that they WANT to have sex and just need a bit of a nudge to do so. and by 'nudge' i basically mean someone they trust non-consensually dosing them with sex pollen."

...actually putting in these terms makes me like this fic plot-bunny more than I did before, so if it does actually end up getting written this may be why.

#sylkius but only kind of and also in this particular case it'd be horrid #mobius should stick to torturing prisoners for information at least he can blame that on his bosses (he was Just Following Orders m'lud) #i do enjoy the cognitive dissonance of mobius being the way he is though it's kind of fun #and i suppose this plot does fit with him having been repeatedly told (since... forever ago?) that the end always justifies the means #maybe he just read too much sex pollen fic and went “this'd be okay in real life i mean look at how often it works out for the best in fic” #i don't know what the ending would yet beyond a general sense of unease #loki series #fic related

[unprocione]

➤  * 𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗘 ( @emile8 ) 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡  ❝ 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘. ❞

✦  WHAT MAKES A HOME? A home is a place of refuge. A person’s most personal belongings are kept in a home, and it’s where a person feels safe and accepted. A home tells a story and expresses a person or family’s interests. To create a home requires an emotional connection and sense of belonging, not physical things. A house can be a home but a home can’t be a house. You can live in a house that doesn’t feel like a home. Or you can find “home” in a house that isn’t yours because home isn’t a physical construct, it’s a feeling. To be a home, it needs to feel comfortable, like a place you belong to and are at peace with. A house may be decorated with the nicest furnishings money can buy, but that won’t necessarily make it a home. The feeling of “home” can’t be bought. It’s an intimate relationship we have with the personal space we live in. A home reflects who we are, our personality, and how we choose to live our lives.

* while i know the above pictures from resident evil: damnation are likely of a hotel room, based on the construction & context, i'm choosing to think of this as leon's bedroom on purpose for personal characterization.

✦  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A ❝ SPARTAN ❞ LIFESTYLE? A spartan lifestyle or existence is very simple or strict, with the minimum of luxuries. Living a spartan lifestyle means embracing simplicity and self-discipline, and focusing on developing physical and mental strength, buying and using only what is needed to accomplish your task. No spare rooms, no extra cars, no fancy meals, no desserts, no frills. Additionally, it is important to remember that living a Spartan lifestyle does not mean living a life of poverty or deprivation, but rather one of simplicity and self-discipline. The lifestyle is very basic because all efforts are devoted to the military and to the state.

Simplify your possessions and living space. Get rid of anything you don't truly need and focus on keeping only the essentials.

Embrace physical fitness and challenge yourself to push your limits through regular exercise and training.

Practice self-discipline and self-control by setting rules and boundaries for yourself, and holding yourself accountable to them.

✦  WHAT DOES MINIMALISM SAY ABOUT YOU? A minimalist person is someone who has a simple, uncluttered lifestyle, someone who seeks simplicity, usefulness and clarity. They don't believe in owning things for the sake of owning things — they only keep what is truly important to them. Minimalists are often very organized and efficient and find satisfaction in pursuing meaningful relationships and activities. They pursue a lifestyle that focuses less on material possessions and more on what they value in life – what makes them happy.

✦  PERSONAL TOUCHES.

* framed photographs of dear friends & loved ones. pictured: claire redfield, ada wong, patrick devlin, ashley graham, helena harper. not pictured: jack krauser (frame is facedown), manuela hidalgo, sherry birkin, ingrid hunnigan, & luis sera.

* an unknown monstera, a pilea peperomioides, and a peace lily.

✦  PLACES OF INTEREST.

* weaponry workbench, vinyl record player, kitchen w/ cookbook storage, bedroom barcart, leon's weapons locker, & external home gym.

✦  HEADCANONS.

leon resides on a private and rural property in maryland, a good distance away from the city.

leon's residence is more house than home, more of a place to sleep than a place to rest. he's more at home in a familiar chain hotel than anywhere else, preferring to vacation over spending time in his empty house.

leon's absolutely pathetic at home maintenance, preferring to call in plumbers or electricians as needed, but he's also an absolute clean freak, the place is spotless, like scrubbing tile grout with a toothbrush on his hands and knees spotless.

prior to the disassembly of the anti-umbrella pursuit & investigation taskforce, leon & bruce mcgivern were bunkmates, both living in a barracks building provided by the organization.

leon prefers to live remotely, having become somewhat of a recluse, his home sheltered away from main roads & prying eyes by acres of forest.

leon has two locks on his bedroom door, and doesn't sleep with a sound machine, both in case of any scenarios involving possible intruders. the glass in his windows is also bulletproof, for the same rightfully paranoid reasoning.

leon doesn't get delivery. he doesn't get takeout. he doesn't do fast food at all whenever he has other options. leon grew up in a home where more often than not they had fast food for dinner as both parents worked and it was cheap and easy, and now that he has a home of his own, he prefers to cook for himself at every chance, mealpreps, and experiment with recipes when he has time. his tupperware collection is impressive. he would probably marry his air fryer if he could legally. leon kennedy, disgusted by a cheap hamburger to the point of nausea, but says he could really go for a steak right now when confronted with a rotten bovine carcass.

leon's first houseplant was his monstera, purchased after the events of resident evil: damnation, which he keeps by his bedside window. leon's second houseplant was his pilea peperomioides, purchased after the events of resident evil: six. leon's most recent houseplant is his peace lily, purchased after resident evil: vendetta. leon keeps all three of his plants in his bedroom.

the interior of leon's home is sparsely decorated, with very few personal touches, such as the vinyl record player, his plants, cookbooks, and photographs of his loved ones.

leon has a collection of cookbooks, some of which are in different languages.

leon's sink stays crowded with hair care products.

leon never really unpacks when he’s home, and it shows in the meticulous magazine perfection of everything. he spends more time in hotels than he ever does at his own home. leon is out of touch with civilian life, he’s never too comfortable, constantly on guard in the silence of his own empty house, unable to shut his mind off due to his post traumatic stress disorder, and so he doesn’t nest, so to speak.

leon is at his most comfortable at home while in the dark, with a bag of popcorn and a stack of movies to binge his way through.

leon keeps a ducati xdiavel & a white ford crown victoria in his garage. he added a gunsmith's workbench / armorer's bench to his garage during his furlough in 2009 while working on the design & construction of the sentinel 9 handgun.

leon prefers to sleep a thin, fleece blanket, and that’s it, a higher than average body temperature keeping him warm throughout the night. when the bed is made properly, it’s made with duvets and multiple pillows and quilts, and it’s all entirely for show, in a bedroom emulating normalcy ripped straight from a catalogue.

leon cleans out his refrigerator as soon as he hears that he has another assignment to tend to, to prevent spoilage while he’s away (he has a very sensitive sense of smell), so when he comes back, he immediately hits the grocery store on the way, no matter how tired he is. he definitely tries to carry his bags all at once.

leon doesn't have expensive taste, not even in alcohol. all of his belongings and furniture are of good quality, but not by any means designer or luxury items.

#» 🕊️ ﹕ the means only justify the ends. (study.) ❧ #» 🕊️ ﹕ to protect ， to serve ，‘til death do us part. (headcanon.) ❧ #thank u for sending this in emile!! :) #god i love leon. i know people have tried to help him decorate his house before and his reply is always 'but i don't really /need/ that...' #it's not about need my guy!! you're giving serial killer energy!!

[blujayonthewing]

I've kind of joked about melliwyk being taken by surprise by her own alignment shift but honestly I think if you could have told her at the beginning of the campaign that she was chaotic neutral she'd have been rather troubled by that

#obligatory waving aside of the Issues of the dnd morality matrix to begin with I'm not interested in that right now #I think most people who aren't outright evil perceive themselves to be good people at the end of the day #there are always Perfectly Good Reasons for doing things that hurt others (or for failing to consider that you might) #or for overlooking or outright rejecting people in need #melliwyk's never been a Bad Person but she spent years answering to no one and collaborating with no one #after even more years in a research environment that actively encouraged and rewarded putting her work before anything or anyone else #you're friendly at the shops. you're nice to children. you write your parents when you remember #you don't want-- in the abstract-- for bad things to happen to innocent people #but when you read research papers involving unethical experiments it doesn't even occur to you to think about the test subjects as people #you like your new traveling companions well enough but that doesn't mean you wouldn't put your work before any of their wellbeing #it makes SENSE. it's JUSTIFIABLE. it doesn't mean you're not a Good Person..... right? #my OCs #melliwyk

[n1ghtwarden]

i appreciate that you don't even have to convince minth to take the astral tadpole. girl is READY AND WILLING to just consume it.

#she's at this point i think where she is so desperate to have agency and power for once in her life that she will do ANYTHING to hold on to #it. the ends justify the means (when in reality they don't); but her idea of safety and power is just repeating the cycle she JUST got out #of herself. she doesn't trust easily; everyone she's known in her past has always turned on her in some way. she can't even trust or love #her FAMILY members. no one has EVER known her heart; she's never let anyone in - the way she is desperate to regain agency after being #tortured and used as a puppet for the absolute - and having lived a life of service to lolth and the beanre - its understandable that she #would take the jump and chance to become half mind flayer and feel 'safe' in that power i would never let her do it in any playthru tho. no #ooc. claireposting. #RAMBLING IN TAGS ABT MY POOKIE

[datastate]

i hate how much mr. chidouin takes up my brain space sometimes but it's fine we stay silly

#JUST. knowing what he ended up doing to those he loved most. how horrible he is. the means always Always justify the ends don't they. #i want to slap sense into him i want yell at him i want to fucking Kill him but more than anything it just. makes me sad. #jestersvaguely

[sxturdaysun]

everyone is so desperate to paint solomon as some Big Bad and say he's evil and horrible and shouldn't be trusted to which i simply say: Cope And Seethe.

#every Solomon Bad post i see only makes me like him even more #''but he did—'' don't care + didn't ask + we're kissing in the moonlight rn #that's my shady awful boyfriend and i stan everything he's ever done actually #♡ — text #🖤 our destiny #more seriously it's always a little annoying to see because if it were any of the brothers they would not be put under so much scrutiny #like. you're entitled to dislike whatever character you like but don’t pretend all the others are completely faultless #(also the seemingly constant ignoring of his actual motives behind his actions like... ok.) #anyway i love a The End Justifies The Means ass bitch <3

[classicintp]

When you guys on this website try to demonize certain neurotypical or allistic behaviors, it sounds a lot like you're describing autistic behaviors of someone you don't like, of someone who has wronged you, or simply someone who is older who has never been told they were autistic. There are autistic people who are selfish, unaware, and terrible, and while that does not mean any neurotypical should ever make it their mission to try and categorize between the two, it's definitely a bad idea for anyone with autism to shove all of the behaviors in others that they don't agree with, that frustrate/inconvenience them, or that absolutely hurt them into the allistic or neurotypical category.

#That's not to say sometimes it's not accurate #or that being aware of or calling out ignorant or harmful allistic/neurotypical behavior is bad. #I live for harmful behaviors being acknowledged and corrected; #i am just seeing more and more autistic blogs rail against how terrible neurotypicals are #because of how another obviously autistic person was acting #because in person 1's pov person 2 clearly crossed a boundary they're used to neurotypicals crossing #and p2 is completely oblivious to that boundary because it's not one they don't also have #or in another example p1 is deliberately ignoring boundaries #so they can continue to pursue this thing they're fixated on #oblivious to the problems they're causing or just so determined that they feel the ends justify the means #and p2 is like 'fucking neurotypical horseshit.' like nah. neurotypicals might conquest at the expense of others #this person instead has a standard hyperfixation negatively impacting you. #especially when it's a 60 year old authoritarian who has always gotten his way #who buckles when his rigid routine has been barely inconvenienced #and he loses his mind on a young autistic person who unintentionally caused the break in routine #that p2 leaves confused as to why neurotypicals are so confusing and hateful #when the truth is that older man has never been diagnosed and may never get diagnosed

[hgduo]

i change what I want all the time, but I hope if Quackity does do lore soon c!Sam is also there because I miss him lots :( and I miss their dynamic lots too :(

#I like c!Sam a lot- I have such a big soft spot for characters who wanna do the right thing but do it fucked up #he's the brand of pathetic that appeals to me- like c!Q and my others blorbos have their pathetic moments but #no one does that like c!Sam does #I love me a character who so desperately wants to believe the ends justify the means- whose self righteousness just makes me sad /pos #also I adore his dynamic with c!Quackity #and I love it when they interact because it just screams so much about themselves as individuals when they do #like- I will always view them as father and son-esque but in such a weird way like #I don't know to describe it they're father and son but also so very much not- maybe they used to be more cut an dry #but its not like that anymore- it will never be #it doesn't weigh on them that much but... a part of them misses the simpler days #especially Sam but... theres no time to really ponder over that #I guess what I mean is the more tender and 'innocent' parts of it died away- they are business partners before father and son #but you can't look at them and separate the father and son aspect do you get that? #like it's not the most poignant or important or prevalent but to me its still there #idk... I really wanna deep dive more into their dynamic more someday in the future #im just spitballing rn- never been good at translating thoughts into words y'know #I just miss c!Sam

[balteus]

actually re: fromsoftware politics. i do think it's very interesting that the anti-colonialist RLF, ostensibly considered the 'good guys' of the game, were initially explicitly called the communist faction. armored core always has been a series critical of oligarchies and hyper-capitalism, but it's... very interesting to see just how blatant that is in ac6 specifically

you'd think that fromsoftware would eventually drop the ball on the "the ruling class will kill you and cannibalise itself in order to stay alive" considering that they're considered elite AAA devs rn, but thinking about elden ring and ac6's narratives, they've really only gotten more obvious about it - the horrors of colonialism and genocide and the sympathy given to the rage of its victims is something that's actually insane to see, to me, from such a big studio - fromsoft doesn't even attempt to be centrist about it.

for example, the frenzy flame ending. the only thing melina can tell you to dissuade you from pursuing it, ie literally destroying the world forever, is that there's still beauty in the world, apart from the suffering the golden order had caused. at no point however is the sheer despair of the people that the flame represents villanized. if anything, it's portrayed as a self-fulfilling prophecy, it is a tragedy. the only villain is the order who slaughtered all of these people, the flame of despair is something that emerged in them as they were buried alive. and the flame isn't even intended as a revenge upon the world, it's simply a means to end the pain they feel for being subjected to this.

their grief isn't something for the player to judge, it isn't something they're forced to overcome, it's simply a physical manifestation of the reality that was forced upon them. and these people, the merchants, are still kind to us, even knowing the order that we pursue. (in fact, the true, considered best ending of elden ring, is literally just sacrificing yourself in order to achieve complete anarchism. and getting a cool wife to endure the loneliness of space along the way)

in ac6 then, ayre is so terribly forgiving towards us, knowing what we are, knowing what made us, knowing what we participate in. some of this undoubtedly is because of her narrative role, she has to be a sympathetic character. but we do get to see her rage at the end, her grief for her species being seen as nothing more than a resource to be exploited or burned fully vocalized. but the RLF is sympathetic too as resistance fighters who want their home back. the only criticism the game ever leverages towards the RLF is that they're actually not radical enough in their pursuit of freedom, and that criticism is made by a villain.

it's so... i almost want to say optimistic? other games would have tried to pull a "ooh but what if the good guys did bad things (poor attempt at moral grayness)" but no, the RLF is justified at every step of the way. idk it makes me feel things. i dont particularly want to portray fromsoftware as these bastions of political correctness or sth - they're not perfect and i don't expect that ever lmao, but it's so fucking weird that their games are this progressive and have been for a long ass time.

#armored core #armored core 6 #elden ring #fromsoftware #idk i got a little carried away