#first of all he has to be ALIVE

[theonewhowails]

silly stuff i drew while reading Feel No Evil by @payasita , in which the Lamb does not know how to propose, Narinder does not know how to be alive, and neither of them knows what an obligate carnivore is

bonus? lmao

#my art #cotl #i am looking into your soul with my huge autistic eyes. read this fic right now. blease #hksfdjghdfghldkfg im sorry it just fucking kills me that for the first 4ish chapters narinder is just. so nasty #like all the followers are like There He Is. The Leader's Favorite Guy. and its this filthy half-dead cat that hasnt bathed in 10+ years #like he has hardly eaten the entire time he's been mortal and he looks like absolute dogshit #and their unbeatable normally serene and gracious leadergod is hovering around his stinky ass like omg nari hiiiiii #its fucking hilarious to me. and also heartwrenching bc this fic does also get into how hard it is to be alive when uve never learned how #gonna draw the twins desperately bringing him soap later i just had so many things i wanted to draw for this

[whiskingskin]

No because yall... Izzy spent most of his life at sea. Hating, loving, learning, yearning. Repressing and expressing, losing himself and finding himself, accepting that his existence can be good, he can be good, and safe, at the same time. He was always the first to throw himself into needlessly dangerous situations- the ships protector. The ships unicorn. Living his life physically and emotionally getting tossed around by life changing waves and tides.

And they buried him on fucking land

#ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #ofmd 2 #steddyhands #our flag means death 2 #blackhands #blackbeard #ed teach #ouizzy #i wanna clarify im not really mad #because after all that turbulence all that responsibility #he has a place to stand still #watch the world pass him by #and relax for probably the first time in years #watching his loves #yES LOVES DID YOU NOT SEE ALL THOSE SOFT STIZZY GLANCES??? #build stability next to him. WITH him #even if he cpildnt get it alive fuck #fml fuck you david jenkins i wanna kiss your dumb head

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Nie Mingjue would still have died young even if Jin Guangyao hadn't killed him" Not as in "So it's fine to kill him because people who won't live for much longer have obviously already forfeit their lives" (what) But as in "If you don't get that Nie Mingjue has had an inevitable young and violent death hanging over him since he was a young teenager and has embraced it you can't fully understand his character"

#mdzs #nie mingjue #i do not wish to be misconstrued on this #because the first interpretation might genuinely be my least favorite nmj take #because it has so much baggage in regards to the actual real life murder of disabled people. most often by their caretakers!! #and the reaction to it from public the media and the justice system is overwhelmingly 'oh well that wasn't a life worth living anyway' #'plus they were SO hard to take care of rlly if you think about it the murderer is the victim here that must've been so hard for them' #and these characters aren't real. nmj isn't actually dead he was never alive. but i really hope that take is no one's actual view on life #but from a purely story-perspective i also hate the 'everything would've been fine if not for jiggy' takes #STOP MAKING THE BLORBO UNINTERESTING BY OUTSOURCING ALL HIS ISSUES!! THOSE ARE /HIS/ LET HIM KEEP THEM

[shortnotsweet]

In a Week by Hozier ft. Karen Cowley

“The raven is death, obviously. When I die, I want a good tombstone—something right spooky. LT’s got something against the underground, though you’d think that would be just his kind of place. That’s alright. He needs to, he can cremate me. It’s not exactly Catholic, and Mam would turn in her grave, but God is a unicorn and no one is pure anymore, so. What’s all that got to do with me?”

Johnny “Soap” McTavish has a journal. Had. It is his no longer.

Simon “Ghost” Riley had dreams—awful ones, the kind that sank claws into his lungs, dragged him into sleep, and then sent him careening out of it. He still has dreams, but they’re different, now. Better. Johnny’s pages have folded themselves under his eyes and gotten into his head, brighter and more infectious than anything else has ever been. It’s more than the past, that rotting carcass behind him, and more than now. Now is nothing. Now is ash. It’s like, it’s like—blinding, is what it is. He’s a blind man.

It is biblical now. Ghost has read it backward and forward and sideways and inside out. When he runs out of things to read, he reads them again, and when that is not enough, he reads between the lines.

#ghostsoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soapghost #soap x ghost #ghoap #call of duty #cod mw3 #my art #ghost is obsessed with soaps journal bc it breaks his heart at first like really tears it apart but soon focuses on what soap has written #about him. words of admiration and envy and love and fondness. real fondness. jokes made for him thoughts about him musings etc. #and johnnys snippets about his family and how he wants to settle down eventually #then all simon can think about is what life they could’ve lived together after the ‘war’ #nevermind that there will always be war be death be blood and love is there and it matters but it changes nothing #for simon there will always be johnny #who even knows if thats what soap wanted if he loved him back if ghost even remembers him as he was instead of what he wishes he could have #become to ghost if things had gone as they should. who knows. the dead dont sing dont speak. all thats left is what they wrote #the cigarettes refer to soaps smoking habit and how ghost disapproves like a nagging wife. the ash smudges and burns in the paper allude to #ghost deciding to have soap cremated as a spouse decides post mortem due to his own aversion to being underground bc he doesn’t want soap #to be nothing but a decomposing body. he couldn’t bear that. he couldn’t bury him alive or dead so burning it is

[daedelweiss]

Hey bud. Buddy ol' pal.

I 👀 So Big /So Small by Rachel Bay Jones in your LM Playlist. That feels so illegal and yet it is bc you made it so.

listen-

that's all-

#dae asks #rottmnt #rottmnt life mission au #life mission au #oh yeah have i mentioned that LM!Leo has terrible separation anxiety #and that after splinter made friends and trusted people enough to look after his young son #leo got so terrified that splinter might not make it home alive #since he experienced first hand how dangerous it was looking for his bros #because splints had to take him sometimes since no one could look after leo for a while #and it breaks splints' heart that leo cries every time he leaves #because he knows what leo is feeling. all. too. well.

[thaliasthunder]

and to think these motherfuckers all saw him as some creepy weirdo they needed to keep a safe distance from and debated to just LEAVE HIM TO DIE. i am trembling with rage i will burn them alive i will fucking stab them open i will feast with their guts i will

#IM FUELLED BY FURY HATE AND VENGANCE FOR NICO #THEY ALL DID NICO SO FUCKING DIRTY #*throws knives at leo* I WILL HAUNT THEIR DREAMS #*yanks beth's and piper's hair* I WILL BURN DOWN THEIR HOUSES #I WILL- *kisses hazel's cheek and hugs jason* not u babies u're angels and im grateful nico has u as family/friend <3 #*breaks jar into frank's head * I WILL BREAK THEIR BONES #I WILL BURY ALL OF THEM ALIVE #AND YOU *aggressively grabs percy by the collar while gritting teeth * YOU. WILL. GO. FIRST. #(and if any of u try to FUCKING touch jason i'll KILL YOU TOO. he HAD his redemption arc towards nico so KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HIM) #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #pjo/hoo #anti percy #ANTI THE ENTIRE FUCKING ARGO II TAG #percy jackson #jason grace #annabeth chase #leo valdez #piper mclean #frank zhang #hazel levesque #rick riordan #riordanverse #nico tumblr

[snckt]

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

a (not-so) happy twenty-four years to three unlucky orphans, and their subsequent series of unfortunate events ✨🔥📕

#happy happy birthday to a most beloved book series !! 💕 #asoue #lemony snicket #violet baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #sunny baudelaire #asoueedit #laineysedit #series . asoue #okay with tags out of the way can i please direct your attention to b holding hands with b and they've been photographed and #perhaps entirely separate to his investigations L has them framed . happy . radiant . alive because the first thing i did was give #mr snicket a proper photo of the people he loves . okay thank you #but also i forgot how much i adore sunny klaus and violet !!! like hard pressed to find a frame where despite it all. #they're not sharing a smile . a little giggle ugh love love love them !!

[chirpsythismorning]

Mike yelling at everyone for expecting El to fight for ‘no reason’ in s3… please Mike, share with the class what would qualify as a valid reason for El to fight?? Will being in danger perhaps? The plot of s1-2 perhaps?

#byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #i think it’s really interesting tjay in s1-2 mike never asks el if she WANTS to help #she’s in danger and is running from bad men #and Mike feels the urge to help her bc she is in a situation that no kid should be #but then also his best friend is missing #and this girl has super powers and knows where he is??? #Mike doesnt take a moment to talk with el to assure helping and straining herself and her powers #if this is what she wants to be doing #and i think el interprets that as this being a requirement for her to stay around #she also recognized Will and so for all we know she did want to help #but the back and forth between both Mike and Dustin and Lucas sort of doubting her #and in worst case scenarios lashing out #ultimately leading to her sacrifice #it makes sense why Mike specifically felt sooooo much guilt #bc he just expected her to help w/out asking first if that’s what she wanted to do #and so then she returns in s2 ALIVE #and yes relieved #but again Will is in danger again #but el is also putting herself in danger after JUST returning #yet mike doesn’t try to convince her to not fight despite the dangers implied #bc the reason for her fighting is valid to him #i just think it’s interesting that the instant Will being in danger is off the table #Mike is now suddenly critical that they need a more justified reason for her to fight #who wants to guess that if Will’s well being wasnt involved #Mike never would have all those doubts in s3 about el going through with it #he might have told her to be careful bc he doesn’t want to lose her #but i don’t think he would have tried to convince her to not fight #i just find that to be something we should examine… in terms of understanding mikes deeper feelings/guilt (survivors)

[theyonapodcast]

I love the first time Soo-Won supports Lili.

It feels like an overreaction to burst into tears over, essentially, "Go for it," but makes sense when you realize no one takes her seriously.

Her father, Tetora, and even Yona view her as someone in need of protection. They coddle her.

And then here comes Soo-Won, telling her she's capable of making a difference.

That she did make a difference. He acknowledges her strength and believes in her with ease while people closer to her struggle to accept that she's useful.

#yona of the dawn #lili #soo won #don't come at me with 'well sure he supports her. he doesn't care if she lives or dies like the others' #ARGUABLY sure in the first instance they don't know each other that well #and his only main reason to keep her alive (aside from being a human being) is that she's a general's daughter #but i do think there's a real connection in that moment #he sees a bit of himself in her #someone with big dreams of making a difference but just not being there yet #he watched king il run the country poorly for many years as he grew up #also he saves her MULTIPLE times over the course of the series #yeah he's going to step in if someone's coming at her with a sword #but maybe she has everything covered before it gets to that point #he'll let her handle things until she can't #and i think that means a lot to lili #lili: let me try and if i fail i fail #joon gi/tetora/ayura/yona: what if i took on the scary stuff for you? #soo won (pulling up a seat): yeah go for it. i know first aid. #i may be way off base or ineloquent with all this #i just think it's fascinating that soo won supports her without hesitation twice #and she bursts into tears each time #she needs to be told she's a good gi- *gunshots*

[fallenclan]

IM FEELING UNWELL ABOUT MAPLESTAR. imagine you are the VERY FIRST cat to be born into this clan (Maple is the oldest of his siblings). and there is a cat in charge of the clan and your Dad is second in command, but the cat in charge doesn't last very long and soon your Dad is the leader. and he looks after the clan even at the expense of his lives (he DIES saving you from the mouth of a dog) and he works tirelessly and gives everything he has and all the while it looks completely effortless. and the clan keeps growing and changing and before long it isn't a clan anymore. it's a FAMILY. cats who would bleed for each other without asking why. who would take food off their own (metaphorical) plates and give it to each other. who dedicate their lives to serving the ones who stand at their side. and this family is POWERFUL. of all the others in the area, it is the largest, and it is the oldest, and the history is the richest, and your father remembers the day it began.

and then your father dies. and you are the one chosen to replace him.

how can you hope to measure up to that? how can you look at the space he used to fill and even conjure up the image of you filling it yourself? how can you wake up knowing that these cats, this family, who once leaned all of their weight on your father, are now prepared to lean it on you?

how can you wake up knowing that it wasn't effortless after all? that every life he lost hurt like it was the only one he had? that he needed as much sleep and food and rest and love as every other cat?

it must tear you up inside

#and on top of all that poor maple has to deal with the fucking GRIEF of losing the only parent he ever really knew #i mean celia is still alive. but i dont think any of golden's kits ever considered him a dad #more just. 'yeah this is my dad and this is my dads husband' #poor maple. man. #i can just picture him the first morning after golden dies and he recieves his lives #waking up in his fathers nest. smelling him everywhere and knowing hes gone #knowing its up to him now. shit dude

[tate-lin]

Jason Todd is my favourite character in all of DC but:

If someone doesn't want to kill, you can't ask, tell, or expect them to kill for you

Or, you can, but you'd be a complete asshole. The only time those expectations are valid is when a person signed up for a job where killing is expected (e.g. the military).

But as we all know, Batman is not the military nor the police. He only has one rule—or only one rule he truly cares about—and that's to not kill.

And frankly, I don't care what his reasons are for that; the bottom line is that he doesn't want to kill and we should respect it. Because at the end of the day, when you take a life, you're the one who's fully responsible for it. You're the one who has to live with it. And because of that, nobody should force you to do it.

Look, like I said, Jason Todd is my favourite character too. But that doesn't mean I don't find it disturbing or unfair when he expects Bruce, and only Bruce, to kill the Joker for him.

Do I find it understandable and human? Of course! Jason died horribly and gruesomely to a madman who'd do the same to anyone else so long as he finds it funny enough. It's only natural for him to want and expect someone—especially his father, the one he loved the most and the one he'd been searching through the thin crack of the door for even as the countdown struck zero—to put an end to the clown permanently, but. Does that mean he should? Absolutely not, and I think it's straight-up awful that so many people in this fandom encourage this take.

And the kicker is, if Catherine was still alive, if Catherine was the sort to become a vigilante and this happened to the both of them, do you think Jason would have the same expectations for her? I bet not. Not because he's sexist, but because Bruce is Batman and we take Batman for granted.

Yeah, you heard me. We take him for granted. We expect too much out of him.

This has been a slow-coming realisation, but it comes after a particularly harrowing conversation with my sister during which she told me that I was taking her for granted and I surprised myself by agreeing with her. I won't go into the nitty gritty details but what I took away from the conversation was that just because someone can do something, and you yourself would do that something for them, that does not mean you should automatically expect them to do the same for you—especially if it goes against their character and what they stand for.

This goes the same for Bruce. Just because he's capable of murder and is justified in doing it, that does not mean that he should do it if he doesn't want to. And just because Jason would do it for him if the reverse happened, that still does not mean he should do it if he doesn't want to (which Bruce would have never asked for anyway because that's just not part of his character). No matter their similarities, Jason and Bruce are two completely different people and they can't be expected to do and choose the same things.

Batman, of course, chooses to take responsibility for many, many things, most of which are completely optional. He's a billionaire, he doesn't have to help his city by spending his nights saving people, facing the worst the city has to offer, and risk his life and sanity on the daily. He's the CEO of one of the most wealthy companies in the world, he doesn't have to uplift his city by donating to orphanages, hospitals, and charities, creating programmes to help the youth, the poor, the disabled, ex-convicts, and other minorities, as well as funnel any struggling person he encounters to his company so that they can be assured of a job. He was a single and free man, he didn't have to agree to care for several angry, reckless, and bitter kids with death in their hearts.

All of the shit he does is completely optional! Yet, the one thing he explicitly chooses not to do, the one thing he absolutely refuses to take responsibility for and takes great pains to avoid, is killing.

And I get it, this is murder we're talking about here. You can't just expect people to be just okay with doing that, even if that person is a demented dude in a bat costume.

Actually, why are we expecting so much out of such a person? Cause Batman can do anything? Cause Jason is his son and Gotham is his city? Cause if given half a chance, we wouldn't let Jason down? Cause if something happened to us, we hope that we mattered enough to someone for them to avenge us, no matter if doing so would completely destroy them? Tear them apart from the inside-out? No matter that we're already dead and they'd have to live the rest of their lives like that?

Just something to think about.

At any rate, I think it's wrong to look at someone and expect them to kill for you. If Gotham wants Joker gone, they're just gonna have to do it themselves cause expecting a volunteer to do this extra shit they never asked for and explicitly does not want to do is more than just appalling.

It's cruel.

#batman #bruce wayne #red hood #jason todd #bruce wayne meta #honestly I can't believe this even has to be said #how is this somehow an unpopular take?? #i see all those posts shaming him and i'm just #flabbbergasted #anyway sorry that he disappoints #but in the first place these impossible standards jason sets on him aren't healthy #and bruce is right to stake his last shred of self-preservation on not going through with it #not killing is an extremely important boundary and one of the only few he sets just for himself and himself alone tbh!! #(one might argue that it's the only boundary he sets just for himself) #for the sake of your own sanity it's important to be 'selfish' or 'self-centred' sometimes #one last thing i wanna add tho is that jason's story matters so much BECAUSE he's alive #that's all #tate lin posts

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

#as someone who was in an extremely toxic and chaotic fandom and lowkey still traumatized #to the point where I'm afraid to mention which fandom it was/what my ship was #i have to say #i genuinely love it here #i was nervous at first sharing my ships and headcanons but everyone is so chill i was worried for nothing #thank you to everyone I've interacted with who has made this fandom a healing experience for me #i shudder to think about what some of the people i interacted with in a previous fandom would do with ff6 #probably would take edgar's flirting at face value and call him problematic for objectifying women #instead of considering the narrative and what we know about him and the way he actually treats women #my man drinks loving and respecting women juice he's not a creep #or that weird moment with relm that admittedly made me double take before i realized what he meant #theyd have a whole campaign against him lmfao #bc those people boil characters alive until they're just a formless pile of tropes and stereotypes #and seem to disregard all positive aspects of a character they don't like which is fine #but then they go and try to force other people to think like they do and ugh #theres a lot of silly moments in the game and aspects of these characters that make them well rounded and realistically flawed at times #and i fear that would get lost in the chaos if the floodgates opened after a remake #maybe im just jaded lmao #im jaded and i have anxiety so im always thinking about The Worst Case Scenario #the collective positive spirit of the dwellers in this fandom might actually foster a positive space if more people were to come in #ff6 #my post #i was gonna say maybe this is bc we're mostly adults #but that falls flat when i remember how some of the most toxic and immature people in some fandoms are grown ass adults #who bully each other and younger fans #and some of the most mature and cool people were actually younger #maybe ff6 fans are just built different lmao #also idk how old anyone else actually is there might be teenagers here i just don't think about it a lot

[tennessoui]

re: timing of mentor reaping

ooh both options are delicious. the tragedy of obi-wan operating per usual and volunteering only for anakin to be called soon after is appealing, but i feel like mentor reaping after the tributes could be really interesting.

like on obi-wan’s end, the horror of anakin being called could freeze him in his place, also make him think about the year he put his name in multiple times and wondering if he lied and did it again, thinking about having to mentor someone he wants to die so that anakin makes it out, etc. and then on anakin’s end, i feel like even if he is nonchalant-ish about being reaped, the moment that would create insecurity/break him momentarily would be obi-wan pausing to volunteer as mentor bc he would follow obi-wan anywhere and and kill to come back to him and why is obi-wan not doing the same? when rlly obi-wan is just too shocked/still processing to react in a timely manner

j my thoughts, thanks for listening!

(re: this hunger games au post)

so this absolutely mirrors my thoughts and why i'm torn!

if obi-wan's 'reaping' is first and he volunteers to be the mentor regardless of his name not being drawn because the one chosen is pregnant or just won five years ago and is too traumatized or something, and THEN anakin's name is drawn, it's devastating for obi-wan who now has to be his mentor and maybe watch him die while trying to do everything he can to prevent it. it's also devastating to anakin who will never know if obi-wan would have volunteered for him.

if obi-wan's reaping is after anakin's and he volunteers, a part of anakin can just be smug and satisfied -- and there can be a moment where he's watching the victor section from the stage, eyes locked on obi-wan's devastated face, and he gets to see him volunteer, gets to see him torn to shreds by the possibility of losing anakin and then maybe gets to see a hint of 'killer disassociation' flash over obi-wan's eyes as he stands to volunteer to be the mentor. anakin's obsessed with obi-wan's games and would absolutely adore obi-wan getting so angry and feral over him.

and then there's the option where the victor mentoring reaping is after the tribute drawing but obi-wan's name is pulled and he doesn't volunteer at all - either anakin's latent but powerful control of the Force makes the person drawing choose the slip of flimsi with obi-wan's name on it, or the odds are just in anakin's favor and the galaxy itself knows that where anakin goes, obi-wan should follow and vice versa, aka what anakin's been trying to tell everyone (even obi-wan) for years

#asks #hunger games au #obikin #tbh ALL GOOD OPTIONS in my opinion!! #theyre all just different flavors of angst #especially because anakin's insecurities about always taking and never being given affection from obi-wan #have been so spelled out in the first chapter #that i think the right combo of events in the second chapter could really emphasize those insecurities and worries #which would make him even more feral #which we love <3 #and that would build and build until the very moment that obi-wan breaks #and begs him to do whatever he has to do in order to come out of that arena alive #(right before he gets sent up to the arena) #because that is one of those moments im literally writing towards #thats gonna be such a heady moment #cant wait #see you there lol

[scoliosisgoblin]

he's ruined my life. Peter.

#Jay in this universe is kinda interesting to me? #cause I didn't know how to fit him in at all #at first he's a very nonchalant type of guy. very low energy #but when Peter comes in. he starts opening up more and being able to sleep better and such (idk they'd lay together) #they'd be dating for like a month before Peter takes Jay to his house #and tbh Jay would be more upset with P knocking him out than anything else #the murder? okay. kidnapping? who CARES his head is sore #then again Jay has offed a few people so he wouldn't really care #oh btw that Kid is Mona she's Jay's daughter and Peter loves her #Jay knew of Peter before they met #whenever he'd walk past the diner Jay would catch glimpses of him. always wanted to invite him in but was too nervous #also Lucy Tk and Don are still alive dw #Peter killed a customer at the diner #that whole day moves to later in the relationship #idk why Peter would be Bubbles I just wanted to put him in a dress #okay gn #yb fanart #yb game #yb peter #your boyfriend peter #your boyfriend game #my art #Jacob #Jay #Void #human centipede #dr heiter

[aerticent]

was reminded that Maven’s entire motivation primarily revolves around his need to be better than Cal at literally anything so much so that he basically kills himself when he loses it

#they fuck me up so bad #spent his entire life being compared to Cal and being deemed the lesser of the two #and then he finally is better than him and even then everyone’s basically like ‘we’d prefer ur brother🫤’ #the clash between him needing Cal to know he’s better thus Cal HAS to live #but by keeping Cal alive it ruins his image among the silver nobles because it makes him look incompetent #and on top of that all the shit with Mare #He HAS to be better in every way the throne isn’t enough he also needs Mare to prove he’s above Cal #that doubled with his mutilated image of Mare #he was never gonna survive he was never going to succeed on the throne he was doomed to fail the moment Elara first infected him #THIS IS SICK #maven calore #cal calore #red queen thoughts #red queen series

[remyfire]

The fact that I know BJ is reveling in this, Mr. What-About-Me himself, that he loves having all the power. Embarrassing man.

#there's a lot to take in actually which is first of all hawkeye did not come up with the nickname beej himself #or if he did then he wasn't the first one ever to use it like it is not unique to him #leo is using it here and you know that is pissing hawkeye the FUCK off #also let's talk again about the fact that leo has been here for TWO YEARS #he's been here as long as hawk at this point #bj you have been here for so little in comparison don't be pitching a fit and making him miss his flight #god i love when bj is just the worst person alive i am eating him #third of all this reeks of sub begging his dom to let him have his toys back leo is so pouty about it like this is NOT the first time #leo bardonaro #bj hunnicutt #hawkeye pierce #m*a*s*h #mashposting #mashblogging #last laugh #s6e4