#for different reasons

[getvalentined]

I understand people giving Lucrecia the benefit of the doubt with regard to what she did to Vincent, just like I understand people not realizing how undeniably fucked up Gast was, but the important thing to keep in mind about these characters is that the majority of them are written as being in the throes of some pretty extreme cognitive dissonance.

It's not bad writing, it's that they're hypocrites. They reached a moral event horizon at some point, and they did what they felt they had to do when crossing it.

Gast abandoned a child because he wasn't what he wanted—even having raised Sephiroth up until that point and knowing that he was a pretty normal kid overall, as we can see from his behavior as a young teen in Ever Crisis, Gast still couldn't bear to continue to be responsible for a monster. He knew what Hojo was capable of, because he knew about what happened to Vincent, because it happened in his lab, and he left a literal child in his care anyway. Sephiroth's only crime was not being what Gast thought he was, and Gast damned him to a lifetime of torture under a "father" whose only goal was to use him to prove his own genius. Why? Because Gast had a goal, and the goal was what mattered, the ends justified any means he could devise. He was a man obsessed, driven to the verge of madness in his lust for the Promised Land. A religious zealot with the most powerful scientific team in the world at his disposal, ready to prove him right—and then he wasn't right, and the whole world fell apart underneath him. Ifalna gave him back that stability, because she was a real Ancient, and she gave him a new, better child to care for. A child that wasn't a monster, a child that was his, a child that might one day lead him to the Promised Land, if her mother didn't do so first. When Aerith was born, Gast got to be right again, and therefore all was right with the world. Sephiroth (like Genesis before him) may as well have never existed at all.

Lucrecia openly experimented on a man who loved her enough to die for her, going so far as to apparently use data from those experiments to improve her own academic standing, because she couldn't bear the guilt of being responsible for his death. It wasn't about whether it was the right thing to do, it wasn't about whether she loved him back, it wasn't even about her thesis at that point—she just couldn't continue to live having lost everything as a result of her own impatience, her own lack of regard for everyone around her. She killed her mentor through her own impatience, she gave up her son for experimentation, she didn't stop her husband from experimenting on her ex-lover, and she had nothing to show for it but crippling Jenova toxicosis and an equally crippling cowl of regret.

I could even go into Hojo here, how what he did to Sephiroth was a result of struggling to escape Gast's shadow, how what he did to Vincent was a result of him struggling to prove that he deserved his wife, how everything he did was born from the all-consuming need to do just one thing for which no one else could take credit. Hojo got the director position not because he earned it, but because Gast ran away. Hojo got Lucrecia not because he wooed her, but because he didn't have eyes like the unrequited first love that she killed. Hell, Project S only happened because Project G failed! Nothing Hojo has ever had that was worth anything was because of his work, only because the work of others failed. Why do you think he talks about "failures" the way he does? The failure of others is the only reason he's gotten so far, and he knows that any failure of his own will knock him right off that pedestal—and he's terrified.

None of these people are good people. I don't know that any of them ever were. But in their eyes, everything they did was justified, they took the right course of action, because they took the only course of action that their personal understanding of reality would allow them to take.

Were any of them actually right? Probably not. Certainly not, in some cases. But there's no going back on it now. The arrow has left the bow of the goddess, and there's no calling it back.

#fandom ramble #lucrecia crescent #professor hojo #professor gast #gast faremis #final fantasy vii #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #ff7 #not even getting into the project g crew #mostly because I did a whole ramble on gillian a while back #and I'm not prepared to do a character analysis of hollander #who is possibly more messed up than hojo #for different reasons #but hoooooo boy #he's also dumber than hojo tho #which is his problem #if he were a little smarter #we'd be doomed

[andromeda3116]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #jingo #monstrous regiment #i mean i have my opinion but i think tbh that comes more from personal preference bc man does the other hit some FUCKING high points #for different reasons #no ''show results'' we pick a hill to die on like men

[ttpdjo]

#look at his hands look at his shadow look at him #s i g h #he should read me a book #if i say it enough it will happen maybe #joe keery #lily james #finalmente l’alba #i hope this movie is good ✨ #bc i love these two #for different reasons

[memo-blogs]

THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME Grave Encounters

Alien (1979)

A Quiet Place

28 Days Later

Midsommar

Annihilation

Don't Breathe

Barbarian

Antlers

Train to Busan

Cube (1997)

Evil Dead

Mama

Feel free to list your own!

#movies #horror #not necessarily all scared the bejesus outta me but #i love all of these #for different reasons #horror movie #horror movies #alien #antlers #barbarian #mama #midsommar #evil dead #cube #train to busan #don't breathe #28 days later #annihilation #a quiet place

[calypsolemon]

puss 🤝 kitty

desperately lonely individuals who become absolutely terrified when presented with the opportunity to not be alone anymore

#pibtlw #puss in boots #kitty softpaws #for different reasons

[sonicranger1]

Short follow up on my previous post rambling about Rocky and the theme of water that surrounds him (Click here to see said previous post)

So to further prove my mad ramblings I direct your attention to the page Dithyramb from all the way back in volume 1 who's contents newer fans (*cough*Like me*cough*) may be familiar with from the pilot, which is Rocky talking about the Mississippi River

And we also have his bio art from the official website which has Rocky balancing on a moonshine barrel down a River, which I'd fairly guess is the Mississippi River (I know captain obvious here)

So that makes 5 examples so far of Rocky and his relationship with water, now to mentally prepare myself of the "What If" scenario that he drowns 😀👍(I will never be prepared)

#side note #i will talk about these two images again #for different reasons #so if you enjoy my silly rambling stay tuned #lackadaisycats #lackadaisy #tracy j. butler #lackadaisy rocky #rocky rickaby #my ramblings #follow up post

[3bony1vory]

normalise drawing your ships as your other ships

#solaxl #axlsol #sol badguy #axl low #idk who would be who honestly ive been juggling it in my head #for different reasons #guilty gear #take this before i get exploded by college again LOL

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star fashion -> every paul outfit

↳ 4.14

#911 lone star #911lsedit #paul strickland #911ls fashion #every paul outfit #someone needs to tell me if the red at the bottom of his pants are the cuffs of his pants or part of his boots #i think boots but i've been staring at them for too long tbh #but also i was staring at paul with the gloves on for a little too long too #for different reasons #my gifs #queue it up

[butididntpourthewhiskeys]

I think Travis would rather deal with the media attention and paps than get back with his toxic ex

100%. Also from what I’ve seen it’s interesting because Kayla seems to be the opposite type of woman from Taylor, just in the sense of her vibe. Taylor is like… super gentle, warm, motivating with her loved ones. From those little glimpses into Travis and Kayla’s life it’s so interesting how cold she is? She constantly tells him he’s an idiot, is annoyed by him, and just holds a camera in his face without him knowing he’s being filmed

#I’m convinced Taylor is an angel in his eyes #just because of his prev experiences #v interesting because I think she feels the same #for different reasons

[queen-of-meows]

Sylvie burying her head in the sand and believing the Loom exploding means everything is fine now is perfectly in character for her. In season 1, she was certain killing HWR would be the solution to all problems. Once again, Sylvie's main flaw is her childish optimism.

If the problem is out of sight, then there's no problem. She saw the Loom exploding, but it doesn't seem to have affected reality around her so it must mean this was not that bad, right ? And it's not like she doesn't care about what is not affecting her personally. She simply doesn't believe there's a problem at all and she thinks Loki is making things up. And since Loki himself is not very clear about what the problem is, she has no reason to believe him.

#sylvie laufeydottir #loki season 2 spoilers #the issue this season is that both Loki and Sylvie are dumbasses #for different reasons #but they also both have good points #for different reason

[typellblog]

I'm having the real Koyomi experience with this series (feeling inferiority and jealousy whenever his sisters are mentioned)

#for different reasons

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone - The Comedy of Terrors (1964)

#vincent price #basil rathbone #the comedy of terrors #funny #photo #photo edit by me #vinny p #he makes me smile #i just love him. vp #sighhh #basil is lucky.i want vinny on top of me #for different reasons #who said that #ahem #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome

[a-random-mooshroom]

local tumblr user @sakien being horny or some shit(I got permission!)

Bonus cutely

#shitposting #man bussy #female banana 💀 #Alyssa and sakien #Need help #for different reasons

[tbh-entp]

ENxP: *trips*

#for different reasons #entp #enfp #enfps are sweet loves and deserve the best #entp is fully just focused on anything other than direct surroundings #bless #mbti #cognitive functions #personality #personality type

[hehosts]

see now here am the problem — deng, ji, and goro all don’t like to share.

#for different reasons

[jonny-b-meowborn]

My bestie got me to play road 96 and I've been playing for a few hours now and ngl Jarod n John n the robbers got me giggling twirling my hair kicking my feet etc etc

#for different reasons #john is both cute and a cool guy #stan and mitch are stupid fucking dumb sillies #and jarod is scary and pretty sure a murderer. so. yknow #good game #road 96 #bee buzz