#for the greater good of humanity

[alfredosauce50]

Me writing about Allen: *something deep and meaningful about his psyche*

Me writing about Alfred: Now this is a deeply disturbed individual. A sick fuck, if you will

#for the greater good of humanity #this is a joke #alfredosauce50 #update #my thoughts

[biropen]

Let me bless your dash with these

#I NEED HIM PRIMALY #I NEED HIM BIBLICALLY #I MUST HAVE HIM #I AM SO FERAL FOR HIM #IF I SPEAK I WILL JUST NEVER STOP #I mean if this is what he looks like after a podium then gawd dAhm get him in a redbull ASAP #for the greater good of humanity #I WANT THEM TATTOOED ON MY RETINAS #EVERYTIME I CLOSE MY EYES I WANT TO SEE HIM SWEATY AND BATHED IN BLUE #I AM NEVER LETTING THESE PHOTOS GO #these photos aRe my Roman Empire #I #I can’t even #I have no words #he is like a flawless angel bathed in fluorescent light #okay miss fanfiction #why did I kind of eat with that tag? #definitely will be appearing in a fic near you sometime soon #back to our usual though #RAHHHHH #I JUST NEED HIM SO BADDDD #op81 #f1 #oscar piastri my beloved #oscar piastri #oscar pastry #twinkclaren #mclaren #qatar gp 2023 #we out here thirsting on main

[wandasprettygirl]

going INSANE fucking FERAL over katniss everdeen in mockingjay SEDATE ME NOW!

#for the GREATER GOOD OF HUMANITY #I AM NO BETTER THAN A MAN AT THIS POINT #katniss everdeen #bi #artemis loves women

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Obsessed with authors like Naomi Novik whose books always seem to say “no, fuck that, there is another way than cruelty, and we do have a choice to be decent, and not choosing it isn’t a burden but a cop out.”

Authors like Neil Gaiman whose books seem to say “we are all simply human, and that is so valuable. This world is worth more because we are in it, when we choose to notice and care”

Authors like Brandon Sanderson whose books say “We are all a little broken, and there is strength in not turning away from us, and there is pain in healing but there is also strength and hope.”

Seriously, these folks do more for my faith and hope in this life than any religion ever has. I don’t have the words to describe it yet but just. Warm cup of apple cider held close to the chest on cold autumn night?? That’s the best I got

#recommendations #does this count as a recommendation?? everyone should read their things if they get the chance. must recommend. there now it’s a red #dawn speaks #the sandman #where death goes from person to person and the episode is a celebration of life as much as it’s life’s end #good omens #where people literally look at Heaven and Hell and say ‘we’re good thanks. we like Human better than Good and Evil’ #the scholomance #where people see ‘for the greater good’ and say in response ‘do better’ #the stormlight archive #which is some kind of ode to pain and healing and the way that process holds something difficult but so so beautiful #I have read fanfiction that has perfectly captured the human condition #and watched children’s shows that spit in the face of all the ways we have chosen to hate each other #it just. it hits different okay. #anyways thanks to people who make things #because you reach people <3

[astrhae]

#crowley only tells aziraphale to retire the act #after their lives get threatened #because crowley has always drawn the line at endangering lives #but magic with its deception and tricks and imagination #really fits crowley's m.o. of mild chaos with minimal lasting damage #and it's always fascinated me how #aziraphale finds so much joy in #doing this very human form of deception #but you see doing a magic trick well means he's succeeded in #getting away with lying a little #for the greater good #and isn't that just akkdfkdfsksd #especially with the context of job's children that we've been given now and how scared aziraphale was about lying #anyway #neil gaiman deserves everything for writing that crowley lonely GI act #and david tennant and michael sheen also #deserve everything for it akksdsks #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #goodomensedit

[hella1975]

the thing about trauma and i think the reason im always more compelled by characters who lash out as a result of it instead of being made stronger by it is that it’s pointless. none of that shit happened for a reason. there’s nothing you’re supposed to do now that it happened. i can’t stand narratives that romanticise trauma bc the reality of it is that you went through that for no reason and you have to just deal and keep going. there’s nothing beautiful or brave about it. no one is writing you for it to mean something. it’s just… there

#like even good victims of trauma who do respond well and bravely and become better for it - none of that happened BECAUSE of their trauma #it happened bc of how they chose to respond to it. it happened because of THEM #trauma is inherently a non-human thing it cannot have emotions like bravery it cannot be personified #it’s just an object you carry with you and some people bear it better than others #i think a lot of people bc of narratives we see in media find themselves irl looking for some Great Purpose behind their trauma #like it had a point all along and some greater being is writing it in a concise way that makes narrative sense #but this is real life and it was pointless and im sorry that it didn’t mean a fucking thing. now get up and keep going #sorry if this is super negative lmao 😭

[baylardian-1]

my brain is so full of rot for them rn hahaha

the baby's antennae glow unpredictably so she resorts to using a little bonnet/shawl thing she finds to cover them. contextually theyre wandering around and avoiding apprehension on this planet that philippa's stranded on. the planet is almost always shrouded in darkness, so the glowy baby is a bit of a liability.

also she names him Moss bc he likes to eat moss :) not really having any rations the two have to kinda ravage around for food. philippa is grateful to have the academy's survival training under her belt, but feeding and taking care of an unidentified alien baby presents its own challenges.

#she talks to him like he understands what shes saying lol #haha i have a visual in my head of like... shes been kinda dismissive to interacting with the baby for a bit #but somehow she randomly gets him to laugh and his antennae glow yellow/green when he does and it amuses her so she does it more #and shes like :) #anyway lmao #philippa just having to shotgun learn how to take care of an infant sounded so fun to me lol #My Art #Philippa Janeway #Moss #Human #i need names for the species so bad TT___TT #Star Trek: Voyager #Threshold #AU #wanted to explore a scenario where philippa would say no to childcare UNLESS it was for the greater good and IT IS hahaha

[soldier-poet-king]

Smthn smthn Eugenides asking Costis at the end of koa 'will you serve me and my god?' and when Costis says yes, Gen says to him 'then come out' (knowing that you'll never die of a fall unless he drops you etc etc etc) vs. Christ calling Lazarus from the tomb and everything that entails

#smthn smthn also like. the shortest biblical verse #jesus wept. smthn about gen as both human and divine. a tool of the gods. he can hear his god a little longer #it is not that eugenides the god causes his thieves to fall #but that he permits them too #smthn smthn theodicy. evil is not caused but permitted to occur. only in service of greater goods #goods we cannot see or understand. and which perhaps need to forgive the gods for #would you see your hand returned. and attolia lost to the mede? #IM. SO NORMAL #SO SO NORMAL TODAY #queen's thief #fran reads

[thesadboy]

What I like about Fear and Hunger is that it presents us with the question of “Is it worth it to sacrifice an innocent for the greater good?” and then shows us the answer of “Yeah...lmao jk it’s actually not” 

#dexrambles #dexplaysfearandhunger #fear and hunger #funger #fear and hunger 1 #f&h 1 #f&h the girl #the girl fear and hunger #yeah sure humanity does progress and thus reach its potential like what nilvan wanted #but it came through war after war #all the evils in the world still exist even after people began worshipping the god of fear and hunger #and I'd argue that le'garde's part in it only fueled his ego in committing more atrocities #a little girl was made to live a life of pure suffering and misery all for the greater good #but that greater good still wasn't obtained people were still killing and being cruel #and the other gods still want to have their own stinger measuring contest (as someone called it) through things like the termina festival #so yeah #a child's suffering was essentially for nothing lol #it's the whole driving question behind the ones who walk away from omelas #then again I only played the demo and watched playthrough #so this observation may be rather inaccurate #fear and hunger spoilers #mine own postsss

[kittykatninja321]

batjokes is one of those “I don’t like or ship this but I’d be lying if I said I don’t see where it comes from” situations for me. Like the Joker is definitely in love with Bruce I think that’s borderline canon at this point. And at some point Bruce’s insistence on keeping him alive becomes kinda sus

#I don’t begrudge Bruce’s belief in the sanctity of human life I really don’t I think it’s fine. But throwing a knife at your son to protect #a mass murderer is CRAZY #like at some point it just becomes impractical to keep someone alive like can we think about the greater good here #the joker is a walking trolley problem. He cannot be kept and he will not stop. And if he does who knows how many more people will die unti #he gets to that point. Bruce just keeps throwing him in Arkham 🤨 #But even with that the obsession always seemed one sided to me. Although Bruce does have his Moments #Dc

[worstloki]

not a fan of people saying Odin and Loki are similar in a moral or decisive sense, particularly when it comes to Thor. that makes it sound like Loki doesn't know Thor or care about him beyond what he symbolises (regarding Asgard/the throne/family/worthiness), when that's a defining part of their relationship

#like i get WHY people go 'oh Thor is like Frigga (they care™/bring Emotions in) and Loki is like Odin (calculating™ /For The Greater Good)' #but if you make such a clearcut comparison you neglect a lot of stuff that Odin and Loki do drastically different #like there are literal contrasts that are pretty evident around Thor particularly #like Odin does expect Thor to be some ideal version of himself that obeys Odin implicitly and doesn't have his own volatile emotions? #while Loki more sees that Thor isn't who he tries to pretend to be and generally encourages Thor to realize that #the most obvious parallel would be how they in TDW try telling Thor that Jane won't work out #and Odin goes for the whole 'well they're insignificant' angle despite Thor caring about the humans and Jane particularly #Odin tries to go 'here's Sif and since you shouldn't have your own preferences (they're wrong and bad) consider my choice' #he largely disregards Thor's emotions #most people do on Asgard???? #like it's literally wild how everyone saw Thor being major depressed and they basically told him to pretend to cheer up #like im sorry Thor's grief means nothing to y;all. he fell in love with someone very mortal and his brother is changed forever #Loki tries putting Thor off by first off. Thor KNOWS Jane isn't going to live long he's not never thought about it #he doesn't even make the decision for Thor he tells him to consider his choice well bc it WILL hurt him when she's gone #Loki is like treats Thor like a person and Odin is like nah I own him #I feel like in converting the brother/father relationship difference over people lose the differences in those aspect #they skip to similarities of heartlessness and Machiavellian ends meeting the means when Loki overall is #a far more moral character than Thor (at the start of Thor's arc) and Odin. and a lot of culturally Asgardian ideas #that's literally part of Loki's original characterization that he DIDN'T match up with their views #he didn't do stuff like take killing lightly like it's for fun and that's one of a long list of obvious aspects that make the setup cool #don't tell me Odin and Loki are the same #like there's some blanket understanding that Loki doesn't show or care about the people he loves #while Thor and Frigga have always been softhearted and refused to sacrifice themselves for what is deemed better for everyone #don't mistake selfishness for apathy and don't say Loki didn't cry himself through the first movie because duty to the throne comes first #that's literally Thor's bit #idk

[videogamelover99]

Something something Dazai's speech to Sigma about there being no "superhumans" is countering the argument about "superhuman" people who are allowed to sin that Raskolnikov, the main character in Crime and Punishment (and most likely Dostoyevsky in BSD) had.

#bsd #legit one of the most revealing parts of dazai's characterization and why he ended up so different from fyodor #for those who dont know what im talking about #raskolnikov's argument was basically that there werr humans who were greater in will than the average (ex Napoleon) and were allowed #to decide who lives and who dies for the progress/betterment of society #and since raskolnikov was one of those he was allowed to kill an evil granny for cash #this is mostly where ppl get their interpretations of fyodor's character from and for good reason #bungou stray dogs #fyodor dostoevsky #okay but legit dazai's dialogue with sigma?? such a reveal of character growth #bc teen dazai DID think he was different from others somehow. That he was special in his misery #and adult dazai understood that no actually he was just a guy

[stardust-falling]

No matter how much trauma you have experienced, you never have the right to inflict that trauma on others.

#zhuixing posts #this is about palestine #but also about the way people view victimhood in general #which leads people to side with an apartheid state because of the argument that jewish people can only be perpetual victims #and the fear to call out israel's atrocities or to assert that a genocide is being committed by israel #atrocities cannot be excused no matter who the perpetrator is and no matter who the victim is #it doesn't matter how much generational trauma there may be #slaughtering thousands of innocent people and CHILDREN is *still exactly what it is* #there is no universe where this is remotely okay #i'm honestly without words about how horrible this is #even if the bombings and the destruction and the massacre wasn't going on #it would still be unacceptable to force people out of their homelands for another group's 'greater good' #the amount of trauma being caused every day is horrific #when did 'never again' become specific to one single group of people #why are some people considered more 'human' than others #what the hell is this world

[astrxlfinale]

One day I'ma dive on how the Sim Universe really plays with Caelus's mind.

There's some approaches I want to go with it, but mainly, how these experiences with the collaborative invention has been altering his perception of the world. In more vast, dangerous to unique fashions.

Kind of like his soul is becoming an additional 'sense', on top of whatever the hell perceiving the Erudition was doing to him.

Not exactly something an everyday human is supposed to be going through.

#| OOC Musings #While I'd add that holding a stable stellaron serves as a good buffer #Alongside the defensive angles they've made #The way this trips you out with the more I slowly ready is nutty. Like for instance #Being able to see these generated instances with the Aeons #Trying to perceive a higher existence through a human lens #Or his said lens is becoming 'greater' to encompass that appropriately

[bruhstation]

does it ever drive you crazy

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte #ttte edward #ttte henry #ttte gordon #casa tidmouth #human au #senjart #JUST HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHAAAAAANGES #quick pen doodles I made last night. haha #so we've got #- the heartthrob of tidmouth who hides secrets for the greater good #- the guy who worries about every little thing #- the guy who attended more funerals than birthday parties

[appri-dot]

I should probably babble abt me n my friends lethal company world concept hcs so silly...

#doing this before i bake cake #but like basically early space travel allowed humans to expand to new frontiers #but as was the 1900s things were not to good earth was a planet made to manufacture and produce while other planets would take in imports #earth was pretty polluted and thus evacuated #meaning that humanity had converted to a lively world of colour to orbiting ships #depending on your class status you could transfer from ship colonies or even moon colonies but it was unlikely unless you got rich quick #people had to work day in day out to provide fuel and resources for moon colonies #the higher ups on colonies were usually fucked over by hostile alien species #or you had to join the company because you cant make enough to eat in either #depending on what moon the ship orbits you call it your mothermoon #and my normal lethal ocs like benji are from ship colonies that had specific characteristics (thats why hes so horribly adjusted to aliens) #as compared to Big Joke who before was from a moon colony and had to work as a sort of candidate of greater good