#i have nothing innocent to say

[karamazovposting]

To me the most fucked up thing in the whole novel is the people at Dmitri's trial laughing at Ilyusha's father, reading that part genuinely made me feel sick and I'm not being hyperbolic, it was hard to read for me.

That poor man had been made fun of for being publicly humiliated and beaten by Dmitri and given a demeaning nickname that stuck for months, his twelve year old child is slowly dying of a horrible disease, he breaks down crying testifying at the trial of the man who had publicly humiliated and beaten him that he attended disheveled and drunk because he's obviously going through a lot, and they laugh at him. What the fuck. That's seriously fucked up and cruel and Ivan was right, even in his delirium, when he said those people just wanted to witness a freakshow to have a good laugh.

#I'm not really a sensitive or emotional person #but one of the few things I can't take is people making fun of/being cruel to those in pain and distress #and the vulnerable and innocent in general #that's seriously vile and Ivan is a better person than I am #as many are #for just talking and nothing more because I would have raised hell in that courtroom #also what Ivan says still applies to this day by the way and I have many thoughts about it but this blog is not the place #the brothers karamazov #mine

[bumblingbabooshka]

Harry Kim saying Naomi is lucky to be born on Voyager and that he would have given "anything" to have her life when he was a kid...

#He sees NO downsides???? #Also I love how Neelix was yelling and panicked and Harry was like 'haha ok buddy. Hey this little guy is ugly huh~? See ya later!' #absolutely unbothered and not the least bit curious - love him <3 #saw someone post about how they don't like 'once upon a time' bc Neelix doesn't tell Naomi right away about her mother .... bro. #c'mon. Anyway I love Neelix and him trying so hard to shield Naomi from bad things / upset bc he KNOWS how fucking painful #it is to lose a family DID make me tear up. #Also Naomi in that burned-down forest (symbolic of innocence?) was a kickass visual. Neelix telling her about his family and Naomi trying #to comfort HIM??? SHE'S SUCH A GOOD KID MAN....Neelix making her a flotter doll was also v cute #OH AND Naomi going 'I Am Borg...' and Neelix going '~??? No you're not~!!!' and Naomi giggling...added NOTHING to the #episode - as it should be!! Sometimes you've just gotta have a really cute silly moment <3 #Tuvok: [says something] / Tom: Nice bedside manner Tuvok =_= #Tuvok: [about to say the most beautiful comforting words you've ever heard one parent say to another] And I took that personally. #Love how Naomi is scared of Seven at first...girl that's your roommate. #HEHEH she starts off the series scared of her but by the end she's her little buddy and also her intern #but yeah never forget that Harry Kim can and will say the most unhinged things but so casually that no one will really clock it #NEVER forget that he says he remembers.....either being an infant or his own birth - both WILD to me #Harry Kim lowkey loves destiny and being special and the idea of 'chosen ones' and the narrative even though he will fight it all if it #harms the ones he loves #Harry: (guy from an alternate timeline who replaced the dead Naomi with the alive one from his own) That kid's living the dream <3

[gxlden-angels]

I cannot express the anger I experience being unable to do anything about anything while Christians salivate over the idea of the Israel-Hamas conflict being a sign of the Rapture

#anyways Free Palestine #Hamas attacked innocent people #The Israeli government is terrorizing innocent civilians that just want the right to live #Jewish people deserve to have land where they are safe to go to if there is another rise in antisemitic attacks in their current home #Palestinians deserve to have their homeland respected and safe for them to live on #All of these statements can be true at the same time #and I say all of this from the safe comfort of the US #I am not the one that you should listen to about the situation. #I am not the one who you should trust to give correct information about what is going on because I get the same information you do #We should be listening to Palestinians and the Israeli civilians affected #And unfortunately the news in the US is based on Christians who want nothing more than to escalate this #They do not want to recognize Palestinians unless it brings about a world war that triggers the Rapture #And I am enraged by it #I know people currently living in Israel #I know students from Palestine #And I am infuriated by christians treating them like pawns in their little Jesus War #These are people. These are fucking people #They are friends and family and lovers and so much more #I genuinely cannot express just how frustrated I am by my inability to do anything as I sit in safety #If you get nothing else from this post please listen to Palestinians and the war crimes they've experienced for decades now #If you get nothing else please listen to Israeli civilians begging for their government to stop escalating this conflict #Please listen to Jewish people and Muslims when they say shit like this increases violence against them around the world #Anyways I'm at the doctor and someone had CNN on and I'm tired #antisemitism tw #islamophobia tw #israel-hamas war tw #rapture tw

[uncanny-tranny]

I posted something to this effect on my other blog, but it's been on my mind and essentially begging me to talk about it again so...

This post is dedicated to the people who might have caused their disability or may have made it worse in some way or another. This post is dedicated to people who haven't done the "right things" in the past, who weren't perfect, who weren't flawless robots.

Regardless of why you're disabled, you still need and, most importantly, deserve any accommodations for said disability. You cannot separate the "good disableds" from the "bad" ones. You are never required to prove that you're "innocent" before people are compassionate about your disability. Do not for a minute be convinced otherwise, for your own sanity.

#disability #disability positivity #ableism #ableism tw #(just for the implication) #maybe i made my hearing worse by listening to loud music. maybe not! #but regardless of *why* i don't always hear something i still deserve the space to go 'hey wait can you say that again...?' or whatever else #anyway the attitude of 'guilty until proven innocent' for disabled people is just another arm of ableism #and if you want to contribute to that by forcing us to prove ourselves then... fine but that's not a good outlook regardless #this is just something i have been thinking about again and again and again #like... part of the reason i made my disabilities worse is because i had access to NOTHING at the time #so my only recourse was to... do (essentially) nothing

[prodigal-explorer]

it’s so cute (/s) when basil fans whine about how “basil feels so guilty all the time and he has abandonment issues cuz his parents were jerks and he’s just a kid who makes mistakes wah wah don’t ever criticize him ever” and then turn around call aubrey a bully when SHE feels so guilty all the time and has abandonment issues cuz her parents are jerks and she’s just a kid who makes mistakes.

hmm.

you’re in a stalemate now basil fans. you can’t admit that basil is your smol innocent baby without admitting that aubrey also is one, which she’s not, right?

so that means basil can’t be either! wow! what a concept, a boy doing something wrong and not having a million excuses made for him?? how wild.

#contrary to popular belief #aubrey is actually just basil but better and cooler and awesomer and more badass #like their situations are so similar but they handled it so differently #and i get that mental illness makes things hard for some people that are easy for others #but nothing aubrey did was a cakewalk #when she realized she fucked up #SHE APOLOGIZED AS SOON AS SHE COULD. #and she ADMITTED WHAT SHE DID #and tried as hard as she could to atone. #what did basil do? #oh yeah. #he pretended to be an innocent baby and it WORKED. #whether or not he meant to #he DID manipulate his friends to believe that he was just a victim #and that aubrey didn’t have a reason for what she was doing #even though she DID have a reason #she just knew nobody would believe her or care if she spoke up about it #okay i know basil fans are gonna send me death threats again #so let me say for the record that I DONT THINK BASIL IS EVIL. #i actually love his role in the narrative and he’s amazing mental illness representation #but he is so good BECAUSE of how hard it is for him to be redeemable. #no matter how sorry he is #BASIL FUCKING DESTROYED PEOPLE. it doesn’t matter that he’s mentally ill. #those scars on the people he hurt won’t fade just because they’re shown a psychiatric diagnosis. #and i think that’s an important lesson #that it’s possible to be mentally ill and a horrible person and that’s not demonizing mental illness that’s just being a person #forgiveness isn’t mandatory. it’s optional and you’re not bad if you decide not to forgive someone for ruining your life! #omori #aubrey omori #basil omori

[friendly-neighborhood-hermit]

Yes, Velvet and Veneer ate with their final chase scene song mashup, but everyone saying that they should've won? You guys would probably fall into a cult so easily, with how you're simply thinking they should've won because you were swooned by their (faked/stolen) voices

#and frankly it makes me sick? like they committed crimes? and attempted murded on innocent Trolls #people gotta stop calling them innocent #im not one to tell you you cant like a villain #as long as you recognize what they are and acknowledge that #like Veneer is hilarious I love him but that doesnt mean he's a completely innocent individual #im sorry for this rant but i was angry about it #so angry that people were saying they shoulda won and that they did nothing wrong like they didnt even pay attention to the movie #dreamworks trolls #trolls: band together #maybe im just angry because Branch is literally my favorite Character and how dare you try to hurt him by claiming #the people trying to capture him and his family and torture them are innocent and should have won #like seriously that just irks me so much i want to singlehandedly punch everyone who says that #im definitely not being overdramatic either

[sixofcrowshyperfixation]

Wylan:

Jan Van Eck: Alys is pregnant with a son, who will become my true heir

Wylan: Cain instinct is real, I wanna kick this unborn child into the next realm of existence, he can never truly be my brother, Kaz is more my brother than that thing

#the difference was that wylan was working under the assumption that van eck would treat his little brother the same way he treated wylan #without love and as a constant burden and disappointment- which is why wylan would have been so quick to hype him up because wylan knows #what it feels like to not get van ecks love and he would never want his younger brother to think he was unloved- but then wylan saw #van eck love this unborn child more than he loved wylan and so wylan has to fully face the fact that it wasnt something wrong with his #father (it was but wylan wouldnt come to that conclusion)because his father does know how to love his son- so it must be that wylan is #unlovable and wylan- who is known to be easily jealousy- would hate his fathers reminder of his inadequacy and what he failed to be #alys' kid is basically van eck's kuwei- there in an attempt to replace wylan- the only difference is Jesper doesnt want to replace wylan #but van eck does- and that is what makes van eck the bad guy because we have this idea of unconditional love of a parent and van eck is #here to say 'but sometimes it isnt unconditional- some times there are conditions' and i think that is what makes him so much scarier #he is there to feed at our own insecurities of 'what if i am only lovable to a point' van eck is both a monster and incredibly human #he is what we're afraid our parents will be- he's so incredibly possible and real that he is one of the best villains ive seen in a while #wylan van eck #jan van eck #six of crows #incorrect soc quotes #crooked kingdom #six of crows spoilers #honestly alys did nothing wrong and I love her #even if she doesnt have the best singing voice- she owns it- much to the dismay of the crows #but she also cares about wylan so much and she is such a sweet innocent girl and she is the best #so dont even try to bash her cause i will fight you in a Denny's parking lot istg #alys van eck

[mrsdulac]

Taking Miss Lily away from fandom until y’all learn how to treat black women like people

#i’ve seen so many justifications for her death these last few days and it’s starting to piss me off #i’ve seen people describe her as treacherous and say she was plotting something (which i still don’t get. what was her big plan?) #and now people are saying louis didn’t care about her at all #are we just uncomfortable that lestat murdered an innocent woman? #can we still not handle the knowledge that lestat is terrible?? #lily did NOTHING wrong #she was killed bc lestat was bored with her and likely jealous of the closeness she had with louis #she’s a victim. more of a victim than antoinette who we seem to have a grand amount of sympathy for 🤔 #lily was shown to be supportive and playful and that’s what gets her killed #and yet somehow she’s the villain #somehow she was treacherous and svheming and deserved her death #fucking hate it here

[good-beansdraws]

You must go on.

These are the scripted lines said to the test subjects in the original Milgram experiment, each time they asked to stop administering the shocks. I've been thinking about audience involvement in this project -- as deeply as we care for the characters in immense pain/danger, can we really stop the trials now...?

(Individual frames under the cut)

#milgram #haruka sakurai #i have so many thoughts about this project so have some art about it lol #i kind of pictured jackalope saying the text to es - and in turn es saying it to us #im so intrigued by the haruka dilemma this trial #because who's to blame for their suffering? us? es? them? the writers? everyone? #im just so enthralled by the balance of our interaction and control and having blood on our hands. Even though theres the relief of #'its just characters - no ones getting hurt' we're still engaging in a very emotional way! we still care!! it affects us and our choices!! #AH #rip i made myself sad drawing this ;---; my booooy #i voted muu innocent to try and save him but now theres nothing more we can do and im Scared :( #(also heyyy its my first art gif! bones helped me make it with her art app because mine couldn't lol)

[dirtytransmasc]

Aemond killing Luke =/= what happened during the night of Blood & Cheese. that was not equal* revenge, the two events can never and will never be equal under any circumstance nor attempts at justification.

I said what I said, and I believe it with my whole chest.

*quick edit on wording, that was my bad, definitely made my point look real stupid... this is why you double-check your rants, especially when they're controversial

#the fight between Aemond and Luke was unequal but a fight none the less #both were on dragon back. both had some sort of battle knowledge. aemond had some level of cause #it may not have been justification. but aemond was seeking revenge for his eye after YEARS of anger #while there was a degree of injustice done to luke #it was nothing like the night of blood and cheese #they attacked 3 innocent children who were 6 and 2. not old enough to hurt flys let alone people #threatened and damn near tortured their mother. forcing her to pick which of her sons would die. while also threatening to rape her daughte #helaena nor her children had ever hurt anyone and they paid the price for aemonds misdeeds #while I understand wanting to make a blow to the green after the death of luke #that night was not an equal attack nor was it justifiable #and I hate seeing people say “they got what was coming to them” because they didn't. nothing could have justified that night #jaehaerys targaryen #jaehaera targaryen #maelor targaryen #helaena targaryen #they deserved better #aemond targaryen #luke velaryon #hotd #house of the dragon #blood and cheese

[frogathy]

one way to say you havent seen the barbie movie without saying you haven’t seen the barbie movie is hating on female characters that are just normal girls who don’t do very much. or writing off female characters as shallow because they don’t have outwardly exceptional traits (i.e. big massive boobs, incredible otherworldly power, super tiny boobs, she owns a business and also runs a country and also she’s really mean and cold because that’s hot and it goes against the gender stereotype, she’s an alien, she’s a furry, she’s secretly a spy, her personality is very clearly different and special OR she’s so mysterious that she REALLY has no personality but bc she’s so vaguely mysterious that doesnt matter bc the mystery makes her deep and alluring, etc)

girls can just be girls.. girls just.. wanna have…. fun..

let us embrace the concept of the ambiguous female character, i beg of you. just as there are twink boys and big buff himbos, let there be president barbies and “just mom” barbies. how about we just. stop placing expectations of either extreme onto anyone. let’s try that. thank you

#love: a girl who was raised ‘anti-feminist’ (the joking words of my dad) #(the words that made me think i could not have opinions about women at all even though i am one) #(as if commenting on or even thinking about the subject of women is in itself an act of RADICAL FEMINISM!) #(like holy shit thats a damaging concept! anyways im enjoying acknowledging what i think about the issue of Women. personally? #i have opinuons about women😼and im sharing them on the internet😼😼) #this post is about nilou from genshin impact🗣️ #she’s just some fucking girl and shes a dancer and shes just. like. DUMB. because shes purehearted and innocent #and people look at her and say shes useless and she did nothing for the storyline and shes shallow #SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!!!! #idiots. all of them. idiots #even though she’s canonically the LITERAL embodiment of beauty. that is not enough for them #the hypocrisy. its so grand #anyways #girls. am i right #i could talk so much about her i love her so much she literally menas so much to me #i could talk about her for so long snd all of the amazing things about her that are not on the surface but ill spare this website #froegis meep tag #barbie #nilou #genshin nilou #female characters #i feel so free being able to just fucjing acknowledge that i think this #i still have a sense of ‘but what if im wrong and im being a snowflake’ as if having an opinion that differs from my dad makes me a snowfla #like wat da hel! enmeshed families be hittin different 😼 #and perhaps theres a bit of internalized mysoginy in these little bonez of mine😼 butt who knows. something for my therpist to unpack #important

[ladykailolu]

Do you think that...for the rest of Klavier's life, he's haunted by the image of his brother? The Gavin brothers resemble each other very much in the face, so every time Klavier looks in the mirror, he can see Kristoph looking right back at him (without his glasses)

#klavier gavin #kristoph #the gavin brothers #ace attorney #I feel like Klavi has some mixed feelings about Krissy #obvs he condemns Krissy for murdering people because of *checks notes* a bruised pride #but!!! Krissy is also his older brother at the end of the day and it's my headcanon that Krissy did a lot of tough and terrible things to #get ahead in life and provide the foundation for a cushiony life for his little brother #it's through Krissy's deeds that Klavi could build his career as a music artist #and maybe also Klavi looked up to his brother and could turn the other way when Krissy did the evil? #for a time of course. Klavi probably didn't say anything because he also feared Krissy as much as he loved him #but when enough became enough Klavi went 'Im not gonna stand by and watch my brother do this anymore when so many innocents are suffering #for nothing' #then he turned on Krissy unafraid of the consequences #these two!!!!!! I wish we had more of their backstory #like they were orphans and didn't have family so Krissy played the part of the parent and looked out for Klavi #but this came off as controlling #Krissy emphasized appearances above all else which meant he had a very narrow part to play with no room for errors #so everything he did had to be perfect on the nose! this meant he had to have perfect control over everything #even his own brother. and eventually this controlling habit got out of hand and Krissy truly became 'the devil' #and Klavi didn't know what else to do but go along with it because he trusted and loved his brother. until enough was enough and Klavi #couldn't live with the guilt of knowing everything that went on #welp! Time for fanfiction!!!!

[1941-crowley-slut]

Nothing pisses me off more than seeing a video of an actor and everyone in the comments is calling them by the name of some character they played. Like if you say "They really are so similar to [insert character they played]" then sure, but I keep seeing actors doing interviews or appearing on shows and everyone's like "[name of character]" AND IM LIKE NO!!! THAT IS A REAL LIVING HUMAN PERSON, YOU ARE SO ANNOYING. THEY ARE AN ACTOR. AND I MIGHT LOVE THEIR CHARACTER JUST AS MUCH AS YOU DO BUT THIS IS A REAL PERSON WITH A NAME, CALL THEM BY IT!!!

And while we're on that, when they are posting things as themselves, stop acting like their real life is the movie/show they played in??? Like a poor actor announces they're getting married for example and everyone's like "oh nooo what would your fictional partner think about this how could you do this to them" THEY WOULDN'T. THEY'RE FICTIONAL.

Or "Oh I never knew [character name] could do this" AND IT'S THE ACTOR DOING IT, NOT THE CHARACTER. YEAH YOU DIDNT KNOW THE CHARACTER DID THIS BECAUSE THEY DON'T. BUT THE HUMAN PLAYING THEM CAN. CAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

Stop acting like actors are acting ooc when they are just being their fucking selves.

#this got triggered in me again cause i just saw a video of david tennant and michael sheen on some night show and the caption was #“turns out crowley's more innocent than aziraphale” even tho they werent even talking abt them at all #they were just talking abt emojis and david not knowing they can have different meanings on line #THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CROWLEY OR AZIRAPHALE STOP I HATE IT HERE #idk if it was me and people refused to say my name and just called me the character's name constantly i'd be LIVID #rant #good omens #michael sheen #david tennant #I will die on this hill

[victorianvivisection]

Joachim to Hector: Oh, you're a silver haired pretty boy with special powers turned into a toy by a cruel vampire Lord and who rebelled against him? mood :D

I imagine Joachim to have a few loose screws lol. He's not evil, but he can be a little... too much. He wants to help Hector because he projects on him, but he also has fun teasing him and has no sense of personal space or social skills - he likes to call him a dog if he's too loyal to Dracula, or wolf if she shows his fangs.

Hector is uncomfortable with the personal tauntings, and he's often this close to snapping and showing him that he's more of a wolf :) but he does genuinely appreciate Joachim's care, even if it comes off weirdly.

So yeah, you can go to different interest places with this crackship :P

Omg… Zero social skills x zero social skills… A match made in Heaven 🥰… Or somewhere at least???

I Imagine Hector being very distant and reserved, he tends to self isolate a lot because he’s like scared of being hurt or how he’s perceived etc. Joachim also self isolates but he doesn’t really care about how other people see him it’s just been so long that he’s kinda lost interest in interacting.

When Joachim does find someone who piques his interest [Hector] he can get kinda intense about it because it’s so rare that he feels anything for anyone. He also probably has really bad jealously problems.

Hector is often confused on if Joachim cares about him or not because of how he behaves towards him. Joachim has a bit of an ego and enough ‘brutal honesty’ to kill a man meaning many of his insults are just observations about Hector he maybe should have reworded.

Hector tries to introduce Joachim to new people in hopes he’ll find someone new to cling to but he just doesn’t care. Hector thought he was like Joachim, completely disinterested in people… Until he met Joachim and was surprised to find out he’s not disinterested just scared. That at least gave him the small bit of assurance to start creating and rebuilding relationships.

So yeah imagining Joachim helping Hector through a difficult episode and he’s saying some pretty decent advice but he can’t help insulting Hector because to Joachim he’s not saying anything wrong.

#castlevania #lament of innocence #curse of darkness #tbh I have no idea what I was trying to say #I just pieced words together and hoped I got it right #Sorry Castlevania crackship fans you gotta make all the content yourself #you get nothing #not a crumb #Unless you’re lucky and someone made a fic on AO3 like 10 years ago #… So Joachim x Hector is a thing now

[magical-girl-coral]

Okay, what is the Internet's brilliant idea of how to stop the I/p conflict

*checks notes*

You people are planning on boycotting an entire fucking country?

#are you going to send back Israeli medical tactics and machinery from your local hospital? #you're gonna destroy every phone that has something to do with an israeli company? #you're gonna discard all the sewage cleaning plans israel has put out? #will you harass Israeli immigrants? their attempt to trying a business to escape this country? #how far is this supposed to fucking go? #do you people even bother to search how many countries israel works with? #all the items you'll have yo throw away #or do you just say whatever you feel like with no regard to the civilians who will be harmed by these ideas #because of your desperation of needing to be the hero? #like seriously #so many innocent jewish businesses are going to be harmed with this type of thinking #i bet people are already destroying kosher cafes even if they have nothing to do with israel #actual people are going to die. but ay least the person posting these ideas has free Palestine in their bio

[linabirb]

maybe it's bc it's getting late but. man do i feel insecure about my art and writing and just. what i do in general

#it's just. i don't know. there's nothing special about it #like my art just looks so. childish. i can't draw anything “serious” or “deep” at all #and i kept trying and trying to make it look more “mature” because even when i was younger i hated when people kept saying my art is cute #because like. they didn't take it seriously when it clearly was supposed to have a deeper meaning #and i still get told that my art looks like something a child would draw and it looks very. idk. innocent or something #and my writing is just. so repetitive and i keep using the same tropes that i like #idk. idk #[ 💚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 ] #probably delete later