#it has all gone too far

[pokimoko]

The fact that Main-verse Ooo is as good and as kind as it is (relative to the other universes shown so far, at least, it's obviously not perfect) all because of the same character that starts off as the OG series' antagonist, the person we were made to see as the bad guy (albeit an often ineffectual one) for several seasons, is making me lose my mind.

Imagine finding out the guy you spent your childhood beating up and saving princesses from is in fact a driving catalyst behind you being able to exist, and not only exist but also live in a world that knows what kindness is. All because that man, the same man who you've witnessed do terrible things, once met a little girl and taught her how to be good.

Simon's story really shows us that even if you lose your way and forget how it is to be good yourself, the world keeps the memory for you. That act of love Simon showed Marcy by protecting her and seeing her as more than the monster she thought herself to be created ripples upon ripples, small at first but eventually enough to help give their wreckage of a world—a world that easily could have been forsaken, its goodness overlooked because of its inhospitable remains—a chance to grow into something beautiful. Because of those very same ripples Simon created, the people of Ooo grew up in a world where they know enough about kindness that they were able and willing to spare the 'bad guy' some, to see beyond the wreckage and allow him to grow too.

In saving Marceline, Simon helped to not only to save the world, but also himself.

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time #simon petrikov #ice king #marceline abadeer #simon and marcy #meta #this was just a phone note to get thoughts out of my system but then it came out semi-coherent #so welp guess i'm writing meta now. i'm really in the deep end now. but yeah...Ice King and Simon's story being about the power of kindness #A cruel world requires constant cruelty to be maintained. But kindness? That reaches across time. one act of kindness sparks another #'I need to save you but whose going to save me?' That act of love and compassion is gonna save you ya dingus....eventually #In a less kind world finn and Jake could have watched those tapes about Simon and still decided IK was a hopeless cause. #That he was too far gone to be saved. But they didn't. They chose to treat him nicer and actually be friends with him. #One thing i always loved about IK's story is that he didn't have to completely change himself for people around him to treat him better #They changed their perspective and were kind to him and it was THAT that helped him change. to grow beyond the 'antagonist' role #to quote my go to and all time favourite good place quote: #'the point is people improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold that against them when they don't?' #Arrgh sorry I just always loved Ice King's arc in the show. From pesky antagonist to the person Finn dived into a chaos god to save #(the world's new beginning and its near ending being all because of simon. he has such main character energy and boy does he not want it) #And now we're getting Simon stuff and I'm so normal I'm so normal I'm so normal (<- has never been normal about this character) #(i...i have many MANY drawings of ice king and simon from 2015 and the years after. i was doomed from the start. F&C was the final straw) #(as was reading marcy's secret scrapbook recently...and here i thought i'd truly reached the capacity of hurt i can feel about these two) #Going insane over these last two episodes. 'she didn't have a me'. Fionna and Simon bonding. Gumlee kiss. PETRIGROF BACKSTORY #and the implication that Simon isn't remembering it accurately? Their sweet sounding love song actually foreshadowing their issues? #I am clawing at the walls. thank you AT crew you are enriching the enclosure that is my brain

[xehanortsreport]

the subtle resignation in his expression at even bouncing with the context of his final words kinda destroying me ngl

#the face of a man who is too far gone and knows it #like...hate him all you want but it is genuinely tragic to get to a point where you hate where youve ended up and it's too late to go back #you did it you fucked up you made your bed and now you gotta lie in it #a waste of nearly 100 years of living! you cannot punish this man more than he has punished himself #xehanort lived his life believing he'd get a redo at the very end and when it didn't happen and he died like everyone else he was doomed! #he neglected every friendship he ever had in the hopes he could just remake them once he was god king and start over! #but he couldn't and didn't and by the time he realized it it was far far too late #why did i put all of this in the tags? well. that's our spicy secret.

[ultra-violetra]

also remember that this season started out with a time travel element and it could very much still be coming into play in the final battle… maybe the bad kids kill the rat grinders now and still have a chance at saving them before they’re corrupted

#me waiting for the time travel thing to come back into play: #no but the time quangle has to have something to do with something right #or maybe its just a backup plan for if they all die #but i do think the rat grinders are already too far gone like totally corrupted #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high spoilers #fhjy

[mazeyphaedra]

processing ep 11 one day at a time and idk i was just really reminded of how fig’s an only child too

and this isn’t really all that significant considering the party (given that adaine and kristen are the only ones with siblings); fabian’s been talking to podcasts alone in the manor and riz has been locking in on extracurriculars and cases but like fig had her self-concept twisted in on itself right on the cusp of a new chapter in life. and i think it’s great that the doubt she felt when her horns came in, she thinks it’s sacred. a tool for rebirth. but does she have any reason to believe looking inward is productive? as someone who can literally change her reflection? she’s a wonderful and compelling person in her own right now but where are her friends from when she was a preppy preteen, who invited her to every party until she wasn’t a bubbly wood elf anymore? what did she carry over from that life? was she more introspective then? maybe she attached that to who she was. maybe she’s barred herself from it because she’s not that person anymore. maybe she can’t sit with all the selves she’s had inside her because the magnitude of all the personas she’s invented and reinvented have muddled her identity into this convoluted curdled thing. and it is by far the easiest thing to direct all the fiendish energy and power and personality outward, to her friends, to school, to solving the mystery. and so she disappears.

ANYWAY avoiding max falling damage into your bedroom thanks to the gift you gave your president is as good a start to self-reflection as any right????

#please i know this is all over the place ​im simply an only child that has gone too far in the opposite direction #i love fig i love her i do #and GOD I LOVE how emily plays her #figueroth faeth #fig faeth #the bad kids #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fhjy spoilers #uh oh! #<-talking tag from my terpsy days #it fits the vibe so im keeping it lol #whoever has the infaethable url pls consider giving it to me

[mummer]

the take that “actually the blacks won the dance of the dragons because their bloodline got the throne hehe” has always been very funny to me because the entire point of aegon iii is to ask: who cares? what did it matter? what was it all for? misery and tragedy, pointless mass death, everyone alone and betrayed and caged, a king like his land and his people: ravaged, broken, a shell. and nothing was fixed. and nothing was solved. no revolution made, no justice served, just fields of dead and charred bones and a sad sad little boy. the point— if that’s what winning is, why play?

#hotd has the chance to deliver on the pointlessness so hard. i love you tragedy. #like all the show has to do. at all. is successfully build up to a crucial moment where you realize every single character is asking #why did we do this? what was the point? what would have been enough? #but theyve all gone too far now. and theres no way out #hotd #asoiaf #youre reading the anti war books and cheering on the war 💔 #thinking about aegon iii wanting nothing and wandering around the palace looking at the stars. rn

[shroommush]

Both c!slime and q!slime became murderers because of an accident.

Do with this what you will :3

#I need to post on Tumblr more #please teach me your ways #is this how you speak in tags? I don't know. #i wrote all these on the actual post and didnt realise there was a place for them #now i feel dumb #uh anyways #im still in my dsmp era and im not leaving it #i wasnt even there for a lot of it #it was just las nevadas #anyways heres the real tags i think the tag talking has gone too far #dsmp #mcyt #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle #mcyt fanart #dsmp fanart

[avallachs]

i’m aware i’m 100% alone in this, but i genuinely adore ascended astarion (especially when romanced) because of how—frankly—horrific it is. it’s simultaneously so cathartic in its brutality but so unsatisfying personally while managing to be narratively satisfying (just as his other outcome is, of course).

#ophelia.txt #bg3 spoilers #the way he still has the shell of his old feelings for tav mirrored in his possessiveness of them. that alone does suggest that he’d #probably not subject them to the same overt cruelty that he suffered which makes it all far more dangerous and insidious. because what #humanity—in as much as it can be called thus—remained to him is gone. what made him HIM is gone and all that remains is an incredibly #powerful being who (if you got his scene after moonrise) hates them for letting him go through with it. he has no love left in him now. #only want and resentment and possessiveness. if he loves tav it’s the possessive and selfish love a child has for a toy. but he doesn’t #even respect them. he’s too paranoid now. too drunk on the power he has from his failure to break the cycle (which he. again. resents tav #for allowing). he said right out the gates that true vampires are never created. there’s only ever a sire and a spawn. and he views tav #letting him bite them as them degrading themselves. placing themselves as lesser than him and it’s the new baseline for how he’s going to #treat them because the man they loved is effectively gone. it makes me feel so unwell. i love ascended astarion like okay king of not #breaking the cycle 🙌🙌🙌

[acheronist]

coping with sports by drawing *doublechecks notes* art inspired by sports interviews

#my flowerist goalie yup ☝🏻🥅🌹 the only important red wings news that has happened lately #34 #illust #anyways: climbing ivy / red morning glories / ox eyed daisies / striped dutch tulips / damask roses / oak leaves #and i didn't include them here because im stoned + they were too small. but poplar and snowdrops and forget me nots as well #and all of these were picked w victorian floriography meanings in mind 2 best suit him and the way his career has gone so far #alex lyon

[holedyke]

going to the dentist tmr for the first time in 5 years. and at 8am no less

#in my worst fears they will remove all my teeth bc theyre too far gone (not true) and be soooo mad at me or give me 1000 fillings or some #shit like that bc okay i know my teeth arent great bad genes + plus i rlly struggle w taking care of my teeth but I TRY!!!!! i really do #anyway just nervous. my anxiety has been so bad lately im certain its bc my lack of enrichment in my enclosure (been unemployed since oct #despite my best efforts) and so i havent really been out of the house much bc everything costs fucking money which i dont have but i do #believe that it is taking its toll!!! #h

[hawkeyeslaughter]

through heavy , heavy tears : hawkeyes first instinct is to be KIND he’s so much less guarded than trapper and even bj when first meeting people ( even ones he probably won’t like ) he always treats them with respect . i’m going to be physically ill

#i have a headcanon that people were kind of really mean to hawkeye as a kid and this little detail about him reinforces it #he very much gives like . i was weird and left out as a kid but people love me now and i never want to be like those people who left me out #i feel like you see it most heavily with radar but he also does this thing when he steps back when he realizes he’s actually hurt someone’s #feelings . #idk like #he’s not kind ALL the time . like he obviously jokes around a LOT and some of those jokes can be pretty mean and even then sometimes he has #trouble apologizing #but at the same time ( most of the time ) if he realizes something has gone too far he’ll do what he can to express that he didn’t mean it i #in his own hawkeye way #i’m thinking about in ‘ for want of a boot ‘ when trapper calls radar short and radar gets upset about it and hawk’s like #‘ hey you know he’s only joking ‘ in that soft voice #or in ‘ house arrest ‘ when radar gets the platform shoes and hawkeye was like ‘ i was out of line for making fun of you ‘ #those are the instances that come to mind but there’s a TON more #idk i just really love that detail about him #that he’s willing to step back and recognize when a joke’s maybe gone too far #he even does it with frank and charles #mash #mashposting #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #hawkeye pierce #hawkeye

[sirmanmister]

Realized I forgot to introduce Eileen again LMAO

My sea shanty interest was reignited and I was like “:O Boston is a coastal town I can make a sailor oc!!” And promptly remembered Far Harbour exists and so now she is there :)

She left the mainland after nearly destroying the entire commonwealth for her kiddo Eliza. Blew up the Prydwen, Railroad, nearly collapsed the Minutemen, and eventually destroyed the Institute when they created a synth version of her husband and she realized just how much they were manipulating her. She left Eliza with Nick and fucked off North, a good fifty miles past the Nakano residence, where she fixes up an old boat and fishes the days away in solitude. Nick eventually finds her a year or two later and needs her boat to head to far harbour to find Kasumi Nakano, and they get stranded there together cuz a sea monster basically ate her boat :)

Anyway she’s also from Newfoundland and Labrador, got military training from soldiers she helped guide through the Northwest Passage, and commonly goes by “The Lobstermonger” in Far Harbour due to her hiding her identity out of shame for all she’s done. I <3 her I’m sorry

#she was in a compulsively heterosexual marriage and it’s ONLY the fact that she wasn’t actually in love with her husband that made her #reject the synth copy. she would have gone along with it to the end if she didn’t lowkey hate the guy #he wasn’t bad or anything she just wasn’t happy. she only married him because she got pregnant #she also has lowkey complicated feelings about her daughter too and Kinda resents her a little. she hates that her life was hijacked #loves her daughter of course but lots of it is out of obligation. she guns for Eliza so hard also because she lowkey despises the rest of #the commonwealth and thinks they deserve it but that’s another post #she’s not evil or anything she’s just very very angry about it all #anyway I <3 her #fallout 4 #far harbour #far harbour dlc #fallout #fanart #fallout fanart #fallout 4 fanart #far harbour fanart #mirelurk #original character #oc #oc intro #fallout oc #fisherman #lobstermonger #digital art #serenade draws #Eileen waters #lesbian #gay character #wlw

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

its that time of year: hand over your anime recs

about a year ago i asked for recs and you all had some great responses. i watched quite a few and even if some of them weren't my style i loved your enthusiasm. loved it.

this year once again i ask for your recs, underrated, super popular, super weird, doesn't matter. Drop them in the notes/tags. i love twists done well and plots that defy genre, but ill take anything.

(Edit: I’ll take manga recs too:)

please and thank you, peace

- L

#of all of last years recs i got the most emotionally attached to sarazanmai if that gives you an idea of what im willing to put up with #also i do think isekai has gone too far not for me no shade #faves of all time include noragami - gekkan shouju nozaki kun - utena - assclass - kimi ni todoke #casual fan of jjk #and recently i LOVED tengoku daimakyo okay thats all

[notalexhorne]

One of my favourite things about Taskmaster, and it really doesn't get talked about nearly enough, is the relationship between Greg and the panelists. There is the element that nobody wants to be there sometimes, including Greg and Alex. Nobody's having a good time, and everyone's suffering. It's a mutual case of Stockholm Syndrome, as has been mentioned on the show multiple times.

But the bit I like best is when everyone just becomes sick of one another's bullshit. It's expected for the panel to reach a point where they get sick of one another and threaten to throw down, or tell someone to stuff a satsuma up their ass.

I particularly enjoyed this series crossing a brand new line of Frankie threatening to sue Alex over his terrible wording of a task, and Greg offering to help with the costs. It reminded me of when Greg offered to put his own money toward counselling fees, because there is clearly something wrong with Rhod Gilbert.

But what I love best is that this is a show where the host will tell his contestants to fuck off, or flip them off, pull them to an unlit corner of the stage to give them a personal telling off because they have managed to uniquely irritate him. The moment of silence in series 10, because he's so fucking fed up with how awful all of them are at completing tasks still makes me howl every time I watch it. He instantly regresses five grown adults to school children as soon as he stands up in front of them.

In a vacuum, out of context, it's all dreadfully horrible and toxic, but that's what this entire character is. He's an insane tyrant, and the whole concept of the show hinges on that. What would that insane man want done? And I love how much he leans into it.

#taskmaster #greg davies #alex horne #but equally he's really good at spotting when to turn it all off and drop character when necessary #he's done it a few times when contestants have had vulnerable moments that could have turned into something real nasty #he's also good at noticing when something has gone too far and shutting it down before it can go any further #it is just a role which is what makes the whole thing fun #he's not going up on stage to be cruel to people for the sake of it #the show is a group roast and it goes both ways

[thatgirl4815]

Forget Joker and Harley Quinn, this is my villain origin story.

#Ray looks so happy to have finally gotten what he wanted #but has he ever thought that it's just going to hurt THAT MUCH HARDER when it all falls apart? #And when it inevitably does he'll expect to turn back to Sand like before...only to realize that he's gone too far #*cue the trailer “I won't let you walk away” scene #ajfjjjsjskjaskj I won't survive this wait ugh #only friends #only friends the series #ofts #sandray #raysand #sanray #raysan #raymew #topmew

[hood-ex]

That Dick, Roy, Jason, and Lian WFA chapter... it's on fucking sight.

#wfa stans: let me have my silly goofy fun w this. my happy little fam fam #me: i was okay with that before but things are different now and this has gone too far so you're all evicted starting immediately

[i3utterflyeffect]

"King, once I learn where he is hiding , I will be able to bring my animator to this world so I can kill him. After that, you are free to go and I will help you get your child back."

"what the ACTUAL FUCK"

just a silly dialogue I thought of

NO BUT LIKE, FOR REAL.

#top ten victim violence moments #king is kind of terrified by vic. not just because vic reminds him of himself before coming back to his senses #but because at the same time they DON'T at all. victim is just kind of horrifying to behold #bc unlike king there is nothing that would make them reconsider what they're doing. they have made their choice #and if they had to they would make the same exact one every time. just to destroy becker and his creations #and to put him through torture #victim has dedicated all of their life to making sure alan will suffer the consequences of what he's done #and that means that they will make it happen or die trying because there's nothing left for them if they don't #tommy's stickmen tag #sorry im just. insane about characters who are too far gone to be saved sometimes