#justifying the rule

[pencildragons]

still insanely funny to me that ortus nigenad has canonically written 18 volumes of epic poetry about a bodyguard who was, in fact, Just Some Guy, and regularly quotes himself out loud in conversations on the regular. man had to die at the start of gtn because he was too fucking powerful to live

#ive been sitting here for like. a solid five fucking minutes trying to come up with a good comparison irl and i Cannot #like imagine if your bodyguard wrote what is basically a huge love song to your great great x10 grandparent's bodyguard and then #he just kept quoting himself in conversations #and then in the weird heaven afterlife you're using as the backdrop of a hallucinated memory sequence to justify the brain surgery you gave #yourself so you could forget the most important person in your life bc she killed herself for you #and you Cannot Conceive Of A Universe Without Her In It #and the dude the bodyguard wrote love songs about in question turns up and is like 'well i was kinda average actually #but thanks to the power of YOUR love songs i can now bend the rules of this liminal space to my will and beat this eldritch monster' #like dude what the fuck #ortus nigenad #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #tlt spoilers #htn spoilers #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #it wasnt in the post but i had griddlehark Feelings in the tags so #words of wyrm

[cottoncandysprite]

Oh my god. Nadja and Laszlo don't kiss on camera bc Laszlo's a Victorian

#yes they fuck on screen but like. Victorian Social Rules #kissing in public was considered indecent #could also just be the fang prosthetics but that could be a good way to justify it in universe #i can just see the convo now #'not in front of the cameras my darling lets wait until the bedroom' #guillermo: 'you guys have fucked on screen before but kissing is too much?' #'yes boy we wouldn’t want to be indecent' #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #ladja #laszlo cravensworth #nadja of antipaxos

[bananaproved]

“Jin Guangyao would rather bow than die, Nie Mingjue would rather die than bow” is such an interesting line because it really puts in perspective the fundamental divide between these two.

-> The first thing is that, it's not just that JGY would rather bow, it's that he cannot die and he cannot quit so he must bow, as many times as necessary to guarantee his own survival. He cannot die because the most important thing for him in his life is his mother and his life goal is to realize his mother's wishes. If he dies, he cannot accomplish what she wanted for him and by doing so he would betray all the effort she put in raising him in adversity and teaching him all of what she knew. Another important element is also that if he dies, there will be no one to remember him or his mother (tho for him it depends on the times of his life, but even when he is Sect Leader Jin, outside of himself, who would remember Meng Shi ?). "Bowing" is considered to be the less honorable way to get through difficult situations, when dying would be the honorable way, but in his case, for most of his life, he is already considered to be at the lowest level of honor possible just by being born, so he has no honor to protect with his death and everything to gain by doing anything he can to survive.

-> On the other hand, if we look at NMJ perspective, there are actually good reasons for him to consider that if he is in a situation where he has to choose, he cannot choose to bow and if it is the only two options he must choose to die. NMJ cannot bow because his main motivations and the most important things in his life are his sect and his family. If he bow and thus choose the "less honorable" option, he is putting shame not simply on himself but also on his entire sect and all of his ancestors. In his case and if he has no choice, dying is a better option because all of his actions since he became sect leader at something like 16 will reflect directly on the sect and an honorable death is better than a shameful survival. Obviously he would prefer to live as protecting his sect is so important to him, but faced with a choice he cannot destroy all of what his ancestors worked for by showing that the Nie sect accept to bow, to lie or to betray for their own interest, so he have to die.

It builds a really interesting opposition between them because JGY cannot afford to die because his name means nothing and NMJ cannot afford to bow because his name is known to everybody. The fact that they are really similar in their absolute dedication to their family make it more tragic that NMJ never was able to understand JGY's perspective on survival. Framing it as a choice is also interesting because if we look into it, it is perceveid by society as one, but based on who they are and what they must do, they have really little to say on the matter.

#jin guangyao #nie mingjue #mdzs #mdzs meta #tbh i think both perspectives are legit and justified by who they are #if anything it show they are living in a shitty system #where reputation classism and social rules will shape the entire lives of individuals

[timothyolyphant]

no but actually

#this is the face of a man who's just begging to be pegged #i don't make the rules #raylan givens #justified

[gentrychild]

"He works out shirtless on the beach, very early in the morning. He is pulling weights as the sun is rising behind him, making the sea all sparkly."

Does he secretly have a dad body that looks embarrassing with his shirt off, especially for a powerful supervillain?

I am afraid that he is as ripped in Anyone as he is in canon but don't tell Cyber.

#LISTEN. Inko married the guy. And since we all know it wasn’t for his personality I need to justify that shit. #However none of that muscle was acquired in good faith. He cheats with quirks. #And I apply the MP100 rule that fake muscles are weaker thzn muscles acquired through pain. #anyone fic

[jaspxr]

#tim definitely does some hand work in his off time #It's canon #I don't make the rules #tim gutterson #raylan givens #givenson #justified fx #justified #*fave #jasedit #jas watches justified

[uselessalexis165]

Quick things I made with the comic creator (182/?)

#de’s revenge is justified #but i still thinking ruling all earthbread #is a bit on an extreme measure #my text #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ovenbreak #licorice cookie #pure vanilla cookie #dark enchantress cookie #white lily cookie #lychee dragon cookie #longan dragon cookie #pitaya dragon cookie #ananas dragon cookie #lotus dragon cookie

[jellybeanium124]

izzy has always been socially awkward and stupid and bad at everything except sword btw him not knowing how to form normal sentences isn't a new thing. did you hear him in jackie's bar? after he quit trying to get ed down from the harness? social interaction is not his strong suit

#I know I have a lot of nt izzy truther friends but I'm sorry that man is so autism #similarly to ed/adhd stede/autism it might be the actor just seeping thru but I think this is at least mildly justified #I saw jamie posted something earlier where he's like 'izzy is bad at change and has a strict adherence to rules. this makes him nt' #meanwhile I'm like 'izzy is bad at change at has a strict adherence to rules. this makes him autistic' #I think it's more just like. autistic people usually reject socially imposed roles and izzy embraced them but eh idk doesn't matter #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers

[mitsuki91]

Blaming and hating Coryo for president Snow action is the same fucking thing that marauders stans say when they say that the marauders were justified to bully Severus Snape because he will be a Death Eater later on.

Take your head outside your ass and think about causes and effects.

#also the implycation to live in a fascist dictatorship #when they kill even the son of a powerful powerful man without checking with him first #and the grooming side of things #not only the Panem propaganda they feed everyone #dr Gaul anyone?! #I am not justifying him just to be clear but you can understand ffs #let's see your best friend who you consider untouchable be hanged like this without even a phone call and I want you to not be scared #like shit #it's a fight or fly response at this point #you follow the rules until you can control the rules to feel safe again #not everyone will do the same things as Coryo but you can see WHY he did it #also Coryo IS NOT YET president Snow #not even at the end of the book #coriolanus snow #severus snape #anti marauders #anti marauders stans #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas

[moongothic]

do you have favourite Crocodile face?

the one he makes at the end of chapter 540, vol. 55 is seared straight into my soul. he almost went }:3 and I cannot deal with it like a normal human being. I love his facial expressions, those sad eyebrows are *chef's kiss* 💚🐊

Ah yes, this one, right?

It's a hilarious expression and definitely an underrated one kjshdfjgkghf Like we've seen him smiling plenty of times before this, with that classic evil grin we all know and love, so something about this panel is so funny to me, like if it wasn't for the hollow look in his eyes he'd look almost mischievous here and I love that. He's up to no good and he knows it dsjkfhgshdfghkdjf

IDK if I have a favorite expression from Crocodile, typically my favorites are just the really meme'able, funny expressions and this man does not have any of those to offer (which is fine really), and really every panel he appears in during Impel Down + Marineford are fantastic, Oda kept us so well-fed

I think I'll give a shout-out to this panel though, because while I think this man was already irreversibly changing my brain chemistry (while I was falling down the Crocodad Rabbithole and re-reading Marineford obsessively), I think this is the panel that finally kind of broke me

Like I think it was this panel (from chapter 577) that finally made me go "wait, am I losing it or is Crocodile kinda handsome" lmfao

#Moon posting #Asks #Sir Crocodile #Breaking my ''one ask per day'' rule because I can't be bothered to post something proper today #Similar shout out to chapter 566 when Croc stops Ace's execution #That fucking close-up panel of his face is just. Oh no #It's just so funny though because like. Frankly Alabasta Crocodile could be so fucking ugly sometimes #And Toei REALLY DID NOT DO THIS MAN ANY JUSTICE EVER #John Toei looked at Crocodile and decided they were going to make him the ugliest motherfucker on the fucking planet #Literally Ep 1086 is the first time Toei actually did this poor bastard justice. He looks more like Marineford Croc than current Manga Croc #Meanwhile Oda decided to make him the most handsome man on the planet in Marineford for no reason other than he could #And while I've rewatched Summit War a few times I had NEVER gone back to re-READ the arc #You think 13-year old me in the year 2008 had any interest in this middle aged man? OF COURSE NOT #I'm just saying. I think the whiplash of ''Sir Crocodile Handsome?'' that I'm still recovering from is justified

[lindenattic]

l.s. dunes playing permanent rebellion at sad summer fest, jacksonville FL, july 6 2023. from @xtakemyfcknhand on twitter

#video #070623 #post hardcore dilf supergroup #ls dunes #lsdunessad #anthony green #frank iero #permanent rebellion #hes so sopping wet always #tim payne #travis stever #and its zoomed in enough to justify #tucker rule

[dancinghannigram]

Gutterson! This is Raylan Givens. Do as he says.

inspired by Talkin' Praire Boy by br1ghtmouth <3

#givenson #givenson fanart #justified fanart #this was . so fucking hard HAHAHAHAHAH #i originally had four panels but i kept coming back to these three and i picked them out eventually #i love love drawing environments i do not love drawing people on horseback o7 #i hate breaking riding rules when i draw but i literally- i cant do it any other wayAHHSDHFGJDF #anyway go read the fic go gogo!!!!! #theyre cowboys who doesnt love cowboys!!!!! #oyster art #fanart

[starlooove]

No bc fuck tim but it really really bothers me how people ignore his growth like he used to be an asshole and I’ll give tim Stans one thing: now he’s so so so stale but what I disagree with is that this staleness is bc nobody likes him like it’s in fact the exact opposite where everyone likes him so much they dont want to do anything. Even when it’s him surface level challenging Bruce it’s when everyone else is doing it too; but he’s still the backbone of the fam! Etc. and it’s so irritating bc him gaining more compassion and empathy even for people he doesn’t fw is so fun to watch and that’s why the captain boomerang thing was so out of character! (Not in a from the author way but in a tim wouldn’t do that and he and Bruce both knew it which is why it went down like it did. Same way dick killing joker was ooc; not in fanon sense but in a he would hate himself forever for this sense) and speaking of that it’s such an interesting mirror to Bruce who genuinely believes that everyone can grow vs Tim’s it doesn’t matter if they grow it’s not my decision to make like it’s the same but it’s not AND WITH CASS’ IT DOESNT MATTER IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO GROW I WONT DO IT! like ugh. And anyways even when people acknowledge it they boil it down to “Janet and Jack taught him that the capitalist pigs that they are” like no. This is who tim was. Tim was the kind of guy who’d blame a dead kid for dying. That’s ok. Also Janet and Jack? Please reread anything involving them that’s not a fic like Jack had anger issues and they were both aloof at worst like relax.

#the Jack and Janet thing is both an understatement and an exaggeration but I don’t think anyone reads enough to care #some tim stan might get all pissy and be like ‘no look this is everytime jack yelled at him and boarding schools are abusive’ to which #and its like narratively that means nothing bc the tim you made up to justify the Drake parents you made up by blowing shit out of #proportion is also made up and if all of that was abusive there’d be smth to show for it besides ur homophobic Jack #too girlboss to care but still terrible Janet bc god forbid a woman have a personality from ur fics #anyways that’s also the reason I’m ignoring the council of spiders #well two reasons #first is that was just a moment to make tim look cool and did absolutely nothing for him or his character moving on #like at all #I’d say it fucked with his previous established dislike of killing for his own reasons #and while that COULD be interesting it’s not bc they didn’t do shit with it #and fanon doesn’t do fun shit with it either #nothing about how tim in his most manic state did shit he doesn’t want to remember shit he’d HATE other ppl for #just “’remember what I did to ur base Ra’s? mess with me again and see what I do next 😼’ #like ok can you be real and genuine? #anyways I think #AND NOT IN A HATER WAY #Tim would benefit from being humbled #like genuinely I detest the world can’t move without tim running it but the idea that tim thinks that way is so good to me #and #I think next step being him realizing that’s not true would be a BIG push for his character #bc like I said tim Stans are right in the fact that he’s stale as hell rn #but that’s bc there’s nothing to say bc there’s nowhere to go! y’all want a tim action story where he shows off how badass he is reread #the Bruce quest and maybe it’ll remind you he’s not ceo lmao but anyways there’s nothing internal to say about him atp bc nobody wants to #say anything that’s not propping him up. same with Bruce! Gotham war was such a copout but it’s like ppl are saying he’s stale and it’s bc #god forbid he makes a lasting fumble. and I’m not under the illusion this is new I’m just saying it’s weird that fandoms not clocking it #anywayyys I really do like thinking about the No killing rule and how different it manifests for each perosn #like the way each distinct difference tells u so much about them #UGH ONLY SLIGHTLY RELATED BUT DUUUUUKE BEING LIKE IDGAF ABOUT GUNS LIKE UR SO REAAAL #anyways enough tim positivity for today FUCK THAT NIGGA!

[magpiesbones]

It is So Funny how often witch hat characters try to commit treason like Qifrey full on Commits (took an unknowing child as an apprentice, wipes memories), Alaira also seemingly defaults to ‘child in trouble? TREASON TIME’, and Olruggio must be talked out of committing treason in front of witnesses in public, Tartah has been READY to commit multiple counts of treason since meeting Coustas, Coco just existing As A Witch is already treason, even Beldaruit Did Do Treason (took Qifrey as apprentice)

#Are they justified about it? Mostly yeah! #But like this is SO funny. ‘Witches live by one rule ONLY which they may NEVER break’ smash cut to the Entire Cast breaking the One Rule #witch hat atelier #tongari boushi no atelier #wha #tbna #On the other hand people who aren’t close to Qifrey do NOT appear to see the rules as extremely malleable so this may just be a them thing #Which to be fair I’m not pointing this out as a plot hole or anything it’s more of a plot inevitability YES coco must get picked up by the #weird rebel witches since the others would just call the knights to take care of her but like. This is hilarious #Witch hat

[bonefall]

I’m glad we agree that Deerleap and Archeye were mates lol

I finished my Shadow tree if you’d like me to dm it for ideas? I don’t know if it was blurry for you last time or not

I think Nightwing and Wildfur would be siblings though! And I gave Happykit the suffix Happydance, he does a little jig after every successful hunt

I saw it! Dw!

Yeah Deer and Arch feel right to me too. I've always seen Arch with some brown on him and Deer has "white legs" which I think translates well into Mudfoot's brown legs.

Night and Wildfur are siblings in authorial statements and I was going to make them related too, but then I realized... I'm drawing Wild, White, and Kink as all being fucking ridiculously fluffy. They should be related.

I could make them cousins still but something feels right about them being related. I may break them into 2 litters, Kink/White being sisters and Wild/Night being siblings. But I'm unsure.

#The easiest thing in a family tree to make thr cats less related is to do 2 kit litters #When you're working with limited names I mean #This wouldn't be an issue if I was freely making OCs but my personal rule is to justify each addition #Like Spindle Smog Ermine and the Silverflame Extras

[sayeonlee]

yall ever just block a mf cause they don’t like ur favorite character (sayeon)

#hand jumper #sayeonleefan #sayeon lee #webtoon #genuinely tweaking #I need her so bad #ill block anyone who hates her #if she’s unreasonable im unreasonabl #she’s really not that bad #her actions are justified and fine #what are people on when they say she’s unreasonable #and then hate on her too #like wtf r u doing here then?? just get out #I remeber I got into an argument with someone who said she was unreasonable and had bad morals LIKE? #people are overdramatic #she’s only doing what other people would do. #it’s dog eat dog world #if you don’t act like sayeon you’re just going to die #i don’t make the rules #it’s a morally world #do whatever you need to 🤷‍♀️