#lead soldiers

[linktoo-doodles]

Exile

#tubbo #tommyinnit #dream #dsmp #dream smp #my art #Linktoo art #comic #god. ctubbo child soldier turned child president #ctubbo as a kid with too much responsibility on his shoulders forced to lead a doomed project #if you've never watched tubbo's slow spiraling decision to exile tommy #I recommend it. #exile arc #clingyduo

[karfild]

Ao3, the love of my life, my dearest of companions, my shawtyest of bae, my babiest of baby girls, please, come back to me.. I cannot do this without you

#ao3 #I am reloading the page over and over #I feel like the wife of a soldier #Waiting. Sitting by the doorstep. Staring out the window with pain in my heart #Waiting and waiting for a lover I'm not sure will return #Checking my mailbox several times a day #Waiting for letters from the battlefield #I fear that I may too die of lead poisoning from the paint on the walls

[iam93percentstardust]

one of the things that really bothers me about modern franchises, and in particular over the last 5 years or so, is their refusal to commit. what i mean here when i say this is that it's not uncommon for a major franchise to make a decision, whether about the plot or the characters, that should have had huge, world-changing consequences... and then just never address that again or worse, immediately go back and undo it. and i'm gonna pick on star wars and the mcu here because those are the two big franchises i'm into at the moment (and i think they're kind of the worst at this), but i don't want you to walk away from this thinking that this is solely a disney thing. i've seen this happen with game of thrones and supernatural and plenty of other non-disney franchises. spoilers ahead, you've been warned:

in ant-man & the wasp quantumania, scott and hope make the life-altering decision to stay behind in the quantum realm and defeat kang instead of going through the portal to return to their world. this should have been a huge meta decision for the mcu, and when i first saw it in theaters, my immediate thought was wow, what is this going to mean for the mcu going forward? are we going to get a movie/miniseries about scott and hope helping to rebuild the quantum realm? how are cassie, janet, and hank going to react to the losses of their loved ones (in some cases, for the second time)? is cassie going to become the "first" young avenger because she has to take her father's place among the team lineup (and i only say first because as of this moment, none of the other young avengers introduced to the franchise are official avengers yet)? except nope, because less than 2 minutes later, cassie had fixed the portal that had broken way back at the beginning of the movie and brought scott and hope back.

and it felt like such a cheat. i was so disappointed in that theater, not as someone who was invested in these characters on a personal level (because yay, cassie gets her dad back!), but as someone who has spent years investing themselves in the story of the mcu. what was the point of wasting screentime on scott and hope accepting their new lives in the quantum realm if it was just going to immediately be undone? the entire scene could have been cut to scott and hope making it back bare seconds before the portal closed and it would have had the same emotional impact. there was nothing added by making scott and hope (and us) think that there was no way back only to rip the rug out from under us and go "gotcha! you really thought we were gonna give this movie a sad ending? haha! you're so dumb!"

and this isn't the first time the mcu has done this. one of the biggest complaints about endgame was the decision to set it five years in the future with no consideration for how that would actually change the setting of the mcu. characters were brought back to the exact place they disappeared from with no consideration for how things might have changed in the interim five years (like planes that weren't in the air anymore, buildings no longer standing, even just something as simple as a chair being unoccupied). and then the mcu didn't even really have the courage to address how this would have shaped the world other than a few jokes and making the bad guys in the falcon and the winter soldier people who cared about how the world had screwed them over during the blip.

and things like this happen over and over and over again. the accords are put into place in civil war, but by the time we get to she-hulk, they're gone with no explanation because, as best as i can tell, the writers didn't want to have to deal with the worldbuilding that went into the accords. gamora is killed in infinity war, but heaven forbid quill not have an emotional investment in a film he appears for maybe 10 minutes in so now she's back in endgame. steve got to go live in the past with his ex-girlfriend (which is in itself a refusal to commit after the mcu both gave her a different husband and had the woman herself tell him to move on) but we need to establish that messing with timelines is bad because that's what the entire next phase hinges on so actually his ending was predestined and it's only everyone else who can't change time. whoever took this entire town and also wanda hostage and forced them to live out a sitcom fantasy is bad and needs to be stopped but wait, it's actually wanda and she can't be the bad guy yet, we need her for doctor strange 2, so actually everyone's going to defend her now and say that no one else could ever possibly understand her grief. thor has decided to accept responsibility as king of asgard, but we can't use him for any more movies if he's stuck in asgard, so actually he's decided to pass it on to someone whose entire leadership capability is developed offscreen. i could list more examples but this is making me angry, so let's move on to star wars instead.

with star wars, i look at first the oft-quoted meme, "somehow palpatine has returned." yeah, i shouldn't really need to go into detail on how that counts as a refusal to commit but. the last jedi was a study in how johnson refused to commit to anything that abrams had laid down in the force awakens, but rise of skywalker was almost like abrams had looked at the franchise and said "screw you for taking it away from me, i'm going to come up with the most bullshit stuff just to spite you for doing that in the first place. and i'm going to start by undoing the most important plot point of the first trilogy: the emperor dies." and yeah, disney's kind of tried to salvage this by dropping hints into the bad batch and the mandalorian about cloning, but that only really works if you're watching the franchise chronologically and not considering that both of those series came out after rise of skywalker.

and then there's the mandalorian, my sweet summer child, who is, in my opinion, the worst at backtracking their plot points. i'm not entirely convinced that any of the higher ups for this show really knew what they were doing when they started working on it and i'm not convinced that they know what they're doing now. yeah, there's the tie-in to the last season of clone wars, but the mandalorian has managed to walk back pretty much every single major plot point it's had. din is this legendary warrior who can't be beat, but no one will watch this show if he defeats everyone too early, so he's constantly getting beat up (tbf, sometimes some of the fights he loses makes sense like the krayt dragon and the mudhorn, but a lot of them don't. at all). moff gideon is dead, no wait no he's not, now he's imprisoned, no wait no he's not, now he's definitely dead, you can totally believe us this time guys. grogu can use the force and must be placed with the jedi, but wait, the only person still actively teaching the way of the jedi is luke and all of his students will be brutally murdered ten years from now, and we can't have that, everyone will be mad at us for killing off such a cute character and no one will buy baby yoda dolls (and also we have to set up luke's character degradation from hopeful, believes-in-love cinnamon roll to "i'm going to kill my nephew") so in between seasons let's have grogu decide to go back to din (and don't even get me started on how frustrating it is that a casual mandalorian watcher also had to watch book of boba fett to understand why grogu is back). din has the darksaber now which makes him king of mandalore, that's totally going to be important and what the entire series has been building up to, right? wrong! he might have spent the first two seasons making connections, learning about the world outside his sheltered upbringing, and demonstrating the various qualities that would make for a good leader, but the entire third season will be about din realizing that actually he's super unworthy and the darksaber should actually go to someone who... saw an animal in the water.

and it's really, really frustrating as a viewer! because how am i supposed to get invested in any of these plot decisions when they almost always get reversed? why should i care that mj and ned have forgotten peter when ant-man 3 has shown me that they'll remember him the next time they're all on screen together? why should i care that tech is dead when half of the last season of clone wars was about how echo was actually alive? if none of these decisions have any permanence, then where are the emotional stakes? why should i watch your movie if all you're going to tell me is that nothing matters?

#and also i want to make a point that the early mcu did permanent stakes really well #iron man 1 ends with tony announcing that he's iron man and that's something that still resonated years later #the entire second film hinged on that one moment #loki falling into the bifrost is what leads him to the chitauri which is what kickstarted the avengers #steve is woken from the ice and the first organization who presents themselves as someone to trust is shield #which sets up the betrayal he feels in the winter soldier #these moments resonate throughout the first two stages and the decisions the characters made MATTERED #so you can't help but get invested because what if it's the wrong decision??? #anyway i'm frustrated with the state of franchises #alle talks #long post

[gomigum]

why did he do that, is he acoustic?

#art #digital art #tf2 #tf2 soldier #soldier #idc what anyone says im kissing him #lead stare

[quotidianish]

Various tones of BnB sillies

#tf2 #art #tf2 demoman #tf2 soldier #boots n bombs #demosolly #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #artwork #quotidianish #I spent 13 hours o these bad boys. I hate art #Idk man. I feel like the war exacerbated both their former anxieties probably. Soldier is deluded thinking everyone is working against him #and demo just feels because of his stupidity he can't make any good thing last. Or he's dispensable and not worth keeping. #It Leads them both to shut themselves off from whatever friendships they might have had prior #Even worse I think they were working through these thoughts together as their friendship progressed supporting eachother throughout it all #before something out of their control strongly affirms these ideas in a way they won't try and investigatebecause they already have a- #-pre arranged reason #INSANITY.

[meta-squash]

lol @ series 1 jack being like "i demand your complete trust" *tells his team nothing, pretends to be a hero and doesn't allow them to see his vulnerability so then they hate him when he makes painful/unpleasant decisions, orders someone to do something and then gets angry when they do it, drops hints like mad about how he's different from 21st century humans but doesn't actually reveal anything making them question everything about him in secret, poorly manages his team's various individual breakdowns, kills or otherwise causes the death of at least one of every team member's lovers, goads and personally insults them all when they're all terrified and upset and then is surprised when they mutiny and kill him*

#torchwood #i love jack he's just an idiot and not a very good leader lol #but that's the point!!!! he's not meant to be a leader he's a soldier!!! but he is forced to lead because he's immortal!! #which means he's also forced to make horrible painful awful decisions that no one else will!! even though everyone else will eventually die #but he has to live forever and continue on with all the grief and guilt!!! #and also see the ripple effect of his own actions far beyond a normal human lifespan!!! #jack harkness

[sefirots]

crescents

#ffvii #lucrecia crescent #sephiroth #final fantasy 7 #sefirot art #GUYS CAN I BE INSANE FOR A SEC. headcanon brainblast. #i think sephiroth shares lots of small personality traits lucrecia had like. #he could yap for hours about the things that interest him. tends to over explain himself. people tune out exactly 5 minutes into his speech #both very self assured and determined to prove everyone's preconceived notions wrong #also! hyperfocus leading to the decline of their mental and physical health! they're so self destructive its scary!!! #some shinra guy offhandedly mentions sephiroth having the mind of a scientist and hojo is there in the corner like..hah. you don't say. #anyway im crazy shinra manor gang makes me crazy i miss you lucrecia #first soldier #ever crisis #dirge of cerberus

[teethcollector54]

I NEED YOU TO KNOW

THEY CAN OR CANT READ KNOW IT NOW

I'm surprised how many of them can read SOMETIMES THEY ARE BABIES THO OR ELDERLY THAT IS REAL THING SOMETIMES PEOPLE FORGET OR WERE NEVER ALIVE LONG TO REMEMBER AND STILL GROW UP LEARNING UPWARDS

#tf2 #tf2 scout #tf2 soldier #tf2 pyro #tf2 demoman #tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 sniper #tf2 spy #tf2 pauling #lead infused literacy

[cursemewithyourkiss]

It's like none of you guys even care about Cold War espionage 😭

#stop posting about some actor can we talk about the corruption of the west and how alienation leads to espionage and personal betrayals and— #cambridge spy ring #tinker tailor soldier spy #cambridge spies #a spy among friends #another country #george smiley #fuck off me

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Blorbo's Eepiest Soldier

Thank you everyone for your kind words, I'm doing better and am back to it <3

#helloo! #thank you all for the well wishes #I have really appreciated every kind word #I'm doing better now and have gotten back to school work #i am so eepy though #eepiest soldier #im also being overworked on my capstone game team and the team lead even told me shes over working me so thats #fun #counting going to this capstone class and meetings and such im putting like 25+ hours in a week for it #and i do have 2 other classes #and a social life i enjoy having #haha #but im happy to do the work cause its good portfolio stuff #except when my producer comes up to me and says "yknow how ur in charge of all the 2d art and concepting and branding and ui and pr? yeah g #make a 3-4 page detailed comic for plot at the start of our game cause we dont wanna cut plot (even tho we dont have time for it) and we #dont wanna show plot through interactable objects and dialogue/text so more work for you even tho u legit dont have time for it #ngl tho i have genuinely been enjoying designing icons and doing model concepts #i made some fire designs recently #please hire me a game company tm #anyway enough of capstone talk #love you all!!! #im excited to graduate and finally be able to change my bio!! #hope you all have a very lovely rest of your day <33 #furry #fursona #digital art #art #eepy

[tirednapentity]

it was a march we made towards ruin and despair // but we held hands all the while

#Not ship art but i don’t mind if people tag it as such #Lyrics are from Little Soldiers by the crane wives. The link leads to that song 👍 #Jay walker #jay ninjago #ninjago jay #ninjago fanart #ninjago #lego ninjago #nya smith #nya jiang #? #nya fanart #Ninjago nya #nya ninjago #Idk there’s just. Something about these two #Jules art

[justcommander]

And I drew the stupid thing™

#this commander got nothing better to fucking do soldiers #yes i do i have things to do but i swear you're all being lead by a cretin #my art #faith the unholy trinity #do i even tag that? #MGSV #john ward

[ruthytwoshakes]

Aww come on demo,,,,,,, a little brain damage never hurt anybody,., and it’s his love languegge languge languge. language !!

Made a new brush going bonkers having the best of times,, QR code is under the cut for anyone who wants it 👍👍👍 B)

#soldier tf2 #tf2 #tf2 fanart #daffys drawings #going to be soldier posting for a while #what can I say he’s my little fella. littlest of guys. lead posioned. #I cannot find the post I stole the title from uuoughjhg #gghggeggegegggg #I think I’m getting better at drawing old men #also I am back hell

[kittykalliarts]

🎂🎂Bofday geeft for the bofday soldier @waterwindow!🎂🎂

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #soldier #soldier tf2 #geeft for friend #myart #i hope you had a fantastic borthday water!!!! #and may your find only happiness #and your yeet adventures lead you up high!

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

The new Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie last night was an absolute RIOT, I highly recommend everyone go catch it in cinemas, it had me laughing and crying numerous times

#omfg the scene where they’re digging up the old soldiers for answers had me reeling #such a good movie #good to see Chris Pine in a lead role again too #playing a thieving grieving bard is somehow his greatest role yet #dungeons and dungeons #honor among thieves #Chris pine

[jeysuso]

#jey uso #jimmy uso #solo sikoa #wweedit #friday night smackdown #wwe smackdown #jeysuso #* #ignore the quality pls life hates me #walk walk fashion baby #how solo gonna look like their older brother 😭😭😭 #idk man the positioning of them just looked weird too. like solo was in front #leading almost. #and they were just in the back like. extras. soldiers. ykwim. #anyways. #they're all fine as fuck and the fatu genes be GENE-ING. #mygifs*