#not everyone is a perfect victim

[somer-writes]

What's your favorite trope? Like ever. If every story you read/wrote for the rest of your life had to contain this one trope, what would it be?

oh man oh man oh man

i almost said enemies to lovers but really, it has to be crisis of faith

nothing tickles me more than a character having their entire reasoning for doing anything or moral compass laid at their feet. maybe their deity doesnt exist, maybe it does. maybe there is no reason for mercy and cruelty, maybe those things are entirely out of their control. and what becomes the point of anything if they start to believe that their life was never theirs to command??

i love this trope bc it breaks down what makes someone them. like at the end of the line, on deaths doorstep, if they leave anything behind what would it be?

it gives characters a new motivation. sometimes it makes them better, sometimes it makes them worse. i love when no matter good or evil it causes some kind of ascension in them.

even more when it effects a greater world! dead gods are still gods. why are they still being worshipped if theyre gone? why not worship them if theyre alive? how does an atheist align their viewpoint with a world that hinges on deities like a lot of fantasy worlds or how does a theist grapple with this being all there is?

sweet sweet angst in a good old fashioned existential crisis but so much oomph in a character finding out theres no point and making their own instead or perhaps a character choosing their own path to a predetermined destination

#somer answers #i could keep rambling about this #mostly i just love philosophical differences between characters #like when they have to agree to disagree #or when they ruin the others viewpoint #or when a villain and a hero have the same goals for separate reasons or different reasons for the same goal #characters realizing theyre only human or characters realizing they were never really sharing the human experience at all #stronger through spite is something i wish more media explored #not everyone is a perfect victim #not everyone takes the high road #forgiveness is never a right or an obligation

[blueskittlesart]

atla live action generally sucks for all the reasons everyone is saying it sucks and i am in no way a live action remake promoter but one thing i will say. they Get the fire siblings. they understand.

#it's weird bc sometimes they add things and im like Why Did We Need This but then sometimes they give us like #ozai holding zuko's success over azula's head. that was such a good added scene bc yes!!! she's a victim too!!!! #she is the way she is because she was CONSTANTLY pitted against him by their insane piece of shit dad!!!! She was TAUGHT these things. #& also that one scene everyone is talking about with zuko yelling “hE RaN!” like YES that's my 16 year old asshole. perfect portrayal. #sigh. and then they had to go and absolutely massacre katara so i can't even enjoy it. WHY. #^ i just finished episode 5 btw so if they shoot themselves in the foot even more no one tell me i want to experience it myself

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Ended up pirating all of Hazbin for the sake of my younger days (used to be a fan when I was around 14/15, before all the stuff with Viv came out) and I am so surprised by how I felt... nothing for the most part. Like a lot of the show's storylines feel like they was crammed in there with no real pacing. A lot of this should have been season 2 territory, which is a sentiment I've seen echoed around, but also... it feels as if the show is trying to be episodic while also having a long narrative thread, which just doesn't work with just 8 episodes. Especially not when paced like this. So I kinda ended up feeling nothing for the most part. All the events got a "Oh, great, so what?" reaction out of me because there was little to no buildup to most of them.

Sir Pentious was always a fave of mine so I was glad to see they kept him around and, though I think we should have had more episodes with him as a villain, I think how he ended up was fitting for what little of an arc he had. I am livid about what they did to Cherri and Mimzy.

I fucking loved Mimzy, I have no idea why they sent her away -- having someone like her at the Hotel would have been a blast considering how the others are already on the road to redemption. She would have balanced it out by being a regular sinner, someone who doesn't care about redemption and won't probably ever care unless it's in her best interests to. Plus her friendship with Alastor was quite cute, they bounce off of each other very well imo. Plus I could see her have a bit of a conflict with both Charlie and Vaggie because of her ways of acting. I'm so sorry they took that from you girlboss.

And Cherri... dear lord where WAS she? She should have been a lot more present. I used to like her relationship with Angel and I even think Cherrisnake is cute conceptually, but both these relationship had... little to no room to breathe imo.

#hazbin hotel critical #not putting this in the main tag #i wouldnt call myself a fan but i guess i can mourn what could have been #not considering viv and her controversities for a second... the pilot had a very nice feeling to it #that the series was not able to replicate #i think my liking of mimzy should come as a surprise to NO ONE LMAOOOO #i love evil selfish women im sorry ... sue me #we need to save mimzy sir pen and cherribomb from hazbin everyone else can rot #ok in all fairness i will give the show credit for ONE thing #i kind of enjoyed adam and lute as antagonists. adam is insufferable which is awesome #it makes it easy to hate him as a villain. and lute being his right hand woman makes sense #they read like a christian couple (term used loosely) where the man is a misogynistic asshole and the woman just kinda endorses it #which is perfect if you wanna make a critique of heaven and the humans who go in it because they repented or whatever #i always love dumbass villains who are easy to hate (mamoon from helluva being another example of a villain i enjoy) #thats it. thats all i have in terms of compliments #would love to adress the Angel Dust controversy because as a victim of SA (and CSA) myself I think there is nuance to be found in -- #-- having a discussion about how we see survivors and how we portray the abuse they endure #i was an unconventional victim too. i kind of see a glimpse of me in Angel which is why I was LIVID when I got the full picture of the -- #-- situation. but still

[godsfavoritelitlesilly]

Quoted from the film "Isle of Dogs".

#i adore bell #just because he has such kicked dog energy #abandoned and betrayed by literally everyone he ever trusted #and to his credit #at least in one ending he said #fuck being a perfect victim #and i say good for him #cod cold war #call of duty black ops cold war #cod #cod black ops cold war #cod fanart #bell cod #bell #cod art #call of duty #cod community

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but why haven't we had a time travel/fix it fic where after some shenanigans everyone decides to take down shinra, they split up to take out the important figures, sephiroth obviously takes hojo for any and all of a dozen good reasons.

And then hojo pulls a winter soldier sleeper code on him.

And then everyone is suddenly dealing with a brainwashed sephiroth.

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Hojo has to have some way to control sephiroth as he grew into his monstrous strength and power, yes? And learned helplessness isn't enough of a reassurance your prized military leader powerhouse isn't going to wake up one day and realise just how easily he could paint the labs walls red with chunks of you. And because hojo is obsessed with total power and control, dealing with a murder machine with huge mental issues, it'd only be fitting he create his own emergency shutdown.

In the most needlessly traumatic and mentally violating way, of course. Would sephiroth even know, if he couldn't remember? Would he have long stretches of emptiness in his memories that never get explained to him, or would he wake up where he'd blacked out, just another day in the labs?

Imagine, his allies watching on the cameras, as sephiroth stalks into the labs, a predator sighting its prey, exchanging a few cold words with hojo, raising masamune... And then hojos mouth opening, sephiroth going stiff like an animatronic, rearranging himself on the floor where he stood, face hidden behind his hair. Hojo leaves the room and he doesn't move, doesn't respond to any comms or passing scientists accidentally rolling a cart over his coat and hair.

Hojo ordering sephiroth to reveal their plans, their allies, their resources. Sephiroth doing it. Hojo deciding to punish sephiroth for the rebellion with lab procedures, or hojo ordering him to hunt down his co conspirators and end the takeover. Sephiroth doing so, heavy in his steps, crashing through walls and doors, heedless now of morals or civilians, silent, unresponsive. So completely unlike the jenova malice they'd been prepared to fight, that sephiroth had been bracing against. No arrogance, no mocking, no dramatic battlefield or hungry glowing eyes.

The puppeteer becomes the puppet, and with it, every trace of holding back. The perfect soldier.

I imagine the first trigger word would be lucrecia.

#Hojo: *making his reunion theory* if you can't mind control naturally store bought is fine #Anyway there's no way hojo didn't have some backup plan for if his greatest experiment went rogue #Unfortunately sephiroth never went against his will even when he went jenova crazy. Because that WAS the plan all along #But fix its always have hojo unable to do anything against sephiroth and idk hojo is a Threat of the highest order #BECAUSE he's so staggeringly unethical but clever and has a tendency to shatter his victims minds #Like look at the falsified nibelheim library. The 'jenova' photo in EC. He knows precisely how to break sephiroths psyche open like an egg #And the winter soldier is a perfect example of what he could and would do #I imagine he made good use of it too. Whenever sephiroth acted out or if they couldn't restrain him for whatever reason #Or if hojo was too tired to do the injections himself #I doubt sephiroth would really know what was going on until it got caught on camera by people who'd show him the footage #sephiroth #final fantasy 7 #ffvii #final fantasy vii #ff7 #Also I just really like hojo/jenova parallels to go with the lucrecia/Vincent parallels #Hojo is basically the human version of jenova anyway. In terms of raising sephiroth. #ff7 remake #ff7 rebirth #ff7 crisis core #ever crisis #ff7 ever crisis #ff7 ec #sephiroth ff7 #sephiroth crescent #ff7 au #fix it au #In this case: everyone thinks it's a fix it au until it abruptly goes horribly wrong

[fiendishartist2]

imagine going somewhere that you know you might not come back from. imagine leaving behind half-formed friendships and the facimile of your old ones, hand in hand with ppl who want you dead, because its the right thing to do. imagine you don't come back, just like you anticipated, except thats not entirely true. you dont survive, but some force stops you from leaving in peace; it leaves your body lifeless because it has no use for you besides the terror your mind can inflict on others, but it just won't let you die. imagine one day, you're free from the mental prison you've been trapped in. you wake up, but you're still not alive. you're cold and empty and no one looks at you the same because they can't stand to look at you. it hurts because you can't do anything but hurt people anymore. imagine you had no choice in this, except you did, didn't you? its all your fault because you were too curious, too naive, too prideful, too stupid. its all your fault, just like you always thought, and now everyone agrees with you. imagine they wish you hadn't woken up, and you can't help but agree with them. and yet, you do everything in your power to save them all, while you still have people left to save. because you're still you, even if your friends see an animated corpse in your place. you hold onto your humanity with white knuckles and gritted teeth because its all you have left of yourself. and you still lose by the end because you were set up to fail since the beginning. because you are jonathan sims, and the world has no sympathy for you

#JONATHAN SIMS. AUUUGGGHHHHHRHRGEHRGEJGRHEHRHRGHRGEHE BRK BARK BARK BARK #ripping elias bouchard to shreds and hitting the cast of tma over the head with hammers #ill fight tooth and nail for jon i will be in the fucking trenches for him no matter what #bc i believe in the goodness of jonathan sims!!!! i believe his selflessness is his downfall but it is still selflessness!!!!!!!! #he cares and he loves and he fights for his love even when its hard or hurts himself or others #he blames himself for being led down a path. he cant see how well he was manipulated bc he hates himself so much for falling for it #and nothing will ever be as heartwrenching to me as jon's humanity getting ripped from him when all he wants to keep- #-everyone safe from harm #it becomes his nature to cause the exact harm he was trying to prevent bc he had the misfortune of being the perfect victim #god. jesus christ. jon what the fuck. why would they do that you........................ #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #im just saying things

[starlightandetherealshadows]

more author rambles!

I’m excited to write the Memento Mori characters (including MC, because to me, MC is a complete character) doing manipulative/toxic/potentially evil things because sometimes traumatized people are bad people!

Sometimes people that have suffered can be the catalyst for the suffering of others!

They can make emotional, impulsive decisions that have negative consequences for themselves and the people they care about.

I like characters that have complicated, conflicting emotions and actions because that represents real people! They might have motivations that make no sense to anyone but themselves.

I wanna explore all of that with MC, the RO, and all the side characters. No one in the story is 100% good or evil, but they’re all heavily flawed like humans (and aliens in this case) are 🩵

#NO MORE PERFECT VICTIMS LET EVERYONE BE ANGRY AND VENGEFUL AND HATEFUL #rage! #I ramble

[potuzzz]

Be frank, sincere, and naive with what you say, sometimes. When everybody is being irreverent, cynical, smarty pants, well, then it isn't subversive. It isn't funny anymore, it isn't interesting. Everybody on here (and in real life!) just formatposts and forms quick-dry replies from preset phrase banks. Just say something in the voice of your inner child, unaffected by conventions and customs. You will get less social clout, yes. You may even be off-putting to some. But to others, you will be like a crystalline glass of cold water in a world where all water is full of microplastics, bleach, heavy metals, pollution and chemicals. Your post on Tumblr will not recieve as many notes, or as many laughs in real life, but you will seed a healthier environment. You will slow our descent into anti-human anti-social hyper-capitalist madness and one day maybe enough people will join in and socializing will be simpler, more natural, and feel less like perpetual warfare. Our sick, sick, sick society will heal, and connections with others, that thing you can't help but to crave despite all seeming sense, it will suddenly be more rewarding than you can imagine.

#sincere #as always a loud and sincere fuck you to everyone who has doubted her and supported that canadian cuntery who must not be named #caitlyn jenner reveals she hasn’t spoken to kim or kris since her documentary release & shares secret to their success #conor benn wins in boxing return as brit beats rodolfo orozco on points in first fight since suspension #hundreds of irish homicide victims to be remembered at special memorial day for first time since pandemic #sinceridad #the algorhythm is perfect #honesty #true #tumblrpost #weirdcore #politics #political science #community #there is absolutely nothing lonelier #gaza #war machine #capitalist #socialism #137

[yeonban]

This man... 😭😭😭

#muse: nikolai gogol. #I'm making some more icons as we speak bc I don't have The perfect fits for some of these replies and I just. MAN! #Nikolai has more range than every actor in the world put together. AND he'd replicate the 'I can be your angle or yuor devil <3' meme #I'm still not over the ways in which he kiIIed his victims btw. He keeps choosing THE most brutal methods known to man #and then you look at him and after putting the fear of God in you he goes 'tee-hee xDD' #BSD Nikolai is forever going to be my FAVORITE but HSR Nikolai isn't that far off either... bc so far all the Masked Fools we've seen are #kind of harmless? Sampo; Zhongshan and Giovanni (so far) haven't done anything murderous #and while Sparkle /did/; it seems she's only doing it in Penacony's dreams rather than in reality #meanwhile Nikolai? He has NO qualms. NOTHING is off limits. He could easily pass as Aha and everyone could say 'yeah I see it'

[lotro-tooltips-daily]

#lotro #quest items #yule festival #frostbluff #perfect snowball #this is probably the best snowball that has ever been made. just the right weight. just the right amount of moisture. #just the right number of ice shards to really take down your victim #merry christmas everyone it finally snowed where i am #get snowballed idiots

[androcola]

people on tiktok: kill your abusers! run them over with your car! kill them!! attack and kill and be free!!!!

people on tiktok about G rose: uhm...🥺🥺😭not like that ..🥺she seems so manipulative..I just get a dark vibe from her...she literally killed her mom ..🥺🥺her mom didn't have to die i know she abused and beat and starved and drugged her and manipulated everyone and put her through a million unnecessary surgeries but..🥺she didn't have to die..🥺🥺🥺

#people on tiktok turned on g rose literally in less than a week #everyone was like ''YAS QUEEN GET OUT OF PRISON SLAAY'' and then in less than aweek everyone just Turned on her #like a pack of rabid dogs #like ..u people only want ''perfect'' victims who are made into wonderful well adjusted saints #like they hatw her because shes off putting and talks weird and doesnt know appropriate things to say #like..guys she was abused her whole life and then spent 8 years in prison. did u guys expect a well rounded individual? damn #i hate ppl on tiktok

[roobylavender]

i feel like the problem with so many pakistani dramas is they're like. a totalitarian exercise in relenting to the parent and forgiving them for all of their mistakes regardless of the severity of them. and i imagine it is funny to see me say that considering how often i wax rhetoric about how many of our parents are the products of violent cycles and there are times where we can't wholeheartedly blame them for being anyone other than who they were trained to be. but i also think there's a difference between forgiving your parents for not being able to escape their upbringing, and simply accepting that you will always have a subservient role to them, even in that process of forgiveness. like i don't think children have to go peacefully when they're being violently abused or cast out from their families or derided for entertaining dishonor. and this mindset we have wherein children have to be the perfect victims—broken, demure, never expressing any sort of outcry at the way they're treated—otherwise they're ungrateful and prone to derision by an audience for how much pain they've caused their parents, as if they haven't been caused extensive pain as well, really bothers me. like it's soured sooo many old dramas focused on parent-child conflicts for me bc of the way audiences villainize non-ideal trauma responses from children who are either forced into marriages or outcast from their families for refusing to be forced in the first place

#like when i say perfect victim i am thinking rahul and anjali from kkkg. for example. since they're quite well known and popular #rahul and anjali never fight back against rahul's father. not once #they're heartbroken by his decision and they Do move away but there's always a latent hope that he'll call them someday #and accept them into his arms again #so their severance from the family is palatable #but if rahul and anjali had fought back in any way. if they'd ever stood up or grown to be bitter bc of how they were treated #they absolutely would have been maligned by audiences #and i hate that. it's exactly what happens to ruhi in diyar e dil and it's so vile #not only is her husband cast out from his family and thrown into poverty #when she tries to win his father over that father calls her family lowly and unworthy #and he disowns her husband completely #like who wouldn't severe insecurity and bitterness after that? #everyone blames her for subsequently projecting her bitterness and anger and grief onto her daughter once her husband dies #but is that not the fault of the father in law who so brutally rejected her and instilled those insecurities in the first place? #where is his blame? #ugh. i swear rewatching old dramas is more upsetting than it is enjoyable atp fjldkhgf #to be deleted

[ner0w0w0]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Katekyou Hitman Reborn! Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hibari Kyouya/Rokudou Mukuro Characters: Hibari Kyouya, Rokudou Mukuro, Gokudera Hayato, Yamamoto Takeshi, Sasagawa Ryouhei, Sawada Tsunayoshi Additional Tags: Attempt at Humor, Pets, No beta we die like daemon, mentions of mpreg Series: Part 2 of Hibari Kyouya's shenanigans Summary:

Just a normal day in the Vongola headquarters, where one speculation of pet owning snowballing into a prenancy announcement. Only this time there is no Reborn to master mind the whole debacle and no Fon to record it.

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #hibari kyoya #rokudo mukuro #mukuhiba #6918 #the thought process of this fic is basically #gokudera is an overthinker who enjoy overthinking the smallest of thing #yamamoto doesn't think enough and instead creating a whole new shit for everyone else to overthinking about #ryohei is just there to stare blankly off the void questioning everything in his life to that point #and tsuna is just the perfect victim for hibari's occasional reborn-ness #KHR Fanfic #fanfic

[portraitofadyke]

this show is literally about growing up in a cycle of abuse and toxic masculinity, having someone breathing down your neck and constantly pushing you back into it even if you want to break it. it's about getting that need to break it and do better, even if you think it's too late. it's about recognising your own wrongdoings and being reborn.

but according to some part of the fandom, it's about ed being an abuser just like his father and ed being destined to be abusive to stede, meanwhile izzy is a victim. the same man who shot down every chance at breaking away sooner.

nobody is saying ed is flawless. nobody is saying ed didn't do terrible things. nobody is saying izzy deserved to get his leg amputated. it's one thing to say 'in his spiral, ed ended up hurting a lot of people and causing them trauma and dragged them down with him in his suicie mission' and another to say 'ed is a canon abuser who abused izzy and the ed fans don't think izzy can be a victim bc he's portrayed as tough. oh, and he will absolutely abuse stede.'

this dynamic is not played by the book. how hard is it for some people to grasp some more complicated forms of abuse? how hard is it to recognise emotional abuse? how hard is it to comprehend the power another person can have over someone who is perceived as invincible? piracy is a constant cycle of violence, and ed wanted an out. now he has it, with someone who's very much the opposite of everything he was told to be. Izzy breathed down his back and tried to knock him back into the perfect Blackbeard he wanted, going as far as killing his significant other, and he got the worst of it, and he got to grow. they were both dependent on blackbeard, and they let him go. it wasn't too late, izzy got to be just izzy, despite being the breathing walking epitome of piracy. that's it, that's the show. it tells us you're not your past trauma and even if you fucking lose yourself, because life is a dick and you probably will lose it, you can get back up, it's never too late

(source https://blakbonnet.tumblr.com, i'm not sure if it's loading in the gif)

#ofmd meta #the izcourse #ofmd fandom crit #izzy hands critical #this is my final post on this #i'm just blocking everyone who claims ed is just an abuser #saying ed is abusive and we think izzy can't be a victim bc he's tough (nobody ever said that wtf) #without recognizing izzy's constant attempts at breaking ed down #are so dismissive of the trauma emotional abuse can cause you #speaking as somebody who grew up in an emotionally abusive dad #but right only they know what abuse is #also nobody ever fucking said ed is perfect #that man is so fucked up #and yes he does go for violence he's a pirate #everyone on this show is a fucking pirate jesus christ #IT'S A PIRATE SHOW EVERYONE IS VIOLENT ALL THE TIME YET IZZY BEING SHOT IS THE END ALL BE ALL FOR THEM

[wygolvillage]

touga as a character makes like 1000000x more sense once you find out that they couldnt put his backstory into the show because his voice actor wasnt available at the time so his movie backstory is technically canon if you subscribe to that particular authorial intent. like oh so thats why hes like that... oh 😨 <- the realization i had after seeing the movie

#i mean show!touga is already a canon csa/grooming victim #considering akio. is akio... #honestly love how rgu refuses to have any of its abuse victims be 'perfect model victims' idk. #like touga is a manipulative asshole and anthy is anthy (not meant negatively i love anthy) and nanami drowns kittens and so on #but at the end of the day everyones just a bunch of sad dysfunctional kids being hurt by a binary that is reinforced by violence #idkkkkkk something about how just as utena is being groomed into being a 'princess' touga is being groomed into being more of a 'prince' #so many thoughts on touga. tbh #ask to tag

[hidingoutbackstage]

Maybe it’s personal but I like imperfect victim characters more than perfect victims. I like when they’re flawed. I’m more annoyed when the creators think the victim has to be perfect for the audience to sympathize with them. If they lash out I’m not gonna hold it against them

#sid rants #this is mostly about carrie white and ashley graham #bc their og versions were imperfect victims whereas remakes made them perfect victims #og carrie killed everyone at that prom. remake carrie only killed the people who were meanies to her #og ashley yells and screams and gets angry. remake ashley is quiet and passive and helpful #like fuck off. you will never have your og version’s rough edges that make me love them