#not necessarily for evil

[spinnysocks]

whitestorm is a great character, he could never do anything wrong! *Side glancing at multiple aus were he Does Something Wrong*

#i mean come on there's so much potential #not necessarily for evil #but also he definitely has the possibility to be #for example #his mother dying #which could be blamed on his aunt bluestar #his father being awful/manipulating his best friend tigerpaw/a literal groomer #so many of his friends dying in the first arc #lionheart dies #spottedleaf dies #redtail dies #he might even blame their deaths on firepaw... #especially if he blamed bluestar for snowfur's death #oh and the dog attack. he was brightpaw's mentor #i really really really wish that was explored more #when i was a young and edgy warriors fan i made a whitestar au lol #it honestly still hits #whitestorm for leader #whitesorm for whitestar #warrior cats #warriors #whitestorm #warrior cats whitestorm #warriors whitestorm

[nellasbookplanet]

In the wake of FCG' fate I've been thinking about death in ttrpgs, and how it kind of exists on three levels:

There’s the gameplay level, where it only makes sense for a combat-heavy, pc-based game to have a tool for resurrection because the characters are going to die a lot and players get attached to them and their plotlines.

Then there’s the narrative level, where you sort of need permanent death on occasion so as not to lose all tension and realism. On this level, sometimes the player will let their character remain dead because they find it more interesting despite there being options of resurrection, or maybe the dice simply won’t allow the resurrection to succeed.

Then, of course, there’s the in-universe level, which is the one that really twists my mind. This is a world where actual resurrection of the actual dead is entirely obtainable, often without any ill effects (I mean, they'll be traumatized, but unless you ask a necromancer to do the resurrection they won’t come back as a zombie or vampire or otherwise wrong). It’s so normal that many adventurers will have gone through it multiple times. Like, imagine actually living in a world where all that keeps you from getting a missing loved one back is the funds to buy a diamond and hire a cleric. As viewers we felt that of course Pike should bring Laudna, a complete stranger, back when asked, but how often does she get this question? How many parents have come and begged her to return their child to them? How many lovers lost but still within reach? When and how does she decide who she saves and who she doesn’t?

From this perspective, I feel like every other adventurer should have the motive/backstory of 'I lost a loved one and am working to obtain the level of power/wealth to get them back'. But of course this is a game, and resurrection is just a game mechanic meant to be practically useful.

Anyway. A story-based actual play kind of has to find a way to balance these three levels. From a narrative perspective letting FCG remain dead makes sense, respects their sacrifice, and ends their arc on a highlight. From a gameplay level it is possible to bring them back but a lot more complicated than a simple revivify. But on an in-universe level, when do you decide if you should let someone remain dead or not? Is the party selfish if they don’t choose to pursue his resurrection the way they did for Laudna? Do they even know, as characters, that it’s technically possible to save someone who's been blown to smithereens? Back in campaign 2, the moment the m9 gained access to higher level resurrection they went to get Molly back (and only failed because his body had been taken back by Lucien). At the end of c1, half the party were in denial about Vax and still looking for ways to save him, because they had always been able to before (and had the game continued longer it wouldn’t have surprised me had they found a way). Deanna was brought back decades after her death (and was kind of fucked up because of it). Bringing someone back could be saving them, showing them just how loved and appreciated they are. Or it could be saving you, forcing someone back from rest and peace into a world that's kept moving without them because you can’t handle the guilt of knowing you let them stay gone when you didn’t have to. How do you know? How would you ever know?

#cr spoilers #sometimes i think about how oryms backstory has it baked in that will was magically impossible to bring back #while yasha was simply not powerful enough in either magic or connections to bring zuala back #and by the time she was years had gone by and yasha had moved on and bringing zuala back would've been cruel and selfish #similar to how deanna was brought back but now she was left behind and alone #speaking of could you ever truly move on from grief in a world like that? #how do you accept the inevitability of death when it isn’t necessarily permanent? #no wonder delilah and sylas went evil to keep each other alive #no wonder laerryn accidentally caused the calamity in trying to break through the planes #the hubris of a world like this would be UNREAL #as would the bitter feelings from everyone who knows this power exists but can’t access it bc they’re like. a farmer #critical role #long post #nella talks cr #cr3 spoilers

[wewerepartners]

Resident Evil Challenge: [1/5] Costumes ↳ Sherry's Winter Outfit

#resident evil 6 #sherry birkin #gamingedit #reviledit #my edits #revilchallenge #idk if this is necessarily a great showcase of this costume but #i also had no idea what to name this lol

[waterghostype]

stoking the flames that burn higher and higher, royalty with a crown of fire

#ninjago #harumi ninjago #ninjago harumi #harumi jade #princess harumi #lego ninjago #aphid artisms #i just had a brownout man #anyways first art of the summer AND of pride month… #and ofc it’s harumi yep yep #this song is sooooo her #not necessarily in the og meaning where it’s an attention seeking wawa way like sort of but not as much as it is #her being desperate to be the same pure evil as garmadon #i was really struggling to pick the lyric for the caption #song is candle queen by ghost and pals btw #good song carried my grade 5 life um #yeah!!!! yay!!!!! #love harumi…my broken freakazoid of a girl #me when im hoisted by my petard…

[margridarnauds]

[image description: devnotes for Korrilla's line of dialogue: "As things stand, she [Hope]'s his favorite toy. We're all mad here, but Hope in hell! Why, that's the definition of insanity." The devnote says "Complicated feelings. Both jealous of Raphael's attention and sad because she knows her sister doesn't want it."]

[Korrilla saying, in a conversation where you can ask about the diabolist, "I hope things turn out well for you, I really do. Cheers." The note says "sadly - she knows (but we don't) that things won't turn out well at all."]

[Korrilla saying, "This current crisis has him so busy he's barely been home since he met you." The note says "proud of her boss." ]

[Korrilla saying "I'm not for sale. My time's not for sale. My affection's not for sale. I'm here on other business." The note says, "hasn't look up from her mug yet - is muttering darkly, she's clearly said this to a lot of people who've assumed she's a prostitute. (She's standing at the bar of a brothel.)]

[Korrilla saying, in response to Tav saying they'll stop the brain without Raphael's help, "I doubt it, but even if you do, you won't survive the fight." The note says "with a hint of sadness."]

[Korrilla saying "The boss might be a devil, but he'll treat you more honestly than anyone else in the city." The note says "she genuinely believes this."]

[In response to the player character asking whether she likes working for Raphael, Korrilla responds "More than anything. My old dwarven master used to beat me and feed me scraps -- Raphael treats me right and feeds me well. Better to feast in the Hells than go begging in the Heavens."]

Korrilla's devnotes casually murdering me.

#korrilla hearthflame #korrilla #bg3 spoilers #raphael bg3 #my headcanon is that the 'jealousy' isn't necessarily over Raphael's romantic/sexual attention #it's more that he pays attention to Hope. Even if it's. That. #there's nothing ROMANTIC ever hinted in the way she talks about raphael besides that line. she respects him. she likes working for him #(also because I'm motivated to avoid the Evil Sibling - Good Sibling Love Triangle cliche) #(but personally I lean towards Korrilla being ace)

[valentineredfield]

[Nicole Tompkins reading Elena/Daniela Dimitrescu lines as Jill] "Hey, kiss me?"

#nicole tompkins #valenfield #chris x jill #resident evil #mygifs #I know it doesn't necessarily mean anything for upcoming games #but the fact that this is what she said? means that during her research into Jill she saw the stuff that would make her give this answer? #or did someone at capcom say something? #I'll be delusional idgaf lol #(and yes I realize this video is from 2 years ago)

[citrinekay]

Episode 5 The Worst of Evil (최악의 악)

#the worst of evil #twoe #jung gicheol #park junmo #ji chang wook #wi ha joon #the eng subs saying 'sir' instead of 'hyung' really water down the significance of this scene #i'd love to know the cultural implications of ordering people to call someone hyung as opposed to the usual request/permission format #i always think junmo looks scared here bc of the responsibility he's just been handed #over people who don't necessarily WANT to call him hyung #but too bad because he is gicheul's most special favorite boy now :))) #and gicheul has also just given himself permission to call him hyung in private 😏

[canisalbus]

Vasco and Machete are absolutely adorable, your style is so lovely and you draw the softest beds I’ve ever seen in any art ever

.

#thank you! #softest beds is a whole new compliment that's so sweet #let me go off on a weird and personal tangent for a minute #I've always found the concept of sleeping very touching somehow #it's this mandatory resting period literally everyone has to plan their life around no one has the power to avoid sleeping #if you neglect it your mind and body start to break down very quickly #sleep is such a neutral state of being no one is particularly sad or happy or evil or good while they're asleep they're just logged off #sleeping feels nice it's rejuvenating it's one of the few universal pleasures every single person has an access to #and I find it terribly cute how people have different little bedtime rituals #socks on socks off various pillow and blanket arrangements certain sounds that make them sleepy etc #and sleeping next to someone is such an act of trust #it's extremely intimate as is sex doesn't necessarily have to factor into it #getting comfortable and going unconscious with someone at the same place at the same time that just touches my heart #especially if you're invited into their bed which is a very private space a person's own little nest where the world can't reach them #even if you fall asleep in public transport there's this vulnerability to it and for the most part people respect the sanctity of sleep #and tend to leave sleeping people alone at least in my limited experience #I like drawing my characters sleeping because it feels like I'm doing them a favor granting them a little respite #anonymous #answered

[elia-nymmeros]

Everytime i think i've seen everything in this fandom... wdym the man who exterminated Houses Tarbeck and Reyne down to the last child, who ordered an innocent 14-year-old to be gang-raped by an entire garrison before ordering his own son to rape her last, who emotionally abused said son down to his last moment on Earth for the crime of being born disabled, who ordered the sacking of an entire city and commanded every atrocity in the Riverlands all for his own personal and politican gain, wasn't evil? Tywin Lannister ruined the life of hundreds, if not thousands of people, including his own children, and the narrative is quite explicit in portraying him as the source of his own destruction. Tywin Lannister is one of the most evil, cruel, petty and malicious man of ASOIAF, even if he didn't personally commit every act of violence himself; the fact that I see people still somehow making excuses for his behavior is ..????!?!?

#tywin lannister #asoiaf #valyrian scrolls #anti asoiaf fandom #the author of this comment says: 'that despite terrible things being done in war the person or people that perpetrate these things aren’t- #'necessarily terrible themselves' 'All I’m saying is that to label Tywin “evil” is to misunderstand him completely.' #this isnt even the 5th person i've found defending tywin #i'm not saying we should cancel tywin but i think his extreme moral corruption and reprehensible cruelty is a very important aspect #to understand his character #his evilness and where does it stem from and how does it manifest in Westeros' social order IS crucial to understand him

[vernalloy]

I think we should combine musicals with the genre of horror more often. Let’s be schlocky and self-indulgent and gay… together…

#(wow vern talk) #musicals #now this is not necessarily a hatchetfield post because I’d like to appreciate some of the others #(namely little shop reefer madness and evil dead) #but you are welcome to make it one #also obligatory shoutout to ghost quartet and don’t stop me #young Frankenstein too if I was more familiar with it

[koukaaa-descent]

the antithesis of hate

(This is not necessarily connected to the art,, I've just had this in my drafts for a while and. Well.)

Monsoon was scorched by the blaze of the star, fragile skin blackening, sparse blues burning away beneath the heat of it. Indigo, suddenly impulsive, wrapped his arms around it. The poor thing is so much larger now—it’s nearly impossible to wrap his arms all the way around its body.

“You need to live,” he says, finding something awfully wet in his voice beneath the star’s hissing fires. Monsoon rattles, a series of short chirps interspersed with sharp clicks. It sounded almost familiar to the coo of a pigeon. Because of either mimicry or familiarity, its arms wrap around him as well, reciprocating such a familiar touch in spite of the pain each movement brought. Claws settle against the fabric of his uniform, never piercing the thick material.

“You need to live,” Indigo forces out, heartbroken for a reason he could not possibly discern. A terrible sense of hopelessness pervaded his senses. Heat began to char his suit, vicious flame devouring all it touched. He fought back the heat in his eyes caused not by pain but rather something else.

Monsoon would sprint through a field filled with eyeless dogs if Indigo had been the one to say that it was safe. That was the problem with creatures so beautifully intelligent yet so loyal—loyalty could bring about suicide for the sake of another. Intelligence would grant it the ability to know that and do whatever it was anyway.

They’re running out of time. They’ve always been running out of time. Indigo’s just glad that they got to spend their short lives together. He squeezes Monsoon as tight as he can, wondering where his tiny, inquisitive little dove had gone. A Bracken grew so impossibly quickly that those days had begun and ended in a mere moment of time. But... what a truly wonderful moment it was.

Fire engulfs the star, shrieking a demand unto the universe itself. Monsoon keens in pain, wrapping itself around his body with what little it can move. Loyal to the point of suicide.

In an awfully short moment, wrapped in his oldest companion's arms, Indigo finally puts a name to that foreign emotion. Love.

Light sears his sclerae through the tinted visor. With a raspy, thin whistle, Monsoon frays beneath it and scatters away into ash that utterly blinds Indigo to the world beyond. Very suddenly, the searing pain does not mean anything. Nothing at all.

The star billows into existence as it finally implodes, roaring past them—the impossibly tiny things that they both were in the face of it.

The last thing that Indigo ever sees. The first thing that he dares to regret.

#lethal company #lethal company bracken #lethal company employee #lethal company oc #oc monsoon #oc indigo #art is not necessarily related to the short story in the cut below #trying my hand at actual lineart #i was listening to pangolin-404's buddy playlist the entire time iwwas drawing this #i Cried four timrs drawing this #im donenfor #the story im making for these 2 is . really evil #doomed friendship slash parenthood #smiling emoji. i am in excruciating pain

[jonahmagnus]

I dont feel like doing the background. I refuse. Hes baking..... 🥹 hes baking and hes happy and hes ALIVE....

Version with bg sketch under the cut ✂️👇

#the magnus protocol #tmp #Gerry Keay #gerry robinson #<- TO ME. again eye dont think that their necessarily actually grandson grandparent eye think its a label of convenience BUT #they are family. TO ME. #Gerry Keay's mother was deeply fucked up and evil and eyeHATE her and Gertrude Robinson is NOT his mother but she is an older female figure #in his life he can rely on to some extent .Shes not maternal at all like at all but sometimes he looks at her and wishes that she cared for #him the way nobody else had ever cared for him. But he doesnt voice it because hes like in his 30s at this point. And then he dies and she #makes him a ghost and it HURTS. It hurts and it sucks and he wants to go home. He wants his mother #but not his actual mother #the #hypothetical mother who is not his mother whom actually loved him. But he refused to cry out for her with his final breath. #Gerry Keay died silent. #ANDMD THEN GERTRUDE ROBINSON CALLED HIM HER GRANDSON #EYE!! AM NOT!!! *OKAY!!!* GWAAAAD GWAD GWAD GWAD. GOOD GOD. ANNNYWAYS. #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #Gerry tmp #my unfortunate art #:3 #His hair is dyed WELL in this timeline ♡ Beclaws he is LOVED ♡

[autismserenity]

pretty please, my fellow progressives

Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?

And most of all, that it is false??

No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?

No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?

No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.

It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.

We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."

Doesn't work.

Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.

We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.

Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.

#antisemitism #anti-semitic #yes this is about how gentiles use zionism #yes this is about how fast it went from 'this isn't NECESSARILY antisemitic' to 'this ISN'T antisemitic' #yes this is about claiming that we claim antisemitism to deflect valid criticism #yes this is part of a larger pattern of violating every progressive standard but only for jews #none of us would ever say 'people are just claiming misogyny to deflect valid criticism' #we would never claim that trans people secretly control or “influence” the government #we would never treat Ukrainians like “'noble savages” who need us to speak for them #but we treat Palestinians like “noble savages” who need us to speak for them #we know to center the people affected and uplift their voices in every other situation #but in this situation we ignore the fact that we're supporting palestinians by talking ABOUT them #we swallow far-right Palestinian propaganda channeled through diaspora organizations #while Palestinians in Gaza demand completely different solutions and support #zionists echo Palestinian solutions and experiences because we know people in Israel and Palestine #and we get told we love genocide or just blocked #this is how Hamas propaganda is designed to work. Hamas has systematically silenced Palestinians for 18 years and now it's all you know #it is genuinely terrifying to see the entire progressive community sound exactly like the alt-right while it absolutely insists it's not #we also know to center marginalized people's voices about what harms them -- except the Jews? #honestly I think that progressives listened before Oct 7 and that the “no we just mean ZIONISTS are evil” has done wonders to reverse that #let's be real the zionists-not-jews trope comes from Hamas too #all it had to do was claim it definitely meant Zionists not Jews and that it was the Palestinian resistance and progressives flocked to it #its fighters were calling home from the massacre to boast about how many Jews they had killed. it has not changed. #i suppose that the zionists-not-jews thing gave freedom to unexamined antisemitism that people felt guilty about #but oh my god it caught on like absolute wildfire #wall of words

[yandere-daydreams]

Confession: When I first saw you mention "I'm in Love with the Villainess" I had no intention to watch it because I confused it with a similar premise I had read a few months earlier and been meh about (isekai butler loves the villainess he serves), so I was confused when I saw the other anon mention that it was a girl's love series.

Long story short: I watched the anime in one sitting and am now waiting for all the volumes of manga currently released to be delivered. It is a great series and I need more of it.

i haven't gotten around to reading the manga/light novel (does anyone know which came first?) just yet, but it's such a good show fr fr T-T i feel like you never really hear characters say the word 'lesbian' in anime, even if there are girls kissing on the reg, so it was very refreshing to have multiple characters who both are and call themselves queer. ray and claire's arc is just,,, scrumptious as well. a protag who's convinced herself that she can love endlessly with no expectation of reciprocation + a love interest who legitimately believes she's made herself impossible to love is just,,,, what a fucking show. delicious delicious show if nothing else watch a compilation of the mc's english voice actor doing the goddamn most.

#i just really love the characters okay #it was a really good call to make ray very intensely in love with claire #but also just. kind of a bad person? if that makes sense? #not necessarily evil just very willing to pull out the old gaslight gatekeep girlboss mentality if it means getting the job done #her little schemes just make her so fun #and claire being someone who is both easily flustered and has a complex about specifically receiving love #alas #i am in love with them i fear #personal #casuallywatchingfromtheshadows

[memo-blogs]

THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME Grave Encounters

Alien (1979)

A Quiet Place

28 Days Later

Midsommar

Annihilation

Don't Breathe

Barbarian

Antlers

Train to Busan

Cube (1997)

Evil Dead

Mama

Feel free to list your own!

#movies #horror #not necessarily all scared the bejesus outta me but #i love all of these #for different reasons #horror movie #horror movies #alien #antlers #barbarian #mama #midsommar #evil dead #cube #train to busan #don't breathe #28 days later #annihilation #a quiet place

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

yeah ok fuck it, if you know what post this is about you know what post this is about. I think doxxing senators is a very good and useful tactic but you should never ever never show pictures of their very young children n imply that firebombing them to death for the random circumstance of their birth would be a good thing. what is fucking wrong with you

#civil disk horse #the whole post has ‘this pales in comparison to my strategy. firebombing a walmart <- doesn’t firebomb a walmart’ energy anyway #so I highly doubt anything will happen #n honestly I don’t even think it’s bad necessarily to discuss assassinating *politicians* #a lot of them do in fact deserve it #but how fucking evil do you have to be that the strategy you fantasize about is? killing their school aged kids to torture them? #what. is WRONG with you.