#pure greed

[ruokasooda]

https://www.aftonbladet.se/podcasts/ab/program/1291

Eurovision and Melodifestivalen specialized journalists Tobbe Ek and Markus Larsson weren’t too happy about Finns not granting any televotes for Loreeen. Few quotes from Aftonbladet’s (one of the largest daily newspapers in Sweden) Eurovision podcast:

Ek: ”The reason is that Finns are jealous. They are collectively jealous at us Swedes and that led them not voting for us.”

Ek: ”How is it even possible that Finns think there were ten better songs than Loreen? That’s shameful.”

Larsson: ”The Finns gave points even for Germany over Loreen. That’s sick. Says lot about Finnish understanding about music and about their taste.”

Ek: ”I’m fucking furious.”

Larsson: ”Dumbass people.”

Ek: ”Finland was only country where Sweden didn’t get any points from the people. Shame on you Finland, it serves you right you didn’t win!”

Larsson: ”I agree! F*ck them!”

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This is nothing new to us finns, swedes have always treated us like this. And it just culminates to eurovision which fucking sucks. I hope this gets spread out bit more so people can see under the polished picture sweden has put out.

I personally voted for germany and other 9 countries that in my own opinion had better songs than sweden, this type of articles just give so icky and bad feeling over everything. There are bad loosers in the world, but swedes seem to be really sore winners. Nothing seems to be enough they need it all. We already gave 12p by jury, but then again our jurys team leader was born in sweden so theres big conflict of interest in that. I think they know it was not pure win and are trying to pin the bad feeling into us.

#esc #eurovision #euroviisut #eurovison 2023 #finland #finns #Swedes #sweden #what the fuck #Germany was better than sweden #norway was better than sweden #Austria was better than sweden #bad winners #Stop it get some help #just let us be already #colonialist fucks #not your friend anymore #you already won what more you want #pure greed #greed for points #so baffling #toxic behaviour

[eyebaus]

nov 4

#blood cw #ultrakill #v2 ultrakill #ferryman ultrakill #etched #lil thing where vee n ferry formed a friendship post 2-4 and prior to 4-4 and they dropped it off in greed and. saw all that but manages to #salvage its motherboard #gore cw #v2 isnt actually talking by the way that is purely hallucination ^_^

[felis-rach]

Rewatched what I now know it's my favorite Ghibli movie.. . .. . aaauugh Pazu and Sheeta melt my heart man

#castle in the sky #It's just. these two kids protecting each other from the cruelty and greed of the world #they're so loyal and devoted and their friendship is so beautiful #they just want to laugh and be with the birds and eat bread and fried eggs together #it's so simple but so pure and genuine #and the movie having a central villain makes their kindness contrast even more augh #studio ghibli #studio ghibli fanart

[rohirric-hunter]

Returning to an old conversation about magic in LotR, something occurred to me the other day: Sting was a far more effective weapon against Shelob than Sam's sword, slicing through multiple of her webs with a single sweep and cutting into her belly without much apparent effort from Sam. The text is a bit unclear for the brief portion of the fight when Sam is using two swords, but it seems to me that the only wound Sam's own sword scores against her is against one of her eyes: "The shining sword bit upon her foot and shore away the claw. Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head." While both swords could potentially be shining, Sting is established to be glowing at this point due to the proximity of the orcs in the tower, so I'm inclined to believe that the shining sword here is Sting, the one that chops off the end of one of her legs no problem, while the other one strikes against her eye, established two paragraphs later to be her softest spot.

Now Frodo attributes this potency against Shelob to the sword's origins. "There were webs of horror in the dark ravines of Beleriand where it was forged." And basically this pans out, Gondolin, where Sting was made, was not too far from Ered Gorgoroth, where Ungoliant and her spawn (including, most likely, Shelob herself) lived until Beleriand fell. The logic here, is, perhaps, similar to the reasoning for why Frodo and Merry's barrow-blades were so potent against the Witch-king, having adopted a portion of their makers' loathing for a particular enemy. And there is indeed evidence enough for this: the first spider Bilbo encounters in Mirkwood "evidently was not used to things that carried such stings at their sides, or it would have hurried away quicker." This spider lived not too far from the Elvenking's halls, surely it had been attacked with weapons before, which does call up an idea of there being something especially terrible to it about this particular sword. (Though this spider is also inarguably quite inept and possibly stupid; no shade to Bilbo but losing a fight to a mostly-tied-up enemy that can't see in the dark and has never before fought anything more dangerous than a particularly stubborn door-to-door salesman doesn't exactly reflect well on its capabilities.)

But I think Sting had another enchantment on it, and one a great deal more recent, and possibly even more direct: the enchantment of its name.

Bilbo takes a sword from a troll-hoard, puts it on his belt and under his jacket, and then proceeds to carry it around for months without thinking about it at all -- until, that is, he finds himself face to face with a giant spider, a giant spider who, as is made clear in the text, was one of Shelob's own descendants: "Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen, from the Ephel Duath to the eastern hills, to Dol Guldur and the fastnesses of Mirkwood (emphasis mine)."

So Bilbo takes his sword and makes his first kill, and what we witness next is a Moment by any definition: "Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves of of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath."

Then Bilbo names the sword, and he names it Sting, calling to mind the thought of a fly that can fight off a spider, a tiny creature coming out on top in a fight with a fierce predator. And then he sets off and uses his newly minted sword to rescue his friends from giant spiders. And though he uses the sword again in his adventure, it is never such a great moment, and indeed he ends up missing a great deal of the battle where it would have been most useful, leaving this incident with the spiders as not only his first use of the weapon, but his most significant -- as The Hobbit is meant to be adapted from his memoirs, certainly the only one he felt important enough to write about.

And for sixty years Sting laid quiet in the Shire, hanging over Bilbo's mantle, where he told stories about it to his nieces and nephews and cousins and anyone else who would listen, and doubtless the story he kept circling back to was the one about the great spiders and the christening of his sword, and even if nobody believed it, a bit of a legend grew about it, and whatever deeds, if any, it was involved in before it found its way to the troll's hoard were forgotten, and it became the Sting, the sword that was used to defend friends from Shelob's brood.

I hardly need to point out the power inherent in names and the naming of things and people in Tolkien's work.

And then, seventy-eight years after its christening, Sting finds itself in another spider's lair, the grandmother or great-grandmother of that first spider that earned it its name -- and this is what it is, now. This is its entire identity, insomuch as a sword can have one of those. I think that over seventy-eight years Bilbo quite inadvertently but also quite effectively wove an enchantment against Shelob and her ilk on that sword, never knowing how much it would matter in the end. Indeed, I would put forth that there was no other weapon in contemporary Middle-earth that would have been such a bitter sting to Shelob; similar enchantments, perhaps, could be found in Thranduil's halls from his people's long struggle against the spiders there, but on a blade from Gondolin, which shared a mountain range with the land where Ungoliant herself lived for a time? And Glamdring and Orcrist would have inherited those properties alongside Sting, but they had a legacy of goblin slaying, not spider slaying.

So, quite by accident, Frodo and Sam walked into Shelob's lair with the best possible chance of escaping her.

#lotr #also combined with the light of earendil of course #because blah blah blah earlier version of the histories where earendil killed ungoliant #but even more so something something light of the silmarils being the one thing ungoliant wasnt able to devour #greed hates what it cannot have or something idk #also i realize some people disagree with this but i think the text clearly states that shelob is the direct child of ungoliant #because in the same paragraph where shes described as 'the last child of ungoliant' its established that she has broods of her own #and also that these broods are uhhhhh #pure #if you get what i mean #the bloodline is unbroken #if you follow #but SHES the last. her children dont count as children of ungoliant #because theyre children of shelob theres a degree of separation

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Kim Kardashian losing more than 100,000 followers on social media after the release of TTP has me cheering.

#the family the pure greed the Christian chorus line #imagine if Taylor counter cancels Kim #she’s really setting the stage for reputation #society would be better off without the kardashians and I’ve been saying this for a hot minute #bloods think but nothing like a payroll #thank you aimee #taylor swift #taylorswift #cassandra #kim kardashian #the tortured poets department #ttpd #ttpd the anthology #ts ttpd #reputation #rep tv

[currantlee]

Why is there a dollar sign in the absolutely most unfavorable spot of his pants?

(Image Source: Oddlyhale)

#Seriously not sure if I should find this funny #Knowing Rooster Teeth; this might actually be a cry for help tbh #RWBY #Some whisper it’s because that’s all RWBY was ever about ever since Monty Oum died #Some even whisper that’s still what RT was after with whatever this is from #Capitalism #Dollar Signs #$ #RWDE #(purely because I don’t even know the tagging conventions of this fandom anymore) #🤑 #Pointless Observation #Qrow Branwen #Rooster Teeth #Rooster Teeth’s notorious greed #Corporate Greed #RT critical #Currantlee here

[americiumam]

okay well since i’m here i wanna talk about boromir. big strong boromir dearly beloved and respected by all of his home with the weight of his world on his shoulders, tempted not by greed but by desperation and love. power is the rings route to corruption but the manner of power is different for all and all boromir wanted was the power to protect his people and once the ring found that desire, that insecurity, it was all over

#hi i know there’s a thousand better analyses of this guy but. i care him #important 2 me that the greed and anger and hatred come after the pure intention that boromir had #and once his fear for frodos life cleared his mind. his love and care for someone he took in as his own overpowered the darkness of the ring #and i CARE HIM!!!! #95 #lotr

[beevean]

I'm so happy that I get the chance to rant again, because the subreddit just gives me so much inspiration <3

I don't really care about Carmilla. She was, at the end of the day, a villain from a kid's cartoon, who wanted to conquer the world because she was just so eeeevil, with only the barest of backstories to pretend she had good motivations. In fact, it's hilarious to me that when you think about it, the N!Isaac vs. Carmilla epic fight, one of the climaxes of this show that has touted itself on being so deep and nuanced, has all the emotional depth of an average Sonic vs. Eggman boss battle: the impossibly cool superhero wants to stop the nefarious supervillain and her world domination plans.

(no shade to Sonic and Eggman, who are far better written than those two assholes could ever hope to be. you know what I mean)

yeah yeah she became what she depised, after a whole season of sitting on her feminist ass lol and then randomly going insane at the last minute. peak writing, as per usual.

No, it's as usual Lenore who has my attention.

She's the most human of the sisters, they say. And they're right. She is a terrifyingly realistic depiction of an abuser.

She's not a cackling madwoman who only serves as a caricature, and she doesn't exist only for shallow representation like Striga and Morana who have no objectives or personalities outside of each other. Lenore may not want world domination like Carmilla, but she absolutely longs for power over other people. I went about it here, how once you read between the lines, Lenore only wants to feel powerful and important, and she's willing to steep as low as she can to get her way because she folds like a coward the moment she doesn't have the upper hand. While Carmilla would just beat people for shit and giggles because look at how Evil (but in a Cool way) she is, Lenore is genuinely convinced that everything she did, all of her physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse, it was all for a good cause, and she did nothing wrong, and anyway you were enjoying it too so what's the issue?

So yes, in this, she's human. She's a cruel, cunning, vile human like many women in the world who know that they can use their charm and take advantage of emotionally starved men to feel powerful, all while still painting themselves as cute and lovable. Her vampiric nature doesn't come into play until the very end, where she realizes (in theory) that she's nothing but a disgusting evil creature and she's doomed to always be so; but until then, you could write her as a human and little would change in her personality and the way she played with N!Hector.

And that's what makes her scary to me. Yes, Dracula and Carmilla are more dangerous on a wider scale, but we are much, much more likely to fall into the trap of one of the many Lenores around the world.

(I usually don't like making it all about gender, but Lenore's abuse of N!Hector is absolutely gendered. Her entire character revolves around what I can only call toxic femininity.)

And that's why the takes I see about her deadass trigger me, because what the fuck do you mean, she's the less cruel of the bunch????

I don't give a shit about the Lesbians, but at least they realized that what they were doing was wrong! Sure, their motivations were mainly self-centered because they didn't want to waste their existence fighting, but they also took pity on the humans they were meant to kill!

I just fought fucking farmers. Saw the fear in their eyes. Not fear of dying. Fear of not having fought. Fear of not saving their people.

It's more empathy than Lenore ever showed for N!Hector, with her filthy "you were having fun"!

"Found her strengths" yeah, instead of physically torturing N!Hector, she used manipulation, abuse, coercion, gaslighting and rape by deception to "solve his problem". Wow, such strengths, many power. And then the second things got worse for her she immediately decided to peace out of life rather than wait a few decades until N!Isaac died, sorry N!Hector if you grew to care about me but my own bratty feelings are more important. I'm sorry, I know it's in bad taste to paint suicide as the cowardly way, but it's what the story did!

The Lenore apologism creeps me out more than anything else. I can stand the Carmilla stans who think she's so cool and badass and #grrlpower. I'm annoyed but resigned to the N!Isaac stans who believe he's the most complex character of all time and forgot about all the petty murders he commited. I'm baffled by the N!Dracula stans who genuinely believe he had the right to start a mass slaughter because some peasants didn't take him seriously enough. But this rhetoric that Lenore is the least evil of the sisters, that she was ultimately a poor broken woman who only did what she thought was the right thing, terrifies me. She's a realistic, human female abuser... and just like many female abusers, her crimes get brushed off because she's cute, because she looked sad enough, because women who sexually dominate men are inherently hot. And I know that fiction is not reality and you can enjoy villains without being a bad person, but the arguments the stans use, not to paint Lenore as cool like Carmilla but to actually downplay her very realistic crimes, just hit too close to home for me.

I just wish that "human" didn't become shorthand for "good deep down", because it's not true. Sometimes a "human" villain is far more evil than a villain so shallow they don't quite feel real.

#anti netflixvania #hell yeah i missed being a bitch on main <3 #i hate this show with a burning passion and i love to rant but i thought i had run out of material #oh what a joy #maybe next time i should make a compilation of all the times alucard was a giant dripping asshole to trevor lol just for a change #also yes the human rant applies to the likes of eggman too #he's not “human” when he becomes a dad lol #he's also human in how he incarnates pure greed at the expense of nature

[cotgar2]

Would he actually be good at snowboarding? No idea. But it sure does look fun, I will say that

#this was oddly fun to do! fun pose and fun lighting #also totally didn’t make this so I wouldn’t have a halloween pfp anymore 💀 #my art #fanart #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma greed #greed the avaricious #greedling #very random but I have a goal to make ling/greed wear the most.. unique hairties #i think that’s the wrong word but just- something beyond a white ribbon #this year for the holiday season we got a mistletoe hairtie because why not #making his hairtie anything but boring is just pure entertainment for me

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

defining will's love for hannibal as religion stands as an overpowering symbol of how will's emotions are powerful enough to mold a man into something akin to god, even with his flaws, even with his mortality, even with his own devotion to him that isn't some imprisonment or necessity or a show put up for valour or honour but formed of his own volition that itsn't driven by lust unlike so many other metaphors and so called "analogous" loves, is such strong visual and visceral representation of the human psyche omitting life outside of its own want and turning it into piety. in this essay i will...

#raj shitposting #religion is such a powerful metaphor for love that we won't ever be able to even comprehend how it fits in as a metaphor. #religion defines us. shapes our thought. makes us whole. tears us apart and builds a person based solely on itself. it give us our name. #it takes us away and gives us back as not who we are but as what we are meant to be. #it's a grotesquely selfish and imbalanced consummation between god and self. #and i say akin to god since god doesn't always give you what you ask of her. she gives you what she wants you to have. #hannibal literally survives on will's demands though. his meaning and his purpose is solely defined by will's wants. #will's selfishness- his sin is that powerful. it's like satan willing god into falling in love with him. slowly. excruciatingly. carnally. #and and and.. the way it's done through bedelia. a woman. and abigail. a child. is so so so effervescent and eloquent way to do it. #god and women being the driving forces of nature and both being a symbol of hearty manipulation and greed and power and glory. #and a child. the symbol of innocence and sincerity and purity and absence of complication. a symbol of complete and utterly pure love. #bedelia represents how hannibal chooses to express his emotions in order to woo will's monster and abigail represents what he truly feels. #just kills it. like bang on. smh iltsm #hannigram #hannibal

[dnangelic]

i'm a horror writer at heart but i like shoujo and big feelings which is why i'm here in gothic vkei central with daisuke

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #if i didnt like both there is no way id ever feel even the slightest bit confident in my portrayal #JDFJKJKFKJG #mad respect to dark writers there's so many ways to write him.... as long as it's not the anime dark- #i just need ppl to get that in terms of things like monster factor my dark is worse #only a lil. i keep it pg13 🌹 #my dai too is just a tiny bit less morally strict (which was him lying to himself anyways) compared to canon #cause hes waaay past a lot of his moral dilemmas #he is a Thief. he is going to Steal #not wantonly not at all for greed but if the want in his hands or the need in his heart starts to outweigh his conscience he can't resist!! #he would be 'pure' he would be completely innocent -IF- he wasn't stained by dark. by his own thievery. #but hes NOT free or clean of that so hes perpetually a criminal. a huge one at that ohrkgfjkhj #there's nothing for dai but acceptance and a fall as the cherub!!! everybody knows the story of lucifer while everyone else #demonizes satan and it's the exact same with dark and daisuke.... in the end it's inevitable inescapable daisuke becomes dark #kajdflkfdj well anyways. brain mush. sleep time #jetlag is killing me hope a weird sleep sched doesnt fuck me up too much <- always gets fucked up by weird slep scheds

[dk-thrive]

"“I just think about that a lot. The ugliness of anger. I don’t disagree that it can be harnessed. But it’s so irredeemably ugly.” “You’re a human being, Cyrus,” Sang said, gently. “So was your mother. So am I. Not cartoon characters. There’s no pressure for us to be ethically pure, noble. Or, God forbid, aspirational. We’re people. We get mad, we get cowardly. Ugly. We self-obsess.” Cyrus blinked. Sang was right—"

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

#Kaveh Akbar #ugly #human #greed #envy #jealous #noble #pure #mistake #regret #shame #angry #anger #hate

[ecoamerica]

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[magnetic-dogz]

"Of course they're all red they're all in hell" Who's gonna tell them that the beauty of character design is that you can use many different colors and shades across the rainbow to communicate relatively the same things about a character and also that demons can be colors other than bright searing blood red

#cookie.txt #like hell for a demon character there is a lot you could do color-wise to communicate their personality or demon-ness besides using red #colors can have a lot of negative meanings #ex: green to communicate greed or envy #blue to communicate gloominess #or hell you could go pure white for a more cold and sterile feeling #i've also seen browns and purples used for demon designs #red may be the most logical color as it is a confrontational color but it is not the only option!

[ahalvedheart]

pjo tv marketing budget is INSANE like the giant posters and escalator signs at comic con???

i’m so excited for this show but also incredibly angry that amptp refuses to negotiate and these poor kids who put their hearts and souls into making the show aren’t able to publicly celebrate it 😭

#i’m hoping negotiations start again within the next month and they can do some promo before the show officially drops #amptp i’m actively praying on ur downfall #the actors demands are so reasonable and refusing to meet them is nothing but greed and pure insanity #pjo #pjo tv #text #mine #also rip i should’ve gone to comic con just for pjo

[wildmelon]

why is the gaming industry full of CARTOON VILLAINS

#it’s actually COMICAL #HOW CAN YOU BE THIS FUCKING STUPID #HOW DO THEY KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES OUT OF PURE GREED #THEYRE LIKE CARICATURES OF OUT OF TOUCH BUSINESS EXECS #lush.talk #vent

[rizatouchesthewalls]

that fucked up moment when you lose your only real older brother figure

#ling and greed #bro was DEVASTATED #greeling all around was just pure tragedy #edward got his brother back but what about ling #greedling #greed fmab #ling fmab #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #xing #xingese #angst #platonic #death #fma #brotherhood #anime

[ecoamerica]

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