#sympathy for monsters

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Something about the way vampires are usually portrayed as being worse than human murderers has always seemed ridiculous to me when vampires require blood to survive and aren't the only beings that can kill humans. It's ridiculous when a human murderer would technically be morally worse since they don't require blood to survive

. So all the sanctimonious shit about "oh no, you've lost your humanity" rings hollow. Also, if vampires are going to angst about how they don't like killing people, just get a hired bloodbag, pay people for their blood, hide it as a blood bank if you must. Lol. Have you seen the state of this economy? There's worse things people will do for money.

I love the anime "Parasyte", though it's not about vampires, because it asks the question of why the hell would humans be "worthier" of existence than parasites that take over their bodies to survive. And it shows humans being worse than a being that needs to kill humans to survive.

#vampires #my stupid rant lol #sympathy for monsters

[vaguely-concerned]

there are a lot of daddy issues to go around on DS9 in general, but odo, bashir and garak are really in their own special little fucked up 'what am I but wrought in my father's image' club

#star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #odo #julian bashir #elim garak #(I personally think we should put their dads in a cage match and let them kill each other. tain would probably win #but we could just shoot him after he claimed that victory. I Would Like To See It) #the triumvirate of bad dads to karmically oppose the sheer power of good dad vibes benjamin sisko has #specifically dads who Cannot and Will Not allow the healthy individuation of their sons into whole separate people #apart from what their father's hands have shaped them into #where that is one of the first things sisko accepts and realizes he must allow jake to do right at the early seasons #the bad dad club boys seem more specifically forcibly held in place to serve as mirrors for their fathers #and have to find ways to break away from that in more or less graceful ways; breaking off more or less important parts of themselves #to do so #dr mora seems to have a 'oh fuck.' moment where he sort of realizes what he's done #but the sympathy that gains him from me is hm. neglible lmao at least tain is basically fully just a monster #what's your excuse mora #I haven't met bashir's dad properly yet but I've seen enough to suspect I'm not going to be very charitably inclined towards him either

[thatsbelievable]

#The Pros & Cons of Being a Torch-Wielding Villager #pros #cons #pros & cons #pros and cons #Frankensteined #Frankenstein #Universal Monsters #also and just to be super clear #our sympathies lie with the Monster

[fallenxangel-13]

dacryphilia, CNC, overstimulation, faux sympathy.

cooing, "who's my good girl/boy?" to a gagged sub while overstimulating them.

tears welling in their pretty eyes, only provoking possessive thrusts from me, reducing them to a desperate choked-up sobbing mess until they make a coherent sound...

as if that were possible.

#bd/sm dom #monster boyfriend #pleasure dom #soft dom #primal dom #overstim kink #overstim nsft #nsft concept #monster bf #queer nsft #k!nk concept #subby thoughts #dom thoughts #dom x sub #cnc k!nk #faux sympathy #dacryphilia

[tothepointofinsanity]

Sayaka is my favourite eldritch horror.

#Sayaka Archives #yes girl go be a living corpse who is an angel #who hides in the droplets of sea water with rain accompanying her strides of hatred #and whose transformation is often seen alongside mermaids and the ocean #a being who is alive but can gouge out her own heart #simply to show her sympathy for others #mirrors that don’t even reflect her #the water only shows a mermaid and a monster that needs to be slain #simultaneously the beauty and the beast #no one talk to me I’m brainrotting right now

[paulic]

“You’re only defending John Lennon because you like his music” it’s almost like someone’s art gives you a direct insight into their emotional life and relating to it will make you care about and/or understand a person better

#like yeah????????? I listened to his most intimate thoughts countless times?????????? and I related???????? #reacting with sympathy and understanding to someone’s authentic and emotionally vulnerable art is…normal? like yes I’m not a monster lol #john lennon #the beatles #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #classic rock #beatles #richard starkey #brian epstein #emmys thoughts

[hurricanejane]

Supernatural is so wild for the meta book series. Like one could argue some people like wincest just because the actors portraying the brothers are hot and it would be hot to see them together. And the show went okay but so actually we're going to create a completely text based series and not have these two hotties drive the wincest. Instead!!!! They're acknowledging wincesties would still exist in abundance based on the text alone. Yeah they're making fun but also how did that many "Sam slash Dean" people happen if there wasn't the text to read into? The text that the writers wrote. For the show. Aka the way they are so codependent and needy and subtextually homoerotic is already written into the story and easy to read as incest. Like THEY did that! They removed one of the driving forces of the wincest and basically said nah we write them that way.

#beckycore #beckycoded #the monster at the end of this book #4x18 #5x01 #sympathy for the devil #meta #samdean #wincest #i am probably not the first person to point this out

[aa-400]

'are you okay?'

i see a man who's gone through hell become possessed by an eldritch monster and i take the side of the eldritch monster. not once, but twice i take the side of the eldritch monster. do you think i'm okay?

#malevolent #GHDIUHG LISTEN I LOVE ARTHUR I DO #BUT I ALSO LOVE JOHN DOE AND YELLOW AND I FEEL SO MUCH SYMPATHY FOR THEM #not that i dont for arthur but its. different. #i dont love kiy the way i love john and yellow but there is a part of me that [gestures to an earlier tag rant of mine] #i just think directly applying human measuring sticks to a great old one #is a bit like looking at a 4yo crushing ants with a rock and deciding they're inherently and intentionally evil #i mean yeah the kiy is a bit more purposefully cruel than a 4yo smushing bugs is especially in malevolent. for sure. #and malevolent and other cosmic horror is from the perspective of ants #but yknow what i mean and even if you dont i choose to empathise with the unfathomable monsters and evil and you cant stop me

[mollypaup]

the struggle of wanting to play more horror games but hating survival horror

#*most annoying '''horror''' fan on earth voice* yeah i like horror games but i don't think there should be violence and killing in them #this is a joke #i just hate combat focused horror because it's largely extremely boring and tedious #violence is an extremely effective horror tool if implemented correctly #but in most survival horror games it is just Something To Do I Guess #violence in horror should be conflicting and upsetting!! not just kill the creature or monster!!! #you should be upset about it!!! #either in the sense that the violence that you are committing is horrible and repulsive #or the violence that the antagonistic force is committing is uniquely or keenly cruel and unusal and repulsive #doing violence to someone you really do not want to #doing violence in a manner that you feel you could never justify #seeing or being on the end of violence that makes you sick to the stomach #churning through masses of nameless and faceless zombies to get to a boss that is nothing more #than mildly visually grotesque with no real established sympathy or disdain for them #sucks!!! it's bad horror!!!!

[lazaruspiss]

the part of bruce being abusive where he still loves the people he hurts is important guys. like you know it's possible to hurt people even when you love them, right? you know that it's possible to do terrible things without fully realizing and/or admitting that said things are terrible, right? you understand that relationships can be complex, right??

#also: abusers are often still humans with thoughts and feelings. i do not say that out of sympathy or fondness. #treating them like monsters without any internal depth takes away their agency and cheapens the intimacy of the damage they cause. #my boogeyman goes to church and holds the door open for old ladies and can feel pain and loneliness #im sorry but most shitty people don't just sit around being evil 24/7 #what makes them shitty is their actions #not an internal state of being evil #hiiiiiiiii welcome to laz rants about human morality. again #i need to take a class on moral philosophy or smth and get it out of my system lmao

[ihavedeclaredwaronthemoonxx]

no one hates supernatural fans more than the supernatural writers. they broke the fourth wall just so that they could dedicate multiple episodes to shitting on their own fans.

#they hate their own characters too though #how many times do you think they had to beg misha collins to come back #supernatural #castiel #dean winchester #sam winchester #misha collins #the french mistake #time for a wedding #ghostfacers #the monster at the end of this book #sympathy for the devil #the real ghostbusters #fan fiction

[bericas]

scott appreciation week (day 4) → i think it’s my fault

― Andrei Tarkovsky, Journal 1970-1986

#twedit #scottmccalledit #scottmccallweek #dont talk to me about the last gif i dont want to hear it #ive taken one art history class and the only redeeming thing about the last gif is that it kind of looks like a painting almost #with like the faded gauziness and how the tarp almost looks like brushstrokes #I TOOK ONE ART HISTORY CLASS PLEASE DONT BULLY ME ABOUT THIS #and i do think it adds to the effect. like its over. theres no fighting it. hes a saint. #the rest are in focus and vibrant and the last one is kind of blurred out. okay maybe i like it now. #anyway its really about how scott doesnt get to be a kid and so rarely are the adults in his life adults #and its not necessarily their faults. like. very many of them are also human. #deaton steps up for him a lot and melissa does her best and imo only ever really fails bc of poor writing choices #and by s6 when chris is trying to be his stepdad i think he's stepped up in a big way too #but. like. melissa raised a good kid. and shes a good mom. but life still happens and no one really talks abt how scott was parentified too #like. you gave a kid with a fixer complex supwerpowers. he is obviously going to feel the need to be a superhero #he barely got to be a kid before that and he certainly doesn't get to now which we see as early as season 1 #when he leaves his friends and girflriend in a room to hide in a room to go fight a monster #he doesnt get to hide. he doesnt get to not fight. by formality he's saying that he has to protect everyone #in fury matt shoots him in front of his mom and makes him leave her and threatens to kill her and he still cant help but show him sympathy #during his Tragic Backstory. like. scott wouldve saved matt if he couldve. i bet he thinks about matt honestly. #WAIT FUCK #FLASHING GIF TW #for the fourth andddddd seventh one #maybe the third one? im not sure but its him breaking thru the mountain ash its all glowy #anyway #scott doesnt get to be a kid and by s5 they forget that he's even a person #and by s6 they try to assert that as a positive #every villain makes him kinder but only because he doesn't have an alternative. it changes him. it can't not change him. #he can't be the same after. so it's kinder or crueler but crueler was never an option. #theyve made him into a saint by robbing him of his personhood

[rxttenfish]

thinking about miravi specifically in the context of Sound and Noise...

aaravi's a person who's been forced to be hyperaware of how loud shes being at any given moment, something which she's nonetheless not very good at and ends up being told off repeatedly because she gets too loud when shes angry, or excited, or happy, or anything, really. she's not good at volume control and can't figure out how to maintain an "acceptable" level for everyone else, something that those same people don't have a tolerance for and won't listen to her when she says she really can't help it, leaving her only options to be total silence or outright rejection when she does speak. it means she gets ousted even more from social situations and even moreso read as aggressive and mistreated for being so, even when she's really trying not to be, thus meaning she can only actually become aggressive due to this fear of retaliation and mistreatment.

and miranda comes from a culture that has a huge emphasis on sound and noise and constantly being able to hear everyone even if you aren't able to see them. that's why music is so important to them, why it's a part of their language and why their language is so complex, that it's a deeply ingrained part of how they socialize with each other to begin with. even in her situation, having to control her reactions for the sake of the throne and control exactly what she says in which way, this is still far more than what she's dealing with on land. for all of this, she feels strangely put down and hurt even when other people aren't intending to, having such a major part of her socialization just abruptly missing. no one will sing with her, no one will go to the same lengths, no one is constantly communicating so that she can know what's going on even when she can't see it - and, yeah, she also gets told off repeatedly because she's being too loud or too boisterous or not using her "inside voice" and can't figure out what's an acceptable level because she's just not made to deal with this.

which means, when aaravi starts getting excited and getting loud around miranda, well, she can understand that! for miranda, she can understand this even better than what might be seen as the "norm", and can much more easily work with what aaravi gives her. in turn, aaravi is encouraged to be as loud or as boisterous as she wants to be, that she has someone else who is also loud and boisterous and likes that about her, especially someone who's confident enough (helped further by the knowledge that her entire culture and people are also like this) to not be so easily pushed over or told that there's something wrong with her for being loud. in a way, its finding someone who speaks the same language and understands what the other means in these inflections in volume, and someone who encourages this without shaming the other for how they talk.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #miravi.txt #monster prom #this is also why i say they get even worse for everyone else when theyre together #try to tell them off for being too loud and their personalities and mutual reassurance will bounce off each other #and now theyll PURPOSEFULLY try to irritate you #(because. you know. not a lot of sympathy from people for whom this has been a repeated issue of trauma and alienation) #(they have someone to back them up now and they will not be easily cowed) #when aaravi meets other merfolk i imagine she is. very overwhelmed at first and not Thrilled about how touchy and invasive they are #but after a while i think she'd fall into the same pattern as she did with miranda #of getting used to this and realizing what the intention is behind these things #and actually getting Very Into It because its a form of community acceptance and encouragement #they are not afraid of her. they are welcoming her in. they want to make sure she knows she is a Part Of The Community. #(this also helped in kind by the realization that she can do these same things to them and they'll encourage this tenfold) #(because. its just friendliness to them. she is Like Them.)

[rambunctioustoons]

trio shenanigans!

#my art #toon ocs #monster hunt au #hunterr #trent #chase #chase orders white hot chocolate with caramel topping. thinks this is the most romantic option. #hunterr orders hot chocolate w/ whipped cream and sprinkles. eats all the sprinkles one by one as fast as possible. #also yeah just the concept that sirens could lure in literally anyone with anything #trent could be lured by woes of sympathy. a longing to be heard and seen. #hunterr has a harder shell. but tales spun of being so so lonely and needing a friend would get her. #trio

[honeypears]

I am genuinely in a state of shock at the world moving on with their lives. People posting 50 instagram stories and they're all just about the silly little things they're doing, as if a genocide isn't occurring right before their very eyes. When I see people writing long, long posts ranting about things, sharing and posting over and over in a single day and nothing in it even mentions Gaza - it's shocking. The vast majority of the world is acting as if nothing is happening. The majority of the world is actively choosing to remain silent and ignore an ethnic cleansing. People are sugar coating a genocide in order to not hurt others' feelings. People are saying they don't know enough, so they'll remain neutral - in regards to a genocide. I know that you can't expect goodness from most humans, but when you actually apply how cruel people can be, it's so painful. These people have hollows where their hearts should be.

#palestine #p #the only reason im being remotely kind when trying to educate people who are neutral is because i knwo they won't listen if i'm angry #but i am so angry #the world is lying to themselves for their own convenience #they are ignoring human suffering for their own convenience #there is no sympathy no warmth #people who claim they arent pro israel #but when it comes down it they support israel #you think people are human until situations like this come and you see that these people are only shells hiding monsters beneath them

[estravai]

i think the reason “yes, i too can love” made me go insane is because the queer coded monster being told he can’t love and responding softly that he can still rings true as part of the queer experience today

#like i’ve been told that i’m perverse and don’t have real love but rather a mental illness #and like OBVIOUSLY dracula is evil #my sympathy for the monster here is in a very specific context #dracula daily #dot talk