#they were children and deserved better

[floatingeyeball8]

i imagine it’s hard to sleep at night not knowing whether you sacrificed your best friend or a mimic

wanted to try something a little messier than my usual style, and i like how these turned out!

cassie drawing without words below

#my art #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf ruin #ruin spoilers #fnaf ruin spoilers #fnaf sb ruin #glamrock freddy #glamrock chica #fnaf roxy #fnaf monty #fnaf cassie #fnaf gregory #the ending really got me ngl #they were both just children #they deserved better #tw death #tw child death

[immagrosscandy]

y6ch18 feat. hora de aventura reference

#*sigh* oh rowan khanna #you were too good for this game #you deserved so much better #i miss drawing this nerd so much #they're the mom group and those two are the children that scream at a supermarket #while candy and ben act like complete idiots with rowan holding all the braincells and the group together #they're the mom friends and those two are like children screaming at a supermarker #rowan khanna #ben copper #candy vigiere #bronze trio #paula vigiere #merula snyde #hphm #hogwarts mystery #harry potter hogwarts mystery #hphm mc #hphm fanart #fanart #myart

[bluedeedeedoop]

I have more food for the children.

Eat up my fellow Barrissoka consumers.

(edit: click for better quality ig- T-T)

#the children were hungry so i provided #barriss offee #star wars #ahsoka tano #barrissoka #my art #fan art #help my sanity #the clone wars #barriss offee deserves better #star wars clone wars #they are gay

[fishareglorious]

why were they doing duels in court in chapter 4. is it a actual normalized thing for their world or saint pavlov just makes the defendant and the prosecution throw hands to see who comes out the victor. do they do it for every corruption case. can we watch madam z wrestle then dump a mug full of hot coffee on constantine's face godot ace attorney style for the whole breakout incident and for multiple instances of child murders

#reverse 1999 #certified storm moments #look. i will always find a way to loop it back to chapter 3. they were just kids. they deserved some justice no? #i think nouvelles et testes pour rien changed my brain chemistry for better or worse. that damn ending broke me and i was #not the same person i was upon finishing it #empty wardrobe was tragic and a look into the inevitability of the storm and how it affected the ones left behind but when it comes #to chapter three its horrific because they were purposefully lead to their fates. yeah they were a bunch of children too curious for their #own good but surely even in an authoritatian school you'd try to lead them away instead of. aye let's fucking let them see the storm

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

started watching the new live action avatar

it’s. It’s pretty ok I guess? But there’s a lot of things I’m not altogether happy about. It feels very. Generic. Which is kind of sad.

I’m only two episodes in though, so I won’t be too harsh. But there are a few things that I really don’t like, and number one was Aang going into the Avatar State in front of Sokka and Katara for the first time when seeing Monk Gyatso instead of when escaping Zuko, and that moment being isolated instead of the moment everyone in the world knew the Avatar had returned

in the original series, Aang goes into the Avatar State when confronted by irrefutable proof in the form of the skeleton of his best friend and mentor - the airbenders really were massacred and he can no longer deny it.

every statue of the Avatar around the globe lights up in a single moment. the legendary figure’s destined return is announced to the world by an overwhelming outpouring of grief and rage from a young child who just discovered that everyone he ever knew and loved is gone. it’s poignant. the Avatar’s return in that moment is not a triumph. that terrifying show of strength and power, enough to light up the world in its glow, is pure emotional anguish from a small twelve year old, who just saw the dead body of his mentor and now believes he is all alone

and Katara and Sokka having seen the Avatar State before means that there is less of the shock and “what is happening” in this pivotal scene (which was the main focus in the live action). of course Sokka is still concerned about them potentially getting flung off the mountain. but both of them know this reaction for what it is - mysterious power, sure, but primarily, they see and recognize his grief.

I just. what happened to “we’re your family now” and “neither of us are gonna let anything happen to you”??? :(

on a side note, I do feel like Katara and Sokka themselves have been heavily (heh) watered down. it’s a shame. Sokka’s my favourite, and I just think that I. Don’t trust writers with Katara now. (Why is her waterbending a secret? The whole reason she didn’t learn was because there was no one to teach her and she couldn’t leave… also where is her instant connection with Aang… where is their silliness… where did it go…)

however! I did like a couple things that were done and I want to be a bit positive so here

love Zuko and Suki’s actors. they did a great job

Sokka and Suki’s training together was cute ☺️ (though I wish he had worn the uniform of the Kyoshi Warriors…)

Aang himself is adorable :) (wish he got to be a little more silly but Netflix adaptations always are more serious for some reason)

I actually kind of enjoyed getting to see some of the scenes from the war’s outbreak. I prefer the way the original show portrays it, with a lot of info being learned reverse chronologically, but it was cool to see Sozin, and some of the airbenders, and a little more of Gyatso (who I also really enjoyed :’) )

Katara bending water at Aang and it reducing to them splashing each other without even trying to bend. Rare sillies!

I thought Kyoshi herself coming to defend her island was pretty sweet!!!

Katara getting flashbacks to her mother’s death on seeing firebending. Well I don’t like this, obviously, but it clearly shows how her mother’s death haunts her, and if they have Katara face off against Zuko again at the North Pole, it’ll be all the more triumphant.

Suki’s mom!!! Damn she was so cool!!!!!!

#also whyyy was Katara not the first person Aang saw??? this is really important!!! #and what is Katara’s role here. She didn’t even seem to break the iceberg. That’s. That’s her whole. That’s. She. She kickstarts it. Gah. #Katara my beloved my sweetie I don’t know why your writing got fucked up in the comics and now here #you deserve so much better #also why no Aang and Zuko confrontation? hello? that’s really important??? #they had him meet Iroh though. so that was actually pretty interesting #no agni kai between Zhao and Zuko either? maybe it’ll happen next episode? #ugh. I actually don’t like a lot of things. But I’ve only watched two episode so I’ll be chill and wait for more #storyrambles #atla #also this is just me being nitpicky but if we were going to actually see gyatso’s death (which. Idk it was more impactful not seeing it tbh #there’s this implication that gyatso may have broken his vow of pacifism since his skeleton was surrounded by tons of fire nation soldiers #implying he may have killed them #it wouldn’t have fit or made sense at the beginning of the show #but if they were going to show his death scene. Idk. Guess I just expected something more substantial #personally from what little we knew of Gyatso it actually does seem likely he’d break his vow if he really did die protecting the children #also. he was supposed to be the strongest airbender at the time. come on now. he just gets roasted?

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

#regret here meaning less feeling the emotion of actual regret obviously because time lords do not actually funxtion on unicorn rules. they #already get sad just fine on their own. no humanity needed for that. #but i dont know. i just dont think he brushed it off so easily. i think he did a hell of a job convincing himself he did. #and what better way then to twist his own great works and destroy the species he was working so hard to save at the end of the universe. #but what about the knowledge that he *could* be that person. that somewhere in him exists a version that wanted to save people. #a version that is painfully too much like the doctor. even. now is that part worse or better than the human part? #but if past regenerations are ghosts i think yana deserves a haunt. #anyway maybe ignore this one im rambling about nothing here #theres just. i dont know. what if you were the last of your kind and in surviving you made yourself Not Like Them in a way you’ll never #escape. #i mean doctor who is just so concerned with all these plots about hybrids and children of the tardis and clones and What Makes A Time Lord. #but they’re so obsessed with it in just. a very Lore way. is what it feels like. we get brushes of more like with jenny and how she’s #physically a time lord and the doctor denies her that inheritance. a shared suffering… #but me myself im just fascinated with the doctor and the master as the time lords who survived. but they survived Wrong #its. its. children of gallifrey that don’t belong to her anymore. you know? #i dont care if river’s got time lord dna!!! or the metacrisis is physically human!!! i dont care!!! talk to me about what it means beyond #their blood and bones!!! what’s it like to have your sense of self stripped from you like that!!! #what’s it like when so much of you is the shed skin of time lords past. but one of you was human. one of you was painfully *humiliatingly* #human!!! #enough about how much dna you need to count as a time lord. i want to know how much they can mutate until they can’t be recognized as one. #does that make sense?

[damnpotatoe]

i swear yall villainise both black brothers. like yeah sirius wasnt selfish for leaving and regulus wasnt a coward for staying. its normal for both of them to resent the other for their decision yet neither of them are in the wrong or the right in that manner. they shouldn’t even have faced this problem, its all walburga and orions fault fr

#regulus deserved better #sirius and regulus #the black brothers #regulus black #sirius black #the marauders #istg they were both children

[lying-on-floors]

I just wanna say, in my head, all the boys that were snatched up by "The Grabber" all got out alive and are each seeking therapy in seperate places and that Finney, Robin and Gwen are being sweet little delinquints in the park or wherever bc those kids deserve that, man. THEY DESERVE TO BE KIDS AND BE HAPPY!!

#the black phone #finney blake #robin arellano #vance hopper #bruce yamada #the grabber #let them be happy #let them be kids #they were children #they deserved better #they deserve the world #i love them so much #my children #my babies #gwen blake

[archduke-enver-gortash]

mmm essay about sally and kid gort in the tags (cw for child abuse, mentions of suicide, animal cruelty and a murder attempt. i always hope i don’t have to say this but just in case: i don’t excuse or condone any of her or gort’s behaviour at all.) this is literally not even touching upon everything i have to say because i hit the fucking tag limit lmao. NOBODY READ IT’S BAD BRAINSTORMING I JUST NEEDED TO GET IT OUT SOMEHOW

#thinkin too much about gortie side characters again. #sally this time and why she specifically talks about him the way she does #like dravo is obviously still shitty but to me he was. ‘just ‘neglectful #while sally actively hated and even felt terrorised by her own child #like. it’s not like i don’t understand her at all. #imagine you and your love don’t have much besides each other and your shop and you get pregnant and ready to raise a child #only for it to not be a child he didn’t and doesn’t cry ever and he learns everything so much sooner than most but then he never calls you #his parents and it’s not just a petty thing kids do sometimes you feel that he doesn’t see you as family and the worst part is that you #agree deep down #and as he gets older he doesn’t have any friends and actively rejects the notion of the entire concept #but then as time passes you hear about how he has entire groups of children following him and then several of them commit suicide #and that thing coming to sit with you and dravo at the dinner table says that he did what you did last week when the axe to chop wood broke #and you discarded it and got a new one #and he has these habits of ripping out flowers and making sure that they don’t regrow #and then you hear rumours about a friend’s daughter’s cat disappearing and think nothing of it #until you visit his tree house a month later and find a declawed cat and birds with clipped wings and crushed bugs that he keeps fondly #and then you see him with other children and they don’t know and his face is different and body language is entirely different #and were it not for the fact that you know better you would never see anything but a normal child #and you know that you are one who painstakingly brought this thing that should not be into the world and so you decide to end it all one da #and go to him as he’s asleep with the knife shaking in your hand #but he cries when you’re above him! screams at the top of his lungs! #so you beg for forgiveness even though you don’t deserve it through tears but as soon as the knife is put away you see the act drop and fee #his clever fingers having twisted your brain inside and out and you know that you can do nothing #and so the opportunity arises to at least remove him out of your life if not everyone’s lives and you take it immediately. #but you heard him talk. how he will close his fist around the world one day. and you know that it is not a matter of if but when. #like. imagine that. jesus dude. #like i hc her as someone that is messy and does not know a lot about life and she certainly wouldn’t have been a good mother but the love #or at least desire to love is there somewhere. and believing that having a child is really the only somewhat meaningful thing she can do #with her life. she’s not some hero or rich or anything of note. so there’s a lot obligation and not genuine desire for family here. #but she never really got the chance to be an actual mother in the first place so. who knows what that might have looked like

[justa-personn]

no i’m okay i’m just remembering how small and sad rhaenyra looked in the scene when she was marrying laenor and how alicent’s infant children were bigger than her torso when she held them

#they were children #they deserved so much better #house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targeryan #alicent hightower #laenor valeryon #aegon ii targaryen #helaena targaryen #baby aegon #baby helaena #alicent and rhaenyra

[kaijudyke]

it's rare that i'm ludicrously reality-defyingly canon-denyingly attached to a het ship but i truly don't care how much all adventure time media keeps pushing huntress wizard, i WILL be team "finn and flame princess get back together once they've both grown up and matured emotionally" until the day i die and you CANNOT take that away from me

#talk tag #i LOVE huntress wizard. i wanted an episode about her for YEARS before flute spell came out i truly adore her #but i simply don't think she should date finn #or have his children in an alternate universe. what the hell was that even. #she's such a fucking badass she deserves better than to have a bunch of kids and then die offscreen before the story starts #finn and fp aren't wrong for each other they were just dumb kids when they dated! #i had a girlfriend when i was 13 and i fucking sucked at being in a relationship oh my god i had no idea how to act #i love that they had the arc they had. i love that it was taken seriously that he hurt her even though he didn't mean to #and that he grew and learned from it #but i just. want them to be together. they've gone through all of that and they've grown and i think they could be good for each other now #i just think they make sense together! they're both so passionate and they have FUN together

[dirtytransmasc]

Aemond killing Luke =/= what happened during the night of Blood & Cheese. that was not equal* revenge, the two events can never and will never be equal under any circumstance nor attempts at justification.

I said what I said, and I believe it with my whole chest.

*quick edit on wording, that was my bad, definitely made my point look real stupid... this is why you double-check your rants, especially when they're controversial

#the fight between Aemond and Luke was unequal but a fight none the less #both were on dragon back. both had some sort of battle knowledge. aemond had some level of cause #it may not have been justification. but aemond was seeking revenge for his eye after YEARS of anger #while there was a degree of injustice done to luke #it was nothing like the night of blood and cheese #they attacked 3 innocent children who were 6 and 2. not old enough to hurt flys let alone people #threatened and damn near tortured their mother. forcing her to pick which of her sons would die. while also threatening to rape her daughte #helaena nor her children had ever hurt anyone and they paid the price for aemonds misdeeds #while I understand wanting to make a blow to the green after the death of luke #that night was not an equal attack nor was it justifiable #and I hate seeing people say “they got what was coming to them” because they didn't. nothing could have justified that night #jaehaerys targaryen #jaehaera targaryen #maelor targaryen #helaena targaryen #they deserved better #aemond targaryen #luke velaryon #hotd #house of the dragon #blood and cheese

[fictionadventurer]

"Good children's television lets the child characters learn lessons for themselves. Adults can provide inspiration or help, but the children should take initiative for their own discoveries and come to conclusions based on their experiences.

Bad children's television has the adults tell the children all the lessons and information they should learn. The children are only there as stand-ins for an audience that the writer wants to preach this information to and passively absorb the lessons rather than taking an active role in their own story."

I find it quite ironic when a genre becomes exactly what they were trying to act as an alternative for.

Because the point of children's entertainment is that it educates in a more entertaining and engaging way than school, you know by letting the kids enjoy fun adventures. Kids don't like being lectured or talked down to, either in school or in their television. It's why they love kid heroes.

You can so very much tell when a children's show is written by someone who remembers what it's like to be a child and respects children as human beings, and when it's written by someone who thinks it's their duty to Educate The Youth so they become Knowledgeable Adults. A children's show has to understand that the audience is already smart before they can begin to teach them anything.

#answered asks #adventures in writing #i am still so angry over that painful curious george episode #where george suddenly doesn't know what a shadow is #(even though there's an ENTIRE EPISODE about groundhog day) #and four-year-old allie comes out and explains it's his shadow #and then says #i kid you not #'my teacher says that a shadow comes when our bodies block the light' #(perhaps not an exact quote but 'my teacher says' was definitely used and it still pains my every nerve) #and then george wonders something about shadows #and where the earlier seasons were BUILT around george having questions #and then trying out different ways to find answers and solutions #in THIS episode allie says they should just ask the man with the yellow hat #and the man with the yellow hat TELLS them about shadows #in a similar vein there's another late episode where george wonders about migrating birds #(somehow everyone figures out he has these detailed questions even though all he does is grunt and point) #and the man with the yellow hat ponders it while they're shopping #and then I KID YOU NOT professor wiseman shows up and is like 'i can tell you the answer' #it pains me so much i am so enraged for the sake of the children who deserve better #unfortunately my niece has no taste and has not noticed she is being fed inferior mental fare #she just likes watching the japanese monkeys slide down the snow dragon #(which is one of the better parts of one of the later episodes) #(that at least feels of a piece with some of the ghostwritten picture books) #(even though that ENTIRE EPISODE is otherwise 'people tell george things while vapid light pop music plays)

[wingsofmud]

Imagine if there were more than one group of false dragonets. Imagine if our main cast were false dragonets.

Obviously we know the prophecy is fake, so then what's to stop the Nightwings from ensuring there are multiple failsafes? Just make it so the location of the dragonets is kept secret except from the Guardians watching them and the Nightwing assigned to them and bada boom you get multiple groups of dragonets.

Dragons not born on the brightest night? Okay, you made the prophecy Nightwings, take the eggs until they hatch then give them back to the Talons.

What if the main cast is a failed group that unfortunately established themselves as the true dragonets in the eyes of the public.

Imagine if Starflight's book was about him slowly learning about all these false dragonets who do not know about the main cast due to being sheltered all their lives and Morrowseer decides to cut his losses and get rid of the failsafes in case anyone puts two and two together.

Cue drama

#this has been my the false dragonets deserved better PSA #wof #wings of fire #wof rewrite #I really don't like the way the false dragonets are just there to prove our main cast's relationship is *so special* #I mean it is but if anything they should be just as close further proving that the DoD's relationship isn't so strange #that yeah the dragons can get along #the false dragonets could've been super interesting but they were all just hyper aggressive for no reason #except Fatespeaker but also she was the love interest so #also Tui's weird thing with punishing abused children who aren't uwu sweet in the face of their abuse #Flame and Viper especially deserved so much better #I imagine Morrowseer attempts to see who he can replace #but then eventually realizes that the dragonets come as a group or not at all #so ...child murder I guess

[8lah8lah]

"both sides of shipcourse are wrong" says person about to not bat a fucking eye when someone on one side gets chased off the fucking internet and doxxed and told they deserve assault for liking ships that are abusive in a way they dont immediately understand/relate to. "shipping discourse is just sooo dumb and immature" says person about to fucking gasp and scream and tell all their mutuals and post "STOP putting ***** on my dash in 202_" vagues like A Gross Drawing Existing In The World is going to singlehandedly groom and traumatize and enable and Normalize everything for everyone on the planet simultaneously for simply being put out there and it being out there is a category 10000 mental safety hazard that they must bravely defend people from. "youre stupid if you care about ship discourse lmao" posts brave tumblr user about to get really upset publically over One person they saw shipping a like, 4-year age gap between two fictional chars that's there if you Squint, an opinion that Clearly has NOTHING to do with very specifically one side of the discourse

#8log upd8 #bottom line i really really Rreally resent people going 'oh haha this Stupid Internet Drama #is So Dumb and everyone who cares about it is dumb too' followed by #literally ruining somebody's life because they never bothered to look into or learn why #that person likes the stuff they do. OR LIKE GIVE THEM ANY GOOD FAITH AT ALL? #at the very very very very fucking least you would ASSUME these people see someone getting #Harassed Off The Fucking Internet and go hm did this person really deserve it. what did they do #and why and what is their side of the story. #NOPE its just Ummmm make sure to not reblog from *** or youll get Freak Poisoning by proximity!! #it's why i don't really post my own stuff on here anymore; i don't feel comfortable- #-being in a social environment where people will just up and decide someone deserves #to Not Exist where they can see them anymore. even if it's not me it's happening to #it's too cruel and i can't stand it ._.; if you do or allow stuff like this please unfollow me #or better just block me outright. 'oh but what if they post-' I Don't Fucking Care #unless they're posting about specific real living/lived human beings in harmful ways #they don't deserve this shit and even if they WERE posting about real people (they arent.) #what do you think online harassment would do to stop that? you think predators are gonna #get vagued and go Aw shucks ive been caught better stop being weird about specific real children! #tags are getting long lol sorry

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

i still dont feel like my life has truly "started" yet cause i'm still developing skills while living at home rn, but im trying new things and learning more about myself too im p sure. i also have some goals around like... trying to socialize and approach others

#kind of wish i could get some kind of skill development out of therapy already cause most sessions are me talking her ear off so far lol #i mean i do appreciate getting that kind of support and it feels good to be reaffirmed by someone who like ... works with that sort of thin #like 'oh my childhood has left a considerable impact that im still feeling the ramifications of today. but im worried that when i talk - #- about that it sounds like i won't let go of the past. plus we all were just children who didnt know better' #and hearing from my therapist like 'i'm in my 40's and stuff from my childhood still affects me too. i was also bullied growing up. you can #- acknowledge that you all were children but what they did was still bad and that you deserved better' #with my family it just felt like i wasn't allowed to process trauma. esp with what happened to my ex. i guess they dont like remembering- #- her and how she treated me but its like. talking about it is me trying to process and move on ...