#(and he'd probably be dead)

[bunnieswithknives]

As much as I love angst I think it would be funny if he just didnt give af

[quaintcy]

What Vince thinks about during his smoke break:

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron again as an adult is so great because not only do you appreciate the nostalgia and joy of it, the stunning 2D animation mixed with early 3D techonology and well written tight story with a main character that never speaks.

But also you appreciate that the plot relies on horses, despite not being typical talking horses in cartoons, being extremely intelligent to the point that they are aware of their captivity and exploitation. And it involves a hyper intelligent horse dismantling (or, at the very least significantly delaying) American colonialism's expansion into the west.

This horse also very likely killed many colonialists when they were either launched at high speeds from his back, kicked in the head or blown up in a train explosion.

Good for him.

[thimblings]

viago "fashion police" de riva

[sweetlullabyebye]

Charles' thing is that he wants to feel alive and that's part of the reason why he decided to never move on to the afterlife right? Meanwhile Edwin thinks Charles will move on and that he'll be alone again because 'he isn't good with people'.

But then when the Night Nurse shows up a second time Charles is ready to go wherever -including Hell- as long as Edwin shouldn't have to go back there, meanwhile Edwin refuses that they be split up, and both are okay with being sent together to the Lost and Found Department to be sorted out later as long as they're together-

[snoflurriee]

whenever wolfstar fights, remus keeps his hands shoved in his back pockets because no matter how bad the argument gets he would never lay a hand on sirius out of anger and doesn't want them to worry even for a second that he would

[sillyandgoth]

todd anderson is a passenger princess

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Daryl sign language compilation

[a2zillustration]

A fun puzzle bonding activity!

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[good-to-drive]

Does anyone else ever think/ruminate about what the beatles would have been doing if they weren't famous?

I know THE Eric Idle literally said George could have been a comedian, but when I imagine his life without the beatles, I do prefer to think of him as a shitty comedian. It just feels more enticing, somehow, for George to languish at open mic nights, soaked in flop sweat as he desperately tries to be part of a world that has repeatedly and viciously rejected him, sending these earnest, lonely bids for connection out into the unforgiving silence, and fully incapable of letting this dream go because no matter what happens he loves this. Just straight up fucking obsessed with the world of comedy. One of these people who adores and respects the alchemy of creating humor regardless of whether they have it themselves. Graced with perpetual obscurity, his biggest dream a sisyphean task, and he is so much happier that way. 

Paul was literally always going to be a famous musician, but if we push that aside and force him to fit into an un-famous life, I think he’d actually be quite a good high school teacher. Good teachers are well-spoken and passionate, almost like good storytellers, which is why Paul would be so fantastic and so adored. But good teaching also comes from a place of humility, and that’s where it gets a bit dicey. He’d try very hard to be a popular kid, while also impressing on his students that he’s a lot smarter than them and they should be very impressed -- and on some level it would work, and he would experience a microcosm of fame within this little school. But high school, even more than fame, is fickle. You can’t be both the cool kid everyone loves and the smart kid everyone's impressed with, and you can’t be either if you’re a 45 year old man. So his star would constantly be slipping, and he would constantly be fighting to bring it back up.

John would be in prison. You couldn’t get away with being any of these people if you weren’t famous, but I think George and Paul would find a way to restrain themselves (Paul particularly). They’d probably get punched in the face a lot, almost as much as they deserved, but they wouldn’t do anything quite severe enough to be incarcerated. John, though, doesn’t seem to have had much choice in the matter, and I suspect sooner rather than later he’d end up in prison. 

Ringo would be dead.

[tobi-smp]

you know, with hindsight now what it is I really do think a more literal reading of c!techno's chat would have helped his characterization a Lot

and mind you, this was originally intended to be the case, and very well may have been intended all along even if it wasn't usually emphasized within the lore

and don't get me wrong, I Get why it fell out of favor within the fandom. it coincides with a Very storied ableist trope that demonizes DID and disorders adjacent to it, and Can be spoken about in a way that is essentially indistinguishable from it depending on the word choice.

but the thing is ! not only does it not Have to be an allegory for DID, I straight up don't think it is At All.

because we Know what it's an allegory for. It's His Chat. there's technoblade playing the game, and there's the thousands of people watching with expectations and wants that he's compelled to meet (or, at the very least, pacify through Entertainment).

and this makes much Much more sense when conceived of as Supernatural. be that spirits, gods, demons, or anything that could fill that role. separate entities that, for whatever reason, only techno can sense the presence of and be affected by.

and of course, to an extent this is true for all creators. everyone had an audience that they were meant to entertain and the choices they made were influenced by that fact.

but technoblade came in with a Very distinct set of expectations that heavily impacted the choices he was Expected to make and the kinds of stories that he could tell. he was more or less a living legend in real life just as much as he was in roleplay, and these things were inherently connected.

and it's like !

when c!technoblade says he was peer pressured into killing tubbo at the red festival he Is technically talking about what happened within the roleplay. schlatt was demanding it from him, there's a sort of pressure there. but schlatt was also the dictator they were set to kill, and techno has never had any trouble fighting people he considered a dictator before, and certainly not Schlatt of all people.

but he WAS being peer pressured By His Audience. by thousands of people, most of which were demanding blood Because It Was The Expectation, because it'd be Fun.

out of universe technoblade made the decision he thought would be the most Entertaining, and he was right! consistently he made choices that would let him do the most bombastic Spectacles possible. And It's Great. he's Excellent at pulling dramatics and making a compelling scene that give other people room to work off of. in that sense I'd consider techno an Excellent actor, and I have to imagine that he was fun to work with.

the problem is when you then have to justify it from an in character perspective, grounded in those mushy things like Feelings with characters that can be traumatized and sustain lasting damage, Especially Without acknowledging the out of character incentive.

mind you, it's not Impossible to Create a backstory that could justify it. why a character as consistently powerful and feared as technoblade would feel pressured to kill an ally by someone he not only Can kill but Wanted To Kill. why a character as seemingly secure and in control as technoblade would lash out the way that he does to perceived betrayal, and yet consistently puts no weight onto having killed and permanently scarred an ally that trusted him.

what that'd need is tragedy. a storied history of being hurt and having to survive. building up To an untouchable god from a much much more vulnerable position. Long Lasting trauma that's lead to this deep insecurity and paranoia. and that's Possible and that's Compelling.

but it's just not in the text.

not only did we never learn basically Anything that c!technoblade was up to pre-series, we actually know Less by the end than when we started because of the sbi retconning.

it's a Theoretically Possible interpretation that's technically never Contradicted by canon, but would have to be created by scratch. it's a compelling idea for a fan fic (and one I'd like to read) and it's compelling for a theoretical recontextualization of the character, but it's just not In The Text.

meanwhile, we have the video above.

we have the Objective Fact that technoblade's decision making was often subject to the rule of cool (very Very effectively) to entertain his audience.

and most compellingly, these concepts Don't Need To Be Separate. in fact, in my opinion they're Stronger when you put them together.

because the thing is. it's Difficult to imagine techno as ever being in a vulnerable position. he is just Objectively more powerful than everyone else on the server, both in real life And within the lore. How could he have ever been afraid when he was stronger than anyone and everyone combined? when we saw with our own eyes that techno could face nearly the whole server at once and win.

but he Is a tragic character, at least he's meant to be. and that tragedy makes much Much more sense as something Inward.

technoblade as a character who Needs connection, who Needs stability, who Needs security, who Needs friendship and community and Love. but Lashes Out, Obliterates to the core of the earth, because of something that's not only out of his control but that other people Cannot Understand.

how do you explain to a child that you killed their best friend because a chorus of the undead called for his blood and you (in all the glory that he'd idolized) were unable to do anything but comply? how do you explain to that child that you beat him senseless in a pit as the restless dead jeered and laughed?

That's interesting. That's Compelling.

technoblade is idolized like a god, feared like a force of nature, and in an instant cut himself off from nearly everyone who'd considered him an ally. and that seems to be a pattern, over and over and over again. he's left isolated, and in return he faces retaliation, and in return he's always Waiting for retaliation.

and what do you say to someone who wants to kill you for being a monster? that it's Fine Actually because you only did what you did because you have a curse that compels you to? that the supernatural guided you to destroy their homes and kill their people? (rip jack manifold you will be missed)?

That Doesn't Quite Help Your Case.

technoblade as someone who is beholden to this literal cycle of violence and Loses those things that could ground him, community, stability, People, as a result. who Tries to overcome this very fact (to become a better person, in his own words as per the clip above), but is pulled back into it as a consequence of his own actions.

that's a tragedy !! that Makes Sense. that allows him to be Both this force of nature that other characters have to survive And A Person Who Is Hurt By The Same Conflict.

"I'm a person!" that fear of dehumanization makes So So Much More Sense when you see technoblade as someone who Already fears himself. who fears being a monster, who fears losing control, who has faced isolation again and again and again.

and, importantly, it doesn't have to be anyone else's Fault.

by making the source both Internal and Completely External (something that none of the other characters have any awareness or control over), you can Have techno as a tragic character without demonizing anyone else Or erasing the impact that c!techno had on them.

and in that sense, it Can be an allegory for mental illness, but not in that direct "oooooh how scary he hears voices" kind of way that people fear it looks. but in that sometimes people Will do things that can hurt others while not feeling in control. anger and mania and paranoia, things that you can't always Control and yet that impact that you have on other people still Matters.

and the answer to that is, often, vulnerability and accountability.

I think a lot about technoblade isolating himself so near entirely from the rest of the server, and slowly gathering a support system Back by the end. and I Really Do think that framing of it through this lens is a Very impactful way of breaking it down.

tubbo, tommy, wilbur, ranboo, niki, I think they'd All understand not feeling in control. lashing out, maybe even feeling justified in the moment, but hurting people they care about and furthering their own isolation.

There's Something There, and it's already In The Text. it just needs to be expanded on.

and why not do that ourselves now?

[moonchild311]

Listen, I love desi James, especially in the wizarding world if Im writing a hogwarts AU James is probably gonna be desi

But James in modern day AU as Spanish or Latino in general is making me weak in the knees

BUT HEAR. ME. OUT. Egyptian James potter?

How do we feel about that?

Like ik everyone hc him as different ethnicities but I'm proposing the idea of Egyptian James.

Who's with me?

[once-more-with-anxiety]

uh so I was just looking at 19th century terms of endearment cause I'm thinking of writing a DBDA fic and I just want to say we have GOT to go back to older romantic nicknames because there were some seriously adorable ones and now we have. babygirl and pookie

anyways imagine Edwin calling Charles angel.

[evostrashbin]

the curse of immortality (spoiler: Kiran is also on this picture 👍)

[hopefulstarlightheart]

Transfem adjacent Wada rotting my brain i think what kills me is that if its something realized post game then the survivors would be So Supportive especially Yanagi. Wada you are the girl ever. More rambling in the tags

[agencypeach]

imagine Edwin's surprise when he realized that Charles is left-handed...