#do not judge by appearance

[an-unanonymous-messenger]

We hear many people saying: "Don't judge" or "You're being judgemental". It is due to the lack of understanding of what judgement is. This is how they judge hypocritically. But here we see how Jesus tells us to judge indeed, and not any other way than righteously. Hypocritical judgment is no righteous way of judging, but righteous judgment by the fruit of our neighbour is the way. It is easy to judge someone by their appearance, but do we ever consider that they may be going through something or are bearing something within? Maybe pain, grief, something tough to let go? This is how we should view people, for each of us is fighting his own fight. Let us therefore seek God's guidance to proper understanding of judgment of man, in order not to abuse the Word of God against those who actually know the true meaning. Bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour! Amen.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

There's a world of character development between Ax not killing a random guy because he might be Tom in #6, to holding Tom at tailblade-point in #53.

Oh yes, 100%. In #6, Ax still very much sees Jake as Surrogate Elfangor and sees Elfangor as perfect. If Jake says they're going to rescue Tom, then they're going to rescue Tom. Jake is going to succeed where Ax himself failed, Jake is going to rescue his older brother, Jake is going to save his planet, Jake is a war-prince exactly like all the other princes.

And then. An entire lifetime's worth of growing up, and growing together, over the next three years. Including:

The moment in #8 where Jake is naïvely ecstatic at the idea of yeerks dying because he assumes those humans are just going to walk free now, and Ax having to be the one to tell him the truth.

Their conversation at the end of #11, where Jake begs Ax for reassurance that he's not a failure to Elfangor's memory and Ax admits for the first time that maybe Elfangor was also just a guy doing his best while in over his head.

Ax getting slapped in the face with the failings of andalite war-princes in #18, and also watching Jake step up to fill in their gaps.

Their whole exchange in #26: Jake knows that Ax is tearing himself apart over having run away from the howlers, Ax knows that Jake knows. And then Jake asks Ax to be the one to risk everything drawing the howlers into their trap because he knows Ax needs this, and Ax knows that Jake knows, and Jake knows that Ax knows that Jake knows... but all they ever say out loud to each other is "Don't call me prince"/"Yes, Prince Jake."

All the times Ax has to defend following Jake when talking to fellow andalites: #8, #18, #38, #40, #45-46, #54. And the way that Ax shifts from "He's a war-prince because... because he is, okay?" to "Shut up, Prince Gonrod, and listen to the guy who has 100x the experience fighting yeerks that you do" forces him to verbalize all the ways that Ax may have forced Jake into this role, but Jake sure as hell rose to the occasion.

The agonizing scene in #49 where Tobias realizes Jake's too late to save his family, Ax realizes Jake's too late to save his family, and Jake... dribbles Tom's in circles and chatters about lawn mowers. Where we don't know for sure how much Jake is actually being naïve vs. how much he's in denial, but Tobias and Ax try again and again and again to get Jake to realize it's too late. They fail; it takes "Jean" firing a dracon beam at Jake's head for Jake to finally notice he's failed.

Ax being offered the title of prince in #51. With all that that entails. And all he has to do in return is give up on Jake.

By #53 Ax knows: he's following a human being. A fallible, immature human with no formal training. A human that Ax loves dearly, will soon risk disgrace and dismemberment to protect, a human more qualified than any human or any andalite to protect Earth from yeerks... but just some guy. Some guy who's doing his best, in over his head. Some guy who, like Ax, won't be strong enough to save his big brother. A guy who needs someone to protect him at times, the way Ax wishes he could've protected Elfangor. Even when that protection means facing down hard truths that Jake himself cannot see. Jake's blind spot is Tom, always has been, always will be. Ax would be doing humanity a favor to kill Tom right there, and Ax understands better than anyone why he cannot do that to Jake.

[nenoname]

stan twins the canon cptsd brothers i will always think about all your unaddressed issues that would make perfect plot fuel for your spinoff

and also the whole 'stan getting that poem by bill via a website which contrasts with bill getting one from the axolotl via a website' foreshadowing thing

like idk i would love something like su future but like more optimistic, aka not an accumulated breakdown that has to be mostly resolved off screen at the end :/// but something thats being kinda addressed throughout? (although would love to see one of them turn into a monster thats always fun lol)

stan having severe issues from his dad and those years of being homeless that we keep on getting more info on but never really getting confronted on (the drifter catalogue and tijuana incident...), him being completely alone for like twenty years when running the shack before soos comes along to the point that 1998 is noted as his low point, and him not really learning about bill+what he did to ford until ages after he killed him if he ever did get the full context

while i think amnesia and everyone seeing him as a hero actually helped with stan's 'i'm a worse version of my brother' thing its still a lingering issue too and we now got him being insecure over his own hands

ford being immediately thrown from 'being tortured by bill' to 'being stuck in the multiverse and being chased by bounty hunters constantly', him fully expecting himself to die when destroying bill, and him only now being safe for the first time in 30 years ....relatively safe, he's still in constant danger because of course he is

idk in the end the series wants them to be happy and they deserve it, its why i wasn't too worried about the book being like 'ooh bill is back!! and the book is haunting ford' thing cos i knew they'll be ok

[kerizaret]

Beard

[existingingrey]

The more I look at it the more I feel like Haseol couldn't take more of Jeongwoo's pining and made an excuse to get him to Sangcheol

백공죽 Extended Version

SCJW Pre-dating era 🤨

[thewritingpossum]

you know Edward must have initially tried to convince Hugh to become his fourth weed smoking boyfriend only for Hugh to hit back like

[bestworstcase]

& in fact one of the things that makes salem compelling as a character is this juxtaposition between her personal cruelty and the rightness of her cause; it bears repeating that she chose to live in exile rather than fight back for thousands of years while ozma dedicated himself to the cause of destroying her, and that her war follows on the heels of ozma forging a global alliance and then, as ozpin, abruptly locking down the relics in apparent preparation to summon the brothers back to remnant. if salem’s true goal is to avert the final judgment—get rid of the gods—then it is clear from the historical timeline and the events immediately preceding her commitment to war that she really did not want to go to war.

but with the information she has and the experiences she’s had there really is no other way to achieve her goal – every other possibility requires her to take it on faith that ozma is willing the break from his task now, against all signs to the contrary. he is still openly promoting worship of the brothers and urging everyone to live as if the final judgment will come tomorrow while zealously guarding the relics needed to summon them – no reasonable person would conclude from ozpin’s public actions that he is, in any way, wavering from his task, and so it is wholly irrational to expect salem to just intuit that somehow. and if ozpin is, as he seems to be, more committed than ever and on the brink of summoning the brothers, war is in fact her only recourse.

what makes salem a villain in this story is the abusiveness toward her associates; her individual cruelty, far more than the war of last resort, because the cruelty has no justification. and i think rwby is interested in the tension here, between how long salem refused to fight back and how cruel she is on a personal level. the tenderness with which she speaks of humanity versus her violent resistance to letting herself care about any one specific person.

i think it’s easy to write the cruelty off as a simple matter of salem… not caring, not having any interest in caring – in extremes this is how we get the "spoiled bitch" reading – but the same could be said of ozma; he’s nicer about it but no less willing to use people as disposable tools. why does he lie? why does he manipulate? why does he get violent when his secrets are about to be exposed? you don’t treat people you care about that way.

so ozma has his reasons – the trauma and the cognitive dissonance and the self-hatred and learned helplessness that motivates his submission to the divine mandate, the palliative fairytales, the retreat into dissociation to cope with being forced to exist as a parasite, and so on – and so too does salem, it’s just that hers are made more opaque. what drives this woman who speaks so lovingly of human virtue to treat individual humans like garbage? some of it is sheer alienation – she hasn’t been allowed to participate in civilization in thousands of years, of course she is antisocial – and the trauma of ozma’s betrayal, the deeper trauma of collective punishment, the fear of being hurt again, the resignation to being seen as a monster no matter what she actually does…

which i expect will begin to rise to the surface over the last few volumes. but the point is i do think her villain -> hero arc will turn almost entirely on ending and atoning for the personal cruelty as opposed to the war, and in fact i imagine there may end up being a stretch of the story wherein salem has moved clearly into the ‘good’ camp (as in: made things right between herself and her remaining associates, cinder in particular, and her true end is known to the audience) and still actively in conflict with the vacuo coalition because Her Cause is just. and that’s the kind of complexity rwby is interested in.

[divine--intervention]

NEW OC, THIS IS ERIAN

[ricochetthegoat]

Ricky Starks Collision - (10/21/23)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Gantober #6 - Eyeful

I have SO many frames that are just. Ganondorf's insane eyeliner game.

(It's the "drawing eyes in the corner of my highschool notebook" part of me rearing its ugly head I suppose u_u tho actually it's not just for that there's a thematic reason, but also his eyes are insanely fun to draw and drawing eyes mean not drawing anything else so that's a win win in my book babeyyy!!!)

[key0-m0ve-al0ng]

I think Milgram really really showcases how much people judge those unlike themselves more harshly. Like the more "relatable" a character was to the general public, the easier of an innocent vote they got.

For example, Amane is not a character many people like/relate to. So they give her less benefit of the doubt than characters like Fuuta (edit: autocorrect changed this to "Guitar"?? I'm so fuckin done????) and Mikoto, who are more likely to reflect the personalities of the target audience. Jackalope calls this out himself with Fuuta's second verdict announcement.

You see this happen in real life too; a minority and a non-minority could do the exact same action, and the person who is different from the others is going to be scrutinized more than the person who isn't. Criticism, blame, mistrust; if someone doesn't look, act, or think exactly like the majority, many will automatically question that person rather than their peers. It's gross and depressing.

[kryptonbabe]

You will get a new Wonder Woman run planned to be a long and structured one - but it's written by Tom King

You will get a new Black Canary run - the thing is, it will be written by Tom King

You will get a series of some silver age partially forgotten characters you like - Adam Strange, Omega Men, Metamorpho - but here's the catch: they'll all be written by Tom King

Why all these times I got something I wanted from DC it was like meeting this wise and cruel Jinn trying to warn me about the potential harm of my heart's desires?

"Be careful what you wish for, little one. Now take this Tom King book" the creature whispers while I sob

[friendship-switchblades]

nothing like getting piled on for “being mean” and “policing” for just frankly and directly disagreeing with someone in an “activist” comment section

[dannydevitosthiccdog]

Gobe, my beloved, whose foots are you cutting off?

I'm so hyped for the next song, I love Gobe so much. Like I know, if war crimes existed in this universe, he would have committed war crimes. He's definitely a wanted man, Kyle has confirmed that.

Looking closer. I think that they're looking at something... something familiar. Looks to me like a hulking grey skinned figure shambling out of the woods. Is Kyle really doing THAT to them?! Is it Reevin or just another experiment from the Priest?

Here's the wanted poster in Send Off Song compared to Gobe himself.

[crossdressingdeath]

I am never going to understand people who think DA2's approval system is better than DAV's. I mean, when we're talking "approval systems designed around the fact that the plot requires it to be impossible to drive your companions away through low approval" I think not being able to do anything that would drive them away is better than DA2's "abuse your partner and sell your friend into slavery right in front of the rest of the group and no one will care beyond a little red notification and five seconds of scolding at most"? The rivalry system is really badly implemented however good it was on paper, especially with how it ties into moral choices. Like if people really want to roleplay an abusive partner sure, fine, do whatever, it's fiction (that sounds sarcastic but I do mean it, it's not real and no one's actually getting hurt), but the fact that your companions don't instantly leave if you literally sell your friend into slavery (I will never be over the fact that you can sell Fenris and get at worst like. +15 rivalry at a point in the game where you've probably maxed out at least a few of your companions and so won't even get the notifications) kind of immediately makes it... y'know, not a well-handled mechanic in terms of the story to put it mildly. The concept of approval being based on how much you agreed with or challenged their beliefs instead of like/dislike was good, but in practice outside of maybe Sebastian's and Aveline's paths it's mostly just Hawke being horrifically emotionally abusive and the rest of the party just allowing it to happen because... well there wouldn't be a story if they all left. Maybe it's just me but I think if the plot demands that a) your party doesn't turn on you and b) they have enough personal loyalty to you to side with people they see as the enemy (DA2) or spend weeks tracking you down in the Fade to rescue you (DAV) you shouldn't be able to make them hate you or do things that should by all logic make them hate you! And frankly it wouldn't surprise me if part of the reason DAV's system is the way it is is because DA2's system was so badly handled. I can't prove it either way, but it wouldn't surprise me.