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Consistent Patterns of Behavior as a way to create horror and dramatic tension:

The character of Jin Guangyao in The Untamed.

Nothing is more attractive in villain behavior than their capacity to control their destructive powers. In fact it’s not so much how clever or preverse their evil is that creates tension and horror, but rather how it’s distributed through the story. And it’s most frightening when they lose control, when they themselves are no longer sure if they are going to kill or not.

 A villain has to be consistent enough for their behavior to be readable by the viewer. We must be able to discern what rules govern their behavior and who at any time is in danger of them. A villain establishes themselves by demonstrating their killing behavior. We must be sure that they have no respect for the lives of others, if we are to be horrified by them. This is usually established by “harmless” killings. Killings that are descriptive of the villain’s behavior, but not relevant to the plot.

In Jin Guangyao’s journey, there is a wide variety of such killings. He kills several disciples of the Nie Clan, a Clan he belonged for offending him, and then progresses to the murder of members of the Wen Clan, which he also belonged. So from the beginning he establishes himself as a murderous traitor. But the treasons here are “light”. At first he kills as retaliation for offenses. 

And then he kills because that is what is expected of him.

However, Jin Guangyao manages not only to be duplicitous- something that can be boring- but dual in nature. His refinement and brutality co-exist perfectly. All his vengeances are slick, characterized by economy, and unpredictable remorse. He is both poison and sword, suicide and execution. What is frightening is not his evil, but his decision to act on it. It’s this ambivalence between empathy and cruelty that chills the most. 

Choosing to kill demonstrates a loss of control. A control he will have to assume again only by killing. And this is the horrifying element in his behavior.  Guangyao’s character usually is presented in intimate and elegant settings with his most loved ones, seemingly placating them, even as he designs to kill them. Even as he enters civilization and establishes himself at the top of his world, he carries this traitorous nature within him. At any time the most intimate partner can become an enemy. In the world of civilized society it’s frightening to think that its worst antisocial enemy is someone who is fully integrated to it.

Just as the bedroom appears refined and elegant like his public persona, the secret torture chamber behind it, especially where he seats Qin Su, is full of knives and swords, reminding his martial, killing side. The swords in the background bring to mind the ruthless, unemotional Meng Yao in the Sun Scorching Palace where in just a very short amount of time, swords fly in and out of frame, and two people die. It’s the same here, all the swords in the background are pointed in Qin Su’s direction betraying the true killing nature of her husband/brother.  

And this portrays the abuses Meng Yao relatiates against. He knows how cruelty, deceit and dirtiness are ingrained to the finest things in his world. The wealth and success of his family would be impossible without murder, and it’s destructive tendencies ran rampant with Guangyao’s father, whose disorderly mating produces incestuous or nonexistent relations between his children.

Good villains do not push people away in order to be villainous. They draw them impossibly in and then destroy them. Watching characters struggle against villains is always a key moment in tension. Should they accept the villain they can remain safe, but then won’t they too become compromised and sucked into the cycle of violence. And if everyone is bad then that’s just depressing. If anything the victim is an indication of hope. Evil is not universal, like the villain thinks, it’s not an instictive reaction that threatens the foundation of the world.

Except in the case of Jin Guangyao. Then the victims themselves become facets of evil. He attributes it to them so that he can seduce them into complaissancy and silence to preserve and prolong the suffering that he deems a natural extension of the world.

“If I am so horrible, then you by association you are the same as me.” he seems to say to Qin Su. And he asks Nie Mingjue to consider the same. “Why does your morality allows you to execute others and mine does not? We are very much the same thing.” 

And this betrays his motive for the extermination of the loved ones. He finds them to be similar to him in some degree. He kills them for their perceived likeness to him, something that echoes in the off-camera destruction of his child, his father, and even the prostitutes at Blossom Pavillion. 

Jin Guangyao even reminds Lan Xichen of his own evil- ingratitude. The following statements are accusations, highlighting the uncomfortable truth about the villain’s progression. Evil is unavoidable, and anyone can become its agent willingly. Anyone can destroy a loved one no matter the sincerity of their emotions. Lan Xichen becomes the killer of Guangyao precisely because of his fond feelings for him, not despite them.

During these intimate judgements, he moves closer to Lan Xichen driving the sword deeper inside him. He moves closer to him both physically and mentally. Enough to engange him so he can better destroy him. Intimacy is a facet of his destructive nature.

And controlling the lovers, forcing degradation on them and compeling them to death is the greatest intimacy he can share with them. It’s the only time he can present his real self, a vacant self. A self with no thoughts or feelings, but horrible instinctive reactions patterned after his own abuse. His remorse over destroying them is just as real as his impulse to do it. And that’s frightening. Because the villain’s empathy and love is the spider’s net that finally condemns them.

Jin Guangyao needs to victimize his loved ones in order to regain something of his own destroyed humanity. And that’s even scarier. But it is not just a game of giving them pain and taking their lives. Through them and their judgements he replenishes his reserves of evil and prolongs his own non-existence, the emptiness he experiences when he can no longer compete with them. Their grief, their wrath, their anguish motivate his instincts of self-destruction. 

And being his own connections to a sense of self they are the first to be endangered. When the victim differentiates themselves, there is a small moment of acceptance. The acceptance of this demolished self that maybe is not worth living. 

This scene is very reminiscent of the scene at Unclean Realm when Nie Mingjue also realizes the unpleasant truth about his beloved. Meng Yao defends his sense of worth with death, but it’s not always the death of others he is after. 

Jin Guangyao has no objection dying if he is to be loved for it. And this betrays that killing his loved ones, is his own affirmation of love. In Unclean Realm he readily offers himself for execution if he is to preserve the fondness Mingjue felt for him. But Mingjue having lost that fondness says no. Not killing him is also a form of rejection.

Similarly in the final scene where he is stabbed by Lan Xichen, he himself drives the sword as deeply as he can in an effort to approach Lan Xichen and confess his love to him. He offers himself again for execution. Only to be met with the indecisiveness of the beloved. And that’s precisely where his killer instinct kicks in to prolong a reasonable end to new heights of cruelty and torture.

However when Lan Xichen accepts dying and by extension his own feelings of love towards Jin Guangyao, the sacrifice is no longer needed. The loved one has accepted him despite knowing the extent of his disturbance. Lan Xichen even seeks to appease this suffering with his own life and for this reason he manages to escape. Jin Guangyao knows he can live on in Xichen’s tortured consciousness as a far better version of what he was so he gladly accepts his demise. 

And even calls for it with great vigour. Again antagonizing Mingjue in death is an affirmation of life through him. The torture he visited upon him was again his method of living in him. He really seeks to shape the victims into fearsome memories of who he was.

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Do you remember when he once said that his hair just keep growing and he didn’t know hot to handle it? That not even his parents knew how to manage his hair and that it grows like crazy? 

Well, I’m sure his hair is going to do insane things before returning to his original state. 

I’m just waiting for the fics where his hair is sentient and is depressed because of Billy (?)

i regret posting those photos of joe please be nice i beg of u all

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AU in which Steve actually knows martial arts, and never defended himself against Billy because it would have been dishounorable to punch someone that clearly wanted a fight;  and because Billy looked like he was crying even as he was punching him unconcious.

He was called King Steve because no one ever actually got in a tiff on him and the only times he got beaten was because he felt he deserved it. Jonathan, because of Nancy. And Billy because, wait for it, because here he is in a house that looks out of nightmares trying to protect kids from a demon but he’s unable to punch these creatures and he can’t explain anything without involving Billy with the government. 

Steve, forgetting he can and should defend himself, because he’d rather protect someone else rather than punching someone. 

Steve, who doesn’t go blackout in rage. A boy that thinks and pushes himself through fear, but it’s always careful of not hurting too much. Always aware of how easy someone could die from a well aimed punch. 

Steve Harrington, who uses bats to fight creatures, because fists aren’t worth shit against claws. Who knows his speed is his best tool and momentum is his bitch.

And Billy, who only finds this out when a stupid quaterback tries to bully money out of some poor first year just as Steve is passing through. Only to to be told to stop. 

The bully scoffed. 

Steve insisted.

The bully got pissed. 

And everyone knew King Steve lost his edge. So he throws a punch. 

Steve dodges, pushes, first warning. 

The bully gets pissed, there’s a crowd gathering. 

Bully punches again, Steve dances out of the way. 

“Stop it”, Second Warning.

“Go fuck yourself and your little bitch Harrington”

There was no third warning, the bully doesn’t get to raise his fists a third time. Steve just spins on his heel and round kicks him in the face. 

Bully goes down. Steve leans over him. 

“Never talk like that again. And for each dollar you take from a freshman, I’ll take one of your teeth. How many teeths do you have?”

Billy, got there just in time to watch the ending. 

And that’s all I got. XD

Things I googled for this? Introduction of Kung Fu in the US in the early-mid 80′s. 

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Also, a draft is a draft. 

What you first write is not going to be the end product. Don’t think you are just going to write a book on the first sitting. Your story might change radically and everything might go to shit. 

Don’t try to edit as you write. Don’t re-read a thousand times and freak out because is shit. 

Vomit over the page. Let it all out. 

You can always sort it out later. 

We all have to remember this

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I’m actually surprised how toxic the stranger things fandom got. Many artists that I just found out ended up quitting citing the toxicity and the shit show that was S3.

I need to clear up that I didn’t finish S3. There are many writing decisions I didn’t agree with and I lost interest. I might watch it completely sometime, but that will be in a while and mostly to appreciate the acting.

Billy’s death was predictable from S2, I saw him and I knew he was going to die. I even wondered why they even brought him if he was just going to get killed off. I extremely disliked the way he was handled in S3 because they gave him a character beyond being a bully and then killed him off because it was expected. There was literally no need, and it was only done because they wanted a bully character and since Steve got redeemed and well liked, welp, there goes Billy. Heck, many characters could have survived or died if they wanted to “keep it real”. His “redemption” was brief, and clearly not understood or taken as such because people still say shit about him. 

Personally, I get Billy’s character, mostly because I have older brothers that were like him in regards of his relationship with his father. I was Max, for a while. So I understand quite a bit what it was like to watch abuse and not understand it or care. I love my brothers and I love my dad (god rest his soul), and it pisses me off how many people get on their high horse because they are unwilling to listen. 

People, you need to listen and not impose opinions as law. Taste is taste as humor is humor. You don’t have to get it, you have to respect it or walk away.

That being said, Shipping is free as much as a person can like swiss cheese and another one hate it. 

I don’t even understand why we are having this conversation. You like what you like. Just by shipping them and pairing them you already are entering OOC realm, so who cares who tops and who bottoms? Steve is taller and Billy’s stockier. That’s it. What’s the big deal? Why are we having this conversation? 

Have we really reached the point where we judge based on who you like taking it up the ass? Really? Is it because they wanted to Steve fuck Billy as a way to punish him for being a character you disliked? Or does the other side think that since Billy is aggressive he can only top?

I can’t believe I ended up ranting on this topic. 

How about we all just have fun and don’t go attacking others? 

I’m sorry I got carried away, I just have a lot of thoughts.

Okay, but Snow a lot of those top!steve fans bullied so hard on anon and scared away a whole chunk of the fandom. And then they pretended to care about "our side's plight" and they felt "so bad" about the bulling that they themselves either wrote or encouraged. Low key, they don't deserve a whole bunch of sympathy, especially if you saw half the stuff they say in their in-group chats.

Okay okay okay babe i know it was hard, and we were, like, the oppressed side of the fandom i guess all the time and what every second bottom steve fan i know was bullied (which is both ridiculous and serious) but we shouldn’t make wars

We shouldn’t become as bad as the people who spread hate…we should speak out yes, protect each other, and dont be afraid of being ourselves and express our love for harringrove in our own way. But big No to writing hate anons or mean comments or shaming “unpopular opinions”!!

I see this fandom cant live in peace but the only form of splitting in halfs i accept is the homoerotic rivalry and secret pinning:/

I myself had to block some mean, shaming ppl long time ago and honestly its the best solution im think. Don’t feed em with ur energy. Ignore them..they are nothing if u dont feed them.Keep ur energy to urself and direct it into creating beautiful content and be a beautiful soul over here. Dont become like them. Allow urself to grow and be better 💖

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I have a need 

The completed FF Calendar Project

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This one was mostly an exercise in composition and utilising limited, set colour palettes. I hope you enjoy the result as much as I enjoyed the process.

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Isn’t this a typical torture device. Create pain, perpetuate the suffering and then add some comfort. The body gets too much mixed signs and doesn’t know how to react. Emotionally, the victim is all over the place. Add the fact that Steve was drugged and you get a compliant prisoner. Goes straight into the pavlovian realm. 

Is it really Stranger Things™ if there’s no Steve whump?  (4/5)

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In the words of Roger

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Now, consider the fact that humans have taken control over breeding and changing dogs each new generation. What would a wolf see?

“Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”

A wolf goes for a walk in the woods and meets a dog for the first time

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This I love. I would only add the fact that once an object is named, it has a soul of it’s own. 

So we have thousands of haunted houses, and millions of living objects. 

a few small haunted houses.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dio Brando/Jonathan Joestar Characters: Dio Brando, Jonathan Joestar Additional Tags: Loss of Virginity, Frottage, Manipulation, Shameless Smut, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Gift Fic, Inspired by Fanart, Mildly Dubious Consent, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Sexual Tension Summary:

Gifts were important.

Dio took everything that was given to him as a proof of status. Trinkets that held no meaning.

Jonathan received gifts as meaningful tokens. Shared experiences in physical representation.

Jonathan wanted to give something meaningful to Dio. And Dio...

Dio always took what was his.

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“You know, you don’t want to piss me off”

“Oh? Really? Afraid to finally let loose?”

“You don’t get it, do you?”

“What am I suppossed to get, Princess? That you are a scaredy little bitch waiting to roll over? Admit it Harrington. You are afraid”

“Yes. I’m afraid.”

“...”

“I’m afraid. And I don’t let loose because I don’t fuck around Hargrove. I don’t punch and intimidate little kids. I don’t threat and throw my weight around. I’m afraid and I care. Alright? I care. And when I stop caring? When you touch what’s important? I’m going to kill.”

“Though words sweetheart”

“You don’t get it. And that’s better. But listen, I don’t get drunk in rage. I don’t punch to release. I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. So no. I don’t care. About a crown, about the crowd, about this little pissing contest. I don’t give a fuck. 

But about what’s important?

I’m not going to sit around while death knocks on my door. While nightmares become reality and the people I care about die. No. 

So insult me, punch me, hurt me. I don’t care. It’s not important. But hurt my friends? Push until I break?

I’ll kill you. A bat to your head, a knife to your gut. I’ll kill and maim and destroy.”

“Jesus Harrington”

“A king is nothing without it’s people Hargrove. Find your kingdom, and perhaps you’ll understand”

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Now, How do I tumblr?

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It almost feels like a Raiden Dance Battle.  Also, I really like Koharu’s dance style. 

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Casi que se siente como un Raiden Dance battle.  Y realmente me gusta el estilo de baile de Koharu.