#AN EYE FOR AN EYE

[sm-baby]

I come to you, on my back up account because my goofy ass made the wrong account the primary one and doomed to be haunted by it, to ask thy. I’m on my hands and knees, the asked becoming the asker.

May I pretty please, with zooble pancakes on top, draw silly self-indulgent carnival gangle x ragatha (they’re on my mind and I can’t get rid of them)

HAHAHA AWWEE,,, doitdoitdoit😈

[dxmianwaynesstuff]

lucerys and aemond: on creator and creation.

[ "another like him" - frankenstein: a new musical | speeches for doctor frankenstein - margaret atwood | great expectations - charles dickens | frankenstein - mary shelley | frankenstein - mary shelley | i put the coffin out to the sea - lisa marie basile ]

[kiilttis-art]

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

[queenunderthatmountain]

I'm sorry but nothing in the history of comedy will ever be as funny as Luke and Jess going out to beat up a swan.

[greenqueenhightower]

“An eye for an eye,” “A son for a son.”

Aemond lost an eye… Lucerys didn’t. Rhaenyra lost a son… Helaena lost a son. Alicent lost a grandson.

Violence increases. Crime multiplies. Injustice spreads recklessly and slaughters innocent ones.

Viserys' favoritism, carelessness, and imperception were always the propellers of disorder, infighting, and brutality. His failure to safeguard all his children and grandchildren haunts House Targaryen. His disinterest in Aegon's, Aemond's, and Helaena's futures, his dismissal of dangers regarding the succession, and his oblivion towards the possibility of any of his children being used as pawns to-be-installed-on-the-throne by Rhaenyra's potential future enemies wishing to overthrow her, thus necessitating her to kill/imprison/banish them, lit the first spark of the all-consuming fire that ensued.

It is, therefore, the show's darkest, and most tragic of ironies that Viserys' eye paid for the one Aemond lost, and Viserys' sons and grandsons, dying one after another in interchangeable succession, bear the curse that looms over House Targaryen until all fire is extinguished, and its utter destruction comes.

[eschercaine]

Remember what Alicent told Aegon in episode 6?

If Rhaenyra comes into power, your very life could be forfeit. Aemond’s as well. She could move to cut off any challenge to her succession.

Alicent’s been consumed by paranoia because she feared that Rhaenyra will kill her children if she become queen, that’s why she usurped her throne. And then the first thing that happens in the first season is Alicent’s own adult son murdering Lucerys, a 14 year old boy.

If anything, Rhaenyra’s the one who should be more afraid. Because while she was the princess, Alicent is the queen; who’s making Rhaenyra’s life hell for 10 years just to humiliate her, hence why she moved to Dragonstone.

Rhaenyra tried to keep the peace, like her father once did, even after the greens steal her throne, but they forced her hand.

The greens drew the first blood, not the blacks.

[4alley2kat0]

In my dreams none of you died (but your writers sure asf did)

[kmbrlei]

somebody found my old an eye for an eye post today so i figured it'd be fun to put up this chara redraw i did a few years after making the comic + some slapdash chara design notes i wrote

[gameraboy2]

Ralph Bakshi's Spicy City (1997), "An Eye for an Eye"

[dragoneyes618]

If one could speak of Biblical verses as being vilified, then "an eye for an eye" would be the most vilified verse in the Bible. It is commonly cited to "prove" the existence of an "Old Testament" ethic of vengeance, and then contrasted with the New Testament's supposedly higher ethic of forgiveness. "An eye for an eye" is often associated with modern Jews as well, and invariably in a pejorative manner. Israel's critics, for example, commonly accuse her of practicing "eye for an eye" morality when she retaliates against Arab terrorist acts.

In actuality, the biblical standard of "an eye for an eye" stood in stark contrast to the legal standards prevailing in the societies that surrounded the ancient Hebrews. The Code of Hammurabi, a legal code hundreds of years older than the Torah, legislated retaliation even against innocent parties. Thus, if A constructed a building for B, and the building collapsed and killed B's daughter, then A's daughter was put to death (Law number 229). The biblical law of "an eye for an eye" restricted punishment solely to the perpetrator. Furthermore, unlike Hammurabi's code, one who caused another's death accidentally was never executed.

"An eye for an eye" also served to limit vengeance; it did not permit "a life for an eye" or even "two eyes for an eye." The operative biblical principle was that punishment must be commensurate with the deed, not exceed it. Blood feuds and vendettas were long practiced among the Israelites' neighbors - indeed, they have persisted in the Middle East until this century - and revenge was often carried out without restraint.

Christian often contend that Jesus went beyond the standard of "an eye for an eye," that he advocated forgiveness and saw retaliation as unworthy of man. Yet the New Testament records Jesus saying, "But the one who disowns me in the presence of men, I will disown in the presence of my Father in heaven" (Matthew 10:33). In other words, Jesus seems to advocate treating others as they have treated him; a standard of justice that is perfectly commensurate with the demand of "an eye for an eye."

In the time of the Talmud, "an eye for an eye" was not carried out literally, and Orthodox Jewish scholars teach that it was never practiced. The Talmud's rabbis feared that the very process of removing the perpetrator's eye might kill him as well, and that, of course, would be forbidden (Bava Kamma 84a). "An eye for an eye" was therefore understood as requiring monetary compensation equivalent to the value of an eye. The same understanding was applied to almost all the other punishments enumerated in the same biblical verse, "a tooth for a tooth, a wound for a wound."

The only punishment in this set that was not converted to a monetary fine was capital punishment for murderers, "a life for a life." Because the Torah believed that premeditated murder deserved the death penalty, there was obviously no fear of punishing the killer excessively. Jewish law did dictate, however, that murderers be executed in the quickest manner possible. Hence, later Jewish law forbade the Roman punishment of crucifixion.

Torah law also forbade remitting a murderer's sentence with a monetary fine. Life and money, according to the biblical ethic, are incommensurate; one can never atone for murder by paying money. In this regard, too, Torah law differed from the laws of the ancient Jews' neighbors, which would sometimes fine those who had murdered people belonging to a lower social class and which made certain property crimes (for example, looting at a fire) capital offenses. In Jewish law, property crimes could never be punished with death, and murderers could never be let off with payment of money, even if the family of the victim were willing to accept it (see Numbers 35:31, and Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, "Laws Concerning Murder," 1:4).

Both in its insistence that evil must be punished and in its equal insistence on setting limits to that punishment, "an eye for an eye" is a basic principle of biblical justice.

- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 558-560

[radarchives]

[lancabbage]

Thinking about fandom and how some don't really understand the novel's setting.

I think a lot of people in this fandom view the MDZS through a modern lens. It's ancient China... Where ancient Chinese culture is at play. WWX was entitled to his revenge, specifically what happened to him coming back on WC in turn. WC left him for dead in a literal hell hole. Starving, fighting for his life. MXTX gave us the Yi City arc to show us exactly WHAT was accepted in terms of revenge back then and in the MDZS universe. XXC is not bothered if XY took the other man's finger (or even his whole hand!) in revenge for his losing a finger - because it's expected of him. XXC knows this and has no qualms with it. His anger lies in how out of balance his revenge was - not that he took it, that he valued his little finger more than a whole clan's lives as a collective.

WWX did what was expected of him. Yes, it was gruesome, but he's traumatised! And also, I once read this meta on WWX using the ghost and how it is more personal to the ghosts he is using - he uses their resentment against WC, and the meta poses that's because they are known to him. Very interesting and incredibly compelling.

[triptychofvoids]

Doc can we do an eye exchange? I know you said no taking them but I’d just like to swap mine out for whatever you got, you can have my current ones

i dont see why not! either way i will end with the same amount of eyes. youre not picky about which ones you end up with.. are you?

[dobodleaday]

04.23.24 Familiar and UnFamiliar 🪄

[phantomgamer77]

Say Mia how did you lose your eye exactly?

[ask-the-becile-boys]

Story. An Eye for an Eye

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[ID: 9 digitally sketched panels in greyscale and green.]

[Panel 1: The hallucination in the green smoke of Thadeus Becile with Rock Candy growing out of his body and sludge in his ears snarls down at the viewer (The Skull), saying, "Pathetic. How did you let this happen? Everything is lost. Because (all caps) you (plain text) couldn't protect it."]

[Panel 2: The Skull, surrounded by green smoke, falls to his knees, dropping his revolver and beginning to cry, looking devastated. He says, "I (ellipses)" Thadeus cuts him off from off panel, saying, "Quiet. No excuses. You failed. There is nothing left!" The Skull weakly says, "No (ellipses)"]

[Panel 3: Outside of the hallucination, The Skull is still on his knees, but the smoke is dramatically reduced and his eyes are dilated rings. Smoke and sparks from the offscreen burning house continue through this scene. Locksmith's balled fist is to the left side of the panel. The Skull quietly says, "That's not true (ellipses)" Locksmith says, " I wonder what you see, to make you cry so. I hope it's terrible."]

[Panel 4: Locksmith, his left eye lens shattered, looks down at The Skull's revolver, sitting on the grass.]

[Panel 5: Locksmith picks up the revolver and flips the cylinder open, revealing 5 bullets and one empty chamber. Locksmith says, "(ellipses) Hm."]

[Panel 6: Bust of Hare, staring in shock at the burning manor, which is reflected in his left eye. Riker says from off panel quietly in the top left corner, "Hare (ellipses)," then louder in the bottom right, "(all caps) Hare!"]

[Panel 7: Hare looks over, following Riker's gaze, and softly says, "What?" Riker shouts, looking aghast, "Go help Skull! The gas would kill me!" Hare says quietly, "Oh, Jesus."]

[Panel 8: Small picture in the top left of Hare taking off running, silhouetted against the van's headlights. He yells, "Skull!" In the rest of the picture, Locksmith looks down, mirroring the hallucination of Thadeus, and holds up the revolver. Locksmith says, "As the poets say (ellipses)"]

[Panel 9: Close up of the barrel of the revolver being leveled point blank at The Skull's teary, dilated eye. Locksmith says, "(ellipses) An eye for an eye." End ID]