morally grey characters are nice they are hot they are sexy BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GOLDEN FLUFFY BOYS THAT WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD yeah the brooding dark haired anti heroes would burn the world down for you but the morally white blinding white boys will try to make the world a better place for you. they would rather die than lose their faith in humanity even if humanity loses their faith in them and something about the pure good that thrives within them makes me go hshdhsjsjgdh “no nobody is dying I can save everyone” while bleeding to death themselves. enemies to lovers very hot. but I’m a sucker for chivalry and morals✋
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the superhero's parallel to the hero's journey is one of an almost unbreakable curse: someone is harmed or killed while you are unable to stop it. you spend the next part of your life learning how to stop exactly that, promising yourself it won't happen again. you think to yourself, "if only I had been more prepared the first time, then I could have stopped it."
except defusing bombs isn't the issue. the person planting them is.
betrayal can't be anticipated: that's what makes it a betrayal.
and it's impossible to predict every single time someone will need life saving medical care.
still, you fantasize, "if I had the knowledge I have now, things would be different." and you save others from the same situation. time and time again. but still you ache. you didn't do it all those years ago. it haunts your every triumph.
it's not until you look in from the outside. the exact same thing happens to someone else this time, and you weren't able to stop it.
as you're beating yourself up for it and desperately trying to control the damage that's been done, you see someone sitting off to the side. they are alone and wrapped in a blanket. when you talk to them, you are shocked to hear that they blame themselves.
"What?!" you exclaim, "it wasn't your responsibility to stop this- you couldn't have known! it's on the shoulders of the perpetrators and people like me, who couldn't make it in time."
they are inconsolable. "from now on," they say, "I won't be so naive, and I will do everything I can to stop this from happening again."
you know when a battle is lost, so all you can do is nod and step away. back to your own business.
but it makes you terribly sad for someone to lose their innocence in such a way. to blame themselves for the consequences of someone else's evil. to never again see the world as a hopeful place: just a mosaic of fulfilled and missed opportunities.
and your story, the hero's story, will be tragic as long as you continue without looking inward.
it is only by considering your own beliefs that you are free of the vicious cycle:
sometimes, there is no happy ending, no clever way out. sometimes, awful things happen and there is nothing we can do about it. all we can do is pick ourselves off the ground, movement by excruciating movement, and hold our heads high. we continue. because it is worth it. not because you can "fix" things now. not because you will do things "right" this time. but because you deserve a good life. a life after the bad things. a joyful life.
this is when when you, the hero, finally realize that you're living a triumph. that even after something tragic happens, your life is not a tragedy.
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The Ballad of What Could Have Been
If this article is to be believed (which it probably isn’t), back in the day, Al was into Lily Allen
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But let’s just say it is to be believed because if we do, we know how he’d flirt, and it’s fucking adorable. Spoiler alert: blink and you’ll miss it but he plays with her hair
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I can't be the only one who sees miles and waylon as variants of hal and barry. Please, someone, confirm or deny!?!?
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Starting a new post for @verloutte and my Nepo Baby Miles discourse because we do not need to keep seeing the entire post about Susan’s honkers to talk about it lmfao
And that’s totally valid tbh, I felt like kind of a dork feeling the need to defend someone with that much privilege! But I also can’t help really liking the guy and what he brings to roles (there’s no way I’d be this deep in The Quarry fandom without his performance as Dylan, let’s be real) and I think we can be aware of structural issues in entertainment/society as a whole and still enjoy actors and the art they make, assuming that just being privileged is their most problematic aspect.
Doesn’t hurt that Miles also seems to be personally aware of those structural issues and he has a lot of extremely correct takes that he gives freely, to the point that people rage quit his Quarry stream over him being too “woke.” 🤭 I also want to take time to appreciate that he’s still mad at Woody Allen because seriously fuck Woody Allen.
Anyway, in conclusion, I over-reply and over-analyze because that is what my brain does and tumblr makes it hard to do that in a casual, conversational way so… yeah. Definitely not mad at anyone who thinks Miles is a nepo baby! He does fit the most basic definition. But he’s probably my favorite one.
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