#The Devil Complex

[jennastarkhasaheart]

i feel like there arent enough fics that just let daisy vent about what was done to her in 5x14. like, thats literally one of the worst things that can happen to a person, and most fics trying to deal with it just go the route of "yeah but you still love him too, so you should forgive him, and actually you need to do that if you want to heal". which. no.

obviously she does stil love him, and what happened so obviously isnt fitz's fault, but expecting daisy to just get over it for the sake of the family is not ok. and its what especially makes it so awful, because she does love him, and he so blatantly disregarded it in the worst possible way. she should absolutely rage and hate and not have to be the one who has to be understanding after THAT episode.

especially because she IS lucid enough to know that fitz isnt a villain and this isnt his fault. but that doesnt make the trauma of what he did just go away, and while everyone elses reactions are understandable and justifiable (may focusing on the mission cause if she doesnt shell break down probably, simmons just losing it a little, etc.), the end result is still that almost nobody is there and on daisys side.

not meant to be specifically calling out anyone, ive just been reading a lot of 5x14 fics and ive been noticing a theme.

[just-tryina-live]

Fitz Alignment chart. can’t decide on ‘Horrible person, loved by fans’

[theskyeisup]

AU in which Jiaying watches over Daisy from the afterlife, and when she sees what happens in The Devil Complex she returns to the world of the living through sheer power of How-Dare-You-Do-This-To-My-Daughter-You-Whimpy-Little-Bitch.

Daisy is confused, everyone else is panicking, and Jiaying has to work through her genocidal urges if she wants to stick around (which she does. because despite everything that happened, she does love Daisy)

[fitzfallen]

"Forgive yourself. You did your best with what you knew at the time"

[thingsasbarcodes]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x14 - The Devil Complex

[hitchell-mope]

And the grandson is out of the bag.

[ocdvampire]

Enter Romania’s haunted Hoia-Baciu Forest—where time stands still, ghosts walk freely, and folklore bleeds into chilling paranormal reality. Dare to read more?

[fallenxangel-13]

fallen angel worshipping your body for the first time. eyes widening in adoration, as though seeking salvation in your flesh alone. his fingertips ghost over your soft skin, lips murmuring praises against your bare neck- warm and desperate-before he takes you raw.

"you're so divine," he groans in your ear, his large wings shudder, feathers rustling as he thrusts deeper into you-eager for more. his faintest whispers send shivers down your spine. "forgive me, love.. heaven was wrong. you were made for me. only me. understand?"

[qcomicsy]

Batman having low self esteem is actually kind of funny in an absurdist level, like what do you MEAN you're the richest most disputable bachelor of the entire Gotham and part of the United States for actually more than twenty years, you raised pretty much more or less two functioning adults you trained eight competent fighters, you're best friend with SUPER MAN and WONDER WOMAN. You're one of the leaders of the fucking justice league, you got literally aliens and people in power from the government shutting their mouths to listen to you, you're so good at training people that your oldest also is able to do the same and your two youngest, you saved the world more times the world can count, you save the city every single fucking day, you bagged Talia Al Ghul and Catwoman and fumbled imensiously, you have no wrinkles, no one knows your age, you're 6'0, blue eyes, rich, cis het (allegedly) and yet you still come home and say to your self you're not enough ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

[biggesthomuradefender]

one thing i feel like some ppl forget, gloss over, or just don’t know abt madoka/madokami, is that her existence as a concept/god is much more than being lonely and unhappy, it also involves a cycle of endless and constant suffering and purification w absolutely no reward outside of saving magical girls from being witches.

let me explain:

when madoka made her wish, aka became a god, she swore to prevent all witches from the past, the present, and the future forever, meaning that madoka is CONSTANTLY sending herself everywhere at once all the time in order to do that, while also having to absorb the negative energy from their gems AND purify it all at the same time.

could you imagine just how absolutely fucking exhausting and lonely that is? not only does no one know or remember her, outside of homura, and she can’t even interact w anybody outside of her role as a savior and a god.

and she constantly has to purify all of the negative energy she absorbs 24/7. is an endless cycle with, as i said before, zero reward except for preventing witches.

there’s a scene in rebellion where madoka reaches for homura, and each time she does, you can see scars littered on her arm (s). not only is that a literal representation of her dying for the “sins”, aka wishes of all magical girls, but i also think that they’re meant to signify madoka’s pain, the pain she hides and lies about behind her god status and her genuine, loving demeanor.

it’s why the flower scene is so important and powerful; yes, it may have been madoka w/o her proper memories intact, but that’s exactly it: madoka is only able to be so honest w homura right then and there bc she doesn’t remember her godly obligations, all of her guilt and responsibilities at all.

and homura knows all of this. it’s why her reaction is so intense, desperate, and painful, esp after her fake world begins to rly fall apart; like madoka, homura very easily blames herself for a lot, even the stuff that isn’t rly her fault and she’s just being unfair/mean to herself.

[cloudyysworld]

So apparently Adi Shanker didn't know DMC 5 was out before he made this show, so he is upset because he is not the one who "revived" a "dead franchise". He wants to be the savior of DMC but end up being the biggest stain in it instead

That's explain the self-insert and "visionary" huh

[milkywayes]

none of the me3 endings are clean or easy, which is a good thing because if there was some miracle solution that ended without sacrifice or loss or unpleasantness, it would take away from the weight of the narrative. but the destroy ending is the only one that doesn't feel like a trap or morally repugnant to the point where it's unjustifiable. you're forced to take up the mantle of butcher to achieve victory and peace, but at least you're not acting out of naïvety, you don't turn into the very thing you vowed to destroy—or god forbid, bend the whole galaxy to your will at the atomic level.

[qdkdraws]

Merm designs that I made for unexpected collaboration with @mistystarshine :3 (and that's not all the designs *sigh*)

You can find the first fic in the series (yes, it's a series) here!

[scruncheduppaper]

drew this bc because i hate sitting thru chapel

[fitzfallen]

“I’m sorry for everything I’ve done and failed to do”

[island-in-the-shadows]

Not for nothing but what's the damage with people being so negative about people who ship Armand and Daniel going a little nutty?

"Armand thinks of other things." Yeah no shit. Obviously. He's a complex character with an equally complex backstory. He's 514 years old, obviously there's more to him than how he's looking at one mortal man.

But also...Devil's Minion shippers get nothing. CONSISTENTLY. If you were in it from before the show (like I was) we got a chapter in the third book of a 13 book series. Daniel practically ceased to exist after book 3. Armand gets his own book and Daniel was literally a footnote in it and a negative one at that. And there's no real contact between them except maybe two passing sentences in two of the later books. Daniel isn't even mentioned in the last book of the series. We literally got a single chapter and after that, nothing.

We don't even have anything from the show except what's the equivalent of sucking on an ice cube to not totally dehydrate. That and the actors having fun about it in promo stuff. Hell, even if (and I hope the if is a when) they do ANYTHING with this pairing it likely won't be until S4 at the earliest, but realistically not until S5 (you know in 3-4 years if things are speedy).

This is the Louis and Lestat show. Obviously. They come first and that's how it should be. After that we have Armand and where he's concerned it's largely a character study that encompasses more than just his relationships. Obviously.

But ffs, leave people alone when all they have to go off of is some eye glaring. Eye glaring, mini little detail crumbs that could actually mean nothing, actors having fun, and a book chapter from 1988. I have my own Pepe Silvia crazy board and entertain myself based on practically nothing and I am aware that the likelihood of getting anything any time soon is slim at best. But I'm also gonna have fun with it on this the liking stuff and shipping stuff website. The hypothetical fun might literally be the only thing I get.