#and desire for revenge

[m4gp13]

Percybaster "Babe I swear it wasn't me" but it's Percy trying to convince a heartbroken and torn Al that he's not the one who killed Ethan on Olympus that day.

[uncanny-tranny]

"Treatment" for addiction that requires you to lock up, confine, coerce, or otherwise strip addicts of their autonomy, it isn't treatment. It is a revenge fantasy that prioritizes your desire for subjugation over the actual betterment of addicts.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[valtsv]

i love revenge tragedies so so much because they have so much potential to explore such a nuanced and complex topic and give it the consideration and care it deserves. revenge and revenger characters are such powerful narrative tools, both of catharsis and self reflection. a good revenge tragedy will not tell you that "revenge is bad, seeking revenge makes you just as bad as the people you're seeking vengeance against, and nonviolence and forgiveness are the only paths to building a better world". a good revenge tragedy will present you with a really difficult and complicated situation, even something absolutely unforgivable, and ask you to consider questions like "will this really help anyone?" "am i doing the right thing, or am i just doing what feels good?" "how far can you go before your quest for self-empowerment and personal satisfaction becomes perpetrating the same violence that you claim to be fighting against?" "what else could i do to help build a better future for myself and others, to ensure that the cycle of violence doesn't continue after justice is served?" "what went wrong here? how did something that seemed so right go so wrong?" and "what would i do in this situation?"

sayings like "those who live by the sword will die by the sword" and "those who fight monsters should take care they don't become monsters themselves" often get oversimplified, misinterpreted, and used to criticize people from feeling justifiably angry at their mistreatment and oppression, and discourage them from seeking the restitution they're owed. but when used correctly, a good revenge tragedy will employ these ideas as tools of teaching and learning, of questioning and discussion, of analysis and communication, and as a reminder to think critically and to think for yourself, not as a moral lesson. and those stories are so incredibly and important and valuable to me, and i believe that they have a very necessary place in the world.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

With the party and Ludinus both in Aeor, and Ludinus making the opinions and lives of Aeorians relevant by showing the party Aeorian security footage, I'm reminded of something he told to FCG back at the Malleus Key in episode 51: "You? You are not given life by any god, but by the hands of mortal creators like us." Ludinus at that time could not understand why someone who doesn't owe their existence to the gods in any way would fight for them or worship them; he finds no value in the gods and cannot understand why someone else would. And this lack of ability to understand any perspectives that fall outside his own in a constant theme in his actions and rhetoric.

Ludinus' notes that Team Wildmount found in Moleasmyr included massive sections of him picking apart what he saw as inconsistencies and fallacies in the rituals and practices of worship; he saw no value or reason in worshiping beings who he believed had abandoned the world and could not understand how these practices might be meaningful to others. He never moved on from the trauma he experienced as a child at the end of the Calamity in world ravaged and then, he believes, abandoned by the gods; he doesn't understand that the world by and large is moving forward and rebuilding with the Calamity a distant memory. He encouraged Imogen and Fearne to follow the pull of Ruidus to the Malleus Key before the Solstice apparently genuinely; he didn't understand that his actions against the Grim Verity, including destroying the mind of Professor Kadija Sumal in front of them, had already soured them to his cause. His speech at the Malleus Key had him positioning himself as a great liberator who was going to free the world from the shackles of an oppressive force; he has no comprehension that this might be a biased view of the gods rather than the objective reality. He is insisting now to Bells Hells that they need not be enemies, that they can still join him; he doesn't understand that they are so committed to opposing him because they've seen the ruin he's left in his wake in his single-minded bid to destroy the gods.

Ludinus Da'leth is, objectively, a very smart and driven man, he has to be, to have built up his plans for as long as he has. But he is remarkably narrow-minded, especially, it seems, when it comes to the topic of the gods. Any perspectives that don't fit with his own are either flat-out wrong, or misguided and in need of being given more information. He is SO convinced that he's right that he believes everyone will see him as right if given enough time and evidence, regardless of how negatively his actions might have effected a given individual. He is so stuck in his own perspective and trauma and that he has zero ability to understand the perspectives (and traumas) of others.

[chocodile]

Seventh and final batch of Art Fight 2024 attacks!

Vi' for Likesakiii

Kara for @canvas-of-ghost

Rabies for @opossumvalleywv

Pond for rayinkarnation

Athena Yearwood for MP3-jaxson

Molly for @popgunarcade

[fate221]

AU: where Lucerys managed to escape from the Storm’s End, but never told anyone about what’s happened there. He didn’t even know why, but later he understood he actually felt guilty in front of Aemond because of the child fight. After that time passed, the situation between families was still tense and the Dance of Dragons has been just delayed. But before that every part of family had to deal with its own problems. And during one of the battles for Driftmark already adult Lucerys was hardly injured, he lost his eye but survived once again. Aemond finds out about this only when they meet in the Kings Landing once for a while.

[helimir]

Some top tier Caduceus quotes I've been thinking about in these Downfall times. Something about how so much of Ludinus' position seems to rest on revenge. Showing Bells Hells the squabbling of the gods as they debate what to do about Aeor, and asking 'You can just watch bad people get away with it?'

It doesn't matter if the gods were wrong for their choices. Killing them won't bring back Aeor and it won't stop the violence that Ludinus and the Ruby Vanguard have visited on the world. I just don't see what it's for.

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

Fallen Exorcist AU: Chaggie

FallenExorcist!Vaggie: You have this misplaced romanticized view of Heaven.

Charlie: (held at spearpoint)

FallenExorcist!Vaggie: Let me tell you something about Heaven, Princesa. Heaven would sacrifice you and all of its denizens for the "greater good."

FallenExorcist!Vaggie: (Pins Charlie to the wall and leans into her ear with a throaty rumble) I have no such compunction. I would burn all of Heaven for you.

Charlie: (blushes and presses her thighs together) oooh... fuck....

[fromtheseventhhell]

"I've never seen such anger in a girl" and it's literally just a nine-year-old being quiet after an upsetting event, Arya really experiencing the universal girlhood experience of having your emotions policed for not responding in the "right" way

[sangrefae]

theyre doing the emotionally closed off middle-aged man equivalent of parallel play with each other

(aka i think estinien final fantasy 14 and mithrun dungeon meshi would Get each other as mentally ill, white/silver haired elves with a fixation on revenge as a result of their traumas)

[wishesofeternity]

My problem with The Dragon Prince is that while it preaches about "breaking the cycle" and "choosing love", it repeatedly does so in a way that echoes the age-old idea of telling victims to passively accept their lot in life and the injustices inflicted upon them while their perpetrators never have to acknowledge their wrongs or face consequences for their actions. This is the kind of narrative they follow on both a personal and systematic axis, and it's exactly why the show will always frustrate me.

[kacievvbbbb]

I truly do love that Luffy is fighting for the right to take down Doflamingo with all these people who have extremely valid and long-standing beefs with dude and he's just like;

Rebecca bought me a food with all the money she had left and was generally just really nice and I don't really understand the specifics of the situation but I know that flamingo dude is making her and everybody in this country that has helped me and my crew, real sad so I'm gonna fight him.

And it is presented as just as valid a claim as the dude that had his father-in-law's thrown stolen, was turned into a toy forgotten by his family, his wife was killed and his daughter was forced to fight in a colosseum. And Law who has a decade-long beef with dude over the murdering of his father figure who was also said dude's brother.

And Luffy will obviously be the one that fights and defeats doffy and we are all the better for it because One Piece isn't about revenge it's about Liberation. By fighting these antagonists on their behalves Luffy is also liberating his friends from revenge. Because Luffy doesn't go into these fight to seek vengeance or some kind of recompense he does it to set people free.

also him going "well I've been beefing with him for 30 years" is objectively hilarious.

[sinistylo]

Where all the “the glory” “all of us are dead” and “revenge of others” fics at?? 😞😞✊

[honeyglas]

You never came for me, did you?

I would’ve.

But you didn’t.

[whetstonefires]

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.