#beyond the myths

[voluxpa]

JE VOUS AVOUE QUE CETTE VERSION

ça me fait trop plaisir de la poster parce que j'ai pris grand plaisir à la faire et que ça faisait sincèrement longtemps que j'étais pas aussi contente du résultat, donc VOILÀ

sur btm on met à l'honneur les MARAUDEURS, l'esprit même des pirates 🔥

[beyondthemyths-rpg]

𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫 LUX.

𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄́; billy bowen, ft. tati gabrielle. 29 yo, humain·e/banshee/sirène/, derby chez les marauders.

𝐏𝐀𝐑; alaois murtagh, ft. saoirse ronan. femme, 27yo, sirène, pilleuse chez les marauders.

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[first love, help in mischief, scammers for the best, use for power, left without a word to avoid her pain.]

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coucou toi!!! alaois attend avec impatience billy pour lui péter les dents, tu lui en voudras pas :)))) je te promets plein de trop cool aventures, des mouchoirs et des cœurs brisés, je suis accroc on va pas se mentir mais si tu t'intéresses à bibi, c'est que toi aussi hihi alors je suis sûre qu'on va s'aimer, sur une étoile ou sur un oreiller comme on dit si bien

[soletear]

crackships - Luke Evans & Travis Fimmel

(TW blood, sword, axe)

la castagne. – salazar & rhys

credit : soletear

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

Okay we don’t actually fully have any of them BUT STILL!!!

[sunforgrace]

sorry I know it’s 2023 the show has Been over but on any other show. your best friend confesses their love for you and dies. the very act of confession is what kills them because its their moment of true happiness - just telling you they love you - so the act of confession, of loving you, becomes happiness for its own sake and sacrificial death all at once.

on any other show. perhaps this would not insignificantly impact the character who was confessed to and would be further addressed in the text of the show. as you do when such fundamental worldview changes are introduced to characters that they now have to reconcile with along with the loss. perhaps this would even be a subplot, an arc to their character development. on any other show.

on the show where - just two seasons ago - said character Did have an entire arc and subplot dedicated to mourning the loss of their best friend who was killed in the context of battle, without any added significance such as. I don’t know. telling the other they’re in love with them which is the very thing that kills them. after the audience is deliberately shown that the character mourns for them in a distinct way compared to other characters, who mourn him as a close friend or paternal figure. which perhaps would beg the question: what is the distinction then. and the answer is: don’t worry about it. You Are Watching Supernatural

[onehundredfallenpetals]

One of many late nights during their journey

[pelideswhore]

Achilles: Can I ask a dumb question?

Patroclus: Better than anyone I know.

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

[serialreblogger]

the thing about the joker

is that - well, even canonically, he’s not actually “insane.” in the most canonical version of his backstory (bc there are many conflicting incarnations, but this one is the touchstone for a lot of later canon), he was part of a street gang before falling into a vat of Nondescript Toxic Waste that damaged his melanin production and That’s It. he supposedly “lost his mind” after seeing his reflection, which is absurd on many levels. no. he’s not “insane.” what he is, is an angry white boy.

the thing about the joker is that he exults in his own uncontainability. He laughs, because all of gotham - all the world - is built to be his playground. the only lunatic thing about him is the lunacy of ~Society~, to borrow from the joker’s own playbook; the lunacy of the joker lies in the world that grants him power: in the inheritance of loss: in white privilege, and what it means for everyone else.

“to prove a point.” those were the joker’s exact words, when he shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. she asked why: he laughed. “to prove a point.”

because that’s all he ever does. he hurts people because he can. and because all the power in the world can’t save him from getting hurt - and isn’t that just peachy?

because the thing about the joker is that he can get hurt. he has been hurt. but he has so much more capacity to harm than to be harmed. he is immortal. he and he alone will never have to face the consequences of the hurt that he inflicts on other people.

so then: why not hurt them? misery loves company, after all.

the joker is the embodiment and end result of our own social system: the madness of the exception: the laughter of the white man: the imprecation to smile, as he kills you.

(no one ever says it, i find, but it’s still true: barbara deserves to kill him.)

and who, then, is the batman? if the joker is the yin to his yang? if they’re two sides of one irredeemable coin, if they represent the “balance” of an unjustifiable system - who is he if not another white man?

because he is. Bruce Wayne is a white boy born into unspeakable privilege and forced to endure suffering anyway; who copes with his suffering by taking it out on others; who copes with his suffering, not by taking advantage of the world as it is, but by attempting to reshape it. to make it in his own image - as if it isn’t already his, as if claiming it further will crush out the pain.

the batman is the benevolent oppressor to the joker’s malevolent one. he changes nothing, in the end. two privileged white boys with their own respective navel-gazing grudges - where, after all, lies the difference between benevolence and malevolence?

because they are not “chaos” and “order.” not really. They are laissez-faire laughter and law. Joker exults in the disease of the system, Batman seeks to treat its symptoms, but neither of them will ever change anything about the root cause. because they may have suffered the faults of this system, but they still benefit so much more from it as it exists. Uphold it or break it, neither of them wants to change the law.

but the law is only as good as the people it’s made to protect. and who does that law protect, really?

waylon jones is, in one issue, explicitly depicted as Black. between that and his skin disorder, there has never once been room for his character to be any more than a monster: king croc is, always, a character to be violated and brutalized, over and over and over and still - always - written as the villain. (he tried so hard to scrape out a place for himself, so many times, in so many incarnations, and each and every time he finds himself relegated once more to the sewers. he will never be anyone’s king. there is no place under the sun for people like him.)

victor fries only ever wanted to save his wife, and a capitalist mogul decided a few extra numbers on his eight-digit paycheck were more important than the people whose lives depended on that money. fries’ body was damaged to disability by that choice, left without the resources to find a cure for his wife, and he robbed banks because there was no other option available to him. we seem to have forgotten, or maybe never really understood, why that matters. why a desperate man trying to save his life and that of his loved ones under the crushing gears of capitalism is a villain, and the one who stops him is our hero. why, under the law batman upholds, a bank vault and a CEO’s hoard is worth more than a life.

poison ivy just wants to live, too. wants a life not defined by the devastation of her body, of the beings that exist as extensions of her, a life where green and growing things are not commodities to be plowed up and poisoned and destroyed for the sake of another man’s profit. these are villains; they are written as such. these are their motives.

who does batman fight for, really? who is our hero, this emblem of our law?

is he our hero? ours, the broken and bleeding members of the world he claims to protect?

who does the law protect, except him - him, and the joker?

[stayatsam]

speaking of the thing im working on, it's this :)

[alexthescaredenby]

The day the sky broke.

The Ebon King descended to save us. He cast himself into the Rift to seal it, encasing it in a tomb of wood. The doorway must be opened. He must be freed.

[voluxpa]

petite envie de changement, maj en deux-deux 🖤

[beyondthemyths-rpg]

𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫 LUX.

𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄́; kay svarog, ft. tom hardy -- homme, face 45yo, soul ??yo, léviathan, ex-capitaine en peine.

𝐏𝐀𝐑; velvet rosen, ft. sharon stone (young) -- femme, face 34yo, soul ??yo, sirène, vendeuse de rêve.

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dogue aux babines maltées; vogue au gré d'un océan exalté. il est blackfangs, le cabot des mers.

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omg bonjour à toi et surtout merci d'avance?? ne serait-ce que de lire ce petit message et de t'imaginer tenter ce personnage, c'est déjà bcp. sache que je l'attends de pieds fermes et que j'ai déjà mille scénarios de rp possibles, une infinité de dramas à te proposer et plein de hype à donner! dont n'attend plus, et fonce ziurehz

[soletear]

avatars - Sabrina Carpenter (400x640)

credit : soletear

[apyest]

avatars - abigail cowen - 400x640

une éternité que je n'avais pas touché à photoshop pour quelques avatars, mais l'envie était trop forte. ♥

[ghafahey]

ONCE, I CAN'T REMEMBER. I WAS LONG AGO, SOMEONE STRANGE. i was innocent and wise and full of pain.

fall(ing) for @mdzswomen : week 5  — jiang yanli + mythology