#esp for childe

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Meet Mohammed Nazzal, a Palestinian child. He was in administrative arrest (this means he can stay held captive without charge for as long as israel decides, also look it up for better understanding) without charge or trial in Israeli occupation prisons and was released yesterday as part of the hostages exchange.

"They shattered metal bars on me, beating me non-stop on my head, broke my hands. They starved me."

[bl-inkstone]

mini ramble in the tags! i haven't been here in a hot min haha

[creepypap3r]

The way these two scenes are back to back make me sick, the way Sokka is putting on his face paint alone and preparing himself for a one-man fight against what he thinks are ruthless Fire Nation soldiers while Zuko is having his armor put on by his crew, even having them tie the shoes while Sokka does his on his own. Sokka puts on his facepaint alone with his fingers while Zuko gets his helmet put on by the crew. How Sokka has to tie his own armband with one hand and teeth because nobody else is there to do it for him. He has only himself to rely on in this fight, but is completely willing to ready himself like he saw the men of his tribe once did and fight for his tribe despite being knocked down multiple times.

It was a losing battle and he knew it. These people killed his mother, sent his father away and nearly ruined the South. He wasn’t expecting to win.

[aprito]

heartwarming: the kids will put their differences aside to commit premeditated murder in the near future (the thrilling prequel to their dynamic)

[palmtreepwr]

ok on a more serious note this is actually crazy and im fully aware this is a hoyo game, so yes, "what were you expecting" is a valid statement but holy shit this happening AGAIN is just frustrating and a huge slap in the face. how are you going to take inspiration from a culture that is incredibly diverse and broad with its people, and make the characters that mirror these individuals the color of my fucking palm... come through rare beauty shade 140c

[loumandism]

the iwtv fandom is always having the discussion of who of the established characters would actually stick up to marius when he returns to abuse armand again and what’s really fucked up is the only real answer is claudia. there’s louis (historically not very sensitive when it comes to armand’s “daddy vampire” and armand’s biggest hater atm), lestat (victim blamer who wants to fuck marius) and daniel (who basically implied armand lied about the entire thing). but then there’s claudia, who because of their shared experiences with white supremacy, class, sexual assault, orphanhood, sexually violent and abusive makerdads, and a lack of a true “home” to stake a claim to (“dad didn’t want me”) she’s on an infinitely more even emotional playing field with armand than anyone else in the show. there’s no major gap in understanding like is present with all of armand’s other relationships, whether it’s the french aristocrat or the former pimp. the only one who really got him, saw right through him, was and remains claudia. it would be her sticking up to marius, if she were still around. if armand did not doom the only person he’s met in hundreds of years that understands him. but the brutal truth is that it is exactly because of this shared understanding that armand could not tolerate her existence; in dooming her, in insisting upon the death of all too similar to him, he dooms himself.

[liedownquisition]

Every time someone writes anything re: the Arrows (esp Ollie) and treat it like they have these like Bat-level strict morals or just otherwise being really "strictly principled"???? it drives me crazy. Like I don't wanna be "you haven't read the comics" but... They haven't.

Ollie, very famously, killed not only Parallax (something which was very difficult for him bcs Hal was his friend, for all their fighting), but also the Electrocutioner (for killing Lian, maiming Roy, and destroying most of his city). There was that whole thing in Crossroads when he worked with Huntress, Catwoman, and Deathstroke, and was killing criminals with guns! Killed a man torturing Dinah! Hell, even further, at least once he helped someone who he considered to have been justified in killing someone escape the law!

I'm pretty sure literally all of his proteges have harder lines than he does (Jason criticizes Mia for limiting her angles to non-lethal in Seeing Red, Oliver being shown to use more brutal methods in a team up with Roy in comic I admittedly don't remember the exact name of & Connor disapproved of Ollie training with the guy who trained Deathstroke to learn the "killing arts" re: 1YL, tho idr if that was more of a killing disapproval or a "dad, really, this guy is awful tho???" kinda deal. Uhhh... Emiko might be an exception to this probably, at least inasmuch as you can consider those two his proteges given I don't think Ollie really trained them that much/they mostly came to him like that). Hell, when Mia killed someone he wasn't mad about her killing so much as that it was her (an innocent kid) that did it!

In the marriage comic, Dinah had apparently killed Ollie in self-defense! (Before concluding that it hadn't been him despite all evidence to the contrary, ect., ect., ect.)

Roy worked for the gov't and definitely killed for them when it was called for. Fell in love with an assassin and walked away instead of turning her in or killing her like he was probably supposed to do despite knowing she'd likely go on to keep killing more people (You could call this a statement on his love for her, which on some level, yeah, but on the other level shows that his lines aren't so well-defined.) The only reason he hadn't killed the Electrocutioner himself is bcs Ollie got there first. For all the complaints re: RHATO/RH&A they are still considered current canon (to an extent, I think some specific things around it might be retconned?) & he has killed in there too.

Emiko as a former assassin/being trained & raised to be a "perfect killer" by Shado I feel is rather self-explanatory.

There's probably more but I'm runnin' out of steam here. Anyways. My point is that while they're not exactly actively murderous vigilantes, they FAR from have some kind of no-kill rule. They'll typically try something else first, but when lines are crossed (like their family) or there doesn't appear to be a better solution that would actually work, they're plenty willing. They're not "Batfam 2.0 but lamer and not as powerful," which seems to be the predominant interpretation most of the time.

EDIT: I have a confession to make, I mis-cited who Ollie killed. I forgot there were TWO GUYS involved bcs it's been so long and it's not exactly a storyline I like revisiting, so they sort of blended in to my mind. The one who tore off Roy's arm, as well as sent the order to set off the bomb that killed Lian was Prometheus, and THAT'S the one who Ollie killed. Roy most definitely did in fact end up killing the Electrocutioner, who was the trigger man who pushed the actual button to set it off, and for a brief period did in fact go on to try and kill Deathstroke before he came to terms with Lian's death. Ollie did also have some regret for killing Prometheus and did try to stop Roy, because he felt that it was a pointless revenge which... tbh considering some of his other things I'm like "okay buddy, little hypocritical there but you are nothing if not a knowingly flawed man trying to do the best by those around him."

[iphigeniacomplex]

my brother and i watched the first season of game of thrones together completely unspoiled, so there was a point in the s1 finale where we sat for a moment in a tense silence, and then my brother said "theyre not going to actually do it" at the same time as i said "they always dress joffrey so well" and he looked at me as if he had never truly seen me before and said "how can you even THINK about that right now" in this very grave hushed tone at which point i felt entirely immersed in the show. like we had for a moment become westerosi peasants in the crowd at the confession. and what i couldn't explain to him at the time was that there is no set of morals a person can have which inherently prevents them from appreciating a serve.

[findmeinthefallair]

Mindscape, based on this post I made weeks ago

The yellow light is Flapjack's life force 😭😭😭😭

[hootybal-lecter]

When people think Hannibal's main character traits are being rich and a snob when in fact his ACTUAL main trait is being a silly lil guy

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

Wonderful Idea:

All of the mistranslations in the ENG versions of TWST is just your Yuu still learning the language and having misunderstandings.

[ladystoneboobs]

catelyn

lysa

cersei

alannys

dany

gilly

i call this collection 5 highborn westerosi mothers worrying about and missing their sons + 1 wildling mother losing her son to a guy who never knew his own mother, a motherless son continuing the line of motherless boys and boyless mothers

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

keep forgetting to post these--

Hi I drew Emerald Duo as Jarthur for me and like two other people :] I didn't realize how much I missed drawing these guys

(For anyone who doesn't know Malevolent, the main characters are a guy and the entity possessing his eyes. They experience the horrors together and basically become platonic soulmates over the course of the story. Phil and Techno here, being in their places, are now blind and noncorporeal respectively <3)

[qoldenskies]

Donnie parentification? I have not thought of this before? Curious? Please explain?

i specifically refer to instrumental parentification!

donnie built their home from the ground up-- although not all of it is laid out, there is no one else in the family that could have constructed the lair in the way that donnie did. he's solely responsible for upkeep on more complicated things, because even if splinter tried his absolute best, nothing would make him a carpenter lolol.

// gestures at the background of this frame (not the model planes, the other half; he was probably building their home from a very young age!!)

raph was parentified in a more emotional sense, having to take the role as their protector and psuedo father figure, but donnie took on similarly very important responsibilities. it would have made raph's job a lot harder if he hadn't. they'd probably be suffering or even dead without him with no heating during the winter.

it's not a thing as heavily elaborated on in canon, but that's what fanfic's for! i also do think it informs his character well and his fear of not being "useful"; that's all he's ever known how to be. he knows they're dependent on him, and it wouldnt be surprising if they didn't notice because it's just been a given all their lives (that is made very apparent through the way they act about his tech. they're excited but its not new or revolutionary, donnie does this all the time!).

i also like to interpret that splinter was very active in their lives when they were very young, but after the lair was built and they were finally in relative safety he just kind of Crashed when he came out of survival mode. it'd explain a lot and be kind of understandable tbh

[allenwalkerbitch]

It's a small detail amidst the craziness that is the rest of 252, but I'm losing my absolute mind at the fact that Past Allen was apparently soldier.

We just had it confirmed that our protagonist, our child soldier protagonist, had a whole previous life that he lived and completely forgot about. He had a whole first life where, until he was at least an older teenager, he had nothing to do with the inescapable holy war that's taken over his existence the second time around. He was just some kid with no connection to the battle between the Noah and the Black Order.

But what was he instead? Was he free to actually have a childhood in this other life?

Nope! He was just a normal soldier in some non-spiritual, completely mundane war, and he would have died in battle if Nea hadn't swept in and drafted him into the holy war instead. There is no life in which the young Allen is not a soldier.

[gothicrepetitions]

I’ve often seen with children who live in households where they feel helpless and without any autonomy in their households, they tend to verbally lash out for a sense of control, especially in situations where the adult exerts their authority or power over them (such as demanding they do something or making decisions for them without regard to their own wants). Very true for Sam Winchester (from what we know in pre-series and what we see in at certain points of S1) but imo this often gets misunderstood and misconstrued both by fandom and by other characters