#it's weirdly cute idk

[izzythehutt]

Walt is the least sympathetic of all the BrBa criminals/anti-heroes/rogues gallery because he's the one (major) character who doesn't have a clear and unambiguous "reason" for being the way he is. There is an unflinching refusal to give this character a "Freudian excuse" for his behavior and I just...love that.

It is not only an extremely brave choice from a writing perspective for your protagonist (and really only works because Bryan Cranston can somehow wring sympathy out of this dry husk amoral sponge of a person), but also makes him the most realistic portrayal of what evil really is. Walt feels the least like a television version of how a person becomes bad because there's not one reason it happens, and there's an aspect to his moral descent that's both mundane and mysterious—his motives unfold gradually, they change, and the show never really seeks to outright explain why it happened beyond the obvious inciting event—his cancer diagnosis. Was there something in him always not quite "right" or was there just a unique confluence of circumstances that caused Walt's complete moral transformation? In his own words—he liked it, he was good at it, and it made him feel alive. Maybe it is just as simple as that. Evil is actually a lot less interesting than people give it credit for.

There are so many things about his personality that are just never explained but must have some explanation, surely. For example: Walt's hang-ups about money—his obsession with being the one who provides it for his family and his reactive disdain for charity (even Saul points out there's clearly deep-seated issues there lol.) You could very easily see a different writer backstory dumping a lot of explicit childhood trauma with Walt and his single mother being poor and him getting bullied and this being where his weird inferiority complex about hand-outs come from. Instead this is just a huge part of his personality that has no obvious singular explanation. Why is he like this? Who the hell knows!

Which I personally really like, because regardless of whether that happened to him as a kid (I have to assume something like that was going on with child Walt because he has really specific neurosis) it has no ultimate bearing on the morality of his actions. There is no excuse for what he does, ultimately, and I just love that the show gives you very few reasons to feel sorry for him, at least as far as his backstory goes. Even the merits of his Gretchen and Elliot resentment is called into question (though left vague.)

In a weird, counter-intuitive way this lack of explanation for his behavior makes me feel more sympathy for him (again, Cranston acting magic pulling its weight.) But it's such a subjective thing with him. How you feel about Walt hinges on the performance, the character's actions in the story itself and what the viewer chooses to extrapolate from both. I can't blame people for thinking he's just kind of a low-empathy asshole, though I personally find that explanation reductive and less interesting, I cannot argue with it as a valid read. He is very, very hate-able for so many reasons. There's something refreshing about how unapologetic the writing for him is in that way.

[pinkd3mon]

Dedede at the end of revenge of the king

Day 4 of drawing random kirby shitpost for every day of October

[saffitaffi]

Seems like there was some glitch where my last post didn’t post the picture??? Anyways have The Thorn

[thechibilitwick]

me when i damashite gomen yo ienakute gomen yo

[blaithnne]

Came across these old drawings where I experimented with an alt outfit Lauren. Still not entirely sure what I want to do with it but it’s definitely staying in rotation.

[smile-files]

the alliance........ from left to right: baseball, suitcase, nickel, and balloon!

(i was trying to find a way to represent balloon's name and i came upon a lucky medium: given how he was a jerk in ii1 and nickel continued to see him as such, i imagine he'd just call him "bully" from then on, even after they became friends -- and it sounds like the word "balloon", no?)

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

I thought the Meep was cute.

Apparently not.

Apparently I have a lot to learn about Doctor Who.

[omppupiiras]

SKRUNKLY

[skitskatdacat63]

2024 Chinese Grand Prix - Quali - Fernando Alonso

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

explain to me why if I wear a pair of fingertip-length shorts my mom barely lets me out of the house and acts like I'm being horribly immodest to the point that she'll argue with me about it but if I wear a dress the same length or even shorter she's all over it telling me how cute it is and I should wear it more

[total-drama-brainrot]

Alenoah Hypnosis AU, where Alejandro offers to hypnotize Noah, Noah says yes but makes sure that Owen + Izzy + Tyler is around to make sure that Alejandro doesn't make him do anything too embarrassing...

But Alejandro only adds a hypnotic trigger... Whenever Alejandro offers Noah a hug, Noah feels a strong urge to cuddle Alejandro... It's Alejandro own way of playfully messing with Noah... Noah hates it (but secretly enjoys the cuddles)... Owen + Izzy + Tyler doesn't stop Alejandro from adding the trigger, cause they think the hugging might help the anti-social grumpy Noah...

I know this version of the AU is weird, but hopefully it's a little less messed up then the 'Noah turns into Alejandro's puppet' AU! 🍥

Wait why is this actually kind of cute though?

It's still a little bit ethically questionable, which sort of comes with the territory, but the idea of Alejandro using his access to Noah's subconscious solely to make Noah want to hug him is actually kind of sweet. In a sort-of-messed-up kind of way.

It also implies that Alejandro already really wants Noah to hug him, which. I don't know if I prefer "already infatuated with Noah" or "incredibly touch-starved and positive attention-starved" as his motivation for doing so (though both is always an option). Either way, this lad just wants a hug from his favourite sourpuss.

And the mental image of Noah, salty pessimist that he is, physically fighting against the urge to koala cling to Alejandro at his prompt is really funny. He'd be so against the whole concept, not for any moral reasons, but because he'd find wanting to hug someone inherently embarrassing (not that he'd let anyone else know that) and "insulting to someone of his intelligence". I'm just imagining him making the most disgruntled facial expression whilst Al's grinning at him, waiting with open arms.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[the-casbah-way]

i know that the reason velvette doesn't actually speak in the final episode is probably because her voice actor wasn't free to record more lines but i actually love the fact that up until that point we've always seen her to be so loud and outspoken but the one scene where we see her comfortable and at home with vox and val she's actually way more quiet and reserved and prefers to just watch the shit go down between the other two

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

y'all the way i would write so much for bronzo if we had official translations for the entire zombie language

[jelly-ship]

Guess who finally drew something again?? Me :)

[002yb]

Oh~ the artist probably has a whole story in mind so I don't want to be rude and overstep! So I'll keep it brief so, hm. Maybe something like Jason having been watching someone's TV from up high. Just looking through their window and not spacing out on the job, per se. But yeah. He's zoning. Then recognizing the movie as one Dick and he watched before and it's an absolute spiral from there. Just reminiscing to longing to yearning. And then panic because omg Jason loves him and needs to do something about it immediately.

But yeah the ring either comes from a pawn shop or Jason breaks into a jewelry store and leaves cash on the counter and he's just a little manic. Holding this ring so tight in his hand and panicking every few minutes because fuck, did he drop it? Nope, still there he's good this is fine but also he's gonna puke send help panic this is the scariest thing he's ever done and yet he's never been more sure of anything in his life AHHH.

The art