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bunisher · 4 months

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i need all future comics writers of frank (and anyone on DDBA) to stop trying to write him as a guy who had a normal childhood and was always just kinda Like That. or that he was simply destined to become the punisher, but that’s kind of a separate topic.

people who go into the military at 18 rarely have normal childhoods, they are often raised in abusive environments that are normalized. the urge to go into the military typically does not come from people who aren’t used to some form of abuse, because why would you willingly want to go into that? unless you are susceptible to indoctrination toward having faith in a system from a young age and aren’t able to discern the red flags? the military system preys on poor young men in particular by scouting them and offering all these bells and whistles (free college, healthcare, community) and feelings of importance, but then just forgets about them afterward.

side note: it’s actually such a disservice to many veterans to forget about how the military is an abusive system. it literally strips you of everything with no help in reintegrating back into society (other than by members of the same community). i get TPS1 tried to do something with this but dropped the ball. it feels like many writers just use his marine background as some sort of fun fact that only comes into play with certain things, but it very much shapes who you are and changes your identity. it’s a very cult-like system.

many people who want to serve are related to others who have prior. many people (especially men) who want to serve at that age have an underlying need that they think can be met. many people are brainwashed by military propaganda and believe it is the right thing to do. especially when it comes to religion, there’s this idea of men using their bodies to protect the innocent that goes back hundreds of years, and this idea of serving god, which we see young francis try to do in two ways. (side note: why do they keep removing his religious background? i liked the nod to it in the nmcu but it seems modern comics writers (looking at you jason aaron) just forget this?) besides, the functions of religion for people are very similar to the functions of the military as far as members go, namely community and a sense of greater purpose.

to me, as a reader/watcher, threads of probable abuse history are present in frank’s character, and i wish we had a writer brave enough to write about it. why else would he care so much about innocents and victims? why else would he become suicidal and guilt stricken when he hurts an innocent? it makes you think: was there no one who protected him or someone else he knew?

and this may not mean anything but idk i think he’s so much more tragic and juicy if you look at him like someone who is not the perfect victim (and maybe doesn’t even recognize their abuse) but someone who instead of healing and becoming soft, becomes angry and violent afterward. trauma, especially repeated trauma, does not effect people all the same way and i really wish they would just be bold enough to work with that. i get trying to piss off the alt right but completely changing the character to fit the same stereotype of a ‘psychopath’ (which is an outdated term) as they do in horror movies about killer children is just poor writing. again, talking about punisher 2022, but this was kinda in nmcu too. and sure yeah they’ve retired his character (but not the punisher….? ok) in the comics, but for when he inevitably does come back, yeah.

#and i’m not a huge fan of ennis but i think tyger was fairly well written but that’s MAX so it’s separate #especially since it’s saying he was a child in the 1960s which would be different than growing up in the 80s as in NMCU #and same thing for comics like they could do a miniseries on his real childhood in order to retcon what happened in 2022 #but i think him witnessing a traumatic event or having multiple traumas in childhood fits his character #especially when it comes to the whole ‘no authority figures did anything so he took matters into his own hands’#the types of people who go into cults have prior indicators in childhood #mfer went it seminary and still sometimes seeks out his rosary… something something fathers and masters #something something guiding force #also the military is a very culty system and so is catholicism so it's interesting nobody has done anything with that #but the idea that he was searching for community and brotherhood to some degree is not that far fetched #which is why he latched so hard onto his family and became utterly unable to attach himself to others out of fear #a person with good attachment wouldn’t react like this and yeah he’s unhealthy but that rarely comes from just being Like That #so i am begging once again for people to stop retconning his past #i also think reading him as an autistic child helps bc autistic children are often taught to ignore their needs and wants #which is something we see with his character later on that’s so prevalent #anyway this is just a blurb that i’ve been thinking about #frank castle #the punisher #comics inspired #ddba #nmcu the punisher #character analysis #bun.txt

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 months

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Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Woah...it's been a whole *year* since I took the leap and uploaded my 'first attempt' art.#It's outdated now but it holds a special place in my heart for the fact it started all of this off.#Calling this 'poorly-drawn' was always about accepting that my art was going to be imperfect and messy - and doing it anyways!#There has been a staggering number of times I have drawn something I almost didn't upload because I didn't think it was 'good enough'#only for someone to say they liked it - or that it made them laugh. And it has helped me realize -#-The worst critic for my work has always been myself. If I listened to it all the time...well we would not be here now B'*)#And now that I have dabbled in other fandoms I can truly see how lucky was to start out with the MXTX fans.#The supportive messages and tags have truly been a guiding force toward my artistic and self improvement.#I really can't describe how grateful I am.#Thank you for seeing something worth rooting for when I was just figuring things out.#Thank you for being sweeter than the candy I have strategically hidden in the nooks and crannies of this house.#But watch out! If you forget to find them we will get ants.#I remembered to not hide chocolate in the bed this year. Yes I know it melted last time. Yes it did stain. I'm still sorry.#Thank you for loving me regardless <3 Even if it looked like I shit the bed real bad.

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human-rocket · 5 months

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Guiding Light | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | [next]

Also available to read on Ko-fi and now AO3!!!

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#my art #obikin #guiding light #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #star wars fanart #sw fanart #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #asajj ventress #qui gon jinn #star wars comics #star wars fan comic #aniobi #force dyad #featuring a (convenient) force vision that reveals palp as the sith lord LOL #I am not clever enough to do a ROTS fix-it without something like this I am sorry #and in case it’s not clear that is not force ghost qui gon #it was palp messing with Obi’s mind

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shoccolat · 7 days

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the man with the okami tattoo

alts:

+undie shots bc i'm in love w the idea of the lil tail(s) peeking out 🤭

#my take on what nishitani's tattoo might've been #LOVE the idea of the okami for him. esp since they can prey on humans or protect them (*cough* majima *cough*)#esp ESP since he preyed on majima at first but then he protecc!!💋#and something about crossing paths w an okami as being either a good or bad force depending on how you treat them. or what you need most atm #SOMEthing like that #being a guiding soul for majima when he needed it most #hhhhhHH 🥺🥴#nishitani homare #homare nishitani #yakuza #yakuza 0 #yakuza fanart #rgg #rgg fanart #scribbles #empty tattoo lineart versions bc freckles :) that was mainly the reason lmaO

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short-wooloo · 1 year

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Oh my fucking God

Chirrut does not prove that a non force sensitive can be trained as a Jedi

1. He's not a Jedi, he's a guardian of the whills

2. He still cannot use the Force, he doesn't use it in the movie, Chirrut trusts in the Force believes that it will guide him, but he cannot consciously feel or use it

The whole point of Chirrut's character is about faith

He is the believer to Baze's jaded doubter

Chirrut puts his faith in the Force, that it will lead him to his destiny and the forces of good to victory, and in turn his faith inspires Baze to regain his

And we never know with certainty that Chirrut was guided by the Force

But that's the point of faith, we don't know, we can't know, it's a matter of belief

Maybe the Force did help him, maybe he did it all by himself, or maybe because the Force exists in everything, Chirrut's action was the Force intervening

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #anti ahsoka #ahsoka critical #anti dave filoni #dave filoni critical #chirrut imwe #baze malbus #on the force #on faith #rogue one #faith #faith is about believing #not seeing #even if you don't know #the belief that something guides you is powerful

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chirpsythismorning · 6 months

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S5 opener REAL

#byler #will byers #stranger things #every season besides s4-5 opens with non main characters #for el we got a flashback of the lab followed by her perspective in the scene directly after #and I think for Will we will see something similar #with us getting the flashback of him in castle byers in the UD #followed by him in the present in the scene after #but what exactly would warrant that memory being brought up in association with Will in the present?#mayhaps his connection to the mindflayer and the UD run deeper than we realize…#it’s likely not something he could just rid himself of in s2 and now he’s all good #he literally still feels a connection to everything he is feeling #that means he is still technically at risk of being the spy in some capacity #the massacre at Hawkins lab also was a guiding force for El discovering the ‘truth’ in s4 #so it’s likely for Will this instance will operate in a way that re-contextualizes the events in the past up to now #like that time Will suggested they go to the hospital in s3 only for the flayed to be waiting for them #or how flayed Billy knew they were at the cabin…#all while Will was looking cryptic as hell in that scene watching over el #or the fact that he picked Billy in the first place the season after he focused on Will…#you know.. williams #I think the easiest way to introduce the castle Byers flashback is a dream honestly #specifically a dream within a dream #seeing that recent leak and Will looking like either he has a black or hasn’t slept in days #is giving very much ‘I am afraid to sleep bc I’m scared of what will happen’#I think dude is not exactly possessed in the sense that we already saw in s2 with like the particicles #but he’s still vulnerable #the door is still ajar…#no but fr this idea of opening a door in your mind was so blatant in st2 AND s3b of teen wolf #I think a big part of it will be guilting Will over the fact that Will has helped him before without Will telling the others #hence his weird vibe in s3… like he’s already successfully fucked with Will post s2 potentially with us being none the wiser aka here we go

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kyngsnake · 1 month

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domestic dog that belongs to no one; wild wolf that chooses to belong to someone

#bottom is a Mexican gray wolf and top is a German shepherd #there is so much symbolism loaded into this. I’ve been having a lot of fun using tarot cards to recomtextualize OC imagery #but the critical thing about Avery as The Chariot is that he is always in forward motion. compelled by internal and external influences but #emotions are his driving force in much larger quantity than anything else.#Avery likes to be collared to something. often someone. loyalty and devotion guiding otherwise wild impulses #like I said there’s a lot to unpack #anyway #Wes is next #Avery #autumn art #tarot #the chariot

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papakhan · 3 months

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Man I don't think Papa Khan even Wants to be king of the Mojave drug empire

#He seems to despise the way they're forced to live in new vegas #And I know it's implied that he'd rather go back to being the raider King of new vegas #But idk his willingness to take on the Followers concepts and guide the Khans into a group #Who take inspiration from specifically from the 'governance economics and transportation' from the Mongolian empire #Idk. There's something about him #He's not happy tho like. The drug business is a means to an end to him #Txt

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autisticlee · 2 months

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i'm so tired. year after year i've posted on facebook/Instagram where I have irl people, begging for someone to come hang out and do fun summer activities i've wanted to do since I was a kid but never got to do. year after year i'm ignored and don't get to do anything with anyone. this summer i've been trying they bumble friends app. but it's the same there. I have to try to initiate things and don't get much response and don't know how to plan anything. if I do plan, i'm afraid i'll waste the little time and energy I have on nothing. I doubt strangers will agree to meet up when I can't even figure out how to get to know them properly....

"ask people people directly instead of making a broad post" i've been told. i've tried that too, over and over. it always ends in rejection and excuses. i'll ask, they'll say they can't because they're busy. so I "put the ball in their court" as they say, and ask them if we can plan another time. more excuses or getting ignored. tell them to let me know as soon as they know. but if I don't ask them again, they will never speak to me again. they never let me know. they forget i exist, or simply avoid me on purpose. they do things with all their real friends instead, because they can always make time for them, even after I was told they're busy this weekend with work, I find out they went out with friends all weekend and didn't actually have work or plans at all before that. if I ask too many times, they eventually ghost me and don't even give excuses anymore. they don't even have the kindness to tell me they don't want to see me so I can stop wasting my precious time and energy on them.

"people like to be asked directly because it means you want to meet them specifically and they feel special, so theyre more likely to accept" or whatever, I don't remember the exact words I was told, it was something like that. but I can get that. that's why I will try a few times before giving up. that's why I wait endlessly year after year for someone to reach out to me first for once to do things or even just chat. it's always expected that I always reach out first, ask first, plan everything. i'm not good at that. is that why I always fail at it? the rejection affects me more than for others. trying to plan things is exhausting and overwhelming. especially when I plan a while thing and get canceled on or rejected, time after time. yet I still try and keep waiting, wasting my time and feeling more alone.

why do I have to always be the one to reach out? why can't I expect someone to one day respond to my broad posts? why do I have to ask directly every time and do the socially draining song and dance just to be met with failure? they're so quick to push me away. I don't think asking directly does anything at all to benefit me or them. I don't think they actually care or need or want my attention, because they all have their people. me asking directly doesn't make them feel special at all.

"it's a two-way street/you don't have to do everything/find people who will put in effort too" i'm told these things. it sounds good in theory. but I can't control what other people do or think or feel, so it isn't helpful. go tell that to the difficult people I know and keep meeting. tell them how to communicate properly, because i'm sure if I give them a lecture on proper communication and how to treat me better, they will block me immediately. people have a bad habit of refusing to listen to me no matter how hard I try to communicate with them.

"as people directly" feels more like a lie I was told. a thing told to me to say i must not be trying hard enough and that's why I fail. a lie to remind me that i'm socially unacceptable and do everything wrong. they don't need me to ask directly. they aren't going to accept anyway. but what about me? what if i'm the one who wants to feel special that I was chosen by someone directly over others, that they thought if me, wanted to give their precious time to me? instead of being their last choice, hoping they accept because they have no one else, because all their real friends and favorite people are busy but they need socializing. the reality is, i'm usually not even a choice at all. I've seen their posts where they're bored or want to do a thing but don't ask me like I asked them to. they get responses from their real friends and set plans and don't have space left for me. I want to feel the thing i'm told other people are supposed to feel when I ask directly. they don't seem to feel that at all because it's me and i'm not people they like. I can't ask too much or ask to join in. desperate people are never wanted. maybe I still look too desperate once or twice a year.

it sure would be nice to be liked. to be on someone's mind when they want to invite people. to get invitations to things, to be included in plans, to get people to accept my invites. to have someone to actually want you around and ask you suddenly without warning, making the plans, without you having to do anything but show up and join them. instead of being forced to spend my life alone, I want to feel what it's like to actually be wanted....

#lee rambles #big ramble that took way too long to write. so tired now 😭#social battery drained from trying to make people like me enough to be friends and failing #dont know what do. need socially adpet friend who guides me. cant be social guide. too overwhelming and exhausting #need a social friendly extrovert to adopt me and drag me around or hang out comfortably #but that only happens in animes and stuff. never in real life......#why is this life so lonely.....#petition to change autism to “lonely social isolation disease” /sarcasm #autistic #autism #actually autistic #i assume its the autism. or am i actually insufferable or something. ill never know since people dont like to inform me of things adequately #no om not asking for advice. ive heard everything by now and nothing helps. unless you can teach me mind control #its on other people. they are the ones who need to take the responsibility and do things since i cant force them to despite trying my best

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nexus-nebulae · 1 month

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kinda wanna cry bc i just dont know who i am rn and havent really for weeks and every other known front gets harder and harder to sustain

#trying to get anyone familiar in front doesn't work anymore #but we don't know. who we are. the new ones. if there's more than one. if there's any. what we are #and we've been trying and trying to find resources for figuring this out but most new headmate guides are either:#telling you minute details about like what a phone is and what earth is which is. overkill for us with mostly shared memory #or what honestly feels like an OC introduction sheet #or just made solely for fictives and excludes any experiences of brainmades like asking whats your source and what do you remember #i have no memories i have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING i don't know ANYTHING about myself #I'm not anything and nothing helps #how the fuck am i supposed to choose a name when I don't even know WHAT i am #trying to force others into front is making us feel sick and anxious and 1000000 times more forgetful and disassociatey #but not knowing who i am is the worst feeling in the world #i just want something i KNOW #i just want to know anything

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sysig · 1 year

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Lose myself to you (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #ZEX #The Captain #Vent?? Maybe??#I've been having something of a rough time of it lately so I actually broke and made myself some SCII hurt/comfort for a change of pace #I almost never make hurt/comfort - more of a whump creator haha ♪ - but yeah I needed it #It ended up just being a short little 1.6k jaunt but I did do it all in one sitting and got some needed emotions out so thank you these two #I think it's also my first vent fic :0 So that's interesting!#As well as the first one that I inserted images into! I've been wanting to for a while but I never have! I know how to now! :D #Constantly thinking about how oddly on equal footing these two are despite being so different #It makes the way they differ so interesting!#They're both important figures in their respective military forces and yet the Captain is so young!#Not only a lack of experience leading to the blows hitting him harder proportionally but also just - that's just how teenage human brains do #(If the Captain is still a teen - it's gotten very stuck to me that he hasn't quite turned 20 yet haha)#But again again even still he's a very young and new adult - there's a lot of chemistry going on in his brain that makes the job hard #And so having ZEX as a partner and a mentor - it creates a weird dynamic! It's interesting to me #ZEX /is/ definitely weird towards the Captain haha but past a certain point he really does only have so much power over him #And I just like it better when he guides him over trying to control him <3 Usually anyway lol - in this instance for sure #Their weird dynamic being a source of comfort and escape ♥ Of ZEX being gentle with him while still working to his own ends haha #ZEX is such an interesting character; he's hard to classify and I like that about him very much

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48787 · 7 months

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Wait shit did we remember to conscript the constructicons to board the nemesis??

If anyone has seen those green and purple fucks can you send them to the main bridge

Soundwave just reminded me about them and I realized I forgot to fucking check if they were on board or not.

Ughghh it's far too fucking late to turn this ship around, I cannot face Shockwave until he's hunted those autobots and got his allotment of mandatory sadism subroutines out of his system otherwise I'm going to have to explain to him why the Whirl pictures are passive aggressive in the first place. He fucking knows why they are but he's so good at fucking with me it drives me fucking crazy trying to beat him at his own damn game.

Anyway, I'll just hope they're on board, otherwise making that fucking spacebridge will be a real pain in the ass.

If you green and purple fucks are receiving this come to the main bridge at once or I'm going to have to rely on Soundwave's "Superior" infrastructural technique of Using Child Labor. I hear you and him have a score to settle anyway so I might make a thing out of making you both have to prove your merits.

#Once I get all my aliasing squared away the nemesis is going to be like a fucking ant colony #I'm still determining if I actually want to use Megatron as an alias for something or not yet #Current's it's just rodent@nemesis and I don't want it to be megatron@nemesis just yet because I still have a lot of set up needed #before I can start considering more than just ratting around my machinery #Maybe once I start setting up the writing infrastructure for Peace Through Tyranny I'll figure it out #Like anything that automates the process more than my shockwave or soundwave is going to I guess..#I am fairly content remaining as my own ideological guiding force for now.#I could use fusioncannon I just dont know what for just yet #unless I want to tape a gun to nemesis... I mean the missiles *are* functional...#Mmm I could also just name my motherboard Megatron #That *would* make sense actually... He is mommy...#Ooh and then my mouse I/O could be something like Energon Mace (because I wont use it that much if I can help it)#Would that make the keyboard the fusion cannon by extension?#Maybe I'd swap it for when I play fps games haha!!#Oh!! And entering the nvim editor would be like gun mode haha!!#Mmmm MegatronOS..... I don't know what would be special about it but it's fun to think about....

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pagesofkenna · 7 months

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Uh major Curse of Strahd spoilers, but, Erika saying in the newest Um Actually that they've never finished a CoS campaign and 'the real curse is that it doesn't end' is hilariously, actually, true

#not to invalidate anyones personal CoS game but theres an epilogue in the official adventure guide #saying that when you kill strahd the mists clear up and the land is cured... briefly #after some time the mists start to return and the demiplane splits off again and strahd is reformed #if i remember correctly i think its bc Ravenloft being sdemiplane means it cant exist without Strahd #whose life force is connected to it? as long as the land exists Strahd exists?#it might also have something to do with the evil forces in that temple. its been a while since i read that book

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loveoaths · 2 years

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my toxic trait is getting irrationally angry when someone implies din’s religion and the covert are inherently abusive/backwards, based solely on bo-katan’s comment and the popular belief that orthodoxy = evil.