#tragic irony

[spectre79]

[bobauthorman]

History

Funny how things get muddled as the years go by, ain’t it?

[look-at-that-right-there]

I'm obsessed with Robin Hood, severely nearsighted, and also allergic to most trees. Doomed by the narrative, as the youth say.

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Really digging the subtle little arc that Paul goes on from when he and Jessica arrive at Sietch Tabr and he says "I must sway the non-believers" (I don't think he means convert them to the prophecy; I think he means convince them to follow his lead politically; but still seeing the Fremen as a tool to be used in his personal revenge quest), to when they're talking before Jessica leaves for the south and he says he's staying in the north to fight but that "they deserve to be led by one of their own" (ie. I'm in this fight because I believe in it but I don't expect to gain anything for myself and actually I probably shouldn't).

The fact that Paul is only becoming more convinced that he is nothing special at the same time that people are starting to worship him. The fact that his own mother is doing everything possible to accelerate that process and the two of them keep moving further and further apart (literally, he is going north and she is going south). The fact that people keep telling him he should just reach out and take the power that's available to him (Jessica with the prophecy, Gurney with the nukes), it's so simple, look, it's right there waiting for you, it's your birthright, wouldn't this makes things easier? The fact that he resists all of these arguments right up until the attack on Sietch Tabr, and that it's his best, most human impulses (grief over watching his home be destroyed again and guilt that he should have seen it coming; if he'd just seen more clearly or understood the visions better--) that make him finally decide to step onto the path that dooms him and everyone else.

[queermasculine]

speak your truth. they also hated jesus when he said that he wanted to be dyke pounded gayboy style

they beat jesus with a wallet chain

[prudishhotgirl]

double mastectomy scars look like the boob t shirt

[ghost-bxrd]

Hi, I was just wondering how Talon Dick would react to Jason getting tagged by either fear toxin or cuddle pollen? 🦉

Ah yes! We already had cuddle pollen in “language of birds”, so let’s go with fear toxin!

Okay so I think we can all agree it’s no surprise that what Dick would see if he got tagged… would be Jason either being turned into a talon like him or dying in a gruesome way (maybe even at Dick’s own hands).

But Jason? Well, it’s no secret that they’re… very codependent. But his fears would manifest as Dick leaving him. Abandoning him (for someone better).

Consequently he’d be a mess of begging Dick not to leave, that he’ll do better. Be better.

Dick would be panicking, trying to reassure Jason that he would never, ever leave him, aggressively cuddling and cooing at him.

Of course, none of it works. Jason isn’t actually seeing him, so at one point the image of Dick holding him would switch to someone else taking him away and Jason would turn downright feral trying to get away.

Dick is hurt, of course. But he knows Jason doesn’t mean it (right?) and so he would stay and allow every single hit to land (“it’s fine, talons heal fast”) until Bruce physically pulls him away to administer the antidote.

After many, many tears and hugs Jason would try to make Dick promise never to let him hit Dick again, even if it’s because of fear toxin. Dick neither agrees nor disagrees, which, in Dick language, is an adamant refusal.

[akajustmerry]

matt smith in hotd is unironically out here like, "actually my favourite prostitute that I'm cheating on my wife with and the lads down at the pub think I'd make a great king so fuck you"

[sugarpasteltmnt]

AAAAAAAAAA I love the fact that once he realizes that his brothers know who he is, that everything becomes 100% more personal now!!!!

He's no longer holding up the facad of "The Neon Void" he's now just Leo to them, despite the fact that he's struggling to keep that part of him intact because of the parasite. The Leo part of him LOVES his brothers, he adores them to bits, he copes with humorous bad jokes and craves familiarity of family and home.

The Krang parasite is an apathetic well... parasite! It has one goal, which find the key, free the orange. Which was his goal too? But he wanted to destroy the key, only using the Parasite to keep him alive (barely), make him stronger, and lead him to the key.

Which is why I was so easy being Neon Void!! Because he's no longer the Leo his brothers knew, so it was easy, they wouldn't have to know how far he's strayed from being Leo! Every aspect that is so agonizingly him has been twisted and broken into something manged that resembles who he used to be and is.

But now they know, and they see Leo, but they also see how unsettlingly different he is, how not Leo he is, but he's still Leo right?

This is no longer some stupidly powerfully psycotic maniac who knows more than he should, shrouded in mystery. That's their brother, who's been stuck in a hellscape for five years to rot. That grief was what he was trying to avoid, and yet he still opened that door up in the end anyways as their greatest fear and deepest hope come true.

(sorry if this is slightly incoherent I've been thinking about this an awful lot lately RAAHHH)

you nailed it on the head my friend

[felassan]

What if one of the two remaining trapped Old Gods lies sleeping far down in the Deep Roads, right underneath Fortress Weisshaupt?

[toxicc-yuri]

I am calling it right now: Teddy's gonna die maybe even drowned

[thefugitivesaint]

it’s entirely unnecessary for me to say this but this WTC Pamphlet from 1980 DID NOT age well. 

[thewantinglife]

Also the fact that callie hates her mother more for refusing to be transparent with her (both about the adam thing and what happened after the plane crash but also just in general) than for committing homicide (when she’s very clearly onto shauna about adam’s “disappearance”). This show continues to be so correct about the behaviour of teenage girls

[bonksoundeffect]

Do you often think about the inherent tragedy of Saren and Desolas or are you normal?

[mugiwara-lucy]

There's something poetic about Sanji and Franky in particular protecting Kuma considering how things were for them 2 years ago 🥹

[astranauticus]

so anyway today i went to a convention and bought THIS sticker

while in an EBENHOLZ COSPLAY