[victusinveritas]

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[wintersoldierfell]

girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text

[prokopetz]

Daily affirmations:

What is this place?

What manner of creature are you?

What sorcery is this?

[fuzzytheduck]

who goes there?

who sent you?

who dares disturb my slumber?

[scribe-awoken]

What is that beautiful house?

Where does that highway go to?

Am I right?

Am I wrong?

My God! What have I done?

[fxhdskjz]

art is just iteration and reiteration and this one single paragraph changed my life

[segamascott]

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Frank Frazetta

[coldcrashpictures]

I think about this story two times a week:

[sadclowncentral]

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

[sumverendus]

[sandpancakecat]

[gulomonster]

shout out to my burger-coded mutuals

[squaresaw]

So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess

[rate-my-reptile]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[lilhoneycat]

[pisboy]

does anyone have the gamer dance gif because i need it

[hollowtones]

This? 

[pisboy]

Hmm…………….. not quite. try again

[hollowtones]

Only gif I got, boss.

[kalichnikov]

[clarificationsw]

literally my dad

[chaussurre]

[carygrantsbeard]

HELPPPPPPPPPP

[licebeam]

henry jekyll was a really bad person but also incredibly realistic in the way that he didnt want to be and didnt see himself as such. he saw himself as such a good person he had to other himself from himself and create a new self, whether you see hyde as a connected yet separate conscious identity or just jekyll with a new body and an increased taste for evil.

its what makes jekyll so hateable and also sympathetic at the same time. I hate him for being so realistic. I feel bad for him for feeling stuck in his life with it all being his fault. I hate him for lying to his friends over and over. I feel bad for him for being evil when he wants to be good. but over all of that i feel nothing for him. he did this to himself and he knows it. He knows he's hyde. he knows it's his fault what hyde does, even when he feels guilt for those actions. his actions.

[artbyblastweave]

Something interesting about Coil is that he at least nominally checks a lot of the boxes on the “evil overlord with standards who looks after their minions and offers dental yadda yadda yadda” tumblr discourse gestalt. He makes deals, holds up his end in almost all situations bar the Dinah one, provides nearly unlimited material support to the villains under his control up to and including decorating their lairs for them. He accepts feedback and criticism graciously, and when Imp tries to haggle herself a territory in a crisis situation he goes along with it without even gesturing in the direction of making an example out of her for her insolence.

None of this is because he has actual standards or ethics or emotional attachments, which is what a lot of those posts (the bogleech one, etc.) imply is going on under the hood.  It’s just that he’s identified supporting, providing for and being lenient with his minions as the fastest path to continuing to have minions. Also, his power lets him simulate brutalizing his minions for their annoying fuckups without having to deal with the consequences of such. The “unconditional” support also folds the exact second playing nice with his underlings gets in the way of what he wants- he’s cordial with Lisa, sure, but there’s no illusion he’d ever let her leave his employ alive, she’s too useful. 

And, of course, the same pragmatic approach that makes him so great to work for also leads him to kidnap and drug children when that’s the fastest way to get what he wants, and the fact his “loyal” quirky likable minions are willing to go along with this is a shorthand for how awful they’ve been the whole time without Taylor (or the audience) noticing. And this underlying moral rot leads to the protagonists turning against him by inches and eventually killing him once they’ve rallied under a leader (Skitter) who genuinely is the kind of “great-boss, bad-guy-but-not-a-bad-guy” supervillain on personal principle that Coil presented himself as. 

And despite how he presents himself- his proximity to the “good boss supervillain archetype” just… never registered in the fandom, because the protagonist is laser-focused on the atrocious shit he does and her own complicity in it. I have never seen anyone argue on his behalf because of the “nice-coded” things he does! Everyone hates him! They hate him so, so much! It’s such an interesting treatment of the archetype!

[drakovictorious]

I think his own interlude also did a lot to prevent that. It’s explicitly stated that whatever vice his men have, no matter how heinous, he’ll supply to them for loyalty.

[artbyblastweave]

Yeah, and this is kind of why I parse him as a deconstruction of that villain archetype- when you’re a supervillain shooting for a paramilitary takeover, what kind of minions are drawn to your cause? What are their proclivities? What does being a “benevolent boss” look like when you’re an awful person hiring awful people? Not like a wholesome tumblr bit, that’s for sure.

[markovchaingang]

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

[abalidoth]

6. If x and y are my daughters, then there exists a set that has x and y as elements.

7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

8. I have exactly one daughter parallel to a given line passing through a given point.

[dogpuppy]