#sacrfice

[wisdomfish]

"You have to believe in Jesus Christ, that He died as a sacrifice for sin and arose from the dead as a testimony to His power and the perfection of His sacrifice."

John MacArthur

[whumper-boi]

Got emotional at three am over a TAT prompt I saw so here 🖤

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“Would you please hold still?” Caretaker was almost at their snapping point with Whumpee, having to mentally count to ten to avoid doing anything stupid.

“It’s my fucking luck to get stuck with an uncaring asshole like you, isn’t it? Nothing else has been good for me, so why would you be different.”

This wasn’t the first thing Whumpee had said like this. As soon as Caretaker had brought them back, it had been non-stop barrage of insults and complaints about them, and everything they did to try to help.

“I’m sorry you feel that way.” Caretaker muttered, damn near through gritted teeth. “Now hold still so I can finish rewrapping your arm.”

Apparently, Whumpee had enough. “You know what?” They growled, jumping from the toilet cover. “I didn’t fucking asked to be saved! You just took it along yourself to try and play hero-“

Caretaker bit their toungue, trying to keep their calm, but Whumpee wasn’t getting the hint that they were getting sick of it.

“So now you’re here, trying to fix a little broken person, do you feel good?” Their tone had become mocking and childish. “I didn’t need you to save me, so-“

They couldn’t. They fucking couldn’t deal with this shit. They were yelling before they even realized it. “Maybe you should’ve fucking told me that before I decided to chose you over Whumpee B!”

Whumpee stopped moving, shocked at the sudden outburst. “What?”

“Whumper hurt Whumpee B, who you’d never met before. They were gravely injured, but with medical treatment, they could possibly survive. You, on the other hand.”

Venom interlaced their words, “-Were cut up and bruised, but more then able to take a fucking hit. You weren’t going to die for a very long time at the rate Whumper was going!”

Whumpee listened, mouth hanging open at the hostility coming from Caretaker.

“Yes! I saw you, and you were in for a lot more shit Whumpee! But Whumper, the ever so kind person they are, gave me a choice,” they let out a involuntary chuckle, a little bubble of hysteria being released as tears streamed down their face.

“I could save my Whumpee B, but turn my back on everything Whumper had planned for you, or I could let them kill-“ their voice cracked, and they had to look away from Whumpee momentarily. “And they would let you go.”

Whumpee’s eyes were wide, shock running through their features. “You- you chose me?”

Caretaker wiped away the warm tears, still feeling the anger nipping at them. “I sacrificed my baby’s life to save you, and you’re sitting here, acting like selfish fucking child.”

“I-“

“I get it,” Caretaker said, voice going back to its neutral tone. “You didn’t want me, and you can hate me all you want, but the least you could do is let me finish rewrapping your bandaids.”

[warp-speed]

A sketch of some Game of Thrones lore

The Night's Queen a.k.a the corpse queen with her devoted crow

[r3volutionary-queen]

Trivia Tuesday

Creators: give a “behind the scenes” look at one of your works. This could be things that got removed or changed, the origins of ideas/details, whatever you like!

(Thanks @ao3commentoftheday for the header!)

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I haven’t done one of these in a while. After having a pretty deep Ignition chat with @unlimitedhappylife last night, I thought it might be fun to share some insight.

One thing, if you read with a magnifying glass, you’ll notice in Ignition is that it has layers. Layers on layers on layers.  I also love playing with parallels. One of my favorite examples is the dynamic between Steve and Darcy. Prepare for a long post below of an author’s ramblings.

A big theme in this story is sacrifice. In the start of Ignition we see it play out where Steve is willing to put Darcy at risk by taking her on a secret mission in order to bring back the TeleThor. When they get back to the safe house, successful but with a close call, Thor and Steve have a big argument over it because to Thor, the idea that Steve was so willing to put Darcy, who is infinitely precious to him, in danger is enraging. In their argument, we see Steve state that it was Darcy’s ultimate choice to take the risk and that she has that right.

And Thor struggles with that reality because he loves Darcy like a little sister—she is all he has left.

Later, after Thanos threw down the ultimatum to the Avengers demanding they turn themselves in or he starts killing 50 random citizens a day, we see Steve getting ready to turn himself in to Thanos. He’s ready to sacrifice himself so that 50 citizens can go free because one life for 50 is worth it to him. And we see Darcy have a major issue with that (basically having a similar stance as Thor in the first argument over the idea of sacrifice).

“And if I willingly choose to sit back and let fifty people—fifty lives—be snuffed out, what will my life be worth then?” Steve’s voice was hard and unyielding. “It’s a selfish thing to want to trade fifty innocents for our lives.”

“Says the man who wouldn’t be left behind to drown in the grief,” she snapped, slamming down her mug.

And a little later in their argument...

“Steve, you’re asking me to do the very thing you are unwilling to do: knowingly stand back and let a sacrifice happen. If we’re—you said we’re friends, right?”

He gave her a careful nod, like he was waiting for the trap, and Darcy pressed on.

“Then stop asking me to be okay with losing you.”

And then, later on when the Soul Stone comes into play, I flip the script. Steve gets to experience firsthand what Darcy felt in that kitchen—what it’s like for someone he cares about to decide to put their life at risk.

And suddenly, Steve is no longer okay with the idea. It makes you wonder if the Steve we see later in Ignition would have been as open to the idea of sneaking Darcy out on a secret mission as the earlier Steve was.

Also, everyone loves to get pissed at Clint and I get it, he’s a bit of a dick. But I wanted to write Endgame Clint (minus the Murder spree) and have him be an alternative view on things. And, whether we like him or not, he speaks some pretty hard truth. He calls Steve out on his shit (in an asshole kind of way lol).

“Darcy.”

Clint slid a dangerous look at Steve who was leaning forward trying to get her attention, his hand closed in a tight fist. The archer lifted one cool brow, his voice turning mean. “Yeah, you’re going to get over that coddling shit real fast, Cap. We’ve all got tough decisions to make and a part to play. We’ve known since the moment Loki brought back the stone that there would be a sacrifice and—”

“—and it’s not you being ripped open by an infinity stone every time you touch it.” Steve bit out with real venom, his eyes flashing.

“Maybe if you weren’t just interested in getting your dick wet—”

Darcy flinched, shame washing over her, turning her face a bright red.

And a few paragraphs later...

Steve’s jaw ticked. “I don’t want us to fight, we’ve got a big enough enemy already. We don’t need to add more amongst ourselves. That being said, you do seem awful eager to spill blood that isn’t your own, Barton. That’s where I have my problem,” Steve tried, his tone less defensive.

Clint snorted humorlessly, still clearly riled up. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse, barely more than a rasp, like he had screamed it all out.

“That’s easy for you to say. Didn’t you sneak her off for a fucking mission back at the safehouse? What, now suddenly things are different—you care?”

Bottom line: I love gray areas. I love decisions that aren’t black and white, things that make you think.

Darcy is their only hope at that time of bringing back half the universe. One life for half the universe, is it worth it? Clint doesn’t know Darcy like Steve or Thor do, to him, she is the key to bringing back those he loves and so in his mind, it’s worth it.

Steve had this same conversation with Vision in Infinity War and remember, Vision was okay with sacrifice but Wanda was not (again, it’s different when the sacrifice is not yourself but someone you love).

Anyway, congrats if you read all of that. Welcome to how fucking complicated the storylines and characterizations are in my head. It’s a hot mess most of the time, but I also love this kind of shit.

If this is something folks like, I’d be happy to share any other sort of behind the scenes insights to the story or characters.

Annnnd I’m done 😂

[jacobdenness]

sacrifice

when Jason talks about why the story went along the line it did he says he want to do things around sacrifice, having Clarke sacrificing Bellamy for Madi. problem is for it to actually be about sacrifice something has to be lost and Clarke didn’t really lose anything.

first you’d probably say she lost Bellamy because after all he was the one she “sacrificed” but arguably she had already lost Bellamy. multiple characters said before and after his death they had already lost Bellamy so in terms of what has been said on the show she didn’t really kill Bellamy, so there no real sacrifice there.

second you might say her friends, things changed with her friends. but they didn’t really there was an argument with Madi but that was it both Octavia and Echo forgave her after a minute flat, like I said there was a lot of talk of already losing Bellamy so again no real lose.

even within Clarke her self there doesn’t seem to be any indication she lost anything internally the way she’s talking it doesn’t seem like she thing she did anything wrong. to be honest when it really comes down to it I think she sees it as Bellamy’s fault she killed him.

now we have two episodes left so some of these things could change, maybe someone will confront Clarke are maybe she will really think about what she did but my point is there’s no sacrifice here. Jason claims he wanted to do a storyline around sacrifice but as things stand right now there’s no really follow through on that. there very easily could be, if someone confronts Clarke about it and there is a real conversation that plot point could be paid off but we have yet to see that.

so if that or some other version of it doesn’t happen before then end we really should all be asking what the idea really was?

[whumpypepsigal]

Prodigal Son s01e13: Malcolm activates a bomb and tells the team his “last words” except for Dani 😏.

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