I am the Almighty Niburu, Objectifier of Men

I have a total god complex I live to objectify men ~Veteran Fic Reader~ Enthusiast of Hugh Jackman I'm like the Joan Rivers of shipping; irrelevant as fuck and foul mouthed, but really clever and fucking good at what I do

[helenvaughans]

[dulldoc]

"Forget me not"

Mixed media on watercolour paper.

[apricustar]

ruben's violence has always been punitive—about marking people, leaving them lesser, never able to look at themselves the same again. he stomps, he kicks, he disfigures. his specialty is making people ugly, and no one understood or feared that more than niall, who spent the entire stretch of ruben's first imprisonment growing increasingly paranoid that one day ruben was coming for him next. with everyone else, ruben's violence feels explosive, almost expulsive: emotion he cannot contain erupting outward until someone else is forced to carry the damage for him.

with niall it isn't like that at all. ruben doesn't make niall ugly. he suffocates him in a near mimicry of that night in episode one, where ruben had him from behind, arm looped around his throat—something that could almost be mistaken for a hug, for the illusion of comfort. but in the barn, ruben is on top of niall, face-to-face, hands covering his mouth; no pretending now, no darkness left to hide in.

and i think that's what makes the scene feel so uniquely horrifying. strangulation is intimate in a way his other violence never is; it requires proximity, duration, and effort—both hands, full weight, sustained contact, close enough to feel the body give. and ruben makes it a point to maintain eye contact throughout; the effect is almost consummatory: the final collapse of thirty years of obsession, dependency, repression, and need into one unbearably finite act of closeness.

and maybe there is meaning, too, in the way his hands cover niall's mouth: the silencing of everything left unsaid between them. all those years of avoidance and affection twisted into forms neither of them could ever properly name. half man is, at its core, a show about men who can only articulate themselves through violence; the tragedy is that ruben's most honest expression of love and his most devastating act of destruction turn out to be the same gesture. he doesn't mutilate niall. he holds him still and close and watches him go. this is slower, more familiar. almost tender in its horror. more intimate than a kiss, than sex. it's a release in and of itself. in the end, what he takes from niall isn't his face—it's his breath, and his voice, and whatever words might have finally gotten them free.

[randalkirkland]

HALF MAN (2026) ☆ S01E06 ☆

[bambicest]

HALF MAN ⁍ 1.06

[bruzum]

[bruzum]

[theehorsepusssy]

[theehorsepusssy]

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[lebeefsteak]

Avoidance Waffle.

[theehorsepusssy]

Delusional Cracker

[pjackk]

Vodka & benadryl got me feeling like a oyster

[hotvampireadjacent]

[choudo-ii]

heppy pride munth

[contemptible-scoundrel]

goes crazy

[contemptible-scoundrel]

have you seen this yet?

[1dietcokeinacan]

Stop she is SO fucking funny

[pupp1gutz]

what REALLY happened in 2x11

[glintblade]

Hiro Shima, the only japanese kid at hogwarts, locking eyes with a boggart as it transforms into an exploding nuclear bomb in the middle of the classroom: