I eat this shit up

Love mythology and all but sometimes... I just run with my own

doodled Stayn from living with magicians webtoon... I like him :) (just felt like drawing random webtoon characters fsr lmao)

I know that this is a very unpopular opinion but hear me out!

I think not enough people consider Corvo as an unreliable narrator. We see the story from his point of view and all we know about Jessamine Kaldwin comes from his perspective. So, to think on that, do we really know how good Jessamine was as the Empress? 

I know that she is usually portrayed as a good person if not a saint but what if it wasn't that way? A lot of people in the streets are indifferent towards her image, if not hostile; the situation with Delilah; how both Geoff Curnow and Corvo are treated because of their nationality; two hatters recalling how greatly Corvo dealt with workers uprising under her command  – a lot of things are a tell-tale signs that something is not quite right. 

And at this point I have to clarify that I'm not saying things like "boo no I hate Jessamine". No, it's actually quite the opposite, I love her character. But the way it is usually portrayed seems to be so dull and static. Let her not be a saint. 

Let her be manipulative. Let her tell Corvo that "he is not like other serkonans, he is sooo special and that's why he is where he is and not somewhere deep in the silver mine", while being (just as any nobility in Gristol) not very welcome to any outlanders. 

Let her be power-hungry and afraid to lose this power. Remember a bonecharm in her hidden room in the Tower? Who knows how it ended up here! Maybe she knew (or felt) that Delilah was coming, capable of overpowering and taking everything from her. Maybe Jessamine was so afraid to lose her posh life that she was ready to use some kind of a black magic! 

Let her be disloyal. Obviously, she and Corvo developed some kind of codependency. But along with that, she was the Empress so who could stop her from having an affair or two? And Corvo was just the safest option, with a way less unnecessary risks and questions. 

Let her be an imperfect person. 

Obviously, Jessamine could be easily born a perfect ruler and a perfect loving woman for her chosen one and her daughter. But maybe she had to learn it the hard way. 

Maybe she changed along with Corvo. Maybe the plague was a critical point for her character, maybe those months without Corvo made her rethink a lot of things. 

And isn't it tragic, finally understanding and becoming the Empress everyone wants to see in you, just to be killed the other day, because all those changes have been seen as a weakness? Have nothing but faith in your closest one, faith that these people will be more wise than she was? 

Give her some development, give her some motion! She could easily  be a saint, static point.  But in my opinion, she deserves to be not perfect but in constant motion. Trying and learning, understanding and making mistakes. She was too young when she became the Empress, she was a part of gristolian nobility, not so kind to anyone but themselves, she literally had no prerequisites to become a good person. And yet somehow she did. 

It's always so easy to be a "saint" from the very beginning. And it's always so hard to learn how to become one.

Okay, so I know we all hate him, but Mahito is a legitimately brilliant villain...

I love when the Writing is so Peak that it pretty much gaslights you <3

anyway N!Lisa may be a classist dick but not even she deserves to be married to a man she sees as a devil. what's with this show and trying to paint obviously unhealthy abusive relationships as the cutest thing just because there's some mild banter between them

Some of you only view Lucas’s character as the Good Boyfriend and it shows

repeat after me: if you are the descendent of colonizers living on stolen land, you do not get to judge the methods of decolonial resistance movements.

There's nothing wrong with people having their dearest most specialest blorbo be Eric ztd it is unironically good for the ecosystem and I always love seeing the different perspectives from other fans but what I am here today to ask is why is no one like that about Mira. whatever happened to feminism.

you people are so fuckin annoyinggggg when will it end

abby, you got me thinking about dramione nonstop so now i want to know your favorite things about them

literally been thinking about this for hours and i truly don’t know how to answer without getting run out of town for being a delusional loser but. i think the best thing is that they don’t exist in canon outside of being broad strokes dichotomous characters who serve the plot. but then fanon decided. what if we took a universe teeming with untouched implications and made the subtext text. what if we took these “opposite” characters and put them in Situations(tm) that allowed us to write stories about war and prejudice and unwinable (often unsurvivable) circumstances. what if we thought about not light vs. dark but what it means to basically be created for a Good vs Evil fight. what if it was about a golden girl tired of creating light out of nothing, and a death eater terrified of his own blood. like…… they exist completely outside of anything written on the page or seen on the screen but there’s just so much there when you just pause and go. what if it was complicated. what if it’s not about redemption or corruption but both and also neither? what if we got into the magic and the horror. plus you’ve got. two characters whose reputations and personas become public mythos, two characters who are often isolated in their own ways, two characters who are narratively similar despite the circumstances, and two characters who should never be friends, much less anything more. and YET. and yet!!! what if!!!!

your post abt that fic, ‘burn it all down’ got me to read it, and i feel like it completely changed my brain chemistry. so sooo many thoughts, but mostly just holy fuck

im in the middle of a reread and literally why is it the only fic ever i have so much to say about it

there is something so beautiful in taking the worst plot you’ve ever seen and turning it into blorbo codependency in your head, we’re reclaiming unhealthy relationship dynamics in this house

m8datobi stans complaining about m8datobi fics making tbrm ooc and wanting in-character tbrm in their shipfics is the funniest shit ever

Fake dating/fuckbuddies with a hearty helping of requited unrequited love plots my Absolute Beloveds-

reminder GONKI IS MORE CANON 😤😏 so anytime some kg person tries to send hate at you remember it’s just cuz they’re big mad Gonki more canon eheheh 😘🤭

its a little funny how this is a major am0ur episode bc theyre on a “date” and its supposed to be about how cute they are and why they should get together, but then you watch it and its so clear that these two are not compatible at all. like i know theyre ten year olds but its funny how this gets cited as “omg they should get married and this episode proves why” when they clearly dont have much in common and dont have much regard for each others interests and its meant to be cute