♫ Shuddup, You're STUPID! ♫

hm… no I don’t think Gertrude was feeling cold and uncaring when she sacrificed Michael. I don’t think she just dusted her hands off and walked away. I think she was used to risky plans and close calls, even used to an occasional casualty, but her blood ran cold when she realized she was choosing to send one to their death. not collateral damage — a sacrifice.

and I think she tried to be as numb as possible, calculating, deciding, even as she knew deep down that only one of her assistants would walk straight into hell on her word.

and I think she found him a bit annoying before that. the jaded resent the naive — it isn’t fair, but it’s true. but by the time he brought her tea the next day, in her mind, he was already dead. everyone looks better dead. optimism, trust, loyalty all become virtues where they were once liabilities.

I don’t think she didn’t feel the gravity of her choice. I think she did it anyway.

and she did not hesitate.

Hey girl! Are you Jonah Magnus? Would you like to be?

had a dream last night that there was a lego figure of the distortion and it disturbed me immensely but I spent the entire dream haggling with the owner to buy it. like “oh it shouldn’t exist like that. it doesn’t like existing like that. oh, that’s fucked up. 🚨WIFE ALERT🚨”

this is what I was trying to get at with my gertrudeposting earlier today, though not nearly as thoroughly or eloquently as OP

regardless of its other successes or failures one thing i feel that the magnus archives did really well was create a narrative and worldbuilding that refuses to allow you to categorize its characters by the dichotomy of 'abuser' and 'victim' without ignoring major themes that define the shape and course of the entire story. despite one of its most central themes being that "we all get a choice, even if it doesn't feel like one" many of the characters we encounter are faced with genuinely horrifying ethical dilemmas that emphasize just how difficult that choice actually is to make, and allow the audience to sympathize with their plight even if not with their actions and decisions. many of the avatars are arguably just as much victims of the entities they serve as they are perpetrators of the violence they cause, and those who fight them in many cases choose to descend to monstrosity themselves in order to be able to keep pushing back - a choice some of them try to rationalize to themselves by arguing that the magnitude of the threat they face necessitates that the ends justify the means, but which is nevertheless a choice that they make, and one with a devastatingly high cost that is repeatedly, unflinchingly presented to both them and the audience. the human capacity to exercize our free will for better or for worse whilst taking into account the various internal and external influences that may affect the decisions we make is thoroughly explored with a great deal of care and nuance that i appreciate.

some of you need to take a ten week intensive course in how adult men interact with each other before you’re allowed to enter fandom

rip jonah magnus you would've loved pride

henry in ffps is like about 80 years old so he definetely talks like a grandpa for hours beyound his slay monologs

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gained so many followers off that who/what shitpost and yet not a SINGLE one of you hooligans is sending your distortion headcanons to my ask box. unbelievable.

Statement ends. long sigh. Another vampire statement. At least this one was a little more... unconventional, though, given the way it appears to have been written, I, ah, do not know whether to count this as a blessing or a curse, as it were. We will have to do more digging into the statement giver, this "Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way",

she who on my what til i— oh my god whh at t he ff u ck ist that th i n g