By FDASuarez

Okay seriously. Reblog if you're OLDER than 11.

nobody likes the “bad boys” who insult and degrade their partners while wearing pastel polos with popped collars, people like REAL bad boys who wear leather jackets and take a lot of care in how they shape their pompadour and carry around stiletto switchblades and care about their communities and ride a motorcycle and rebel against the government and says stuff like “NOBODY insults my gal” and gets in fistfights with dudes who catcall their girlfriends. THOSE bad boys are the guys everyone wants.

a rant about Jaha & Murphy in the Desert

so a while ago @doortotomorrow​ asked my opinion on the Jaha and Murphy desert storyline when I was sleep-deprived and I went on this really emotional rant about it and probably cried because I love this storyline to pieces. it’s been sitting in my drafts for a while, but here it is

it’s about hope. it’s about finding a new home. it’s about pushing through all the shittiness towards something greater. and it’s also about the fact that maybe it’s just more shittiness at the end, but good stuff happened along the way and you grew through it despite that

it’s about a man who lost his son and hurt his people but wants to find something to make it all worth it, wants to find the light at the end of the tunnel of so much tragedy, the thing that will save his people and make his son’s death worth it - all the people he and the Ark authority killed worth it, the Culling worth it, his own survival worth it because he tried to be the martyr and it didn’t take

but also about that man becoming obsessive about reaching that light. so enamored with the end goal of heaven/paradise that he will help create hell to get there. so focused on saving his people as a whole and as an abstract concept - of redeeming himself through that - that he’s willing to sacrifice innocent people along the way to do it. a man corrupted striving towards the good and the perfect

and it’s about a boy doing the opposite. a boy who has been through hell several times over and knows it well, who brought hell down on other people because if he shared and spread the pain maybe it would hurt him less, who has done horrible things and maybe regretted some, but mostly doesn’t regret it, who knows he will do whatever he must to survive and has accepted it and YET who finds a better version of himself in the desert because the journey towards the light and towards hope and towards redemption crafts him into something better. he shares his water - a precious thing - with a stranger. he treats her with the kindness she has never received. he is against Jaha sacrificing an innocent life so he can live. 

he learns the value of life in the desert - a desert! a place that kills so easily and takes so much, where it is a constant struggle to survive - and not just his own, but of others.

a martyr becomes corrupted and a villain starts being redeemed in the desert on the road to find paradise in a hellish world

I would never have predicted pairing those characters together and yet it was SO SATISFYING - and they get put together at such an interesting time in their journeys. (I’ll never get over the fact that Jaha sort of takes Murphy on to mentor after his son dies, like he was sort of filling the hole even if Murphy and Wells are nothing alike)

you have this boy who has done so much wrong and is hated by everyone, who was one of the s1 villains but who has just showed to have so much more in him and then you have this man who had done so much wrong and was hated but redeemed himself at the end of s1. they’re sort of at the same place in their journeys at that moment, but the desert storyline makes them very different people

Jaha will kill a man if it will get him to the city of light so he can save his people, but John is unwilling to kill a man just for that. he’s only ever killed in revenge because it fits his sense of justice. throwing Craig overboard - who had done nothing, who had followed Jaha wherever he led - is not justice and Murphy can not agree with it. John’s value for life increases during that storyline - I think because he’s witnessing Jaha completely disregard it. 

Jaha values life in the abstract. “I must save all my people.” “Our people must go on.” - it’s very Arkadian, because it goes with this idea that I might not live, and specific people might not live, but we as a whole and as a group must live to see the end - to see earth. and it’s clashing with John who sees people as individuals. 

to John, human life is valuable not as the human race, but as individual humans - because human beings deserve to live. that doesn’t mean he won’t kill of course, but he killed in revenge based on the actions of an individual. or because he had to to live. John does not agree with the idea that people should be sacrificed for the sake of the whole - for the sake of the human race to survive.

so basically you see two characters who APPEAR to be at the same point in their journeys - people who have done wrong and are searching for something better and some way to make up for it, AND OF COURSE their journey to reach a city of LIGHT is absolutely symbolic of that - two men well-hated by most of the other Arkadians going off to find the light together 

and yet even though they appear to be at the same place, even though they appear to both be striving towards something greater, you get this clash of ideas of what life is worth, WHY life is valuable, and what is acceptable to do in the sake of survival and - which is the THESIS of the show. and it all takes place in a setting symbolic of death and suffering

and you also get this clash between the old way of thinking, the Arkadian way of thinking, and the new way of the delinquents/the ground, which is that “every life here matters.” and we may kill to save our lives, we might do terrible things, but we can not sacrifice people just for the sake of the human race.

and in the end it is John - the ultimate delinquent, the ultimate rebellion against the Arkadian authority - and Jaha - the ultimate Arkadian. the ultimate authority - that are the last two left, who finally split because of a moral question about life and what it’s worth.

Little Miss Perfect

Chapter Two

Description: According to everyone around you, you’re perfect. When that perfection is threatened by a failing grade, your teacher assigns a once familiar person to tutor you. (1990s fic)

Warnings: Cussing, Parental Neglect

Word Count: 2.3k

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The next day passes in a blur. You go through the same daily routine almost unconsciously. Jane has to nudge you various times to remind you to smile and for once you are thankful for her presence. You are only conscious enough during lunch to let your team know that practice is being held at 4:30 until further notice. You can tell that they’re confused by the last minute decision but they’re smart enough not to ask.

You find yourself dreading the final bell and when it finally rings, you have to resist the urge to just leave and ditch Reggie. Of course you don’t actually go through with it and you begrudgingly get up from your seat. You walk at an alarmingly slow pace all the way to the library and still manage to get there five minutes before the agreed meeting time.

You take a deep breath, giving yourself a mental pep talk before tugging at the sleeves of your sweater and opening the door. The air around you feels thick and the low buzz of whispered conversations fills your ears. You are surprised to see Reggie already sitting in one of the tables, tapping a pencil against the surface at an even beat. You look around and are momentarily horrified at the amount of people. You don’t move from your spot, willing Reggie to look up and he thankfully does a few second later.

You nod your head slightly once he meets your eyes and walk in the opposite direction of his table. He stares after you confused for a second before it dawns at him and he ignores the small feeling of hurt that fills his chest. He picks up his backpack and follows behind you at a safe distance.

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anyways good night i’m gonna go indulge in my unrealistic romantic fantasies until i fall asleep

my larkin mc - ( @larkin-if )

❝ 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲? 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧' 𝐚𝐥𝐥. ❞

name; parisa "percy" abrams

pronouns & sexuality; she/her, bisexual

love interest; dominic sokolov

face claim; sasha calle

cheeky dumbass but has a good heart. a bit of a gambler. (hunter) knight in leather boots. troublemaker. desperate for love. buttons? we don't know her. likes shiny things. a laughter a day keeps the trauma away.

percy's playlist; morirò da re by måneskin | 1121 by halsey | problems by mother mother | honest by the neighborhood | i am not a woman, i’m a god by halsey | cherry wine by hozier | vent'anni by måneskin

outfits;

okay, I am so obsessed with larkin it's not even funny. the story is amazing and I am so excited to see what's going to happen next!! if you like cowboys, western settings and vampires it's definitely for you!

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

Tumblr ripoff sites using our blogs and info

I open tumblr after a while just to warn ya’ll about something i JUST found out minutes ago it might be common knowledge by now to everyone but I don’t lose anything staying safe and spreading this info

about 3 tumblr ripoff sites are taking the ENTIRETY of our blogs and posting them in their own sites, in real time. This includes text posts, art/images, videos and reblogs as well as offering statistics that as far as i know, should be private to the blog owner.

I myself stumbled upon tumgir where I found not only my main account, but my art account I hadn’t used in years (To note: The 3 sites are Tumgir , Tumblar and Tumbex)

You can look at my entire blog through this site, and anyone else’s 

I tried doing research but most of what I can find is only other tumblr users who have stumbled upon this. here’s their own posts

https://blockoframen.tumblr.com/post/188736225103/it-was-recently-brought-to-my-attention-that-there  From Nov 1st 2019

https://kodaso.tumblr.com/post/623025521415094272/our-work-is-once-again-being-re-posted-without-our From July 8th 2020

https://babycharmander.tumblr.com/post/616582450520408064/artists-of-tumblr-your-artwork-is-being-stolen From two months ago (Checked on the post themselves dates might be wrong) (also if youre the op of any of those posts and wish to be removed from this post do not be afraid to tell me)

From some of these posts we can gather that they have a lot of our info and also, it’s nearly impossible to contact them as the emails on apparently all 3 websites are fake. Only way to delete stuff from these websites is to literally delete our tumblr accounts. I am unsure on how to proceed with this situation myself and where else to look but I can at least spread this information. if you yourself got other important info to share please do! 

content creators are at risk, people who use this site to vent/cope are at risk, YOU are at risk.

PLEASE reblog and let others know!!!

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