villains are hard to design. making them ugly is dangerous, depending on what traits you choose to frame as monstrous or undesirable, you could very well end up saying something fatphobic, racist, anti-semitic, etc
but if you make a hot villain then people will get thirsty and demand redemptions and refuse to acknowledge their evil actions, no matter how despicable
Solution: Full body armor and masks. You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!
…………..you think?
…………..don’t look up Sauron on AO3
Nothing fails to crack me up like this post - the vain hope that somewhere out there is some awful nasty thing that there is not also a person whose kink that is, the idea that covering something up won’t make people obsessed with finding out what it looks like underneath, the surface level understanding of Sauron and complete lack of knowledge of the Silmarillion and it’s fandom, the fact that Sauron was canonically hot as fuck, the amount of Sauron erotica I have seen, God this post never gets old
The Poster Of The Comment: You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!
The Very Large And Dedicated Community Of Sauronfuckers In The Tolkien Fandom, collectively:
Point. For those who have not read Sillmarilion, Sauron used to look something like this
back to the original post, remember when people were shipping themselves with bill cipher, a literal triangle in a tophat whose only facial finger was a single eye?
Trump election fraud tape where he tries to convince the Georgia Secretary of State to “find him 11,000 more votes” comes out
Warnock & Ossoff win their Senate run off races in Georgia, making the US Senate a 50-50 tie between Democrats and Republicans and giving the Democrats an effective government trifecta
an armed mob incited by multiple GOP officials (including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley) storms the Capitol building, resulting in at least 4 deaths, thousands of dollars of property damage, and the first time the Capitol building has been breached since the War of 1812
2nd impeachment proceedings against Trump are announced while multiple high-ranking government officials publicly urge Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment
Elaine Chao & Betsy DeVos resign from Trump’s Cabinet
Daily coronavirus deaths in the United States top 4,000 for the first time
Trump gets permabanned from Twitter & tries to use the official POTUS account as a burner, gets immediately locked out, & runs through multiple other apparent burner accounts (which all get suspended). Meanwhile, multiple other social media sites preemptively issue statements that any account he tries to open on their platforms will be instantly suspended
Steve Bannon’s Youtube channel gets taken down
Parler gets taken down from the Google Play Store and Apple gives it 24 hours to enforce content moderation or face removal from the App Store
Rush Limbaugh deactivates his Twitter account
SNL’s going to have an absolute field day tomorrow night
You know what would be adorable? What if Huey was "so very seriously" stalking something, much like a cat does, and ends up doing that tiny rump wiggle thing?
i can think of very few plot points of homestuck that were not hilarious. like the trolls can talk to the kids at any points in their timeline, but first time karkat talks to john he embarrasses himself so badly that he refuses to talk to john at any point in time prior to that. so he continuously talks to john earlier and earlier in the timeline, and john never knows what he’s talking about because all of the conversations he’s had with karkat were from his future. and from john’s perspective, karkat knows less and less of what he’s talking about as he moves forward in time, bc he’s only ever talking to younger versions of him. this is the exact level of intricacy almost all of the plot points operate on
and the payoff of finally getting to see the first conversation karkat ever had with john is like
