I just… the reason you “hated Batman killing” was because you were supposed to. You had the correct reaction to this movie because this movie was written to give Batman a very harsh and hard reality check.
It’s actually one of the most incredible bitter pills the fandom could take to cure the gross toxically hypermasculine culture that Batman has become an unfortunate symbol for.
You were fed that shit with a dose of reality and you rejected it, congratulations. This movie meant to DO something to you, not make you feel warm and fuzzy about American capitalist exceptionalism.
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.
‘I pass the test,’ she said. `I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.’
It’s really odd how people so often make a comparison between DCEU Superman and MCU Captain America usually to make some nonsense point about how Cap is how Superman should be or something similar as, when you look at Cap’s personality, he has some of the same qualities people complain about in DCEU Supes or which they claim he has, preventing him from being a hero they can get behind.
He’s stoic, he has little issue with killing, he can be self-righteous and a hypocrite, he doesn’t have much of a sense of humor, he doesn’t smile very much (which is apparently essential to being a hero), he can be impulsive and somewhat reckless and even cynical and despairing at times, which someone who is supposed to be a symbol of hope is never, ever, ever allowed to be according to the people saying this stuff.
Red dead redemption II is actually putting focus on the horses in the game!!!!!!
Red dead trailer: you can bond with your horse!
Me: [sighs]
Mood
Hopefully the horse won’t walk on train tracks and get hit but a train or run directly into water and die (how all my horses would die lost all my apocalypse horses bc they’d run into deep water)
I can quite appreciate spite as a fic motivator! And can imagine how OII got out of hand now /o there’s so much to go “um no fandom this is not how it has to be let me show you” about. (Tempted to write non-awful Valar fic myself now following certain comments on my last fic on AO3. :/)
That a few Cuiviènen Era fics I found had that strain of ‘elven society was so much purer and progressive pre-Valar contamination’ raised my hackles, and my causal interest in the development of the human species so much so that I didn’t care about the elves developing new words but why on earth was no one spending time talking about them developing the different stone tools hello people that’s fascinating right? No? …years later here I am, writing a ‘good shepherd = good king’ Ingwë scene.
Sometimes the spite motivation is benignly gentle – the ‘why isn’t there more fics with this canon pairing? here, I’ll do just a paragraph of plot-less fluff and leave the rest to others (the Thingol/Melian fic or Finarfin/Eärwen)’ Then again, a remaining Tol-in-Gaurhoth one-shot is almost uncomfortably spite-motivated and thus stalled on the writing docket.
Write it! write it I know many Valar fans who’d be happy
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