Optimisticcatdeer - Untitled

*through tears* ladies and gentlemen, they got him

I remember this story mom told me and my sister when we were little. Two frogs fall into a milk churn, and start swimming to stay on the surface. After a long time, one of the frogs tells the other that it's tired of swimming, and is just going to give up now. The frog sinks and drowns, while the other frog keeps swimming. Eventually the surviving frog that never gave up has been swimming for so long that the milk has been churned into butter, and the frog can hop out. The moral of the story is that life feels hopeless a lot, but if you give in to despair, you fucking die.

I had two aunts from my father's side. I don't remember anything about one of them, she died when I was three years old. We were never lied to about how it happened. She killed herself, jumped out of a window. She gave in to despair. My paternal grandmother lost her mind over the grief, developing dementia overnight. I never knew her as a sane, coherent person. She gave in to the despair. That's what I was taught, that's how I was raised. Life is pain, but if you give in to the despair, you fucking die.

I am an optimist. Always have been. I had to be. Indulging in pessimistic fatalism was a luxury that I could not afford. I'm not an optimist out of some naive lack of awareness that life can be bad sometimes. I grew up very familiar with how bad life can be. I was an optimist in believing - against all the proof of the contrary - that life could be other things, too. That it's possible that there could be a life that doesn't hurt all the time.

I can't afford to be a pessimist. I don't pretend to believe that things will never get bad, but I have no choice but to believe that no matter how bad things will get, there can be good things in life, no matter what. I don't talk to my family anymore, but I did survive being raised by them. The ones who give up hope don't make it. If you let the darkness seep in, and give in to despair, you die.

Also drew some sick snuggles valvel because if I have to suffer so do my favs. (Vox suffers by being immune to colds due to Being TV so he ends up taking care of everyone.)

quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.

the vees are yapper4yapper4yapper and radiovees could never work because alastor's social battery is simply not equipped to handle this all the time. i will die on the hill that "aggressive charisma" is a behavior alastor performs, not who he is, and in reality his tolerance for other people's unhinged ranting (val), offensively empty chatter (velvette), and mile-a-minute hyperactivity (vox) is so so low. he barely gets through charlie's relationship woes and he cuts people off multiple times with the painfully bright, pushy personality he only pulls out when he wants them to shut the hell up and/or just give him what he wants already. in mundane social settings he's much more reserved. so i don't think he would be able to handle living with all three of the vees together, 24/7, the way they seem to, but you know who'd fit in perfectly? lucifer

"He deserves it." "He's irredeemable." "He's a monster." "Punish him." "Kill him."

Wow. Way to show off that extreme ableism and victim blaming mentality. Homelander is extremely sick and was indoctrinated into a cult. He doesn't have a true understanding of the gravitas of his actions. He's legally "criminally insane". If they fairly tried him for just a single crime he's ever committed with evidence. The only possible justified verdict would be:

"Not guilty by reason of insanity."

That's not even grounds for "redemption" let alone proof of an inability to be redeemed because there's nothing to atone for when he can't even make sound judgement over his own actions. It's like with Bucky Barnes. He was brainwashed and tortured from childhood and can't be held accountable for what he did in that state of mind. There's evidence of a severe need for healing and what he's done under that state becomes irrelevant. When the very messed up U.S. court systems are legitimately less ableist and harmful and bloodthirsty than society at large. That's a real problem.

Homelander's not innocent and I don't expect this show to save him because his story is meant to be a tragedy. But he's not to blame either. He is what the world and humanity made him to be and they'll just make another if he goes away. Vehement hatred for him is just proof of our own failings as a whole and a personal rejection of accountability for those failings.

"We" make society. "We" fuck people up. "We" made him.

Desperately wanted to see edgy art of past Vox so I treated myself to some

whoa whoa whoa, are you enjoying yourself right now? rookie mistake. you're supposed to be afraid and angry... yeah no all the time. how else will you prove you care about all the problems?

pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up