Anti-villain motivations besides “tragic past”

chatterwriting:

the-right-writing:

  • They do bad things because they’re scared.
  • They’re gullible or misinformed. Example: somebody who has been told the heroes are out to hurt them.
  • They are desperate for interaction, validation, kindness, or attention, and the dark side gives them those things. 
  • They want to change their allegiance, but are pressured by people close to them to stay evil.
  • They have an otherwise noble goal that they will do literally anything to achieve. Example: somebody who wants to protect their child, even if it means throwing other children into danger.

That last one…my favourite…

lnalovegd:

fleetwoodbrak:

Aliens are the least of our worries right now but listen to me. Aliens don’t want to hurt us but the government is gonna convince us they do and incite worldwide panic and start a real space war to avoid advancing technology for the general population because efficient non oil based energy that the aliens have will crush the capitalist industries that need it to thrive welcome to my ted talk

this post so confidently and sincerely made it’s point that i had to stop myself checking the news to find out if first contact had happened this morning

hardisonparker:

“My rabbi asked me to take him to a place where I felt a particular attachment or a visceral memory. I brought him to a stack in the back-left corner of the basement of my school’s library — the HQ70s in the Dewey Decimal System. It was here, my freshman year, I discovered that there are books all about queer Jewish people, where I read Sarah Schulman and learned about Magnus Hirschfeld. In the HQ70s I felt seen in a new and liberating way. For so long I had felt like there was nobody like me, like there were no other Blazes or Bens.”

“Why It’s Still Frightening to Be Jewish and Queer in 2018,″ by Ben Kesslen, Them.us.
(via nmajh-lgbt)