On the Sliding Scale of Idealism Vs Cynicism

Campfire fest day 3

Prompts- Green | Owlk

Soooo I’m gonna make these into mtg lands :)

@outerwilds-events

Hamlet's quest for revenge kills a lot of people, including himself, and he arguably goes mad during the process.

In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund gets some satisfaction from his revenge, but the cost is high both to him and the people he cares about, and he wasted a lot of time preparing that revenge when he could have been living instead.

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff gets no satisfaction from revenge and is tormented.

In Murder on the Orient Express, vengeance comes at a risk with a high cost, and everyone has to live with that.

In Titus Andronicus, nobody is happy, revenge is a cyclical process that hurts everyone.

None of those books glorifies revenge. It is presented as something grotesque and harmful.

Ace: I've never asked - how do you manage to attend our meetings when you spend all your time trekking through the Amazon and are banned from most private airlines?

Jo: Oh, well, TARDISes make quick work of the Atlantic.

Mel: So he still comes back for you, after all this time?

Jo: I don't think he'd ever have the heart to abandon me. I suppose he misses when I worked at UNIT and saw him so much more often.

Liz: It was fun, being with him and UNIT, wasn't it?

Jo: Yes, it really was. I think he's quite a lot bark, but he never did have all that much of a bite.

Martha: Oh, your one had a bit of bark, did he?

Jo: Never at me, of course! He was always a charmer when it came to me.

Tegan: A charmer. Sweet. That lines up with how I remember him.

Jo: I know! But nobody ever took me seriously when I said so. Nobody at UNIT apart from me ever really saw the Master the way I did.

Piranesi concept art!

Me: It blew up

Mum: What about babylon 2?

Me: It blew up

Mum: And babylon 3?

Me: It blew up

Mum: I’m sensing a pattern.

Me: Guess what happened to babylon 4

Mum: It blew up

Ace: I've never asked - how do you manage to attend our meetings when you spend all your time trekking through the Amazon and are banned from most private airlines?

Jo: Oh, well, TARDISes make quick work of the Atlantis.

Mel: So he still comes back for you, after all this time?

Jo: I don't think he'd ever have the heart to abandon me. I suppose he misses when I worked at UNIT and saw him so much more often.

Liz: It was fun, being with him and UNIT, wasn't it?

Jo: Yes, it really was. I think he's quite a lot bark, but he never did have all that much of a bite.

Martha: Oh, your one had a bit of bark, did he?

Jo: Never at me, of course! He was always a charmer when it came to me.

Tegan: A charmer. Sweet. That lines up with how I remember him.

Jo: I know! But nobody ever took me seriously when I said so. Nobody at UNIT apart from me ever really saw the Master the way I did.