#Viewer Behavior

[guyrcook]

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[jinjjayo]

YEONJUNIZ THURSDAY’S CHILD HAS FAR TO GO | 241219

[densewentz]

[nobodymitskigabriel]

When these season 1 lines are the season 4 thesis for both characters.

[fictionalsownme]

keigo in my newer style since I finally watched s7!! 🧡🌟

I had sooo much fun choosing what I would headcanon/fancast his features as (peep the dimples, i like those heheh,, i just know in-universe there would be at least one fan account dedicated to them lol). My style these days is a lot more grounded in realism so it was hard finding references without an exact face to use-- kind of like a collage. I like how it turned out! I hope this fed my MHA followers & mutuals for a bit, I hath not forgotten you~~!! I really enjoyed season 7, I already know the major beats of what happens next in the manga but I haven't actually read it so I'm waiting with bated breath!!

bonus: I rambled about keigo in the tags but I have big feelings after finishing the season so it ended up long hehe (the tags on my posts are slowly becoming a notes app for fandom shower thoughts atm bruh!!)

[clownbastard]

Okay, i need to yap about the new laes episode and the current arc or else I'll explode...

I'm sorry but I hate the whole "get over your abuse" thing that's going on right now.

Like I understand that it's a big problem because of Lunar's powers but aggressively telling him to deal with it doesn't sit right with me. Also don't like the way Moon points out that he had a year and a half to get over it like that's more than enough time for an abuse survivor to be healed when there's no set time frame for that stuff. Especially because he didn't have anyone who would guide him through healing process at the start so he learned to cope by shutting down his emotions and practically dissociating while running, so now he has to unlearn that before properly healing. But oh, Lunar is so mean by pointing out Moon's inability to express emotions!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that he should be completely let off the hook without any consequences for what he did but he clearly needs help. He for sure won't get it from the god-wannabe astrals because they don't understand emotions and it seems like he won't get it from his family either... But hey, at least they reassured him that he's still part of the family instead of cutting him off like they did with Nexus.

I feel like the "get better on your own because your discomfort makes us uncomfortable" approach isn't the best way to deal with it. Maybe I'm just projecting with this whole thing, I don't know.

[coiled-dragon]

Can I interest you all in flower crown edits of Benson and Randy?

[slabmaxxing]

now im thinking that i shouldve made the dialogue clearer (like who said which line) but fanwork is inherently transformative in nature i suppose (grimaces)

[softenoughforyou]

i'll learn new things about my family members and im like oh ok so im not special this happened to everyone else i nearly fell into exactly the same patterns and behaviors as you. it takes a long time for that stuff to get shaken off

[dxxtruction]

VENT - I feel like if there was better education around abuse and violence, and abuse and violence prevention, we'd be able to interrogate more how it is so much a community, cultural, and systemic problem, and arguably less of an individual one. This does not dissuade any fault individuals have in creating violence and perpetrating abuse, just so no one's confused here. We have to see that violence and abuse perpetrators do take the responsibility for their actions. Obviously. But to open this up to wider responsibility would lead to far better discussions about wtf was going on at the anti-black lynch trail wrt Armand's complicity and level of fault in it.

Far too many people are unwilling to see that he was not the one to orchestrate or plan this, because they'd rather pin violence and abuse all onto a single individual. (Which is dehumanizing btw, to us even because it implies we've accepted these terms for ourselves as well).

This is an expectation I'm aware just isn't possible though, and Interview!Fandom certainly is not ready to confront this. Not everyone was when it came to the abuse Lestat perpetrated in S1 (those who watched an entirely different show apparently and deny how race played a role in the violence and abuse, throughout just everything not just Lestat). So it's just gonna be me and the handful of others IG. Shout out.

(more to this in OP tags)

[dncingthrghlife]

image id: the antoni from queer eye meme about mac and cheese edited to read “a studio ghibli is something that can actually be so personal” /end id

[anyfire]

i want to say as well i think (hope) the nuance here and the (very little by now) existing softness shauna still has inside of her, things that shine through in these moments to me, are going to matter as the season comes to a head. there's a level of violence shauna engages with both voluntarily but also as a result of her role as the butcher that i think allows the other characters a level of comfort with the harm they've done "in comparison", making them feel morally superior to her. even when the claim that she's guilty of more than they are hasn't held much validity up until recently. (you don't have to enjoy it this much/and you don't have to act like such a fucking saint) the dichotomy of passive/active violence referenced in this exchange between natalie and shauna is not a new thing. (jackie's death, shauna beating lottie up, and shauna/melissa slicing ben's ankle are the events that come to mind, wherein shauna is an active perpetrator of something everyone else is complicit in, yet has her actions thrown back in her face as if the responsibility is hers and hers alone.) and i think these are factors to take into consideration when questioning how much control shauna TRULY has over the group in the teen timeline as of 3.09, how scared of her they REALLY are, vs. how comfortable they may have become with letting shauna do the dirty work as long as it means they can continue to absolve themselves, and their level of complicity in what may occur going forward. like most things in this show, i'm inclined to believe it's a bit of both. i'm especially curious about this after the events of the adult timeline in this same episode. i mean, in the first 30 minutes alone, "shauna is crazy" is a statement made (mostly by melissa) like ten times in succession. something that is then echoed/validated/expanded upon by misty, van, taissa, and later, jeff and callie. (shauna's lost it, shauna's the problem, shauna's out of control, shauna's off the deep end, shauna's out of her mind, etc.) and yes, i do agree that shauna's current mental state is absolutely a cause for concern. i think that she's been experiencing increasing levels of paranoia ever since jeff blackmailed her and her friends (super normal thing to do btw) and with every fallout and casualty that comes as a consequence she gets closer and closer to the girl we're watching s3 teen shauna become, terrified and lashing out at everything and everyone to keep herself safe. i do however also think it's worth noting that despite the framing of shauna as The Villain who's losing her mind and ruining everyone else's lives in the process, the episode ends with misty admitting she really did lock shauna in the freezer, shauna having a confirmed alibi wrt lottie's death (smth we already knew), and MELISSA killing van. i really don't think any of this is a coincidence. i think we're meant to see how easy it is to put 100% of the blame on a character like shauna (mean, externally remorseless, the one holding the knife, etc.) but that doesn't mean it's actually that simple. it almost always isn't.

it's actually incredibly important to me that s3 has two scenes where shauna insists on passing the knife to somebody else. i think that shauna serves as a scapegoat for a lot of the characters this season in both timelines, and so much of that is tied to her role as the butcher. it's a role where she's constantly doing the dirty work that nobody else can stomach, misty acknowledges that almost verbaitim during ben's trial. and i think that shauna's response to this role is also difficult to stomach, in that she at no point allows herself any reprieve from the gruesome reality of what she's doing. when natalie kills ben, of course it hurts her to do it, and of course the others are mad, but she can rely on it being "the right thing to do." when lottie kills edwin, of course it's a product of her rapidly deteriorating mental state, of course the others are mad, but she can rely on it being "what it wanted." shauna allows herself none of these things. her rage is all she has. the reality of what it means to know how to cut up a body is all she has. she is not a character unburdened by guilt, she's a character who believes that guilt is a selfish thing to feel. we did it, we did these things, we're doing these things, and they're horrible, we're horrible, i'm horrible, what else is there? and so it matters a great deal to me that after melissa tells shauna why she likes her, and that list includes who shauna has become since losing jackie, and her baby, and forcing herself to live and exist under the conditions of her (admittedly warped) absolute reality, of course she hands melissa the knife. it's how THIS version of shauna can open up. shauna's love language has always involved mirroring and consumption and co-dependence and a blending of identities. be me for a second. see what it feels like. live with yourself after you do it. show me that i can do the same. and after natalie kills ben, and shauna takes her place as leader, she does it again. she passes natalie the knife, only this time as a form of punishment. which not only indicates that no matter how mean and violent shauna gets, how comfortable with blood and guts she appears, this is ultimately how she views this role. it's a punishment. but it's also incredibly significant to me that shauna's idea of a punishment involves...forcing somebody to walk a mile in her shoes. be her for a second. see what it feels like. she can't talk about it, or cry about it, or pray about it, but she can do this.

[plumsaffron]

Amuses me when when a loser's sole purpose of hating some character is because they didn’t have a backstory. Acting like every character is “supposed" to have one or “NEEDS” one.

[gigantomachylesbian]

Creepy Boss Update: he came in and cleared out some of his stuff over the weekend when no one was working (he isn't allowed to be near any of us+literally had an escort lol) but left the office unlocked, leaving behind broken furniture and a ton of junk and personal items, including a fancy record player, a huge set of weights, and A SLEEPING BAG AND PILLOWS!!!!! LIKE HE WAS SLEEPING IN THE FUCKING LIBRARY OVERNIGHT WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING!!!!!

[jestoria]

On the list of weird coping mechanisms that you can try if you lack physical affection in your life (this is a true thing that I both read and tried for myself, but never forget that the ideas you see on the Internet should be tested and treated with caution, no matter how much sense they might make to you!)

A hot mug can simulate holding someone's hand. That sounds like a duh initially, until you realize -

You don't have to be drinking a hot drink to do this. You can just heat up a cup of hot water and carry it around.

... Maybe I'm the only one who had a 'omg you're right, how did I not see this before!', but in case you're someone like me who sometimes doesn't apply obvious solutions to problems because we learned the needed tool is meant to be used elsewhere, and so we don't think to apply it to a non-standard application (I'm sorry, breathe at the commas, I've tried to stop run on sentences, but as you can see it's not working), then-

I hope this helps you like it helped me!

(I still don't know how to end things like this)

[eclipsecrowned]

you know how rha3nys is always low key smiling after moments with c0rlys? laerion with his partner though. just those subtle little grins after a particularly good line or just getting to spend times together.