#and also ive been locked in trying to learn perspective. im locked in man. im locked in

[little-darling-chan]

Do you ever play with Chuunosuke or Nyanzieks? Are you guys friends?

We are very good friends but I don’t see them often

[peaterookie]

Lupin III Chapter 61 Review

I HAD TO READ THIS ONE TWICE TO UNDERSTAND IT. sorry its been a while since ive gotten so confused at the ending. im still a bit iffy about it but ill try my best

i'm using this one because the volume version is a bit lame this version is directly tied to the plot!!! btw were back to the phychedelic series again because the ordering's just like that

this woman called fujiko mine kicks lupin in a dungeon and locks him up, he decides to just stay there and search it to find out more about the house there he finds another woman, they converse but not much is known about her yet as the story switches perspective to fujiko

strangely enough, another lupin appears in her room appearing to be fine and isn't dungeon trapped. fujiko asks lupin why he is here again, but lupin knows nothing of this other lupin. he says that he came to this house hearing that its magical and wants to learn more about it. he provokes fujiko and she attacks back, but lupin proves to be more capable at defending himself than the other lupin

notice how the perspective in the dungeon has no borders while the ones in the house has borders, keep that in mind if you're confused on the constant shift

the woman lupin met reveals herself to be another fujiko mine, and the ownerof the house. but the black woman who locked lupin in was fujiko mine, what's the meaning of this!? it turns out that they're both the same person, but they were split apart somehow

going back to the black-haired fujiko, lupin has beaten her and is about to r-pe her, but her bodyguard daikichi protects her

meanwhile, blonde fujiko explains that there was this book she found in the dungeon that explains why she's split apart

as expected, she calls out another daikichi to bring the book, implying that this curse affects anyone that enters the house, including lupin

THEN WE GET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE SHIFT. daikichi is about to kill lupin, but lupin outsmarts him and kills him instead while this is happening, daikichi in the dungeon also dies.

F: He's disappearing! L: It's no use, Fujiko! He's dead! F: Daikichi!

The book, which Lupin reads, explains that an entity in this house splits apart the soul of any residents in the house every 100 years. The soul splits apart into one that represents the good of the person, and the other the evil one. If one half dies, then the other dies as well.

It's clear that all of the good ones ended up in the dungeon, while the evil one were powerful enough to stay in the house. It's a very interesting concept for sure!

(the good lupin reminds me of the one in shin lupin lmao)

he then realizes that there's a evil lupin running amok in the house, and he panics wondering what he's doing up there

well let's see what he's doing then! he's... about to have sex with fujiko. great. he recognizes that it's a trap she set up, and actually has a straped-on gun on his leg, but fujiko immediately takes it off him and uses the gun against him. good job, genius! then... he- uhm- uh

what the hell

fujiko's definitely tired of his shit now, and just gives up because he's too weird. then lupin pulls out the weirdest plot twist ever- and reveals that the entire thing on his pants was just- body.... paint.

man.

[gullethead]

what is your opinion on tamsyn muir discourse (and also what is the discourse)

THANK you. okay warning for discussion of fictional sexual assault, real life CSA (not something she did), plus 2012-era homestuck fandom typical stuff

please rb this btw, unless you dont want to, in which case dont. also if you have any corrections or additional information to consider please add by all means

disclaimer: im not in the habit of writing essays defending whichever internet personalities i like. ill admit theres potential bias, given that i read the books before i learned about this, but im really being as objective as possible and i just think people are taking a misguided or half-formed stance on this. if you still dislike her or w/e after this thats, like, perfectly in your rights. im not defending an adult woman on the internet, im explaining the facts as ive seen them and understand them. additional disclaimer that i havent experienced sexual assault at all myself

okay so tamsyn muir is currently well-known as the author of the locked tomb trilogy (aka gideon the ninth and harrow the ninth), but for a certain section of tumblr shes also well known as urbanAnchorite, and used to be a big name fan on here up until around 2014 - pretty close to everything here is going to be from roughly 2011 through 2014, except for an interview im gonna get into, so 7-10 years ago. i was only vaguely aware of her until after i got into the locked tomb and saw people talking about this. with that in mind:

so the MAJORITY of the discourse revolves around a single fic she wrote on AO3. her account has 19 works in homestuck, and some of them are Kinda Weird to Pretty Bad in retrospect, but being completely honest this is the only one that isnt completely stock standard for homestuck fandom in that time period. like if we started casting stones about ten year old fandom stuff we'd be here all day

here is the fic (warning for CSA)

in most of the posts about it ive seen, theyve described it as a "rapefic," but actually reading it, it's a lot more nuanced than that description implies. its a dark story where a grown man abuses a girl, from the man's perspective, and the story ends with him being killed by her friend. the description of the assault is treated very seriously by the story and barely even touches on any actual sex, before immediately cutting to him being killed. its lolita if humbert got shot to death; the title itself comes FROM lolita

(sidenote - it was inspired by a prompt on kinkmeme, but that doesn't really mean anything vis a vis being intended for sexual enjoyment, and according to the note actually went against the spirit of the request)

ive seen fics, lots and lots of fics, that would qualify as the term "rapefic." it tends to be pretty fucking obvious when someone is using sexual assault as a fetish, and this is Not That

tamsyn herself actually responded to this in an excellent interview early last year. she gets into some Fandom Mom type language, but essentially says what i said above. in it, she also says this:

It’s not the first time I’ve been accused of being a paedophile. I grew up gay in the nineties. Homosexuality and paedophilia were enmeshed in society’s minds. When I came out, I got told that I shouldn’t be around children. I was used to that because it was common discourse, and it hurt like all hell, but it didn’t shock me. When I got called a paedophile by Twitter I got clotheslined. My support network had to get in pronto. I was very ready to have a hot date with a length of rope, a date I have arranged and cancelled multiple times over my life. I have had lots and lots of therapy over the years for various conditions, some of them lifelong and some not, but when that Twitter call-out happened it was hard to want to live. I thought I knew so intimately what I was doing with my fiction; my therapist was always so supportive of me writing about it. I have not been open about being a CSA survivor because, again, I grew up in the ‘90s. ‘Lesbian’ and ‘CSA survivor’ is just carte blanche so a whole queue of people can tell you, I HOPE ONE DAY, WITH LOVE AND SUPPORT, YOU CAN BE STRAIGHT. It was like, right this way to the invalidation booth. I didn’t even tell most of my girlfriends! I told one! It’s not a topic of discussion between me and my family; I am relying on them not reading my interviews so it can remain where it belongs: thoroughly undiscussed!

with this context it becomes... a lot more nuanced of a topic. an author who experienced CSA in addition to growing up in a cultural climate where gay people were pedophiles by default, especially growing up catholic in a rural community, wrote a work about childhood sexual assault (which also happened to be fanfiction) as a way of working through it for herself, which is... something a lot of artists do with their art? and in return she got a massive blowback on twitter accusing her of pedophilia and demanding she talk about a massively traumatic moment in her life

this is the major sticking point of the discourse, im not gonna get into anything else on this post, but this is my view of it. if you disagree or have anything to add then feel free to add on. again, i know what it looks like, but im not trying to uncritically defend a stranger just cause i like her book. this is the conclusion i came to after doing a lot of digging for myself