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Okay, I have to get something off my chest. I am starting to hate the Lucifer fandom, mostly because of how it treats Chloë. The poor woman cannot fucking win with these seemingly self-hating people who have either drunk deep of the sexist Kool-Aid, or have some other, deeper, problem.

Chloë is a good person - she has shown herself to be a good person, over and over. Just because she isn't a bubbly moron like Eve or slavishly bow to every idiotic, selfish thing Lucifer does, doesn't make her bad in ant way. She pushes him to become a better being by refusing to accept his ridiculous behaviour, and that is a true good person. The person you need is not the overly indulgent, submissive idiot who allows you to engage in every childish trait you have. The person you need is the one who pushes you and believes in your better spirit, and gets you to embrace it. Chloë does this for him. She calls out his asshole behaviour and he is inspired by her to change.

In S4 she, like every rational, ethical person, is faced with a dilemma. She has just been informed the person she loves and trusted is the embodiment of all evil. What the Hell else is she supposed to think? The psychological problem is enough, without the addition of all the other issues. Now she knows that being is walking among them. KINLEY APPROACHES HER and yes she tells him, because who the Hell else is going to believe her and not put her in an asylum?? Then she gets roped into the plot. A. She at no point evinced any joy in this plot whatsoever. She doesn't even want to do it, but B. If you now know that ultimate evil is being allowed to continue, how can you consciously allow that to just happen? "Okay, just do whatever you want!!" No way. Any person, with any shred of ethics, much less someone like Chloë, must (despite how she doesn't want to) question whether this being is A. As evil as all that and B. Really must go back to Hell. And honestly it's a total douche move on Kinley's part to just stick her with the role.

So she comes back, and she struggles - A LOT. As anyone would. And stop whining that Lucifer was sensitive. He wasn't. On the surface he was, but he wasn't deep down. Deep down he could only accept one answer to his revelation. He deliberately tried pushing her buttons, as if it's a game. She resists because she knows it's just Lucifer being, well, Lucifer. But Lucifer isn't focused on her - he's focused on himself. Everyone's all like "Poor Lucifer" - POOR CHLOË. She has this huge burden to shoulder on her own, she has to come home and deal with the myriad feelings she now has about this person whom she loves deeply, she has to "reassmeble" and understand him all over again - and, by the way, all of humanity now hinges on her decision. Honestly Chloë has been thrown into this world in which she is the ultimate loser - she has no idea what she's doing, she has no idea how to deal with this realm - and she's just supposed to go, "Okay, great!"??? Yes she should have said she was terrified, but in reality Lucifer would never have accepted that answer either. If the writers meant his reaction to solely be on sending him to Hell, then they did a poor job of that. His face crushes when she admits it, so really there's only one acceptable answer to him, so he is really only thinking about himself, and projecting his own,rejection of his,devil self onto Chloë.

CHLOË NEVER SENDS LUCIFER BACK TO HELL. In S3 she wanted to arrest Pierce like 5 mins after she figured it out. "Well, he is the killer. Let's get him!!" If Chloë really "wanted" to send Lucifer back to Hell, it would have been done in Episode 1, no S4. But she decided not to. SHE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO MAKES AN INFORMED CHOICE IN THE ENTIRE S4. After finding out that Lucifer hasn't been using his vulnerability as a trick - which by the way, judging by her character, is reasonable. We, as the audience know different, but Chloë does not!!- she tells Kinley to get lost. She has a whole speech about how she believes he isn't a monster and that she doesn't believe Kinley, something that seems not to have made the impression it ought to have.

It's true - in episode 3 she is trying hard to show everyone the wonderful guy she sees, and Lucifer of course, responds the way he does to everything- immaturely. "You can't make me!!" Has been his mantra for I don't know how long. And Kinley screws Chloë over, going up to Lucifer and lying to Lucifer it was all Chloë's idea when it was HIS. HE IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THE PROPHESY. It's spelled out in the first episodes. Chloë confused - Kinley is the one who tells her it has to happen. He lies to Lucifer for the literal purpose of breaking them apart. He's the worst. So then Lucifer tries to get it out of Chloë, who won't tell him because there is no way he would understand. Lucifer doesn't understand her perspective at all. He shows it when he wallows in self-pity after they split up, and acts like a little bitch for the rest of the season. Honestly, in subsequent episodes, he IS dangerous. He is unhinged and if I were Chloë I would be like "Don't make me regret this".

She had no idea Kinley would be so dangerous. She was crushed and let a nut into her life, but honestly once the person you love reveals themselves to be the devil, your bar for "crazy" has kind of been blown out of the water. Don't get me wrong - Julian was awful, but breaking his back just because you think so isn't cool, either. He is disrespectful of Chloë and her position, just because he's having a little bitch fit that she wasn't just dandy with him being the devil on his timeline.

I know we live in the 21st century, where "acceptance" means all, but honestly...sometimes you need to change, and it is not up to Lucifer or any other character to "force" Chloë to accept that without demonstration on Lucifer's part that earth is safe from him. Having self-righteous rampages isn't the answer. We know Lucifer to also be someone who really doesn't know what to do with all the good changes in his life. It's only after he drops Eve that he realizes he is the one who hates his devil face and expected WAY too much from the woman he loves.

Chloë is a good person, and it's to her credit that she stood by Lucifer, even when he was being an asshole. I am so sick and tired of people whining about Chloë, or framing her reaction as,the result of a stupid person. She isn't stupid - because the writers are more in love with Lucifer's flair than they are developing her she seems less showy next to him, but she is wise and has good sense. She tells Lucifer the truth and is a good guide for him - THAT IS WHAT HE NEEDS.

But still she like can't get a break unless she is a passive recipient of him, and that I find depressing and gross. I can't believe that in the,21st century we really expect any self-respecting woman to be that stupid. It's truly terrible.

Ugh. There, I'm done.

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Lotte Reiniger was a German animator living at the turn of the 20th century. Interesting to me was that she inspired the animator for the Three Brothers segment of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. Above is a still from one of her movies.

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Cat shoes are this 4th Day of Hanukkah/Christmas score. Very delighted

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I have not been around much and I apologise. RL is tough and is a very difficult time so I’m trying my best. 

Here is a Deckerstar bts gif that I’ll post on Tweeter later tonight :) 

And here is where that walk at the beach leads :) 

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Whilst scrolling through Instagram I saw a costume and the tag read, "Toscasf" - Tosca, San Francisco, but my mind fixed it to read, "Toscaaf" - "Tosca as fuck."