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Derry Girls – 1.06

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We love Huntrix!

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025), dir Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

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A WALK TO REMEMBER (2002) Dir. Adam Shankman

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What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

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Phoenix I just saw something so horrible that I started to shake with anger. Somebody comaperd CS with percabeth. I mean how can they compare CS TO a health beautiful relationship that Percy and Annabeth have. I just baffled and angery.

BLASPHEMY.

God.  That parallel doesn’t even make any sense.  Let’s consider the facts, shall we?

Percy:

Child of something supernatural.

Has serious daddy issues.

Snarky and sassy to a fault.

Girlfriend is the daughter of a wise, kickass character from mythology.

Tragic flaw is personal loyalty, will do anything to save his friends and loved ones, no matter what it costs him.

Grew up troubled, getting kicked out of schools, constantly running.

Briefly contemplated dating a human girl (Rachel Elizabeth Dare) because he enjoyed the feeling of being a normal teenager.

“Seaweed brain.” “Wise girl.”

Neal:

Child of something supernatural.

Has serious daddy issues.

Snarky and sassy to a fault.

Former love is the daughter of a wise, kickass character from a fairytale.

Tragic flaw is personal loyalty, will do anything to reunite with his son and former love.

Grew up troubled, probably in foster care, stealing and conning, constantly running.

Briefly was engaged to a human woman (Tamara) because he liked the feeling of being normal.  

“I’m not telling you my name, you could be a pervert!” “I might be a pervert, but you are definitely a car thief.”

Hook:

Human.  Son of a human

Has anger management and sociopath issues.

Snarky and sassy, handwaves previous accounts of physical abuse towards women.

Former love was a human with no distinguishable characteristics aside from being a terrible mother.

Tragic flaw is being poorly written with no consistency.  Okay, fine, I guess a murderous quest for revenge.  

Grew up fine, he only became a pirate after adulthood.

Assisted his former girlfriend in abandoning her child.

Betrayed that child giving them up to a murderous gang of psychopaths.

I think it’s the abandonment thing that’s the biggest distinguishing characteristic.  No matter how many half-bloods hated him, Percy would never, ever betray them to Kronos or Gaea or anyone.  He would also be thoroughly disgusted with a parent that abandoned their child.  Wasn’t the biggest turning point in PJO when he insisted all gods claim their children?

Unlike Hook, who betrayed Baelfire and helped Milah abandon her child.

So yeah.  Does not hold up.  At all.  

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Me: I'm doing a really good job lately at not getting fired up on social media and having a healthy relationship with it--

Anon: some rando is saying Wrong Things about C.S. Lewis on the internet--

Me:

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Is it the hunger games?

It was actually "Before I Fall!"

I'm still processing the ending so I haven't decided if I liked it or not, but rest assured, my Hellcheer version will have a different ending.

I mean what are you talking about I'm not plotting a Hellcheer version...

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Wow, I lasted a whole minute before I got off my phone and logged into a browser so I could type faster.

OP's post is a mix of very true things, extrapolations, and opinions they present as fact, and doesn't even fit alongside the point they're making. They claim that pre-Joy Davidman, CSL was nasty about marriage as a whole, but The Silver Chair was written and published during the correspondence with Joy Davidman--she even sends a copy to her sons on her first visit to England.

Yes, C.S. Lewis had complicated views on gender. No, he did not find them intellectually inferior--highly recommend reading "Dorothy and Jack" by my good friend Gina Dalfonzo, which explores Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis' close friendship. Lewis had deep respect for her intellect, as well as many other women--all before Joy Davidman.

This doesn't mean he wasn't a product of his time and could write inane things about gender. So could Tolkien, come to that.

It is laughable to cite Carpenter (see above link) who is one of the worst biographers of both Tolkien and Lewis. OP "connected the dots" on a bad biographer's bad research which produces a bad-faith interpretation of "The Silver Chair".

Again, none of this means that Lewis wrote gender in non-problematic ways. When you've studied how he portrays women in fiction for as long as I have, you see that it isn't a linear line. We all hate Jane Studdock from That Hideous Strength because of her plotline, but we don't talk about Grace Studdock, a single middle-aged psychologist from the same text. We praise Queen Orual from Till We Have Faces, but there are some troubling short stories--as well as some really interesting short stories written around the same time.

So to answer your question--some of what OP says is solid, but it is on a poorly built foundation.

How solid is this? https://www.tumblr.com/eighthdoctor/786609091283910656?source=share

I don’t have time to break this down entirely, but OP is way, way off base.

The Lady of the Green Kirtle was mocking Freudian analysis, not Tolkien’s Luthien, and it is frankly an incredibly nasty insinuation—especially considering that LOTR would not have been finished without CSL’s encouragement.

OP cites Humphrey Carpenter a LOT and that is…not a great biographer, ESPECIALLY on CSL and Tolkien’s relationship. I actually just went to a conference where an incredible researcher named Dr. Holly Ordway discussed Carpenter literally making shit up and I genuinely can’t recommend anything better and her talk on their friendship. It is a stunning piece of research please listen: https://youtu.be/oSC6f1lMQ_Q?si=iNDi9FLi9w3B2f6A 

Honestly, as I talk about this, it’s getting me more irritated so I may actually come back and break this down more, but OP’s post is a way oversimplification of CSL’s views on women and how he wrote female characters and also the whole post is just incredibly disrespectful to the collaborative relationship he had with Tolkien and the Inklings. 

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How solid is this? https://www.tumblr.com/eighthdoctor/786609091283910656?source=share

I don’t have time to break this down entirely, but OP is way, way off base.

The Lady of the Green Kirtle was mocking Freudian analysis, not Tolkien’s Luthien, and it is frankly an incredibly nasty insinuation—especially considering that LOTR would not have been finished without CSL’s encouragement.

OP cites Humphrey Carpenter a LOT and that is…not a great biographer, ESPECIALLY on CSL and Tolkien’s relationship. I actually just went to a conference where an incredible researcher named Dr. Holly Ordway discussed Carpenter literally making shit up and I genuinely can’t recommend anything better and her talk on their friendship. It is a stunning piece of research please listen: https://youtu.be/oSC6f1lMQ_Q?si=iNDi9FLi9w3B2f6A 

Honestly, as I talk about this, it’s getting me more irritated so I may actually come back and break this down more, but OP’s post is a way oversimplification of CSL’s views on women and how he wrote female characters and also the whole post is just incredibly disrespectful to the collaborative relationship he had with Tolkien and the Inklings. 

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I’m changing the ending but imma still do it.

Me at the start of a YA novel that won a bunch of awards and got turned into a movie: I HATE THIS boom. I cannot STAND THE MAIN CHARACTER…

*several chapters later*

Me: this is incredibly Hellcheerable…

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I love love LOVE when a book starts out with me absolutely bored and hating all the characters and then suddenly obsessed! 😍

Me at the start of a YA novel that won a bunch of awards and got turned into a movie: I HATE THIS boom. I cannot STAND THE MAIN CHARACTER…

*several chapters later*

Me: this is incredibly Hellcheerable…

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Me at the start of a YA novel that won a bunch of awards and got turned into a movie: I HATE THIS boom. I cannot STAND THE MAIN CHARACTER…

*several chapters later*

Me: this is incredibly Hellcheerable…

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GET TO KNOW ME: (2/??) films WALL-E (2008) — dir. Andrew Stanton

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Speaking as a survivor of child sex abuse: the world would be a lot better if yall spent less time talking about the ways in which pedophiles should be punished and more time supporting survivors and preventing abuse

I get it, punishment can feel cathartic. I’ve certainly spent time imagining all the ways in which my own abuser might be punished. But ultimately, him dying, or being jailed, or publicly shamed, isn’t actually going to help me nor will it stop more kids from getting hurt in the future.

I don’t want more prisoners. I want free therapy with trauma informed counselors. I want better sex education for young children that teaches them about consent and body autonomy. And I want a society in which I can openly discuss my trauma, or at least as openly as yall discuss the evils of pedophiles

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old Eddie x Chrissy art I know the hype has died down but I still love them and wished they had a happy ending 😭❤️✨

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i hope they find each other in every universe (´⌣`ʃƪ)

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Some how it’s still not sank in that come October, I will be a published author, a dream I’ve treasured since I was seven years old.

I did it.