#but that’s another post

[ricky-mortis]

I was inspired by @tapestryoftrauma ‘s wonderful writing, so here’s a drawing of Mark Chasity from his fic called Sink Into Me

[lethal-effect]

Ok but the significance of Adaine helping Gorgug with his barbarian homework. Adaine, the wizard who uses her fists and swords (and a ladle) in combat (and would have used a gun if left to her own devices). Adaine who, despite her anxiety, has always fought back against people who treated her unfairly and always stood up for herself. And Gorgug, the barbarian who has cried and apologized after raging under even the most justified circumstances. Just, Adaine encouraging Gorgug to get angry is everything to me

[fruit-colored-ninja]

I think it’s so funny how many ninjago show fics (both au and canon compliant) have kai going through an ‘I hate this kid so fukcing much he ruins everything he SUCKS’ phase about lloyd at first and then movie fics are almost always like. Hello I’m Kai this is lloyd I met him five minutes ago and if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in the room and then myself and if you say a SINGLE bad thing about him because of his father I’ll kill you too

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Izzy has been controlling Ed’s narrative for a very long time, including with his own crew. Then Stede comes around. Izzy sees his control slipping, and he thinks it’s just a one to one fight with Stede for control of Ed. But Stede’s not interested in control - it doesn’t even seem to occur to him. That’s where Izzy loses - Stede doesn’t want to define Ed, just to be there as Ed defines himself.

THAT’S why Izzy doesn’t understand what Stede has done to “my boss’s brain.” It never occurred to him that Ed was an autonomous human being, and it never occurred to Stede that Ed wasn’t.

[secretmellowblog]

Jean Valjean’s issues as a parent are so sad and complicated? Because unlike in adaptations, in the book he’s not abusive at all, and has a deep horror at the idea of taking away Cosette’s freedom/agency. But at the same time—

Jean Valjean is a deeply lonely person who relies on a single young child to fill all of his loneliness. He loves Cosette, and she loves him, but he turns that mutual love into his only reason to live. He relies on his daughter to be the Sole Thing That Gives His Life Meaning. He’s utterly desperate for family and companionship and he throws all of that desperation onto Cosette.

He is sweet, loving, gentle, kind, and willing to support Cosette in whatever choices she makes, and to give her the freedom to do whatever she wants. But if she uses her freedom to choose a life outside of the little world he’s built for her…. he will allow her to make that choice, but he’ll do it while spiraling into self-destructive loneliness and despair.

He refuses to communicate honestly with his daughter about his traumatic past or her own, instead papering over uncomfortable truths with polite nothings. He doesn’t tell her things she has the right to know, under the pretext of protecting her, but more to protect himself and his own feelings.

He is a traumatized person who (as a result of his utter isolation) unintentionally puts his young daughter into the role of his caretaker— so that this 15-year-old-girl has to struggle to help her father through severe PTSD symptoms and self-destructive behaviors that he does not explain and that she has no way to understand.

It’s such a complicated, difficult relationship with no easy answers. Jean Valjean and Cosette genuinely love each other, and take care of each other, and their relationship saves both of their lives— but their relationship is also still flawed and unhealthy, in so many painful nuanced ways that are hard to actually solve.

[villadiodatis]

It’s so wild to me how people spent EXU Calamity going “what if asmodeus is telling the truth and the prime deities are awful and the betrayers are just misunderstood” only for Brennan to go “NOPE the betrayers are evil! Full on evil! They and the primordials suck!”

And now with everything happening in C3 people are again going “but……what if the charismatic cult leader is telling the truth and the prime deities should die?”

Like. Didn’t we do this already?? I’m frustrated by the one-sided perspective (for the most part, orym and Ashton my beloveds) among the characters but I get that they don’t have all the information but like. The viewers do!! We know the gods aren’t all-powerful and we know they really do care! What the hell are we talking about!!

[eskawrites]

Random robin thoughts brought to you by the fact that I finally read rebel robin recently and the entire time I was just thinking about barb and robin parallels. Like I know it’s been pointed out the parallels between robin and will, and how it could’ve easily been robin taken by the demogorgon instead and that’s so interesting to me. But the barb parallels are just as interesting to me (and just as sad tbh)

I mean first of all Robin is saying the entire time that Barb just ran away. That she ran away and she found someplace better than Hawkins and it is 1000% projection because that’s all Robin wants to do, more and more so as the book goes on. She talks about Barb escaping the Hawkins monster just like Robin wants to. Except, Barb didn’t escape. She never had a chance to. And neither does Robin—not the metaphorical teenage angst monster, and not the actual monsters that she gets caught up in eventually

But also, ALSO, Robin’s interactions with her friends mirroring Barb’s last interactions with Nancy. Robin’s closest friend drops her so he can pursue his crush, leaving her all alone. And it’s even more obvious on the night when Dash is being a creep and Robin tries to get Kate to leave with her. Kate argues with Robin and chooses to stay with Dash (Nancy argues with Barb and chooses to stay with Steve), and Robin is left to head home alone on a cold November night

If that interaction had happened just a couple weeks earlier, it could’ve been Robin killed instead of Barb. And just like how Robin doesn’t have a Joyce to march into hell and back for her, she doesn’t have a Nancy to go looking for her either. None of her friends would go looking for her. They wouldn’t climb into alternate dimensions to find her or bait monsters to avenge her or illegally gather evidence against a shady government entity in order to bring justice and closure to her family

Idk what the point of this post is, but I’m feeling so much for little lonely sophomore Robin who was so close to tragedy and had absolutely no one to fight for her

[flaim-ita]

I actually love how Ace and Kouta are two conflicting ideas on divinity as the cross of fire, divinity as Kaizou Ningen.

Kouta’s is all about loss. It’s about loss of humanity and happiness, being forced to abandon his world to save it from the sources of his powers and the destruction of the human soul that it takes to gain power. It’s about a force greater than god (Sagara) who does not win but most certainly does not lose and how even ultimate power can’t save yourself. Being a god is lonely and tragic.

Ace looked at that and right out the gate he was fine being alone, forgotten or entombed. But he scoffed at the idea of the fight for power being lonely or empty and instead went “no, this is a chance for freedom. People are good and improve my fighting for their wishes” and the true monster of the system is torn apart from the inside out by the son of its greatest victim because true godhood came from the united prayers of his followers.

The nature of Rider inhumanity is so always a burden and a curse and a tragedy but Geats looked at that and said “no, it can be a blessing if you choose. A world where all is happy CAN exist!”

[stars-and-birds]

okay i think i explained it well in the replies to this post but for those of you who think the Barbie movie ending was stupid and was bad writing because the Kens weren’t equal in barbie land… you just didn’t understand the movie. the movie isn’t called, for one, “Barbie and Ken”. it’s not “Barbie and Ken Land”. Barbie wasn’t made with boys in mind (ofc it’s fine, great, for boys to play with barbie, but that’s not the point). barbie was created to inspire little girls and show them everything they could be. the movie makes this clear in the opening sequence. Barbie’s we’re created to inspire. not Kens. Kens were never the point.

barbie land was created for barbie. making it barbie-and-ken land would take away the whole idea of it, and frankly the point of Ken. Ken was just created to be Barbie’s boyfriend, literally nothing else. at the end of the movie he starts to learn a little more about himself, and the movie implies that as time goes on maybe Ken’s will have more power. it’s a great ending.

(also, if you didn’t notice, Barbie Land was worse after it became Ken Dom. like the Kens were happy in Barbie Land, but they were corrupted by the idea of a patriarchy— Ken and Barbie’s stories mirror each other like that, both showing what it’s like to grow up— but the Barbies were miserable. this is shown because of how they’re taken out of their trance, by Gloria pointing out the injustice of what they’re going through. but i digress)

[random-iz-stuff]

RecapKidPosting because the brainrot is kicking in full force tonight

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Huxley is such good disability representation for both mental and physical.

Physical through his not having legs and also not having hands. He talks a lot about not having bodily autonomy; before the addition of his spring, there’s a bit where he talks about having to be carried everywhere by others. With the addition of his spring (a mobility aid), he can finally go where he pleases, when he pleases.

He also has a cane, which he says helps him get things off of shelves and get up the stairs. This is also an aid, not only for walking but for getting things he needs without having to ask for help.

His mental disorder is also very well portrayed. He has some form of trauma, likely PTSD. This is shown through him becoming extremely scared and covering his head whenever Owner reaches into the dollhouse. Since he is a hand puppet, he associates hands with being controlled.

Another sad bit I would like to add it the threat of taking support systems and aids away as a punishment. After Daliah goes on a rant about how Huxley never listens to her, she threatens to take away his spring, since she was the one who gave it to him in the first place. She also breaks his cane out of rage at one point.

[stockholmgf]

currently really want to be sitting at their feet with my head in their lap and letting them absentmindedly pet my hair while we each read our lil books

[hope-i-dont-choke]

You know what Timeless could have done? They could have made Lucy Preston bisexual and given her a two or three episode arc doomed love story with a woman of the past who she was already a huge fan of, instead of making a gross ass love triangle with a terrorist who tried to kill her and her friends multiple times, like I get wanting to show her being slightly pulled away from Wyatt so it would mean that much more when she realised there was nothing that could stop her from loving him, but they could have been healthier about it. Lyatt is endgame either way and I love them, but it would have been nice if we had seen that Lucy had a love before Wyatt and chose him anyways.  it also would have been nice if they hadn’t named one of their daughters after a guy who ditched them to die in history, erased Lucy’s sister, and almost erased Lucy’s and her entire bloodline.

[secretmellowblog]

You know how Nick/Gatsby and Holmes/Watson and Enjolras/Grantaire are super popular gay classic lit ships? I’m genuinely surprised there’s not a slash-shipping community around Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay from a Tale of Two Cities…like. I get the reason Darnay/Carton isn’t popular is because no one cares about A Tale of Two Cities but their relationship is so bizarrely homoerotic for literally no reason! It’s like Built to be some Dark Academia tumblr ship! I think Carton/Darnay should be in the tumblr gay classic lit canon, repping Dickens and the way Dickens’ misogynistic inability to write convincing heterosexual relationships results in his characters seeming extremely gay.

I could write an entire essay on why A Tale of Two Cities makes more sense if you ignore Dickens’ intent and read Carton as gay (with quotes supporting my point) but like. Carton insists he’s in love with Darnay’s wife Lucie but spends much more of his page-time talking to/flirting with Darnay (to the point where he’s never had an on page conversation with Lucie until he “confesses his love” to her in a scene where he also immediately rejects himself for her, and insists that their relationship would be Impossible for Reasons and that his heart isn’t Capable of feeling things the way it should, as if he’s chosen to convince himself he’s in love with her because she’s unattainable and he will never have to be in a relationship with her.) Darnay and Carton have all these tense charged snarky interactions that feel like fanfic. Darnay’s thing with Lucie is pretty bland but there’s this huge emphasis on the fact that he and Carton are “counterparts.” Whenever Dickens tries to write Carton as being sad that Lucie loves another man it generally comes across as Carton being jealous of Lucie, because he’s almost never had a full conversation with Lucie and spends most of his time instead having these very sad clingy desperate pathetic conversations with the men who love her. Carton has a weird homoerotic thing going on with his jock law partner Stryver, who he sacrifices everything for and spends all his time with and lets invade his personal space/walk all over him for reasons he refuses to explain (all while Stryver repeatedly mocks Carton for being incapable of falling in love with women). Carton ultimately sacrifices his life for Darnay by forcibly taking off Darnay’s clothes and disguising himself as him….like?

One of their first interactions is Carton heroically saving Darnay’s life, then drunkenly calling himself Darnay’s “counterpart” and asking him on a date.

Like.

Hm.

This feels like the banter you’d find in an Enjolras/Grantaire fanfic:

Fellas is it gay to

But yeah! The main thing people remember about A Tale of Two Cities are the cool peasant women revolutionaries, who Dickens is trying to portray as villains but who are actually the best characters in the book. And if I’m going to be mean to my high school self (who was obsessed with ATOTC for some reason) I’d say that the central melodrama between Carton/Darnay/Lucie is a weakness of the novel because Carton’s arc has nothing to do with the political French Revolution stuff, so his sacrifice feels thematically disconnected from all the book’s attempts at political commentary. HOWEVER. I think it works better if it’s gay.Also the Vengeance and Madame Defarge are gay, but people aren’t ready for that conversation!

So yee!! people on tumblr love ships that are like “hot goody-two-shoes classic lit boy in a suit x hot snarky classic lit sadboi in a suit”, but so few ppl remember Carton and Darnay, who were repping that all the way back in the 1790s 😔😔😔😔😔

[margbarcisforever]

as funny as this is it’s absolutely “a thing” that US presidents have done for half a century, and his title is not “prime minister” it’s taoiseach

[fan-of-young-royals]

Vincent was such an asshole in this season (I doubt it’ll change in the finale) and I think it’s because of how goddamn privileged he is.

This is a person who has gotten everything he’s needed handed him to him. He’s so trapped in a bubble of privilege that he sees the idea of someone wanting basic rights or being even slightly less repressed as an attack towards him and his power.

His obsession with being a third year and what that brings him reflect this as well. He’s reached what he sees as the most powerful role in the school and he has a need to be the person in charge. It’s shown when Wille challenges the order of the school in s2 and when the teachers show resistance to the ultimatums he delivers (but even then they still give in which only reinforces the power he has).