#i hate that i had to overcome it

[halinski]

I used to be embarrassed that i used to be selectively mute as a child

Now i tell anyone everyone like some kind of shield/badge

I exist with this and survive, bite me

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Firstly, this isn't me vagueposting, just me gathering my thoughts (I feel passionately about these points).

If Sarcean and Anharion are a allegory for queer trauma and the collar is unveiled to be Sarcean's compulsion wholesale, it renders the Light's campaign against him as righteous regardless of how hypocritical the Light is revealed to be.

It turns his relationship with Anharion into something that was not a relationship at all. Not love at all. It makes it into a sordid sexual fascination. Just as the Light says it was. If the Light represents antiqueer religious and societal pressures within this queer allegory then the story cannot be a pro-queer narrative if that sentiment becomes something tangibly true.

Sarcean can be terrible to everyone else in the world but not to Anharion because their relationship, within this allegory, is what they are fighting to protect. A place to be, to exist. To surrender to each other. To love each other in peace. Without condemnation and judgement. Without constantly being besieged.

Is Will not looking for that very thing? An oasis. One person he can be his entire self with. Is James not as angry as their past selves? Not as vindictive? "I'll show them an abomination!" Perhaps, if that's the case, Anharion and Sarcean also liked to put on a show. Rub their relationship in the faces of the Light. They'll show them. Sarcean cannot be the sole puppeteer of all that queer fury without it becoming an abuse narrative. Once it becomes an abuse narrative, and the Light's campaign becomes a righteous one, the queer allegories start to fall apart.

If Sarcean represents the urges you suppress to conform to a cruelly narrow but socially dominant interpretation of 'goodness' then Will's triumph isn't in suppressing those urges, it's in embracing them. If Will becomes but another good boy suppressing his dark urges for the Light then he's buying into the dominant social narrative. The aforementioned antiqueer one. He may as well marry a nice girl from a respectable family, never once ordering her around.

[constantvariations]

I could go on for days about how Aang's conflict between his pacifistic ideology and his duty as Avatar was poorly handled, but my gripe can be easily summarized by this line from Lord Ravencraft's video on Animorphs:

If the end result of your moral choice is still injustice, slavery, and death, then you have to ask yourself what's the point in making the moral choice in the first place?

[maigetheplatypus57]

Honestly dungeon meshi fans were not kidding when they say that the show helps them have a better relationship with food... the recent episodes with izutsumi have encouraged me to start adding more vegetables to my meals (or at least not pick them out from dishes...)

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[insane-weasel]

I think as writers we should hold funerals for our WIPs more often.

Dearly beloved, gather us here today where this fic of some middle-aged man getting rawdogged and this other fanfic about the importance of friendship are laid to rest, because the author got really distracted playing that new video game.

We celebrate what could have been, cut-and-recycle those really good lines or ideas, because I swear I'm going to use them, I swear! And drag this poor document not to the great recycling bin or trash, but to the "graveyard" folder because sometimes I like to commune with the dead.

[dropthecop]

why did my boromir post get notes i'm scared

[anonbinaryweirdo]

i am not okay. I found old screenshots of my babies from like ???? two??? years ago

josmora still gives me so much LIFE

[vxmpirehunterd]

{Been radio silent due to today being the day of my Step Dad's birthday since his passing in 2021. I've been lurking and will get to replies later--just mourning right now.}

[da-proti-toku-grem]

the fair of the city where i live is approaching and it's making me feel so anxious. it always makes me anxious but after i had that panic attack at my hometown's fair a few weeks ago it's making me even more anxious and fuck i really don't want to go.............

[moripartylove]

I did my first presentation at a conference today and I was so nervous!!! But I made it through without issues, phew

[pyrriax]

peace and love on planet earth.

this fic is. going places.

[vvitchering]

tbh with how lazy the writers are, it just makes it seem like Din can maybe learn to be ok with a droid on friendlier terms.... but when given enough incentive, he backslides to generalizing them. He's fine with showing aggression towards them despite their obvious discomfort. If he were really open minded, he would have readily accepted working with other droids instead of insisting they revive the one droid whose memory was likely already fried from destruction. This "growth" for Din seems like an afterthought and at this point I don't buy it anymore.

The thing is, we’ve already seen evidence of Din moving past his issues with droids in general. His initial mistrust of IG-11 is completely turned around when IG not only saves Grogu’s life, but everyone else’s. He allows IG to remove his helmet, which is the real clincher for me. IG might not have actually been alive, but Din allowing a droid to see his face and render life-saving first aid was HUGE for him, imo.

Some other smaller instances are his interactions with Peli’s pit droids, which he previously wouldn’t allow anywhere near him or the ship. He shows back up for repairs and immediately allows their help. They also assist him directly when he’s repairing the N1 in TBOBF and he’s perfectly civil and gracious to them.

I think his insistence in wanting IG-11 back in S3 makes perfect sense. IG is his friend, someone who protected him and his son at the cost of its own life, so Din knows it’s a trustworthy companion. Of course he’d want someone he already knows and trusts with him on an important journey. And besides that, I think he’s been carrying some guilt ever since IG’s death and when he saw parts of it were recovered, he jumped at the chance to bring it back and give it another shot at life. That all seems very much in character for Din.

Where this all falls apart, imo, is when we see him interact with the droids in last week’s episode. He’s harsh, blunt, and aggressive with all of them. Exactly the way he would have acted towards them in early S1 before he’d had any change of heart. This was bad enough, but what really sold the regression for me was his reaction (or non-reaction) to the battle droids. Those were the same model that attacked his planet and orphaned him. I was expecting a more intense or traumatic reaction to them, not just more of the generalized “I hate droids again for some reason” hate. He HAS a valid reason to still have trauma regarding battle droids specifically and the writers missed out on an amazing opportunity to delve back into Din’s past by simply having him flippantly kick and yell at them.

Din was cheated out of a lot of growth opportunities this season by shitty writing but his droid phobia was already addressed and resolved in past seasons. There wasn’t any reason for them to write it back into Din’s character.

[sunnibits]

bruh if my brain doesn’t stop pulling this nonsense I swear I’m gonna lose it. be normal girl!!!!

[thatonecode]

dc comics being obsessed with rewriting itself and making retcons and wanting everyone to believe that the batfam ARE family but also having several instances where these characters have tried and GOTTEN CLOSE TO killing each other and not really doing a whole lot to address that

vs dc fans who are some of The Most stubborn fans i’ve seen (/pos) who are like No you DONT get to retcon that they hated eachother because it makes it SOOO much more interesting at family dinners and also because now i can write a full fix-it with proper communication and addressing everything you’re too scared to . this is my handpicked canon based on hundreds of iterations of characters over THOUSANDS of comics and i don’t care what you do next because i’ll just ignore it if i don’t like it at best and rewrite it if i don’t like it at worst