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The story is pretty explicit in how he HAS to do it to not only have her life but him live as well. While that is no excuse at all it is pretty specific that Draco is absolutely disgusted by himself for what he is doing. To the point he actively vomits after an incident and may have been before that.

When you think about in the terms of just what the story is doing. BOTH of them are being raped. Both Hermione and Draco in having to do the deed because if he doesn't Voldy will know and kill them both without question.

It still is fukked up. It still is disgusting and does not justify the abuse. But that is the fukked up world they are in. Where two people are just broken over and over again and come to a kind of normalcy.

You know like, victims of war?

Isn't Manacled the fic where Draco RAPES Hermione, why are you romanticizing SA?

Where do you see that people are romanticizing SA? Just because someone likes the story doesn't mean they are making light of the abuse.

Also, have you read the fic?

In it, Hermione forgives Draco. They had a relationship before the SA and continued it after because she understood the circumstances of Draco's assault. SA is still wrong, and the main character is able to understand and forgive, and Draco is able to repent for his actions. It's not a black-and-white situation, but the characters have made peace with what was going on. It doesn't erase it, and they will always be affected by what happened, but they are choosing to move on as best as they can.

Anyone who reads this story sees this. We all know that what Draco did is reprehensible.

But the story is complex, there are so many things going on. And in the end, the characters have found a bit of peace. I won't say it's a HEA because these characters are so traumatized by what they experienced, but they are content. We understand this. Understanding all this and deciding that we like the story, doesn't mean we are romanticizing assault.

The author also doesn't do this with her writing. She makes it clear what is happening is wrong.

There are stories out there where this happens and the author writes it differently, where it is seen as not a big deal, the victim makes light of their assault or chooses to not define it as an assault, and the perpetrator doesn't apologize or acknowledge what they did, and the readers glamourize the relationship.

This story is not that, and all the readers can see it.

-Lisa

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What's really funny is he is giving it away for free to people who protested the whole thing. And many of them were freaking out about it. It is honestly hilarious to watch.

I wonder for one if these people complaining about this understand how businesses get income to keep operating and expanding, for two given some of the comments I've seen if they think Musk is just going to pocket that money instead of using it to pay for the previously mentioned operation and expansion, and for three they are ripping the mask off about the fact that they think they're better than other people and deserve special treatment because of that.

8 bucks is nothing but a fun way to expose who falls into that last category and who doesn't.

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I just ranted. It's really not that deep. I got the DS game purely because it was promised that it would be about Roxas. The beginning character of KH2 and I LOVED that game. I really liked KH 1-2 and adored Roxas in particular. (This stems from my love for final fantasy.) Roxas was quite a bit different than Sora and I loved that difference. When there was a game that PROMISED to be all about him I got it.

Then felt utterly betrayed when I was playing the game, then it completely switched protagonists. I looked up how long I had to go through the game to get back to Roxas and it was something like an hour or more. So? Yeah. I felt betrayed. Cause I bought the game for my favorite character.

In Final Fantasy games you can have these huge protag switches, but it never felt as jarring or infuriating as what KH did. It felt like I said like I was betrayed. Like the creators didn't WANT to make a game for Roxas and actively and PUROSEFULLY made it like the game was. As in they did these switches on purpose because THEY HATE ROXAS.

If I remember right the game has several times where this happens to the point the game isn't even truly about Roxas and instead actually about the girl character.

I just... yeah. It's... just a betrayal to me. The game completely made me despise the whole franchise. I did watch retrospectives when the last game came out, and realized like... oh so it's really confusing lore wise? Even on par with Metal gear? Yeah no really enjoying that.

(If I recall to, the creators and writers did come out to say they hated the character Roxas and how popular he was or something? So them making days of sleep like it was makes a whole lot of sense.)

I don't think I'll ever get over how Organization XIII was hyped up as this super nefarious villain group but then you get to their game 358/2 Days and they treat it like a job. A 9-5 soul crushing job. They have their daily menial tasks and then they go home and wash, rinse, repeat with little else occupying their lives. Even their hobbies and pastimes seem so limited, although you can arguably chalk that up to the game just not being interested in developing them like that (which is part of why the manga is great, because it has a tendency of developing them in ways the main writers aren't interested in). From the way they talk about it, they almost sound like they work at an office sometimes. A very bizarre, particularly backstabby office, but still. It's a soul crushing job AND a weird cult all at once and it's treated with this mundanity that's both hilarious in a way I didn't really get when it first came out and oddly humanizing.

I know for some dumb reason they didn't do a remake of Days and it's harder to access because of that, but if you can and it interests you enough to where you've wondered if it was worth playing, I really recommend playing it or watching a playthrough of the actual game instead of just the cutscenes. The story really is partly told through the mechanics and so much is lost when they just gave us the cutscenes pulled from the game in the compilations.

They really reinforce how bleak and mundane Roxas' life is most of the time, how bleak and mundane most of the members' lives are. How much control the Organization has over them. You don't just level up organically like in other kh games, you have to do this weird puzzle thing that limits your growth and abilities. They don't give you munny, they give you heart points that you can only use at the moogle shop in their castle, so they're literally paid in scrip. If you're unfamiliar with it, scrip is a currency you can only use in certain places instead of throughout a whole country or other type of political union like the eu, usually with the store at the company you work at. When you're on missions your path is blocked off, you can only go to certain areas that are directly related to your daily mission. It's suffocating and genius, especially since in most other series entries you get so much freedom comparatively.

With all that context it starts making some of their vices a bit more understandable. Can you really blame Demyx for not wanting to do his work when all he gets out of it is room and board, and the distant, vague promise of maybe someday getting a new heart? Especially since he's probably been with the Organization for years?

Can you really blame Marluxia and Larxene for wanting to mutiny when their boss is useless and all of their colleagues seem indifferent to it? I mean like. The murder isn't great. I'm still a bit sore about that. But I can definitely get behind the 'screw our boss' sentiment. I'm still very fond of my 'instead of going the cloak and dagger route Larxene and Marluxia somehow, possibly with the help of devil magic, manage to get everyone to cooperate so they can unionize and kick Xemnas out' au. An Organization XIII union au, if you will. Imagine Xemnas having to explain that to the other Xehanorts.

Master Xehanort: The people you gathered up for us to use as our vessels. Unionized?

Xemnas, the biggest loser in the entire series: :/

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Kids should learn about firearms just because of this no guns culture. Can't have a gun if a twelve year kid disassembles it in your hands.

Anyways people would be a lot less scared of guns the more they are educated on guns.

What are AR-15s being used for other than mass shootings. Like who is the supposed moral target demographic for these.

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Can I play this game? Yes I have it. Do I WANT to play it though is the real question? And the answer is no. Actually it may be missing now that I think about it. I actually have to look for my ds and the games. But I seriously started to despise the games after there was the GBA game which keep in mind apparently had earth shattering plot points in it. (Sarcasm with all due course.) Then they just started to make the exact same game around... 3 times? IDK.

And quite frankly not even the days you can spend watching Metal Gear retrospectives that explain the plot is longer than the doctoral PhD you'd need to examine and read up on the plot of Kingdom Hearts.

Where keep in mind my favorite character, Roxas, is basically treated like melted Crayola crayons. So it's not like I have a actual reason to enjoy the games. Being that the GAME THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT HIM you do not actually play as him. Which is exactly where I stopped playing this game.

All do respects with people that love these games. I too once loved the games. But the betrayal I felt with Roxas... well let's just say there is a reason, too. I will not ever watch FMA beotherhood either. I can't lose them again.

I don't think I'll ever get over how Organization XIII was hyped up as this super nefarious villain group but then you get to their game 358/2 Days and they treat it like a job. A 9-5 soul crushing job. They have their daily menial tasks and then they go home and wash, rinse, repeat with little else occupying their lives. Even their hobbies and pastimes seem so limited, although you can arguably chalk that up to the game just not being interested in developing them like that (which is part of why the manga is great, because it has a tendency of developing them in ways the main writers aren't interested in). From the way they talk about it, they almost sound like they work at an office sometimes. A very bizarre, particularly backstabby office, but still. It's a soul crushing job AND a weird cult all at once and it's treated with this mundanity that's both hilarious in a way I didn't really get when it first came out and oddly humanizing.

I know for some dumb reason they didn't do a remake of Days and it's harder to access because of that, but if you can and it interests you enough to where you've wondered if it was worth playing, I really recommend playing it or watching a playthrough of the actual game instead of just the cutscenes. The story really is partly told through the mechanics and so much is lost when they just gave us the cutscenes pulled from the game in the compilations.

They really reinforce how bleak and mundane Roxas' life is most of the time, how bleak and mundane most of the members' lives are. How much control the Organization has over them. You don't just level up organically like in other kh games, you have to do this weird puzzle thing that limits your growth and abilities. They don't give you munny, they give you heart points that you can only use at the moogle shop in their castle, so they're literally paid in scrip. If you're unfamiliar with it, scrip is a currency you can only use in certain places instead of throughout a whole country or other type of political union like the eu, usually with the store at the company you work at. When you're on missions your path is blocked off, you can only go to certain areas that are directly related to your daily mission. It's suffocating and genius, especially since in most other series entries you get so much freedom comparatively.

With all that context it starts making some of their vices a bit more understandable. Can you really blame Demyx for not wanting to do his work when all he gets out of it is room and board, and the distant, vague promise of maybe someday getting a new heart? Especially since he's probably been with the Organization for years?

Can you really blame Marluxia and Larxene for wanting to mutiny when their boss is useless and all of their colleagues seem indifferent to it? I mean like. The murder isn't great. I'm still a bit sore about that. But I can definitely get behind the 'screw our boss' sentiment. I'm still very fond of my 'instead of going the cloak and dagger route Larxene and Marluxia somehow, possibly with the help of devil magic, manage to get everyone to cooperate so they can unionize and kick Xemnas out' au. An Organization XIII union au, if you will. Imagine Xemnas having to explain that to the other Xehanorts.

Master Xehanort: The people you gathered up for us to use as our vessels. Unionized?

Xemnas, the biggest loser in the entire series: :/

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You don't have to be stuck. It's actually what they think. It's why these same people sit there scream, and hate all the people who step so much a hair out of the line.

They have been screaming at Ana Kasparian recently because she took issue with the "stop calling natural born women birthing people or women who bleed cause its sexist". So now they are hating her and all that jazz.

It is just a cult now. This whole deal of immediately attacking people like this is a cult tactic. Even if these people don't recognize it. The democratic party pretty much is getting worse and worse and **NO** the republican party isn't doing any better either. It's getting into this as well and right now both parties are sickening terrible.

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It's actually because the kid has made numerous threats to shoot up his school. Please foe the love of God educate yourself.

Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.

Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.

Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”

They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.

These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.

Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried – it’s already happening.

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I actually just bought a pack of 24 burgers and plan to grill them tomorrow.

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Just put solar panels over the entirety of car parks. Those huge asphalt piles that bake upwards of a zillion degrees. This will not only create shade but also energy. It's a win win.

Gotta stop this kind of person somehow

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Or....

This is an entirely new group of lost kids that the fairy (not tinkerbell) has been gathering up. She picks up our protagonists to help the kids. As all the kids want to find Peter and Wendy as they can help find their parents. So it's a big old walking movie in the wonders of wonderland.

Throw in some pirates.

Then they realize through this that all the kids are orphans/ all are unwanted children. They are upset at fairy, but quickly realize that you know. Having a fairy as a mum ain't too bad. So they actually start basically a civilization where unwanted/orphaned kids come and they all are wanted there. And taken care of by loving families.

I was just shown the trailer for Disney's upcoming grey-make of Peter Pan and that part where Wendy(??) washes up on the beach and she meets the 'Lost Boys' but realizes 'But... Not all of you are Boys' and gets a snippy 'So?!' in response...

Why call them the FUCKING 'Lost Boys' then?!?!

I'm not going to even tackle the 'why are there girls in the Lost Boys when one of the main things with them was their not having any female influence which caused them to be so rowdy' that some people are talking about, but if you want to have a creative retelling of a classic story, you have to rewrite things in a way that makes sense!

Call them the 'Lost Children' or the 'Wild Children', but just keeping it as is and saying 'oh, but there's girls this time' is as lazy and uninspired as the VFX.

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Here is a peeve of mine. In one of the "newer" issue ones of X-men I bought a number one. I knew going in this wasn't going to be an ACTUAL number one. But the beginning of a new story basically. However that story was so utterly stupid that I have never bought a marvel, or DC comic again.

What happened in it was that for some reason, they reconnect Magentos helmet into being able to block mutant powers on the one wearing it. ****I THINK****

And I say I think, because quite literally if they didn't it means the entire premise of the whole FIRST ISSUE was utter bullshit. But basically dad wears helmet, shoots and kills daughter, who doesn't have telepathic powers. In fact it's shown she is telekinetic. Which if we are taking this as a analogy of being gay and or Trans, really doesn't bode very well either.

It honestly was just so utterly stupifying that I literally will not ever pick up another modern comic again. Ha ha jokes on me I picked up a NUMBER ONE ISSUE expecting a more coherent story right?

It's not even problems of race swapping, gender bending, making people gay, etc, that is the problem. It's that the stories literally LACK COHESIVE PLOT. There is no a to b to c all the way down. Remember they were doing this crap was in the 90's. And that Era sucked so hard that it's failure has a name. And that name is Leifeild. This Era almost crashed the entire industry and it has NEVER recovered.

NEVER.

So they are just doing exactly what caused people to stop buying comics in the first place and had people gravitate towards Manga in the first place. So honestly this is all on them. History is a circle.

Absolutely hilarious take I’m so happy this made my day.

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I've stated this before but NONE of the ocean scenes even LOOK WET. The way her hair moves? Does not look like hair underwater. She does look wet at all. Nothing looks wet. Which for a movie about mermaids is actually kinda a big deal.

Reasons I Probably Won’t Watch The Little Mermaid (2023)

The original was a milestone for animated filmmaking, and this remake is live-action. This:

Is just NOT as visually hard-hitting as this:

That overhead pull-back shot looks lazy and soulless. There’s a reason the original’s filmmakers chose to bring the audience closer to Ariel’s face when she was feeling so far away from her dreams, then pulling them back more slowly. There’s a reason the hair is animated so dramatically. There’s a reason her eyebrows move and she’s not just blinking up, like a choir student concentrating on holding a high note. Go listen to Glen Keane, lead animator of this scene.

This version of Part of Your World puts all the emphasis on Halle Bailey’s (very beautiful) singing talent and none on the genuine human moments that are supposed to tell the audience a story about a relatable girl who has no way to reach her dreams.

The trailer shows incredibly dark, dreary, almost-trashy looking ocean shots. What is going on with the dirty-seashell vibe on the floor of Ariel’s grotto? Ariel’s grotto was designed to look dark in the original, but not ugly. Because everything in it is supposed to seem beautiful, to her. The one source of light comes from the one hole in the ceiling, which she treats like a window to the Surface World. Where LIGHT comes from. Because that’s how Ariel sees her father’s “spineless, savage, harpooning fish-eaters.” As wonderful and bright, instead.

THIS QUOTE from the Director of the Live Action movie about Eric: “The role of Eric in the animated film — I’m sure the original creators would agree with this — it’s a wooden, classic prince character with not a lot going on,”

Um. Excuse me, sir? Eric was one of the first Disney Princes not to fit that description.

The only thing the Live-Action Director has said correctly about Eric is that his feelings will mirror Ariel’s in the new movie. That is what happens in the animated classic, so great. But guess what? When you start that point by saying the first Eric was “a wooden, classic prince character,” you show that you don’t understand how the animated classic mirrored Ariel with him. He thinks he needs to cast a mother character for Eric to get that point across. 

Now I’m going on a mini-rant about this one specific point below the cut, because so far it’s the last straw as far as me not watching the new movie. 

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Iceland also aborts all fetuses with downsyndrome.

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Jokes on you. I don't HAVE a chuck e cheese!

So I go to the skatepark instead and break both my arms.

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The Live Action Disney remakes do NOT demonstrate any level of understanding of the original content.

- Belle likes to read because she likes the idea of adventure in the great wide somewhere, not because she’s a feminist who believes in overturning the patriarchy by learning to read. Then she learns that giving up your life for someone else and looking past the surface of people is the best adventure she can get.

- Cruella is—and I cannot stress this enough—a crazy puppy-skinning self-obsessed maniac with no discernible care for anybody but herself. She is not a tragic young woman looking to find herself.

- Simba doesn’t think poorly of himself: he thinks about himself too much. When he’s a cub he thinks about how he’ll grow up and get to do everything his own way, and when he’s an adult he thinks he should get to stay in the jungle without anybody telling him how to live his life. He’s always hiding from responsibility. His reasons for doing it just go from childish entitlement to crippling guilt until Rafiki and Mufasa’s ghost knock some sense into him. But until then, he’s always thinking about how he shouldn’t have to take any responsibility. That’s how he runs from who he is—not because he’s ashamed of who he is, but because who he is requires responsibility. - Genie wants to be free more than all the wonders and all the riches in all the world. He would never tell Prince Ali “I don’t care anything about that wish.” If he had said anything like that in the original movie, half the weight of his actually being set free in the finale would be gone. Meaningless.

- Mulan is a klutz who had to learn discipline; she was absolutely not born with a convenient superpower for fighting. - Jasmine does not want to be Sultan. She wants to be free. She wants to be normal. She wants to be known. She’s caring enough toward normal peasants to hand them an apple when she notices they’re hungry; she’s naive and sheltered enough to forget that everything has to be paid for, even apples. - Mulan is a homebody who loves her family enough to risk her life for them; she does not dream of leaving them to have her own adventures and thrills, not even as a child.

- Lady doesn’t teach Tramp how to have self-worth by helping her owners to adopt him after his original owner abandoned him. Actually, the original Lady teaches Tramp, who was never abandoned but instead takes advantage of several human families and lady-dogs alike, the value of commitment and loyalty. 

- Maleficent lives alone in a crumbling tower with nobody but a pet raven. Flora, Fauna, and Merrywhether work together and love each other and stay with one another. Maleficent is petty, holding centuries-long grudges and never forgetting an offense. Flora, Fauna and Merrywhether are selfless, giving up their whole lives and all their magic to raise a child that isn’t even theirs in a poor cottage. Maleficent is cruel enough to kill all her own minions and doom an innocent child and chain a lovelorn prince to a wall while she tells him all about his doomed love. Flora, Fauna, and Merrywhether are compassionate enough to bake a cake and make a dress with no magic and endless trouble for Briar Rose’s birthday, even while they wipe away tears at the thought of giving her back to her parents. Maleficent shouldn’t get to be the villainess and heroine and the lover and the mother and the guardian of nature, while Flora, Fauna and Merrywhether get reduced to annoying stabs at comic relief.  Flora, Fauna, and Merrywhether protect and nurture nature, while Maleficent kills flowers and children. That’s the story. You lose all the compare-contrast when you make Maleficent the only character.

- The Beast doesn’t just allow Belle to trick her father into letting her take her father’s place. He realizes Belle could break the curse, not because she’s a girl who found his castle, but because she’s a girl who is selfless and loving enough to say something like “take me instead.” He makes her promise to stay forever; he would never say that her love for her father makes her a fool, because that type of love is what he’s banking on to break his own curse.

- Aladdin would never say “‘I basically am a Prince.” His whole problem is that he knows, all too well, who he truly is, and it’s not the kind of guy who can be Sultan. He won’t set the Genie free because he can’t make himself pretend otherwise and thinks he needs help.

- Alice starts the movie by saying she wishes she could literally have a world where everything is done her way, then ends it by running out of that world for her life from a mad Queen…who ALSO wants everything done her way. It is just not a story about a young lady remembering who she really is (muchness) and embracing her inner crazy. It’s the opposite of that.

- Belle would never plan to escape when she gave her word that she would take her father’s place. Belle would never prioritize her own freedom over the Beast’s happiness. 

Disney producers keep trying to adapt their old stories to “‘updated” values, and it will never work. The values that made characters like Belle and Mulan so enduring are totally incompatible with the bilge that gets printed on sassy t-shirts and Facebook statuses today.

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I mean technically.