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a niche ship had me deleting all my filters on ao3 and just raw dogging it in there. discovered that I’m even more of a freak than I previously believed and also that sometimes you gotta give that tag you hate a try

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ALNST THOUGHT BEFORE I GO TO CLASS

isn’t it so interesting how ivan — who’s behaviors are one of the most incomprehensible to the other characters in alien stage — felt love that was most human?

he calls his emotions shallow. he acts selfishly to vie for till’s affection. he even died because he couldn’t bare seeing till die without a fight.

mizi, sua, and till were worshipping gods. but ivan was worshipping another human.

a flawed, selfish human.

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It's This Moment (or Nothing)

One of the biggest things that I have run into over the past day with Blink, Gone is the way that it feels incomplete and that is something I still stand by. This could be something completely purposeful, meant to illustrate that the round wasn't ever going to be a legitimate competition anyways, intended from the beginning as a lure for Hyuna and Mizi, to add extra emotional effect to the cliffhanger, or perhaps it really is one half of a wider whole (in a more localized sense than it being one part of the whole series, anyways). I don't really know which I think is more likely, at this point, because I'm not sure enough about any of my theories on that front to make real predictions. I still believe that Mizi will end up on her own when this all finished, all of the people she ever loved dead and gone, the bodies littered at her feet.

With the "special guests" I presume that Hyuna and Mizi will be forced to go up against each other. My friend Zen, (@verdantlights) said that hy thinks that it'll end up being a Hyunaluka round where Hyuna is set to win and then a Hyunamizi round where Hyuna is set to lose (edited because i got the order wrong and zen corrected me lmao). I agree with the idea that, at this point, it's damage control. They successfully lured Mizi (and by extension, Hyuna) in with Till, killed Till and now they're going to make their hostages perform for their lives, as is their brand.

One of the most interesting parts of Blink Gone, for me, is how this was presumably all planned from the start. Zen mentioned something that made me realize this yesterday, that this is the 50th season of Alien Stage. There's no way they would let it get this rowdy with rebels and disrupted rounds unless they were letting it happen, because it was planned from the start, because they were trying to tie up loose ends (Hyuna). Not only that but this round in particular was undoubtedly planned from the beginning, with the amount of preparation that went into it (the giant billboards of Ivan, the chanting of the crowd, the song itself). Till was ranked 2, it was always going to end up this way, Luka's superiority reinforced and his opponent dead on the floor. (btw I'm coming back to Luka. There's gonna be another fucking post just you wait). The way that they used Till's triggers against him, they drugged both of the performers but only gave Till enough to last him halfway through, forced Till to perform against Luka right after Round 6, where he lost one of the people in his life that was most important to him, and then rubbing salt into his horrible fresh wounds.

This is also one of the only rounds where Mizi is one of the POV characters that we have no mentions of Sua, at all. Perhaps that's merely because Mizi wasn't the focus and by extension, neither was Sua, but in another way, you could argue that it's because someone else was busy haunting the narrative: Ivan.

It kinda fucking hurts that the only way we really got to see Ivan was two ways- a direct flashback to the kiss from CURE, a explicit representation of the trauma that Ivan left Till with, and the billboards/Luka manipulations where he mimics Ivan in order to get Till on the back foot. And the thing is, it works. Ivan, despite his every intention otherwise, has become a trauma for Till, the way he thought he never could. To a degree, I was happy about this, because it proved Ivan wrong, that he would just be forgotten in a blink, but it hurts as well, because him only being used as a weapon against Till only reinforces his beliefs about himself that he is a monster and a negative impact on others. He would view himself being used against Till as a bad thing, that he hurt Till when he never intended to, rather than seeing it for what it is- an explicit sign that he was far more important to Till than he previously thought.

(Also something driving me up a wall right now is the way that one of my friend's described the lyrics of Blink, Gone as being in reference to the way that one moment Ivan was there, and the next he was gone, because Till took advantage of Ivan's presence and didn't know how much he needed it until it was gone and I'm sorry I'm going to go scream some more now.)

One thing I've talked about with friends a lot the past day is the way that, if Till is truly dead, then what was Ivan's character even for? And while narratively, it wouldn't make sense to kill TIll here with all of the potential he has and where his arc is going, one thing that @pwippy pointed out to me is how it makes a lot of sense thematically. Alien Stage is a universe full of suffering and pain for humans, forced to perform until they literally die on stage, all for the entertainment of the audience. It's not even meant as a way of exerting control or oppressing them, though it serves that purpose, because why would the seygein bother to oppress something that can't even fight back? Why go to the trouble of controlling something that is just a pet, whose cries are the fuel for a new age?

For Till to die now, reaching out for this glimmer of light when he is an animal caged, surrounded by enemies and bombarded with triggers of his suffering and pain, it would only be fitting. Another confirmation that life isn't fair, especially not in a system that is actively working against you and your attempts at happiness. Yet another sign that none of them were supposed to live very long, that even if they won, they wouldn't be around for much longer anyways. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be in character for Till, as he wants to live and he wants to fight, but he got to see one of the people he loved most in his dying moments, just like Sua and Ivan did. (Thank you this post for grabbing me by the throat and squeezing). In this world of pain and suffering, perhaps death is a mercy. If Till is truly dead, then he no longer a tool for his oppressors, he is free of their control. For Ivan and Sua both of their deaths were mercies to them- Ivan was able to die for the one he loved, as was Sua, and neither of them were forced to live in a world without their beloved.

So, while it might not be in character for Till to die, it makes sense within the themes and the established mechanisms of the universe, and it hammers home just how much more Mizi has to lose, even at this point where she thinks she's lost it all.

Mizi, who at the beginning, was the only one of these characters filled with innocence and hope, Mizi, the apparent protagonist of this story- at the end, she will be alone and she will know the true lengths of cruelty, with all that which she has ever loved destroyed.

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hehe made him hold flowers

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I love how people are like Jason Todd was a demon child and all the other robins were angels compared to him like lmao robin!Jason was a fucking delight what do you mean

Dick showed up at the manor with a blue stuffed animal elephant and the rage of 100 men and the only thing thats changed is that the elephant is grey now

Tim showed up with blackmail on the fucking Batman and bullied him into accepting him as robin

Damian popped up on the doorstep holding a fucking katanna

Meanwhile robin!jason was jumping from building to building squealing robin magic! and would spontaneously hug Batman. he loved reading shakepeare knowledge and literally screamed golly jee willickers as the highest curse word in his vocabulary.

Robin!Jason was a goddamned fucking delight and all the other ones were the little demon children lmaooo

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the difference between till at the start of round 6 and round 7

he doesn't seem like he's trying at all during round 6, having already fully given up living after losing mizi

but in round 7, even though he's lost even more, he's clearly putting all he has left into it

and the reason for that... has to be ivan, right?

he must have recognized ivan sacrificed himself for him, so for the sake of ivan's feelings till tries his absolute best to respond to them and perform that till sings at all here is for ivan

...but at the same time ivan is what haunts him

obviously, right? there's no way watching someone you were so close to you die like that right in front of you can give you actual "strength" (and this isn't even getting into the kiss...) contrary to ivan's (clearly wrong) conviction that till doesn't care enough for him to become a trauma to him, that's exactly what happens

this inextricable mix of love and hate, hurting and healing... this is the tragedy of their relationship to the end no matter how much ivan and till care for each other, they can't ever cure each other

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hello humans.

back with another unpopular opinion post. this is dedicated to my hatred of three terrible things that exist in this world: draco malfoy, drarry, and dramione.

draco malfoy is no freaking way a good person. why do y'all forgive all the things he had done over the years so easily. he literally bullied the crap out of the main trio since their first year, calls hermione a racial slur, wishes her death because of her origin, offended the weasley family, made fun of the way harry reacts to dementors, bashed harry's nose open, etc. very good person i see right there. he also was enjoying the sight that a muggle-born woman was being sexually harrassed by the death eaters in the goblet of fire. i don't like all the 'boy who have no choice' shit they call him, that's very cringe. he was even showing the dark mark to that guy at knockturn alley. if there's something on your left arm that scares the shit out of people that's the dark mark. draco would not have that big fat chunk of fangirls if it wasn't for tom felton and his hot looks. i do not hate tom felton, nor do i say it's his fault that he's hot. canon draco is described as a pale boy with pointy chin and grey eyes, with white-blond hair. movie draco just looks very different from the books' description.

drarry is horrible. very horrible. if any of you here worship drarry then you can leave this post + stay 5 planets away from me if you don't want to be offended. harry and draco had both did horrible things to each other over the years, with harry nearly murdering draco in the half-blood prince, if it wasn't for snape to arrive then draco would be dead. they would not be snogging like all those 7 years passing no shit happened.

dramione is just the same as drarry. i do not get why people hate dramione more than drarry. it's the same fucking thing. abusive relationships. draco wishing hermione death, calling her a slur, enjoying the sight of a woman who is also a muggle-born like hermione being sexually harrassed by the death eaters, and many more. that's very toxic and disgusting.

if you hate both drarry, dramione and draco, then you defenitely have normal working braincells.

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whos gonna tell hp and marauders fans that “enemies to lovers” doesn’t mean “progressive person x alt right fascist”?

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Tom|Voldemort x Harry, Hermione, Bellatrix, Snape, Dumbledore, or just Voldemort with any of his Death Eaters or a hogwarts student is disgusting. [Bellamort is practically canon, and I hate it, but Ironically, I do love their daughter Delphini. She’s awesome]

Snarry, Snamione, or Snape [or any adult] x a minor is disgusting.

Drarry, Dramione, Jeverus, Snape/Sirius, Ginny/Draco, Pansy/Hermione, Ron/Draco, Jegulus, Jegulily, are all weird.

Honestly, any Death Eaters/Blood Supremacist [aka oppressors] being shipped with the people they are oppressing or people that are [rightfully] against the disgusting things they do is diabolical.

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The fact that Drarry and Dramione have more shippers than Bellamort (an actually canon ship between two characters who don’t hate each other) is probably going to be my villain origin story.

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Why I don’t ship Drarry

Y’all are really shipping Harry into an abusive relationship, huh? He hasn’t been through enough?

Let’s take a look at some of the canon interactions they have later on in the series, when Draco is supposed to start becoming disillusioned with Blood Supremacy Ideology, starting with Book 4:

Draco publicly humiliated Harry in front of a whole class because Harry was chosen for a dangerous tournament against his will

Draco mocked Harry for getting kidnapped and watching someone die right in front of him, and then mocked his trauma (Trying to pretend it hasn’t happened?)

Draco gets power over Harry and immediately abuses it (this bodes well for a romance!)

Literally lasso’d him and than handed him over to a cruel teacher when Draco knows Harry’s telling the truth about Voldemort being back

Draco and his friends were going to attack Harry because Draco’s murderous father is in Azkaban for being a Death Eater

But Half Blood Prince must have good moments right? Since that’s the Drarry book I’m told about

And we are immediately hit with Draco finally getting his revenge and stamping on Harry’s face after paralyzing him

But once Draco realizes he doesn’t want to be a Death Eater, does it improve?

All Harry did was find Draco crying in the bathroom, and Draco than violently attacked him and was going to torture him

But in Deathly Hallows, Draco didn’t give up Harry to Bellatrix, so maybe he just needed a little longer to grow! And than-

Draco not only corners Harry with his friends, bur he is the most dedicated in getting Harry to Voldemort alive

I will admit, the pairing is interesting. Draco getting s redemption arc and then falling in love with the person his side hated and that person falling too is a great dynamic. But canon Draco never is redeemed; he realizes he can’t be a Death Eater, but his hatred for Harry never ceases. Drarry depends on Draco not being Draco, and therefore, doesn’t work

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drarry and dramione perpetuate the misconception that your bullies or abusers target you out of secret hidden feelings which is a harmful belief that impacts victims irl but you all aren’t ready for that conversation yet

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What would you say are your more controversial opinions about the hp characters?

ohhhh okayyy. i feel like my opinions on a lot of the characters aren’t controversial because i dont feel super strongly towards anyone in any negative light but here are some i could think of at the top of my head:

i’m glad the malfoys faced more extreme backlash after the second wizarding war. a lot of people in the fandom seem to be very sympathetic towards draco and scorpius for getting dogpiled with the brunt of it (which yeah, it sucks, especially for scorpius) but the prejudice makes complete make sense to me. if i was someone who didn’t know scorpius’ character, and had someone from my family get killed in the second war due to death eaters or something— seeing the malfoys still be wealthy and walk around freely without any jailtime, i would be bitter too. they’re hated on but they’re still one of the richest families ever, so they’ll live LOL

another anon has asked about this and i haven’t responded to them yet but when i do i will link it here for my reasons. basically: the best character in the cursed child is harry potter. i think the way they wrote his character and ptsd carried the play. it was def his story, not albus’.

i do think dumbledore has some aspects of him that may be considered morally gray, but mostly i dont think he is. he does everything for the good of the world, and his complete selflessness leads him to sacrifice anything for it— even himself and the people he loves, when necessary. i completely understand why people wouldn’t agree with his methods though.

james potter isn’t a sunshine character he’s a dickhead. fans of him made him a golden retriever character to be more palatable for modern times. i like him the way he is: an asshole and then less of an asshole 👍 this is what true stanning looks like

pansy parkinson is racist and out of all the female side characters, developing HER is so questionable from fandom

harry had questionable descriptions about a lot of male characters to make people think he could be a little 🏳️‍🌈 there was bill, there was sirius, there was cedric. but draco is not a part of that list. harry was not feeling draco whatsoever throughout the series but drarry shippers cling to that one ‘obsessed’ line

furthermore, harry rejecting draco’s offer of friendship wasn’t a sad or a ‘what if’ scene. draco was being a classist piece of shit and harry didnt want to fuck with that, there isnt any way in any timeline he wouldve accepted draco’s friendship.

slytherin sucks just generally lol. people want so bad to pluck anti-heroes out of a series that was written specifically with the mind to make all the characters suck.

hermione and ron’s drama isn’t as toxic as people make it out to be. yes, this includes the time hermione sent birds after him. people act like its the end of the world but she was tackling puberty and the end of society soooo i give her a pass to tweak out.

mostly every harry potter character has horrific names. like literally mostly everyone. even the name harry potter 🙁

movie romione wasn’t that bad LOL

severus snape’s ‘redemption’ or whatever was so ass. he bullies kids for five years and then everything is chill because… true love? on harry’s mum? are you kidding me 💀

weasley family angst goes hard but people (especially percy stans and some ron&ginny stans) acting like they’re the most toxic family to walk the earth make me want to rip my hair out and eat it. molly loves her kids guys shes not evil. jesus.

genuinely trying to think of more but i can’t right now…. maybe i will reblog and add to it. i feel like most of my opinions aren’t that controversial though 😭

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Do you know who hate women more than men?

Women that ship a (non canon)gay couple and there’s also a girl in the picture(the canon girlfriend/wife/love interest of one of the male characters).

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oh to be angry at the world when youre young, to be so filled with anger at the age where you should be filled with magical childlike joy and curiousity, to be so angry at the world that you dont get to see the beauties of the world, to be so angry at the world that you never get to relax. the anger is so heavy but u dont realise it, not untik its lifted off ur shoulders and u feel so much lighter.