#[ out of pessimism ]

[everchased]

at least it'll be wonderful while it lasts.

(a little post-game downtime discussion, when they have the time and space to talk about these things. also in my canon, scratch gets to stay. :/)

[dayurno]

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

[operationslipperypuppet]

you know, i may not get a jaina appearance this pride month, but at least i got to meet her

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

with a few minutes' reflection and a second conversation with my parents I have realized that I may have overblown things and overreacted a bit and also in some ways they're correct even if I think they're also harsh about it

[sl-vega]

school starts tommorow, and I am FUCKED

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

i wanted to weigh bad faith readings vs how clumsy the writing in Weapons Factory actually was to make people dislike luminara so much and. wow. she literally falls to her knees and despairs when she thinks barriss is dead.

[purecommemasolitude]

Still have to make sure I have enough supporting evidence to fully back this interpretation but the vision is coming together in my mind. One of Darry’s subplots in the musical is remembering how to hope

[steampunkhobo]

If you don’t think Young Mungo had a happy ending don’t talk to me 😤❌

[green-tea-lemonade]

Hi! Your solnep art is so cute! Ive never considered that ship before, but given nepetas type, i could totally see it working out. Keep up the good art 💚💛💚💛

y'all are making me emotional by the sweet comments 😭thank you guys so muchhhhh!!!

its fair that folks dont consider them really but i think with working them out a little more and actually having them interact more, theyd honestly be pretty good together in any quadrant. even if its just generally chill friends at first and overtime growing a bit closer (which is how i kind of always viewed that working out).

[doedipus]

Dude I've felt like completely emotionally dead for like two months now

I would really like it if my brain remembered how to feel good about things so I could feel sort of human again sometime soon

[spellmage]

i was so brave today and frankly i deserve at least one award if not two

[sunrizef1]

Didn't post anything about quali cuz I woke up just after Logan crashed and wasn't thrilled about the results overall tbh

I mean, at this point, whatever

Logans gone and Williams are never gonna favor or praise him so I don't really care about p13-14

This tracks hard to overtake and Williams are historically shit here

Just whatever

[sevenines]

i feel so silly because i just realized the steven-lapis “what if something bad happens”/“what if something good happens” exchange in can’t go back is a callback to “that’s why we can’t fight them”/“that’s why we have to fight them” in jailbreak

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

I know I’ve been really pessimistic about the election, because it’s really hard not to be, and I’m sorry. It’s not decided yet, don’t lose hope. Don’t ever lose hope.

[codgod]

i’m seeing doomposting about how both green AND blue are guaranteed to lose like guys have a little faith in your teams 😭

[jockgothbitch]

before anyone is like "you are so negative" I am so burnt out. so jaded from working to survive. from having to sit and watch shit after historical event shit. from having to choose the lesser thing that'll fuck us up more. from watching everyone acknowledge corporation and rich people openly being a reason why a lot of us are working to survive right now, voicing it to the people who can shut that all down, and nothing being done.

so yes, I conceed. I submit. I will shrimply watch everything crumble with no hope for my own or anyone's future and smile at the funny little things my friends show me and live it day by day now