#Blurring the Lines of Reality

[metalchris]

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[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

I see the puritans and gatekeepers and found the blog.

Remember!

Gross does not mean immoral! Morality is not tied to fiction! If you dont like it? Leave! Hit da bricks! You're the only one who can curate your experience here in the internet!

If you attack someone because of what they like to ship, or what they write, you're a jerk! You are not the law, you cannot dictate what others do!

Exactly. A big part of fanfiction is that people can write whatever they want. It is a fun little pastime. It is not a reflection on someone's "morality." What you write or read or watch does not define you. Fiction is just that: Fiction. And fictional characters are not real people, they are toys for us to tear apart like five year old Stacy ripping the legs off her Barbie if we want. A lot of us that are into stories about blood and guts and serial killers would be horrified by that stuff in real life. But god forbid anyone ever enjoy anything that isn't completely pure and good.

[g0tmilkx3]

szn 1 sydcarmys watching the newbies grow overly obsessive

[anghraine]

A few days ago, I briefly mentioned Wickham's take on Lady Catherine, and it's stuck in my mind. At least, this specific part of the description has:

She [Lady Catherine] has the reputation of being remarkably sensible and clever; but I [Wickham] rather believe she derives part of her abilities from her rank and fortune, part from her authoritative manner, and the rest from the pride of her nephew, who chooses that everyone connected with him should have an understanding of the first class.

I mean, in fairness to ... Wickham (ugh), it's evidently true that Lady Catherine is not actually clever and her power and force of personality do a lot of the work of giving her a reputation for it. But I do think the way he manages to link this to Darcy is interesting.

Wickham seems to assume that Darcy can just choose that everyone connected with him has a reputation for high intelligence, which I think is pretty debatable. On top of that, Wickham assumes that Darcy would choose to do that, because of pride. He's set up an odd framework in which Darcy cares deeply about everyone around him being perceived as clever (but only for nasty pride reasons, of course!), and in fact cares so deeply that he'd bring his influence to bear in maintaining Lady Catherine's reputation for it.

I don't think Lady Catherine's reputation for cleverness rests on Darcy just wanting his family to be seen as clever or requires that explanation at all. But I find it intriguing that Wickham thinks so, or at least says he does, given the Ch 4 description of Darcy:

In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient; but Darcy was clever.

So I suspect this may be part of Wickham's attempt to acknowledge Darcy's good reputation and qualities enough to cover his ass later, while tying everything good about him to his pride. Wickham doesn't quite admit that Darcy's (alleged) desire for those around him to be seen as clever derives from Darcy being clever himself and valuing the quality, but I think it's kind of implied, and at the very least, he could suggest that he'd said something to that effect.

It's a bit how he describes Darcy's careful guardianship of Georgiana (which Wickham certainly has reason to know about!). He mostly attributes it to Darcy's reputation for being a good brother, finds a way to make it somehow about pride, and barely wedges in a grudging admission that Darcy actually has some real affection for Georgiana. I suspect he only does the last because it's so incredibly obvious that it'd be suspicious if Wickham suggested otherwise.

I do wonder, though, if part of the reason that Wickham associates Lady Catherine's reputation for cleverness with Darcy's supposed desire for his family/connections to be seen as clever is Wickham's own fixation on Darcy. Wickham knows Darcy is seen as clever and likely that Darcy values intelligence. Darcy and Wickham were brought up together as companions in the same household. And tbh I don't think Wickham himself is, or has ever been, particularly clever in the way that Darcy and Elizabeth are.

Wickham suggests that Darcy was insecure and jealous from childhood (and some readers have really wanted to believe him!). But my headcanon is that, growing up with Darcy, Wickham was the more insecure one. He was the one who was supposed to go to school and Cambridge and become a clergyman; he was supposed to be quick-thinking and good at his books and morally restrained. Darcy was the heir; he could be anything he wanted to be. Yet I would guess that young Wickham was continually outstripped by Darcy in those terms, that he came to resent Darcy's freedom and what he did with it, and that it's very easy for his mind to link Lady Catherine's supposed cleverness to Darcy's.

In Wickham's head, the connection must somehow be causal. But he can't bring himself to quite admit to anyone that Darcy's cleverness is real any more than he can admit that Darcy's generosity or moral rectitude are real. It's got to be about pride, reputation, family, fortune. And I suspect Wickham can't admit the truth to himself, either.

[asurrogateblog]

lmfaoooo

[polin-erospsyche]

The delulu life was strooong. I get that in some cases dissociating the actor from the work is not possible but saying that Luke Newton hard launching his relationship (which i do not like either) will ruin future rewatches of season 3 is just attaining levels.

And no I’m not defending him. In fact I could not care less about defending him. It’s just that I see this reaction as an after effect of living in delulu land for too long, and realising the reality is not conforming to some people’s wishes and the line between reality and entertainment media has been so blurred.

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[sugaaz]

something something about how oldest dream was scared of kim dokja because he couldn’t accept the man who survived through the hurt reality put him through that made who he was. and kim dokja filled with so much hatred on oldest dream because he couldn’t accept the fact he put the fictional people in his novel through hell so that he could survive…

[vilelittlecritter]

The device theory by Molly stars is my lord of the rings.

[metanarrates]

1863rd hsy claims she's the real one and 3rd hsy is the copy. the 49% 51% problem strikes again

[theexodvs]

Don't say you're an expert in artistic nude if you don't know this piece

[hourcat]

hmmm. you don't have to answer this obviously but what's your stance on their wags? do you think they're just beards? do you think those relationships are real? I love both of these girls and I hate how in certain fandoms these women get slagged off so I don't mean this in a 'oh kika is coming in between whatever pierre and charles have going on', I just genuinely want to know your thoughts

also bc alex wore that lesbian pride flag dress??? help??? and well. both pierre and charles have so many questionable moments with each other

anon, i am saying this with all the love in my heart: if you're trying to analyze the relationship pierre and charles have with one another based on their girlfriends and how their relationships appear to us (the public), it's time to take a step back.

i love pierre/charles. everyone knows this. but their personal lives are just that - personal. i don't post about wags because they are not celebrities or people i'm invested in, and truthfully, i just don't care. but it doesn't really matter what i think. those women are in very real, very loving relationships with our favs, and turning silly harmless posts about alex's "lesbian pride flag" dress into serious potential beard commentary feels like a bit much.

i don't mean this to be rude, i promise, and i apologize if it comes off that way. but what i think is that it's important to keep the real life portion of rpf in perspective. i love speculation as much as the next person and god knows i have my own delusions and Beliefs, but i ground those in the foundation of rpf: they're real people, and my ideas are, ultimately, fiction.

[spaceorphan18]

19 for all of your fandoms.

What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

HAhahahahahaha

Shipping wars. I hate it them so much. It is the stupidest thing to fight over and people just go bananas about it. It's so tiring. Like what you like and leave people alone.

[gray-gray-gray-gray]

＜・STOP REALITY CHECKING PEOPLE・＞

[bang-bang-gang]

my heart is not open for juiceboard. he is but a shadow of a shadow.

[theheirofthesharingan]

I just don't get this. People see other characters doing horrible shit and it's their trauma, pain, loneliness, Shinobi system, and some other shit responsible for their behavior and actions, but somehow Itachi should be completely exempted from this leniency. Because there's absolutely no way he was at the war at the of age of 4, saw bloodshed that would traumatize even the surviving adults, lost his faith in humanity because how little value war gave to the human life, and how FREQUENT wars and conflict were in their world.

Let's also pretend he didn't think it must be stopped because dying meaninglessly for a system was a horrible thing to do. Let's also pretend he wasn't placed in the situations where no child, not even if you're a budding Shinobi, must be placed. Spying on the government? Spying on the clan? Life and death? Making him question the way the world worked while giving him no other option? Good job, adults. All this came from the people who had thrice the experience of his age.

Let's also forget the last part of his characterization - his guilt and regret overpowering all his other emotions, except for his love. Ignoring and denying the last part is something that goes on in this fandom in abundance.

What makes him an incredible character and an honorable man is acceptance. You can ignore that all you want, but he's a brilliant character without whom the Naruto won't be as poignant and profound as it is.