#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.

[hamable]

I really want to see more fun and creative storytelling from Pixar like Win or Lose. I just finished the last episode and it’s so charming and heartwarming, I really really recommend it!!

[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.

[random-xpressions]

Life's good when its hard to tell what's a dream from reality...

Random Xpressions

[claitea]

i did have this concept for my keykid dayn i never put anywhere bc i wasnt Too sure about it and also never got around to refreshing myself on the khux story to really flesh dayn out bc i Forgot lmao. figure i gotta say it Somewhere though bc its been in my notes for like. maybe two years?

i wanted to play with the fact that 1) there is no indication of where the keykids come from really? and 2) i have a habit of making characters be copies of Me, but then gradually introducing new personality traits until they become somebody entirely separated from myself

when dayn first arrives in daybreak town he is kind of just this. blank slate. barely emotive. doesn't really have any defined likes and dislikes. plods along doing his tasks for his union bc listening to what others tell him is all he can really do in this scary new place full of strangers

as he tries to get used to things, he learns to change himself to whatever fits his situation. if a certain fellow union member responds better to someone serious and on-task, then dayn will be as serious as possible. if someone jokes with him, he'll be twice as jokey to fit in.

as a side note this is where he picks up sewing. he's not as good as the other keyblade wielders so he gets beat up on missions a lot, it tears up his clothes, so he starts trying to repair them himself. he's not good at That yet so his jacket becomes this mess of mismatched fabric patches and shoddy stitching. very literal representation of how his personality has been stitched together out of scraps

when he meets his friends florian and esen, he finally feels comfortable enough to really settle into just one personality, what he can safely call Dayn Himself. he perfects sewing and his jacket is no longer the frankenstiened mess it was before, he experiments with his style and adds the hair bow and plushies

even after that though there is still this nagging feeling that he isn't where or who he's Supposed to be. he has these vague memories that appear to him dreams every so often, that both feel like Him, but also not? he chalks it up to them being memories of close friends, perhaps

the idea was that those memories belong to My Other OCs who were also meant to be me. yknow, alto, dallas, daichi (my pla protag i never said their name anywhere LMAOSJJDBFK), pretty much any character i played as even if i didn't fully finish them. dayn never fully feels like he belongs anywhere bc he literally doesn't, he's a multipurpose vessel that can be plonked down literally anywhere. he's just unfortunately more cognizant of it because of kh's fuckery with memories and your sense of self. some d/ltarune type thing where i am parading around in someone else's brain just so i can observe a story

one of my initial ideas for missing link was to make dayn appear in amihan's dreams, since they end up being his next iteration. dayn wants to make sure he isnt forgotten (since before him and alto, i had a tendency to. not do a lot with my ocs. i'd think about them occasionally, i'd like having them around, but they were essentially abandoned). he tries to tell amihan about his story in the little time they have together while amihan is dreaming. amihan then becomes a storywriter, trying their best to note down everything dayn tells them in the form of a novel to keep his story alive. a doomed endeavor since missing link is Missing, both in-universe and now out of it

[failingatlifespectacularly]

Sometimes the only thing u can do with these feelings is make art abt it

[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.

[thearcherprentiss]

This is your daily reminder that you can hate on a character without hating on an actor

[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

[theexodvs]

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

[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.