#Cordelia talks

[splatsvillegirlsgang]

night one of Splatfest!!! Wooooooo!!! -Kirsten

Why are you happy. We lost the sneek peek and team white chocolate is going way too hard 😭 -Kaiyō

True, but we've got this! We just gotta step it up BIG TIME for the second half!!! Bag all those points!!! -Maddie

What say you, leader? -Cordelia

Great job, everyone. You all fought really well in the matches you had, even if we didn't win all of them. Like Maddie said, though, we have to step it up if we want to win, though- it's going to get harder in the second half as everyone guns for the win. -November

Sounds good. You have feedback for us? -Liandri

I do, yes. Kirsten- try not to base rush as much. You're not the fastest brush out there, and you've got a lot of range. Try hanging back a bit and using it to give us some cover. I'm not saying not to base rush- just keep an eye on the rest of us, and where the other opponents are. Liandri, you're good in a one-on-one, but not so good when there's more than one opponent. I want you to focus on finding the opponents who are looking to gang up on us and isolate them- if someone's giving one of us trouble, and you see their teammate move in to help, distract them. Force them into your corner and keep them occupied. Even if you get splatted, just distracting them will be enough. Cordelia- similar advice to Kirsten. Lay off the base rushing. You've got a Decavitator, so while using the charged slashes for mobility is a good idea, you've gotta be careful not to be reckless and leave us vulnerable. You're a good shield, and you're a dangerous one, so if there's a couple of us in the same area, don't leave and try to get turf. Leave that to me and Maddie. You're our trump card in a sticky situation, so keep yourself from dying if you can. Kaiyō, Maddie, you two are doing fine- just remember to watch your back and keep an eye on your teammates a little more. Kaiyō, remember you have a long-range mode. -November

Yes ma'am! -Cordelia

November. Not ma'am. -November

Yes Miss Kawase -Cordelia

Fine. -November

Noted!!! I'll try not to base rush as much lol -Kirsten

You're really good at this, Nov. I'll try that strategy out next match. -Liandri

Girl I won't lie, I forgot you were an elite soldier!!! But this is all such good advice!!! -Maddie

How did you forget??? The second we picked her to lead Splatfest team she switched from shy to boot camp boss in five seconds flat. Not even that. And that's not even considering battle Nov. -Kaiyō

That's true. To anyone in the mirror matches who got absolutely wrecked by November today... Sorry. -Liandri

Why apologise? We got a pro on our team! We just gotta live up to her skills... -Cordelia

You five are giving me a reputation I don't deserve. I'm not that good. -November

November. Hands on your shoulders. Your splatstreaks say otherwise. You shoot to kill. -Kirsten

...I can't deny that. It's years of training kicking in... -November

And it's great. Let's keep kicking ass, girls!!!! Team Dark FTW!!!! ❤️🧡💚🖤💜💙 -Maddie

[splatsvillegirlsgang]

Yeah this is what started the memes -Cordelia

Is this why you girls put so much weight on introducing me to this musical? -November

Because someone's AU started the funniest fucking meme I've ever seen? Yeah -Cordelia

...I have so many questions about surface inkfish. -November

Yeah you're gonna have more by the end of this. This isn't that far down the rabbit hole of memes we reference -Cordelia

Oh goodness. -November

Buckle up, girlie. -Cordelia

Since some people don’t know what “Yoko Binder Craig Cuttlefish” is I decided I’d enlighten you guys. This was actually my introduction to some inkling media fun fact. Just… this image.

Can’t beat the classic.

[helenofblackthorns]

tid women who did not end up with their first loves doubling it and giving it to their sons is such a funny pattern in tlh like genuinely why did that happen three times

[dehautdesert]

Another thing I liked is how Laurent's trauma is handled, because usually when a character has a Secretly Traumatic Backstory there's some kind of annoyingly maudlin scene about it. Either they get into some kind of big conflict with the love interest and are forced to explain themselves so they don't get judged or dumped, or the love interest intrudes on a vulnerable moment and sees them being abused or somehow handling the consequences of that abuse, or they are explained the circumstances by a benevolent third party, and this changes their view of the abused character because now they're god's poorest meow meow and I just fucking hate it every time.

Like, this is why I stopped reading this type of story: because the amount of crowding and backing into a corner and privacy violation that happens to abused characters in order to coax them into opening up about it and reassure them that they're okay is so annoying. I feel like I've been psychologyposting on main too much lately, so I might explain later why I feel this way or I might not but in any case I hate it.

I love that this book is the literal opposite of that, that Damen not only doesn't crowd Laurent and insist that he open up, but that Damen ensuring space and privacy and time to calm down for Laurent when he's overwhelmed is repeatedly portrayed as an act of friendship and caring and love (that Laurent later reciprocates, because they both lose their heads when something pushes their buttons and understand this about each other).

I also love how Damen doesn't fall in love with Laurent because Laurent is sad and fucked up, or because he's so brave to have put up with the abuse, or because Damen too is sad like Laurent (I'm physically restraining myself from going off on a rant about how shared trauma is hardly ever a good foundation for a relationship): no, he falls in love with Laurent because he's whip-smart, and a good leader, and funny, and tender once he opens up, and a lateral thinker, and a man of integrity who keeps his promises and pays back his debts (and because he's pretty and blonde and good at sporty shit that Damen likes). Some of these things may have been shaped by the awful shit that happened to Laurent, as they were also probably shaped by his station or his education or his body type or any other circumstance of his life, but it's refreshing to have a character who went through awful shit but who also has other things going on for him that make him loveable instead of being completely defined by his trauma. And even when Damen finds out, the way he thinks about Laurent literally doesn't change at all - the things he likes about Laurent are still seen in the same light as always, Laurent's personality as a whole is still the same, even his attitude towards what Laurent did to him when they first met doesn't change much (as we see in the short story epilogue). And even this last bit is really cool because Laurent is never stripped of his agency or made out into some sort of helpless victim currently, both of which would probably mortify him with how much he's trying to establish that he's not at any opportunity.

And I also like how it's not necessary for Laurent to tell Damen about it in order for them to be close, nor does Damen push him into it. And everyone else seems to agree that it's Laurent's story to tell when and how he wants it told, except for the villain of the piece, who reveals it in the most awful way possible. This is particularly important because Damen spends three books grabbing everyone in Laurent's life by the shoulders and shaking them and going, "Why do you care about this guy??? Have you noticed that he's kind of an ashole?? Why are you loyal to him?? Why???" and no one ever says anything, because they're protective of Laurent and don't want to take away his agency or privacy because it's his fucking story to tell. Even after Damen finds out, we don't see him mention it and he probably lets Laurent open up or not on his own terms, as he does with everything else that doesn't directly concern him. Even though we've seen through Laurent's dialogue time and time again that he's probably conceptualizing it in some fucked up ways in his own head and needs yet to realize that he's not some kind of twisted pervert for what happened to him, crowding him about it before he's ready won't accomplish much.

And the story itself backs all this by never being maudlin about it even though it's obvious what happened pretty early on (I figured it out really early, I remember suspecting it almost immediately and being dead sure of it by the Ancel scene in the garden); it kind of elipses around it, gives hints and parallels to other characters in similar circumstances, has Laurent say incoherent shit that makes sense in context, has other characters hint at it, but with Laurent being one of the central characters it's cool that the story gives him that respect and doesn't wallow in the tragedy of it all.

[cagenewman]

I put some extra straw down for the chickens and Beanstalk, single digits tonight, I didn't want to take any chances, I know the barn stays pretty warm and so does the coop, but. Do you... care if I take an extra blanket out of the closet for the office? @cordelianewman

[liesmyth]

“Both the breadwinner and the caregiver roles are, of course, necessary. Without the breadwinner there is no money for food. But without the caregiver, the food is not cooked; there is no clean plate on which to place it; and the children are living naked, filthy, and wild in the garden, communicating by way of a primitive system of grunts. The ‘separate spheres’ of men and women – his public, hers private – were seen as complementary and equal, but in an Animal Farm-ish some-spheres-are-more-equal-than-others sort of way. When I say ‘head of the household’, you immediately know to which spouse I refer (and it’s not ‘Mrs. John Smith’). That his was the final word was enshrined in law until surprisingly recently. Not until 1974 did US legislation require that married women be able to apply for credit in their own names. Because [caregiving] becomes the woman’s job once married, employers were perfectly entitled to fire or refuse to employ married women – a situation that remained perfectly legal in the United States until 1964. And it was only in 1994 that it became possible in the eyes of the law for a British husband to rape his wife. I mention these points not to lower the mood, but simply to highlight the asymmetry of power and status in the traditional marriage contract.”

— Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine

[darling-flora]

i hate the fact that most shows i love are from the 90's and early 2000's because NO ONES TALKING ABOUT THEM 😫

i just want to talk about my favs but no one's there 😔

[real-odark]

CORDELIA FALSETTOS THE WOMAN YOU ARE !!

[mormtastic]

Cordelia and Charlotte maybe???? (Please I'm desperate I need more people to recognize them)

i LOVE them😭😭😭😕😕🙁😫😭😢😢😕🙁🙁😭😢😢🥺🥺😕🙁😢😭😭😢😭☹️☹️

[angeldaisies]

yesterday i was bored so i made a timeline for all the events in choi and chot because i wanted to figure out the exact date of herondaisy’s wedding. it’s nov 23rd btw!!

[splatsvillegirlsgang]

Aaaah FrostyFest was so much fun!!!! -Maddie

It was pretty good. I see why people from Splatsville take so much pride in their festivals. -November

HELL YEAH! FrostyFest is so well timed, too, everyone in clans can come back home from all the meetups and use it to catch up with friends. It's great. -Cordelia

Yes, it's a great opportunity! Well done team Presents, btw. You guys gave Wels' team a hard time, apparently. -Kaiyō

Aww, thanks. To be honest, I thought we did crap. -Liandri

Maybe you did. I was on a winning streak! -Kirsten

Until the 333x that you got swept in. -Liandri

wE DONT TALK ABOUT THAT. -Kirsten

Pfft. You totally got swept. I saw that match. Fucking hilarious -Cordelia

[67ssam]

Saw a post on tumblr today pointing out how many falsettos fans tend to be a bit uneducated when it comes to judaism and oh my God they’re so right. You’d think fans of a musical where literally 4/6 of the characters in the musical are jewish would know a thing or two about judaism— especially since you need to understand the general concept of what a bar mitzvah is to get the significance of Whizzer dying on the day of Jason’s bar mitzvah— but no.

So, for any of you who happen to be a bit confused about some stuff in falsettos relating to the jewish faith, let me educate you!

So, what is a bar mitzvah? As stated in the musical, a bar mitzvah (bat mitzvah for women) is a celebration of a boy becoming a man once he reaches the age of 13. A bar mitzvah is a very big deal in the jewish faith, and takes a lot of preparation. It’s kind of like a celebration of the kid’s life and his maturity, growing up, all that stuff. Whizzer dying at Jason’s bar mitzvah is a HUGE THING. As Jason starts his journey into adulthood, as he takes his first steps towards being a man, learning to make important decisions, learning to be independent, Whizzer will no longer be there by his side. He has to learn how to be a man without the guidance of the man who he’s gone to for help all his life. It symbolizes him becoming more independent and the inevitability that those he loves will not always be there to take care of him anymore. Whizzer was there for Jason as a kid, but he wasn’t going to be there forever. The bar mitzvah was probably the most significant day Whizzer could’ve died. He died before he could see the boy he loved ever become a man.

Also, I haven’t seen too many people who don’t understand this, I believe it’s pretty straightforward, but some people don’t seem to understand what being “half jewish” is. I myself am half jewish, but I am not a christian(or any other faith besides judaism. Of course, this is just my case, for others it could be different.). Judaism is also an ethnicity, which is how someone can be “half jewish.” My mother’s side of the family is not jewish, therefore, ethnically, i am only half jewish. It infuriates me when people claim that Whizzer is also a christian simply because of the fact that he’s half jewish. Canonically all we know about his religion is that he is a practicing jew.

This was way longer than I intended it to be.

[helenofblackthorns]

I love the shadowhunter chronicles because it's truly one of a kind. what other book series can you say "Julian Blackthorn is related to every single parabatai and love interest of a Carstairs* yay soulmates" and that be a normal sentence. exactly, none.

(*main relevant Carstairs anyway who are not direct ancestors of Emma's)

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

Does anyone else have specific characters that give them that cuteness overload feeling? Like that is your baby and you want to pinch their cute little cheeks and kiss their forehead????

[mugiwara-lucy]

Cordelia trying to weasel her way to Buffy and everyone shit talking Cordy is PEAK BTVS comedy 🤣

[sieglinde-freud]

they were so insane for this