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2023 reads // twitter thread
To Shape A Dragon’s Breath
YA fantasy
a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic
historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes
bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC
#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is really really good i loved it!#the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool#it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that#I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff#t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m#definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that#was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel#on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening?#that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 -#I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like -#a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!)#some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application#the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series!#also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺#anyway. i really loved it!#oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture....#To Shape A Dragon's Breath
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// sometimes I think about how many times in bg3 you get conflicts that don't have an objectively "best" outcome. I think about freeing the 7000 vampires, for example. Freeing them is the ethical thing to do, because they are all innocent victims, but it remains true that leaving thousands of vampires loose, even in the underdark, is a bad bad idea. Not only are they traumatized people, but they're predators who have only their instincts to help them survive in an unfamiliar land that isn't exactly bountiful in terms of wildlife. If they don't do well, they'll die or be slaughtered, and if they do they'll ruin entire communities or ecosystems, depending on whether they feed on people or animals.
#i was thinking again of that line minthara says about how the patriars should have the refugees work for them and have them defend the city#and tav is like 'um that's slavery you're describing?'#and she's like 'call it what you want but would you rather have them die of starvation stuck outside the city walls?'#and i mean the player doesn't have much to say in that matter but there is still a complex situation being presented with no easy solution#because bg has been the destination for refugees for a long time already#like it was already in a state of crisis after the descent when many people who could not return to their homes#massively started to arrive to the gate#right when their duke was gone and left the city without a ruler and the military without a leader#now the government is even WORSE and so is the refugee situation since they're now coming from everywhere#it is painfully true that the guild is still the only truly functioning organism in the city#and they're also having trouble with the absolute#like bg objectively doesnt have the space or the means to sustain the refugees#the patriars may#but in the end gold cant feed a family either#but eating the rich does sound like the most sensible option still-#ooc#the only objectively good ending i think is if you could leave the githyanki egg with lae'zel#also i think of the quest zevlor gives for killing kagha#which sounds like a sensible option when he says it but it prompts the grove massacre#but you can explain it to halsin and he understands that they forgot their principles and attacked defenseless refugees#and you merely defended yourself and them#then again if you look in the right places you can see dialogues suggesting that the refugees are indeed damaging the grove#like chopping trees without the druid's consent#so.#yeah i just have a deep appreciation for some aspects of the game's writing#that show there often isn't an objectively best choice#and you are just doing your best with the information you have and what your morals dictate
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spn stans are so terrified of women existing within the world of the show that they will literally rewrite canon to say "dean never truly loved any woman" or they will say absolutely absurd shit like "jensen ackles just doesn't have chemistry with women." and yet they still insist that they're not at all misogynistic or biphobic.
#i do realize that i have written this same rant about five hundred billion times but like. how does it keep getting worse????#aren't new generations supposed to be better? and yet with every new wave the misogyny seems to run even deeper#yeah i have A LOT of thoughts about this new popular 'dean wasn't actually bisexual he was gay' headcanon#y'all have so many internalized issues that you need to work on#but you won't because you've convinced yourselves that you're the solution and not the problem#when in reality you're just the same old problem dressed up in brand new shitty justifications#and the thing is....supernatural is fiction yes but this line of thinking definitely impacts real life#and that's how you end up with outwardly progressive people spouting conservative bullshit and pretending it's what being truly woke is#the poison drips through folks the poison drips through#spn fandom discourse#supernatural#dean winchester#jensen ackles
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Same Anon as Yesterday (Food pun anon) and I just wanna say something I personally think is missing from Rio’s arc, that I think is important.
So largely, I’m speaking from my own experience as a twin, where me and the twin were really codependent and I was definitely the more docile of the twins. What really helped me with my own personal inferiority complex was making the choice to step out of her shadow. Even though I wasn’t born talented at the things I chose to focus on, the fact that I had chosen to set out and do it on my own left me feeling proud and fulfilled.
To me, Rio makes this choice by becoming Julio, only to step back into her shadow (aka his comfort zone) after his redemption. His friends are her friends, his hobby is her hobby. In a way it’s like, regression rather than development.
I think Rio really should have found something that he’s passionate about that Ciel isn’t, and made some friends that care about that same passion. I don’t think he needs to stop being passionate about baking, but I think he should’ve tried to find something that makes him feel unique. He needs friends that care for him not because he’s Ciels twin, but because he’s Rio.
I’ve came up with various headcanons over the years to deal with this, from giving him a set of new friends, to him becoming more of a business kinda guy when they grow up. Like Ciel is the creative one who literally doesn’t understand the first thing about running a business and Rio is the manager who makes sure the patisserie they run doesn’t spontaneously explode or smth. If I recall, WV Rio likes sports as a hobby (might’ve hallucinated that, it’s been a minute) and I really wish canon had expanded on that, or his other talents. Because I think that would’ve been a much more satisfying way to end his arc.
food anon you're so right. my hottest take of all is that at the end of the series rio still isn't in a healthy mindset because he's put right back into the same situation that caused him to spiral in the first place except ciel compliments him sometimes and i don't think that's a great ending. when writing waffleverse i always ask myself "who is (pov character)?" and once i moved out of rio's julio era and his corporated mandated post-redemption angst i realized i had no fucking idea because postcoma rio just. Exists. he's ciel's brother and he's kinda grumpy and he feels bad about what he did as julio and that's about all you can say about him. he is unfortunately the hardest character for me to write because of that
#like you said the solution to rio's arc isn't ciel saying his waffles tasted good it's him getting to define himself independent of ciel#because the reason why rio's arc doesn't work in canon is because at the end of the day he is simply just an extension of her!#i've played with ideas like yours for other versions of rio that float around in my head#imo if they Absolutely had to have rio out of the story for 16 episodes why not put him on a literal bus. let him have an offscreen self#discovery arc. maybe he could cameo once in a while by calling ciel or something. i think giving him time to breathe and figure out who#he is would've worked a lot better#also wv rio does play soccer! it's a throwaway line in part 3. it would've come up again in part 6 had i not cut#most of the sports festival episode#since it was giving me a lot of trouble and i just wanted to get the fic out#anyways yeah remember how rio as julio was into experimenting... how he was good at sports...#i think both ciel and rio need hobbies outside of baking tbh. it's not healthy to be so hyperfocused all the time#i also headcanon rio as being the finances guy lmao. in wv it's yukari rn but in the future after yukari leaves he takes over#sorry for how long these tags are i've thought about the stuff in your ask a lot#asks#anonymous#precure critical#precure neg#once again tagging just to be safe#cure waffle au#rio kuroki
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because im less breakable than you
#still dont really remember the details of how this ends but still thinking they couldve made laura vampire instead of carmilla human#also keep thinking - as with all the things recently idk why this is a thing now but i gotta keep thinking abt it - that canonically#carmilla died at 18#laura is 19#actresses are 25ish here? it's not a big difference but it is...a little difference#theyre teenagers#they look like teenagers#she fucking died at her first ball hoping to make her first ever friend it's so sad really#but i was thinking abt this too with the iwtv episode where claudia asks armand to turn madeleine and he goes to question her#like certain lines are just so very specifically written i think and they hit so much harder if you adjust their ages mentally#claudia looks 14. shes from 1903 so shes around 40-45 years old?#madeleine's actress is 30ish i believe and i think madeleine is meant to be a similar age#but she looks kind of young. i guess 30 is pretty young actually#armand in the show was turned at 27? assad zaman is 34? close enough i guess you dont have to adjust that much#but in the book hes turned at 17?#like just some lines really hit#when claudia calls madeleine 'some weird white lady i met by happenstance'#imagine a 14 yo talking abt a 30 yo instead of two people who look similar in age#when madeleine calls armand young man when shes like theres nothing left of my era theres been a war#i think she says like 'young man theres been a war'#that 'young man' really hits if you imagine him 17#idk#also still thinking abt yaz. if she looked 19#idk. teenage vampires man#also been reading the book and forever5yo claudia is fascinating too i love her#also can they do telepathy in the book bc i feel like a lot of times in the book it's that claudia is being carried by louis like a 5yo#that she whispers stuff in his ear. and thats always the kind of stuff that in the show they'd use telepathy for#it's a good solution both ways i lik eboth but it made me wonder did they just add the telepathy in entirely in the show?#bc i dont believe theres been any so far in the book
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I made a post bout the skip button ending a while back and I deleted it a while ago but I desperately wanna redo it cause I’m interested in what others think but man I cannot find the words for it at all lmaoo
#delete later#LMAO I JUST REMEMBERED IT#I rlly should have saved a reblog to drafts before deleting it#but basically it was along the lines of#a person who feels trapped in a situation may see a solution and just go for it-#-before trying to find other solutions. and most of the time that solution might not be an actually good one#I still feel like I’m wording that wrong though#the concept of stanley seeing the skip button as the only means to escape this ending#and not directly as a way to truly hurt the narrator#because stanley is the one trapped in that room/in the parable#and in times of feeling trapped you may reach for an option that feels like your only hope#or a solution that gives you back some sort of control#so I think the portrayal of the skip button and the zending kinda speak to this idea in an odd way#the feeling of being trapped and seeing a way out and going for that without thinking#though in the end this is me very heavily projecting my own stuff onto these endings#because I’ve been in that position before a few times and I know what it’s like#it doesn’t mean your bad for doing it but I think some people don’t understand it well#it is essentially just me explaining rash decisions in serious situations#yeah stanley should have waited with the narrator but in moments of uncertainty-#-people react in their own ways. idk shrugs I still don’t know if I’m making sense or not#maybe I’ll just keep it here in the tags lol
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I tried to stop myself from posting this but the whole 'victuuri is unhealthy because x or y or they are codependent/yuuri is always selfish and cold to victor' take that seems so prevalent across the post I came across genuinely upsets me so much it has been making me feel low-key physically nauseous when I think about anything related to the show and it sucks honestly
#Like I know I disagree with those takes and ik why#I also know now relationship is 100% perfect but when people apparently used that as some sort of justification#For this take always makes me uncomfortable#I know I should just ignore this and I have been but I also can't stop thinking about it#Maybe it is a me problem or something like I know don't like don't read and stuff#But there is a part of my mind that is kind of like. oh no what if it is true what if#These takes are true and I am willfully being ignorant or not being critical of whatever or etc#I just. ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhugh#I don't want to post this either because I feel nowadays all I've been talking about on here excluding rbs is just about how I saw x take#About this show and how that upsetted me which when said repeatedly seems kind of stupid#And looks like I am deliberately seeking out stuff that upsets me#And if I am being honest that is also part of the problem like. I know that if I block a blog it is def because I read something that just#Upsetted me a lot#But WHY doesn't it stop me from clicking the view blog button is just. stupidity on my part#And I just didn't want to come off as too sensitive or whiny#But like rn it's almost the end of holidays so I think I just need to#find a solution to this for once and for all#aaand also it is almost am rn and I saw an extremely hideous take along the lines of what I mentioned and it was vile#and it is just bothering me ao much I. Can't stop thinking about it and it is making me too uneasy#(also combined with my nervousness for the end of holidays obv but eh)#idk this is giving me flash backs to the whole ladynoir season 4 discourse except the stuff I've seen is even more extreme and I just. ugh
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Just the art from this prompt post.
#emi art#balthazar lucienne#voice of some demon in my head at one in the morning like “what if I drew new art. how long could it take.”#to be fair a significant chunk of that time was hunting for a functioning paint marker#and then giving up and attempting to use watercolor pencil for it#I really need to find a better white solution for goofy things like stars#anyway. the plants are oleander and thyme (blooming) although the details are hard to see because I drew Too Small#the sunburst is meant to be a small nod to the divine light in Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa#where my thought was “I do not have time to really imitate the lush detail of baroque art BUT I can draw straightish lines”#in the end I wasn't careful enough planning the distribution of rays and the reference got lost.#and of course the background moves between a daylight storm and early night#I wanted to capture a decent number of the “associations” in a fun way#I'm not good at moodboard-y things. I can't explain it but that was a moodboard-y list#so I suppose I felt a little more certain of myself with a little project tying things together haha#anyway even though I spent too much time on this now I wish I'd spent more...
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Not dad trying to tell me about some big fallout news he heard about from some work colleague 😂 oh what the poor man just subjected himself too.
#it was about that leak from weeks ago. dad got quite the details about it. he walked right into that one.#and that dear sir is why we do not try to bring news about the hyperfixation. i will know about it and you will hear about it.#dude even got the history of fallout 3 as a bonus. since that was the one he mentioned 😂#he also got a very veeeery long version about why i would necessarily get so excited about the leaks.#you know age of the document. the whole company sale thing. how much the time line clearly has already gone to shit. etc etc etc.#yeah... yeah i think he really came to regret that one 😅#listen i have only slept 5 hours. am high on caffeine and painkillers- almost had a migraine ok.#which means i have like 0 filter rn and am quite brain tired. i will not realise how long i am going on for once i get started rn.#the info dump has started and it will end when i brain says so. i sure af won't notice I am doing it cause I'm just excited to share#not until i manage to like finish my long ass story do i realise i went on for like a good 20-30 minutes... oops.#and that may just be a generous estimate cause i got really going on the infodump ok. it was a blast. ngl.#i am very passionate about fallout ok. this is what happens when you fall asleep to fallout lore most days of the week.#yes i lost the plot ages ago about this hyperfixation. it makes me very happy. so i don't even care. i will keep doing it.#til the hyperfixation dies and bring great sadness to the lands... til we find something else. god knows when that is though.#i am very ok if fallout hyperfixation just... doesn't go away actually. i like hyperfixation. brings many a solution when upsetty.#.... i really need to stfu up now. hi. 👋 why are you still reading this??? these ramblings of a madman. 😂#ryder speaking#i got this far before i realised i did not in fact write wouldn't get excited... well i aint fixing it now 🙃
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2023 reads // twitter thread
Star Eater
fantasy world under religious rule by an order of nuns who practice ritualistic cannibalism to gain magic
one young Sister who’s plagued by visions wants to get out, and ends up caught in the complex politics between factions vying for power and the revolution wanting to get rid of them
#star eater#kerstin hall#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#Star Eater#lots of intriguing ideas and interesting worldbuilding!#it just didn’t follow through with them very well imo#in the very beginning it’s like. floating land! they ride giant cats! cool things! and then they’re like…..#well i literally forgot about both those things til they came up again near the end#I also expected it to be way more brutal and gory.#i thought it would be cannibailsm blood zombies everywhere but it’s really. every now and then lol#as well as just narratively…..i thought like. the love interest would die half way through and then the MC would become way more unhinged#i think it maybe chickened out on going more interesting places#the first half is all quite complex politically and then it’s just kinda. chosen one magical solution to fix all that!#which really was just fixing a different thing than the core of the revolution stuff...#also. i know the lines between fantasy and scifi are tenuous at best i've seen people call this sci-fi…..imo it;s not really at all?#the star thing is in reference to their mythology. like you COULD call it scifi but imo nothing about it Isn’t just fantasy#also calling it horror....there's horror MOMENTs but overall idk#anyway i will repeat: there are a lot of things I did like about it! i just think it could have done them More
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decided to celebrate a bit for kind of not-officially yet getting into a phd, getting into new jobs (2 of them actually), and having car problems on top of it all, so, naturally, i deserve to overspend on food delivery
#there is so much to worry about but fuck it honestly#when the problems come i will think of a solution#for now i celebrate#man im really going to work 3 jobs aaaaa#will decrease the load on my current one to 0.5#then 0.75 as lab assistant with like no one to teach me because the old one died#and then 0.25 on a project that i know the vague details of#so. all taken together i will work 1.5 loads AND do a phd#but tbh that 0.25 project sounds easy i think i will manage of just like doing it one evening in a month#and i wanted to apply for a scholarship because my income will now be messed up because of taxes#i think at the end of the day i will earn less#which sucks#oh and i will be able to do the phd in the time of my lab assistant work so those 0.75 are pretty okay#and nothing is entirely new? i am just going to work in a place i study no biggie#but man this is stressful#'go where the wind blows' had ended me in this situation#'if you think by saying no you would regret years down the line say yes' has ended me in this situation#honestly i deserve to have financially bad treats for myself because of this all#whoosh#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa#man#'i crave stability in my life' my ass#im doing this and oh boy oh boy oh boy#stay tuned for the next three years to see how things turn out#btw that 0.25 project ends in december so all is fine
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Watched episode 5 :)
#I have mothing to say really. These episodes are so good#I loooooove the Perfect Crime mini arc. It's very good#If I have to be honest when I read the manga for the first time and I got to this arc I was like#“did the author mistakenly write a good arc for a change”#and then the doa arc started and I was like... Actually maybe it wasn't a mistake#(Sorry for the mean thinking). That is to say‚ in my opinion the good writing for b/sd really starts after the Cannibalism Arc.#Mushitarou's character and story are so tragic. I love him.#I kinda wish he had a different va but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Maybe I'm just perpetually unsatisfied.#When I was reading the manga I was fully convinced Yokomizo was a woman untill the end. So now I kind of fully believe in trans Yokomizo#The local bookshop I always visit has Yokomizo books right next to the stairs so my eye always falls on them#The quality of this episode is amazing hhhhh Poe's book dimension is so good and the directing is so good and everything is so good really#////////// I can't add anything. The colours choices are so good!! The details!!!! So so many kudos to the animators of this season fr.#I'm repeating myself but actually praying that all the ss/kk scenes in the future are animated with the same level of care#The “I won't let you hurt anyone in the agency” scene was so impressive.#The “To that end I memorized and assimilated the demon himself” line is so interesting.#As is the fact that Ranpo is outlined in red‚ just as Dostoyevsky is.#I'm sorry that in the end Ranpo had to blackmail Mushitarou into turning himself in. Even if it was to protect the agency.#Like couldn't he instead blackmail him into simply undoing his ability on Kunikida like Mushitarou later does?#Wouldn't that have been a better solution for everyone? 🤔 ╮(╯_╰)╭#I looooove Gogol's entrance it's so pretty he's so pretty#I would have personally picked a music that is less tense and more upbeat to contrast even more between tone and action#but eh. that's up to taste I guess. Still very very good scene#Can't wait for what happens next!!!! FINALLY ATSUSHI my favourite anime character#random rambles
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today again i ponder. my beautiful modern au where the events of the game did happen but wayy into the past & theyre both reincarnated or some shit. & hilde gets very vivid dreams of these past life events which he would tell hades all about because hes a chatterbox & likes sharing things with him. right. & its always like, this was really weirdly realistic & they kinda all fit together, such interesting dreams! they dont usually do that i dont think maybe its just another way my brain is weird lol. but then he gets to the shb shit. & past a certain point hes a lot less willing to talk. because if these arent just dreams. he would have to tell hades what he did to him in what might just be their actual past lives. he would never want to hurt him with that kind of information
& i mean hades def notices something is off & probably prods him about it but it doesnt really amount to much until hildes gotten to experience elpis in dream again which. Well.. guy who wakes up crying of course. & they have to talk about it now.
#ffposting#hildemet#& i mean it was bad enough w the end of shb he def woke up in a panic to make sure hades was still alive & fine#but the everything about elpis. his reaction to hearing what hed end up getting up to... yknow. & then the memory wipe#i bet hed get some memories from *lachesis* at this point too. since thats a point in time where canon events hilde got them#he is cursed to remember eventually always. hades gets to live blissfully (until hes told anyway) but hilde has to remember#as fragmented & miserable as it all is. he will remember. yes that they once lived i fucking guess idk thst line didnt hit ME as much#i was too busy getting real fucked up abt what amaurot represents for hades & the dawning realisation of why hes like this#& also the fact he didnt need to die. IN MY OPINION! but i think this of many an antagonist so obviously im not gonna get what i want...#me at the end of every expansion: & so we can find a solution together right? the expansion: No. me: ah! cool!#well ok not fully accurate so ill trade thordans position in this w yotsuyu. i did not want thordan to live. ever#but yea i think a lot of character death isnt entirely necessary & were preventable. sorry..
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After watching Cinderella (the original animated movie, which was my favorite as a child), it strikes me how it solves many common problems people have with this fairy tale. Like:
Why did they try to identify the mystery girl using her shoe size? Because the bullheaded king's only clue to her identity was the shoe the Grand Duke picked up off the steps.
Why didn't the prince recognize her by her face? Because his father wouldn't involve him in the process at all, and wasn't the one going around trying to find her.
Why did the prince want to marry a lady he only met that night? Because his father was going to force him to marry someone, and he genuinely liked this woman.
Why did Cinderella want to marry a man she only met that night? Because marriage was her best and most secure way to freedom. Fucked up, but you can't say it's unrealistic for the setting of a fairy tale. She also genuinely liked him.
If they're using the slipper to find her, wouldn't it be more sensible to search for the person with the other slipper? Yes. The King is purposefully nonsensical and the Duke is purposefully terrified enough of him to carry out his orders to the letter. Furthermore, they end up doing that in the end anyway, because the Duke's glass slipper is shattered, and Cinderella brings out the one she has to prove her identity.
Why didn't the stepmother and stepsisters recognize Cinderella at the ball? Because they were dancing too far away, and then left the party to dance in private, which was possible because the King wanted very badly for his son to hit it off with someone and tried to arrange the best conditions for that to happen.
Why didn't Cinderella save herself? Because in real life, abuse victims should not have to shoulder that responsibility, and usually can't. In real life, you need and deserve an external support system. Asking for help, in this kind of situation, is very important. She is saved by others because she is loved. Because she is not alone. Because she has friends who love her, and want her to be happy and safe and free. Because in real life, people who want to help someone who is suffering are like the mice. We can't pull out miracle solutions, but we can provide companionship and if we're in the right place at the right time, we can help the person find a better life.
Why didn't the fairy godmother save Cinderella from her abusive household, or try to help her sooner? Because she's magic, and magic can't solve your problems. Quote: "Like all dreams, well, I'm afraid it can't last forever." This (and Cinderella's dream of going to the ball) is a metaphor for pleasurable things in bad circumstances. An ice cream won't get rid of your depression, but it will provide you with momentary happiness to bolster you, as well as the reminder that happiness in general is still possible for you. Cinderella doesn't want to go to the ball so she can get away from her stepmother and stepsisters, or so she can meet someone to marry and leave with. She wants to go to the ball to remind herself that she can still have things she wants. That her desires matter. This is important because the movie does a very good job of illustrating Lady Tremaine's subtle abuse tactics, all of which invisibly press the message that Cinderella doesn't matter. While going to the ball and fulfilling her dreams may not be a victory in the material sense, it is still a victory against Lady Tremaine's efforts.
Why is Cinderella's choice to be kind and obedient framed as a good thing, when you are not obligated to be kind to your abuser? This one walks a very fine line, but I think the movie still makes it make sense. Lady Tremaine never acknowledges her cruelty. She always frames her punishments of Cinderella as Cinderella's fault. Cinderella is interrupting, Cinderella is shirking her duties, Cinderella is playing vicious practical jokes. Cinderella is still a member of the family, of course she can go to the ball, provided she meet these impossible conditions. Lady Tremaine's tactics are designed to make Cinderella feel like she must always be in the wrong and her stepmother must always be in the right. If Cinderella calls her stepmother out on her cruelty, or attempts to fight back, Lady Tremaine can frame that as Cinderella being ungrateful, cruel, broken, evil, etc. If Cinderella responds to her stepmother's cruelty defiantly (in the way she's justified to), she's not taking control out of Lady Tremaine's hands. Disobedience can be spun back into her stepmother's control. She wants Cinderella to be angry and sad and show how much she's hurting. So since Cinderella is adapting to her situation, she chooses to be kind. Not only because she naturally wants to be and it's part of her personality, but because it is a form of defiance in its own way, and it allows her to keep a reminder of her agency and value. Her choice to be kind is her chance to keep her own narrative alive: she is not obeying because her stepmother wants her to and she has to do what her stepmother does, but because she wants to. It's a small distinction, but one that makes all the difference in terms of keeping her hope and identity. (Fuck, I wrote a whole paragraph about how this doesn't mean you can't be angry at people who hurt you or that you need to be kind to deserve help, and then deleted it by accident. Uh. Try again.) Expressing anger and pain is an important part of regaining autonomy and healing. Although it is commendable to be kind while you are suffering, it is NOT required for you to get help or be worthy of help. If Cinderella's recovery was explored beyond "happily ever after" she would need to let herself be angry and sad to heal. Cinderella is not only kind because it comes naturally to her, but because it's her defense against the abuse she's suffering. Everyone's story and experiences are different, and one does not invalidate the other.
Bonus round for answers that aren't part of the movie:
Why didn't Cinderella run away? Where would she go? Genuinely, in hundreds-of-years-ago France, where would she go if she snuck out of the window with a change of clothes? With her step-family, she's miserable and abused, but she's fed, clothed, and in no danger of dying or being taken advantage of by anyone other than her stepmother and stepsisters. Even if she escapes and manages to find financial security, her stepmother might be able to find her and get her back.
Why didn't Cinderella burn the house down with them inside it/slit their throats in the night/poison their food/etc.? Because that's a revenge fantasy, and this story is a fantasy about being saved. There's nothing wrong with making Cinderella into a revenge fantasy. That's perfectly fine, as long as you acknowledge that the other type of fantasy is also a valid interpretation. (I mean, the original fairy tale features the stepsisters getting their feet mutilated and all three of them getting their eyes pecked out, so go for it.)
Why isn't Cinderella more proactive in general? Because she's a child who has been abused for the back half of her life, who has had to be focused on survival because. you know. she's an abused kid.
How did she dance in glass slippers? Gotta agree with you there man, that's weird.
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this line in chapter 3 is definitely some kind of foreshadow metaphor for the end of this fic
#not exactly sure what it means but like#*gestures*#you get it#no no i do know what this means#if i think about it for 2 seconds hgkjhgj#it's uhhhh#taking a self-destructive course of action that in the end turns out never to have been the solution to your difficult situation#at all#the rope here is physical just to be clear hfgkjhgh#in this line
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