#I really hope we learn more about him

[m1xieup]

honestly as a resident Will-enjoyer I find my mind plagued with questions after reading the story he’s actually based on- William Wilson (though I’ve heard he’s also inspired by Prufrock though I don’t know if that’s true [it would be cool if it was]). Now the ending of William Wilson is kinda up in the air as it’s highly symbolic, which means there’s a lot of ways it could be used for Will’s character, so I was thinking: is Will based on the narrator or the doppelgänger? How did he die? And thus this poll was born, I’m sorry for the very dramatic and overdrawn introduction to what is essentially just a poll, but I am nothing if not dramatic, so without further ado:

cw: minor mentions of suicide in the context of the original story

I created this poll mainly because I’m curious as to what the community thinks, if there’s anymore theories or official information I don’t have, I’d love to hear about it! Anyways have a great day y’all

[dariusaurs]

i think dinostar is such an interesting ship right now even if i've kind of turned away from it after this season. the problem is that it's complicated, and fandoms historically don't like nuanced situations or takes. i don't think it's fair to say darius is putting brooklynn on a pedestal, since from his perspective, she hasn't done anything wrong, and kenji has been framed as this unfair partner to her. it does feel like his feelings are very immature and more of an infatuation right now ("if he loved you half as much.."/"unless?"), especially when you compare them to kenji's own feelings for brooklynn - his girlfriend who he's loved for 6 years - but that isn't a horrible thing, it's just different. i do completely understand if people dislike the ship right now, and even criticize darius' way of handling the accidental confession, but i just think people have been way too harsh on all three of them without being willing to see that all of their perspectives are different

[mayasaura]

hi, may I ask where John being gender non-conforming and his only known family dying of pneumonia happened/was mentioned in the books? I probably just straight up missed it and would like to look back at it, thank you!

Hi!! You certainly may! Sorry I'm answering this bit late, but better late than never right?

So narratively speaking, the John verses are where the story establishes John's background, yeah? They're very deliberate in the details, and we can deduce a lot from what they mention .... and what they don't.

The only family John ever mentions in an active capacity is his Nana, his mother's mother—his mother comes up once, but only in the context of objects she left behind. More on that in a minute.

What happened to his parents is unknown; they just don't show up in his 'saga of me, confused destroyer of worlds'. Whatever the story is there, their omission suggests they weren't present in his life, at least in any stable capacity. Nana and her little dog are his only known family.

Nana died of pneumonia when John was "a teenager", so between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. Odds are extremely good that happened while he was at Dilworth, which houses students aged eight to eighteen.

As for gender non-conforming, well. Not very gender conforming of him as a little boy to pick Hollywood Hair Barbie as his favorite toy, while letting the dog chew on Ken because, quote, "[Ken] was a creep." Very masculine of him to hold that in his heart as a cherished memory well into adulthood.

Most of the little boys like that I knew grew up to be women.

[idiashrouded]

devastating news the twst fandom can’t separate the two orthos from each other (ORTHO having og orthos memories does not automatically make him 16 please pleas egod he is his own entirely different person that’s the whole point) (i rant in the tags sorry i’m going insane) (autistic ramblings of a madman)

[street-corner-felines]

Zero Day (2002)

[macchiiattos]

i'm actually so normal about feixiao like. the last xianzhou quest that we had didn't leave the best impression on me towards the end, but myh came back with vengance this time and NAILED IT (for the most part).

they actually took the time to make feixiao interesting and put her in such a unique position, which allowed us to actually see her greatest fears and insecurities while also learning about why she became a general to begin with. that scene alone provided so much depth to her character. it would have been so easy to make her generic but they didn't and ugh i love her so much.

i hate the fact that they're gonna drag out the xianzhou storyline. but if they keep this storytelling direction with the remaining generals and marshal then i'll be way more willing to go through it.

[r0sel0v3]

--𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠'𝐬--

ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕖'𝕤 𝕒 𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕨𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗 @sbk-zgvlt 𝕒𝕦 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕠 ( 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥 𝕘𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞)

---𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕕𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕕𝕒𝕪--

➴➵➶➴➵➶➴➵➶➴➵➶➴➵➶➴➵➶➴➵➶ "𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚝.. ," 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚗𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚁𝚜𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙽𝚁𝙲 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚏𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚢 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎.

𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 building 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚊𝚕𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 place 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛s 𝚊𝚝. 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚝 seem to be 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐.

𝙰𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗. 𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎. 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔,

"𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝚂𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝙰𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚢! 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜!, " 𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍𝚕𝚢, "𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗! 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎, 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑, 𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝙸𝚌𝚎, 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝! 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚙𝚒𝚗, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚜,"

𝙰 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚜 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚝.

𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚐𝚘 𝚋𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕, "𝚂𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚔 𝚉𝚒𝚐𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚝!," 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚜.

"𝙷𝚖𝚖.. 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛.. 𝙽𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚌𝚎.. 𝙰𝚑 𝚗𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍.. 𝙷𝚖𝚖𝚖, " 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚜, "𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝! 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜, " 𝙰 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚒𝚗 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚝𝚜 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚜 𝚞𝚙 "𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚐𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎," 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚞𝚝. "𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎" 𝚜𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏.

---𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚖--

"𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎, " 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 room 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝟹rd 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍. 𝙴𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚗𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖, 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚋𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚍.

𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟸 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚔. "𝚂𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚝.. 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐.. ," sighing and 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚑𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎... After all today is a new beginning

--𝙵𝚒𝚗--

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𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩!! 𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐬𝐚 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰!

𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞(𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭) ٩( ᐛ )و ♡

(im a bit rusty on my writing so sorry if there are spelling problems)

[juustozzi]

oop finally got to play the beta story update, gonna ramble in tags (will have spoilers)

[kariachi]

Midnight Rant #5 billion and 12 on Charmcaster and Kevin- That woman's fucking AF premiere.

Because we have Kevin, very obviously in a very bad place. He's being retraumatized, his girl's cut back hard on spending time with him with no explanation, our boy is going through it. And then he makes a friend, according to WoG over the course of a few months, in a grown woman. And it's great, it's fine, and then she starts macking on him. And then she plants a kiss on him despite him shutting her down. And while doing that she literally takes control of his damn mind, just fucking harpoons that poor boy's bodily autonomy, forces him to turn against his loved ones. All because she never actually gave any sort of shit about him and from the very start was using him to get to and hurt his girl. This relationship that he thought was forming for months was all a ruse, her using him and then abusing him. And this is

So painful for poor Gwen. Can you believe that Kevin didn't have faith that her pulling back with no explanation meant she was working hard to fix him, after the whole three-odd months they'd been together? And to have Charmcaster come back starting problems. Oh poor Gwen, everyone is so mean to her.

And it's not just in the fucking show, it's in the fandom as well, this idea that the shit Kevin goes through matters in how it affects Gwen and not in how it would have to affect him. Just, that had to be such a fucking painful if not straight up traumatizing event. Charm fucked with his goddamn mind. She made him think she cared about him only to hurt him.

Congrats, Charm, I'd say you were only a few steps below Servantis but he at least let the kids have a degree of autonomy and wasn't on screen macking on them. Slow clap, you're even keel.

Just, I sometimes remember that we have a whole episode surrounding Kevin, already openly in an awful headspace, being groomed and straight up mindcontrolled, and the big take-away is how much the situation hurt Gwen and how bad a boyfriend he is for not reading her damn mind. And it drives me up the fucking wall.

Especially when you remember that he spends that season in his underwear, I'm sorry but the parallels to the treatment of imperfect SA victims write their damn selves.

And when you also keep in mind that when Mike is pulling the 'charm them and thrall them' bit it's treated, by the show and fandom, as him being an irredeemable predator and his victims have every right to hate him forever and wish horrible things on him, but Charm gets to have the 'oh poor Charmcaster' treatment and Kevin's thinking she can go fuck herself is treated as a flaw in his character by the show and ignored by fandom.

Because in the end the disparity comes from the same place as the repeated physically abusive acts Gwen commits against Kevin, as Looma's threats being treated as humor, as Gwen's thinking they're romantic being treated as humor- plain old misogyny. Mind the misogyny isn't all of it, but the age old belief that this sort of shit committed by women against men isn't a concern, and in fact may even be treated as ridiculous, because women are too weak to hurt men plays a big role. Doesn't matter if it's a grown woman grooming a mentally ill teenager or a teenage girl shoving her boyfriend into freefall- she's just a girl so of course what she's doing isn't actually dangerous or harmful, because women aren't capable enough for such things. Which then plays into the age old sexist bullshit that men are simply too strong and rough to be hurt, and to be hurt by a girl especially- physically, mentally, however- is funny because it means they're weak.

And that's not even getting into the 'a guy is always eager' bullshittery.

Just, for the love of fucking christ...

[saltybiowarefantears]

Since I don't draw, here's me forcing picrews into the vague likeness of what I kind of want my Rook to look like and I can't take it anymore

Meet Eneida, my very friendly if slightly off-putting Mourn Watch Rook

[orcelito]

Ok....... I actually love Utakata, and I am SO SAD we only get him for like 8 episodes

[whentherewerebicycles]

this sucks lol

[destinedtobeloved]

Stephen makes my heart ache and my stomach hurt istg and I mean that just because I love him to death but I wish they would touch on him more.

In season two when he’s standing in the middle of the road and pacing, they never really touch on it. He’s relapsed and they know it- but it’s back to normal. That scene was supposed to mean ‘if he doesn’t stop using, it’s going to kill him.’

He’s back in that car with her, smoking cigarettes as if he’s not giving up on everything he ever belived in. Gil, his sobriety- shit, even his vegetarian bull shit (even when we all know he never really followed it carefully enough anyways). The look on his face when Sarah asks if he’s eating meat again. The look of ‘it doesn’t really matter anymore, does it?’ How quick he was to give it up.

‘Is that what you think I need?’ He yells, even when hours later he’d be shaking and pacing in oncoming traffic on weary feet as Alice hurriedly called Linden to help him- to save him, almost as if she could tell what she had ment to him, even if they had only been together a tiny amount of time. Around ten days.

Please, let him be vulnerable. Let him be shaky and paranoid and sad.

[redgoldblue]

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[dabihaul666]

these commsssssss...

[elibean]

I still love how feral lg went in the s2 finale….good shit