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caligvlasaqvarivm · 4 months ago

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wanna ask how you feel about the eridan bpd headcanon/theory(?? not sure what to call it!) you're so good at your character analysis and i'd love to see your outlook on it

Since I don't have a degree or any formal training in psychology, I feel deeply uncomfortable diagnosing characters. I've made an autism joke before but only because I'm on the spectrum. He's definitely traumatized and anxious, but I mean those as descriptors of his behavior rather than capital-D Diagnoses. I try to focus on those when I can - the cause and effect of cognition, self-image, and behavior - and those factors may very well match up with DSM criteria, but I try not to touch an actual diagnosis with a ten foot pole unless the author has explicitly stated that X character has Y condition.

#there's a variety of reasons for this #part of it is that im GROSSLY unqualified to be handing out diagnoses when it takes a full on PhD to do that in real life #part of it is that psychology is inchoate and we are still very much in murky waters #for example: complex ptsd isn't even IN the DSM yet #and iirc my therapist told me it was because theyre still figuring out how to classify it (attachment disorder? trauma disorder? etc.)#part of it is that (from my limited and undereducated understanding) there are diagnoses that you can assign by completing a checklist...#but some that require a hell of a lot more testing and ruling out other potential causes #and the cluster-b personalities are (IIRC) not even ones you're supposed to diagnose minors with #bc of fears of self fulfilling prophecy and because minors in general are still developing personalities In General #and like the fact that i can't say that with authority speaks to how unqualified i am to do any diagnosing right? hahaha #and part of it is just because like #unless the story is specifically About That and the author has stated so explicitly #i think diagnosing characters tends to put blinders on analysis #like if i were to seriously go 'eridan is autistic' then it would massively bias my reading and understanding of his character #and we have 0 indication that eridan was ever explicitly intended to be autistic or that the author was trying to do an autism specifically #that doesn't mean that the reading is invalid because like thats what death of the author means #all readings are technically valid including stuff the author didn't necessarily intend #but that's just not the way i like to engage with media and not the way i like to approach character analysis #because PERSONALLY it just feels kind of reductive - but also -#i'd wager MOST of us don't have degrees in psychology #so when i say 'X character has Y condition' it might mean something totally different to somebody reading my analysis #even people who have Y condition aren't exempt because a lot of mental illnesses differ from person to person #whereas if i explain “X character has Y thoughts and Z behaviors” there's no ambiguity in that #eridan struggles with noticing that people are suffering and with realizing that he should care #at least part of this is due to his horrific murder-filled upbringing which rendered empathy a detriment & so he learned to ignore it #it could be autism - but it could also be trauma -#or he might just be Like That without actually meeting the diagnostic criteria for autism #& you can't even technically be diagnosed with C-PTSD #or maybe he has a burgeoning personality disorder but you aren't supposed to DX those too early anyway #or maybe hes just 13. see what i mean hahaha. ive reached the 30 tag limit

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end-orfino · 16 days ago

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strangelove and the boss make me fucking SICK honestly. in a good way. they're so fucking great

#ive seen a few ppl say smth like 'ok but isn't strangelove kind of fucked up actually'? and im like. YES??????? THAT'S WHY I LOVE HER.#shes soo fucked up in such a good way. her obsession with the boss is absolutely out of the realm of normalcy but its so delightful to watc #this is how a strong situationship leaves you; pining two decades after the other one died #i'm half joking but that's literally what happened with them didn't it #there's this pattern of people who put boss on a pedestal and misinterpret her will and it's very good on its own and strangelove is a part #-of it. but i think it's so interesting that her stance on it is also so personal and romantic and stuff. it's a different angle #of course she's not the only one who had personal ties to the boss but for her it's one of her most important key motivations #and its just.ough. I HAVE MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM i mightve phrased it weirdly here cuz i dont wanna overtalk in tags.#But it's such a good story i think .#mgs #strangelove #<- sure i can tag it why not !

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lpsgirl109 · 4 months ago

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Im actually never forgiving Descendants: The Royal Wedding for being all silly goofy happy cartoon and then out of fucking NOWHERE just dropping "I really miss Carlos guys" HEY DISNEY WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM

#It's so fucking jarring #The entire episode up to that point was all goofy funny times and then #That #It also irks me cause they're clearly moving away from the core four with the next movie #I mean I HOPE so anyway #So what was the point of killing him off at all you could've just left him alive NOTHING would change #Like it's an animated mini movie you could easily find a VA that sounds like him #Or if you really didn't wanna do that #Put him in some sort of situation that causes him to be away from the wedding #Maybe he sends a letter or something idk #Like why kill him if you were already ending the core four's story there and moving on to new characters #And like don't get me wrong they SHOULD move away from the core four #Do not fucking touch them anymore unless it's little cameos #The entire reason they initially canceled D4 was because they didn't wanna go on without Cameron #So if they were to go back on that and kill him off so they could keep making movies that would be disrespectful as FUCK #D4 probably a cash grab but I am glad they went the creative route and decided to explore other parts of the universe #Instead of clinging onto the group that's missing a cast member #I just #Man #You could've left him alone Disney you really didn't have to do that #And in the worst way possible too #descendants #peg speaks

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nyan-bynary · 1 month ago

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I'm gonna have to wait out a few weeks to be able to complain about jjk's ending bc rn half the ppl are bashing everyone who expected more as ppl who just wanted gojo back

#jjk 271 #like no I can read I understood that gojo was gone for good from 236 bUT we can still talk about #how a grown ass man and his grown ass friends deciding how they were at 16 was their perfect forms.#before they made all the important life changing decisions. is a regression right #like can we talk about how the narrative just glosses over geto's whole entire life after hs WHERE HE WAS A GENOCIDAL MANIAC #and pretends like no one would even side eye him about that???#that's fucking regression #you're scaling his character back bc you don't want to address the root reasonwhy he went that route #and it's perfectly fine when an author doesn't want to get too political in their work it's their right I get it #but it does make me upset where the whole entire story up until here the author has been beating us over the head with leftist messaging-#- only to throw it away and settle for a 'oh I didn't mean ACTUAL revolution or changes that would rock the boat for REAL'#bc let's face it. the conditions that made people like geto and sukuna happen are still fucking there they just skipped this generation #these kids are still going to be sent out when a special grade curse shows up and some of them are still gonna die tragically early #to put yuuji as the leader of gojo's dream is isolating and a burden on JUST YUUJI (WHY WERE THE OTHER STUDENTS NOT THERE)#to make yuuji the sole messenger of gojo's will is frankly WEIRD gojo wanted these kids to look out for one another #he had nothing to say to anyone else???#yuuji's been accidentally burdened with the weight of gojo's dream now ON HIS OWN #HE IS A KID #literally nothing's changed at the end #also see how I didn't talk about gojo on his own here bc the problems are so glaring that they shine through even side characters #WHY IS NANAMI A KID IN THE AIRPORT IS THAT THE VERSION OF HIMSELF HE WAS CONTENT WITH???#or did they all have to be aged down to match haibara even though making the choice to show the ones that lived as grown would've made it-#-more impactful #A twenty seven yr old nanami sitting next to the fifteen yr old haibara would've been soul crushing right?#also why have nanami be the only one that talks like he remembers his adulthood BUT NOT GETO #WHY TAKE AWAY SUCH A HUGE PART OF GETO #YOU COULD'VE HAD THAT BE A CONVERSATION AND HAVE PEOPLE FORGIVE HIM #the more I think about the ending the more things I find to nitpick further back too #gege I love you but please I hope you negotiate a more flexible time in your next contract I hope they don't burn you out again #bc jjk is going to be an ending which I will frankly ignore and just go with 'sukuna won and it was terrible' in my head instead

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honestlyvan · 6 months ago

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(Now on DW!)

One of the joys of a dormant fandom is that I can just show up and prop my feet on the table and start talking about divine horror and how sometimes a computer program is an angel and how humans are obsessed with taking the power of the heavens and putting it in a box for themselves to use.

Like.

God exists and she's a nice girl and she worked hard to be born, but she also has a temper and humans keep trying to put her in a box so she got fed up with it and hid from them. From her mother, she inherited eight powerful champions, and as a reward for their service she left them to roam as they pleased, but when humans couldn't trap her, they chose to trap those champions instead, and put them in a box, except now that box was a human, and that human was meant to take the power of the god that the humans couldn't steal, because humans made the divine realm that god and her angels inhabit and want to control it (as humans do).

And now you've got a bunch of humans who don't know they're being given a box with an angel in it and putting that box in their own bodies, and nobody can really figure out why these angel bodies keep going out of control and driving their hosts to madness, and oh, hey, the mother of god made these champions for a purpose and the humans in the driver seat don't know about that, either, even though the humans who gave them the angel bodies do know about that, because they want to use those angel bodies to make another god.

So congratulations! You're a prophet now! You are being called to do battle for your god, because you've been granted a divine body that has an angel in it, that is an angel. You're being called to do as your nature as an angel requires of you! And the entire time you're just a human, and the thing in your head feels too big for your mortal body, it feels too big for your divine body, and you're just watching things spiral out of control, wondering why you feel like you'd bleed mercury if they scratched you too deep.

#fannish #dothack #.hack//g.u.#GU spoilers #The way I talk about Aura tends towards the relentlessly silly #because the story is pretty blatant about how joy and love and connection are the things that make her what she is #The whole point of the Cursed Wave was that she didn't want to be born as something that only arises from humanity's darkest emotions #she couldn't have been born without humans loving each other #the ability to love and having free will are intrinsically linked #but while the AIs in .hack may be human-created in the strictest sense #(and even then both vagrant AIs and AIDA emerge without human interference)#by the time the story starts they're flatly beyond human comprehension for the most part #Aura and Morganna *are* The World as much as they *are* their own person #and the Phases -- especially post-salvaging -- are at least entities with their own wills even if they lack that essential person Aura has #And it's pretty blatantly stated that the Phases have *preferences* for who they consider 'qualified' to be their host #and if I choose to phrase it as 'among other things being an Epitaph user means you're constantly battling succumbing to divine madness'#that is *also* me getting silly with it #You can't put a vebatim deus ex machina in your story and expect me to not run with that

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ishouldreallybeelsewhere · 3 months ago

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Episode one of Supernatural is so flawed that, had I watched it for the first time last night (instead of for the third), I would not have have watched the second. Ever. The flaws are things I simply didn't pick up on when I was thirteen, and memory glazed over with emotional attachment. I understand why these flaws are there, what the writers tried and failed to do through clumsy dialogue and strange character decisions. There's no subtlety. Everything Sam says is direct exposition, specifically the things that he would not have to say to his brother.

I do not do reviews so that's all I'm going to say.

#But who would I be if I had not watched supernatural?#I wouldn't be on tumblr for one #not in the same way that I am #Perhaps I would like different shows because the part of Supernatural that still appeals to me now is the queerbaiting #The blatant queerbaiting #the fact that they never get together #the weird way that excessive misogyny creates homoerotic subtext #that's what captures my interest as a viewer #which is problematic or whatever idk i think the show would have been less interesting as a romance #the most interesting part of the show to me by far is dean's character #and part of his character when read as a suppression of homosexuality simply would not work if the show didn't queerbait #also fun headcanons i hold for characters (like trans/bi dean) are separate from how i would actually analyse the actions of dean #i don't think dean is trans i don't think his character reflects a trans narrative #but i make him trans in my fanfic because i can #and i enjoy exploring that potential interpretation of his character even if i don't agree with it necessarily #i'm better at explaining this in person but I watch hannibal and Supernatural over shows with actual representation in them #because it's frequently a more interesting dynamic as someone who doesn't actually enjoy watching romance #this is not to say i don't watch things with queer characters in them and that I don't love to see representation #i nearly cried when the doctor and rogue kissed #and i don't cry for tv shows #i get incredibly excited and happy to see queer representation in anything at all even if i'm never going to watch it #i'm so so happy that shows like heart stopper exist and are popular and mainstream #that's fucking awesome!#but i'm not gonna watch a queer romance for the same reason i'm not gonna watch a straight romance #it's boring once they get together #and i do want to mention that in my head there is a distinct difference between a romance and characters who are together #like hiccup and astrid isn't a romance they are two characters that get together in a story about friendship and standing up for yourself #and others and also it's about fucking dragons put whatever you want in there i will watch it if it's about dragons.#but stoic and valka is a romance BUT THEY DON"T END UP TOGETHER #spn

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countdown-til-sanders-take-over · 3 months ago

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this is a formal apology for every time i've read ur fnaf theories, gone "ah... of course! yes!" and then forgotten to respond

This is a formal apology for every time I've read one of your asks, not immediately had a TQ&/E, and forgotten to respond

#The box can wait my questions that need to be answered are why there is already a body in a Fredbear suit before the Bite #and what can 'I will put you back together' mean solely within those four games #like yeah it's robot kids but it wasn't then #that isn't 'four games; one story' that's using the next game in the series to elaborate on the previous one #(and the then new addition of books)#also what the hell was Fnaf World on about but I think I'm the only person that's thought about Fnaf World in years #yeah yeah Happiest day it's about CC I got that WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PLAYER WAS ONLY CREATED FOR THIS PURPOSE!!!#Okay yeah that's probably just an explanation for why the game exists but what the fuck is glitchy Fredbear #and why do *we* need to be told to rest #It's fucking important that they're clocks goddamnit #As of the Halloween update the story of Fnaf 4 still remained 'completely hidden'#So (I think) what Sister Location (AND THE SILVER EYES) tells us about it is the version of Fnaf 4 that the version of it that the communit #''''would accept''''#But the pieces didn't vanish into thin air after the custom night update for sister location dropped #And I think their being put together is reliant on the constant separation put between the GF kid and the rest of the MCI #And the body in the parts and service room #Could not tell you what CC saw though since I should hope that that kid's body hasn't been there for weeks #When I was talking about 'what if this isn't the first time CC had died' I mean basically dream theory with extra steps #I don't think I'm right but in literally every part of this franchise what is hammered in over an over is going into memories #and setting past events right to rest their soul #Happiest Day + Into the Pit being the biggest examples #And tangentially spirits not being fully anchored or aware after death #and reminding them of what happened to them involving crayon drawings and/or being shown their body #(The Fourth closet + Coming Home + the movie)#(and maybe Give Gifts Give Life....? it'd be stretchy)#Regardless of whether the Fnaf 4 gameplay and minigames are CC reliving the events leading to his death over and over as a wandering spirit #or pre-mortem nightmares or the effects of sound illusion disc gas on Micheal(/CC?) or any combination of the three or whatever else #I don't think the Crying Child's spirit was settled and aware until Happiest Day #(that being the first and only time a spirit is shown wearing a Fredbear mask and the kid has to put it on while the other four are already #And if for some godforsaken reason I am right about nightmare spirit journey Fnaf 4 then post Silver Eyes/Fourth Closet

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crawlspacefics · 5 months ago

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Hey there, hope it’s alright to ask your opinion.

I wrote a long story on ff.net about 9 years ago. It finished and about three-fourish years … I honestly don’t remember how long later I posted it to ao3 with some light corrections but not a lot.

Said story is now about to hit a decade (scary) and I’m going through it in a more serious manner, with a beta this time as I didn’t have one then, and fixing the little spelling mistakes, grammar issues, and some plot points that turned into glaring plot holes.

My question to you is: would you update the original ao3 listing, or would you make a separate posting of it as Title: Revised/Redux/Whatever?

Thank you for your time and I hope your writing is going well!

I am by no means an expert on ao3 etiquette. That said...

I would want to fully replace the original, because of the updates to the plot and fixing of plot holes, but I wouldn't want to lose the comments and kudos/hits from the original posting. So I think I would update the original, with a note at the beginning and a line in an updated synopsis explaining why I was reposting chapters.

I think doing it this way gets it back to the top of the listings, too. I feel like the updates you're making warrant the bump, so it's not abusing they system. And I'll be honest, if I'm putting that much work into revising the story, I want it back up at the top of the listings when I do.

Big However - I am not 100% certain updating the chapters like this will bump it up.

#fanfiction #ao3 #I'm going to have to make a similar decision eventually #it's an interesting thing to ponder #because part of me is really sentimental and would want the original out there regardless of plot holes and typos #but the other part would prefer only one version of the story exist #though I didn't update Fate at ffnet when I put updated chapters on ao3 #but that was because the thought made me exhausted 😅

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violetsareblue-selfships · 6 months ago

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good morning!! <3

#hehe more of the same today #i need to do more of the hsr quest #(think i put it off yesterday bc i didn't have the energy to explore a new area)#but we'll see how today goes #other than that #i'll probably try to grab the screenshots i want from the arle story quest (and/or the latest events)#but other than that it'll just be relaxing for the most part :3 #as such i hope today/tonight is good to you <3 #morning rambles

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01tsubomi · 7 months ago

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mfw i spent yeeeeears in college aaaaaagonizing about how to turn a short fanfic of mine into a full-length original work and was working on it with my professor and through all the editing became really embarrassed of the original fanfic version thinking it was immature and shallow but could also never make the rewrite work so i moved onto other projects and then today after a very long time reread both of them only to find that the original fic is concise and heartfelt with clunky execution but solid and gripping emotional beats and the novelization is overwritten self-obsessed garbo

#i think i posted about it here a decent amount too #i was surprised at how much i liked the fic but honestly shocked at how bad the rewrite was #like not to dog on myself too much #but i wrote the fic originally for a class on short stories #(which is why i wanted to rewrite it in the first place - if i was already disguising it as original work might as well go all the way)#(see how far we can make this premise go)#so the original is super super to the point and like yeah clearly written by an 18 year old and dramatic but also very tastefully paced #like i was genuinely surprised at how effective i thought a lot of it was #i don't tend to toot my own horn about my writing especially not my old writing i was genuinely chuffed #then i had the dangerous thought of 'maybe i could give the rewrite idea another go this time more in the spirit of the original'#'keep it short and punchy and focused on the characters and their dynamic while updating it w my skills now and use it for grad school apps #but then i thought no...that was the vision i had when i was 18 #this is sort of a pun bc it's a story about ghosts but i should just let it lie and move on #personal #i was genuinely so put off by the writing of the rewrite that i was like wtf wait...i like...submitted this to lit mags on campus didn't i #did some digging found that it was the opening scene - which was THE most overwritten wanky part of it in my current self's eyes -#that i submitted to (and got published in) the lit mag i worked on in my little college community #girl nooooooooo i mean i guess the other girlies liked it enough to put it in #but it's odd i guess how time changes your perception/value judgments

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lisbonsteresa · 2 years ago

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knees weak, arms are heavy

#listen it's too late for me to be very articulate about it (and i'm only on s3 now; the rest of the show is kind of hazily blending) but #one of the things i find most interesting about the red john plot...or jane's pursuit of red john maybe #is how ...individualized? it is #obviously the characters have different opinions on it - is his mission right; is it justified; would it help him; would it condemn him #and you as a viewer can side with one opinion more than others (and the opinions change as the show goes on -it's dynamic #which is another interesting but separate train of thought)#but imo/iirc the show itself - the narrative i guess - never makes any outright statement/judgement/comes to any definitive conclusion #on the matter #idk it's just even this - obviously everything's part of the larger narrative but at the same time #his asking does illustrate at least some level of doubt that he didn't seem to have in the last two seasons #is it because of lisbon; and the team; because of kristina; because of the strain it's putting on himself #(probably not the last one; he is demonstrably cavalier when it comes to his own wellbeing)#and he just happens to have the perfect man to express those doubts to right in front of him #(and that man just happens to be noah bennet alskdfja)#had winter said no what would his reaction have been? would his doubts have gotten worse - led to him taking a step towards giving it up?#would he have doubled down? we have no way of knowing because for this man; for this character it was worth it #and that helps shore up jane's belief that it would still be worth it to him too #idk i'm not making sense but it just feels like there's a level of grey area/audience interpretation to this story #rather than a hard line being drawn (by the story itself) on whether the actions taken in it are good or bad and i appreciate that #character-focused vs a morality tale maybe but that's more of an extreme phrasing #anyway ignore me i'm -#tm

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thekimspoblog · 11 months ago

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"Prince of Egypt" is one of those movies the internet has decided that you're not allowed to hate.

Too bad I do!

#i gave this movie so many chances #and every time around the 10th plague I throw my popcorn at the screen and give up #Act 1 makes a big hairy deal about how awful the murder of children was #then our “good guys” do the same thing in Act 3 and nobody says jack or shit #we just breeze on past it #just one scene where Moses was like “WTF GOD?! This wasn't part of the deal!” would have saved it but they didn't do that #don't give me that “they wanted to be respectful to the source material” crap #A. If you were raised nonreligious like I was you would agree that Exodus us just a badly written story (with no historical basis btw)#and B. I'm pretty sure in the source material RAMSES DROWNED!#Why would you change that???#I like Stephen Schwartz but the music in this is just a snore too #the animation is beautiful but the tone is all over the place and the jokes are cringe #i just don't fucking like this movie #I just really don't fucking like this movie #if there ever was a “so good it's bad” movie this would be my pic #in that the quality of the animation distracts people from how fundamentally broken the plot and morality is #no really name one other movie where the hero does the same evil thing he denounced the villain for doing #and the movie doesn't even take a breather to point out the hero's hypocrisy #also I don't know I just don't think “god will kill you for what your parents did” is a good thing to put in a movie FOR CHILDREN #your religion has melted your brains and this movie sucks

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aeide-thea · 1 year ago

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dipping my toe into fandom discourse here, which is never a great idea, but—i really am baffled by the contingent of fans who apparently want AO3 to not only denounce but ban AI-generated works, as if there were any reliable way to distinguish between mediocre writing produced by a human and mediocre writing produced by an AI…?

#i saw someone say elsewhere‚ and agree‚ that all a ban would accomplish wld be to discourage fans who make use of AI from indicating as much #i do personally think the best writing won't be by AIs #or at least‚ it'll have been edited with a fine-toothed comb by a human who's got a really good sense of style and story themself #such that they could've produced the writing unaided‚ and the AI armature is just a crutch #but imo the big issues with AI are like. (1) the dataset it gets trained on—#though like. human artists *also* view other people's art and incorporate it into their body of influences‚ tbh?#we just get mad when they copy someone else's work TOO directly. but it's in their heads informing the art they produce!—#and (2) its potential to put humans out of work—which i have *huge* sympathy for‚ but also… that's been true of every machine ever invented #(also like. fandom is a gift economy‚ not paid work‚ so that aspect of things literally doesn't apply in an AO3 context.)#but like people have brought up the luddites in connection with this and. yeah.#ultimately there's always still a place for human operators and human oversight and human curation of the machines' raw output #and so ultimately i think we'll just have to work out what that place will be in this context #and in the meantime—i'd hope people would disclose when work has been created using AI #which they absolutely *won't* do if sites are out there banning it! people who want to use it will still use it‚ and just lie!#like you can say 'but then you don't get the satisfaction of knowing you're being praised for work *you* did‚ bc the AI did it!'#'surely that sense of being an impostor will discourage people!'#but like. hello. i've seen (and reported) multiple *very clear* instances of fic plagiarism.#the fact that those 'authors' were getting praised for‚ not only work they didn't do‚ but *someone else's* work‚ did not deter them!#saw someone going 'AO3 has its particular set of organizing principles & that's valid! we should just make our own sites where we ban AI!'#and like. hello: if your mini-archive gets popular enough that ppl want to be part of it‚ posters who use AI *will* just lie to you???#(i'm curious abt the overlap between that camp and users who think DNIs are effective‚ lol.)#anyway.#Fannish Ethical Concerns

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pepplemint · 2 years ago

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I could probably count on one hand the characters I've ever personally related to. Like I'm sure I still read into stuff weirdly based on personal experience but amazing how people can see/read something and feel like wow this represents me

#fruktstund #oh wait didn't i read something about how some people actually imagine themselves as part of the story or something like that? it was about #why some people get angry others like fucked up subjects in writing because they themselves read by putting themselves in there so they #feel like you like actually doing that stuff #something like that. maybe it's the same thing. they relate not because the character is actually that much like them but because they ar #putting themselves in the characters shoes anyway and so rather they take after the character?#because they get immersed in the characters pov #well i don't know I'm just guessing

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slightlytoastedbagel · 1 year ago

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Which fucking part of the fandom are you in if you think Ena is just hated for being an "Instagram Girlie"

#also which part are you in if you think people acknowledge tsukasa yelling at nene one time than that bit of nightcord's main story #but YEAH. OK YEAH ENA IS JUST SELFISH BECAUSE OF THAT BIT #if you seriously read that and didn't consider it may be because ena has only talked to mafuyu online and has no idea what's going on in-#her life i am begging you to read more. at that point of the story ena only knows that mafuyu wants to disappear for some reason #and called ena/kanade/mizuki out for wantint the same thing #don't fucking call ena out for calling mafuyu selfish for wanting to disappear if you aren't going to put it into the context of the story #and that context is that ena AND mafuyu are messy at that point. it's why they cross so much early on #the things mafuyu said to ena stuck with her as does what ena says to mafuyu #and i think that very much outlines that nightcord is a group of teens who aren't doing well mentally but still care for each other #sorry ena doesn't show this in a way that doesn't lead to her bursting out in anger (which is very much a shinonome thing)#project sekai fans when the characters aren't 100% perfect human beings and are in fact teenagers with issues #don't mind me i went into the tag and saw a thing that made my blood boil #ena get behind me

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lightdancer1 · 2 years ago

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Sita is the archetypal form of Lakshmi, in one sense:

Out of all the avatars of Vishnu, Rama is the one who happens to have had the most direct impact on Hindu self-perception. The Ramayana, which includes the Bhavagad Gita, is considered by most Hindus to be the Indian national epic. As Rama is an avatar of Vishnu, so is Sita of Lakshmi. The role of Sita, taken captive by the Asura King Ravana, and the war fought over her between Rama and Ravana, is a woman who adhered to all the various aspects of Dharma asked of a noble Hindu woman.

She also dies unjustly and dies for her husband's honor, showing the idea behind Sati, if not quite Sati, is deeply interwoven into the warp and weft of Hinduism. And indeed, the greatest act of tyranny of colonizing and imperialist forces is not the mass murders and sacking of Hindu temples in the eyes of today's Hinduvta fascism, it's....Sati bans. That's why they hate the British, that's why they hate Aurangzeb.

Sati also illustrates a fundamental rule of Hindu ideology, one challenged by both Islamic-Indian culture (which stands unique in the Muslim world in permitting a role for women that doesn't even exist in theory elsewhere, let alone practice) and the future colonialism of European nations. Namely that a good Hindu woman, like the good Christian woman of times past, defines herself solely in the sight and in the shadow of men and has no existence outside of that.

#lightdancer comments on history #women's history month #india and women's history #the goddess in theory and practice #sita #as I said at the start in some cases the motifs of women in story take precedence over other aspects of history #because to put it very bluntly what little history there is is even more the history of men than elsewhere #Hindus wrote next to no history of their own and had no interest in doing so #the Greeks who wrote what little history of India exists outside the monuments of Emperors were as misogynist as ever #they didn't write about their own women unless they were dragged kicking and screaming into it #they weren't about to write about barbarian women any more than they did about Greek women #thus the first part of Indian history in recorded history is mostly mythological archetypes

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