#anti jack sparrow

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Best intro scenes - IMHO (no particular order)

Thunderbird 2 - Ring of Fire Part 1

Darth Vader - Star Wars A New Hope

Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl

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Okay okay y’okay laughing my ass off at that addition aside I just wanted to add in for jarringly tone-shifting real talk that honestly, the third movie was not nearly brave enough!

The actual canon story was, but you don’t really understand the depravity of Beckett through the movies alone, and you especially don’t if you are unaware of how his backstory with Jack actually played out.

For anyone unaware- and was not explained well enough but definitely alluded to and implied in the final cut of the trilogy-

The entire catalyst for most of the whole plot of all this is that Jack liberated a shipment of slaves from the East India Trading Company.

I’m not exaggerating. Not remotely.

The gist of how him and Cutler go back so far was that they both worked for the EITC, Jack captaining a cargo ship under Beckett. Well, one day Beckett puts Jack up to delivering a shipment of slaves for one of his superiors, and Jack, having a spine and being an actual chaotic neutral/good type, basically said “screw this” and freed the entire cargo load.

For god only knows what reason, they cut out an entire scene from At World’s End that was going to recount the perfect little summary of this story and it would have elaborated on so much of what these two’s deal was. Included below because screw the writers for letting any audience member miss out on this delicious exchange.

I still can’t believe we had this omitted from the final cut, including such a banger line as this from Jack.

Which again, I find so stupid because this was such influential lore for the whole everything that sprung the narratives of the first movies’ characters.

Jack’s single heroic action of defying this ruthless, oppressive company by freeing those people are the first snowballing cause behind:

Jack becoming a pirate and Beckett’s Hatred of him - By committing literal treachery and making Cutler look like a complete idiot to his higher ups, he screwed over that monster’s career ambitions at the time, a humiliation that took years of clawing and struggle to earn the sort of prestige he desired within the company again. This is the reason Beckett himself gave the order to have Jack branded as a pirate and the Wicked Wench (the exact same vessel that would later be revived as the Black Pearl) destroyed. These were the “marks” he talked about them leaving on each other in the parts of the scene that were kept in. This is the reason he wants Jack dead more than anything else in the world.

The Existence of the Black Pearl - After Cutler saw to the burning and sinking of the Wicked Wench, Jack contracted with Davy Jones to raise the vessel up again as the legendary ghost ship. This made him the captain over the crew that included Barbossa, who led a mutiny upon him and ignorantly plundered the cache of cursed gold. The same crew that included Bootstrap Bill, William’s father, who sent his son away with the single piece Barbossa’s crew spent years chasing after until Elizabeth, Jack, and an adult Will got involved with and did the entire first movie about it.

Jack’s debt to Davy Jones - In which he agreed his soul to serve 100 years aboard the Dutchman in return for 13 years commanding the Black Pearl. That much they explained in Dead Man’s Chest but did you stop and wonder why when Jack tried to haggle for trading other souls in place of his own, Jones smugly set the price at 100 people? That’s the number of slaves he freed. It was no arbitrary price. It was another cruel lash he could use to dig into his victim, punishing Jack further for the good deed that got him into this situation in the first place.

Also the entire chain of hijinks that led to the third movie - Ergo, the East India Trading Company coming into possession of Jones’ heart, and Elizabeth leaving Jack for dead because of the aforementioned unpaid debt. And obviously the significance/urgency to our main characters (especially Jack and William) regarding why Jones needs to be killed. And Beckett.

Ah, and Beckett.

So in a funny twist of fate, instead of imagining all of this as “Jack’s good deed coming back to haunt him”, it’s actually the slow burn story of Beckett’s own karma catching up to him. Of the entire EITC’s depravity and inhumanity becoming the cause that finally ruined their claim over the sea and world.

When I hear Beckett’s savory last words, as he faced his final moments, I always feel like it was his pathetic attempt at an explanation to the gates of judgement themselves. In that moment when his world was at end around him, he reflected on every poor decision he made that brought him to this, his entire career and life laid out, flashing before him in those splinters and embers.

What does he have to say for himself, in that moment before he knows the fires of Hell will claim him? The same excuse he gave to every person he broke, the same to every person he destroyed, and the same to everyone that opposed him.

The same as he always told himself to get this far.

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

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watchmojo i'm going to fucking kill you

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Why It Shouldn’t Exist

Or how I invested time and energy into an analysis of a relatively dead franchise instead of doing it for my actual media analysis university course.

An essay by: a bitter and obsessed PotC fan since they were 7, with a lot of free time.

Lads, this is going to be long. You have been warned.

The Beginning

At the very beginning of the movie, we see a young Henry Turner looking for his dad.

Now, we're not talking about characterization problems or how likely it is that a ten-year-old child would risk his life to look for a man he technically only saw once; we're talking about plot problems, actual logical fallacies. My questions are:

How? The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ship, impossible to be found unless She wants to be found. The only reason we see Her in Dead Man's Chest is because Davy Jones himself is looking for Jack to collect his debt, and in that occasion the Dutchman's captain wasn't even doing what he was supposed to do, so he was most definitely in the living world. Will otherwise, he's doing the job Calypso gave him, so he's constantly in between. Is the movie trying to convince me that a kid was able to do something no one in the history of piracy was ever able to do? And even if he did, why hasn't anyone explained me how? He simply looks at a map and throws himself on the bottom of the ocean. How did he know The Dutchman was there? How did he know it would've come to surface?

Where is his mom? We got to know Elizabeth in the first three movies; we know she's a smart woman and we can assume she's an attentive mother. She didn't notice her son preparing himself for a trip in the middle of the ocean to go look for his dad? Was she distracted? Was she outsmarted by a 10ish-year-old? Or is she just not contemplated in this scenario?

Why does Will look like that? Will is doing his job, so... why does he look like he's slowly corrupting? That kind of corruption is the punishment Calypso reserves to The Dutchman's crew when the captain fails her, which isn't the case. Did they forget about it? Was the idea of putting algae on Orlando Bloom's face just impossible to resist to?

Alright, this isn't actually from this movie but it's bothering me, so I have to write it; also, it would make this whole movie unnecessary, so it's somehow related to it. Why (and I can't stress this enough) can't Elizabeth be on the Dutchman? Why can't they do the job together? Is it because she's not a pirate? I'm pretty sure se actually is. Is it because she's a woman? Last time I checked she was the KING. She wants to stay with Will forever, Will wants to stay with her forever, they can literally live forever on the same ship. Why aren't they?

Whatever the Hell Happened to Jack Sparrow

Imagine creating a character that is so iconic whenever you ask a person who was a kid in the early 2000 to imagine a pirate, they imagine said character.

Now imagine fourteen years pass and you decide to ruin that character by making him the most hideous, annoying, idiotic person in the whole saga, and we're talking about a saga that has Philip the Missionary in it. Why? Jack Sparrow is THE anti-hero. Never on the right side, but never on the wrong one. You can tell he's doing something morally questionable, but you still find yourself rooting for him. He's stupid enough to make you laugh, but he's secretly clever enough to always get away with it. Now he's just... drunk. And that's not even an excuse for this horrendous new characterization, because he was always drunk. The guy FORGOT HE WAS ROBBING A BANK, the same guy just one movie earlier was able to escape from the King of England's palace and steal a lady's earring (by pretending to be a literal slut) in the process. He just switched from the iconic drunk bi bestie everyone loves to my cringe uncle that drinks too much at Christmas parties and makes everyone uncomfortable. Please, if the risk is ruining an entire generation's beloved character, either don't make the movie or find a better explanation than "Bad luck dogs you day and night".

The Pearl in The Bottle

So... what you're telling me is that Jack Sparrow, the guy who was able to defeat Hector Barbossa, Davy Jones and Blackbeard thanks to his slyness, and who loves his Black Pearl more than anything else in the world, had said ship in a bottle in his pockets for FIVE YEARS... and he never thought about breaking the bottle to free Her. That's what you're telling me. This is the pivotal point upon which the entire Jack's plot hinges. I... I don't even know what to say. Was this supposed to be funny?

What an Incredibly Lucky Coincidence

A guy needs a treasure to save his father. To find it, he needs the help of a notorious and legendary pirate. He looks for him everywhere, sailing on dozens of ships just so he has the remote chance to stumble across the pirate. The last ship he's been on has sinked, he's the only survivor. He's been found in the middle of the ocean and someone brought him to the nearest city. Which city? I mean, the one that has both the pirate he was looking for and a lady who's the only person in the whole planet who's able to find the treasure he was looking for! And, oh my... he finds the both of them! In that same city! Without even LOOKING FOR THEM! A hell of a coincidence, if you ask me. Also known as lazy writing.

What's Wrong With the Guards?

Now, I know Pirates of the Caribbean isn't exactly known for its accurate historical reconstructions, but why are the guards in this movie acting like they're some sort of hellhounds ready to kill anyone in sight? Even pirates and traitors as Jack and Henry were supposed to stand trial before being sentenced to death. It would've probably been an unjust and barbaric trial, but there should've been one. We literally saw it, in the previous movie. Why's Jack been sentenced to death for simply existing here? He gave pirate vibes and they decided that was enough?

Paul McCartney

This is not an actual point of the analysis, I just wanted to remind people that Paul McCartney is in this movie and that's the only valid reason to watch it.

Salazar

I am confused. Once again, I have questions.

El Matador Del Mar was so good at his job he had almost defeated piracy. "The last ones joined together to try and defeat me". The last what? Pirates? There were no pirates left? This happened when Jack was young, so a lot of time before the first movie, right? Where were, I don't know... Blackbeard? Davy Jones? Barbossa? All the other Pirate Lords? I might be wrong, but I guess Salazar didn't kill them, did he? Why weren't they there during that "last battle" in which "the last ones joined together"?

The Devil's Triangle. I just don't understand what's the logic behind it. So, this is a cursed place. Whoever enters there, can't get out. One would think it means that if you get there, you die; and Salazar does die, but he somehow also becomes a ghost whose only purpose is to find Jack Sparrow and have his revenge. So, do people become ghosts when they get in The Devil's Triangle? We have to assume people have gotten stuck in there before; otherwise, there wouldn't be legends around the place. So why isn't it like full of spirits ready to haunt people? Why are Salazar and his crew the only ones?

Poseidon or Calypso?

What's the Trident of Poseidon? Does Poseidon exist? Isn't Calypso the Goddess of the sea? Breaking the Trident, you break all the curses of the sea, so the Trident must be more powerful than Calypso, which leads to a question. Where is she? She IS the sea, right? So she must have known someone was about to find the Trident and brake all curses, including her one. She just decided it was okay? It really feels like someone decided to suddenly change the world's mythology without giving explanations.

The Compass

This is possibly the most blatant plot hole in the whole saga. Probably the most blatant plot hole I've ever witnessed, and man, I watched all the Harry Potter movies. In Dead Man's Chest, Jack meets Tia Dalma in her "shop" and he tells her he's looking for the Davy Jones' key. She asks him "The compass you bartered from me, it cannot lead you to this?", making another pivotal point of Dead Men Tell No Tales factually senseless.

That man couldn't have given his compass to Jack, because that wasn't his compass.

So either Salazar is lying while telling his tale or they forgot about that line in the second movie. Anyway, let's pretend that line doesn't exist; even if that captain gave Jack his compass in that exact moment, why would it be the key to free Salazar, exactly? How is the compass in any way related to The Devil's Triangle or to Salazar? In the movie, they try to explain it with a sentence: “if you betray it, your greatest fear comes true”. So, is Salazar Jack's greatest fear? I really doesn't seem right, Jack almost didn't remember Salazar when Henry mentioned him. To Jack, he's only a guy he outsmarted decades earlier. Also, Jack technically already gave the compass away, twice: to Elizabeth in Dead Man's Chest, to make her find the chest, and to Beckett in At World's End, when they're negotiating.

That's... That's Just Body Shaming, Mate

Let's talk about her. So, the woman's ugly. It can happen that a woman is ugly. Was it necessary to build an entire scene around some blatant body shaming? This scene wants to mimic the similar scene in Dead Man's Chest: Jack's on an island, running from the main villain, and he's forced to do things he doesn't want to do until someone saves him, then it was Will, now it's Hector.

Except in Dead Man's Chest it was LITERAL CANNIBALISM he was facing, and yet he looked LESS TERRIFIED and DISGUSTED. What's exactly the message here? Lads, is marrying an ugly woman worse than cannibalism? I don't know... that was just bad.

Justice for Hector Barbossa

If you know me (you probably don't, but if you do) then you know about my obsession with Hector Barbossa. I truly believe he's the best written character in the saga, and he's in my top five of the characters I love the most in all media. I watched The Curse of the Black Pearl when I was seven and I am autistic, so I had all the time to develop a literal relationship with these characters in my head. As much as Geoffrey Rush's interpretation was impeccable, as always, it really hurt to watch Hector in this movie. He just doesn't sound like him. First of all, why isn't he on the Queen Anne's Revenge? Why's he letting someone else sail around on his ships? He would've never. Why's he just sitting on a throne and shooting musicians instead of, I don't know... being a pirate? Being a pirate is the only thing that matters to him. He says it at the end of On Stranger Tides, and he even says it in this movie, to the witch. "I'm a pirate. Always will be".

So, why isn't he pirating? What happened to him? And what about the pact with the witch? He made her curse all his enemies; that's honestly the most out-of-character thing he could've done.

Seriously, watch this movie, and then The Curse of the Black Pearl and tell me he sounds like he's the same character. Then there’s his death... was it necessary? And I don't mean if it was necessary to the plot (it wasn't), but the way he died, did it make sense? He takes the sword and sacrifices himself to kill Salazar, but WHY? Salazar was back a mortal. They could've brought him to surface and then shoot him. What was the point of his death, Disney? I will never forgive you.

I would've preferred if they never showed him again. He's alive and living his best life in Tortuga, if you ask me.

How does Carina Smyth exist?

Let's do the maths. Carina Smyth has approximately the same age as Henry Turner, who was born around nine moths after the end of At World's End. At the end of that movie, Barbossa once again stole the Black Pearl (he's iconic we stan a legend), so we have to assume it is during that time (between the At World's End and On Stranger Tides) that he conceives Carina. He stays with this woman during the whole pregnancy, bacause he says he was there when she died. So nine months, at least, right? Except; Jack makes it clear that he and Barbossa met Carina's mom, Margaret, together.

When, exactly, did this happen? It can't be between On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales, because Hector himself says only five years passed between the two, and Carina doesn't look like a five-year-old;

it can't be between At World's End and On Stranger Tides, because we know Jack and Barbossa weren't together, and Hector was too busy losing a leg and planning his revenge by working for the King of England; it can't be during At World's End, because Barbossa was too busy rescuing Jack and then slaying (literally and metaphorically) Beckett's men to save piracy; it can't be during Dead Man's Chest, because he was dead; it can't be during The Curse of the Black Pearl, nor during the ten years before it, because he was... he was a skeleton, I hardly believe he could reproduce, despite what’s written in some fanficions; it can't be before, of course, because Carina would be too old. The only chance, but it's a stretch, is that Hector and Jack met this Margaret Smyth years and years before, and that at a certain point (while he was still busy slaying, losing a leg or planning his revenge), for some reason he decided to come back to her and accidentally had a daughter. That would mean that Jack remembered Margaret Smyth's name DECADES after he met her.

The Post-Credit Scene: What?

WHY'S DAVY JONES BACK? The Trident technically broke all the curses of the sea. He is THE cursed man of the sea. AND HE'S DEAD. The only answer I was able to give me, is that the moment the Trident broke the curses, the curse that said if you stab his heart he dies was also broken, so he technically didn't die, but it makes even less sense, because if the curses just aren't real anymore, then a man shouldn't be able to... carve out his heart and put it in a chest, right? (Which by the way, makes Will Turner being alive senseless as well). Even if so, Davy should've come back as a human.

My conclusion is that this movie should not exist, and we, as a community, should pretend it was never made. Hector is alive. Bye.

Imago

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Oh, indeed. There is an incredibly popular quote used in probably hundreds of jonsa graphics and a few metas and no doubt a lot of videos by now, "Stone and snow, that was all that was left of Winterfell. Just like her and Jon." I have no idea where it originally came from, some 2011/2-era fanfic or graphic edit, but it certainly does not come from GRRM. Heck, it's not even grammatically correct and not even really GRRM's style (not that that's ever stopped anyone).

And yet, a few years ago, a jonerys friend asked me to proofread their meta disputing various jonsa claims… and within their essay, they had spent 6-8 paragraphs disputing this quote. 🤦‍♀️ They were extremely surprised to hear it was not actual ASOIAF text that they needed to consider.

And there's so much out there, just like this. Another pervasive one, non-ship related, is “a harp in the tomb, a child in the womb, a dragon in a stone egg”, a nice bit of poetry sourced only from a theory essay postulating Rhaegar's harp is in Lyanna's tomb. People have come to me going, "but that theory must be true, I mean, the poem!" and I had to gently explain he drew the receipts himself.

(lol, well, I say not ship-related even though it's R+L=J, but I tend to think of those obsessed with it (particularly that essayist) more as theory-obsessives rather than ship-obsessives. Not to slight shippers, I'm one myself, but it's a different kind of attitude for text analysis and projection, focusing less on proof of love specifically.)

But yeah, made up or misread jonsa theories are hilariously pervasive -- "the girl in grey" for one (it's Alys Karstark, who came to the Wall as a girl in grey riding a dying horse escaping a forced marriage. GRRM gave the answer in the book the prophecy appeared ffs, the whole story point of the prophecy is that Jon sent Mance and the spearwives to Winterfell to aid "Arya" and thus they ended up in Theon and Jeyne's storyline, but no, Sansa's going to do it all over again just because!) And my Ashford tourney crack theory they stole and misinterpreted (it was about Aegon, and about the fact nobody won the tourney because of Dunk (Sandor, lol, though I'll accept Brienne too), and I've seen people seriously considering it important even though I admit it's almost certainly coincidence and doesn't mean anything! Jonsas aren't the only ones of course, believe me I've seen some tremendous crack in my own ship, but I'm thinking specifically of cases like that where the actual text of the story (Alys Karstark, Mance, Jeyne, Theon; or the historical events of the tourney where Dunk and Egg met and Baelor Breakspear died) doesn't even seem to exist if you're only looking at edits and videos and other fanworks. It gives a wildly bizarre reading of the text if you've never actually read it.

And yes, twitter is full of these cases where the text has become irrelevant, where people make inferences and projections on top of distanced inferences and projections. Not to exclude worg and reddit, where people just make theories-on-top-of-theories, building up enormous cloud castles with no real foundation. Like the Southron Ambitions Conspiracy (textually, the rantings of a lonely paranoid woman), which developed (rationally) into the fan theory that "the STAB bloc formed to remove the Targaryens", but people use that as a basis for so much more, defaulting it as true, even though it is still only an unproven theory! And because it's maester-related and Targaryen-related, it's been mixed with the maester anti-magic conspiracy (very likely true, but also very shadily sourced within the text), into this enormous Protocols of the Elders of Hightower bizarre conspiracy theory that the Hightowers and Citadel want to control all of Westeros and killed all the Targaryens and dragons even the ones who were killed by each other and you can't trust the maester-written Fire & Blood in any way! except it's an inviolate text for the parts you want to be true and nothing is real but everything is, how dare you say otherwise.

Anyway, thank you so much re the term "sourcecreep" and that Jack Sparrow not-a-quote. Fascinating stuff.

@ilynpilled

ppl being more interested in Fandom than the actual source text is so real like they do have their own nonexistent text thats just a recycled concoction of the same bland fandom incorrect quotes tropes over and over again which deviates so much from the canon and they prefer to the actual thing lol

my favorite example of sourcecreep is the fact that if you go on reddit, pinterest, or facebook, or google image search 7 years ago, or flickr and photobucket if you're properly fandom old, you will find image edits of disney's jack sparrow with the quote overlay "the problem is not the problem. the problem is your attitude about the problem."

if you've seen enough of these edits (there are many thousands of them), you might even read those two sentences in his trademark cadence.

the problem here, though, is not anyone's attitude about the problem. it's that this quote has never appeared in any of the five films in which jack sparrow appears. nor in any of the video games he stars or guest-stars on. nor in any of the tie-in young jack sparrow novels or the film novelizations. it is not from a deleted scene or an early draft of any script. it's not from any of the disney park parades or firework shows in which jack is included as a face character with recorded speaking lines. it's not from the original ride or the re-dress of the ride post-dead man's chest.

this is a quote from the YA series the sisterhood of the traveling pants. one of the characters' coaches says it to them in one of the books because they are children in high school. there is no reason for it to be attributed to this character or this franchise besides one patient zero at some point or another 20 years ago making an image with a text overlay on picnik photo editor and uploading it to their livejournal or whatever.

anyway this is how asoiaf fans on twitter absorb information about their favs from the series and then post about it. i believe there are many such cases across fandom at large.

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I'm thinking about that moment in Tortuga where James says to Joshamee "So, do I make your crew or not? You haven't said where you're going. SOMEWHERE NICE?!". Yeah, I know he is irritated, bitter, sarcastic, unhappy and 100% a mess after losing his job and everything he had. But...

He is also drunk. Very drunk. And very... alone. What if alcohol makes him more open? What if James' question is, yes, bitter but... also sincere? What if the bitterness is in that moment caused by the bigger pain? What if frustration is caused by jealousy and loneliness?

Yes, I think that James may be jealous (but not in negative way) and damn lonely. Just look at his life portrayed in both: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Sins of the father (cause this book adds so much to James' bio).

His father was like "Pirates are the worst and you have to be anti pirate. If you are anti pirate then you are a cool kid". His society is like "We are noble, we are right, we have money, we serve the king, we obey the rules, we are cool". So James serves and obeys, he (unlike Lizzie) lets society to completely devour him, he has his career and place amongst the people but... not really.

Father abused and didn't really care about him. People respect him mostly as an officer and "fine gentleman". We see no friends around him. Gillette, Groves? Their relationship with James is shown as rather professional. Lizzie? At the beginning of the first movie they don't have any bond with each other. There is mutual respect and kindness but there's no friendship yet. Papa Swann? He is kind to James, sure. But James seems to still feel alone. He looks terribly lonely (shout out to amazing Jack Davenport). In so many scenes we see him standing in Dramatic Pose and looking at other people with these Sad Sad Eyes.

We see him working and working and working. Serving and obeying. Being many people's dog. Still feeling like "not enough" to some of them. Even his love for the sea (and him being a sailor) is somewhere in the background.

And then there is his proposal. He sees that Lizzie is very nervous but instead of "she doesn't like me in romantic way" he seems to have some hope that she will say yes and that he will finally have someone to love (and who will love him back - maybe). But soon he loses that hope. Lizzie falls, he meets Jack again, Will pops up too, pirates now are everywhere...

And what do James' eyes see? Jack isn't like those pirates from Norrington Sr.'s horror tales. Jack isn't evil. Jack has good manners. Jack is clever. Jack has his charm - and it works even on anti pirate people! (Groves and his "Best pirate I have ever seen OMG", Murtogg and Mullroy and their "Why won't we listen to Captain's advice and..."). Oh, for sure he has it. Joshamee Gibbs, a decent person and once a Navy's man joined his crew! And mr Gibbs seems to be happy with his new life. William Turner, the biggest cinnamon roll in the town - he met Sparrow and five minutes later they're best friends forever! And they have fun together. They have adventures together. They do friendly things for each other (Will defends Jack, he is ready to die for and with him!!!). Elizabeth Swann, the sweetest and wisest girl James has ever met, she... she is Jack's friend too! And she loves Will (a pirate!), she's going to marry Will! She is amongst pirates. She seems to be safe and happy with them. Papa Swann, even Papa Swann is now like "Err... I love Lizzie and Lizzie loves Will so I should love Will too, I guess. By the way, James, you can try to hunt Jack Sparrow and his pirates but Lizzie won't be happy, just saying".

Jack, Joshamee and their crew, Lizzie, Will... They all have now what James never had and what he still secretly wants (oh, I bet!). They have each other. They have friendship. They have love. They go where they want and do what their hearts want. They have freedom.

They are like found family having adventures, seeing places and sometimes being heroes to other people (being heroes without being someone's dogs). Being there for each other. Even when they lose something, they still have each other. They are brave in a way James can't be (oh, not yet). Strong, full of hope and so free. Always so free. Always so ready to fight.

They have it all. James at the end of COTBP has only his job and, still, his bitterness for pirates (so as always, nothing nice). James at the beginning of DMC has nothing. He lost ships, he lost career, he lost home and he's alone.

James' father and his society always were like "Pirates are outsiders, you are with us so you're a cool kid". But what if... when James looks at Lizzie, Will, Jack & Co, he thinks "No! THEY are cool kids and I feel like an outsider"? What if such thought hits him hard when he sees Jack's crew in that tavern? When he sees them again, after all what happened to him (and because of them). He sees them and they are like always: together, okay with their life no matter what, so damn strong and prepared for the future. They lose - they try again - they win. He always loses. He's always alone. What if that damn hurricane was a sign?

What if, when he sees them doing their things and when he's so alone and lost and so drunk... what if something inside him finally breaks?

And what if he joins them not only because of Lizzie wanting to help him and finally being his friend but first and foremost because he finally can do what he wants? He's free now (from his duties, from his father's ghost, from his society). He doesn't have to hunt pirates. Maybe he doesn't have to be so salty... He's lost. And he wants to belong. What if he can belong to their pirate pack? Oh, alcohol makes him very open.

So, do I make your crew or not? You haven't said where you're going. Somewhere nice?!

Somewhere nice would be great. Right, Jamie? You crave for nice things in your life. Being part of the pack would be nice, right?

James: Do I belong or NOT?! 😭

(but oh, soon he is sober and he looks like an outsider again, he watches Lizzie interacting with her pirates and looks like "How do they do all that friendship stuff? And... sea turtles? What sea turtles?! What are they talking about? They're so... I can't. I don't belong, I'm afraid. I'd better go back to previous life and..." 😢)

[burningvelvet]

Some thoughts on the topic of Byronism, Byronic Heroes, Byron himself, and Mr. Darcy, Mr. Rochester, and their respective authors...

This was inspired after I was tagged in a post (thank you @bethanydelleman !) asking whether Mr. Darcy should be considered a Byronic Hero or not. I start with my response before delving off, but I refer back at the end and it all ties in.

On Mr. Darcy: to Byronic, or not to Byronic? That is the question...

Whether or not Mr. Darcy should be considered a Byronic Hero is a complex question, as is the concept of the Byronic Hero itself.

I think there two versions of Darcy, and general pop culture tends to conflate them. There is Misunderstood Darcy (pre-"redemption" arc; aka what many think of him pre-Elizabeth's discovery of his true personality) and then there is True Darcy (post-"redemption" arc; "oh he's not rude, just socially awkward and proud"). Misunderstood Darcy has aspects of the Byronic, whereas True Darcy isn't Byronic at all.

Is Darcy Byronic? I recognize that he has Byronic elements that would make the general populace view him as Byronically aligned, so it doesn't bother me too much if people call him such, but without fully going into the debateable qualifications of the Byronic Hero, I don't think he is truly Byronic.

My interpretation of "Byronic" as a concept:

"Byronic" is not an easily defined term. A lot of academics have their own preferred methods of classifying the Byronic and there is no one fixed definition or interpretation. "Byronic" originally referred, of course, to the themes and tropes presented in the characters of Byron, who was one of the best-selling and most influential writers of the 1800s.

However, even applying the term "Byronic" solely to Byron's own corpus is an act of over-generalization. Many of Byron's purported "Byronic Heroes" are drastically different from each other or have little in common, as Byronist Peter Cochran noted in his review of Atara Stein's "The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction and Television" (https://petercochran.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/stein-green-lapinski-ii.pdf).

I believe there are two main types of Byronic Hero: the Broad Byronic and the Byronist's Byronic.

The Broad Byronic is the modern pop cultural conception of Byronism which has been applied to practically every rebellious anti-hero. You can find thousands of articles analyzing why thousands of characters are or aren't Byronic, from Jack Sparrow to Batman to Luke Skywalker and ad infinitum. If you try hard enough, anything can be Byronic.

The Byronist's Byronic is like the Orthodox Byronic, the more traditional sense of the term. Academics who take the stritcer Byronist's Byronic approach mainly focus on Byron's direct literary descendants, like the Brontës and Pushkin, who were thoroughly obsessed with Byron and whose works/characters are directly and obviously inspired by Byron's own works. Heathcliff and Eugene Onegin are the most commonly cited examples and are Byronic by all standards.

Over time, "Byronic" has taken on a life of its own, leading to what I dubbed as "the Broad Byronic." I personally believe there is sort of a Byronic spectrum wherein I would place Heathcliff on one end and maybe Mr. Rochester on the other, considering his salvation plotline, which I feel is huge to his character and which Heathcliff lacks (as he openly declares at the end, he has no regrets for his actions).

Peter Cochran's interpretation of the Byronic Hero

Peter Cochran was a writer, professor, & one of the best Byronists (scholars of Byron) & I often defer to his opinion. His website is a haven for Byronism. His interpretation of the Byronic Hero is very much representative of the orthodox Byronist's Byronic.

In his essay "Byron's 'Turkish Tales': An Introduction," Cochan provides a brief analysis of the Byronic Hero, which I have sectioned out the most relevant parts of:

"Much has been written about him; what few writers say is that he has so many facets that it's misleading to treat him as a single archetype. [..] The Byronic hero is a human dead-end. He is never successful as a warrior or as a politician [..] he is never successful as a lover. [..] The Byronic Hero is never a husband, never a father, and never a teacher [..] He bequeaths nothing to posterity, and his life ends with him. He is to be contrasted with the Shakespearean tragic hero, who has to be something potentially life-affirming, such as a father (Lear) or a witty conversationalist (Hamlet) or a great soldier (Macbeth, Coriolanus, Antony) or a lover (Romeo, Antony). If they were not such excellent people, their stories would not be tragic. The Byronic Hero is not tragic: he's just a failure, and leads on to the Superfluous Man of Russian literature - as Pushkin demonstrated, when he created the Byronically-fixated Eugene Onegin. [..] The Byronic Hero must never be witty, or be brought in contact with a critical intelligence [..] if he were, his tale would lose its imagined grandeur [..] In his gloom, failure, and rejection of humour The Byronic Hero aligns not with the heroes of Shakespearean tragedy but with the villains of Shakespearean comedy: Shylock, Malvolio, and Jacques. [..] I would suggest that The Byronic Hero is either a closet gay, or a poorly-adjusted bisexual - a problem that Byron would have known all about."

On Mr. Rochester and Mr. Darcy

In his introduction to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: Modern Critical Interpretations, legendary literary critic Harold Bloom explained that Mr. Rochester is Charlotte Brontë taking the Byronic Hero, killing him, and then rebirthing him. I fully agree with Bloom's interpretation:

"[Rochester's] transformation heralds the death of the Byronic hero [..] Rochester is, in this sense, a pivotal figure; marking the transition from the Romantic to the modern hero [..]"

I would argue that what Austen does to Mr. Darcy is a lighter, pre-Byronic attempt at doing what Brontë did with her transformation of the Byronic in Mr. Rochester. Women growing to sympathize with rude men and then (directly or indirectly) inspiring them to change for the better. Women taking the Byronic and not just going "I can fix him," but instead "I'll tell him off, and then maybe he'll fix himself." Like Darcy, Rochester has two versions, pre-redemption and post-redemption. This is not Byronic, but their pre-redemption selves are, with Mr. Rochester being much, much more so than Darcy, and being considered an archetypal Byronic Hero (rightfully so in my opinion, his come-to-God ending aside).

Also, what Darcy and Rochester are redeemed for differs greatly; I'm not equating their moral or personal failures, and I know that Rochester clearly has more of them (if any anti-Rochester, pro-Darcy fan is out there, pls don't kill me for comparing them).

On Austen and Byron:

Austen started writing P&P when Byron was 8-years-old, so she definitely wasn't influenced by the actual Byron in creating Mr. Darcy. However, Austen did read Byron's work later on, or at least his poem The Corsair, which was his best-selling work at the time and which is one of his most cliché "Byronic" works. She did write some works, like Emma and Persuasion, after reading The Corsair, but I haven't read these yet and I'm not the biggest Austen scholar, so I don't know if she was ever actually influenced by Byron or not. I'm positive that people have analyzed this before. Lots has been written on Austen/Byron. They also shared a publisher, though they never met.

On Byronic (the writer) VS Byronic (the writer's characters):

To further confuse us, "Byronic" by its literal definition can refer to the Byronic Hero OR Byronic as in Byron the Man. Many conflate these things, but they are separate. This adds to the case of the Broad Byronic. Many of Byron's contemporaries created characters that were direct and obvious tributes or parodies of him, including Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Percy Shelley's Julian and Maddalo, and Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. They all knew Byron personally. Mary Shelley openly put Byron into several of her novels, as explained in "Byron and Mary Shelley" by Ernest Lovell Jr. and "Unnationalized Englishmen in Mary Shelley's Fiction" by William Brewer. Other notable examples of this are Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon (Lamb was Byron's ex) and Dr. John Polidori's The Vampyre (Polidori was Byron's doctor) in which both titular characters were/are clearly known by readers to be caricatures of Byron. The Vampyre was the first vampire novel, and was not only a caricature of Byron but also based on Byron's short story Augustus Darvell. So all modern "Byronic" vampires, including Dracula, are really Byronic as in Byron the Man, although they sometimes may overlap with the Byronic Hero. As I said, easily confusing!

As many academics (and Lord Byron himself) have noted, many of Byron's fans wrongly conflated his characters with himself. Although many of Byron's works were indeed semi-autobiographical, he himself said that they were not intended as actual depictions of himself, and that he was annoyed when people thought so. Many fans who met him would write they were shocked to find he was nothing like the Byronic Heroes of his works. He was humorous, he smiled often, he was somewhat of a dandy and much of a rake (self-confessedly), he was an aristocrat, he was considered by many to be effeminate, etc. -- all elements that are not typically expected of the Byronic Hero.

In reference to his drama The Deformed Transformed (which contains the characters Satan and Caesar) Mary Shelley wrote to him in a letter:

"The Critics, as they used to make you a Childe Harold, Giaour, & Lara all in one, will now make a compound of Satan & Caesar to form your prototype, & your 600 firebrands in Murray's hands will be in costume." [John Murray was Byron's publisher]

Here, Mary mentions how many of Byron's readers expected him to be just like his characters Harold, Giaour, & Lara, who fans assumed were his self-insert characters, as they each had strong similarities. However, these characters were more similar to "alter-egos" than actual "self-portraits." My personal interpretation is that Byron was writing these very similar dark anti-heroes and villains in order to channel the darker aspects of his subconscious, or what Jung would call his Shadow Self, to try to purge or subdue it. Though he lived before the field of psychology officially existed, Byron was very interested in all things psychological, and he used his writing as a method of self-therapy (see: Touched with Fire written by psychologist Kay Jamison, which contains one of the most thorough & reliable psychoanalyses of him).

As Bloom explains in the essay I mentioned, and as countless other academics have explained, Charlotte Brontë and many other women in the early 1800s were obsessed with Byron and his works. Byron's English-speaking fan base has always been primarily female, especially in the beginning of his career. Byron's fans wrote him letters revealing their differing interpretations of him and his Byronic Heroes (but again, most didn't really differentiate between the two).

Likewise, I think the Brontë sisters may have conflated Byron with his Byronic Heroes. Mr. Rochester is such a strong example of Byron the Man and has so many similarities to him that when reading Jane Eyre I felt like I was reading Lord Byron fanfiction. It's clear that Charlotte Brontë was familiar with his biography. For example (one of countless), in chapter 17 Rochester sings what he calls "a Corsair song" -- as I mentioned earlier, The Corsair was one of Byron's greatest hits, and Jane Eyre is set around the time The Corsair was published, and Byron also wrote songs and was also known for his good voice.

Although the Brontë sisters were each influenced by him, they took their own individual spins on the Byronic, and their works reveal the dynamicism of these themes. In my opinion, Emily employs the Byronist's Byronic most raw and faithfully (and maybe even takes it further), Charlotte punishes, redeems, and transforms the Byronic with much influence from Byron the Man, and Anne presents the Byronic most critically and realistically, asking "what if the Byronic Hero were real, and really got married -- what would that look like?" and having perhaps the most (Broadly) Byronic heroine ever, who is also later redeemed by the end, and has her veil of Byronic mystery removed much like Darcy did.

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[a-thousand-lives-lost-for-peace]

this is my own personal headcanon for pre-re1 jill valentine

Jill was raised to be independent from a very young age, her father a thief, and was taught through games and puzzles as a child how to pick locks and find the best ways to figure things out. She was raised to be attentive to nearly every small detail, and she soon was able to pick out things that nearly nobody else would have been able to see, growing up homeschooled in an attempt to bring out the best in her own capability.

She was mostly taught by her father when he had the chance to, but largely taught herself, learning things on her own. She was taught knots, lock-picking, she was taught martial arts, and was encouraged to play sports, enrolling into a rugby team at around thirteen years old.

Once she was a little older, her father began to take her out to his scouting sessions, often beginning to point out flaws in a building, openings that could be taken advantage of. She had already done a substantial amount in martial arts by that time, and was taught how to break into a building without leaving a trace behind, how to skim important documents for details and other stuff that could be valuable, as well as how to move silently.

Jill had also often been taken to a gun range, and was taught how to handle firearms properly and safely, though she and her father never used them. They moved to the U.S when Jill was ten years old, staying in the Midwest.

Jill worked with her father as a thief from when she was sixteen up till she joined the military at eighteen, having never been properly caught by law enforcement.

She had a determination that set her apart from many of the other recruits, pushing through and excelling when it came to certain tasks of the training, such as bomb disposal and infiltration.

Upon joining the 75th Rangers Regiment, and gaining the callsign Sparrow for her strong determination to persevere, her inability to be contained, her father came to visit her on base, taking her out to go on a nighttime walk, and once he did so, pointed at the sky and squeezed her hand, telling her that “his eye is on the sparrow”, a means to encourage her and reassure her.

She soon took that to heart, inscribing that on the lockpick that saved her life after Arklay. Jill’s career kicked off in the early 1990’s, serving in the U.S Army as a soldier.

While she was part of the army, she quickly gained the attention of recruiters searching for potential candidates for Delta Force; the nation’s primary counter-terrorism unit. Jill had initially served in the 75th Rangers Regiment, though she quickly moved onto the nation’s special forces, the Green Berets, before she was finally contacted by a recruiter working for Delta Force, and she soon accepted it, enthusiastic about the offer.

She was allowed to take part in the 6-month, extremely intensive training course, where she excelled in lock picking and especially bomb disposal. During this period of time, she built up a reputation of being resilient, courageous and precise in her work; and she excelled during her training.

After she completed her training and gained experience serving in the force, she was one of the only women in the world with Delta Force training. Due to her excellence when it came to stealth operations, especially breaking into buildings without leaving a trace, her capability with lockpicking, Jill was often sent on solo missions as part of manhunts or anti-terrorist operations, operating in high-risk high-stress environments, and her position as Captain helped her immensely.

She excelled when it came to ambushes and gaining intel or special reconnaissance operations, and for the majority of combat operations worked within Squadron A as their recon/sniper trooper, assisting in direct assault.

Jill was incredibly skilled with melee and with firearms, having trained with Jack Krauser when it came to close combat, using her agility and speed over brute force - she was far quicker and used that to her advantage.

[110789angle]

Armando Salazar (1930s)

Marie Anne Miller is a dancer showgirl quiet person, private, and anti-social. Marie Anne is not emotional about being a showgirl and not having men in her life. Marie Anne just doing this to look at her. When agencies wanted to hire girls on the cruise ship for entertainment. Then, Marie Anne is one of the best showgirls.

During the cruise ship after the entertainment. Marie Anne fell asleep overnight. Marie Anne scented something coming into someone's soul. Marie Anne woke up feeling something inside the cargo ship but no one there. Suddenly voices came behind Marie Anne, it was a dead man-like ghost.

Marie Anne is still quiet not showing fear. Dead man ghost introducing himself. His name is Armando Salazar a pirate hunter and his ghost crew. Armando Salazar asked where Captain Jack Sparrow a pirate that killed him twice. Marie Anne told the Salazar that there was no Jack Sparrow and pirates anymore. Marie Anne also said it was the year 1934.

Marie Anne does not know why she scented Armando Salazar for the first time. Armando Salazar started to show emotion about Marie Anne's beauty. Then Marie Anne similes at Armando falling in romance.

It's a ghost romance, or looking for dead?

[potc-musical]

I have this theory of why we never got to see Jack Sparrow doing shitty stuff

Jack's an iconic antihero character, but where is him doing problematic thing in 4th and 5th?

But I felt there's a reason

Extreme high favoritism by solo stans who wants him to be centered and "good" character

When Verbinski said Jack doesn't have to be the center of the films and he's right

I felt like that's missing for Jack's character, especially in 4th film. Pirates can be problematic in history (looking at you ofmd with Stede). Making Jack a unproblematic character is flat and boring in 4th and 5th. My pal from Discord said they're hints that he maybe problematic but we cannot see enough of him being problematic

As for the posts I remember

Jack is an anti-hero and we should let him be problematic

This is why I wrote him in OST musical concept than what writers in the movies did to him

[welcome-to-green-hills]

okay so a while ago you said that Shadow is an anti hero. Isn’t that the same as saying that he’s evil? I prefer to code him as a hero

Hi Hon!❤️✨

This is a great question; let’s take a second to explore this topic. An anti-hero is someone that isn’t necessarily good but they aren’t necessarily bad either. They do the harder actions because they know that it needs to be done. These actions can change from morally good or morally bad. It all depends on how we view these actions in our social groups and how we are taught these lessons culturally.

Today, we actually have a lot of anti-heroes that we look up to. Han Solo is an anti-hero. Deadpool is an anti-hero. Even Captain Jack Sparrow is an anti-hero. Just because you’re an anti-hero doesn’t mean that you’re a bad guy, you’re still morally good. You—the central character—view things in a different perspective. Your objective is achieved in a manner that might be deemed socially unacceptable by others.

Let’s look at this quick example for you to understand what an anti-hero is:

In Western cultures, one of our symbolic icons for viewing “purity” is a baby eating candy. This icon is big in American culture. And how could you not? A baby is the purest form of human ever. They have not been touched by the horrors of reality, nor have they been tainted by greed and selfishness and other negative actions. We view candy as a treat. Most of the time we get candy as a treat due to honoring a good deed. This is our reward. When we combine a baby and a piece of candy together, we create the symbol of pure good.

Now that we’ve established that, let’s look at a popular Shadow meme. Here, we see a picture of Shadow standing in front of a chaos emerald saying, “this is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me.” And then he punches the glass. Culturally speaking, we see the gesture of taking candy away from a baby as something “bad.” This is a culturally bad, because you’re destroying the pinnacle of pureness. However, Shadow is actually doing something good.

A baby shouldn’t be eating candy anyway; it’s a choking hazard, as well as a health problem for developing bodies. Babies do not produce the enzymes that they need to break down the sugars that are in candy just yet. Hell, even a baby can’t drink water at a specific point in time because it doesn’t know the proper electrolytes. Having Shadow take away candy from a baby is actually saving that child’s life. Even though he’s taking candy away from a baby, and even though he’s destroying that symbolic gesture of purity, he still doing something morally good.

This is a weak and funny example. I’m aware, but I think it gets the point across pretty well. I hope this answers your question!

[flickery-fluff]

Hello! (intro post)

Hi there! You can call me Morgan or Lucifer/Luci

I use any pronouns, this includes it/its and neos! Creative neos are highly encouraged :)

I made this blog to talk about my experiences with being otherfix and fictionflicker. This basically means I develop temporary fictotypes as a result of hyperfixations. Right now, I kin Lucifer from Hazbin Hotel, specifically pre-fall Lucifer! (this is an involuntary and nonphysical identity. I know that I'm physically human. I personally do not believe I had a past life as Lucifer, but I support past-life fictionkin)

Made a sideblog because I'm not ready for my friends to know about this just yet. I just came to terms with it today, but I've been questioning for a long time (months and months, maybe a little over a year). Past kins include Mangle (fnaf), possibly Jack Sparrow (potc), and a few others that I'm less sure about.

I'm also a therian/otherkin, but I won't really post about that here because I'm already open about it on main.

DNI: anti alterhuman, homophobic/transphobic/racist/etc, ANY nsfw blogs, radqueers

DOUBLES WELCOME! In fact, I'd love to talk to other Lucifer kins, to hear your experiences :)

[smilesrobotlover]

I've only seen the first Pirates of the Caribbean so I don't know too much about the franchise as a whole, but who's your favorite character(s)? Go ahead and ramble about them as much as you want :)

Oh man fhskbsksbsksbskbskb.

I guess Jack Sparrow is my favorite character? Pretty obvious he carries the whole franchise on his back. I just find him so fascinating. A youtube channel youve def probably heard of called Cinema therapy talked about him and said that he either is a sociopath or is anti social (which doesn’t mean he’s just shy it really means that he’s a sociopath) and those terms have very negative connotations, but it’s not demonizing to Jack. And it’s so interesting to see a protagonist who does some good but is also like, the most annoying person on the planet djdsbskbssk. Someone actually responded to the video and said that Jack is not a sociopath he just puts on an act. Idk disagree with either, but I love seeing people dive into his character fr fr. Anyways I just love how insane he is. Like the things he does is just, crazy. And it only works because he is crazy. Like the third movie the guy is like “are you mad?” And he’s like “I hope so otherwise this might not work” or something and it’s so brilliant because it’s accurate to his character dhdkdbdk. He gets out of situations in the most bizzare ways and it truly makes him fun to watch. I just really like his character HDKSBSKSJSK. The fifth movie did him so dirty tho I’m still incredibly salty over it

[dreaming-about-seireitei]

Get to know me?

So I was (almost) tagged by @bleachbleachbleach. I saw it, thank you so much!

Tag whoever you want to get to know better!

I want to tag @bleached-socks, @electronicwitchcollection and @zabimarushoney67 because these are the blogs I know least about, I think, and I would love to get to know everyone better!

Three ships: Since I am pretty much a BABY in the world of fandoms, I didn't write any YET. But I do intend to write some, because I ship these pairs so hard: Renji/Rukia (because these two buffoons are made for eachother), Zaraki/Unohana (because their story story left me bawling my eyes out), Kisuke/Yoruichi (this one is very obvious) (and I'm very hooked on the very-borderline platonic relationship between Ikakku and Yumichika) (I hope this answer counts, all of them are like that, sorry)

First ship: When it comes to anime, the first was definitely Edward/Winry (when it comes to anything else, it was Jack Sparrow/Elizabeth, sorry)

Last song: It was a live lofi video on youtube for a few hours(helps with writing my fanfic). (to say an actual song before that, probably Poor Man's Poison- Feed the Machine or Kaleo-Broken Bones)

Last film: It was probably How High (2001), I think

Currently reading: I'm in the middle of The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare. I love the shadowhunters universe in these books (even if I really don't like the tv series AT ALL). I'm almost done with the second book and I'll have to wait for the third book to be sold in my native language.

Currently watching: Nothing (wow, talking about anti-climactic). But really, I just finished Bleach this month for the first time (not to mention how hard I binge watched it, finished it in like a month and a half) and I am NOT emotionally ready to start something new. I am still mourning. But it is on my to-do list to watch Jujutsu Kaisen as soon as I recover from the scars Bleach left me with.

Currently consuming: A cigarette and a frappe (i know, i know, but I just ate some bomb noodles a few hours ago)

Currently craving: Honestly some better drawing skills so I can FINALLY draw my OC the way I want it. And more Bleach content, obviously, the hyperfixation is at its peak and I don't know what to do with it.

[rin-u-pos]

I know there's a lot of joking about Tamlin and Beron on the timeline, they are fictional characters. But Johnny Depp is a real life abuser. Please do not post him or I will block you. Love you! Bye!

Hello Anon!

I'm very much an advocate for curating your own online experience. In short. do what you gotta do. If blocking is best for you and your mental health, go ahead. There are no hard feelings.

The post you are referring to was meant to support an artist who made beautiful fanart of Lucien that just happened to have a Captain Jack Sparrow gif to express their excitement. It's not even my original post and the gif is certainly not the focus. Lucky for you my blog isn't a Johnny Depp blog. And, unfortunately, I don't keep up with celebrity drama. All I remember is his ex wife shat on his bed. So excuse my ignorance.

I made this blog to be able to express myself and gush about the things I enjoy because I don't have anyone in real life who likes the same stuff. And I'm not fond of people trying to police my blog. I only have so much energy in the day and I will not use it to background check every single human face that pops up.

I will make my stance on the acotar fandom clear. I am VERY VERY pro Tamlin. He is my favorite character. And I also enjoy Beron for his theatrics. Yes, I made jokes and memes during Elaingate, but I won't pretend it wasn't personal either.

I am pro Nesta, pro Lucien, pro Gwyn, pro Emerie, pro Elain, pro Band of Exiles, pro Eris, pro Elucien, pro Neris, pro Jassa, pro Gwynriel, pro Tamcien, pro Tamsand, pro Feylin, pro Neris, pro Azris

I am anti Rhysand, critical feyre, anti feysand, anti IC, anti Cassian, anti Mor, anti Amren, anti Azriel, anti Nessian, anti elriel

And I do consider myself open to fanon even if it includes characters I do not like.

This is who I am, so it really is up to you to decide whether this blog is right for you. Whatever you decide, I'm glad we enjoyed some laughs and I'm grateful you took the time to look at my blog. Best of luck to you! Bye!