#anti-alison dilaurentis

[feminist-cult-following]

listen I know pretty little liars has been off air for like six years and I should probably stop letting this bother me, but I genuinely cannot get over the fact that they forced aria to marry her teacher and STALKER. their relationship is already disgusting enough before the season 4 reveal, but it’s only made worse by the fact that ezra was following around and exploiting multiple teenage girls. that man should be in JAIL. alex drake should have finished the job when she hit him over the head with that rock.

[thepinkjupiter]

things i am currently manifesting ʚ✩ɞ

no social anxiety

bratz-like friendships

never get caught l!ft!ng

amazing thrift finds

kate moss type skinny

no buccal fat

always find cute bras and underwear

parents never suspect me of stealing

i remind people of alison dilaurentis but they cant pinpoint why

allowed to wear whatever i want

allowed to go wherever i want at any time

no curfew

i give off alana champion vibes

clear skin

people always look at me and think "wow, shes like really pretty"

[chiffonbows]

“aRiA wAs ThE aGE oF CoNseNt”

mf that is a 16 year old and a 22 year old messing around

SIX-FUCKING-TEEN and TWENTY-MF-TWO

like omg i’m so sorry that some of your brains aren’t developed enough to know that 16 and 22 isn’t okay it’s truly crazy how you’ve been failed

[swifteforeverandalways]

Hot take, I like Ezra as a character and Ezria as a ship more than I like Alison as a character and Emison as a ship.

[couragehopelovefaith]

Reading PLL-books once again for nostalgia and am still so bitter that the show strayed so far from them, especially when it comes to the identities of A and some of the endgame-ships... Both will always have special places in my heart, but come on...some of the book-stuff would’ve been so amazing to see on screen.

[jollyreginaldrancher]

Alison DiLaurentis would have been an anti-masker for sure.

[keeloves]

Alli might be a bitch but this one of the times I am on her side

#same

[televangelic]

* 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐈𝐈 . suffer does the wolf , crawling on to thee . promising a big fire : any fire . saying i ' m the one . he ' s gonna take me . i ' m on fire . suffering is nigh drawing to me . calling me the one . i ' m burning white light : beautiful . finite .

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 : a private study of multiple characters from various sources as understood by robin ( 27 + he & him ) * please do not follow first

FROM CANONICAL SOURCES

ADAM PARRISH - THE RAVEN CYCLE : - CANON DIVERGENT . PJO BASED .

ALISON DILAURENTIS - PLL : - CANON DIVERGENT .

BELLA SWAN - TWILIGHT : - CANON DIVERGENT .

JACKIE TAYLOR - YELLOWJACKETS : - CANON COMPLIANT .

MINAKO AINO - SAILOR MOON : - CANON DIVERGENT . PJO BASED .

PERCY JACKSON - PJ&O : - CANON COMPLIANT .

USAGI TSUKINO - SAILOR MOON : - CANON COMPLIANT .

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

NATHAN GOLD - WITCH : - MULTIVERSE / OCCULT .

LEV PETROV - HITMAN : - MULTIVERSE / ORGANIZED CRIME .

REQUEST

HARRY J. POTTER - HP SERIES :

- CANON DIVERGENT . ANTI JKR .

SATORU GOJO - JUJUTSU KAISEN : - CANON DIVERGENT .

VERONICA SAWYER - HEATHERS : - CANON COMPLIANT .

CREDITS : + icon psd from @ariapsds

[pendlng]

DARK    SIDE  ,    i    search    for    your    dark    side  .    but    what    if    i  ’  m    alright    (    ʀɪɢʜᴛ  ﹐    ʀɪɢʜᴛ    )    right    here  ?    and   i    cut    off    my    nose    just    to    spite    my    face  ,    then    i    hate    my    reflection    for    𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠    and    ʸᵉᵃʳˢ  .    i    wake    in    the    night  ,    i    pace    like    a    ᴳ ᴴ ᴼ ˢ ᵀ  .    the    room    is    on    fire  :    𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦    𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘦  !    *    &    all    of    my    H  E  R  O  E  S    died    all    alone    .  .  .    help    me    hold    on    to    you  !    :    by    robin    (    he    &    they  .    mst    -    based  .    english    +    spanish    )

*    .    MUSE    LIST    !

ADAM    PARRISH    /    TRC    -    DIVERGENT ALISON    DILAURENTIS    /    PLL   -    DIVERGENT ARYA    STARK    /    ASOIAF    -    COMPLIANT    -    ANTI    GOT BELLA    SWAN    /    TWILIGHT    -    DIVERGENT    -    ANTI    SMEYER HANNA    MARIN  *    /    PLL    -    DIVERGENT HARRY    POTTER    /    HP    -    DIVERGENT    -    ANTI    JKR HERMIONE    GRANGER    /    HP    -    DIVERGENT    -    ANTI    JKR JACKIE    TAYLOR  *    /    YELLOWJACKETS    -    COMPLIANT JACOB    CUSTOS    /    THE    QUARRY    -    COMPLIANT JAMES    POTTER    /    HP    -    COMPLIANT    -    ANTI    JKR JULES    VAUGHN    /    EUPHORIA    -    COMPLIANT KAITLYN    KA    /    THE    QUARRY    -    COMPLIANT KATNISS EVERDEEN *    /    THG    -    BOOK    BASED LAURA    KEARNEY    /    THE    QUARRY    -    COMPLIANT LILY EVANS    /    HP    -    COMPLIANT    -   ANTI    JKR LOUIS    DE    POINTE    DU    LAC    /    IWTV    -    COMPLIANT MARI    RIVERA  *    /    YELLOWJACKETS    -    HC    BASED MAX    MAYFIELD     /    ST    -    COMPLIANT MIKE    WHEELER    /    ST    -    COMPLIANT NANCY    WHEELER    /    ST    -    COMPLIANT NOAH    CZERNY  *    /    TRC    -    COMPLIANT SANSA    STARK    /    ASOIAF    -    COMPLIANT    -    ANTI    GOT USAGI TSUKINO    /    SAILOR MOON    -    COMPLIANT VAN    PALMER  *    /    YELLOWJACKETS    -    COMPLIANT VERONICA    SAWYER    /    HEATHERS    -    COMPLIANT WILL    BYERS    /    ST    -    COMPLIANT

BOLD  :    HIGHEST    MUSE *  :    TESTING  

[jollyreginaldrancher]

I saw the exact same thing happen in the pretty little liars fandom. People shipped Alison with Emily and hated on Paige and Emily for the exact same reason.

Alison was the hot queen bee. She was an objectively horrible person but she was physically attractive (read young and feminine enough to be seen as conventionally attractive, until her actress put on weight and their stans started turning but that's another story).

Emily was hyper feminine with a sporty touch. She had long shiny hair and a pretty enough face so when they queerbaited her with Alison people started to ship them. The alternative was Bianca Lawson's Maya at the time who was kind of less conventionally attractive but still held her own.

Then Paige enters the picture in this Bob cut, and takes on the stereotypical antagonistic armour closeted gay jock role that helps the main character grow through adversity. You've seen it a million times. There was nothing special about it. She went as far as dunking her head underwater once (before tearfully apologising, in the rain, all dramatically) but is relatively in the grey, if not white for the duration of the show

The only problem is she's not wearing the same clothes Alison is and she doesn't have the long flowy hair Emily does so she becomes public enemy #1.

Alison is allowed to gaslit, manipulate and abuse Emily in any way she wants, and that's romantic. That's her looking out for her. That's romanticised to hell and back. Paige tries to protect her in some way and she's a creep. Alison literally stalks her and that's love. Paige shows up in a public space where Emily happens to be and she's a creep. Alison may not have physically hurt her but her bullying and psychological warfare has scarred Emily's psyche but Paige is the unforgivable one for dunking her head underwater that one time.

Nothing she does is ever good enough. She's always laughed off or dismissed or just villainised over the most mundane thing. While Alison gets excused for literal crimes she committed because she was 'young' and 'just a kid'. The same grace is never applied to Paige, not even during the same time frame, let alone a couple years later.

To put it in perspective: The worst thing Paige physically did was push a trained swimmer underwater for about ten seconds.

Alison literally blinded a person.

But Paige looked a little awkward

While everybody else looked like that

So she was more hated than the creepy adults preying on these girls. At least back when the show aired.

Nevermind that Emily and Paige were thick as thieves and all cute and romantic and actually had chemistry

Like just look at the way she's looking at Paige and look at their break ups

Emily's fucking broken in that last gif

Now compare with

That's not chemistry, that's anxiety!

Emily is literally in the process of passing out due to smoke inhalation here. And she still looks uncomfortable AF around her.

In the first five seasons they kissed maybe twice, and at least one of those was just Alison manipulating Emily for her own gain. But people rooted for that over the girl Emily was actually in love with.

The hate was so bad someone made a petition at some point for the actress playing Paige to commit suicide. And she admitted to an attempt. They threatened to throw bricks through the actors' windows and all kinds of other shit.

And the showrunners actively encouraged the fighting for attention. They baited both teams (despite Emily and Paige being in a committed relationship, off and on in 6-7 seasons...and the small fact of Alison being believed to have been dead for about 4 of those seasons).

And in the end the actress playing Paige was struggling so bad and she was fired basically, half way through season five, and didn't return until season seven.

And Alison still wasn't gay. Emily still wasn't interested in her. So all they did was change the show and fuck up Emily's one safe space for nothing. Because that's what Paige was, in all the chaos.

And ultimately the antis won and they forced Emily to be with Alison in the finale through medicinal rape, and technically they were together for a little while. But at what cost? We didn't get Alison as the big bad she very obviously was. We didn't get any closure wrt Paige aside from her being the bigger person and walking away again. We didn't even get Emily's happy ending, because that was Paige, and not Alison's babies.

And in the end it's all for naught because Emily's actress didn't sign onto the spinoff and they broke up anyway. So now Emily is canonically a divorcé in her mid twenties, with twins that look nothing like her that we're supposed to believe are genetically hers and not a ploy of Alison's to keep Paige away. And Alison of course has fucked off and left town and is doing her own thing wherever she wants to now that she's dumped her spawn off on Emily.

I'm not saying the same thing will happen to yellowjackets, but I'm already seeing some of the same patterns forming in the fandom, with Lottie and Nat stans mirroring the Alison and Emily stans that basically ruined the other series and I don't want to see anybody else throwing death threats around over a stupid fictional ship.

lottienat will always be funny to me because there is absolutely no chemistry between them, either as teens or adults. they’re amicable at best and they despise each other at worst. not even in the fun way! now mistynat on the other hand

[nikkiruncks]

[asongofmarvelanddc]

omg why were so many of the PLL men actual nonces??

Detective Wilden: slept with 14 year old Alison

Ezra: dated 16 year old Aria who was also his student, dated 15 year old Alison (granted, he didn’t know she was 15, but considering he went on to date Aria…)

Ian: involved with 14 year old Spencer

Wren: also involved with 14 & 16 year old Spencer

Garrett: dated 16 year old Jenna

Zack: hit on 16 year old Hannah, but was the only nonce on the show who was actually portrayed as a nonce

Not to mention there was an entire club of adult individuals spying on young girls for bants. How were they not all locked up???

[aviellayt]

Why do people say that they are anti bully but yet their favorite characters are the biggest bullies. When the characters are bullying others ,they just call that funny. I really don’t understand this world

[sunnys-rewatch-blog]

S2 Wrap-Up

Part 2

CW: Reference to teacher/student grooming and SA, the Montgomeries, reference of horrific crimes committed against babies

Okay, so, I might have suggested this before, but I'll say it again anyways. If PLL has to go making the protagonists' families into mini-soaps, I have some ideas that I think would make it a better watch. I would like to see Ezrella play out, and Byron- wallowing in self-pity- stumbles into Ashley Marin's arms; they bond over being separated from their partners or whatever. They develop a romance, we see Byron steamroll over Ashley a few times before he starts crossing boundaries with Hanna and inserting himself in places he shouldn't be, and Ashley finally tells him off. He ends up going to therapy and not making much of an appearance until later. They end up getting divorced and it stays that way, but maybe they could reconcile and become friends later. Meanwhile, on the Ezrella side, Aria is mad into Ezra and he uses this to leverage information from her about Alison's disappearance. I want a couple of scenes where it's blatantly obvious to the audience that he's doing this. Her crush on Ezra could affect her romance with an appropriate suitor (I still like the idea of Shawn/Aria, but Noel could also be a long-standing love interest) or keep her from developing one. Obviously, Ella would find out about the book and kick Ezra's ass out- because in this version of the story, Ella has standards. The showrunners could use the divorce to characterize Aria through her relationship with her brother (I think maybe this was what they were trying to do but it wasn't successful); I desperately want to see some narrative self-awareness on the show that Aria is being parentified and is vulnerable to abuse outside the home. They successfully manage to tell the story of how the systematic emotional abuse of a teenager left her vulnerable to the grooming and predation of an authority figure who pretends to care about her for his own personal gain- Ezra actually very closely matches the predatory teacher personality as documented by the people who study these kinds of things, as does his storyline (the practice of sending teachers to another district after they have been reported for sexual misconduct is a documented phenomenon known as "lemon passing" or "passing the trash"), to the point that I wonder if the writers did it this way as a covert joke on Marlene. However, in spite of the fact that Aria is a textbook victim and Ezra is a textbook predator, the writers seem completely unaware of what they wrote. Aria's family problems and completely inappropriate relationship are always treated like separate, disconnected things; Ezra is supposed to be her "true love" so their relationship isn't even meant to look like a problem that needs a cause and any family problems that are acknowledged aren't handled adequately.

Alright, I have spent far too much time on the Montgomery family, so it's time to move on. I want to talk about how queerness is treated in this show (and most others). This show in particular focuses super heavily on giving their lesbian character an unrealistically robust dating life, even at the expense of her characterization and the story, itself. Emily Fields is a character whose portrayal is designed by a lesbian and acted by a woman who chooses not to label her sexuality and she still reads like a lesbian as written and portrayed by cishets who have no experience in the queer community (except maybe their gay best friend). I'm not saying she's a bad character or even a poor rep, please enjoy my opinion with all the nuance it requires, I'm saying there are things about being queer that aren't directly related to your dating life and would make positive representation. For example, if you're the lone LGBTQ+ in your friend group (*and you usually are not, one friend coming out usually sends a shockwave of friends coming out around you), no matter how good your cishet friends are, you're going to want to find other queer people to share experiences with. Being accepted- even supported and encouraged- doesn't fill the need for a shared community. There's a lot you could do by including queer characters in the story who aren't love interests for Emily (or whatever was going on with Jenna, not to mention CeCe was trans). She is still the first lesbian to come out at her school and her role as a gay rep shouldn't be tied up in having a dating life that goes non-stop. It could have been cool to see the LGBTQ+ of Rosewood through Emily, maybe use her storyline to introduce the audience to some queer issues or represent even more marginalized identities (lesbians absolutely do need to be represented, especially as characters who actually survive the story, but at least anyone you talk to knows what a lesbian is; there are queer identities some people don't even know about, like aromantic and/or asexual, non-binary, gender-noncomforming- this show desperately needs more GNC folks- and although not all intersex people see themselves as queer and should not be forced to take the label, there is room for them in our community if they want to be included). I get that the story isn't meant to be educational, necessarily, but I feel like having an arc where Emily gets involved at that group where she met Samara and gets to know some people and learn more about the community she belongs to would have been a more satisfying watch than most of the filler they put on-screen, and it's not like we never see the other characters with other friends outside the group. We get to see Hanna with Lucas and Aria with Holden. They don't need to be heavy-handed with it, even just having a scene where she uses they/them or even neo-pronouns to refer to someone would be cool. And, being that she's apparently the first gay person to come out at a school where they apparently don't have a support group or alliance, she could very easily end up being someone that the baby queers of Rosewood High go to for advice ("How did you figure it out?" "Do you ever think maybe you should have been a boy?" "What does it feel like to get a crush?" etc). That's something they could do that would increase representation, characterize Emily, and allow them to take a few steps back from putting her in a bunch of meaningless, thoughtless relationships because they felt like they couldn't leave their queer character single for a few episodes. Her storyline and characterization could have benefitted by giving her, and us, time to sit with the trauma and grief of losing both of her first loves the same way in a span of two years. Getting to know some other wlw (specifically) could also help us glean insight into Alison as well.

Speaking of Alison, this season did some very weird stuff with her characterization that somehow goes...nowhere?? They just throw in a bunch of weird stuff she did that seems super disjointed and somehow tells us nothing about her. Why- and how- is she involved in so many relationships? Who is Duncan (to her)? Did he mean anything to her? Why was she taking pictures of Aria while she slept? I want to know more about "Vivian" as a character she made up (*probably with some help from Cece, whom I wish had been introduced by now), I want to know more about her fling with Ian, and they give me "randomly took pictures of Aria, specifically, while she was sleeping." What is this shit? What does it mean? I think they just wanted to throw in something a little creepy and ominous and didn't know what to do with it after to make it a twist (because this story can't just be a story, it has to have a bunch of twists that ultimately add up to nothing) so they decided to attribute it to Alison because she's the one known character no one can ask, right now, and also because she's supposed to be a little mysterious and unpredictable and they figured having her do weird, out of character shit with no hint at her motivation would develop the mystery behind her character. And frankly, I am throwing tomatoes at them.

If any of the characters could have been benefitted by focusing on their family, it's Alison- a character whose backstory we are meant to be interested in by design- because she isn't on screen to develop herself. Strangely, we see very little of them, and almost nothing as it relates to Alison. They develop a little sibling rivalry between Jason and Alison and emphasize it to make him credible as a red herring, but once you figure out that Jason has nothing to do with it, those flashbacks don't amount to much. All siblings have a little rivalry between them. They spend time early in this season on this teenage fashion show Alison was supposed to be really into, they could have done way more with that. I would also like to get a glimpse into Dilaurentis family life, both before and after the disappearance. I'd like to see some sign of the family dynamics that made it possible for Alison to establish a completely different identity in another town and go on flying trips with a teenage pilot. I'd like to see more of Jason getting loaded, or maybe even some drug-related scenes with Alison that could make her a little more complex- like finding and hiding his stash of cocaine and also stealing his alcohol. I also want to see more of what's going on with her parents, I don't even think I've heard her father's name by now. We could get some insight into her character by seeing what's going on with her family, and I desperately want them to show us something "off" with them- especially Jessica, whom we are later supposed to believe is a baby-killing psychopath. Give me something about her that seems insincere, something that seems put-on, something that's cold and callous. Let me hear her talking shit about her dead daughter and drug-addicted son.

Also, let me see Jason and Spencer going head-to-head, because they bring this up like it's common knowledge and it isn't.

I also wish they had done more to develop Alison's relationship with each of the girls. I'm no fan of flashback sequences, especially when there are already so many that you could make a whole season with them- and I don't know if just starting the story that far back in time would work, because we need the context of the disappearance and mystery to be invested in seeing that play out. I guess I wouldn't mind having some flashbacks that occur in the context of one character reminiscing about their friendship- like, making the funeral its own episode or even a two-parter where the characters talk about her, or giving us an episode completely dedicated to the memorial and showing us some scenes there. The stories don't always have to come with dramatic reenactments, though. They could just talk about her with the other members of the group or with other people. Something to give their friendships more depth. So far, I think Emily is the only one whose had flashbacks that show Alison in a genuinely positive light, and that's even debatable because we know Alison was kind of leading Emily on (I'm not sure if that's exactly the right phrase, but I think it works). I want to see more of her complexity realized, and I want to see any social pressures that might have made some of the girls feel obligated to stick it out with a "friend" who was always down to blackmail them for no reason (straight up, usually blackmail is used for leverage or control but this shit gets brought up out of nowhere). I want to see some backing for the phrase "I made you. I made all of you," because that line...I don't know, it definitely has a cheesey daytime drama vibe but part of me thinks it's cool- but it would carry more weight if we got to see it.

Now, last but not least, now that Mona has been unmasked, I want to talk about her diagnosis. First of all, I think giving her a fictitious psychiatric condition is a fantastic idea to avoid further stigmatizing an existing condition (one of the reasons I am thankful that Mona is never explicitly said to be autistic even though she's coded that way- hopefully the people who can pick up on those tendencies in her character won't be as likely to conclude that autistic people are inherently villainous and criminal in real life). However, narratively speaking, it's also a really bold move; your audience doesn't have a real-world context for what you've created, which can damage any empathetic connection we have with the character if not handled adequately. And what did the PLL writers handle adequately? I still go to sleep at night sometimes wondering what the fuck was in that barrel. This is a problem, especially because I don't think Mona is supposed to be the only one of our villains afflicted with it- both Mona and Cece admit to getting "addicted to the game" and Alex apparently came up with the idea to do this very weird and specific thing all on her own. All of their storylines include stalking, both Mona and Alex were replacement stalkers in particular. Alison might have had a variant of it, which would have been cool to explore.

If you're going to create a disorder, you have to create the disorder. Is it genetic? Inherited? Trauma-based? Maybe it's a little-known condition that hasn't gained much traction in the world of psychiatry and hasn't been studied enough to determine the cause. What are the symptoms? What is the onset? I think we could have really benefitted by having an episode focusing on Dr. Sullivan putting the pieces together Criminal Minds-style over the diagnosis, or splicing in some scenes like that in her reveal episode. We could also benefit from spending time in the perspective of these characters- not just seeing what they're doing for a few seconds at the end of an episode, but seeing how this all looks to them.

This mental health diagnosis only seems to exist as-needed for the plot and, to be honest, I don't know what the point of it was. "A state of hyper-reality" isn't even really needed to explain how Mona knew everything that was happening; a lot of what she knew, she learned through Ali's diary, and what she couldn't have learned from there she could probably have learned from her informants- especially since they all have very personal, supposedly secret conversations out loud in very public spaces all the time. She has her own motive. And I really can't imagine setting up something like a fictitious psychiatric condition, you could have a lot of creative freedom with that, and just doing fuck all with it.

It occurs to me now that a lot of what I said may have been repeated, but I'm not too pressed about it. If anything, at least I'm consistent.

[couragehopelovefaith]

The more I rewatch PLL, the more confused and appalled I am about the fact that I once upon a time used to ship Emison. *many unpleasant shivers*

[makeyouminemp3]

Just because you had a shitty childhood, doesn't give you the right to be shitty person, and your quote unquote 'redemption arc' doesn't make up for the things you've done to others