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Today's mood: incredibly salty about the existence of "Booby Tape".
As in, the brand. The global multimillion dollar brand. "The world's first breast lift tape!" Because it's literally just kinetic tape. It's not wider, it's not anything, it just comes in a range of skin colors.
Oh, and it costs at least three times as much.
The part that really drives me up the wall is going through their FAQ, though.
"The secret with Booby Tape is all in the adhesive! It's formulated to hold the heaviest of breasts with a super strong grip!" It's kinetic tape.
"The key feature of Booby Tape is that it comes in a roll and you can cut your own length according to measure to minimise wastage." Yeah, it's kinetic tape.
"There is no latex or zinc oxide in Booby Tape. Booby Tape is made from a combination of cotton and nylon and the adhesive is acrylic." IT'S KINETIC TAPE.
What's even worse is that they only "recommend using nipple covers before applying Booby Tape as an extra precaution to sensitive nipples". Like dude. Do not apply tape directly to your nipples. Do NOT. Use a band-aid, or a folded handkerchief. Anything.
As for removal - "Booby Tape will come off easily if you peel your tape off gently and carefully", except their actual how-to guides tell you to soak it ("and we mean soak!") in their special "Booby Tape Remover".
Which, you guessed it, is just a 24€ bottle of oil.
#The only thing I've found that suggests it might not be 100% the same thing is that you're only supposed to wear it for 6hrs max??#because it will get stickier and more likely to hurt your skin afterwards?#+ their 'how to use' graphs are incredibly bare-bones and only seen from the front - which makes it look like they suggest#taping all the way around the chestcage#which is a BAD IDEA#watching their videos more closely i do think their models don't do that but at NO point have I seen a statement regarding this#it is actively painful to comoare this site with transtape#where they always add that you can also use any oil or any nipple cover but DO use oil and here are the exact ways you should or shouldn't#apply and remove these#I am! upset!#Because honestly?#If this was a legitimate firm with best interests instead of revenue in mind.#they'd at least sell MULTIPLE SIZES#but no. We trans folk have to order from all the way across the ocean#chaos rambles
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.
#fanfic#ao3#archive of our own#fandom things#tumblr things#i may have said this at some point#i'm sure i have#but whatever - just in case#i don't say this with the presumption that i'm so amazing and people are clamoring to save my fics#but just if anyone is so inclined that's all#ftr i don't intend on ever removing my fics from ao3 or deleting fandom things from this blog#i've always shared my fandom things with the intent of keeping them shared bc that's the whole point of posting#but the fandom atmosphere and ao3 constantly being under attack who knows what can happen#not that this applies to anyone but should all else fail you can also reach out to me and i will personally give you a copy#at least of fics bc i save everything#not so much the tumblr things but this is a good reminder to myself that i should do that for the things i care about#that i've made or done and only posted here#anyway sorry i have now used up my quota of the putting words into sentences doing for today#i have plans to stare into the void now
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it's about the small acts of intimacy... forehead kisses, putting jewelry on you, rubbing your hand with their thumb, putting a jacket on you, touching your necklace, running your hands through their hair, wiping away their tears, peeling them an orange, un/zipping their dress, tying their shoelaces, holding hands, removing an eyelash from their cheek, washing their hair, putting an anklet on them, tucking their hair behind their ear, sorting out their collar, untangling their necklaces, drinking out of a cup in their hands
#diary#sorry guys i am yearning#ok adding ur additions from tags in these notes too:#lighting their cigarette#removing your shoes for you#asking them to taste test food#love notes around the house#covering them w a blanket#applying sunscreen#thumb wrestling#getting you coffee / flowers#remembering little things about you#covering the corner of the table when they reach for something#having a bath together
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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miss Toskarin you’re not convincing me that Skyrim was the ruin of all western rpgs. In fact you’re convincing me that the issues began with oblivion.
I'd better be careful or else I might convince you of my less loudly-held beliefs
#I liked oblivion well enough but it's got a lot of Very Serious problems that were never solved and instead festered forward into genre norm#although technically if you want to get more specific here#the problems that I complain most often about now actually started under the surface of morrowind's development#and intensified with the reception to tribunal#and then caught on fire with the lessons learned from bloodmoon (which is proto-oblivion in a lot of ways)#as with so many things the damage was more in the wrong lessons being learned from games with scrappy development cycles#and how those became incredibly toxic when applied as the standard for development rather than a freak accident of planning#consider how oblivion passively fucking up your character was a solution to people trying to play off-build in morrowind#and how skyrim being incredibly easy was a solution to oblivion's level-rotting#and how both of these solutions are solving a symptom by removing friction without replacing it#which is further incentivised because the game now has fewer features that would turn off someone who would otherwise not play an rpg
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I'm running backwards up a halfpipe/pos
Welcome to the game, Daneilla (Danny)Darling! I’m still working on her main-world design, so her Space Riders fit is all I have for now. I’m almost done though! I think y’all will like her!
Anyways, Danny is a young Aerospace Welder and Engineer, and lives on the Intergalactic Emergency Sub-Station: a company, and space station dedicated to preserving life and safe travel through the cosmos. When she’s not traveling with other crews as an on-call engineer for dangerous voyages, Danny is dispatched across worlds to complete maintenance checkups on passing ships and other space stations.
Personally, Danny is a flexible, relaxed young woman with a steady hand and a quick mind. She loves her job, and she’s not working or napping, she enjoys dancing and debating silly questions like weather there are more wheels or doors in the world (she will always say wheels). She isn’t put on the front lines often, considering her lack of supernatural abilities, but her cunning and resourcefulness always keeps her opponents guessing. Her favorite drink is Horchata!
(Space Riders au belongs to @onyxonline)
Alt ref and close ups!
#I love my badass donkey girl <33#okay but can we talk about cold welding? That shit is fascinating#“Cold welding requires the removal of oxidation from two similar metals and apply sufficient force to bond the parts to each other by”#“EXCHANGING ELECTRONS”#(Mac-Tech inc. 1)#LIKE WHAT#you literally fuse atoms together#and Daneilla chills outside of space stations and does that shit for a job#and she looks cute as hell doing it 💅#as she fucking should#she absolutely has put a cold-welder to someone's eye socket in a fight#phrart#art#space riders au#poppy playtime oc#poppy playtime#Danny Darling#She specializes in Flamenco!#I'm almost done with her normal ref and oml she's so sad#holding her so gently#character design#she’s so cutie
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Inquisitor: "Is there any way Solas can be reasoned with?"
Me after Solas has killed Varric, used blood magic on me, trapped me in the fade, created the blight, made the titans tranquil/fucked with the dwarves, started the chain of events that led to Southern Thedas being destroyed, and stealing all my good gear from Inquisition:
#this is also dorian too lmao#seriously though - i regretted ever choosing the option to save him#after everything that happened my inquisitor would be down to crack the egg#i really liked Solas as a character before Veilguard - he was so interesting!#I thought we might be able to change his mind - which was implied in trespasser?!#“You're real and it means everyone could be real. It changes everything but it can't.” Cole about Lavellen#the retcon of mythal clawing her way through the ages for a reckoning changed to being sad about solas and the elves#yes mythal fucked with him boo hoo#meredith/loghain were also majorly fucked up from their pasts but we don't excuse their actions because of it#“It WAs thE exEcuTOrs” oh fuck off#what a wild choice to bring back mythal and have her 'pardon' him after all that shit#bitch you owe her nothing#made him a villain and removed role playing options because they knew the game would be over if someone applied critical thinking#theme of the game is 'regret' - damn straight I regret ever playing this game lmao#datv critical#bioware critical#dragon age the veilguard#datv spoilers
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no. listen. a twin fight is different. you’re the same, you’re nothing like them, you’re enemies, you know each other better than anyone, you will never understand them, you’ve been compared since birth, you’re each other’s oldest companion, you’d kill each other, you’d kill for each other, you’re each other’s reflection, you know everything that’s hurts them the most and you can tear them to shreds better than anyone on earth and they can do the same to you. you are hurting yourself.
#this is about trigun lmfao#apply this to whatever twins you want tho lol#it’s also about me and my twin irl#trigun#yes it was a sibling fight but a twin fight is different it’s so hard to understand unless you have a twin#you’ve been at the exact same stage of everything every moment of your life#you have almost a psychic understanding#you want to kill them for what they did to you or rather what your circumstances made you do to each other#you are both each other and so far removed from each other your relationship to them sickens you#trigun got the twin fight right#nai is dead you killed him killed vash more than actually killing him could#i don’t hate my twin anymore but we tore each other apart as kids#lol sorry kelsey#trigun stampede#vash the stampede#millions knives
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quick how shocking is it that an alicent stan is claiming that DAENERYS of all people isn’t an ‘actual mother’ and that her only children are her ‘fur babies’ and how DARE she be included in a mother’s day post?
she’s the mother of dragons (they were extinct for over a hundred years, she dreams of her hatching them by walking into a great fire, literally breastfeeds them as if they were her own), she’s ‘mhysa’ to the freedmen AND missandei, she became pregnant at 13 after being routinely raped for months and gave birth to a stillborn son. a baby she wanted so desperately, and it’s disingenuous and nasty af to reduce the bonds she’s procured with her dragons, the people she’s freed from their shackles, and her actual dead child(ren, maybe, bc she might have had a miscarriage at the end of adwd) to ‘can’t stand a fur baby bitch’ i am in your fucking walls.
i forget though, the only women deserving of sympathy in universe need to be given made up rape and abuse storylines in order for their suffering to count. not the THIRTEEN YEAR OLD who was sold into slavery, married off against her will to a 30 year old warlord, raped repeatedly to the point she wanted to die; along with being sexually exploited and physically abused by her brother, the only living family member she had left. they also need to be a white red headed woman who’s either an abusive piece of shit or a massive ungrateful xenophobe. i hope you have that same energy when a real life person loses their baby, make sure to tell them that because their kid is dead they can’t call themselves a parent anymore.
#i’m tired of her stans talking#u like one of the most inconsistent characters#whose only personality trait is her victimhood#‘alicent was a child!’ she isn’t anymore!!! you know who still is? dany you absolute bafoons#acting like rhaego being dead removes dany’s motherhood#this line of thinking applies to miss locked in chains too considering she outlives all of her kids#no longer a mother 😢 so sad. anyways#asoiaf#daenerys targaryen#pro daenerys targaryen#mother of dragons#mhysa#queen daenerys#anti alicent hightower#anti alicent stans#stop bringing dany into stupid hotd discourse 2k24#continue having your mid offs in private#i also do like sansa (just not her show version) so this is no hate to her!
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Hi I am Exceedingly Curious about leg theory but tumblrs search function is the only search bar that exclusively shows you things that AREN'T what you're looking for. May I have a link to an explanation of Leg Theory?
leg theory is the brainchild of the excellent and esteemed @catilinas and in short it is A Collection of Thoughts regarding Seafaring, Identity, Curses and Rituals, Sacrifice, and a Significant Leg Injury or Incident!
notable incidences of leg theory include: odysseus when scar on leg, john franklin's / thomas blanky's / ???'s legs in the terror, john silver's leg in treasure island & black sails, a good 45% of what's going on in moby dick, and that time my dad fell through a hatch on a sailboat and fractured his tibia in a way that was quite interesting for his character development.
other and perhaps more coherent explanations about leg theory can be found here, here, and here, and for Grasping At The Vibes of When It's Leg, I highly recommend perusing the 'leg theory' tags on either of the fine blogs I have linked!
#answers from the cupola#leg theory#I Highly Suspect this ask is pertaining to That One Hornblower Fic which is Me Trying To Apply Leg Theory Concepts to William Bush#because hornblower Has leg theory but it does not have Quite so much leg theory as some of these other things#but actually. if you start brainstorming and saying sentences hornblower can be really really leg theory if you Believe#hornblower/bush as the mind/flesh dichotomy and following through with that on the phrase 'weaknesses of the flesh'#if bush is the mortal man and hornblower is the detached mind then bush is vulnerable to physical injury in a way that hh is not#thus -> leg#hornblower removing the stitches from bush's leg wound -> grounding himself as the priest in this sacrifice#& in a way the instigator of the issue#And Also I am playing on that in the fic what with hornblower actually being the god of the sacrifice as well / the paragon of the navy#something something demeter and pelops. I Don't Know.#<- this got long and weird but it is a better explanation of leg theory that way I think. 🦵
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"change your filter cartridge every 3 months" is a lie made up by Big Filter to sell more filters. i haven't changed mine in ten years and whatever's living in there is like my family now
#conveniently changing your cartridge every 3 months will also crash your cycle every 3 months so you will Buy More Product to fix it#obviously if the media has broken down so far there's not enough usable surface area this does not apply to you please don't cancel me#otherwise a good ol squeeze to remove debris in dirty tank water is all you need#anyway#fishblr#shrimpblr#bettablr#shrimp advice column
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#removed from canon like you’d be a mom insert rather than kaveh’s canon mom u know what i mean lol#id invent a new mom since i don’t line applying readers to an existing character#like no traveler!reader#seakicker speaks
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the issue I have with the framing of Israeli “civilians” as these innocent bystanders is that it completely ignores their complicity in an illegal colonial settlement. they’re not innocent in the slightest. without them “Israel” itself would not exist and Palestinians would not be consistently, forcibly displaced from their homes. these supposed “innocent” civilians are literal illegal settlers who have stolen land and homes and claimed it as their own when it is not
#I’m sick and tired of this rhetoric. it removes the complicity and#*their#this by no means applies to children / vulnerable people#and it no means endorses the idea that civilians should be attacked / killed#but in the context of palestine. in the context of illegal occupation and colonisation#what other choices do they have#free palestine#palestine
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while i work on an actual trans Sniper drawing, have this edit (remember to bind safely!!!)
#tf2 sniper#tf2#edit#team fortress 2#see what i did there#I guess an actual autopsy wouldve needed the tape removed but medic is not your regular doctor#its poorly applied and messy because that was my result too when using tt for the first time
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feyre 'stans' (*cough* feysand stans) have such an interesting relationship with feyre - where, they can't decide whether to view feyre as a full-fledged adult or little more than a child. bc its like - if you always view feyre as a victim of her circumstances, then she's not an active, morally ambiguous character. or - they don't actually view her as an actual character, rather, an easy extension of rhys that can be projected into. im inspired by this video again, and specifically the discussions about rhysand's ability to see feyre as an equal - or even just an individual person.
like in the case of silver flames, feyre 'stans' often try to validate rhysand's actions, by affirming that he's 'just standing up for feyre..'
and you could argue that - but feyre has already established on multiple occasions that she feels uncomfortable with the way rhys decides to 'stand-up' for her in regards to her sisters. and when confronted with this - rhysand immediately assumes that feyre will (1) forgive him and (2) have sex with him. its a moment of complete insanity - where rhysand doesn't even believe that his constant lack of boundary actually entails serious consequences. thats not a man whose actually concerned abt feyre's opinions, or actually hurting feyre. he'd rather openly trigger feyre at that dinner table, then actually respect and take a step back. but to argue that rhysand's behavior is okay even when feyre doesn't believe means that you guys don't actually view her decisions to be confidently her own. bc the emphasis is always geared towards validating the actions rhysand takes, and not feyre's opinions on the matter. there's a difference between giving feyre this 'power' and giving feyre the tools and information needed to actually wield that power. there's a difference between rhys disliking nesta or elain treating them as he sees fit v. rhys disliking nesta, but giving feyre the space she needs to deal with them, and respecting the boundary she has clearly reiterated in regards to how he should treat and interact with them.
and its like these are the moments where we see parallels with what the story argues about tamlin - where his way of 'protecting' was uncomfortable towards feyre, and she establishes that she doesn't want to be protected in that way. and we get something similar in maf where feyre literally gets into an argument with rhys bc she established that his behavior with keir was unacceptable. but even when feyre stans see that - they still rush to validate rhysand's behavior. and its like we get multiple instances where rhys will often just take measures within his own hands, and the argument is never about how wrong it is that he does - but that his intentions trump feyre's opinion; specifically when rhysand goes behind feyre's back to make a diplomatic decision with keir and eris and does not tell feyre (and mor) bc he knows they will disagree. that is not the decision of a man who actually values the existence of a co-ruler. or even the decision to tell another high lord the complications of feyre's pregnancy but NOT THE WOMEN GIVING BIRTH to said child. even when faced with the absolute certainty of her death (feyre is almost guaranteed to die) he still doesn't even loop her in. and its important bc feyre is going to die. there's no argument, so the idea of 'stress' makes no sense bc she's going to die. the story is very blunt about it.
but AGAIN feyre established 'no more secrets.' she also established that she wants to always be kept in the loop (even if someone deems xyz dangerous; that was literally the entire point of feyre's mental breakdown. she didn't care that going with tamlin could cause her harm, she wants to make the decision). you see how even though tamlin believes its unsafe (and ig it is) its not his decision, and the emphasis is put on feyre's opinion and not tamlin's intentions? why aren't we keeping this same energy, like ever.
and that's the ick part - even if rhys hates nesta. even if we argue that nesta 'was abusive' - feyre has established that she (1) doesn't want rhysand to speak about them or to them disrespectfully (2) that she does not approve of his behavior. (3) that she always wants to be informed on everything. she also laments that her worst fear being deemed 'not enough' or 'not useful' which one of the leading reason she decides to go with tamlin at the end of maf - she didn't believe she was useful. that rhysand can consistently prove that he doesn't believe feyre to be unworthy of information regarding her own body, court and family should be a slap in the face to be people who claim to 'love only her.'
and yet - when confronted with rhysand's behavior (both in previous books and the last) the race is to validate his behavior and not feyre's opinions. so everytime time 'feyre stans' present an argument thats geared toward validating rhysand's actions and not the boundaries that feyre established. side eye.
either feyre is an adult, who is old enough to rule a nation, have a child, and have her own opnions. or she's little more than a child who needs certain decisions made for her bc y'all disagree with them. or she's person capable of making mistakes, having flaws, and actually making conscious (morally ambiguous) decisions that we the audience can agree or disagree with. we can't argue that she an eternal victim of every circumstance, while denying her agency in moments where she's actually the victim. or argue that she morally grey and complex and then justify the behavior and combat when people might have differing opinions. as is the point of being a morally grey character.
i think we need to do away with 'morally-grey' as a descriptor. or it needs to be expounded on in a meaningful way. being morally ambiguous means we should look closer into the actions of the character, because often how they chose to solve their problems says something about them. im just tired of 'morally-grey' used as the justification of an action, instead of a conversation starter.
#anti sjm#anti feyre#anti feysand#anti rhysand#anti acomaf#this is actually an old post but a discussion me and mc had bout this very problem with feyre and how she is positioned#made a lightbulb come out#and the last post i made about how people chose to selective read and selectively apply analysis that are often dependent on#removing actual context across books#focusing only on the explanation given#and not how that explanation or information actually measures against previously established information#in this case - never actually think about feyre as a fully fledged character#but instead placing her into this chunked analysis that are dependent on ignoring#what *she* has already established across the story
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“People only hate Marius bc they’re being selective about how they judge vampire morality, they’re all monsters” well if it makes you feel any better I still wouldn’t like him even without the grooming thing. Hope this helps
#I mean listen if there are reasons you find him intriguing I’m not gonna make a whole thing out of it. s’not my business#to each their own. how we relate to characters is complex#but it’s just. funny. ‘oh you’re just applying modern morality to—’ oh no babe there are plenty of other things I don’t like about him.#don’t worry#also I just don’t think you can act surprised when people put grooming and child abuse in a different category in their heads then all the#other terrible things the vampires do#like yeah ofc that’s gonna happen. even if you disagree w it#for me it’s that the way in which Marius sucks are too Human.#it’s so common and ordinary.#like watching the vampires be violent and insane usually has a layer of removal from reality bc it’s all so extreme#but the shitty things Marius does are like. real humans do that shit all the time.#and also he’s just so sanctimonious and annoying that again; I would not like him anyway#marius
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