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Why author WHYyyy
❝I LOVE YOU SO❞
"I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind"
(gn! reader x yan! villain)
"somehow... I saw this coming, you know? I instinctively knew from the beginning it would be you..."
...
as the world's most feared villain, he vowed to never give his heart to anyone. for it would just make him vulnerable. open to anyone, a victim for pain. he was going to keep to his word, until you waltzed into his life like nothing.
you, the beautiful you, who invaded his heart, stole it like it was nothing. you who made him feel like a changed man. you who made him understand what it was like to love someone more than themself. you who made him feel complete.
you know, he really did love you, he really did. and he still does. he would've given you the world if you asked for it, bend it to his whims if you wanted! he would've done anything for you, his beloved darling.
but he should've expected this, should've expected that it was never real. should've known that you were going to betray him. after all you always gave subtle hints, but he was too blinded by love to notice that. the way you would slighy flinch away when he leaned in for a kiss, the way you would hesitate when he wanted to love you passionately. all the signs were there but he chose to ignore them for he loved you too much to let you go.
so, he had to pay the price, for the crime that you committed. a henious one at that. but he didn't mind, not one bit. because his heart still yearns for you and it always will. you're his cute hero after all, why would he hate you for something like this?
...
he chuckled as blood trickled down from his forehead. he was completely at your mercy as you stared at him with lifeless eyes.
"just kill me now, there's no point in dragging this out."
silence.
"I'm in pain right now, half dead and completely at your mercy. what else do you want?"
the air was tense as you had no reply to his question. he chuckled as he brought a hand to caress your cheek.
"you know, you're still so beautiful even when you're killing me."
you felt your heart breaking as you stared at your lover who had willingly accepted his fate. no, this wasn't what you wanted. I mean, it's what you signed up for but... you've been wanting to drop out of it since the beginning! it's wrong to play with someone's feelings like this! especially because you fell for him at first sight and it only grew from then on.
"you know I've always loved you right? my little hero."
tears came out faster than before as your uncaring facade dropped. with shaky hands you cradled the villain in your arms as his breathing grew shallow. no, you could still fix this... you were a hero for a reason! you'd save him, have him fixed up and you'd just live a quiet life with him in the woods! yes, yes you would! ...so then why was your gut telling you it would never happen?
"you seriously think you can change a thing? baby we both know that... your team is outside, waiting to kill me if I'm still alive."
your grip on him tightened as your tears fell onto his bloodied shirt. he was right, they were right outside, waiting for you to come out with positive news. and if there wasn't, they would be the ones to kill him.
"I won't hate you for this, I love you too much to do that."
you shook your head in refusal as your dying lover wiped your tears away. no, you didn't want this! you wanted to live a quiet life away from the city with him! just like he promised you a few days ago!
you bit your lower lip as you observed his bruised and beaten body. he had just let you beat him up willingly when you showed up unannounced to his door in your battlesuit. with a genuine smile, he knew what you were there for and put up no fight as you beat him half to death before faltering in your hits.
"being with you... is something I've never regretted, even if it resulted in this... I'll always choose to be with you, no matter the outcome. i-"
he coughed out blood in the middle of his sentence as you stared at what you had done to the once glorious villain. the guilt of the act becoming too much for you to handle as you sobbed uncontrollably.
"I'll always love you, okay? even... even if you initially came here with the intention to kill me... you left with feelings for me, right?"
you stared at the pale man as you shakily nodded in between tears. you saw him weakly giving you one of his signature smirks before mumbling a sentence that hurt you more than it should've.
"then that's more than... enough for me. you've won the battle this time baby... so keep your chin up, hm? we're... equal now haha... don't worry, I'll be back for you. I... always will... you're my strong little hero after all... my hero whom I love so much... I promise to give you that wedding and that... life in the woods in our next lives. it's a promise, alright? so make sure to... hit me when you find me again."
he gave you a bright smile before closing his beautiful eyes that would never open again. you felt his body go completely limp as you physically heard your heart shatter into millions of tiny shards. hugging his dead body, you wailed loudly in agony, reality sinking in as you realised what you had just done. giving up your lover for the sake of the world when he would've given up the world for you? what a fucking shit lover you were.
laughing miserably as tears rolled down your cheeks, you knew you could never go back to being the same person you was before. and in the middle of it all, you remembered what he confessed before you brutally beat him up.
"somehow... I saw this coming, you know? I instinctively knew from the beginning it would be you who would kill me. and I'm glad I was right, I wouldn't have it any other way. so give me your all 'kay? I want to go out with a bang!"
the guilt of it all hit you like a bullet train as the hole in your shattered heart ached. you really did just give up your lover for the rest of the world, what an asshole you are. an international hero to the rest of the world but the killer of your one true love... some kind of lover you were, huh? and just yesterday you told him how much you wanted to spend the rest of your life with him. what a hypocrite you are, my dearest hero.
#in another life i guess#angst no comfort#yandere villain#i love angst#angst#oneshot#yandere villain x reader#author how dare you#hero reader#ocs#angst is the best😀🔪
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#archive of our own#ao3 stuff#ao3 quotes#archive of our own quotes#fanfic#fanfic quotes#funny#ao3#ao3 tags#Author Has No Plan And It’s Causing Her Problems#how dare you call me out like this#it’s not like I’ve been staying up an extra hour every night trying to write a single one shot#bc the only time my fucking brain wants to come up with the next part of the plot#is when im already cozy in bed and halfway to being asleep
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God forbid you ever criticize the lack of consequences Bakugou experiences in MHA, or suddenly you’ll find dozens of Bakugou stans pouring into your mentions to make a speech about how cruel you are for forcing him to eat cement. They’ll act as though “consequences” inherently involves throwing him into the dungeon or putting him in detention for 100 years and then moan about how him facing consequences would only perpetuate a cycle of abuse/discrimination.
Listen, it’s not really that much of a consequence if the “consequence” in question isn’t directly connected to his current or past bad behaviour. “Oh but his scars!” “When he died that one time!” “His guilt for getting kidnapped” None of those are related to his bullying, and in my opinion, that makes them insufficient as consequences in an arc about changing for the better.
The consequences I would actually like to see could be as simple as: Izuku feels sad/mad because of what he went through, or certain characters reflect on how Bakugou’s past impacts their perception of him. More introspection on the victim’s end is needed, Bakugou doesn’t necessarily need to be pilloried for the arc to be satisfying.
#No#listing off every bad thing that has ever happened to Bakugou doesn’t prove that he faced consequences for being a bully#What these types truly want is the most digestible redemption arc they can possible imagine. Where the bully character is let off the hook#in every way while the victim’s side of the story is overshadowed by the narrative focusing so much on the bully’s side#Also don’t you dare try to *But Izuku doesn’t hold a grudge!!! why do you want him to pray on Bakuchan’s downfall?#me.#Izuku isn’t a real person and his feelings on the matter are dictated by an author who clearly prioritizes Bakugou’s emotional development#and introspective over Izuku’s (who is reduced to the awful position of constantly approaching his for#bully with: *You’re doing great sweetie!* as opposed to actually reflecting on how the bullying affected him for the worse#anti bakugou#anti bakugo katsuki#anti horikoshi#anti bakudeku#mha critical#mha fandom critical#fandom discourse#MHA salt#anti mha fandom#my hero academia
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cocky bastard vibes - zhongli
ship: zhongli x reader
synopsis: in which reader shares their free thoughts on the liyue statue of seven
notes: standalone snippet part of the bookkeeping!verse
It was a beautiful day in Liyue. The grass was a luscious green and the birds were singing a beautiful song. After a nice stay at the Emerald Maple Inn, you and Mr. Zhongli decided to have a cup of tea next to the Statue of the Seven before heading on your way to Qingce Village. You were to accompany him to pick up supplies for the next funeral rite, and with the way the morning was going, you knew nothing would ruin this peaceful day.
"So how much do you want to bet that Rex Lapis was hot and knew it?”
You ignored the choked sound that came from your side as you gazed up at the picturesque statue. Though your companion would probably consider your question quite out of the blue, you couldn’t say it was the first time you wondered such a thing. Whenever you passed by one of them in Liyue, the thought always plagued your mind for a few hours after. Judging by Mr. Zhongli’s reaction, though, it seemed he did not share your sentiments.
"Ehem… That… certainly is an interesting thought. I can’t say whether or not previous records touched on such a topic."
You hummed, gazing up at the statue. Really? That couldn’t be true. Why wouldn’t anyone talk about a statue looking like that?
“Well there are many reasons why I’d say I’m right. First off, his outfit. He has a hooded cloak on while also being shirtless. There’s absolutely no logical reason to dress like that unless they’re from the deserts of Sumeru, wouldn’t you say? It obviously was a conscious fashion decision. If you pair that with the seductive way he’s sitting, I’d be inclined to assume he’s quite clearly feeling his look.”
Silence came from your side. Hm, Mr. Zhongli still wasn’t convinced? Then you would go on.
“You do see it, right? His posture is relaxed, yet confident. Not to mention the way he’s looking at that cube in his hand with practically bedroom eyes. His knees are apart too. My friend from Sumeru told me that when a man sits like that, he’s displaying his dominance.”
Still silence.
"You can't sit in a seductive pose like that without on some level being aware you look good doing it. I mean look at him! He's shirtless and everything! I've heard even macho fishermen say that they pray to the statue for a good night before coming home to see their wives. You can’t blame them, right?"
A hesitant cough.
"I-I'm sure it was a younger time when those statues were sculpted."
You groaned.
"Maybe, but you’re not even looking! If you did, you’d agree with me that Rex Lapis is clearly exuding such massive 'cocky bastard' vibes!" You countered.
For some reason, the more you spoke, the more flustered he became.
"C'mon, Mr. Zhongli! Why are you so embarrassed? It's not like I'm slandering his good name! I mean, if Rex Lapis didn't want us talking about him like this, maybe he shouldn't have made a statue with abs clean enough to eat off of!"
Okay, maybe at this point, you were piling it on a bit thick. Could anyone blame you? His face was in his hand as if he had a headache, and were his ears tinged the slightest hint of red? It was an interesting sight. Never had you seen him look so completely flustered. Sure you were rather blunt, but you didn't think your words were that provocative. Mr. Zhongli really was practically a 65 year old man.
"I thought you respected the Geo Archon…" He muttered weakly.
You gasped in offense.
"I do! I’d even consider my words the utmost of pious behavior. In Mondstadt, the sisters of the church consider themselves married to Barbatos, the Anemo Archon. So finding the Geo Archon to be a sex god is pretty much the same thing, right?”
“No, it is not.”
#genshin impact#genshin#genshin x reader#zhongli#zhongli x reader#in which the author converts their first thought upon seeing the liyue statue of seven into written verse#like legit why he sit like that tho#like i’m not the only one right?#why is he sitting like he wants to seduce someone#there’s no logical reason anyone would sit like that unless they thought they looked damn sexy doing so#also if it isn’t clear reader is purposefully laying it on thick through this whole thing#it’s their turn to be amused they deserve it#he’s put them through enough#this is the dumbest thing i’ve ever written but i’m also not sorry#this is my magnum opus not the fischl one uwu#milk u made me finish this how dare you#bookkeeping!verse
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AO3 DOWN AO3 DOWN THIS IS NOT A DRILL
kill me
#ao3#i need chapter 2 immediately how DARE YOU my comment didn't get sent it didn't get SENT the author must KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ME
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I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars. - Richard Siken
#Jon x Sansa moodboard#Jonsa#jon x sansa#asoiaf#dare I say it but they have the potential to possess the most beautifully raw dynamic of the series#I’m so desperate for the simultaneous angst and tenderness#a love match disguised by the author under surface-level differences that not even the general fandom can comprehend#how insane of a writer you must be to pull off such a literary feat!! whew
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I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die now actually
#my country has betrayed me#I will have to walk past people in the streets#Knowing that half of the people I pass by#Are ones who voted to take my rights away from me#Ones who voted to take my *life* away from me#How could you do this to me#To my friends#to my parents#to people who matter#How could you willingly say “yeah I think I want the government to take away those people’s rights”#how could you#How could you#no#how dare you#how dare you be allowed to decide who gets rights and who doesn’t#Because if you want to take away other peoples’ rights I think you should have yours taken away from you first. Then you can decide#But I don’t have that authority#And neither should you person I will have to walk past on the street#And yet here we are#person I walk past on the street has taken away my rights#us elections#us politics#holy crap it’s skh
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the day this fandom stops treating questioning and disagreeing with the author as something audacious is the day i shall know peace
#‘‘you dare disagree with how the author writes her own characters’’ YES YES I DARE I DARE EVERYDAY DARING IS THE VERY FOUNDATION OF MY BEING#SORRY I DON’T BLINDLY ACCEPT WHAT I’M TOLD WHEN THERE’S SUCH CONTRADICTORY WRITING AND FLIMSY WORLDBUILDING#TO LOOK AT AND SAY ‘‘yea canon makes sense’’#USE YOUR BRAIN USE YOUR BRAIN THAT THING IN YOUR HEAD? USE IT#acotar#anti sjm
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Hi hi i think youre completely right about characterization so I wanted to ask if you have any pjsk fic recs? Thank you :3
Oh god you know not what you have done
Primary ruikasa/emunene focus as is expected on ssruis dot tumblr dot com so keep that in mind but there’s a few gen fics on here.
The world offers itself - thrillingwhiteday (In progress) (ruikasa)
Super underrated… the characterization is so good… saki + rui interactions (I cheered). Lives in my head rent free.
You and a Skull’s Flower - Revelry_in_serenity (In progress) (no relationship focus but there are bg relationships)
Pandemonium gang experiences The Horrors. Recommend the author’s other works as well - Supporting Roles/Lasting Embraces/Overwritten are some other ones I really enjoyed - but I’m Very Intrigued by the plot in this one.
Warm - pyrotechpuffs (One shot) (ruikasa)
Also recommend the authors other works but this is a fave.
Soul to Wreck - sleepieash (In progress) (ruikasa)
Literally anything by helloitsaiza or calculatrice. The characterization/writing… chefs kiss… their brains are so massive. Best stuff in the tag. Rewired my brain. However this is a list of fic recs and not author recs so I’ll link some of my favorites:
Roles - helloitsaiza (one shot) (ruikasa)
Eternal sunshine - helloitsaiza (One shot) (emunene)
Special shout-out because Peak Emunene I’m actually obsessed with it.
Confess, Confess - helloitsaiza (In progress) (ruikasa)
Yours - helloitsaiza and calculatrice (one shot) (ruikasa)
Backstage after the curtain call - calculatrice (One shot) (ruikasa)
To sear the sky - calculatrice (One shot) (ruikasa)
A study in performance - calculatrice (One shot) (ruikasa)
Funhouse mirror - calculatrice (in progress) (no relationship focus, wxs & niigo)
Special shout-out because tsukasa + mafuyu body swap is such a galaxy brained idea
Rui’s doki-doki seishun school life - calculatrice (one shot) (ruikasa)
^ read all of these they go so hard 10/10
Because it’s you - sleepy_macchi (one shot) (ruikasa)
Act I of our story - Asteromeda (one shot) (ruikasa)
The show must go on - literallyjustsomeguy (in progress but it’s been like 2 years so it might be abandoned) (ruikasa)
I don’t like recommending stuff that may remain unfinished but I’ll make an exception for very funny tsukasa tenma stupidity moments
X marks the spot - seatrix (in progress) (ruikasa)
Underrated… love the characterization & plot.
Voted most likely to run away with you - eightyeightstars (one shot) (ruikasa)
Sharing is caring - underwaternature (one shot) (ruikasa)
Tête-à-tête - kuiperbelts (one shot) (ruikasa)
Also recommend the authors other works I just really like the tsukasa characterization in this one
All I want (is you) - sorasekai (one shot) (emunene)
Recommend their other works as well for good emunene
Ikanaide - gummysaur (finished) (tsukasa focus, gen wxs)
Also recommend their other works but (chefs kiss) tsukasa characterization
Closeness - lyriablackfrost (one shot) (ruikasa)
Find out who you are, and then do it on purpose - weepingstars (transfem rui focus, gen wxs)
And I will still live here - utayoru (one shot) (ruikasa)
Their other works are good as well but this is a fave for the early pjsk days rui characterization
With me all along - jeiseny (one shot) (saki focus, gen)
SAKI… (ugly crying) beautiful exploration of chronic illness. And it doesn’t focus on her fucking brother (staring with homicidal intent @ wider pjsk fanbase). Made me go ouuggh relatable several times.
#obvs recommend the authors in general if they’re on here but specifically mentioned it if I’ve read all their pjsk fics/had to pick a single#one to avoid making the list too much of a pain in the ass to make#asks#mine#saying author and title bc I would not put it past myself to fuck up the links lmao#there are others I’ve read and enjoyed and lost bc I didn’t bookmark#& then there are some that I liked but don’t want to recommend w/out caveats & im not doing that publicly bc I’m not giving unasked for#criticisms on works people spent hours on.#in general though I’m just somewhat picky. & neurotic abt recommending things.#mostly ruikasa recs because (gestures to the state of the pjsk tag)#thankfully like none of these people are on tumblr so I won’t have to die from embarrassment if this is seen 👍🏻#except jay hi jay the saki fic ruined me emotionally how dare you (positive) (complimentary)#there’s also my writing in the my writing tag but I’m not reccomending that shit lmao
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it really is SUCH a shame that there’s no episode of TOS where the enterprise crew time jumps to Regency-era England or goes to a planet that modeled its culture on that era or something, because it would truly slap for every single main character. Like I don’t even have to explain why this would be awesome for Spock— Mr. I’ll-smash-a-computer-with-my-bare-hands-before-I’ll-admit-I’m-horny himself, king of repression, who basically recreated the famous Pride and Prejudice Hand Flex Scene™️ with his beloved Captain that one time, who meets a blind woman with a high tech gown that helps her “see” and LITERALLY tells her to give his compliments to her dressmaker, who mislead a woman once about his affections and tenderly promised to safeguard her reputation forever about it, who has the perfect angular features to be set off by a cravat—I mean, you get it, but then you’ve also got Kirk—handsome, affable, brave Naval captain who loves his crew more than himself, who falls in like deep profound love with every woman the plot throws at him—and then McCoy—cantankerous, sure, (ever heard of a grumpy/sunshine trope??) but with impeccable, downright old school manners towards women and, yeah, a doctor’s not that prestigious in Regency times, but for like a young lady in trouble who needs the protection of a man’s name or who just wants to piss off her stuffy aristocrat family by marrying “beneath” them, who could be better? If you throw Scotty in the mix, well, he’s Scottish, which [points at a whole subgenre of regency romance novels] is all he’d really need. I’m just saying they would have CLEANED UP, okay??
#by main character I do mean like main cast/top billing#which is why I’m not including uhura and sulu and chekhov#also because they don’t go off on landing party missions that much they stay on the bridge#I included Scotty because he does go with them more often and also…because he’s Scottish literally#like….do you know how many romance novels are just like ‘Scottish men are irresistible to young English maidens’??#it’s NUTS quite frankly#why aren’t any English maidens obsessed with like….welsh guys??#extra funny to imagine this alien culture modeling itself after the Regency era and they just use like 20th and 21st century romance novels#as their guide which like yeah they are well researched in many cases but also they’re primarily designed for escapism not accuracy#so authors will just hand wave certain things#my kingdom for Spock saying ‘fascinating Captain. They seem to base their culture on the fictional though anthropological writings#of 19th century writer Jane Austen’#if they were making it now this could happen#and unfortunately people would call it a Bridgerton inspired episode#and we’d all have to pretend that wasn’t insane#also to be clear no shade at Scotty he’s great and he’s got a lot going for him but in a regency romance he’d have everybody on accent alon#star trek#tos#do I dare tag this as Jane Austen??
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Did Edward I have a serious tendency towards violence towards Edward II?
I highly recommend reading Hannah Kilpatrick's article "Edward I’s Temper" in The Medieval Chronicle, vol. 12 (2019, doi) if you can find it because not only is it brilliant but because my entire answer will based on it. The short answer: probably not, because our main sources for Edward I being violent are two accounts that have been mistranslated or mistranscribed.
In a way, it's understandable. Edward I has frequently been understood as the ultimate embodiment of the brutal, dark and hyper-violent Middle Ages and the story that he physically assaulted his son both not only feeds this image but is likewise fed by this reputation. It becomes cyclical: we know Edward I was violent and angry because we know he assaulted his son and we know he assaulted his son because we know he was violent and angry. The actual story of this assault is goes something like this: the future Edward II foolishly petitions his father for an earldom for his unworthy and unpopular favourite Piers Gaveston. The king erupts in a fit of violent temper. He swears at his son, tears out handfuls of his son's hair and then throws him to the ground and kicks him.
This account is a conflation of two contemporary accounts, one found in the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough (where Edward II's hair is pulled out) and the other in the Fineshade chronicle (where Edward II is thrown to the ground and trampled). Kilpatrick argues, quite convincingly, that both accounts have been misread - mistranslated or mistranscribed - and offers corrections wherein Edward I's violence is directed at himself (he pulls his own hair out) and the physical copy of Edward II's petition, not his son.
On Walter of Guisborough:
But here is no assault. Walter of Guisborough never claims that Edward I tore out his son’s hair. ‘Et apprehensis capillis vtraque manu dilacerauit eos in quantum potuit’, he writes, following Edward I’s last speech, literally: ‘And seizing hair in each hand he tore it out to the extent that he could’, with no possessive pronoun. In English, of course, we cannot leave the ownership of a body part ambiguous—we would have to say ‘his own hair’, or‘his son’s hair’—but this construction is perfectly possible in Latin. In fact, in the absence of grammatical indications to the contrary, it should be assumed to refer back to the subject, as in Latin’s modern descendents—and as we see here with reference to the hands (‘manu’, not ‘manusua’).
In short, an alternative, more plausible translation of the original Latin is that Edward I tore out his own hair in a rage at his son's request, not his son's hair. It is violent, but violence directed to the self rather than at his son.
In regards to the Fineshade chronicle, Kilpatrick argues that George Haskins's transcription of the scene features an error. That is, he silently expanded the abbreviated pronoun, ipm, to the masculine form, ipsum:
For reasons of grammar and syntax, I argued that ipm should, in fact, be expanded to feminine ipsam: in other words, it is the petition which is flung to the ground and crushed underfoot (‘peticionem importunam ferens, indignanter ipsam ad terram deiecit pedibusque conculcauit’). The most recent masculine referent is the king himself, preceded by Gaveston; and it would be syntactically awkward to have to reach back past so many clauses to a previous sentence, when a more immediate and logical referent is (as it were) directly to hand.
So, rather than Edward I flinging his son to the ground and kicking him, Edward I flings the petition, an inanimate object, to the ground and tramples it.
To me, Kilpatrick's alternate readings of these chronicles are more believable. Seymour Phillips also has rejected Walter of Guisborough's account as "exaggerated" and either inaccurate or unable to be confirmed, but without reassessing the chronicle accounts that Kilpatrick does. The acceptance of this story speaks to what Kilpatrick calls "modern preconceptions of medieval emotionality" - the tendency to read the Middle Ages as a place of casual and excessive violence and to stereotype medieval individuals as being unable to control their emotions.
This accounts, Kilpatrick goes to argue, also use "public emotionality" or the public performance of emotion - in this case, lordly anger - to make a point. That is, that Edward I's anger serves a political and social purpose:
...public demonstrations of anger had a paradoxically crucial role in mending social bonds (particularly between a lord and his dependent), by 'announcing to all that the current situation was unacceptable and that social relationships would have to be restructured'. This would (ideally) initiate the process of negotiation and reconciliation.
Both writers use this display of lordly anger in different ways to achieve different messages in their writing but both are "interrogat[ing] the idea of effective kingship". Walter of Guisborough's account is more critical of Edward I, whilst also anticipating problems in his heir's reign. In contrast, the Fineshade chronicler is writing in the last decade of Edward II's reign and is more concerned with the failures of Edward II's kingship in comparison with his father's more stable reign.
So, Walter of Guisborough depicts Edward I's anger as dysfunctional, showing Edward as embodying Ira, uncontrolled and self-destructive rage while Edward II's lack of response to his father's anger is problematised because Edward II should be filled with a shaming anger that drives him to correct his fault (the favouritism of Gaveston):
In the scene as written, the king enacts a powerful and very public demonstration of the extent of the prince’s transgression against both his own role and his father’s, and of the serious breach in the relationships between father and son and between the realm and its future king. He attempts to solve it by trying to prick on his son to be the honourable knight that he ought to be. He fails—he does succumb to a violent, uncontrollable passion—not because he is a medieval man, but because Walter of Guisborough was critiquing specific flaws in his kingship. His transgression is not physical violence but violence against social norms governing acceptable emotional display: not the uncontrollable outburst of a passion that ought to be contained, but a failure to embody what it is to be a king, to engage and empower the emotionality of his followers.
In Fineshade chronicler's narrative, Edward I is idealised as the representation of "the stability and the link with the past that his son rejects" which renders the idea it depicts Edward violently assaulting his son even more suspect. Instead, the petition is trampled in an appropriate display of royal anger: "the transference of royal violence onto the petition (and the imagined Gaveston) rather than the body of his son allows the king to make a powerful performance of his fury without violating the feudal bond in return."
In brief, then: our evidence for Edward I's "serious tendency for violence" against his son comes from one event that has likely been misread (mistranslated, mistranscribed) and show Edward's violence enacted on his own body or an inanimate object rather than the body of his son. Seymour Phillips and Kathryn Warner both point out there was no serious breach between father and son, no suggestion that Edward I was disappointed with his son and, while there were conflicts between them, they were not unusual for a king and his son (n.b. Warner believes Walter of Guisborough's account is accurate, Phillips does not). The chronicle accounts may not have be a truthful depiction on what happened but a reflection on what made a good king and the function of lordly anger in kingship.
Of course, there's great difficulty in proving a negative. We know very little about the personal/private relationship between father and son (this is not unusual) and whether Edward I was ever violent towards his son (and if so, whether this would be seen as excessive or as indicative of a serious tendency towards violence) is something we don't and cannot know.
But what we can say is that our understanding of their relationship and the likelihood of its violence has been driven by our own tendency to stereotype history. Typically, the Middle Ages is seen as an extremely violent and backward time and Edward I as the ultimate representation of these impulses. Thus, he has been stereotyped as a particularly brutal and barbaric figure who would naturally enact excessive violence on his similarly-stereotyped son, read as a effeminate failure of kingship and manhood trapped in the "wrong time". Kilpatrick argues, quite convincingly in my opinion, that the supposed evidence or "proof" of Edward I's excessive violence and temper towards his son is no such thing. The reality of their relationship was undoubtedly much more complex.
Again, I really recommend you read the full article because this is only a summary of the broader points made.
(Also, I apologise if the quotes have mistakes in them. When I copied and pasted from the PDF I have, somehow the spaces between words didn't register so every word was smushed together. I've attempted to fix it but there may be some things I overlooked.)
#please anon(s) do not start asking me about edward i now#i know very little about him#(obviously this not to say to ed1 was nice & cuddly or the world's best dad but in this particular case he was probably not that awful)#edward ii#edward i#asks#anon#text posts#there's something about the idea that edward i's violence towards his son is our own modern reading of the scene#obviously it's most often a very homophobic fantasy: edward ii stands in for the stereotypical gay man subjected to violence#but some sympathetic authors use the story in a way to make readers emotionally connect with him#'you should feel sorry for him - look how awful his father is to him'#dare i say... as if they are putting him through a woobification process
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Catholics when someone suggests people are "individuals"
#how dare you not submit to our systemic abuse of authority?!#this is maybe too specific to land#but I can't believe the vitriol#spite#condescension#cold vicious hatred#it's like leftists complaining about capitalism#or the anarchists complaining about the state#catholics think individualism is responsible for every evil thing that has ever happened#which by their lights is probably accurate#the idea that individual conscience matters is maybe the greatest scandal such a totalizing institution could be asked to weather
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⬇️rant about a really good hengren (reverse renheng) fic i read. link at the bottom give it a whirl
i've never read a fic so well-catered to my tastes before in my life and the best part is that i was so caught off guard by how good it was cuz the tags and summary had me like "right this is some omegaverse-esque, rawr XD mating shit"
but from the very first paragraph i realized it wasn't just ao3-typical possessive mating shit it was (dare i say) IN CHARACTER possessive mating shit. underappreciated dan feng lore is the two hearts shit, duty expects him to smother his own empathy and perform cruelty obediently (and that being in his dragon form literally numbs his empathy towards mortals) but then it's flipped around and he's criticized for being too heartless
there aren't a great many english fics that take advantage of the 'numbed empathy' thing, so this fic using that to explore the toxic codependency that drove dan feng to making yingxing immortal in the first place is so!
dan feng's dragon heart prioritizing it's own indulgence and power, his human heart screaming against it for empathy and restraint, but both hearts united in this possessive adoration of yingxing... dan feng is possessive to the point of harming his partner, forcing them to take his affection, inherently contradictive to the protective impulse to see the other unhurt.
dan feng makes yingxing immortal in a really sketchy operation, despite knowing that yingxing is literally defined by his pride in being a short-life. he wants yingxing to be with him so badly that he does the one thing that would hurt yingxing the most, too blinded by possession, this sickly overbearing affection, to empathetically respect yingxing's death.
yingxing lived cramming every second he could into his craft and his goals precisely because he has so much less time than all the immortal species around him, but when he's forced into immortality, his hands are scarred and ruined past the point of ever crafting again. he suddenly has so much time, all this time he would've cherished as a mortal, but is totally useless to him now that his purpose for living and passion is gone.
so there being a scene in this fic where dan feng is moping "yingxing doesn't wanna fuck because he's glued to his workshop", being followed up with a scene of dan heng fucking blade while kissing his scarred hand and crying that he's "so sorry", yeah no shit asshole, his dragon heart got what it wanted, blade has all the time in the world to fuck and nothing competing for his now limitless attention and no one's happy about it.
as arrogant about being a short-life as yingxing was, it really is compensation for the discrimination he faced for it. other immortals looked down on him, so having dan feng, THE top dog, be so deeply enamored with him stirred his own toxic codependent urges. he was so desperate to have dan feng's eternal regard that he's willing to die for him (as in the sedition), his death being the force cementing his place in dan feng's heart forever.
so the fic having yingxing ruminate on this, that he had hoped for dan feng to love him even centuries after he inevitably died, only for the fic to end with:
yeah yingxing... you left an impression... he made you immortal.... everyone's upset by this
(that's what makes dan heng forgetting blade was ever yingxing to begin with all the more painful because, you went and turned him immortal and when it backfired horrifically you went on and fucking forgot, bitch i'd be pissed to the point of centuries long bloody pursuit of vengeance too.)
here's the fic go read it and leave kudos and a comment, technically porn but i got so invested in the character study that part barely registered. also yeah if you hadn't realized already super dead-dove:
blah blah "renheng is toxic" sorry that's why i like it
#hengren#renheng#txt#fic rec#nsft#idrc about who tops but ppl who are strictly top!blade truthers... give this fic a whirl plz it's so good expand ur horizons#so many other insane ramblings i could have about this fic oh my god the way the cloudhymn magic constantly healing yingxing#parallels blade's selfhealing (a self healing he got BECAUSE dan feng made him immortal)#cementing how his current state really was created by dan feng's desire to keep him and his love eternal URHGHG#ppl have the audacity to say blade is obsessed with dan heng when it was dan feng's obsession that created blade to begin with. kms#and also dan heng's guilt the whole while is 🤌 cuz before he was like. wow. that's SO fucked up. good thing dan feng did it#surely /i'm/ not capable of that -- pan to slow realization that he's still very much dan feng#so the initial rejection of responsibility of dan feng's crimes to realizing that it's deadass just his own crimes he has to atone for#kafka being quietly and subtly comforting of blade and that making dan heng possessive . when the reason blade needs comfort to begin with#is dan heng himself. like. it's so ironic i'll die#more honorable mentions is i love dan heng calling blade 'yingxing' because it's so fucking mean#he's the bitch getting pissed everytime someone calls him dan feng or dares to insinuate he's the same person but he's the exact same bitch#totally doing a 180 on blade and treating him way more kindly after realizing he used to be yingxing#'stop treating me like the shadow of someone who's long gone' bud listen to ur own advice#the unreliable narration between the first two chapters is so fucking good like once you catch on to which dialogue is actually happening#and what was a flashback and etc etc it's SO fucking good#another honorable mention is. lmao. love it when the top cries pathetic men you'll have my heart forever and always#tons of other endless thoughts about and inspired from this fic but give that bad boy a read. so worth#also this author writes sunblade so that's how you KNOW they're enlightened
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from chapter 12 of Chained: To Wield the Blade we have Forged by Tinerian aka @redhoodinternaldialectical
#jason todd#bruce wayne#batfam#batman#quotes#jason todd meta#the last lines there WRECKED me#i had to go back and find it in the fic coa i kept thinking of it#good fic btw#i personally Do Not vibe with batcest but it's still interesting and we#well written enough i just HAD to keep reading#and then it started teaching me about scripture? fuhgeddaboutit! ofc im obsessed with it after that!#me: ok apparently this jaytim fic starts out with just 30k contract negotiations no romance and obviously i HAVE to read that#contract negotiations!!!#me later: i cannot stop thinking about the spiritual questions inherent in being resurrected and becoming a god but specifically for batmen#@the author. how dare you do this to me. wanna make out?#had to tell all my friends when they asked what i did this weekend that i learned about hinduism via batfam fanfic#answer for your crimes author!
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holy fuck
#you know that moment when you read an incredible fanfic and you wonder Hey how dare i exist on this site at the same time as the author#i am sullying their breathing room with my presence#Holy shit#this is me bingereading sacrosanct properly#Oh my god#💬 yap
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And what if Alfur was ftm transgender then what would you do
#listen#I just think that I’m right#I think he very happily reminders on singing the paperwork to get his legal name and sex changed#I think it’s a very big thing for the elves#I think they pay trans elves lots of elf money bc in their eyes they have made a horrible mistake with the paperwork#I think alfur is very proud of being one of few elves to have paperwork about him changed#I think he’s mildly miffed at the elf who assigned him as female at birth bc how dare they#they were WRONG#I think if anyone came out as trans to him he’d give a scandalised gasp#bc oh my goodness how DARE the authorities mess this up for you I’m so sorry#well reciting this error in paperwork right away#I think gender for elves is just a piece of paper#‘hey what’s in your pants’#‘paperwork’#Hilda#hilda the series#netflix hilda#hilda netflix#alfur hilda#Hilda alfur#hc#trans#lgbt
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