#cannibalism as a metaphor for love or whatever the cool kids say

[bunneclairdraws]

They have some stuff to work out!

[numericalbridge]

You are so right about the Wittebane fandom. I’ve noticed that if someone likes the Wittebanes, they’re ALL the blog will talk about. Sometimes they’ll add in Hunter or those literally copy-pasted white boys, and maybe Evelyn but she only exists to be Caleb’s girlboss wife. Sometimes they’ll add in Luz and Willow, but they only care about those girls of color because of their relationship to their white guys, otherwise they don’t care about Luz or Willow as their own individual characters with other relationships outside of the white guys.

I think it’s telling the Wittebane fandom saw this entire show and its setting and found it more interesting to talk about the two white brothers in their racist all-white colony. I find it telling that people will use ‘parallels’ as an excuse to take everything interesting about other characters and give it to their white guys, and then appreciate these traits exclusively through their white guys. The Wittebane fandom is honestly racist and misogynistic.

And the way they talk about those brothers is faux-deep, in that ‘Dark Academia’ kind of way. They treat the dark things as inherently deeper but it isn’t, it’s just dark and that’s cool to see because not a lot of kids shows go there. But fans don’t want to talk about what Belos actually represents, like the Christian colonialism, the misogyny and white supremacy, the evangelical cop attitudes. Instead they’re committed to divorcing Belos from these things or outright denying them, and instead focusing on how he has Catholic (he’s Protestant) guilt and codependency issues.

But these aren’t what the show is focusing on, it’s all those other things the fans ignore. And it’s because things like ‘religious trauma’ or codependency, they can romanticize. But these fans recognize on some level that the white supremacy and Christian colonialism is gross, so they ignore it. It’s like how people who claim to love Dark Fic will implode if they’re made to read about critical race theory.

Unironically, an episode like O Titan where art thou is deeper than all those fics about Belos thinking he’s Cain because those fics don’t really say anything, whereas OTWAT is about King and Steve questioning the perspective and loneliness of God and if he has any desires outside of being God. Covention is about how the coven system is just our capitalist system with its illusion of choice. The first day is about the after effects of No Child Left Behind and how well-meaning schools betray their kids because of it. These are all so much more topical and interesting than idk cannibalism as a metaphor for love.

yeah, i admit i didn't look too deep, but i've never seen Evelyn have any personality other than one of the girlboss/girlfailure/fandom version of a manic pixie dream girl-types of 'acceptable' personalities. I still saw some semi-popular artist claim how she is so important for the narrative while at the same time saying rather meanspirited things about Willow and Gus and their fans.

tbh it seems that fandoms often takes specific trendy tropes and start to apply them to everything, not even to fanworks, but to the canon material and meta, so when the 'oh, messy fucked up relationships!' are trendy in some parts of fandoms it becomes applied to everything without any thought. Which would have been annoying but whatever, but then the fandoms are also racist and misogynistic so the result is what it is.

[starrierknight]

i hate tomato sauce idk whyyy i used to LOVE it as a kid but as i grew older…idk it grosses me out now also it gives me heartburn,, for some reason, where i’m from tomato sauce is added to almost quite literally EVERYTHING and it’s so tiring lord it’s like we CRAVE heartburn,, it’s in our genetic makeup or whatever,, but i broke free of this self destructive behavior passed on by pure instinct over years and years of suffering /lh (honestly i’m just saying shit but whatever)

also in response to the rest of the ask abt the vampires and cannibals,, i really like the idea of the cannibal being obsessed with the vampire initially cuz they matched their ideal victim and seemed to possess those traits of what they deem attractive ig ? and then finding out something that singles them out and differentiates them from others around them and all the cannibal’s past victims (vampirism in this case) and this just makes them even more obsessed,, it’s a nice metaphor,, i like it eee

also nice boots !! they look so cool, hope u have fun wearing them around !!

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UGHHHHH woe is you! woe is me!!!!! how dare tomatoes forsake us so. we are too sexy for this and deserve so much better >:(

YAYYYYY GLAD YOU SEE THE VISION!!!! it's such a cool concept, I will definitely have to return to it at some point. so fun to think about even if it's very morbid 😭🙏🏻

and thank you!!!!! glad to have your stamp of approval hehehe :3

[crazyspookies]

S7M1+2

So, i wasn’t planing on going back to making recaps but i had a couple thoughts that im going to leave here somewhere! :)

M1

1) This is such a nice way to start the season. Also, it kinda feels like one of those national holidays in wich you still go to school but you mostly do other activities that are nothing like your usual classes and the whole school is full of kids going aroudn doing activities or going on a little school trip you know what i mean.

2) “the patchwork cushions look cheerful, and the handmade scepter and mace are a delight!” What a nice reporter i like her.

3) Royal Roller Derby, now a tradition :’/

4) “Me and Five are just in the outer hall. It’s so quiet, anyone could hear! “ Are there any other people here? Are we like, officialy escorting janine as representant of Abel Township? I can’t imagine we’re the only source of security here, i mean, this is a peace conference there should be other people from the other major townships and royal security to make sure nothing happens to their representants, right?

6) “ Five, do you hear that? Bikes.”

Me: it begins

7) “She’ll hear you, and beat you with an Abel pennant later! Janine’s intel is never wrong.“ Sam i love you but lmao in what delusional limbo do you live to even think janine’s intel can ever be wrong

8) “[motorcycle engines roar, laughter, glass shatters]”

9)”And there’s a little disturbance, as we all knew there might be" I love it that we all knew that. Peace conference? Obviously someting’s going to go down

10) Ok, Sorry For Party Rocking? Best song choice ever, great party, 10/10 would recommend

11) I am so weirdly charmed by these toe eating chaos viallians. After having to deal with Sigrid, who if we go by evidence, is a generally much higher profile kind of villian, this is a lot of fun. Like, the stakes are still high, because of the whole “we are going ot be bombed to death or killied insome other way thing but. You know, Sigrid was a cold villian. A conqueror, if you will, with her fingers in many important pots, orginized and a high goverment official. The contrast from that kind of angst to suddenly being surrounded by hot blooded chaos and..a bunch of picturesque baddies who cheer and provoque and make very overt threats is pretty fun. Kinda like little guideon and the prison inmates hahaha

12) Operator Rofflenet. Nice, this is cool, this is smart.

13) “ Abel! Abel scum! Look at their uniforms!” BRING IT ON BITCH

14) Me, listening to the biker chaos: am i on the fury road

15)  “ No uniform will save you from the chaos, Abel! [laughs] Come here, little Abel. [kissy noises]” im crying bless your terrible soul you dickhead i can’t believe he’s making kissy noises and giving me classic villian dialogue this is amazing. But also, if i was actually there and someone did this at me id want to smash their face with a rock.

16) "I am getting a very Weinstein vibe from that biker” rock in the face it is

17)” We’re going to kill you slowly. We’re going to eat you piece by piece, starting with the toes “ IM SORRY BUT IM LAUGHING SO HARD COS THERE’S BEEN SO MANY SUCKING TOES MEMES THESE PAST FEW WEEKS, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS PIC AND IM CRYING

18) I’m sorry but, what kind of bad evil cannibals put a burning manequinn on top of a van rather than an actual corpse? Like? I imagine wood takes longer to charr? So what ytou’re saying is that this absolutley was an aesthetic decision

M2

1) On the one hand i’m sad that jody always puts herself down comparing herself to janine. Like, ok, janine might be better at tactics but jody is really good and the truth is, Janine is not there so why compare yourself at all? This applies especially to season 6, because janine very literally LEFT to do a different mission and left the township in our hands. It’s of no use to think “she would do it better”, she’s not here AND she left this work to us, so that means she trusts us enough to get things done without her (and let’s be honest, that’s a great compliment? especially if janine is such a perfectionist?). So, on the one hand i don’t enjoy jody making these comments (especially because?? she’s actually a super good tactician anyway? jody istg) , but on the other i like how they twisted this by showing something jody is good better at than janine, which is diplomacy. I like how they make a note that maybe on this mission it might have been more beneficial for them to have been switched on this mission, and to have played their strengths in a more profitable way.  I feel it could be interesting to expand on this, especially with this thing jody is doing with the uhhh thingamabob to reach other countries

2) Alright, so V types. If V types bit a corpse and it reanimates, does that corpse become a V type too and is it able to reanimate other corpses? From what sam says about the biker who is turned, it seems that it most possibly yes, and if he can infect other corpses this becomes a really really bad situation. It really changes the way we have to deal with zombs AND living people who die in any way or form from now on. Corpses from people who die should probably be incinerated to make sure they cannot reanimated. I believe there’s religions that are not too hot about that (badumtss) so i guess there would have to be a difficult conversation to be had there.

I’ve been curious about how did old timey people made sure to make those V types to go to sleep though. I should look it up but I think to remember that the blue flowers and Loki the sorceress were mentioned in this. The blue flowers calm normal zombies down, and it would be interesting to try that out with the V types, see how that works. I don’t quite remember what the deal with the viking blood was but maybe there’s something to reaserch there too, seeing as it was old as balls and probably more likeley to work with the original virus rather than the new types of zombies created by sigrid.

If we got a way to get them super duper high with blue flower extract or whatever, then it might help getting rid of them. All in all, we really need to get them in big numbers and maybe move them to a location where we can get rid of them. Like, if they can infect corpses it will not take much time until we are overwhelmed by the numbers of immortal zombies yakno?

3) On this very note, peeps being idiots and not believing janine about the new V type is so infuriation lmao what the fuck mate we have already gone through so much you REALLY don’t believe us, because we didn’t do everything you wanted when you needed us to (eventhough we were, ya know, busy trying to debunk a fascist regime and all that)? that is some hard headed petty denial right there. My inmediate idea is: somehow capture a V-type, put it in a cage, and get janine and jody play good cop/ bad cop with the other memers in the house of commons, all super theatrical. Jody talks in an appeasing way, janine delivers hard facts, and then dramatically shoots the zombie in the head. Everyone gasps horrifically at the zombie still being alive and janine makes an iconic metaphorical Mic Drop ™

4) Another thing this whole flodding that district no one lives in reminded me is that i’m really worried about is exacly how much can a zombie infect water itself? I think this Might be one of those plot hole moments because?? I think we have stated that contact with infected blood turns people, but who hasn’t been splattered by killing a zombie with an axe? Or while killing an infected person that has not yet turned? If there’s enough zombies underwater close to the beach, is a certain part of the current infected to? What about lakes or rivers? Too many corpses in general poison the water in normal circumstances so what if those corpses are infected? wont the water carry the infection? (how much water is enough to dillute it?)