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People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.
#this is about#neil gaiman#neil gaimen allegations#not art#text#I do believe the allegations. no I haven't read the article (if someone has a link that could send me that would be superb)#but uyeah. too many people yell 'stop having parasocial relationships with famous people' when it's just that we like their 'art'#and that we feel disappointed when we learn what they did#also jk Rowling is bad too. not for the same reasons but people trying to defend her using Neil as a counter argument is wrong#civil conversation about this topic is totally ok (and encouraged) but if for some reason I receive any hate asks I don't even know...#like excuse me for assuming people aren't horrible monsters my bad
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"Rhaenyra isn't the stepmother, she's the mother who stepped up!"
The HOTD writers themselves are hardly doing anything to support that narrative, so I take this rhetoric with a grain of salt. While I think, in some way, Rhaenyra does care for Baela and Rhaena....if I had to point out a motherly figure for them that could pose as someone stepping in Laena's place, Rhaenyra would not be it.
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd critical#rhaenyra targaryen critical#baela targaryen#rhaena targaryen#this mainly just comes from my frustration with this fandom painting rhae as overly motherly toward baela & rhaena#making it seem like we had so much to go on for her being a good stepmother when it's really the bear minimum#there's more with rhaenys being there for them than with rhae--- both physically & verbally#even with scenes where she's with them: for baela it holds more of political means with her having a dragon and then using her to see corly#like sure she could be concerned about her well-being but it's definitely not on the same level as with her sons#don't even get me started on with rhaena bc that “be a mother to them” line had me 🤬#and her referring to her sons as hers and the pain of sending them away but not adhering to rhaena's emotional needs and feelings of inferi#rity--- like it didn't sit right with me especially when she couldn't even be bothered to hug her#i like to enjoy headcanons about their relationship but the canon material doesn't stray far either#rhaenys raised baela alongside her on driftmark she sought rhaena out when they met after so long#she advocated for rhaena to her husband over joffery--- she's their grandMOTHER that stepped up tbh#tbh i wouldn't really be rocking with my stepmom if she sought after & slept with my dad at my mom & stillborn brother's funeral#barely comforted my sister and i when we were injured in a fight (only her sons)#then got married to said father not long after said funeral...like i'd be pressed tbh!#dni if you can't have a collected conversation about this#rhaenys targaryen#(also just bc im a little critical of rhae doesn't mean i hate her in comparison to others she's not that bad tbh)
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nemona feels like an obscure blorbo instead of the main rival character from the latest pokemon game because to get to her really good content from people who really get it, you first have to wade through the ocean of yandere pervert obsessive stalker annoying punchable bimbo amazon goddess interpretations of...
... a neurodivergent and possibly disabled high schooler who's desperately trying to make any friends or get any support from her rich neglectful family - while everyone in her school is jealous of their own imagined version of a privileged asshole version of her they made up - who deeply and platonically loves and supports the one new kid who agreed to take the time to get to know and respect her and her special interest without having to hold back her true self
unlike her, it's not great!
kinda feels like she has the same problem in our world that she does in hers.
#(except much hornier)#i hate to say it but i think her skin color has something to do with it#nemona pokemon#nemona#pokemon sv#pokemon scarvio#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon#nemonaposting#dog girl and goku memes are fine i guess#i legitimately cannot google her without a video of someone being cruel to her on purpose and making her visibly sad coming up#i don't think people like that really browse these tags but i hope they're not the reason she was not in the dlc footage at all#and thus may never get more screen time to actually be her best friend's 'rival for life' as promised before the 3 year cycle marches on#you know the dlc about nemona's best friend and 'greatest treasure' transferring to a school about the hardcore battles she's dying without#potentially abandoning her and sending her back to almost square one on having a reason to enjoy life#don't get me started yelling about that again#also i didn't mean platonically in a don't ship them kind of way you should absolutely do that if it lines up with your interpretations#i usually do in fact#just trying to emphasize the contrast between canon and fanart here#opinions of her already start off so low faith just because she's from the 10 fps pokemon game and i'll be real i wish she wasn't#i wish she and her friends were somewhere i could trust that they would be treated respectfully by their copyright holders
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Lanyan my babygirl,I wish people would treat you more than who they ship you with (when she finally release)

#I understand thumbstacking her to a ship is a way to keep her relevant#but after the shippers on tiktok already causing drama#I sincerely hope people don't reduce her to a love interest when she's out#listen I like my bro gaming too as much as the next guy#them being childhood friends are super sweet#can't wait to witness their dynamic#but please I beg you gaming x lanyan shippers on tiktok#stop being the ship police to other completely legal ships#it goes both ways#don't send hate and don't accept hate#you deserve better than to engage in an argument over which pixels should kiss which pixel#and you deserve better than to be angry at someone who's wasting your time over how boring your ship is#I hope I don't come off as a hater#like I genuinely hope lanyan isn't remembered for the discourse that surrounds her when she's finally out#(a mean part of me wishes she's aroace coded so the toxic tiktok people can finally shut up)#(but that would be unfair to normal shippers that's just doing their own thing#yet again genshin tiktok proves to be the most braindead community imaginable#lan yan#genshin lanyan#lanyan genshin#genshin impact#shipping discourse#not a reblog
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In your opinion would Katniss accept other people besides her insulting or disrespecting hijacked Peeta?
We see this in canon. Nope.
Katniss hears Gale as well as the other soldiers say things about hijacked Peeta. There's a limit to what she'll let slide. 'Oh, he's a capitol mutt /we can't trust him,' passes but it is still stretching it. 'Let's kill him!' Now, motherfucker, you back the fuck up. That kind of thing.
She's not going to be okay with anyone outright antagonizing him for no actual reason, regardless of what state Peeta's in. She thinks she 'owes' him that much, at the very least.
But then, she also doesn't seem to want people agitating him. If there are moments where Peeta starts to struggle with his own mind and someone makes it worse, she's not going to like that. Think about when they're in the star squad or even the cafeteria scene, Katniss hates seeing him like that because it hurts her. She might be misdirecting her emotions towards being unfair to him, but that doesn't mean she gets any joy out of watching him suffer. It's the opposite, it makes her feel awful, like it's her fault.
So in short no, there's no universe where Katniss is okay with anyone treating Peeta badly, especially in front of her. It will always affect her because he's rooted himself somewhere deep inside of her and she can't seem to get him out. That's for life baby!
#Katniss when she see's capitol gossip about her secretly hating Peeta: That could NEVER be me#everytime Katniss gets upset with Peeta it seems to end with her feeling bad about being mean to him lol#Even though she's never all that mean. At most she just does certain things that go against Peeta's limits (if we don't include Mockingjay)#Like not telling him things that matter which triggers Peeta's 'you think I'm stupid huh?' reaction#Or freezing him out which triggers Peeta's 'Well who needs to talk to you anyways' reaction#Or just failing to consider the emotional impact of her erratic decision making which just makes him blue#which is basically the same thing as a direct hit to her heart.#the hunger games#everlark#thg#peeta mellark#katniss everdeen#send asks#send asks!!#katniss and peeta
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i have no mouth and i must scream speech but for about insomnia hate hate hate let me tell you how much i have come to hate being awake
#took half an expired tops brand unisom . wheeeee medicine that does nothing and then the next day you're groggy for twelve hours#but i have to do SOMEthing if i don't Try to make myself sleep that's Giving Up and if you Give Up . well#this is the second week in a row that ive failed to sleep on a night leading into the work week and i know most of the external reasons why#like. busy day tomorrow so anxious. haven't given myself a full weekend in a really long time so strung out.#had important stuff to do earlier that didn't happen so dwelling on that. woke up at 9am and wasn't out of bed until ten thirty so like#i got more than adequate sleep last night but this does not make me feel less worried about NOT sleeping TONIGHT#because again. every time i have a night of big insomnia im convinced that it's the beginning of an unending trend#that will make me wind up like my mother who is lucky she gets more than three hours of sleep every couple of weeks#and while she's done this her whole life qnd has adjusted to it (as much as a body can) i just know. based on how insomnia is for me#that i never could. it would be exactly as terrible every time i would never be able to be calm while it was happening#anyway everybody send me your best knockout gas#AND. it's SNOWING. fuck everything i hate it all#tomorrow im gonna be groggy as hell and have to drive to work and back and have to be With It bc we're doing activities and shit#and have to be like the model of library enthusiasm when i barely have that on a good day. and not actually physically groan#every time someone new wants a card because it means i have to interrupt what im doing dor the next fifteen minutes to say a spiel#i know i shouldn't hate that i should be glad we're getting engagement. and i am. i just wish i wasn't the one at the desk#and im not good at keeping that off of my face or being welcoming when i dont feel welcoming#i haven't gotten to do processing at my actual office desk in months. haven't gotten to be Off The Floor#which certainly hasn't helped my overall stress levels. i need to not be socially on so much it's slowly pulling me apart#and then i get home wnd im too tired to do anything and my house also falls apart around me#but if i DON'T have outings i also rot . there's no solution to this problem. not without quitting my job which ill never do#bc in today's market id never get anything half as good as this ever again. and as has been established. this relatively good job#is still not good enough for me not to be emotionally and mentally falling apart
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"SAY NO MORE SIR!"
*grabs my leather bag and pulls out a comically long chain of handkerchiefs tied together and a lamp*
"erm one sec it's here somewhere....."
*my hand inside the bag starts glowing and a kitty of light with the gigachad face is in my arms in the simba™ pose*
"alas. Sonic you must bow before the ultimate kitty because you arent ultimate sry chat..😿😞"
"AHA NOW KITH!"
(YAYAYYAAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYYSAYATAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAAYATATATTAATATATTTATATTATATAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYY)
[shadow's inner monologue at that moment went something like this:
Ugh... the... kitty- NO, MUST RESIST- but... the kitty...- NO, SHADOW. IT'S NOT WORTH IT, YOU'LL DO SOMETHING YOU'LL REGRET WHEN YOU'RE OLDER. PEOPLE WILL COME UP TO YOU IN THE FUTURE, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO TELL THEM THAT YOU AND SONIC AREN'T IN A RELATIONSHIP, AND THEY WON'T STOP BOTHERING YOU. IT'S NOT WORTH IT- but the kitty... it's... all of it... the ultimate kitty.... -that does sound pretty cool but you CAN'T SHADOW. REPULSED, REMEMBER? YOU'LL DO IT AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL THAT ANXIOUS FEELING IN YOUR STOMACH THAT GROWS AND GROWS AND YOU JUST FEEL SO OVERWHELMED AND UNCOMFORTABLE AND OH GOD-]
I... I- I- I-
[Sonic gets up from where he's been bowing, expression morphing from a playful flirt to a worried, faltering grin. His eyes train, briefly, on Shadow's chest; it's started to rise and fall at a quicker pace, faster than he's ever seen it- even during all of their races and petty fights.]
Hey, are- are you feeling alright?
[He steps closer to Shadow, but Shadow's expression only morphs further into something closely resembling horror before masking itself quickly with anger.]
GET AWAY FROM ME. I JUST- I just want- ARGH!
[He backs into a 'corner' of the space, curling into a ball.]
You're all the same. You'll force me to do such a thing... when I...
... I think maybe that was a boundary we shouldn't have crossed. Sorry guys, no kisses for Shadow in the near future. Or, uh, judging by that reaction, probably ever. Sooooooo if you don't mind, I'll justttttttt... yep that cat's ours now OK BYE
[EXPLANATION IN THE TAGS -💀]
#ask#sth#sonic fandom#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#ask blog#send asks#shadow the hedgehog#anon ask#sorry anon I just really need to get something across here#trying to get some more representation into the blog.#As much as i love mary poppins (LOVE HER MOVIES);#we gotta talk about a thing.#what I've done here (this is a mod edgy💀 thing by the way; maybe not all mods will enforce this) is introduce romance repulsed shadow.#when you're romance REPULSED- it's really hard to do things like kiss without getting that feeling in your stomach that you're lying-#to yourself. it's that anxious feeling when you're overstimulated and there's that pain in your stomach and you wanna cry bc you feel like-#you're pressuring yourself into doing a thing that you don't want#and that's romantic repulsion- at least to me.#it's just that i've noticed recently that a LOT of people have been sending in super cheesy romance-related asks and maybe some people here#aren't very comfortable with that. so I've decIded to add maybe a bit of a new dynamic here just so that people can understand how-#different types of aromantic or asexual people work. sonic for example- or at least as far as I can tell within the continuity of this blog#is relatively ok with romantic gestures; he just doesn't actually feel anything since he's aroace. as far as i can describe it's like that-#'meh' feeling that you get when you're- say- eating something that you don't really hate but you also don't really love. y'know?#so he's ok with doing stuff 'for the bit'.#shadow on the other hand is handled a bit differently. because he's repulsed- when you give him that sort of 'pressure' or 'suggestion' to-#do something romantic or sexual- he HATES the idea of that. It's against all of his principles and values. It HURTS- mentally; emotionally;#somewhat physically depending on how anxious you get; to go against that principle. In his mind it's like he's not being truthful-#to himself and it's so painful.#so. yeah.#aroace
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I truly have a hard time trying to figure out why people hate the 13th Doctor. Do you not like complex, well-written characters or...
#like fr i'm not even in the fandom yet but my partner explains to me the reasons why people hate her and like#you either can't read or watch the show with your eyes shut#it's okay you don't get her like i do#13th doctor hate sends me into rage attacks bc i genuinely don't get it#also you probably hate women which is funny bc she's not even a woman but OKAY now we gender the doctor?? that's my genderfluid alien#anyway she's me i'm her i love her and nobody will ever make me hate her#doctor who#thirteenth doctor
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Overhated Female Character x Underused Female Character [Patreon | Commissions]
#If I see any Pulaski hate on this post I'm gonna lose it#Selar#Pulaski#Doctor Selar#Doctor Pulaski#been watching tng and I really don't know why people hate pulaski so much#just watched an episode where she was like 'I hate this dude...Data!!! Kick his ass in space 3d chess!!!' and I laughed#unless there's an episode I haven't gotten to yet where she like sends Data to the electric chair I do nooot understand#but I mean people wanted T'Pring dead for not wanting to marry Spock so you know#to me Pulaski is much more interesting than Beverely - she has a certain energy to her that I like#watched an episode the other day where she fought tooth & nail to do something dangerous and when it turned out she was wrong she accepted#it and was like 'ok. I guess I'm dying now. I knew the risks v_v' and I liked her right away (first episode I saw her in)#anyway yuri between two women who never interact in canon save me#tng#star trek tng
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(The audio: "Of all the things in the world that have never happened, that has never happened the most. That is the most didn't happen shit of all time")
Meanwhile, the comments:
I'm glad some people aren't completely ignorant. Izuku didn't hate Bakugou because the narrative wouldn't allow him to feel even the tiniest bit of resentment. But Bakugou absolutely hated Izuku (in fact, didn't he himself say this??). Denying that is so unfair to Izuku who suffered abuse from him for a decade. If Bakugou didn't hate Izuku and still did what he did, that just makes him look worse. How do these people still not get it?
The comments were actually a breath of fresh air. It feels like the Final War being so terribly written is finally opening people's eyes to the faults in other aspects of the story like Izuku's toxic relationship with Bakugou. Or at least, they're aware enough to shut down nonsense like this.
Rare MHA fandom W
#anti bakugou katsuki#mha critical#bnha critical#anti bakudeku#anti bakugou stans#anti bakudeku shippers#idk if this girl is a bkdk shipper but she's giving off that energy#she also defended the ending because of course she did💀#pls don't attack her though#i know we aren't like that here but just to be safe#pls don't send hate to the op
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the idea that Alicent sent Daeron away just before Rhaenyra had Joffrey makes the extent of Alicent's cruelty towards Rhaenyra in episode six make more sense. Asking for the baby to be immediately ripped from his mothers arms the minute he was born to check if he was another bastard was just unnecessarily cruel, particularly because Alicent could have sent someone to examine the child or gone down herself, it seemed cruel even considering the resentment and hatred that had obviously built up between them. However if Alicent had just had her baby, her youngest most innocent son, taken away ultimately because of the Targaryens, because even if she fully made the choice it would have likely been made out of fear, paranoia and the fact that she was struggling and raising those kids alone while Rhaenyra had a whole support system which included Viserys who loved his bastard grandsons more than his trueborn sons. Maybe the loss of Daeron added a new layer of anger and she cruelly wanted to inflict that pain of having your child taken from you onto Rhaenyra, just briefly, so she ordered for Joffrey to be brought to her the minute he was born.
#I know they have the lazy excuse of the time jump to explain alicent becoming cruel over time but that seemed a lot even for her#the way she acted in 1x06 overall definitely makes more sense with the added context of her recently having to send her young son away#alicent hightower#house of the dragon#I saw a good take recently that said episode 6 and 7 happened in the wrong order and that driftmarks events should have happened first#then after driftmark alicent becomes more cruel and hateful towards Rhaenyra which would make sense#not that I don't think alicent being cruel after 10 years of resentment is ooc but the level of cruelty should have amped up after driftmar
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I need to bite Kim Dokja like a toy and shake him around
#and then curl up around him when I'm done#he's not moving from there#if nobody gets me I know Suki gets me#(suki is my dog who does this all the time with her fox plushie and she's so right to do so)#going insane in the middle of computer structure class#I need more fics to read please send fics T-T#orv#nelkey's stuff#I hate computer structure I don't like classes where I can't code T-T
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you know what, fuck it. time to post stuff for my in stars and time club penguin crossover because i'm cringe and free
Agent/Ace as Siffrin Rookie as Mirabelle Dot as Isabeau Sensei as Odile Klutzy as Bonnie
there's more characters i have as penguins but those are the main party!
agent is created by @tofudemaru
also ISAT spoilers below:
ace getting a little quirky and mal du pays ace
#meepo art#club penguin#penguinronpa#in stars and time#ISAT club penguin au#agent penguinronpa#rookie#dot the disguise gal#sensei#klutzy the crab#okay so. tags notes:#yes i know it's funny to make any character a crab in an au for a universe where crabs are hated#and funnier given how many times bonnie says crab in the game#but it made sense given who siffrin was in this au!!!#jet pack guy would have made equal sense as isabeau and jpg would be isa if rookie was siffrin#but i went with dot because dotgent and the surprising amount of things they have in common#and of course. agent siffrin isn't just because protags™#these two motherfuckers have a shocking amount in common that i don't want to get into because i'm already clogging my damn tags#send me an ask if you want more info about au idk#and one more thing. i would tag insertdisc5 but yet again. it would too embarassing to tag her in a club penguin related about her game lma
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Been getting an influx of obvious spam/porn bots and also blank blogs in my follows the past couple weeks so I guess this is a good time to state my policy on the latter again:
I don’t block blank blogs that follow me on sight if they have usernames that look like a person might’ve chosen them (ie not a random mash of letters and numbers). This is because it’s possible these blogs might be real users brand new to tumblr (or newly remaking etc).
However, I do go back and check and if after 1-2 weeks (whenever I remember to check) the blog still has not been customized with an icon etc and still has zero content, even likes? Blocked. If it has likes or other content but those seem…sus to me in very specific ways I won’t get into? Blocked. This is because I have decided that either the blog is a bot, is not intending to truly use tumblr anytime soon, or may be something more annoying or outright harmful specifically to me.
So if you’re new to tumblr and just followed me, hi! Please start using tumblr by reblogging and liking posts! I hope you’ll enjoy your time here. But…I’ll block you if you don’t actually use your blog. Sorry!
#kidk says stuff#I have a long-time stalker who loves to make new blogs to do nothing but harass me with threats and gobbledegook#she disappears sometimes for years at a time (she’s on hiatus from me now as far as I know) but when she comes back!#ohhhh I know her when I see her even when she hasn’t started sending me shit yet#but if you do NOTHING with your blog so I can’t tell? I block so if you’re her you never get the CHANCE to bother me#((details available on request for mutuals—it’s a wild story))#I also have another stalker but i don't block her bc i think she'd go ballistic in a non-funny way if she discovered i blocked her#so I just endure her in my inbox occasionally. she otherwise uses tumblr normally afaik. i don't stalk HER after all so idk#it’s so funny how weirdos have gravitated to me over the many years. I have storiiiies…these two and otherssss...#I just vibe in my corner and people decide they hate me. kind of amazing really.#oh ps when I say long time I mean the situations predate tumblr’s existence. these people have stalked me on *multiple websites*#for *decades*#((meanwhile my *funniest* stalker hasn't found me on tumblr that i know of and hopefully stopped stalking me manymany years ago))#((but that story was bizarre in a genuinely hilarious way on top of being creepy as hell. truly one for the books.))#((when i say i've had weirdos...i mean it.))
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Just got chased through my house being grabbed and screamed at and shit because I told my sibling I didn't want to watch an hour long video with them right now and that I didn't know when I would want to and when I locked myself in a room they tried beating the door down
#IDK WTF I'm gonna do but they can't live here#gonna try sending them to live with our mom even though I hate her because I can't live like this#I don't even know if it's same to come back out
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I'm always emotional about the fact that, when Minkowski tries to justify her choice to send Eiffel back to Earth on the Sol in the finale, she never directly expresses a reason for her decision that's specific to him.
She tells Hera, Lovelace and Jacobi "If - if - we don't make it through this... if we don't stop this... people need to know what's coming. They need to know what's happened." She gives them a reason which is logical, practical, and impersonal. It's a 'big picture' reason, focused on humanity as a whole. Minkowski's own emotions don't really enter into this justification at all. That's the kind of decision-making she wants her crew to think she's using. If this was Minkowski's main motivation, it wouldn't matter who was sent back, so long as they could explain Cutter and Pryce's plan. I don't think Hera, Lovelace, or Jacobi believe that this was the main reason why Minkowski sent Eiffel back, and I'm not sure whether Minkowski expected to actually convince them.
Jacobi asks "did you tell him that before or after you sent him on his merry?" But in fact, Minkowski didn't tell Eiffel at any point that he needed to tell the world about events on the Hephaestus. If her primary motivation had been about having someone to deliver a message back to Earth, she would have given Eiffel suitable instructions - she wouldn't have just trusted him to figure it out.
Instead, the most direct reason she gives to Eiffel himself for why she's sending him back to Earth is "I need to know that at least one of us makes it back. That I got someone through this." This is a more personal reason, where Minkowski's emotions are relevant, but it's still not explicitly about Eiffel himself. It's about saving "at least one of us", as if it doesn't matter who that "somebody" is. I think this justification is closer to the core of Minkowski's motivations than what she tells the others afterwards. Her responsibilities to her crew as a Commander have always been important to her, and she doesn't want to have failed in keeping them safe. And Eiffel is the only member of her original crew who she's able to save in this way. Hilbert is dead, and transferring Hera over to the Sol to be sent back to Earth on her own would come with a whole host of problems.
But I don't believe for a moment that the reasons she sends Eiffel back are purely practical and abstract. I don't believe for a moment there's no personal significance to her decision to save him specifically. I don't believe for a moment that it was all about her practical plan for the wellbeing of humanity, or her desire to have fulfilled her duty to at least one non-specific member of her crew. She doesn't just need to save "someone". She doesn't just need to save "at least one of us". She needs to save Eiffel. She needs to save her friend.
The closest she gets to saying aloud that her motivation is about her care for Eiffel in particular is when she says "Go home, Eiffel. Hug your daughter. [...] Goodbye, Doug." She was prepared for those to be the last words she might ever say to him. And there's at least something in these lines that implies she wants Eiffel specifically to return to Earth. I don't think it's that she saves him because he has a daughter. I think when she tells him to go home and hug his daughter, it represents more than that. It's about how she wants him to be able to move forward and live his life. It's her saying that he deserves the interpersonal connections that are valuable to him. It's about her not wanting his story to end there on the Hephaestus.
It kind of breaks my heart that even in that situation, she can't fully say aloud that the reason she wants Eiffel to survive is because she cares about him specifically. She has to give the justifications that are about her as a Commander and not about Eiffel as her friend. She doesn't tell him that she's saving him for his own sake, because he matters to her so deeply, because his safety is so important to her.
And I really wish I could believe that Eiffel didn't need her to say it, that he could just understand just from her actions how much she cares about him. But as the Sol flies away from the Hephaestus, he tells himself that he's there because he "never had quite as much chest hair as Lieutenant Commander Renée [Minkowski]" and because he "could never get it right". So I don't think Eiffel ever really appreciates that Minkowski sends him back not because of what he can't do, but because of who he is: her friend, one of the most important people to her, someone who has brought so much value to her life, and someone whose death she refuses to contemplate.
#Wolf 359#w359#Renée Minkowski#Doug Eiffel#Minkowski is Bad at Talking about Her Feelings#on the space station of being Bad at Talking about Feelings#I don't want this to be taken as belittling how much Minkowski cares about the rest of the crew btw#Obviously she wants them to survive too#and I do think there are practical reasons behind the fact that she only sends Eiffel back#but I do think she cares about him in a particularly intense and protective way#where if she could only save one person it was undeniably going to be him#The reason she gives to the rest of the crew is particularly interesting#because for Hera definitely#and for Lovelace to some extent#the reasons that are about her care for Eiffel are probably more understandable than the practical reasons#but she still feels she has to give the practical reasons#to hide her emotional decision-making#On another note I kinda hate that I avoided using the word love in this post#cos I think that's ultimately what I'm getting at#she sends him back because she *loves* him#but I can't be arsed to clarify that it's platonic#I feel like it would ruin the flow of the post#but without that clarification it might not be taken as what I mean by it#Renee Minkowski#Wolf 359 spoilers#w359 spoilers#Long post#Eiffel & Minkowski#the empty man posteth
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