#faith poll

[incognitopolls]

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[wouldgaysexfixthem]

would gay sex fix them?

[terapsina]

It has been more than 20 years since BtVS. I think we've grown; we've matured; we have moved past the need for a bloody ship war... so can we please 🥺 do a little bit of a ship war but like... just for fun?

So... (and involving both text, subtext, one-sided text, and some 'there simply being enough people who ship it to earn a spot'-text)...

(grab your stakes and scythes for this battle -> BUT ONLY THE STUFFED TOY KIND. Bonus points if they make clown noises when clashing against each other)

[honkytonkdyke]

this is supposed to be what was ship that was actively queerbaiting in the show. i’m intrigued

[elizadushkudaily]

Top 5 Faith Lehane Dream Scenes (As Voted By Our Followers)

#05. "This Year's Girl" 4.15 [BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER] ⏤ Picnic with The Mayor

[erinwantstowrite]

ERIN I JUST SAW YOUR DRAWING OF GIRL PETER AND I WAS WONDERING WHAT IF THEY WERE TWINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

as i was drawing it i stopped and went "they look like dipper and mabel" which made me laugh so hard and!!! it led to me thinking about that too! it might be fun to add that to a list of oneshots/au ideas to write one day. this alternate version of LoF peter who's a girl meets LoF peter and them becoming siblings? adorable 10/10 peter needs more sisters in his life and also it's an excuse to draw her more often

edit: i thought about if the name 'piper' were to win for the poll and laughed because... 'peter and piper picked a pack of pickled peppers' which is such a dumb joke but idc

[anothersmashorpass]

[qiu-yan]

sensitive topic incoming

not a haterpost i promise.

sect leader yao is not a reliable source

further explanation/hypothesizing:

it happened exactly as sect leader yao said: self-explanatory. the version of events preferred by jiggy antis

he mercy-killed rusong: maybe rusong was already showing signs of a life-altering disorder as a result of the incest. or maybe jiggy just felt that, if the incest information ever came out, rusong would be doomed to a life of suffering in a heavily prejudiced society. jiggy himself had spent his entire life suffering and getting kicked around due to his own proximity to society's pariahs/taboos, so perhaps he felt that he could not subject his son to the same miserable existence. thus, jiggy gave rusong a more peaceful end, before (in jiggy's mind) society could force rusong to suffer.

he allowed rusong to die through inaction: this is really only a "kill" under a utilitarian moral framework. by this explanation, maybe jiggy found out in advance that someone was planning to kill rusong; however, for any of the other reasons listed here, jiggy decided to do nothing and allow the assassination to happen. thus jiggy would consider himself guilty of allowing rusong's death to happen through inaction.

he did it to justify eliminating an opponent of the watchtowers: maybe the advancement of the watchtower project, which jiggy knew would make society a safer place, had hit a deadlock because of a particularly stubborn opponent. so jiggy killed rusong and framed the opponent in order to engineer a situation in which his annihilation of the opponent would be entirely socially sanctioned.

and here is where the utilitarian arguments come in. perhaps jiggy knew that the watchtower project would improve the lives of millions of people and would make society as a whole safer. and he saw that one political opponent as the final major barrier. and jiggy could think of no other way to get rid of this guy. so jiggy weighed the lives of those millions of people against his one son, and concluded those millions of strangers were weightier; his son became his iphigenia.

of course, this is still a rather unhinged plan to just come up with on your own, so perhaps a better explanation of events is this reasoning paired with the "he allowed rusong to die through inaction" series of events.

rusong was killed by political opponents and jiggy blamed himself: now we reach the "he didn't do it" section of the potential explanations. jiggy has a habit of claiming kills he didn't strictly perform himself; so long as the chain of cause and effect can somehow be traced to somewhere near him eventually, jiggy will claim credit for someone's death. this is how jiggy takes credit for the death of jin zixuan: even though [novel canon] no one forced wei wuxian to lose control of wen ning and no one forced wen ning to attack jin zixuan, jiggy still acts as if he can call himself jin zixuan's killer, simply because he sent jin zixuan to wei wuxian's location.

jiggy, in pursuing the watchtower project, aroused a lot of public anger. jiggy made himself, and by extension his wife and his child, the political enemies of many, and thus political targets as well. thus, if an enemy targets the life of jin rusong because they are jiggy's enemy, jiggy is entirely justified in feeling as if rusong's death is his fault. after all, if he hadn't pursued the watchtower project, then maybe rusong would still be alive.

jiggy said "he had to die" as a Cope: losing your son sucks. perhaps jiggy, in the despair following his son's death, tried to cope with the new reality by telling himself that rusong would have had to die anyways, because he was an incest baby. if rusong was always slated to die, then the fact that rusong is now dead can now be survived. thus, "rusong had to die" becomes an emotional coping mechanism for jiggy.

no, jiggy himself is uncertain if he allowed rusong to die through inaction: this one is a a bit fanciful but bear with me here. on one hand, jiggy loves his wife and son. on the other hand, jiggy is horrified by his marriage with his wife and by the existence of his son, because his wife is also his sister and his son is the product of incest. jiggy lives with not only this horror but also the constant fear of exposure, because if this information ever got out, the lives of himself, his wife, and his son would all be over.

rusong's growth thus becomes a source of dread, not hope: every day lived brings the possibility of rusong developing some disorder or condition that eventually proves the incest. is it not possible that jiggy, living every day under such fear, might come to believe that things would be better if rusong stopped growing older? if rusong died--then gone too would be the evidence of the incest, would it not?

now along comes the political opponent who assassinates rusong. jiggy does not see it coming and jiggy is thus unable to stop it. but afterwards, upon beholding the corpse of his son, what does jiggy feel? rage? despair? no--relief! he feels relief! though he also grieves, the constant fear shrouding his entire life has, for once, lifted!

but if jiggy is relieved by the death of his son, what does this imply? can jiggy truly say, with full confidence, that he did not see the assassination coming? can he really say, with heaven and earth as his witnesses, that his failure to stop the assassination was not to some degree a choice? is there truly no small part of him that did in fact see the assassination coming--yet, knowing it would be so relieving for him, simply chose to do nothing?

but if jiggy did not see the assassination coming at all--if rusong's death truly cannot be pinned on jiggy at all--then what does that say about jiggy's power? about jiggy's safety? jiggy being innocent of killing through inaction means that jinlintai really is somewhere assassins can penetrate into. then jiggy's son really was killed by a force jiggy had no way of stopping. then, in this situation, jiggy really was powerless.

you can remove the ambiguity and argue the case either way: jiggy knew about the assassination and let it happen, jiggy legitimately knew nothing and could not have stopped the assassination. but the ambiguity makes this scenario more interesting to me. jiggy lives for the rest of his days uncertain if he chose to allow his son to die through inaction, or if he really was just weak enough to fail to protect his son. maybe jiggy's memories of the incident even manage to start distorting after a while, implying either one or the other depending on jiggy's own mental situation.

thus, when jiggy says "rusong had to die," he's uncertain if he's justifying his actions or delusionally coping with a reality he had no hand in making. when jiggy says "i killed my son," he's uncertain if he's even telling the truth or not.

ah well. this is basically original fiction at this point. it's just a potential scenario.

anyways, these are just a few scenarios based on various meta and fanfics of this subject ive read over the past few months. you can probably come up with all sorts of explanations. whatever you come up with, though, should be better than just blindly taking sect leader yao at his word.

[sazed-s-faith-crisis]

I noticed a trend among my friends

I am very curious

(reblog for larger sample size if you would)

[incognitopolls]

For the purposes of this poll, this is how we're using these words:

Monotheistic: I believe in a singular god or higher entity/being; OR; if a higher entity/being existed, there would only be one of them

Polytheistic: I believe in more than one gods or higher entities/beings; OR; if a higher being/entity existed, there would be more than one of them.

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[whump-polls]

(what gender do you prefer for a whumpee, not just generally in whump)

i know that this is simplified and doesn't include all possible combinations of preference and attraction, you can't explore a lot of nuance in this format but this is probably the most complex i can get within the poll options, feel free to pick other/nuance and elaborate in the tags or discuss in comments/reblogs!

e.g if you prefer female characters in whump and arent attracted to anyone (not women or anyone else) or multiple genders excluding women, pick the 4th option if you prefer female characters and are attracted to multiple genders including women, pick the 3rd

(of course male/female characters also include trans characters)

[juanabaloo]

(Your choice for Faith's mindset for when she meets this alternate Buffy. Are they fighting? Kissing? Very much up to you.)

Happy Faith Lehane Day! (technically October 13th, when 3x03 first aired) To celebrate let's review all the AU Buffys that would be fun for Faith to meet. (I mean really, what better way to celebrate than by centering Buffy, which is what Faith would do.)

(Apologies if you wanted Rat Buffy or Something Blue "forced to love Spike" or Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered "forced to love Xander" or Him "forced to love RJ" Buffys in the poll. and shout out to "fake scientist at the Initiative" Buffy, who didn't make the cut.)

And yes if you have Fuffy fic recs for these different AUs drop a link in the replies!

(Faith Lehane poll series) <- bc this poll is very related to Faith

Image credits: IMDB: 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11 IG everyoutfitbuffywore: 3, 5, 6, 8 screenshot of andremichaux gifset: 7

[erinwantstowrite]

i love scaring everyone on discord and watching them panic in real time

[theturncoattournament]

Who is the best turncoat character? (Round 3)

A tournament for characters who change allegiances and/or have a redemption or corruption arc during their stories

PROPAGANDA:

Faith Lehane- She wanted to do good but then she made one mistake and everyone turned on her (granted she killed someone, but it was an accident!) and the villain was a very nice (if very evil) father figure, so really who can blame her?

Peridot- aaaaaaaa I love Peridot's redemption arc so much!!!!!! she really grows so much over the course of season 2! I'm so proud of her!