#goddamn revisionist history

[wowitsverycool]

that is not where it fucking happened

[quotablefanfiction]

Jingyi is never believing a goddamn thing any adult tells him about the war ever again. Depending on how the next few days go, he may not believe anything adults tell him about anything ever again. He can’t wait to complain to Sizhui about this.

Jingyi has begun having issues learning about the lies in the revisionist history they’ve been told (chp. 1)

The One-Body Problem by metisket (AO3) Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed – Teen – Lan Zhan/Wei Ying #Alternate Universe #Canon Divergence #Fun times with possession #Wei Wuxian has done a lot of terrible things but surely he doesn’t deserve this #Possession or Cohabitation #Jury’s still out #in the sense that sizhui is the jury #and he’s laughing too hard to decide #warning for wei wuxian’s mental state in general #(he thinks he’s fine obviously)

The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life.

The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch.

[buckybarnesss]

I sucked at history, can you explain the Ulysses Grant propaganda stuff?

essentially after the civil war the former confederacy began to do heavy rewriting of the narrative of the war. they created their own pseudohistory of what is essentially their own mythology of the american civil war that attempts to reframe it. they'll refer to it as the war of northern aggression and insist it was war waged for southern independence. this narrative tries to paint the confederacy as doomed but heroic while softening the role of white supremacy and slavery in their cause. instead they shifted the focus to so-called "states rights" but never truly focusing on what exactly they mean by states rights.

there's a lot more involved in it but in short this revisionist history is known as the lost cause. (for an entertaining debunking of the lost cause myth please watch checkmate, lincolinites)

it's been embedded within american culture. particularly in the former confederate states. largely in part due to the daughter's of the confederacy organizations which helped to teach this narrative in schools. it's also why we have so many goddamn statues of confederate generals and why there's so much named after them.

the lost cause mythos paints robert e. lee as a heroic, paternal, pseudo-religious figure so of course he needs a villain to fight against. enter ulysses s. grant.

grant defeated lee and was arguably the better general but his reputation was slandered by lost causers.

grant became thought of as a drunkard due to no small part due to his bouts of binge drinking. it's hard to diagnose him as an alcoholic but when he was bored, with nothing to do and missing his family he was known to drink to excess and he couldn't hold his liquor. however he was never drunk on the battlefield.

grant during his tenure as general did get painted as a butcher due to the significant causalities that occurred during the overland campaign. it sounds cold but grant simply had larger numbers and was dogged in his determination to finish the confederate army to end the war. we know the numbers and grant lost less of a percentage of his men than lee did. grant wasn't a butcher of his men but the reaction of horror is understandable. it's just that the lost causers use this information to villainize grant.

additionally when grant was president there was rampant corruption in his administration. it's largely agreed upon that grant himself was not corrupt but one of grant's faults was his trusting nature of those around him. here's the wikipedia article on the scandals that occurred during his administration.

these things have been used to diminish and damage ulysses s. grant's reputation despite him being a goddamn american hero and should be remembered as such.

ulysses s. grant was a man of humble origin born in ohio. his father was a tanner and he hated all of that. he didn't even want to be in the military but his father got him a commission to west point to receive an education. he was a middling student.

this man was knocked down by life time and time again. he experienced poverty several times. it's reported that he once sold his gold watch to be able to buy his children christmas gifts and he would sell firewood for money.

he was also swindled a few times and lost money in what's considered one of the first ponzi schemes.

his father in law didn't like him much. grant was raised in abolitionist household and his wife's family were slave holders. his father in law even gave him a slave probably not out of kindness but ulysses later freed the man despite needing the money it could have garnered him.

lets not mince words here though. grant wasn't abolitionist before the war. this act was kind but the bar was and is in hell.

grant had his faults. there was his issuing of general order 11 which expelled all jews from his military district during the vicksburg campaign due to issues with illicit trading and smuggling. let's not make excuses for the anti-semitism this order was rooted in. later in life it seems he did regret it at least on the surface and did go on to hire more than 50 jewish men for federal jobs and attempted to reconcile with the jewish community but it's still quite the stain on his record if you ask me.

the reason he wrote his memoirs was because he was dying from throat cancer and didn't want to leave his family with no money. it was mark twain who published them so that his wife received 70% of the royalties. he died a few days after completing them.

he was a certified horse girl.

as a child was referred to as useless grant by other children.

grant was also a wife guy. he loved his wife julia so goddamn much. julia dent had a condition called strabismus. she was cross eyed. she was reluctant to seek out corrective surgery despite the issues the condition caused her in life.

she wrote in her own memoir:

“I told the General and expressed my regret. He replied ‘What in the world would put such a thought in your head, Julia?’ I said: ‘Why, you are getting to be such a great man and I am such a plain little wife. I thought if my eyes were as others are I might not be so very plain, Ulys; who knows?’ He drew me to him and said: ‘Did I not see you and fall in love with you with those same eyes? I like them just as they are, and now, remember, you are not to interfere with them. They are mine, and let me tell you, Mrs. Grant, you had better not make any experiments, as I might not like you half so well with any other eyes.’ And I never did, my knight, my Lancelot!” [from here]

it was grant that established yellowstone national park when he signed the yellowstone national park protection act in 1872.

it was also grant that signed the civil rights act of 1875 and the enforcement act of 1871 that went after the ku klux klan's activities.

ulysses s grant was as an imperfect person as any of us but the way his contributions to this country have been purposefully slandered and diminished is a crime.

he deserves an oscar bait biopic.

he was also the hottest president. i said what i said.

[angstics]

they literally had an entire danger days roleplay going on twitter and were very active on Facebook, not the revisionist history 😭😭😭😭 also their entire up coming was propelled through MySpace, purevolume, livejournal etc ...they had a dedicated mcrmy street team / website 😭😭😭😭

ive had to write this two times because it keeps deleting. im a little annoyed. NOT THE CONDESCENSION! you must know i was obviously talking about the content creation aspect of social media which wasnt a thing until the 2010s (if you remember, mcr majorly missed this period). im talking about their band’s platforms. no short form videos like tiktoks or vines, no in-house production that wasnt their primary work, no performing for the camera on stage, no direct interaction with fan tweets/comments, no acting like a relatable millennial, no smashing pumpkins whatever the fuck. that just wasnt the promo game 2002-2012. the closest they got were site blog posts but that mustve been totally fan-centric, more for relevancy than growth.

they didnt do social media like that then. myspace from what ive read (wayback is incomplete) is where they shared their work early on. their livejournal was almost completely unused — their FANDOM was huge on there. they got fuck all to do with that. facebook is so irrelevant to not be part of fandom history (are we missing troves of content?). now the transmissions. that was mostly on their website / youtube was it not? did it promote them out siiiide of their fans? same for the twitter rp: wasnt on any official band platform. they ran through 2011 and outlived the band, far beyond promo needs. none of it was necessary.

there was no reach, no algorithm, no discovery online as can be MANIPULATED TODAY. you know how reprise promoted three cheers on purevolume and myspace (in goddamn 2004)? they just posted the songs and mvs. you could say the videos were the “content” but they were made for mtv, not the internet. is that comparable to the game today? music artists nowadays have to break their backs on social media to get any kind of attention. the internet was nothing like that for mcr.

[butmakeitgayblog]

I was in the middle of sending you a wholesome meme cos it seems like you’ve had a rough time lately (which girl me too is Mercury in Retrograde lately wtf 🥲) and then this is how I get the news that Fucking Joanne™️ is doing Holocaust revisionism now lmao it’s like she knew I’d finally lowered my blood pressure 🥴

But I suppose that’s all the more reason for a wholesome meme cleanse so *throws this at you, runs back into bed and tries to get some goddamn sleep*

I literally looked it up and it's not, so can't even blame this shit on mercury 😒

Believe me dude I was as bamboozled as you when I read that shit. I mean I shouldn't have been. Cuz honestly terfs are gonna terf and like any bigot they'll just lie and motte-bailey and rewrite history at will to fit their narrative and never think twice about it because the end result always HAS to be that they're right and incapable of ever making a mistake.

They are always infallible. Their detractors just don't understand the logical nuances of their totally-not-wrong argument 😤

What really kills me tho is that no matter how much evidence is brought to the table about just how hateful (and lbr kinda dumb) she is, her cult will not listen. They won't. They will just blindly follow her and believe her rhetoric over historical facts. They'll twist themselves into pretzels to excuse anything she says or does, because admitting she is wrong about even 1 thing would mean admitting there's a possibility that she's wrong about others, meaning there's a possibility they really have just been following along and supporting a transphobe who has ties with antisemitic themes within her writing and who is now spouting holocaust revisionist talking points.

Except she's not, right? Cuz Joanna is never wrong ಠ_ಠ

She's just a champion for Women™®

It's just.... sigh.

Anyway, go to bed deary, and thank you for the well wishes. Wish for me to actually get answers 🤞

[queerandprochoice]

Why the fuck do you keep coming to my Blog running your mouth while having me Blocked? Fucking pussy.

-LDA

Lmao so I actually had to go back through my blog after getting this ask because I had no idea who the fuck you were or why I would care. I’d completely forgotten you existed. Apparently I never bothered to block you on my main account which is why I still came across your bullshit.

Love how “correcting blatant historical misinformation used to support the restriction of basic human rights, because you’re wrong af and I’m not Ietting your anti-choice revisionist nonsense go unchecked and unchallenged because that’s goddamn dangerous” is running my mouth though.

One should not need a degree in history to know that Nazi Germany severely restricted abortion rights and that it’s both incorrect and offensive to compare people having the right to choose abortion with the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime, but I happen to have a history degree kickin around and I’m happy to put it to good use.

[urie]

my mom has dementia and finds comfort watching the same movies over and over again and back in 2009 she began to have an absolutely unhinged twilight obsession. like at any given time my mom was either rereading one of the books or watching one or the movies and i shit you not she even discovered fanfiction dot net and was reading raunchy fanfic on there. and sometimes she was doing both at once like she would be reading one of the books and watching the corresponding movie at the same time to compare and contrast

this lasted probably 3 or 4 years like it was not some fleeting thing. and at that age i was growing out of twilight and joining the anti-twilight movement and it was so god awful annoying

anyway. she slowed down a bit for a little bit. but now that her mind is pretty gone the only thing that she wants to watch is twilight. i can promise you that all day, every day, from the moment she wakes up until the moment she goes to bed, one of the twilight movies is playing on repeat on the living room television. ive been home less than a week and have seen the same couple dozen scenes over and over

the point of this post is to say that this new revisionist history thing people are doing out of pure nostalgia trying to claim that these movies were "actually good" is absolutely bonkers. you people are goddamn insane. i promise you this

[illiterate-words]

[ID 1: still from a video of a Native American woman smiling as she flips off the camera and says, “Fuck Christopher Columbus.”

ID 2: gif from The Good Place of Janet smiling as she says, “because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.” Behind her, Michael grimaces and sucks in a breath.

ID 3: tweets from Erika Ishii @erikaishii: “A reminder that even in his lifetime, Christopher Columbus was considered so horrendously cruel that the people responsible for the goddamn Spanish Inquisition went, “oh my god, what is wrong with you [all caps]??? and had him arrested and stripped of his titles. Dunking on Columbus isn’t “revisionist history”, it was literally an order from the crown of Spain in 1500.” End ID]

Always a good annual reminder

[itsanechochamberinhere]

So, the 911 fandom is at it again, with added revisionist history. I’m not gonna address the current thing. I’m not an artist, I’m not in this fandom, and I don’t particularly give a flying fuck. I would hope that instead of call, conversation can be had, but I’m not going to sit here and correct people on that.

however, seen someone put up the whole thing about June 2022 and get everything wrong, and not take responsibility for what they caused, is infuriating. I don’t care about your favorite characters. I don’t care about any person in the 911 phantom, except for my friend. I personally popped a glass of champagne with the show got canceled because of the detrimental mental anguish that Remy has been suffering from, entirely caused by this Trainwreck of a fandom. And the only reason why I’m even here is to make sure that you people keep her name out of your mouth. But seeing someone act like they did everything right and not take responsibility for what went wrong, it’s not going to fly.

I can only speak for Remy, as I am a personal friend, and I have been by her side for most of this. I know for a fact that she had no idea what was going on, besides having an opinion that differed from the majority, an opinion that was built off of personal experience. It had nothing to do with the actors who portrayed characters. I actually know that her opinion has since changed, and she would rather agree that chimney was, for the most part, right… Until he threw a fucking punch and never fucking apologized for it, which is the only thing she’s ever fucking called him out for. You don’t punch family. But since we’re gonna ignore the rest of that, I’ll continue. she got put on that goddamn list and the harassment has never ceased. She has received death threats, she has received an attempt. She got put on that goddamn list and the harassment has never ceased. She has received death threats, she has had to attempt, her job was threatened, and her love for writing is forever burnt out of her.

I don’t blame everything on the people who created that list. I don’t know who did that list, and I’m not gonna point fingers. People have taken it and ran it. And even though she was removed, that version is still out there and the consequences of being on that list been detrimental. she’s currently in therapy, for anxiety and depression. And the only reason why that started was because I walked in on her horrific panic attack that took her to the hospital. She hasn’t written anything since she finally got out of this fandom. That she wants to write just send her hyperventilating. Even her own original novel that she had been working on for years, she can’t even open the files. she doesn’t watch the show anymore,, she has done her best to block any mention of this fandom end of the show because of how much it hurts her

I don’t care about intention. I don’t care what anyone else has to say. But when you do an action, there is a reaction. And it’s something like this, you need to take responsibility. So did the people who made that list, I hope you don’t sleep well at night anymore, knowing exactly what has been done. And I know that Remy it’s just one person. Probably one of the more innocent of the group. But if someone throws herself into a fandom, both feet forward, the only thing any of you did was let her come her way burned.

Into those who actually care about Remy, who tried to reach out and got no answer, she’s doing better. She doesn’t really answer private messages or anything anymore, though I tell her because I have controller for social media, as ordered by her therapist for her continued healing. But she is doing better, she smiling, she’s found other shows and movies to fall in love with, but she will never be comfortable and phantom again. Not even phantoms that she was in previously.

I say all this with her permission. She’s actually in the room with me. She’s not about to say something herself for a lot of reasons, but she’s giving me carte blache when necessary. But she didn’t ask me to say one more thing. she’s not about to forgive or forget what has happened, but she has moved on. So to those who continue to bring it up, and those who still flood all in boxes… You can stop now. She really doesn’t care more. Just move the fuck on.

actually, there’s one other thing. She asked me to pass on to anyone that may see this post and is coming into the 911 fandom. Don’t. Go elsewhere. Do not fall into this fandom, because the moment something happens and you dare have a different opinion, you are thrown to the wolves. don’t be a victim. Stay strong and stay the fuck away.

[kreweofimp]

finale deniers are so sexy

Why thank you, anon! @dangerousnotbroken routinely assures me I am sexy and I frequently tell her the same so it’s good to know that our knowledge that Supernatural bizarrely just...didn’t have a series finale makes us even sexier! 😃😃😃

[missgoalie75]

‘it’s the reason why I couldn’t say I love you...it’s because I knew I couldn’t trust you’

i’m sorry what is this gaslighting NONSENSE? she was the one who fucking said it first!!! she was the one who was by his side and trying to keep him together when he didn’t want to fucking try after his father died and beyond. he was the one that ran off and demeaned her for giving a fuck. this is CRAZY.

[veliseraptor]

going on a plane the day after tomorrow so as is traditional I’m posting a 150 words meme because that’s just how we do it in this house

a whole fourteen options because I feel like it. only no Lymond fic this time because I can’t look up references to fifteenth century literature and biblical allusions on a goddamn plane, otherwise I would, because I’d like to finish that fic at some point

if you’re curious about what something is you can check the wip list here.

1. He rested his chin on his updrawn knees, eyes staring in the direction of the yizhuang from his rooftop perch. 

Was he supposed to’ve known this? 

It hurts him that you see him as an enemy, Xiao Xingchen said, but that made even less sense, why would it hurt Song Lan that Xue Yang saw him as what he was, respected him enough to know that he was dangerous, and let him stay anyway?

Why would that be a bad thing? (revisionist history)

2. “I said what’s it to you,” Xue Yang said. He cracked his neck to one side. “You’re taking me to die anyways. What difference does it make whether I bleed out on the way there or die when we arrive?” 

“That’s - of course there’s a difference,” Xiao Xingchen said, shocked. “It’s not about you dying, it’s about justice being done.”

“End result’s the same,” Xue Yang said. “Why’s it more just if a sect leader does it?” 

“Because he has the authority to make the decision,” Xiao Xingchen said, though he felt a little like he was floundering. Law wasn’t exactly his strong point. Zichen would’ve been better equipped to argue this, he had a feeling. “It wouldn’t be...purposeful.”

“Oh, I get it,” Xue Yang said. “So it’s justice if someone means to kill someone and has a fancy title to back it up. Is that right?” 

“No,” Xiao Xingchen said. “No, that’s not what I said at all!” 

Xue Yang grinned at him, the expression more than a little deranged. “That’s what I heard,” he said. “Guess you’re not explaining yourself very well, huh?” 

“I don’t have to explain myself,” Xiao Xingchen tried. “I know it’s true. And I’d still like to know if you’re hurt, because if so I would want to help. Even if...I don’t want you to suffer.” 

For some reason that made Xue Yang laugh. “Oh,” he said. “That’s nice, then.” Xiao Xingchen pressed his lips together and fought the urge to ask. (The Care and Keeping of an Unexpected Captive)

3. “So can I come in?” Xue Yang asked, smile growing a little further, and Xiao Xingchen realized he’d just been standing there and quickly stepped back, face warming.

“Yeah, of course,” he said. “Please, I didn’t mean to–” 

“Chill, Xingchen,” Xue Yang said with a bit of a laugh. “Are you trying to impress me?” His smile was full of teeth but it didn’t strike Xiao Xingchen as a particularly mean one. It made him want to shiver, but not because he didn’t like it.

“I,” Xiao Xingchen started to say, when a-Qing cleared her throat loudly. 

In the blink of an eye Xiao Xingchen watched Xue Yang change. His eyes sharpened, darting from Xiao Xingchen to look past him into the apartment. He tensed, hands drawing out of his pockets, posture shifting from casual relaxation to a coiled, dangerous kind of readiness that raised the hair on the back of Xiao Xingchen’s neck. He took a step back, eyes widening a little. 

“Didn’t know you had company,” Xue Yang said, the teasing note dropped out of his voice and replaced with something that scared him. (Redux)

4. “I would have saved you,” Lan Wangji said. “I wanted to.”

“Wanting isn’t everything.”

As though he didn’t know that. As though he didn’t know that all his wanting, all his yearning, had availed him not at all. The things he’d wanted…

“I wanted you,” he said. It felt like peeling off a layer of skin. But maybe it would mean something. 

Wei Ying scoffed. “You wanted me to behave,” he said. “You wanted me to fall in line, to return to the orthodox path. Do you think you can appeal to my better nature? I don’t have one. Do you think you can convince me to give up my revenge? Revenge is what I am.”

Lan Wangji shook his head. “You are Wei Ying,” he said. 

“Not anymore.” (the fair and the brave and the good must die)

5. “What do you want to know about Wei Wuxian?” Wen Qing asked, because she had to. And tried not to think about him as she’d last seen him, paralyzed, crying, pleading with her.

“Everything,” Xue Yang said at once, hungrily. “I want to know everything. About what he did, what he was doing. What he was working on. What kind of materials he used, what you know about how it worked-”

“I’m not a demonic cultivator,” Wen Qing interrupted. Xue Yang gave her an almost scathing look.

“No,” he said, “I know that, but you lived and worked with the best one there is. Was. All I have now are some notes that only sometimes make sense; you have the firsthand experience.” (fall apart, destroy, release)

6. “Jin-zongzhu is using you,” Jiang Yanli said suddenly. Chengmei blinked at her once and then laughed again.

“Well, yeah,” he said. “I know.”

His nonchalance took her aback and she frowned. “You know?”

“Obviously,” Chengmei said. “That’s what the sects do. It’s not like the Jin took me in out of the kindness of their hearts.” Jiang Yanli hoped her embarrassment wasn’t obvious. By the way Chengmei’s eyes lit up, it clearly was. “Is that what you thought?” he said, and let out a hoot of laughter. “Oh, no. Lao Jin doesn’t keep me around because he’s nice. He keeps me around because I’m useful.”

“And that doesn’t bother you?” Jiang Yanli asked, a little dazed. 

“Better that than keeping me around for my pretty face,” Chengmei said casually, and Jiang Yanli flinched. “No, not really. He’s not the worst person I’ve worked for. Or, well, he is, but the benefits are pretty good.”

Jiang Yanli just stared at him. 

“That’s what everyone does, anyway,” Chengmei said. “You think he’s not using you?” (this world is gonna break your heart)

7. The first thing Xue Yang thought when he saw Xiao Xingchen was that he looked untouchable.

Bright moon and gentle breeze, he seemed as ephemeral as both, as insubstantial, as inhuman. Like you could cut him and instead of blood he’d just spill out light. He seemed barely even part of the world, like he’d descended into it but it didn’t really touch him, like he could walk through it without getting as much as a smudge of dirt on his shoes.

It made Xue Yang want to prove it all a lie.

Xiao Xingchen was flesh and that meant he could bleed, meant he could hurt and suffer and die. He was a part of the world and Xue Yang would drag him down into it, out of the sky, bring him down in the mud and filth of it all, see, this is what you’re trying to save, who do you think you are, and when he was broken and crying and utterly ruined then he’d finish it, carve open his throat and let him bleed out, one more body in a world full of corpses. (how bright you glow)

8. He’d given Xiao Xingchen his name sort of as a joke and sort of to see what would happen. What happened was Xiao Xingchen smiled and thanked him and seemed more pleased than Xue Yang would’ve expected just because of that. And that was it, pretty much.

Xue Yang couldn’t tell if he was disappointed or relieved.

Whichever it was, Xiao Xingchen went on treating him same as he had. Well, not exactly the same. Xiao Xingchen liked Chengmei more than he’d liked his nameless friend, or at least was quicker to be friendly with him. And then quicker to be more than friendly: Xue Yang was taken utterly off guard the first time Xiao Xingchen kissed him, quick and shy and immediately apologetic. 

Don’t apologize on my account, he’d said, when he could manage to get words out again, and that’d made Xiao Xingchen laugh. The second time he’d kissed Xue Yang it’d been warmer, slower, sweet as honey poured straight on his tongue. (how rare and beautiful)

9. Xiao Xingchen was sitting in the yizhuang, holding a half-mended blanket.

“Daozhang!” a voice called lazily. “I’m going to the market. Want anything?” 

A familiar voice. This is why I hate you, Xiao Xingchen. 

His throat closed. His head spun. No, he thought. No, it had been a dream, a terrible dream. He’d dozed off and…

He’d killed a fierce corpse yesterday. Just outside, where it’d been fighting his-

“Daozhang?” The voice was closer and panic beat hard against the inside of Xiao Xingchen’s ribs. (the cycle comes back to the start)

10. Xiao Xingchen frowned. “The brat?” he said quizzically, but then he did remember, or at least he remembered a voice, and a name, a-Qing. “Don’t call her that,” he said, belatedly. 

“I’ll stop if she stops calling me ‘hey, asshole,’” his friend said. “So do you remember her or are you just saying that cause it’s rude of me?” 

“It is rude,” Xiao Xingchen said. “But I do...I remember her. We…” he groped for more. “We live in a house together. The three of us.”

“Good,” his friend said approvingly. “That’s right. It’s not a very nice house but it’s ours.”

Every answer gave him more questions. He knew it hadn’t been like this forever. That he hadn’t known his nameless friend for very long, and that he was sad about something that had happened before, something about the thing he’d done wrong, the horrible mistake he’d made. There was someone missing, too. Someone who should be here and wasn’t, or...or he wanted them here, anyway, but he had a feeling it was right that they weren’t. (xiao xingchen + concussion)

11. Song Lan was accustomed to isolation.

He’d left Baixue Temple fairly soon after he was able, and while he’d journeyed back now and again it had neither been often nor regular. He’d spent a fair amount of time traveling with - traveling side-by-side with Xingchen, but not always, and when they parted he traveled alone. He did not find the company of others easy or comfortable; being among strangers was more likely to make his skin crawl than to make him feel at ease. He was used to being alone without loneliness; to finding solace in solitude.

In the weeks after he walked away with Yi City with two swords across his back and a pouch warm and too-light for its contents tucked against his breast, he felt adrift. (the poison in your bones)

12. “If this boy fucks with her am I allowed to kill him,” he said. 

“No,” Xiao Xingchen said firmly. “You are not.” He didn’t sound even a little concerned. The first time Xue Yang had said something like that when Xiao Xingchen had actually known who he was he’d flinched like Xue Yang had threatened him. Xue Yang wasn’t sure if the change bothered him or not. Maybe Xiao Xingchen just didn’t think it’d been a serious question.

Xue Yang made a note to ask Song Lan and see if he said something different. Probably he wouldn’t, but maybe he could convince him to allow that it’d be reasonable, in case of emergency, to cut off something nonfatal. (worst meet the family ever)

13. Song Lan suppressed a shudder. This place…it was evil, through and through. Saturated with suffering and bloodshed. He didn’t want to be here. He certainly didn’t want to come back, again and again and again– 

We could...move him, he said. Xue Yang went still.

“No,” he said. Quieter than Song Lan would’ve expected. 

Why not? Song Lan asked. Xue Yang didn’t as much as glance in his direction.

“Because,” he said. “He’s fine where he is. It’s quiet here. Nobody or almost nobody comes through so as long as I do my work right he’s not going to be disturbed.”

There are other safe places. Safer. And cleaner, less...tainted.

“I said no,” Xue Yang said, a little sharper. 

It isn’t really up to you, Song Lan said. If I decide that we’re going to–

Xue Yang’s left hand slammed down on the table. “Don’t you fucking dare,” he snarled, finally turning in Song Lan’s direction, his eyes wild and rimmed red. (Walking Far from Home)

14. “If I do that,” he said slowly, “what’ll you do for me?” 

Xiao Xingchen took a sharp, quick breath and then pressed his lips together and fell silent. Xue Yang stared at him and waited, but nothing. “Well?” he said, a little impatiently. 

“Nothing,” Xiao Xingchen said finally. His voice was quiet, dull, a little hoarse. “I won’t do anything for you. I will not–” He broke off, and stopped talking, and it was like watching a door close. Xue Yang took a step closer. 

“If you want me to do something then you have to–” 

“I’m sorry, Zichen,” Xiao Xingchen whispered, and then closed his mouth and Xue Yang almost heard the bolt slide home. Closed and locked. Xue Yang clenched his teeth and took a noisy breath in through his nose.

“All right, fine,” he said. “I guess you don’t care what I do with him, then, huh? Maybe I should send your precious Zichen out there looking for a-Qing, have him drag her back here by the hair. Or I could just cut him to pieces and feed them to the dogs, they’re always hungry for meat even if it’s not fresh.” 

Xiao Xingchen’s expression spasmed, sort of, like Xue Yang had cut him. But he didn’t make a sound and didn’t move, just laid there doing his best imitation of the corpse he wasn’t, the corpse he only wasn’t because Xue Yang had put in all the work to make sure he didn’t become one. Xue Yang hissed, anger bubbling in his stomach, thick and sour. Anger and something else, a queasy sort of feeling. His hands balled into fists. (xxc survives and it isn’t fine)

15. “Don’t suppose you’d take these off now,” Xue Yang said, holding out his arms. “Seeing as we’ve got a common enemy now.”

“No,” Song Lan said flatly. Xue Yang turned his eyes hopefully on Xiao Xingchen, who seemed like he might be a softer touch, but he seemed to be busy cleaning out the shallow wound that’d sliced open Song Lan’s left arm. Xue Yang suppressed his prickle of annoyance and held onto his smile.

“Really? I’m not your biggest problem anymore, Song-daozhang.” (strangers once united)

[plzignr]

You know what, Fuck Disney.

Disney is a horrible company. They’re quite revisionist both with the history of the fairy tales they steal from and then attempt to copywrite, and with their own history. It infuriates me. Let me point out some ridiculous bullshit the company does to attempt to keep it’s ‘family friendly’ nonsense.

 If you ever go to Disneyland/World, you will notice that all the employees point with two fingers. Like this:

Now, if you ask them why they do this the employee response will always be “It is rude in some cultures to point with one finger”. Which is ‘technically’ true. It is rude to point with one finger in China, some areas of Europe, and Japan.

Thing is, in these cultures it’s equally rude to point with any amount of fingers at a person. Instead all of these culture employ a waving motion to gesture towards what they are indicating. Really they excuse then should be, it’s rude to point. But here they are pointing anyway, with their stupid two finger ridiculousness:

Always with two fingers because they are specifically trained to do this. No I’m serious, it’s literally a part of the training.

And that’s kind of weird. Especially since it’s NOTHING BUT LIES. 

Oh... You want me to prove it? Okay. If it was so rude to do in other cultures that employees are specifically instructed not to do so, you’d think that rule would apply to someone equally as important, if not more so than the employees right?

Like if the whole point is “We don’t want you to make you make Disney Corp. look insensitive” there’s a more important person who we wouldn’t want to do that right? Like Oh, I dunno all the park characters?

Here’s Goofy Pointing with his index fingers.

No. Not good enough? Oh what’s that, he’s not really pointing with his index fingers? Oh. Okay fine sure. I disagree with you, but whatever.

Here’s one of the chipmunks doing it:

No. Still not convinced? 

 Okay fine. Stickler. Here’s MICKEY DOING IT.

*GASP* *SHOCK* *HORROR* *OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF DISAPPROVAL*

Mickey! Shame on you. You of all people should know better! You are literally the face of the company! 

Oh yeah. That’s right. It doesn’t matter for you. 

So why do employees have to point that way? Why are they instructed to perpetuate a frankly non-sensical lie that doesn’t benefit anything or anyone? Is entirely f*!@ing POINTless.

 Walt used to smoke.

 Yeah. That’s it. The dude from the roaring 20′s, who founded the company with his cartoon mouse, smoked. 

That’s it.

  It’s a literal global conspiracy (I’ve never been to any of the Disney resorts outside of America, but I assume they also do the two fingered point), but because Disney is SOOO insistent on keeping up their family friendly bullshit, they literally airbrushed hundreds of photos of Walt with a cigarette in his hand so that he no longer looked like he smoked anything Which leads to  hundreds of photos of Walt ‘pointing’ sometimes at nothing, in an absolutely ridiculous gesture.

Like this:

or this:

Mmm. Yes Walt. So natural of you to point at your colleague this way. nothing SUSPICIOUS AT ALL IN THIS PHOTO NOPE.

 Ah yes, the ground. Very integral to this storyboard that I’m detailing for you with my normal regular human pointing, but no the ground, she demands more. She must have the two fingers. It is required. It MUST BE DONE. 

This is apparently still such a thing that Tom Hanks did this in the 2013 film ‘saving Mr. Banks’:

That doesn’t look severely awkward at all. 

 Imagine being such a ridiculous company, that you would go through, HUNDREDS of photos, and AIRBRUSH them. Just so it looked like your founder, again FROM THE ROARING GODDAMN TWENTIES DIDN’T SMOKE.

So ridiculous that would lie to, I dunno, Disneyland employs like 25,000 cast members to operate the park, so at least conservatively 15,000 people a year? (12 parks, assuming ~25000 each to run it, and a 10% turnover rate (average companies have ~18% turnover from my incredibly quick google skimming).

Just because you don’t want to admit to an already established fact?

 And while it’s real weird. Like Really Real Weird for Disney to do something like this. It’s not necessarily harmful. But you know what is? Massacre!

 Let’s Talk About Lemmings!

Now you probably have at some point heard of lemmings, such as the expression ‘Like Lemmings’ meaning: a large silly rush towards a thing.

Do... Do you know where that expression comes from? Because I do.

It comes from Disney. Or at least, it was popularized by Disney. 

There was/is a myth that Lemmings will cast themselves out into the sea.

Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY [time of 1:38 to 2:04].

This, is total horseshit. Lemmings do not do this. Instead, this is what was done.

   The took the lemmings (which are also adorable by the way) tossed them in a modified wheel. Spun the wheel up to disorient them. AND THEN TOSSED THE POOR THINGS OFF A CLIFF! Yup, just mass murdered a bunch of animals to make some money.

Oh also, this was done as part of a nature documentary. Yeah, a documentary where a literal lie was propagated by mass murdering adorable little rodents in support of a myth.

Seriously Disney, what the fuck?

Can’t admit that our founder smoked because “family values,” but mass murder of animal? Yeah no, we’re cool with that. Nothing to see here.

Also speaking of Family values, in the latest moves of Fucking Seriously Disney?

They Sponsored Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Because the people in charge at Disney think that ‘the best way to promote social change is through our content not our actions’, and yes, I’m paraphrasing but that’s effectively the statement the leadership gave their employees. Which way to go Disney. Way to actively say your leadership is a bunch of Hypocrites. Preach about change in your content where people see it on display and then actively avoid the change you just preached about where it’s obscured. What a dick move.

Onto the GENOCIDE Disney was apparently cool with despite having family values.

 For those of you who don’t know, the good old Disney corporation decided it would be perfectly fine to film Mulan, right next door (figuratively) to internment camps.

Yes. That is a real thing that happened. Disney paid to film, next to internment camps. In fact the specifically thank the city for their help filming. If you want to read more Disney and the Uighur interment camps you can start herehttps://www.vox.com/culture/2020/9/9/21427978/mulan-disney-controversy-explained-uighurs-xinjiang.

 Socially Disney did actually get in trouble for this one. Thank God. Not that they faced any legal issues, but at least due to protests and general “WOW Disney. That’s incredibly fucked up.” it was a financial loss.

So yeah.

Fuck Disney.

[fratboykate]

Bruh BRUUUUH were those nother fuckers even there for the lexa shit? Yeah there was 4 seasons BUT THE LITERALY FUCKING CREW AND CAST AND SHOW RUNNER SAID LEXA WASNT GOING TO DIE THEN WOOPDIE FUCKING DO guess what? She dies like fuck man go meet the goddamn scare crow from the wizard of Oz and sing his song "if I only had a brain" because yall def need one or 5 Jesus fuck I Hate the people who want to rag on you with 0 evidence

We're playing Revisionist History in 2022 apparently.

"THIS IS LEXA ALL OVER AGAIN"...apparently y'all don't remember what the fuck even happened the first time anymore so how do you know what you're comparing it to lmao. Lexa wasn't JUST that she died. It wasn't even about her dying. At least not for me. The way you guys are genuinely removing THE ENTIRE context of why Lexa was such a fucking big deal is...astounding. Lexa catching a bullet was truly the least problematic part of everything that happened with all of that back then.

[kingdomoftyto]

IwtV movie script ‘92 early draft, liveblog, part 6

Okay so we've met Armand, and Claudia expresses concern that she's in danger. Louis goes to confront him.

A little surprised this line was in the original draft, knowing how easily Rice likes to throw around the word "lover"... Thank god he says it at all, I guess.

... In both versions, Armand confirms that she's in danger, and why.

CLASSIC Armand. Their conversation is pretty much the same from here. Armand admits he needs Louis "to make contact with this century."

Louis pls

I do like Armand's line in the film: "A vampire with a human soul... An immortal with a mortal's passion." Errybody hot for the New Orleans sadboi

... This is where the film decides to reveal that Armand and Lestat knew each other.

🥺🥺🥺

... Next in the script, there's a random detour of a scene where Louis kills a painter after getting his portrait sketched? Why not

Then we get to the Madeline scene

^A slightly extended version of a line that stayed in the final version, but I like it

Haha gross

:(((((((

The final cut includes quite a bit more dialogue in this scene. Louis speaks directly to Madeline several times, which doesn't happen in the draft. "How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful? Magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? Do you have any idea the thing you will become!?" She gets at least a tiny bit of agency/character before becoming irrelevant lol

... The scene where Madeline is dying/turning while Louis and Claudia talk on the balcony is also not in the draft. "Bear me no ill will, my love. We are now even." / "What do you mean?" / "What died in that room was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human."

It's a lot more solemn and final than the early draft, where it instead cuts to Louis brooding silently while Claudia and the newly turned Madeline dance.

Some upsetting kissing shots in both versions of the scene, then the theater vampires come to kidnap them all

... Interesting, Santiago sentencing Louis to "eternity in a box" is an invention of the final cut.

Interesting

Love this blatantly revisionist history lmfao. It's necessary for the rest of the series to exist, though, so unless the first book is in a vacuum, we must allow it

That shit hurted

... Ah, okay, Santiago does put Louis in a walled-up coffin then.

The original script does not let the audience know what happened to Claudia and Madeline until:

In the final version, as soon as Armand breaks him out, he walks straight to Claudia's cell and finds her remains directly. :(((

At least her ashes definitely get scattered in this version... ಥ_ಥ

The final film jumps back to the interview with Daniel. Louis sheds a tear, and Daniel comments on it. This scene doesn't happen in the early draft.

Ye ye ye ye get him, Louis. Much as I appreciate Armand as a complex character, I can ultimately never forgive him for allowing Claudia to die so gruesomely, and therefore will never accept his so-called love for Louis. Actually kind of pisses me off that Louis spends so many years with him later lmao.

...Anyway.

Then in both versions, we get Louis burning down the theater and killing all the vampires inside with a goddamn scythe.

In the script, Louis then spends the day in the metal coffin they'd tried to entomb him in. In the film, he just walks outside into the morning sun before Armand rescues him off the street.

In the final cut, Armand instead says Louis had done something to show him their failings. "They were doomed, stuck in their decadent time. They had forgotten their first lesson: that we must be powerful, beautiful, and without regret." Louis finds the idea of being without regret amusing.

💔

That's more or less the end of their conversation in the script, but the final film version they continue talking about regret. "What if all I have is my suffering? My regret?" / "Don't you want to lose it?" / "So you can have that, too?"

This is also the point in the movie when he confronts Armand with the knowledge that Armand let Claudia die, and Louis rejects him by saying, "You, who regrets nothing? You, who feels nothing? If that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my own." It's very empowering and I'm endlessly proud of him for it. That whole scene is a legendary shutdown, tbh

In the script, though:

Gross. I know it's canon, but still. At least he clarifies "Armand followed me" and not that they were traveling together. He just stuck to Louis like a leech and Louis didn't stop him.

Hmm

*RECORD SCREECH* you WHAT

I guess that... makes sense? Sort of? What the fuck

Louis.....

The sequence from the final cut where he talks about seeing the sunrise in films is not in the original draft, btw.

Then Louis sets out to find Lestat. He tracks the scent of death to a ruined mansion, littered with the corpses of rats. In the script, he also sees a few desiccated human corpses:

:(

In the film, the skeletal husk that is Lestat greets Louis with "I'm so glad you're here" and starts apologizing for what happened to Claudia, which Louis dismisses as being in the past. His primary emotion for Lestat in the scene appears to be detached pity. Lestat is afraid of him, but still wishes Louis would come home to him. Louis says his goodbyes and confidently leaves Lestat behind.

In contrast, in the early script, Lestat is surrounded by mountains of old books, reading aloud to himself in a crazed mutter. He acknowledges Louis' presence, but only barely, before he goes back to his magazine.

I think this is straight from the book. If I recall correctly, Lestat was so delirious he wasn't even sure if Louis was really there, and couldn't really bring himself to care either way.

So yeah, since this is something of a fix-it fic AU version of events, we're more interested in them reconciling than in Louis finding closure and moving on lmao. ENTIRELY different tone from the final film.

Ah okay, they tie the motion picture thing into their dialogue here instead. Lestat says seeing the daytime sky in the films frightened him and he fled back here.

:(

It still sounds so weak and contrived. There was no GOOD way to retcon it, since she'd written herself right into a corner, but it's still dumb.

Oh, he actually comes to take Lestat with him in this version. :o Yoooo...

I DIE

OH?????

Yeah okay that is what happens in canon. I am curious when Armand found time to sneak off and push Lestat off a tower when he was supposedly escaping the city with Louis, though

..... dAMN this image limit! (╬▔皿▔)╯ One more post should do it!

[peachhoneii]

Hades is the Disney villain who deserves a revisionist retelling. Of the Olympian gods, he’s the least problematic and destructive. For the most part, he loves his wife, loves his dog, does his job and sticks to his realm in The Underworld. He leaves mortals alone unless they come to his domain. He knows his role. But Hera? Zeus?

Hercules went through his labors because Hera bewitched him into murdering his family. Zeus deceived (raped) Hercules’ mom that resulted his in his birth. They’re the bad guys, not Hades.

If Disney could keep Hades’ personality in tact, the story could work. Hercules is misled into believing Hades is responsible for his demigod status through abduction when the truth is Zeus had an affair (raped) his mother thus making Hercules a demigod by birth. However, he was always fated to become a god of Olympus. The Fates ended up telling Zeus and Zeus was all cool, awesome and Hera was more like THE FUCK HE WILL and pulled some Hera shit.

Unfortunately, this meant they needed a scapegoat and Hades was, unfortunately, the scapegoat. Everyone blames Hades when he did absolutely nothing wrong and retaliates because he keeps getting shit on despite being the wealthiest god of the pantheon. It could still be that Hades loses out at the end despite Hercules becoming a god (or rejecting it bc he realizes what kind of god his dad is) and the Disney version is the story recorded in history.

Cruella’s thing was her personality and wanting to kill puppies. That’s a big part of her character. Hades’ is a little different when his personality is his winning aspect. It isn’t so much his goals but how he expresses himself and as long as a movie can keep that part about him, I think it could work.

He isn’t nice. He still does deals and all that, but he isn’t that bad compared to his brother and his wife. He’s the goddamn scapegoat and resents it. Rightfully so.