#i'm just. this book is baffling

[carlytayjepsen]

this taylor era by era book is..... not great 😭

[ofthebrownajah]

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[bonefall]

oh that anon is ABSOLUTELY right wing/conservative. “this website is full of leftists” “i dont usually MIND politics in works”. that second one is especially boggling when warriors cats literally started as a political mystery drama about how murdered the vice president and how tigerclaw hates outsiders and wants to “make thunderclan great”.

I would chance they at least consider themself a centrist, which functionally means slightly right-leaning. In any case, I welcome them to stick around as long as they're respectful of the space and people that frequent it (which so far they have been, since they say they've been around a while), and understand much of what I write about isn't "just" politics but lived experience to me and my audience. I too was a centrist once. Sometimes it's the littlest thing that sets off a wider epiphany for a person.

All people can change. Not all do. But it's cool when they can.

I'm not here to debate (and I recommend others don't either; debate is a sport and persuasion a skill, and sometimes even a recruitment tactic), but anyone can listen if they'd like. If my work is broadly appealing and my arguments are convincing even outside my circle; then good. I take that as a sign that I'm effective at communicating my point.

I do hope to change minds, even if it's in small ways, or at the very least I hope to give people some more insight on the topics I tackle.

While I'm rambling, I will make it clear though that I think just about any piece of art with a narrative will end up with some kind of political point. Anyone who tries to tell you their work is "apolitical" is either ignorant of their own biases, or just dishonest. It's almost as unavoidable as philosophy.

I'm very open about how Better Bones is a project about "fixing" what I feel are the pernicious themes of Warrior Cats. Clearly WC always had them to begin with. Like you mentioned with Tigerclaw's quote there-- that was a line probably taken directly from Margaret Thatcher, who herself likely heard it from Ronald Regan.

(that all said, 90% of the time when someone says "politics in works" they're usually gesturing at "things that make me think of the culture war." Only the things they, personally, clock as being "out of the ordinary" by their own standard of politics... such as, "has too many women" or "said war is bad but in a way i dont like")

[daisywords]

"just focus on book 1 without mapping out the entire trilogy" I need you to understand how much I cannot do that

[punkbooyahbomber2227]

was eating a crab trap in the park earlier and this woman with merch of her fucking bogwharfs house plastered all over her bag sat herself down across from me at the picnic table trying to chat me up. "you like witches huh? you're reading squicked? i actually haven't read the book myself ha ha :)" yeah i could tell you haven't read another book

[cultivating-wildflowers]

trying to get tech support for a weird glitch I'm experiencing with a program can be so so embarrassing because now this stranger knows more about me than my own mother does

[wanderingcas]

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[the-chosen-half-of-one]

One of the most bizarre things to me about the Wednesday show is they looked at a property where the main appeal was how much the family loved each other despite being seen as strange/weird or unconventional, and were like okay, hear me out, what if the family hates each other and also doesn't factor into this story at all except to further manufactured outcast angst. Also, being weird or unconventional in this particular way is bad, Wednesday is bad, and this girl needs to learn to fit in with the more acceptably weird and unconventional people. They also looked at a property that thrived off its difference to the mould and were like lol, that's not gonna fly with our silly little modern audiences, get back in there; guards, dig up the early 2010s trashy YA teen paranormal romance book structure, yeah, yeah the one with the brooding outcast girl and the perky best friend and the love triangle, oh yeah of course with the weird magic school and bullying plot, yeah the one that's been done to death for over a decade that everyone clowned on, yes, yes with the evil boy plot twist you see coming a mile away, and the ignorant/vaguely offensive undertones, I know what I'm doing, I said what I said, bring it here, bring it here, I just need to change literally all of the lore and *forcibly stuffing star shape in square hole* perfect, perfect. Oh and guards, throw in that ugly ass cartoon monster to top it off, yes, I do want it to have big stupid bug eyes or else people might mistake this for an adaptation that cares. Yeah, yeah this is the money shot, *shows picture of the Plants vs Zombies zombie.* And make them use snapchat.

Anyway, the most bizarre thing to me about the Wednesday show is that it could've been good. Why did they do that to her.

[ilions-end]

i get the sense statius tries to soften the shame of achilles hiding from war in drag by pointing out, every chance he gets in the achilleid, that achilles is so pretty though!

like YES the greatest of the achaeans being forced by his mother to pretend to be a woman is humiliating, BUT have you considered that his own sex and his mother's counterfeit alike becomes him? that as deidamia surpasses her own sisters as the fairest, so does she herself own defeat compared to proud achilles? have you even thought for a SECOND about how plenteous charm remains to him though his manhood brook it not, and he baffles beholders by the puzzle of his sex that by a narrow margin hides its secret?

[markantonys]

why are so many readers absolutely convinced that mat's dad is going to get a redemption arc in the show as part of the Return To Emond's Field plotline? he has about 5 lines in the entire book series and is just a knockoff tam who literally doesn't matter to the story AT ALL, they're not going to waste time giving an arc to an extremely minor character when they can barely even squeeze in all the main characters' stuff. not to mention that we really don't need yet another "shitty parent is actually good and their kid has to forgive them because they've Changed" storyline in media in general. not to mention that mat probably won't see his parents again anyway by the end of the show, so there would be no point in delving deeper into them when we could spend the time on, say, tam.

[repotting]

just saw the most painfully unfunny, stupidly mischaracterizing tweet thread about what some guy thinks would make a hilaaaaarious tng season 8 and seeing that he wrote for fucking rick and morty was so vindicating

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

Do you think evajacks will have babies? If so, how do you envision them as parents?

oh my god i honestly hate it when characters have kids but idk i don't think i would mind.

i mean they might??? it's a possibility but a very slim one in my opinion.

i think they would be okay parents, jacks would have to un-learn a lot of stuff but i think he could be a good dad maybe if he really tried. ehe'd need to have a major redemption arc though for that 😂 but i think eva would be a really nice mom! she just seems like genuinely such a caring person but you never know how people are gonna be as parents.

[kazz-brekker]

in general my opinion on fandom is that people can do whatever they want and i don't care, it's their business, but sometimes i encounter stuff that makes me go "leave those characters alone, they don't deserve being involved in that"

[general-du-vallon]

I know we all have opinions on s3 me too hut also in episode 1 it's so funny to me Aramis run away to a monarstry and they just give him all the babies like 'this is the perfect fit just burry him in children then he will be a good monk'.

Edit: the tiny conversation where Porthos is like 'boring boring dodiers boring' and Athos is just like. Wheedling and gleeful and knowing Porthos is gonna give in 'we are also musketeers' is great.

And Aramis taking charge of his tiny children and keeping them safe in a cellar is 👌👌👌👌

OK I rlly quite like the musketeers bits of this s3 episode.

[jaqobis]

sorry i thought i was done with the sanderson-critical wotposting but also

the way multiple people just Release Warder Bonds at dramatic moments in AMOL even though it's been a huge plot point up till then that they can't be undone like what, what, what? like if alanna could simply Release rand why didn't she do it earlier. if egwene could just Release egeanin. the entire point of rand hating the force-bonding of those aes sedai by the asha'man in wot but not being able to Fix it was that.......you can't just Release a bond. why wouldn't more aes sedai just release warders so they don't go mad with grief, why wouldn't, why, did i just miss this,