#lolita help
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
shadow-rora · 2 years ago
Text
Hey, so I bought this Baby jsk second hand a few years ago and I was wondering if anyone knew the name of it.
Tumblr media
8 notes · View notes
liquidstar · 1 year ago
Text
look this site really is awful for ppl with OCD so i just wanna reassure anyone that you are not Tainted Forever for consuming a piece of media with questionable content. the fact that youre able to recognize it speaks to your critical thinking skills, which is good, certain depictions should be critiqued. but you dont need to ruminate on it to the point where you begin to feel guilty for simply witnessing gross or creepy writing choices. you dont have to vindicate yourself to the fictional tumblr discourser inside your head, saying that youre now a bad person bc you watched the wrong anime. your actual response to it still matters of course, but thats that and this is this. just seeing it is neutral, you didnt commit a thought crime. its literally fine.
Tumblr media
IF YOU ARE USING THIS POST TO ONLY FURTHER YOUR STUPID PEDANTIC BLACK-AND-WHITE DISCOURSE TO GET A "GOCHA" OVER THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. DON'T USE OUR DISORDER TO VINDICATE YOUR BEHAVIOR. THOUGHT CRIMES ARENT REAL BUT ACTIONS STILL MATTER. PEOPLE WITH OCD ARE CAPABLE OF THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT OUR ACTIONS AND RESPONSES, EVEN WITH INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS AND RUMINATIONS. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT, ONLY TO FORCE US TO USE YOUR STRINGENT UNNUANCED DISCOURSE OPINIONS ABOUT "PURITY CULTURE" (TRIGGERING TO THOSE WITH OCD) AS THE ONLY REASONABLE GUIDE DOES MORE TO EXACERBATE OUR OBSESSIONS THAN HELP US. YOU ARE THE ISSUE AS WELL. YOU ARE ALSO THE TUMBLR DISCOURSER INSIDE OUR HEADS. DO NOT USE US FOR YOUR DISCOURSE. WE ARE PEOPLE, NOT HYPOTHETICALS TO USE TO EXPLAIN IF YOUR FROZEN INCEST FANFICTION IS OKAY OR NOT. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT AUTONOMOUSLY HAVE OUR OWN OPINIONS ON WHEN MEDIA IS TANGIBLY HARMFUL IS ABLEIST. FORCING US TO ABIDE BY YOUR IN-GROUP'S SET OF UNEQUIVOCAL MORALS IS ABLEIST. ACTING AS THOUGH THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR US IS MINDLESS MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN WHICH "EVERY DEPICTION OF XYZ, NO MATTER HOW POORLY DONE OR EXPLOITATIVE, IS ALWAYS OKAY AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOURE ACTUALLY AN EVIL 'ANTI'" IS ABLEIST. THOSE ARE THE SAME BLACK-AND-WHITE MORALS THAT SEND US INTO OBSESSIVE SPIKES, BUT FLIPPED. A SET OF MORALS IN WHICH QUESTIONING THE IMPACT OF A PIECE OF WORK MAKES YOU AN "EVIL CONSERVATIVE PURITAN "ANTI"" DOES NOT HELP MORAL OCD.
YOU ARE THE DAMN TUMBLR DISCOUERSERS MAKING THIS SHIT WORSE FOR US! YOURE THE EXACT SAME BUT WITH FLIPPED BUZZWORDS! YOU'RE MISSING THE WHOLE DAMN POINT!
4K notes · View notes
bitteryule · 6 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
✞ maria de la croix ✞
631 notes · View notes
bydollita · 4 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
₊ ˙ㅤgothic frames / 600 follower special!!
f2u && credit me if using!! send me an ask for alternatives 🥹🥹THEY KEEP BREAKING THIS POST
351 notes · View notes
discardead · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
··· ··· ··· ✧✦✧ ··· ··· ··· Old Machinery, Mechanic things, Dolls, and Lolita Fashion themed NPUT list
﹒﹒﹒ Requested by @nomkiwi
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Dollita. Rosadoll. Dollithia. Porcelie. Frills. Vinlicate. Antoinette. Dollette. Lacey. Lain. Laine. Ribonette. Lacelune. Lovelace. Cutesyine. Frillocke. Locklace. Mechabelle. Dollique. Rustaline. Charmlace. Velvette. Metalisse. Copper. Russell. Rustique. Lottie. Luciel. Roch. Amir. Verdell. Blanche. Francoise. Victorine. Valvoria. Timorelle. Pendellia. Machinique. Dolly. Ethel. Stamford. Otto. Auto. Cyril. Chantilly.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
doe/dolls. ge/gear. mae/machine. fri/frills. fi/frill. lae/lace. porce/porcelain. rib/ribbon. shwe/hwer. hwe/hwim. thwey/thwem. bo/bow. joi/joints. bjd/bjds. cu/cute. cyu/cyute. cwu/cwute. kyu/kyute. co/cogs. tick/tock. rus/rust. clo/clock. twick/twock. ste/steam. cha/charm. chi/chiffon. lo/lolita.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
dollgears. machinedolls. gearedolls. steampnk. machinairy. deardoll. deardclly. dollpunk. dolljoints. cogsndolls. rustyd-ll. rustydoll. clocklita. dollike. autodoll. steampnklita. dollitas. steamedoll. clockwwrk. clockwcrks. pocketdoll. lacelita. clunylace. chantillace.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
The [noun] in Frills. The Doll. Prn* Porcelain Beauty. The Lolita Doll. Prn* Timeless Beauty. The Vintage Doll. The [noun] who Dolled-up. The Dolled-up Darling/Lolita/[noun]. The [noun] with rusty ball-joints. The Clockwork Doll. Prn* Porcelain Heart. The Frilled Marionette. Prn* Mechanical Melody. The Dollmaker's creation. Prn* broken music box. Prn* Antique Beauty. The Dolly Lolita by the Clocktower. The [noun] in Gears and Cogs. The Cutest Lolita. The [noun] dressed in Laces. The Clocktower's Doll/[noun]. Prn* ticking Rhythm.
Tumblr media
167 notes · View notes
strawberryteabunny · 8 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
package arrived ☆૮꒰•༝ •。꒱ა
275 notes · View notes
20dollarlolita · 8 months ago
Text
If yyour cheap computerized Brother sewing machine stops advancing the fabric, or only going backwards, here's what to do.
First of all, do not put oil in there. In the last year, I've seen 5 machines where this would have worked, except that someone decided to drown the circuit board in oil. Basically zero parts of an entry level computerized brother can be fixed with oil. Put the oil away.
Tumblr media
See how there's nothing stopping the oil you put on your feed teeth from going to your main circuit board? Don't do it.
Tumblr media
See that combo of that little black gear and the white rack? That controls your feed. Sometimes, your machine gets stuck in reverse because the rack overshoot the gear, and then there's no connection to get it back down.
You can see this rack by taking off your stitch plate, and usually access it by poking at it with tweezers. Push it down a little bit, if it's going in reverse. Push it up a little bit if it's stuck at almost 0. Make sure you have theachinevturned off and unplugged before you dick around with this stepper motor, or the machine can get confused, try to fight you, and break itself more than it already is.
Stick it back together, and see if it's feeding now. If it is feeding semi-properly, try adjusting your stitch length.
Best case, this actually fixes your problem, and now your machine works again. If it doesn't, and the machine only sews at one length, wiggle the rack up and down until you get a good general-purpose stitch length, and you can just sew exclusively at that length until you've saved up enough to get a new machine. It ain't fixed, but it's better than broken.
185 notes · View notes
miouija · 3 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
ㆁ̴̶̷̤́ㆁ̴̶̷̤̀ 𝙰͟𝚗͟𝚐͟𝚎͟𝚕͟ 𝚓͟𝚊͟𝚙͟𝚘͟𝚗͟𝚎͟𝚜͟ ☽ °̩̥ ˖ ⁺ ‧ ₊ ˚ 🔐 👼 ཐི♡⃟ཋྀ
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
64 notes · View notes
Text
TG on Criston Cole: "He's not the step dad he's the Dad Who Stepped Up! 😍"
Criston Cole in F&B: Literally Humbert Humbert (or, at best, Woody Allen).
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Afterward, he gave the seven-year-old Princess Rhaenyra the victor’s laurel and begged for her favor to wear in the joust.
“Ser Criston protects the princess from her enemies, but who protects the princess from Ser Criston?” *
*said at a point when Rhaenyra is the same age as Dolores Haze btw.
Among the changes to the character's ages in HOTD, it's ageing up Rhaenyra when she first meets Criston Cole that grosses me out the most. And to add insult to injury, they don't even get an older actor to play an older Criston Cole after the time jump - Emma D'arcy is actually older than Fabian Frankel.
And to those who say sympathetic jilted lover Criston Cole is more interesting... well we've heard that story before. With Jorah Mormont's depiction in GOT, for starters. And everywhere else in our culture, men like Criston Cole are afforded sympathy and fascination (it's honestly a relief that most audiences outside of tumblr thankfully hate Show Criston - pls leave the actor alone though), while their victims are depicted as seductive temptress 'nymphets'.
Look no further than JK Rowling's favourite 'tragic romance'.
(sure jk, trans women are the problem, but humbert humbert isn't?)
Book covers and film adaptations of Lolita love to age up and sexualise Dolores and completely miss the point, but Vladimir Nabokov named actress Catherine Demongeot as the most book-accurate casting. Who looks very disturbing up against the 1997 film's casting for Humbert Humbert:
Tumblr media Tumblr media
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.
And wouldn't you know it, Daemon returns from the Stepstones when Rhaenyra (15) is around the same age that Dolores was, when Clare Quilty convinced her to run away with him.
And when Criston proposes to Rhaenyra ahead of her upcoming marriage to Laenor, she is again the same age as Dolores (17) when Humbert tries to get her to leave her husband for him.
Obviously Rhaenyra's story is by no means directly comparable to the horrific abuse suffered by Dolores Haze, and besides we don't know precisely what happened between Rhaenyra and Criston*. But Rhaenyra was also much much younger (7) when Criston came into a position to start grooming her, and at the end of the day she was still only a 12-year-old child when rumours of a sexual relationship began. The parallels are there, and CSA is a common issue throughout GRRM's work.
It certainly wouldn't be the first time GRRM has made a reference to Lolita in ASOIAF:
You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
Littlefinger and Lord Petyr looked so very much alike. She would have fled them both, perhaps, but there was nowhere for her to go.
On Septon Eustace and Mushroom
*I do find it interesting to note that of the two accounts of Rhaenyra and Criston's 'split' (by two people who weren't in the room), it is Septon Eustace's account that puts Rhaenyra in a more favourable light. Mushroom tells the more pornographic account that casts Rhaenyra as the one trying to seduce Criston. Meanwhile Septon Eustace insists that Rhaenyra was the one to refuse Criston - including arguing that if his vows as a Kingsguard mean so little to him, then why should she trust he'd honour any marriage vows?
As I often argue, interpreting F&B is far more complicated than insisting one account always tells the truth, one account always tells propaganda etc. Neither account obviously views the relationship through the lens that Rhaenyra was only 7 when they met, neither of them care to raise concerns of grooming and CSA . This is still the same world after all that thought it was perfectly acceptable for a 12-year-old Laena to marry Viserys, or for a 12-year-old Sansa to marry Tyrion. This is the world that spread rumours of Rhaenyra's lost virginity when she had barely begun puberty.
Mushroom is clearly pro-Rhaenyra, and clearly fond of her (he wants us to know for instance how good it was to hear her laugh, his account expresses the most how broken she was after Luke's death) - but he's writing his account years after her death, and most likely after departing Aegon III's court for White Harbour. His priority, as a dwarf and entertainer, is to write was sells, and salacious tales sell. Just look at the pornographic tales the slavers spread of Daenerys, or how Shae depicts Sansa as a seducer withholding sex to convince her husband to commit regicide, or the play Arya performs in that bawdily depicts Tyrion raping Sansa for the masses. Mushroom at least wasn't the one to actually come up with the Brothel Queens story** - Archmaester Gyldayn credits Aegon II with making that story up - but any loyalty Mushroom had to a long-dead woman wasn't enough to stop him including a popular story. Mushroom's gotta eat.
**to those who still insist the story is true (despite Gyldayne attributing the rumour to Aegon II), do you honestly think if the Queen and Queen Mother had actually been gang-raped there wouldn't be multiple sources verifying it and expressing outrage?
Septon Eustace meanwhile is a misogynist who hated Rhaenyra and wished to justify his allegiance to the Greens. Which is why he'll make up ridiculous stories about Rhaenyra cutting herself on the throne while wearing armour, or Sunfyre eating her in 6 bites and leaving behind one leg for the Stranger, or how Rhaenyra got fat and ugly after giving birth to 5 children. Which is why he'll have Aegon II say "what sort of brother steals his sister's birthright?" - a statement that doesn't match with the rest of his documented words and actions:
Word of Rhaenyra’s coronation reached the Red Keep the next day, to the great displeasure of Aegon II. “My half-sister and my uncle are guilty of high treason,” the young king declared. “I want them attainted, I want them arrested, and I want them dead.”*** Cooler heads on the green council wished to parley. “The princess must be made to see that her cause is hopeless,” Grand Maester Orwyle said. “Brother should not war against sister. Send me to her, that we may talk and reach an amicable accord.” Aegon would not hear of it. Septon Eustace tells us that His Grace accused the Grand Maester of disloyalty and spoke of having him thrown into a black cell “with your black friends.”
***spoken in response to Rhaenyra publicly offering him a pardon
So Eustace has a tendency to demonise and whitewash - which is what makes it interesting when he passes on the opportunity. For example, why would he refute the rumours that Rhaenyra's children are bastards? Surely that claim would have supported his case against her? Why does he give quite a positive, even glowing, account of Jacaerys? Probably because he approved of and genuinely had no issue with Jacaerys, other than that he didn't believe the throne could pass through the female line anyway. True or not, he didn't need to claim Jace as a bastard, and Jace's actions didn't fit any cultural stereotypes. Because it seems there are certain lines Septon Eustace won't cross.
So Septon Eustace has some commitment to telling the truth (some truths anyway). Which is why his own account of Aegon II often contradicts itself, as shown above.
So back to his account of Rhaenyra and Criston. Why not cast Rhaenyra a wanton seductress, trying to tempt Criston Cole away from his Kingsguard vows? Why depict Criston, a fellow Green, as an oathbreaker? Why tell us that Rhaenyra did the right thing, turning Criston down and even expressing disgust that he would abandon his vows? Because for all Septon Eustace dislikes Rhaenyra, casting her as a wanton seductress would be crossing a line. He doesn't need it to be against female succession - her great sin is being a woman who doesn't gracefully abdicate in favour of her brother, and that's enough.
And because his account is probably closer to what happened. While he wasn't in the room, no more than Mushroom was, he was in a position to hear about it from Criston. As a fellow Green, and above all as a Septon. Someone who Criston might confess to. And it is Septon Eustace's account that tells us Criston Cole was the one to slit Lord Beesbury's throat. While he may try (sometimes anyway) to sanitise Aegon II, he makes no such effort with Criston Cole. If you wanted to legitimise your support for the Greens but were unable deny their crimes, it makes sense to allow someone to be the villain.
And supposing Criston did confess, he probably would have displayed the same delusional self-pity and self-justification as Humbert Humbert. And Septon Eustace, just like everyone else in Westeros, certainly wouldn't have considered Rhaenyra a possible victim of grooming and CSA.
Just look at Catherine Howard as a historical example. When she was 13 she was molested by her music tutor, Henry Mannox:
“At the flattering and fair persuasions of Mannox, being but a young girl, I suffered him at sundry times to handle and touch the secret parts of my body, which neither became me with honesty to permit nor him to require.”
This 'affair' was used as evidence against her in her trial for adultery and subsequent execution.
The Princess and her White Knight
Again, we don't know what precisely happened between Rhaenyra and Criston. We don't know if their relationship is comparable to Catherine Howard and Henry Mannox, or if it escalated anywhere close to the horrors of Dolores Haze and Humbert Humbert. Or if anything actually happened at all, or maybe at least not till Rhaenyra was older. Maybe their relationship is more comparable to Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen, who had been her stepfather since she was 10.
We have snatches of the truth from Eustace and Mushroom, we have what we can determine of their access to the truth and their motives for telling their accounts the way they do. We have Rhaenyra's young age, Criston's constant access to her, the timing of the rumours, her later relationships with older men, the violent hatred Criston has towards her after she rejects him. We have the fact that CSA is a common reoccurrence in GRRM's work - Daenerys and Jorah, Sansa and Littlefinger, Jeyne and Ramsay, Tyrion and Tywin, Aeron and Euron. We have the salacious stories that are already spreading of victims like Daenerys and Sansa, and we can speculate how future maesters and septons and fools might write about them, the way they write about Rhaenyra.
Whatever happened, my understanding is that Rhaenyra was a child in a court that her stepmother was actively making a hostile environment for her. Who had to deal with the beginnings of puberty in this environment, where adults were already speculating on her sexuality, on top of all the other scrutiny she would face as heir. Yes she had a father who doted on her, but when it came to Alicent he always refused to take sides, he always tried to placate and please and keep the peace. Yes he was steadfast in his decision to keep Rhaenyra his heir, but he did nothing to reprimand Alicent, he allowed this hostile environment to flourish, leaving his barely pubescent daughter to deal with it on her own. Alicent even publicly quips about Rhaenyra's relationship with Criston Cole, and she gets away with it.
Daemon does not return from the Stepstones till after the 5th anniversary tournament Viserys throws for Alicent, when Rhaenyra is 14/15. Before then, Rhaenyra's main confidant, probably her only confident on the subject of Alicent, was her sworn shield and constant shadow Criston Cole. Whatever happened between them, she was young and emotionally vulnerable. And lonely. Yes she had a party of supporters at court - but what is that to a child? She needed a parent to confide in, and when it came to Alicent her own father could not be that parent.
We know Rhaenyra was a precocious child, 'bright and bold' and proud. But we also know that beneath that she was anxious - she was known to compulsively fidget with the rings on her fingers out of anxiety. What kid in her situation wouldn't be anxious? Just when did this compulsive habit begin? Rhaenyra may not have been in anywhere near as vulnerable a situation as Dany, but she was still a vulnerable kid. And so Criston would have been important to her.
He wants me, she realized. He loves me as he loved her, not as a knight loves his queen but as a man loves a woman. She tried to imagine herself in Ser Jorah’s arms, kissing him, pleasuring him, letting him enter her. It was no good. 
It was a long kiss, though how long Dany could not have said. When it ended, Ser Jorah let go of her, and she took a quick step backward. “You … you should not have …”
My great bear, Dany thought. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me. It made her feel safe, but sad as well. She wished she could love him better than she did.
My bear, my fierce strong bear, what will I do without him?
My bear, she thought, my old sweet bear, who loved me and betrayed me. She had missed him so. She wanted to see his ugly face, to wrap her arms around him and press herself against his chest.
We don't know how much or in what way Criston took advantage of Rhaenyra's dependence on him, or how 'receptive' Rhaenyra might have been (friendly reminder that no matter how 'receptive' she might have been, it's still CSA). Again, it may be that nothing physically happened at all until Rhaenyra was 17 (after 10 years of grooming of course). Whatever happened, we can certainly imagine that Rhaenyra was devastated to lose him, and to Alicent of all people. He had been her confidant and her champion, he had been at her side since she was 7 years old, not long before losing her mother (who was the same age as Criston btw).
My understanding of Criston meanwhile is that he genuinely adored her for those 10 years as her sworn shield. That he was passionately protective of her, fiercely devoted to her, and possessive. Much like Jorah with Dany. Maybe, like Jorah, he tried to kiss her. Maybe much worse happened, and he deluded himself as many abusers do that theirs was a misunderstood romance. Maybe he never touched her at all, but fantasised about it. Maybe he convinced himself that he was a man of honour, maybe he spent those years waiting till Rhaenyra was older, by her side the entire time (cough, grooming).
Whatever happened, he was enraged that 10 years of grooming were ultimately unrewarded. He probably, deludedly, cast her just as cruel and selfish and ungrateful as Humbert Humbert did Dolores Haze.
Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.
But I was weak, I was not wise, my schoolgirl nymphet had me in thrall. With the human element dwindling, the passion, the tenderness, and the torture only increased; and of this she took advantage.
Don't you love living in a world where multiple think pieces debate whether or not Rhaenyra abused Criston Cole? (Also a world where a book like Lo's Diary gets published...)
If there is any truth to Septon Eustace's account that Criston wanted to elope with her to Essos, then I can imagine that he wanted to possess Rhaenyra entirely for himself (however romantic he may have believed his motives). The 'black fury' that descends on him during the wedding tourney certainly tells us he is violently jealous to see Rhaenyra begin a relationship with Harwin. He probably stewed in fury while Rhaenyra's attention was on Daemon (maybe hypocritically casting him as the villain the way Humbert Humbert does Clare Quilty), celebrated when Daemon was banished, and grew desperately possessive at the thought of losing his exclusive access to her again. Much like Jorah:
“You have been a better friend to me than any I have known, a better brother than Viserys ever was. You are the first of my Queensguard, the commander of my army, my most valued counselor, my good right hand. I honor and respect and cherish you—but I do not desire you, Jorah Mormont, and I am weary of your trying to push every other man in the world away from me, so I must needs rely on you and you alone. It will not serve, and it will not make me love you any better.”
I can't believe I'm giving Jorah Mormont credit here, but at least he doesn't respond to rejection with violent hatred of Dany. Or at least, he hasn't yet.
Now Rhaenyra's relationship with Daemon is another matter, and will require another essay. In sum, there is a broad spectrum between 'pedophile' and 'healthy relationship', and when I say Daemon's relationship with Rhaenyra is healthier than her relationship with Criston I have to admit the bar is very low indeed. Though I do take into consideration GRRM's description of Daemon as a grey character, 'equal parts light and dark'. Anyone is at liberty to declare death of the author and interpret Daemon as they see fit, but authorial intent (however fallible you may consider it) is not irrelevant. That authorial intent is the foundation upon which the characters, relationships, events, themes etc is built.
Ultimately, Daemon was not in Rhaenyra's life between the ages of 8 and 15 - he was in a relationship with an adult Mysaria, and then he was off to the Stepstones until Viserys and Alicent's 5th anniversary tourney. This isn't to endorse whatever may have happened in the 6 months Daemon was in King's Landing before his banishment - however you interpret his actions and motives. But simply to say that when it comes to grooming and abusing pre-pubescent to early-pubescent girls (oh this has been a disturbing essay to write) - Criston wins the "Creepy Even By Child Brideros Standards" Award.
So... is Criston the Step-Dad Who Stepped Up? Sure, if your Step-Dad is Humbert Humbert or Woody Allen.
53 notes · View notes
saltysoulbean · 5 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
I NEED more, I’m so ready to forfeit my first born child to whoever makes more
89 notes · View notes
girlforyou2 · 5 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
64 notes · View notes
nuzzle · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
march 2023 monthly coord contest at baby yokohama "cherry blossom viewing with kumya-chan" maiko-sama's entry "the red ribbon is perfect! the accessories are also coordinated with cherry blossoms in full bloom ♡" 2023★3月グランプリ発表&エントリー者様ご紹介【BABY】
275 notes · View notes
youknowyouloveme-xoxo13 · 22 hours ago
Text
I have a crush guys!!!
SEND HELP!!!
Tumblr media
22 notes · View notes
Text
I love Interview with the Vampire so much and I know I always bring disability into the conversation but I'm not sorry because I really think it's a media lens too frequently glossed over.
And I can't watch Claudia's experiences being infantilized and not bring it back to disability.
Compared to the other vampires, Claudia is disabled. They even say it in the show as one of the rules: members of the coven are not allowed to change the disabled, the maimed, or children, lumping all of these things together as particularly cruel to inflict vampirism on. They talk about it all the time behind her back. She's wrong. She's the wrong kind of vampire, she won't last long, and her mind is fragile and will break before the rest of theirs because of the way she was made. Even though the vampires KNOW better, they still treat her like a child as much as humans do, just in slightly different ways.
I watched the post-show interview and they talked about how Claudia is desperate for people to take her seriously, demands it even. It's not her fault that she was made the way she was. It's not her fault her body looks like it does. She didn't ask for it, and yet she is punished for it. Her options are people less mature than her who she shares nothing in common with, and people who are too weirded out by the way she looks to touch her. So, she changes her clothes to look like a lady, more mature. She changes her hair. She learns languages, dialects, history, geography--she arms herself with knowledge beyond even Louise and yet in all of their schemes she is forced to play the child's role cause that's all anyone will believe about her no matter how she carries herself. Being disabled is perpetual adolescence no matter how old you are, what you've achieved, or how you look.
And then she meets the vampire coven. And they actually have intellectual conversation with her. They have the same pride for vampirism that she does, because despite everything she still loves being a vampire. She only ever wanted that pride and identity to be acknowledged by somebody other than her guilty maker. The coven calls her flea, less, but she can handle a little hazing if it means somebody will finally takes her seriously for once. It pays off. They include her in conversation, they give her a job to do. They let her join in on the rituals, they put their hands over her, she drinks their blood, they are one.
And it makes the punchline all the more heartbreaking. When they tell her she'll be in the play. A new one, written for her in mind. She's so excited until they wheel in her gift...a blue baby girl dress. And then it all sinks in at once. These people she thought were her tribe, who she just dedicated herself to, never saw her as an equal. She was just a tool, a prop, entertainment. Just like the humans. Just like always. When they called her "less", they meant it.
"...You want me to play the baby?"
It's true disabled horror and I'm not gonna shut up about it.
48 notes · View notes
themintman · 10 months ago
Text
This is absolutely not what mr stirpe meant by nurm having an emo phase but im an artist with free will so fight me
Tumblr media
88 notes · View notes
starsloversstuff · 1 month ago
Text
Fit:3
Tumblr media
20 notes · View notes