thinks so incredibly hard about the implication of these combined. the morgana described here wouldn't be anything but an abusive parent (which is nothing new for descendants characters) + morgie's desperation to please uliana who is also a powerful dark sorceress just screams abuse victim who knows he'll never gain his mothers approval and seeks it through similar surrogates instead. maybe if he obtains uliana's approval he will be able to rest.
to which i just flop on the ground thinking about the deleted mid credits scene in which he obtains the spellbook because it implies that in this new timeline, without uliana to seek approval from, morgie chose not to go through with it when on his own.
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Keep seeing stuff about people being fed up with the idea that Sirius is whiny or cries at the smallest inconvenience, which yes I agree that's very incorrect.
But you know who might be crying at any slight inconvenience???
My overwhelmed, stressed out, tired, in pain, cranky, anxious, keeps-everything-to-himself, friendly neighborhood werewolf!!
Like as a tired, in pain, overwhelmed, anxious girly myself, who ALSO keeps everything under lock and key (tries to!), sometimes I just be cryin
101 horrific things could happen to me in a week, and I'm fine! I'm so cool I'm so fine!! I'm a fortress I'm an island!!
And then my car is almost on empty while I'm running late to work and boom, I'm sobbing and clutching my chest trying to breathe
Like I'm not saying that Remus is a cry baby, and I definitely could see him developing a coldness between graduating and POA (the death of all your friends & the werewolf discrimination will do that to you!)
But I like to think that while Remus still had the comfort of a solid group of friends, he was definitely a "this essay is so bad" crier
Or a "my sweater is too tight at the worst possible moment and now I'm sweating and can't breathe while trying to take it off" crier (not from experience... 👀)
And like it's not about the small inconvenience, it's 100% about the 101 other horrible things going on that haven't stopped making the rounds in his mind.
But the inconvenience is the straw that broke the camel's back, and it's easier to let your friends comfort you over not understanding potions than it is to watch them try to comfort you over something they'll never understand.
Anyway, that's my talk lol
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Sometimes it feels like Astro Boy/Atom's and Tenma's relationship is an allegory for dealing with a transphobic, emotionally abusive parent. Who already has an exact idea of what you should be, and you feel like you can't escape it but u have to survive and find yourself.
It's also a disability metaphor where you live in a world that isn't built for you, and you have to be a certain way but you just physically can't. Everyone is taking advantage of you or treating you like a threat, a spectacle or burden. Your worth is tied to how useful you are to others. Your parent/caretaker wishes you could just be normal and always feels like you're always doing something wrong
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For those of you keeping up with the book of Bill and it's accompanying website and the bill cypher backstory. THE PARALLELS GOT ME FUCKED UP.
Spoilers incoming.
people love to talk about the dynamic between Stanford and Bill. Sure, interesting. But you know what people aren't talking about? Stanley and Bill. Specifically referencing the website (thisisnotawebsotedotcom.com)
If you input Stanley a bunch it will eventually open a new document instead of eBay pages. The page mocks Stanley and reveals his secrets or whatever. One of the clickable options on this page is "HOW HE BEAT ME". Each time you click into this is an increasingly deranged meltdown about how it shouldn't have been possible. Calling him a "cheap trick loving, past-denying overgrown child protected from failure only by a force field of denial and shamelessness" among other things. And when further pressed accuses you of acting like "those PREACHY INFANTILIZING AUTOMOTONS AT THE THERAPRISM who are SO OBSESSED with getting me to TALK about my "FEELINGS"." After that he spirals further eventually talking about "how much pain I'm in" and only in code admitting "I can still see through the eyes of everyone I've ever..." presumably killed.
If you don't know shit about Euclydia read the wiki page on it, it's not long. tldr Euclydia is bills home dimension, which he destroyed and killed every single inhabitant of in blood and fire. He did so (accidentally?) in an attempt to show them the third dimension which (because of a genetic mutation) only he had the ability to see (with his eye). Please also note when Stanford asks about his home dimension Bill says it was"destroyed by a monster".
In the website's many documents it repeatedly makes reference to Bill's parents and how much they loved him, his home, his childhood (he wore velcro sneakers it's actually incredibly cute), the ways in which he was different and not easily accepted.
Now knowing all these things. A pattern may emerge to you. Are you seeing it? Are you seeing the patterns yet?
Obviously Bill hates Stanley because he's stupid and still he somehow beat Bill. That's annoying, maddening even. But I believe it goes beyond that. He hates him all the more passionately because Stanley reminds him of himself. The poem at the end of the Stanley password on the website summarizes it best "always dragged his family down / One mistake, disowned, denied, / only thing to do was hide." Destruction of his own family, running and hiding from his own mistakes. "Reinvent, retry, reload" trying again in a new life. "When your actions make it worse, / When they see you as a curse," Making things worse where you have tried to make them better. "Give the wheel one last spin, / Take your chips and go all in" this is what weirdmagedon was for both of them. and this is where their lives differ "And lucky stan- the rolls on black, / he got his life and family back. / His big break it finally came, / Redemption from a life of shame." AND THERE IT IS. Stanley got his family back. Bill didn't. (Which is what it seems he was attempting). Stanley got his redemption. Bill didn't.
Stanley was a lonely kid fuck up just like Bill was. And he absolutely hates Stanley's guts for it because he hates his own guts for it. And all this time they're the same, just trying to fix those mistakes, to have their family back again, to be loved again. They both have this facade of untouchable aloof levity, the same insults Bill hurls at Stanley may as well be hurled at himself. "Protected from his failure only by a force field of denial and shamelessness"? "Cheap trick loving, past denying overgrown child"? You can see Bill goes from being outraged and insulting Stanley, to denying a deeper meaning to those feelings (and calling you a therapist), to talking about how much pain he is in (seemingly over all the people he killed in Euclydia), all without any specific prompting. Just pushing. Bill is the one that connected those things. Bill hates Stanley (at least partially) as an act of self hatred. Because he has made the same mistakes and can never forgive himself for them. AND (at least partially) because Stanley is not only just like him, but now just like him if he had succeeded. Stanley got his "Redemption from a life of shame". and in so doing actively prevented Bills.
Now do you see what I'm saying about THE PARALLELS?!
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Day 5 (i guess????): Butcher Army
The butcher army happened while I was still mostly only watching Technoblade so some of my first introductions to Ranboo were from his perspective. I remember him just. Handing over the armor (and ending a plot line before it started lmao).
some close ups for you, my darlings.
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