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there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love
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so. i love this line.
but i want to talk about her expressions after gideon asks if she's alright:
i dont know. throughout the first season, elle expresses the strongest negative feelings towards sex offenders (reasonable!) and sure, she came from a unit dealing specifically with that and that's her specialty (remember when all the characters had specific skill sets and specialties?) but especially this reaction here seems very personal. and this is pre-randall garner, so she doesn't yet have that connection to being attacked in her own home.
also. the team knows sexual offense crimes are elle's specialty. they know that's where she came from. but her response to gideon when he asks if she's okay after she goes off on scott isn't "i've seen a lot of this and it gets me riled up" it's to get defensive and evasive. if it was anger born of something the team is aware of, why hide it? her response to gideon and her expression afterwards very much read to me as someone hiding something.
#elle greenaway#obviously you dont have to be a victim to hate sex offenders#“i hate sex offenders” is a very normal stance#but elle's hatred seems personal to me#and again in a way that seems born of more than just her career#and then theres the question of why she chose to go into and specialize in sex crimes in the first place#to me that implies that that hatred was already there#ie. she doesnt hate sex offenders so passionately because she specializes in sex crimes#she chose to specialize in sex crimes because she hates sex offenders#i would be very curious to know what the planned backstory was for elle had lola glaudini stayed on#we get a bit with her dad#but throughout the first season i very much got the vibe that there was likely something SA-related in her backstory#either her or a loved one#not fic#criminal minds#criminal minds rewatch#character analysis#i think#criminal minds s01e15#unfinished business#tw sex assault#favourites#criminal minds 1x15
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what if we... killed each other in multiple timelines 😳😳 and i cannibalized you out of adoration while you murdered me out of simple apathy... haha just kidding...unless?
#corpse party#ayumi shinozaki#yoshiki kishinuma#ayushiki#i truly mean this: kishinumas characterization is enhanced tenfold by his ending where he eats ayumi.#a silent acknowledgement that ayumi is his greatest desire and his greatest weakness. the school couldnt convince him to kill her hatefully#it had to convince him to murder her in some crime of passion. adoration. a sense of entitlement too.#but in the main timeline no one knows this (not even yoshiki?!) and its so funny.#also very funny: ayumi murders him or attacks him more often in timelines but its usually with mundane methods#the ONE (1) timeline in which yoshiki hurts ayumi he goes FULL cannibal. go big or go home kishinuma kun#idk. in 99% of situations he is her knight yknow. but hes also human and hes also a kid and hes also got some pain he keeps private...#tldr: yoshiki looks like a victim here but he is just as insane as ayumi LOL#flashing gif#seizure warning#okkk its 5am#my nyart#im proud of this :.)#i miss queue#final time 6hrs or so
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Magnificent Century + Faceless: Nurbanu Sultan
#Muhteşem Yüzyıl#Magnificent Century#mcedit#Muhtesem Yuzyil#Nurbanu Sultan#weloveperioddrama#perioddramaedit#period drama#historical drama#Another Sister of the Sultan#Why did the lighting all her scenes SUCK#The Conspiracy#The Secrets of Fatma Sultan#MC 4x08#Brotherhood War#New Regent of the Sultanate#The Illness of the Sultan#MC + Faceless Sultanas#Passions Run High#Everything Goes According to Plan#The Fate of Sehzade Mustafa#The First Victim of the Struggle#The Fatal Error of Nurbanu#Declaration of War#The Last Days of the Great Sultana#Suleyman’s Endless Winter#Battle of the Sehzades#The End of the Great Era#Awkward-Sultana
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i just reblogged that post about saying nice things abt prev but i wanna send an ask too, so: thank you for being one of the only people to be correct about the winchester mystery house and sarah herself!! so many people spread the stories of her being weird/crazy/whatever when she was just. a woman who suffered some tragedies and liked architecture.
i went on a tour of graceland recently and was intrigued by how they barely talked about elvis as a person, whereas winchester tours are basically a trap where you think you're getting to explore a weird fucked up house but actually you're going to hear about how wonderful sarah winchester was for an hour and if you say anything mean about her design skills one of the tour guides will push you out the door to nowhere.
i go through your winchester tag sometimes when i'm nostalgic and missing the house (i got laid off during quarantine) and it's just nice to see that even people who didn't devote years of their lives to the house can genuinely understand and appreciate it.
I'm so glad it's gotten better! Someone once anonymously told me the guides had to sign a contract saying they would only stick to the story made up by that ridiculous carnie family that bought her house in the 1920s, and even though it was an anon and therefore unverifiable...I believe it, sadly. For Profits often are more about...well, profit. As opposed to history. But it's good to know the guides care about getting the truth out there.
In Sarah Winchester I see a woman whose character assassination for being different(tm) has carried on after death. It's not that she was perfect- far be it from me to lay perfection at the feet of a white 19th-century gun fortune heiress -but she seems like a genuinely caring person in many ways, about her workers and her community. She was an unattached woman of means with an unconventional hobby (architecture), though, and that seems to have made wagging tongues nervous. During her lifetime that meant claiming she thought she'd live forever if construction never ceased (it did, several times), and after- well. The tale of the mad widow fleeing from invisible ghosts has come to prevail.
It feels unfair to me that she should forever be remembered by what her detractors said about her, instead of her own triumphs and setbacks, merits and flaws. And that her beautiful house, where she poured so much love and attention, should be so misrepresented. I'm glad people are trying to fix the narrative.
#sarah winchester#ask#winchester mystery house#lakesandquarries#spoiler alert for those who didn't know: she was NOT trying to hide from ghosts of Winchester rifle victims#she was just passionate about architecture and had the money to make that her Hobby#it's widely believed among historians that the 'doors and stairs to nowhere' are remnants of house sections destroyed in the#1906 earthquake and never rebuilt#the 'seance room' I've been told is just an attic storage room converted after her death- she would have held seances in the parlor#with tea to follow#like a normal Victorian
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I was rooting for Gabriel having a redemption arch, but even I know that what we got in the show was anything BUT.
How would you handle it? If you were to succesfully redeem Gabriel? How would you do it?
I'm not opposed to a Gabriel redemption arc, but it would be very hard to do without some serious and careful character development or serious edits to canon. My preference is option two because option one risks something that is a hard no for me: glorifying the cycle of abuse. We'll still talk about both paths because it's worth discussion and we'll start with the easy one, which is rewriting canon to remove the abuse.
Rewriting Gabriel
The easiest way to give Gabriel a redemption is to make him a good father. Someone who clearly loves Adrien in a healthy, non-possessive way. Someone who is at least trying to have Adrien's best interests at heart. Someone who is willing to let Adrien do things that make Adrien happy.
To make Gabriel into this kind of character, we would need to remove all - or at least most - of the manipulation. Things like when Adrien asked to no longer be a model and Gabriel used that as an excuse to make an AI Adrien and then told Adrien that his options were to either tolerate the AI or go back to being a model:
Adrien: Dad, I'm not really comfortable with having my face on all these rings. That's actually why I didn't want to be a model anymore, to avoid that. Do you understand? Gabriel: Of course, I understand, my son. But that's the point; it's just an image, it's not you! And since this image frees you from your obligations, we, the Agrestes, are able to spend more time together. But if you'd rather everything went back to the way it was before, just say the word.
We'd also need to get rid of every moment when Adrien seemed to fear his father like this scene from Illusion where Adrien spilled spaghetti on Gabriel and then immediately started freaking out like he was afraid of being hit or otherwise punished:
Adrien: Yes, I forgot my school bag. (spills the spaghetti on Gabriel’s clothes, but Gabriel remains calm) Oops! Oh, sorry, Dad! You must be so angry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!
These moments are easy to write because they allow Gabriel to come across as evil and scary without the audience knowing anything about him. In other words, they work wonderfully with the whole "every episode must stand fully alone" rule. But if we ignore that rule and say that Gabriel is allowed to be nuanced, then we can replace this straightforward writing with more complex writing that requires you to watch multiple episodes in order to understand what's going on in the broader story.
In this new version of canon, we wouldn't have to change much story wise. We could keep the same general story beats. The only big change is that we'd see Gabriel struggle between his grief, his love for his son, and his desperation to restore his wife. This would mean little moments of nuance like Gabriel changing his mind about the day's akuma because his planned akuma would knowingly putting Adrien at risk and Gabriel won't do that, so he has to swap plans on the fly, leading to some of his more wacky akumas. This setup allows for a Gabriel who is still a super villain, but he's now a super villain with principles who refuses to let those he loves be harmed in his quest.
A more minor change is that Adrien's fear of his father would be replaced with a more complex setup. Instead of fear, Adrien is now held back grief because he's a teenage boy who is grieving and who knows that his parent is also grieving, but who doesn't know what to do about any of that. In this setup, the father-son conflict is not abuser and victim but two grief-stricken individuals who no longer know how to connect because a vital element of their relationship has forever changed. You know, the kind of setup you'd expect for a family where the relatively young mother died less than a year ago.
I've talked about this kind of setup leading to a corruption arc, but you could also use it for a redemption arc. If Gabriel never goes against his principles and always puts Adrien first even if it means losing Emilie, then you maintain Gabriel as a complex and nuanced character who would believably stop his quest as soon as he learned Chat Noir's identity or was otherwise put in a position to once and for all choose between his son and his wife. (Which could be how we get our next villain if the story doesn't end with Gabriel's lose.)
While I thought that the movie adaptation was too rushed to make it's ending really work, it does show the template for this path. A path I would have personally loved, but it's not the path we got in the show so let's talk about option two.
Redeeming Canon Gabriel
Whether or not he understands what he's doing, canon Gabriel is an abuser. He controls and manipulates his son without any concern for what Adrien wants because Gabriel seems to view Adrien as a perfect doll and not a real human being with his own wants and needs.
Quick senti rant: This is yet another reason that I hate the sentistuff. Because sentimonsters are so poorly defined, that the sentiplot does kind of validate Gabriel's POV and that's not a good thing. This is extra true since Gabriel's part in that plot ended with Gabriel essentially giving Marinette ownership of Adrien by passing on the rings. I talked about it at length here, but I think the only way to make the sentiplot work in the context of canon is for it to end with Gabriel realizing that he needs to view Adrien as more than a doll and I think the only way to really do that is to have Gabriel use the wish to free his son.
Back to the main discussion in which Adrien is a real boy and we ignore the senti complication!
In order for canon Gabriel to be redeemed, he must acknowledge his abuse and make recompense for what he's done. Adrien must also acknowledge his father's abuse and be allowed to decide what that means for their relationship as Adrien is the victim and, when it comes to reconciliation, the victim should be the one calling the shots, not the abuser. This is a complex and nuanced process that would take an intense amount of screen time to make work. I do think you could do it, but once again, it would require Miraculous to get rid of that whole, "every episode must stand fully alone" rule.
Off the top of my head, if I had to take this route, I'd have season five end with Gabriel losing. I also wouldn't let him die or do his grand plan. Instead, I'd have him lose without a big public reveal by having Felix or Nathalie reveal Gabriel's identity to Ladybug and Chat Noir. This would lead to Gabriel being stopped in an epic battle between our two heroes.
Once Gabriel has been subdued and the full story has been revealed (because it would be so much more satisfying coming from Gabriel and not freaking Felix), Ladybug would contact the guardians to see if Emilie could be saved. This is a path Gabriel never had the chance to take because the Guardians weren't around until quite recently. (I'd probably make it so that Gabriel didn't even know that the Guardians were back.) The Guardian's answer would, of course, be yes, but it would require some special lost item or other BS that the heroes need to get/do first.
At the same time, we'd learn that there is a new bigger, badder villain. I'm thinking Tomoe, but Lila, Felix, and/or Nathalie are also options. No matter which one we pick, Gabriel would have knowledge about the new villain that no one else does. Knowledge that is not easily given. In order to save his wife, Gabriel agrees to help the heroes with the new villain and they agree to help save Emilie (they would have done that anyway, but Gabriel doesn't need to know that).
Over the course of this plot line, Gabriel would become less of a recluse and, as a result, he'd get out of his own head and start to regret his actions as he comes to view the heroes as people, not obstacles. This plot line would really lean into the idea that Gabriel never viewed his actions as real because he'd always planned to reset everything with the wish, so what did it matter if he hurt people? It was all just a bad dream that they'd forget once he'd won and set everything right.
Now that his hope of resetting everything is gone and his actions have actual weight in his mind, he'd be incredibly remorseful about the way he treated Adrien, so he'd pull away from his son. At the same time, he'd be bonding with Chat Noir, whose identity was never revealed. This would eventually lead to a reveal whose time and place was fully chosen by Adrien. A reveal that would only take place once Adrien felt that his father had truly changed and come to regret what he'd done.
Bonus element to this idea: the Gabriel-Adrien reveal would be our new identity shenanigan hook, meaning that the love square could reveal themselves without removing that element of the story. It would just have a new main flavor.
The Cycle of Abuse
I mentioned at the top that you have to be incredibly careful about redeeming abusers because it can glorify the cycle of abuse. I wanted to end by talking about what I meant by that as I think that far too many pieces of media accidentally glorify this cycle because they don't put the necessary effort into their redemption arcs. When it's media aimed at teens and adults, I just kind of sigh and stop consuming it. When it's media aimed at kids, I get legitimately upset because the cycle of abuse is already hard enough to escape without media helping you internalize it at a young age where you don't have the skills to understand fiction vs reality.
There are a lot of in-depth articles and books about the cycle of abuse, so I won't go too deep here. I'll just link one article and go over the basics which is that abuse is often not constant. In many cases, it follows a clear pattern in which there's an incident of abuse, followed by some form of reconciliation, followed by a period of true calm and happiness, but that calm and happiness never lasts. There will eventually be another incident of abuse and the cycle will start all over again. It's an existence of the highest highs and lowest lows where the victim has true hope that things will get better only for that hope to be cruelly dashed to pieces again and again.
This cycle is one of the many things that can make it hard for victims to leave or even identify the abuse depending on what form the abuse takes. After all, no one is perfect and we want to support our loved ones. If a person does something mean and then apologizes, we want to believe that apology. This very normal series of events can be paired with the cycle of abuse to keep a victim trapped because they think that they're a bad person if they give up on their abuser who is, "trying to get better," or some other excuse. But that's not what's actually happening. While the abuser is saying what the victim wants to hear and may even mean it in the moment, if they're not actually doing any work to change, then it's just another reconciliation round in the cycle of abuse.
This is why it's so important to have media that tells you that it's okay to give up on people. That their happiness is not your responsibility. It's also a big reason why I like the idea of redeeming character A while not redeeming character B. That setup lets you have that positive message of redemption while also presenting the idea that redemption is never a sure path. You can only redeem those who want to change (even if it's for a selfish reason) and who are willing to put in the work. A thing that you can really highlight and drive home when you do the A vs B setup.
Before we move on, I will note that there are abusive relationships that don't look like the cycle. The cycle is simply a very common pattern. The thing that makes it "special" when it comes to writing is that it's the type of abuse that's easiest to glorify and/or romanticize if you're not careful in your writing, which brings us back to Miraculous.
Miraculous actually demonstrated the cycle of abuse horrifically well in season five. In this season, we see things like Gabriel giving Adrien apologies and permission to call him "dad." Acts of reconciliation that were followed by blissful happiness for Adrien who desperately wants his father's love. But of course, that happiness never lasted. In the end, Gabriel always destroyed it with a new act of abuse because he is an abuser. An abuser who loves his son, but an abuser none the less because love doesn't stop abuse.
Because of this, if you want to write a realistic redemption, then you cannot give Gabriel a simple redemption where he apologizes and everything is suddenly okay. You have to differentiate his "true" apology from the others. You have to make it clear that this isn't just another round in the cycle of abuse both to tell a good story and so that little kids can hopefully internalize the difference between when you need to run away and when it's safe to stick around.
Another important element in getting this message right is allowing the victim character to be the one who is in charge of the reconciliation. Generally speaking, the victim should be super wary about reconciling because - for this to work - they need to be fully aware that there has been past abuse so that they can make a fully informed choice about what that means for them and their relationship with their abuser. It's not a true reconciliation if the victim is totally oblivious to the fact that they've been wronged.
Because of this, the true reconciliation will usually be a drawn out process wherein the abuser and the victim don't reconcile until the abuser has unequivocally proven themself as changed to really highlight the difference between an actual reconciliation and the kind of temporary reconciliation we see in the cycle. This why my hypothetical solution has a love square reveal and Gabriel avoiding Adrien out of shame.
That route allows Adrien to have full control over the situation as Ladybug can accommodate his needs, allowing Chat Noir to have 0 required interactions with his father. All required interactions are handled by Ladybug or other teammates so that all of the interactions that happen between Gabriel and Chat Noir feel like Chat Noir's freely made choice. This setup also allows Adrien and Gabriel to be on more equal footing in terms of power, an extremely important element of reconciliation. A lot of damaged parent-child relationships don't fully heal until the child is an adult and the parent loses their power.
All of the above is why I'm wary of giving abusers redemption arcs into happy close relationships with their victims (I'm much more liberal with redemption arcs into happiness with people they never hurt and/or where they're redeemed, but not super close with their victims). I'm extra wary in the context of children's media as it can be harder for kids to understand nuance and this is an incredibly important topic to get right.
That doesn't mean it can't be done. It can! It just requires a lot of effort to do it right. Most of the time, stories with this type of redemption feel lackluster and honestly make me a little sick to my stomach because it's so common to go the lazy route where a single apology is all that's required. It's why I'm super wary of the whole "enemies to lovers" thing. I like the concept it in theory, but more often than not, it ends up being abuser-and-victim to lovers, which is a hard pass for me. I don't judge people who enjoy that stuff in fiction or role-play settings, it's just not my cup of tea. Be it fiction or reality, I want couples that feel healthy and families/teams that I'd love to be a part of.
Since this was a serious one, let's end on a topical, but humorous short from ProDZ where he very accurately sums up your standard bad-guy redemption and why I don't like it. I love the redeeming power of love, but like all tropes, part of doing it well is knowing what story setups are suited to it and which ones are not.
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#ml writing critical#ml writing salt#ml season 5 salt#adrien deserves better#Gabriel deserves better#believe it or not this was me being brief about this topic because it's one in pretty passionate about#There are so many ways to make Gabriel interesting!#It's why I get so many fanfic ideas#Most of which will never see the light of day outside of vague summaries spawned by asks like this#While I writing this I was kind of tempted to write out the plot line I came up with because I think it could be interesting#But I doubt that I ever will#I'm pretty tolerant of low effort redemptions for characters that we're just straight evil bad-guys#It's when the abuser-victim dynamic shows up that I get real judgemental real fast
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Rereading the interactions Rhulk has with the Witness in Shattered Suns like “Wow!! That’s… that’s actually grooming on a mortifying level, I think I need to lay down for a very long time and think about how disgusting Rhulk being taken advantage of in his most vulnerable state is!!”
I need that entity OBLITERATED, get as far away as possible from that Lubraen you foul, MALIGNANT opportunist!!!
#destiny 2#destiny#destiny the game#the witness#destiny witness#d2#rhulk#rhulk destiny#working on my post about Rhulk makes me bite my fist in anger#rhulk being a victim is not talked about enough#I need a few light years of distance between him and the witness they make me SICK#passionate about my witness hate
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How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.
i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it
#i could write essays about how capitalism ruined the internet.#i was actually talking to someone earlier today about how youtube was kind of effectively ruined by monetisation.#and they were raised in the soviet union and we had a bit of a talk about how art was better because it wasn't for profit.#the people who made art made it because they wanted to do it and because they loved it.#she said that communism was terrible for every aspect of life for her. people's lives under communism wasn't pretty.#but the art was better. and i feel like it's true for the internet – it was better when it was a free-for-all.#the companies didn't know how to exploit it yet and turn it into a neverending profit-driven hellscape.#people created content because they wanted to. because they wanted to make something silly to make people laugh.#not for profit. not for gain. not for numbers. not to further their career.#i miss the days of newgrounds and youtube before monetisation.#capitalism has soiled everything that's joyful and good in this world.#people should be able to share whatever they want.#people should be able to tell any story they want without the fear of being silenced by advertisers.#that's what made the internet so beautiful before. anyone could do anything and we all had equal footing.#but now we're victims of the algorithm. and it makes me sick.#i'm quitting my job in social media. i'm quitting it. it makes me too depressed. i have an existential crisis every freaking day.#every day i wake up and say "ah. this is the fucking hell we live in#i'm so sorry i feel so passionate about this.#social media is a black hole and it is actively destroying humanity. forget ai. social media is what's doing it.#i miss how beautiful the internet used to be. it should've been a tool for good. but it's corrupt and evil now.#sci speaks
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thinking about "you have a life" / "i don't know what i have" + "what do you want, dana?" / "i want everything that i should want at this time of my life" + the perceived shame in scully's loss of normalcy... "unlike you, mulder, i would like to have a life" + "do you believe in the afterlife?" / "i'd settle for a life in this one" + "don't you ever want to just stop? get out of the damn car? settle down and live something approaching a normal life?"
her friend ellen saying, "well, first you have to get a life." tara, pregnant with their christmas gift, saying that life before one grew inside her was "somehow...less, just a prelude," while barren dana cries in the kitchen. "i know you and dad were...disappointed...that i chose the path that i'm on."
thinking about how mulder said, "this is a normal life," and how she smiled. (he doesn't know any different). how, in the end, he said, "hey, scully? i know it's not your normal life, but thanks for coming out there with me."
(christmas before quantico, "i guess i'm afraid of making a big mistake. dad thinks i am." and missy's response: "it's not his life, dana.")
her application to adopt emily was rejected: "you're a single woman who's never been married or had a long-term relationship. you're in a high stress, time intensive, and dangerous occupation."
bill's reaction: "sounds like something your partner would say. this isn't about any little girl, dana. this is about you. it's about some...void, some emptiness inside you that you're trying to fill."
and mulder to the judge: "the fact that she can adopt this child, her own flesh and blood, is something i don't feel i have the right to question, and i don't believe anyone has the right to stand in the way of."
(that last christmas with missy before everything: "there is no right or wrong. life is just a path...just don't mistake the path for what is really important in life. the people you're going to meet along the way. you don't know who you're going to meet when you join the FBI. you don't know how your life is going to change, or how you're going to change the life of others.")
and ultimately, it all leads to a leather couch. and after contemplating that sacrifice of normalcy, what she should want, the decisions she could have made, she says, "i once considered spending my whole life with this man...what i would have missed."
she could've been a doctor, like her father wanted. she could've settled down, married waterston, had a normal life, like her friends and brother wanted. but what would she have missed?
"what if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong?" / "and all the...choices would then lead to this very moment. one wrong turn, and...we wouldn't be sitting here together."
#i truly believe that what's made this show so lasting and rich to so many generations#is how completely in touch with raw human experience it always was. there was always this kind of bleak undertone of...this is how it is...#and very rarely was it ever overcome or accepted or boldly subverted. it just was.#the pressures and the grief and the traps of abuse and trauma and power structures. this is how it is. this is how it feels.#'people thought the storyline and characters for x-files made it a 'dark' show but i never saw it that way.#i always thought mulder and scully were the light in dark places.'#my favorite quote about the show and why i think it's so comforting. it's the harsh reality of the world#of which mulder and scully are not exempt#but it's also mulder and scully going wherever they are needed with their unending kindness and their perseverance and their passion#and they bring all of those things to each other too. that's why she chose THIS life. despite it NOT being normal.#despite it NOT being what her father wanted for her. despite it NOT being easy. she chooses it over and again#because he is bringing light to dark places and she wants to be where he is and she wants to be doing important work. she wants to be#'on the side of the victim'#and that's rarely supported by societal structures and it's hard. but like she says#what would she have missed??#txf.txt#you people make me crazy when you dismiss her decisions and act like she Ruined Her Life or mulder Ruined Her Life#congratulations! you've missed the point!#all things#emily#dreamland
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Current thoughts: A Human (rightfully) punching a Vulcan in the face for something and the Vulcan actually immediately realizing they fucked up and agreeing with the Human that punching them was the most logical course of action and becoming their number one defender of the Human not facing consequences
More specifically, I’m imagining them passionately (for a Vulcan) petitioning for this Human not to get in trouble, citing all the logical reasons they should be let go, and after a long while of this, barely dropping the bombshell that they were the person who got punched by the Human
#I’m imagining the inciting incident being something where they were veering into xenophobia territory and not realizing it#then they get punched (followed by a passionate speech)#and realize ‘oh shit that actually was a fucked up thing they were saying wasn’t it??’#and oh my god they were saying that to humans and probably making all of them feel so unsafe and everything#sometimes you do just. gotta actually knock some sense into a person.#jot them back into reality#*shock not jot#mostly I just like this scenario for the reveal at the end#‘you make a great argument but we should really see how the victim wants this to be handled since they were the one who was hurt’#‘it’s me. I was the one who was punched.’#everyone else in shock thinking maybe this was the human’s friend who was being a bit biased#nope.#Star Trek#Vulcans#Humans
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so is the fandom gonna realize qwel was being manipulated by rox and that she is also a victim or .
(recent post for screenshots of qwel admitting she was being manipulated. also a debunking of the claims in the qwel doc.)
#grooming cw#cw grooming#grooming tw#tw grooming#i dont want to use the term 'grooming' in the post cause thats a very strong accusation but its very likely that thats what it was.#everyones like 'respect the victims' until the victims dont realize their victims until its too late#everyones like 'respect the victims' until the victims get manipulated by their abuser#sorry im just a little bitter. all the love for qwel. god bless rox is gone.#discourse cw#cw discourse#also please dont follow me if you think ill talk about this a lot i am Only posting about this cause im not active anywhere else and im +#really passionate about this#do i really wanna put the main tags on this. yeah i guess i will#dandys world#dandy's world#roblox#blushcrush#sorry im putting discourse on the main tag but i just want to make sure this gets seen
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"But she has one quality none of you have: she has never betrayed me before. She has never wanted to replace me while I sit on this throne."
#Muhteşem Yüzyıl#Magnificent Century#mcedit#weloveperioddrama#Muhtesem Yuzyil#perioddramaedit#period drama#perioddrama#historical drama#Hurrem Sultan#Stressful Days#The Seeds of Doubt Are Sown in the Soul#New Shocks#The Execution of the Head of the Janissaries#Passions Run High#Everything Goes According to Plan#The First Victim of the Struggle
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i think a lot of people would've felt much more at home on kiwifarms than they'd like to admit to themselves
#the worm speaks#sick of watching kids passionately throw themselves behind harassment campaigns under the pretense of somehow helping the victim(s)
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gonna be real man idk if jerking off to a fictional rapist has any impact on the morality of your soul or whatever the fuck but as a victim of rape i think it absolutely makes you a hugely insensitive cunt. Donate to RAINN and post online less.
HUGE YAP INCOMING. i love yapping about this stuff. special interest pretty much sorry. also apologies if my text and talking is all over the place, unorganized, or repeating!! kinda a brain thing but i wanna get this out /gen hi ! as another victim ! if you are not comfortable with that sort of stuff nobody is going to force you to indulge in that ! the internet is yours to curate and nobody is obligated to do that for you . anyways! just because someone is into that stuff (personally, i'm not too into it but i like the assumption LOL) does not mean they automatically sexualize actual victims/rapists and completely erase real cases and victims. in fact, a lot of the people that are into that sort of stuff are victims as well! being into that sort of stuff is pretty common when it comes to that sort of trauma, although not everyone copes or (just straight up ends up that way. It doesn't have to be a coping mechanism, it can still just be an attraction) processes things like that. A lot of people are also completely disgusted and triggered by that kind of stuff (which i'm assuming you are) and that is A-OKAY! it's okay to have boundaries bro!!
it's okay to both be into that stuff (as long as you don't go out hurting real people) (no, triggering someone on accident via a post doesn't count because nobody is responsible for the ways other people react to something. you can't predict that) and it's okay to absolutely hate it!! i think people should just be more understanding because . liking something does not mean you support the actions happening to real people, and it does not mean you don't care about real cases.
(also i've heard rumors about RAINN being queerphobic and sexist so. iffy about that but i do support donating to organizations that help victims so long as they're, you know, actually supportive of people!!! /gen and . will start posting more to spite you /lhj)
but seriously thanks for the infodump invitation . ^_^
#woah! thats a lotta words!#sorry i get very very passionate about this stuff#coming from someone who's both mentally ill + yk. a victim themselves#tl;dr . liking something morally dubious (in fiction especially) shouldn't be considered dubious since.#most people can't control what they like#+ most people who like that stuff are victims themselves#+ indulging in that kind of media =/= ignoring real cases. gooning to them will sound very bad but i promise.#it doesn't mean you support that stuff happening to real people#i like some weird shit (which stems from trauma) and i'd rather jump off a bridge than have it actually happen to people yk?#and that's how most people are. there are some exceptions of course but that should not be a stereotype.#anyways#hope you're doin well anon#rambling woo
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Looking at you “the prince was 31 and Snow White was 14”
#I’m not saying the old princess movies especially don’t have problems or that there was no sexism#but if you have to make things up to make them anti feminist then they aren’t as bad as you want them to be#also all the constant bashing on the OG three especially is almost always victim blaming#or bashing women who prefer to be traditionally feminine and/or gentle and less assertive#and doing both of those things is inherently the opposite of feminism#i am very passionate about this#disney princesses
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Great, just the news we needed in 2024.
#neil gaiman#no i've not listened to the podcast but i have read an article#while i think it is important to support victims and that we should#it's also important to recognise that it shouldn't have been the reporters researching into this it should have been the police#for now i will not be discussing this further until the case has come to a conclusion#which is likely the best situation in celebrity accusations#and in the meantime please let people process this news#people will respond differently at first but that's because it is big news that will have a big impact on their views/passions
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