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Idk if this is how you do or are supposed to do this, but TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of rape.
My mom told me recently that I was a product of date rape. She didn't use those words, but when she described it to me and I told her that sounds like date rape, she said well, you have to think about the times.
Looking it up, spousal rape wasn't even recognized in NY state until like 1995 or something, so I assume other states followed after that, and the with difference between being married vs dating, she essentially said she didn't feel comfortable trying to report it, especially given her history with the police.
I now get to spend the rest of my life knowing that I shouldn't exist, that I am the product and the cause of their misery, marriage, and divorce. I'm also directly responsible for my brother's existence (conceived on their honeymoon, they married because my mom got pregnant with me) and his trauma from the insanity of my parents.
The most fucked up thing is I've felt this way literally my whole life, that I was the cause of my parents marriage, my brothers existence, and their divorce, and now knowing that I literally was right.. just damn. I just feel bad for existing.
If anyone else can relate or recommend resources for processing this, that would be appreciated.
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tw: sexual violence. this essay by ananya pandya is really good, here are some excerpts
her instagram is @/jesuswasajock
#i dont understand why she says violence is a product of capitalism and white supremacy#in an essay about how an indian man raped her#i would consider this patriarchal violence#but thats her prerogative#anti prostitution#male violence#save
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Choice Theft in the second degree, with utter disrespect
“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. ”
from Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The way Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo constantly refer to the rape as being like…The One Sin that Kinzo ever did in regards to Beatrice 2. As though they weren’t there actively helping him to raise her in isolation, imprisonment, lying to her about the world, about herself. As if that’s not also a nightmarish abusive situation already, just on it’s own. We have so little of Beatrice 2, but it’s an undeniable fact that she was a human utterly devoid of agency in every single way.. They stole from her even the choice to be angry or upset or aware about what was happening to her, what had happened to her. Of the choice to be a human and not a witch. Of the choice to be a daughter and not a wife. Genji’s half-truth phrasings during the games too when dodging confirmation from the siblings about whether Kinzo had a child with his mistress are especially disgusting. Since he’s not just outright lying like Nanjo, but denying Beatrice 2’s personhood as an individual, and slyly using Kinzo’s grooming logic that she was not really herself, but someone else (her mother), even if he did genuinely feel bad for her. I’m sure Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo contented themselves by thinking that a bird in a cage doesn’t long for the outside. But that’s a theft in itself. And this choice theft is only continued with Sayo. Robbed of her own unsurgically-altered body. Robbed of the context of her life. Robbed of the ability to make choices based on those two things. And then in telling her, far too late, she is robbed of the mundane, uncomplicated love that had existed in her heart for Battler. Robbed of a lineage not tainted by the most horrific abuse. Robbed even of the ability to look at her own father, at the people who raised her, with respect. Like…HELL IS NOT HOT ENOUGH!!!!
#tw rape#tw incest#tw grooming#tw abuse#umineko#umineko spoilers#genji ronoue#kumasawa chiyo#terumasa nanjo#beatrice ushiromiya#sayo yasuda#kinzo ushiromiya#the last line is worded oddly about ‘looking at her father with respect’ but by that i mean. how she had a kind of somewhat positive view-#-of kinzo before#since all those last few things are stuff that she never really had#as in she was always related to battler#she was always the product of incestuous rape#and kinzo and the complicit servants were always people who did not deserve her respect#but that was her reality which they destroyed. again.#the way the servants try to have their cake and eat it too by subjecting her to all of this to ease their and kinzo’s conscience about-#-her mother is so insane. like after all this fucking insanity. yes let’s deliver the bombshells that will shatter her whole pitiful world-#- weve forced her to live in. okay mission accomplished!#and they did it all with those smiles on their faces they thought they’d finally reached the happy ending to their twisted little story#of course sayo has a right to know and SHOULD know but the servants i feel were not telling her for her sake#but for their own. like their way of showing contrition#rather than finding some better way to do this than destroying her life in one fell swoop#text
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i’m watching through 2003 fma right now and on one hand it’s really good, but on the other hand there are some parts of it that feel like someone’s darkfic au that got out of control
#fma#made it to episode 44ish last night i think??#anyway the rose stuff is genuinely insane#like yeah what if she came back and she was this virgin mary figure but it’s also pretty much directly stated she was raped and she#went mute and she has a BABY which as far as i know is implied to be from the assault#and despite all of this she’s still basically a minor character#full disclosure i know nothing about the production of ‘03 or the writing process so maybe there’s context i’m missing#but it’s still wild to me
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We aren’t recognizing that angst potential of that one myth where Hera is Prometheus’s mother.
#was he a product of rape?#or was Eurymedon Hera’s lover?#did Zeus send Eurymedon to Tartarus out of jealousy or to protect Hera?#how would Hera feel about Prometheus’s punishment?#the angst… the drama… the tragedy#greek mythology#ancient greek mythology#greek pantheon#greek goddess#hera goddess#hera deity#hera greek mythology#hera#zeus#queen hera#goddess hera#lady hera#zeus deity#zeus greek mythology#hera x zeus#eurymedon#Prometheus#prometheus bound
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i really have to just get off the internet bc its so difficult to tell what is real and what is people being dramatic because theyre emotional
#somebody on one of the women-centered subs i frequent said everybody get a gun and your tubes tied because everybody is getting raped!#literally how is that realistic or productive at all. protect yourself but stop fearmongering#but i did find out that in addition to trump winning the house and senate are BOTH red so theyll basically do whatever they want#but they all say a bunch of shit that never happens#i wish someone could just look into the future and tell us exactly how screwed we are#h.txt
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Remembered the take that the light fingers ending 'wasn't that bad' and that therewa worse things in fl, and complaining how annoying people saying there's only one ending is and I am taking 1D6 psychic damage rn
#Like im sorrrrrry but no#sure maybe you can consider some things 'worse' on ranking#but ffs do not downplay the horror of noncon drugging people into forced relationships????#i mean ignorning the whole 'selling a sentient being' facet (which we cant) (and is also product of medical rape like holy shit)#the actual goal of the situation is horiffic#like i love the lfs villains but im never gonna cover that the shit that went down there wasnt Horrendous 😭#light fingers#rape mention#(in my tags )
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the hallmark of Peak Fiction is shoehorning a very serious conversation about a very serious past conflict in an unrelated scene, in the form of snarky banter played for laughs, so that the writer can pretend they listen to audience feedback, while not needing to fully think of addressing the issue and fully sweeping it under the rug because it would be inconvenient to paint the involved characters as dumbasses/vile. Bonus points if it literally goes nowhere and it can be removed from the scene without affecting the flow of the dialogue.
And if it makes me want to eat my own bones because I feel the urge to beat the involved characters to death with a nailed bat, that's just a plus :)
#fans don't look#anti netflixvania#something something the fiction doesn't fall from the peak#increibl how that scene is the only reference to lenore's betrayal in s4 and it's written like cute flirting. human psychology whomst#also lmao i didn't mean to take a screenshot of lenore's face on that frame#she looks affronted that hector is even remotely calling her out for raping him - the *nerve* of him am i right?#yeah i sure find her lovable and sympathetic :) i fully understand why the shippers believe she cares so much about him :)#she matches sonic's condescending mug and 'well achskually' face as he's painting his best friend like an idiot when he was the dumbass#i'm still so damn bitter that the story ignored sonic letting metal go out of ~vibes~ but beat a dead horse in the form of mr. tinker#guys. sonic nearly caused the end of the world because he decided metal had agency. not because he didn't kill an innocent man. fuck.#how dare you mock me like this - and this goes for both now#am's speech is not enough i need to kill#(btw i'm not joking about the flow. there's a version of the nfcv scene that completely cuts this exchange for reasons i don't understand)#(the dialogue flows much better because it focuses on the subject that is carmilla's insanity)#(so now that 'you were having fun' feels even more mocking because the dialogue was interrupted for the sake of random rape apologism)#(remind me why these products are so beloved?)
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sorry I just saw a youtube short of someone showing how easy it is to spike peoples drinks and then at the end it turned out to be an ad for a product that is a silicone lid to put over drinks to prevent getting drugged????? what the fuck?????
#txt#like not wtf over someone covering their drink but the fact fhat they are using fucking date rape to sell product???????
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the thing that is SO interesting to me about alicent is that, well. how do you love your son when he turns out to be just like his father?
#and she tries! she tries so hard!#i think maybe she does love him still#certainly she tries to get for him—#—the things she is supposed to want for him#but i think also it eats her up inside#i think she looks at aegon and is confronted with the fact#that she's stuck in a cycle of familial violence#which is also something she tries so so hard not to think about#how do you love your kid when he's a product of rape AND a rapist?#with a lot of effort and repression probably#house of the dragon#alicent hightower#aegon ii targaryen#viserys targaryen#i say this as someone who hasn't seen season 2 and probably won't btw
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Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)
28/03/2024
#edward scissorhands#film#tim burton#1990#johnny depp#danny elfman#fairy tale#1950s#1960s#1980s#gothic fiction#frankenstein#mary shelley#beauty and the beast#vincent price#Vincent#1982#20th century studios#Do the Bartman#bart simpson#The Simpsons Sing the Blues#geffen records#Scissors#1970s#avon products#gothic architecture#Devil#Rape#Ice crystal#immortality
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I heard people have explained to you Hector's deal in the show :)
This is my most hated part of it. Not only because Hector in his game is my favorite character, but because even on his own terms, the one in the show is treated in such a vile way, and I see nothing but terrible takes on it that make me think "y'all wouldn't be so horny over this if he was a woman".
So, to summarize his plotline in Season 3. After being manipulated into betraying his master, getting the shit beaten out of him in graphic detail, and dragged through the snow barefoot for a month, the dude is thrown into a jail because he needs to work for the OC #girlboss villains. The idea is to send a diplomat to manipulate him again into trusting them.
The first thing that happens between them is that Hector threatens to kill Lenore, and Lenore beats the shit out of him: you've seen this scene. You can also see how Hector is framed as being a weak idiot for underestimating the cute vampire, because she's actually super stronk and badass. In-universe, this logically means that Hector learns quickly that she could torture him at any time. (also yes it's a repeat of his beating in S2, at the hands of another vampire)
Then Lenore, between one manipulation and the other (she basically says "yeah you're in a cell but it's better than serving Dracula, right?") starts to treat him like a dog, putting him on a leash, calling him "good boy" and taking him on "walkies <3". This is presented in an erotic way, even though Hector isn't very enthusiastic about being dehumanized.
And by the finale, Lenore says something on the effect of "I can't betray my sisters, but I like you and we could run away together". Somehow, Hector doesn't notice the blatant contraddiction, and when Lenore kisses him, he reciprocates and the two have sex. This is for the sole purpose of coaxing him into pledging loyalty to Lenore, and slipping that cursed ring that would bind him and his creatures to the #girlboss vampires. Next scene, Lenore is bragging to her sisters that she wants to train Hector because he's good at fucking.
Side note, the fact that Hector "consented" to sex is used as proof that he wasn't raped. Even though Lenore could have beaten him to death at any moment, even though he spent more than a month in dehumanizing conditions, even though he get frequently described as being "a child in a man's body" who only craves love. but yeah he didn't say no so that's okay.
And none of this matters in Season 4, because Lenore has become a whining brat making dick jokes around Hector when he works, and the story tries to draw parallels between them to show that oh, they Understand each other deep down, and also Hector protects her from another character who is rampaging through the castle, and chooses to stay with her.
Fun fact, at one point she complains that Hector was "the last problem she had to solve", Hector sarcastically thanks her for the ring, she responds with "oh shush you were having fun", and he replies with "until the end". She might as well have said "shut up you were hard what are you complaining about?" and he agreed. Literal female-on-rape apologism in my Castlevania show.
Lenore then steps into the sun because she refuses to live in a cage and she says "I'm sorry for everything you went through" to Hector, the most bastard of non-apologies of all time. And that's it. This is how Hector/Lenore became one of the most popular ships in the franchise, full of people who cry that they deserved a happy ending together, swear that Lenore did nothing wrong and really she treated Hector well, or are simply horny for the cute girl domming the simp boy.
The fact that Warren Ellis was accused of being a sex pest makes the rape fetishism just a little more uncomfortable :)
Needless to say that the games are far less sexualized. Worthy of note is that in Symphony of the Night, Alucard gets tormented by a succubus, but not by giving him erotic vision: by making him relive the day that his mom died. Just saying.
We can talk about respect for the games all we want. We can talk about the poor pacing, the forced swearing and rude jokes, the twisting of characters. But this? This is indefensible to me. I will never, ever shut up about how this acclaimed show has rape apologism in it, and people defend it because it's from a woman against a man - because the story frames it as something hot and that the man deserved for being "evil" (he wanted to turn humanity into livestock for vampires because he was severely abused by humans, and that means he deserved being enslaved to show him what his plan would have entailed. Real argument I've seen. That and "Hector loved in a possessive way like a vampire, so he understood that Lenore enslaved him out of fondness". I can link to you the post if you don't believe me)
Yeah, all of this has been A Lot to unpack. I started reading the Many of Us website after learning of Warren Ellis'… indiscretions… and I really feel like it's colored my understanding of the show, and I wasn't that hot on the show to begin with. I can't imagine how it would feel to be a fan of the games and have them be adapted by this immature hack piece of shit.
Cross-referencing clips of Hector's behavior in Curse of Darkness and Hector's behavior in the show, the disparity was such that I asked Spinning and Woodchipp, "Why is this show so sex-brained?" Some sexualization is to be expected in vampire fiction, but to this degree? Why does goofy St. Germain have to say "God is going to have sex again?" bruh this is "I'm 14 and this is deep" levels of writing. How could anybody take it seriously?
And it's weird too because everywhere I looked on Reddit, people were praising Ellis' comic writing genius. In all honesty, though, he seems like a huge edgelord. The standard for comics writing tends to be rather low, where more often than not gritty shock-value writing tends to be conflated with good writing, so I don't exactly trust that he's this ~hon-hon oh so geniuese~ fauxteur everyone's portraying him as. Especially if THIS is any indication of how he usually writes.
On the subject of Hector's assault… (tw for discussions of assault and rape) I'll be honest, when Spinning and Woodchipp described the ways people have tried to downplay it, a shudder went through me. I refuse to believe there are people in this world who would defend such a thing, much less try to normalize it.
I apologize for mentioning this, but I think it's worth bringing up because this is what the scene reminded me of. When a man wears a condom during sex but takes it off without his partner's permission or knowledge, it is rape by deception.
It's a fitting parallel because Leonore slipped the ring on Hector's finger without his knowledge or consent. It doesn't matter if he'd consented to the sex before then, he didn't consent to wearing the ring. Consent is an ongoing process, not a "well, you consented to ride the roller coaster, now you can't get off" sort of thing. Just because you consent to sex in the moment doesn't mean you consent to everything that happens after it starts.
And since the ring represents further suppression of his free will, it reinforces the notion that his consent is an afterthought at best, second to Leonore's enjoyment. This isn't even getting into the fact that being imprisoned and tortured in the first place means he was inherently set up to suffer a breakdown of free will.
Furthermore, rape is not about sex, it's about power. It's about denying a person their bodily agency. Ask yourself, would Leonore have had to slip the ring onto his finger if she hadn't chained him and beaten him down first?
I have no idea how the scene could be read as anything other than rape. It's rape. I'm sorry. It just is. There's nothing Leonore can say or do after the fact that will render it not-rape because rape is not something that can be edited in post, assholes. To claim otherwise is rape apologia. "You liked it afterwards" is not an excuse, nor is "you didn't say no."
…and then, as if that weren't bad enough, Spinning said another major character got raped by OCs. That, to me, is a big red flag that the creators held an active disdain towards the source material. Because nowadays writing advice urges you, if you can avoid rape-as-backstory, if you can find a more suitable motivation, you ought to do it. The alternative is hurting the rape survivors in your audience with a blasé portrayal of their trauma, or worse, a fetishization of it.
Why is it that writers who are least equipped to handle rape as a subject matter tend to sprinkle it as some sort of Spicy Garnish in their writing? Like you said, CV doesn't really focus that much on sex or rape in the first place. It's almost as though by making the games characters say "fuck" and suffer rape (with little actual repercussions, 'cause God forbid we have Consequences), the creators childishly believed they could make their writing seem much more Dark and Mature than it actually is.
And then people have the gall to defend it. It's so fucking gross, dude.
because the story frames it as something hot and that the man deserved for being "evil"
I actually ranted at length about how disgusting this mindset is and I'm shocked it still appears in the year of our Lord 2023. Rape is not a punishment. Nobody deserves rape. No, not even the worst person you can think of. If you consider rape a punishment someone can earn by behaving badly enough, like seriously, get the fuck away from me lol.
That and "Hector loved in a possessive way like a vampire, so he understood that Lenore enslaved him out of fondness."
#rape tw#asks#antis screech about transgressive fanfic but let this shit slide because it's a big-name production. okay.
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I saw somewhere a Headcanon that the Shigaraki twins' father is a European tourist
not a bad headcanon and entirely possible imo. I know this panel had some people wondering if he had some european blood in him when it first came out.
we'll never learn anything about their father so he's a blank slate anyone's free to imagine anything about.
#though tbh I'm confused how we're supposed to interpret the whole situation concerning the father#sa mention// but some people said the text implies they were a product of rape (saw this a lot when unofficials came out)#but the official english makes it sound more as if the nature of their mothers work caused an accidental conception
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alicent, to aemond: i love you (affectionate)
alicent, to helaena: i love you (affectionate)
alicent, to aegon: i love you (derogatory)
#listen she does love him okay#but he's the product of her literal marital rape as like a 14-15yo#there's bound to be complications there#anyways#alicent#alicent hightower#aegon#aegon targaryen#aegon ii#aegon ii targaryen#aemond#aemond targaryen#helaena#helaena targaryen#incorrect house of the dragon#incorrect hotd#hotd#house of the dragon
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Here we go again
The one and only time I talk to my bio dad is when someone is going to try and adapt another Cormac McCarthy book.
We're just quietly shaking our heads and wondering how long it's going to take for this one to implode.
They're going for the big one this time. Blood Meridian, or an Evening's Redness in the West. Possibly the best American novel and- completely impossible to adapt.
Do you want to film a tree full of dead babies? Do you want to show the main characters scalping people and fucking children? Do you want graphic anal rape? And I haven't even started. If this book came with trigger warnings they'd be the size of the entire book. And it's not a small book. All historically accurate, by the way.
I just cannot overstate how utterly brutal this book is, and yet it's utterly beautiful. No one has a grasp of prose like Cormac McCarthy, it's like he Marie Kondo-ed the entire English language and kept only what sparked joy and holy shit is it beautiful.
This is a book where digging into the themes just brings up more themes and it just keeps going and going like a mandelbrot set. The biblical analogies, the contrast between the claustrophobia of the characters' mind and the immeasurable landscapes around them. The grip of history. The doom. The profane. It just keeps going.
How do you put that on a screen? Yeah, good luck with that. It's just going to end up as a bloodfest that'll make Tarantino want to have a lie down, and it won't even be funny. Plus on a very private note, my headcanon for the Judge was Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now and since that's not happening there really isn't a point.
#tw rape#tw child abuse#tw EVERYTHING#Cormac McCarthy#Blood Meridian#There is a reason this is the 6th time someone tried to adapt it and its never gotten out of pre-production#I imagine because that's the point the CEO of the production company actually read the book and went OH FUCK NO
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some jackass (who really should know better by now bc of all the true crime stories he's read about high-risk lifestyles like prostitution leaving people vulnerable) while reading a true crime story about a different jackass who murdered multiple women who were prostituting themselves (usually to pay for the hardcore drugs their boyfriends got them on): sex work should be legal tho :/ isn't it proven that legalizing it makes it safer?
me, who has seen the Receipts that what he just said is 100% wrong but can also follow basic logic:
#prostitution becomes legal. demand goes up. where do the women come from huh buddy? where do you think they come from? the ether?#you think legality is the only thing keeping a whole lotta women from accepting money from men who want to treat them like literal trash?#you think a whole lotta women will sign up to be degraded? a depressing number might. but enough to meet the demand?#no. once women are products and don't supply themselves someone Will supply them. they will manipulate drug kidnap rape etc#once you start treating humans as products welcome to hell. your slavemaster predecessors are over there go say hi#you think a man who will spend money to degrade a woman is treating them well? you think he respects her?? BRO HE PAID FOR HER#a man who pays for sex has NO respect for the woman. none. so explain to me how that leads to a better society. explain. i'll wait#(this is the same guy who thinks religion is stupid so i should probably just stop watching his videos)#UGH#rape#anti prostitution#personal#abbie needs a twitter#yes i have been up all night it's just the Stress™ that i am handling poorly that's all#you know how it is ahaha#🙃
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