#the outcast rants

[theoutcastwrites]

I miss Dottore I hope he's okay

[mypersonalventaccount]

i will never be good enough. never have, never will be. there's just always someone better than me, so easily replaceable, so easily forgotten. it's not important if i'm around or not around, it doesn't matter at all. always the outcast. always overlooked.

never anyone's favourite.

[study-diaries]

When your "I'm only comfortable with people i know" type of person is interpreted as "I'm too good for everyone and everything except those whom i approve of" like, no no no, i really wanna participate in the parties and dancing and your fun activities etc etc but in front of everyone ??? Nah I'll pass. Just let me sit in peace and enjoy the damn event.

[thereturningdemise]

Listen I need to get this out I know it's random as fuck but you don't understand just how infuriating books can be

Major spoilers for Redwall: Outcast not that you should care in my opinion if you do you could still read and enjoy it because I am only discussing the halfway point of the book and the ending

I would suggest for maximum yapping effect to refrain from skimming and to indulge my every enraged screech with your fullest and utmost attention

Now without further ado... The most aggravating book I have ever read in my life.

Redwall is a series I love. I had read a lot of the books and, finally, I was going to read one I had been looking forward to- Outcast. There's a ferret on the cover. That's right. A ferret main character, a race previously considered as "vermin" in the other books. The back alluded to their struggle for fitting into Redwall given the prejudice against their kind and I was so excited to dig my teeth into a cute and whimsical story about my favorite animal

But guess what

In a book in which the cover is a ferret and the back description is about the ferret... Do you want to know... What the book was actually about?

Because it wasn't about the ferret. No. Not until almost to the end of the book and they are a horribly treated side character that gets so astronomically butchered by the story I closed the book in disgust at the end.

The book should have been called Sunflash the Mace because that is actually the main character and he is not an outcast at all. He is more akin to a paladin of sorts. He is a great character and his companion is awesome I have no issues with him it is not his fault for the book being so grossly mishandled

You encounter the story of the ferret halfway through the book. He is the rejected son of an evil tyrant ferret that gets raised in a shitty environment only to eventually be saved and brought to the abbey.

So, what happens?

He is abused and ostracized by his peers for being a ferret and then lashing out for being bullied. Yes he steals things but rather than just saying the ferret is a bad egg why not punish the bullies for once and help the poor ferret learn to be a bit better? The only supportive figure he had was his adoptive mom and you can see him getting worse and worse because of the lack of any sort of help

Then, eventually he runs away to join his dad. His dad, the evil tyrant. He fights for him against Redwall, and this is where things get infuriating.

His mother is almost killed. His adoptive mother. He steps in front of her and sacrificed himself to save her.

At the end of the book two characters discuss this. "I'm sorry, I guess he really wasnt evil from the start..." Another person says.

Then the most evil, sick bit of writing I have ever seen graces the last specks of the page. A phrase that rocked me to my core for all the ferret had been through and what he had done at the very end.

"no, he was. I was wrong."

From the mouth of his own adoptive mother.

Now. You may be wondering- surely, SURELY there's more to this? Maybe in the books ferrets are just evil!

EXCEPT IN ONE OF THE PREVIOUS BOOKS A RAT BECAME A TOY MAKER THAT GIVES BOATS TO KIDS, A PREVIOUSLY COMPLETELY EVIL RACE AND NEED I REMIND YOU THAT THE BOOK WAS SET UP ON THE COVER AND BACK AS IF IT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE FERRET FIGHTING FOR HIS RIGHT TO BE LOVED? I BELIEVE IT WAS MARIEL AND THAT BOOK WAS INCREDIBLE AND THE BEST IN THE FUCKING SERIES

That's all I wanted to say

I wish with all of my fucking heart the book was renamed to Sunflash the Mace I would have been so much less angry. I wish it had focused completely on his ending, rather than randomly having the poor ferret bastardized by his mother in the end

Read Mistmantle instead, guys

[marciliedonato]

“if nothing ever happens again” “if this is the end..” shut up shut up SHUT UP.....they took the blows and did it their way....in the face of oppression say fuck you.....GET UP COWARD..... UNKILLABLES.....ARE YOU NOT SEEING IT......

[unhinged-summer-fun]

I spent hella long making this playlist cover, probably more than the playlist itself

I find it kinda funny that when ppl share character playlists w the world I feel like there’s always this desperate attempt to not include as many (or any!) songs by their favorite artist(s) so they seem worldly and like they have diverse music taste—and yeah I’m victim of this too lmao. If I were truly free of the urge to get people to like me these playlists would have like all my chemical romance and taylor swift and lord huron and honestly that’s not even what I listen to regularly anyways! My Spotify wrapped for the last like four years has been assassins creed soundtracks and Hans Zimmer scores bc they make up a majority of my 18hr writing playlist

Anyway I put U2 on here and if your only opinion about U2 is bitching and moaning about “wah they put it on my iPod” and you haven’t like actually tried listening to them in good faith then stfu

It’s a playlist about a deeply traumatized man who loves his iPod, there’s gonna be U2 on it

ANYWAY ENJOY (this is also linked in the common grounds series masterlist along with the unknown planet dance nite mix & the act i playlist - check those out!!!

[ragdollic]

It's always a "let me know if you need anything" until I try to tell them to not misuse the word delusional and then I feel like they're suddenly acting off to me specifically and fully expect them to avoid me and that in turn causes my symptoms of paranoia to act up which answers my previous "I'm pretty sure this word *probably* doesn't apply to me, I don't know. Does it affect me? I dunno, probably doesn't directly affect me right? But even if it doesn't, I need to try to correct them and pray they listen and take me seriously"

[ibijau]

Once more struck by how bland Valcamon is as a protagonist.

Like, I can see why Val is obsessed with the Magpie King. Even as a mortal, he was weird and handsome and curious about everything.

But Val is mostly just... there. Yes, he's a god, but not a particularly interesting one. He just stays in his cave most of the time, improving a barrier around the valley where he lives. Most things that could make him an interesting person have been beaten out of him when he was still mortal, so really all that's left is dedication to people who low-key hate him as much as they rely on him.

The most interesting thing about Val is his obsessive love for the Magpie King. But that only happens because the Magpie King fell for him first. And, idk, I'm not sure I'm sold on how that happened, so how can I sell it to others?

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

I hope at least one person on his earth has a crush on me 😭😭

[d1shfandomz]

persona 5 had so much potential to be one of the greatest social commentaries of its decade in, hell, not even just in gaming and they fucking blew it by giving us fanservice of minors with gigantic tits and totally not pedophilic romance options as opposed to thematically poignant queer relationship options and you expect me to not be pissed off?? like ur kidding

[theoutcastwrites]

I was absentmindedly scrolling through the version history of my Who We Are word doc and found the first draft of chapter 1. Remembered that the fic was originally titled "Once Upon a Dream" and found some old lines that I altered/scrapped entirely:

The amount of self-loathing in the second one lmfao... at that point he kinda deserved it

[swimmingchicken9]

no but I feel like kanji had the potential to be a great character and positive gay influence but unfortunately he was doomed by the narrative

[natjennie]

did you really like "rant" by bo burnham when you were like 14 or were you normal?

[melit0n]

Okay but a character dynamic that always gets me (especially because I barely see it in literature and movies) is that of Lucifer and God. Stay with me here it's gonna make sense! Like, Lucifer and God as in the biblical versions, not just the 'Satan is bad and God is good' thing. Lucifer as in a character loving someone so much that, when their attention is casted away from them, jealousy utterly consumes them, and in the act of trying to replicate the thing that has taken away attention from them, they are cast out and made into the face of evil. The Other; the villain. God as in a character who is always presented to be all loving, the embodiment of kindness, but when faced with someone who with all their loyalty suddenly acts out, they cast them away and deface them, becoming the ultimate judge; 'evil for the greater good'.

[hacksawboy]

since its strike day im just gonna parrot something i saw on twitter: its not a war if one side has bombs and guns n' the other side is praying. free palestine.

[1007xf]

Oops I have made another one. Completely normal ainsaiwalite guy with no insidious intentions or corrupted/perverted understanding of the script. No sir.