#understand her beliefs

[spurgie-cousin]

i've been neck deep in new age cult stuff lately bc i can't stomach the fundies, i've been watching that guru jagat doc (fascinating) and re-reading some stuff about Love Has Won. female cult leaders especially, I'm so so interested in them lol.

I think because I can wrap my head around that more as to why people are attracted to them, like the stereotype of controlling and abusive male cult leader is just so saturated into the culture at this point. I also find it so interesting that the connective thread between these women, especially Katie (Guru Jagat) and Amy (mother god), is having an innovative and robust internet presence; Amy especially, for all her wackadoo shit was so ahead of her time with her website and live streams, and the online community she fostered. And similarly, Katie was very ahead of her time as far as leaning into and capitalizing on the fact that she was a woman in a historically male space (well as historic as it can be, given that it kundalini was invented not that long ago) and doing that knowing you're going to attract the exact type of people you want to; women who are looking for solace and healing in specifically female spaces. And I think most woman can understand why that breeds a certain kind of deep loyalty and connection.

Idk it's just so interesting, I'm not gonna say I love female cult leaders lol because they're obviously abusive but I just love learning about them.

[fallstaticexit]

Priscilla has never left Brine Bay, and she has no plans to. She feels the most connected to her indigenous culture and to her mother whom she lost when she was in high school. I think the most important thing to her right now is salvaging her relationship with her own daughter, Aria and sharing her love for their community and culture, the way her own mother did with her.

[mega-banette]

anyway i think the funniest way to hc teru as trans is to have him not know that there are trans people other than him. he woke up one day when he was 11 and was like oh of course i can be a boy i am the main character and most special person and then he just attacked anyone who said he couldn’t with his psychic powers.

[anistarrose]

the owl house has some diabolical parallels via framing of scenes but none make me cry more than plant glyph dead dad vs. light glyph dead dad. what if i was never normal about luz and her dead dads (both biological and non-biological) again

[ID from alt:

Luz drawing a plant glyph in Reaching Out

Luz and Amity watching as they send the flowers into the air with a balloon

Luz touching an inert light glyph in Watching and Dreaming

Luz watching with a tearful smile as she releases the light glyph into the wind. The scene has the exact same framing as the scene in Reaching Out.

End ID.]

[charleemoon]

thinking about abigail's propensity for manipulation, but rather than it being inherent the way hannibal wanted it to be, it was learned. abigail manipulated the people around her because that was all she knew how to do. every social interaction she had was luring, under the guise of her father. a man who would kill every beautiful brown haired girl that's walked this earth to feel a fleeting sense of control. to stop his little girl from growing up. love was always cruel, and so she is cruel too. home was a slaughterhouse, and you'll make yourself meek enough to not be killed. carry the knife so it won't be used cut your throat. anything to survive

and it comes with an ugliness, and a joy. to live beyond, to come out stronger. killing out of necessity. you feel dirty in that revel. you want to be understood in it. you want to feel freed.

"killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?"

"its the ugliest thing in the world."

will has the capacity to understand her, but can only see the innocent parts of himself in her. he refuses her that peace, that companionship. he fears himself in her, and wants to bestow, maintain her false purity. he wants to believe in the guilty thing she portrays herself as, the same way he wants to believe his own innocence. he knows they're both lying, but he can't stomach it. can't bear to get to know her the way he denies himself his truth

hannibal sees her capacity for darkness and wishes to foster it, the same as will. in his need for connection, his desire to be seen, he disregards her guilt. she guts boyle because she is scared, because it is all she knows how to do. abigail survives, hannibal thrives. they want for different things, but have known the world's endless cruelty all the same.

abigail sees fragments of hobbs in them both, and seeks the worst parts of him in their love. hannibal, his control, his violence, his beauty and touch. blood on her hands as she pants, waiting for him to tell her what to do. something that feels tender, safe, yet horrifyingly close to death. knowing your father is your creator, and one day will destroy you. laying too close to the head of the beast, because it feels kind, knowing he has not bitten down. knowing he wants to, but whatever it is you mean to him keeps you alive. it's almost like love

will, the guise of a loving hand. the father who kissed her head, who took her hunting, who made her breakfast. the man hobbs wanted to be, to preserve himself as. and more importantly, preserving her. a daughter, an idol of goodness that cannot grow or change, cannot be ruined or soiled. especially not by his own darkness. he fears killing her, he fears losing her more. he is angered by her betrayals, frightened by his need to keep her. he's loving right up until the moment he wasn't.

if hannibal's the father that cuts her throat, will is the one who holds it until she dies. she is understood by neither

[doritofalls]

i love that utena's idea of a brother is so similar to her idea of the prince. she calls out touga and akio for not acting like a brother should. but utena is an only child. her idea of a brother is as nebulous as her idea of the prince, with the reality being so much more complex and rooted in a power dynamic that is less about protection than control.

[musashi]

not a narumayo shipper but i believe in their beliefs

[tea-cat-arts]

I think the cool and sexy thing about tbhx having an ensemble cast is that they really use it to show different types of people and different types of thought processes (all of which have been pretty well fleshed out for the main chast). It's such a great way of opening up the story to different types of people irl, so it's a little disheartening to see how many people in this fandom I've seen go "this character doesn't resonate with me and because of that, I think they're poorly written."

[biblicalhorror]

"Which yellowjackets character are you" boring. Played out. Derivative.

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

[quietwingsinthesky]

oh right anyway lucy & altaïr interactions in my mind always forever. altaïr who saw the worst and best of the brotherhood, who was taken advantage of, humiliated, betrayed, and then still became mentor. lucy who was fed directly into the templars’ hands and broke under that pressure and couldn’t escape it until vidic let her loose on a leash with desmond. thinks forever about desmond bleeding altaïr and this ghost being the only person lucy can talk to, because he can’t do anything to betray her to the current brotherhood, because he’ll listen to her. the quiet, stilted sharing of monstrous things done nine hundred years ago and yesterday… the more lucy tells him about vidic, the more he sounds like al mualim. the more altaïr shares of his earlier training under al mualim, the more lucy realizes the tactics were all the same to get altaïr, to get her, isolated and loyal.

[sukibenders]

Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron looking at Alicent after she washes her hands of a war, that she (and Otto) dragged them into, and the throne, that she (and Otto) forced them to grasp/fight over even though they obviously didn't want it, and goes off to live her best life while they are all still stuck in a cycle forced on to them without their input (obviously this is about the s2 final):

[amugoffandoms]

"You have your best friend."

(understand, misunderstand, accept, and let go.)

[balkanlila]

[mars-ipan]

i KNOW that saying it is just gonna attract them to my blog but idc. if you are genuinely a harry potter fan in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-five you have GOT to move on. read a better book. i do not care how much you love it. i do not care if you “don’t give jkr money.” there is way better shit out there and despite what people say jkr’s beliefs bleed through into her writing hardcore. do not put a single book series over the safety of trans people, for fuck’s sake

[yarrowleef]

I was skimming part of code of the clans today where the Leafpool narrator goes over proposed code rules that were struck down. I was curious why this StarClan rule wasn't implemented because it seems like something the zealot clan cats would go for. The guide does not rly answer my question lol

This is such a weird paragraph. It's like. In one breath Leafpool-narrator is saying they didn't make it a code rule because clan cats can think for themselves, but in the next breath implies that belief in StarClan is in fact necessary for living in the clan, because to live in a clan means you have to follow the warrior code, and belief in StarClan is what makes them follow the code (apparently). If you don't believe in StarClan, she seems to imply that must mean you are planning on leaving the clan? ("it's not a law to stay in the clan" + you can "choose a different path"?) There is not actually any room being made here for a clan cat to peacefully not believe in StarClan---at least not a good code abiding clan cat. And the alternative of leaving the clan obviously means you are no longer planning on following any of the code, so like...how is this meaningfully different from making it an official code rule?