#wanting a scapegoat

[ego-similis-testudines]

I may very well be swinging a bat at a hornet's nest, but I find it very interesting that the crowd that (rightfully) says "Read another book" to Harry Potter fans among the J.K. Rowling bullshit has a not-insignificant overlap with the crowd that has also only read one book (and that book is Whipping Girl).

[my-fall-from-grace]

ok yknow what i’m gonna say it

no matter how “bad” logan has been or how “little” he deserves this 2nd year or how he’s a “pay driver” or whatever else y’all always say

he doesn’t deserve this. any of this

since the very first moment he stepped in a f1 car, he’s been treated as a joke. first it was the wtf is a kilometre jokes then rah rah eagles and now logan in the wall / fork found in kitchen / deuxmoi memes. every weekend, the commentators compare him to his teammate, ignoring the difference in experience and the way they aren’t even driving the same car and that logan was literally running last years specs multiple times. they compare him to oscar, who has driven multiple times f1 cars during test runs and is in a mclaren and the situations are not even remotely similar, ignoring that logan was promoted early, that he didn’t have much opportunity to drive f1 cars even for testing, that he was literally tossed into the deep end without any help and told to survive.

the only time they were even remotely kind to him was when they gave his car to alex. which thanks for the support or whatever but that is so backhanded i don’t even have the words to describe it.

i think we’re all coming to the terms with the reality that this will be his last year in f1. and i don’t think that’s fair for so many reasons. you promote him early, you give him a shit car, you talk bad about him in the media and you don’t promote him (lap of legends hello?) and you openly court other drivers for his seat. you disrespect him and allow others to disrespect him and that’s not right.

formula 1 is the dream for so many people. imagine achieving your dream, even if it’s in a joke of a team, even if it’s too early. but then you become the joke of a joke, you become the american, which is a bad thing. the outsider, the one who doesn’t belong. they make fun of you each weekend. they ask every day when you’ll be replaced.

(and yeah i agree. he does need to improve to have any hope of keeping his seat, f1 is brutal and it’s never been kind, and i’m not being naive and thinking oh it’s his dream and so he deserves it despite it all. i’m not saying that. what i am saying is that is a human being, just like nicholas latifi was, and some of you are too comfortable being cruel.)

speaking of being the american. they make fun of you as though that will punish the fia for putting 3 us races on the calendar. as though that will punish all the american fans who came to f1 through drive to survive. as though that will keep f1 pure and european and whatever the fuck else - they do the same to yuki and zhou and checo and lewis and even if logan’s situation is not even remotely similar to what they’ve experienced, there’s a bias to f1 that cannot be ignored.

but that’s not the point i’m trying to make. not today

this was your dream. this was your dream. and you were never allowed to enjoy it because you became the punchline of a joke the minute you accepted the seat. it was always going to end like this. you knew that.

so yeah. congrats to logan for achieving his dream of driving in f1! it’s unfortunate that he was never allowed to live it.

[artsy-1diot]

autism creatures part 2

(heres part 1 for those who didn't see it and want a creature of one of the 1.3 managers :3)

[jungledboy]

i was watching an old dynamite episode from last year around double or nothing and jumped out of my skin when these two popped up. people are talking about jack and danny being weird and gay but these two were the mvps of having weird sexually tense chemistry

why did darby say "yeah" so low like that. why did jack not stop smiling. why were they so keen on fighting and being around each other. why did darby smile too. did darby have to pat his shoulder. they should've fucked. bedroom eyes. i need to rip my skin off i have so many thoughts

they need to work it out on the remix or at some point in the future because there is Something here. tell me i'm wrong

who looks at each other like this when they supposedly ""hate"" each other. i'm dead serious

[daeneryseastar]

i’m being so serious rn i’m going to need tg to stop glomping onto half of rhaenyra’s kids 🫨

jace would NEVER abandon his family to back aegon’s claim (‘wah wah wah he HATES his mother bc she *made* him a bastard-’ one, jace does not care enough about that to abandon his mother [to whom he is literally the miniature version of] and two, his entire personality is his love for his family. he literally dies trying to save aegon and viserys *after* his mom told him not to go fuck OFF).

rhaena would also *never* abandon her family to back aegon’s claim (apparently she’ll feel sorry about blood & cheese and want to make amends with them. i don’t think so, i think she’d be more upset that her betrothed was ruthlessly slaughtered despite his status as a peace envoy but whatever).

baela is one of rhaenyra’s staunchest supporters (‘the greens reach to usurp our queen’s throne and they must be answer with fire and blood.’ i DO NOT care that it didn’t make it into the show that is canon!baela) and does *not* want driftmark (which only corlys has a say in, and he chose bAsTaRdS over her and rhaena at every single turn don’t even mention it), so stop trying to conflate your hatred of rhaenyra onto her daughter.

aegon iii would never have been happy married to jaehaera and vice versa. these were two heavily traumatized children. jaehaera would have to deal with being married to the son of the man who had her brother executed (not to mention that she already had severe physical and mental health issues that were not being treated and the people around her [aegon ii before he died and alicent after] were actively making her life worse). aegon would have to deal with being married to the daughter of the man who had his dragon burn and eat his mother alive while he watched. which he never ended up letting go of (even with a wife who we know he obviously loved dearly) he wore black for the rest of his life and was stated to be the most solemn king due to what he experienced during the dance. there was no saving them.

leave. them. alone.

[whatyourehungryfor]

lottielee is so good because it is the driving force behind SO MUCH in yellowjackets all because laura lee looked at lottie and saw something good. purpose was given, and laura lee dies for it, and lottie ends up killing for it. it's not what either of them want, but out in the woods what they provide is only what is useful to the group, and so lottie becomes a scapegoat and en excuse for the violence to come. and its good because tragic yuri 😌

[official-lucifers-child]

you know when everyone hates your blorbo so going through the fanfics are just “not blorbo friendly” “blorbo bashing” and you aren’t SUPER into your blorbo so you’re not sad or angry necessarily but you are just wondering what you missed that made 3/4 of the fandom abhor your blorbo

[pruneunfair]

This scene really hurts when you think about it.

Like... imagine you've been looking up to someone your whole life, you've been looking at their photos to give you strength while you you were down and even though everyone told you you didnt deserve to be near your idol you still believe they would look at you kindly and that idol not only ends up disliking you but they become friends with your abuser right in front of you. You would naturally feel angry that someone you've been told is a kind and caring person chooses to side with someone who hurt you over and over.

I think that's one of the things that makes my blood boil the most about remarried empress. Not only was everything Rashta loved slowly taken away including her own two children, one of her children was given to Lebetti to raise and now her abuser gets to be known as a sweet girl who supposedly did what Rashta wouldn't. An abuser being treated like a saint because the victim was a scapegoat for the story to distract you from the fact that the abuser was just that.

[nightmare-foundation]

Yknow, I feel like Dick not fighting back against the mistreatment of him during the Spyral arc (perpetrated by the batfamily) isn't super surprising from a trauma lens, at least not to me.

I've seen people tend to argue that Dick should've and would've fought back, and I'm definitely not arguing otherwise- but why DIDN'T he fight back??

Personally, to me, his behavior strikes me as fawning. He's not arguing against the shitty things the batfamily does to him or say about him, if anything he's agreeing with them. I could probably really look back over how he acts in B&R: Eternal, but from what I remember, he feels very people pleasing.

And imo this isn't super surprising? Especially if what happened in Nightwing #30 is still fresh in his mind, not to mention Spyral breaking him down and the others lashing out at him, physically and verbally. These things are very traumatizing, and would've changed him most likely. His trauma response being to fawn here makes sense; he Needs the others to work with him, and fighting them on something they won't budge on will only get him hurt. Not only that, but physical punishment seems to be a very real consequence at this time, and Dick is likely in survival mode.

If fawning means he can get his job done and not be physically punished, then it makes the most sense for him to go that route, as sad as it is. His trauma response moving from fight(?) to fawn would be a really interesting thing to explore. After all, Dick said things wouldn't be the same, but we don't know WHAT would change, or if it would even be for the better (since people seem to interpret that to mean 'I'm leaving after this' or similar, which is fair tbh but that statement can mean a multitude of things).

Overall, regardless of how in character it is, I think Dick turning to fawning makes sense in this situation. Being beaten by your father and then repeatedly physically and verbally assaulted by the rest of your family is deeply traumatizing, not to mention everything that is Spyral. If Dick can minimize the damage to himself as much as possible and finish the mission, then it makes sense for him to fawn.

[fandom-space-princess]

there is a meta post. brewing. somewhere in the back of my head. about the almost comically bad, one-dimensional-to-the-point of parody way that the mass effect fandom interprets Ashley. something about how cynicism is only an acceptable personality trait in male characters, how she is consistently punished for her learned defensive posturing by the fandom in a way that e.g. Wrex isn't, and not allowed the same opportunities for growth out of that defensive posturing by the narrative that other characters are e.g. Tali.

[teatitty]

Normal transformer fans: mechpreg

Me, utterly deranged: Starscream tying Bumblebee down onto an operating table and opening him up to use his hot insides as a furnace for his forge to create the perfect kids for them, swirling his claws into molten sludge to get a taste of his consort Bumblebee is drugged out of his mind obviously but he's also super into it and -

[blissfulrain12]

Curly's Not a People Pleaser

Or at least not as much of one as the fandom paints him as. Curly is perfectly capable of being stern and commanding as long as it has nothing to do with Jimmy. And to be clear that's not simply because Jimmy's his friend but because Jimmy's his abuser. Curly is firm with Swansea over Daisuke's foam incident, he doesn't give in to Daisuke asking for more sweetner, and he's firm with asking Anya for the gun when he thinks she might hurt herself.

Curly only crumbles when faced with Jimmy's distress and anger. Jimmy's abuse of Curly pre crash is emotional where he makes Curly his emotional punching bag. When Jimmy gets upset he makes it Curly's problem and Curly has learned to respond by fawning and freezing to appease him. This is why Curly comes across as people pleasing. If you don't notice the abusive dynamic between the two people pleasing becomes the answer even though Curly doesn't show signs of being a pushover with the rest of the crew.

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[thekidsarentalright]

meredith (andy’s wife) addressed the situation with gabe and it seems she had no idea he was a zionist. obviously she isn’t speaking for fob too, but hopefully this indicates they didn’t either and they can all become better educated now with people raising their concerns.

[jungledboy]

Daisyhead — Wonder

"Sometimes, I wonder if things would be better if I never knew you,

And on the other side of that door, a family awaits you,

One that won’t be broken anymore"

https://open.spotify.com/track/2lvqIhLISxfKF8J1MHrqum?si=UZwmNEidQNq0iCE22NZA8A

[sistarstarlydraws]

The Cult of the Lamb Goat!

Friends and mutuals were making Cult of the Lamb sonas, so I decided to join in. They told me that I am quite chaotic and mean when I play so I decided to go for the goat character!