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7B - which had good ideas but suffered because Moff was too busy with the anniversary to edit - managed the revelation that the companion the Doctor believed was supernatural was actually an ordinary woman much much better, because the narrative was constantly pointing out that the Doctorâs fixation was both incorrect and unfair to Clara.
This was more like if Neville was revealed at the end to be the chosen one after following Harry Potter for seven books. You canât lead the viewers to a conclusion, pull the rug from under them and then laugh at them for not getting it when they were never provided the dots to join.
happened to see this ask right after rewatching the bells of st john but yes exactly! 7b wasn't moffat's best work but he clearly had the conclusion planned out from the start and that was reflected in how the narrative treated clara and the doctor, whereas rtd was setting up something totally different from what he ended up doing. with clara, the doctor (and the audience to an extent) go in thinking she's some crazy, weird, impossible thing, but in 7b itself all the signs continually point to her being an ordinary human and the doctor just ignores that because of his fixation on her "mystery". the exact opposite of s14 where no one thought ruby was anything but human until RTD started surrounding her with weirdness and specifically drawing attention to it. the message he's sending to fans is "don't try to analyze my writing or predict* where I'm going with things, because I don't care about thematic consistency and will just pull plot points out of thin air"
*caveat that I don't necessarily think a twist should be predictable, but I do think that looking back after everything is revealed, you should be able to feel that it was done with intention and not by spinning a wheel.
it's hard to have any real analysis of this series because it doesn't have that sense of being crafted intentionally. some episodes in it were good, but as a whole it's incoherent. any discussion of its themes or ruby's character is necessarily either extremely shallow or driven by fan theories that have taken what little the writing gave us and run with it.
RTD says he wants to provoke reactions, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but I do think he's going about it all wrong. if he made something that had genuine depth and was thought-provoking, fan discussion would naturally follow AND would keep going for a long time. instead he's chosen to chase after moment-to-moment shock value and soundbite reactions, and as a result I don't see this new version of doctor who having much lasting popularity.
#sorry for the rant#it's just. there's people on here still writing essays about clara or martha or rose even 10+ years later.#i cannot imagine in 2034 many people will care that much about ruby sunday#which is a real shame#doctor who#dw negativity#dw spoilers
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Ship them, donât ship them, would have written things differently, whatever; but whenever I see a post like âTed and Rebecca love each other so they must be more than just friends! theyâre proven to be intrinsically connected, that could only equal romance! anything less than romance is such a downgrade for such an amazing and vital relationship!â I want to panic-vomit. Ideally over the person writing it.
#fangirl problems#here's the deal: i would have been very pro-tedbecca as a ship just from the show#the ted lasso fandom makes me virulently anti it#which is a real shame#anyway happy pride guys! fandom is still super acearophobic when it wants to be!
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There's a recording of Don Giovanni on Spotify with Sunhae Im and Nikolay Borchev Zerlina and Masetto from the 2006 Baden-Baden cast, dated to 2007. In fact, everyone in the cast seems to be from that production, except for Kenneth Tarver, who is definitely not the tenor in the show. Curious.
#the other actor was probably just busy#but this is fun as i do enjoy this zerlina/masetto combination. and i also do quite enjoy kenneth tarver's voice#win win situation#operaposting#ETA unfortunately this prod doesn't have tesoro#which is a real shame#but at least per queste is there. and sunhae im per queste is very fun.
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Info: Ever wonder how Kirk and gang manage to get out of so many scrapes?
Kirk, it turns out, is rather vital to a non-apocalyptic EarthâŠand Crowley and Aziraphale do so enjoy all the earthly amenities available in the 23rd century.
So they've taken it upon themselves to wander over onto the Enterprise and keep an eye on things, and make sure they don't all manage to disintegrate themselves. And if, in the meantime, Crowley decides to have a little fun on the side with these pretty Starfleet officersâŠI don't think Aziraphale will necessarily stop him⊠(thread)
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#archiving#star trek#kink meme#stxik 2#there's crowley and aziraphale in it but the couple seems to be kirk/gaila for what was written#unfortunately it appears to be abandoned from what I can tell#I can't find it other places and author seems to have gotten disheartened when people didn't respond to the latest chapter#which could have been because they had to start a new thread on the comment because the journal pushed the comments over too far#which is a real shame#but maybe if I go further I'll see mention of it again with links to an author if I'm lucky
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hello! iâm currently taking writing suggestions, so if you have any, leave them in the comments or in my ask!
donât be afraid to get a little weird with it too lol
i love writing peopleâs specific niches itâs part of what makes writing so fun
#dc#dc comics#currently writing a dick/roy medieval au where dick is a prince and roy is a bandit who kidnaps him#bc i canât find any other fic like that#which is a real shame#well⊠iâm trying to write it#writerâs block#writing#help#no batcest tho i beg of thee
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A prototype of unreleased G5 My Little Pony "Scout Kindheart" who was going to be a tie-in with the Girl Scouts!
Although this pony was unreleased on the mass market, someone on the My Little Pony Trading Post found a bunch of them for sale in Vietnam (which is where MLPs are currently made) and has been selling them at a very reasonable price (and sending little goodies with the packages, too)!
#my little pony#g5#mlp#Scout Kindheart#toys#prototypes#the 'real' versions don't have the leg gradient which is a shame#it looks great#I also love how greeeeen she is
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#HEHEHE THEY'RE SO CUTE I LOVE THEMMM#such a shame these scenes are so brief đ#avatar#avatar 2#the way of water#sully family#jake sully#neytiri#neteyam#kiri#lo'ak#jeytiri#lĂŹ'fya leNa'vi#gif#i'm actually not sure whether Jake is meant to be saying âsloa tsyalâ (wide wing) or âslotsyalâ (stormglider) here#but i thiiiiiink i hear the -a sound in there#i mean i suppose it doesn't REALLY matter; either one would make sense in this context#and the species name âslotsyalâ derives from âsloa tsyalâ anyways (as I'm sure you could've guessed hrh)#(btw âsyuâ is not a real word; just the closest I could come to the âwhooshâ sound effect he's making with Forest dialect phonetics hrh)#it sounds like he also says something else before Neytiri says âhufweâ but I can't make out what it's supposed to be#cuz the voiceover narration is talking over it -_-;#in the next shot when Neytiri is running around she also says something#sounds like it might be âtysal latsuâ meaning roughly âmust be a wingâ#or perhaps âtsyal atunâ meaning âred/orange wingâ which would make sense with Kiri's little Toruk toy#but I think there's an S sound in there so idk#again it's hard to tell because the narration is playing over it#SHUT UP NARRATION JAKE I'M TRYING TO HEAR WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE SCENE đ#oh well
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The extremely niche crossover only I want to see... Kingdom Hearts x Monark.
#kingdom hearts#monark#riku#vanitas#if you do not know about the game the mc in monark is some white haired guy#and you get this lil black stuffed rabbit with a yellow button eye but hes missing one eye#and his name is literally vanitas#so yeah sorry that i wanted to play kh2 and got DENIED bc cloud gaming isnt good#so i started playing monark as like well i own it but have never played it may as well#and get dunked on by vanitas real fast is like oh you lil -#and then the white haired guys first ally is a cute lil red haired girl that made me think of kairi a bit ???#and you may be asking well ok but thats not reaally enough to have a niche crossover spawn in your brain#ok the dean lady is named sora thank you case closed i just wanted to play kh2 and was made to do something else#ive played it for like five hours and have been SHAMED by vanitas for being too asexual during the lust quiz thank you kindly#and that actually is what his dialogue bubble is from!#his dialogue is like you know for a quiz to test your lust you have like NO carnal desires huh#and then i get no points added to my lust rank and then 120 added to sloth#also when he says hes not judging you its in the most judging tone#vanitas as a lil floating mascot with bunny ears as i alone deserve#anyway hi im salmon and i like chess themes and seven deadly sin themes and conveniently#monark has both ! hooray once again for me alone#also there are personality quizzes which are also things i like to take for no real reason its fine
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like, thereâs literally a scene in s2 where all the adults are finally together and thereâs no distractions and no outsiders present. theyâre even a little drunk and loose with their words! and yet van still shuts it down when misty tries to bring up their time in the wilderness! thatâs her first instinct, even when theyâre all together, and thereâs assumedly no judgement! like yes she doesnât want the mood ruined, sure, but itâs also a perfect summation of it all: they donât think about it, because they canât, because theyâre always having to re-write! nat literally two seconds later in the very SAME scene asks what they all remember, and itâs made clear they canât??
Yes! This is not new, and it wasnât new in season 2, either. The Taissa running for Senate and the Taissa in the woods going âthis place will follow us foreverâ are two different women. She remembers it was bad enough to warrant making sure no one would talk, but do we think she really remembers all the details and still ran for office? No way. Shauna would not have the reputation for being a soft, boring housewife if she recalled in vivid detail setting up a teammateâs murder and then demanding her hair as a trophy. Nat remembers the most, I would guess, but sheâs also been dulling those memories religiously for two decades. They remember the big picture, the vague awfulness, but the specifics of who they were? Theyâve been running from that for YEARS.
#ask#yellowjackets#yj spoilers#yj meta#also like look at what they ARE haunted by#Natalieâs obsession with Travisâwhich is feeling more and more like it wasnât about their teen years at all#but about clinging to each other and addiction after they got home and each had no one else#taissa remembering the wolf but not parsing that her sleepwalking mightâve started again until sheâs literally in a tree#shauna being haunted by jackieâbut never real jackie. never the truth of her. just the twisted shame version#shauna believing wholeheartedly that she killed jackie is such an early indicator of this#because she didnât! they had a petty fight and jackie was stubborn and snow came#it was tragic and awful and shauna did not do it! but thatâs the one murder she berates herself for eternally#itâs a memory of a memory and âactually. you donât knowâ
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I guess you could say we believe it *because itâs impossible*.
Alt text: Frames from the finale of Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text.
1: Prince Dios lounges on the ground, looking disinterested. Text reads: YOU â "They think their success is a given."
2: The same shot from another angle, showing Akio mirroring Dios as he looks on with a fruity drink nearby. Text reads: "Yes."
3: Anthy bites her knuckle, tears in her closed eyes, looking torn. Text reads: "Whereas we understand"
4: Utena lying crumpled on the ground as the million swords bear down on her. Text reads: "that we'll almost certainly fail,"
5: Utena and Anthy's outstretched hands touching. Utena's hand is visibly bloody. Text reads: "which is what allows us the chance to succeed." End alt text.
#revolutionary girl utena#disco elysium#shoujo kakumei utena#dios#akio#anthy#utena#this oneâs a weird one bc the YOU line there isnât real lol i made it up#but i needed smth for the rest to be in response to#bc Stebanâs dialogue is smth i stumbled across in fayde#itâs not in the game proper#itâs just a lone line of dialogue not connected to any node#but still there in the code#which is a shame bc i would have loved to see what conversation it was supposed to be a part of đ#anyway uh hi long time no post.#not sure what to say other than it feels weird to be fandomposting right now with everything going on#but this has been nagging at me from the back of my mind for a while now#more and more every day i think about ââitâs our way of refusing to accept that the world has to remain like thisââ
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Andy from breakfast club liked the crazy girl alternative more! We all shout in unison!!
And I donât blame him ily crazy girls yâall rock yâall make the world a better place fr
if I were a poet Iâd write âode to crazy girlsâ and so would Andy Clark đ
#allison x andrew#the breakfast club#allison the breakfast club#andrew clark#allison reynolds#andy the breakfast club#rambling#ask#to be a lil real for a second I think people like Allison who are slightly nuts and donât hide it really are better company than the more#likeâŠrepressed/put together people#idk maybe itâs my own religious guilt n internalized shame speakin but me personally I canât just beâŠmyself like that a lotta the time#(and neither could Andy which was partially the point of the movie ig)#so i- and Andy too I suspect- find that when im around folks who r just overshare-y n outta pocket itâs like bein given permission to let#go of ur inhibitions. Which is pretty freeing yk? like oh sheâs bein nuts so i get to relax and be myself too bc sheâs not gonna judge#and itâs nice. Real nice. makes ya feel understood n all#maybe that sounds backhanded but im bein completely genuine- to me this is good lol#another variation of this dynamic is Joel and Lana in risky business but they go in a totally different direction w/ that#either way tho I think thatâs why Joel and Andrew are some of the most relatable characters in the world to me#nothin like a crazy girl to get ya to loose all ur shame n fear đ#anyway tl;dr crazy girls have my heart#and yes I did have a crush on Allison Reynolds when i was 14#(ok who am I kidding I still do)
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alright single digit days so itâs time for last-minute baseless + unfounded veilguard theories!!!!!!! Iâll go first: the reason spite canât take over lucanisâ body is because that body is ALREADY being possessed by lucanis, who was in fact dead and buried in the wake and rebound to a new form in the ossuary
#dragon age: the veilguard#veilguard spoilers#datv#datv spoilers#da4 spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#ANYWAYS additional spoilers/expansion on this theory in the tags ->#the whole âZara thought it would be funny if you were the REAL demon of vyrantiumâ#but itâs about lucanis being the possessor not the possessedâŠ. hmm hmmmmmmm hm#torn between that being done intentionally or them trying to bind spite but lucanis has already moved back in#and if I MAY#worldbuilding on this: flesh golem lucanis still bound to zaraâs orders#so when you go to fight Zara and she orders him to kill you ohhh he is trapped inside his own(?) body watching himself try to kill yoj#and at the end of the fight you have the option to kill or spare him#and if you spare him ohohoho enjoy the KNIFE inside you!!!!#(post battle after Zara is killed not by his hands the GUILT the SHAME the HORROR)#(IF heâd even survive it!!!!! and what then!!!!)#anyways all this to say the tags arenât part of the theory theyâre just what Iâd do to him ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ#I do wanna hear other theories I do not care how outlandish and unlikely they are#I want to incorporate em into my worldview#da posting#OH YEAH additional crumb for this theory: caterina being 1) filled with grief and 2) an absolutely evil woman commissioned the new Lucanis#his scruples about blood magic are his OWN right like the crows donât have a formal stance on blood magic#thatâs all lucanisâ moral compass (which illario even comments on in the Wigmaker job)#caterina missed her grandson? WRONG the first talon needs the protege she poured three decades of torture into back
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Stormy Nights
Wind and Bunny both hate storms. Tonight, Windâs overprotective older brother instincts (mostly) win out.
Tagging: @thatonecrazysidekick @tiredgaytheatrekid <3
⊠. ăâș ă . ⊠. ăâș ă . ⊠. ăâș ă . ⊠. ăâș ă . ⊠. ăâș ă .
Once he had shucked his sopping wet day clothes, strung them out to dry, and thrown on his comfortable pyjamas, Wind settled by the fire, inching a little closer when lightning lit up the room. Maybe, if he pushed himself close enough, the crackle and warmth and light of the fire would banish the storm from where it crawled over his shoulders and pierced his memories.
Another boom. Wind flinched, squeezing his eyes shut against the painful memories pressing up against the backs of his eyelids. Tried to focus on the warmth and the crackle of the fire washing over him and not the hard wooden floorboards of the ship swaying beneath him andâ
A small sound. Wind looked up, curious. At some point, Twilight had dropped Bunny off beside him to dry and settle. Alone, Bunny shook like a leaf in a gale. He had curled up into a tight, likely painful ball, his face pressed down into his front paws and his eyes squeezed shut, just as Windâs had been seconds ago. Another soft soundâa cry from Bunny, weak and whimpering.
Wind gasped, understanding washing over him.
âHey,â Wind said, just loud enough to be heard over the storm. âEverything alright, Bunny?â
Bunnyâs head whipped up. He stared at Wind with wide violet eyes, glistening with unshed tears, and Windâs heart twisted. He had never seen an animal cry before.
âHey, hey, itâs okay.â He shifted closer, but didnât yet touch Bunny. He had seen the bandages on Warriorsâ hand, had seen the nasty wound left behind by Bunnyâs teeth. âAre you scared of the storm, little guy?â
Another boom of thunder that Wind barely noticed under his heavy concern for the rabbit. Bunny, however, let out a cry, scurrying closer to Wind and burying his face in Windâs leg, hiding away.
âAw, thatâs okay,â Wind murmured. âThereâs nothing to be ashamed of. Do you mind if IâŠâ Carefully, he set a hand over Bunnyâs shaking back. When Bunny leaned into his touch, he swept the rabbit up into his arms, cradling him close and pressing Bunnyâs little face into his shoulder. âThere you go. Iâve got you. Iâll keep you safe.â Under his comfort, Bunnyâs shakes began to settle quickly, and Wind understood Hyrule and Twilightâs infatuation with their newest memberâBunny was so soft and perfect to cuddle, and if his older brother protectiveness was running this high after mere minutes of interacting with the rabbit, then he could only imagine how whipped the other two were. And as Bunny heaved a sigh and relaxed completely into him, Wind knew he could die for this sweet little rabbit.
Lost in soothing Bunny as he was, Wind wasnât prepared for another booming crack of thunder. He jumped with a soft eep!, head whipping around, wide eyes fixated on the outside world. With no doors in the stable, he could see the pounding rain, the world lit up by strikes of lightning. Fear turned in his chest. His breaths quickened.
Bunny let out a whine.
Immediately, Wind loosened his hold on the poor rabbit. âSorry, sorry. Guess the storm startled me. Are you alright? That was a big one.â
Bunny was watching him thoughtfully, calm as ever under Windâs comfort. He had been told Bunny was a little more intelligent that most beasts, but Wind hadnât expected for the rabbit to be staring at him with genuine concern in his eyes.
That wasnât any normal animal. Not even Wolfie seemed to understand to this degree, though Wind had his suspicions about the wolf.
âIâm glad youâre okay,â Wind said, rather than the millions of questions in the back of his mind. âIâll keep you safe tonight, okay? I promise. You can always come to me if this happens againâthereâs no shame in asking for help.â
Bunny nodded slowly, another pebble on the ever-growing pile of Windâs questions. But for tonight, with the raging storm outside, he would leave it be. He had a new friend to keep safe.
And if he comforted himself in the process, well then, no one else needed to know.
#I know I said Iâd post on the weekend but time is no longer real to me#I have started on the chapter after this in which Time complains about the cold (itâs actually about them all bonding over a fire snsksn)#and the previous chapter had Sky and Four bonding which I may post sometime soon!!#we are on⊠20 chapters now somehow#and still going strong! Bunny will be Hylian again soon enough I swear it!#(also yes TOCS this was brought on by your reply <3)#I will cry over that in a response when I get the chance but TT.TT for now!#Wind is being especially silly here by throwing his own feelings aside to take care of Bunny#when he should have sought out Wars or Twilight from the get go for comfort#âthereâs no shame in asking for help!â Wind says before pointing to a mirror âexcept you. rot idiotâ#Bunny has thoughts on this btw and will be sharing them#for now enjoy them snuggling and comforting each other <33#okay I should probably go to sleep now I have a long day at uni ahead of me (11-7âŠ)#byeeeee#lu#faye writes#linked universe#lu fic#linked universe fanfic#lu wind#lu bunny#lu pink bunny au#almost forgot that tag my meds may be kicking in snsksn#gnight!
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I am going on a 20 hour flight tomorrow please give me your favourite less well-known narrative fiction podcast recommendations
#i lean towards horror but i am open to anything#I've listened to a LOT of podcasts so I've heard of. a lot of them. but obviously there are always more.#if you are a person who makes an audio drama you are welcome to reoly and plug yourself#no shame here i need good content#i have a STRONG preference for stuff with carefully laid audio editing#(which doesnt necessarily mean heavy audioscapes or a lot of foley. it just means i like it when editors make a clean product)#(i say this as someone who is extremely meticulous about my own audio production)#(also: hire me? i only have one real example atm but I'm a kickass producer lol)#(but that's off topic)#RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE#podcasts#podcast recommendations#audio drama#audio drama recommendations#fiction podcast#horror podcast#the system speaks
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I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?
#lyanna stark#arya stark#asoiaf#/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive đ#how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story#we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level#Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/#and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had#he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty#reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ đ#as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd#it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/#even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times?#idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid#Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality#how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead?#some real analysis just to shake things up idk
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why must everything that the text clearly states atp be misconstrued like i really dont get it he has plenty of flaws in that relationship but we, and cersei, know that he was ready to kill robert for just the disrespect of the cheating if cersei said the word. he doesnt concern himself with the personal consequences, he is reckless, detached from a lot of things, and can close his eyes at the future if he doesnât want to acknowledge it. also the concern over the âshameâ and ned type judgement feels so overestimated to me atp. he never regrets aerys, he is mad at how he is perceived (but again, notably doesnt try to rectify it by telling the truth for a lot of complex reasons), but he would never take it back. if he believes its the right thing to do, and is not overdosing on copium trying to juggle vows he cares about, he will do it, reputation be damned. though he has selfish concerns regarding being viewed as good, the internal matters so much more than the external: see weirwood dream: who actually shows up? what makes the fire go out? âit was not him. it was never himâ, see the trebuchet fiasco, see the choice in adwd. why shouldnt we take cersei at face value when she implies that if jaime knew about the physical abuse he would have killed him? he loves and cares about cersei to an insane degree, even if he can be selfish toxic and unhealthy too. not to mention he would be glad to kill robert anyway lol. i really find it very very difficult to imagine that he wouldnt have killed him based on almost every single part of his characterization.
#ik its better to reply than to do this but i dont use my twitter for fandom and i keep seeing this general sentiment over and over again#like it makes him so inconsistent and nonsensical#i donât understand this whole jaime was never there for cersei prehandloss he was at her disposal for almost everything he would have maime#a child just bc she asked like what???#u think that wouldnt have shamed him??#he gave up almost everything for her at 15#and im gonna be real if u r frustrated by jaime burning the letter being framed as this grand triumphant redemptive choice#by people#which i get i dont think its framed like that either#its just as unfair to treat it as the opposite#it is the end of a certain delusion#which is why the joanna dream is the focal point#and#he can divorce himself he has no obligation to die to try save her atp#and remain her sword#i dont see him as the literal devil for that sorry#i feel like some of u feel the need to misconstrue his character to make some of these choices out to be as bad as possible
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