AiraSora

Be kind to all kinds 🏳️‍🌈

[maceofpentacles]

what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?

mine are the tower and the chariot

[airasora]

Odette, chuckling nervously as she tries to straighten her hair: "I'm so sorry I'm late. Traffic was crazy!"

Thrax, walking past her: "Traffic? Is that my new nickname?"

[airasora]

Something I find interesting in the "romantizising SA through fiction" debate is that when you bring up other types of violence, like murder, CASUAL murder even, people seem to suddenly be capable of separating reality from fiction.

We are so desensitized to murder in movies and shows that we don't even notice it happening. The body count in action movies, people who die who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, because the "hero" wanted to disguise himself with his victim's uniform, etc. those are all totally fine apparently.

Hell, we love some of the most insane killers in the world. We don't just make documentaries about people like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein, we make SHOWS about them. They have fans, actual fans, people who write letters to serial killers, people who make thirst traps on tiktok about the hot serial killer and making "jokes" that they would be one of his victims too cause he's just so charming.

But when someone likes dark romance in fiction, that person is far more judged than any of these other groups. Don't get me wrong, they do get shit too, but not the same way dark romance readers do.

I just find it fascinating how we can romanticize real people like Bonnie and Clyde, who have become practically legendary for all the crime they committed, but someone who enjoys a fictional stalker romance is called the scum of the earth.

I just think there's a lot of hypocrisy here. Either dark subjects in fiction should be explored without censorship, or it should just all be censored. You can't just pick and choose which controversial themes you think are okay for other people to enjoy and which aren't. You can choose which subjects YOU would want to explore more, but you can't make your own opinions and preferences into rules for others.

It's either or.

[jaymes-penrose]

It's not about the act.

It's the framing of the act.

Zade rapes Adeline, multiple times, and it's excused. He's seen as heroic even.

That's fucking disgusting.

And fiction does influence real life. To act otherwise is fucking dumb.

If someone wants to watch a film with rape in it, I suggest I Spit on Your Grave. At least in that film the men aren't called heroic. And there's no bullshit like saying that Jennifer liked it. And there's catharsis in watching Jennifer kill her rapists. Haunting Adeline would be less disgusting if Adeline killed Zade, or he wasn't called sexy by his fans.

[airasora]

I 100% agree that the people who GENUINELY see Zade as a hero have issues. Zade is about as far away from a hero in reality as you can get. And, like I said in my original post, I don't condone nor defend the people who write fan letters to real life serial killers.

But that doesn’t mean everyone else, those who can separate reality from fiction, should be villainized or accused of excusing the real life horror and trauma of sexual violence.

Antoinette Cealopes says it best in her video here.

If you can't watch TikTok videos then I shared her video on my tumblr as well.

And I have watched I Spit In Your Grave. It's a really hard movie to get through because it's so honest about how terrible SA truly is. Cause that is one of the main goals of the movie.

That is not the goal or the purpose of Haunting Adeline.

[xxladyloganxx]

Writers for TV/movies also need to consider the trauma that comes with depicting such scenes.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there's an episode where Spike tries to force himself onto Buffy which left his actor, James Marsters, so traumatized that he had to go to therapy and wrote in his contract that he refuses to do scenes like that again.

The same happened with the cast of Game of Thrones where some of the scenes were handled poorly on the actor's behalf.

And during filming of 1972's The Last House on the Left, after shooting "the scene", everyone just sat alone during break. In silence. Staring at their lunches.

[airasora]

Absolutely, 100% agree with all of that too. In general, such scenes should be handled extremely carefully for EVERYONE'S sake.

Honestly, I think anyone who works with scenes like that should be going to therapy before, during and after to ensure it all gets processed as smoothly as possible.

I know this is also bringing in another controversial topic... but maybe this is where AI could be useful. Or maybe CGI. I don't know, despite my opinions in separating reality from fiction, I do absolutely worry about the long term way it can negatively affect the actors and so forth.

[scribeherself]

the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.

[airasora]

Reminds me of this old Jim and Ariel picture I made over a decade ago... I can't remember if I ever even shared it 😂

[shopwitchvamp]

“Omg, I love these! They go up to size 6X AND they have pockets?! Wow!! But do you have anything longer?”

Sure do, no problem!!

“YES these are great!!! But what about.. longer?”

I gotcha!! Comin’ right up!

"Now that's what I'm talkin' about! But... how about if I'm feeling like it's the kinda day where I need my clothing to be bifurcated???"

Never fear, joggers are here!

*wild cheering* /scene

🖤 witchvamp.com 🖤

[airasora]

Do you still ship Taran x Arthur ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🐷👑

I do, I've just never had much opportunity to edit with them 🤭

[dagalaxyserpent]

Haunting Adelaine is getting a movie adaption.

I wanna say first that, if you don't like HA or dark romance, that's okay. You don't have to.

These are my opinion, from my perspective.

Anyway. I have come across the anti adaptation side of TikTok.

Honestly, to me, this feels like another moral panic. Just like with Fifty Shades of Grey, people have the same complaints and worries now as they had back then.

To be clear. Dark romance is a broad genre. It's a spectrum. Dark romance as we know it now, has its roots from romance novels before. Aspects of dark romance has existed before.

I understand why there is such a discourse about it. Or why media directed for women get so aggressively scrutinized.

People use the "this book glamorizes rape" or "men will use this book to excuse their violence" and other arguments like these. Sometimes I wonder if people know that portrayal doesn't automatically equal glamorisation. And then the other argument. Men will use any excuse under the sun for their mistreatment of women. If a man is going to rape a woman because of a portrayal of rape on-screen, then there's a high likelihood that they were going to rape anyway, wether or not there was rape in the media he was watching. I'm annoyed at the fact that we blame media that's directed to women for mens behavior. As if men cannot think for themselves or be responsible for their own behavior.

Me watching Dexter doesn't automatically mean that I'm okay with serial killing. Or me watching Desperate Housewives doesn't mean that I support conservatism/right wing ideology.

It is important to understand that you are not the media you consume. It's also important to be critical of the media one consumes. But also, not every media you consume has to be morally clean and pure. Art and media is a way to deal with dark, messy things.

Again. If you don't like Haunting Adelaine, that is okay. If you don't like dark romance, that is okay too.

Haunting Adelaine wasn't a book for me. I thought the book was a bit overhyped. But it's okay. It wasn't for me.

HA isn't a book for everyone. That found catharsis with this book.

Also, we have no other announcement about this. Nothing about the cast or when this movie is going to come out.

I just wanted to write this because, I haven't come across that many rational posts about this.

[wolfkice]

Mulan x Shan Yu - Propose

My left hand carpometacarpal joint hurt~~~ヾ(*p ∇o)ﾉ

左手腕掌關節好痛啊~~~ヾ(*p ∇o)ﾉ

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☕Buy me a coffee~?☕｡:.ﾟヽ(*´∀`)ﾉﾟ.:｡

[dxc-95]

In terms of Disney aus and Disney MEPs from back in the old YouTube days, I unironically ship this XD

[wolfkice]

Mulan x Shan Yu - Hands

I LIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!ヽ(｡◁ °)ノ

我—復—活—啦！！！！ヽ(｡◁ °)ノ

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☕Buy me a coffee~?☕｡:.ﾟヽ(*´∀`)ﾉﾟ.:｡

[dxc-95]

Tiny hands, his only weakness

[airasora]

Oh, what those hands could do...

Wait, I mean—what? 👀

[airasora]

As someone who's into shipping non!Disney characters, even if they seem an odd pairing at first, crossover or otherwise, what do you think of Mulan and Shan Yu, one of my guilty pleasure pairings? I like it because hero/villain, their stark differences in appearance, the canon "Soldier from the Mountains" scene (makes me think he would be all about her in an au; "he falls first and harder" reading trope) and a few videos of them I enjoy

I've actually been coming across more and more Mulan x Shan Yu videos on TikTok recently and they DEFINITELY have my attention!

I love the aspect of Shan Yu being the only man who immediately respects Mulan as a soldier because the Huns didn't have that same sexism and misogyny China did (at least, that's what I've heard) and the idea that the enemy would be the one to respect her...

The angst... the enemies to lovers... IT IS GLORIOUS!

What's their ship name though?

... MuYu?🤣

[airasora]

Something I find interesting in the "romantizising SA through fiction" debate is that when you bring up other types of violence, like murder, CASUAL murder even, people seem to suddenly be capable of separating reality from fiction.

We are so desensitized to murder in movies and shows that we don't even notice it happening. The body count in action movies, people who die who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, because the "hero" wanted to disguise himself with his victim's uniform, etc. those are all totally fine apparently.

Hell, we love some of the most insane killers in the world. We don't just make documentaries about people like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein, we make SHOWS about them. They have fans, actual fans, people who write letters to serial killers, people who make thirst traps on tiktok about the hot serial killer and making "jokes" that they would be one of his victims too cause he's just so charming.

But when someone likes dark romance in fiction, that person is far more judged than any of these other groups. Don't get me wrong, they do get shit too, but not the same way dark romance readers do.

I just find it fascinating how we can romanticize real people like Bonnie and Clyde, who have become practically legendary for all the crime they committed, but someone who enjoys a fictional stalker romance is called the scum of the earth.

I just think there's a lot of hypocrisy here. Either dark subjects in fiction should be explored without censorship, or it should just all be censored. You can't just pick and choose which controversial themes you think are okay for other people to enjoy and which aren't. You can choose which subjects YOU would want to explore more, but you can't make your own opinions and preferences into rules for others.

It's either or.

[jaymes-penrose]

It's not about the act.

It's the framing of the act.

Zade rapes Adeline, multiple times, and it's excused. He's seen as heroic even.

That's fucking disgusting.

And fiction does influence real life. To act otherwise is fucking dumb.

If someone wants to watch a film with rape in it, I suggest I Spit on Your Grave. At least in that film the men aren't called heroic. And there's no bullshit like saying that Jennifer liked it. And there's catharsis in watching Jennifer kill her rapists. Haunting Adeline would be less disgusting if Adeline killed Zade, or he wasn't called sexy by his fans.

[airasora]

I 100% agree that the people who GENUINELY see Zade as a hero have issues. Zade is about as far away from a hero in reality as you can get. And, like I said in my original post, I don't condone nor defend the people who write fan letters to real life serial killers.

But that doesn’t mean everyone else, those who can separate reality from fiction, should be villainized or accused of excusing the real life horror and trauma of sexual violence.

Antoinette Cealopes says it best in her video here.

If you can't watch TikTok videos then I shared her video on my tumblr as well.

And I have watched I Spit In Your Grave. It's a really hard movie to get through because it's so honest about how terrible SA truly is. Cause that is one of the main goals of the movie.

That is not the goal or the purpose of Haunting Adeline.

[airasora]

"When we pick up a work of dark romance, WE are engaging in consent with the material. Our consent, the consent of the audience, is what matters" by AntoinetteCealopesReads

[airasora]

Something I find interesting in the "romantizising SA through fiction" debate is that when you bring up other types of violence, like murder, CASUAL murder even, people seem to suddenly be capable of separating reality from fiction.

We are so desensitized to murder in movies and shows that we don't even notice it happening. The body count in action movies, people who die who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, because the "hero" wanted to disguise himself with his victim's uniform, etc. those are all totally fine apparently.

Hell, we love some of the most insane killers in the world. We don't just make documentaries about people like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein, we make SHOWS about them. They have fans, actual fans, people who write letters to serial killers, people who make thirst traps on tiktok about the hot serial killer and making "jokes" that they would be one of his victims too cause he's just so charming.

But when someone likes dark romance in fiction, that person is far more judged than any of these other groups. Don't get me wrong, they do get shit too, but not the same way dark romance readers do.

I just find it fascinating how we can romanticize real people like Bonnie and Clyde, who have become practically legendary for all the crime they committed, but someone who enjoys a fictional stalker romance is called the scum of the earth.

I just think there's a lot of hypocrisy here. Either dark subjects in fiction should be explored without censorship, or it should just all be censored. You can't just pick and choose which controversial themes you think are okay for other people to enjoy and which aren't. You can choose which subjects YOU would want to explore more, but you can't make your own opinions and preferences into rules for others.

It's either or.

[airasora]

An update about me; I am now, apparently, a eugenicist. Why? Cause I told someone an embryo and a baby isn't the same thing.

Yes. Really. They even compared me to Hitler 😃

[airasora]

I just watched the most surprisingly amazing movie about sheep detectives solving the murder of their shepherd, played by Hugh Jackman of all people.

And I... I couldn't fucking solve it. I could not figure out who the murderer was. I was genuinely stumped... by a movie about talking sheep.

The movie popped up on my recommended movies on prime. I saw it had 95% on rotten tomatoes and was like... how??? It's talking animals, and not like old Disney talking animals, but CGI ones. And the trailer fit the usual childish meh of bad sheep puns etc.

But... 95% on rotten tomatoes, right? I couldn't ignore it. I had to know how the fuck a movie with such a silly concept could possibly be that good.

Guys. I can't believe I'm saying this. But this is not just a good movie, it has a genuinely good mystery.

I recommend it 💯

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[airasora]

Hell is empty

And all the devils

are MAGA.