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sunflowers-and-scales

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

sunflowers-and-scales

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

acceptableduraz

#this is fully why I don't post on this blog anymore lmao #I tried for like 2 weeks and then nearly every person who interacted with me was doing this about it #cmon guys #you're not going to Solve The Plot by blaming your least favourite character for everything

starpeace

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

stefisdoingthings

wow i really like this gerard keay guy i hope nothing horrible happens to him

phthalopathos

surprise, I’m not dead!

(sorry gerry. anyways it’s time to make fun of his godawful hair dye.)

#he's just like me fr #godawful black box dye gang

vastandfurious

Mike crew 🌥️🌥️

I had a lot of fun drawing this. The vast is just so cool. It’s my favourite fear by far. It’s so beautiful.

#OH THIS SLAMS

xilo-core

Gerry doodell

enjoyvoidblack

The entire time I've been relistening to season 5, I can't stop thinking about Jon Jarchivist's state of existence as a disability metaphor. The role in things he's been crafted for makes other people see him as having special privileges - and yes, there are perks! - but nobody really puts as much thought into how it affects his internal life, or the fact that he never chose this. Even the characters who are nice to him will make the occasional dig at him "always having liked being at the center of things", as if he didn't spend nearly every moment of the last few years trying to minimize his impact on others as much as possible, and seen it happen anyway only in spite of himself. He has a special diet and a requirement to stop and unburden himself regularly that can come on at inconvenient times, sounds physically uncomfortable if left unanswered, and impossible to leave so for long. The things that are good and restful for the others (sanctuaries from the Eye) fatigue and dissociate him, and his needs are always in an awkward balance with the differing ones of those around him, by practicality alone, even when he's with a person who loves him.

So many moments in S5 read like mirrors of myself or my other disabled friends hanging out and traveling with abled friends or ones with differing requirements: the awkward half-apologies that happen when you can't really control something that's being inconvenient and it's unpleasant for you too, the pushing yourself in spite of symptoms for something fun or restful for a loved one and yourself, the strained laughter at well-meaning digs, the struggling not to bring down the mood by explaining too much...it's all there. Being the Archivist is a disability. It is that from the moment the requirement for statements to survive kicks in, but especially especially in Season 5, and that's special to me. I sort of wish some of the other avatars had been more willing to be true allies, so that Jon could've had someone to talk and compare with. I think the company would've made him feel a lot less like a monster. (If, yknow, the company available was not mostly literal monsters or avatars too far gone to have much sympathy, alas)

cryingbreaskfastfriends

I love and related to this reading.

cryingbreaskfastfriends

I am still not over this.

Martin sets up a strong boundry "I can't be that for you." And thst is just amazing character development for him.

And Jon is like "I can't not though?!?!?! Oh! I can do it without you? Yeah I can do it in private alone. Ok phew. I can respect my boyfriends boundry."

And then EVERY TIME Jon needs to do it Martin is like "REALLY?! NOW? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?" And THEN he tells Basira "He can't help it."

So you do understand then? So why are you being such an absolute fucking wanker.

#reblogging this addition now because I saw it as an uncharitable reading at the time but y'know what you're super right #and it could be Martin's stress coming out in a petty way; I could believe that; but honestly I think it's a writing issue #I usually lean more Watsonian than Doylist when engaging with fiction and trying to explain it but I can see the strings so clearly here #I think it was an attempt to bring levity to a pretty dismal season with a lot of humour at Jon's expense #but it never sat right with me #the humour comes from the implied equivalency between Jon's need and somebody needing to go to the bathroom frequently on a road trip #but like. as a person who has a condition that causes frequent bathroom needs #it's just not funny like that when it isn't something that a person can at all control #and when it's significant enough to impact them the way it impacts Jon #I agree that season 5 needed some levity but I think the jokes should have come from Jon instead #not too frequent as to be out of character but I think him retaining some more of his dry humour would have been nice #and would have read a lot better than what we got #because people joking a bit about their own needs and limitations while still portraying the reality of them in writing is nice #not the constant relentless narrative that Jon is a burden to those around him #edit immediately blocked the person I reblogged from. sigh. this fandom is allergic to nuance #no season 5 is not worse because Martin is in it you just find him grating on a personal level because you can't relate to him #I'm not even a Martin fan but sometimes this fandom makes me want to give lectures

shadowchancellor

i affirm the strength of the pig

quietwingsinthesky

you should be able to right click things in real life and see how old they are

quietwingsinthesky

somewhere out there is information on when these streetlamps were erected and who put them up, it’s just not information available to me. and i don’t like that. i should know everything forever.

enjoyvoidblack

@vague-magnus-archives

dizzyafkartwork

OH! I just realized I never shared this to Tumblr and that feels like a crime!

#OOBGH GOOD

mojo-chojoo

im surprised no one else did this since gerry is stuck in a book

oh well

#OOBG THAT'S GOOD

hotcryptidsummer

10 : Desolation

Hey fascist, (fuck I spelt it wrong I'm going to- remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health- burn a leitner) Catch. // Desolation!Gerry

Line art + no smoke version under the cut

ilynpilled

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in

#johnathan sims.#maybe I'm a character opinions snob but ohhhhhhh my god

lunehowls

mwah mwah mwah

passer-ine

liesmyth

tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

liesmyth

I'm never muting this post I love learning about fandom beef I'd never ever considered before

#prev is onto something honestly #there's a reason I pictured him different from fanon for years before seeking out fanart #he never questions how he got that job while under qualified