My favorite part about the coalecroux kiss (I’m so happy I can say this genuinely) is that it was so corny but in such a good way.
I liked that for once, the joke wasn’t that it was two guys, it was the fact that Kremy said “smooching” and that Gideon responded with an even worse line back. It really made them feel like a married, domestic couple that isn’t worried about being embarrassing or corny anymore. I really hope that this is the start of a new way of how they treat coalecroux and their queer couples, and I’m honestly hesitantly excited for how they do mainline coalecroux now.
Like YES be goofy and funny, just don’t make it about the fact they’re gay!! It expands their characterization and personality, along with making the queer viewers no longer feel upset with the jokes.
Caught up with stardust rhapsody, I’m not as disappointed as everyone else about the retcon. But have we taken into consideration what is called a “lie” or did we all forget that sometimes people feed us false information to tell a story
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MORE OF THEM!!! (AKA I made Icebound as Warrior Cats)
Once again, made using @littlehungrywarriorcats's excellent Picrew.
Fireblossom (longhaired flame point): Formerly a kittypet named Taishen who lived with his feline family in a country house. Everything they had was provided for them, but he got disillusioned when his niece, Mei Lee, went missing and the twolegs didn't seem to care. He escaped and brought her home, but chose to stay outside himself, feeling that he couldn't go back knowing that his feeling of safety was just an illusion.
Twitchtail (shorthaired black tuxedo): Got got by an overly-friendly dog as a youngster and never emotionally recovered. Deliberately antagonizes clan cats by hunting on their territory and tricking apprentices into giving over their kills because he secretly wishes he had people who loved him, but thinks he'll never get that.
Rabbitstep (shorthaired chocolate ticked tabby): grew up alongside barn cats and learned not only how to heal with wild plants, but how to cultivate them and keep them safe. When her guardians died and the farm was sold to someone who did NOT want cats on their property, she went to wandering. Never joined a clan because of the restrictive rules for medicine cats, even though she doesn't actually want a mate or kits. It's the principle of the thing, you know?
Fjordear (longhaired blue tabby with low white spotting): though he's experienced visions for all his life, he's always been a little ostracized from clan life because he doesn't believe they come from starclan. Travels to various clans to provide healing when needed, but never tells them where he's going when he leaves.
Deadwake (lilac tabby with low white spotting): formerly a ship's cat named Barnabos, he left his twolegs for an ethereal cat he only refers to as "my lover", who he claims speaks to him through the sounds of the water. It's unclear whether she died and is speaking to him from starclan, whether he's imagining her voice out of grief, or whether she never existed in the first place.
Bonus Daisy!!! (Abyssinian): A cat formerly owned by twolegs, but claims she was never a kittypet. She was surprised to find that all the other cats, including former kittypets, had claws; she and all the cats she knew have none. A strange injury on her neck makes it impossible for her to meow, so she can only be heard when close enough to feel her vocalizations (this is my compromise since cats can't use sign language lol).
#going back to my 'marius' vampirism is a metaphor for the lasting trauma of sexual abuse' idea#marius is my roman empire
So I did a funny joke post about Marius and this was one of the tags left on it and I'm so sorry prev but you've activated my trap card because I've thought so much about this topic, but have felt too afraid to talk about it unprompted lol. But I am going to spew my guts about how I feel about this symbolism so cw for talks about SA and victim blaming. Cause I have for sure thought about this a lot and gotten sort of heated about jokes about Marius just being a dumb horny knight when he's a whole ass victim of significant trauma.
(tag credit goes to @royhasissues, hope it's ok to post your tags)
So, I loove Marius and one of the main reasons for that is his relationship to trauma and what that both symbolizes for his character as well as how it determines his actions and emotional stability as of episode 32.
Marius Renathyr was someone who thrived off of structure, order and discipline. He was clearly a highly religious man and had followed his religious and orderly tenants to the letter for most of his life. A young Marius was focused on things like war, helping to defend his people and more specifically, protecting his king and best friend from forces that wished for their ruin. As such, I cannot imagine a young Marius really had any type of experience with relationships aside from platonic and brotherly relationships he had built with fellow knights or Victor. So already we have a young inexperienced knight going off on a quest where not only is he leaving the shelter of his kingdom for the first time, he's also on a time limit in which his success or failure could determine the future of an entire kingdom of people.
Then, vulnerable and half starved, he stumbles upon the Duchess who not only takes advantage of his physically weakened state; but also takes advantage of his emotional and mentally weakened state. Lilith as a temptress of course could tempt a young knight, and then to curse him with vampirism after tricking him into sleeping with her is back to back traumatic events - the vamprism something that could be interpreted as a punishment for failing his tenant of chastity. Something that I found interesting too is not only is his kingdom's symbol a rose, but it also is the same symbol as The Duchess - it brings to mind the idea of "deflowering" as a symbol of lost innocence.
From there, he has fought against his vampiric instincts which he viewed as a curse and a punishment for his weakness when in reality, it was not weakness at all. And the way some people react in a sort of joking or unserious way to his attitude towards sleeping with someone, his concerns of being trapped in a power scale imbalance with a strong and powerful woman also shows how his character reflects victim blaming both from others but also internalized victim blaming. It is why I think the scene of his friends trying to convince him to sleep with the Inquisitor only for Yorgrim to shut it down and back Marius up is such a powerful scene because it showed how some of his friends did not understand the level of trauma he had experienced despite how he bares literal physical reminders of the trauma he had experienced decades prior and how it still weighs so heavily on him.
Not to mention how Marius' bloodlust and how his aversion to getting too close to people - particularly Lethica who he shows clear romantic feelings for - is also symbolic of his trauma reactions. He is unable to allow himself that sort of closeness or intimacy with another person, even if there is no sexual motivation or undertones about their interactions, it's still a fear response of wishing to avoid any possibility of being harmed once again or lashing out due to that trauma.
And mind you, this is all worsening for him around the same time he comes to realize he's lost his connection to his God, his king and best friend he went on this quest for is dead, 2 of his closest friends are also dead, and many other awful horrors have befallen him and his group, it makes sense why his emotional and mental stability have started crumbling so drastically. And then, when he is at his lowest, who swoops in to whisper false promises and telling him he can be strong once more, protected once more, that this all can be worth it if he just listens to her? The one being who gave him this trauma in the first place. She swoops in and talks to him tenderly, who caresses him and tells him it'll be ok, that he can be what he was once more, that she will help him if only he listens to her and stays with her and loves her and nobody else. Nobody else. There's a lack of clarity, a lack of stability, of rational thought. Marius entrusts himself to her now because it's hard escaping from your abuser when they act like they're your protector instead.
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