Margan

Just a lonely writer full of salt Find me on AO3 as Margan💖

[vivilanlu]

Most of the mischaracterization Riza suffers from wouldn’t be nearly as popular if people actually understood why she follows Roy and it isn’t just love and loyalty.

One of the main reasons she stays by his side is because she sees herself as the guardian of flame alchemy. She’s trying to make sure of two things: 1. no one ever gets their hands on it again. and 2. the only person who can use it never misuses it again. That’s why she follows him. She has to. She’s watching the weapon she helped create.

And she has to keep him alive not only because he’s the one with the political power (meaning he’s her only real way to make sure the trials happen), but because he has to live long enough to atone for what he did with flame alchemy. The power SHE gave him.

From Riza’s point of view, every crime Mustang commits is hers too. Every time flame alchemy is used to kill that blood is on her hands too. Every person he killed is someone she killed by proxy.

She’s not just guarding him. She’s sharing his guilt. It’s like she’s trying to atone for her own sins, but he has to atone too so she can atone through him.

I think this Hannibal quote fits them really well: “You and I have begun to blur. Every crime of yours feels like one I’m guilty of.” Like yeah she obviously loves him. But reducing their relationship to just that completely flattens what’s actually going on.

[inquisitor-apologist]

See the thing about me is I’m generally a very pro-Death of the Author style guy. I’ve read the original essay, I understand the concept, I often engage with media through that kind of lens, I get it. But this fandom as a whole seems to have NO IDEA what that concept even means.

You stop being able to apply Death of the Author when you’re actually like. Centering authorial intent. You can’t make a post like “oh the Whole Intended Point of The Original Trilogy was that Luke rejected the teachings of the Old Jedi™️ and chose love over dogma” and then when someone pulls up GL interviews showing that he did not actually intend to communicate that Luke rejected Jedi teachings and was in the right for that say “well, death of the author, that’s my interpretation!”.

Like, cool buddy, if that is for some reason what you want to take away from the Original Trilogy (I can’t imagine why, given that the teachings of the Old Jedi barely exist in the OT, but you do you) that’s fine and it does fit with Death of the Author, but you brought up authorial intent. You weren’t arguing that your interpretation is valid, you were arguing that it was in fact the express intent and vision of the creator, which is a completely different thing incompatible with Death of the Author analysis.

If someone’s criticizing RotS/the Prequels from the angle that they failed to create an effective ‘inevitable tragedy’ narrative as was intended… it’s entirely fair for someone to bring up behind the scenes material and quotes demonstrating that Lucas did not in fact intend to create an ‘inevitable tragedy’ narrative in the first place! You can’t apply Death of the Author if your analysis supposes that the author is alive and intended [x]! The entire point of Death of the Author is that the author’s intention becomes irrelevant once it is released and that the meaning of a text can only be found in the interpretation of the audience!

[writerbuddha]

I'm afraid, for these people, Death of the Author actually means "Death to the Author." They want to BECOME the author. “Well, death of the author, that’s my interpretation!” actually means, "I am the author now, the story is whatever I want it to be!"

[amarcia]

Młodociani przestępcy! All three of them should be in jail !

✨🌙  ART LOG ->  @404ama

[magpie-to-the-morning]

I don’t WANT a career. I want to cuddle and sleep and eat and read and create and love and be loved.

[depsidase]

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[konoko]

[blinkeasy]

Good Bones, by Maggie Smith / Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

[thelightfluxtastic]

[Image ID: Poem lines interspersed with manga panels.

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

[Qifrey lifting up Coco]

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

[Qifrey and Olruggio as children]

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I’ll keep from my children.

[Qifrey alone in his tower, and getting hit with lightning as he experiments with the ink bottle]

The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children.

[A young Luluci running away from abstract, shadowy grabbing hands]

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

[Qifrey in the waterlogged coffin]

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

[Engendale with his slimy brimmed hat]

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you,

though I keep this from my children.

[Qifrey with a peaceful expression, a herd of cattle, flying birds, and a shot of a traveling cart from behind with Qifrey and his apprentices inside]

I am trying

to sell them the world.

[The atelier and the field around it]

Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right?

[Qifrey showing Coco the windowway in a shower of flower petals.]

You could make this place beautiful.

End ID]

[yiliy]

Yoda once told me that there are trillions of people in the galaxy, and only a few thousand Jedi Knights. He said that we cannot try to right every wrong. All creatures must learn to stand for what is right, and not always rely upon the Jedi.

Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice #1, The Rising Force

by Dave Wolverton

[handweavers]

having institutional access never stops feeling sort of crazy to me because you can literally type in any country and time period and find at least a handful of peer reviewed articles somewhere that discuss a specific aspect of people's lives in depth and at length like "what was considered pop culture in late imperial russia" or "how did the textile trade work in northern mali in the 1600s" or "children's toys in pre-colonial philippines" and it's just sitting there but the majority of people on planet earth aren't allowed to read any of it

[handweavers]

somebody reblogged this and said something to the effect of "even if they had access they wouldn't read it because most people watch fox news and love conspiracy theories" and you should probably know that most people on planet earth are not republicans from the united states

[ossidae-passeridae]

Ah yep here's the talk that opened my eyes wrt how most Americans see the world, timestamped to where the Australian hired by Intel in the late 90s is having the concept explained to her.

It's an older talk now, but I still think about it once a week on average! Not bad for a decade after the fact.

[amarcia]

Hot take but sifo-dyas is what people want qui-gon to be ("maverick defying the council") but with actual defying and consequences of defying the council addressed in the story

[kuttithevangu]

Court dramas are always passing the evil Bechdel test where two named woman are irredeemably evil to each other for such a heavy percentage of the screen time that you forget there was even a man involved

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[deathlonging]

we should talk more about cities that are vampires. cities that are cold and wet and sink into your bones and stay there. cities that are hungry and want to live. dead cities that dont know they're dead and suck the life force of their people to maintain the delusion. cities with harbors that are actually mouths; one-way entries. cities that are devastatingly lonely and see consumption as love

[joeyclaire]

"you can't pick and choose what you like from canon" common misconception! yes you can

[pirateherokillian]

but please do not get this very true concept confused with “you cannot pick and choose what is canon”

they are two very different things.

[joeyclaire]

thank you for this addition seriously

[cheesenames]

if we can set aside attachment discourse for a moment (please) i think the jedi marriage prohibition makes sense in a “please don’t enter a complex legal, financial, social, and in some cases religious contract, the specifics of which vary wildly depending on planet and culture” way. the single jedi with a law degree does not have time to draft everyone’s prenups to prevent the whole order from getting sued