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kit here. latest fandoms: Team Fortress 2, most broadway musicals, and horror games, for which I sometimes I draw or write stuff. my fave fictional trope are edgy white guys. sorry I am the way I am, but not sorry.

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is it time to be active on my personal again???

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things that really upset me: the loss of all that potential that could’ve been explored in stefano valentini’s character. like, ruvik had a whole game to flesh out his backstory and his past and his motivations. i came in thinking that ruvik was a really cool fucking antagonist, i stayed intrigued throughout the game as we pushed our way through and picked his brain (quite literally) and took apart his character until we came to the end of the evil within, and i left feeling sympathy for ruben.

it really irritates me that they came up with an amazing villain antagonist like stefano and then just used him as a means to pursue another storyline with a much weaker villain. stefano had all this potential to be played up as a character, to be discussed in a more three-dimensional context and to have his past and his motivations and traumas explored just as ruvik did. to get a proper view of the man behind the camera and the man who came before the monster that STEM turned him into. 

just. like... write......... better stories for your characters please they deserve it so much and i hate so much to see them wasted like this. not even a stefano dlc???? c’mon, you guys can do better than that!

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who killed artists who don’t even fall under the flagging guidelines and singlehandedly slaughtered the near-collective enjoyment of their entire userbase?

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hit or miss i guess they never miss huh

you got a boyfriend i bet he doesn’t kiss yah 

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Just a nice cupp-o-cat :3

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December 14th, 2018

Three days remain

@staff let the countdown begin

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ppl are always wishing they could go back in time and change some major shit about their lives and use their knowledge of the future for smth revolutionary. but tbh i’d just go back in time to my childhood so that i could do something as dumb as like. going to that one burrito place i like about several hundreds of times more over the course of my life or something, and that’s why i should never be given this power if it exists

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[tnystark]

— I watched my friends die. You’d think that’d be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn’t the worst part.

— The worst part is that you didn’t.

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The one who died for power

The one who died for love

The one who greeted death like an old friend

- The Tale Of Three Brothers, J. K. Rowling

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forgot to say that, without Howl chasing girls and Sophie resenting him for it, the film completely erases part of the point of Sophie being old.  Wynne Jones is using an idea that Beauvoir talked about - that being an old woman is both tragic (as we lose male attention/attractiveness) and freeing (as we are freed from the male gaze).  the idea is that with being old comes liberation, and the true meaning of what it is to be a woman, as society no longer forces gender norms on us.

Sophie is free from Howl’s attentions and therefore safe from harm (a big part of the book is the fact that Sophie believes he eats women’s hearts, and him chasing girls proves this to her).  she takes solace in the fact that she’s old, and finds it freeing.  when she learns more about Howl (notably: that he doesn’t eat hearts and that he’s not evil), she starts to curse her age and resent him chasing girls.  BUT she remains old OF HER OWN VOLITION - Howl notes that she’s perpetuating the spell by wishing to remain “in disguise”.  there are SO many layers to this, and lots to do with gender politics - if she’s still old Sophie can’t get hurt, she likes the freedom, etc.  but of course on a personal level being old is her denying her feelings for Howl, and also a representation of her low self esteem - being old is a defence mechanism and protection, both on a gender level and a personal one.

and the film kinda… loses this?  the only thing that remains is being old = low self esteem.  which really sucks.  because there’s SO MUCH MORE to Sophie being old in the book (perspective I already mentioned), and a HUGE amount of this is gender politics.  that the film just erases.

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Also there’s the subversion of that in the book. Sophie’s belief that she’s safe from Howl, isn’t quite true because he fell in love with her while she was under the spell (and in the book, there’s no switching between looking young and old. Sophie is looking ninety the entire time, and Howl falls in love anyway.)

Also, her belief that being old means she can’t go to her stepmother or her sisters, that they’d fail to recognize her or reject her, is also unfounded. Fanny almost immediately recognizes her at the end of the book, and hugs her and cries over her and asks why Sophie disappeared. Sophie’s belief that the love of her family, friends and even her romantic interests is somehow conditional on her appearance is shown to be completely false at the end, which I think is absolutely beautiful.

Like, there’s definitely gender politics and commentary going on about beauty and youth and age and the male gaze and male violence going on, but there’s also this message about how love, real love, transcends all of that.

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I actually adore the movie on its own merits, but I think it absolutely did a disservice to Sophie as a character. When I was doing a reread last month, what hit me was that Sophie is every bit as much of a volatile emotional disaster as Howl is, and that’s pretty heckin’ great. 

Howl is a pissy, dramatic asshole even when he’s at his best. He dissolves into green slime when his hair looks wrong. He deals with his problems by getting falling-over drunk and makes the walls shake every time he sneezes just so everyone will take pity on him. He’s a self-proclaimed coward who has to trick himself into taking responsibility for anything.

Movie Sophie deals with this as well as she can. She learns to look past his drama and sees his tender heart and noble intentions. She becomes the mature one in the castle, fixing everyone’s problems, essentially taking up a motherly role to all the other characters.

Book Sophie does the same… but she does it while dealing out as good as she takes. Howl is chasing after every woman except Sophie? Sophie meticulously cuts up his suit into triangles. Howl floods the room with green slime? Sophie hate-magics weed killer strong enough to melt concrete, and chucks it at Howl’s head. Howl can’t stop avoiding his problems? Meet the queen of avoidance, who clung to her curse to avoid confronting her feelings for Howl. Howl has to basically trick himself into taking action? I would like you to meet Sophie, who was too scared to leave her home her whole life, but the moment she’s under a curse is like “WELP, GUESS I’D BETTER LEAVE HOME RIGHT THIS MOMENT AND NEVER COME BACK.”

The moment of Howl and Sophie getting together in the book isn’t “Sophie fixes everything through her inherent goodness.” It’s “Sophie realizes that Howl has been secretly scheming to fix all her problems exactly the same way that she has been secretly scheming to fix all his problems because neither of them is a normal functioning adult, and they both look forward to yelling at each other for the rest of their wonderful lives.” And losing that, losing all of Sophie’s flaws and ridiculous moments as well as Howl’s efforts to fix her life as much as she’s trying to fix his, means that we’re left with a typical romance trope of a woman having to fix all of a man’s problems and be the perfect, mature one in the relationship, while he can coast purely on charm. The revelation that half of Howl’s antics were actually schemes to break Sophie’s curse or even just make her happy is important because for once it goes both ways. Not just “woman fixes man with her love,” but “people fix each other with their love, sort of, except for all the parts that will never change and that’s okay because flaws can be just as attractive as virtues, and if he laughs when you throw weed killer at him then he might be the one.”

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Omg YES

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oh yeah i have a personal

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“i have too many tabs open” ppl’s mood is never knowing where that damn music in your browser’s five windows and 200 tabs is coming from

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waiting for your besties to come online like

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hey do you think ronald mcdonald is a dom or sub. i sent this before but im not sure if you got it or not

yeah i got it last time