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[elvishcostello-deactivated20260]

i think a lot of people internalized the misogynistic idea that “men are rational and women are emotional” and just went “that’s true… but it’s a good thing!” instead of saying “that’s obviously bullshit and we shouldn’t perpetuate this belief in any form”

[lactating-deactivated20220703]

“make friends” who am i doctor franking stein

[werewolf-transgenderism]

on my slides for my class about Frankenstein today

[depsidase]

[blessedbrick]

That's kind of why they exist actually

[sacred-portal]

[tangledbeast]

If it makes you feel any better, he hated it too.

[gayserblast]

This is the funniest and saddest sentence I've read all week

[brucebocchi]

[fantasyfiend222]

merlin who holds onto his loyalty to arthur because if he didn’t, then what would all of the deaths he has caused be for? merlin who has basically betrayed his kind, but no it’s okay, because the ends justify the means! merlin who is fucking terrified of himself. merlin who wants to run every time he’s depended on. who hears the words ‘destiny’ or ‘prophecy’ or ‘emrys’ or even ‘I’m scared’ and hesitates.

if he chose either heart or mind, if he could have stuck with a path, then maybe they would have been saved. kill morgana or care for her, not both. help mordred or kill him, not both. but his indecision was the death of everyone around him.

merlin with a lack of confidence so bad that everything he is anymore is just a persona, an archetype of a fool he has been trying to fill for ten years. he’s the most powerful sorcerer to ever walk the earth, but he’s so disconnected from the version of him that takes initiative, that acts from the heart, that stands up for what is right. he’s given so much of himself to these lies, shamed himself into keeping his magic secret even when it was better if he shared it, repressed who he truly was so much to the point where he doesn’t even know who he is anymore.

merlin who, after arthur dies, has to look at his hands, red with the blood of his kin, and realise just how badly he has fucked up. and then he has to look in the mirror and realise he doesn’t know who or what he is anymore.

[blaire-bennett]

it's really sad to think about that male characters in media will always get grace and sympathy and be consistently praised for being "such a well written character" when he's done some fucked up things and people will brush it aside because He's Traumatized and He's A Flawed And Interesting Character. but female characters who can also be flawed and interesting and have gone through their own traumas that would explain their behavior, but once they do something the audience wouldn't like, they turn on her. and that she's Pure Evil or She's Annoying and that she doesn't deserve any sympathy to the point where they're wishing her to die. and it really shows that a female character would be loved by the fandom if she was a guy. and that a male character would be hated if he was a girl. and that's not even that far off reach! because it's true!

[longsightmyth]

Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

[longsightmyth]

The problem is not the goodness or badness of the character, the problem is the extreme disconnect between telling (by the narrative, not other characters) and showing

[inthemoodforblastt]

The irony of Homelander seeing himself as an absolutely superior being, above ordinary humans to the point that he considers them almost like animals he can treat however he wants and the overwhelming rage he feels toward Hughie, who is literally just a weak, soft, completely average human, yet someone everyone loves and appreciates and would risk their lives for. Because Homelander is incapable of understanding love, emotional bonds, or the impact that genuine people have on others, Hughie’s very existence feels like an offense to him and at the same time, something he envies.

[aenslem]

GEN V || 2.04

[oswinsdolma]

the bbc merlin writers actually went so hard when they decided "actually no, magic isn't some grotesque perversion of the natural order, it is nature itself" because like. it would have been so easy to write merlin's internal conflict as one between the inherent evil of magic and the good of humanity, to put arthur in the right for his persecution and to turn merlin into some kind of doomed hero within himself, but no. because in the end, magic had very little to do with anything, it was just something that was there. morgana didn't turn evil because she was magic, she did because she was scared and angry and manipulated. merlin doesn't wait for arthur because of the promise of a golden age, at least not really; he does it because he loves arthur and wants him back. in the disiir episode, if it had only ever been about restoring magic to camelot, merlin should have sacrificed arthur in a heartbeat for the promise of magic's legalisation. hell, even mordred didn't kill arthur because of his views on magic, he did so because arthur took away the person he loved. like yeah it's a fantasy show and magic is a massive part of that world, but in the end it was a story about people, and all the hopes and dreams within it are deeply and tragically human, and that's what makes it a good story, what keeps us going apeshit over it even ten years after it ended. in a way, there are two shows in the same way there are two merlins: one about magic, "emrys" and the other about friendship, and like merlin, the audience has to choose which one we should care about most. and every time, we make the same choice as he did: we, however foolishly, choose humanity. we sob at the tragic trajectory and scream as we see destiny gathering traction, but isn't that the point of tragedy?? if we followed logic over emotion, tragedy would never take place, but equally, if we followed logic over emotion, the idea of tragedy itself would become lost to obselescebce. the whole point of the show is to tell us that "no, we can't define things as one or the other, because anything with meaning exists as something more complex, because to give something meaning is to perceive it with a human gaze". magic may be a force of nature, but good and evil are ideas perpetuated by our innate, incurable humanity, and it is here we have a choice. we can't choose our destinies but we can choose from which direction to embrace it, and that's a surprisingly radical, beautiful thing.

[mayomkun]

Has this been done yet xD

Original meme 

[samclaff]

[owlinadayswork]

@camelotsheart right, who else wants to make me cry this fine monday morning

[what-even-is-thiss]

So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

[theannoyingmosquitoinyourroom]

@laserbeamss you

[laserbeamss]

yes me like. "king arthur this" "king arthur that" no king arthur Nothing actually. dudes whole story is a choose your own adventure and always has been. is morgan le fay good neutral or evil? yes. some french guy called chrétien in the high middle ages made up an oc lancelot who was nobler than king arthur as a fuck you to the english. is it pronounced ga-WAIN or GA-wain? fuck if i know. the first arthur story was an early medieval welsh poem in which he goes to annwn with hundreds of men and only he makes it out alive -- suspiciously like odysseus. the most popular one involves the holy grail of jesus the christ. and thus there are dozens of obscure arthurian tales. it's a wealth of almost neverending yet somehow identical intertwined-yet-not stories.

[amelia-mariee]

Marty Mcfly is the best protagonist because he’s simultaneously so awkward and so cool. He says insane ominous things to strangers. He has the goofiest run I’ve ever seen. He plays loud music no one gets. All the women are in love with him. All the men are impressed with him or threatened by him. The children look at him like he’s the coolest person in the world. His name is Marty Mcfly. That’s such a sick name.

[aemelia]

REGRET | @merthurmicrofic | 1. Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless; 2. Tony Kushner, Millennium Approaches; 3. Yves Olade @yvesolade, Trauma Guide to Gunshot Wounds II; 4. Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig; 5. Richard Siken, Crush.

[weltenwellen]

Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do

[givehimthemedicine]

I guess the broader aspect of what pisses me off about Max jumping and skateboarding is the lack of impact of any of the entire series of experiences on any of the party.

I'm not mad that Max healed. I'm mad that she's acting like she never got hurt in the first place. and everyone's acting sorta that way, and it makes the ending feel as cheap as a wave of a magic wand that undoes everything.

the finale would have us believe they're all physically and psychologically fine and ready to move on and become Normal adults. as if none of this years-long supernatural nightmare changed them in any lasting way. as if having El in their lives changed none of them.

not one of their characters has undergone significant change unless you count Will coming out, which has nothing to do with El or the supernatural. they bear no physical scars or indications of injuries we saw them sustain onscreen. even El herself has no leg scar in Iceland. the kids aren't better people for having known El. they don't endeavor to do anything with their lives that honors El's memory or continues the work of her final decision, maybe by seeking to help people or fight against the sort of abuse that ultimately claimed their friend. we don't even see them grieve. nah, just off to college and gay bars!

ST began with a DnD game before El was ever there, and ended with a DnD game after El was gone, with no net change for the rest of them, like she was never there or never real. that might be the aspect of El's death that hurts the most for me. there were ways to do a tragic, but still emotionally satisfying end for El, but as it stands, her death doesn't seem to matter much.

their sorrow as they put the DnD folders back on the shelf is at the disbanding of their childhood group, not its incompleteness. El never even had a folder. to the writers, El was never one of the party, she was merely one of the strange things that the party had to get over in order to proceed with their normal lives.

they clowned on the "it was all just a DnD game" theory, but still did one that preserved everything that was stupid about that, but was actually much much worse.