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Because I keep forgetting Tumblr murders any post with a direct link in it (thanks /s) I’m going to make this post and pin it, so I can refer to it in future posts and avoid direct linking.
- Carrrd portfolio - Patreon page - Twitter - AO3 profile - Twitch - Youtube All the places where you can find the stuff I make! : D
Sharing this here too because I find it funny. The things one does for the sake of writing fics....
I just wrote a hell of an incendiary vent post about how disconnected I feel from so many of my fellow ace/aro people in fandoms and I think. That's gonna stay in the drafts. Lol.
I keep thinking about that guy on twitter who wrote something like "most problematic character this year" (or something like that idk I can't quote it verbatim) with a pic of Eva Stratt and people absolutely jumped his ass.
The funny thing, though, is that I think he's kinda right...? Now the thing is, I love Eva as a character. She is SUPER interesting. But the choices she makes are absolutely morally abhorrent, objectively speaking. The road to hell is paved with good intention, and all that, you know?
I feel like the discourse is swinging too much in the opposite direction when it comes to 'defending' her, and it's a very interesting phenomena to observe. Like yes, she is doing everything she can to save humanity, up to and including some seriously questionable stuff. And the 'wanting to save humanity' bit does not cancel the fact that plenty of choices she makes are still morally wrong.
Like this isn't just about forcing Grace onto the mission against his will. It's also about literally kidnapping people. About destroying ecosystems. And the fun thing is is that the plot itself recognizes that these things are wrong. In the movie we get that neck tattoo at the end to let us know she's done time in prison. In the book she quite literally says she knows she's going to jail once the Hail Mary is launched. That's what makes her a compelling and interesting character, this dichotomy between the choices she makes and the knowledge they are all, objectively, wrong from a moral perspective.
So yeah, I gotta admit it does grind my gears a little when people go on and on about how she's a perfect angel who did nothing wrong, or reply to people pointing out that she does some Pretty Bad Stuff with "freeze to death, then". Like yes, people on the internet are often hyperbolic when expressing ideas, I know most people who say things like "she did nothing wrong" are fully aware she did plenty wrong, actually, but I feel like we have created this atmosphere of untouchability around the character, and expressing even mild criticism of her actions in the story often ends up in getting mocked with hyperbolic statements at best, or being accused of being misogynistic at worse-- Which I gotta admit, I find it endlessly funny, because to me it is far more misogynistic finally having a female character who is complex and deeply flawed and multifaceted, and deciding as a fandom that She Is Exempt From Criticism because she is a female character? But maybe that's just me.
And I find this phenomena sad because it just flattens any attempt at interesting analysis of the characters and the story, and that drives me up a wall, because I like thinking about that stuff, actually! I like that, in a way, Grace and Eva are foils to one another! I like that they are both right and wrong at the same time!
Like yeah, from a narrative standpoint Grace's character arc is about him overcoming his 'cowardice' and embracing the idea of making sacrifices for the sake of somebody else's... But from a humane standpoint I can't even really call him a coward. I feel like people often forget that even the characters themselves knew the chances of the mission leading to any sort of good outcome was slim to none. Eva herself says something like "it almost certainly won't work". And Grace gets suddenly told he is, in fact, being asked to go on a suicide mission with basically almost no chances whatsoever of success. Is he really a coward for saying no? For running? Narratively, yes. Humanly, hell no, imo.
So I find it reductive to say that Eva's choices were ok because 'she saved the world'. She had no idea if she was going to save the world, that's the thing. There's kinda a reason the whole thing is called Project HAIL MARY.
Her choices did lead to the world being saved, absolutely. They are still wrong. Like, we need to recognize that those choices are still morally wrong. Can we do that? The story and the character is interesting because of this fact, not in spite of it. I don't want Eva to be a Perfect Angel Who Did Nothing Wrong Ever. I want her to have done Everything Wrong and somehow still be in part right about it.
Trying to focus on the PacRim AU but plot bunnies are nibbling at my heels.... Kinda want to write a fic from Rocky's pov about their arrival on Erid and how utterly blind (pass me the term) he is to the fact that everyone around him is supremely uncomfortable. He is so obsessed with Grace, keeping Grace alive, keeping Grace safe, make Grace happy, he literally cannot think about anything else. And the way he acts and the things he does and say make him as alien to his own people as Grace is, and he doesn't even notice.
Mmmmh..... Rotating this concept in my mind like a rotisserie chicken.... I'll still try to focus on writing more of the PacRim AU but I'm def going to be keeping this one in mind............
I just finished writing the most fluffy, sweet, grocky pilled chapter of the Pacific Rim AU on Deleted Scenes Leak Day. The planets have aligned. The stars are singing to me. I am flourishing and my heart is grockyful. I could ask for nothing more perfect.
Sharing more thoughts from twitter and adding an extra Grocky layer: On the one hand Rocky knows this isn't healthy for Grace, especially once Grace is safe and healthy on Erid and the anger he felt on Grace's behalf at witnessing just how hurt his friend was subsides and softens somewhat...
But on the other hand he is a little five-legged enabler and he just. Doesn't want to upset Grace. So he goes along with the ilusion as Grace immerses himself more and more in Eridian culture and all but assimilates into it to the best of his biological limitations. And if sometimes he misses hearing Grace's voice, seeing as he only speaks through his little instruments, well... Rocky only has to make sure his mate is very pleased, to the point he cannot hold back his real voice, if you catch my drift ; )
Rent lowering post straight from my twitter account lmao
Like to be clear, no shade thrown to all my grockadrian besties out there. I only wish you fortune and serenity (and I love myself a spot of grockadrian too, now and again), but I'm snorting that "so co-dependent they might as well be one individual" grocky like it's cocaine. Nothing gets me quite as hot and bothered as the idea of Rocky devoting every atom of his being to Grace even once they get on Erid and he could technically return to a normal life. There's nothing normal about Rocky anymore, that rock has soul-melded with the space jellyfish and he likes it that way. If you try and gently tell him that Might Be Unhealthy, he's going to hiss at you. He probably uses those subvocal tones Grace cannot hear to constantly repeat "he's mine, he belongs to me, you can talk to him but HE'S MINE" on loop to every single Eridian who approaches Grace. Grace pretends not to know what's happening, but he figures it out, and instead of being angry he's flattered. There's no hope for them anymore, just leave them to do their thing.
Just posted a one-shot : 3 this one is VERY MUCH adult rated lmao, thread at your own risk! (and, as per usual: link to my AO3 profile in pinned post!)
My bestie and I made sand Rockys yesterday and I wanted to share, might as well also tell y'all that I added two new chapters to the Pacific Rim AU in the meantime lmao (as usual, AO3 profile linked in pinned post!)
Sharing my reply to this thread on twitter because. Yeah. I am, in fact, constantly thinking about those years they spend on the Hail Mary alone.
I *hate* the fact that we have scammers on ARCHIVE OF OUR FUCKING OWN, now. Like, there is something especially soul crushing about receiving an email notif about a comment, opening it, seeing that it's a long comment!!! Yay!!! And then as soon as you start to read it you realize it's a scammer account.
Like gee, thanks. I wanted nothing more than to have my writing run through a shitty ai just so a """"belieavable"""" comment can be generated for you to try and scam me out of a few dollars.
Idk. I hate scammers in general and I hope they all rot in hell, but there is something about scammers specifically being on AO3 that it's just.... So many levels of wrong
This is the account that left me the scammy comment, btw. Feel free to go ahead and block it on all platforms, since they were so nice as to give us multiple links ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
I *hate* the fact that we have scammers on ARCHIVE OF OUR FUCKING OWN, now. Like, there is something especially soul crushing about receiving an email notif about a comment, opening it, seeing that it's a long comment!!! Yay!!! And then as soon as you start to read it you realize it's a scammer account.
Like gee, thanks. I wanted nothing more than to have my writing run through a shitty ai just so a """"belieavable"""" comment can be generated for you to try and scam me out of a few dollars.
Idk. I hate scammers in general and I hope they all rot in hell, but there is something about scammers specifically being on AO3 that it's just.... So many levels of wrong
Rocky is onto this shit STAT
Chapter three of the Pacific Rim AU is up! : 3
I'm a dumdum and when I prepared the second chapter, instead of hitting 'save draft' I hit 'post' and didn't realize for hours lmao, but chapter 2 of the Pacific Rim AU is up!
Posting the pacrim au right before bedtime, waking up 7 hours later to go to work, very excitedly checking inbox--
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