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i think my problem is that i need to accept that if there is a better version of me locked up inside me i won't find it by punishing myself until i hit rock bottom, and even if that is the case - which it very well may not be - the current existing Self has to be enough regardless of its failures and limitations. as with most things this is all too easy to say and much harder to Do of course.
Vader's story makes me cry like a baby because its like. What if the universe gave you a second chance. What if you thought you'd fucked up unbelievably horribly and in a single stupid impulsive moment destroyed everything you'd ever wanted and all the family you loved, and nothing really mattered any more. And then you found out you hadn't. The son and daughter you always wanted are still alive and you have another chance to save them. You can make the right choice this time. You've got one more shot at being the person you wanted to before it all went wrong. You can take it.
By Jocelin Carmes
not parody written with contempt for the genre or with love for the genre but a secret third thing—by someone otherwise ambivalent to the genre who was exposed to it so much by proxy that the genre possessed them against their will
My middle school twilight fics. I never read or watched twilight. I didn't like twilight. I wasn't even really into vampires. But I was exposed to it so much by the other kids in my class that I was possessed by an unstoppable case of "this could be so good if it was good" and wrote some of the most creative fic of my life. Insane.
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Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it
Over 10 years ago I drew this mother naga with her kid and a bowl of gulab jamun, and I was blown away to see people still reblogging it and saying kind things here. I decided to draw a sequel, the PTA (People That are Anacondas) meeting is over, and she finally gets to have some gulab jamun. c: I really hope this cheers you up some.
My first reaction: she finally gets to have some!!
My second reaction: oh gosh they're holding tails in the second picture okay I need to reblog this.
ever since i was young i've been drawn to narratives where a character acquires powers by being premeditatively attacked, subdued, and forcibly empowered by some kind of invasive procedure, leaving them feeling guiltily ashamed, alienated from their own body, and violently uncomfortable under any amount of attention drawn to them despite their new enhanced ability to defend themself and others. for no particular reason.
The problem with Horus is that he isn't genre aware. If my wierd younger brother's creepy henchman came up to me and started saying "your father the Emperor is a poor ruler... he doesn't really value you and wastes your abilities... really for the good of the Empire, you should take the throne" I would 100% know instantly that this was a classic Evil Advisor situation and that I should kill Erebus immediately. Why? Because I've read the lord of the rings. Horus clearly hasn't. He's in a Grade A Grima Wormtongue scenario and completely buying it. And this is why childhood literacy matters.
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talking about film stuff alone to the exclusion of book elements for a minute: it really reads to me that the thing actually getting to stratt in her last scene with grace isn't that she has to ask him to die for the cause, we've already established that it's not difficult for her to do that under these circumstances, it's that she has to do it against his will. her voice doesn't start going thin like she's holding back tears until she starts to explain that that they're going to force him despite his refusal, and three times over she asks him to stop fighting back, escalating to violence against him is the specific part she doesn't like. if he stays then he dies in thirty years with everyone else, if he goes then he dies in thirteen years as part of saving everyone else and also probably goes out less painfully, the death is broadly the same either way so it's not part of her arithmetic, but she didn't want to have to make his last memories on earth so distressing.
I saw a post around somewhere that I wish I'd saved about how it might have been less painful for grace if stratt had just told him from the get-go that he didn't have a choice about getting on the ship, and I think I agree; subjectively I feel like having a "no" ignored rather just being ordered into something in the first place is a worse experience. stratt not being upfront about it contradicts her usual "you now live on a boat" modus operandi, it prolongs the process and adds extra steps when they're already running on so little time, and I think it might be the one genuinely selfish decision she makes, letting grace believe he has a say in the matter for those three hours gives him time to agonize about it in his Dish Antenna Array Of Despair and opens him up to really feel that betrayal and removal of autonomy as hard as possible. and, let's be real, she goes into that meeting 99% sure he's not going to agree, that's why she has a doctor on standby and guards ready to give chase, but up until his last "you just can’t talk me into it" she's hoping that maybe he'll just say yes and she won't have to do something awful to someone she likes. keeping the opportunity open for the easy way instead of immediately taking the hard way also leaves the door open for the significantly more likely hardest way.
Mad At You Island is where the events of William Shakespeare's The Tempest take place
(thanks (@)noufelow for translate help!)
truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.
Where’s that one post that’s like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.
Reasons my human has cried:
* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.
* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.
* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.
* I told him Earthsun grew bright.
* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.
* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.
* Before class he heard younglings singing.
* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”
* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.
* He missed “Doritos.”
* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.
* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.
* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.
* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.
* Told him to think long time, stay with me as long as he can.
this is true of all survivors but grace being both the haunted house and the ghost haunting it as a result of the whole "nonconsensually medically induced amnesia to make you comply with the suicide mission long enough to succeed" thing is really getting to me rn
Enby Grace thoughts
elaboration time: i think there is something important to be said about fandom's avoidance of transfeminine headcanons and discussions but in accordance with that i want to encourage some critical thought about how any sort of gender transition/gender exploration would look when removed entirely from a human societal context. would a transfem/enby grace feel dysphoria about facial hair/chest/body shape when eridians have no widely understood concept of human sex characteristics/gender norms? would grace, as someone who has a doctorate in biology and worked as a teacher, simply accept these secondary sex characteristics as a part of their presentation and identity? would grace take the time to unlearn human gender norms and learn to be okay with presenting in a way that's most comfortable? i think so. i don't know if an enby/transfem grace would spend a lot of time trying to dress strictly traditionally feminine when she knows she can just tell the eridians her new pronouns and then go about her life like normal and maybe grow out her hair a little bit more
