StoryBoyNik

A big fan of classic literature, yearning, and cheesy love triangles. He/HIm. 28. Bi and trans

[prof-grace-aspen]

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408]

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the "how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there"

[prof-grace-aspen]

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

[neil-gaiman]

From Tor.com, an essay. By Maya Gittelman.

Smited, Smote, Smitten: Queer Longing in <em>Good Omens</em>

Well, that went down like a lead balloon. Smited, smote, smitten, here at the end of all things.

[soracities]

the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.

[soracities]

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

[annabelle--cane]

I've said this before but Why do people position "themes and analysis" and "shipping" as mutually exclusive opposites. maybe I find two characters thematically interesting and want them to analytically fuck about it.

[manhasetardis]

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." - Oscar Wilde

[orangemoustache]

will asked "is hannibal.. in love with me??" and bedelia du FUCKING maurier said "could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? yes. but do you... ache for him?" on national television in 2015 and long story short queerbaiting died on impact bc how do you queerbait after THAT

[violet-witch-6]

Gonna be real, my first time watching THAT scene I honestly wasn’t sure how they were ever gonna patch things up because I can’t even imagine the pain of standing in Crowley’s place after 6,000 years of loving someone in silence, trying to show them who you are at every opportunity, painstakingly chipping away at the delusion they’ve bought into since the beginning (more than you ever did) in order to show them the truth—to show them who you are (who the two of you could be together) —and then just as you’ve finally worked up the courage to lay it all out there and toss the dice hoping (with what, for the first time, you’re starting to believe are less than doomed odds) that they’ll love you back and that it will be enough—only for all of it to be dragged out from under you because they look you in the eye and all but tell you that they never understood you at all. They weren’t listening. And, sure they want what you want (to be together), they love you back (still unspoken but legible in the way they glow at the thought that they might still save you) (as if you need saving) (as if you’d want it)—but not as you are. They think the change they ask of you would be received as a grace and the betrayal of that is gut wrenching in a way that no flat out rejection could be, I think. If I were Crowley, I can’t imagine how I’d come back from that.

But then I watched the scene again. The moments after that betrayal. Once Crowley’s put his glasses back on, raised his defenses and sounded the retreat. I wondered, watching the scene again, how it could ever reach the point where the kiss made sense when they were already so torn apart. But the thing is that no matter how wrong Aziraphale was to want things to go back to the “way they were”, everything that led him to that conclusion comes from the thing Crowley loves most about him: his goodness. Aziraphale is good in a way that heaven is not, and Crowley knows that, but Aziraphale still hasn’t learned that lesson. He wants so desperately still to believe in god and heaven and the ineffable plan and even though it’s that desire that’s led him to hurt Crowley, I don’t think Crowley can completely begrudge him. By the time Crowley’s walking out of the book shop, the betrayal has already faded—not gone, but less than when compared to his sadness for Aziraphale and what his angel is going to go through when heaven lets him down (again)—assuming that it doesn’t just break him.

And the kiss—that fucking kiss (be still my beating heart)—that was Crowley planting a seed. “I know better than you do” he says and he does because Crowley has always been more honest with himself than Mr. “Master class in self delusion” A. Z. Fell. Aziraphale is about to be more alone and more lost than he has been in 6,000 years, so Crowley needed to make 100% clear to him where solid ground was. Aziraphale won’t be able to rationalize this away or hide behind propriety because it can only mean one thing and that is that he is in love with a demon whose on his own side with no interest in ever rejoining the heavenly host because heaven is not the epitome of goodness or love that he so desperately wants to believe it is. It’s not even capable of being that—no matter how hard Aziraphale tries to bend it back into what he thinks is it’s natural shape (because isn’t that what he wants so desperately to do as chief archangel? To make heaven the place he’s always thought it was?). Crowley really said “whatever you do next, do it knowing I love you”. He said “I’m done letting you ignore this.” And I get it. Cards on the table means cards on the table. No more half measures no more dancing around it—any of it. If Aziraphale wants to walk into the belly of the beast, then the least Crowley can do is make sure he’s doing it with his eyes wide open.

[geryone]

I Do Everything I'm Told, Megan Fernandes

[geryone]

Mothman Apologia, Robert Wood Lynn

[dearemma]

EMMA. (2020) Dir. Autumn de Wilde

[poetryofmuses]

"what do you do for a living?" Oh I am a professional hopeless romantic and I read books and cry in my free time.

[amchara]

Because I know this has been sold out for a while and it’s not fair to those who couldn’t get a copy: The Waterstones special edition Chain of Thorns extra —

Matthew to James letter

Anyone who wants to help transcribe it would be very welcome!

[storyboynik]

End of book thoughts spoilers!

I have to think longer on this but the whole TLH is an adaptation of Great Expectations is interesting. While Grace and James definitely have a Pip/Estella thing in the first two books they don’t in the last. But judging by the talk Math and Cordelia had in the epilogue (very similar to the your part of the good in me quote) I think Cordelia was Mathew’s Estella and he had the most Pip like ending. The growth and the pain they both worked through together mirrors that relationship closest, I think. tldr: I think Mathew and Cordelia were the real Pip and Estella by the end of the series.

[storyboynik]

COT Spoilers

Spoiler warning for those pages that were leaked!

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why are we hating on Matthew? Didn’t Will even ask Tessa to break off her engagement with Jem in the prequels? And they canonically have the best parabati relationship ever. At least Matthew doesn’t think James loves her. I love Will and I love Matthew so I just really don’t get the hate. Cordelia and Matthew both are in pain, they both think James is with Grace right now. James and Cordelia are probably end game anyway, as they should be. Cordelia is leading Matthew on and Matthew is very readily being led on but it isn’t anything worse than anything our other favorites have done. But I’m also partial because Matthew is my favorite so I just wanted to spread some love for him in all the hate.

[storyboynik]

My favorite romances are not the ones where big bad things happen and people cheat and big huge drama stuff but the ones where they are both so painfully shy that they refuse to tell the other they are interested and then think the object of their affection is into someone else but actually no, they are just too shy. So they both just be weird and awkward and don’t talk and maybe even try to convince themselves they aren’t actually love but everyone else knows but they don’t. Can hollywood bring me more of this please? 

[roses-foxes-deactivated20240924]

LISTEN UP TUMBLR!! STOP SCROLLING

NETFLIX IS AT IT AGAIN CANCELLING A SHOW THAT DESERVED MORE EXPOSURE. YES I’M TALKING ABOUT ANNE WITH AN E. 

It’s a wonderful loose adaptation of Anne of Green Gables that you surely have seen through cute gifsets like this 

It’s about family it’s about friendship it’s about belonging and it’s probably the purest, loveliest show you’ll ever see. It’s written by women, directed by many female directors, the producers and showrunner are also female, this is RARE AS HELL. It introduced LGBT characters, it introduced many POC characters, native americans, it started talking about residential schools (and that storyline isn’t even RESOLVED), it talks about consent and women’s rights, it had JUST introduced a character that was deaf and mute. It’s just about as great as it could possibly be, yet this might be all over after JUST 3 SEASONS. 

It’s not even out on Netflix yet, and it’s already announced that it will be the last season. It aired on CBC already, so we KNOW the season is good (even more, it’s AMAZING), but there isn’t enough ads for it and it’s not promoted enough (if not at all) by Netflix. 

THIS IS A BROOKLYN 99 SITUATION. We need YOU to help us save the show even if you don’t watch it. 

Here’s what you can do:

1. TALK ABOUT IT. As much as you can! Talk about it on the internet AND around you. Too many people reply under gifsets by asking what show it is. 

2. Tweet with the hashtags  #renewawae or #renewannewithane, tweet @cbc​ or @netflix​. We need to make noise so they understand these stories matter!

3. WATCH IT. So many people say Shirbert looks so cute but that they’ve never seen a single episode of the show, well NOW IS THE TIME. You can watch the episodes already out on the CBC website by using a VPN (DO NOT PIRATE THEM. WATCHING THEM ON THE WEBSITE ISN’T HARD, IT’S GREAT QUALITY, AND IT GETS THE VIEWS IN)

4. STREAM IT TOO WHEN ITS OUT ON NETFLIX, JANUARY 3RD. Play it on in the background while you shower or cook or do your homework if you don’t actually watch it, or simply rewatch it a bunch of times (this season is great so trust me you’ll want to)

MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND THESE ARE THE SORT OF STORIES WE WANT TO SEE TOO, NOT JUST RIVERDALE AND STRANGER THINGS AND BIG CASH GRABS. 

[boxofsoap]

Netflix continues to do this over and over again, and they’ll keep doing it as long as they can get away with it. They invented this game. Over and over they create these small shows chalked full of representation, and they do nothing to promote them other than briefly recommending the shows on the home page when new seasons come out, but you will never see commercials on TV promoting them. You will never see them spamming Twitter with reminders about premiere dates or advertisements. You will never see them giving these shows the same attention as they gave to shows like 13 Reasons Why or movies like Tall Girl.

Instead, Netflix dumps the responsibility of promoting and spreading word about the shows on the fans, saying that they are unable to efficiently get the word out and raise awareness. And of course it’s never enough, so these shows don’t receive the same views as the ones majorly starring white actors who play straight, cisgender, neurotypical characters. All of a sudden, the blame for inclusive shows falls to us- We are the ones who have “failed”, who haven’t worked hard enough to keep these shows around. Without the views that come from mass promotion, suddenly there is a statistically-supported excuse to cancel these inclusive shows.

Not to mention, this gives Netflix the perfect angel to protect themselves from potential accusations of not wanting to support media that promotes equal representation, because they can say “Well we tried to make it work, we really wanted the show to succeed, but not enough people are interested in watching. There just isn’t a big enough audience to justify another season.” There is a big enough audience, Netflix just isn’t doing their part to spread awareness of the inclusive shows that they do offer on their platform and is instead claiming that the reason they are unable to support the continuation of a show is because the fans didn’t do enough to save it.

It’s all bullshit, and don’t think for a second Netflix doesn’t have the money to invest in whatever projects they want to succeed or defund what they have no interest in truly supporting. If Netflix wants a show or a movie to succeed on their platform, then it will. If they want it to die, then it will.

[storyboynik]

^THIS! Netflix pretends to try to be progressive but consistently fails to promote and renew their few inclusive shows. I hope they will get the message with the fury with the last few cancelations but I doubt they even care.

[storyboynik]

I am super sad about awae being canceled but I know the story of Anne isn’t over on our tv screens yet. This story has been adapted since before movies had sound. I cried when the web series versions ended on YouTube, but then awae happened. Don’t ever give up. Something really good is coming for us next. And we will never forget the amazing cast and crew and wonderful storylines. Having seen adaptations end before I know that you never really finish it in your mind. The fanfics won’t be taken down and you will find yourself re-reading your favorites a few years later. You’ll binge watch the seasons again and again. The way you read the book or watch the next version will still have echoes of the people who played Anne and Gilbert and Diana in the other adaptations you watched and that will never end. We might never get a new storyline created by these exact people (unless we get it renewed!) but it will always be with us. With so many adaptions in the last hundred years I can’t even imagine how many more we will get to see. Imagine watching a new adaption with your kids or nieces and nephews, and then another with your grandkids. Telling them all about that one version called awae. This is the future we have to look forward too and I’m so ready!