#and predictable

[foodsies4me]

for the Make me write, are you still doing the "alec and raphael kidnapped together"? bc i love that one 🥰

I am still writing that fic, yes! It's part of my "I want to finish the fic before i start posting it" group of fics. (I also haven't made much progress on it lately because there is one plot point early-on that I keep changing my mind on.)

Anyway, snippet from the fic!

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"Clearly, you're not," the vampire echoes, the statement hovering somewhere between bored and exhausted. He leans back against the railings on his cell, legs stretched out in front of him.

Alec catalogues the visible injuries without meaning to.

There's a deep gash in Santiago's left thigh, and a long welt that spans from ankle to his knee. There are bruises in various stages of healing spread across his skin, deep shadows that range from shadowhunter black to a sickly green. The only thing Alec doesn't see are signs of broken or bruised bones, although that could be the result of Santiago's vampire healing.

However, that does raise the question on how his other injuries failed to heal. And why the vampire is by far the most injured downworlder inside the room.

"How long have you been here?" Alec asks him after several lapses of silence. He ignores the way it makes the other downworlders jump, concentrating on Santiago, who is still sitting on the ground, exhaustion and torture carved into his skin, and yet failing to make him cower the way the others are.

Alec is begrudgingly impressed.

"You can answer that question better than I can," Santiago deadpan

[hadaldyke]

finished gachiakuta anime. my vote is not great/10 #myvote

[valkyurii]

i hate everything about promise concert radahn’s existence in that dlc and if i could trade him in for a completely different original boss i would in a heartbeat. but i have a little confession…. i kind of like his boss fight now and think it’s fun.

[grison-in-space]

The obvious question—why do women organize against their own freedom—is thorny.4 In her 1983 book Right-Wing Women, radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin tried to answer it. She described three types of antifeminism. “Man dominant” was the crudest form, resting on the principle that men should subjugate women because male dominance is natural, necessary, and rooted in love. “Woman superior” held that female power resided in women’s lofty moral sensibility and sexual desirability—not to be confused with their sexual desire. Women’s authority was innate yet limited, physical yet passive. (“She’s ethereal,” Dworkin wrote, “she floats.”) The last type, “separate but equal,” emphasized that the sexes were destined for different spheres of existence, neither of which was better than the other. Women bearing and nurturing children was just as important as men providing for them financially or fighting wars to protect them. Dworkin theorized that some women embraced antifeminism, in one form or a combination, as a means of self-preservation in the face of male oppression. “Feminists, from a base of powerlessness, want to destroy that power,” she said. “Right-wing women, from a base of powerlessness, the same base, accommodate to that power because quite simply they see no way out from under.” Dworkin also argued that any disdain antifeminist women felt toward an “other” on the basis of race or another identity marker was really displaced rage they felt toward men. “They are easily controlled and manipulated haters,” she said of these women. “Having good reason to hate, but not the courage to rebel, women require symbols of danger that justify their fear.”5 Dworkin’s interpretation was compelling, but it contained two monolithic assumptions: that the patriarchy is an absolute negative for all women, and that women act largely on the basis of their womanhood. In fact, the overlapping lines of race, class, and culture complicate both ideas. What about women who benefit—or want to benefit—from existing structures of dominance? We risk stripping them of responsibility when we suggest that the harm they do is merely a way of coping with their own oppression, whether real or presumed. As Adrienne Rich wrote in Of Woman Born, “Theories of female power and female ascendancy must reckon fully with the ambiguities of our being, with the continuum of our consciousness, the potentialities for both creative and destructive energy in each of us.”6

[hufflepuffhabs]

I'm back from the dead (for these)! 🫶

Do I even have to explain this further?

-we have the smart nice people (Eric, Robert, Pedri)

-and the dumb nice people (Frenkie, Ferran, Sergi, Iñaki)

-the mean ones (Balde, Ousmane, Jordi, Arnau)

-the just like gavi ones (Ansu, Marcos)

-the normal ones (Ronald, Jules, Raphinha)

-and the idc ones (the rest)

[the-unkindled-queen]

But you wrote Miquella evil tho

I did not write Miquella in Paper Flowers with evil intentions in mind. The problem is people believe evil is just something black and white and that they expect Miquella to be the same. I followed the old fan theory that Miquella was going to be polluted by the Formless Mother in Mohg's attempts to nurture him on blood. I like this idea and I'm not changing it.

However, it was not that which changed Miquella. It was people losing faith in him, blaming him and in so, Miquella's purpose was to change that faith. He is not a product of evil, but a broken king that the world abandoned in his eyes. The Formless Mother has no true form because I was hoping to use her as a symbol and representation of his doubts and fears. If I failed to deliver that idea, then while that sucks, what can you do. I can use this as a learning experience for future things I write.

The point of Paper Flowers was not even so complicated, anon. It was about love. Love in many forms, changing beyond your expectations given to you and finding love in small places you did not expect. This story was initially meant to be a gift and my most valued and treasured fic I've ever written.

It started with the paper flower Malenia was given by Finlay, and ends the same way. Standard stuff, not at all complicated and overblown.

Withered Roses was originally going to end in a similar way with the Demigods being forgotten, but it's going to change into something else now.

The point here is I will write what I want when I want. And nothing is going to change that short of my own motivation.

[mallowstep]

@dawnfinchh sorry not to make a new post and then ping you in it but i try not to respond to one post too often and i wanted to also like. have a moment to bring up something you said in your tags re people needing queer ships to be unproblematic:

again, i pretty much fully agree with everything you're saying, my point has never been anything more than, "pointing out the very real age gap between mothwing and leafpool always brings people out of the woodwork to yell at me, and i want to take a moment to compare this to a straight ship i've seen absolutely slandered."

anyway.

i bring up the mothpool thing because it's a really fucking predictable response, and i think it kind of...says a lot?

like most people who argue with me about this argue that there isn't an age gap, not what you said. because like, if someone tried to seriously tell me mothpool's age gap made it unhealthy, i would use exactly the same arguments that you did. that's literally exactly what i think.

it's more a study in how people respond at this point.