#emily rambles

[harlequinlestat]

[itsraining-honey]

hot opinions straight off the stove! 🥘🔥

[emily84]

just like with midsommar, so too in 28 years later, i see many people misrepresenting the island community as a good an moral safe haven compared to the wilderness &, say, the lawlessness and cruelty of Jimmy Crystal's gang

but that's wrong. the island community is just another expression of the backward, reactionary extremism humans cling to when they think they're being threatened by something they perceive as 'other'

for instance, in the montage of the community getting ready to welcome back jamie and spike, which is framed as a joyous communal moment, you clearly see the exacerbation of religion and love of "country", the picture of a queen of england that's just a ghost ruling over a wasteland. the women have clearcut roles of service, they prepare the meals, teach, decorate the communal spaces, make pretty signs for their tryumphant men coming home; it's the boys who train in archery, who are taught to fight and protect. that's not idyllic. that's a commentary on how insular communities, especially in the face of attacks by 'outsiders', tend to close themselves further and reinforce very archaic ideals of how a better society is to be reimagined. they have one encounter with the doctor, deem him 'odd' and refuse to interact with him for over 15 years (rejection of science: however positive or negative you deem fiennes' character to be, the point still stands), not even when a clearly disabled person from the community who is in a lot of pain (spike's mother) and close to death needs help.

and this kind of life is the kind of life spike rejects. he does not reject his father, he just accepts him as being a flawed person who did his best and had clear failings but not necessarily malicious ones. spike sees the possibility of a different way of life, and that's what he hopes to chase.

[emilythecosmicbat]

btw in case yall need the millionth reminder

Emily is based on me.

My sona, is non-binary. Like me.

They are literally based on me irl.

They use they/them. If you expect me to let you be special and misgender MY SONA BASED ON IRL ME, then you’re mistaken. I do not tolerate transphobia, not towards me, not towards my friends.

[raellecoller]

If Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker don’t kiss by the end of the Frauds series I am legally owed compensation

[catalogercas]

In other news, I literally wrote a contract between Preservation and Murderbot because I'm a very specific kind of nerd.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[the-astrophel-system]

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to tell you that I love you

I love you, even if you feel unlovable for whatever reason

I love you, even if you have a stigmatised disorder

I love you, even if others find you annoying

I love you, even if you have made mistakes

I love you, even if people think you aren’t trying hard enough

I love you, even if you aren’t viewed as worth it

I love you, even if you are deemed wrong

I love you, no matter how you look

I love you, no matter what you believe in

I love you, no matter where you come from

I love you, no matter how much money you have

I love you, especially if you don't love yourself

I love you 💙

[starlight-labyrinth-system]

Fucking dumb exotrauma trigger.

Seriously just scrolling insta reels and BAM. Fallout shit.

-Emily