#klkc

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'Riz hasn't had any arc for the past three seasons' is an insane sentence when 3 major villains, one in each season, has had personal beef with specifically Riz

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[magicisrealandsoismyally]

I know I'm an aromantic Adaine defender and also have been rebloging every adaine x kipperlily post i see

but i am a arospec wlw, this should be expected, i believe in both, don't ask me how or why

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to absolutely no one’s surprise. i’m writing about kipperlilly copperkettle again

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I will always be salty about how brennan and the IH handled kipperlilly. The rest of the rat grinders were revived and given a chance to change but just because she was "too annoying" or something they ignored the fact that she was groomed by porter and made her into some evil asshole who deserved to die and go to hell. Aelwyn literally killed people. They have redeemed evil ppl who did so much worse than an angry 16 year old girl

I've gone into this on my main before, but I do think ttrpgs lend themselves to redemption based on likeability. Aelwyn has a personal connection to a PC, being possibly the only not terrible person in Adaine's family, as well as a full bit where Fabian was obsessed with rescuing her from prison. There was story and comedy to redeeming her. Kipperlily largely didn't have that. There was no one in the party who liked Kipperlily, they all hated her for a variety of reasons. There was no connection to build off of. Does it suck from a viewer's standpoint if they're more focused on the story than the characters? (which neither is bad to prioritize for the record). Yeah kinda, but that's the way the cards fall. I don't like what was left for Kipperlily (or Kalina but that's a different conversation), and I kinda hope that if they do a Senior year, a lot of old stuff gets fixed.

Also Kipperlily very much murdered like 10 people to be clear, that was a thing that happened, she committed on screen murder.

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The way that Brennan/NPCs and the IHs treated Kipperlilly finding the rogue teacher as illegitimate/susp/cheating is such bs, it was a clever move and very on brand for Rogue behaviour, and one of many examples of them not looking beyond "she's an annoying teenage girl"

yk what, i never realized that. yeah. damn

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Kinda pissed to see such a large portion of people have no clue what the word "grooming" means. I'm all for headcanons and implications and all but saying Kipperlilly was groomed is just wrong even within the context people are giving. Grooming refers to an adult SEXUAILY cohorsing and rering a young person into beliving the sexual things their doing or suggesting to them is normal. Grooming is NOT convincing a bunch of teenagers to join your rage cult and kill all their friends. Both are bad. Please stop misusing the word grooming. It has a deliberate meaning.

Technically, grooming does have a definition of "training someone for a specific purpose", so it would be correct to say Porter groomed KLKC, but incorrect to say Porter is a groomer. The english language sure is wack sometimes.

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I couldn't vibe with FHSY. I liked the plot and I was excited to see the intrepid heroes back again, but it felt like Brennan had a very serious plot planned that just got sidelined by the players wanting a more light-hearted story. (Which is fine, I just personally would have liked a more serious tone.) Like, I think Kipperlilly was supposed to ultimately be a sympathetic villain as someone who was groomed, but the players zeroed in on her and acted with a very black and white mentality, which I think might have led Brennan to just drop it and have it be "not that deep", if that makes sense. Similarly, at the the of the season I think he was trying to set up Ankarna as ultimately being the rage that's needed for rebellion/insurrection, AKA the notion that fighting back against an oppressor isn't wrong and that it doesn't make you "as bad as them". Therefore, rage isn't a strictly bad feeling, because it lets you know when you are mistreated or unjustly oppressed. However, I don't feel like any of the players really grasped that message when it was presented? It might also be that they all decided it wasn't a fit for their character, but I still felt like I had a specific read on that situation that nobody else got. And all of that is okay, but it lead me to being pretty frustrated with it. I think I wasn't expecting the series to revert back to a similar tone to season one after all the yummy horror and drama we got in season two. I recognize that it's very likely the players just wanted to goof around, but it lead to that season feeling very all over the place, and since it was stuck between a serious storyline and humorous players, it ended up not quite hitting the spot in either categories for me.

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[dropoutconfessions]

in response to that person talking about starbreaker: idk a lot about what the starbreaker community is like on tumblr, but ik that most of the people who ship it on twitter are interested in it on account of them being two actively terrible people whos relationship is majorly underdeveloped in canon. i think there is definitely an argument about the predomination of m/m couples in fandom, and how they are preferred and expanded on much more than underdeveloped f/f pairings with sb, but i think starbreaker is mostly an exercise in fanwork. this season had two characters who ended up being big bad villains, only existed in relation to each other, and who we didnt really find out about the personalities or backstories of, and the fan community, first as a bit like with gilearhorde and occasionally calmethar, said 'what if these dudes were boning?' and that opened up an avenue of 'oh god the ramifications of if theyre boning....

anyway i think that anon definitely has a point, there are fics on ao3 which seem to totally disregard jace and porters personalities as two guys who kill and manipulate children in order to get some classic seme/uke action, but there are also a lot that explore their canon personalities, the mythos of fhjy, and the strained relationship of a guy who is literally possessed by another guy.

anyway sb is kind of silly considering how little screentime they had, but the idea of it being homophobic and ignoring canon entirely feels a little weak to me.

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