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[goldenmaknaes]

Just saw Jared at the Christmas Parade 😭

[christinealtomare]

Archival Announcement:

I’m sure many saw this coming, but this blog and my trading site are now archived for the foreseeable future.  May return to them day, maybe sooner rather than later, but for now thank you for all of the support over the years! :)

[goldenmaknaes]

of all the things I expected to see today, the guy from Supernatural watching k-dramas was not it 

[christinealtomare]

Was just informed of this - please don’t open any messages from me about sunglasses lmao

[goldenmaknaes]

derek as christy texts him and john and sends them selfies of her, disguised as an audience member, watching them on stage:

[goldenmaknaes]

@kaahaani, pls enjoy this not so wholesome meme of me being a thirsty mess

[goldenmaknaes]

tkem fandom waiting for @kaahaani​‘s next smut to drop like,

[christinealtomare]

Dmitry and Gleb are total antitheses of one another, that much is obvious from the surface, but what’s interesting is how in spite of the obvious parallels between both of their arcs, Dmitry is the one who exhibits more free will. Anastasia is a central figure in both of these arcs. Dmitry had a direct interaction with her as a child and Gleb had an indirect interaction in his 20s. These were two very different interactions that haunt both men into their adult lives, partially because both Dmitry and Gleb are initially led by extensions of their father’s ideologies, which of course situates them against Tsardom. For both men, Anastasia is the personification of everything their fathers stood against. However, what’s interesting is that Dmitry arguably has more of a reason to despise her because her father’s regime is the one that killed Dmitry’s father for his convictions, however, Gleb is the one harbouring more hatred for her even though his father arguably “won” by literally being a part of the firing squad that kills the Tsar’s family.

Kolhlberg’s theory of moral development divides six stages of development into three different levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. Gleb actually falls in-between the pre-conventional and conventional levels, where he isn’t questioning authority, but at the same time he isn’t exactly following the Golden Rule by putting himself in the other guy’s shoes. I think a lot of this can be attributed to his own perspective of seeing himself as the “good guy,” to begin with, so while there is a desire to maintain social order by following authority, this desire isn’t driven by the need to support stereotypically good behaviour. 

Interestingly enough, Dmitry spends majority of the show trying to convince everybody that he’s the morally corrupt conman, but in reality he’s part of that 10-15% whom Kohlberg believed would be capable of the kind of abstract reasoning that’s required of the post-conventional stage. Dmitry’s own political views are pretty in line with the fifth stage of the social contract or utility and individual rights and the sixth stage of universal ethical principles, which in my opinion, is fairly evident from his interactions with Anya alone. For the former, its acceptable to disregard societal rules when they impede on rights such as life and liberty. In the latter, “right” behaviour is characterized by following self-chosen principles. However, its up to the individual to analyze these principles to make sure that they are rationally valid. Dmitry does this throughout the show. In following his own principles, he leaves Russia and its “irrational” rules despite his emotional ties to St. Petersburg; he can separate Anastasia from her father’s ideals and recognizes that Anya is not the one who killed his father; but more importantly, he can separate 27 year old Anya from the 8 year old princess he met. 

Gleb’s inherent fallacy is that he can’t separate 27 year old Anya from the 17 year old Anastasia he saw in passing.

And this is one of the reasons the half-assed Glebya plot, in my humble opinion, sucks. It isn’t satisfying because the only reason that he doesn’t shoot her at the end is because of his own unhealthy infatuation. Not because he sees Anya as a person separate from Tsardom, or because he recognizes that he can believe in the principles of the regime without killing an innocent woman.