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lotr bts

He looks so done

Omygosh frodo you're an amazing artist

THAT IS NOT SEAN BEAN I REPEAT THAT IS NOT SEAN BEAN

Honestly my favorite eowyn look

Moments before disaster

Yeah you've probably seen this one before but I freaking love it

You can't be in lotr without sunglasses

Pippin and frodo my darlings

*screeching* wheresss my umbrellaaaa

And yes I know it's not lotr but I just thought "Martin is so weird and I love him for it"

my theory on why Drew bullies TMC

I think there’s an amalgamation of reasons that motivate Drew to bully the music club, rather than one straightforward explanation.

However, one of the biggest ones seems like plain old jealousy

Drew is clearly very privileged when it comes to money, and his parents are rich. Based on Drew’s inclination to spend money on people to show affection, it’s fair to assume that was how his parents showed affection to him. Really, that’s his only love language. His ability to express vulnerability is really stunted, and gift-giving seems like the only one he’s familiar with (which also doesn’t make him seem to vulnerable) . MY theory, and one that is pretty wide-spread across the tmf fandom, is that Drew’s parents were absent a lot of the time during Drew’s childhood (likely for work reasons), and they tried to make up for it by indulging in him. Money, gifts, toys; whatever he liked. But because of that absence, he hadn’t experienced your typical ‘family’ dynamic. Assuming also that he’s an only child, he didn’t have anyone around him. He grew up in isolation, and sought out validation at school to make up for it.

Drew’s always had to give something to make friends, form connections. We can see that in a lot of his relationships—in one way or another, they’re transactional: Drew gives money, protection, popularity. Usually, he gets whatever he wants whenever he wants (which probs built up a LOT of his entitlement), but a family is the one thing he lacks.

Imagine this: you think you’re AWESOME. like. Super awesome. You’re rich, and cool, you have all the new stuff everybody wants and people fawn over you religiously for it. The one thing you don’t have is that feeling of family. And then you see this group of total randoms who already seem all weird and geeky. They’re poor, they definitely don’t have the latest iPhone, but for some reason they’re the closest friends in the world. Without offering anything. They’re so happy, like each other’s family. The one thing you don’t have, but they do. Not even by blood, which would be irksome enough—they found each other by pure luck and came to trust each other as if they were kin out of sheer affection towards one another. No money involved.

I think a lot of what Drew does comes from a deep desire for family. For actual, human connection. So to see the music club have that without giving or doing anything, almost like it fell into their laps, was probably a source of resentment for him, even if subconscious.

Technically speaking, wasn’t he better than all of them? Drew doesn’t just dislike the club, he actively looks down on them (which we see also in the drakeup—Drew’s reaction is so strong not just because Jake betrayed him, but because he was betrayed for the club).

So then you have this conceived injustice too—not only was it annoying, it was unfair. Undeserving. For them to just skip around all day happy and jolly without putting in the effort, while Drew was a straight A student in honours classes with more money than his whole class combined and he could barely get an ounce of that camaraderie.

Obviously this is a very skewered lens of thinking, that sees people’s value in relation to their academic prowess and wealth (which both relate to how much money you can bring into the economy, funnily enough); The music club don’t need to be rich for them to be worthy of each others friendship. What connects them isn’t money, or popularity, but kindness and a passion—and respect—for the arts. Drew doesn’t understand this simple concept because all his life, he’s only ever known a love told through items and absence. I don’t think it’s a mindset that’s very overt in Drew, or even one he’d be aware of. Rather, it’s subtle, subconscious.

This also brings into question what Drew’s family dynamics were like, because who knows—maybe that reflects in his choice to bully the club. By treating Hailey and Zander (plus the rest of tmc) as lesser and himself as superior, he’s creating a hierarchy, one that highlights him as ‘better’. Technically, grades could be treated as a competition, but outside of that there is no need for competitiveness. Yet Drew created a social hierarchy that positioned himself at the top, and the music ‘freaks’ at the bottom.

HUH. Food for thought.

20-03-22 - FinalEP Premier of Not Me the Series

#this cast will always have my heart #offgun #not me the series #off jumpol #gun atp #gun atthaphan #seanwhite #not me white #not black #not sean #not me todd #not me gram #not me yok #not me dan #not me gumpa #not me nuch

over 400 pages into AWTWB and I only just looked up how to pronounce Niamh. But the mispronunciation has already established itself. it’s too late. I’m sorry Niamh but you’re always going to be Nimah in my head.

#this is like when I got through a whole book thinking the main characters name was seen #not sean #awtwb #any way the wind blows #not spoilers #it’s pronounced Neev fyi