#tara talks

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[wishing-on-a-staranise]

every Steve Harrington fic must have a obligatory segment that just fawns over the boy's freckles and moles tyvm

[rubyandtara]

Overheard tonight in our apartment:

"You had a baby- you had two babies?? Regina, you whore!"

-said Ruby, to her pink blush aloe. Which has in fact managed to propagate itself.

[gluten-free-worms]

Hey did you know that if you hate this website the best thing you can do is leave it? Instead of just camping out here whining about how much you hate it. Nobody's holding you prisoner here, bestie. You sound like a hypocrite.

[tiredmoonslut]

I know I literally just made a post about how I hate when stories strip women of their magical abilities, but I do need to commend The Witcher for making one of the only "lost power" story arcs that I've ever found interesting. They did it right insofar as they actually used it to show new sides of a character--instead of just sticking them in Powerless Jail so that the plot is free of any "too easy" problem solves.

Seeing what losing magic revealed in Yennefer as a person was actually intriguing. We saw even further into the anger and contempt that she has for life--not for any specific experience--but life in and of itself. Yennefer hates life! It sounds extreme but that really is the crux of her plight, and it makes sense. For Yen, life is not a blessing, or a gift, or a (as she put it to Istredd) "romantic adventure". Life is suffering. And magic was its own form of suffering but through it she was able to suffer less, and so the angst of being without it felt like it meant something. It wasn't a plot device or a senseless punishment. It was poetry.

She stands on Sodden Hill and sets it all on fire with her rage, that same rage she responds to life with because she thinks if she is just angry enough, pointed enough, sharp enough--she'll be too hard to touch. Too tough to hurt. And paradoxically there is nothing she wants more than to be soft. To love, to be loved. To be a mother, and a wife, and to be blessed and to be valued. But the problem is that she thought magic was both the only way to get to any of those things, and the only way to protect herself from the rest. She had to lose it to realize that wasn't entirely true.

And so she did lose it. But she didn't become weak, she didn't become a plot invalid--the writing allowed her to stay just as relevant to the storyline as she was before, and that is where other stories so often go wrong. The loss of the magic makes the character irrelevant. And The Witcher avoided that. And then they brought it right back around and offered completion by having Yennefer learn the lesson. She realized that magic would not keep her safe from harm, and that it also couldn't make her loved or valued. Her vilification before Nilfgaard and the Brotherhood, her betrayal of Geralt and Ciri, her subsequent earning of respect from Jaskier--they all served as symbols of this lesson revealing itself to her. Magic is not her way to happiness. And as soon as she understood that, her power returned.

If you're going to write a "power loss" plotline, that is how you do it. So I'm appreciative of that. But now they've gotta see it through by letting her be the most magical Miracle Lady we've ever seen in S3 or else I'll be mad again

[imthebadguyyy]

the thing with people who lack affection and love, is that every little touch is the world. every kind gesture, the gentle brush of skin against skin, soft smiles flashed from people they know or strangers, happy belly laughs and simple acts of love like making a cup of tea or plucking a flower, intimacy in the little things, they all mean something. a soft hello or a quick i love you. a text from someone they care about or a reminder of how much they mean to someone. they find that love and affection wherever they get it, with whoevers kind enough to care. a song recommendation, a sweet comment, a little pick me up or a simple compliment. people who have lacked affection and love do not ask for that comfort, they choose to search for it, and find it wherever they can.

[theladyofdeath]

My TOG reread.

So, I just finished CoM and just started HoF.

Here's my unpopular opinions:

Nehemia was an AWFUL friend. She was manipulative and only befriended Aelin because of who she was. She does not deserve Aelin's mourning.

Chaol deserves less hate. I love Chaol. I always have, and I still do. I get where he's coming from. He's only human.

Aelin deserved that punch in the face from Rowan. Like damn.

Kaltain deserved better.