#ten talks

[apfsds]

Maybe I just dont see it but the absolute hardest part of long distance isnt the yearing, its not having the option to be there. I cant just.. be there, waiting for them to open up, to be want to be held, to sit nearby for when they are done being closed off. I have to wait. Dreadful, long hours, checking my phone, waiting for the message that theyre back. I cant touch them, I cant dry their tears, I cant even bring them a glass of water. And it hurts. It hurts to be unable to help. It hurts so bad I could walk to them and the pain in my legs wouldnt compare.

[homicidles]

pangkey superman au going well i think

[never-been-ginger]

@b4d-wolf

rose we should go visit your mother and stay there for at least four whole days.

oh and we should watch titanic :>

[ustraeus]

i think it’s a bit unfortunate that so many people went into mouthwashing knowing what jimmy did because it heavily impacts the way the fandom characterizes him.

i recently watched another playthrough of mouthwashing after weeks of looking at fandom stuff, and it really stood out to me how.. normal seeming jimmy is for the majority of the game. he’s phenomenally good at masquerading as a regular, albeit rude, guy.

and imo, its very important to jimmys character that he’s not special. he’s just a man, his crimes are not unique, and he’s not inherently evil. he’s simply a product of a capitalistic and misogynistic society which has allowed all of his worst traits to fester and turn into something horrible and destructive. but if you walked past him on the street, if you talked with him in a gas station, you would likely think nothing of him.

and yet, in some analysis i see, the fandom ignores this aspect of his character in favor of painting him as this uniquely terrible (and cartoonish) force of evil, which defeats some of the messaging in the game.

just to be extra clear, i despise jimmy and think he’s a horrible person, so please do not get my words twisted.

[septemberofgenders]

Decided that since I'm halfway across the province from most of my usual hobbies, I'm going to start doing embroidery. Had to go to three different stores to get the thread needle and shirt each since the dollar store had thread but not needles and I wanted to get a shirt thrifted (which, score, I did and it's really comfy), and I plan to fill the shirt with designs one day. I started on one of the pockets and just kind of had fun. It's a little lopsided, I like it though.

[lukewarmfishwater]

oh, how much i love you, edwin payne :((((((

[tenrectwo]

oh? is a bit of child murder and allusions to pedophilia too dark to include in the tag, tumblr? we don't like it when we talk about child sacrifice in its modern forms of a dehumanizing system that not only allows for, but is even designed to throw our children into the maw of slavery, warfare, and every sort of abuse imaginable for the benefit of the few, prior generations?

we can't be talking about how we can't forget the sin of every species, of allowing our offspring to be a means to the end in nature's brutal game of numbers known as natural selection, its echoes now seen in late stage capitalism? that every generation, we just can't help ourselves, we kill our babies.

That even when we feel disgust when we witness the act in "lower animals",

We eat what we gave birth to?

[ten-opinions]

I know people aren’t going to listen to me, but you guys have got to stop comparing two completely different characters’ trauma.

Jonathan and Billy do not share the same trauma.

In fact, they are the exact opposites. Yes, both had abusive fathers. Fine. But that’s about it. Their similarities end there. See, Jonathan had one thing that Billy didn’t. Proper support.

Joyce didn’t decided to leave Jon with Lonny and disappear from his life forever. Jon was not left in an abusive household with absolutely so form of support. Joyce, instead, left Lonny, took her kids with her, and was trying her best to be a good single mother to her two young boys. Jonathan still had his mother and his brother to guide and support him.

Billy didn’t. His mother straight up abandoned him with his abusive father. I don’t know how many of you know what typically happens in those situations, but here’s how it goes. When there are two victims and one of them gets free, the abuser doubles down on the abuse of the victim still in their care. They want the remaining victim to think there’s no way they’re going to get free, so they tend to abuse the victim more frequently. Billy, already hurt from being abandoned, is suddenly alone and dealing with even more abuse than he was originally dealing with. You could argue that he did have support through Max at one point, but he pushed her away. Now, I haven’t read Runaway Max yet, but from what I understand Billy was getting beat worse due to Max trying to help. This was not Max’s fault by any means, but her help wasn’t actually helping. If anything it gave Neil even more leverage to abuse Billy into the mindset that he would never be helped or loved.

(Also, I’m not going to go into it in this post but, Max and Billy didn’t have the same trauma either. You can live in the exact same household and go through extremely different things.)

Jonathan Byers and Billy Hargrove did not go through the same trauma. Jonathan had a safe space. Billy never did.