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Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying
Season 6, Episode 5 "Radio Silence" TEEN WOLF (2011–2017)
#did you know I tried to leave you #I tried to leave and the world said no #I rue the day I met you sweetheart #because that was the beginning #that was the end #there would be no more life without you #I knew so I ran and all it did was send me back to you #anyway I just wanted to say that it amuses me and fucks me up a little #that the ONE TIME peter hale decided to leave beacon hills for good #the universe literally dropped the wild fucking hunt on him #just so three months later when stiles needed someone willing to burn for him #peter would be there waiting #and he did burn for him so that stiles could be saved #stiles proved he would walk through fire for scott #peter proved he would walk through fire for stiles (via stetervault)
Ok so this will likely go nowhere and no one will care but I overheard someone say that Words Fail was just Evan throwing a pity party and I just cannot. Yes we can criticise Evan and what he did, yes the show has faults, but that damn show made me feel seen. That song made me feel known. There is a huge part of me that relates to Words Fail, and every time it's on it is just an experience.
Evan got stuck in a lie, one he didn't feel able to deny at the start. Yes he went too far and jeez he could have at least tried to keep his distance, but he suddenly had everything he wanted and they were all trauma bonding.
Words Fail just captures that moment of realisation. There are so many moments in it that breaks me heart.
He never meant to let it go on that far. He knows there's no explaination, not way to make it make sense, because it doesn't. He knows that. He justified it to himself, saying they were all happy, that he was at least honouring their memory of Connor. It was a sad invention, something good in his shitty life that he held onto. It was selfish and so misguided but he is a kid and kids struggle in the best days, let alone someone with social anxiety and someone suicidal.
I'd rather pretend I'm something better than these broken part, pretend I'm something other than this mess that I am. When I tell you the actual gut punch this gave me the first time. I sobbed. I couldn't help it. I spent years as a teenager holding onto the idea that I could pretend to be better, pretend to be normal and I lied about myself. We all do it. I pretended I had more friends, pretended I was liked and not just a sad, lonely person.
Would they like what they saw, or would they hate it too. This shattered and scattered the already breaking parts of me. Hitting that nerve I had thought I had hidden away. That deep fear of people hating the real me, the one I had worked so hard on.
Evan is such a flawed person, a broken person, and honestly, I fully expected the show to end with him committing suicide. Because there is no chance in another life if I was in his shoes that I wouldn't have. You build up such a believe that everyone would hate the real you and let's face it, Evan's whole world falling apart kind of proves him right.
I am so glad the show ended how it did, even if it felt a little bittersweet and almost lacking. Connor's family didn't have to keep what Evan did a secret, but they did, and Evan did start working on himself. It's not perfect, and it isn't happy, but it is hopeful, which is a lot to a suicidal person.
So no, no part of me can say it's Evan throwing a pity party for himself because it reflects some of my darkest moments too closely. It is written so much like a suicide note and it is something that is too close to home. Yes, Evan screwed up, but he was a broken kid with so many issues.
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Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.
Don’t send actors fics
Don’t give them explicit art ever
Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories
Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind
Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide
They’re still people. They have private lives, which do not include fandom.
A lot pf people don’t understand this and it’s a shame
ALSO: DO NOT SHIP REAL PEOPLE WHO PLAY CHARACTERS WITH EACHOTHER??? THEY ARE NOT THEIR CHARACTERS!
No.
If you want to bash rpf shippers for *existing*, make your own post.
RPF has been a part of fandom since the beginning, and I’d highly recommend doing some research into the topic; as always, Fanlore is a good place to start.
The problem with RPF is when people breach the fourth wall, which fandom is doing more often as the internet expands and becomes the current culture, and newcomers to fandom either are not taught or do not care about the basic rules (i.e. the purpose of this post). The problem is not with people having fantasies or telling stories.
Fandom is transgresive by nature as much as it is transformative, because we are thieves and magpies and because here we’re allowed to talk about things that we’re not supposed to in mainstream culture. I have never seen a space like fandom creates, where people are able to share their desires and fantasies and kinks openly and *talk* about the taboo.
And when people come along and talk about how RPF shouldn’t even exist, it is frequently less rooted in a concept of “this causes this specific harm” and more “this is disgusting and I don’t want it near me, how can this even exist.” It causes discomfort because it’s rooted in taboos (talking about sexual fantasies in public, openly, even though those same fantasies are well acknowledged in pop culture - think about the concept of the “free pass”).
When people break the fourth wall and get the actors involved, sending fics (or letters back in the old days), explicit images, harassing them online or at conventions and concerts, they have committed actions that cause harm. And there is real harm, I’ve done my digging and seen the results in bandoms and fandoms (hell, my fandom has done some things over the years.)
Thoughts are not actions. Fantasies do not make you a villain, telling stories is not a sin (though it has been a crime). Sharing those things with other people is part of what makes fandom culture what it is.
There are conversations that need to happen about objectification and dehumanization, there are conversations (like this post was meant to be) about maintaining healthy boundaries and treating the actors as people when we interact with them; there are conversations that need to happen about how much more mainstream fandom is now than it was fifty years ago, and what that does to the relationship dynamic we have with our creators and actors, what may need to change as we move forward. The Hockey RPF fandom’s solution to that problem was to lock a great deal of their content so that the fourth wall could not be breached.
RPF is the single greatest squick I have dealing with fandom; the way people talk in my fandom hits my “someone is altering my sense of reality” button really hard. I frequently have to blacklist it to control my exposure to the low-level shipping that permeates everything in my community, otherwise I get punchy. But my discomfort with the topic doesn’t mean I’m ever okay with throwing those people out of the communities they helped build.
I don’t have to like something to defend it. Fandom is built by people who were told “you shouldn’t do that, go back to the shadows”, and we are not doing vague purity-culture and thought police nonsense tonight.
OP, fantastic post but this rebuttal is a thing of pure beauty. Thank you.
This moment. I was re-watching and the whole “I’m possessed by a bad spirit that feeds off chaos and pain, so send me to Echo House, where lots of people are in pain” doesn’t sit right we with. I’ve seen people talk about how it is maybe Nogi that is in control here, and this moment.
Sure, it could be all Stiles, because he has those moments where he is so hauntingly angry and we actually see it. But maybe, just maybe it is the Nogistune bleeding out a little, glaring at whoever dares threaten him (and Stiles because again, there is the slight correlation with the people traumatised being people that have hurt Stiles at some point).
It was just a moment that I haven’t seen people talk about before, but this caught me off guard re-watching.
But what are your Steter thoughts about the wild hunt?! 💚💚
I had a fucking essay written and then tumblr deleted it. I'm mad. Let's try this again. Also damn y'all are really getting after it with the great questions today. 💖 Thanks for indulging me in never shutting the fuck up about Steter haha.
Peter's ultimate goal in the series is to survive and live unafraid. Power is definitely his secondary goal but it is to enable that first one. He spends time trapped - in his coma, in Eichen, and ultimately the wild hunt. It is no coincidence that Stiles is the one to 'wake' him in the train station - they are connected.
Peter asks Stiles if he wants the bite, then respects his decision even though he believes Stiles is lying. That's huge. Peter's a manipulator and a liar and he likes to play god but he respects Stiles' decision. Even though it means Stiles kills him not long after.
Peter is also the one to tell Stiles Derek's story about Paige. Now this is a great episode of the show - it is told from Gerard and Peter's perspectives. Two liars, killers, people we know we cannot trust but their version of the truth is the version we get. The way that Peter presents himself in this story is interesting - he is trying to influence Stiles' opinion of him. They spend the rest of this time snarking and bantering. It's great.
But that's it: a bit of respect (maybe even fear) and banter between them. Then Peter (helps) save Stiles from the nogitsune - while asking for nothing in return for the first time in the show. He even says the line about narcissistic teenage girls when he 'helps' Lydia and Allison. But Stiles is different for him. They are connected. Still. Again.
When Peter sees Stiles - truly - in the train station, what does he say? It had to be you. He says this derisively - not because he doesn't respect Stiles, but because if Stiles is in here then it means he's not out there and Stiles out there, working on this whole thing, is his best chance at survival. Seeing Stiles cements Peter's belief that he will not be saved or escape his imprisonment this time. He won't live freely, and that terrifies him. But on the other side - seeing Peter is what gives Stiles hope. Even though Peter is still manipulative Stiles wants to work with him. Let me repeat that: Stiles "Paranoia" Stilinski wants to work with him. Maybe it's not trust, yet, but it's the potential for it and that's huge.
And when Peter gets out? He works to rescue Stiles. Even though he just died. Again. Their fates are connected. They are connected. They have so much potential.
They are enemies they are reluctant allies they are snarky and mean to everyone around them. They are dogs circling each other trying to figure out if it's safe to interact. They have saved each other they will always save each other they have put each other in mortal danger they will always want to kill each other and take each other apart. And I fucking love it. Plus the touch and look dynamics in the train episode (once you brighten it enough to see them) are fucking insane.
Stiles: “Being in a polyamorous was a mistake, now there is a group of people complementing me till I turn into a blushing mess. Meanies, the lot of them.”
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I feel so attacked right now...
This moment. I was re-watching and the whole “I’m possessed by a bad spirit that feeds off chaos and pain, so send me to Echo House, where lots of people are in pain” doesn’t sit right we with. I’ve seen people talk about how it is maybe Nogi that is in control here, and this moment.
Sure, it could be all Stiles, because he has those moments where he is so hauntingly angry and we actually see it. But maybe, just maybe it is the Nogistune bleeding out a little, glaring at whoever dares threaten him (and Stiles because again, there is the slight correlation with the people traumatised being people that have hurt Stiles at some point).
It was just a moment that I haven’t seen people talk about before, but this caught me off guard re-watching.
the Zemo arc
Zemo's 5 minutes in episode 5 completed a surprisingly wholesome character arc from Civil War and to the TFATW series.
Even knowing that Bucky was under Hydra's control, Zemo believed him culpable and saw no issue with either T'Challa killing him in misdirected rage or Tony killing him in vengeance.
He has now spent 2 (or 7) years sitting in a German jail, reconsidering his life choices. He has read the files on the Red Skull and the failed Winter Soldier program, and possibly even the Hulk. The super soldier serum is the hubris of mankind trying to break the laws of nature, so therefore it stands to reason that these people lose their hold on humanity.
When Bucky reappears in front of him, he doesn't believe Bucky when he says those days are behind him.
He knows Bucky wouldn't have come to face him alone if his brainwashing hadn't been deprogrammed, but he says the words anyway just to get a reaction, then continues to aggravate him after they break out.
He insists on Bucky resuming the Winter Soldier identity, then smirks to Sam over how easily Bucky returns to aggression. He goads Bucky several times, almost as a test to see when he might lose control. To his disappointment, Bucky explodes but always stops short of actually harming him.
Whenever he talks about super soldiers being inevitably corrupted by the serum, he glances at Bucky as though to say "I know you're pretending to have it together, but you are just like the rest". When Bucky protests that some might survive the serum without becoming corrupt, he mocks, "But there has never been another Steve Rogers."
But as relentless as he is in his preaching towards Sam (and Bucky), he starts to waver. It began with Bucky's notebook: 2 lists of names, one with his own between Hydra names he knew from Black Widow's data dump. It's the other list that catches his eye.
"Who is Nakajima?" he asks, not recognising it. He realises from Bucky's reaction that it's just a regular guy whose name never made it to the headlines, an unfortunate and unnecessary victim caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The super soldier was remorseful, and carried his atonement in his pocket.
As he launches into another lecture about the existence of super soldiers after destroying the serum, Sam turns to him and questions his conviction.
For once, Zemo was rendered wordless. He was losing his conviction.
After he steals away, he waits, unarmed and unaccompanied, for Bucky in front of the Sokovian monument.
It was a gamble, but even he himself isn't sure what he is gambling on.
If Bucky came, was that a sign of his elite assassin tracking skills, or of the man's empathy in recalling Zemo's off-hand remark about the monument?
As though to prove a point, he goads Bucky one last time when he does come.
He is unsurprised when Bucky points his gun at him - after all, he did see his own name on Bucky's list. He smiles and nods encouragingly at Bucky.
He's won, because Bucky is exactly the man he had foretold.
You are a super soldier.
All super soldiers will be corrupted.
You are programmed to kill.
The Winter Soldier is still in there.
But Bucky refuses to follow his script.
Zemo prides himself on his ability to read and manipulate his enemies. Even Steve Rogers, as close to flawless as that man might be, acted exactly as he forecasted in the confrontation with Tony.
T'Challa, and now Bucky, are the only ones to defy his predictions.
Sam had said, "Blood doesn't always have to be the solution," and Bucky showed him what that meant.
Maybe he had it wrong.
But it doesn't feel so bad to be wrong this time.
just thinking about how good it might have felt for bucky to slip back into character as the winter soldier for a brief moment. to relapse. because that’s kind of what he was doing when he was attacking everyone in the bar. relapsing. letting someone take control of his decisions and autonomy and just being a weapon, not a person.
in no way am I saying it’s a good thing; on the fucking contrary. but anyone who’s ever relapsed during the tediously slow and arduous recovery process will know how comforting harmful habits and coping mechanisms can be - how tempting it is to give into that shit because sometimes it’s easier.
bucky’s so lost at the moment. it must have felt so horrifyingly nice for him to return to the familiar. and I bet zemo knows that.
#like- as the winter soldier he doesn’t need to try to make amends - he doesn’t need to apologize and try to be a better person#because he has no agency! he can separate himself from his actions and deal with the horrifying consequences and psychological damage after!#and maybe if his therapist helped him work through his guilt and realize that guilt is not his burden to bear#rather than making him feel like he has to make amends for everything hydra has done#then it wouldn’t be so tempting to let someone else - someone more dangerous - absolve that guilt via more immoral methods#sam was right; zemo is playing games with their minds (via @marvelousescapism)
