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I’m sad to say but I am archiving this blog and making a new one. My interests have changed so much in the past few years I’ve had this blog that I’m not really comfortable here anymore, it doesn’t feel like this blog is really “me” anymore. A lot of the people who follow this blog don’t seem to be liking my posts anymore, which is fine, I’m no longer posting the content most of you followed for and I hope that some of you follow my new blog (DM for that) but if you don’t, that’s fine.

Even more so then my interests changing, my opinions in fandom have changed and the way I want to interact with it has changed. When I made this blog, I was an angry teenager who had a tendency to react without thinking. Now, I’m a less angry (technically adult) teenager who is trying to do better because being angry and involved in discourse is not something that is good for my mental health nor is it something I’m proud to have done.

DM for more elaboration and/or to get my new url. Have a lovely day 💕

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LINK TO THE ARTICLE

Spread this *everywhere*. It’s the only article that correctly presents a timeline of the hate and harassment in the Star Wars fandom since 2015, and how women are treated within fandom walls. All accompanied by insightful data and analysis.

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A wrathful, unhinged Lex who is a complex, painfully realistic character whose psyche and motives are very thoroughly explored. Is not at all meant to be comical except in a creepy, mixed feelings way (meaning all comical elements are still meaningful to his characterization such as the candy scene and are still tinted with eeriness) and is genuinely terrifying as a villain:

A Willy Wonka-looking comical Lex with no real depth and surface level, moustache-twirling villain motives from a very cartoonish movie (which isn’t inherently bad, but is exactly what this person was describing lol):

Oh! Another fun BvS complaint I just remembered! This was weeks ago, before JL came out. I was at work, talking about hoping that Eisenberg’s Lex was still going to appear in the movie. A regular customer I chat with a lot chimed in, saying that Lex in BvS was the worst portrayal of Lex he’d ever seen. His specific complaints were that Lex felt too comical and that it was stupid that he had hair until the end of the movie, and he’s just not as good as Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor.

I immediately jumped on this by saying “You mean the comical Lex Luthor who had hair until the end of the movie?”

To which he sputtered a response that the hair didn’t count in Donner’s Superman because it was a wig, but then walked away with one of the reddest faces I’ve ever seen.

I love the selective memories of nostalgic fanboys. I really do.

#dceu positivity #ch: lex luthor #dc: text

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Literally, there’s no explanation for why they refused to help Ben. He’s the last Skywalker, he’s doing the right thing. He’s asking for guidance. It’s not like they died-died, Luke and Leia’s ghosts show up for Rey because Ben gave her his power, but Ben was right there with his power and is her dyad so they could have helped him right there. The idea that Leia would leave her son alone and crying to give up his life for his soulmate, probably believing he wasn’t as important, and wouldn’t at the very least appear at his shoulder and tell him it would be okay, is so ridiculously OOC and cruel and JJ Abrams needs to turn on his location, I just wanna fucking TALK.

Anyway that moment where Ben looks around as if Luke or Leia or Han or anyone would pop out of the shadows to help him but no one does, shooting me in the face would hurt less. 

#anti tros #sw: text

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TROS spat in the face of every single abused child who was looking to this fairytale for hope. The sequel trilogy wasn’t about a farm boy looking for adventure or even an abused child falling to villainy, it was about three abused children from the different class systems all rising out of trauma and dysfunction. This was our fairytale, our story, and JJ Abrams perverted it into abuse apologist propaganda in a pathetically desperate attempt to appease the most hateful groups of fans who never understood or appreciated the story to begin with (which is why the story had to be butchered in order to appease them).

1.) Rey

Rey’s parents selling her for profit into slavery was portrayed as a good, loving thing. Child trafficking was literally portrayed as excusable, and even loving, in this children’s film. Just let that sink in for a second.

What is the message there? If your parents did something horrible that caused you years of trauma and torment, you should just not lose faith in them because they may have had a good reason (even if you have no evidence of that). Maybe a space wizard who has been dead for decades forced them to traffic you. This scene makes me want to vomit. This is how a children’s fairytale portrayed parents who sell their children into trafficking:

There is no excuse for this. Rey’s parentage was solved. Her identity crisis was over. This wasn’t needed except to force this abuse apologist message. Oh, and of course to feed the sexist fanboys a bit of eugenics to make them stop whining about how a woman could possibly be important and powerful.

TLJ was about Rey discovering her identity and letting go of her unhealthy, irrational dependency on parents who she never knew, who sold her to an abuser and left her to half-starve alone in a desert. TROS decided to give her a new identity crisis out of literally nowhere just so they could erase all that “You are not your parents, even if your parents don’t love you and/or aren’t special, you are still special and still deserving of love. You can find belonging ahead of you.” stuff with dynastic “Actually, your blood family does entirely define your identity and you should always assume they’re right even when all evidence points otherwise, just ignore your own trauma and blame it on a dead space wizard.”

The whole Rey Palpatine thing left a very bad taste in my mouth. Not just because it’s fucking stupid and something Reddit would write, but because Rey was horrible in TROS. She acted like she was possessed by Palpatine, she stabbed Ben (who she cares for and always had compassion for) to kill while he was distracted. She suddenly acted like she didn’t care about anyone around her. She just overall acted unrecognizable from the warm, loving, empathetic woman we saw in TFA and TLJ. The message here is clearly that because she has this “bad blood”, Rey can’t have an identity for herself. The only thing that saves her is taking on the identity of the good guys, she never finds her own. All the traits she’s had up until now don’t matter, who she actually is doesn’t matter. All that matters is what man’s blood runs through her veins. All Rey is is someone’s granddaughter, because if she wasn’t, then she’d really be nobody.

And thus, JJ Abrams decided that “Anyone can be special, even nobodies. Your worth is not defined by your class or your background.” was a stupid message and instead it should be pure eugenic “You’re only special if you have important people blood/name. Your identity is entirely your (male) family, not your own. No silly woman could have power of her own!”

Rey taking on the name of Skywalker is an utterly shallow attempt to fix the fact that they took every bit of Rey’s real identity from her, took half her soul (Ben is her dyad, two that are one), and then left her alone on a desert planet as if to say that her “true self” is the abused child she once was and that she can’t actually escape that. The moral of this fairytale was “You don’t need friends or love, as long as you have a glow stick (material possessions) and a super duper special name that makes you important (which you weren’t before, you were nobody).”

Not to mention that Rey basically named herself after Luke, no one else she knew actually used that name. And Luke didn’t do anything to deserve that, he rejected her at every single opportunity and only did the bare minimum to help her after being berated into it. Han was her surrogate father and the first person to offer her a life outside of Jakku. Leia was her loving mentor and pseudo-mother. Ben was the love of her life who has always been there for her when she needed someone to confide it, someone to see her true self and tell her she wasn’t alone. Luke was nothing but some cranky old guy who made her feel awful about herself and never accepted her (not to mention telling her she was inherently dangerous and also trying to murder her soulmate when he was a child which the real Rey was furious about).

2.) Finn

Finn’s character has not been given much in terms of development. For the most part, he’s been reduced to “Rey’s friend” and then “Finn’s friend”, with a little moment in there where he got to be with Rose and have his own identity but TROS of course decided to reward racist bullies and cut out Rose instead of giving the rest of the fans a satisfying story.

In TROS though, the one thing that Finn actually did that was heroic by himself, his character defining moment of turning from The First Order, was credited to the force and described like it wasn’t a choice at all. Which brings up a lot of questions and, as Han would say, “That’s not how the force works!”. It was so entirely unneeded to take that from Finn, but they gave up all of Rose’s potential screentime to do it.

There’s also the moment when Poe, our alleged hero, so hilariously (i.e callously) compares himself being a criminal to Rey being a scavenger and Finn being a stormtrooper. Completely ignoring the fact that they had no choice in that, as if their trauma doesn’t matter at all. It’s a small moment, but it was very insensitive and highlights how much the writers Did Not Care or even understand their main characters’ experiences.

3.) Ben

I don’t even know where to start with Ben Solo. His ending was the one that broke me as a person, I had so many hysterical sobbing fits over it that my loved ones were actually getting tired of it and it genuinely put me in a really bad place with my depression that I’m only just not getting out of.

Ben Solo’s story in TFA and TLJ was abuse victim’s epic, it was the story of a boy who was tortured and groomed from the time he was in his mother’s womb. A man who never knew a life without abuse. Ben Solo was described as a pure beam of light in his mother’s womb who was ensnared and tainted by a predatory force bigger and stronger than himself that he could not escape.

The feeling of being tainted and corrupted is common in abuse victims, and the fact that TROS told every single abused child out there “Yes, you really are tainted and corrupted. You do deserve to die before experiencing more than a moment of happiness and safety.” is something that I’ve yet to get over. It still infuriates me, it still breaks my heart. Ben’s entire arc up until this point has been about how he is still worthy of love.

And no, this isn’t me woobifying; it’s in the text of the films and the canon novels that Ben worked for his redemption, that he earned it. Ben fought Snoke from the time he was a child, but Ben was only a child and Snoke was too powerful, too relentless in his cruelty for him to withstand. The one and only person in the entire galaxy who had the training and the knowledge to protect Ben was his uncle, who chose to try to murder him in his sleep instead of protecting him. Ben was left with nowhere to turn except to his abuser. And even then, we see him struggle every single day to try and force himself to be this evil person that he never was. Ben was light itself who was convinced he was darkness through abuse and manipulation.

Then, when Ben found the first person who he could feel and connect with through the force, even though Snoke and Luke had abused and betrayed him - Ben still took the chance to reach out to Rey and be vulnerable with her. While interrogating an enemy, he took off his mask and revealed himself (something we only see him to for his father and when Snoke forces him to maliciously). In the middle of a war, under the thumb of the monster who has tortured him since forever, Ben was able hold Rey’s hand and tell her she wasn’t alone. He was still able to be kind. And because of that kindness, that connection, Ben found the courage to finally destroy his abuser and free himself.

Ben freed himself, and he did it out of compassion for and a need to protect Rey, not out of wrath or vengeance. If Ben were truly a creature of wrath, he would have killed Snoke before, but it was only when he had to see and hear and feel his soulmate be tortured by his own abuser that he found that courage. And yes, he did take Snoke’s place at first because that was the only way he knew how to protect himself. In his experience, people without power get hurt and that’s it. But even then, Ben was able to muster yet more strength to shed the armor that was Kylo Ren and stand with Rey unarmored against the very thing that has abused and tortured him since before he was born.

That took so much bravery and love and selflessness for Ben to stand there as himself, ready to fight his abuse and trauma head-on as Ben Solo. For him to admit he was hurt for the first time in the series. For him to crawl up a cliff with a badly broken leg out of love. For him to willingly give his very life force out of pure love. All of these things are incredible for Ben to have been able to do after all he had been through, these are more than deserving of reward. But TROS punished Ben for doing everything right, they proved that abusers always win in the end. Ben was going to survive until the last few edits. Everything we see was literally leading up to him surviving. This was Ben’s redemption, this was supposed to be him fighting for his new beginning and taking his first steps into the happiness and safety he earned, and should have had as a child, not a pointless struggle before succumbing to death:

But TROS told us, told traumatized and neurodivergent children who saw themselves in Ben, that it wasn’t good enough. That love isn’t good enough. That doing the right thing deserves to be punished. That children tainted by violence and abuse and darkness don’t deserve love and healing even when they earn redemption, even when they do everything in their power to do the right thing and be brave. The hopelessness of that is what broke me as a person. That is not what Star Wars is about. Star Wars is about redemption and love and hope; TROS was about cruelty covered up with a thin sheet of materialism and confused, poor storytelling.

#*sigh* glad i got that out holy shir #ben solo deserved to live #ben solo defense squad #ben solo #rey from nowhere #rey solo #the only acceptable names for her #reylo #pro reylo #anti tros #tros review #pairing: ben x rey #ch: ben solo #ch: rey from nowhere #ch: rey solo #sw: text #my meta

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Do people really not see the appeal of enemies-to-lovers? I keep seeing these ridiculous posts about how Problematic it is that people are shipping people who *gasp* have fought in canon *clutches pearls*. It’s totally fine to not enjoy the trope, but to pretend like it’s some ridiculous new idea that “silly 14 y/o fangirls” have made up and it has no appeal outside of a “bad boy kink” (which is very patronizing and sudetly misogynistic phrase) is extremely disingenuous. ‪Enemies-to-lovers is one of the oldest and most enduring fictional stories of all time, and for good reason. Because many, many people enjoy it for many, many different reasons. I’m going to focus on het enemies-to-lovers and the female gaze because that’s where I see the most controversy happening. Although there certainly is a lot to be said about slash/femslash enemies-to-lovers, especially how it can be used to explore internalized homophobia and the gay experience, and I may make a follow-up post about that.

What baffles me the most is people that accuse enemies-to-lovers of being inherently abusive or abusive when there’s any actual conflict (like, you know, stories have) beyond something boring that no one would write like they stepped on each other’s toes in a movie theater. This extreme purity police attitude shows a lack of any understanding about storytelling and what like...fiction is. But diving even deeper into this claim, enemies-to-lovers is in dynamically the exact opposite of an abusive relationship, and that in of itself is a large part of its appeal for a lot of people. No intimate abuser will announce themselves as your sworn enemy, they will present themselves as everything you have ever wanted and the most perfect partner you could imagine. Instalove, the exact opposite of enemies-to-lovers, is actually the trope that resembles love bombing aka how most abusive relationships start. One of the reasons enemies-to-lovers can be so appealing, especially to women and people who have been in toxic relationships, is because when the enemy becomes your lover - you know they mean it. You know how they behave with their enemies, you know the darkest part of them and you don’t need to worry about what is lurking beneath the surface because you’ve already seen it and battled it and gotten past it.

As far as being misogynistic, enemies-to-lovers is literally a power fantasy for the female gaze. It’s the idea of someone who once opposed you being so enamored by you in your most unfiltered, non-seductive form that they listen to you, see things from your perspective, and ultimately align their strength with yours. Women are told that we need to make ourselves small and inoffensive and perfect to attract men or anyone or anything positive, so of course the idea that someone could become deeply enamored, almost against their will, with you when you are actively fighting them, arguing with them, challenging them etc. that those qualities, that being opinionated and angry and passionate and strong, could be the very thing that attracts them to you is a subversion of that idea. And enemies are equals, for a woman to be considered a worthy adversary to a man (and not by becoming a man to him or a sexual “temptress”) means the woman is being respected as his equal. This is a dynamic entirely based on equality, it relies on both characters being of equal strength, much more so than most romance tropes.

This is not exclusive to the female gaze though, in general it’s a fantasy that many can appreciate. Everyone has insecurities and bad moods, and intimacy is difficult for everyone (to varying degrees). In an enemies-to-lovers ship, the lovers have already seen each other in their most unromantic state. They have seen each other screaming with the rage of battle, have seen each other’s scorn and sneer, have seen each other so intimately that once they enter “lovers” and even “to”, there is nothing new to discover except the good parts. Imagine if you could get into a relationship where you don’t have to worry about what your partner’s hiding or if they will reject you because you always know the worst of each other, have already accepted it, and now get to fall in love discovering only the good parts. It creates a very intimate and intense dynamic.

On the other hand, there’s the appeal from the perceptive of the antagonist. Some people prefer to identify their trauma or pain or insecurities with antagonists rather than protagonists because they don’t see that part of themselves as the hero and/or they don’t want to have to hold that part of themselves up to some pristine standard. Some people want to see the dark part of themselves go full dark and then be loved anyways. The idea that you can always change for the better, that you are always worthy of love no matter how damaged you think you are. The idea that someone bright and good could see the most angry, hurt, ugly part of you and still love you. That is a very hopeful and positive message to a lot of people. I will never understand these types of people’s hateful opposition to redemption and healing, because I truly think that’s one of the most beautiful and powerful messages a story can have when it’s done right. The obsession some people have with punishment and condemnation simply is not healthy or productive.

Also, if people could stop infantalizing women as if we can’t differentiate reality from fiction with our silly girl brains, and also stop demonizing girls/women for exploring their sexuality in fiction by calling every goddamn thing “fetishization” - basically just stop being misogynistic af, yeah that’d be great thanks.

#enemies to lovers #reylo #pro reylo #anti reylo bs #pro shipping #anti antis #anti purity culture #dramione #drarry #snarry #snamione #lumione #why cant i think of ships oh well

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And since James and Sirius are all-knowing Gods (but also literal toddlers who can’t be held accountable at 15-17 years old), they knew that making the one safe place Severus had yet another place of trauma and abuse, and isolating him so he had nowhere to turn other than death eaters (who still hated him for being half-blood, but it was all he had) totally helped him become a more happy, jolly person and wasn’t at all a huge contributing factor in everything that went wrong in his life.

Also, yes, being abused and traumatized is totally a petty thing to be upset about especially when the abusers never once apologized and continue to treat you like shit. Abuse victims are such petty, mean people for not being perfect beacons of sunshine and forgiveness.

I’m so tired, so that’s it…I give up.

You win.

You’re right.

Severus Snape, when he was an impoverished and abused child, totally deserved to be relentlessly bullied, because he would one day grow up to be a meany poo-poo head. James Potter and Sirius Black were completely justified in their actions. They are truly wonderful for taking on that holy task.

And James Potter bullying other people doesn’t matter. His righteous actions against that ugly, mean, greasy Snivellus totally make up for it. Plus he got better within the last four years of his life, according to his friends, who totally aren’t biased, and who also admitted that he did not actually stop bullying and lied to Lily, but whatever, it was only Snape he bullied by that point. So that doesn’t count.

The literary significance of Harry realizing that his father is a git and not someone to emulate is totally unimportant. What’s important are headcanons about how much fun James was.

Snape’s contributions (spanning nearly half his life) to the cause don’t matter, because he was mean.

Also because he loved Lily, and no one is allowed to love Lily except James.

He, someone who bullied her best friend for seven years, tried to use extortion to get her to date him, and who lied to her even when they were together, is the only person who really loves her. His love is obviously super healthy and good. It has to be, because they got married when they were barely adults during a time of war and had a child, and no one ever did those things unless it was the purest, truest of loves.

Harry absolutely understood right away how his mother could fall for such a sweet guy. He never expressed alarm and disgust over witnessing his father’s treatment of her and others.

And, again, Snape is just…so bad, you know? Even if his treatment of students didn’t actually differ very much from the way we see some of the other professors treat students, and in fact he was unlike them in that he never put any students in potential danger…what he said to Hermione that one time is just too much! So what if he was constantly risking his life to protect Harry and the others and did everything he could to help the students when the Carrows were in the school? Him being an asshole totally outweighs his actions. Mean people can’t be heroic and brave.

It’s also super obvious Snape never outgrew his petty childhood rivalries, while Sirius totally did. Even though Snape tried to save Sirius’ life and Remus’ life, and Sirius still calls him Snivellus and still thinks Snape would have deserved getting attacked and killed by a wolfed-out Remus. Because, well, he’s right. Snape totally deserved, at the age of 15, to be mauled to death.

But we should conveniently ignore that it would mean Remus would probably be executed or have his soul sucked out. Because we like Sirius too much to believe he could do something that would result in the death of someone he calls a friend. Sirius is attractive and drives a flying motorcycle. He’s cool. Cool people can’t be horrible people. It’s fact.

There’s also no literary significance to Sirius being a grey character or exhibiting any issues at all. It’s much better for the story that he came out of Azkaban with 100% mental health, and never says problematic things to Harry that suggests Sirius is broken and immature. Again, he’s pretty and cool, so that’s all that really matters.

I agree. This shallow view of the characters is totally better than their canon depictions, and makes the story far more enjoyable. Because who needs depth and complexity in their narratives, amiright? You’ve TOTALLY convinced me.

#ch: severus snape #hp: text #pro snape #fandom disagreements

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I hope you don’t mind me reblogging your tags, they’re amazing 🙌

Friendly reminder that Sansa never bullied Jon in the books or the show. She never treated him poorly or discriminated against him for being a bastard.

In the books, Sansa is observant enough to (correctly) identify Jon’s distaste of Joffrey as jealousy and expresses genuine compassion for him.

In the show, Sansa apologizes to Jon as part of her “Sansa Unnecessarily Apologizing To Men” Train, but we never actually saw her being “awful” to him. Not once.

The only people who treated Jon badly for being a bastard were Catelyn, Theon, and Robb. Robb is literally the only Stark sibling who ever called Jon “bastard” as an insult, not Sansa.

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We really need to stop glorifying being a mean person. Everyday I see more and more people proudly declaring themselves “toxic” and “salt queens” and “cyberbullies” and “assholes”, and it’s really not okay. Being mean doesn’t make you cool or intelligent or opinionated or passionate - it just makes you mean. And in the real world, that’s not going to get you followers and attention, it’s going to ruin your relationships and ultimately be destructive for your life. Not to mention that you should just care about other people and try to avoid hurting them in the first place, that’s the very basics of how to be a healthy member of society. Especially if you’re young, you should really stop feeding into toxic, destructive behaviors now because it’s going to be a lot harder to stop being an asshole later on in life and by then the consequences will be more significant.

Edit: This also applies when you’re angry. It’s okay to be angry, it’s okay to feel strongly about things, but just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you’re right and even if you’re right, being an asshole and letting your anger control you is probably going to make the person less likely to hear you. It’s not always easy to not be mean, I’m not pretending I’m a perfect angel over here, but it’s important to learn that you don’t know other people’s perspectives (especially online, and especially in fandom). Just because a ship makes you uncomfortable or angry doesn’t mean that the shippers are attacking you, and it doesn’t mean you get to attack them. Just because a character reminds you of someone who hurt you in real life doesn’t mean that same character can’t remind someone else of something positive for them, you need to be careful not to get so caught up in your own emotions that you project that at real people.

#random thoughts #anti bullying #anti antis #anti purity culture #important #is there a word for this? #i feel like there should be #toxic behavior #toxicity #fandom discourse #fandom disagreements #fandom wank

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hello everyone this definitely isn’t a list of all the musical boots i could find online in a handy google doc for everyone to use and reblog during this very isolated and boring time!! 

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Friendly reminder that Sansa never bullied Jon in the books or the show. She never treated him poorly or discriminated against him for being a bastard.

In the books, Sansa is observant enough to (correctly) identify Jon’s distaste of Joffrey as jealousy and expresses genuine compassion for him.

In the show, Sansa apologizes to Jon as part of her “Sansa Unnecessarily Apologizing To Men” Train, but we never actually saw her being “awful” to him. Not once.

The only people who treated Jon badly for being a bastard were Catelyn, Theon, and Robb. Robb is literally the only Stark sibling who ever called Jon “bastard” as an insult, not Sansa.

#jon snow #sansa stark #sansa defense squad #jonsa #jon x sansa

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I can’t find the post now but someone said “People don’t hate Amy for being feminine because they like Meg!” but those are two different kinds of femininity. Women, according to the patriarchy, are allowed to be virgins or mothers and nothing else. Amy’s femininity is self-serving, where Meg’s is “selfless” because she wants to raise children and to be a good wife to her husband. Meg’s dreams may be “important” but ultimately they are about living for other people which is exactly what the patriarchy wants women to be. Amy’s femininity, on the other hand, is about her own happiness before other people, it’s about utilizing her femininity not to serve others but to serve herself and her own ambitions. Amy wants to get married not because of some “pure” desire to have babies and serve her husband, but because she knows that’s the way to gain wealth and status and as much freedom as she can for herself.

People do hate Amy for being feminine because it’s one of the many “wrong” kinds of femininity, it’s the kind that is for herself and isn’t beholden to a man. Amy is the one in charge of Laurie by the end of the story, Amy is the one who wants money and power more than she wants love. Meg being modest and intimidated by status “Oh, this house is much too grand for me!” is seen as inherently better than Amy’s unapologetic ambition “I always knew I would marry rich, why should I be ashamed of that?” + “Yes, but it sounds more crude when she says it.” because female ambition and selfishness is demonized. Women are supposed to live for other people and be as small as possible, and that’s why Amy is hated even more than Jo who gets a bit of a pass because she’s embracing masculinity, and ambition and selfishness through masculinity is allowed but not through femininity.

#amy march #little women 2020 #little women #amy march defense squad

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Javert has been reincarnated as a dog. The evidence:

I see no difference

#javert #valvert #javert x valjean #les mis #fandom crack

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Wait, do people really get mad that Sansa refers to Jon as her half brother?

Jon refers to his brothers as half brothers in his very first chapter.

Or is it only bad when Sansa does it?

#asoiaf: text #sansa defense squad #ch: jon snow #ch: sansa stark

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This. I can’t put into words how important it has been, and is, for me in my ongoing recovery to have fanfiction as a place to see people truly and unapologetically have trauma and heal from it.

Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

#writing tag #fanfiction #important

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The parallels to all these stories are there because Jonsa is so full of romance tropes and so very adaptable.

The Lion King: Like Simba and Nala, Jon and Sansa grew up together but then were separated. When they reconnected, Jon/Simba had to be inspired to fight for their home and their Kinghood by Sansa/Nala. It is her that he fights for, that reignites the flame inside him.

Tangled: Sansa/Rapunzel are princesses who were taken from their homes, abused, and stripped of their previous identities. Jon is not a thief but he is a bastard and a rogue compared to Sansa, the classic story of the mistreated noble lady finding love and home in a kind-hearted “bad boy” who is below her rank. If you want to get even deeper, Flynn cutting Rupunzel’s hair to free her from the witch is equatable to Jon giving away the North to protect Sansa from Daenerys; each man temporarily sacrificed the most obvious example of the woman’s power to protect them from someone who would target them for it, and gave them a chance for that power to grow back stronger than before (Rapunzel finding ways to use her power that are more under her control, Sansa becoming Queen instead of Lady).

Beauty And The Beast: Theres so many BaTB parallels in Jonsa and there’s quite a few metas explaining that better than I can lol but the most obvious are that Jon/The Beast are misunderstood by Sansa/Beauty at first, she has to go through trials and grow up in order to see what is beneath what she saw before. And the fact that Sansa is constantly the person who Jon not only fights for (attacking Littlefinger, going after Ramsay) but she’s the one person who tames his violence. Sansa/Beauty is the one who gentles Jon/The Beast; Jon stops beating Ramsay because he looks at Sansa, he spares Theon only because Theon helped Sansa etc.

Jon x Sansa + Disney

for @aliceofalonso

#jonsa meta #my meta #pairing: jon x sansa #otp: the kiss of snow; the weight of stone #asoiaf: gifset #asoiaf: text

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“‘Batman v Superman’ isn’t mocking Superman’s idealism, it depends on it and uses it as the thematic basis for redeeming Batman and the entire world, and for leading us to the creation of the Justice League. The cynicism is intentionally framed as the world’s rejection of Superman, representing the modern real-life arguments about whether Superman is relevant and relatable to our real world, and the claims by a lot of people that Superman can’t be interesting because of his goodness and idealism. ‘Batman v Superman’ argues that in a world with so few good guys who remain good, with so many reasons to give up and stop having faith, Superman’s idealism is more important than ever, more relevant than ever.”

— Mark Hughes, Forbes

#just reblogging this again bc YES #dc: text #dceu positivity tag #ch: clark kent #m: batman v superman