#An abuse towards the book

[heypachuco]

#The new comics are complete meh #An abuse towards the book #One big mistake #Thrawn #Mitthrawnuruodo #Grand admiral Thrawn #Star wars #Alliances comic #Alliances #Thrawn trilogy #Alliances book #Darth Vader

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Dracula finding a new home on Tumblr is both ironic and beautiful cause for like a solid century no one has given Jonathan Harker a fair shake. He’s the stuffy 1800s misogynist who hates Mina’s independence, the weak-willed coward who faints over vampires, the “boring one” compared to Van Helsing or Lucy or Arthur. He’s overacted and underplayed, so disdained that despite being one of the novel’s main heroes some adaptations cut him out completely cause they can’t find anything compelling about him. And yet somehow we are in the right time and the right place to look at this heavily traumatized guy, and say “No, you are not a coward and you are not weak, you were stuck in a living hell for months on end and you held on and got away.”

#jonathan harker #dracula #look i just think that the shifting attitudes towards abuse as it relates to how we interpret dracula is fascinating #like how could anyone who'd genuinely read the book come to the conclusion that jonathan wasn't good enough for mina #as though he wouldn't live and die for her

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Me, before finishing Renegades Trilogy: Oh okay! This series shows complexities on both sides but over all it echos anti police brutality shown in the "heroes"

Me, after basically reading "the anarchists were completely in the wrong and being a renegade was the 100% path the whole time": I'm sorry w h a t

#renegades trilogy #nova artino #i am NOT accusing Marissa Meyer of anything #tho it's a little strange to me how the complexities are made out to be more black and white toward the end #I need to reread the book to give better examples but #did anyone else feel this way? #supernova marissa meyer #renegades marissa meyer #supernova spoilers #or maybe this is just me being an anarchist apologist #renegades anarchists #y'know renegades kinda demonstrated the abuse of power and there were interesting ideas there #they just didn't feel fully realized to their potential #nova felt like she went to the opposite side rather than them meeting her halfway #renegades salt #renegades trilogy salt

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Every time Draco called Hermione "Mudblood" when speaking to her

So I wanted to compile here all the times Draco calls Hermione a "mudblood" as a follow-up to this post.

Not referring to her in third person as one but actually using it while speaking to her individually. And how Hermione responded. This is mainly for my own fun.

I did this examination by searching for "mudblood" in all the pdf files of the books.

Philospher's/Sorcerer's Stone

Chamber of Secrets

Chapter 7 - MUDBLOODS AND MURMURS

“At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in,” said Hermione sharply. “They got in on pure talent.” The smug look on Malfoy’s face flickered. “No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood,” he spat.

Note: He only acknowledged Hermione's presence on the field when she insulted him.

“He did,” she said. “But I don’t know what it means. I could tell it was really rude, of course —”

Note: It's weird how no focus is put on Hermione during this debacle. All of the focus is on Ron's rage. Even after Hermione learns what the slur means, there is no description of a reaction even several paragraphs later. This is the most I see of a reaction which is kind of nice but disappointing at the same time if JKR truly wants me to feel the plight of mugglebornes in her story.

Prisoner of Azkaban

Goblet of Fire

Chapter 18 - THE WEIGHING OF THE WANDS

“Want one, Granger?” said Malfoy, holding out a badge to Hermione. “I’ve got loads. But don’t touch my hand, now. I’ve just washed it, you see; don’t want a Mudblood sliming it up.”

Note: Draco was harassing Harry. Hermione entered the exchange by snarking at Pansy and her female gang. Then, in a continuation of humiliating Harry, Draco engages her.

“Harry!” Hermione said warningly.

Note: Once again, no reaction from Hermione. Here, she tries to prevent Harry from escalating by attacking Draco. And once again the reactive party is someone else - this time Harry, a guy. Yay, feminism!

Order of the Phoenix

Chapter 28 - SNAPE’S WORST MEMORY

“The Inquisitorial Squad, Granger,” said Malfoy, pointing toward a tiny silver I upon his robes just beneath his prefect’s badge. “A select group of students who are supportive of the Ministry of Magic, handpicked by Professor Umbridge. Anyway, members of the Inquisitorial Squad do have the power to dock points. . . . So, Granger, I’ll have five from you for being rude about our new headmistress. . . . Macmillan, five for contradicting me. . . . Five because I don’t like you, Potter . . . Weasley, your shirt’s untucked, so I’ll have another five for that. . . . Oh yeah, I forgot, you’re a Mudblood, Granger, so ten for that. . . .”

Ron pulled out his wand, but Hermione pushed it away, whispering, “Don’t!”

Note: Same note as above. But this time it's Ron instead of Harry.

Fun fact: Most of the mudblood usage comes from Kreacher in this book.

Half-Blood Prince

Deathly Hallows

Final Count! In direct conversation with Hermione, Draco called her a mudblood...3 times...over 7 years? Is that it?? Gasp! I thought Draco was such a big bad meanie to poor defenceless queen Hermione 😭. She's oh so hurt and traumatized!

All jokes aside, I do admire Hermione's almost utter lack of regard for Draco's taunts. She does not walk around acting like a victim so her fans need to do the same. And as for the Draco antis, there's no need to overblow Draco's bullying to make your point. When you look at it, Draco was not that great of a bully. He's honestly mostly bark and his bite always seems to backfire on him in the end instead of his intended victims.

#hermione granger #draco malfoy #lol #mudblood count #draco and hermione hardly interact yet somehow draco is her abuser #get real #harry potter series #chamber of secrets #goblet of fire #order of the phoenix #once again proof that dramione has next to nothing from canon #i admit that emma and tom look cute together though #ron weasley #harry potter #pro draco malfoy #harry potter books #draco's actions towards hermione are way overblown

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

hannibal is a feminist go argue with a wall

#raj shitposting #he literally told margot to kill mason because of his assholery #he was proud of chiyoh for finally freeing herself #he never made a sexist remark towards alana although she slept with him and then later married a woman #he didn't make a disrespectful tableau of beverly although he obviously could have #he saved bella (yeah ik he did it to manipulate jack but still) #even i called freddie a bitch a couple of times but he never bad mouthed her #he never crossed any physical boundaries with bedelia although he always had the upper hand #yeah he killed abigail to fuck will up but he never physically harmed her before that #he wasn't abusive towards any woman in the show at all #he never felt entitled to argue/hurt a woman in the show.. ever #like compare show hannibal to films' or books' hannibal... no comparison #hannibal

[nowritingonthewall]

I’m just begging you: Don’t make us go there again.

#oscar isaac #moon knight #marc spector #moonknightedit #chrissie gifs #tw: trauma #tw: child abuse #It still blows my mind how the people involved in this show seemed to have a better understanding of trauma #than most professional therapists do #It's so heartbreaking to see how you can literally see Marc being stuck in his freeze reaction #While Steven moves around and explores #Marc's feet are rooted to the spot #He doesn't get a word out and he is clearly struggling to breathe #He can't even move his body towards the threat (i.e. his mother banging against the door) so he mostly just moves his eyes #Until the door bursts open and Marc's flight mode is activated #There is so much evidence that talking about your trauma again and again does nothing to integrate it and heal from it #And Harrow is such a text book example of so called health care professionals that force their patients to be re-traumatized again and again #Marc literally shows Steven how he suffered the most horrible and painful injuries to his soul #And it neither helps him to integrate his trauma nor to balance the scales #The healing process only starts when he allows himself to start learning to be accepted and taken care of by Steven #I am sorry I just love him so much 🥺

[bonebabbles]

wait im sorry. ive never read past the first book of dotc and all my knowledge of it really just comes from your blogs. wh. why did the erins decide to include sexual violence in warriors? like. that seems a little. too much? like all im hearing of dotc is just. terrible shit. i like reading more angst/serious stuff (i wanna say darker but not in the way "dark media" usually means on this site) but this feels like WAYYY to much for a book series meant for kids....... what were they thinking??

I legitimately do not understand what people like about DOTC. You can go back to where I started this re-read, and you can visibly watch my charitability drain as the project goes on.

It feels like literally everything that people say they like about this arc is not there, while they've completely forgotten or misremembered SERIOUSLY awful shit

And now, listen. I'm a huge fan of xenofiction, which is a genre that is full of kid's and teen's media, but I do love more adult fiction. I love nuanced themes, dark subjects, and complicated plots.

DOTC's message is just plain odious. None of what it sets out to say is worth saying, and it's borderline incompetent at even saying it to begin with.

What they want to say with Clear Sky and Slash is that Clear Sky isn't "evil." He's a "fundamentally good person," and all of his intentions were good, so he learned a valuable lesson from all the abuse and murder. To say this, they CONTRAST him to Slash, a REAL evil person, who just loves hurting kids and harassing women. Clear Sky is good because he is not "real evil" like this fake, cartoon caricature we just made up.

There was absolutely zero need for them to write Slash the way they did. They really want you to be distressed for Clear Sky as his wife is assaulted in front of him and hauled off while kicking and screaming, and they decided the best way to do that was pregnant woman pinning face licking. Sexual violence is an easy way to disgust and anger an audience, simple as that.

As a kid you may not realize how messed up it is (though the asks I get on this blog are a testament to how many kids did, but didn't have the words to express their discomfort) but as an adult with your critical thinking on? It hits different.

#I do think there are books for kids which can handle these topics well #because the sad reality is... well. kids go through things they shouldn't have to #And it's *good* when they can find material for their age that addresses it in a respectful way #but wc is NOT that series. #These subjects are not handled tastefully or tactfully #and ive said it before and ill say it again #but what KILLS me about clear vs his two foil villains is that real abusers act like Clear. #They don't act like the other two. #Clear is SO real. Sometimes it feels like being ported right back into that position again #With a bunch of adults trying to force me to spend more time with that abuser #I know these excuses. I've heard them all. #And I've HEARD them make up some insane strawman to justify why the abuse done to me wasn't so bad #Much like what this story is doing with its two late-book villains #so it hits man. #Anyway stick around and we'll get to the scene. It's in this book towards the end

[yourlowkeyidiot3]

The virgin ""Elizabeth is a spoiled brat manipulative bitch evil mastermind"" vs the chad "Elizabeth did bad things and was manipulative but can we also stop pretending that she's this very evil mastermind"

#elizabeth afton #fnaf #fnaf sister location #y'all forget that willaim didnt abuse and manipulated only michael #he was abusive neglectful and manipulative to all of his children #he literally allowed other guards to shock baby despite the fact that he knew she was possessed by her #y'all know that electric shocks are literally torture to them it's the reason why the animatronics were so desperate to get out #she also thought he was william and she had every right to be vengeful towards him #then in fnaf 6 her personality changes goes from vengeful to wanting to make william proud #and agreeing to kill people for it #however i don't think it was completely elizabeth tho babys programming to kill children could of had currpoted her more #i think its more of babys programming and the desperation for her father to love her rather than being a sadistic fuck #also how is she a spoiled brat #sure she kept insisting on seeing baby but william lied to her that he made her just for her #absolutely she was gonna want to see a seemingly harmless and cool animatronic that was said to have been made for her #“the books said so--”“ bla bla bla idc

[sammerific]

I think it's interesting that in Lebanon when John tells Sam that he's really sorry and that he knows he screwed up a lot with him, this is the John who is still estranged from Sam at Stanford, like even at that time John knew that he messed up but he never had the courage to reach out to Stanford Sam and say he's sorry :((( and/or he saw late seasons Sam's sad droopy browbeaten vibes and thought 'dang I messed this kid up...'

#q #like if i was john and i knew early seasons sam as being fiery and belligerent towards me and then i jumped to late seasons sam #who looks way more teary eyed and docile and looks like he's been through way too much #i would start spiralling... and i would start missing the kid who always had something snarky to say to me... #anyway so many sam and john thoughts lately loll #it's bc i've been reading this AU that has rlly good sam and john scenes that make me cry #like it shows how john is abusive but the characterization is so good and the dynamic with sam is just how i would imagine it #bro i want a prequel tv series so bad... like one that ends with the stanford fight #but i don't want it to have modern aesthetics i want it to look like early seasons... #whatever i'll just read the journal or the spn books when i have time #lebanon

[andromeda3116]

and rereading windwitch and getting vivia's point of view and how she interacts with serafin, it's just. shit. this is such a well-written depiction of emotional abuse. vivia is desperate for her father's love and approval, and he seems to give it to her -- and then wrench it from her in turn. and she's left to make up excuses as to why, to fill in the gaps with what she must have done or said wrong. she knows he means best for her, he must mean best for her, surely he loves her and favors her, surely if she can be just like him then she can keep his favor and never disappoint him again, never lose his fickle favor again -- surely if he's angry at her it's because she failed him, that she wasn't good enough, she must have made some kind of mistake.

serafin never raises a hand to vivia. he never has to.

#witchlands #the witchlands #vivia nihar #she's one of my favorite characters in this series #how she navigates her inclination towards depression and tries to fight against the emotional abuse and the social walls against her #she is constantly aware of her own creeping dissociation and despair and always trying to fight it #i think on some level even in this book she realizes that her father is toxic #but she can't accept that #he's the one who didn't throw himself off a bridge; he supports her; he loves her #surely he can't be bad #vivia's relationship with serafin is legitimately one of if not the best examples of emotional abuse i have ever seen

[holygroundgone]

I think it's interesting how he yu seems completely bereft of empathy for the people around him, even and especially xie xue who he supposedly has a crush on however we see such an intense outpour from him for the people at the mental health institute to the point that he risks his life and even exposes his ability he needed to hide to save these people deemed too difficult to save.

It makes me wonder if there's more to his statement of having been 'born this way'- perhaps he was born with this psychological ebola (insane phrase, insane fictional mental illness with special abilities) similar to a form of neurodivergency but it makes me wonder what was done to him, what happened to him that the only people he can feel empathy for are other victims of mental health care?

At this point it could certainly be that he just faced the extreme humiliation of mental health treatment already described in the book so far (tied up, made to look like a madman), but..

#bab liveblog #truescholar.txt #i was a little leery when we entered the mental hospital and the way xie xue perceived it as well as the common trope of the mental patient #hooting and hollering and acting belligerent and frightening and disgusting #a little tasteless but then i felt drawn in by the extreme abuse depicted in jiang lanping 🥹 i wish she got better than what she got and go #to live 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 but the way he yu especially acted and spoke about the mental patients was very good very handsome very charismatic #the first time in the book we see him acting and speaking compassionately #perhaps in a way he's similar to mo ran who will empathize with someone so hard if he can relate his own experiences to them #but i feel that with he yu in his mind there's a painful divide between madmen and the other general members of the populace #in which he is very firmly in the madman category and he is so painfully aware of this divide that has dehumanized him that it makes him mo #apathetic towards those he sees as not similar to himself #it's definitely been the most interesting character beat so far

[gottarunfromthelaw]

The problem with reading Nagata Kabi’s works is that I relate too much to her works that it makes me want to die.

#realized she came out with some new books and started reading them. let me tell you. she says some things. that make me realize- #-‘oh. I’m not doing good actually. I’m doing all these things she does.’ #like a mirror being pointed towards me. #her problems with food as well make me realzie “’oh!! what I’m doing is bad actually.’ #and her diary entry’s about her problem with alcohol is just me going ‘oh she is like of I was even more like my father.’ #and it kind of was a problem with one of my old jobs. #just. hm. #the thing vents #anyways her work is good but if you have problems with substance abuse #or like eating disorder problems. probably going to have the worst time of your life

[elvesofnoldor]

Armand in the latter third of the vampire armand is so fucking interesting. He was like, lestat is my brambling, laughing friend. He's like a brother to me. He's deeply and excruciatingly annoying. If anybody disrespects lestat's personhood, im about to start mauling. i will tear a bitch apart for Lestat. i will lie my own life down for him. Armand drank from lestat and saw a vision of Christ and later said that Christ was like a brother to him, that Christ was a human man just as he Armand is a human man. He said Christ's an extension of his own self, a mirror holding up to his own face, and it just sounds like Armand was really talking about lestat. Lestat is the focal point through which Armand learns, unsteadily and messily, to finally become a person himself. Armand's love for lestat feels like self-love. This demonic messed-up kid, he's healing through lestat, and I'm so obsessed with this fucking shit.

#people talks about lestat and armand like their intense shenanigan is romantic/sexual....*sighs* #yes anne rice wrote this fucking shit so i can't really blame you people #but i only find it meaningful and interesting when it is interpreted as a purely platonic relationship #and after all armand was a 17 year old for 500 years. lestat was 21 for 200 years. just FYI #also yeah anne rice lowkey made lestat some sort of vampire jesus but don't worry about it #you know her deranged Catholic mind was #mae overshares #again. no time or space or will for essay but #If anne rice wasn't so busy fetishizing armand's youth and the abuse that completely and utterly messed him up in the first half of the boo #and actually fleshed out ricardo's character and his relationship with armand #perhaps we'd better understand the nuance of his feeling towards lestat #and why he is so jealous of lestat. angry with lestat when he thought lesat did not love him #why armand wanted nikolas dead so much #this book is SUPPOSED to be about armand's relationship with lestat. his messy journey in healing from his abuse #and frankly. hopefully becoming a better person himself. so. just saying.

[local-redhead-bookworm]

A friend and I were discussing going to see the new Renfield movie when it comes out, and it got me to thinking…gosh book!Renfield deserved so much better. His character is steeped in layer upon layer of Victorian ableism, so it’s a bit difficult to understand exactly what’s going on with him, but once you peel it back, his story is so tragic. He was clearly a man of good social standing considering he knew Arthur Holmwood’s father prior to being institutionalized, but Seward just treats him like a particularly interesting science experiment, and intentionally feeds into and encourages Renfield’s psychotic episodes just to observe the results. Then when Mina is kind to him, Renfield breaks free of Dracula’s hold over him and ultimately dies to protect Mina. He was abandoned and mistreated by the very people that should have helped him, broke free of Dracula’s control due to a single measure of kindness, and died to save the one character who treated him like a person. He deserved a kinder story.

#gothic literature #dracula #dracula daily #kind of? #renfield #tw medical abuse #tw psychiatric abuse #tw ableism #thinking about him and feeling very sad #I rediscovered a blorbo #I remember first reading the book and feeling so sympathetic toward him #his story is so sad because it’s how people treated and still do treat mentally ill people #if Renfield isn’t the one to kill Dracula in this movie then what is the point??

[perenlop]

hate it when people feel the need to make every single book or movie or whatever they read into a fandom reaction even when its completely and utterly unwarranted. “omg jennette mccurdy was sooo totally an aries girlboss queen when she ignored her dying mom’s nurse begging her for a picture-” im bludgeoning you with a rock

#mostly directed towards twitter tbh. her tag is full of like reaction memes of her book and it rubs me the wrong way so badly #her trauma is not something for u to be like ''lol hashtag me digging up her moms grave XD'' to a tiktok meme #also not quite related to the post but another thing was that she did an interview where she read aloud a vile email her mom sent her #and this email was in the book as well. and twitter blew up with WUHHHHHHH her mom WAS abusive?????? #and ''wow is the title actually justified???" and like im a book snob ill be real. im that asshole whos like the book is better #so maybe im like. being a little unfair here. but yall were REALLY gonna like meme on her and talk abt her being unfair and mean #or talk abt the singular chapter on ariana or whatever. all without reading the fucking thing??? #echoed voice

[caesarclowningaround]

does mickey have… children? from what i can tell it seems he does not. but either way what are his thoughts on all that. being a father, kids in general, etc.

He does not have any (not even in the book!). Mickey is not great with kids. He has no desire to have any, but he figures it's probably inevitable he might someday. However, he's also oddly protective towards children who have abusive parents. He, himself, is abused by his father, who he loves and hates in equal measure, but he doesn't want to become him. There's a whole scene where he beats the shit out of a total stranger he comes across hurting a child. Mistreating children is one of the few lines Mickey won't cross and he has no tolerance for it.

That being said, Mickey is not really good with children. He's not bad, but he's not good. He has no idea how to be gentle around them and babies are a whole other species to him 😂 He'd rather not deal with them, if he can help it

#lumiereandcogsworth #child abuse cw #mickey headcanons #a dangerous fortune #mickey miranda #tbh i think book!micky would be awful towards children #miniseries!mickey would kick book!micky's ass tbh #btw most of the time i am talking about miniseries!mickey because he's my boo