#I just really like her as an author in general.

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Oscar Piastri x Horner!Reader Oscar finds that having a crush having less than platonic feelings for your boss's only adult daughter is apparently free real estate for some of F1's biggest gossips

Warnings: As per, explicit language and grammatical errors.

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if you see this, know that you WILL be getting the next update after the Imola GP i promise.

I've been in a really odd spot in my life where I haven't been very motivated to do any writing (or even just creating in general) for long burst of time, which means that any requests I have been sent previously have been sitting in my drafts half finished because I cannot for the life of me find any inspiration to write anything.

I count myself lucky that I had enough motivation and energy to start pre-planning for the rest of this series. If you take a look at the series masterlist you'll notice that there are numbers next to the current chapters and beyond. I've decided that the entire series is going to be 14 chapters in total with a bonus chapter for Oscar and Y/n's shenanigans at the end of the 2024 season.

I can't thank everyone enough for being so incredibly patient with me as I try to work through this writing slump. Slowly but surely I will start uploading fic reqs again

-- Embrose xx

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[werecreature-addicted]

Would the sparkling vampires have been reacted to differently if written by a better author? Possibly

I feel like the main reason (imo) for why the sparkling is hated on so much though is that the reveal of it just feels so ridiculous. Like edward claiming he’s a monster or whatever and then proceeds to reveal his shimmery 6 pack is….unconvincing at best

og tags on this post for anyone who hasn't seen it

Excellent question anon. If you think about it there are a lot of silly things we associate with vampires.

Exhibit A: the classic widow's peak black hair and dramatic cape

look at it with fresh eyes and imagine seeing this for the first time, goofy. silly even. but this style of vampire was iconized by Bella Ligosi's performance as Dracula in Dracula 1931 which is of course very good and a staple in vampire cannon as well as just culture in general. It's good and it's old which lends it an air of authority. whereas Twilight is new(ish) and bad so it's artistic changes and creative choices are fighting an uphill battle already, add in the fact that Vampires Sparkling is a little ridiculous and you can see why so many people dismiss Twilight's vampires outright.

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Now I am a Twilight fan and I think Twilight is very bad in a lot of ways, the two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Twilight however is a fascinating case study in cultural knowledge and mythos. Stephanie Meyer informally did very little research about Vampire Cannon, if you can call it that, before writing Twilight (link to an interview where she mentions it) so instead of being carefully constructed world-building based on hard rules and strict internal logic, the vampires are kind of loosely defined shadows based on the broadest understanding of what a vampire is. They're dead, they drink blood, they don't go out in sunlight. Some other popular vampire staples go addressed but dismissed as myth (garlic and having no reflection) but then things like The vampires in Twilight don't have fangs and have weird additional supper powers sometimes go just completely taken for granted and not really expanded upon in a satisfying way.

This style of world-building and magic system has a tendency to chafe against readers who have a more in-depth context for vampires and Meyre's more simplistic writing style makes the text come off as juvenile and perhaps a little dumb.

All this to say the sparkling vampires are not handled super well. It is a very large jump from what most readers would expect to see from a vampire story and it is handled inconsistently at best in the text itself. Meyer describes the vampires in the sun both as A beautiful glittering like that of a diamond, and a reflection of light so intense that it looks like the vampire is being burned alive in the sun.

these two conflicting descriptions coupled with the again simplistic and juvenile writing style makes it seem more like a mistake you should roll your eyes at rather than an intentional complexity to read into. I'd argue that Bella sees this inhumanity as beautiful and alluring while Edward sees it as a curse and a reminder of his monstrous nature and therefore disgusting. That being said I don't fault anyone for not wanting to read that deeply into the vampire glittering and instead see it as the author trying to have her cake and eat it too, something Meyers does frequently throughout even just the first Twilight novel.

Not even to mention the movies.

Exhibit B: this is the skin of a killer Bella.

This is prima facie hilarious and stupid. the juxtaposition of the soft glittering effect and the chiming sound in this scene coupled with the seemingly unwarranted disgust is so fucking funny. which is not the tone this scene is going for. it's supposed to be tense, it comes off as corny instead.

Then there is the hate mob that dominated Twilight discourse when it first came out. I will not get into how much of that hate was warranted, what I'm interested in is how much of a cultural impact it had. There was, at least in the beginning, a large group of people who hated Twilight and would hate anything that came from it simply because it came from Twilight. These people grabbed onto the sparkly vampire thing and made it what it is today, these people were never going to be won over by any artistic liberty no matter what.

So to answer your question, I think that if a writer with a more in-depth understanding of vampires and a clearer vision of the magic system wrote Twilight with a more mature tone and more time given to expanding on just the vampire's powers and limitations, and the movies followed these hypothetical books more closely AND if there was never an anti-Twilight coultral movement. then yeah maybe Vampires sparkling wouldn't be seen as the dumbest shit ever.

thank you for coming to my Twilight Ted talk.

#twilight saga #twilight #literary analysis #literary criticism #Vampires

[ragingstillness]

Second black butler meta I can’t help but post:

I absolutely adore black butler and Yana by association because of how incredibly self-aware it is. You don’t really recognize it on the first watch, especially if you only see the first season (or the forbidden second season), but the minute you reread/rewatch and have a larger context, it immediately becomes clear. I own a copy of the first manga volume and in the author’s note Yana makes a point of saying that her editor practically laughed her out of the room for suggesting a story about a character who is both a demon and a butler. So right off the bat, expectations set: this is going to be weird and wild.

And it is, but it’s also very aware of that. The little nods to historical events and discoveries, the blatant stealing of tropes from shonen and shoujo manga, the narrator-like quality of Sebastian’s cutaways, it’s almost a fourth wall break, an invitation to laugh at things that aren’t necessarily meant to be funny but are funny in larger context. For the most part the characters take their lives seriously and the audience gets the dramatic irony but that’s not always the case, see: Sebastian losing it over Ciel blushing at Lizzie, that stupid Phoenix pose, Ciel barely keeping it together as Lizzy plops a pink bonnet on Sebastian’s head. It’s funny from both a general and ironic perspective.

Within the assumption of the story being weird and wild Yana gets to do a lot of genre shifting and frankly I love it. One minute we’re hunting Jack the Ripper, next we’re training to be pop stars, then we’re fighting werewolves, then we’re navigating a cricket game at boarding school. Not a lot of stories get away with that much genre shifting in quick succession but Black Butler does it effortlessly.

They’re particularly good at catching the reader off guard with a funny moment in a serious scene but even better at turning something fun dark on a dime. This is very very hard to do and Yana gets away with it because of how neatly she’s melded the different aspects of the story much like how she melded Sebastian’s character traits.

Ciel is an emotionally immature 13-year-old boy but he’s also an extremely traumatized orphan with murderous tendencies. Sebastian is both a polished servant and a savage demon. Finny is a happy gardener and a disillusioned former test subject. Mey-Rin is a clumsy maid and a former child soldier. Bard is a useless arrogant cook and a soldier running to and from every battlefield he sees.

The ability of these things to coexist, allows for the side by side existence of Ciel failing to be a circus performer and fighting through a flashback to murder a sadistic serial killer. If the story didn’t embody the complexity of the characters and vice versa, one of the two would feel odd and jarring. It’s a beautiful depiction of the chicken and the egg question of plot being driven by character but also driving character.

The genre switching is also just fun, because it pulls in an element often seen in fanfiction which is the AU (alternate universe). While the different arcs still exist in the same universe, the vital aspect of “how would these characters react in this situation” is maintained.

#meta #black butler #kuroshitsuji #my writing #kuroshitsuji meta #black butler meta #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive

[tindove]

Okay I have thoughts about our lovely (kinda) new addition of Lady Mowbray.

I actually quite like Lady Mowbray and how, though clearly some variation of The Hunt, she deviates from what we know about it. Which of course has been what is generally happening with most of these aligned cases. Or how we align then automatically, anyway. I think there are some fun differences in her function in causing a chase instead of being apart of it.

She is less about instinct and survival, like what we have come to commonly associate with The Hunt, and more about exerting control and compelling people to fulfill her own will. One way or another. Her wants just happen to be power over others—more so than she already has as an aristocratic of some kind. It does sort of make me wonder if the sense of control came first, and the ability to “compel” people, or the desire to contribute to a hunt. And you know, eat people, I guess.

I think it is notable that she has dogs. A whole pack of them. She commands them. A pack of predators. And does not count herself among them. Holding them on a tight leash without disobedience, as she does with people. That itself is just another show of her influence and I would say her domestication of The Hunt.

At least to me that is what this feels like, domestication.

Also another one. I know this is from the caterers point of view, but I think it is notable that she is described as seeing people as “assets” or “resistance” so there is still that sense of dehumanization but on a more technical…calculated level. It’s not predator and prey. Either people elevate her or they don’t. She turns other people into predators and prey. Again, this is entertainment, like the chase is meant to be—but less involved because she has literally seems to have but a leash on The Hunt, more or less.

She is control incarnate I suppose? This blooming authority. Also like that we called this “her domain” always fun to have that terminology return :)

I also think the framing of her being akin to a Roman statue is basically just calling her god like? Something larger than life anyway, superior, and perhaps not of this time…not of this world maybe? Her and Celia seemed…weirdly knowing. Celia especially. Though that might be Celia being able to identify that she is an avatar of something and knowing what that means for people. And just having listened to a case about her. But I don’t know, it seemed more personal. And Lady Mowbray certainly seemed to take a liking so???

But yeah she has tangible (wealth) and physical (beauty and a viable weapon) influence. Therefore she commands people to listen. To silence. To kill. And then she ends the cycle because she can. And again. It is something simple, a gun, clean and cold.

I mean our caterer literally calls her a matriarch so. Again. Matriarch of the hunt I would say, or what is left of it. In this new world lol.

I also just like “Most Dangerous Game” type archetypes so. I just think she is neat. It isn’t exactly the same, because again she isn’t really doing the chase herself, I think she enjoys watching it happen to others more. She just has to kill the survivors to keep the game going. Wouldn’t be any fun if people knew what to expect after all?

#tmagp speculation #tmagp #tmagp theory #tmagp spoilers #lady Mowbray #tmagp 15 #the magnus protocol

[thewarmblanket]

I wanna ramble about ATWOW a little. Usually I just talk to myself about it but today I thought why can't I just write it down why not.

WARNING this is all just my opinion and thinking aloud, if I'm not happy about something doesn't mean that I'm mad and I hate it. And I also don't want to start a discussion on if my opinion is right or not I'm not going to read this okay.....

So, the first thing you should know is that I love Avatar with my whole heart like I never loved any movie before. But ATWOW... He's not my favorite child yk. ATWOW is not that dear to me, there can be a lot of different reasons, from that I'm not really a fan of the ocean (I had a fear of water not so long ago), to that this movie has these different vibes that not really click to me. And a lot lot more. But don't get me wrong I still love it. And I really want to love it even more but then I'm facing a problem. How could this movie be better so I could love it more, what would I change in it? And then I started thinking.

At first, I figured that one of the problems why I don't like this movie that much is because since the first time I watched it one feeling was never leaving me, and this is a feeling that something is missing. I'm not a movie critic and I wouldn't say that this movie has plot holes, but it's a different kind of holes. Like there was a lot more but it was cut out. Then I started thinking and my thought was that it is a lack of conflict for most of the main characters and a screentime for some of them too. Like where's Neytiri in my avatar movie hello?

We know that some characters lack screentime but what do I mean by the "lack of conflict"? It means I don't see chemistry between them, emotions running through their heads. It's like, I know what these characters think of each other, but I don't see it. And since Lo'ak is the main character I'm surprised that he's the one character with little conflict. I know that he feels himself in Neteyam's shadow, I know that he's begging for father's attention, I know that he feels like an outcast, I know that but I never felt it anywhere but in my head lol. Show me how he's trying to impress his parents but they ignore it (because this is something that happens in big families I guess especially if you're a middle child). How he's starting to misbehave only to get his parents attention. Show me his relationships with Neytiri for Great Mother's sake.

The big conflict of Lo'ak that I'm desperately looking for is his fight with Neteyam. All I've seen is him doing shit and then Neteyam taking fault for him. I would love to see this brotherly fight between them, when Lo'ak is doing something to be seen, and then Neteyam doing it better and mocking him. Not because he's mean, but because he finds it funny and he doesn't understand a bit how much it hurts his brother. How Neteyam not only takes his fault but scolds him after it, but Lo'ak doesn't listen because he's the only who questions his authority. How he feels so unwanted in his own family that a WHALE is more brother to him that his own blood related brother. And Payakan is another case.

Payakan would generously sprinkle his conflict with Neteyam. I'm imagining it like that training montage from How to Train Your Dragon when Hiccup was escaping from the village to spend time with Toothless. I even imagined one specific scene that actually appeared in the original script! When Lo'ak asked Tsireya to teach him some words in sign language, and she thought that it was for her but it was for Payakan. By that we would know that they met not two not three times but dozens of times. And it would be more plausible for him to choose Payakan over of his brother. I'd die for scene when they both just having one emotional conversation about family and stuff when we'd get how much they understand each other and this deep emotional connection between the boy and the beast. (httyd really does a better job at that...)

How would this scene where Lo'ak rushes to tell Payakan about Tulkun hunt HIT if we knew all this background, not only KNEW but FELT it!! Also it would hit more if they used correct accents on the words I don't know if it was intentional or not but I feel like it should be:

"But I'm not you! He's my brother! I'm going!"

"Oh, he's your brother? No, I'm your brother!"

But Neteyam does not exist only to be a conflict for Lo'ak, at least as I'm seeing it. He should be a character that we care about. Aside from what I already told about him and Lo'ak, which would already a lot more that we have now, let's remember that the main point of his hypothetical conflict is being in the shadow of his father. I think at least a couple of scenes where he's being compared to Jake would be enough. He constantly being compared to him, so that's why it is so important for him to be the best and not let Lo'ak feel better at something. Because that would mean that he's not being good enough, enough to be as great as Toruk Makto. (And if Lo'ak is triggered by mentioning of Toruk Makto because that's dad, and he is being compared to him too but in a context of "how can you be such a loser with a dad like this", then Neteyam is fascinated by Toruk Makto and just wishes he could be like him one day)

The next characters we've been robbed of are Jake and Neytiri obviously. And Jake has a conflict! But the movie just didn't have time to tell us about it! He's struggling to choose between two parts of himself - a soldier and a father. By being a soldier he's protecting his people and home, but it inevitably hurts his family. By being a father, he's protecting his family but it means to leave his people behind. And he chose father. But I think he understands that by running away (not that far away actually) he will not stop all this and war will come to their door sooner or later. And that's another struggle. He can't choose father. He has to fight and it means he will lose somebody. And I bet this doesn't let him sleep tight at night.

Neytiri is the last the I want to talk about. I don't know... Her only conflict is slowly going insane because of all of this pain she went through. And the deleted scenes are perfectly showing her unwillingness to change and adapt... I mean she would be still living in the Hometree if she could. And when she breaks her bow, we see that she became so insane that even her father's last will doesn't bother her anymore. I think that everything they wanted to show us in this movie, and her arc is going to continue in future movies. BUT. I still miss her presence... Neytiri and Jake are such a sweet couple I just want more of them. Of them being in love, support each other, protect each other. I would love to see them discuss their fears, like Jake telling her like he fears to run away again and how he doesn't want their kids to participate in war, and Neytiri tells him how she misses home and hates all this war and this place, how she sees nightmares of her loved ones die and how she fears to lose another one. And they comfort each other after.

(And actually I'm not finished, I would write twice as much if I wanted to but I'm already tired so this is the last paragraph I promise.)

The magic of Pandora. When we saw Pandora through Jake's eyes for the first time it was magical, mysterious, alien, but over time it become to feel like home. But in the second movie they take us away from home to an unknown land and didn't bother to make it as mysterious as it was in the forest. As lore nerd I beg them to show us those gigantic deep sea creatures, bright palmtrees and tell us stories about Metkayina culture.

Maybe it's the music too, because it feels beautiful yes, but not mysterious :(

Take my hand and lead me to an unknown magical world of Pandora's oceans and show me something that I have never seen before!

Aaaand where do we find timing for this?? This is a long ass movie already! Well.. We always could cut out Spider's sto- *COUGH* *COUGH*

NO BUT REALLY HER ME OUT

What if we just didn't know that Spider was Quaritch' son and all this plot about their bonding was held for the 3d movie?? It takes out too much time that we could spend on characters development and world building. I don't know what we would do with Spider in the whole movie but anyway he's rememberable so we wouldn't forget that he exists lol. And I don't hate Spider okay? I love him. I just think he was so unnecessary in the most parts on the movie so he can be just cut out to make space for something more important. He will be more important in the future movies but was he in ATWOW? Not that much.

If someone read all this oh Eywa don't you have better things to do? 😭 Don't waste you life

#avatar #avatar the way of water #atwow #avatar analysis #lo'ak sully #Lo'ak #neteyam sully #Neteyam #Jake Sully #Neytiri #jake x neytiri #spider socorro

[simon-newman]

Okay.

After another dive into "For you" tab I am SUCK AND TIRED of people virtue signaling by PRAISING Studio Trigger or the Dungeon Meshi author FOR MAKING FALIN CHUBBY.

I get that body positivity is all the hype those days especially in America but I don't think you're sending the right signal.

Being "Chubby" is a vague term but mostly associated with being slightly above the average weight - internet search often links to BMI above 25 - implying overweight.

Meanwhile what you call "chubby" and praise in the name of body positivity is... A COMPLETELY NORMAL AND HEALTHY BODY.

Falin is NOT overweight in the slightest.

JUST TAKE A FUCKING LOOK!

Manga:

Anime:

And if you fuckers think this is "fat" because she's leaning forward there's the other shot:

And there's also the OFFICIAL data that gives Falin's BMI at 24 which is within normal body weight. She's also active adventurer - even if she's a cleric her actual healthy range of BMI might be higher than the tables imply.

She looks slim in general. Just not as slim as the main elf girl. Because -you know - Marcille is an Elf and is built more slim in general with official BMI 20 she's closer to the lower end of the healthy range (at least for humans, IDK what healthy is for elves tho). Falin's face is also more round which doesn't really mean shit regarding body weight.

Y'all body positivity fuckers want to virtue signal but you have no fucking clue what healthy, non-overweight body looks like.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dungeon Cuisine #Body Weight #Falin #Falin Touden #Faylin #Brainrot #Idiots try to virtue signal

[animezinglife]

Children of Fallen Gods is already a step up from Daughter of No Worlds in my opinion. Carissa seems to get better with each book she writes and once she hits her stride, she does so very well.

Max and Tisaanah's relationship feels much more authentic, emotional, and grounded in this one right off the bat.

I did think it was a tad rushed in the first one (I thought the tension was really starting to build a bit later on and didn't initially think they'd get together at all until the second book) and didn't have as much foundation as it could have, but that almost seems to be resolving itself somehow in this one. Like there are roots slowly taking hold in the story.

I'm only about a hundred pages in so far, so more thoughts to be continued...

#children of fallen gods #bookblr #the war of lost hearts #war of lost hearts #war of lost hearts spoilers #children of fallen gods spoilers #daughter of no worlds spoilers #carissa broadbent #I just really like her as an author in general.

[greenerteacups]

thoughts on Ginny and Harry as a couple?

There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.

That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.

When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.

#in general I was never one to ship harry with anybody #what I wanted for him was a long quiet life and plenty of therapy #maybe some dogs. i think harry needs dogs and deserves them #The other obvious solution ftr — though not one I think Harry would take — is for him to marry a muggle #though again. you'd run into the problem of how you explain All That #which harry doesn't like to talk about and probably would want to talk about even less as an adult #plus also: harry loves magic. like he loves it loves it #the muggle world for harry is permanently connected with the dursleys and it would take years to break that association #which I just don't think he's going to invest #Harry post-BOH is moving to Hogsmeade or wizarding London or some other magical neighborhood and staying there forever #by the way this post is not anti Harry and Ginny! no hate on the ship I've seen versions of it that are very cute #but I just think their love story needed Sauce #there are also some really interesting posts I've found in Deep Fandom crackship blogs about h/g as Harry's sublimated desire for Ron #now I don't necessarily buy that reading. I don't think Harry is in love with Ron in the original text #I do think he LOVES ron and projects that love onto the Weasleys very quickly ginny included #and I think Ron is his soulmate platonic or otherwise in every universe #so marrying Ginny has like. Implications. vis-a-vis Harry's status as a Weasley and adoptive brother[in law] of Ron #like it's a full-circle moment where he becomes officially legally a member of Ron's family #which I do believe JKR had in mind. even though that basically means ginny's wedding becomes kinda... actually... about her brother... #it's weird basically. my final verdict is I wish H/G had been written by an author who was more interested in Ginny for Ginny's sake. #greenteacup asks

[heartbeatbookclub]

I think, in a lot of ways, Monika and Sayori are reflections of each other.

Really, I think all of the girls are similar in a lot of their issues (self-esteem, anxiety, etc) and that's something emphasized in a lot of the stories, and a big part of why they all gravitate towards each other and work to create the club as a safe space for all of them, but I think Monika and Sayori in particular are just very much alike.

I think Trust really emphasized this similarity in the reveal of Sayori's poem, Become the Flower.

Prior to shifting focus onto the poem, Monika talks to herself about her real vision for the Literature Club. I think here, Monika points out what Sayori actually meant when she said that Monika was "trying to make the club [she] needs the most, out of anyone", even if she doesn't actually realize that yet. It's pretty clear that when she says that literature is a window to the real self underneath the person who's "forced to always smile and blend in", and is "forced to be perfect", she's really talking about herself.

I think that a lot of Monika's character throughout Trust is expressed more subtly, often in a roundabout way like this. A huge part of the story is centered around Monika's own personal struggles expressing herself, and that trait is pretty well exemplified in this indirect way of talking about her own struggles. I think that the reason why Monika's characterization here is so subtle overall is reflective of this.

And I think it's pretty blatant that this is statement is also meant to be reflective of Sayori, given that we immediately move from this statement onto the poem which reveals to Monika that she's been hiding her own problems. In this way, I think Team Salvato wanted to explicitly point out how similar they really are, and draw your attention to it.

I think that the way that Trust as a story is put together is meant to really emphasize just how similar they are even in their differences; spending a great deal of time focusing on Monika's own problems, to then showcase Sayori as the mirror to them.

I think the two of them make a very interesting pair in that respect, because a big similarity they have is that they very much place others above themselves, so they both end up individually building each other up while they put themselves down. It creates this strange back and forth where they each insist they suck and the other is great, when the reality is that they're both pretty fantastic.

In the statement Monika made to herself about her vision of the club, while it's clear she's talking about herself, she frames it in the context of somebody else getting those benefits out of the Literature Club, rather than herself. Throughout the entirety of Trust, she speaks dismissively of her efforts and her problems alike, while pointing out that Sayori is providing a lot of help. Sayori by contrast spends most of her time hyping her up and points out, explicitly, that Monika doesn't give herself enough credit. She also dismisses her own efforts, pointing out in most things she does, up into the climax, that Monika is a lot better than her at whatever she's doing. And when Sayori's problems are actually revealed, she explicitly says that she doesn't want Monika to worry about her, and that she doesn't want to have this conversation.

I think this all really shows that both of them are averse to tackling their own problems head-on, and I think this comes out of a fear of being vulnerable, since that's directly mentioned several times in Monika's issues openly expressing herself.

I think what makes Monika's particular brand of self-negging quite so disheartening is that she dismisses it out of hand as her being silly and dramatic, and in that way, she doesn't actually address the fundamental problem underlying it, nor does she actually address the statements themselves as incorrect. The amount of time she spends talking down her own problems as something trivial and silly, particularly in comparison to Sayori's problems, are a manifestation of her own desire to avoid the vulnerability of even having these problems, and it's just...heartbreaking. Sayori's denial is its own can of worms, but Monika's ability to so consistently minimize her issues when they are clearly still impacting her is so uniquely troublesome.

I think a big difference between the two of them in that respect is that Monika wears significantly more of her heart on her sleeve, so Sayori finds it a lot easier to directly target Monika's problems than Monika does in the reverse, but their individual habits of avoidance are coming from the same place.

I'm traveling a bit aimlessly in this essay, trying to tie things together nicely as I see them, but there are just a lot of similarities I notice between their actions and the way they think that showcase that they have a lot of the same problems, and a huge theme in Trust is expressing oneself, which both Monika and Sayori struggle to do, in much the same way.

I think a key similarity between the two of them is their tendency to catastrophize over a situation when left alone, mostly revolving around seeing the worst possible scenario for how they could've personally messed up the situation. I'm just rewatching Trust for this little essay, so there are two major moments I see Monika doing this, but I remember Sayori doing this...a few times, actually, throughout the side stories.

I think the spiral Monika goes into after reading Become the Flower is particularly important, as it exemplifies the habit of dismissing her own problems fantastically; in this case, she has an excuse. It's true that Monika's issues with her perfectionism seem silly and trivial in comparison to Sayori's, but that's exactly the thing: She shouldn't be comparing them in the first place! Her problems are real, and they clearly cause her distress, but because Sayori's own issues appear so much more serious than hers, she dismisses them wholesale as her being dramatic and silly. Because Monika's problems seem so small, she doesn't see them for the problems they really are. In the same way, because her own accomplishments and work seem so small, she doesn't see them for the accomplishments they are.

This spiral showcases Monika's biggest problem, the reason why she has such trouble expressing herself, and conversely, the exact same problem Sayori has. She doesn't want to be the center of attention.

Put another way, she doesn't think she deserves to be the center of attention. Her problems are so trivial; her accomplishments menial. Her fear of vulnerability isn't a fear that others will hurt her; it's a fear of being selfish.

Sayori is very similar, in that the reason she actively works to avoid showing any possible sign that anything is wrong is because she doesn't want anyone to worry about her. She doesn't want other people to dedicate time and energy to her.

I think that for both of them, this comes from low self-esteem. Sayori is self-explanatory I think, but I'd say Monika's perfectionism makes it exceptionally difficult for her to really feel accomplished in anything she does, which, coupled with her constant preoccupation with how she appears to other people (I think Monika places very high expectations on herself. I mean, Trust literally starts with her frantically apologizing and saying "I normally don't ever do this!" when Sayori finds her napping) makes it very difficult for her to feel confident in herself.

The fear both Sayori and Monika have in being vulnerable isn't that people will use that vulnerability to hurt them.

It's that people will try to help them.

And I think that's a really big part of why Sayori feels like she can trust Monika with her darkest thoughts, because she understands that they're the same in a lot of ways.

Monika created the club which she needed the most...and it was also the club Sayori needed the most, for the exact same reason.

I think it's kinda easy to overlook a lot of this because of the sheer amount of focus placed onto Sayori and the more explicit issue Monika has (insofar as the plot is concerned), but I think Sayori is exactly what Monika needs just as much as Monika is what Sayori needs.

#i'll probably be making a lot more of these sorts of essays on different characters + side stories #i just noticed this and thoughts it was really interesting to look at #i think there's not a whole lot of focus given to monika as a character through the side stories in general outside of this #probably because the base game gives so much #i think this is a really interesting showcase of the pressure of this expectation which monika has of herself to be perfect #one thing i didn't mention here is that monika seems to outright reject the authority/seriousness of the club president position #i think another similarity between the two of them is that monika seems to use humor to soften things which make her uncomfortable #which based on the flippant way she talks about setting an example as club president specifically #it seems like she's not exactly confident in acting as an authority in her position #idk i really have a lot to say about them. both individually and together. #musings #ddlc monika #ddlc sayori #ddlc #doki doki literature club

[sskk-manifesto]

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#I'm a bit late but :) #Mmmhh lots of thoughts about this episode. Nothing really relevant though lol #I like it... Mostly. Well‚ I like Atsushi‚ and I like Atsushi screentime. #I always forget that there's actually a one week timeskip within the Guild arc #I think these chapters were generally better executed in the manga. #But even then it's just... #Why do the make the Guild / Fitzgerald so. dumb. Why do they make them act so wildly irrationally and at the protagonists' advantage #It really gives villain acting entirely mindlessly to make the plot advance and the heroes win. It's really sensless. #I mean especially when Atsushi yielded. Why didn't Fitzgerald take his offer. For real!! #For real. He had NOTHING to gain from proceeding with his plan. He already obtained for Atsushi and the ada to collaborate. #Now they are NEVER going to help him‚ and that's agreat loss for him. #And idk. i hear that little Tumblr post in my voice saying “why would you complain about characters acting irrationally! #Do people irl never act irrationally?” #And yeah I get Fitzgerald was frustrated for losing Mitchell and his fight with Hawthorne. Okay I understand. #But that's definitely too much. That's him acting downright stupid at the heroes' advantage and it's just pretty underwhelming to read? #That said. It's just general notes I'm not particularly annoyed because like. That's just b/s/d to you. Dumbing down the villains a second– #so the author can escape the trap they put themselves into. Very Marvel-esque move lol. #On that exact same note WHY WOULD LUCY HAVE THE DOLL. #The doll is the whole premise for your plan working why would you not protect it with everything 😭😭😭 #I'm not getting in the Lucy / Atsushi scene itself. I love Lucy but I swear every time that scene gets played a femminist dies #(it's me. I'm the femminist dying every time.) #Mmmhh a couple more things. I dislike the ost choice in the scene where Steinbeck is torturing Q it feels so out of place #And I really don't get what's the deal with the Hawthorne / Fitzgerald convo it's so confusing to me. Like it It looks like Hawtorne is– #blaming Fitzgerald for Mitchell's condition (both in health and for her family status) but... #Objectively neither of those things are Fitzgerald's fault? Idk maybe I just have very little media comprehension for this arc because– #a lot of things just seem to happen with no sense. But it's okay #Im complaining a lot lol but its mostly irrelevant things (or like with the dumbification of villains things I've learnt to live with lmao) #But the episode was generally nice. The animation this season is consistently very pretty. #random rambles

[hybrix-hidings]

Tpp Season 4 spoilers

Okay but also when you consider that Rita is older than Juno by probably an absolute minimum of five years (and let's be real, it's probably closer to ten) so much of the shit she did to stick around and help him out makes that much more sense. Sure, the difference in maturity between 38-43/48 may not be so huge, but remember, they met when Juno was about 19. Whether she was 24 or 29, she would have still seen Juno as a kid.

And when someone you perceive as a kid goes through so many lengths to help you keep your own job and save your name while his own gets dragged through the mud? When everything they do in efforts to help make something better only smacks them into the dirt?? Of course you're going to want to help! Of course she stayed, that's her Dumb Baby Sibling who did something really rash and stupid and brave.

And once you see someone that way, your viewpoint never really changes. I'm sure 20 years of working together changed it a bit to where he's not really a kid anymore, but he also is in her heart. This is up until he can do some proper growing up in s2, where his new maturity and will to live put them on slightly more equal ground.

Idk. I just have feelings about Rita and Juno and their whole relationship I love them so much

#the penumbra podcast #tpp #juno steel #rita #look whenever she starts sobbing about him growing up shes not just being extra thats a v real reaction #i Also start sobbing whenever i start thinking abt how much hes grown #i also also start sobbing when i think about them because theyre BEST FRIENDS and i LOVE THEM #idk the best part is that Juno just. probably doesnt realize that she sees him this way #because to him HE was always HER boss #and he didnt even know she was older than him until they left the HCPD i think #so she really didnt have any mental authority over him?? not that juno has ever really cared about the older = authority thing #or authority in general #idk. i like em #i like them so much i have Feelings abt it

[llycaons]

truly do find 'perfect' sweet little kids who exist to be cute and protected extremely boring to the point of aggravation but alluka DOESN'T fit that description because she's been neglected and isolated her whole life, she is soul-bonded with a horrifying (to many) and nearly omniscient being, she is endlessly sweet and loving to really only one person, and she STANDS UP TO that person when he hurts someone else she cares about!! she may not have a lot going on but her character and personality contrasts her situation so much to make it really striking. and I'm a sucker for close brother/sister relationships!! so sue me!!!

#not to harp on this again but I would argue despite having similar roles as children supporting the protags and acting as #characters whose very existence means important plot or character things regardless of their personalities #alluka IS better-written than a-yuan. there is genuine conflict there. she has her own loyalties and motivations #on a plot level she may exist to 1. solve a problem 2. separate killua from gon and 3. introduce DC magic #but it doesn't feel like she exists to simply fill a shallow shipping-adjacent role quite so blatantly #or maybe I'm biased against using kids as shipping fodder. #or reducing an entire murdered family to one kid who's only referred to as the son of two unrelated characters. and whose survival #is only of value bc it helps gets them together idk! #I also really dislike how 'good' kids are treated by the narrative. #etc. etc. anyway authority figures and her own parents and siblings hate and fear and disrespect and misunderstand alluka. #and they are wrong! fuck them! it's always felt like togashi's had the backs of the kids he writes #it's um. anti-authoritarian not rly in its themes but in its general approach I think? #hm. can't rly elaborate rn as im sleepy #but alluka's sweetness isn't grating or irritating it's a breath of fresh air in the nightmare that is her home life #and it's a precious and wonderful thing to see her so affectionate with a character we the audience love so much but who has struggled #for so long to leave his past behind and do be a normal kid #her love and her kindness isn't empty or meaningless it's the lifeblood that killua needs to #have a healthy relationship w his best friend #bc it lets him step back and have more than one important person in his life #and he sends that love right back to her!!!! killua isn't just someone starved for love he's starved TO love! #the unconditional love the rest of his familiy has long denied him....he and alluka and nanika all find it with each other #and it's the most beautiful and special thing in the entire series I think. or one of them #cor.txt

[mariatesstruther]

the way some ppl villainize maria whilst simultaneously extending the most grace humanly possible to tommy and and abby and joel and tess is….. odd

#no shame to them i love the whole gang #but why is maria always the one portrayed to be ignorant of how life really is #about how far people have to go #as if she didnt live through her own shit and horrors too #the whole point of tlou is that everyone has a heartbreaking fucked how are u still alive story #just bc the show writers aren’t interested in giving maria any depth rn doesnt mean shes a completely flat character #she runs a town and sometimes shes written to be dumb as fuck #as far as who her husband is or who joel or or to the reality of the world outside of jackson #she probably deals with the world outside of jackson more than anyone in jackson #she knows how it is #like im sorry #but what #this is not abt any one fic or any one author LET ME SAY THAT #i just think the fandoms general attitude towards maria at times can be nasty #since when does being pragmatic equate to being a judgy witch #rant #im standing on this with two feet #have fun in my inbox all u want just keep it cute

[badscienceman]

forever annoyed by the inability to have constructive conversations involving media criticism anymore. I feel bonkers because it's like everything immediately dissolves into reactionary, all-or-nothing arguments that leave me baffled and usually uncomfortable

#personal #thinking about the person who joined the book club I'm in then got mad at the queer and/or poc members #because we were reading a book by a poc author that involved queerphobia #and when this person reached the queerphobic part she just could not engage with it at all #which obviously it's fine #you don't have to read those things #but to accuse everyone reading of excusing queerphobia because we were trying to discuss the context of when and where the book was written #despite the fact we had for like weeks been having very nuanced discussions about this author and his work #honestly mostly calling him a misogynist and queerphobe lmao #despite the fact that a woman from the same area the author was from was there discussing her experiences etc #and then the other side of this is like #you're an sjw if you discuss the implications of how poc/disabled/etc characters are treated in fiction or whatever lmaooo #obviously people don't generally say “sjw” but it's basically what they mean let's be honest #thinking about the person who got mad that I had a rule not to send certain content in a discord server #because obviously that meant I was engaging in (insert shipping discourse) #obviously it meant I disapproved and was being an sjw type #but really it was just that someone helping to mod had trauma surrounding this one specific thing #so when the mad person decided to show me who's boss by sending that content anyway they were literally doing nothing to me #but they were hurting someone else #all or nothing you're not allowed to have boundaries because if you have boundaries it's actually commentary on your stance or whatever #so annoying

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

I am once again getting emotional about Eliot Spencer and the ways he both gives and receives love.

#leverage #mine #eliot spencer my beloved #watching the first season of redemption is just an exercise in finding OT3 Easter eggs I s2g #and honestly just general soft family moments for everyone #but lbr I have PRIORITIES #anyway today it was just like a couple throwaway lines and details that are making me emotional #for example: when breanna is trying to get Parker to let her get out of the van?? #her big argument is that hardison left the van #and rather than saying the team made him practice and train too (or something along those lines) #instead​ what Parker actually says is #‘yeah and it was a long time before ELIOT would let him open those van doors’ #and I’m very emo about the universal understanding that Eliot is the only one with that authority #cuz I get that keeping everyone alive is Eliot’s whole job #but Breannas readiness is clearly up for discussion by the whole team #Sophie and Parker and Eliot and Hardison all give input on how ready she is #but Parker specifying that it was Eliot ALONE that made the decision about Alec’s safety/readiness #really implies an extra level of protectiveness that goes significantly beyond practicality/professional concern #and not only that-it also says that every other member of the team completely acknowledges and respects Eliot’s over-protectiveness #and just accepts accepts it as a matter of course #because it is a truth universally acknowledged that Parker and hardison are the exception to EVERY Eliot Spencer rule #because they’re in LOVE #The other tiny detail that I guess I noticed but hadn’t done the math on was the boxing bag in the new headquarters #Alex hardison is a very caring and loving person and one of his favorite live languages is NESTING #that man creates homes for his loved ones wherever he goes #and you can literally measure his level of intimacy with his partners by how specialized he makes a space for them #and like. This was very obvious by season 5 with the brewpub #but I love the ways they snuck it into redemption too #for Parker it was the whole conversation about the vents he made for Parker at home #and for Eliot it was putting a punching bag in the middle of the very beautiful work/bar space he created

[aeide-thea]

tfw you read a trans historical romance [eta specifically a lady for a duke by alexis hall] and come away feeling like, hm, this was probably a B+ for a few different reasons and definitely hasn't really resolved the extent to which it wants to accept various historical romance norms vs upend them (specifically: really wanted to have its cake and eat it too wrt the hero's dukedom conferring power and wealth and hauteur, but also knowing it's Not Done Anymore to romanticize that and so inserting a couple of token gestures of atonement, even as it continued to have him leverage said power and wealth and hauteur to aid his allies and humiliate his enemies; also one (1) aside abt the racism of the ton's beauty standards, which only came up wrt a bit character and was never addressed again), and frankly something abt the ways in which certain things are getting queered by the text makes the Marriage as an ending feel more than usually uninspired to me, even though it's technically more-than-usually revolutionary here, and even though i'm ordinarily willing enough to accept that as the conventional, definitional endpoint of stories in this genre...

but then on the other hand presumably trans ppl deserve the dubious privilege of seeing themselves reflected in historical romances of B+ quality, as much as cis ppl ever have, and i'm an ungrateful little snot for being unsatisfied with that!

#also i think i disagree with the author that the conflict didn't ultimately hinge on the heroine's transness #but it didn't hinge on her partner's *acceptance* of her transness‚ which maybe is all we can ask for #anyway i do think i'm more comfortable projecting in private onto texts that aren't actually open to me #than i am engaging with texts that *do* make an attempt and fall short in some way #which like. is not not also an indictment of my interpersonal approach generally #insecure attachment baby: a life #anyway this is nominally #bookblogging #but obviously just as much about #the psyche #but then‚ are the two really separable in the context of stories meant to spin out a romantic fantasy for you? #in conclusion sorry that entire first paragraph is one unreadably ciceronian sentence lmao #i gotta be true to myself what can i say