Look, sometimes Danse needs to be beaten with a bat, but please only beat him for things he actually did.
My boy has never indicated that he thinks all ghouls should die, nor does it appear to be Brotherhood policy to kill them. (Actually, there’s evidence that this was the case back in 3, but here they seem specifically obsessed with killing ferals). He does make one horrible comment about killing Vault-Tec Guy specifically, but otherwise 1. Is protective of villagers at the Slog, 2. Is kind to Fridge Billy, and 3. Likes Kent and rips into you if you kill him.
There are lots of reasons to hate my darling Buzz Lightyear. You don’t need to invent them.
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“Are you okay?” Levi asks you.
“No.”
“I know, you don’t look it. What’s wrong?”
“Everything is wrong, Levi. I’m exhausted…I wonder what it’s like to have a brain that functions the way it’s supposed to.”
His eyebrows furrow slightly. “Your brain is fine.”
“But that’s the thing, it’s not!” You say exasperatingly. “It’s wired differently and so it makes everything more difficult. I switch between three modes: Not wanting to exist, Surviving, and Beyond Surviving. Guess how much time I spend in each mode?”
Levi doesn’t say anything in response. His expression shows more concern than confusion this time.
“Fine, I’ll tell you. Most of my time is spent surviving. Some of my time is spent not wanting to exist. And just a little of my time is spent beyond suriving…what kind of life is that?”
Levi’s eyes look at you with sadness. “Not much of one, to be honest…but it’s yours and you only have one.” He counters.
“Well, I don’t even know if I want it half of the time. Y’know, someone told me that life is basically climbing mountains. You climb a mountain, which represents a challenge or obstacle, once you get to the top you enjoy the view for a moment…then you climb back down and do the same thing all over again. Rinse and repeat.”
Levi seems to identify with what you’re saying and he knows you’re frustrated right now but he needs to keep you from spiraling. He’s not letting you give up. That’s not the way. “It’s what we have to do, Y/N.” He says gently.
“And what if I don’t want to do anything? What if I don’t want to climb fucking mountains? What if I don’t want to constantly be challenged and given obstacles? What if I just want to sit at the top of the mountain and just be?”
Levi knows these feelings all too well…he’s wrestled with them a few times throughout his life but he’s continued to push through because that’s what you just do. And you’re going to do the same even if he has to do the pushing for you. You snap Levi out of his thoughts with your next statement.
“It would be so much easier if I just…”
“Stop.”
“But-“
“Stop.” He repeats sternly, his steel eyes boring into yours.
You grunt angrily. “You’re not even real, Levi!” You yell out at him. You’re not angry with him. You’re angry at the world, angry for the universe and your parents for putting you in this predicament, angry for placing you into a world that doesn’t accommodate you. “You are a 2-dimensional character I use to cope. There’s no way for you to actually soothe or help me. You. Are. Fictional.”
Your words don’t seem to phase him. He shrugs. “I’m real enough.”
“What does that even mean?”
“I’m real enough to you. Y/N. You are the one who brings me to life. You are the one who decides how real I should be. What does it matter if I’m not a real person?”
“It’s silly.”
“Who says it’s silly?”
“I don’t know, a bunch of people.”
“Well, fuck all of those people then. Just fuck them.” He states as if it’s obvious.
You sigh. “It doesn’t work that way, Levi…”
“So make it work that way. No one else is keeping you alive but yourself.”
“And you…” You say softly.
Levi shakes his head. “I don’t do anything. Like I said before, you’re the one who does the all the heavy lifting. I exist because you want me to. I function the way I do because you want me to.”
“So I control you?”
Levi rolls his eyes at that. “Don’t be a brat. What I’m saying is I’m just an outlet for you.”
You pause, thinking of his words. He’s not wrong. He’s just a character but he’s also not just a character because of you. “I wish you were real.” You admit sadly.
“I wish I were real too…for you.” He sighs as he runs a hand through his raven hair. “But it doesn’t matter if I’m real or not. I still occupy your brain. I still make you happy, that’s all that matters. As long as you let me live in your mind, I’m always going to be here for you.
You nod, not saying anything further.
“Okay?” He asks.
“Okay.”
“Good.”
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this is something that is forever on my mind and i am gonna do my best to articulate it here.
so i grew up in a small old mining town in yorkshire and when we did shakespeare at school it was seen as this very old very posh thing to study. most of the kids gave up before we even started looking at the actual text and most of the teachers had given up trying to engage the class in it anyway. but not a lesson went by where someone didn’t pipe up saying ‘why is it written like this nobody talks like this!!!’ which BAFFLED ME because LAD !!! YOU TALK LIKE THAT !!
yorkshire as a dialect is FULL of shit that fell out of standard english use DOWN SOUTH due to a rising middle class population. up here where there has always just been mostly common folk doing mostly common work a lot of it stuck around. when we speak we still use stressed syllables that we don’t write down as accented words anymore (blessèd / blastèd etc). we still use thou (tha) and thy (thi) as informal ‘you’ and ‘your’. and don’t get me started on contractions, it’s so common to shorten “over” to “o’er” we hardly ever say “the” if we can help it.
like obviously there’s so much more to it than this but from my experience the things that were constantly tripping the class up was attempting to read lines aloud in a RP / news reader voice because they thought “it’s posh so i need to do my posh voice”. it’s not going to work like that! you need the rhythm of natural speech to fully get what is being said. and the english accents with the best hope of getting that right are typically northern accents, particularly a yorkshire accent.
it’s just so interesting to me that because shakespeare’s work has been played thousands and thousands of times and developed this air around it of being pompous that you got kids in the north of fuckin england saying that it’s just flat out incomprehensible now when really we’re the ones speaking it day in day out.
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Yes, misinformation for a good cause is still bad, especially if it’s a polarizing issue.
The handful of people you might win over from misinformation does not negate fact that people opposing the cause will use the fact that there is misinformation to discredit the entire movement as lies
The handful of people that you might win over with misinformation and who will still be fine with having been lied to once they find out doesn’t compare to the number of people who will see that there are a handful of lies and assume that’s what the entire movement is built on and dismiss it
Stop making up fucking lies to “help” the causes you care about, it doesn’t help it is actively harmful
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