#he thinks my beliefs are bullshit but in a respectful way where he thinks they're true to me and vice versa

[max1461]

Like look. My parents are like this. My mom seems to inhabit a whole different and contradictory belief system when she's mad than when she's not mad. She will literally say things that directly contradict and never acknowledge it. If she's mad and you go "but yesterday, when you weren't mad, you said the opposite" she'll go "no I didn't" and vice-versa. She's gotten a little better about this over the years, but mostly I just have to try to deduce what she actually is gonna do based on how she's acted in the past, not what she says—it's not a great guide!

My dad, on the other hand, says different things to different people. He says whatever he believes will curry the most favor with who he's talking to. He'll play every side in any conflict that comes up. This is just what he does. So I've learned—pay attention to who's in the room when he says stuff. He'll be playing to those people.

Now, I try not to do this. I try hard to mean what I say. I do this mostly for myself and my own peace of mind but also for others. But most people I meet are not like me. They're way more like my parents.

And like I said, I believe in taking people's word for their own beliefs and so on as a matter of respect and politeness. Unless you have strong evidence to the contrary why not default to taking someone at their word? But you have to have a contingency plan, you know, you have to realize "ok, people bullshit a lot, so I need to take seriously the possibility of that and not do anything with this information that could hurt me if it's bullshit". Obviously if you know the person, this scales with their actual observed propensity to bullshit. Some people are more trustworthy in this way than others! But I also have great relationships with people who have a (non-nefarious) propensity to just say shit without thinking, because I just know that I can't expect what they say to be literally true (in whatever given domains they do this in), and accordingly should not bank on it. For many types of relationship, that's totally fine!

But like, yeah. Take people's word for what they say, especially what they say about themselves, by default; I think that's a fundamental part of respecting someone. But especially in the case where you don't know the person, if the information has some effect on you or your wellbeing keep in mind that it very well might be partially or totally bullshitted and plan accordingly. At least this is what I do. And when reasoning about large (representative) bodies of speech, remember that it will contain a least large chunks of not-literally-true-or-even-necessarily-literally-believed stuff.

#personal

[finnglas]

This is just a personal rambling, this isn't meant to be prescriptive for anyone else, this is just me using tumblr as a livejournal substitute but -

Honestly I think becoming agnostic was the best thing that ever happened to my worldview. I was raised evangelical protestant, and I believed it with my whole heart. I believed that what I knew was the Truth, with a capital T, and it was the bedrock of my life. It was comforting, in a way.

I had some really lovely friends who challenged my point of view from time to time, but I either managed to reconcile it with my world view or dismissed it as them being mistaken when I couldn't. (Cognitive dissonance is one of those areas of my psychology degree that I know about on a deep and personal level, lol.)

My road out of this world was winding and took several years. Several times I would approach questions and then back off completely because we were taught that any doubt, any faltering in the surety of our faith, was a "foothold for Satan." We literally weren't allowed to be uncertain. We weren't allowed to not know.

I can identify four things that eventually pried me out of that mindset, all of which took place over the course of about 2 to 3 years in my mid-20s.

A coworker once told me that he lost respect for people who tried to bullshit their way past questions they didn't know the answer to. He said, "I just respect them more if they're honest and say 'I don't know.'" That made sense to me. The Truth didn't need me to defend it by saying things I wasn't sure of and maybe getting it wrong. I resolved to start being honest and saying I didn't know when I didn't. And it turned out there were a lot more things I didn't know than I had previously thought.

I read a devotional book that quoted Pascal as saying, "To be a true believer in anything, you must first question everything." And the book was using it in the context of, when trying to convert people to Christianity, encourage them to challenge their own beliefs. I thought, well, that's not fair if I ask them to do something I haven't done myself. I started with the most basic of basic premises: Does God exist?

I had recently gotten into tarot. While most church people I knew condemned it as witchcraft, it always struck me as well, if God can speak through anything, he could also speak through tarot cards. One of the very first readings I did for myself basically panned out to, "You're going to have questions, and the leaders of your faith are not going to have answers that satisfy you. You will walk away." I did NOT like that, but at the time I took it to mean, I would walk away from the organization of the Christian church, not necessarily from Christianity as a whole.

I took Abnormal Psychology as part of my college degree. Anyone with a psych degree will tell you that any given psych professor has a Thing that they always come back to, compare things to, harp on. It's usually because that's what they've devoted their lives to researching and teaching just pays the bills. Anyway. My Abnormal Psych professor's Thing was child sex trafficking. She studied the mental and emotional deviancies that were involved in people paying lots of money for the privilege of abusing children. And let me tell you, I know more about child sex trafficking from that class than anyone who isn't explicitly studying it should ever know -- but that's where I learned about things that led me to the one question I couldn't answer, and that no one I knew could answer: If God is all-powerful, and all-loving, how could God allow this kind of horror to exist on such a large scale?

So my questions were: "Does God exist? And if he does exist, is he loving? And if he is loving, is he truly all-powerful? And if the answer to all these questions is 'yes', then how do these horrors keep happening?" And the only honest answer I had to any of those questions was -- and still is -- "I don't know." I could speculate, of course. Anyone can speculate, about God choosing not to exercise his full power to teach humanity a lesson, or to allow humans to participate in his plan, or whatever, but the full answer is: I don't know. It's just speculation.

And for me, that wasn't good enough to stay. Maybe for some people, it is. Maybe they can say, "I don't know, but I still choose to believe."

For me, anything less than the certainty of Truth wasn't worth me devoting my life to it. If the very basic tenets of my Truth had suddenly become things I wasn't sure of, didn't know, then how could I trust the rest of it? I couldn't.

And I still live in that place. I can't say "No, God doesn't exist." Maybe God does exist, and just not in the form I was told. Maybe he exists in exactly the form I was told, but there's something else at play. I don't know. I can't know. I have no way of knowing. I have to just take the action that seems sensible to take, judging from the evidence around me.

But having to live with uncertainty in what was once the foundation of my life also means that I'm better at living with uncertainty in every other area. It means that I'm open to possibilities because I don't think I Know things. It means that the only thing I can do is the next thing in front of me, as well as I can, living by a guiding principle of kindness.

Anyway. I appreciate the freedom of agnosticism in every area of my life, and I do highly recommend it. But that's just me. Everyone else has to ask and answer their own questions. It does worry me that I see people who have left this rigid Christian upbringing...but haven't left behind the need to force everything to fit their worldview. Haven't left behind the need to Know the Truth and be unshakeable in it. It's just that they've embraced "liberal truths" instead of the old conservative ones. Maybe that's all right. I don't know that, either, and I don't have to know. But I think a little sprinkling of agnosticism could do most people good.

#personal ish

[fundiebabynamebible]

Letters to Judge Brooks: David Waller, Kellers and LaCount Reber

David Waller

"Hey Judge, Josh sold a few cars, built a deck and prays and sings to Jesus. Let him be free."🙄

I have to wonder how Josh, who lived in warehouse on his parents' property, could earn enough to send £2000 a month to a widow. He couldn't even afford his own home. Did she have a gun to his head or something? Surely you'd put the needs of your seven children first. Sounds to me like the money was used to keep her quiet about something. When he was caught on Ashley Madison in 2015 I always thought he would never stop cheating on Anna. At the time I was 17 and had stepped back from the Duggars to focus on college but was aware of what Josh did. If he had a subscription to somewhere or was paying sex workers on the side, he would have to be accountable for where the money was going when someone pulled him up on it... This is just another tall tale Josh told his family to make himself look like an upstanding member of the community.

I do feel sad for the children as they're the one of the ones who suffer the most in all of this, probably second after the victims, but I hope they someday come to realise the enormity of what their father has done. This is unlikely to be his last stretch in jail.

After some of the things I've heard about David recently and in the past, this letter makes me feel very nauseous. What Josh did is far more than just a 'mistake'. A mistake is accidently driving a mile or two over the speed limit not downloading child sexual abuse materials and molesting your sisters. Yet after all this Josh is the only person who can 'spiritually guide' Anna? Josh needs to be spiritually guided... to hell!!

Whilst I highly doubt any of these bullshit letters will sway Judge Brooks, I genuinely hope he's already decided on a very lengthy sentence for Josh.

Mike Keller

I find it odd that he wrote 'Dear' in the middle of the letter, the handwriting is scruffy and the letter looks rushed. Does he not have a computer to type? I know my handwriting is scruffy due to my disability so I'd prefer to type a letter rather than write where possible.

Josh offered to help a man pay a bill. That's alright then. Set him free Judge Brooks. Honestly, you'd think a father in law would know their son in law a little better than this, enough to give more than one example of what you're saying.

No mention of Josh being a fantastic husband🤔. I think Mike may regret ever getting into bed with the Duggars.

LaCount Reber

His actions were a sign of kindness and respect? No, they're a sign of a man who was stuck on bail in a house he couldn't leave unless for certain times approved by his parole officer, he had to do something to pass the time. I'd be organising the house as well if I was in that situation and not allowed electronics.

Josh is a master manipulator. In none of these letters is anything saying Josh has expressed remorse for his actions or wants to change his ways. He has made everyone around him think he's this wonderful human being but in reality he's rancid scum.

Samuel Waller

When these letters say something along the lines of 'we pray God will give you wisdom' it almost feels like a veiled threat towards Judge Brooks. What will the do if he send Josh down for 20 years, ask God to hit him with a bolt of lightning? Praying won't help here, I'm confident God is on the prosecution's side with this one.

These letters all say the same thing and it's just reiterating my belief that they were all written in one go by Jim Bob or a PR manager, adjustments made to suit each person and then sent off to be signed.

#fundie #duggar family #josh duggar #bye bye josh #court case #josh and anna #josh is in jail #josh duggar sentencing

[hardestgrove]

feel free to ignore this is a vent so yeah

this fandom makes me feel so freaking guilty about being a Billy stan and shipping mungrove. I can literally make an entire book about all the tiktoks and posts I've seen about people bashing Billy stans because billy is racist and what not. (I am black myself) and honestly, I don't see anything wrong with billy yet people make me feel so guilty for liking his character. Don't even get me started on mungrove I really like the ship but people have called me disgusting for shipping it because billy wouldn't like eddie. i dont even know what to say anymore

i shant ignore bc i wanna send you love and support. cause you deserve it.

i've got a long ass post or two about how ppl talk about this shit and how their whole dogpiling on billy stans is just wildly ignorant to how these kinds of things like ??? work??? like if you're walking in with the assumption he's racist that's not??? fucking baked in???? to his dna???? and their behavior is the kind of thing that makes people double down on their shitty beliefs if they have them so like, they're REALLY not helping ANYONE. it's just performative bullshit at the expense of real people's well being.

in my book mungrove is THE ship of the show any they never got screentime in the same fucking season LOL and no screaming dipshits are gonna change that. same with my liking billy. dacre put a beautiful job into breathing life and depth into what was going to be the most embarrassingly basic henry bowers rip off and if they lack the fucking brainpower to respect that then i don't got time for em.

there's a huge amount of eddie stans that are truly vile to everyone who's not a rabid steddie stan i mean they're fucking coming after chrissy and grace too and literally trying to incriminate her with doctored screencaps to make her look racist. these people are just disgusting as people and they think they can get away with it bc they're a big group and they're in the "moral right" when really they're just 00s yaoi fans by another name who violently hate women who "get in the way of their ship" and can't stand anything with more depth than what their stereotyped shit allows and don't like competition.

personally, as someone who's been seeing this shit online since i was like, 12 in the 00s anime geosites era i just block, delete and ignore. either they grow the fuck up or they don't and in that case i hope they get so toxic their accounts get deleted bc they earned that.

i hate that you feel like this bc fandom and shipping and shit is supposed to be FUN we are all sitting on the carpet of someone's bedroom making our barbies kiss and planning out their silly little adventures and giggling about it. some people just fucking can't stand the idea of other people liking different shit then they like it's wild.

my next mungrove content is gonna be dedicated to you (assuming it's not something like vermillion bc that's yikesy and i don't wanna put ur metaphorical name on that bestie lol) cause you're cute and you have GOOD TASTE and you DESERVE IT

but ur gonna have to literally type in /tagged/mungrove into the url bar to find it when i do bc my blog is glitched out of the tags atm lol kill me 💀 unless you wanna make a request in which case i will happily take it and make you a nice thing!!!!

also i'm working on a mungrove story where billy is friends w/ benefits w/ a girl named jodi who's mixed race and then he gets with eddie bc they were ~falling in love~ for like months lol and remains besties with her. (and plot twist! she's eddie's half sister! they didn't know that before lol) and like i didn't set out to win at "piss the psycho antis off" bingo but lol i'm now even more determined to finish that story!!!!

#answered #I'M AGGRESSIVELY SENDING YOU GOOD VIBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[igarbagecannoteven]

👀🧠-♥️

hi annie!! thanks so much for stopping by i hope you're doing well 💙

👀: okay so neither of these are 5sos fics but i'll give two different vibes to keep things interesting :)) first off we've got Slitherdale by JombleBoingus which bella read to me out loud after we finished the final season of riverdale and it made me laugh so hard i was actually gasping for air! you don't need any knowledge of riverdale in order to enjoy it so. yeah sdkfjlskdjfljd You're On Your Own, Kid by ohmygodshesinsane which is a heartbreaking marauders-era character study of marlene mckinnon that' just. ohhhh my gosh so heartbreaking and so good and really struck a cord with me in how it talks about relationships and i just. i don't even usually read marauders-era stuff (or much hp fic in general) but this was very well done.

🧠: okay i don't know how long a ramble this is going to be but i am currently entrapped by the television show of all time, aka riverdale and i'm just sorta gonna word vomit about it a little bit so um. yeah you are under no obligation to read this. putting it under a cut bc. yeah. i'm crazy i'm a crazy person do you see me writing my own speech patterns into tumblr posts that's crazy sdkljflkdjs

OKAY so currently thinking about how jughead claims that he and veronica are supposed to be foils to archie and betty which like, on one hand kinda, but on the other hand not really i feel like they're more, not foils exactly but two sides of the same coin but different? i'm missing a word but whatever that is for each other. while archie and betty are both solidly middle class, jughead and veronica are on the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum, with veronica being pretty wealthy and jughead being from the "wrong side of the tracks". jughead is homeless in season one (and seems to have been living that way for a while) while veronica has just been "displaced" since most of her family's wealth has been seized since her father was arrested for embezzlement. in season one she tries to comfort ethel, whose parents are worried they're going to lose their house due to money troubles, by saying that she knows what it's like to lose a home even though the conversation is taking place in the dining area of her penthouse/fancy apartment. she does kinda try to relate to jughead this way as well but not as explicitly (possibly bc she knows he'll call bullshit) HOWEVER despite the fact that it seems like veronica and jughead's living situations couldn't be more different, in the final season (spoiler alert) veronica gets locked out of her parent's flat and is forced to live in the movie theater where she works just like how jughead lived at the drive- movie theater *he* worked at in the very first episode!!! (obvs there are still key differences since veronica owns the movie theater but my point still stands) continuing to compare s7 veronica with episode 1 jughead, while in the beginning jughead's parents were the absent ones with his mother and sister in another state and his dad an alcoholic gang member, in s7 veronica's parents are now absent as they've sent her to riverdale to live by herself despite the fact that's only fifteen or sixteen. they've both been put in positions where the adults in their life expect them to be fully self-sufficient while still in high school and don't even bother to check in regularly to make sure they're actually doing okay. then there's their belief that their respective besties are much better, more perfect people than they are, despite the really obvious signs that they aren't perfect (archie's vigilante complex, "dark betty", etc) but there's the difference in how they handle those feelings, with jughead mythologizing archie to the point that he warps reality around this fact while continuing to view himself as an outsider in archie's life, while meanwhile veronica spends much of season 1 trying to deserve to be betty's friend by becoming a better person and eventually (spoiler alert) falls in love with her in s7 and AAAAAAA there are so many more parallels and/or juxtapositions btwn these two but i'm gonna shut up now thank you for your time.

#i applied to eleven different trader joes locations only for them to say in their emails that they might not get back to me for at least 3 #weeks the bastards #oh well war is hell etc etc #thank you for indulging me annie ksdjfkldjs #answering mail #annie #i feel like i should tag riverdale sklfdjlkdjfklsdj

[zombiesun]

my brother is an atheist studying to be a history professor who hates religion and I’m a pagan who does divination for a living and our favorite collective hobby is shitting on calvinism 

#vb #it really is......hand reaches across chasm #he thinks my beliefs are bullshit but in a respectful way where he thinks they're true to me and vice versa #calvinism is low hanging fruit but it's our low hanging fruit

[pub-lius]

Yo I haven't read Chernow's bios for a while and they were really my first introduction into the AmRev and shit but anygay- Could you give me a quick list of some of the reasons he's shitty at this? I know he is but it's been years and yeah

I am so. glad. you. asked. I have been compiling a mental list of his bs for the past year. (I'm only going to speak on Alexander Hamilton because it's the only one I've read so far).

Now, let me say a few nice things about the bastard before I talk about why I hate him. He goes really in depth, and I appreciate at least someone making the effort. He's clearly put a lot into his writing, and as a writer, I can appreciate that. He's also done a lot of research, and you can't not respect that. He's also very eloquent and clearly a very intelligent person. I don't think he shouldn't have written history books, since they are very influential books that have a lot of information, but they're still shit <3 (just my educated opinion)

Despite all the research he clearly does, he really wants you to believe whatever story he decides is the most entertaining. A lot of the time he will over exaggerate certain aspects, burying the facts of the matter in his ideal version of the events. Most authors prioritize the facts, and then give what they think might be the most accurate. Chernow still proposes alternative explanations, but in such small degrees that you've forgotten them by the end of the paragraph.

Speaking of paragraphs, he has too many. So many of them are repeating the same information, and not adding anything substantial. I know I'm not the best with brevity myself, but holy shit bro, shut up. His book could be easily cut in half if he just. stopped. talking. about. THE SAME THINGS

Also, for a man with such definite claims, he certainly cites a lot of other secondary sources. He does cite a lot of primary sources too, but there are. so many secondary sources in his notes and bibliography. I don't have as much of a problem with this, it just makes it hard to find definite evidence of the stories he tells.

We also need to talk about his glorification, of Hamilton and Washington specifically, more so Washington. He acknowledges some things Hamilton did wrong (at least at the point where I am in the book, which at the beginning of the 1790s, before a lot of Hamilton's controversy), but he largely glosses over them. He also exaggerates Hamilton's abolitionist beliefs. With Washington, he glorifies him a lot more. Now, Washington is very easy to glorify, since you can justify most things with "he was trying his best", but he still wasn't perfect, or even close. He was kind of a dickbag sometimes.

Also he has a weird obsession with giving Hamilton and Burr a lovers to enemies storyline, it's really annoying. Every five seconds he's like "here's what's CRAZY guys... while hamilton was having explosive diarrhea... burr was.... TAKING A PISS!!!!! ISNT THAT CRAZY THAT THEY WOULD BOTH USE A CHAMBERPOT AT THE SAME TIME AND THEN DUEL EACH OTHER??????" Which kind of makes it seem like Burr and Hamilton were more connected throughout their entire lives, when uh, they weren't. Like at all. And it makes it seem like Burr betrayed Hamilton, which explains why the musical makes him look like some kind of Judas.

Also I hate the way he talks about the women in Hamilton's life. Especially Eliza and Angelica. He makes it seem like they only existed to further Hamilton's empathetic, but horny character that he's trying to portray. The way he talks about them makes it seem like they weren't their own people. (i feel like i don't even need to mention how he dedicated half a chapter to Hamilton and Angelica's alleged emotional affair, but only a page to his relationship with John Laurens, who maintained, at the very least, a homoerotic "friendship" for like six years. whoops i did it anyway).

Now, part of me wants to go chapter-by-chapter calling out his bullshit, but these pretty much sum up the entire book (or at least the half I've managed to struggle through) because it is. SO. REPETITIVE. It's just the same things, but slowly moving through the timeline at a snails pace. I highly dislike Chernow's writing, and I don't recommend it if you already have a good understanding of whatever his book is about, but if you want to learn a lot of information from one source, go for it!! You'll learn a lot of really interesting things, just keep in mind that his writing isn't the most accurate, and to always fact check historical facts even if they're not Chernow. It's very important to try to be as accurate as possible when dealing with real people (unless ofc you're not portraying it as truth). Question everything, it's how you learn!!

I hope this helps, and thanks for the ask, bestie!!!

#alexander hamilton #george washington #ron chernow #books #american history #history #literature #sorry this is long #but you triggered my primal instincts

[spainkitty]

Teen Wolf characters and their The Untamed counterparts

Firstly, I've watched Untamed once, and mdzs never. Secondly, I bet lotsa ppl are gonna disagree with me, get over it LOL. thirdly, I'm going mostly by personality, NOT by story beats/relationships. Because that just wouldn't work here (unless it accidentally works!) LOL. and Lastly, I technically watched s4 and... s5? I think? but I barely remember any of s5 and I HATED s4 so. let's keep it to s3ab characters and earlier.

So here we go!

Wei Wuxian- Stiles is hands down WWX. Sassy, sarcastic, morally ambiguous, and thinks he's always in the right, and while he can be OFTEN in the right, he goes about it the wrong way. also fiercely loyal and clannish?? oh yes, Stiles and WWX are very, very, very similar. (Metawise, they're also the best and most dynamic actors in their respective shows, fite. me. (ง'-̀'́)ง)

Derek is difficult. I wish he could be LWJ, but that's just not his and Stiles' dynamic. (similar, but not quite) I kinda feel like he's more like Jiang Cheng or Nie Mingjue. They care deeply about family, but they all have very narrow views and it's hard for them to change track once they're on it. Nie Mingjue is basically a Lawful Good paladin with anger issues, Derek is basically a Neutral Good paladin with anger issues. So, yeah, Nie Mingjue would be Derek.

Hilariously: Lan Wangji- Boyd is the closest I could think of personality wise and I'm DYING. Stoic, reticent, secretly sassy, will fuck you up if you mess with his people, loyal to what he believes to be right and willing to leave behind what he believes to be wrong, even if that's dangerous or the more difficult path (especially for the sake of the person he loves)? Yeah, Boyd. Erica could kinda fit as WWX, maybe I should change my earlier casting and make this a Berica retelling? 🤣🤣

Lan Xichen- Sheriff could fill this role and personality pretty well. Though, I will say the show did NOT give LXC enough to do and he deserved to be as badass as the Sheriff. But: they are both diplomatic, work well with others, adaptive, and have a low tolerance for bullshit (they just can deal with it better). They are both extremely clever, but have a huge blindspot for the ones they love, to the point where they make excuses for bad behavior or trust on faith rather than evidence.

Nie Huaisang- Is it a hot take if I say Lydia?? Because Lydia. Lydia would be the first one to put the dots together (especially if they came after someone she loved). Honestly, TWreck did her fucking dirty. She's a literal genius, she's cunning, a survivalist, and ambitious. She also, like NHS, knows how to blend in and seem like the exact opposite of what she really is while still doing exactly what she wants when no one is looking. Could she pretend to be a Headshaking, vapid, scaredy cat while secretly pulling every string to get her revenge? Yes. Would she? Oh yes.

Jiang YanLi- She's gotta be Melissa. Helpful, takes care of her family, and others!, and is the rock. Y'all know JYL is the mom friend. Melissa is LITERALLY the mom. Perfect connection.

MianMian- Erica of course. Feral lady who don't take your shit. Who knows when to walk away and when to fight. She's not gonna sit back and let shit happen without trying to stop it. Hello, feral hero ladies~

Jin Zixuan- Based on his relationship with Mianmian rather than JYL, this would be Isaac. Best buds, sassy, judgemental, but under the snark and bitchiness is a good person who's honestly shy and sweet. The BABY who doesn't want anyone to know he's the babey.

Wen Qing- Allison would be a good fit here. She throws knives pretty well, WQ throws needles. Spine of steel and no fear. From a family with bad intentions, but rises above it in the end to be a good person with her own creed and beliefs. Is used by baddies, but manages to get out of it.

Jiang Cheng- Scott. Which I think actually does Jiang Cheng dirty. Scott's really a mix of Wen Ning (s1 Scott, and the sunshine boy of fanon, before the true Alpha bullshit) and JC. Devoted to his family, which is broken and small, with narrow views; when people disagree with him and what he thinks is right, he's furious and refuses to understand. Instead, he feels betrayed. Both characters have different motivations and reactions, so this is VERY broad strokes here. But it kinda fits with Melissa being JYL; if anything happened to Melissa and Stiles were somehow responsible?? Oh yeah, I definitely see a very similar reaction from Scott. Villain origin story.

WN- Scott or Kira, but I love the idea of it being Kira. Firstly, she and Allison would be together more! Working together, watching each other's backs! And I love Stiles and Kira together, so them being besties/Kira being his Ghost General? SO fun!🤩 Plus super powerful wrapped up in a sweetheart candy coating! yes yes and yes.

Jin GuangYao- Peter is manipulative, extremely clever, has zero scruples, while being a slithery little diplomat with Plans B, C, and Z all ready to go. Are they needlessly complicated and riddled with plotholes and Dramatique Reveals? Is there villain monolguing and faux-innocence? Do I also love the idea of Peter/Sheriff and LXC/MY ships with added betrayal angst and woe? um. YES.

Jin GuangShan- is Gerard. Do they have power they don't deserve, live longer than they should, and are complete scumbucket assholes who should die asap? yes. next.

A-Qing- Malia. Feral little girl? check. (imo, Malia should've been played as a teenager unable to BE a teenager because she spent EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AS A COYOTE, her mental development and maturity should've been stuck somewhere around 8, with waaaaay too many points in Survival skill) Dubious morals? check. I just like A-Qing a whole lot more. If Malia had been written more like A-Qing she would've been more fun.

SIDEBAR:

IF I could force Derek into LWJ's role

LXC-Laura

The Juniors = The Pack, but the only one that actually fits is Erica as LanJingyi, which is perfect.

I just realized I kinda forgot Cora. Which is fine, since so did TWreck. If I did remember her, she'd also be a good MianMian or A-Qing!!

#long post #Untamed Wolves #lololol this is awful #but it was RIDICULOUSLY fun #and impossible #fanfic AUs