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anarmorofwords · 3 years

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Hc turns out Alastair actually likes politics

Hes smart and hed like to make a change in the way shadowhunters are treated

Hes like Christopher in that aspects, wanting to use different ways to advocate and carry out his mandate thought hes a good fighter

But he thinkseverything is extremly wrong and corrupted and its all shit after the breakup and he starts having HIS own thoughts

And necesarily he doesnt want to actually actively participate in politics

He wants to live his life and be happy

But it never stops nagging him that there is something wrong

So he does what he knows how to do

He writes, and advocates, and apologizez to Thomas cause he is aware Gideon is high up in politics but see your fathers not the problem im critisizing a system.

Writes it under A.C.

And everyones knows its him but no one can prove it so

Hes very vocal aboit his opinions

Once he dies the clave really tries to hude everything he did

All his small victories, his writtings everything because it challenges their costumes. Until Alec is able to find them

And theyre brilliant

And after getting 1900's speak (which is hilarious cause he just walks around the apartment with Alastairs letters like "hey babe what does effontry mean?" And magnus will shout "means someones being a huge dick" "Thank you Magnus")

Its actually pretty smart

He asks if Magnus has any idea who AC is and Magnus really doesnt know (he wasnt in shadowhunter buisness around that time he just visited offly) (and by offly I mean every ten years)

So he takes one of the letters for some time to try to figure it out and after reading everything just clicks like "Oh shit this was Cordelias brother"

And Alec is like???

Magnus: okok remember how I told you half your ancestors just didnt just "not marry" but were excrutiatingly gay

Alec nods

Magnus hands him the letter: see this was one of your ancestors lovers and he was a smartass cocky mf

After that lovely explanation he actually gets down to genuinly explain who Alstair was

His theory was really good Alec noted

At the end he takes into account some of the things he wrote

And when he finds an old letter (that had nothing to do with politics) he gives it to Emma

She lost everything she had of her family besides her sword

He knows shed like to have his ancestor as equally liked to participate in fuck the clave agenda

ok wait I'm having a moment *aka crying*

You KNOW this is exactly what he'd do. Like, I don't even know what to say I'm so emotional about this concept

He would totally see Charlotte's struggles with Maurice and the rest of Clave, and that's even more reason to keep it anon (to a degree, as you said) so people couldn't say he's biased (because Fairchilds/Lightwoods/Herondales' are friends and everyone knows that.)

(But honestly would many people be able to guess it's him?!? Like those asses that used to know his wittiness and eloquence wouldn't believe his opinions changed (because even after he starts "living with his dear friend Thomas" and gets closer to Lightwoods etc., that's not enough proof for people to suspect him, and he's not vocal about his views. and his friends etc wouldn't say. Idk just thinking out loud)

Oh I'm pretty sure Thomas wouldn't mind BUT ALSO IMAGINE ALASTAIR JUST STRAIGHT UP DISCUSSING THESE THINGS WITH GIDEON

like we know Gideon basically adopts him (aka that's a headcanon I'll never ever abandon it's canon shut up everyone) and loves him like his own son and so they just meet for dinner/tea/whatever to chat, and Alastair would often just suggest things to Gideon so he could present them to the Clave please this would be perfect

Also I don't know as much about Enneagram as you, but from what I've read wanting to leave their mark on the world is pretty important to eights, so on one hand yes those writings helping and inspiring Alec years later is beautiful af, but also THE CLAVE BURYING IT ALL FOR DECADES BREAKS MY HEART

just... Alastair dying, say, probably somewhere around/after WWII, and seeing how mundanes world went to shit and seeing similarly dangerous fucked up notions among the Shadowhunters (I barely remember TMI, but I doubt the Circle jsut appeared out of nowhere and there were no idiotic ideas like theirs before ) atahgasyab my heart </3

the thought of Magnus reminiscing about TLH gang to Alec shit shit shit- *cries more*

And damn Alec would find so much comfort in Alastair's story - a man who fought for the right cause even despite all he went through, and even in those much worse times. It brings Alec strength to face his own battles, reminds him to never give up. sometimes he's tired and defeated and thinks maybe it would be better to just leave it all behind and try to fight for nothing more than his own family's well-being, but then he glances at one of those essays, framed over his desk, and he takes a deep breath. He thinks of Alastair, and says to himself 'its for him'. For the guy that didn't get to see the changes, but relentlessly advocated for them all the same. Its for Thomas, Eugenia and Anna Lightwood, Matthew Fairchild, Kamala Joshi, who all should not have lived through those struggles. That's what he can do for them now.

fuck fuck fuck look I don't like Emma but the thought of her smugly realising one of her ancestors was not only a badass gay icon but an advocate for change that messed with the Clave as much as he could hold up I'm gonna cry-

Basically-

#zia you'll be the death of me #the last hours #tlh #alastair carstairs #chain of iron spoilers #thomas lightwood #the shadowhunter chronicles #alec lightwood #magnus bane #alec lightwood bane #mutuals!#zia ask #tw swearing #tw caps

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petruchio · 2 years

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hi! first of all your thg takes are SO GOOD i love them. second of all i’m writing an indulgent screenplay for a fake thg web series and i wanted to know what you thought abt how to integrate katniss’ pov into screen format bc it’s so crucial to the story. unexplained voiceover felt kinda cheesy, i was thinking creating letters katniss writes throughout the series but that sounds equally cheesy. no pressure to respond! just wondering if you had thoughts. thanks!! have a good day

oh interesting question! it's honestly hard to answer for me because i'm not really a student of film (i am just a hater of the hunger games films) and as much as i complain about the movies not adapting thg well, it is probably true that voice-over would have been cheesy (my movie criticisms are more with what was cut or changed, like while i miss katniss' narration in the books WHOLEHEARTEDLY in the films, i don't necesarily think voice-over would have solved my issues with the movies -- and i still think jlaw was poorly directed in a lot of the scenes. or just no one on set understood katniss) (really not many people actually do understand katniss but whatever that's for another time) (SHES COMPLEX OKAY)

i mean one way that i would personally change the movies is to cut the capitol scene that opens the first film -- i think it devalues katniss' perspective as THE perspective we are meant to view the world through, and i have never liked how the first film opens with the capitol, because i feel like it puts us in the capitol's world from the start rather than katniss' -- instead of finding her reaching out to prim in bed and finding her missing (the literal thematic core of the series), we open with like an awkward capitol talk show. i think this has huge implications for how we perceive this world and how we understand our first introduction to katniss as a character, and i don't like it! (i've said before that if i thought the movies were going for a cool meta-commentary on how our place as moviegoers is more akin to the capitolites than it is to katniss, i wouldn't mind it so much, but i just don't think the movies were that smart.)

one thing i guess (?) you could do would be to incorporate more flashbacks? like a lot of katniss' narration is stuff that she's learned from talking to her father, or talking to gale, or talking to prim, and i feel like that would be a more effective exposition dump in order to focus on her? and not exposition dump in the same way that she and gale have that awkward stilted conversation at the beginning of the first movie, but like what if there was a flashback to her father explaining how the reaping works to child-katniss, and another one of gale ranting in the woods about the divisions between town and seam, or a scene with katniss explaining things to prim that she explains to the reader via her narration in the books. and you could also make the bread scene flashback like, <3 actually make sense <3, because in the movie its just some weird shaky cam shots. but i don't know -- i don't know how well that would work on screen honestly or how to utilize something like that effectively.

but yeah honestly i don't really have any more coherent thoughts than that, i know ive spent a long time dunking on the movies but i don't EXACTLY know how they could have done it better POV wise, other than cutting a lot of the snow/capitol/haymitch scenes that they show during the games (but that's just my personal opinion because i think they take you out of the games and out of katniss' limited pov, and i don't like that we get familiar with snow in the first movie because i think it's better to have him EVOLVE from a faceless villain to a real person as the books go on. and i think the haymitch scenes are just <3 shitty <3)

idk!!! if other people have thoughts please share via my ask or in the comments!! im curious what other people think

#answered #anonymous #thg

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fuckass-catra · 4 years

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why adora is a shit friend

mmmkay so,,

since my last post, here have been some confussion as to why following your virtues would be a bad thing. But, let me explain, WHY adora is a shit friend and doesnt fight for them.

In S1E9, Adora goes to the FrightZone to rescue Glimmer and Bow. The princess aliance have a small battle in the Frightzone’s cell block, and i think a lot about this moment.

Lonnie says “We were your friends too”, when Adora exclaims she’s protecting her friends (The Rebellion).

We’ve been always so focused on Catra’s abandoment issueS throught the series, and how much it affected her. But we never focussed on the other Horde’s characters and friends of Adora felt.

After spending years being not only caddettes together, but also close friends, they loose her. With little to no explanation.

Now, we know adora left the horde because she found out they we’re evil, and she realized she was fighting for the wrong side. Immediatley after being captured by Bow and Glimmer, she befriends them and learns the errors of her ways.

shE blindly follows two strangers into war because they showed her a good time in Thaymor, and let her eat cake. I personally think it wouldve been a better strategy, helping her firends realize the error of their ways. Showing them what etheria was all about, like Bow and Glimmer did.

She simply left them for dead, and never once did she try to convinice them. I mena, they were frineds for what? 16-17 years? I think you get to know people pretty well in that amount of time spent in each others face’s.

She also does this multiple times while she’s in the rebellion. Like for startes, we have a whole fucking episode of Adoras consant mocking and disregard for Glimmer´s authority, in Mermisterys. It got to the extent that DT took advantage of her insubourdination and use it as a way to turn them on eahc other.

It is not until the dumbasses realize they’re getting played by someone when they finally but their heads together and start to plan back. Yet, it is KNOWN that adora is pretty much a shit actress, so that anger has to come from somewhere, right?

ADITIONALLY when Adora refused to use the magic of the Heart of Etheria, and Glimmer, acked her NOT to got to Beast Island because it was dangerous. They left her for dead. Adora convinced Bow to go help entrapta, knwoing it was a suciide mission.

“Entrapta was alive”

yea well they didn’t know that, and Ador grew up with the story that people who go to Beast Isalnd are DEAD. Strategically speaking, Glimmer was right in wanting to stay in Brightmoon and TRY to figure out the Heart of Etheria.

ADORA WAS NOT HAVING IT and deliberetly convinced Bow to go on a suicide mission to help Entrata. Not knowing if she was gonna be alive. I meand, if she could convince Bow to go, she could’ve stayed a little longer to make Glimmer fucking REASON a little more into NOT using the heart of etheria. Making her see past power and Shadow Weavers manipulation.

THEREFORE, simply delaying the arrival of Horde Prime into Etheria.

im not saying Adora having morals and following them is a bad thing. Im all for sticking out for what you belive in, yet, betraying lifelong friendships IN A DAY, leaving people for dead, just because they dont align wiht you?

trash.

I think she couldve handled everything a bit better, because i assume some of y’all are gonna say that she did try and convince Catra in many ocassions to come back and she refused.

yet this was AFTER, Shadow Weaver explicitly tld Catra that if Adora returned to the Hoarde, Catra was to loose her position as Force Captain. A position she now worked hard for, and DEFINETLY DESERVES.

I know, itsall psicological, but Adora, never faught SW regarding Catra’s mental health, whenever that would’ve put her in her mother figure’s bad side. Catra was left to handle all theabuse SW threw at her, and just OCASSIONALLY received help from Adora.

If you observe the first time we see the three of them interacting, SW blantatly calls catra lazy, unmotivated and praises Adora. We also see this in many other flashbacks the both of them have; Adora gets compliments and Catra gets torn down.

I think this was a pretty good otivator for Catra, regarding her stay in the Horde. When she figured out that she was gonna be replaced by Adora, of course it makes sence that she’s gonna want to stay. Now, if adora would’ve NEVER left in the first place, or taken Catra when searching for the sword. NONE OF THE FUCKING SHIT wuldve happened.

Anyways Adora, has never faught for her friends, because in her eyes, they’re disposable. She did it to Lonnie, The Horde, to Glimmer and to Catra. She may come back to redeem her mistakes and make amends, but she never does this because she thinks she did wrong. She does this whenever she deems they have changed enough.

She welcomed Catra back when she understood that by saving Glimemer, there was still some kind of good within her.

She dismissed Catra as Evil, when she spared her in the S1 finale. Even when she saved Adora, Catra was still not good enough for Adora. She only values those who she can share a specific mentality with, not necesarily a share of values, but rather thoughts.

This is, in my opinions, why Adora is a flawed character. Yes it is shity behavior but it makes her a little more human. All the characters in this series are so well written it’s almost astonoishing that it is labeled as a KIDS show.

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unknought · 4 years

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How can i explain to my online activist friends (i am an activist also, but suffering from extreme burnout because navigating the black and white thinking and constant finger pointing and abuse of power for social capital is wrecking my mental health atm) that you can see and treat people who think differently as PEOPLE who's human rights still apply and not THE ENEMY in all aspects and necesarily a bad person, while acknowledging that sometimes their ideologies can be harmful?

> (Online activist friend anon) it'a like their whole mentality is 'in (with us, good, valuable person) or 'out' (against us, bad, person who's rights no longer matter). When i bring this up, i'm scared- i know i'll immediately be relegated to the 'out' group, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM. and leftists will criticize right wingers for being in echo chambers but man, as someone on the left, left wingers have MASSIVE echo chambers and a worse purity complex- debate (not just rehashing) is not encouraged

> And if you so much as question it- well you're not left at all, you're filthy scum, a centrist (which is a spineless word for a fash), or just a neofascist. All these terms i have heard towards people who said 'let's have nuanced discussions'. So ofc i'm afraid, esp as someone with scrupulosity, and that's a huge problem. It makes me feel hopeless to see it everywhere online. While i agree with most leftist policies, i don't gel w most leftist communities and their neoreactionary purity movement

In my experience, when you’re trying to convince people of this sort of thing, it helps a lot to make an effort to prevent people from seeing you as an outsider attacking the community. So,

Emphasize points of agreement as strongly as you can. Emotionally loaded language can help a lot with this actually, when it’s reflective of emotions that you actually feel. (Absolutely do not try to fake strong emotions that you’re not feeling; people will know.)

Conversely, be gentle and sympathetic about the criticisms/points of disagreement, although again not to the point of dishonesty or obscuring your claims.

Anticipate arguments that they’re likely to round you off to, and clearly distinguish your argument from them as much as you can.

Use the vocabulary of the people you’re trying to convince. (Yet again though, sincerity is important. Do not do this if the words don’t accurately reflect your opinions. You will sound like a conservative throwing around “cultural appropriation” as a gotcha.)

That being said, no matter what you do, you will fail to convince people most of the time. It’s hard to change people’s minds on any topic, and this one more than most. Whether or not it’s worth trying anyway isn’t something I can answer for you, but if it’s causing you a lot of stress, do consider whether maybe it’s better to disengage from those arguments.

#Anonymous

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skywailer · 4 years

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I didn't think Rowling's tweets were necesarily transphobic. I saw it as an emphasis on her belief that the gender spectrum has somehow blurred Men and Women, making everyone some sort of in-between. Whether we agree with that or not is up to us but what I really stand against is they way people who stand for "acceptance and inclusion" are insulting, bad-mouthing and denigrating another person even if she "deserves" it. If we receive what we give, all we will get at the end of this is more hate.

This sounds like the same rhetoric of “what I really stand against is the rioting.” Nothing on my blog or anyone else’s that I follow is bad-mouthing or insulting this person. Rowling has a history of putting her foot in her mouth and saying things like “transgenderism”, which is a giant red flag for transphobia. Any trans person you talk to will tell you to please stop using that because it spreads the erroneous and ignorant belief that transgender and transsexual people are not real but an “opinion” to be scoffed at. I’ve personally interacted with people who spout this and cry feminism, and they literally roll their eyes, laugh at and call trans people a joke, disabled, and disgusting for “watering down feminism”... which is so far from the truth, and such Western focused bullshit, I could spit.

Gender is a spectrum, and it is separate from biological sex (which, by the way, has its own blurred lines), and to think in binary terms is a Western way of thinking that plagues the world on the daily. There are cultures out there that have concepts of third genders, myths and practices surrounding hermaphrodites, and gender fluidity and have had them since before social media or globalization, so people like Rowling can take a seat. At best her first message ridiculing a header “people who menstrate” was ignorant and exclusive not only to the trans community but to women who don’t menstruate because of medical reasons. But knowing her constant rebuttals and commentary on “transgenderism” demonstrates conscious bigotry and transphobia. Especially when she goes on her little spiel about sex, which honestly I don’t care how that came about because as far as I’m concerned her words mean nothing but willful disregard. Just like the people who took her messages and ran with it to spout hate online towards the trans community.

And I get where the anger is coming from that would make people say things to her that I personally don’t agree with- because I have tried myself to talk reasonably and compassionately with bigots and got laughed at and ridiculed and disregarded. And I don’t have skin in this battle, really. So imagine being trans and having this come up again and again, and people take it and run with it with their uneducated commentary videos and posts and tweets like they know better than people who have studied this and lived this experience. It’s not my place and, I suspect, it isn’t yours to tell them how to react to the constant bullshit. Barely a week ago, Tony McDade, a transgender man who identified as a MAN was physically assaulted, had a mental breakdown and was shot dead by police and the local media went on to speak of him as female because that is how he was filed by police- and this is when Rowling wants to talk semantics? In the middle of Pride and BLM and just an utter atmosphere of “enough is enough?” These people are hurt, they are constantly being hurt, abused, discriminated against, and killed so I honestly don’t care how they express themselves right now.

#i am honestly not even in a good enough mood to be answering this after dealing with the nastiness on facebook thanks to this woman #but here you go #transphobia #tw: transphobia #p;asks #mail #anonymous

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pharaohzeth · 5 years

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Ok so I watched VLD s8 and I have opinions 8 (and feels) be warned I’ll get a lot into the Allurance and Klance (I don’t recomend reading this if your otp is Allurance there’s a reason why I didn’t tag that -but don’t worry it isn’t anti Allurance is one of my broships after all-) + an idea for a Klance au at the very end

Don’t expect sth super profound/super analysis.

The season was ok. I don’t hate it but neither is my favorite season of VLD (because s3 am I right klancers ;3).

So Klance didn’t become canon, not big deal, never really expected it to become canon anyway (still hurts but whatev that’s what fanfiction is for) and the Allurance was... bearable (I’ll get to that in a minute) I’ve never been into romantic Allurance, I’ve always prefered them as best friends or siblings. I was still left with some questions, like about Chip and Lance’s FUCKING ALTEAN MARKS (don’t get me wrong I’ve always loved Altean!Lance BUT I NEED A EXPLANATION FOR THIS DREAMWORKS I NEED AN EXPLANATION FOR THIS.

There were moments that I LOVED, like the only 2 Klance escenes obviously (I’ll also get to that later), all the flashbacks (I mean BABY LOTOR AM I RIGHT? cute cinammon roll that must be protected at all costs) and that one different reallity to were Honerva arrived (loved that, absolutely loved that).

Like Pidge watching 80′s Voltron, her and Allura dressing like their 80′s counterparts, Pidge immitating her 80′s Voltron self and giving autographs (that was simply great).

I ship Veronica and Acxa now too (what shall we call it? Veracxa? Arcxonica? Verocxa?)

I loved Lance so much this season (I mean I always do, but this season we got to see some things of him -personality/psyche- that absolutely adored).

Also the whole thing with the original paladis, love those guys.

Older Keith cannonicaly has long hair and I LIVE FOR IT.

Episode 7 “Day 47”? LOVED IT, favorite episode of the season hands down.

It gets depressing from here on so if you don’t feel nor want to check it it’s ok, there will be no anger, but it’s still me crying and being sad over fictional caracters so be warned. Allurance and Klance ahead.

Also even later it stops being so sad so there’s that.

Now, about the Allurance (this part gonna get log, bear with me here).

It didn’t feel right to me (not because Klance is and will always be my otp) but because it feel too much one sided; yeah, Lance loves Allura we know, I can live with that (he pretty much has since season 1) but it made me sad because it didn’t feel like Allura loved Lance, to me it felt too much like Lance throwing his love at Allura and Allura just... thanking him for it. It hurts even more because of had the DW’s team had said about Lance and needing someone to whom he’ll be their first option, and that’s not Allura (that’s Keith but I won’t get into that).

Allurance honest to got made me cry and it was for the reasons I meantioned and I’ll repeat them again because that’s how hung up on it I am.

I didn’t like the Allurance because it didn’t seem nor feel like Allura liked Lance back, sure as a friend and family but the same way Lance loved her? NO

He was always there for her, to support and help and cheer her up, but she wasn’t for him (in fact the few times we saw him in need for that it was Keith who was there for him -I’ll get to in a tick-).

He just wanted what he tought was best for her but did she listen? NO and don’t get me wrong I love Allura, I would pay her to step on me (I just think I liked her better at the beginning of the show which is sad). Heck, she got the kind of men a lot of people would like to date, charismatic, caring, loving, sincere, but it didn’t seem/feel like she was enjoying/wanted/liked/noticed it that much, which isn’t necesarily a bad thing sometimes we just don’t want things not matter how wanted those things are, sometimes we’re not ready, sometimes it just isn’t a priority or sth we want at that moment in particular but we may want it in the future, it just made me sad because Lance honest to god loved her sincerely.

Now that that’s ‘done’. The Klance this season.

Well, there were 2 major (and pretty much the only) Klance moments, both in where Keith is there for Lance. The first one is in the first episode when the whole Allurance date happened, it was heartwarming, because there he saw that Keith sees in Lance/the Lance that I don’t feel that Allura sees.

The second one was in episode 11 after a meeting, Lance needed some cheering up and kind of a reassurance that everything will be al rigth in the end, Keith cheered him up, Keith reassured him.

I don’t really care that Klance didn’t become canon (heck I’m used to it, few of my otps are canon) but it did hurt me, because it was hinted at, not only in the show but at certain things an comferences, and maybe I’m reading too much into it, maybe it was all filtered to me through my wishful thinking and stuff like that, BUT, they said the whole thing with Lance and the person to whom he’ll be first option and then he was Keith’s first option in the game episode in season 7, and I think that got a lot of us hyped with hope.

So it truly crushed me that they didn’t even hugged in the end.

And I think it hurted me more that other times because this was my first otp that, in my eyes, actually had an opportunity to be canon, that would make sense and that would give us some well deserved good representation. But like the majority of my otps, it didn’t happen.

And I’m not even angry about... just sad.

Because while I pretty much expected Klance to not be canon, I seriously didn’t see the Allurance coming, yeah, maybe a date was to be expected, but I think must (if not all of us) thought that ‘well, maybe they will be together for a while and later break up cuz they’ll notice they aren’t what the other is looking for’or sth like that.

And because while I didn’t expect them to become canon, I still hoped for it, hoped more than any other of my otps, because it truly feel that would be possible, that it had the biggest opportunity/chance (especially of my otps) to become canon. Because you know, Klance is canon king, or at least the fake canon king.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?

I won’t stay depressed over it forever, and you why? Because in the end, does it really matter? Maybe, the representation mattered, but it was not the show for it, because Voltron is a show a bout a giant robot made of 5 lions to defend the universe, romance subplots aren’t the reason why I watched Voltron, why I continued watched nor why I liked it to begin with.

I like the story, I love the characters and I love the universe, and that’s what matters the most to me. Romance is not what the show is about and it’s not why I like it.

And Klance won’t stop being my vld otp just because it isn’t canon. That’s not what shipping is about. We (or at least I) don’t ship thinks just because they’re canon, I ship things because of the chemistry of the characters, their story, heck, even maybe just for crack or aesthetics.

And in the end, that’s what fanfics are for. I’ll just continue bathing in all the Klance fanart ad fanfics.

Now see y’all, Imma go cry over my otps (mainly Klance and Asheiji) and cry more over Banana Fish (y’all should watch it, unless you’re easily triggered by certain things, better investigate the show before watching it BUT IT IS REALLY GOOD) and the fact that next week is the last episode and cry even more because I know what will happen but it will still absolutely destroy me.

Heck what about a Klance Banana Fish au in where Keith is Ash and Lance is Eiji, that would be the most angsty au ever, I like the idea, Imma do this, BE READY Y’ALL FOR THE ANGST WITH THE VLD KLANCE BANANA FISH AU TO COME, should I do it in space or rigth like BF?

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rouge-the-bat · 3 years

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whadda fuck ur my age, for some reason ur wisdom on queer stuff made me think ur middle 20s ahksjdnfs ur takes feel so matured! ig i should take this as a sign to work on my critical thinking (⊙ᗜ⊙)

omg hehe! i feel like i usually get ppl online thinking im younger, i guess bc of the way i talk sometimes or somethin? i always found it funny bc i feel younger than i am too lol. mostly bc Mental Illness be making me not perceive time-

also everyone has different rates of progression for stuff! if u feel like your behind me on maturity for some things thats not necesarily a bad thing- but also working on critical thinking skills is always a good thing, and to keep continuing to do through life! good to keep that skill from getting rusty, at any time.

i think for me, ive grown up always in a "fully proud in my weirdness" sort of way- when i was a kid and my brothers said i was weird id be like yep! weird is great! and before i started going as rouge online, my nickname was weirdo! (which i still like as a nickname!) and so when i see new things that tend to make other people reactionally raise an eyebrow at and make fun of, i just get curious like, oh! this is different, i wonder what this is about. it helps me keep an open mind, bc im always curious about things even if it seems strange at first, and i want to learn about stuff before taking any sort of stances on it. so it just comes a lot down to willingness and Want to understand new things, instead of sticking to a first-instinct judgement.

this applies to a lot of stuff, but it defintely boosts being really open and inclusionist about queer identities! the variety of experiences ppl can have fascinates me, so i like to hear about them and broaden my horizons. so whenever i started hearing about a lot of less common labels i just wanted to learn about them! i love the variety of labels out there and different ways they can be used, it reflects the complexities of us as humans ! its the natural way of how language works, since we make all of it up ourselves!

anyways yeah, i think some general key points for critical thinking are

1. is my stance reactionary? can i really even make sense of it to myself? (id say can i explain it to others, but i have issues of doing that myself in general sometimes, even if i fully 100% understand and have a firm stance on something- at least for talking out loud i have issues usually. my brain is just a mess inside lol)

2. do i even really understand what this thing is? do i even really understand what the side im against is saying? looking into as many aspects of it as you can is the best way to get an informed opinion, that means seeing what opposing sides say, even. and try to do your own research instead of just taking what others say at face value.

3. am i reaching a good medium for listening to what others have to say, but not blindly following others views? this one can be pretty tough, bc theres a lot of stuff that can pressure people to agree "or youre a shit person." i think its best combated by staying away from people who are very black and white with their stances, and especially with how they view people, people that tend to attack others for even asking questions, and generally stay away from echo chambers. having friendly relations with people who have different views than you but are really chill about it can be good to have around- which can be hard to find Tbh especially in certain topics, but theyre out there!

4. always keep yourself open to possibly being wrong, bc theres so much information out there in the world, so sometimes youre gonna come across something that will completely change your entire view on a topic. its pretty much guaranteed to happen many times in life! its good to let your stances change as you learn more, and accept that old views of yours were maybe Not Great- but that just means your becoming a better person now!

so basically check for reactionary bias, research, listen to different views (but dont blindly follow), and keep an open mind- probably some other good things to note for good critical thinking but this is whats coming to mind for me atm! i hope all of it made sense lol

#starry asks #this got a lot longer than i meant to LOL #but like ! im glad u think im p mature owo #i like to think im pretty good with navigating Opinions LandTM so im glad others think so too jfkdj #and i hope that this post helps ?? somewhat?? shrugs idk #rougey love mail

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1. I just recently following your blog. And I find that we have same opinion for the most part, or from your tags anyway. This by no means that you’d agree with me but can I share my opinion with you. Like I think that so many people have been too critical about his solo works. We really dont know anything. I feel like, Louis have been so appreciative about the opportunity he got, but it looks like we as fan cant even give him a chance. What if he make do with what he got. What if all this was..

2. the only thing on his hand. He said it himself, limited people to work with. Like, maybe the 5 of them dont get the same offers? I dont find it weird that H got the amount of support he got, and Louis got minimum exposure. If we can see it in a professional way, the party that did the offering have their reasons. Sometimes you dont get what you want no matter how hard you work for it. Its reality. That doesnt mean Louis dont deserve it. And people tend to forget, what you find rewarding could

3. be different from others. We want the best for him, and thats just it.. Why does it needs to be by the other 1D guys standard. I’m really emotional talking about Louis. Like, I want to respect what he do. I dont know the struggle he faced. This is the guy who hates their merch, their early music. I feel like the fandom so quick to talk but rarely listen. I dont claimed to know him, but I feel that Hes grateful for this opportunity. And I take my cue from him for the life HE live. thankyou :)

wow i . . got an ask! sorry it took me a while to answer this babe (depending on when u sent it) i dont come on this blog alot, i kinda just made a tumblr as an outlet for my thoughts and frustrations and to have a place to talk about louis lol

anyways i think we do have pretty similar feelings about the way things are going - mostly mine are just summed up by ‘idk what to think but i love louis and his music’ lol

To be real tho, i’ve been a 1D fan since i was 12, in 2011, and i was a larrie from like 2012 to pretty much a few months ago (not that im an ‘anti’ now or anything, i just dont kno what to think). For most of my time as a 1D fan (and especially a larrie) the culture w/ us has been, for better or worse, to hyper-analyze and doubt (for lack of better words) everything we’re given and told. Tbh, since i changed my perspective a few months ago (mostly bc of solo!harry), ive pretty much just been constantly reevaluating everything ive known for the past 5/6 years and i really just have pretty much NO idea what to think, whatsoever.

When it comes to solo!louis, ive just been trying to take it as it comes. key word is trying, bc 5/6 years of having a rock-solid idea of the “”truth”” (our ideas about the boys, management, their relationships, etc) is alot to overcome when u try to be objective.

When u say that ppl have been too critical of louis and his stuff, im not really sure which ppl u mean or if u just mean in general - ive definitely seen some ppl who seem to be critical just for the sake of it, or bc they actually dont like louis, which, ya, thats definitely too critical. But for some of the ppl being critical, it seems like theyre coming from the same place i was before i changed my perspective - if i hadnt been so put-off by solo!harry, i probly would still be just as dedicated to the fandom “”truth”” and i would be critical of solo!louis like i was/we were of everything else.

Basically, at this point, i think its just habit for alot of ppl to be critical and cynical. Or, even more, its generally more comfortable (especially when weve been telling ourselves for 5+ years that we know the “truth”) to be critical (in an all-knowing way like when ppl say “those stunts are so transparent” or something) than to admit that theres alot we dont kno. Or to admit that louis hasnt had the opportunities we thought he would have/we think he deserves, and theres not really anything to do about it.

Are they right to be critical? I honestly totally dont kno. But basically im done being critical just bc other ppl are - if something strikes me as wrong and worth being critical of, right off the bat, then ill criticize it. But if everything seems ok to me and i have no reservations and i see someone else complaining and making a big deal about it, i guess thats how i decide when someone is being too critical. Thats when it seems to me like theyre being critical just for the sake of it or bc thats what theyre used to. I think its important in our culture (1D fan/louie culture), at least for me in the place im in now, to just trust ur own instinct instead of looking to others to see if things are good or not.

At first i was a little confused by ur ask(s) bc it seems a little contradictory - u talk about how louis didnt get the best opportunities, and then u say ppl are being too critical. But i think i understand (maybe im projecting tho, bc this is how i feel about it). I think what i (and u, if im understanding ur ask rite) am feeling is that ppl want to place blame - we all want the best for louis, and we’re upset that it doesnt seem that he got it. We all love and appreciate louis, so it can be hard to see how other ppl wouldnt and how he wouldnt get all the opportunities we think he deserves. So we go off on his team, simon cowell, his record label, the other boys, etc., and we criticize them and everything louis puts out bc its through them/connected to them.

But it really all comes down to the fact that regardless of what we think louis deserves, we all know that what he gets probly wont match up to that. Youre rite, he literally said that he didnt get that many opportunities, and we have to accept that. No matter how much we love and admire him, we have to realize that for various reasons the rest of the world doesnt (at least not yet). He wasnt the most famous member of 1D, or the one pushed as the most talented, and the fact that he has a unique voice makes him kindof an acquired taste.

We have to realize that he is, like u said, doing the best w what hes got. We dont have the power to give him more, so from my perspective im just enjoying what we get and supporting it in every way i possibly can. Bc thats what being a fan is about - enjoying what u get, and supporting it so u continue to get it. We can wish he had more opportunities available, and even ask for what we want from him in polite and lighthearted ways - like tweeting him about his album, or nominating him for awards (like teen choice and stuff), or posting/tweeting about how we wish we had a video/photoshoot/etc as long as its nice and not demanding. But ya basically we are not in a position to give him opportunities so our only job (if we want it, which, being a louie, i do) is to support what he puts out.

You said: “Like, maybe the 5 of them dont get the same offers? I dont find it weird that H got the amount of support he got, and Louis got minimum exposure. If we can see it in a professional way, the party that did the offering have their reasons. Sometimes you dont get what you want no matter how hard you work for it.” Basically, i totally agree w this and i think its totally ok to just enjoy what we get from louis w/o constantly worrying about how were getting it/what we ‘should’ be getting.

I am frustrated, and always have been, that louis doesnt get what the other boys do, but thats just the way it is. We have to accept that there isnt always someone to blame - for various reasons, louis has had less opportunities than the other boys, and theres nothing we can do about it. I would even go as far to say its not necesarily an injustice - like u said, he isnt the other boys, so we cant expect him to have the same situation as them. All we can do is support him and his music as much as we can/want to.

anyway im SO sorry for turning this ask into a literal essay, i guess i had a lot to say and honestly im not sure how much of it is coherent or even on topic, it took me like an actual hour to write this all out and when i reread it… it didnt make as much sense as it did in my head lol. anyway i do think we hav some similar feelings and stuff and i really apreciate hearing ur thoughts! I hope we both get to enjoy bty (im so fuckin excited!!! from the teasers hes shared already its gonna be SO GOOD!!!) and i hope more good things happen for louis! tysm for sharing ur thoughts w me! 💙

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