Not me looking up the Seven Sisters situation because y'all have me curious.
So, Mystra possessed a woman and used her body to seduce her target...I mean a man, knowing that even though the woman was ok with the possession she wasn't exactly down for said man.
Then the man didn't know, for years, that Mystra was possessing his 'wife' until she started burning up from the inside from housing a goddess and he consulted a priest.
That's still an assault, but shocker, it's not necessarily a female victim, once again.
Dornal had No Idea who he was sleeping with. So, while Elue gave permission...for the most part, he sure as hell didn't.
This is not the brownie point you think it is.
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((Rambling season 7 episode 4))
((Note I'm not putting pictures because shitty internet for now and doing it watching only one time.))
((As always, I tagged things so if you don't want spoilers you can hide with tags.))
((TW: s*icide themed, death, somehow *ddiction themed?))
(( From my view I would resume the episode as "No ethical consuption under capitalism but it is difficult to get out of capitalism consuption"))
((The episode begin with the family first with a dinner ritual every Thursday with spaghetti. A ritual which makes everyone happy and happy to reunite as a family. You see how super excited they all are, like Morty prepared a napkin in advance to eat spaghetti))
((But then, Morty discovers the spaghetti are made of people's suffering. Here people's s*icide. Which first let Morty to tell the family.))
((But here comes a dilemna which causes Morty to be wrongly punished for it: if this was one of the rare rituals reuniting and making the family together, what to do? The family now knows and is conflicted. They scream at Morty because they know they are wrong but that spaghetti ritual was bringing them together and they don't want to stop this.))
((You know, the same way you can be punished for not being on social media? Not eating meat? Not using your phone? Not buying some kind of clothes? We sometimes consume not for our own pleasure but because we want to be together or don't want to be excluded. ))
(( Morty then goes to try to stop this but then comes another dilemna: some exploited people want this, and fighting against it is also fighting their death wish.))
((So comes an adventure where Morty is trying to give a better way of consuming spaghetti for his family without hurting too. But it is turning worse because under the name of "ethical" consuming, capitalism/society whatever you name is engineering, using this twisted moral to push people to suicide so people "chose it" so it looks morally more acceptable. You could point thought if there wasn't this advertising direct or indirect everywhere you probably wouldn't choose to die to become a product but it is hard to tell when you are living with it.))
((Not everyone care about people's suffering, but seeing but seeing the suffering for real can stop some people at least... but then you probably want to compensate consuming something else which might be as bad as the other product.))
((I would say the moral isn't about you shouldn't care, but with how complexe just one fight can be, it is easier for some people not to check how bad something is. Morty chose to fight for the spaghetti and won kinda but will probably not fight for the next meal))
((Fighting can be endless and it is not easy.))
((My poikt of view thought it is better fighting than do nothing if you can))
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🖤or 💜 or 💛!
(Sorry for taking a bit of time to reply!! I wanted to answer all of them hehehe)
🖤 Black: Do you think about your story when you're not physically writing it? Does it help with plotting scenes, character arcs, etc.?
Yes, always... Most of my stories begin with rotating ideas in my head, so concepts and ideas, even dialogue, will usually have to exist as a starting point before I actually write anything down. And for actual plotting - I really like using outlines and outline almost everything I write, so really it is a thing where I will be thinking about a fic and then a random moment will turn into an outlining moment if I go to write new ideas down :D
💜 Purple: Name one song you're listening to while writing your next/current fanfic. How or why does it help the writing process?
Ahh... I wasn't really listening to anything while writing my most recent fic xD Actually, listening to songs with lyrics while writing can be tricky for me, I prefer to listen to music while doing the aforementioned rotating ideas in my head thing 😁 One EXTREMELY fitting todolf song though is Poison by Alice Cooper... everyone listen right now... don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (deep in) etc
💛 Yellow: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.
Ahh, this is such an interesting thing to think about!!!!
For something like Tod/Death, every writer has to kind of come up with their own interpretation. We never get insight into what he's thinking (kkog doesn't count that's not canon...), we don't have a clear view of his motivations because of the layers and layers of lies by Lucheni (up to the viewer how many layers there are), all we know is that he's There and there is some sort of deep connection to Elisabeth and, to a lesser extent, Rudolf.
However, the more fic I write, the more I write Tod as somewhat of an extension of Rudolf's personality. The idea really is that he's whatever you want him to be, he taps into all your weaknesses and insecurities and approaches them in a way that will be the most effective on you for the purposes of You Know What. Mirrors etc,,,,, Unfortunately for the kind of Rudolf I usually write, this mostly means that tod is pretty b*sm about it AJSJDJJF. So I guess for Tod I tend to emphasize the sexuality aspect which is a side effect of the kinds of fics I write LOL.
Rudolf, on the other hand... I keep saying his canon personality is "sad, queer and rebellious", he is literally on stage for like 10 minutes and most of it is being gay s*x depressed ajsjdjdj. There's a lot of portrayals to pick from... I think one of the main things I do is try to add historical facts into the mix while keeping the canon meow meow personality. Fic Rudolf usually has noble goals but despairs his life away because the environment makes it impossible to fully pursue or reach them - IRL Rudolf was similar but also fanatically obsessed with hunting I'm told (by stephanie xD) and a raging misogynist. I guess, though, that the way I write him is influenced by the fact that when the fics take place (because of what todolf is...) we're seeing him at his most private and emotionally vulnerable.
Ooh the question also asked "why"... For Tod the "why" is that I just don't really care about the paranormal entity interpretation, I mean I tried my hand at it with my todesengel fic but even with that I tried to make it fit together with the force of nature interpretation and not "god" or "demon" or idk "Satan" etc. I don't like the god or paranormal interpretations, or stuff that leans too heavily into Tod as a "creature", because 1) it would shift the genre of what I'm trying to write - idk I try to go more for toxic historical fiction metaphysical romance or whatever and not for dark fantasy or paranormal romance, 2) it's hostile to religious beliefs, like, it precludes the existence/validity of other god-like entities in this universe and more "atheistic" belief systems like Buddhism. I don't want to base my fics on a take where, for example, the Christian tradition is in a worldbuilding sense "more true" than another religious system. I think that's lazy and lets author bias show through too much - though perhaps I have a different kind of author bias, as someone raised culturally as a member of a pretty hands-off organised religion, but with a cynical attitude towards its impacts on society XD Anyway um yeah to me Tod is usually more like gravity or temperature and not like an actual Dark Angel King Of The Underworld...
As for Rudolf - I just write him according to personal preference and the theme of whatever fic I'm working on at the moment. Part of it is my reading of historical events (heavy emphasis on the "troubled hero, huge loss of potential" line of thinking) and part of it is just what sorts of performances I like best and want to incorporate into my belief system ajajsjdj.
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