everything about lydia finally being able to rest and not rage anymore (and even how the bad kids and specifically kristen approached her this season!) feels like a disability metaphor to me. the feeling of getting to rest after years of rage and how it can so easily be read as finding the right medication or accommodation. the way kristen immediately tries to get the gem out and how obvious lydia’s relief (and disbelief tbh) is at her immediate trying like how finding a doctor that actually wants to work with you is like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
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ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story
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This pic from yesterday's Rebirth event feels like a meme waiting to happen.
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I mean... why DOES he keep that around. Couldn't he just leave it at the "my wife is evil so I killed her" part
(Don't mind Erich he's just having a mental breakdown)
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This is Torgal, a wolf pup raised in the duchy. There is no more loyal ally in battle, and no keener guide when the road ahead is uncertain.
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well, I just got polls and thought I would experiment with what that's like and now I regret my choices because now I actually want to know the real answers
(also I would personally choose Patricia C. Wrede as a gateway despite having been read Lewis and Tolkien before I turned seven on the grounds that Wrede was what made me want to read more of my own accord)
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as a kid that grew up rich, i'm so glad we have fabian to represent the weird feeling of having everything EXCEPT the thing you need - your parent's support.
mine was closer to adaine where my parents hated everything unique and genuinely cool about me, but i didn't get the benefit of leaving them (or them tossing me aside.) partly because i wasn't as courageous as adaine in defying my parents when they were being assholes. i was adaine if she actually bought into her parents' messaging that she inherently sucked and needed to conform to her parents' ideals.
but it was also combined with parents who will make sure you have everything bc it's part of their identity as New Money Parents that want to give everything to their kid so they can Show Their Friends how much money they have (and not to actually help or dote on their kid).
hey how about you give me a little attention and care, how about that?
hellariel does seem like she loves fabian, which makes me happy for him. he at least as that. and he has agency to do what he wants with his money.
isn't it weird to figure out how shitty your childhood was based on how much better the lives are of fictional kids whose lives were intentionally made to be shitty?
EDIT: damn this resonated with more folks than i'd guessed. fellow gilded cage kiddos unite <3 we'll get thru this life together, my loves.
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I know other adults like to joke about how much pain they're in, but genuinely, please try to get your pain checked out if you're an adult experiencing it, or at least adapt your life in whatever way lessens your pain.
Your pain deserves to be addressed. Please don't "let" it get worse because you've been told that to grow older is to suffer. No, you aren't being needy or selfish or annoying. Ultimately, you are the one who suffers the most from the state of your health, and it's entirely reasonable to want your health to be up to your standards.
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oh nothing im just thinking about how kristen moved to mordred manor with tracker and lives there but she hasnt been adopted by either sandralynn or jawbone but she does talk to jawbone and see him as some sort of… guiding figure.
kristen who once lived in a very close knit stereotypical religious family and then was some combo of cast out and walked away from it.
and yes a family can be your werewolf guidance counsellor, your friend who he adopted, his werewolf niece who is your girlfriend, and your other friend whose mom is dating your guidance counsellor. and also ragh and lydia barkrock and your friend’s ex-villain sister. but like does she lie awake at night and think about her brothers who she left money for? or her parents who she thought loved her until they suddenly didn’t?
what im trying to say is that families man. bio families and families of choice and loneliness and abandonment issues and emotional dependency (bec lets be real in the live show i was truly worried about kristen while tracker was gone on a level that is comparable to my worry over my irl friends) and filling those holes inside yourself because we are all just swiss cheese my man
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thinking about the time loop that the PCs basically got for free, no rolls needed - thinking about how the power of friendship is less powerful than the power of chronomancy - thinking about how the ultimate fantasy about high school is being able to go back in time and do it over right this time - thinking about the time quangle
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