change will come to those who have no fear

The first guns were just to shoot holes through PLATE ARMOUR. During warfare. There’s no big conspiracy, you are not threatened by your government, (well the mass shooters aren’t since they privileged little whiny white boys).

We outlawed guns in 1996 wholly and totally, and the last mass shooting we had was about 6 years ago, totally out of the blue but we were taught how wrong it is to take someone’s life, and how wrong it is to own a weapon of destruction for your own personal gain. Now a lovely, talented and fun girl has lost her life because of the shitty shitty shitty laws, outdated laws and outdated constitution. (Or do gun nuts forget why and when it was drawn up? Oh ye America was basically going through WAR)

She should have been safe at her own concert, she should have been safe seeing her fans. The security didn’t even check to see if someone had a gun, that’s how lax and how little people seem to care about potential gun crime, maybe it’s desensitisation because of the amount of killing you have in America, or maybe people just don’t realise. I feel really bad, I’m sorry that the NRA are fucking mad and I’m sorry more people are dying because people value their 'freedom’ over the protection of innocent lives.

if security had caught the guy with his two fucking guns and his damn hunting knife at the entrance of the venue, she wouldn’t be dead right now. think about that for a second. SHE’D BE ALIVE IF THE STATES CONTROLLED WHO GETS GUNS AND WHERE THEY BRING THEM BETTER.

i’ll push that political agenda till i can’t type or speak anymore.

so let me ask them, when is the right fucking time to talk about this? when is the ‘right time’ to point out that 13,286 people were killed by guns in the usa last year? when is the ‘right time’ to say that the usa has had enough gun violence and enough senseless, needless deaths? how many more people have to die without reason before it’s ‘the right time’ to talk about it? when is the ‘right time’ for people to wake up and do something about the fact that people die every day from this? 

but then again, this asshole probably committed no crime until he shot her. keep in mind that this guy walked in with two guns, two fully loaded magazines and a hunting knife and the only crime he MAY have committed was walking into the venue with them. that shouldn’t be normal. in a first-world country, living peacefully and gun-less without having to give up one’s freedom should be normal. (welcome to the uk. or most of western europe. but i digress.)

i hope you read that. this guy probably committed no crime by being armed with two fuckin pistols, full magazines and a damn hunting knife in a concert venue. does that not ring like some apocalyptic shit to you? because it sure as shit does to me.

people who want to talk about gun control right after a tragedy like this aren’t ‘exploiting’ jack shit - their first thought is of this because, had Florida had less of those fuckin’ wild-west-esque gun laws, this would not have happened; it would’ve been much more difficult to acquire those guns, and so he would’ve been identified as a maniac long before he got them. security would’ve detained him at the entrance of the venue. he would not have been able to open carry. a 22-year old girl who’s literally done nothing controversial in her entire life would not be dead right now.

and yes, i see you, too, the guy who’s reading these posts and thinking ‘well damn, there are people dying every day in much more horrible ways, why are y’all only thinking of famous people, y’all re pathetic.’ yeah, i see you, and fuck you. if we’re following that logic, you’re also pathetic for not thinking of the people who died yesterday, when no one famous died, either. what were you doing yesterday, when thousands of kids probably died of starvation? oh, that’s right, you were living your fuckin’ life, not thinking of those people. you’re an idiot. you ain’t superior in some way by mentioning other people’s deaths on a day when a relatively famous person is mourned by the majority of the western world on the internet. once again, fuck you.

back to my original point, though

I just finished Everything Back to You. I started writing it in October or November of 2015 and it’s now June of 2016 and… wow. That’s not the final count. That won’t be up until the entire story is posted because I do my edits right before posting a chapter. 

Also, this story broke my Google Docs app. Not once, but twice. It had to be separated into three different sub groups to access on the app, and since I do a great deal of writing on my phone, it was necessary. The above is a readout of the current (pre edit) stats from the main file.

let’s talk about her character, but what is with this ‘ur wrong get tf away if u dont like liz ur a bad person she’s amazing’ like no??? im sorry??? i think she’s a poorly executed character and megan’s mediocre skills don’t help? it’s bad storytelling and character building at this point as far as im concerned; you wanna disagree? let’s.

but yeah, goddamn fans, the shitty people who think for themselves and dislike a character you like, what a fuckin terrible group of people. idek how we sleep at night, knowing what a great injustice we’re doing by just being plain wrong. after all, anything you disagree with is ‘negativity’ and it shouldn’t exist LALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU

i miss it, man

lol

You speak the truth, anon. This Mr. and Mrs. Smith comparison kinda blew my mind and not in a good way. But I was blanking on several details before, which I hate, so I re-watched this movie tonight to refresh my memory. Now it makes even less sense to compare the MAMS dynamic with that of Tom & Liz.

They fundamentally differ.

What makes MAMS palatable is the fact that they both deceived and lied to each other; they both led double lives as trained and seasoned operatives. And when they learned about each other’s deception, it didn’t break either of them. It actually revitalized their crap, intimacy-free relationship.

They were equally responsible and culpable, using their marriage as a cover and keeping secrets from one another. They did not come into each other’s life because one was assigned to entrap and spy on the other, and later they actually bonded over having the same work background. None of this was in play with Tom and Liz given that Liz, as you said, was in Tom’s line of work only as a mark to be exploited, not as a fellow operative. Liz did not deceive him; she loved him and he abused both her and her trust/love. The violation was thoroughly one-sided - as were the feelings of genuine love/care - and devastating for Liz.

She and Tom were never on an equal footing here - not in blame and not in training/experience. Tom even pointed it out how Liz was not capable of cold-blooded murder and he used this “weakness” to force her hand. So any attempt at equating Liz and Mrs. Smith is hilarious to me given that a) the latter killed like 300+ people w/ ease and b) how TPTB basically lobotomized Liz’s character to facilitate Tommy boy’s fast-tracked “redemption”, and by doing so they turned her into a broken shell that’s the furthest thing from a confident, experienced, capable, self-respecting character like Mrs. Smith.

If the mention of mental/emotional/physical abuse doesn’t sit well with TPTB, that’s too bad. Maybe they shouldn’t have written it in then. But they did, so owning it would be the bare minimum. Even Ryan admitted Tom was gaslighting Liz, so let’s cut the crap already. They named the spin-off “Redemption”, so how about we finally start acknowledging all the vile crap this shitbag has pulled?

I’m not sure what it is about daddygate that gets people so fired up. I’ve complimented the writers several times, letting them know how much I love their dialogue, the way they play with it so. I’m not sure if anyone else notices, but it’s not always exact. Much of it is actually left open to interpretation. Open to the point where it can fit one theory or another, and I’m not just talking about Red and Liz’s connection. I’m talking about everything. It’s actually one of the reasons I love this show. It keeps the audience guessing and theorizing, which I actually find quite fun. I love it when a show makes me think and feel long after each episode has aired.

I’m going to address one of the biggest arguments anti-daddygaters use, and show you what I mean about playing with dialogue and why it’s not exact.

It comes from Liz asking Red if he’s her father, and the “Red doesn’t lie to Liz promise” that people like to believe in.

Let me throw the dialogue up here:

Liz-“Wait. One question, please. It’s about my father. Growing up, Sam. He raised me like his own. He was my whole world. But he wasn’t my father.” Red-“What is the question, Lizzie?” Liz-“Are you my father?” Red-“No.”

First, I want you to notice how Red asks, “What is the question, Lizzie?” This is Red- waiting to see how she words the question. He’s done it before with Liz. It’s actually quite effective. Get to the question, and let me hear the exact wording you use. One can actually lie without lying when you consider wording. Not that Red needs to lie in this instance because the very wording of her question wasn’t exact. Had she asked him, “Are you my biological father?” and he gave that same “no” response, I’d have let daddygate go, but that wasn’t the case. She simply asked, “Are you my father?”

He can still be her biological father and not be lying to her about not being her father. How? Simple. She was adopted by Sam when she was four, and in that moment (whether legally or not), Sam became her father. He had all parental rights. Something parents typically give up when they give up their child unless it’s an open adoption. One also has to consider their own personal definition of what a father is, and you can play around with that however you like.

So when you ask the writers if Red is her father, her dad, or any other term you want to use, make sure you include the word “biological” in your question and see how they answer you. Until Liz asks it with exact wording or the writers answer to that exact wording, I will continue to believe that Red could be her biological father. Even further, for those so inclined to know the very truth of the matter- you may want to ask using her birth name (Masha Rostova) because Elizabeth Keen is actually an alias of sorts. So in asking, make sure you ask using Masha. When wording isn’t exact, writers are able to avoid revealing any truth. 

I wanted to add two things while I’m here because I find them interesting to think about. 

1. Why would Liz ask Red if he was her father? Was it his actions that made her question it, or was it how he made her feel?

2. Another thing to think about is the dialogue Liz threw at Tom when they spoke about the music box. The music box Red spent days restoring, then gave to Liz. 

Liz-“Where’d you get that thing?” Tom-“I was gonna ask you the same question. I found it in the basement.” Liz-“That’s where that was. I’ve been looking for it. My father gave it to me.”

“My father gave it to me.”

i shouldn’t reblog these things but my god, this is like the intricate ‘agnes is red’s baby’ theories i keep seeing around here