The Second Daughter

lolllll y’all I just found this message in my inbox, this was from like three years ago when I made a post defending the watcher boys over the watchertv debacle and (very unexpectedly) got like thousands of angry replies over night.

I’m almost 20 now, but I was legit 17 when someone typed this out, and was like “yeah….that’s appropriate to send to someone. About some internet drama. Not too unhinged.”

and then “I made him as a joke, he’s a dweeb. I lock him in my wash machine and he squeals like a little bitch.”

A story in which the Aprodite of Knidos held the obsession of a young man who ultimately tried to basically fuck the statue and disappeared, likely a victim to the overwhelming power of the divinity at Knidos…being drawn into a trance of obsession and being punished severely by the forces that be for giving into those cosmically demanded desires.

Like, I love using classics to relate to fantasy storytelling!!! And while FUCK MYSTRA obviously, it’s also amusing to consider this just in a lighthearted context. Imagine Gale sneaking into Mystra’s temple to try and make out with her statue. That little freak would for sure do that.

The full phrase which goes “when the people have nothing more to eat, they shall eat the rich” implies that when the oppressed group has been stripped of their human dignities, they will retaliate in an equal reaction, as a last resort to ensure base survival.

This is why it’s “eat the rich,” and not “harass the rich,” or “spread misinformation about the rich,” or “engage in cruel and unusual punishment towards the rich.” Because those behaviors have nothing to do with the base survival of the oppressed group.

“Eat the rich” is a WARNING about what will happen to oppressive systems. The natural response to an oppressor is retaliation, others will treat you the way you treat them. It’s not saying that we should “stick it to the man” by eating (or in this case abusing, violating, disrespecting, or harming) the rich, it’s saying how a group that destroys itself through oppressive regimes is to be avoided. Eating the rich would be a tragedy because it would mean we lose all pretenses of what it means to be human and prey on one another. In other words, it’s an apocalyptic prophecy.

You shouldn’t be begging for a class war on tumblr, you should be working to remove the class system to better society. Those seem like they are similar things being on the internet, but I think there is a considerable difference.

If you pick petty fights with or about vapid celebrities online because they’re wealthy, you are not an activist, you’re doing absolutely nothing. QUIT WASTING YOUR TIME.

The kids they use to be, before Porter and Jace, deserve the be mourned just as much as Lucy.

Her closest non-bad kids relationships are: her dad - a werewolf former drug dealer who attacked her when they first met, her sister - a reformed villain and personal bully throughout childhood, and her wizard friend - who worked for the conspiracy in freshman year and was canonically a bully to her friend and other students.