even anxious pups need the moon

heated rivalry gif meme

”𝕬𝖓𝖉 𝕴 𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖎𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚, 𝕬𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖚𝖗, 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚”

Finally posting the Merthur piece I’ve been working on for the past month! I’ve been deranged about BBC’s Merlin and merthur for almost a decade now since seeing the show for the first time someone please free me from this prison 🙂‍↕️

This piece is for my AP Art Portfolio and it’s inspired by Frank Dicksee’s painting ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. In this piece I was exploring human themes of love, devotion, loyalty, and destiny as portrayed in fiction, as well as how works of fiction and art can be immortalized in history and culture (pertaining to Arthurian legend). I would honestly need an essay instead of a caption to talk about the entirety of my concept and thoughts regarding this piece, as well as my sustained investigation as a whole, but I’ll leave it at this for this post lol

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

no motorcycle (i will be so mad if you crash and die)

no pilots license (i will be very mad if you fly into a mountain and die)

no smoking (i will never forgive you if you get lung cancer and die)

no fast cars (i will be so mad if you die in a high-speed crash)

go to the dermatologist (i will be very mad if you get skin cancer and die)

take your antidepressants (i love you so so so much)