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in the late 1790s it was in style to wear earrings depicting the execution of louis xvi.
[audio transcript]
Woman: Heâs fine. He misses you.
Man: Give him my love.
Woman: Will do.Â
[woman looks at ridiculous oversized bird]
Woman: SQUAWK
Bird: SQUAWK
THE END
itâs not just a fandom thing, itâs the âopposites attractâ kinda thing, i.e. Spock/Kirk, Newton/Hermann, Sherlock/John etc
Since I donât read tfa fic can you tell me more about this fanon character? Iâm wondering if Iâve seen him in other fandoms; it would be interesting to track to the source.
so, hereâs a three-am thought. I think that (one of) the reasons I donât love kylux as a ship (despite, obviously, weeping real tears over Children Wake Up every Thursday night), is because hux is a character created almost entirely out of wholecloth by fanon. He is remarkably consistent from fic-to-fic, but the thing you recognize him as is that-hux-from-that-other-fic, not hux-in-canon, because literally all Hux in canon does is look mad + offer terse pieces of exposition + fire the weapon that one time. and the thing is? fanon hux was familiar the very first time I saw him, even before having other fic to compare him to.Â
because fanon hux? is fanon arthur from inception.Â
another character created almost entirely from fandom wholecloth, since his actual part in the movie was like five minutes long. like. theyâre SO MUCH the same? with the combination kinky/prudishness (prudish til you get him in bed, whereupon he is The Most Kinky), the charmingly repressed rage, the Love of Research and Order, the way lust/interest/affection is coded into irritation at The Neat and Tidy World being All Roughed Up by the hot mess of the other half of the ship? I would bet actual money that you could C&P âhuxâ for âarthurâ in a bakerâs dozen of inception AUs and the character is likeâŠpretty much the same? and, well. Iâm pretty sure that arthur isnât the first time I met this guy, this crowdsourced tight-lipped furious perfectionist with his neat clothes and his scowling defensiveness and his biting sarcasm and his embarrassed desire to have a dude who is both sweaty and emotional take him apart. I know Iâve seen him before, in lots of different places, wearing lots of different hats, most often slipping into characters that barely take up space in the canon at all, or revising canon characters years in the future, etc. (Draco, in all those fics where he grew up into someone eerily like Hux and Arthur and Erestor and Carlos in all those fics written before Dylan Marron was cast. For one.) and without shitting on kylux OR arthur/eames at allâbecause Iâve read and enjoyed both of them, and also the heart wants what the heart wants, and I get thatâI think itâs maybe worth. I donât know. considering why it is that we gravitate towards This One Crowdsourced Dude. The familiar fanon ghost who leaves one shell behind and drifts into another, like a poltergeist. Or, like, a copy of a copy of a copy, dragged from harddrive to harddrive. a familiar ghost we drag around to install in fresh new bodies. I think itâs especially worth considering why weâve collectively/subconsciously resurrected this dude in a fandom mostly lacking in white guy/white guy ships. because he wasnât THERE. I just rewatched TFA yesterday, and I can confirm: fanon hux is not in the building. a lot of loving effort went into imbuing canon hux with fanon hux. thinking about why we a) established that effort, and b) why we gravitate back to him, Our Fanon Guy, when there are other objectively more developed and interesting canon characters to fall in love with?Â
wildehack:
Sure! Heâs usually something like this: -very tidy/a neat freak -pays a great deal of attention to his personal presentation (ie: is his uniform wrinkled? Is his hair mussed? Is he blushing? Has he lost his hat, or his leather gloves, has he got blood on his coat? Are his cufflinks okay? Is his suit endangered? All of these things would make him unhappy and definitely happen to him as a direct result of making out with his troublingly messy love interest) -just wants the galaxy/con/workplace to be Well-Ordered -is super competent/a genius/good at his job -very loyal to one or two friends, who are probably also his colleagues, because work is all he truly cares about -definitely a perfectionist -is often hilariously bitchy, and definitely big with the sarcasm -often described as cool/cold/chilly (actually maybe heâs the fandom cousin of the Frigid Workaholic Romcom Heroine who desperately needs a dude to mess up her life and teach her to relax?) -burns with fury at seeing people be inefficient and/or unprofessional -speaks in a slightly elevated register that has room for cursing but never for phrases like kid or buddy or cute boyfriend -emotionally repressed; expresses feelings through workplace shouting and biting comments and maybe whiskey but that is all  -probably hiding childhood trauma -is very prim about sex until he is having it, at which point he is revealed to be The Kinkiest -âhatesâ his love interest, who is sweaty and bloody and emotional and is gonna Mess Up his overly clean life -but obviously only in a Doth Benedick Loathe Beatrice So Entirely kind of way -tight-lipped with rage -embarrassed by how much he is into Inappropriately Messy Guy/embarrassed BY Inappropriately Messy Guy -scowls defensively -the idea of control is a big part of his sex lifeâeither exerting or relinquishing it
wildehack:
While yesâopposites attracting is a common trope, and Spock and Sherlock definitely bear a familial resemblance, what Iâm interested in is actually the more specific thing of fandom picking up a very minor character and filling him up with ALL of these traits. Itâs not the character himselfâthe character qua the character can be and has been written really wonderfullyâitâs the fact that we resurrect him in the shells of minor characters at all. Huxâa very minor character who barely appears in the movie Arthurâa MUCH smaller character than fandom would suggest Erestorâliterally had like two lines Dracoâwas canonically a child, but all the fic was about him as an adult, some ten to fifteen years in the future, when he grew up into This Very Particular Character. This isnât fandom picking up on opposites attracting within the canon. This is fandom CREATING a specific character to be opposite someone else.
#this is good things to think about#but i am personally offended that you would compare spock to hux#he isnât quick to anger he is very patient#he has a dry sense of humor but it isnât biting or sarcastic#he doesnât strive for order he strives for logic (and there is a difference)#he isnât prim or otherwise about sex he literally has sex every seven years biologically have you SEEN amok time#he isnât embarassed by loving kirk is embarassed by his emotions and ânot being vulcan enoughâ#like spock is SO DIFFERENT from this stereotype honestly did you just think 'emotionless and detached = neat freak sour characterâ#cuz that is such a disservice#anyway this analysis of hux is v fascinating and resonates a little bit bc iâve seen loki take on this sort of personality in some fics
Firstly, I cannot argue with your Spock analysis! (Also, I adore Spock! I have a Spock tattoo! I promise that I love him truly.) Now that I have said this piece, Iâm gonna go on a long clarifying tangent, because it is a running theme in the tags on the post/the asks Iâve been getting. But know that the tangent is not directed at you, defender of Spock! Iâm just reblogging this version because it collected the fragmented pieces of the discussion into one post, for contextâs sake. :) ANYWAY. The point I want to get to is that character archetypes totally exist, and that is not a) a problem, or b) what I am talking about. Spock and Sherlock and Jeeves all more or less share a type, which is just a thing that happens when people tell stories, both consciously and subconsciously. That doesnât mean the characters are identical or interchangeable, but you can see how they bear a kind of family resemblance to each other. For exampleâ âit would have cost me my soulâ and âit was worth a wound" and âthere is a tie that bindsâ are rhyming moments of Great Import to all three characters, although they refer to moments that are specific to their canons. The characters ARE different, but when you put them together in a iineup, itâs easier to see how theyâre similar. That resemblance, imo, is neutral. What interests me about the fandom ghost isnât that he is an archetype, or that many characters are very similar to each other. What interests me is that this is a character type that fandom periodically yanks out of the drawer and dresses up in the clothes of a minor character. Thatâs a very specific thing to do. Itâs not something we are inheriting from any canon. Itâs something we are doing, collectively, as the great migratory fandom thing we are. We (collective fandom we) have imbued minor characters with these traits so often that I can trace it as a type the same way that I can trace Sherlock Holmes as a type. That is a) VERY interesting to me, from a nerdy Henry Jenkins-style crowdsourced-story âthe people talk back to the cultureâ way, and b) EVEN MORE INTERESTING GIVEN THAT THIS GUY IS HERE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY TO GIVE US A WHITE GUY SHIP WHEN THE CANON DOESNâT HAVE ENOUGH WHITE GUY SHIPS READY MADE FOR US. When we talk back to the culture, sometimes we speak bullshit. Again, I donât think any individual person is Wrong or Bad for liking or writing the ghost (I have liked the ghost! he can be very likeable!) but I think the fact that we keep resurrecting him and resurrecting him and resurrecting him IN FANDOMS THAT DO NOT HAVE HIM AS A PRE-EXISTING CHARACTER tells us something about what we as Fandom want. Itâs a symptom that tells us something about the state of Fandom, the way a bechdel test fail does not tell us whether a movie is good or even feminist, but DOES tell us something about the state of hollywood. TFA isnât an incredibly diverse movie, but unless you pump up the empty balloon of Huxâs character with the ghost the only other white guys to pair Kylo Ren with are his blood relatives and Supreme Commander Gollum. This is in a movie where he and Poe snark at each other with Poe on his knees; where he ties Poe up to a table and digs into Poeâs brain, where he looks at Finn from across a crowded massacre and Feels A Literal Magical Tug, where he and Rey basically mindfuck each other for agonizingly long minutes. There are Other Opportunities here, is what Iâm saying.  Kylux is the most popular pairing in TFA fandom. Expanding Huxâs character is a choice that fandom made. Kylux is a choice that fandom made. The fact that Fanon Hux came canned and prepackaged for usâour ready made mayo sandwichâis SOMETHING TO PAY ATTENTION TO. Itâs not the character of the ghost, or his origins, or the canon characters that bear a family resemblance to him that really matter, imo. Itâs the fact that WE, FANDOM, keep resurrecting him when we arenât seeing a familiar enough white guy ship in the canon cast. Thatâs a canary collapsing in a mine, is what Iâm saying.Â
in translation //Â dans la traduction
I wonder if there are // je me demande sâil existe enough languages // suffisamment de langages between the two of us // entre nous deux
to convey all the things // pour transmettre toutes les choses that I wish I could tell you // que je voudrais pouvoir te dire
we speak four or five or six // nous parlons quatre ou cinq ou six all things considered, // tout bien considéré, or soon will: // ou nous les parlerons bientÎt :
we both come from many peoples // nous deux venons de plusieurs peuples across many homelands // à travers plusieurs patries with many tongues // avec plusieurs langues
and we have come // et nous sommes arrivées to own these things // à posséder ces choses through study if not by birthright. // par les études sinon la naissance.
but perhaps // mais peut-ĂȘtre que it is simpler and better and wiser // câest plus simple, plus sage, et mieux to love you wordlessly, // de tâaimer sans mots,
artlessly, unstudied. // naĂŻvement, spontanĂ©ment. perhaps we could have // peut-ĂȘtre que nous pourrions avoir four or five or six languageâs worth // quatre ou cinq ou six langages
of silence // de silence and I could tell you everything // et je pourrais te dire tout that I needed you to know // ce que j'ai besoin que tu saches
just the same. //Â quand mĂȘme.

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âHonestly, am I the only person whoâs ever bothered to read Hogwarts, A History?â
I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are. I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse. I know you are reading this poem because there is nothing else left to read there where you have landed, stripped as you are.
Adrienne Rich, from An Atlas of the Difficult World (via kuanios)
Iâve been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech - if not all human speech - is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breathe in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder - they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when weâre breathing in. The problem is, that when weâre breathing in, we canât speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.
Li-Young Lee. (via kuanios)
interested in the kind of growth that takes me in all directions. growth that isnât linear, that isnât necessarily pretty. growth that isnât graceful with its new extensions or immediately noticeable to the world. here for the growing that happens beneath the surface, here for the growing pains. here to grow from learning the things i still need to learn.

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âBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of disaster response around the globe have shown that social support is the most powerful protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress and trauma.
Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone elseâs mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. â
- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
And the statistical argument that most minds in the future will turn out to be artificial rather than biological is also not a given, said Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University. âItâs just not based on well-defined probabilities. The argument says youâd have lots of things that want to simulate us. I actually have a problem with that. We mostly are interested in ourselves. I donât know why this higher species would want to simulate us.â Randall admitted she did not quite understand why other scientists were even entertaining the notion that the universe is a simulation. âI actually am very interested in why so many people think itâs an interesting question.â She rated the chances that this idea turns out to be true âeffectively zero.â
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