Phyna of Ithilien

The light fantastic ~ Terry Pratchett (1986)

Let him be the king of ashes.

Yesterday I was on the campus the whole day, taking the 5am train and doing exams. Today I finally had the chance to take a little time, crawl out from the exam trenches for a while and make a little contribution to yesterday's Glorious 25th of May. The lilacs have bloomed early this year here in Slovakia, but still it's a perfect time to do the re-read.

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Darling likes the rabbits ❤️ Somebody get some bunny ears for this siren STAT.

📸 Ekaterina Storm x

this sounds like a party to me

Every racist MAGA/GOP/KKK slippery slope prediction is worthless.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

so you can be the fifth

Stepping away from the idea that there is a pedophile boggieman and instead highlighting that anyone can be a child sexual abuser will help more people realize that their experiences are sexual assault.

I think in his mind there was a type of horrible person out there who does horrible things, and because he didn't think of himself as fitting that category, his actions could not be judged

You could have. You did.