afraid i can't get over how humiliating it is to be in your 50s and be forced to experience the crushing loneliness you felt as a lesbian teenage girl in the 1980s. like it really is hard to fathom something worse happening to a woman who has fought tooth and nail to accept herself as who she is and STILL, in her grown age, struggles with it because of the violence she experienced while she was a kid. like hey no one wants to sit with you at lunch because you're fucking weird and no one is the rest of the world and lunch is tuesdays and thursdays on zoom
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We have done our best to recreate the conditions from back when you were most active on Tumblr, including making a new version of the Johnlock conspiracy. We know how much pleasure it brought you to laugh at these kind of posts.
Are there any other posts you would like us to make? Would you perhaps want us to bring back the weed smoking girlfriends?
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my grandma was watching the spanish language morning shows this morning and they were interviewing Carlos Manuel Vesga about Pluribus. he said something that i don't think was explicitly clear in the show but informed how he played Manousos, which is that Manousos was originally Colombian and he was forced to migrate to Paraguay. so he had already lost his whole world once before, and when the virus changed the entire world overnight, he wasn't just putting his foot down on principle. he was saying Not Again.
doomed lesbian relationship with someone who will act just like your dead wife one moment and then your abusive mother the next. tv does not get better than this
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Laxmi and her son are fascinating. Deeply, deeply frustrating if you're, well, me, but, there's layers and themeing here that I think aren't talked about enough.
Laxmi deserves sympathy, she does. She's in a terrible situation and she's trying to cope. But, unfortunately, by insisting we give her space to cope in whatever way she needs to (ie, pretending her son is still her son and nothing more complicated is happening) we are running into the problem that consistently corrupts any and all child welfare initiatives: we are centering The Parent's feelings over The Child's rights and safety.
One of the themes in Pluribus that most compels me is the inadequacy of parents and how even their most "loving" decisions can still leave us with deep, deep scars.
Carol's mother shipped her off to a conversion camp: she almost definitely did that out of love, but guess what? It was still VERY HARMFUL and the loving intention does not erase that. Koumba is another, subtler example. His culture traditionally names boys after their mothers if said mother die in childbirth: obviously, his mother deserves to be honored. But who considered the effect that would have on Koumba himself? Children often struggle to be at their kindest when confronted with things that are very grown-up or very unusual to them, and being so visibly marked as "the boy that killed his mom, kinda" likely had a lot of negative impact on him.
Even the Hive's desire to keep the immune people fully dependent on them is a form of helicopter parenting, which isn't great for kids long-term. (1, 2, 3). It's done out of love but it fosters anxiety and low self worth and leads to challenges with interpersonal relationships.
But most cultures around the world genuinely do not care if people damage their own children. We don't really hold parents accountable for the damage they do: everything is very centered on "oh, being a mother is so hard!" and "they give you a roof over your head and three meals a day!" and "other children have it worse!" It's assumed that any damage they inflict on you was either an innocent mistake or a completely justified. Their mere status as The Parents grants them a HUGE degree of social goodwill, and even kids who were objectively ABUSED are expected to grit their teeth and "forgive" because, well, she's Your Mom, he's Your Dad.
I have seen children be left in physically unsafe homes because their parents' desire to retain custody was prioritized over their LITERAL ACTUAL LIVES. I have seen children laughed at while they tearfully describe their abuse and be told to their faces that the "privilege" of being allowed to beat your children is the only good part of being a parent. I have seen children be told that they are OBLIGATED to forgive parents who starved and molested and choked them because "you can't choose family".
Which brings me back to Laxmi and Ravi.
Yes, Laxmi is going through a terrible thing. But Ravi is going through something worse. Ravi's brain has been violated and re-written, possibly permanently. The infection that rewrote him posed a clear and present threat to his life and he survived through LUCK. His childhood has been stolen, his connection to his culture has been rendered meaningless, HIS PERSONALITY HAS BEEN CHANGED.
And Laxmi has decided to accept THIS version of her child. The version who is quiet and respectful and never complains or asks annoying questions and wants to be oh-so-helpful. As an autistic child who's mother hated them for being on the spectrum and openly wished for any solution to make me "normal" and easier to "manage", that story-beat is difficult to wrestle with. Because yes, you can argue that she has no choice. But Ravi had even less of one. And there is no getting around the fact that Ravi as he is now makes her job as "mom" much easier.
I keep making comparisons to housewives lobotomized in the 50s: they weren't "themselves" anymore, but because they were less "difficult", it was assumed to be a good thing. A lack of individual will and personality was not considered a good enough reason to NOT lobotomize your mentally ill family member.
Unlike a lobotomy, however, this might be reversible. And again, I know most of us are very sympathetic to Laxmi. But can we spare a few moments thought for RAVI? If he comes out of this, he will remember his mother interacting with the shell of his invaded body as it were him. He will remember his mother accepting this pacified, sanitized version of him with barely a complaint. He will remember his mother choosing not to fight for him, and he has no obligation to forgive her for that.
How is he supposed to trust her when she insists that she loves the warts-and-all version of him just as much as her happy little helper? How is he supposed to do anything but scoff when she claims she'd do anything for him? How is he not supposed to go "some rich white stranger from America got angrier about what they did to me than you did" whenever they get into a fight because he feels unloved?
When a surgeon does their best and a patient dies anyway, the medical board investigates and holds them accountable. When an engineer does their best and the building collapses anyway, someone investigates and holds them accountable. When a parent does their best and their child ends up traumatized anyway, we all blow it off like it's no big deal. The "sorrow" and "regret" they express (not necessarily feel, but express) is treated as the only payment that needs to be extracted. Never mind the years lost to addiction and mental instability, your mom did her best, why do you think you have the right to be mad at her?
Laxmi is in a terrible situation. But you don't stop being a parent just because you're stressed and overwhelmed. You do not stop owing your child safety and protection. Just because she isn't being malicious doesn't make her decision completely consequence-free, and those consequences are going to effect Ravi the most.
Will genuinely never stop thinking about the interview where they asked Chris hemsworth mark ruffalo and Halle berry to guess the names of the couple in heated rivalry. And they were like. What’s heated rivalry. And the interviewer explained it to them and one of them went. “closeted hockey players…..? They can’t tell people they play hockey…………….?” Important to remember this exists in the world. #exiting my echo chamber
Gay, southern, violently depressed, catholic, divorced twice, potentially schizophrenic, has complex feelings about his identity, terrible taste in men… I fear no protagonist has done it quite like him.
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behind every gay evil vampire is an even gayer, even eviller vampire. and behind both those vampires is daniel molloy, loudly asking if it's true they really shared a boyfriend