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I need to level with y’all. I’m terrified of being judged. I know, shocker, the traumatized girliepop with a ton of disorders is scared their friends will think less of them, alert the church elders.
(This does get into some more taboo shipping)
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joseph actually breaks my heart like he is so traumatised by the cycle of abuse all he does in the movie is enact defence mechanisms he has spent a lifetime learning and it's easy to call him spineless or inept because that's what his family has always made him believe he was so he was never quite allowed to bloom or supported in his growth but i love how the movie also highlights his endurance by having him survive multiple times and having him last being thrown around rooms and down ceilings for that long before finally dying
There was a time when doll photography felt much smaller.
deeply ironic that the fandom for a show about two guys who are desperate to keep their private lives private is hellbent on ensuring the actors who play them aren't afforded any privacy themselves.
There are a lot of Armand fans who see him being mischaracterised and flanderised and then respond by majorly overcorrecting and going so far in the other direction that they’re actually atill mischaracterising and flanderising.
Sure, the feminising and woobifying is problematic. So is making him overly domineering and violent and stripping all the compassion and kindness he’s very capable of from his character. That’s just what the people who hate him already do.
It’s especially prominent in DM shippers who have Armand as their favourite. The relationship isn’t good if it’s just toxic and if Armand is just a monster. It’s actually very bad. The entire point is that Armand is different around Daniel, he finally gets to be softer. That was literally the purpose of the relationship even being created. Sure, softness to Armand is very different to what it is for anyone else and involves a whole lot of love bombing and generally being a menace, but it is still softness. It’s still love.
And I can’t stand the sexual violence being perpetrated by him. I don’t care if it’s realistic considering what he’s been through. Consent in all of these vampire relationships is dubious, and this is obviously just one person’s opinion, but anything explicitly non-consensual with Showmand specifically from so called fans of him is horrendous. I don’t love it with Bookmand either considering the issues in the books with blatant xenophobia but considering every conversation we’ve had about how Showmand was portrayed this season, some of you need to be very fucking careful that you’re not advocating for the same thing we had an issue with. I don’t understand how it isn’t blatantly obvious how distasteful that is.
Literally the only way to counteract all the problematic themes from the show AND the books is to have balance in your own potrayal. He is not one thing. Everyone else gets to be multifaceted. I don’t know why it’s so absurd to suggest the same for him.
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the day has finally come where the best fic I've written has a hit count now eclipsing the popular bullshit I wrote first hallelujah
Speaking more sensitively... I do feel like I've seen this kind of behaviour in the MCU fandom before, with Wanda. What I mean is, it feels like the refusal to accept Jean's actions as inexcusable comes from over-identification with the character. There's some belief that because she's a victim of trauma, if her actions are put to task and not vindicated and excused, it somehow invalidates any feelings someone has about their own trauma.
It doesn't.
People respond very differently to trauma. There's anger, resentment, bitterness, guilt. Sometimes they fantasize about being able to stop whoever had hurt them. This is fine. There's nothing wrong with this. Where people go wrong is actually hurting other people because of that. If someone has trauma and they don't hurt other people, they're fine. If they have hurt other people, it still doesn't mean what fans are saying about Jean is objectively wrong (being that her trauma is an explanation for what she did, not an excuse).
Jean can't be blamed for her trauma, and she can't be blamed for any feelings she has about it. But she can be blamed for her willful actions that resulted from it. If someone finds themselves activated when fans say she is, in fact, responsible for her actions, it's on them to process that reaction and the possible reasons for it.
Resolutions
A few years ago I made a fandom based new years resolution, to comment on every single fic I read that year, whether it was pwp or as many times I could pause a long chaptered fic. Didn't matter what kind. It was actually really nice and I think I heard back from every single author which was crazy because some fics were published when I was born. Tbf that one was a fandom from a show that aired before I was born too.
But you don't have to wait for new year to start a new thing. Although I'd really like to podfic some works, I've decided my new resolution is to organise my fic bookmarks. Tag them in my personal library system, write down the title and author.
Way too many of my beloved bookmarks have been deleted recently (and probably for then same reason although I can't prove it) and I think it'd be neat to record everything properly so I can keep recommending my fave fics.
In my head, I'm on holiday so I have time to do this... lets see if I can
