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something something considering the core of rapunzel's backstory revolves around her being belittled, controlled, and held captive for most of her life, you'd think people would be at least a little 🤏 sympathetic toward cassandra feeling unheard and terrified at the prospect of being sent to a convent against her will something something
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“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
getting my labs done today i was thinking about years ago when i went to the doctor and i was like 'i've been to another doctor already but he wouldn't listen to me. something's wrong. i've never been this tired in all my life. i know i'm in college and i know i have depression but this is different. please you have to try something.'
so the doctor (back then) ordered labs and it turned out my vitamin d level was like 5 or 7 and i've never seen a doctor so elated about lab results in my entire life. she said, 'it's never. vitamin d. but it is this time. we can fix this. you're going to feel better.'
"I've noticed, probably now more than ever, when fans like or dislike a character, they insist on putting them in 1 of 2 buckets: they're either a "good" or "bad" person." I've noticed this, too, and I agree about it being shallow and not the best framework to use. IMO, the best characters tend to be more complicated than that, and Cass is *definitely* more complicated than that.
Cass' complexity is exactly what makes her so interesting!
She's complicated and flawed, and it continues to grate me to see people overlook those parts of her, or use them against her in the most predictably bad faith ways. When people are like "oohh she's sooo abrasive :((" or whatever xyz , I'm just like...
Okay... And...?
People will spend all the time in the world extrapolating the smallest things from things we see with Rapunzel and Other Characters to inject more depth into them and their interactions (which is fine, like, let a thousand flowers bloom as they say), but with Cass -- despite the show spoon-feeding viewers all the slights and issues she's experienced over the first 2 seasons -- it's never enough.
There's this tragic lack of curiosity and imagination that viewers lock themselves into when it comes to her, and I'm not unconvinced it's a result of people hearing others scapegoating her as a reason parts of the show were unsatisfying, and internalizing it.
She's unhappy with her current role and the trajectory (plus lack of control) in her life? She should just be grateful she works in the castle and that she was adopted at all (do some of you guys hear yourselves??). She's feels overshadowed and unheard amongst her peers and especially her best friend? She should apparently... suck it up and just listen to Rapunzel because she's the world's most specialist princess?? She gets her hand scorched by magic because Rapunzel started reciting some dangerous incantation? Just... screw Cass, I guess??
(And ftr, RATGT is my favorite part of the series -- Hector bias aside -- because I felt like it did such a good job needling into Cass' grievances and the tension between her and Rapunzel. Like, they were both acting in a life-or-death situation. There's no clear fault here IMO, and I love moments where you can't (shouldn't?) put blame on 1 single character when everyone is acting under duress. But people's eagerness and gall to be like "oh Cass should have just known better and not to touch Rapunzel lol idiot" is such an insanely forced take to me.)
There's no fault here, but Cass has every right to feel angry and devastated about this injury. It's undermined so much of her own goals and training, and now she has to adapt to it. Her dreams hinge on her ability as a warrior in combat, and she touched Rapunzel because she was afraid for her and the entire party. Like, as someone who deals with chronic pain to the point I can't even draw as comfortably or as often as I'd like to as an artist... I can relate with how maddening her injury is LMAO
As an aside/for the record, I still imagine Cass as adopted, but I do ignore the Gothel twist and I draw exclusively from her pre-established S1 and S2 motivations. (I just hate the Gothel & Dark Prince twists so much. I hate it when everyone is related in a story. Unnecessary and ZZZ but anyway lmao--) The Gothel twist just feels like a vestigial remnant of the og pitch and I have a few more thoughts on it, but anyway--
Cass has done things that are wrong. But her motives and actions feel relatable given where she's coming from textually (and subtextually - like if you want to go a step further and examine potential sexism etc in Corona, even if it's not as overtly hard-baked into the culture, I can imagine it still lingers in society). There's a post I just reblogged that articulates what I'm trying to say here pretty well, and I just think people need to think about this more too.
There's more I want to say - like... touching upon characters with complicated or messy pasts. Eugene, Varian, Lance, literally all the dads in the show lmao. Hector was outright murderous and described as "sadistic" (a very fun, loaded word to have in a kids show btw) and maybe because he was a side/supporting character but no one seems to linger on that. People need to be able to engage with the moral complexity -- let characters be messy, recognize that human relationships and people usually are complicated.
I'll wind down my response here (and ty for humoring me if you made it this far). I just don't see people be willing to give Cass the same grace they give other characters, and the, like, double standards just get to me so much LMAO.
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weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.
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.
like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.
ik these are rookie numbers to some but i cant be surprised PR’s dominated my top songs. like, soshy and stardew scratch my brain in ways no other song can.
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the bar is on the ground man. hyped over a nose bump. meanwhile an artist openly admitted that his vendetta design was just unspired waifu bait. ok. [everyone is beautiful and no one is horny]
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