nat1forinitiative
We Do Bones, Motherfucker
21, xe/xyr. This is where I yell about media I like! Listen to Campaign Podcast: Skyjacks (it’s real good), and read The Murderbot Diaries
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I love how unsympathetic Kipperlily's backstory comes across, because like yes, the desire to be more "interesting" through trauma like Riz is awful, but also its her most private bad thought that she only shares with her guidance counsellor while trying to work through her rage issues, its selfish and in bad taste but of course it is, she was like 14. And so now that that desire has been twisted by literal deific rage into something actually malevolent, none of the bad kids are even willing to try to empathize with her. And like, tbc I don't really blame them for that, its a *lot* to ask them to try and understand the person who has been antagonistic to them for the whole year and apparently resented them for years before that, which I think honestly adds to the tragedy of it all. God, she's so interesting
#i was thinking this exact thing while at work today#her being jealous of riz’s dads death by dragon is something she didn’t say to him#and it wasn’t something she said in a situation where it SHOULVE ever gotten back to him#it was something she told her counselor which imo adds so many potential layers about actual intent and knowing it’s a bad thought etc#i also couldn’t help but think of how wishing you had trauma was a mental response of Mine when i was a mentally ill teenager#because (and of course this is flawed) having a ‘reason’ to be broken an inciting incident to be shattered feels like it would make what#you’re going through seemingly for no reason make more sense and be more palatable#idk#i have so many thoughts about kipperlilly#she has anger issues! and that does not make her evil#seemingly being Changed by a corrupted god of rage however may change some things#BEING THE HIGH FIVE HEROES WAS IMPORTANT TO HER#i don’t know why that gets me so much#i think i just have to much experience with ocd intrusive thoughts to inherently condem her for those thoughts alone#anyways. ramble over#fantasy high junior year#kipperlilly copper kettle
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"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way
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SENSHI would want you to get enough sleep and have nice nutritious meals
CHILCHUCK would want you to know your worker rights and what your labor is worth
LAIOS would want you to embrace your passions and try new things
FALIN would want you to take care of your health and treat others with kindness
MARCILLE would want you to practice necromancy and have gay sex
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something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.
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Characters dynamic that’s like “ they’re not in a romantic relationship but they definitely love each other with all their heart and fucking soul”
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my take on shipping aromantic characters is that if you're aro you get to do whatever you want and if you're not you have to write me a three page essay 12 pt font times new roman double spaced explaining in detail why you believe entering a romantic relationship would be an interesting and worthwhile storyline for the character and how you believe their aromanticism would affect the way they experience said relationship
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I wish there would actually be more alloaro characters.. and non sam aro, and neu aro, aromid, aroqueer, just aro, etc.
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Next life series idea: two people share an account
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it always sucks in romances when characters aren't active participants in their own relationship or attraction. when it's always "why do i feel this way" and they can't name a single reason they like the love interest i'm like idk man i think you should get out of there maybe.
at some point if you're going too hard on the Genuine Confusion and the character having no clue why they're doing anything they're doing or why they even like the other party it's like. I think you were cursed by a wizard. or an author, which is something similar. it becomes something akin to The Narrative Has Mandated That This is A Love Story and Therefore I Must Be In Love rather than like. a convincing romance between parties who care about each other
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Every day I think about how the Prime Directive is based on inherently racist and now outdated ideas of unilineal sociocultural evolution and this is only addressed less than a handful of times in the show
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i care so much about fictional morality and ethics but not in a lame ass "is this character/ship problematic" way. i'm cringe for other reasons.
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2024 resolutions:
1. write more
2. get even weirder
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types of trans men characters I would like to see:
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grill dad
manlet but like in a danny devito way
gnc but not a twink
just like. mean.
outcast not because hes trans but because hes just fucking weird
mentor/father figure to the other main characters who are also trans
gay but not fetishized/the “”“”“”“”“”“girl”“”“”“”“”“”“”“ of the relationship
sexy but also not fetishized
truck freak
crazy ass
layed back
the fighter
just like. any fat trans men im begging
wario
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Kira and Kai Winn have one of the most fascinating dynamics in DS9, in my opinion. All of their interactions are charged with so many emotions – pity and jealousy and contempt and longing. They are narrative foils – Kira who never seeks power yet is granted it anyway over and over, and Winn who has desperately sought power all her life but who finds herself always unsatisfied. Kira with an incredible strength of faith but who never hides her uncertainties, and Winn who tries desperately to hide her deep insecurities and the faith within herself she can never find to be strong enough. And Winn hates Kira and envies her and admires her. And Kira detests the actions Winn has taken and yet still empathizes with her and still must reckon with the fact that Winn is an integral part of the religious system that Kira places her faith in.
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Congratulations to Martha Wells, who very much deserves that sweet Hollywood cash for her years in the midlist SFF author mines. A big fucking No Thank You to casting a cis white dude as Murderbot, I guess lest we miss out on a TV show reassuring us that cis white men are people too.
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"he would not fucking say that" i say with disgust, but im not talking about characterization im talking about his, like, vocabulary
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sisko was so funny for letting garak on board the defiant when they were taking odo home but only if he promises to bullshit a dying man for the next ten hours straight. and garak was like oh fuck yes I love to lie
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