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stardate44002point3 · 1 year

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Shaw and Seven

So, we're back to Shaw disrespecting Seven and calling her Hansen, and everyone losing their shit over it. But I just rewatched both Dominion and Surrender and I have some thoughts about this.

First, let's just deal with the elephant in the room, that most people seem to be ignoring. When he was in the turbolift with Vadic and her hench-goons, Shaw gave Seven a direct order to blow the turbolift. He knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing it, he had far more information about the situation than she did, and he, correctly, deduced what would happen if the turbolift reached the bridge and Vadic gained control of the ship.

Seven promptly ignored his order - she had plenty of time to carry it out - she just chose not to obey it. It doesn't matter why she chose not to obey the order, it only matters that in a situation where a superior officer with more information than she had about a situation gave a direct order specifically to protect the crew, she chose to disobey.

When Shaw is lying on the deck at the end of Dominion, the despair is just radiating off him, there are tears running down his face (Todd Stashwick just killed it in that scene); he knows exactly what is going to happen next - people, his people, are going to die - all because Seven chose to spare him. It's the Constance all over again, but worse, because he's the captain and his job is to protect these people, and he tried, but he was thwarted by an XO that defied him.

(Better picture now I can screenshot)

Which brings us to the bridge scene in Surrender. Shaw is pissed at Seven, Shaw is rightfully pissed at Seven. No one on the bridge has died yet, but Vadic has control of the ship and his crew are dying, he can hear them dying and, as we later see thanks to Jack, some of them are dying horribly. None of that would have happened if Seven had blown the turbolift when she was ordered to. He's absolutely right when he says that being a Starfleet officer means not just obeying the orders that feel good.

She tries to defend herself by saying she "doesn't trade lives". But he isn't buying it, nor should he, because she has traded lives, she's traded Shaw's life for the lives of his crew, possibly dozens of his crew.

Then it gets worse when Vadic executes T'Veen in front of them.

So, if calling her "Commander Seven" is a mark of respect (as she states previously) then he's demonstrating in that moment of contained rage and despair, that he doesn't respect her. And I'm not really sure he should, her action (or lack of action) has caused the deaths of his crew.

By the end of the episode it appears that all is forgiven, when he grants Seven the honor of destroying the Shrike, but that feels cheap; as did her "Captain Shaw, may I present your ship back". That implies that she had something to do with retaking the ship, and she didn't, she made a grand gesture which might actually have screwed up Jack's plan, and really didn't contribute anything to getting Vadic off the ship - that was all Jack, Data and Picard.

Don't get me wrong, I love Seven, but Shaw is absolutely in the right in this entire exchange and the idea that much of the audience thinks that his disrespecting her by calling her "Hansen" is a far more heinous crime than her disrespecting him by disobeying his orders and getting people killed, is bizarre to me.

ETA: If you show up in the comments or reblog to hate on Shaw, I will block you, just a warning. Reasonable debate and discussion is welcome, shit-talking is not.

#captain shaw #seven of nine #liam shaw #todd stashwick #jeri ryan #picard spoilers #picard s3 #shaw&seven thoughts #shaw&seven #please don't kill another of my captains #I know this isn't a popular opinion #but IDGAF

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greenapplebling · 5 months

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Jason, looking for a store: Tell me if you find The Queen

Tim: Sorry, I left my crown at home

Steph, giggling: You dropped your crown, Queen?

Dick: We have Queen at home

Duke: There is no Queen of England

Jason: *deep sigh* Why have children when I have you guys?

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unclewaynemunson · 1 year

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“I already did”

It was 2014 when Wayne heard the news.

He was sitting in his favorite chair, the sun warming his face through the window while he stared out over the lake, when Eddie came bursting through the door in his usual whirlwind of chaotic energy.

'Where's Scott?' He had something almost frantic in his face; Steve came walking up behind him, placing a calming hand on his shoulder in an attempt to stop him from practically vibrating out of his own skin.

'Hi, uncle Wayne.'

At least one of them had proper manners.

'Takin' a walk,' Wayne said in reply to Eddie's question. 'You alright there, boy?'

'You haven't heard it yet?'

'Heard what?'

'Jesus Christ, you don't know it yet!'

Eddie dramatically flopped down on the couch, grabbing Steve's wrist to pull him with him.

'What's this about? Good news or bad?'

'Great!' said Steve, at the same moment Eddie groaned 'Baaaad.'

Wayne raised an unimpressed eyebrow at the both of them.

'Well... Drumroll, Steve,' Eddie ordered, waiting for Steve to repeatedly slap his hands on his legs. 'As of today, the state of Indiana has bestowed upon same-sex couples the unimaginable honor to express their love for each other in matrimony.' The sarcasm was oozing from his voice.

'Pretty cool, right?' Steve added, flashing Wayne an excited smile.

Eddie rolled his eyes so forcefully it looked painful.

'No, it's not “pretty cool!”' he exclaimed before Wayne could say anything. 'What, after centuries of oppression and violence they get to decide that we're now worthy of joining their fucked-up social constructs and we should be clapping our hands ready to conform to their gross ideas of what love is about? We should be grateful that they finally let us play by their rules?'

'It's not about playing by the rules, it's about – about...' Steve rapidly snapped his fingers a couple times, and Eddie, despite his passionate dramatics, patiently waited for him to find the word he was looking for.

'It's about recognition!' Steve finally exclaimed in a somewhat triumphant tone. 'We get to be a family!'

Eddie scoffed. 'We already are a family. Have been for almost thirty years. We got each other, we got the girls; we don't need any ridiculous bureaucratic documents to prove that.'

'That's not – it's a celebration of love!'

'It's a preposterous and backwards tool of the heteronormative patriarchy to submit the people to their institutions and chain women to their men and keep the masses quiet!'

'Lotta big words you got there, did you rehearse this?' Wayne chimed in.

Steve chortled, which earned him a poke in his ribs from Eddie.

'So are you and Scott gonna...?' Steve let the end of his question hover silently in the air.

'I dunno,' Wayne said. It wasn't something he had ever given much thought to – not because he didn't care, but because he had never expected to live in a world where it was a possibility in the first place. Hell, he still vividly remembered the sodomy laws being abolished. He had never exactly been an optimist. But here they were.

Eddie kept on ranting for almost a whole hour, while Steve kept looking at him with that fondly amused expression on his face, as if he could never get enough of Eddie's dramatic complaining.

'You don't mind that he's bein' so, um... stubborn?' Wayne cautiously asked him when Eddie left the room to go to the toilet.

Steve chuckled. 'If I did, I wouldn't have kept up with him for this long,' he jokingly answered.

'But you want to. Get married.'

The fine lines around Steve's eyes deepened. 'Yeah, I want to,' he admitted. 'And I'm pretty sure that all his aversion against it will fly right out of the window as soon as I get down on one knee for him.'

He got this cocky, confident smile on his face; Wayne loved those moments, when despite the gray hair and the wrinkles, something of the young boys Eddie and Steve used to be shone through in them.

XXX

Wayne didn't stop thinking about it after the boys left. He could still barely believe that this was a decision he could make. Who would've thought, after decades of self-loathing and suppressing his feelings, that he could now get married to the man he loved?

He grew more certain of it by the minute. The answer was already everywhere around him, after all: in his eager expectation of Scott's return, in the framed photographs on the wall, the cheesy Mr & Mr mugs on their coffee table, the two pairs of reading glasses that were lying side-by-side on a newspaper next to those mugs...

He wouldn't buy a ring or drop down on one knee – he was nearing eighty, he probably couldn't drop down on one knee and get back up again even if he wanted to. But he didn't want to do it by the rules anyway. He wanted this to be theirs.

And he saw everything he needed to know in Scott's eyes before either of them even opened their mouth.

'Did you hear the news?' Scott asked, that beautiful glow of being outside and active that he always had after he came back from his walks clinging around him. Sometimes Wayne would join him, but Scott could still walk faster and longer – the price Wayne had to pay for smoking like a chimney for nearly seventy years – so he didn't mind letting him go alone and having a pot of coffee ready when he'd come back, enjoying the sound of his voice while he told Wayne about the ever-changing nature or the birds he had spotted along his way.

Wayne merely hummed in response to his question, while Scott settled in next to him on the couch.

They had shared this life together for almost thirty years: in sickness and in health, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer – they'd already done it all. And yet...

He took his time to look into Scott's eyes, to search his face. His gaze wandered over the fine maze of lines that had kept expanding over the years they had spent together, the gray stubble where once a thick mustache had been, that one big age spot right below his left eye, the scar on his chin from that time one of the twins had viciously attacked him for having the audacity to make her eat her veggies.

He could see the question in Scott's eyes before either of them even spoke.

'Should we..?'

'Yes,' said Scott, smiling. Eager. And that was that.

XXX

There was no elaborate party, no fancy reception, nothing like that. Eddie took Wayne shopping for a new flannel and a slightly nicer pair of jeans for the occasion. Scott jokingly wore a tie with little rainbows on it over a button-down in a light shade of pink. It was simple: just them, Eddie, Steve and the girls at the town hall. Their signatures side by side on a piece of paper; it almost seemed too profane. They were back outside before they knew it. But Scott's smile still managed to light Wayne from inside like the very first time he had seen it.

Everybody else was already gathered back at the house. The house they got together, the house that had been theirs for more than twenty years, the house they had made into their home with or without that piece of paper that told them they could. Hopper and Joyce, Robin and Nancy, all the kids who lived close enough to make the trip; they were all there, sharing food and laughter in the garden near the lake while the sun set behind the trees.

After the world was wrapped in darkness and it was just the two of them again, Wayne grabbed Scott's hand to guide him back inside. He lingered on the porch, looking up at the stars shining down on them. He felt Scott shiver beside him, cold now that the sun had disappeared, and pulled him closer. His husband.

He knew that the two of them were finite, of course, unlike the stars in the sky above them. He knew that the biggest part of their lives was behind them, that they would leave this planet sooner rather than later. He had honestly never expected to make it this far. But he had. He had made it, all the way from being officially fundamentally wrong, through years and years of deep-rooted, stubborn self-hatred, to here. 2014. The year in which he got married to the man he had allowed himself to love. The best thing, after Eddie, that ever happened to him. The person who had colored his every day, who had made it easy to get up in the morning and to go to sleep feeling content.

He tore his gaze away from the sky to look at Scott.

'What are you thinking about?' Scott quietly asked him, watching him with that attentive gaze that wouldn't ever let a single detail escape him.

Wayne took his time to think about how to phrase it.

'How it's possible that everything changed and nothing changed at the same time, today,' he eventually answered.

Scott squeezed his hand, brought it up to his lips to press a kiss against it.

'Who would've thought, huh?' he said. 'That something so simple and silly as saying “I do” can change your whole life?'

'It didn't change my life,' Wayne answered with certainty. 'I already did.'

Scott chuckled. 'I already did, too.'

And somehow, this moment, just the two of them sharing these words on their porch wrapped in darkness, was infinitely more meaningful than anything that happened in the town hall.

#oh the complicated relationships of older queers with being able to get married #i know this isn't a popular opinion but eddie the non-conformist queer metalhead would 100% HATE the idea of marriage #no you can't change my mind #(steve can change his tho)#don't mind me rambling about stranger things #clarkson my beloved #wayne munson #scott clarke #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #fruity ficlet

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burningarchitecture · 7 months

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Cringetober day 4: Angel x Demon

#contrary to once popular opinion #the role of angel fits Light better because of his idealism and willingness to divide people into deserving and undeserving.#and L's not the most ethical to put it lightly and morality clearly isn't his primary motivation #even if he says he wants justice in that Lind L Tailor episode #what he wants is first and foremost a challenge #to win and feel the thrill of the game #ok everybody knows that. who am I kidding. it's just a friend of mine who isn't that into dn asked me about this...#death note #dn #light yagami #l lawliet #my art #lawlight #cringetober #cringetober 2023 #inktober 2023 #inktober

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year

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Many people have been wondering about what the difference is between transgender and transsexual, and in my viewpoint, the difference comes down to what you're comfortable with claiming.

I personally think that the difference can come down to the perspective you have about your transness. For me, I claim transsexual for myself because I view my sex as changing, not my gender. It doesn't have anything to do with what I've done to transition, and honestly, that's nobody's business but my own. I think the same goes for every trans person.

The way you define your transness can look radically different, and that's okay. What matters to me isn't if you're doing things "right" and get approval from every living being on earth to use the label you use. What matters is that you find language that describes you best.

#trans #transgender #transsexual #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #inspired by the last post #transsexual has a history of medicalization and i think we can reclaim that #i think a transsexual is anybody who describes themselves as such #like i've seen so many arguments about who's ~allowed~ to claim what label and it's like...#...how privileged are you if a person's identity is that huge a deal to you y'know?#i've made a post about this before and why i claim transsexual and i still more or less think the same #i think your labels are as much about how you define them as it is about the conventional idea of what that label is if that makes sense #i think we can evolve the language we use and the ways we define them #i know i sometimes have ~radical~ opinions compared to others - i know the way i define things isn't the popular opinion #so much for the unquestionable dogma of the trans cult /s #also transgender doesn't necessarily mean your gender is changing but i find that's how *some* people take it to mean...#...and i like that transsexual offers some clarity (at least for me)

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thecruellestmonth · 11 months

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Normal Batman fans: I don't want to engage with parts of canon in which my fave is an abusive asshole. I choose to engage with other stories instead, and I ignore stories that I dislike.

Nasty toxic Batman fans: Ooh, Bruce is being totally gross again, don't mind if I do~

Good Dad Bruce™ stans: Yes, I fully acknowledge that every single one of Bruce's kids is deeply—at times suicidally—traumatized by his parenting failures in canon, but he is NOT a bad parent! Bruce LOVES his family. Sometimes COMPLICATED PARENTS make their children feel WORTHLESS and ISOLATED, and then don't do anything to fix it! It's totally NATURAL, Bruce is just a COMPLICATED parent! He's COMPLICATED! Bruce LOVES his family. COMPLICATED, I say! NOT ABUSIVE! Would an abusive parent put a hand on his child's shoulder in a vague display of warmth once every few years??? Hm??? Yeah, I DIDN'T THINK SO, YOU STUPID ABUSE VICTIMS!! Bruce LOVES his family. He does nice things—why are you ignoring all the nice things that he's done? He is just an IMPERFECT person, he has made some teeny tiny mistakes repeatedly with 5+ separately acquired children over a twenty-year period. Bruce is just a regular IMPERFECT human being—which means that you critics are the UNREASONABLE MONSTERS imposing PERFECTIONIST standards on a poor innocent middle-aged baby adult man! Bruce LOVES his family. How could we expect exceptionally privileged hyperintelligent parents NOT to regularly use their position of power to make 4-6 children feel inadequate, unsafe, and alone?? What ridiculously high standards! Bruce LOVES his family.

#I hope you impressionable youngsters are learning the warning signs of abusive families and cults during your time in this fandom.#Bruce Wayne hate club #COMPLICATED PARENT BRUCE WAYNE #You know I personally like my own cobbled version of Bruce Wayne too. I like to ignore canon as I please.#But some of you stans work overtime to come up with the cruelest most hurtful insensitive and vomit-inducing IGNORANT opinions about abuse.#So eager to sanitize decades of a grown rich white male hero living his power fantasy on the backs of vulnerable and traumatized kids #--in your zeal to make sure that the world's most popular superhero doesn't suffer a whisper of criticism--#you choose to echo the excuses given to powerful people who use their power to hurt and control smaller people.#'He is complicated—' His behavior is abusive.#'He didn't intend to—' He did something abusive.#'But he LOVES his family!' He is an abusive piece of shit and he needs to do better.#'Well he is just an imperfect human—' Nobody is asking him to be perfect. Not everyone perpetuates abuse and refuses to change.#'But you have to understand that he had a very terrible childhood.' Every single one of his kids has had an inarguably worse childhood.#'Hm. That version of Bruce really is an abusive asshole. My homebrew isn't and he wouldn't do that.' DING DING DING! WINNER WINNER! 🥳👑👑👑#'Bruce is an abusive asshole. He is the perfect meow meow for my fiction about toxic families and dark themes.' YES. YOU WIN. 💗👏👏👏😘😘😘#IMPERFECT PARENT BRUCE WAYNE #negativity #fandom discourse #anti Bruce Wayne #child abuse mention cw #The funny thing is that this blog discusses Jason Todd the most but I'd say he probably suffered the least abuse.#At least he's a villain. What is Bruce's excuse for the way he mistreats and neglects the others?

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enbysiriusblack · 4 months

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mean girls! emmeline, lily, and marlene

#i don't think mary is really mean at all tbh. like she’s one of the most popular in her year (which is usually a mean girl)#but she just. isn't. loves hearing other people's drama but hates being in it herself #she just wants to wear/make pretty clothes and go to discos #WHEREAS HER BESTFRIENDS !!#meanest ever!!#emmeline is so stubborn and hotheaded and looking for drama/a fight. she will read you to fifth and be so honest in the meanest way #lily just does not particularly care about your feelings <\3 like if a first year comes up she is SO nice and helpful.#then someone around her own age approaches her and she is instantly telling them to fuck off.#marlene KNOWS she's being mean but pretends she doesn't. but in her defence she is just being honest. in her opinion.#they will ALL sabotage other people/make them cry without a second thought #i am just realising.#emmeline is gretchen. marlene is karen. and lily is regina.#marauders era #marauders #marlene mckinnon #lily evans #emmeline vance

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oh-meow-swirls · 8 months

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babblong is hilarious to me cuz his theme is used in psychic specters and only psychic specters. not even in 3. only psychic specters. and also the anime cuz that's where it originated ofc (just like the koma brothers' theme)-

#puppy rambles #yo-kai watch #yw2 #it's just really funny to me #mostly just cuz psychic specters has a broken music app-#is there a mod that fixes the music app and nothing else cuz if so then i'm so getting that once i. eventually mod my 3ds #i need to play blasters 2-#i know it's apparently terrible but i need to play it-#... i just remembered that i saw someone on the subreddit who was seemingly under the impression that people loved blasters 2 #and hated 3 #i don't think they were being satirical either??? idk how they got the complete inverse of the opinion-#the only time i've ever seen anything that implies 3 isn't the most popular of the games is the poll i did #and the yo-kai watch fandom on tumblr is very small-#... okay i say that but i have like 100 followers so there's at least 100 of us sklfdjsdklfjkfdkdf-#random-ykw-facts has 200 followers so there's actually at least 200 of us-

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shokuto · 2 years

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knifefightandchill · 2 months

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It's always a bit concerning when different meta turns into something akin to discourse.

#did i miss like a whole chapter of tumblr stuff while i was at con ??#i stick by everyone has their right to their own opinions and interpretations and whatever #but i dislike how one singular person is considered the expert and is put on a pedestal.#to the point that they're mentioned when someone doesn't agree with a take #unless they're the creator i'm not taking what they say as canon. at all. widely accepted or not. because it /isn't/.#because widely accepted doesn't equal accurate or right #no matter how well researched it is either. because i still don't think one singular person is 100% right when it comes to /everything/.#except the creator or creators themselves #popularity is just popularity #also yeah i'm bias too because i really really dislike a lot of their takes and could counter a lot of them too but it's pointless.#there can be good interpretations and shitty interpretations. but that's the beauty of fandom spaces #thank you for coming to my tedtalk #personal #i would love to post my own meta and probably will sometime when i grow a second braincell. so it's a little less jumbled insanity.#also it's mostly krauser centric so that has little to no bearing on leon.#also we're talking about a series that's almost as old as me #that has multiple timelines and retcons and inconsistencies and a novelization and live action movies.#like /come on people./#we all know where i stand when it comes to ID too tbh

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cryiling · 2 months

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for the ask game, do you ship zelink?

(ask game from here)

ooh ok this one is a little hard for me to answer, bc my answer changes depending on which game we're talking about. I talked abt how I feel for botw/totk zelink here, and I think that's mostly applicable for zelink as a whole. there are some games like ss where I totally would ship them romantically. but in general, let's sayyyy

zelink - don't ship

why don't you ship it?

my reasons are pretty much the same as the post I linked above. I think their relationship is so much more meaningful and fulfilling if you look at it through a queerplatonic lens instead of a romantic lens. like, they care so deeply for each other not because they're in love with each other but because they just have a deep relationship. I think chalking up their relationship to being romantic takes away from the authenticity of their actual feelings and makes it seem like every other straight relationship, when in reality it can and should be seen as something much more

what would have made you like it?

it's hard to say. in general I do think they're very cute together, and especially in ss where they're almost canon I do like them as a ship. but like do I really need to make myself see them as something aside from being queerplatonic for each other? I think viewing zelink as being a queerplatonic couple is just as valid of an interpretation as seeing them as romantic. maybe if their relationship was truly more fleshed out I could understand the romantic aspects of their relationship. but in all the games, whatever we're given for their relationship just isn't enough for me to ship them romantically

despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

yeah!! I mean I do think they're each other's most important person, and they'll always have a special relationship that no one else could understand or have with them. I love their dedication to each other and I think they're peak relationship goals, just not in a romantic sense

#ask game #the legend of zelda #tloz #zelink #me being So Normal about this game #thank you for the ask anon!! I know my opinion abt them isn't as popular but I wanted to speak my truth 😞🙏

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maddy-ferguson · 1 year

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unpopular opinion but one of the worst takes i've read is ''mike loves will because will makes him feel wanted and needed.'' it sounds like he loves will because of will's love and need for him rather than his own personal love for will himself for who he is.

it painfully sounds like the ''mike loves the person behind the painting.'' take lmao it is just... so bad i am not sure why ppl think these are good takes

yes it's so superficial i never liked it either! if you think like this you might like byler but i like them in a much deeper and more intellectual way than you ever will. and i mean that. will saying "el needs you" isn't the most important part, they're not ending up together because he repeated mike's words back to him, it's because of everything else he says in the scene that they're good together. i see you you're a great person here's one of your best qualities that has to do with who you are intrinsically not with what you can do for people and part of the reason why i love you...of course your girlfriend still wants to be with you.

there's a disconnect between what mike says about his relationship with el and the reassurance will gives him because will's words and feelings alone could never fix mlvn. because that's not his relationship lol. and saying that mike loves will because he makes him feel needed implies that he would love el if only she needed him and i just don't think that's true. mike is saying that el doesn't need him to survive anymore and that he's of no use to her now and while will has absolutely needed mike in the past and has survived thanks to mike before, that's never what their relationship was about. this post explains the way i interpret it very well. if mike was like normal he would've worried about el not loving him anymore (since that's quite literally what the note she left him implies) and then will would've said el loves you and she always will and it still wouldn't have been the reason why they're ending up together. because that's just silly. "mike loves will because will makes him feel loved" like...okay, he would love anyone regardless of their personality then.

what it boils down to #TOME is i want you because i need you vs i need you because i want you. i love you because you need me is not on my radar. it makes mike have no internal conflict and no arc beyond going from dating el to dating will just like "mike is in love with the person behind the painting" and "mike is just starting to like will in season 4" takes.

#read my tags from the post i linked on the what. if you want to. i didn't know where to put it #isn't 'she's already beginning to understand she doesn't need me' from the script the least romantic thing you've ever read #the use of the word UNDERSTAND is honestly gross to me. just ew. i really do hate them together #i want (to be with) you because i need you is mlvn except they don't even want each other really they just...are together because they #needed each other at one point a million years ago #i need you because i want (to be with) you: will #of course mike loves the person behind the painting and who feels that way about him...because that's will. but he loved that person #(will) before knowing how they felt about him (i mean he still doesn't know really) and if the feelings did apply to el if will and el #felt the exact same way about him he would still be in love with will #i don't think this is an unpopular opinion because all my opinions are popular #ask

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letmetellyouaboutmyfeels · 1 year

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I need you all to understand that I worked for about two months on Further Than Blood (my 50k vampire fic) and banged out In the Gray (my 26k zombie fic) in roughly 48 hours. People like the former but they are going absolutely BATSHIT over the latter.

My first point is that writing is a bit of a crapshoot. You can never truly be sure what stories are going to hit an indefinable sweet spot that drives people to madness (complimentary). So write what you want to write, and don't destroy yourself over whether people will like it or not.

My second point is that I've gotten a lot of compliments for churning that second fic out in basically two days. People want to know how I did it. I joke that I don't know, and that I was clearly possessed, but the truth is: Two decades of work went into that fic.

The burst of inspiration and skill that allowed me to write that fic in such a short time didn't come from nowhere. It came from working on my writing almost every day for twenty years. It came from taking breaks from writing when I needed to. It came from reading fics and books and watching films and shows written by people far more skilled than I am. It came from making writing a daily habit, even if it was only a sentence, rather than sitting around hoping lightning would strike me.

Those two-day sprints of inspiration, where the writing just flows, where you feel in the grip of the story, where the muse is basically giving your writer brain a blowjob? You can't wait for them to come around. They will, but not without all the work behind it. And if you only wait for those moments, you'll write very little, and you'll be waiting for a long time.

The last time I had a fit of inspiration like that and churned out a fic that people went batshit over?

December, 2018. Confidence Trick, my best Timeless work. That's almost exactly four years ago, for those of you keeping track.

To summarize:

Write for yourself. Write what you want. You don't know what'll be popular and if anyone else says they do, they're lying.

You can't sprint the 500 meter dash and win a gold medal if you don't get up and go for a run every morning.

#personal #does this sound pretentious as fuck?#I worry that it does #I've just gotten a lot of people asking how I pulled off the Zombie AU #and I see people frustrated by their own work and their own writing process and/or lack of 'popularity'#as someone who didn't get much attention (if any) in her entire 10+ years in fandom #until my Witcher fics in January of 2020 #I just wanted to offer encouragement #I'm a 'popular' writer and hell even I don't fucking know what people are really gonna enjoy or ignore #and I didn't just spring out of the ground with a gift for writing #so I want to encourage people who feel their writing isn't yet where they want it to be #hell there are times where I go through a slump and I hate everything I write #and you don't HAVE to write every single day #but inspiration is really (in my opinion) what happens when you've done all the hard work and practice #and then you relax and let it all churn in your subconscious #does that make sense?#anyway I hope this was helpful to people and if it wasn't then ignore me #I just feel like if I don't say anything I'm feeding this myth #the myth of the talented genius where it just bam happens and the story appears in a weekend #I don't want to feed that myth

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revvethasmythh · 1 year

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I'm really just thinking about the "which is better: loving a popular character with bad fan opinions or loving a less popular character with good fan opinions" poll because I don't think the experiences are that different. Like, if you go hard for a less popular character, you have the benefits of talking to a small group of like-minded folk who do share good opinions, that's true. But any time wider fandom tries to interpret said less popular character, it's sure to be a take just as vacuous and wrong as popular character meta can be (because they genuinely haven't put in the effort to understand the character) and usually whatever that take is is what's going to be popularized (so people can continue not putting in the effort to understand the character). So then you still have to deal with misinterpretation and bad opinions of the character, but without the added bonus of lots of cool art and literal pages upon pages of fic to choose from. From personal experience, I don't really think this is better. I'm not sure it's worse, either, but I wouldn't call it better

#we all know veth is just not popular but has that spared me from seeing the most brain dead of takes about her from non-fans? no. not at all #sure other veth stans have great takes but we're talking about a small group of people within a large fandom #who have and will continue to misinterpret her in a way that a small group of fans CANNOT change #so you kind of just have to watch it happen and grumble which??? isn't fun either???#I'm curious about how many people who voted for less popular character/good opinions are actually currently dealing with this sitch #or are they mollymauk stans who think they have it hard? you get what I mean?#if you're wondering if I'm still thinking about the AWFUL veth & caleb meta yes I am I literally can't forget it ever it was so bad #and maybe that's fueling some of my opinions here but. can I really be blamed for that?

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