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noir-fem · 1 month

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PREFACE: this is just MY OPINION on some takes I've seen. This is meant to call out some team black fans who take things way too far and bully people, but I will not condone any kind of bullying or harassment in the comments. We can disagree, we can discuss our disagreements, but what we're not gonna do is bully or threaten people, okay?

Okay.

That being said, this is a friendly reminder that the Targaryens invaded a land that WAS NOT THEIRS then proceeded to take the things that they believed they had a divine right to through force and violence (aka their dragons, which are a metaphor for the weapons of mass destruction used in real wars). This is literally a metaphor for colonizers. GRRM wrote the dance of dragons as an anti-war commentary and made it clear that the Targaryens thinking that they're a divine race who are entitled to do whatever they want at the expense of the common man is a HORRIBLE WAY OF THINKING and this has gone completely over some of yall's heads.

Look, you can like whatever characters you wanna like for whatever reason! Nobody in HOTD is truly a good person, so there's no point in real people fighting with each other over it. But I'm tired of watching team black fans who justify their choice by saying this very thing proceed to bully and harass not only team green fans, but even the team green ACTORS because they don't like what the CHARACTERS did. Like, what happened to all of them being bad people?? And why call REAL people names, harass them, and even threaten them just because of what these FICTIONAL CHARACTERS did????

If it truly doesn't matter who you support because "they're all bad people", then why are you harassing REAL PEOPLE just because they don't like the same war criminals you do? "Both sides do bad things", so what moral high ground do you have over team green fans? One person on here said that some of y'all act like you're actually part of House Targaryen and it's true! If the Targaryens were real people who actually did these things, y'all defending them so staunchly would be worrying to say the least!

I love Aemond as a character, and I can understand his motivation for killing Luke, but I'll never defend him killing Luke because at the end of the day, children getting killed is unexcusable NO MATTER WHAT. I don't want to watch anything horrible happen to Rhaenyra's children any more than I want to watch Blood and Cheese happen to Helaena and her children. I love team green because I think they're interesting characters that I see a lot of myself in and I think that their actions make sense for the time period and circumstances they live in. However, I also look at their actions through a modern lens and would never condone some of the things they've done in real life.

Posting this bc I'm tired of seeing team green fans get called hypocrites while the people who claim to be feminists/progressives worship characters who represent the TOTAL OPPOSITE of feminism without a second thought. I'm tired of seeing certain fans make shitty takes saying that Alicent doing bad things "wouldn't be a problem if she would just own up to it!!", when team black fans go out of their way to justify Blood and Cheese and every other bad thing that their favs do.

Once again, keep the comments civil! if you start bullying or threatening people you're getting blocked and reported :)

#anti targ stans #house of the dragon #team green #i'm team green but i'm also team “war is terrible for everyone involved”#ESPECIALLY the common people who suffer the brunt of it while the people in power fight for no good reason #pro team green #putting the pro team green tag bc we are regularly under attack and need more support lol

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causalityparadoxes · 29 days

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Tfw you search the Dune tag and its just WALLS of Feyd-Rautha/Reader

I get it the bald twink was hot BUT I WANTED TO SEE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND LORE DAMMIT

#please for the love of god i was expecting to see it under the tag like i know this sites type #BUT WHERE IS THE LORE JESUS SAVE ME #imma block the tags and hope that helps #but jesus it just kept going #i get it the lore is very fanfic friendly there but at least give it to me in a weird funfacts bullet point lore post #not 6 6k xreader!paul fic posts in a row 😭😭#i cannot with ya #anti xreader #< mostly in the hopes any xreader fans have that blocked so this blocks the post #like yall keep being crazy fr no hate. just please put them under readmores my sanity cannot be coping #dune

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bahoreal · 5 months

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cant stop thinking abt something i saw earlier

#someone put mdzs under a NON 'bury your gays' rec list and like #the main character dies in the first chapter? he definitely geta buried thats quite an important part of the book #he does get resurrected but theres also apparently only 2 lgbt characters and one of them does die.#but what bothers me the most is that the bury your gays trope is a remnant of gays code and western anti gay bullshit #that trope does not exist in chinese media and it really bothers me that it was put out there like mxtx was subverting the trope #she subverted a LOT of tropes in mdzs but zero of them were western tropes. mostly xianxia classic tropes #anyway #Americans realise that america isnt the centre of the world challenge. americans realise most people arent american challenge....#lol rereading through my tags #HAYS CODE! HAYS! gays code. thats what I live by

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thewingedwolf · 1 year

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i am rewatching shadow & bone bc, once again, i am a parody of myself, and i really am so fond of Mal in the show, i am deeply nervous about how he’ll be written in s2 lol. not as nervous about almost everyone else - i say ALMOST bc i was not impressed with the way Jesper & Nina weren’t shown to be bisexual, like, at all, & while i think it was just clumsy writing & not malice (the same as the clumsy way they wrote Alina’s race), that doesn’t mean it’ll get better lol. also pls understand i spend half my time shitting on the darklng, ben barnes does an excellent job reminding me why i hate that bitch okayyyy

Mal already knows that Alina’s tent with the other cartographers was moved, and knows where it moved. We first see him fighting but seems like he got there, immediately attempted to find Alina, figured out she had been moved and was wandering around, then said fuck it she’ll find me or i’ll find out she got thrown in lock up again, and decided to go beat someone up so he could show off his kruge in front of her lmao

Alina is interested in the grisha. she’s smiling and curious, clearly thinks Zoya looks cool af (she’s right, Zoya is cool af). Mal spends the entire time frowning at them lol. Could be bc a grisha just crashed his party, could be mal’s general dislike of grisha and the upper class. it’s very funny either way that he just Refuses to smile until Alina distracts him

Alina experiencing A Racism but still thinking quick enough so her team can eat makes me emo but also Mal immediately being like “time to commit some crimes” every single time someone is racist to Alina is so great, get u a real man like Mal

Racism is done very messily in the show and i’m hoping it improves bc like - Zoya is insulated from most racism due to her status, but we still get that comment about “YOU from Novokribirsk?” comment from another Grisha, which seemed like a pretty obvious slight at her being Suli. Alina experiences racism everywhere she goes from nearly everyone she meets - random cooks, cartographers, servants, Zoya, and the Darkling himself. Even Genya sort of brushes off the comment about her eyes as like, typical bullying and not something very different & much more insidious. Mal looks uncomfortable at the anti Shu Han propaganda & I think that’s it? Which feels weird bc he doesn’t have the class protection Zoya has, but maybe he doesn’t *look Suli* culturally the way Zoya and Inej clearly do. Or are Mal AND Alina both supposed to be Shu Han? We know from Inej and Nina (and maybe Zoya, idk, i never read king of scars bc i would have to acknowledge Matthias & David’s deaths and I refuse) that the Suli are still mistreated on a legal level in addition to social, but are maybe treated marginally better than the Shu that live in Ravka, bc Ravka is in an active war against Shu Han. Is that the difference in what Mal experienced vs what Alina does? lol or i’m overthinking something that clearly wasn’t thought out very well before they put it in the show. I just like. Do Not think Mal is meant to be a white Ravkan, firstly bc Archie isn’t a white brit, and secondly because - look at him aksjdjd that is not a man that can really pass for white. I hope they handle Alina’s background better, especially since she’ll be interacting with other Shu characters, in s2 but i also want an explanation for Mal’s background!!!

I do think it’s funny that the sickness grisha get if they don’t use their powers is very informed in the show. Mal makes a few comments about Alina being sick all the time but she doesn’t actually look or act sick at any point in the show aksksk

Mal is so strong, like the dude is fuckin ripped, a fucking volcra tries to rip Alina away and he’s just like “yeah i can take this bitch with one hand” aksjsj

I feel bad for that lil blond boy that clearly has a thing for Alina lmao he really tries to stick up for her and she does not even notice a little bit and then he dies bc West Ravka is like “anyways don’t get captured even tho we’re at war with half the world and you have no resources, crew, or family over here” ya, they’re way better than Old Ravka smh (Zlatan is just as big of a bitch as the king and darklng dammit)

Interesting that Zoya only gets shitty with Alina after both the Darklng & Mal clearly choose her over Zoya. Mal she probably doesn’t gaf about, but it definitely stung her pride that she can’t even pull an orphan from Keramzin but Alina can. Before that tho, even if she’s thrown by Alina, she clearly sees Alina as One Of Us. She even looks visibly annoyed when everyone starts laughing at Alina and her “i’m a mapmaker” response & seems to pick up on the implied racism of the “what are you” question. It’s an annoying response that after being rejected, Zoya uses that racism against Alina to put her in her place but like…I guess it’s not wildly ooc? bleh.

Ivan and Fedyor purposefully ignoring the Shu Of It All when talking about power and privilege is 100% why Alina takes so long to trust the grisha, and so easily turns against the Darklng imo. For all they understand the danger of being Grisha, for all Ivan wants to lecture Alina about her privilege at dinner, none of them even bother to understand what it’s like now, right now, for the poor of Ravka. You serve in the army & let the Darklng indoctrinate you with his nonsense, or you flee like the mother in the first episode does, taking your chances with the slavers & the volcra & the Fjerdans. There are no good choices for the grisha, no good choices for the non grisha peasantry, and Alina’s entire existence, from the never ending racism she experiences, to the death and starvation she’s surrounded by, is a constant reminder how few choices that exist no matter if you’re grisha or not.

So like, most of the bad guys have Weird Foreign Accents and I dislike it. All the Ravkans should have Russian accents but it’s only Fedyor & a few mean servants that do. The Fjerdans all have accents. Pekka has an accent. Everyone else is just a brit, including people in Kerch, even tho they don’t even speak the same language as the Ravkans do, they speak Kerch! Why does Kaz not have some country bumpkin accent dammit

“When our closest friend is in trouble, we do foolish things.” Smash cut to Kaz doing the Dumbest shit in an attempt to protect Inej from Heleen l m a o it’s not one whipped bitch in this show it’s two (it’s three actually, Matthias just hasn’t shown up yet lmao)

When Mal & Alina are both envisioning each other & reach out to hold the others’ hand, hundreds of miles away but desperate for comfort, THAT was the moment i fell for them. Archie & Jessie are just so Powerful okay aksjdjd

feels more obvious in retrospect that he’s not trying to train her to do anything but answer to him. he doesn’t even bother preparing her for the king bc he knows he can amplify her powers, so long as she’s not fighting him.

I do not buy Baghra’s insistence that Alina’s feelings for Mal hold her back. She’s able to summon her powers when she’s angry, and Baghra takes that short cut by continuously pissing Alina off. But Alina also uses her powers whenever she thinks of protecting Mal; she protects him on the skiff & when she remembers trying to run away with him for protection, she can summon a bit of her power. It’s Alina’s compassion that gives her abilities, but Baghra has spent so much time nurturing her own bitterness, watching her son nurture his anger, it just never occurs to her that Alina’s strength comes from her desire to protect the people she loves. Alina goes from wanting solely to protect Mal to channeling her power through her anger and rejection & Baghra treats it like a win but it’s just another shortcut that clearly makes her more susceptible to the Darklng whispering in her ear, not less, and if Baghra had any goddamn sense, she would have seen that she was making her son’s job easier. But like, the darklng didn’t just come out of nowhere lmao, and you can clearly see where he gets his defeatist, manipulative, and bleak ass outlook on life from.

As a certified Matthias stan still refusing to acknowledge the end of crooked kingdom, i think it is genuinely so funny that Mal gets chest wound after gut wound after chest wound in s1 and shrugs it off, but Matthias gets shot one (1) time and dies immediately & cannot be saved by the most powerful heartrender that ever lived. leigh PLS

“you are my true north and i can see my way to you now” IM JUST.

Genya has to hurt Alina’s feelings by lying about Mal, then immediately and smoothly changes the subject to something that will make Alina laugh. She knows she has to betray Alina and she tries her hardest to soften the blow, encourages Alina to return to the blue kefta instead of going too hard towards the Darkling so she has the protection of a color and a people, warns her as best as she can to be wary of the Darklng, even while she’s helping isolate Alina from anyone who could help her escape. i’m so depressed about Genya.

Enter David and Genya loses her damn mind ansjsjdjdjd Alina is doing miracle sun summoning and Genya just watches David the whole time, who probably cannot fucking believe his luck that his weird ass boss for ONCE is letting him hang out with the meanest, coolest, smartest person in the palace instead of Ivan & Fedyor, who spend all their time flirting with each other and bullying him

Fjerda is lichrally trying to commit genocide against the grisha & Shu Han does…some jacked up shit to their grisha lol, and i did a whole post about how the Darklng is just more of the same, but so is Baghra. All their talk of looking out for Grisha, but they both treat the peasantry of Ravka as disposable. Nikolai is theeeee only valid ruler specifically bc he does think of the cost to the peasantry & to the grisha before he makes decisions (something his father and his brother also don’t do lol). And both Baghra & Aleksander allow this “us vs them” bs to permeate through their own people - no grisha healers help the first army, and Ivan reads the dead but glosses over the Otkazat'sya deaths to focus on the grisha. but this is on purpose - if you make the grisha other the Otkazat'sya, you can easily turn them against one another. neither baghra nor aleksander ever work towards like, actual freedom for the grisha by building bridges and relationships between the grisha and the Otkazat'sya, they just turn the grisha into weird, insular child soldiers.

Alina realizing she can just swing on the racists now love that for her

Mal tends to deal with his feelings for Alina bubbling to the surface by purposefully breaking the tension; closing his eyes & going to sleep when they’re thrown in the brig, cracking a joke about going to Ketterdam when he steals her food. But their convo in the woods after they’re reunited is the first time he doesn’t try it - you can almost see he wants to, when she says she cheated on the grisha test bc she didn’t want to leave him, his whole brain short circuits at what it could mean, and it’s a moment where he might have purposefully broken the tension but instead he takes a minute to think before he tries to open up abiut his own feelings - only to get derailed & heartbroken by the realization that the stag drawing wasn’t Alina trying to communicate with him, but Aleksander manipulating & isolating her. But he still doesn’t break the tension - he lets Alina hold him, and he holds her in return, & stops running from his feelings for real this time.

I do find it so funny how Aleksander sees David raising his hand to speak, initially starts to tell him to knock it off, and then realizes David will not understand why Ivan and him find it annoying & just decides to choose his battles aksjjdjd.

Also, him going through the five stages of grief when he realizes Mal & Alina are together, and overdramtigcally monologuing about the orphans of Keramzin being reunited to this random dude who has no idea wtf he’s talking about. Perfect, no notes.

Episode 7 is just very well written. All the conversations are tense, all the action is painful, all the acting is amazing. From David half in tears as he helps enslave Alina, all the anger going out of Alina when she realizes the king was raping Genya, Genya’s guilt & shame over her own hand in betraying Alina stopping her from talking even though she’s usually so composed, Mal’s helpless snarl when he says Aleksander will wish he’d killed him, even Aleksander’s inability to look Alina in the eyes because he knows she’s right to hate him it’s just that he thinks she’s a justifiable sacrifice. Meanwhile the Crows are being the most chaotic idiots ALIVE akskdkdk just perfect, excellent writing.

What i think is interesting is that Alina makes the hypocrisy argument to Genya, and it works. Genya appeals to Alina’s compassion when she admits the king has been raping her, but Alina pieces together that Aleksander placed her in front of the king to begin with. Not a soldier, just a pawn. And Genya is so struck by this argument she has no counter; she just leaves in tears. Alina tries this with Aleksander as well, to get him to see the hypocrisy in his actions - of killing the king because the king is a monster, yet using the fold as a weapon. It has the complete opposite effect because whereas Genya is aware on some level that she’s being used, Aleksander is so far removed from his own experiences as a pawn, as a target, he can’t see her point.

“all countries will answer to us. for who would oppose us now?”

means Something to me that Immediately after that nasty comment from that heartrender, Zoya sees another Suli girl (who, if we remember, someone she is friends with just called Suli trash before getting got by said Suli girl) who is about to be killed, witnesses the destruction of her home and what she will find is the death of the only person who ever loved her as a child, and makes the decision to betray the only stability she’s ever known for the glimmer of hope that Alina can offer her.

It’s also exactly what I mean when I say I hope we get an explanation for Mal’s background. In Inej’s chapters we get the sense that the Suli are a people that draw close together, even outside Ravka. Her curse on Bajan clearly hits him hard; even clearly trying to assimilate into Kerch culture, the thought that his Suli ancestors may forsake him for harming a fellow Suli really gets under his skin. So in the show, what I love is we get a small exploration of this bond that exists between all Suli as outsiders in their home countries - Zoya and Inej instinctively working together, Recognizing that bond in each other, with Inej even attempting to stop Zoya from going back to the ruins of the city, of wanting Zoya to stay with them. And Zoya, despite her pained history with her own people, despite her comments about Alina being [redacted], clearly returns those feelings. She’s so much warmer with Inej, and vice verse, then say, Jesper is with Mal (he’s not cold to Mal, he’s just Typical Jesper). The thing is - maybe you could argue Zoya and Mal kind of take a small interest in each other because they recognize the other is Suli, but Inej and Mal don’t really have that connection in the time they know each other, and Zoya and Mal are much more cordial with each other than Zoya and Inej are. OBVIOUSLY there are other factors at play. But. Whereas we get a hint of Zoya’s own complicated past, and Inej is defined by her ties to her culture, Mal doesn’t really show any of this beyond one single uncomfortable look at a Shu Han propaganda poster, and that’s likely more to do with Alina than his own background. I JUST THINK ITS WEIRD AND CLUMSY OKAY.

idek what to say about Alina’s amazing speech besides HELL YEAH THATS MY WIFE. she’s so fucking cool.

Ivan’s lil bitch ass being like “know your place” RIGHT AFTER Alina gives her “you asked WHAT I am” speech and then Jesper being like “i think the fuck not” and tossing him overboard. absolutely perfect i love that man.

Zoya looks so uncomfortable during the whole conversation by the fire. For the first time, she’s the outsider - the lone splash of color against the browns and blacks of the crows and malina. But when Zoya says she has to go back, Inej shoots up to stop her, and even Kaz attempts to dissuade her from what he thinks is no better than a suicide run. Since her childhood, Zoya has seemed alone, but just as her aunt stepped in to save her then, and the crows attempt to console her now, Zoya is never as alone as she feels.

And neither is Alina! Knowing where their stories end up going, i think it is interesting that both Zoya and Alina are very adaptable and very adept at making very loyal friends. Despite all the odds against them, with them being Suli and Shu, with Zoya being a huge bitch (which I love) and Alina constantly struggling with her own self worth, other people see just how amazing the two of them are and are willing to fight for them, with them, to be near them. Sankta Alina and the Grisha Queen. Wonderful.

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #rani's liveblogging tag #anti darkling #ben barnes is a magnificent actor who imbues a lot of depth into a character that is a textbook abuser & i love him. aleksander can choke.#i’m in mobile so i can’t put it under a cut i’ll do that later probably #rani attempts meta #there’s a lil meta here so it’s going in that tag #if u want to comment u can. u can even disagree but if ur a bitch about it i will be a bitch back

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basimibnishaqs · 1 year

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how much clearer could i have been and they still can’t read

#anti reylo #what the fuck is femodm reylo GO AWAY #ITS NOT BETTER ITS GROSS AND BAD IN EVERY WORLD REYLO IS GROSS AND BAD #i literally imply theyre related IN THIS POST #why would you put THOSE tags under that specific reblog

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quietwingsinthesky · 10 months

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thinking about angel banishing sigil tattoos on Sam & Dean, but in order to make them effective, they have to be tattooed with their own blood. Which apparently leads to the body reabsorbing the tattoo after a few weeks, so they’d have to do it constantly to stay safe. Sam & Dean committing to this ritual every few weeks… tattooing themselves in their own blood or maybe even each other’s…

#i do not think that is strictly healthy but this is Sam & Dean I don’t think they care #they just go ‘oh we can force our blood under each other’s skin to protect each other and leave a mark that anyone will be able to see?’#and then don’t think twice they just do it #oh 🥺 Dean being ready to do it from the get-go. if it’ll protect Sam. if it’s a bit of him for Sam to carry everywhere…#he’s got the blood drawn and the tattoo needle ready before Sam even says anything #but sam has to be convinced. what if his blood hurts Dean. what if he’s too corrupted to protect Dean like that.#but Dean coaxes him into doing it anyway. he’ll take the risk.#and then by the end they’ve both got matching blood tattoos along with their matching anti-possession ones #and they work too. Nick a finger and put the bleeding tip on the center of the tattoo and boom! banishing.#but they have to keep reapplying them as they’re reabsorbed…#which is probably a part they both like honestly. little bit of them is going to sink into the others bloodstream forever.#they are such freaks <3 #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #should I tag this wincest? I mean I wasn’t thinking about it I just think they’re Weird about each other #and like. what’s a little blood tattoo compared to being platonic life partners in your supernatural war bunker where you’re raising #a devil son right?#but I guess you could also look at this as a romantic thing or something.#eh. for the sake of people’s filters ill tag it:#wincest #I can see it. it could definitely be that.#look away dev

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bharatiya-naari-sab-pe-bhaari · 2 years

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You know the kind of Severitus fics I hate?

Where the author doesn't like Snape but for some reason (maybe only to make him bloody apologize over and over to Harry) write Severitus which is kind of twisted. They make Snape into their own version of a git and then make him be obscenely cruel to Harry (which is a hundredfold exaggeration from the books) and then bam! Turn a 180 degrees and make him into this repentant weepy wimp and Harry the difficult but magnanimous person.

I mean ughhh... puke worthy.

I got waylaid so many times with these kinda weird shit stories under the severitus tag. More times than I care to count.

Gahhh!

#severus snape #harry potter fandom #snape fandom #prosnape #pro severus snape #snape love #severus snape fic #harry potter #severitus #i hate these assholes #who think they are writing severitus but are just bashing Snape #plz put an anti severus warning if you write something like this under a severitus tag #will help my sanity

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teamfortresstwo · 7 months

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//JM CRITICAL

“It’s puritanical to call J/nmartin toxic” “it’s the apocalypse of course things’ll be that way” “oh but it’s canon!” 1) It’s puritanical to act like no ship you enjoy can be toxic. Also, no we weren’t expecting it to be healthy. But the fact is, it’s framed as if it *is* healthy. And that not only brings down the ship but the tragic narrative as a whole! 2) While it does make the toxicity more reasonable, that doesn’t change the fact that they *arent* good for eachother. ESPECIALLY when we don’t see anything that would suggest they’d be better in a calmer scenario. We don’t get to see that calmer scenario! They interact twice in the tunnels and yes it is cute, but even then M/rtin finds a way to bring up his disdain for J/n’s monsterhood!! 3) Canon ships can suck bad. Even when you like the authors of a piece of media, you need to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made bad decisions in that media.

#discourse #anti jm #jm critical #jm negative #TMA critical #sorry I just. am having a very jm hating day #it’s not a ship I enjoy a lot and I’ve been stressed so. it’s nice to vent out my frustration on it I guess #No offense if you ship it!#uhhh please block the first 5 tags cause I’ll probably post it more often #so sorry if this gets on your dash #wait I should probably put this under a read more so it’ll be easier to avoid #vagueing

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lewishamil10n · 7 months

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like literally he starts racing lewis n then when he gets overtaken he's essentially like "why cant we all just get along and be friends 🥺👉🏻👈🏻"

#remy.txt #salt tag #anti george russell #im being nice n putting it under a cut #japanese gp 2023 #f1

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maschotch · 2 years

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honestly, do you think jj is a good mother?

that is.. an interesting question. a loaded question, but interesting nonetheless.

yes and no. i’ve talked about jj as a mother a little here already, but idk it’s difficult to make a judgment like that. like.. what are we considering “good” here? bc imo there are very few good parents in the world, and none of them are in the bau (except morgan), but i mean… she loves her kids, she feeds them, she houses them, she clothes them, she meets all their basic needs—which is more than a lot of (maybe not a lot but still far too many) parents

if we find the happy medium between those two sets of standards, i still think the answer would be no. i think she wants to be a good mom. i think she thinks she’s a good mom. but i also know that she’s very resistant to criticism and would likely get defensive rather than actually reevaluate her behavior.

i’ve vaguely talked about jj’s self esteem issues before, and i think it comes into play here, albeit in a slightly different way. i think she suffers from imposter’s syndrome—particularly in the first couple seasons. in a way it makes sense: she is undoubtedly the least qualified of the team, but she doesn’t have the same job as them so the standards are a bit different. she knows that, but i think she still feels this need to prove herself. particularly when it comes to being in the field.

she’s definitely the most traditionalist compared to the rest… even tho she resents her upbringing, she still can’t shake loose a lot of those values. as such, she’s overly critical of herself when it comes to typical ~female gender roles~ like being overly emotional or not being as physically/emotionally/psychologically strong (like in birthright when everything hotch is trying to tell her about how feeling things is completely normal goes right over her head, or in revelations when she takes an off-handed comment by emily that wasn’t even about her personally as some sort of critique on how she’s handling the trauma she’s currently going through)

so when she becomes a mother, she suddenly lives up to a very significant, highly lauded ~gender role~. it’s validating, and the one thing she has that the others don’t (i mean hotch is a dad but i don’t think jj thinks he’s a good father (and like.. she’s not wrong)), so of course she clings to that one part of her until it becomes her whole identity. i mean this whole thing is the result of sexist writing, which is unfortunate, but it makes for an interesting (and hateable) character arc as we see a character develop without necessarily getting better. anyway, the point is that it’s something she feels she can be proud of (which is fine!) and values a lot (also fine!)

while at first glance it may seem like a mindset of a devoted mother, her pride crosses over into arrogance, which leads to a defensive attitude. again, this is someone who’s been criticized her whole life, constantly feeling like she’s being watched. she thinks she’s a good mother because she has to, otherwise, what does she have left? jj’s stubbornness makes her resistant to any differing opinions, isolating her even further and emphasizing the shiny veneer she’s placed over her life (even though the others can see through it)

again, i’ve already talked about ways jj struggles with the reality of parenthood in that other post. to summarize: jj’s childhood and shitty relationship with her own mom gives her a complex that she either can’t or won’t acknowledge. instead, she passes it along to her son by making the same mistakes—like not talking about rosaline—even if it’s for different reasons

it’s clear she loves her children, but i think she’s too caught up in her own issues to actually focus on their wellbeing in a satisfactory way. she tries, but she refuses to learn, and ultimately i don’t think that’s a healthy environment to grow up in. it’s probably fine while henry and michael are young, but i think adolescence is going to be a struggle for both of them.

#i should really put this under a read-more but i dont want to bc im a bad person #ANYWAY #asks #char crit #anti jj #<- i really hate using that tag when its a straightforward character analysis

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glitter500000 · 1 year

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I am so fascinated by the show’s version of Darklina, especially with how Kirigan reacts to it. Like he’s slowly weaving his way into gaining her trust and then gets comforted ONCE when he didn’t expect it and was like “wow maybe this could be real”. Like I fully believe he legit stopped thinking that he was manipulating her in the first place and just thought “she’s just like me”, which is why he was so hurt when they talked in the tent. He said “and what lies are those?” BRO did you forget? (The quotes too like when Zoya was talking about how Alina didn’t fit in and he just cuts her off saying “I know exactly how she felt. The guards used to treat me the same way” like does he really know though? Or him telling Baghra how “without me there’s just her, standing alone” I just, will it really be HER who’s standing alone??? Then when he was telling Mal about how Mal will die all alone and Alina will live on until there’s just the two of them so he doesn’t need to kill him right now, he was so fucking sure of this. This was BEFORE the tent scene in episode 7. Not to mention when after he expands the fold he tells Alina “they’re traitors who tried to kill you. This is retribution” as if she knew about the attempt of her life. Am I looking too into this? Is he really saying this to HER or to himself?)

Also I love how they still showed that this really wasn’t ever healthy relationship. He never sent Alina’s letters to Mal, he never sent Mal’s letters to Alina. He straight up admits to Mal that he read his letters (and I’m betting he read Alina’s too cause when Mal first shows up and introduces himself in his full name Kirigan says “Mal, what a surprise” like he knew his nickname even though they just met) which is a breach of privacy in my opinion. He finds out what her favorite flowers are and gives them to her like “lucky guess I know your favorite flowers”. He stole her fucking journal for the stag drawing and probably looked through it too. A attempt was made on her life and Marie(who Alina was becoming friends with) was killed for it and he just goes “it’s nothing”. Meanwhile he tells her nothing about him except for like small pieces. (“I’d come here through a coin, and wish I could be anyone else” like I think that happened at one point in his life, also the war room scene in episode 4 I don't think he meant for her to be there and he revealed more then he intended)

The antler scene happens and he looks guilty here when they’re placing it on to the point where he would rather look away but at the end of the day when it WORKS and he can draw her light when he wants, he looks like he’s basking in it (showing him what he really cares about)

Can’t wait for season 2 just to see the absolute baggage these two have. Like I don’t wanna see this relationship repaired at all, I wanna see blood between the two. They see each other and it’s on sight

#anti darklina #gonna put this in the anti darklina tag cause I fucking hate this ship but I wanna put it under a microscope #Look I am just not a fan of “simp darkling” because I just believe that he cares more about his cause then he does Alina #Like he likes Alina but if she wasn’t the sun summoner I don’t think he would spare her a second glance #The sun summoner means that he can safely walk in the fold and keep away from the Volcra who SPECIFICALLY target him when he comes in #Also it means that they can live longer and stay with him so he won’t be alone #Look I won’t deny that he fell hard for Alina but I also think he would push her off a cliff if he thought he needed to #Like he might feel bad about it but at the end of the day he’ll still do it #it won’t change anything if he was in love #You know that meme that’s like “where I can find a person like this?” “hey” “no.” “I’m literally that person in the picture”. That’s them #sab tv #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix

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