I think I have such a strong reaction because whenever I see those things, I look at what I love to write, what seems most interestnig and honest to me, and I look at what a lot of these people seem to want, and it feels like they're saying that stories like the ones I love shouldn't exist, that my stories don't have value because I'm angry, ( Read more... )

I just rewatched Winter Soldier with my mom, and I'm always just so, so torn ( Read more... )

I realized why I'm aggressively disinterested in a lot of ships where characters have a more natural allignment with each other or feel like "the thing to ship". There are some notable exceptions, but I was thinking about it today, and I had an epiphany about how a lot of the shipping I'm interested in has to do with character identity, growth, and ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about the characters in the Johannes Cabal series, which I do a lot, and their coded sexuality, which I do a lot anyway ( Read more... )

I was thinking about Loki's line from TDW, about how satisfaction isn't in his nature, and I was thinking about what that means.

One possible reading of that occurred to me today, and that's that satisfaction isn't in his nature because he wants things he can never have. I personally read that, at it's core, as a statement about self-esteem, like ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about fiction a lot and what pulls me into fiction and the idea that it's okay to like problematic things (because everything is somehow problematic). So I wanted to take a moment to talk about movies I love or am super attached to that are also objectively not good movies or don't match all my morals perfectly.


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I wanted to do a much longer write-up of my thoughts in response to the movie.

[spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers]Basically, there were moments and instances that I really, absolutely loved. There were perfect moments and character beats ( Read more... )

So I finally found out why the first Elder Scrolls game is called Arena ( Read more... )