Going insane about kicked dog with rabies type characters
On a more serious note though perhaps I’m obsessed with this because I want more sympathy for characters who externalize their problems. Fuck being a perfect victim fuck being a decent one, something horrible was done to you and it was never recognized and you will never ever get back the person you were before, you had everything taken from you and now all you’re left with is anger and sharp things and you know what. You should be able to bite people about it
lol what are you gonna do, climb inside my mind and shut off the imagination switch?
This kind of response always fascinates me, so while I’ve got you here, can I just ask: legal by what standards? Do you mean real world standards, where laws vary from country to country, and in the case of the US, state to state? Or do you mean the fictitious laws set in place in the fictional setting of the ship? What standard exactly should we use to tell people “you’re not allowed to enjoy this fictional thing?”
I know you didn’t mean any harm by your response, but I feel it’s important to reiterate that nothing gives anyone the right to police what people do in a fictional setting, full stop. Because at the end of the day, it’s fiction, it’s a fantasy, none of it is real, and so real world rules and standards do not apply. So, as long as you are not actively causing harm in a real world setting (i.e. harassing real people over fictional ships) then you do you.
a very important addition
Something that also drives me NUTS with this “uwu if it’s legal” shit is like…
Y'all only EVER. Say it about sexual stuff. “Oh wow well if it’s LEGAL-!” bitch my ass is out here playing DnD. I roleplay a devil-them who KILLS PEOPLE FOR A LIVING and yet I don’t see y'all rushing to tell me that those thoughts are illegal and bad and noooo you can’t do THAT, murder is ILLEGAL.
It’s because y'all are a bunch of puritan weirdos about sex and I reblogged a post that hits why right on the nose but dear FUCK y'all need to really unpack all of your weirdness about sex. Like. Right now. Because it’s all conservative bullshit.
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though I still love Chronicles of Narnia the older I get and the more I learn the clearer it becomes to me why it would have driven Tolkien completely insane
The Santa part almost ruined their friendship
Tolkien: you can’t just patch random things together because you like them, everything has to fit together in a dense textural weave of reasonable causes and effects
Lewis: and then the witch from the other dimension turns the fox to stone for having a contraband tea party …
Tolkein is the nerd that complains that characters’ costumes and weapons are impractical and Lewis is the nerd that thinks the designs fuck
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