If You Have Adhd You Can Shoot Lasers From Your Eyes

Maya, Joe, Joseph, Noah, and Finn really be carrying this show on their backs

ever since maya and natalie have been talking about leaning into ronance & joseph quinn has been saying a lot of things about how he changed eddie’s characters from the original creation done by the duffer brothers (his rings, being more friendly than mean, his queerness), i’ve been thinking a lot more about the way that fandom perceives writers opinions v actors' acting choices.

i think that fans tend to value the opinions of writers more than actors because we have been taught by some fandoms *cough cough* that actors' decisions are unimportant. when in reality, i think characters' personalities heavily come from the way the actor plays them and perceives them. this is very evident in joe and maya discussing the bathroom scene in s3 and joseph creating eddie's image.

no way in hell the duffer brothers intended for eddie to be a queer character. they have shown time and time again they don’t care about queer characters, let alone enough to make them well-written queer characters. however, joseph has stated that he intentionally played up eddie's attraction/flirtation to steve because he thought it fit his character.

i think in fandom we’re very easily dismissive of ourselves and our interpretations of media because we’ve been so harmed in the past by creators and writers of shows. i think a lot more emphasis needs to be placed on the way that actors interpret characters, because generally they are the ones that know the best since they play them.

this was long and rambly but heavily inspired by @wastedonyoursmile 's post about the duffers & queerbaiting.

“Team green! No team black!” Shut the fuck up!! Just have Rhaenyra and Alicent settle this in bed DAMN

IM GOING CRAZY RICHT NOW

Ok so basically like thirty minutes ago I was reading a Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction and I look down to see that a ladybug has landed on my can of soda, and then it walks on my hand. And I think “huh, that’s weird coincidence!”

But just now, I was reading another Miraculous Ladybug fanfic and I hear “There’s a cat!” So I turn around, AND THERES A BLACK CAT STARING RIGHT AT ME. And then IT LOCKS RYES WITH ME. AND LIKE WE HELD EYE CINTACT FOR A GOOD MINUTE. AND THEN ME AND KY COHSINS ARE RVAING ABOUT THE COINCIDENCE, and five minutes later, A WHITE BUTTERFLY FLIES OVER MY HEAD?!

WHAT DOES TTIS MEAN OMG IM GOING CRAZY SOMEONE TELL ME WHATS HAPPENING THIS IS SUCH A WEIRD COINCIDENCE IM?!

No because literally THIS. I’m Jewish and this is actually one of the most offensive things I’ve ever heard in my entire life 💀

If y’all are gonna take the time to complain about stranger things please take the time to also talk about the filming in a literal nazi prison camp that they are turning into an AirBNB I have not seen nearly enough conversation on it and that’s not great. They filmed in a nazi camp in Lithuania which is a country already known for erasing their history with the holocaust having turned nazi camps into things like fucking wedding venues in the past. If you want something to be upset about here’s something to really be upset about.

I just listened to TTPD and why does literally every song fit Wolfstar so well? Like…. Before I supported the MsKingBean is Taylor Swift theory as a joke… but I’m kind of starting to think it might be real.

Reblog if you voted for them in the Destiel v Huntlow polls

the tragedy of rhaenyra and alicent is that they cannot ever truly see the other without destroying the foundations of their own self-image. rhaenyra cannot see alicent as a child married to a man old enough to be her father because that’s rhaenyra’s father. and the image she has of both viserys as a just and kind man and of herself as the beloved daughter of that man would collapse under the weight of that realisation. the resentment she holds against alicent would have to turn upon viserys. if she recognised that viserys treats alicent little better than a broodmare, she would have to realise that fundamentally that is all her mother was to him too. if she understood why alicent was disgusted by her marrying daemon she would have to see herself not as someone with agency marrying a man she loved who happened to be her uncle but as someone manipulated and groomed since childhood. the agency she clings to, which is so important to how she sees herself, would be revealed as an illusion. by extension she would have to see her family as one in which the familial is warped almost beyond repair. her self-image, so rooted in targaryen exceptionalism, would collapse.

likewise alicent cannot fully grasp why rhaenyra was so upset that she married viserys because she would have to fully see viserys not as the king but her friend’s father. she would have to face the horror of her life head on. moreover she would have to see viserys in her own father. for her to accept that rhaenyra is not selfish or undutiful for having affairs and trying to carve out whatever agency she can, the pedestal on which alicent places duty would have to be destroyed. she would have to realise that duty is only as important as she believes it to be, that it has no meaningful moral weight to it, and that all of her suffering has been for nothing. alicent tells herself that her sadness is a condition of her existence, as a woman, a mother, a daughter, and that by trying to claw whatever happiness she can from the world rhaenyra has turned her back on all of those things; she is the wrong kind of woman. if she could ever accept that rhaenyra had slept around and birthed bastards without judgement the core of alicent’s identity as a good mother/wife/queen would collapse. she would have to face the reality that nothing that happened to her was justified, and crucially that her submissiveness at every turn was not noble or good and was never going to let her win, but only trapped her further. every cognitive barrier she has built up to protect herself and provide some sort of meaning to a life in which she has only ever really suffered would have to shatter.

and they both realise these things to some extent, rhaenyra knows that viserys is flawed and fallible because she’s experienced his mistakes firsthand (and she is definitely aware of daemon’s violence) and in many ways alicent is so viciously judgemental of rhaenyra’s choices because she wants that level of freedom so desperately for herself, and they so clearly love each other still that they both want to believe there’s something good in the other. but they bury those doubts under layers and layers of cognitive dissonance so they don’t have to face deeply painful realities, because neither of them can truly see the other without destroying themselves.

TEN MINUTES- OMG OMG OMG OMG

Oh and guys if we turn out to be delusional for real, let’s just agree to still stick together :)

These tags have been my safe space over the last two months so yeah

“they’ve ruined show Alicent”

No,

she’s just a pathetic little meow meow. leave my silly desperate despairing lesbian alone, my tragic skrunkle wrunkle