like we know missy deserves the light and love of a thousand suns. which is why they had to make her have feelings for spider during his incel era. but honestly i think its such an interesting way of writing her character like. her ability to recognize other peoples suffering and offer them kindness thru it is consistent from s1 and like. no other character could have feasibly done that for spider.
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I often see men complain that when they open up their emotional side to women, women will either get turned off, lose respect or whatnot for their male partner. Why are you expecting women to be turned on and have so much respect for you just because you're expressing your emotions? So men just don't open up. But really women got tired of being their unpaid therapist and having their male partner unload his emotional baggage and trauma onto her. If you really want your humanity, the ability to openly express your emotions why not challenge men who uphold the patriarchal belief that men shouldn't express their emotions? It seems like men want the best of both worlds. They get into relationships with women where they can express their emotions and outside of their relationship with women they uphold the patriarchal belief of being unemotional. When will men start challenging other men? After all, its men who took men's humanity away not women. Yet women are always blamed. Which reminds me of the quote by Khaled Hosseini, "Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
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Izzy has been the screen through which the world has seen Blackbeard/Ed his whole life. He met Ed, who was traumatized by his childhood and desperate to run and be someone else to survive. So Izzy helped Ed cultivate his persona as Blackbeard both for pirating and for Ed's ability to function.
We've seen Izzy as he struggled to adjust when Ed started to form relationships that made him realize maybe he didn't need or want that mask anymore. It scared him and angered him. He was Ed's family, his protector, and Ed was Blackbeard as long as he'd known him because he had to be.
But in Izzy's last breath he told him that he was surrounded by people who loved him, and all he had to do was be Ed. And as he saw Ed break down into tears, over the grief of losing him, he saw the man he'd been helping protect and hide for decades. He saw Ed. And he smiled, touched his face, and affirmed that open raw emotion. That ability to cry. Because he's safe and he knows it, even when he's hurting. Especially then.
There he is.
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Maybe I should try harder. You should lower your expectations. 💕Paid of💕✨free of ✨
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i think a lot of people in the fandom have a bad habit of acting as if aziraphale should know everything we, the audience, know about crowley, and that he should therefore be more sympathetic to feelings that aziraphale literally doesn't even know crowley has, because crowley hasn't told him.
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something about 'i know it's unlikely we'll find each other but it was unlikely for us to meet in the first place'
something about 'did you know there are birds that spend their entire lives in the air'
something about how albatrosses mate for life but spend a large proportion of the year apart and at sea before returning to aotearoa during mating season and finding their mate through recognition of the unique courtship language they created together
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Side-bar to the stabbing scene, re: toxic masculinity.
Though Ed and Stede casually touch quite a bit in Season 1, it's nearly always initiated by Ed, often a small pat on Stede's shoulder or back, or supporting him when he's been hurt. The most significant time that Stede initiates touch is when he asks if he can see the red silk and then arranges it in Ed's chest pocket. I don't think this has anything to do with reluctance for contact on Stede's part, but a result of his upbringing, where boys and men rarely, if ever, touch each other in any way (even the violence he experiences doesn't involve being touched by other boys, but them chasing him and throwing rocks at him). He's accustomed to asking permission for any kind of physical contact. He doesn't even know how to touch his own wife.
Ed has been physically abused by other men quite a bit, and he's certainly had sex with other men, but it's unlikely he's ever been touched with love or care by another man. He badly wants Stede to touch him, but he doesn't know how to ask for it outside of violence. So, one episode after Stede has briefly touched his chest, he creates a training scenario where Stede penetrates him and holds him, and they have to be as close as physically possible. When Stede asks if he's happy now, he just says, "Yes."
It's a funny scene, but it's also heartbreaking in retrospect.
Ed just wants to feel Stede's hands on him.
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