#when the muses attack

[theoriginalladya]

Is September too early to be getting new Christmas AU ideas to write...?

I still have at least one I need to finish from last year!

#ladya writes #when the muses attack #Caleb Shepard #God help me...

[purplink8]

Hate to burst anyone's bubble but I don't think L would've revealed his face to Light if the latter wasn't Kira. The Kira case was the only case in which L shows his identity to anyone besides Watari because it's the first time he (and his authority) has been challenged like this (with the majority of the Japanese task force leaving since they can't trust L coz of the FBI incident).

If Light weren't Kira and went on to become an NPA officer like his father, he might work with L on some cases together but that doesn't mean L would've revealed his identity to him, however intelligent this particular NPA officer may be.

Like I ship Lawlight very much and I'm not (in this post, that is) referring to anyone exploring the idea of non-Kira!Light with L in their AUs as bad (I like those AUs too), but let's remember that it wouldn't be plausible if we're going by canon. Even if Ohba said somewhere that they'd work together if Light weren't Kira, I'm sure he didn't mean working together as in face-to-face.

#that doesn't stop Light from being L's most favorite detective in the NPA tho #but i doubt that L would show his face to him just because Light's a genius like him #again i am not attacking anyone loving the idea of non-kira!Light & L working together (i'm one of those people; hi) and #reading (hello again) or writing about it in AUs #but that's not canonically plausible? #i can only think of one scenario where it's plausible #it's when L & non-Kira!Light are working on a case that's even bigger than the Kira case which requires showing your identity #anyways if i'm wrong feel free to correct me! #death note #light yagami #l lawliet #musings #p #my meta

[ride-a-dromedary]

The tempests and storms that lurk just beneath Halsin's skin; how ferociously he defends those who cannot defend themselves; how protection and defense is sometimes messy and blurry and blinded by fury even when coming on the heels of passion; how he chooses to be placid and calm and gentle - how he insists that violence is not always the answer - but poke the bear one too many times and he will maul you, no hesitation.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Halsin Posting #the man contains multitudes #i know that him not having a barbarian yell when you respec him is a glitch but honestly keeping it as the bear roar but amplified #is so much better #halsin is genuinely unashamed of things done in the name of self defense and the defense of others #the man doesn't want to fight - but he *will* win #by any means necessary - his body is a vessel to serve nature with and that includes the strength needed to protect it #i'm still stuck on the fact that halsin should theoretically be just as good in his unarmed and armed attacks #as he is in magical ones #cracking skulls in the name of the oakfather and the like #i know some people are making the 'he has hidden anger issues' arguement but i think that's gross oversimplification #he doesn't have anger issues - he is passionate to a fault that it sends him to spiral #it literally crackles beneath the surface #he doesn't have hidden anger - he displays it quite clearly or warns of it when triggers arise #woe betide any who stand against me

[aparticularbandit]

Junko's the Ultimate Analyst, right? So if she analyzes someone's Talent, then she can reproduce it.

Which means - like with Sakura or Akane - she could learn some sick fighting moves.

But Junko is still a scrawy ass starving model (reference: she's 5'7" and 97lbs; that girl is starving and has no muscle), so she can mimic all of the techniques but she does not have the muscle memory to keep it up and she will wear out pretty quickly. If Junko doesn't win within, what, the first five minutes? ten minutes? she's out.

(Fighting Junko is like fighting Sans. It's an endurance thing. She will wear herself out. Eventually. And then you bop her on the head and keep going.)

#musings #danganronpa #junko enoshima #dr0 #- referenced because ryoko is able to avoid attacks from the madarai #that is a thing she is able to do #but it's not something she would be able to keep up indefinitely #and she still needs mukuro to show up when there are a lot of them to beat them up for her #give junko a cerebral talent and she's ALL over it #but physical stuff? #girl's got a problem #(and i think the thing about junko analyzing talent is that #she's /mimicking/ it #that doesn't mean she necessarily understands it #(see: alter ego and alter ego junko and how she can't successfully kill ai at all ever) #she understands the flow of things enough to predict #based on the data she has #and the more data she has the better she can predict #but that's /different/)

[yeonban]

OHM YGOD OH MHHOD OG MHY HGOFD

#◜✧ . ❪ muse. nikolai gogol. ❫ #I'M BEING ATTACKED ON ALL FRONTS I CAN'T BELIEVE TODAY #SETHOS VOICELINE AND STORY LEAKS. NEW NIKOLAI COVER WHICH IS NOW MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITEEEEEEEEE ART OF HIM #BANGER AFTER BANGER I CAN'T BRJEATHE #Ok well. Now we all know what I'm going to be using when I next change my blog's graphs. You'll see this 37247384249328432 times #^ ALSO my new mobile pic. I'll never escape Kolya

[chiropterx]

Honestly, Man-Bat would be such a horrifying creature to stumble across in Gotham? At 8'6, he is HUGE, strong enough to carry off a man in his claws while barely slowing down. He might lack the same intelligence he had as Kirk Langstrom but Man-Bat still has keen problem-solving intellect such as picking up an entire wooden desk and throwing it at Batman to hold him in place long enough for an easy bite to the throat. It's that uncanny area between what was once human vs. a hyperpredator making Man-Bat one of the most dangerous creatures to cross whether he's simply hungry enough or has developed a grudge against you for some reason. You can't outrun him and there aren't many places you can hide because not only can he fly, he's able to squeeze into places you yourself would be able to fit into.

#🦇 || musings #🦇 || headcanons #Sometimes he's a silly bat and sometimes he's nightmare fuel #Man-Bat definitely has those JP velociraptor vibes #Canny enough to figure out simple tasks like opening doors or consider alternative routes if something's blocking his path #You really can't hide either because his sense of hearing is so good #Easily strong enough to pick up the tiniest breath or beating of your heart #He doesn't need to see to be able to catch you! #Cuz there's that echolocation... #Yeah Man-Bat coming after you would NOT be fun #Your only hope of escape would be that he's distracted by easier prey stumbling along or Batman himself appears to save you #Man-Bat can and will hold grudges against people even if they upset him as Kirk #He REMEMBERS #Like Kirk's AWOL when Man-Bat is in control but Man-Bat can fall back on some latent memories to aid his actions #Hence why he didn't attack Francine when she stopped him from mauling Man-Bat he still remembered his wife and love for her #And vice versa when Francine became She-Bat #Ahhh I really must add Francine as a muse sometimes she would be great #Smart and sassy and even MORE dangerous when she's Man-Bat #Because female vampire bats are even bigger and more aggressive than the males :D

[justmaghookit]

Thinking about Trigun again and how well it does portraying an abusive sibling relationship. Though if I was Vash I would never forgive Knives, but Vash’s whole thing is kinda how he forgives regardless of what an offending party has done to him [that is a problem and he should be in therapy so i will put him in brain therapy, there is where i take him to therapy in my brain and rotate him in my mind like he is my oc.]

But like as someone who grew up with an abusive older brother, who did not necessarily know what he was doing was abusive, but hurt me badly regardless. I have a lot of feelings about it.

so iunno ramblings from a childhood sibling abuse survivor about how fucked it is the way Nai treats his brother.

In Nai’s own mind he loves Vash, cares about him and wants to protect him, but he also in a way does not see Vash as an individual that is separate from himself. He has an internalized entitlement to Vash, to his time, his thoughts, his mind and body. He wants complete ownership and control of him, because in his mind this is the only way to keep him safe, but in doing so he would erase literally everything that makes Vash who he is.

[oh this got long, under a read more to keep dash clean]

TLDR: Nai says no one is allowed to hurt my brother, except for me i get to hurt him as much as i want but its for his own good so its ok [its not its really fucking not]

Nai is so utterly convinced he knows whats best for him, how best to look after him, that he crashed an entire armada of ships, ultimately dooming them both to a horrible 150 years on a planet that cannot support them. We could also go into Nai’s fear and how that drove him, but thats for another post I think.

Nai’s plans regarding Vash always end in failure for two reasons.

1. Nai is horrifically short sighted and narrow minded, almost hilariously so.

2. He does not know Vash as well as he thinks he does, and what he does know he disregards.

Nai crashes the SEEDS ships to protect Vash and make a paradise for plants. He does not actually know at this point HOW he’s going to do that, just that he wants too. He also didn’t know the planet he crashed them all on would be horrifically ill suited to his kind, or he did, and ultimately didn’t care. He did not think that Vash would leave him. He disregarded Vash’s emotions and when Vash reacts badly he berates him, taunts him with being his accomplice. Though we the viewer know that this is patently untrue. You cannot be an accomplice to murder if you lend someone a knife to cut a cord with and they go on to use it to stab someone[Vash did not hand Nai the codes, so much as Nai saw him enter them and memorized it and then used it for his own purposes.]

Guilt tripping in order to force someone to stay by your side is kind of textbook 101 for abuse. And then he does it again, and again, and again. It never works, but he keeps doing it! He keeps trying to break Vash down into little pieces he can put back together in the shape of what he thinks his brother should be.

Nai’s plans at July fail because once again he disregards Vash’s emotions and his connections with people as insignificant. They may be twins, but they are both individual, independent plants. Vash’s relationships quite literally ground him in reality and allow him to build a place for himself in the world.

Millions Knives does not have connections with people outside of Vash. He has what I’d call Business Deals. He is not grounded in reality, he doesn’t even want to keep his feet on the ground. He wants the access to the Higher Dimension that Vash can get him. He wants to tear it open, crawl inside it and never leave, even if it means a gaping bleeding wound in his brothers soul leaking out across the planet, turning him into a literal husk of himself.

This plan of course fails, because Vash is not beholden to Nai’s views on how the world should be, and his connections with people allow him to hang on even while being literally re-written from the inside out.

I think it’s telling, at the end of the final episode, how Millions Knives claims Vash killed Nai. Even with his plan blowing up literally in his face, he has to take on last low blow at Vash, one more guilt trip for the road. “you made me like this” standard fair for an abuser.

#trigun #bird chatter #musings #if anyone killed nai he did it himself the moment he entered the codes that crashed the ship #then he buried the corpse when he attacked his brother years down the line #and then blew up the grave site 150yrs later for good measure #as someone with an abusive older brother #i would tell nai he needs to get clean stop gambling and stop calling his brother slurs #wait sorry thats what i told MY brother #millions knives i am coming for you and i am going to put you in therapy #shape up your fucking act man and maybe vash will be able to look you in eye without flinching #no promises tho

[cienie-isengardu]

My RepCom Musing: if there were (clone) strills everything would be much better

For me, the biggest missed opportunity & disappointment of the Republic Commando story is that NO ONE APPARENTLY CAME UP WITH IDEA TO CLONE MIRD. And I swear, everyone would be better off with strill puppies (kittens?) around. Like seriously. Vau? Mird is what kept Vau alive and happy for decades and is literally what makes Vau soft and caring. Now multiply Mird and Vau won’t magically change from hardened veteran & harsh training sergeant into overprotective, overemotional dad, sure, but it would definitely make it easier for him to show his care and deeply hidden emotions once each squad of his batch gets a cute lil clone!Mird to take care of (and be taken care of in return). Can you imagine all the cadets’ excitement and wonder for their own strill, for the unconditional love and loyalty of an highly intelligent and smart animal and for the Vau’s trust given alongside it? All the things boy!Vau must feel at some point too, when he was stuck with an abusive family or shortly after leaving them and be on his own in an unknown, uncaring galaxy? Can you imagine him swarmed by the puppies and clones with a thousand and one question on how to deal with strill so he could unleash all his love for Mird on everyone around?

Or Atin, after losing his first batch mates? Or even after Geonosis? No point for violence when you can drop an emotional support animal on a hurt, depressed human being. Deltas too could benefit from lil Mird. What could be better than a strill for emotionally stunted people with even more an emotionally shut down trainer? Beside the whole long-term therapy, I mean.  

Jango too should get a strill, the man is like one, walking trauma and Boba would be better to hang out with a loyal pet than Aurra Sing or other assholes.

Where is a cute lil clone!Mird for each squad of Vau’s batch, I demand to know?! A loyal strill  to make everything better? WHY NONE OF YOU in-universe SMARTASS THOUGHT TO GIVE MIRD A BUNCH OF SMALL PUPPIES (KITTENS) TO MAKE KAMINO A BIT BETTER PLACE FOR THE STRILL, VAU AND CLONE CADETS? Everyone would be mentally healthier!

Well maybe beside Kal who could have a heart attack once Jaing brought the strill puppy or two or a whole pack and Skirata was forced to explain how that happened to overprotective Vau & Mird XDDD 

UNLESS Vau wanted to do so but Kaminoans, remembering that this animal hunts them down out of boredom decided FUCK NO. Then I will accept the canon as it is, but only then…

(I do remember Vau sicing Mird on Ordo in book canon but I will admit I do not have a clue what was the point of this action besides making us, readers, to dislike Walon on the spot. I mean, killing people and physically trashing cadets? Sure, it makes sense within his characterization. But using Mird like that without any logical reason and just for fun? Nah, I will pass. Like Ordo lacked trauma and reasons to dislike strill and Vau when Kal had plenty of his own complaints about Walon to pass to his kids.)

#star wars #walon vau #mird #strills #clone troopers #republic commando book series #my repcom musing #everyone would be better if there was emotional support strill for the traumatized Atin & Deltas & Vau's other boys #though if vau came up with cloning mird he should charge the Republic extra cost for terapeutic presence of strills #i'm of course half joking with this idea but really more Mird (strills) would make everything much better #animals are awesome emotional support and repcom is full of traumatized people #but also the image of lil jaing keeping bringing strill after strill to kal's horror is so precious to me #of course in timeline when ordo has not be attacked by mird on vau's whim #also i would be less harsh about this scene with vau sicking mird on ordo IF he actually keep doing similar stuff in later books #i would hate it with passion but at least it would feel like his bad habit not a one time scene just to make readers hate Vau #on the spot and side with Kal as the “dad” only to ignore skirata's long list of flaws and fuck ups

[keischreiber]

Before I go to sleep...

Gale Dekarios is literally a combination of Zeke Yeager's sass and Reiner's situation and certain mindsets. You can't change my mind.

#◆ musings. #◆ crack. #reiner braun #reiner #zeke yeager #zeke #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #gale #aot #attack on titan #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #My friend introduced me to bg3 a while back #I felt drawn to gale without knowing squat #lo and behold when we see clips of him and his backstory #me and friend: ... #friend: You have a type. #me: I HAVE A FREAKING TYPE. WHY. ARE. THEY. LIKE. THIS?

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Durge who was doing really well being a tough little chaos demon, but the moment they set foot in the Myconid Colony, the spores trigger their allergies and they spend the entire time snotty, eyes watering, trying to act tough, but ultimately they're the biggest baby about being allergic to everything under the surface.

#bg3 #this would have been Mercy tbh #they would have hated and loved so much about the underdark #they were fascinated by the myconids and had a blast going through the arcane tower #but the sussor flowers making them USELESS and the myconid colony allergy attack #they were so close to murdering everyone and then themself #the Urges have nothing on how badly they wanted to claw their eyes out #when they find out theyre the child of Bhaal #astarion would never let them live down how much of a little bitch mercy was in the underdark #mercy would just be like #bITCH I'LL DO IT AGAIN #bc after 6 months of fucking around they def go back to the underdark to check on the spawn #and help if they can #i just cant imagine them permanently handling things bc there are already people leading #and i think astarion would need to dip out every now and then when PTSD got his ass #bg3 musings

[theoriginalladya]

So, for the first time in...counts on fingers...a decade or more? I woke up with an idea for a Dragon Age fic, inspired by a piece of art that came across my art the other day. The muses have consumed my head all day and I think I now have an idea of how it'll go.

This is going to be interesting...

#ladya rambles #when the muses attack #another WIP #but a Dragon Age one #the first DA one in over a decade #not counting the ongoing Serafina one #which at this point I don't know if it'll ever get done #but it's still there too #this one is different though #and I may have booted up Inquisition today to refresh my memory...

[historias-multorum]

"I say ONE SINGLE THING and now everyone and their mother is coming for me!"

#When muses try to write(Dash commentary) #Muse: Sasuke #Shenanigans(Crack) #Sasuke's being attacked

[ride-a-dromedary]

Alright, the jack in the box is wound, and the coherence is coming to me. Halsin and the dryad, I was talking about his response if the PC indicates that he is most comfortable after a supper large enough to induce hibernation:

"Mindless gorging...? No, that is not right. I did not realize you thought that of me."

And why this keeps catching in my mind is not necessarily what he says, but how he says it (so I am commending Dave Jones' voice acting here). The rest of Halsin's responses to incorrect answers are generally even toned and corrective; firm, usually, but not inherently overly emotional. Much like a teacher correcting a student. But this one...he sounds genuinely surprised and taken aback that the PC would even suggest that. The "no, that is not right" is even firmer on its heels. And the last part...the last part, his voice is smaller. Less forward. I would not go so far as to suggest hurt, but it is approaching that territory. It comes so fast after his firm no, that it almost sounds like something that slipped by accident. Like something that was meant to be muttered under the breath, but it slipped from him because the surprise was so organic.

Alone, it doesn't mean too much. It's a slight offense to an obviously nonfactual statement. And that's likely all it is. I'm about to read too deep into this, I am aware.

But combined with the other things spread throughout Halsin's dialogue, particularly the implication that he is otherwise used to people making commentary on his physical appearance or the physicality of his being, it suggests an extra layer of hurt. An extra layer of: "I did not expect this from you, of all people." Not quite a betrayal, but approaching one.

What makes it particularly catching, is that one of the things you are able to wrench (and I say wrench because getting Halsin to share mundane personal details about himself is a production - and it makes *sense* it's a production if a. We keep in mind that Halsin himself doesn't seem all too sure who he is beyond his preoccupation - which elves are prone to but Halsin also just has...a lot on his plate that have evidently stunted his identity formation - to the point where he even claims he was forgetting who he was, and b. If he is used to questions concerning himself and his experience leading into questions regarding his sex life or his physical activities, see: the companion banter with Wyll and Karlach, he likely...doesn't really keep ready details about himself personally on tap anymore. He's so unused to people being interested in Halsin, that he's taken aback when they are. It becomes the "In the moment, I forget everything and anything I like to do for fun" mentality - no one really cares about what I like to do anyway - if you will. He even goes so far as to joking that the PC may be a doppelganger because *why else would they want to know these things*) out of Halsin when you ask him about himself is that he has a sweet tooth. That he likes honey, and people find that amusing. He chuckles, but his face falls, evidently prepping for the PC to make a similar comment (and he attempts to beat you to the joke about that, though a PC can still call that "on the nose" to which he responds that there is little point in denying oneself if it doesn't hurt anybody - indulging isn't a bad thing). If the PC instead chooses that he should pay little attention to what others think, he gives that infamous: "sometimes I think people look at me and imagine my feelings can't be hurt" line. Which implies - regardless of whether he verbalizes it or not - things in this thread hurt his feelings. Comments or assumptions about his body and his person hurt his feelings. He won't say it, but they do. The PC is likely aware of this by this point in the relationship.

Halsin does not otherwise bring up eating or food to any level of significance or directness - the sweet tooth comment was the only time (you could assume outside of canon interactions that they've had other conversations between them and that perhaps this was brought up, but we are going to base this solely in what Halsin reveals in canon). He brings up hibernation, but specifically the sleeping part of it. Nothing else.

So, the PC then potentially goes ahead and makes an assumption of him during the dryad. How'd they arrive at this conclusion, as it obviously surprises Halsin that they did? It reads, very much, that the PC is making this assumption based on the comment about his sweet tooth, his comment on indulgence, and his physicality (note: the ha ha bear and hibernation thing almost seems like an afterthought - Halsin latches *very* quickly onto the "mindless gorging" part). All things that he has shown very evident discomfort (which is ironic because the question is when he feels most comfortable) or hesitance towards (he claims there is nothing wrong with indulgence, but never seems to indulge himself beyond sex, if that. Gee, what does that remind you of?)

Halsin entrusted this individual with this information, as frivolous as it was, potentially revealed that it hurts his feelings when people make assumptions of him, and this individual then went used that information and made the assuming connection: "So, this is a big man. He said he liked sugar, so he must like to eat and indulge. It must be his favourite thing to do because look at him." I am going to essentially ignore everything else I could have possibly heard, and make a bear hibernation joke that has nothing to do with sleeping being a comfort, but emphasize the eating part.

So, yeah, he's a little taken aback - incredulous, you might say. A little hurt. Resigned, almost. Because at that point, you can make a very logical assumption that Halsin came to a very quick snap realization that perhaps this person was not so different from the others as he thought. That it always eventually comes back to that. What else was he expecting? When has it ever been any different for him?

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #does this make sense i don't think it does but it's like...jumping from a - z based on assumption and you know what they say about that #note: this isn't actually this deep i am just making it this deep - also yes i'm aware it probably means none of this #i have a degree in bullshit #but this is also why halsin should have had a legitimate bear like build of a body #i understand why he didn't - but this is *verbatim* what fat individuals receive as assumptions on their person #*all the time* that oh you must overindulge yourself you must eat a lot you must you MUST #and in that thread of thought of halsin's relationship with his body #there's also something to say when halsin says 'my ears are all yours...any part of me is yours should you wish it' #because he *begins* by offering his sympathy and understanding...but follows it up with 'but if i am more valuable to you in this way #then that's fine too - i'm used to that' #almost parallels (inadvertently) astarion's: #'i think i'll enjoy having halsin around not for his wit or wisdom he'll just make an excellent shield if we're attacked' #he's self aware #and in regards to how halsin sees his body as a separate entity - a. body dysmorphia and b. i don't think he truly does #halsin claims he sees his body as a vessel to serve nature and wrinkles his nose at vanity - but i feel there is enough old hurt in him #that this can never be true of him even is he so desperately wishes it was #does he have a level of confidence in himself? obviously he does - but it is marred - it's an exchange #there's always going to be that little voice in the back

[cxpperhead]

You know Copperhead is going to be one of those inmates whenever he's locked up in Arkham. As a deadly snake man with a penchant for being a natural escape artist, it's almost certain he requires one of their most secure cells made to hold difficult-to-contain patients along with Clayface, Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze. The first time he was sent there, he broke out almost instantly as soon as he awakened, making him very cautious of returning again.

#🐍 || musings #🐍 || headcanons #Finally waking up a bit bless you all for being such wonderfully patient people #Last night was physically intensive and only just started shaking the ache off #Feeling happier and more rested though! #Earlier talks between twcfaces and questioned-marked got me wondering though #If there are different kind of cells made to contain different types of patients #You got Penguin who is rich but otherwise a normal human guy and then you've got Poison Ivy with fucking nature powers #Copperhead's like all snakes #Very good at getting out of somewhere he doesn't want to be #On his behalf he's never attacked or killed any employees there #They'd best hope they don't lock him up for too long or that might change when his urges kick in :(

[yeonban]

I've been thinking about this since the second the new chapter dropped but I wonder if Naotora will manage to become the first Takeda in history to break off the "Takeda curse" of killing their own fathers... because in his case, Naoe might end up doing it in his stead

#◜✧ . ❪ muse. naotora takeda. ❫ #◜✧ . ❪ naotora takeda ; mirror. ❫ #You can TELL Naotora has trauma surrounding this 'curse' of theirs bc look at how he started trembling when he thought #he also fell victim to the generational Takeda curse and kiIIed his own father (<- he did not. thankfully) #And Aijiro showed him that he can't be kiIIed by Naotora's only ace in the sleeve move & Naotora can't use anything else rn #so for this fight his role should mainly be the defender aka to parry or block off incoming attacks while NAOE does the attacking #which means if all goes well........ Naoe will be the one kiIIing Aijiro and creating a breakthrough in the Takeda's cursed tradition #Tbf I'll be happy no matter whether Naoe kiIIs Aijiro or if Naotora himself does (bc in that case he'd show Aijiro he's no longer weak) #but frankly I'd PREFER Naoe to do it bc 1) Naotora doesn't deserve the ptsd that'll come with that #and 2) what better way to bond with your husband further than by helping him kiII your father! ADJIUSDHASDHASDJASHADJS

[youareinlove]

I think the difference between how people talk about harry and taylor's love lives is the perfect example of misogyny because the same points are brought up for both usually but only one is shamed for it and is seen as a bad thing. Thats why when people were like taylor is slutshaming harry in iion i was like it doesn't work the same way first of all she wasn't slut shaming him to begin with but men and women are treated differently even with the same actions

EXACTLY like especially during the time, they were doing the same shit but only one of them was being shamed for it (which is what slut! is about and what's alluded to in is it over now). also why she isn't slut-shaming him, because 1) she can't, you can't slut shame a man the same way you can with women because there's inherent systemic biases and power dynamics that affect how they're treated, and 2) the whole point is that she was also doing the things she talks about him doing! she was just the only one getting publicly blasted by the media and the GP

but it is worth noting that while a lot of this still exists for taylor specifically (less so now that she's in a long-term relationship again so it's died down a bit), it doesn't as much for the new generation of female artists (and younger women in the public eye in general) which is also kinda what clara bow is about but that's a separate conversation

#like i think about that last point a lot when it comes to maisie peters actually #a lot of maisie's brand on her socials is about how she writes these scathing songs about men and rips them apart #and she outwardly talks and jokes about how she writes these songs that attack her muses and that's received publicly as a good thing #she's applauded and the general reaction is “you go girl that's awesome keep eating those shitty men up” (which is a good thing btw) #but it reminds me a lot of how taylor talked about this stuff in the fearless era and she was shamed about it for over a decade #the “be careful she'll write a song about you” narrative was so strong and so harsh that she had to shy away from it for YEARS #and now maisie (and all young female artists today) gets to make that a part of her brand and she isn't shamed or ripped apart for it #idk things have changed a lot #anon asks #asks #is it over now