Happy Labor Day Everyone!
If you stopped by the Archer Inventive booth over any of the three weekends of WMRF you most likely bumped into any of these wonderful peeps.
Thank you to everyone who was able to stop by and say hi to the team and me. In the end it’s truly the people that make faire as special as it is. :)
Credits from Top Left to Right(1st photo) then descending: Sarah Florian, Emma Rockenbeck, Sara Danielle, Kayce Katherine, Alexis Baker, Rae, Katie Wahler, Loni D Fairman, Mumma Archer, Liv F.H, Julia, Ila Faubion, and Anthony Orange.
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You guys they’re all together T_T (except scar cuz he had a long line)
I got to meet them all and I’m so happy 😁
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So I was considering a bit more about the "talk it through" mantra and how sometimes we may not be fully considering what it actually means and how it can be used.
Stede's stated purpose at the start is to create a safe space for his crew to be more themselves. We learn fairly quickly that this is as much for him as it is for them—a space where he can be safe, which he feels he's never been able to have at home. The "talk it through" concept is an offering for them to process trauma and speak to what they need and want, and the times we see it in action, it's very much Stede acting as the leader of the group, encouraging others. That's also his therapy—he guides them, and he feels like he has some control over his own space and some connection to other people without fear of reprisal or mockery. It's not paternal or controlling, but it is a space where he can have some authority and be listened to.
None of it works if there's not a full agreement between everyone participating, though. Stede can't force his will on anyone (nor does he want to), and the crew can't feel safe to process emotions or discuss issues if there is anyone who is going to mock them for it. It has to be collective, and it takes a while for them to get there. The arrival of Ed and his group, and later Calico Jack, shifts the dynamics and threatens to upend what Stede is building. Ed is fully on board, pretty quickly, participating in story time and embracing Stede's ethos, praising the crew for their abilities, ceding control to Stede. Izzy (and initially both Fang and Ivan) is not, and so the atmosphere becomes charged until Izzy gets thrown off the ship.
I've seen some people say that Stede himself doesn't embrace his own concept, but I think it should be noted that the concept is situational. It doesn't work for everything (any more than "poison into positivity" does later on). There are circumstances under which it's not safe to talk it through, because those involved are not or would not act in good faith. We see that with Izzy, and we see that with Calico Jack. And I think we should note that Stede is aware of this. Stede has extensive experience with bullies and abusers, and he's very canny about where he's safe to be himself and where he is not (as we see in his performance in front of Nigel and how he relates to others at home). He's safe with his crew, especially after the first episode, and he's safe with Ed, alone. But he's not safe with either Izzy or Jack, and by extension, there are times when he's not safe with Ed.
And these are also the places where it would be most important for him to be able to express his emotions (as he does in the pilot when Olu and Frenchie talk to him about the mutiny, later when they're captured, and with Lucius and Olu in "We Gull Way Back"). It's also where he's not going to be able to, because he's not safe.
I think it's really important to note where Stede doesn't invoke talk it through, not because it proves that Stede doesn't understand his own emotions, but because it shows where he perceives that lack of safety for himself and for his crew. He never attempts to invoke talk it through with Izzy, and he never attempts it either with Jack or with Ed when Ed is allying with Jack. The safety of the space has been violated, and Stede is perceptive enough to know it.
(I do welcome any further input about this, 'cause this is a somewhat half-baked thought right now.)
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An underappreciated Nimona detail:
(mild spoiler)
There’s a moment after the escape, where Ballister cannot remember what happened after the supply closet. Nimona points out he took a blow (or several) to the head.
Much of those blows, perhaps even all, took place after the escape was complete.
This is a phenomenon often experienced by people who get a significant blow to the head. They forget things that took place before the blow, because those things haven’t yet been copied from short-term to long-term memory, and the capacity to do so gets disrupted, causing them to fall out of short-term memory and simply go pfft gone.
I noticed that on my first watch, and again on my second. It’s such a lovely detail. So often in media, a blow to the head is not attended by a loss of memory of events immediately preceding it, and that’s always disappointing to me because it’s very common for that to happen, especially (for example) in quarterbacks in Murrican football. Naturally the disruption also remains for a period after; short-term memories picked after the blow, if they (as often occurs) remain conscious to get new ones, also go pfft, until the medial temporal lobe can get recombobulated and start copying them to long-term again. It’s a temporary form of anterograde amnesia, and, again, rather common and temporary.
It just makes me so goddamn happy.
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MASTERLIST
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The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings 🍃
• Excuses - (Thorin Oakenshield x Child!Reader) Part One, Part Two & Part Three
• LOTR/TH Characters as wrong number texts! - Part One, Part Two & Part Three
• Sleepless Nights - (Fili x Reader)
• Insecurities - (Kili x Reader)
• Softly - (Kili x Reader)
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Assassin's Creed 🗡
(*mainly writing for Assassin's Creed III, Rogue & Syndicate )
• Aesthetics - Evie Frye , Jacob Frye , Henry Green , Jacob + Evie , Shay Cormac , Haytham Kenway , Liam O'Brien & Chevalier de la Verendrye
• Torn - (Liam O'Brien x Reader)
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Hogwarts Legacy 🪄
• Incorrect Quotes - Punch in the Crotch
• Aesthetics - Ominis Gaunt & Sebastian Sallow
• The Greatest Heist of All - (Slytherin Boys x Reader)
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Van Helsing 🦇
• Night Terrors - (Van Helsing Boys x Reader Imagines)
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Being Human 🩸
• Dancing With Death - (John Mitchell x Reader) Part One, Part Two & Part Three - COMING SOON
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Star Trek 🪐
(*mainly writing for AOS movie series - 2009-16)
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