#hope this answered your question!

[buffysummers]

Can you elaborate more on what you said about Spike's misogyny stemming from his mommy issues? Thanks if you do!

Hi! Sure.

So, in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me," we learn that after William was turned into a vampire by Drusilla, he wanted to also turn his mother into a vampire because she was sick. He wanted to travel the world with her and Drusilla, much to Drusilla's chagrin.

In that same episode, we learn that he was VERY close with his mother. He read her his poetry, discussed his love life. There were definitely aspects of their dynamic that Freud would have MUCH to say about, and that was very intentional, considering what happens after he bites her and turns her into a vampire.

Once she is turned, she becomes very cruel. She mocks him for being weak, mocks his poetry, and even suggests that he has always wanted her sexually. You can read this as her "rejecting" him. We know that women often laughed at his poetry (see: 5.07), and now the one woman he thought truly loved and admired him seems to feel the same way, but I digress. This is another instance where the vampire's bite is meant to be perceived as something inherently sexual. Her words traumatize and horrify William, and he stakes her.

I believe this is where his hatred for women begins, although there was always an element of entitlement to him that seemed to be instilled in all men at the time. (It was 1800s England, after all.)

But what is REALLY telling about this is that the song "Early One Morning," a song his mother used to sing to him, is weaponized by The First to trigger Spike into becoming a violent, women killing monster, despite the pain from his chip. After Giles' spell, Spike is able to relive that traumatic moment with his mother. It would seem that Spike always felt that it was really his mother saying those things to him, that she really felt that way about him. This shattered his perception of her and their relationship that was obviously very important to him. He spent over a 100 years living with that trauma, and it is clear that he never got over it, or else it wouldn't be his trigger.

After confronting Wood (who is also reeling from the loss of his mother, who Spike murdered years ago), Spike realizes it was the DEMON saying those things to him, and that his mother actually did love him.

It's also important to note that Spike is one of Joss' self-inserts, and Joss himself had a very complex relationship with his mother. I also do believe that a lot of men who ARE raging misogynists tend to have some longstanding mommy issues, and Spike is a great example of this, for the reasons mentioned above.

#hope this answered your question! #anonymous #answered

[thepassionthatunitesusall]

Why is it a big deal that Ridly Greig shoot into the empty net at the end? The leafs removed the goalie??

The issue isn't that he shot the puck into the net, it was how he shot it into the net. If he just does a casual wrist shot, Rielly probably doesn't react the way he does and no one is talking about it right now. But winding up for a slapshot, on an empty net, for a play that was a guaranteed goal, from that distance, goes against the "hockey code" that the players hold themselves to (as shown by no former or current players defending Greig's actions)

To be clear, I'm not saying Rielly did nothing wrong - he crosschecked a guy in the head, which is dangerous. IMO, should be a 2 game suspension. What I am defending is Rielly sending a message that you don't do shit like that when you're playing the Leafs

#hope this answered your question! #sorry for the rant lol #hockey #nhl #asked #answered #ridly greig #morgan rielly #men's hockey

[mollymarymarie]

Would you consider writing canon angst?

I have! The Lad That Loved You is not ALL angst, it starts out as mostly porn without plot (with some fluff thrown in for fun), but it's pretty angsty toward the end. I have another (Heavy In Your Arms) in which Sirius is a Slytherin which is also pretty angsty, but not really canon. There are some other oneshots thrown in randomly and one about amortentia (When It Counted), but yeah, I'm done writing Hogwarts-age fics. I'm 35, I don't want to write about teenagers lol

#i got an ask! #thanks for asking! #hope this answered your question!

[jazzandpizazz]

Hiya, I adore your blog! Maybe this is silly to ask, but I was wondering whether you've read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and whether you prefer the show (Granada) to the original stories? I'm currently going through the books but I haven't watched the show—however Jeremy Brett is exactly what I imagine Sherlock to look and act like. Anyways, I'm rambling now, but I wanted to know your thoughts!

Thank you! So, I first got into any Sherlock Holmes content only a few months ago. Since I've collected most of the books since then, I've made it my goal to read the story before watching the Granada episode that corresponds with it. I've struggled with keeping up with this because I love the show so much, but I'm trying to stick with it. I enjoy being able to envision Jeremy Brett as I read the stories, however, and seeing the similarities between the stories and the episodes is really fun. If I has to choose which I like better, it would probably have to be the show for the petty reason that Watson isn't married 😅

#anon ask #ask #answered asks #granada holmes #sherlock holmes #hope this answered your question!

[laurenkmyers]

Hi, sorry if this is too personal ignore otherwise but I read your tags on the Barbie post and I'm just curious: what is it that you actually do usually or did when it comes to this movie?

Not too personal at all. I work as part of the assistant directors team. My job title is Set PA (which is basically a fancy title for 'runner'). Mainly our job is to help run the floor.

We mainly assist the cast in whatever way they need, whether that's making sure they get checked by HMU (hair&makeup) and costume before they shoot. Making sure they get food and drinks topped up throughout the day, helping to travel them to and from set. But aside from the cast, a large part of my job is to look after the people who run the floor, like the director (if they don't already have an assistant), the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd assistant directors and sometimes the script supervisor (who, all of the above, often find it difficult to leave set during the shoot day).

We also help keep everyone quiet during takes by locking off the area closest to where we're shooting, and letting people in that area know when we're rolling, we do an abundance of tea and coffee runs, and we liase heavily with all other departments.

And that's kinda my job in a nutshell.

#set pa #floor runner #hope this answered your question!

[lilyrizzy]

oh my gosh i read your new fic and it is amazing, i will have to think about it for a while and then reread it and just wow. one little thing i loved is everyone making fun of daniel for max’s age, especially when michael is like well max can’t drive because we didn’t pay the young driver fee on the rental car. it just felt so realistic and funny even when daniel is going through so much heavier stuff.

if you are taking questions abt it and want to talk i’m super curious if max and michael just don’t like each other because of their strong personalities or if there’s any back story in your head on why their relationship is like that? no worries if not love what you wrote for us of it!!

thank you! I'm glad you liked everyone's kinda raised eyebrows at their age difference. Realistically, 8 years is not much when you're 24 and 32 like in this fic, but bc they've been together since max was 18 and michelle and michael know that, it's kinda like lingering prejudice from that? plus I just love age difference in fic, especially like the judgment characters can get from outsiders bc of it, so wanted to have fun with it a little to ease some of the angst/sadness. the car rental stuff I also liked so I'm glad you did too!

I am always taking questions & want to talk :) so the thing with Michael and Max I saw more as like, Michael hated max first. like thought he was too young for daniel, a bit of a bratty kid and then like, he believes (like the loyal friend he is) that it is totally maxs fault Daniel was *pushed* out of redbull, and like, if it wasn't for max, Daniel would have won the championship by now. like he sees it as max was like the femme fetal character (lol) who like, fucked his way into Daniel's heart so he could get what he wanted (Daniel leaving to save their relationship, max as redbulls undisputed number 1 driver)

with max, it's more that he can tell michael doesn't like him and, max being max, doesn't have a lot of time for people who are openly rude or mean to him. like 'why would I be nice to him when he is not nice to me, daniel?' kinda vibes. also, I do hc max as a lil of the jealous type as well, so I can imagine him kinda pouting a bit behind the scenes everytime daniel choses a hike with michael over staying in bed with max all day.

#hope this answered your question! #feel free to send me messages or asks about this fic :) #i am mostly quite proud of it #in that iron ground #ask me things #thank you everyone who has messaged me or left nice tags or commented btw!!

[codex-week]

Hi! Thinking about writing for Codex-week but I have a quick question. How does posting into a collection work in Ao3? I mean does one need to have a permission to do so or..?

Sorry this is probably a dumb question but haven’t actually posted into a collection previously! 🙈

Hi anon! Not a dumb question at all; it actually gives us the opportunity to make a quick tutorial in case someone ends up in the same situation :)

The post turned out to be long-ish, so all the explanations are under the cut. If you still have questions about this or anything else, our askbox is always open!

If you want to post your work into a collection on AO3, you have two options:

Adding your work to the collection from the New Work 🔗 page:

When you create a new work, once you've added your ratings, warning, tags, title and summary, you have the possibility to "Post to a collection or challenge". In this box, add codexweek2023, just like you would add tags. Usually, collections can be found in the autopopulated suggestions (much like tags), but wranglers haven't added our 2023 collection just yet.

If you want, you can even add your work to multiple collections, i.e. the codexweek2023 collection and another of your choice (an anonymous collection, a collection from a bingo... whichever you want).

Adding your work directly from the collection page:

If you go to the collection dashboard and click on Post to Collection 🔗, you will be redirected to the New Work page with codexweek2023 already added in the collection box 🎉It's a cool feature if you don't already have a draft! If you already have a draft, you can still edit it and use option 1, adding in the collection manually (like you would tags).

I hope this will help make things clearer. Naturally if something doesn't work out (it can happen sometimes), don't hesitate to send us an ask or even message; we can also invite works to be part of our collection!

#hope this answered your question! #*asks #*ao3 #*2023 #*mod c

[typical-simplelove]

do you have all time fav tropes?

Oh my gosh, yes! I love friends to lovers, especially childhood friends to lovers, and grumpy x sunshine is the BEST

#hope this answered your question! #asks #I'm curious about what this is about haha so I would love context if you're okay with it

[bobacupcake]

begging... pleading... for a bigger version of that pikachu gif (if possible), i am so utterly enchanted with it its unreal (i have that exact plush in my house!!!)

#hope this is what u mean #he's carmelas :) though im pretty sure i also had the exact same one ?! #also if anyone wants him transparent im sorry but my transparency machine broke and i dont know why #ask #potion of answers your question #Anonymous

[hellsitegenetics]

Hello hellsitegenetics! I gotta tell you, you are my favourite blog in this digital jungle and your work really brings a smile to my face (: it's very cool, keep it up! Every time I see the phrase "string identified" i imagine a robot voice saying that (as a lead up to an output) which makes it very funny when it appears in a reblog - just wanted to tell you that. Anyways, I actually have a real question for you: What's your favourite "string identified" so far?

Greetings from a biology nerd!

String identified: tgtc! gtta t , a at g t gta g a a g a t ac (: t' c, t ! t t a "tg t" ag a t c ag tat (a a a t a tt) c a t t aa a g - t at t t tat. Aa, acta a a a t : at' at "tg t" a?

Gtg a g !

Closest match: Neoneuromus ignobilis isolate Gutianshan chromosome 5 Common name: Dobsonfly

(image source)

#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #tigoteus #bugs #flies #insects #dobsonfly #biology #congratulations on being the latest appearance of the dobsonfly! #i hope when you see my addition followed by lots of random letters you hear printer noises. because thats what i hear personally #anyway. i get the question ''whats your favorite x'' often but thats a very hard question to answer #definitely ONE of my faves is the time my buddy absolutelydedinside #(you may know them as the dottore selfshipper i keep BLASTing) #got malaria as one of their results #another favorite is the time FNAF connection terminated speech got homo sapiens #we've had lots of fun ones hehe

[spookyrobbins]

Why do you hate/dislike every single person callie’s ever been with, or maybe not them particularly but their relationships but you also pretty much ship/like every relationship/partner Arizona has ever had, including the person she cheated on Callie with? And it’s not just you. Pretty much the whole Arizona fandom ships and loves Arizona with anything that moves but can’t do the same when it comes to Callie and her relationships. Just curious.

i think a huge part of it does have to do with the way these relationships are portrayed in the show when it comes to callie. like george and penny are just, well, george and penny, and callie’s character/character arc suffers a lot with them. vs eliza and carina who are arguably both very additive for arizonas character/character arc. so it’s fundamentally easier to like those relationships. and then there’s mark which is a whole other thing.

as for the rare pair stuff, i do wanna clarify that the laurizona thing is like primarily for a laugh and i don’t seriously ship them.

also i can only speak for myself and not the whole fandom, but i defs do have additional ships for callie, specifically caddison which i’m very fond of! i think basically every ship i’ve got for arizona i’ve got the callie equivalent so close to equal in some ways. idk what leads the fandom to ship arizona with more people, it might be that the people arizona interacts with more (amelia, herman, teddy, etc) tend to not be in relationships like the people callie tends to spend more time with (meredith, derek, etc). but that’s just a theory, i really don’t know why there’s a tilt towards arizona for rare pairs

#hope this answered your question!

[gludgenbell]

thoughts on self shipping?

if you mean self shipping in the idea that it's oc x canon character of anything then I'm perfectly fine with that

In fact actually my genshin oc Marist is shipped with Zhongli by me and only me because well

I love Zhongli

Marist is my self insert way to express it

#I dont really draw Marist outside of school doodles though #hope this answered your question! #gludgen answers! #anonymous

[paper-mario-wiki]

Do you purposefully speak in prose?

yes? no.

no?

i actually don't know what this means. prose is normal speech. prose is defined as a normal speaking pattern. doesn't everybody speak in prose?

#anon #hope this answers your question

[comradekatara]

do you have a masterpost of "ty lee comes from crypto-air nomad" posts? I'm fascinated by this idea and want to read everything I can but I can't find where it started 😭

i feel like this is a question better posed to @kyoshi-lesbians, who, at least in my book, is the leading expert in ty lee studies (among other things). that said, i can definitely synthesize the argument (and why i find it cogent and persuasive), even if i don't actually know from where the theory originated (but i'm sure that if you look up "ty lee air nomad you'll immediately be directed to an old reddit page or fan forum from years ago; it's a "theory" that goes way back).

firstly, ty lee's appearance is distinctly "air nomadic" in a way no one else's is. save for aang, of course. she and aang do bear an uncanny resemblance. everyone else in the fire nation has yellowish brown eyes, for example, while ty lee, like aang, has charcoal greyish brown eyes. and they also have similar (round and cute) facial features, similar expressions, similar vibes. similar dispositions...

ty lee does not "have the personality" of a ruthless fire nation soldier, despite acting as the princess's right hand who takes out more opponents than pretty much everyone else put together. ty lee acts like an airbender, flirty and flighty. her relentless optimism and goodwill and cheer is decidedly a mask, but it is a mask she adopts adeptly. even if she is performing, she nonetheless performs the "aang" function of her respective group.

ty lee presents herself as more spiritually attuned than other people in the fire nation, who outright disrespect the spirits and spirituality. her constant talk of auras is likely a calculated move on her part, as nearly everything is, to make her seem silly and trivial, because she thrives best when she goes underestimated. but her talk of auras also has to come from somewhere, and seeing as literally no one else mentions auras once throughout the entire show, ty lee's sources are clearly scarce.

ty lee also fights like an airbender. despite generally taking the offensive, ty lee nonetheless exhibits a graceful, acrobatic quality when in combat. she never kills anyone either, merely incapacitates them momentarily. and when she is faced with stronger than typical opponents, she usually relies on her skills as an acrobat by taking the aerial advantage. note her ability to jump incredibly high, such as in "the chase," or her ability to run along a moving cable wire in "the boiling rock." ty lee's skills go beyond merely being a good acrobat. she's incredible. and perhaps even exhibiting some latent airbending skills she inherited from her ancestors.

ty lee's air nomad ancestry coheres really well with her arc as a character. imagining that her family of genocide survivors hid in the heart of the fire nation and assimilated into the imperialist culture that sought to exterminate them makes her own role that much more impactful. there's already a beautiful parallelism to the fact that ty lee is an acrobat and performer who contorts herself to suit the desires of others and performs obsequious loyalty for her own survival, but an extra layer of depth is added if she's also assimilating into the royal court by reducing herself and hiding her true feelings and motivations, just as her family did.

i see ty lee's ancestors as having assimilated into the imperial core out of fear, but over the generations, genuinely being subsumed into fire nation culture, with the desire to social climb a natural extension of their patriotism. but there are also still facets of ty lee's ancestry, whether genetic or otherwise, that have remained in traces. the generational trauma, for example, definitely reflects why her parents had so many children. and the fact that she's constantly torn between two worlds, as a genocide survivor who also directly serves the imperialists who murdered her ancestors, represents her internal struggle as someone who desires freedom of expression and the choice to assert her individuality, but is also forced through circumstance into lying and deflecting and manipulating (which, to be honest, is also the air nomad way) for the sake of survival.

surviving is ty lee's number one priority, in a way it just isn't for mai. mai and ty lee both come from social climbing families (although i've always assumed that mai's family is far wealthier than ty lee's) but mai is also depressed and frustrated and bored out of her mind. and even though she was raised in a family that forced her to don a mask and reduce herself and perform a passive model of femininity, she also has no problem stating aloud how she's feeling and what her limits are (with the exception of when azula gives her a veiled command as a test, and mai has no choice but to obey).

mai has the privilege of knowing that the stakes don't really matter, which she all but states when she claims that she grew up in luxury and opulence, and always had everything handed to her. which isn't to say that she led a perfect, easy life. she wouldn't be as depressed and repressed as she is if there weren't factors actively harming her, but she still chooses to join azula by choice, even if it's really only the illusion of choice between two awful options, whereas ty lee has to be coerced through violence.

mai kind of has a "fuck it we ball" attitude and doesn't really seem to care about her own safety (if anything, she's more concerned with comfort), whereas ty lee would do anything to ensure her survival. and that kind of mentality illustrates how she differs from most of the fire nation elites, who were inculcated into imperial privilege and never really considered what prioritizing survival even entails (zuko learns that lesson the hard way). ty really exhibits the mentality of the genocide victim/colonized subject through her prioritization of survival in the face of what to mai is a problem, but to ty lee is an existential threat.

whether or not ty lee even recognizes that her desperate desire to live comes from a place of generational grief and trauma is another story, but i do think there is something to be said for the fact that descendants of genocide survivors can feel that grief as it has been passed down to them. i think ty lee feels it, and i think that it motivates her to do whatever it takes to live, because above all, she is a survivor. and even if she has to assimilate and manipulate and cut away every part of herself that's real and authentic and true, she will do it (until she doesn't). and that's also, incidentally, what makes her such a great foil to aang.

#i hope this answers your question! #anachronornis #asks #analysis #ty lee #maixtylee #aang&tylee #aang #mai #air nomad ty lee #i should make that a tag.... #also river if u have anything add please feel free #i love ty lee she is the specialest insane girl she is everything

[fantastic-nonsense]

I love your thoughtful SoC meta! I would love to know your thoughts on Kaz and Jesper’s relationship. Specifically, I adore Kaz but one thing in particular that always seemed so dark to me was that he enabled Jesper’s gambling addiction even though he obviously does care about him. Kaz is obviously willing to do a lot of fucked up things in service of his goals, but this one in particular, toward his own brother figure, I find sad. It’s kind of addressed during their fight at the end of CK but still feels a little unfinished.

I love Kaz and Jesper's relationship. There's sooooo much to dig into there (way too much for a single meta); it's super juicy and complicated, and one of the best complexities of it is that they often enable and feed off of each other's trauma. The pre-canon status quo is a situation where Kaz and Jesper are, in many ways, using and abusing each other as a way of avoiding dealing with their own trauma. It's a fascinating push-and-pull dynamic because neither of them are pushovers and yet neither one is particularly interested in facing their Issues™ head-on, and they both seemingly recognize that in each other and give each other an uncharacteristic amount of grace in helping the other avoid dealing with it.

In Kaz's case, that most often looks like enabling Jesper's gambling addiction and then repeatedly bailing him out of trouble under the justification of "he's loyal and competent, it would be wasteful to let the other gangs kill him." In Jesper's case, this looks like ignoring Kaz's countless and extremely obvious issues in favor of playing the loyal second. Basically, it's not just Kaz enabling Jesper's gambling addiction; it's also Jesper enabling Kaz's unhinged ruthlessness with little pushback other than a few snarky comments.

They also project a lot of their own issues onto each other! Kaz pushes Jesper away in part because he's projecting the grief and blame he feels over Jordie's death onto Jesper, but Jesper is using Kaz's ruthless pragmatism to escape the crippling disappointment of returning home to face his father's judgement for being a college drop-out, gambling addict, and gang member. And Kaz withholds praise and verbal declarations of trust from Jesper because he hates acknowledging that he cares about people, but Jesper uses Kaz's emotional detachment as a crutch to avoid dealing with his own commitment issues by pining after a boy he knows will never reciprocate his advances. This status quo is, of course, insanely unhealthy for both boys long-term, but where would we be if any of the Crows actually dealt with their issues in a healthy way?

That dynamic, imo, is also only possible because Kaz and Jesper have known each other for longer than anyone else in the main crew; Kaz may have let Inej in further, but he let Jesper in first. As far as we know, Jesper is the first person Kaz genuinely lets past his mile-high walls since Jordie died...but he very deliberately holds him at arms' length in a way that he does not with Inej (something that Jesper notices and is jealous about!). Being "the first" in this case unfortunately comes with a lot of baggage, and Kaz and Jesper would both lowkey rather die than talk about how much they care what the other thinks of them.

Kaz clearly didn't recruit Jesper looking for a friend or someone who reminded him of his dead older brother; he recruited him because he saw someone with a useful skillset who he preferred to be at his side rather than in a rival gang or dead in the canals. It's to Jesper's credit that he managed to break through those walls anyway, but there's only so much he can do in the face of Kaz's armor. And like Inej, Kaz's closed-off personality and actions hurt Jesper repeatedly. But he stays anyway, because he (like Inej) sees the boy underneath the mask that Kaz wears and cares a little too much to let him go:

“He wouldn’t—” Jesper stopped short, and then he laughed. “Of course he would.” Jesper flexed his knuckles, concentrated on the lines of his palms. “Kaz is…I don’t know, he’s like nobody else I’ve ever known. He surprises me.” “Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.” Jesper barked a laugh. “Just like that.” “So what are we doing here?” Jesper turned back to the sea, feeling his cheeks heat. “Hoping for honey, I guess. And praying not to get stung.” Inej bumped her shoulder against his. “Then at least we’re both the same kind of stupid.” “I don’t know what your excuse is, Wraith. I’m the one who can never walk away from a bad hand.” She looped her arm in his. “That makes you a rotten gambler, Jesper. But an excellent friend.” “You’re too good for him, you know.” “I know. So are you." -Ch. 17, Six of Crows

Kaz is unused to verbalizing the trust he places in others and actively in denial about how much he cares about them until Crooked Kingdom; he spends his time deliberately being cruel and pushing people away even as he proves over and over again that he doesn't actually want them to leave him. This casual assholery hits those closest to him (Inej and Jesper) the hardest because they are clearly trusted with his life but not with his heart, and that hurts them both.

For Inej, resolving that behavior looks like giving him an ultimatum ("I will have you without armor or I will not have you at all") and telling herself to walk away unless he meets her challenge. For Jesper? That looks like duking it out on top of the Geldrenner when they're both at rock bottom, because of course that's the only way either one of those boys is ever going to verbalize the tension that underlies their relationship. There's just a lot of baggage and mutual toxicity and unsaid words that neither of them are very interested in dealing with until everything comes to a head during the Clocktower fight.

I think we also forget that the Kaz-Jesper dynamic we see in the majority of the duology is not their normal dynamic: it's how they interact when Kaz is mad at Jesper. And a mad Kaz is, within the scope of canon, a pretty cruel Kaz, which is something that I think a good portion of the fandom likes to handwave away in favor of pointing towards Kaz's active attempts to be better in the back half of the duology.

Ultimately we only see the "normal" Kaz-Jesper dynamic for the first 12 or so chapters of Six of Crows (when the Dock Fight/Eyeball Incident happens) and the last few chapters of Crooked Kingdom. Those chapters are a really interesting look into what that relationship looks like when they're on good terms. It's clear that they're good friends, trust each other a hell of a lot, and joke around with each other quite a bit (the "saves ammo" joke in the parley chapter, their interactions during the Hellgate breakout, the "man with a knife!" "man with a gun!" exchange immediately after Kaz throws Oomen overboard, etc), but we also see the stress points: Jesper getting mad at Kaz for not telling him about Big Bolliger's betrayal, Kaz sending Wylan with Jesper during the prep chapters to keep an eye on him, and Jesper's bee and honey conversation with Inej on the Ferolind, for example.

These stress points are what fracture and crack in the aftermath of Jesper accidentally alerting the other gangs that they were headed out on the Ice Court Job and nearly causing Inej's death, and further buckle under the stress and pressure that Kaz and Jesper deal with during the following month and a half: the Ice Court job, Van Eck kidnapping Inej on Vellgeluk, Colm showing up in Ketterdam, and the Sugar Silo/Auction scheme.

In this way, I think Kaz enabling Jesper's gambling addiction is less about Kaz being actively cruel towards someone he sees the ghost of his brother in and punishing Jesper for the sins he percieves Jordie to have made (which is also true, and a meta for a different time!) and more about the weird balance of toxic mutual leniency Kaz and Jesper have allowed the other to provide for them for over two years...and how that leniency breaks down once it's not just Kaz's life or time on the line when Jesper fucks up.

Put more succinctly: for a long time, Kaz and Jesper existed in a toxic balance of enabling each others' worst impulses and behaviors, which was only able to be verbally addressed when they were both at rock bottom, desperate, and seemingly had very little left to lose. This conflict is somewhat addressed and resolved in the conversation where Kaz refuses to give Jesper the last of the parem and offers up a tiny bit of information about Jordie—showcasing his own growth and how he's finally trying to break the cycle by refusing to enable Jesper's self-destructive tendencies—but that level of tension is unable to be properly resolved in one single blowout argument. And I think it's deliberately left a bit unfinished because neither of them are really in a place where they're ready to address everything they've left unsaid for so long, even in the epilogue chapters.

However, we do see the beginnings of that reconcilitaion (Kaz asking Inej to tell Jesper that he's "missed around the Slat") and the story ends on a hopeful note regarding Kaz's commitment to removing his armor, which implies a lot about the resolution of that dangling thread. And of course, we know that by Rule of Wolves they're back to being thick as thieves and fucking around as usual, so clearly they hashed it out at some point in the in-between (and personally? I don't think it took either of them very long after the CK epilogue chapters to do that hashing out).

tl;dr: I love it when two traumatized and emotionally constipated teenage boys use each other to avoid facing their own personal problems and then get into a fistfight to avoid talking about how much they care about each other. Top-tier dynamic. Chef's kiss. I could talk about them for hours.

#also thank you so much for the ask and kind words #I hope this meta did your question justice and makes up for the fact that I didn't answer it for so long #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #six of crows #crooked kingdom #soc meta #asks #long post #(very long post; rip and sorry for not using a read more but it didn't quite fit anywhere) #queue

[sapphicseasapphire]

Wild likes shiny things right? So what happens when wilds left alone with warriors?

GRAB

#the legend of zelda #chain as cryptids au #i answered question #cryptid wild #cac art #I hope this answers your question #links meet au #cryptid warriors