sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)
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Saw your thoughts on Lanolin and figured I should pipe in with why she tends to act that way, especially with the more recent issues she's starred in.
Lanolin, unlike all the rest of the cast, is a novice. She only seemed to have joined the Restoration during the Metal Virus, and the Eggperial City mission was her first time as leader. She even states herself that she's bossy and inexperienced in Issue 58.
The sheep's still got a lot to learn about leadership, so I think we can probably expect some more slip-ups on her part.
Hey, thanks for the ask! Sorry for the delay, but I had to catch up on the comics before I could answer this fairly.
I hear you completely, and you are correct. She IS new, and is a bit deserving of some lenience in that regard. However, I think that’s my central problem with her: she’s very new, and yet she speaks like the most experienced person in the room.
The way she critiqued Silver and chided him despite having ZERO experience with psychokinesis was incredibly irritating.
I understand she’s the “leader” of the Diamond Cutters, but she speaks with an authority that she truly hasn’t earned. If she’s so new, why is she the one taking so much charge and training people with the experience she doesn’t have? Seriously, out of all of the Diamond Cutters (core and “in training”), Lanolin has the least experience.
Also, I respect that Lanolin’s attitude and neuroticism is played for laughs, but it truly just reads as malicious to me—especially towards Tangle. It’s made clear in writing and through visual gags repetitively that not only does Lanolin has an objective problem with Tangle as a person, but she doesn’t seem to respect Tangle enough to communicate with her effectively.
It goes so far as to feel like Lanolin would prefer to outright replace Tangle if she had the choice in issue 62.
And it’s not even like it’s a silly joke for Tangle. She’s shown multiple times to actively dislike this bullying.
Again, she’s new. I get that. But if there’s a whole scene in issue 58 dedicated to the fact that she’s new and bossy and knows she should be better, why is no effort being made? It’s not cute to acknowledge your flaws only to amplify them later on.
I don’t know.
I don’t find this kind of character endearing. Lanolin comes off as an insecure girl who lacks empathy, which feels silly and mean to say about a fictional sheep, but she doesn’t even seem to be on some sort of character arc. This is just… who she is. And I find that incredibly disappointing.
(she actually might be on a character arc, and I really hope she is)
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if we were to assign the main cast of reverse 1999 a role in “soldier, poet, king” sonetto is such an obvious choice for poet, given that it’s her literal namesake and the basis of her powers, but narratively speaking I feel like she fits the trope of the “soldier” so much more…. maybe it’s bc in my head the poet has a sort of freedom about them that sonetto lacks. sonetto’s character is all abt duty and loyalty and this idea that was drilled into her head that she was born to serve others and die a martyr. or does that make her more of a king?? that sense of responsibility???? but she’s also still a poet at her core???? idk I could be convinced either way.
I’d love to hear other ppl’s interpretations bc I feel like there’s so many interesting discussions to be had abt these characters :D
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hey i'm sure this is probably beating a dead horse but i wanted to pass along my thanks for writing this. you have a really incredible way of making characters come off the text and visualize so clearly. i always look forward to the small parts where you write as non-mc characters. they feel like real people who go home and continue to live their lives and it makes the group and your story more alive. hope you get some time off for a break. appreciative you're sharing this with us x
“they feel like real people who go home” can you hear me sobbing? one of the best compliments i’ve ever gotten, thank you thank you. i adore you <3
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hot take most writers on AO3 who write reader inserts with Tengen omit the wives bc they’re actually too scared and/or prejudiced against polyamory and they don’t want to admit it or come to terms with it. most fics that omit his wives talk a big game about consent and how they don’t like the idea of him “cheating” or introducing a new wife (cowards, my god just admit you’re too lazy to write a scene where you get introduced lmfao) or all this other bullshit and it’s all to thinly veil their feelings about polyamory as a whole. but I see through it. I see through that veil and I know how y’all truly feel and what y’all truly think. you can lie to yourself in your little authors note and tags as much as you want but I see through it. maybe readers will coddle you but I know. I know.
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