#narrative bais

[nightlyteaandpaper]

Please stop calling them Morally Grey, they are just dickheads

No one from the Night Court is morally grey. Their actions are horrible, the narrative justifies them.

Feyre destroys The Spring Court, leading to the destruction of the Summer Court, and the only two people who say something against this are the HLs of those courts, but even then, they don't put up much of a fight. Tarquin, after being disrespected in his home, goes to the HL's Meeting and says "Well, the Night Court were the only people who came to help," as if the High Court wasn't the reason his people were attacked. The narrative does not allow Tamlin any breathing room to make his point, right or wrong, instead, the rest of the people on page opening disregard his opinions (which is insane to me because they were his friends longer than Feyre had been alive, and they just take what Feyre says at face value.) Instead, no one speaks when Rhysand magically violates Tamlin's autonomy and shuts him up. No one spoke when Feyre and Azreal were whooping people's asses, despite the NC saying they wouldn't do it before the meeting, and the literal HL of Dawn putting wards on the room for no magic use (which, again, how were they able to use magic to attack people).

Feyre scrambled the minds and implanted thoughts in the heads of the guards in the Spring Court to destroy it and she never looked back on it for more than three seconds and went "huh, that was weird. It wasn't smart to do that because the wall is literally pressed against the Spring Court's ass..." No, everyone pats her on the back for her work. Lucien brings up briefly his discomfort being used as a pawn in Feyre's game and that she single-handedly destroyed his friendship with Tamlin, that older than Feyre had been alive, and the narrative doesn't even have her linger on that thought for more than one second. The narrative is quick to call out people who treat Feyre and the rest of the IC poorly, but never calls out them treating everyone else poorly. The narrative justifies the pimping of Feyre and her physical abuse by Rhysand (twisting her arm to make her agree to the bargain) as a necessary evil but does not extend the same grace to Tamlin, who did what he did as a necessary evil.

Trauma is understood when the person traumatized is the Night Court but never with anyone else. They constantly go back to dogpile on Tamlin, and the narrative doesn't have a single person stop and say, "Yeah, we should leave him alone." In fact, during FAS, after Rhysand tears into Tamlin, he goes back to Feyre, and she says, "You are always a bigger man" I refuse to say male. This is after Feyre writes to him and says, "Thank you for your help, I hope you find happiness too" and it is known that this man is so depressed that he is in his beast form. He does not have a kingdom anymore. Also, no one told Rhys to go to the Spring Court and harass him. One could say that the things the IC did could be from the perspective of Feyre and thus justified, but when we move to Nesta and Cassian's perspective again, nothing is challenged.

Nesta says that the only reason she hates Rhysand is because he is smug, not because of how he treats her. Nesta was threatened because she, albeit not in the kindest way, told Feyre that she was going to die in childbirth, and while Feyre said it wasn't right, there is nothing longer than a paragraph about the whole situation. It was just over as soon as it started. Nesta gets locked in the house for God knows how long (which, again, doesn't make sense because if she could get down the steps, get tired, and come back up, she should be able to make it all the way down the steps. Walking down the steps isn't what tries people out, it the coming back up because you are going against gravity) and no one thinks, "Hmm, that is exactly what Tamlin did to Feyre." They both locked someone in under the guise of protection. Cassian sees how the IC is treating Nesta, and while he tries to say something, he is always shut down.

And I will close on this. In an interview a few years ago, SJM said that Rhysand was a gift to her and that he could basically do no wrong. She also mentioned that the reason why Nesta was mad at Feyre and Rhysand was because she was jealous of their perfect life. This, my friends, is not how you write a story. This is an example of Authorial Fiat. You may say, "it's just a fantasy story" and I will say "Shut up, we know. I don't know how told tell you this, but: stories have to make sense."

#anti feysand #anti inner circle #inner circle #anti acotar #indie author #writing #anti rhysand #anti sjm #feyre acotar #acotar #anti acomaf #morally grey characters #they are seriously the worst type of people #narrative bais #authorial fiat #critical reading #fantasy romance #storytelling

[scarefox]

and then they married 😌

#when you blackmail a random student to give you medical aid but then he changes your whole narrative so much that you become his babygirl #GOD I THINK I NEED TO REWATCH ALREADY i miss them :( #got the first episode in my yt recs and had to take a glimpse for good old times sake #kiseki: dear to me #fan ze rui x bai zong yi #ep1 #still salty that they are so underrated in this fandom this is some A+ dynamic

[shrikeseams]

AU where the dwarves steal the silmaril+nauglamir without bloodshed (just shove it into someone's back pocket and make a run for it I guess), and when Thingol (and Beren) try to demand it back they just point out that Beren stole it in the first place, so Doriath doesn't have a leg to stand on re: lawful possession.

#tolkien #san shoots the breeze #but like seriously. nobody ever gets their hands on a silmaril without violence and crime (except feanor) #like I don't think they're cursed #but their narrative role is the same as if they were cursed #...au where turin gets a silmaril. let's double down on the curse bay-beeee

[moregraceful]

trying to explain to a friend that i think bay fc's vibes will not be as rancid as the other california nwsl teams bc first of all, they released pride merch before they signed any players and second of all, i don't think anyone in the bay area goes to sports games expecting to see good play. it's like, you go to see a narratively rich and dramatic game and be horny, not see a sports game that makes you believe the divine exists on earth in the form of athletes. my sample size is small obviously but even when i think about like idk my lesbian hairstylist she's never like oh i love the warriors and the niners because they're good, she's like, i love the warriors and the niners because their interpersonal male drama sustains me AND winning games is nice. like are bay area sports about winning or losing, i really don't think so? i think it's about how narratively rich will this game be and how horny can you get while eating french fries. so i have high hopes for bay fc's vibes tbh

#i'm getting SOOOOOOO excited. lesa bought me a bay fc pride hat for my birthday and i want to wear it everywhere #every day i open my email going WHEN i can sign up for season tickets. and once a week the org says SORRY SORRY WE'RE TRYING #but i think it's gonna be good. like does anyone in the bay area care about a winning culture at this point? NO we want a narrative #fresno oilers.txt

[tarisilmarwen]

I went and rewatched the Lars homestead scenes because the complaining was annoying me and yeah.

Luke never saw Reva with her lightsaber ignited.

He was already climbing the ladder out with his back turned when she opened the door, she didn’t have it turned on when she was chasing him across the desert, and she didn’t ignite it again until after he’d gotten knocked unconscious.  Her Force Pull-ing him can very easily be misremembered as him losing his footing on loose gravel.  All he saw was a scary cloaked figure chasing him.

So y’all can stop griping about how it breaks continuity for Luke not to have remembered an Inquisitor attacking his home.

#Luke Skywalker #star wars #reva sevander #kenobi #spoilers #of course i shouldn't be surprised that this fandom doesn't actually pay attention to what's happening in the narrative #they missed how the dome was over the lothal bay before it blew #they missed that the cadet academy is a completely different building #they missed that the planetary shields were up so the purrgil crushed star destroyers did not in fact fall into the city #this fandom misses a LOT of things

[apple-of-my-pie]

Something about how Wolf 359 is primarily character-driven rather than plot driven. Something about how all the villains extol the value of the ‘big picture’, the grand cosmic happenings that are more important than any people’s lives or desires. Something about the contact event mattering because of the way the characters react in the face of it. Something about an immortal alien empire reaching out to mankind for the first time by having a chat with one man alone in a room. Something about how, as aliens judge whether the human race deserves to live and a megacorporation plans world domination, the story is about a group of people stuck on a tin can together and the way they feel about their lives, the world and each other.

#w359 actively refusing the Big Picture on every level fucks so hard #we never see much of goddard’s doings on earth. we never see the rest of that vast intergalactic civilization the dear listeners belong to #because that’s not what matters! what matters is the love and fear and hope and anger and grief and want of this tiny handful of people #small in the great cosmic scale #it’s not a coincidence that all the antagonists will not shut up abt how individual people don’t matter in the grand scheme of things #(and therefore hurting people is justified if you can claim some higher purpose) #and then the story goes yes they do!!! look at them!!! the big picture is not important what’s important are these small petty human beings #that’s what we focus on that’s what we develop that’s what MATTERS #hilbert and kepler and cutter and pryce going ‘individual human lives aren’t worthy of consideration’ #jokes on you bitch the narrative says the opposite #wolf 359 #w359 #bay’s originals

[maxthesillyy]

GRGDGAAVGDGSVAGFGDGXVCGCGHSGDGSGVA anyways guys uh have you ever thought about how that ‘we dont talk about bruno’ song can be pretty much completely interchangeable between max and rachel

#max and rachel as bruno and or the. uh the main girl of course #elaborate??? uhhhh #later (<- says the guy who still hasn’t elaborated about the elliot and max post) #okay yeah #so basically #these bitches uh #be haunting thr narrative #the narrative being. both. the narrative and arcadia bay #hm. someone needs to put me back into my yapping cage bc idk who let me out #lis #life is strange #max caulfield #rachel amber #i be obsessed with max and rachel’s parallels

[pinkfey]

rachel amber haters were literally like ugh i can’t believe she cheated on chloe with these two grown ass men twice her age, one of which being her violent drug dealer, the other being the guy who literally groomed drugged kidnapped and murdered her….. what a manipulative snake!!!!!

#like i get why some ppl don’t like her. she’s an actress she’s an enigma she haunts the narrative #that’s the appeal !! #to me at least #there’s all these different versions of her. she’s known by everyone and no one #she’s my fav ever i love her so so much #but she was groomed.. why do ppl blame her for her own grooming #like why were they acting like this teenage girl is responsible for her own death hello??? #she flirted with both to get the things she wanted bc she thought she had control over the situation #a very common thing in grooming cases #jefferson knew that about her and use it to his advantage #and frank was going to be her tool to getting her and chloe out of arcadia bay #what is not clicking….. #she’s a victim. she’s a teenage girl. help….. #2015 was an insane year for critical thought #which btw i’ll never forget how everyone was acting like frank was redeemed bc he ‘loved rachel’ and ‘she was his lioness’ #he’s a creep and a freak. fuck his beans 🫘 #anyways.txt #ask to tag #yeah i’m life is strange posting in 2023

[foxofninetales]

Angle of Elevation - Chapter 5

Fandom: DMBJ / The Lost Tomb Reboot

Relationships: Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling/Liu Sang, Iron Triangle

Summary: Liu Sang comes home to them a fraction at a time.

Excerpt:

Bao Haotian sat and worried about her pencils.

She wasn't worried about the first pencil. One was, after all, the minimum amount of pencil needed to be able to take notes. It was the second one that was worrying her. Was two too many? Did it look weird that she had two pencils? But what if something happened to her first pencil? Or - even better - what if someone else needed a pencil and Bao Haotian would be able to lean across and give them one?

Two tables over from her, a solidly built older woman settled into her seat. She rummaged in her bag and set a fat notebook on the table in front of her, then opened a case and arranged three pencils next to the notebook in a neat row.

Bao Haotian relaxed.

Around her, the seats were slowly filling up. It was raining, and a growing flock of folded umbrellas huddled in the corner by the classroom door. She hadn’t expected that there would be this many people here, and it comforted and stressed her in equal measure. Stress, because there being more people here meant there were more people to see if she messed up, but comfort too, because there were this many people who were like her, at least a little.

Several minutes passed, while she sat with her pencils and notebook and the minutes ticked slowly by on the clock on the wall. She counted the number of red notebooks in the room (three) and the number of blue ones (two, including her own). She counted the number of concrete blocks she could see in the wall at the head of the classroom and calculated how many must be hidden by the chalkboard. And all the while, she tried not to think about the new worry that was slowly growing, because more people were coming in a little at a time, but the seat beside her remained horribly, gapingly empty.

Read Chapter 5 on AO3

#dmbj #my fic #foxfic #angle of elevation #liu sang #i know this took a while #but i wanted this chapter to be about bai haotian as much as liu sang #about the scars she carries as well as his #i just wanted to do my girl justice and that took a while okay #other people: what if the narrative is shaped by loss #me: yes and what if that loss was a stuffed animal

[difeisheng]

early bai choufei was the funniest character in heroes actually

#he's just a dude wandering around minding his own business while being gay and deeply unimpressed #oh da-baicai what happened to you #the last enemy to be conquered is the narrative #heroes #说英雄谁是英雄 #bai choufei #ashton originals

[sinni-ok-sessi]

@ the lost tomb reboot writers: what did you expect the audience to get out of a conversation that goes

'Xiao Bai keeps flirting with me but I'm so much older than her - I can't mess around with her!'

'Xiaoge's a lot older than you, but doesn't he mess around with you all the time?'

other than Hashtag Pingxie Canon??

#the phrasing is *identical* #my literature degree is wasted when the narrative parallels paint themselves neon and dance the cancan #tltr #dmbj #(yes we can quibble about how to translate 玩 here but whatever it is xiao bai wants to do with wu xie #apparently xiaoge is already doing it)

[whathebrick]

honestly she's just vibing (until the horrors come for her)

#🧱 — throwing up the shade for a little bit of sunshine! ( bai hua. ) #tfw your parents suffers from doomed by the narrative (at least she has a better chance of avoiding most of what macaque went through..) #maybe

[brockachu]

have you seen the photos of ryan mcdonagh with his kid at the bolts game yesterday? it is very important to me to spread this news

omg no i have not!! i’m searching now but always feel free to link me!! aahh mac is such a cute dad!!!!

🥹💖💖💖 girl dad mac truck with his 5yo this is So Cute. look how small!!!!

okie smokie imma go watch that post game where he brought her with him too 🥹

#mac has been one of my long time favs i love this So Much #no27 with the a on his chest and his tiny daughter in her full gear next to him 😭 two time stanley cup champion mactruck!!!!! #remember when new york traded him bc they thought his time had passed???? wwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh 😭😭😭😭😭 #HE WAS THEIR CAPTAIN!!!! and now here he is a dad an A a cup champ!!!!!! #ryan mcdonagh #kids #tampa bay lightning #scp 2022 #narratives

[kucherovv]

how are we feeling for tomorrow? i want to scream

feeling NERVOUS!!! and anxious! and all of the above!!

this finals is going to be insane. i think that during the past 2 seasons we didn't play super competitive scfs. last year was (imo) a pretty obvious win going in, and the year before didn't seem incredibly hard going in. both of those years the ecf vs the islanders was the real scf. (in 2021, even, game 7 was the real scf lol) this is going to be one of, if not THE hardest series the bolts have ever played.

the avs are way better than any media is giving them credit for. like, everywhere i go it's "the goalies in the west are bad/the avs have no defense" like? did we watch the same western conference final? or even second round? the avs are an unbelievable team, but so are the bolts.

i think stamkos saying that colorado is "the team everyone wants to be" and landeskog saying "to be the best, we have to beat the best" are very uh... telling of how this series is going to go. definitely super competitive, just unbelievably like TOUGH on both teams. honestly, the series could go either way atm. and i am super excited to see what happens, but also super, super nervous for the bolts.

#im like going insane abt it all! the narratives! afejopiwioae #like the parallels between the 2020 bolts and the current avs.. unreal Unreal #maybe i will elaborate on that later but this is already way too long so #anon #tampa bay lightning #asks

[ultfreakme]

Don't let the media make what's happening with Israel, Iran and Jordan into some "middle-east problem" again. This was entirely orchestrated and encouraged by the US and the UK. Israel initiated every attack against Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iran. Israel KILLED, targeted, the children and grandchildren of Palestinians political leaders. And the US could've stopped all of this by simply not giving Israel money and weapons bu they didn't.

The Western media has constructed this narrative that countries like Iraq and Iran are the problem and the western nations are the antidote keeping their 'terrorism' at bay. No, they have always and at all times started the conflicts, or worsened them.

Because they want the land, they want hegemony over the resources of that region and that is it. And they've demonstrated already by killing over 33,000 people that they'll do anything.

Stop joking about World War 3 and take the loss of lives and the horror of what is happening seriously. This cannot keep escalating

#free gaza #free palestine #palestine #gaza #gaza genocide #gaza strip

[focalpointed]

tag dump !

#( * aesthetic ↷ disordered and wild with stars ) #( * anatomy ↷ never meant to cause you trouble with my colored lies ) #( * meme ↷ it was my heart i had handed to you ) #( * tunes ↷ there’s a music box in the bay ) #( * narrative ↷ hours were the birds and i guess they flew ) #( * re: ↷ it hurts to become ) #( * study ↷ for a second i was unhaunted ) #( * visage then ↷ something about you that now i can’t remember ) #( * visage now ↷ to the heart of my mortal wound ) #( * wanted ↷ make us into corresponding pieces )