When people say they don't trust couples who never argue I think there is a misunderstanding
Because people hear that and think it's big fights about big shit like money or boundaries but that's not what it means (or at least not what it should mean)
It's talking about about the kinds of fights that are healthy, normal, and kinda sus to NOT have
The examples of healthy fighting are:
1. The "You're irritating the crap out of me right now" fight:
No one is free of annoying traits and no one is capable of avoiding annoying their loved ones forever. So you'll have fights because one of you is tired and the other won't stop goddamn humming!
Or because the other person forgot to change the fucking loo roll again!
Or because they are being irritating on purpose because sometimes your partner is a little shit
It's not serious but sometimes you have to squabble it out. Usually ends with both of you going "Okay yeah that's a fair hit"
2. The "I love you but you're being a jackass" fight:
Sometimes you or your partner is being a dick and needs to be told they're being a dick.
If you love someone you sometimes have to call them out on their bullshit
3. The pointless crap fight:
The subject matter is dumb and pointless and it's certainly not worth the time and energy you're both putting into this but they are WRONG about which Disney Princess would win in a cage fight with the others and you are going to prove it!
4. The "I'm sorry, what?!" fight:
They say something you know isn't correct (but not hugely important. Like what actor played a character in a film, not about the validity of vaccines) and instead of accepting your correction they decide to double down and smooth sharks you
5. The "only you do x" fight
Usually about snoring. You both insist that the other one totally does this small annoying thing while knowing deep down you both do it. You know it, they know it, they know you know it and you know they know it.
And yet you both insist
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The point is these aren't fights that are serious or lead to hurt feelings or anything (and if it does you step back and apologise immediately)
Like I know I'm aromantic but I totally have and would argue with my friends like this and if you aren't comfortable doing the same with your partner what's the fucking point?
So yeah if I hear a couple say "oh we never fight" and they call my good natured bickering with my husband about idk the layout of the apartments in friends or how annoying it is to wake up the other a "domestic" I am going to have Doubt about their relationship. Because that tells me they don't feel comfortable enough to say when their partner is annoying them or to be snarky back if the situation warrants it
Like you don't want to make your partner feel bad about themselves and this isn't about that. But you should be able to call your partner out when they are being an irritating little shit
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Okay, but when will we talk about the Readcerans? 👀 (and maybe a certain book....?👀👀)
It’s Late, I’m Exhausted, I’ve thought of nothing else for two days, let’s go.
So I already talked about Readceras and marriage, elsewhere, much more coherently, and it took me a hot minute to realize you were talking about the hysterical Eothas/Waidwen porn, so let’s talk about theater and the Ideal Romantic Partner. And hysterical porn.
So we’ve got an extant canonical morality play (which, like, somebody read extant irl morality plays because it’s really well done), which means I’m not just spitballing this. (I mean I am but) Readcerans are weird Calvinists, which means everything is Extremely Dour All The Time, but probably in practice if you’re not right in front of the Dawn Council you’re spicing it up. Virtue and Charity get into a fistfight. The Dawnstars get stuck on a roof and can’t come down to talk about the penitent, and instead yell rude things whenever he messes up a line. Somebody throws a brick. Y’know, normal stuff.
Probably not a lot of secular plays? Definitely nothing borrowed from Aedyr. Pre-everything, you’ve definitely got acting troupes crossing the border, so on a broader scale there’s still probably a lot of similarity between Readceras and the Dyrwood’s theater scene post-everything.
Your Ideal Romantic Partner (not necessarily romantic, Good Readcerans Get Married, whether they want to or not, and the social shunning for noncompliance is brutal enough you’d better have a damn good reason not to, and even then you might be better off booking it out of town) is pious, dutiful, and a little somber, but with a brightly optimistic attitude, serious about everything they do and thorough about whatever duty they’re given, a good listener, strongly community minded, did I mention the piety?, ambitious without being grasping or cruel, and vigilant both within their home, for things that could be improved, and outside it, for threats or weaknesses to be strengthened.
Divorce is even more of a Thing That Does Not Happen, more for social reasons than expense, it would be deeply ugly not only for the adults but also any children that might be about, but on the other hand everybody’s having a Really Bad Time, so an early death wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. Certainly no need to go to the lengths our canonical spousal murders go to.
Eothas is obviously Best God for everything, including marriage, but tbh you’re also probably invoking Waidwen himself, which must get pretty weird for anyone who knew him!
Speaking of, let’s talk about the porn. (I mean, let’s actually talk about the implications of the porn. Y’all can go read the book if you need context. Also yes I know the excerpt is not actually porn but that is definitely where the text is headed.)
There’s two major directions your inferences can go(1), both about equally likely, and they both lead to the same next step so in this context it doesn’t even matter. Either:
-Somebody Expensive with too much time on their hands, who tbh probably knew the dude, or at least knew someone who knew the dude, those last few doomed months, wrote a highly deviant(2) work and were lucky if the Hand Occult got to it before the rest of the Council did
Or
-Paper is cheap enough and labor light enough that somebody who never even met someone who met someone who knew Waidwen had enough time on their hands to write a highly deviant work, and required less luck for the Hand to get there before their neighbors did.
Either way, we’ve got a strong cultural push for literacy and more importantly, public libraries, and also a, well, grand is the wrong word but, tradition of extremely Romantic (as in the literary movement) novels, probably roughly as smutty as modern romance novels but with even purpler prose. And like, morals.(3) Actually, thinking about it, it points to novels even being a thing in the first place, because accessible widespread printing presses do not a literary tradition make!
Anyway.
I do sort of wonder what freaked Hand out so badly about it, as BoW makes it pretty clear it wasn’t actually possible, much less on the table, and since this is the first we hear about it we can presume the author was not caught by their neighbors (this does not preclude their murder), because it’s the sort of piece that, being so incredibly awful and deviant and nobody should ever read ever, everybody has to read it immediately. Which obviously the Hand did not want. (I have so many questions??? Why did the Hand give a shit? I mean, why did the Hand give a shit about a lot of things, really, someday I should like.... chart out what we’re told/shown them to have messed with and see if anything interesting turns up, but why blasphemous porn in particular?)
Anyways I really wish you could get your companions opinions on things because I would actually die to know what Xoti and Edér think about it, among other people.
1: technically three but ‘actually it’s au fanfic and Not Relevant to Eora as is’ is much less fun to consider, so we aren’t.
2: the porn is not the deviance, that’s the blasphemy
3: morals as in ‘good Readcerans get married’ and ‘good Readcerans embody the virtues of grace and charity’, maybe even emphasized with a nonsensical rhyming couplet at the end. This is not a judgement call about irl romance novels!
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