I keep starting and abandoning posts that go into my drafts, as I try to stay tasteful about how fucking revolted this part makes me. Like, I'm legitimately unsure if the very relevant trauma I have is making me see things that aren't here
But first we see that Star Flower is trying to ingratiate herself to the group, just after she reappears from chapter 5. Chapter 5 is about how Clear Sky is still abusive towards his son, and she comes in after stroking his ego, stressing how alone she is, and appealing to how she'll be loyal unlike his child. (She glances over at Thunder, directly implying this.)
Now in Chapter 9, she's babysitting and trying to care for Milkweed's kits (in spite of discomfort from Milkweed), taking a wet sleeping space away from the others, and pulling more than her own weight "without complaint." Putting herself through harsh sitations to prove her worth.
All while trying to appear extra attractive to Thunder, and later Clear Sky. Basically every man in power who can "protect her"
Like, am I going fucking crazy? With how we later find out that Star Flower was "promised as a mate" to One Eye's subordinate Slash, is... is that hypersexualization? One of the extremely stigmatized symptoms of sexual abuse?
She goes to find Clear Sky alone to throw herself at his paws, and he's very quickly attracted to how she promises to perfectly obey him, have no needs of her own, and finally be the perfect servant that he desires
"I don't deserve your trust because I am dirt. I understand you because I also regret something. I'd die for you. I'll never betray you unlike those who have."
This isn't manipulation. She means this. The story is playing their romance sincerely. She's comparing "betraying" Thunder by telling her own father about an assassination ambush to Clear Sky's history of child abuse, physical assault, and murder
She believes she's on the same level as this; a monster who murdered a childhood friend in a fit of entitled rage. She was a victim of One Eye who really believes that the way her father used her means she "understands" this monster, deserves this treatment.
And Clear Sky LIKES that.
He likes that she will have COMPLETE FAITH in him. That she will follow him WITHOUT QUESTION. That she will OBEY his orders. That's fucking verbatim, that's THE TEXT!!!
WHILE HE'S STILL CRYING ABOUT "ive tried to atone every day" FOLLOWING THE LAST TWO BOOKS WHERE THE ONLY SHITTY THING HE DOESN'T DO IS MURDER INNOCENT WOMEN
Am I insane?? Am I wrong??? Am I missing something here???? Why the fuck is the fandom takeaway "haha sexy girl steals his dad." Did I read the same book
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watching space station videos for fic research and this astronaut is explaining how they sleep and that they dont really lie down because it always feels like shes still standing up anyway. she says "i dont have any sensation in my head that tells me im upside down so it doesnt matter"
i think thats what time sense is like. this thing in your brain that makes you able to orient yourself like in relation to, like, gravity? humans float in time like astronauts float in the space station. theyve got nothing in their brain telling them whats up and down.
and i dont know physics but like gravity distorts time along with space right? thats what they told me in world enough and time right? magic space hole, dont call the lift, cybermen problem
anyway i think thats what it's like. just like feeling gravitys effects on time? and then when it disappears or gets broken, which i hc happens with the master a bit after the timelords take away the drums and then relatively soon after that they regenerate very close to a black hole TWICE. TWICE AT ONCE. i think those things together mustve really fucked with their time sense i dont think the master can orient themself very well anymore, cant tell whats up and down anymore, just always floating
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also i dont want to overshare but when i was like 16 dealing with insane amounts of anxiety especially regarding men, and traumatised because of men, i saw a therapist who would mid session stop and be like "oh you're so pretty" and i dont want to label it as sexual harassment because maybe it was just more like a misogynistic attempt to make me feel better about myself as an insecure teenager, but it fucked me up worse than any belligerent harassment i ever got from a stranger or schoolmate bc of not just the authority they held over me but specifically the idea that this person is just here to help me and also all-knowing and can do no wrong, so i was aware it made me feel unsafe but wasnt able to process that the way i can if a guy yells at me on the street AND i didn't talk to anyone about it bc this was peak 'mental health acceptance' era and i didnt know how to talk about the way my therapist made me feel more unsafe than anxiety did.
anyway i just think it's important to keep in mind that therapists are just people and some of the ways we talk about it involves elevating therapists themselves to a status that ignores the experiences of marginalised people in which their therapist was acting not as deity of mental wellness but as a white person or a man or a straight person or a cis person etc. acting like therapists always know what's best for you and even that they have your best interests in mind at all is dangerous and dismissive^_^
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(this is me saying that i loved Superman forever and everyone who comes out of the woodwork saying they love it now too because she isn't yeehaw anymore are fake. (jokes joke jokes)
he's not all bad like his reputation
i always forget to tell you i love you, i loved you from the very first day
I'M LOVESTRUCK AND LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW)
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