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I’m really sorry to know that you have been victim of child abuse. And I have know in the first place what that means. I just want to say that when in a tv show or in a movie or in a book there are characters who are abusive that is always adfirmed by the creators and by the actors. Now where are the evidence of that in *bs*? How can the authors omit that their co-protagonist is an abusive character? How can the actor omit it and be surprised by the hate that his ch. Is receving?

Thank you, Anon, and in response to your question: I have no idea. The writers have, honest to gods, written a character that is, make no mistake, abusive, whether he means to be or not. It’s well-portrayed, it’s chilling to those of us who have experienced similar, and neither the writers or the actor himself seem to get that that’s what is there in the script, on the screen, in the show. I’ve never been 100% comfortable with the character, and the more I look at him in retrospect, the more I understand why that is. To be fair, it took me a while to realize, even having the experiences
I’ve had, so I suppose it’s possible they genuinely don’t realize what
they’ve put out there.

I would have thought, though, that the ending of the show was fairly cut and dried on that front – S*lver basically tells both Flint and Madi that they’re not capable of making good decisions on their own so he’s making decisions for them. He treats Madi and her people like that, and then when she tells him to get out – when she tells him she wants nothing more to do with him after what he’s done – he refuses to leave. He tells her he’ll wait until she comes around to understanding what he’s done and why and my gods does that sound like every abuser ever telling someone they’ve hurt them for their own good and that it’s their fault they had to do it. He tells Flint the same – I’m selling you for your own good, Thomas is there, go quietly. If you hadn’t insisted on your war (here read: if you hadn’t had convictions and ideals you believed in strongly enough to die for) I wouldn’t be doing this. I could quote considerably more of the show at you – it’s woven through s1 to s4, but I’ll stop here, because this isn’t meant to be a long, drawn out meta.

I’ve read your addictional chapters and I don’t understand… madi with eme? Rogers as a good person? I’m quite perplexed…

Re: Madi/Eme – I’ll be honest, Anon, I’m not quite sure what you’re confused about. Madi being bi? Her not being with Silver? Honestly there’s not that much there to understand – I have no reason not to have Madi be some flavor of not-straight, and therefore I’m setting her up for a nice, fulfilling relationship with someone who will treat her right since her last relationship very obviously did not work out. 

As to Rogers – if it helps, I wouldn’t say he’s being a good person even now. He’s being a self-interested one – one that can see that he’s in a Very Bad Situation politically and personally, and all too likely to lose his head to one side or the other unless he does something helpful and now. He’s also just had a wake up call regarding the rule of civilization in the form of listening to Thomas talk about what he’s been through – I think the prospect of being sold to such a place himself would scare the shit out of Rogers, because he’s a disgraced nobleman of sorts himself and that could be him. Basically he’s taking steps to save his own ass, quite independent of any kind of empathy for anyone (which I don’t believe him to possess a great deal of, or if he does, it’s reserved solely for people that he actually cares about). 

tl;dr: Madi/Eme is a thing because why not and Rogers is not a good person, he’s still a dick, just at the moment he’s doing something advantageous to Madi and company because he wants to stay alive and not enslaved and because Thomas manipulated the shit out of him.

I spent 6 freaking years trying to get my PCOS diagnosed with months long waits in between appointments and tests, with every different doctor shrugging and telling me the exact same thing about how my lack of periods wasn’t a big deal. Turns out, lack of treatment makes you really sick! Now I have to work doubly hard to undo the damage. UGH.

*hugs* believe me, Anon, I know the feeling. first it was “oh, you’re still young, it’ll sort itself out in a few years,” and then it was, “oh it’s not a problem, don’t worry,” and then it was, “holy shit, who knew, looks like you’re pre-diabetic and may or may not have cancer (thankfully it wasn’t)”. The good news is that in my case the damage was in fact reversible but yeah – I definitely could have been saved a lot of trouble, panic, and stress if someone had just a. understood what PCOS is and b. actually tested for it and gotten me on some kind of treatment plan a lot earlier. 

One of the reasons I’ll never read Flint as Rage Monster are his dreams. It’s a truest look into the depths of his psyche. And he’s not contemplating the burning of the world in it. Miranda doesn’t say, “Burn the world down, it’s what you actually want” (as Silver claims in the finale). She helps him see that he’s not alone in this fight.

Exactly. When we’re inside Flint’s head, Miranda’s not urging him to vengeance. He’s not contemplating destruction and death – he’s tired, and he wants to be done, and he’s wanted to be done since he killed Alfred, I think. He asks what happens if he decides he wants to stay with Miranda, meaning what happens if he doesn’t want to do this anymore. And when Miranda in his head points him in the direction of people who can help with his fight, that’s him picking himself up off the ground, going “ok, I can do this, I have a purpose,” and from then on, you’ll notice that he changes significantly. If anything, the purpose that he finds in carrying the war forth is what ends the rage monster, as you put it, and that’s why I don’t agree with Silver’s assessment that for Flint, the war is about rage. Maybe it is for him, and he’s projecting more than a bit, but for Flint, it’s about standing up and saying no more. 

Heeey so someone just reblogged your post about the Flinthamiltons portrait and I wanted to say, first, that that’s a really lovely idea and I adore the sense of mystery that remains at the end. Second, (and don’t take this the wrong way?) that realism in painting is a late-19th-century thing. Didn’t exist before. And in the early 18th century, you’d have had a VERY hard time finding a female painter, least of all one who took money for her work. I get why you made it a woman, but :)

Not my post, Anon, but thanks for the historical accuracy note.

Maybe people just need to have their partners/family members/friends make the most crucial decisions for them, and see for themselves how well “but I did it for you!” justification works and how much worse it actually makes you feel.

Honestly, Anon – I get where you’re coming from, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. I’ve had someone do something very similar to me. I’ve been the one left standing there gaping while someone does something incomprehensibly shitty and then refuses to see that they were wrong (and yes – they too had reasons that I actually understand and can sympathize with but still here we are and their decision was the wrong one and it damaged my relationship with them permanently.)  It’s the shittiest feeling in the world. I’m truly glad for everyone that doesn’t understand why I’m not ok with Silver’s decisions that they’ve apparently never had someone do that to them. For anyone who has had someone do that, though, and still supports his decisions – I don’t get it. I’m sure you have your reasons, but I truly do not understand and I don’t think I’m going to or that I want to. I’ve fought hard to get to the point where I understand that I’m allowed to be angry about what happened and I’m not turning back on that now. 

hello the other day i was mowing and there was this boy right up against the fence dressed in all white staring like unblinkingly ahead and he didn’t even move when i had to get close to him to mow?? like he just stood there, and i kind of awkwardly smiled and he didn’t even blink or look at me, and then when i turned back around the next time, he had a really sharp piece of wood that he was just beating against the ground??? there’s my random story hope you enjoyed, it was a weird experience

ngl, Anon, I read mowing as meowing and I was like… why are you meowing? And then I realized that this was a somewhat concerning tale of a possible ghost boy and was less concerned. So that’s my thrilling tale of the reading of your ask. 

Here’s hoping you do not see strange vampire-hunter ghost boy again – he sounds a tad worrying.