Chell In The Post Freedom Fit

Please be patient with those of us with auditory processing disorder. We just need more time for the gears to turn in our heads.

Oh wow that was fast! (Totally *not* because I don't know how to organize my reblogs yet...)

EDIT: I have realized there is no way to "organize reblogs". Instagram brainrot got me out here looking goofy

The way some of you will jump at the chance to try and hate on Sam is...... Troubling

She was a fairy...

Maleficent 💚💚💚

Just finished rewatching Maleficent and damn I forgot revenge is bad narratives can be good.

Like, ultimately the formula they follow is person A gets hurt by person B (often scarred for life/grievously injured) -> person B moves on and starts a family - A becomes bitter and angry and gets back at B -> but eventually decides not to go through with it because B has a family/it would make them just as bad, or they do and then feel empty/it’s unfulfilling.

And I hate it. I hate that the implication is that if you hurt the person who hurt you, you are just as bad as them. I much prefer the Inigo Montoya route: revenge is my purpose because someone did something bad to me -> I get revenge and this is great, I have achieved my goal.

And I could never pinpoint why that was the case until I was rewatching Maleficent with my sib and realized that it’s because most “revenge is bad” narratives center around the harm it will cause to person B. It centers around the harm it causes to the bully, the abuser, the perpetrator. It centers around B’s family, B’s friends. It never centers around A.

Maleficent, though, does center around A in a way I don’t see too often. Maleficent got hurt by Stephen. Stephen moves on, while Maleficent can’t. Maleficent becomes bitter and angry, and gets back at Stephen via cursing Aurora. Then Maleficent decides not to go through with it/regrets it.

But Maleficent makes the choice after. After Aurora wakes up, Stephen attacks Maleficent. He burns her, he chains her. Maleficent escapes, and then she doesn’t continue attacking Stephen. She throws him on the ground, moves to leave, he grabs her near her wings(the main source of her trauma and mirroring when he hurt her) and she pins him up against the wall. She can choose to kill him.

She doesn’t. And it’s a culmination of her healing, that she moves on. She leaves Stephen behind. And he can’t accept that, so in the end, he causes his own death.

It’s beautiful because it’s clear Maleficent is a victim, it centers around her trauma and her healing. Maleficent choosing not to kill him isn’t that it’s bad to get back at Stephen, that he doesn’t deserve death, it’s about the fact that she doesn’t want anything to do with him. He’s irrelevant.

And there’s the fact that he suffers, which is nice to see. But his obsession is another post. As is the parallels between this movie because I could rave all night about that.

Being a "that movie looks cool, but I need to read the book first" type of person has caused me to be severely behind on pop culture.

Comparing the adaptation to the source material is cool and all, but alas. Lack of time and mental energy (read: Neurodivergent Adulthood)

There is one (1) exception to this rule, and that is me becoming hyper-fixated on the series.

Exhibit A: me re-watching the entirety of Avatar the Last Airbender. AND starting Legend of Korra. AND starting the ATLA comics.

At roughly the same time

Ok so I got to thinking and here's my pitch for an APD (auditory processing disorder) creature. Introducing.... the 'Huh?'

Idk just a thought

As a former people pleaser, this is the type of shit I'm on

("Not an ounce of shame" = learning to set boundaries without bracing myself for the other person to retaliate with emotional manipulation)

Oh, the age-old neurodivergent question of "should I use this empty space in my calendar to rest, or Do Something™️?"

(The choice to Do Something™️ will almost always make me more tired than I feel I "should" be)