#a thousand times this
No but I’ve always loved the spiral because normally when mental illness intersects w horror it’s like,, the mentally ill ARE the horror imposed on non mentally ill folks , the “crazy” people are what’s scary to the “non-crazy” victims of horror, that’s the BASIS of most mental illness horror. But in TMA, the spiral has always, ALWAYS been about the horror of mental illness itself, and the focus is on the people suffering from mental illness. We are no longer the horror but the protagonists. It shows what’s ACTUALLY SCARY about mental illness: not how mentally ill people “affect and terrorize normal people” but how we are the victims of a terrifying thing. And, like in this episode, it’s commentary on how we are the victims of people who don’t understand/don’t believe in/fetishize/villanize us. The spiral isn’t fear-mongering anti-mental illness porn, it’s horror that is cathartic and relatable to mentally ill people. It’s for us, not about us. I’m wording this really poorly, but I just… really like that about this show
i can’t believe “adults writing fanfiction about teenage characters is kinda creepy even if it’s g-rated” is a take that i have had to read with my own eyes on more than one occasion.
like…buddy. where do you think the source material came from? exactly how old do you think the original creators of your blorbos are? i am begging you to think about this for ten seconds.
I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.
gffa:
Hot Take: Star Wars says neutrality in the face of evil is bad. You have the obvious with the Rebellion against the Empire, the Resistance against the First Order, etc. You have Rogue One laying it out very plainly, “It’s not a problem if you don’t look up.” is a message specifically set up to be knocked down. You have Bendu not taking part in the fight against the Empire and rightfully being called out as a coward.
But also, yes, for the Clone War. Whatever good intentions some of the Separatists may have had, whatever corruption the Republic needed to root out, the war was still: The Separatists enslaved the Twi’leks, used them as living shields, bombed civilian villages, looted the planet and tried to destroy the rest. "The people of Ryloth didn’t ask to be invaded. Do not let them suffer [by remaining neutral] because war came to them,” Bail Organa pleads to King Katuunko, who eventually realizes that he cannot stand by, that the Toydarians’ compassion means nothing if they’re not defending innocent people being hurt by this war, and he takes a fucking side in this war.
The Separatists also would target relief missions to civilians, they specifically targeted Republic medical stations, they would destroy escape pods even once they won a battle, killing the survivors, they would unleash biochemical warfare on Naboo, they would enslave the people of Ryloth, of Mon Calamari, of Kiros, they would test out their defoliators on the Lurmen of Mygeeto, they just rolled up, said this was their planet now, and planned to kill every living thing on the planet for a weapons test. The Separatists gave support to the Zygerrians to start up their slave empire again.
Neutrality works when you’re operating in a galaxy of good faith, when you’re dealing with an honorable opponent. The Separatists were inflicting evil on the galaxy and the Jedi were never going to remain neutral in the face of that evil, because that’s not who they or Star Wars is.
