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writerkitMy prediction for the end of the Magnus Archives is now that it somehow ends with Jon having to kill Martin, either because that's the price of fixing things or because they can't fix things and Martin asks Jon to kill him so he's not living on others' suffering. This brings up for the first time the idea that whatever they find in the Panopticon either won't fix things or will have a horrible price, which we all knew already but this is the first time it's outright stated.
"Quiet" hit home really hard. As much as I am glad to see Martin finally getting to talk to someone who isn't either Jon or a threat, even if he is essentially talking to himself, it deals with Martin's mother who seems to share some similarities with my mother, and deals with overwhelming loneliness-- that whole "smother the people you care about because you're so glad to find people who care about you" thing with the second person in the statement is something I've struggled with a lot.
Anyone else really want to see Martin talk with Melanie now? Because Melanie got therapy, Melanie left the Institute. It's not even that I'm curious how successfully leaving the Institute affects how the new world affects her-- although I definitely am-- it's that the last time we saw her she wasn't about to get back in but was willing to consider them friends. Georgie will probably be judgemental and angry, but I don't think Melanie will.
ALSO FANDOM REALLY NEEDS TO STOP DEMANDING JONNY SIMS PERFORM TRAUMA FOR THEM! "Locked In" is perfectly fine and the vast majority of people shouting about it weren't Patreon subscribers and hadn't even heard it at the point they were shouting about it, and they've once again harassed Jonny to the point where he feels the need to offer up the "based in personal experience" defense, and he should not have to disclose that he's been on the wrong side of police brutality just to make the internet mob stop harassing Rusty Quill. (I kinda get the "I broke my own rule and pulled horror straight from actual trauma" part of the apology, although as I'm someone whose horror writing generally does derive from trauma I didn't really register it, since he's not using it cheaply.)
Reason number 984 why I am not on Twitter or Tumblr: I also write things that deal with past traumas I don't want to be forced to explain myself to the internet about.
Seriously, y'all, even the *creator* of OwnVoices never meant it to be used as a purity test, so stop.
"Quiet" hit home really hard. As much as I am glad to see Martin finally getting to talk to someone who isn't either Jon or a threat, even if he is essentially talking to himself, it deals with Martin's mother who seems to share some similarities with my mother, and deals with overwhelming loneliness-- that whole "smother the people you care about because you're so glad to find people who care about you" thing with the second person in the statement is something I've struggled with a lot.
Anyone else really want to see Martin talk with Melanie now? Because Melanie got therapy, Melanie left the Institute. It's not even that I'm curious how successfully leaving the Institute affects how the new world affects her-- although I definitely am-- it's that the last time we saw her she wasn't about to get back in but was willing to consider them friends. Georgie will probably be judgemental and angry, but I don't think Melanie will.
ALSO FANDOM REALLY NEEDS TO STOP DEMANDING JONNY SIMS PERFORM TRAUMA FOR THEM! "Locked In" is perfectly fine and the vast majority of people shouting about it weren't Patreon subscribers and hadn't even heard it at the point they were shouting about it, and they've once again harassed Jonny to the point where he feels the need to offer up the "based in personal experience" defense, and he should not have to disclose that he's been on the wrong side of police brutality just to make the internet mob stop harassing Rusty Quill. (I kinda get the "I broke my own rule and pulled horror straight from actual trauma" part of the apology, although as I'm someone whose horror writing generally does derive from trauma I didn't really register it, since he's not using it cheaply.)
Reason number 984 why I am not on Twitter or Tumblr: I also write things that deal with past traumas I don't want to be forced to explain myself to the internet about.
Seriously, y'all, even the *creator* of OwnVoices never meant it to be used as a purity test, so stop.
