EXACTLY!
vegas: you ruined all my plans š” i'm gonna make you regret it. get ready for 500 volts straight to the balls.
pete, a masochist:
That Rolling Stone article about Chappell Roan... the bits about the shit she went through are already wild, but what really gets me is when the article starts listing. every. single. singer. who reached out to her, worried, to commiserate, to give tips, to agree that the harassment of fame is indeed hell. I'm like. "So y'all agree?? All of y'all agree being famous is horrible???" Good LORD.
Fellow stars have reached out to see if sheās OK. Charli XCX was one of the first to do so (..). Eilish has been keeping tabs on Roan (...). Hayley Williams DMād her, offering to chat with Roan anytime. Katy Perry told her to never read the comments. Lorde gave her a helpful list of things to do at an airport to fly under the radar. The band Muna hosted her for dinner. Miley Cyrus invited her to a party. Lady Gaga has passed along her phone number (...). Roan went on walks and grabbed coffees with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. Their boygenius bandmate Phoebe Bridgers came over to Roanās just to hang, commiserating on how fandom behavior has become increasingly āabusive and violent.ā Sabrina Carpenter, whoās also had a shockingly massive year, suggested they meet up and unpack their summers. āWeāre both going through something so fucking hard ⦠she just feels like everything is flying, and sheās just barely hanging on,ā Roan says. āIt was just good to know someone else feels that way.ā Backstage at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, Roan flashes her phone to show a lengthy email from Mitski she received that morning. āI just wanted to humbly welcome you to the shittiest exclusive club in the world, the club where strangers think you belong to them and they find and harass your family members,ā it reads.
I?? MEAN???
*la petite mort (a little death, and just not the sexual kind), but a death nonetheless.
Episode 9 highlighted that Vegas is aware that his life is surrounded by death.
I joked last week that Pete would be the one to kill Vegas if Vegas kept up his behavior, but...
While fighting with his dad, Gun smacks the book Vegas is reading on the ground, symbolizing not just the end of a childhood, but the end of being Gun's child.
The book is about an alien invasion that sacrifices humans' unique individuality, which reflects Vegas and his father's relationship. The book's overall theme is that in order for a metamorphosis to occur, the old form needs to die.
During that fight, Gun tells Vegas that he will never be the best in this life as he is right now
But Pete brings up something Porsche mentioned to Kinn before during their main vs. minor family competition conversation
Why can't Vegas just be...himself? Why does he have to be "Vegas, from the minor family, always under the main family"? Why does he have to be Vegas, the bad guy? Because he has been written that way by his family? Even on the phone with his dad, Vegas asks "Do you think I want to be here?!".
He doesn't but doesn't know how to escape. It's an incomprehensible aspiration. Korn tells Kinn that "in this business, once you get in, it's hard to get out" so how bad is it for someone born into it? The only escape is death.
Vegas has been shown to be the villain...for Pete (Gun is the actual protagonist of the series because everyone conflicts with him, even his own sons), but what happens when Pete, the hero of the story, doesn't see Vegas as a villain?
Khun's questioning of Porchay emphasized what has to happen in the storyline between the hero and the villain.
The bad guy, Vegas, has to die, so Pete, the hero, can live. But according to our hero, there are no absolutes, so *THIS* version of Vegas must die, not the whole being. In order for him to remove himself from "Vegas, from the minor family" and "Vegas, Gun's son", he must end *this* life, so he can meet Pete in the next one as two equals that share both good and bad instead of being consumed by one.
Even though Pete is the one being held hostage and tortured, the one who begins to die in this room is Vegas. When they have sex, Vegas will notice just how much of himself he has buried and what Pete, the one who knows exactly how it feels to be beat down but still sees the bright side, is awakening. He can't grow in the darkness, and Pete offers light.
Pete is killing some part of the Vegas that can't escape, but the final blow will come when the family's face each other. Vegas, once again carrying out his father's plans for the minor family against the main family, will realize his life is not his. Pete might not deliver the actual shot, but somehow Pete will be the reason that Vegas decides this version of himself can't continue to exist. Because before he can change, Vegas Theerapanyakul has to die.
*la petite mort - Ā an expression that means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasm as likened to death.
Unfriendly fucking reminder that Anti fujoshi views are inherently anti queer, anti women and racist.
"But I am only refering to cishet girls" The ones recieving the impact on fandom are queer people, not cishet people. Queer people are the ones who see you ranting about anything they do in fandom is fetishizing, not cishet people. Also why do you openly admit to targeting girls and women and find no issue with that?
"But fujoshi means..." A misogynistic insult that women and other queer people have reclaimed from misogynistic dudebros frustranted that women had hobbies outside of making them their sandwich. To use fujoshi as an insult again is almost the equivalent of using queer as an insult again. You just look as a dick.
"But fetishizers..." 9/10 times whenever someone uses "fetishizers" they mean inocuous shit like sharing some fanart or saying a character is attractive. If someone is legit being gross about a group while still thirsting for them as a whole then yeah, that is bad, but you don't need to target them because of their sexuality or gender for that. Call out their actions when they are being demonsteably harmful, not when you don't like their ship.
"But I have queer asian trans men friends and they hate fujoshi too!" I literally didn't asked and that is irrelevant. Call out bad people when they do bad actions. If all they do is swoon over anime boys kissing and holding hands or full on fucking hardcore, that is not for you or your friends to police. This is not hard. Also, why only your queer asian friends you agreed with already are worth listening and the bunch of queer asian people telling you to stop this shit are not?
"But they..." No. Call out actual bad actions.
If the ultimate goal of your shitty movement is less people are able to share/enjoy/create queer content, think really hard about who that actually benefits because, trust me, it's not queer people.
Canon.. 6969
YUTA Timewalk Ep.2