She Deserved Better - Blog Posts
Sora, for the @vinsmokeartcollab !
The way nobody ever saw Abigail Hobbs for who she was. Not Will Graham. Not Freddie Lounds. Not Hannibal Lecter. Not Jack Crawford. Maybe Bloom? Maybe? Not even the fans of the show really ever saw her for who she was. The concept of the murder family is fundamentally against what Abigail ever wanted. She was never their daughter. She was never a murderer. She did feel remorse for the crimes she helped commit. She was never what they wanted her to be, but it didn't matter. We know she wouldn't want the murder family because nobody who actively feels intense remorse for even being an accomplice WOULD.
She was never their murder daughter. She was never a protege. She was never a murderer. Her measured and shy demeanor makes her a bit like a mold of clay. She is whatever everyone wants her to be. To Jack, she's an accomplice who must be held accountable. To Freddie, she's a story to sensationalise. To Will, she is the daughter he never had. To Hannibal, she is Mischa. To the audience, she is the daughter of their favorite queer pairing and they engage in domestic activities.
Think about this. When she is their daughter, are you writing them that way for her own benefit? Are you writing her to be that for her sake? Or are you writing it for their sake? Are you writing her to be their daughter to domesticate the pairing between Hannibal and Will? Or are you writing her to be their daughter because it's what she would want?
If she was truly the murderer that Hannibal leads her to believe she is, then why would she wake up from nightmares over her father's victims condemning her?
That is the tragedy of Abigail Hobbs. She never was truly allowed to simply exist. Her existence was always influenced by all these external forces and interpretations. People projecting what they wanted her to be onto her and the fans are culpable as well. She was never allowed to actually heal. She escaped the clutches of one insane father and lept into the arms of two.
Call me anything, but i will call this Baryonix
Alix.
ACTUAL GODDESS.
Princess Viserra Targaryen daughter of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne. Viserra was the prettiest of the Kings daughters and she knew it, she would entertain young men and would often flirt and play games. She desired to become Queen and sought to marry one of her older brothers, in order to prevent this her mother betrothed her to an old lord. At the age of fifteen she was to be sent to white harbor to marry Lord Manderly, she escaped her rooms and rode her horse around kings landing in a last night of fun. She was thrown from her horse and died at the age of five and ten.
Unfriendly reminder that both these shots are from when Maki is around ten or eleven
Better late than never... Anyway I have the excuse of not knowing you AND I only just saw your post AND I'm sending best wishes straight away 😁 So...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR... err🤔 BEAUTIFUL 🫵😁😉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
Hip Hip HOORAY🥳 Hip Hip HOORAY
For She's a jolly good lady... 🤐
You get the message 😉 Hope you DID HAVE A GOOD DAY and look after yourself XX
Hiding me as if I'm nothing to lose
Not a single post on my birthday
guess to you it's just another
Tuesday
Call me yours, or don't bother calling at all
(yay all the Pisces, boo turning one year older)
i liked ttc bc of nico lmao
this might be controversial but if battle of the labyrinth is your fav book you care about the metaphors, if the last olympian is your fav you just care about percabeth, if the lightning thief is your fav you care about family, if the sea of monsters is your fav you care about adventure, if titan’s curse is your fav you actually care about the plot
If you’re gonna die, you might as well serve
No because they’re spitting cold FACTS like Su was like “me and mom patched things up years ago” y’all ain’t really have shit to patch up you were a criminal she covered it up to save your ass!!!! She neglected y’all then had the nerve to be pissed off with the outcome of her negligence but that’s a rant for another time🙄. They both blamed Lin for THEIR mistakes and then abandoned her maaaaaaannn I wouldn’t talk to you selfish assholes either. Then her half ass apology after Lin was ready to Super Saiyan reck shit the fuck up just pissed me off even more. “Like I know I was wrong but I still wanted to kick your ass because all of this is your fault for having feelings so can we just brush over your valid feelings and pretend nothing happened so I can go back to my privileged bubble where I can do no wrong” bruh what?!! I high key really just don’t like Suyin her whole attitude is off putting and shitty I can get behind some fanon Suyin’s but canon Suyin will NEVA do it for me
This is off topic from the ask that you're doing but I'm really curious why you do not like suyin? Only for the way that she treated lin (which is enough to not like her) or something else?
Listen i may be Reading too far into it but
Suyin is a rich kid who never had to face a single consequence in her life even when did she ran away and still used the family money/name to build an entire city that she could literally control every aspect of and hired someone to control what she couldn't, the people. (There are no secrets in Zaofu)
EVEN when the entire earth kingdom and RC was destroyed because of her 'like a daughter to me' and actual son she didn't face any consequences and if I heard from the comic made it so that way Kuvira didn't either.
To me her whole vibe just Screams that one mom that is like "my child is just fine" and then you have the kid behind her with a plastic smile and hollow eyes because if they have one emotion or opinion that differs from what mom wants then they are belittled and spoken over until they finally shut up and accept they don't have a voice or thought to themselves.
Then we have what she did to Lin (and how the show handled it) because I'm gonna be real I have two sisters and a little brother. And if any of them scarred my face so badly that in a world with magic healing it still looks that bad because they were throwing a tantrum they got caught doing something illegal then never apologized and tried to make it my fault then I wouldn't talk to them for as long as I possibly could either (because let's face it the ONLY reason lin met Suyin again was because of Korra and the totally not faulty system Suyin set up for her city.)
Then ONTOP OF THAT even after they 'fixed things' Suyin goes behind Lin's back like three times before they leave Zaofu!
All in all Suyin is a horrible person and gives off the worst vibes and I know a lot of people like her because of Beifong Milf Magic but it didn't land on me and I just don't like her.
Thinking about Talia al Ghul and how her loneliness, loyalty and love were the reason for all her 'bad' doings :(
Her loneliness gave Nyssa an advantage to manipulate her :( [Nyssa is a very well written character despite that, she's a victim too :(]
Her loyalty towards her father and the LOA :( [Although the LOA is an organization, not a cult.]
Her love was the reason she gave up Damian/faked a miscarriage, followed her father's orders, sacrificed her own happiness for others on multiple occasions :(
And you're trying to convince me she's a rapist who's a villain? Nuh-uh, go pick up an accurate comic book about her which wasn't by a misogynistic and racist writer (Grant Morrison you-).
Stephanie Brown, they could never make me hate you <3 :)
god please take cordelia chase's suffering and give it to joss whedon