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I LOVE it when characters are awful actually! I LOVE it when characters cause conflict! I LOVE it when characters are horrible to everyone INCLUDING THEMSELVES!!! I LOVE it when a character turns themself into a bomb, slowly ticking down before taking everything with them! I LOVE it when characters hurt people and then when confronted by this DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR BEHAVIOR!!!!
for some reason, maybe because of how the show's timing worked out, the amount that i like young is directly proportional to how long his hair is
hmm. i wonder how many of young's peculiar and often ineffective approaches to human behavior and conflict resolution are caused by 1) having telford as his best friend for so long, 2) losing that friendship, or 3) both. especially @ rush, young tries a lot of stuff that really clearly Does Not Work, but it's tempting to speculate whether any of it is shaped by that, or whether it's just young's inherent problems, whether intrinsic or mental illness driven or caused by the military-type toxic masculinity. or maybe it's all of the above...
I mean you've threatened to kill me a bunch of times. You once told me you were gonna drown me in a river like a kangaroo.
[warm laugh of fond reminiscence] I did do that
ok why do websites keep using this as telford's quote? lmao 😭
#ok but I'm also losing it at “he seems to be colonel youngs designated body swapping partner”#please. just. please. why. lol
god i don't know. in terms of young occupying his own life on earth, he's the worst possible person for it. maybe because he's just always on the comm stones (and because he wants command of destiny -- that part makes sense, admittedly)
lolol @ this interview comment from LDP though.
We finally get a little more insight into who [Telford] really is and the nature of his relationship with Young. (Don’t go there…even though I do on a consistent basis. I have, after all, been in his body numerous times!)
sir...
me:
my brain at 2am: werewolf telford au
extremely good opinions on this via @nonbinaryezrabridger
im like the guy in the infomercials they depict in black and white doing everything inefficiently and having a thousand tupperware containers fall on me when i open the cupboard
Once I finish killing this guy the cycle of violence will be over, trust me guys
really i think one of my favorite character dynamics is “i don’t actually like you but we’ve been through so much together that i’d trust you with my life and know that we will always back each others calls. but i still wouldn’t trust you with my car keys.” like “we aren’t really friends but we’ve been thrust into an intense situation where you are the only other person i know so now we’re besties.” and “if it weren’t for our years of history i would have literally nothing to talk to you about at this work dinner.” Enemies to lovers has NOTHING on general disinterest to begrudging acknowledgment to discovering that this person is now an inextricable part of your life
yes yes characters doomed by the narrative always slap BUT what about characters saved by the narrative? characters who have already given up hope and don't know they have a happy ending? characters who believe they are a lost cause, characters who feel irredeemable, characters who think there's nothing left for them, but the narrative does provide a way out? what about the characters who don't expect anything good, who don't even remember how to wish for it anymore, who get the things they need anyway? what about the characters who actively run from being saved getting saved in a way they can't stop or control. what about being saved by the narrative!!!
I really cannot emphasize enough the mental health benefits of abandoning the idea that you're special.
This goes both ways, both "You don't have to do everything singlehanded" and "You're not uniquely awful."
One of my favourite sayings is:
Everybody deserves care and compassion, and you’re just not special enough to be the exception
To be exceptional would be very lonely. Thank god we’ll all never be either more or less than fully human.
everybody's got that one homie posting straight from the valley of the shadow of death
google search how to cough up the ball of grief that's been stuck in your stomach since birth
