It’s kind of crazy that her creation jumpstarted a new wave of discussion around misogyny and racism in yaoi ships because of how racist and sexist Jayvik fans were.
She’s really the face that launched a thousand discourses, Fandom’s Helen Of Troy
such an interesting choice because a huge part of marcille's actions stem from her trauma of losing her father & the fear of outliving the people she loves. rudy is so fucking dead bro
It is pretty devastating to grasp that medieval people loved their children just as much as we do, when 40% of them died before they were ten years old. The past is more horrifying than we can imagine.
“no contact” makes it sound active and intentional but you forget that back in the day people just went “out west” - often only one or two states over - and were just gone. many americans before us woke up one day like “yeah i never need to see these people again” and didnt
i think a lot about that guy in the early 1900s who went to bosnia to the last illiterate communities in europe and found out they were still reciting homer epic-length poems to each other from memory.
but when they became literate they lost the ability to remember the poems
She had POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS. She KNEW something was wrong. She tried to get help MULTIPLE TIMES. Tried to be admitted to inpatient psych but they kept dismissing her saying she was fine. She tried different psychiatric drugs. She BEGGED & PLEADED FOR HELP && NOBODY gave a FUCK!
She killed her kids after trying so hard to keep them& herself safe and after she did that she tried to kill herself but ended up living and now she’s trying to plead her case to a bunch of people AGAIN!!! Everybody failed her AND those children.