(Sidenote: I had been vaguely aware that there was an awkward Flint/Miranda sex scene in S1, and man oh man, y’all were not underselling that, it was hellish to watch. Though I must say I can’t blame Flint’s crew for constantly mutinying, working for him seems like a truly terrible situation to find oneself in. I watched The Secret Circle, I know that this isn’t Jessica Parker Kennedy’s real accent, why can’t she just speak like she normally does? It would be much less distracting!). And so far, I really like all of them (though I had NO idea that Max has such a wacky accent, 8 episodes in it still takes me out of the action. I like her dynamic with Flint, but she’s written way too much like a Girl Power TM character for my liking). Just being on tumblr, you cannot avoid knowing Flint and Max and Anne because they’re the most prominent queer characters (with Eleanor as an honorary mention? I confess I’m not really into her so far.
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So yeah! It's annoying and tiring that a lot of people want to ship him and a minor together and try to pass it off as him being so deeply in “love” with alina that he would to tear apart the whole world for her or whatever (which is again false because the only reason he sought her out was to manipulate her into working for him - and when that failed he literally enslaved her to his will). It's in especially bad taste when you consider how leigh's spoken about the darklina dynamic being loosely based on her experiences with abuse. even if he had I don’t think I could’ve forgiven him after what he did to genya and baghra). I don't have to explain this lmfao because this trope is literally the worst thing to exist and there's a lot of abuse apologism involved in it (even that aside alina canonically gives the darkling multiple opportunities to stop being a jerk and he refuses to change.
#Colordrop sargeras series
A lot of these things take place off-page and are slightly toned down in their portrayal because it's a series aimed at teens as young as 12 so I think a lot of people are able to conveniently ignore the fact that the darkling actually really, really sucks (I still stand by the fact that the books makes it pretty clear he's horrible - but we know that fandoms are wacky and choose to ignore parts of canon just because it isn't to their taste).Īnd it's also kind of really clear at this point that a lot of darklina shippers are attracted to a dark and handsome fictional white boy and use alina as a self insert to live out their fantasies? And basically do alina's character a lot of disservice when they discuss her? It's not even that they choose to ignore how alina is overwhelmingly empathetic and especially protective of people who've never had a voice but that they literally couldn’t care less about her and just want her to be the person who 'fixes' the darkling and saves his tortured soul and like. But it definitely is um, quite a Choice considering all the horrible stuff he's done in the books and especially disgusting because alina's a minor. What's really alarming about an overwhelmingly large proportion of darklina shippers is that they believe he's a good guy who just uses violence to achieve his goals which not only removes a lot of nuance from his character but also grossly understates the extent of his distasteful actions in the books: he abuses several women, grooms and manipulates a bunch of people (a lot of them minors.), actively tries to seduce a minor (while impersonating another teen on one occassion), murders innocent civilians etc to name a few.
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I don't necessarily think that all the people who ship it are not nice - some of them legitimately just want to theorise about a dark!alina au and they acknowledge that the darkling is a messed up guy - which I don't mind in theory.