Drops of Jupiter
Expect to find a lot of fandom-related things here (mainly anime/manga for now) and whatever else catches my interest.
If you have any (non-personal) questions, please feel free to go ahead and ask.
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Why couldn’t Fakir and Ahiru be together. That shit about a story full of hope is the biggest load of bull I ever heard! And the fact that the 2 brats who were more of a hinderance got to be together when the 2 who fought the hardest and were the real reason ANYTHING turned out alright, get…
Okay, I know I shouldn’t, but…
Rue and Mytho were not brats. Duck and Fakir were the focus of the story, perhaps, but the love Rue and Mytho ended up sharing is something they both absolutely deserved. It isn’t fair to suggest that Rue, at least, had nothing to do with it turning out alright. I’ll admit that Mytho was, for the most part, fairly passive (not that that stops me from loving him for the potential he has as a character). However, Rue had suffered for years and years, loving the prince. When Princess Tutu started returning his heart shards, she was genuinely terrified that the only person who had showed her kindness, if only through instinct, would vanish.
Does that desire to be loved completely excuse her actions? Far from it. But that is something acknowledged in the show, and something that she herself is acutely aware of. She truly regrets how she hurt the prince and other people through her actions. She had been raised to believe herself absolutely ugly and worthless, and she deserves Siegfried’s true love to show her otherwise. She grows, learns, and changes. She isn’t a brat; she went through a great deal of pain and struggle to earn her happy ending. She may not have fought the same battle as Duck, or fought it the same way, but she fought hard.
As for why I think Siegfried deserves and needs Rue, think about what he went through. He was literally meant to be a storybook character, a cut-out type of person. And he had only just begun learning who that person was when the Raven’s blood all but ripped his very nature apart. (See above for my take on Rue’s involvement with this- She regrets her actions, and I would also argue that while she isn’t innocent, the Raven shares the blame for what happened to the prince. The Raven was manipulating a young girl’s pain.) Also, I said he was passive earlier, but that’s not entirely true. Once he started getting his heart back, he fought in his own way, showed defiance. Trying to meet with Duck when Fakir said no, for example. And after the Raven’s blood took effect, he did not just sit back and let it claim him. He fought, too, no matter how much pain he was in. After the particular way he suffered, it is important for him to have someone who will love him, for who he is, including his new flaws. That would be Rue. The prince isn’t an brat, either; his battle was one in which he didn’t truly know who he was, or who he was supposed to be, or what side was the right one.
Rue and Mytho deserve each other. They both had to fight their own battles for each other, and they deeply understand each others’ suffering. In fact, they will both show each other the love they never received; he will help Rue, over time, learn that she is beautiful in more ways than one, while she will help him learn to accept his imperfections, as well as showing him true, personal love, rather than just the distant, almost blind adoration that fairy tale royalty would be likely to receive.
They both had other major contributions, too: Rue finally confessing her love also helped restore the prince, and Mytho fought to get her back and give her a chance at happiness. Large parts of the story may have focused on Fakir and Duck, but Mytho and Rue were also significant characters with their own character arcs and roles to play.
They earned their happy endings.
(I’m sorry, I really am getting to into this. orz)
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this is adorable omg ok
Ajshjsskk!! Oh my gosh! This is so so cute! >w<
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maleficents | kittencreamery | catladysoul | madonnax:
tw: abuse
June 1987, Madonna was rushed to the Cedars Sinai hospital for an X-ray after her then-husband—Sean Penn hit her across the head with a baseball bat. At the time, they had been having a heart-to-heart talk about reconciling.
Madonna did not make an official complaint because Penn was about to serve a short jail term for attacking a film extra and violating the probation he’d been given for punching a fan. It was a decision she would come to regret. In the late afternoon of December 28, 1988, Penn scaled the wall surrounding the Malibu house and found Madonna alone in the master bedroom.
According to a report filed by Madonna with the Malibu sheriff’s office, the two began to quarrel. Penn told her he owned her “lock, stock and barrel”. When she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric cord. Screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. Penn chased her into the living room, caught her and bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to shave her hair. Penn was “drinking liquor straight from the bottle” and the abuse went on for nine hours, during which he smacked and forced Madonna to perform a “degrading sex act” on him.
He went out to buy more alcohol, leaving Madonna bound and gagged. Some hours later, he returned and continued his attacks, then finally untied her. Madonna then fled the house and ran to her car. Penn ran after her and was banging on the windows of her Thunderbird while she spoke to police on her mobile phone. Fifteen minutes later, she staggered into the sheriff’s office.Because you need to know.
This is actually the first time I’ve ever heard anything about this. It’s downright horrifying.
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