Something i love about the apothecary diaries is what the author makes of the late emperor's character. Because Natsu Hyuuga made him a complex character rather than a one dimensional villain and still made sure we would never forget his crimes
Yes, he is a beautiful man, with mental health issues and either PTSD autism or OCD. He is a marital rape victim. But even with all that he is NOT your blorbo. He is a pedophile, he destroyed the lives of countless girls who were all forced to stay imprisoned in the rear palace for the rest of their lives. He was under the control of his mother and scared of adult women but he still made the conscious choice to rape hundreds of prepubescent girls. He is a victim in some ways, but the sheer number of victims HE created is never forgotten even when we explore the complexity of his character.
So many male characters' crimes are forgiven because they were handsome or tragic. Natsu Hyuuga doesn't allow her readers to do that.
I love when women
She's new to the whole personal attention thing.
(post Shibuya)
Alucard: "He's a good man... Take care of him"
Olrox:
Can we have the director's cut for Perfection pretty please?
I’ll take this as an opportunity to talk about… a few things, while holding enough to say in the final Thank You chapter.
So, in my mind, this series WAS the definition of a snowball growing bigger and bigger. The first thought was just a one-shot, Stressed-Azula, Stress-Reliver-Sokka fic.
and it grew from there.
I was flying by the seat of my pants for the first 4 chapters, but by chapter 5-6, I had a good plan for the longer story.
My favorite chapter is between chapter 8 or 10… I think. I love all of them for different reasons.
My favorite SCENE… might have to be… a lot from chapter 8. Maybe the smut scene from chapter 8.
but I also LOVE Sokka snapping at Ozai in chapter 10… there’s a lot.
I’m working on the next chapter. It can be considered the calm before the storm in a positive way.
thank you for the ask!
P.S. I just realized I’ve never posted the Perfection link on Tumblr. Here it is: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60161233/chapters/153517714
ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool
the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because
sokka’s fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.
and sokka threw a boomerang at her.
I need this game on console NOW😭😭😭😭
MELINOE POLY CONFIRMED LET'S GO
Ppl who say that Ares is an unproblematic feminist just reek of privilege, they don’t see war as horrific mass destruction and death, (especially back then where it included the mass rape and enslavment of women) war is a distant thing they ignore. Ppl who actually experience war or at least have surface level understanding of history and politics understand that an entity that represents war is probably not some cutie patootie just bc he doesn’t have any myths that explicitly state he assaulted women.