As I said in my short summary post, there are a few things I’ve left open while season 2 finishes coming out (and to be honest I might forget to add a few things that I have now). But here’s everything about the AU so far (some stuff at the very bottom are just things that informed my thought process with this Moon Varian but are fine to skip). (Anything I didn’t come up myself with is credited, so if something is similar to what someone else has said then it’s probably just something that intuitively makes sense to a lot of people).
@mute-mod’s drawing of @ghosta-r’s Moon Varian is one of the main things that made me start watching Tangled the Series, so credit to them for inspiring to make my own Moon Varian AU! And here’s the first post I read that explained the evidence behind the Moon Varian theory. The reason I’m doing my own AU version of the Moon Varian theory is because I wanted to make it as canon-compliant as possible, or at least meld enough so that I could see it be feasible for the TTS writers to do had they gone down this path. It also includes things I personally think would have made the writing of Varian’s face-heel turn better, which I discussed with and got help working through from @eckcroduring our nine hour shift at work. There are a few things I’ve left open while season 2 finishes coming out, but here’s a brief summary of the AU:
The Moonstone is the Sundrop Flower’s counterpart — not an opal
Quirin is King Edmund’s younger brother
Varian got his powers from the Moonstone being used to help his mother in during his conception and/or birth (details tbd)
That makes Varian more of a child of the Moon(stone) than actually becoming it
He was born with bluish white hair but his parents had it cut and left one streak of the original (the opposite of Rapunzel’s hair situation)
When the Dark Kingdom is destroyed they move to Old Corona, where Varian’s mother dies
Some differences throughout season 1 events (see link at end of this post), until “Secret of the Sundrop” with more differences made apparent
Varian’s connection to the black rocks is revealed when he touches them with his bare skin during the battle in Old Corona
Varian’s powers are based in his hands
Rapunzel can only make the black rocks go away, not control them like in canon
She tries to to free Varian’s father, but it doesn’t work
She convinces her father to not arrest Varian by getting Varian to join her in following the black rocks
Besides healing and making the black rocks “wither”, Rapunzel can also heat things up, has an affinity with animals, has high stamina and energy, can boost other’s stamina and energy, and hair propulsion
Besides being able to make the black rocks grow, the Moonstone gives Varian the powers to cool things down, calm living things, and have/cause visions
The main villain will be the Water Serpent
There’s also going to be a Fire Lion but I haven’t figured all the details out yet
See the full post for the rest of the AU and credits
“bisexual can mean youre into the opposite gender and nonbinary people bc that’s two gender and bi means two”!!! is the same shit as “bisexual is transphobic because it excludes nonbinary people bc bi means two!!!”
you people are so fucking hyperfocused on the latin meaning of bi instead of just the historical context and actual common meaning of bisexual in LGBT circles basically meaning that you’re attracted to any gender lmao.
cool lets get a better word for it then because we dont live in the past anymore lmao
“Fuck this term that ppl have fought so hard for the ability to call themselves and has so much history and culture and activism packed behind it all bc it has a Prefix that can be vaguely interpreted in a way I don’t like”
oh my god this person deleted i got my first kill
1. i was talking about general society, bisexuals have long been accepted within the community and its only recent mogai bullshit thats started to treat bi as being regressive or something
2. yeah aces sure have a long history of less than two decades with a culture based around tumblr posts and threatening LGBT orgs that dont kowtow to the demands of cishets
This is actually v important and needs to be reblogged
Gonna just share this:
My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.
To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.
My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation.
65 nearly identical phrases used in his speeches. Take a moment to think about that.
Like, according to Trump’s first wife Ivana he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in his nightstand and would read it periodically… so the overlap is not at all surprising given his obsession with Hitler’s propaganda.
‘can i copy off your homework?’ ‘change it a little so its not obvious’
Here is a tiger just going about life until this human gives it the fright of its life. Still cute af. Dream job to be honest. 17/10 would be such an honor to pet
no no no no no look at those ears, tiger totally knows he’s there
tiger thinks the bipeds are terrible, terrible tigers and don’t know how to tiger worth a damn so when one actually pays tiger cub ambush game tiger is so happy
look at that happy tiger
look at it
YES YOU TERRIBLE TIGER YOU ARE FINALLY LEARNING HOORAY 😀
50 Shades of Attempting to Pass Abuse Off as Romance
I know it’s not BTS, but I think that in this fandom, there are a lot of people who need to see this. There are a lot of people who need to be reminded or told that 50 Shades of Grey isn’t a love story, and it’s not sexy or hot. It’s a story about the emotional and physical abuse of a girl. The fact that as a society we are told this abuse is sexy is dangerous. It’sdangerous because then women start romanticizing situations that are abusive, and find themselves allowing men to manipulate them and destroy them. This book and this movie are utterly intolerable. Bdsm is fine. Having dom/sub relationships is FINE (lol y’all KNOW I think that.) but 50SOG is not a depiction of healthy bdsm at all. It’s a horrendous piece of media. And I’ll happily fight with anyone who says otherwise.
Completely different fandom BUT still applies. BDSM is all about communication and consent, which severely lacks in 50SOG. Also to any writers out there, PLEASE research the topic before you write about it. Yeah being tied up is kinky and all, but only if you (and your characters) want it and explicitly communicate that at some point in the relationship.
If the people making and watching these movies actually paid attention, Christian Grey is mentally ill. He has PTSD and behavioural coping methods (not healthy ones) to deal with the fact that his prostitute mother was murdered in front of his eyes by her pimp, only to be found, with him in the room, days later. He was introduced to the BDSM scene by a much older woman and forced to be submissive himself in the same way Ana is.
It’s not erotic. It’s heartbreaking. Christian does find his way in the end. After much work Ana figures out what’s up and forces him to confront it.
The BDSM scenes in which they’re both hot and bothered and enjoying it? They’re great. The ones where Ana is scared and not being respected? Infuriating. Readers (and viewers) NEED to be able to distinguish the differences.
Yes, but Christian, regardless of his reasons, is abusive. And it isn’t actually confronted properly in the books – it’s just a part of their relationship. And that is very wrong. For Ana to stay with him despite these behaviours is a horrible lesson. It isn’t anyones ‘duty’ to fix someone who is abusive, regardless of their reasons.
Also – I’m aware he has a mental illness. Lot’s of people do. But saying what he does is fine because ‘it’s his unhealthy coping mechanism amd he gets over it eventually!’ Is wrong. Having mental issues is absolutely not an excuse for abusive or toxic behaviours, and it doesn’t change how harmful those behaviours are. Therapy exists for a reason, and people who can’t be bothered tp go/refuse to go becasue they don’t think they need it do not deserve a free pass for their behaviour. They either think they’re in the right or know they’re wrong and don’t care, and either was, it’s disgusting.
Not to mention their entire relationship is literally built on abuse.
Procrastination Station 