hey I keep seeing these “2017 Tumblr” compilation posts and it seems like everyone is deliberately leaving out the part where we all thought the author of My Immortal was finally found and that she was a Native American lesbian author who wrote the fanfic as part joke and part desperate attempt to find her long lost brother while she was in high school and that she was going to publish a memoir in 2018 and Buzzfeed covered it and everything but then some people, one who was supposedly her aformentioned brother, on fucking Kiwifarms of all things, started poking holes in her story and then she deleted and dropped off the face of the earth. because it seems like everyone is trying to pretend like it never happened but it happened.
the year is almost over and I’m not letting anyone forget about this.
I just saw TLJ again (finally) and I was so struck that in the scene where he says, “You’re nothing,” there’s absolutely no malice in his voice. He says it almost kindly; he doesn’t spit the words at her or say them harshly. I feel that’s what makes that a heartfelt moment, rather than negging/manipulative, because I honestly don’t feel like he’s dangling that over her head, or even pitying her. He says it softly, affirming her own fears, and then follows up with “but not to me” as a way to soften the blow.
Leaving tungle.hell like rats on the Titanic 