mrs-kia392:

raisesomehale:

suaine:

There are times that I think that if Derek Hale had a diary, every day the entries would start like this.

I didn’t die today.

And he wouldn’t know if the voice in his head was sad or happy.

He doesn’t know why he bought it, or further more why he kept it once he left the store. It was a stupid impulse he shouldn’t have acted on. It would have been easy to simply toss it into a dumpster, throw it out his window.

When he sets his keys down on the desk, he takes it out of the shopping bag and tests the weight in the palm of his hands. The faded leather marks up when he drags one clawed finger down the front.

He places it in the bottom desk drawer and goes to put the frozen chicken in the fridge.

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fuck-it-fire-everything:

Nat: I really want to see where the Cora thing is going 

Chai: me too, and where she’s going to go, goddd she can’t die, but the actress left the show T_T 

Nat: oh my god if she dies… ugh maybe she goes to college 

Chai: sure. foster family or something 

Nat: maybe she becomes a circus trapeze artist. maybe she joins the peace corps.

maybe she moves to the commune with Caitlin and teaches her about fire safety. anything but dead, please. 

Chai: OK CAITLIN/CORA WORKS FOR ME 

Nat: LIKEWISE 

dang I want to write it now 

Chai: \o/// 

Nat: Cora starts going to a grief support group, kind of on the sly, just for a little human contact that isn’t Derek, who is so great with her most of the time, but can be a little… much, occasionally 

Chai: yesssss aldkjasdflkj 

Nat: he doesn’t mean to be, she gets it 

he thought she was dead, she isn’t sure where most of her childhood went and doesn’t know what to tell him or how to say ‘I’m learning to love you again but I don’t know you yet’ 

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hungrylikethewolfie:

dirtydirtychai:

polytropic-liar:

dirtydirtychai:

hungrylikethewolfie:

once-wild-here:

So. Given that I’m really sick of all these posts holding up Chris as this shining beacon of awesomeness, I feel compelled to set the record straight. Or, at least, the record as I see it.

Chris Argent is a douchebag.

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Chris Argent, I feel, suffers from “we can’t figure out if we want to make him good or bad so we’ll just give him inconsistent characterization” syndrome.  There’s kind of an epidemic of it in Beacon Hills.

When Chris asked why he should care about Cora, I literally shouted at my computer. Maybe because we’re talking about A CHILD THAT YOUR SISTER SOMEHOW FAILED TO KILL

CORA WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD WHEN KATE INTENDED TO SET HER ON FIRE 

ON

FIRE

ALONG WITH HER FAMILY 

jfc Chris. Don’t even start bitching about how being involved with the supernatural decimated your family, you fucking hypocrite. THE SUPERNATURAL DIDN’T WANT YOU INVOLVED. YOU’RE THE ONE WHO KEPT HUNTING THEM AND KILLING THEM UNDER THE FLIMSIEST OF PRETENSES. 

CHRIS ARGENT, YOU ARE NOT AS GOOD A MAN AS YOU THINK YOU ARE. 

I actually think Chris Argent’s role in this episode was fascinating…and to me, his character reads as pretty consistent. Because he said “I don’t know this Boyd kid (that my father tortured in my basement)” and “I don’t care about Derek’s sister (that my sister tried to set on fire)”, but am I the only one that heard “why should I care about werewolves dying?” Scott literally has to show him a human body before he gives a shit about loss of life. It’s a pretty interesting portrayal if we’re reading werewolf-ness as code for race, because it’s so blatant: these people who I have personally wronged I have no obligation to because they are not the right kind of people; this person I do not know at all deserves my protection because they are my kind of person and are thus automatically innocent.

The way he treats Scott and Derek is pretty indicative of this too. They buy themselves the right to live, the right to exist, by following his rules and constantly acknowledging his pain (“I get that”) while apologizing for their own. Scott is the “model werewolf” who shouldn’t actually die—just stay completely away from Chris and his life and his daughter and his neighborhood. According to Chris, the Argents (barring Allison, she’s a pretty different case as we’re hopefully all aware) deserve the right to initiate violence, disclaim all responsibility for the consequences of that violence, and then paint themselves as the victims (who deserve the right to retaliate) when that violence comes back and hurts them. Meanwhile any violence on the part of the werewolves is a death sentence. Guys this is how oppression works.

Chris Argent: consistently a nice dude to people he considers human, consistently a racist genocidal douchebag.

Yes, everything about this. This is why I have so much trouble with even Allison and Scott. I really want to like Allison and Scott more, but because I read the way they think about werewolves as code for racism, I just- can’t.

Allison goes from not even knowing werewolves even existed, to being shown a guy who drove her home from a school dance without incident being chained up in a dungeon under his own house and tortured, to believing yeah, okay, maybe all werewolves are evil (except Scott). Yes, okay, she’s been manipulated and lied to her whole life, yes it’s a shock, yes Kate was a trusted figure in her life, but wow, that was fast.  “I can’t reconcile my beloved Aunt Kate with a speciesist murderer” and “let’s jump on this speciesist happy train and believe that werewolves are all terrible and probably deserve to be killed (except Scott)” like, how does one lead to the other???

Allison, whose primary characteristic (to me, anyway) prior to being a badass warrior princess was that she was genuinely sweet, drinks that Kool-aid really, really fast, and it makes me really uncomfortable how Scott seems to be her token werewolf. I mean, how often have I heard people say and believe “lol i’m not a racist, my gf/bf/friend/spouse/kid is _____.” I don’t know, I’m not saying this is a perfect analogy, all I’m saying is the anti-werewolf speciesist brand of hatred that the Argents espouse, that Allison holds to off-and-on to varying degrees with Scott as her one exception, is so linked to the racism and tokenism and “oh but you’re not like them” that I’ve experienced that I personally have a really hard time overlooking it.

And I want to like Allison more! I love that she takes matters into her own hands, and her just waltzing into that vault when the boys are still playing caper music while they ~plan~ is one of my favorite things about S03E01. BUT. But. If her hostility toward Derek was only colored by him biting her mother and having tried to kill Lydia, that would be one thing. But the anti-werewolf speciesism being something that she bought into before, I can’t entirely discount that it’s still not there, and that colors everything about Allison for me. 

And Scott, too. Because from the moment Scott said to Derek, about his entire family being burned to death, that the Argents must have had a reason, I just. Really, Scott? And we joke about how Scott likes everyone in the world except Derek, but the fact that Scott seems to equate humanity with innocence, sees the betas as his responsibility because (as I read it, anyway) he didn’t do enough to keep them from accepting the bite and getting into this mess, and is only consistently an asshole to Derek, who until now has been the only born werewolf that Scott has known apart from Peter… I dunno guys but it just reads to me as him internalizing the whole anti-werewolf thing. The fact that the only character that nice, sweet Scott is consistently a dick to just happens to be the only born werewolf (until Peter’s resurrection) that Scott knows isn’t something I can just overlook either. I keep reading Scott as that one person who always says “well I’M part of x group, and let me tell you, those stereotypes exist for a reason, most people in this group are like that. (But not me. I’m one of the good ones.)” 

IDK GUYS. I want to love them more (except Chris, Chris can take his hypocritical manpain and diaf), but my gut reaction to the anti-werewolf sentiments in this show is just hissss, racists. 

Bless you and your face for articulating all of this, because I’ve never been able to.

#can someone also talk about allison’s ‘turning teenagers into monsters’ comment and how it relates? (x) via pembegul

Sure thing bb

Actually, what she says isn’t monsters, it’s killers. 

Derek: Do you have any idea what we just set free?

Allison: You want to blame me? Well, I am not the one turning teenagers into killers.

Which is interesting, because thus far, largely thanks to Derek’s failwolfiness admittedly, none of Derek’s betas have to anyone’s knowledge killed anyone, unless you count Jackson (and lol even then that didn’t really take). The only werewolf that isn’t Derek (more on that later) that Allison personally knows of who has actually killed anyone was Peter, who 1) was avenging the murder-by-fire of his family and his own comatose state, which, if Allison can go on a intended-murder spree to avenge her mother’s suicide then you’d think she would understand Peter’s motivations (but aha he’s a werewolf who killed humans, so, maybe not) and 2) not a teenager that Derek bit, so, not in any way his responsibility. 

Though, to be fair, Derek and his pack did try to be killers (Lydia and then Jackson), they just… failed. 

So none of the teenagers that Derek has bitten are killers, unless you count Jackson. Yes, Jackson only killed because of Matt’s influence, as far as we know*, but Jackson would never have turned into a kanima in the first place if not for the bite, so. Possibly this is what Allison is talking about. But~ I’m more inclined to think that since Derek’s statement immediately preceding was about Boyd and Cora, that Allison was referring to them. 

Boyd isn’t a killer - yet. Allison doesn’t even know who Cora is. Yet they’re automatically killers just because they’re werewolves. 

Sorry, Allison, you might have tried to use your summer holiday to distance yourself from the almost murder rampage that your bastard grandfather manipulated you into, but with that one statement I’m immediately seriously side-eyeing you again. If they’re “killers” despite not having killed anyone yet, despite being in this state because it was done to them and not the way they normally are, then why isn’t Scott also a “killer?” 

Oh, right. Because Scott’s one of the good ones. The exception that proves the rule, perhaps. 

Immediately following that, is this: 

Derek: No. No, that’s just the rest of your family.

Allison: I’ve made mistakes. Gerard is not my fault. 

Good for you, Allison, you are absolutely right, Gerard is not your fault.*** The things that Gerard did were out of your control, and you were horribly manipulated. But being horribly manipulated does not excuse the wrong things you did, and “I’ve made mistakes” is not the quite same thing as “I was wrong.” Allison might be admitting that some of her actions were ill-advised, but thanks to her earlier werewolves=killers, all I hear is “maybe I shouldn’t have helped shoot up that police station and maybe torturing your teen betas was a step too far, but y’all are all still monsters (except for Scott).” Because, what mistakes is she talking about if one of them wasn’t “I shouldn’t have drunk the werewolf-genocide Kool-aid just because I was enraged that you bit my mom.” Clearly, since she still thinks werewolves=killers, (or they will be, eventually, it’s just a matter of time) she still doesn’t think her opinion on werewolves is one of her mistakes.

Does that make sense? I can’t tell anymore. 

And then Derek immediately follows with:

Derek: Then what about your mother? 

As in, your mother’s death was (at least partially) your fault. Which, okay Derek, that’s fucked up, but this isn’t about Derek, so. Let’s remember he has been against them dating all this time. He keeps telling Scott pretty much since he meets him they need to break up. And they didn’t listen, so look what happened - Allison’s mom took matters into her own hands, tried to kill Scott, and got bitten when Derek came to save him.** Derek is trying to force Scott to make it clear to Allison that the catalyst to the string of events that led to her mother’s death wasn’t Derek’s bite, it was Allison having sex with Scott who, no matter that she personally thinks of him as Not Like The Others, is still a werewolf. 

So are werewolves all monsters, or are they not, Allison? Your mother clearly thought that Scott was enough of a monster to warrant a slow painful death reminiscent of the asthma attacked he’d had prior to being bitten for having defiled you by having sex with you.

Derek’s bringing up her mother’s death points out the Argent anti-werewolf hypocrisy in two ways - one, despite the fact that none of his bitten betas have actually killed anyone, Allison is calling them killers merely because they’re werewolves and yet she still dated Scott - Allison, sweetie, do you not realize that when you call all werewolves killers you’re calling Scott a killer?? Or that saying “all people of X variety are terrible and going to be killers eventually and any wrongdoing deserves immediate death - except you, you’re not like them” is REALLY NOT OKAY? and two, as polytropic said above, the Argents keep painting themselves as victims with the right to retaliate when they are the ones who started the entire cycle in the first place. And I think in Derek’s mind, Allison (and Scott) are the ones who started this by refusing to stop dating. (Yeah, he’s fucked up, but that’s another post.)

Now, granted, Allison didn’t realize that this specific chain of events was triggered by her mother discovering that she was having sex with Scott, so if she had been told - and continued to not question, despite knowing how thoroughly she’d been manipulated, what the fuck Allison - that Derek just bit her mom, idk, just. Just because. Just cos he hated Argents and decided that that was the perfect time. Or something. Then she believes that she has every right to be angry with Derek for randomly biting her mom, of course she does. She didn’t talk at all after learning the truth from Scott, so I’m choosing to take her helping them round up Boyd and Cora to mean that she’s realized that Derek biting her mom was not just some random hateful thing he did to try to make her kill herself, that it was self defense and also saved Scott, and she’s trying to make up for blaming him for something that at the very least wasn’t premeditated murder. 

Like hungrylikethewolfie said in her tags, #I think for Allison it’s gonna be a matter of unlearning problematic ways of thinking #which I hope she does #because I love her so 

Same, bb. Same. 

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Also, can we talk about how Scott decided that Allison’s memory of her mom as someone whose next-to-last-act wasn’t trying to kill her daughter’s boyfriend was more important than Allison knowing that Derek didn’t just randomly bite her mother to force her to commit suicide/turn her into the thing she hates most?? 

AND DEREK GOES ALONG WITH IT FOR A WHILE?? BECAUSE IT’S NOT LIKE ALLISON NOT KNOWING THIS FACT IS EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED HER TO STORM THE POLICE STATION AND NEARLY KILL DEREK AND HIS ENTIRE PACK BEFORE OR ANYTHING. 

AND SCOTT KNOWS DEREK IS NOT FORCING THE ISSUE AND DOESN’T APPEAR TO EVEN FEEL BAD ABOUT IT BECAUSE ALLISON’S MEMORY OF HER MOM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT CLEARING UP THAT MISUNDERSTANDING. SCOTT. REALLY. I mean, who cares if yet another person thinks Derek is just a cold hearted murderer, it’s not like this is the first or even second time you’ve led people to believe either by direct accusation or omission that he’s a killer. SCOTT BB. I WANT TO LOVE YOU. WHY DO YOU DO THIS. 

okay and now it’s late and I’ve descended into capslocking fistshaking at jeff davis, so I will stop. I hope this is what you meant when you said “can we talk about this.” >_<

*Actually, I would argue that the first murder, Mr. Lahey, was all on kanima!Jackson, since Jackson knew very well the abuses that Mr. Lahey was committing and since he hadn’t met Matt yet. 

**Much like (i believe) Derek blames himself for the fire because of his relationship with Kate, Derek also sees Victoria’s death and the resultant fallout as Scott and Allison’s fault since they refused to break up. 

***I am not being sarcastic, just to be clear, Gerard WASN’T Allison’s fault, and she shouldn’t be getting any blame for that shit. 

polytropic-liar:

dirtydirtychai:

hungrylikethewolfie:

once-wild-here:

So. Given that I’m really sick of all these posts holding up Chris as this shining beacon of awesomeness, I feel compelled to set the record straight. Or, at least, the record as I see it.

Chris Argent is a douchebag.

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Chris Argent, I feel, suffers from “we can’t figure out if we want to make him good or bad so we’ll just give him inconsistent characterization” syndrome.  There’s kind of an epidemic of it in Beacon Hills.

When Chris asked why he should care about Cora, I literally shouted at my computer. Maybe because we’re talking about A CHILD THAT YOUR SISTER SOMEHOW FAILED TO KILL

CORA WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD WHEN KATE INTENDED TO SET HER ON FIRE 

ON

FIRE

ALONG WITH HER FAMILY 

jfc Chris. Don’t even start bitching about how being involved with the supernatural decimated your family, you fucking hypocrite. THE SUPERNATURAL DIDN’T WANT YOU INVOLVED. YOU’RE THE ONE WHO KEPT HUNTING THEM AND KILLING THEM UNDER THE FLIMSIEST OF PRETENSES. 

CHRIS ARGENT, YOU ARE NOT AS GOOD A MAN AS YOU THINK YOU ARE. 

I actually think Chris Argent’s role in this episode was fascinating…and to me, his character reads as pretty consistent. Because he said “I don’t know this Boyd kid (that my father tortured in my basement)” and “I don’t care about Derek’s sister (that my sister tried to set on fire)”, but am I the only one that heard “why should I care about werewolves dying?” Scott literally has to show him a human body before he gives a shit about loss of life. It’s a pretty interesting portrayal if we’re reading werewolf-ness as code for race, because it’s so blatant: these people who I have personally wronged I have no obligation to because they are not the right kind of people; this person I do not know at all deserves my protection because they are my kind of person and are thus automatically innocent.

The way he treats Scott and Derek is pretty indicative of this too. They buy themselves the right to live, the right to exist, by following his rules and constantly acknowledging his pain (“I get that”) while apologizing for their own. Scott is the “model werewolf” who shouldn’t actually die—just stay completely away from Chris and his life and his daughter and his neighborhood. According to Chris, the Argents (barring Allison, she’s a pretty different case as we’re hopefully all aware) deserve the right to initiate violence, disclaim all responsibility for the consequences of that violence, and then paint themselves as the victims (who deserve the right to retaliate) when that violence comes back and hurts them. Meanwhile any violence on the part of the werewolves is a death sentence. Guys this is how oppression works.

Chris Argent: consistently a nice dude to people he considers human, consistently a racist genocidal douchebag.

Yes, everything about this. This is why I have so much trouble with even Allison and Scott. I really want to like Allison and Scott more, but because I read the way they think about werewolves as code for racism, I just- can’t.

Allison goes from not even knowing werewolves even existed, to being shown a guy who drove her home from a school dance without incident being chained up in a dungeon under his own house and tortured, to believing yeah, okay, maybe all werewolves are evil (except Scott). Yes, okay, she’s been manipulated and lied to her whole life, yes it’s a shock, yes Kate was a trusted figure in her life, but wow, that was fast.  “I can’t reconcile my beloved Aunt Kate with a speciesist murderer” and “let’s jump on this speciesist happy train and believe that werewolves are all terrible and probably deserve to be killed (except Scott)” like, how does one lead to the other???

Allison, whose primary characteristic (to me, anyway) prior to being a badass warrior princess was that she was genuinely sweet, drinks that Kool-aid really, really fast, and it makes me really uncomfortable how Scott seems to be her token werewolf. I mean, how often have I heard people say and believe “lol i’m not a racist, my gf/bf/friend/spouse/kid is _____.” I don’t know, I’m not saying this is a perfect analogy, all I’m saying is the anti-werewolf speciesist brand of hatred that the Argents espouse, that Allison holds to off-and-on to varying degrees with Scott as her one exception, is so linked to the racism and tokenism and “oh but you’re not like them” that I’ve experienced that I personally have a really hard time overlooking it.

And I want to like Allison more! I love that she takes matters into her own hands, and her just waltzing into that vault when the boys are still playing caper music while they ~plan~ is one of my favorite things about S03E01. BUT. But. If her hostility toward Derek was only colored by him biting her mother and having tried to kill Lydia, that would be one thing. But the anti-werewolf speciesism being something that she bought into before, I can’t entirely discount that it’s still not there, and that colors everything about Allison for me. 

And Scott, too. Because from the moment Scott said to Derek, about his entire family being burned to death, that the Argents must have had a reason, I just. Really, Scott? And we joke about how Scott likes everyone in the world except Derek, but the fact that Scott seems to equate humanity with innocence, sees the betas as his responsibility because (as I read it, anyway) he didn’t do enough to keep them from accepting the bite and getting into this mess, and is only consistently an asshole to Derek, who until now has been the only born werewolf that Scott has known apart from Peter… I dunno guys but it just reads to me as him internalizing the whole anti-werewolf thing. The fact that the only character that nice, sweet Scott is consistently a dick to just happens to be the only born werewolf (until Peter’s resurrection) that Scott knows isn’t something I can just overlook either. I keep reading Scott as that one person who always says “well I’M part of x group, and let me tell you, those stereotypes exist for a reason, most people in this group are like that. (But not me. I’m one of the good ones.)” 

IDK GUYS. I want to love them more (except Chris, Chris can take his hypocritical manpain and diaf), but my gut reaction to the anti-werewolf sentiments in this show is just hissss, racists. 

hungrylikethewolfie:

once-wild-here:

So. Given that I’m really sick of all these posts holding up Chris as this shining beacon of awesomeness, I feel compelled to set the record straight. Or, at least, the record as I see it.

Chris Argent is a douchebag.

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Chris Argent, I feel, suffers from “we can’t figure out if we want to make him good or bad so we’ll just give him inconsistent characterization” syndrome.  There’s kind of an epidemic of it in Beacon Hills.

When Chris asked why he should care about Cora, I literally shouted at my computer. Maybe because we’re talking about A CHILD THAT YOUR SISTER SOMEHOW FAILED TO KILL

CORA WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD WHEN KATE INTENDED TO SET HER ON FIRE 

ON

FIRE

ALONG WITH HER FAMILY 

jfc Chris. Don’t even start bitching about how being involved with the supernatural decimated your family, you fucking hypocrite. THE SUPERNATURAL DIDN’T WANT YOU INVOLVED. YOU’RE THE ONE WHO KEPT HUNTING THEM AND KILLING THEM UNDER THE FLIMSIEST OF PRETENSES. 

CHRIS ARGENT, YOU ARE NOT AS GOOD A MAN AS YOU THINK YOU ARE. 

agentotter:

mklutz:

Scott asked her once if the girl’s bathroom was weird, because people went in and they didn’t come out for ages. “No, man, that’s just girls.” Stiles shrugged. “Girls are weird. Trust me.”  Then Scott snuck her into the boys bathroom and she changed her mind. Maybe girls took longer because they peed in the toilets instead of everywhere else. And washed their hands, usually.

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I enjoyed all the things about this. A++, would read one million more words of, especially the part where Scott and Stiles are bros, and in particular all the other parts as well.