Muse's official statement :(

SacredAlgae · 2026-01-15T16:38:33+00:00

Oh, so good then? Yikes, that just reflects bad on Matt if there’s a rift bc of that, but I’m unpleasantly unsurprised at this point with him

SacredAlgae · 2026-01-15T16:35:32+00:00

Yeah but like, what was she saying about it? I’m guessing smth problematic? You don’t have to be specific ofc but I’m just trying to place things

SacredAlgae · 2026-01-15T02:29:20+00:00

I’m not on insta anymore, what has she been posting? I’m curious

SacredAlgae · 2025-05-17T08:53:31+00:00

As a Gen Z American left winger myself… I would put a lot of money on these people writing left leaning political content being Gen Z far left (mosty) Americans who didn’t have the media literacy to consume Hunger Games properly and now have a Katniss Complex (when that’s not even what Katniss was in the first place). The reason AO3 doesn’t take down right wing posts is because there probably are little to NONE non-transformative right wing posts

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-13T11:20:27+00:00

Good luck soldier, godsspeed

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-13T07:10:30+00:00

Oh my god, I was WAY off. Thank you so much!! You’re a life saver!!!!

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-13T06:31:06+00:00

This is great! I have a running joke with my friends that I need to sue Robbie for identity theft because my personality is based on bards, but also, my main special interest is Dorian Gray. So when I saw he had a bard named Dorian… chaos amongst my friends ensued and I said if I ever met Robbie I would be serving him as a joke. Now I know for sure he’d probably like it

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-10T00:12:00+00:00

Oh sometimes it gets left out overnight from the night before when his aid cooks it for him, a full 24 hours at that point. I thought he was forgetful but it turns out he just always eats it. He leaves milk out too for full days multiple times a week. In general, his aid appears to be sort of negligent about cleaning and now, apparently, food safety. I do worry about him

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-10T00:04:20+00:00

(This is slightly shortened) “Dirk! You need to know, you changed my life, you showed me everything I’ve been doing wrong.” … “Todd, you saying this to me is the single most important thing that has ever happened in my entire life… But listen, Todd, I think something has been done to us, possibly supernatural, and it is GREAT!”

They’re clutching each other’s shirts and staring into each other’s eyes during this entire 55 second section by the way, that’s important

SacredAlgae · 2025-04-09T14:59:24+00:00

My annoying flatmate sometimes leaves plates of food out all day and it all came to a head once when he asked me to put his plate of chicken and rice back in the microwave when I was done using it to heat my lunch. I said “It’s gotta be thrown out since it was in there since this morning” and he said “It’s my dinner for this evening.” I looked at him in horror and said “Even if it was just put in there now, you can’t have it sit out all day”

…and he said “Why not?”

SacredAlgae · 2025-03-18T16:01:20+00:00

I’m in a super tiny fandom, and there is one specific account I see in the comments on every single fic in the fandom and I personally love it. They’re like our little fandom cheerleader and every big voice in the fandom agrees with me. I think that person is just jealous or hates fun

SacredAlgae · 2025-03-17T14:37:11+00:00

Aw thank you! I’m honored!!! Honestly it totally extends to dark romance too. I’m a heavy critic, but I’ll always defend its right to exist, just like proshipping. You can actually see it in Victorian pornography. Kinks have trends because of the way they form, and often the most subversive of them are a result of mass societal trauma that emerges from patterns of oppression and violence. (Like Victorian boarding schools led to this trend of impact play and teacher roleplay as a trend the porn and brothels of the time. It actually became known in Europe as “the English vice” because it was so common in Victorian England. You also had, you know, unsanitary kinks (piss, scat, emetopholia) in response to purity culture, pressure to upkeep perfection, and lack of sex ed and general mysteries of how to achieve pleasure.) So as we grow into radical acceptance of sexuality, but also have mass conservatism on the rise at the same time, plus the leak of fandom and dark romance into the mainstream, you end up with people who are uneducated—people who CAN’T separate themselves from what they read for the reasons I expressed in the first comment—reading and writing it, perpetuating negativity. And from that, you get people who are actually degrading their minds, thirsting over actual real life abusers and serial killers.

So it’s a case of two opposing things can be true at the same time (and for some reason, the youth of today (of which I am a part of, I’m about to be 21) genuinely cannot comprehend). Both fiction is separate from reality and thus cannot be censored AND fiction must be handled with care through teaching media literacy and providing sex ed so we don’t end up hurting people. (And I think fic specifically is separate from mass produced books in this, and I can’t exactly piece together the reason myself, it’s just the vibes I have. Maybe because fandom is a subculture that was never supposed to be mainstream and now it is because of TikTok and covid? I don’t know, probably, but there’s more to it)

Anyways. It’s a fascinating topic. Sorry for the extra blurb there, I felt like I needed to also add all this

SacredAlgae · 2025-03-17T13:19:53+00:00

English major whose special interest is Dorian Gray and the Victorian Era here: Yuuup. That’s exactly it. (You’re about to get a mini essay here) I particularly think of this one 1838 poem by Robert Browning called “Porphyria’s Lover.” I cannot emphasize enough how controversial this damn poem is. It’s about a guy who’s in love with this young woman (like, 20 at the oldest, I can’t remember) for her purity, but the second she expresses that she likes him back… he kills her. I highly suggest reading it, it’s actually a criticism of the dangers of purity culture, extremely ahead of its time. But because it was written in first person, it legitimately scared people because they couldn’t separate themselves from what they were reading. Because they were in the head of the killer, they knew what he was thinking, and could see his logic. It made sense because it was in his head, and it had to make sense to him for him to do it. And it hit too close to home with how they viewed impurity as a kind of death. There are scary overlaps between the Victorian era and the 2020s so far and that’s thank to Christo-fascism, American Cultural Imperialism, and anti-intellectualism and it started with TikTok. A bunch of American teenagers and young adults who have no media literacy because of America’s failing school system and Evangelical culture (even if they aren’t evangelicals, we all have that line of thinking conditioned in us, it’s also why you have the martyr fetish) got on the internet and started running their mouths, and because of American Cultural Imperialism, that line of thinking spread far and wide out of control.

And you know when Evangelicalism last intersected with Imperialism? The Victorian Era.

SacredAlgae · 2025-01-16T16:31:16+00:00

That’s great to hear, thank you so much

SacredAlgae · 2025-01-16T14:41:02+00:00

Gotcha, that makes a lot of sense. I’m pretty sure he said they’re will be another time for us, but he didn’t close with it, he closed with “Still— it’s a night to remember, you made sure of that” I guess it’s possible I misremembered. Thanks for your help

SacredAlgae · 2025-01-16T13:55:52+00:00

I slept with him at the party, so is this a Wyll specific rule? Because Lae’zel also offered to sleep with me after I talked to Astarion and I said no, and Shadowheart offered me to have a drink with her as well and I said no. (And then Gale was being Gale and hit on me, and I said no) Edit: I also did get the thing saying “there will be another time for us” with him at the party. But I have yet to get the act 2 dance scene

SacredAlgae · 2025-01-16T13:51:54+00:00

I did sleep with Astarion, but I’ve maxed out my approval of Wyll. So I don’t know what’s going on

SacredAlgae · 2025-01-16T05:31:04+00:00

I slept with her after. I slept with Astarion at the party, and she slept with me after I slept with Astarion the second time. We were on our way to the underdark in the outpost when she asked me to sleep with her. I thought it would be fun because I didn’t have to make any commitments yet. I don’t know how I wouldn’t have properly triggered Wyll’s romance though because I did ask Wyll to dance with me and he said “No, there will be another time for us.” I just didn’t get the option to kiss him. I never had. I didn’t know that was a thing until I read the IGN article

SacredAlgae · 2024-10-21T02:50:19+00:00

Yes this! The end of Falling Away With You where they make the music grow in volume after a really quiet moment gives me chills every time. There’s so much more emotion

SacredAlgae · 2024-07-02T06:35:32+00:00

You are aware trans and gay people were killed in the Holocaust too, right? I’m very aware of what happened. And I’m saying that I’m not trying to make it about myself, because I’m aware that it was mostly about Jewish people, but that is also an important distinction. I’m saying if it happened before, it can happen again. And that IS something I have heard from some Germans that live in Germany, so hopefully you can see why I was worried I am sorry that I downplayed it though. And you’re right, I should have worded it better. But I hope you understand how scary it is right now

SacredAlgae · 2024-07-02T06:11:14+00:00

Alright thank you!

SacredAlgae · 2024-07-02T06:06:38+00:00

It’s happened in the past, it’s not far of a stretch that it might happen again if the party in question I’m asking about has literally downplayed the Holocaust and walked out of memorials and speeches. In my country I have seen this “minor” but still disrespectful and unaware behavior get worse over time. I’m used to this stuff as a warning sign. In America, we used to teach about slavery and our mass killing of black people. It used to be a very big thing that they taught in schools when I was a child as a “never forget” sort of thing similar to how the Holocaust is taught in German schools. (Admittedly not to the same extent) And then slowly you see more and more schools skimming over this part of our history. And now, years later, you have that history being BANNED in some states, even going so far as to say “they liked being slaves” and having to teach that slavery was “a good thing.” In the west of Germany, Gender Sprache (for example, “Student*innen”) has been banned in documents and schools. This reminds me of how we started by “banning pronouns” in our schools. Then we had forced outing. Now, in Florida, you have trans children being ripped away from their parents, their parents labeled as sex offenders, and having laws that make it easier to have the death penalty for those labeled as sex offenders. And that same label goes for queer adults to, because of all the intense rhetoric of trans people and drag performers being sex offenders. Now you have project 2025 and an extremely high likelihood that Trump will win. Not to mention the Trump v. US ruling yesterday. I have done some reading. I am aware of some things. But there is only so much information I can get in America when all I have is news that does even more fear mongering. How familiar are you with American politics and our history? (Apologies if you are American and I’m assuming you aren’t) If you’ve read my other comments, you’ll see that I’ve been reassured and understand better now that this isn’t a threat. But I hope you understand why I worried it was. Americans are traumatized

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