I Teen Wolf metaed.

[cimorene]

I've posted meta on Tumblr twice in the last few days. I used to think I would always keep it here because Dreamwidth is the superior platform, but at the time it seemed natural to put it there because that's where the fandom is active (and the conversation is already happening).

• Against Argent Apologia, 8 Aug 2012. Teen Wolf spoilers through 2x11. Trigger warnings: domestic violence, animal harm (not graphic). This was the result of one too many people excusing a character's fairly shockingly violent (that is: BAD) actions for various Reasons, and me getting irritated and my wife getting triggered due to her personal traumas and flailing wordlessly which is what she does when triggered. I'm better able to articulate thoughts about it even though we are generally of the same mind, because her trauma is the actual deaths of two members of her immediate family and my dad only ended up in a wheelchair.



• Teen Wolf and strong women, 10 Aug 2012. Teen Wolf spoilers through 2x11, trigger warnings: mention of suicide. This one was just a comment that got way out of hand but this is something I care about and I wanted to save it for posterity, and also to put it in its own post because I kiiiiinda rambled on lengthily and a bit tangentially and that just didn't need to be floating around on the bottom of someone else's reblogged photoset? And after s2 I'm probably going to have a longer followup post sometime.

I feel like I should have an icon of a wolf shirt for this fandom but I worry that it wouldn't be clear what it was once it was shrunk that small...

Comments

[scy]

I think that some people are fixated on the fact that Allison is taking action, rather that acknowledging that the choices she is making are hurtful and damaging, not just to herself, but other people. She is turning her pain in the wake of tragedy outward against people (or werewolves) that are convenient targets. All of this is partially supported by her grandfather's bigotry, but it cannot be blamed wholly on him. We see Allison deliberately shut out people (her father) when they are telling her things that she should hear and heed. And I agree - her standing there and torturing Boyd, while Erica screamed for her to stop was just horrid to watch. Those are not the actions of a person who should be considered 'righteous' or 'justified.' It's one thing to want justice, it's another thing to engage in cruelty.

I also hope that the Argent matriarch is not dead, but perhaps parted with Gerard. That family could use a strong woman to step in and say 'this stops. NOW.'