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• I LOVE CHARITY ON EMMERDALE. Scenes like tonight's are the reason why. Because she knows she's flawed and selfish, and it's not enough for her to get over it, because you can't just wave a magic wand and make yourself better, but she is aware of it and it genuinely hurts her sometimes. Also, people who are like 'she had an abortion, she's terrible' can fuck off because yeah, it's messed up to fake a miscarriage, but it would have been worse for her to bring a kid into the world knowing she wouldn't be a good mum to it and it would be unhappy, just to keep her rich husband happy and handing over money. Declan gave her an offer he knew she couldn't say no to, and she didn't. They're both as bad as each other.
  
  I kind of knew what would happen tonight, in that I knew SOMEONE kidnapped her, and SOMEONE found her in the woods and left her there. It was pretty obvious the second one was going to be Sam. I like that they've remembered he's a bit of a cunt sometimes. I still remember that time he got a woman deported for not fancying him back.
  
  The problem with Charity is that she does genuinely bad things, but whenever people actually go after her it's for the most misogynistic reasons possible. Either "you're a money-grabbing tart, and not good enough for my [random male relative]", "you refused to give me a child", or "you had an abortion, you killed my baby, your womb belongs to me when my sperm's in it". So it's impossible to root for anyone trying to bring her down. Also Emma Atkins is amazing. And always makes Charity funny, no matter how bad she's being.
  
  I hope she doesn't die. Alone and starving in a shipping container. I can't imagine they'll do that since she's such a big, popular character, but maybe they will :(



• I am enjoying the new Borderlands game. It's weird, the fact it's called 'the Pre-Sequel' makes me assume it's an expansion, but it really isn't, it's a whole complete game. I'm enjoying the new mechanics and Action Skills. And for once I had a choice of female characters to play! Will wonders never cease? It's a little weird they're portraying Jack as even semi-heroic given what we already know about his backstory, but maybe they'll go more into it or have a 'twist' or something later on. I'm enjoying it though. No spoilers please.



• I have an RPS fandom, for pretty much the first time (not The Apprentice), and people on Tumblr keep posting 'Shipping Rules' based on things they have LITERALLY ASKED THE REAL PEOPLE IN QUESTION ABOUT SHIPPING AND FIC. I don't know what to do with that fandom.



• It looks like my MN is genuinely on the points of being expelled from his school. In the last few weeks he's either been excluded altogether for days or been sent home early almost every day, for physically attacking or swearing at teachers. Currently he's on six weeks of 'mornings only' school, in that he can go in in the morning and get a mark for attendance, but then is given schoolwork to do and is sent home for the afternoon. Or rather, he WAS due to start that this week, but then he had a day of attacking and swearing at teachers, so he got excluded until next week. So it should be starting then. Unless he gets sent home again. Don't really know what's going to happen with all that.