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🕑 Added 2019-07-06 05:09:11 +0000 UTCYO BUT WHY'D YOU CHEAT ON MY DAD YA DINGUS
Fleur not getting "called out" for her affair with Blueblood is one of the more common criticisms of this particular story arc. The complaint always struck me as strange, considering I never saw anyone demand the same of Blueblood himself, who, y'know, deliberately preyed upon the wife of one of his oldest friends. I had people requesting Fleur be abandoned, screamed at, even slapped or hurt. Kind of creepy, all the calls for violence. I don't think it'd solve anything. She's still Vogue's mom.
A more fair criticism (one that nobody ever brought up, but I feel is valid) is that Fleur seems to lack agency. I kinda wrote her as a victim- I have a bad, bad habit of writing female characters as passive victims of circumstance, and then they mostly just sit around feeling sorry for themselves. It's a flaw in my writing, not in the characters themselves. It's time to make Fleur an active character, she's been out-of-focus for too long while we've examined Blueblood and Fancy Pants. Rather than "How should Fleur be punished?", I'd like to ask "Why did Fleur have an affair? How does she justify it to herself, if at all? How will the news of it affect her relationship with her daughter? And how will it affect Vogue's character, moving forward?"
Comments
Tholfbutt
Thank you. I look forward to seeing Fleur's side of the story. Have been for a while.
Heather
I THINK where some people are coming from is a zero tolerance for cheating. It’s all over the place now that cheating is horrible and you wouldn’t do that to someone you love, it’s toxic, you deserve better, etc. And while I very much support that mindset that you shouldn’t put up with behaviors that hurt you and you’re valid in what you feel, I think there is also still a stigma that if a person cheats then that immediately makes them the “bad guy”.....or, as more often we see if a woman is a cheater, then she’s a whore that needs to be punished. And that’s not okay. Men AND women both cheat but there definitely seems to be more tolerance when a man does it and frankly that’s just a gross double standard and I don’t think ANYONE deserves to be demonized for making a mistake if they’re willing to own up to it and try to move forward. Fleur is not a bad pony. She and her husband BOTH made mistakes in their marriage, and they both had to admit those mistakes and work together to overcome them.
Angsty Ram
So I’m looking forward to seeing more on Fleur
Angsty Ram
This is a lot more interesting than just the two of them splitting up. Families don’t really tend to do that, fancy pants ain’t the sort todo that either.
That guy
Those are good questions you mentioned at the end.. Don’t know why people would blame her. But great work as always.
coming from a kid from a similar situation (my mom cheated on my dad, and they still stayed together as well) a lot of my anger was more aimed at the guy who was with my mom, so i find it weird as well that people would be trying to blame fleur for the whole affair. keep up the good work lop !!
Vio_dacreator
Idk why but this pic looks prrrime for the memeing 😁
DenVH
Fair question. Rose. But he was supeeerrrr hoootttt~~~
Chioro
I'M SO EXCITED!!!
