ah well – Monsters' Queen

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tenaflyviper:

He is, however, perfectly willing to fuck with time and reality.

And also steal your infants.

He didn’t steal anything. She literally asked him to take the baby. Don’t make him the bad guy just because she was a shitty sister.

I think you are severely misinformed as to how baby ownership works.

It was not her baby to give.

David Bowie is unquestionably the villain.

Which do you think existed first, modern custody legislature, or the goblin king?

The girl was entrusted by her parents with the care and custody of the child. By the laws governing the goblin king and his transactions, the girl was the current rightful owner of the child and made a deal with the king to take the child. Perhaps you’re not familiar with english folklore. Fae have rules, they’re tricksters, they can be sneaky, but they never break the rules.

Slammin’ it down in the Labyrinth fandom tonight, kids.

Jfc

Indeed there are rules and she got what she asked for. Be careful what you wish for kiddos.

Okay, look. I love the Goblin King, okay? But just because there were rules doesn’t mean he wasn’t the villain. Serial killers have rules. Brutal dictators have rules. The fact that his character was incredibly nuanced and that his motivations were ambiguous make him interesting, but doesn’t automatically default him to good. (And this is something that continuously drives me crazy about fandom interpretation of complicated bad guys. Although it almost always seems to favor bad guys who are attractive men, and usually to the detriment of lady characters who oppose them. Hmmm, I WONDER WHY.)

Do you remember how he shortened her time when she was doing well? Do you remember how he had little brownies changing the marks she made in the maze when she was trying to find her way? Do you remember how he tried to trap her in a dream to slow her down? None of those things were in the rules.

Abusive people set “rules” in relationships all the time. It makes it appear as if the abused has some sort of control over how much they get hurt and manipulated. “Don’t break my rules and you won’t get punished.” Or, in other words, “Why you gotta make me hurt you?” But those rules are illusions. The abuser will always find a way to change things to their favor, and then use an air of reasonableness to convince the abused that it’s their fault.

Well, the abused and, apparently, a bunch of people watching a fifteen-year-old girl get kicked around by a man who is a) much older and b) has literally all the power in the universe while she has only the power of fabulous hair and practical shoes and plucky nerve.

AND THAT’S ANOTHER THING, don’t hate on Sarah to make Jareth look better. First of all, Sarah was awesome. She was smart. She had nothing but the clothes on her back and what was in her pockets when she flung herself into an alternative dimension to save a kid she didn’t even really consider family. And using only her wits, some plastic jewelry, lipstick, and the words of a book she had memorized, she defeated a powerful supernatural being in his own house. She convinced his own oppressed people to fight against him. She used the power of friendship and being a book nerd to take back what was hers and bring Jareth to his skinny David Bowie knees. If you don’t think that’s INCREDIBLY RAD you can get the fuck out.

Secondly, Jareth loved Sarah to the point of obsession. He wanted to possess her. If you don’t think Jareth would condemn you to the deepest depths of the Oubliette or to wander the The Bog Of Eternal Stench forever for talking shit about her, you obviously were not watching the movie very closely.

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