I will n o t keep my mouth shut. A bitch knows her voice. Knows how to howl with a wolf pack in her throat. A bitch is honest. A bitch doesn’t follow the rules; demands to know who wrote them. Rules are weak. Rules are prey.
{ Indie & SelectiveLydia Martin }
❝Forgive me, Lydia, but I really don’t believe that you don’t have a keeper by choice. If that was the case, well, fair enough. But we both know that’s not true.❞
{ She barks out a loud laugh. Way to set feminism back 50 years, Malia. }
"I’m sorry, did you think I meant sexual partner by keeper? Because those things are absolutely not synonymous. In fact, they aren’t supposed to be synonymous. Sexual partners talking to you like they’re babysitting you? Is freaking creepy. And I’m very much in control of my own behaviors, no matter who I’m sleeping with.
The redhead’s intellect was something she’d noticed, and not something she particularly liked.
❝Anyway. Do you at least know where he is?❞
"—–He doesn’t exactly check in with me. In case you haven’t noticed? You’re the only one around here that has a keeper because you’re the only one who needs one.“
I just had a really cute plot bunny while eating lunch:
What if when Malia had a hard time understanding why people are expected to eat their food slowly and neatly, Stiles introduced her to ribs: “the food that it is socially acceptable to eat like a wild animal! here, you try.”
So when poor peacemaker Kira notices the civil war bubbling just under the surface of pack dynamics–Lydia and Malia aren’t as sublte about their distaste for each other as they think they are–she suggests a girl’s day out to mend the rift. And Malia will only go if they go out for ribs. Like just imagine Lydia’s hesitance about eating drippy, messy ribs and Malia just
“COME ON PRINCESS GET IN THERE SNAP IT’S NECK”
“IT’S RIB MEAT IT’S NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE NECK BIOLOGICALLY SPEAKING”
And Kira loves to take pictures, so when Lydia finally throws caution to the wind and gets a little messy, she snaps a picture and sends it to the boys, much to Lydia’s chagrin and Malia’s amusement and they totally understand each other a little better after
No, no, I agree — I hate how she’s being introduced (especially this whole Stalia arc, considering I ship Stydia so badly jfc) and I definitely think the way Jeff’s brought her in has been way too rushed, and hasn’t helped the fandom with getting used to her at all.
But she has potential — in my post, I’m referring more to the roleplayers who are plastering hate on their blogs like there’s no tomorrow, because honestly, it’s not fun to see a load of anti malia stuff on the dash so soon after making her. I do hope Jeff gets his act together soon though — he’s been slacking, which is why I’m slightly diverging from canon.
[ Insert ‘you and me we’re gonna be friends’ gif from orange is the new black here because I suddenly can’t find it uiowrsklfriegjke]
I really, really was hoping for good things from her and then Jeff has been all over the place writing wise and it’s making it difficult to accept that she’s suddenly just “one of the group” with all the ways he’s failed to integrate her ;; It doesn’t help that Shelley is running around saying things about how Malia is likely to abuse Stiles and implying Lydia is a slut like stOP THIS I REALLY WANT TO LIKE YOUR CHARACTER BUT YOU AND JEFF KEEP SAYING WORDS.
Really though I have so much respect for what you do. You’re getting the short end of the stick when it comes to characterization and it must be an awful lot like trying to bake a cake without butter, eggs, and sugar but what you produce is fulfilling and delicious anyway and I will applaud you until my hands bleed for that you go <3
