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Midnight Teatime #2 - Power stuggles and Sex
🕑 Added 2020-06-02 13:15:13 +0000 UTC**Remember to save your essays elsewhere, y'all! Patreon has been spiriting away posts**
Deepest thanks to Emily and Lola for putting together the Midnight Teatime prompts with tons of love and affection for the MPL universe <3 For detailed info on this segment, please see this post.
Dearest Patrons, thank you all so much for participating in last week's essay prompt! It was a terrific start and we had some brilliant discussions, and I am literally thirsting for MORE brain food from y'all <33 Without further ado, here's MTT #2. Enjoy <33
This Week's Essay Prompt:
For today's topic, let's discuss the dynamics of power struggles (and sex, for the Secret Garden Tier Patrons) in Midnight Poppy land. In both the main storyline and the Secret Garden posts, the balance of power seems to shift back and forth between Poppy and Tora. They each exhibit an ability to control or manipulate the other, but in drastically different ways. Pick a scene or a Secret Garden post and discuss the power dynamics depicted there. Does the upper hand shift between characters, or does one maintain control over the other? Let's discuss!
Guidelines:
1) Essay Prompts are posted twice a month. "Essay" = any written analysis, opinion or theory based on the prompt. Research the topic and learn something new, or let your mind run away with the question. Basically, just have fun!
2) As soon as you've completed your essay, post them in the comment section below. There are no deadlines, but do finish up your essays before the next prompt is up, so more people get to read it.
3) There are no word count requirements, but feel free to link to an external document (eg, Google Doc) when necessary.
4) This exercise is open to ALL Patrons, so...
• If you are a non-Fast Pass user, note that there will be spoilers, so do navigate the posts with your own discretion.
• If you are a Fast Pass user writing about FP content, you must mark your post with the *SPOILER WARNING* tag. Fast Past-related posts without a spoiler tag will be removed immediately, but you may re-post it with the tag in place.
5) Please be respectful and courteous. Everyone's thoughts and opinions are equally valid and welcome. And if your opinion is a strongly negative one, do be gentle with it.
6) This exercise is meant to open up more in-depth discussions, so even if you're not posting an essay, you are always welcome to leave your comments, and dive into more discussions with the essay contributors.
Final note from Lily: This is a fun, informal writing exercise, and while I respect all theories and analysis, the essays presented here are not necessarily conclusive to the main MPL storyline.
Comments
This is really off topic but I really want to see further into Quincey and Tora relationship I went back and reread the previous chapters and I’m very curious as to what took place between the two growing up. When I reread I noticed tora is protective in a way towards Quincey and despite the fact they are completely different mentally and emotionally, after tora showed concern saying he wanted to beat Mr. Morrison ass, for plagiarism of Quincey’s work tora was automatically ready to do harm, and it seems on that note that tora was always somewhat like an brotherly figure to quince I also am very curious to see their relationship as kids because I would like to know what significance they pay in each other lives other than bodyguard and owner. Like is it more like mentor and student or like big brother/little brother. Because as I paid attention and read further into the previous chapters Quincey was in the picture with tora and Goliath and the rest of the gang ARES STREET KINGS, but I have no ideal if that’s still valid if not.
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I need to remember that phrase 🤣
