#> complain about it to literally everybody

[glitter-stained]

sometimes when i see people dismissing what jason went through as him just "throwing a tantrum" or "being dramatic" i want to scream about how he didn't even get to have the honour/respect of being a survivor. he didn't get to survive. he died. that was the end of it for him. he was 15. he didn't "come back", he was ripped out from the afterlife and then had to dig his way out of his buried coffin.

Kinda what bothers me about Tim telling Jason "you did what you had to do to survive" in Knight Terrors tbh, like, that's a nice sentiment for a survivor but... Jason very much did not survive.

Like his experience of victimhood, not survival, is actually so important and a big part of the appeal for a lot of people. He is a "bad victim", which people can like or dislike, but by god he is a victim that's literally the whole point. People (both dc and fandom) downplaying that with victim blaming arguments or "he should quit his dramatics everyone died he's not special" really piss me off because like victimhood is a core characteristic of how he built and defined himself both himself and in meta, it's why the jason/mia "victim/survivor" parallel works so well, he went through something terrible and he's angry and he's suffering because of it and the whole point is the catharsis of having a victim in pain say actually, this is fucked up, and demand that their suffering be acknowledged, so when people play trauma olympics to prove their blorbo had it worse or downplay his reaction as dramatic it feels like almost insulting to the people who find release in that catharsis?

Like there are so many characters that endure so much and swallow it down and act as good little victims and sometimes it's interesting but honestly sometimes it also feels like being told "see? See how good they are for being good and nice and heroic and to dedicate themselves to saving people instead of whining about how they got hurt all the time?" (Thinking of all those comments I saw about Tara Markov "whining about her trauma and how the narrative in those panels very much reinforced this shaming attitude towards people who complain/are upset/are self-centred/focused on their trauma.)

And then UTH, flawed as it is, especially that final confrontation, very much feels like going hey actually yk what it's fucked up that this happened to Jason it's fucked up that this happened to all of Joker's victim actually, it makes sense to be angry and hurt and upset that it happened and it keeps happening and nothing ever changes and when something terrible happens to you it feels like the end of the world to you (literally in Jason's case) and yet when the problem is that the system is broken it doesn't matter like your whole life ended and it didn't even matter and you're right to be angry about that. It's fucked up. Batman isn't coming off righteous out of this one with a morality lesson about how Jason should have sucked it up like everybody else, he can't because it is fucked up, blatantly, so instead he fucks up and slashes Jason's throat and the building explodes because that's how fucked up it all is. You don't get a good, happy, easy ending, the whole point is that it's terrible and unfair and everything from the fighting the crying the speech the wound the bleeding and the goddamn explosion is so fucking cathartic and validating.

So yeah I do get the frustration when people downplay that experience of victimhood when the whole point, with so many comics that tell you to suck it up, is how good it feels to have a comic that tells you that being upset is valid.

[bugsmoocher]

i am having my personal 9/11 today

[virginia-werewolf]

got a 75% on this morning's bar quiz 😌

[dirt-str1der]

Theres no season 4 because theyre too scared to animate the canon gay couple. They know its going to change the dr stone mrm ecosystem forever

[the-physicality]

https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/watch-montreals-full-pwhl-free-agent-signing-press-conference

i hope this is as new and wonderful to you as it was to me :)

[vault81]

bored so ig I'll rank the fallout games and their dlc

[freyholland]

Small fandoms can be good when the people involved are mature and also have an earnest and genuine love for the thing. The worst kind are the fandoms where the only people left are the ones who have nothing but complaints and clearly have no love left for the thing but won’t just read the room and bow out gracefully

[jubileebloom]

I aspire to be a lover not a hater. but

[anaalnathrakhs]

"your fics are cringe (i say as someone who never posts their fics bc i cringe at them)" okay bestie have you thought you might feel a little bit liberated by actually not being judgemental and mean to others in fandom spaces. perhaps.

[junkissed]

june finishes a fic for once FINALLY jesus christ

[not100bees]

"every time i order doordash the driver is a moron and won't put it where i want it" stop ordering doordash then fuckwit.

[alexmarquezmotogpracewinner]

The fact that people actually think like this is genuinely crazy to me btw

[kinnoth]

I think too many of you are going into media looking for a sexyman uwu blorbo to glom onto and are not actually interested in engaging with the media as it is presented

This accounts for a number of "there are no likeable characters in this book/movie/show/game >:(" complaints

Your complaints are less "there are no likeable characters" and more "there are no characters who are the specific brand of hot, young, morally uncomplicated white man that I can project my sexuality onto"

In this way, a lot of you are exactly like the weeaboo/neckbeard/incels who can only consume media with their particular flavor of "hot submissive feminine females" in it and freak the fuck out when a female character model has a muscle

[bbq-potato-chip]

unpopular opinion takasugi is boring esp after the shogun assasination arc im sorry i just dont like him

[purpleturtle9000]

Tello takes Leonardo barhopping in the Hidden City so they can mock him for being a lightweight but unfortunately drunk Leonardo sings Poker Face for 48 minutes straight and then sobs over how tiny Casey is in his baby photos for another six hours

[fslurusami]

complex relationship with doing in depth background checks on tumblr users to find out if theyre into incest. its bad that one would have to check at all but on the other hand its my enrichment