#CALM THE FUCK DOWN

[starhunter21]

As a blonde haired, blue eyed, Scandinavian woman with ancestors who were actual Vikings, and who grew up loving httyd…

It. Is. Fine.

Please relax.

Don’t pretend to be worried about my representation.

Stop making up reasons to be racist.

[tardismyrp]

Final Conspiracy Board (or is it?):

I originally wasn’t going to make one since the discourse after the last episode was not what I wanted to see or get involved in, but unless there are unanswered questions after the last episode this week I wanted to make a final conspiracy board. Before we get into it though let’s all remember that this is a silly DND show made by comedians and life goes on after this ends.

So I found Brennan’s wording in the adventuring party a bit interesting. He initially said “down” when referring to Ruben, Ivy, and Oisin, but later said “dead.” Is this a simple mix up of words? Or is he planning on having them brought back by Ankarna after she is uncorrupted? I mean Porter isn’t going to win, the intrepid hero’s always win the final big battle. Could the dead mention just be in case Porter wins? We know if he does he’s not going to care enough to bring the rat grinders back. Ankarna though might. Brennan is usually careful with his words so I’m intrigued by this.

[getvalentined]

Getting back on my Zack Is Canonically Polyamorous soapbox because the people need to know and also the number of people accusing Aerith of being unfaithful in Rebirth is absolutely fucking ridiculous when taking Zack's romantic escapades into account.

There are spoilers here, and I'm tagging accordingly, but I'm not putting it under a cut.

We know for a fact that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith. We've known this since the OG, although we didn't know most of the details back then, just that they were together. In Remake, Aerith describes Zack as her "first love." In Chapter 11 of Rebirth, the first memories of Zack that Cloud reclaims are of him talking about how great Aerith is, and Cloud describes him as being "head over heels" for her. In Chapter 8, we found out that Zack's parents were able to recognize her based entirely on Zack gushing about her when he wrote home—and this is one of the most important parts, honestly.

Zack has a thing with Cissnei. We don't know how deep it is, but throughout Crisis Core (and even in the summer event in Ever Crisis) we can see very clearly that there is something between them, and it's never treated like a big deal. She's never completely honest about her feelings, so we can assume he didn't know that she saw him as anything more than a casual thing, but they have a relationship. It's made explicitly clear that this is the case when Zack returns to Gongaga and she lets him know that she's spoken to his parents, and he warns her that they're basically going to suggest that she marry him.

Zack's parents know about his relationship with Aerith and they also apparently know enough about his relationship with Cissnei to suggest that she make that relationship "official." They want her to join the family. They asked, she apparently reciprocated, and she lives in Gongaga after Veld is "killed."

Cissnei is also aware that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith, but that doesn't stop her from pursuing him anyway. She gets it and she's okay with it. She never, at any point, tries to push him away from Aerith—she's the one that tells him how special Aerith is, how important, how lonely. She's supportive of his relationship, and doesn't seem to feel that it makes her own feelings or their relationship any less valid.

Okay, so that's proof that the people around him are, at the very least, okay with him having multiple partners. That doesn't necessarily mean he's poly, though, maybe he's just a womanizer and everyone accepts it. Weird, but possible. He's really endearing so maybe they all give him a pass.

But no! No this isn't it at all! And we know it because of how Zack responds to Aerith being in love with someone else in Rebirth. When he finds out that Aerith is has feelings for Cloud, there's not a hint of jealousy in a single thing he does or says. He's disappointed when Marlene says it's because he wasn't there, but it's not disappointment in Aerith or in Cloud—it's disappointment in himself, because Marlene is right. He wasn't there. He couldn't protect her. There's also no spite there, he never responds like her feelings are wrong because he's here now and that means Aerith can rely on him again, and we know that because of how he responds to this information.

Zack finds out that Aerith has feelings for Cloud, and his immediate mission is to make sure that Cloud recovers as quickly as possible. Now it's not just for him, it's not just because that's his friend, it's because Aerith loves him (too) and that means he has to save Cloud for both of them.

He's fully supportive of Aerith and Cloud having a relationship, to the point that the last thing he says to Cloud when he gets thrown into a dying timeline is a request that he take care of Aerith. He's not exactly passing the torch here, because he's still alive—but he doesn't know if he'll be able to meet back up with a version of Cloud that is awake again, and he needs Cloud to know that he supports them in this.

And then, in the dying timeline where Zack is banished after fighting Sephiroth, he has the ability to synergize with Cloud from across the multiverse. The DMW limit break connected to Aerith is active in the space. All three of them are together here, just not physically; Cloud and Aerith are protecting Zack as much as Zack has been struggling to protect them.

Zack loves that Aerith loves someone other than him because that's how he is too. Zack has multiple relationships at the same time, he loves multiple people at the same time, he has emotionally intimate connections with multiple people at the same time. Why would he take issue with the love of his life feeling the same way?

Cloud isn't his replacement any more than Cissnei and Aerith are interchangeable, and Zack understands that, because Zack is polyamorous—and he's really happy that Aerith may be, too.

[variberry]

I’m gonna say it. I actually didn’t mind the BNHA epilogue. Some of y’all are just hating to hate.

[chaosandstardust]

The worst part about liking multiple different female characters from the same piece of media is that a large portion of the fans are often anti-whoever-the-other-female-character-is and you can't go through any of their tags without hearing how much the other character is an absolute abusive POS who doesn't deserve any happiness and she should go die in a hole and any good things that happen to her belong to the other one, actually.

[theatheistgirl]

[vroomvroomwee]

I don't know if anyone's told you this, but it is okay if you don't end up winning a Nobel prize. It's okay to sleep and eat and laugh and have fun. 8 billion people on this piece of rock. It's okay if you're not the best.

[yannisdesk]

People getting offended at the KuKluxKirraman and CaiCaiCaitlyn jokes and being racist to Reed need to chill. Caitlyn became a dictator and peacocked her status as an enforcer (police officer) to commit war crimes against Zaunites. She remained in this position for several months to a year. She never even really faces any true consequences for this either. She's more than earned these nicknames. On top of that, being racist is never acceptable, and being racist over a fictional character is a whole new level of low.

[catalisst]

[smg-69]

SMG4 fandom make peace with ships

No questions just do it.

Y’all are too old to be harassing each other over a fucking fictional relationship

[martitheevans]

Sometimes I hate letterboxd because you will read a film critic level review about how a movie is uninspired slop that the director needs be fired out of a cannon for making and the movie is like Mr. Popper's Penguins or something

[deusfoundry]

oh they were KISSING in xavier's bday trailer they were MAKING OUT

[zumbieve]

Sonic YouTube is wild af.

Sonic x shadow generations isn’t even out yet and people are trying to nitpick every single nook and cranny.

Yall need to chill the hell out.

[rinwellisathing]

I would like to repeat a point I have made that I guess I don't make often enough and I sure as hell don't see others make often enough. Any character that you like in BG3, no matter how innocuous they are or you THINK they are, shut the ever loving fuck up about your judgments on what characters other people like. It's fiction. Astarion is racist as fuck against gnomes and is against you helping slaves. Lae'zel is racist as fuck against non Githyanki and the cult she's indoctrinated into are brutal killers and incredibly xenophobic. Shadowheart is racist as fuck against Githyanki and has tortured people as part of her religion, I'm not even going to get into Minthara because I'm gonna hurt someone...Wyll and Karlach are probably the most innocuous, but even then you can certainly make a case for Karlach potentially knowing more than she let's on about Gortash and willingly working for him until it's her on the chopping block. Orin abuses Minthara and if she gets her hands on him, Zevlor, and is also a serial killer. Ketheric is controlling of Isobel and enslaved Aylin, the less I say about Gortash the better because as much as I'm a Gort simp, he is genuinely a terrible person trauma notwithstanding. Raphael is an actual pedophile, slaver, abuser, and a literal devil, Haarlep's idea of 'consent'is dubious at best, The Emperor is part of The Nights of the Shield and I am begging you Emperor fans to please do a modicum of reading about them I love Emps, but he and Stelmane are...not good people.... The Society of Brilliance has a lot of sketch ideas and execution of ideas so even cute gay dad's Blurg and Omeluum aren't totally squeaky clean, Zevlor may have been brainwashed and he may not have been, but his actions or lack thereof cost lives that were relying on him and also he can be very manipulative (I love him and identify with him, so don't at me about daring to look at him critically), Rolan, whomst I relate to more than any other character in the game apart from maybe Astarion, will help enslave Aylin if his siblings died so their deaths weren't for nothing, Gale is over ambitious, makes a lot of excuses for Mystra, and can be pretty annoyingly smug.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is everybody has flaws. Every last character. That's why they're great. You're not better or worse than anyone else for liking or not liking a certain character. Let people enjoy things and get off your judgy high horses for fuck's sake.

Also plz read about The Knights of the Shield because I will lose my shit if one more person sits there and tells me Stelmane is an innocent victim/good person in everything... unrelated mostly, but come on, y'all. Have a LITTLE better reading comprehension than the Warcraft fandom.plz.

Also, how some of yall look trying to argue that your fave's warcrimes are different, actually:

[janesurlife]

People are too hung up on a rivalry that hasn't existed since the 2000

[angelliicc]

tumblr sometimes scares me yall are too freaky