#Hater hours

[maudlinandmad]

aaaaand can't toggle to crouch or set an autowalk natively. Loss from me dog (a carpal tunnel bitch).

Also, I flat out do not understand why people make silent protagonists. You're either expecting me to accept projecting onto Your Favorite OC on the strength of their cover art, or excpecting me to just like, let the MC be an embodiment of me.

I'm having none of that. I do not accept having zero control over appearance or identity. If your game doesn't let me do that on it's own (I really liked that Dragon Age Veilguard has a transmog system for both player and armor), I WILL MOD IT.

I WILL MOD YOUR GAME.

GIVE ME A GENDER OPTION BARE MINIMUM.

THE 2D POKEMON GAMES HAVE THOSE.

[killyourmiddleclassindecision]

what’s that one post that was like “you can’t be trusted to consume the rich because you’ll eat a bunch of doctors” or sum shit like that. stupidest post ive ever seen frankly i think it should’ve been hated on instead of mfs acting like it was deep or sum shit

[sans-the-skeleton-official]

Hate it when there's a dni banner on a post and it's written in the tiniest, most decorative, blending in with the background ass font AND there's no plain text/image id anywhere. Like, for someone claiming to be a warrior of morality or whatever you sure are being an asshole to me right now

[g0ddyke]

Some of you really are some of the most Miserable, self hating, discourse-rotted Bastards this side of Tumblr, and you're really going to make it everyone else's problem, aren't you.

[l0stw00d]

if your response 2 a trans guy showing you a cool accessory or some clothes they got is "that isn't very masculine :/" i think they should be allowed to hit you with a car btw. or maybe push you into oncoming traffic.

[rachelfoleyisntdead]

the worst thing about Silent Hill 2 remake is now I have to listen to people talk about a blond man again

[milogreer]

how it feels going into the main tag some days

[cherryfleischer]

[powderflower]

are you kidding me

[plethomacademia]

Me, a person who cares for exotic parrots that are difficult to care for: I just think dogs are too much

[sans-the-skeleton-official]

Uh oh. Someone hates the same thing you do but for completely WRONG reasons. -500 hp

[heather-chandlers-weirder-cousin]

*liar voice* the Gravity Falls fandom isn’t annoying me at all lately ::3

[cagandante-communistoide]

the irony of seeing someone correctly express the sentiment that "putting exaggerated scrutiny on a minority group for any perceived prejudice that you don't put on the people who actually benefit from said prejudice the most is itself bigotry", in a world where the allo queer's excuse du jour for treating aros and aces as the Gross and Wrong and Homophobic Sexual Minority With No Real Problems and thus ignoring all the power they hold to exclude and medicate and rape and kill us and collect financial and social benefits over us is that "making gay things are platonic jokes/ sex repulsion jokes is homophobic/sex negative". from the bottom of my heart i hate it here.

[susandsnell]

the armand is alice theory is so infuriating for many reasons, but yeah the misogyny + biphobia at work to erase daniel's past romantic relationships... it never made sense to me especially bc one of the ways through which an older daniel comes to sympathise w/ louis is through his own failed relationships to his wives and daughters

welcome, companion in haterism!!!! I try to make it a point to avoid IWTV discourse for the most part but I cannot and will not countenance this fuckass theory, I do not respect it, and I will not shut up about it until the show proves me right and we see it dead in the ground. It is so stupid. It is so fucking stupid.

I fully agree - whether you read Daniel as bi or gay (and there's sufficient argument for both, though I def have my own theories - and the latter doesn't imo at all lessen the importance of his relationships to his wives), how circa 2008 misogynistic yaoi no-girls-allowed livejournal do you have to be to try to erase women from existence that we haven't even seen yet. This show is already a sausagefest with so few women to spare.

Likewise, as you point out, it would also be godawful writing that completely undercuts what they've done so far with Old Maniel, which imo is one of the highlights of the show. Through his life experiences of two failed marriages + two daughters who are no-contact (parallel to Louis with Lestat, Armand, Claudia and Madeleine), he's much better equipped to empathize with and reach a better conclusion with Louis in 2022 than in 1973, offering insights that help them both grow as people. As well, it would completely cheapen and frankly ruin one of the most important emotional beats of the entire show up until this point -- Louis' rescue of Daniel. This was what allowed him to have One Mortal Life, Fully Lived Out, given shape and meaning by the good and the bad, the triumphs and the failures, the heights of his career success and the nadirs of his personal life. It's incredibly important to both characters - this is literally 70% of Daniel's entire existence we're talking about here, and where Louis is concerned, Louis, the walking moral crisis, in the depths of despair and suicidal depression, was able to see that the vampire could do a good deed and have a positive impact. What he tried and failed to do with Claudia time and again, he succeeded with here, and there was an even broader impact when you consider all the people Daniel was able to live on to help, and all the lives he touched. What would any of that even mean if it's Oops! All Armand?

And finally, it cheapens Devil's Minion itself. It dumbs down the promised future we have of their dynamic to "There's Literally No One Important In Daniel's Life Except Armand And Never Has Been", and Daniel can apparently only ever have one relationship, and no others to have learned from, compared it to, or used as a frame of reference (whereas Armand has had several, too). I hate soul-mate stories as a narrative crutch, and I aggressively do not care to learn that Daniel's demonstrated emotional intelligence, growth, happy memories and deep failings as a husband and father were, to borrow his parlance, "based on a seismic lie". On the other side of things, it would completely wreck the narrative buildup that Armand alone is enough for Daniel after every other relationship for him has been performance and manipulation; Daniel seeing him for who and what he is when nobody else ever has is so crucial to their show dynamic as it exists currently. It would be cheap, soapy, and frankly, reminiscent of TJLC.

Past Devil's Minion could have very well happened and I'm not entirely against the possibility, but for the love of God, can we not do it at the expense of women and oh, I don't know, Daniel's entire character as he exists on the show?

[jonathanbyersphd]

it's SO fucking funny to me that ppl were begging for leaks until they got them

[rebellionbeach]

Angus Young calling Deep Purple a poor-man's Led Zeppelin is rich considering the fact AC/DC has been releasing the same song the past 5 decades