#I need to calm down and breathe

[imabillyami]

The thing that sucks is that the Sami/Jey story feels very unfinished. Like we were at the climax, and the story just ended. Not even in a fun way but just natural storytelling. I would argue that Roman/Sami at NOC was unfinished because they were just side characters in that match. That was all about the bloodline. It's not even us delulu shippers. Legit fans want to see this. Not just because Sami/Jey had a fantastic and emotional build but look what they have done to our boy on Raw.

Oh anon, I totally agree with you on all of that!

Sami kept going on and on and on about destroying The Bloodline and taking down The Tribal Chief and basically dedicated his life to that cause for months and months and then suddenly he completely stops with zero thoughts given after a TAG MATCH where he pinned Solo? It doesn't make sense.

And yeah the thing he wanted to happen (which was The Usos turning on Roman) happened, but wouldn't it make more sense for him and Kevin to join forces with them to take Roman down for good? Or to check up on Jey (and even Jimmy) and reassure them that he's in their corner after? (We know it would. But it's WWE and all the characters suddenly have amnesia once a storyline abruptly finds its end.)

And yeah, don't even get me started on the Sami/Jey stuff. They built up this deep connection between them (brothers/family/lovers whatever you see/wanna call it) and then they ripped it away and pretended like it never happened. No mention of Jey from Sami, no mention of Sami from Jey, even in moments where a mention would have been the most logical/simple thing and make the whole thing make sense. Like... why won't you acknowledge Jey's role in Sami's life and Sami's role in Jey's life (and the rest of the Bloodline for that matter) at all? It's a shit pattern with WWE that occurs so often, but in this case it's even more infuriating, cause usually they don't spend building relationships between characters/ character arcs this long. But they've been building it for a YEAR instead of just a couple of weeks, so it cut even deeper than it usually does when they went all like "well, it didn't happen. Sami? Jey? Bloodline? Connection? Never heard of it".

They are doing Sami so dirty with this and with his booking over on Raw, honestly. I need him back in the fold with Jey. I don't even need him to help Jey fight Jimmy or the rest of his family or whatever. At this point I've accepted that it'll probably never happen. I just need an acknowledgement of their bond and that they're still there for each other should one of them ever need it. And I need at least a little hope that we'll get a real and proper finish to Jey/Sami, even if we never get one for Roman/Sami and Jimmy/Sami and Solo/Sami. Cause you're right, anon. None of it feels finished even though WWE wants us to believe it is. The frustration is real.

[hischierssdraisaitl]

FUCK NO

[roguerambles]

I understand the disappointment, I really do, but I think people might be blowing the whole world state thing a bit out of proportion. "This is SPITTING IN THE FACE of long-time fans" no it's not Steve, calm down.

The series has always had to compromise when it comes to the state of the world because so many of the choices (especially from the end of Origins) were so wildly different that trying to build a sequel from so many conflicting factors would be more or less impossible. It's why we've never seen the Architect again, because him being alive or dead has HUGE ripple effects that are damn near impossible to write around.

Heck, it was entirely possible for Anders to die at the end of Awakening, but the writers wrote around it by saying "oh no he actually faked his death" even though logically that made very little sense because at that point he'd have absolutely no reason to do that? But Anders was in the sequel so that had to come up with something.

Basically nothing from Dragon Age 2 was important in Inquisition - Hawke siding with Mages or Templars made no difference, Anders being alive or dead made no difference, whether Carver or Bethany were dead or Wardens or whatever made no difference. We got some flavour text and that was literally it, everything else played out exactly the same.

Hell, the Temple of Sacred Ashes gets blown to bits at the beginning of Inquisition, rendering everything to do with that quest from Origins basically moot. And we've never gone back to Orzammar, and everything we have heard from it has been kept super vague, because depending on who the King is and if Branka is still alive things would look WILDLY different. Crafting a new story there would be borderline impossible because the dozen different possible world states make the foundation shaky at best.

It's why I highly doubt we'll be able to side with Solas and help him tear down the Veil because that would result in basically a whole new world being created. Imagine them trying to make Dragon Age 5 and being like "okay 50% sided with Solas and tore the Veil down and 50% kept the Veil intact....wtf now what do we do--?"

Again, I understand the disappointment, but I just hope once the dust has settled and people calm down a bit they'll see that, realistically, very little has changed. Your saves are still there, your experiences and enjoyment of the games and the characters and the story are still there, but they were always gonna have to draw the line SOMEWHERE.

And that's not to say none of our previous choices will come back - if we get another game, or a spin off or something they'll probably do what they're doing with the Inquisitor now. They're just taking what's relevant to the story they are trying to tell, and leaving what they aren’t going to use presently ambiguous.

[anghraine]

You'd think the worst part of being immunocompromised would be catching All The Things, but honestly, the actual worst part is not being able to visit very sick loved ones because they're afraid of you catching the sickness :(

[ellsieee]

I said Blue Canvas of Youthful Days was going to be good and I was right! As usual, I'm in love with the side cp already.

Tan Yin is going to have a rough time because Mingyang literally sees him as his dead younger brother. He's going to have to suffer for his love.

When Tan Yin is scared, he immediately calls Mingyang. Mingyang is there for him, comforting, and calming him down. ❤️

UwU! Who can blame Tan Yin for falling for Mingyang? This kind of "friendly" affection would have driven me nuts. Tan Yin is strong.

Tan Yin is such a cutie patootie. Mingyang agrees. He looks at Tan Yin with such fondness.

AHHHHH! The help put on your seatbelt trope! Tan Yin was about to faint having Mingyang so close. He wanted to kiss him so bad.

This looks like a proposal, except with a hearing aid instead of a ring. I have to think that this scene was intentionally shot this way. For Tan Yin, a hearing aid from Mingyang is more precious than any ring.

So sensual and heartbreaking at the same time. Tan Yin is mesmerized by Mingyang's voice and his hand on Mingyan's adam's apple, while Mingyang wants to hear Tan Yin call him gege because he sees him as his dead brother.

He's so cute hugging his gift box, wishing it was Mingyang hehehe.

OUCH. Tan Yin drawing up the courage to confess, only to be indirectly rejected hurts. It's going to take a lot of work to get over the brother hurdle. Sigh.

After side stepping Tan Yin's confession, Mingyang takes Tan Yin on a date... ??? He needs to stop being so nice to Tan Yin. This is too many mixed signals for our cutie. The gif doesn't do this scene justice. It's so playful and cute. I love the last part where Mingyang tells Tan Yin to blow bubbles like a fish, and Tan Yin brushes him off, but then does the blub blub blub sound and Mingyang finds it so adorable.

It's heartbreaking that both Tan Yin and Mingyang share a similar past with being rejected by their family for being gay. I like that this scene explicitly establishes that Tan Yin and Mingyang are gay. They've liked other men. No gay for you here.

These two are going to be the death of me. I love them so much.

[possamble]

I'm not allowed to be on social media for more than two seconds today but I just wanted to say that Laios will absolutely have his own reaction to all this as someone who would die for Falin but has also imprinted on Marcille as his Emotional Support Comphet White Girl Not-Girlfriend along the way

[tubelight-404]

FIRST TIME GIVES INEFFABLE HUSBANDS VIBES AND I DONT THINK I CAN HANDLE IT 😭😭😭

[verdantvain]

Hey Ultrakill fandom, is it normal for my heart to beat so hard and fast that I worry it will tear through my fucking chest when I play this game? Thanks.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

this past week its just been a constant cycle of *normal normal normal* OH FUCK THE SITE UPDATE IS NEARLY UPON US *has to sit down and breathe*

[phagodyke]

the masculine urge to take a saucepan off thr draining board and bash myself repeatedly over the head with it until I pass out and no longer have to experience feeling Bad 😍

[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

HP Rants: Things Fandom Gets WRONG

The Dark Mark (tattoo)

where oh where is the reading comprehension??? did y’all really not read any of GoF??? not only does the minister of fucking magic not know about the Dark Mark tattoos, as snape has to explain and show it to him (which just ????? astounding incompetence from the ministry of goddamn magic and the wizarding world at large) but sirius literally says in response to the kiddos telling him that Karkaroff showed snape something on his arm, “'He showed Snape something on his arm?' said Sirius, looking frankly bewildered...'Well, I’ve no idea what that’s about." despite the fact that he KNOWS for a fact karkaroff was a death eater. (and his own goddamn brother was a death eater. And his family was super pro-voldemort).

The whole fucking point is that no one knew.

Otherwise it would have been obvious who was and who wasn’t death eaters, or at least, inner-circle death eaters. Sirius would not have gone to Azkaban. The Malfoys and literally every other free death eater would have.. but this didn’t happen because the wizarding world is complete shit at handling things and disseminating EXTREMELY IMPORTANT information.. that’s the whole fucking point.

[stormyoceans]

my head hurts from crying for the past twenty minutes but it's not because of pain. i don't think i will ever be coherent enough to properly explain my feelings but to me this scene wasn't heartbreaking. it was hope and love in their purest form. hope because day's life doesn't end when his eyesight is gone: day is no longer angry because he has learned that he can still experience the world and live a happy life and find meaning in both. love because mork, who could no more save his sister's life than stop day from losing his sight, is being held in the hands of the man he loves and being told 'someone like you is enough': enough to be day's last twilight, last picture, last love. of course there was loss in it, but so much beauty too. these two men who used to be invisible and alone and locked away in the darkness found each other, chose each other, and stepped into the light, together. and that's where they will always be from now on: in each other's light, where they'll never fade away again

[frecklystars]

this man's sleeves are about to pop open and tear right off. he flexes and his shirt just fucking explodes

[stinkrascal]

ok really though i wish my gut health wasnt almost perfectly aligned w my emotions like i dont think it is fair that when i feel an intense emotion my stomach is immediately like ok time to be sickly now ❤️ but oh well. someones gotta experience this feeling, i guess it has to be me

[ace-fandom-dumbass]

Caved and watched P&P&Z despite not liking zombie horror because I needed to see what matt smith as collins would be like and oh my god when he interrupts lizzie and wickham at the ball it looks/feels exactly like whenever 11 runs in to interrupt amy and rory like I swear I've seen this exact shot in doctor who he's making the same goofy expressions I can't believe this is what gets me to watch a fucking zombie movie

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

Baldurs Gate 3 mutuals scroll away now. Just scroll past this I don't want y'all to be mad at me because this post is NOT ABOUT YOU! But anyways I think the BG3 fandom really really suffers from the "XYZ is my favorite character and nobody else should talk about them because it makes me uncomfortable because they're MINE" syndrome in a way that's somehow even more embarrassing than those Animal Crossing New Horizons fans, because it's not even like the BG3 characters are limited? Like you all have them on your own computers and you can do whatever you want with them, you don't have to get mad about what other people are doing with them on their computers?

obviously this isn't an isolated problem, a lot of fandoms struggle with the "My opinion on XYZ is the only correct opinion and everyone else is wrong" mindsets, which is just, like, not how art works. Like you don't get to go to the art museum and listen to somebody else's interpretation and then go "Well actually you're factually incorrect, MY interpretation is the right one."

But I specifically see this "Astarion is my comfort character and it makes me uncomfortable when other people like him" shit all the fucking time and that's really sort of silly to me? 1) he's not real, 2) the way other people interpret his character doesn't effect you at all, and 3) they're not stopping you from having your own interpretations.

Like I'm sorry but when you complain nonstop about "Ascended Astarion fans" you do sound fucking insane because you're desperately defending the virtue of a fictional character, PIXELS!, and said character's personality is heavily dependent on how the story is played anyways, so yeah fucking obviously you're not going to have the same perception of that character as everyone else in your fandom, you're not even all experiencing the game the same way!

But like, I see people get so up in arms about this and it's like holy fuck babe take a deep breath. It is not that serious. The world is not ending because people are doing what they've historically always done and thirsting after a hot gothic vampire because he's kind of mean to them. It's okay. You'll be fine. You can literally just stop engaging with the fandom if it upsets you that bad. Honestly you probably should, because getting that upset over something that has zero real bearing on reality is kind of wild. Maybe talk to your therapist about it idk.