#I still hate jacob

[ppjeterka]

my thoughts re: the main cast of the new nhl amazon docu-series

[thedrowsydoormouse]

I’m starting to think award shows are intentionally causing drama around nominations because they know the headlines around the backlash will just make more people watch. I think they’ve crunched the numbers and decided it will draw more eyes than they’d lose from a boycott.

The worst part is performers of color are basically being punished for the sake of rage bait. Not to knock Sam Reid because his nomination is very well deserved but season 2 was carried by Jacob, Delainey, and Assad and the fact that none of them are being recognized for their amazing work is kind of maddening! And I get some categories are more stacked than others but the omission of all 3 feels intentional. It’s almost like they took a look at their list of potential nominees for leading actor in a drama and decided they only had room for one black man from the UK and Doctor Who is a bit more “ advertiser friendly” (again, not knocking Ncuti, Doctor Who is my comfor show and I think he is on track to being one of the best Doctors of modern Who). I’m not saying they should automatically win because they’re POC but the fact that none of the 3 main characters of the season were even nominated is very telling. I hate that bigotted rage bait has become so profitable.

[jacob-blogs]

I mean, there is no point in internalizing my hatred and contempt for society at large anymore.

But.

I can't pretend that my hatred is what motivates me to continue living in this life.

I love my community. I love the voters that voted to protect human rights. I love my (metaphorical) trans siblings.

I love you all more than I hate them.

And it's worth fighting to protect what I love, rather than fighting against what I hate.

[pynkhues]

Something-something Daniel and Louis both wanting to distance themselves from portraiture - Louis because he's not good at it (yet) as a photographer, Daniel because he views it as a lesser form of journalism - yet both being drawn to it as an artform. An embedded need to pin someone like a butterfly to a board, to capture them, to understand them, to find and show the story of them, to know as an artist without being known, and what does it mean for Louis to let himself be in this way? To let himself be the subject of a portrait, instead of the observer of one? To invite Daniel to his own capture? To want to be seen for once instead of the one who sees?

[claudia-lioncourt]

hot take but jacob anderson's performance during the confession box scene in the first episode of iwtv ALONE is like. the biggest emmy snub of all time

[taylorshope]

I love that Jacob could have so easily been just a one dimensional douchy jock kind of character but he's not. On a surface level he can seem to be just that but if you look deeper he's actually a layered, complex character with insecurities that he keeps hidden under his dumb frat bro persona. I just wish they could've fleshed all of that out more

[est-pulcher]

Wait, guys I didn't read Wuthering Heights what do you mean Heathcliff is implied to be dark-skinned or Romani? And he's being played by Jacob "White Boy" Elordi???? What???

[aj-lenoire]

i do not enjoy harry potter anymore and even when i did, snape was not a character i ever liked, but for some reason my ‘for you’ page is just full of dedicated snape stan accounts and i hate it

[thousandyearphantombunker]

CW: I'm mean here about shows and stuff people like

syndrome from incredibles, Thanos in the comics, mad hatter from Batman, tighten from Megamind, frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, Red Hulk, parasite from superman and Ozai all of these villains are pathetic but they work for some reason I cannot place. A lot of stories try and write villains that are pathetic but also scary and it doesn't work- I love Starscream he can be an amazing character (he can be sympathetic or a straight up monster he can be lame but still threatening etc) and I like most versions but God can writers screw him up and he can fall flat (i love tfp i swear but god i hate their starscream! He just didn't work for me! Megatron and knockout are cool tho) Belos for some reason doesn't work for me at all- I know he should be scary while the fandom is wrong about him being a colonizer/cult leader/a dictator (he's not stop using words you dont understand the meaning of)and how insane it is that he's in a kids show (watch more cartoons there's villains darker than him) he's still trying to commit genocide and he's abusive and he's at his core got very little depth or complexity- he's really just an isekai character gone wrong- a pathetic guy with a hero complex and emotional baggage who becomes a villain- but he just didn't work for me. Neither does Jacob Hopkins- he's just Ronaldo from SU if he was written to be a straight up hate sink. I'm a lesbian latina with autism and was raised with a different sect of christan beliefs from him- I know historically this guy would have murdered me and i know he should work but something about him didn't stick the landing! The main thing I think about with belos isn't 'wow this guy is a great villain' it's 'can y'all stop being weirdly ableist toward this old man' or 'why do so many of y'all wanna fuck this man he's ugly' and dont get me started on mcu villains - their version of the mandarin, she-hulk's dumb men rights activists on reddit (seriously that's the scariest villain you can come up with? Like revenge porn is evil but really? I don't like the term man-baby- I have personal issues with how the term has been used in ableist ways- but yeah erm man babies on reddit are the best you can do for a villain? That's freaking stupid) and OMG Sutur in Ragnarok was terrible etc etc- these villains all suck!

How do you write villains that are pathetic but still work? How do write villains who are at their core whiny insecure losers but still work as detestable threatening villains? Like marvel made a character whose whole thing was that he's an incel work but so many other stories fail to write that stuff. Part of me thinks it's because these stories are desperate to make their villain into a hate sink joke but still make them scary and it fails but Tighten and Red Hulk are right there and there's no way the writers weren't purposely writing hate sinks with them! And they work! Why doesn't belos?

[adamnablelittledevil]

No offense, but how do you feel about Louis? I see you talk about several characters, but I don't see mentions of him. Do you hate him? Which it's okay if you do, I'm just asking out of curiosity, really.

Not taken! So, I ABSOLUTELY love show Louis, he's one of my favorite characters EVER, on any media I've seen. Period. I give a lot of credits to Rolin and EVEN MORE TO JACOB ANDERSON, the work he does is simply phenomenal and gets better every episode as the finest wine.

On the other hand, book Louis, I just feel very neutral about him. With a lot of characters on the chronicles, I need to ignore some stuff to sympathize with them, but while I'm able to love Armand, Lestat, Petronia etc, Louis doesn't have a lot of effect on me. I understand he is someone you should care about and objectively I root for him, because he is one of the biggest characters, but I'm indifferent? While I'm able to be devastated with Armand and Lestat, cry with laughter with Pandora (specially when she's with Flavius), be intrigued and curious about Petronia and wishing I'd learned more about them... For better or for worse, I don't have any major feelings about him. I don't love him and I don't hate him. At least not right now, but I'm early into Blood Communion and still have Interview With the Vampire to go. There's still time for him to grow on me. For example, Pandora and Maharet grew so much to the point of being favorites of mine. We'll see.

I talk about him sometimes (specially his show counterpart), but for the past months I've ended up talking more about everybody else because I've been COMMITTED to reading the books. I decided to do so because I wanted to understand the fandom discourse and have my own opinions and conclusions, since I see a lot of conflicting, contradictory, paradoxical and overall confusing comments and I had to see it for myself. And I'm glad I have, because I've changed my mind about a LOT of stuff. It's sort of how I didn't tweet that much about Fake Rashid, but fell in love with Armand on season 2 (ALL five are tied as my faves on the show and on my top characters of all time, btw). Anyway, once I'm done with the chronicles, I'll watch the show again and write a lot about my thoughts and feelings about this universe, including Louis. Don't worry! :)

[zosonils]

🫵PHOTON TRIVIA

o7 YOU GOT IT BOSS!!

as much as i love making robots who Think Like Robots there's none of that here! photon is the ghost of someone real shoved into a metal body and just as unpredictable and irrational as any meat brain is. too obviously mechanical to be a person, too painfully human [mobian. whatever] to be a robot. [and don't you worry, i've definitely thought about how this in-between existence would collide with other robots in the series. give me a minute to stop crying every time i think about mecha sonic mkii and then i'm sending his ass to scrapnik island]

he derisively calls sonic 'meat sonic'. at first it was in response to being called 'metal sonic,' but now that he has his own name it's just this bizarre orphaned punchline kept alive by some mix of complacency and spite. for what it's worth meat sonic thinks it's funny as fuck that photon calls him that

photon can't cry, at least not at first. just doesn't have the physical functionality built into him. he tells himself that it's no loss, he/sonic hated crying anyway, but it's definitely not good for him that such a deeply psychologically necessary function is gone!

of course my autistic ass has thought about the jules and photon dynamic. it's weird, and awkward, and steeped in a thousand layers of feelings that neither of them know how to articulate, but i reckon they do like each other and they are good for each other. jury's still out on whether they can claim to be family, but it's hard not to at least be SOMETHING with the probable only other person on the entire planet who understands at least a little bit of what you're going through, y'know

out of all the things he can't do anymore, photon REALLY misses eating. leftovers from his organic-by-design brain keep telling him that it's been way too long since he ate and he'd feel better if he slammed back a chili dog. he can usually laugh off being asked a fundamentally robot-proof question like when he last slept or if he needs a shower and genuinely not be hurt [much] by it, but he gets real quiet if someone accidentally asks him if he wants anything to eat

because he struggles to conceptualise his body as His Body, he's really bad at treating the possibility of hurting himself with the appropriate gravity. as a result, he's prone to letting himself get injured if it means he gets more done in a fight, or ignoring minor damage until it compounds enough that he's falling apart, or pushing himself until his systems short out. thanks to this reckless approach to personal safety, he's been fully ship of theseus'd at least once since his original neo metal sonic body, which i'm sure is great for that aforementioned difficulty connecting himself with the body he's in

most of photon's interaction with sonic canon post-heroes is vague and messy and not something i've come up with an answer i like to, but i'm pretty confident in how he fits into the idw chunk of the timeline! he never 'officially' joins the restoration, and he's still just as prone to fucking off halfway across the planet as meat sonic, but he starts to be a pretty common sight around their hq. fighting eggman isn't really fun for photon anymore the way it is for sonic, having your entire identity irreversibly ripped away from you by someone makes any future victory against them feel hollow, but he's still got that burning drive to help others - the restoration gives him ways to fight indirectly enough that he can actually feel good about it again. he's one of the few who can meaningfully defend the metal virus survivors, and you BET he's so pissed at sonic for letting it happen he can hardly think straight. lanolin and tangle probably try to get him in the neo diamond cutters, but i don't think he'd take them up on the offer, given that he doesn't respond well to being told what to do. like i mentioned, i want to send his ass to scrapnik island and see how he plays off of another robot sonic turned terrifyingly real and separate person. then of course there's the dynamic between him and belle, which honestly could be a whole post by itself. after a couple years with only a tiny handful of non-grief-inducing friends and some unsustainably destructive coping mechanisms to his name, the point that idw picks up from is where photon finally goes from just enduring the horrors to genuinely feeling happier again :]

[ladyloveandjustice]

insisting that a explicitly non binary character is transfeminine and transfeminine coded, because if they actually were you could call them problematic and you could criticize them but they in fact. are not. is so anti-nonbinary. So prejudiced against nb people.

Especially insisting on gendering their "deep voice" from their actual nonbinary actor as like transfeminine coded. what a wildly offensive thing to gender an actual nb person's voice, i don't know i can't go on here. And going after them for writing a memoir called "Sissy"? You're going after real life non binary people for writing about their experiences and referencing/reclaiming shit they were called a lot???

and genuinely wild. I'm sorry there's no gray area for me here.

[scoliosisgoblin]

Peter and Jay doodles feat. T.K. and Lucy (headcanons for what I think they'd look like as humans.. gonna change their designs though)

[fairyflowerss]

I crawled my way out of my 2021 DSMP phase all bloody and scratched up just for the devil himself to say something about it and all of a sudden I remember everything

[littlespidermonkey]

Had a migraine and visualized this

[femgirlfriend]

i spent all my life ignoring show creators and actors for the real and correct analysis of the fans that I can't believe im doing the opposite for iwtv now.....like literally any opinion on lestat and louis that doesn't come from sam or jacob is soo trash....i was literally watching all their interviews the past weeks instead of reading fan analysis because it was better omg. what's happening