#The more I think about this the angrier I get

[wingsofhcpe]

No because the more I think about it, the angrier I get.

Vi didn't get a happy ending just because she's with Cait or whatever. She lost her sister and her father right after getting them back, she never got an apology or anything from Caitlin for all the horrible things that Caitlin did, and she still feels like "the dirt under Cait's nails" which um! Not a very happy ending thing for a character to say about their significant other, especially with their story of Caitlin being a member of the system that oppressed Vi and her people. Queerwashing classism isn't gonna work I'm afraid!

And Cait told Jinx that the good things she did weren't gonna magically make her crimes go away but- that's exactly what happened with Cait herself. She never paid for any of the crimes she committed, she never got any consequences for her actions, she got to have her cake and eat it too.

This is not a "sapphics get their happy ending" because the ending is not fuckin' happy. It's twisted and half-baked and just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Sorry but lesbian sex isn't enough for me to forget class oppression and police brutality on a systemic level that never got resolved, and the perpetrators of which never got any consequences for.

Anyway. Timebomb and Jayvik are my best friends now, I'm afraid. Can't believe I was so focused on CaitVi in s1 I didn't see their potential.

[cephalog0d]

For fuck's sake, it's not enough for you to disrespect the Batfam characters I love to further your stupid fucking plot, now you're dragging Scandal into this trash fire? She's barely appeared in reboot and this is what you're giving me? Making her work for her father (that thing that she was definitively not about in preboot) because...who knows. I would say "you better have a good reason" but they won't. Something something filial obligation apparently. Fuck you.

[c0ffeeb1ack]

genuinely what else is there to say. one of the sloppiest worst written seasons of tv i've ever had the displeasure of viewing and i watched all 15 seasons of supernatural, so you know i'm not fucking around here. way to care so little about your show and your characters that you think five/lila is an interesting or remotely fucking acceptable storyline and that killing off the entire family at the end is a "satisfying ending." what a fucking disappointment. i hope we all learned that your reward for a lifetime of abuse is to kill yourself as a family to make up for the crime of being born

[sequs-art-box]

The two A's inside my head.

[dykedvonte]

Something something perhaps the reason Curly lacks a truly undamaged ID where his face is visible is to represent how much damage Jimmy had already affected on him throughout their relationship and the way Curly obscured part of who he is and what he stood to unintentionally cater to this toxic influence in his life.

[bookofmirth]

sometimes I look at how people in this fandom treat one another, and I just think...

y'all are doing this over an author who wrote a character whose dick is too big for his underwear. Like, she wrote that. On purpose. She wrote random accidental beheading, she mixes up character names, she confuses dates, she wrote a fae king who has packs of red thongs at his house for ??? reasons. I guess because you never know when your guests will need packs of red thongs.

This is the content that you are bullying, harassing, and stalking other actual humans over???

[swan2swan]

If you want to see Sad Sapphics breaking up in the darkness and rain before they've even started dating, you can watch Camp Cretaceous or you can watch Arcane. Same dish, different chefs, both delicious.

[ibeewashere]

RIGHT BEFORE OINKING AT AN OFFICER OF THE LAW???? in the most respectful aromantic way possible Zac Oyama I <3 you so much

[moonspirit]

On my way home from work, I was at the supermarket and saw a cute alpaca keychain and I probably was looking at it like the "she wants that cookie so bad" meme and this... saleslady comes up to me and says - oh! that's for kids! ahhaha do you have any?

NO. NO, I AM THE KID. TOMORROW THAT ALPACA WILL BE MINE.

[t00thpasteface]

google dot com how to give formal research presentation on complex biochemistry/neuroscience topic while seething with barely contained anger and resentment

[that-birdy-chick]

So I finished season 6 a couple days ago and I wanted to order my feelings a bit before writing something here, but-

what the ever loving FUCK were the last 5 minutes of this finale??

Like this was genuinely such a good ending to the season, after all their ups and downs and the fighting in the episode before, Danny finally gets a chance to be badass, safes the day and his Steve TWICE and it would have been so easy to have this be the moment they finally FINALLY have a heart to heart and air out some of whatever the fuck has been going on between them since season 5

Danny risked his life and his kids growing up without a father (which the show has established multiple times, is his WORST fear), chases down the people who hurt his partner with a broken rib, then turns around and gives Steve his freaking LIVER without batting an eye and -

No one gives A SHIT???

Like I loved all the moments the team had sharing who Steve is to them and how important he is to them but than you have hartcut to Danny in a bed, being treated like he's invisible, no cards, no gifts, and I know it's supposed to be funny but I'm sorry where is the joke?

And Steve's response to ALL that is "HAHA Danny one day you're kids will hate you as much as I do"???

Like WHAT?!

WHO ARE YOU?

Steve, no matter how sky high on drugs he may be, would NOT, under any circumstances, say something like that

Also to have this after the fucking "darling, stand by me" montage made it look so much like a last minute "no homo" slap, that went a bit to far

just WTF

What were the writers thinking??

Or am I overreacting? Did everyone else find this funny?

[hundredsspoons]

I've said this like 10 different ways already, but I just want to say it again. I want Knives to Understand how much he has harmed Vash. I don't want him to be Told how much he hurt Vash. I don't want him to just See it in front of him. I need him to Understand in his heart of hearts, at the very core of his being, that what he's done to Vash is worse than everything the entirety of humanity has done to him in their 150 years on this planet. I need him to understand it like he understands gravity or the concept of cause and effect- instinctively and without doubt. I want the mask of delusion ripped from off his face, I want him to understand himself as the sinner he truly is

[yardsards]

seeing davenport be lucretia's funny little butler who only says his name before vs after listening to the stolen century

[wistfulwatcher]

ok not only was this just a bad narrative choice for the show in general and natalie's character, this was also such a WEAK narrative choice for misty, too.

christina has talked about how something happens at the end of the season that "changes" misty. but the thing is, this has happened before. to her. same circumstances. this is the opposite of something that should change her, because it's exactly what happened with crystal!

both times misty found a friend when she was desperately alone, she clung to that friend and put everything into the relationship. and then, due to the intensity of her relationship—sharing everything with crystal, wanting to protect natalie—she caused the death of the person she loved.

there is nothing i love more than parallels, but for a parallel to be narratively meaningful, there needs to be a purpose to it. you need to use it to highlight differences, or show a progression. there is no progression for misty here. this is just history repeating itself. if misty didn't change after crystal died, and nothing has changed between then and now for misty, then WHY does this change her? she just needed it to happen twice??

killing natalie was a disgusting choice, and if we're supposed to believe that it was necessary for misty's character growth, with absolutely no narrative justification for it to be, then—beyond it just being awful—it is an entirely lower level of bad storytelling.

i am all for a story where these women continue to (figuratively) cannibalize each other as adults; i signed up for a dark show about women making bad choices. but 1) this wasn't a choice. this was, once again, an accident. i signed up for a show about women with agency, and making everything around them an accident or an unintended consequence is absolutely spitting in the face of that (presumably to make them more ~sympathetic, and i hate it).

and 2) there are other ways for them to hurt each other without death being a factor. this show is supposed to be about struggling with trauma, and you can't struggle with trauma when you're dead. the far more interesting story is one where the past is well and truly saturated with conflict—with characters you know are doomed and you still learn to love, and with characters you know survive and you have to continually struggle to forgive and understand.

i had so, so much love for season one because that's what i thought we were getting. i thought we were getting a bittersweet love story about the complexity of women, the complexity of trauma, the complexity of survival.

instead, this is becoming yet another show where things happen to women. where, to make them sympathetic—as more palatable to mainstream (cough male cough) audiences—they need to write women as victims of circumstance, as victims of their pasts, as victims of their own actions.

this is becoming a show where women who make bad choices are not allowed to stand behind them. who must be out of control (shauna, lottie, tai), or must be punished for the unintended consequences (misty), or must die (nat, van potentially).

and now, with natalie the antler queen in the past, and a character we no longer have in the present, i wonder how long it will be until she becomes the scapegoat for the surviving characters. how long until the worst actions in the wilderness are put upon natalie's shoulders, to lighten the load from the surviving women. how long until the only characters allowed to have agency, allowed to be complex and make disagreeable choices that they intend to make, are ones who die.

how long until our beautiful, complex, surviving characters are washed down to nothing, to shells of themselves in the name of making them more sympathetic. more palatable. how long until this is just another shallow mystery, without the beating heart of the first season.

[akkivee]

ALL THE ADULTS IN ICHIROS LIFE ARE A BUNCH OF BUM FCKS THERE I SAID IT I NEED EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ADULT TO GET AWAY FROM HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMM

[cinderellaenjoyer]

Lautski thank you for not having a girl who can be demonised by the fandom for 'getting in the way of the Ship'