#all the analysis cuz i don't know how to tag

[thesunshinenotebook]

Ok, so! Besides the usual, “Of course Newt made it to the safe haven, what are you talking about?? What's page 250???” jokes, I've also seen a couple of posts recently by people who were annoyed that we literally refuse to accept this man's death. And so I throw my opinion into the void. Yes, I love fix-it fics and AUs where Newt lives. In fact, they're all canon to me. But! From an analytical standpoint, I bring this controversial (??) opinion:

Newt had to catch the Flare. He had to die.

In this slightly long and largely unedited essay, I will explain why…

Newt not being immune, besides adding emotional turmoil and intense pain to the story, also added humanity to the Flare, the disease that robs people of their humanity. The Cranks could be perceived as soulless monsters, obstacles, plot development and nothing more. We know that they theoretically used to be humans, and we feel pity for them on some level, but it’s not the focus of our attention. Newt changes that, because Newt is a Crank, and Newt is a human, and we love Newt. I’m aware that other characters were infected before Newt was (in the book all of the Gladers thought that they were infected and in the movie Winston and Brenda actually were), but I feel like Newt being such an important character and getting the virus really brought this point home.

The entire series revolves around the choice between two evils: let the world fall to disease, or torture children for a theoretical cure. Newt experienced both sides of the issues (fell to the disease AND was also tortured for research before that, the poor guy). He understood the need for a cure better than anyone, but he also knew exactly what WICKED would do to get it. And guess what? Torturing children is never ethical!

Newt couldn't live, because then it would just be Thomas and friends vs. the inferior losers with the Flare. Newt didn’t deserve to die, but his friends didn’t exactly deserve for him to live (though they didn’t deserve to lose him, either). The world is unfair, and they couldn’t win everything. This, again, shows the complexity of the issue, challenging Thomas's decision to leave the city and give up on the idea of a cure.

Another issue brought up by Newt's catching the Flare and his subsequent death is this continuous motif of memory and identity, which obviously played a huge role in the rest of the series as well (everyone losing their memories before the maze, writing their names on the wall, remembering all of their friends that died). Newt has always been selfless and caring, and this continues even as he begins to lose his sanity and himself. Newt wants to hang on to who he is rather than turning into a monster, and, ultimately, he chooses death over losing himself. He lives on in memory, though, as well as through his journal. There are so many other complexities to Newt's story; questions of identity, depression, selflessness, bottled emotions, and love. All of this immensely complicates his death, and the fact that it was technically suicide. It's so important to have characters like Newt in fiction, if only to explore the depths of these issues. So many of us can see so much of ourselves in Newt. His story might not give us all the answers, but it does give us a reason to hope.

The truth is that life is unfair. Newt's situation emphasizes how true this is in the story, humanizing the Flare virus and drawing a direct comparison between wicked's goal and the goal of the kids who are running from them. Our world today is similarly unfair, though obviously in different ways. There are challenges and setbacks and hurt, just like in the story, but Newt proves that these troubles aren't all that there is. We can't escape every problem, but we can make the most of what we do have. We can love and joke and laugh with others, even if the world is falling apart. The ending might be sad, but the pages in the middle can still make us smile, and maybe help us inspire the next person to do the same. 

[murfpersonalblog]

Gotta wake up to this anon in the tags, undoubtedly referencing/shading what I reblogged here:

Nonny, at least say it to my face if you wanna call me an internalized misogynist, just cuz I don't cosign the predominately white court of popular opinion's dogma that ONLY sees Lestat as the female-coded victim of Louis' "abuse" of the crossdressing campy Queen Mother de Lioncourt; while you reject any acknowledgement let alone honest discussion of Lestat as the patriarchal Coven Master terrorizing his fledglings/children--even in effing 2022 when he's setting Rat Catcher ablaze with the Fire Gift in Louis' honor & kicking him out in to the hurricane--another round in the stormy romance of you two.

And plot twist: I (mostly) agree with nonny about Anne Rice, and how she engages with (trans)gender through Louis--and I agree with Nalyra that there's also complexity to how AR engages with Lestat LATER--10+ years AFTER IWTV & her daughter Michelle's death.

It's not at all easy to pin down, especially when in these convos about Loustat & gender, the most integral part of their dynamic is ALWAYS EXCLUDED by Lestans: CLAUDIA. She's only babytrapped cuz, as I've said 1000 times, Lestat was hyperaware of LOUIS' emotional/behavioral resemblance TO LESTAT'S MOTHER, GABRIELLE; and Louis' "maternal instinct," that resembled ANNE'S own excitement to be a mom.

Anne Rice is NOT saying Louis (or even Lestat!) represents her as a woman (in METAPHOR, not biology, DUH) cuz he crossdresses & gallivants around twirling his hair & flicking his limp wrists--I already discussed the effect of 18th century Franco-European dandyism on an 18th-century vampire stuck in the Rococo period (X X), where clothing is just ONE aspect of how masculinity & femininity are expressed--BY MEN.

Gender is MORE than Loustat crossdressing. Like I've said: it's misognyist to assume that everyone crossdressing is female-coded, while blatantly ignoring their BEHAVIOR--just like Nalyra said:

I have screamed & hollered from the rooftops this whole time how the power dynamics between Loustat are being grossly misunderstood or outright overlooked, as everyone gets distracted by fun & c*nty Lestat. Somehow, ONLY Lestat gets to represent Mother, but LOUIS DOESN'T!? Sus! But I'M the misogynist homophobe for calling y'all RACISTS who can't acknowledge/accept a Black gay man in a suit (or cardigan) as a female-coded representation of motherhood, when the show's beat y'all over the head with it 1000 times? SUS!

Esp. when I explicitly say Louis AS Woman, Louis AS Mother--nonny, grab a dictionary and realize that I didn't say Louis IS Mother, Louis IS Woman--it's SIMILE. It's METAPHOR. It's PARALLEL. It's CODING.

It's highly problematic to reject AR's own words being "not solid" evidence (anon), or downplay it as outdated/irrelevant (Nalyra), just cuz it doesn't align with your own interpretations. That's not how proper analysis of primary sources works. It's CONTEXTUAL evidence about the processes of personal growth; just like it's contextual how AR couched her shift to Lestat in direct relation to her tryna move past her maternal depression/grief via Louis. You cannot discuss one without the other, but that's all I ever see far too many ppl do: downplaying the foundational conceptualization of these characters within the books, film, and show alike; and hiding behind accusations of homophobia & misogyny rather than honestly engaging with the characters and their behavior. You wanna talk about misogyny? How about MISOGYNOIR, and how y'all don't know EFF ALL about BLACK MOTHERHOOD, and the hypermasculinization of Black gay men, to even BEGIN to fathom everything Louis represents in contrast & relation to Massa Lestat.

Cuz there's CERTAINLY a marked lack of discussion or acknowledgement about how race factors into all of this. I see NO mention/discussion/analysis of Lestat by that anon rejecting the other side of the conversation I'm arguing against--esp. the white privilege Lestat enjoys that allows him to be far freer with explorations of gender & sexuality than black!Louis, and thus embraced by his predominately white cis female fans--who find it so effing impossible/offensive to see the ways that HIS BEHAVIOR directly contradicts the feminist ideals about agency & autonomy they allege to hold oh-so-sacred--"crushing what you cannot own."

Which only further indicates that this particular propping up of Lestat in the fandom is being done at Louis'' expense in bad faith by bad actors running to everyone's accounts on anon and obfuscating the context they're even responding to.

Claudia never lied: "It's a STONING."

[bleeding-star-heart]

These tags on a reblog of my Anders analysis are another problem I have with DA:2's writing

#god i have so many feelings about this#cuz i romanced anders my first playthrough#and i hated that our relationship did a 180 as soon as I was like#“im not gonna let you gaslight me into doing war crimes”#was it OOC?#i don't know#I can't say#I haven't studied anders as a character or taken the time to contemplate him enough to speak on it#but i just know it was such a turn off that i started a new game entirely EDIT: I have removed the word "gaslighting" from this meta owing to the fact that technically, Anders isn't gaslighting, because gaslighting is something different. Gaslighting being trying to make someone doubt their perception of reality, among other things. What Anders ACTUALLY does falls under emotional manipulation. I would say to the OP that yes, indeed, this is VERY "out of character", so to speak. Most definitely for JUSTICE, the spirit inhabiting Anders's body. But also for Anders as well. Think about it: emotionally manipulating one's romantic partner is an inherently unjust thing to do. It is not something two people who respect and love each other do. Yet the spirit of Justice is completely silent when it happens. A being that supposedly embodies nothing but Justice simply...allows his host to guilt his lover into doing something they disagree with. He does not protest or try to stop Anders from engaging in a truly toxic form of emotional manipulation. If written properly, Justice should immediately have called Anders out on this. Which should prompt either an apology from Anders or a long, seemingly one-man argument between the two. But that doesn't happen. In fact, Justice only shows up if you, as Anders's rival, manage to turn him AGAINST blowing up the Chantry. And then, only to railroad Anders back into the role of terrorist. This, combined with Justice's general lack of reaction to any injustice or violation of rights that DOESN'T have to do with mages, causes him to become little more than a cheap plot device. Now as to why I don't believe a properly written Anders would do it, either. Anders at this point in the story is a revolutionary, yes. He is passionate about his cause. But he is also MORE than that. And part of that 'more'-and also WHY he's a revolutionary-is that he was a victim of a controlling, emotionally manipulative institution. One that bombards people like him with all kinds of unhealthy messaging. Messages like: the outside world is guaranteed to hate you, your (unchangeable) nature is inherently wrong and sinful. As well as: you can't trust yourself at all, you are one bad day from being a monster, you need to let us control you for your own good. Anders probably saw more than one person like Keili-that girl in the Mage Origin who actively believes she's evil and prays to 'not be a mage'. He probably encountered a lot of mages with varying degrees of religiously based self-loathing. He probably had some himself. And he lived in the Ferelden Circle. He's also a person who not only left a toxic institution, but actively sees and complains about how toxic the institution is. People who've suffered from toxic environments/relationships and RECOGNIZE how toxic those environments/relationships were, tend to value healthy relationships/environments. They try and work on themselves to remove any lingering psychological effects of that toxicity. It is highly likely that Anders would NOT want to repeat the kind of emotional manipulation he and others were subjected to. While he might not agree with Hawke about methods, Anders would not believe guilt to be a good tactic because guilt is one of the very tactics the Chantry used on him! Guilt about being a target for demonic possession, guilt about what the magisters did, guilt about being a mage in general.

Guilting his partner into agreeing with him, is, essentially, him doing what the Chantry did to him. And if the writers had put any thought into his character, they would have realized that too. And thus, if they were smart, or and simply give the player the option to permanently decline the quest with no negative consequences. The other option is to lean into that, and purposefully make it a character flaw, that he's too blinded by trauma to see that. But the writers did NOT have the time to be able to successfully pull that off. Thus, yeah. They make Anders, who suffered from religious based emotional manipulation...into someone who emotionally manipulates his partners. Which is yet another thing done in the name of a less-than-stellar ending and plot beat. EDIT: I have removed the word "gaslighting" from my part of this meta owing to the fact that technically, Anders isn't gaslighting Hawke, because gaslighting is something different. Gaslighting being trying to make someone doubt their perception of reality, among other things. What Anders ACTUALLY does falls under emotional manipulation. Which I still don't believe a properly written Anders OR Justice would do, for the reasons stated above.

[peachjagiya]

“ “The conversation in the car is both of them admitting they didn't bother. You say Jimin didn't bother to see JK.”

I really hope you would read what I wrote again because it seems like you took alot of what I said in bad faith even though I didn’t mean it that way and was merely voicing out an observation. I clearly said that I think Jimin was the one who mostly made the effort to set things up or bring Jk to places with him but when he stopped, their hangouts stopped all together because unlike Jimin Jk doesn’t seem like he is very great at planning and initiating some of these hangouts so if the members don’t go to his house when he invites them they may not see each other much because it seems like they don’t always accept for him to come over. (He wanted to go over to Jimin’s but Jimin didn’t let him) If Jimin had continued doing what he always did I have no doubt that they would have spent more time together so in this case I think how much they spent time or didn’t spend time together depended more on Jimin than Jungkook because I don’t think Jungkook would say no if Jimin wanted them to go somewhere or if Jimin wanted to visit him but it seems like Jimin could. For example, Jk sent a text to the gc and invited anyone who wanted to come over to come over and Jhope and Tae were the only ones who did show up. It was up to Jimin if he wanted to show up or not seeing as Jk had invited anyone who wanted to come but he didn’t come. That was one hangout that didn’t happen only because of Jimin. Jk openly asked Jimin to come over for chicken and beer but Jimin didn’t go. Another hangout that didn’t happen because of Jimin. Jungkook asked Jimin to come and do boxing with him but Jimin didn’t go, another hangout that didn’t happen because of Jimin and then we even had Jk wanting to go to Jimin himself to do a Live and then shower at Jimin’s place b4 heading to work but it didn’t happen because of Jimin. We don’t know of anytime when Jimin wanted to hangout with Jk and Jk said no and Jimin invited Jk to hangout but Jk didn’t show up. (Not talking abt Jimin asking Jk to come watch him rehearse cuz that is not hanging out and I also wouldn’t want to go sit down watching my friend work all day) So far we know, about 4 hangouts might have happened if only Jimin had willed it. It’s the same way Jk said he had asked Tae to go out for a drink but Tae couldn’t make it. That’s why I said how much or how little time Jk spends with some of the members depends more on how available they are for him than how available he is for them and this is not saying that he is always available and at their beck and call while they are not but just that he seems to be more flexible than they are in saying yes to plans. The moment one of them stops making the effort, they might still see each other from time to time but not nearly as much as when they themselves initiate stuff.

“We don't know which of them organised Paradise. We don't know which of them organised Namsan. We don't know JK didn't ask Tae to be at Inkigayo (in fact, I would say "where were you?" suggests he had asked.)”

But that’s the point isn’t it? We don’t know so many things and all the analysis we make of things are based of things which we do know. Thinking or suspecting that taekook are a couple is only or mostly based on things you do know or things you atleast think you know right? Because maybe what you don’t know could validate or debunk your suspicion that they are together so in the same light my comment is based on what we do know and based on what we know, it seems like other members are probably the ones who mostly take initiative to organize things to do and then maybe take Jungkook along with them or ask him to join them which he does because he likes hanging out with them.

I also never said Jk never initiates things. Ofcourse there are times when he might invite people over but seeing as in most of his outings with Tae or Jimin he is usually tagging along with them and their friends, I don’t think it is farfetched to say they just plan things and bring him along or invite him to join. I mean there is nothing wrong with this because he literally said it himself when they were talking about outings in the MBTI Labs episode. He literally said he always needs someone to bring him so this isn’t purely speculative. Knowing that Jimin and Jungkook used to hang out quite abit some years back and then Hobi mentioning that Jimin likes taking Jungkook places also tracks. Seeing as in majority of the outings we know about of taekook in the solo era it was Jk with Tae and his friends doesn’t it make sense to say he probably just tagged along after Tae invited him to join? Also mostly because way before we ever really saw Jk with wooga, Tae had been doing alot of these activities with wooga before like taking trips with them, going to hotels, attending public event etc so it feels like Jk just joined them and started doing activities which they were already user to doing. I don’t think there is anything wrong with Jk not being the one to initiate or plan things because he naturally is a home body and he doesn’t really enjoy sight seeing like Vmin do. Most times when we even see or hear that Jk was out on his own, he is usually just eating at restaurants and even when we see him with his 97 liners, they are also mostly at restaurants eating together or just hanging out at home at odd hours of the night. You only see or hear of him doing all those outdoor activities with Vmin. With Jimin they used to go ice skating, bowling, karoake, movies, went to restaurants to eat and sightseeing in London and most of this with Jimin and friends. with Tae he went bowling, musicals, premiers, concerts, snowboarding, karaoke etc and most of these too with Tae and his friends but never Vmin tagging along with him and his own friends. Yes Tae might have been seen with Jk’s friend separately and Jimin with Jk’s friend separately but it’s not the same as Jk probably planning something with his own group of friends and asking Vmin to join.

“We don't know JK didn't tell his driver to go straight to Tae's after long flights. We don't know JK isn't the one who showed up for a shower at Tae's place. We don't know that JK didn't invite Tae over to play with Bam. “

Again, with all these we don’t know and as I said, I never said Jk doesn’t initiate at all or doesn’t invite him members over, I just said it seems like he isn’t great at initiating.

This refers to this ask.

Whilst I believe this might be an issue of communication and your point not coming across as clearly, or indeed me not getting your point, you did say these things:

I know you probably wouldn’t like to hear this but I see the exact same thing happening with taekook. I mean them probably not keeping up with each other much unless Tae makes the effort.

[...]

Tae made the effort to reach out and invite Jk to hang out with him and his friends which Jk didn’t mind ofcourse because I’m sure he likes hanging out with Tae. If he didn’t do this, maybe Taekook would have gone a long time too without hanging out because Jk probably wouldn’t have made the effort.

[...]

[Jimin and Jungkook] used to hang out together alot actually and then suddenly it just stopped happening and now it’s kinda clear to me that it stopped happening because the person who always made it happen just stopped trying.

It's a language issue that plenty of introverted socially anxious people are familiar with: Painted as the let down who never contributes.

But then I'm confused by this line in the new ask:

“We don't know which of them organised Paradise. We don't know which of them organised Namsan. We don't know JK didn't ask Tae to be at Inkigayo (in fact, I would say "where were you?" suggests he had asked.)”

But that’s the point isn’t it? We don’t know so many things and all the analysis we make of things are based of things which we do know. Thinking or suspecting that taekook are a couple is only or mostly based on things you do know or things you atleast think you know right? Because maybe what you don’t know could validate or debunk your suspicion that they are together so in the same light my comment is based on what we do know and based on what we know, it seems like other members are probably the ones who mostly take initiative to organize things to do and then maybe take Jungkook along with them or ask him to join them which he does because he likes hanging out with them.

I think I see what you're saying: we all make assumptions and conclusions. But you base yours on what we do know, right? Ok I have no issue with that. Seems healthy. I think we all try to do that.

But Paradise, Namsan, Inkigayo, Bam hangs, etc... It sounds like you don't factor them into your opinion on this because we don't know how they came about. But they did happen. The point I'm making is that when I don't have enough data to make a judgement on how JK behaves in his relationship with Tae, I don't jump to the unfavourable judgement that JK didn't make an effort.

This might just be a communication issue. I understand better what you're saying now but I still think the logic is a bit flawed.

💜

[problematicbyler]

my question with a lot of the takes that i’ve seen where they want to draw a line somewhere, whether that be at fantasizing or specificity or the takes being boring is like,, do they not read smut? ik some people don’t and that’s obviously fine like don’t read something if you don’t want to read it. but i feel like ive seen a lot of people say “stop having weird boring takes and actually write a fic instead of just fantasizing about it” and i think that’s such a strange take because something tells me not one of those people would be happier having more explicit fics saturate ao3. to me a lot of this feels like people are personally uncomfy with more nsfw content (which again is Obviously fine everyone has their own limits which should be respected and i don’t think anyone who just is saying nah it’s not for me and not making it a moral issue should be called puritans especially cuz sex can be a really sensitive topic for some people and i think those people generally understand the nuances a lot better than others who are throwing out allegations) and want their discomfort validated or maybe just want to understand it more themselves so they jump to one of these limitations. they don’t want to say they’re completely uncomfortable with sex because they’re probably not!! there’s just something that specifically seems to irk them about this situation and they want to publicize that in a way that makes them and anyone else who sees their take feel like they are objectively right and not being mean or against sex. i bet some of them have read smut (for other fandoms or even for byler) and maybe even enjoyed it but maybe felt icky or guilty and they want to justify that and not feel like they’re the weird ones or too sensitive or like kink shaming. i also bet some of them haven’t read any smut and don’t understand that it’s not all self insert (not that there’s anything wrong with that but tbh ive seen none of that on ao3 for byler and ive seen a lot of takes saying people want to have sec with teens and are making self insert fantasies about it when ive seen actually zero evidence of anyone doing that) and that it’s mostly using these characters who we love and project onto as vessels to explore different scenarios (emotional and physical) in a safe place that anyone who knows what they don’t like and knows how to read tags on ao3 won’t be negatively affected by.

(i also just want to say that the take that it’s boring and lazy content is so silly considering head cannons are literally the backbone of any fandom like we are all here to put them in situations we don’t already see them in in canon and “fantasize” about how they would react (except for people might use the word “think” or “speculate” when referring to non explicit head cannons) and also the fact that there’s a non explicit polls account that doesn’t get any flack for posting polls with the same level of frivolousness (not a bad thing, i like them too) and those are allowed to be just good old fun but once you add sex to the mix suddenly everyone only wants content that is serious and exclusively canon relevant)

yes!!!! being uncomfy with smut is fine!!!! but moralizing it and shaming people who do like smut is not fine!!!! all we are asking is for people to mind their own business and take control of curating their online experiences instead of taking it out on people for making content they don't like!!!

and yes!!! why are headcanons considered gross sexualized fantasies? like to me so much of sex is psychological so when i'm talking about kinks or who likes x thing more or what their sexual dynamic is like.... to me that's just another level of analysis and examining the character.

nothing further to add because i 100000000% agree to all of the above. thank you for the message!

[just-orbiting-you]

yes, i am fairly new here. i haven't been posting as frequently as i have until a month ago. i received a few asks about this, including your previous which i answered and have since stopped tagging most of my anons as jikook unless it was a jikook specific conversation, i.e., the military stuff this blog was talking about the other day.

if you would like me to untag all of my jikook posts that mention tae, let me know. i will say the same thing again, it seems like a good amount of people are engaging in this tae conversation cuz i keep getting asks about it still. i wasn't even close to answering every anon i had in the past two weeks

i am very aware that my words on a random tumblr blog will not change tae's actions. i also don't think i am making him out to be a bad guy. these anons and i seemed to just find his behavior interesting and were engaging in basically an analysis of the solo era and how v min kook operate currently.

[league-of-blorbos]

This is gonna be a long and weird post from me, and I don't know if it'll even be comprehensible in the end, but I just wanna put my thoughts out there about my feelings for Jhinhwei and why even as everyone else has fallen in love with this ship, I'm struggling to get into the idea of it.

(And to get this out of the way, this is all just my personal interpretation of these characters, I'm not gonna shame anyone for shipping something I don't or reading a character differently than I do. I'm doing this mostly cuz I just wanna voice my thoughts on this pair and maybe hear from people who think differently than I do. Also the other ships I tagged will make sense in a moment I PROMISE!)

It's not that I don't understand the appeal, oh no, this ship feels like it was handmade to appeal to Tumblr's love of darker, tension-filled, inherently toxic, homoerotic romance. It's LoL Hannigram, it's someone who's at least somewhat moral falling obsessively in love with a psychopath, and now they're at a cross roads of if they want to try to remain a decent person but abandon their love, or embrace the darkness within them and allow themselves to be in love with this horrible person. There's so much potential for drama and complex explorations of love and obsession that this ship should absolutely grip me.

But it doesn't, even as it's gripped others who like the same other pairings that I do.

My two other favorite ships (bear with me, I think understanding why I love these two helps rationalize why I don't ship Jhinhwei), the ones that have actually worked their way into every crevasse of my brain and I think about scenarios of them while trying to fall asleep is Kayn/Rhaast (big shock I know /s) and Simon/Betty from Adventure Time. They are also two pairings that delve into obsession and where neither partner is fully good (or in Petrigrof's case, more like good people with unintentionally toxic behavior).

Let's start with Rhaayn cuz I've rambled enough about that ship on here to fill a library (hehe voicelines references). Rhaayn is more of a classic enemies to friends to lovers with the Symbrock dynamic of Rhaast being a parasite that is fighting for control over Kayn's body being thrown in there for spice. The fun with this ship is seeing how their fight forces them to have to share moments of closeness and eventually bond with the other, and how through those moments, Kayn and Rhaast both find a perfect mirror for themselves. They find someone with the same level of bloodthirst and similar war-related trauma, but also someone who balances them as they are opposites and the same in so many ways.

Petrigrof (spoilers for both Adventure Time and Fiona And Cake) is sorta the opposite of Rhaayn in that a lot of Rhaayn focuses on how they fall in love, while Petrigrof's main story starts after already being together. The other way they're different is that while I very much SHIP Rhaayn, I'm kinda lying when I say I SHIP Simon and Betty as my favorite part is that they don't stay together in the end. The Youtuber Sarcastic Chorus has already done an amazing analysis of this ship that matches a lot of my feelings on them, but to sum up, how Petrigrof ended is all due to Betty and Simon's mistakes. They loved each other so much that Betty was willing to throw so much of herself away for Simon, while he was blinded to how much she was doing for him, and even in the moments where he did recognize Betty was doing too much, he let her keep trying as he thought it would undermine their relationship if he didn't. And I love that their story is a lesson in how even well-meaning obsession can be toxic and that you need to know when to walk away and move on, even when it hurts you and the person you love.

Simon is just as madly in love as Betty is and vice versa, and they're both equally responsible for the way they ended up. While with Rhaayn, both crave each other's company because they've found someone who is just as violent and fucked up in all the same ways as they are.

But compared to those two pairs, Jhinhwei feels too unbalanced, and not just due to the power imbalance. To summarize it, my other ships feel like two people who ruin each other (or heal each other, or both!), while Jhinhwei mostly feels like Jhin trying to ruin Hwei and the main draw is Hwei choosing to accept the ruin and his internal struggle about it. The story of them, as I read it, focuses almost solely on Hwei's arc and you could theoretically have him effect Jhin just as much, but first, any attempts for Hwei to "fix" Jhin would just recreate the issue for me in the other direction, where it's now about Jhin's internal struggle with Hwei trying to heal him. Second, I have a hard time reading that as anything other than drastically changing Jhin's character to the point where you might as well make an OC.

That last point is definitely more of a personal problem as I have way more trouble getting into Jhin's headspace than I do with Hwei or Kayn or even Rhaast. But to me, Jhin is almost more of a force of madness than a character I can dive into the complex mind of, and I'm kinda ok with that. A lot of people love trying to figure out how these characters' brains work and why they are who they are, but just like how Riot never wanted to unmask Jhin (until that goddamn concept art came out!), I'm ok with leaving the mask on and letting some things about Jhin remain mysterious, even at the cost of Jhinhwei not meeting a lot of the criteria to be a ship that I really fall in love with.

[dedtoot]

watched the jsrf documentary recently and i am so unbelievably dissapointed

moved my rant from the tags to here. Spitted too much. Not like it matters to anyone except me cuz post is irrelevant now

Ok ik that i should not have expected something actually accurate from this video, considering how the fandom is and considering that from the very start i've seen the red flags so to say

One of these red flags is that jsrf is "literally LITERALLY just tony hawk games but roller skates". The first actually concerning thing i heard from others about it. It's my go-to way to determine that the person I'm listening to probably has no idea what they're talking about or a really missinformed. Never failed me so far

But oh man, even keeping that in mind, i did not expect whatever i got

Not only there were just no actual game analysis, which is wild, since you're like SAYING why this game is worth being played, but everything actually game related is a straight up lie

YEAH WE'RE GETTING TO LYING ABOUT GAME MECHANICS HERE

First, saying that grind combos areva rhythm game element. It could be just some weird wording, but it's just. Not true at all. Also calling this mechanic "silent". Whatever that supposed to mean. Not only it's not silent because Roboy tutorials exist and this mechanic is there, and nowhere us it said to be rhythm based, only timing based. And the tutorials ARE useful, since the controls were really expended here(using pretty much every button on the controller), but also that's not a silent mechanic purely for the fact that the character itself isn't silent during the entire thing.

Second. Saying that all characters got unique stats and that is showing off their personality. And uhh. What does that say about the love shockers and the immortals, with their stats. Or hell, clutch and jazz, who are literally right next to each other in the character select screen. It's dumb what I'm trying to say.

And not to mention the general overhyping of the game, by saying it's so so deep and thought-provoking oohhh(but then also never mention that one of jsr inspirations was movie fight club.why). And then just. Ignore that this is a game with not much dialogue. And then ignore every character aside dj k?????????

Like I'm not asking about talking about every single character, but at least like. Mention the plot relevant one's ??? Just the ones you can't possibly avoid. I know that dj k is the main man here but he alone does not move the story.

This kind of overhyping genuinely ruined my experience. Like i was under the impression that I'm gonna experience something out of this world and fun. But i came out of it disappointed. Mind you, i still have a lot to like about the game, but it's just. Not this. This is literally the the worst thing you can do when recommending the game. You will disappoint people. It's not this big grand thing because it wasn't allowed to become one. It's a sad but inspiring story about how even despite this, game is still liked. You don't need to pretty it up, lay out the truth.

Next thing about the video is that this is not a game documentary, but some random hot takes with some lies and long history lessons.

History lessons were a good part of it, but the fact that they put the us culture stuff before talking about the japanese culture is umm. This is a game made to portray a japanese culture from the time?? Like specifically. It's confirmed. To the point that one dev did not like the inclusion of grind city levels in jsr, because, in his mind, it was watering down its identity. Not to mention that this practice specifically existed just to make overseas audiences more comfortable, which is real fucking problematic if it's about something culture related imo. Anyway, he has a point.

Absolutely not denying the influences from other cultures here, because that's just stupid and wrong, but get a clue jeez.

And related to getting clues. This video used videos of actual protest while dj k's monologue was playing in the background. YOU JUST DON'T DO THIS. It's gross. It's weird to do even IF the game gets that real. And this game sure as hell doesn't.

Also do not understand who was this vid even made for, since fans will get nothing new out of it and newcomers wont understand what's the game is about and will be thrown into a sudden history lesson

So yeah highly don't reccomend watching

(update. i spitted out most of my problems with it and my comment was removed. so much for that free speech topic present and indorsed in the vid. also i made a vid that explains my points better)

[bonesandthebees]

Rose time! I realised I didn’t look at the tag… WHAT DO YOU MEAN EXECUTION?!?! Like attempted murder was a given, but execution?! That invokes fear. Execution could be anyone (except Wilbur cuz he’s the pov character). You know what invokes more fear? Friends to enemies. Bee, what have you done to rainduo? Bee, please. Unless all three of those relationships are the same (probably crimeboys) relaxation, which would be a rollercoaster, I am very scared for Niki and Wilbur’s friendship (which fair but I’ll get to that complexity). Also, Enemies to family, but like in an unhealthy way -> of course it is, it wouldn’t be a Bee story without some unhealthy relationships. Also this one definitely is Crimeboys.

Anyway, don’t mind me getting distracted by the tags, I just always forget to read them but there’s a lot you can get out of them. (Don’t mind me looking at that dysfunctional family tag and glancing and Sandduo.) like this story is going to be spicy and I’m here for it.

For the rest of this ask I’m just going to yell about things and then I’ll get to the analysis next ask. The origins tag? Amazing! 1. Because o!Phil is such a cool character I wish we got to see more of and that’ll be very fun mixed in with dsmp!Phil. 2. Sneeg!!! 3. Phil and Sneeg origins dynamic, which is obviously going to be in the background, but still!

Also, Ranboo being on Wilbur side compared to the other side is very interesting given how you wrote him in Stars, like he was a flawed character, but he did fool both Wilbur and Tommy on multiple occasions. Which rip Rose!Tommy already, I’m sorry that kid is going to have a TIME. And probably not a good one.

And the Wilbur dynamics are off the charts, childhood best friends rainduo is *chef’s kiss* especially with the shared habits and Wilbur’s clear loyalty, but how loyal is he really? Tntduo strike the perfect, we are technically on opposite teams, but we are still friends and Quackity saying Wilbur would still have a place says a lot about their dynamic and how Quackity views Wilbur (I’ll get to that). And the Sandduo. Bee, I have WORDS about the Sandduo. There’s so many layers, I’m going to have a blast peeling them all back. Wilbur has daddy issues and it SHOWS. And Phil loves his son. He really does want the best for that boy. He may just also be slightly fucking him up in the process because this man has the emotional intelligence of a grain of salt.

Also, Techno! I hope we get to see more of him! We should with the meetings and all, but I can’t say to much about him because we’ve barely seen him. Btw, what does Keeper mean / do? I’ll look it up too, but I wanted to ask.

(I’m going to have to look up so much of the vocabulary in this, which is great because I’m learning new works, but imagining some of the clothes is hard because those tend to be the words I don’t know and I didn’t have time to look it up while reading yesterday.)

-🌲

LMAO I knew the execution tag would get people. it's been very funny to see everyones reactions to it so far. can't wait for it to actually come into play :) also it's really funny to see everyone try to guess which pairings fit up with which tags. also I don't want to give too much away but, like, I'll give you the obvious one that yeah enemies to family but in an unhealthy way is crimeboys. we all knew that one was coming lmao

YEAHHH o!phil my beloved! I mean we actually did see a bit of o!phil in stars. stars!phil was a mix of dsmp, origins, and smp earth phil for sure, but the o!phil influence is definitely going to be a lot more obvious in rose. also I think I said this in one of the other asks I just answered, but besides o!phil the main reason I wanted to throw the osmp tag on there was because I just really want to have sneeg in a fic lol. I love o!phil and o!sneeg's dynamic so much so I'm so excited I get to include it in this.

lol yeah ranboo's definitely not going to have as big of a role in rose as they did in stars, but it'll be interesting to have him on wilbur's side this time around. or rather, I guess it's more fitting to say they're on phil's side. wilbur just reaps the benefits of finding out everything ranboo knows because they tell sneeg and sneeg tells phil and phil tells wilbur. little game of telephone going on here.

so glad you're enjoying the wilbur dynamics so far because I'm having so much fun with them :D childhood best friends rainduo means so much to me. they share so much of themselves with each other. so many shared habits, secrets, promises, memories—I'm so excited to dig into that friendship and let the stress of their situation press down on the seams :)

tntduo too there's so much going on there. they're friends but also they've always technically been on opposing sides. they have a lot of mutual respect for each other. they're also childhood friends but it was always niki and wilbur vs quackity. it's a lot going on

YEAHHH the sandduo was the bit i was most excited for you to see. there are so many layers to them. oh my GOD wilbur's daddy issues are off the charts in this, and it's not even like phil's a bad dad. i mean, the lessons he's already instilled into his son's head are definitely questionable, but he loves his kid a lot! he wants him to succeed. he wants him to continue his legacy. he wants to make sure wilbur learns all the lessons phil himself had to learn the hard way. but also, he has no emotional intelligence whatsoever. surely this will have no long lasting impacts on wilbur's psyche.

we'll get more of techno I promise! he's not going to be a main character but he'll be very present! the 'keeper' is meant to be a 'keeper of knowledge' (I haven't officially decided on the full job title but it's something like that). essentially, he's the palace librarian/archivist. he manages important documents and records and also oversees the library, and was also charged with being wilbur and niki's tutor as they were growing up.

yeah I'm so sorry about the clothes I'm trying my best to describe them but a lot of them you're just gonna have to google because I can't describe them all very well and sometimes I just gotta use the lesser known official term for them. if there's ever any outfit/item of clothing I mention in the text that you don't know, feel free to shoot me an ask about it and I'll find a reference pic for you!!

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

came back from going on a drive not long ago and all i could think about was sucking the mercs off anyway i have a blog specifically for nsfw shit now (kinda like your posts/asks what you do with your tag) but i don't really know how to tag it like i posted sumn just now n was like "#cw nsfw" "#cw suggestive" and suggestive n stuff tags of that nature cuz i too am horny and curious and want followers for that blog think i should just make some sort of custom tag like you've got maybe? -✨

Oooh good question! I have a custom horny tag on this blog bc it's NOT a specifically nsfw blog, I post a lot of sfw content (art rbs, jokes, analysis, whatever) and I want anyone who follows me for THAT to easily be able to filter out the horny stuff (and, in turn, for people who follow me for the horny stuff to easily be able to find it). I actually DO have a nsfw/kink blog, for like. non-tf2 porn LMAO, and the tags I use there are much more general. "NSFT" is a good way to both mark something for filters AND find communities, and then u can add onto it with "[demographic] nsft" (I use tags like "trans nsft" or "ftm nsft", for instance). If ur posting abt specific kinks, use tags specific to that kink. Tumblr's a bitch abt kink tags so u might have to spell it "p4ppy pl4y k1nk" but it should get u thru! People who engage with those tags will see ur posts n HOPEFULLY u get followers like that. No one cares abt my porn sideblog so maybe I'm not the best person to give advice abt this LMAO

[totaldramafan-lauri]

Boy I love having something I wanna write really badly in my head but not being able to sit down and write it cuz my heart is breaking apart and I can't focus-

(Venting about something I brutally realized today, it's not CRK related so don't read if you're not morbidly curious)

I wanna write this....I wanna talk about my queen.....I wanna keep talking about her for those that'll listen....I'm able to do analysis and rambling posts just fine, cuz they take less energy, but actual writing....?

It....it won't work.....It hurts....

They're gone.....Everything's gone.....The art they gave me, it's all gone.....It hurts.....They just up and left.....

(By "they" I mean a single person, not literally everyone)

Is it selfish for me to say that it hurts....? Because it FLIPPING HURTS- And it hurts because it ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

The reason why I feel so empty.....and lost....How many of my anons were all the same person....? All THIS ONE PERSON.....? Going outta their way to make me so happy constantly....? Why did I not put it together sooner....? I was NEVER as popular as I thought I was-

I can't even thank them.....They just deleted and left....I can't thank them for making me so, so happy, and giving me so, so much.....I didn't put things together.....

H-how many people are still here....? How many people are left....? I think I scared bracelet anon off last week when I overshared my tastes to them.....and all the rest....how many of them were all just one person the whole time....?

Is this really how it ends, until I grow the courage to start posting in character tags? Is that my only way of getting more people in here....? I-I'm scared....Parts of the fandom scare me.....and I really enjoyed the little corner I seemed to be building for myself.......

I-I don't wanna stop.....I can't stop.....but I also can't act like it doesn't hurt to learn this information.....I feel like such an idiot....for not piecing it together......

......

.......

If you are reading this, or if you ever do: Thank you. Thank you so, so, soooooo much for everything. I don't hate you for leaving Tumblr. I know you said you were busy with life, and I respect that. Thank you so so much for making me so happy.....I'm gonna miss you....Good luck.....and I hope my posts made you happy, too.....

.......I'm gonna still be here making posts, cuz I don't wanna be a whiny drama queen constantly when I could talk about Golden Cheese instead....Not to mention that, again, if I really want more interaction, the solution is right there.....I-I can fix this.....

B-but....for the next couple days, forgive me if I disappear for a while at a time....I'm going through a lot of emotional distress right now....There are things I need to accept and get used to.....Once I do accept it, I'll be fine, so...so don't worry.....I'm gonna be OK....

I-it's times like these that I'm happy to be a self-shipper....

[butchjesus]

i've been seeing ur art on the 2015 a lot recently probably bc im following the victor frankenstein tag (for the like original novel tho cuz THATS the one im hypefixated on) but i'm starting to think maybe i ought to give the movie a chance... probably have to mentally seperate in my brain as not a direct adaptation of 1818 tho but Nonetheless

hoo hoo heehee steepling my fingers evilly. I would be delighted if my art got more folks to watch the 2015, I will joust in its favour for all of time because everyone else hates it lol. as a lover of shelley's novel myself, I would say that enjoyment of the 2015 can totally coexist with love of the novel (as you've said, it's definitely not a direct adaptation and takes a lot of liberties, which I understand is not everyone's cup, but I could also do a ton of analysis on how it does play with a lot of themes and elements in a cool and creative way, but that's a post for another time).

my best preparation advice would be to go into it not expecting an adaptation, but rather a whimsical and over-the-top retelling as a toxic queer love story, because that's the meat of it. its silly and strange and it certainly has its shortcomings and some of its ambitions fall flat, but overall it's a really fun and entertaining film imo and I'm not sure why it got such a bad rep. my partner commented that it feels very theatrical, esp james mcavoy's victor, and I wholeheartedly agree, which is what I think a big part of what makes it so fun—it's very campy. also its very pretty as a film, the sets and costumes are lovely and clearly had lots of care put into them.

I would also reccomend checking out the doesthedogdie page for the film for detailed content warnings; as one might expect there is a fair amount of gore/gross-out type horror and ableism throughout, but there are a few other things that might be useful to know beforehand if you don't mind mild spoilers. flashing lights warning for sure.

(that said, some light story spoilers ahead:)

I will say that hardcore adam lovers will probably not enjoy it as much because the creature features very little in the film, BUT again there is much to argue there, because the character relationships are reinterpreted in some new and compelling ways imo.

(end of spoilers)

anyway! if you do end up watching the film I would be happy to hear your thoughts, even if you end up hating it lol (that goes for anyone who ends up watching it after seeing my art and/or this post—all opinions welcome. can you tell I'm itching to talk more about this film lol)

[azure-clockwork]

Way to tell us your groundbreaking original opinion shared by only more than half the fandom in a "better than everyone" tone despite being an extremely surface level analysis.

Like damn, I'm not arguing with you and I'm sorry for the rude sarcasm, but you gotta understand that post like yours keep popping once in a while in the characters tag ( despite having all discourse tag and discourse-prone blog blocked ) when they don't add anything to the discussion. Three Houses is such an interesting game to analyze so if you're going to do discourse, at least get a bit in depth!

Because yes, you're complaining about the discourse but your post is just... participating in the discourse, just in the average "centrist" fe3h fandom way for a lack of a better word. If you hate it so much why add your grain of salt in it? You're the same as the annoying Edelgard/Dimitri/Claude you're speaking about! I mean at least some of them at least provide interesting analysis about the game within rant.

At least tag your post the next time, because even some of the worst lord stan have the decency to do that.

Sorry you got my rant, but your post was the drop that makes the ocean of badly tagged similar takes overflow my discourse limit. Three Houses discourse sucks hard in every form it takes. Still, have a good day at least.

Okok I did say I was asking for this so, fair

First, sincerely, how would you like me to have tagged this? This is an honest question to which I don't actually know the answer, and I'll go back and edit the tags cuz I don't want to bug more people (and kinda the only reason I'm replying because otherwise I feel like engaging is kinda not what I wanna be doing with my life nor yours, but sadly my brain doesn't shut its trap once I start thinking so I feel compelled to share with the class). Actually, you can skip the rest of this if you don't wanna bother lol

Secondly, I just wanted to be funny because I think that accusing fire emblem characters of war crimes is amusing. I recognize that the Geneva Convention sorta breaks apart the moment magic or crests or dark beasts or gambits come into play, and it's also not what people mean when they say 'Dimitri did war crimes' or 'Edelgard is a war criminal', but I think its hilarious to do anyways. When I see people making arguments about characters and using the term 'war criminal', roughly half of my brain starts laughing about how teeeeechnically using that one gambit with the poison barrels counts as criminal, regardless of if I agree or disagree with the argument made. And I'm memeing on myself here too (or at least trying to): "Jay is gay for Edelgard" is a truly terrible justification to base decisions of morality on . I'd argue that picking a house/the church based on attraction to the lord/Rhea is a sillier motive than a numerical tally of official violations of the Geneva Convention.

I really didn't want this to come across as Discourse tm because I don't want it to be; I just wanted turn my own desire to make a list of every single 'technically a war crime' into something semi amusing, because nobody actually wants to sit and read far too many words about how technically if you recruit and deploy Cyril to rescue Flayn (which is before his 15th birthday by like a month) that makes you a war criminal.

If you want my actual opinion (because making you scroll back thru my blog to read the unhinged rants I came up with while deciding between crimson flower and silver snow would be kinda a dick move), fe3h is a messy, morally grey game regardless of your chosen route. You have to make rough choices, kill your friends and former students, and stand by while everyone, including your allies, does terrible things. For me, I bonded really hard with most of the cast fairly quickly because white clouds let me feel like I was doing the worlds best job teaching my kids. And then you have to kill them. You cannot save them all. It broke me a little. The first student I killed, perma-killed, with the music dropping out and all, was Hilda during the Deirdru fight against her and Claude. It was an accident; she died on enemy phase, and I was out of Divine Pulse charges. She wasn't even a requirement for victory. That was the cost of taking Deirdru; that was the cost of waging war. I lay awake that night thinking about how if I had a different sword equipped I couldn't have counterattacked her from 2 tiles away, or if I had done less damage, or tanked a hit, or--

I'm not arguing that every route is equally morally reprehensible, but I think it matters quite a bit that every route makes you complicit in some terrible things. For several reasons, I'm a big fan of crimson flower (I Do Not Like The Church and I also agree with all of the characters who would like to do away with the nobility and crest systems), but that's tempered by the weight of the actions of Those Who Slither. I am continually unsure of just how much I feel the weight of TWSitD's actions falls on Edelgard herself, and I vacillate between "she didn't really have any other options to cause any kind of change from her position, so an uneasy alliance with TWSitD was the lesser of two evils" and "she bears a significant chunk of responsibility for all of their actions, including Jeralt's death". And I have similar, albeit often less strong thoughts about the rest of the characters. Nobody is operating with the full picture, the characters are all massively blinded by their emotions, and everyone makes choices between what they think is the lesser of a few evils. While the exact number of war crimes is irrelevant because whoops, the Geneva Convention doesn't exist in Fodlan and war crimes aren't the only immoral things you can do, thinking about what means are justified by which ends and who bears the responsibility for what acts is actually a really important part of the game for me.

I guess at the end of the day, I walk away from this game believing the war should not have had to happen. But the world doesn't run on shoulds and should nots (in Fodlan or irl), so the best we can do is make choices based on what we do know, and to do our best to help people with the tools we have. I personally land on crimson flower in the end, but I think the real beauty of Three Houses is just how hard it makes that choice.

Ok, I'm done blabbing; just tell me how I ought to tag this to avoid bugging people and I'll be on my way. I mean this sincerely: have a nice day yourself, and sorry to have annoyed you!

[commaclear]

ahem-

in the kindest way possible, i must ask; what the fuck is wrong with the people in your inbox-

i..lore?? theres lore?? theres fighting and flirting and-???

can i get a rundown of the going-ons, i must know whats happening

- <3

No need to be kind, my anons are fucking insane. And yeah, there's lore (don't ask me how it happened cuz even I don't know, I'm just here for the ride). We've basically got a whole ass soap opera going on.

You can see the full story for yourself under the "my own personal soap opera" tag, but here's a dramatized summary:

It all started with the two QAAs, quackity analysis anon and quackity apologist anon.... They found each other through their mutual love for quackity and were married on the same day. It was a beautiful ceremony, everyone shed a few tears of happiness on that day. No one suspected how wrong it would go.

We thought their love would last forever, but quackity analysis anon's wandering eyes and restless groin could not be contained. When quackity apologist anon discovered their spouse's infidelity, they left the inbox heartbroken, and quackity analysis anon proceeded to try to romance pretty much every new anon that followed.

When quackity analysis settled their feud with wilbur semi-defender anon, beautiful new love bloomed on the battlefield. But again, because of quackity analysis anon's inconstancy, it couldn't last. After the dust settled from all the heartbreak and betrayal, they found a solution. Polyamory. And for a while, things were good.

We should have known the peace wouldn't last. One day, an apparently new anon calling themselves "the cooler qaa" appeared in the inbox, and quackity analysis anon and their spouses immediately assumed this new anon was a usurper and viciously attacked them.

But it wasn't a new anon. It was quackity apologist anon, finally returned from their long journey of self-discovery. They had become a bad bitch and had come back to the inbox to make a name for themself separate from their ex-spouse. And good god, they had a dramatic return.

Meanwhile, ****** anon looked down on all the drama in disinterest. They much preferred to stay sequestered in their tower concocting such evil schemes as the "btp dream au" and the "htid she took the kids au" among other angsts so horrible even I came to fear them.

Other anons have since joined this fray of heartache and heartbreak, but I'm sure you've seen that for yourself.

[iwasbored777]

Hey can I just ask u smthg since ur the one of the only.... positive.... reader of the bible(ml) I know lol

I saw a post abt mocking ppl abt the love square saying how bad the season is and that the end will be very disappointing blah blah blah u know usual stuff

I just... this rlly set me off cause I've not been very excited with the start of the season cause of the bible being leaked and a lot of ppl who read it saying that the season was going to be bad. Everytime I go see some legal spoilers and teasers I see ppl making memes and analysis, stuff that dont have a fcking read below tag or even a warning at the start that it's a bible leak and everytime I think it's just some headcanon its fcking real and I am so disappointed.

Like I haven't watched multiplication and destruction and don't even think on doing it anytime soon cause that's how low my interest dropped from accidentally seeing SO MANY leaked images and text posts saying that ml season 5 will truly be trash

I dont wanna look into anymore of those spoilers it's rlly not safe even in this site so I just wanna ask if u think this season is as bad as ppl say it?

HOLD TF UP YOU WHO ALWAYS COMMENT ON MY PURPLE JOKES DID NOT WATCH MULTIPLICATION AND DESTRUCTION HONEY NOT ONLY THEY HAVE IKARIMOTH BUT ALSO THESE EPS WERE AMAZING I LOVED THEM SO MUCH SSKKSKSKSKSSKJSKSJSJSJSJKS THEY ACTUALLY BRING ME LIFE ADRIENETTE IS EVERYTHING LADYNOIR TOO IN THESE EPS ALSO LOL GABE IS SLUTTY JUST AS I THOUGHT 😭😭😭😭

But I understand you completely this show goes from 0 to 100 and the other way around ALL THE TIME. One episode is amazing and the next one is crap and so on. I hated the bible so much and I still hate so many decisions the writers made and I'm really not sure how things will end but I idk I thought quitting the show will help me but I'm too attached to it and my friends here and the truth is I can't just leave. I loved Destruction. I wanted to leave not because I was disappointed in the previous episodes - the season 4 finale was awesome and so was Evolution and Multiplication - but the spoilers got worse and worse. The more I read about them the more I hated them and nothing here was making me want to stay. The fandom sucks too but man there are some of my friends here whom I would sell my soul to the devil for so I can see them again every day. If you want to quit I fully understand and I don't judge you. I quit like three times now and every time I find excuse to come back. ML is addictive. If you need a break take it. We will get a lot of episodes now and when/if you come back you will have a lot of stuff to watch. Breaks help a lot. I felt so good when I didn't interact with the fandom for a while.

But just in case maybe you want to read the bible? And I will share the link for it and I can't say it will change your mind but I just think you should watch Multiplication and Destruction cuz I haven't met a person yet who was deeply disappointed by these episodes. I personally thought they were great. I wish every episode was this interesting and funny and I know this season will disappoint with some episodes too but that's how we roll. I will probably take more breaks again sometime when I decide. I understand and support you whatever you decide. You do what you want.

[blackfilmmakers]

So this is the reason why I’ve been getting these racist anons for the past few days?

Cuz this person decided that my posts, and really all these Black content creators I’ve shared, had no “actual hard work and effort” put into expanding on racist tropes in media? Because all we do is “make everything about race”? The hell?

How exactly are you any different than those you accuse of belittling your analysis of these characters? Because you don’t exactly sound any different from the anons I’ve been getting.

No there isn’t some dumb conspiracy of PoC out to shame White people of their racism for everything in order to silence you. Truth be told we let y’all get away with A LOT of casual racism, because the immediate backlash we face in response is exhausting enough

Funny thing is, I don't know you. You even mentioned that I was probably not referring to you, so why are you upset with my post? I don't know what tags you are talking about. I'm talking about how I scrolled through the ML tags only to see how Alya AND Nino had "one job" of always believing their friends and going along with their plans no question. That's not a friendship. Again don't know why you picked beef with me even though all I did was talk about a racist writing trope fans still don't know about

Only reason I even know who you are now is because the first anon hate I got mentioned you. Didn't think much of it cuz it's anon hate and I deleted it. But the one I got today went too far. So I tried DMing you to at least see if you know something about this. Found out you blocked me the day you made this post of yours

I still don't know if these are even your followers or someone who had beef with me but used you as a mask. Regardless, there was no reason for you to blast my post like that, and frame it as though I'm silencing people by making them feel uncomfortable. And no, I'm not upset because you have a so called different opinion. I'm mad that you put me on blast on a public post, contradict yourself of how you shouldn't shame people of their opinions, and then have the nerve to block me

As tempted as I am to @ you I don’t see the point, and I really don’t care. I just want people to see how much of a victim complex y’all have when confronted with these topics. And instead of just CONSIDERING the possibility that others can provide different viewpoints on these subjects, you double down like this.

Anyways here's a quick lesson in how you can be critical of Black characters without being racist. It was prompted by an anon who at this point was probably trying to act smart