#and for fucks sake this is a fictional character

[uptolovegood]

specially james.

don’t get me wrong, i love him. but he was a child? there was no way in hell this kid was genuinely going through so much and never once considered exploding. there’s no way james never shouted in sirius’ face because of frustration or got angry at remus and said something he didn’t mean. being a teenage boy— a scared, traumatized and frustrated teenage boy— doesn’t make him any less good of a character. while i love the whole james being a good person narrative, i also think it’s inhumane, at times. he can get angry! he can say mean shit! he can be rude! and all of it will never change who he is

Let the boys be prats.

Let James be tone deaf and inconsiderate.

The truth is that for a time they were, and in writing them as these saintly figures you not only make them static, but you are also disrespecting their growth. The moments were the war catch up to them — where it confronts them, those are pinnacle moments where we see their characters as they truly are. That is to say that writing them as the reckless, arrogant, cowardly, inconsiderate teenage boys that they were makes you appreciate even more who they grew up to be.

[mikalilys]

I absolutely HATE when people see their favourite character making a bad decision/messing up/having questionable morals in a fic and go

“that’s not my sweet little -name- they’re perfect and can’t do any wrong and this fic is now horrible because I don’t agree with how you wrote the characters”

like your right that’s not your sweet little -name- it’s theirs!! It’s the person who wrote the bloody fics characterisation and if you don’t like it then don’t read it omg

[luna-the-cretar]

You guys know on how, after Electrum Chef (not the episode but the event), Torbek and Frost (under the effects of the potion that made them into parodies of famous irl chefs) went off into the other room to fuck, and then when they came back the potion had worn off?

Do you guys think the potion wore off before, during, or after the fact?

[kasaraku]

What the hell is happening here.

I'm seeing people mad and being overly weird with Tsukasa's popularity. I mean, sure, he's a boy and he's also cool, but to having to find out the fandom is misogynistic (I am too late for that), is downright making me want to just never know about this fandom at all.

What's wrong with people in PRSK rn??? I'm seeing Tsukasa as the least favourite in the fandom and always get into problematic things when they're someone who's a Tsukasa fan. I mean. Come on guys. Let peeps like us have fun. You leave our boy.

I mean, sure, I can see that people like Tsukasa because he's a boy, but the number of people I've seen that also likes to make Tsukasa a woman and wear feminine outfits are a LOT. Clearly, it doesn't make us falter about liking him if he were to be a different gender (maybe there's some, but I'm talking about those I've seen on the internet). Some say he wouldn't be forgiven if that's how he acts in the main story as a female, yet there's still a lot of people out there who still didn't forgive him as a male. They can get away calling their faves (boys mostly) ugly, annoying, 'hate', and other stuff, but girls not?? I've been calling my girls Mafuyu, Minori, and Shiho dying hamsters and dependant bitches, so seeing how people won't accept that kinda upset me.

Please, and I mean it, PLEASE, stop being a misogynist and actually try to learn about that character and why people like them. Don't just think about gender for ONCE.

(If there's a mistake, correct me.)

[onemeh]

Started reading the Iliad and why does everyone have so many fucking names??

Why can't you just say 'Agamemnon, son of Atreju' instead of just 'Son of Atreju' for half a page, then switch to 'Agamemnon' and assume I know that that's the same person? How am I supposed to know who his dad is?? 😭

ALSO, why do the Greeks have like 5 different names? Why call them Achaeans and Danaans?? Why not just stick to one??? How am I supposed to know that this dude named Danaus founded Argos and now Homer just calls all the Greeks Danaans whenever he fucking feels like it, I CAN'T-

😭

[bumblesimagines]

Are you a Travis hater?? (asking cause i've seen people start hating him again for tryna kill Lottie)

I WANNA HUG HIM AND NATALIE SO BAD BRO!! Had me crying when Javi was mentioned and then seeing Nat cry just broke the dam

It's honestly SHOCKING not none of them have tried killing Lottie before considering the amount of people she's pissed off 💀 she is literally only one step above Misty when it comes to the person the group finds most annoying 😭 pretty privilege saves her from a lot of fandom hate tbh

I love Travis. I began liking him after his silly attempt at befriending the girls when they found the porno magazine and he was like 'you can't even tell what her favorite book is'. He and Natalie share a single braincell and Natalie uses it 80% of the time.

I don't think there's a single thing Travis can do that will please the whole fandom. I've seen a lot of takes that scream of radfem from the community which is abhorrent and people jumping through hoops to justify liking Travis as if?? he's not the sanest mf there?? People just don't like Travis straight up for no real reason. Honestly? If he were a conventionally attractive white guy he probably wouldn't get half the hate he does from this fandom.

[florenzist]

no im sorry im not over it and i wont ever be they ruined bobby's entire narrative arc for ..... shock value ? cuz everything seemed too perfect or whatever ? like we started the show with chimney surviving rebar to his head and before this maddie had her throat slashed bobby almost died multiple times and yet he could not survive a silly little super strain virus made in the lab by a cartoonishly evil scientist because at one point a main had to die ? the fuck ? and its not even only bobby's arc like the entire 118 suffer from this im actually so upset like this genuinely changed the course of the show like its meant to be stupid and not realistic or whatever the fuck like bring back bobby fucking nash stat . he has survived worst fates and he will fucking rise again because no fucking way hes leaving athena alone in their new home

[deconstructthesoup]

Every day I wake up remembering that there is no official undead-themed artificer subclass for us mad scientist mains to fulfill our fantasies of playing a better version of Victor Frankenstein is a day I spend hurling rocks at the goddamned sun

[obessivedork]

It's been years and I still can't get over Naruto's disbelief that Sasuke choses revenge over returning to Kohona during the Kage Summit arc. Like bbgirl he left the village to train with Orochimaru -A MAN WHO OPENLY WANTED TO TAKE HIS BODY FOR HIS OWN- to get strong enough to kill his brother, you think he's gonna NOT double down when he knows he's already fucked up any chance of him having a future in Kohona anyways? My GUY!!!

[padfoot-lupin77]

Characters will show basic human kindness once and be labeled as the softie-cute-pure-baby meanwhile they could easily murder someone and probably curse like a sailor, they’re just *also* kind

[djsangos]

//y'all ever see a post in your fandom tags so godawful that you feel yourself entering rage mode for JUST a moment and then you're like. oh wait. i don't fucking care about you. ignored.

[creat1vecreature]

This is Henry

sorry but i’m tired of books/media with softcore trans guy protags who are wimpy and anxious and never stop thinking about how trans they are and have a flowery little romance with a guy who calls them cute. like that’s all good and fine but where are my trans guy protags who are straight up gross. evil. covered in dirt and blood all the time. give me a trans guy character who spits and kills people and fucks to the death and doesn’t give a shit about shit PLEASE i am begging you

[miumiumandoodz]

legit just found someone trolling on ig reels just to get reaction from CaitVi shippers because “he’s a cishet man and allowed to be attracted to women lesbians or not”. This is the type of content that makes me hate ig and twitter and toktok that people uses the idea of queer people’s defense for their safe space for rage bait. The algorithm allows this. The people who run the apps allow this because it give them money, traction, popularity, eveything. And this isn’t just one or two times things, it happens a lot but anyway, I’m just a stupid cringe poc queer, what do I have to say against a cishet white man, right??? RIGHT???

Also, people who make canonically gay characters het just because the shipper is het or self ship them in a het relationship is so silly but not in a “tee hee you’re silly” way but “oh my god did you just bump your head into a hard surface because wtf bro” silly. I’m all for selfship but selfship yourself to that gay character. Really. It’s fictional sure. But really??? All these heteros, you pick that gay folk? Alright.

[midnightwind]

YOU KNOW WHAT I COULD BE MADDER, ACTUALLY

there was no actual acknowledgement from Lucanis about the romance except for a codex entry (it was very cute and sappy, softly killed me) and a throwaway greeting in the Lighthouse ("What did I do to deserve you?") with like 2 other lines that are just vague enough that it makes you pause to wonder if they're tied to romancing him or not

plus after you deal with Ilario he adds you into the group of people he would do anything for, but that also can read as "holy shit, thank you for being such a good friend I now consider you like family" so is it even really tied specifically to the romance??? (I will see this on my subsequent play throughs I suppose)

but otherwise? fucking nothing

are we dating, Lucanis? you dodge the question every time and I am staring at a quest that says FINAL CONFRONTATION WITH THE GODS

I'm going to show up at Bioware with a bat I swear to god-

[crownanother]

Apparently, back in the day, there was a really notorious tie in novel for Star Trek that had a lot of slash elements called Killing Time

The slash elements were requested to be removed by Paramount, and they were, BUT due to a mistake, the original was sent to print without the edits

When it was caught, they’d printed 250k of this “first edition” which subsequently became collectors items for Kirk/Spock fans, since later editions DID include the edits censoring the slash

NOW, I bring this up because my friend who’s into the original Star Trek found and was reading the first edition at the desk at the library we work at, cause we’re slow on weekends and we’re the only ones here. She laughs at it, so I ask and she tells me about the general backstory of the book, and that she laughed because (among other things) Kirk, who doesn’t get mad in the og series really, was being described as hot headed and apparently just getting into fights left and right

So I’m looking over her shoulder at the scene, commenting on the character changes that resemble modern fic-degradation of characterization for the sake of a shipping dynamic, when I realize something

Now, my only interaction with the Star Trek series directly was the 2009 reboot, and my friends hasn’t seen those and is only interested in the originals. As I’m looking at this scene, and my friend is pointing out the character changes to Kirk, I realize that this is the fucking premise of the reboot, down to the fucking alternative timeline shenanigans, the rank swap, and Kirk being a hotheaded fuck up

The 2009 film was literally based on this slash fiction misprint they tried to bury!

Im reeling.

I can’t be the only one who made this connection.

So I google to see if anyone else has, and oh yes, good, there was someone

The fucking author of Killing Time

…I feel like I’ve uncovered a conspiracy. I’ve still got 3 hours left in my shift and I can’t focus. The world must know.