#and i know i could just blacklist the tag

[haleths]

*rubs temples* if i see one more rings of power post in the #lotredit tag i am going to LOSE IT

[cecoeur]

How do you sleep at night? No one to hide behind Betrayed every alibi you had You had every chance to make amends instead you got drunk on bitterness And you still claim that you're innocent, it's sad

[sanchoyoscribbles]

maybe link should consider that I filled my inventory with salted milky smoothies right before the fight and spent all that time leveling up the sword and energy gauges tho ...🥲

[venacesaur]

where's that one post about how it's extreme mode to headcanon a character as aroace when they're part of a really popular ship....so true. especially when you headcanon both characters in the ship as aroace

[phantomoftheorpheum]

Me, thinking about how, ultimately, The Umbrella Academy was basically just a weirder/wackier less cohesive version of Dark, but how the ending in Dark feels like such a triumph and a relief, while the ending in TUA just feels depressing.

[moongothic]

You know, a long time ago I read this stupid ass Reddit comment complaining how they couldn't understand why people were "obsessed with making Crocodile a woman", and of course I just looked at it like "bro, if he's trans then he literally ISN'T a woman, that's the whole point, nobody wants Croc to be a woman 💀"

But I feel like the more and more Dragodile seems to pick up in popularity the more I keep on running into fanart where Croc's either being feminized/woobified/intentionally made to look smaller, more petite and feminine than Dragon, or straight up he's been detransitioned to live as a woman farting out more babies 24/7, not to mention the constant she/her'ing and calling Croc a "mom"

Like people are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want, but man. Some of y'all really do want Croc to stop being a trans man and be a woman instead. That's just so emotionally distressing to realize.

[novelconcepts]

The fucking choking noise I made when I tuned into a podcast for my run and heard a recent favorite actor go, “I’m still on Tumblr, don’t tell anyone.”

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Okie doki I'm gonna avoid the webbed site for a bit to avoid spoilers: expect triangle man drawings when I return

[sigurdjarlson]

if they kill him off in the opening to the expansion I’m gonna strangle Chris metzen with my bare hands

Literally ANYONE else blizzard

[the-bees-patella]

apparently what it takes for me to become a rabid reply guy is dipshits in the comments on an article about whether a player strike is the only way to force changes in the exponential demands of club/league/international football. "they're millionaires and should stop whining" wash your ass and shut up, steve. we're all grist for the goddamn mill

[yasmindifference]

I feel you on the Steph thing. I do occasionally come across Steph fics I like (theres a really good AU one where she and Tim are both trans and meet at a shelter run by Jason, the bat stuff is there but honestly kind of secondary), so I haven't blacklisted the tag, but I struggle with most of them as well. The way many authors write her, she's constantly overstepping Tim's boundaries and if that were treated as a bad thing by the narrative I'd be ok with it - but usually the people writing this don't seem to see anything wrong with it. I'll read much darker stuff than that with pleasure, of course, but generally I like it when the author *knows* that what they're writing is fucked up, and not just normal besties/couple behaviour. One good one I read has Steph overstep a boundary in an early chapter, but then get called out for it and properly apologise, and that I like! But yeah. There's a lot of weirdness around her.

(don't publish this ask if you are worried about attracting the attention of people who want to get mad at you, I totally get it! That's why I'm on anon after all lol)

For me, the really big issue was how...one-sided her dynamic with Tim was. I saw a lot of fics where Stephanie was constantly insulting Tim and usually hit him at least once (because he'd been inconsiderate/thoughtless) and talked about how lucky he was that she put up with him. And if that's a mutual dynamic, it's fine! Playful insults and casual violence are just how some people relate!

But I never saw fics where he insulted her back and I never saw fics where he hit her. She would punch him in the face and he would apologize! Then the narrative would go on about how awesome she was and how lucky he was that she tolerated his thoughtless behavior. He never so much as shoved her in return.

And I think I've talked about this before, but personally I hate being called dumb, so the fact that she was constantly calling him a moron (or mean takes on his name like "boy blunder" which I hate with the power of a thousand burning suns) as just like, a casual nickname...that would've been enough on its own tbh. Again, it would be one thing if he reciprocated by calling her names, but he never did!!!

Apparently a lot of people enjoy that as a friendship dynamic, because I saw their friendship portrayed that way in a lot of fics by a lot of different authors...but for me, it just reads as super toxic. I literally just wanted to leap through the screen and pull Tim away from her! Especially when she acted this way towards him in front of other people and they'd just be like "admit it, you had that coming." That is extremely not for me.

Like you, I don't mind reading dark stuff when there's awareness for it, but the way the narrative in those fics would lean heavy into how Tim was being a bad friend (usually because he was uncommunicative/left Stephanie to worry by keeping secrets/etc.) just made me incredibly uncomfortable. So. Here we are lmao.

(But I totally get you on the boundary violation stuff, too! There was a lot of that.)

Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone, anon! ♡

[wind-becomes-lightning]

sigh, finally blocked the shit out of those poll accounts. i am free

[emperornero]

i will probably be less active when the new tmnt show comes out to not get spoiled [i dont have that streaming service its on officially so i have to wait a bit]

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

y'know, I've been seeing a lot more posts talking about how fanfic, specifically, puts characters into boxes and takes away the nuance of them, and while I think that's an important discussion to have, I also find it quite perplexing? Like, these posts seem to come from people who don't even, or maybe very rarely, consume fics in the first place, and I say that because, if you do consume fics semi-regularly, you kind of learn? how to gage what the stories and characterisation are going to be like based on the tags and summary? Sometimes, you do have to step into the fic to figure it out, but it hardly takes very long to realise if it gels with you or not. Idk, it's not anything serious or important, but it does give me... "girl, what were you doing at the devil's sacrament" vibes, you know?

[scattered-winter]

literally nothing worse than waiting for bad news to hit. like i don't know how i'm supposed to go to class with this particular sword hanging over my head

[mildmayfoxe]

the thing about senshi being such a little princeling when he becomes an elf is that it is certainly a comedic choice but personally i don't think it works as a practical choice. i don't think he would be like that if he became an elf. of course what do i know i'm not the one who wrote the story. maybe elf sensibilities do really change you that much. but it's always struck me as inconsistent that everyone else immediately falls back on old habits (chil running away, marcille doing magic) during the gargoyle fight & senshi, out of character, isn't shown even attempting to help. and he wouldn't not help, is the thing