#and now it’s irreparably damaged my psyche (lol)

[ophernelia]

Melissa Thalia Howell, Lou's mother.

[lauradonnelly]

tas my beloved are you okay 🥺💕

my sweet fyscka 🥺

[seoafin]

this might sound v dumb but you are literally the reason why I started looking at media critically. like when I came on tumblr a few years ago i was sixteen and super into fandom and fanfiction and i think it did a lot of damage to the way i perceive things. and when i got into jjk and found your blog and saw all your gojo "hate" i was really angry lol i kept wanting to block you but at the same time I was really interested in your opinions and so i stuck around and tbh it really made me reflect on the type of media I've been consuming and the way I (and other people) consume it. like it seems so obvious now but back then i would get super defensive whenever anyone would criticise anything I was into. like my entire argument was just "let people enjoy things" 😭 anyway i just wanted to let you know that your posts have actually helped people (such as myself) and that you shouldn't have to feel like you're rambling or forcing us to listen to discourse. I genuinely love listening to your opinions and others do too. ok bye have a nice rest of the week <333

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it's not dumb at all!!!!! im so soooo happy i got you to reconsider your stance on how to consume and interact with media on a healthier level!!! i think it’s really important (especially for the younger teens on here) to be made aware of the more detrimental effects of mindlessly consuming fandom and media since a lot of people are starting younger and younger and don’t quite have that mentality of being able to discern potentially harmful media while still consuming it. it’s either ‘it’s bad don’t watch it!!!’ or ‘it’s just fiction it’s not actually harming anyone!!!’ nuance went out the window! 

fandom IS the wild wild west these days so it’s difficult but i truly do think it is the job of adults to be protecting children (i can’t stand people that unnecessarily hate children for existing) and while that doesn’t mean censoring ourselves i hope ppl ARE taking the necessary precautions to ensure the best. ppl who say ‘let people enjoy things’ when so many things are harmful are the weakest links and will be taken out! i agree that ppl should be able to enjoy things but if one is actively pushing their joy over the harm their fun causes others i think we need to reevaluate!

anyway every time someone sends me a message on how i helped them think more critically im like !!!!!!! just what i wanted!!!! fandom also did irreparable damage to MY psyche LMAO and like i’ve said before im still unlearning harmful behaviors. when i think about all the harmful stuff i’ve internalized myself i think about how bad it must be for kids NOW with little to no limitations on what they can browse and see. honestly just the fact that my words made you reflect makes me incredibly happy!!!

here’s to us <333333

[class-wom]

Legion Chapter 23 “Morning After”-Thoughts – SPOILERS!!!

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Hello, my Snoopies!!!  😁 

(Although I would like to think of myself as more of a Garfield than a Snoopy, lol, but I digress! 🤣 )

1)  Wow -- Kerry pretty much used her metaphorical samurai sword to sever this viewer’s metaphorical jugular right off the bat with her lamenting “I miss having fun!”  The S1 Summerland Gang literally against the world? heck yeah -- so do I, Ker! so do I!

2) Nice to see that Syd is finally softening at least slightly where David is concerned, noting that falling in love is “worth it” and that he’s “unstable” but “has powers” and is “magic.”  Well, hey, you gotta start somewhere!  Also, considering how badly Syd’s encounter with “Syd-from-the-Past” ended, perhaps she’ll look back at her Chapter 19 “Maybe I trust myself more”-jab at David and her unswerving faith in her future self with extreme regret and reshape her position before causing any more irreparable damage to David’s psyche...and, by default, literally the world!!!

3)  Okay, so keeping track of whether Farouk is a “good guy” or a “bad guy”:  We’ve reached the halfway-mark of the season, and we’re literally two-for-two, where Chapters 21 and 22 have him as a classic slimy baddie and Chapters 20 and 23 have him as a “not-quite-that-bad guy.”  Nope, not a hero -- Sorry, Amahl, I don’t give a flip what you say!  You’re 2,000 years old, so you should know a lot better, and you should have a few cultures and such under your belt by now!  That’s the break I’m giving David and not you -- he is, as you pointed out in Chapter 11, young and inexperienced, and while I’m still hoping he’ll get a point in the right direction eventually, he’s flailing about, hence my constant passes with him.  That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!

4)  That being said, okay, we have the whole “corrupting power”-thing, which does kind of bug me a little.  As with Chapters 7 and 15, it was ultimately David who finally defeated the time eaters once and for all, the most awesome (imo, anyway) moment being his utilizing his multiple personalities to get the job done.  I like his efficiency here and, while on the one hand feel he deserves at least a little credit for solving a problem he intentionally or otherwise created, on the other, I really wish he could do it without completely succumbing to corruption and making such declarations as “I am God!”  (Can we please remember that, at least to a degree, this seed was planted by Farouk himself in Chapter 10 -- “bigger than Jesus” -- and perhaps even earlier?  One of the many reasons that Farouk will never be a hero at his absolute best as far as I’m concerned.  And oh yeah, that other problem that David has? using his powers to literally create his own reality? another seed planted by Farouk via Chapters 10 and 14 -- ‘nuff said.)  Speaking for myself and perhaps others, I do like to root for my protagonists, and part of the battle is not only defeating the baddies but defeating personal demons in the process.  (The climax of Return of the Jedi with Luke, Darth, and the Emperor comes to mind as an example of this.)  David does just fine with the former, but I’m still hoping he’ll find someone who can help him learn the latter somehow.  (Just pleeeeeeze anyone but Farouk, unless he actually apologizes for that whole “Bigger than Jesus” thing and the whole Amy-thing from Chapter 13!!! but I’m not holding my breath!)

5)  So if I understand this correctly, the time eaters have the capability of feeding on fears, at least where David and Syd are concerned.  And what I learned is that, in a twisted fashion (true to the nature of this show, lol), they essentially share the same fear:  Being overpowered and losing control, physically and sexually in Syd’s case, literal incarceration in David’s.  (Yeah, D3 -- way to go with that S2 Finale “trial” for the upteenth time, especially since a nice chunk of his life has already been spent in incarceration of one form or another, but I digress!)  With regard to the latter, we did learn a thing or two about his maternal side, that he comes from a family of gypsies, among other things.  (With that in mind, that really had to hurt poor Gabs!)  We also saw that Gabrielle has accepted the idea of being crazy and/or incarceration and he has a ways to go; cannot say enough about what DS did with this scene as an actor, sorry not sorry.  (Thinking back to Chapter 22, after seeing Gabs in her cell in a striped ensemble and head covering, should I be concerned that she’s dressed Baby Davey in a similar fashion and placed him in a barred crib, or am I overthinking this yet again?  I know how Noah loves his “See what I did there?”-visuals.)  Also, as a viewer, with regards to the opening, loved the idea of his mother singing to him as a baby and passing on her heritage in that fashion.  No wonder he was noticeably irate at Lenny for yanking him out of that moment  -- I’d be a little hacked myself!

6)  Giving the benefit of the doubt, I also think that both David and Syd are in extreme denial of their frailties:  If David is clearly in denial and refuses to accept being hurt and/or acknowledging his mental issues (and yes, I can see that), then Syd is in denial over the idea of her pain being armor and making her invincible, as she oh-so-confidently declared to him in her Chapter 12 igloo.  (Then again, this was pre-Chapter 13 for David and pre-Chapter 19 for Syd, so as far as either was concerned, all was well psychologically and emotionally, and neither had faced any major tests.  I’d rather not talk just yet as to how either is passing said test thus far, tbh!)  I dunno, maybe the idea is that, yeah, she wants to protect herself.  Like David, however, she is literally her own worst enemy in that she does want and crave that intimacy and vulnerability, hence the reason she finally opens up to that literal embrace of her younger self.  I guess I don’t mind seeing that, but if I’m supposed to root for David to finally accept his frailties and consequences and for once be honest with himself, then I would like Syd to be honest with herself rather than to justify her own bad behavior for the upteenth time.  Otherwise, neither will be worth a darn by curtain’s fall!  I said it before, and I’ll say it again:  If we’re expecting David to do this, we should bear in mind that he has had a lot of poor examples to follow, so we shouldn’t be so terribly shocked at his lack of a sense of responsibility when he’s surrounded by so many excusing and justifying their own positions, including self-proclaimed parasitical “father figure.”  I’m just sayin’...

7)  If someone says “Love means giving him the power to hurt you,” I swear I’ll lose what crap I have yet to lose thus far!  OTOH, if the person in question just happens to be Farouk, that might be kind of fun shade to throw in a certain direction! 😈

8)  The more I think of it, the more I feel the need to devote yet another paragraph to David vs. the Time Eaters, because imo, while decidedly imperfect (as noted in 4), it was so emotionally and ironically satisfying.  I found myself mentally cheering the same way I did when he broke out of his mental prison in Chapter 7 and splattered the “demon-chicken” in Chapter 15, and for the same reason:  Something finally was accomplished!!! Megalomania and twisted motives aside, if this action doesn’t make him a hero per se, it at least makes him an antihero, and hey, he did find a way of solving his own problem, which provides a sort of hope that perhaps he could eventually figure things out on a more personal scale one way or another with the proper guide.  The issue I’m having here is that both Syd and SK see themselves as “heroes,” and if they are indeed...um, hello, did either do anything to proactively stop the problem? heck no -- SK is like, “Yeah, I know what’s going on, but whatever, we’re just gonna have to wait it out” (hey, D3 -- did you sign this creep up just to “wait it out”? seriously!) and led Clark and Kerry to that In-Between place or whatever for whatever reason (these scenes got even older than Farouk himself!) while Syd just got drunk and wallowed in her own victimhood, a la Chapter 16.  (Okay, fine, you’re still struggling with that, and you’re not quite sure how to handle that whole Time Warp Crisis thing, but instead of trying to figure the latter out on your own and be the hero as which you see yourself, yeah, look up your younger self and tie one one on board a nice luxury jet.  Meanwhile, your ex is in a freaking gulag, by his own making or otherwise, and I‘m sure he would have loved a sip or two of his own blue joy juice!)   But in a sense, David took a type of responsibility, ultimately rejecting the visions of imprisonment and finding a way to finally defeat the Time Eaters and solve the freaking problem!!!  Just my take on it, at least -- actions speak louder than words and all that jazz. 

9)  Giving credit where it’s due, Lenny deserves a shout-out for lighting the burr under David’s saddle to take some action and solve the time-eating problem.

Anyway, just a few thoughts.