#and there are so many ppl like me and all we want to do is write and just!!!!

[zabelismyfavbagel]

Hello tried posting this to a Pedro Pascal community but honestly I don’t know how it works so reposting this again I guess.

I need to rant to ppl who like the The Last of Us game AND SHOW please!! Cuz the negative gamers who keep commenting HATE for the show is making me LOSE MY MIND. I need someone on my side and are nice please 😭

(Fyi this is stuff about episode 3 and spoilers of the game obviously)

1. Them not liking Tommy cuz he seems too "tame" and complaining that he's not on his way to Seattle.

First of all, BE PATIENT why are we jumping ahead. We don't know if he's going or not going to Seattle.... yet. I also think they show Tommy to be more "passive" to show how he acts since living in Jackson to be more of a shock when he becomes aggressive. Compared to where in the game you don't see much and only know he was vicious in his past. Like when Dina was shock/ frightened to see what Tommy did to the 2 WLF soldiers CUZ SHES ONLY KNOWN JACKSON TOMMY (the part where they're like strapped to chairs and one of them written the code for the gate in blood). I mean it's not as shocking for us since we knew that was a tactic Joel had also used before. So what i'm saying is the show could just be showing how everyone in Jackson views Tommy until he switches.

2. Ellie and Dina not being in a relationship right away and wanting THE COUCH SCENE.

This one is not as annoying cuz i know in the end they will be together. But why are there so many ppl foaming out the mouth for the couch scene? Do they need it that bad and they just can't wait any longer? It's fine if you're just excited for it but idk the comments just seem so negative cuz it hasn't happened yet. Maybe i'm just looking at it too deeply so that could be my fault. The show making their relationship a slow burn is not that big of a deal to me. I mean Joel dying, Ellie was in the hospital, and the rebuilding of Jackson seems like a lot of stuff already happening so being in a relationship immediately could be a lot. Also Dina and Jessie being back together is fine i guess. In the game Dina did say their relationship was like just on autopilot so maybe in the show after losing Joel (since she "loved him too”) could be her way of just wanting some kind of normality.

That's it for now unless some ppl do find this and want to chat. I do have positive and negatives for both show and game like a compare and contrast I guess too. But i'm already tired of typing rn.

[no34t1ng]

Hello!! Can you help me? I'm 50kg rn but my gw is 48/47. My parents watch how I e4t and keep asking me to e4t more, they are 0b3se so they expect me to e4t too much and we1ght like them, all the fo0d they bring to house is too 0ily and I can't actually l0se we1ght like this, also even drinking water makes me too bl0ated (so many ppl say drink 2L/3L to l0se w3ight) but the highest I can drink without getting blo4ted is 0.5L lmao, today I'm f4sting and my mother asked me what I 4te today.. I told her the truth because she already knows and now I br0ke my f4st, everytime I try to do a d!et I get forc3d to e4t more because it's not enough (I don't restr1ct that much tbh because they watch what I e4t closely, but I still try to not e4t much) do you have any tips? Ty for reading 🤍🎀.

hiii lovely! thank you for asked!! ⭐🐋

hearing ur situation, staying sk1nny sounds super hard tbh, but we must stronger than that right😭💞

but since ur goal is ar0und 2–3 ⓀⒼ, i’d recommend just 3at1ng in c4l0r1e d3fic1t, not f4st1ng, bc ur parents probs wont let u f4st anyway

or if u really wanna f4st, maybe try 23:1 or 16:8 f4st1ng, but full-day f4sting might not work rn as we can see

try to find ways to m0ve more and burn extra c4lor13s too!

and about drinking w4t3r, i think u should just split ur 5OOmI throughout the day and slowlyyyy increase it little by little

no str3ss here, every b0dy is different

if u want more, u can check out the tips i’ve already posted💓💓

good luck sweet!! 🐬

[faaun]

last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.

[pronouncingitwang]

adam scott says in the "inside the episode" of 2.07 that it allows the audience to "see the magic of gemma and why she immediately took over [mark's] life and his heart" and dichen lachman describes the ep in the severance podcast as "the audience getting to know [gemma] and everyone seeing what mark had that he lost." well, what about gemma? how much do we really get to know her? what did she lose? why did mark take over her heart?

they had 50 minutes for a Gemma Episode and they spent half of it on dead wife tropes and her smiling at mark with come-hither eyes while not giving us a single new fact* about her or a relationship outside of mark and mark's family. a subversion of the dead wife trope is not just scenes later showing they had an imperfect marriage bc mark (or nobody) is the problem in all of those scenes; you need to disrupt the idea that she was the perfect wife, and i don't think we get that. so much of it is explicitly presented through mark's pov. she doesn't hurt him at any point. she's just there being lovely or victimized as he loves or neglects her. everything we learned about her past gives more depth to his current grief but contributes little to our understanding of her current suffering or motivations. that could change with time, but for a first try, i think it's an abysmally bad showing

* that wasn't in mark's 1.07 monologue, his conversations with devon and alexa, or the the you you are pdf, all of which i think did a better job than this episode

[skrunksthatwunk]

did my first ever used car browsing online and there's a car that's like really good on basically every aspect but the color is fucking NASTY. but ive been evolving a bit around it. and so now im like thinking "okay the bit's funny now but would it be funny in like seven years" kinda stuff

[welcometogrouchland]

Noticing that TV and film will often have a character either have had an abortion in the past that isn't showcased on screen (and just used as part of the character's ~fucked up and twisted backstory~) OR contemplate getting an abortion in the present day but not to through with it. Just once I want to see someone delete that fetus within the events of the plot and not be like. Extremely majorly punished for it and/or be in the wrong

[beclight]

im known for being THE bec light fan of the fandom, so i feel like im in the right place to say this: YOU DO NOT OWN FANDOM CHARACTERS AND CANNOT PREVENT OTHER PEOPLE FROM LIKING THEM JUST AS MUCH AS YOU DO, and if that makes you uncomfortable (which is fine, and for any reason), THE THING TO DO IS BLOCK NOT HARASS THEM!!!!!!! ive seen too many ppl in this fandom disrespect others over DARING to say, even as a joke, that they're the number one fan of X character. If someone having the same favorite group of pixels as you genuinely angers you, to the point of feeling the need to insult them and having concerning thoughts about them, then maybe it is time to log off

[puppppppppy]

i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

[jamiethebee]

You know what irks me the most about the mha ending. (Sorry I'm still on it.)

Like the early parts of the manga, there were so many grown up hero AUs in fandom (like storylines that took place when they're adults and heroes) and they're fun! A little silly!

And then we had the war arc and cities are being destroyed and everything's torn up and for over a hundred chapters, it's been oh huh I guess every AU like that will just be canon divergence lmao

And then Horikoshi basically wipes the slate clean so I guess all those AUs could technically canon compliant. There's not even much in the way of lasting physical damage! Because it's dealt with???? Immediately???? Within months?????

Which is fine! Nothing wrong with it! The AUs are fun! But, it just irks me that you could throw out half the manga because it didn't matter. Nothing majorly changed. Silly adult hero AUs for everyone I guess because the League may as well have been 2 bit villains for all the effect they had at large was. Idk. Maybe I'm bitter? Maybe my brain still trying to process the ending and the change in how AUs relate to canon? I guess - what was all the constant sprinkling in of "society has let people down" that we see from chapter 1? It meant nothing? I guess????? I mean A WAR HAPPENED. But whatever I guess heehee wasn't that soooooo silly???? That people's take on early story can be the same as post story?????

[march32nd]

me when the girl i've been dating for two months tells me that she doesn't find me at all attractive and isn't attracted to me and doesn't know if she ever will be !!!!!

[bunnyboy-juice]

OH MY GDD I FORGOT TO TELL YALL MY WIFE CAME HOME YESTERDAY AND JUST. WOOP. PICKED ME UP LIKE NOTHING. AND THEN DID IT AGAIN LIKE 20 MINUTES LATER AGAIN LIKE NOTHING.

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

mcdonald goodsir talking scene but its like an hour bc i just would like to see them talk more

[sweetandsourcookies]

lying here in bed and thinking abt how alienated out i feel in the cookie run fandom. and then theres a polish sitcom playing in the background from a different room.

[the-somwthing]

Welcome to my little meta analysis essay called

Why do we misremember Flower Husbands as being “nicer” than it was?

Disclaimer: I’m not here to talk about whether or not FH is “toxic” or anything like that. It’s just a fact that many old fans rewatching FH POV and new fans who are watching it for the first time after seeing fan content tend to be surprised at how they actually behaved in the series compared to how everyone remembered them being back in the day. This will NOT go over whether or not I think FH is unhealthy or whatever and instead just discuss why I believe this phenomenon has happened.

So, if I try to make this a fancy well written essay, I’ll be here all day, so I’ll just get to the point. 3rd Life came out during the DSMP era of mcyt. MCRP has been around for ages, but the DSMP style of RP (which I’ll be calling “smp rp”) was pretty much popularized by DSMP, mostly towards the end of 2020. For reference, 3rd Life started early 2021, so there’s about a half a year between these two events, and DSMP kept going for years so 3rd Life was absolutely happening during the golden era of DSMP.

But what does DSMP have to do with this? Well, it sort of created this idea of “lore” and only specific things being “canon”. You can make fun of me for the way I worded that, but you know what I mean, DSMP was weird about that stuff. I don’t really blame them as it was kind of a new style of RP they accidentally spawned, but still, it was a confusing time for SMPs.

3rd Life was actually less like DSMP and more like the modern SMP RPs, where there’s no (known, lol) scripted events and the fandom itself deciphers what is or isn’t “canon” rather than it being told to them, with mostly everything being considered canon. HOWEVER, I do believe that DSMP’s style did still affect the fandom, specifically with the topic of this essay, Flower Husbands.

But why would it only really affect Flower Husbands? Now we get into a rough topic: shipping discourse. Back in those days, shipping in the mcyt fandom was heavily frowned upon. Moreso than it is today (I know it’s still around, but it was a lot worse the earlier we go lol). I’ve even seen old relics of ppl saying flower husbands should only be portrayed as platonic cuz it’s wrong to ship them, despite their team name literally being husbands. But more importantly, for A LOT of people, flower husbands was the One Ship people felt “allowed” to ship, BECAUSE it was canon. So they would allow FH and shun every other ship.

My point isn’t actually that, with it being the only “acceptable” ship everyone tried to make it more wholesome, though I suppose that could be a contributor. But my ACTUAL point is where all the things I laid out finally close in on each other:

Ships were a Dangerous territory in mcyt fandom, and ships being “canon” was something a lot of people weren’t prepared to deal with. People don’t want to get too close to RPF territory, but back in the day their ideas of c! vs cc! wasn’t as great, so they default to the DSMP Rule of “if it’s stated to be roleplay, then it’s canon to the characters, if not, it’s noncanon and just the CCs hanging out”.

You see where I’m going with this? When trying to follow this rule for a character relationship where they don’t explicitly state what is or isn’t RP, they hear “we’re married” and instantly mark that as canon to the characters since it clearly isn’t true to the CCs, and tend to block out anything else, otherwise you’re risking it not actually being true to the characters. Especially when it’s things like Scott saying something mean about Jimmy; that directly contradicts the “these characters are in love” thing, so it must not be canon, right?

But wouldn’t people still remember that these things happened, or did they actually straight up not process any of it? My answer to that is: of course everyone was paying attention, but with the context that it’s the CCs playing a video game, all of the teasing and other behavior seems WAY less serious. It just looks like average friends playing a hunger games smp together. And as I explained earlier, the fandom was ONLY processing this as a CC thing, so Scott’s treatment of Jimmy never stood out because that’s just how it is playing games.

Back to DSMP, I’m not active in that fandom anymore but I’ll see snippets sometimes, and I’ve seen the claim that beeduo was actually boring in canon and the fandom was the one that made it interesting. I feel like this is exactly what happened with FH. Nobody was actually expecting anyone to go hard into romantic roleplay, so the fans just take whichever pair says they’re getting married and fill in the blanks themselves. And that was normal back then, it wasn’t fans making stuff up for no reason, it was kind of expected of us.

So yeah, I personally believe that this whole confusion about FH is a result of its time. Whether you want to finally look at the actual substance of the relationship rather than following weird rules about what is or isn’t “canon”, or you believe that since FH was from a time where romantic RP was confusing and weird it would make the most sense to take into account the time period it came from and ignore the less appealing bits in favor of the fanon, I don’t really care honestly. But man isn’t this an interesting situation.

[subtlybrilliant]

“Well aren’t you optimistic…”

Thanks, Karen. It’s either that or be dragged down into the unyielding abyss of despair again! :)

[aiscapades]

this fandom about a monster fucking dating game makes me feel more welcome and included than any other fandom i've participated in