#can you be groomed by a show?

[swiftiesbuddie]

was anyone gonna tell me how fucked up it is that ezria was my favorite pll ship when i was a kid/adolescent…

or was i just gonna have to gonna have to realize that myself

[ilycosy]

i need to kiss his forehead, smooth out his furrowed brows, tell him it's gonna be ok, play with his hair, caress his face, wipe his tears away, tuck him into bed, have him take a nice warm shower, use face masks on him, make hermes pay, take him to therapy, make him lunches, enroll him into college with me, bandage his wounds, compliment his arms, reassure him his scar isn't ugly, introduce him to taylor swift and boy genius, read him bedtime stories, bake brownies with him, visit his mother with him, prove the prophecy wrong, tell him he's doing great sweetie, get him away from kronos, fight kronos, help him mend things with annabeth, hold him close while he vents, encourage him to explore other hobbies, be his support system

[marysblo0d]

Every time I see a Daemyra stan posting about how the portrayal of Daemon is unfair because he’s supposed to be the best husband in the world:

[elexuscal]

what if truman from The Truman Show had just ended up being like

really boring?

like he was just literally a random baby when they got him. you have no idea what they'll grow into. he ended up being incredibly Cheerful and Quirky and waving at everyone and making faces into the mirror-he-doesn't know is a camera.

but they could have just gotten like. an introverted accountant who never emotes

what would they have even done?

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i’ve said it before and i feel the need to say it again, just because someone likes debbie does not mean they support rape. what debbie did in 5x03 has layers to it, and obviously i don’t defend it but i don’t hate her for it either being as she was 14 and he was 21 and had been grooming her. you shouldn’t just assume people support rape or even accuse people of being rapists, especially if that person, aka me, has been a victim of sexual assualt (on several occasions). idk. just a thought!

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i need people to start writing scientists as completely batshit. none of us are normal. the “uptight and logical and rational” stereotype is a facade

[xinyuehui]

EP3 - Fibrous Lovers · The Threat of Love (2000)

[coulsonlives]

Omg, Dante Basco ships Zutara! My life is complete.

[bohemian-nights]

I see “fans” are concern trolling about Nettles again

[wildflowercryptid]

something that's been weighing on my mind ever since learning about the situation with ezra / toonimal is seeing how these predators will take the active hostility that is frequently directed towards minors in online spaces to their advantage and use it to prey on vulnerable children. i think that we as adults in online fandom should probably come together and maybe rethink the language / manner we go about interacting with kids bc clearly the way things are rn is causing active harm.

like obviously, if you're an adult and aren't comfortable with minors interacting with you or your content, you should be allowed to set that boundary and should be vocal about it, ( especially if the content you create isn't safe for them to consume. ) but i don't think talking to them like they're a blight on all that is good and holy is the way to go about it. maybe just saying you're an 18 plus account will suffice, you don't have to tell them to fuck off.

[ongreenergrasses]

my unpopular opinion is that while i think Snow is ultimately responsible for the sex trafficking of victors i don’t think he’s the “face of the operation”. like obviously he’s the one that set it up, knows everything that’s going on and completely enforces it i still see him being someone who would like to publicly keep his hands clean of it. i don’t think anybody who pays for the victors would ever pay him directly and i think the victors would very rarely, if ever, have a conversation with him about it directly. i know most fics (and i’ve complained to you about this part before lol) depict Snow showing up to a victor and saying “hey you gotta have sex with this guy tonight or i’m gonna kill your whole family” but in my eyes he has a lot more people who do his dirty work for him and it’s a grooming situation. it’s probably people these kids see on a more day to day basis subtly edging them in to this before really locking them in

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(un)popular opinions

[grishaverse-chaos]

darkl!ng stans: he's an example of the vilified revolutionary trope, he wants what's best for grisha, he is powerful + competent + a visionary

the darkl!ng: separates ALL grisha from otkazatsya society entirely which creates alienation, murders innocent people, seemingly does not know the meaning of the word "negotiation", decides that an eleven year old child is his best option for a spy, murders more innocent people, ignores and even encourages divisions between grisha, creates the fold (which kills people regularly and has basically destroyed ravka's intranational relations), murders even more innocent people, grooms a seventeen year old girl (even worse if you believe he genuinely loved her! aleksander that is a Child!), tortures people who disobey him - oh yeah, and my personal favourite, literally murders 95% of ALL RAVKAN GRISHA purely because they..... didn't think he should murder hundreds of innocent civilians by using the fold as a weapon.....

darkl!ng stans: yeah but he wanted what was best for grisha!!!!!!1!!!1!1!1!1

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Stuck on the first few eps of Farscape after finishing up Fantasy High s2 and maybe its the whole most recently consumed bias but I'm really struck by how much it feels like a dnd game??? Bunch of weird lil renegades slapped together and put in weird situations, honestly it would make a really interesting starting point for a game

Anyway John Crichton is a bard/wizard; he does a lot of persuasion as performance and that scene of him collapsing to the floor to write slingshot equations is THE most wizard shit- perhaps Artificer would be more accurate to him but it's not a class I'm familiar with.

[maegalkarven]

I'm thinking about Isobel who came back from the dead a hundred years later, who came back to the lands cursed and her father fallen into madness.

Who eminates a barely indistinguishable whiff of rot and Myrkul's power. Who was touched by the forces so repulsing she wishes she has never come back.

And who still has Moonmaiden's favor and her blessing.

Like by all means Selûne had every right to punish Isobel for her father's sins, esp considering what Isobel is, undeniably, the cause of Ketheric turning into the villain he became. Or rather, her death is.

Instead Selûne grants her enough power to battle the curse and create a small safe harbor amidst darkness. More power than the most have, as priest of Selune!Tav might comment.

Instead Selûne favors her, loves her.

Isobel is the indirect reason Aylin is enslaved and the lands are dying under the curse, and Selûne never turns her back on her.

Idk it just makes me emotional

[little-estrellita]

THE WINX CHRONICLES

I love listening to longer content, but these days, I am super picky. I multi-task, but I am fairly good at actually listening to the content. It can't just be music or a random podcast. It has to interest me.

Yet, I haven't really met content I needed to stop and put down what I am doing before getting into the Winx Club fandom. I first watched the show as a pre-teen back when Nickolodeon aired the fourth season. {I can go on about that day and the fandom overall, but it's better saved for another rant?}

This is.. well. Magical. I listened to the Winx Forever Podcast over and over again, completely obsessed even if Lola absolutely demolished the Rai dub. {Both have their great moments and flaws. But that's coming from someone that saw the Nick dub first.}

Then. The Winx Chronicles. She recommends great things in her podcast. But none are on Spotify, which I use during work hours. Now, with a break, I can truly explore outside and by my stars... it's beautiful. The audio version on YouTube is simply divine! So much care and love for the show is poured into this project. Voices I recognize planting images in my head about the world I had stuck in my mind since my youth.

It has a lot of content, I found myself fully listening into the first act that was released a little over a week ago as of now. The changes and shifts in the story. The way you can still pick up parts of the original show, including the Kids dub, and yet its brand new. It's more mature but still leans heavily into the magic of it all. More lore and answers are being answered. With a few mysteries promised to be solved.

I am growing to love the fandom more and more. I simply find myself in love with the Winx Chronicles, even just the audio version. Maybe I should sit down and read when things die down for me?

I am still searching for more content. I want to be able to support more projects such as these. Sadly, I have left a lot of social media platforms and would prefer not to go back to them due to personal reasons. For now, I will repeat the ones I have gathered even as I memorize them word for word.

There's not much I can say to really express my growing love for this fandom... it's just.. winx

[ssaltlicker]

So much of the arcane fandom subscribes to the belief that any harmful action can be explained away and excused as long as its either someone you agree with or if you have a good enough sob story