one pet peeve of mine in founders-era fanfics is when madara's whole,,,, everything is solved by izuna just being there
like maybe this is just me, but i don't think izuna surviving or even coming around to the idea of a truce with the senju would've been enough to keep madara from the path he ended up on.
izuna wasn't the reason he left - he was definitely part of madara's issues, but he wasn't the why. even if izuna had stuck around, and even if that had been enough to keep the uchiha clan from losing their faith in madara, i think he would've still come to realize konoha wasn't what he'd hoped it would be.
best case scenario, i think izuna's survival might've caused madara to stick around a bit longer, but i don't think it would've lasted. honestly, even then, that might've just made the inevitable break-up between madara and hashirama even more agonizing (particularly for izuna)
it's a fun idea to play around with for sure, but frankly i don't think canon!madara could've ever been 'saved' from that path. certainly not if the hidden village system ended up getting set up in the same way.
it's so so so true that men, especially middle aged white men, are the most likely demographic to throw a tantrum at customer service workers, especially if those workers are women. and it's also so so so true that their tantrums are often actually dangerous and violent rather than just annoying. and even when they are miraculously happy with the service, they'll still sexually harass you or otherwise act inappropriately so often. but when men act out of pocket people just shrug their shoulders and tell you to accept that "this is just how they are", or blame you for it.
in every single customer service job i've worked, the vast majority of problem customers were men, despite how invested the internet is in pretending otherwise. but women are a much easier target for a lot of reasons, especially if it involves a convenient excuse for bogstandard misogyny, so g-d forbid we ever actually talk about it. :)))))
you know, the real comfort for me is that nothing could be more horrifying than the giant dead baby noise matt made back in c2. like yes, awful creature, horrifying mass of white scorpions. but is it the awful dead baby noise? no. so i am sitting pretty in comparison
watching xena and i kinda wish it was made more recently so they could be more direct with the relationship but also realising it'd probably be a netflix miniseries cancelled after one season and i'm so glad we have the masterpiece that we do
sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'
I think the biggest problem that I have with the fandom is that when characters disagree there is this need to pick sides as if we were watching a soccer match and not a fictional narrative. It's not Imogen/Laudna vs. Orym, it's just different people with different backgrounds and motivations (that have known each other for just a few months) that have this giant weight put on their shoulders and are trying to work together, they disagree because that is just how people work
we as a society need to talk about how most of yall will only care about queer love if there’s a white person involved. not that this doesn’t extend to cishet couples too because of course it does. but there are far too many white queer people that think they’re exempt from racism just because they’re from a marginalized group and that’s a conversation that needs to be had!!!
I just want to talk about the nursery being painted and the purpose of the Tomb to be without a door. Anastasia had a family - and putting to the side the pact with Alecto there's some implicit symbolism to John asking for the workers of the Ninth to die constructing the Tomb with that image of new life. (Still can't articulate my disbelief that he went and didn't think that asking Anastasia of all people, The one who lost her cavalier to him, would have problems)
Yeah. Especially finding this out about the Ninth, where nurseries becoming tombs is a thing we're sensitive about.
On one level we've always known Anastasia had a family. Like, we know she's Harrow's direct ancestor. You can't be heir to the line of someone who never had children. But the nursery.... Yeah. It really hammers it in. Her friends painted a nursery mint green for her children.