#i hate stan culture

[bandzboy]

i am indeed very TIRED

[rawstfish]

Cause like... Kpop culture is so fucking weird and insane. You can either be normal about kpop or it completely changes you as a person. Sadly, a lot of people are not normal about kpop

[watcherintheweyr]

desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

[hazellvsq]

headcanon that hazel had the most parasocial beef imaginable with shirley temple. 8 year old hazel was writing hate mail to the local paper with her crayons calling the also 8 year old shirley a sellout and an industry plant. in 2010 hazel's watching nick at nite on the fifth cohort rec room tv and sees the 2 minute long shirley temple box set commercial and loses her fucking mind.

[stormyromance]

People whining that they can’t enjoy Good Omens anymore need to grow up. There are a billion TV shows out there and you wanna keep watching one made by a rapist? Be so fucking for real right now!

[chamerionwrites]

In full seriousness I think it’s valid to dislike a story for all kinds of reasons, including “it’s just not my jam.” Where I get deeply irritable is when people say “XYZ is a bad story (often with the implied or explicit corollary “and anyone who writes or enjoys such a story is bad”) because it asks me to care about and/or show interest in understanding characters I find annoying/unpleasant/weak/otherwise flawed, and/or generally makes me uncomfortable.”

This is because I unironically believe that pathological unwillingness to sit with discomfort is (1) the death of empathy and curiosity, (2) an extremely powerful tool for oppression, and (3) a serious societal problem especially in societies that benefit from said oppression.

[puerile-fawn]

Guys, can y'all be honest with me? Why do some people HATE Jared padalecki. Like, I always thought he was a pretty nice guy, based on what I'd seen about him. If you hate JP, pls tell me why. I genuinely wanna know if there's reasons I shouldn't stan him??

[boxwinebaddie]

smhhhh not me makin my thottopic satanicmanicpanic pixiescreamboy girlypoppunk ( ily marj ) crimson dawn super band an entire fake religion, or rather…

a sacreligion ;) xx <3

[raylangivins]

most annoying thing ever is when a popular artist or album gets criticised and fans are like "you don't understand, this specific element you're criticising is a creative choice!" and it's like yeah! and it didn't work. that's the criticism!!

[shewhotellsstories]

I’m not a Joe Alwyn stan, I know nothing about the man. I’m just very interested in stan culture and I’ve gotta say it’s a bit jarring to see everyone swear up and down that they “know” so much about a relationship they weren’t a part of and swear that he’s an evil incel and feel so confident about this that stans are conformably cyber bullying every woman he’s ever interacted with. People break up, it sucks, but it’s also life.

[pinewae]

i don't understandd

[feastingonchrist]

i have been thinking about how i really used to waste my mid teens and very early twenties pretty much "worshiping" celebrities. Like the idolatry was off the charts crazy. I had hoards of photos of them in my camera rolls and had multiple fanpages. They really were like gods to me. I even called them "god" as a half joke. Until i found the One True God. Jesus Christ. It's crazy to look back on. Now, i couldn't care less about celebrities or pop culture. it also doesn't help that it's boring now, too. I still have a soft spot in my heart for those celebrities and their music, but i really don't engage with them or their music anymore (maybe a few songs/albums depending on the person, if the music is appropriate and if i don't feel convicted by it). Most of that came naturally. But there was one celebrity in particular whose music i felt i needed to give up a year or two ago. I felt convicted about it for a while, even though the songs were appropriate. I didn't want to do that at all. while that pained me to do so, i know i made the right decision. if i hear any songs randomly from back then i will enjoy them for a moment but that's all. knowing myself, i'd end up getting attached again if i dove back into their discography for nostalgia purposes and i can't have that happen for my own sake. it can be hard at times to miss all of it too, if i'm being honest. so i truly just have to love them from a distance and appreciate the fun that i had back then! it's really easy for me to become attached to celebrities/things but thankfully God has kept me grounded enough to not have that happen. I only fear Him and worship Him. My identity is in Christ. I can't put my trust or find purpose in anyone but Him.

[phormlessblob]

how the tommyinnit beef got me feeling

[artificialcaretaker]

NATHAN EXPLOSION IS FUCKING BRASILIAN?!?!?!?!?!?!

[fromtheseventhhell]

Huge fan of annoying stans getting their comeuppance in the form of either a) getting the ending they wanted but it being so poorly written that it's universally criticized and ignored (bonus points if it involves the writers or cast doing damage control and recontextualizing things) or b) them getting the exact opposite ending to what they predicted with only the tiniest of crumbs towards what they wanted (bonus points if the crumbs in question have to be misinterpreted to count)