#i’m just trying idek

[yaminerua]

He’s just a lil guy

[frownyalfred]

no one asked but my headcanon of the day is that fear toxin in high enough doses absolutely makes you shit your pants. and piss yourself. sometimes both if you’re truly unlucky.

[mxtxfanatic]

No, every interpretation is not valid in a piece of media unless the creator has explicitly said somewhere that they have left their work open to interpretation. If you wanna “choose your own adventure” your way through a story, Minecraft exists, The Sims 4 was made free, a blank Word/Google document is a few clicks away, a pen and paper are easily found in the supplies section of most stores. A story for adults with a plot, characters, and conclusion is not your build-a-bear. You are looking for fanfics.

Someone else took the time to make a thing and share it with you so that you could understand the thing they are trying to communicate to you. If an author writes, “The sky is purple,” you don’t get to go, “Well, in the world that I live in, the sky is blue, so the sky in the story must be blue, too. Let’s discuss!” and treat that as “valid interpretation” that should be discussed with equal weight as the people discussing “ok, what’s the significance of the sky being purple? 🤔” I don’t give a singular fuck about whether you are familiar with the "cultural context" of the story or whether you can understand the original language it was written in or whether or not you know the creator on a person level. None of that shit matters, because nobody consumes media for the express purpose of finding out whether or not it conformed to the bank of knowledge Rando Number User #24,232 has learned in life. No person engaged in real critique ever has to take you seriously if your attempts at "analysis" begin and end at "I don't know the author irl to know what their intentions were, so anything goes!" That is a lazy copout, nothing "critical" to be found. Not everything in a general fandom space has to be canon-exclusive, no, but every claim to canon has to align with what is in the actual source material. There’s nothing wrong with either of those statements.

So no, you don’t get to waltz into a canon space going “Jiang Cheng is a great brother and uncle, let’s discuss” and then get upset when told “In this book, Jiang Cheng is an abusive uncle and childhood friend, and round these parts, we discuss the book.” Don’t wanna discuss Jiang Cheng's canon characteristics? The main tags never went anywhere. Get from round these parts.

[sincosma]

God I hope I don’t regret hopping into this topic, but as an ofmd lurker that enjoys settling in for a good long meta, I’ve been seeing a lot of strong hate for Izzy and it’s really confusing me.

To preface, I’m autistic so maybe this is just a very ME thing. But I don’t see fictional characters as People. They are written by someone intentionally. Sometimes I feel like the hate I see for Izzy is as though he’s a People and should be rightfully judged for his very abusive and often violent actions. I see him as a facet of a concept (homophobia, toxic masculinity, however you interpret it), a way to practice what someone like that would do when you inject Stede into the situation. It’s very fascinating to watch. Sometimes painful or uncomfortable, but imo good media should make you confront difficult topics. I personally prefer and seek out challenging media because I like to better understand myself. So from my perspective, I loved Izzy as a character BECAUSE he was challenging. It’s more interesting for me to watch his arc because it makes me examine my own values and boundaries and, most of all, capacity for empathy. Complex characters like that always catch my eye. What he does in the show is AWFUL. I don’t love his actions. But he’s a story thread and he works with the broader narrative and drives the conflict.

And of course, I do understand and validate anyone that was triggered by Izzy because they weren’t expecting some of those things to be brought to our fun gay pirate show or maybe it uncovered an undetected trauma. Totally get that, media has done that to me before (for me, it’s the game Spiritfarer). But sometimes the way Izzy is talked about is so intense. Like very “fuck that monster, don’t even mention him.”

I would get it if you just thought he was poorly written or poorly acted. But some of the things I’ve read make it seem like the person feels the need to dissociate from Izzy like you would a YouTuber that got exposed for doing something terrible. It feels more personal. Is it just that? It’s personal for them? Am I just not recognizing it as that? I’m genuinely coming at this from a psychological perspective not a fandom “go touch grass” perspective. Would love to hear anyone else’s thoughts on the matter.

[greatyme]

Remembering how devastating triage was when it hit peak angst and suddenly getting very scared for where 4 minutes could be headed

[zero3six]

Do machines cry too?

[tongues--and--teeth]

What if just this once, things worked out?

[ghostbeam]

Cool. So I guess this really was my hero academia or whatever the fuck ever

[needybiboy]

Tried to take nudes, they looked awful, I gave up 😭

[golohours]

goes to show how much of an echo chamber cesspit english mcyt is because gia dgaf like i’m sure she’s seen everything and maybe even spoken to them about stuff but she was just never gonna rush to put her opinion out there in the heat of the moment for everyone to analyse. because why would she. that’s her friend. idk.

[weirdcursedvaultkid]

U kno I had to grind so Alex could defend her gf 😡

The little details we know about merulas parents.. like we know they were bad people but at least it seems like merulas mom actually loved her 🥺 and I’ve noticed we never hear about what her dad was like

Also verucca obviously does not like her niece. Which we knew already lmao but she also doesn’t seem to have viewed her sister/sister-in-law(?) in the best way either.

It makes me wonder if that dislike of her mother is the reason verucca takes it out on merula? Not that verucca needs a reason she seems terrible and cold and prob just hates kids lmao

[vaciena]

Can I have a hug

[wooahiexist]

SPOILERS!!

Comic book Game

[kavehater]

Man I just give up.

[euthymiya]

the only way I can think to explain it is she has three thingamobbers and they undergo elemental conversion based on the characters in ur party and the element converted is the element that gets res shred

Yes see this on its own makes sense but there’s so many rules of how many of what elements can be in your party and then how the night soul thing converts the three things for the res shred and it’s like. Okay. Why is she so complicated for this res shred kazuha is such an easy flex spot why is she not the same

[actualnymph]

trying to make a future for yourself career-wise when you genuinely don’t have any interests or care about any specific field or job is so ☹️ like I need to get into something but idek what that would be…seeing sm other people know what they wanna do feels so bad like good for them but I’ll never have that. Like how do I choose and decide…I really need to get back into school but idk if I’d even get into a college bc I don’t have any references + my SAT score was only 1010 which is not great. Maybe I can go to a community college for something then get into a good school where I can make connections and get into whatever it is I’m gonna get into but rn it’s just so hard to think about my future bc like wtf am I even gonna do. Idk. And my parents don’t care so it’s not like I can even talk to them about it I gotta figure it out on my own.