#it’s just exhausting

[katelynthedragon]

The best stories need a range of emotions!!! Otherwise you don’t root for the characters because there’s no hope.

unhinged, btw, that bioware has to keep assuring people that the game is still dark and gritty because the cinematic trailer was kind of flashy and the art style has changed. for dragon age. the game that was doing "marvel dialogue" before the mcu even really existed (iron man came out in 08, dao came out in 09). the game with a species of hairless pig rabbits, one of which is named schmooples. the game with swooping is bad. the game where you could solve a sidequest about a pining elf boy by fucking the girl he's pining for. we're really gonna pretend this game series never had a significant amount of silliness and humor? fenris tells varric he likes to dance through the empty rooms in danarius' manor. hawke has an entire personality archetype that can be summed up as "shitposter." we're really going to pretend dragon age (the series where people can walk in on you and bull having kinky sex) is all dark and mature and has never had light or silly moments as a major part of its formula. insane

[silvermoon424]

I think we really need to acknowledge and understand how ignorant the average American is, and how the powers that be actively reinforce and feed into that ignorance because it benefits them.

Americans aren’t inherently less intelligent or empathetic than other people. It’s that American culture continually beats American exceptionalism, anti-intellectualism, hyper-individualism, apathy, etc into the minds of children until they start to believe in it because they don’t really have any other frame of reference.

It’s all to stamp out empathy and install a sense of superiority because otherwise more American citizens would be like “hey, it’s pretty fucked up that we spend so much money killing and oppressing people in other countries when our own citizens are suffering because they can’t afford healthcare. We should do something about that.” And if more Americans were actively oppressed to imperialism and protested against it, that would cause a lot of trouble for the people in power who benefit from it.

Idk man it’s just exhausting and despair-inducing when you realize how omnipresent and effective this social conditioning is in the States. Like our whole culture revolves around keeping people apathetic and complacent while a handful of insanely rich people destroy our societies and the very planet we live on because they care more about hoarding wealth than the future of our entire species.

[the-crimson]

It kinda always makes me sad when people talk about arospec characters on the qsmp and only talk about q!Jaiden and q!mike without mentioning q!bbh :( like honestly q!bbh’s relationship with q!forever and how ambiguous it is is 100% an aromantic experience I’ve had.

People assuming my relationship with my partner is romantic when it’s not - at least not in the way they imagine - or assuming it will eventually turn romantic as if what we have isn’t good enough and I hate seeing the same thing happen to q!bbh

Idk I’m just sad and tired of q!bbh’s arospec identity being erased or forgotten or valued less than q!jaiden and q!mike because he has such a popular ship and complicated relationship with another character even tho cannon 4halo is incredibly aromantic/queer platonic in of itself :/

(Also q!forever is arospec/lithoromantic as well so in general their ship is incredibly aromantic/queer platonic from like every angle

[charleecat-bat]

I am so so sorry to anyone who likes shadownthat follows me I’m so sorry but if you do then click away since I need to rant

I watched the stream with some friends on discord

And I am thankful, I feel validated in my feelings as we share the same feelings on the matter…

I am so sick of shadow

he is all over this stream I am so tired

They have to include him in EVERYTHING

EVERY

FUCKING

THING

PLEASE

HE WAS INVOLVED IN EVERYTHING EXCEPT ONE DAMN THING

PLEASE STOP SHOVING HIM DOWN OUR THROATS

Not EVERYONE thinks he’s the best character and the fact that you keep bringing him up IS GOING TO START AND ALREADY IS MAKING OTHERS VERY EXASPERATED ABOUT BIS CHARACTER

They’re just dangling him in front if us and jingling it like a pair of shiny keys to entertain kids to keep their attention on them.

It feels less that they actually give a fuck about the character itself and more so that they just know that he’s popular and he’ll make them money, they do not care otherwise.

That’s just how it feels

He had his entire complete arc. His story was completed. It was good.

Why do they have to keep bringing him in and doing shit? Retelling his story and squeezing more in to the points it’s going from complex to annoying.

When they have SO MANY OTHER CHARACTERS they could give a chance to work on and make more complex.

but they’re just left in the dust

While Shadow is just left in the spotlight, to the point he’s almost getting burnt away. His character is going to worsen and suffer a result of him just being OVER used… only for the point of him just being the popular character… even popular fan favourite characters can be over used and it can damage them. People need to be aware of this…

So as a result I am so sick of this damn edge hog,,, I am TIRED

I’m so tired and exhausted…

The fact that NO OTHER CHARACTER gets this treatment speaks VOLUMES

He’s treated almost as if he’s the main character almost, hell he was overshadowing sonic quite a bit in the own damn stream.

How bizarre is that?

The other characters deserve to be added upon and given more of a chance to shine and actually given development and stories and character arcs. Shadows had PLENTY. I don’t see why he needs anymore. One if the main reasons he’s liked because he’s complex… but instead of giving that chance to make others equally complex, they just keep flooding with more, and then just retell his story but squeeze in more.

It doesn’t make sense…

They’re going to do more harm then good if they just keep continuing to rely on Shadow this heavily…

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

In House of the Dragon, the beating heart of the story is Alicent and Rhaenyra’s love story. You don’t have to like that. You don’t have to agree with that choice. You can think it’s bullshit. You can think that Ryan Condal is the single worst writer ever (a bit melodramatic but okay) but you can’t pretend that that’s not what this show revolves around. You can’t pretend that Alicent and Rhaenyra’s story is unimportant and then get mad when it is important. Because then you’re just setting yourself up to get sad and angry over and over and over again.

It’s the same with anything else in this show. This is a show where prophecies are important, where misogyny and its consequences are a major theme, where the consequences of bad parenting do show up across generations, and where war is a horrific thing (that last one I believe will become increasingly clear in the second half of the series. Otherwise, why would Alicent and Rhaenyra spend so much time trying to avoid war? Why do Baela and Helaena (the good ones) express concerns for innocents, whereas Aemond and Daemon (more morally dubious) don’t? Why do Rhaenyra’s ethics seem to start fading as total war becomes inevitable?)

You don’t have to like any of those choices. No one working on HOTD is entitled to you liking their show. But you can’t just pretend that at some point, all of those themes will be retconned out of existence. Helaena’s prophecies aren’t going to stop because you don’t like them. Misogyny isn’t going to stop being important because you think it’s a secondary issue. And Alicent and Rhaenyra and their conflict is going to be this show’s main character like it or not.

You can re-read Fire & Blood. You can find a TV show (or any piece of media) with the themes you want. You can find a really good fanfic. But you cannot will this show into being something it’s not, and at this point you truly are only hurting yourself by thinking you can.

[heyyallitssatan]

Why is it that because I’m not the norm I have to defend myself?

I’m neurodivergent, so I’m automatically responsible for making things accessible for myself, for explaining myself to you.

I’m aroace, so I’m responsible for explains myself to you, for teaching you, for validating myself in your eyes.

I’m non-binary so I have to explain myself in a way that you can understand, in a way that’s digestible for you because you’re the norm.

I’m responsible for making you accept and respect me, because gods forbid you have learn something

Gods forbid you accept something that you don’t understand

Gods forbid I just get to live my fucking life.

[jammmbi]

god i need therapy and to move out

[pulchritudinous-plants]

oh and also while i’m thinking of ridley’s horrible treatment of his female characters: half the reason storey ming is viewed as untrustworthy by willa and charlene is because the guys think she’s hot

like thats literally it

[diamondseaside]

tbh i’m really tired of all the back and forth from where i live now and home… i wish my family was closer :(

[container-of-apple-juice]

I fucken love nonbinary representation in media, I love it so much it makes me ache, but I can’t help but feel a sort of weirdness when the only nonbinary representation we get in a given media platform is from a singular assigned-gender group.

Stop me if I’m out of line here, but it just feels counterintuitive to have a cast of nonbinary characters who are entirely afab. Or entirely amab. Although I’ve literally never encountered the latter. It’s fucken weird, okay. If nonbinary representation in media is going to be taken seriously it needs to include people of all ‘sexes’ and of all body types. Any representation is better than none at all, but it would be nice to see a broader and more accurate representation of people and characters existing outside of the binary.

[local-redhead-bookworm]

If people could stop perceiving my hair color as my defining trait that’d be great

[t4tdiaz]

I’m ngl the amount of passive-aggressiveness and negativity in the 9-1-1 fandom is really draining

[sunshinefarabees]

someone seriously had a sign like that??? that's awful. I hope the sign got taken away and thrown in the garbage

unfortunately yeah :( idk if it was taken away but i hope someone at least said smth to them- im hoping it was a one time thing and doesn’t happen again

[stilesfuck1ngstilinski]

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[glitchedcosmos]

I’m ace, aro and tired

Reblog if you are also LGBT+ and tired

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

Being forcefully raised as a woman is not any less traumatic and emotionally repressive as being forcefully raised as a man. Femininity is not inherently pure and safe. Coercing someone to perform femininity is not any less toxic than coerced masculinity. Being dysphoric around femininity or having trauma from women doesn’t make you a misogynist.