#liking a show after disliking it

[ramonahblog]

So like Im starting to like cbs ghosts after hating on it how do I fix my mistakes

I am going to assume you are (or were) a fan of BBC Ghosts since that has been my experience about people hating CBS Ghosts initially. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.

What do you mean by hating on it? Or are you asking how not to like it? Because if it's the latter, I'm not going to be able to help due to liking the series. So while there are certainly things I don't like about it (like ever other media I watch), I'm not going to try and convince someone to dislike the show. Which brings me back to what you mean by "hating on it". Because there is a difference between hating on the show itself even without giving it a chance and trashing people for their fictional taste. And sometimes people do conflate the two.

There isn't really anything major to do if the hate was IDK, calling it a copycat or something. Or that it was a stupid show that misses the point of the UK Ghosts or that Isaac's entire character was just one big gay joke for the show.

The latter complaint annoys me a lot (I have a long-ass post in the works talking about it) but it's still over fictional characters, right? And people are entitled to hate a type of fiction.

If you just talked trash about the show, you can just talk positively about the show if that's how you feel now. You're allowed to change your mind. If you want to or feel like it'll be brought up, just mention what you've said here. If the mistake is you trashed the show before giving it a chance, just say that.

You're human, OP. I know a lot of times it's forgotten on the internet but humans are inherently messy and make mistakes or don't behave even to our own standards. Humans change their minds. Perfectly normal. The other thing is if you trashed people for liking CBS Ghosts or giving it a chance, that's going to be more difficult to make up for.

First thing is to apologise once to the people you hurt if you can (they may have blocked you, do not try and get around the blocks) and then leave it up to them. Don't, no matter how tempting, keep contacting them and try to explain.

The second is to really consider what made you feel it was okay to hurt people for their taste. And to consider if you regret it because you now like the show or if you regret it because you let your hate get the better of you. Because if it's the former, you will do it again.

The third (and this leads from the second), take action to prevent or limit the ways you can comment right away especially when your emotions are high. This could be read things while logged off so you can't comment until you are in a better headspace. Have a set day where you just block the sites and do something, go offline for a while. Anon is always on here so feel free to send in more if you are confused or want to clarify or I have it completely wrong.

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[abyssal-ilk]

no more romance. romance is canceled. tell me about your warden/hawke/inquisitor's best friend and any info you want to add about their dynamic 🖐

[steamedlotusroot]

as a native chinese, i feel like some of yall are taking the gods in lego monkie kid a bit too seriously. i understand why it feels iffy to ship / make silly content of deities that people worship irl (eg. nezha, sun wukong) but it’s a phenomenon on chinese social media too. c-netizens ship the fictionalized versions of these gods, which the gods of lego monkie kid are. they aren’t the actual gods people worship; they’re slightly tweaked versions of the book characters, just like any other chinese adaptation or retelling of jttw (and such stories like fsyy) also, no, nezha isn’t a child, in lmk or jttw or sometimes irl. just because he’s often depicted in child form doesn’t make him an immortal child. eros / cupid is often depicted as a winged baby, and he has a wife and kids. it’s basically the same thing here. nothing in lmk suggests that nezha is a child (his voice, his appearance, his personality etc. all imply he is an adult), and while he’s described as youthful in jttw, he’s already 1700+ years old by then and gods can shapeshift. people only think he’s an immortal baby because that’s a popular depiction of him, since one of his prominent myths is set during his childhood. but as long as you’re talking about the god nezha (fictionalized or the religious figure) and not the human child nezha, then that’s an adult [edit: the last sentence couldve been worded better. i would summarize it as “immortal youth nezha is a valid depiction and is popularized by mythology, but adult god nezha exists too and they are NOT mutually exclusive”]

[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.

[ceasarslegion]

No i dont think its a good thing to make hating children your entire personality but can i please just say that i dont like them and dont want to deal with screaming temper tantrums and meltdowns from other peoples kids (especially, ESPECIALLY when the parents are absolutely useless in dealing with them) without 30,000 people crawling out of the woodwork to assume that i think all kids should die

[cervinae-canine]

we might need to bring back this panel because i think the fandom collectively forgot about it

[posalis]

"jayce has two hands!" yes and they were both holding viktor in the end <3

[becasbelt]

watched the first half of arcane season 2 with my little sister and she doesn't like caitlyn and i. simply don't know what i'll do if she doesn't come around to her in the end

[the-music-maniac]

SherLiam fics aren't usually something I indulge in because I tend to get annoyed at how many times Sherlock gets the shovel talk in fics (which I know is somewhat canonical - for Louis at least - but that and the fact that I tend to enjoy vers/switch dynamics and there isn't much of that means I don't tend to read stuff for the ship)

- but one thing I do find hilarious about SherLiam is just how utterly besotted William usually is with Sherlock. Meanwhile Louis is two feet behind him staring at the man like he's a dirty sock. It's just so fucking funny.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[strawberrysnipes]

heyy i know ur a kamen rider fan n i wanted to ask u what series i should start with :P im not sure whats good and whats not so id appreciate some reccomendations

Hi anon I am probably the worst person to ask I had just about the funniest introduction to Kamen rider (boyfriend made me watch a mid-end series movie bc of a joke we made) BUT. I can tell you that most of my friends started with den-o and that it was a very good introduction to the franchise! It's a bit slower which can make it harder to get into if you have a lot of other kr under your belt (especially heisei 2 and reiwa series) but this makes it a good way to ease yourself into it! I've also heard that kuuga is a good place to start for similar reasons, though I haven't seen it yet personally so I can't confirm or deny (but one of my friends with great taste highly recommends). Good luck with however you start Kamen rider is insanely fun

TLDR; DEN-O OR KUUGA

[elevenenthusiast]

I HATE how much people do to defend noah on here and on twitter like why are you all forgetting he’s a zionist?

[whenthegoldrays]

also I think it’s time for a little Elly Lore Update because I feel like I mention so many people on here and y’all need to understand who I’m taking about when you attend the virtual sleepovers 😌

[alaskan-wallflower]

being so completely honest when i say this, but if you have a job, you should be showing up. it’s fine to call out every once in a while, but if you’re going two and half months hardly doing the full 8 show week because your role is “just so taxing” then you either find a way to make it sustainable or you take accountability and say that you need an alternate because you can’t do the show 8 times a week. everyone in the show has called out but no one has called out as much as brody has and in a professional theatre environment, you have to be a professional, take accountability for your actions, and respect the production, which includes showing up for your job. when jordan fisher was in dear evan hansen and sweeney todd, he called out all the time and guess what? when he got to hadestown he got his act together because he didn’t want poor attendance to be a part of his reputation. it doesn’t matter how talented brody is, if he’s gonna be in a broadway show, he needs to show up and take accountability for his actions.

okay? i don’t think it’s his call to make trevor an alternate. and agan, what’s with the sudden influx of brody hate in my inbox? yall know im a fan of him. of the musical. why do you send me shit like this? and what do you mean “he held accountable for his actions”? what actions are so dire that he has to “be held accountable” for? listening to his body? knowing that if his body says he can’t do a show then he can’t do a show? and he’s been in the show for a good fifteen productions in a row and he took one break and did another fifteen days or so. i’d say a break is well deserved. and plenty of actors take breaks. just because he happens to call out more doesn’t mean anything. and may i remind you that he’s being thrown around, he’s doing this all on the equivalent of an obstacle course, he does a while fight in the rain scene, the fire stunt, the dancing, the taxing of his voice is a lot. So yeah. I’d expect him to be out more and again, HIS ABSENCES ARE NO ONES BUSINESS! I don’t know why people only hold Brody to gunpoint over being absent like yeah, i get he calls out more, but he doesn’t make the call about an alternate. That’s out of his control. To even insinuate that is beyond idiotic.

And him and Jordan are completely different people. To compare them is unfair. and we don’t know if the reason Jordan is taking less absences is because he e”doesn’t want that in his record”-like honestly? Ponyboy is a much more taxing role than Orpheus because Orpheus at least has some downtime and while there is a lot more dancing in Hadestown, there’s also a lot more physical action in the rumble and the fire stunt and the rain sequence and whatnot.

i don’t know what it is with anons in my inbox and thinking they’re entitled to say what brody is doing in taking breaks when needed is wrong. you don’t know why he’s out and it’s not your business why he’s out. everyone is entitled to their off days. try playing pony boy for an eight week show and then you can talk shit. he’s allowed to take breaks and the fact you’re insinuating he can’t makes me believe you’re just being an entitled prick. he could very well be sick or just taking a well deserved break. and the whole “being held accountable” thing is bullshit. he’s not doing anything wrong in putting his own needs first. if he feels he can’t do the show at 100% then he can’t do the show. and i commend him for that.

idk what it is with all these people staying on anon either like if you can’t even say this without needing anonymity to cover your tracks you shouldn’t be sending this to me.

[korkorali]

Hokay, we’re gonna have a small little fandom etiquette lesson here:

#Anti [Character] #[Character] Critical

See these two tags? They’re very good to use (if you want to write negative posts about a character) and very good to block (if you don’t want to see negative posts about a character)

Because yeah, you should be able to voice your opinion! You shouldn’t have to pretend to like a character just because a lot of other people seem to like them.

But maybe

Just maybe

When a character tag updates, like, once every two days on average

Maybe it can get a little tiring for people who like that character to see a bunch of hate towards that character instead of enjoyment

(And then they do stupid things like engage with and argue with that dislike instead of just blocking and moving on, which is genuinely A Dick Move most of the time)

Maybe it can get a little upsetting to see the same

Exact

Mountain of misinformation that maliciously mischaracterizes the character they like

That just gets repeated over and over and over

And stuff out the posts that are about enjoying the character within the tags

So try to use #Anti [Character] and/or #[Character] Critical when you are bringing up your grievances with a specific character, and try to block #Anti [Character] and #[Character] Critical if drama about that character is likely to upset you

Live and let live, and don’t muck up everybody else’s space to engage with what they enjoy