#oh and OP mentioned 'arrogance' like a million times too

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

I will not stand for Stephen Strange slander like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VIlrrQndG8

Well, that's a load of bullshit. I get not liking a character but this is such a basic misunderstanding of Stephen that I don't even know where to start.

I'm seeing a pattern lately in fandom that is starting to worry me a bit. I see many fans listing the mistakes of the heroes and using that to claim they're not actually heroes because they made a mistake or they were wrong once in the past. It's a weird belief that unless the heroes are perfect and do everything right, one single mistake is enough to condemn them. Or not even a mistake, if they take action and the outcome is anything but ideal and perfect and results in zero casualties, these fans will tear them apart.

Another thing that worries me is how many fans seem to be so against disobeying rules. I've seen this in discussions regarding CW, Wanda and now Stephen. A character not following rules is enough reason to be called a villain in these fans' eyes. But that only applies to the heroes though. The villains who do in fact break those rules are usually justified and coddled, their intentions assumed to be better than they really are and they're almost automatically made sympathetic by these fans.

Related to that, I've also noticed a lot of talk about the heroes sacrificing something big to save someone, and these fans wondering why would they even bother to do that. Like OP wonders why Stephen would get into so much trouble to save America's life when she's not that important and incursions are far more relevant. It blows my mind that these fans need to have it explained to them that yes, heroes do in fact save people. That's the whole point of their existence and the people they save don't need to be VIPs or crucial to the story, even if it's just one civilian... you gotta save them too. Do we really need to explain this now?

In Stephen's case, the whole point of his first movie is that he has to learn and let go of his need for control and his unmovable beliefs. It's to get him out of his comfort zone so that he will be open to other people's views so that he will see beyond himself. The OP just lists his mistakes and claims those are the only things that define him while at the same time completely ignoring every single time he showed he had learnt from them.

The NWH hate doesn't surprise me, Stephen was misunderstood heavily by a lot of fans in that movie, but I gotta say what bothers me the most is that OP seems to believe everyone suffered from the Snap... and what, Stephen didn't? The one man who had to watch 14 million different outcomes, who had to sacrifice his own life and had the weight of the entire universe upon his shoulders, who is most likely traumatized by it, he didn't suffer? No empathy at all for him?

And what's worse, OP blames Stephen for Wanda's behaviour. Lovely. Not the Darkhold, no, it's Stephen's fault. He should have reasoned with her. It's not like he literally tried to do that in the garden. 🙄

But this thing OP says is like a slap in the face: "Strange learnt nothing from any of this. He is still going to break the rules and cause problems because, ultimately, he's not really the one paying the price."

He's not the one paying the price. Unfuckingbelievable.

[husbandohunter]

Inazuma is dark because it’s part of its theme. I mean look at the dark and gloom of the sky it’s literally a foreshadowing hahhahaha. That aside the only thing I like about the scene where signora just turn to cinders were Baal’s power walk. Also Kazuha duel wielding for first and final time, it got me thinking that perhaps in some part of Teyvat there’s someone who could wield two Visions. If Kazuha is the glimpse for that possibility I can’t wait for the actual thing. (Hopefully)

Speaking of Baal, I knew my luck at Kazuha’s banner will be one day bite me in the ***. I LOVE him tho his my main since Archipelago. I don’t regret pulling him. I regret not getting his cons.

So I guess I won’t be getting my first archon after all 🥲. Maybe on Venti and Zhongli reruns... oh on a good side I have C6 sucrose now. The bad side is that my OP artifacts is on Kazuha and I have a bias for him.

Noooo don’t laugh at my misery 😭 the only thing stressing me out is math and my course is apparently spearheading the hard stuff. And sleep? What’s that?😃

Also also the fishing feature is making me addicted to another game that isn’t even focus on fish simulation. Ugh!! The spawn time is horrendous tho. And getting a new fishing rod is like buying a 1 million gold for an iridium rod in Stardew Valley. I’ll get the new rod tho especially the monstadt one, it looks pretty. Oh btw I’ve got another character in the works but I’m also mixing in Aloy’s presence with them. Speaking of, Aloy another outlander she did not just manage to get isekai but also got a vision. Farmer being on Teyvat without the a-hole of heavenly BS hunting them down.

That also, I’ve been noticing the unknown god getting mention a lot or more so than usual. The characters mention them not exactly directly with the whole Heavenly Principles and all. The tyranny of Celestia is just—it does more than destroy Khaenriah. Maybe siding with the Tsaritsa for her rebellion against those a-holes sounds like a good idea after all.

-Birdie

*SPOILERS* (but maybe its too late already ._.) theres so much to love about the new update, the story? the music?? the cutscenes??? all aboard the feels train, we will never forget Teppei :(

-----the way Signora...um, burned away was so fitting for her. Its funny that being the first Harbinger to be introduced she was also the first on to go. Although her lore was very saddening, her actions were still unforgiveable. Due to her arrogance that was why she fell (after all who said that the winner lives and loser dies? She ate her own words xP). But ngl that Kazuha scene facing against Raiden's Musou no Hitotachi on his friend's behalf was emotionally epic. It felt both badass yet sad at the same time (oh and the rematch against the shogun!! Ugh theres so much to talk about). This is why Kazuha havers got no regrets, lorewise and gameplay wise he's useful af. Though most likely he'll get a rerun anyway because he's so popular (plus anemo supremacy!!)

Theres so much going on I barely have enough time to keep up with these updates T_T mora already takes a decent amount of time to accumulate and an instant to use. Even so this is the closest thing of Stardew Valley x Genshin Impact we can get (plus the farming in serenitea house) so what is there to complain ⊂(￣▽￣)⊃ Ahhh your brainrot ceases to no end, yes please end the angsty isekai trend on my behalf, no more unknown god getting in the way! The more Genshin reveals about the unknown god the more I wanna fight her (but if its paimon....)

And good luck with college!! Please don't forget to get sufficient sleep :') Its not too late to fix your sleep schedule

[themanicgalaxy]

SPN 4X18 The Monster at the End of This Book

Oh BOY is it time for my Chuck Won Truthers moment

HE DID WIN HE DI[GUNSHOT]

oh and for posterity: Misha showed up at the Oscars, and people were SO surprised to see him he trended on both tumblr and twitter

what IS it with this guy, his life is just batshit insane

IT'S CHUCK!!! FUCK THAT GUY!

THEy'RE LARPING AS THEMSELVES

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT LARP MEANS

"supernatural" ROLL CREDITS

"...Sam and Dean...?" "that's it!"

THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN

THE FUCKING TITLE PAGE

"supernatural by carver Edlund" BECAUSE CHUCK WROTE IT AND CHUCK WO-

"full frontal" HE WASN't EVEN FULL FRONTAL in the SHOW!

THESE ARE ACTUAL TITLES

the last one was the season 3 finale?

Ah I see where the "making fun of the fandom" comes from

At least they make fun of wincest

Samgirls and Deangirls

they make fun of the people criticizing them...kripke?

Dean: please do not publish that book

I AZM WHEZZING

THEIR FUCKING F A C E S

"I'm crying on the inside" WHWPHFASI

THEY GOT QUIZZED ON THEIR OWN LIVES

SAM COULDN'T REMEMBER HIS OWN LSAT SCORE

oH he's writing what's CURRENTLY happening

oh and he doesn't know what's going on

"the last names were never in the books" o p e that's what convinces him

"obviously I'm a god" "You're not a god" GUESS WHAT FUCKE-

All FoR the Sake of Literary Symmetry

THEY MAKE FUN OF BUGS

I liked the ghost ship episode

"to be forced to live bad writing" AIFPSIFP AHAHAHA

although to be fair, the "I'm sorry I'm a shitty god" is INTERESTING where did that come from

Writing is hard gif? THAT'S WHERE THAT CAME FROM

SIAPFS HE WROTE WHAT'S HAPPENING

VONNEGUT!!

the laundromat scene is NEAT

Chuck's SO SHORT

how the hell is the book more invasive,

oh I should write about that

happened in '05 too hm

THE PINK FLOWER BANDAID

"and you drive it like that" SAM SOUNDS SO INSULTED

OH THEY CAN'T LEAVE

ah they try to outsmart prophecy uh oh

Veggie Tofu Burger it looks like it HURT SO BAD

...I can't believe god got them to try actual communication by being a a prophet

heh he likes the..oh no it's the bacon one

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN FATE YALL

oh THE FLICKER AND IT TURNING INTO THE RED MOTEL

ah the demon blood

"unsympathetic" ope

what the HELL is Sam's problem with Dean

ah he sees stars

THE BANDAIDS

"That's cuz I just got hit by a minivan, chuck"

CASTIEL

"he's a prophet of the lord" GUYS HE'S LITERALLY GOD

"i admire your work" wAS HE LOOKING AT DEAN?

oh no he was looking at the book bUT IT WAS CLOSE

M. Night level Douchiness

HE'S NOT A MOUTHPIECE THOUGH

Who's Luke??

wait Did Castiel just make a joke?

and it can't be unwritten

The horror imagery is SCARING me

thE goSpel of WincHesTer

ah he knows

no he's right, Sam is doing the Dark Side thing

ope he's actually praying

boy he sounds desperate

HE'S ASKING CAS FOR HELP HE'S AH

CAS GAVE HIM SNEAKY HELP

AHDIAFHSDPIH

OH MY GOD WAIT

"I didn't write this" FUCK YOU CUZ CAS DID THAT'S WHY

"I've got a Gun in my pocket" PFFT

nice try on the trap bud

HE WAS N O T ALWAYS THE SMART ONE

pfft lilith's angry at the angel for Being There

nono she's right you all self sacrifice like your life depends on it(heh)

well I guess he did warn her

i aM the PropHet Chuc K

Boi I can't believe that worked

Sam Jesus Christ

ZACHARIAH

how is Chuck actually a decent person for now what happened

"We'd only bring you back to life" JESUS

1. Sam. Seriously, I'm starting to see the arrogance here. There has not been ONE episode recently where I go "Sam, that was unnecessarily cruel" and like...Be nice to your brother. He's sacrificed his own innocence like a million times for you, leave him alone. He's slowly going dark side, and we do get to see it, but BOI is it fucked. Sam go get off your high horse. You're smart, but not that much. You're good, but not THAT good.

2. Fate. Ok, the slow way they made the fate tie into everything was NEAT! the slow build to the RED motel, to the minivan, to the stars. Like the instant they try to undo it, you know they won't succeed, but they added a good chunk of stuff so that you slowly figure out HOW it won't happen about concurrently with Dean.

3. Writing=god. That whole thing about how they turned Chuck into hating the "kill your darlings" thing(I'm needlessly cruel to you, why did I do all that to you guys for the sake of literary symmetry, etc) felt a bit...off. Like I'm glad Chuck still has a conscience(he wanted to stop something from happening at the end and Zach said no), but it kinda implies that whoever IS writing it...doesn't? Like God is a malevolent God. ALSO the "If you die, we'll just bring you back from death." Like I don't know what happened from then to present, but that whole thing is a Mess, how is he actually god. Also, they...called themselves bad writers? They painted themselves in a bad way? If God wrote supernatural, and God is cruel and did a bad job...what was the takeaway? is it that the whole THING is meta? that the whole point is that we're always getting a Narrative of Sam and Dean, that the meta is part of the inherent backbone of the show? that the ghostfacers are the only real versions? ??

4. writing-invasive. Ok so the thing I noticed is that the writing felt more invasive than the show. Like could be the way they made him write it for Maximum Funny Points, but it's A LOT more invasive, like there's no part of you that's truly your own. I feel like that might have been the point, but I still wanted to mention it.

5. META! Ok COMPLETELY separate from the actual Meta Plot that may or may not be happening...them reacting to their actual lives being a Series is HILARIOUS! like did they use it to be unashamedly mean to their own fans cuz it wasn't the demographic they wanted? yes. And it was shitty(and it was ALSO shitty when Sherlock did it, wtf guys). But making fun of W*ncest shippers, them getting told they're larping, the quiz on themselves+Sam forgetting the LSAT scores, the showing the tattoo...honestly it's so good, it was really funny. Mixed bag, but gave me HILARIOUS shit.

6. CAS. CAS SNEAKY HELPED DEAN! I JUST!! CAN'T GET OVER THAT SCENE!! "Listen, I'm not allowed to do anything for real, because I'll get in trouble and that would be ... horrible. But so...here's this...interesting piece of info....you may or may not need...might be helpful idk" the lil half smile with "good luck," the attempt at a joke. I think maybe Castiel agrees, that there's something Fucked here. Like we saw what happened with him and Anna and Uriel and how completely fucked it got, and we want him to realize that and help Sam and Dean, and he is, in his sneaky "I don't entirely want to give everything up yet" thing and OH IT WAS SO GOOD

7. Obligatory Chuck Won. Listen. Listen. "the monster at the end of this book." HE's THE MONSTER! if we believe that the MetaPlot is a Part of supernatural(and as time goes on, I think we have to, what with all the adaptations and the actual nods it does). And in that case...yeah it makes sense that the writers did what they did, and it was because Chuck Won. Like seeing this, it makes sense! if THIS is supernatural by carver edlund, and carver edlund is god, then he did...exactly what he wanted when he was the villain and killed both of them unsatisfyingly.

I'm dying on this hill, this is right, chuck won truthers RISE

WHOO

[iloveyoupittsburghpirates-blog]

I Need A Breather, Pittsburgh Pirates

My Dearest Pittsburgh Pirates,

Two games out. That’s what you were last Friday after you had swept the Brewers and destroyed the Rockies in game one in Colorado. You had two more games in Colorado before going further west to play two of the worst teams in the NL, the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres, A great opportunity to pick up ground. What transpired was an unmitigated disaster. From last Saturday until now, you went 2-6 losing the last two in Colorado and losing two out of three to BOTH the Giants and Padres. What the hell happened? The pitching sunk back to average and the bats didn’t show up at all, other than a certain number 22. You are now in fourth place and you’re 5.5 games behind the first place Cubs. You’re not done but your chances have reached minuscule proportions. I don’t care if it’s on the road or not, you can’t expect to win a division when you can’t beat the bottom feeders. Those are the games you have to win so that it can be acceptable when you split with the really good teams. I can’t believe how far my feelings have fallen in a week. It’s just so disappointing. 

I have been mad at you for a lot of things before. The Liriano trade last year made me irate even though it basically looks brilliant now. I will never, ever understand how you have gone a full year without an actual fourth outfielder on your roster. It’s insane. I wouldn’t do that if I was playing a baseball video game so I can’t fathom how a major league franchise would think that’s acceptable. If that wasn’t bad enough, the second Starling Marte was suspended months ago you should have traded for an outfielder. You knew you wouldn’t have him for eighty games and then the playoffs. Why wouldn’t you respond accordingly? If your excuse is that the value was too high especially given your desperation given your situation, that’s too bad. Then you need to overpay. It’s your fault for not addressing it sooner. You seem way too comfortable having “bridge years” or not going “all in” which basically means you waste seasons. You can’t afford that when you have players like Cutch and Cole for only so long. It’s inexcusable to have that mindset. “Playoffs are a roll of the dice anyway.” Not if you don’t make it they’re not. I understand you’re a small market team, you have limited spending, and all that other garbage but there is absolutely no explanation for allowing this to continue. 

Oh, we are not done discussing this. Not addressing this at the beginning of the season or when Marte got suspended was bad enough but you managed to somewhat get away with it with Frazier, Osuna, and Jaso for a little while. Kind of. When Polanco went to the DL late last week with a hamstring strain, you had to pull the trigger then. You had to!! You saw what the price was for position players from the J.D. Martinez trade and it wasn’t expensive. The outfield market at this trade deadline is over-saturated in a good way. There were so many options. Howie Kendrick would have been a perfect fit because he can play OF, 2B, and 3B. You need depth at all three of those positions and instead he got traded to the Nationals. Did you not want to take on the few million dollars remaining on his contract? Where did all that money you saved on Kang and Marte go? Nowhere. You allowed an entire week to go by where you plummeted in the standings without addressing your most glaring issue. In that week, you also watched Osuna and Frazier utterly embarrass themselves in right field on plays that cost us runs. (That’s not even mentioning Marte’s gaff that cost us a game but I have no explanation for that either.) You also saw your offense disappear when adding that outfielder could have aided that too. Throughout all of that, your only move was bring up a borderline prospect who started the year in AA and has barely had any at bats in AAA. On top of that, he made a defensive mistake too. You’ve had chance after chance to fix a mistake you made months ago and we sit here on July 31st and you still haven’t addressed it. I have no words...

You have a tendency to draft guys or acquire guys who can hit but don’t really have a position. Recent draft picks like Will Craig and Connor Joe fall into that category. Frazier, Osuna, and Jaso do as well. You signed Jaso to learn to play first base. You have basically used Frazier as your  utility player except he sucks at every position. You have succeeded with this before with JHay. When you traded for him, he had a good bat but no real position. Fortunately, he’s so gifted and such a hard worker that he’s managed to work himself into being good at every position. That’s what true ball players do. You managed to transition Josh Bell into a potentially adequate first baseman but even that has obviously had it’s growing pains. He’s such a good hitter that it’s doesn’t really matter but that’s a problematic philosophy though. It’s that philosophy that has put you into this situation. You assumed you could make Jaso or Frazier into a decent outfielder and then you wouldn’t have to spend more money or give up any of your prized prospects. Sometimes you focus so much on the future you forget about the present. It’s a cheap way of doing business. You have managed to make it work brilliantly with pitchers so I wonder if your arrogance is getting in the way. This is not an intelligent way to run your franchise. You can’t allow easily fixable things like a fourth outfielder to be this big of a problem. Not having an ace isn’t quickly fixable. Not having a legit power hitter or stolen base guy isn’t that easy to find. A competent fourth outfielder is as easy as it gets and you blew it. 

Today is the trade deadline and I can’t imagine you will do anything significant now that you are 5.5 back of the Cubs and they looks like they have found themselves again. I don’t think you will sell because you have to look at next year and assume if you get this Cutch, a full season of Marte, and a healthy Polanco (unlikely) that you could realistically compete. I’m so glad you have a day off today because after this past week I need a breather. At least you get to come home now. You play the last place Reds for three games starting tomorrow and then this weekend the still crappy Padres come to town. It feels like you need to sweep both series to remain remotely relevant but that’s not reasonable (kind of like not having a fourth outfielder). Anything less than four wins this week is a failure. Hopefully you add a piece today to help that come to fruition while Polanco remains on the DL. He will most likely rejoin the team just in time for it to be too late to matter. We’ll see. I’m extremely frustrated and I know you are too. Let’s put it behind us and try to move on. Regroup today and figure out a way to win tomorrow. One day at a time. Good luck.

                                                                                        Your Pissed Off Person,

                                                                                                          Brad

P.S. You managed to salvage the weekend series thanks to Gerrit Cole pitching like an ace but mostly Cutch being Cutch. He hit three homers yesterday. Three. He hit another on Friday to give him four homers and a ridiculous OPS of 1.513 for the week. I can’t imagine a scenario where he gets traded today but I also can’t imagine one where they offer him a contract extension. He is already top three in almost every offensive category in your history. Before he departs, most likely after next year, he will go down as one of the greatest Pirates ever and you are going to just let him walk away. I know it’s not an easy decision but it’s getting harder and harder to swallow when you see him play like this...

[breckstonevailskier]

And what’s worse, OP blames Stephen for Wanda’s behaviour. Lovely. Not the Darkhold, no, it’s Stephen’s fault. He should have reasoned with her. It’s not like he literally tried to do that in the garden. 🙄

See, in that example, if I were to find something to criticize Stephen for, it's "Why didn't he try to locate Wanda's former Avenger teammates and ask them to try to reason with Wanda? 🤔 Or better yet, since he knows about Westview, he might know that White Vision is still out there. So why doesn't he or Wong try to use some sort of locating spell to call him to Kamar-Taj? 🤨 Because surely Sam, Clint, Scott, and Vision, as people who've worked with Wanda or had intimate relations with her, know her well enough that they'd know what to say that might get through to her." (Obvious answer is that they'd get in the way of the various things Waldron wanted to do with his script, since after all, he wrote Wanda as the villain so no one else could get the credit for doing it.)

I will not stand for Stephen Strange slander like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VIlrrQndG8

Well, that's a load of bullshit. I get not liking a character but this is such a basic misunderstanding of Stephen that I don't even know where to start.

I'm seeing a pattern lately in fandom that is starting to worry me a bit. I see many fans listing the mistakes of the heroes and using that to claim they're not actually heroes because they made a mistake or they were wrong once in the past. It's a weird belief that unless the heroes are perfect and do everything right, one single mistake is enough to condemn them. Or not even a mistake, if they take action and the outcome is anything but ideal and perfect and results in zero casualties, these fans will tear them apart.

Another thing that worries me is how many fans seem to be so against disobeying rules. I've seen this in discussions regarding CW, Wanda and now Stephen. A character not following rules is enough reason to be called a villain in these fans' eyes. But that only applies to the heroes though. The villains who do in fact break those rules are usually justified and coddled, their intentions assumed to be better than they really are and they're almost automatically made sympathetic by these fans.

Related to that, I've also noticed a lot of talk about the heroes sacrificing something big to save someone, and these fans wondering why would they even bother to do that. Like OP wonders why Stephen would get into so much trouble to save America's life when she's not that important and incursions are far more relevant. It blows my mind that these fans need to have it explained to them that yes, heroes do in fact save people. That's the whole point of their existence and the people they save don't need to be VIPs or crucial to the story, even if it's just one civilian... you gotta save them too. Do we really need to explain this now?

In Stephen's case, the whole point of his first movie is that he has to learn and let go of his need for control and his unmovable beliefs. It's to get him out of his comfort zone so that he will be open to other people's views so that he will see beyond himself. The OP just lists his mistakes and claims those are the only things that define him while at the same time completely ignoring every single time he showed he had learnt from them.

The NWH hate doesn't surprise me, Stephen was misunderstood heavily by a lot of fans in that movie, but I gotta say what bothers me the most is that OP seems to believe everyone suffered from the Snap... and what, Stephen didn't? The one man who had to watch 14 million different outcomes, who had to sacrifice his own life and had the weight of the entire universe upon his shoulders, who is most likely traumatized by it, he didn't suffer? No empathy at all for him?

And what's worse, OP blames Stephen for Wanda's behaviour. Lovely. Not the Darkhold, no, it's Stephen's fault. He should have reasoned with her. It's not like he literally tried to do that in the garden. 🙄

But this thing OP says is like a slap in the face: "Strange learnt nothing from any of this. He is still going to break the rules and cause problems because, ultimately, he's not really the one paying the price."

He's not the one paying the price. Unfuckingbelievable.