#oh fuck i don't know how to tag in this fandom

[dmitriene]

i really need some people in cod fandom shut their trap for once like, stop sobbing in the tags, «oh, why they write könig shy he's just has anxiety that's not how it's works i know it!», «oh, simon wouldn't be an abuser or anything related to dark content because he has his own traumas!», «oh, i don't think this and that suits him or her, or, no they wouldn't do this!», then go and start writing your own stories for fucks sake.

you try to work hard for people to love what you do and they find 100 and 1 reasons to cry about because that's the only thing they can focus on, that's not accurate, this called differently, he or she wouldn't act like this, i don't fucking care, in my head he does, go pick up a pen and learn to write your own things, stop pouring shit on other writers.

[xerith-42]

Techno and Wilbur not being brothers is so important to me you have no idea

Because them being Tommy's older brothers doesn't actually ever overlap. Wilbur acts as Tommy's brother through most of the stuff with L'Manburg, for better and usually for worse. Then once he's gone and Tommy's lost everyone he finds a new older brother in Techno.

Techno and Wilbur aren't brothers though. When they interacted they were friends at best, and tense at worst. Even if their goals do eventually line up, Wilbur still stabs Techno in the back. He promised destruction for Manberg, before setting up Tommy as a potential leader. He said he was down with anarchy but failed to properly condemn the very governments Technoblade's anarchy-based morality is centered around.

He realized that governments were the cause of all of his problems, but failed to see the bigger picture in regards to how L'Manburg had hurt everyone on the server. One of Wilbur's consistent problems is a failure to see how his actions effect those around him, or to act with a blatant disregard for consequences. And at the point that Technoblade came into his life, there wasn't really much hope for them to ever be the family they could've been.

Wilbur never cared about Techno as a person. He just saw him as

The Blade

An Anarchist

The Revolution

Wilbur knew that without Technoblade he didn't have a revolution and yet he was still willing to disregard Techno's fundamental ideals because he was too narrow minded to see anything else. Too focused on how L'Manburg hurt him, his L'Manburg, and the damage it caused his life. He barely thought of how Techno would feel in regards to his decision.

Techno's just another person Wilbur managed to burn before his death. He wasn't the last.

And when Tommy shows up in the floorboards of Techno's house a month later, after L'Manberg has exiled him and Techno has nearly lost everything to tyranny, and he has a hope that maybe this time things will be better. Tommy's young, still learning, and he's been through a lot at the hands of corrupt men wielding power.

Maybe this time Techno can have someone agree with his ideals and actually stick to it.

He humors Tommy, shelters him, but treats him as he'd treat anybody. Tommy's a nuisance, and Techno might yell at him for taking his stuff for the third time this week, but he'll never kick Tommy out. Not after he's been abandoned to this extent. Not after Tommy has suffered the hand he was nearly dealt at his botched execution.

Techno almost lost everything. Tommy did lose everything.

Techno becomes an older brother figure to a scared and grieving and traumatized Tommy, a wounded child grasping onto the last straws of normalcy he has as he watches everything he's ever known slip through his finger tips. Techno is willing to take Wilbur's place, to act as a role model to Tommy during hard times. To stay strong and teach him important values to carry through future hardships in life. Techno wants so badly for Tommy to be a proper younger brother to him.

And then he makes the same mistake his brother made.

Tommy disregards Techno.

In his desperate attempt to hold onto those strands of normalcy Tommy reaches for something he's always known in favor of the potential chaos of Techno. Tommy is trying to stick to what he knows, what he used to have, to Tubbo, to his discs, to anything that reminds him of all he's lost so he can feel like he has it back. He fails to see that Techno could have been a source of that familiarity, that Techno was trying to be the island of stability while he was crashing in the waves.

Instead Tommy takes Tubbo's outstretched hand and climbs into the lifeboat they've always been floating in together, not realizing that in doing so he has awakened a great storm that will leave him with less than he had before.

In the immediate comfort of familiarity Tommy fails to realize the consequences of his own actions, and proves that in spite of all the posturing he's done about changing, about growing, about being a bigger and better man, he's a frightened child with the worst habits of his family.

When Tommy stabs Techno in the back, he reopens an old wound

After all, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

[bedlamsbard]

I have been dealing with how much some people hate Gambit for TEN YEARS and one of these days (not today) I am finally going to snap and pull this story. TEN YEARS. TEN HUMAN YEARS.

[prentissluvr]

just saw someone saying that jared's acting in spn was bad... gonna commit heinous crimes

[cleverpaws]

one of these days i will drop an essay abt how there's actually no objectively correct characterization of any gen1 characters because they are, when in their most un-filtered state, supposed to be the streamers that play them, and to assume we know basically anything about who those people are is to miss the point of the social experiments entirely. and none of you are ready

[bugsbenefit]

scary that there's still Will bowlcut haters around. like... that's his core character design, it looks nice too. sorry to all the different hairstyle enjoyers out there but Will without a bowlcut simply wouldn't be Will to me. that's the side effect of them doubling down on that one single hairstyle for 8 years. they can style it different or make it messier sure, but he needs Some version of a bowlcut otherwise who is that

[cronchcake]

I'm not gonna elaborate because I don't want to, but I wish we could have genuine and well-argued criticism of critrole. I want my n1 fave to be criticised for its flaws. alas, most critique I see is either pretty badly argued or it's done in bad faith.

[rotisseries]

people are very weird about shockfics like what is up with that

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

okay I actually drafted this post and didn't wanna post it but now I'm kinda twitching

Bioware drops minor 'spoilers' (mentions of what's going on on the larger scale of things half of which we already could infer from Tevinter Nights already) - how dare they.

Bioware apparently notices that some people are unhappy with even the most minor exposition and someone genuinely warns that there's more to come and if you're one of those people you'll probably want to tune out the entirety of it all - how dare they and that person in particular!

Like? I'm sorry, I guess I get the frustration if you want to be clean-clean, but there's only so many generic phrases that they could say without mentioning anything? At this point, like, the only thing they didn't show is CC - and then I guess, what, shut up till October?

But then when they do go quiet they get backlash for showing too little like in the 'companions week'. THAT was the level of exposure you want?

Dropping little hints and mentions of what's going on so that people can go 'holy shit what?!' and 'oh I wanna see what comes next!' and 'well dammit now I have to know' is a HUGE part of marketing. Like???

Like what else is there to show without showing anything. More screenshots? More generic descriptions of personalities? More combat out of context? Simply saying 'it's gonna be SO cool you guys'? Come on.

I mean I've been warned that the discourse(tm) will come back, but I didn't expect it to start from THIS. From people bullying creators off the Internet for a fair warning. Hello???

Lifting the embargo a month and a half before release is a very weird choice, I agree and I don't defend that one. But even with that aside, even with only just what was shown in gameplay reveals and such, people are being weird.

If you don't want to see or hear ANYTHING that could cue you in on what's going on - then it's on you to not watch or read shit (provided that it's tagged). I'm sorry.

[just-call-me-the-intrusive-thot]

This is totally not in reference to anything anyone has posted, but man imagine thinking you know someone's characters better than the person themself. Imagine if you were just vibing with your literal OCs who you made, and some random person comes up to you and goes "UMMMM ACTUALLY your OCs would NEVER act like that because I think they'd act like THIS!" and then they get mad at YOU for not going "oh you're so right, how could I forget I put you in charge of MY OCs?".

Just a little observation, y'know?

[grokebaby]

Been thinking about it and honestly I've been feeling like I don't really wanna post about several ocs anymore

[wereh0gz]

If I have to hear that being queer in any way is a sin one more time I'll show you an actual sin by beating your skull in with this brick I found 😊

[strangefable]

mkay, listen. as a bona fide expert on this, if you say your interpretation is "objectively" the truth, then... you are doing media literacy wrong.

no such thing no such thing no such thing

[saintneena]

the problem about celebrities who date problematic people is that even in the off chance they part ways, you can never see that person in the good light shown previously (always speaking through social lenses obviously) and always wonder deep down if those hideous beliefs thrown around are actually endorsed by them as well behind closed doors

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Guess who got a deleted Zootopia scene in her recommended this morning and decided to go back and finally finish the one and only Zootopia fanfic she ever read?

[bulletbilltime]

Pop culture has turned into an ouroboros and it makes me sad to think about. Risk-averse mega-corporations must be stopped