#or god forbid TikTok

[madnessofmen]

It seems that if you like military history and also anything Germany adjacent the algorithm will push you towards nazis. This has happened to me on youtube music and on tumblr

[syndianites]

rip jay you woulda loved vine

[spookberry]

Uncle Iroh and Rose Quartz are very similar characters from similar backgrounds and follow similar journeys, but the people arent ready for that conversation

[szczurherbacany]

i fucking hate what tiktok is doing with the music industry and how they treat art of writing and creating, not as art, but as a product

people get defensive when you say that you hate when your favourite artist becomes popular there, but i’m gonna be honest if i have to see a tiktok after tiktok where a person fails to grasp a basic metaphor of a song in favour of making a 10 second trend, i dont think it’s unfair to be upset

i know not all tiktok is like that, but boiling down lyrics to fit a cute trend when you like an artist in part bc of their lyricism, its genuinely infuriating, especially when is the “sometimes the door is just blue” crowd that does it

tiktok does more harm than good to smaller artists and i will forever stand that ground, bc why is music treated like a product instead of art

[jacarandaaaas]

I feel like this fandom is going backwards when people deny luisa is a feminine character. nobody is claiming she’s feminine because of things like crying and having emotions but she quite literally is shown wanting to be feminine in the bridge of surface pressure the part where she talks about what she desires. Also it’s a very conscious choice to make her feminine when you read the art book and see how they wanted to break the stereotype of masculine= muscles. The whole point is luisa wants to be seen as MORE than her gift. She never got to embrace her femininity the way the other madrigal girls did because she’s always working! Why are we trying to make it out to be a bad thing that luisa is feminine? there’s already so many female characters portrayed as masculine for having muscles and encanto is one of the only times they consciously wanted to break that. let luisa wear a twirly skirt and like glitter you cowards

[ladydeath-vanserra]

can't wait for the day people stop acting like Feyre is a beacon of temperance and morality

[wylansvanhendriks]

defending lucy carlyle on the internet isn’t enough i need a gun.

[reinerist]

just watched deadpool 3 and as funny as it was, i think this might be the worst deadpool movie. the jokes in the movie relied too much on the viewers knowing about ryan’s personal life instead of pop culture/marvel references in general and it ruined the movie ngl.

Don’t get me wrong the movie was good and hilarious but the “i’m telling blake” & “there are 206 bones in the human body, 207 when i’m watching gossip girl” ruined it and now it doesn’t help that people despise blake lively either

[miupow]

gg stans r always like “that’s what you get for stanning men but what do you expect from a stupid woman”

[mommywandas]

I just made a shitty Agnes edit 😭

[otrtbs]

god i fucking hate tiktokers. i wish they weren’t real.

[sleepy-crypt1d]

One of my favorite parts of COF that I find is commonly overlooked is the fact that it doesn't sanitized itself for a broader audience, it comes in with a message, with a story to tell that's hard to swallow with characters that are realistic and heartbreaking, and it doesn't apologize for this once.

Something interesting that occurred to me was how people who have never experienced severe mental health struggles view COF- the specific instance I'm thinking of is when I was explaining the plot to my mom, and had explained the different endings to her and how to get those endings, and what each one seemed to imply both for Simon and his relationship with those in his life, and her takeaway from the conversation was- "I don't like that the mentally ill main character becomes a killer. I don't like that he's the bad guy"

And this was interesting to me because, that's kind of the whole reason why I started to love Simon in the first place.

So infrequently are we shown mentally ill characters who do bad things yet still deserve redemption. Who still deserve to be treated as a person, because they are one. In a world that is becoming largely comfortable with the idea "bad person = deserves to die" it was insanely refreshing to see a character like Simon, who we see hurt people, who we see become obsessed and stalkerish and violent, gain redemption through healing. Through therapy and community and the belief from others that he will get better. That he isn't a lost cause.

In ending 2, one of the darker endings of the experience, we learn that Simon is alone. That his friends and family have all left him. That he's been abandoned due to his disability and general mental health struggles, and this was devastating to me. Upsetting to a degree that had me thinking about it for days afterward. Not helped by Simon's plea to Dr. Purnell to not feel bad because "not everyone can be saved". The way Simon views himself is much too similar to my own view of myself as someone who has struggled with similar issues.

As someone who was led down a path of harm due to untreated issues and still struggles with believing I "deserve" redemption.

Because I do, and so does he.

And it's always so upsetting seeing so many people who view victims as one note stories. As people who just cry sometimes and have trouble talking to people or get sad every once in awhile. Mental health is messy and hard to live with and life ruining at times, and this stripping of it's nuance is so frustrating to see happen over and over and over again.

Victims are not your savior story. They are not cookie cutter helpless children that need to be protected. Abuse and severe struggles do not make you stronger, they do not make you better, they do not magically make you more empathetic or loving and I'm fucking tired of that narrative. I'm tired of being talked over by people who've never experienced it or other victims who think they're the "good" ones because, well, they never did that which means anyone who did is horrible. I'm tired of stories of illness being sanitized for other people's comfort.

Victims can become perpetrators, that does not take away from their victim status. That does not change the fact that they still deserve help. That does not take away from their personhood. They are a human being that needs help, not a death sentence. Should they take accountability? Of fucking course. Does their trauma absolve them of wrongdoing? No. But I'm tired of people acting like cycles don't exist, like the second you act out on your trauma you're past saving.

Simon's story is perfect the way it is. A story of redemption and acceptance, of learning to live and grow and learn from past mistakes and find a way to live peacefully. To take responsibility and attempt to rekindle the relationships you lost, the ones you hurt.

Ending 4 and his admittance to the hospital, as well as his continued friendship with Sophie but acceptance of his loss of a romantic one, is heart breakingly bittersweet in a way that is hard for me to describe. Him getting better but living with what he's done, growing from it and learning to live anyways.

Another part of this is that, in his happy ending, in the ending where he does get better; he doesn't do it alone. Largely, the narrative of community is lost in these stories, how helpful a support system can be. Simon gets better because he has people there for him, because he has Purnell and Sophie and his mom looking out for him. He has his doctors and the staff at the hospital and people who know he can get better, that he's still a person deserving and capable of good.

People need people, and this seems an obvious note to me in the story of COF. Simon needs people. He needed people the entire time. Someone, anyone, to listen to him and give him the hand he needed.

And it's so refreshing to see a character like Simon still be loved and cared about and helped even when he was "the bad guy". Let mental ill characters be realistic. I'm begging you.

[idolomantises]

Anyways speaking of being gay apparently teenagers on tiktok are mad at me because they found out I’m a lesbian who uses he/they pronouns

[strawberrystepmom]

i was pumped for 2ne1 come back until i remembered what comment sections look like now.....quick get behind me you four

[dykepoetssociety]

Everyone and their mothers in the comments of a post about lesbians by a lesbian: "what about meeeeeee, what about me, why isn't this post specifically catered to meee? I just don't get why everything on the internet isn't about me 🥺"

[conspicuous-clown-car]

take a shot every time someone on tiktok mistakes my self insert for gregory or a child