#or what the fandom drama is

[autumnrory]

i do not have the energy to devote to my fave celebs that i did as a teenager i can’t fathom having energy to devote to a celeb i hate and the people who like them lol

[eilraee]

I think forgetting about dream studio in the second film was a mistake. It has so much potential!

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

[jojaxcola]

post-wipeout patch up on a tuesday afternoon (embarrassing) [electric guitar]

[evanwevand]

Never stay in the fandom you joined when you were 11 btw

This can actually apply to any fandom tho

[tremendouszinelovermug]

someone:

*Seeing two fictional characters interacting with each other*

*Headcanon them as siblings*

*Seeing other people ship them*

*Their mind cannot comprehend the fact that people have different opinions and start attacking the shippers and calling them names*

*"Why would you ship siblings -who are not actually siblings but my headcanon says so- together?"*

Congratulations, for being delusional.

[la-muerta]

Wen Xiao – 1, Zhao Yuanzhou – 0

[signorcerullo]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2x03 "The Burning Mill"

[anamelessfool]

Didja know you're seeing cool art from years and years ago, amazing performance videos and GIFs and rare photos on here, beautiful fics and cosplay that needs to get revisted.....because people are actively reblogging things?

That's how this place works. Btw.

[aulerean]

Scarlet Pearl is like evil red riding hood. To me.

[silverquillsideas]

Hello! My friend is doing her masters research on BL fandom experience in India. It would be a great help if you could spare a few minutes to fill out this survey below!! ❤️

Please reblog and share!! ✨

[rythyme]

the universal bl drama fandom experience of making a post about a crazy gay thing some characters did only for several unsuspecting souls on a completely different corner of tumblr* to assume this is one of those "imagine your ship" posts and start reblogging it with tags like #i want a fic of this sooooo bad! or #omg this is sooooo [insert ship name** here]... like i truly love that for you but this is not a hypothetical. i literally watched two men do that last week on my tv screen. this is not a fanfic prompt. we have insane gay ppl here.

*western media fandom, usually

**i swear it's always either house md, hockey fandom, or those 911 guys who just became canon bisexual (good for them)

[killerlittlerejects]

I said what I said, stay mad ✌️😜🔪

This isn’t directed at anyone, I was just complaining on discord lol

[maxdibert]

Sirius Black calling Snape “Snivelly” when Snape, with not a penny to his name, had to keep living in that shitty slum he grew up in, in a rundown Muggle neighborhood, without complaining once, while Sirius was crying in his mum’s room after two weeks in his family’s posh London house because he couldn’t stand hearing her voice—that’s one of those ironies in their dynamic that cracks me up. Honestly, outside his role as a school bully, Sirius was just a posh kid with first-world problems and thin skin, throwing tantrums over things that, for the guy he thought was a whiny, soft crybaby, were just another Tuesday.

[angelsdean]

begging people to understand that interpretations are based on evaluating a slew of evidence and references and coming up with a theory or thesis based on said evidence. your mileage may vary on what you choose to believe or which interpretations you hold to be your personal "truth" but the very nature of analysis is to build a case for your interpretation and then "argue" that case with supporting evidence from the text. anyways all this to say, i love all varying flavors of queer dean and dean + gender. you can make a case for so many interpretations and acting like there is one sole universal "truth" goes against the core tenets of media analysis. and you are literally never going to agree with everyone. just learn to say your interpretation is not my interpretation and go.

[radfem-polls]

because of the poll that's going around about if someone is more likely to have blocked JKR on Tumblr vs. if she blocked them... I had this idea:

Is JKR on Tumblr?

Option a: No (boo....)

Option b: Yes, and she runs a JKR fan blog

Option c: Yes, and she's one of the really big radblr blogs

Option d: Yes, but it's a blank blog (lurker)

Option e: Yes, but it's literary criticism

Option f: Yes, and she's trolling

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