#positive hot takes

[marzipanandminutiae]

Pick your poison: Mika Flanagan's Haunting of Hill House or Greta Gerwig's Little Women

fuuuuuuuuuuuck

you know what? the Flanagan Hill House at least gave the Hyman siblings some money and my friend who knows two of them says they're very nice. they lost their mother mother tragically when they were like 22-14. they deserve this. so I pick that one

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

atp phil’s like “ffs i wish i could hit you with a car then i wouldn’t have to be stuck with your annoying dramatic ass 🙄”

[dreamers-collective]

Reminder that you can wholeheartedly love your system and sysmates and still have days where you feel tired of being a system. Sometimes being a system makes hard days easier, but sometimes it makes them harder, and that’s okay too.

[sunshinelikerain]

i could be the one or your new addiction

[npd-hottakes]

Normalize not caring about shit that doesn't affect oneself. Just because someone doesn't care doesn't mean they support it.

Respect people without empathy.

[darlingod]

It’s just… it is everything that Cardan thought Jude would notice his “SO OBVIOUS” exile riddle and thinks Jude to not hesitate to come back. Beside his certainty of her cleverness to piece the riddle together, he believed he was that clear about his feelings toward her; he had thought she absolutely ought to know how he feels for her.

Like oh buddy. BUDDY. Your wife had thought of the answer to your little riddle like you thought she would. But guess what? She has detrimental TRUST ISSUES. (Like… Ur super mean and hot, I can’t blame her.) Anyway.. it’s SUPER adorable of him to so wholeheartedly believe she wouldn’t question his trust. It reveals so much about his pov of thier relationship.

Jude thought Cardan’s (silly) trick was a (vile) trick, when it was simply a: “Im trying to impress/pay you back in kind with our romantic metaphorical sparring and eventually get you out of political drama for a bit,” trick.

I’m fucking laughing wow these delusional ass children I fucking love them.

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

Antis in the fnaf fanbase are so weird And what I mean by that is there's been, unfortunately countless cases of actual predation and pedophilia in the fnaf fandom but they usually obsess and post about one or two proship artists who haven't shown any evidence of actually....diddling anyone lol

[yorshie]

Hey wild ass take from the x reader, canon x self, and oc x canon shipper but uh-

I’m a big believer of your character of choice WILL love you. No you don’t have to jump through hoops to get their love. Make them better. Make them worse. Let them fall in love with you (or your character) for your looks. Let them fall in love with you for your personality. Let them fall in love with you for your ability to eat a whole pizza in one sitting.

Silently. Ardently. Platonically. Romantically. Unrequited. Enthusiastically Requited. Tragically. Happily Ever After.

YOU’RE writing the story, so let them fall in love with you (or your character. You get what I mean)

And if someone says you’re doing it wrong, that character A wouldn’t fall in love with you for x, y or z reasons, kindly, respectfully, ignore them.

Either way. They love you. Keep shipping 💕

[volitioncheck]

nvm this is still on my brain. kim does not like to watch harry suffer… to say that kim takes satisfaction in harry’s pain is a huge misconstruing of his character.

the “getting thrashed like a schoolboy” line comes from a board game, lol. it’s a tease, not a cruelty. there’s never any line that implies that Kim enjoys seeing Harry taking actual morale damage.

he can be amused if you fail a check, but the check is always relatively inconsequential, and again, Harry isn’t taking damage in these.

Failing to pry the trash bin open:

Failing to shatter Ruby’s lorry window:

(also in both of these examples he only responds smugly if you choose for Harry to stubbornly dig in his heels. if Harry gets huffy, Kim teases. If Harry backs down right away Kim won’t rub it in, which feels significant to me! it reminds me of that recent post goin around about Kim meeting your energy!)

and here’s some reactions to failed checks where he does take damage.

Failing the jump to get your cloak:

Failing to break down Plaisance’s door:

he’s not laughing if Harry’s taking damage because he’s not a dick lol.

aaaaand here’s some other instances of morale/health damage and kim’s reactions.

alternate dialogue for failing the harbor jump:

after the call with precinct 41:

seeing bullet holes in the wall:

most significant examples to argue this point for me come when harry has done something to jeopardize the RCM’s image. which kim goes on and on about the importance of maintaining— and yet even here, he still extends worry and assurance.

telling Billie about her husband and handling it badly:

hardie authority check failure cock carousel:

aaaaand the car. this line is one of the most mask-off kim moments we get in the game in my opinion, honestly.

tying this back to the schoolboy line— that line doesn’t show up if you have a negative reputation with Kim. if you have <1 rep, it gets replaced with him calling it “about four hours of our lives that we'll never get back,” lol.

it’s affectionate ribbing!! twisting it into anything else is bizarre 2 me lmao!

anyways. kim is a foil to every other cop we meet in the game specifically because he doesn’t view harry as a punching bag or a lost cause. gottlieb does nothing but sling jabs and glib jokes about harry’s health. torson+mclaine and the others laugh at harry’s panic attack over the radio. in response to harry’s suicide-by-car attempt(!!!!) jean yells about RCM budget. all kim’s lines in response to harry’s check failures and health-damage are consistent, explicit textual contrast against the callousness of the rest of the RCM. twisting kim’s character here requires a bad faith interpretation of the whole game.

[babygirltangerine]

i love how similar the fall guy and bullet train are because david leitch i'm perceiving you so hard. i'm seeing how you shape your ideal version of masculinity and present the emotional action hero as sexy and capable and not at all undermined by his depth of feeling but made stronger for it. it's beautiful and subversive and quite frankly it's gay as hell. genuinely i find it extremely interesting how he handles this balance so gracefully in a way that makes colt and ladybug funny, real, and desirable to both the men and the women in the audience

[marzipanandminutiae]

Popular opinions of Bridgerton?

Oh, well, that's easy. Love the racially diverse casting and the no-brainer to make Stunning Goddess Nicola Coughlan a romantic lead. Next!

[thelaurenshippen]

I know we love the “you only get two” triangles, but idk that I’ve seen one that is, like, the grand theory of fandom, like, you know—

you only get two. do you see my vision?

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing is that i do not care if someone wants to steer clear of the whole mess of sam & dean and the dynamics of abuse going on there, because fandom is supposed to be fun and hell knows even though i like thinking about it, it's always on the knife's edge of risking a panic attack lmao.

but i do care if someone's reasoning for it is 'actually, dean can't be abusive towards sam because sam is an adult who can leave whenever he wants.'

i feel like you are perhaps saying more about yourself than you might think if you claim that.

[missunstxble]

I imaginatively roll my eyes so hard whenever I see fan fiction depicting my F/O saying and/or doing something nice for me (the Reader) and then saying, "don't get used to this" because FUCK THAT, your partner should be willing to do anything to make you feel loved and happy, that it wouldn't matter "how many times" it has to be done.

[organized-chaotic-disaster]

Being fat is sexy, actually. And this includes people with body types that don't fit societal beauty standards (i.e., big bellies, double chins, fat arms)

Fat people are hot and we need to stop pretending they aren't xo

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

I feel kinda bad for Russian cosplayers.

They get so much bullshit for little to meaningless things and their cosplays are usually so gorgeous. I saw a girl on TikTok getting told stuff like “Point and laugh at the Russian girl” and “Wow your lips are so thin, how do you talk?”

Erm, why is that socially acceptable (at least there) to say to her? All because she was cosplaying a Japanese character? And before you hit me with it, no, she wasn’t elongating her eyes or doing anything racist. What if she shot back, or anyone who was getting bullied and said “Okay you’re black, you have jungle lips” that’s not okay is it? so why were they saying shit like to her? And just to be CLEAR because someone will read this as bad faith as possible—no, I wouldn’t actually say that and I don’t think anyone should say that either. Funny thing is, I’m very sure most of the people leaving (non constructive) criticism weren’t even Japanese and a couple of Asian people saying it was fine….were getting drown out ANYWAY. it was the drama comments that we’re getting hearts and replies lmao wtf.

Idk if it’s just TikTok culture or American fandom culture but damn it’s embarrassing.

Ps. Before someone asks “Well are you a poc?” I’m white/Latina mixed so make of that what you will.