#reddit gonna reddit

[misty-slays-blog]

Every other three threads or comments in the comment section on reddit are now about "WhEn Will cEleboRn APpEAR???"

Celeborn isn't this cool, badass character like Glorfindel or Anárion. Tolkien invented him to be Galadriel's husband and the father to her daughter, so she could be Arwen's grandmother and Eldarion's great-grandmother. It is telling that this cis white hetero man born in 1892 already recognized that Galadriel was much more interesting than her husband.

Reddit's obsession with Celeborn is part of a much bigger, cultural problem, namely that Galadriel isn't allowed to be a strong female character with agency without the "guidance" of her husband. It stems from their hatred towards Galadriel acting "traditionally masculine" and needing to be "more feminine, therefore tamed". It's symptomatic of their disdain towards women in general.

(I need to point out that I am not against Celeborn as a character and him appearing somewhere toward the end of the series, but this obsession rooted in misogyny is fucking disgusting actually).

[loxosceleslolo]

that's enough reddit for today

[rorytelling]

Cis women when someone says they should support trans women and not be transphobic:

"umm you didn't coddle me specifically and used the word 'should' too many times in your post which is misogynistic and triggering because men have told me what I 'should' do my whole life so I'm going to ignore everything you said and attack you as a person. These are my real feelings on the matter and have nothing to do with my feelings about trans women. Why do you hate real wo- I mean why are you so condescending? I'm an ally btw."

[threefuckencrowsinaleatherjacket]

Myself included tbh

[inkskinned]

how odd, to watch the creative writing exercises of angry men in the comments of instagram. you noticed it first in the comments of conventionally attractive women - but then it started appearing everywhere else, too.

a young man talks about what lunch he's packing his wife. there is a little story under it, with 300 likes, fabricated from nothing. "this is pointless. if you treat her like this, she will take the lunch to her office and fuck her boss and divorce him and take all his money."

you scroll. a young woman talks about what lunch she's packing for her husband. it is always uglier when the subject of the video is a woman, you've noticed. "you sit on camera and you smile and you are cheating with the neighbor and then you're going to lie about being sexually assaulted by your husband and -"

you stop reading. it has 567 likes.

where did this even become a thing? people making up stories in their head, disgusting long-winded assumptions about intention and sexual disgrace. the evil twin of fanfiction.

like - it's just a lie. it's a lie that they are telling, baldfaced and assumptive. the undercurrent is of course misogyny, but the trouble is that they're so fucking certain. that's what makes the hairs on the back of your neck rise. there is this pervasive, inventive desire for them to be right. that they must be right. all women are cheating, lying, gold-digging bitches. no exceptions.

in the reverse, when women say i'd rather meet a bear in the woods than a strange man - men funnel in from the sides. they defend each other with a vibrance and capacity for empathy you wish applied to like, the other half of the population. a man could be saying i absolutely did kill her and these creatures in the comments would rise up with king shit. she made it happen. they love each other to the point of this sick strange self-gaslighting, a fervent and unhinged cognitive distortion. all men are good, wonderful people. all women are terrible, conniving, seditious, annoying.

and when did it become okay to just, like... say that kind of a thing? at one point, you find yourself typing out a witty and snappy retort. why are you spending so much time fantasizing about other people babe. but as you stare at the screen, some part of you pictures this man in public, saying these things to your face. his soapbox, high and mighty. his mirrored sunglasses and his empty life: tired and lonely.

what a sad and horrible loop he's locked in. he is terrible to women, so women don't talk to him, which he uses as an excuse to act more terribly. he blames this "failure" on women, rather than on his behavior. it cannot be that he is the problem (that the solution is to just put his ego down and accept women as equals) - he begins to invent a sculpture to replace the flesh frame of each person he sees.

it isn't just a woman posing on the beach. it is now a slut with a desperate need for each person to crave her body. it isn't just a woman yelping with surprise during something upsetting. it is a hysterical, unhelpful cretin who will probably make things worse instead of better. it isn't a person.

someone's very sweet wedding vows get moderate attention on instagram. in the comments, a man says good fucking luck you'll waste your life providing while behind your back she's absolutely fucking the best man. this will be so cringe in 2 months when she walks out on you.

you think - is that what you need to be true? is that what you need to happen, for the world to make sense to you?

[fudgycat]

everyone calling reddit social media is wrong

it's a forum and message board platform not social media at least not in the same vain as other social media sites it doesn't work like twitter or instagram or tiktok

and I think this is why everyone on tumblr is more accepting of their refugees and not twitters (besides the twitter refugees bringing old discourse back)

because tumblr is also not what social media is thought of nowadays it's a blogging platform. both tumblr and reddit are similar in that they both reflect the internet of old, when forums and blogs and personal websites were more popular, a time when you didn't post about every little thing in your life, when you could be anonymous

and no matter how hard the ceos or the staff of either websites may try they can never fully transform into the next twitter or whatever without fundamentally changing what these websites are. which would be a death sentence

people aren't coming to these websites for social media, they're coming for the community, for the uniqueness, for the long discussions they can have without a character limit, for information, for anonymity. to browse the internet without feeling pressured into posting perfectly fake photos and stories about your life in a desperate attempt for likes and attention

[suitetarts]

some lucky redditor got a bug where the drow twins scene wasn't blacked out, and turns out there's most perfect snuggle pile if you brought halsin 😭

[beepborpdoodledorp]

this shot has been living rent-fucking-free in my head I want to fucking shout it from the rooftops WHY DOES HE REACH OUT TO HER LIKE THAT. why is it so slow? why does he look so sad?? 'Oh he's just confused' NO AFTER SHE SAYS HIS NAME THAT IS NOT A LOOK OF CONFUSION. THAT IS NOT THE LOOK OF A PANICKED MAN ABOUT TO SPIN WHAT HE THINKS IS THE DELUSIONAL STALKER CASHIER AROUND TO ASK HER WHY THE FUCK SHE KNOWS HIS NAME WHEN THEY'VE NEVER MET BEFORE.

So Pomni understands here it's for the best to let Gummigoo leave because he doesn't remember her. or. OR. he does and can't and/or won't say it. why do you look away for a split second. is it because you are uncomfortable or is it out of shame. do you want to speak but you cannot? do you want to tell her there's the slightest flash of familiarity about her? WHAT ARE YOU NOT TELLING US YOU REPTILIAN PIECE OF SHIT

bro this is not the goodbye you give to the weird stalker girl who's been trying to get your attention the entire time, even if she did seemingly give up on it and just give you a normal farewell. that smile is warm. it's genuine. it's wary but it's understanding. even if ONE TINY FRAGMENT of his memory survived the confetti obliteration, JUST ENOUGH to know this was once his friend and as such he should give her a proper farewell, I can sleep peacefully. but also I just spent the past twenty minutes trying to read the expression of a cartoon candy alligator so clearly I was never sleeping peacefully to begin with. I AM IN PAIN. I AM BY LAW A GROWN ADULT AND THIS IS WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO WITH MY LIFE

[bixels]

Why the hell, shit, you damned bastard son of a bitch

[be-right-back-9]

[daenysthedreamer101]

HBO's security apparently:

WHY AM I SEEING LEAKS EVERYWHERE???

[misty-slays-blog]

So I am someone who has a hard time ignoring haters, and Rings of Power has a lot of haters. Often they are people who just throw whatever unfounded insult at the show for the sake of hating it so they really shouldn't be taken seriously but idk... It tended to get to me. Until I discovered the trick to deal with them.

Now I just read everything they say in Comic Book Guy's voice. Seriously it has improved my time in this fandom. They flood my posts (on Reddit, mainly, where I am most active, but being a show-positive Haladriel shipper there can be challenging) and I just... think it's funny now? Their 'arguments' mean nothing anymore once you picture them like this lol:

[loxosceleslolo]

I feel kinda bad for the "Ranni causes the heat death of the universe (or at least The Lands Between" guy on reddit because he's come in with interesting angles backed up with well-reasoned arguments and he's just not being received well by a community that ostensibly wants interesting angles with well-reasoned arguments

[math-memes]

[yappacadaver]

Anyone else remember this post specifically when Emmy’s freaking out about being old

[from-ib-to-asshai]

my gd this fandom is so funny with its differences across platforms

asoiaf reddit: i know this is the 37th post made about stannis today, but i was wondering how you guys see his right to the throne when compared to the targs (jon, viserys and aegon) when looking at-

asoiaf tumblr: how tight is jaime lannisters hole