#so even if we're not in the same fandom

[reallapiscake12]

"omg guys the soundtrack is so bad it's not the smae" "THIS GAME IS RUINED NOW THAT'S NOT MY PEPPERSTEAK" " ERRR THE PAYRUS LEITMOTIFF IS STUPID AND CRINGE, TOBY FOX SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF

Hey yeah that's cool, do me a favor-

[acourtofthought]

"But it was Elain's fault too!"

How did Elain enter the Lucien vs Az drama? Can there not be a single post where someone doesn't feel the need bring her name into the conversation just to drag on her?

The initial argument was some accusing Lucien stans of "applauding" his rakish ways (nobody does that) while then claiming Az's behavior in the bonus was problematic (it was, hence why Rhys was pissed). But somehow, some also need to put Elain's name into the conversation because the fandom can never just discuss the male characters and leave it at that.

Between Elain and Az, which character is currently asking something of Lucien?

If memory serves, it is Azriel who personally asked Lucien to permanently station himself in the Spring Court to be their eyes and ears. Azriel who gathered information from Lucien on the Autumn Court.

Memory does not serve Elain asking Lucien for a single thing. Would it be nice if she talked to him about their bond? Absolutely! Is she required to talk to him about their bond? Nope, he hasn't talked to her about their bond either. Bond or not she is a free agent and if you're going to say she's in the wrong for deciding to kiss someone then you're basically saying she has no choice but to be with Lucien just because they were given a bond neither asked for.

Az is also a free agent but why, when he's the one who is asking Lucien for HIS help to provide information to HIS court would he decide to say "Fuck that guy, he doesn't deserve his mate and even though I don't want a real future with her, I'm going to hook up with her anyway." You can say Az can also do whatever he wants but this is where the gentlemen conversation comes into play because a true gentlemen would not do that to someone else, especially not someone he is asking something of. Azriel and Lucien have business dealings with one another whereas Elain is actively trying to have no dealings whatsoever with Lucien at this point.

And if Elain is asking nothing of Lucien, has zero expectations of Lucien then why should we blame HER for Azriel's actions on Solstice? She didn't force him to reject her. She did not force him to flippantly declare he'd kill an ally to the NC. She did not force him to say Lucien would never be good enough.

We don't love that both Elain and Az wanted to kiss (or more than that for him) but the kiss was not the problem. It doesn't surprise me though that some walk away thinking "sex" is the most important conversation to be had. It's the attitude that Az had about Lucien that is the issue and the way he handled (or did not handle) everything with Elain afterwards. The only thing Elain has ever said about Lucien is that she doesn't want a male or a mate, she has never said anything disrespectful about who he is as a person or his worth.

But Az being an ass to an ally, not showing respect to another males mating bond when he himself is so desperate for one then expecting Lucien to continue giving him the information the Inner Circle counts on? Yeah, it's ok to make this an "Az" thing and not try to absolve him by once again blaming a female instead. Yes Elain is an adult but there is a huge difference between 24 and 500 plus. There is a huge difference between someone who is VERY new to this world versus someone who has lived it for centuries. And there is also a very big difference between Elain trying actively not to engage with Lucien versus Az who is actively asking Lucien to rearrange his life in order to help the Night Court out while he then turns around and has no remorse for wanting to bang his mate while barely blinking at the thought of killing him.

[kismetconstellations]

"Please! We come from a peaceful planet! We mean you no harm. We're unarmed!"

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[bmpmp3]

i mean this is the most nonjudgemental way possible because i also like synthesizer shipping quite a bit but it does make me giggle a little when i see people talk about a vocaloid or whatever ship like they would in like, a fandom for an actual piece of narrative media instead of software like "ffffuuuck the way these two look at eachother they make me insaaaane" type stuff because i always smile and close my eyes and imagine this:

[oceanwithouthermoon]

people who insist that things like shipping or headcanoning are bad because its "disrespectful to the writers" and you can ONLY appreciate canon things are fucking hilarious to me, like if im not allowed to headcanon anything and have to live by all canon things then i would have to accept that saiki is transphobic and kaido and kuboyasu are homophobic

[nymika-arts]

See this is why I am so confused at all the Tommy stans. It was obvious from the start that his and Buck’s relationship was doomed lol. I saw so many of them excited that he was coming back like it meant something but omg the way he did??? It further proved how completely doomed their relationship was lol. I got into 911 late in the game but it’s been interesting to see some people call people who think buddie is going to happen delusional yet turn back around and say Tommy is endgame??? Endgame where lol

honestly I've been saying in actual canon (outside of everything fanon has cooked up for him) tommy is really only about as developed as ana was. he's in a few episodes, they have some fun moments together, but overall not a relationship written to last and ultimately unsurprising when it ends. especially when everything in the relationship has been overshadowed by eddie in some way (JUST like we used to point out with every other love interest these two have had). like. buck spent the ENTIRE episode talking about eddie, including every scene tommy was in lmao. tommy saw eddie as competition and is now crawling back when he thinks the competition is over. buck was sleeping w him as a distraction bc he's so lonely without eddie. I've been watching since before s4 and I've seen a lot of love interests come and go this is like. textbook for this show atp lol

[mrs-theirin]

so tired of genuine complaints being thrown under the bus with "they will complain just because they want to complain" that's actually not how any of this works!

[teenietinytangerine]

I just want to say that even though I am mostly a bts account and mostly talk about them, I truly believe everything that happened and continues to happen to yoongi, seunghan and jessie, only to name a few, is all coming from the same rotted root

fandoms should help each other to destroy it instead of using it to pursue useless, and actually hurtful to their own idols, fanwars

if i see one more person say "but they didn't help us when we needed them" grow up. just grow up. i cannot be explaining the same concept of empathy to the kid i'm babysitting and to you. it is so idiotic if you would just think about it, with honesty to yourself, for five seconds.

also, idols need to unionize.

[pardonmydelays]

i think my biggest problem is that i've always been this kind of friend who's like "i may not understand your favourite thing in the world but i'm here to listen, support it with all my heart and be excited about it with you", so i kinda expect my friends to do the same thing for me. if it matters to you, it's important.

[hauntingofhouses]

mizutaigen is literally like. the first "toxic" m/f ship i've ever cared for. cuz like usually my taste in m/f ships is basically "unhinged baddie" x "badass wifeguy" *

* (see:yen/geralt. trevor/sypha. adolin/shallan. kataang but katara is sane and they're literally so wholesome like theyre traumatised kids in love who are each other's emblem of hope in a war-torn world! so basically they don't count. anyway. i'm rambling.)

and to that end my friend called mizutaigen yaoi-adjacent and im like. yeah you're right actually cuz like hell yeah non-binary mizu and bisexual taigen rights and all the gender fuckery in the show in general

but also like.

theres just SOMETHING else about mizutaigen that just GETS me. like there's a special secret sauce like the pheromones in that one sephora lotion attracting spiders and i am the silly spider!!! there's just something about it!!! it's not even the enemies to lovers trope cuz i personally am not even usually into that (obv it's fine if you are. but yk.)

so as i keep rotating these thoughts around i thiiink it's the fact that, yknow, theyre so similar. like i honestly truly think they could be besties in another universe: a kinder universe where taigen was not taught to hate. a universe where mizu was not born a girl in a deeply misogynistic society or half-white in a xenophobic homogeneous society.

yeah now that i think about it that really just might be THE secret sauce!!! like the fact that they COULD be perfect and happy together, if only things were different, if only they werent themselves.

smth v bittersweet about that's just driving me insane and makes me want to root for them to overcome all those obstacles, to say "fuck all that" (re:the world and all its fucked up shit) and find each other in the end. to eventually become each other's fav person and confidant. who obv still bicker and tease and insult each other all the time but they dont really mean any of it and over time it just becomes a running gag between them and no one else has to get it because it's just between the two of them.

[galaxy-fleur]

Hi~~

I wanted to drop in on the topic of Grace's dad and say that i don't think it's unlikely, it seems that it's gonna be something we're gonna get one way or another actually......

Someone over on twitter has translated an reliable leaker's information and it does seem like he's leading up to something but i am not sure just how much it's making sense what he is saying. Here's the link if you're interested!

>>https://x.com/agonycrossbow/status/1935479538521358351

Aight, I debated whether or not to touch upon this since I have a couple of asks on this in my inbox, but I'll go ahead and clear this up for you and (hopefully) for a couple other folks:

Fellas, ya'll really need to actually read what is presented to you, and I don't even mean it in a mean or condescending way! You're gonna have to deal with this more and more as things heat up in fan spaces as we close in to the release. Andy is discussing a theory he saw/heard and is giving his own take on it. At no point does he say that it's real. Nobody is saying that it's real right now. Not Sirea, not Andy, not anybody. Not a single person. And attributing that to either of them would be really dishonest. One is doing this for fun (hence the entire twit thread being created in the first place. it was for fun. it's worded the way it is for fun. ya'll need to remember that it's still an ongoing prank to rile people up on purpose, that fact hasn't changed), the other is simply giving his take on what he sees because he likes the idea of it.

This will be worth discussing if, and only IF we'll have some actual, solid stuff to chew on. But we don't ya'll. Maybe one day we will, however unlikely that it (and it IS very unlikely), but it's pointless to place all your bets on a shaky what-if that may or may not come. This actually concerns many other fan theories, not just this one. It's important to take a step back and evaluate the information you've been given instead of letting your immediate reaction take center stage.

A guy discussing a theory he saw and entertaining it because he finds it believable ≠ him saying that it's real. I'm sure he wouldn't care one bit if there's a bunch of fans spreading around stuff he didn't actually say, but c'mon now. Let's be vigilant and smart about this.

[torchickentacos]

The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels

[ineffable-doll]

Remembering when I joined the fandom in 2020 and no one would explain where the whole South Downs thing came from

[sansaorgana]

I truly am blocked by some blogs I've never heard of lmao

[bittersweetresilience]

honkai: star rail or omori

HOW COULD YOU ASK ME THIS. I'M GOING TO PUT YOUR GARRUS FICS IN THE LIBRARY AND KISS YOU OVER THE PAGES.