#so the only 'good thing' you're doing is giving yourself morally righteous pats on the back

[zeroducks-2]

I'm completely serious when I say that yall need to calm down about the whole "if you dislike x it means that you're y", because you sound just like antis and it's not helping anyone.

So quick PSA for who needs to hear it: Not liking Taylor Swift doesn't make you a misogynist. Hating JKR doesn't make you sexist. Not liking Twilight or anything else with a female protag doesn't make you anti-women. Not having wlw ships doesn't make you lesbophobic. Disliking a female character is actually totally fine, and you don't need to fill any moral quota by having a favorite character belonging to every single marginalized category of people.

Sometimes people just do not like stuff, and sometimes they even have extremely good reasons to dislike stuff. Stop being a fucking cop about it.

[cyraniadebergerac]

The unstoppable force against the immovable object.

Doesn't help that a key trait most forget about Patton is that he's stubborn when he's sure he's right. Combine that with how he pushes himself and Thomas to be the ideal good person that does the right thing all the time because they want to do the right thing, a faulty modernist understanding of unselfishness being the highest of virtues instead of love that warps Patton's thinking, and a faulty understanding of that you can "fake it till you make it" where if you can force yourself to act like you're something you're not like always unselfish, you can in time "become the mask" and genuinely be like that, how Patton came to be this destructive can be clearly seen. We've had the hints before that Pat does this to himself, such as his slip in the puppet episode where he showed that he is less naive and more cynical about the world than he pretends to be, and we know that he's only recently started to not do this with his emotions even if he easily slips back into the habit. And so it makes sense that he'd be encouraging the same behaviors in Thomas since he thinks it's the right way to go about things since he hasn't had anyone else challenge what he does until The DWIT episode where Logan outright called forcing down those type of thoughts "repression", stunning Patton who hadn't realized that that's what was going on with himself. (Something that might have happened sooner if Logan allowed himself to be Thomas's moral-based reasoning since logic is a reasoning tool for any type of thinking that have some basic premises that are not disputed and Catholic moral reasoning is very logic-oriented if you get down to the basics of what it teaches. But instead, Pat has been by himself being emotions, the conscience, and the moral reasoning, which is not a good combo when you're emotion-oriented and have a hard time being objective about things.) So this next episode hopefully will have Pat comes to grips that his methods have been wrong.

(Of course a theory about that Patton's so rigid on this could have to do with with Thomas's reasons being raised Catholic but potentially not being Catholic anymore. Catholic Church does teach that gay guys are valid and shouldn'tbe discriminated against. However, the Church can't support gay marriage because part of the covenant made between God and the spouses for a marriage union is that they'll be open to the procreation and raising of children depending on what's God's Will for them is, along with the need of them to be mutually supportive of each other and encourage each other to be more righteous for the rest of their lives. Sex then is the sign/sealing of that covenant and the method with which couples show they're ready for children if the Lord wills it [main reason any type of sex outside of the marriage bond is a mortal sin]. A gay marriage union by it's very nature doesn't allow God to freely spontaneously give them children like He even can with an infertile m/f as seen multiple times in the Bible since He didn't design humans to work that way. Thomas, however, has dated a guy, which usually is suppose to lead to marriage and would mean that he doesn't follow that aspect of Church teaching even if he overall abides by the rest of it. And that would cause Patton to suffer since he'ld always have a twinge of guilt each time marrying a guy comes up because his early teaching taught that as wrong and yet he needs to ignore that aspect and be supportive of his kiddo while still abiding by everything else. And so he hunkers down on the other stuff since it's not something Thomas questions as right or wrong and so is something Pat can be sure of.)

Loyalties: Patton and Deceit

I think it’s interesting to see how their loyalties both end up driving them to some of their more intense faults.

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