#sorry about the rambling but i’m upset

[lexirosewrites]

i’m not even going to tag them because they don’t deserve anyone’s attention, but if you see that stupid fucking gossip blog going around on here, please block it! it’s just someone coming to live out their Regina George fantasy and bully others to feel better about themselves. this exact same bullshit already happened on twitter and it’s both the reason i almost left this fandom and the reason my mental health got to an all-time low last year. we don’t need more hate and cruelty in our fandom than we already have. let’s spend our time uplifting others, promoting our favorite fics, and reblogging art to show our enthusiasm, not making an online ‘Burn Book’ where we trash talk others and make them want to leave entirely. i love you guys, but if this glorified bullying is something you support, i’m asking that you unfollow and even block me entirely because i want nothing to do with that shameful and truly ugly behavior💛

[logically-asexual]

it was really cool back in 2017/18 that we were getting episodes with the sides in pairs just to discuss some topic they both had strong opinions on. we had logan-patton, virgil-roman, logan-virgil, logan-roman.

and we were just counting down until we would get all the pairs and i remember we were kinda scared of when virgil and patton would argue/disagree about something. and also the joke about logan fighting everyone one by one so we have been waiting for the janus-logan video ever since deceit was introduced. and we were then also hoping to get videos like those with janus or remus pairs with any of the other sides and each other. but then none of it ever happened :(

and now the virgil vs patton disagreement is a huge mess because it’s so. convoluted? with everything going on in the plot and all the angst. and we don’t even know for sure what virgil is so angry about. while on the other hand janus and remus are only shown interacting in ads and sketches that feel more like fan service than anything else.

i don’t think we’re going to get something like the dark side of disney or logic vs passion again. it’s always going to be something part of an extremely complicated angsty plot or an inconsequential sketch outside of the timeline that doesn’t offer anything and just reinforces these patton/logan , virgil/roman , janus/remus completely fanon dynamics.

and normal, casual episodes developing two characters a little through exposing the differences and similarities between each other are GOOD because they challenged the stereotypes we could fall for about the characters.

like. in my negative thinking. when virgil believed it was always logan taking roman’s side and then logan said “frankly i find both you and princey a little bit extra”. he challenges virgil’s view. because yes. virgil thinks it’s three normal sides vs him the nuisance. but then turns out logan sees virgil and roman as two over-dramatic sides while him and patton aren’t. but also we learn by the end that both logan and virgil can be grounded and somewhat rational while patton and roman can be cheerful and delusionally optimistic. they’re all opposites in a way and virgil has more in common with the rest than he thinks.

because all pairs of sides are just as opposite and just as similar as any other pair, it just depends on what angle you’re approaching them from. so exposing these new angles helps learn more about each of the sides separately as well as their relationships.

these episodes were lighthearted but also the character development was taken seriously. it was cool. i miss it. bring it back.

Listen. No objections to patreon. I just wishhhhh they didn't have that fucking writer's tier. That is one of like, three reasons I'm leaving the Fandom. And a pretty big one at that. We've all noticed the push of more logan/patton and roman/virgil content as of late and he's not even trying to hide it now! I'm sorry ajsjdjsjsk I just know it's because of that damn writers room with shippers trying to make their ship canon!! I just wish, especially after the last asides, they gave some other pairings a chance. Literally FWSA was all just Roman and virgil. AND WE HAVE NOT SEEN A ROMAN AND LOGAN OR PATTON AND JANUS DYNAMIC-BASED VIDEO IN YEAAAAARS PLEASE YALL

[laurrelise]

once again rambling about five and lila because i’m fucking pissed. enjoy

“five and lila were perfect for each other because they had so much in common” yet so many perfect couples have absolutely nothing in common???

they could relate to each other in ways that made them hate each other and that’s why they were SUCH good foil characters, i don’t understand why the romance had to be necessary.

there is absolutely no reason that this romance plotline should’ve been created. it was so ridiculously off-focus from what the plot was (AND should have been) and it literally only made the season so much worse.

do writers understand that not every single character has to fall in love with one another? i mean genuinely?

personally i don’t believe five is aro (though he could be ace) because i can’t help but love five’s love for delores (even if she wasn’t real) but i completely understand five aroace truthers because he truly can be independent romantically as we saw in the show.

i cannot wrap my fucking head around the fact that the writers saw two awesome, dynamic, badass characters with arcs and goals outside of love and attention and decided to turn their personalities inside out and upside down for a dumbass dead-end romance that makes zero sense.

five and lila were the only two people on god’s green earth who could understand each other and hated the other for it. why couldn’t they just be frenemies and call it a day?

god fucking damn it i’m so upset

shoutout to 13 year old 58 year old five hating lila and 29 year old lila despising the fuck out of little five !!! <3

fuck you to the worst, most nonsensical couple of all time and space ❌❌

[fordobsessed]

tried not to talk about this but anyway I was ford for Halloween and part of me was really worried someone would make a stupid b/frd related comment and lo and behold. Someone made a dumbass saving the town joke. The way my heart dropped is unreal. Whole new kind of instant stress response related to this. I can’t block people irl what is this shit. I hate 90% of this fandom sm . there was a lot of people who loved my cosplay though and made perfectly normal comments so I just need to focus on that :) just had one bad moment but it’s nagging on me

[hykwrld]

the day the neos stop making comments and “jokes” abt hyuck and his weight + skin colour is the day i will have peace

[kimetsu-chan]

Dude, I told my sisters that they woke me up from my nap, and told H she mostly woke me up and she called me delusional and said I was making stuff up.

Then my dad got upset at me for reacting to it.

Then I messed it up by telling her I didn’t want to talk when she tried to apologize, and I feel like now I have to apologize to her

But I don’t feel like her apology was genuine, because I know my dad would’ve told her to say sorry

[random0lover]

I hate men and their need to act like any emotional reactions you have while you’re on your period is just you being “hormonal” and “not yourself”

(Rant in tags)

[ropebunnykant]

not to say i told you so. but i told y’all so

[tacit-semantics]

Trying to fall asleep at 11:45 in the morning deeply confused as to why it’s not working

[baycitystygian]

I know I generally embrace being autistic but today the hardest parts of it were really in the foreground for the entire fucking exhausting day… having auditory issues on a VERY important phone call that I needed to make and fighting for my life to understand what the poor sweet insurance lady was saying because the audio was so distorted… having a way-too-long discussion with my sister where I (1) promised to “castrate [her baby daddy] like a hog” for ghosting her and genuinely meant it (thinking about stuffing his nards as a wall trophy tbh, if he doesn’t wanna be a dad so badly then surely it’s no loss to him!) and (2) argued with her about laws that are stupid and shouldn’t apply to her situation (that’s a long story)… which probably did not make her feel any bit better and honestly I think both of us are much more stressed out afterwards. like some situations get me so outrageously mad that I literally cannot handle it and I need to remove myself from the conversation because the other person isn’t budging because it’s something they have zero influence over and they are just trying to explain the damn thing but it’s Wrong in my eyes so I feel the need to argue my case and how the fuck does anyone put up with me

like I know I don’t go into much detail about personal issues on here (or much of anything re: IRL me) but uh. that’s a huge thing I struggle with and I have no clue how to change it. It’s like, does no one else have common sense? Why can’t anyone else see this? and it feels like screaming into the void and it makes me feel terrible and it only stresses out the other person who is Not Getting Paid Enough (well, at ALL) to deal with Whatever This Is

[poppyseed799]

I wonder how different my feelings on Drew would be if there wasn’t that freaking spare laptop scene

[cas-poisoning]

I am not Palestinian/Middle Eastern/Arabic/Muslim but I stand with Palestine obviously out of moral principle but also because it is not lost on me that the sheer amount of racism driving this situation is not reserved only for Palestinians in this conflict. If you are a minority and you don’t stand with Palestine, you don’t realize that next time it could be you.

Hearing the white people in my life be pro Israel is making me realize these same people that I’ve always loved probably would have been pro slavery, pro segregation, anti civil rights movement etc. even though people love to claim they would have known better back then.

It’s the same talking point. You don’t think white Americans thought violent force against black protestors was justified? That they were “asking for it”?. There is a modern narrative that black people got their rights only through the most peaceful means, but the truth is we had to fight. We have always had to fight.

People are only against racism when it’s convenient to them. The modern white American liberal has been taught that’s it’s senseless and uncivilized to be openly racist towards black people (even though racism is still expressed in hundreds of other implicit ways) but when it’s time to stand up to any other group besides the one that has been culturally enforced as being “ok” suddenly those people don’t have the right to stand up for themselves

[verdantdaises]

Important question, do you write them as dogs or as people?

Good question!!! I deliberately leave it ambiguous bc I don’t really care what people picture in their heads like idc truly ahaha

Either way they have some fur and are dog men or are humans and have skin it doesn’t matter to me, I do mention skin a bit but people can interpret it however they want :))

[tariah23]

Well, I’m still glad that Gojo was always a character who was growing and learning at least. He’s literally one of my favorite characters of all time now. Like, he’s never been as perfect as how the fans would make him out to be despite canonically being viewed as an absolute nuisance to everyone around him (I don’t think his peers necessarily hate him but a lot of them probably hate to see him coming and the ones who’ve dealt with him long enough to consider him a friend, tolerate him and groan whenever he opens his mouth, too 😭… out of love. He’s extremely childish so there is only sm the other adults around him can take and to an extent, his students. I think the only characters in canon who adore him and their eye’s sparkle whenever he’s around, and being a silly teacher was Yuuji and Miwa (she asked him for his autograph (he’s the most famous sorcerer in the jjk world) and when she was alone, she did a little dance in the empty hallway 🥺…) from what we’ve seen even though the others still care about him, too. They just find him rather annoying, which he most definitely is. And he does it on purpose. He plays too much.)

[selfdestructivecat]

If I see one more person misconstrue good-faith criticism against Thomas Sanders and the way he’s handling his series, I’m going to scream.

Yes, there are people who genuinely despise the man, and are nitpicking anything that can prove that he is an evil person. There are people who are constantly pestering Thomas about the long wait, demanding the content they want this instant. Those people aren’t being productive with their criticism, and I can understand being frustrated with them. Hell, I’M frustrated with them!

But there ARE valid criticisms. Thomas has recently been very bad with handling questions about the series, as his recent Twitter posts have shown, and he hasn’t been transparent about what’s going on with Sanders Sides.

If you don’t take anything else away from this post, THAT’S what we’re upset about. We aren’t upset about the wait itself. We will GLADLY wait days, months, YEARS for this series we love. We already HAVE waited years, and we likely will continue to do so! But we don’t know what’s going ON. He has given us very few updates, and in the few updates he has given us, he has been INCREDIBLY VAGUE.

And he CAN BE VAGUE, just ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

“Hey guys! This series is taking longer than I thought it would for reasons I don’t feel comfortable disclosing! I can’t give you an exact date for when the next part will be out because I don’t know when it’ll be done, but it will take a long time! Please be patient, thank you!”

THAT’S IT! That’s all we want! But as far as I know, he hasn’t announced an official hiatus or anything of the sort. He has just said that he’s “working on it”, which doesn’t tell us ANYTHING.

If he is prioritizing Roleslaying or another project, THAT’S FINE! Just TELL US, so we don’t expect something we aren’t going to get!

People have brought up how the series used to be as part of their argument, on both sides. The production quality was lower, but updates were more frequent. I won’t argue about which era of the series was better. But the point I want to make is that Thomas set up a precedent. After years of this series, we’ve come to expect this type of update schedule.

And now, obviously, it’s changed. And that’s FINE. But when a precedent has been established, and then it’s changed without any kind of announcement, it’s reasonable that people are confused and kinda thrown off! And we would be a lot less confused if Thomas would TELL US WHAT’S GOING ON!

I don’t know Thomas personally. I’ve never interacted with him. I’m sure he’s a lovely man. But he can be a wonderful person AND be irresponsible interacting with his fans. Not every bit of criticism thrown at Thomas is a direct attack against his character! Kindness and irresponsibility aren’t mutually exclusive! And yes, there ARE people using these recent tweets as attacks against Thomas as a person. You can be upset about that. But there are also people analyzing these responses and (rightfully so in my opinion) asking for some accountability!

I understand that he’s frustrated! I would be as well, in his circumstance! And there ARE people who are being incredibly rude and unhelpful in demanding that Thomas pump out Sanders Sides content at a faster pace! That is incredibly unreasonable!

But that isn’t what everyone is saying to him! Many people are being perfectly polite and asking for the smallest bit of clarity! And yes, this can also be really frustrating! But it isn’t completely unwarranted! When you don’t say anything, people ask questions! And the best way to stop people from asking questions? ANSWER SOME OF THEM!

You can still be a fan of the series that Thomas made AND be critical of him and the series. The fact that we take the time to express and convey these criticisms in a manner we hope to be constructive is a testament to the love we have for it, and the potential we don’t feel it’s reaching. So don’t you DARE suggest that we are any less part of this fandom, or “fake fans”, because we see some flaws in the system. We can love something and acknowledge it’s flaws. You are no better than us because you are standing on the other side of this argument.

If I’ve missed anything, which I likely have, then feel free to correct anything I’ve gotten incorrect. I know my perspective may have some gaps. But I’d like to have a conversation with someone who disagrees with me, rather than someone seeing the words “ts criticism” and immediately assuming that we are ungrateful little shits who hate everything Thomas stands for.

Once again, I apologize for the wave of criticism on my blog. You are more than welcome to unfollow or block me of that makes you upset, no hard feelings on my side. But I wanted to say something, and I doubt my stance will change. I hope, going forward, that we can discuss the ups and downs of this series without fingers being pointed or accusations being thrown. From BOTH sides.

[ibithesnail]

need to become normaler about princezam