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Masked Singer Season 5 Review

I haven’t gotten to talk about The Masked Singer here in awhile, but season 5 left me with a lot to talk about after seeing how it nosedived this show into being DEAD television by the end of it.

I’m going to put it all past a read more for you here, because I have over 18000 characters in me to talk about how bad of a season this was apparently. There are also some thoughts about Season 3, and Season 4 (which I skipped reviewing because of how uninteresting it was, but boy did it’s bad qualities have a huge impact on Season 5).

So before I get to dissecting season 5 of the Masked Singer, I have to go back to moments of season 3, and a whole lot of season 4. Season 3 is where we start to see the first inkling of bad tropes occur that persist through season 5 to make it worse. It introduces really obviously weak performances that get the performer to skate by when they shouldn't, leading to the biggest upset I have with the season. Kandi Burruss really shouldn't have won season 3 in my honest opinion. within her first 5 performances, she had two clear duds; her cover of Shout!, and her cover of Man, I Feel Like A Woman. Both were covers that had questionable energy (Shout! less so, but Woman was absolutely unenergetic compared to Twain's original vocal performance), and the latter had a key change to the accompaniment that didn't lend any favors to the energy or vibrancy of the cover. I also need to put into context that what I think is Night Angel's worst performance (Woman) somehow won her a face-off round in season 3 (a forgotten show element from the last two seasons? wowie). Obviously I can say that Jesse McCartney should have won season 3 (I just think he had more consistent performances and output throughout the season), but that's a bit off course. What I really want to get to with Burruss cover of Woman is that it's for all intents and purposes just a middling cover. We'll see these happen more in seasons 4 and 5, but they pan out to usually axing off the contestant. Barring the element of Burruss actually getting eliminated, this is pretty much the first notable Punt Song in terms of performance quality. I want to establish the concept of the Punt Song because it plays a larger role in season 4, and season 5. I also need to establish another trope that season 4 introduced which also cursed season 5, which is excusing bad performances. It panned out so much worse in 4 than in 5, but for 4's sake, Chloe Kim should have been out from her first week. Her performance of Big Girls Don't Cry was weak and mildly sobby, but to the panel it's "emotional", and "it's okay, I'm sure you'll do better next week :)". This performance beat out Wendy Williams cover of Native New Yorker. Was that a great cover by Wendy? No, not really. However, whereas Chloe was a weak, sobbing mess on her first swing at bat, Wendy was bringing the comedy and entertainment factor and should have been safe on that alone. This show failure here is especially notable because having comedic factor in an otherwise bad performance actually pans out successfully in season 5, which makes me question the judges consistency in evaluation from season to season (to be fair though, the judges are Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Whalberg, and Nicole Scherzinger. They're already a collective 3/4 of a middling joke). The last part of Season 4 I want to bring up is the usage of the term "taking us to church" in regards to it not only being a cursed term by the end of season 5, but also being a poor reflection on the judges evaluation skills. Look, I get it, this is a Fox competition at the end of the day, so it's obviously hokey pseudo sentimental faux entertainment tailored for white audiences, but don't say someone "took you to church" and then immediately axe them off after that. Yeah, I'm gonna say it; LeAnn Rimes shouldn't have won season 4. Was she bad? No! I just think Taylor Dane was better than her during the week where they axed off Taylor, especially after the panel said that she "took them to church". What did Dane lose to you ask? a somehow more intimate cover of a Billie Eilish song. Is that a bad thing? No, in fact it was pretty good, but I don't think it was good enough to beat what was probably the best performance of season 4. ------------------------------------- Anyways, all of those ramblings from seasons 3 and 4 aside, I'm finally getting to season 5. Yes, I know it took me almost 4000 characters to get here, but I really wanted to go off for a minute and preface the bubbling layers of garbage from the previous seasons that contribute to season 5's flatlining quality out of the gate. If you think a bevy of Punt Songs and poor evaluation amped up another level are all that season 5 has wrong with it, then prepare yourself, because it only gets so much more gimmicky. --- So I'm going to go about this week by week because this show basically was committing sins weekly by this point. So week 1, I'm sorry, but yes, I know seeing Kermit the Frog come out of a snail costume was very : 0 worthy, but Kermit shouldn't have lost that week! His performance wasn't even bad! So what did Kermit lose to anyway? Danny Trejo doing a bad, borderline comedic cover of Wild Thing. You couldn't ask for a more "go home uncle Frank! You're drunk!" performance, but we got it. The judges saw more of a comedy factor in the performance than they needed to see, and let that slip by while they just left Kermit to take the fall. Already not off to a great start (especially since Trejo's character is part funny and part cringey for basically pining after Jenny all season). --- Week 2 is where we get to the first big problem I have with this season, which is letting problematic celebrities be contestants. I'm just going to skirt by Caitlyn Jenner's performance and say that it was maybe a punt song, but to be fair, I don't have high hopes for Jenner having any real vocal prowess. I mean, her cover of Tik Tok sounded like your unamused uncle singing it during karaoke at a family party you barely remember when you were 12. That aside, I just want to point out that Caitlyn Jenner was on this show, immediately lost her first round, then went off to do Caitlyn Jenner things this year like try to become governor of California, and whatever else I forgot she got into the headlines for this week. I don't know the worst representation of a trans woman as a public figure (speaking from a trans woman's perspective) getting this big of a "haha, hehe, hi chum : )" spotlight on national television after everything she's done. Barf me out. --- Week 3 didn't matter too much. Trejo finally got booted after a second performance with bad vocals. However, I want to bring up week 3 for the structural change that it brought to the season that ultimately robbed it of some value. Prior to this season, we had 3 groups in seasons 3 and 4, groups A B and C. Starting in 5, we only have a group A and a group B, but now we have "wild cards". These are performers that get to slot into a groups set of performances for the week and stack against them to make even a "just-safe" performer look cannable. I know what you're probably thinking. "In a show where we're trying to see the gradual performance growth of a performer in order to gauge their consistency and quality, doesn't allowing a performer to come in weeks into the show give them the opportunity to progress further along in the competition with little to the no evaluation?" Yes. It does give them the opportunity, but we'll get to that problem when we get to Omarion's character of The Yeti. For right now though, I'm just going to say this. The wild card group really didn't have any reason to exist if they show could get literally 1 more performer this season (which they technically did). A and B were 5 members each. There are 4 wild cards. All you needed was literally one more regular performer, and the wild cards could have just been group C. This feels like the kind of resource scalping covered up as a fun gimmick that only a large corporation could do for why we have wild cards instead of a group C, but that's where we stand. --- Week 4 is notable for the same reason as week 2. Ugh, do I really have to say it? Yes, Logan Paul was also on this season of the Masked Singer. Yes, one of the problematic Paul brothers. Yes, especially my least favorite one because he's a big reason as to why my hobby of trading cards has had a huge boom for the worse. Yes, I'm going to blame the rise in scalper culture on Logan Paul. Yes, I'm going to blame eBay getting more anal about how every TCG single should be PSA/CCG/etc. graded on a listing on Logan Paul. I just don't like the guy. Why is he here? --- Week 5 is where this show starts to cement itself as dead television. So for those unaware, Nick Cannon, who usually hosts the Masked Singer, was absent for the first third of this season. Filling in for him was Niecy Nash. So where was Nick you ask? Why as a wildcard of course! Nick's wildcard performance was pretty meh all things considered (the only other thing that was meh that week was Nick Lachey's cover of 7 Years, but that's less on him and more on how 7 years is just a bad song for the pop music lexicon). However, Nick's unmasking is where the show really starts to be dead television this season. Before I even get to that, I just want to point out that the costume for Nick Cannon's character just looks absolutely atrocious by season 5 standards. The costume for the Bulldog barely looks like it holds to the standards of season 1 of this show! Anyways, back on track. Nick Cannon decides to pull a "trick" from season 4. Back in season 4, Mickey Rourke forcibly unmasked himself instead of getting voted off. Here, Nick Cannon pops in as a wildcard contestant after being MIA for 4 weeks, just to give a meh performance and then forcibly unmask himself for "shock value", and then be like "hey guys! :D" and resume hosting the show the following week. Eat me. --- Week 6 isn't too notable besides the fact that somehow one of the previous wildcards (Mark McGrath as Orca) somehow go integrated into group A as a member during the same week of them introducing another wildcard, Omarion's "The Yeti". I only bring this up because if they're going to integrate two wildcards into a week and already remove the specialty factor from one of them, then what was even the point of the gimmick? The show would have been better off mix and matching members from groups A and B each week for the performance lineup instead of muddying the group lineups with wildcard characters like this. --- Week 7 is upsetting to me. Two hour special. 8 Performances. Two people out. And who you may ask? Why, wildcard from previous weeks Bobby Brown who was given a super obvious punt song (that he did pretty well on salvaging on the back half of the performance), and Tamera Mowry, who gave a solid pop performance that week. I only bring up Mowry's performance because during that same week, Nick Lachey gave us all a very underwhelming, overly clean performance of Foo Fighters "The Pretender". This is really upsetting because the judge evaluation is extremely suspect here, as they were giving Mowry plenty of legitimate praise, while all they gave Lachey was "wow that was solid. haha ur such a rocker :^)". It's just really upsetting to see how the judges evaluation pans out, because for the record, Lachey won this season, and I honestly think he should have been punted this week. This is also coming from a week where Omarion gave us a cover of Justin Bieber's "Lonely", which is another song I hope desperately leaves the pop music lexicon, because like 7 years, it's a sentimental white boy ballad that just doesn't authentically resonate. --- Week 8 isn't super notable besides the show giving Tyrese Gibson a super obvious punt song, and wow, who would have guessed it, Tyrese Gibson was eliminated that week after being given a super obvious punt song. Zzz. --- Week 9 isn't super notable besides another upset to me. So this week, Hanson (who got eliminated) gave a pretty solid performance of "I'm Still Standing". So what did they lose to you ask? How about Jojo giving us a cover of Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" with extremely questionable instrumental accompaniment. I can't remember exactly how I articulated it when I first watched it, but to put it in perspective, when LeAnn Rimes aimed for art, she succeeded. When Jojo aimed for art, it just left me confused. I honestly though Jojo should have gotten the boot here, but c'est la vie. --- Week 10 is where Omarion gets eliminated after being given a punt song (surprise). A middle energy performance of "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang isn't much to write home about, but I sometimes get suspicious of the behind the curtain politics of the show. The same week they give Omarion a super obvious punt song is also the second week in a row where Jojo gives us an artsy take on a song that nobody really knows. I'm not saying that Omarion's repertoire coordinator forced him into taking a punt song that week in order to let Jojo get to the finale, but. Wait, no, nevermind, that is what I'm saying. I feel bad for Omarion here. I do think it's pretty bollocks that Omarion basically got to come into the top 8 playoffs off of only one performance (which is a severe abuse of the wild card mechanic from the show producers), but they actually were trying to go for this neat character arc with the character of the "The Yeti" in the song choice. Like, the writers actually put some care into it, and then they give him a punt song on both a writing and performance level, and it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I also just remembered that week 10 is where Donnie Whalberg's character of Cluedle-Doo both performs and unmasks. Cluedle-Doo was another dead television gimmick for the season. See, all the characters get clue packages, but Cluedle-Doo will come in and block certain clues from being revealed to the judges, instead replacing them with clues provided by Doo himself. If that sounds annoying, that's because it is. More so when done by a character pompous attitude that does nothing but interfere. I do want to point out however that when I say that Donne performed, Donnie PERFORMED. There are no two ways about it, Donnie's cover of Return of the Mack was the best performance of this week. The only thing that even came close was the Chameleon. I don't need middling Kool & The Gang covers, I don't need art performances of songs I've never heard, and I don't need a Lewis Capaldi cover done by Nick Lachey (so much emotional white boy music this season. Gag me). I really think that Donnie should have been a regular contest, and I think that Nick Cannon should have been Cluedle-Doo as a gimmick character. It's more obvious, and it makes more sense. Obviously this leaves characters to create and fill slots for, but damnit, don't tease me with one of the best performances of the season just to let it whittle out like that. --- Alright, Week 11...the finale. There really isn't much to say, so I'm just going to cut right to it. I don't know what that cover of "Faithfully" Nick Lachey gave us was. There's an obvious problem with the Masked Singer where the short performance time makes slow burn ballads like faithfully translate poorly. As a result, the emotional arc of the performance feels stunted, and it's capped off with a declaration fest ending in one sustained note for "wow, I don't know anything about a good performance, but I'm easily impressed : 0" bait. This is clearly the weakest performance from the three tonight. Jojo's cover of "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?" by Michael Bolton is...better than what Nick Lachey gave us, but it has its own problems. The Bolton original earworms on you because of the anguish in Bolton's vocal tone. Jojo is too clean to give us even a smidge of anguish until after she's unmasked. That more forgivable though. I'm not going to forgive Jojo for littering an emotional ballad for multiple unnecessary pop diva vocal runs. They're not appropriate here for emotional flavor. They don't add anything musically. They just feel like a forced device from the executives perspective. They stand out in poor musical taste, and they really take away from what Jojo was trying to do in the chorus. Speaking of, the short form nature of the performances makes doing a double chorus with a key change from one chorus to the next feel like another arc stunt. Just bad direction right there. And finally, Wiz Khalifa as the Chameleon doing Gangsta's Paradise. I'm just gonna say it. Wiz Khalifa got robbed. Hip Hop performers tend to be pretty middling on the Masked Singer, with Bow Wow just beefing it at the end of season 3, and Busta Rhymes being unceremoniously eliminated week 1 of season 4. Wiz was different though. Wiz knew what he wanted to do with not only the character, but also with his performances. Chameleon was by far the most consistent and quality character of the season, with only one marginally middling performance during his run. Wiz's cover of Gangsta's Paradise isn't a masterclass in voice personality, but contextually for the show, it pushed more for what the character was trying to do right at the end where it counts, and the judges failed to evaluate that correctly. Wiz was actually doing sung parts that week. Wiz was engaging with the crowd and judges far more than Jojo and Nick were. Wiz even gave stage presence and his musical presence a real arc in this performance. On top of his already present cool swagger that he had on stage, this was easily the best performance of not only the finale, but also for the Chameleon. It's even up there for the best performances of the season. Giving Wiz third place for two C tier pop ballad performances shows a super evident lack of evaluation skills in the judges, and really reinforces the super obvious ballad bias the show has. --- So anyways, this has been a long one, but I think I got it all out there. Masked Singer season 5 really took the uninteresting quality level of Season 4 and just elevated it to being obvious and gimmicky on top of that. I've seen shows become dead television in my time, but this is a staggering nose dive into the realm of dead television. I "hope" Season 6 is "better" than this (if we even get one. This season might have been so gimmicky because the ratings could have sucked hard), but I'm certain it will be if this is the direction they opted for within just one season. Sorry to talk your ear off, but as someone who likes to think they know what good musical performance is in a context like this after being in many concerts in popular music contexts, this show has really not sustained itself as being "it", chief.

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My thoughts on the potential “ships” for the spin off series

Well, it looks like SJM has just created one of the biggest shit storms I’ve ever seen in the FINALE of a series. Between blowing holes in one and creating the most confusing love pentagon that may or may not come into play, this was a mess. Let me try to break it down:

ELUCIEN: I’m going to be straight up honest here and say I love this ship. I was actually thinking about it even before the ending of ACOMAF where it was revealed *gasp* they were mates. 

why I do think they would work together: I always thought Elain and Lucien would be a good match because they were both tenderhearted and sweet. I know a lot of people see Lucien as snarky and sassy, but I’ve always seen that as his shield. Back in the first book after hearing what Lucien’s father did to his partner, Feyre even states that she now understands why Lucien acts the way he does and builds up walls to keep people out. It was more of a mask, a way to protect himself after being hurt by his family and even Tamlin over the years. Deep down, he’s actually extremely softhearted and always trying to make others happy before himself. Elain is similarly softhearted (although ACOWAR definitely showed us she can be quite unpredictable at times) Yes, Elain is also the opposite of Jesminda, but I think a more gentle-hearted person would be suited to help both of them heal from their pasts. 

my predictions:  after finishing ACOWAR, i’m not going to lie:  I feel like I’m sailing aboard the Titanic. There were just so many possible “hints” foreshadowing that SJM is going to make Elucien an example of the mating bond being wrong (not going to lie that this sort of pisses me off though. It’s just extremely convenient that all but two sets of parents we never met, the mating bond is always 100% right. Like shit, people have already suspected that Nessian might be mates and there was the whole thing with Kallias loving Viviane for years and as soon as he came back and they did the do THEY JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE MATES >:U Don’t try to ex machina 99% of the time and then try to teach me a lesson with that one percent) There’s also the fact that I s2g SJM knows who my favourite characters are and loves to screw with them *coughcoughchaolanddoriancoughcough* 

BUT ALAS, there were some looks and moments that leave me with some small inkling of hope. 

VASSIEN: Even if Elriel ends up being canon, I REALLLLY (atm, i might change my mind, but probably not :P) don’t want it to end up as one of those “well I can’t leave poor Lucien alone so I created a love interest just for him” (here’s looking at you, Chaol novel :I) 

why I’m not for this ship: I think a lot of people believe Vassa and Lucien would work because she seems to be similar to Jesminda, but that just seems weird. Why would you want to be with someone who reminds you of your dead lover? Lucien describes her as someone with a “foul temper and foul mouth” and suggests Vassa and Feyre would get along quite well. Which a) just made me think that she’s similar to Feyre and as much as I love my lovely brotp, i don’t even crack ship that shit and b) made me think she’s going to be a similar version to Aelin, especially with all the fire queen parallels and shit. Like i said earlier, I feel like the Lucien I think of (I know everyone interprets characters in their own way) is someone who is more kind hearted and soft than the snarky bastard he may appear as sometimes. It’s really weird for me to think of Lucien in a relationship like Feysand and Nessian where there’s snarky banter and retorts and it’s highly sexual (even though I know there’s that whole fire dick meme going around lol) when I think of him as my cinnamon roll and see him being in that cute fluff ship. I can’t speak on if she’d be good for Lucien to help him with his past since we know next to nothing about her as she came in on the last 20 pages and most of what we heard was from others, but so far I’m not seeing what they’d really have in common unless she has some evil parents that killed her lover or something.  There could also be potential problems since isn’t Vassa human? Is Lucien destined to repeat the cycle of sadness his whole life???? I also feel like it’s going to be one of those “whelp he needs a love interest” type of ships like I said earlier.

my predictions: Knowing SJM and how she likes to write (since 95% of the time she’s pretty predictable and uses a ton of recycled themes from her other series and vice versa :P) this will more than likely end up canon. The whole set up for the spin off is taking care of the queens and now I guess, breaking Vassa’s curse (way to set that one up at the end of the last book) There were also just smaller hints of Lucien blushing when talking about her and the whole “we’re both fire” parallels that just screamed cheesy set up to me. OFC I want Lucien to be happy seeing as he’s my favourite, but every time I say that it always ends up backfiring on me so now I’m just going to be selfish and say not here for this BYE.

ELRIEL: My feelings on Elriel are sort of a middle ground. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it like I do with Vassien. 

my feelings overall: OFC I ship Elucien, but I would be alright with it if Elain and Azriel ended up together. The moments they had in the books were pretty cute and I feel like they’re somewhat similar and Azriel understands what Elain is going through. Ironically enough, I feel like Azriel and Lucien are quite similar. They both lost a loved one (sort of different circumstances obviously, but you catch my drift) They’re both kind and self sacrificing and can be snarky/sassy at times and they both have really fathers and brothers. Honestly, I was hoping for some bromance, but hell if that’s going to happen if this does end up being a fuckfest of love triangles. Cause even if they both choose other people, Elain and Lucien are always going to be mates (unless SJM pulls some haha just kidding I just made you think they were mates shit like with the whole Rowan thing in TOG) and it’d probably be an awkward time. 

My biggest problems with this ship have more to do with the fact that a) who the fuck even knows if he was doing all that because he liked her or just because he was being a nice person and knew how she felt and b) Azriel has spent literal centuries wanting to be with Mor and for him to just be like “whelp guess it’s time to move on” would be in poor taste. 

A) Nothing really hinted at being anything other than friends. I mean, Azriel did give his blade to someone which he’s never done, but I also can interpret that as him just understanding Elain and seeing himself in bits of her. Elain kissed him on the cheek after he saved her which isn’t really that crazy of a thing to do. I don’t remember it saying he blushed or did anything that would interpret it as more. Even more so, when Elain was kidnapped Azriel didn’t go crazy with worry. Just comparing how brashly he acted when Eris just insulted her and Elain being taken it just didn’t seem like he cared for her beyond that of a friend. Ofc it could still be that it is more or could be something in the future, but during ACOWAR there was nothing beyond the fact that Feyre thought they’d be better together and a few kind gestures to really hint at anything more.

B) Obviously Moriel isn’t going to happen (even if she is sort of hinted at as bisexual, she made it clear she couldn’t love him fully the way he needs and deserves to be) but that doesn’t mean it’s completely swept under the rug. Az still doesn’t even know these facts so I doubt he’s even started to think about finding someone else. And even after he does find out, he’s still going to need a shit ton of down time. Like i said before, for him to just move on would be in poor taste. ( I think the whole situation with Feyre and Rhys was quite different than  this so don’t try to come at me with comparisons there) This guy has been in the ?? zone for 5 centuries and one does not just move on in a month. And the same goes for Elain even if she ends up with Lucien, she is also still in love with that dickwad Grayson and they both have to deal with their unrequited loves. 

predictions:  Like I said, I have a feeling SJM will be using the whole “some mates are’t meant for each other” and if that happens, she’s gonna pair them with other people. The mostly likely for Elain would obviously be Azriel. All the points I made here also give me hope that maybe Sarah is just setting this up as a red herring so that we don’t go into the next books confident we already know what will happen but at the same time I feel like that’s giving SJM a lot of credit where I don’t think she’s been great at. I can never really tell with her “foreshadowing” because a lot of it comes off as very clumsily done in my opinion. Even with the most complex of stories, when you finally figure out the twist and look back it should be quite obvious with all the hints and foreshadowing, but I feel like with SJM’s works it just makes you wayyyyyy too confused. Like I never really saw the Mor being lesbian/bisexual thing coming. I don’t remember anything that would have hinted at it except Rita’s which was pretty vague if you ask me :P I reread ACOMAF before ACOWAR came out and there was just so many things that seemed like Mor did like Azriel and it was him and his own self worth problems that were stopping them. I guess maybe you could call that a red herring, but a) I think giving hope to people who obviously seriously shipped this when there was literally none was a pretty shit move and b) it’s still a pretty sad version of one. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Vassa I’d feel a bit more in the middle, but the fact that Vassa is there just screams that this is how things will go down, but who knows, maybe that’s a red herring too. 

Now there’s also other things I want to address. I felt like there was a lot of hinting that Eris could play a big part in the spin off series too. This is sort of a crack idea, but I do seem to recall Eris being intrigued by Nesta quite a bit and I wonder if SJM wants to really fuck with people and have him try to get with Nesta or something lololol. Or maybe he just wants her powers (if she still has them) or will come into play to fuck with Lucien some more. Only time will tell, but does anyone else feel like he was being pointed out quite a bit and that hinted at something??

There’s also the question of Mor and if she’ll get a love interest (if she finally comes out to everyone) and if Elucien is canon *pleasebookgodsgivemepeaceofmind* what does that mean for Mor and Vassa?

I’ve heard people suggest possibly Vassa and Mor? I guess I can’t say too much about that since we don’t know much bout her, but it seems interesting. Although once again, Mor was once in love with a queen/human so that might be problematic. 

There was also that one human girl Briar which I feel like will play an important part. It just seems weird to go to that much trouble of saving her and naming her to just have her be some random that never comes into play again.

AND FINALLY: Tamlin. A ton of people are obviously going to hate Tamlin regardless, but I think SJM wrote his interaction and redemption (especially that one part) really well. Feyre’s last words to him are for him tofind happiness too and although not everyone needs to end up with someone, this is a romance series and that’s just how things tend to end up.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:  Although I’m excited for more books and spending more tie with these characters and this world I’m also fucking terrified that SJM will somehow manage to make me hate it. For me, the TOG series has just been drained of the things I previously loved about it and I mainly just plan to keep reading since I came this far with it. I don’t want this series to end up like that. This series has been such a joy and breathe of fresh air and I would hate to see it go downhill. The hints at love triangles has really dampened my excitement, I’m not going to lie. I hate getting emotionally invested in a pairing to just watch it turn out to be nothing. It starts conflict within the fandom and is just honestly a shit time in general for everyone. Although I still have hope -- always.

Thanks for reading this mess of a post and I’m sorry for any grammer errors because I’m a lazy fuck who doesn’t want to spend time going over and correcting it. I hope I got everything across okay because sometimes I have a hard time putting why I love things into words (I’m pretty good with the things I hate though lol) Feel free to message me if you want to discuss anything mentioned in this post.

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