#the toxicity is unreal

[nartml]

Oh my fuck.

The entitlement some of you people in the fandom have. It's baffling. Absolutely mind-boggling.

Tell me, how the fuck were you raised and where exactly did you find this audacity? The sheer audacity.

Fanfiction is fucking free, it's beautiful, it's a community. It's an art.

So many people, including myself, go on and on about how amazing ao3 is and how insanely good the writers are.

The reason for this is, they do it because they love it. They hold such passion and love for it; the writing, the characters, the story. And they want to share it. They do it with their heart.

Now how dare you trample on it like this? Act as if you're entitled to it. As if you're fucking owed something, as if it's merely a product you paid for.

It's a gift and all you should be is motherfucking grateful, nothing less.

Not a curse word vile enough to convey what I feel exists.

Fuck yourselves.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Swapping tips on how to be a bestie in the bath.

[aeymii]

"She forgave my existence.. my beloved"

[tuesdaygray]

thinking about. the consistent thread in challengers (2024) of wanting your life to be about more than "hitting a ball with a racket."

how tashi is the first character to bring this up and whether or not she means it (she's really only planning to do a year of college) she knows inherently that being well rounded is practical. that she's not from the same place as the country club, tennis academy, daddy's money kids. this should be an unattainable dream for most, but it's hers and she has it and it's terribly ingrained into her life but "what if this doesn't work out?" and then it doesn't. she gets injured and she gets stuck in this loop of the past, in her own potential, in what could have been. when it feels like everyone is counting on you to do and succeed at one thing ("she's going to make her family millionaires"), the one thing that is the framework and catalyst for everything you know, how do you come back from that? her life could now, realistically, become about something else because she actually can't have her dream anymore, but she becomes obsessed, holding on with white knuckles and performing alterations because she can't let it go, until she admits sardonically in a mostly abandoned applebees that her life really has only been about one thing.

and patrick. who challenges tashi's original statement. who has no problem devoting his life to tennis because it's a "good way to avoid having a job." who never had any dreams beyond playing the sport he's always had a knack for, coasting by on natural talent, never having to try. realizing too late that what really made it worth it was tennis as a relationship, not the selfish ego stroke it had been when he was good enough to win tashi's number. and he's stuck in arrested development, just like her. he never grew up, he never let go of the past, of what it felt like to play doubles with his best friend, of what it felt like to watch tashi at the top of her game. but he's painfully aware. he's made his bed and he's tangled in the sheets and he loves it and he hates it and above all else, he misses the way it used to be.

then there's art. whose decision to go to stanford is never questioned because it's unspoken general knowledge that he couldn't have gone pro right away. he never expected to be this big time professional player, he was always just concerned with doing a "really good job." and because of this, art's life is the one that probably should have been about more, the foundation was laid for it. but he's stuck too, a passive actor in a life he chose and was probably never meant to have. the holder of and heir to tashi's and patrick's unrealized dreams. (was it ever his dream?) and after eight years, after attaining it and living it without a real passion for it, he's ready to give it up because, out of the three of them, he wants his life to be about more than "hitting a ball with a racket" because it's "embarrassing to be doing this shit when you're 40." but he's the one who bears the weight of success, alone at the top, where the people he loves can only dream of knocking him off. so shouldn't he be grateful for it?

[2001fallenstar]

[the-lark-ascending69]

Sometimes going into the "Anti-[ship name]" tag of your NOTP can be cathartic, because you don't want to spread negativity... Just indulge in the negativity that's already there, you know? No harm done. Until you realize everyone is complaining about the exact opposite thing you want to complain about.

[very-uncorrect]

My reflection isn't me and they seem trapped in the mirror world and keep asking for help but it doesn't seem like anyone else can see them and I keep having to move around so they don't have enough time to punch any reflective surface enough to break through, people around me having started joking that I bring everyone 7 years bad luck with how mirrors and windows always seem to crack when I'm near

[xehabaldera]

Someone pointed out based on ingame dialogue and the lyrics that Chikai and Don't Think Twice could be intended to be xehaqus songs the same way they're soriku songs, in a sort of "it's too late for us, but them..." way...

This hurts, a lot; and reminds me of associating Twin Fantasy (Those Boys) with both ships, and the way the ending in Face to Face's version of the song evokes the parallels.

"This is a version of me and you that can exist outside of everything else, and if it is just a fantasy, then anything can happen from here. The contract is up, the names have been changed— so pour one out, whoever you are. These are only lyrics now." as reference to the parallels, and to how soriku both fall into and avoid the same tropes xehaqus have...

All this being from Xeha's POV, of course.

"I haven't looked at the sun for so long... I had forgotten how much it hurts to."

[goldendoodlerlockerlove]

I'm about to get really sappy, but I genuinely love the Bob's Burgers community/fandom here so much and how tightly knit it is 🫶🏼

Y'all are just so supportive and sweet, I can't handle it!! Definitely, the loveliest fandom to be a part of.

11/10, highly recommend.

[realbeefman]

tfw u are so desperate for control you will use anything, anyone, shred any relationship for The Narrative because nothing is sacred, everything is transactional, and if you aren’t the one doing the screwing, being the director, the showrunner, then you’re the one getting screwed. also ur still in love with the guy who groomed you a little bit. ok a lot. he’s not that bad when you think about it. and he has a lot of redeeming qualities. so stop questioning it! we’re fine. i’m fine. this. is all. fine.

[thegroundhogdidit]

watching season 1: lmao izzy is gay and homophobic haha

watching season 2: i have severely misjudged the situation

[bandtrees]

Annoying fandom people when you tell them characters do things based on writers’ decisions and biases and are not fully autonomous sapient beings they’re watching in a terrarium

[thisbisexualbrainrot]

Just scrolling through tags and run across some antis calling Misha ugly and saying he’s “always been jealous of Jared’s good looks” and I literally-

what are you TALKING ABOUT

[stellaluna33]

"Bind the edge of the hat brim in velvet," she* said. "It'll be simple!" she said! 😠😤😫

*"She" is me. Unfortunately.

[binobonobi]

what if i posted wlw maxley...? jkjk.... unless?

if anyone thinks theyre het ill blow up the moon

the ref was obviously this scene

[cryptic-underground]

Oc posting! Made a new one for a story with my friend @/teamomdraws on insta. Ponytailed oc is their's