#they are entitled to their opinion

[russilton]

“They all take money to get there so what does it matter where the money comes from” is an astoundingly privileged take to have on sport. Holy false equivalency, Batman.

You can BOTH accept the reality of unethical money sources in sports, especially motorsport AND still criticise truly egregious sources and unfair advantages. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to agree that a 15/16 year old selling themselves and their body to corporate sponsors dependant on performance is VASTLY different to having a family member pay for your seat where you have the luxury of extra support. It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to drive- it just means they’re privileged and you can’t argue away from it.

Whataboutism is right out of conservative playbooks and you all need to be able to recognise it. You can and should be able to have reasonable discussions about different issues without someone telling you “shut up because you’re bad too actually” bc it drags you into being apathetic about everything

[grungekitty-77]

Someone on my dash posted a god awful take this morning. It made me angry. They were very wrong and very offensive about it.

So I unfollowed them.

That’s it. No anon message telling them that they should be ashamed. No reblogging with a rant about how wrong they were. No direct messages telling them how out of line they were.

They make me upset. So I walked away.

[aroacefurb]

okay so i got one single comment about this but i need to clarify in case anyone else misinterprets this. no i do not think people should be harassed for shipping aroace characters jesus fucking christ. people in fandom need to stop equating any sort of judgement to harrassment. sure you can do whatever you want forever with fictional characters but that does not mean people arent allowed to criticise you. i am side eyeing people who ship aro/ace characters in a way that seems aphobic to me but i dont think you deserve harrassment.

also to clarify some other stuff i saw in that comment + others:

obviously allos arent the only one who do this, i did generalise a bit there. i am not saying that you need to put your identity on display before youre allowed to ship an aro/ace character.

and when i say "take their identity into consideration" i feel i made myself pretty clear but like. no i dont mean have the character proclaim they are aro/ace when entering a romantic/sexual situation. if anything that is the opposite. because you can write an aro/ace character and have them preface that theyre aro/ace in the text which sure i prefer to outright ignoring it but *that is also the problem i am talking about*. being like "well some aros/aces still get into relationships/have sex!!" isnt a free pass to completely disregard the characters identity. and you should also consider if the character was ever stated in the text to be sex/romance repulsed or non partnering etc. what i mean by "take into consideration" i mean write the aro/aces experience with sex and love different because they generally are different!! if you are writing a character who has an unconventional way of attraction, write them like that!!!

at the end of the day i ask anyone reading who thinks this is unfair to consider this: if there was a character who was a lesbian or a gay man, a character who is exclusively attracted to the same gender. and someone shipped them with the opposite gender - would you be annoyed by that? if not, then i guess its fair you think the same way for all sexualities. but if you would be annoyed. then there is a double standard there.

the statement "being ace and or aro is a complex spectrum, and putting fictional aro/acespec people in ships isnt inherently bad because plenty of ppl on the spectrum still have relationships and experience certain forms of attraction" can exist alongside "aros and aces are allowed to be upset when allos ship canonically aro/ace characters in a way that clearly doesnt take their identity into consideration"

both r true

[unwisegirl]

listen like. people are totally entitled to their opinions and criticisms of the pjo show but. sometimes it’s just hard to hear/read. I know the show isn’t perfect but seeing the cast & producers talk about it and seeing the level of love and excitement theyve put into the work, idk, I feel for them having people tear it to shreds. criticising the author himself for not adapting it well when he’s doing something different with a new medium, saying they’re sorry for the kids who love the books but have to act in this “terrible” show as if these kids aren’t THRILLED by the opportunity and just so committed to giving the show their best.

(watch the behind the scenes documentary. seriously.)

again totally valid criticisms & opinions!! but you win some and lose some in an adaptation. eg. trying to expand on themes, keep a consistent tone, appeal to a broader audience (including those of us who loved the books as kids but are now!!! adults!!!), keep within budget, etc etc all these things involve some trade offs. sure some of the humour and goofiness has been lost but we also get amazing beautifully acted scenes that really expand on core themes of family or who is a monster etc etc.

speaking on a personal level I have had a hard time these past few months and this show became a genuine escape, a way for me to connect with my sister watching the episodes together, a rediscovery of my inner 12 year old who waited so long for this. and I know there are people who are like me and they had certain expectations and that’s why they’re disappointed and that’s so valid, but it’s a lot of negativity sometimes, & I just wish we could give a little grace bc making a creative thing is hard, and pleasing everyone with that creative thing is impossible, and most of all, maybe we could revel a little bit more in this unique complex piece of work that lots of people poured their hearts into with nothing but the best of intentions.

[ninawolv3rina]

My spouse when I asked if he's been on tumblr recently:

[the-scarlet-witch-22]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but reducing Agatha Harkness to just being one half of a romantic ship is doing such a disservice to her character and the entire purpose of Agatha All Along.

This is Agatha Harkness we’re talking about. The witch killer… the succubus… apparently one of the survivors of The Titanic?? She’s so much more than just a ship.

Going even further… I’ve seen a lot of people complain about this so I want to clarify: Agatha All Along is not a lesbian show. It was never marketed as such. It’s a show about witches and is a love letter to the entire queer community.

This is a show about Agatha Harkness and all of her relationships, platonic and romantic. All of are equal importance and it would be poor storytelling to only focus on the romantic ship.

[tibbycaps]

people who dont want skizz on hermitcraft r wild because he would thrive. i know this to be true. i think its safe to say most hermitcraft fans’ favorite parts of the series are the shenanigans and interactions with other hermits right. you know how people praised tcg and decked out for bringing all of the hermits together more. now imagine if that was a Person. Skizzle man

[tremendously-crazy]

sometimes, i forget that people ship sherlock holmes with characters other than watson. genuinely startles me

[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 03x08 The Eye of the Phoenix

the guy who can barely get the words "we're friends" past his lips vs the guy who will call you his best friend within the first day of you meeting aka the different representations of love and affection in bbc merlin

[onyx-was-here]

“tumblr is a website with no censorship” is a factoid. tumblr has no censorship unless you’re a meanie to the ceo and hurt his feelys :(

[specters]

in 'i saw the tv glow' when Maddy is trying to convince Owen that they are in the midnight realm and Owen lists off good (but vague) memories they have of their family and childhood to show that everything is As It Should Be and Fine but then Maddy says something to the effect of "those memories were planted to keep you trapped" 🧍‍♂️... when you're trying desperately to grasp at anything to show that you're happy, that you've lived a good suburban life, that the people who are supposed to watch over you have exelled in their duty to love and support you unconditionally when it couldn't be further from the truth... you want so badly to live up to their expectations and "follow the right path" but the road you're on only leads to a life of suffocation. But is that really a life at all?

[whisperslystars]

“alhaitham fell first, kaveh fell harder” this and “kaveh fell first, alhaitham fell harder that,” no YOU LISTEN HERE, alhaitham is a fucking loser of a man who fell first AND fell harder because kaveh deserves all of the love in the world and more and alhaitham will be DAMNED if he isn’t the one to give it to him

[aspen-charminghearts]

“Chloe fell first, Red fell harder” “No Red fell first and Chloe fell harder” “No! Chloe fell first and fell harder” “Nope! Red fell first and harder!”

No! Hear me out please.

They BOTH fell at the same time! BOTH were horribly fallen for one another but BOTH were absolutely clueless in different ways, and BOTH are horribly obsessed with each other and can’t bear to spend a second without the other. Chloe was clueless in comphet denial and Red was clueless in “I don’t get love, why is my heart palpitating immensely every time I look at Chloe? Am I dying? [Gasp] Did someone put a curse on me for every time I look at Chloe I almost get a heart attack and my body temperature increases in my face?”

This leads to a lot of horrible situations where one desperately tries to tell the other but the other just doesn’t get it and they’re stuck in this horrible loop until one of them has enough and they pull the other in the kiss.

[tripleaxeldiaz]

i think the collective 911 New Season Resolution should be to give the show room to breathe. yes sometimes things happen that don’t make sense, or characters make decisions that are annoying. but in almost 100 episodes of this show, rarely has there been anything done for no reason or something that wasn’t circled back to at one point or another. maybe we can just trust the writers with their own material for like a minute. and maybe if we don’t like it we can just stop watching and stop making how upset we are everyone else’s problem

[mostly-functional]

I need to talk about the scene in episode 5 where Crystal confronts Charles about his anger problem. I saw another post where people were calling her a badass or a girlboss, and I interpreted the scene very differently.

If you don’t remember, she says “you walk around like the sun always shines and then you lost your shit while beating the Night Nurse. Edwin and I are walking on eggshells around you instead of just saying ‘what the actual fuck?’”

Keep in mind, she’s yelling this whole time. She isn’t saying “you have a problem and I’m here to help,” she’s saying “you are a problem and I need you to fix it.” And sure, Charles does have anger issues, but can you blame him?

And in this situation, he was being pretty reasonable. The Night Nurse showed him memories of senseless violence and then she pretty much threatened to send Edwin back to Hell. I get that she might not know all that, but that’s not really the point.

When I hear this speech, I pretty much see it as her saying that Charles is the same as his father. She’s saying that everyone around him is afraid of angering him, that they’re all walking on eggshells to keep him calm. That’s exactly how he described his relationship with his father. No matter how good he was, his father found something to be angry about. And that anger was something to be afraid of.

Later on in this same episode, Charles laments that he doesn’t want to be a bad guy. Brad and Hunter were bad guys, and Crystal pretty much called him a bad guy to his face. And I do think it’s part of the reason he rejects Edwin on the staircase. He’s afraid of turning into his father and hurting Edwin the same way his father hurt him and his mother. Crystal isn’t the only reason he feels this way, but she did feed into these fears.

Now, I know that Crystal has her own shit going on. Especially after the nightmare she had at the beginning of the episode where she saw Charles as David. I understand she’s a flawed character and I do love that about her. She makes mistakes and she can’t always fix them. Everyone in the show is deeply flawed and that’s what I love about it.

All I’m saying is that I didn’t think this scene was a girlboss moment. I think it was an example of how she can be judgemental and rigid.

Of course, I’m not saying anyone else is wrong for interpreting this scene differently. I just wanted to give my opinion, too

[fortheloveofexy]

nothing will get me to block you faster than saying shit like "everyone who read aftg agrees that the series is awful."

like please for the love of god at least be original if you're going to be fucking annoying.