#watcher wank

[partlyironic]

you don't get to claim ownership of WWW just because people dumb enough to subscribe to the streamer voted for it. that poll could have been hosted anywhere on the Internet, for free.

Mate. Come on.

It has nothing to DO with where the poll was hosted, good GOD. It has everything to do with the fact that WWW (and every other show they listed as an option) is the exact kind of content that the streamer enables.

This is because, despite being incredibly beloved – by both Watcher fans, and Watcher themselves it seems – WWW is a) expensive to make (simply by virtue of its format) and b) not something that Performs well on YouTube's algorithm. It never got enough views etc to justify them making it anymore. It didn't pay.

The streamer allows Watcher to afford to make this sort of stuff instead of being beholden to YouTube's (often very fickle) definitions of what makes content 'successful'.

So yeah. Just to really spell it out for you: They literally wouldn't have been able to make WWW again without the streamer and all Those Dumb People who decided it was worth paying for the content we want to see.

[bisexualdinahlance]

It's just insane some of the things I've seen people say about the boys and the company that are not only just insanely tone-deaf but outright cruel. I get it you don't want to lose free access to something that you've been getting for free for like 8 years, but the way so many of y'all are showing their asses is unbelievable.

Y'all can think the Watcher streaming service is a bad business decision or that the announcement was handled poorly (because it was) without acting like the Watcher guys killed your dog lmao. Every single one of you bringing up Shane's "eat the rich" thing is so fucking Silly and doesn't understand that "eat the rich" isn't about fucking youtubers who got in over their heads and are now trying to keep their company from failing? These guys aren't the 1% regardless of any car Stephen may or may not own lmao.

[mothiir]

the watcher from the wastes

Mortarion jerks it. That’s it, that’s the fic. @moodymisty and @kit-williams to blame, specially @kit-williams since I basically stole her entire idea.

cw: wanking. self loathing, sort of. mort being a creep and having issues with bodily autonomy. self harm in a weird 40k way. did not mean it to be this gross but ended up that way because morty.

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This process is deeply unpleasant, and Mortarion prefers to go through it as little as possible — and yet you, cursed thing that you are, have forced him to drastic measures.

First of all: the mask must be removed. He unhooks it from his ears, curlicues of oily smoke escaping as the suction gives way. He holds his breath, keeping the toxic fumes nestled in his lungs as long as possible, and sets the mask onto his desk. His work-chair is hewn from the sort of raw pig iron that has Horus despairing. Brother I can have something nicer made — even something with a cushion —

Mortarion does not need such frivolity. It is a chair. He can sit upon it. Thus it serves its purpose.

He can hold his breath for hours, should he need to, but that would defeat the whole purpose of this exercise. With a moment to brace himself, Mortarion exhales the last of the gas, momentarily covering his face in a rank green shadow.

It dissipates, and Mortarion waits for a few heartbeats to pass before inhaling.

He tastes his own flesh: half-cooked, and putrefying.

It is not an unfamiliar taste — it’s almost nostalgic. For a moment, he is a boy once more, nailed to the bowels of an alien planet, eyes fixed on the distant, uncaring sky.

He inhales again. Sharper now. The glutinous phlegm his sinuses produced in a vain attempt to capture the worst of the toxins is starting to thin. He coughs it out into his sleeve, then spits on the floor. Another breath. His throat is always the worst. The gas rots the tissue within, destroying the tender membranes, rendering his voice raspy and ragged.

Without the constant application of the gas, his body has time to heal. And oh how the healing hurts. He hacks up a glob of snot, and then of quivering red tissue. Inside, his cells multiply frantically, like they know that they only have a scant space of time before the mask is reapplied and the perpetual injuring begins once more.

Another burst of coughing; then a frankly revolting sneeze — again, captured into the billowing sleeves of his robe.

He inhales again — and curses, because the healing has moved faster than last time, and his sense of smell has returned with a vengeance. By the Emperor’s ballsack, the stench is overwhelming. What —

He looks down at himself: robes stiffened with effluvia from experiments and battle, fresh gobbets of snot and rancid blood dripping off the end of his sleeves. Hm. Yes, well — that would explain it.

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By the time he has finished bathing, his body has healed as much as it will ever be able to, and he feels acutely uncomfortable. Even without the influence of the gas, his voice is still a guttural rasp, vocal cords ruined from years of experimentation. His shoulders still hunch instinctively, used to crowding through narrow corridors; his eyes — though brighter — still have sclera of sulphur yellow, polluted with broken blood vessels.

When he inhales the poison of his homeland, at least he has an excuse for how broken his body still is. Without it, his weak flesh stands in testament to the monumental failure of his youth. Not only did he fail to slay the monster who held him captive, he failed to recover from its abuses, remaining a broken-limbed mess of a Primarch.

And yet — and yet a part of him enjoys this feeling. There is no pain in his throat, or behind his eyes; he is not subject to the constant cycle of his lungs rotting into slurry and healing themselves once more. His gums are shiny and pink, not sloughing off his teeth in grey scraps.

Best of all, his senses have returned to their Primarch peak. Even constantly poisoned, and half-crippled, he can smell and taste and hear better than any baseline — pathetic little things the lot of them, no better than scurrying ants.

Apart from…well. You smiled at him You did not cower from the pallour of his flesh, or cringe from the huff and click of his respirator. You looked him full in the face and you beamed.

Lord Primarch, you called him. Lord Mortarion.

And afterwards, to your friend, where you thought he couldn’t hear you: you never said he was handsome.

He pointed you out to Typhus, a little later. Asked his eldest son why they were so desperate for staff that they were now employing defective baselines, like you, who clearly had an incredibly limited range of vision — if you weren’t blind entirely. Typhus had informed him that he didn’t think you were blind — indeed, you had cleaned his armour to perfection just this morning — but if you displeased Mortarion he could have you —

No, Moration cut in. No, that wasn’t necessary.

Not blind. Just — stupid, possibly.

Probably.

Anyway — if you are stupid then he is a fool as well. And worse: he does not have the excuse of being mortal.

Soapy and slick, white hair hanging in a curtain down his back, Mortarion sits in the deserted communal showers and stares at a little plastic sleeve in his left hand. It’s sealed tight — waterproof, preserving the object within as well as can be hoped for. He wonders if you have noticed the theft yet. Probably. Serfs aboard the Endurance do not have many possessions — they do not need them. More than likely he’s caused a little bit of grief, with you either blaming yourself for the loss, or snapping at one of your fellows, blaming them.

He cannot bring himself to care.

His clothes are long gone. The serfs will incinerate them, and bring him new ones when he sends for them. Perhaps this time, he will not go so long without cleaning them. Humans have terrible senses, but he wagers that you would probably prefer —

He amputates that thought abruptly. It does not matter what you prefer. It does not matter what anyone prefers. This is a temporary indulgence to end his madness, and then he will move on.

The plastic crinkles as he opens it, his tongue dashing out to wet his lower lip. The garment is plain cotton, with a little green bow at the front.

Garment. Fabric. So many distancing words to cover up the fact that he has stolen your underwear. He can never let Horus find out. He can never let anyone find out. Even though there is no one here to witness his shame, he feels a flush creep up his back. His cock leaps eagerly as he takes himself in hand, his toes curling on the wet floor. It has been so long since he last touched himself.

It’s pathetic. It’s revolting. And yet —

Mortarion buries his face into the gusset of your underwear, inhaling deeply as he strokes himself. Your scent is faded, but still clings to the fabric, thick and musky and sweet. He can imagine burying his face between your thighs, just inhaling. He’d bite your soft flesh, leaving bruises the exact shape of his teeth — and he would not let them heal. He’d do it every night until they scarred, and you could not change clothes without remembering exactly whose bed you were crawling into.

His breath stutters; his drool seeps into the cotton as he sucks. He’s never taken anyone to bed — there have always been more important things — but he knows what he wants to do. He knows that you would smile at him, and stroke his scars with gentle hands, and welcome him in so deeply that no one would ever be able to pry him out. You’d let him ruin your insides, stretch you so no other man would ever be able to satisfy you again. He’d fill you up to the brim, and then he’d do it again, and again, and again. He’d make you swallow him until you were coughing his seed up, he’d cum in your hair and —

His orgasm rips through him like a tempest, so abrupt that he cries out in shock, cum spurting up over his chest. His flanks heave, and he comes back to his senses in a humiliating rush — he’s chewed through your underwear, shreds of fabric stuck between his teeth. He picks them out, grimacing.

A shameful display. He cannot wait to do it again.

[luna-rainbow]

What if S2E05

Ew. Genuinely do not recommend watching, purely from a writing point of view. It feels like I've just watched someone wanking off to themselves and walked away covered in goo.

I'm just saying 90% of the fanfics on AO3 is less stomach-churning than this crap.

Cut for language.

This episode starts off with just...the most wankerish introduction ever from The Watcher. What is this, 6th grade creative writing? His speech was basically "the bestest Mary Sue to ever Mary Sue is to Mary Sue in this upcoming Mary Sue episode! Did I tell you she's a Mary Sue?"

They really just...cut Sam out of his first and major appearance in the MCU. I mean...between Sam's glaring omission and somehow having the lead Widow antagonist (other than Melina) being a Black woman, in an episode featuring Ms Brexit...I'm not saying you should join the dots but the dots be damn there.

How come she gets to yell at Fury and Nat for hiding Steve from her but everyone is pretending that Steve would be fine with Peggy never telling him about Bucky. The math ain't mathing.

Fury tells her to sit out of the fight and Peggy whirls on him with the most possessive Karen snarl, "I'm Peggy Carter and we're talking about ~Steve Rogers~" Just. EW.

Steve literally has no personality or character beyond "UwU I just wanna be your lover~" the whole way, which. The writing was just not good enough to carry off and it just comes across like a juvenile self-insert fanfic.

OH FFS Not only is she stealing this whole Winter Soldier storyline she gotta steal NAT'S MOVES of beating up the Winter Soldier just FOR FUCK'S SAKE GET YOUR OWN PLOT WOMAN.

"Even in Russia girls grow up dreaming of being Captain Carter."

EWW WHY???

I can't believe this script got greenlit. She's the best she's flawless she's got a perfect love story and everyone wanna be her! Without showing you anything that proves that.

Pffft the shield dropping and the sob story (which Steve fanfic did they lift that monologue from because it sounds awfully familiar). At least they didn't try pulling the end of the line.

Oh and Steve saves her ass at the end of the day.

So not only is she a Mary Sue, she's a Mary Sue who still fucking needs a man to finish off her job. Like. This is the dumbest kind of story telling.

Sebastian doing an old man voice was the much needed breath of fresh air in this episode until I remember that it was probably a trial run for his Trump voice.

*Scrubs brain*

BTW Bucky clearly was not a morally corrupt character like Pierce and I guess...no shit, he wasn't the one who used Operation Paperclip to recruit Zola into the organisation, but I'm not sure the general audience would make that distinction.

[saucyjothoughts]

soooo we all know about that infamous bathroom scene in "kaj pa ester", but my question to you is how accurate do you think it is to real life? 👀 and I might as well extend the question to all of them too... what do you think they'd be like when "going solo"? would they be quiet, would they go slow and tease/edge themselves, would they use toys or watch/listen to something to help them get off? I'd love to hear your thoughts 🤭

This is such a delicious thought.

(nsfw under the cut)

Bojan: is generally pretty quiet from all his practice of getting himself off in the tour bus or in hotels. Being truly alone and being able to moan as he comes is a luxury. Usually plays by hand but does have a prostate massager which significantly improves the experience when he actually has the time to dedicate to using it. Thought his cock was going to explode the first time he used it. Regular porn watcher, struggles to get off without a little visual inspiration.

Kris: enjoys luxurious masturbation - watching porn until he's unbearably hard before touching himself and having a favourite brand of warming lotion to make it feel good. Does have a masturbator which he uses regularly, fingering and licking at it before using it on his cock. Will talk dirty out loud whilst masturbating. Will edge himself if he has a free day, not letting himself finish until his fourth or fifth session.

Jure: likes to be unashamedly loud. Doesn't have actual toys but enjoys trying new things - jerking off while semi-submerged in a lake, or while hanging upside down off the edge of the couch, or carving a dick-sized hole into a warm melon. Enjoys what he calls a "danger wank" - jerking off behind an unlocked door when he's expecting company, trying to finish before anyone opens the door. Would give anything to be able to self-suck.

Nace: has a good imagination and doesn't always need visual porn, but does enjoy audio porn or ASMR. Has a couple of toys which he had recommended to him but prefers to use his hand. Is generally quiet on his own, unless he's calling or camming with someone. Gets lonely afterwards.

Jan: uses toys so much that he struggles to get off with just his hand anymore. He is, unfortunately, lazy with cleaning up and will wake up with last night's cummy fleshlights and lubey plugs still in his bed. Mostly only enjoys porn which has been sent to him personally - either by his partners or purchased from his favourite performers. Can be loud on occasion (especially if under the influence of substances). Always wants to edge, or give himself multiple orgasms, but usually ends up finishing too quickly and being too sleepy to go again.

[iamanartichoke]

Y'all. I can't believe how much people sleep on Ryan being just as chaotic as Shane, but in his own way. Chaos is a spectrum and Ryan and Shane are at both ends, which is what gives them so much chemistry when they interact. They built a whole franchise on the foundation of how well they play off of each other's energy. Shanergy can only be matched with Rynergy.

My point is, I was just reading the comments on the debrief and seeing how 90% of the comments are just outraged that Ryan doubled-down on the cat/ghost dog is just ... it's obviously a bit? Ryan knows it's a fucking cat (or raccoon). He probably would have admitted it if the original video hadn't gotten so many people commenting indignantly about it being a cat. Now he's sticking with the bit and I'm pretty sure that the more the audience works itself into an increasing collective tizzy, the funnier Ryan finds it bc he's a little shit whose sense of humor is 75% satire.

This bit is giving big "sharks' skin is so smooth" vibes, is what I'm saying, and honestly the only thing funnier than the bit itself is how much wank the bit is causing in the (otherwise generally wank-free, as far as I can tell) Watcher fandom bc people aren't realizing it's a bit.

But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

[drunkkenobi]

Well. This is the weirdest one of these I’ve ever made.

I’m not going to rehash the wank from the Watcher TV announcement. You all know what happened. I am standing by my assertion that this streaming platform is the only way they’re going to stay afloat because YouTube is just not the place for them or anyone else making videos that aren’t just of one person in their house. (nothing against those folks, it’s just a completely different business model)

Anyway.

First up, here’s how Mystery Files season 2 did. It did well, with each ep hitting a million fairly quickly, but it didn’t do as well as season 1. Not significantly worse, just not as high. (two weeks after season 1 ended, the average per episode was 1.854 and for s2 it’s at 1.194million) Of course, the two weeks since season 2 ended have been fucking insane so it’s impossible to say how much of that is a factor.

I will say that views between last week and this week are down overall, but that’s expected. If someone has paid for the streamer and you want to rewatch Ghost Files or whatever, you’re going to watch it ad-free on the app you pay for and not YouTube for the most part. Also it’s very possible people are just not rewatching stuff right now for their own personal reasons, which is fine. I also just don’t think it’s something to worry about.

For better or worse, the Goodbye YouTube video is the best opening weekend Watcher has ever had (and will have?) on YouTube.

Watcher lost around 100k subscribers over The Announcement but, again, if people are paying them directly now then this is kind of a non-factor. For posterity, they’re at 2.84 million subscribers today.

I’m not sure what else to say this time, tbh! It felt like a good time to make one of these with MF season 2 being over but YouTube viewcounts are just…not going to be important anymore for Watcher so there’s not much to say about them. Finding out that a million views only nets between $10-30k has been very eye-opening to me about how piddly the revenue from YouTube is for a production studio like Watcher. The shows they want to make just cost more than they can make off of there. It’s that simple. No one has to like that fact, but that is the heart of all this.

Also, with all of that being said, I think my time as a spreadsheet gremlin is coming to a close. I’m going to keep up with it for a few more weeks and probably do one last round-up for every single video’s views, but with Watcher moving away from YouTube as a business model, there’s little reason to keep up with these. I’ve been making these updates less this year anyway because of a job change and I was losing my steam for it a bit too, so the timing feels right. Like I said, this won’t be my last viewcount post, but maybe second-to-last? And who knows, maybe I’ll check in when Ghost Files premieres but the counts will mean so much less now that the videos will premiere with a month delay from the streamer. We’ll just have to wait and see how the wind blows on this.

Thank you all, as always, for reading, reblogging, replying, liking these posts. Y’all are the reason I’ve kept up with it for four years (and my own nosiness but having encouragement helps!). And don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll have some other spreadsheets to share in the future of Watcher fandom. (I have…so many) So, until next time, thanks again. ❤️

[izzyspussy]

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[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 28, 2024

My posts

I spent the first half of the week struggling through (well-medicated) mania and the second half currently with a sinus infection! I’m not enjoying it! Not either one! 

Reblogs of interest

Pro-Gaza protests at universities in the U.S.: a solidarity Passover seder and an accidental Pulitzer photo

Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation

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The Hot Vintage Lady Polls continue to go for the throat. I felt so bad about Dorothy Dandridge that I started posting and reblogging propaganda for her, but Ava Gardner, my beloved, went through anyway. Backing her felt like a wish on a monkey’s paw ("Not like this!!"). (See all poll results here.) I tremble to think what round 5 will look like. Like, there’s a point when your girl is gonna come up against a Hepburn, you know?

Notably gone this week: Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Lupe Vélez, Irene Papas (who took out Vivien Leigh in the previous round), Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jean Seberg, Anita Ekberg, Angela Lansbury, and Cyd Charisse. Like I keep saying, everybody loses. Everybody but one. Round 5 will start May 1st. 

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Hozier Watch 2024: His first U.S. #1, which he’s now playing at shows! The first U.S. #1 for an Irish artist in 34 years! What?? you cry. Did “Take Me to Church” not do that ten years ago? Well, I went and looked it up: No. That was the “Blank Space” era. Say no more. 

Speaking of Taylor Swift—Paste Magazine went IN on the new album and got threats as a result. Meanwhile, Taylor’s fans are harassing the ex-boyfriend who did nothing wrong (as opposed to the racist one) because her PR is egging them on. I’ll admit: even though I’m not a fan, I found the Paste review to be overlong and not focused enough on the actual songs, proportionally. But that post about the PR saga is everything I miss about Fandom Wank. 

(“My rival dresses to display her legs, and her shoes are of an alluring fashion”)

Meanwhile, the Watcher guys issued the best apology possible, although it was still excruciating to watch. (Background.) They will remain on YouTube while introducing the streaming service. As a Patreon member, I haven’t asked for my free subscription code yet, but I’m going to. Some fans forgave them pretty easily; others have walked away. I’m curious to see if this affects the mood of anything new they film, since a segment of the fandom got really, really ugly about it. Mostly it just felt sad all around. 

Meanwhile, in Alabama: nobody wants to measure the feral hog.

Turns out Death Note had a good reason to concoct “American” names like “Bobson Dugnutt.” Also, I somehow had two posts tagged “death note” this week and I don’t even go here.

The worst brownies ever created and what Tumblr has to say about them

“You roll up to the Wizard Battle and your opponent takes out his spellbook but it’s just one of these”

I know that Loki is not Odin’s son in actual Norse mythology, but the bredlik is amazing.

TIL that Florence and Ravenna are still feuding over Dante’s remains

Maybe haunted dolls cost extra

Chorses

Video

Branch manager

Senior branch manager

“Free serotonin from Honey the Italian greyhound”

Sola learned to show love from her humans

I have seen many of jauncydev’s videos about dog personalities, but I have never seen him commit quite this hard before

I like tie-dye videos anyway, but this one is sick as hell

The sacred videos: you are not prepared for this police sketch, and neither is this news anchor

The sacred texts

Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.

Gold Star, You Tried: A compilation

A personal favorite: “mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd”

The origin of “By Talos this can’t be happening”

Personal tags of the week

Seasonally: cherry blossom. Also, art: an old standby, but it was really good, and also, I’m sick.

[tiodolma]

MerGana and How Their Extremism May Follow Vulgate/Robert de Boron's Good vs. Evil Story

I think making bbcMorgana's first acts in S3 and S4 of saying that it was good that women and children of camelot will die was a fascinating and deliberate choice of making sure she was ireedemable and "evil" in the eyes of the audience.

The framing of bbcMorgana as killer of innocents (even when she was just following bbcMorgause's orders) in juxtaposition of bbcMerlin as vigilante executioner of treasonous criminals makes the audience lean more favorably towards bbcMerlin's extremism.

Writing bbcMorgana as one who takes pleasure in the suffering of others also enabled the producers to makes sure that the audience can forgive bbcMerlin's own crimes because he does it with obvious anguish.

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Points to consider though:

BbcMorgana was educated for one year that what she was doing was right and justified. Based on her intimate knowledge if the peopleof Camelot, they are all complicit in the deaths of millions of the magic race and their allies. Her extremist training under bbcMorgause amplified that drive to punish all and then rejoice in their downfall. The bbcMorgana who cared for the wellbeing of Camelot already died when she was executed without trial and due cause (basically assassinated) for the sake of the Kingdom. (Remember, hemlock has no antidote)

BbcMerlin's extremism allowed him to bypass laws that even Camelot held dear. But since he does this with anguish, sorrow and burden of destiny/god's will then, he is forgiven and justified by the watchers of his acts even though he usually held the metaphorical gun at point blank range and then called it "self-defense"

............

I would say the merlinbbc show matches with the way The Story of Merlin was written in Robert de Boron tradition and the Vulgate. The clear distinction between good and evil in these classic literature was always "light and dark", "hatred and love."

Commiting heinous acts in "wrath, bitterness and revenge" "and taking pleasure in suffering" was the "work of the devil" "letting the devil into one's heart" (as the case of vulgate!merlin's conception)

And committing heinous acts while in anguish is technically acceptable in the eyes of destiny and the christian god. (As was the case of robertdeboron!merlin assisting in arthur's and ector de maris's conception)

...........

Then there is an argument that the show followed the heavily christian vulgate philosophy of good and evil all along?

That other philosophies and ideas which revolve around good/evil, light/dark, hatred/love being in constant balance should not be applied to the show because classic arthuriana doesnt use them?

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Redemption, also leans on the idea of bbcMerlin spreading the "good word" to the others. That the unbelievers will be saved if they join him in backing the One and Only Savior and King. If they don't and if they fight against it then there will be a judgement. It is never the other way around despite the unbelievers also having valid justification. As expected this reflects the highly christian messaging of the classic source material too.

Then if other watchers lean/sympathise more towards the motivations and actions of the "antagonists," "the unbelievers," "members of the old religion that fight against the prophecy" then they are "letting evil prevail" and "you dont understand the objective of the story"

Would it also mean that such antagonist-sympathetic fandom wank are technically not worth rehashing because it would be too rooted in actual historicity/real life instead of the classic arthurian mythology and christian influences that the show was based on?

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Anyhow the next time you hear people saying that the merlin bbc writers were stupid and didnt know what they were doing, please reconsider.

[partlyironic]

the fact that they all sat down and still cared enough to apologise to you all after they received a whole weekend of vitriolic nonsense and out-and-out racism for the crime of wanting to continue as a business... is genuinely mind boggling to me.

[woundlingus]

I think that "if Cas has been a woman, Destiel would have been canon" means that watchers would have been more enclined to read their relationship as romantic without question, not so much that some wouldn't have dislike it and that some fans wouldn't have pressured the showrunners to take fem!Cas out of the show for this reason; it doesn't mean either that Dean and Cas would be a couple, but that (that's how I interpret the quote) they would be a "will they won't they" for the majority of viewer, even if Cas only stayed one season. Also, while there're similarities between Anna and Cas, there're not the same, neither is their relationship with Dean. Even in season 4. Btw, I really like both Anna/Dean and Annastiel. I wish she (and many other women characters) had stayed a lot longer.

You know, this is the first respectful ask I’ve gotten over that post so I’m going to say this one last time and address that post.

It was made for a niche audience of five people who knew the context behind the post, it was specifically about ONE really rancid take I saw by someone saying things like heterosexual relationships were favoured and things akin to women being respected by the fandom and the show as a whole, who I then blocked and moved in from. This post was never about Anna or Jo, though I did layer make jokes implying I had, it was about one persons misogyny that I was making to my friends.

If you saw this post and went “I don’t think this way” then congratulations, I am not talking about you! Believe it or not, I don’t know any of the two THOUSAND people who have interacted to either support a statement I didn’t make, or berate me for a statement I also didn’t make, so for so many of you to reach out to me and tell me I’m wrong for calling you a misogynist I’m sorry but frankly you’re fucking crazy, I don’t know you, and you’re right this post isn’t about you so please move in with your life. Destiel isn’t real, they’re not going to fuck you.

I’m sorry you to specifically anon for coming with what I assume in good faith is you wanting to have a discussion about something that is a very interesting topic of conversation, and you’ve been the undeserving doormat for me to lay my feelings out on here instead, but with love I truly am not interested enough in fandom wank or destiel to engage in it any further, especially considering my post garnered another 1k post turning off reblogs. I’m ready for this to die now, I hope you respect that.

I hope you have a good evening, and may your posts never break containment as mine have <3

[formulatrash]

holy fuck if you ever think wank has gone down in the F1 fandom, the Watcher fandom is currently doing something big enough it probably merits its own Mystery Files episode. primarily on: why can't people mind their own damn business?

[antheia]

Setting aside the INCREDIBLE irony of the misgendering at work in this response from someone seeming to demand care and attention paid to others....

You don't know if this was happening with friends or at work. As a person who works a customer-facing job, it is incredibly frustrating to listen to people talk about triggering garbage and not be allowed to respond. I'm lucky: my work has a big honking "don't talk negatively about your body or anyone else's" policy.

When someone is in a cult and comes to talk to a stranger about their cult, you are not responsible for being kind or gentle or trying to deprogram them.

Grown women making mistakes are still reasonable targets for being told they done fucked up.

How in the living fuck does OP talking about a specific experience with a group of women translate into their being sexist about the weight loss industry and diet culture?

If, when I was in the sway of weight watchers, a complete stranger had come up to me while I was talking to my friends and tried to (kindly, politely, helpfully) tell me that I was making a mistake and engaging in something harmful, I would have told them very firmly to fuck all the way off and mind their own business.

All of which is to say: Jesus cocksucking christ, the absolute pissing wank of this reply is so breathtaking that I actually took time out of my life to reply this fully. The condescending sanctimony demonstrated here while claiming that OP is claiming in some way to be better than someone is just... Olympic-level bullshit.

i'm not a doctor or a nutritionist, but sometimes i hear women talking about their diets and it takes all i have to not be like "this is not normal. you have an eating disorder and you are in a cult."

[izzyspussy]

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[squibblins]

some thoughts about dragonlords and maybe also a bit of fandom wank. don’t take it too seriously it’s just books/tv show lol

i think so many GOT fans are completely missing the point of the books and (for the most part) the show(s) when it comes to the targaryens. as readers/watchers it’s natural to want to sympathize with them because they’re (usually) protagonists, but... dragonlords are terrible. their existence causes way more pain and suffering than it alleviates. both the dragonlords of valyria and the valyrian houses of westeros are racial purists, hence all the incest (sidenote: the amount of shipping of daemon and rhaenyra on this website is genuinely baffling to me). the source of their wealth and power was slavery and their monopoly on Fantasy Nukes. it’s said that targaryens believe themselves to be “above gods and men”, and it’s shown to us over and over again that targaryens generally think of themselves as a “superior breed” with an inherent right to power, and an instinct towards violence when it is denied to them. in this way they are a danger even to their followers

spoilers begin under the cut

HOTD gave us an excellent example of this last episode, with the velaryon soldier screaming praise to daemon and caraxes, thinking he’s going to be saved, only for him to be crushed under caraxes’s foot. the thing about dragons is that they are enormous and powerful and people are like ants to them. how many times are we reminded that this is what targaryens are meant to emulate, and by targaryens themselves? even by more sympathetic ones like daenerys?

another potential spoiler of HOTD: this show is about how the targaryens fucking tear themselves apart. we’re only three episodes in and people are already asking whether they should support greens or blacks, but neither side really “wins”. the dance of the dragons is also the dying of the dragons, the extinction of both the targaryen’s source of power and the targaryens themselves.

i think it could also be useful to remember that this conflict mirrors the one in the main series: a succession crisis left behind by a shitty king leads to a massive civil war with widespread suffering, and this war leaves the realm vulnerable to the literal apocalypse. the ending of the dance is made that much more poignant with the reveal that aegon had seen the coming of the white walkers, and felt the need to put a targaryen in charge of the realm (because fire kills ice right?). but conflict over the throne he created leads to the near-destruction of his line and the last targaryens are exiled from westeros JUST in time for that threat to rear its ugly head.

thus the true evil is not the white walkers, nor is it the dragons. it’s the corrupting nature of power.