#I love being a hater

[xerith-42]

I was wrong

It takes a lot to admit that, even more for me to admit that about MCD, but I was wrong about something in regards to this series. In a previous post I said that the worst episode of MCD was Season 2 Episode 95, because it was the culmination of the absolute failure that was Laurance's character arc. And I wasn't wrong about that, S2E95 is an objectively bad episode and I stand by it being one of the worst. But it's only one of the worst episodes of this series. Probably second or third worst.

The actual worst episode of Minecraft Diaries happens far earlier in it's run time than I anticipated. The actual episode that begins the degrading of every single main character happens within it's first season. The worst episode of Minecraft Diaries is Season 1 Episode 65, Our Fears.

For those of you who haven't watched MCD in a minute, or aren't insane like I am and recognize what happens in an episode from just a number and a thumbnail, this is the episode where Aphmau and Dante get chased into Malachi's abandoned castle and fall victim to his uncontrollable magic. A magic that shows people their greatest fears.

Now the concept of a ghost that forces the audience and the characters to come face to face with the leading characters greatest fears is a fantastic idea. I'm serious this is one of the best concepts for character work in the entire Aphverse. This is great, this can go so many good ways.

Aphmau's fear is pretty weak mostly because it shows her house on fire, nobody hurt, and Malachi comments that she's "Scared of losing the ones you love." My honest reaction to this was "She lost her house in episode 36 and didn't seem to care because her loved ones are safe. You wanna communicate that she's scared of people dying just show Zoey lying on the ground or something smh." It gets the job done, but not very well.

Dante's fear is the only one that's well done because it's an image of Gene about to rip apart the realm barrier in the Nether. This works surprisingly well despite only being one shot because it gets across Dante's connection to Gene and the Nether pretty well, setting up for the reveal later on. Dante's existence is this episode's single redeeming quality. And as much as I like the guy, he's not enough to hold up the episode after what happens next.

Now, dear viewer who presumably knows the plot of MCD because you've read this far into a post about this single episode, you know that at this point in the series Garroth has been found out by his brother and has the looming threat of the entire O'Khasis military on his mind all the damn time. Zane has already hurt members of his village in direct ways, and only didn't do more damage because he was called away for an emergency. Garroth has already failed to protect one lord, and he's nearly failed to protect another.

Laurance is a shadow knight. And even though the lore of shadow knights is still flimsy at this point, we know that they are very prone to killing lords, it's why Laurance renounced his position as head guard of Meteli and refuses to return. But that doesn't mean his desire for blood is gone. It just means it has a new target. Like say, the lord he comes to the castle in search of? That he has explicit romantic feelings for?

Again, this idea of forcing the audience and the characters to face their greatest fears is such a good idea, especially with these three, because they can all be interlinked. Aphmau fears losing her loved ones, Garroth fears failing to protect his people, and Laurance fears that he'll give into bloodlust. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? I don't know if I can make it anymore obvious where the show should have gone from here.

But, no, unfortunately Jesson wrote this series. So what could have been one of the best moments of character work in the entire series, instead became the beginning of the end for our would be love interests. I'm of course referring to how it's revealed that their actual "worst fear" is Aphmau getting with... Another guy. Not even her picking one over the other, just her holding hands with and kissing some guy that Garroth and Laurance DON'T EVEN KNOW!

And despite Laurance saying he's happy as long as he has Aphmau in his life, he starts getting enraged that another guy would have the audacity to kiss her. Even though the scene he's shown seems to be entirely consensual. And in response to this, BOTH OF THEM DECIDE TO TRY AND KILL THIS ILLUSION OF DANTE JUST FOR KISSING THE GIRL THEY LIKE!

AND THIS IS SEEN AS A GOOD THING BY THE SHOW!! Attacking this illusion breaks the barrier around the real Aphmau and Dante, and Garroth and Laurance are never punished for their actions here. Aphmau is barely concerned that her guards, the men she's willing to trust with her life, were willing to kill someone for the crime of kissing her. Hot fucking take, Aphmau maybe shouldn't trust these people after seeing that they're willing to kill a man over the crime of loving her when they want to.

And even hotter take, GARROTH AND LAURANCE WOULDN'T DO THIS! Both men have been shown to be highly protective over Aphmau, which makes sense it's literally their job to keep her safe, but that protective nature shouldn't cross over into actively interfering with her romantic life. They're fucking lucky it was just an illusion, what would have happened if Malachi used mind control? What if he was using Aphmau and Dante's bodies as puppets? What if Garroth and Laurance just killed an amateur guard whose only crime was being forced to kiss the girl they liked?

This is one of those writing decisions that truly baffles me. It was RIGHT THERE, HOW DID YOU MISS, IT (the perfect piece of character work) WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU! The answer is that Jesson don't really care about the interesting character work, they care about tropes. They care about the main character being in a love triangle with two guys who equally suck but in different ways. They care about fans getting excited and debating over which ship is better. They care about pushing this love triangle onto viewers regardless of what makes sense for the characters involved because the writers fail to see the nuance of the characters that they fucking wrote the nuance of.

I fucking hate Episode 65. Easily the worst episode of MCD. Any episode after this when Garroth and Laurance act horrendously out of character in service of this love triangle (I'm looking at you episode 77, and episode 90, and season 2 episode 95, and season 2 episode 98), know that it started here. It started with episode 65.

Fuck this episode.

#I love being a hater #minecraft diaries #mcd #text post #aphblr #aphverse #laurance zvahl #garroth ro'meave #mcd aphmau #episode analysis #fuck episode 65 #me and my homies fucking hate episode 65 #actually despise this episode

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

every Green Brothers post reminds me that the true casualty of "cancel culture" is you can't just be a hater anymore. it is pointed out time and again that the only thing the brothers are accused of is being overly-friendly with fans to the point it seems creepy and of having gross energy.

invariably the fans are like "wow way to spread baseless rumors" bitch what rumour??? them skeeving me out isn't a rumor it's a fact! i don't have to accuse anyone of a crime to point out they're acting creepy and weird. you can't be sent to jail because someone on tumblr said "your vibes are so fucked up and nasty"

this is why i never stand in the way of people who make similar comments about the McElroys, even as a MBMBAM fan myself. it's your god-given right to see someone and say "ew, no" and i'll defend that right with my life!!! there is nothing i respect so much as the pure art of being a hater!!!

#also not for nothing 2 of the mcelroys backed off of heavy fan interaction pretty soon after blowing up #bc they realized it wouldnt go anywhere positive and also bc i imagine people having that much access to you is exhausting #but still if you find them to have creepy vibes that is fine! #hate away! #green brothers #i love being a hater

[frukmerunning]

im speaking as someone who loves being a hater but if you exist in fandom solely to hate on other people and how they choose to experience the fandom.... what are you even doing?

#I fully cannot imagine being that miserable all the time #and again #I LOVE being a hater #hating things brings me joy #but I also enjoy participating in fandom in a non hater way #also when im a hater its never that serious #like yeah I loathe the ship that shall not be named #but I do try my hardest to criticize just the ship and not the innocent people that are shipping it #now if you're not innocent that's another thing and we have beef #but it's not SERIOUS beef #I hope someone is picking up what im putting down here #anyway please spread joy and not hate

[osamusbigtits]

dilf ushijima!?!? yeah. he has 2 twin girls with his beloved husband tendou. and you aren't there, y/n

#i love being a hater #hq #bex thoughts #ushiten

[iloveyouemanuelmarco]

Sometimes I get scared that I'm like Vivziepop except that instead of me having same-face and same-body syndrome for failed-chemically lab grown yet fucked up DNA-coded malfunctioned twig looking "Tumblr Sexymen" with little to no POC features with sharp teeth, shit eating grins and smug-eyes(Idk how to properly describe it but it makes me feel utter rage still ok??), it's me with the same frontal hairstyle like why tf do I keep drawing emo-looking hair that covers half the face on my ocs atleast half of the time??Lmfaooo TwT.

#Vivziepop #CW Vivziepop #Vivziepop CW #TW Vivziepop #I Love Being A Hater #Professional Hater #Proud Hater #In My Hater Era #I Love Hating #Vivienne Medrano #Hazbin Hotel #Helluva Boss #Twinkification #Same Face Syndrome #Art Struggles #Artist Struggles #Artist Vent #Art Vent #Vivziepop Slander #Vivziepop Drama #Pet Peeves #Art Problems #Artist Problems #Slander #Tumblr Sexymen #Whitewashing #LGBTQIAPlus Community #BIPOC Representation #Body Diversity #Interwebs

[gregenborg]

I don't know why but I hate football (American) just based off vibes alone

#i love being a hater #hater #football #american football league #American football #sports

[femmeconomics]

"let people enjoy things" <<<<< "don’t let disapproval from other people, especially people you do not know, stop you from doing what you enjoy"

#i LOVE being a hater #but i don’t have the power to prevent random people from doing their own shit #unless you have that middle schooler mindset #“other people might think i’m uncool so i’m literally incapable” #“and i’m going to blame them despite the fact that i was the one who stopped myself. this means they want me dead.”

[tastyfren]

continuing with my NoCo hate <3

#total drama #i love being a hater #nowen #nemma #nowemma #anti td cody #td

[aleclightofmylifewoodbane]

does anyone else literally hate older brother sukuna aus…

like what are you talking about. sukuna psychologically tortured a 15 year old. commit mass murder in front of him. killed children. used his best friend as a host, likely killing or permanently disabling him. LITERALLY KILLED HIM ONCE. he is literally the worst person alive right now. one of the worst in history. no hes not the cool edgy alt older brother with twenty piercings. itadori HATES sukuna. he HATES him.

esp when hes like. a normal/good older brother. wrong actually. nuh uh

#jjk spoilers #ig #jjk #just rubs me the wrong way i HATE it #maybe im just a hater #but if theres one thing i love #it is being a hater. #sukuna ryomen #itadori yuuji #slightly uncomfortable even #anytime i see an artist who makes that content im like EUUUGHHHH #so much potential and then..: #i love being a hater

[youjustwaitsunshine]

can aston or alpine maybe call for a review for that norris jump start? it's not like they have two cars to look after anyways 🤷‍♀️

#i love being a hater

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

Radovid?? Fucking RADOVID? WHY?

With S3 of The Witcher rapidly approaching, I find myself consumed with questions of....fucking RADOVID? WHY? Why him, of all people? I do not trust the Netflix Witcher writers one iota, but especially not when they go looking for a male love interest for Jaskier, they end up choosing Radovid. And have to radically age him up just to be a love interest Of all the characters, why choose Radovid? It’s like sand in my earball. It makes no fucking sense. They must have a reason, a motivation, for him over any other male character (unless they literally just yoinked his name out of a hat). So what made them, what is unique about Radovid that they want to add to the series and yeet into Jaskier’s bed? He’s the prince, then the King, of Redania, and Jaskier has connections to Redanian government with Dijkstra. He was briefly betrothed to Ciri as a child, but that was broken by his father (I believe this will be cut from the show, given he’s much older and a second son). He and his father (now brother) were manipulated by Phillipa, with it starting when he was child (still possible even with his aging up). And Radovid becomes a genocidal fascist who persecutes and slaughters elves, sorceresses, and other non-humans and magical folk, inspired by his hatred of Phillipa’s manipulation and influence (this is from the games, but is hinted at at the end of the books, though he’s still a child then). They could radically alter Radovid, sure, but A.) why call him Radovid at all, and B.) they still had to choose him from all their canon male characters to chose from, so what made them choose HIM above all others? There are plenty of nobles Jaskier could get with, if the goal was to have a noble with some power on their side. So Radovid isn’t singular in that regard. So, was their reasoning behind Radovid being Jaskier’s lover because he’s Redanian nobility and Jaskier works for the Redanian Intelligence Network? Is Jaskier being sent to honeypot Radovid, keep an eye on him and/or spy on him? Although Phillipa does seem to confront Jaskier at one point, it doesn’t immediately appear that way, they seem to be framing the romance as genuine, but they could be misleading us and it is a possibility. Which would be...christ like maybe a very competent team of writers could pull of this storyline, but not from the people who brought us Tree-Eskel and Yenn trying to sacrifice Ciri for her own gain and drunk hooker party at Kaer Morhen the super secret Witcher fortress lol let’s laught about how they’re too drunk to remember where they are...which is too drunk to consent...lol tits! Or is it that they want to connect Radovid to Jaskier because of what Radovid will become in the near future, to his brutal suppression of non-humans and magical humans, his bloody campaign against them? That is Radovid’s most prominent feature, what he is most known for, what makes him stand out from other potential candidates. Is this why? Is it supposed to be irony, since Jaskier is the Sandpiper, and rescues persecuted non-humans? Do they want Jaskier’s relationship to put Ciri and Geralt at risk, will his choice of bedmate endanger them, for added cheap drama? Will Radovid be seducing Jaskier under false pretenses, attempting to get close to Ciri or Geralt to hurt them, as hinted at in the leaked audition scene where Radovid mentions Ciri to Jaskier, tells him to bring her to Redania she’ll be safe here, while Jaskier lies and says he hasn’t seen her for years. Will Jaskier end up trusting him, bringing Ciri to him only for it to all go pear-shaped? Will the narrative blame Jaskier for what Radovid does to his friends, was it even necessary to drag him into it, as Radovid probably would have targeted them anyway? Or will Jaskier leave Radovid for his Gang of Non-Human and Magical Friends, thus spurning on Radovid’s genocide in the first place, cause Jaskier ‘betrayed’ him in his eyes? Which has got to be the most garbage option and I sure hope this isn’t it, this is below even what I think the Netflix Witcher writers are capable of. And there is always the possibility that there is no reason, they literally just picked a name and ran with it, who gives a shit what it means, they don’t have time to think things through and write and rewrite, not when there are slow-mo action shots to shoot and tits to shoehorn in and rapey fathers to give Father of the Year awards to. Things just happen in this show, with little rhyme or reason. The S3 trailers look even worse, a sad desperately flashy spectacle that fails to be spectacular. I don’t trust these writers to do anything good with this romance, I honestly don’t expect anything from this plotline other than to marvel at their ability to make bisexual rep feel a bit like a hate crime.

#Jaskier #The Witcher #Netflix Witcher #Geralt of Rivia #Witcher S3 spoilers #Bisexual Jaskier #Radovid #fucking goddamn gucking Radovid #Media analysis #LIKE THIS JUST FEELS SPITEFUL BUT I CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON WHY #Joey Batey #I will be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong but I don't think I will #queer rep #bisexual rep #this is me doom posting i know #i love being a hater

[eruthiawenluin]

Still the funniest hate I’ve ever gotten

What complexity is there. He’s duller than a brick wall.

#i love being a hater #fandom critical #anti dean winchester #spn

[sensivs]

I hope they break up

#♥︎ 𐬹 ໒꒱ ⋆ﾟ⊹ avian opens his big mouth again #i love being a hater #haterposting #i hate happy ppl #NO COUPLES ALLOWED #if I can’t be happy no one can

[str4wb3rry-guy]

i am the KING of saying i hate things with a firey passion and then consuming content from said thing REGULARLY

#i love being a hater #talking abt dear evan hansen #and rupaul #mostly #rupauls drag race #rupaul #rupaul's drag race #dear evan hansen

[catharticscream]

I visited another one of Yayoi Kusama's Infinite Selfie Palaces or whatever they're actually called.

#i love being a hater #it would be better if TLC were in there singing No Scrubs

[nil-number]

I know that we all curate our dashes on tumblr to our tastes but I think it’s really funny when people call this “The locked tomb website” when just the other day I saw someone compare the writing to an incorrect quotes post. And they were right. A professional published author who writes like a 14-year-old writing homestuck fanfiction

#carrie calls #i love being a hater