#like do these so-called feminists not realize wtf they are doing

[joesalw]

Ok I'm sorry but this is gonna be a long rant.

I am an ex swiftie (also a minor) and I joined the fandom back in 2022 after midnights released. Before that I had heard a few songs but I barely knew anything about Taylor before 2020 and I did not know about the Kimye stuff or anything.

When the bejeweled music video was released I did not realize the easter eggs so thus I thought that I need to become parasocial and I NEED to know everything that taylor has done every minute of the day (referencing Do you really wanna know where I was April 29?)

I went deeper into the hole. I started getting obsessed with Taylor. I clicked on every video , post and podcast mentioning her. I genuinely became a parasocial fan. I only heard her songs and barely cared about other artists. I hated on her exes (Jake Gyllenhaal and John Mayer especially) because I believed that they had hurt Taylor to no extent. I still don't like them/am neutral but I don't hate them anymore. In march I joined tumblr because I heard Taylor was on here and I have no other social media to support her from so I came here to give her my support.

In April , the breakup happened. I was genuinely devastated. Joe was and is an amazing person. I was shocked to see her move on so quickly and date m*tty he*ly . I was even as a child shocked as to how someone can move on so fast. But also move on to someone so problematic after calling herself an activist? Idk what was wrong with her. But IG as long as she is happy.

She broke up with him. We all rejoiced. Speak now TV was also announced! Yay!

I remember so well on 7th July I was in school and I was so fucking excited about it coming so soon I couldn't sit still. I was counting down minutes until it's release even tho I did not have any devices to listen to it on. My friends were so happy to see me happy and excited af.

I went home and heard speak now tv. Amazing experience for me at that time.

I became the person who said shit like : I hate everyone but Taylor and Taylor is a gift to this Earth and etc etc.

But the amount of joe hate and joeover and joebless jokes annoyed me. Why were we hating a person who was in her life at her worst moments? Taylor would never condone or allow this.

But boy was I wrong.

Most of the hate against joe was my #Strike 1 for leaving the fandom.

Then came along Traylor. I was like oh ok as long as she is happy :))

Then she started associating with the nfl people. Br*ttany M*homes and Abuser bitch.

When I heard of this I was like wtf Taylor???

Weren't you the one who was going off about being on the right side of the history and believing victims?

I was like it's fine maybe she doesn't know or maybe she will stop once she knows.

She didn't

Then she won person of the year. I was already very unhappy with Taylor at that time. But I still was like Yay! Congrats! But maybe you shouldn't be the one to win it?

Then the doxxing by a swiftie happened. It was #strike 3

I left the fandom. I still had hope she would change.

Now after seeing her jets emissions (I'm a huge Environmentalist and a feminist so this shit bothered the living helm out of me) and her continuously hanging out with brittany piece of shit and all the joe hate going on, I am beginning to despise her.

I had initally blocked hate pages like yours but Now I open your posts everyday and check them because I relate to them sm.

I went from a person defending every action of Taylor's, being the only one in my entire theatre who knew the lyrics to all the songs of the eras tour movie , having Taylor as my top artist of the year with more than 60 percent of the songs being hers to despising her so much for being fake and stuck up.

I remember after I left the fandom and not many people knew about it , A classmate said something against Taylor and her songs directly to me daring me to oppose it and I genuinely wanted to cry because I thought that I would now always be associated with this fandom.

The ex swiftie in me genuinely wants 2016 to happen again so Taylor will be removed from the pedestal she is put on by so many. She needs to be saved from herself and her parasocial fans.

And I used to say I would love Taylor forever but I suppose forever really is the sweetest con.

TLDR :- I USED TO BE A PARASOCIAL SWIFTIE WHO USED TO LIVE AND BREATHE TAYLOR BUT NOW I'M SLOWLY STARTING TO DESPISE HER.

Sorry this was so long I had to get it off my chest.

Thanks for reading it!

ex swifties are my favourite people in this planet rn

#anti taylor swift #ex swifties

[sexisdisgusting]

okay I need help

lately I've felt a kind of rift between me and other women, mostly because its rather hard finding anyone else like me. it gets kind of unbearable not only watching women make decisions that undermine their own agency, but also calling it 'feminist' on top of that and like, any questioning has me deemed worse than the worst misogynist and a threat to women's autonomy. I'm so sick and tired of feeling so different and its actually lessening my empathy for others and I don't know how to stop it. if women decided to be just a little GNC for once, imagine how far it would take us! its rather wrong of me to judge women like this but I cant help it. what can I do?

this is unfortunately something that comes with adopting radical feminist ideologies, is you realize how fucked the world is towards women, and how many women just take it, manipulating themselves into thinking that selling their bodies or caking their faces with makeup is somehow feminist

you can help but feel anger and resentment towards them, and i still struggle with this sometimes too

because its like holy shit you are keeping us down so hard girl, please wake the fuck up, being a stay at home housewife is NOT FEMINIST WTF

i will never encourage surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals entirely because i actually think its good to sometimes have those who can challenge your views otherwise you end up in echo chambers and you dont want that, but you do want a group of like-minded people to fall back on for a feeling of safety when it all becomes so overbearing and the world is driving you mad

dont be afraid to seek out groups, chats, with gnc radfem women because it may help you alleviate those feelings youre feeling!

much love, anonita

#asks #anon asks

[horizon-verizon]

Hating the narrative that Rhaenyra was some horrible friend who never loved Alicent because she called her a “whore” in a deleted scene. Her best friend is marrying her father, of course she’s pissed and lashing out ?? And she’s like 15 ??? And her mother just died ??? Wtf is wrong with this fandom. “Oh well she should have seen it from Alicent’s perspective.” Yes, the 15yo who’s been raised in a violently misogynistic medieval society and groomed herself her entire life should have the same understanding of feminist theory as modern adult Twitter users. People are genuinely insane.

I already argued for how show!Rhaenyra wasn't actually an evil nor the worst actor of the two and against Alicent as some people try to say HERE. How it is their fathers and the patriarchal society around them that shapes them into the persons they respectively are ANd how they choose to respond to each other's actions and thoughts.

Rhaenyra bursting out that Alicent is a "whore" would figure into my words about Rhaenyra, by being in her late teens like Alicent AND Alicent/Viserys leaving her out of their interactions until announced -> thus not having the space or emotional bandwidth to be the perfect respondent to news of her best friend marrying her father and essentially replacing her dead mother. This is a problem of how much grace people allow for which person.

So we should all just ignore how Daemon hugged his daughters in the deleted scenes after Laena's death, how Jace agreed with Daemon concerning bringing the fight to the greens, how Baela said to Rhaenys they should fight for Rhaenyra and her son's rights to the throne and thus argue that none of these scenes matter to how we should consider various black characters morality or competence....but we should take the deleted scene of Rhaenyra calling Alicent a whore to evaluate show!Rhaenyra's moral character. What a bunch of hypocrisy that shows a green/anti-Rhaenyra stance, not to mention its sexism.

The things with Rhaenyra's outburst versus Alicent's saying "queer customs" and trying to use her Queen position against Rhaenyra to force her to confess to sleeping with Daemon are that:

Alicent & Rhaenyra were supposed to be long-time best friends who tell each other everything about themselves (bc that's how very strong female friendships work, esp the younger you are) -> if they actually did things like share secrets, share secret thoughts and emotions and reactions, actually agreed on some things spiritually and intellectually and emotionally and then traded ways to resist their fathers' wills and outsiders' treatment against them.....then it is very difficult to see why Alicent wouldn't at least try to say anything at all to Rhaenyra, or hint at it, about what Otto wants to do in each and every single interaction she has with Rhaenyra -> instead she implies that Rhaenyra should be obedient to Viserys' will even before the announcement...therefore, this relationship never made sense to characterize as "close" because these two seem to have never come to a place where they could say they were close and shared secrets

we also already know (or should know) that Alicent's position against Rhaenyra mainly comes from Otto's manipulation and desire to seat Aegon on the throne (as Alicent doesn't try to think of why Otto acted as he did about the virginity loss thing, which was what is revealed in Rhaenyra's comebacks against her thought process in their garden confrontation) -> we know that Alicent is the one in the actual wrong and that she is coming from a false perspective..further proven by how she talks to and comes to that realization in episode 9 when she finally gets Aegon away from her father and says she never saw Otto for what he did and is

#hotd fandom #asoiaf asks to me #rhaenyra and alicent #hotd characterization #fandom misogyny #fandom critical #rhaenyra's characterization #alicent's characterization

[olderthannetfic]

Hey person who sent in the proshipper aligned ask here

Ok so what I sent in was kind of ambiguous but I see y’all assuming stuff and wanted to clear it up cause this got out of hand

Firstly to answer that chocopot person no i didn’t say any of that, you can write draw do whatever you want I legit don’t care have fun and don’t put words in my mouth

And to another reblogger, no don’t bully weird people? I didn’t say that either

I said what I said cause some people guy was like “oh yeah I just draw this guy raping his son haha it’s gonna be so fucked up 🥰” and I thought it was kinda weird so I blocked them end of, if they wanna do that it’s fine it just made me feel uncomfortable

Y’all need to calm down and stop assuming the worst ok

Also calling what I said “dumbassary” hurt, the people who send in these asks can see that you know, if I was being a straight up asshole I’d understand but I was just stating that some stuff made me a little suspicious and uncomfortable

How did this go so wrong wtf

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Simple: Because you went beyond saying you were uncomfortable around weird stuff and into saying it made you suspicious. Your previous ask had that vibe even if it did not make it text like this one.

What you are saying here is that some thought crimes are real.

You're saying it in a more oblique way than some and pointing only to things you find more extreme and also focusing on your personal emotional reaction, all of which makes your response feel milder to a lot of people, but at heart, when someone's fictional tastes make you suspicious, that's what you're saying.

I do not use the term 'proshipper' for myself because many, many of them do think this way: The anti position that believes in many thought crimes is too extreme, and only certain thought crimes are real. They think they're different from antis, but they replicate the same errors that antis' philosophical positions do.

Whereas my view is that no thought crimes are real.

If the person making rape art felt the need to bother you about it, then yeah, they have bad boundaries. That's not a proship problem: that's a bad boundaries problem. Regardless of whether that was the case, if they make you uncomfortable, you're right to block them. It's fine to find some kinks super squicky. I find plenty of commonplace kinks squicky. It means nothing about the kink itself, but I do try to avoid those things.

You come into my inbox and ask me to tacitly approve of saying that some kinks are extreme enough that they do mean the person is dangerous. Obviously, a hardline fantasy =/= reality person like me will not be pleased.

I don't like people with shitty boundaries either, but that's not a feature of either proship or anti philosophies. It's a feature of individual jackasses. So when you say you avoid the word, it does indeed remind me of people who avoid the word 'feminist' because of quibbling objections.

When people tell me they don't use the word 'proship' because they think that philosophy should be the unmarked default, I don't have this reaction. I'm not obsessed with people self-identifying this way. I just think that this particular kind of objection betrays things you may not have realized about your own position.

[a-room-of-my-own]

Literally why do radblr users make the most bizarre posts about hating het women. This ran across my dash and like?? Wtf?? https://theresnowaterpressure.tumblr.com/post/688882835565723648/i-cant-believe-any-of-us-straight-women-on-radblr

They act like straight women ONLY have sex with men as a service it’s so dehumanizing I hate it. They realize that straight women are also human beings with feelings too right? They haven’t even considered that straight women can like sex. And like the whole “piv” thing drives me nuts too. No one talks about sex like that outside of a couple of people. I can’t stand the op of that post either she spends an excessive amount of time constantly whining about straight women existing and about how gross straight women’s sexuality is and when she gets criticized she throws a fit and claims that straight women have victim complexes and that we need to stop pretending hetrophobia exists (a claim no one but her and the women like her make to disguise their misogyny). She’s literally obsessed with straight women and insulting us and it genuinely grosses me out at this point because she crossed a line a long time ago. It’s disgusting. She speculates and posts her deluded little “theories” constantly. I’m sick and tired of women speculating about other women’s sex lives especially when they’re talking about straight women and they aren’t even attracted to men themselves (which is way too common on radblr and always comes off as patronizing and misogynistic). The ones who are attracted to men but still do this shit are bootlickers imo and I hate it. I don’t get why they try and tell women they need to change their sex lives and be “pure” in order to be a feminist or deserve rights. It’s freak behavior and makes them sound like incels. Why do I have to self flagellate for liking men??

You don't.

You know what I've received my share of hate and 'kill yourself' mail from TRA and so-called feminists alike. Which is frankly ridiculous and seriously off-putting, especially for young girls who could be looking for advice and support and end up stumbling upon unhinged women who think feminism is reserved for an elite that has to check 266,482 ideological purity boxes.

I mean I gained quite a lot of silent followers (who followed without commenting or reblogging) which says a lot, not to mention people like you coming to my inbox anonymously or asking me not to publish if it's not anonymous. It's pretty telling.

But hey, now, I'm just doing with them what I do with TRAs, either they're able to talk like educated and responsible people and we can have a discussion or it's insults and then they're blocked. And I advise you to do the same. This is how you curate your internet experience and it doesn't have to be stressful.

#radrama

[josiebelladonna]

always has been them, too.

there’s a reason why i go on hiatuses, and why i was always hesitant to engage in political banter on the giant blue letter “f”. it was never “oh, i just don’t get it”, but rather “i don’t want to get caught up in this because it’s a total shitstorm and i’m going to get out of it tired and bloody.” you guys thought tumblr is madness from the social justice warriors. there’s a reason i went m.i.a. in late 2016 (aside from everything else that was happening back then) and stayed away for two years and why i went on hiatuses again and again after that.

and there’s a reason why i’m genuinely thinking of straight deleting the damned thing (i was going to delete back in 2019, but a friend of a friend went through my drawings and liked a bunch of them. i’ll admit it: i’m a sucker for that, i couldn’t say no to that).  but like, something is very wrong when a pro-life feminist is so far gone in her own beliefs that you lose every iota of respect for her and the post after that is a meme about poop—yes. yes, i am not shitting you, i went on there just now just to poke my head in and i saw this fucking whack-a-do post about “killing babies” from a feminist perspective, which already gets a visceral reaction from me because literally nothing about it makes any sense (and she doesn’t seem to realize how nonsensical her beliefs are and she has become so unpleasant to be around, either) and then the post after that was a meme about actual doo. whereas my drawings don’t even get the time of day. something is very wrong with the world when someone who was called a great artist by the man who brought you black hole sun, the man who was deemed fastest guitar player in the world, and the man who coined the phrase “death metal” loses out to feminism gone horribly wrong and poop—plus, said artist gets shit on by her own father and brother all for trying to connect with people and be vulnerable with them.

and i know what you’re thinking, too: why don’t you just delete people? well, it’s simple. it’s not just one or two people: everyone is insufferable now. in 2016, it was just one or two really bad eggs and i got rid of them almost immediately—and i still went on hiatus because i had to heal myself and be away from the world. in 2019, it was feeling like i couldn’t fully express my feelings on there without serious repercussions (and realizing i can’t, either—my own family refuses to allow it). 

now? i can’t even so much as lurk anymore because the posts are so bad and so stupid, and the groups can only do so much for me, and really, forget posting altogether from me over there—i only just started feeling comfortable sharing more risqué art on instagram: i talk about pieces of writing on facebook and i hear “go get a real job, honey.” like i said the other day, i’m dreading posting my art nouveau drawings on there in a couple weeks’ time.  it either won’t be seen or it’s going to stir up controversy™️: pretty recently, i posted a photo of my body and my dad and brother whined about it—it took my mom to tell the former that i’m a grown woman and i can do whatever i want. my world won’t be seen for what it is because family (aside from my mom and my aunt chris, two women oddly enough) refuses to allow it.

those two men are bullies: always demanding i talk to them when i don’t have the strength (and they don’t even let me talk, anyway, like wtf), always hovering over me in case i step “out of line”—in a sense, when i talk to someone in private—being overly picky about my art, especially art that’s very personable to me. fucking ALEX SKOLNICK told me straight up he loves me and everything i do and i don’t even know the guy—and i love him to the moon and back because of it. i even told him that on christmas eve last year.

my brother has liked probably all of two drawings from me and my dad once complained to me that “i shouldn’t draw musicians so much” (when i actually draw what i love and i don’t always share everything on fb, either—ig meanwhile is a different story. i’m vulnerable as hell on there and people love me for it). come to think of it: i could probably count on one hand how many times he’s complimented me the last 7.5 years and compliments that were genuine, too, like they weren’t condescending or backhanded, they felt like they came from somewhere genuine. he never went on ig live and said something that beckoned me to tell him he’s criminally underrated and then he sees it and tells me that he just loves me and his voice and face both go all soft and silky. my dad has never looked at me with the look of love the way alex has, and he hasn’t spoken to me with that sweetness, either, at least not in recent memory… like, i mean it when i say instagram has been very kind to me. yeah, it’s owned by meta, too, but it’s a lot different to me, though. this difference has done wonders for me.

my dad’s even had the gall to try and one-up alex, as if i’m wrong for liking him. he’s also asked me if joey’s drunk when he sings—and it’s recent shows, too. he labeled me an alcoholic, and i don’t even drink—and that’s a pretty major rule in a.a., too, you’re not supposed to go around and label people alcoholics against their will or think it’s in your place to say that your only daughter has “the disease” because she took a selfie of herself wearing only a bra.

and yeah, i went awol over there last week, and almost immediately, i was feeling better about myself. i quite literally am feeling better, too, as of writing this, because i am away from it all. away from the ads, which are far worse than instagram and tumblr ads, like at least all of those have some self-awareness to them. away from the echo chambers and the bickering. away from the over emotional behavior: yeah, it’s okay for these fuckers to bleed but i have to always be happy, especially if it’s phony. away from the babies. away from the patronizing. away from the shit. i am away from it all, and i genuinely have no desire to go back, either.

you might also want to ask me, why don’t you just delete? why haven’t you done so already? my brother in christ, have you seen their delete page? you have to jump through hoops to do it—believe me, i went there twice before. it’s not like twitter delete where you just type in your password and press “okay”: it’s like they purposely overcomplicate it so no one leaves. and you never actually leave, either: your data is in their servers for months afterwards. you may be gone but the trail is there for the foreseeable future.

facebook has only made me bear witness to my father as a human being and i hate it. he’s more of a narcissist than whatsername, like he actually pulled that “maybe if you didn’t do this, then more people would like you” on me a few times in recent weeks and in 2015, too: it’s a classic narcissist statement. i can’t talk about my sexuality on there like i can here or instagram. i can’t express myself on there like i can here or instagram. i can’t do anything on there. it’s so bad that i actually somewhat made peace with “happier than ever”: when i’m away from him, i’m in bliss. i’m more myself than ever. he and my brother hold me back. facebook holds me back. it’s holding us all back.

i started saying no when i was 22 and i caught hell. i’m still saying no and i’m still catching hell. i may as well say no for good now because i’m going to catch hell no matter what i do.

dump tiktok, too: they harvest you worse than facebook, believe it or not.

#facebook #deletefacebook #delete facebook #facebook is evil #personal rant #rant post #text

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

When people take the accountability away from women and decide to place the blame on men like nearly most of the Modern Western Feminists™ for literally ALL of their problems, then they aren’t empowering women; what they are doing is basically relegate women to a victimhood, helpless position and make men have power over them by not holding women accountable for a damn thing. Ironic, isn’t it? 🤔  

#anti sexism #anti misogyny #anti misandry #text #like do these so-called feminists not realize wtf they are doing? #also they have devalued everything female-related and feminine so women wouldn't be valued unless they do something #'masculine' or 'male-centric' like....the amount of sexism in that logic is off the charts but it's perpetuated by people who want to #supposedly help women by reinforcing in them the idea that being a woman just fucking sucks that there is no escape from utter suffering #abuse trauma and silence and that their lives would be far better if they were just men #this is the shit women have been fed for years now #i'm fucking pissed #in their quest to 'help' women they end up fucking them over more than the 'patriarchal' system #when you relegate women to being nothing more than victims of grr Evil Men >:( then what the fuck you bitches are doing? #you are taking the power away from them and give it to men which is what the fuck a lot of y'all say you OPPOSE #like....the cognitive dissonance and contradictions are incredible #god the more i read about their ideology the more i realize how fucking full of shit western feminism really is #western feminists don't even help women they just use us for ideology and attacking Evool Mens >>:((( #fuck them this is why i don't fuck the modern feminist movement it's full of a lot of bs and rampant misogyny aside from misandry #when you really analyze a lot of the viewponts they hold of womanhood and femininity #which they think is inherently patriarchal traumatizing and evil like wow ok misogynist #i don't fuck with sexists that's why i don't fuck with a lot of this so-called female empowerment movement when it tells women #they need to stfu and learn their place IF they dare to have a different opinion and just accept the fact that they are women and that's a #very horrible thing because of all the shitty things that come with it #what a great way to empower women... #🙄🙄🙄🙄

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

1. hxp isnt even the healthiest couple in LO lmao. idk how "healthy" a couple built off hades controlling her and lusting after her "small pink body", persephone being submissive and scared of his temper tantrums, and the huge power and age imbalance is supposed to be but that sure aint it.

2. im not against the idea in LO of saying people doubt P because she's a "village girl" but like ? then why does it say she should give up her life on earth and her nature ways to be "modern" like hades? like shouldnt it be more of a point theyre wrong to doubt her and see value in her work and powers, instead of her agreeing w/ them and giving it all up to match whatever hades and co do? that basically says shes not good enough until she follows the crowd and changes who she is for them :/

3. what even if the point to hades asking demeter why he didnt go to him to help cover up treason like?? why would she?? is he just mad he didnt get to flirt with her underage daughter sooner??

4. It doesn’t make sense for all the flower nymphs to be the same shade of ugly highlighter pink that Persephone is… Surely RS knows flowers can come in a huge variety of colours?? Or did RS choose to make them all pink to show how “boohoo Persephone’s stinky mom forces everyone to conform to a single perfect ideAL”? If the latter is true, she’s doing a piss poor job at it because the nymphs are more lively, happy and vibrant than at least two thirds of the cast smh

5. the stupidest part of LO is if rachel actually read the eros and psyche myth she'd realize its actually a priestess to apollo (who in turn is basically the mouthpiece to apollo himself) who makes psyche and eros get together. hes literally the reason theyre a thing!

6. How many times has Persephone's hair changed in this whole trial arc? I swear it looks like it changes from panel to panel

7.TBH i don't even blame the editor(s) at WT for what a shitshow LO is. Just off what other creators have said the editors only do what they ask of them, so it's up to the creators if they want the editors to help them with the plot, characters, etc. It's pretty well known Rachel cannot stand critique and input so it's very likely her third (?) editor doesn't get to help at all and instead just posts the episodes. It's p safe to bet every issue with LO is literally all on Rachel and her alone.

-----FP Spoilers/Mention-----

8. is there any part of this story where persephone actually choses anything? she doesnt get to choose to join the maidens, to stay with artemis, to kill the villagers, to meet hades, to have sex, where she works, where she lives, and now who she tells her trauma to? hera and psyche already took that from her & now hades too. im waiting to see where the consent and agency this story so desperately claims its about will finally show up, because we're heading into year 4 with none of that in sight.

9. I have the horrible feeling, esp with the most recent episodes implying it, that Rachel is going to use Leto as the actual person behind the assault and use it as some hamfisted way to not technically write an important god like Apollo out of the mythology but still give the fans a sort of "justice" in seeing someone suffer. Leto is against Hera too so the fans would extra love to see her sufferr. If we have to see another woman be thrown under the bus in this "feminist" story ill lose it 🤡

10. (FP//) I'm disgusted by the comments. Hades reacts how one should to finding out someone he cares about was sexually assaulted, yet the comments called HIM out for reacting as a normal person and now claiming this "isn't how sexual assault should be handled"? This is the ONLY time it's been handled correctly, yet they got mad at HIM for his reaction? So they were perfectly fine he ripped out a teenager's EYEBALL for taking pap photos, being upset his partner was assaulted is now "toxic"?? wtf??

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #lo critical

[silverdelirium]

https://silverdelirium.tumblr.com/post/666597737860562944/lol-im-tired-of-yall-saying

wtf... im just saying that as an italian person i feel like ur invalidating our experience with mafia. do u realize mafia is the main reason of black slavery in italy? and the main reason of minors' prostitution? do u not care about basic human rights? ur probably on of the "blm 🥺🥺🥺 proud feminist ❤️❤️❤️" people and then say shit like this. writing about mafia/dark themes is a lot different from romanticizining/sexualizing them. "there's a thing called fiction" THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT MAFIA ISN'T FICTION. u are so fucking ignorant. se ti prende sotto un bus ne sarei felice

also this is probably abt what i said: "people also die choking on water so ill stop drinking water ig. people can’t breathe when they die so ig i’ll just hold it. people with cancer don’t have hair so let me go bald. what’s next, should i amputate my limbs too bc amputees don’t have them either?"

this makes zero sense. there's nothing wrong with writing abt mafia, murder, white supremancy etc. the issue is when u guys romanticize them. i literally never said u can't get bald or shit like that. im just hoping y'all are doing it on purposely bc ur a bunch of dumbass.

these caucasians are out of hand today y’all😩

and ain’t no way the mafia au has been in the fanfiction universe for YEARS and this bitch comes whining to me LMFAOO

#name one time i’ve said i want an irl mafia bf #the audacity you have to call me a dumbass on anon #yikes bestie get a life #ALSO I JUST READ THIS FULLY AND THE LITTLE LINE IN ITALIAN IS KILLING MEEEE LITERALLY GROW UP 😭

[cardanapologist]

I think I only ever liked feyre when she was human. Another tumblr person said something like when she was human, she was badass and kicking fae ass but as soon as she was resurrected having every single fucking power in the world it was like ok….now what. And the fact that the ONLY thing that can hurt fae is the stupid ash wood shit got me so pissed even when I was enjoying the books. Like heroes with invincibility suck. And if they didn’t follow any of the fae rules (iron, can’t tell a lie, sworn by oaths) then wtf is the point of calling them fae. Just call them elves so the lotr fandom can come in and shit post 🙄 they might as well at this point.

Even the first few books, hearing what people say about Rhys…it’s like … yeah you’re a hundred percent right why did I think him sexually assaulting her while she was drugged was okay?? And him fingering her infront of the court of nightmares…? Like… why. That was uncalled for. She should have been with the others looking for the orb. She literally had so much power but sjm only finds it useful when she either wants feyre to save the day some how (her transporting mid air or something to save that fae) or for sex with Rhys (did she really need to fucking flow using the summer court powers during her first time with him)

Sorry I’m like on a tangent here, I swear I liked the books (at the time) but idk why I’m even bashing them this hard rn. I guess I’m a little annoyed at people praising it without regarding the faults. Maybe it’s like when we all liked twilight before we realized how problematic it was. Still shaped a lot of my adolescence but I wouldn’t pick it up again.

your opinions are totally valid! i do feel like the maas had this amazing feminist breakthrough and she wanted to show that in her characters. and sometimes it seems like she did okay, like when rhys brings feyre along on dangerous trips versus tamlin who locks her up. and when he tells her that she’s allowed to correct him and she doesn’t need to explain herself, but it seems like all that kinda went down the drain when it came to nesta? so i feel like the intention was great but the execution? i feel like maas doesn’t understand how double standard works and it’s very evident in the acosf especially.

if anything, i’d probably reread acowar and acosf for cassian but not now. maybe when i’ve cooled off a bit LOL

when booktokers hyped this series up, i was so excited. but they were all white booktokers. so when i got to reviews done by POC, which is my fault because as a POC i should have listened to them first, i realized that POC readers have a completely different take on acotar. and i’m like right in the middle.

the story overall is great. kudos to maas’s brain for coming up with it. no kudos to maas’s execution skills tho

#anti sjm #i don’t wanna tag the wrong stuff so i’ll keep it as that #also!! i’m starting TOG soon also we’ll see how that goes

[rexeipts]

Monday Morning Rewatch Thoughts

This episode was disappointing. I think the last episode would have served as a better mid-season finale personally. Thoughts below:

Annie

- The plot of, “I wasn’t Ben,” and Annie being motivated to keep Ben in his current school for that reason is amazing. That is the kind of plot I want, and care about, for Annie. I love that they have included Ben’s transition into the story line in a way that it isn’t the main focus and that Ben has other pieces of characterization and other challenges/points of conflict than just his transition, but that they haven’t shied away from it when it makes sense.

- The financial aid lady is a down.ass.bitch. for telling Annie to just go find some guy she’s slept with the put down on the paperwork. I’m sorry, but that was great of her to be like listen here’s a loophole so you can help your kid and I will not ask questions. 

- I did not like the Kevin (name?) storyline at first because it just didn’t make sense? And I did not like his characterization at the auction of being the “trashy homeless guy” who eats way too much food and steals dogs. I felt like he had more to him when he told Annie that he doesn’t want to be a favor to her. I think she has more chemistry with him than any other guy we have seen her with (including Greg, sue me) and I’m actually looking forward to a possible storyline of her and him falling in love via being awkward roommates. I am hoping it has a current of don’t judge a book by it’s cover, and that Kevin is someone who is a good person and has an interesting story that brings Annie to some sort of realization about herself.

Ruby/Stan

- I HATED... yes... HATED Beth in the scene where Stan was going over the game plan. She was so damn condescending. Stan was biting his tongue and being as polite as he could be, but she was fucking rude. Point blank. Rude. 

- Because of that, I loved the scene where he called Beth out. And he is fucking right. And you know what? He even threw her a bone that she was ignored in her home for so many years. Which is fucking true, and made the conversation SO much more nuanced than just Stan calling her out. It made it sooo much more complex that he mentions her motivations. He has known this woman like a family member to his own family for decades. It makes sense he would see and understand the nuances of why she is doing what she’s doing. I hope it is foreshadowing for something more to come. 

- Sarah and Ruby have the best chemistry of any parent/child relationship in my opinion. I love watching them on screen even for just a few moments. 

- Ruby’s, “I did it for me,” at the end was remniscient of Beth telling Dean, “I wanted to,”. Yes, thank you. Ruby is not a yes man. She did this shit for her family, for her kids, for herself. As much as I think Beth might try to be in charge and often is, it was a good reminder that Ruby is still in there and still has a backbone. She has called Beth out with stealing the Tesla, with the sex tape, etc. before and I want that energy back.

- Annie and Ruby having a sweet moment together on the bench was great, I love them together. They’re so fun but also so so sweet.

Beth/Dean

- She’s with fricken Dean again this week.

- Beth’s eyebrows and wig are fucking terrible. Someone CHILL with the eyebrow filler.

- Was Rio just watching Dean and Beth? Like hanging out waiting? He was like RIGHT THERE when Dean got up. Was he behind a tree watching Dean with his arm around Beth just boiling? 

- Dean being pitied by the guy he was trying to sell product to was great. He has been knocked down so many pegs. But also, it was a waste of fucking screen time.

- Not so easy to get out from under someone’s thumb, huh Deansie? How’s it feel to be a dumb ass yet again? A year’s supply of skin care? Guessing Beth is gonna have to bail him out which is again a waste of screen time and something no one gives a shit about seeing.

-  The fact that Dean thinks he was good at selling cars is just... sad.

- Beth being a “bad bitch” and selling purses to the husbands who went to see strippers is completely undermined by her being a doormat for Dean who is a sexist, condescending pig who cheated, lied about cancer, and has not shown a single ounce of respect for her as a woman outside of her ability to raise children and make cookies.

- I do not want to see a storyline of Beth trying to get money to leave and go to Nevada or wherever. I know the show runners have said Beth will realize she can’t escape Rio if they’re in the same town, so that is what this storyline is going to be. Her trying to escape Rio yet again. This has been drawn out long enough now. This episode was so confusing and weird. Like her and Rio got the trust of the SS just so the agents could leave? Their relationship advancement, her making this choice of him or SS, etc. was for... what? The drama of the last episode was because of... what exactly? What was the entire point of the SS storyline if it literally put us no where? I’m asking sincerely if anyone has thoughts.

- I don’t want to see Beth and Dean anymore. I am fucking exhausted of seeing Beth and Dean. I am over it. I spent almost this entire episode on my phone because I was bored. The Beth being sweet to Dean storyline is so so so far past where it made any logical sense to the plot. There has been no advancement or progress. She’s supposed to be in a love triangle? We have seven episodes left and there has been absolutely zero progress in her and Dean’s situation. I will be looking for some fucking conflict in this next episode with Dean seeing Rio otherwise I have little to no hope for the Brio ship going forward.

Rio/Nick

-  Rio is the spider that Dave talked about right? That he couldn’t get and so he never went back in the bed?

- Nick is a pathetic pussy, and so is his bodyguard. Mick is the only ‘muscle’ I want on my screen. Thanks.

- The bullet wounds not being there is unacceptable. Not just because it completely minimizes the fact that this man was shot in the chest three times and left to die, but also just from a plot standpoint. Like this was the entire storyline of season 3. Wtf. I understand Dean’s not being there, because that was treated as a minimal storyline. But Beth shooting Rio was the entire basis of season 3′s conflict. It’s bizarre and completely unacceptable.

- I posted a little while back about stereotypes, guessing that Nick was going to push Rio and Beth together by stereotyping them both and not seeing the deeper connection between them. Tooting my own horn because this is exactly what Nick did. Beth is the soccer mom, Rio the “gangster”.

- Nick and Dean are the same force for Rio and Beth, respectively. They’re both oppressors. They both don’t get it, the draw between the two. Beth and Rio both try to minimize their relationship, admitting only to sex and nothing more, to their oppressors. Beth used to want to get out from Dean’s grasp and Rio currently does with Nick. Both Dean and Nick have put this other person in a box, minimized them to nothing more than a stereotype, taken away their choices, taken away their power and control. How Beth does not realize Dean is her oppressor and not Rio is fucking beyond me.

- Nick doesn't have kids, so who was the kid referring to Rio as his uncle? The female cousin’s child? Let’s see more of her and less of Dean please.

- Rio literally couldn’t cope the second Nick brought up Beth. He walked away like a love-struck teenage idiot not wanting to admit that he made a bad decision over a girl. I’m curious about this. I hope we find out more of why Rio did it. Did he do it just to scare Beth into submission because he knew he couldn’t hurt her? Or was there a layer of thinking Lucy was a threat to Beth? Because Lucy was pissed at Beth. Or a layer of trying to feign still having power in front of his boys but not being able to hurt Beth? 

- Rio’s voice is so raspy at the end, he’s so tired and beaten down, literally and figuratively. And I cannot catch the meaning behind “sometimes it’s worth it”, to be yourself? He sounded so... just sad and down when he said it. It sounded so vulnerable. 

- It is not, I repeat, not a storyline they should go down of thinking it is cool/fun/sexy/empowering/feminist for this “gangbanger” to be in love with the housewife and for her to not reciprocate and then torment him. It’s not. 

Promo/Going Forward:

- I think we have seen confirmation that Rio will lie/keep things from Nick. I think Rio gave Beth the plates, and they will be working together going forward. I hope.

- Rio chilling in the backroom of PP with Beth, so chill, so nonchalant, put me in the ground.

- In the below shot, you can see Rio still sitting there with his hand on his chin as Beth talks to Dean. This scene better be LOADED. Go ahead and mention them banging, Dean. That will be fun. But also I want to see Beth try to talk her way out of it. Go ahead and try to tell Dean you didn’t have a choice Elizabeth. Go ahead and try to minimize what this is when Rio is sitting there listening. That will be golden conflict. I want to see Rio realize the dynamic between Beth and Dean, see him see how submissive and pathetic she is when Dean is around, see how Dean belittles her, and then use that against her to pull her out of her shell. I want to see Beth try to minimize her relationship with Rio, see him call her out on that too. Idk. This scene has been four seasons coming so it better not be a disappointment.

#nbc good girls #gg spoilers #beth boland #annie marks #ruby hill #rio #gg season 4

[half-a-hetero]

ATLA BATTLE OF THE BANDS AU SETUP PT. 1

oK SO I’VE HAD THIS AU IN MY HEAD FOR TWO FKN DAYS AND I HAVE COME TO EVER SO GRACIOUSLY INJECT IT INTO YOUR MIND- THE GAANG PLUS YUE AND THE FIRE NATION GALS IN BANDS. a battle of the bands au. tHINK OF THE aRt. n i’m thinking zukka and yueki, and they meet at battle of the bands but yk...we got 2 sets of pining idiots yk yk. i thought this up five (5) days ago and iM DYING 

(tw: mentions of canon-typical abuse, and past death)

this is basically just the setup but i’ll add little tidbits and worldbuilding and art later

zuko (18): drums + backup vocals

mai (16): bass guitar

ty lee (15): keyboard

azula (15): lead guitar + vocals

suki (17/18): rhythm guitar

they do some group vocals/harmonies but not that often

so like azula has this really strong, really powerful voice, and that means she could do really moving rock ballads/power ballads, and etc etc. she took extensive guitar and voice lessons as a kid because of That Fucker Ozai™ and thats why she has so much control. same with zuko, except he didnt take voice lessons (he just liked singing) and quit guitar after ozai went to jail (it was a painful reminder of The Shit He Went Through) and took up drums to let out his anger and frustrations instead. Azula stuck with guitar because it was something she loved to do, despite her past.

where azula has a bold voice, zuko has a raspy-yet-smooth-at-the-same-time one that matches azula’s really well. while she’s off singing power notes, hes singing the lower, raspier undertones and it sounds really nice.

zuko also took up art classes and is genuinely proud of his work.

he’s secretly (its not that much of a secret) an art nerd

zuko, azula, and suki wrote a few songs together, kinda

for lack of better explanation, ozai was (canon-typically) abusive, and he got drunk one day and got mad at zuko and pushed him. zuko fell into the fireplace, and boom. scar.

azula got mainly mental trauma because zuko would take the blow for her, but she got therapy and theyre both for the most part better (there are still some relapses)

azula’s secretly a DC nerd

zUkO wEaRs riNgs 

the canon-typical atla “ozai pitting them against eachother sibling rivalry” comes into play through guitar (hence why zuko drops it. he wanted to let his sister have something she loved for herself. also, he didnt like it). ozai was a classical guitarist and famous [the money and the “royalty” canon aspects]

should i….mullet zuko?

aro azula and toph >>>>

ty lee is still from the circus, except this time mai was there too, which is where she learned knife-throwing. they both ran away from the circus summer after freshman year and met azula though mai’s bass lessons (alternatively, they met at martial arts classes). theyre 14/15. they moved in with azula, zuko, and iroh around the middle of sophomore year (grade 10) when ozai was arrested. the azula and ty lee were 15, mai was 16, and zuko was 17 at the time, around the ages they were in the show when the war ended (i think??)

azula said it didn't matter cause they had a huge house. she says it was half-empty, anyways, but mai and ty lee know that meant she liked their company.

they get along really well with suki

everyone realizes they can all play instruments, the core parts of a [rock] band. they start playing together, and eventually decide to become a band

their band is called ‘the kyoshi warriors’ (or something idk this is off the top of my head) in honor of the girls’ martial arts instructor, master kyoshi, who passed away

WAIT SJITGHHFSD FAN THE FLAMES IS A GOOD NAME TOO WHAT (although i can see that being more of a song name) credits to boom ( @boomerangsandadora) for that (go check out their ideas on this au)

theyre inseparable

together, mai, ty lee, suki, azula and zuko look fucking menacing. just imagine that. fucking bamfs

mai skateboards. just. this is a kind of important plot device. shh.

suki joins their friend group gradually. first, she’s attended azula’s martial arts class since they were in second grade, and moved up the belts like wildfire (along with azula). she tried to befriend azula a few times, but gave up over the years because azula wasnt interested in friendship (no thanks to ozai pressuring her to always be first. azula saw her as a rival, suki saw azula as a particularly competitive classmate and but equal in skill). She was zuko’s classmate since freshman year (grade 9) but only became his friend in sophomore year through a literature assignment the two were paired up in. she was really his only friend, cause everyone was too busy sizing up his scar. the two became inseparable then on.

she plays rhythm guitar because she loves guitar but agrees that azula is better at being in the (relative) spotlight

on the outside, suki and zuko looked tough, but underneath that, they’re two bumbling, pining gay idiots

suki’s parents both died in a fire, so she grew up with her “cool gay aunt” who was also a feminist and a mixed martial arts instructor.

suki spends her time teaching the beginner classes at the dojo

she met azula + the girls thru martial arts and zuko

overall thingies:

even though zuko is oblivious to sokka’s reciprocate feelings, no one else is. mai, azula, and ty le are just like “zuko wtf you’re more blind than toph”

he thinks the rest of his friends dont know about his crush bu he forgets who his sister is. honestly. all he talks about is sokka, it isnt hard.

unlike a lot of other bands, they actually have more complicated and interesting bass riffs, and a lot of times when writing songs they start with bass and build up from there

azula and toph get along becaus theyre the only sensible ones around. all their friends are pining idiots and they bond over their mutual superiority 🪄🧃🧃

mai skateboards at the same skatepark as sokka and aang. she’s long since past trying to teach zuko (he’s an uncoordinated gay mess) (who can somehow still play drums ??what???)but once she sees him agree to learn to skate from sokka she knows what’s up

suki’s birthday is during th time this fic happens, and she invites yue to the party (she tells zuko he has to invite sokka because even though she loves her bestie, he really is dumb)

“hey yue, we’re having a little get-together for my birthday, and i was wondering if you wanted to come?” compare to zuko’s “uh—hey sokka? i, um. suki’s birthday is pretty soon, and, well. we’re having a get-together to celebrate? and i—she asked me to invite someone? andifyoudontwannagothatstotallyfineimsorryforbotheringyou-” (includes much stammering and heavy blushing)

on the outside suki’s all calm (someone has to be the “i’m a mess but i dont look it” friend🙄🙄. honestly)but on the inside she’s like

“oh my gOD is that dyed hair hOLY FUcK thats so badass and she pLAYS BASS TOo that’s hOt”

“WAITWHATTHEFUCKISSHESPEAKINGTOME- ?? she’s laughing now she’s gORGEOUS- ThE giGGLEs i CANt bREatHE-”

“hOLY mOtHEr of kYosHi sHe’s wEAriNG lEsbiAn riNgS sHIT and her voice is so nice too fUCK i think i’m in love-”

#battle of the bands au #atla #i dont know what happened but i drank a gallon of fic idea juice and this happened #iT HASNT WORN OFF #THIS IS JUST PART ONE I HAVE THE REST TOO #im drowning in this fic idea #@writers 😏😏 hey #anyone wanna cowrite #zukka #yueki #possibly mailee #mailee #ITS ON #i’m so excited #im drafting some art too #avatar the last airbender fanfic #ideas #AYYO IF YALL HAVE INPUT AND IDEAS ILL TAKE IT #zukka fanfiction #yueki fanfiction #its a gay mess #okay imma stop it with the tags now #bye #suki #yue #sokka #zuko #azula #toph #aang

[newta]

Ridiculous shit i love about SW the clone wars

The clones calling a 14 year old girl "Sir"

Obi Wan in the Hunger Games

The one where a terrorist slapped Ahsokas ass

Artoo deciding to go to a robo Spa with the money Anakin gave them for fruit while Treepio gets kidnapped

Anakin being Dad Vader everytime Ahsoka is in danger

Cad Bane killing someone because his hat was cooler

Ahsoka overthrowing a corrupt government with the help of 5 untrained students

The one where Anakin lost R2 and lied while intending Ahsoka was his daughter and lost R2

The one where two Jedi and a Sith where chained on one another and failed to escape till Jar Jar fucking Binks saved them

Hondo being Space Jack Sparrow

The feminist witch clan who just chill in the woods being loyal to only themselves

Every third episode someone tries to kill Padme, because shes the only one in the galaxy to have braincells

The one where someone stole Ahsokas lightsaber and she had to get them back with a jedi grandpa, because anakin would scould her. Like 3 people died

Ahsoka being resurrected by the personification of the Light Side (shes space jesus, we dont need the Chosen One, Anakin fuck off)

How the Jedi just take 14 year old into shady bars and stripclubs

That one horny super kinky slaver queen like wtf the episode was brutal

Padme and Satine being royal besties and judging men together

Anakin slowly becoming mad while the imperial march plays in the background, Ahsoka tries to decide how much is enough

Everyone underestimating Artoo and getting their asses kicked

Sending Skywalker and Kenobi to every single mission cause Kenobi is the only one who likes and can handle Anakin

Correction! Obi wan loves him but he doesnt like him

Anakin throwing away all his morals when someone he loves is involed

Boba Fett being a whiny lil kid

Young Tarkin being a bitch no one likes except Anakin who even with the force on his side is a dumbass and thinks hes a good guy

The one where hunters kidnapped jedi younglings and used them for hunting like wtf

Obi Wan bullying Anakin like theres no tomorrow calling it banter

Anakin giving padme his lightsaber as a symbol of love while terrorists get into the senate and he is utterly useless BECAUSE HE GAVE HIS LIFE AWAY BECAUSE PADME WAS BUSY AND COULDNT GO ON VACATION WITH HIM.

The one where padme had to flirt with a senator and anakin was just jealous

Everyone knowing Skywalker and Kenobi like they are celebraties

Padme always wanting to go on diplomatic missions but ending up in shootings in some hangars

Anakin, just Anakin

Those motherfucker who just keep talking in their language not caring for anyone or trying to speak basic, fuck yeah u do you boo

Anakin realizing what he will do when he turns evil so he turns evil

#star wars fanfiction #star wars thoughts #sw tcw #the clone wars #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka tano #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #padme amidala #jedi council

[irandomblogfulb]

FATE: What happens when you get a bunch of middle aged white guys to adapt a cartoon for girls

Well, I just went through 6 hours of fate and I have a lot of opinions on it. Yeah, this is going to be long (slightly under 3k words) so putting it under read more and obvious spoilers.

PSA before delving right in:

1) Yes, I will be comparing to the original. Any comparisons are not through rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. There are parts here and there that I genuinely think were done better in the cartoon on a writing standpoint.

2) This is purely my opinion and overall negative. Don't like it? Don't read. I'm all up for discussion but I don't want another person crying to me about how I “ruined” their experience of the show.

3) If you like Fate then good for you. This isn’t me bashing people who like it. 

I've spit it up into sub sections just for my own convince.

1. The problem with the 'I'm not like other girls' trope

This pertains to the entire Bloom-Sky-Stella love triangle. I wasn't as pressed about it compared to other winxers (and I loved Stella's and Brandon's relationship on my rewatch). In fact, I was okay with it. But then I sat down and watched the show and there's a lot of underlying problems with the love triangle. Particularly pitting Bloom and Stella against each other for Sky's affection.

Now this part of the love triangle I already didn't like. Correct me if I'm wrong, since I dropped the OG Winx after season 5 but the Winx while they did have their conflicts and arguments, never fought over a boy. I really appreciated that from the cartoon so seeing that live action would fall into that trap – I was mildly annoyed at that. Then it hit me. It's Bloom and Stella.

The seemingly ordinary girl vs the pristine princess of Solaria. If the title didn't give it away, you should get the point by now. Others have already called it by now but the "I'm not like other girl's" trope in itself, while seemingly feminist is actually misogynist. Saying the more masculine type of girl is better than the feminine is inherently misogynist. Stella, the prime princess, girly and feminine, is villainized by the love triangle. Sky's and Stella's relationship is toxic and Stella's overt co-dependence and jealousy are already big fat red signs - but Sky's and Bloom's relationship is built on how she's "different". Bloom isn't like Stella, she's "real".

2. Am I supposed to like Riven?

As the title puts it, wtf am I supposed to feel about Riven. Is he supposed to be a good guy? Do I root for him? Is he morally ambiguous? Because holy shit compared to OG!Riven, this guy is diabolical and much much worse! OG!Riven is an asshole and he teams up with the trix but his arc was very simple and easy to understand. He joins the bad guys, distances himself from the good guys, the trix betray his ass, he self-reflects in the dungeon - escapes and redeems himself. Net!Riven is so bad to the point where you can't redeem him and the writers don't even try. Freddie Thorp is good in his role. (however, he definitely doesn't pass for a 17-year-old. He's 26 and it shows) and he actually makes the cringe dialogue work. But he's way too diabolical and downright predatory. The scene where he forces Dane to gulp down his spiked drink - it’s worse seeing it than reading it. That grossed me out more than the gore.

What makes it worse, nobody properly calls him out. Beatrix kinda does on his homophobia – “Homophobic bashing by GIF” - and Sky does chastise him, but they still tolerate him. It is kinda funny in a way Sky has a whole ass arc about how he's enabling Stella's problematic behaviour by still dating her after she blinded her friend but doesn't realize he's doing the same for Riven.

The only person that really puts her foot down with Riven is Terra and nobody takes her seriously about anything she says.

Everyone is very laissez-faire around him and that's not how you respond to your friend being problematic. (Hey, kinda like the other girls sans Aisha are with Bloom!) Everyone surrounding Riven is so disgusting and the notion of him supposedly being a good guy is very hard to buy into. His whole relationship with Dane has a section of it’s own because there’s just a lot to unpack.

3. Stella I am so sorry

I'm also in the majority hating how they've tarnished Stella. Basically, they turned her into the stereotypical rich bully with mommy issues.

I get that Stella has an abusive mom but that’s no excuse to be a total bitch to her roommates. And no, her roommates shouldn't accept her back with open arms. And she doesn't even redeem herself - the girls just accept her back after her mom pulls her from Alfea.

And this is also another issue with the writing were the characters suddenly just change their opinions on a whim. Suddenly Stella likes the winx, suddenly Terra misses Stella even though having that girl literally gives her anxiety. Suddenly Aisha's on Bloom's side in the end.

This isn't me simping for the cartoon out of nostalgia. I was mostly okay with the idea of Stella and Sky hooking up. But Looking at it from a creative standpoint - looking at the source material, and the many paths you can take this character, the best thing Brian Young and co. can think of for her was turning her into the stereotypical rich bully that we've seen time and time again? No deconstruction no meta take, it's played out exactly how you’d expect it.

Again, this isn't me simping for the show. Purely from a creative standpoint Stella was such a major let down. There's so much to the character and Brian Young took the easiest, saturated path.

4. That one scene with Bloom's parents

You know the one. Mike unhinges Bloom's bedroom doors and Vanessa cusses out and insults her child like a petty teen bully. Forgetting how utterly cringey that scene was, you can't have her mom go batshit insane on her child, then act like she's this loving parent that cares so deeply about her daughter. Screw that! Vanessa deserved those 3rd degree burns! She invaded her daughter's privacy. Bloom didn't even do anything wrong!

I can't buy into this narrative of Vanessa and Mike being loving parents when they do something like that. Seriously who thought that was okay?

5. Pity Parties for everyone.

I already discussed this in Stella’s section but I don’t like the “it’s okay for me be a shitty person because my life sucks :)” narrative Fate tries to pull. They did it with Stella, Bloom, Riven.

What I liked about the first season of Winx Club is Bloom’s arc and her character as a whole. Because while she went through shit, from the Trix, to finding out she was adopted, her existential crisis, not feeling like she belonged, losing the dragon flame, she went through a lot. She didn’t throw a pity party. She didn’t whine, bitch and complain. She allowed herself to feel upset, took it as it is and tried to make lemonade out of lemons. And I respect that.

Net!Bloom is agrevating. She does some dumb, reckless stuff but it’s excused because she’s the protagonist? She let the war criminal out, the school gets taken over by the bad guys because of Bloom. Faragonda fucking dies because she let the war criminal out! The burned ones attacked the school because she let the war criminal out!!! But no, Aisha’s villainized for calling Bloom out because Bloom’s existential crisis is more important then anything else.

Getting to Sky, he isn’t as bad as the others. He doesn’t become a shitty person because of his problems. (Though lowkey flirting with Bloom while he hooks up with Stella is uh not good.) But he does come across incredibly whiny. Because of the cringey dialogue and the unnecessary swearing  I can’t take his speech on opening up to Bloom seriously. I laughed throughout the whole thing and Bloom leaving his unconscious body there was the icing on the cake.

One of the few characters that deserved a pity party is Terra. She’s very much like OG!Bloom in a way. She is bullied by Dane and Riven, has body insecurities, anxiety, nobody listens to her and at most only tolerates her. Despite all the crap that is thrown her way she still reminds humble, kind, and respectful. And she is one of the few characters that deserves more support than what she got out of the season.

5. Bloom, Aisha, Tokenism and their awful relationship

I’m going to be upfront, their relationship sucks. The core of their dynamic is what Aisha can do for Bloom. It’s very one-sided. Bloom only goes to Aisha to help solve her problems, which Aisha gladly does – but when Aisha disagrees with Bloom or says something Bloom doesn’t like, Bloom suddenly goes off and Aisha’s made to be the bad guy. Even though she’s right? And Aisha has her own problems as well, shown to also struggle with her powers. But nope, that’s pushed to the back burner because Bloom needs help.

I am all for creative freedom. I can stomach Stella x actual Sky. I can stomach turning Stella into a rich mean girl. I can stomach the dark academia aesthetic but what Brian Young and co. did to Aisha is just plain racist. Screw the “it’s an adaptation” excuse. Turning this character who had a rich storyline and was a princess into a white girl’s magical negro who fixes all her problems is racist and by definition tokenism. And by whitewashing the other two characters of color, making Aisha the only poc in the group – that’s the worst thing you can do to her.

And frankly we need more black princesses on screen.

6. Dane and the homophobia of the show

Towards the show’s climax it’s revealed Dane is helping Beatrix because she accepts he’s “different”. Not only does this go back to my pity party rant but like bruh,

1)      Beatrix never really did anything for Dane? She hung out and smoked with him a bit, but that’s all. You’re telling me Terra wouldn’t accept Dane? Beatrix never helped him and he never really opened up to her about his struggles.

2)      Nobody else, not even background characters bully or harass Dane for being “different”. It’s only Riven, the guy he’s crushing on. The whole falling in love with the bad boy/abuser trope is bad in a hetero relationship and that still stands for a gay one. And I know damn well if Dane was a woman half of the shit Riven did to Dane wouldn’t slide.

It makes no sense for Dane to side with the bad guys when Riven’s the one bullying him and Beatrix is complacent in the bullying. Oh, and having your second black* character who’s also lgbt+/potentially questioning be a villain? Not good.

I’m all for gay and poly rep, but not like this. If Stella and Sky’s toxic relationship is going to be called out for what it is, why not Dane’s?

*Idk if Theo Graham is light-skinned black or biracial so I’ll just refer to him as black.

7. The plot

It’s very predictable. Personally, wasn’t fond of the ‘twist of a twist of a twist’ style of writing. The story tries to be nuanced and deep but it’s not. Common sense is treated like a big revelation. Not trusting the war criminal you barely know isn’t as big of a take that the writers try to make it out to be.

8.  Everything else

·       Beatrix is fine. No Icy but did like the gothic bookworm aesthetic.

·       Sam is just there to be Musa’s love interest and provide some dumb drama between Musa and Terra. I thought they’d go the Edward/Bella root – Musa’s drawn to Sam because she can’t sense his emotions for some reason. Nope, they just get together for the obligatory make out sessions. Don’t care much for the relationship or the character.

·       Since the powers are all elemental shouldn’t there be classes purely for an elemental? Classes purely for fire fairies, etc?

·       Musa’s powers are confusing. If she has no control over them and they are “always on”, shouldn’t her eyes constantly be glowing purple?  Very wishy washy. Sometimes they overwhelm her and other times she has complete control. Her character is just there for plot stuff.

·       Terra is one of the better characters but can’t enjoy her knowing about the whitewashing. Why can’t we have a plus sized character just exist and not have body issues?

·       Sky doesn’t feel like a prince. Characters treat him like his dad is a war hero and not the King of Eraklyon. There was a point where I thought I misheard and thought his dad was just a war hero and not a king.

·       Why try to justify Rosalind’s war crime if she’s going to be the big bad anyways?

·       The way the characters treat death/act around death is very weird. Musa and Terra see a pile of dead bodies and they’re unreasonable calm. Especially Bloom an “ordinary teenage girl from earth”, reacts very nonchalant when death and war crimes are brought up. Doesn’t help the show tries to push this “they’re kids fighting a war” narrative.

·       Can’t buy into the girls’ friendship. The Aisha/Bloom dynamic is centred on what Aisha can do for Bloom. Bloom only cares about herself and only goes to her friends to help with her problems. Most of Musa’s and Terra’s interaction centre around Sam. Stella didn’t care for the girls until her mom showed up and pulled a 180. The girls were quick to turn on Aisha when she sided with the adults.

·       I have no problem with technology existing but why do they have Instagram, Tiktok and Tumblr? The otherworld is a completely separated from Earth, why do they have the same technology?  

9. Brian Young, what do you mean by mature?

I grew up on the 4kids dub before transitioning to the Nick dub for season 4 and 5 then dropping the cartoon for good. So naturally on my rewatch of the cartoon I decided to go watch the RAI dub since I heard it’s more accurate and 4Kids are infamous for their horrid localisations straying too much to the source material. Upon finishing season 1 and currently watching season 2, a few things took me by surprise. For one, the cartoon is surprisingly dark. The schools are at war with the Trix and their army of Darkness, Sky almost dies in Season 2, Riven almost dies and the Trix thinks he suicided, it’s heavily implied in Season 2 Darkar murdered some of the pixies, the paedophilic undertones of Bloom and Avalon’s relationship, the list goes on.

When the interview with Brian Young came out, he said Fate would be a mature take on the cartoon. And I wondered, what did he meant by mature? Was he going to delve deeper into the darker aspects of the show, or did he mean he was going to have the girls swear and have sex? Watching Fate, I found my answer.

If you take out the gore, swearing, drug and alcohol usage from the live action, the maturity is on par with the RAI dub. The difference is in the presentation. This is what sucks about the mentality surrounding live action remakes. Because the OG!Winx was colourful with glittery transformations , was super girly and overall had a positive upbeat tone (not forgetting 2D animated) - it can’t be taken seriously. You have to strip all that, the colour, the kindness, the femininity in order to be deemed mature.

10. Wrapping up

I went into Fate expecting the worst and honestly, it wasn’t that bad. There were things I liked about it. The show looks pretty, and I did like what they were trying to do with Sky’s arc. The actors did what they could with the material. Freddie Thorp made the cringe dialogue work and Abigail Cowen proves she can carry a show as the lead.

Fate is your generic, YA, dark academia show. It follows all the tropes of the YA genre to a T. If that’s your niche, then you’ll love Fate and I’m not bashing anyone who liked it.

For me, as a creative, it doesn’t capitalise on the strengths of the source material. I’m not asking for Winx Club again, as I’ve reiterated, I’m all for creative freedom. But Brian Young, Iginio Straffi, whoever worked on this – they could’ve created something new, innovative, something that stood out from the hordes of other YA shows. They had good material in their hands! But what I got -  I’ve seen before, and I’ve seen it done better. That’s a major disappointment.

As a winx club fan, don’t bother watching this. It’s a very diluted version of the Winx. In trying to capture the interest of the adult fans who grew up with the franchise – Iginio showed how out of touch he is if he thinks this is what they wanted.

#fate the winx saga #netwinx #back on my winx club bs #long post #this took me like 4 days to write

[serinesaccade]

rule 63 e and r??

LESBIABS

I am doing other amis as well bc this is important

-female Enjolras pleases me on a deep and spitefully spiritual level bc I think canon Enj was not much for female empowerment. like I don’t think he opposed. just wasn’t on his radar. therefore my rule for female Enj is that she is Incredibly Feminist. as you might be able to predict by now I do HC her as femme and a lipstick lesbian (cough I also HC her as bi because I make the rules don’t LOOK at me) but by God will she get that lipstick all over her girlfriend. she is committed. she is 5′11″ and wears platform heels specifically to say Fuck You to men who are scared of Tall Women. she is v quiet and soft spoken and at first men are always like ;) but then she opens her mouth and it’s a slaughterhouse. sometimes R paints or plays guitar and Enj glares Very Hard and R assumes it is bc she is being noisy. it is actually bc Enj is obsessed with her fingers. In reverse, female!Enj incorporates a lot of hand gestures into her speeches and R Passes Out

-female R is a useless lesbian stereotype. I could stop there but I will not. R wears a lot of soft plaid that is all paint speckled. she does dress like a sorority girl at parties but is basically a chapstick lesbian. she probably has a cool haircut bc Bahorel maintains it. i’m obsessed with undercuts so... yep. she never bothers to cut her nails bc she has a bad habit of chewing on them. she was not functional before she met Enjolras and afterwards it only got worse before eventually getting a heck of a lot better. she did obey the lesbian time-honored tradition of basically being married to Enjolras before acknowledging that maybe they were in mutual like. she has a very popular reddit post that’s just “girl I’ve known for a few years keeps kissing me & holding my hand and invited me to move in. wtf does she want someone help me.” Enj has actually been shown this post by a screaming Courfeyrac but was very busy drafting a speech so did not connect any dots

-female Courf is adorable and freckled and the human equivalent of a sunflower and I love her. female Combeferre is very tired but she will one day become an OBGyn. Jehan has the longest hair and is unbearably pretty. I realize many of these things are not specific to rule 63 and you know what-- pls don’t call me out it’s been a long day

-marius is still a boy. i need you to know this. he has been adopted into Les(bian) Amis and sometimes people are like “hey Marius why are you in a club for lesbians” and for a year Marius said “what?” and then Eponine and Cosette started kissing so Marius did some frantic googling. now all three of them are dating. marius now proudly responds to this question with a clearly coached “it’s not just for lesbians! there are also other sexual orientations represented by its women!” and the people inevitably say “...are you a woman” and marius is still at the “what?” stage with that follow up question. Lesbiamis have adopted this boy and he is much beloved

-Bahorel is kind of?? Avril Lavigne?? I don’t know how to express this

anyway I do have a lesbian AU but it is a few scenes from complete so maybe it will never see the light of day

[duskholland]

Okay this is going to be one hell of a ride so buckle up. After the almost kiss and almost love declaration happened, I told two friends and my cousin about what happened because I was too in shock and absolutely needed to tell someone about it. I held it together for like half a day and then tea was spilled. Both are mutual friends with my *friend*, let’s call him B, and they both were super shocked because it’s so out of character for him to say what he did and put himself in a situation where

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where things could have escalated because he’s just such a devoted boyfriend to his girlfriend. Long story short, we talked it out and came to the conclusion that it was a very heat of the moment kind of thing, didn’t mean anything and blah blah blah. I was still feeling weird about it for the next three days but eventually it all died out - the weirdness, the confusing feelings, the possible attraction, etc. That same week, however, I reflected a lot on my relationship and my happiness. + I realized that I truly have been in an emotionally abusive relationship and finally realised that I absolutely deserve better. I found my inner strength again and it was feminist and beautiful and I’m proud of myself. One day my boyfriend was just plain rude to me for no reason over something stupid and I just snapped. I was like “You know what? I’m done with this shit. I deserve better.” And girl I fucking LEFT THE APARTMENT. + For a day. I came back, we had a real talk, he apologized a lot, acknowledged that he fucked up and promised to change if I chose to give him a second chance. So he’s been sleeping on the couch all this time and has stepped up his boyfriend game considerably. We’re like very slowly warming up to one another again but we’re still officially dating. And yeah we’ll see how it goes but I’m not giving up on myself this time. + So, last night… you guessed it B came over and we had two other friends come over too (we all live in the same building as I’ve mentioned) to hang out and have a few beers. At some point in the night we headed downstairs to play pool and my boyfriend didn’t come cause we’re in finals and he’s not done with his so he had to rest. + So we’re downstairs playing and being silly and I was all like shoving my cleavage in the guys’ line of vision to distract them and make them miss their shots because I was tipsy and because I can. And like they were being silly about it too and totally not gross because they’re nice guys and they were like laughing and shit. Except that B was definitely getting affected. Like, homeboy was sweating. + And then. And THEN. He said “If you don’t stop teasing me like that… My girlfriend already gave me the ok.” LIKE WHAT THE FUCK. Who says that??? Mind you, he was 100% sober. Didn't have a drop of alcohol all night cause he was driving. The worst part? That got me wet on. the. spot. And that scared me so much for some reason that I practically ran away to the bathroom. And then I went to bed. And as usual we haven’t talked about it. Though he did check up on me today. + But yeah man now I can’t stop thinking about it and it’s driving me a little crazy. And dude… excuse the nsfw but, God, I wanna fuck him. Bad. And like a lot of times. He was looking at me with straight up thirst and it was so hot. I had to run away because even though I am appalled at the idea of cheating, I’m also mad horny and in a bad place with my relationship and I’m only human so yeah. Why is my life fan fiction?

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your life.........is an angsty slow burn fic. this is a rollercoaster and I can barely keep up there is so much going on lmao. I'm glad you gave your boyfriend a piece of your mind, but don’t put up with him if he’s a dick. seriously. don’t. the tensing and wording that you’ve used in this is kinda suggestive that you still think you deserve better -- and YOU DO -- so just...remember you’re a boss ass bitch and you deserve the whole world. if you think you guys can get to a better place again then, of course, follow your heart with that, but there will be other guys who will treat you like you deserve to be treated (a queen), so don’t settle for someone who is emotionally abusive. you deserve better, and I know you know that too. 

as for your friend....fhdkjhfjdkhfjkdh. wtf. what kind of person says ‘my girlfriend already gave me the ok’ fhkjdhfkjdh. I actually gasped when I read that lmao ??? the audacity ?? this man.... good luck my dude. don’t cheat on your boyfriend, you’ll probably regret it. dump him then have fun (but also...obviously...if your friend has a girlfriend.....maybe avoid going there too hfkdfhdjk). I liked the part where you’re like ‘I wanna fuck him. Bad. And like a lot of times.’ I feel that. but I am wishing you the best of luck mate!! good luck navigating this all <3

#you better come back with updates again pls im invested as fuck in this saga #don't let him treat you like shit #+ if you want to shag your bestie..... #just be safe and wait until he's broken up with his gf lmao #stay !! safe !!!!! #anonymous