#sw wank for ts

[queermania]

Same anon, I also wanted to add that bodily autonomy IS inherently a Sam issue because there are so many instances in the text that has to do with something out of Sam's control. Being Lucifer's true vessel (which yes, Dean was Michael's and he didn't have control over that either, but that's not portrayed as much in the text because they WANTED the viewers to see Sam's struggle with his "destiny" because Lucifer is Lucifer, but it would have been nice to see Dean being Michael's vessel affect him more.) The demon blood was a violation, obviously. John violated both of his children's autonomy by trying to turn them into mindless soldiers. That's why it showed Sam get away, because it was showing a small portion of his life when he gained that autonomy back, only for Azazel and Lucifer to control his life again by killing Jess so that they could manipulate him into leaving the life he made for himself free of control. (Not to mention they controlled more than just Jessica's death. His best friend was a demon, his prom date was a demon, his teacher was a demon, etc etc. His whole life was meticulously planned out in a way that Dean's wasn't.) Then the Special Children stuff, then Ruby comes along, and as I explained before, violates his autonomy. That's why FINALLY in the season 5 finale, which as a reminder was supposed to be the end of the show, it portrayed him getting his autonomy back by taking control of his body!! It doesn't get any clearer than that!! His first words of the series are "Do I have to?" and his last are "You're going to have to make me!" This is his whole story arc of the first 5 seasons, regaining his autonomy and it was done so well. But then the next seasons go back to violating them again when he comes back soulless and his soulless self does a bunch of things to violate it, like sleeping with people and doing certain things Sam would never do. Then the whole Gadreel thing. (Which I wasn't as mad that Dean tricked Sam into bringing him back to life, but moreso that he manipulated him for months and Sam had a whole ANGEL living inside of him and Sam was losing time. THAT is violating his bodily autonomy on multiple levels.) Sure there are instances where other characters get their autonomy violated but none more than Sam's whose entire arc of the first 5 seasons involved it.

first of all, the show didn't only last for five seasons. it lasted for fifteen and everything that happened after season five is still canon. and my entire point was that just because the show sometimes frames it like sam has his autonomy violated more often, doesn't mean it actually happens that way.

being lucifer's true vessel is not a violation of sam's autonomy anymore than any other person being a potential vessel for an angel is. but even if you take that stance, you've already highlighted exactly why that's not specific to sam anyway. dean is also a true vessel, ergo...

i've already agreed the demon blood when he was a baby was a violation of his autonomy.

but again with john.. you've explicitly brought up an example of something that applies to both sam and dean. so once again, not specific to sam.

and if getting away was a restoration of his autonomy and dean didn't get away then i guess we can assume dean was having his autonomy violated while sam wasn't. soooooo... now it's specific to dean and not sam.

demons possessing other people is not a violation of sam's autonomy wtf. it's a violation of those people's autonomy. it's a fucked up thing that happened to sam, yeah, but it has nothing to do with his autonomy.

sam's last line of the series was "dean" because, again, the show went beyond the first five seasons and when i'm talking about the show, i'm talking about the entire thing.

sam's actions when he was soulless are not him violating his own autonomy??? literally WHAT?? but even if you want to use that completely unhinged logic, then that means at the very least that jack's actions when he was soulless were a violation of his autonomy, which again means it's not specific to sam.

i'm not arguing that gadreel possessing sam was a violation of his autonomy.

but again... just because the show made it a recurring theme doesn't mean it actually happened to sam with any more frequency than it did to dean (or cas).

#replies #anonymous #sw #wank for ts

[cantinabandmp3]

i just imagined the pitching of this week's episode. "um, jack black and, uh, lizzo... are like, royals… on a planet with, ummm...battle droids. and, uh, doc brown….. also, remember count dooku?"

it really is just like the mcu too with how they bring in these big names to play these small goofy roles, expecting everyone to just laugh and go like "hey, i know that (insert celebrity) it's so cool, they're in star wars now!" instead of, you know... give them something interesting to work with.

also, what's this "but he's not mandalorian blood"? ancestry is suddenly important now?

din has become a side character in 'the bo katan show'. why did he even get the darksaber in the first place if they were going to just give it back to bo without any interesting conflict at all?

i don't know what to say. this episode was dumb and the only thing relevant to the overall plot happened at the very end.

#the mandalorian #the mandalorian s3 #the mandalorian spoilers #it's a bit disjointed but i'm angry as fuck #there's only 2 episodes left do something relevant and interesting! #sw negativity #wank for ts #if you enjoyed this episode you do you i'm not trying to rain on your parade

[hussyknee]

Hi, hello! What do you know about Colleen Hoover? Seeing a lot but not getting a lot about her. Are her books harmfull or is it just dark fiction, does she put trigger warnings or not?? Genuinely just curious what you happen to know, if you're up to sharing.

Colleen Ballinger the YouTube star not Colleen Hoover the author! Colleen Ballinger is a musician who used to produce "satirical" music videos under the name Miranda Sings (apparently, I've never heard of this woman before this week), and has been accused of grooming her underage fans and a fuckload of inappropriate behaviour with minors (cw: child sexual predation).

She responded to the allegations by, uh, playing a passaggro non-apology song on a ukulele*. The internet reacted predictably, which is how people like me, who haven't been following anything on YouTube in years, got to know about any of this.

(Someone made a Tumblr post saying T*ylor Sw*ft's music all sound like the sad ukulele song to them, but some people thought OP was comparing TS to a groomer so that created some wank on here too.)

The scandal also brought to light some horrifically racist videos of Ballinger's (there's also one where she seems to be doing blackface but it's currently in dispute. Fwiw I think it's blackface). What really sticks in my teeth is that one of the most popular characters she played in her videos was a caricature of an intellectually disabled person based on her own cousin?? Those weren't buried unlike the racist videos, but didn't seem to have merited any backlash until now??

I just did a twitter search to link some of them and the results are somehow even worse today. Also there's one of her confessing to killing her dog which is triggering as all fuck. So, uh I'm not linking anything but be careful if you look this shit up yourself. I know most of us were pretty gross and ignorant in 2014 ourselves but this is BEYOND.

Frankly, I'm only following this vaguely because I'm a pathological rubber-necker and weak for internet drama. 😂 But the overt nature of the racism and ableism, and the fact that accusations of mistreatment and exploitation by other underage fans and Black and Asian employees had all been dismissed for years until now, while not surprising, is still pissing me off.

P.S: Anyone armchair diagnosing Ballinger with narcissistic personality disorder or BPD or whatever is an ableist stigmatizing neurodivergent conditions. Just make up a neurodivergent character for laughs like she does and be done with it. Thanks.

*I've linked to a tweet that has her "apology" video embedded, instead of to the YT video itself. Please don't give these people's pages themselves more traffic.

#asks #anon #colleen ballinger #discourse #cw: csa #cw: grooming #racism #anti-blackness #cw: animal cruelty #cw: animal death #ableism #youtube drama #pop culture #knee of huss

[janiedean]

AAh yes the joint Poe stan and “He’s Han and Leia’s boy how do you expect me to hate him” Ben stan struggle of having the Poe side of fandom be full of antis who call for Ben and Ben stans’ heads at every opportunity and the Ben stans make bitter jabs at Poe because of how bad the anti presence is. A true “I can only tolerate five or ten people in SW fandom” experience

you about summed it up perfectly nothing to add but yeah exactly :)))))))

#i don't wanna be anywhere full of antis #i just wanna stan both in peace #anonymous #ask post #sw wank for ts

[empiregalaxy]

It’s really sad to see people desert and bash Rose Tico. I think Kelly Marie Tran is a lovely, talented performer and Rose is a character with alot of heart. To see her get this treatment and her own anti tag is just... kind of upsetting.

#sw wank for ts

[him-e]

"#this obsession with Accuracy is fun and all but when it comes to the appearance of characters who were played by real actors#it's just creepy and weird" i've wondered about that and maybe they intend their audience to suspend disbelief and pretend that these new shows were made at the same time as the original series? thinking about how janky and puppet-like they made the grogu cgi, like something from the 1980s workshop

They're definitely trying to do that - create a seamless continuity with the OT and completely immerse the viewer into the illusion. But while the old school / analog vibe of the special effects works wonderfully with Grogu (and creatures / set design in general), they're doing the opposite with Luke, and no matter how state-of-the-art the CGI is, the result is uncanny (other than vaguely morbid and unethical, because it's not an inanimate prop that they're trying to replicate accurately, it's the younger self of a real, still living and breathing person. That might be tolerable if Old!Luke were the main character, and Young!Luke just existed in flashbacks with a valid purpose or something. But Mark Hamill as he looks now is useless to them, yet they're going to any lengths trying to replicate every pore and hair of his 30-something self, because that's the Luke that sells, huh?)

the irony is that in doing so they've written themselves in a corner because this technique can be sustainable for short scenes but certainly not for an entire movie or 10-episodes show, and now that the fans got a taste of accurate-looking OT-era Luke Skywalker, it's even more unlikely that they will be okay with a recast. Yet recasting is the only viable option to create a new story organically developed around Luke and with Luke as protagonist. You need a spontaneous, nuanced, real performance by a real actor who can move and act freely, not an agonizing CGI process for every single frame Luke is in, that still looks goofy and uncanny when you look a little closer.

#asks #anon #sw asks #sw criticism for ts #luke skywalker for ts #sw wank #the book of boba fett for ts

[samstiels-deactivated20201212]

idk why Disney even bothers with movie writers these days, like the cookie cutter formula is pretty apparent already

villain with no plan

plot full of holes

three seconds of background gays

a bunch of POCs being ignored

major battle

a major plot twist no one expects bc it’s unrealistic and/or stupid

faux feminist moment

the hero sacrifices themselves for greater good 

the end

#sw #endgame #tros #tros spoilers #i mean seriously #i am all the jedi #okay #sw spoilers #wank for ts #star wars #god i know i said i was done #but what even

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Every day I'm gladder I managed to pull myself at least partway out of the online SW hype/wank machine

#like i'm still sw trash but damn y'all #i'm glad i don't try to keep up with most of the cast anymore bc oh boy #and what's with the sudden wave of negativity towards tros from people who had been excited for it? #i know we're all waiting on tenterhooks but ffs #just wait and chill and let it happen #don't create more negativity than we already have before it's even out #i know we say this to antis a lot but #it's fake and in space #you gotta remember that #i know it's hard; i'm ride or die for these characters too #but at the end of the day i just can't afford to give my energy to the hype/wank train all the time y'know? #just...disengage even just a little bit #this has been useless tag rambling with wendy #fanwank for ts #personal #i realize this is rich considering i just got excited about that tv spot but like...i can still go about my day; you feel?

[sersi]

I know what post you mean by “THAT post”, i saw it yesterday and i was like... really? people are still out there thinking that about steve? it’s ridiculous tbh

people are free to think whatever they want but that take is very musty and didn’t belong in any of steve’s tags like it originally was 🤷🏽‍♀️😒!!

#i've been a steve stan since 2012 so i'm USED to fandom's bullshit #but ALSO i thought after fandom almost reached sw fandom level bad during cw #that people had MAYBE grown a bit #but post-engame fandom has really been out to prove me wrong on that front!!! #elysia's inbox #anon #vague for ts #wank for ts #discourse for ts #Anonymous

[anghraine]

wank

I’m still baffled at how Paige Tico’s death gets included in criticisms of SW’s female characters dying to forward a man’s story. You could argue that her death partly serves Poe’s story, but it’s obvious that it primarily serves Rose’s story.

I mean, that would entail treating Rose’s character with a modicum of respect, so.

#in fairness a lot of people missed a lot of obvious things #/shrug #sw fanwank #anghraine babbles #tfa for ts #tlj wank

[queermania]

I think you don't really understand what it's like to be an adult that grew up with your bodily autonomy repeatedly violated and in a situation of extreme psychological abuse. Those types of things warp your experiences when you're an adult. Sam had his autonomy violated as an infant and it colors everything that happens to him after. He spends the rest of his life trying to regain his autonomy and it's understandable that there are times he would want to give-up because that's how that kind of abuse warps your brain. He should be able to be open about that without having his autonomy taken away.

1. you are making assumptions about my life and my experiences simply because i have not come to the same conclusion about something as you have. but you have no idea what experiences have shaped the way i approach this issue. and frankly, it's a little insulting that you think you do.

2. your experiences and your feelings about those experiences do not change what is actually happening to you. they influence how you react to what is happening to you. the fact that sam had his autonomy violated at any given point in time does not mean that it's happening again every single time something bad happens to him.

3. there's this concerning view that a lot of sam stans seem to have that because sam was a victim when he was a baby, he is now and forevermore a victim in perpetuity. he has no personhood and it's not possible for him to ever have any agency. he is tainted and he's going to spend the rest of his life repenting for something that happened to him. and you know, i kind of get it, because that is clearly how sam feels about the situation. but that doesn't make it the truth.

and if that's something you relate to, that's great! it's wonderful to find characters and stories that we see pieces of ourselves in. but i hope one day you're in a safe enough place, both mentally and materially, that you are able to accept that a.) you don't need to repent for the things that were done to you b.) no matter what's been done to you (or even what you've done), you are still a person deserving of all the love and respect that everyone else is and c.) your past traumas do not absolve you from your current and/or future choices.

4. it sounds like you're implying that sam should be able to follow through on suicidal thoughts and it's a violation of his autonomy that other people (usually dean) prevent that. this is a very complex issue in the real world where a lot of people feel like they can't be open about their struggles for fear of being locked up (in places that absolutely do violate your autonomy) and i sympathize with that. but we're talking about a fantasy show where sam's suicidal ideations were the effects of what was more or less a supernatural curse.

and even if that wasn't true, i still don't think letting someone die because they think it's the only way they can ever make up for the things that have happened to them (or even the things they've done) is... okay? people deserve the chance to get better, even when that seems like an impossibility, and not letting someone take that chance away from themselves is not a bad thing.

now, if you want to talk about the state of mental health care in the world, let's talk about that. but you're never going to convince me that letting someone give in to their most self-destructive impulses is how you respect their agency.

5. i just want to reiterate that nobody is saying that sam's autonomy isn't violated at various points throughout the show. the argument was that it's not violated any more than any of the other main characters, despite the fandom treating it as a sam-specific issue. that's literally it.

#replies #anonymous #sw #suicidal ideation cw #wank for ts

[emperorren]

I know lots of Reylos want to dismiss these leaks as BS but I really think there’s some truth to them (definitely lots of overlap now between what different leakers said) and so far everything I’ve read points to a not very satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga. Rey has become the lone overpowered protagonist and Kylo has regressed to an incompetent villain, probably with a last minute redemptive act a la Vader in ROTJ. If anything matches with these leaks in the new trailer, we’re doomed.

I would really avoid reaching these apocalyptic conclusions because of vague, probably inaccurate, almost certainly incomplete leaks. 

If anything, the leaks sound encouraging re: bendemption not happening last minute. He’s supposed to actively team up with Rey against Palpatine, not stand there idly until he has this sudden redemptive eureka moment a la vader and then dies.

Also, Rey’s not THAT overpowered if Ghost!Luke needs to help her defeat Palpatine, am I right?

#this smells like wankbait OR negativity bait or both tbh #be careful sending these asks if you don't want me to scoff at them #star wars worry #leak wank #sw leaks #tros leaks #fanwank #sw negativity for ts #anon #asks

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

no fence but like if you’re a grown ass adult man who took over directing a beloved franchise and bungled it, and can’t even take criticism?? that’s embarrassing.

#tbd #like yeah i was defensive when it came out bc annoying reyskis and kylo/reylo antis were whining abt kylo but like #the movie had problems lads #lots and lots of problems. #and this dude cannot take any criticism and its like embarrassing #its very easy to dismiss ppl who didn't like the last jedi as 'sexist' or 'salty sw fanbois' but #ur wrong ya know. #wank for ts #**reyskys

[annabcth]

tbh your blog sums up everything that is wrong in the sw fandom. if you didn't like tlj and if you don't get ben solo's character, just shut tf up.

If Rey had been a Skywalker or a Solo and either Luke’s daughter or Han and Leia’s daughter, that would’ve ruined these characters. Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, then again, is a Skywalker, not Poe or Finn. And btw Solo is a good movie, not the best one but good. It’d be amazing if people like you would just delete their blogs bc you make the Star Wars fandom toxic and not fun to be part of.

Kylo has been emotionally and physically abused for his whole life and you’re telling us he’s evil and the bad guy and abuses rey and doesn’t deserve a thing and doesn’t deserve to be in a poster that portrays the skywalkers? Lol your precious Luke Skywalker wouldn’t approve.

i’m replying to those messages for two main reasons. one, i’ve been getting hate about my stance on tlj/rey*o since december, both in my askbox and under my edits, and while i don’t really care about it, i’m torn about not publishing those messages/replies/tags because the rey*o fandom is a riot and i feel guilty about deleting evidence of their harassment. two, this new discourse is actually extremely relevant, so here we are.

since you’re writing this on anon, i assume you know i’m not the problem here, you are. i keep my opinions to my blog, i don’t look for a fight, i always tag properly. i’m not even an active anti. tlj really hurt my star wars obsession, and i needed to vent for a while, which i did, but then i moved on, and my blog is discourse-free once again. i’m assuming those messages were prompted by my tags under a post criticizing the comic-con poster fiasco.

we obviously have different interpretations of tlj, and you’re bothered by mine. i find it very reasonable though, given that ky*o did recreate anakin’s decision from rotj, and then proceeded to almost destroy everything his grandpa’s great redemption accomplished (saving luke and the rebellion). thankfully, he didn’t succeed (yes, luke died, but it was framed as a defeat for ky*o), and the legacy lives on. through whom? well, luke tells us: “the rebellion is reborn today, the war is just beginning, and i will not be the last jedi”. the editing shows us who will carry out this fight for the light side. the movie ends ky*o’s arc with his promise to destroy the new heroes. so yeah, for that reason i think finn and poe belong in that poster right next to rey, since all three were branded as the new rightful heirs. i get that you’re reading the film differently, probably hoping for ky*o’s eventual redemption and a happily ever after with rey, and honestly, there is nothing i can do about your opinion, so i’m not gonna try to. neither of us decides which interpretation is canonically correct. in the end, it’s jj’s choice, which was probably made back when he was creating those characters.

taking all of this into account, i’m hoping you could suppot two men of color who are an important part of the sequel trilogy’s narrative, whether you agree with my opinions about tlj or not. they were given their own storylines and character development, and they’re tied to the main conflict as leaders of the anti-facist movement. they deserve to be recognized as crucial to this story, and they deserve a spot in the comic-con poster.

my ramblings in the tags mean nothing. you sending anon hate means nothing. neither of those things matters in shaping the narrative for episode ix. quarrels over a ship becoming canon don’t influence the final outcome of this trilogy. however, people defending and supporting two characters of color in a predominantly white franchise means a lot, and can change a lot, at least in the long run.

we have our own opinions, and that’s alright. i voiced mine on my blog, in the tags of a random post. you were lurking on my blog, and sent me hate. i’m not the one who’s toxic here. we’re in the same boat, really- you will absolutely hate it if ky*o dies/doesn’t get redeemed, i will hate it if your ship becomes canon. the answer to that anxiety you’re feeling is to find a different thing to fixate on, and let go for the time being. or just keep your opinions to your blog, and don’t harass people by telling them to delete their tumblrs.

to address other things you mentioned in your messages (they’re standard rey*o talking points, so it should be quick):-  there is no canonical proof that ky*o has been abused his whole life. a dark presence watching him as a fetus/baby doesn’t equal grooming or emotional/physical abuse. it’s defenitely what his relationship with snoke is when we meet up with them in tlj, but we have no idea how and when this partnership was formed. that being said, i admit it’s possible that some additional information about kylo’s fall will be revealed, and it could change my opinion about this character. however…- even if kylo was abused, it wouldn’t justify his actions. he kills his alleged abuser in tlj, and continues to be a major ass, so yeah, he’s the bad guy. (to be revealed) cool motive, still murder*. - yes, kylo’s relationship with rey is abusive, both physically (throwing her into a tree, restraining her) and emotionally (invading her mind, telling her she’s nothing, lying to and gaslighting her). they’ve known each other for a couple of days, had five/six conversations in total, and the amount of time she didn’t want him dead could be counted in hours, i think. she asked him to stop killing her friends, he refused. conceptually it’s such an awful groundwork for romance it’s almost funny. she literally closed the door on him, flying away with his mother on his father’s ship, gripping his uncle’s and grandpa’s lightsaber, the literally destroyed heirloom of the skywalker family. leia said to her “we have everything we need”, completing rey’s tlj!arc of realizing that she’s destined to become the new legend despite her humble beginnings, disillusionment, self-doubt and abandonment issues. this is probably the point where you jump in to say the symbolism of the final scene between leia and rey foreshadows rey mending the lightsaber/redeeming ky*o, but i have three problems with that. one, rey already tried that, it didn’t end well. two, i don’t think jj gives two shits about vague symbolism of tlj, given that rian didn’t bother to uphold basic continuity between his movie and tfa. three, it would be incredibly sexist if rey, instead of being the true heir to the chosen one legacy, was used as a tool for redemption of the failed heir that almost destroyed it. this legacy, along with the one of leadership and rebellion, no longer belong to the skywalkers**. luke’s aforementioned quote makes this clear.- i never said kylo doesn’t belong in the comic-con poster. i only said finn and poe should be there as well. if you feel like their presence in the story threatens your predictions for kylo’s arc, then maybe those hopes you have are not well-founded in canon and you need to distort it in order to make your ship seem more plausible. just maybe. also, luke wouldn’t be able to approve or disapprove this opinion of mine that i never had.

and you’re right, luke skywalker is very precious to me.

* there is a great post going around arguing that ky*o’s apparent lack of relateable reasons for turning to the dark side is a great metaphor for neo-facism and current alt-right movements, and it makes him an excellent and very relevant villain. i agree.

** of course, this plotpoint would change if rey/finn turned out to be a solo/skywalker. i have complicated feelings about this concept, and voicing them would make this already long reply even longer, so i’m not gonna do that.

#replies #anti reylo #sw wank #Anonymous #i know it will probably fall on deaf ears #but erasing finn&poe is racist shade of ugly #and getting hate because i called it so was a little too much #me for ts #fandom wank #also i have no idea why i modified search words since the anon didn't but oh well

[janiedean]

I feel that the sudden explosion of discourse is (partly) j*hn boyega's fault. Did he really needed to go on a rampage against sw fans? Really??? And not against the racism in the fandom (which would have been completely fair) but a /ship/???

… honestly, I kept my mouth shut about this until now bc I was out and I didn’t wanna get into discourse, but… as someone who does like the guy I’m incredibly disappointed in his behavior and in how people are reacting to it. like. first of all the entire drama could have been solved by him saying ‘I was joking but I understand why you think it’s crass sorry about it’ and leaving it there and instead he kept on… harping on fans specifically and not as a general declaration, then he went and diverted the attention going after the r/eylo crowd which whether he likes it or not has actually supported him and his attitude has opened the floodgates and like… it’s been three days, I’ve seen people wishing a minor who also brought KMT her fanbook to kill herself and tweet to her father that they hope he finds her corpse in the bathroom (???) and various other amenities and like… that’s not okay. period. he should say something already to at least distance himself from this bullshit and I’m very disappointed he’s not doing that, because whatever the fuck he was thinking, justifying going after any fans is wrong and opening the floodgates for the antis to do that because hey he did it so who cares let’s be even worse people is……. just…… yikes. very much yikes.

on top of that…. I can’t with people comparing what oscar said to what he did because oscar went off at disney during press releases and voiced his dissatisfaction with his arc and the story decisions (CONSIDERING THAT THEY MADE POE A FORMER SPACE DRUG RUNNER HE SHOULD DAMN WELL BE PISSED OFF) but he hasn’t once went off at the fans or dismissed part of the fanbase or attack specific people, while john basically… went off at single fans who were saying perfectly worded/polite criticism which means they’re put on target too, never mind again opening the floodgates re bullying a part of the fandom that has been bullied since 2015 guys let’s be fucking real, never mind that 90% of the criticism he got was from fanboys who couldn’t handle having a black lead, not from freaking rey/kylo shippers. and that’s another thing.

but the rest… I mean. people are cheering for that? going like ‘oh wow he’s such a king baby go ahead end them’?? guys that’s not being a king, he’s not even going after actual racist idiots, that’s being wildly unprofessional and making sure to piss people off. like. as much as people like it or not, re/ylo shippers paid money to see his movies and a lot of them actually like his character/support his work. the moment you sign on to sw who has one of the most toxic fandoms in existence - I mean not touching the luke vs han shit in the eighties, people basically bullied that poor kid who played anakin in episode one to the point that he quit acting and he ended up in a psychiatric facility and surely the fan reaction to that movie didn’t help not ruining his life completely and that’s not even the beginning - you know you’re in for being roasted by a bunch of assholes. and like… sorry but you sign on for that, you actually handle it pretty nicely for four years which I 100% commended him for and now he goes off on a part of fandom that wasn’t behind most of his harassing like this and I have to buy that hey bullying fans is fine? like I had to read ‘john started the year bullying assholes in this fandom how great I hope he keeps on doing it’? do we all realize what the fuck does this mean? like ffs people tore martin freeman to shreds for having been vocally angry about john/lock fans sending death threats to his wife and kids and he hadn’t exactly put the single people on spot nor made the names (and tbh he was 100% right, at that point you have all the rights to be crass) but now this behavior is okay because… it’s people shipping something you don’t like…?

sorry but a fucking fictional ship is no basis to bully anyone. idc what fucking fictional ship is it because the nature of r/eylo is not the point nor its canon status. and people cheering like this on someone for behaving unprofessionally af is… really… concerning me. because he basically went off on fans. singularly. who had… like…. done nothing specific to him because those people criticized his not exactly stellar joke on instagram, they didn’t go off on him out of nothing.

like. sorry but if you’re a public figure you should be able to handle this shit better than that. and the fact that he made… those… really bad taste comments about KMT deleting herself from social media (AND IT WAS BOTH FANBOYS AND ANTIS MAKING HER DO IT not r/eylos let’s get that straight) while KMT got the shaft in tros more than he did and got the shaft by disney as much as him if not worse is really not looking well. the fact that KMT has been dealing with this entire mess way more graciously and professionally than he’s doing also says a lot about what’s happening.

tldr: yes I agree and if he wanted to complain about racist assholes (which is 100% his right to) he had a thousand better and more professional ways to do it than this. he’s a public figure in one of the biggest franchises in existence known for its toxic fandom. this behavior is 100% not okay. and like he could have gone off on any faction in this fandom I’d stick with my opinion, it’s not just bc I like r/eylo. creators/actors should never advocate for this behavior ever and if they have issues with some fans they should just have the studio backing them up for suing which is a thing I 100% would endorse, but they shouldn’t… do this. like… sorry, but he fucked up. I like his acting, I like(d) him until three days ago, I love his character, but this was fucked up and he needs to own up to it because if we actually normalize this behavior from media creators and actors we’re fucked. like, 100% fucked. it’s nowhere near acceptable to insult like that people who don’t have your influence, who aren’t famous and who didn’t do shit to you except criticizing you for a thing that wasn’t exactly the most refined joke in existence.

(that said, if he hadn’t said it specifically re that character or if he said it with his friends messing around I wouldn’t gaf, but the way he did it was just… bad pr. very bad pr.)

ADDENDUM: as stated, i don’t agree with actors taking fans’ abuse on social media - they should absolutely feel free to block someone or press charges if it becomes bad and as stated the studio SHOULD back them up (I mean… if I had been the voltron actors/writers I’d have sued 80% of that fandom long before S5) but they shouldn’t downright go and do… this. it’s unprofessional. and if you’re a public figure you should like….. have some damned responsibility for your actions. he’s an actor in a multi-million dollars franchise, those people are no one or sure as hell they don’t have his influence or fame. it’s just nowhere near okay to do that and I’m dying on this hill. peace.

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today is a day for reflection over romanticization of abusive relationships

#powered solely by caffeine and spite. ↠ ooc. #@ some fandoms: why you like this #we all know there's one in particular in sw that i just....... can't. #some of those scenes gave me actual Flashbacks. #and some people out here calling people ridiculous for equating it to being abusive. #wank for ts // #personal for ts // #anti reylo for ts // #there i said it unfollow if u must. #i don't usually ever talk abt this stuff but i'm #writing a paper about totally unrelated stuff and full of rage.