#then you're missing the entire point

[niishi]

"garp let ace die" ace killed himself. nice that you let the entire point fly over your head though. people who blame everyone else for their problems truly want there to be a villian in aces story. ace was his own worst enemy. idk how you guys think "garp let ace die" when ace would've killed himself regardless of who stepped up for him. obviously. because his entire friends and family and even hundreds of people he'd never met stepped up for him and risked their lives for him and none of that mattered. how would garps influence have changed anything? if Luffys didn't? if white beards didn't? ace wanted to die. ace chose to die. ignoring that and blaming his death on everyone else is a disservice to the story oda is trying to tell you.

#its like everyone forgot garp and aces conversation #garp telling ace that the importance of his life is up to him and no one else #garp couldve never convinced ace that his life was worth living #ace needed to find that for himself #people always want someone to blame for their unhappiness #'i wasnt able to be happy because of YOU' #youre happiness is up to you and no one else #ace made his own choice #no one killed ace #no one is the reason ace is dead except for ace #ace had the freedom in that moment to choose to live or die #and he chose death #he made the choice no one else could make for him #he answered his question to garp on his own #if you guys cant see what aces entire story mean #and you just blame it on everyone else #then you're missing the entire point #stop playing the victim game and start empathizing #oda is telling a profound story #i guess not all of us are capable of understanding whats being said

[currentlyonstandbi]

i dont care what kind of lore they're coming up with for that zepotha film or whatever the fuck over on tiktok, nothing will ever come close to the fact goncharov was spawned entirely from a label on a boot

#like its so artificially manufactured its intolerable #you're missing the whole point of the bit #it wasn't just that a movie got made up it was the fact we all spontaneously entered into a collective fever dream #based entirely on the label for a fake film on the tongue of knock off boots !!!!!!!! #goncharov #zepotha

[secondbeatsongs]

when you're into the Big Ship™ in a Big Fandom™, you have the luxury of having an OTP - a real One True Pairing, where you can read about just them for ages, and you will never run out of fics, and everything is perfect and beautiful and nothing hurts

but when you go to a smaller fandom, you'd better pray to whatever god you worship that someone else in this room ships the same thing that you do, and that if they do, they're writing more than late-night crackfic, because you're on thin fucking ice!

and how small is your small fandom? is it less than 100 fics? maybe even...less than 20 fics?

welp, then it's time to make peace with that god and either open up a text document or learn how to ship everything, because it's swim or drown babey! and your ship is sinking fast

anyway all of this is to say that after hanging out in small fandoms and shipping less-common pairings for a while, going back into a Big Huge Fandom™ is wild because suddenly it's like...wait, why didn't I ship these people again? I don't remember. why was I only sticking to one ship in this fandom?? boring of me, honestly. these guys should make out.

#sbs rambles #fandom #fandom stuff #ao3 #basically. I hung out in superwholock for so long back in the day #but then I got weird and cool and moved on to smaller and older and stranger fandoms #and decided to throw a party and have fun and enjoy all of the small and weird in those fandoms #and now rewatching media for a big fandom I'm like. huh. sucks to be everyone else I guess. they're missing out on some wild dynamics here #because I'm havin a blast #and like. when I mean small fandoms I mean SMALL #my one fic I wrote for one tv show makes up 25% of that entire fandom on ao3 #(double checks) #oh!!!! new fic in the fandom!!!! #my one fic only makes up 20% of that entire fandom on ao3!!! #time to throw a fuckin party! 🎉🎈🎊🥳 #anyway it's really funny because based on this some folks are going to assume what ship I'm into in a Big Fandom now #but buds. you can laugh at me #I'm thinkin about sam and cas #what's up with those guys? #fucked up actually. they should hold hands about how much they love dean #:') #but also supernatural is way more fun if you watch it out of order #that's what I've realized #now if only the RNG would give me something in season 1 or 2 T_T #also if you're at the point of reading fic on livejournal or wattpad in the year 202X you've reached ''small fandom'' status #that's the rules

[coockie8]

Someone could make a post that is literally just listing the definition of proship without actually mentioning the word "proship" and antis would fucking eat it up!

Like you could make a post that's like "It's okay if others have fictional ships that make you uncomfortable, because at the end of the day it's all not real anyway and no one is really getting hurt here, and you shouldn't harass anyone over discomfort."

and the comments will be filled with antis going "Proshitters don't even look at this post! This post is not for you!" and it's like buddy, pal, friend, my dude. That is literally what the definition of proship is.

#proship #proshipping #proshipper #proshippers please interact #anti bs #just anti things #antis dni #proshipper safe #I've lost count the sheer amount of times I've seen posts like this just *filled* with anti comments #that just *completely* miss the entire point of the post #it's like bud *you're* who we're talking about #*you* are the harasser in question here XD #the funniest version of this is when it's an anti *making* the post #those are the ones where you can *really* tell they are operating on a wildly incorrect definition of ''proship'' lol

[theloopcrew]

my thoughts on modern lupin

#lupin iii #zenigata #how little modern lupin cares about zenigata makes me sick. He was everything at one point. Spits on the floor #hes sidelined or stripped of any joy or straight up missing and it makes me so upset #you gave him a little guy to make him more interesting (sidenote: he was interesting without the little guy. you're lucky i like yata) #and then you barely show him OR the guy!!!!!!! #whatevar. its not like this is a new thing for lupin to do it's just been egregious lately #i mean dezaki locked him in a cage for an entire movie it's not JUST modern. it's just especially modern

[animangalover-writes]

Special interest? Triggered.

I will now talk about the movie breakfast club for 4 hours straight.

#no literally this is one of my favorite movies #i related to it so much as a teenager #the trauma school brings? the awful home lives? the teacher being a bad person? realizing you're not alone? #yes please. more of that. #im serious i could go on for hours #i could talk about the entire meaning of the movie and still go in depth on each and every character #when is say this movie is a special interest I MEAN IT #also they're all so queer and i firmly believe they should be in a polycule #the breakfast club #special interest #claire standish #john bender #allison reynolds #andrew clark #brian johnson #its so frustrating when people miss the point of this movie because it holds so many important messages that kids still relate to today #and we as adults should listen to and try to make better for them #ok im done talking(for now) #aml speaks #autistic #autism

[clownprince]

every day is just. i open tumblr.app. i see the worst most oversimplified sandpapered nuance-less dc comics take imaginable. i spend several minutes staring at it debating whether it's worth arguing over (it never is). i sigh, shake my head in resignation and close tumblr.app

#imagine how tired i am #i wasn't even a batjokes related cold take this time #i'm used to those at least #what is it w j/son fans and the bizarre attitude that he did absolutely nothing wrong and is entirely innocent and blameless and 100% the #victim (post-resurrection i mean) #like don't get me wrong i adore him he's my baby boy and one of my favorites #but like did you all just collectively forget about the. y'know. severed heads? and other assorted crimes? #fuckin watering it down to huhuhu bruce bad #tearing my hair out you're missing the point you're missing out on the nuance and the tragedy #i'm going to bite . someone #probably deleting this later bc i'm like #clinically conflict avoidant but it's 11 am and i haven't slept yet and I'm just so. irrationally annoyed over this #it's probably the sleep deprivation yeah i shoudl probably go to sleep

[edwinas]

Malakai’s first and only choice was Amerie, he goes out of his way to befriend her even though it’s social suicide, he helps her, they have fun/soft/funny moments (basketball, that sex scene, swimming, arcade date etc), both apologise and strive to be better, Amerie is there for Malakai despite having her heart broken, those dino keychains, the yearning and heart eyes. 

Heartbreak high gave us a canon interracial relationship between two Brown kids built on respect, love, affection. Even after breaking up, they only had eyes for each other. But fandom acts like they’re strangers and ship them with white people who have knowingly and/or intentionally hurt them. Fandom racism never rests.

#heartbreak high #malakai x amerie #amerie wadia #malakai mitchell #fandom racism #if you're going 'im not racist but' #you missed the entire point #my/rambling

[secret--history]

I know that 'The Secret History is a satire' is an extremly prevalent take, and I think it came about as a response to the idea that tsh "romanticises" things like classist ideas/substance abuse/murder, but like. It can be unsupportive or critical of the characters without being a satire. Satire is not the word you're looking for here

#tsh #the secret history #And frankly in my opinion it is also an incredibly boring and reductive interpretation anyway #Like. There's so much else to chew on here. #Fate. the ancient vs modern digression vs obsession dichotomy happening. Identity/loss of self. #The immortality/death/ghost/memory thing. The unreliable narration. #The way their paths notably shape them but remain illusory. Fate. #You're missing out on so much if you only interpret it as a satire. #And frankly. Satire is a specific thing that is not this. #Like you can argue that ONE of the things happening is an intentional criticsim of the characters but #a. That's not automatically the same as satire b. That's not the only thing happening #c. You could debate whether 'criticsim' is really the word to use here anyway #As opposed to like. Being self aware of and intentional about the characters flaws and #using them to further illustrate and exlore the stories themes. #Like. You wouldn't call blood meridian a 'satire' just because the narrative is 'critical' of the judge. #That's not how anything works. Having flawed/amoral characters does not mean #you have to make the entire point of the work into a denunciation of them.

[filmloversociety]

"Ryan Gosling is too old to play Ken" sir I'm gonna need you to shut the fuck up

#you're missing the point entirely #it's the HIMBO ENERGY #Ryan Gosling #barbie movie #text

[mymp3]

minato is literally fucking jesus why cant people be nicer to him I'm going to throw a car into oncoming traffic

#compendiumnotebook #it's forever annoying that people boil him down to 'annoying little shit emo boy omg hes so mean loll" LIKE #no shit but you're missing the entire point of his character is that he's infinitely kind #INFINITELY #he didnt just do what he did for sees he did what he did for everyone #because he loves everyone so deeply #and even though he was treated poorly by the world and by those around him #INCLUDING sees #he still performed it #sees only became friends at the end and thats so important #sees were not friends in the same way as actual friends were. they were coworkers. they were peers at most. #and minato #who is constantly expierencing chronic and burning pain #who is always tired and sick #tries so hard #but hes snappy and mean and percieved that way because he goes through a million different hoops that people dont know about #he works 15x as hard and is misunderstood #he lived a misunderstood boy and yknow what #that's still true for when he's dead #misunderstood in life and death #AND THEN PEOPLE BOIL HIM DOWN TO EMO BOY IM GONNA COMMIT A FELONY

[wutheringmights]

what is wars diagnosed with. I know he has them I just don't know which ones.

I would prefer if we didn't pathologize Warriors

#I neither have the knowledge to diagnose him nor care to do so #on one hand i think people that try to diagnose characters are often applying harmful stereotypes to people with real disorders #on the other i think trying to diagnose Warriors is missing the point of his character entirely #I don't want anyone deciding that he's like this because he has X because then it's too easy to decide that you're nothing like him because #you too don't have X. like that's missing the whole point of feeling sympathy or anger towards a bastard of a character #and like listen anon. you didn't ask for this lecture (one I should definitely be putting in the actual message and not leave in the tags) #and in theory anon you can do what you want and i can't stop you. death of the author and all that #but while i'm here I'll also say this: none of you better be out here diagnosing wars with low empathy because I write him like he #is empathetic. if i was writing a character with low to no empathy you will know. why? because your author (me) has low empathy #I'll spare you my rant about that but i keep putting off a character moment where i was going to establish that a character we know is a #good person discusses how they have low empathy because it's really important to me that people understand that your ability to be #empathetic doesn't make you a good or bad person. you just have trouble identifying when you need to show sympathy. that's it. #anyway sorry to make an example of you anon. i'm sure you were trying to make a joke but you accidentally hit a button that reminded me of #my real sensitive button gosh #me rambling #lu ctb #ask #anonymous #anyway add 'Frankie has low empathy' to your trivia about me

[marklikely]

trying to be normal about movies but the men on the horror movie podcast just said hellraiser made the cenobites too evil because they "only give pain and never give pleasure" thereby missing literally the entire conceit of the movie.

#guyyyyyssss the entire point is that the cenobites are physically incapable of differentiating the two pain IS pleasure to them #thats part of why theyre scary beings because you cant reason with them they physically cant #comprehend the idea that humans wouldnt find discovering new and excruciating pains to be a pleasurable thing. #by trying to judge their actions in terms of pain vs pleasure you're completely missing the point of why they do what they do. #there is no difference there is no giving a 'good' character eternal pleasure there is no 'going too hard on the villainy' #they're giving everyone pleasure when they send frank to the torture and agony dimension they DO view that as pleasure. #hence why when they punish him for escaping they don't torture him anymore they just explode his entire head and kill him immediately.... #avpost

[captainofthetidesbreath]

It's been a while since I've remarked on the Imogen with glasses thing (despite being one of the Patient Zeroes for the discussion about it here on Tumblr Way Back When), which has been slowly going out of vogue but apparently is still being discussed, but I feel like at this point, it's noteworthy that Laura has alluded to knowing about it as a trend on-stream and has sounded baffled, confused, and upset about it being so popular.

Also, it remains frustrating how people misinterpret "the specific way that this entered fanon was part of an overall series of changes to make Imogen look 'cute' in a way that made her more childlike, which is infantilizing, with these glasses being a specific element named as something that made her cuter, and the specific recurring styling speaks toward that intent, especially since the glasses are often in conjunction with other specific design changes that make her seem more childlike" to be "having glasses is infantilizing" just so they can go "it's so stupid people think having glasses alone is infantilizing", which is not what anyone is saying

#tbh speaking as someone who HAS glasses and has worn them since I was small #I do find the entire 'it's destigmatizing!' and 'you just are being mean about disability aids' to be ludicrous and disconnected #there's also a concept called patterns and context #why imogen specifically? why not any other character? #why is this design choice often made in conjunction with other choices such as making her very short and round-faced? #(not always but most often) #why are we ignoring the roots of this as a trend and what specific spaces popularized it when we're discussing it? #anyone going 'well people like it bc it is an incredibly common disability aid' is missing the point of conversation about patterns #'it's because laura wears glasses' so where's the jester art? vex? caleb? orym? ashton? fearne? yasha? #CR #Honestly I also often feel like people legit forget that glasses IS associated with being young or a teen or being old #since it IS still considered the Adult Thing to get contacts until you're like middle-aged and you're Old Now #So yeah... glasses is still often used as a shorthand for not yet being fully an adult when or is often seen that way in visual depictions #(outside of being like a shorthand for being old or erudite #but then again I am like: so why isn't Caleb or Essek popularly depicted with glasses if it's about being erudite) #But anyway that's a whole other tangent. #and again: it's about patterns and context and historical roots of this as a trend in relationship to this specific character #and the original intent and popularization of this as an element was specifically about cuteness and smol uwu beanification #and THAT'S why people have an issue about it—that specific context that it is coming out of

[hystericfae]

Its funny how moving on from a media fixation creates an absolute inability to read theories about it anymore 😭 like I actually don't care because my brain finds it boring now. The story itself isn't. I could probably watch it 1000 times, but the extra fandom stuff is so intolerable to me 😭 I'd rather die than partake in it

#chloe shush #but that one felt a little like...okay I think you're missing a point though 😔😭 entirely in my own opinion #I guess I care enough to get a little annoyed so nvm 😍

[grimbeak]

i normally don't care ab routes in video games that much but if you say that the joja route is better in stardew and you think the community center is a waste of time i think im legally allowed to kill you

#so you missed the entire point? ok #a lot of people are like 'oh but peirre closes on wednesday and its more expensive' #think about it. a major corporation vs a SINGLE store. with a SINGLE clerk. hmmmmmm i fucking wonder why he's closed on wednesdays #sorry its just. #idk #they'll be like oh i hate capitalism and then instantly side with the capitalists #like yes its a video game it doesn't matter but like. it just bothers me #its just. they'll literally be arguing and telling you its a waste of time and like. so you hate whimsy and fun? #so you say you're anti capitalism and yet you remove town history for a storage unit? #stardew valley