#what is the statute of limitations on spoilers

[getvalentined]

I need to talk about the ending of Rebirth, because I'm apparently the only person in the world who liked it.

Putting everything behind a cut, and I would request that anyone who reblog this with spoiler commentary do the same as a courtesy to people who haven't beaten the game yet. It's been just shy of a month since it dropped, so we're still well within the statute of limitations on spoilers. Be nice.

A lot of people are really, really upset about the ending. It's been really weird to have people who went on and on about how they'd be livid if Aerith survived now being furious that she didn't, but I guess it just proves that not only can you not please everyone, but some people are incapable of being pleased.

I've warned everyone I know that Rebirth is the middle part of a trilogy; it was going to end on a low note regardless. That's how trilogies work, the 'ending' of a trilogy's second part isn't an ending at all, it establishes the launching point for the conflict of the conclusion. As a result, second parts will generally strive to be satisfactory with the understanding that it will basically never be satisfying. I'm not going to go into that any more deeply because it's not the key takeaway here, but it's super important to keep that in mind when addressing the ending of any second part, not just Rebirth.

The fact of the matter is, Aerith was never going to survive. That was never on the table, because it was never anyone's decision but hers.

In the OG, Aerith allows herself to be killed so that she can petition Gaia for aid directly, so that she can commune with the planet in-person in order to make sure Holy is activated in time to save everyone. She chose that. She didn't want to die, but she did want to save everyone, and she understood that the only way to do that was by sacrificing herself. Changing that would have been a huge insult to her character, a complete teardown of everything she's been since we met her all the way back in 1997, and it was never going to happen.

In Rebirth, Aerith is capable of dragging Cloud's consciousness into a pocket dimension she's made out of the last days of a terminated timeline in order to both hide him from Sephiroth while he recovers, and to get a working copy of the White Materia that she can use to save the world in the timeline that Sephiroth has chosen to 'save.' She has her own army of Whispers that can and have changed things, that can and have saved people from incidents that should undeniably have killed them. Incidents that did kill them.

If Aerith had wanted to survive in Rebirth, she would have. Sephiroth couldn't have stopped her. We see that in the game, because she literally fights him at the end alongside Cloud, even though she's already dead. Cloud saved her, and then he didn't—and then he did, and then he didn't, he did, he didn't, back and forth and back and forth and we don't know who decided where it stopped.

Sephiroth wanted Aerith out of the way, certainly, but in the end he left of his own accord. He's also the one trying to change the timeline from what it was originally, he doesn't want things to go the way they did in the OG; it's entirely possible that it was Aerith herself who dragged the timeline sideways into the one where she died, because he's wrong and she knows that's the only way to stop him. (I don't necessarily think this is the case, but it's not even close to set in stone.)

I see a lot of people saying that it doesn't matter, nothing mattered, nothing anyone did made a difference because she's still dead. That the only difference that could ever have mattered enough to make it worth it would have been for her to survive—even though it was and has always been Aerith's decision whether or not that came to pass—and I literally can't disagree hard enough.

I think we—and by 'we' I mean the players as much as Cloud and the rest, this is important—changed things in the only way that they could have been changed without condemning the planet to Sephiroth's desperately lonely form of salvation.

When Aerith died in the OG, it happened so suddenly that there was nothing we could do. There was no closure, we never knew if she understood how loved she was, that we would have traded places with her if we could, that nobody wanted her to have to do this alone. We could never really know if she understood how sorry we were to have failed. We didn't get to say goodbye.

Over a quarter century later, we got that. After all this time, decades of knowing that there was nothing we could do to save her but wishing that we at least could have seen her off, Rebirth gave us exactly that.

Aerith wakes up. She's dead because she has to be, but she wakes up. She gets to see how much she's missed, she gets to say goodbye, and we get to say goodbye back. We finally have the chance to not have her taken from us, but to let her go, and to see that it's her decision to stop while everyone else keeps going. It always has been.

Aerith was never going to survive. That was never going to change, because it's not about her—it's about saving the world, and it's about you.

But things are still so different this time, because we finally got to say goodbye, and I can't think of difference we could actually make that could ever be worth any more than that.

#ff7 rebirth spoilers #fandom ramble #aerith gainsborough #final fantasy vii #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #ff7 #final fantasy 7 rebirth #ff7 rebirth #ff7r #ff7rb

[mevima]

#polls #movies #spoilers #talking about spoilers

[shmaptainwrites]

What about the reader being House ex (more than 10years ago) and Wilson new girlfriend ?

okay this could go one of two ways

first way is wilson knows that you were house’s ex and you guys still start to date anyways because he really likes you and by this point you’re over house but can tolerate him better than most people because, well, you guys dated each other

so in wilson’s head the statute of limitations has passed and honestly after all the crazy things house has done to him he doesn’t think it’ll be that big of a deal that he’s dating his ex, but when house finds out he’s pretty mad at both of you. he’s mad at you for going after his friend and he’s mad at wilson for even thinking it was okay to date you knowing that he’d dated you in the past and you cannot convince me that house would not say “what happened to bros before hoes”

so there’s a bit of tension, but with time and seeing that both you and wilson really like each other and clearly won’t break up, he’ll get used to it and tolerate it because he has to

on the other hand, if wilson didn’t know you were house’s ex and you didn’t know wilson was house’s friend then there would be some funny circumstances because maybe you bring up this “ex boyfriend who used to love playing that kind of music” and wilson’s like “haha no way my friend does too” and like you keep making connections between this ex boyfriend and wilson’s friend until one day when you visit him at work you find out that friend is the ex boyfriend and you freak out because even though it was a very long time ago, if house was still the same person you thought he was, that wouldn’t matter all too much

so when you tell wilson you’re both trying to figure out what makes sense for you to do going forward and house just barges into the office for a consult and stops dead in his tracks when he sees you, you give him a shy wave and say hi while wilson crosses his arms over his chest and prepares for whatever is coming next

after some explanation and maybe house is still pretty hung up on stacy so he’s a little more understanding on the front of you dating each other but he still uses the opportunity to tease you both relentlessly, one just because he wants to tease you, and two, for not realizing the connection earlier

send me your sfw RSL character x reader thoughts

→ accepting asks for james wilson, cruise, and peter müller

→ i’ve seen up to 5x12 of house — NO SPOILERS PLEASE

#mimi answers #mimi’s wilson thoughts #james wilson #james wilson x reader #james wilson x you #house md #greg house x reader #greg house #greg house x you

[hubrisbracket]

Hubris Bracket Side A Poll 6: Manfred Von Karma (Ace Attorney) vs Catra (She-Ra 2018)

Propaganda below (may contain spoilers)

Manfred Von Karma

This man was the first major antagonist in the saga to demonstrate that he thinks he is THE SHIT. Went undefeated for 40 YEARS in the courtroom. He really got away with so much, continuing to win "King of Prosecutors" awards during that time until this greenhorn Penis Left threw his ass in MEGAJAIL the SECOND he got his hands on the criminal case involving Miles.

He was literally 3 days away from the statute of limitations running out on the murder he committed when he decided to pull everyone's attention to it again for who knows what reason. I don't know what he was trying to accomplish. I guess he thought he could pin the blame on his adopted son because the courts are *definitely* going to punish a guy for accidentally making a gun go off when he was *9*. "This child made a mistake while panicking and oxygen deprived, and then didn't say anything for 15 years because he was a scared child who couldn't even clearly remember the incident, death penalty for him." He got away with this crime for 15 years with no suspicion and ruined it all for himself at the last minute instead of taking his free pass to safety because he was so convinced his plan was going to somehow work, and because his perfect win record in court made him think he could not ever fail. I don't even like the guy, I'm glad he got caught and arrested because he sucks, but it still bugs me that he would make such a dumb move

Catra

girl became a villain out of gay spite.

#hubris bracket #catra #she ra #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra catra #Manfred Von Karma #ace attorney #round 1

[cahootings]

What is the statute of limitations on tagging spoilers because I’m about done tagging good omens

#maybe will give it to the end of the month i guess it has only been two weeks #just had a friend get mad she got spoiled on frozen II. a movie that came out four years ago #babe I’m sorry but that is on you

[fanfictionnerdfortoomanythings]

Dazai rant and a view of the fandom overall.

WARNINGS:

MAJOR manga and light novel spoilers

References to abu$3.

References to murd3r and manipulation.

References to $elf h@rm / $uicid3 (it's Dazai).

M*ri

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Before we start, I will explain that I do not know everything about Dazai as a character, and I AM a soukoku shipper. If anything is wrong/inaccurate please put it in the reply's so I can fix it. NO ARGUMENTS PLEASE, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM ALLOWED.

I am not a Dazai stan, I think he is attractive, but I'm more invested in his mind rather than his looks or sob story.

TL;DR at the end of the text.

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Okay. Dazai Osamu.

He is a murderer, liar, manipulator, abuser, and many, many more.

But despite what his ability may suggest, he is human, but not in the way I see this fandom many times portray him.

I mostly see (at least, in recent times,) Dazai portrayed as simply a manipulative psycho, which he is not. He does not kill for no reason, he does not manipulate without planning for it.

He is an absolute asshole, but we all know why.

M*ri purposely made Dazai his little puppet, at the age of fourteen. He was raised and groomed in a terrible environment, and he was so bored and tired of simply living everything he did was due to the idea that it might let him finally die at the age of 15. (Remember, the only reason Dazai decided to do the mission with Chuuya was because M*ri promised to make him a painless poison to die with)

Odasaku gave him hope, happiness, someone to not have to wear a mask around.

And what did M*ri do?

Purposely set up a situation to kill the one man Dazai could truly rely on.

Dazai could never trust, never love, never feel safe, even with the people he considered partners (ADA, Chuuya, Odasaku) because he knew that they would be taken away.

He made sure to never feel regret, never feel sadness, even after killing the partner he'd had since he was fifteen. He'd felt enough of that when Oda died.

He was and is obsessed with dying, because who is there for him to live for?

He knows he can never be a good person, but he still tried, for Oda.

He will always have a plan, have a plan B, C all the way to Z. But none of these plans will ever secure a long, happy life. Most of them aim to give Dazai a miserable life where he can die as quickly as possible.

And the only person to blame for his nature is M*ri, and his nurture was grown around M*ri and the PM.

He sees everything and has a plan to pull it to his advantage and success (Dead Apple) and anyone he meets can be played by a string to follow his deeds (Chuuya, Akutagawa).

He is terrible, and I will not excuse his behaviour because even I have a limit, but just like my Yoohyun rant, there is a solid reason for why he is the way he is, and I feel this makes Bungou Stray Dogs as a whole all the more captivating and well written.

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[TL;DR, Dazai is an insanely well written character, with reasoning behind every action he makes. Also, M*ri sucks and is the reason Dazi is the way he is.]

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Sorry if anything is inaccurate, again, please tell in the comments, though please keep it to being constructive criticism! Also, no fighting in the comments please.

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#rant #wow long post #long post #dazai osamu #mori ougai #chukka nakahara #akutagawa ryunosuke #oda sakunosuke #odasaku #those last 3 are more referenced #abu$3 #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #if you squint really hard #bungou stray dogs dazai

[tickle-bugs]

Late night vampire au steddie thoughts with bug, as I’m chipping away at part three and refining the first two chapters (a new habit I’ve started is finishing over half of any multi chapter/series things I post so it’s less work to finish it + I don’t keep folks waiting too long):

- these bitches gay. good for them

- if I post this on tumblr the tfb crowd’s gonna be a bit disappointed until about chapter 3, if I post this on a03 I have to then make an a03 and maybe get bullied? Idk tumblr makes you invisible to people outside your niche in ways. If I make an a03 just for this ofc I gotta upload my other fics, and then we’re on a slippery slope. I haven’t posted on a03 since like 2016 and that was a very dark time.

- if Eddie’s gay and a vampire…does that make him a fruit bat? I think it does.

- what the hell is the statute of limitations on spoilers nowadays, because I’m coming out the gate swinging on this one but I don’t wanna inadvertently ruin vol 2 for anyone

- mean ler Eddie…brain go zoom…thinking thoughts that are thinking

#bug speaks #uhhh tbd maybe? I’m sick and rambling but I hope getting this out of my head will let me sleep #this fic is the only thing keeping me distracted from the plague so yuh #if someone reminds me I might share a snippet tomorrow. today? time is fake

[thefirsthogokage]

Criminal Minds 5x12:

'The Uncanny Valley'

Spoilers: Yeah, I guess. Including the following comment on the episode.

Well that feels like an appropriate episode title considering my friend's note of "Human dolls." I've seen human dolls a few times in other shows, I think I can tough this one out.

Reactions/Commentary Below The Cut

This guy gonna die? Feels like he's gonna die. Oh no wait he finds the body, right?

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You wouldn't be able to mouth the words if he was actually reading as fast as Reid was supposed to be able to read.

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I definitely remember seeing this one before. I think this girl ends up fighting back.

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JOHNATHAN FRAKES?! Wait does he direct this too? Nope. He playing the bad guy then?

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This actress playing the ME is very believable. Not just a bit part kind of vibe. Interesting.

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Ugh, another example of "that's not how tasers work".

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(I'm wondering if I should time stamp my comments. Not that many people read these, and probably never will. Idk, if you read these and want me to add time stamps, please leave a comment and I'd be happy to at least try.)

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Oh, he's not the bad guy.

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Oh THAT girl didn't live, but maybe the next one does. Poor women.

Nice job on these actresses at keeping their eyes open. I wonder if when they have the camera pointed away from them, their eyes are actually closed, and the false eyelashes are placed where they would be if they were open.

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This woman's makeup actually takes away from her beauty.

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Oh damn that's right, she had other women.

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This dream/hallucination little scene is different f on their norm.

DON'T LET HE KNOW YOU CAN MOVE!

Oh that smile. She's knows she can get them out of there. Ugh, BADASS!

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I'm surprised they didn't have the woman who spotted the stitching earlier come back to help sort through the samples.

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Ah, yeah, no medical doctor should be willing to do something like that on a kid, unless it's their own parent 🙃 Do no harm, sir. Not that every doctor sticks to that, and many don't, especially if your POC, heavy, and heavy POC.

Oh Frake's is the dad, right? And I guess technically the bad guy who created the bad guy.

And no, you give someone ETC if you want them to forget.

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(I should not be eating this muffin, it's made with eggs, but I'm hungry 😭 I know I have stuff to do tomorrow, in the morning too, but ugh, I am hungry and need something quick that isn't the peanut butter I definitely shouldn't have bought. They've caused me trouble before. UGH.)

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This diabetic is such a badass.

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If she's lost concept of life and death, she really can't tell what she's doing is wrong, right? That's the assumption? Then why is she scared by the police? Or am I getting something wrong?

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There's Frakes!

I love how Spencer HATES child abuse. I assume it's especially from a professional that's supposed to help, supposed to be trustworthy. Matthew does a great job in this scene with the barely contained rage in his voice

But also, statute of limitations. They need to find new victims, but talking to the old ones, getting to come forward, I guess.

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GET BACK IN THE CHAIR!

Oh good! OH THE STUFF!

Sitting up like that for a prolonged period of time, that has take a strain on the spine.

OH DON'T TALK! SHE WOULD HAVE TO REALIZE THAT'S NOT NORMAL!

Nice job, Reid!

I don't think you can promise that, Reid.

The dolls really do look just like them.

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So, wait, no one else who knew the other women came forward to report them missing? Did I miss something?

#criminal minds #god that's going to be one of my quick tags at somepoint and im not happy about it #criminal minds 512 #riley watches tv #that's a quick tag now #riley watches criminal minds

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

"Lol, well, ummm, the book has been out since the 1960s? Hard to call that a spoiler or feel bad that some people may not have read it to know since it has already been made into a film in the 80s and TV series " Not everyone is old enough to have watched Dune as a show/movie in real time. I think Denis and the cast did a very good job of not spoiling the plot for those who haven't read the books during press time. You're sounding like club chalamet with your it's been a book forever chatter.

Lol, okay? What do you want me to say? My opinion is it's hard for me to consider something a spoiler that has been around for jearly 60 years and has been the inspiration for most of the sci fi genre we all know now, like Star Wars? But tbh, hearing about the fate of Duncan from the trial isn't actually gonna spoil anything for Dune 2 unless Denis really jumps forward because he doesn't return as a Ghola until Book 2. Denis' Dune 2 is the 2nd half of Book 1.

As for whatever CC says, I don't follow them so the fact we have the sane take is sheer coincidence but we are both also older fans and maybe understand the statute of limitations on spoilers for this book expired a long time ago and no one should expect the world to keep something secret that just isn't.

#dune #read the book #its worth it #i promise

[jakascoo]

Tim: It’s just like that old movie, The Ape. And by the way, I don’t get it: why was the doctor dressing as an ape and killing people???

Bart: Wow, talk about spoiler alert.

Tim: Oh, grow up, that ship sailed, you’re 80 years too late.

#the layers on this joke though #incorrect quotes #tim drake #red robin #bart allen #impulse #young justice #incorrect tim drake quote #incorrect bart allen quote #incorrect young justice quote #source: incorrectquotesideas mod #random tuesday #young justice tuesday #what is the statute of limitations on spoilers #the true moral debate of our times

[peoplesoup]

The key difference between Killing Eve and Hannibal (Besides tone, premise and literally everything else barring the weird parallels btween Villaneve + Hannigram) is that I'm not emotionally attached to Hannibal characters in the way that it upsets me when something bad happens. Like I giggle during the Contorno fight scene because although I love Hannibal (worryingly) it causes me no small amount of joy to see him get tossed around like a sack of potatoes. But I am in the beginning of s3 of Killing Eve and Kenny dying made me have to pause and sit in a state of pure shock for like a solid 15 minutes. I am so fucking upset right now. I'm going to eat rocks

#kenny martens #my beloved #i miss u already :/ #nbc hannibal #killing eve #maybe he's alive and this is all a prank on me specially #but he did go splat on screen so uuuuhhhh #killing eve spoilers #i guess #what's the statute of limitations for spoiler alerts

[eladrins]

I never know what's allowed to be not spoilers anymore for books that came out years ago like I got told off recently for "spoiling" the chronicles of Narnia (specifically the weirder late-series books that never get movies made of them) despite it being 60-70 years since they were published

#like whats the statute of limitations on spoilers cause its shitty to have to walk on eggshells because someone wants to be surprised #when the book is 70 years old #like is the hobbit spoilers? lotr? alice in wonderland? where is the line

[geometricalien]

broke: bertholdt didn't care as much about the og eldians as reiner and annie because he is never shown questioning the morals taught to him

woke: bertholdt never used the full capacity of the god of destruction on the eldians until the end at wall Maria, at Trost, and on wall Rose.

All three Warriors grew to love the eldians and acknowledge that they weren't devils, just human, but that doesn't mean the suffering them and their family and friends went through by the government is negated

#aot #aot spoilers #i guess? does that count as a spoiler? #what is the statute of limitations on spoilers?

[rensbogusadventure]

The Griffon Shadow and Nightmare boss fight in DMC5 is more emotionally powerful than anything in God of War.

#dmc #dmc5 #devil may cry 5 #spoilers #its old though whats the statute of limitations on that

[bigskydreaming]

Why did (do?) the Magivians film you with rage?

Racism, homophobia and anti-survivors trifecta. They had an epic case of Bury Your Gays back in S1 where like, their gay character had to kill his new love interest in self-defense after that guy was possessed by the bad guy, and then when he was understandably upset afterwards because they’d made a point to hype this guy up as the first guy he’d ever had real feelings for, his friends were like boohoo get over it, which was like…swell, lol. Oh and then that same character ended up forced into a marriage with a woman for the sake of some fantasy kingdom he didn’t even give a shit about and was all of his friends’ quest way more than it was his, and only then did they decide to have him say a line about how he was mostly gay but was occasionally into women so bi a little bit even though he’d always ID’d as gay before then so it felt like a patch job to cover up the fact that they only belatedly realized oh hey forcing our gay lead into a hetero marriage he doesn’t want to be in is maybe Not A Good Look. 

Oh and I do remember catching a bit of a S2 episode where like, the gay character was throwing an orgy in the palace to make himself feel better for being stuck in fantasy land ruling over a fantasy kingdom he gave no fucks about and was bored and lonely in….only to get chewed out by his wife slash queen (a native inhabitant of fantasy kingdom) about how rapey and coercive that was and an abuse of his power as king because his subjects didn’t feel like they had the option of opting out. Which to be perfectly clear, is an absolutely valid point to make….BUT the fact remains that like, they chose to write in that angle, and they chose to make their gay character the one to learn that Important Lesson About Consent and Power Dynamics….but oh yeah, they ALSO chose to write this particular gay character as forced into oh yeah, a hetero marriage he did not ask for and clearly did not want, for the sake of mystic prophecy bullshit resulting from someone ELSE’S personal quest. And that was just….so…oblivious to me? Its like….ummm….could you not have the Straights educate The Pervy Deviant Gay on Consent Issues WHILST FORCING HIM INTO A HETERO MARRIAGE WITH ONLY HIS EXTREMELY RELUCTANT AND DUBIOUS CONSENT AT BEST??? Hellooooooooooooooo??

Then the racism side of the Awful triangle was like, their only two PoC in the first season (other than the blind black headmaster who was all kinds of Tropey ‘Cryptic and Thus Untrustworthy’ from the way the narrative was framed which, no, stop)….the only other two PoC in the first season and main cast were the girl who just so happened to be set up by the plot as the one revealed to be the ‘traitor’ or whatever who was there at the school under false pretenses and just stealing magic for other hedge witches. Like yes, she was under duress because they were threatening her mom I think? But I mean it was still like super predictable having her be the character that was put in that position and forced to fill that role. And then Penny, the man of color in the main cast, like, again I only watched the first season sporadically because I was like Nope every other episode and just skimmed in the hopes it would get better cuz everyone I knew kept raving about it, but I specifically remember one scene where like Penny was singled out by one of his teachers and told how he was super powerful like way more than any of his peers because he had like wild magic or something…BUT then the teacher went on to basically tell him this was more of a curse than a gift because his own power would eventually burn him out and destroy him or something like that. It was definitely framed as an inevitability, like, just his fate, a natural consequence to being the kind of magician he was innately…super powerful but with a shortened lifespan essentially as a trade off, with no way around that. 

And he was something like a Traveler, able to take himself and his friends between worlds? Which was great and super necessary for the plot but also a big part of what made his magic so destructive for him himself in the long run, so essentially the man of color got set up to be a glorified taxi cab for his white friends aka the LITERAL plot vehicle, with it announced to him very early on in the show that like ‘dont be too happy about how mad powerful you are, cuz its basically just gonna kill you way before all your friends end up biting it, sucks to be you kinda’. Again, this was early on in the show so I don’t know if that changed or they added more context to that later, but just the fact that his character in particular, like Kady’s, just so HAPPENED to be the one singled out for that particular plot niche and accompanying fate, like….that was fucking bogus from the jump.

Oh and also there was that really cool (in that not all sort of way) and totally not at all predictable (in that it totally was sorta way) antiblackness that reared its ugly head the second S2 introduced the oft-mentioned ‘barbarian kingdom’ that bordered Fantasy Land…..because hey guess whether or not the first appearance of more than one black person at a time on the show was when a whole bunch of black people showed up in S2 as oh yeah, you guessed it….the natives of the neighboring BARBARIAN Kingdom. Classy, Magicians. Way classy.

And then the anti-survivors angle of the Triangle of Suck, like, the show fucking HATES ‘bad survivors.’ You know, survivors who don’t embrace forgiveness and tra-la-la their way into the sunset and recovery while weaving daisy chains and leaving all their anger and thoughts of vengeance and retribution behind them in the past? Like, god forbid a survivor fucking HATE the person who hurt them and want to make them pay, which was essentially Julia’s S2 arc I believe? And boy was she fucking punished for that. Shit just got worse and worse for her, and it only got better when she decided to try the Healing Power of Forgiveness! Unlike one of her fellow survivors, raped by the same bastard who hurt her, who was also on the same Vengeance Quest as her, except she got murdered extremely graphically and painfully onscreen in like…narratively framed as a See Kids This Is Why Revenge Is Bad And You Should Not kinda way, that Julia was pretty clearly meant to learn from and Make Different Choices. 

Oh and let’s not forget that the initial antagonist of the series, the dreaded Beast who killed tons of people and was the one who possessed the gay guy that the other gay guy had to kill right after their makeout session in self defense cuz lol why would that be traumatic…yeah, that Beast…..let’s not forget that he was another Bad Survivor, a guy who was molested by one of the series’ Significant Backstory People years and years ago when he was just a kid. And thus he was pretty blatantly a case of Look How Stewing In Your Hate For What Happened To You Instead of Forgetting All Your Worries and Your Strife Will ABSOLUTELY Turn You Into A Literal Monster Who Murders People and Is Evil and Bad And Must Be Slain For the Good of Alllllll the Land.

And there was actually a lot more than just that because Survivors was a definite Thing on the show, with lots of them showing up and established as being survivors in various ways and almost all of them like….being the focus of the series like….perpetual hard on for torture and torturous death scenes for various satellite characters. Like don’t get me wrong, the series pretty much kills people left and right, its just it weirdly just so happens that the first people standing in line to either the left or the right tended to be PoC, women, survivors, gay/bi characters or characters who lucked out and got to be all of the above for the handful of scenes before they met their untimely ‘Wouldn’t Wish It On My Worst Enemy Let Alone On My Or Any Friend of Mine’s Only Representation On This Show’ demise.

Anyway, yeah I hate that show and it dinged all my NOPE alarms hard from day one and I kept checking back in on it over the first season and then a little bit off and on after that in the hopes it had gotten better because I kept fucking hearing all over twitter and tumblr how amazing it was and progressive it was and I’d watch the latest episode, jump up, yank my hair out and screech like a gibbon monkey while speaking in tongues and asking the universe to help explain to me what the fuck was I missing here, where was all this lauded Progressivism I was supposed to be taking away from all the miserable, tortured and murdered  - and also abused, raped and exploited  - PoC and occasional white gays or women tossed in to round out the variety pack??!?! Just did not see it, at all, Error 404 Not Found, Did Not Compute, and then I’d hop back on tumblr and see people raving about the same stuff that just whipped me into a frothing rage and I’d be like I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE WHAT IS GOING ON ARE WE USING THE SAME WORDS OR DO I NOT KNOW WHAT THE WORDS MEAN CORRECTLY OR….

Ugh. Yeah. So like I said….nooooot a fan. And also, fans of the show plz don’t @ me if I got things mixed up there or inaccurately remembered a scene I referenced, I’m not claiming to have perfect recall of a show that was actively pissing me off while I watched it and thus I was kinda TRYING not to pay full attention to. I just know that I definitely got a full helping of racism, homophobia and anti-survivor bullshit in SOME form or another from each and every episode I did watch. I freely admit that like, I’m not necessarily describing or denoting the actual things that pissed me off or registered that way to me, like.. for sure accurately here….again, I haven’t watched the show at all in a couple years and I’m not trying to be like This Is Definitely What Happened In This Scene and This Scene. Its more just one of those things where like, I definitely remember these are reasons I hated the show and I’ve put a lot of effort into NOT thinking about it or remembering it, so this is just how that jumbled mess all came out right now while trying to sort through it all and remember specific instances of the Triangle of Suck that made me rage so hard. There’s a reason I’ve never gone around actively engaging in Magicians Discourse or encouraging people not to watch it, lol, I don’t claim to be an expert on it or to have taken extensive notes of my Rage Reasons at the time of watching. Just that like….they were definitely there, and this was the general vicinity of the ones I can think of off the top of my head. 

#Anonymous #rape cw #antiblackness cw #racism cw #vague seasons old magicians spoilers I guess? #idk #whats the statute of limitations on those idek

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Yeah, people bitching about spoilers on Tumblr are pretty annoying, but like two years ago an old lady on Facebook (that is not at all connected to me) told me I ruined Murder on the Orient Express for her because I jokingly told my friend that someone gets murdered. Like... Ma’am? It’s in the title.

#not mcelroys #And the book was published over 85 years ago the statute of limitations is UP. #anyway #what i’m getting at is that i’ve seen A LOT of spoilers for stuff and i’ve never felt like i didn’t want to see that thing anymore #including thor with a hammer in some avengers movie or other when our lord and saviour taika waititi told me #SPECIFICALLY #that my boy thor does not need it so #thats that on that