enochian warding

I'm a twenty something female from Scotland, who is a fan of books, tv and film.

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[boredbylerbitch]

The thing is, it really didn't have to be Mike. It could've been Carlton, or Chance, or even fucking Mikhail, but the Duffers chose Mike. They could've given him another love interest, or at least shown him expressing interest in other boys, but instead they chose to center his entire sexuality arc around his feelings for Mike and only Mike.

I love Byler, but I could've gotten on board with another love interest for Will if they'd made an effort to write one for him. They had several seasons to do so. They could've written a flirty interaction between him and another boy in Lenora. They could've subverted our expectations and revealed that the painting was actually for someone else he had a crush on. They could've made the bar scene with Carlton longer so we could finally see the "snowballs" and "avalanches" conversation pay off. But they didn't do any of that. They dragged out his feelings for Mike until the penultimate episode, stunting his character development, and then had the nerve to claim they didn't give him another love interest because they wanted his journey to be "more internal and about himself."

Still, I might've been okay with this half-assed self-acceptance angle if they hadn't also established that Will wants romantic love. No, I don't think anyone needs sex or romance to be happy, and as poorly written as his coming-out arc is, I am glad he learned to love and accept himself before he started dating anyone. But we are repeatedly shown how self-sacrificing Will is, and one of the few selfish desires he has is to be loved romantically. Not only is it cruel to deny him this after all the horrible shit he's endured, it's also bad writing to establish this as one of his central desires then fail to meaningfully resolve that aspect of his character arc. If they were really so determined not to give him a love interest, they could've at least used the vision Vecna gave him about his future to explain the sudden change in his feelings for Mike. But in typical Duffer fashion, "it happened off-screen."

It didn't have to be Mike, but Mike is what they gave us. So every time the Duffers try to play dumb and act like Bylers were delusional for thinking Mike and Will might end up together, I start throwing imaginary tomatoes at them, because they're responsible for all of this. Even if Byler was "never in the cards", they still should've addressed the ship once they realized how popular it had become. Mike and Will barely interact in season 5; telling us Byler wasn't going to happen wouldn't have spoiled anything. Instead, they leaned into it, both in the story and in the marketing, because as the "loudest" subsection of the fandom, they knew we'd give them the most money and attention.

And I don't expect them to ever take accountability for any of this, but I really wish they'd stop trying to rewrite their own narrative by scapegoating us.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife. hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think orwell’s homophobia bleeds into one of his books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[scarletbirbs]

Friendly reminder since it's this week:

We boycottinggggg 🫡

[for some background if u want it]

[animentality]

[macleod]

this is how you do it

[twitterexile]

The Celtic Exit Begins. SNP have won a historic 5th term and Scottish independence majority is coming.

Plaid Cymru has won in Wales.

Sinn Féin lead the Northern Irish government and are calling for an Irish Unity referendum.

The Celtic Exit from the UK is gathering pace & the UK is living on borrowed time

[ayeforscotland]

"Get us tae fuck"

[jackkdaniels]

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

[tboy-cock]

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[thememedaddy]

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

[ayeforscotland]

I'm sad that Paapa received death threats for his casting as Snape, and normally I don't have problem with a race lift in movies/tv shows. But the race lift in this case is just problematic: so far Snape is the only black teacher, which means that Harry hates the only black teacher for no reason. Then there is Snape's worst memory, how would look if James bullied the only black student in Hogwarts? And how the fact that Snape joined the wizards equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan? This was just a bad idea!

Yeah, not quite sure that was thought through by casting, but then again not much of Harry Potter’s plot was thought through after book 3.

I really encourage people not to hate watch it, people will to feel part of the discourse but these people probably have a game backlog that they could work through instead.

[mckitterick]

[mckitterick]

On April 13, 1985, Danuta Danielsson - a Jewish-Polish woman whose mother was taken to a concentration camp in WWII - hit a local neonazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden.

Update: The neonazis were subsequently expelled from the city, and a statue was erected in her honor.

This week 34 years ago, Danuta Danielsson demonstrated how much respect fascists deserve.

[vbartilucci]

Well played, Danuta Danielsson.

And good aim.

[alys-is-rabbit]

She hit them so hard they were banished from that land forever. Iconic

[mckitterick]

Happy 40th Annual Hit a Nazi with a Handbag Day

[molotovblogtail]

Happy 41st Annual Hit a Nazi with a Handbag Day

[the-haiku-bot]

Happy 41st

Annual Hit a Nazi

with a Handbag Day

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ayeforscotland]

Scottish Labour’s manifesto has just released and every single one of their candidates is running on a platform of trans segregationism.

Do not vote for them.

It is so outright transphobic, that even Duncan Hothersall, who some of you might remember from the independence referendum days, is not campaigning or voting for them.

[ayeforscotland]

It’s SNP/Greens all the way. We need to have a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament.

Labour and Conservatives are likely going to get wrecked by Reform, and Reform needs to be denied every possible seat.

[antifainternational]

Scotland Callout!

On April 11th a pathetic band of fascists led by Ralph Millar plan to rally on Buchanan Steps. We plan to stop them. Glasgow is our city and we will not tolerate calls to deport our friends and neighbours. We call on all anti-fascists to stand with us against the fascist scourge. Join us at 2pm on Buchanan Steps. Bring a mask, bring water and most importantly bring your friends. Siamo Tutti Antifascisti!

- Glasgow Autonomous Antifa

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