I AM NOT AFRAID OF BUGS

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[rebornautumn]

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Kennedy propaganda: why do we hate her for being a young Slayer-to-be who go against Buffy, the authority for her, when Buffy also is a person who always questions authority and sometimes rebel against it, especially when she was younger ? (Even just a fees years ago- the age Kennedy is supposed to be, since she is apparently the oldest Potential.)

My idea is that we see Buffy and her friends as teenager through a mostly teenage-symphatetic pov, so we felt inclination to relate to them and theirs problems even when they are not perfect.

in later season, we see Dawn, the Potentials (like Kennedy) and the kids at school through… young adult Buffy’s eyes, and Buffy like many people who have just gotten out of her teens is not the most adapt person to emohatize with them without cringing too hard.

Which makes sense as she was forced to grow up early and quickly in her teens due to the HorrorTM, so at 21/22 years old she is not the most understanding mentor with teens, because she is closer enough in age to feel annoyed by them but older enough to understand they are immature, and also she’s fighting a war and have little time for properly mentoring a bunch of teenage girls that were literally dropped on her footsteps.

But that doesn’t change the fact that if the story was told from theirs povs we would emohatize with the Potentials!

Those are girls from age 14 to 20 with apparently no families or normal lives (except preparing to be one day a child soldier *if they will be chosen*) who were moved all across the world by theirs Watchers into the Summers eyes because they were risking theirs life at the hand of an immaterial First Evil!

We emphatize with Faith who is a traumatized teen who makes way worse choices than Kennedy, we emphatize with Kendra who was raised with the type of “no families or school or connection to the outside world” rule and the “one day if you are lucky you’ll be chosen” Kennedy also seems to have been raised with, we emphatize with teen Buffy who is a good person but also not always perfect or super mature in the early seasons (which is good! Makes her a good character), we emphatize with Buffy friends and theirs big or little problems in High School despite the fact that they were often annoying too, we emphatize with Cordelia who until her 16 or 17 year of age was a mean girl and sometimes a bully…. Why can’t the fandom makes a little effort and emphatize with the Potentials too even if theirs povs and feeling aren’t prioritized by the narrative?

kennedy btvs propaganda!

[rabbitmotifs]

there are a lot of really great moments in buffy s6, but this one from hell's bells is one of my favorites

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 3

Ashley Williams (Mass Effect) vs. Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Ashley Williams

Kennedy

Remaining time: 5 days 10 minutes

Propaganda below the cut:

Kennedy:

hated for Not Being Tara and being ~soooo aggressive~ pursuing willow when at the end of the day she's simply a different woman! and the horrible killing off of tara wasn't kennedy's fault

she's confident as hell

Ashley Williams:

Double standard: Mass Effect is a series about many alien species working together, and therefore the topic of xenophobia and space racism are getting brought up a lot. Such beloved male character as Garrus and Wrex get a pass for their instances of bigotry (towards salarians, for example), and Shepard calling one species "stupid jellyfishes" is a favorite fandom meme. Meanwhile Ashley makes a few distasteful remarks of the same genre and not only does that get her branded as the "space racist" of the cast, but also causes a lot of people to gleefully proclaimed that they killed her off in their playthrough like that's a good and deserved thing. Of course, the real reason is because Ash is a woman who is also a soldier who does not take your (main character's) crap, which automatically makes everything she has to say and every flaw she displays a million times more condemning and death-worthy than whatever the favorite fandom blorbos do.

Ashley is a soldier whose loyalty is to her people and her duty first. Military glorification aside ('cause that is the entirety of Mass Effect), that is the most noble type of a soldier to be. She does not sell out her principles, even for Shepard, and she's risking her life for her convictions multiple times throughout the series. She also goes off on a radical pro-human rally at the Citadel and is genuinely horrified by the sentiment of them all, and it takes her less than one game to become genuinely worried for Liara after the latter's mother dies. Her flawed perception of aliens is a point for character growth - which a lot of aforementioned characters do not do, by the way. She's a strong, responsible older sister and as older sisters often do she carries the weight of their family "curse", ready to heroically give her own life to cleanse it. Questionable, yes, but does give her certain honor, if not a ticket to therapy. Her readiness to point a gun to anyone in the name of protection, including Shepard or another member of the crew, like Wrex, is a point of admiration (again, as long as we operate within the series' premise of "Alliance soldiers good"), not contempt.

[zephyrmarki]

i don’t understand

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i've said it before but i'll still say it again. i love pov outsider on tedependent, particularly like. really outsider, like. just the perspective of trent's former colleagues/other sports journos, and random ass richmond fans, that sort of thing. just the development from well-known sports reporter trent crimm who was eviscerating ted in the court room and famous richmond manager ted lasso with all that implies, and they're KISSING now. they're MARRIED. everyone saw their first meeting because it was televised and trent all but actually called him a clueless cunt in front of the entire country. and that's the man he's hopelessly ridiculously painfully-adorably in love with. truly beautiful

[cornercritter]

my self-indulgence. happy fucking pride.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

it's ok, if tintin doesn't make it out of here it saves martine from killing him herself

follows on from this part here! part of The Fractured Urn, idc if this story isn't performing well anymore I am Determined to finish it

[tobyfoxtrott]

Rewatching cloho and I think its criminally funny that Daisuke was the character to drop most often.

Like yeah, we brought this 80-year-old man on our perilous adventures, his heart stopped a couple times, but he's fine.

[harpieisthecarpie]

the question "how old is daisuke in adventurer years?" has the same answer as "how old is ghost dog in dog years?"

[zephyrmarki]

olethra

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[ot3]

sure she killed at least 11 million people but she literally said sorry. you have to forgive her for that one

[ot3]

people are reblogging this five month old post to talk about a rwby character ive never seen before. this is about CAROL STURKA ! ! ! !

[maryoliveoil]

LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[afcroyjamie]

[izbnart]

Hanzo and Genji animation yayy

[itsclydebitches]

In the midst of some honestly pretty patronising comments, Jason Sudeikis insisted that season 3 of Ted Lasso left everybody 'in better shape than when they started'. Do you disagree or is 'better than when they started' just not enough considering how much better they could have been?

Yeah, sorry, Jason, but I definitely don't agree. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that 90% of the cast didn't improve significantly and that 100% didn't improve in some aspect of their lives, BUT I feel like the phrasing "better than when they started" is too cut-and-dry, ultimately ignoring some BIG issues at the end of the series. (Well, current end.) Namely, Beard's marriage to an abusive woman and the deep losses Ted suffered by moving back to the U.S., made far worse by his canonical isolation now (he's not a part of those milestones across the pond) and the implied depression that's been added to his anxiety (that final shot). The fact that the show doesn't seem to realize these issues makes them all the worse to me. It's one thing to write a realistic/tragic story wherein not everyone gets their Happy Ending and something else entirely to paint an abusive relationship + leaving everything you've built over three years AS the Happy Ending. Yes, Ted is with Henry again, but beyond that his ending has him regressing horribly: back to America, back to a failed marriage, back without a support system (LESS of a support system now that he doesn't have Beard!), back to mediocrity in his career, and (I would personally argue) back in the closet. If I were writing Ted Lasso that "ending" would just be the next catalyst for growth, wherein Ted realizes that he cannot give up every part of himself for his child. It is better for him and Henry if he's happy, even if that means disrupting things for them in the short term (like moving them to a new country). However, both the ending presented AS an ending + "better than when they started" don't make me terribly hopeful for the new season...

I have WAY more to say on this topic. In fact, I got a good way through a massive meta about it before I burned out. Honestly, I can't remember if I deleted that or not 😬. If it's still alive somewhere I think I'll try to finish and spruce it up for posting.

[cottoncandylesbo]

motherfuckers arent ready for my famous "quadruple-edged sword". second it comes out the holster, blender maneuver. red paste. spin cycle. myself included. nonnegotiable. the SECOND i am frightened WE. ALL. DIE.