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Grief is just love with no place to go.

– unknown // Art piece by Ikenaga Yasunari

[ifullyhavenoidea]

I miss this show :'(

[castor-waking]

Everyone’s getting so excited over Peter Kavinsky, but they forget the original Soft Jock™, Scott “My mom buys all the groceries” McCall. ICONIC.

[ifullyhavenoidea]

Scott McCall is a Bad Friend?

Okay so Teen Wolf Season 5 Episode 11 is pissing me off. Scott just died for 15 minutes, isn't healing and Stiles decides to blame him for his father's condition, saying "You'll heal." To which Scott responds "I'm not talking about me." As if the emotional scares won't linger forever.

Sometimes Scott is too selfless that it makes me mad. I wish he'd punched Stiles in the face in that moment and said "I wasn't there because I was dead. While your dad was dying, I was already dead."

I'm so pissed because even after this, people want to call Scott a bad friend; why is there a whole tag on AO3 dedicated to "Scott is a bad friend" and "Scott is a bad alpha" when he's the best any of them could ever hope for???? They don't deserve him. What the fuck? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

And I know, I know, Stiles didn't know that his friend had just been dead but that's still disgusting behaviour. And the way he relies on Scott like he can do everything in the whole world at the same time - he was supposed to be looking for Hayden's sister anyway, not Stiles' dad.

Why did no one even care much about the fact that Scott was basically dead? Like, Liam was too busy crying over Hayden than feeling bone-crushing regret for playing apart in the murder of his Alpha.

UGH.

[gayblackpanther]

remember when yall sent death threats at tyler posey cuz he didn’t support a relationship between a grown man in his 20s and an underage high school kid.

hope yall know better now in 2k18

[princeescaluswords]

That Damn Speech

Someone released another gifset with more praise of that speech in that scene. It’s like my own private torment.

I am labeling this ‘anti stiles’ even though it isn’t actually against the character. The scene in Lies of Omission was totally in-character for Stiles.   He’s always been emotionally and physically aggressive when confronted with terrible situations. He’s always neglecting his emotional health in the hope that it will go away.  He’s always held Scott to an unrealistic standard of behavior because of his own deep-set insecurities.

What drives me crazy about this scene isn’t that it happened, but rather the fandom response to it.  All the wailing and gnashing of teeth about ‘how dare Scott not ignore his own fragile emotional state and bow down to our poor little innocent woobified baby.’

As anyone who delved deeply into my blog should know, the flashpoint for my rage is always “Some of us are human.” Again, not the speech itself,  but fandom’s reaction to it.  As if it was something good.  As if it was something to praise: Stiles’ cruel and callous attempt to dump his own guilt at Scott’s feet and make it the alpha’s fault.

I wish the Stiles fandom would just take a moment to look at this from Scott’s standpoint.  Forget that it is their woobie-baby-fandom-bicycle talking and listen to it from the point of view of a person who’s lost his girlfriend Kira, failed to rescue his beta Liam and his girlfriend Hayden, and essentially given into his darker desires by probing Cory’s mind against his will.   Just try.

Stiles: Yeah, because you’re Scott McCall! You’re the True Alpha!

Scott’s POV:  Stiles is telling him he’s an arrogant sod that’s gotten everything handed to him.

Stiles:  Guess what? All of us can’t be True Alphas. Some of us have to make mistakes!

Scott’s POV:  Stiles is telling him that it doesn’t matter that you’ve let over a half-dozen teenagers be taken, mutilated, and murdered, that the girl you love is in terrible danger and gone somewhere so you can’t help her, that you invaded Corey’s mind, and that you’ve lost Liam’s trust.   Stiles is saying that being your friend is a burden that he doesn’t want any more.

Stiles: Some of us have to get out hands a little bloody sometimes.

Scott’s POV: Stiles is saying that it doesn’t matter that he has to resist the urge to kill every full moon, that he had to fight off Peter’s attempt to make him a killer, Deucalion’s attempt to make him a killer, and Kate’s attempt to make him a killer in which he nearly butchered Kira.   Stiles is saying that you have no idea what it feels like to take another person’s life or even want to.

Stiles: Some of us are human!

Scott’s POV:  Stiles is saying you’re a monster and a freak and where do you get off judging me?

And if that is not enough, Stiles turns around and has the nerve to beg Scott to believe him.   Stiles knows he just got finished telling him he’s inhuman, self-righteous, and he wishes he wasn’t his friend,  that he’s been deceiving him for weeks, but that doesn’t matter, because right now, the only thing that is important to Stiles Stilinski is that Scott exists to validate his existence.  

Again, given the Nogitsune trauma, given what happened with Donovan, given his own insecurities, this is totally within character.   It’s not even an unreasonable response to the stress he is under.

What is unreasonable is to ignore the stress that Scott is under for that scene, for the fandom to actively share in Stiles’ conception of Scott as a flawless superhero (and then turn around and condemn him for being a boring and unrealistic character), and make this entire scene with all the cruel, vicious words Stiles spews completely and utterly about Scott not believing Stiles.    

Yeah, yeah, it drives me mad.   But I suspect that someone on the Teen Wolf writing staff noticed that it was a bitch, because they seem to be falling over each other trying to make us think that Stiles is a good friend.

[princeescaluswords]

Forbidden the “R” Word

I have been told that it is irresponsible and unnecessarily divisive of me to use the ‘r’ word when talking about trends in my fandom.  I can’t see into people’s souls, it is said, so they could have legitimate reasons for their behavior that isn’t racism.  I should give people the benefit of the doubt and stop trying to point out poisonous behaviors.  I should accept that people can believe things without being influenced by racism.

I must accept when members of the fandom believe that a Latino teenager is turned into a murderous creature of the night,  is told he’ll probably kill everyone he loves, is told he has no choice but get involved with a war, is manipulated by powerful evil forces for his potential, is told he’s the unelected, unpaid ‘Protector’ of his city, is told repeatedly that he’s childish for not soaking his hands in blood, and then is used as an unpaid member of the police force (which he consistently does with little complaint) but   he doesn’t spend enough time considering the feelings of his white best friend and his white stalker-turned-friend, that he is an extraordinarily selfish person

But I can’t use the “r” word.

I must accept when that Latino teenager makes a statement about a terrible crime he just heard about, such as “Well, then they had a reason,” members of the fandom should treat it as if it were an unforgivable sign of depravity, but when his white best friend tells a wounded werewolf who just admitted that he was dying “Oh, my god, what is that? Is that contagious?  You know, you should probably just get out” it is banter.

But I can’t use the “r” word.

I have to accept that members of the fandom believe that the Latino teenager is a creepy, invasive, horrible person for sending his ex-girlfriend photographs of their good time together in order to recover an important clue to the show’s mystery, but those same members of the fandom believe that his white best friend is brave and to be pitied for getting his alcohol-challenged father drunk in order to glean information from him.

But I can’t use the “r” word.

I have to accept that members of the fandom think that a Latino teenager is terrible for imprisoning another teenager to prevent him from killing or throwing him into lockers with ‘enhanced strength’ even though the other teenager is unaware of his nature as a monstrous killer lizard, but it is perfectly reasonable for a white power-mad character to claw the Latino teenager up for ‘interfering.’

But I can’t use the “r” word.  

When the Latino teenage werewolf is dismissed as a wretched, selfish fiend for stalking (but not hurting) his best friend and responding to a kiss from a beautiful girl who was seeing another person (and his white best friend has an unrequited crush on) all under the influence of a full moon, but the middle-aged white male serial killer should be excused for killing innocents along with the guilty in his revenge spree and for employing gas lighting and outright mind control, because he was “insane.”

But I can’t use the “r” word.

They can dislike who they want!  goes the cry. They don’t have to explain it, they don’t have to justify it, they don’t even have to watch the bloody show!   But it is rude, irrational, and divisive to me to see enormous double standards and wholesale editing prevalent across the entire fandom and suspect that it might be caused by institutional racism, where television has for seventy years taught us that white characters are more important than anyone else.

And there’s always that vague sense of entitled hurt?  “Why are you attacking me with that word?   I’m just being a fan.”

[nyxelestia]

White character: *murders an innocent person for power*

Fandom: He had no choice!

Character of color: *shows mercy*

Fandom: How weak, he never did anything!

White character: *stalks, harasses, and exploits vulnerable characters, in large part for their own gain*

Fandom: He's doing the best he can!

Character of color: *hurts someone in the process of saving their life, with the only other option being to let them die*

Fandom: He's no better than a rapist!

White character: *lies frequently, lashes out at loved ones in anger, and hurts an innocent person just because they are feeling hurt*

Fandom: He's been through a lot!

Character of color: *takes a while to recover from trauma and assault and needs time to feel safe around a person who tried to kill him*

Fandom: He's emotionally abusive! He's manipulative!

White character: *manipulates and lies to others*

Fandom: He's practical! He's getting things done!

Character of color: *manipulates and lies to others*

Fandom: HOW DARE HE?!

White character: *makes a plan we don't see the entirety of until after it happens*

Fandom: How clever!

Character of color: *makes a plan we don't see the entirety of until after it happens*

Fandom: How manipulative!

White character: *murders an innocent member of their family for power*

Fandom: He's just trying to preserve the rest of his family and help the community!

Character of color: *actually tries to help his family*

Fandom: He's selfish for helping his own family instead of everyone else's families!

White character: *is actually seen hurting someone in the canon material*

Fandom: The show is distorting events to make the hero of the show look like a hero!

Character of color: *actually goes through harm and trauma*

Fandom: It's made up/exaggerated! They should be able to recover right away!

White character: *does something shitty*

Fandom: He's traumatized! He has a mental illness!

Character of color: *makes a mistake they tried to avoid before it happened and try to rectify after*

Fandom: Trauma/mental illness is no excuse for anything!

White character: *background or recurring character with a simple/superficial story*

Fandom: Here's a million and one headcanons and AUs that we'll perpetuate so far that people don't realize they never actually happened in the show!

Character of color: *main character of the show, engaging story line, and deep narrative*

Fandom: This character is so boring! Nothing ever happens, he never changes, and he never does anything!

[ifullyhavenoidea]

Anti Scott McCall

I recently got back into Teen Wolf and upon browsing Tumblr I came to realise just why it was so easy for me to leave. Sterek fans make me genuinely sick. Don't get me wrong; I ship Scott and Stiles so this isn't a homophobia thing, and I can also respect the ships that other people may have. I have no problem with that. However, it seems to be a re-occurring theme - especially in fanfics (that I most definitely don't read!! 😅) - to make Scott a bad friend. It's gotten to the point where fans are absolutely delusional.

I saw a post explaining how Scott was a dick to Derek, but it seems they all forgot how much of a dick Derek was to everyone else. Like unnecessarily horrible, and I don't care if his family got burned in a fire, it doesn't mean he has to be dickhead and be excused for it. Though, I'm beginning to think the reason Sterek fans forgot is because they're too busy reading smut about a man and an underage boy... but whatever right? Derek has literally smacked Stiles' head on his car and people are drooling over Sterek, but because Scott is enthralled with his new girlfriend and first love apparently he's the worst best friend ever.

People also seem to forget how much responsibility Scott has on his shoulders. He's an Alpha to which everyone relies on him - and tbh, how can Derek expect a Scott, who is virtually a boy to lead a pack successfully without some sort of break down (another reason why Derek is a stupid, stupid dickhead) - and he's never cut any slack. He wants to be a veterinarian for God's sakes as well!!! Do you understand how stressful that is for students in real life? Can you imagine that? You can't expect him to be able to perfectly balance everything while also managing to be the perfect friend. And I think Stiles understands this; he's not a needy best friend that needs Scott to pay attention to him 80% of the day. And Scott does care. When Stiles' dad was missing, he cared. When Stiles called him in the middle of the night (Season 3B), Scott was out there looking for him as soon as possible. Even when Stiles called Scott for Mischief Night or whatever the fuck it was called, Scott woke up and was at the school. If your best friend called you in the middle of the night like "yo come to the school let's prank the teachers" would you really, really, actually entertain their idea? NO because you're fucking sane.

So yeah, I'm pissed off that Anti-Scott people exist because if you're Anti-Scott you better be Anti-everyone because he's fucking trying. He tries harder than anyone gives him credit for and he's not even a dickhead about it (like a certain someone I know😒). No one could do what he does without caving or killing someone.

P.S. Fuck sterek fans who think that ship could be canon. Lydia and Parrish was dubious in itself but I guess cos she's a senior (which means she's probs 18 right?) it's okay. But when Derek was still in the show, Stiles was most definitely not 18 and therefore Sterek would be ILLEGAL. That's not a great representation of homosexual relationships since there are stupid people who already think gay is synonymous with paedophile.

Also it doesn't make sense. There are more moments between Stiles and his Jeep than there are between Stiles and Derek. I personally think Sciles is cute af, and it would make ten times more sense than Sterek let's be honest here.

Thank you for your time.