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i have no mental or emotional capacity for anything i just want to sink into the earth and become nutrients for the trees

elkian

We as a society will never get over “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” and that’s beautiful.

BUT, let’s not sleep on the raw power of the “Offer me money. Anything I want. I want my father back you son of a bitch” exchange because it sends me fucking feral exactly every time and only gets stronger.

stinkyhat-deactivated20231213

took a while but i did it

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russolaw

hiveswap

Cringe culture is dead! How will i make fun of people innocently liking things now? Oh, i know… I will label all of their interests problematic! That will do it! I will look like the good activist and not the bully! Haha! I do not have any friends!

biancasiercke

I spent the day drawing and watching Ranma 1/2 💛

jellyapostrophe

Oh I love him 🥺

fuckyeahchinesefashion

©东予薏米 jade rabbits making mooncakes for mid-autumn festival

mihai-florescu

Not to sound condescending cuz i really dont want that, but if something happening in a fandom is genuinely ruining your enjoyment of the original media/ruining your mental health, maybe you should distance yourself from the fandom for a while, perhaps even take a break, you're not gonna miss anything and no one's gonna judge you for it

brainsanalysis-deactivated20210

Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

one-time-i-dreamt

There was new Twitter discourse about whether or not having the names of animals in brands and band names and shit was disrespectful of animal kins. This culminated in people cancelling all brands and bands with animal names in them. There was then a huge debate about whether Imagine Dragons should be cancelled because while the monkey from Arctic Monkeys was a real animal, the dragon was technically not real (a myth).

j-s-r-l

Although dragons aren't real people can and have kinned them therefore imagine dragons could be cancelled. And that is my hot take.

brraineaater

But if they’re imagined dragons, they’re technically still not real, so no real harm is being done. Y’all will cancel anyone smh

butterflyinthewell

Fandom antis posting about mental health positivity is proof of their hypocrisy.

No, seriously, you say all kinds of sweet shit about “don’t take your life, I love you” when you won’t hesitate to tell a prpshipper “I hate you, you deserve to suffer, so go kill yourself lol” and you’ll find every excuse to justify why it’s okay to say that.

It’s NEVER okay to say that.

NOBODY deserves that.

Fuck off with your lying, bullying, ass-pat seeking bullshit.

You want to look good, not do good.

It’s fine to be uncomfortable with certain ships in fandom. It’s okay to not like certain tropes. It’s fine to not want to imagine certain characters in sexual situations. It’s all fine and dandy to not like that.

What’s not fine is being a bully in fandom and policing content. Get outta here with that garbage and go back to whatever mildew-infested Chuck E. Cheese ballpit you crawled out of.

yourfavhassleepybitchdisease

Sleepy Bitch Disease Flag - When you’re always just so tired.

porchtart

@actualesmeralda

#so aesthetic though #joke pride flag

porchtart

*foams at the mouth*

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

themself

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

westenra

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

lunaescribe

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.