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Why have I never encountered a genuinely good therapy scene ever? (Ones intended to be horrifying/depicting malpractice notwithstanding)

#even good writers just cannot resist the urge to Talk To the audience #i've also learned that many authors have kinda stupid opinions about the intended messages of their stuff #spn has a very good example of a 'good' therapist who's clearly supposed to be a mouthpiece for the message of the episode that makes you #wonder wtf the writers were even thinking

I understand people getting tired of fandoms always sanitizing some characters and acting like they'd be super nice and socially aware, but I think it's led to some people going way too far in the other direction and only talking about how their character is the worst asshole ever even when that's probably not true.

#hashtag deangirl struggles i guess

I kinda want to study how fandom acts like all dom-type guys are secretly subs who only act dominant to please their partners.

Just read a romance novel and somehow despite one character probably being a bigger jerk I felt more sorry for them because they would suffer more of a loss of individual identity from getting married and I'm pretty sure that was not the author's intended takeaway lol

Going back to rewatch "Faith" after finishing the series makes me so sad for Layla because she has faith but she lives in a world where god and angels exist but they actively suck and don't care and they have the power to help her but she means absolutely nothing to them so they won't but she doesn't know this so she believes anyway and it makes me so deeply upset on her behalf

I think it's very silly when I read a fic that's very sex-ed heavy and has the author preaching about safe sex in the notes and it's about a couple in like a five-year-long committed (and sexually exclusive) relationship. It's like uh I think they're safe at this point lmao

#reminiscent of how in some fics couples will have safeword talks before having.... completely vanilla sex

Sincerely wonder if things would have been better or worse if Jack had been an actual baby.

Sometimes people say things about Dean and I think that they need to go back and watch the part in Southern Comfort where they're burning the confederate soldier's bones and Garth's like "Shouldn't we say something?" and Dean's like "We won."

#dean is not a redneck guys he haaaaaaaaates rednecks

Is it just me or does this new rash of fandom "moral nuance enjoyers" include a lot of people who clearly don't know what the word "nuance" means?

#you can't just say ''everyone was equally bad'' and say that's a nuanced opinion #that's kinda the opposite bc i'm pretty sure different characters faced different pressures and circumstances #and like helped and hurt people to different degrees #and not to get philosophical but you kinda have to get rid of the concept of objective morality if you want to love moral nuance #which these people clearly like... don't

I think some people put way too much stock in one-off jokes in Supernatural. Like there are 15 seasons worth of episodes, one comment in one episode doesn't really mean much especially if it's contradicted by far more moments. And obviously this is because writers just have jokes that are bad and/or don't land or it's the late seasons and they only watched the show while doing laundry or whatever, but in real life people also just say stupid shit sometimes and it doesn't really say much about them as a person if that's clearly not what they actually think or do.

#not opening this can of worms by saying what inspired this other than saying that a deangirl has gotta deangirl sometimes

It's really funny when people compare the Ruby situation and the Benny one when all it does is prove that Dean is right and has good instincts lol

#or when they compare the amy and benny one #when amy was killing people and benny wasn't killing people what are you trying to prove?

I really hate characters who are "nice" but have unintentional disdain for other people. Like I'm pretty sure that the writers didn't mean for this to be one of their traits since usually it's framed as being a helpful thing but I really really hate it

#not going to name names but as a dean girl i dislike too many ''nice'' characters for like talking to dean like he's a child #and you can tell that the writers didn't mean for me to be offended on his behalf they wanted me to think that they were being helpful and #reasonable and giving good advice and everything but....

I don't know how people can see Dean in 1x02 talk so so soft and gentle to Sam and somehow come to the conclusion that Dean is a controlling asshole

#anyway had to block like the 8th person liveblogging their opinions of the show as they watch #second gd episode and they're already pulling out the ''tortured lamb'' bs #people who get fandom-pilled before diving in are going to make me lose my shit lol

I think the thing that annoys me the most about anti-Destiel people is that they aren't content with saying that Dean isn't in love with Cass, they feel the need to prove that he hates him. Which is just.... objectively not true. Dean likes Cas. Yes, he's mad at him for like all of the late seasons, but he genuinely cares about him and claiming otherwise is such a misreading of Dean's character in my opinion.

#okay this is kinda a lie bc the actual most annoying thing is how they defend dean's ''straightness'' or ''masculinity'' or whatever #but idk that stuff is so ridiculous and i have no desire to even begin to engage with it by arguing #(for the record i'm not personally convinced that dean is into cas romantically i think s6 blew that chance lol)

the "summer of love" arc was really crazy for saying that the Dean that would run off with Crowley is a Dean that is missing the parts of himself that Crowley loves

#literally how is drowley not more popular lol #dean x crowley

I had the very surreal experience of finding out that fandom weirdos with weird fandom opinions are like actual people with real lives and friends and jobs and stuff.

So I went to lunch with my best friend, her husband, and their friend who I've only met once before at their wedding. And my friend gets the other girl talking about the kids show she's really into. Which, whatever. I honestly don't care if adults watch kids shows, that's fine.

Anyway, first she complains about how the shows rating has changed to Y7 so the episodes are shorter and stuff which, again, that's not that weird. But then she complains about one of the recent plotlines and how the show didn't use the opportunity to "address the codependency." Which is a bonkers thing to say about a show for babies.

Oh wow, a kids show with 15 minute episodes has the main characters spend all of their time together, what a shock. Anyway, I kinda assumed it was a joke at first but then she kept talking and I realized that she was 100% serious and the more she talked the more I felt like I was maybe going crazy. Because my friends were taking her complaints completely seriously and started talking about other "problematic" kids shows even though they were complaining about really benign stuff that's mostly explained by the fact that those shows were made for literal children???

Idk I've always kind of assumed that people saying shit on here were just weird little internet creatures so finding out that they're actually potentially relatively well-adjusted adults was really freaky and I really don't know what to think about that.

#so uhhhh i'm never going to discuss tv shows with them like ever lol #god knows what they'd saw about supernatural lmao

I feel like sometimes when people discuss a character's "development" or "growth" they're actually just noticing that their own initial assumptions as a viewer were wrong. Yes, lots of characters do change throughout a book/show/movie/etc but often the ones I see praised for their "growth" don't actually change much it's just that your perception of them does as you learn more about them. Idk what to even call this phenomenon but I see it a lot lol.

#this doesn't really have to do with spn bc sam and dean change a lot over 15 seasons #but sometimes people still do this with dean somehow lol

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