#and old.

[dupieuxxxx]

Doodles from a meeting

[shellygurumi]

Okay, I’m gonna say it.

I’ve said it quietly in side messages and I know I’m not alone in this feeling. 

I liked 2gether. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the beginning more than the end, but it’s not that the show made me enjoy the second half less. It’s the discourse that did it.

I love that everyone sees a show and has different thoughts and feelings about the show. I think that’s great, cause no two people are gonna see the same things in the same content. Sometimes we see what we want to see. Sometimes we focus on one part and miss another. Sometimes one storyline appeals more to one person than another. That’s awesome. That’s so cool. To see things from different angles and perspectives. I love having fandom discussions with my friends about different things in the same show. It’s awesome.

But I feel like 2gether was a polarizing show that became a battleground.

I don’t have to list all the things people fought over, you know what they are. Whether you participated in it or not, whether you attempted to avoid it or not. It was always there, lingering at the edges, on the sidelines, in the tags. In the reblogs.

I try to avoid the arguing and the discourse, but it got to a point where I felt like I couldn’t post anything without wording it all super carefully. I had to like, make sure I wasn’t taking one side or another, didn’t want to alienate anyone or hurt anyone. I started watching the show with all these thoughts in the back of my mind, like “IS Sarawat a jerk? Is he out of character?” I felt like I had to over-analyze everything towards the end. And felt like I needed to find defenses for how I felt about things that normally I would be able to just enjoy carelessly.

I’m not saying it’s bad to analyze, or that it’s bad to criticize. I’m just saying I think people just got so carried away fighting about things that it tainted the show for me a bit. I just wanted to watch Sarawat and Tine figure their way through their relationship. Wanted to watch their ups and downs and get confused and figure things out. I wanted to see them fall in love and recognize that love. I didn’t want to have to watch from the sidelines as people fought over how many kisses a show needs to have. Like. *sigh*

Can we all just calm down next time? I figure probably not, but idk. I wanted to participate in the fandom of this show, but the fighting just left a bad taste in my mouth. It’s probably why I gravitated away from meta at a certain point, stopped being interested in writing Tine/Wat fic. Just reblogging what other people made and talking privately with friends I knew were safe. 

[twelvewood]

Would anyone like to be saved from a near-death experience by way of my magic abilities, thus falling deeply in love with me? I’m bored.

[friendstothis]

who knew 21 year old me would ever get to relive the experience of hearing love story for the first time. definitely NOT 9 year old me

[jennytwosheds]

No notes is what I get for writing text posts exclusively at 10:13 AM CST.

And for being extremely boring.

[erikdonot-blog]

Ill admit I'm responsible for the majority of Erik's grey hairs.

[vitaminkale-blog]

    Am I the only single person on the net at this point?