#fandom feelings

[salveyoungjustices5]

Young Justice Taught Us More Than We Realize

Young Justice has always been more than a show. It’s a reminder of who we were, who we became, and who we’re still trying to be.

Every character carries a lesson cleverness, strength, joy, rebellion, kindness, heart. They grew, they stumbled, they healed, and they kept going. And somehow, we grew with them.

Maybe that’s why YJ stays with us. Not just as nostalgia, but as a story about identity, courage, and the bonds that shape us forever.

[animationfascinationblog]

katara (avatar: the last airbender)

katara is one of those characters people think they understand until they actually look at her.

she’s powerful, emotional, nurturing, angry, forgiving, stubborn all at once. she carries grief from losing her mother, responsibility for her brother, and the weight of helping save the world, and she does it without ever becoming cold.

i think what i love most about her is that her strength isn’t detached. she fights because she cares. she heals because she cares. even her anger comes from caring.

sometimes she gets reduced to “the mom friend,” but she’s more than that. she’s a master waterbender. she’s a leader when she needs to be. she’s someone who refuses to let the world harden her.

katara’s power isn’t just bending it’s her heart. and that’s what makes her unforgettable

[pinkertinn]

Oh we’re spiraling today. Cool. Cool cool cool.

I just need to say this somewhere before I go be a productive member of society:

I feel like I’m actively mourning two of the fandoms that raised me. Like—built me. Shaped my brain chemistry at age ten. Taught me what longing is. What almost is. What could be if they just turned around is.

And now I’m sitting here watching them maybe… hard confirm ships?

Like. Hard confirm.

And I’m not even mad in a pitchfork way. I’m just—

…quietly devastated in a “you just changed the physics of the universe I’ve been living in for 20+ years” kind of way.

Because the thing is—what made these ships special (to me) was never canon.

It was the space.

The gaps.

The tension.

The “this could be something or it could be nothing and that’s what makes it hurt.”

It was the ability to build something that felt real inside the lines they gave us.

Like—compliant with canon but still ours.

And if the story suddenly goes “no actually THIS is the answer, this is the definitive endgame, close the door, lock it behind you”—

Then what am I doing?

I’m not rewriting canon, I’m writing against it.

And I don’t know if my brain likes that. I don’t know if my heart likes that.

And that makes me… sad.

Like genuinely, embarrassingly sad.

Because I don’t want to lose the feeling of these characters belonging to possibility.

And also—while we’re here—

People can have more than one epic love in a lifetime.

I know. I KNOW. Nobody wants to hear that because we all want our ship to be The One™️.

But like… life is messy. Love is messy. Timing is messy.

You can have a love that changes you and a love that stays and a love that almost was and all of them can matter.

All of them can be real.

ANYWAY—

Ok. Ok. I’m good. I’m normal. I’m clocking in. I’m answering emails.

I’m a functioning adult with a job and not a woman grieving fictional slow burns on a Wednesday morning.

(Lying.)

[widemushroom]

I don’t know why, but one thing that made me love Chizuru even more, especially after watching Hakuouki SSL, is her silent obsession with the color pink. 💖🌸

Someone (named Metalhen) told me about over a year ago that one of Chizuru’s favorite things was pink and everything pink, but I don’t think I really understood how deep that was until the last few months

Watching her in SSL and seeing her room, the way it’s surrounded by soft pink and delicate tone made me realize just how much she loves it.

I think she really loves pink and finds it soothing and comforting.

And I don’t know why, but that just makes me love her even more. 🌸💞

[onebillionblorbos]

After living through the days of queerbaiting, and then starting to see a rare form of acceptance and nuanced canonical queerness, to now happily seeing it out in open in multiple different fonts… every time I start a new show I swear I go through every stage of grief and Vietnam flashbacks just expecting the ship to sink in tragedy.

I hold my canon queerness close to my chest like a deeply loved child, and yet I am petrified to witness the birth of every child since. Anticipatory grief of something that doesn’t even exist is the name of the game, and I can’t find my goddamn name tag.

[ohmyremadora]

“she laughed too loud for a war like this.

too bright, too alive, too full of love.

and yet she walked into it anyway.”

sometimes i think about the fact that she was barely an adult,

that she loved with her whole heart,

that she chose hope even when the world was falling apart.

and the worst part?

she deserved the quiet life afterwards.

she deserved mornings with remus.

she deserved to watch her son grow up.

and the war took her anyway.

[steellily]

Do you ever just think about a character that you once loved and just miss them so much?

But like, do you miss that character or do you just miss the way they made you feel at that exact time in your life when you first met them?