#negativity tag

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

a bit of a hot take but although i appreciate and LOVE the work put into smiling critters redesigns, i find it really weird when people make the girls have a really feminine figure – not hourglass or pear shaped, but actively adding fluff or using shape language to convey the existence of a pair of tits. like. do what you want but i do Not want to see the very gender neutral bodytype given to all the smiling and nightmare critters be discarded in the name of Girl Animal Character Design

[infernothechaosgod]

Alright everybody were making a bingo and miss few bets add yours now can be either positive or like mainly so far negative I just wanna make this now before we know ANYTHING just to see how much we might get right lol

Also that last row is the nightmare row my personal worst fears pray they don't happen

[loumandaniel]

why does it not surprise me that over a year after s2 ended, we still have fans romanticizing lestat's love bombing and emotional abuse with out of context screenshots? and if they're ever called out on the hypocrisy, their justification is "well it's endgame and loumand isn't" like it just circles back to people evoking abuse of another relationship mainly for their shipping. 🙄

no but like what the fuck is a ship war doing in a show like this? like what are we doingggg?? in what world is it ever okay to state one form of abuse is better than another?? i’m like. nobody is gonna get mad at you for rooting for loustat. man, that’s the entire point of the show 😭 grappling with the complicity of seeing people repeatedly harm others and still finding beauty there

also, louis is depressed in dubai for a very explicit reason and it’s not lestat. maybe…if we all acknowledged claudia’s importance to louis, and as a character, we wouldn’t cry about louis/armand versus louis/lestat…? lestat and armand are two halves of the same coin lol

[your-dark-thor]

y'all realize you can be a fan of Loki without trashing on Thor, right?

[mixelation]

I just really hate gender bioessentialism so omegaverse is like. my enemy.

that's one aspect that i hate (i am aware people claim they like to use it to subvert/play with gender, but my experience of life + gender + society is uuuuh incompatible with the set-up*) but ALSO i really really like reproductive biology and learning about different mating systems from a biological perspective and like. you can imagine why apart from the various squicks one might get, it also drives me completely nuts from a spec bio pov

*like listen i understand other people have lived different lives and may have a different perspective and that's okay. i'm happy you found a way to play with gender that makes you feel good. but it doesn't work like that for me

[naancypants]

After reading Julia's fabulous Honest Drew Crew Endings post, I literally can't stop thinking about it. It's the way that their endings were not only empty shells without any real significance tailored to their characters, but were in fact EXACT CONTRADICTIONS to the growth arcs that were set up for them in the first place.

Nancy Drew themes: Self-acceptance. The lynchpin to Nancy's development has always been about overcoming her demons, accepting shortcomings, and learning that she is not inherently a bad person and is in fact worthy of love and good things.

Nancy Drew ending: Her soul is intrinsically linked to a horrendous murderer and oppressor of the town, something that shakes her so violently she has to leave Horseshoe Bay to find any sort of peace- the town where she recently decided to put down roots, to "grow where she's been planted".

Ace Hardy themes: Finding family. As a loner, Ace always longed for a community where he felt he truly belonged, which he canonically found with the Drew Crew. These friendships fueled his drive, self-esteem, and gave him purpose.

Ace Hardy ending: His friends are too caught up in their own lives to spend time with him anymore, so he dives headfirst into an isolating career in medical examination that drives him even further away from everyone. But I guess they're all splitting up anyway so who cares.

George Fan themes: Breaking the cycle. An absent father and deadbeat mother forced George to work hard to provide for her sisters, which left her (rightfully) bitter and closed off from forming real emotional connections for many years.

George Fan ending: George leaves her young sisters to fend for themselves while she pursues an exhaustive, difficult career path on a whim. She ends the series in a new surface-level relationship rather than the one that helped her open up and be vulnerable.

Bess Turani-Marvin themes: Creating a happy life. Bess arrived in Horseshoe Bay to connect with family and escape from an empty, traumatizing life on the run. She seeks joy and stability; somewhere she can finally call home.

Bess Turani-Marvin ending: Bess randomly loses her room at the Drew home (?), her entire found family leaves her after less than a year together, oh yeah and her fucking HOUSE BURNS DOWN.

Ned Nickerson themes: Building community. He wants to improve things in his new town, having proclaimed that he's finally found the place where he belongs after a troubled adolescence.

Ned Nickerson ending: Nick's several attempts to make a difference (buying The Claw, starting a youth center, running for council) all go nowhere. His efforts are a flop. He essentially gives up and leaves town to take a job with Tom Swift instead.

Absolute insanity.

[mizmatched]

Just want to clarify, I don't give a shit if this is planned, fuck dreamwastaken and fuck the usmp

[mayasaura]

I try to keep things positive around here. I have a strong policy of focusing on what I like and ignoring what I don't. Not everything is going to be to my taste. That said. Every time I see the "Anastasia is the Body" theory I just. I hate it. It doesn't hold together imo, and it eviscerates a lot of the central themes of Harrow the Ninth, but also I really hate the incest. Harrow and Anastasia are blood related by direct descent. Harrow was literally born to continue Anastasia's bloodline. She's introduced as the "grandmother of the Ninth," and Harrow is the Ninth.

Just. Every time the theory comes up I see Harrow creeping into her great-grandmother's tomb and. You know. Trying to fuck her granny's ghost. I can't. I'm not strong enough.