#salt?

[angelflower874]

Soo... I'm rewatching the MCU for the umpteenth time (as one does) and I'm absolutely dreading Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Why? The canon interactions between Tony and Peter, and maybe just canon Tony in general. I love the character, but holy cow he goes through a rough patch at these times and I (lovingly) hate him because what do you mean he brings a 14-15-ish year old to Germany to fight for something he doesn't understand?! Peter was not subjugated to the Accords, and yet he's fighting for them? I don't understand Tony's hypocrisy there. (Then again, it wasn't fully about the Accords, so...)

I can sympathize with all of the things that were going on at the time and all of the emotions Tony felt, but he's learned to keep people (a teenage stranger no less!) out of his battles! That happened in Iron Man 3, no? Harley nearly got killed because Tony was merely camping in his garage! Pepper nearly died, got kidnapped, and got mixed up with the Extremis stuff because Tony revealed his address, endangering himself and dragging everyone who lives with him (AKA: Pepper) along into the danger! He knows this by now, so why drag (and pretty much blackmail) a teenager into a fight—that did not have to get physical, mind you—between him and Steve? Ugghhh, it's almost a miscommunication trope without the romantic involvement (or with it if you ship Steve and Tony: who am I to rain on that parade?)

And in Homecoming, Tony just seems so dismissive! He gives Peter a taste of running with the big leagues (not a very apt experience since it was a petty squabble and not an actual fight for the good of the world) and then tells him to go on stopping purse snatchers and stuff? Like, Peter's young, I get that, but he never was just Spider-Man to stop purse snatchers, the video of him catching that car proves that! And Tony saw that video, so he knows. The whole airport fight, Peter was so enthusiastic to be there, how could Tony not see that? How could he expect him to not go after someone who's actively making lives more dangerous by selling alien-tech-juiced up weapons like Adrian Toomes? (Pardon if that's not his name in the MCU) It wouldn't have been an issue if Tony listened to Peter and actually handled it instead of saying he'll handle it and then do absolute jack to deal with it! So, when Peter steps up since Tony isn't, he gets in trouble and stripped of the suit that's saved his life and Karen, who was a massive help for him!

I wonder what was Tony's thought process there because Peter was going out in sweats to be Spider-Man before he got the suit, why wouldn't he just go back to that? Because Tony said so? Because the suit that he no longer has is the only way to go about as Spider-Man? Naturally, Peter threw himself into danger because with or without the suit, he'd feel responsible if things went wrong and he did nothing to help! He told Tony that he'd feel responsible for the bad things that happen if he didn't do anything. And no, the "and if something happened to you, I feel like that's on me" does not make it better because Tony apparently cares. Those are vastly different things. Tony feels responsible for Peter's safety, Peter feels responsible for his neighborhood's safety. One has many, many more lives attached to it, and Peter, with his massive guilt complex and gods know what else, knows his death would hurt people, but so many other people could die and their families would feel that same pain, so, of course, he isn't going to stand by!

Anyway, that's my piece. I just don't want to watch Civil War or Homecoming because Tony makes me so frustrated in them. But I'll still eat up fanon Irondad and Spiderson every time, excluding certain circumstances, but that's for another time.

[risingsoleil]

What fandom hill are you dying on ? Like what’s one point you won’t concede

Aang is NOT a bad father, and I don't think he favored Tenzin over Bumi and Kya. He neglected Bumi and Kya, but it had nothing to do with bending. He shared his culture with them, but he had to pass down as much airbending teachings to Tenzin as he could. Bumi and Kya were free to listen and embrace their culture however they want to, but didn't face the same pressure that Tenzin had. Aang being the Avatar took him away from his family more than he would have liked, too.

Azula doesn't need a redemption arc. I agree that she had a lot of trauma and shouldn't have gone through what she did, she deserved better. But not all "villains" need a redemption arc

Pema had the intention of breaking up Linzin with her confession esp with the line "spending his life with the wrong woman." Of course it's not said, but I feel the implication is there.

Linzin is not a toxic couple. If you argue that Linzin experiencing a misalignment of their goals or "drifting apart" is toxic, then I guess 90% of couples are toxic. At their prime, I'm sure they were extremely compatible in a lot of ways and understood each other on a level that no one else could achieve. It's realistic that their goals may change and not align together, but that doesn't mean it's toxic. I think the term is used too loosely in fandom when Linzin's relationship comes up

[wellthatsnottrue]

For shits and giggles, things that we know are affecting the quality of the writing on the show:

Showrunner currently planning a spinoff, distracted by the new shiny thing

JLH has to take time out to film something else, has to be written around

Expanded the 2 part opener into 3, which presumably has downstream effects on the structure of the season

Unclear future - they don't know if they're getting another season, and ratings are low enough for renewal to not be a dead cert. I.e. they have to keep a plan in mind if this is the last season

Series fatigue - this is 8 seasons into a show with a shrinking cast. Seriously, you really feel the absence of a supporting cast. Every remaining character aside from buck and eddie are in "endgame" -esque positions in their stories. They're spinning their wheels, to some extent.

A requirement to include product placement.

Maybe Tim isn't actually that good a writer.

Then, rumoured, there's:

Possibly other actor availability chaos. It's been rumoured that Christopher's prolonged absence is to do with the actor moving away.

It's also been suggested that Tommy would've always been missing these last few episodes because of filming commitments. Theres rumours/speculation that this is part of why the breakup was sudden.

Vague mutterings of Eddie's actor wanting to leave the show. Nothing has been said to confirm this, but the most recent episode left the door open to write the character off for any length of time, perhaps indefinitely.

Vague speculation about pressure to censor lgbt stories. Again, there's no evidence of this, but this is the rumours section.

I think all of this paints a picture of a writers room I wouldn't want to be in lol. But I also think that nothing we currently know would guarantee a bad outcome. None of this meant that the set up at the end of s7 had to be resolved in five minutes in ep4. None of this meant that gerard had to be watered down so much. None of this required two extra Brad focused episodes... in fact, all 3 of those decisions made their situation worse.

So, I get why people wonder if there's something else going on behind the seasons to explain the weirdness.

That said, it is always possible that they are just that bad at this.

[vitriolic-angel]

In todays list of things you’d only think about if you were me: why does nobody in France(or at least the main cast) have pets? Is it like a Europe thing or did the crew just not want to animate dogs.

[a-had-matter]

Greetings mutual of mine, tis I, completing my duties as a mutual to randomly send you questions :D (I haven’t done these in a while oh well lmaooo)

Thoughts on the ending to s5 of MLB?

Sorry for the late reply, I literally just watched it and i went on a roller coaster of emotions. spoilers ahead for whoever else reads this

I was in tears when i saw that GABRIEL FUCKING AGRESTE HAD A DAMN STATUE AFTER WHAT HE DID, like what the actual fuck. he started off as a goofy bald-looking villain and turned out a whole terrorist. we forget, i guess, that they are teenagers. what he did is unforgivable. akumatizing innocent people, neglecting his son, (i feel for Natalie honestly, cause she deserves better) causing so much stress and probably trauma, stealing miraculous, spreading his terribleness throughout the world, existing.

i also don't know why marinette thought she could reason with him, and i literally howled in laughter when he paralyzed her with venom cause idk why she trusted him. i knew it would happen. he's crazy. you cannot reason with crazy.

I also haven't seen any of the show since season 3 i think, so whenever I saw luka was a guardian, i was happily surprised. i don't even know how that happened, so that's when i burst into my first set of tears. I love that man.

I am also a fan of gimmi just because of the name (also, why did bug noir's eyes look like kiwis?!) and honestly, these two episodes just changed my entire view on marinette. i know it was gabriel's "dying wish" for adrien not to know of his villainy, but that does not mean mari should have kept that wish. if my parental figure did that shit, i'd wanna know, and then if someone i loved pulled what she pulled, i'd be pissed! like wth?! HE DOES NOT DESERVE SHIT. HE'S LITERALLY TERRIBLE. ADRIEN HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!

and then the way marinette knows. she knows everything about what went down, i know it, i know it, i know it. and she didn't fucking tell him, like what the actual fuck. what the fuck. (also, the way ladybug and chat noir still don't know each other's identities is hilarious to me) the truth about that will come out, and it will ruin their relationship. and the only person i'll feel bad for is adrien, and no one else, cause why would she keep that from him? he needs to know that. also, i don't know about that one girl who has the moth miraculous. she looks like a lila

and i'm not hating on how it ended with how their city is now, cause that's super cool, i love the eco rule, and the new school, and how bustier is the mayor, and the new reporter though i liked the old reporter. it was... good. i just don't like how marinette lied, and how gabriel was made to look like a hero though he was a literal fucking terrorist. thats all. and honestly, idk how i feel about adrienette anymore. or marinette anymore. it's just... idk

but there's my rant. i feel better letting all of this out.

[dabloonatic]

salty face, created by yours truly

[righteousinadversity]

Me, reading fanfic/Post where WWX is portrayed as a troublemaker who acts without thinking and JC has to 'clean up his messes': *bangs my head against the table*

My best friend, the balm to my traumatised soul: It's rather hilarious actually, in a pathetic way.

Me: *Raises my head questioningly*

My BFF: they have to rewrite the entire canon to justify their delusions that they term as the interpretation of the book; you, on the other hand, just have to read MDZS again.