i feel like the idea that shifting has to be hard is such bullshit. in the sense that it literally doesn’t. YOU are telling yourself that! You are saying. „oh i can’t just roll over and shift! i have to do 828292 steps!” like it’s you!!!!! YES YOU! like you’re the one adding extra steps and making it harder by claiming struggle and that it’s hard. fuck 😭 i shifted, ME! I shifted by rolling to my side as usual as I was about to sleep and saying hm im so excited to shift to this dr AND SHIFTING. and no i didn’t affirm all day long or listen to rain sounds or subliminals and i’ve been for at least 2 years in the community at that point. I am not special and you are not special. Just let yourself chill please. This is supposed to be fun!
a mild rant cause i can’t consume too much shifttok content without my blood boiling. you’re literally fucking yourself over. dafuq.
i’m sorry but the mischaracterization of satoru gojo sometimes makes me wanna scream into the void. people really love to take one scene, one line, and twist it into a whole narrative that doesn’t even align with his core. like… are we even watching the same man??
HE DID NOT NEED A MORAL COMPASS. satoru’s been repressing his own desires since he was a child. a literal kid born with a power that could’ve destroyed everything around him—and yet, he didn’t. he never misused it. not once. not even out of spite. not even when he had every right to feel angry and lash out.
and people still act like he was this walking weapon on the verge of snapping if someone didn’t hold his leash. no. this is someone who’s been raised with expectations no one else could ever comprehend, who’s constantly chosen restraint, duty, and control even when it’s agonizing. and he makes those choices alone. over and over again.
i think people overlook how deeply internalized satoru’s moral compass already is. his “should we kill them?” moment wasn’t a breakdown of ethics. it was frustration, grief, anger. it was a TEENAGER who just saw someone he was protecting die in front of him, asking a friend for perspective. he wasn’t lost. he wasn’t about to burn the world. he was trying to process in real time. but people latch onto that line like it’s some confirmation that he needed someone to “save” him from becoming a monster.
no, actually. he saves himself. again. and again. and again.
he chooses to teach. he chooses to protect. he chooses to carry the weight of reforming a broken system—and yeah, he does fail sometimes. but that doesn’t make him any less righteous. if anything, it shows how much he shoulders on his own.
like idk. maybe it’s just me but i’m over people reducing him to “a time bomb that only didn’t go off because someone held his hand.” no. he’s the one who defuses himself. every single time. because he wants to do better. because he knows how powerful he is. because he cares.
satoru gojo isn’t dangerous. he’s the strongest—not just in power, but in how fiercely he holds himself together. he’s been alone at the top his whole life, forced to carry the weight of a world that only ever demanded from him, never asked how he was. he didn’t need saving because he was the safety net for everyone else. and even when it broke him, even when it hurt, he never turned cruel. never lost himself.
THAT’S WHAT MAKES HIM SO SPECIAL.
not just that he could’ve gone dark—but that he chose not to. again and again. that he stayed soft, and kind, and hopeful, even when he had every reason not to.
he deserves the world. and it kills me that he never got it 😔
I swear! A whole character could harass, bully, drive someone to their death, literally make EVERYONE'S LIFE A LIVING HELL, and be sexist. And some people would excuse it because they had a bad childhood and apart of the LGBTQ. LET'S be so fr.
as someone who's been an active fanfic reader for this long, it blows my mind that formatting is still a work in progress for some. and no, this is no insult to anyone whose first language is not english, that's not what i'm saying whatsoever.
1) when dialogue is color coded.
"i can read," partycatty said. "i know how to use context clues for who's speaking."
"it adds definition to the character," you defend.
"no, it doesn't," partycatty frowns. "it makes me feel like i'm reading a children's book."
2) when dialogue doesn't have a paragraph break.
"it's not like it ruins the quality of the conversation, necessarily," partycatty said. "it just... ruins the flow of the reader's inner voice?" you replied, finishing my sentence.
3) use of (Y/N), (F/C), or (H/C).
i saw this a lot in my middle school wattpad days, 2013 is calling and wants your formatting back. just say "this dress is in your favorite color," instead of having me play madlibs!
4) assigning the reader's appearance.
no, i did not put my long blonde hair into a messy bun before jumping into my size medium sweatpants. i have a butchered mullet and i am fat as fuck.
5) disguising your oc x canon as an x reader.
im sure your oc is lovely, but i didnt make an entire character to insert into this media just to read about yours.
6) MISCHARACTERIZATION.
he would not fucking say that 😭 girl i'm bored, let's study the source material!
7) "listen to this song while you read."
i'm guilty of using songs and lyrics as inspiration, but i don't want to give you the aux while i'm trying to read,,, i don't need a soundtrack, but thank you.
8) emoji use & author interjections
i don't need sparkles around something ✨ for comedic effect ✨.... also, author's notes exist for a reason lol
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spending a lot of time reading fanfic lately due to personal reasons, but the longer i scroll some of these tags, the more frustrated i get. i know damn well i'm no professional, i'm just a gooner, but i'm a gooner with standards. we can do better!
edit: some people are saying these are just my opinion. yeah. that's... that's why i posted it. i didn't have anyone particular in mind when i wrote it. i hate to use this phrase but if tiktok taught me anything, "bean soup theory" is a real thing 😭
Something that ticks me off a little is how people always say Luke and Leia get their traits from Anakin and Padmé.
Sure, it could be because of the fact they're literally family. But it also erases the fact that Beru, Owen, Bail, and Breha raised them. To me it feels as though their efforts raising the twins were erased, that their sign of love isn't reflected on them.
In my opinion Luke most definitely got his empathy from Beru, and his lack of filter from Owen. Leia most definitely got her boldness and strength from Breha, and her sense of formality and the need to help from Bail.
It just feels weird and kinda racist that Rhaena’s book plot was taken away and now she’s being hit by a white woman when in the book she has a pink dragon, was feminine, and had a good relationship with Jeyne Arryn. WOW, a poc character who was in power, treated well, and learned the ways of a court is treated horribly in the show. It just confuses me, why make the Velaryons black if they weren’t going to be done right, like god forbid a black character has a good storyline.
