#unhinged fans

[firsttarotreader]

👀. Looks like Nico and rosti finally pissed off enough people to finally be exposed. It’s about damn time 👏

https://www.tumblr.com/phoenixpascal/777768587101339649/to-the-shes-to-the-hes-to-the-gays-and-the-theys

Lol. 🤣🤣 Damn! This is also the blog that exposed the Coco hate blog as being owned by Purple Nails.

@phoenixpascal · I like pedro pascal characters 🤷🏾‍♀️

To the she's to the he's to the gays and the theys of Pedro Pascal fandom across the boards have you been victimized by these two cockroache

[astercontrol]

I love being unhinged about a character in ways only fans online will ever get

But what I love even more is being unhinged about a character in ways only 2 or 3 VERY SPECIFIC fans will get because they've hyperfixated on details that NO ONE ELSE has

We all love Ram from Tron.

A bunch of us also love Dan Shor in general, and some other characters he's played, just cause he is so amazing.

But how many have

-screamed over Pete Brady in Strange Behavior and his delightfully goofy (though probably mind-control-influenced) confidence in being a short king-- specifically how he talks himself up to his date by calling himself "135 pounds of twisted iron and steel" and "a gourmet shrimp"

-turned this into a meme of using the 🦐 shrimp emoji as shorthand for Ram and whatever other incarnation of Dan Shor we're currently squeeing about

-used the 🍤 breaded shrimp emoji for Roy Kleinberg specifically because it's a popcorn shrimp

-there is maybe 1 person in the world who I could straight-up identify in person solely because of the specific way they'd react to the sentence "are you saying a gourmet shrimp popped this corn?" and i think that's beautiful

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Why Are They Like This When Child Actors Are Involved?

A mentally healthy person would see a scene where two children who have both lost a parent are finally having a family dinner and being happy, but not these Team Lucas fans. It takes some big, hypocritical balls for people who lose their mind at a grown man sipping tea to shit on other people for getting enjoyment from a "mundane" scene like this.

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How Else Am I Supposed To Interpret This?

Liz hates Nathan and his actor sooooooo freaking much, but she's okay with him staying and being paired with the blonde white woman Faith, but Mei not only has to get divorced, she needs to leave entirely.

Dear White People who get really pissy when I point out racism in the Hearties fanbase, after reading the above, as well as this:

tell me what the non-racist explanation is.

Because I'm not seeing it.

You know what else I'm not seeing? People calling out this behavior.

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Just Ignore The Pattern of Behavior

Janine is referencing this joke I made the other day:

You know why I made that joke? Because there's been a consistent pattern of behavior from TL where Nathan can't turn his and cough without them saying he's just copying Lucas. He wears a suit to a party at the saloon? Lucas wears suits to, he's copying him. Nathan reads a book in one scene. Lucas was reading first! Nathan grabs Elizabeth's neck? Lucas* already did it ERMAHGERD THE WRITERS JUST KEEP PLAGARISING!

*Always ignore if Jack did it first though because it ruins our argument.

Some random TN fanfic someone wrote...

I don't waste my time with fanfiction. In any fandom. Even for things I love. First of all because fanart > fanfiction. Always and forever. Any chimp with a keyboard and a thesaurus can smash out a thousand pages of Mary-Sue self inserts. If I'm reading fanfiction it's because it was recommended by someone I trust who has good taste and judgement or because it's 2006 and I'm on GAFF watching people tear awful fanfiction to shreds.

Secondly, I'm not TN so I'm not interested in reading yet another rehashed "Nathan and Elizabeth had the most perfect date ever and Elizabeth wore the most beautiful dress that needs a 5 paragraph description". If you know any good Fiona and Faith fanfics or a good prequel story with Jeanette and Lucas, let me know.

If you really want me to address TN saying Nathan would never play poker or whatever, fine.

If you're a Nathan fan and think he'd never play poker I don't think you're paying attention. We might not see every time the guys get together for a game, but they've mentioned it several times. It's important to pay attention to the show even when the handsome fictional man you like isn't on screen.

It's never in the context of an illegal gambling ring or something immoral, it's just the men having fun. It's not that deep. Let Nathan bond with the boys. He's more than Elizabeth's love interest and the town's Mountie.

Speaking of paying attention:

GEE, I WONDER WHY NATHAN WAS PLAYING POKER 🤔

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Kevin The Clapback King Part 2

I watched this whole thing and everyone's responses that came in the days following. I was happy to see lots of people calling out this kind of behavior. I don't have anything to add, I just want to archive Kevin's response because it's funny 😂

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It's That Time of Year Again.

The poster for the new season is out so now it's time for all the Lucas fans who only talk about Lucas every day of the year to pretend that they care about the other characters and act offended that they're not on it. I actually don't have much to say since I basically said everything when this happened last year. All I can add is that I like the colors of this one better than last year's poster (the blue wallpaper and Elizabeth's pink shirt look really nice).

Do I wish the other characters were on it? Yes, but let's be honest, the posters that have several cast members on it are okay at best. The problem is everyone's photo looks like it was copy and pasted into the poster one at a time. This is a problem I've noticed with a lot of Hallmark posters. I'm going to guess it's due to a lack of budget and resources compared to bigger shows and movies. I don't blame whoever made the poster since they were probably doing the best with what was given to them, but I think it's fair to say the past season posters with multiple people on them could have been better. When you have 10 character photos that were all taken separately they can't engage with each other and they're stuck in these basic standing positions. If they can't get the cast together for an engaging photo for the season poster, I'd rather have something more visually interesting and artistic like the Season 10 poster.