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cloudwhisper23 · 5 months

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Mild Rant Post

Sometimes I read posts about characters in different story continuities and I wonder if they see fiction the same way I do. I wonder if they think that each character already has their own story, even if it's not exposed to us. I wonder if we see characters differently because I ponder the depth in characters that are just a name, if even that. Meanwhile, other people see the character's name and promptly forget they exist.

It hurts my soul to witness people spitting on the idea of a character having any semblance of meaning or significance when they only appear once or not at all. Especially since there's nothing that takes from the other stories being told by the other characters.

I know that I don't always have such an important fixation on a specific character, and I can change who I want to write about depending on how much I want to explore that character. And it's fine that not everyone wants to do that. But it still stinks to see blatant disdain for characters just because they get the spotlight they don't always get.

It makes me feel kind of sad. If they do that to characters they don't like in stories, how do they feel about other people in their lives?

Actually, scratch that. It makes me really sad.

Yeah, I'm vague-blogging. Shocker. But the fnaf fandom is really dragging me down rn. Maybe I'll just stay away from anything after UCN. I certainly need some time away from Gregory, for sure.

#cloud speaks #fnaf fandom #I don't hate Gregory #but god #the fandom lately really hates on particular characters #like #if you don't like a theory that's fine #but does Cassie's dad really deserve this shit?#y'all don't have to like where the fandom's going #HEADCANONS EXIST FOR A REASON #we really don't need to stress about canon this much #I thought I was curating my experience to fnaf fandom #the storytellers of the fandom #I guess not #it makes me so sad #I've never gotten block like this before #crushing sadness and anger rolled into one #disdain for a man who hasn't done anything #who is a father to a character we've played as #who is a father to a character who might be dead #idk #makes me despair for the world #is this what we've come to?#if we can't connect with characters #and at least share sympathy #then what are we doing #it doesn't feel like it'd be anything good #my stories are all character-centric #so I get sensitive about this sort of thing #but seeing people say they want a character to have no narrative purpose stinks

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imminent-danger-came · 11 months

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do you think MK is gonna have a circlet arc?? Going along with your eldritch mk theory jt could parallel his past life being contained and also more parallels to SWK and MK how fun

This ask has haunted my ask box for 3 days. Circlet arc??? CIRCLET ARC???? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE AND SO SO SO GOOD.

I have no idea if it would actually happen in show, but I have a feeling MK is at the very least going to have an "anti-circlet" arc. Go with me for a moment:

So, we know MK's bandana parallels Wukong's phoenix feathers in design, right?

MK with the two ends of his bandana and Wukong with the two feathers coming out of his cap.

However, MK's bandana is ALSO a parallel to Wukong's circlet:

And MK was given this bandana by Pigsy (presumably):

This is basically a long winded way to say that MK has already been "crowned", in a sense. Unlike Wukong, MK never needed to be controlled in the same way his mentor did at the beginning of his journey. MK, instead, was given morals and love by our wonderful Dadsy from a young age, which effectively functioned as a "circlet", if that makes sense.

So, the bandana, a symbol of both who he is/was raised to be and the crown, is already his circlet. As MK is now, he doesn't need a circlet to exert control over him because of who he is—a good kid who is trying his best to make the right choices.

But, you know, there was that really scary scene that one time where MK didn't exactly feel like MK and he kind of went off the rails...and...WHAT IS THAT

HIS BANDANA WAS DAMAGED BY HIMSELF IN AN EPISODE TITLED "Rip and Tear" !!?!??!?!?

SO.

Say MK were to rip his own bandana off, symbolically showing his complete decent into his "harbinger of chaos" role...that would mean another crown would have to go on to replace it, right?

Whether MK get's crowned symbolically with another bandana or an ACTUAL circlet remains to be seen, but the potential is definitely there! And I'm normal about it

#how fun #anon did you know SWK and MK parallels are my lifeblood #anyways #I'm completely fine!!!! I think about the line ''they will destroy you harbinger of chaos'' a normal amount!!!!!!#I'm sorry guys MK evil arc might be very real. Like not YET. Using his monkey form in the special was kinda a #Samadhi fire Mei situation where you wish it didn't have to happen but are kinda glad it did.#But like. There is going to be a time where Monkey form is not the answer yet it's the one MK gives and the bandana goes and we're FUCKED #Or at least like. That's what I'm speculating #So I don't know if MK will for sure have a circlet arc. But maybe I pray to god everyday he will. Maybe I want it really bad.#Look all I'm saying is that MK destroying his own friendship armor with his own power is NOT a good sign. Okay. thanks ilu #lmk #lmk mk #lmk theory #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #asks #eamk theory

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sisterdivinium · 6 months

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You know, for a show with so many female characters that so many of us love given how they all get time in the spotlight one way or another and they fill that time up rather wonderfully since they are deeper and more developed than what we're used to seeing in general media, it is peculiar (to say the least) to see so few "alternative" ships to the main one.

I'm not saying the canon ship doesn't deserve its attention -- I'm wondering instead why the canon ship and it alone seem to guide the WN fans who just so happen to enjoy writing/reading fic or fanart or whatever.

You'd think all these cool women would inspire more ships or combinations thereof, but those of us who aren't invested in avatrice just... Float along, around one another, ignored (and, yes, mostly undisturbed too; being unpopular does have its advantages and that includes a lot less weirdos leaving you strange or awkward messages -- it does not, however, shield us from people flooding our goddamn tags on AO3 with fic that has nothing to do with our little ships and I do wish such negligence of the pairing itself meant we didn't have to deal with this spam...)

I am also not saying that fandom activity should be based solely on shipping (and recently someone on Reddit was rather confused by the fact that a lot of it is, which is quite an interesting topic to discuss in itself -- after all, there is more to fan creativity than shippy fic... Or there used to be), merely that, here, it appears that a canon relationship can outshine interest in the other, non-canon ones. It's already there and it was doubtless well-done by the show, so it's natural that it should claim people's attention, sure. It's just that being canon was never the parameter for whether people were interested in these or those two (or more) characters maybe being involved and trying to explore what that could mean through fanwork.

There has always been a complaint haunting fandom spaces concerning the minuscule amounts of f/f fic, art, discussion, w/e based on how few (interesting or sympathetic or relatable) female characters there are in media at large. So what I'm curious about is why fan creations made around WN -- a show that finally gives us a whole cast of female characters that are what we have been craving for decades -- don't also reflect its diversity.

There are alternative ships (I'm here, all happy in my tiny Doctor Superion bubble, and I know there are Camila/Lilith, Ava/Lilith, Mary/Shannon, Mary/Lilith shippers out there, so a warm hello to you if you're reading this), but go on AO3 and compare the numbers of things tagged with these proper pairings to the grand total of WN stories. Better (or worse) still, do so with the "otp: true" trick or simply by excluding avatrice from the search to see how many are left.

It's... A considerable difference. And a mystery, at least to me.

#tagging this as #warrior nun #simply because i'd like to talk about this and maybe some of you have thoughts or theories about it #i just ask you engage in good faith if you do. i'm not pointing fingers at avatrice people i think they're fine and dandy #i'm just -- to reiterate -- surprised at how little interest there is in other ships when the potential is all there #(is it because they're nuns? that never stopped avatrice so why should it stop others...)#(besides lilith is hardly still a nun after s2. bea left. mary didn't really take vows did she? you really thought i was a nun she says...)#meta fandom talk i guess #then again about the nun thing... i have noticed a lot of people just go for aus. i can't recall ever being in a fandom with SO many aus #is the religious aspect an issue by any chance? i also recall someone commenting on how little a part religion played in these aus #curious. very curious.#i imagine some of you are wondering why i care when i don't even read fic but --#-- to quote jillian salvius herself i am a curious person and well you are a curiosity lol

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dollypopup · 1 month

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like. . .are any other Polin fans out there that do not give a singular flying fuck about Debling? we should form a club lol because from the very bottom of my heart and with my whole chest: I could not care less about him. Not sorry, I'm tuning into S3 for Pen and Colin and Pen and Colin alone

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #like. . .i keep seeing all these theories about debling and i'm going '. . .and?'#someone: what if debling-#me: don't care. when is colin back on screen? i miss my boy #because really. . .who gives a fuck? he's a random oc who's gonna be gone by ep 3?#frankly i don't give a shit about him in any capacity #and tbh. . .like it's not even a contest for me. colin is SO much more attractive and appealing than debling #no shade to the actor i'm sure he's lovely but guys. . .luke newton is SO fucking fine #tired: colin gets jealous of debling because he's courting penelope and thus disapproves of them #wired: colin distrusts debling because he's a vegetarian and colin the foodie cannot trust a man who cuts out an entire food group #inspired: colin is friendly to debling and can always hype pen up around him but debling isn't listening because he's queer and likes him #y'all just 'care' about debling because he has no traits rn and you can turn him into your perfect male oc prize for penelope #'i ship pen with options' and i ship pen with colin. . .you know. . .like a polin shipper. . .crazy how that's. . .how it works #anywhoozle i am first and foremost a hater #fellow haters come join me we meet up on tuesdays and we have snacks

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atticollateral · 2 months

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every day I wake up is another day I suffer at the hands of self-care tasks.

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bugsbenefit · 4 months

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my annoyance with the current leaker isn't even with what they say. they're about as credible as any other "leaker", easily bullshit but sure maybe there is something behind it. nothing provable until we get serious leaks or more show teasers. my annoyance is just from how everyone is jumping at everything they say, even the vague nothing statements, and using it as "proof" for their hcs theories. and not in a, "this would work together nicely" or "this inspired me" way which i get but in the "since we now know this we can conclude theory xyz is happening" way

i'm already seeing people that take every self proclaimed leaker to heart and base their entire approach to s5 on them. every time i get a "since A is happening it would be so cute if B" approach i think i missed something new getting out but no, it's just the ripple effects of an alleged leak on twitter from two weeks ago

it's just frustrating, not new, happens in every fandom, but still, frustrating. because now you have people putting anonymous internet users on the same pedestal as actual in show canon which is the exact way you get a fandom to fixate on an idea that "needs" to happen. which will just make everyone unhappy when s5 drops and disappoints their expectations

we'll just have a "Will's painting is a swingset" (for some reason?) 2.0. i got back on ST tumblr in late July and i Still had to wade through people bitch about how disappointed they were with the painting. just because they were so set on the swingset idea. when, genuinely, a swingset would have been so corny, the dnd painting is infinitely better (to me)

#we'll have so many 'leakers' (broad term) going up to s5 #and i'm fine with all of them #they're either real leakers or just having fun either way good for them ig #some things these people say can genuinely be good conversation fuel #but this is the first taste of what will happen over the next year #and you just Know people will run with one of these ideas because it's 'cute' or supports a personal theory etc #like a specific byler scene that's supposed to happen or a plot point/twist #and when it won't happen in the show or be significantly different since even people working on the show don't always have full context #we'll get the swingset painting fallout electric boogalloo #st5 leaks

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doctorweebmd · 8 months

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me, watching any shounen with any protagonist: ok but izuku midoriya is better

#I SAID WHAT I SAID #simultanously watching dbz and bsd right now #...i love dbz but the power creep in the frieza is insane #like ok fine great goku is a super saiyan what if gohan ended up stronger than both he and vegeta what if it was a message about #the power of kindness and humanity WHAT THEN #also i love atsushi dont get me wrong but...#like i get it his power is unique and important and whatever #but WHY #WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT #why can he just USE IT #the reason izuku midoriya is the best...#well #let me be brief (1/456)#...obviously i jest but... like...#my boy isn't special. thats the thing. he's powerless but works his ass off constantly to keep up with others #he wasn't born special. he's not an alien. he isn't being manipulated by some grand order. he's just... deku #if there's a message of inspiration to kids or teenagers its HIM #you don't HAVE to be born special #(another reason why i hate the dfo theory tbh...)#he doesn't even have some ridiculous dramatic backstory. he's got a mom. he's well fed. he's a little bit of a lonely bullied dork but that #such an inherently #normal HUMAN problem #and despite being normal. HE PERSEVERES.#anyway is there ever a day i dont think about izuku midoriya?#don't GET ME STARTED ON RIVALS #katsuki is really THAT BITCH #vegeta? get out of here #akutagawa? i desire him carnally but NOT EVEN #NOBODY DOES IT LIKE HIm #THE BUILD-UP. THE TENSION OF CHILDHOOD FRIENDSHIP

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lyxchen · 4 months

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When you feel weird saying your favorite actors name out loud when talking to your parents or friends because it feels like it's going to reveal how deeply obsessed you actually are

#oh how often i have said to my parents #'it's a movie with that actor i like'#because i am afraid if i say 'david tennant' i will also add 'the prettiest most gorgeous funniest guy who is so lovely and if i met him i #would probably hyperventilate and i think about him probably too much because he's just an actor but also Look At Him!!'#you know #normal fangirl stuff #i have a theory that this is either some sort of weird ocd thing deep inside of me like how for a few months i was very afraid that people #could hear my thoughts and so i never allowed myself to think strange or very personal things with many people around #or this is because other people have made me feel like i can't talk about my interests because they're so intense that they find them #annoying #or it's because i don't want my parents to think i have a crush on him because i don't and also i'm gay so like no crush potential this is #completely different emotion which i can't explain especially not my parents so i'd rather they not find out how cool i think he is #but also they probaly know because they got me 10th doctor merch for christmas without me even asking for it and my mom also said that #she noticed that he's my favorite actor which is fine it's toatally fine i'm so cool about this #any so yeah anyways #didn't think i'd analize myself that much tonight but here we are #david tennant you have to honor of recieving the title of 'that one actor i like' which is much more important than it might sound #good night #lea's random thoughts

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remyfire · 2 months

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You know, now that I think about it, the greatest evidence I could pull from the vaults that BJ was not a clean-cut innocent repressed lamb when he showed up at the 4077th was that he was a high school theater kid.

#don't get me wrong he was still an amiable sweetie who wanted so very badly to be liked but BOY did he know how to present an image #this also supports my theory that he was already fully aware of his queerness but that's not important right now—#obligatory this is about my iteration of my guy and if you don't subscribe to it that's fine and i'm not saying you have to #my ramblings

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iknowwhereyousleepatnight · 5 months

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#cw animal injury #i turned on the lights and our dog is covered in blood like??? hello???#since when were you doing that and why didn't you tell me??? *cue frantic searching for gauze*#there's a big cut where his ankle meets his leg (inside of the hind right leg)#i have no idea how that happened #our dogs play rough but have never drawn blood #and he was outside alone and he was acting normally and not whining or anything? like speak up man i need to know this shit #his name is bunny btw and he's a big dog. purebred great pyrenees(?) if the ppl we got him from are to be trusted #i don't know how he got hurt #its way too big/deep for a cat to have done it and even if they're really upset they just paw at his face #my only guess is that there's something sharp in the yard? but it's too dark to look #idfk but we found the gauze and stuff and he did Not like that process good thing there were 3 ppl awake to hold him down safely #he still didn't whine through all of that though like. pls speak up man. we gotta know if ur in pain so we can fix it #i'm hoping it doesn't get infected. we don't have money to go to the vet but he's my sister's dog and she might actually kill someone if #he isn't fine #she has a theory that he may have gotten cut on smth our brother threw out there and like. she may literally kill him if this #was his fault and bunny isn't fine #so far he seems fine there wasn't too much blood and there seems to just be the one cut #but i didn't hear him yelp or whine or anything #and he didn't seem to be limping but the lights were off #idk man but we have cleaned him up as best we can for now but it is the middle of the night so we'll see what we can do in the morning

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essektheylyss · 9 months

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you don't like the inability to go back through the reblog chain because it makes it harder to 'prev tags'; I don't like the inability to go back through the reblog chain because it makes it harder to reblog a version of the post without an annoying comment, especially when some of the blogs involved are deactivated; we are not the same

#not rebloggable cuz I am just whining. I do not actually care about your stance on prev tags.#I have used them on occasion. I find them useful for responding to applauding someone's tags when it's too small for a full convo.#and I am uninterested in my activity becoming a battleground against staff.#but also it does drive me nuts when I'm like 'man this whole chain is great except for the last comment #which is not emotionally wrong but is factually inaccurate on one minute point that I am nonetheless going to split hairs about'#anyway this one was giving terfs too much credit for having come up with radfem theory and like.#terfs/exclusionists as their contemporary movement are new (and more importantly louder and more effective).#but this is a new iteration of radfems who have been kicking since the 60s at least.#audre lorde and bell hooks were not writing against radfems in particular long before you were born #for you to claim that feminism always unilaterally agreed on the fact that men are also negatively affected by the patriarchy.#like it's FINE if you don't know that but. it is a minute point that is nonetheless important to me not to repeat. ANYWAY.#not me going through a whole bunch of wikipedia pages cuz I second guessed myself about facts.#and I couldn't just be WRONG if I was mad about people being minutely wrong now could I.

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azuresins · 10 months

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You mention the dog alot. If Sebastian the dog is reacting to O!Ciel "like a service dog," as you put it. It doesn't prove anything unusual is happening that we don't already know... It just proves he's sick.

THEN EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS DOG ONLY DOES THIS TO HIM AND NOT HIS MOTHER, RACHEL WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAS THE EXACT SAME AILMENT.

I'll wait.

#Like literally #If you don't like it you don't like it it's fine but before you come at me #READ!!! THE!!! STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#poison theory

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the-valiant-valkyrie · 4 months

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i think it's unfortunate that in all the hypotheticals i've seen about prism and solaris working together- potentially with right robot in tow- there's never been a mention of... just how comically flawed prism's lasers were. every consecutive iteration of her lasers without fail led, in one way or another, to the destruction of her robots.

you mean to tell her that you built an entire machine and then added the lasers in LAST?? so that you weren't accounting for wire placement or proper ventilation systems?? you put the consistently overheating laser module DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE CORE OF THE MACHINE?? THE EXPLOSIVE CORE OF THE MACHINE?? THAT EXPLODES SPECIFICALLY WHEN IT GETS TOO HOT?? (well yeah) 😟

#ieytd #commander solaris #roxana prism #robutler #tagging him too. imagine him in the background with all his panels pried open (hes so fine though)#i think solaris would be sooo scared. about. whatever the hell is going on inside of that robot #prism made like. pretty much all of those laser adjustments in the span of a few days if even.#she was NOT considering the longevity of any of it. thats so scary. whats going on in there....#solaris: 🙁sometimes i feel like the death engine was a personal failure (looks inside the robot) oh nevermind what the hell is happeni #solaris and prism to me is like. the equivalent of looking at your art from when you were 12 years old and cringing really hard #you don't want to be mean. in theory. but you are being mean. you're being so mean.

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greenerteacups · 10 months

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most of my AO3 comments are really amazing but every now and then i'll get one that is just wildly entitled

like someone just wrote a comment on ch38 that's like "please have them get together soon i don't want to wait. also [x] needs more character development." ??? bitch i'm not a menu why are you out here trying to order

#i wrote like 3 different replies and then deleted them all bc i realized theres no point #like if they dont reply then what's the point and if they DO reply then it's not like they'll spontaneously change their ways #it's best to just let them be mad #like if they end up liking what happens then it solves itself and if they don't then that's karma #but it's like. unless otherwise stated. writers are not DJs and we don't take requests #i've gotten a few of those — kind of weird entitled asks that are like “could you write [this specific premise]?” and it's like #uhhh #that's not... really... a service that i offer...#i don't... remember... offering to do that....#my tinfoil hat theory is these people come from the Reader X fanfic communities where you just ask writers to do something #and they'll do a little ficlet for you #and they don't realize that most traditional fic spaces are not tailored in that way #for their personal enjoyment #like sometimes someone will ask me “would you want to write X?” and that's totally fine!! and flattering and fun!#but that's a very different question from “please do this enormously labor intensive activity for my personal enjoyment thank you.”#oh and that one AO3 comment? TEN CHAPTERS AWAY FROM THE END OF THE FIC #HADN'T EVEN FINISHED IT and was already tryna stick their finger in the pot. lmao. bruh.#fandom takes all kinds for real.

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punkshitposts · 10 months

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something I think is actually hilarious is that if you go left enough you start having more stances in common with (individual) conservatives, and if you go right enough you start agreeing with (individual) leftists. like i have a pretty close friend who's self described as "just far enough right that I hate politicians" , whom I hard disagree with his overarching political stances. but the finer details of it... yeah we agree with each other. gun control/gun rights opinions taxation opinions pro-small government opinions slight separatist opinions anti two party opinions anti-corporation opinion ect ect ect.

we stand on opposite sides of a standard political compass but I genuinely think if I were to count stats, I'd agree with as many of his stances as I would a liberals/democrats stances. my hs gov teacher described the difference in right vs left to us as "everyone's goal here is the betterment of mankind, they just think the best ways to do it are different" and that's literally the best way, to me, to describe what the difference in right vs left is regarding anarchism specifically. we got ESSENTIALLY the same opinion but the ways we think are the best ways to go about enacting said opinion are what makes us different. and something abt that is really painfully funny to me. envisioning a world where an-something is the major world thing, not capitalism.... and there's STILL right vs left... but The Anarchist Versions. christ.

sorry for the book i wrote in the tags. ignore typos I am NOT retyping any of that to fix them xoxo

#this is a controversial post to post here ik. however i think can we all agree that echo chambers and bubbles aren't... good.#and i think something that gets forgotten a lot by leftists is that there ARE anarchists on the right #yes we are EXTREMELY different but its important to like. remember that should The revolution come in our lifetimes their still gonna exist #and political disagreement on an individual scale CAN and SHOULD be civil so long as neither party is coming from a bigoted stance.#as in.. no i dont agree with a good chuck of what his stances but by disagree i just think hes wrong abt economics bros not like. a bigot.#in this same vain i also think (myself included) people shouldn't conflate conservativism with racists and homophobes. t #theres proud gay conservatives and conservatives who are poc... erasing those people means we cannot know of how the other side works.#i genuinely believe that if i were to go read every political theory book on right leaning politics id fine something uniquely republican #/right/whatever that i would agree with and then adapt into my own politics. im sure at least one of the unique-to-the-right stances has #actually standing and isn't a load of shit (again probably something economic rather than social).#and thats not a bad thing and if you think it is a actually don't know how to explain it to you! we MUST critically but civilly interact #with political opinions mirroring our own to 1 understand other people 2 fully understand and develope our own stances and why we have em #i genuinely find political conversations with that friend extremely enlightening even if we both walk away still set in unchanged opinions.#because it means i understand WHY others drift to those options but more importantly why /i/ drifted to my own

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maddy-ferguson · 9 months

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the anti mike posts sentiment rise only leads to more pro mike activism posts so really everyone's losing here

#i will always be pro 'anti mike stans (not the ones who don't annoy me) and theories i don't like'-ism but really some of the things i #read from people 'on my team' make me go oh!#like you are actually not on the team i'm on i'm afraid #i think a very wise person said it best in march what's annoying is everyone says will is their favorite but everything always ends up #being about mike somehow #most posts are about mike and everyone is more interested in that WHICH IS FINE but like why do people think this is such a will loving #community. it's like yes everyone loves will but a lot of it is so superficial because so many people think yeah will is great i love will #but they don't think thinking about him is actually that interesting😭 which again no one's forcing you but it's annoying because it's #contradictory #and what's extra annoying is some of the posts about mike are like...about a mike that does not exist so it isn't even pro-mike <- most pro #mike thing i could say because i don't mean they're making things up because he's bland and is supposed to be i mean people are making #things up even though he's already very interesting.#remember that one ask from april #that's my manifesto even though i did not write it🙏#and like i say: brf slt

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