Anyone else feel like they love a fandom more than they love a show/movie/etc. ? Teen Wolf, for example, loved the show growing up and then discovered Tumblr and AO3 side of the TW and loved the connon on fics more than the show itself 🤣 I'm a huge fan of Stiles/Derek, Stiles/Peter, and Peter/Chris, Stiles/Peter/Chris. Used to love Scott in the show but enjoy reading bad-friend/alpha-scott better. I stopped watching the show after Derek left, so at the point, Peter was more villain than anything but in fics? Favorite character. Love the trope of Good-Peter, Peter deserves nice things, hell I even love the trope of murder husband's Peter and Stiles. Never cared for Chris in the show until I started reading fics about him and Peter. Didn't really care for Malia but gimme Dad Peter and I'll read that shit everytime. Hated Allison in the show but Chris mourning his daughter and Stiles saving the day by getting her back all the while Peter holds them all together as pack alpha? YESSS.

When the movie came out obviously did not like it but the fix it fics that followed? I'll read Stiles saving his husband and son all day everyday.

However, it is important to note that I love all the actors and actresses - they are all amazing. The show was beautiful and even the movie (if it had better material anyways and obviously Derek didn't die).

But the fanfics in the Teen Wolf fandom are top-tier. I will smile, I will laugh, I will throw my phone across the room, and I will cry. It also helps that Tyler Hoechlin supports Sterek fanfics which makes it so much better. And the friendship between Ian and Tyler? Ian ans Jr? I love them.

Okay, that ends my rant for the day ✌🏻 thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I'll see yall during my next batch of pain meds that make me emotional 🤣

Revealing myself isn’t a good idea. Hope Teddy and you are doing well.

But :(

That's not fair

Now I gonna cry.

ive said multiple times of "things in good omens just hit me randomly" right?

crowley calling aziraphale angel

it hit. this ones never hit before idk why its doing it NOW. maybe its cuz my partner calls me angel now so it hits more?? but i just saw a comp of crowley saying it and it just??? ahghghgg it made my heart do a funny lil thing

he calls him!! angel!! sure it started as 'yeah this is what u are' but we all know its not that anymore.

he calls him angel

he calls aziraphale angel 😭😭

Y'all know, I often wonder about how Larry felt after the final of "Secret of the Tomb"

Just think about it: over the years spent working at the museum, Larry developed quite a bond with the exhibits and they became like a second family to him. He spent a good part of his life alongside them and went through a lot of things with them, from the completely ordinary to the seriously dangerous ones.

And then there were those adventures in London. Larry worked his ass off to keep the magic of the tablet alive and save the lives of his friends, while still somehow trying to bond with Nicky and be a good father to him. The quintessense of all these things probably put a terrible strain on Larry, and I could tell that at some point he was even afraid. Afraid that he couldn't save them all in time.

And so, after all those hard efforts, Larry still loses all his friends and his favorite job in particular; that's it, he's left all alone (let's not count Nicky, okay?). Years of strong friendship, the joy of victories, and even sleepless nights - all for the sake of becoming just a vague memory. Larry was certainly not prepared for this turn in his life, and I have no idea at all how he coped with all those changes. He basically had to start his life over from scratch.

But Larry was able to do that: to let go of all those things that happened at the British Museum, to leave his favorite job and find a new one, to find a new course in his life. And frankly, I admire him for that.

One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to fandom/media interpretation in general is that seemingly whenever something tries to explore the emotion of love in a nuanced or non-straightforward manner everyone and their mother jumps to the conclusion that it’s inherently romantic in nature. I don’t know if this is my aroace brain speaking, but it’s something I’ve never understood when clearly the author doesn’t mean it in a romantic sense. The two examples I’m thinking of are Violet Evergarden and Ancient Magus Bride.

Violet Evergarden is about a child soldier, Violet post-war trying to discover what emotions are, so that she can better understand the major who sacrificed his life for her. She’s specifically fixated on the notion of love, because the major told her once that he loved her and she’s struggled to understand what he meant by that. As the show goes on, she begins to discover just what these emotions mean, both to other people and to herself. Now, it needs to be said again that she was a child soldier, the major was around 30 if I remember correctly. Either way very much an established adult when he found Violet when she was like 8-10. Naturally he meant that he loves her in a familial way, everything the show does supports this interpretation, the only obscurity comes from Violet’s perspective because she doesn’t understand his meaning at first. Take a big fat guess as to half the posts I saw about their relationship framed it. Yep, “oh how gross he was in love with a child,” “this show is gross,” “its so sad how he was in love but now they can never be together T-T.” Like. What the fuck y’all. What the actual fuck. Did we watch the same show????? It’s legitimately baffling that just because the word love is used that is the assumption made in direct contradiction to what canon is saying.

Ancient Magus Bride has it much, much worse unfortunately, because it’s a much more,,, morally suspect look at what love is, or more specifically, the nature of human relationships. Chise and Elias have a bond that cannot be easily summed up in a few words (which is the entire point), and they see a lot of various twists and turns in their dynamic as they learn  not only to live with each other but come into their own and grow. Now, a lot of people assume Ancient Magus Bride is a romance because of how it starts out, with Elias stating that he bought Chise to be his bride. However, as you read further, specifically into the 40′s, Elias reveals that he only said the word bride because he understood it to be people who spend their lives together, and wanted to cut corners by making his student and bride the same thing. Elias, as an inhuman creature, does not have the capability for empathy or understanding emotions/concepts as humans do, which is what leads to a lot of the suspect situations in the beginning of the story because he doesn’t get the implications of what he’s doing.The author herself has even mentioned in official interviews that she doesn’t see their relationship as romantic (not that it stopped anyone), along with the entire story rejecting such an interpretation because shoving Chise and Elias into such a box goes against what it’s saying about the messy nature of relationships. Additionally, much like Violet Evergarden but worse, Chise is 16 while Elias is a being 100s of years old (although without the emotional intelligence to match). Either way though, their dynamic for the beginning of the show is very much of Elias trying to control Chise. He withholds information from her, manipulates her into trusting him more easily, does things behind her back that he knows she wouldn’t approve of. And that is important, I appreciate that aspect being there because it’s all completely necessary to show just what kind of person Elias is, and how his standards are vastly different compared to human ones. But a lot of the whole “EliasxChise is soooo good” hype came from anime only watchers- and is that really the dynamic yall wanted? Really? Especially when the anime watered down the resolution to that conflict? More importantly, imagine being braindead and also having no taste at all simultaneously. You take so many interesting aspects of their dynamic by just going “and theyre in love UwU” because you ignore their complexities. On top of being really fucking gross in my opinion.

And these two aren’t the only example of this. In general I think plenty of relationships would be far better off being explored as the nuanced, complex things that they are without slapping an “in love” label on them. (Jayce and Viktor from Arcane come to mind for me, what they have going on as friends and the importance the narrative places on that friendships is so much more valuable to me then any shipping). And again, I’m left wondering if this is an aroace thing, bc talking with a friend who is also aroace about her experiences in researching romance literature and what allo people find rewarding about a romance is like reading about an alien species. Do yall just live like this???? It’s so sad you are missing out on so much

im so emotional like literally from the very beginning of the show the ghosts take care of each other they welcome each other to being dead, each person can give a talk daily about something they like or know about they have food club and robin and julian play chess and... like even before allison comes into their.. deaths. and obviously she is such a hugely beneficial impact on them, they're playing games, kitty and fanny are reading romance novels, mary is learning her letters and numbers, she times captain's runs. but even before her they just like. all live together and have a relatively nice time and make sure everyone has a chance to talk and do something they like. they try to do the moon ritual for robin, they comfort pat on his death day. they all get misty-eyed when julian describes the importance of family on christmas. like. do you get it. i got fucking emotional about a dead found family again.

one thing i just do not fucking get is the difference between "regulating emotions" and "suppressing emotions" i cannot get my head around how those are different. like if im sad and then i go "well im not going to be sad anymore" that's "dissociating" and "suppressing healthy emotions" but if im sad and im like "well im going to cry until i actually pass out" that's "not healthy" and it's BAD to suppress emotions but it's ALSO BAD to get super upset so WHAT IS THE SECRET THIRD THING cuz i do not fucking get it. "feel your feelings But not that way that's not healthy feel your feelings but less than that" ???????

Oh boy finally its the evening! Now I can chat with a robot about the motivations and emotions of the characters in my fic to better understand them!

VA shipped my incontinence products in like... A large branded box for a very famous brand of incontinence products to be left on my front porch. They are the opposite of discrete shipping. Like, HERE ARE YOUR ADULT DIAPERS FOR YOUR ADULT INCONTINENCE, don't worry if you haven't unpacked the internalized ableism from this yet, you're gonna be too busy dealing with the externalized ableism of your neighbors curiosity.

Darby Allin VS Miro (AEW Dynamite 5/12/21)

"Look at the connection between these two!"

∞ I will find you in every life ∞

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ur grading people and if they get an f theyre blocked? my main you aint a kindergarten teacher this is a microblogging platform

yeah, that's why there's that function called blocking! :) cuz this is a microblogging site! that's what microblogging platforms have! :) so you don't have to put up with people's shit! :) interesting that kindergarten teachers where you live are capable of blocking people in real life, hope you had fun with that

idk. picky eater rights. im coming to your events and turning my picky bitch nose up at your fancy ass desserts you spent a bajillion hours working over in the kitchen and asking if i can find like a basic ass brownie with no extra flairs or ingredients or steps or whatever the fuck. cry about it. stop trying to feed me

Sometimes you have so many things to thank your work senior for that you write them a card which has a letter inside and a £20 gift card to their favourite coffee place... And then she jokingly tells you off at 6.10am over text and you're just like 🥰🥰🥰🥰

SORRY TO TAKE SUCH A HARD LEFT BUT HOW DO YOU THINK JO FOUND OUT ARAKAWA WAS DEAD

IM GOING TO SCREAM IF I TRY TO THINK ABOUT THAT NOOOOO I GOTTA GET BACK TO YOU IN 5-7 BUSINESS DAYS WITH THAT ONE............