“omg peoples mental health is so bad they don’t shower??” girl some people have such bad mental health they kill themselves
my rule of thumb for this, for any behavior that you look at and go, “god, how can you not (X)?” is to ask myself: well. how bad would it have to be, for me? how bad would it be before i would stop doing that thing? how bad would i have to feel?
what would have to go wrong in your life, and how wrong would it have to go, for you to stop bathing? to stop eating? to let the garbage pile around you until you can no longer see the floor?
how bad would you have to feel, and for how long, before you would stand on the street screaming at anyone & anything? beating your fists on your head and crying? how bad would it need to be?
do you think there’s some fundamental difference between you and people who suffer until their lives are unrecognizable to you? can you face the knowledge that if things went badly enough, you would be just like them? just like them? just like
I like them! It was particularly sweet and fascinating to watch Mel soften over time, like real people bonding. Is it true love? Probably not. Does that detract from their story? Absolutely not!
(And in season 2, when Jayce points out that she will never be a passenger? One of the favorite lines in the whole show.)
combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au
Guys I’ll be real…I do not trust the Richmond FC himbos to destroy the One Ring of Sauron.
Hmmm. That was a LONG time ago. I think my first real fandom was Empire Strikes Back, first run back in the 80s. So there were just the two Star Wars films. Lately, it’s been Supergirl, blending into Arcane. Yeah, my new girls would rock the Star Wars verse! But I’ll stick to my simpler AUs to save my sanity…
when you have to tutor the teenage kiramman heir physics but she has absolutely zero interest in the subject and would rather be out shooting things instead
we absolutely deserved more of jayce and caitlyn being a sibling duo
“You guys don’t want morally grey characters because you refuse to relish in their evilness and constantly downplay their horrible actions.”
I don’t know how to explain this to you but… you don’t RELISH the evilness of a “morally grey” character. That’s not how it works. Relishing in a character’s badness while ignoring their goodness pushes them out of the “morally grey” camp and into black and white good v bad territory.
With morally grey characters if they do something good you are happy they did that, and when they do something bad you are sad/upset that they did that. You’re not supposed to RELISH when they do bad things. You’re supposed to be DISAPPOINTED when they falter and do bad things.
I hate to keep using children’s media as examples, but since these idiots have never watched anything else, this is the best comparison I can think of.
Zuko.
Zuko is a morally grey character. He starts doing bad things and being the antagonist, and slowly he has an arc where he grows and learns to be a better person. But at a crucial moment he faulters. He does something abjectly bad and spend the greater half of the next season wrestling with his bad decision.
And at no point was I RELISHING in his badness.
I was sad. Disheartened. I wanted him to see the light and realize the error of his ways. And whenever he continued to do bad things it made me disappointed to see how far he had sunk.
If you were sitting there RELISHING in Zuko sending an assassin after Aang, destroying his pictures of his family, yelling at his friends, and throwing food at his imprisoned uncle while telling him he was worthless… there is something WRONG with you.
When we “downplay” the atrocities of Caitlyn Kiramman, it’s because you’re deliberately trumping her atrocities UP past the morally grey line and into outright evil villain status. And your assertion that we should be relishing in her descent into dictatorship is psychotic when you spend so much time moralizing AGAINST her role as a dictator.
You’re the ones who don’t want morally grey characters. You want to call them morally grey, but what you actually want is for them to be black and white. That’s honestly the only way I can see you wanting to RELISH in the badness of a character. Because when they’re purely bad, it’s okay because you can grasp that what they’re doing is bad. Because it easy to understand.
Morally grey characters BY DEFINITION are not “easy to understand.”
WHY DON’T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT CAITLYNS CORRUPTION IS HER FUCKING TRAUMA COMING OUT??? like they would understand my girl so much more😔💔 and like the icing on the cake was when she was talking to jinx in the cell when she said “Hating you?- I’ve hated myself” LIKE UHH HELLOO???
It’s very clear to me that Fandom needed something to hate and so very many people have taken such weird takes on Caitlyn. To the point of wondering if we watched the same show.
Creative and entertaining, but no drama! Slave to the muses. A mixed bag of femslash, a scoop of a couple m/f pairings and a dash of poly for spice. I have proclaimed myself Grand Poobah of the sturdy little dinghy that is AgentCorp! I also LOVE dansen and agentreigncorp. Huge Peggy Carter fan! 1st officer of the SSS Stegginelli. Angie Martinelli makes everything better. I want to be Steve Rogers, or at least my version of him.
