#im SO CONFUSEDDDD

[manchesterau]

WHAT IS HAPPENING I DONT GET THIS DAMN GAME

[cheaze-the-fourth]

I'm fucking screaming why did grace van pelt kiss a 70-something-year-old man 😭😭 all he did was tell u to take deep breaths when ur angry wtf that did NAWT warrant a kiss, especially because hes a cult leader

[marchsfreakshow]

Stop tormenting my little sister!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

<3 this is ridiculous but it's also so entertaining

[giverofempathy]

besties i'm in a Situation and idk what to do

[fading4ngel]

my art is feeling so awful still, what if i just jump off a bridge actually.

[jiisoooo]

so far I think xavier rafayel and sylus have all referred to knowing mc but she doesn’t have any memory of them ??? I think?????? I’m not too sure I’m very confused lol

[emwallas176]

Episode 4x09 of Smallville was genuinely so confusing. Not only was the cold open so traumatizing but then the moral gymnastics that happens for the rest of the episode (and onward) is so confounding.

So the whole premise of the episode is that Lex sleeps around so much that he can’t even remember the names and faces of the women he sleeps with. Strange and concerning on multiple levels. Even if this was completely in character (which I don’t think it is), it is still highly concerning to forget the names and faces of people you’ve been intimate with. I think they said 13 women in the last year. While that’s not a low number, I don’t think it’s high enough to cause such forgetfulness. Therefore it almost seems to imply that there’s a level of disassociation that happens on Lex’s part during the experience (you can’t form new memories if you weren’t really paying attention when they happened). This theory is also backed up by the fact that Lex admits at the end of the episode that he has suicidal thoughts, and (very) unattached sex could be a negative coping mechanism for these dark emotions. As we can see at the start of the episode, Lex looks sad and completely alone at the event. And immediately after that he jumps into bed with someone. There’s clearly a connection there (at least in my mind).

All of the above, however, is not what confuses me. It’s the other characters that I don’t understand. First you have Clark who comes in (as seems to be becoming his pattern) guns blazing and accusatory. Of course this might be warranted seeing as Lex has been quite soundly framed for murder but I digress. During their talk and with what he finds out later, Clark gets very up in arms about Lex having sex with a lot of women. Despite whether this is right or wrong of him to do, it makes absolutely no sense for why it would drive Clark into LIONEL’S arms. Especially bc Lionel admits later on that Lex learned the behavior (sleeping with women and leaving them with a pair of diamond earrings) from Lionel himself?? Like it’s bad and dishonest if Lex does it but apparently makes Lionel trustworthy?? I’m confused. Also! Let’s not forget the fact that Lionel slept with another woman while his wife was DYING! But sure, Lex is the sexually deviant one. Sure.

Also, I feel like there is a lot of disconnect between how Lex and Alicia (in later episodes) are treated. Like Lex sleeps with women (consensually) and almost gets killed by one of them and Clark tells him that he doesn’t know if he can trust him anymore. Alicia forces Clark to marry her and almost forces him to have sex with her (read: non-consensual!) and the next episode she and Clark are dating again. Also, Lex gets framed for murder and when he’s found innocent, Clark rescues him, yes, but at the end of the day he still doesn’t trust Lex. Alicia gets framed for murder and is found innocent (and dies, unfortunately (seriously that was such a shocking death what the hell Smallville?!)) and Clark feels guilty and regretful and tells his parents he wishes he believed her sooner. Now I get that these two situations aren’t quite the same but the different reactions that Clark and the other characters have feel more like the writers playing into future roles (Lex is the villain, yada, yada) rather than actually looking at the characters as they are now.

I think I would have enjoyed the episode more if I’d understood what it was trying to say. Are you trying to say that Lex is “showing a different, darker side of himself” by not caring about the women he sleeps with? Okay then why is it okay for Lionel to do. Are you trying to say that sex in general is bad? Then why have Alicia be forgiven? Why have Lana trying to loose her virginity to Jason? In the end, the episode just left me feeling really frustrated bc I felt like there was something I was supposed to get but I just didn’t get it.

[home-and-having-tea]

Sometimes I forget I'm asexual and that not everyone feels the same way I do about sex and has anyone else ever seen that comparison where they say being ace is like living in a world where nobody shuts up about the Minions and you genuinely cannot see the appeal to the Minions but its seemingly the center of society? Idk sometimes I forget people like. fuck. They aren't just joking about fucking, they're fucking fucking.

[johnnyvalance]

how are people coming to new york for like a week and seeing the entire cast out on the streets 😭😭 ive lived here for 9 years and haven’t seen a single broadway actor on the streets

[that-dam-heartstopper-fan]

y’all I think I’ve been having a identity crisis about my name-

[nexo-nex]

why that last drawing i did got over 100 bookmarks on twitter ....

[calbeloved]

there are still 40 minutes left of the episode. i fear we may be stuck here for the rest of it.

[orionthecritter]

Will He/him, plays soccer with his friends, likes math and other subjects, likes shooting games, and really enjoys action packed movies

@jahdenexists you can do this if you’d like dude I’m so confused 😔

proposal for all my fellow tumblr freaks: normalsonas.

Mine is [birthname] she/her warm yellow. She doesn't listen to music unless it's on the radio or random shit spotify recommends her that she doesn't care about. she is cishet and never gets obsessed with anything

[secretly-noah]

does anyone know how dnp know carrie fletcher? IM SO CONFUSEDDDD

[our-queer-experience]

This is a genuine question. What is a safequeer? I keep seeing different definitions and it's so confusing and I still don't know what the fuck it means, if it's a good or bad thing. The Internet doesn't tell me shit, according to one website it just means opposite of radqueer, and then another website says they're like exclusionary to certain queer identities. I'm confusedddd 😭😭😭

Also, sorry if this is like opening a can of worms or something because I don't know what it means, so I don't know if it's like a no-go topic :')

im gonna be so honest ive never been exposed to that corner of the internet or seen that discourse or even heard that term. usually i know Everything about annoying niche discourse but im gonna do some independent research and get back to you

[rottenfishyy]

WHAT IS SCARECROWS EYE COLOR IM SO CONFUSEDDDD