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I’d like to be able to report more, but due to recent personal developments, my colleagues are…less researched focused than I could hope for.

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when people are like “who’s your favorite writer?” and everyone’s all shouting out famous authors and poets and i’m over here like… denise thé?????

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no offense but poi episodes written by denise thé are the best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe

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all the reasons why i can’t and all the reasons why i should

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GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE I BEFORE SUNRISE’D THAT SHIT

fml @ me

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“seeking admin” AKA the Machine is looking for her dad and that’s really cute to me

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Thanks for tagging your poi posts about the 1OO. I'm a fan of both shows, and I was hugely upset about lexa's death (I have mental illness issues). I've been very lonely and down lately, and I was super excited for poi to come back so I could be excited about a show again and be able to see some legitimately good lgbt representation. But lately the shoot fandom has been such a toxic place for clexa shippers that I don't know if I can watch a show I love anymore. 1/6

I know it really sucks that clexa (and non clexa) fans are coming into your tags and talking about how root and shaw might die. Having that kind of constant negativity about it is awful. But at the same time, it does make sense for people to be prepared for the worst. I know I have to prepare myself so I’m not devastated again if one of them dies. After Lexa’s death, I went to a very dark place for several days and I can’t let myself go there again. 2/6

I want to trust the writers. The show is so good and they’ve been so good to us up until now (both in terms of groundbreaking quality and represenation). But I fully believed in the 1OO writers as well to deliver on the later (the show’s always been shit). So even though I want to trust them, I can’t let myself be hurt again. When people say stuff like “the poi writers would never do us like that” it hurts my heart. Because people said the same thing about the 1OO, and look how wrong we were. 3/

I don’t want people to be hurt like that again. I saw so many people literally suicidal after Lexa’s death (mostly very young teens). I hope people aren’t hurt in the same way. I think it will help that a lot of poi fans are older/maturer and I think the poi writers won’t be as homophobic in the means of death they use in the event they choose to kill root or shaw off. 4/6

But even if the death makes narrative sense, I know I’m still going to be hurt by it. I’m 17 year’s old, and I’m just super lonely. There’s no excuse for sending hate to the cast or crew, ever. But if fans of the show respectfully criticize the writers in the event of a homophobic death, I don’t understand why that’s a bad thing. 5/6

Please try not to get mad at me for sending you this. I don’t mean to be attacking the show at all by saying this. I’m so excited for the new season, and if we get root/shaw riding off into the sunset on motorcycles in the end that would be the cherry on top. All I’m trying to do is attempt to explain why some people are so afraid of root or shaw dying. And why I think the fandom needs to find a balance between positivity and preparing for the worst. 6/6

6/6 person- I think I might have sent that first ask off anon. If I did, please don’t publish that one. I can’t deal with people sending me hate. I’m not in that place right now. (Not saying you/people who see the post have to agree with me in any way.) Please leave me as anon, I resent that part on anon.

hey buddy. 

firstly no you didn’t publish it off anon. dont worry. 

And okay. I’m gonna try and address your points as best as I can, okay? I’m not mad at you, thank you for being respectful. But this is going to get long, bear with me.

Yes, we are annoyed with people attacking the show, and claiming that we can’t trust it because you guys trusted t100 writers and look what happened. The reason for that is because we have all the reason to trust the poi writers. They have been so respectful to the fans, and they treat the wlw representation so well. In comparison, t100 was very racist and problematic from the very beginning. Yes, poi is not perfect when it comes to race, but it is pretty good. 

Many poc complained about how racist t100 is, and were shut down by the fandom for the sole purpose of there being a f/f ship. The fact that one of the women in the ship had brownface and wore a bindi was ignored. We were even being attacked for bringing it up. People were so caught up in the thrill of having lgbt representation that they didnt care that the only people who were being represented were white wlw, while the racism was actively oppressing poc.

So we kinda went, whatever. And ignored t100 to enjoy this amazing show with an actual brown, bisexual, neurodivergent woman who’s so well written. And then lexa died. And there was a huge backlash. Which is understandable. You guys were upset that she was killed off in such a horrible way. And trust me, a lot of us were sympathetic towards that. We were angry for you guys because we knew that you were hurting. And we saw how terribly you guys were being treated by the writers of your show. We acknowledged your hurt, and your pain. 

But then, people started adding Shaw to the list of wlw who have been killed on screen. And that undermines the amazing representation that poi has been giving us. That made us annoyed and rightfully angry. Because we were ignored when we talked about how racist t100 was being, but now we are being used as tokens to prop up the movement. A movement that largely benefitted only white wlw. 

And then, it got worse. t100 fans moved fandoms, and there was an influx of people questioning if root and shaw would still be alive. It is a valid question to ask of a show like poi. But apart from the fact that people were reducing the entire show to just be about root and shaw, it was completely undermining all the good things that we’ve been given by the show regarding root and shaw. It was reducing shaw, a beautiful bisexual neurodivergent woc, into just another love interest. 

That wasn’t all. Supanova happened, and people were asking Amy to spoil the ending. And when she rightfully wouldnt, attacking her and Chris on twitter. Amy and Chris have been some of the people who have been so respectful and kind to fans, especially shoot fans. It was all getting way out of hand. 

You said that it would be valid to question the cast and crew if there was a homophobic death. But there has never been a basis to suspect that there would be. The problem is that clexa fans are projecting onto poi. And when you do this, you’re basically ignoring everything good that poi has given us. 

The shoot and poi tags are being flooded with posts about clexa, about wlw dying, about who’s gonna die first- root or shaw. The fandom has been waiting over a year for our show. We’ve been fucked over by cbs- had to wait forever for an air date, not knowing if it was going to be cancelled and then they cancelled it, not gotten any news about the show, and suddenly gotten like 3 promos over 2 days. Do you think it’s fair that we have to deal with people spreading such hate in our tag as well? We would have never engaged with clexa fans if there wasn’t all this comparison being made. We are trying to keep our distance but clexa fans keep dragging us back in. 

We more than welcome wlw, especially young wlw like yourself, into the shoot fandom. You guys were hurt, you deserve a place where the wlw are treated respectfully. But it’s not cool when our fandom becomes rife with toxicity and negativity. When our show, and our cast and crew are being punished for mistakes they haven’t even committed. 

We are prepared for the worst, we know our show well enough to know that people could die. It’s something that’s been talked about since way before any of this happened. The thing is, we know that whatever happens it will be treated respectfully. We trust our writers. 

We don’t want all this fighting and negativity either. We just want to be excited over our show and yell about the trailers and the new episodes. We’re all here to have fun, and for this to be a safe space. 

I hope you’re okay, and I hope I addressed your concerns. Come back to me if you wanna talk more about it. And I hope that you do remain excited about the new episodes and enjoy them when they come out. Take care, friend. 

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white people when they see a crack in the road: this place is sketchy.......

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Person Of Interest Meme → Favourite Shots [07/??]

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countdown to season five - god mode Come on, Harold. The fun’s just getting started.

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Person Of Interest Meme → Favourite Shots [03/??]

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me when i go looking for gossip

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Person Of Interest Meme → Favourite Shots [01/??]

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I can’t believe I drew Maggie Smith as a jedi master