#and just say horrible nasty things

[pitiful-anonymous-vampire]

the stranger things fandom is getting mean

not any of u guys who follow me/ are friends/ are mutuals

but just in general

there’s a lot of gatekeeping and bullying going on and i don’t like it

i always loved interacting with the fandom but now it gives me anxiety

stranger things is a show about outsiders, kids who don’t fit in, kids who were bullied. it was a comfort show for me for that reason. now fans of the show are becoming bullies and it’s not fun anymore 😔

[crabussy]

IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING KIND TODAY!!! IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING GENEROUS TOWARDS OTHER PEOPLE!!! IS ANYBODY ELSE BEING KIND AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EVEN WHEN ITS HARD!!! IS ANYONE ELSE ASSUMING THE BEST OF OTHERS INTENTIONS AND RESPONDING IN KIND!!!! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

[bacchuschucklefuck]

love thinking kipperlilly spends her afterlife looking for lucy in a familiar forest

[tricksterlatte]

I think one thing we should all work harder on is being nice about fictional things you dislike and just agreeing to disagree, or not even bringing it up unless it’s addressed to you directly. I do not care about some ships or characters, but being mean about them or even criticizing them, especially in a public or semi-public setting, is only gonna fan the flames. Ship hate has never won anyone over to another ship, it’s only made them absolutely hate you and maybe resent whatever you’re trying to promote. Also it’s just mean and idk why that’s still in style

[dodecademons]

Funny how like 90 percent of people wanting the wilds back hate to acknowledge the fact that it's partly their fault. I want the wilds to be renewed as well, however if I DARE say yall aren't ready for it and a small part of me thinks some viewers are undeserving I'm the bad guy. Right because the vast majority of you didn't openly admit to skipping over the boys parts in the show, smh. If you arent watching the whole episode why would they want to renew it? They want views, they want money. Do I want the wilds back? Of course. Do I think the gretchen clones deserve it? No. Be better.

[lunathewafflelord]

Sometimes it seems like the anti fandoms are more toxic than the actual fandom that the anti fandom people hate on, it's actually really sad.

MLP fans will know what I'm talking about

[steakout-05]

staffy expectations vs staffy reality (by someone who has an absolute sweetheart of an american staffy <3)

[cistematicchaos]

The psych ward is a constant location for my nightmares now. Funnily enough, even the other "patients" in my nightmares that scare the shit out of me aren't as scary as the people keeping me locked up and controlling everything I do. Which was true in real life as well. Gotta love it.

[zaidepersonal]

told me parents i started T and the room CLEARED lol. love it here

[polyamorouspunk]

Idk I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but the fatal flaw of tumblr blaze is that sometimes humanity is not inherently good but inherently evil and selfish. You click on a blazed post about people promoting a project they’ve spent months on usually like a book or a comic or a store that’s something like a love letter to the queer community and the comments are just filled with people saying shit like “go kys” and “I don’t care about your shitty project I hope it flops” etc. etc. I’m not saying every post is like that, I mean I haven’t see a lot of negativity when people blaze pictures of their animals but the idea of blazing something I’ve worked really hard on and want more people to see is great until I click on other people doing that and I’m met with the most vile comments I’ve ever seen in all my time on tumblr.

[aeide-thea]

mostly i try to stay chipper but like. sometimes it's just acutely apparent that yr the end product of literally generations of disrespect and interpersonal powerlessness and it just. it gets to you a little

[philhoffman]

Watched The Ides of March (2011) for this week’s Monday Philm—my third viewing and probably my favorite so far. I’ve always liked it but I really engaged with the film this time, both positively and critically.

My favorite performances are mostly those of the supporting cast—PSH, of course, but also Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei. For a while I thought I didn’t really like Tomei in general but I realized that’s just because her character in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is so poorly written, I can’t stand her. But in The Ides of March, with a less central but decidedly stronger part, I just love her. In this film, Wood’s character Molly in this film is bordering on the same issue as BTDKD’s female characters—weak writing, not much for the actor to work with—but on this viewing especially I appreciated what she managed to do. Subtle things, the looks she held, the fear and pain she was experiencing.

One of this movie’s many messages is that young women in particular are victims of the political system, physically and mentally used and thrown out and treated like nothing, yet the film itself focuses on the men who use these girls and it can’t be bothered to write women with much depth, either. Meta!

I’m not sure what to make of Ryan Gosling’s performance. While I like him in this role very much, I feel like there’s something missing from The Ides of March and I just wish it/he dug a bit deeper. Stephen goes from wide-eyed idealist to a remorseless cynic, which is understandable if not predictable—it’s easy to see but hard to feel. He’s so charming in the first half or so, then it’s like the switch flips suddenly and he’s immediately lost his faith. Idk I get he’s very stressed and under a lot of pressure that has built up very quickly as he becomes disillusioned but it’s all so formulaic!

But PSH as Paul Zara <3 Like the other supporting characters I mentioned above, he brings a warmth and an edge that counteracts the coolness of Gosling and Clooney. The scene between Paul and Stephen in the hotel room is one of my favorite PSH monologues—something about how he stumbles over his words a bit, but it’s so perfect. Like when he blushes in The Master and everyone asked—is that possible? To control when you blush? Is this intentional or is it magic? It’s the same wonder—can you control the way you trip over your tongue? Was it really a slip, something natural and you went with it, or is it a trick? Those small moments are the most satisfying to dig into.

Apparently Paul played a much different role in the original play (Farragut North), which I’m very eager to read now.

Technically, there are some aspects I really like, too. The lighting is really quite fantastic at times. That last scene between Stephen and Tom Duffy in the Pullman campaign office? Almost terrifying the way those stark lights illuminate their faces. Just putting these stills together I realized how the film transitions from a pretty warm opening to much less saturated, cooler colors and landscapes by the end. Basic but effective!

I’m still recovering from the last two weeks and, like almost every film, there are certain scenes and aspects that feel different and hurt more in the aftermath of Phil’s death. It’s like you never know what piece of shrapnel is going to blow up in your face this time. The Ides of March has a couple of those moments.

[userastarion]

“it’s not about whether it was right it’s about whether it served the story” FUCKING THANK YOU. it drives me crazy when people argue about whether or not joel is a “good person” because it’s just so completely not the point of the story.

i think people want a nice, neat, easily digestible show/game about Good People people fighting the big Bad Guys and get very uncomfortable when stories don’t work like that. this is especially true for the last of us where you come to identify with joel and care for ellie, and if joel isn’t a 100% “good guy,” than what does that make you, the viewer, who would do the same in his situation? i love how uncomfortable that makes me, and why i come back to the last of us over and over because i’ve never been confronted by a piece of media like that.

i think this is honestly something a lot of people struggle with in all types of media. a character doesn’t have to be a good person to be a good character. that’s why so many people love villains or even psychopathic characters. they are interesting and engaging, even if what they’re doing is awful

joel miller shoots up an entire hospital of fireflies because they are preventing him from saving the life of his surrogate daughter, this 14 y/o girl he’s spent the last 9 months or whatever trekking across the entire country with. objectively this is a horrible thing to do. IS her life worth more than all those other people’s? no! BUT. does it move the story forward in an absolutely breath-stealing kind of way? does it show you how far he’s willing to go because of the love he has for one young girl?

and just like you said - it challenges you as a viewer/player. we all care about ellie. we would be pissed as hell if her death was the end of the story, but not nearly as pissed as joel — a man so traumatized by the loss of his daughter 20 years ago that he blazes his way through a hospital to prevent the loss of his new daughter because he simply cannot go through it again. this is possibly the most selfish act in the entire set of games. and it sets things up in a fascinatingly heinous way, because then, after he saves her, we as an audience are likely more angry that he lies to her about it than that he saved her by doing what he did

and how incredible is it that a story can make us feel that way??? completely turn what we think our morals are on their head bc we care about these characters so much?

[lilgynt]

my dad called me his guardian angel and that i have more patience than my mom and i know i told myself he just says shit but like that actually helped cause same day he was like i do not want to be alone with you and ur crazy so like. that did help a lot!

[kavehater]

I resign from life goodbye —

[medicinemane]

You know, it bothers me the way it seems like people have totally forgot about Iranians... thought we were all on the same page, wasn't it... women, life, freedom? (I legit don't remember, but the reason for that is it wasn't my slogan to say. Maybe it sounds strange, but that's how I felt, so I never actually wrote it, which makes it harder to remember)

Just feels like for a brief window there we were all talking big talk about supporting them, but then it all kinda dried up

I'll be totally transparent about one of the reasons this keeps coming up for me, russia is a major ally of Iran, Iran supplies the kamikaze drones russia hits civilians with... you know they're not giving them away for free... I worry what the Iranian government uses anything it gets to do... I don't really hear anything from Iranians anymore (though once again I fully admit that most of what I was hearing was second hand, I never had found an Iranian to directly follow... I don't know if anyone's still talking)

I just... I legit worry that people talk a big game about Gaza right now, but will they in a year?

I'm frustrated because a lot of the support people and causes around the world get seems like it's almost more self masturbatory than anything real... sure, everyone really well and truly means it, but then they get bored and it's on to a new cause

So I worry the support will be fleeting... and I see some people really getting down in the mud in ways... well, I'm not a people keeper, I don't get to tell people what to do, but I wouldn't be very pleased if I was acting the way I see some people act and my real point is I worry they're doing all this shit and they're not even gonna stick it out with the cause... seen people get bored and dip to many times to trust it

I'm not perfect... I have a shit memory a lot of the time, and I got a lot on my mind, but I still remember Hong Kong... at least sometimes... even looked into it from time to time and the news never looks good

I remember the Uyghurs, though my shit spelling always makes me look it back up. I think about Syria and how forgotten they are. I do actually still keep up with Ukraine... and then I see connections between russia and Iran and assad and...

I don't know... this stuff eats a me a little... not a lot, not more than the helplessness we all feel about bad things beyond our control usually does... I just worry about people, how they act with shit

Worry that you roll around in the mud too long it starts getting hard to wash off, and I worry that people sometimes get in the mud less cause they're trying to help anything and more cause sometimes it feels good to have an excuse to get dirty... righteous anger that makes any behavior permissible

I don't talk about current events that are on everyone's radar nonstop cause I don't want to burn support out by just overloading people with horror... but I generally find murdering innocent people to be a bad thing, so yeah... I want to see a fucking ceasefire already

Don't talk about it, but I actually do care quite a bit... and I worry... I worry that it'll be forgotten the second the news cycle moves on like everything else is

Worry that every bit of vile behavior I've seen that was for high minded goals will turn out to be dropped in an instant...

Almost like that's not a bug, that's just the point