#anti-hook

[phoenixwrites]

do you still do anti-hook rants, or are you past that? because your old rants fuel my soul.

I do! Not as often, only because I don't get as many asks about Hook as I did in the mid 2010s. But my hatred for the character is alive and fresh, my bitterness that had Colin O'Donoghue not been so fucking gorgeous, Captain Swan never would've been a thing, and the way they shafted Neal so epically (SIMILARLY TO HOW RIAN FUCKING JOHNSON SHAFTED FINN FOR KYLO REN I SAID WHAT I SAID) will always stick in my craw.

But Neal now belongs to me, so much so, that I changed his name and gave him his very own full-length novel--which, after "Hell's Heresies" (ALSO A SWANFIRE OG FANFIC!) will be published for the delight of Swanfire/Neal Cassidy fans everywhere.

So keep your eye out for Nolan Jack in the next few years...

[violetfaust]

So so sooooo funny to see one (1) person tagging that post I just reblogged (“big fan of characters not getting to die but having to face consequences they never thought they’d have to”) with Killykins Jones of all people.

Because that worthless sumbitch never had to actually change or face ANY consequences for his lifetime(s) of evil. He simply declared himself a hero and chose not to murder in order to get some tail, and was instantly forgiven all by characters including (but not limited to) his future wife, his stepson, ALL his in-laws, his stepson’s mother, the stepson he abandoned, the brother he got killed, the brother he abandoned, his girl bestie, his therapist, and TWO mermaids.

[enchantedxhearts]

And don't even get me started on Belle's friendship with Hook, that is literally so sick...

Just remember The Outsider, please, and then the fact that when in S3 Belle said "Hello, he tried to kill me, twice", Hook said he had special circumstances?! like that excuses him?! that he tried to kill a person that didn't even do him anything bad?! like, he literally hurt her only to hurt Rumple?! there's so much wrong with this line of his thinking and actions already, but the fact that he excused his actions with special bloody circumstances and then literally never even tried to apologize and then all of a sudden they're best buds and Belle thinks he's?! a good man?!

WTF?!

[swanfireprincessmydear]

Okay but like, it really is a damn shame that Hook didn’t get to see Milah again in the underworld because imagine how embarrassing that would be.

Like he spent his whole life (hundreds of years) trying to avenge her death and she seriously could not care less.

Hook: I spent years trying to avenge your death!

Milah: What a waste of fucking time. It would have been nicer if you looked after my son for me.

[gay-otlc]

Actually I think we should talk about how incredibly fucked up it is for sapphic women to say shit like "I'm no better than a straight man 😔" when attracted to a woman in a way that isn't 100% pure and wholesome, or act like men's attraction to women is inherently dirty, predatory, or objectifying.

[bietrofastimoff23]

i was not joking when I said that for me the tragedy of Aeron and Davos is more convincing than the tragedy of rhaenicent in two seasons. in a minute of screen time, they made me get into their story (and they also have more personality than some minor characters). also they remained faithful to their houses and brought the matter to an end without delay. i can't help but respect that.

[musubiki]

.🖤🔄🤍.

[bypatia]

book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

[somewhereincairparavel]

[TW: grooming] Gentle reminder that Luke castellan was a 19 year old adult going after a 14 year old Silena, emotionally manipulating her and basically grooming her into giving him information. (Luke was said to have recruited Silena sometime after he left chb, which is basically the ending of TLT and Silena was 14 in TLT while Luke was 19) and continued to do so for 4 YEARS (the time between TLT and TLO is 4 years, and Silena only stopped falling into the trap after Charlie died, which was in TLO)

I hope the pjo timeline is an eye opener for the naive as fuck fans defending and justifying Luke's behaviour and having the audacity to deny that Silena was indeed groomed.

There's a difference between appreciating well written complex characters vs actually glossing and meat riding their problematic and questionable behaviour. A huge fucking difference. I think Luke is a good written character, but seeing the amount of fans justifying him being a creep scares me.

"Grooming" (I took the definition straight out of the internet for the detectives that will probably scrutinize and chew on my post lmao) is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them.

Luke took advantage of Silena to BOTH manipulate AND exploit her for information.

Don't even get me started on the "he had a terrible home life, he was traumatized as a kid, what else can you expect?" yeah he was, but how was that Silena's fault? She shouldn't have to be taken advantage of , suffer without even realizing it, and pay the price to Luke's insanity, just because Luke had internalized issues like other demigods did?? How is that a fucking excuse??

Look me in the eye and tell me that Luke was "so hot because of how crazy, messed up and unhinged he is"

I dare you.

[theweeklydiscourse]

God forbid you ever criticize the lack of consequences Bakugou experiences in MHA, or suddenly you’ll find dozens of Bakugou stans pouring into your mentions to make a speech about how cruel you are for forcing him to eat cement. They’ll act as though “consequences” inherently involves throwing him into the dungeon or putting him in detention for 100 years and then moan about how him facing consequences would only perpetuate a cycle of abuse/discrimination.

Listen, it’s not really that much of a consequence if the “consequence” in question isn’t directly connected to his current or past bad behaviour. “Oh but his scars!” “When he died that one time!” “His guilt for getting kidnapped” None of those are related to his bullying, and in my opinion, that makes them insufficient as consequences in an arc about changing for the better.

The consequences I would actually like to see could be as simple as: Izuku feels sad/mad because of what he went through, or certain characters reflect on how Bakugou’s past impacts their perception of him. More introspection on the victim’s end is needed, Bakugou doesn’t necessarily need to be pilloried for the arc to be satisfying.

[fucked-up-charlie]

If mass shooters were simply made fun of online instead of being used by the mainstream media as a political bargaining tool/s in the debate about the validity of the second amendment and getting all this infamy of being the ultimate badasses, bad guys, merchants of death, for which they're striving for, there wouldn't be as many mass shooting as there currently are. As simple as that.

And all these "antis" who get off on hating on mentally ill teenagers online are just giving these guys what they're looking for - infamy and rememberance. It shouldn't be that way.

If you really are an "anti", you should just shut the fuck up and let these guys get forgotten forever. Just talking about them is giving them what they want/ed, especially if you're portraying them in a "bad" light.

I really don't fucking mind a bunch of silly kids (often inadvertently) making school shooters look lame by putting flower crowns on their photos or engaging in some pointless "dramas" (for fun).

[violetfaust]

Screenrant's 10 Characters Who Single-handedly Ruined Their Shows

Guess who was number 1 with a bullet?

You guessed!

Here's what they had to say:

A popular fantasy series, Once Upon a Time breathed life into renowned fairytale characters over the course of seven seasons while providing romance. When favored villain Killian Jones (Colin O'Donaghue) a.k.a. Captain Hook, became hero Emma Swan's (Jennifer Morrison) love interest, fans were annoyed. Reddit user fheia784 feels that too much time was spent on the love story when "there were far more interesting characters and storylines". Although Hook softening was a positive for the character, it stripped away his grittiness that was once so beloved. Since Captain Swan became such an intra-goal focus, fans jump shipped from OUAT.

Jumped ship, indeed. 😂😂😂😂

[ftmtftm]

All About Love: New Visions [ PDF ], Communion: The Female Search for Love [ PDF ], Salvation: Black People and Love [ No PDF, Worldcat - support your local library system ], and The Will to Change: Men Masculinity and Love [ PDF ] - all by bell hooks - are such important Feminist texts.

They're particularly important in combatting other Feminist theory that promotes isolation, hatred, and the perpetuation of trauma cycles in new ways. I think it's really beautiful and inspiring the way hooks works her own non-linear journey of recovery and healing into her Feminist practice. It's deeply aspirational.

[harringroveera]

Oh the money I’d pay to see Joyce find out what Karen was planning to do with Billy

[bluepillednormfag]

Something about Lanzas motivations for Sandy Hook i dont see talked about often:

In one of his Cultural Philistine videos Lanza mentions that despite being pro suicide, he doesn't have the discipline to kill himself, and would need to get himself into a situation with "intolerable consequences" to get over his will to live, which he likens to an addiction.

From pages 16-17 here: "Th-there’s, I, I can think of two ways that you can choose to overcome an addiction. The first is that you can have the self-discipline to recognize that you need to overcome your addiction, and [...] continue to persist in overcoming it, you’ll, that desire will eventually disappear. And I … I don’t have that discipline.

There’s one other way you can choose to overcome an addiction and that is to allow your addiction to get you into some cir-circumstances such that continuing the addiction would have more, would have much more intolerable consequences than ending the addiction would have. [...] I think that’s the position that I need to be in to overcome [addiction to life]"

Undoubtably, Sandy Hook created those intolerable consequences.

[hussyknee]

What would your reaction be to a pilot program confining male comedians to safe asylums until they prove they are safe to interact with women and kids? Ideally they would be able to perform under guard and psychiatric supervision, and after a period of years a panel of social workers, doctors and women from the community would assess their compatibility with society at large.

Which males are those? Black? Brown? Indigenous? Undocumented immigrant? Muslim? Disabled? Mentally ill and neurodivergent? Queer? Trans men? Unhoused and poor? All of those men already get arbitrarily thrown in what you euphemistically call "safe asylums" because their very existence is seen as dangerous to women and children. It's why I'm a prison abolitionist. And now you want to add the crime of making bad jokes?

See where it says "Radfems DNI" on my bio? That means clowns like you who send me asks like this. Even if you meant it as a joke, this entire premise is grossly ableist, and pathologizing half the human population frankly unhinged. Take your white female victim complex and GTFO.