#my venting

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

[maxer-blaster]

I'm going to disable comments for this one.

Please don't hate on me for this.

I have a LOT of emotions to release. And it's a personal painful thing. I am NOT saying you can't like certain choices made in OFMD nor that you can't like Ed Teach.

These are just feelings that have been eating me up inside.

I normally wouldn't do this but I have a major concern about the implications of the Izzy and Blackbeard relationship in s2.

It hurts to see Izzy living with and being friendly to his abuser.

Ed manipulated him, mutilated him, and constantly mentally tormented him for months.

And ALSO shot him, leading to an amputation and Izzy being permanently disabled.

It feels as though the show is saying what Izzy went through should be forgotten and that Izzy HAS to play nice to Ed now to earn his happiness.

As someone who has family members who survived domestic violence, it makes me feel horrible.

Sure, Izzy got an apology, but how can that even come close to easing my fears? Izzy was TORTURED REPEATEDLY, and we're supposed to forget that and be happy that Ed and Izzy are still friends?

Not only that, but Izzy is emotionally supporting Ed and trying to mediate his relationship troubles?

Since the Finale has yet to air, I understand that there's a chance things could improve.

But I've had a gross aftertaste about this all season and CANNOT find a way to give a damn about BB anymore.

And yet the show desperately wants me to.

[xalonelydreamerx]

I think I'm gonna write an analysis as soon as I finish rereading the trilogy but yeah s2 was fucking terrible.

I've seen many people saying they're happy about Alina, and while yes, I'm glad she didn't lose her powers and didn't end up with Mal, there are so much bigger problems with this season

Aside the costume still looking bad, pacing being all over the place because there are simply too many characters and the annoying repentance of the flashbacks, Alina comes as extremely annoying, stuck up, tone deaf and overall a bitch.

Unlike some, I do love book!Alina because she's a very flawed character but lots of her mistakes actually do make sense if you're able to let go of the grudge that comes from reading a YA 2010 book.

Show! Alina was intentionally supposed to be portrayed as strong, bold, confident and smart since s1. She's not supposed to be naive, ignorant, selfish and emotional like book!Alina but somehow she ends up coming across as so much worse.

The Darkling is no better. He comes off as extremely pathetic. He already was in s1, but I was hoping he was gonna have an arc in this season and become more like his canon self. Sadly, that wasn't meant to be.

Show!Darkling has no personality other than wanting Alina in such a desperate way that is hard to look at. I know the girlies gash over him being a ✨ simp ✨ but there's a difference between pathetic (affectionate) and pathetic (degoratory). He wants to keep the grisha safe but even that a aspect suffers from a very detrimental alteration they did on the show which I will now mention.

Apparently, grisha aren't the oppressed group we know in canon. On no, the season hits you with the hammer about how it's the fold and everything that happened in s1 that made everybody turn against grisha. Not that they've been capturing them, enslaving them and burning them for hundred of years, na-ah.

I have no comment on the crows since I hardly ever cared for them. Some scenes were good, but they suffered with how much the story was rushed.

The ending was shit, because while it's cool that alina kept her powers and an arc of her becoming basically a new antagonist is interesting on paper, it doesn't work here because it wasn't built up well and as I mentioned Alina came off as incredible unlikable and darklina was extremely one-sided.

The script was very poor and this isn't a hate towards the actors because they don't really have any control of it.

While I'll continue shipping darklina they were both done very dirty because they were ooc since the first season and the second one reduced them both to something beyond recognition.

[thesilverlady]

yeah, I'm definitely gonna use Freddie Fox to fancast some targaryen prince

[howlingday]

I am so tired of this college class jerking me around.

I'm getting questions from future lessons that are one week away, and some of the key word definitions either repeat themselves, or are swapped around, making it impossible to get a perfect score.

At least the lessons are interesting.

[gayvampyr]

no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

[krmljam]

more bugs more drinking

[reikacchan]

don't give up

[variksel]

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

[szollibisz]

finally made a little zine from all the photos i took of various wires and machines and pylons and etc

this was sooo fun i need to get it printed

[ellevandersneed]

I'll be real the second any trans person shows up on my dash making any kind of post generalizing transmasc or transfemme people negatively i check out. literally don't care if the evil trans woman or evil trans man said something upsetting to you or you've had bad experiences with a particular group of people; the generalization shit is lame, being defensive about it is lame, you are literally smarter than this - stop, reflect, take some deep breaths, go do something else

[inkskinned]

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

[xalonelydreamerx]

I dislike s2 of s&b like any other person. Hell, s1 had a bunch of problems that people aren't ready to face yet. But the sudden anti Alina hate i see e v e r y w h e r e is beyond frustrating. Because every character was butchered and people will criticize the writing, but somehow Alina is a special case and deserves bashing.

Same goes for book readers who very obviously are reading the books recently. s&b writers/ showrunners aren't the only misogynists here, the fandom - and that include's darkling/pseudo darklina fans are also sexists and they mask it as "criticism"

[muggle-born-princess]

Reblog if you're LGBT and are against MAPS/Child Groomers

[honeypleasejustkillme]

“what’s wrong, talk to me”

“let’s fix this, i can’t lose you”

“we’ll work it out together”

[fuckingwhateverdude]

12.17.23