#the lack of media literacy is crazy

[the-krakens-bitch]

“We need more complex characters”

Bro you couldn’t even handle them

[animiaa]

I am getting way too agitated reading Avatar's subreddit and seeing people STILL debating whether Aang should have killed Ozai or not. What the fuck. Calling Aang a coward because he didn't want to kill Ozai? The peace loving 12 year old vegetarian monk who has been taught ALL life is sacred and who is the last survivor of a genocide doesn't want to take a life? What a shock, right?

[neverendingcomplaints]

The Live Action ATLA

suffers from TORRIBLE (terrible, horrible) writing and, I think, bad direction.

All of the actors have the bones of the characters. There's a foundation there, potential there. The director did not do a great job building on that and bringing it out to its fullest.

And the writers and whomever plotted this whole thing out...a travesty. Too many beloved stories and scenes dropped, chopped and screwed in ways that just leaves you confused. Others have been calling it ATLA fanfiction and I concur lol. It could have been great but it's just OK.

Maybe they can salvage things with Book Two.

And yeah, I absolutely blame social media for some of the ways they decided to change this show. If people weren't fussing about EVERY. FRICKIN. TINY. PROBLEMATIC. THING, they wouldn't have changed Sokka. If people weren't complaining about people acting like people (that is to say, selfish, asshole, triflin behavior) and demanding that every character be perfect angels who never do anything wrong, we could have real stories and not super sanitized, milquetoast versions of everything.

So once again, fandom screeching ruins things.

[here4thefanart]

As someone who hasn't played the games (but wants to) and is living vicariously through gifsets and videos, it is crazy to see the amount of vitriol and lack of media literacy in this fandom 😵‍💫. Blatant ignorance towards (very obvious) symbolism and reducing sentimental scenes to "platonic bestie moment," makes my head swim.

Cloud and Aerith have a beautiful, tender, heartfelt, tragic romance, and no amount of gaslighting will hide that. You don't have to find it compelling, but to erase its existence is doing yourself (and the story) a disservice.

[nejisworshipper]

"it's non canon filler!" aren't you the same guy who's been posting fan-colorings of the manga as "proof" an anime studio changed hinata's chakra color?

Cunt,can’t you fucking tell the difference between Kishimoto’s artbooks,

Kishimoto’s manga and Studio Pierrot’s fillers?

Are you THAT dumb so you don’t even see why something made entire by Kishimoto and entirely by Studio Pierrot,a bunch of no-name animators,are two different things?

By the way,blue chakra colour is COMMON chakra colour 99,9% characters have.

Kishimoto specifically highlights in his artbooks that Naruto & Sasuke have different chakra colours and even says in manga.

Yellow and purple are OPPOSITE colours if you turn them to negative, their combination highlights Naruto’s and Sasuke’s bond + makes them standout like main duo of characters.

And green colour of healing medical ninjutsu also carries psychological meaning: green colour is associated with healing,calmness and friendliness.

Colour psychology is a very obvious thing used everywhere in the media, this is common sense.

Kishimoto in manga out loud says how Kurama’s chakra, BEFORE he became friend of Naruto, is “bloody red” to very clearly show the readers how Kurama is powerful,aggressive and dangerous.

Kishimoto also makes Naruto say how his own chakra is the yellow, sun like colour: indicating to us that Naruto is supposed to be the “nice guy” on a “good side”,the “hero”.

And to contradict Naruto’s sunny chakra, Sasuke’s chakra is dark purple,because,you won’t believe it,Sasuke having darker, “gloomier” colour pallet is meant to show readers how Sasuke “is on the dark side” and is “anti-hero”, “corrupted by evil”.

The lack of media literacy is crazy: there is a freaking reason why Dark Vader in Star Wars has red blade and wears an black suit and for the same reason the whole Uchiha clan (shown in manga) has red,purple, black colour palette.

By looking at Itachi in his red susanoo,staring at Amaterasu black flame,and red sharingan and black and red cloak your tiny stupid brain is supposed to go “Oh! This is a BAD guy! Because he is wearing aggressive screaming colours as a warning!”

Why do you think Gai and Lee are two goofy nice guys in green attire? Because Kishimoto wants you to take a look at them and go “Oh,these are nice guys! They are friendly and kind!”

Have you not noticed how Kurama changed colour in the artbooks after he and Naruto became friends? How angry bloody red and black colours were gone and replaced with bright orange? Have you maybe used your dead brain to understand that it highlights how Naruto’s YELLOW chakra is mixed with Kurama’s RED chakra and they are COMBINED,because now Kurama and Naruto are equals in the duo?

In general,do you never noticed how Kishimoto does not bother with giving everyone their special colours?

How only MAIN characters or MAIN villains have their special pallet?

Maybe Kishimoto is trying to highlight how important certain characters are.

Maybe,use your imagination.

Or why buyakugan and sharingan and rinnegan all have different colours? It is almost as if Kishimoto uses colours to highlight the differences.

hinata is a background character.She is one step away from npc.

And this why Kishimoto never gives hinata any special chakra colour and no chakra changes for her either. Because she just doesn’t matter,Kurama, Naruto,Sasuke,Itachi are so much more important than hinata.

Let me remind everyone that one of SP animators,specifically Sekibeing draws literal PORNO with hinata and SP director’s favourite character is hinata.

Kishimoto once in the interview mocked SP director liking hinata for her gigantic breasts.

hinata is speacial for sick male perverts in the Studio Pierrot so of course in the movie fully made & directed & screen written by SP hinata gets a chakra colour change to make her seem so much more important than she is in manga.

If Kishimoto wants you to know that the character is the key,he will let you know through artbooks.hinata is hardly ever in artbooks,and there she doesn’t get any spotlight.

But Sasuke,Naruto,Kurama,Itachi and Orochimaru do.

You have to be an illiterate brain dead idiot to miss the very obvious colour psychology clues in Kishimoto’s art.

[thefirstlioveyou]

small rant!!!

reminder that all queer media about either/both negative and positive experiences is wanted and needed. raw and emotional queer stories are just as needed as campy and sweet queer stories.

this thought popped back up because i remembered this one tweet i saw a while back that was shading byler (specifically mike, if i can recall), while uplifting a certain popular queer show, saying how fictional media about gay people facing internalized homophobia shouldn’t be normalized - how it’s toxic… how internalized homophobia itself shouldn’t be normalized…… my gosh 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

when i first saw it, it made me really mad, and a little shocked by the lack of media literacy.

honestly, i can argue that stories about internalized oppression are not even near to being normalized. i think there should be more raw queer stories with complex and messy characters - but that’s my personal opinion and a seperate conversation.

but - internalized homophobia. it’s a real and very common issue. i think every queer person faces it at least once in their life to some degree (🙋‍♂️). it’s haunting to deal with. it leads to toxic and self-destructive behavior that can ruin your relationships, romantic and platonic.

everyone can agree there is an odd comfort in seeing a fictional character that depicts your specific pain - you feel seen and heard. there’s nothing problematic or wrong about that. it’s not saying, “no gay people deserves to be happy!!” that’s a crazy conclusion.

it’s especially comforting to see the character after overcoming the pain. in this context, the internalized homophobia. overcoming it in real life can leave you feeling guilt for your previous mindset. seeing the character overcome it too and learn that they’re okay and nothing is wrong with them is like a big hug.

so yes, queer stories about a queer character facing self-hate are just as needed. i personally feel my experience of being queer is being heard - and it makes me feel less alone. everyone deserves to feel heard!

[trashratsaws]

Something I've been finding quite irritating about the lack of media and culture literacy we're seeing - because of course the least educated people speak the loudest I fear - is that it's almost forced me to become an advocate for art I don't particularly enjoy. I don't enjoy modern or contemporary art. I don't like it, I think it's overblown, and I think a lot of modern/contemporary movements are juvenile, underdeveloped, and crude. I will also defend modern and contemporary art until I die from white tiktok women who claim that they could make better art from the comfort of their upper middle class couches because apparently despite pretending to be cultured by going to the museums where modern art is housed and proclaiming to their thousands of followers that they have done so - which was a choice, by the way, they could have really gone to any museum that served their one-note tastes all the better - they simply cannot be bothered to do any sort of research or reading on what the modern/contemporary art actually means, how it was created, the backgrounds of the artists who create it, etc., or even to read the plaque next to the piece while they stand next to it making their videos about how lifeless and uninteresting they find it.

There is a huge difference between disliking something because you understand it vs. because you don't. Please for the love of god, if you're going to loudly dislike something, please be the person who dislikes it because you understand it, and spare me the trouble of trying to shout just as loudly that, well, yes, Jackson Pollock was the worst, but please leave his genre alone because you sound like quite the toad when you speak.

Anyway I lied before, so here are some avant-garde movements/artists/pieces I really like/find very interesting to do some more research on for yourself.

the Die Brücke (The Bridge, German expressionist group)

Mexican Muralism (Mexican artistic movement post-revolution of 1910)

Brasilia (failed Brazilian capital city with some crazy architecture. Also utopianism in general)

Neo-Dadaism/Post-modernism (generally cheekier movement than the abstract expressionists who took their work and mission far too seriously)

Marjorie Strider (woman pop artist who critiqued a lot of sexism in the art world with her work. See also The Girlies Exhibition)

Liberation of Aunt Jemima and Betye Saar

One and Three Chairs and Conceptual Art (this is the one people like to complain the most about)

Yayoi Kusama (particularly Narcissus Garden. Very good stuff)

Felix Gonzales-Torres (if you don't already know him. Tell me you can look at Perfect Lovers without crying)

Rhythm 0 (imo the single most impactful, raw, gut-wrenching work Marina Abramovic ever produced. Performance art. Devastating)

Shigeko Kubota (Vagina Painting. almost a direct fuck-you to Pollock's macho vibe)

Earth Art (exactly what it sounds like - work that relies on nature. The Lightning Field is on my bucket list)

[agentrouka-blog]

One of the things that drives me crazy in regard to Rhaegar apologia is that a lot of them use the fact that no Martell has directly blamed Rhaegar in the text for what happened as proof they don't blame him and it's absolutely mind boggling how dumb this is. First of all, Rhaegar has been dead for close to two decades, whereas the Baratheons and Lannisters are still very much alive so obviously the Martells' wrath will be directed towards them. Second of all, we barely have Martell POVs and POVs are not some omniscient, all-knowing insight into every character's opinion on all of the 456732 characters that have been introduced across five books. The lack of indictment re Rhaegar does not mean they don't blame him. Also, GRRM is not the kind of writer that is going to spell something as obvious as this out in crayon. If you need the author to directly tell you that Doran and Oberyn would be apoplectic at Rhaegar's actions toward their sister, maybe this is not the series for you. These are the same people that say, 'Well, we never got E's reaction to L being crowned at the tourney so we can't know if she was offended....' Like, these people really need the narrative to explicitly state that E was humiliated because her husband crowned another woman at a public tourney in front of nobles from across the 7K. I just.....these people are Not Very Bright and appear incapable of connecting even the most simplest dots. There are certain things that do not need to be and will never be spelled out because GRRM assumes his readers have at minimum a high schooler's level of reading comprehension and media literacy but here we are lmao.

Ned never thought much about Aerys either, the guy who murdered his brother and father. Are we to surmise he didn't terribly mind?

GRRM waited until book #3 to create a dramatic and righteous confrontation with the crime perpetrated against Elia and her children, even though the bare facts have been with us since the beginning. He waited until book #4 to introduce the Dornish perspective and vengeance plan in actual POVs, and until book #5 to introduce Elia's surviving son. Dorne, Elia, Aegon - it is a long game.

It slots well into his use of the POV trap with Dany and the comparatively slow dismantling of any positive patina on the Targaryen dynasty. We don't get a proper face on the horror of it until Jaime's confession in the baths of Harrenhal in ASOS. Maester Aemon was practically presented as a saint up until AFFC where he suddenly revealed himself to be a prophecy truther who had been corresponding with Rhaegar about exactly when he tried to impregnate Elia with his comet-fuelled wonder sperm - all this time, without telling anyone in the Watch about this supposedly fundamental savior concept. Dany's veneer of good intentions is falling apart for anyone paying attention.

Questions the reader could have asked from the very beginning, because the facts were always on the page, are being fleshed out and dragged to the forefront in the latter stages of the book series.

Considering Jon Connington and Aegon - son of Elia and Rhaegar - are about to collide with the Dornish plotline, the question of the Tourney at Harrenhal and Rhaegar's character is going to be much less subtly handled from this point on.

There are going to be a whole lot of revelatory collisions in TWOW.

[uselessheretic]

w here do the ppl who share these dumbass takes even COME from... how is trying to wreck the ship in the middle of a massive storm killing everyone and himself and threatening ppl at gunpoint NOT violent... and how is any MOC being depicted as a 2D caricature of "Flawless and Virtuous Victimhood" (totally never a loaded concept) the only alternative to racist violent/impulsive/hyper-emotional stereotypes (that's not just a dif way of dehumanizing characters of color). and y r u SAYING all this just bc of like. shipping wars over a high-concept sitcom on the internet. wack. new types of ppl on earth every day.

it's so crazy because it really is a complete lack of media literacy which ik is a statement overused but dear fucking lord.

people have no idea how to actually analyze the role poc play within a narrative, contextualize it within both a narrative and historical framework, and apply an antiracist lens from there! things are so much more complicated than just having "good" representation of poc where they're never violent or angry or abusing substances. that's simply not the reality for many poc, especially queer poc who are in communities that are chronically traumatized.

ed's just? so complex and nuanced in a way that characters of color are rarely allowed to be. he isn't vilified by the narrative! he's given depth and time to explore the reasons why he's like this. and then instead of being written off as a lost cause, he's afforded kindness from others and a space where he's able to better himself.

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

Oh my! A Kataang shipper (I’m assuming based on the few posts of yours I’ve read) who doesn’t hate on Zuko or Zuko/Katara to raise up their own ship!? Not possible! Seriously though, I’m very glad to find your blog, it’s a very refreshing change of pace. People can ship what they want to but some in this fandom (most, and it’s very concerning) love to go feral for their own ships and destroy anyone who doesn’t agree. And why does most of that have to involve crapping on the twelve-year-old pacifist who survived a genocide!?

I never really watched ATLA much when I was younger but I’m watching it properly from start to finish now and I’m trying to enjoy it, but I keep finding horrendous takes on tumblr that bring me down. I finished the Southern Raiders episode earlier and wanted to come talk about it with fellow fans here, but I think I’ll just stick to enjoying the show by myself because the way so many people are using this episode to prove how bad Aang is makes me uncomfortable. Everyone using TSR to boost Zuko and Katara are missing the point. This isn’t a Zuko and Katara episode, this episode is a Katara episode. Aang isn’t the villain here getting in the way of what’s right. He was raised by monks.

The best way I can think to illustrate this point is (and please bear with me because I’m not sure I’m going to articulate this right) someone afraid of snow. Imagine your whole life you’ve been raised to avoid snow. There’s nothing wrong with snow by itself, but you’re repeatedly told to avoid it and that it’s bad and harmful so you grow up fearing snow. Now one day one of your closest friends wants to go play in the snow and your first instinct is to firmly warn them away from it because that’s what you’ve been told growing up. They’re really insistent on playing in the snow and you realise you can’t stop them and it’s not really your place to so you just try to advise them against anything too crazy. As if that wasn’t bad enough, one of your other friends is actively encouraging playing in the snow and mocking you for your fear of it. That’s how I see the Katara-Zuko-Aang interactions of this episode. Aang is the person raised to fear snow (in this case, violence and killing), Katara is the one who wants to play in the snow (in this case, getting justice for her mother) and Zuko is encouraging it. When Aang confronts her, he’s not upset at what she’s doing, he’s upset because she was going to steal Appa from him and not tell anyone where she was going, which I think is pretty fair given that they’ve already lost Appa once and Aang wasn’t there to stop it.

Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to get so long or out-of-hand. I just got excited to talk to someone with common sense in this fandom and started rambling!

hello friend!! im honored you find my blog to be an island of tranquility amidst the turbulent ocean of the atla fandom 💛

i completely understand your desire to restrict your enjoyment of atla to yourself and your close circle, as there are indeed far too many people on tumblr who take "fandom" to the farthest extremes of harassment and abuse, issues the atla fandom are (unfortunately) particularly rife with. so many anti-aang people love to be loud, proud, and violent about their lack of media literacy... 💀

im also glad you enjoy my posts about tsr!! i fully agree, tsr is a katara episode, and to in any way decenter her perspectives and experiences is to fundamentally misunderstand the ep. (people who interpret tsr as a ship episode, or worse, as an episode in which aang is a villain, are either willingly ignorant or have been deeply failed by the educational system. critical thinking is a tool!! we must exercise it to keep it sharp!!)

i also think your analogy of snow is apt to describe the triangulation of tsr! i might revise it slightly to suggest that aang is not necessarily "afraid" of snow (violence/murder) but more so that he has been raised to be wary of the detrimental consequences that violence, and especially murder, can have on both those who impart and those who witness this bloodshed. i fully agree, tho, that aang is by no means upset at katara for wanting to pursue her vengeance -- he's simply reminding her that she has a choice (after all, allowing her to take appa on this journey represents the ultimate trust aang has in katara's decisions, whether she chose violence or no, bc you're so right that aang is sending appa off with her not so long after appa's devastating disappearance!! that's how much he faith he has in katara to make the decision that is right for her!!)

no need to apologize for rambling in my inbox 💛 tsr is one of my favorite eps in the series, i love getting to talk about it!

[rayshippouuchiha]

Yeah, correctness is getting insane a former friend of mine thought super heroes were bad because they promoted the idea that law enforcement is good. It was crazy.

The real issue, in my opinion, is that your friend's not even completely wrong. There are characters/heroes who are thinly veiled pro-cop or pro-military propaganda. Or at least the films/shows/comics in which they're written take a very clear pro-cop/military type of stance.

The issue is that people are incapable of or are refusing to admit/understand that there is nuance to the situation. There are shades of grey. And without that understanding they do things like declare entire genres corrupt, immoral, etc etc.

There's a growing lack of media literacy, reading comprehension, and just a general inability/unwillingness to realize the divide between fiction and reality. Or, as I've seen far too often, they're not willing to understand that there's a difference between not personally enjoying/understanding/relating to a piece of media and that piece of media being "bad".

Instead people will broadly declare things "problematic" and then not actually be able to explain why.

[petr1kov]

the thing about the age old question of 'was griffith in love with guts during the golden age' that really gets me is that like. the main point of their relationship to me is that griffith felt intensely for guts in a way he never felt about anyone else before, that he saw something in guts that fascinated him and reflected back to him, that he, for the first and only time ever, felt genuinely connected to someone and grounded in this deeply human relationship with another person, not coolly detached as he usually was with everyone else. guts made him feel like a real person, not a fairy tale prince or a god king whose ambition put him above everyone else and isolated him by this very reason.

but because the only way he knew how to relate to people was by possessing and controlling them, he also related to guts in such a way. it's the paradox of their relationship: he likes guts in great part because he is his own person, because he doesn't bow to griffith as this superior being and longs to see him as an equal, eye to eye, but he also can't stand the thought of guts being outside of his control, of him not being under his wing, near him. it was ultimately this mix of emotions that caused the eclipse and everything that followed it.

this is the key concept of their relationship, and it's troubled and toxic and not something that necessarily speaks of romance and attraction. whether griffith felt affection for him as a lover or a friend or a brother, it doesn't change the result, because the specific nature of his affection is not the main point, but that he was capable of feeling so strongly for another person at all, to the point of jeopardizing his dream for his sake.

with all of this said, though. it's still painfully obvious that the golden age arc was framed as a sort of messed up griffith-guts-casca love triangle (one where guts is obviously the center of) and denying that is just crazy to me at this point, like. it didn't have to be framed like that, with stuff like the naked waterfight and casca being so intensely jealous of griffith's affection towards guts that she saw him as a (love) rival for years, but it was. it's impossible to overlook that.

i believe the reason why many people resist the 'romantic love' approach is because they assume it would render all of this complexity null and just come across as a jealous/scorned lover story, but of course it wouldn't. not even the most bad faith interpretation of the story would make people think that way, because it's obvious there's more going on there. but vehemently denying the homoerotic undertones feels straight up disingenuous at best and lacking media literacy at worst, to me

[zushimart]

crazy how people will lack media literacy and be so loud about it

[distort-opia]

i think youve talked about something similar before, but do we get to see proof of batman genuinely caring for joker? and not having an excuse of "oh im doing this because i need joker to be fine so i can save other people".

sometimes i get paranoid and think that the whole batjokes thing is just my shipper brain speculating and i have to look at all the evidente again so i dont think im crazy lmao 😅

There's plenty of instances of Bruce caring about Joker, and yeah, I've talked about various aspects of it in different asks. There's a more extensive response I posted a while back as part of an interesting Batjokes discussion, in which OP argued that Bruce does not reciprocate, and I disagreed; you can find that here (though fair warning, that whole chain of reblogs is loooong). I also answered some asks about Bruce finding Joker funny here, and about Bruce constantly saving Joker's life here, and made a compilation of some of the best times Bruce got incredibly unhinged over Joker here.

But I'm assuming you mean... Bruce blatantly spelling it out that he cares about Joker, with zero alternative excuse? Since Bruce is so repressed and caring about Joker is something he cannot easily admit to himself, these moments are rare. But if I were to point some of them out, I'd say the ending to Batman: The Killing Joke remains to this day one of the biggest.

No matter how you look at it, Bruce telling Joker "You needn't be out there on the edge anymore. You needn't be alone," right after Joker shot Barbara in the spine... is something that’s difficult to explain away. Not to mention Bruce laughing alongside Joker -- maybe you could argue that Bruce offering to rehabilitate Joker is just something he'd do with all his villains (which isn't actually true, Bruce hasn't had a moment like this with anyone else), but the joined laughter has no possible "excuse" on Bruce's side. It's commiseration, plain and simple.

Then there's Batman: Endgame, and the insanity that is the ending of that comic. And leaving aside the heart-shaped pool of blood, the sheer suggestiveness in the imagery of their fight... Leaving aside Bruce choosing to die alongside Joker, literally pleading with Joker to stay with him as he dies -- there's this:

Batman calls Joker a friend. This cannot be understood as anything else but what it is; Bruce allowing himself to admit he cares about Joker, at the end of the road. Arguing otherwise ignores the context of the story and the writing that came before and after it (besides indicating a worrying lack of media literacy).

And hey, have some Batman and Joker canonically kissing, in Flashpoint: Batman -- Knight of Vengeance:

Yes, it is Thomas Wayne who's Batman, and it's Martha Wayne who's Joker, but I think that's plenty. There's a Universe in which Joker is Batman's wife. The sheer fact this is a thing that exists inevitably implies that Batman and Joker have romantic potential.

But I'll leave you off with the beauty that is Bruce being directly called out on his Joker bullshit in Injustice: Gods Among Us -- Year 1, by his best friend:

Eyy! If you're crazy, Clark (and Alfred, and Tim, and Selina, and Barbara, and many other characters who have explicity remarked on Bruce's unusual attachment to Joker) are too!

I hope this answer helped! <3 But either way, leaving aside the fact Batjokes objectively has plenty of canon support, my advice would be not to stress yourself out by caring too much about evidence. Shipping, and fandom in general, is supposed to be fun. We're in control over here, and we do what we want. So even if you were crazy, that'd be perfectly fine, as far as I'm concerned.

[ambelle]

What’s crazy about people claiming Mel’s goal was to be a dictator is that there’s not a single scenes where she says that or tries to do that.

The only scene we see Mel talk about wanting a throne is the flashback… where her mom also makes it clear bloodshed comes with the crown. And you can see any desire for that melt off her face when her mom beheads that girl. Now she is quite literally part of a council.

Fans lack media literacy and I always have to pay for it for some damn reason.

[stealthylikeninja]

I don’t know how I’ve got onto anti-billy posts (I mean I do know, because they constantly occupy his fucking tag and obsess over everyone who likes him) but they are absolutely fucking vile. I feel like I should clean my eyes with a bleach for the amount of bullying and hateful behaviour they display. With the way they act you would think that Billy is comparable to fucking H*tler, not to mention the jabs at how other fans are ‘clearly’ racists and abusive because they like his character. Or how they lack media literacy? Is it me, or does that make no fucking sense? As far as I’m aware liking Hannibal doesn’t make you a human flesh connoisseur, liking Joker doesn’t make you a fucking crazy murderer clown, and liking Loki doesn’t make you a semi-genocidal demi-god. It’s fucking fiction, it doesn’t exist, liking someone doesn’t translate to being like that fucking person (it really should be a general motto of this fandom, because people forget or don’t understand that simple stupid fact).

Both of these examples just scream lack of media literacy, if not to go as far as to say lack of critical thinking skills. “Main character you are supposed to like” - so basically we are taking everything surface level, no deeper thoughts, no nothing? Just blindly guided by who you are supposed to like and who you are not supposed to like because show told you to do that?(even though it didn’t actually tell you shit, but go off) Are you able to form a single opinion that comes from your own thought process or do you just do everything someone else tells you to do?

Not to mention, fireworks and applause for a teenage, abused character to die a gruesome death after being literally mentally tortured and controlled by an inter-dimensional monster. You should get a Nobel Peace Price for your clear ability to empathise with anyone (I know, I know, you were not told to do that, it’s hard to form your own critical opinions). Just go around bullying an extremely fucking safe part of the fandom that does nothing wrong to anyone, and just posts their silly little stories and concept arts and protects other characters that are being bullied by this kind of toxic ST fans. What a puritan fucking moral warrior behaviour, absolutely vile.