#WHY IS YOUR FIRST INSTINCT TO GO STRAIGHT TO PEDOPHILIA? SEEMS MORE LIKE A YOU PROBLEM ANON. SEEMS LIKE IT’S ON YOUR MIND AN AWFUL LOT

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

what’s even funnier about that anon other than the fact that I fucking called it (lol), it’s so fucking obvious this person wasn’t even born when Smallville first aired.

Because I’m pretty sure in season 1 Clark is 15, but regardless of that fact, Tom Welling was 24 years old (and Michael Rosenbaum was 29) when he filmed the pilot.

 Which is why HE LOOKS 24 YEARS OLD IN THE SHOW LMAO

And if you were actually alive and aware of the Smallville fandom (which I never got into, tbh, although I’ve read some decent fics recently!), you would know Clex was LITERALLY THE BIGGEST SMALLVILLE SHIP. 

YOU WOULD KNOW IT STILL IS

(I literally cannot name a single person who ever watched Smallville who was like...yes...Lana Lang. She’s the one. poor lana but oh my god she was the worst. KK did her best with what she was given.)

and rewatching the show, it’s even more hilarious how much sexual tension they had in season 1. Best friends? Sir you two have broken up and gotten back together more times than I can count and it’s only been like 14 episodes. 

plus, and it feels insane to have to say this....

CLARK KENT IS AN ALIEN.

SMALLVILLE ISN’T REAL

THE MOVING PICTURES ON THE SCREEN CAN’T HURT YOU ANON I PROMISE

#WHY IS YOUR FIRST INSTINCT TO GO STRAIGHT TO PEDOPHILIA? SEEMS MORE LIKE A YOU PROBLEM ANON. SEEMS LIKE IT’S ON YOUR MIND AN AWFUL LOT #YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SHARE? #WITH THE CLASS? #Smallville #Lex Luthor #Tom Welling #Michael Rosenbaum

[janiedean]

In your anti explanation, you said "he’s not technically good looking so it sets people’s worst instincts off" about when talking about the response to Rey/lo. Can you explain what you mean by "worst instincts"? Is it just because people don't want Rey shipped with an "ugly guy" or....? That seems like a pretty shallow way of judging a character or a ship

wait I need to find you the entire sentence okay here we go. first, sentence in question:

to give the to-go example these days because it’s sadly the worst: sw sequel trilogy fandom. rey/kylo has been targeted by antis as the to-go Most Problematic Ship because in order:a) enemies to lovers as a trope which is of course abusive if the good side is a woman (more on that later) b) both are white (so it’s racist to not ship her with the non-white people in the light side *roll eyes*)c) they have a ten years age gap (so it’s pedophilia even if rey’s of age and she kicked his ass more than once)d) he’s not technically good looking so it sets people’s worst instincts offe) these people don’t buy into the fact that people can be redeemed so they decided he’s absolutely Not Redeemable and so onf) it’s an m/f couple

now: the thing is, people actually DO find that an entirely good reason to hate a ship. or at least, if you saw how much crap adam driver gets on this shithole of a website for being UGLY you’d entirely buy it. but like the thing is, on tumblr there’s an interesting phenomena considering *white cishetmen* ie:

they’re technically the embodiment of What Tumblr Hates (white, straight, cis, male)

but since a lot of people on this website are also attracted to men as much as they would like to deny it, people who are *good looking* generally get a pass or get hauled as lesbian icons when they’re like... absolutely cishet *cough* thor *cough*

also if the aforementioned men are not white of course they’re out of the area where they are criticized automatically for being cis straight males MORE OR LESS SORT OF 

but thing is, as long as someone’s white on here, and not lgbt, and not good looking, making fun of them is fair game because who cares if majorities get insulted they don’t really get hurt *rolls eyes*

so like... reylo is everything antis hate ie as I said before enemies to lovers, both white, age gap, straight ship, but the fact that he’s not conventionally attractive automatically makes it okay to shit on him and to go like ‘why ship her with the ugly white guy if she can be with the hot black one’ and stuff like that, and no one is going to be offended on behalf of the ugly white guy because the ugly white guy is not a minority and tumblr gives zero fucks. but it’s the same reasoning they make with straight women in fandom who are older than 21, the moment you are and you’re white/straight/not in their age group you’re automatically a fair target for a lot of bullshit because hey, white cis and straight and OLD, totally fair game to leave you hate in the inbox telling you to get away from fandom and get married already! (spoilers: it happened)

what I mean in tldr is: if adam driver was playing poe and oscar isaac was playing kylo I can 100% assure you that r/eylo wouldn’t be half as hated and st/ormpilot would be slightly less popular regardless of how much sense it made (spoilers: on tumblr m/m ships where one of them is not conventionally attractive are basically ‘OH SEE THERE’S FIVE PEOPLE INTO IT AND TRYING DESPERATELY TO GET PEOPLE INTO IT). and that’s bc to the woke/anti side of tumblr adam driver is not attractive, simple as that, and him being not attractive means having free reign to shit on him because if someone calls you out on it you’ll just accuse them of being a white supremacist or smth

and btw this thing re UGLY PEOPLE is not just tied to SW fandom or half of my war flashbacks of the crap that happened in the jaimebrienne fandom concerning the argument ‘you only ship it because you’re all ugly women who can’t get laid and you project by wanting the ugly woman to bang the hot guy’ wouldn’t have happened and I assure you I’ve seen that argument around since forever

so, worst instincts = people feeling allowed to insult someone just bc of how they look.

and if according to you it’s shallow, not to be that person but tumblr dot com at large is generally the shallowest damned website around especially when it comes to fandom so it’s absolutely a plausible, very shallow reason. 

but like, ppl don’t want rey shipped with a villain WHO IS MOST LIKELY GONNA GET REDEEMED and happens to be white, male, not conventionally good looking and has ten years on her. that’s about it. *shrug* the not conventionally good looking is the excuse that set them off for good as far as I’ve seen *shrug*

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