#but god watching the s/tarkid fandom hold up twisted as this masterpiece beyond greatness when the entire show is whitewashed as fuck......

[jameszmaguire]

y'know, sometimes you just gotta look at the average age of people in a certain fandom and go 'good for them, i'm too old to interact with media in the way that they're doing' and just nope out

#not in a mean-spirited way i was that age once too and i was them #but i have (un)fortunately gained a much better critical understanding of media in general #that i can't divorce from my watching experience anymore and so i can't just. blindly worship stuff anymore that's not how it works #this is not about tua btw if any of my tua mutuals are reading this #Lizzie's sharing her thoughts #but god watching the s/tarkid fandom hold up twisted as this masterpiece beyond greatness when the entire show is whitewashed as fuck...... #i'm too old for this shit #like yeah the lyrics (which are 85% of what make this musical that good) are poetic and the storyline genuinely moving #and with the right cast it might be able to genuinely be that good #however unfortunately it has helluva lot of white people talking about allah in a way that makes me cringe and also. so much orientalism. #and i just can't gloss over that in the way people are doing it in there #and sure i could write a detailed analysis on what i think is wrong with it but god i don't want to deal with people taking personal offens #i have too much shit going on irl to use mental capacity for that