#calm the fuck down

[getvalentined]

Getting back on my Zack Is Canonically Polyamorous soapbox because the people need to know and also the number of people accusing Aerith of being unfaithful in Rebirth is absolutely fucking ridiculous when taking Zack's romantic escapades into account.

There are spoilers here, and I'm tagging accordingly, but I'm not putting it under a cut.

We know for a fact that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith. We've known this since the OG, although we didn't know most of the details back then, just that they were together. In Remake, Aerith describes Zack as her "first love." In Chapter 11 of Rebirth, the first memories of Zack that Cloud reclaims are of him talking about how great Aerith is, and Cloud describes him as being "head over heels" for her. In Chapter 8, we found out that Zack's parents were able to recognize her based entirely on Zack gushing about her when he wrote home—and this is one of the most important parts, honestly.

Zack has a thing with Cissnei. We don't know how deep it is, but throughout Crisis Core (and even in the summer event in Ever Crisis) we can see very clearly that there is something between them, and it's never treated like a big deal. She's never completely honest about her feelings, so we can assume he didn't know that she saw him as anything more than a casual thing, but they have a relationship. It's made explicitly clear that this is the case when Zack returns to Gongaga and she lets him know that she's spoken to his parents, and he warns her that they're basically going to suggest that she marry him.

Zack's parents know about his relationship with Aerith and they also apparently know enough about his relationship with Cissnei to suggest that she make that relationship "official." They want her to join the family. They asked, she apparently reciprocated, and she lives in Gongaga after Veld is "killed."

Cissnei is also aware that Zack is in a relationship with Aerith, but that doesn't stop her from pursuing him anyway. She gets it and she's okay with it. She never, at any point, tries to push him away from Aerith—she's the one that tells him how special Aerith is, how important, how lonely. She's supportive of his relationship, and doesn't seem to feel that it makes her own feelings or their relationship any less valid.

Okay, so that's proof that the people around him are, at the very least, okay with him having multiple partners. That doesn't necessarily mean he's poly, though, maybe he's just a womanizer and everyone accepts it. Weird, but possible. He's really endearing so maybe they all give him a pass.

But no! No this isn't it at all! And we know it because of how Zack responds to Aerith being in love with someone else in Rebirth. When he finds out that Aerith is has feelings for Cloud, there's not a hint of jealousy in a single thing he does or says. He's disappointed when Marlene says it's because he wasn't there, but it's not disappointment in Aerith or in Cloud—it's disappointment in himself, because Marlene is right. He wasn't there. He couldn't protect her. There's also no spite there, he never responds like her feelings are wrong because he's here now and that means Aerith can rely on him again, and we know that because of how he responds to this information.

Zack finds out that Aerith has feelings for Cloud, and his immediate mission is to make sure that Cloud recovers as quickly as possible. Now it's not just for him, it's not just because that's his friend, it's because Aerith loves him (too) and that means he has to save Cloud for both of them.

He's fully supportive of Aerith and Cloud having a relationship, to the point that the last thing he says to Cloud when he gets thrown into a dying timeline is a request that he take care of Aerith. He's not exactly passing the torch here, because he's still alive—but he doesn't know if he'll be able to meet back up with a version of Cloud that is awake again, and he needs Cloud to know that he supports them in this.

And then, in the dying timeline where Zack is banished after fighting Sephiroth, he has the ability to synergize with Cloud from across the multiverse. The DMW limit break connected to Aerith is active in the space. All three of them are together here, just not physically; Cloud and Aerith are protecting Zack as much as Zack has been struggling to protect them.

Zack loves that Aerith loves someone other than him because that's how he is too. Zack has multiple relationships at the same time, he loves multiple people at the same time, he has emotionally intimate connections with multiple people at the same time. Why would he take issue with the love of his life feeling the same way?

Cloud isn't his replacement any more than Cissnei and Aerith are interchangeable, and Zack understands that, because Zack is polyamorous—and he's really happy that Aerith may be, too.

#ff7 rebirth spoilers #fandom ramble #ffvii #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy 7 rebirth #ff7rb #ff7r #crisis core #ccff7r #cissnei #zack fair #aerith gainsborough #cloud strife #not tagging ANY of those ships lol #I don't even really ship any of them myself tbh #except for a throuple involving z and a and cissnei #that's my preferred combination here #but the love is there regardless of my preferences #it's in the source material very clearly #also I do think zack has feelings for cloud #but I can't cite a specific point in-canon to indicate they have a RELATIONSHIP #and it's the CANONICAL RELATIONSHIPS that are the key here #polyamory isn't cheating y'all #nobody here was unfaithful to anyone else #calm the fuck down #100% sure on that

[theatheistgirl]

#vintage #retro #art #weird and wonderful #language #words #good morning #calm the fuck down

[vroomvroomwee]

I don't know if anyone's told you this, but it is okay if you don't end up winning a Nobel prize. It's okay to sleep and eat and laugh and have fun. 8 billion people on this piece of rock. It's okay if you're not the best.

#life advice #everyone is expecting so much #bitch i dont want to be the best #calm the fuck down #i just want to eat chips and have fun #positivity #lifestyle #life #life quotes

[chaosandstardust]

The worst part about liking multiple different female characters from the same piece of media is that a large portion of the fans are often anti-whoever-the-other-female-character-is and you can't go through any of their tags without hearing how much the other character is an absolute abusive POS who doesn't deserve any happiness and she should go die in a hole and any good things that happen to her belong to the other one, actually.

#im just...so tired #daenerys targaryen #sansa stark #Arya Stark #kagome higurashi #kikyo #i can like all of them #calm the fuck down #winry rockbell #fandom misogyny #misogyny

[sashi-ya]

𝙴𝚙 1036 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝: ➡ 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐢'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐤

#blackleg sanji #black leg sanji #sanji vinsmoke #op sanji #sanjionepiece #one piece sanji #wano kuni #one piece #mugiwarapirates #one piece spoilers #sir my ovaries #calm the fuck down

[zumbieve]

Sonic YouTube is wild af.

Sonic x shadow generations isn’t even out yet and people are trying to nitpick every single nook and cranny.

Yall need to chill the hell out.

#sonic the hegehog #sonic x shadow generations #sonic #sonic generations #it’s ok to be concerned and sceptical but— #guys plz #it hadn’t even seen the light yet #calm the fuck down #zumbie talk

[jeysuso]

hey hi hello jonathan fatu isn't jimmy uso so if y'all could stop being fucking gross that'd be awesome

#jimmy uso #like damn #calm the fuck down

[this-aint-massachusetts]

JOSH?!?!

#CALM THE FUCK DOWN #ALL I DID WAS SAY FUCK YOU WHAT THE HELL #josh hutcherson #josh futterman

[seraphtrevs]

Made the mistake of looking on youtube to see if there were any funny videos poking fun at colleen hoover's terrible writing, but alas, it's all 50SoG-style moral panic. :( It would be so cool if the internet had even a fraction of the amount of disgust and contempt for wife beaters and rapists as they do for women who read romance novels

#and jfc they're just bad books #calm the fuck down

[axe-cution]

What upsets me deeply about indie YouTube horror (especially analog horror) community is how mean people are. You’ll have people go ‘this series is unoriginal and is ruining the community!!’ And it’s literally just made by some guy who wanted to have fun. Can you all calm down for like a second.

#honest to god #people forget these series are made by like. 1-2 people. at most usually a small group #these are real people with livelihoods who wanted to make something fun #but this is the viewpoint on like. any creative work related community #it kinda makes me sick how easily like #you can just excuse harrassing someone just bc you don’t like how they’re having fun #calm the fuck down

[lollytea]

Huntlow is legit crazy. At least Lumity started off somewhat ambiguously but ASIAS dropped a very explicit implication that Willow and Hunter would be married someday before they were even made aware of each others existence. Crew was out of their goddamn minds for that one.

#calm the FUCK down #me the first time i watched ASIAS: im so sorry to say this but this episode is entirely platonic #me rewatching ASIAS: can the crew cool their jets for five fucking minutes?? why are they doing the absolute MOST?? #me looking at storyboards: i cannot fucking believe that the final product was them HOLDING BACK. they wanted to go apeshit oh my god

[xmimikyuusx]

There are way too many people that think that their interest in fictional women/wlw ships make them morally superior to other people, to the point of being straight up homophobic to gay men, and I would like to recommend you a healthy dose of go outside. You're not helping anyone and fictional women/your preferences in media aren't acitivism.

#social justice #im looking the dungeon meshi fandom right in the eyes with this #i love farcille i think its adorable but some of you are talking like the amount of fanfics about it dictate that the fandom is misogynistic #which is absolutely buck wild and stupid by the amount of farcille content the fandom has been pumping out recently from the newest ep #calm the fuck down

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just getting this in early: If anyone tries to come for Ted Lasso claiming queerbaiting when Ted and Trent don't get together, I will find out where you live and shit on your lawn.

If you can't be happy with not getting exactly what you want from media, you can go live in the shame box and shut the fuck up for awhile.

The fucking point of fandom is to look at canon and either go, "Oh, this is fun; I shall look at this more closely," or look at canon and go, "Ha! No. No. I shall take this into my own hands."

The amount of people in fandom who need to stop assuming they're owed the exact canon they want should be zero. Unfortunately, it is not. And you are all annoying.

#ted lasso #fandom #it ain't queerbaiting to show two men liking each other without kissing for your benefit #calm the fuck down

[bobgoesw00t]

I wanna take a moment to talk about a few things in regards to the comments and discussions this post on twitxter has brought up, as basically 99.99% of the comments are all the same thing over and over and over again.

A. First off, if you plan on boycotting the final season because of the various things Noah Schnapp has been up to in his personal life/social media when it comes to the conflict in Gaza...don't even fucking bother. Stranger Things is on its final season now so there's literally NO POINT IN BOYCOTTING IT AS IT'S ALREADY AT THE FINISH LINE!!!!!!! If this happened even before the last season, then I would understand the need to boycott it, but we're not...we're on the FINAL SEASON....so if you don't want to watch it, please SHUT THE FUCK UP, DON'T WATCH IT, AND LET THOSE OF US WHO WANT TO SEE HOW IT ALL ENDS ENJOY IT!!!!!

B. Seeing as how all of this "boycott the final season" crap is stemming from Noah's stance on the Gaza conflict and that he's a Zionist, all of you dumb fuckers are forgetting one VERY CRUCIAL ASPECT: THE CONFLICT IS ONE OF THE LONGEST (if not THE LONGEST) TUG-OF-WARS BETWEEN RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR PLANET!!! This debate over which religious folk deserves the land has been happening for centuries now, and there are SO many layers to it that it's gotten to the point where unless someone builds a time machine to go back to when the core issue of the conflict happens, witness it and bring back irrefutable proof for all to see...the only real "answer" (if there even is one right now) is that both sides are neither right nor wrong...just in some sort of weird purgatory. Hell, even if someone DID use a time machine to go back and bring proof, there would be a good chunk of people who would disagree with what was brought forth.

C. Noah Schnapp isn't a god...HE'S FUCKING HUMAN AND HUMANS ARE NOT PERFECT!!!!!!! Everyone, AND I MEAN EVERYONE makes mistakes and has their own thoughts on various things that are a part of the world we live in today. Just because ONE PERSON says or does something you don't agree with, and/or their friend/s agree with them or remain friends with them, doesn't mean it's the end of the world. In the event it happens to be a celebrity of a wildly popular show on Netflix, feel free to say your stance on the issue, then please SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! No one is FORCING YOU TO WATCH THE SHOW/MOVIE OR SUPPORT ANYONE WHO WORKS ON IT. Not to mention EVERYONE IN ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION.

My personal stance on the crap that's happening in Gaza is that as someone who doesn't have all the facts but believes humans should learn to accept one another regardless of any differences we may have...I don't actually have a stance, rather I'm very neutral and find both sides to be at fault. Same thing with Noah Schnapp, I don't know him personally, and the only time I really hear anything about him or other celebs is if they're trending on tumblr and I just randomly happen to check that part of the website. Therefore, I can't agree with his actions, but I also can't condemn them as I don't have all the facts and I really don't care that much about what he does in his personal time.

More people need to learn how to separate celebs from other aspects of life and remember that they're human just like the rest of us, they make mistakes and either learn from them or don't. ...I also feel like people need to avoid social media more often as it tends to be a place where negativity festers into something that can consume you until you're nothing but a toxic husk of who you once were.

Now despite what I first said, feel free to boycott the final season of Stranger Things if you want to, I won't stop you just like you can't stop me from watching it to see how the journey all these characters have been on concludes. Let people make their own decision on if they want to boycott or not, and if they decide not to, respect their decision and don't harass them about how, "THEIR SUPPORTING GENOCIDE" especially when BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY OF THAT!!!

#stranger things #noah schnapp #netflix #gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #neither side is right or wrong #i chose to remain neutral #don't be a dick #respect others #don't harass people #let people watch what they want #let them watch in peace #calm the fuck down #this conflict is complicated #we need a time machine

[sturnioloshacker]

BRO WTF

WHY ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS

IDC IF THEY’RE JOKING OR NOT BUT THIS IS JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS

#PEOPLE ARE WILD #AND NEED TO CHILL #LIKE BRO #CALM THE FUCK DOWN #god people shit me sometimes

[subparlario]

people will really be like "damn this papa louie character finna make me act up, god DAYUM" and then they look like this

#they don't even have legs???? #calm the fuck down #papa's games #papa louie #flipline #flipline studios