#it's genuinely so uncomfortable to watch

[henrysglock]

Does Brenner really asks Henry "what changed your mind? Is there someone else"? Are you serious? Is that actual dialogue?? I'm just shocked, how is no one talking about how weird Brenner is with Henry? does it just flies over most peoples heads?? What the hell

That is straight out of the plays I saw. Both of them. Verbatim.

Henry decides to leave HNL because Patty asked him to come back to do the school play. He tells Brenner he wants to leave, and the scene more or less goes like this:

"I'm leaving." "I'm sorry to hear that. Can I ask why?" "I've decided I don't want to do this (read: make contact with the Shadow) anymore." "What changed your mind? Is there someone else?" "...No." "What, you think you can be normal? Go to prom with some stupid girl?" (Taking pages out of byler's playbook, I see)

And if I recall correctly, that's when Henry starts trying the theater doors to get out. Brenner goes on to tell Henry that he's all Henry will every have, etc. Brenner also, at one point, refers to Henry as "my boy", to which Henry whirls around and storms back towards the stage while growl-yelling "I'M NOT YOUR BOY". (And god it's so fucking good in person.)

Brenner very much treats Henry like a misbehaving/unfaithful wife. It had me gasping even the second time I saw the show and knew it was coming. I expected their dynamic to be clear, but I didn't expect it to be this blatant.

(Right down to love triangle blocking and shared color palettes! Slay. I hate it.)

More "fun" freak facts: Brenner kisses Henry on the head twice during his first stay in the lab:

When he's trying to trauma-bond Henry to himself by forcing him to lose control and kill a rat, only to present himself as a sole possible source of comfort for Henry. After Brenner cups Henry's face in his hands to take readings of his pupil sizes (1.9 and 5.9 respective to left and right eyes...1959...), Henry turns to sob into Brenner's shoulder about it, and Brenner hugs him/kisses his hair and tells him that what he did was "very good". (All of this while Henry's displaying, and I quote, "traumatic mydriasis", which is consistent with strokes and major head injuries. No medical treatment for Henry, just kisses and petting from Brenner.)

When Henry's having his grand mal seizure after displaying images of Dimension X. Brenner doesn't give him proper seizure care, he just cradles him, pets him, and kisses the top of his head. While Henry's half-aware post-seizure, Brenner asks him if he'd like to make contact with the Shadow. Henry agrees, but then as soon as he's slightly more aware he looks to a doctor behind him and literally asks for help. He looks back and says "Help..." Brenner also massages Henry's shoulders while he's ball-gagged in the '70s, and tells him he's been "such a good boy these past few years", which means he's fit to meet the children, which are referred to both as his and Brenner's children, but also as his siblings.

This means he kisses/caresses Henry more than Patty does. Period. Point blank.

Brenner also has some choice lines about Henry and killing. Henry's being forced into killing this whole time, but Brenner turns it around on him and says, verbatim, "You liked it more than you thought you would". It's 10000% giving "You actually wanted it/You were asking for it" irt being, uh, forced into doing something that you didn't want to do. (Especially irt the Shadow and all of its rape coding...Yikes!)

Brenner also massages Henry's shoulders while Henry's ball-gagged and belted to a chair in the '70s, all while telling Henry he's "been such a good boy these past years", which means Brenner has deemed him fit to meet the children...the children which are referred to both as Henry/Brenner's children, but also as Henry's siblings.

Yeah. They're considered Brenner and Henry's children ("You're as much a father to these children as I am"), but they're also Henry's "brothers and sisters". You do the math on that one.

Lots of freak vibes all around.

#it's genuinely so uncomfortable to watch #equally as uncomfortable as the Virginia stuff #my ass was shocked stiff about it. like get Away from him. what the fuck dude. #tw rape #tw csa #just in case #st: tfs #asks #tfs spoilers

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

Please please please tell me that you’re as obsessed with the little sound he makes at 10:29 as I am :’) - just the little ‘mhmm’ and the way he sucks his bottom lip I CAN’T.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZufuOHiz8&pp=ygUVQWxleCB0dXJuZXIgaW50ZXJ2aWV3

just seconds before the poor man got called a tart 💔

no for real though i am obsessed with it the way i am obsessed with all his little non verbal encouragers, and the way he kind of savours the sound of them as he utters them?? (he does the same with certain words too and i am if possible even more obsessed with that 😭) but yeah, i feel like there’s definitely an undertone of irritation or impatience here that gives this little 'mhmm' a slight edge - which, jesus christ. is NOT surprising given the literal everything about this interview. but yeah, i love how much expressiveness he injects into that one little sound. i love HIM 😭😭

#god this interview is genuinely painful to watch #i've never managed to get through it without covering my eyes at multiple points #the body language is SO uncomfortable #he's literally surrounded #and then there's that terrible moment near the end where they wrap it up and you can see a weight being lifted from his shoulders #but then they carry it on for ANOTHER TEN MINUTES #and you can see him just drifting away into the ether #poor man 💗 #but god he looks so good in this interview #anyway thank you so much for this ask nonnie 😘 #alex turner #asks

[northern-passage]

one thing i find really difficult about navigating the IF space is the direct line of contact between readers and authors. we share the same space, and i think that plays a big part in this weird blurred line we have in this community and overall lack of boundaries.

for a lot of people this is a fun hobby and while i personally try to keep it... semi-professional most of the time, it's easy to get wrapped up in having fun on tumblr (or the forums, or reddit, wherever it is that you mainly post/interact) and have a lot of personal interactions with both readers and authors alike - which is fun! i like it more often than not, but i also think that's why a lot of comments in this space can end up being really entitled, over-familiar, and inappropriate.

it's no secret that most authors get really weird messages on here, and while this is also a problem on social media at large and not just specific to IF tumblr, it is still definitely a big problem in this community.

and to be clear i'm not saying that you can't be friendly with authors or readers (i've become friends with a handful of readers myself) and i definitely don't mean to imply that there needs to be a huge divide between us; that's silly - again, most authors are readers, most readers are authors, we’re just people on the internet sharing the same space. but all of us deserve to have our boundaries respected. this is my story, and we are strangers. as a general rule of thumb: if you wouldn't say it out loud to someone you just met, you probably shouldn't be saying it to a stranger online. especially anonymously.

#i also think this is why some criticisms get so messy in this space as well #authors should not always be in the same space as the readers/reviewers #and readers shouldnt be able to directly @ authors with their extremely negative reviews esp when it's subjective #(‘’i hate this’’ as opposed to pointing out genuinely harmful content or other criticism) #for everyone's sake #& on a kinda related note: speaking as someone who has been receiving targeted harassment for *checks watch* over two years now #some people really need to reevaluate the way they interact with certain media #i think IF feels very personal due to the interactivity and the customization of the mc #but not everything is written for you. and it's fine to just not like something #without sending weird harassing anonymous messages for 2 years straight to a stranger on the internet. lol #honestly criticism is another can of worms and that's not really what i'm talking about here #but i do think that's also part of the entitlement and overfamiliarity as well #so imo it's connected a little bit. something to think about #at the end of the day my advice to other authors about this is to know your limits and know when you need to extract yourself #and know that you don't have to respond to every ask #especially if it makes you uncomfortable #and im definitely not trying to sound like the authority here this is something i've struggled with as well #like i said it is hard to navigate #and authors can be guilty of this too. wanting to defend yourself or insert yourself into conversations where you shouldn't #i've done that myself #and i've also had other authors i dont know be way overly familiar with me in the past #all of this is just an unfortunate part of online community i think. but im trying to be more mindful about it #anyways. this post brought to you by the weird messages in my and my friends' inboxes lately #i just think you should not be telling authors about pesonal bodily functions in anonymous asks #as an example. lol #personal

[queerbting]

rewatching nuwho and i'm rlly.... why is human nature / family of blood just racist hit after racist hit after racist hit against martha . followed by a heavy dose of classist (+ misogynistic!!!!) behavior directed against her afterwards where the humans of 1913 england treat her like a weird alien from another world (the doctor in human form included!!!).

also, why do they have the doctor a) be actively bigoted and b) fall in love with a racist nurse who specifically speaks down to martha (someone who the doctor cares for). they create this "unassuming" white woman character and then have her be awful to martha but we're supposed to believe that she is kind and sympathetic worthy of being the human doctor's love interest, more than martha being treated as a human being. (and then that we should cry over her lost love/future in the end)

like why. genuinely why. what is the point .

also objectively what function does the nurse serve that martha jones could not have. she's even a medical student like !!!!!! going undercover as a nurse would not be that far off!! and plus, i'm not even a tenmartha shipper but it would fit more for the emotional arc of martha's character to get what she wanted all season in human nature / family of blood (the doctor falling in love with her!!! wish fulfillment !!!!!! ) only to realize the cruelty of what this would be like in reality if she were never to open the watch (despite her finally having what she "wants"), and finally understanding and having to give john smith up. it could've been a really tragic, but human moment (like a lot of other things in dw!).

then 10 and martha's relationship could actually be on some sort of equal footing. bc martha had a taste of what it would be liked to be loved by him (or someone similar to him, at least), and chose in the end to let it go. it would give her emotional closure, etc. and would show her choosing the /actual/ doctor (not human) and the friendship she has with him, rather than a lifetime with a human that she fell in love with who happens to look like him.

could've been a really cool moment of both character development and then bonding between the doctor and martha afterwards in their newfound partnership, so half of martha's character is no longer swallowed up by her pining for him.

but no. instead they go and hide in racistville and martha is a servant who experiences racism/misogyny/classism and microaggressions from white people + aliens over two episodes for nearly no reason .

#like it's crazy #i think a lot of this went over my head as a kid because i did not know much about british history or nuwho's environmental contexts #so i didn't understand a lot of the unspoken dialogue and class-race implications coming from MULTIPLE CHARACTERS in these episodes....... #but coming back to martha's arc and hn / fob especially as an adult is just..... genuinely so awful #there's no narrative reason it's just racist #so so weird and uncomfortable to watch #it can't be too much to ask to treat her like a human being #martha jones #dw s3 #dw criticism #doctor who #dewpost #also her being written half the time this season as a love sick puppy who doesn't get it depends on the doctor for almost everything #instead of a resourceful and emotionally intelligent young black woman who is studying to be a medical professional !!!! drives me insane #sometimes they write her well but it feels few and fare between sometimes bc they want martha to be in love with 10 sooooo badly #rather than them being a kickass medical student (a doctor) plus The Doctor duo !!!! could've been so much fun #and instead we are left with this #human racist john smith with no narrative repercussions for viewing/treating a companion of his in a derogatory fashion #super cool bbc thank you very much #human nature #family of blood

[dayssinceabrandcrossedmarkiplier]

100 days since a brand crossed Markiplier

29/8/23

(Be careful when reading the tags if you're sensitive to, albeit glancing, references to sexual assault/grooming)

#markiplier #someone made a joke about resetting because Mark didn't win a gamer streamy the other night #I skipped watching the award show because I knew Dream would be involved and I refuse to interact with anything that gives him a platform #but when I looked up who beat Markiplier in that category my unease grew #like obviously I'm not going to bring mcyt drama to a markiplier blog #but god it makes me so uncomfortable that a groomer who is 100% unremorseful about his actions was allowed to be a nominee #let alone *win* when genuinely good people who work hard on their channels were in the same category #anyway that's all I'll say about it because this is supposed to be a fun little fandom based sideblog #however I have been on the fence this evening about whether to genuinely go #'fuck the streamys for letting Dream have a chance to win let alone actually walk away with an award' #I'm still undecided and need to check how the winner was picked (I think public vote but wanna be sure) #I'm just mad and disgusted and completely uneasy #either way I wanted to quickly get my thoughts out but now I've delayed the post by 20 minutes by typing so sorry and here you go

[crazymecjc]

don your crown of thorns, and prepare to die in your precious sinners’ stead.

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun stampede spoilers #vash the stampede #oof my art i guess #going crazy over jesus imagery yippee!! #thought this one was so clever with the thorns being nais knives and the blood being the geraniums #genuinely episode 11 was one of the best episodes of a show I’ve ever watched it made me so viscerally uncomfortable/pos #cannot believe knives kin assigned vash Jesus #also the fact that he was just Reading The Bible sent me #like Of Course he did this is why he’s Like This #this show makes me grgrgrggrrgrggr truly has filled my brain unlike anything else has in a hot minute

[piosplayhouse]

Me giving my hour long monologue about how trans lesbians jiang cheng x wen qing is the only form of the ship I'll consume

#i think its because jc would need to deal with too many neuroses before i think he would be good for wq #otherwise it just turns into an uncomfortable feedback loop where theyre forced into a weird dynamic of older sibling #with all the emotional responsibility and younger sibling who never learned how to deal with that . so a stalemate #anyway just pulling words in the tags before i sleep since i was thinking of it earlier but it really is so ? i guess weird to me how #normalized cq became after c ql s release and subsequent netflixification #because literally no one was shipping it before it was. Like its weird to me when people watch the show first and are like this shouldve #been canon in the book because like. idk . No LOL . sorry i dont mean to be mean im genuinely just fascinated #because when c ql initially aired everyone was making fun of or mad abt that plotline #like i can pull up tweets from back then but it was just a general state of disbelief like . why #of all the characters #so its interesting that its looped around to becoming accepted to the point where people project it backwards onto the source #which i have my hangups about but whatever s v doesnt even have a drama to change anything so i wont say shit #anyway goodnight thanks for indulging me as always buddies

[witchofthemidlands]

BAD SISTERS || Chopped Liver

This reads like an incorrect quote but this is, in fact, an actual line from this show in a conversation between the two most serious characters in this series.

#grace 🥺☺️ she is so lovely 🥰 she is a sweetheart 🥰 i love her i love her i love her 😊 #she is so pretty 🥰 #grace garvey #giffing this character not being tortured actually sickened me but the absurdity of this sends me #they created the most unbearable character i have ever seen i would have killed him in broad daylight with witnesses #he was a disgusting horrible vile creature the trash between a racoons toe an absolute abomination of a man #he made me so uncomfortable i don't think i could have gotten through it if jprick's funeral hadn't have been in the literal first episode #the prick #tw: john paul williams #bad sisters #they are incredible actors oh my god i never saw clan so i dont know how they compared to the original but their performance floored me #i have said this before and i will say it again she is an amazing actor absolutely brilliant #i am once again so happy she got an award for this performance god she was brilliant her journey was so difficult to watch but ahh the end 🤩 #anne marie duff #claes bang #i was genuinely surprised by how good his acting was in this as the only thing i had seen him in before this was not great #badsistersedit #appletvedit #cinemapix #dailytvsource #dailytvfilmgifs #tvedit

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

i keep thinking about this scene from twin peaks

#genuinely so many funny things in it. it taking place in the woods for some reason. the lame ass “where do you want these rocks” #just tossing them on the floor. the impromptu coffee break and everyone just being like oh mm fuck yes! mr peaks spitting it out but going #DAMN GOOD. the fucking inflection on and HOT. uncomfortable long shot of everyone walking out of frame only to reveal the shitty little row #of chairs like a few feet away. hanging on THAT shot of them all looking bored as fuck. #bone snapping noise. the slow unrolling of the blackboard. tibet. #.mid #if every show in the world was filmed like this i would watch more of them....

[prolibytherium]

A relatively common (though contentious) reddit take on BCS was that Kim wasn't '''punished enough''' for her actions and like, everything else about that statement aside did you not see the scene where she was having passionless missionary sex with her florida boyfriend who was just saying 'Yep. Yep. Yep.' the whole time. She was living like that and you think she didn't get '''''''punished enough''''''' by the narrative. Give me a break

#bcs #I get the impulse to plug my ears and avert my eyes from the screen every time. It's genuinely so uncomfortable to watch #I don't get that impulse for basically anything but somehow the funny sad sex scene in BCS did it #I mean it's VERY funny but it's also like oh god this is so sad #top 10 most disturbing sex scnees of all time

[squipedmew]

Finished entry 65.

I’m going to need 2-3 business days to recover

#Holy shit. #like I was enjoying it up to that point #but 65 was just #on a whole different level #seriously I could write a whole video essay on Tim’s operator induced hell sequence ALONE #incredibly well edited too. Disorienting as all hell. Genuinely made me really nauseous and uncomfortable. #and then the hospital bit????? #dude the guy who plays Tim fucking killed it #Like I really felt like I was watching someone have an honest to god meltdown #it was so uncomfortable and raw and so so good #just. Kudos man. #Sophi watches marble hornets #marble hornets

[aiming-for-phantoms]

Hot take but I just read a long post about someone being so upset and angry about the way the other people on empires treat Jimmy Solidarity (pranks, making fun of him, ect) and people in the replies were agreeing and talking about how distraught it makes them and all I can say is you should really stop watching his/others' Empires videos if its making you that upset because I can guarantee that its all in good fun and the man is having a perfectly okay time. He's having fun with his friends, they just like to rag on him. My friends like to rag on me too and it's totally fine, I enjoy it. You're projecting and you're, like, WAY too invested if it's upsetting you like that. You're turning him having fun with his friends into something it's not.

Stop using his videos to make yourself miserable :| Go watch something else instead of being self destructive and then whining about it online when there's not even anything wrong or mean really happening :| I'm so serious when I say that this is chronically online behavior and you need to go talk to a professional because that is Not Normal.

#not to tumblr subtweet or whatever but what the fuck guys #get offline. genuinely #he is having fun with his friends. he is having a good time. #they were like “its giving me flashbacks to middle school” DUDE. STOP WATCHING. HIS VIDEOS GO AS HE WANTS THEM TOO. HE EDITS AND CHOOSES WH #AT TO POST. YOU ARE PROJECTING AND YOU'RE BEING A DICK. HE AND HIS FRIENDS ARE GOOFY IN A WAY THAT WOULD PERSONALLY MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE. #LIKE OKAY SURE!!! IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN THATS OKAY AND YOU DONT HAVE TO BE IN THAT SITUATION. BUT YOURE BEING A DICK BY COMPLAINING ABOU #T IT AND WHINING ONLINE ABOUT HOW HE INTERACTS WITH HIS FRIENDS. IT IS PLAYFUL AND ENJOYABLE FOR HIM BECAUSE IF IT WASNT HE'D NOT BE DOING #IT BECAUSE HES AN ADULT AND HE WOULD TELL HIS FRIENDS (IN PRIVATE WHERE YOU CANT SEE IT) THAT WHAT THEYRE DOING IS UPSETTING HIM #you are being parasocial my guy #also stop using his videos to hurt yourself dude what??? that is not healthy??? #sorry for ranting. im sure ill get upset people in asks again. thats fine #idrc because im a fucking adult and i recognize that a grown ass man wouldnt be behaving like this and having a villain arc in minecraft #because he was genuinely mad at his friends :| and that you need to do something if seeing it is upsetting you and that its unhealthy that #people agree with you and theyre basically enabling you/encouraging you by acting like its normal to be so upset over something innocuous #rant over #aim.rant #aim.txt #jimmy solidarity #solidarity gaming #solidaritygaming #mcyt

[hella1975]

yes im trying not to be so mean yes im working on my temper but under no section of my Healing Contract does it mention that these things must apply to my sister. in fact if you read the fine print it says im actively allowed to make her miserable. for my mental health

#she's so mean all the time like constantly telling me im stupid and shit #which probably didn't hit as hard before this econ degree but now every time she does it im just kinda like :/ #and i laugh it off obvs bc am i fuck about to look put out by it #so she genuinely doesnt have any reason to stop bc ive not set any boundaries or communicated or yk. done anything correctly #i instead just let it frustrate the fuck out of me until one day im in a bad enough mood that i'll give as bad as she does #which i HATE bc as tough shit as she thinks she is i always think being mean - specifically the primary school way she does it - #is SO embarassing as a conflict method like girl 'you're stupid' is really the best you can come up with? bffr 😭 #like when i say IM mean and SHE'S mean im talking about very different things #im mean less often than her but when i do it it's effective bc i literally catalogue people's insecurities and use them against them #like some fucking anime villian like it's actually uncomfortable to watch and i hate myself every time #whereas her way is effective bc it's all dumb comments ANYONE could make but she says them repeatedly until she wears you down #and of the two methods they're both shit but at least my way isn't cringe LMAO #so if i ever get so frustrated i revert to her method i just get v annoyed with myself like IM better than this she might not be but i am #and we've just been moving things in the garden with mum which is a flashpoint anyway #and me and my sister were just GOING at each other and it was all jokes until i said something she didn't like #and she was like 'what's your problem? it's fine when we're joking but you always take it too far' girl. #like i cannot accurately explain on here how ridiculous that statement is coming from HER #and if id said something actually horrible id get it but the convo was literally just #her: mum can i wear your watch for the chem ball coming up? #me: why do you need a watch for that? #her: ive got a dumb tan line on my wrist that i want to cover #me: i really dont think anyone is going to be looking at your wrists #THAT WAS IT LMFAO??? YOU HYPOCRITICAL LITTLE BITCH #ironically i had a field day with it like her saying that was the worst thing she could have done #latched onto it like a bloodhound fr my eyes must have lit up #i was like 'dont be such a baby' which is basically a fucking trigger word in our house #thought she was gonna hit me with a spade <3 peace and love on planet earth #godddddd i cant wait for her to go back to uni i HATE sharing a room i cannot escape her she's literally here as i type #i hope she knows im slagging her off to my niche online micro-community #hella goes home

[carefulfears]

wait is hank in californication a s€xual pr€d@tor ? 😭😭

i don't dismiss anyone who might view it that way but i personally don't view him as a predator...it's a lot more complicated of a conversation, in my opinion. he's convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse in a trial throughout s4, for something the show is clear he didn't really commit by definition, but the show is relatively dedicated to consequences for his actions even if "he didn't mean to" lol.

#am noticing that hank is actually sexually assaulted a lot more than there's ever really ambiguous consent with women #the show's whole thing is that women basically THROW themselves on him lol so he never really pursues anyone he mostly goes along #with what they want #but that one lady in the rehab episode LITERALLY raped him on-screen and it was played as a joke? #anyway none of this is to excuse his NUMEROUS crimes against humanity like genuinely do NOT get me wrong. you do not gotta hand it to him #but i don't personally find it uncomfortable to watch in that sense. and i'm really sensitive to it as a survivor. #but everyone is different

[enchanting-grom-fright]

my mom was trying to talk to me and randomly got so upset and she was like ‘why do u never look at me i guess u just don’t care about me what happened to you this is why i can’t trust u’ and i was just like ………… i.. what ????? literally what and i was like ‘i don’t look at anyone when i talk’ and she’s like ‘um actually i have seen u make eye contact!’ like no shit obviously i have that doesn’t mean its what i naturally do and i’m like ‘yea, of course, but only because someone wants me to, not because i can do it consistently’ and then she’s like ‘well u haven’t always been this way do i need to send u back to therapy bcs if u keep this up i will’ and i’m just like in my head.. u literally know.. that i am autistic… what…. u had to talk about how i was like when i was younger when i was getting diagnosed….. i was there… i know for a fact that u do not believe this why r u upset huh (this was not something i said out loud though bcs she is extremely weird abt this and she’d definitely get angrier if i did and i am not one to fight with her so ) i was like ‘idk what ur talking abt’ and then she just started lecturing me on other stuff soooo anyways im still like ?????????????????? what ??????????

#i’m not even really upset i’m just so confused i #i’ve literally had people point out how i don’t make eye contact so many times #(help like a few weeks ago the person i used to sit next to in geography class was like “it’s so funny watching u avoid making eye contact” #and i haven’t been able to start a conversation with her since like it has been weeks but i can’t bring myself to i get too nervous) #anyways like eye contact i make very rarely because like physically it genuinely feels almost like having a panic attack #and i like can’t hear anything they say bcs i’m just thinking abt forcing maintaining eye contact despite how deeply uncomfortable it is #like just fucking kill me now before i do because even if it’s like a prerecorded clip iii. can’t even explain it it’s just. ewewew #(the exceptions r if it’s like not eye contact for like the casual sake of eye contact.. i can i make it intensely as a joke or #i can make it briefly to exchange looks with my friend yk) #so like if i’m talking to u multiple times i just cannot #i will look at u and ur face and stuff just not while ur looking at me bcs yea #anyways that’s my rant

[kohakhearts]

choosing violence /lh. ship ask game- LEASTTTTTTT favorite pokeani ship for the ask game?

JDFGJHFHJFD OH GOD. OK. i try hard not to be a hater on main but i guess now is my time....sorry folks </3

amour/shipping: don't ship it :(

why don't you ship it?

see the thing that sucks so bad about the dynamic is that like. i could genuinely get behind it if every scene that was made to make me WANT to wasn't so awful. i think ash treats serena terribly 90% of the time, and her behaviour around him is uncomfortable to watch except for times when the narrative doesn't want you to think about the fact that she's got a crush on him (which is...very rarely, but those moments DO exist). from the wearing his clothes and pretending to be him when he's sick and can't battle someone (???) to The Kiss, there's just a lot of........ick factor for me. i want so badly to like it i really do but it crosses too many lines in ways that are Framed as Cute UwU for me to operate around that

what would have made you like it?

more scenes like the snowbelle serena throwing the snowball at his head scene maybe to be honest. i think that was actually a good moment for them in the sense that like...she forced him to acknowledge that he was making her feel like shit! which i think he does a lot throughout xy and it just. sucks. i agree that he does treat her differently than his other female companions - he treats her a lot worse than them, and i genuinely think it all comes down to how hard the writers were actually trying to push the romance angle. if they had just had more opportunities to be open and honest with each other As Friends, idk. maybe then

despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

look there are like. a small handful of ships out there that i at this point would genuinely consider notps. 2 of my biggest of all time, i actually now ship through the process of writing them myself. i desperately hope one day to count amour among them but right now. all i've really got is that they're funny to clown on. which doesn't feel very positive but i can't think of anything else JDFGJHFDKFHJ

send me a ship!

#hoping i censored well enough but if not. feel free to tell me so and im sorry for being a hater shjdfhjd #id tag as anti [shipname] but all that really does on this site is stick the post in [shipname]'s tag anyway #and then if anyone doesnt have the anti tag blacklisted specifically. also muted words on tumblr are janky as hell anyway. so yeah #answered #anon #there were actually other contenders for this one but in the end like. i can SEE why people ship those #this one i just. idk. genuinely feel like i watched a different show than some people because so many of their interactions #just made me VISCERALLY uncomfortable. not even just the ones i mentioned #anyway i'll let the haterisms go for now but like. jsdfghjdk