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marshmallowprotection · 10 months

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hi!!

i've been thinking about this for the past few days & decided to ask you to weigh in on it: what do you think would be the biggest dealbreaker(s) for each mysme character?

~embroidery anon

(sending my love as always <3, hope you're well)

This is a tough question because this is a game where the focus is on learning, growing, and adapting with your partner to be the best person you can be.

Ideally, there wouldn't be a need for dealbreakers but I assume many characters would have hardlines for a healthy relationship that we can discuss. I think the hardlines would be the easiest thing to cover for you all.

Yoosung can't be with someone who babies him.

He might be going into his first relationship and maybe you have more experience than he does, but don't assume that he is a child or act like he doesn't understand how relationships work. It's the same way he doesn't like to be treated like a child when his friends walk all over him and say he’ll get it when he’s older.

As I'm sure many people are aware, he is an adult and he knows how to handle himself just as much as anybody else does. He doesn't need somebody to coddle him and tell him what to do. If you are the kind of person that likes to take charge in a relationship and handle everything from the get-go, you're not going to be able to be with him.

It's not that he wants to be in charge because he's a man, it's more so that he wants to have a relationship where everything is on equal footing. You protect him and he protects you, you talk to him and he talks to you, you grow with him and he grows with you.

His hard line is when somebody acts like they know more than he does even if they're the same age. He doesn't want to be disrespected. It's okay to pinch his cheeks and call him cute, but don't make a point of infantilizing him.

Zen can't be with someone who disrespects people, even jokingly.

Do you know how angry he gets whenever there is a conversation about class? He has gone through some of the most traumatic things a person can go through once you realize you don't have a place to put your head at night. He has seen people be disrespected and treated lesser than his entire teenage and adult life.

He does not stand for bigotry. He will be the first one to throw the punch if somebody disrespects another person. He doesn't like it when people make jokes about other people in a way that can be read as condescending.

It's one thing to make a light-hearted gesture and another person who's okay with whatever joke you're saying, but if you do something to take down another person just because you're trying to beat them in an argument, oh no. You do not punch low in an argument.

You do not do that especially when it's something that another person cannot control. A good example of this is somebody punching down another person by telling them to “take a shower” in an argument while knowing that person doesn’t have access to one. That's the kind of thing he can’t stand. A hard line for him is somebody who shows their true colors in an argument and those colors are not golden.

Jaehee can't be with someone who belittles her hobbies.

This should be a given for anybody who has something special to them that has been poked fun at by other people. Your partner is supposed to be somebody who understands and respects that you might have a hobby that they may not share.

If you're the kind of person that talks over another person when they start to talk about something that they like, this is not a healthy dynamic whatsoever. You can't make everything about yourself. You should make a point to be interested in the things that your partner cares about even if it's not something you understand.

It means a lot to another person to have an outlet to discuss the things that matter to them and if they go to that effort for you, you should be meeting them halfway every time. Otherwise, what is your relationship even for at the end of the day?

Her line is going to be if you decide that you don't like how she likes to spend her free time. If you can't respect how she enjoys herself, then she can't respect herself when she's with you. The relationship can't continue.

Jumin can't be with someone who values superficial desires.

This is something that is already explained in the game multiple times as he communicates what he doesn't want in a partner. He already doesn't care to have a relationship as it stands where he is in his life until he's able to encounter his MC, but he makes it clear what he doesn’t like.

He doesn't like people who only care about the money and they are only in it to make a deal to get something they want for their own selfish greed. He can at least appreciate when somebody is honest that that is what they want because as long as somebody is honest, he can respect them. But if somebody is going to be sneaky and underhanded and lie their way through everything around them to get that, he could not respect that person ever.

He doesn't want a partner who only cares about the value of items. He needs a partner that cares about communication and being able to share everything in their heart with another person. It is disrespectful to the vulnerable state that he shared with you for you to decide somewhere in the middle of a relationship that you don't give a damn about what he's feeling, you only care about what he can pay for.

What he doesn't need is somebody who gets more and more excited about being able to have everything in the world at their fingertips just for the sake of saying they had it. His hard line is somebody who tries to get with him for the wrong reasons and somehow manages to slip past his radar before he can nip it in the bud.

Saeyoung can't be with someone who disrespects his boundaries.

What I mean by this is that he can't be with somebody who doesn't understand just how heavy the weight of his trauma is. He already has a hard enough time accepting that he went through something horrible, and it's going to take him even longer to be able to admit to himself that he's allowed to say that he was a victim.

If you are going to make it even harder on him to find peace over those things, he can’t be with you. It's good to give him a healthy kick in the right direction because that's how your relationship started with him in the first place but if you are going to push him when he is not ready, this is not going to work.

There is a difference between wanting to support somebody and wanting to push them to get better just for you and not for their sake. He is a self-sacrificial person and he would hurt himself trying to make another person happy, he's done it a hundred times, and it's not healthy to keep doing that. It would be hard for him to make this boundary because he is the kind of person who would want to work on you with these things even if it's not healthy, but it's going to have to be a hard line if you keep doing it over and over again.

Especially if you push him on his brother in any way. If there are any specific problems with his brother that you talk about with him in such a manner that belittles his hard work to make things right with him, or you bite at Saeran for anything that shouldn't require a bark, it's over. it's done. He will choose his brother. Sorry.

V can't be with someone who walks all over him.

I believe this is also a given if you understand him as a character. He has the tendency to be a pushover at worst before he's able to take time for himself and work on everything in therapy. If you are the kind of person who says what you mean without checking with your partner first to see if it's okay, this isn't going to work out.

If you say something and don't even give the floor to him, he won’t speak up. It can quickly become a toxic dynamic not only for him but for you as well because the control in a relationship should never be balanced in this way.

He doesn't need a repeat of his last relationship.

The boundary he has to set is one that he needs to make when he learns how to assert himself. If you're going to act like you know what's best for him and he doesn't have a clue what he should do for himself, then this isn't going to work out and for the sake of everybody in the relationship, it needs to be ended sooner rather than later. That is a line that cannot be crossed. If he has any self-respect for himself, he won't let anybody walk over him ever again.

Saeran can't be with someone who ignores his boundaries.

The circumstance is similar to the one that I wrote about for his brother, but there is a minor difference when it comes to the details. He is a very traumatized individual and if you are going to be in a relationship with him, you are going to constantly need to affirm boundary lines and comfort levels not only for yourself but for him as well. It's going to take a lot of work but if you are committed to doing everything right for each other, it can work out. Where this is going to be a problem is if you ignore boundaries consistently and constantly.

If you blatantly ignore something that he's told you isn't okay, he might let it slide for a little while but it's going to get to a point where it's not okay. A great example of this is if you're the kind of person that likes to consume alcohol recreationally now and again.

It can't be in the house whatsoever because of his trauma and former substance abuse issues.

It will never be okay with him because he never wants to touch the stuff and he doesn't want to smell it or see it. This is a hard line for literally every Saeran. I do not care for people who write him engaging with the stuff because he would never do that and it is disrespectful to him to assume he would.

If you walk all over him and ignore things that you decide don't matter to you because you care more about your comfort than his, it's over. He might not be able to express these things to you at first, but he will grow the confidence to say what needs to be said sooner or later, and if that doesn't happen, God help you. The minute Saeyoung finds out, it’s over.

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axther · 4 years

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For CH/JJBA Basic info: straight female, 5'4, Scorpio! If it matters my mbdi is debater, which I think is accurate. I'm a bit curvy/soft and I have really long wavy hair and glasses. Now for fun stuff! I'm a split between being very hyperactive (almost like a puppy lmao) or very quiet (not shy, but more indifferent. I've been told I'm intimidating) I'm into polyrelationships so the more boys the merrier. I like hiking and sports when I'm with people but don't do it by myself cause it's boring. 1

HERE’S UR FOOD QUEEN. also tumblr got me fucked up w no CH gifs :(

Cute Earth High Defense Club Love (Season One) V1

#1 is…Atsushi!

He’s the most normal out of all the characters, to be honest

When he sees you, it’s nothing spectacularity radiant, per se

There’s a pretty girl in his school! cool!

The strangest part is that it’s an all-boys school, so naturally, he’s confused

Through a series of plot shenanigans, you’re there as an exchange student

And he’s been told he has to help you get settled!!

He introduces you to the Earth Defense Club, and slowly you two grow acclimated with each other

While you’re friendly to everyone else, there’s something different between you and him

It’s chemistry, and even Ryuu wouldn’t dare poke it

One afternoon, someone asks you out via love letter, all the extra stuff

And you turn them down as politely as you can

But thanks to the indifference, the boy gets offended

He turns into a letter-shaped monster, and the Battle Lovers have to step in

Atsushi is both appalled and terrified

Did the monster hurt you??

Why did the monster appear around you?

Was it something to do with you?

He spends half of the battle just covering you

And once the monster starts spewing slander, Atsushi is having none of it.

Whatever the monster says, Atsushi refutes, defending you until the rest of the battle is at a standstill and he’s just bickering with the monster.

Eventually, Atsushi practically makes the monster choke on respect women juice, and on behalf of the passed out student, Atsushi begins apologising non-stop to you

You’re confused as hell

The internet-famous Battle Lovers know you??

All you can see is the blurred out faces, and the blue one, the self-declared Piercing Prince, Epinard, seems to be constantly hanging over you

And honestly

He’s a cutie

This results in a sailor moon-esque situation

Where you have a crush on Epinard, Atsushi has a crush on you, and he’s miserable upon realising what he’s done

Does he reveal that he’s Epinard???

Honestly, probably not on purpose

I can absolutely see them talking about it and he’s like ‘do i always have to yell out im Epindard’ and he turns and sees you

And you’re like ‘????? excuse me???’

Which results in more shenanigans

#2 is…Yumoto!

babey boye

He falls for the flirting every time

He reciprocates as best as he can, but for the most part, it’s just him being soft

He hugs you so much omfg

It gives Wombat a break, and though you don’t know he’s a talking wombat, he’s all for you being there

What’s interesting is that he’s telling everyone he’s gonna marry you

And since most of the ppl in the school are bros, no one’s told you

Which gets awkward

Because he’s 200% told you that he loves you

But you take it as ‘:D! I love platonic love between my Friends! :D!’

So it becomes a Situation that everyone gets second-hand embarrassment from

Yumoto has told his brother that he’s gonna marry you and you’d be the bathhouse’s Okami

But you’re thrown for a loop when Gora asks you when you and Yumoto started dating

And you’re like ‘??????’

This results in a brief but stern conversation between Gora and Yumoto

And Yumoto feels guilty, of course

But you’re so sweet! And you flirt with him!! Doesn’t that mean you like him??

It’s a bit of a wakeup call, but he’s still only got two brain cells

You gotta cut him some slack

For about a day, he chills out, though he’s melancholy

After that he’s back to being oblivious and sweet

#3 is…Kinshiro!

Did someone say ‘emotionally constipated teenager who’s in a rivalry with his childhood best friend for the girl they like but he has no idea how to approach her due to the fact stated above (he is emotionally constipated)’???

no????

Ok that’s valid

But you want a polyamorous relationship???

He and Atsushi are gonna be your best bet.

This boye is completely lost when it comes to wooing you

He thinks you’re graceful in a quiet sense

And while you’re a flirt and a meme lord, you’re also yourself

Ibushi notices almost off the bat

And he’s like ‘my guy, my dude...my cousin??? Fr???’

Kinshiro is crazy confused and embarrassed

He’s always considered himself to have tunnel vision

But then you pass by and he gets a whiff of your shampoo and

Oh no

he gets kinda lightheaded and blushy but wipes it away fast

Whenever you pop by to say hi to Ibushi he completely freezes

Like he just stops moving altogether

It’s something you, Ibushi, and Akoya have noticed

Y’all exchange glances every time he freezes while sipping tea

The MOMENT he realises you like Epinard he gets lowkey pissed

Do you seriously like that barbaric, stupid Battle Lover??

He’s like ‘I’m elite, graceful, rich. I’m the better choice :(‘

Make him drink just a bit of respect women juice

But he’ll be very, very soft for you

And after he finds out about Atsushi being Epinard and Atsushi likes you??

Well, it’s two birds with one stone

He’ll do his best to hint that he likes you, but Akoya and Ibushi have to help him along

Especially Ibushi, since he’s your cousin

Get ready for a flood of thoughtful but expensive gifts

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure V2

(Note: If you want a poly relationship, all three of these lads have convenient best friends...👀)

#1 is…Josuke!!

Mans is a himbo (refer to chat)

Sure he’s got like, one brain cell, but it’s dedicated to you!!

He’s a bit of a flirt, too, so be ready to fend off the fangirls

Since fangirls in the 90’s were chiller than ones in, say, the 80’s, they mostly respect that he’s got a girlfriend

But the moment one of them tries to hurt a hair on your head, it’s game over

Now

The thing about it is that you get shy

But your shy is looking scary as hell

So all they see is a glare that would make the devil run, and they bail

Josuke relates to your fear of bugs!!

He’s not fond of turtles, so you guys can have each other’s back!!

If you want to draw him something, he can and will frame it in the best frame he can convince Joseph to buy

Is it gold foil?? Maybe

Before y’all get together, he pines like no other

He’ll start frequenting places you go to just because he wants to see you

And he doesn’t think it’s creepy but gets worried that you will

But he thinks you’re incredible

It’s something makes him short circuit a bit

You: :)

Josuke: Now Playing: Beautiful Girl (Alternate Version) [Tempo Track] - Jimmie Thompson, Gene Kelly & Lennie Hayton (Singin’ In The Rain) (1952)

#2 is…Johnny!

Southern boye drank his respect women juice after he got shot

And once he sees you???

He CHUGS it

First off this is like the late 1880’s so anyone who bathes is probably stellar

So he, too, has the Joestar Blessing of having Beautiful Girl play on repeat

But as soon as you start flirting???

He’s GONE

I mean this in the most literal sense

He’s a good Christian boye (theoretically)

So once you talk about dating him he flushes bright red

He’s aware that you’re just flirting, but oh hmmm

He starts crushing fast

Plus if you don’t judge him or think he’s weaker for being in a wheelchair?

Give him a second he’s trying to find a ring

He might be in a wheelchair but he’s in no way inadequate, if you get what I mean 👀

(who am I kidding, of course you do)

Considering that memes weren’t much of the thing in the 1800’s if you find some, he probably wouldn’t understand them

But he does enjoy when you play the piano

But let’s say there’s a stand attack

And you just bust out knives???

instant boner

#3 is… Joseph!

Flirt, but times two

Y’all make anyone blush

No one’s safe

And with each other??

It can get foul, fast

Does Lisa Lisa step in??

No, not really

She’s not gonna interfere at Joseph’s chances of getting laid

Plus she approves so!!

Catch him trying to flex while you’re around

Be it him trying to beat Cesar’s ass (and failing) or literally flexing, he wants to impress you

And while he knows that you’re a flirt for the sake of being one, he also gets a bit nervous when you flirt with others

Especially if he hasn’t confessed, actually confessed, yet

Plus, he’s got a special arm 👀

Y’all know what’s up

@matchupdomain @peeshposheddie

#matchups #matchup #cute earth high defense club love x reader #jojo's bizarre adventure x reader

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myassbrokethefall · 7 years

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I've asked this to a few people before & even done some research online but I still can't find an answer. What exactly did Kumail do to make everyone hate him? I can't find the tweets or any quotes of his saying anything unlikeable. I'm extremely confused as to why people don't like him. I love Kumail!

This just got really, super long so I’m putting it under a cut, sigh. Below is basically every thought I have ever had about Kumail, although I didn’t intend that when I started.

Short answer to your question: As I recall, he pretty much joined in the “”””””teasing”””””” of shippers that 1013 thinks is hilarious and fun for all, and said something like “you THINK you want that, but you don’t really want it.” This is, y’know, patronizing and infuriating, and very gendered as the shipper-teasing always has been for the, y’know, 24 years that we have been subjected to it. And it was extra infuriating coming from someone who had been “one of us.” And then after fans responded negatively to that, he responded negatively back and got in a bunch of internet fights with fans about it, and when it was insinuated to him that condescending to shippers and telling them they didn’t really know what they wanted because they were sex-addled dumdums was offensive in a pretty gendered way, he got VERY defensive about that because he didn’t like being told he was being sexist and then it just got more hostile from there. I’m not on Twitter and didn’t directly witness any of this stuff, but that is my understanding.

That’s really all you need to read, but I typed all this other crap about the podcast and my feelings and how I feel it all unfolded so click the readmore if you care.

One reason I liked Kumail’s podcast so much was that I thought it hit the PERFECT note, at the perfect time, of unbridled affection for the show, and revisiting it in a way that had to do with nostalgia and love and all that, while also not making excuses for the less good things that it did. But while doing that, remaining good-natured about it in a very generous way. He seemed very aware of, not only the sexist/racist stuff that the show would do, but just the general plot holes or bad writing moments that it would have, and he and his guests would talk about it and kind of poke fun at it – but in a loving way. Like, we love this show, warts and all. But crucially: not in a way that you would watch, say, Gone with the Wind and be like, my GOD this is horrible, it’s from another time, we just have to discount everything it’s saying basically but boy you can enjoy this old-timey acting and this irrelevant time capsule of a story or whatever.

I don’t think he did this intentionally, or not entirely, but what Kumail did with his podcast for X-Files was, in essence, give a modern audience permission to love it in a modern way, to love it and not feel that they had to make excuses for loving it, despite its flaws. He basically was an ambassador from Current Times And Current Sensibilities that guided us through the show again. At least that’s how I felt about it. I would watch it and be like, this is so white-man-y, the synthesizer music, I love this show but it’s starting to feel dated. And something about that exact moment in time combined with Kumail’s cred as a fan and a personality (and yes, him being a POC didn’t hurt in that area either) just kind of renewed the show, I feel like for me and probably for other people as well. He helped make it cool again. His unabashed fanboy love for it, combined with his ability to good-naturedly acknowledge and lance, in a way, its bad parts just made me love it in a way I hadn’t in years. It felt like some time capsule around the show had been broken and it was living and breathing in our current world again. It felt like an acknowledgment that it was worthy of love, and not in an “aw, isn’t Grandpa adorable” way, but a vital, current, modern-day love; that it was still holding up as a real piece of art. He didn’t pretend it wasn’t 20 years old, but when he would say something like how great an effect still looked and how amazing the work on it was it didn’t feel condescending; it felt like he was embracing all aspects of it, its age included, with a respect that came naturally. It invited the show back into our everyday affections again, warts and all. And he did it a HUGE, HUGE favor, I think, in that way.

I’m probably not explaining it well. I never stopped loving the show and I don’t need the show to be popular or trendy to love it. But it hadn’t felt like a particularly relevant piece of culture for a long while, and it was kind of exhilarating to hear all these people talking about it and giving it such close attention, and putting it to the test almost, and it holding up. Most of the people on the show were fans but they weren’t, like, FANS. They hadn’t been posting on message boards about the show for years. They were regular-ish people and they were talking about the show in a serious, in-depth way that showed both how much they respected it and how much they genuinely adored it. I’m sure there were a ton of other factors, but it’s my belief that this gave a big boost to the “cred” of the show in a way that helped pave the way for the revival. The time became right to love X-Files again, not just for us faithful but for everyone, and I think part of that is just timing, but I think the podcast was a bit of a catalyst in moving that along.

And one of the things I liked about the podcast was that Kumail always loved the Mulder/Scully relationship. He didn’t talk about it that much, it wasn’t really his priority, but he would mention the sexual tension and whatever sometimes. He wasn’t one of those people who were like “ew, no, they’re like brother and sister!” or “that would ruin the show!” or “it’s not about them, it’s about the aliens!” or whatever. He never seemed like a person who would be like “come on, you don’t really want them together!” Sometimes he would even seem ever so slightly starry-eyed over it, in the good-natured way of someone who just likes everything about the thing he likes.

And then pretty much the one thing I objected to about how he was on the podcast (other than it being a sausage fest most of the time) was that he would agree, I felt, too easily with whatever people were saying, especially if he admired them (e.g. if they were from 1013). I would hear people say stuff that was not what he had said on previous podcasts and he would just kind of unthinkingly (it seemed) go along with it in a way that sometimes bugged me.

So, yeah. What it felt like to me was, he became buddies with Glen and Darin and all the folks and sort of jumped on that insider bandwagon, and went along with what they were saying in the way he tended to do, which, as we all know, is: the shippers don’t know what they want, the fans want the same thing they’ve always had, Chris knows best, the best thing about the show is the stories and the great writing and that’s always been the case, the people who have always made the show should continue to make the show because they know how to do it and what it needs and they understand it the best and outsiders wouldn’t know how to do it right, there have always been cliffhangers and nothing has ever been resolved and questions are never answered and that’s what people like and there’s no reason to ever do it differently because it’s always been successful in the past, the shippers are a “vocal minority,” and so on. It felt extra maddening when he would say stuff like that because, in my view at least, when he was on the podcast he was never like that. I always felt he loved Mulder and Scully and cared about their characters and enjoyed their interactions and was rooting for more of them, and also that he was pretty attuned to how the show worked and what was good and bad about how it operated, and he loved and forgave it but he never seemed to just handwave the dumb stuff. For me, whether he sat in his room daydreaming about Mulder and Scully boning was not the issue; he seemed to understand that the characters and their interaction were a major appeal of the show to many people and an important part of what made the show special, which to me feels like the biggest divide anyway.

I’m rambling, but it felt like he was this innocent third party who was unaware for the most part of the undercurrent of discontent in the fandom, not only having to do with MSR, but in general with all the “teasing” and the retconning and the “the audience says they want answers/resolution, but they really don’t, that’s how they like it, they love being tortured, no one is ever safe on The X-Files.” And it was like, he went into the circle almost as our representative in a way, and 1013 got hold of him and was like “so don’t listen to these people, they are whiny idiots” and instead of thinking critically about that or maybe having some understanding as to why people were frustrated, he just jumped straight to “got it! They are whiny idiots!” And we had been cheering him on and he was ONE OF US and it was like, he TURNED on us. That’s how it felt.

This is already way, way, WAY too long and I’m not going to harp on the whole thing of how the fans who have always loved the show the most and been most passionate about it and kept it alive and produced creative works about it and supported it the hardest have been the shippers and the people who were in it for the character stuff, and how the majority of those folks have been women, and how 1013 has never seemed to take the female portion of its audience particularly seriously and has always seemed to have a very love/hate relationship with the parts of its fandom that it doesn’t consider to be the “real” audience that’s watching the show the “right” way. But it felt, to me at least, that on his podcast Kumail was breaking down some of those old walls and was embracing the show in a way that felt more like how I had always loved it and less like the ‘90s neckbeards who were just in it for the conspiracy theories and the violence and would scoff at the shippers for not understanding the show. It felt like he was about the new way of watching the show in this current time in which the world has opened up more and things are more inclusive and more diverse and there are more voices and it’s no longer OK to just shut out a portion of your audience and make fun of them because they’re not you. And so, when it felt like he was just jumping right in with 1013 and going along with their inflammatory party line, it felt like a betrayal. I think that’s one reason folks got so angry. It was like, we were all on this journey with him, he GOT IT, he got why the show was so great but he was like, a modern person that we could trust, and then it was like, he turned around and said, not YOU, not YOU annoying types who have always said you wanted this SILLY thing that no one REALLY wants, YOU don’t get to come, I didn’t mean YOU. It felt like that.

And then, you have the other part of the story, which was: after becoming aware of who Kumail was, his podcast, how popular it was, after he came on set to do his role that Darin wrote for him and he was excited and starry-eyed, and he was this media personality that had all this cred (including, again, POC cred), of course they would be glad to have him on board as far as boosting the show and going to Comic Con and doing official stuff for the show and tweeting about the show, etc. And all the while they were doing that and happily accepting the younger, modern, more diverse audience that Kumail had helped bring to the show, they were writing Babylon. I mean, among other ways they fell short, but they wrote Babylon, and whether they knew that was offensive or not almost didn’t matter, because they didn’t CARE if it was offensive, or at least, not enough to check with anyone who would actually be able to give them a qualified answer on that, such as, for example, the hip young personality who was giving them a bunch of free promotion and cred that they were delighted to make the most of. So it was like, they were glad to have Kumail around while he was being a starry-eyed deferential fan, but it wasn’t like they actually got to know him, or know people like him, or see people of his background as human beings or the “real” audience any more than the shippers. So then he got the same treatment, in a way: he thought he was part of it all, they were happy to use him for ratings or whatever, but then at the last minute he got this very loud reminder that, they didn’t really mean YOU, not if you’re going to be like THAT, not THAT kind of person, not THAT part of the audience, not “special interests,” the REGULAR people and the NORMAL people who make up the REAL audience won’t care about this niche issue. So that has to have felt bad. And part of the reason I know it must have felt bad is that it felt bad when 1013, including Kumail, did it to me (in a completely different way of course) weeks before. (And before that, but the backlash to the breaking up of Mulder and Scully really brought on 1013′s “shippers are crazy” rhetoric in a way that hadn’t happened since pretty much before FTF, when they started monetizing it. Retro indeed.)

So it kind of sucks all around. Kumail said some shitty stuff to fans, and I also feel like 1013 really used him in a way. I pretty much feel crummy about the entire thing and every time I remember how excited we all were that Kumail was going to be in an episode, I wince. Not because I hate Kumail, because I don’t, but because the whole thing just went sour and it sucks, for us and for him.

That’s my way overcomplicated take on it. As I said, I’ve also known people who have had unpleasant encounters with Kumail online and in real life, and it sounds like he’s a little pugnacious and reactive in a way that I don’t like. So I can understand people not liking him, and that’s allowed. I still like him, even if some of my enthusiasm for him has dimmed.

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