#that comment made me so angry

[stromblessed]

Mizu was wrong to let Akemi be taken because they both deserve better

First, a confession. When I saw this for the first time:

I was relieved. I knew that was what Mizu was going to say and I felt like it's what I would have said in that situation too.

When Akemi does this:

I cringed, because if we know anything about Mizu, it's that she (1) isn't quick to make friends (though to be fair, even though Akemi did try to kill Mizu, so did Taigen - multiple times! - and look how that turned out lol), and (2) doesn't take orders.

So when Akemi and Ringo and later Taigen get angry at Mizu, are they being unfair?

Sure, Mizu isn't obligated to treat Akemi - or Taigen or Ringo or anybody else - nicely, or to serve them, or to be honorable, or be a hero to them, or whatever. No human being is obligated to any other human being. We all have the choice to do whatever we want to anybody else. But the point of flawed characters in storytelling is the tension between those characters and their potential. Their growth into someone who can choose the higher, harder path, who chooses to be obligated to others, who chooses kindness and compassion.

Because Mizu's problem isn't revenge. Nobody is preaching at Mizu that revenge isn't the answer. Her circumstances do suck, her life has been incredibly unfair, she is marginalized, and as far as we and Mizu know for most of the season, she is a child born of violence and no one is saying that that violence doesn't deserve to be repaid in kind.

Mizu's problem is isolation. And the fact that she thinks she has no responsibility toward her fellow human beings, because her hatred of her own circumstances and her having no life outside of her quest devours everything else. This is a problem because it turns Mizu into the worst version of herself. A version that hurts the people who like Mizu, the people who care about her.

Practically, Mizu has just taken on an entire army almost by herself. She's hurt. She's exhausted. If she were to defend Akemi now, it'd be yet ANOTHER fight, this time against horsed and armored samurai.

But that's not the reason Mizu gives Ringo. Mizu's ability or willingness to fight isn't even on her mind. All she says is, "She's better off."

"She's better off" is Mizu deciding what's best for Akemi. Akemi's entire story is about her being a caged bird longing to fly free.

One after the other, every man and woman in Akemi's life makes her decisions for her. She has to grovel and smile prettily and lie through her teeth just for the chance to be heard. Mizu judges Akemi for being a rich princess who isn't being more grateful for what she has, all without understanding Akemi's situation, and without any curiosity for why Akemi feels the way she does. From Akemi's perspective, Mizu is just one more person (one more man!) in a long lineup who ignores Akemi's wishes and (casually!) makes a decision for her that impacts Akemi's life greatly.

In the end, even Seki concludes that Akemi should get to decide what's best for Akemi. What others think that Akemi SHOULD want does not matter compared to what Akemi wants for her own life. As Madame Kaji said - Madame Kaji, who despite calling out the weirdness of Akemi's situation as well as the childishness of her decision to run away - is the only person Akemi meets who doesn't try to make decisions for Akemi, but instead only challenges Akemi to work for and be worthy of what she wants - she needs to decide what she wants for her own fucking self, and then take it.

Mizu being born female does not make her automatically wiser for letting Akemi be taken, and it does not preclude her from having a hand in giving Akemi back to her jailers. A patriarchy that Mizu knows full well would stop Mizu from achieving her own goals if she didn't present as male.

Mizu is still understandable here. She just had to kill Kinuyo, a disabled girl sold by her father into prostitution, a girl in a situation so far beyond Akemi's worst imaginings that I can practically feel Mizu's world being rocked just by comparing them in her mind the way she most likely is. That still doesn't make it right for Mizu to let Akemi be carried off to be sold into marriage by her father against her wishes. Those "good options" Mizu thinks Akemi has don't exist, no more than they ever existed for Mizu. Akemi and Mizu both have to get creative, make the best of their circumstances, take dangerous risks, and break rules in order to have any control over their own lives.

Even on my first watch, when at first I thought that Mizu had made the right decision and that Akemi was being unreasonable, Akemi screaming Mizu's name while being dragged, LITERALLY DRAGGED, back to her father was haunting as hell.

Mizu had the power to help Akemi, and simply chose not to.

Mizu lets Akemi be taken, Akemi who has just begun to trust Mizu. Mizu calls Ringo weak and quickly - seemingly easily - turns her back on him. Mizu values her quest over Taigen's life, after Taigen has endured days of torture to protect her, and she not only risks his life in the process, but doesn't tell him that Akemi is engaged to someone else, or that she came looking for Taigen, or that she is in danger.

Mizu's sword breaks because it is too brittle. Too pure. Too singleminded. Mizu only melts down the meteorite metal when she mixes the metal with objects from parts of her life that have nothing to do with her quest. Objects from the people she cares about, and who care about her.

All I'm saying is - Mizu doesn't have to be a hero. But she is the better version of herself when she reaches out to help and connect with others. When she's just a decent, kinder human being. And I think that's what this story is telling us that we should want for Mizu.

#blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #bes #I have so many more thoughts about Mizus tangential relationship to honor and heroism but that is for another post #also reviewing these scenes made me realize that when Mizu calls Ringo weak she LOOKS POINTEDLY AT HIS (LACK OF) HANDS #she legit calls him weak for his disability after EVERYTHING THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH #like Ringo was def disappointed that his master chose not to behave like the (nonexistent) samurai ideal #but what made him ANGRY was the weakness comment and I did not clock that before #also to be explored more in another post #a third thing to explore in another post is how both mizu and taigen have wronged akemi on the basis of Edo period society being A Society #though Mizu starts to correct her own mistake by going back for Akemi - its Taigen whos on thin ice lolol

[peachssodapop]

Every day I live in fear they will make a Zelda movie and they will have Link talk and I will hate it and Never be able to complain about it because know it all jack asses will act like they know more about Zelda than me and tell me there was no way they could make a big movie like that where the main character can‘t talk

#sorry I saw a reddit thread with the same loz movie rumor thats been circling for years on end #and then i saw some comments that made me angry #Links lack of speech is incredibly important to me #and it makes me so mad when people try to just brush it away completely

[starwarjotta]

there’s a special place in hell for people who take the time and go through the effort of leaving negative comments on fanfics, like-- what is wrong with you, what is LEGITIMATELY wrong with you? I’m so angry and so devastated on behalf of everyone who has been harrassed like this and who is going through something like this right now. There’s no excuse for shitty behavior - if you intentionally leave a hurtful comment on something someone created and put out there for other people’s enjoyement, for free, after spending probably HOURS if not WEEKS or MONTHS or longer on it, you’re an incredibly shitty, disgusting, miserable waste of space of a person be better

#this is just unbelievable behavior #I cannot imagine what kind of a person uses their time and energy to spread negativity when they could be doing something good instead #like why I seriously don't get it #it is so horrible and so heartbreaking and makes me so so damn angry that people are bullied like this to the point that they stop doing #what they clearly have enjoyed doing until this point #it's so wrong and people who cause this - you are the worst kind of person #but be better is also aimed at myself because I've slacked on spreading the love myself by commenting on the fics I love #like pretty much every single codywan piece Glimmer ever wrote #I always tell myself “I'll do it later when I'm not busy with schoolwork etc” but later might be months later or it might be too late #so I'll do better myself and I'll start commenting more even if it's just a short quick note its better than not gettin around to it at all #because fanfic authors deserve all the love in the world #fanfics have made my life infinitely better and the authors need to know how much they've affected my life #and how much their fics mean to me #so I'll do better as well #text post #star wars #codywan #YES I'll tag those because it is relevant

[saintjosie]

kink dynamics are not the same as top/bottom dynamics and kink dynamics MUST be enthusiastically consensual. otherwise you’re not participating in kink, you are being abusive.

additionally, in the real world, clearly defined top/bottom dynamics are rarely ever discrete and rarely ever explicitly discussed. queer flirting in the wild often looks like two (or sometimes more) people interacting and feeling out what kind of connection there is and figuring things out as you go with communication and consent.

internet tenderqueers need to shut the fuck up, listen, and go touch some grass before they open their mouths and show their whole ass online.

#someone in my tiktok comments made me angry so i’m gonna rant for a second #this also goes for tenderqueers who won’t shut the fuck up about it/its and other neopronouns #also for those who won’t shut up about bi/pan lesbians #josie rants

[journalofimprobablethings]

As the West and the US in particular keeps leaning on the whole "Israel has the right to defend itself" argument I keep wanting to ask them,

at what point do Palestinians get the right to defend themselves?

And of course the unspoken answer is never. No amount of Palestinian suffering will ever be enough for the West to see their fighting back as anything other than "terrorism".

The logic seems to be that even one dead Israeli is justification for whatever horrors the Israeli government feels like visiting on Palestinians, and that no matter how much the Israeli government does to them, how many innocents are killed, no Palestinian violence in response is ever justified.

At least 30,000 Gazans have been killed in five months (almost certainly a horrific undercount, as it does not include those under the rubble or those who have been killed by starvation or disease or cold). Civilians are routinely detained, stripped, humiliated, tortured. There is evidence that sexual assault of Palestinians, women and men both, by Israeli forces is a regular occurrence. 2 million people have been forcibly displaced, their homes destroyed, and are being systematically starved. And yet if any one of those people dares to have a violent response, to try to fight back against their deliberate annihilation, they will be called a terrorist.

Kids throwing stones at tanks are called terrorists. Or their deaths are justified because "well they just would have grown up to be a terrorist."

Armored soldiers shooting unarmed, starving people who are desperately trying to get food for themselves and their families are "defending themselves".

The double standard is so obvious and yet people are still trying to "both-sides" the matter as if there is anything resembling equal footing here.

#israel #palestine #gaza #free palestine #this is obviously not news to anyone in the palestinian struggle #but biden's comments to congress today telling them they need to send more money to israel to 'defend itself' #right after the flour massacre that happened yesterday #just made me so fucking angry

[neofelis----nebulosa]

Po and Tigress's relationship is so funny because they're written like a queerbait couple but like. its a male character and a female character. like theres some stuff that is obviously written in a way that can be interpreted as romantic but like the movie never actually backs it up with any further development of a romance between the two. there's always that plausible deniability so they dont actually have to follow up on it.

#like dreamworks i promise if you make it canon angry parents wont boycott your movie #like yeah ik theyre different species but dreamworks literally made a romance between a human and a bee #two species in the same order is not off the table for them #anyways i actually appreciate the way its written with plausible deniability bc that way i can ignore it bc i want tigress to be a lesbian #bc i am and i relate to her #and i like to project on her #so like dreamworks pls dont give her any male love interests i will cry #and yall please do not comment about times in any of the tv series that their feelings were confirmed/semi confirmed bc i disregard all... #...the shows as non canon for my own sanity #ive seen a little bit of them but they make me so irrationally angry that i avoid them #ive gone into it more in previous posts #my personal hc is that po is genuinely attracted to her but knows he has no chance and never tries to initiate anything

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I really want Christmas season to feel like Christmas season again this year. it hasn't for a couple years, I've kinda breezed right through it, but I want to try and focus on it this year.

#and if that person who's like 'holidays don't feel special when you're an adult #because you're supposed to have kids to watch experience the wonder of it all but instead you just have a dog and a sad void'' #shows up on this post I swear to God I'm blocking them #that post made me so angry? like what the heck man I #I am single and happy. I don't have a dog and a sad void I have a dog and am full of joy #and I can be intentional about enjoying a season whether or not I have kids (which I never want to btw)??? #I know that post is kinda old and some of you probably know the person who made that comment #nothing against them tbh it was just phrased really confrontationally and kinda frustrated me #there's not only one right way to live a life.... if I don't ever have kids I can still enjoy holidays as an adult??? hello?? #ok sorry hater moment over I'm gonna be joyful now #Lu rambles

[hailsatanacab]

I just don't understand people who feel the need to leave negative comments on fics?? You don't like the characterisation? You don't like the way things are going? You're not a fan??

That's fine! That's absolutely fine!! We all have different tastes, I get that!!

But why post a comment about it though??

Why would you say this?????? What makes you think that's okay???????

#cetbwa #fanfic #obviously theyre not happy with the way the fic went and thats fine #im working hard on accepting that people arent always going to like what i create and thats fine!! #the worst of it is like it's not even a terrible comment???? #people are allowed their opinions #BUT!!!! why post that??? #and that kind of language too???? like jfc #i think thats what annoyed me the most out of it tbh #idk man ive had worse comments that are far more critical about my actual writing #and the MAJORITY of comments are positive and i love all of them i really do #but i think just the language of this one fucked me off the most #why did you use a slur?? what in the world makes you think thats okay?? #made me so angry #anyway sorry I'll stop complaining now #im not looking for sympathy or w/e literally just complaining #the fucking audacity #if you dont like it you dont like it!!! thats fine!!!! but dont disparage my boy danny like that jfc #r slur

[doctahchang]

i find it so funny that terra firma p.2 essentially goes like this:

mirror!georgiou being held at gunpoint by mirror!michael: okay but what if i tried gentle parenting. you can still make a choice. we can sort things out

mirror!michael: WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU???

#also mirror!georgiou: proceeds to kill micheal after she told her that it was all her fault #like i know that they wanted to frame it as if georgiou kills her while protecting herself #but i just don't see it this way. she immediately got angry at the “you made me” comment #and instantly reached for her sword #oh i have so much to say about these episodes actually #like. georgiou's understanding of “making things better” still included putting her daughter into a damn agoniser #the way mirror!michael went ??? at georgiou trying to be gentle with her is so sad #what the fuck did she make this girl go through #star trek discovery #philippa georgiou #mirror michael burnham #michael burnham

[skunkg1rll]

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#ughhh someone pointed out the atrocity in my face. i hate thatfeature of me so bad #and now i cant stop thinking about it and i hate myself and my face and i got bad feelings #because throughout my entire life i've been so bullied for it #i feel so ugly ugh!!!!!! i am ugly i wanna cry who could ever love me when i look like this skksksks #the worst abt having a face deformity is that it is on your FACE!!!!! i cant hide it #it's out there for everyone to see #and i cant remove it. i can get plastic surgery etc but i cant afford that at all now. maybe when i have a job :((( #and it really is so big in my brain. i notice it constantly #i cant look at other ppl without checking their chins to see if it's smooth or not #and most ppl have normal chins. pretty much everyone has a normal chin!!!! #i wish i was normal too. i hate looking like this i hate it so bad #it is so unfair that i gotta be stuck w this ugly fkn feature but everyone else gets to look normal #so unfair so unfair it makes me so angry #why did i get the worst genes ever i cant stand having to live my life being this grotesquely ugly #anyway.... i try to suppress it nd not think abt it but earlier today someone made a comment abt it #nd now i just wnna cry because it is soooooooo ugly and i hate it #besides yeah it made me rmbr my school years bc ppl were sofkn mean to me abt it #like im sorry i know im ugly wtf do u want me to do?!?!

[shima-draws]

Idk if this is the right place to say this but I hate how watcher (the social media at least) tries to associate their stuff with Taylor swift. I genuinely cringe every time 😭

I mean to be fair all the fans started doing that first. When they announced Puppet History s6 would release today ALL the fans kept commenting on the post about how today was also the day Taylor Swift was releasing smth. So at this point they're just capitalizing on it lol I mean I would too honestly

#Reading the comments of the s6 announcement post and it was ALL T Swift stuff. THAT made me angry #So yeah no wonder they're taking that and running with it. If people are gonna bring up T Swift ANYWAY #Shima answers questions #POV you're releasing another season of your passion project but people won't stop bringing up a White Girl's album #I'D BE PISSED. I'd say you know what YEAH I WILL use this to my advantage. Out of spite #Idk if this is what really happened but. I'm going to assume. #Don't @ me. LOL

[hella1975]

can i say i love what you did with sokka like. so many hakoda adopts zuko fics just straight up ignore him or make his character all goofy but you rlly went into how he was feeling and it felt realistic. bc if i was him, i would be jealous of zuko too especially if i had it in my head that my dad abandoned me and then just picked up some other kid who I thought was better than me. he rlly was just a mess of emotions- did i know what he was gonna do ever?? no. couldn't tell whether he was gonna keep ignoring hakoda, cry, or just explode at him, and i think that unpredictableness rlly fits w him and the whole Teenage Boy Emotions he's got going on as well (bc im just saying he switched up from on zuko SO drastically like he went from hating him to crushing hard and if that just isn't teenage hormones and angst)

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS I WANT TO KISS YOU like one of the few times ive had genuine rebuttal from taob by enough people that it's like A Thing (like literally only a handful but im a very insecure writer so it doesn't take much LMAO) is when hakoda sat sokka down and - god forbid - pointed out that the love he had for his actual son was different and incomparible to any love he might have grown for some stray FIRE NATION (<- feel like some people forgot the relevance that still has) kid. and like i had some people calling sokka 'annoying' or 'mean' or 'unfair' for his reactions but like?? im trying to write him as a real person here and i promise u most people in his scenario would've kicked off WAY more than he ever did lmao

#im very defensive of taob sokka he's my baby #AND taob hakoda actually like the 'zuko is an awkward turtleduck' nation are coming at me with spears at any given moment #also the comment at the end about sokka switching up the moment shit was resolved with zuko YES #like the way im writing taob zukka is that sokka - being the one most mentally uh... present of the two - is much more aware of shit #like he thought zuko was attractive in TBR and was SO quick to be like 'hey maybe we could be friends we work so well together!' #and when zuko threw that back in his face (as sokka saw it) it made him angry but he was even angrier BECAUSE hed liked zuko #so now that anger is gone we're just right back where we started except with the addition of sokka getting to know zuko #and observing him and realising he's actually a decent interesting guy #and zuko's over in the corner meanwhile being Tormented lmao. he'll get there eventually #but this is absolutely a 'sokka figures out he's crushing almost immediately and goes into crisis strategy mode #while zuko takes fucking FOREVER to realise until he's basically in love with the guy and it's right in front of him' kind of zukka fic #we love two pining idiots where only one realises that what he's feeling is pining <3 #ask #taob asks

[chaosandwolves]

I'm honestly so disappointed that she gets to return to the show, especially by being a partner to one of the most beloved characters

I won't be able to disconnect Marisol from her and her transphobic bs

I really am so tired of things like this

This show has such a large queer fanbase and it just pisses me off

This show is my safe haven I don't want a fucking transphobe on it

#I know this might be stupid #But the fact that she sticks around absolutely dampened my excitement #And it makes me angry #And she's acting like an innocent uwu girl #I just don't want people like this on my show #I hope ppl keep commenting on it so ABC will notice #Not much for cancelling ppl but she never made an effort to set it right #Fuck her #I hope the Marisol thing will crash and burn #911 abc

[mummer]

Asoiaf violence bad or Barry violence bad?

hmm this is an interesting question actually!! i dont think their views on violence are in conflict really— both view violence as deeply systemic and the structural foundation of their respective worlds, both take a lot of care to explore misogynistic violence and the gendered nature of abuse, both link the construct of masculinity with war/violence and i’d call both at least somewhat anti-war works. barry is ofc doing different stuff though because so much of it is about modern media culture and how we consume violence as viewers, which asoiaf obviously cant do. asoiaf does have more of an interest in “righteous” violence too, even though 99% of it is complicated and challenged by the narrative. you couldnt do something like no chance no choice in barry, it’s way too cynical. barry is so focused and pared down (sometimes to its detriment) and asoiaf is so massively expansive that it’s hard to make a comparison. asoiaf is a big huge conversation with ten million people talking over each other, asking huge and fairly general questions with no answers. barry is one declarative sentence over and over again. barry feels like the same vibe as quentyn’s chapters, probably the most nihilistic grrm gets. good thing i love quentyn’s chapters QUENT SWEEP. anyway theyre both great. cant choose. i love that people call asoiaf grimdark it literally looks like a disney fairy tale compared to prestige tv

#tell me your favorite Violence Bad media in the comments below. #asoiaf #barry #im so violence bad pilled it’s unreal #buuut i dont think anything in that vein has affected me the same way sam’s chapters have because they are so #hopeful in presenting a way to live without violence in a world made of blood #barry is an angry angry knife of a show asoiaf is holding my hand thru the pain #you need both maybe

[prussianmemes]

exposure to ukrainian anti-communist groups really is not healthy for the mind or soul

#these are some of the most virulent #angry #petty #chauvinistic #virulently rude #people imaginable #i made the mistake of looking at who was behind the complaining in kamenskoye despite the people's wishes there #went to the main page of #Декомунізація. Україна. #the sheer frequency of their posts #all those fresh pictures of cultural destruction #the contents of their messages and in the comments #these are seriously angry and awful people #i hate what this war has done to societal attitudes #i hate the orcish behavior its been encouraging all around #there's so much anger #so much needless anger #and so much hate #such passionate hate like you've never seen before #it gives me such a headache thinking about it all #and how many people share these attitudes #so much anger #then this is multiplied by awful attitudes from some russians as well #it's all around so miserable and depressing #txt

[wllbyers]

I saw one specific critique about ttpd that rubbed me the wrong way, and it was that "taylor has gotten too comfortable in her fame so she's not even trying to change her sound that's why the album is so shitty"

first of all, artists don't have to change their sounds each fucking album. yes, she's been specifically doing that but only because she's wanted to play around with her sound.

second of all, tell me you only see her as a product without telling me you only see her as a product. I don't really care to pay attention to her love life, that's not why i like her music, but you have some fucking gal thinking she owes you anything at all. this album was very clearly about losing someone after a long term relationship and how the breakdown of it all affected her mentally

she's allowed to write songs that help process a difficult moment in her life. she's allowed to be sad and she's allowed to say it.

third of all, not everything under the sun is going to be for or about you and that is okay.

parasocial relationships are getting so terrifying that you're forgetting that these people you claim to love and be a fan of are actual human beings

#dani.txt #ttpd #taylor swift #don't make me defend her online #but that comment just made me so angry like the fucking audacity