#u can't have ur 'i really relate to josie having such shitty family so imma exaggerate that' cake

[pinkhysteria]

anything lizzie does we get bashed over the head with it repeatedly, it's spelled out as Terrible and Awful and Bad. anything josie does it gets brushed aside immediately. i simply think the writers need to find a balance

this, and even if they never plan on changing that, i just wish we were allowed to at least talk about the latter and its relation to lizzie as fans without Them flipping their shit and making it blow up into "fandom discourse."

whenever josie is in the doghouse fandom-wise some of these ppl start saying wild shit like “i literally burnt my sister's hair off and killed her childhood pet and broke her fingers one by one and put poison ivy in her salad and tried to slit her throat when we were thirteen it’s NOT that deep 🙄” like okay then why do you have posts up talking about how you feel sooo bad for poor poor abused josie and she deserves better family than lizzie?? if it's all just fun and games? answer that, babe!

like why do y’all get to understandably empathize with josie re: lizzie being selfish/oblivious at times but if lizzie stans ever feel bad for her with some of the things josie has done to her we have to listen to you painstakingly explain how it’s actually normal to tell ur sister people hate her cuz she’s mentally ill jdskjdsk

#like this is what i’m TALKING ABOUT JDSKJD #the only time u wanna start #‘codependency is a two way street’ing and ‘siblings have drama that’s normal’ing is when u wanna defend josie #when it’s LIZZIE it’s toxic and josie is being treated horribly and ‘awww i feel so bad’ #it’s always ‘being mentally ill doesn’t excuse all of lizzie’s behavior/actions’ WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE #but with josie it’s ‘well she’s insecure’ ‘well she doesn’t know how to speak up’ ‘well alaric’ like... ok. #that doesn’t work for me sorry! #u can't have ur 'i really relate to josie having such shitty family so imma exaggerate that' cake #and then pull a 'uwu they've both made mistake' when she fuck up too #tvdu op #💌.inbox #some stuff they do re: each other i definitely say 'oh therapy is needed!' on both sides - including lizzie #but the show takes small shit and blows it up w/lizzie and treats the 'small' stuff with josie... as small stuff #like i don't need josie to 'face consequences' for everything i just want them to r e l a x