I honestly hate hate hate it when people measure Jason's power/combat skills based on his death.
Like in power rankings they put him so low by saying "nah hes basically powerless cuz he got killed with a silly spear" like NO. you literally missed the whole point of his death then. Jason would've died regardless of how strong he is. Because the fates had already sealed his destiny. You can never escape a prophecy, and the burning maze prophecy said that either Jason or Piper would die.
So Jason had CHOSEN to die instead of Piper. Jason told apollo and Piper to escape without him because he knew he would die and he didn't want either of them to stay there and watch in danger. That's why there's a line that apollo said right before jason was killed. "Jason's expression told me his plan with perfect clarity"
Jason 👏 died 👏 willingly👏 that's 👏 why 👏 it's such 👏 a tragedy 👏 bc 👏 a 👏 powerful 👏 son 👏 of 👏 Jupiter 👏 died 👏 so 👏 it 👏 was 👏 unexpected 👏 and 👏 sad 👏
So y'all shading him for being "weak" is just peak tone deafness when the boy basically committed suicide via planned murder simply to save lives apart from his own. Istg if I see one more jason slander in 2024 I'm gonna-
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bro why are so many ppl writing taboo incest fics in the damn leon tag 😭 you niggas are genuinely WEIRD idc. take ts to your therapist or sum cause yall definitely need one...
like why are y'all weird, why can't we just come on here and be silly🙎🏽♀️ like now i gotta wish DEATH on yew.
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Please do know that, EVEN if the actor/actress/idk who plays Nico does a good job in the show, there would always be someone out there displeased with it.
The kid might get a fanclub whatsoever but they would never be safe either. A fandom's expectancy is not st a kid can shoulder, let alone a toxic one.
There's no good outcome in this. Just less bad and bad and worse.
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Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).
And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.
IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.
So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.
Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....
There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).
It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.
I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.
At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care
TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence
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A lotta folks were mad at Cody for "stealing Jey's shine," and I said nothing. I let yall be loud and wrong in peace. But now I'm really curious as to how that even made sense to yall??? Cody Rhodes has never and could never need Jey Uso to get over. Maybe if you're a die-hard Jey Uso fan, then yeah, he probably had to win you over. But the audience, the iwc? Indie fans??? Yeah there was not a single thing that Jey Uso did, for the brief moment he was paired with Cody Rhdoes, to make Cody seem any cooler than he already was and Jey damn sure didn't lend him more star power than Cody already had.
It was most definitely the other way around because Jey has practically no experience as a singles wrestler. He has no character. He has no story (of his own. Who is he post-Bloodline???). Naturally, you pair him with the top babyface in all of wrestling right now to help ease him into being on his own since he has been a tag wrestler his entire career. I will not mention that the first attempt to pair him off initially started with Sami Zayn. But Jey has done little to prove himself as a singles wrestler. He's done the bare minimum to prove why he should be in the main event scene. His matches drag on, his style of wrestling isn't very impressive or something we havent seen before, and his wins are hardly believable or noteworthy (his matches against Roman notwithstanding ofc, those were epic). I've seen fans mad at Cody for how beloved he is when it is clear that people haven't taken a moment to approach his character or career with any kind of genuine respect or attention because one glance at his resume would let you know that while he may not have always been The Guy™️, he was always The One™️ and very rarely disliked througout his career. Cody is not where he is by accident. it's by design. So, to accuse Cody of capitalizing on Jey's surge in popularity is laughable at best and truly perplexing at the most as Cody outshines and outworks him by miles. No shade. All tea.
This isn't really that big of a critique of Jey as it may seem, I mainly just find find him to be indistinguishable as a wrestler and entertainer on his own, I think he has so much more to offer but I'm truly not sure how much longer I'm gonna stay around to find out.
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