i used to be so much angrier about hotd in the sense that it was such a waste of potential, but now all i feel is just bereft. this show could have been fine, not even good, just fine. but season 2 took the barest crumbs of potential to the silliest most boring most self contradictory possible direction for every single character. it goes far beyond the lack of a final battle. there is absolutely no redemption for this show, no sense to be made out of the mess, no theories to discuss, no interesting character work to debate, no new outfits or haircuts or worldbuilding. and all they can do to promote the show is repeat tired ass lines about a "morally gray" war that they've been parroting since season 1, because every time an actor speaks on their own character they contradict something in the show or something their showrunner or co-star has previously said

"go to hell." basic. weaksauce shit. "i hope that character you really like gets an uber-popular yaoi ship and you have to watch in real time as they get sanded down into a toothless, barely-recognizable version of themself that's become little more than a vessel for bland tropes and OOC fluff, and that's just the permanent fandom consensus view of that character now." now THAT'S a threat. that cuts right to the bone. that's real. that's happening to me as we speak.

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

it’s a great time to be a hater, many things are bad and lots of stuff sucks. it’s also a terrible time to be a hater, because many people will insist that you have to like the bad thing because a company spent millions of dollars making it and it’s just not very nice to say it’s bad

hating is ultimately a philosophy of optimism. the knowledge that things could be better, and the desire to see them improve, differentiates it from the pessimism of idle consumption.

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in