You fall for the character, become obsessed with them to the point where you think that they're the only fictional character you've ever loved, like if they were real, you'd marry them in a heart beat

Then you fall for a new fictional character while still being obsessed with the current one, it feels like an affair, but you accidentally became too obsessed with the new one, so you start to ignore the current one slowly, until you completely ignore them, and start to focus on the new one, falling for them now, it's like divorce and remarriage

The cycle continues until you have at least 10 fictional characters

Then you remember your previous fictional crush that you were obsessed with 2 years ago, and then you fall for them again, and become obsessed with them like you used to, it's like falling in love and marrying your ex-spouse again

And then you break-up

1. MM when he was brought into the boys, his whole schtick is that he was going after soldier boy for killing his family. suddenly MM only cares about homelander and ending him, all his motivation towards soldier boy is gone. he also is getting no closure for that. and his recovery with his ocd was off camera.

2. sage isn't the smartest woman on the planet, she's the smartest human. she is the smartest person alive. and yet? she's been soooo stupid this entire season in a way that really hasn't made sense. she's not acting as intelligent as she has always been in previous seasons. she was doing a lot better of manipulating things in the background in previous seasons but of course they build towards this? feels obtuse

3. soldier boy was previously in love with crimson countess. that was stated in season 3. his attachment with stormfront/liberty/clara vought was one that uh.. was a sexual nature. fwb/situationship was more like it. but for some reason, the "love" they shared for "decades" is now retconning the situation. stormfront is a nazi. soldier boy this entire season has been front and center because of the prequel show we are getting that stars who? him and the nazi. what show got cancelled? gen v. which starred multiple poc. i understand why it got cancelled but a nazi show is being made and this whole season has centered around a nazi haunting the narrative. it's insane.

4. like i said, they cancelled gen v. that shit pisses me off soo much.

5. marie moreau, who is literally so powerful she brought people back from the dead. marie moreau who literally spent two seasons mastering her power and was more powerful than homelander? that marie moreau? you're telling me THAT marie moreau suddenly gets screen time on the 7th episode of the show that's about to end and we are told she can't control her powers? the marie moreau that we had two seasons of her learning how to do so and reached god level status? you had to retcon that so she couldn't kill homelander. wow.

6. a-train. reggie. he dies? are you kidding me?? maeve got to live a life off screen safely. but a-train has to die on screen after finally fully redeeming himself. and he dies in the beginning of the season. give me a break.

7. the deep killed the new noir??? what kind of sense does that make? did they forget the new noir can fucking fly? why didn't he just fly a little bit while he was being choked and slam the deep against the ceiling?? he could have easily beaten him. what the actual fuck was that? what kind of stupid ending was that??? why did he turn his back on him at all while talking shit? he couldn't have miscalculated how stupid the deep is

Which is why this entire character rewrite for Vought Rising annoys the absolute fuck out of me. Especially combined with the fact that they’ve basically turned the final season of The Boys into one giant promo campaign for the prequel while pushing the actual main cast to the side in favour of random characters nobody gives a shit about yet.

This season should have been about Butcher and Homelander. It should have given us more Starlight as an actual political and social leader. It should have treated Kimiko with basic dignity instead of giving her some of the worst dialogue imaginable. It should have properly dealt with the Butcher/Ryan conflict and the Homelander/Ryan conflict. It should have focused on the emotional and narrative threads the show has been building for years. Instead what do we get? A-Train killed off immediately so he stops taking screentime away from Soldier Boy. Half-hour-long Supernatural references that add basically nothing and could have been spent developing literally any other storyline people actually care about. Random people walking in and out of scenes because they’ll apparently matter in Vought Rising as if I’m supposed to care about this prequel. Eighty fucking mentions of Clara Vought per episode to the point it becomes genuinely unbearable. Meanwhile Ashley and Sage show up for two seconds an episode just to say some nonsense and disappear again, The Deep’s entire script consists of saying “bro” fifty times, bye bye Black Noir, and all of this for what exactly? So we can completely rewrite Soldier Boy and pretend season 3 never established him as an abusive narcissistic asshole? So we can humanize fucking Stormfront of all people even though she was insufferable from the start?

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

-I was checking in two girls and knew something was off and asked to see both their ID’s. Only one had a passport and her 18th birthday was literally a week ago. The other one handed me her high school student card. We had to call the police when their pimp came in and started making threats bc we refused to check them in.

-a sex worker checked in the night before and a housekeeper went into the room the next morning and found the woman in a bloody mess. There were chunks of human tissue scattered throughout the room (the housekeeper quit after that. Honestly, housekeepers are literally on the front lines of the bullshit but that’s another story)

-something about a “couple” was offfffffff at check in. The woman was standing with her hands behind her back, had her eyes glued to the floor, and wouldn’t answer questions despite her name being on the reservation. The man was answering for her. When I asked to see her ID, he hands it to me, and when I handed it to her, her arms were covered in bruises. We didn’t let them check in

-there are two properties and one of them has an agreement with a women’s shelter. I’ve checked in women into one property only to see them come in months later to the other property under the womens shelters’ reservation with bruises and broken limbs (many of whom are indigenous women).