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Genuine question. How do people watch thai gl's? And I mean this with all due respect, but I cannot even watch half an episode. And maybe I just watch the wrong ones but I tried a really famous one and one that really appealed to me. But I cannot stand the sound effects, the animations, the type of acting or the random introduction of characters with a whole song and choreo.
I don't get if that's just what they're like and everyone's fine with it or if I truly watch the wrong ones.
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One thing that is honestly so frustrating to me as a fan is constantly having my views and opinions being ridiculed either directly in my comments or indirectly by people sharing their own opinions or responding to people with similar opinions as mine. Especially when you're proven over and over to be right. For example Claudia, I said in an earlier post that Louis and Lestat didn't give a fuck about Claudia and said and I quote 'they care for Claudia in the sense of wanting her happy and alive but don't do anything to achieve that.' Cause you can't say you love Claudia and imply you'd do anything for her while always treating her like some second priority thrift shop doll. And although I like many don't agree with some of the word choices and writing of the Claudia rant in ep 6 it does fully confirm to me that I was right. And again except for the racial remarks I am so satisfied that Louis and some of the fans got to hear that.
And just to emphasise it since I'm shitting on Louis right now. Lestat wasn't better. Louis was constantly enabling the abuse Claudia received. Being responsible for her suffering during the fire, the turning, the abuse under Lestat, the abuse and control from Armand and eventually her final death. So obviously the main focus is on Louis in terms of Claudia but considering some of the edits I've seen. Y'all need to drill it in your head that Lestat fucking SUCKS. He was never a good father to her, and did not care (enough) despite how much he might say it. And the closure at the end was just those two being per usual fucking selfish. That closure was them wanting feel good about their actions and life while fucking up Claudia's, they never deserved closure.
Edit: Since some people can't fucking read I litteraly state that they cared about her and sure they loved her. I'm just saying love isn't worth shit when you treat someone like that, they also loved her as a doll not a person. Their selfishness ALWAYS came before her. Sure the beginning was nice but as someone else said as well the novelty wears off and of course Claudia started growing up and resisiting after finding out the truth of the relationship. And when I said 'he did not care' of course he cared a little just not nearly enough, that's what I've been saying wanting her alive and happy but doing nothing to achieve it.
Anyone else really struggle with the sympathy towards Lestat? Like I understand he's a victim, I understand he's not entirely well and I can see the grooming situation and bpd allegations. But at the same time he makes it so hard for me to feel bad about it all. First of the biggest problem, the way he talks about the incest. I get that victims who are so used to the abuse tend justify the abuse and act like it's not as bad as it truly was. Think about Louis for example during the interviews, he talked quite positive about Lestat and treated the bad things like small mistakes or small problems. But with Lestat there's this extra level to it, he talks about the incest the way most people wouldn't even talk about a normal partner, and sure maybe that's the vampire side of him but it makes it so much harder to stomach. And idk if maybe the flashbacks showing the process of the grooming felt a little too rushed for me to truly build up the sympathy in my head or whether it's something else, but I just can't with it all.
The bpd allegations as well, I can see what people mean, but he hurts people too much for me to care. I get that people with bpd have very strong attachments to people and that losing those people especially as a vampire can feel extreme. But at the same time he doesn't seem to care, want to better himself or anything. He just goes to extremes to keep people close and then act like all of it was justified cause they wanted to leave him. Not mention all the things he does that lead to people wanting to leave.
Something that people need to understand is that lack of empathy/sympathy does not make you a bad person, the way you react to things does. For example people with aspd often get a lot of hate thrown at them for not feeling bad about certain situations while they make it loud and clear that they have aspd and therefore have sympathy problems.
Me included, I don't have aspd, but I have a problem with my emotions where I basically only feel a really small amount of emotions most of the time and for the most part just feel numb. This has highly affected my sympathy and I just cannot care. I can still recognise that it is mean to do things and that someone feels sad, but I don't care. I do care enough to the point I cannot hurt people on purpose, because that makes me feel too guilty. But if you tell me your pet died, I don't care, I don't feel bad there is only this logical part of my brain that tells me how to react sympathetically and that they feel sad. And here's my point, I don't hurt anyone by doing this. And especially if I'm clear about this issue it doesn't hurt anyone and people are prepared.
Same thing with humanitarian crisises, I care in the sense that I know it's horrible and deserves justice, but thinking about the people affected I don't feel the actual sympathy. Again just my logical response of, this is bad, they need help, I need to do something. But the way people will jump you for not feeling bad and being honest about it is insane. And the people expierencing this cannot do anything about it.
And about the reacting thing. How you react to things does define whether you're a good or bad person, at least in that moment. But I will say if the lack of empathy does affect your ability to respond in an empathetic way, that does not count. If someone knows they cannot respond accordingly and therefore think it's best to distance from the sad person, because it's better than accidentally saying innapropriate things, then that is valid.
I'd like to add, before I get people saying it's on me or that I'm part of the problem why victims aren't being taken seriously. I've never had a big issue with this. I have no issue feeling bad for Armand, Louis, Claudia or lots of other characters in fiction. I've have felt bad for some of the most hated characters you can think of. Found sympathy for people even when they are in general still horrible people. The reason why I make this post is not because it's Lestat but because Lestat is the only one where I can't find the sympathy.
Hot take: kpop fans want idols to suffer and riot when someone suffers less. Manon for example (don't even start how she's not a kpop idol) in dream academy she did a lot less than the rest and I can most definitely understand the frustration of someone passing through dream academy without putting that much effort into it but to my knowledge she was struffling a lot with her health and the transition of her normal life to idol trainee life. Yes all these people worked so hard for years to achieve what Manon did in such short time which sucks for the others but you can't fault Manon for that and these other people had years to get used to it all Manon didn't she went from zero to 100 and from my understandinf her talent compromised her lack of training so I don't see why she gets so much shit for it. The frustration from the others is valid, the hatred she received isn't. Same thing now during her hiatus, people wanna talk about how Manon is having it so easy while Lara is taking these extreme shots. Yes it sucks but again why point your finger at Manon and not geffen of Hybe for overworking their idols?
Another great example military time. Kpop fans and Korean people act like not serving military time is some sort of moral failure. S.coups for examole from seventeen had a bad acl injury which left him having to get two surgeries for it one to fix the injury and to stabilise it and one I believe to take the metal rod out. And the amount of hatred he gets for being excempt by the Korean government for military service is insane. He constantly deals with that injury and people have said his dancing significantly went down after it. Has been to rehab for it after the surgery and has to go to rehab again after the second one. There are moments he completely skips somethinf because his knee cannot handle it. But sure because he still dances he's strong enough to go. Besides let's be real everyone would skip military service if they got excempt ESPECIALLY if it's due to injury and the ones who don't are crazy nationalists.
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I know this is quite similar to my last iwtv/tvl post but I swear y'all are annoying me. Why is everyone so goddamn dramatic about Armand killing that band member and Louis not calling after the shooting or 'publishing' the book. Everyone is treating Lestat like some angel and no one is holding him even in the slightest accountable for contributing to Claudia's death and let's be real no one gave a flying fuck about her. They cared for her in the sense of wanting her happy and alive, but they barely did anything to keep her happy or alive. But back to the main points.
They have been killing people since the beginning, yes it is different cause we know this character and yes it is different since this was a useless death that was traumatic to expierence as bystanders. But can we all stop acting like death and 'assisted dying' is some negative moral point, death means nothing in this show, unless it's main characters. And in my opinion the band members were nothing more than minions just like the theatre members besides of course Santiago.
And about Louis, Lestat contributed to Claudia's death, has abused him and Claudia for years and had a few murder attempts with them or almost murder attempts to make them suffer as much as possible without killing. Besides that he's also a vampire who can fend for himself. That shooting didn't mean shit, he'd survive and the people mentioning emotional damage be so for real. Last thing is the book, first of all Louis didn't even want the book published that's all on Daniel, second except for the Claudia thing and unsignificant details like his hair and scars. The book was just calling him out, he's mad cause people know what he did and didn't want something like that published and sure maybe there were some incorrect things in the book but for a big part it was correct. So it isn't Louis his fault and even if it was the only reason for him to be mad is cause he got called out and maybe cause it didn't paint the big picture of his life. But he is horrible and personally I don't think publishing a book as a victim about your abuser especially if the victim even defended the abuser is something you can fault the victim for.
And idk if this is racism or idol fan behaviour, but it's weird and y'all should stop acting like it's justified. Idc if Lestat is your favourite character, mine is Armand, but don't act as if Lestat is morally superior over Louis and Armand.
Can someone explain to me why everyone describes season 2 of Korra as badly written? Cause I can sort of see people their points in tlok critique like the four seasons all being so unsure it isn't as much of a coherent story the way atla was. Personally I truly couldn't care less, but I can see how it bothers some people. But I don't get this big issue with season 2. I think it had a bunch of great realistic well written out storylines and was a great season all together. It talked about civil wars, lazy, selfish, and uncaring politicians, the thing between Unalaq and Korra with the grooming and rape allegory. And I truly believe all of it made sense and wasn't sloppy. Except for the romance of course, but honestly the romance sucked throughout the whole show, until the comics came around.
But in my opinion Korra her choices made total sense, her trusting her uncle considering her childhood and his manipulations was very well written. Like I truly just don't get it. The only reason I don't like it as much as the other is cause it was the I'd seen way too much as a child therefore it got a bit too much.
I need to know. The more shit I see from the iwtv tvl fandom the more confused I get. I know that Armand is a horrible person, I've made a post about that before, they all suck. But why is everyone I'm seeing acting like Armand is BY FAR the worst of them all? Like I might not remember it all and especially all that coven shit has been removed from my brain. And yes he was very abusive to Claudia and part of the reason why she died. He manipulated Louis, and brainwashed him and Daniel. Which is all bad, but from what I remember and how I see it he really wasn't that much worse than Lestat.
People are even responding to others saying they should read the books to gain sympathy for him. I'm out here already being sympathetic towards him. And I could definitely understand if people hate him more cause he had so much part in Claudia's death. But I remember Lestat being insane towards Claudia as well, and let's not forget he saved Louis, he did nothing for Claudia and was there with the rehearsals for the play.
And I'm not here to say who's worse I'm just trying to understand the hate train Armand receives while Lestat and Loustat are being celebrated for breathing.
One thing about space that annoys me so bad is the way it's so centered around the us and nasa. Think about the space race, despite the soviet union having managed many incredible achievements like putting the first living creatures and eventually humans in space. But all of that was for a big part ignored because nasa put humans on the moon. Of course an incredible achievement, but saying that by doing this they won the space race is in my opinion invalidating how incredible the achievements of the soviet union were, I think most people for example can name the apollo 11 crew or at least Neil Armstrong, but not nearly as many can name the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin. The animals for example are known due to it scientific significance, but most of all due to the ethical criticism it receives and it being tragic stories.
Another big example is Sally Ride, the average person knows Sally Ride and the fact she was the first American woman in space. Some even believing she was the first woman in space over all. A woman many people do not know is Valentina Teresjkova, the first woman in space. Who mind you went through a solo mission, with a bunch of complications like food problems leading to horrible pain in her leg and vomiting, lack of communication because she fell asleep due to pure exhaustion, her ship getting way to close to another ship and most importantly the ship ascending from orbit instead of descending which she noticed on day 1 and had to fix herself.
Not to mention a lot of nasa mission and space discoveries wouldn't be possible without the help of other space agencies, for example there were parts of the artemis 2 ship that were made by esa.
Honestly I really hate 'animal lovers'. It's great to like animals, but when you putt he worth of an animals' life above human life and are a misinformed twat, you're not a real animal lover. Zoos are not inherently bad and even zoos with animals showing signs of zoochosis aren't necessarily bad, zoos are a great place for animal conservation since they can live there how they're supposed to whithout having to deal with the risk of nature of humans. About the zoochosis, yes it's bad but omce animals learned this behaviour they can never unlearn it, which means that the zoo could've renovated the enclosure and the mistreatment is in the past or the animals could be rescues.
Another thing is these people being up peoples arses about so called mistreatment while the animal is getting the correct care. Think of hamster owners with only one hamster "get that hamster a friend" "don't let that hamster get lonely", for the unknown hamsters are solitary animals and cannot live with other hamsters. Of course all sorts of other similar examples.
Or shit like meat and real fur. First of all what you think about killing animals is subjective and not something I am going to or willing to discuss. What isn't subjective is the mistreatment of animals in the meat industry including the environmental side of it. I've already made a post about this before so I won't go into details. But not all meat consumption is bad, people with a homestead are fine, as long as the murder is not a torturous day they've had a good life with one bad day, that they won't even have to suffer from cause they'll just be dead. And with fur again depends on how the fur is sourced and second had fur is better than faux. As long as they're sourced right they'll just get killed quickly and all the bad things are over. Not to mention there are also cultural sides to it. Look at the inuits, they kill animals like seals and narwalls and they use every part of the animal, they only take what they need and don't let anything go to waste.
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Anyone else have a love hate relationship with the fact that avatar studio's doesn't seem to ever confirm stuff verbally but instead just creates more content? Cause yes I want more content and any unknown thing could hint to more, but at the same time I wanna know and you can't be a 100% sure they will ever create something confirming something.
Like I gotta know the story behind Kya's betrothal necklace or whether korrasami/rangshi ever got married. I know many people wanna who who Izumi's mom and Suyin's dad is.
Something that will always baffle me about straight people, especially homophobic ones is their serious underestimation of how many people are queer. Im talking like assuming a 13 member boy group only has straight members, assuming all siblings (when there's 3 or more) are straight. Assuming 90% or more of a class is straight, etc.
What's even worse is when someone presents the possibility of them not all being straight then suddenly you get attacked for making everything gay or assuming someone's sexuality. These are the same people that were fan of Harry Styles and thought he was straight the entire time, BECAUSE THEY FUCKING ASSUMED HIS SEXUALITY. Like one time someone made a video about a kpop idol and said something about their future wife and someone only commented 'or husband' and someone angrily answered stop assuming his sexuality. Mate that man has never said a word about his sexuality, and honestly has done more gay stuff than straight stuff so idk what you're so angry about.
Imagine having to fix an issue, because the person who came before you neglected it, and while fixing it you put the burden entirely on yourself while it is litteraly destroying your spirit, but you continue nonetheless and end up dying young cause of it. Just for your reincarnation to repeatedly insult your name and constantly imply you're the worst avatar, which also leads to having a hard time connecting to her. And if that wasn't bad enough she also gets with the daughter of your biggest crush you could never be with due to having to fix the problems and not confiding in your friends making them see you as an alcoholic slug.
I love Kyoshi and Kuruk btw, this was just funny to me.
It should be less "there are starving children in Africa" and more "there are people being raped and turned into slaves in Africa". Cause your child not finishing a plate of food that they never liked to begin with or because it was too much, is not gonna affect them. Besides there are starving children everywhere, and let's be real they don't care about the starving children, they care about their money being wasted.
But on the other hand people love to destroy electronics, crushing phones for views, testing phone quality by basically fucking the whole phone up and making it unusable. Someone making a phone unusable and wasting precious cobalt, gold, tin ore, tantalum ore and tungsten ore (even if it can be reused the question is whether companies actually do it and even then it would first have to go through the recycling process) is way worse than a child not finishing a few grams of vegetables. There are adults and children in the DRC being exploited for these materials. Even sexually exploited and being forced into marriage and people just treat electronics like some cheap piece of metal and glass. This is also directed at people engaging in the overconsumption of these products. And of course it is understandable that you need certain electronic devices, but buying an unnecessary amount is never needed. It would also be great if people during purchasing would look for recycled materials being used.
For further information I would advice to do your own research or look at these links.
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/
https://freetheslaves.net/our-work/where-we-work/dr_congo/
Do iwtv fans understand they're all bad people? Cause it seems that everytime a fan opens their mouth they say some bullshit ass argument that makes no sense. Like Louis was a brothel owner that only cared about money, he made Lestat turn a 14 year old dying girl into a vampire for selfish reasons despite being told the consequences and never owned up to it (yes we can talk about how his memory betrayed him or anything like that) and he picked his boyfriends over Claudia over and over. Armand manipulated the people around him, treated Claudia like a doll and build his relationship with Louis on a 77 year old lie. Daniel, as far as I know he just makes insensitive/ignorant/racist remarks, but maybe he did more. Lestat, well Lestat is Lestat, he did a whole bunch of shit.
But then you have people criticising other fans who hate Lestat but love Louis or Armand. Like yeah they're all assholes but at least Louis and Armand are entertaining, Lestat is some dramatic abusive shit I haven't liked for a single second of the entire show (I am at s3 ep1 btw so if he becomes more interesting and likeable I simply don't know yet). And with Armand for example I despised him at the end of season 2, but hearing about devil's minion made me interested in him again, that is not to say I excuse his actions, all it means is that he became entertaining to me again. Specifically cause he's fictional.
Or people criticising the choice to make Louis a black pimp and bringing up an interview with Anne Rice where she talked about her hatred towards pimps and how she would love to shoot them down. And I don't get the point. Cause Louis was originally a white slave owner. He was always a bad person not just in the 2022 version, if the pimp version is so much worse that's just implying that Anne Rice doesn't care about slavery being bad or racism all together. And idk the woman that well, but it seems unlikely. But people just love to paint Louis as this sweet black man who cares for his boyfriends and daughter and is a constant victim of abuse. Like did we watch the same show?
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Being autistic really makes you understand how uneducated people are on the subject.
One time we watched a french film in french class about a man with down syndrome and we had to answer a few questions related to french vocab in groups of four. So me and my friend filled the paper in with the people behind us. There were two questions tho that we had issues translating which I believe were two words related to down syndrom one a translation of the syndrom the other I think something with chromosomes (it was a long time ago). And as we're working on the second one this girl says, what if it's autism I mean it's basically the same thing. To say I was dumbfounded is an understatement.
Another time this girl was telling me and my other friends how she probably got autism because one time she went without oxygen in her brain for too long, possibly related to her diabetes (idk the details). And she was saying how after that she was more irritable to stuff and a bunch of other things. I didn't say this to her, but in my head I was just like, that's not autism that's brain damage.
A thing about kpop that isn't talked about enough is how extremeky unlikeable it is. Because generally speaking idols are quite ignorant, a lot of them have done harmful things like saying racial slurs, dressing in cultural clothing as a costume, dressing up like stereotypes, say lots of colourist things, etc. Which already makes you feel like you need to investigate every group you get into, and they also tend to hide it pretty well.
The whole industry, people love to talk about how loona were/are getting mistreated, or how newjeand were mistreated. But let's be for real almost all idol get mistreatment to a certain level, sure you could say one group is worse than the other, but almost all of them do. For example I was a seventeen fan and seventeen has two of more documentaries where they basically talk about how the industry is killing them mentally and/or physically. Scoups spoke up about having to do challenges to feed the other members during the green room days or even having to steal food from staff, others adding that their eating time was very limited. Minghao has spoken up about how he's so overworked his body never gets the time to fully recover. And even if there isn't directly mistreatment from the company there is still this insane pressure from all directions.
They're all just industry plants. A bunch of pawns made to haul in money in any way possible. Everything is calculated, thought out. I have been in non kpop fandoms and the amount of things that are controlled in the kpop industry is insane, there is basically this whole checklist they have to do that in normal fandoms would happen organically, which for me feels weird but also takes away a whole lot of joy. Fanchants aren't even Fanchants, they're just some organised thing you are pressured to learn and sing at the right time. It's all just money grabs, there isn't real passion. It's just like fast fashion or professional sport. It's so intense, money focused, has so much pressure involved. Which also causes a lot of idols to have very short careers, they burn so hard, that they burn out quick.
I can talk about this all day but I think these are the main points.