StoryBoyNik

Fictional characters are objects.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

But then I watched the scene again. The moments after that betrayal. Once Crowley’s put his glasses back on, raised his defenses and sounded the retreat. I wondered, watching the scene again, how it could ever reach the point where the kiss made sense when they were already so torn apart. But the thing is that no matter how wrong Aziraphale was to want things to go back to the “way they were”, everything that led him to that conclusion comes from the thing Crowley loves most about him: his goodness. Aziraphale is good in a way that heaven is not, and Crowley knows that, but Aziraphale still hasn’t learned that lesson. He wants so desperately still to believe in god and heaven and the ineffable plan and even though it’s that desire that’s led him to hurt Crowley, I don’t think Crowley can completely begrudge him. By the time Crowley’s walking out of the book shop, the betrayal has already faded—not gone, but less than when compared to his sadness for Aziraphale and what his angel is going to go through when heaven lets him down (again)—assuming that it doesn’t just break him.

Matthew to James letter

NETFLIX IS AT IT AGAIN CANCELLING A SHOW THAT DESERVED MORE EXPOSURE. YES I’M TALKING ABOUT ANNE WITH AN E. 

It’s a wonderful loose adaptation of Anne of Green Gables that you surely have seen through cute gifsets like this 

It’s about family it’s about friendship it’s about belonging and it’s probably the purest, loveliest show you’ll ever see. It’s written by women, directed by many female directors, the producers and showrunner are also female, this is RARE AS HELL. It introduced LGBT characters, it introduced many POC characters, native americans, it started talking about residential schools (and that storyline isn’t even RESOLVED), it talks about consent and women’s rights, it had JUST introduced a character that was deaf and mute. It’s just about as great as it could possibly be, yet this might be all over after JUST 3 SEASONS. 

It’s not even out on Netflix yet, and it’s already announced that it will be the last season. It aired on CBC already, so we KNOW the season is good (even more, it’s AMAZING), but there isn’t enough ads for it and it’s not promoted enough (if not at all) by Netflix. 

THIS IS A BROOKLYN 99 SITUATION. We need YOU to help us save the show even if you don’t watch it. 

Here’s what you can do:

1. TALK ABOUT IT. As much as you can! Talk about it on the internet AND around you. Too many people reply under gifsets by asking what show it is. 

2. Tweet with the hashtags  #renewawae or #renewannewithane, tweet @cbc​ or @netflix​. We need to make noise so they understand these stories matter!

3. WATCH IT. So many people say Shirbert looks so cute but that they’ve never seen a single episode of the show, well NOW IS THE TIME. You can watch the episodes already out on the CBC website by using a VPN (DO NOT PIRATE THEM. WATCHING THEM ON THE WEBSITE ISN’T HARD, IT’S GREAT QUALITY, AND IT GETS THE VIEWS IN)

4. STREAM IT TOO WHEN ITS OUT ON NETFLIX, JANUARY 3RD. Play it on in the background while you shower or cook or do your homework if you don’t actually watch it, or simply rewatch it a bunch of times (this season is great so trust me you’ll want to)

Instead, Netflix dumps the responsibility of promoting and spreading word about the shows on the fans, saying that they are unable to efficiently get the word out and raise awareness. And of course it’s never enough, so these shows don’t receive the same views as the ones majorly starring white actors who play straight, cisgender, neurotypical characters. All of a sudden, the blame for inclusive shows falls to us- We are the ones who have “failed”, who haven’t worked hard enough to keep these shows around. Without the views that come from mass promotion, suddenly there is a statistically-supported excuse to cancel these inclusive shows.

Not to mention, this gives Netflix the perfect angel to protect themselves from potential accusations of not wanting to support media that promotes equal representation, because they can say “Well we tried to make it work, we really wanted the show to succeed, but not enough people are interested in watching. There just isn’t a big enough audience to justify another season.” There is a big enough audience, Netflix just isn’t doing their part to spread awareness of the inclusive shows that they do offer on their platform and is instead claiming that the reason they are unable to support the continuation of a show is because the fans didn’t do enough to save it.