#_2

•Year: 2012 •Album: Still Alive •Lyrics: G-Dragon & T.O.P •Music: Teddy, G-Dragon, Seo Won Jin •Language: Korean •Other Versions: none   

Your smug, self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude has made me so angry. I wasn’t gonna feel better until I let you know this, so here we are. By the way, it isn’t the rest of the fandom who has a problem. It isn’t the crew who has a problem. YOU have the problem. Your posts go beyond being negative. They’re toxic. They’re toxic to fans, and particularly artists. And your words have consequences.

you realize they…  are paid for this, right?  like, this is their job.  their job is to make steven universe.

also i would like to remind you that this is PK’s sole contribution to that entire reblog thread, and the only other notable thing she wrote was a long and heartfelt review of the episode, so i’m not sure why she keeps being lumped into this.

i wasn’t even aiming at the writer.  i was replying to PK, which is why i reblogged PK, and not the original ask.  i made one snippy reply because i felt insulted, then elaborated when someone else got mad.

i wrote it for my blog, in response to my partner, because of how i felt about something.

naturally this ended up on the writer’s dashboard anyway because tumblr is garbage and there’s really only the one way to thread responses.  but instead of doing something trivial like putting me on ignore (or just hitting refresh and letting the dozens of likes drown me out) he deleted the post, then made another, then deleted his blog, then locked his twitter, then i guess made some tweets and deleted those and i don’t know.

nothing i ever said was even directed to him.  if that’s still “harassing”, “bullying”, and now “terrorizing”, well, uh, my bad.  it certainly wasn’t my intention for him to vanish from the internet.  but if all it took was one grouchy fan who cares a lot about details, i’m frankly astounded that he was still here.

i’m actually rather dismayed that a penchant for detail is being devalued here — i’ve seen a screenshot of an ask someone sent him, saying that the people talking about “consistency” don’t care as much as they say they do.  well, yes, i do, tyvm.  that shouldn’t be a huge surprise or a bad thing for a show with a main character who exhibits traits of genuine OCD.

meanwhile the vitriol said of me (most of it not by name, granted, which is nice) has been far more mean-spirited than anything i said in the first place.  and has come largely from people who then congratulate themselves for being part of such an otherwise friendly and chill fandom.  weird, the things people say when they feel slighted.

emphasis that the show isn’t made just for me has been a somewhat common theme as well.  but it isn’t made just for you or anyone else, either, so why should anyone care when you like an episode?  it seems like the same reasoning applies.

i don’t feel entitled to anything here, btw.  but it looked like it had been trying to be an amazing series, and i’m deeply alarmed and worried to see the bar suddenly drop so low, twice in not so many weeks.

it’s certainly the staff’s prerogative to make whatever quality product they want.  but they have shown they’re willing to put amazing and brilliant effort into character development and motivation and continuity.  to go from that to last week’s episode was crushing.

fear not; i will channel my frustrations more constructively + coherently in the future.  but i can’t not be frustrated when things aren’t as good as i know they could be.