#anon panic

Right, this is the last ask I’m going to answer on this for now...

They were already getting a divorce. Aaron got the letter about it like two days after Robert was gone. He decided to go ahead with it in January. Getting a confirmation now, if that’s what it is, is just a continuation of that.

Whether we like it or not, none of that is some big signpost to say that they don’t care about Robron. They’ve been fairly respectful of Robert and robron, where Aaron is concerned anyway, this whole time. At some point the story HAS to move on. Ryan is not coming back at the moment. I hate it but it is what it is.

Does that mean I or any of us want to watch this?! No of course not. Even looking at spoilers or a shot of Aaron in the preview depresses me. That’s why we have the choice not to watch. But no one should really be upset with them for moving the story along. They can’t keep Aaron forever tethered to an off screen character. Not in this kind of show. This is a soap, a continuing drama. Clue’s in the name. Yes they could have given him Seb, and they should have, but that’s the only tether that would have worked. And even then they still would have gotten a divorce. (Plus with covid restrictions we’d never see Seb again anyway).

Hello,

I’ll admit I’d probably be a bit stuck if I were in this situation myself, but I think your best option here would be to talk to your therapist about it. Tell them that your mom doesn’t want you on medication, and see if there’s anything your therapist can do about it. I’d even ask the therapist if they could talk to your mother and explain the importance of getting you on some sort of medication. You’re going to therapy for a reason, I’m assuming your mother knows this, and that person is a professional. A professional wouldn’t just prescribe you something for being “whiny.”

So yeah, definitely consult your therapist about that, ask if they can speak with your mom for you to help convince her.

Best of luck!

Stop. Just stop. How many times do we have to have this absurd conversation?!

Nowhere in anything I’ve written have I said I am excited to watch this. I’ve said I’m going to TRY and watch it and see how I feel. I’ve said that I’m not mad at the show for doing their job because Aaron moving on is inevitable. I’ve said I’m not mad at Danny for like...wanting to work. I said I was glad Danny and Simon both talked about Robron in their interviews. I said they promoted it better than Jane, which isn’t hard to do because she’s awful at it.

None of that screams “wow I’m so excited to watch this”. All of that says “hey maybe I could possibly tolerate my eyeballs viewing this while I watch the rest of this terrible show and hey, I do like Aaron better than Harriet.”

Why are you so obsessed with my watching habits?

But for your information, since you’re so concerned:

- I never actually stopped watching Aaron scenes (other than that three weeks post Robert’s exit because I needed time to process). Granted he’s had about 5 total minutes of screen time since January other than the lockdown episode but I’ve still watched it all because for some reason I can’t not. And pretty much every time he was on, I said it felt weird or looked wrong or made me sad that he didn’t have his tall blonde accessory attached to his side, up to and including the last time he was on screen. So I have no idea how I’m actually going to feel when he pops up next week with this Ben stuff but odds are, it’s going to feel strange for me. 

- I only stopped watching the show because Aaron was barely on and the Malone stuff was so boring and I couldn’t deal with Wendy anymore etc and I would miss episodes and I just couldn’t bring myself to catch up anymore so I just read live blogging to stay in the loop. 

- I watched all of the lockdown episodes because I was curious to see how they would do them and because they were actually mostly about characters I liked. And I enjoyed them overall and it felt nice to enjoy the show again because I really hadn’t enjoyed it in a while, hence my stopping watching for a time. 

- I started watching full episodes again on July 24th. Yes that was after the Aaron stuff leaked but long before it was any kind of legitimate spoiler. Between the lockdown episodes and July 24th, I stated several times that I wished I could get back into the show because the lockdown episodes made me nostalgic but that nothing in the live blogging and spoilers about Malone and Harriet and Wendy and Bob and Luke and Vic was enticing me to watch at all. I’ve had some really slow days at work throughout this covid period and I was really bored one day so I thought, what the hell, let’s put it on and watch live. It was mostly terrible but Matty was on and I realized I kind of missed it even if it was awful. So I decided that if I happened to not have a work call at 2 o’clock on days that it was on, I would watch live if I felt like it. And it became a kind of habit again, a familiar terribleness. I had kind of missed complaining about it. 

- Because I’ve been watching the whole show again, when the Aaron spoilers became a reality, I decided that I would try and watch and see how I felt (like I’ve stated SEVERAL times already). I’m also capable of watching something I don’t really like and still shipping a ship I’ve shipped for the past 5 years. 

- It still hasn’t even aired yet and you people are already freaking out that I may watch this stupid storyline. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU CARE SO MUCH. IT IS RIDICULOUS. ESPECIALLY SINCE I AM CLEARLY NOT A PERSON WHO IS SUPER EXCITED FOR IT. I HAVE CLEARLY CRITIQUED THE HELL OUT OF IT FROM THE MOMENT THE SPOILERS WERE LEAKED UNTIL NOW. SO WHAT IS YOUR DAMN DEAL WITH YELLING AT ME ABOUT IT???

- Even if I was looking forward to it, why does it even matter to you? I don’t have to justify my television habits to you. In any case, I am tagging everything so you do not need to see these posts as anything more than white boxes. You do not even need to follow me. If it’s my art you’re after, there are plenty of people who reblog it or you can find it in the tag. And if you don’t follow me and are just here to be obnoxious, and I don’t put it past you because if you did follow me you would know all of the above, then why the fuck are you here? 

- I really don’t understand this fear that I might watch a show I’ve been watching for five years and then some. It’s not going to change anything for you. 

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That’s what you got from that post? I don’t think your reading comprehension skills are very good.

I said I didn’t stop watching Aaron scenes after Robert left, in part because I was still watching the whole show at the time. Also because even though I’ve always been a ship first person, I started out as an Aaron fan back in 2010 and I’m not a person who gives up on things easily so I continued to watch his scenes post Robert. Why is that a problem for you? Was I supposed to just stop watching altogether the moment Robert left? I mean that’s a valid thing to do but I don’t think it’s the only thing to do. I don’t think that makes you a bad robron fan.

I jokingly referred to Robert as his “tall blonde accessory” in reference to me missing the way they used to be attached at the hip. In a specific circumstance, I was sad watching the scene where Aaron messes with Bob’s dating profile because I wished he’d been able to go home and laugh with Robert about it after or that Robert had been there with him and they’d done it together.

What at any point of looking at my blog has possibly given you the impression that I don’t love Robert with my whole being?!

I feel like Aaron fans would yell at me for being too critical of a story I haven’t even seen yet and I feel like people like you are coming at me for daring to even consider watching it and answering asks from panicking anons like yourself about it.

And I still don’t understand how anything I’ve ever said about the Ben story has given the impression that I am excited for it in any way?!?!

I mean there’s clearly no helping you at this point.

And I’ve talked about Aaron’s new sl because it’s starting next week and I had a lot to complain about. It’s current events anon.

I talked about Robert in how it affects Aaron and Ben because I was specifically referencing the interviews that were just released where they talked about Robert in relation to this stupid storyline.

I’ve only talked about it more because I’ve been answering asks from crazy people like yourself who won’t leave me the fuck alone. (Yes I know I should stop answering them but you should also stop sending them)

Have you only been following me for a week or something?! Try looking back at my archives. Try looking at August where I spent the month drawing 25 robron cartoons for people.

Yeah...totally jumped ship.