#entitled

Donald Trump suggested he should be permitted to serve a third term as president, reiterating his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him.

Speaking at a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, Trump asserted he was "entitled" to an unconstitutional third term, alleging that Democrats "cheated like hell."

The U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment explicitly prohibits any person from serving more than two terms as president, a fact Trump has previously acknowledged.

During the same event, Trump criticized Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, describing her as "crazy" for heckling him at his recent State of the Union address.

This.

Speaking for myself, it's true that writing can get stressful, especially when I get writers block, but the difference is that I could have written all my fics until now, and keep them in my Google drive. But I chose to post them on Ao3, instead.

"Oh, but SC can't take criticism."

"Readers also have an opinion."

Wrong. I can take criticism as long as it's constructive and don't mind readers saying what they think as long as they do it in a respectful way.

As a reader, don't come tell me what I should have done or that a certain character wouldn't "say that" or act a certain way, because if I wrote him/her to say and/or act that certain way in my fic, it's because he/she does.

There was a reader who once commented that (AO3) was a public website and that people could get curious and comment, which is partially true.

People can indeed ask questions, but when it comes to the Privacy category, AO3 has this following options:

Which means that, in the end, and to put it in simple terms: a reader only comments if, when and how the writer allows him/her to do so.

And of course there's also the block button (that I won't hesitate to use) in case the reader truly crosses a fucking line.

I'm a reader too, and although I'm not one to comment on other writer's works often, I know that all of what I'm saying in this post, applies to me as well.

Respecting people and their works, is one of the easiest things you can do.

If something in that fic is not your cup of tea, drop it. Leave quietly.

Because otherwise you'll be disrespecting and harassing real people over fictional characters.

I don't count her interest in religion as change bc that's a common tactic to recover from drugs. It's Jesus or drugs, as the saying goes. She had to find another outlet for her disease, and religion was acting as that for her. It was like another form of addiction. There are alot of hurt people in the pews of church for a reason. Like Rue said, it gives you a bigger reason than yourself. That doesn't mean Rue was changing or developing, she had a similar mindset when she was in highschool till the end of the third season. We saw glimpses of the possibility of change. Her questioning Alamos intentions and her own accountability, and those possibilities are exactly what sam Levinson used to fuel her Martyr ending. So now Rue doesn't get to be developed, and possibly get her own revenge against Alamo, instead of being killed and her memory being saved by Ali. Bc Sam Levinson doesn't believe in that reality. A reality where a black woman (just like Ali) could develop, get into remission for her disease, and then either work to help young black people in rues position like ali, or go on some kick ass cowboy shoot out. That Rue could have some form of agency. Or her mother, who's grief was not a priority at all, unlike Alamo and Ali having a shoot out. Two men, who we have not followed as intimately or as long as we have with Rue and her mother, were devoted more time in the finale of the whole show. All we got to any form of women having agency was Cassie, and even then so much was happening to her

There's this sub-genre of character around these parts that I can only label the "Deserved Better Blorbo", and every time this character type shows up, every time without fail, it's a morally dark character who's done terrible things to other characters who also did not deserve that treatment from them, but for whom their stans will interpret canon in a way (sometimes to the point of disregarding canon altogether or flat out making shit up) that absolves them of being truly at fault and responsible for their own decisions to commit bad actions, and so because these villains (according to the stans) either never actually did anything that was truly wrong to begin with or did wrong only due to terrible internal and environmental circumstances that "made them" do it (most often trauma and/or some form of abuse, so it overlaps with "Bad Victims"), they are to be considered "secretly" 100% pure and innocent deep down inside and Not At Fault for their worst deeds, their suffering matters inherently more than the suffering of other characters (including those who've suffered at their hands), and they are automatically owed a redemption arc, the forgiveness of others, and living happily ever after in the end: that's specifically the "better" that they "deserve", and so if they don't get it, it's affront to the character, their stans, good storytelling, and all real life victims of trauma and abuse everywhere that the stans decided were all embodied and reflected by this singular character.

Now these are all characters that I like (mostly - I've got more mixed feelings on Adam Taurus, Viren, and Chloe Bourgeois), but I am just sick to death of these standoms. Even for some (Hans, Azula, Lotor, Dany, Chloe, and Shigaraki) who I agree deserved better treatment than they were given after a certain point! Feeling like a character got "done dirty" and "deserved better" is a natural audience reaction, so I'm not begrudging anyone of just that alone. But to trash an entire work of fiction and all the care and passion and effort that might've gone into its creation just because you personally did not vibe with the canonical portrayal and ending given to a single character, and to act as though that character was just innately owed "better" from their writers/creators just because you latched onto something about them that made them your personal problematic fave, when it's really about you believing you were owed the writer(s) telling their own story in the way you wanted it to be told rather than how they wanted it (and created it) to be told, is just the height of toxic, entitled, parasocial fandom, online and offline. When your fave is problematic, it's best to acknowledge the fave's problems and love them for them rather than in spite of them and don't try to rationalize away all their worst qualities and deeds while laser-focusing on their Freudian Excuses and more sympathetic qualities just so you can get to say "they deserved better" without any nagging shame and cognitive dissonance. And when a narrative's writer decides that the most suitable ending for your fave to be given isn't necessarily a happy one, then accept that's just how it is even if you personally dislike it and would not have done the same had you been the one handling that character and telling that story. In the end, none of it is real!