#fandom rant

You know what’s actually toxic? YOU. Because you are implying that by Elain not having rejected the mating bond (why would she do this not in her own book, though?), Lucien has some ownership over her. So, she’s not free to be with other people.

The fuck?

Like, okay, I don't believe that all Sambucky shippers hate on Stucky or think that if someone doesn't ship Sambucky that it means you have to be racist. That is clearly an oversimplification of the shipping landscape... like, sure, someone might have distaste for Sambucky based in racism, but that 1) is not the only reason not to ship Sam with Bucky, and 2) I don't think that is how getting someone to ship something works, which then leads me to... yanno it does often sound kinda like hit dogs holler when you lash back out and attack SamBucky as a ship and attack Sam harder (because obviously a lot of people in question do ship Bucky with other people so their issue isn't with Bucky)...

Like. The Sambucky shippers are not more or less correct in their interpretation of canon than any other Bucky shipper... and it will not retroactively become relevant one way or another... because neither Sam nor Bucky have a canon love interest. Everyone is tweaking onscreen interactions to fit their headcanon.

And not everyone sees Sam's actions the same way, nor reads Bucky's responses and actions the same way, nor has the same taste in relationship dynamic or ship preferences or agrees how toxic a relationship is or isn't and to what degree that makes the ship fun or not for them. Like.

If you rail on the idea that hating Sam makes you racist, maybe just... block the person who is making that weird claim and let it lie. Because the lashing back against that never looks good, and the hater "toxic Sam Stan" might just be in a bad place or you could be projecting... either way, like... hating on other fans and somehow blaming them for racism in media is... I mean. It does not seem to be the way the world works. Studios are only gonna make the content they wanted to make anyway, and Fandom response is not going to have the sway people think it does, not the way they think it does, and not by the mechanism they think it does. So making your Fandom spaces more toxic by throwing around reactive anger is... like. Yuck, no thanks.

I genuinely just try to limit my interaction with this kind of lashing out fan stuff where people generalize about the moral implications of who likes a certain relationship and who has the correct interpretation, especially when the "you hate the idea because you're homophobic" becomes "you don't see it because you're homophobic" starts sounding like "the only reason you don't ship this is because you're homophobic" becomes "if you ship this other thing instead or you change the dynamic in certain ways when you do ship it, it's because you're homophobic, and furthermore you are part of the reason there is not enough fan content of this ship and also why there are fewer canon instances of these kinds of characters"

Like what are we doing really

Individual taste and choice becoming a morally charged responsibility? How about- make the choices you like, look at those choices, and to some degree figure out why you are drawn to it, and do not get in the way of other people making things they like, and try for understanding first. And if there is anger, maybe don't react right away, you don't have to interact with that person at all in most cases (especially online)... but try to maybe look into the controversy. Hold things a little more lightly, understand that fictional characters are not real people, and go from there.

Five Night's at Freddy's.. it certainly doesn't need an introduction on this site, or any other corner of the internet for that matter

It's a franchise that was (and still is) a huge part of people's childhoods, teen years, and even adulthood.

One thing I've observed over the years, is how neurodivergent people specifically interact with the series. As someone who is neurodivergent, it's always been interesting.

In short, the reason I believe it resonates with so many of us is because of the human-meshing-robot "trope" we see throughout practically the entire series.

I've seen many other neurodivergent folks talk about the alienating feeling many of us grew up with.

We were "too much" or "too little." Never the perfect amount.

The idea of a human being part robot, a human being a robot, etc. I believe it resonates with our "rejected" side.

Charlie from TSE especially resonated with me, I can't exactly explain why, but her overall disposition, train of thought, and emotional state left a lasting impression on me. She is basqically the blueprint for the "human-meshing-robot" trope I mentioned.

The hinted familial dynamics have always fascinated me as well... one reason I'm super excited to see more of the Afton family through the films!

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FNAF means so much to me, it's hard to describe the excitement I feel over the it to my loved ones.

Hi. I'm aroace. Pay attention to the aromantic part here.

PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO BE SINGLE !!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHIP A CHARACTER JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE SINGLE DUDE, THATS???? FUCKING CRAZY????

First I think that this last point is very debatable. If you take the time to analyze the facts we have, I don't think it's that clear cut 🤨

Second and more important, Satine was an IMPORTANT character in TCW outside of her relationship with Obi-Wan. And if anything she didn't die for the sake of Obi-Wan's character development (is the character development in the room with us?), but for her sister's Bo Katan.

In this post, I know it's not typical but I will develop the second point only.

Satine wasn't introduced in the show as Obi-Wan's ex girlfriend. Actually, it's only through crumbs of conversations with Anakin and then during Satine's love confessions that we could understand that a long time ago, they were lovers.

Satine was introduced as a pacifist and as a fearless and stubborn LEADER, a woman of principles who refused to side with the Republic or with the Separatists in the war. In the context of that time, this alone made her a singular figure, someone whose life was constantly at risk because Mandalore was an important system that each party wanted on their side. Satine was an inconvenience, hence why Dooku approached Death Watch, who wanted her dead (and yes that included her sister Bo, even if we didn't know she was Satine's sister then, it doesn't change that fact), and why Palpatine pulled strings in the dark to make her death happen as well.

It's the same reason why he tried to get Padme killed multiple times as well: her death is too unfairly reduced as Palpatine's plan to make Anakin fall only, while he had political, more important reasons to want Padme dead too.

These women had voices, they had influence, and they kept speaking words Palpatine hated to hear because other leaders in the Galaxy listened to them. Satine and Padme HAD to be out of the way, one way or another. So when you say, "Satine and Padme's arcs revolved entirely around men, they were created only to further their development, nothing else, and they were killed only so these men would be sad", it hurts my feelings a bit.

And now regarding Satine's death. I struggle very much with the concept of her being "fridged" to further Obi-Wan's development, considering that her life was threatened since season 2, and for reasons that were totally unrelated to her connection with Kenobi. Satine's murder was planned by Pre Viszla along with Maul's and Savage's. She would likely be dead now, with or without her romance with Obi-Wan, because she couldn't be alive for what would come next in Mandalore.

The only "fridging" part I could agree on is that Maul realized that Satine was important to Obi-Wan, so he used her as bait and killed her for the sole purpose of hurting him. But Satine's death didn't impact only Obi-Wan, who before season 7 referred to her only once when he lectured Anakin about attachment. Then in season 7, he was basically forced to do so by Bo Katan.

Don't get me wrong, I think it would have been very OOC for Obi-Wan to openly cry over Satine's death, to be visibly depressed etc. Obi-Wan would never: his thing was always to repress his feelings. I like to think that the Council forced him to "rest and meditate" for a few days, but that Obi-Wan's only wish after her death was to come back to the battlefield so he could mindlessly destroy some droids and avoid any thoughts that could have him spiralling.

My point here is that as far as Obi-Wan's character development is concerned, I just don't see what Satine's death did in this regards, but maybe I'm dumb? Yes, he was devastated by her death, but she's not the reason why he was a mess after Revenge of the Siths. Anakin's fall was. I don't think he moved on from Satine's death as easily as it looks, but it didn't change him, and it didn't break him either. In the Obi-Wan show, she's not even mentioned once, by him or anyone else.

In terms of character development, it was Bo's who was the most impacted by Satine's death. About that: I think the writing was very clumsy and I still resent her for yelling at Obi-Wan in season 7 while she was very much okay with murdering her sister when it was her boyfriend who ordered it; Imo TCW did a very poor job at showing her dealing with the fact that Satine died in great part because of her and her actions.

But then Rebels happened. There, we saw Bo reflect on her past actions, and we saw how remorseful she still was. I'm still not her biggest fan. I still find her character inconsistent, especially since Mando season 3. And I hate how Favreau couldn't bother to name-drop Satine in a show about MANDALORIANS, even though she was an important figure in Mandalorian history, and was the sister of the woman whose dream is to unite the clans and to make Mandalore great again.

Anyway, I'm not looking for a fight, I just think it's wrong to say that Satine was only killed to further a man's arc, while her death not only impacted a female character's too, but Mandalore's political landscape as well! With her out of the way to promote her pacifist idealism, Mandalore returned to what it was before she took the reins, and even after Maul left, no one managed to unite the clans. Then the Empire took over and the rest is history. Her death was impactful for the plot, and difficult to avoid.