#theghostbusters

(salty ask list)

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

Marvel/Stucky. It was fun! Season One of Agent Carter had some good femslash prospects! Bucky was a super-traumatized woobie!

And now it’s like... Literal Fucking Nazis all over the fucking place, and AOS killed off my favourite people, and I am old and bitter and worn, and the Nazis aren’t even doing anything good or interesting or worth the pain, and the comics are a flaming trash pit on fire, and I am so sick of Bucky and his plums. How did I get here? I’ll still reblog content on my mainblog if I think my friends would like to see it, but the joy is all gone.

22. Popular character you hate?

oh god oh god please don’t kill me Nursey /o\ I’m sorry it’s a gut reflex to hipsters en masse

There’s this really important concept in the work I do called “validation” which is having someone else recognize what you’re seeing, acknowledge it, and treat it as real, important, and worthwhile (even if they don’t agree or feel the same). It’s suuuper important for mental health. And “chill” is as invalidating as you can fucking get.

So I can like... sometimes grit my teeth for stuff that deals with how he, as a Black man, has been invalidated and asked to disown his anger but being denied softer emotions, and I’m a lot more on board for him having BPD (which comes, literally, from growing up in an invalidating environment). Those interpretations are AT LEAST better than the rich white Vancouver hipsters who would tell me how their organic non-GMO quinoa was totally awesome and then when I, a farm child, tried to explain how many things were wrong with that sentence, would tell me not to get so worked up, brooooo, I should go to this ashram in India they had a totally enlightening experience at. 

But when he’s just like... acting like a jerk to Dex, riling him up because he thinks it’s funny and then telling him to “chill”, I super super dislike him.

Hops: Ugh, I have so much homework.

Tater: Ugh, I know, right?