i looked up a splitting of the mind on here and uhh.. let's just say not many people liked it 🤣🫱

SO I will be talking about the good and the bad and the uhhh idk parts

overall, i liked it. the plot is very interesting. nothing gets me hooked more than a character who thinks differently compared to other people. gerard is PERSISTENT on the fact that he's a normal dude. he is but he isn't yk.. he doesn't take his medication. the idea of him being a "secret keeper" and if he doesn't keep those secrets, the world will end was very creative. I wouldn't have thought of that 🤷‍♀️

some things I DIDNT like

ray was seen as kinda dumb. don't get me wrong I love Ray but it also felt like he was infantilized.. idk tell me if I'm wrong

the whole thing about replacing Frank's memory with what happened. you can't just "replace" something as intense as that, coming from my experience. you can come into terms with it and heal from there. not an expert on this so uh!

the ending. why is he dead that's not supposed to happen 🤣🤣🤣 maybe the author wanted him to die but yk.. it was so rushed. doomed yaoi ig 💔

GERARD STARING AT FRANK WHEN HE WAS SHOWERING. BITCH LOOK AWAY!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭

the sex was forced. author if you wanna make them crack just make them crack 🥹

that bitch jasper. I hope he gets aids and dies

some things I DID like

frerard.. 🥹

markman was really understanding

MIKEY WASNT DEAD

frank was pretty cool

when they turned themselves in. I was stressing the whole time thinking they'd be caught and one of them would DIE

the connection the two of them had. it was confusing at times but you can tell they genuinely care for each other IN MY OPINION

random shit I didn't know how to feel about

GERARD IS THE PRESIDENTS SON??

how the fuck did gerard get a gun in THE WHITE HOUSE.

WHY IS BRENDON URIE THERE. WHO INVITED HIM 😭

what the fuck happened in the epilogue. I'm confused

overhyped. did not cry. poorly written. too many plot holes. gerard is mean (out of character). and how old is he. he is 19 if i'm being generous. he is 22 if i'm being realistic. frank is 16. you can not retcon frank to be an adult @/shoved2agree. why is frank being the adult in this dynamic. the 16 year old should not comfort the 19 (if i'm being generous) year old. gerard does not have schizophrenia, he has autism. i don't think ray is crazy, i think he's the only sane one. also. what era does it take place in? is it revenge? is it black parade? i'll never know.

2/10 did not cry. laughed.

recommend unholyverse instead

And if you can stay in your seat but are constantly bouncing a leg, clicking a pen, tapping out a rhythm on your thigh, or otherwise fidgeting, the answer is, yes, you do have trouble staying in your seat.

happy valentine's day <3

There’s this idea that we see where creators think thar material about them/their characters is FOR them, and so they lay down rules about how things should be depicted (like you would on a gift for you) and they go into the comments to fight with people who put their tag on things they don’t like, etc. All these things that we see happening.

But they’re missing the point that— and I am not the first person to say this— things tagged with their character name are not there for them to see it, they’re there for other fans of the character to see it. I don’t post into the murderbot tag for the edification of Martha Wells, I post it for other murderbot fans. If Martha Wells showed up in my comments on an established fandom space I’m liable to panic-block and scramble for the exit.

And so these creators come in and say “this isn’t a good gift for me, don’t do this”, but that’s an essential misreading of the situation, and the thing is it’s kind of a presumptuous misreading of the situation when you’re monetizing your character. As my friend TD pointed out today, “don’t draw nsfw of my OC” is a perfectly normal thing to do within a peer to peer fandom context, but you are no longer interacting peer to peer when you have monetized your OC and are distributing them to as broad an audience as possible. You are the creator of a marketed figure. If you try to keep dictating people’s behaviour, that is how you become Anne Rice, which is never something you want to be.

But these creators are walking into spaces and saying that *everything tagged with their character name* is a gift for them and just like, no. If you keyword search your name on the entire internet you’re gonna overhear a lot of conversations that were not meant for you, and acting like it is even possible to make The Entire Internet safe for a public figure to look at is not a workable exercise.

Creators should not be walking into spaces where people are talking about their characters unless they’re ready to see a lot of things that were never made with them as the target audience. Make a fan art channel im your discord and let people bring things to you, but don’t walk onto the site where people’s favourite holidays to celebrate with characters include kinktober and whumptober and goreuary, where people explore their trauma through the lens of their favourite characters, where people experiment with different art styles and body type depictions of characters, where things that fall under the “fluff” umbrella include making characters into toddlers and making them so sad so they can have a hug, and expect that everything is going to be made with your comfort in mind. That’s just not how the fandom emotion works.

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-A fun story shared at every family reunion is about how her great great grandmother escaped slavery and got the family the land they live on. That their ancestor, how couldn’t read or write but was smart as a whip used to kill her master’s children, not all of them of course just one for every child she lost b/c it was only fair, who organized a revolt when they Union army was getting close that kept the whites distracted with folks trying to runaway that let them to be drugged, cut and fed to the hogs and how she headed out west as soon as she was sure the master’s family was dead. 

A fun story that got her in trouble at school when she shared it during Black History month.

And one of many reason why she believes that anyone (human or alien) who owns slaves does not deserve to live.