your hands were gentle

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

BRUCE: I just – it’s about more than you now. I get something else out of it. I like it. Did you know that if you dive off the Babylon towers, at exactly the right time, with a good cable and perfect aim… you can loop your throw around a gargoyle and land on the J-Street el? I do. And when the wind hits you on the way down, and it’s just you and your grip on the line… there is nothing like it.

it’s saying yes, batman is a tragic character. that there is no other way to tell this story without the night his parents died, and his subsequent persevering grief. it’s saying he’s so undeniably shaped by his trauma he’s unrecognisable without it. it’s saying this story doesn’t start happily. and honestly? it probably won’t end happily either. batman is not a very likely character to grow old and die peacefully in bed surrounded by his loved ones. bruce will probably die for his cause, and die bloodied and in pain.

weird you want to use the very real threat of rising antisemitic sentiment as a petty moral "gotchya" so you feel superior to strangers online, but fyi I work for a major national pop culture publication read by 100s of 1000s of people and over a month ago I wrote a 700 word article breaking down the antisemiticism in the latest season of Stranger Things and the movement to stop Netflix and Airbnb from profiting off a N*zi prison. It's been in the top 10 most read articles on our site for the last 2 weeks (and even if I hadn't personally called it out in ST that wouldn't make antisemiticism in Marvel any less of an issue btw). You can read it here:

There is Sansa in KL who thinks robb will win and everything will be okay. Then there is arya with beric and the sassy group to be ransomed to him or even before when she thought her brother ROBB will defeat tywin as its always her constant inner monologue. robb.

We have bran and rickon with no idea what's going on but they too depend on robbs victory. We have mister theon and his biting guilt for robb. Finally we have catelyn trusting and putting everything on robb cuz she thinks her remaining children are dead/lost/confined. Then we have tywin so unsure what robb will be doing next so he sits in KL waiting, then there is stannis and melisandre throwing leech in fire with Robb's name pronounced. NEVER FORGET, WE have walder frey who's entire plethora of a family and next generations survival and pact depends on...robb and the betrothal that never happened (totally eldest daughter plight)