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Seeing people choose their favorite Ballum scenes and they’re just Ben scenes with Callum serving as his doormat. I hate it. 

But did Ben and Paul even have these same problems as Ben and Callum because “Ben’s so traumatized by his daddy issues” or were all these things created out of thin air for Kate Oates to create a shitty generic gay ship? 

I’m sorry but there have no been redeeming qualities to Ballum since they first got together months ago. They need to break up and stay away from each other for good. 

I want to be honest here, has anybody actually seen a person that takes Ben Mitchell seriously as a hardened criminal that wasn’t a Ballum fan? They keep pushing this Ben as a bad boy criminal thing, ruining Ballum in process, and literally nobody besides some Ballum fans find this shit compelling. 

I am so uncomfortable at the fact the writers are acting as if Paul and Callum are competing for the same man’s heart, Paul was murdered... Why even bother doing that Paul just to prop up Ballum? What’s even disturbing to me is how Callum seemed to take pride that he was considered a better boyfriend than Paul according to Phil. 

Ballum actually talking about their issues and doing it through rational and adult conversation... This actually might be a first for them after they got together the first time.

Kate Oates want so bad for Ballum to be this explosive good guy falls in love with the bad guy romance but all they do is get into the same fights every fucking episode repetitively. 

Oh wow, more Ballum drama. My heart is fucking bleeding watching this toxic and unhealthy couple have issues, awww... what if they break up and Callum actually moves on with someone that treats him well. How sad would that be. 

I wish the writing for Ballum wasn’t so heavy with turning literally every gay man with a name into a temporary love rival to bait reactions out of fans. Imagine if they were introducing women onto the show with the sole purpose of being tools to shipper drama. It’s fucking disgusting what the show is doing and I’m sick of seeing this shit.

This was the time to deal with Ben being deaf but apparently we’re back to the gangster shit. Maybe to retcon Ben being a human trafficker but still ridiculously boring gangster drama.

I can’t get over the fact Max Bowden is a much better actor when he knows he’s representing people in the Ballum and deaf storyline. He really didn’t give a fuck about any of the gangster stuff lmao

You’ll hate me for saying this but a bit of that scene of Stuart threatening Ben when he’s deaf thing kinda had “I smell queer” vibes to it. I mean, they are brother and they were threatening Ben both times.