Tag: spud opinions

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there’s likely a significant connection between the prevalence of depression in the United States and our extreme wealth disparity (we have the highest wealth inequality in the world, Sweden and the U.K. falling behind us); but it’s trendier to blame it on how we’re ‘too fat’, ‘don’t exercise enough’, and are not eating organic enough or w/e 🙂

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i’ll do another fic/fandom because why not:

i’ve started to see some really upsetting comments on other people’s fics; and it’s made me so cautious that i’ve just started moderating comments on my own.

like ‘

sad that authors think they can post a chapter their fic and then never update’ and like… of course they can?? it’s their fic, not yours. if you want control of an update schedule, then you need to write your own fic. simple as that. 

tl;dr it was a really long and upsetting thread in a fandom i write for (telling the author they ‘owed them an apology’, lmao) and i feel like there’s been this kind of shift in fandom behavior of like…demanding updates more often than you actually write a comment to the author about what you like about the story in the first place. 

and also a shift in like…spam like comments? i actually don’t agree with ‘any comment is better than none’. i would rather have none than ‘update!’ and i would rather have none than one-word comments that have no context like ‘bastard’ (you have to assume it’s one of your characters, but you don’t know which one?? if people aren’t going going to specify, sometimes it’s better to just…not say anything, tbh).

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guess i’ll just talk about tudors because i have so much meta-ish about it i’ve yet to discuss:

in retrospect, it kind of baffles me that they tried to make their character of henry more sympathetic in ways that were inaccurate (i.e. don’t reflect historic record) and less sympathetic (or, i guess here i mean likable more than sympathetic) in ways that were inaccurate.

for more sympathetic, we have, for instance:

  • anne of cleves is told that in addition to her pension for accepting the annulment, she is free to marry whoever she chooses (the former is true enough, the latter was certainly not)
  • henry fitzroy dying at like… five or six? henry crying over his lil cap (if they’d started earlier they could have had a scene of emotional anguish after the new year’s prince of 1511 died, but nooooooo,)
  • henry wearing black for mourning while anne wears yellow after koa’s death is announced (bitch wore yellow…and sorry, no, it wasn’t the ‘Spanish color of mourning’…)

for less sympathetic, we have:

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(since i’ve been rewatching friends lately and disagree with most DiscHorse abt it on here) chandler isn’t as bad as ross; i don’t think he’s that much better tho?

like…is impersonating someone else on the phone so that some poor, random woman thinks she’s being stood up (so you can ‘swoop in’ when she’s feeling ‘vulnerable’) and trying to sleep with her (chandler) that much worse than throwing away the message from some dude at a bar for your ex (ross)?Â