Yeah, I think that's it! And the dad encouraging Barry to go for it was odd. I forget whether he knew Iris already had a serious relationship at that point, but the whole thing just fed into my overall feeling that Barry is unbelievably self centered and somehow the entire universe twists in knots to accommodate this.
Yeah and like There was LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG WITH IRIS' SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP The guy was nice, they were happy together, any normal person would have said that's it, we're fine.
TAZ fandom is having a Lucretia Week with daily Lucretia-centric prompts! Yay! I can't wait to see more content featuring one of my favorite characters! This is gonna be gr- lucretiaweek tumblr: I don't know why I expected any different.
I don't even ship Lucretia with anyone, but now I'm gonna have to go read a bunch of Magcretia fanfic out of spite.
A weird age gap? Aren't they like... the same age. And 'knew her when she was way younger' is THE WHOLE CREW THAT WAS THEIR DEAL.
Spoiler: taz spoilers I think they're counting Lucretia's Wonderland aging as an age gap. Which is just. Something. I'm wondering why they find all those ships creepy but are OK with Lupcretia? Since, you know, Lup is an elf and was like a hundred years old at the beginning of the mission.
Honestly this kind of bullshit makes me so pissed and spiteful, like I wanna do a fuckin' counter because honestly, fuck! It makes me fuckin', mad! The other point tho is Big Fear that there might be a resulting pile on and I don't think I could take that
i talked about one of the things that would happen in a fic i'm planning on writing, and someone (someone i don't actually know that well, someone who basically just stumbled upon it randomly) then proceeded to (wrongly) predict what would happen after it in the fic and say the fic would be shitty. and now i'm upset and embarrassed. and i'm not gonna tell them off because that just sounds like a recipe for digging myself deeper into drama. :P
Wait, Magnus wasn't interested in romance? Magnus who was MARRIED? That was kind of an important thing in his whole character arc. I guess they could be talking about the Bureau of Balance years, what with Magnus being a widower, but that leaves a whole century pre-Julia for Lucretia and Magnus to get it on.
The SU fandom is the only fandom that's ever made me stop watching a show. I liked the show itself and I still think it's good, but I just kinda stopped watching because I got sick of the fandom drama, and I wasn't even especially involved in the fandom. I might pick it up again at some point, maybe once it's finished or something.
Appropo of a very aggravating conversation on Youtube... Warhammer 40,000 fans who think the Imperium is a totally cool and reasonable government.
AO3 tags: Everyone Is Gay, except [name] cause fuck that guy My kingdom for the day when the Venn diagram of "characters I personally approve of" and "characters who are allowed to be members of any marginalized group" stops being a fucking circle in fandom. Let queer people be terrible too, dammit. (At least it's not the person who lovingly listed their queer headcanons for DAII and then grudgingly said that Anders was bisexual, they guess, since that's canon and all BUT HE'S STILL THE ONLY CIS GUY AND HE SUCKS OKAY.)
there was a really amusing occurrence of this phenomenon involving temple from red vs blue that i observed on tumblr. here's a paraphrase: user 1: temple is the only cishet. (tags about how they hate temple) user 2: have you seen him and biff? gay!* user 1: temple is Gay and Trans * not canon queer like anders, just very very subtexty!!! and just... okay, wow... i don't know how i feel about this development. i mean, it's awesome that they saw my otp, but it sucks that people make the characters they hate cishet and it sucks when people hate my fave.
ok so, one of my favorite things is 'hypothetical new kid superhero team' (for DC) but. no one does the lineup right - for one thing, they all forget about Suren, and if they add in a girl at all it's usually a girl who is in fact way younger than the others (most often Milagro Reyes, who is like, 4-5 years younger than the others, or occasionally Lian Harper, who is probably an infant or toddler if she exists at all.) (ideal team comp is, in my opinion, Robin (Damian Wayne ver.), Superboy (Jon Kent ver.), Maya Ducard, Suren Darga, and a fifth female character. Ideally such a fifth female character would be friends with Superboy first or independent from the others, and have superpowers that aren't already covered by the rest (in my head I usually go with the flower power girl from that Wonder Woman annual, because she has a neat powerset, and she's probably in the right age range, and then you get 3 kid characters tied to the Big Three heroes.)) (i don't want maps or lian to fill the fifth slot b/c they don't have superpowers, and in terms of team comp maya and damian fill the 'really well-trained normal human' slot p thoroughly. then you have jon to be the team strong guy/flying brick, and suren for magical shenanigans. )
also it's still such bullshit that teen titans comics had damian like 'i don't have any friends to invite to my birthday' *broods on a rooftop* when like. maya and maps and suren exist (suren admittedly would need the concept of 'birthday' explained to him first, but he'd come.) and there's no way Maya doesn't know when it is, and she is a remarkably resourceful and insightful kid, so i very much doubt she WOULDN'T come. even if he didn't specifically tell her she'd show up at the manor.
Not sure where this goes, but. When translators try to fancy up their translation, but the way in which they do it makes it completely not match the source material. Case in point: the newer chapters of Otoyomegatari, which is set in non-modern times somewhere in central Asia, and has characters using phrases like "I'm only hatin' cause I'm jealous".
