Fireburst-520 - Nothing To See Here.

I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.

I've never looked closely at your icon. Thought it was a pic of misha collins and that other guy in spn

please just send me normal hate mail

Star Trek makes me soooo crazy cuz you got Picard saying things like "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose."

And Data saying things like "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert."

And Bashir saying things like “You can't go through life trying to avoid getting a broken heart. If you do, it'll break from loneliness anyway."

And Odo sayings things like "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."

And I’m just supposed to be normal about it???

I'm so mad about Alien 3. (Spoilers ahead)

In Alien and Aliens, they could have made Ripley the only survivor. But in a deliberate subversion of the genre, they don't. She saves the cat. Then Newt, and Hicks, and Bishop. It's not much - the vast majority of the characters are still dead - but it's symbolic. That there's more than just death and hopelessness in the world, and in the end life goes on.

And then Alien 3 throws it out the window. I don't mind Ripley's death. It's a heroic sacrifice, and that makes it satisfying in its own way. But I can't forgive killing off Newt and Hicks and Bishop in the very beginning.

Up until this point, as dark as the movies were, they always ended on a bittersweet note of hope. The cat lives. The girl lives. And then Alien 3 tells us we shouldn't have believed it. "How dare you care about these characters," it says. "This is a horror series. Everyone dies. You should've known that." It's just so... nihilistic. So needlessly bleak. And it spits in the face of the series' themes.

I will forever live in denial about this. Not just because I liked the characters, but because I can't accept such a sudden change of tone, can't accept that Aliens' ending was all for naught, that I shouldn't have been foolish enough to care in the first place.

I won't accept nihilism. I can accept a bleak story, even a tragic one, but not a story without hope.

This is what the Death of the Author is for. Why we write fanfiction.

They lived because I said so.