13. Merlin Was So Mean To Mordred? Every Single Time? Like I Dunno Merlin, Maybe If You Hadnt Treated

13. Merlin was so mean to Mordred? Every single time? Like I dunno Merlin, maybe if you hadn’t treated Mordred like the devil incarnate then he might not have turned against you, bud!

14. Gwaine and Percival’s mission at the end that really sort of fucked everything up even more than necessary.

15. No one was ever once suspicious by the amount of people that flew off of their horses around Merlin. I get that they were usually distracted but. It can’t be a common occurrence except of course when Merlin’s there.

BBC Merlin things that still confuse and anger me:

1. Both Gwen’s father and brother died yet they were hardly ever mentioned again afterwards and she barely even mourned

2. Why Aithusa felt the need to revive Morgana that one time when she died, it would’ve saved us all a lot of trouble if that didn’t happen

3. How was Mordred like 10 when we first meet him but then magically almost the same age as Merlin and Arthur in season 5 (to the point where people actually ship Merdred)

4. How did Arthur just like, completely forget that Mordred was a Druid??????

5. Agrivane and Uther as characters in general (see also: Morgause - also why are there so many characters name that starts with Mor-??)

6. WHY DIDNT MERLIN JUST TELL MORGANA HE HAD MAGIC TOO LIKE EVERYTHING WOULDVE BEEN FINE AND SHE PROBABLY WOULDNT HAVE TURNED EVIL

7. Arthur and Gwen never finding out that it was the enchanted bracelet that made her kiss Lancelot so they just lived their lives thinking Gwen was an adulterer

8. How no one (especially Merlin who thought he was saving him) ever found out that Uther died bc Morgana used that anti-heal thing and not (directly) bc of the assassin

9. The Ending(tm)

Do you know how disappointing it is to start reading an absurdist play just to discover that the singular female character has one philosophy and it is “seduce men to get what I want” whilst many of the men make fun of her despite all sleeping with her?

I just love thinking about the scene where Crowley and Aziraphale hit Anathema from Anathema’s point of view. A bickering gay couple (one who’s wearing sunglasses at night) hits her and her bicycle with a car from the 1920s in the middle of the night. The bicycle and her are perfectly fine. The gay couple offer to drive her home, Bicycle Race by Queen is playing. One second her bike has new gears, the next it doesn’t. They drop her off. One calls the bike a “velocipede.” She was so confused by it all she forgot her super special book, poor thing. 

The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children. Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.

Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.

If the writer says they love each other, it’s because they love each other.

Tired: Emo: The Musical is the only emo representation we need in musical theatre

Wired: A new musical but instead of writing the story and songs at the same time, some poor soul takes the most beloved MCR songs and writes a story that incooperates them perfectly (like Mamma Mia!)