People Used To Comment On Web Comics.

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

SOMEONE USING A SCREENSHOT FROM MY BROTHERS POST??? I LOVE THAT

Joseph, you okay there, buddy?

"What's wrong with my car..."

{ Picture nicked from this video! }

I hate that planned obsolescence is starting to reach fandoms. I hate that fandoms are starting to die after two, three years, I hate that whenever you stop getting content that means the fandom will die and be gone.

I need people to stop trying to brush off old interests as being 'cringe' as soon as you lose interest, or worse: make it seem like it's imoral to like something that they themselves held so dear before.

Fandoms are meant to last for years and years, the moment content stops being created is the moment we truly thrive because we keep creating the content ourselves the way we love it and expand on the things that are already there for us.

I don't care if you lost interest on something, it's fine and normal even, but stop trying to blame and make fun of people who still do love the fandom and the content and the things we can create.

I need people to enjoy fandom again

Sarah Heathcliff

making this impulsive post just to say how much I fucking love Sarah from The Mandela Catalogue.

I LOVE HER, she’s just so fucking badass and caring and just djdhdjdhsjhdhddHDKDHDJDH I LOVE HER SO MUCH AAAAAGHH RAAAAAAAAHHH

anyways I genuinely love the writing of her, she’s so serious and work focused yet she’s still very caring and concerned for those around her. And for some reason I barley see much people characterizing her caring nature, and it’s not like it’s subtle, it’s right in your face! I mean- at least to me she doesn’t even seem to really consider Adam a friend? Like- they don’t seem to be friends is what I’m saying, I do have evidence to support this but this is a ramble post so Im not doing that. But at the very least they aren’t to close yet Sarah still actively worries and cares for him! “How about you make a memorial video for the only person that ever cared about.” My ass! Sarah is very confrontational about things and can get heated so she can come across as being uncaring! But we can see that she DOES care about Adam and worry about him when she sent a voicemail to him. She said to “please don’t make me have to worry about you, please.” The fact that she even would worry shows that she cares! and the fact she even sent that voicemail shows she already was worrying about him!

and then we see her with Evelin who she at this point doesn’t even know that well! Yet she still chose to comfort her and try to console her! She was basically just letting Evelin vent to her!

of course there’s also how she is with her brother Mark who she seems to fiercely love and care about despite her being only 3 when he died and just in general a lot of other things but I don’t really want this to get too long.

im sure people already knew all of this, I mean- it’s right there, but it’s interesting how not much people show it.

idk I genuinely love Sarah so much and she has genuinely helped me whenever I got anxious. I’d just think of her and I’d feel better.

also Sarah would 100% adopt random children on the side of the road. She’d probably snatch up a bunch of orphaned babies and be the best fucking mother to them. She probably has grabbed a little lost child out of Thatchers arms and just took off running, yelling “fuck you!” To him /hj.

anyways I love Sarah so fucking much, I love her and Evelin and Adam and Thatcher and just AGDJDBDJRHFUUD I LOVE ALL OF THEM!

There’s a lot more Sarah related things I wanted to say like a headcanon/ theory-ish thing I have on why she cares so much about Mark and why she’s so burnt out and in general like that.

or her similarities to Thatchers I’ve noticed that make the fact that Sarah hates him more heart breaking.

also please forgive me for any mistakes, this was very impulsive.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK👏👏👏

This is a vent and don't come screaming at me but I'm genuinely uncomfy when people compare "Say No to This" and "There Are Other Ways". Maria wasn't holding Alexander's men hostage. Alexander got with her of his own volition and the blackmail occurred only after they were going "steady". Both in musical and in real life. The "Reynold's Pamphlet" exists (Summary of it). Odysseus needed to get his men back. He was afraid of Circe. Maria had very little power over Alexander, she was way younger than him and already in an abusive situation. Alexander is not like Odysseus in this way. These two situations and songs are not comparable. (This isn't to hate Circe btw. Coercion is fucked, but she's also an immortal goddess. Every single immortal has "bad and good" moments and this is one of her bad. Morally Gray. If you're a fan of Circe, good for you. Just understand that this was fucked up. I think Apollo is neat but that doesn't mean that what he did to Cassandra was okay. Circe is cool but that doesn't mean what she did here was okay either. We good? Good.) Or when it gets portrayed as romantic. It's not. It's so so not. And it never should be.

There are lyrics that Circe sings in "There Are Other Ways" that are:

"Don't be afraid,

Think of your past.

Don't break from this"

before kind of cutting off to join Odysseus in "So Much Power."

Don't break from this? Don't break from this! Wow! What romance! I feel safe 🙃

Odysseus says "I'm just a man. Forgive me." Just a man usually only gets said when there are gods involved. Zeus tells him to kill baby Astynax. A god is telling him to do something he doesn't want to do but he does it because of the consequences that would happen otherwise. "My Goodbye" has "Just A Man" in how Athena tells him he's just a man and that's when she leaves. A god is involved and he's not happy but he can't control Athena. He says it again during this song before he "gives in". It's always acknowledging that he's just a man. A regular man now tossed into a world of immortals and monsters. THAT'S THE POINT! The "man" part isn't saying that "he can't help himself" because he's a man! It's because he's mortal!

I know it's mostly a joke and I don't hate anyone who has made the joke but ick. 😞