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u like hanna but not caroline?

alright friend. let me be clear 😃.

Hanna and Caroline are different even if they have a typical girly tastes. Hanna was a good friend, good girlfriend to each of her partners, and never distracted from the main plot since she was (and all 3 main girls) were essential to the plot. Whereas Caroline wasn’t as needed her storyline seemed done in s2 outside of her getting kidnapped, tortured and dating someone new 3-8…no one ever addressed Caroline accepting gifs or Klaus help/enabling some emotional connection to him while still having some ties to Tyler.

my issues with Caroline are because of writing not the character type itself though I’ve faced harassment for 6 months+ because someone couldn’t understand. The narratives that were pushed through Caroline are why she gets the criticisms.

Ex: Caroline and Bonnie should be on the same level as characters since they aren’t the leads.(Elena,Damon, Stefan level…)However, Caroline being white and Julie’s favorite to write for(she has admitted this) she’s placed on a level that Bonnie isn’t on. Caroline doesn’t push the plot or lore the way Bonnie/The Bennett’s had ex: The Petrovas/Bennetts, The Mikaelson’s had a Bennett, Grams helped the Gemini coven etc etc.. Caroline gets the screetime and romances that gives her visibility she shouldn’t have had over Bonnie. When it comes to Bonnie’s emotions it becomes clear in those smaller moments she sees her feelings as a burden while Caroline we get all of them so forefront

Bonnie’s written off by millions of fans as a diversity hire for Kat and plot-device to everyone…when her family is apart of the lore! You have white witches like Freya who’s tasked up until s5 with saving her family, Davina was the savior to Kol’s problems and Hope literally calls herself a martyr in legacies. She’s the strongest of her friend group thus makes all the sacrifices and becoming the tribrid is one in itself.

So what was the difference from Bonnie/The Bennett’s and the other women from the fans to the writers? Being black or brown (in Qetsiyah’s case) I don’t hate Caroline but what I do dislike is how her gain is all from Bonnie being lessened. None of these witches should’ve been tasked with serving anyone. I think it would’ve been cool as fuck to see them all team up. Women > but you know this isn’t the place for that. On Caroline I tag my posts as anti to be respectful to other fans. No one wants to enter a tag seeing hate for someone they like, tumblr etiquette….

The feminine/snarky/fun character type was never my issue with Caroline. Brooke Davis IS one of my favorite characters of all time too & she embodies the feminine/snarky/fun but serious type. Hanna has her moments where she isn’t the best either but she was never a self-insert. That’s the divide here.

one thing fandoms love to do is invent something and then get mad at people for not agreeing that it happened

NAMJOON ON THE SAXOPHONE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 HOBI'S LITTLE EARS TUCKED UNDER HIS LITTLE GREEN BEANIE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 TAE SUDDENLY BUILT LIKE A FRIDGE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND ALL OF THEM HUGGING SO SWEETLY 😭😭😭😭😭😭 SEOKJIN IS HOME!!!!!!

I saw a post wondering why people write whump and it got me to thinking why I originally was fascinated by any whumpy content as a child.

I think for me, it was an escapist way to validate my emotional pain. Growing up, I felt awful and anxious and terrified all the time, but because I wasn't being beaten or physically neglected or abused in a way that was obviously visible to others, it didn't feel real. It didn't feel like I was "allowed" to have those awful twisted-up feelings. And when I tried to talk about them to anyone, I was always dismissed -- there's nothing to be scared of, there's nothing to cry about, what's wrong with you?

Watching characters go through awful things and imagining myself going through those awful things was cathartic. If I were caught in a snowstorm and dying of hypothermia, or rushed into emergency surgery from a burst appendix, or abducted by aliens, or kidnapped and tortured -- then these awful feelings inside me would make sense. I'd be "allowed" to feel sad and scared.

There's also the intoxicating allure of helplessness. When you're parentified as a child, it feels like everything falls on your shoulders. You're ten years old and responsible for keeping your parents happy and their marriage together on top of perfect grades and perfect behavior. Wouldn't it be nice if you were put in a situation where you didn't have to do anything? Wouldn't it be nice in an awful way to be laid up in a hospital bed with some horrible disease or tied to a chair awaiting rescue or hypnotized into a trance?

Like the only way I could imagine resting my anxious brain was being kidnapped or mind controlled!

And then if the whump includes comfort, that's even better, because not only was it totally valid for you to feel awful, other people are actually trying to make you feel better! They bring you blankets and hot drinks and medicine instead of telling you you're being dramatic and to suck it up.

So for me, that's a lot of why whump can be so comforting.

Okay I’m getting beyond fed up.

Yeah yeah it’s a free internet and all that jazz, but… b*ddie shippers need to STOP stealing shit from all of the other goddamn ships!

And I’m not talking about using a common trope that another ship has already used. That’s fair game.

I’m talking about specific ship moments for Bathena or Madney that they co-opt for their ship, thus stripping the original purpose of the scene OF ALL MEANING!

Like first of all, can you people STOP turning the Madney moment of Maddie first saying she thought Chim was cute into a b*ddie moment???? B*ck assumed she meant Edd*e because everywhere they go the chicks are hanging off of him, not because he is attracted to Edd*e!!! It was an adorable and sweet moment for Madney, the first hint of the perfection that was to come, and b*ddie shippers have to appropriate it because nothing matters except for their stupid-ass ship.

But more importantly, and the reason for this whole post…

I have seen no less than two different gifsets stealing Bobby’s “There’s that thing people say, ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you’” conversation with Athena and plastering it all over the scene of Edd*e getting shot.

And doing that literally strips that quotation of all meaning!

Like first of all, Bobby and Athena are married!!! They have committed to each other for life! B*ck and Edd*e are only friends! So stealing that scene adds something to the relationship that is straight up not there.

But more importantly, the reason that scene resonates so much with people is because of the context of these two characters. Bobby and Athena both lost their first love - the person they were going to spend the rest of their lives with. And what’s more, they both blamed themselves for it. After all, if Bobby hadn’t been consumed by his addiction, Marcy would still be alive. If Athena hadn’t told Emmett to take a detour on his way home, he would still be alive.

So for these two people, to be in that kind of situation that Bobby was in is a type of pain and horror that b*ddie could never understand. (and yes I understand that Edd*e has his own baggage when it comes to Shannon, but that still is a very different situation and also… doesn’t apply because the quotation is used from Buck’s perspective).

Bobby knows what it feels like to have a giant emptiness inside of him that used to be filled with love and companionship, and with every scream and every harsh thud he genuinely believed that Athena was being ripped away from him and that emptiness was going to return. And then that gunshot and the deafening sound of absolute silence… he genuinely thought he had lost her in that moment. He thought he was once again facing a future where he was alone.

And that entire conversation was foreshadowing for when Bobby got trapped in that building with Ethan. For all Athena knew, she was too late. She might have been walking through a burning building only to find his lifeless body. In that moment, she too was facing a future of once again feeling alone and unloved. The entire time she was walking through that building, she was dealing with the exact same sense of potential loss Bobby was during that ride in the engine.

They both had a moment where they were dancing on the precipice of the absolute agony of loss, and that conversation explains it perfectly. “I fell into that darkness, that misery, that grief once before. It still surrounds me, because you can never truly rise from that kind of loss. But you are my shining light that keeps the darkness at bay, and without you the darkness will just feel all the deeper.”

Meanwhile if you try to appropriate those words for B*ddie??? They are meaningless.

Instead of the layers of meaning and emotion they just mean “I thought you were going to die and I was scared.”

So not only are B*ddies stealing things from Madney and Bathena, they are literally stripping them of all context, all meaning, all depth, just so that they can stick their fave white boy’s faces on it.

And I am fucking DONE.

It’s extremely saddening to hear that Palestinians no longer have access to the internet, barely have any food / water, along with the women having a lack of health care products for them. If you are in any way still standing with Israel, hard block me now because I will not allow Israel supporters to be on this blog. If you are going to turn a blind eye to all the innocent lives Palestine has lost, the separations of families caused by bombings, get off my blog. This is about the difference in religion, it’s ethnic cleansing. The same way the USA is a colony on indigenous land, not a country, is the same way Israel would never ever, be a country. If you have to wipe out indigenous people off their land to be a country, then you obviously don’t have the power to start and hold a country.

I am not a religious person, but I have been praying for the longest of times that those in Palestine are at least met with generosity and mercy. They deserve peace, after the 75 years of violence.

all i wanna do is lie in the sun!!!! read my books!!!! daydream about fictional scenarios!!!!! love without fear of abandonment!!!!!! smell like vanilla!!!!!!! cry over great poetry!!!!! sit on the grass for hours on end!!!!! not care about how others perceive me!!!!!! find god in the smallest of things!!!!! be free of guilt and shame!!!!