Actually, people are good by nature and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

When you sneeze in public, strangers will say “bless you”, even though they don’t know you.

When you ask for directions on the street someone will show you the way, even though they have nothing to gain from it.

People squeeze their legs against the chair so you don’t have to hop over them on your way to your seat in the theatre, and make funny faces to make babies laugh, and purposefully step on leaves to hear them scrunch, and hold the door open for someone leaving behind them, and ask what floor you’re heading to when you enter the elevator, and send others photos of things that reminded them of them, and recommend each other songs, and ask if anyone else wants a coffee because they’re getting one, and make videos teaching how to sew a button, and wish on shooting stars, and share fun facts, and listen to others rant about things they don’t even understand, and let you cross the street first, and give a bit of their food to others, and laugh at jokes they don’t find funny to make you feel good, and listen to kids talk for hours about nonsense, and let you know your keys fell from your pocket, and they may be strangers, but with every little gesture they’re saying “I love you, I love you, I love you”.

God, I needed to read this today. Humanity is overwhelmingly full of hope and kindness and it’s very easy to forget that these days.

I will always choose to believe that there is more good in this world than I can ever know.

collection

How my dad decided to tell me that our guests had left the house

I love you hated female characters. I love you female characters who are flawed. I love you female characters who mess up and try to do the right thing after. I love you female characters who get the undeserved vitriol from fans. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made as a child. I love you female characters who people blame for ripping apart their ships instead of the larger forces that be. I love you female characters who get all the hate as the male characters who do worse in canon get absolutely none. I love you female characters who get hated on because they told a man “no.”

lucy knight in episode 05x05 "masquerade"

ER
John Carter + Lucy Knight
episode 05x15 “the storm” pt. 2

Peter Benton -> John Carter -> Lucy Knight

1.19 — “Love’s Labor Lost”

And the force summoned Teresa Nemman's body into the woods tonight.
Yes! But Billy Miles took her there. Summoned by some alien impulse. That's it!

The X-Files (1993-2018) | 1.01

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It's rage inducing, because we've HAD short run series with huge fandoms before, because they took the time to let the shows marinate in the fandom space, giving us time to question and theorize and fucking do art, and fics and get in slap fights over where the plot was going.

Arcane would be fucking CANDY to this Hellsite on par with Doctor Who, If they had spaced out the episodes and let it run for three months.

The 9th doctor had 13 fucking episodes. THIRTEEN.

Bingeing is supposed to be for people who want to wait. the show itself can't GROW an audience if the audience is watching it all at once.

The episode ends, on a cliffhanger, or even if not, it leaves you wanting more. But there won't be more until next week. So you rush to your computer to get your fill online, discussing ideas, squeeing over the good, talking fanfic an and what ifs and searching art...talking to people, making friends maybe, even more excited for next week's episode and what it may bring...

With binging, there's a bit of a high at the end, some squeeing and art, but there's no theories because it's over, or discussion will only last so long between seasons because the show didn't really marinate in the brain the right way, and the gap will make you lose enthusiasm as you are encouraged to binge something else in the meantime.

It's created this...flighty feeling in fandom, and why some people don't even seem to care about characters beyond shipping or surface level representation: they're only in fandom for so long, because the new method is to watch it all and move on.