Ok But Like...why Does Skintaker Look Like The Type Of Person To Have That Rich Pink Girl Bedroom Aesthetic

Ok but like...why does skintaker look like the type of person to have that rich pink girl bedroom aesthetic when he goes to sleep or smth....his bed would literally be damn huge and shit

How do I tell people that sometimes if you turn your shipping brain off you can interact with media better

bitches will be like “i love my blorbos they mean so much to me 🥺 🥺 🥺” and then draw them in complete and utter anguish having the worst time of their lives.

i cant stop thinking about this recently but imo i think that there is indeed a misguided or straight up incorrect way to interpret media

but fandom has corrupted audience culture so much that now we have stranger things erasing the scene of jonathon taking creepy pictures of nancy because the creators didn't want fans to be "mad" and we can't have anything invoke negative emotions at risk of making someone uncomfortable as if storytelling isn't frequently used as a device to spark discussion about injustices and other similar topics

fandoms want ships and fluff and quotes you can put on a t-shirt and memeable scenes and absolutely zero (0) discomfort and of course there's nothing wrong with that, that's why we still have cartoons and romances and that's why we talk about bad movies and why we want to see ourselves as these protagonists. but it just drives me nuts how fandom continues to insist upon "stop shaming me for my ships end cringe culture" while also in the same breath saying phantom of the opera is a romance

like. fandom sees media through a singular lense. when media is often more than just one idea, one thought, one storyline. media exists to challenge your thoughts. some media exists to be mindless fluff. others exist to intentionally discomfort you. some exist to present a bizarre scenario and ask you "wouldn't this be fucked up or what". the whole spectrum no matter what has the capability to change how you think in one way or another. since when did we start insisting that debate and conversation through art was problematic

edit the nancy picture thing was false, but there's still a change being made to continuity which is still like, stupid, who actually gives that much of a shit

screams forever also thinking about how the cop slowly followed my partner from the laundromat parking lot into the grocery store parking lot last week… just fuckin drove right by him when he parked though, just staring at him… they are letting us know we aren’t safe here and it’s getting hotter every day and we live in a smelly hot barn with no running water and our car is falling apart so we can’t even get out!! it’s not safe and we CAN’T GET OUT

 Candle Cove “episode” idea that’s been rattling around in my brain:

The Laughingstock crew gets stranded on that abandoned burned island that’s mentioned on the wiki, and must find a way out before Skintaker finds them (he is also on the island for reasons not made immediately clear). This is difficult though because the island is Very Haunted by restless spirits, and Red Mary left this kind of…dark energy after she burned the place years prior. The island has a weird effect on people because of this; dark despair and paranoia seems to overpower people who spend too long there, and they’ll start hallucinating their worst fears, hearing the voices of dead loved ones, ect. It kinda works like that episode of Avatar where the gang is stuck in that swamp? Anyway a lot of character details/lore/hints at backstories are revealed by this, like there’s maybe a part where Percy is terrified of an illusion of what seems to be a memory of his (the memory of most of the Tarantula Crew dying, but only a vague glimpse of it), and its the first hint we get of his past involvement with the Tarantula Crew, as well as the first time the audience sees Thade. idk I have more thoughts on this idea that I’ll probs post later.