"The marauders bullied Severus so bad" "They weren't comparable enemies, Severus was just protecting himself"
Riddle me this; If Snape really was bullied, why would he go to the shack?
If your bully came to you saying "hey, why don't you come to the local HAUNTED HOUSE in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? There's something special for you š" WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU COME?
I love omniverse but I hate what they did with Benkai. It could have worked if they didn't write it the way they did but I can't stand how it's meant to be like a bickering couple trope. I hate those kind of couples and it was too last minute. I just don't like how she treats Bens aliens as if they aren't him I know it's meant to be a jokey thing but it just comes off as rude. Like oh no I meant your alien. And it sometimes really isn't in a joking tone for her. 1/2
2/2 I feel like that sort of thing could cause a lotta resentment. I also feel like it could give kids the wrong impression for relationships. Like the way Kai treats Ben should not be shown as good at all. Bickering couples rarely ever works. It might give kids the idea that hey it's okay to be rude and condescending to someone you like. It's that dumb girls treat boys they like badly trope as well. Which has the same problems as bickering couples
I like that you brought up the fact that their relationship should not be framed as good at all, and I would add especially since they're also trying to frame them as an "endgame" relationship. That makes normalizing it in animation even worse. Pushing through borderline abuse for some true love destiny hanging over your heads? Lol let's not glorify that narrative.
When I talk about Benkai's "dynamic," I'm usually coming from the perspective of Ben not being deserving of this kind of end (game) for his story because he's the best boy, but you've got the right idea in saying this could influence people in real life. Absolutely.
iām literally going to end it all
watching Heroes Rising after what happened in chapter 431 feels so different *sobs*
(kofi request) izuku beat her comphet <3 they're girlfriends <3
not Halloween yet but it's October so it's valid.. Snape's Gang w their little costumes in a muggle au
ekko loving jinx or powder is a meaningless argument cuz the entire point of episode 7 is for both ekko and you the viewer to learn "jinx" and "powder" are the same person and ekko loves that personā not their good side or their bad side, but the whole package.
that's why their love song is called my best enemy, and talks about the worst blessings and the best curses. and that's how he can talk jinx off the ledge. the contradiction of being in love with your enemy is the entire basis of their story.
powder at one point literally asks him point blank "so you want me to change?" and he flat out says no: cuz he knows everything that makes 'powder' powder given one favorable set of circumstances also makes 'jinx' jinx given another set of unfavorable circumstances.
there is no powder or jinx, it's just ekko and his blue-haired paramour, in every timeline.
Imagine someone like Petunia poking at every raw nerve: mocking your looks, poverty, and familyārelentlessly pressing your deepest insecurities. Be honest how many of you would actually keep your cool?? Yeah, thought so. But sure, letās hold nine-year-old Snape to standards most adults struggle to meet.
Sorryānot sorryāthat Severus Snape was nine. Sorry that he was neglected and surrounded by violence. Sorry he felt so insecure after being humiliated for wearing his motherās clothes, passed down out of poverty, in front of his peers. Sorry he didnāt have years of therapy to regulate his emotions and meet your impossibly high standards for 'acceptable reactions.'
But sure, keep judging a child just trying to survive in a world that offered him nothing but pain. If labeling a traumatized kid a 'Nazi' or 'terrorist' makes you feel superior, go ahead.
(How easy it is to condemn a child for being human.)
This is my love letter to the most beautiful ship I witnessed this year. Cheers to us Jayvik nation š«
Gotta love the implication from the marauders fans - if you're an ugly, white, poor kid - you deserve the many crimes committed against you. But if you are an ugly, black, poor kid - wait, that will make my faves look bad. My faves are saints because their victim is ugly and not part of a minority.
They're like Lily, laughing at someone who's being abused because the abusers are ~handsome~
Well, at the end of the day, these are people who engage in victim blaming, support and excuse bullying, and minimize sexual offensesāso itās not like we can expect much from them in terms of moral consistency or ethical coherence. The real issue isnāt that they think itās acceptable to abuse a white child; itās that they know they can justify it because no one will call them out the way they would if the child were a POC. The latter is visually more striking, carries far more controversial implications, and forces an uncomfortable conversation they donāt want to have.
The problem with these people is that they refuse to confront their own cognitive dissonance and the narrative of victim-blaming and perpetrator-exoneration that theyāve upheld for so long. They know that the moment the severity of the bullying Severus endured is laid out in a way that canāt be deniedābecause it will be too visually explicit to ignoreāthey wonāt have anywhere to hide. And honestly? I find that wonderful in one way, but on the other hand, itās pretty sad that this isnāt about genuine political awareness for them but rather a purely materialistic concern over their own image within the fandom.