fuckitimfangirling:

sc0rpi0karma:

fuckitimfangirling:

I actually despise cheaters, especially when there’s no valid reason to cheat like Silara (TW: abusive SO is like my one exception). So yes, I did. Even when I write about cheating in my one fanfic with adultery, I low-key hate on the characters’ actions, even tho I’m the one writing it. Tessa’s reaction was totally fine to me, which idk, might make me seem a bit nuts, but idc. Fuck cheaters. Fuck Silara. That kind of betrayal messes people up and really hurts them and gives them trust issues.

To me the act of cheating isn’t the deplorable action, it’s the betrayal such as with Sias and Amara. I find I’m a lot more tolerable to it when the offending party(s) own up to it and show actual remorse and take actual responsibility. None of that “sorry, but we couldn’t help ourselves” or “we’re in love!” crap where they think that love can be used as an umbrella to be a terrible person. That’s why I get so annoyed when Amara says that her only crime was falling in love because falling for Silas is actually quite low on her list of offenses. I mean I’m pretty sure she was in on the whole “let’s manipulate Qetsiyah into making the immortality elixir and steal it from her and run off together leaving her heart broken” plan so she obviously wasn’t a good person period for participating in that and “falling in love” was clearly NOT HER ONLY CRIME. Love isn’t the end all be all of excuses to be terrible to someone. Seriously, why were we supposed to buy that? And why was this written to be an epic love story? It was two shitty people do a shitty thing to someone and pay the price of being shitty, the end. There are better ways to incorporate cheating in a love story and this was not even close to being good. But honestly it was all pretty par for the course with Plec’s warped notion of love and romance (at least when it comes to writing), the most surprising part to me is how many people bought into it however this aired at a time when she had a little bit of credibility, so why not?

Lol I’m like…pathological about adultery almost, I accept very few reasons for doing it and idfc if ppl own it (opposite of my usual mindset). I hate, hate, hate the absolute disloyalty of it, which is one of the reasons why Silara was an immediate no thx for me. Not to mention that it was a ship based on misogynoir – doing the WOC so damn wrong, scorning her for Becky Basic (implying that woc aren’t as worthy of love as ww), tricking her, insinuating that she was the crazy one for reacting like she did (angry black woman trope – I know the actress that played Tessa wasn’t black, but still), etc. Plus the reasons you listed, Silas and Amara were just crap ppl. Fuck that shit. There are a billion other ways to write Silara as an epic LS w/o shitting on WOC and still give Tessa a good reason doing what she did (i.e. she and Silas were enemies and her actions were to avenge the lover/loved ones he took from her). Not even Dobsley chemistry made Silara worth it for me, Plec could keep that mess.

The thing that always got me about Qetsiyah’s treatment is that even after you get her side if the story she’s still treated as though she was in the wrong, but even worse is they kept depowering her. Like she went from bad ass bitch you should never piss off to pathetic girl with a grudge still pining after Silas — I wanted to see her kick his ass and wipe that cocky self righteous grin off his face. They even depowered her physically because honestly how does a woman who created true immortality, the cure, the otherside have trouble beating Silas or anyone for that matter, in a magic fight. Granted that would make her OP AF but she was only in five episodes and none of her anger/revenge was directed at the MFG, so why would it matter? She should have been able to display waay more power than she did on the show. That’s honestly what pissed me off the most is that what power she was given was easily stripped away and treated as though it was trivial — as though her feelings were trivial as well which really tells you a lot about Plec and her views on WOC (and it’s not coincidental that Bonnie has the same exact treatment and Qetsiyah’s her distant ancestor)

Also I found it slightly insulting that no one thought to ask her, the creator, how the cure worked, like seriously, why are you getting that information from Nadia when you could literally go right to the source.