Dear USAmericans,

WHY HAS IT TAKEN THIS LONG FOR ME TO LEARN THAT WILLOW WAS CANCELED???????????????????

WHAT THE FLIPPING HELL

Kit: *hands Jade a glass of water*

Jade: *drinking it* Thanks... What’s this for?

Kit: Elora says you get thirsty around me.

Jade: *chokes on water* WHAT-

I am going to say something that might piss people on this site off, and that is that the stabbing at a Taylor Swift themed event in Southport does not exist in a vacuum.

It exists in a world where a joke about bringing a nail gun to the Eras tour to shoot fans gets 400k likes on TikTok, or where a reel about crashing a plane full of Swifties gets 200k likes on Instagram. It exists in a world where, on this very website, the one that promotes itself as rational and reasonable, someone says that "Taylor Swift and her fans should all die violent horrible deaths" and people applauded it. It exists in a world where, during TTPD release week men were in Swifties' comment sections declaring they would beat their daughters and girlfriends if they ever so much as listened to one of her albums. And it exists in a world where this week, fans of a TV show (which I will not name because that is not the point) sent death threats to a girl on Twitter for daring to be a fan of both their beloved show and Taylor Swift.

I don't give a fuck what your opinion of Taylor Swift is. I don't care if you think her music is grating, I don't care if you think she is the worst thing to happen to humanity since Eve ate the god damn apple. This is the dark side of stan culture that no-one talks about; where dislike of an artist becomes so obsessive that it becomes normal, even funny, to joke about killing their fans, because "it's just online, it's just a joke". It isn't. It is rarely ever "just online".

And yes I am going to be That Person and say that you can complain about Swift's brand of feminism and debate her position as a feminist icon all day long, at the end of the day, her name is still synonymous with girls. It doesn't take a genius to work out who this event was geared at.

I am not going to sit and claim that by simply not liking Taylor Swift you directly caused this. I would encourage you to step back, look at the bigger picture of stan culture, including obsessive dislike of an artist, and ask yourself how much this culture has enabled this. If making jokes on tiktok about killing someone over a pop star is normalised, how much of a leap is it to attacking kids with a knife at a fan event?

and of course there is the fact that the british media didn't even wait until those kids were buried before using this event to spread their racist, anti-immigrant agenda despite the race of the attacker not being known. all I can say to that is I am sickened and disappointed but not shocked.

you ever had a dream so realistic that you wake up mad because it was not real

Very interested in how Qimir kind of let his mask fall when he realized “Mae” was actually Osha in ep 2. Like immediately when he says “you look just like her”, his whole demeanor changes from the jovial non threatening potion master that he played for Mae, into a character much more similar to the version we see when his literal mask falls in ep 5.

i will never NOT miss willow

Reading tons of quotes that say "your person will find you". Okay???? When??? Preparations must be made

Willow may have only graced our screens for a short time but I hope it's presence left an impact on the fantasy genre. I would love to see more fantasy shows that are less dark and gritty and more fun and adventurous, less a reflection of our own world and more a form of magical escapism.

I want to see more swashbuckling swordfights, more fantastical magical creatures, enchanted worlds and epic quests. Also more fantasy that doesn't take itself too seriously or feel the need to be "historically accurate" for the sake of drama cause god forbid a character get a happy ending these days.

Also I just want Willow back, GIVE IT BACK TO ME DISNEY

Every now and then I have to remind myself that madlyn is in fact canon and not yet another delusional ship that I made up