Patrickthedope23 - Patrick, The Dope

i simply think that some of you are making up nonbinary, women, and men to make inflammatory posts about, if a nonbinary person or a woman or a man all of which are trans people were doing something in poor taste in my direction i would think "what an ugly little beast" and i would not think this is an indication of something true about this entire gender or about trans people as a whole

Summarizing what Ashleigh Crystal said in her story in spanish for latin america, my spanish isn't that great, but i'm gonna try anyway.

"well, I don't watch Star Wars for the politics, Star Wars doesn't have to be political-"

THE TWO ARE INTRINSICALLY LINKED. THEY ARE INSEPARABLE. THE SPACE IMPERIALS ARE FASCISTS AND ALSO THE UNDENIABLE BAD GUYS. HELLO. ARE YOU STUPID.

I still foolishly dabble in Twitter to see what some of my fellow animation enthusiasts are saying, and one particular SpongeBob tweet annoyed me so much that I’m not even gonna talk about it on that app. It was quoting a segment of the Season 12 episode Shell Games, a fairly standard and innocuous episode, and saying that the plot is an insult to Stephen Hillenburg’s legacy. That was the final straw for me. I can no longer trust the people who aren’t diehard SpongeBob geniuses with Stephen Hillenburg’s name. Especially when they’re blue checkmarks who can benefit from the clout SpongeBob fans will give them.

What was so insulting about Shell Games? Them revealing Patrick’s rock was actually a turtle shell, for one episode, out of nearly 600. I swear, you have less of a reason to be upset over The Principal and the Pauper, and even that’s been an overreaction. I’m not gonna say Shell Games is one of my all time favourites, but I think it’s got enough character with the turtles to make it memorable.

But the gall of that user to transparently have no idea what the show is like now, and still feel the need to stuff the late creator’s name into their opinion to feel better about it. It isn’t 2019 anymore, when Kamp Koral had just been announced and no one had the concrete information on Stephen’s awareness of it. Even back then, my stance on post-Hillenburg SpongeBob stuff has always been “I may not like a lot of it, but I salute the people who he knew continuing to work on it.” How is that such a hard stance to take? Can’t these blue checkmark people have empathy for working class animation teams?

I miss 2015-2018 when the SpongeBob community was more stable. When a Post-Sequel episode aired that the fandom didn’t like, we didn’t jump to “Stephen didn’t want this! Legacy tarnished!”, we discussed what we didn’t like about it and hoped the next episode would be better. A lot of fans still do that, but certainly not the normal people who haven’t even watched the show since they were kids. Fair enough, but if that’s the case, don’t act like an expert out of nowhere. If you were a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, and every single thing made for the past 94 years has had people going “Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t want this! Legacy tarnished!”, you’d understand my antipathy.

Never mind the irony of all this - Stephen Hillenburg was alive when Shell Games was produced. It was the 4th-to-last episode to enter production before he stopped coming in to the studio. Community notes sorted that out quickly. And let me say, you don’t have to like every episode he personally contributed to or oversaw. But come on, why am I expecting nuanced thinking from someone giving Elon Musk their money?

Twitter’s never been a great website, but now, it feels like all the worst people have cracked the code. Only the loudest and angriest voices get the attention, which gets more dangerous the more sensitive the topic is. And then, even if you agree with the sentiment, you will despise the personalities of the very people you’re agreeing with. It’s a platform that encourages all the worst human behaviours. Whenever I so much as make a joke on there, I feel like I’m walking on eggshells. It’ll hurt to see less from accounts I really respect, but I’ll offload it for a little while, because it’s not been good for my mood.

And I’m really sorry that this is yet another long angsty blogpost so soon. It’s been those times for me, and I hope you got some sort of useful lesson from what I’ve typed out.

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Things Lily has made up about Steven Universe:

The Diamonds are Nazis

The Crystal Gems wear stars because the Diamonds are Nazis

The show is about forgiveness and forgiving Nazis

Spinel was suicidal

Rose was suicidal

Steven has mind control powers

Reset Pearl was in love with Greg in the movie

Gems are based on the Asari from Mass Effect

Nikki Minaj was angry at Sugilite's design

Concrete was a planned character

Aivi & Surasshu are bad musicians with bad equipment

Cartoon Network had no problem with Ruby and Sapphire's wedding and Sugar is lying about campaigning for more episodes to wrap up the story

Connie is 12 in Steven Universe Future

Pearl raped Garnet

The Human Zoo is based on human rights violations in the Congo And of course. She never. Watched. POOL HOPPING

i'm not sure how well people know just how much isolation and loneliness is an issue for disabled people. sometimes i see adverts talking about the loneliness epidemic with the elderly. but you know when you have a society that explicitly or implicitly excludes you, then usually you end up being lonely. how many events are accessible, transport routes, venues, even coffee shops? how many people have someone to accompany them outside whenever they need or want even if that's a necessary step to being able to leave the house? being able to connect with people online is nice but it doesn't really fix any of the root problems that keep disabled people isolated. and it's not possible for every disabled person to access online community either