Listen. Listen. I will respect any interpretation you have of a piece of media provided you meet 2 VERY MINIMAL requirements:

1. You have actually seen/watched/read/played etc the media in the question

2. Your interpretation is based on information that is actually in the fucking media

You would think that these things are easy to meet, but seeing tumblrs reaction to Oppenheimer, apparently this is too much to ask

"Are you saying that i have to sit through 3 hours of christopher nolan's dense and brutal filmmaking style in order to have an opinion on-" yes i am, actually.

"Are you saying that i have to read this entire 500 page book before you respect my opinion that stephen king is a-" yes i am, actually.

"Are you saying that i have to play this entire 80+ hour long game for you to take my opinion that it's problematic serio-" Yes. I. Am. Actually.

Notice here that I never said you can't dislike something on a purely surface, subjective level. If a certain piece of media just isn't your thing in the personal taste department, nobody will hold you down and force you to watch it. You can just put it down, but if that's the case, you need to understand that you will never have a fully-formed and educated interpretation of it. Which is fine! That's fine! But I take issue with this trend of acting like your subjective dislike of something is indicative of its ideological worth when you haven't even seen the whole thing.

Do you know what I say about media that I've put down in the past because I didn't like it? "I couldn't say, I didn't like it." That's it. That's a full sentence. "I can't give you an informed opinion because I put it down due to it not matching my personal tastes." There's no need to act like my dislike inherently means anything other than "it wasn't my thing." It doesn't mean that there must be some insidious problematic whatever behind it that was never there to begin with, it just means "it wasn't my thing."

Can we please, for fuck's sake, bring back the concept that you have to see the WHOLE THING to have an informed interpretation of it? This "if i don't like it or don't want to see it it must be Uniquely BadTM" shit mentality is how we got people saying that Madoka Magica was misogynistic and Steven Universe endorsed fascism. If you find yourself falling down this hole i want you to ask yourself "have I actually seen this accusation play out for myself in the source material, or am I just trusting the word of some stranger online who knows a lot of buzzwords?"

Snape was secretly a magic genius

How is it that Harry Potter talks so little about how Snape is probably the third most powerful wizard in the world?

It would seem that he had an interest in the dark arts from a young age, probably because of his parents. Not only this, but he was controlling magic even before he entered school. “Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in Seventh year” says Sirius. 

When he gets to school, he’s a damn good student.  In his DADA exams he writes way more than any of his peers.

That’s Hermione Granger shit right there.  But even beyond Hermione, he’s correcting his damn textbooks.

The standard potion books seem to be set in stone, and haven’t changed from being the set N.E.W.T. texts in 20 years.  And here’s this 15 year old motherfucker correcting errors in them.  Even Hermione wasn’t this advanced, and she’s definitely gifted.

But that wasn’t enough for Snape. He was also inventing his own damn spells. The guy could cast magic nonverbally. He was a master at Legilimens, casting it nonverbally and wandlessly.

He turned spy for Dumbledore, and - to quote him - “fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen” That’s some next level shit right there.

Not only this, but he saved Dumbledore’s life, containing the ring’s curse in his own freakin hand. I’m not sure if even Dumbledore could have done this, seeing as he admitted that Snape knew WAY more about dark magic than he did.

He also could FLY, showing that even while betraying the guy, Snape was eager to learn, and master, anything that Voldemort could teach him.

All this while being 25-30 years younger than Dumbledore/Voldemort? If Snape hadn’t died so young, despite being a creepy pissbaby, he probably would’ve been among the greatest wizards that ever lived.

people are so dramatic about the joker having tattoo’s in suicide squad. the man cut his own face off then stapled it back on i hardly think writing ‘damaged’ on his forehead is ~above~ him