I need a gif of a room on fire with someone trying to put out the flames with a napkin. This is how I feel today.
This is not the CaptainSwanFire thread. Know how I know? Cause I sent our one and only attempt at that to the Black Abyss of Nevermore 3 years ago because there will never be a time when this fandom is capable of talking about Emma Swan and her romantic relationships without devolving into madness and fighting. Not debating. Fighting. And we have a zero tolerance policy on out and out fighting and attacks.
This is a SwanFire thread. It’s a shipping thread. It has always been that. There are ” shipping thread” rules that can be summed up as “safe space.” Honest polite debate will not be discouraged if everyone feels that it is okay and “safe space” is not being violated.
However in the past 6 pages or so no progress has been made, no minds have been changed and we are, in essence, going in maddening circles over something we will never agree on. Moreover there have been posts that violate safe space. This happens almost like clockwork every two months or so and it’s no surprise it’s happening now as the season winds down and the events unfold for good or for ill.
I am not saying we can’t discuss matters about the show. I am saying that this is by and large pointless because no matter how many times we are called bitter, no matter how many times we explain feminist critique or no matter how many times we are told that we’re too harsh on Hook/Emma/the writers/the show we’re never going to get anywhere.
I guess what I’m trying to say is….What’s the bloody point?!