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I’ll give some reasons why I think this.

1. Casey is terrified of rats, it’s his worse fear. Who would be more offended about this than the Rat King himself? Instead of going back for round 2 with Splinter, he should’ve gone for Casey, fuelled by anger at how Casey screams at or attacks rats because he’s scared of them. He could’ve tried to teach Casey a lesson, or tried to mutate him into a rat. Or even haunted him mentally like he did with Splinter. (I know he could do this because Splinter was a mutant rat, but the show writers also >!kept the Rat King alive after he fell like four hundred feet.!< They could do anything they wanted with the characters with little explanation, like they usually do.)

2. It would’ve given Casey more to his character to have an enemy that is his greatest fear, and to have been kidnapped or targeted by that enemy. We could’ve explored nightmares about the Rat King that he has. Or hallucinations like Raph and the bugs, where he thinks the Rat King is coming to get him.

3. He could’ve got closer to Master Splinter because of this. If the Rat King had gotten into Casey’s head mentally, it would be Splinter helping to defeat him, or even just working through Casey’s fear in the aftermath of a fight with the Rat King.

4. I think Casey deserved more angst from the show that’s just his own. He shares the pain of losing his family twice with everyone else, and >!the death of Master Splinter.!< It would’ve meant a lot to his character for him to go through something that only he understood, or only him and Master Splinter, while the others did their best to help.

What do you think?

So lately I've been plagued with a lot of people trying to tell me that Sean, my favourite character, is the rat and I wanted to offer an explanation as to why this makes zero sense.

Sean's father (and what is implied to be his whole family tree), were all outlaws fighting against the corrupt and downright evil system, aka the British Empire. "Sean comes from a long line of criminals and political dissidents," - the official RDR2 guide. He was raised with the same 'Outlaws for life' mentality as Arthur, just in a different wording, as he learned to hate corruption and likely see its effects on his country as everywhere he travelled in Ireland, his people suffered. I cannot express how much it's in Sean's blood and mentality to hate the government and corruption. Lenny even tells Sean that he's caught up in old world bullshit and cannot let this mentality go.

"This place is English. They act like they ain't, but they is." So, Sean admits that he sees America and England, the American government and the British government, as just the same. So please tell me why exactly he would rat on his family and outlaw gang, after being raised with an outlaws for life mentality, being caught up in his hatred of corruption and the government and told so by his best friend, hating the rich and wanting nothing they have, after his father was murdered by the corrupt government, after he was put in a reform school and likely abused by the system in that reform school?

What could they have offered him? What did he even gain that we can see and point out in the story? You can say what you like about Sean, that he's annoying or a creep, but you cannot deny how much of a law-hating, system-fighting, loyal outlaw he is. It's safe to say that Sean has literally been raised with the viewpoint that all law, all governments and their agents, are villains to him.

I hope through this post somebody has learned something about Sean, and either changed their mind or has more evidence to defend him the next time somebody claims he's the rat. Thank you for reading, if you did.

I've noticed in the last couple of years, or I don't know if it's always been like this and I've accidentally changed my recommended so I just see this, that there is so many youtubers who don't do anything. They don't go out and make content. They just grab a mic and react to someone else's content, slandering it if it's not for them, laughing and making fun of it. I'm tired of the Disney Adult reactions, the 'Millennials need to stop!' videos (and I'm not even a millennial), "This youtuber is crazy!" videos etc etc.

Dude, go out and do something. Be the Disney adult or the crazy youtuber. I know people enjoy watching mean-spirited people gain a platform through bullying others in their videos but damn, I think we give these people way too much credit as content-creators. I want to see YouTubers who do stuff again, like food reviewers or travellers or gamers, literally anything so long as it's not bullying someone else's original content. I didn't realise there was such an audience for videos of someone being nasty or pretentious about someone else's content. It feels like the popular kid at school holding up their phone and going "OMG look, this is so weird, right guys?!" whenever people make those videos.

I'm so tired of it.

I know mine have. I use to think if we ever had androids in real life, I’d give them freedom and want them to have rights. Now I understand the humans perspective in DBH, especially with many of them losing their jobs to androids. I’d want them all demolished if I were in their place. I also use to play the game convinced that Kara, Markus and Connor were really alive, but since replaying it, I just see them as AI and machines.

The rise of AI has really put me off this game.

What I mean by this is, they’ll do something to suggest Casey and April are a couple, and are going to become canon, then completely go back on it in another episode. For example, Casey asked April about going on a real date in the Manhattan project.
“How bout a real date?”
“Whaddya call this?” was April’s response as she leant into his arm, as he put his arm around her. And again in this episode, they hug tightly when he’s saved from the worm, and then also ride the worm together with her saving him. It really seems like they’re going to become a canon couple.

Then, in the next episodes, the writers choose to make April kiss Donnie, or them work together on something while Donnie is blushing the whole time. They even have April call Donnie her mutant and kiss him. In the same show where she lays her head on Casey’s shoulder, looks after him when he’s hurt, Donnie even says he wants to “break them up” and Leo calls Casey “April’s boyfriend”, all this implying they’re going to be in a relationship. But then, it never happens, and we’re back to Donnie and April, or just radio silence between the Casey and April.

This is my biggest gripe with the writers. Why do they keep going back on this ship, like seeming like they’ve entirely made up their mind and it’s going to be canon, only to turn it around and make April kiss Donnie or just have no mention of it? S2 especially really seemed like they were going to be canon. It’s so frustrating. Were they dating? What the hell were these mixed signals from the writers? Whatever they were putting down, I clearly wasn’t picking up.

I keep seeing people call her Tang Shen, but never just Tang or Shen so I'm a little confused. I'm writing something and I don't wanna be calling her by her full name all the time. Any answers are much appreciated :)

With the wave of Wattpad users “moving to AO3” (which I’ve only seen complaints about and not anyone actually doing this), I’ve also seen videos about people’s favourite fics being deleted and the comments filled with people blaming Wattpad users for mass-reporting them or something.

1. You can’t mass report on AO3.

2. If it actually got removed from AO3, good. It was reviewed by a real human and it was determined to be plagiarism, not a fan-work, spam or mistagged. Deserved.

3. A missing fic does not mean it’s been reported and removed, that’s actually the least likely thing that’s happened to it. It just got deleted by the author, happens all the time. Stop blaming Wattpad users when it’s near-impossible for it to be anything to do with them.

These ‘Wattpad users’ are real people, I understand there’s discourse around the whole thing but, jeez. Relax. We’re all human.

A plot being a clear direction, an end goal, or an easy answer to “what’s your book about?”

Personally, I don’t mind books where nothing is really happening and there isn’t a plot. If I like the vibes, and the writing, and the descriptions, I think no plot is fine. I just finished The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy which has very little plot and I enjoyed it because of the setting. Yeah I wanna read about this kid walking around a mountain in Tennessee trying to catch skunks even though it has no plot significance at all because I like the vibes, I like to think about it. Yeah I wanna read description after description about damp cabins, 1930s bars and stores, whiskey dealing and walks in the forests and mountains for an entire book. That’s like, right up my alley.

What do you think about books with little plot?

Did anyone else feel like this? I’m just so…bored. I don’t understand the hype. Does it get better at all, what is it I’m missing? Also, I thought too hard about the character of Darrow and now I hate him. Problem is, until my birthday on Friday, I literally have nothing to read, Red Rising is the only thing, yet I’m fighting to keep going with this piece of crap.