2025-01-14 15:11:45 ¶ ● ⬈

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Hijabi basira really makes no sense to me, it feels like the fandom just wanted to force representation onto the characters. Basira actively does things all the time that contradict islamic beliefs and it low-key feels a bit disrespectful, the hijab isn't just cultural wear, it's a religious symbol/garment.

(I'm not muslim for reference)

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magpod-confessions:

> yeahh i’ve never understood hijabi basira either . - deceit

2025-01-17 2:45:31 ¶ ● ⬈

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I'm on my second listen of the podcast and just reached season 5. Up till now I was mostly positive-neutral on him but his attitude with regard to Jon's statements in season 5 is just. weird and horned in? Like I love season 5's statements, the fears poetry really speaks to me a lot, but having to every episode have Martin be like "I'll leave you to it then" or "I don't want to hear this" just makes him seem whiny? Like no Martin, you have the best deal of anyone on the entire planet, you are not above the suffering of others. Listen to it and actually understand the gravity of what has happened to YOUR world.

martinblackwoodhater:

> literally omg like can he have some perspective for once??

> He’s so used to being self-absorbed in The Lonely obviously that he just doesn’t even begin to think about anyone else, and then he acts like that makes him better than Jon? like why is he SO self-righteous in s5 as if HE’S gonna be right rather than, yknow, the embodiment of all knowledge standing right next to him?

2025-01-22 9:18:21 ¶ ● ⬈

levaagrace:

> Thinking about this interaction between Georgie and Jon from the episode ‘Infectious Doubts’… cause what the fuck is this???

> “I came in here thinking you were Melanie,” versus “I could hear you talking about The Horrors, freak.”

> Takes me the fuck out. Make the inconsistency make sense, fuckers, I dare you. Like. Seriously. Was she chill thinking Melanie was just sitting there listening back to the tapes? Cause I feel like she’d know the difference in a playback to someone speaking out loud. And with that being the case why did Jon being there shock her? This entire exchange is fucking with me. Feels like I’m on acid. Like I’m seeing things no one else is.

Can I share my opinion?

I think it makes sense and this whole thing was pretty much in Georgie’s character.

I think after abandoning Jon at the hospital and telling him, basically, “Screw you, I don’t want to do anything with you and I’d rather you died, but essentially idgf”, she came back to check on him, out of guilt or curiousity or residual desire to help - I don’t know, but it certainly backfired. I think she also stood there behind the door for some time, listening, knowing perfectly well that it was Jon’s office and Melanie was in another part of the building. But she covered it with a pretense “I was searching for Melanie” because she’d thrown Jon out of her life and it would be weird if she came to check on him, and I think she knew that. She also didn’t WANT him back in her life.

So, she came back to see Jon only to tell him “Screw you, I don’t want to do anything with you, idgaf” AGAIN, the second time, and frankly, to me it seems like mockery, like she was intentionally rubbing his face in the fact that he was alone. I don’t think she intended to mock him and rub it in his face, I think there was a part of her that felt guilt over how she left him and wished to know how he was going and it was her initial intent, but it certainly did came as mockery. She did go into his office intentionally, she made it seem like she cared, only for her to tell him “No.” And not only this, but Georgie also quite deliberately went to Martin and told him “Hey, you should abandon Jon too.” And I think when she went to Martin she also lied and pretended that she was just waiting around for Melanie?

She had no right to do any of those things. She had no right to come see Jon and ask him how things were going after she made it clear she didn’t want him in her life, she had no right to tell him she didn’t want him in her life AGAIN, after SHE decided to come see him, and above all else, she had no right to contact Martin and tell him how Jon is all bad, beyond help, everything is his fault and Martin should abandon Jon too because Jon “would only drag him down”.

2025-01-22 19:53:04 ¶ ●

These kinds of interpretation absolutely baffle me. Why do we, as a fandom, see an abused, hurting, struggling, vulnerable man, who clings to his humanity and tries to protect everyone around him in a world that doesn’t make sense and is trying to actively KILL him, and immediately jump to a conclusion this man is… weak and pathetic?

Why? Because he was abused?

Because his bodily and psychological autonomy were violated in every sense, and he could do nothing to stop it?

Because he got addicted and dependent on something he didn’t choose or want, had no control over, and had no choice?

Because he got addicted to statements and trauma and the Eye against his will and was actively starving himself? Because starving himself made him physically weak, tired and prone to collapsing?

Because his health was failing?

Because he was hurting every minute of his life?

Because he tried his best to resist the powers and it made his pain WORSE?

Because, despite his fear of vulnerability, his highly independent nature and exterior aloofness, he was deep down a deeply vulnerable, hurt man?

Because he’s a victim of abuse, and he couldn’t do anything against his abuser?

Why, can you explain to me, WHY do you call Jonathan Sims pathetic? Do you really think people who are victims of abuse and violation, people who are suicidal and depressed, people who are chronically ill, people who struggle with physical and mental health problems are?