Tag: you can stop calling me stupid any old time now

gayjamesmcgraw:

apparently i gotta do this because wow really?

amongst all this tag policing and other “we own this fandom” bullshit, i’m seeing people publicly refer to anti-Silver fans as morons, stupid, and lacking critical thinking skills etc etc the list of degrading insults go on and on

if there’s anyone trying to reduce the complexity of the show, it’s definitely not us, and it would be fucking splendid if you could stop insulting people who see things different than you (or perhaps… just taking the source material as is instead of twisting it into something it’s not, but what do i know). so Silver made a difficult choice for the sake of the people he loved; guess who else did that? Peter Ashe. he went ahead and betrayed his best friend because Abigail (and presumably his wife) would’ve suffered if he didn’t. and to him, this was considered “the least awful outcome”– one that would at least keep Thomas, James, and Miranda alive. that’s how he conceptualized it in his own mind. that’s how he excused his own actions. and surprise! Silver is doing the exact same thing. and, just like Alfred Hamilton, Silver came to his decision independently, without consulting anyone, and he acted to end the war permanently, quietly, and in a manner of his choosing. for all the parallels that the show keeps referencing, it’s ironic that you lot refuse to acknowledge this one, the one that continuously shows up within the show. it makes me wonder which one of us is actually failing to see the complex nature of what we’ve been shown?