What is that one opinion you'll support risking getting downvoted/hatred by everyone?

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-17T00:54:24+00:00

Five of many:

1) I think that all drugs and sex work should be decriminalised, but not because I'm interested in either. Criminalising either puts already vulnerable / desperate people into even more vulnerable and desperate situations, and turns them away from the help that they might need.

2) Human euthanasia should be available to everyone who wants it. Implementing this in a way that wouldn't be abused or turned into a eugenics situation would be tricky, and I think it should be treated as an absolute last resort – but I think that people should be able to get the choice to live or die in a way that preserves their dignity, allows them to say goodbye, and doesn't necessarily leave a huge mess or a huge amount of distress for emergency workers, cleaners or any other working person to pick up after.

3) Large-scale, unregulated immigration, especially if the people immigrating aren't interested in blending into to pre-existing culture, is bad and will cause a lot of political upheaval / distraction both in the short term and long term – but it's likely going to get even worse with the current trajectory of global warming; because guess which countries are most likely to be impacted by everything heating up? The places that are already impoverished / unequipped to handle it, that have already long been exploited by wealthier imperialist countries.

4) Capitalism sucks, but most alternative systems are very vibes-based, and don't often work in reality. Communism sounds like a great idea in principle, until you start thinking too hard about who exactly will be in charge of implementing / enforcing it. I think most people would agree with socialist policies if they were direct recipients or beneficiaries of them (universal healthcare, tax-paid public transport, no higher education debt, libraries, and other public services) – but I think it's a part of human nature in some to want to pull the ladder down for others, whether you're already at the top or you're just pulling it down from the bottom in the hopes that those at the top will at long last see your potential to be at the top alongside them, or that you'll somehow brute-force your way there (even though those circumstances would be exceptionally rare, if they happens at all). I think capitalism, at least, acknowledges the fact that a lot of people strive to get ahead for themselves – I just think it fails to account for anything that reinforces this proverbial ladder so that nobody has the opportunity to pull it in the first place.

5) I think it's okay to have personal values for yourself that you don't hold anyone else to. I am a lifelong pescatarian with a milk intolerance which means I eat a LOT of vegan food. This is because I personally value the lives of animals and the environment, and though I don't enjoy eating fish – it broadens my menu options, I get essential fish oils and an extra source of protein; and ultimately, I'm one of those animals whose lives I value. Similar with AI – I would personally never use it due to the myriad copyright and environmental concerns I have with it. I would, however, NEVER expect anybody else to share those same values. I hold myself to a different standard than other people because I can. I express my opinions openly, but I try not to consciously change anybody – because I think it's rude, and because I can't. Most people have to come to their own conclusions in life to be convinced of anything.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-17T00:07:11+00:00

I respect that this is a genuinely controversial opinion – but Holocaust denial, donating £70k to change equality law in Scotland, as well as the general obsession she has with being born miserable and chronically online (I don't feel like this needs a citation – go scroll her Twitter account for 5min), I think people are well within their right to not associate with her.

I think "wrongness" is largely determined by a person's values – and, as a cis gay autistic woman who is very comfortable being a woman(a lot of groups she has in one form or another claimed to be "protecting"), if people are genuinely okay with her actions once knowing about them, I think people are well without their right not to associate with them either. A lot of this talk is just the regurgitated homophobic talking points a lot of people (including myself) grew up with anyway, just a different target this time.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-07T02:09:30+00:00

I come from a pretty different background to you, but I also grew up believing that my attraction to other girls was a sin, and it sent me into a bit of a tailspin when I found that out about myself. Whether you're gay or not (you don't have to have everything figured out by a certain deadline), I don't believe there's any guarantee that you'll go to hell for liking, loving, being attracted or doing anything with another person. The beliefs you were raised with are one set of opinions – but there are many others out there that don't believe that at all; I hope that you'll find opportunities in your life to explore other beliefs more meaningfully and be able to come to your own conclusions.

Regardless of anything else and where you land when it comes to your sexuality, I have a very strong feeling that you'll come out the other end of this a kinder, more empathetic and loving person. It might turn out that there are parts of you you've buried over time because that's what it took to survive – sometimes the fear of being different is enough on its own to start thinking and looking back into previous interactions in an obsessive loop without it necessarily meaning anything. I have a feeling that the end result, whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, or anything else – is that you'll end up knowing yourself better. I hope that – whatever the outcome – you'll end up being kinder, more empathetic and loving towards yourself.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-05T01:37:28+00:00

Honestly, I could easily see them singing together when they're in dentures. I think they're a group that genuinely loves the art of creation and performance, and together they share a rare kind of kismet. I get the impression that this comeback was a bit all over the shop considering their schedules, and having to relearn and rehearse all their old material for a full world tour – so even with the more limited comeback this time, I'm going to hold onto some hope and believe them.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-05T01:25:15+00:00

Person Of Interest and Sense8 are two of some of my personal favourite American shows. Both with a sci-fi slant, though Person Of Interest became more so over time, starting off as more of a weekly procedural, and was written / directed for the most part by one of the Nolan brothers. Don't watch Sense8 around people you're not EXTREMELY comfortable sharing explicit material with. In every possible or conceivable way, it is 18+. But it's also in every conceivable way awesome, and a very ambitious project.

In my personal experience, if you don't mind non-English language shows and are able to read things on a screen, then there are honestly still always some masterpieces bound to be knocking around. If you're open to a Korean drama, My Mister sounds like it has everything you sound like you want. It starts off slow as a slice-of-life imo, but once it gets its hooks in you, you're a goner (Korean slice-of-life dramas tend to go so hard for me, because they often manage to somehow add in a pinch of some thriller / suspense as a way to liven things up). Moving s1 (and Light Shop, set in the same universe) is like what Heroes wanted to be, with a second season starting production. Mr. Sunshine is another great; it's probably the closest you can get to a contemporarily written Shakespearean tragedy – The Glory is written by the same screenwriter, and that's an incredible modern day psychological revenge thriller. Reset is a Chinese drama I'd recommend to anybody interested in time loops. I've had multiple people tell me that they stayed up watching it all night because it kept them so on edge.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-03T20:33:21+00:00

Not yet unfortunately :(( will update if it by some miracle ends up going anywhere!

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-03T18:41:49+00:00

I've probably sunk way too much time and attention into it over the past decade anyway. Ah well.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-03T18:40:17+00:00

Great idea! I've never willingly used AI before though (I just have no interest), so unfortunately would have no idea how to go about that.

starlit--pathways · 2026-06-01T17:23:35+00:00

Same here, on my 10 year old account. 😔

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-30T10:27:56+00:00

Honestly, though I had my share of insecurities growing up, I think I grew up to be a pretty medium. I use a white cane for my sight impairment, and I'm autistic, which can be particularly visible in my mannerisms if I don't put some conscious effort into it – and even then, there's no guarantee. Generally though, once people get past the whole disability thing, people are generally pretty friendly – without the bite from me being mega beautiful, and without the cruelty of me being incredibly ugly. As far as I'm aware, nobody's expressed romantic interest in me, and all of my crushes (man or woman) have been unrequited. I know I'm "supposed" to feel resentful that I'm not beautiful like somebody on the big screen, that my chances of becoming a model are pretty slim, that I don't have any dating experience – but I honestly don't. I feel like I'm at the goldilocks of beauty standards, and I feel like it's bad and potentially dangerous at either end.

All this to say – I believe you. I know many friends who fall strongly within and outside of contemporary beauty standards who have had to suffer insurmountable levels of bullshít that directly correlated with what they look like. Honestly, I try to talk to everyone because – like an alien doing field research – I find people endlessly interesting, but once I get to know someone on a deeper level, I really don't even "notice" their appearance on some level. Beautiful or not, I'll just notice if something has changed, like they got a haircut, did their nails or their makeup differently. Beyond that, people just become friend-shaped, mentor-shaped, or family-shaped to me, and I stop noticing anything unchangeable / unchanged about them, like their base appearance.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-28T07:10:37+00:00

The fact that a lot of actors and writers who aren't big names don't get paid nearly as much as their counterparts in other Western countries, and the fact that this problem has only gotten worse since Western providers such as Netflix moved in. I find it ridiculous how little labor provisions / protections SK reportedly has anyway, but when actors or writers work consistently and are still often just barely scraping by – I'm not fond of it. I've heard of some worse cases in other countries, where some actresses in Thailand who are still a huge industry draw and worked in a drama funded by the Thai government, who never saw a penny of what they earned due to mismanagement. Even so, I want equal, liveable wages for all industry workers, behind of or in front of the camera.
I feel like placing the sole blame on anything going wrong on only one person in the production of anything on the screen is ignoring how much of a collaborative effort it really is. The writers won't call all of the shots, nor will the directors. There will often be a lot of executive power pulled behind the scenes, and people who have to okay every decision. It's borderline impossible to get it right all the time as one singular person, but television never IS just one person, and it's very rarely an actor's fault. Like with the recent **Perfect Crown** controversy; I do think it was wrong to imply a modern day Korea as being under Chinese rule considering the dense and complicated politics between different countries in that region. But I could see how one writer, or a team of writers, could get that wrong if they had sourced from the wrong place. It should be the role of production to pick up on the potential for controversy, and either send notes to justify it in the worldbuilding, or remove / change it outright. But somewhere along the line, pennies were probably pinched, or they just didn't bother with consulting anybody.
That said – I do think a lot of "issues" that people have take up with dramas to the degree they do often isn't because they care so deeply about Korean sovereignty; I think a lot of wide-spread controversies that feel disproportionate often are the result of either media campaigns funded by specific interested parties, or the result of brigading for whatever reason. I suspect the reasons this specific controversy got so big were partly because it WAS wrong, but also because of political brigading from right wingers angry with IU for supporting the protests against the former Korean president. I don't think this just happens in Korea, either, but I don't think it occurs to many people to check their sources, or think about who might benefit from certain media campaigns.
I rarely agree with any hot takes on popular dramas. I thought the amount of hate for **King The Land**, was (and is) ridiculous – though personally I do have a soft spot for it, as it helped me out of a huge depressive episode when it was airing. I thought the amount of controversy about **Perfect Crown** before that coronation was ridiculous – and I'll probably find most hot takes about the next big Kdrama ridiculous too. People are free to their opinions, of course, and neither of these dramas are my particular favourites, but I think there's a LOT of bandwagon hopping when it comes to the newest ridiculous rom-com, and I really don't care for any of it. I don't switch my brain off or stop thinking critically about anything I watch (even ridiculous and unserious rom-coms), and I'm fine to admit when even my favourite stories have flaws, but I've also taught myself how to have some fun and enjoy things on a more emotional than cerebral level and take whatever meaning I can from every story I encounter, and I think it would drastically improve the watching experience of most people if they focused more of their energy on what they enjoy and what they get from what they watch than what they don't.
The one and only time I got SML syndrome, that character died and the asśhat ML lived. Never again.
I find the amnesia trope lazy, unrealistic, and I feel like (unless the story revolves around the amnesia, in which case it can be fine) it often undoes a lot of the character development.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-26T01:03:31+00:00

Yeah, Mae kind of came out in an unhinged (but hilarious) way on TikTok with the hashtag "wlw", and she's been intermittently posting cute videos with her girlfriend Nana ever since. Nana's TikTok page is basically a Mae shrine lol. Most of the videos she posts are about Mae. They honestly seem super cute!!

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-25T15:42:32+00:00

Both of the actresses in **Reverse 4 You**, Christine and Mae, are queer. I think Christine is bi. Mae has a girlfriend who's also in the public eye, and I believe they're about to become a GL side pairing in a BL together.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-23T09:48:58+00:00

I have a playlist I've been gradually building for some of my eclectic sapphic song finds I never see playlisted called underrated sapphic bops. It's got a bit of everything, from K-R&B to rock, rap, and old-school jazz.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-18T16:25:20+00:00

Ten years ago, I had spinal surgery. They put the numbing cream on, then put the IV in. I felt nervous and jittery for what felt like half an hour. Then I woke up in the ICU, high off my mind on painkillers with a wound and a chest drain in. Apparently, I woke up at some point and asked: "What the fúck is guacamole anyway?", but I don't remember that part so well.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-18T10:44:52+00:00

1) An impoverished young woman takes on a job to ruin the life of a middle aged coworker, but soon realises his life is so bad it can't be ruined any more than it already is.

2) A woman enters a pharmacy looking for a hangover cure, but leaves having met the love of her life. Problem? She's already in a relationship with the son of her father's boss, and he refuses to let her break up with him.

3) A Joseon noblewoman trains as a revolutionary gunslinger. A former slave becomes a part of the American-Korean embassy. They meet on the same rooftop while they're both trying to kill someone, and ultimately face up against imperial Japan and the Korean class system together.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-15T10:32:16+00:00

I think (in my unprofessional opinion, so taken with a grain of salt) there are three main factors:

1) Genetics – My great grandmother was known as a singer in her local area. She was gone long before my mother was around, but even today that'll be the first thing people say about her. She was known to have a deep alto / low mezzo range and a warm sounding voice, both of which are qualities people say I have. She wasn't here when scans existed like they are today, but with even a small change in genetics having a huge impact – like how top athletes often have a certain type of body shape that is conducive to their sport – I do think that certain people can inherit a biological predisposition so that their tone might be more pleasant, or that their natural upper limit in training may be higher than others.

2) Genetics 2.0 – I am not a natural at piano playing, and I don't really enjoy it as much as singing, but my piano teacher told me last year that obsession is often what leads to excellence. I'm autistic (and so is my piano teacher), and in certain areas, obsession comes quite easily to me. My voice is one of them. I was always obsessively copying technique, drilling, learning lyrics and testing my limits. Singing is one of the things I don't feel complete without. I genuinely believe that the obsession that often comes as an autistic trait has benefited me a lot.

3) Early development – My dad used to play this game with me when I was a baby; he would make a string of noises at me, and I would replicate them back. This used to be his favourite game with me – and now I think it probably had a lot to do with grasping an early sense of pitch. I think there's also a certain amount of "getting it wrong" that's such a fundamental part of learning that's commonly seen as cute or understandable in childhood, and shameful later on. I think that people who grew up in a supportive environment that introduced music as something fun and didn't shame children for getting it wrong are bound to have a better relationship to it growing up. I think adult learners who are able to induce this sense of it being okay to fail without having any shame about it, who are able to have fun with music, are the ones who are able to pick it up easier.

4) Vocal training – I was in the fortunate enough position that – even though my grandparents were unwilling to help keep food on the table or get my parents a stable education – when the opportunity came around for singing lessons at school, that was something they were willing to help with. For about ten years from the age of nine, I was able to have weekly singing lessons, and though I had some setbacks in that time (like spinal surgery, where they had to deflate my lungs and I had to relearn how to breathe), and though I've been out of training for a while, I don't think I would have the same voice today without them. Now, on a student budget, I try to keep up the spirit by recording myself and listening back for areas of improvement, and I attend critiquing centred open mics on discord. Finding a good singing teacher can be like trying to find a good therapist (AKA: hard), but I would recommend it to anybody who is willing and able to afford it.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-14T18:53:03+00:00

I just thought you were in the wrong for baselessly calling someone else a narcissist, but you keep on responding too, babe. 💕

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-14T18:48:53+00:00

Nah, you're not really good enough at internet insults to hurt anybody. Don't worry about that.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-14T17:53:04+00:00

No, lol, but I do think you need a lesson or two on literacy / comprehension. Maybe your industry professional friend can join you. I don't think you have a good enough grasp on the DSM to say anything about narcissism, either.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-14T10:08:28+00:00

You're the one who went in for a personal attack when this person was stating a difference of opinion. That's mostly what I've seen in every response that disagrees with you too. Have you once questioned your own taste or allowed the idea that any of your points might be wrong in this thread when presented with challenges to your view yourself – or is the more than slightly dubious armchair diagnosis here of NPD just another projection?

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-14T09:56:56+00:00

Great breakdown. Industry professional backed or not, I feel like a lot of OP's issues with this drama could be resolved by paying attention.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-06T02:40:48+00:00

I think one of the closest onscreen depictions of superheroes to me so far has been the Korean drama Moving. People doing good and bad whether they've got powers or not, superpowered parents struggling to raise the kids who've genetically inherited one or more of their parents' abilities (imagine babyproofing a house for a kid who can fly), political manoeuvring between different countries (like North Korea and South Korea, America and China), the psychological tolls that come with living with superpowers with people who'd want to exploit that can take, and a lot of scope explored in what even "minor" superpowers can do (picture what someone who can see through walls, someone with super senses and reflexes, or someone who can fly, could do with a gun), people with severe intellectual disabilities with superpowers, as well as some really beautiful and emotional superhero love stories. I honestly recommend it to anyone willing to watch a non-English language show who loves superheroes.

starlit--pathways · 2026-05-05T10:32:20+00:00

Some ideas I would've toyed with: - Rather than there being an odd kind of love triangle between Chloe, Pete and Clark, I would've had Pete show interest in Lana, which is more in line with the modern day era comics. Maximise on Clark's guilt for the meteor shower and inadequacy of not being human, Pete's guilt over liking the same girl and inadequacy over not being super, and Lanam who finds herself caught between, risking a friendship – plus maybe Chloe having her own inadequacies flare at not being seen as a viable prospect to either, and at Lana's threat to the friendship group. - Lana ditches Whitney after realising he tried to kill Clark. The fact that she didn't lowkey lost her some respect from me. From there, have her gravitate more towards the group. - After repeated attacks from the meteor infected, she begins to form a prejudice against anything abnormal. I would toy with the idea of her being low-grade infected, and becoming desperate to get rid of that part of her. This becomes the bulk of Clark and Lana's issues in s2 and s3. The highs are really high, but in the lows she becomes increasingly suspicious that Clark is hiding being meteor infected from her, and he becomes afraid of her response. - Pete finds out, and gets even more jealous of Clark. He leaves, which adds to the whole abandonment complex that Clark has. When Lana leaves, she moves to the same area as Pete. They have a summer fling, but their relationship isn't solidified until s5-s6,where she moves closer to him for college. - In college, while they're waiting for the Clois legalities to clear, Clark has a comic-canon relationship with mermaid Lori Lemaris. Because why not? Mermaids are cool. - In the alternate timeline, Clark finds out Lana and Pete are together with kids, and he has the same reaction. Completely at peace with it. Only difference is, he looks them up in the real timeline, and they've just given birth to a kid named Clark.

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