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So, I recently watched The Midnight Club and I saw a lot of people say that they don't like Ilonka and I get it. She doesn't make the best of decisions, but she is also a dying teen who is just trying to make the best of it.

I never disliked Ilonka for making bad decisions. It actually made sense for someone in her position and there is no guarantee I would not have done the same.

But it did annoy me that she never faces any consequences for it. Like when Sandra strikes out with Spence she makes up for it with her story …we see that she actually feels bad about it but when Ilonka is reprimanded by Stanton for the right reasons she gets angry and initially it was understandable, but we never see her realizing that it was still wrong to take Anya down to the basement no matter how she felt about it. When Sandra admitted to that intercom prank, we see the other characters looking somewhat pissed though they warm back up to her later but with Ilonka when she tells them about the murder ritual with Julia Jayne they all seem unaffected by it. We never see her feeling bad for being unreasonably rude to Katherine, in the moment I understood her, but we should have seen her regretting lashing out and I know she apologizes to Kevin but what she said to Katherine did not sit right with me...coz Katherine seemed like a genuinely nice person. We never see Tim's reaction to the ritual either though it was implied that Stanton discussed it with him. He wouldn't have yelled at Ilonka but he would have still talked to her about it. She should have acknowledged that taking herself and her other sick friends to an unclean basement full of mold and whatnot (as Sandra tells her) was wrong.

So, I think a lot of people disliked Ilonka not for making bad decisions but because she never took accountability for it especially when the other characters did. I feel like that would have added depth to her character.... her realizing that though she was smart she was not always right. Maybe they would have dealt with that in season 2 but I don't know.

Also Fuck cults and fuck cultists for manipulating and taking advantage of vulnerable people.

actually i'm anti aesthetic. actually i don't believe in living my life according to the mandate of the same 500 pinterest images. actually i think my life has some meaning, some shades of color to it, outside of a set of rules and stereotypes that are presented to me in a tidy little package. actually, maybe i'm the ugly color gradient and that means there is nuance to the way i live. actually, i don't want to JUST be a witch, or a clean girl, or a mythic bitch, or the feminine mystique, or a coastal grandmother, or a cottagecore lover of women, or punk, or rock, or death metal, or goth. actually being a girl hasn't been anything like what's been shown to me -- and so i will be a girl on my own terms. actually i think being a girl has been nothing like the movies or the moodboards. actually FUCK your moodboards and your makeup too. actually i'm nothingandeverythingcore. actually im alive im alive im alive and that requires no aestheticization. it requires no sanitization of existence. actually life is most beautiful when it is diverse. actually i will try everything and know everything and nothing will stop me; my life will be varied and beautiful and messy and chaotic and occasionally organized and exactly the way it ought to be, you FUCKERS.

Stop trying to tiktokify the app we hate it every single time

Bitches be like "if I were Christine I just would have chosen Erik" like he wasn't a murderer, stalker and kidnapper (its me I'm bitches)

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

That one line where he says he liked it better when Lucy Gray was locked up in the Capitol so he would know where she was at all times......How do you read that and still think he's being humanized

Some of you read with your own eyes snow literally talking about owning Lucy Gray and still thought to yourselves “this book is using this love story to humanize snow and make him a good guy” hmmmm interesting…

people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people considered “undeserving” of help

It's a shame how Cressida was treated at the end of season 3. I'm honestly so disappointed that the writers took the time to expand Cressida into a very sad, relatable, and sympathetic woman, who shows growth and furthers Eloise's character, only to throw it all away in the last four episodes.

Cressida's whole arc this season is that she's an old maid, unlovable, and can't find a husband. Her future is incredibly bleak: an impending marriage to a man three times her age, social isolation, and being outcast from everything she knows. Cressida is a woman with no real friends, a scornful mother, and a downright horrific father, so she tries her best to claw her way out of her predicament with the old husband. Albeit, not the best way, but not a despicable one.

Instead of receiving any sympathy, she's used as comedic relief, berated for "not being clever" by her mother and many other characters (which I found so out of character because Cressida has always been sharp and observant, ever since season 1 when she was Daphne's pseudo-villain. Cressida even discovers LW's identity in a single day which took the Queen herself three years.)

Then, at her lowest point, Cressida is blown off and later disparaged by Eloise once she reconnects with Penelope, for no real purpose or reason. Eloise calls Cressida a "viper," when Cressida was there for her in her loneliness, when no one else would speak to her.

Cressida never gets a real chance to talk to Eloise or truly anyone about her feelings, her fear- besides Lady Cowper. The scene where Cressida breaks down, telling her she's scared, was heart-breaking. How are we supposed to cheer for this? (For Penelope's sake? I don't think anyone good would wish for the punishments Cressida received for trying to save herself!)

Cressida's mother even comments on how Eloise abandoned her in her time of need. Eloise Bridgerton (at least the one I thought I knew from the first half of the season, the woman who calls upon Cressida because "she did not seem herself") would never do this. They wrote her and Cressida to have truly connected. Sure, maybe it begun out of spite, but nowhere did they show us the friendship "falling apart" as Eloise randomly claims to Penelope near the end. It felt as though there were several episodes missed. Though- to be honest, Eloise has felt out of character for a long time in this show. (I do blame a lot of this on the very rushed pacing, and the showrunner being heavily biased toward Penelope.)