u/Rebel_Heart222

This might be my favorite Deep Purple song.

I hate to defend Ridge of all people because I can’t stand him as much as anyone else but the writers literally retconned him to be called out as abandoning Steffy and Thomas and it’s just ridicules after watching him coddle them.

Actually they’re the way they are because Taylor and Ridge coddled them to the point that they think everyone owes them something even when they mess up and need to know what consequences are. Case and point, Steffy complaining about being asked to tone down her line because she doesn’t know that international markets likely have countries with different cultures and ideas compared to the US.

It’s such a simple business move that even I can comprehend that and I admittedly know nothing about business aside from I don’t think anyone in this show actually knows how to do business. Other case and point, I will never take an adult who says “this isn’t fair” seriously.

Life isn’t fair. That’s something most of us realize as we grow older and we accept as much as we don’t always let it stand. Almost nothing is fair and Steffy and Thomas make things so much harder than it needs to be. Steffy won’t stop complaining about things that don’t affect her like Hope waiting until she’s married to have sex. That’s not a bad thing? That’s her choice and if Liam loves her, he’ll accept and respect it.

(No really, what is with Steffy and making Hope’s sex life her business? It’s starting to become creepy and people put far too much emphasis on sex. It’s not that damn important and it shouldn’t be a sure fire sign about rather or not a relationship works. There’s so much more important things than that and I don’t understand everyone’s obsession with it)

Steffy won’t just tone down the sex appeal for international markets with a different culture and Thomas doesn’t seem to comprehend what consequences are, including suffering them for literally lying about Brooke just to break her and Ridge up.

……. I don’t think he’s actually suffered consequences for his own actions before this and he kinda won’t again.

Also, Thorne, you’re a grown man. Get over your beef with Ridge already for the love of god. I genuinely hate what the writers have done to his character because at one point, he was actually a good character and then everything about his character turned into fighting with Ridge over and over again.

That or making me think they kinda don’t like his character or don’t know what to do with him at all. Probably because they’ve already killed off Darla and then killed off Allie and Macy. Thorne literally has nothing going for him now and that’s just sad.

They’ve literally taken everything his character had going for him so much that even if he did come back, it would just be to fight with Ridge AGAIN.

I mean……damn Katie clocked her with calling her selfish and cold because she is. Steffy is partly why she almost died and she still finds some sort of way to make everything about herself and try to get what she wants. It’s mostly because she has daddy issues….for no reason.

That needs Somme serious revaluation as much as Brooke needs to revaluate her loyalty towards Ridge or Katie needing someone a lot better than Bill. Can’t she get the ending that Steffy did where Steffy doesn’t have to worry about Finn eyes going to other women?

Oh and Nick makes a appearance. Swear he took a backseat the moment he didn’t have a woman to latch onto. In hindsight, Katie was better off with him. Taylor, I BEG of you to actually act like a parent to your kid. Christ, she’s inactive in anything unless it’s Ridge.

Is it just me or is the writers just straight rewriting history? Ridge didn’t abandon Steffy and this show needs to stop making it seem like two parents not being together is automatically adjacent to child abandonment. They did that same crap when he left Brooke for Taylor before.

It’s ridiculous and I can perfectly well say that I never felt straight up abandoned when my parents weren’t together and I was pretty damn young. A part of that could be trauma from a broken home but I don’t have abandonment or daddy issues.

(Thank you Brooke for pointing out how Taylor would’ve called any other woman who goes after a married man and finally Katie stops coddling Bill when she leaves because of his problems. This man always does holds it against her when she wants to leave and I hate it)

Long story short, thr writers are still rewriting history without actually writing the thing they want to include, Bill acts like a petulant teenage boy and I’m sorry but 40+ year old playboys are kinda just sad to see. Also, Katie, literally everybody in this show needs therapy.

Taylor……..why would Brooke have more sympathy for Steffy after she helped to drive her sister into a heart attack? Let’s be for real, nobody would be sympathetic towards her. How can this woman comprehend marriages failing but never her own?

I don’t think the writers take the characters into account when they write dialogue for them to say because there is so many things wrong with TAYLOR saying that some marriages fail that it hurts. On the plus side, Katie standing up to Bill is enjoyable and so is her not giving in automatically and making him work for it.

(Steffy, it’s still weird as hell to shame a woman younger than you for being a virgin. Literally get some psychological help pronto. This girl thinks cheating wouldn’t create stress for Katie)

A book of mine that’s still in progress. It starts off with a vampire and a wolf meeting in the middle of a war. Fair warning, I do write real people fanfiction but I especially enjoy writing this one because it’s a lot different from my Nobody Rides For Free series.

If anyone is interested in reading it and giving feedback, I can post the link in the comments.