gentle-marzelline:

gentle-marzelline:

gentle-marzelline:

creator: here is a new piece of media aimed at 4-5 year olds. it is about gnomes living at the bottom of the garden. 
tumblr: cool!
tumblr, four hours later: anyone who ships pondwizzle is GARBAGE SCUM, clearly the only morally correct ship is grundywaggle or at a push pondblubby. Is Grundy the Gnome a minor? EXILE BLUBBY THE GNOME FROM THE GARDEN. I WANT HIM TO GET EATEN BY SPARROWS. I miss half an hour ago before this fandom got so toxic. Here’s a masterpost on Pondwater the Gnome’s systematic abuse of his fellow gnomes

4 year old: I like Blubby the Gnome because he has a funny hat on and he yells “Go away” to the other gnomes. Hee hee!
19 year old superfan of the gnome show: Okay First Of All
Same fan, writing on their blog later: and you know what? I had a great talk with that kid. I guess I really made her see the error of her ways? It’s just not right that young people are walking around with a positive impression of Bl-b-y the G-o-me’s conduct to his fellow gnomes

“The show’s big problem is that Grundy’s in it way too much. He’s in every episode and it’s like nothing happens in the garden unless Grundy the Gnome and his friends are around.
And why do all the other characters look up to Grundy? OK, he’s ‘kind’ and ‘nice’ but he keeps making decisions based on ‘what would my father, Mr Grumbly the Old Gnome, do’ instead of considering the overarching power structures and the problematic hierarchical position of the Old Gnome. His social analysis is faulty – ‘Gnomes should just be nice to each other’ and ‘Let’s be kind’??! (liberal lol) as we saw when he released the Wicked Spider from the matchbox despite her long record of problematic remarks and abusive behaviour. wow I’m just so done with ‘Grundy the Gnome and Friends’” #grundycritical