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Might redo my pinned post

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Susannah isn't perfect just because she's loving and dead.

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I can forgive Inconsistencies in writing at the start of a show easy. Because I know how writing for TV works but I will still find them funny as hell.

Buffy s1 had willow like: idk Xander and I were friends once as kids but not anymore. She is too shy to approach him.

Then five minutes later they've been friends consistently for years and they're always hanging out

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I’m really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can’t see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn’t make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

“But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring.” Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn’t actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they’ll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you’re white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you’ll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don’t act like you’re advocating for Quasimodo when you’re just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

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Poll suggestion - I'm curious if aromantic and/or asexual people who engage in shipping tend to exhibit a preference towards the genders of the characters involved in the ship, if that makes sense? For instance, I'm aromantic but I've noticed that most of the time I'm drawn more to fem/masc ships in media, even though I'm not straight. I think it would be interesting to find out whether this is the case for other aspec people, or if I am in the minority in this regard.

No "show results" button this time, sorry everyone! All 12 slots got taken up so for this one please try not to vote if it doesn't apply to you. I also apologize that there's no option for nonbinary, genderless or other types of pairings. I originally tried to add them but there was not enough room if I wanted to be able to specify aro, ace and aroace on each answer. Though since there are, unfortunately, not very many examples of those pairings in current popular media hopefully these options are okay

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Do you know how selfish i would die for you is? You would leave me alone knowing your love but unable to grasp it? Evil. Unspeakably evil. Live for me. Kill for me if you must, but live. You have to live.

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Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the "jokes" about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they're not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don't understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a "legitimate" position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We've had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn't going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN'T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a "fake" sexuality and "pretending to be oppressed" and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of "pedophilia" in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes "child porn", and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don't Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to "sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn't even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed",

We've seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance "it's us vs. them so anything they don't like is Good",

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I've seen in recent years hasn't come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren't exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they're the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn't resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We've seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don't know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY'RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

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[grabs your shoulders and shakes you] something being widely accepted fanon does not actually make it "basically canon" and it doesn't mean people who don't incorporate it into their fics or acknowledge it are doing something wrong

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Enough with Male blorbos this, female blorbos that, Put in the tags your NON-BINARY fave!

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Comic based on the chapter The Field of Cormallen.

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I'm all for challenging amatonormarivity but I am fucking sick of people who pass off LITERAL ABUSE as "proof of love, its so romantic why can't you see by this guy beating up this guy for fun that they are so deeply in LOVE IN CANON OPEN YOUR EYES if you disagree you're just a homophobe!!" telling me ":/ ew why can't they just be friends? Why do they have to be dating??" Whenever I have like THREE friends to lovers ships (many of which are CANON Like I literally just enjoying the relationship to creator gave me but also often does have chatacters who are just friends) like. Shit. I don't know why can't two white guys beat up on each other without a being "true love", Karen. Mind your buisness.

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It's the Stardew Valley guys. Took a while to draw because I haven't really had a lot of motivation to draw lately.

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POV: your parents have been "Staying Together For The Kids"

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ok but imagine

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lets get one thing straight

You would not be aloud in kinger's fortress

And ik

"but what about-"

No. That's his autism hole.

Its his place to be around people and to "socialize' without dealing with bright lights,eye contact or loud noises including said conversation while also not being secluded/isolated.

Respect the fortress, it's impenetrable to all.

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(Disclaimer: this is mainly satirical/ me projecting. In no way shape or form am I criticizing, making fun of, nor insulting those who draw/write/Invision such things, and not am I condoning this community to do that either. This is a safe space for everyone and I will not allow harmful ideology plague the comments/reblogs. I am merely making a joke about a head cannon of mine. If I see said actions happening I will not hesitate to turn off reblogs and comments)