#[i will not take a critisim for this. this is factual.

[convxction]

Lissa: A himbo must--MUST be kind, beefy, and stupid. Lissa: Only kind and beefy? that's just a hunk! *points at Stahl, Lon'qu, Frederick, Gregor, Libra, Gaius, Kellam (if possible to point at)* Lissa: Only beefy and stupid? that's just a jock! *points at Vaike* Lissa: Only kind and stupid? that's just a decent man. *points at Virion* Lissa: And there are the actual himbos who cater to all *points at Chrom and Basilio* Lissa: Oh there is baby *points at Ricken* and .... Henry.

[barryallenis]

I agree about Twitter. I just don’t understand why ppl want to engage w/others in there especially celebs. The amount of hypocrisy that goes on is ridiculous. I had to walk away from all that ugliness and keep it moving. Fans think they know these celebs because they get a quick peek at their lives. Seriously, we don’t know what these ppl are doing 99.9% of the time. Yet ppl try to tell them how to live their lives. I used to say when you start paying my bills then we can talk until then bye

It’s truely wild what people think they have the right to say behind the guise of social media. It’s the accessibility and the anonymity. All it takes is an @ and you know your name is going to show up in that person’s notification. But while you know who THEY are, they have no idea who YOU are. I know I’m not announcing any huge revelation saying that trolls thive off that hidden identity. But it’s true about comments good and bad. Your absolutely right, when I said we KNOW who they are, what I meant was we know their name, their face, their occupation. That’s, pretty much it. 99.9% of them? The stuff that really matters? We don’t. And it’s the twisted mindset social media has created that makes people think that they do.

I think the thing that has always bothered me about twitter specifically is that it has always felt superficial. Which is fine, if you want to post about what you had for dinner, but not when you’re trying to have bigger discussions. No one can have full, healthy, understandable and constructive discourse in 280 characters. What has anyone ever learned from 280 characters? Why would people waste their time reading and writing hundred paged books and texbooks and 50 paged research papers on one single topic if it could all somehow be dumbed down to to 280 character? like??? To fully understand something, too add to a discussion, prove a point, to change someones mind, what you say must come with facts, context and explanation. And that means, sorry! You’re gonna need to use a few more words!

On the simpler end, I noticed how much this was true amidst fandoms specifically. There’s often talk of a “twitter fandom”, an “instagram fandom” and a“tumblr fandom” but at the end of the day I have, and always will, choose spaces like tumblr to engage in any fandom. Not only is tumblr a place where people have so much more space to express their creativity in things like edits, gifsets, and fanfiction, but it also leaves more room for ACTUAL INDEPT DISCUSSION. I write multi paragraph responses/post on the regular, thats the NORM on this site! Sure, some of it’s about silly stuff, but a lot of it goes deeper. Whether that be disecting an actors facial expressions in an emotional scene or a conversational dialogue or talking about overarching thematic storylines or character development. And they’re not being done so that an actor, actress, writer or producer can see them, they’re being done just, for the joy of it. Because it’s fun and interesting to dicuss the stories we see play out in front of us. I mean why do we all get so invested in fandoms in the first place!? We get invested in the story and the characters. Or at least, that’s the case for most.

I’m not saying you have to thoroughly disect every single piece of content you consume, that would be insurmountable for most of us. There are so many tv shows, movies or books that I don’t engage with fandom wise at all. (I watched a show called Burn Notice, twice all the way through, and I literally could not name a since actor in that entire show lol). I’m not saying you can’t have surface level discussion about things, but ... call them what they are. Don’t write a sentence with no context and think it’s worthy of acknolwegment from the person it’s about. ESPECIALLY when that thing is critical. If you are going to critique something to someone who directly created an aspect of the thing you’re critiquing, you BETTER COME AT IT WITH FACTS. And it BETTER NOT COME AS A PERSONAL ATTACK. If someone has an example of a constructivly critical tweet that could actually be used to make real, systemic change and not just one that makes an over simplified claim directly to the person in a way that is really no help at all, please let me know. Those kinds of things should be filtered before they’re shared and maybe simply thought about and digested before saying. But that’s never really been twitters whole stick. Twitters vibe to me has always been that of a tumblr liveblog but at all times; comments made in the heat of the moment without much thought of the impact or reprocussion despite the fact that it has the most means of impact than almost any other social media platform.

In the most broad sense, Tumblr is for people who want to contribute, Twitter is for people who want to be seen. And what’s most upsetting about it is that they ARE the most seen. I mean, Taylor Swift is the only celebrity I know of, right now, that is an active participant on tumblr (I’m sure there are more but that’s the one I’m most familiar with). Meanwhile, nearly every celebrity has a twitter. No one comes on here looking to be seen (minus some of the Taylor Swift fandom but thats kinda to the point). And yet it’s the thought provocing, factual based critiquies AND appreciations that are so often found on THIS site that are the ones that should be heard by the people that make those pieces of media.

TLTR: What celebrities see of the general public’s perception of them and whatever their art form is, is largely through twitter replies and instagram comments. No wonder they are often so emotionally wreaked by the feedback they hear! There is largely, no real substance behind very bold claims (of both critisim and praise! Not to the same extent obviously, but what does shouting out “I LOVE YOU” to a person you do not know really doing?). I so wish that we could simply talk to celebrities on social media (and, really, anyone on social media) like we do people in our normal day to day lives. What an ideological world it could be without people recieving egregious death threats on the daily huh? Imagine.

All I know is, whatever the solution to the problems we all have with interacting on social media, the answer is not going to be found on twitter.

[butch-bakugo]

Ok but Like this post gonna be long

The way some ace exclusionists talk about ace people in general like every single ace person looks the same, likes the same things, has the same opinions and that every last one of us is on tumblr is honestly fucking hilarious how wrong it is.

They act like they got the entire fucking asexual community figured out and because they are just " so knowledgable" on it, they have enough proof to satisfactorily make fun of it and judge every last individual in it. Tbh stepping away from both the inclusionist and exclusionist circle jerks has been so refreshing. I was both, ive been in both midsets tbh most of you are trash to other people and that's why im neutral.

Inclusionists have a flawed mindset inherently. Inclusion is not king in a community intended for oppressed people. Your too forgiving, often young, impressionable and just want to be everybody's friend. You want to be accepting and that mindset is great but i dont think its a coincidence that you often over lap with people who find other things excusable. You were the group that was exclusively pro-map. No exclusionists touched that side. You often are fujoshis, anti-antis and other people who want to take advantage of young people to change the world to be more crime friendly, expecially towards pedophiles, rapists and incestors. Who want you to mindlessly nod your head to let whatever in because it makes you seem like a good soul. Its not good. Your not helping anyone and being nothing but a nodding smiling bystander who cant pick a side and is too busy hyperfixating on good omens or other shit made by deplorable people to notice people being killed in the streets.

Exclusionists are abit better but often too have a flawed mindset. They are critical and skeptical and it keeps them from supporting bad people which is good. They often keep a vigilant eye to make sure they know what they are consuming and arnt willing to let a single one of them get away with x-phobic behavior, that is, only in one place and thats aphobia. They often are too critical and are set in their mindsets convinced that anyone new is a traitor and they can only really ever trust their friends. Thats sad cause it means they've been hurt before by new comers, most likely more than twice. But being over critical can be a very dangerous path that usually starts edging on non-acceptance and into bigotry. Thats why its common amoungst transmeds and nbphobic people. Even though rare, can eventually lead towards incelic beliefs, all of it usually based on complete distrust of the individual in question and polical panic. Their paranoid and they lash out to hide it.

So your probably one way or the other and look at me and go " well lefty, your critisim is correct but if neither side is truely correct than what should i be?" The answer is to be factual and critical within reason and still be a good open-minded and kind person. There is a golden median but everyone is so passionate, facts dont see the light of day or are only shown on one side. If your offended by what im saying, your scared and distrusting. Ive been in both communties for a nearly equal long amount of time and i know pretty much how they function. Its cool if you arent ready to accept the toxicity of both of them and you laugh at this old cooke for being stupid cause your obviously 100% correct but you'd only be proving me right.

Both sides have inherent flaws and to ignore them is ignorance. But that's the thing. Everyone is so wrapped on if x group Really belongs here or not that nothing is changing. No one will step away and ask how to fix it. Its the same stupid arguement repetitively and usually results in the same stupid way. Someone says something outright bigoted or pointing out a flaw in the othersides logic and then someone completely ignores them only to point at them, not face the person but instead their followers and usually follow up with one of 4 responces. 1. A meme and nothing but shock, 2. A non-refute other than stating their opinion in a dif, bigger or colored tumblr font, 3. An actual informed responce with no sources or 4. Someone repeating something they read somewhere else with broken/unrelated links and opinionated guilt tripping and manipulating speech.

Its all about being cool to their followers and showing their full rainbow of rage to their rivals. If they appear unapproachable, uncaring and cool, people will be too afraid to approach them for fear of being shut down. They are popular but not because of them but because they reinforce the beliefs of a majority of their audience. They only like you because you are a safe place for their opinions and you are an echo. Your the cave walls that say exactly what they say and they like you. Once they hear too many things they disagree with, they will leave you. They will drop you like a hot potato. I know this feeling. I lived it bitch.

The way i see it, i have the most followers i have anywhere here. Upwards of 400. If they were to drop to 10 overnight, i would be confused and maybe a little sad but overall? Id still carry my own damn opinions and keep making posts like i always have. I dont want a false audience, even if it means more people. My opinions are my own and even though its really nice and validating to see that bit of what i feel is clarity beyond the tumblr haze of people with similar opinions, i still feel confedient enough in my own beliefs that even if they werent there, id still carry on. I want to be honest here. I wont pretend to like, support, hate or slander something just because its popular. Im old enough and mature enough to not give into to tumblr peer pressure. Many people do and that's why we see them lose themselves. I did at some point. But even though a mix of lesbian content and political opinions arent popular, its still what i wanted from this blog.

I post what i want to post and say what i want to say and im confedient enough in my opinions, beliefs and self that i dont rely on others to tell me how to feel. Thats not to say that im not open minded and vigilant to important issues that do not effect me such as racism, anti-semitism, transmysogny, biphobia, etc but it dosent mean i cant relate, understand and help dismantle the belief systems that people like me on this axis of oppression have created and be sure not to contribute to them.

In the end be vigilant and critical but dont be so lost in the negative you cant be kind and understanding.