#{ yes i love OP women. dont @ me }

[every-sanji]

[gravesung-moving]

(sighing dreamily) chiaki in an awakened state is Fucking Terrifying.

[mwagneto]

hungarian/nomadic magyar tumblr circa 998AD dashboard simulator

🏞️ vándor-ló-979 Follow

not yall still spreading emese's foundation myth??? she literally claims she fucked a bird????? like either she's lying or she cheated and she's trying to cover it up or well. i dont even want to consider the third option

🪺 magánügyek Follow

tengri forbid women do anything???

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🦅 szél-könnyű-szárnyán-szállj Follow

okay im sick of the discourse let's do this.

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🐎 istván-rovására Follow

that took so long lmao -> !!!!!!!∧◇ᛏ⋈∧

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🐴 csillagösvény Follow

i'm so serious rn if you support """istván""" in any way just unfollow and block me. we do NOT need him or his dumbass god and what he's been doing to our people to spread his religion is shameful.

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

btw we all know your real name is vajk stop larping as a christian it's EMBARRASSINGGGG

✝️ esztergom-örökké Follow

love seeing my mutuals reblogging this /s anyway op has multiple posts on their blog supporting quartering and human sacrifice. in case you were wondering. anyway stand with István

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

1) we dont even do human sacrifices, are you fucking stupid??? show me ONE post where i talk about that. 2) are you seriously forgetting that your bestie istván LITERALLY QUARTERED HIS UNCLE?????

#sorry to put this dumbass on the dash😭 dont even engage just block them #ur not making it up the tree of life lmao #discourse

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🌅 bolygó-kárpáti Follow

friendly reminder that just because you're white passing doesn't mean you're not a real magyar!! people with mixed parents are just as valid <3

🏇 attila-népe Follow

cranky coz ur ancestors decided to mix with the europeans arent you

🧺 lemezelő Follow

isnt your girlfriend literally frankish????

🏇 attila-népe Follow

you had to have done some serious stalking to find that💀 and first of all i didn't have a choice, my parents picked the tribe, and second of all she's not my "girlfriend" i got her via ritual kidnapping (WITH consent. before anyone gets weird)

🌐 a-kiber-kovács Follow

Couldn't you have kidnapped another magyar woman? Or someone from another mongoloid tribe?

🔅 hadúrsimp Follow

ohh sure so now human pet guy is gonna chime in to advocate for the kidnapping of our women while being lowkey racist. what are you even doing on nomadblr????

🌅 bolygó-kárpáti Follow

what the fuck happened to my post

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🪔 rakabonciás Follow

for the nth time, you're only a true shaman if you were born with teeth OR with extra fingers OR in the sac. the rest of you are faking & we can tell.

🦅szél-könnyű-szárnyán-szállj Follow

okay people keep spreading this but this is literally just wrong?? like congrats on the 6 fingers op im glad u and Little Golden Father have a special connection (genuinely) but like. táltos and sámán and mágus and garabonciás and javas etc are all different things with completely different requirements and life paths which you should definitely know if you're claiming to be one?? especially since your post says shaman but you're listing the criteria for a táltos, and your username looks like a play on garabonciás so. which is it🤔 maybe get your facts in order before trying to gatekeep

anyway don't listen to op!! your connection to the Upper World is yours alone and you're the best judge of what the Fathers and Mothers want your path in life to be!!

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🛐 mea-culpa Follow

It breaks my heart that the majority of my people still refuse to see the One True God and insist on sticking to their pagan spirits. I fear that when judgement day comes, we will all be wiped out thanks to their foul godless ways.

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

how tf am i godless when i literally have dozens of gods? little mothers and little fathers are in everything all around us & it must suck ass to live in a world where you're not surrounded by the small gods that inhabit everything. manifesting that the fene and the guta tag team beat your ass tonight

🔅 hadúrsimp Follow

hadúr will literally strike op down personally. he told me himself. whispered it to me sweetly even

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

while i agree with you, i feel like you might also have ulterior motives, nomadblr user hadúrsimp

#but live your truth! doubly so on the posts of these freak repressed bible lovers. meanwhile on the #COOL side of magyarhood we walk around butt ass naked!!! op have fun never experiencing joy ever again tho #discourse

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👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

posting from an alt so i don't get cancelled but lowkey i'm starting to think koppány was right.... maybe this christianity thing isn't gonna work out after all

👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

WRONG BLOG

👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

THIS WAS A JOKE. IGNORE THIS

🪺 magánügyek Follow

ISTVÁN????????????? 💀

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

i love when people react to my post in a way that is supposed to defy my point but the person hasnt actually read or understood the post. yes bro give us nothing

the post: some sex acts are degrading because men perform them with the goal of degrading the woman so it doesnt matter how the woman feels about it

the reaction: wait til op finds out some women like degrading sex acts

the post: buying sex is inherently abusive because money is power and sex buyers knowingly leverage that to coerce someone with less money and therefore less power into sex

the reaction: well some women choose to be prostitutes. checkmate feminists

the post: sex is a tangible characteristic no matter how an individual feels about it

the reaction: you dont get to tell people how to feel about themselves kys

the post: the porn industry preys on young and naive people and produces misogynistic, racist, homophobic, violent and unconsentful content for the sole purpose of sexual arousal. as demonstrated by pornhubs own database

the reaction: um me and my polyamourous lovers produce ethical feminist porn in our garage and all 10 of my nonbinary friends watch it and i love sending nudes to strangers. so shut up

[angelsaxis]

there was a post going around a bit ago complaining about the claim that chappelle roan and other white lesbian musicians are bringing in a renaissance in lesbians in music (in pop specifically I think? Ive never seen the renaissance claims myself) and while OP was right to be complaining about how people only ever focus on white women for their music, they said "how can u say these white girls are putting us in the renaissance when we have syd --"

terrible paraphrase sorry. but it annoyed me because yes syd is a lesbian and Black but she's not in pop and she's been around for a while. I love syd. i LOVE syd. maybe this is me splitting hairs but if someone says "yaay lesbians in pop" and you bring up syd. idk.

and then they said there's been Black women singing about loving women for ages and they brought up megan thee stallion, janelle monae, khelani, and others and its like yeah! they do all love women! none of them are LESBIANS though and that was the original statement made in their post, lesbians (in pop) starting a lesbian music renaissance.

and again maybe this is splitting hairs or just petty of me or something but if yall cant even name a Black lesbian musician OUTSIDE syd and tracy chapman and the artists you do mention dont even meet the parameters then --

[evb0]

procrastinating so u guys get my hatchetverse hcs!!! (these are going to be a lot of shit i picked up from random posts that i dont remeber the ops of so sorry if u made one of these hcs and i dont credit you i love you sorry) ethan green

probably like 23? 25?

hes actually bi he told me himself

afab he/they boyflux sue me

lex is his first and only gf. he's probably had like one bf before but he loves lex sm more (simp) (malewife to her girlboss basically)

orphan sorry i dont make the rules

his dad left like immedately and his mom passed of old age when he was like 17 idk

hannah is basically his little sister. he'd die 4 her actually.

ted spankoffski

like late 20s early 30s at the most ithink

so painfully thirsty for anyone he has to be pan

amab he/him but doesnt really give a fuck

has never had a partner thats so sad. he makes up for this by constantly acting like everybody wants him. they dont. (exepct for me i love him)

doesnt really have a CRUSH on anyone speific but mark chastity is his fav to tease (sorry im a baby for holy bastard)

him and petes parents love them but theyre kinda like.. oblivious and absent. like theyre always on trips and leaving pete to live w ted

max jagerman

im not gonna list all of the teens' age theyre all 16-18

im assimilating with this one he/she pronouns amab

hes omni he told me himself pref 2 women

everybody wants him he only wants the nerd (hes just like me fr)

he isnt dead shut up shut up sHUT UP HES FINE OKAY

his dad is not good his mom died in childbirth

stephanie lauter

genderqueer. they/she/he in order of pref. also uses xe/xir idc sue me

pan thats cannon she told me xirself

does tiktok dances but really badly on purpose

the biggest simp on earth to her one guy and nobody ese

will fluster the living hell out of pete in public for fun

hates being the mayors daughter, feels alienated bcs of it

pete spankoffski

he/they afab i dont make the rules

bi if you argue youre homophobic (/J)

actually loves his big bro but acts like he doesnt bcsaude is ted hears him looking up ted he'll never hear the end of it

nickname seymour from ruth (bcause lsoh)

ex-brony

richie whateverhislastnameis

afab he/xe/nya/zap he would have so many cool neos. one of those people whos neo list is longer than the bill of rights

gay mlm yes

undertale enjoyer

nge enjoyer

discord mod in an anime server

owns several body pillows

xem and ruth have been friends since pre-k so they know eachother like the back of their hand

ruth whateverherlastnameis

afab she/they

omni large large large pref to girls. likes a few boys sorta

biggest theatre kid ever but sucks at acting and singing (the curse)

got ensemble ONCE and cried at the cast list

fav show is heathers

heather m kin i dont make the rules

grace chastity

afab she/her

bi

liked a girl once and cried for a week str8 abt going 2 hell

i dont have alot of hcs for her but i think she would like fire a large amount

not even arson wise but like

a firebug

tinky

i already made my hcs for all the LiBs' true forms so go find those if you want

all the libs dont give a fuc about pronouns call them whatever

i do he/him tho

tinky is really just a 13 yr old girl freaking out abt one specific guy (ted) and making fucked up fanfics with him (time bastard nmt)

the "youngest" of the siblings

boy jerry

i beleive that every character jon plays is related. boy jerry is pauls fucked up brother. which means hes also richies uncle

[dare0451]

Why do you feel the need to defend those who are sexually harassing trans women? Why do you think essentially telling other trans women they're being hysterical will help anyone? Why do you feel the need to defend the sanctity of sexually harassing trans women?

hiya!! so. quick thing.

op of that post was right but also a doofus

on the one hand, i have now been made aware of that flurry of asks it was apparently made in response to. those asks are textbook sexual harassment, sole to scalp, and also yes 100% misogyny.

on the other, why the FUCK did that op say "the posts about how transfems and transmascs should just be sucking and fucking" instead of. YKNOW. WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

"post" instead of "ask" makes it seem like something people are just saying on their own blogs, not spamming in ask boxes, and "about how transfems and transmascs should just be sucking and fucking" gets to absolutely 0% of the issue with the asks themselves, and in fact touches on a Separate trend i saw a couple times ages ago, which yes, i still think is just a goofy way of phrasing "be normal and hang out and stop fighting"

And this is an apology, yes, but its not a retraction, so dont take it as one.

i responded absolutely Perfectly to ops words. i was lacking context, but it was context their phrasing Obfuscated the existence of, and as such i feel i acted 100% justifiably. on top of this, one or five assholes spamming shitty asks does not a difference in class interests make. tma/tme is still a useless dichotomy invented by an outsider to drive a wedge in the trans community, our internal equivalent of "lgb drop the t". there is still a trend of transfems (of which i am one, and also i am not innocent of this behavior) insisting on a monopoly of oppression, or being reductive in order to martyrize transfems as a group (ive seen plenty of my sisters say they dont care about the genocide in gaza because "im busy trying to figure out where it's safe to piss" and also many who cross their eyes in order apply the murder rates against trans women of color to instead apply to all trans women, which i feel is pretty flatly racist, or at least reductive) and while im sure SOME people who believe in the value of that dichotomy are normal about it, in fact one was in my dms to Give me the context about the asks which i appreciate deeply i love u bestie, youd have to be a concussed coyote on quaaludes to pretend its not primarily used for transphobia against trans men. its used as a way to misgender and it has no basis in reality.

yall still wanna call me a sex pest pickme who should kill myself after this, be my guest. thats my stance, babe. i wont be responding to anythin else on this matter.

[friskofthesnails]

Rating Deltarune ships:

I saw someone else do this so I wanted to make my own.

I havent played this game in years sorry if I got names wrong

(Op is a proshipper, I give no hate to any ships even if I dont like them ^^ and no hate to shippers period)

Edit: goddamn I had to edit this too much bc I kept mixing up Lancer and Ralsei. Warning you just in case I didnt fix all of them.

Kris x Susie: 8/10 love them as friends and a couple but I usually like to think of Susie with Noelle, but Susie is really hot and I project onto Kris with this ship, Susie if you're reading this you can bully meee 😳😳😳

Kris x Ralsei: 0/10 no thanks, my notp I'll explain more later

Kris x Noelle: 7/10 Ive never looked into it but Id be curious...

Kris x Berdly: 10/10 YES

Kris x Lancer: 0/10 nah

Lancer x Ralsei: 10/10 made for each other, why doesnt more of the fandom ship this? Bc they think Lancer is like 5? That's pathetic, Lancer is just fat but he is not a little kid any more than the rest of them. Also all of them are autistic so quit infantilizing lancer pls?

Berdly x Noelle: 6/10 never looked into this but if we're going with trans girl Berdly I'd be curious (actually, if we're going with trans girl Berdly I'd be down to accept almost anything)

Noelle x Susie: YES 11/10 YES OTP

Lancer x Susie: no thanks

Seam x Jevil: 9/10 lol, they're great, I cant ship these two with anyone else unless someone draws good fanart

Spamton x Kris: 8/10 I dig it

Spamton x anybody: 8/10 idk spamton is just funny to me so I like his ships. Spamton needs luv Im glad the fandom loves him

Susie x Kris x Ralsei: 0/10 I respect the idea and love them all as friends together but my brain just nopes on Kris and Ralsei romantic. It's funny, I do ship incest sometimes but I dont ship Kris and Ralsei because I see them as siblings even though so much of the fandom ships them for some reason??

Susie x Ralsei: 8/10 I like this one they're cute

Rouxls x Papyrus: 9/10 crossover ship helllll yeah

Rouxls x Ruddin 10/10 I read a fanfic about them years ago and theyre an otp to me now

Susie x Berdly x Noelle: 9/10 This sounds wild somebody show me what they'll look like Im hella curious (again Im assuming trans girl or girl adjacent Berdly they are all lesbians. Maybe Berdly is a lesboy? Idk)

Susie x Noelle x Me: 10/10 oh hell yeah Ive been thinking about this one a lot I just need to figure out what type of monster I would be and then I'll make fanart and you'll all be sorry mwahahaha

Queen: I dont have a ship for her this game needs more darkworld adult women maybe but she is a hilarious character and I needed to say that 10/10, everything she says is gold, "I only play mobile games" "Kris go for the banana"

[inact-ice]

Ok episode 5,

- ooh arranged wedding moment. Hey guys, if it goes bad at least the wedding was gorgeous. Ope. My fault everyone sorry

- is bobby ever gonna apologize for like pushing buck against that wall bc that really scared me. I know it was a manifestation of trauma but damn

- love how black women across the world use the word wicked. It’s probably bc of like colonialism and specifically Christianity, but it’s a nice connection

- Athena you still have a job?? You weren’t even like suspended, you definitely have stuff to do other than running background checks on your friends bosses

- oh. Oh no… not the hen and Karen cheating arc, I haven’t even met Karen yet please no

- BUCKS FAMOUS ROOMATES! So these are the people everyone hates so much in fanfics

- Oh yeah Abby’s mom is missing

- hen your ex girl friend is in braids, back out slowly before she starts calling you gurl OMG, it’s too late

- what am I watching

- these aren’t even like real braids im so funny

- Carla’s little crush on buck is so fucking great, maybe they should get together

- aw wait this is buck and Abby meeting face to face for the first day time

- HOT PRIEST, hey girl

- bobby have you ever considered going to like real therapy, I don’t think the hot priest is a licensed psychologist

- HELP BOBBY DONT SCARE THE HOT PRIEST LIKE THAT HE ISNT LEGALLY REQUIRED TO TELL THE COPS AND HES ALL ALONE WITH YOU

- Bobby’s wife who’s name I never heard, I am so sorry. Is Bobby gonna cheat??? Oh. We’re pulling out ye old lantern to drink I see. Does he just come here to like nap, NO BOBBY YE OLD LANTERN

- the actor who plays Bobby has like a permanent bemused grin so while he’s breaking down to his wife about his addiction he kinda just seems confused and it’s a little funny

- checkovs ye old lantern

- oh damn bobby that was your fault wow. Oh he made the hot priest cry.

- yeah idk if the priest can handle this, maybe you should consider trauma therapy

- the priest: “god forgives you” Bobby: “gods forgiveness actually means nothing to me in this case” the priest: “well that is the entirety of my expertise”

- I don’t like when Bobby cries, it always seems to be ripped out of him😭 the actor is doing a great job

- Karen you are being very forgiving of your wife meeting her ex gf in prison, I fear you are too good for her

- aw buck calling Athena sergeant, love it

- buck being so astounded that Abby hasn’t had sex in a year is hilarious, meeting me would kill this man

- Abby you’re so cool omg, it’s like she can’t help but want to help others even when she’s going through so much. I feel like that’s the theme of her character

- Abby looks so cute in her little dungarees omg

- I can’t believe that manny’s just like dead rip I guess

- who the hell are these firefighters?? How does buck know them? Are they at the 118? I wonder what their lives are like

- Abby is calm cool and collected fr. What do jedis have to do with still hands? Anyways

- Abby’s mom! Thank you tattooed men, in my head you stay in contact with Abby forever and are good friends of hers

- aw Abby’s mom, even when she can’t remember stuff she still remembers that she wants her daughter to be happy. Gang I love Abby’s mom so much

- did not appreciate the fucking Abby’s mom joke, thanks writers but it was a little weird

- if we’re gonna keep talking about bucks sex addiction can we take it seriously at some point or what

- the “what are you high” scene in context is kinda dark bc bobby might’ve been actually scared he was high bc he sees himself in buck a bit

- aw I miss chimney

- girl he didn’t even laugh that much. Which is kinda dark. Bobby is like if Sayaka and Kyouka from Madoka Magica had a child and he was a white middle aged man. Like maybe they adopted him and just projected all their trauma onto him and now he’s repeating all their mistakes

- if they have phone sex I’m gonna freakout

- I’d like to personally thank the 911 tv show directors for cutting away from that bc I do not like bucks phone sex voice

[roblogpiratebooties]

yes. please god just normalize it. gonna hijack this post for a moment, but still keep it related (sorry OP) Virginity is also grossly fetishized as well and frankly im sick of it. To talk personally for a second, i cant really enjoy sex at all due to both sensory, medical, and psychological issues. whenever someone finds out im a virgin, im treated either one of two ways: either they shame me and tell me how sad that is, or they immediately get gross and attempt to seduce me or some shit. like theyre the savior to help me. (please for the love of god do not be like "ya thats men for you". the people who did this were both men and women. its a societal issue, not a gender issue.) ive had to lie or at least keep it a secret from new partners. because the last time i opened up about being a virgin, a partner i had for about two months started being overly sexual to me. it was always "do you want to be treated right during your first time?" which frightened me. as i didnt trust her enough to actually hold up to the promise of actually not hurting me and stopping when i got sensory overload, but also because of other unrelated factors. (like the fact she was using me to cheat, but thats a different story.) people need to stop doing this shit. if you have a kink for virginity and arent pushing it on people who barely know, go for it. im not here to judge kinks here. but people really need to stop treating virginity as either "thats so sad" or "oh wow thats so hot". sex isnt that important in life, sometimes people just dont want it.

Honestly we really need to stop being weird about older adults who are virgins.

& not even purely in a "I'm sex repulsed &/or ace &/or not into the idea of so I willingly didn't have it" but also in a "I'm 80, I would've loved to have sex, but it takes two to tango & no one wanted to have sex w/ me-" and in a "I'm 60 & I wanted to, but I had anxiety so bad I just didn't put myself in a situation where I could've" way, etc. [But yes also the people who are like "I'm a virgin because I never wanted to have sex"]

Someone made a post about having their 40th birthday & still being a virgin & someone commented about how it was heartbreaking... [The OP talked about all their other achievements they reached & how they were happy - just never had sex btw. They weren't lamenting about how they never had sex]

You don't need sex/sexual intimacy to be happy. You don't need romantic intimacy to be happy. [Obviously having those may add happiness, but like you won't live a sad depressing empty life if you're single forever &/or never have sex]

[laisai]

i just finished 800+ chapters of a chinese webnovel after about 5 days of reading on and off

and now i dont know what to do

(i mean yes i have many things to do its just -- im very book hungover. im out of fuel. i need to resurface and recalibrate etc etc)

oh and i read most of it via machine translation... but it was mostly surprisingly understandable, aided by the fact i speak chinese so i can kinda fill in some gaps when things are translated off or wrong (im illiterate in chinese tho so fancier stuff still eludes me, RIP)

it was so good tho. it was not a romance at all despite for some reason being labeled one (probably bc the labeling system is dumb and sexist in cnovels and they designate anything with a female lead as romance 🙄)

like 800+ chapters in and not even the side characters have much to do with romance.

also fairly certain the guy i ship with the protagonist is not going to be romantic with her, and he's just going to be like, a platonic sibling, while the guy who the authors notes? says is the male lead is uh. i dont see how this is gonna work lol. i don't want him.

oh right it's ongoing so 👀 it seems to update once a day? I'll have to keep checking back...

also it's actually good story about a female monarch. like she's set up to be a "lord" from a young age due to her personal philosophies during a chaotic age, and she naturally draws talented individuals to work under her to support her rule, and it focuses on her combat prowess, her clever political scheming, her love of farming (this one plays a big role lol), and her desire to put the needs of the people first in an age where warlords rule and don't care at all for the lives of the lower class.

it's soooo much about her competence, but doesn't feel too OP to the point she's a Mary Sue, and there's a lot less... focus? I guess on the sort of typical infighting and backstabbing that "female monarch" stories have, plus the lack of romance so far really sets it all apart

oh and it's also about her making the world less sexist and letting women also do magic and serve as officials and soldiers and be less helpless and dependent on men

ugh, i just really liked it a lot!!!

there's 30+ chapters translated by people online rn and there's 814 chapters total in chinese, which you can find just by searching the chinese title

it's called Step Down, Let Me Come! by Fried Shiitake Mushrooms, and the novel updates link is here:

and the chinese title and author are:

author: 油爆香菇

title: 退下，让朕来

i might have to figure out how to get an acct and comment on the official site for the novel (and also figure out which is the official site lol) and get my comment translated. i want to beg the author to make the male lead the guy she has actually met and has chemistry with! 😭😭 unless i misunderstood some translated authors' notes, I'm pretty sure it's not him and im just 😠 no. i dont want that lol.

[ewwgene-fitzherbert]

cryyyying over c/t//a right now

[shewhotellsstories]

i really dont wanna annoy you but you post about racism in fandom sometimes so i thought you'd be the right person to ask. i hope this doesnt come off as expecting u to be my teacher. yesterday someone said they didnt trust white zk shippers and i thought it was mean but then people started sending the them all these nasty messages and i started to worry maybe op was right. honestly a lot of this stuff is pretty new for me. i think our fandom is inclusive & unlike the rest of the atla fandom we actually like katara. but i'm trying to learn.

why would it be a problem that a lot of zk fics have katara looking after zuko? i always just felt like he needed it more bc he was abused and kataras better at dealing with feelings and she's good at taking care of people. is fire lady katara still ok? is there racism in our fandom? there are a lot of woc zks and i've seen them get hate for it. but the messages op got were pretty bad too. i know i'm asking a lot of questions i just hate the thinking that we might be as bad as the z*kka stans have been saying all year.

This is gonna get long so I’m just gonna jump right in. When I listened to fansplaining’s episode on fandom racism one of the guests said white fans who can acknowledge that fandom racism exists tend to frame it as “just a few bad apples” and get caught up in worrying about not looking like a “bad apple” instead of making fandoms spaces that aren’t hostile for BIPOC. Jag offs hiding behind anon to tell women of color who ship zutara that we have a creepy fetish for imperialism and colonialism suck, but your biggest concern really shouldn’t be the optics or if you can claim superiority over zukka stans.

Yeah the “katara’s a homophobe” nonsense didn’t come from our end of the fandom, but it feels naive at best or dishonest at worst to act like the zutara fandom is uniquely immune to fandom racism. A creator I follow made the excellent point that allyship conditional upon if a poc talks "nicely" about racism is still white supremacy. I believe poc need to be allowed to vent and be salty or angry without being tone-policed. I definitely have my days where I’m like “ugh white people,” or "why must white fans be like this," so I get where the OP was coming from. Ironically the folks that sent them anon hate proved their point. You can always count on hit dogs to hollar.

Fandom is only escapist for some people. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum so you’ll find racism in fandom because there’s racism in the world. Navigating that gets exhausting. There are certain things I enjoy, but for the sake of my sanity I'll only talk about it with friends in real life or only follow fans of color. Before I follow white fans I need to see first that they’re not the kind of person who inspires posts about fandom racism. A good friend of mine loves Star Wars, Kpop, and gaming but after years of attempts at calling in she decided that she’d only interact with woc in those spaces. Again, you get tired.

ATLA wasn’t on my radar until last year so I definitely haven’t read every zutara fic out there but I have noticed a lot of fics do tend to have Katara being the one comforting and supporting Zuko. It’s not inherently wrong of course, it’s just in the grand scheme of things in fiction woc are often cast as eternal caretakers and confidants in fiction:

“How characters of color are portrayed in fanworks, especially fanfiction, is worse than the actual films. They are portrayed as supportive, almost invisible understudies. Any characteristics which they possess in the [MCU] films are stripped and given to other white characters. It is not only erasure. It’s a theft of identity.

Characters of color are positioned within storylines to support the main, white characters. Even within the slash biracial pairings, the character of color is underdeveloped and in a position of servitude within the relationship.”

TheNavyLanguage, Fansplaining

As the quote above points out this honestly happens in a lot of fandoms. I’ve read fanfic for books, movies, tv shows, and comics and I can’t help but notice that in fics the writers often have the non-white character or-- if neither character is white--the darker skinned character being the care-taker, the bodyguard, or the person who is performing all the emotional labor. It’s not inherently wrong to have a character of color have a nurturing personality, you just have to remember that since Black and brown folks have been saddled with narrative after narrative where we exist to serve leaning into dynamics where the non-white or darker skinned character is providing all the emotional support and getting very little in return has some unfortunate implications.

It’s not better if instead of being defined as the avatar’s girl, Katara’s the fire lord’s girl. Part of the appeal of zutara for me is the idea that Katara could lay down some of her burdens and get some much needed support. I always imagine she’d have some major issues after the war.

"i always just felt like he needed it more bc he was abused and kataras better at dealing with feelings and she's good at taking care of people."

I’m going to push back against that statement. Yes, Katara didn't grow up in an abusive household but she has pain and trauma of her own. In fact I’d argue that her believing it’s her job to take care of everyone is rooted in her trauma. Katara needs support and care just as much as anyone else does.

Having read a lot of fics revolving around abuse victims in different fandoms I’ve observed that if fans feel a character’s trauma wasn’t properly addressed in canon, they’ll give them a lot of TLC in fics. But again, reducing the non-white or darker-skinned character to a glorified therapist has some implications.

I feel like the Fire Lady Katara headcanon's been talked to death so long-story short, it’s not inherently racist but it can problematic if it's not clear that Katara is Katara of the Water Tribe wherever she lives. Fics and art where her crown has a crescent moon, she wears blue, or Zuko wears blue when she's in red are the executions I'm fondest of.

When in doubt just listen when poc talk about uncomfortable trends in the fandom. Give fansplaining’s episodes on fandom racism a listen here, here, and here. And very loosely quoting my favorite professor just remember that if a marginalized person says they’re distrustful of a group of people or institution it usually happens after a lot of bad experiences. Don’t center your own comfort and hurt feelings.

“If we truly believe in fandom’s progressive credentials, then perhaps it is necessary for us to listen to critiques that make us uncomfortable rather than those that keep arguing that the status quo is perfectly acceptable—even as there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Perhaps then we will be able to come at these, yes, these very complex and nuanced discussions with the type of openness and good faith that is required for them to succeed, rather than approaching them with hostility.”

-Rukmini Pande, Fansplaining

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

1. wasn't it literal myth canon the cycle of overthrowing the kings stopped because of zeus swallowing metis? because it was prophesied she would give birth to a son who would overpower zeus, but the child ended up being athena who is super loyal to zeus. so rachel does enough research to know zeus swallowed metis to make him look bad, but purposely ignored the context and the results of it to push her stupid plot along? i thought she respected the mythology, why is she purposely lying now?

2. um. why did demeter's coat change colors entirely in that post 💀 im begging them to use color sheets thats just ridiculous omg

3. ok so does that post not just confirm rhea is dead then? gaia and metis too? or as dead as you can be as immortals? big fan of murdering all the supposed super powerful women (who are still easily overpowered?? and forced into marriage?? fuck off) for the sake of making persephone special because she wont be eaten and will ~choose to marry~ instead. maybe persephone will eat kronos instead and be even more super mega op now. i wouldnt put it pass rachel to do that.

4. More so to add to the "fertility goddess" stuff. Gaia was the EARTH'S fertility, not biological. She's the OG mother godess, sure, but her domain was never about childbirth. Rhea was the Goddess of Cycles and Menstruation, NOT Earthly fertility, and Hera, as that post said, was also the fertility around children, so neither of them are the same as Gaia, nor is Gaia the same as then. That post is 100% right in Rachel's lack of actually saying what "fertility" is only  makes it more confusing.

5. RS being so openly in fan spaces is a huge problem the comic. In her need to "make the fans happy" the story becomes weaker because of  far too much fan input. We saw this directly in the walking back of the AOW because some fans were upset P wasn't "being their cinnamon roll" and now she comes across as a weaker character for it. We're also seeing this now in potential retcons to P's age and trying to redeem Apollo. I get it's to appease them, but a confident writer shouldn't have to do this.

6. I feel like the combo of "modern setting" with "learning about the world" really doesnt work in LO, because if it was an ancient fantasy setting, then yes we would like to learn more about it because we have no familiarity with it, but in making the Underworld just a carbon copy of any modern day city, it makes the "Persephone learns about the world" seem really boring? Like her learning about an ancient kingdom of the dead is interesting, her learning about what a movie theater is is not.

7. This isnt even purely an LO thing but the most frustrating thing to me is just knowing there's so many well done comics on Webtoons that if they were given even a quarter of the attention and promotion the company gives to LO that those comics would also blast off in success too. Why do you think Suitor Armor, Boyfriends, and Everything is Fine all skyrocketed into success so fast, especially the latter two? It's because the company promotes them. I wish they'd do that to more of them.

8. deadass do not get the stans who go "if you dont like it then dont read" to stop any critique because like ok, if you dont like our criticism then dont read it then 🤷🏿‍♀️ seems pretty simple to me. its a two way street.

9. I really hate the "you guys just overanalysis  everything it's just entertainment 🙄" like .. ok? Why are people not allowed to have opinions and critiques? Because we all know if we held these same fans to this, they'd get pissed they couldn't critique what they wanted (which trust me, LO fans LOVE to hate on PJO, TSOA, etc) The policing of others who dare to not think exactly how they do and saying critically consuming media is "ruining the fun" says way more about them than any critic, tbh.

10. TBH i sorta wonder if LO would be so much better if before it was published WT said it could only have a certain number of episodes. Like what if it was only allowed 100 eps? So much filler and unneeded plots would be cut completely and the actual focus would have to be on developing HXP or else it'd end incomplete. Like sorry, the majority of the comic could easily be cut and it would be so much better for it. Letting Rachel add more and more to it only makes it a lesser product in the end.

[nikethestatue]

It's so important to remember that Gwyn hasn't showed interest (romantically) in Azriel because even elriels get into the gwynriel propaganda. the other day I saw a post where op were comparing their situation to aragorn/eowyn/arwen and I was like whaaaaat? Gwyn is not eowyn, she's not mad in love with Azriel lol. Not even elain/Lucien/Azriel is a love triangle at this point, but you know people will never accept that Azriel wants elain and Elain wants Azriel and that Gwyn has weird powers.

Yes, and I think people (willingly) forget that SJM doesn't write love triangles. Especially love triangles between 2 women and 1 man. In her books, it's women who decide, not men. As an example, Feysand and Tamlin--not really a love triangle, because Feyre made her decision on who she wants to be with. Tamlin and Rhys sort of fought over her, but it was mostly indirect, with Tamlin making dumb decisions all over the place. Same with Aelin and let's say Chaol and Dorian--same thing, it was Aelin's decision between those two, and then, down the line, it was still her decision regarding Rowan, for example. So if someone thinks that two girls are going to be duking it out over Az, I think they will be disappointed, and don't really understand SJM's writing.

Even with the Aragorn, Eowyn and Arwen comparison, it's mostly based on the movies, and not the book, because Tolkien didn't emphasize any kind of love triangle, and certainly didn't spend a lot of time on female characters either. Of course at the end, Eowyn and Arwen never met, so calling it a triangle is a stretch.

But Gwyn is not Eowyn--she is not a warrior princess in love with Azriel! Also, I dont know what is so difficult to understand--Azriel is interested in Elain. That's it. Just because you don't like it, it doesn't change the fact that he wants Elain. Elain is probably the only person in the world that makes him pause, listen, sit down and talk (to her). He generally strikes me as a guy who does give two fucks about 'expectations of him' or requirements or whatever. That's why he talks back to Rhys and Feyre and Amren. But it's different with Elain. People can project whatever they feel like onto him and his feelings, but the fact remains the same.

It is what it is.

[cae-liveblogging]

Tmnt 2003 S1 E2

D: "it may not look like much but this tin toy can chomp his way through steel and concrete like Michelangelo through a pizza."

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APRILLLLL!! :D WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN THE SEWERS??!?

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Donnie is literally so dramatic

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the intro is distinct but in that same right practically unrecognizable as a tmnt intro besides the fact that they yell "TURTLES" a lot

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thats a lot of TV's

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lol he put out a whole block out of power

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not D and M arguing over the name of the lair

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they're 15 aww

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Raph is so angy

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L: "lets not trash this place more than it already is." fr fr

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do NOT tell raph to take anything slow he will NOT DO IT

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YEEHAW

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Donatello literally invented the flying car huh

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Mikey has a dvd collection aww

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love to see that Baxter Stockman isn't a plain ass white guy like in 87

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it looks like a fucking FurReal Friend

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Donatello looks devastated at this news a la Penelope Scott Rät

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RAPH WHY DID YOU BREAK THE TV?!!?!??

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WHAP 'IM SPLINTER! GET 'IM WITH YOUR STICK

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April is no longer a reporter shes a lab assistant we love women in STEM 💙🧡💜❤️

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"several rats" dude thats like a dozen

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the mouser is goring the rat on live tv

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"you flatter me Miss O'Neil, I like that" shutthefuckupasshole

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he's acting sus but i love how thorough April is like she really loves her job we love women in STEM 💙🧡💜❤️

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SHE KNOWS GET INTO IT MISS O'NEIL

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love how splinter just disarmed raph and he stood there like a moron

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R: "why cant we go topside and show him a little mean and green?"

S: "because i fucking said so you little red bitch"

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🎶BUSTED🎶 how sibling of you

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"I do not tolerate failure >:("

"Thats why you'd make a lousy scientist >:("

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D: "hey guys, I got one working :D" you sure did bud look at it go

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"try not to work too late April you know i dont like to pay overtime" okay girlboss

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one question tho why is she wearing a crop top and baggy pants that just feels so weird yet so cool to me

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she discovers a secret lab, folks

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the mouser can climb walls the mouser can climb walls the mouser ca

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L: "you know what master splinter says, a ninja is always prepared."

M: "I thought that was the boy scouts"

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M: "Next time, lets leave the wall crawling to the dude in the blue and red tights"

L: "you read way too many comic books"

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D: "I shut down its jaw servos. It couldnt even chew through a stick of gum! :)"

the mouser: proceeds to chew through a pipe and also solid concrete

D: :(

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obligatory shot down someones throat while they scream

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M: "guys, you okay!?"

R: *spits water out* "peachy"

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A: "idc how bad the cities rodent problem is. this is serious overkill" you dont fucking say

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ope she activated a motion detector thingy shes fucked

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Stockman: my mouser will make me a very rich and powerful man."

A: "Arent you already a rich and powerful man?" yes but hes a dirty capitalist sellout

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he literally has a button for pulling people out the front window of that observatory window huh

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she lost her lab coat noooooooo

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raph sounds like a gremlin lol

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M: "whoah!rouhbouh-houdini!" (robo-houdini)

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why does mikey talk with a valley accent its so disctracting

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raph really is a maniac huh

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shes gonna attack the mousers with a fire extinguisher. shes gonna extinguish them. -----

nevermind she actually hit it

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RUN BITCH RUUUUNN!

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so THATS how she ended up in the sewers

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girliepop just runnnnn

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✨whoAh✨

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They still kick ass tho

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Donatello is just being a nerd in the middle of a fight dont mind him

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D: "These mousers are incredible! The servo-mechanics, the circuitry, the articulation! :D" he really is in heaven

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y'know what? its only a little off-putting that the turtles dont have pupils or irises

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april faints when meeting the turtles pt. 2 2003 edtlition

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M: "soooo, can i keep her?" ugh