#🫀 vetty’s musings

[joeloverture]

it's been on my mind since i've started reading tlou reader-insert, but i just want to let you all know: plus-sized people can exist in the apocalypse. there's a plethora of reasons why:

genetics. lack of eating can cause slower digestion. your body enters survival mode and slows down your metabolism. eating canned, processed foods that outlasted traditionally healthy foods.

people can be plus-sized and still athletic. people can be plus-sized and have 'healthy' lifestyles. people can be plus-sized and not fit your expectation of what being plus-sized is like.

i make this post because, with fatphobic rhetoric always floating around, it's hard to remember that you exist as you are, oftentimes regardless of circumstance.

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this wouldn’t have happened if not for 9/11

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here’s the thing i AM gonna talk about it and i AM gonna be pissed about it. historically but especially in a year that’s meant to be ‘diverse’, latinos (among other POCs) were left behind this awards season. tonight, the emmys have four latino nominees. pedro is an important part of that conversation — with the year he’s had, and the background he comes from.

sure, every actor in the categories he’s nominated in deserves their dues and acknowledgement. that’s why they ARE nominated. but seeing pedro being, YET AGAIN, reduced to a tactless horniness joke instead of the performances he’s capable of giving, is so goddamn upsetting.

pedro’s career and talent has been consistently overlooked until now, and the fact that his efforts can be neglected to boost a white man for the hundredth fucking time is just… exhausting. at the end of the day, he’s a caricature to hollywood’s biggest decision makers. they joke about him, don’t take him seriously, ask him the dumbest interview questions even thinkable, and can’t even reward him for his work.

no, 2023 wasn’t the year everyone was horny for pedro pascal — it was the year he blew audiences away with his performance, kindness, and passion. the critics might not be looking, but we are, and that matters infinitely more.

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more clarity on this ask i received -> the coherent version.

reblogs are welcome and encouraged because the racism in this fandom is often overlooked on account of it being subtle. in this case it is glaringly obvious, but not always.

tw racism below

for those who don’t know — although a lesser known slur in the multitude of derogatory words out there, beaner is in fact a slur. commonly used against mexicans or mexican americans like myself because it is one of our “staple foods”. this reduces and dehumanizes us to one very, very minimal aspect of our culture. when the spanish first colonized us and encountered our staple crops (corn, pumpkins, avocados, beans, etc) they considered them all “inferior” foods to live on, much like us being “inferior people” to them. by diminishing us to the foods we eat you are not only participating in active racism, but also forgiving and peddling colonist ideology.

i can’t stop anyone from being racist. but i can condemn it like hell. you are the only subhuman one if you only see someone as an ethnicity or race.

as far as other subtle racism in this fandom, we’ve had the latino fetishization discussion before. what i find interesting about this particular ask is that you’re seeking out fanfiction about a latino character all the while perpetuating hate against us. you fetishize us, yet you continue to hate us. most of the time it isn’t as obvious as this ask has made it. but if you participate in this, if you still see us as stereotypes, yet continue to get off to fanfiction about characters that share our backgrounds, PLEASE self evaluate.

you don’t have to like my fics. in fact, not liking them doesn’t make you a shitty person. everything else that you said here makes up for it.

[joeloverture]

i was planning on doing this anyway, but here’s the deal: im leaving tumblr

guys, i have chronic pain. severe, debilitating chronic pain. and the severity of that isn’t exactly the kind that i can just bare my heart to describe. you don’t know how bad it is until you’re on the receiving end of it, and i hope you never are. but im unlucky, and i wake up in persisting pain every day of my life. i won’t talk extensively about my chronic pain in this departure but just know that writing, especially for fandom, is just unrealistic for me right now

writing, especially for THIS fandom, is just out of the fucking question right now.

sorry, but im not giving jerk off material to a bunch of sex starved basement dwellers with cunts that look like rotted raisins. thats just not why i joined this fandom. i joined to celebrate the dramatic rise to fame of someone whose story & identity i found relatable and encouraging. now, people are making baseless assumptions & accusations, as well as actively hurting and spreading false information about kindhearted and talented people.

maybe ill have a future with this fandom in it, as well as creating lighthearted fics, but now? no. its not fun! especially with my health

so where does this leave my fics? unfinished, im afraid. and honestly, maybe even taken down. im tempted to deactivate here, but i dont want to leave people without works that they may go back to. i might orphan them on ao3 — just send me an ask with a fic of mine you favor if it isn’t already posted there, and ill try to get it up.

that said, ive been planning on leaving for a while. that fuck ass account is not the sole reason, but i also don’t want to be part of a circle jerk where everyone gets off on others’ collective misery. which is what this environment feels like rn

thank you to every wonderful soul who’s supported me during my brief stint here 🤎 your comments, reblogs, and asks were all treasured

💌 - vetty

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talia is my everything and these bracelets are incredible 💙🧡 captures the vibes so well

making bracelets based on your friends fics >>>>

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i had 0 plans to talk about it since i do not want to start shit but it's absolutely driving me insane to see poc actors get trampled for having a large body of work while white actors (literally the chris quartet, although pratt has been/deserves to be dragged) are routinely applauded.

seeing the internet turn on pedro after doing nothing but praising him for his work in tlou is not only a could-exclusively-happen-on-twitter phenomenon but is also proof that it's acceptable to let a poc be cast as a white man once and only once. there was an uproar when he was going to be joel, and he knocked it out of the fucking park. there's an uproar now due to his casting as reed richards, yet he hasn't given anyone a reason to critique his acting when he's worked so hard and executed his characters so beautifully and intimately.

even with rumors of him being in talks for materialists (the A24 romcom) opposite chris evans, the comments in response were almost entirely targeting pedro for 'being in everything' while evans has been in ~49 films. nobody is tired of him yet, are they? why is this energy solely ever directed at pocs?

[joeloverture]

dave york could’ve done it

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met gala TONIGHT pspspspsps pedro pascal

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announcement! 🧡🏈

hook ‘em is not going to be a mini-series. nope, we’re looking at a true series. likely a six-parter. a full fledged football funhouse of coach!joel depravity. whoops.

i should’ve known this would happen. im too attached to this bastard, and kept getting tripped up while wringing my neck trying to make this shorter than it wants to be. but i hope you guys aren’t sick of me yet lol, there’s gonna be more 🧡

[joeloverture]

i can’t resist the call to yap even if im eager to leave this place (mainly im leaving writing, i think ill become more of a lurker) but i have GOT to correct a misconception ive been seeing

pedro’s portrayal of joel is weak

no… no it is not. craig mazin’s interpretation of joel is more empathetic. if you read episode 3’s script, and all of the scripts for chernobyl episodes, you’ll see that he writes very clearly about the emotions the characters are confronting. assuming craig wrote season 2 similarly, then pedro is fulfilling the script.

you can complain about the change from the video game, but don’t blame any of the actors for going along with the emotions written for tv. theyre all just doing their jobs lmao — if the showrunners disliked it, they would’ve reshot it.

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why are you promoting fatness? your fics are good but you should not pander to fat people because they are gross. i’m confused, i thought you were one of the good writers and not one of the annoying ones who think fat people are pretty.

hi! thank you so much for the compliment. i'm filled with horrific dread to have to report to you that the fics that you've been "petting the cat" to are, in fact, written by a "gross" and "annoying" woman! this rare, little known fact may surprise you — but fat people can be good writers.

would you mind sending me your @ so i can block you? based on the quality of writing and brain power sampled in this ask, you're clearly too young to be interacting with my blog.

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my 68 year old chilean grandmother calls pedro pascal ‘paco taco’ because she can’t remember his name

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pssst — who's ready for dbf!joel w/ thigh riding & exhibitionism?

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for those of you wondering how coach!joel is doing, he’s currently watching the nfl draft on his flatscreen, reading glasses on while furiously taking notes on a yellow legal pad.

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awakening from the dead to say happy disability pride month to the pedro pascal fandom ❤️