#(by this I mean getting sexually harassed)

[exhuastedpigeon]

It’s important to express yourself.

[digo3d]

I don’t think you didn’t ‘like’ Brain so much as you weren’t really sure what to do with the character, especially since he wasn’t utilized very much. I think now that you’re writing one you’re liking him more!

Coulda sworn I responded to this earlier but ANYWAY

I think you make a great point actually, writing about him has definitely led me into a better perspective of him and a better understanding of his character as well

Also I think part of my initial hatred was because I got into Top Cat through the 2011 movie where he's very flanderized and just played for jokes and literally just 'the dumb one', once I actually got my hands on the series I realized my horrid mistake and now he's my liddol scrunkly precious little baby boy my little lad i wanna give him scritchies so BAD AAUUUUUGH

[stainlesssteellocust]

I’m seeing a theme amongst the series I focus on

A theme of “can’t touch my love interest”

Mo O’Brien: “Damn Agnes, that sounds rough. I had it the same for a while, Bob and I couldn’t even sleep in the same bed until I got this convenient MacGuffin”

Mhari Murphy Grey: “Same here, it wasn’t quite so bad for me but we still had to be careful until the America thing happened.”

Agnes Montague: “Didn’t get that far. I kissed him and his face came off. Too embarrassed to call him again, I think he thinks I’m dead. Then there was Jude, who always melted.”

Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Charles: “I’ve gotten good results from plastic wrap…?”

Cassie Brewer/Agent First: “Agnes, don’t you think you should have…warned him about that? If you knew it could happen? Alex couldn’t really have hurt me but at least he checked first. What’s the Uruk phrase? Intended consent?”

Mo: “Informed. Informed consent.”

Agnes: “Look it was the heat of the moment okay”

Archivist Julie: *was not invited to brunch because everyone else is thoroughly disturbed by her*

[smile-files]

this might be a hot take... but if you care about disavowing media made by bad people out of fear of looking like a bad person yourself more than you care about actually doing good things... you might have your priorities (and your morals) screwed up a bit :/

(see my tags for more of my thoughts on this topic! please try to avoid making make bad-faith assumptions about what i mean!)

[dennistakesamentalhealthday]

man like i loved macdennis and i still do but the obnoxiousness of some shippers has put a sour taste in my mouth like i get people want to see the ship they like be Real And Canon On TV but it's getting weird and reeks of entitlement and not being able to see past your gay ship being gay. and tbh the idea of macdennis going canon doesn't excite me as much anymore because i just know if it did happen people are not going to know how to fucking act and make it weird!!! glob is fucking weird btw don't do that. i know ship and the potential of canon can be exciting but i need people to step out of their macdennis echo chamber and think about the way they talk about these real life men. like part of me doesn't want on screen, undeniable macdennis at this point because of the way people treat rob and glenn as dolls and extensions of their characters i KNOW people are going to be fucking weird if they get content like that

[boyobjectifier]

no yeah i love when tumblr doesn’t let me edit a post i reblogged. definitely won’t drive me crazy that i missed a word in the tags and it changes the meaning of the sentence

no yeah tumblr is such a cool and very functional app :)

[area51-escapee]

It’s possible to criticize something primarily enjoyed by women without being misogynistic and also just because something is primarily enjoyed by women that doesn’t make it above criticism. Especially when most of the people giving in depth, valid, well thought out critiques. Are also. Women. It doesn’t matter that things like Twilight or true crime or Taylor Swift (damn the three T’s if you will) ect. have a lot of female fans, people are still allowed to call out the harm they’ve caused and they aren’t inherently misogynistic for doing so. This isn’t about quality or whether something is worth enjoying or not, this is about the way these things impact other people in real life and those things should be acknowledged.

[weidli]

wow some people are assholes

[hannagoldworthy]

Arrogant Kenobists like you drove Karen Travis out of Lucasfilm because you couldn’t stand hearing the truth about your precious Mary Suetopia, the Jedi Order. You don’t deserve to call yourself people, much less Star Wars fans!

….

I should block her. I really should block her.

….fuck it.

One: It’s Karen Traviss, with two S’s at the end. If you’re going to put a writer up on a (imho completely undeserved) pedestal, you might as well spell her damn name right.

Two: Karen Traviss was not driven out of Lucasfilm. She quit, because George Lucas decided to take Mandalorian culture and clone culture in a different direction that what she’d written in her novels and she was throwing a tantrum to try and change his mind.

Three: Mary Suetopia is such an antiquated term that TvTropes merged its page under plain Utopia years ago.

Four: AllTheTropes still has a Mary Suetopia page, and notably, the Jedi Order is not on it, but Traviss’s Mandalorian society is. This is because the Jedi Order does have a few flaws that make it feel like a natural, interesting society in Lucas’s films, while Traviss makes her Mandalorian culture so perfect, upstanding, and idealistic that it becomes uninteresting. And aren’t you the one who’s always blathering about perfect, heroic characters being uninteresting, Domina?

Five: And on that note, aren’t you the one calling yourself a Lucas purist on your Ao3 account? That would be as utterly nonsensical as if I were to say, “oh, I’m a Tolkien purist and I think Rings of Power is the most faithful adaptation I’ve ever seen of the Silmarillion, which I have totally read and understood.” Karen Traviss is not George Lucas; saying that her stories supersede George’s canonical vision necessarily makes you not a Star Wars purist.

And lastly: I meant it when I said to find something else to do with your time, Domina. If you can’t find work or a boyfriend, try a physical hobby! I like knitting and cross stitch, myself; maybe you could try crochet? Or macrame?

[running-in-the-dark]

had a conversation about gym class with my friend who I went to school with today - it was depressing but also nice to hear that her experience with it (at that particular school) was just as bad as mine.

I don't think the way my school treated gym class was entirely normal tbh. it was completely different to the school I went to after, anyway. and everyone I talked to there only knew gym class to be a pretty fun, lighthearted thing. at my old school it was only about achievement, you had to be perfect, if not you were usually yelled at. and if you couldn't participate because you were feeling a bit ill (but not enough to stay home from school) you were ridiculed and/or insulted in front of the whole class. this happened with every gym teacher we had over the whole 9 years there.

it felt like two hours of punishment, there was nothing good about it. and it made at least the both of us feel like any kind of exercise/sport, especially in a group setting, was terrifying - for years after. even my much more positive experience at the other school I went to didn't make that go away.

[isdalinarhot]

by the way. i went to see barbie today and it was great because im off my meds and running on 3 hours of sleep so every joke is extra funny and every even slightly emotional moment made me cry. but whenever there was like a lull in the film and my mind would wander i just sat there thinking about how violet wine makes no goddamn sense like it just does not make any goddamn sense. i have always since my first read thought that violet wine makes no goddamn sense but for some reason today its hitting me like a goddamn truck

[muzzledcorpse]

Proshippers continue to be dumb as fuck