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and now for the fun monthly game of Do I Actually Want To Be Fucking Dead Or Is It Just That Stupid Organ? the gameshow where you lose more than you win
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Oh yeah and sorry for the spam but I was looking through my notes and I think I forgot to mention it but in Who Am I, the contrast between the Faith/Riley intimacy scene and how freaked out Faith was by it and the much more wholesome and good for each other intimacy of the Willow/Tara magic scene that was in between them that was real good.
okay yeah i think this was a brilliant choice the show made.
i also think the depiction of faith's sexuality on the show is deeply and obviously troubled but kind of incidentally a little bit genius?
under the cut to discuss issues of sexual assault and some of the darker things the show has implied about faith
like to be clear i think that the way the show often equates faith's desire for sex with her evilness sucks and is bad.
but i also think the kind of hyper-sexuality we see from her fits in very well with all of the very strong implications that she's a victim of CSA.
i've talked about this before, but i can't find any of the posts on my blog so forgive me for repeating any points
but there's a lot of alarming details that point to faith being a CSA survivor. she makes a lot of comments about her mom's predatory boyfriends, there's the "let me stay the night, promise i won't try anything" line she mocks, there's hitting on giles, in later seasons she makes reference to events that could have only happened pre-sunnydale involving a man who asked her to dress like a school girl. all of it paints a pretty horrible picture, especially compounded with all of the implied details of the physical abuse faith suffered at her mother's hands.
so you have a young girl with a horrific background of abuse and victimization and then you give her powers but no stability, no support - is it any wonder she went dark? when faith's relationship to power has always been the ones who have it make the rules and everyone else just deals with it?
because i think this is something you see explicitly in the way faith transgresses against xander and riley.
with xander in particular, it's like. the scene where she assaults him begins with him asking to come in "just to talk, i swear" to which she replies "think you could make something happen if i didn't want it to?" which is just. a horrible bit of foreshadowing, and very telling as a first reaction. it's actually a great precursor to the riley stuff, because xander shows up and tries to connect with her emotionally. he tries to imply that he knows her, that he cares, and her immediate reaction is to dissect that genuine offer of support for the ways that it must be an attempt to manipulate her. he wants to brag that he had sex with her, or else he's trying to trick her into sleeping with him again. she denies that they have a connection because "it's just skin" which is fundamental to the way she thinks about sex. it's a tool - it offers relief or power, but not anything else.
"what do you want to do with this body?" is what faith asks riley. "am i a bad girl? do you wanna hurt me?" i mean it's not hard to read into this. fucking riley isn't about riley, it's another one of faith's weird sexual proxy deals with buffy and it's about being buffy and it's about dicking buffy over. when riley is kind and genuine in bed, when he tells 'buffy' that he loves her is when faith starts to flip out because the script she keeps trying to lay over buffy's life keeps breaking. she flips out, gets panicky, tells him "this is meaningless" in an effort to reassert something she believes to be true about sex -- that it's a tool of power with, at best, an inauthentic veneer of intimacy.
if there's one specific turning point in faith's post-graduation day redemption arc it's here. THIS is when she starts to realize she's fucked up, that her entire worldview was wrong.
to accept that she was wrong about about sex is to accept that she was wrong about power. it means the narrative of her life is all wrong. that she was hurt by her mother and by men who preyed on her was not, in fact, the uncaring laws of power in action but deliberate acts of cruelty that needlessly victimized her. it also means that every fucked up thing she's done to buffy, and xander, and angel, and riley, and everyone else is, in fact, her fault. she loses the ability to hide behind a law of the universe - we're not at full accountability yet, but this is where it starts.
right here:
when Faith stumbles out of bed, trembling and panicking, and Riley asks "what happened?"
"nothing," faith says, stricken. she says it twice, actually. the second time sounds like more of a lie.
[obligatory disclaimer here wrt the fact that consent here is. a messy thing to talk about. given that this whole post is in regards to fictional characters and that the sex between riley and faith is 1) not framed as rape 2) utterly and completely fantastical given that it's facilitated by the use of a magic artifact i've avoided using the language of irl sexual assault to discuss it. ymmv]
#replies#Anonymous#not maintagging this. i have seen The Discourse and i want no part#fine to RB tho#buffy anon
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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
#yeehaw#1k#5k#10k#posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference#edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense#also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags#1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now#he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic#2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign#like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock#3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing#it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is#extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once#it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life#i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about#Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect#if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it#aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week
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hawthorne sprite HAWTHORNE SPRITE!!!!!!!! yippee
#really happy w this. stuck to the art style as hard as i could ok which means i gave him the little eye shine which pained me but itsfineeee#couldnt fit his eyelashes in smoothly either 😔#its fine its all good man#i futzed w the face so fkn much#his outfits so minimal thank fuck for that (at least for now. i wanna rlly get in there at some point n add more stuff to it for funsiessss#im also kinda indecisive abt his sleeves... do i yoink ollys sleeves or do i keep the ones from the og sketch... ough#im just gonna flipflop to whatever i want in the moment fuck it#fields of mistria#fom farmer#my art#hawthornessaltwaterfarm#I LOVE HIMMMMMMM WEHHHHHH#i might do some expressions too..#ok wait i have to show yall the full row of versions i went through while working on this bc its glorious. its going in a rb tho hold up
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Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.
There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:
“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”
And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).
I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)
To quote RTD:
“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”
This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)
—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?
How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?
And this just keeps happening.
And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.
The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.
#dot and bubble#fifteenth doctor#rtd critical#anti rtd#ricky september#lindy pepper bean#dw negativity#racism#antiblackness#words by seaweed#not to be anti rtd. im just very critical. Anti RTD is just a tag which people use or block#every showrunner has their flaws but RTD is the only one self-righteously virtu signling over NOTHING. which is why im more critical.#plus the on-set sxual hrassment and what happened with Chris Eccleston etc. it vindicates me. idk. not tryna be a hater#ALSO dot and bubble is leaps and bounds better than any racism commentary I expected from Russell T Davies. so theres that.#can you tell I'm shy abt making long posts that someone is likely gonna be not happy about-#I usually search tumblr for posts to rb and talk in tags. but I couldnt find any posts about this this morning! tho I think ppl have since#etc its fine to critically appreciate imperfect media etc I do it all the time (as a Black fan) (who also thinks Rosa has Flaws) etc#I did see someone on twitter pointing out the hypocrisy of all white writers but twitter does not have space to talk about things#also love that The Church on Ruby Road has Mark Tonderai who became the first black director w The Ghost Monument. I love his directing#but that's the Christmas special. it is not part of this season. and honestly fr it's not close to enough#love the inclusivity in front of the camera. lets get some of that in the writing team NOW. it's hurting for it.#bring back Charlene James. can you hear me? was the best episode of Season 12.#the ep felt like a commentary on the “RIP Doctor Who” ppl under every official Doctor Who post? hence social media?#it does work best that way!! it just felt a little off of that way in rtd talking#idk im rambling. I did enjoy it tho. I just wish. but well.
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pixel art carat bong 💎
#hehe….i finished it <<<333#i!!! hope it looks okay but truly i am still a beginner so . well you see it might look a little strange#but that’s fine bc im learning 😌 and will get better <<<333 i think it’s fine for my first time making something like this ^-^#please do give me opinions tho hehe !#my art#pixel art#svt#svtcreations#carat bong#kpop#ok to rb :3
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And what if Red Bull not dominating anymore was just a sign that Ducati can also stop being the only manufacturer on top ✨
#not this season tho#and like let marc have one championship before we have things going sour#but a championship that marc has to fight for with bikes that aren’t ducatis is also fine#this is a joke btw I know the regulations and the reasons why rb/ducati are where they are now are vastly different#the only good thing ducati has going on compared to rb is more than one competitive rider/driver
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btw here's some Brea and Kepler doodles I did at work and never posted ✌️
#artfarts#doodles#self insert#platonic f/o#familial f/o#🪐 kepler quinn 🪐#my precioys baby boy 🥺🥺💖💖💖#im gonna work more on the lyric video soon too!! after work today and tmrw for sure#and ive got an ask in my inbox about him but like!!!#its a bit vague 😂 where do i even start. ill do my best tho#hes just my perfect boy!#ok to rb#but totally fine if not theyre just little doods
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If mercedes ends up getting max, then where would kimi go???
stay in f2 😁 very good 😁 everyone liked that
#more experience and less pressure for the child? sounds good to me#baby is gonna end up in f1. the question isnt if#it's when#and if its 2026 instead of 2025 then definitely fine by me#do we actually think max is gonna leave tho?.....#idk how he would get rb to let him go lol that would not be easy#+ do i actually think he *wants* to leave? just bcs he hasnt won in like five races? hmm#anon!#asks!
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“you sure do love writing whole essays in those tags” weeping sobbing etc etc
#gideon shut the hell up challenge#WE LOVE TAGS…… literally what is the point of a post if not to ramble freely in tags#they’re less formal than writing it all out in the post honestly + they don’t affect rbs#it is like a cool secret convo . we r whispering to u in the middle of class type thing#our emphasis on tags only Does fuck us over w deleted posts but otherwise it’s fine and fun#can’t believe u would call us out like this tho
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god i love getting put against well-skilled teams who spawn camp our team for two rounds in a row
and have the audacity to say “gg” as if they played fucking fairly
#splatter speaks#replies are fine btw i just turned rbs off bc well. i dont like my vent posts getting rbed lol#i know i know spawncamping is part of the territory#idk these guys were total dicks abt it tho. but also comes with the territory.#they just kept going ‘skill issue’ ‘dont get spawn camped next time’#god even thinking abt it is pissing me off again#anyways im fine. im not rly that upset over it. just wanted to vent lol#yes i left the lobby after that. i aint abt that toxicity#it just sucks getting stomped yknow :(
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Like idk dude like ofc Florida isn't ideal but I'm looking at the kids I'm teaching and I'm thinking "if some of them discover they're queer and all the queer adults leave the state ..who's gonna help them"
#personal#ive held on as long as i could in Florida...#theres a chance i might be forced to leave its...giving me thoughts#we have a community here hardworn and feral but surviving#and for all ive heard 'we have to leave' ive also heard 'but then they win..they get the state thats what they want'#me im just thinking about the ppl who stay here..whos got their back...who protects them#( the 2 points i mentioned are intercommunity talk in soflo which is why im turning off rbs...i dont need ppl telling me#...telling Us what we Should do how we SHould feel when they aint even set foot down here)#symptahy likes and comments are fine tho <3
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job hunting is actually such a specific form of psychological torture. just give me money and health insurance pls I want to focus on writing fanfic again........
#step one get job. step two move out from place with shitty neighbor to start job. step three profit#like to be clear the job hunting would have been happening regardless of shitty neighbor but she does add a certain impetus to hurry tf up#if I could focus (not have shitty neighbor) I could both get more job app done and also probably actually write stuff in the meantime#alas.#save me new MLIS degree. save me.#personal#(fine to rb tho)
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fuck it. post shower pics for the tl
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alright buds, i wanna hear about your halloween plans!! what are we wearing, what are we watching, where we going and with whom??? lay it on me 💖
#you can rb and tell me in the tags if you want!#but replies are fine too!#let’s hear it! i’ll go first: im marathoning over the garden wall!#and i might watch the witch later or some other horror movie!#ive been meaning to see us and nope?? idk if nope is out on streaming yet tho#not dragon age#antares speaks#NO WAIT IM GONNA START MIDNIGHT MASS AFTER THIS!!!#midnight mass is my FAVE
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damn I miss playing wolves in my friend's back yard .... rb to play wolves with your mutuals in their back yard<3
#just blahs#i dont really think this needs any other tags sbhsjsjs#but i am going to kinda vent in the tags still feel free to rb this tho :]#i miss my friend tbh#she was my best and only real friend for like 3 years and then she moved away and now we only talk 2-3 times a year#and i dont.... know how to change that#i just want my best friend back#but i dont want to seem clingly because what if shes moved on ?#what if shes gone and shes doing just fine where she is now and she doesn't miss me like i miss her#what if shes perfectly content with me just being someone that she talks to a few times a year#meanwhile i have nights that i literally cry myself to sleep because i cant just go see her#she doesnt know that i want so badly to turn 18 just so that i can move to the same state and maybe live near enough that i could see her#and i dont think i can tell her that because what if she doesn't care that much.#what if im being ridiculous and i should be over our friendship that should have ended the moment she moved years ago#that i should have just moved on and it's weird that i haven't#anyways sorry for the vent in the tags of my silly goofy post#mutuals come play wolves with me in my backyard <3
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