#Anti-Word of God
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One issue I have with the whole 'Wildbow said Aura Theory isn't True' is that the whole theory comes from, or at least got big, because of a comment he made in reply to a fan comment.
Now, I have read a reddit thread where he said something to the effect of 'I was tired, not paying attention and didn't give the right answer' or something to that effect. And like...
Okay, fine. He made a mistake. Took him three years to notice and correct it, or something like that, but fine.
But that calls into question literally any other Word of God statement he's ever provided, at least in answer to a question or comment. Because he could have bene tired and not paying attention and given a wrong answer then.
And since so much of the wormverse is understood through WoG because of the tight confines of much of both Worm and Ward in terms of POV, that means... a lot of what we think we know about the Wormverse could be 100% wrong.
Like, how many landmines are littered around in his WoG that he's never caught because they never caught on, never became popular fic trends or correcting them never became central to a sequel or later part of the work?
At that point, should we care about his WoG at all, when he could just reveal he was wrong?
Like, to be clear, I don't think Aura Theory is a necessary explanation for Amy's obsession with Victoria. Nor do I think, even if it was true, it would actually mean Amy didn't still actively choose (albeit while in the midst of a psychological break after the sort of shit that would break most people under the sort of stress she was under).
I do think Aura theory is interesting, and it's worth exploring in a fanfic (because fanfics can be 'hey, what if X that isn't true in canon was'), and I wish there wasn't a contingent of fans quite so rabid about constantly screeching 'it's not canon' anytime it comes up in discussion, but...
Really. Either Wildbow just up and retconned the Aura or he doesn't police his WoG properly and it calls everything else he's ever said into doubt, unless it's specifically backed up by material in the text that can be taken as 100% unbiased/reliable.
Or we can just not care about WoG at all, which is really the best way to do things in almost every fandom, because ultimately:
If It's Necessary To Understand The Work, A Character In Said Work Or To Understand the Intent Of A Scene, It Should Be In The Work Itself.
#Worm#Wormblr#Amy Dallon#Victoria Dallon#Anti-Wildbow#Musings#Not really but kinda#Anti-Word of God#In general Word of God should always be taken with grains of salt when it comes to works of fiction#also in reality but since God isn't real in reality if you think he's answering your questions well...#Aura Theory
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JK Rowling being a Holocaust denier wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but in hindsight it probably should have been.
At this point I don’t care how much Harry Potter means to you, I don’t care if it saved your life, if you think having some dumb fucking House scarf from a made up fantasy series is more important than calling out a white supremacist, transphobic, ableist hag then YOU are part of the problem and you are just as bad as she is.
#god please unfollow me if you support her I fucking mean it#she is so fucking stupid I hate her so fucking much#like words don’t do justice as to how much I fucking hate her#jk rowling#anti jkr#anti jk rowling
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I mean, caring more about shipping and memes and characters is usually a bigger thing in fandoms over the themes anyway, so Worm's hardly unique in that regard.
I've written before about how I subscribe to a specific form of the Death of the Author theory that I call the Primacy of the Text; that is, when evaluating a work of fiction, the most important things to consider is the text of the work itself. All else, including the pronouncements of the author, are of at best secondary importance.
So, this is why I don't really pay much mind when authors try to use "word of god" to establish facts about their stories. If it was really important, it should have been in story. Wildbow, for example can say all he likes that Taylor is 100% straight, but that's not the text he wrote. He wrote her acting like an in denial bisexual, and it's the text that should carry the most weight.
I don't get particularly annoyed when he does this, though. I don't really pay much import to it at all. Everyone has a right to their headcanons, after all. But that's not how most of the fandom seems to view it. Most of the fandom seems downright offended when Wildbow says stuff about the stories that he wrote.
I've also written before about how the bulk of the Wildbow fandom doesn't seem to have much interest in engaging in the text of the work. This is true of many fandoms, but seems especially true of of the Parahumans fandom, where a sizable minority hasn't even read the text, and even those who have seem more interested in shipping and memes than in seriously engaging with the themes of the story.
And I suspect this is why the fandom gets so mad whenever Wildbow ties to use Word of God on them. Since they don't engage with the text directly, headcanons are the only thing they have left, and so of course they'll be outraged when Wildbow tries to act like his headcanons are more valid then theirs.
#Worm#Anti-Word of God#I do agree with primacy of the text#but equally it's important to remember not everyone will interpret the text the same way#I also agree a large chunk of the SB-etc side of the Fandom does get tetchy about people ignoring WB or about 'fanon'#But also a large chunk of that side doesn't care about WB or the text and loves fanon because like many fandoms Worm has taken on a life of#it's own#and it's sheer size and the reputation it has for escalation and being depressing makes it have a high barrier to entry#But the biggest issue is when WB himself acts like anyone who did read the text having a different interpretation than him is categorically#wrong or a heretic or whatever#and god save you from his cultists who act like he's a prophet#Anti-Wildbow#Kylia Writes a Novel in the Tags
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You have got to all stop calling Jews zionists just because they are Jews.
#and yes that is what you are doing#when someone expresses that they are neither a zionist or antizionist#*because their views do not neatly align with either*#and still oppose killing palestinians#and you STILL call them zionists#youre just being anti semitic#ive noticed this especially being weaponised against anarchist jews which is just wild#anyway i am losing my fucking patience#word of god
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*writing acosf bonus chapter*
Sjm: Okaaaaay so I need to end this ship. What better way to make Elain feel small and shy around him instead of making Elain make the first move to kiss like the rest of my fmcs, he's going to be the one, and then to make it even worse he's going to call it a mistake!! And then when Rhysand asks him "what of Mor?" it would show that Elain, just like Mor is a distraction to him. Oh and make him to think of no future with her... yeah these are all very clear red flags!!!
*some* fandoms: Omg Azriel wants to eat Elain's 😻 so romantic!!! He thinks of her while he jerks off. He's so in love with her and sjm is going to give us forbidden love romance🥰💕
Sjm: I mean I also wrote that his shadows dance with Gwyn's breath and dance with a silent music that *nervous laugh* can only be concluded as mate signs, that's how I wrote other mated couples... oh and he thought of her smile!! Isn't that lovely...
*some* fandom: Gwyn is a siren and lightsinger who lured Azriel to make him stay away from Elain and made him to gift that necklace to her!!!😠
Sjm: *weirded out*
*writing hofas bonus chapter*
Sjm: Well... that sorta back fired??? So now I'm gonna write Azriel saying he has no partner, lover or any mate that he knows of. That will be enough to show how he's single asf. AND on top of that his shadows danced again while he hummed a music and who else sings? Yes, Gwyn. Who's the only one Azriel was comfortable enough to say something personal about himself and no one else!!
*some* fandoms: OMG Azriel doesn't want to tell anyone that he's secretly seeing Elain, he wants to protect her. Ah we're getting our forbbien romance!!
Me:
#WHY TUMBLR KEEP BRINGING ME THEIR POSTS?#and i know it's a lot to ask them to tag correctly...#MAY GOD SAVE AZ AND ELAIN FROM THEM#Sjm is really trying her best😭#it's them that twist her words the way it would fit them#gwynriel#pro gwynriel#pro gwyneth berdara#azriel acotar#azriel shadowsinger#azriel#anti e/riel#anti elriel#gonna tag these because I'm not gonna argue with them lol#I don't want them here#as you can see why lmao
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Transandrophobia truthers are so damn racist and white oh my fucking god y'all actually piss me the fuck off every time you tokenize Black and brown men for your stupid as fuck "mra but make it trans-inclusive" ideology created by a creepy guy with a corrective rape fetish(something I'll never let up on for as long as I live, btw). If I ever see another one of y'all say "Black and brown men face discrimination because they're seen as overly masculine and that's why masculinity in men is oppressed in this society" I will literally kill myself. Stop using Black and brown men as brownie points for your bullshit arguments about misandry being real when you don't have the slightest idea how racialized oppression works. White boys are so annoying and dumb istfg.
@punkeropercyjackson @punknicodiangelo @pinkpinkstarlet
#like none of the dumbasses i've seen say this shit have been poc and HEY IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT#because actual black and brown men know that their oppression is not based around masculinity but around RACISM#because if it was about masculinity then feminine men of color wouldn't face the same oppression and would be privileged over them which#is not true#it's also worth mentioning that black and brown WOMEN also face these same issues of being seen as more aggressive/strong/violent and thus#more dangerous even more so than our male counterparts so it's not an 'anti-masculinity' issue it's a fucking racism issue#plus once again feminine women of color also face these stereotypes#when we are masculinized even while presenting as feminine that isn't anti-masculinity you dumb fucks that's just racialized misogyny#and misogynoir#it is incredibly telling that white transmascs who use this argument never even mention women of color and that's because if they did then#their entire headass argument would fall apart because it's not about MASCULINITY being oppressed it's about RACISM(which newsflash women#experience too) and masculinity being assumed of black and brown people(women included) is just another facet of the white supremacist#gender binary not any form of masculinity being 'oppressed' in this society lol#don't even get me started on how these men misuse butch lesbians in their arguments as well and act like they are man-lite ugh#sorry but as a black woman i am officially pissed off rbn#like y'all love to spout 'intersectionality' and shit maybe *throws book at them* ACTUALLY READ UP AND LEARN WHAT THE FUCK IT MEANS#stop misusing words created by black women to prove that men are an oppressed group on god you mfers are annoying#anyway the lesson learned here is that white trans men are just as insipid and racist as their cis counterparts#pos the lot of you#racism#transandrophobia is not real#op
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Marginalized people have a right to define their own oppression, and their language shouldn't be dictated by people outside of that marginalized group. Unless you're transmasculine, then you're only allowed to talk about the oppression you face using words that non-transmascs decided on
#anti-transmasculinity#god. i'm so tired#hearing 'transmascs! you need to listen to non-transmascs about what words you can use for your experiences' from the same people who say#'if you're not part of [marginalized group] you don't get to decide the language for said group'#is really fucking wild#and really frustrating
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I don't think Greek Mythology retellings/adaptions/inspired/etc. are necessarily "evil"...but I DO think people REALLY need to understand that there's a huge difference between the actual mythology and certain media.
I feel like people have to basically do a "Fandom ___" to say the different versions. Like "PJO ___", "Hades game ___", "TSOA ___". For it to be understood that these depictions are DIFFERENT. I'm saying this as someone who grew up reading PJO and still has a soft spot for it. But as someone who really loves Greek Mythology as well, I sometimes get really SAD.
I'm going to use the comparison of Howl's Moving Castle with it's Book Vs. Movie. I enjoy both!!! But they are honestly very different. In the movie there is no "sister swap", Markle isn't a young teenager, Sophie doesn't throw weed killer at Howl, and many more moments. But I enjoy both because even though there are changes they still keep components that are ingrained into the characters!
In some Greek Myth retellings/adaptations/stories/etc., characters are...SO different from the source material. That's fine...Choose what you want with your story... But folks should know that the modern adaptations are NOT the source material!!!
It bothers me that a lot of these wonderful myths and stories are twisted up and seen so differently because of a modern version of them. You can have that character be "awful" or a certain way in your story. But I almost feel that as fans, it's not good to generalize them or see it as "This is the truth". People are hating the mythological figure when it's only in that interpretation they are like that.
In PJO, Ares is "Zeus' favorite", isn't a good dad, a misogynist, etc. The actual myths? One of his Epithets is LITERALLY "Feasted by Women", in the Iliad everybody basically bullies him with Zeus literally saying he hates him. He cries when he learns one of his sons is killed in the war. He literally kills someone about to rape his daughter. Ares isn't perfect but it makes me sad with how he's viewed and talked about when it's only in PJO he's like that. Same with Dionysus. Read the Bacchae, you'll love it.
In Lore Olympus, Apollo rapes Persephone (noticing the fact that modern takes on the myths add rapes where there never were hmmmmm) when he never did in any of the myths.
In TSOA, Thetis is cruel when in the Iliad, she is such a loving mother to Achilles. She grieved alongside her son over Patroclus. Also with Agamemnon. In Ipheginia at Aulis, Agamemnon is a MESS. He adored his children.
In Circe, Odysseus is viewed as a selfish man who ONLY hurts others and doesn't care about his family when that is LITERALLY his one consistent character trait. HE is actually the one who is the victim of rape. Circe was never raped.
Medusa is only a victim in Ovid's, a Roman man, works. Not in GREEK mythology. She was just a cool monster. Leave Perseus alone. Poseidon and Medusa actually had a consensual relationship in Greek Mythology!
These adaptations/retellings/inspired by/etc. whatever anybody wants to call them, are not the real myths! They may be similar in some ways but to just generalize them or hate the deity/mythological figure because of something they did in the new media feels fucked up!
You can enjoy these new stories. There's nothing wrong with that!!! But know they're not the real myths. Maybe even label it as "I hate ____'s version of ____". As that makes it clear what version you're talking about.
#I'm probably wording this very weird. I'm sorry for that haha#idk I'm getting sad#I'm clutching the gods and my special lil heroes to my chest to protect them from the hate.#this is silly but...idk had to say it :(#anti circe#anti madeline miller#sorry but that book makes me the sad™#greek mythology#tagamemnon#Mad rambles#shot by odysseus#PJO is special to me but I'm protecting the Gods >:( They can suck in PJO. to say the suck in the myths when you don't know the actual#myths is...sad#tw rape#<because so many adaptations ALSO add them when they're not there!!!!#save me morally gray circe#essay
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If someone defends Rhaenyra’s usurpation because of tRaDiTiOn, they better be waving a Maegor banner proudly.
I’m being serious.
So many people in this fandom care about the tradition of Westerosi inheritance and act like yelling about it justifies team green’s actions. They never seem to take into consideration what it means.
This post is inspired by my allergy to inconsistency and hypocrisy. Here we go.
The only consistent tradition of Targaryen succession is the ruler choosing their own heir. Sometimes that aligned with Westerosi tradition, often it did not. And it started with the very first heir. So either you admit Maegor was the rightful heir over Aenys, or you admit he wasn’t because Aegon the Conqueror said so.
Let me explain.
Visenya was Aegon’s first wife. In Westerosi tradition, Rhaenys would be considered at best a mistress and her children out of the succession or, at the least, behind Visenya’s children. The lords accepted the validity of Aegon’s plural marriage because they didn’t have the power to oppose the Conquerors, simple as. Tradition didn’t matter in the face of dragons. It is not a genuine argument and hasn’t been since the creation of the Crown itself. House Targaryen’s exceptionalism went beyond incest and dragons from the start, and accepting Aenys as king shows the nobles accepted this when it was convenient.
So I’d like team green to be consistent. Is the king’s word law, a la Aegon choosing Aenys as his heir? Or is this a break from tradition that was only corrected when Maegor killed his nephew and took the throne?
It gets messy from here. Maegor, as we know, didn’t have a child, so he chose his great-niece, Aerea as his heir. Jaehaerys was still alive, he could’ve chosen him. Heck, that might’ve eased like a drop of the tension between him, Jaehaerys and Alyssa Velaryon. So if you’re a tradition truther, Maegor was the proper king but then chose an untraditional heir. Hmm.
Then we get to Jaehaerys, and a tradition truther might think YES, THAT’S OUR GUY. But he’s really not.
Yes, he stopped considering his eldest living child, Daenerys, as his heir after Aemon was born. But then Aemon died.
Aemon did, however, die with an heir. Her name was Rhaenys. In Westerosi tradition, she’d inherit after him, because a daughter inherits before a brother. Now, I know the lords do all sorts of things to circumvent this (see Alys Karstark), but that *is* Westerosi tradition.
Did Jaehaerys follow tradition? Nope. He picked his second oldest son, Baelon.
Some might say there are logical reasons for this. Baelon was a warrior, older, and had grown sons. Rhaenys was like 18, married to an ambitious lord not named Targaryen, and at risk of dying in childbirth (Baelon was named heir in 92, Rhaenys had her first child in 92). HOWEVER, we see with Jeyne Arryn becoming Lady of the Vale while still a *toddler* that Westerosi tradition doesn’t set aside claims merely because such concerns exist. In fact, in ASOIAF, some Lannister married an f-ing BABY to lay claim to her lands because *she* is the acknowledged inheritor.
You could argue that it matters more when it’s the Crown, and I’ll concede that while pointing out you’ve made my argument for me: isn’t that a good reason for the Crown to do what it wants instead of following traditions that hamstring it?
If you’re a tradition truther, however, you should be in a rage and insisting Rhaenys inherit, and you should be outraged by what was done to her at the Council of 101 after Baelon dies. Her claim wasn’t even considered, Laenor’s was—ya know, her toddler son who got his claim *through* her.
So then Viserys takes the throne and continues the Targaryen custom of choosing his heir. And the tradition truthers of the fandom rise up and boo, and they cry “duty and sacrifice! What about tradition!?”
Just admit that the lords of Westeros, Alicent, her merry band of greens, and the fans that make excuses for them didn’t and don’t care about tradition unless it suits them, and they only become vocal about it when a woman stands a good chance of inheriting over a man.
Viserys never wavered in his choice, the realm knew it and so did the greens. This is precisely why Rhaenyra had far more support than her brother, and why the argument that the realm wouldn’t accept her is bs. The realm DID accept her. Because they understood something many in this fandom struggle to
There was only one consistent tradition of royal succession between the Conquest and the Dance: the ruler chooses their heir.
#anti team green#anti alicent stans#say tradition one more time I dare you#the Targaryens answer to neither gods nor men hello#is the king’s word law or not#one time I asked a team green stan this on Twitter and got blocked so fast lmao#team black forever#Rhaenyra is the true queen deal with it
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Wormblr Confession: In the past, initially to win an argument and eventually just to see if people would notice, I have said some random but plausible made-up bullshit and just said that it's a quote from Wildbow. Thus far nobody has noticed, and I have won a lot of the arguments I engaged in using this technique. This has only further radicalized me against treating WoG as gospel, but I'm not going to stop doing this because it's extremely funny.
Pffft.
That doesn't surprise me. The man has said so many WoGs and some of the ones I've seen sound so batshit and contrary to the text that one can really believe he'd say almost anything.
But yeah. That also sounds fun.
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if I had a time machine I’d erase harry potter from existence not necessarily just out of hatred for jk rowling(though that is a very strong reason) but also because it’s fucking annoying how culturally dominant it is I want people to stop talking about it I want to not think about it it’s not that good it’s not that interesting shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP. SHUT UP.
#sorry for being a hater guys 😔💔 it will happen again#the salmon are kissing and it sounds like the words of god#I act like an optimist on here but I’m actually very angry all the time#part of my brain is going ‘oh but what if 😔-‘ I DONT CARE#I HATE#anti harry potter
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Mike's definition of normal went from this, caring for his best friend when he went missing (regardless of the reason people said he went missing) and willing to do anything to find him:
To this:
A.k.a., what Mike used to think was normal vs what society taught him 'normal' was.
Bonus:
#couldn't leave jonathan's wise words out of this#reject heteronormativity embrace jonathan byers#anyways i'm thinking SO much lately about the impact heteronormativity has had on mike#i need him to be happy and himself sm my GOD#anyways don't let this flop pls had to redo it a thousand times bc 'this archive is too big' fuck off tumblr#byler#will byers#mike wheeler#stranger things#miwi#mike wheeler i know what you are#byler proof#byler theory#mike wheeler's internalized homophobia#byler internalized homophobia#byler heteronormativity#gay mike wheeler#stranger things parallels#byler parallels#anti milkvan#byler is canon#byler endgame#byler brainrot#byler gifs#byler gifset#will byers x mike wheeler
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Oh hey that stupid fucking post is on my dash. Anyway the point was obviously that the idea that cognitive restructuring fixes an actual, real life problem is a bit fucking silly. Something like this would be more accurate:
People are obsessed with CBT over actually addressing issues and actually being treated like shit negatively affects peoples mental health even if they don't blame themselves for it.
(This is why many ppl object to CBT for trauma, power imbalances, marginalisation etc. Treating the thoughts as the issue is counterproductive in MANY situations. Its also not nearly as effective a treatment as it is claimed to be. And DBT also has many of the same issues)
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Man I hate being able to read
#average wattpad behavior tbh#someone typed that with their hands#on a separate note i hate the delulu thing#my mom said delulu to me and i made it my mission to make her regret it#it's fun when people say that sort of stuff because you can make them explain what it means and watch them Squirm#but like if you make it say real words it says the solution to your delusional like WHAT does that MEAN#if anything booktok recs make me worse off in life#colleen fucking hoover and shit#call me old and out of tune with the Youth but i think it's stupid#''ooh isaac why don't you just let people have fun??? :((( it's harmless :((('' i am actively making pottery out of your bones#delulu#tiktok#anti tiktok#booktok#there that way my target demographic will see this post#god i hate having eyes#maybe im the only person in the whole world who thinks it's dumb but that's ok i can accept that
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What I Think Each Member of the Bad Batch’s Favorite Taylor Swift Album(s) Would Be (Plus Bonus Phee and Bonus Fives)
Hunter- Taylor Swift
Wrecker- Tie between 1989 and Fearless
Tech- Red for “All Too Well” alone (he’s very into lyrics and their meanings; also enjoys Folklore and Evermore)
Crosshair- Reputation (he’s also a really big fan of Red and Lover, but Reputation has a special place in his heart; he’s a huge Swiftie though so he likes all of them)
Omega- Speak Now (Reputation is a very close second because Crosshair likes it so much)
Echo- Folklore (followed very closely by Midnights and TTPD)
Phee- Tie between Red and Evermore
Fives- Midnights
#I need tech and Phee to get married so “Willow can play at their wedding#tech knows all the words to the ten minute version of All Too Well#so does Crosshair but he does not sing that song with the same level of chill that tech does#he’s not chill at all he is crying in the car and thinking of his ex#Crosshair cried so hard listening to a sad Taylor swift playlist once that he threw up#hunter has never let him forget this#the song Red is SO TechPhee#like losing him was blue like I’ve never known??? missing him was dark gray all alone????#are you kidding me#Fives goes WILD listening to Anti-Hero#he annoyed Echo for a month straight by constantly singing that song#Echo LOVES Folklore#I have a lot of thoughts on this#crosshair is a Swiftie#by God I will make that a tag#star wars tbb#star wars the bad batch#tbb crosshair#the bad batch#arc trooper echo#tbb echo#tbb hunter#tbb tech#tbb wrecker#tbb phee#phee genoa#tech x phee#techphee#arc trooper fives headcanon
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saw this on twitter and IMMEDIATELY thought of byler
#the power this line has on me is INSANE#like why would mike say that.#it’s literally a form of showing love and care for someone without explicitly saying it because#even if they werent on good terms mike still cares for will#im gonna cry#this is a huge slap in the face for those mike antis who say that mike stopped caring for will after s2#this line only has 5 words but it’s all THERE#byler has me wrapped around their fingers#i swear to god#i hate them#byler#byler endgame#mike wheeler#will byers#mike queeler
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