#Guaranteed to Disagree

[iamtryingtobelieve]

You're Not Quite Satan

But I Really Think I Hate You

[stucky-headcanon-bot]

😽

[ironworked]

So, my theory about the Bucktommy breakup (the tldr is: maybe they're fucking up around to find out):

Minear gets the go-ahead for Bi Buck but he knows the audience might not approve of that, on top of the usual issues with previous relationships (hard to write/sell to the audience). He wants to give the relationship a chance to get off the ground so he tries to avoid past mistakes with LIs etc, but also 'prepares for the worst' (initial run of 4 episodes).

Then they get whatever numbers that tell them the audience was fine (steady ratings? internal research?), they get good press, so they keep on going: contract extended; LFJ is on the 7.09 bts and the s7 thank you video, and it's him and OS paired up to promote the finale on Access Hollywood.

So now it's s8 prep time and Minear has this relationship that's going fine when they'd started it thinking it would probably have a close expiration date. Fandom/media wise, it's still all stuck on Bvddie (as far as they can see, I figure).

But there isn't an offscreen breakup.

As far as we've been told, going into s8 they were still unsure, and LFJ seemed more surprised about the timing than anything.

So.

It could be that they pushed things they couldn't wrap to s8a and this was one, but... at the end of s7 they added more Bucktommy and it was positive, so I don't think that's the case for this storyline.

My thinking is then, that since a breakup was always in the cards, they decided to go ahead with it now and the way they did it because, say...:

for plot reasons they want Buck to go through it

they can test audience/fan 'attachment' to the relationship via reactions to this

they don't have to settle now on exactly when they'd want LFJ in s8b (which he might have needed to know for his other projects)

gives them extra time before Buck is settled in a relationship (this could buy them like, a season)

they might be waiting to see if they're cancelled or renewed before making certain choices

Know what I mean? basically that they didn't have a plan and so they decided to go for what provided immediate drama as well as some info about the audience's feelings wrt to it.

[I hope I didn't make many mistakes with this. Anyway, Abby's breakup appears 3 times bc it had 'aftershocks']

You see how Natalia is an outlier, but the rest follow a similar pattern (the relationships served a purpose and ended when it was time to close arcs for the season). But Tommy... it could've ended offscreen or right before this hiatus, or before that timeskip or whatever that's supposedly coming and has them in different places. But it was there in 8.06 and they used the following eps before the hiatus to show Buck mourning the relationship...

Maybe, just maybe, they're testing the end similarly to how they tested their beginning.

I'm not saying this is absolutely right, or even that all these things mean something (or that it must mean this). Just that it's an option.

[ssruis]

Under the cut complaining

I’m trying to do something w wxs tv tropes page & I wanna preface this by saying I like emukasa they are so dear to me. but Come On. this is definitely only there because it’s m/f. If u wanna put this in her folder u gotta put stuff for rks/emnn. It’s equality.

1. Not even true anymore & it’s been stated more often that she shows up explicitly to see nene

2. I actually never thought abt that. Neat! But also if ur gonna mention this why not mention the rks Romeo and Juliet scene.

3. Gestures at nene in soad/ohe and tsukasa in wonder halloween

4 & 5. Fair but also. Rui does this with tsukasa too. Iirc Rui even had a comical gap between how many times he said tsukasa’s name and how many times he said whoever was in second place’s name.

[tubbytarchia]

I like you to just for your art but you speak your opinions that I’m too scared to agree with publicly

Eg: that one artist always getting ccs to comm them and sosig

Unfortunately I am too full of emotion and feelings at all times to not speak my mind haha. It makes me happy if it offers anyone food for thought, or if it's vocalizing things that some people would be too afraid to speak of themselves. That's what the inbox is for too, please use me as a confessional lol (insert salute emoji)

[dateamonster]

My hot take is that people advocating for 4-day work weeks are leaving a vast majority of workers out of there plans, especially workers who are on hourly wage. Lowering work expectations is a good idea, yeah. But that has to come AFTER they increase min wage. Because for many? Having their hours cut is a death sentence, and there's a lot of people who refuse to acknowledge that.

this is actually something ive been thinking about a lot lately! yeah i understand the excitement when we hear about businesses trying out a shortened workday or workweek or whatever and i think its fine to like. derive a little precious hope from that. but even in the places where these shortened workweeks already exist, you gotta think abt who actually gets to benefit from them.

imo its kinda like. im so so grateful for weekends, for federal holidays, for overtime and holiday pay, but especially because p much all of the jobs i worked before my current one didnt offer any of those!! i think its possible to support the fight for better work conditions while acknowledging that its very probable only a small percentage of workers will actually reap the benefits until we've successfully implemented a universal basic income at the very least.

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[luvrodite]

new drinking game take a shot every time i write teeth being scraped against someone's neck

[dearfraumilena]

blog summary: a lesbian that found a computer. your whole personality is boygenius and lesbianism (same thing). You only post queer female indie music. Terrible music taste, terrible taste in women.

goddamn lesbian.

0.47/7.9 stars

(this is a joke, none of these things are true. You dont have to answer it if you don't want. im teasing you but if you want me to stop please message me!)

*shocked face* I wonder who this is

I'm in your walls

[woodsteingirl]

i just realize i have more familiarity with machiavelli than probably my whole class actually….

[pynkhues]

This is only tangentially related to the original post, but I'm curious on your perspective on terfism. Here in the US, it feels like there's a pretty strong libera/conservative divide on trans issues, and almost no one who is generally liberal/progressive would hold terf views. Whereas it's been so weird to me in the last few years to see, in the UK, that plenty of people who are otherwise more on the left will also be terfs (though so often, it seems like being a terf is a gateway to more right-wing views overall, not surprisingly). So, just curious what it's like in Australia.

I'd say it's probably more similar to the US than it is the UK in that it's a liberal/conservative issue, but honestly, it's also a conversation Australia is desperately trying not to have at the moment. The current government is a moderate-left leaning government, and they're completely terrified of a culture wars situation starting here to the point that there's just been an enormous kerfuffle around the 2026 Census where the government lost its mind over test censuses having questions on gender diversity and sexuality. And it's not because they're bad on those issues (although they're not great)! It's literally because they're scared of the discourse becoming A Thing here.

The irony being that by not including the questions - and then including altered versions of them again, because they backpedaled hard after backlash - it made it A Thing anyway.

A lot of journalists / political commentators here talk about how Australia tends to be five years behind the rest of the world when it comes to any sort of quote-unquote 'Hot Button Issue', which I think is partially true, but I also think a lot of the divisive commentary in Australia at the moment has been more focused on race, migration and disability which just hasn't given the TERF conversation as much oxygen as I think it's probably been getting in other parts of the world.

Like, I stay pretty up-to-date with the news here, and all the fear mongering and ugly discourse this year feels very tied up in a Referendum we had earlier in the year which would have enshrined a First Nations voice to government in the Constitution which stirred enormous racism and swallowed up literally everything else in public discourse for about six months (I work with a lot of First Nations artists and actors at the theatre too, and they all told me they'd experienced the worst racism of their lives during the Referendum window). It's also shifted to people scamming the NDIS (a government medicare program which gives people with disabilities more support and benefits), and now migration as the cause of the housing crisis (which it fundamentally is not).

Transphobia, gender essentialism and TERF rhetoric definitely exists here, but it at least isn't currently as politicised, I think, as it is elsewhere.

[knicks-knacks]

not to be a doomer but the more time goes on, the more it feels as if violence is the only answer. it seems like there's been thousands of people protesting every single week, and yet the government just gets worse and worse. it feels like it's a thing that's floating in the back of all our heads, that the USA is so corrupt from the ground up that there is no peaceful way to gain meaningful change. there is no slow process that we can take to fix things, and even then, they can overturn shit at a moments notice. the people we vote for don't listen to us, never have and never will, because they know they've made it so that they're untouchable. i am so sick of this

[kishimotomasashi]

Why do people say things like switching the demographic for which a manga is for would improve its story or the characters in it. I see the idea "Sasuke would be better off in a seinen anime" all the time and it's so confusing because are y'all under the impression that seinen anime are incapable of being bad and reactionary or something?

[manebioniclegali]

There have been some scam blogs that only started 4-10 days before messaging people (i.e. me, cuz when you get 4 in as many days, there's gotta be something amiss, bc this is not the site that that many people at once would flock to for donos), which follows how the scam blogs typically operate, but from what I can tell in the notes there were a couple of people who may be legitimate cuz they had posts going back to 2012. One of the people in my inbox went back about a month, so they may have been legit (spam blogs don't typically stay up for that long). Not to say some scammer couldn't have hacked the account, bc that happened to someone I used to follow before they deleted their blog or something, but without seeing that person's content, there's no way to make that determination whether or not they were hacked. And usually the hacking isn't to drum up money to a fake fundraiser.

Tbh I'm glad the initial post was made by a big blog like this, even if the wording was harsh and uncalled for in the reblog by the mod, bc that's how I found out me and someone else I follow weren't the only ones getting flooded by blogs asking for donations and claiming to be vetted within days of each other. I know one was legitimate, but I'm doubtful of the other ones. In general, I don't think going to blogs and messaging them to contribute to your go fund me is the best way to go about it specifically for this reason, bc Tumblr is trained to assume that they're a scam; remember the animal hospital scam accounts that were around less than a year ago? And before that, people asking to "check out my game" or to check out the coding on their blog and it would lead to a scam. Definitely the issue here is that it got out of hand and people were being rude and mean.

(although, also, people in the notes aren't off the hook for telling the mod to kill themselves. Real upstanding job there, guys :/ you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, even if said fly doubles down on being wrong)

Hi, @writing-prompt-s original admin here. I have not logged in on this account in over 6 years. I deeply deplore the way it has been used recently and for this I would like to apologise. This is a writing prompts blog and not a politics blog. I have removed all members with access to this account. This blog will continue to operate until the queue runs out. If someone can teach me how to remove a pinned post from the Chrome browser on Android I would be very grateful.

[snekjoy]

I forgot how much I actually really enjoy writing essays. This attitude may change very quickly but I haven't done one in ages now and I just turned one in and it was great ur telling me I just get to talk? About Miles Morales?

[r3ynah]

Substitute

Danny as Phantom, bored out of his mind tried his best to keep his eyes open, this JL meeting, the meeting was about a cause of mind control or something, in short this was just boring,

he was here as a substitute for Constantine because that man ditched the last second, and left Phantom for himself.

His so gonna push the man off the ledge when he sees him.

Danny continued to dissociate, until he heard a familiar name, coming out of the dark knight's mouth.

"Ember? the popstar? batman do you really think she's the one doing this mind control thing?" Flash asked, he was also almost falling asleep until the popstar's name was said. "Man, Ember's songs are such a vibe, hope she's not some supervillain"

"It is not confirmed, All we know is that she might only be a meta civilian that really just wants to show the world her songs" Wonder woman reasoned, from the far end of the table.

"Until further notice, we shall gather some crimes she unknowingly did, and have her quarantined for the mean time." Batman stated at the other side of the table.

wait what? Quarantine Ember? His rogue and friend, no that wouldn't do.

"I need to disagree with you there Mr. Batman" Phantom called out gaining all the members attention

"And why is that, Phantom?" Superman asked for Batman, who only stared at the ghost with curiosity.

"Well, you did specifically said that members cannot, mess with other members rogues" Phantom exclaimed "If you mess with Ember you're practically breaking your own rules,"

"The Ember, is your rogue?" Flash said astonished. "Wait that means she's also a ghost like you, But why are you just letting her go around the world parading?"

"Yes she's a ghost like me, i let her parade the world because she's on a vacation I mean this whole world tour speaks for itself, putting her in quarantine will do no good for her or anyone, and the whole mind controlling thing is so last season for Ember, she just sucks the energy out of people who hear her songs so she herself can have energy." Phantom explained, floating down to sit on his designated chair. "Besides I keep track of her, to make sure she doesn't create havoc and overdue her powers, she hasn't mind controlled anyone that's for sure."

Phantom eyed batman who still remained, quiet, he looked like he was thinking of something deeply, whatever it was Danny didn't care as long as Ember and the other ghosts are safe.

"And how would you guarantee that Ember won't harm any human citizens?" Batman questioned.

"Oh that's easy, because I already told them what will happen, if they either try to hurt humans" Danny let out a smile that showed all his sharp fangs, his eyes glowed a toxic green, that made everyone in the room uncomfortable, his hair floated more aggressively and uncontrollably. "I think they got the message."

Everyone felt scared at that moment, just who the hell did Constantine, bring in here?

[sitronsangbody]

I'll post something as simple as "anyway fat people exist" and people will hop ass first into my comments to post some version of "BUT THEY SHOULDN'T!!" Usually because "IT'S UNHEALTHY!!" and "DON'T I WANT EVERYONE TO BE HEALTHY??"

I've never claimed that there are no fat individuals with health problems, but it is a fact that fat individuals can also have zero health problems. Fatphobes seemingly cannot fathom this.

I've never claimed that fat bodies are, have been, or will be the norm, but it is a fact that fat people have always existed. We've always been there as part of human diversity. Fatphobes like to pretend that we haven't (or they agree in the sense that they think "all of human history" is how long humanity has tried and failed to eradicate us, but eventually it'll happen. That's a whole other post I think).

I've never claimed that there aren't health risks associated with higher body weight, but the fact remains that all the conditions associated with fat bodies, also occur in thin people. In other words, sure, your weight impacts the statistical likelyhood of some health problems - but there's 1) no eliminating the risk, and 2) no basis for naming fatness as the root cause. It's a correlation. Fatphobes seem to believe a thin body guarantees a long and healthy life, while a fat body is inevitably destined for misery and early death. This is just not true. By all means, do everything you like to stay healthy and functioning! That's obviously not a bad thing! But I'm sorry to tell you you'll never be in control, and you'll also never be able to determine someone's health status and history just by looking at their size.

I've never claimed that health doesn't matter, but it is a fact that some people will never be healthy for whatever reason. That is not the same as them being dead, worthless, unlovable, or morally unacceptable. Fatphobes seem to disagree.

I've never claimed that I think everyone in the world is always making the best choices for their health and well-being. But the fact is, bodily autonomy means it's none of my fucking business. People are in charge of their own bodies. I don't get to tell you what the best version of yourself looks like, and vice versa. Fatphobes are still learning this it seems.

And I've never claimed some kind of fat supremacy but I stand by the opinion that it's ok and common and human to be fat. Now if everyone could stop shitting themselves over this that would be swell 🥰