#I feel like im swinging a bat at a hornet's nest with this but im in a mood about it so I dont really care

[gayteensupreme]

the funniest thing by far about radfems to me is the scum manifesto. it was written by the woman who shot andy warhol and it contends that to solve all the problems in the world the simple solution is All Men Need To Be Killed and the world should be Female Only (by pretty clear association, cis-female only). half the people who read it say it's satire, half the people who read it say it's not, and the takeaway here is a bunch of radfems think the way to solve war, hunger and disease is to Literally Kill Every Man. this would be terrifying except for the fact that 1) its unlikely that All Men Will Be Killed due to the patriarchal society we unfortunately inhabit and 2) its just so fucking funny to say No No Guys Im Serious We Need To Kill Every Man

[g0blinwitch]

I dislike how if you critique something you're labeled as "just a hater" in some internet circles like, so? Am I not allowed to dislike something? I'm not saying you can't enjoy a show, I'm just voicing why I dislike it. If my reasoning for why I don't like something causes someone else to be like "hey wait a minute, this show/book/movie/whatever is dumb actually", cool! I have someone else to rant to. If not, also cool! It's okay that someone doesn't like someone you like.

(Not to mention that the "you're just a hater" argument is often lodged at people who criticize media that is deeply flawed(ex: racism, sexism, classism, etc) with the intent to "get them to shut up" so to speak)

[downsteepy]

i made a post abt leon so i want to make one abt ada now . this will be even more incoherent than my leon post bc my thoughts abt ada are a lot less organized lol.

mainly just talking abt how ppl mischaracterize her despite ... literally everything. i'll probably mention re4r spoilers if that matters to you! i'll only make brief mentions to separate ways, so please be wary of that stuff :)

i feel like a lot of resident evil characters get mischaracterized, but ada seems to get it the worst imo. a lot of people seem to just take her at face value and they're so stuck on portraying her as manipulative or that she just doesn't care abt leon which is. not even true LMFAO

ada's been shown to care very much abt leon! she's saved his ass a lot despite the fact that she literally doesn't even need to. she could see him in trouble and just leave, but she doesn't because she.. cares about him? like i don't know why people like to close their eyes when it comes to this stuff.

i would like to bring up the umbrella chronicles, specifically ada's side story, death's door. death's door shows ada's escape from the NEST, and after she escapes from the sewers, she goes to meet with one of her contacts, who she finds dead. a computer powers on to show wesker, and as soon as he mentions her having aided leon, she seems to tense up almost. ada isn't really outwardly emotive for the most part, but the way i viewed her tensing up in that moment was something maybe close to anger?

obviously it could be me reading too much into it or reading it wrong, but she definitely didn't seem too happy as soon as leon's name left his mouth lol. yes it could also be because of him saying that she betrayed him, but ultimately it could've been a mix of the two.

i do want to try and tackle re2r now which is going to be kind of messy so bear with me if i word something weird.

i think re2r is where a lot of people grab on to the idea of ada strictly only ever manipulating leon and using him. and i'm not going to type out this big long thing and act like ada definitely didn't use leon for her own goal, because she did!

THAT BEING SAID, she does also express care for him. when leon gets shot in the shoulder, she patches him up and uses her trench coat to cover him up. did she have to? absolutely not. she could've just left him there without helping him, but she did!

ada really is not as cold and emotionless as some people like to portray her as, and i think acting like she's incapable of actually caring abt leon is genuinely just. dumb?

i'll jump to re4r now because the dogshit takes i've had to see abt ada even to this day kills me. a lot of them do seem to center on how people viewed her in 2r, but hopefully with the release of separate ways people start opening their minds abt her a little more.

i think 4r does a very good job showing how ada cares about leon! i don't want to dip too much into separate ways since i haven't played it yet and i've only watched a handful of things abt it, but like. she does do a lot of things to help leon during the story of 4r. she gets saddler's attention so that leon can help ashley. she does a LOT of things for leon very willingly! she very willingly helps leon and it really isn't just bc she's wanting to use or manipulate him lol.

there's so much to ada's character that people just don't understand and don't seem to want to understand, which does suck a lot. a lot of people do seem to think she's a bad person because of the work she does, and i have seen some people say that she Obviously Doesn't Care about this or that. not to bring up the ending to re4r but the moment wesker mentions that there would be billions of casualties, you can see her change in body language, and she immediately takes control of the chopper. yes, ada is morally grey, but ada isn't inherently a bad person. the point of morally grey characters is that they aren't supposed to be viewed as 100% bad OR 100% good.

ada's moral greyness seems to be a very weird point of contention for people, and while i do get preferring characters that are more direct about their motivations, i feel like having characters that are morally grey bring a lot to a story. if you have a cast of characters that are always 100% good or 100% bad and there's no hint of moral greyness, it's.. kind of boring?

like idk, personally i like that ada is more morally grey. i think it compliments how leon is very much hellbent on helping and saving as many people as he can.

i do think a lot of the dislike or outright hatred towards ada is bc of how people view + treat leon, which sucks. really ultimately, as naive as leon may be sometimes, he's not a baby. i think a lot of this also comes from general mischaracterization of leon, but that's a post for another day since this is already incredibly long LMFAO.

tl;dr: ada isn't a bad character just because you don't like her. ada isn't a bad person because of her being morally grey. i think watering her down to "bad and manipulative" without looking at the rest of her character is doing her a disservice. i'm not really saying all of this to be like "you HAVE to like ada NOW" but i do just want people to understand her a little more 😭

also really ultimately capcom is like. very bad at writing women so that doesnt really help.. anyway. thanks for looking at my long ass post abt how ada isnt bad and a bunch of other stuff

[rosethreeart]

Listen, I understand yall are trying to come from a good place even if you are being patronizing about it but please understand that the drawing I did literally took me less than five minutes and that there clear "searching" lines (ie things that look more boxy or extremely circular) so its Not Polished. Also that I in fact did NOT draw him with "eurocentric" features. Believe it or not I actually drew him with *very* common features found in those of Chinese decent. PLEASE have more faith and trust and know that I DO make sure to research different ethnicities before I draw them.

[pixlostinatos]

oh hey now that the well and bitter medicine have gotten official releases can i say it now? The Well is a nosy neighbors song and Bitter Medicine is sooooooo dl!pearl

[crazyw3irdo]

and when they say "in a good way" they always mean "in a slightly less bad way"

[valentinoappreciator]

if the "Addict" music video is no longer canon, we basically have no evidence that Valentino is, in fact, a rapist

checkmate antis and haters 💅

[youngpettyqueen]

Genuine question alert ! Where you talking about specific characters in your 'bastardize the female character to male the male character gay' post?

yes! I could cite a ton of different instances but that post specifically is about BJ and Peg Hunnicutt, who are very in love and have a healthy relationship and a daughter, but Peg is often shoved aside or otherwise bastardized/villainized to push Hunnihawk as a ship because people really dont want to acknowledge that BJ is married and in love

[friendofcars]

thank you so much for the response to the mask adam mention ask, i feel like that cleared up a lot of things for me but i do wonder what it means to ronan to be somehow aware of 'lowkey' being attracted to gansey when cdth tells us he's been pulled towards adam since the moment he first saw him?

also since you talked about gansey and kavinsky i also want to mention that when ronan brings the dreamt camaro to gansey he also puts on a dreamt white sunglasses on gansey's face and i feel like that's such an important detail after "it was never going to be you and me".

you're welcome. thank you for asking in the first place!

so re: ronan being attracted to gansey vs adam, firstly, i think it's an entirely plausible situation given that a) ronan's second secret is his attraction to adam, not attraction to guys in general b) he and gansey have such a strong bond that (at least to me) sort of transcends 'relationship categories' like romantic, platonic, fraternal, etc. so if ronan, who fancies himself Captain Monogamous, was concerned about having feelings for both of his friends i think he could easily convince himself that his love for gansey is entirely brotherly because it's so profound that it could be anything - but at this point in the series, he doesn't even let himself understand his feelings for adam, so i don't think that would even be an internal conflict for him until bllb onwards- maybe a subconscious thing that he'd experience as anger, but not a conscious 'problem.' and even if ronan only wants a monogamous relationship for himself, that definitely doesn't preclude being attracted to multiple people simultaneously. he might not have fun figuring that out though lol so to directly respond to your ask, i think all it means to ronan in this present chapter is that he is thrilled that gansey-on-fire is making an appearance and is too riled up on adrenaline to be particularly worried that this version of gansey reminds him of adam.

to be completely honest i haven't started to think too much about the sunglasses (at least in the scene ronan puts them on gansey- in general i think it's fairly accepted that they symbolize kavinsky's secrets, particularly his vulnerability, how he uses brash language and behavior to obfuscate insecurity and instability; i also think they're a nice foil to gansey's wire frames that tend to appear in vulnerable, honest moments.). i think you're so right to consider them on gansey right after ronan leaves kavinsky though! it's as if he's imagining kavinsky in the camaro, or perhaps a more kavinsky-like version of gansey, shrouded in rumor rather than legend... not sure what to conclude from this. do you have more thoughts on this scene (when ronan gives gansey the new camaro)? i also think the reflective nature of the sunglasses (they're mirrors!) is relevant, which i think gives us the opportunity to discuss not only how ronan and other characters perceive kavinsky, but how kavinsky makes them perceive themselves.

[jefferythejelly]

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[catboynutsack]

some of y'all hate minorities but are too scared to face the consequences of hating minorities so you hide behind nice sounding language while being discriminatory and it's actually really gross.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

hey can i make a confession. i don't think the tumblr live update ever hit me. is it on mobile?? if it is i haven't seen it. is it on desktop?? never seen it. i thought maybe it was blocked by ublock origin so i logged onto a browser where i don't have that installed. no sign of tumblr live. i don't have the option to snooze it in any of my settings because i never got tumblr live in the first place. i was so confused when people complained about it because i just never ever saw it and assumed it was some uninvasive little update when apparently it's actually so annoying for everyone else. yes my app has been updated. shit's just not even there for me. never been a problem. i feel like someone who left new york one hour before the twin towers collapsed i don't know how i avoided this but by god i am so glad i did

[icannotgetoverbirds]

swifties look away im so sorry

okay so i heard a song on the radio today that is apparently one of taylor swift's pieces.

this is by no means an in-depth analysis, nor unbiased or even well-written.

so for reference i'm talking about anti-hero. keep in mind, this is pretty much just a vibe check.

vibe check: it feels to me like she's upset that people are attempting to hold her accountable for her actions wrt the whole private jet thing, and it's kinda sad. Not like, i feel bad for her sad, but like, girl, get it together, sad.

evidence:

anti-hero released in october of 2022. for reference, those articles about celebrity private jet usage - which you may remember left taylor at the top of the list, garnering serious backlash - came out in august of 2022.

in this song, she is the anti-hero (afaik - if it's someone else, that could change the meaning entirely). she sees herself as hated, as someone viewed as an enemy. she bitterly refers to her narcissism as though she's been called one and is tired of the accusations.

she says she dreams about her daughter-in-law killing her for the money, then screaming that taylor's laughing up at her from hell because the in-laws were left nothing in the will.

worth noting that she has children, all of which are under the age of ten. not sure how to feel about the implications of her presenting this hypothetical situation in a song long before her kids have the chance to bring a partner home. somehow i doubt they're going to be comfortable doing that.

some lyrics that were what really sent up the red flags for me:

"It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me (I'm the problem, it's me) At tea time, everybody agrees"

this sounds exactly like the kind of shit someone says when they're trying to dodge responsibility. guilt-tripping the person calling them out by exaggerating what they're saying. "I'm always the villain. I'm always the bad guy. Everybody's on your side. You always have to be right."

(that last one is one i've personally heard from an abuser. again, this is biased and my vibe check is definitely imperfect.)

it's just. pathetic feels too mean but it's the only word I can think of. taylor swift has a lot of reach and her music meant a lot to me as a kid, but as i've gotten older i've kind of grown apart from her work.

which, you know, nbd. then the shit about the plane drops and it's like Oh Wow Okay. Fuck Me I Guess. idk. it seems like it was made to garner sympathy and support, which isn't inherently bad, but i'm having trouble being sympathetic when she's contributed so much to climate change and pollution.

i don't hate swifties, i don't even hate taylor swift. i just... don't have a lot of sympathy for her when that article could've been a wake-up call, and the memes could've been a wake-up call, but instead it seems like she's whining about people being mean to her - and don't get me wrong, people are absolutely being mean, but when she's literally directly, massively, and unnecessarily contributing to the destruction of the planet, i think they have a right to get a little pissed.

so instead of stepping up and doing better, she just wrote a song that feels like a pathetic attempt to get people to stop calling her out for her bullshit, whether it was intended to be manipulative or not.

swifties, if you read this, i'm sorry, but that's just my perspective on it. i have no issues with people being fans of her or liking her music or whatever, i just... i guess i felt like this was something worth discussing.

like, idek if this is too harsh or too nice. i have qualms with the concept of punishment in an attempt to bring about change, even for the privileged, but people have a right to be angry about what she's done. is there something to be said about the fact that people mostly went after her for being at the number one spot and almost nobody is making memes about other celebrities on the list? probably.

anyways. just my unorganized thoughts abt it. someone else can probably put it better than i can - i don't have the spoons to do a proper analysis right now, but i can provide this lens to view it through, i guess.

[the-drunken-huntsman]

Like I haven't even played Morrowind and even I know the nerevarine was born outside of Morrowind, they're an outlander. Teldryn says himself he's from Blacklight. Like it's fine to play around with the lore and whatever but can we please stop acting like this is canon

Plus the devs have never retroactively made "canon" versions of any of the MCs and I honestly hope to god they never do. It kind of ruins the fun if you play Morrowind as a human or a khajiit or god forbid a woman and then Bethesda says "fuck you, the nerevarine was a male dunmer and that's the absolute truth."

You guys know Teldryn Sero isn't actually the nerevarine right? You guys know it's just fanon right?

[trollocs-ooc]

Guys. I'm going to be serious with you. I try my best to be nice and understanding of everybody. I do. but when you bottle shit up it's going to spill eventually . Amd i know this is probably going to lower somebody's opinions of me, but i think i raised the standards a bit too high with how patientni try to be. But I dont care, i have to say something or i feel it will get worse.

I. Do not want. You vagueposting about me. Or what happens to me.

Either say something concrete, or don't.

This was pissing me off yesterday, but now the poll has crossed the line for me. It really has.

And I'm not mad at anybody except the original proshipper, but what i AM mad about is the attitude this fucking community has over these things.

Almost None of you said anything to me. NONE. the amount of times you rb the "guys can we be normal to ooc blogs" post will do NOTHING. it does absolutely NOTHING. your vagueposting does NOTHING. And you acting like you're the ones affected when absolutely nothing happened to you, while refusing to actually say anything concrete is incredibly irritating.

And let me put that poll into perspective for you. That's like if after salty got the incest asks, someone made a poll "WHO HERE SHIPS INCEST?". it is stupid. It is insensitive. It is inherently discourse. You are swinging a bat at a hornet nest for no reason and making everyone irritated in the process.

You are allowed to be uncomfortable. You are allowed to not want to express your opinions. But if you don't have anything smart to say then don't say it at all, for the love of god.

Your actions affect others, and i think it actually irritates me more that you're all talking about this in this way, than the proshipper arguing with me. Because at least they have opinions. Instead of going "whats WRONG WITH PEOPLEEE" or "uhm" or "im taking a break-" NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU.

I. Was the one that got the weird asks. I. was the one that had my boundaries broken. I. Was the one none of you wanted to say anything to. So i think i have the right to ask that you all stop treating this like some sort of hush hush rumor and not something incredibly cut and dry. If you don't want to say anything THEN DON'T.