#I have so much more to say about this

[assaultmystic]

sometimes i hear tgirls talk about organising with/around other transfems in an idealised manner and it just sounds like they dont know what its like to organise this way. i dont bring this up directly, because it feels a pretty cruel way to follow up on girls being optimistic but here’s what it is. try working with other transfems who are outside of the transfeminist discourse youre familiar with and i promise you, you are going to find girls who believe some shit that you think is so nakedly transmisogynistic you cannot understand it. (as well as running the gamut on every other kind of bigotry besides. diversity of opinions, huh, who knew). and they arent going to want to back down, because transmisogyny has forced them into a corner where besides whether they believe what they say, they know expressing dissent in almost all settings is dangerous. and its risky, right? talking to a girl who is ardent that callouts are necessary for community safety, for example. its emotionally draining, socially risky work. but im not saying dont do it. in fact do, if you can. learn the landscape of applying transfeminism locally, how to share it, how to grow it. it will make you a better transfeminist. but it isnt going to be easy, and its better to be alive to that. that all said you know i love you sis. sorry if i sound like a hardass. good luck.

[mikatheseer]

he tian: learning how to give love

mo guan shan: learning how to accept love

[mirananananan]

watched the post-ep 8 recap and got annoyed at craig mazin and neil druckmann all over again for the "violent heart" line. none of what i'm about to say is new or groundbreaking, but i need to rant about it.

i feel like there is literally NOTHING about ellie killing david out of purely self-defense and the built up fear that she has felt for the past 24 hours that suggests that she is just this inherently violent person. she has a full-on emotional breakdown afterward and then goes into (what we are supposed to assume is) several weeks-months of not acting like herself, quiet and withdrawn and traumatized.

then bella did an interview about how ellie "enjoyed" killing david, as evidenced by the fact that she keeps hitting him even after he's dead, but i just don't agree!!! that was catharsis for ellie after pent up sheer terror, anger and grief over thinking she lost joel and was almost killed herself, and it's heavily implied that she was also almost sexually assaulted.

they use the earlier scenes (her face when joel kills the fedra guard, her insistence on carrying a weapon, etc.) as proof, but i just don't buy it. ellie is impressed by joel's violence & strength, the fact that he uses them to protect HER, the fact that she is in good hands and isn't going to die before being handed over to the fireflies even though she was obviously worried about it after being dumped on a pair of smugglers in boston with no further information. she wants a gun because she's an over-confident teenager who grew up in military school and also because...she wants to be able to protect herself, especially after being made to believe that she is the key to saving humanity and creating a vaccine.

this characterization of ellie as some violent, dangerous killer is so frustrating to me (if you couldn't tell), and i feel like they just use it so that fans of the show aren't totally put off by tlou part ii.

[fanficclub]

Okay, actually. Why are all omegaverse fics this bad morally? I mean, they can be really well-written, but they end up being so sexist anyway. And yes, we all know why, I suppose - the genre is historically used for smut mostly, and the smut relies heavily on degradation, denying humanity, and taking away agency. It relies on sexual assault and sexism, ok, we all know this. But now, I think, the genre has evolved. There are really thoughtful works out there, they are long, and they seemingly want to explore the relationships more than would be required only for smut. And still, the majority is so, so sexist. In many insidious ways.

I think this AU us very interesting, because it changes this fundamental dynamic in our world - it changes people's sex. I know, we call it "secondary gender", but what it really is, is sex. Omegas are women, and alphas are men (and betas are… smth else). This whole thing gives you the rare opportunity to turn all your favorite fandom guys into women. Make them be like you, in this very real sense. (assuming you're female yourself) It is very intriguing, how everything would change in this world, for this character. But! But the authors keep choosing internalized misogyny over all these interesting things. "I'm an omega, but I'm not weak like them", "I don't behave like omegas", "I don't need solidarity with other omegas, because I'm different" etc, etc. Yes, I get it, you're suddenly a third-class citizen, who, in this world, is expected to be abused. It must be hard to be in this position, but like. It is so uncomfortable to read - I know the text is saying "omegas", but what you really mean is "women", what you really mean is me. I am shallow, weak, and likely to be abused. I am icky and gross.

How can you write something like that about yourself, and people like you? You should think better about yourself.

[imbitterr]

ou, lord.

i dont know how to describe what it felt like seeing this post. i SHIVERED. the splattered blood just looks so pleasing to the eye, and his eyes are captured PERFECTLY.

[trans-androgyne]

Genuinely, what happened to “feminism is for everyone”?

That’s the feminism I grew up with: encouraging people to recognize that fighting sexism and restrictive gender roles helps folks of every gender. We’d push back on the idea that feminists hate men, pointing to inclusive feminist literature and how many men are feminists.

Now, there are so many people insisting that the solution to patriarchy is to openly hate and ostracize men no matter what. Why? What is the benefit? It’s certainly not effective in fighting oppressive structures to exclude half the population from your cause on the basis of immutable traits. It may feel cathartic to say horrible things about men and try to punish them for your frustrations with patriarchy. But the only actual effect I see is the increasing right-wing radicalization of young men, who are being told that the left hates them for the way they were born and presented with an abundance of proof that it’s true.

Why are we going back to treating men and women as different species? It doesn’t fix things to say “well women are the good gender and men are the bad one” this time. If you sincerely want to dismantle sexism, you’re going to have to unpack and let go of all sex and gender essentialism—even that which considers women inherently pure and men inherently immoral.

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[rusticfurnace]

GHOSTSOAP // "you sweet fucker" MINICOMIC!!!

[glitzybunny]

I- I- I-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

shoutout to my fave eclipse fans

goober club: @crystalmagpie447 @glitzybunny

more eclipse doodles under the cut :3

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[timelessbian]

actually that ao3 post about calculating kudos-to-hits ratios to decide if a fic is worth reading has me so pissed off. someone put real time and energy into something they are SHARING WITH YOU FOR FREE on a site where you can quite literally filter and search by anything you want and you're STILL trying to find a foolproof method to find stuff that's "good enough to read"???

YOU ARE NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR EVERYTHING

you don't have to like or read everything in a given fandom or tag, but you also don't have to be a cunt about it and imply that it's not worth reading. this is the kind of shit that moves people to stop creating altogether, and to see people agreeing in the tags is so disheartening. absolutely unserious behavior.

[uncharted-constellations]

The Princess and Hero of the First Great Calamity

The orange snoot is very important to me….

[yardsards]

"i don't ship laios and marcille-" oh yeah same, their relationship is so much more compelling to me viewed through a platonic lens than a romantic one

"-like, marcille clearly hates laios" are we reading/watching the same series??? did you just stop after the first couple chapters??? look at their relationship development, that's her friend! her bestie, even!!!

[captaincalamity]

the thing that pisses me off about the minecraft movie is how boring it is (or will be). people have consistently proven that complex stories and ideas can be conveyed through minecraft, with it not just acting as a backdrop- instead we get jumanji: block edition and it’s so annoying. minecraft is a beautiful game that has brought so many people together, that influenced countless childhoods, and this is what we get? i’m pretty sure it’s going to be the same plot as fucking angry birds.

this movie is taking all the momentum that countless creatives have provided to minecraft for 15 years and acknowledging NONE of it. you can have your opinions of mcyters but at least they have the guts to tell a story.

fuck, maybe my expectations were too high- but it’s hard to not expect more when we consistently got more from way weirder sources. things like stampys lovely world, the fallen kingdom saga, dantdms lab, hermitcraft, the dsmp and qsmp, genuinely every minecraft let’s play has SOME form of story- it’s just disappointing to see mojang fail to create a better story when they’ve had so many examples.

the world has MUCH bigger problems right now, but it’s still upsetting- i was born right in time to grow up with minecraft. and while im not surprised, i am disappointed.