#I shouldn’t have to explain this

[therootsystem]

A reminder to abled people and singlets

(Tw for suicide references and talk about ableism)

I’ve heard all to many stories of visibly disabled people having random strangers say something along the lines of “you’re so brave, I couldn’t live like that” but as all my disabilities are invisible the closest I’ve experienced to this was seeing people talk about how they wish they could cure their kids of autism and stuff like that.

untill today, when looking on youtube I saw a youtube comment that said “That would be absolute hell. Imagine you have full thoughts and sense of self but you can't talk or communicate except by thoughts to another person. To be fully aware and there is nothing you can do” and a bunch of replies along the line of “I would be thought-screaming to the other head that controls the body to jump off a bridge or building… basically just be a screaming voice in his head begging/convincing him to ki11 ourselves the fastest way possible.” (that’s a derect quote, and only part of it) someone even mentioned “split personality”

so let’s talk about why this is harmful shall we?

For one thing, don’t say you would kill yourself, in any situation, if you’re not suicidal. I don’t know why I need to explain this but I do. saying things like that can be very triggering to people who have experienced suicidal ideation or who have lost someone to suicide

second, saying stuff like this implies someone isn’t “normal” and that that makes them broken or lesser. This hurts, a lot. Like, I don’t know how to explain it in any other words

here is a video by owkwyrm that’s kinda related

any disabled people or systems who have things to add please tell me, I know I didn’t do a great job explaining it

and to any singlets who see this, consider rebloging and using your privilege to amplify our voices

-🌱

[patheticgirlsteve]

This is easily the most inconvenient moment possible for Eddie to have a hard-on and yet, here he is, standing in the remains of what used to be the Hawkins Public Library with his dick hard as a rock in his pants.

Eddie had heard tell of a nailbat, rumors of Steve Harrington’s weapon of choice in dealing with matters related to the Upside Down, but it had seemed mythical to him. The way the boys talked about Steve wielding it made him sound like a hero from some ancient mythology.

“You should have seen him, Eddie,” Dustin would grip Eddie’s arm with a grasp that hurt as he regaled Eddie with the tale of Steve in the Junkyard Fighting the Demodogs once more. “He was such a badass, like, so insanely cool!”

Eddie is deeply glad that he was not present at that battle, but there is a part of him that wishes he could have seen it. That he could have seen Steve wield the suburban equivalent of a mace while trying to defend his brood of strange children.

Not that Eddie would ever admit that, of course. He and Steve are tentative friends, and Eddie is not going to risk what progress he and Steve have made in maintaining a civil relationship just because he thinks the guy is hot. Of course he thinks Steve is hot, so does every other breathing human in Hawkins, Indiana.

So, yeah, Eddie is keeping that piece of information to himself. Taking it to his grave. Besides, they’re in the middle of an apocalypse and now is hardly the time for getting horny over Steve Harrington proving competence with a blunt instrument.

But apparently Eddie’s dick never got that memo. Because he’s standing here watching Steve knock those goddamn fucking demobats out of the spore infested Hawkins sky with his infamous bat, dripping with blood and snarling at the monsters. He swings with a terrifying rage in his eyes, laser focused on removing each and every single bat from the sky with a sort of feral grace that shouldn’t be possible.

Eddie watches, pants uncomfortably tight, as Steve makes one final swing at the last bat standing (flying?) with a flourish of his wrist, giving the nailbat a little twirl before using it to strike the last creature down.

Steve Harrington is absolutely unreal.

He turns around to face Eddie and Eddie is reminded that, oh yeah, they’re in the middle of a massive battle right now and he had maybe let himself get a little distracted and wow, the blood dripping through Steve’s chest hair as he tosses the nailbat onto his shoulder with practiceed ease is really doing it for Eddie, which would be fine (well, not fine, but at least somewhat manageable) if it were literally any other moment in time.

“Are you okay?” Steve asks Eddie, voice hoarse and raspy in a way that really shouldn’t be sexy because it’s probably caused by Steve breathing spores and demobat guts or something else equally horrifying, but it is hot and there is something deeply wrong with Eddie.

And maybe there is some single solitary shred of mercy left remaining in the universe, because Steve is seemingly too focused on the war waging around them to clock the bulge in Eddie’s pants.

“Yup!” Eddie nods, feeling like a bobble head in his enthusiasm. “Great! Feeling great! Never better!”

Steve gives him an odd look, considering, but seems to accept Eddie’s assertion that he’s unharmed. He probably just attributes the strange behavior to Eddie’s general weirdness, which is perfectly fine with Eddie.

“Good,” Steve’s eyes drift to the steadily growing dark cloud that obscures much of the red sky. “Let’s get moving then.”

He stomps past Eddie, clapping him on the shoulder as he passes. Eddie closes his eyes and scrapes the corners of his mind for the least sexy thoughts he can summon to will his boner away.

“You coming?” Steve calls back from a few yards behind Eddie.

“Right behind you, big boy,” Eddie says. He takes a deep breath in and out before turning to follow Steve back into the fray.

[dykedvonte]

Of all the themes in Mouthwashing, I think the themes of punishment and virtue are the most subtle.

It’s so odd because it’s a subversion where all the characters are punished for their virtues more than their flaws except Jimmy. Curly sees the best and people and tries to do right by all parties whether deserving or not. He is then forced to see everyone fall to their worst states while he can’t do anything. Daisuke is optimistic and hopeful, playful to a fault and a big morale. He dies in agony the one time he is forced to act in a serious event. Anya is kind and capable, knowledgeable in her field. Yet, she is treated like a dunce and does being treated like a dead weight.

The only characters who aren’t punished per se are those without direct virtues. Swansea is ornery and rude the moment we meet him, Jimmy is self explanatory. Yet, Swansea is still punished with Daisuke’s death, while Jimmy escapes in a way. Not having to face the final aftermath or even acknowledging how he could never really fix it. He suffers and is tormented, but he doesn’t really care because in his mind he didn’t fail in his head of proving something to Curly.

This is rambling y really but it really is the theme of no good deed but to the extreme. Good people punished for their attempts at virtue while the bad person victimizes themself over their suffering.

[melomelod111]

🌑 Don’t think too hard, lest it hurt even worse… all over again. 🌕

[sasukeless]

crazy how the “i will kill for you / i will die for you” it’s classic dynamic when it comes to duos similar to naruto and sasuke, but what kishimoto makes to set them apart is which one of them he gives those roles. like typically you would think the < i would kill for you > would be sasuke’s and sure, sasuke would kill for naruto given the chance, but this is not something he would do JUST for naruto as we see him being ready to kill also for his family/loved ones. it’s not a naruto only thing. meanwhile the < i will die for you > is a naruto only thing!! because sasuke is a goals driven character that thanks to itachi, he views himself as a tool that has to put his goals above everything else and yet. he would die for naruto and this is the ultimate proof of how much he loves him. meanwhile on the other hand you would also think that naruto would be the < i would die for you > and again! he would! but this isn’t really a specific sasuke thing. naruto sacrificing for a friend is something you can see him do for anyone, that’s who he is. however kishimoto making him the other side of the coin with naruto being ready to kill for sasuke is naruto’s own ultimate proof of love that he would go against his own morals for sasuke. and it’s just ughhh

[demigodofhoolemere]

Trying to find nice stuff for Wish but everywhere you go people are being painfully wrong in their interpretations of the movie

[cutter-kirby]

as nice as their agreement to make up was, I don’t think this is the last of the divorce. they sounded really frustrated at each other when the ladder broke, so their truce was just that. a temporary promise to not kill each other to death for like an hour

[spiderwarden]

Breaking tumblr by confessing that my findings have me deducing she is bisexual with a preference for men.

[thegetdownrebooter]

“White master, black student but equal in the dark“

Die Daniel.

[hms-incorrect-quotes]

Mind: I suppose you think that’s cute. What it makes you is a fraud.

Heart: yeah but i’m a cute fraud though right?

[bookwyrminspiration]

it’s tragic that Shannon’s art style just really isn’t my thing because I have never encountered another series with so much art by the author themselves!! like that’s direct from the source!! but I look at it and just go meh :/

[pjharvey]

i can actually only enjoy mcr music if i pretend the fan base literally doesn’t exist at all bc like why does everyone on here think they are riot grrrl and clog the sleater-kinney and bikini kill tags with gerard way bc he said he liked them in a tweet once and also think him being a he/they who wears skirts makes him a woman and means they’re allowed to misgender him/use pronouns other than the ones he’s publicly said he prefers for years …

[nexahexagon]

I’m comfortable with or without hrt. I’m comfortable with how people view me. Gender is an expression, and I’m filling all the boxes then tearing the paper into shreds.

I’m posting this here cuz I found it fun!! You can follow my TikTok if u wanna but I rarely post there at ALL

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[canisvesperus]

I think y’all don’t realize how insulting it is as a descendant of pogrom refugees and Shoah victims to constantly hear Hitler analogies to such and such fictional blorbo. I don’t think you get to constantly compare shit to Hitler when you don’t even call out the antisemitism happening all around you! You don’t care when your friends repeat nazi talking points. You don’t care about Jewish suffering. You don’t care when I ask you to care. You don’t see it and you tell me I’m crazy for noticing! I have to live with this trauma of the literal holocaust every day. You know nothing of nazis and the things they did to us. And antisemitism doesn’t end there but you care more about fandom drama instead.

[mxtxfanatic]

Have you ever read "The Shade of Old Trees" by Kryal on ao3?

I genuinely think you might enjoy it, the characterization is top tier and the author's notes go heavy into details on why they made this or that decision. It was all incredibly good, well thought out, well researched, and with not an ounce of fanon to find.

I’ve read it, and while I initially enjoyed the story and the long author’s notes, I found it very toothless in its critique of anything substantial despite the author bringing up major issues in the modern world, themself. It also felt like their understanding of China and its history came straight from one of those 5-minute info-videos that’s half American state propaganda and pretend like the history of modern China begins in 1949. Finally, they also fall into the trap of softening Jiang Cheng’s character in the final confrontation with the excuse that “jc wouldn’t actually want to kill wwx!” despite that being what he literally did and tried to do again in canon. I appreciate them writing through their logic, but that doesn’t mean I’ll agree with the leaps they take simply because they’ve explained why they’ve made them. Great start, weak finish.