#I’m saying it’s racism

[jellybellyblimp]

I’m not saying criticism of Snape is like invalid or immoral in any way, but I am saying it’s really weird that so many marauders fans jump to defend or soften or rewrite horrid death eaters like Barty or Bellatrix meanwhile they hate Snape who also happens to be the one described as having dark greasy hair, sallow skin, a hooked nose.

I’m just saying it’s kinda weird.

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[princessefemmelesbian]

Maybe I’m just being dramatic but it does legitimately scare and sadden me to see that a lot of transandrophobia truthers are literally just…young boys. Like, actual children. Like you’re not even old enough to vote yet and you have your whole life ahead of you and yet you are being manipulated into joining an mra group that hates trans women with a passion and thinks that men are oppressed in society for being men, and constantly uses Black men as their talking point in order to sound diverse and inclusive, meanwhile they’re also appropriating and misusing terminology specifically created by Black women to talk about our own oppression in order to get their misandry point across…to say nothing of the fact that the largest people in this group(including but not limited to its creator!) have misogynistic rape/detrans kinks centered specifically around preying on lesbians and trans women and this is something that is normalized and defended by the vast majority of transandrophobia truthers, or at least defended viciously by every single transandrodork that I’ve ever encountered who argued with me(a lesbian!!!) that actually there’s nothing wrong with getting off to the corrective rape of women because two consenting adults can do whatever they want in the bedroom(yeah right)! Not to mention I have yet to come across a transandrophobia truther who wasn’t also a raging die-hard Zionist.

And that’s why it disturbs me so much to see young trans boys jumping onto this transmisogynistic hate train like you guys realize these men don’t have your best interests at heart, right? They’re only going to manipulate you into being a sexist entitled asshat who shuns and bullies the trans women in your community and sees them as oppressing you. Like I know you’re still in middle/high school but you can still think for yourselves, you can choose to be better than this, you can choose to actually learn about feminism and realize that it’s not actually misandry that oppresses you, it’s transphobia. Misandry doesn’t suddenly become real because you slap a trans paint over it that’s not how it works that’s not how intersectionality works that’s not how any of this shit works. There are better trans men to talk to about trans issues who know that the patriarchy is real and don’t shit on trans women in order to speak out about trans topics, so go seek them out, okay? You absolutely do not have to listen to shit that the “male supremacists but trans” group of lowlives has to say. Hell, tell them to fuck off instead! Please, I promise you that there are much better options, there are ALWAYS better options, and you still have time to escape before they fully radicalize you into basically being an incel. There will ALWAYS be another way. ❤️

[ramshackledtrickster]

Me remembering the beautiful moving speech about Arno’s redemption and a second chance at hope for humanity at the end of Dead Kings is narrated by the Marquis de Sade

Update since I initially made this in drafts: the passage is indeed from one of Condorcet’s manuscripts which Arno had to retrieve (10th Epoch, Future Progress of Man 1796) and the speech in game cut off right before the racism jumped out sgssugdjgd

[sinkjustlikeastone]

Do I need to spell it out for some of you dumb shits

Yes! I know. Dallas Winston died in the book of being shot by the police in an act of suicide.

I freaking know.

Dally dies in the musical by getting hit by a train in an act of suicide.

The book is the original, the book shows the dangerous side of Dally, I can see why you all gravitate toward that version. I do too sometimes, depending on context. I get it that you might like it better.

But you’re seriously telling me you want Joshua Boone, a Black man, to be shot by the police eight times a week? Are you stupid? Are you fucking crazy? Maybe some people would be comfortable with playing that role and doing that, but do you not see why they chose differently? People of color, especially Black people! Are shot or put in jail or assaulted for absolutely no fucking reason pretty frequently. I think it’s fair that they didn’t want for him to go through that every night, because that would be pretty hard to separate from reality.

Getting hit by a train is easy to put aside in your mind and say, “yeah, that’s not going to happen to me.”

For a person of color, getting shot by the police isn’t easy to set aside, because that could happen to you without any reason or provoking at all except for the color of your mothertrucking skin.

So stop being a whiny bitch about it.

[ahalliance]

American-validated Frenchge 🥖

transcript below

[Video Transcript begins:

[Video starts mid-sentence]

Etoiles: —and you put this face— next to the camera! Like this!

Foolish: (laughing) You’re so French!

Etoiles: I’m so French, that’s my main problem. Like I’m so French, I try sometimes to nerf myself and be like, less French

Etoiles: But that feels good to hear this because you say I’m so French and like, some racist people in France think I’m not because I’m Arabic too, so—

Foolish: Ohhhh

Etoiles: —that feels good too, you know

Foolish: No dude, you seem like a French ass French person—

Etoiles: (laughing)

Foolish: I don’t know how else to put it. Simply put

Etoiles: That feels good, man. I was saying hello to Tarik and all his chat was saying like Frenchge, the emote they are putting—

Foolish: Oh yeah

Etoiles: —the emote they are putting. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Video Transcript ends.]

[blimbo-buddy]

you can start using cannibalism as a metaphor for something really bad now, it’s okay everyone

[aptericia]

Endlessly frustrating that the only people who are willing to even complain when an anime character’s skin is lightened by official sources always phrase it like “why is he white!!!” and “she’s so whitewashed in this picture” and “[japanese company] when non-white people exist:” like do you genuinely not realize that non-white people can be racist??? Do you genuinely think every one of these Japanese artists is trying to make their characters look like Europeans, and that’s where the problem lies??

[eye-of-yelough]

hey GTA V fans, i heard some new trevor lines today.

except they’re not all new, if you’ve pressed ‘interact with citizens’ while looking at micheal at a specific point in their trailer trash era, some might sound familiar. “hello handsome/sugar/muscles/cupcake” definitely aren’t micheal specific. sorry lads

i think these were recorded before R* decided that trevor’s citizen interactions should be indiscriminate abuse. probably a bug that i’m even hearing them. but i am, when talking to michael’s house staff. there are lines specific to the maid as well, (or specific to women) but i couldn’t get a good recording of them. it’s just trevor typical catcalling anyway.

besides, this has something more interesting. slurs!

balding white man you can’t say that.

[elfroot-and-laurels]

there’s so many things I would like to say about my mental health and how I’ll be engaging with tumblr, fandom, and etc as a result, but I also don’t know how important any of that is, or how much I owe to anyone—especially myself—when saying “I’m changing and I’m changing in multiple ways.” I don’t know if I need to explain it, at the end of the day.

all I’ll say is that when life feels pointless, I don’t think I can find meaning by turning to crit and discourse, just as much as mindless positivity does nothing for me. I want to continue engaging with art and writing and creative pursuits. I will. but I am burnt out on arguments and defending what one likes, I’m burnt out on meta and other things and that should be fine. it’s my blog and my life and I will cope with my depression as I can. and yes this is partially me writing this post like a diary in order to work through my thoughts, but I also think it’s important for me to communicate the boundaries I want to have in place on my blog going forward.

much love to everyone I’ve known through the years. as hard as things may be right now, I wouldn’t trade the friends, acquaintances, mutuals, family I’ve made along the way.

[evie-doesnt-write]

Begging everyone to please be normal about this man

[phantomsies]

getting all the education/degrees I can and planning so I can get the fuck out of this country >>>>

[m4ggotm0ld]

Natlan is literally the worst thing Hoyoverse has ever created, and for so many reasons, but they somehow made it worse by k!lling off the only good character from it

[kihteyu]

“I hate Luz! She’s annoying!” “The show would’ve been so much better without Luz.” “Luz is such a poorly written character.” Bro then why did you keep watching? She’s literally the main character. If you were seething in rage every time she was on screen you can’t convince me you enjoyed watching the show.

Why is she annoying? Why don’t you like her? Is it because she’s a 14 year old who acts like… a 14 year old? Is it because she’s made some minor mistakes? Just like literally every other character? Is it because she’s a girl? A teenage girl? A female who isn’t perfect? A girl with flaws? Is it because she’s a non white female character?

Do you hate when Luz is loud and outspoken but love when Eda or King does it? Do you think Luz is a terrible person but were quick to forgive Amity? Do you think Luz is irredeemable but don’t hate Alador for how he treated his kids? Do you nitpick every little thing Luz does and says but consider Hunter a perfect little baby who can do no wrong?

You’re allowed to not like characters but sometimes you need to take a step back and consider if it’s due to your own biases. If you just don’t find Luz relatable or whatever that’s fine but constantly bashing her over such non issues when you don’t do the same for male and/or white characters is not.

[blackjacktheboss]

Blonde Percy pisses me off so much, but it’s not just bc of the canon of it all, but rather because Rick will make any change to his characters EXCEPT make Percy a person of color which is so fucking funny you simply have to laugh

[cosmicjoke]

You don't even realize that you fall into your own definition of "bad person" by getting pleasure from fighting, spreading lies about people and creating drama online. You act like you have no idea why you get so much "hate mail" when as people have pointed out before you respond to well-intentioned concern with more anger and searching your username only results in your apparent long history being racist in various fandoms. How do you lack this much self awareness? Don't you want to become a better person, or are you perfectly okay being miserable for the rest of your life?

Says the dip shit sending me anon hate.