#I’ve elected to ignore it

[grechkathekasha]

bonus:

my favorite part of secret invasion is when in 1ep maria revealed that she has a gf and in 2ep it was their wedding!! y’all also loved this, right? it was so nice of marvel to do this finally!!

(dedicating this to @blackhillverse )

[thestarpletsystem]

No. None of that.

Cis men identifying as lesbians? There is a lot of discussion and nuance to be had here. I do wonder though, why do you want that label? (That is a question for those who are cis men but are not gender-queer or intersex in any way. I know a lot of the men who id as men but are also other genders or intersex might feel better with the term lesbian, but I am curious about those who are not. Generally I don’t super mind y’all being lesbians either, it’s just a lot of nuance) Trans men I can kinda understand, having identified in that way previously or having other circumstances. I personally don’t fully understand why they would want to use that label, but that’s not my fight or business. Non-binary people identifying as lesbians? Cool. Trans women? Cool. Then I also have to ask about how you feel about trans women who can’t/won’t transition? They look like men, they may even not change their name and pronouns, but does that mean they can’t id as lesbians either? Cis women? Cool too.

For MSPEC people, that requires more nuance. Because like it or not, I have a preference for women even if I’m still technically under the MSPEC umbrella. I do have to wonder what your thoughts on lesbians who have been with men in the past are. Do they suddenly lose the right to identify as lesbians because of that? We have members of our system who are only attracted to women. But we also have the inverse. So when we say we’re a Pan Lesbian, that means that we have a preference that we’re sharing. We also say that because our fiance is a trans lesbian, and we are in a lesbian relationship. To make it perfectly clear that she is a woman, even if she’s not wanting to go through the effort of presenting as fem. Back to us, Pansexual is the blanket term we use for our collective selves, but that doesn’t erase the identities of those in our system. That doesn’t erase my identity of being someone who prefers women but has been attracted to men in the past. The argument could be made that I shouldn’t be considered pansexual because of my attraction preferences. Which is bullshit. Your opinions are shit. You’re not us, you’re not me. You don’t own the labels. Any argument about how I can and can’t identify is crap.

It’s kinda icky that you’re so intent on policing other people and how they identify, particularly if you don’t know their story for any number of reasons. I kinda thought we were past this as a community. It screams gold star lesbian and “aro/ace people aren’t actually queer” behavior.

Screaming so loudly about it is great though, because it really shows how immature and ignorant you are. Hope you get out of your idiocy soon ;)

anyways dni if you think men or mspec people can id as lesbian <3 hope you get out of your idiocy soon

[squishiest-grape]

the mods are offline, post biener

[persephryne]

Making Aegon a rapist was straight up bad and lazy writing.

Let me elaborate.

In the show, the first thing we learn about Aegon as an adult is that he is a rapist. We haven’t seen him yet but still we already know that he is an horrible despicable rapist, especially since Dyana is so young, which pretty much makes him a pedophile too. How could anyone root for a man like that ? And that’s where the problem begins.

Rhaenyra had already been established many times as the rightful heir to the throne in season 1. It has been made obvious that she would make a decent Queen too. In the meantime, it had already been shown that Aegon is not even a good person. He’s selfish, inconsiderate, a bully, and does not act like a prince at all. To put it plainly, he sucks big time and we as viewers already know it. Add what we saw in season 2, how reckless he gets, how he’s an alcoholic immature asshole, how he obviously knows nothing about strategics nor how to rule efficiently, or even how bad he is at high valyrian, and you can’t have anyone tell you in good faith that he would’ve been a better ruler than Rhaenyra.

However, had Aegon not been made a rapist, you would still feel for him even though he is not cut out to rule. Because he knows it too and tried to escape it and he was forced to attend his own coronation . Because this crown that he did not want does not fit him, even though he really tries to show that he is not as worthless as everyone seems to think and he just keeps failing. You would feel for him because the war ,that he has started when he was made an usurper by the people around him, has cost him his son’s life. Because the brother, who is partially responsible for his son’s death has now betrayed him and tried to kill him with dragonfire. Because the injuries he suffered make him look more and more like his father who never cared for him, never loved him and that he definitely hates. Which also probably why he tries so hard to make his mother proud of him and love him but he can’t and his main attempt has left him half-dead, half-burn. Not only that but his dragon, with whom he has the strongest bond known in Targaryen’s, history probably died during this futile attempt to prove himself. The only thing about his Targaryen’s heritage that he seems to care about has been destroyed all because he wanted to prove himself. Because he truly resents his Targaryen’s, his father’s heritage, it’s obvious, just as it is obvious that he didn’t want to marry his own sister but was forced to. It’s completely legitimate of him to want to distance himself as much as possible from everything that is Targaryen related. He is indeed more of an Hightower than a Targaryen, but can you really blame him for that ? Would you not try to fit somewhere else too, if you were in his place ? It’s all absolutely and undeniably tragic.

I wholeheartdely believe that, even if you would’ve root for Rheanyra to be Queen, you woud’ve probably still thought that Aegon, as bad as he is, did not deserves this much pain.

But because he is a rapist, well, he honestly does.

By not trusting the audience to see that Aegon is not a good person, nor a good a king, without having him comitting a literal crime, by making Aegon a rapist, the writers have annihilated any possibilities for an internal conflict regarding Aegon and Rhaenyra. The whole concept of « teams » just goes down the drain because of this lazy, manichaean, writing. And that, my friends, is bad writing at its peak.

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[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.]

[miiiwu]

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[quibbs126]

So I finished the last couple of episodes of Cyberverse this morning

If I’m being honest, while I really liked the Quintesson plot, the last few episodes after that were kind of eh. They were fine, but not the banger the first half was. Probably didn’t help that we moved back to the usual cast with Bumblebee, Grimlock, Optimus and sort of Windblade

It sort of makes the first half of the season feel like a weird detour, given it’s like the one time we have a completely new cast of lead characters. Which is also a shame because I really liked this plot and the characters that were a part of it

Clobber had sort of been in the background but she got upgraded to main character in this section and I thought she was great. My only real complaint about her that’s always been there is that her mouth looks weird. Maybe it’s because they felt the need to give her lips. But anyways, Dead End was fun too, I liked his whole tone and personality. So was Perceptor and Whirl (I’d go into more detail but I’m realizing I’d repeat myself because I don’t know how to specify my thoughts more), and at first I thought Soundwave would be a return back to the normal divide, but he grew on me too, and he and Hot Rod worked great together. Oh yeah, Hot Rod was fun too, it was neat seeing his angst and him having to take a proper leadership role in quite frankly a horrible situation. Still not sure how he survived the premiere though

But one of my favorite things was how when the Quintessons came in, it kind of didn’t matter the Autobot and Decepticon divide anymore, they had to work together or die, and every new character to join the group got a grasp of that pretty quickly. I think I’m grasping that I no longer care much for the Autobot and Decepticon divide and just want the two factions to come together. Maybe not every continuity needs that to happen, but this show keeps baiting me with that thought

I liked the Quintesson finale too, even if shit was just happening and I had to accept it. Like okay, Megatron’s seemingly been on a long multiverse adventure and has a Matrix. Alright. But like the conflict itself felt pretty climactic, like it could be the end of the show. Outside of maybe that final scene, saying how the Autobots and Decepticons were now to divide the planet in half for each faction. Like that’s just leading in to something else, even if I think things should have ended in complete integration of both sides (but whatever)

But yeah, then we get the last 10 or so episodes, which feel a lot different from the rest of the season and more like…I guess typical Cyberverse shenanigans? I don’t know if it’s the same or not, but to me it felt like a return to format when I liked this new direction

Like they weren’t bad, they were just sort of fine

And I don’t know, the end of the series didn’t really feel like a series end. It just has Windblade return and join her friends and that’s it, roll credits. It just doesn’t have that climactic oomph to it. I mean I guess I don’t know who would have been the villain afterwards, but still

I don’t think our Megatron was confirmed dead or not though, at least not in the show itself. We see him get his Matrix taken and fall from the other Megatron, but we also see and hear him groaning in pain, showing he isn’t actually dead yet, even if he is dying. And after Bumblebee steals the other Matrix, we don’t see him again. So it’s not clear his state of being. Though honestly characters have come back from worse, like in the premiere when Megatron was left to be eaten by scraplets but was fine next we saw him, so he’s probably still around and able to cause trouble if need be

I don’t know for sure, but I’m half convinced the writers weren’t sure whether they were getting another season or not. Like I said, the ending doesn’t feel to me like a series finale, the Quintesson finale would have fit a lot better in that regard, but I mean it could be fine as a season finale. Still a bit anti-climatic though

I also feel like it was hampered by the fact that the episodes are only 11 minutes long. The other Megatron really didn’t last long because of it. The other Season 3 specials I think got around this limitation with being multiple episodes long, but this and the Season 2 finale, along with other episodes, felt really hampered by this shorter run time, like the plot had to finish too quickly

I’m getting the notion now that Season 1 was the only season with a finale that actually felt like a proper season finale. The other two had one thing or the other that made it not feel so climactic, whether it be the unimportant plot that’s only real purpose is to introduce un-space, or the anticlimactic end of the third one

But yeah, Cyberverse was fun overall. I think it hit its stride in the first half of Season 3, which kind of put a damper on the second half but it was fine. I think the main thing hampering me was that I really wanted the two sides to just make up basically the entire time I was watching Seasons 2 and 3, but that’s probably just a personal thing and too much fanfiction

Also I have to say, I would love a Transformers game in the style of Cyberverse, it’d be really cool, at least to me

[neonnoir-ao3]

I finally made a playlist cover for my TMC playlist, go check it out 👀

[dianaladrislovebot]

hi everyone so today is the random day that i picked and decided was quinn’s birthday ! i’ve made a list of random birthdays i’ve picked for the characters that don’t have them (some are completely random some are based on zodiacs that fit the characters some are expanded upon from the very small information we have from the books) and was wondering if anyone would like me to post the list so we can confer and decide which to adhere to or not 👉🏻👈🏻

[ursie]

I understand harm reduction ect ect I understand the lesser of two evils argument but y’all have got to be normal about people especially poc who are uncomfortable voting for B*den again. There are legitimate reasons and to downplay that or argue they want/are responsible for their oppression for not voting for him is downright racist period. If you want people to vote for your candidate then push your candidate to best represent them-don’t just argue people are being traitors and selfish idiots because they don’t want to vote for a rampant Zi^nist during the P*lestinian genocide

[ceramicbeetle]

fragment of a partially written “what if Evan went through with the magic-exorcism and had his memory of Gowpenny erased?” fic -- specifically a scene in which Jammer/K/Sam track him down to some middle-of-nowhere rest stop in order to meet him again

[adhdbisexualramblings]

“Irken as a language consists of chirps with no physical words”

haha complex language go brrr

[itstimetodrew]

Watching your favorite show/movie make important writing and character decisions based on nothing but nostalgia points or meme potential

[elvencantation]

daemon’s right there y’all. been using it for ages

Spirit Animal is racist.

Patronus was invented by a transphobe.

I think it’s time we all suck it up and say what we mean: fursona.

[bauliya]

ever since i got access to american library cards thanks to tumblr user anneemay (pbuh) 2 weeks ago ive lost even the 3% sympathy i had for americans crying ofc we’re stupid and illiterate our schools suck!!! because you assholes have had FREE ACCESS to THOUSANDS of books and audiobooks and classic films this ENTIRE TIME you’ve been blaming your schools for your elected ignorance!!! from my home in India I’ve listened to eight audiobooks and watched half of cronenberg’s oevre and I’m watching nosferatu (1922) today and I can’t even go to a library in person and you people have had these things your entire life yet you come on tumblr at 18 19 20 and say you don’t know who james baldwin is and if you expect me to you’re classist and 18 year old Americans are too stupid to know bombing foreign countries kills people so it’s okay if they choose to do that rather than work at McDonald’s and of course I have no idea what stocks are or what colonialism is and MCU is the height of cinema and it’s feminist to wear makeup like. my god. you people are going to go through the rest of your life being incoherently stupid and it’s not because you’re poor and it’s not because your schools suck but its because you’re so ensconced in your American privilege that you will never be forced to confront the realities of life and you can go on living your Disney adult fantasies because you’ve destroyed your innate human curiosity and potential at the altar of hyper consumption.