#I'm not saying it is bad per se

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Every year that passes The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ages more and more poorly in my mind while most people seem to like it as much as when it came out, like some sort of very personal Portrait of Dorian Gray.

[margridarnauds]

Emer ingen Forgaill did not tell a guy her father was trying to force her to marry "lol I want to marry Cú Chulainn, I will always want to marry Cú Chulainn, and also he could beat you up" for me to constantly see "have you considered the women in the Middle Ages who LIKED arranged marriages" -- like there's room for nuance, especially re: literature VS reality, as well as the way it's generally treated by the protagonist as being shocking (I remember a particularly egregious example in a book about Juana of Castille), but also...like...there's a reason chivalric romances exist in the form they do.

[ansu-gurleht]

i feel like i should say something that's probably already been said before but yknow what idc.

i kind of hate the way the thieves guild is introduced in skyrim? like you can't walk into riften the first time without being invited to join this supposedly secretive organization of thieves, even if you fuck up the task brynjolf gives you. in oblivion you had to like. inquire as to the structure and meeting place of the thieves guild from beggars and stuff to join it. and it's not the thieves guild but in morrowind, you have to ask around in one specific city to get clues to figure out where to join the morag tong, which is an actual official and legal guild with like guild halls in every major city. but skyrim is such a guided rollercoaster experience that wants to make sure you don't miss any of the carefully curated quests it has to offer that it literally just is like "hey you look completely average with no particular skill or experience in sneaking whatsoever. want to join my secret thieves guild?"

[eisthenameofme]

love when it gets to the point of The Discourse where i feel the need to key word search otherwise chill people's blogs for rampant bigotry before following them. Like this isn't exactly what happened with 'ace discourse'

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

It is not classist that Jason, a vigilante in a *family of vigilantes*, is violent like the rest | just | because he comes from a poor family

What's (more likely) classist is writers thinking he needs to be taught right vs wrong from Bruce and co and that he consequently makes snap judgments out of some childish grudge-fueled rebellion which makes him dangerous the way a toddler holding a knife is dangerous

[goldenpinof]

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[swordsonnet]

maybe i'm missing something here, but it always confuses me when i see things like "some autistic people are disabled by their autism and some aren't" or "not everyone sees their autism as a disability". because... autism very much is a disability?! if you're autistic, then your symptoms must be present in a way that is disabling to you in your everyday life. it's literally in the diagnostic criteria. of course the extent to and areas in which you're disabled can vary greatly depending on the individual, but disability is part of the basic definition of autism, regardless of your personal feelings on the matter.

don't get me wrong, it's still much better than "autism is only a disability because of capitalism" because at least it doesn't make sweeping generalisations that aren't even remotely accurate to the lived reality of most autistic people. but it still perpetuates incorrect assumptions under the guise of personal choice, and honestly feels like an attempt to distance autism from disability in general. being disabled is nothing to be ashamed of, and i wish people wouldn't twist the meaning of autism to remove disability from it.

(and yes, that goes for level 1/low support needs autistics as well. i would be considered level 1 (though i wasn't diagnosed that way) and i'm still disabled by my autism! not to the same extent as many other people, sure, but i'm still disabled. if i wasn't, i wouldn't be autistic.)

[natasha-in-space]

My biggest crime ever is never writing anything fully Danger Ray related on here. I don't know how I snoozed on it so badly, but it's my duty to fix it.

As a side note, I always had a very (admittedly) petty grudge with Cheritz for not making a Bad Ending specifically showcasing this darker side of him to the fullest. Preferably in his route. We get told that Ray is just as 'twisted' (putting this in quotations because we damn well know it's more complicated than that but I digress) as Suit is, but we never get to actually see it. We have those two Bad Endings during V's route and Common Route, but those get brushed aside as 'hey, it's not Ray's route, so of course he's a little unhinged there'. Ray from V route and Ray from his own route sometimes get treated as two different iterations of him :/

Give me a bad ending showcasing Ray getting lost in his fantasy and refusing to accept reality, as it is far too painful for him to do so. Give me direct parallels between Suit's bad ending, showcasing how they are two sides of the same coin. Give me Ray directly referring to you as his 'precious doll' - just a different way of Suit calling you his 'useless toy'.

I would have also added a new soundtrack, one that brings in some notes from 'I am the strongest', much like Suit's theme has notes from the 'Endless Struggle' in it, but that's just my personal fantasies at this point.

[blujayonthewing]

felix: [takes limerick aside early in the campaign and confides, with difficulty because he's ashamed about it, that he sometimes has trouble speaking at all, because he wants at least someone to have fair warning ahead of it possibly coming up if he's gonna be traveling in a group for any amount of time]

limerick the first time felix mostly loses speech: you've been really quiet, everything okay? do you have any thoughts to add [to this discussion]? :)

limerick last session when simon lowkey assigned felix to go do a social encounter: I'll go with you, to help with the talking :)

limerick as soon as we're in the social encounter: [looks directly at felix, expectantly]

[lord-squiggletits]

I must admit I'm getting this horrible image in my head of Tarn as that type of creepy guy who donates way too much money to a streamer and then absolutely loses it when he hears they're not single.

That's probably accurate lol. Although unlike (seemingly) most people in this fandom, I blame Megatron more for turning Tarn into that kind of obsessed freak than I do Tarn for being a freak. I mean, my view is basically "you reap what you sow/the monster you created turned around and bit you" so I don't really have sympathy for Megatron with regards to Tarn showing up and ruining his life lol. I actually really like the DJD coming in MTMTE as basically the living embodiment of karma and Megatron's comeuppance about not being able to run away from/ignore his past.

Like blah blah "no matter how sad your backstory is you're still responsible for your own actions" but also Megatron is literally 100% the reason Tarn is Like That, and Megatron also used parasocial manipulation, propaganda, and his grandiose personality to manipulate the Decepticons into worshipping/following him without question. So like. It's fiction, I don't have to be all "well they're all problematic" I can just be like "lol, lmao even" and point and laugh as Megatron gets fucked up by Tarn and the DJD because he can't talk his way out of this problem.

[crehador]

i fried this rice? 🤔

[alphabetcompletionist]

I offer the pronouns aleph/beth

i appreciate the offer but i will turn it down

ABCDEF HI L NOP RSTU W

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[nobodybetterlookatme]

Mad at my professor again lmao

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I'm not saying there's been no backsliding on this front because there definitely has, but posts that are like "I thought we understood talking about sexism isn't man-hating" do make me laugh a bit. I think a lot of people on this website never learned that, especially in fandom circles that like to play fast and loose with the definition of "man-hating."

[aeide-thea]

ugh

saw a post with a quote that basically tidily summed up the rebuttal i'd half-started drafting to someone's post about how homosociality in tolkien ~queers amatonormativity~ [spoiler: on the contrary, male homosociality has been engaged in a three-way handshake with both misogynist heterosexuality and amatonormativity for literal millennia, and far from undermining them, more typically serves as essential reinforcement], so i was like, great, now i don't have to actually write that essay, i can just reblog this instead and tag it #tolkien! :)

but then, like a conscientious idiot, i went and dutifully looked up the book it was from, because i think it's irresponsible to cite excerpts whose context you aren't familiar with; and very predictably it turned out to be by a r*dfem and to make all sorts of claims abt so-called 'phallocratic culture' that i dislike, both as a trans person and ally myself and also as a logical thinker who can tell perfectly well from, you know, lived experience of our society that having a penis doesn't in fact confer ready social acceptance, never mind dominance, on people who don't otherwise look or act the part of a Proper Man, because ultimately what we reflexively defer to is a particular vibe, produced by a combination of physique and affect and other things besides, which may imply the presence of a penis but neither actually reveals nor necessitates one…

so like. ugh. probably i'm gonna have to write my own essay after all. :/

[spikeisawesome456]

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