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if you would like trans women to stop being suspicious of your intentions as a tme person you should probably take the very important step of not making it about you LOL like it actually really is not about you as an individual at all. part of having friends that are marginalized in ways you aren't - something that needs to be accepted to even get to this point - is listening to them discuss violence/oppression/control enacted on them by people in a group you belong to and accepting that they aren't fucking attacking you personally. how do you think people will come to trust you if you've positioned yourself to assume they look down on you specifically?
#like at the end of the day not being able to figure out how to wait patiently through someone's earned suspicion is a you problem lol#acknowledge that the suspicion is warranted and not about you and you will have a beautiful spread of different trans friends in your life#or keep up the circlejerk with your 12 other tboy friends in your discord servers pouring hours into discussing all the women you hate#i say wait patiently but it does require a certain effort#i personally believe it isnt nearly as insurmountable as people act like it is#like idk
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I got. thoughts. about valens and voices in imperial roman history. but I also got a lot of thoughts about uhhhhhh choosing your brother for co ruling the Fratricide Foundation Story Empire. many thoughts about themistius' oration too
Brotherly Love, Themistius (trans. Peter Heather & David Moncur)
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta
#it's also the Incest-Cannibalism Empire but that's a discussion for a different blog#all of the heavy hitters were Incest Empires btw. that's a feature of Empire across all of time. not always Cannibalism tho. TRAGIC.#but rome specifically being the Fratricide&Stuprum Empire is funny AND makes parts of this speech feel. uh. UHHHHH.#feels like you're trying to overwrite history and while you succeeded ONCE the uncle-nephew antagonism with a body count#somehow feels worse????? feels worse. i dont like anything that happened to valentinian 2#anyway. as a result: i personally will be including the bigamy accusations against valentinian into my belief system#stuprum babyyyyy! a requirement for every emperor! valens is lacking here so valentinian has to pick up the slack#valens will be giving me an opening to fire shots at figures in christianity i dislike which is honestly better than scandalous sex#later roman empire tag#komiks tag#brother emperors tag#IF. you missed my brother emperors posting. the head in hands thing here is meant to be a little bit offputting on account of#valentinian being valens' imperial maker. that's a life in your hands. overtures of fratricide. etc. you get the point#whatever other subtext you want to apply to it from the subtext spice cabinet. im not picky. this was a quick comic i did#to shake off the depression cobwebs lmao. eventually i'll style guide this era and do comics with more intentional thought later
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One thing that's incredibly annoying about the A:TLA fandom is how nearly every. single. well thought out piece of Zutara analysis is inevitably invaded by people who are massively condescending and allergic to media analysis in general.
If you don't like Zutara, that's fine - but why are you watching 2-4 hour long videos on why they would have been a good pairing if all you have to contribute is, "They weren't canon/you're delusional/they sucked/get over it lol".
It's very frustrating to pop into a fandom space and try to spectate on some thoughtful discussions, just to have it overrun by people being rude.
#and i do mean overrun - many of the comment sections just devolve into attempts to debate people who don't actually want to discuss anything#like discussing opposing views can be wonderful but that requires actually engaging with what you're commenting on#if you aren't interesting in doing that and just want to gush about your ship then find people to do that with???#it's like when spuffy is mentioned on reddit but worse fucking wow#i see why i noped out of this fandom all those years ago 😆#zutara
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It's always so funny to see this endless criticism of Alicent's character in Hotd.. as if they could do a better job at portraying the realistic constraints of a noblewoman in a feudal society. Sure, the writing could use some improvements but that is not what most of them are discussing, is it? It never gets old reading comments like "If I wrote Alicent, she would be the ultimate cunt and do..." followed by an elaborately misogynistic soap opera for an evil stepmother caricature.
This is evident in the way many of these folks write their fanfics, engage in discussions, and criticise her character. It seems that most of them are unable to comprehend a woman's perspective from a world that may be too foreign to theirs. In their minds, Alicent is the ultimate villain and must be held accountable for all the wrongdoings during the Dance. How convenient to twist Alicent "reluctance to murder is not a weakness" Hightower into someone who is set on murdering OCs in their precious AUs. Or perhaps they prefer to publicly shame her with pathetic insults or place the entire blame for House Targaryen's incompetence squarely on her shoulders.
#pro alicent hightower#team green#aemond fanfics are the absolute worst!#but yes go off and tell me how i lack the genius intellect required to fully comprehend and analyze her character#please crack open your media literacy handbook and give me thorough reading on it instead#fandom bs#hotd fandom#hotd discussion
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Everyone who aggressively denies obvious Byler foreshadowing pointed out to them is gonna look awfully foolish when Byler is endgame. It’s one thing to be a GA member and just not know the evidence; it’s another thing to be an avid watcher of the show and be shown specific evidence in great detail, only to be like, “Nuh-uh, this means nothing 🙅♂️”
#byler#“the show isn’t that deep”#actually it quite literally is#some evidence requires faith and additional context sure#and some things are just… blatant and transparent#basic filmmaking and storytelling 101 stuff#at least have your own proper explanation#don’t just say nothing in the show has any meaning beyond cute main character boy and cute superhero girl kissed so they must be endgame#let’s discuss these specific cinematography and mise en scène choices‼️
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people will say stupid things abt dean winchester everyday. the good thing is we can just say "that's dumb" and keep on being so good and sexy at media literacy. and loving dean winchester.
#sorry but why are people projecting their personal experiences with shitty family members onto dean winchester ??#all while ignoring canon and people literally pointing out that their takes and interpretations hold no weight#like everyone is entitled to their Headcanons. but that's all they are. and no one is required to share your personal (bad) interpretation#and also ppl need to understand that no one is going to bring their headcanon into actual analysis and discussions abt canon#also analyzing canon thru your headcanons and trying to twist canon to fit what you believe while ignoring anything that contradicts it#is bad media analysis point blank. and people having actual discussions abt canon are gonna rebuttal#and debunk your claims if you have a weak argument with little support#again. headcanons are fine. do whatever you want forever in your personal sandbox.#but don't bring unsupported headcanons into discussions abt canon and present them as fact.#because they're not#and also stop acting like dean winchester is your shitty dad / uncle / brother / ex / whomstever#vic.txt
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if your ocs were bosses in a video game, what do you think their boss fight would be like?
#red rambles#im thinking about this with mine and curious what other people have thought up#sidebar: i have been thinking about things like 'mechamics' and 'the kinds of attacks they'd use' and 'phases' and 'gimmicks'#i havent detailed them all here because i figured it wouldn't be what other people wanted to read#unfortunately it seems also everyone else thinks this. i want to hear about your mechanics....#so i guess ill go add mine in#kit and kat would be a pair of optional bosses who you fight together - kit a dex build who moves into a strength+dex combo in her second#phase; she doesn't get a second health bar#but it gets dramatically harder to hit her and she stops getting stunned nearly as easily in the second phase#and her hits get much harder#KAT (her gimmick partner) also has a second phase#if you haven't killed Kit before you activate Kat's second phase#(Kat gets a second health bar) she teleports herself and Kit out of the boss fight arena and (as they're optional)#this technically means you can progress but you get no winnings#and the next time you come back they're there again#im imagining them like ds1r havel where he's just like in a shortcut. they're camping a door#anyway you have to fully kill Kit to#get to kill Kat#and her second phase will activate when Kit dies in that case#and she'll go from infrequent but hard-hitting long-distance attacks to frequent long-distance attacks with less intensity behind them#and a set of melee attacks that do a lot of damage but require her to grapple you so if you don't get grabbed you're alright#meanwhile rex (the other one i discussed on discord) is a mainline boss who keeps dying and then just showing up again but he dies like#his ass is DEAD he's not walking off he DIES. okay?#you have to kill him at least twice for the mainline quest and there's even more optional places you can kill him#the first three or four sequential fights (only one of which is mainline) he's human the whole time#the second mainline fight he changes forms and his second phase is in dragon form#and he doesn't get a second health bar or anything but he does get aoe fire attacks#and gets to visibly take damage at increasing levels before you kill him#he also has a mechanic where on his last dot of health he can absorb like 4x the normal amount of damage#so when he should be one hit away from death he is in fact four or five hits away from death
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I find "If you follow the time metric of any given atom, it is unknowable and pseudo random" to be an entirely unsatisfying answer to the question of "What day of the year is the anniversary of the big bang?" The answer does not actually answer the question in question but because it contains a lot of big words it looks like it does.
Time metrics of everything vary depending on what sort of gravitational field they're in, something that we have an incredibly successful model of in general relativity. The question of how old the universe is does not depend on questions of "how has a specific atom experienced it" it is a question about how old the universe is, which is much better defined by understanding things like the expansion of spacetime and inflationary cosmology rather than trying to apply general relativity principles to a bunch of quantum particles, those two domains famously do not play well together.
I actually think that the person who said, effectively "Our uncertainty about the exact age of the universe is significantly larger than one year, so there is no reason to believe that the anniversary of that is a known or possibly even knowable quantity." was demonstrating a lot more understanding of the question by asking it than someone who wanted to have Maxwell's demon slap a bunch of clocks on atoms as a way of measuring it.
#If you haven't seen the post I'm vaguing here don't worry about it#Just some dickhead got ahold of a little knowledge and I'm tired of pretending they gave a good answer#It's like if you were talking about cat behavior and someone brought up their pet skink#It's still vaguely the same class of thing but you have not understood the discussion well enough for your long answer#That uncertainty has nothing to do with the time metric of various atoms#And everything to do with the level of precision that level of certainty would require#Considering the scales of time involved in the universe#They start the answer 'I haven't seen a physicist answer'#and tbfh: I hadn't either til I just now typed it up#Sophomoronic garbage
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This isn't aimed at anyone individually, but; I always regret opening the box that is ascended vs non-ascended Astarion fans and "who is actually the pathetic eternally broken one".
#Death of the Author etc#Do not attempt to bring me into the discourse: I Do Not Agree With Your Interpretation and I Do Not Care and That is Fine We Can Disagree#It Does Not Require Discussion#When you have fundamentally different readings and desires for the same text there's... really nothing to be said?#Apples and Oranges#You have fun with your own playthrough choices and leave me out of the larger fandom drama#I will not have this flavour of arguing on my lore posts#Also “every single personality trait he has that I don't like is Trauma (TM)” arguments#I love the character and the fans I've met are fine but god I hate this fandom do you know how many posts I've muted and deleted.#griping
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i'm sorry if you genuinely think bozzi and leclerc "copied the other driver/engineer's strategy" i canttttttt take you seriously
#do any of you understand how this team shit works. how this pre-race strategy meetings team shit works.#or calling this win 'lucky' be for reallllllll#i dont generally go for the block button but that should be an immediate block#its just fascinating the thought processes required to avoid admitting some of these guys are just good at their jobs#possibly better than others.#there's thoughts in me about the ways fandom 'character analysis' trends intersect with the way people talk about f1 on tumblr/twitter#while just completely forgetting or ignoring not just the competitive sports of it all but the very real ways the teams operate#did you guys know ferrari has a whole 'remote garage' of engineers in italy that tune in every race just to analyse data in real time#and feed back possible strategies to the pit wall that then get discussed and acted on based on drivers feedback?#do you GENUINELY think its just bryan bozzi leaning over fred's shoulder to copy adami's homework#you know ferrari has their very own hannah schmidt? maybe not as good as her but there's a dude in there whose job is 'tell us what to do'#maybe you could learn his name it might be helpful#sorry AND ONE MORE THING#how do you call yourself a leclerc fan and then turn around to call this a lucky win#it required outqualifying his teammate#it required taking advantage of the situation around him to jump lando at la roggia#it required sticking close to both mclarens in dirty air and taking a gamble on the early pit stop#it required 37 LAPS ON HARDS THAT NEVER WENT BELOW OR ABOVE 1:23:000 EXCEPT ONCE#and yes it required required teamwork. as most wins do unless you have a rocket under your ass (and/or don't know how to use it)#the only lucky part was lando once again fumbling the first lap and george taking himself out at turn 1#but you understand he still had to drive the rest of the 52 laps himself right. god#its too early for me to be this mad
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Lim wondering if this is how yadek felt in the obsidian order when disposing of the regnars before refusing to draw any parallels between himself and garak for another decade
WAKHDJKDHFKJH years later lim confessing to julian about his crime and resulting dIsplay of adolescent psychopathology and julians like. That's so funny, that's EXACTLY what garak said about all the assassinations. And lim Realizes
#ELIM GARAK 'NO RELATION TO ELIM GARAK' MY ASS! THATS HIS FUCKING SON!!!#bashir tells garak about it that night and he thinks its an absolute hoot#he holds that lim would have been a promising operative because hes aggressively average in looks and behavior#i mean. not like garak ever TOLD julian about what he did in the OO. not directly.#but maybe after a few decades he's comfortable enough to obliquely discuss it as a joke#perhaps to lovingly poke fun at his beloved son whos coming around to accepting moral ambiguity#lim in his 30s like Yes well yadek i know what you went through as a state spy. because of the hotpot lizards. i know#garak: oh of course. you're a cold blooded murderer. the blood of tain and whatnot.#lim: if youd gone abroad as a cook instead of a tailor would you dispose of bodies in your slow cooker#garak: well it would have to be a very large slow cooker. i suppose if i were a professional chef it would have to be though.#lim: you could never be a professional chef. you're too precious about stains and you lack the strength of conviction the kitchen requires#(the kids refer to garaks exile as Living Abroad. like its a fun anthropologic vacation)
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#i want to discuss problems w soc media activism but the irony of getting dogpiled by soc media activists will be too annoying to bear lol#anyway it seems like social media only draws attention to problems that westerners think they can solve by posting on their instagram story#but raising social awareness only works for social issues. tangible issues require lots of work and money over a long period of time#meanwhile financial systems/systems of power are getting further and further out of general society’s control#there are dudes (one guy. just one man.) with more money and assets than entire nations#none of this is to say that raising awareness is bad or ineffective but it gives ppl a false sense of security#like i’ve done my part 🧍♀️👍 i changed my instagram profile picture! the world is saved#nah girl…. you gotta put your money where your mouth is. oh you don’t have money? me neither. don’t be surprised when nothing changes#social media is trash. now class warfare on the other hand…. now we’re cookin#soc media is rich in words but poor in actions. everyone’s a preacher but who’s collecting alms?#my eternal gratitude to everyone taking thankless actions#rant
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I think I wanna make, like, an actual fursona. I've been drawing my actual sona, Kanga, as a human and a kangaroo interchangeably for a bit now but I haven't really drawn and posted either of them (well, I've posted human Kanga a few times and kangaroo Kanga is my current pfp but I want to make it more official.) but now that I'm trying to focus on my art it seems like a logical and fun thing to do. Also, most furries I know seem to have lots of fun with their fursonas! My main concern is that I have no clue what a fursona is supposed to be or if there are rules. Like, how animalistic you can make your fursona before it's just an animal you slapped a name to or how human you can make it before it's just a catgirl slightly to the left. I realize that most people don't really care and I shouldn't either but I don't want to accidentally make a caricature ┐(´ー`)┌
#do you even count as a furry if you just draw your sona as a humanoid animal? or do you have to like... be deep into the culture too?#or does it have to be a gender thing? ive heard that thats a thing some people do but is it a requirement??#idk. I'll probably be researchimg this stuff for a bit before i really get into it#fursona discussion#fursona#talking kangaroo
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my classes were supposed to start back up again today but completely asynchronously so i get to essentially return to my really super healthy covid lockdown mindset which yayyy for me but the actual bad part is that the first assignment i have to do is one that is not particularly suited to not having school or anything resembling a schedule for a full month
#math professor sir i like your class and i did good in it a month ago but u cannot be throwing normal distribution charts at me right now#math professor sir we've been out for a month and i didn't have power for 2/3 of that why are you making me look at bollinger bands rn#math professor sir do you really expect me to internalize what the fuck a z-score is and the formula for it. sir i got up at 2 pm today#cant wait for tomorrow where my astronomy prof gives me 4 readings unrelated to anything we were learning#and to pretend i read the assignment for humanities as i make up bullshit for the inevitable Discussion Post#i at least have the mercy of no required zoom classes. but auough#i did not want to do this again !!!
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it is absolutely wild to me that the untimely passing of a pedophile and abuser causes more discourse in tumblr than an actual fucking genocide.
#yes i am talking about liam payne's death#is it regrettable? sure.#does it require ppl to post entire essays? mmmm. maybe not#look i'm not saying that people aren't allowed to grieve one ofntheir childhood idols#but like.#look at what they are grieving#and what they are not#the silence is LOUD#you don't believe me? bbygirl i got receipts#go to the palestine tag and look for lates and top posts#see how far down you have to scroll in latest to see any discussion after the donation posts (which are all under 10 notes btw)#now go to top and see the dates and the contents of the posts. notice anything?#see how it is BLATANTLY missing anything about the latest hospital bombing and that infamous video?#or the news about Israel invading a goddamn UNRWA BASE??#in layman's terms it invaded the united nations#now go to the liam payne tag (which rn is trending) and do the same#i rest my case.#you could argue that posts could be in a different tag like gaza. and you'd be wrong. it's the same result.#tumblr is probably the last social media on the internet where you can still somewhat control what shows up in your feed.#it's the only place where you can say 'forbidden' words with your whole chest and the website won't knock it down#as far as i'm concerned this website has more freedom of speech than insta tiktok and twitter combined.#and we're using it to... *checks notes* discuss the morality of a celebrity's death
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#when you don't belong anywhere because people tell you that you don't deserve to belong anywhere so if you're going to be#isolated from the rest of humanity forever because there's Something Wrong With You then maybe you can at least be the one#in charge of that isolation. people can't reject you if you actively REFUSE to belong anywhere right. you can't be denied community if#you actively avoid it. yeah sure making yourself into a husk of a person so that you don't have to think about belonging anywhere makes you#miserable and self-hating but you know what at least it's manageable this time at least it's coming from stuff YOU do and not from#other people deciding you're not worth it. sure you WANT community you WANT to belong somewhere but that's impossible and not happening#and you gotta learn to work around it just like you do with everything else we can't always get what we want and you need to be#prepared to face that. yeah that requires lying to yourself and making yourself inscrutable and all these other things you don't actually#like doing but this is the price you pay for other people not hurting you anymore. for not having to confront the fact that you're innately#unlikable and un-want-able and meaningless and alien and disgusting and all the other things you've never been able to de-internalize.#you can't start thinking it's not worth it because remember what it was like being rejected by everything all the time? you're not going to#survive that again. all the options suck and you still need to make your choice. good luck :) :) :)#I think. perhaps. after I post the event ficlets. I go on full blog hiatus again. I can't.#I can't be around the discussions that keep happening on this website. and they're so prevalent that no amount of muting/blocking/filtering#can ever be enough to totally avoid them.#In the Vents
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