#actually maybe what I do is make this unrebloggable

[musical-chick-13]

If I can be serious for a second, I do think that, for a lot of people, feminism is about Sticking It To Men (or, in some cases, people they "see as men") more than it is about supporting women. And this is concerning, not because I think we need to coddle men's feelings, but because I question the efficacy of making a movement that is, fundamentally, about women's rights and self-determination about men.

If the focus isn't on things like "how can we help women" and "how can we protect them from a system that hates them" and "how do we change the system to something that doesn't hate them," with an understanding of what makes that system function the way that it does, then we're never going to make any forward progress.

It is only by having an intersectional understanding of the way prejudice works (on a systemic and individual level, because those two things are directly related via how they feed on each other) that we will actually have a coherent idea of how to dismantle the systems and behaviors that hurt us. It is only by prioritizing both the creation of a world where prejudice does not dictate political policy or general outlook and the providing of resources and aid for the people who are/will be victimized by said prejudice, that we can actually take steps to making life materially better for women. That should be the endgame. If you can make misogynistic men angry and cause them discomfort in the process, then great! But I don't think that should be the ultimate goal, solely because doing so would remove the focus from making human rights, safety, and personal fulfillment more accessible to women.

As far as feminism goes, I am here to make the world more livable for women. I am here to help build a political and social environment where women don't have to constantly fight for their right to exist and be seen as people. If we lose sight of that, then, yeah, we might end up with agitated and unsettled and disheartened men, but that's all we end up with. We don't end up with support networks for women. We don't end up with actionable plans to keep women safe, we don't end up with politically-enshrined rights, and we don't end up with a world that is specifically designed to be less hostile toward women. Those things are the reason for activism. Sticking It To Awful Men is a bonus.

YES, WHEN I SAY "SUPPORTING WOMEN," I MEAN TRANS WOMEN. BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN. I CAN'T BELIEVE WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE I HAVE TO CLARIFY THAT EVERY TIME.

[spearxwind]

This is gonna be such a weird post but id like to know if other people have this problem as well. Do any of you feel like... really misplaced uh. Embarrassment when looking at pictures of people on your phone? Especially people who you actually know, including yourself. Because i have this issue where i find it hard looking at pictures of both me and others (my friends and loved ones) if they are not """perfect""" looking (whatever that means to my brain) because im afraid of people eventually seeing them and judging them as less than perfect or pointing out imperfections etc.

Even knowing that no one but me will ever see said pictures i am haunted by the fear that since the pictures arent like. Idk, magazine cover worthy then people will find them cringe or embarrassing or god forbid ugly (and im a lover of ugly candid pictures too. I think they're the most charming). The way that some people judge a person and their appearance based on a single picture. So I struggle a lot showing pictures of my friends to my family for example out of this fear, and i really struggle to just take pictures of myself that arent from my one Brain Approved Angle(tm)

[lyssafreyguy]

God . . . imagine thinking Laios is a bad person who doesn't care about people. actual insanity.

[crunchycrystals]

im not a fic writer but im kind of tempted to write something if only for the sole purpose of representing the ways people have to take care of curly hair bc every pjo fic i read doesnt talk about it

[crtter]

(hey, what fruit post?)

OK so. Important information in order to provide context: I’m Brazilian, born, raised and currently living in Brazil. With that in mind…

In 2019, I saw a post where OP was talking about picking berries as a kid and it got me thinking about the fruit *I* picked as a kid myself. So I made a random post about them that originally looked like this:

Now, both this fruit and this tree have their own names in Portuguese: pitanga and jabuticabeira. But I thought that, since English is the lingua franca of this website and all, maybe it would be easier for people to know what I was talking about if I used the English names for these plants. So I looked it up and got the names Brazilian (or Surinam) cherries and Brazilian grapetree. And I used them.

Turns out, these fruit aren’t, indeed, that well-known outside of Brazil and the post breached containment, so to speak. And it reached people that didn’t know that was how they were called in English and didn’t care to look it up. To them, I was someone spouting fake information online, and you know how people react to THAT. So people started calling me:

 • Stupid for thinking those fruits are actual cherries and grapes (not what I said)

 • Stupid for not knowing grapes don’t grow on trees (not what I said)

 • A stupid gringo for making up names for things that already had names in Portuguese (not what I am and not what I did)

 • A few other assorted insults such as an “European colonizer” (not what I am) and having my country called a “banana republic” (not what it is but even if it was, WHOSE fault would that be, huh?)

And this has been going on for FIVE YEARS. I’ve changed the original text to disclaimers that I DO know that’s not what they’re called in Portuguese and I DO know they’re not actual cherries and grapes to try and keep people from calling me stupid over this fucking post several times but they just don’t ever check if someone has already “corrected” me. Lately, I thought people had finally gotten over it but it picked up pace AGAIN today and people are already going “Uhhh but these aren’t grapes???” and I know it’s just a matter of time until the insults start again and I’m sick of it so now that Tumblr allows us to make posts unrebloggable I’m taking the fruit out back and shooting them all like Old Yeller.

[lennjamin-o7]

I'm gonna avoid using names because I don't want this showing up in tags. Actually, I'll probably also make it unrebloggable.

Tw:Abuse

It's getting a bit annoying seeing people analysing every relationship The Abuser had in order to try and prove that he definitely abused other people. To point out as "aha! He definitely abused this person who called him a friend! Here's proof from this clip 3 years ago!"

Abusers aren't usually cartoon supervillains. Abusers can be a good friend and a good family member. They can treat people that they care about with tenderness and true love. They can be so kind and charming and the best person you ever knew.

And they will still be an Abuser. Just not to you.

Not every person in an Abuser's life is the one being abused. And by trying to prove THIS Abuser as some maniac who abused everyone in his life just makes it hard for victims of Abuse to speak up. Because it makes it seem that the only people who are abusers are people who abuse everyone in their lives.

On an even more /neg. I feel like some people are treating it like an ARG to try to figure out who else he hurt and you know what? Maybe you will turn out to be right. But do you not remember what the FIRST WORDS IN HER STREAM WERE?

"Silence used to be [her] peace, but it was no longer feeling like peace." She needed that time to heal and to process and to get to a point where she could accept what happened to her. She needed that time to GET to the point where she could speak about it. It was a comfort until she could fully face it.

It's starting to feel like a lot of people are almost trying to force people to skip that step. Like they want to go "Aha, look! You were abused to! Now tell us all about it and come to terms with that immediately that we were right!"

And it's starting to make me ill to watch.

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

if you click the unrebloggable red catboy haterade readmore it's your own damn fault

i am so tired of people trying to defend g'raha's writing in ew

"they're capable of subtlety" switching between being a manipulative asshole and the writer's most perfect prince who can never do wrong and is the wol's bestest friend 5ever (don't look at shb) and never allowing the player/other characters to say "dude wtf" at the former is not "subtle writing", it's complete lack of awareness that the character is being an asshole

like it was bad enough that the writers forced you to be buddy-buddy with him in shb with only a token option of expressing mild distaste , doing that and also making it very clear that he's still a manipulative shithead (because if he was meant to trying to put on a brave face they would have had a "dude wtf" line where he would have apologized in the post-credits, not acted like the promise made under duress was still valid) is just bad fucking writing given that on the other side of the corridor is zenos, who they constantly deny even acknowledgement of his humanity

you can try to compare it to urianger's writing but uri's writing never flinches away from the fact that he's being a fucker when he's being a fucker even when played for comedy, and they still have this gaping gap of not touching the fact that urianger functionally killed thancred's foster daughter/little sister onscreen (while they probably would have realistically hashed it out over like 3 years, you really don't get to see any of that at all so it's very strained; even having thancred still kind of mad before he gets snatched and having the more cordial relationship we normally see during shb would have communicated that better).

idk. so much of ew is just written really damn poorly (even parts that, in isolation, i find acceptable to actively enjoyable (ie the 6.0 zenos cutscenes) end up falling flat in context) because of external factors forcing the sardine treatment for plot points and i'm tired of seeing people pretend that it's not. i can't exactly compare the gameplay side well given i started in 6.0, but i can break down the writing just fine and ew's fucking dire even if you consider how heavily i weigh 4.2-4.3 against stb.

i really hope they sideline the scions besides krile (or tataru, but i think she's probably going to live in side content for a while and krile has been badly neglected for so long). i don't want to interact with g'raha again anytime soon but especially not if his writing remains this bad. either acknowledge that he can be an asshole and let me be colder to him or stop bringing him up, i'm fine hating major recurring characters if they're actually well written (asahi, varis, thordan) and the catboy isn't at this point, and even when he was better-written there was still the major problem of "let me call him a dick or at least untrustworthy you pricks".

"what about estinien don't you like him" if they just have him being a weird hungry vagrant that only shows up sometimes to be deeply strange and get mobbed by baby mamool ja that is ideal, actually, i love when he's a bit of a freak. or they could have him get adopted by another fancy prince, having him repeatedly reel in powerful fancy prince types with the power of

dragon autism

would be the funniest shit on the planet.

but like. i want a break from even the scions i like, barring maybe the twins, and the twins are best when i don't have to refer to them as a unit, yknow? i want new people to take center stage. i'm not going to get that given the trailer, but god. please. make this the erenville-and-wuk lamat show with cameos by the scions and not the other way around. they can come back in 8.0.

(plus, doing that might mean we don't have the fifth expansion straight of y'shtola death fakeouts (i counted: arr/hw (given timing it's hard for me to define where catgirl blunt best belongs), stb (vs Zenos), shb (sailor moon catgirl), ew (ultima thule)). i am so fucking tired of her fakeouts. do literally anything else with her as a character i BEG OF YOU. we all know you aren't killing Miss Final Fantasy 14. her fans would flay you. the merch sales would plummet.)

[fandom-hoarder]

Considering OP is yelling at ppl to leave them alone when questioned on specifics because a post that says “the grooming in spn fandom is insane” (specifically Wincest) was “not a callout” and only “a legitimate safety concern” about “a space is known for well you know”, they are not worth the time. They also reacted very rudely to an anon who only wanted to apologize for following them (thinking that OP was anti Wincest and trying to respect OP’s boundaries). Just not worth it.

[I held onto this in my drafts for a day, but I think I'm just gonna publish it after all. Even though v did a much better job of addressing the op directly, imo, I'm not interacting with the op. I'm also going to gather screenshots in a posterity post, but it will likely be unrebloggable.]

Hmm, I debated publishing this ask, because I'm really just. So tired. And annoyed. And it's not a great combination for tact. Nevertheless...

I haven't seen the yelling myself, just avoidance and redirection. Flippancy. But maybe it's happening in a space I can't see, or between people I've blocked, idk. If so, it sounds a lot like it IS January 2023 redux 🙃🙃🙃 -- I HAVE seen it now, and my suspicion still stands, though still not 100%.

People need to stop making such serious accusations when they refuse to back it up. Words fucking mean things. Saying a certain sector of the fandom--that ostensibly you're also a part of?--has a problem with grooming and is stupid...that was NOT worded in a way to help people stay safe. It was worded like a vague callout post to scare people. We've seen those before. 🙄

A post that was actually concerned about grooming in online spaces *in general* would list some things to be aware of, things to recognize, tips for getting out of a situation. But no, it's this vaguepost without anything specific, with the one question in the notes asking for an explanation or if it's sarcasm-- unanswered [eta: well maybe they responded and I can't see it, since I realized I had op blocked]-- and one reblog from a person who claims it wasn't about wincesties specifically, when it demonstrably WAS??

So who is doing it, and where/how? I don't necessarily think it's a good idea to make public posts with names that devolve into personal beef and worse, but if someone is making the accusation that there's a grooming problem in the fandom they need to come with receipts or at the very least descriptions of the situation??

This isn't cutesy. You know exactly what anon is talking about, as shown later. Reblogging the post unaltered gives at least the appearance of agreeing with it as written.

This isn't to make light of! You reblogged it.

This isn't helpful.

If there was no one specific, why reblog a post specifically about the wincest fandom having insaneeee grooming? It wasn't "just in general." It's not a joke, yet this reply looks entirely unserious.

I am too old to keep seeing this type of shit go through the fandom at regular intervals, especially when it's so often a false accusation based on interpersonal drama. The only purpose this serves is riling up the dash. It's exhausting, and waters down the gravity of the accusation by making it a phrase that cries wolf.

I'm not even saying outright that the post is a LIE; just that it has seriously similar markers of past drama that was approximately 90% unaddressed purity culture biases about fiction, 9% interpersonal beef, and 1% actual concern for a human being who was an adult, but young. And it led to the utter gutting of fandom, loss of acquaintances, deletion of a glut of fic-- all due to smearing the reputation of a writer by using horrible UNTRUE AND INCENDIARY ACCUSATIONS.

So I'm sure many of you already understand why I take umbrage with these types of posts! Who knows if it's about fiction or something real? 🤷‍♀️

And since there's no further context to be found, the way it LOOKS on the dash is that someone is taking creeper!Dean too seriously. It could be about something else, but who knows.

[max1461]

Ok, ok. Here's what the discourse on standardized testing is missing (at least in my experience): one of the main reasons that people are opposed to standardized testing is that taking tests is unpleasant for most people. Like, there's all this high-minded discussion around testing, discussion of race and discrimination and fairness and blah blah blah, and I don't think it's bad discussion, but look... you cannot deny that people do not like tests! That one of the main reasons "tests are bad" is appealing as a positions is because tests are unpleasant to take! Did everyone forget this, because they were a nerd who liked tests? The absence of this element in the discourse is baffling to me!

So, ok, look, I'll lay out my own feelings on the matter: I am tentatively in favor of standardized testing as a major part of the admissions process to schools, where such selection methods are really necessary rather than a branding exercise (discussion for another time), because the evidence seems to show that it's far easier to prevent discrimination in testing than it is in "holistic" admissions procedures. I haven't looked into the topic extremely deeply, so I could be wrong, but from what I have seen that appears to be the reality of the situation. So, there you go, standardized testing seems to have its place.

But, look... testing sucks? Can we acknowledge that it is very unpleasant? It's very unpleasant. I'm pretty sure that if you like it, you are the exception. It's very stressful! And if you don't do well, it's this big piece of paper staring at you and saying "you suck, and you don't get to live the life you wanted because you suck. Hah!" and you expect people to like, wholeheartedly embrace that? Extraordinary missing mood.

[Venting portion]

So, generally I do pretty well on tests. I got a near-perfect score when I took the GRE. Well, then I took the GRE Math Subject Test and got like the 25th percentile, and that's why I'm not in math grad school right now. Or, well, a big part of why. I'll spare you the details.

And let me tell you, I really wanted to be in math grad school. I worked my ass off for years. I took hard classes and stayed up all night and forwent time with friends. And I did well. And there were professors who told me they thought I was good, that I really had what it takes. And I could make excuses for why I did badly on the test, like... it's mostly calculation problems and I've never been good at those, my actual proof skills (which is what I think I'm good at) weren't tested at all, solving integrals under a time limit is not that representative of math research... but like, whatever, I got what I got and that's that.

Tried a second time and it wasn't any better. Maybe I'll try again someday.

But, one way or another, I can't help but feel like... I'm good at math! I'm mean maybe I'm not the best, but I definitely don't suck. And I like math, a lot! And I wanted to do math, a lot!

So like, I don't know, forgive me if I'm sympathetic to the people who don't like testing. Emma Goldman said "if I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution". Well, to a certain degree, if I can't do math I don't want to be part of your fair society.

Well, sorry for getting personal. I'll make this one unrebloggable.

[\Venting portion]

[wackymaci]

✨Blog rules: pwease no rebwoggy (anything, not just this post!)✨

No I can’t make all these posts unrebloggable cause otherwise how would I re-reblog myself eight thousand times. duhhhh— ANYWAY—

“ooo april wtf is this” hello trusted Friends and Confidants WELL some of you already know what I’ve been doing in my spare time but for those of you who had taken part in the Twitter exodus ahem aHEM,

THATS RIGHT IM… OHHHH MY GOD IM MAKING AN ELYSIUM WIKI???? like an actual wiki website which is just. insane honestly that I’m just Allowed To Do This for Some Reason—

I have not released the link to anyone just yet (except for fenixe obviously) and I have not said a word about this on my actual tumblr nor my actual public twitter or my growing public Instagram - I want to make an actual formal announcement If And When this IS more completed bc on top of coding one billion things I also have. oh god so much to write.

I’ve started with the Maci page bc i figured it would be a good litmus to see how committed I actually wanted to be with this and I have… uhh STILLLLL been working on the Maci page so to be honest I don’t know if I’m actually completely on board with doing this whole thing as all of the 80 interlinked articles that’s gonna be involved BUT. to be more honest I’m also already kind of obsessed and so yknow what like. it’s gonna fuckin happen

probably

EDIT, MARCH’24: or maybe not!?? who knows!!! By now this blog has ALSO turned into a haven to stack up some CANON CONVOS which I usually don’t EVER share, so at least this top secret space is being used for ssss…… something. LISTEN ITS JUST VIBES IN HERE—

anyway with twitter once again disintegrating like I said on Main Blog im gonna need Somewhere to put all my sneaky gushing about this project specifically cause I can’t talk about it anywhere else + general other sneaky gushing and so you know what yeah. priv tumblr IS the way to go.

I’ll prob crosspost some of the nonsense I’ve been rambling aboht on twt re ; this for the past two weeks in a bit but for nowwww here’s YOUR SUPER SECRET REVEAL FOR THIS BLOG and now I’m busyyyyyy………..👀

EDIT to add: all these preview snippets feature a litany of tragic backstories and so uh. trigger warnings for.,,, basically everything. proceed with caution. the entire wiki is doused in one million trigger warnings per page dw 🙃🙃 augh

RELEVANT CONTENT TAGS:

preview snippets: paragraphs snipped from wiki WIP, subject to be changed before publication but as sneak previews on here!

canon convos: real snips from the Elysiumverse SOURCE MATERIAL scripty rp’verse taken from my archives! These can ONLY be glimpsed here!

[sqbr]

In Pursuit of Ethical Argumentativeness

Assume I follow you on tumblr, and you have posted an original or reblogged opinion that I wish to express a strong disagreement with. It's not anything super personal, nor likely to cause horrible Discourse from other people (I already try to avoid those sorts of reblogs).

NOT arguing isn't an option because I have tried that in the past and it was Bad For Me.

But I know some people can feel REALLY hurt to have their posts reblogged with disagreeing commentary by someone they are friendly with, at least the way I do it, and I don't want to make people unnecessarily unhappy. But also I just have all these opinions!

I am SURE I have forgotten some obvious option but so it goes.

More rambling thoughts under the cut.

So I already sometimes use methods other than directly reblogging people if it feels like the right choice. But I largely base this judgement on what I would want, and afaict I am more comfortable than most when it comes to being directly argued with in a good faith way by people I know. I enjoy being able to have an open back and forth where we share ideas and opinions and I know where people stand with me. Also, I don't like the idea of anyone being afraid to argue with me. On the other hand, sometimes it DOES hurt my feelings or make me anxious, and I'm always a little worried I'm misjudging my tone and would actually feel bad if many people argued with me the way I do with other people. Also, even though it's not my intention, there's always the possibility that my reblog will put your opinion in the path of Discourse and Mean Strangers etc.

When people vagueblog me it sometimes feels passive aggressive and sometimes like politeness and I'm never sure where that line is so just avoid doing vagueblogs myself.

I don't mind the idea of people arguing with me in places I don't see, especially if they're expressing intense but petty annoyance (I take that stuff off tumblr too) But idk it feels uncomfortable to do that ALL the time, like I'm being duplicitous and only able to be friendly with people by hiding my real self.

This is tumblr specific since I avoid arguments on microblogging sites (mainly by heavily curating who I follow) and dreamwidth doesn't have reblogging.

My aim with this poll is just a general vibe check. Obviously individual opinions will vary, and will depend on whether you're a close friend or we have literally never spoken directly before etc. If you have strong personal opinions one way or the other let me know and I will do my best to follow them! (Except maybe private messaging, I included it because if that IS what people want it's good to know, but I'm too shy to do it much)

The ethics/expectations for strangers are different, so I made this post unrebloggable to get a vaguely representative sample of relevant people. But it's fine if you vote even if I don't follow you, if you're seeing this post at all you're in my radar enough for your opinion to be relevant.

[minerscanarybyvanessacarlton]

I was cleaning up and I realized that this isn't a breakdown. I'm gonna make this post unrebloggable right after I post this. And I'm sorry for the wall of text nobody has to read this I'm more or less using Tumblr as a diary.

In January of 2024, 8 months ago I was still fresh out of my first of what would be 3 hospital stays within this year. I was living on crackers and water because the antibiotics I was taking for the persistent infection I had were beating the shit out of my stomach. I had zero energy to do anything but go to work come home and not leave my room until it was time to go to work again. It took 3 weeks to write off the year and make my goal "survive hopefully still with a job and a roof over my head"

And what had me so weirdly emotional after the two doctor visits was that since March of last year I've lost 125 lbs, most of it in those 8 months, I haven't been in a hospital except to just take tests since May. The pressure sores that were causing the infection are not fully healed but almost there. My a1c was normal, and my doctor took me off of the metformin yesterday. Where I'd have a doctor's appointment which was never bad, my doctor is incredibly kind but I'd still want to come home and rot, I want to since I took the day off work anyway go and walk around goodwill and 5 below and that I've been so excited about it getting cool in a couple days because I can have a better time going for walks and genuinely exploring the town I live in and the general area which I love and always have, I never mentioned that my mom grew up in Vernon Hills like she lived there before it was Vernon Hills it was just part of Mundelein, but her sisters and brother stayed in the area until a few years ago so we spent a lot of time here, and I dreamed about living in this area my whole life and also I just realized that this area grew up with me which I'm also weirdly sentimental about. I realized how far I've come in the last 8 months let alone in the year and a half since I was first diagnosed with diabetes after a hospital stay for an infection that I'm not exaggerating nearly nearly killed me. Oh btw my boss emailed me on either Monday or Tuesday to let me know I'd been given a raise and to keep up the good work. And I'm actually genuinely for the first time realizing how much I'm making actual serious progress and this is what being actually proud of myself feels like. And I have a ways to go but I can do it.

And then I thought about how kind so many people have been including everyone involved in my medical care who at least to me never made it known if they disliked me or were judging me but also but maybe they weren't judging me at all, and I thought about one of the times I went to the hospital was after I fell at work and everyone there tried to help me and despite how humiliating I found it were genuinely kind and also had the kindness to not bring it up and were similarly kind when I fell again the day I came back (which in retrospect is hilarious to me I was fine I managed to get back up I tripped and I threw out the shoes I was wearing when I got home that's what it was) and have also been incredibly kind and that my family despite everything has been behind me 100% and that I have people who have shown that they care about me time and again and that the part of me that thinks everyone actually hates me and finds me annoying (negative version) is dead fucking wrong. And that I'm gonna be okay. Not in the way I say to keep myself going but because it's actually true.

Oh and one more realization, I think I might actually be not fully there but close to actually forgiving myself for the last call it 15 years and how badly I let my depression take over and that's because I realized I'm capable of and in the process of coming back from it like I joked once about how I narrowly avoided the point of no return and instead of "haha I suck look how bad it got" I'm actually so incredibly lucky to have gotten the chance to get better. Like I never want to be where I was just a few months ago again but in a good way not in a scared way.

So, y'know, going great but unironically.

Today at my job where I'm usually at my most normal I continued having the most incomprehensible mental breakdown of my life. Which says a lot. So. Y'know. Going great over here.

[adampage]

i have some thoughts on the may 25th hangy/punk promo that i have to get off my chest. please understand that you don’t have to agree with me and you don’t even have to read this. i will also be making it unrebloggable bc i dont care for anyone replying to it. i really don’t care to have anyone antagonise me because i actually think my thoughts are pretty balanced.

the funny thing is that hangy decimated punk before he even uttered the words ‘worker’s rights’. if you watch that segment back, the worst things he said were before that moment. where he talks about punk’s hatred, punk’s pettiness. where he says that after all this time, punk still doesn’t know what it means to be a champion, because it’s not about what happens in the ring, it’s about when that red light turns off. the small quiet moments when you think no one’s watching. THAT was the most brutal part of the promo.

so it makes me wonder. and i think i understand: up until hangman said “worker’s rights,” you could’ve taken that promo and believed it to be the foreshadowing of a kayfabe heel turn for punk. but when hangy mentions worker’s rights, it signaled that maybe this wasn’t just kayfabe. maybe this wasn’t just about trying to push an angle. and so when that clicks, it makes everything else he said up to that point, no longer for the story. it really does become adam saying “this is how i feel about you. and i fucking mean it.”

this is why wrestling as a medium for storytelling is very difficult to control if you don’t script it. i understand why the wwe does what it does. but i also understand why aew does what it does as well. wrestlers need to be careful what they say because it can push the boundary of the story into real life territory, and although they are just trying to entertain us, they can cause real feelings to arise. that’s not good. me personally, i don’t like when things get too real. when shit gets real, it can cause issues in the ring, and i don’t ever want to see wrestlers Actually get hurt.

so like. i do understand. i understand why punk was upset. at the end of the day, i think that hangman was probably trying to use some real life resentment towards punk to fuel the feud, because it didn’t feel like the build was very good. there was something missing in the build-up that i can’t ever put my finger on, and i think this was hangman trying to up the ante and fix it himself. perhaps it had to do with the fact that ultimately, tony khan booked two babyfaces against each other and made hangman play the antagonist, even though between the two men, punk would’ve been the better choice to antagonize because he’s just better at it.

who fucking knows, man. it makes me ill. i wish it hadn’t gone down this way.

[endlessburningdarkness]

Why can't you just admit I'm reading the text differently? Like its fine to disagree with my interpretation but to say your reading is the only valid one.

And I hate to break it to you again but verbal consent is not all there is to consent. Thanks for proving you don't understand how coercion or abuse actually work. Many people initiate or consent to sex acts they don't actually want out of fear/coercion/pressure. People even fake orgasms bc that's what their partner expects of them. Apply this argument to lou binghe for a second. Would you say that he consented to being abused by shen jiu bc he would say things like "this disciple deserves punishment!". He didn't try to run away or fight back or escape either so did he also consent? Actually think about what you're implying with these arguments. Do people who are too scared to say no in the middle of sex actually want that sex? Do you think consent can't be revoked in the middle? You think if someone says I consent that's all that matters? I am so sad for you right now.

Abused children often fetch the whip/stick that they're beaten with. Does that mean they consent? They say yes I deserve it or even I want it. I guess none of that is real abuse to you either.

I know its a fictional character which is why I keep saying it's my reading and my interpretation and not yours. It's an unreliable narrator that you are choosing to interpret differently from me but it doesn't mean your interpretation is the only valid one. You can't disclaim victimhood because you personally don't agree with an interpretation either. He's not real, so why are you so pressed about me disagreeing with your interpretation of the story? You reblogged and screenshot my tags! Tags which are supposed to be an aside. Bruh

And I am allowed to reblog and disagree with your disagreement. What do you think this is, a closed court? This is a public forum. If you don't want people to reply to you, maybe don't reblog and screenshot their tags. Are you the only one allowed to disagree or something? I'm disagreeing with your posts in the tags, then you pulled them up in a reblog. Then complained about me replying. And now you're saying you have the right to disagree with tags on your post, well i have the right disagree with your disagreement. If you don't want people re-blogging the post with tags you don't personally like, make the post unrebloggable.

What is this "I'm allowed to disagree with your tags but you're not allowed to disagree with my post." bullshit.

The irony of Shen Jiu stans is that they think they’ve unlocked some secret gotcha of the narrative by using his traumatic past to justify his abusive actions towards others, but in reality, svsss already predicts this behavior with the fan reaction to the character Luo Binghe in Proud Immortal Demon Way. That reaction is what’s being critiqued by svsss!