#also. i hate little women. there i said it

[tuttle-did-it]

@quodo-brainrot cheers, friend. I mean.... with regards to ST:PIC, all I can say without going into a very long rant is that it made me hate not only ST:PIC and nearly every character on that show, but it also retroactively made me never want to watch TNG again. Aside from showing a friend two episodes - 'Threshold' and 'Sub Rosa'- I have not watched Trek since. I haven't wanted to. And when I think about TNG now, the characters are so retroactively poisoned with how much I absolutely loathe ST:PIC, I may never watch TNG again. Not even the episodes I enjoyed. Because sometimes, things are destroyed and you cannot save that.

Why did I show a friend 'Sub Rosa,' and 'Threshold' you ask? Why, Tuttle, out of all the episodes of Trek would you do that to someone who has never seen any Star Trek? Simple. We were all celebrating the annual holiday Threshold Day, and she asked what I was going on about. And I explained Threshold Day because she didn't believe me. Then after we watched 'Threshold,' she said 'so, that's the worst Star Trek episode, ever? And I said 'of course not. Each show has several of the worst. Then, I explained 'Sub Rosa' and the granny ghost sex candle. She didn't believe me. So we watched it. I think she regretted the conversation.

Anyway... one of the reasons people were so mad at the Enterprise finale is because they shoe-horned in the TNG crew, made it all about them, and ENT didn't even get to finish their own show. PIC does this-- but for their entire last season!!! like, the premise of the show was his adventures after TNG-- new crew, new adventures, moving on the way people move on. For two awful seasons. Then season 3, they just jam in ever TNG character they can with the worst storylines possible-- if they got storylines-- and just took over PIC-- for an entire season. And in doing this, they pushed all the PIC characters aside- they either disappeared completely or were turned into wallpaper. It is not PIC s3, it is TNG S8, and it's the absolute worst.

Seven -- one of the most dynamic Legacy characters-- spends the entire last season sitting in the dark listening to Picard's *horrible* son monologuing, or being abused and deadnamed by some arsehole shit man. She's not even allowed to be with her lover-- Raffi, a Black woman who was, arguably, the best character in the show-- because Raffi spent the entire third season getting told that she needs to learn how to control her anger by a man. Yeah. They literally went there. I thought we left telling a woman of colour to control herself behind with B'Elanna, but here we are.

I have hundreds thousands more reasons to hate PIC, but the main point is that not only was PIC hijacked by the TNG crew-- something Patrick Stewart promised would never happen when the show began-- but they then spent that entire last year torturing the queer women on the show mand making me absolutely hate every single TNG character to the point where I wanted every one of them to die.

Oh. Oh. And they fucking fridged Ro Laren. In her ONE fucking episode appearance. The rage. I cannot tell you the rage I have for them all.

I grew up watching Trek. I grew up loving it, I grew up loving TNG, and have spent over 40 years loving it. DS9 is still some of the best TV I've ever seen, and I used to rewatch TOS, TNG, VOY and DS9 regularly. Like, as in, I've been rewatching it for over 40 years -- on VHS and then on DVD/streaming. There has been very little time in my life I was not rewatching some Trek.

And PIC made me never want to watch Star Trek again. In just a few months, it will have aired 2 years ago. And in all that time, I have watched two episodes-- 'Threshold,' and 'Sub Rosa' - and that was for my friend. Had she not asked to watch them, I would probably not have watched ST since. And I have not had the urge to watch ANY of it. Closest I've come is watching the Delta Flyers podcast as Terry and Armin talk about DS9 with Robbie and Garratt. Terry, Armin and Robbie often have a lot of interesting things to say about how they really feel about storylines, how they really feel about certain characters or Trek in general. I find they add interesting context to it, so I have watched that. But I don't rewatch the episodes they talk about. Because PIC has poisoned it all for me. Every Trek. All of it.

So.... mayyyybe watching ST:PIC will help? If you are a cis het white man who consistently fails upward, it might be your bag! Or maybe, like me, it will contaminate any love for Trek you've ever had. A tv form of Russian Roulette, I guess? Good luck to you, friend, if you do.

star trek characters will literally go through the most life changing traumatic multidimensional extrasensory eldritch hell torture imaginable and then they're fine and the next episode they gotta deal with a guy who is bald

[velvetvexations]

I’m. So baffled by that one dude saying that trans men being able to pretend to be women is a privilege, because in his tags he says that it’s a thing specific to transmascs. Does he mean pretending to be cis as a means of safety is a transmasc specific thing?? Because uh, I’m… pretty sure that’s something that can be done regardless of a trans person’s gender? There are transfems and nonbinary people who can also pretend to be cis [whatever their agab was], too?

Its also not a privilege. Having to hide what you are out of fear isn’t a fucking privilege lmao

strangely people understand that when it's about trans women

just saw a post on my dash saying "'infighting' is a dogwhistle which frames transfems as aggressors". i really hope the tide is turning like you said, bc this shit is getting exhausting and im still seeing it from random people i follow who otherwise gave no indication that they drank the koolaid.

they make me out to be the aggressor all the time!

Nazi imagery anon here

These are the pics I was referring to.

As you can see it’s posted on the verified border security account and you can see two different nazi symbols on him :(

yeah it looks like standards for what they allow soldiers to adorn themselves with are low and the person taking and posting the pics aren't paying good enough attention because that guy also straight up has a naked anime bitch on his knife sheath

as I said this is an individual thing and they need to start knocking their heads together like the Three Stooges and sending them into trenches first

You know who saying that th**fab is actually a storied term that trans fems have been using to identify transmisogonists is fucking insane like girl that's such obvious lie give us nothing

they aren't even trying

It’s crazy how almost every other day on this site I see a new post with like 50k notes talking about how absolutely NOBODY deserves to be harassed, sent death threats or be put on blast yet once again I’m seeing people trying to justify the harassment of another transmasc teenager. Honestly people should just start openly admitting Tumblr is becoming increasingly hostile towards trans masculine individuals, I don’t see clownery on this level on any other platform-

Tumblr...is really bad.

I think the reason why this whole headcanons discourse bothers me so much is that is really is just fuelled by petty spite. Like all these characters are cisgender in canon. We make headcanons because it’s FUN to expand on characters in ways that reflect our different life experiences in whatever form that may take. Intentionally going after transmascs, especially young transmascs, for doing this with characters like they like and accusing them of all these different things genuinely does just feel like bigotry. Who cares if a head canon may not make the most amount of sense? It’s a cisgender fictional character we’re playing around with! Why does it have to be some grand act of activism to say blorbo number 3 is transmasc? We have much bigger fish to fry here.

exactly it's such dedication to not letting anyone else have anything

So sick of people acting like trans men are the same as cis men under the patriarchy and moreso im really sick of the "you're privileged to not be surrounded by men". Like, for lack of better phrasing, saying that about a group of people that is generally perceived as "failure women" pre transition (and sometimes during and post) is a little tone deaf. All about acknowledging how women and people perceived as women are harmed by misogyny until the ones perceived are men. Gender essentialism is ugly and tasteless and nonsensical. Please feel free to delete this im just rambling without a point

rambling is okay anon <3

„wow ur so privileged to not fear men”

i fear the fucking everyone asshole, i just realized that isnt everyone elses fault so i should still treat them with respect !!!!!

that woman called me a "self-hating doll" and I hate the second part a lot more than the first

[eurydices-carnation774]

I have a lot of feelings about Orpheus and Eurydice retellings but I have a personal and very deep hatred for retellings that are “feminist” just because Eurydice hates Orpheus. Same thing goes for the whole thing with “I hate how Eurydice had little say in the myth!!”

(more/specifics under cut)

First let me rant about why I hate the whole using feminism as an excuse (as a feminist!). Yes, ancient greece was extremely sexist (women weren’t usually allowed outside because they weren’t considered “people”) but when it comes to the ORIGINAL version written by Virgil, Eurydice actually is one of the only women in Greek mythology who IS given a choice and is not a prize for Orpheus.

She fell in love with him. it’s never said that Orpheus ever raped her, or coerced her, or even kept her imprisoned. It’s stated that she fell in love with him, she willingly stayed with him. He played music for her and she was intrigued.

Feminism wouldn’t be making Eurydice hate Orpheus, it would be them being on equal status with each other. Which, for Ancient Greece, they were. They loved each other and always have. Eurydice wasn’t forced into marriage as a prize, she loved him and willingly stayed with him.

Now, my particular hatred for the “i hate how little choice she had” thing runs DEEP. I feel like a lot of people who write these specific retellings don’t know the full circumstances of Eurydice’s death within the original story.

The most common version of the myth is written by Ovid (whom i HATE), which was written as more of a political statement against ROME at the time because he was ROMAN. now, ovid was also EXTREMELY SEXIST, more so than many people at the time (he also wrote the version of the medusa myth where she was raped by Poseidon)

Ovid left out a lot of the beginning of the story in favor for focusing on orpheus and his talk with hades, only mentioning that Eurydice died by a snake bite after their wedding

NOW, the added context by virgil! Eurydice died by a snake bite, yes. She tripped on a snake because she was running from Aristeaus, who was trying to rape her literal hours after her and orpheus’ wedding! He was also plotting to kill orpheus so he could have eurydice for himself

She literally called out to orpheus while being chased and he didn’t realize what was happening until she was already actively dying due to venom

Now, if you died under those circumstances, you too would wish for a do-over at life, wouldn’t you?

Eurydice only didn’t have the choice to do so on her own because that’s how the underworld works, the dead can’t revive themselves

[queernrrd]

"In 5-10 years" as if trans people just started popping up recently. Trans men have existed for a long time, and trans men on testosterone have been around for longer than 5-10. Years, believe it or not. There has not been a widespread death due testosterone use.

"It doesnt matter what any trans person says" uh oh! You said the quiet part out loud! That you don't care about trans people, you arent just looking out for confused people, it is just a group you hate. No data, no proof, no argument Will convince you it's a real thing, because *you don't want to believe it.* Simple as that.

The trans community is afraid of SOME cis people, they aren't afraid of women. Spend like more than 5 days scrolling through lgbT spaces (where trans people are included) and you'd see that they uplift "real women." We aren't afraid of you because you're a "real woman," we are frustrated that you weaponize your bad experiences to harm another marginalized group of people.

Dude, what are you TALKING ABOUT when you say we don't care about the legions of conservative men that hate us? Yes we do??? Why don't you realize that the same people who want to burn us want to burn you too? Trans women aren't anti-women, and trans-men aren't forced or trapped into it. Would you not agree that a trans woman who passes as cis and is treated like a cis woman is would experience misogyny as well?? It's a social construct, not inherent to biology. It isn't some magical constant. To genuinely believe trans women are anti-woman is just willfully ignorant. Which you admitted, with your little line of "nobody will convince me!!!" News flash, you sound exactly like the conservatives that hate both of us, because it's based in much of the same logic. You've just coated it with blue paint. But your immediate turn to fear mongering shows the true colors of the TERF crowd, people who call us "TIMs." Also, a woman looking me in the face and telling me they won't "go along with my shit" doesn't scare me, it saddens me. It saddens me if I'm not seen as a woman, it saddens me if I've done something genuinely wrong and I would want to try to fix it. You don't scare me because you're a cis woman "speaking up" against us, it scares me that you call this speaking up, when the vast majority of what you do is shout down.

With respect, whatever experience you've had with detransitioning, you are valid, but your experience doesn't invalidate trans people's experience. The data show that social outcomes are more positive in accepting environments for people with gender dysphoria, and that informed trans people who decide for themselves what is best for their lives are happier and more fulfilled. Any consistent trans advocate would accept detrans people as well, so I'm sorry if trans advocates in the past have given you shit for your experience. You made your choice and changed you mind later, which is completely valid! But we trans people also should have the right to make our own choices without being excluded from our own communities.

Who’s excluding you from your own community? Are you talking about LGB people who disagree with gender ideology? Lesbians and gay men don’t need to agree with transition. We have damn good reasons not to. If you’re same-sex attracted, I understand why being excluded or judged would hurt. But that doesn’t mean we have to stay quiet and not speak up about the harm that’s being done to members of our demographic.

People love to say that detransitioner’s experiences don’t invalidate transitioned people’s experiences, but they do a little, don’t they? We poke holes in the idea that everything about transition and your community is fine and dandy. We poke holes in the idea that medical transition is okay for your physical and mental health. We poke holes in the belief that gender dysphoria will never go away, that it can never be healed. We poke holes in the belief that there is a trans soul somewhere in your body that needs drastic hormonal and surgical correction.

We poke holes in your concept of who you are, and in your sense of peace with your choices. That’s why I get this same message, almost word for word, all the time.

When detransitioners talk about our real opinions and feelings about what we personally went through, you feel uncomfortable. But it’s not on us to shut up, it’s on you to figure out why we make you feel that way.

[mzannthropy]

I've been on Tumblr since 2014, but I never interacted with anyone; if I did, it was only minimally. Until the last 10 months.

It's been good, but what I worry about is my unpopular opinions. I know that majority of the time I'm on my own, and I don't expect this to change (I'm not here to convert anyone, I don't even want to!), I just hope that anyone seeing any of my wild takes on any subject is okay with it. There's... certain things I'm always gonna be heretical about. So just don't mind me. I'm the crazy aunt living in the attic with her black cat.

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Already seeing Agatha hate after this episode bc yall can't handle a woman being a little evil and mean

[hermitcraftx]

some of you people cant get mad at me for not using duo names because some of your duo names are stupid (ESPECIALLY the ones involving gem. shiny duo ???? jade duo??? really?!?????? really ?????????) and arent widely used enough to warrant me using them. ill use jade duo when i'm dead

[kavalyera]

you had an oc called v peng... care to elaborate? :>

(... you gave me bits like her being aprivate investigator and i love characters like that- and i just fucking love it so far PLUS HER AESTHETIC RAHHHH)

also i must know... what is her favorite meme? /silly

idk what exactly u wanna know about her but i shall use this opportunity to yap about her (character study time)

In all honesty, as much as Vivienne Peng is physically a threat (she works out a lot, and has had police academy training) and has resources and skills that make her a menace mentally (ventrue signature discipline being dominate and her coming from a wealthy background + ties to other affluent people because of that)—Vivienne is a coward. She sucks at confronting her inner demons and her beast is violent.

If she can tear through something, she will. Ventrue kindred usually stay by their sire’s side but ah, Vivienne didn’t. Her non-biological but legal mother was her sire but in the chronicle I’m playing her in, the Society of Leopold has decided to target New York and is doing that by killing off the more “powerful” kindred in the city; the ones that are holding the city together through social, economical, or physical means. Her sire, Wentian Peng then fled to China like several months after Vivienne was embraced so the etiquette she’s supposed to follow aren’t hardwired into her like much of the other Ventrue in the city.

The Ventrue primogen even calls her a “killer under the name of a clan (ventrue)” and also a gym rat but let’s ignore that

She’s done brutal shit which is basically me losing humanity and my storyteller losing it every session when I fail a frenzy check. So yeah. Basically she’s born to be Banu Haqim, forced to be Ventrue. This is what happens when you force your kid to be something they’re not.

Anyways, she’s getting blinded by rage because one of the women that she’s felt something with was killed by a hunter (‘collateral damage’ they said) and her now girlfriend and part of her coterie was almost brought to final death by one hunter while they were investigating the sewers to find a Nosferatu.

Vivienne is her coterie’s leader (as much Ventrue kindred are) and basically leads them out of stupid and dangerous situations even though she does get herself into some but hey, you can’t have any witnesses if you used presence to have them kill each other right?

she doesn’t have a fav meme unfortunately😔 she’s married to the grind (being a gym rat and getting revenge)

[wowevenmoreloveonearth]

I really need to stop going into the general 911 tag bc some of y’all are so stupid and that’s ok but you’re also really mean and I’d like you to please keep it away from me (I have blocked so many people already)

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 5!!!

[itspileofgoodthings]

that Bobby Bones interview with Taylor where he claims that the cookies she gave him made him sick and she tells him to stop lying is my Roman Empire because I can’t stop thinking about how, while keeping it still lighthearted enough for interview etiquette, she unequivocally shuts down his gaslighting and despicable toad behavior.

[tls123]

Oh my god HOW DID YOU LIKE SVSSS!!!!!

i liked it more than i thought i would but overall less than i might have given the potential of the story, i think in general i really enjoyed the characters (mxtx never goes wrong with characters, she creates them in a way that makes me feel unhinged) and the world building but the pay off to the set up—which i really liked!—felt a bit........ i mean, just alright.

the dynamics too are pure mxtx, personally the bin/gqiu dynamic specifically really was the least interesting part of the whole story. to me!! but individually i loved both characters. my interest was just elsewhere because """elsewhere""" felt way more fascinating idk how to explain it

was very, very happy about the extra with airplane and the yue qingyuan / shen jiu one because that's exactly what i wanted more of in the story itself as well as just more shen yuan/qingqiu interacting with cang qiong mountain

maybe it's my orv brain but like i told jana a while back i think i would have enjoyed svsss way more if it was more about shen yuan (loner; hater; etc) suddenly finding himself among all of these people (disciples looking up to him; sect siblings relying on him one way or another; common folk admiring him; etc etc) and starting to.... live? again?

Shen Qingqiu hadn't noticed that, unconsciously, he no longer considered the disciples around him (...) to be mob characters the novel had described in a scant number of words.

^from volume one, he starts seeing them almost immediately because he's not actually that separate and he genuinely cares. all the time. about everything. even before that we get:

This was only a book, and all the people were constructs, imaginary characters. Logically, Shen Qingqiu was very clear on this fact...but when a character was actually being taunted and bullied right before his eyes, it was just flat-out unrealistic to expect him to be completely unmoved.

like why are you lying, shen yuan (<- svsss tagline if there ever was one)

just the idea of this really lonely detached guy finding a community, i know it's not the story mxtx was trying to tell but again, with the set up i really wanted to see it go in that direction.

there's one line from vol two where liu qingge goes "you fear becoming a burden to cang qiong mountain (...) but cang qiong mountain fears not your burden"

and basically what i'm saying is that i wish the story had been about THAT

(and also ning yingying's lines in that same chapter about shizun always taking on everything himself and why is it always you like that whole moment with the cang qiong mountain almost begging him to see that they care. idek what i'm saying but you know)

(also foaming at the mouth that we only got tiny tiny glimpses of shen yuan's life from before, those handful of times he mentioned his siblings i wanted to take a bite out of my kindle. tell me more!! dear fucking lord tell me more!! keep talking! elaborate!! he really felt very "kim dokja and his fourth wall" at times, sorry once more about the orv brain)

tldr: i guess i wanted a story about shen yuan/qingqiu but mxtx created svsss to be a story about bin/gqiu. and i just have to be okay with that.

[shikiimisaki]

*walks in, removes eye protective wear and hangs up labcoat after a long day of Observing One Piece Ship Discourse On Twitter fieldwork* so while it may appear strange that people really readily say "luffy is canon aroace/doesnt care about any of that" whenever someone makes a truther post about luffy/hancock and then those same people may turn around and share a bunch of posts about gay ships involving luffy, it's actually more of a symptom of the fact that while most people posting said gay luffy ships are completely aware that their ships will not/could not/probably even should not actually be canon and are deep in the hypothetical, many dudebro types who ship luffy with hancock are completely convinced that their ship absolutely should or even will become canon, simply because he is a male protagonist and she is an extremely attractive woman who is interested in him, and it makes "no sense" for luffy to not go with her, either because they think that is how Stories Should Work (heteronormativity) or because they want Coolguy Chad Luffy and think having a hot woman obsessed with him like, adds to his coolness points in some vague objectifying way, which got more and more misogynistic sounding the longer i tried to find a way to word that sentence. this last interpretation does disservice to both of their characters and frankly, completely doesn't comply with any of the reasons hancock fell in love with him in canon in the first place. if you look for more then a minute at either of their characters you can tell that in canon it would never work, not even just because luffy is completely and entirely disinterested and in all likelihood that will never change, but because although I would say hancock's love is based on real traits of his she respects and was deeply moved by, she idolizes him and her fantasies about being with him involve shit he wouldn't actually do or say. she loves him because he's, literally, the only man she's ever met- and in the current day, often only person she knows across the board besides literally her sisters, who doesn't immediately treat her like a sexual object- and he only doesn't because of his fundamental and absolute disinterest in her, romantically or sexually. they exist in a paradox, and that paradox is used as a source of comic relief. what they have going on would be LESS interesting if he liked her in that way. if he was interested in her she would not like him in the first place. this got really off topic sorry. what im saying is this is why 1 person posting about how luffy and hancock are Totally Canon Endgame because who could turn down such a bad bitch!!!!!!! is a mischaracterization statement that prompts response or backlash in a way that 20 people posting zolu making out sloppy style in a corner completely aware that they are indulging in a mirror dimension and He Would Not Fucking Say That is not

[hanzajesthanza]

sorel degerlund: thus concludes my evil plan of being gay for pay. any questions

geralt:

geralt: you mean to tell me all this time, i could have been gay for pay, but instead, i’ve been gay for FREE?! like an idiot?!

[readymades2002]

did say to my coworker at work something about how if i got injured at work in a way that left a gnarly and epic scar it would look so cool and she said in a very "well duh" kind of way "oh you WOULD say it would be cool" which is the funniest thing anyone's ever said about me