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Honestly, I love seeing my mutuals begin brainrot over something new, even if I have no clue what it is. I love seeing multiple new posts about something I've never heard of, and tags full of joy and excitement.
#I could never block a mutuals beloved new focus#although I respect people who do!#sometimes you just do not wish to see things#but I live for seeing my friends new interests#it brings me joy#one must curate ones own experience on tumblr after all#never feel bad for doing what makes your tumbling better!#tumbling.. I like that#it cannot be original#its Our hyperfocus now#we are in this Together.#Me and the Mutuals have a Warriors Bond
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here's a hot take for today
the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical
no i will not explain
#taz talks#writing#actually i WILL explain but i'll do it in the tags#these each serve the same function within their respective appropriate genres#each one is a kind of revelation#they heighten the connection between 2+ characters and highlight relationships and feelings and needs#they are out of place in genres where they do not belong and/or as curveballs when the narrative did not provoke them from the start#but they have the same sort of emotional/dramatic build-up#talk -> sing -> dance (talk -> yell -> stab) ((talk -> flirt -> You Know))#and they are all expressions of intense physicality and intimacy through physical gesture and interaction#they are fundamentally empty and boring if there is not a deeper purpose or drive behind them#although they can still occasionally be entertaining on their own if your audience is specifically seeking that experience out#people who do not like them will be very unhappy to encounter one where it isn't supposed to be#it is very easy to ruin the mood with poor word choice#many people have an inherent sense for terrible ones but it's often difficult or complicated to explain precisely why a bad one fails#when executed properly they are a very raw and intimate expression of a character's most fundamental needs and desires#the fluff is stripped away and there is nothing left but a series of needs. conflicting or cooperating.#and even when you're lying during one it's still a form of truth#none of these things are remotely necessary to tell a powerful or compelling story but if you're going to use them you need to do it right#also all 3 of these things are difficult if not impossible to write if you are not both interested in them and personally invested#this post brought to you by me trying to write smut about my dnd characters and failing because i generally hate /reading/ smut#so i have none of the vocabulary or instinct for it that i do for. say. graphic violence (or lyrical poetry)
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you know what i'll say it MIKE AND ROIER ARE THE ONLY ONES I RESPECT these fuckers will rock up and say FUCK english all my homies HATE english they are the only ones i trust and respect these fuckers are like you will hear me speak my language and you will LEARN IT OR DIE and i respect the HELL OUT OF IT dude THANK YOU FOR BEING ENGLISH HATERS brothers THANK YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH WHEN AMONG ANYONE NOT OF YOUR LANGUAGE GROUP!!!!!!!!
#qsmp#if there are others who also refuse to speak english that i didn't notice i will add them#this excludes the koreans bc they aren't strong in english so it's only half an option for them#(allegedly aren't strong i didn't see them around long enough to come to any real conclusions but i'm told they aren't strong in it)#and also hugo bc he didn't have much time on the server and some people who start out relying on the translations#will swap over to using their english however strong that might be idk his relative strength either bc like korea he wasn't online long 😔#which i also respect because i'm glad they get to practice their nonnative tongue that's cool#but the first multilingual smp with live translation becoming the 'english in a group' server gives me fits#anyway for legal reasons much of this post is hyperbole and exaggeration#but i do love how mike and roier can be consistently relied on to just Not Speak English#block game brainrot#shut up vic#bonus shoutout to foolish who often insists spanish speakers only speak spanish to him#and tries to only speak spanish in return. he's not got broad vocab just yet but for only learning via this and duolingo he's doing amazing#and i have a lot of respect for him for it#(yes i respect everyone for reasons but this post is about the ones who can and do speak Not English on purpose)#(regrettably people like bbh and phil don't count although i still respect their efforts)#ANYWAY SLASH END TAG RANT THIS POST KNOWS WHAT IT'S ABOUT DON'T FIGHT ME
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oh my ... what you said about Oda using the "I want to be a man bc women are weak" trope made me think about Kuina.
I am bit upset we didnt encountered a strong swordwoman yet. I hope we will soon. Some people think Tashigi could be Kuina but that would really hurt me. She isnt near Zoro level at all. I dont want Kuina to be right.
This would be stupid.
But.
I think the best case scenario we could have, is if Zoro somehow encountered Ivankov before Mihawk, he could ask for HRT so that he could then go fight and defeat Mihawk "as a woman" and fulfill Kuina's dream for her and prove that a woman could be the strongest (and maybe get turned back into a man afterwards)
That's not how gender works of course, but Oda doesn't get it either, and I'm trying to picture the best case scenario Oda could actually give us
Because the only way Kuina's fears could be proven wrong is if both Mihawk and Zoro lost to a swordswoman at the end, and I do not think that is ever going to happen. Because the clash between Mihawk and Zoro has been like The Ultimate Goal of Zoro's whole story, so him losing to someone else would just feel bad
Like it'd be a lil dumb (from a queer POV (unless Zoro turned out to be a butch trans woman, which to be fair, valid, and I would enjoy the dudebros getting Fucking Angry About It lmao)), but like. Oda does have his issues with the gender essentialism and misogyny, and the way the chesspieces are arranged on the table right now, it's either that or Kuina's fears end up correct. And it definitely sucks
#Moon posting#Of course when thinking about Kuina's fear#Like emotionally I do think part of the point was that Kuina's gender did not have an impact on her skill despite her fears#Like yes she was afraid of being weaker because she was AFAB but just because she was afraid it didn't mean it was true#Or alternatively Oda wasn't making a statement about misogyny etc with that backstory and the ''women can't be strong'' was like for real#It's hard to fucking tell which it is#Especially because the series has changed so much over the years#IDK man#Time will tell#One Piece#Although hey remember what I said in the last post about trans people just wanting be seen as regular people etc#How it's the same person deep inside regardless of the gender presentation and they still deserve to be treated with respect#It would be interesting if Zoro was a non-dysphoric trans woman and it could help drive those ideas home#And it would force the fans to like. Respect people who've just come out/are starting transitioning#And not just the people who you've only known ''post-transition''#There was actually this video from the channel Berry For A Thought called ''Escalation and Mythology''#(''A One Piece Theory about Crocodile (also Crocomom)'')#And it went into detail about queer and trans rep in One Piece and how the representation has been slowly ''escalating''#From Kuina ''wanting to be a man'' to Bon-chan to Iva-chan to Okiku and Yamato#Suggesting trans man Crocodile could then be the ultimate stage of the escalation#But imagine if trans femme Zoro was actually the peak of the escalation#How am I slowly warming myself up to this idea#OP Meta
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There are a couple tropes I really love in the space of Miraculous Ladybug fan works, but quite possibly my favorite is when the miraculous holders just get creature from using their powers.
Like yeah, I would say that hosting the power of an abstract concept given sentience, that got shoved into the shape of an animal and bound to a piece of jewelry, would kinda mess with your body a bit.
The little bit of this we get in canon is basically that Adrien loves being a cat and the whole Tikki munches incident.
But I love it when people give them ears and wings and tails, give them eyes that aren't quite human anymore. Fuck with their gender and their sense of body. Sometimes it's body horror, sometimes it's just aesthetic. Love it either way.
I just think it's so fun, a lot of the time it's combined with the like "when a holder and the kawami really respect and bond with each other there's nothing that can be done except having magic bleed into the holder" I think that's fun, but also just making the animal of the kwami a bigger deal is fun. Like if you're going to make it a ladybug you might as well give her wings and antenna and mirrored eyes.
#yes I do like ml#there's just so many characters I like to mess with in my head#also sue me I'm trans and have a certain respect for body horror. for the forced change of your physical self especially when you chose it#anyway I alwasys ramble in the tags#I set up this side blog to hide random writing thoughts I had and oh boy do I have a lot and none of them are on here#and recenetly (and by recently I mean like the past year) I've been hit with so many ml thoughts)#they're all gay#and some of them are cohesive#actually a lot of them revolve around chloe and au's where she gets a meaningful improvement arc#give that gay girl intresting stuff#miraculous ladybug#ml#although one of my ideas is also my very fun very gender take of ml where to conceal their identities ladybug and chat start pretending#to be different people under the masks like they don't need to like explicitly say. they just#switch costumes a lot and they like slyly hint at maybe theres dozens of people who pass around the miraculous to make sure that their#Identities are always safe#and to support the act they also start changing the genders they present as as holders. everyone is like “it's clearly multiple people”#and during this process marinette and Adrien are both like slowly having personal gender revelations#and gabe is like tearing his hair out over having to fight this secret group of superheros that he can never find or catch#but he's still just getting his ass kicked by two kids who're doing the world's most successful costumes change bits#it's like those “fake dating” tropes where they're like “oh but we really do love each other” but with gender#“oh I've got a great idea lets pretend to be different genders sometimes”#cut to “hmh ok so I think I'm not pretending anymore”#oh I do always ramble in the tags
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In all seriousness, when I was in my 20s I spent way too much time reading tumblr and trying to figure out the right opinions to have on everything. It was pretty soul destroying now that I look back.
#although the people i consider my people (leftists and the left leaning) are always turning on people for slight disagreements#so i guess it was self preservation in a way#luckily i basically never posted back then only read#the truth is a lot of the disagreeing and fucking infighting on the left is internet sickness#and a lot of people who seem to know what they are talking about on here are actually talking out of their ass- seriously.#they don't need to know what they are talking about because everyone reading knows even less#my criteria for which leftists i respect is 'can they handle a slight disagreement with someone broadly on their side-#do they engage in good faith or do they mock and belittle?'#and i understand anyone on here with over a certain amount of folllowers who talks about politics will get bait and bad faith asks and stuf#i'm not saying you have to engage with bait in good faith!#just the real stuff.#i kind of regret this now but i engaged on a post that was using the word liberal in the coloquial (meaningless) tumblr way#that was when someone i followed (unfollowed now) apologised to the op of the post for my dumb idiocy- i was like ohhhhh#and then the op of the post responded to me like 'i'm using the true definition of liberal! which is: [really confusing explanation]'#the truth is there is no one definition because the left and right use it differently#when the right says liberal in a derogatory way they don't mean 'not those further left people though! they are really respectable + cool'#nah they mean the further left also#the point is the term liberal has no set meaning- it changes with context and no one bothers providing the context#i will stop now this is too rambly even for me
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the idea of a creator getting mad that their fans ship something they don’t intend to make canon is baffling to me. i cannot empathize with that mindset at all. “oh no there are too many people deeply invested in this fictional relationship i wrote. they’re making too much fan content about how complex and compelling and well-written their dynamic is.” cry me a fucking river.
#text post#like i’m writing a book that’s about a platonic relationship between two people who go from enemies to best friends#and i don’t intend for them to get together in the end#(although it’s funny to imagine the three mcs as a weird polycule)#but if a huge fandom sprang up shipping them do you have ANY IDEA how happy i’d be????#people shipping something is a huge compliment in my mind! it means they like the characters and their relationship!#i mean. usually.#some shippers have no respect for the material at all#but that’s not the type of shipper i’m talking about in this post
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Christian, Isabella, Vincent and Josephine are now attending four different schools. What do you think about the schools and are you suprised by some of the choices?
Ordrup Gymnasium – I think this was a really solid choice on Christian's end! Have a bit of personal experience with this one and it's definitely my favourite of the upper secondary schools in the area – I'd say it's more diverse in the student body than both Øregård, Aurehøj and GHG. And I think the group of his friends that attend Ordrup is much more appealing company than the group that attends Herlufsholm.
Øregård Gymnasium – I was slightly surprised and disappointed she didn't stay at Ingrid Jespersens for upper secondary but then again, lots of students change schools come upper secondary school 🤷♀️ Everyone I know who've attended Øregård have been absolutely insufferable but I might've just been unlucky 😅
Tranegårdsskolen – My granny's been a teacher here 😎 I mean, it's basically a private school in disguise as a state school due to its location. Personally, I think it would've been really amazing if M&F had just picked the local state school for their kids instead but yeah 🤷♀️ I don't know that I think there's anything particularly peculiar about Isabella and Josephine leaving ahead of time. Obviously Isabella was due to move to Herlufsholm and Josephine leaving at the start of year 6 (the earliest year at which Herluf takes students) makes me think she, too, had intended to leave for Herlufsholm this year. Kudos to Vincer for staying put – I doubt he would've been a Herlufsholm brat 🫶
Kildegård Privatskole – Don't know anything about it 🤷♀️ As mentioned above, I think it pretty much confirms Josephine was Herlufsholm-bound as well, and that this was the alternative M&F could offer her. Not a school I would've chosen and I know all the nouveau riche FLOCK to the Hellerup-Gentofte area and think it's the fanciest ever but respectfully, I'd never voluntarily opt for a school in the outskirts of Copenhagen 🤡✌️
One could be tempted to ask oneself why, given that at least 3 of the children were so eager to board at Herlufsholm, did none of them opt for, say, a UWC programme or just a foreign boarding school instead? But nah. This is about jetset kids – most of which know each other already – wanting to have fun away from their parents and "creating bonds for life" 🤢 Not much different from, say, Eton brats but it's much more difficult for large group of Danish kids to get into the same foreign schools to do their jetset kids thing – just because the poor Danish royal kids aren't allowed to go to Herluf.
Personally, if I were M&F, I would've probably just sent my kids to a UWC programme regardless of their own opinions. It's healthy to make new friends from different backgrounds – especially for royal kids. But I think especially Frederik is way too lenient a parent to do that because of his own upbringing.
I love CIVJ and I don't think they're insufferable people but I genuinely think they need to think carefully about the company they keep. Seeing Christian mingle with the classless Bourbon des Deux-Siciles is so disappointing, honestly. If he's not careful, he's gonna be in for a rude awakening when he turns 18 and the tabloids are no longer obliged to treat him as a child because that's definitely something they're gonna aim at.
#this became super long#but this is actually one of few things i dislike about m&f#although this is not to say they're the only royals who do this#i think their parenting style is a bit too lenient given who their children are#they're NOT jetset kids#they shouldn't JUST mingle with jetset kids#victoria and daniel do too (estelle and oscars school is SUPER posh)#(like wOW can it be so posh)#and so do haakon and mm (ingrid and magnus have both transferred schools multiple times and have always upped it to posher schools lol)#and wills and kate (i don't even have to elaborate here)#i understand that the spanish royal family is in a vastly different situation than the drf but i think they handle this so well#people are like bUT LeONoR aNd sOfiA aRe tOo sHeLtErED#and like no...... they just have a circle of friends that respect their privacy#and jetset kids don't seem to be able to do that unfortunately 🤡#inquiring minds#anonymous#re. drf
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Random TGCF Idea of the Day
The Cyrano AU returneth but make it three tumors
Or cut Cyrano entirely and just regular good old matchmaking
After Shi Wudu (unintentionally) gets pre-ascension Ling Wen humiliated at the essay contest, he can’t stop thinking about her. Partly because he feels a little bad about what happened (not that it’s his fault (it’s Jing Wen’s) and not that he’ll apologize for his part, but he at least wants her to know someone is in her corner) but also because he thinks he’s finally found someone else worth befriending in the heavens
Unfortunately for him, the other person he’s friends with is Pei Ming who immediately clocks SWD’s interest in Ling Wen as a crush and it is his sworn duty as both the god of love and a friend (read: he’s bored) to support his new bestie in all romantic endeavors! (Plus he’s also somewhat friendly with Ling Wen though not really friends yet, and also thinks she could use someone in her corner)
And of course once SQX learns that his brother has a crush on someone…
#well sqx thinks he can do better actually because lw is kind of gloomy and quiet#and he hates reading her essays (swd makes him)#but still his brother doesn’t have much going on in his life (and sqx knows it’s because of him) so anything to get swd out and socializing#whether they team up or independently try to push the two of them together#it’s going to be a disaster#if I wrote this I’d probably want to do it as a no BJ au#or just ignore the xuli parts of the backstory#although I’d still want lw to kill jw in the end because she deserves it#(I just don’t want to write it as a love triangle with bj)#(however I absolutely do want to write it as a love triangle with jing wen who is obsessive and unhinged over lw)#(and an antithesis to pm who get quiet and awkward when a girl shows him up)#(pm can deal with it. Jing wen is a ‘if I can’t have you I will ruin you type’)#(which I think can also be a fun contrast to swd who everyone thinks is that type)#(and probably is to a degree but has enough self respect and respect for lw not to go that route)#(maybe he sees jw growing increasingly ugly with his obsession and resolves to Be Better)#(because he despises small minded people like jw most of all)#anyway I just think lw/swd are cute and would be a powerful power couple in public#and an adorable awkward mess in private#and i think that's beautiful#tgcf#ling wen#jing wen#pei ming#Shi Wudu#shi qingxuan#random tgcf thoughts#(also I think we as a fandom are not utilizing jing wen to his full potential)
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I really wish some of the actresses who have voiced Disney Princesses would stop comparing their princess to the previous ones and claim how she was the "first" one to have *gasp* independence and strength *gasp*. Have they ever watched a Disney movie outside of their own?
#disney#disney princess#txt#that crap irks me#a few of them have done like paige o'hara mandy moore auli'i cravalho#can people talk about disney princesses as humans and not as stand-in's for “girl power” for once?#this is why i mess ONLY with jodi benson. she is one of the only ones who speaks about her character as a PERSON and not just a vessel for#whatever the hell they want to promote#“she isn't like the others” head asses#shut up#ironically they are actually pushing that “i'm not like other girls” mentality on them LMAO#i mean jodi will actually bring up all of her character traits and praise how well-written she is and now real she feels#some of the other ones only say “she didn't need no man so there's THAT” 🙄#don't get wrong i respect their work and contribution but man that stuff really annoys me#the guys who have voiced their princes do not do that nonsense. they don't feel the need to compare their characters to the previous ones#only women do this crap. i ain't surprised. it's expected honestly#i mean imagine if one of the va's for a disney prince went “my character was the first one to have a personality”#cuz we all know that if disney princesses have been getting blasted for their lack of proactivity and independence#the princes have been getting blasted for their lack of personalities which is also bullcrap too and that criticism was decimated a long#time ago as well as the princess one#but yeah imagine that#although bruno campos (hunky babe prince naveen) did say that his prince was “different” from the others and it was like uuuh no he isn't#he is cocky smooth handsome tall muscular and charming he is actually like MOST of the princes at the beginning if we are gonna be honest#he just takes it to a slightly more exaggerated level
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Because I'm generally intrigued.
With all the drama that has been happening with shipping the Sun and Moon show characters. Given that most of them are family.
Focusing on the fact that recently they are being taken as an artist's opinion on the topic of shipping/incest issues.
When I say post. I am including reblogging as a post. here just wasn't enough room in the answer slots.
For any of you that are questioning what is so incest, about shipping the Sun and Moon show characters.
Many of the characters are either related through code or through creators. Other examples include being adopted into a family. Incest basically means that you were having affairs within your family. Which means shipping characters like solar x moon, Sun x eclipse, KC x Sun, etc, etc. Are all considered incest under the definition of having affairs within family. This is despite the fact that they are robots and therefore cannot actually have inbred children. As we are only focusing on the fact that they are all considered family.
#tw incest#Although I am intrigued to see where people who do have issues with incest lineup in this poll#I do respect that you might not wish to put your input in this topic#sams#sun and moon show#the sun and moon show#tsams#tw incest talk#cw incest
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Sometimes i forget people around me don't have the same interest in death as me, my classmates asked me what theme i wanted to work for our artist book assignment and saying that i wanted to do a mortuary sort of theme didn't have the reactions i expected 😅
#it's not that I'm desensitized to death but talking in relation to art creation and generally talking about the concept#the care of mortuary workers and graveyards#i find that interesting so i forgot that not everyone has that sort of interest#i really respect the people who work in that industry some part of me wishes i could also one day do my part in it although art is my life#as for the art assignment i was thinking that the overall aesthetics associated are things that i like to draw for example human anatomy#flowers and religious imagery#it would be interesting to represent in some way the mummy process of ancient Egypt since i also like Egyptology#well those are a few ideas i have so far#as for the rest of how I'll represent and create the book i have yet to decide#mytxt
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i think in ii, culture has no effect on what type of object an object is
#wheucto#wheucto speaks#like. taco_ a type of mexican food_ is british. yinyang_ an asian??? chinese??? symbol (idk)_ is italian.#although i guess for them (particularly yinyang)_ you could argue that that's just theit voice actors? but idk#also. ii's universe probably has the same nations as we do. i cant say that w absolute certainty_ but real world places have been mentioned#such as france (french pizza cutter)_ spanish exists implying spain does as well_ and italy#also_ in the few scenes we see his back_ you can see mephone was assembled in new york_ which implies the existence of the USA#also they call taco british once. so britain is probably real#other people w possible nationalies are: suitcase (australian)_ fan (chinese)_ the floor (also australian).#i didnt really bring them up bc they didnt really bring any arguments against culture affecting what an object is#i mean you could also make the argument that taco and yinyang could have heritage (???) of their respective objects' cultural origins#but we dont know that for sure. so#this is like. a pretty unimportant (and maybe unintentional) part of ii's worldbuilding but it's interesting to me!!#there isnt like. a lot of worldbuilding for in ii (and most other object shows i've watched). and thats ok! not every story needs a lot -#- of worldbuilding! but i do wish there was more worldbuilding in object shows. probably is; haven't watched that many shows#anyways an implication of this is that parents sometimes have to look up what their baby is. or maybe theres a specialist#who specializes in knowing objects. from across the world. or smth#though in a time before the wonders of the internet_ there'd probably be a chance of them just. not knowing what their child was#and thus not being able to name them correctly in this universe
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i've seen comments about airi not being the "true" savior because of makia reincarnated from earth which counts her as "from another world" which is kind of true, but ultimately false.
#because although makia and thor reincarnated from kazuha and tooru#their souls *aren't* originally from that world. only airi is.#makia and thor. kazuha and tooru. all of them are scarlet and black's reincarnations respectively who are from the world of maydare#the savior is said to be 'from another world' and as of now that applies to tanaka airi ONLY#we don't know about kanon that much but irc the hero was said to be from another world as well? i don't remember#anyway i really like that they didn't do a 'makia was the savior all along because she was from earth too!' but instead makia was a savior#in a way that isn't 'destined to save the world' but in a way that she manage to reach out to people's hearts and help them#as what airi said kazuha was like an angel that saved her#it was also accordung to her that makia is like the true main character in which she is. but savior =/= protagonist.#airi is still pretty much the savior in title and she's now acting on her part. she still have powers that of a savior.#she's still very much the vessel needed to eliminate harm. there's gonna be a great war not just between#hermedes vs ruschia & frezier and the rest of maydare's countries#but also between the 10 great magicians from history that came back once again..... i think. airi's role is gonna be essential for both.#airi plays an important part and not just her! gt9 as well! frey as a prince of ruschia and makia as a guardian and as the scarlet witch..#lapis as a (basically) military personnel and a twilight mage for frezier empire#and lastly nero as the hermedes empire's last royalty and as queen shatoma frezier's ally#all of them play an important role#gilbert also! not just as the prince that's basically handling every work in the castle because ulysses is lune ruschia's professor and#the white sage's reincarnation and frey who was stripped from every right he have as a prince— ahem! gilbert not just as a prince but also#as a guardian. oh and sir lionel the vice captain of the royal knights and a guardian ig there's nothing really remarkable about him aside#from those. and yeah thor since he's not just a guardian but also one of the big three magicians#genuinely why are the guardians so boring the only one that isnxt is makia granted cuz she's the mc but also airi those two are the only#enjoyable ones. gilbert is slowly growing on me tbh. who knows maybe sir lionel's gonna have an arc where i'd like him#thor i swear i don't hate you and i even liked you but you're never gonna outrank gt9 airi and even beatrice#sylhea talks maydare
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Sometimes I see a post that's like "I'm so sick of all [privileged group I'm part of] people thinking [something it never occurred to me to believe but seems obviously bad] y'all need to unlearn that stuff right now" and I have to try to figure out if
I'm actually an exception to their blanket statement either because I'm from a social context they didn't consider/know about where that belief is not as common or because they're exaggerating and I shouldn't take it so literally
it's so deeply ingrained in me that I can't recognize it when it's pointed out and I really need to unlearn it but I'm gonna need to learn to recognize it in the first place
they just phrased it poorly and I misunderstood and the thing they're actually describing is something I would recognize
Anyway what I do know I need to unlearn is the idea that I'm supposed to just know that and can't ask for clarification.
#sfw#personal#ok to reblog#Although part of my hesitation to ask is probably also that I don't wanna make it about me or brag about showing basic respect#Like imagine if I as a white guy commented on a post about a racist behavior 'but I don't do that?'#great job doing the bare minimum no one asked you#But I need to learn to say 'I don't think I do this but could you elaborate just in case I'm missing something?'#Harder to figure out the appropriate way to do that when it ends in '[privileged group] can reblog but don't say anything'#Maybe OP doesn't want my question if so can anyone else explain or should I just drop it and hope to run into another post about the same?#No one owes me an explanation but some people probably would choose to if they knew I needed it#and they're not gonna read my mind to find out#Hopefully I can manage to avoid asking the person who's explained it 1000 times and has run out of patience for even hearing the question#But (respecting all stated boundaries of course) risking that might be worth it to make sure I'm not unknowingly being a bigot?
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was listening to a podcast and the author being interviewed was a gay man and he was saying that in this new era of constant online surveillance there's a lot of emphasis on politicians' "authenticity" and a lot of outrage when it comes up that they said something in their off duty time that's not as progressive as their "public" politics/views are but he said he actually doesn't care at all about what they say in private, (I'm paraphrasing here) bc an homophobic joke in private is very different from a public speech instigating hate or laws reinforcing discrimination and he said "I don't want authentic politicians, I want responsible ones".
idk I just thought it was an interesting statement
#ive said something similar before too for example about how people defend public figures ' questionable public choices with remarks about#how great they are in private and ive always said yea but what good does it do being decent in private and then doing shitty things with#your public platform#i guess this is the same thought just reversed#although i think theres more nuances to it like can someone who doesnt believe in something actually be fighting for it at an institutional#level ??#but i also think that in an ideal society that shouldn't really matter bc in an ideal society/democracy#if a politician that gets elected with a promise to do something and then turns around and doesn't respect that#then theyd simply be kicked out of their positions#but unfortunately in our current society people seem to have forgotten that politicians are meant to work for us and to represent us so !#i also understand people who distrust someone who has different views in private even if they dont act on them institutionally#idk its a thought provoking idea so i thought id share
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