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Are you okay with your art being reposted with credit?
someday ill type this up in an faq i swear.
short answer: no. please dont.
long answer: i really donât like reposts on tumblr and twitter because i have accounts there, so id rather ppl just interact with my art rather than a repost (bluesky too, though ill admit i fell behind on posting there oops).
on instagram, i guess its okay since i donât have an account there, as long as its with credit leading to my stuff on other platforms.
all of this comes with the huge disclaimer that many artists do not like their stuff reposted, even with credit. so thank you for asking, and pls never repost other ppls work without permission
#ask#always a complicated topic#my thing about insragram/pinterest/etc is that im NOT taking the time to hunt down reposters#but pls at least credit the art so u can promote the places i DO post my art đ
#and pls never repost my stuff on twitter/tumblr/bluesky⌠im already posting there. even with credit ur just kinda stealing my chance to see#what ppl are saying about my art :â)#im repeating myself now oops
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how do you help so many different kinds of people? i have noticed you know about lots of different things and meet lots of different people. i want to do that but i cant figure out how? /gen
A little bit of background is probably needed:
I have had people ask me this before, and honestly I had a little bit of a cheat code. While my life has been filled with a lot of trauma and bad shit, I was raised by a mother from an incredibly leftie family who walked the talk when it came to values and doing the work.
She had a lot of ideas imparted on us from a young age: social and community responsibility, ideas of collectivism, eduction. Even as a poor, trapped young mother, she was believed that many people behaved badly based on ignorance outside their very limited bubble, and that when life became difficult economically or socially, people would immediately point fingers at groups they knew little about or saw as distinctively different in order to have a blameable target.
From about 4-5, outside typical schoolwork, my mother also taught us about the world. This included different conflicts and genocides (which may sound horrific to some people, but basic information and explanation was given, and then it got more in depth with age), different countries and cultures (often she would randomly select a country from a world map, and we would spend a set amount of time learning everything we could about the place, culture, people, etc), different religions (I attended many different types of religious institutes at least once, and my mother often found people willing to talk about their belief system with us), volunteering, etc.
I have definitely had a head start and a lot more guidance than many people, which I am incredibly grateful for. It can also make it difficult to advise though.
Realistically:
Honestly, the two best things you can do if you donât know where to start are: listen and learn. Find any local group, start participating and volunteering. Listen to the stories of people there. Ask questions. Expose yourself to all sorts of different ideas and opinions.
In the last year, Iâve started doing a little throwback to my childhood. I have a schoolbook, and I choose random topics, and spend a few hours every week learning basic things about it. Choose a country, choose a place, a time in history, a religion, a culture, a people. You donât have to be a scholar. You just have to expand your horizons.
As you get involved with more things, you will begin to narrow down your core values. This is good: you canât do everything at once. I would say roughly 2-3 core issues or topics you care about is good (this doesnât mean that you donât care about things happening outside it - it just means you donât spread yourself thin). Thereâs different things people make their focus: LGBTQ+ issues, BIPOC issues, environmental issues, homelessness, disability, refugee issues, etc. Your core focus will be the ones you feel most passionate about, which is good, because it means you will put in genuine work and care, and you will lower the risk of burning out fast and being of help to no one, including yourself.
You also have to get comfortable with the fact you will never be perfect. You will never be up to date with every idea and practice. There is always something you will need to learn or unlearn. Becoming rigid about being correct all the time will make you more of a menace than a help to any reputable movement or group. You might feel uncomfortable when you realise the gap or misunderstanding you had - thatâs normal. Be open to learning and expanding your understanding of things vs burying your head in the stand stubbornly. I say things and then months later I realise that actually, I donât agree with that anymore, or my understanding has deepened, or changed, or pivoted. This tends to make people feel very bad or uncomfortable, but you have to get to the stage where again, you acknowledge that thatâs normal.
#learning to be part of your community is very hard! we live in strange times and we are increasingly disconnected from each other!#also being a human is often messy and complicated so itâs hard not to get discouraged but I believe in you!#remember: learn. do.#itâs very hard to go wrong once you start leaning into those two words#katie rambles#long post#sorry for my slightly off topic ramble I was like. hm. some of this is standard practice now and idk how to break it down.#also: from about 15 to 20 I had incredibly bad social anxiety! learning how to talk to strangers and put myself out there was a very long#and uncomfortable learning process. we are always learning. social media is only one aspect you see â¤ď¸
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Living for the Grandma Mistystar designation because she's grandma in such a specific way. Like she's been around forever and goes on and on and we know and love her and she lived through The War⢠and had a hard life, etc, but sometimes things come out of her mouth that make it VERY OBVIOUS that she attributes the horrors she lived through to a bad person, a bad group, as opposed to the culture in which she lives, and therefore doesn't really have the right takeaways. So there's grandma telling you stories and then she says some shit and it's like "Grandma Mistystar didn't you literally survive an attempted half-clan genocide. The fuck are you on about." But also she's old as hell and you know she loves you and you love her so you just sort of sit uncomfortably in her living room and drink your tea. Literally an old-ass woman who lived through hell and still votes Conservative. I'm obsessed with her.
The old grandma characters in BB have my entire soul. They've all been through AWFUL shit, they came so close to the right conclusions, you love them SO much but then they drop some shit that makes your skin crawl. What can you do with that?
You can see a bit of progress with cats like Mousefur, but even then, it's never in the exact way you were hoping for. It goes from, "foreigner Bad" to "Some foreigners Not bad." But progress is progress, right...?
It's a sort of hopeless feeling, but not strong enough to tip into despair. The world is changing and they're remnants of the old one. You have to fight them when they try to drag it back, but totally changing their person is an unwinnable battle.
#I'm obsessed with the characters who can't change entirely#who always have a bit of that toxicity hanging onto them#People are complicated#I love elders so much though ugh#A little off topic but you know something weird I think about a lot?#How elders are like... treated as a group in WC#They're never just. Hanging out in camp#They're always in Old People Areas#Hanging out of the elder's den or the medcat den#They rarely just leave camp for funsies or go for walks with their kids or grandkids#Has anyone else noticed that...?#How the den is treated like a retirement home more than like... a den in the same camp#WC is bizarre about its elders. On one hand they're supposed to be respected and valued#But then it just sweeps them out of sight and mind most of the time#Like an afterthought#Where's the old people just playing cat chess in the park or whatever?#what no 3rd spaces does to a mf's writing style#bone babble
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Comparing oppression can sometimes give you insight as to what other groups of people go through. It teaches you what you have in common with people seemingly different than you are, and teaches you how you are different and how you can ally yourself better with other peoples.
However, if your goal is to prove you suffer the most between you and another person, you'll likely find that there is no conversation, just an endless barrage of back-and-forth to prove which of you deserves to be listened to.
The reality is that you don't have to be in the most pain in order to be listened to. So often, we are inundated with this idea that the person suffering the most is the only one who ought to be listened to, and it sends the message of "holy shit, I guess I don't matter. I guess I deserve to suffer if others are going through worse," and that's just unreasonable and unfair. Who has it worse is entirely contextual and changing, and sometimes it is subjective - as in, something that is earth-breaking for you is an average tuesday evening for the guy next to you.
Kill the cop in your head that says your voice will only matter if you prove yourself. Listen to other marginalized people and know it isn't a competition to see who can prove themselves most worthy of tine and energy. Our resources can (and should) be multifaceted and able to help a variety of peoples.
#intersectionality#talking to trans women and nonbinary folk and intersex people taught me so much about the idea that my oppression isn't entirely unique...#...and that taught me that i must have more interests in my heart...#...and it showed me that i have a broad community even if i didn't always feel it#that's one example#i understand why some people do that but i just can't help but wonder#and in spaces where it's expected that you prove yourself battle royal style i always notice that... nothing really gets accomplished...#...and that isn't always a bad thing! communities don't have to do tangible things in order to be important...#...but i just notice that people tend to be very defensive because they have to be and they express that they feel unheard...#it's a complicated and nuanced topic and i definitely am no spokesman...#...i'm commenting on a *general* trend i have seen in some spaces that isn't universally shared
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The treatment of sluts
Iâm not the first person to write about this topic and I donât want to dive in here deep into societal problems with slutshaming. But I think about it a lot - there is an interesting approach within the show to this.
I talk about how both characters in the show and the audience treat so-called sluts of the show. Yes, itâs about Boston and Top. But also about Sand and Ray. Because itâs quite clear that all four of them have - or had before by the point weâre now - an active sex life. With Boston, Top and Sand it was spoken out loud, with Ray wasnât but come on. Like he is horny as fuck.
And the way he just casually raised the car roof here without stopping a make out session - I donât believe for a second he never did it before.
But Ray also spends a huge amount of his life being blackout drunk so maybe his sex life is not that intense at this point. The other three? 100%
But the approach towards Sand (and Ray) is very different than towards Boston and Top. And itâs partially because of car scene, of course, but not only about that. Top and Boston both constantly judged for their sex life in the show and out of it. And I think characters view on those who actively engaged in casual hookups speaks volumes. It happens in all of the main dynamics but differently.
Friend group. So the whole Boston-Mew drama about feeling superior to the other cause of having/not having sex is amazing. Those two are very dramatic about it. Boston going crazy about Mewâs virginity while Mew being arrogant ass towards Bostonâs sex life is just everything. I love it.
Like really, Mew, honey, there is nothing wrong with sleeping around. Itâs not something that needs correction. Heâs fine.
Cheum said nobody would be happy in a relationship with Boston. And why?
Thatâs her reason. While so many real reasons exist for her itâs just Boston being a slut. And itâs just interesting to me for two reasons:
1. Boston didnât say anything about relationship. Not everyone wants a relationship.
2. Monogamy is not the only option, you know? Some couples are great without being inclusive and itâs fine.
We never see anyone talks on Ray about it and, well, Ray is a depressive addict and thatâs what should worry people around him more, rightfully so. Ray is also the only one in that friend group who never speaks about others sex life.
Top and Mew. Mew is really getting paranoid by the episode 5. Every time he sees a man looking at Top he gets nervous.
And yes, Top slept with Boston, but Mew seems (at least for me) unaware of that. Heâs fine when Top and Boston are near each other, but any random guy passing by Top? Even when Top doesnât interact with them or even looks back at them.
And Mew really tries his best to be cool about Topâs past.
But he just canât. Itâs always present in their relationship. He canât get over it to the point he decides to have sex with Top.
And maybe itâs not all about that and he also in love with him and blablabla but the reasoning is âIâm afraid heâll get boredâ and this is all about Top and sex and the role sex played in his life.
And while Mew doesnât want to judge Top he usually judges people like Top, and of course he canât separate it. He is not okay with the past Top has. He doesnât trust him because of that past. So the audience doesnât too (and also because we know Top fucked Boston obviously).
Boston and Nick. Nick is in a way the same as Mew. While he doesnât seem to judge people for having sex life, he does it with Boston. He is obsessed with him being with someone else (read as: Top).
Just a reminder, he bugged Bostonâs car just because he saw photos with Top. Just in case. While they agreed on being fwb and Boston never lied about having other partners.
And when Boston told him about someone else blackmailing him over sex tape, how Nick responded?
Yep. And while it was meant as a tease, it wasnât. Nothing is ever a reason to record someone without consent (as that guy did. And Nick did. And Boston did). But Nick says it as this is justified because he really doesnât like that Boston is a slut. And, well, the audience doesnât like it too (besides all the other reasons of course).
Sand and Ray. I give it to them, in that particular case they are doing great. Not in a one point of the story not Sand or Ray had issues with otherâs past sex life. They donât even seem to care about it.
The one time Ray asked if Sand is fine with casual hookups he did it for a reason to, well, know if Sand will be into having sex with him. So when Sand said yes Ray was actually pleased with this answer.
And while their situationship progresses into something and Sand sees Ray with a girl, heâs not nervous or jealous. He teases Ray a little and a bit possessive but he is totally chill about it.
I had so much hope weâll get a threesome with those two at some point of the story, but yeah. Second time they let a gorgeous girl walk away without even noticing. They are simping for each other so badly itâs pathetic. And adorable. I love them. No threesome for them I guess.
And when the fight at the end of episode happens Boston brings up twice that he thinks Ray and Mew had sex. As that has to make Sand feel even worse. But the thing is, Sand is heartbroken not because Ray potentially had sex with someone, even his close friend. I really donât think Sand would care about it. Sand is heartbroken because Ray loves someone else.
So those two are only ones who donât judge anyone, including each other, for having an active sex life (being sluts). And this is quite healthy approach (look at me, using word healthy to describe that one thing about OF, I donât believe myself) to life and relationships. Any sort of relationship, including friendships, romance or people you donât know but so ready to judge. And while them not judging each other, why the audience would?
I donât know if the show does it on purpose or not. I do think it does with Boston and Top. But with Sand and Ray? I doubt it. It more looks like those to have enough other shit to worry about both within their relationship and outside of it. I know itâll develop but by episode 5 characters biggest problems looks something like this:
1. Mewâs biggest problem is his relationship with Top and sex. And Boston.
2. Topâs biggest problem is maybe insomnia but also his relationship with Mew and sex. And Boston.
3. Bostonâs biggest problem is Top and Mew and their relationship.
4. Nickâs biggest problem is his relationship with Boston and sex and Boston.
5. Rayâs biggest problem is depression and addiction and inability to love or being loved.
6. Sandâs biggest problem is his financial situation, debts collectors and working his ass off 24/7.
So maybe yes, those two just donât have enough screen time to worry about sex too. And while I do think we will learn more about other characters, by that point weâve seen almost half of the show. And the initial idea of who they are already formed. It can develop, but it wonât change.
And the approach to Boston and Top being sluts wonât change either. Whatever they do the âslutâ part will be seen as their flaw, something they have to overcome (it is not). While Sand and Ray get a free pass on that.
The thing is, both Top and Boston do have flaws and things to overcome. But their sex life is not a part of it. Them having a lot of sex partners doesnât mean they canât be in relationship, or even monogamous, if that what they (or at least Top) want to. And if they doesnât - nothing is wrong with it. Itâs like trying to change something thatâs not even broken on the first place, you know?
#ofts#only friends the series#only friends meta#only friends#topmew#bostonnick#sandray#and yes all of those relationships are way more complicated than this one tiny topic but itâs still interesting#it's the third time i try to post it and something always wrong#itâs not even that good but I just want it to be published cause my brain going insane
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I haven't talked about her in years, but I've seen a few snippets of her work lately, and I was reminded just how much Natalie Wynn doesn't really know what she's talking about when it comes to a lot of stuff she chooses to discuss.
I mean, she's good at SOUNDING like she does, especially if you know very little about the topic at hand, but when you DO actually know a considerable amount about the topic, you realize that she either completely misunderstood her sources or really didn't bother to read anything that spoke about it in a substantial way.
(A big example of this was when she tried to say she was trying to come up with a materialist working of trans/nb identity, but used Judith Butler's work as an inspiration. Judith Butler. The person who famously disavows the very IDEA of coming up with a materialist understanding of queer identity. I also think of how she apparently never read about comphet among lesbian women for years, despite her repeated claims before then to have read a substantial amount about queer identity as a whole. Comphet is like...101 level shit.)
#contrapoints#i mean ignoring her nbphobia in the past and her insistence in defending people like buck angel#i think i really just got tired of having to correct the record on anything she talked about#always giving passive recommendations like 'yeah she gets all of this stuff wrong but some of this other stuff is good'#or 'this is fine as a base level understanding the same way the same way the punnett square is for knowing how genes are inherited'#'but please know it's actually a lot more complicated than this!'#it became less about her shitty attitudes and behaviors and more about the fact that she's just. not a good video essayist?#at least in creating informed and meaningful that demonstrate a solid understanding of the topic at hand#i guess in the glamor and glitz department they're pretty to look at#but a lot of mischaracterizations of the topics abound#the thing that inspired this post in particular was her characterization of women who have noncon fantasies#and how it misses the mark for a lot of people and a lot of psychology on the issue
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So, leaving a spider Lillie on someoneâs desk means kys, Iâm imagining lunar leaving a eclipses (og eclipse) desk and eclipse would be confused about it
personally i don't think Lunar would. What he would do. Is leave bloodmoon on the desk. Get an whoopin' instead.
#lunars feelings for his brother is complicated enough#tw suicide implied#i GUESS??? its a harsh thing to do#but thats if u take a quiet approach which is more eclipse vibed and stuff vs lunar#whos always been more Direct about things so like. he dont need no flower. (plus i think he'd know eclipse wouldnt even know what it meant)#anyway careful with topic a bit here!
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Ok Iâm glad Iâm not crazy someone else said it first - yeah it feels like you canât ntroduce an oppressive class and then actually deal with them so you had to go everywhere else
#and like I always say#stop bringing up issues ur not ready to deal with bc#the reality of it is with the way everyone was reacting to piltover#if u went full throttle on the classism plot u brought up the next arc wouldâve been about zaunites being fed up and taking to the streets#of zaun#not just jinxers or whatever like the reason everyone thought jinx was gonna Join ekko is bc this felt like it was supposed to be a catalys#for smth and it wasnât#have yâall noticed how little pov we got from zaunites in comparison#close ups on ppl in the memorial that we donât get when it comes to showcasing enforcers brutality#mind you the way the conditions of zaun are like background noise now#which we also never here about bc they dropped the ball with ekko to make him save everyone#more complicated than that but yeah#but yeah itâs bc the next step is showcasing the ppl like Maddie who donât have guns#thatâs like. a good chunk of the ppl watching ur show#also if I say itâs extremely difficult to do classist allegories in this era without racism being present in undertones at least bc the two#are intertwined as we know it so just side stepping around race with no substantial allegory meant nothing was ever gonna be resolved or#discussed fully#youâve seen me try to give the benefit of the doubt on this but I truly believe so many oppression stories that are based in modern#societies fall flat when they mention everything except race when race is a ROOT of damn near every oppression system today but especially#classism. so itâs like more complicated than talk about ekko being black like thatâs not what Iâm saying#what Iâm saying is when you canât fully grasp the topics ur exploring ofc the ending on that point is gonna feel lackluster#but Yâknow whats funny when I was debating on whether arcane was copaganda I made an offhand âa show that wants us to root for caitâ but I#think that mightâve been the easiest point made. like yea a show that wanted me to root for cait and tbh even jinx was never gonna end this#well. especially a show that sidelined black characters until it was time to be the plot devices and saviors alr#Ambessa thank you for being evil and ID say evil is a stretch simply bc fuck Caitlyn
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honestly. it's so fucking frustrating and disheartening. that the only thing making me hesitant to cleanly cut contact with my mom, the thing that still looms after cutting away from my dad........ is that when they both finally bite it, that's two houses to sell. that's money that may mean *i* get to have my own house someday.
the key to the security my parents failed to give me from the moment i was born lies in their deaths. the least they can do. the very fucking *least* is to leave me the means to build that security on my own. they owe me so much more than that, but realistically? that small act of restitution is all i can and will ask for.
until then? i want nothing to do with them.
#the comments of the article i'm reading involves people discussing their reasons for not going no contact with both parents#one of which being that they're not ready to be an orphan yet#and fuck. i know it's more complicated than this but. i've *always* been an orphan#i've wanted to let my parents go for a very long time#it took longer to do my due dilligence in giving my mom eight million chances but. those chances have come and gone#i don't want to do the work to whittle down our interactions. i don't think our relationship is worth carving it down to 'we can talk for 20#minutes once a month about light topics only. i don't want to hear about your sisters or my dad again thanks'#i get nothing out of that#i feel like now that i've Made Up My Mind (finally. it took so fucking long đ˘) i'm obligated to give her one last chance#after outlining the New Rules#but she's an adult. as one commenter said '[s]he was always capable of respecting you.'#my mom is an adult. for all the work she's done on herself#she could've caught on that benting about her sisters every time we talk is not an appropriate topic of conversation#she could have noticed all the times i tried to interrupt her when she was here. not even to interrupt her to stop her from talking but#interrupting her so i could PARTICIPATE in the conversation#she is an ADULT and she is capable of looking at our interactions and seeing that they need improvement#there are certain boundaries that polite well adjusted people do not need to deliberately express to expect to have them respected#my mother is responsible for identifying those boundaries and that work. no i can't expect her to read my mind and intuit my boundaries#without me saying so. but i CAN expect her to ask my consent before discussing heavy topics. i CAN expect her to be self aware enough to#allow me to participate in conversations with her#i CAN expect her to manage her emotions to not be a volatile monster just waiting to trauma dump or explode#it is not my responsibility to teach her basic interpersonal decency#and i don't need to give her the eight million and one'th chance to prove she can be respectful this time#she was always capable of respecting me. she just chose not to#venting her feelings and being in her triggers is more important to her#and i sincerely hope she'll stay tangled in those feelings and not bring out the gaslighty 'i'll do anything to keep you in my life!!!!!!'#because. clearly. she will not.#she was always capable of respecting me. and emotional manipulation is not a part of that#personal#i just want to get my parents dying over with so i can afford a down payment on a fucking house
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Seeing stuff like this always makes me sad. I know Iâm in the minority in that I actually know enough about biology (complex biology, not the ââbasicââ biology transphobes claim will say that humans have only two sexes) to understand that, even though there are at least six scientifically recognized human sexes on a spectrum from how we define ââmaleââ and ââfemale,ââ those societally deemed ââmaleââ will always benefit from the consistent oppression of those societally deemed ââfemale.ââ I donât think this is at odds with radical feminism in its most basic form! Sex-based oppression is real, and problematic,* and should be addressed! But sex â gender, and the Venn diagram of sex-based oppression and gender-based oppression can be understood as two distinct facets with a (very large) overlap. All men benefit from the oppression of all women; this does NOT mean that ââmaleââ or ââfemaleââ is an immutable category. Often people who are otherwise in agreement with the idea (that all men benefit from the oppression of all women) will balk at the idea that binary transgender people will experience that oppression differently than before they transitioned. A trans woman who passes as a cis woman will be treated by most men the exact same way they wouldâve treated a cis woman. Similarly, trans men will almost always benefit from that same systemic oppression of women, even though they themselves might not be able to ââaccessââ all of the benefits of patriarchy.
I donât think all of these ideas need to be in conflict with each other. I think radical feminism Ă la Dworkin and Butler has a lot of relevant and useful ideas and frameworks for navigating our present society, and obviously I donât think we should dismiss an entire generation of feminists just because some of them have regressive views about transgender people. Furthermore, I donât think radical feminists should dismiss transgender people either. Weâre all of us sisters in this fight together, regardless of your specific beliefs on how that fight should look. But the idea that there are only two human sexes is not only bigoted, itâs just flat-out incorrect.
*Original definition.
Unrelated to the original topic at hands, but I also thought this bit (from the same blog) was very revealing:
Whenever someone says something like this, I just wonder if theyâve ever heard of the concept of lesbians. Genuinely! Because many lesbians also enjoy kink and BDSM, and I donât think that has anything to do with ââcenter[ing] the pleasure and well being [sic] of men,ââ to be honest. I think it has everything to do with the pleasure and well-being of the lesbians.
#mine#*#transphobia#misogyny#obviously this is a complicated topic but I am always frustrated when I see purportedly radical feminists siding with transphobia#the leopards will eat your face just the same as they eat the faces of transgender women#regardless of whether or not you support the leopardsâ actions#dstag#(below the cut)#speaking as a dyke who enjoys BDSMâ Iâm always insulted when someone assumes I only enjoy it for the benefit of men lol#like what a dismissive and frankly misogynistic way to view queer women!
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okay, but i think it is about time to talk about one of misao's fears is, because i believe that they can tell you a lot about a character and their psyche â and i came to tell y'all that the one i'm going to be talking about today is that misao fears becoming a mother / motherhood. the first reason in which why i believe this is because misao just genuinely thinks that she is not the nurturing type and that she would likely be a terrible parent to her child ( which i know is a very depressing thing to think about. but it is something that she has feared for a long time, unfortunately. ) this likely stems from a mix of misao's inability to deal with her own emotions, though, as she feels like it's better to just bottle them up and deal with them all on her own rather than the alternative. and this would be to try to confide in someone and/or get help from them should she need it. so, misao feels as if her child were to come to her needing emotional support from her, she would absolutely fail at it and the last thing she wants is to emotionally neglect someone the way she had been as a child ( p.s. of course, this was mostly just borne out of unfortunate circumstances, as i've stated before because of kaiyah's illness. though this hasn't stopped misao from feeling the brunt of the impact that it had on her. )
plus... i feel as if misao also doesn't have a lot of confidence in herself whenever it comes to the concept of always being able to put a child first, as she has a pretty negative self-image of herself deep down if i'm being honest. she sees herself as an extremely selfish person who can't even become friends with one person because she is so afraid that someone will hurt her, and in her opinion, that makes her pathetic or weak. so she doesn't feel like she'd be able to take care of a child with the amount of responsibility that is required to in order to raise them properly and protect them at the same time.
though this isn't necessarily true as misao has put up those barriers that would normally let people into her heart mostly due to trauma, and having experienced trauma doesn't make anyone weak. i just feel as if she desperately needs to remedy her self-image because it is very damaging to think of yourself like that and it would be really good for her emotional health if she were to try to ways to better cope with everything that she's experienced throughout her life. there are other reasons as well behind why misao fears motherhood while i'm talking about it, however, and these are arguably one of the more bigger ones: the act of giving birth itself and suddenly being thrust into having to not just take care of yourself, but the baby inside of you as well. which sort of makes sense whenever you connect the dots as to how many horror stories misao has heard about delivering a baby and also how much a person's experience while being pregnant can vary from others. i mean, it has been shown that some people may have more morning sickness than others and that they just don't have a very good experience with being pregnant in general, for example. but other's may be 'glowing' as they say and may find it easier to deal with.
so, you never really know what kind of pregnancy you're going to have until you actually become 'with child' as misao would call it. and the unknown aspect surrounding it scares misao more than anything. plus, as it stands now, she isn't sure whether she'd want to go through the process of giving birth as there can be a lot of complications regarding it. but there can also be so many good things about inviting a new member of the family into your home and misao feels as if it is kind of expected of her to have children so she can continue the kanade line.
but misao is just so afraid of it for these reasons that she can not see herself as a mother, even in her head. however... there is the matter of adoption that she has yet to take into account, but with how focused the jorĹgumo are about having biological children, i feel as if misao hasn't even considered it to be an option for those who are afraid of giving birth and also to give a baby / child a loving home as everyone deserves one of those. but yeah. i hope that this gave y'all a little more insight into her character, as misao is scared of re-enacting her past in a way, though i feel as if you become a mother yourself... you have to separate what will be your own experience of parenthood from your parents. so, in order to overcome this fear she has, misao would have to treat it as an entirely different thing from kaiyah's experience as a mother and her own child self's experience of her as a mother.
and this is definitely possible. it would just take some work, as overcoming any kind of fear would. plus, i feel as if misao were to accept other people's help it would also benefit her, since discussing motherhood / plunging into the topic of the sometimes seemingly scary thing that is parenthood is definitely not something that you have to try to go through alone.
#ALL POWER DEMANDS SACRIFICE: musings.#NO SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT. NOT FOR YOU: character study.#SOMETIMES AGAINST ALL LOGIC WE HOPE: headcanons.#yeahhh so i know that i keep on posting some pretty heavy things on my pages BUT like i said on my other acc i promise that i will give-#y'all some fluffy content after this JSJSJ but i just had to talk about this because it says a lot about her character and i don't mean tha#in a bad way or anything ofc. i just mean from like a psychological standpoint and i know that motherhood / parenthood can be such a comple#thing to talk about BUT i tried my best to cover all of the reasons as to why misao is afraid of becoming a mother and/or having another-#person to take care of in her home in general. to summarize things her negative self-image and the experience that she has as a child-#regarding how her own mother treated her (though she still VERY much loves kaiyah and knows that she can't really blame her for any of it-#bc of how severe her mental illness was) haunting her in a way as she believes that perhaps she will continue the cycle of emotional neglec#in the family. sooo yeah it is awfully complicated though when you consider that kaiyah did her best to take care of her and that's really-#all you can do as a parent. it is just a very nuanced topic for her but of course that doesn't mean that i hold the same opinion of it as-#misao since you should always separate from the character from the writer but whenever i get in her headspace i feel as if this is the best#way i could describe her fear of it.#tw: trauma.#tw: mentions of emotional neglect.#tw: discussions of pregnancy / motherhood.#tw: fear.#tw: discussions of negative thoughts.
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i know it's my fault for interacting with western politics in the first place but it's such a massive and extremely annoying mistake on the west's part to keep assuming that eastern european misogyny works the same/is worse than western misogyny like. the culture of america and the west as a whole is way more extremist christian and their version of misogyny is very heavily built on the 50s housewife/"women are incapable of doing anything but raise babies" worldview and they just assume anyone perceived as "less developed" than them must then have an even worse case of misogyny automatically even though the culture of gender in the eastern bloc comes from the world wars & soviet union culture with the former bringing the necessity of working women (due to lack of male work force) and the latter just. inherently not being a misogynist culture like people straight up don't know that the soviet union was actively pro equality like being the first to legalise abortion in 1920 and always pushing for women in all fields including STEM and politics. like obviously there was still misogyny, it wasn't some sort of utopia/a haven of women's rights but the eastern bloc's misogyny is founded on THAT and not the same christian capitalist "man go work big job woman have 100000 babies" thing that the west and especially the US is built on, like this is from personal experience now but I've literally never heard a single negative comment about women in politics and our president is literally a woman without anyone melting down about it like americans did when a woman decided to run for president. so like. TLDR stop assuming bigotry has developed in the same way all over the world and that every country you think of as poorer than yours must then be inherently worse and more bigoted in every way
#i could make a whole other post on how western culture resulted in the extreme reactionary homophobia and#dive back into extremist christianity here but that entire topic makes me very very sad and it's also#way too complicated so i won't. but man the misogyny thing is really straight forward like i#donnnt get why everyone always assumes women are like kept in cages and not allowed to go to uni here#like even we have more women in stem than america and our rates are relatively low compared to the rest of EEU#wrafs#eastern europe#feminism#idk what to tag. enjoy#sorry this makes no sense i wrote it at like 4am
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Yâall ever wish you could just take a vacation from thinking for a while?
#iâve been having SO many complex complicated thoughts lately about big topicsâ˘ď¸#like about unmasking my autism & trying to figure out whatâs actually me/what I actually like/who I actually am#vs what was just part of the mask#and also (to my great surprise) been having complicated & confusing thoughtsâ˘ď¸ about my gender & sexuality?#went 32 years barely thinking about it & then out of the blue this week Iâm like uhhhh#also lots of thoughts about work/whether I should go back after my medical leave or just quit#& about how capitalism affects disability etc#and itâs just EXHAUSTING#i want my brain to SHUT UP for a bit and let me rest#i am TIRED#also I dont really have anyone I can talk to to work through all this#and journaling has always been challenging/overwhelming for me#sooooo Iâm just stuck with all these big thoughtsâ˘ď¸ rattling around in my brain with nowhere to go#beth posts
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taking a break to atla post i really do believe the way azulas arc / story ended was appropriate. maybe not on the script level (aaron wrote some pretty misogynistic stuff) but azula in the final episodes was a perfect thematic conclusion of both her and zukos stories. anytime anyone says she was Supposed to be redeemed or the writers pussied out of it or whatever i kind of think they dont rlly know what the Point of her character was .
#redemption arcs in general are a very finnicky topic for me#theyre not something i like when its just ''bad character gets good'' there needs to be thematic reasoning for it#like i never enjoyed cdream redemption stuff bc ive always interpreted his character as a cautionary tale abt entitlement and myopia#azulas is more complicated bc shes very much a victim of child abuse but in a very different way than zuko#but like i dunno. they wouldve had to have done a lot of legwork to make an azula redemption feel good in only a 4th season#heliichats
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You ever think you're super chronically online and then you see a hyperspecific dni and can't understand 60% of what's listed and realize that maybe you're actually online a normal amount and you're totally fine.
#personal#jve never fully understood dnis#like sometimes they make sense#like the minors/adults dnis that's a general one that i understand#and of course i get seeing like 'post about complicated trans feelings' or 'porn by and for trans people'#and seeing detrans and terfs dni on those#post specific things i can get#posting about siblings that usually get shipped and saying incest shippers dni?#yeah totally#discussing a topic that could get overrun by a fandom you dislike so you tell its fans to not interact#yup got it#but massive lists of incredibly specific dnis always make me wonder#how often have you actually interacted with people on this list#and how often as this subject even come up?#i guess with tumblr offering both the ability to block and the ability to filter posts#it creates such a personalized experience#and dnis like that often feel like trying to control others instead of taking it into your own hands to control your tumblr experience#and like youll actually end up with more people in your asks talking about things on your list#than if you just hadn't said anything#idk#dnis obviously don't normally affect me so i do you actually care about them#ive just alway been confused by the really long ones
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always a very strange feeling when someone you've followed for years and years, whose comment/tag/art style is so familiar to you that you would recognise them even without the username and even with constantly changing profile pictures
suddenly posts or reblogs something that completely shits on your identity.
"i had a bad experience with people pretending to be this identity, so all of you in this community are now suspect."
"this personally isn't a fit for me, so all of you who do fit must have something wrong with you."
of course, the post in question doesn't use that language. but parsed, it sure sounds like bigotry and discrimination, doesn't it?
always a very strange feeling to realise someone i thought i'd known, would be disgusted to know me in turn, because i don't fit into their box. "why don't you come out? why do you hide away even in anonymous online spaces?" well, i wonder why.
#fragmentaries#aphobia#transphobia#sinophobia#'just curate your dash!' well that doesn't always work#the post in question denigrated polyam which i am not#but i am also not not-polyam. complicated issue#jarring thing to come across when i'm trying to figure it out#having to block perfectly fine folks because they unknowingly reblog posts by aphobes#unable to stop seeing posts by prominent sinophobes because they're Big Name Tumblr Popular#but none of that matters because people will sometimes just reveal hateful parts of themselves they don't think are a big deal at all#that had never come up before because the topic's never been relevant#idk what to say except that i'm rather Old Man Sighing Tired
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