#and if an anti post pisses you off that's on you

[awakefor48hours]

anons after I tag something as "anti [x content]": OMGGGG you're the worst, why don't you just stop and kill yourselffff

[fight-nights-at-freddys]

I hate these posts.

either you are AGAINST the idea of thought-crimes, or you're not. just bc someone's a paraphile does NOT make them any kind of offender. being proship, you almost HAVE to be pro-(anti contact) para, because part of being proship is recognizing that your imagination also can't hurt anyone.

ignoring all that, though, the other glaring issue is that these are the exact arguments antis make towards us. calling people predators with no proof, saying paras should "keep it private", that paras are trying to "groom" people into believing their paraphilias are good. replace "paras" with "proshippers" and you've got the same dumb arguments WE'VE BEEN HAVING FOR YEARS.

EVEN FURTHER THAN THAT, what happened to using the block button? why do y'all forget all about that as soon as it's a paraphile, or at minimum, someone you DEEM to be a paraphile. y'all are no better than the people you are against.

[captainkirkk]

I want to see Jameson's reaction to finding out that, for long stretches of time, the only way Peter could still be Spider-Man and keep himself afloat was the Daily Bugle.

I bet Jameson goes on long rants about who's funding this lowlife - It's you, dude! You're funding him!

[lilithofpenandbook]

Seriously how can M*r*uders stans like random Slytherins (who tf are Evan Rosier, Pandora (is that Luna's mum and why tf is she Evan Rosier's twin in half of these), and I don't even want to discuss Regulus) and make them Actually Misunderstood Good People Who Were Forced Down That Path when at least one of them *coughreguluscough* was obsessed with Voldemort

And then turn around and make Snape an awful person?

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

if you people don't start tagging your anti-ship posts as anti-ship posts i'm gonna start tracking you down, and beating basic fandom etiquette into you

[shedontlovehuhself]

Misha: gets praised(again) or acknowledged for continuing to be the most vocal destiel and gay Cas supporter of the Cast.

Hellers on Tumblr: "how can I make this about Jensen?"

[tachiha3]

"Yeah, atleast zukka shippers acknowledge Mai and Zuko's bond!"

Taking their relationship from the canonical fact that she was ready to sacrifice her freedom, the one thing she longed for her whole life, for his sake; that she was the reason for one of his biggest smiles, and turning it into "yeah they never actually loved each other and were only together due to societal expectations and she actually dgaf about his dumb gay ass lol" is NOT acknowledging their bond btw.

Just cause you don't have Zuko hating Mai's guts doesn't mean you have some superiority over ZKs.

[sovereignsystem]

Can we like, stop shaming people for having DNIs?

I don't understand why people think it's... stupid or "a chronically online thing" to have a DNI, like. It's a helpful tool? We read people's DNIs, not just to make them as comfortable as possible (by not interacting if we are on that list), but also so we can tell if we want to interact with someone.

Do people not understand that DNIs are mutually beneficial? Completely harmless? Just stating boundaries?

If you don't like someone's DNI or find it stupid for having certain things on it, Don't Interact With The Person.

It's literally the entire point.

-🧟‍♂️ (he/him)

[cobraonthecob]

maybe i'm reading too much into this but whatever this has been bothering me, an east asian american

the first run of the atla comics was written (under bryke's direction, most of the post-canon comics were under bryke's direction, you can check wikipedia's handy chart if you want to doubt me) by gene yang and the art was done by gurihiru. those comics rightfully got backlash for the horrendous portrayal of katara and other topics that first round of comics had

the new batch of comics from imbalance on is written by faith erin hicks and the art is done by peter wartman (story direction is credited to bryke with the exception of the character standalones, all written solely by faith erin hicks). both writer and artists are white to my knowledge

now, the promise came out in 2012 and imbalance came out end of 2018 start of 2019. between those two comics, there are at least five years of criticism to take into (idk how long it takes to produce a comic, but let's assume it's like a 22 minute animated episode and it takes about a year for one part of the trilogy to produce). five years of fans slamming choices made in the promise, the rift, the search, and smoke and shadow. that criticism likely influenced bryke to attempt to make amends for it, given that at least one of them has access to tumblr and both likely have twitter (i don't know about twitter, but i don't want to check, keep those assholes away from me)

while i'm a little weirded out that both the asian writer and the asian artists are no longer working on atla and it's now the white creatives that get to work on the comics, now all of a sudden the comic storylines are better. part of that stems from the rightful criticism that the comics got, but a part of me is weirded out that the asian creatives have been raked over the coals over a storyline direction greenlit by bryke and conveniently, the white author is the one who gets to write the stories praised by the fandom because she's a woman and not a stinky man who hates the canon ships. very subtly drinking the r*dfem juice, but okay

something is bugging me because i KNOW that gene yang can write and y'all didn't read american born chinese and it SHOWS. also why are white people still in charge of the comics, there are easily multiple asian writers and comic artists they can look for. no i will not provide a list for you because i'm not in that industry and it is not my job to do the work for you. they found f.c. yee (who wrote the kyoshi and yangchen novels) and randy ribay (who wrote roku's novel), they know to look for asian authors, so why isn't that energy continued for the comics?

[the-haven-keepers-collective]

Unreasonably long post about plural shit

So I'm gonna be honest and uncharacteristically vulnerable for a second because I think people might relate or have internalized similar things. My name is Pyre; at least that's what I'll be going by on Tumblr. I'm a fictive, some of you might've already seen me sign off on comments or something using my source name but I don't really care. Also I'm not Techno, he's open about his source. Thought I'd get that out of the way for those of you who know us. Pyre is a very Techno name though and I just stole it faster.

Anyway, to the point: We've seen posts shouting out systems/collectives who are "too similar," particularly median systems and such who experience a lot of internal fakeclaiming and imposter syndrome because of that. This is for the non-median systems who are "too similar," though. This is part a post to point out their validity, and part a post talking about my own experience so far with that.

In my source, I'm kind of a badass. I was admittedly an asshole, and very misguided, but at least within my canon (within the shows canon is questionable, we never did finish it rip) I was fighting for what I believed was right. Fighting for those who fall through the cracks for no good reason, for those that get hurt for things they can't control. If I were brought here, in this world, in my own body, I wouldn't afraid of shit. I'd gladly punt a transphobe. I wouldn't shy away from conflict; sometimes conflict is how progress happens.

In reality, I don't have my own body. And one of the things about our body is, well, its nervous system is wired to treat any small amount of conflict as a threat. We're incredibly risk averse, and this isn't a personality trait, it's built in. No one in our collective is likely to ever take an opportunity, no matter how well laid out, to call out someone being an asshole or have some witty comeback to a transphobe or whatever. We won't even think of one. That's wired into our nervous system, it's just how our body reacts to danger. We stumble over ourselves if we try to do anything other than freeze.

This isn't a fault. This wouldn't be overwritten by sheer personality and willpower in a "real system." Some systems, maybe, but not all. So for those of you who feel like you "should" be a certain way and just can't because it's built into the body you're in to act differently; you're not any lesser for it. Whether you're a fictive, sourced in some way, have a certain role that "should" be different, your personality is just like that, or some other reason I can't think of- don't be too hard on yourself for things you can't control. The body you're in just wants to protect you.

Even if sometimes, you (and I) strongly disagree with it on what exactly that means.

-Pyre

[dazzle02]

Buck and Maddie's relationship is one of the most interesting on the show to me personally.

She was nine, she lost her brother and gained a new one and suddenly she's not just an older sister, she's a parent too. She's nine years old and someone's Mother. While not being allowed to properly grieve the brother she just lost. Not even allowed to acknowledge his existence.

And of course she did the best she could, but she was a child raising another child. No parent has all the answers, but especially not a CHILD who never asked to have this put on them. So she of course got things wrong. One that really sticks out is her explanation about their parents worry when Evan falls off his bike. She kinda put the idea in his head that getting hurt is what will get him that love he craves from their parents. And that was NOT her fault. She was 12. And also living in this abusive household. But she was the one that gave him the idea to continue hurting himself to get attention. And there are likely other things that he learned from her that weren't actually healthy, due to her being a child trying to learn about the world herself.

And when she left for Boston, that would definitely feel like a parental abandonment for Evan due to her being the only parental figure he ever really had. But it WASN'T. It was a 19 year old moving out and going to School, which is what a lot of people that age tend to do. But to Evan, it would feel like the only parent he's ever known leaving him. And logically he'd know that's not the case. She's NOT his mother, she's his sister and she's supposed to live her life and she never asked to raise a child at such a young age. He was NOT her responsibility. But emotionally? That's the start of his abandonment issues.

And it's why Maddie can be kinda overbearing with him at times too. (Especially after the lightning strike...) It was ingrained in her from the age of nine that he's her kid and she has to take care of him. So as soon as she sees him suffering in any way, those instincts come back full force. She's gotta take care of him, make sure he's not going to die while she's not looking. AND make it clear she's not leaving him again.

They've had to figure out how to go from the relationship they had as kids where she was more a parent than a sister, to a new one now that they're adults where they're siblings.

And that's gotta be tough. And I would love more of a focus on that really. Just them still kinda adjusting to having to have this new dynamic. Because logically they both are aware that Maddie having to raise Buck was messed up and unfair for them both. But it's also just what's normal to them.

And any time someone comes for Maddie about not being a good sister it makes my blood boil. SHE DOES HER BEST! She was a child raising a child, and she's now an adult who went through abuse for pretty much her entire life! First the neglect from her parents (plus the parentification) and then her marriage to Doug for like 15 years! Of course she's not perfect. And as much as they both love each other, they ARE BOTH part of each others traumas. For Maddie a big trauma for her was having to raise him, and for Buck a big trauma for him was her leaving. And they've managed to work through that for the most part. It's always going to be there, they're both very defining for each of them. For Maddie having to become a parent at such a young age made her feel as though she couldn't be a very good one due to not being a perfect parent AS A CHILD. And for Buck, Maddie leaving was definitely the start of his abandonment issues. And neither of them are at fault for that, but they both have these issues that are directly tied to each other. It all comes back to their parents though. If they'd just done their jobs as parents, things would be so different.

Some of this may not make much sense as it is very hot here right now and I am not thinking right. But you get what I mean, hopefully. 🤣

I would also like to add to Supernatural fans, you can not claim Dean Winchester is just the best brother in the world for raising Sam and then turn around and claim Maddie is a terrible sister. Especially as Dean could be very abusive at times...

[lugarn]

if you are one of the very loud ppl who think that mame must be demonized in the tags for every show she makes, and this is just a 100% normal thing mame fans should put up with, please block me.

i don't wanna hear your takes and i certainly don't wanna see y'all being increasingly hostile in the tags every week about completely innocuous aspects of Love Sea.

block me now and we'll both be happier, please and thanks.

[anubisthe1]

Can't stay on Twitter for too long because randomly, I'll stumble upon a tweet that says something like:

"It's 2024, and there are still sakura haters" or

"Why is everyone so mad at a 16 year old girl?"

(THE LOUDEST SCREAM YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE)

[nartml]

Scrolling through the pro sasuke tag, as any sane person does, you come across a lot of different takes on Sasuke.

We have to lay down some ground rules on being a Sasuke stan here, because I've seen some outrageous shit on that tag.

These are, in my personal opinion, the most important rules:

Now, you're immediately disqualified the moment you have tagged anything along the lines of "pro sasusaku", "pro konoha", "pro tobirama(that little bitch)" or "pro itachi". The last one is the only one that can be just a little debatable.

Can't emphasize the pro ss one enough, y'all can't ship sasusaku and support Sasuke, those two are mutually exclusive. (Putting less emphasis on the other ones, cuz personally, I thankfully haven't seen many pro konoha or pro tobirama posts that include Sasuke. Thankfully.)

You're also immediately disqualified, if you put your ships first, and Sasuke second. Sasuke is more than his ships, ffs. If you can't discuss his character without bringing in whoever you ship him with, then it's a problem. The moment you prioritize your romantic fantasies over Sasuke's own convictions, is the moment you are now stripped of the privilege of being a Sasuke stan (cough looking at the sasusakus and sasuhinas rn cough)

That is all, thank you.

Pls don't take this too seriously btw

[iholli]

Your f/os are not only okay with you being proship, they support you in it, no matter if you actively enjoy problematic ships or just believe in ship and let ship.

Maybe your f/o doesn't care one way or another, they just understand that it's all fictional and no one is being harmed.

Or maybe they're proship too, because they know how important it is to fight against censorship and harassment.

Whatever the case, your f/os love you, and they'll always back you up. They don't hate you for being proship, they don't want you in jail over fiction. You're doing good.