#and then I'll either reblog again to the correct one or just say fuck it and leave it there

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

(Curious because I have 4 (this is my main one but I had a tumblr once before and realized putting all my obsessions in one blog doesn't really work for me))

[chaoortu]

listen i know i yap a lot about nick and neurodiversity in my fics but it's like. every time i reread heartstopper it really jumps out at me and i'll probably reblog this again with more thoughts as i continue my reread but like.

it strikes me as interesting that despite the fact that nick gets called a chav pretty early on by tao, we never actually see nick acting that way on page. i think the show does a good job at showing how nick has sort of chameleoned himself and stuffed his real personality down but the show is a topic for a different post. in the webcomic we see it once when charlie is teasing him about being laddish and nick decides to act that way for a laugh. on one hand, i chalk this up to most of the early webcomic/heartstopper in general being in Charlie's pov. he wouldn't have noticed these things about Nick because they didn't really notice each other until their meet cute, which is realistic. I think it also speaks well to Charlie's character that he takes who Nick is at face value and challenges Tao's opinion of him. but what jumps out at me is that in harry's birthday party we sort of see the first instance of nick's "meaner" side and it's in the context of defending Charlie. Still! The first instance of this really sunshiney character taking quite a big turn!

But notice how the dig isn't personal? These are all observations about Harry that can be deduced in the context of the material before it. That is to say, despite being friends with Harry since he was like 11, Nick keeps it simple. It reminds me a lot of how you correct a dog's behavior in the moment and I can go on for ages about Nick and dogs but again-- that'll be another post. What follows this really intense moment is another really intense moment when he and Charlie are alone and like yeah, they're teenagers, being teenaged is intense enough. But after their kiss, we have this panel and my God is it one of my favs:

I really love how Nick is framed with flowers in this scene because it really feels like it's him blossoming into himself in this moment where it's just him and Charlie. Charlie is shown over and over again to be Nick's safe person in comic and while they are obviously falling in love way before this, I still feel like this is the moment where Nick decides it's safe to love Charlie (I mean duh, they kiss a LOT in this episode), or rather, to hand Charlie his emotions and feel like they won't be fucked with or used against him. And that's huge! Nick wears all his feelings on his sleeves, he's not even slick about it either-- the fact that Christian, Sai, and Otis pick up on the fact that Nick has a thing for Charlie before he does speaks a lot to the fact that Nick doesn't seem very aware of how much of himself he gives away on the regular. Which again, in juxtaposition with the fact that he's perceived as a judgmental rugby lad by Tao (which, grain of salt here. I love Tao a lot but he's also quite judgmental in his own ways so this is a pot and kettle situation), and the fact that his own mother comments on the fact that he's much more himself since befriending Charlie? That's MASSIVE. I dunno. I could be projecting here but as an autistic teenager who did everything in my power to be like my peers and lowkey hated myself for it, I find this incredibly relatable. We see Nick starting to realize that a lot of his friends are dicks several times before he and Charlie kiss for the first time, and that's also relatable. It took me so long and still takes me so long to realize that people I thought were friends are actually quite shit. Again, I could be projecting but it reads very neurodivergent to me that it takes Nick being exposed to someone who is actually kind to him (Charlie) to realize that his friends aren't kind people. Insane tbh! Something else that got me is that we see Nick struggle with the fact that he really likes Charlie and wants to stay with him vs. the responsibility he feels to regroup with his friends. I don't actually think it's responsibility. I read it as Nick putting his mask back on and resuming the expectations he's been bearing since before he met Charlie and it's a visible struggle for him.

Nick, while pretty unaware of the fact that he can be read like a book, is also incredibly aware of the role he plays in his own friend group and the ways in which he has to perform. But he doesn't like it now. His early love for Charlie really puts things in perspective for him that he doesn't have to accept where he's at currently if he's unhappy and we get that moment of regret where we see that he knows he fucked up by leaving Charlie.

It looks like he's disassociating here. That, or his mind is still in that room with Charlie. It's a battle of expectations vs. what Nick wants. And Nick's wants are never Nick's first priority. He's a pathological people pleaser after all. And despite the fact that he just fully made out with another boy despite barely having figured out that he likes guys and the ethics on Charlie kissing him without asking (teenage stuff, I'm not arguing about it rn especially because this doesn't bother Nick in canon. idk why this discourse exists but maybe i was just making out too much as a teenager) The next day, Nick clears the air. Literally runs to Charlie's in the rain so they can talk it out and so he can be understood properly. He's desperate to make things right with him because 1) he's in love and 2) he cares a lot about Charlie's feelings to the point of putting them above his own later in the story. But the way he does it and the way he sort of overexplains his feelings almost constantly really strike me as neurodivergent. Nick goes above and beyond explaining how he feels to make sure nothing can be misconstrued and that really gives me the sense that Nick is... somewhat aware of the fact that people assume how he feels? Granted, this is coming off the heels of everyone saying he was in love with Tara, so maybe he felt the need to explain himself more since some people think one pre-teen kiss = fairytale love. (ignore the fact that Nick's fairytale kiss with the flowers totally equaled fairytale levels of love for him, lol.)

He literally explodes! Charlie is physically taken aback by his words. This happens right after Charlie has his big "I shouldn't have kissed you this was all my fault" etc. explosion. Which! The fact that Charlie explains how he feels down to feeling at fault and sharing that with Nick, who is very much like no.. no nO WAIT. I LIKED IT. (so much that he kisses Charlie to get him to understand that pre-explosion). And again, we sort of see Nick trying to bottle and be a bit more normal about it immediately before when Charlie tells him he's getting mixed-signals. Nick's response was to unmix the signal and then cry about it because THIS. IS. A . LOT.

For a cis-male character who is involved in a very masculine sport, surrounded by masculine people who are not nearly as emotional as he is(on page at least) the fact that Nick goes above and beyond in this moment where he's so vulnerable to ensure Charlie understands him is hugely neurodivergent to me. He's making sure Charlie gets that Nick loves him, he's making sure he gets that he's not mad about the kiss, and he makes sure Charlie knows he feels bad for leaving him behind. His bases are covered! There's no room to make assumptions about how he feels and I imagine for Charlie, a chronic overthinker, the fact that Nick is so blunt about his feelings all the time must be fucking incredible. He can actually take Nick at face value (at least at this point in the story ). But especially after Ben's gaslighting shit? Like fuck! I'd want to jump into a relationship too if the guy I've been crushing on for like two months ran to me house in the rain, kissed me, cleared the air, and then cried in my arms. I love emotional honesty! It's also interesting to me that it seems like his confusion towards his sexuality bothers him a LOT more than his feelings for Charlie do. He likes being in love with Charlie, that much obvious, but it's this conflict within himself that bugs him. And idk, I could be projecting again but I just can't see a neurotypical teenager reacting like that. To me, it really reads as Nick going. "Okay, I like kissing Charlie and being around Charlie. I'm in love, this is good. Check." but then his sexuality is a huge gray area until he does more research on bisexuality and decides that's the label he wants to use and I think the not knowing is what really bothers him. There's a lot of pressure in queer spaces especially nowadays to be labeled and for Nick, a character who buried his personality to be accepted by others, to specifically be upset at being confused about his identity reads as neurodivergent to me. Nick, by all accounts, doesn't seem to really care about his sexuality except for the way it challenges who he believed himself to be up until this point and what that means to the people around him who think he's just some straight laddish dude, you know? Largely, he also seems rather apathetic towards sexuality and gender in general except when he has to confront his sexuality and how other people will perceive him if they knew what his sexuality is-- hence keeping things between him and Charlie a secret despite the fact that he's never ever been shown to be ashamed of the fact that he loves Charlie.

Anyway, this post got way too long. Enjoy one of my favorite OCD/AUDHD moments between Nick and Charlie. THEY LITERALLY KISSED LIKE TEN MINUTES BEFORE THIS MOMENT... INSANE BEHAVIOR... I love them. The sillies.

[dropoutconfessions]

this is directed towards the owners of the account, and sure, any "fans" too. you cannot pretend to not realize that ALL you're doing is bringing toxicity into the fandom.

it's been less than a week and your posts are already mimicking 2018/2020 fandom misogyny.

you're giving hate a platform. that's all you're doing. it's not fun, it's not interesting.

that in addition to how clueless you are about slurs and general etiquette and respect on the site, maybe should be a hint that you shouldn't be running this.

You can go ahead believe that I am clueless about slurs, but personally, as someone who's very identity gets called a slur all the fucking time, I get pretty annoyed when someone makes the call that something is a slur when it doesn't apply to them. Whenever something annoys me, I tend not to do it to others, but that's just me.

I may be a minority on a couple different fronts, but unless I was suddenly an expert in Native Canadian or Alaskan culture and general opinions of the term, I'm not making that call, and in my opinion, neither should anyone else who isn't either well informed or affected personally by that specific term. I know how etiquette on this site works. I've also been on this site, for long enough, to have formed my own opinions on how well this site practices etiquette. (That means I've watched enough people get run off this site to know this site kinda doesn't practice etiquette). I have explained, in my pinned post, exactly why I choose to ignore the rules people have decided are the standard, because they do not work for spoiler tagging, and we are discussing a media partially locked behind a pay wall. There are dropout fans, who can't watch every season of dimension 20, because they watch through YouTube and/or Spotify. I am going to continue using the primary tags as well as the anti tags for tagging purposes, because I do not want to be the reason someone learns about a character death, every time someone wants to talk about how they kinda didn't like a character who may or may not be a backup character wink wink to those of you who know which season i am referring to I fully gave everyone a new tag (#negative dropout confession), that I retroactively went back and applied to all the posts I believed it fit, so that you could block posts that were negative. Now I'm not perfect, and am actually pretty shitty at social queues and kinda forgetful, so if you find a post you think is negative in a way that isn't "i kinda would have preferred this, but i loved the season" let me know, i will retag it as such. I'm only human and just like everyone else, not above being checked on my shit. If that's still not enough, it's a 3 click process to block this blog entirely. We here at dropoutconfessions will be sad to see you go, but I'll still understand. A place of anonymity, to freely share how you feel, is going to attract people who have feelings that usual get them hatred. And yes, some people misuse it. Typically, I do one of 2 things when that happens.

If it's a misunderstanding of the media, I'll add corrections to to the response to clarify, anything I miss, 3-5 people will probably take care of within an hour of the post going up, just check the replies

If it's something truly awful to say, I'll block the asker and delete the ask. Something I've had to do about half a dozen times already.

I have, multiple posts, debating those very posts you are referring to I have, multiple people, defending those characters, in the replies and reblogs of those posts you're referring to I have, multiple posts, in queue (as of me writing this reply) because i don't like flooding people's blogs, that are saying the exact same thing, without calling me toxic and clueless I understand you don't like the hatred, I don't like it either. But I do believe everyone deserves a platform if they'll be civil about it, and they give their opponents an opportunity to call their take absolute dogwater, once again, check the replies, some of these asks get flamed almost immediately. And no. I don't think all I do is bring toxicity to the fandom. People use this as an outlet for how they feel about just, the story. There's like, multiple posts about how people are a bit overbearing expecting perfection from the cast and how certain seasons deserve more love and how amazing some of the other shows are and how amazing some of the cast members are. It's easy to see the negativity, but it's not all there is. And trust me I'm not immune to that either, it's exhausting sometimes. I have gotten more asks about how "obsessed everyone is with Brennan Lee Mulligan" than I ever have about Brennan in a context outside of d20, the show that he runs. Tunnel vision is a bitch sometimes. And at the end of the day, if you think I'm doing a bad job at this, you can make your own confessions blog. This blog exists cause I got bored of my statistics homework, and realized there wasn't a confessions blog. You can too, and if everyone prefers yours, they can use yours, I truly do not mind. This blog is just something I feel like needs to exist, and since no one else was actively doing it (as far as I could tell, no one has told me the contrary). It's really just something to do with my hands so I can focus on dnd games and my video calls with my gf. That's it. If you have any specific suggestions on how I can improve, I'm open to listening to them, as I have proved in the past, but beyond sharing how I feel and addressing how you feel, I don't really know what to say or do. Thank you for telling me how you feel about this blog, this fandom, and Dropout, a media company we love. That's all I could ever want from an ask on this blog.

[tommyssupercoolblog]

BIG MAN!!!!!!! QUESTION!!!!!! host is wondering if you have any good miscecanis blog reccs!!!!!! he wants me to ask JUST in case -@ctommyinnit (pssst ping me when you answer)

HEY OTJER TOMMY @ctommyinnit HELLO HELLO!!!!!! Sorry this took so long to answer, I have things HAPPENINGG

In general I suggest just searching "miscecanis" or "a/b/o lifestyle" (since they're the most popular tags here) and looking at some of the recent posts now and again, and then following blogs that consistently catch your eye.

Regaurdless, here (under the cut) are some blogs and the general vibe of their accounts, what to expect, etc, to help out!! (Hopefully)

@beta-adjacent is one of my mutuals and posts a lot of cool a/b/o stuff- they Reblog other unrelated stuff too from time to time.

@omega-floof is great. Lots of worldbuilding-esque posts which is SO FUCKING RAD. Sometimes has nsfw content but in a very like, clinical way?? It's not porn is what I'm saying, nothing is described it's just like "oh and then they breed lol"

I have no idea how to describe @pack-the-pack , but I can say that this account rocks. Just like….just look at it. I'm sure they can do a better summary or someone else can but sometimes I struggle to describe things. LOOK AT IT look

@transiota is also a mutual and is really cool!! They post a lot of alpha and intersex-a/b/o content, the latter being a rlly specific niche haha. they also post unrelated content there, and sometimes post suggestive-ish content too tho I personally have never seen anything completely nsfw. (I could be wrong though). They don't tag their posts either so if you have a trigger or if you want to avoid discourse than tread carefully or just look at their posts when they get reblogged or show up under #misecanis.

@omega-puppy has a neat account, again I'll give a heads up that they post nsfw on their acc a lot, but it's not exclusively nsfw; they have other posts too. We aren't mutuals (they are following me though, hi!!!) but I see them in my notes a lot and tend to reblog a lot of their sfw or close to sfw text posts. From what I've seen I think they're poly/have multiple mates, but if I'm mistaken I'm sure it'll get cleared up in comments/reblogs.

Last but certainly not least, @transalpha-coining . They're inactive nowadays but they have a TON of treasures stored up on that blog if you're willing to scroll through it. Headcanons and flags and explanations of worldbuilding stuff, plus they used to take asks/requests. They even invented words for things, like "kappa" as an omega version of "feminine", which regardless of whether you like the word is definitely a super cool thing to do. They're one of my all-time favorite miscecanis blogs so if you have the patience to look through their old posts, definitely do.

If anyone tagged here wants to correct anything or make any comments, please do!! You can also reblog w more blog recs if u want

[gregorygerwitz]

As a queer servicemember who did serve during dadt that got out the year before it was repealed - FUCK DADT, it ruined lives and fuck the fact that it took so long for our military members to get their dishonorables changed and the fact that they left homosexuality on the new dd214s so former service members still had it follow them.

As someone who has never served myself and only has internet research and old Navy stories from my grandfather and cousin and one former coworker who was briefly in the army to go by, and every single one of them is cishet, I appreciate your input immensely. and, quieter, thank you for this, specifically, because this is exactly my point, I just don't have all the exacts to back it up like this. I've been doing my best to not rant about it and start things because it's about a fictional character it isn't that deep but also... considering how many people it affected in real life, yes it is.

I can't tell if you're yelling at me, specifically, or just using the anon function in my inbox to protect yourself from the fandom having different opinions (I get that, zero judgement whatsoever, I've been doing that a lot the last ~week just so I can have my opinion out there and avoid the backlash that comes with that and protect my sanity), but I'm going to put my own thoughts here, too, either way, because I feel like we're on the same page?

I know that using DADT seems like an easy out for speedrunning Tommy's timeline and making him younger than he would logically be to fit Lou's age (45 isn't old and 45 doesn't "look" all that different from 39 unless you're being ageist but whatever), but it's really not. There are so many complications that come with it - such as a dishonorable discharge.

Someone reblogged one of my posts earlier this week (the same person my vague post was about today, and I'll keep it vague I'm not here to call people out directly this is my blog and I'm going to put my opinion on it, no one should go harassing this person about any of it because it's fictional characters, they're allowed to have different opinions and headcanons about things), with a comment about how the LAFD (and PD? it's less relevant and I don't want to scroll back in their blog or my notifs for something minor like that) was hiring people regardless of sexuality in the 90s. Good for them! That doesn't change the dishonorable discharge tho!

Like... please correct me if I'm wrong, because again, I have no personal experience with any of this, just too much time on my hands and too many military blorbos, but when a dishonorable discharge shows up on someone's record, it doesn't necessarily say why it's there. It doesn't say if it's related to DADT or some other incident in the field or whatever it is. So yes, while the LAFD might have been hiring queer people far sooner than that, they still aren't going to look at a guy who has a (recent!) dishonorable discharge and say "yeah, we're going to put him through our training, which costs taxpayers x amount of money, and then hire him and pay him to have someone's life and death in his hands."

DADT and all the discharges that came from it completely ruined lives and made going on with any kind of career, especially something for the government even on the level of firefighting or police work, all but impossible. It's not an easy out to make Tommy the same age as Lou. It's actually completely nonsensical because he never would have been allowed to even get within 100ft of the fire academy, let alone be a senior member of a firehouse in 2009 when Hen joined the 1118.

There is a reason it's called a dishonorable discharge, and it would have completely ruined his life, no matter what the reason was for it.

(also, re: the game I play with Kit and Cass, the complaint this morning puts Tommy's age at 55 💛)

[fictionkinfessions]

Hey, it's that anon from earlier complaining about the tagging mistakes... I just wanted to apologize for blowing up at you like I did.

I really wasn't thinking about what I was saying, and I've just been going through it recently, so pretty much anything was about to set me off. I know that's no excuse to take it out on you, and I'm so sorry. I never meant to hurt anyone. In my head at the time, I was giving valid criticism, but I see that I made a big mistake going about that the way I did. I was a complete and total asshole. I understand that you're only one person running this blog, so of course you won't be able to catch every mistake, and I'm ashamed of my ignorance and the way I acted.

Everyone else, please stop dogpiling me over this. I learned my lesson, I apologized, it's done, it's over with. I get it, I made a huge mistake. It wouldn't be the first time.

Either way, I hope you can forgive me. I'm a little embarrassed that not only did I have the audacity to say all of that stuff, but that it's now just on the internet for the world to see. Not that it's anyone's fault but mine. Thank you for your time, and I'm sorry once again. /gen

I don't know if you'll even see this but I'll try posting it anyways. Sorry it took so long, I wanted to think about what to say since I'd only get one chance.

This accidentally got long so there's a summary at the bottom. I know huge blocks of text can be difficult to parse. And a read more. Tada!

I accept your apology and understand you really did mean well. I know I fuck up tags fairly often and there are ways to mitigate that on my part. Like you suggested, double checking with a search is not impossible of me. Like I mentioned in a reblog of that post, I will make an effort in the future to search names and try to get it right the first time around. You were right to have sent that message. If you noticed and got irritated, I'm sure others have as well. I'm glad you went through the effort of sending a message about it. The point of tags is to ensure people can find their confessions. They can't do that if it's in the wrong place. I would disagree a bit, regarding memorizing sources and names. Yes I can recognize most names and sources, both stated and through confession context. I have done this long enough that it's usually accurate. But there are countless sources, names, and AU / fan created sources. I don't believe it's possible to memorize all of them. I think your suggestion of double checking with a search is reasonable and I will do so in the future. You seem very kind and compassionate, and I think you could understand where I'm coming from, regarding this.

[side note. You're not wrong about memorizing custom tags. I did have a little text document with custom tags and pre-typed names and sources. But at some point I stopped adding to it when it got overwhelmingly long and out of date when people stopped using their custom tags. Johnny Americanidiot, where you go? It also had reminders for what sources needed blacklist tagss. That didn't help the huge swathes of text that my eyes kept skipping over.... Anyways]

I am sorry you got dogpiled. I can understand where they are coming from, and I think they meant well too. I am glad to see people defending me. But I think at some point it went from blunt correction to outright bullying. Considering we get shit on by everyone who thinks kin people eat real gemstones because they're dragonkin, it really sucks to do that to each other. I hope we can all keep that in mind, going forward from here.

I will admit, and I don't mean this in a guilt trip way, that yeah that message did make me step back for a few days. I was more hurt over the tone than the correction. It made me wonder if doing this for so long made people take this blog for granted. You know what I mean? I've been here since 2016, on the first fictionkinfessions blog. Hell, I was a mod on the first @/kinfessions blog for a short while. I do this for fun, as far as typing tags and posting things others sent in can be considered fun. I always thought that if it was more trouble than it's worth, I'd just quit. Someone else can handle it until they felt it was time to pass it on. I don't think I've reached that point yet. I still like reading what people have to say and seeing people reach out, make connections through ask responses or reblogs or replies. It's endearing that they have a chance to do so.

[Not to get philosophical, but has anyone considered how lucky we are to exist simultaneously in this time and place? We get to live together and connect to each other, millions of miles apart. I think that's neat. Otherwise we'd all be that one Oddball in the Village who says they were once King Arthur /joking]

Anyways. I'm ok now. There was hurt and now it's gone. We're ok.

I promise I do take it seriously and make the effort. If I tag incorrectly or fail to tag a content warning, it's never on purpose. [excluding, you know, silly tags like 'ohio cw' or 'capitalism cw'. I think that's clearly intended as humorous and not sincere trigger warnings.]

The confessions are tagged, I don't delete confessions I personally don't like, the queue is always running, the followers list cleaned of spam bots, the activity page monitored for the very rare peer abuse [bullying], ask responses and such non-confessions usually get queued up asap, etc. Sometimes I think other people might be better suited for this just because they may not had adhd rearing its head. [Also not a guilt trip, I don't talk about my medical history much and I don't expect anyone to remember this tidbit. Also not an excuse, just a explanation as to why my memory does not work sometimes. Zest la vee.]

I don't know how to end this. Here is the summary.

In Summary

I accept your apology. Thank you for coming back and talking this out. I am sorry you were dogpiled and don't entirely agree with the amount of negative attention. I think it went past a reasonable limit of common courtesy at some point. I understand where you were coming from and I agree with what you said. I was hurt by your tone but I'm not any more. I will make the effort to double check names and sources. I hope whatever you were / are going through passes quickly. We'll be ok one day! I must believe!

Connie / mod party cat!

[eldritchamy]

hey bud, did we check the sources on that reblog about "resistance leadership" or are we just letting anything by these days

listen

my brain runs above 5fps for about 3 nonconsecutive minutes on a good day, and because of how much time I've spent cultivating my tumblr experience, I sometimes don't focus both of my brain cells on parsing stuff thoroughly, because I know the people I follow are pretty well aligned with me on the political spectrum.

since you weren't more specific about which post this was, I scrolled back myself and found which one you were talking about.

and you're right!

OP was some weird catholic blogger, so yeah the post was probably not meant in the way I interpreted it at the time, and I've deleted it. because I don't just let anything by if I can help it.

I've said so many times that I WELCOME being corrected when I make a mistake. I always want to know if I reblogged something that was dubiously sourced, or had a different meaning than I thought, or was made by someone I don't want to give a platform to. because I always want to be able to correct it when it happens. I can ONLY correct it when I know it's happened.

I want you to correct me again next time!

just, can you be a little bit nicer about it next time please? I have had almost 240,000 posts across my two major blogs over the years. in a quarter million posts, I'm bound to fuck up a few times. and I have. and I've corrected it every time I've been made aware of the problem. it's not malicious. I'll fuck up again and it won't be malicious then either.

do you have other posts in mind at the moment that made you phrase this so passive aggressively, or were you just having a bad day and taking it out on me?

cause if there's other posts, tell me about them and I'll deal with it.

if not? ouch. I hope whatever bad day you're having that made you say it like that gets better soon.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

do you think jack was hurt when the crew chose to stay with stede and no one wanted to come with him, the most fun guy?

Probably not. I actually saw a take from an Izzy Stan once that I low key agreed with but I didn't reblog it because obviously, but it is relevant here so I'll repeat it.

Jack and Ed have a similar response or a crowd turning against them, probably because they came up in piracy similarly, but they have that response for vastly different reasons, and in different ways.

When a crowd turns against Ed he takes it personally and tries to kill everybody. When a crowd turns against Jack he doesn't take it personally and tries to kill everybody. I hope this makes sense (using episodes 5, 8, and 10 as evidence) somewhere along the line they both learned that the correct reaction to a crowd turning against you is to try to get rid of as many of them as you can, which makes sense, if you're a pirate captain and a crew turns against you it's mutiny o'clock. And Ed and Jack are the two pirate captains ever so...

Now I could see an argument for the Jack doesn't take it personally assertion because he does in fact say the line "well when tie an anchor around your leg and toss you overboard it feels pretty personal." And Ed has the line "I know he comes on a bit strong at first but he's insecure". I tend to think he could be insecure without taking that specific scene with Karl personally given that it's repeatedly established that the crew aren't very serious pirates, which I think Jack gives wayyyyy less of a fuck about than Izzy so long as they're drinking with him, but could still probably use to mend a bruised ego. so whether he takes things like this personal hinges on the tossing you overboard line, which he may or may not have been lying about. We have no solid evidence either way. So I tend to waffle based on what's funniest. I've been on a he's lying kick recently because he's my garbage little dirtbag meowmeow. But sometimes I think about him surviving three separate mutinies and having to agree to this plan because he's broke now and I think about the fact that he showed up in a dinghy and I'm like... Meow meow is also having a midlife crisis and he can't die and that is very funny to me. So that statement about him not taking it personally might not be true and as much as I think the line about pirates not needing friends was pure gass to try to hurt Ed for leaving, which he absolutely would have cried about later if the cannonball hadn't immediately given him much bigger problems, he is pretty fucking blaze about the whole thing the next day. And he was planning on leaving with just Ed.

Now what I want you to consider is imagine he has been mutinied three times. I didn't think about this til right now but I want us to think more about why he does say "whose with me in" this scene. If enough of those fuckers agree to leave with him, Stede is no longer the fucker with the boat, Jack can leave Stede and Buttons on the beach of blind man's cove for the British to find the next day, take his crew, and fuck off to go be Bonnie and Clyde core evil boyfriends with Ed again. That was never ever ever gonna happen but I feel like Jack doesn't quite know how astronomically long of a shot that is. I haven't thought about why he would faument mutiny against Stede other than "he's a douchebag and trying to take a shot as he leaves" until now but there is a reason. Like any more opportunist less tightly knit pirate crew would be like "sorry about your bird Buttons but Blackbeard and Calico Jack know what they're doing we can make more money if we go with them"

Jack doesn't know how deep these emotional ties run is what I'm saying. He doesn't know they're fambly. He doesn't know that Ed is madly in love with the guy who he's been hanging out with for *checks notes* these past few weeks/one moon cycle. How would he know that? He showed up yesterday and spent all of it drunk.

I think too much about this man.

Anyway TL;DR: nah he seems way to chill about it the next day and I think his intention was always to leave with Just Ed he just wanted to see if he could get more bang for his buck and when he couldn't ... Well... "Later losers."

[auto-manic]

I have tried SEVERAL calculators and they also give conflicting answers. What I learned in school after basic PEMDAS is "GEMDAS" "G" meaning "grouping symbol." PEMDAS then REAPPLIES for each level of grouping. In this case, and as some calculators also seem to be doing, the division is being treated as a fraction and thus 3(5-4+1) is ALL done FIRST, making the answer 3.

And guess what? I saw this in the notes with WolframAlpha being used to prove the answer is 12. (Reblog referenced and screenshot from @baronbrian)

See that purple button under the textbox that says "math input"????? Click it and hit enter again!

NOW IT'S FUCKING 3. THIS is how I did it in my head and this is what we learned in school!!!

I'll admit, I have no idea what "natural language" is but from what I've read, the "math input" feature is essentially schoolbook math. If you were in an algebra class, 3 would be the correct answer. But as @sibred said in the replies, it's ambiguous. In my opinion, it's deceptive. I don't think the snark in reply from op was necessary.

I know I don't normally like. ~engage~ with posts, but this had me fired up. I'm an autistic math nerd who hates being wrong, so seeing WolframAlpha conflict with my answer and seeing many other online calculators also give conflicting results AND seeing the arguing in the notes kind of set me off. I don't think it's in proper spirit of this kind of poll making OR in the spirit of learning to assert that there's only one answer when just a weeeeee bit of exploration shows that even the calculators aren't sure based on how they read it (and yes I was inputting the problem exactly as stated).

TL;DR the answer can be either and op is trying to get you riled up on purpose.

Math Poll 2.0

Due to a popular demand (stemming from the discussion under this prompt)! 🧮

[feralattentionwhore]

Get to know the blog:

So apparently my posts are something worth following for so I guess I'll do a bio and about me thing that definitely won't turn into a random ADHD ramble about shit

About me

I'm Feral, 19 and I never learnt how to read ✌️

^^ I'm leaving this up because I think it's hilarious but I'm 21 now

Living in the UK but not white

demisexual as fuck, preference for women but honestly I'm more interested in how we vibe than any gender. I tend to identify most with lesbian/sapphic labels because I feel most comfortable in this community.

fuck knows my gender either, I mostly present femme atm but I just identify as *all* I'd say I'm more nb/w or nb/nb & t4t but just in love with queer people in general. I am a girl but I'm also a boy, I'm not cis. You aren't straight if you're attracted to me

completely and utterly in love, technically poly

-Dni and more under than the cut-

DNI:

I'm saying this now, I love y'all but minors please get off my page *respectfully*. This includes blank blogs without your age/ age range

Cis men-Age regressors-People who fetishise trans people, s*ssies and cross dressers-Gender/sexuality correction-terfs/homophobes etc-

Oh and PSA this fucking includes people who gatekeep LGBT labels, including but not limited to hating on butch lesbians who transition, nb&he/him lesbians. Just honestly if you aren't accepting of the ✨ENTIRE✨ LGBT+ community and how people choose to identify please leave. No buts no ifs no maybes

How to give attention:

Asks are completely okay, if you want to talk through anon regularly pick an emote and I'll be sure to tag it so they're easy to find. Flirt with me or ask questions, just keep it within my limits please.

Requests are also totally okay along with reblogs of any of my posts. They're always appreciated!

Unless we've interacted before please don't randomly DM me. Mutuals are obviously always welcome to chat, for non moots I prefer asks to start off with

I tend to check out profiles that reblog/follow so if you want to be moots then that's the way to go

I can't believe I have to say this, but if you're only messaging me to sext or roleplay or whatever you call it you can leave. It makes me uncomfortable, and will most likely make me feel weird about talking to you again in the future. I'm happy to flirt but unless we've talked about our limits etc please don't message me with that intention

Safe words and talks about boundaries and limits are non negotiable in kink. If you're not respectful of that you're not a dom, if you don't have complete understanding of how this works and expect to engage in anything sexual with someone without doing proper preparation you're practicing unsafe and frankly dangerous kink. Kink is something serious and you need to know what you're doing

I'm demisexual, with a partner and require actual communication before I engage in anything other than flirting. If you're literally only talking to me bc I'm hot or for sex n stuff you're going to be disappointed because I'm not hot let's be honest here

I also have a shit tonne of anxiety, so I will disappear if something makes me feel unsafe. If I don't reply, don't make it worse by getting upset. I'm sorry but I really just don't have the energy to deal with things, especially when we don't really vibe.

About ✨whore✨me:

I'm a sub mostly, total bottom and complete mess irl. thought I was ace until this year and basically innocent af (I mean significantly less as of v recently but still fairly shy). Also kinda a hermit so I'm very touch starved.

Short long summary of my kinks.. To be continued..

- Praise and nicknames, specifically cute ones that start with "my"

- Exhibitionism Mostly being uh, fucked in front of people and stuff

- hands and fingersJust god, everything to do with them. In my mouth? Yes, Pulling my hair? Yesss, choking me?? Yesssssssss, hurting tf out of me?? Please

- being manhandled, strength, just be stronger than me and throw me around pls&ty

- being a simp for me and letting me get away with pretty much anything?? Yes

- being controlled and posessiveness Like a lot, like probably more than a healthy amount

- being teased, constantly

- marks.. Just fucking marks feeling owned and having proof of it with collars and stuff

- and also pain, pain and more pain all the hard kinks

- voices, dirty talk, the way they beg, and moan, and call me a good girl, the way their voice drops when they tease me. Everything about voices

- corruption.. 👀 😤

- being free use, letting friends fuuck me, being a whore for everyone. Them sharing my nudes with their friends, them letting their friends fuck me? Yes please

- affectionate domination / soft doms but rough sex

- most of this is just the long way of saying I have a massive kink for my pretty ass girlfriend though.. Just everything about them.. Mostly their hands, and their voice and uh.. Yeah just them

Limits:

-degradation, any way shape or form,I'll most definitely cry. Acting like you don't like me, hurt me because you love me not because you think I'm worthless

- pet play, Ddlg and that kind of vibe aren't for me

- I don't quite know how to explain it but the strict af, black suit and tie, academy / high protocol/training style/straight people bdsm. It's just way too nonpersonal for me and not fun. I prefer messing around and stuff

- discipline, punishments and other things that make me think you hate me (see: I'm a big ass baby and sensitive af)

- refering to my uhh *anatomy* just uh it gives me dysphoria like a lot so please don't

- body fluid shit, incest, feet, tickling, hypnosis

- other things that I'm not perticularly comfortable talking about here, you don't need to know unless we're talking

Tags I use:

Yes I'm insanely bad at tagging things, yes I'm trying, no it's not working. If I forget to, just get mad at me in asks or something. I'm sorry ADHD just kind of does that

#feral asks - all asks that I've answered

#feral music - music recommendations because I have a god complex about music

#feral in love - direct posts about /wife/partner/Dom

#feral tmi - random personal shit about myself and figuring out my body

#feral reblogs - stuff I reblog, I have a separate account where I keep most of my reblogs but sometimes I can't help it

#needy feral - me begging for attention on Tumblr

#feral exposed - photos of me

#tw feral - depressing shit, mute the tag if you don't want to see that shit

#dark feral - hard kink shit, mute if you'd rather not see it

#feral complaints - shit that bothers me

#feral blogs - thoughts, updates and questions for you all about the blog

[rpbetter]

Hi Vespertine. Sorry to add to the pile, I promise I will send in some writing related things to compensate later. I also misgendered that user in a comment by accident with she/her. I blocked them, but they still looked at my blog, and they made a post that said by using the wrong pronouns, which they thought was intentional and meant to hurt them, I purposefully called them a hysterical woman stereotype. Obviously that wasn't true. I was just going off a comment someone else made on my blog where they used she/her, and I thought I had to correct myself. It was a case where good intentions, even if I was not happy with the user's behavior or expected to talk to them again, I was still going to use the right pronouns, but my intentions were warped by someone with an agenda. I'm sorry to hear you're getting the same heat. I didn't use my rp blog to interact with the user or talk about them because I was sure something like this would happen, either by them or other people like that callout blog, and I think other people had the same idea. I dodged a bullet there, but I'm still paranoid. I'm paranoid I'll hear a notif and see my rp blog in a callout for this, because someone hunted it down, or a callout for trying to talk to the person who started all the drama. Nobody should be scared to talk about someone on their own blog. Nobody should be scared to talk openly, in general. Nobody should be called out for trying to talk with someone either. This culture of fear is so disturbing to me.

Hey there, Anon!

Oh, I would love that, but you totally don't have to, of course. Don't feel bad for adding on, I'm here for anything at all, and honestly, with the job I'm doing IRL right now, it's really hard for me to concentrate well enough on finishing any of the advice posts (at least, to be the quality y'all deserve). It's a hot topic, it's included so, so, terribly many people in the RPC. It's also one that's generating some great, needed conversations. So, it isn't like you're adding to anything bad, annoying or distracting me, or contributing to the inflammatory side of this.

Hell, it's got to be really nice for some of the people in messages I've received to see proof that they weren't alone in this experience. I can keep publishing the hate anons for exactly that reason, and I can promise people they aren't the only ones (in this or in any such horrible behavior), but it's different to see it coming from a third party! So, thank you for that.

Though, I am deeply sorry that you were treated to more than a ringside seat in this debacle.

It's not very encouraging to be thoughtful and respectful of other people when literally nothing you can say or do will result in anything other than more twisting of your words, and that's a big problem I have with this shit. Things like actual transphobia, intentional misgendering, actual infantalization and shit treatment of ND people, actual harassment, etc. etc. etc. matter. It's just more trivializing of real problems for the sake of blowing nonexistent bullshit up, and that is immensely disgusting to me. The fact that you damn well know someone out there has had the reaction to this behavior of, well, fuck you then, fuck trans people is really upsetting.

Like, yeah, let's be real, if you require social rewards to do the right thing, you have some problems lol but at the same time, you know who does require social rewards to develop themselves? Young people. And the RPC is largely comprised of people in their early twenties who, for a variety of possible reasons, are still at that point

Furthermore, no, it's not anyone's job to be good representation at all times, especially when that performance comes at a cost to themselves, but maybe don't go out of your way to be the person that is the necessary push in the wrong direction of someone's formative experience with people of your community. If it's costing you nothing to not clown on serious issues, but is costing the entire world another bigot for you to clown on serious issues, the choice should be a bit obvious here. Whenever you're in a safe place - physically, emotionally - and capable of that kind of logic, exercise it, damn.

It's definitely a better course of action than playing out skewed activism by vilifying innocent people, more worthy of one's effort than losing their collective shit over a very easy mistake. One that I'd say was even less avoidable in your case. AGAIN, how, exactly is anyone supposed to know this shit when they're blocked? When they aren't subverting the blocks they, themselves, put in place? I know for a fact none of them are looking at the information of the people they choose to try to drive out of the RPC, but everyone else is supposed to make zero reasonable assumptions, check and recheck blogs they have made an effort not to visit for good reason. Sounds absolutely reasonable and sane!

So, you know what? I'm going to be even more offensive here and talk for a moment about why these mistakes are reasonable.

When we see a post and reblog it, it's not unreasonable to assume that the OP had knowledge we didn't. Since we blocked the offending party, but they're discussing them. OP uses the incorrect pronouns, we end using the incorrect pronouns as well. This is not malicious intent. It isn't intentional at all, it's just having a discussion. A discussion that wouldn't have even transpired if they hadn't taken it upon themselves to (what a coincidence) take personal issue with a RPer they repeatedly took out of context and decided to shame for it, before proceeding to get an even bigger stick and pot.

When we decide to block a blog, it's our responsibility to stay off of it. Not go looking at it for any reason. That is now off-limits. When someone blocks us, it's also our responsibility to respect that decision, no matter how outrageous it was, no matter what we might need to verify. That's the issue with blocking when we don't exploit how easy it is to get around blocking on tumblr; we've cut ourselves off from any further meaningful communication, including passive communication like rules and posts. Kind of like how you cannot expect an apology to mean a damn thing when you've blocked everyone you harassed, then made that apology in a post on your blocked blog. Don't put up walls you expect people to see through, then get upset when they can't see through them.

As a community, the RPC is primarily afab. That's never a problem to bring up when someone wants to be angry about their female muse not getting equal attention and so on, but it's a problem to discuss any other time, about any other problem. Dealing with the things that we're socially raised to ascribe to as afab people is that problem. It's reflected in our behaviors, interests, and speech. We may not want to live in a gendered world, we may eschew that, but we were raised in a gendered world and it shows. One which has a lot of complications for being that, like almost everyone feeling safer around afab people by default of the All Men Are Bad, All Women Are Harmless bullshit.

We not only know that the RPC is primarily afab, we tend to assume comfort, especially in hostile situations, by assuming those pronouns in others.

And it so does not matter how much any of us like it, some people have more masculine or feminine tones. Even in text. That means neither that someone's gender identity should be disregarded nor that this text-based presentation is correct, but like every other unfair thing that exists, it's a thing. Like you, Anon, you genuinely come across in tone as primarily neutral, slight lean toward masculine. Even if I wasn't inclined to do so, not knowing you and all, I'd use they/them for you instinctively because that's what your speech is giving me. That isn't any more unreasonable than ascribing another set of pronouns based on the same information.

Oh yeah, I know, lurkers, the difference is that they/them is the appropriate choice when one does not know. I know that logically, but people aren't always operating like robots, weirdly enough. We default to a lot of instinctive behaviors, and we aren't always operating at the top rung of cognition either. Being human works like that, it's really that simple and not malicious if you're not reading that into it.

As we're all aware, it is being read into, and your experience is exactly why; you now feel worried every time you get a notif, you've been outed as a supposed transphobe, and while it is incredibly fortunate you stopped this from transpiring on your RP blog, it still transpired somewhere and has had a negative effect. If they find they correct thing or set of things, they can get so many more people to dogpile you over it. Get enough people to do that, make someone miserable enough, especially people who are already going through a hard enough time already, they'll leave.

It is a terroristic act, and it has the effect of all terroristic acts; people are afraid to exist outside of shifting bounds (that shifting is a part of the terrorism). They can't have an opinion, write any muse/topic they wish, be honest on their own blogs, support the "wrong" topics, muns, or blogs. Attacking people for a mistake, not allowing them to address it either, just furthers all of that. It's showing the community what happens when you aren't on the "right" side, even if that isn't even the case. They certainly turn on their own quickly enough.

So, of course, it's a culture of fear and it is disturbing as hell. No one has any right to make someone feel unsafe over fiction or a hobby or a difference of opinion. Everyone has the right to say whatever they want on their own blogs, to talk openly, and yes, to try to talk to others without feeling at risk.

Even if what someone says is genuinely unpleasant. This isn't the way one handles it. By all means, have a problem with something, have a problem with someone, but grow up and talk to them openly, without bringing everyone you can dredge up to join in. I have no issue with people arguing, I have an issue with bullying. If it's your whole goal to harass people without consequences to the end result of deactivation and lockstep behavior from everyone else, that's what you're doing, folks. Bullying.

If you can't win an argument, especially one your own ass began, in any other way than this, you're not engaging in an argument.

[rjalker]

Okay since you're offline apparently and haven't removed the read-more so I can respond properly I'm just copying and pasting your post into a new reblog. If you edit your post to remove the read-more, I'll delete this version and reblog that one instead.

@knittedpie said:

I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re talking about in regards to a ableism in Murderbot?

If you’re talking about the constant differentiation between humans and augmented humans that always read to me as an aspect of the series being almost entirely from Murderbot’s pov. It’s never exhibited much interest in human genders/sexualities/races (aside from always using correct pronouns, we love that for it). To it the most important differentiator between these two groups seems to be how they interact with the feed. I believe it was in one of the books (though I can’t remember exactly where right now) that bots, constructs, humans, and, humans with augments all interact with and ‘feel’ different in the feed (from murderbot’s pov at least). As a being who is part machine it inhabits the feed as comfortably, sometimes more comfortably, than it’s physical body. So how someone interacts with the feed and with it through the feed is an important differentiator for it.

[the read more was here]

You’re so right about augments probably being heavily utilized by disabled people though.

If this was not what you were referencing then I’m curious what you read as ableist.

I’m also baffled by your “ literally every single "oppressed class" in any of her stories she's written is literally people being oppressed because they do literally pose a lethal fucking threat to everyone else.” bit? (again in regards to murderbot only) Are you implying that oppressed people or groups aren’t oppressed if they’re dangerous? Or that having power in one aspect completely cancels out oppression in any others? Murderbot, and other constructs, are oppressed because they are constructs. The fact that they are physically stronger and potentially more dangerous than an average human does not negate that. Because they are sentient beings who can make the choice (if not enslaved) about how they use the strength and abilities they have. To me it feels dangerously close to justifying the oppression of any group with some privilege or power in one aspect of their lives.

For example, I’m Jewish. It’s hard to argue on a larger historical timescale that Jews aren’t oppressed. But I acknowledge that I personally have a lot of privilege, in where and when I live, in the education I received, in the support I have from my family. None of that privilege negates the oppression I also experience as a Jew. In some situations I can use that privilege to help and support other oppressed groups (and in fact am obligated to do so but that starts getting into discussing religious beliefs which we’re not doing) but in other situations all that privilege amounts to nothing because I am a jew first to them. Any privilege I have is perceived as unfairly gained or a trick or greed and more proof that I need to be and deserve to be oppressed.

As for all the other stuff about Martha Wells, I haven’t actually read any of her other stuff rn so can’t comment either way on that.

Sorry this ended up longer than I originally intended. I got a little heated but I am genuinely trying to have a discussion and not an argument, so let me know if I’ve misinterpreted something you said.

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Any time I say "Normal Humans™" please read that in the most sarcastic tone you can imagine.

For the first part of your response:

Yes, I am indeed referring to the constant separation of "human" from "augmented human" as the ableism in the series.

Many other disabled people have noticed this and been made uncomfortable by it, because it's just. Very clearly saying that augmented humans are no longer considered fully human, without Martha Wells actually putting in any of the care and effort to deal with this problem she's created.

Especially because disabled people aren't actually acknowledged as being part of this group, and making up the majority of it, as anyone with any critical thinking skills should be able to figure out immediately. It just makes it very clear she is not putting any of the effort or care into this worldbuilding (or lack thereof, I should say) required to handle these things appropriately.

If it were actually a thing that Murderbot sees them as inherently different in terms of how it can interact with them, it would be one thing.

But that's not how it actually works in this series. Murderbot does not have an easier time communicating with or understanding augmented humans, and augmented humans do not have an easier time communicating with or understanding Murderbot. It's not even any more comfortable around augmented humans than it is Normal Humans™. The distinction is not made because it's a distinction that benefits Murderbot, or reflects anything about the world and how people interact within it, it's just made to say that these are separate groups of people.

In order for that reasoning to work, Martha Wells would have to put in way more world building and structure to show that augmented humans interact with Murderbot differently than Normal Humans™ do, and that augmented humans are treated differently than Normal Humans™ are, especially in the Corporation Rim where we can only assume the distinction between “Human” and “Augmented human” carries some serious legal ramifications like even further losses of rights than Normal Humans™ already suffer.

But augmented humans do not behave differently with Murderbot than any other characters do. We don't even know what augmented humans can do or anything about the kinds of augments they can get besides Gurathin not having to clip an interface to his ear to connect to the internet like other people do, and apparently being able to do stuff with it slightly faster than other people. We don't know how the rest of any of these societies view augmented humans or why they feel the need to separate them from Normal Humans™

If there was actually a difference in the ways Murderbot can interact with abled humans vs disabled humans (which is what augmented humans clearly are), and Murderbot had more difficulty communicating with abled humans, that would be one thing.

But that's not what happens at all, and Martha Wells has so far declined to put in any level of world building or effort to actually justify making this distinction in a way that's not just ableist. It's not even being done to point out that augmented humans are oppressed, which is why I specifically said this isn't cyberpunk.

It just never gets questioned in any way, addressed, or even acknowledged. It's just a fact that groups of humans are referred to as "humans and disabled humans" like that's a normal way of talking about people, and that's ableist.

Probably 99% of the people reading this series don't even notice it or think it's a problem. Which is the whole problem.

It doesn't even matter that Murderbot's not human and doesn't see being considered not human as an insult. Some people being okay with not being considered human does not mean all disabled humans should just be fine with being considered not fully human and shouldn't be upset by that. Disabled people are dehumanized on the daily, and have been for centuries.

Martha Wells casauly continuing that dehumanization by never letting your forget that augmented humans are considered a separate category from Real Humans™, without actually doing this for any world building purpose to question it or dismantle it, is literally just Martha Wells being ableist.

Check Rjalker.tumblr.com/tagged/the murderbot diaries ableism for more posts where I talk about how Martha Wells is ableist in this series if you want to learn. There are more examples than just this, but I don't feel like typing all of that out all over again.

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Onto part 2 of your response.

"Are you implying that oppressed people or groups aren’t oppressed if they’re dangerous?"

No, you have it completely backwards.

I am not saying people are not oppressed if they're dangerous.

I'm saying people are not oppressed BECAUSE they are dangerous.

Antisemitism doesn't exist because Jewish people are dangerous.

Antiblackness doesn't exist because Black people are dangerous.

Xenomisia doesn't exist because foreigners are dangerous.

Ableism does not exist because disabled people are dangerous.

Bigotry does not exist because the victims of it pose a legitimate threat to those enacting it. White people did not create the concept of "white people" because people they decided were "not white" posed a legitimate lethal threat to them.

"Or that having power in one aspect completely cancels out oppression in any others?"

No, I am not implying or saying that having power on one axis cancels out oppression.

I am not actually talking about the ways that fictional people are oppressed. This post is not a debate about whether or not Murderbot or Moon (the apex predator who literally evolved to eat people) is oppressed.

I am talking about the way white people in particular think that oppression works.

Martha Wells is a cis white woman.

And it is blatantly clear from every one of her book series that I've read, which is all but one, that she has no actual understanding of why oppression exists and why oppressed people are oppressed.

Every time Martha Wells writes about people being oppressed, the people being oppressed are oppressed because they literally pose a lethal threat to everyone around them.

The idea that oppression exists to protect the people doing the oppressing is literally white supremacy in a nutshell.

White people stereotyped Black people as naturally submissive and caring right up until white slave owners were forced to free their slaves, and then all of a sudden Black people are now being stereotyped as violent and out of control and dangerous to white women and needing to be locked up in jail for the sake of White Society.

Martha Wells has yet to write a single oppressed class that is not literally a real threat to the people oppressing them.

Martha Wells, like many white authors, does not understand why people are oppressed.

and you know what I'm out of spoons so literally just.

Look at Zootopia.

Look at Bright.

Martha Wells writes oppression always based on a very real and present danger presented by the oppressed. Every single one of Martha Wells' "oppressed classes" in all her series are oppressed "for a good reason".

Real oppression does not exist "for a good reason".

Real oppressed people are not capable of killing every single person on a space station on a whim.

Real oppressed people are not literal apex predators that you cannot defend against.

Real oppressed people are not inherently and demonstrably dangerous and overpowered and capable of killing everyone around them without even breaking a sweat.

This post is not a debate about whether or not androids in The Murderbot Diaries are opppressed or not.

This post is calling out the fact that Martha Wells thinks people are oppressed because they're actually dangerous and actually pose a threat to everyone around them, and that's why they're oppressed.

This post is calling out the inherent racism (because black and brown people are always demonized and portrayed as dangerous!) in saying that oppressed people are oppressed because they're dangerous.

It would be fine if it were a myth that SecUnits were uber dangerous, and that saying they're so dangerous is just the tool used to justify enslaving them.

But Murderbot could literally fucking knock a space station out of orbit with zero trouble and there would be nothing anyone could do to stop it, which is not doing anything to disprove the myth that oppression exists to protect people from dangerous people.

If this response still doesn't clear it up, just go look at anything written by Black people about Zootopia or Bright, or literally any other fantasy or scifi series that says oppressed people are oppressed for perfectly logical reasonable reasons.

Like.

She has literally never written about oppression in a way that does not literally just perpetuate the white supremacist (because again. Cannot fucking stress enough how inherently racist this whole idea is) idea that oppressed people are oppressed because they're dangerous.

The Murderbot Diaries is not cyberpunk because yes, Martha Wells has casually decided that disabled people (aka augmented people because disabled people are going to be the majority of people who get augments AKA prosthetics) aren't fully human, but this is not done to ask any questions or criticize the dehumanization of disabled people. It's just a thing you aren't supposed to notice or comment on at all. It's just disabled people being casually dehumanized and we're all supposed to shrug and go "yeah this is fine".

The Murderbot Diaries is not cyberpunk, because that would demand an understanding of how oppression works, and an ability to question the systems that create oppression, that Martha Wells does not have.

As is clearly evidenced by the fact that literally every single "oppressed class" in any of her stories she's written is literally people being oppressed because they do literally pose a lethal fucking threat to everyone else.

Martha Wells' writing is like the fucking epitome of fantasy oppression written by white people. But because the characters are charismatic and fun, no other white people want to admit this or criticize it at all.

"oh woe is me everyone is scared of me just because I have literal guns in my arms and I could crash this space station out of orbit and use it to nuke the planet below us on a whim or I could just kill literally every single person on this space station by myself with my bare hands and no one would be able to stop meeeee this is so unfair :((((("

"oh woe is meeee all the prey animals are so scared of me and distrust me and think I'm going to eat them :((( all because I am a lethal fucking predator they have no defence against because I am stronger than them and faster than them and literally a natural predator of them. My species literally evolved to hunt and eat them by pretending to be one of them so I could gain their trust and them kill them when their back is turned :(((((( this is so unfair that the pathetic little prey animals who have literally only survived by being afraid of predators like me are afraid of meeeeeeeeeee it's no fair that these pathetic little weaklings who have literally zero chance of ever running away from me or overpowering me in a physical fight are scared I'm going to eat them :(((( just because I am literally one of their natural predators and most of my people don't even treat them like sentient beings ;((((("

This is the equivalent of antivaxxers crying about being oppressed because they refuse to not be literal plague carriers.

Which several shity white writers have fucking written about to compare being an antivaxxer to being fucking indiginous peoples being unfairly oppressed. Because you know.

[timeboundterra-reblogs]

I was going to reblog this quietly, but no, for those who don't work in these environments, YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS.

This shit sucks!

I can't tell you how many times I've been yelled at for stuff that wasn't my fault.

We didn't have the normal large sized cups. A guy ordered a large iced tea. He started bitching me out because the person who took his order didn't tell him we didn't have our normal large cups. For reference, our regular 24 oz drinks are $1.99 before tax and our large 44 oz drinks are $2.30 before tax - it's a 31 cent difference for 20 more oz. At the time, we had 32 oz cups because the standard large cups were on backorder. It was either those or no large drinks. Asshole took it upon himself to continually bitch at me about how we should be "telling people that we didn't have our regular large cups" and how we were "going to get a bad review on Google" while I was trying to explain that I am a minimum wage worker and that there's a shortage on everything and we're out of the normal large cups (I make more than minimum but customers get the false info of I make the federal minimum wage). He didn't stop until I shut the window in his face and got my boss (the owner) to tell him that. The next day, an old lady who ordered two large vanilla colas without ice bitched at me about it, too.

Yesterday (Yes! Yesterday! October 7th of 2021!), I was taking orders and cashing out (a two person job, but that's another rant for another day). I had a couple come and ask for two grilled cheese sandwiches. I asked if they wanted the meals or just the sandwiches. They said just the sandwiches. Later, I cash them out, give them their food, and go busy myself while they checked their bags. Most people only take 15 seconds, while these people took a whole fucking minute (a long time in a drive thru). They then bitched at me that they didn't get their full grilled cheese meals. I said that I rang them up for only the sandwiches, and I had asked if they wanted the meals, to which they said no. I had to get a manager to back me up again. Manager said to them that they were charged only for the sandwiches and that they'd be charged the difference for the meals. Quite clear they didn't want to pay because they drove right off.

And this was in the last week! Imagine what people in these jobs deal with on a yearly basis. Stop fucking yelling at us. We're kids/young adults trying to make our way in an unfair world where the odds are stacked against us.

Seriously, this shit sucks. I'm not paid enough and I get shit on by entitled people of every race, every skin color, every gender, every sex. You're not special because you're X. I didn't purposely fuck up your order because of/you are Y. You're not getting free stuff because you said you ordered A when EVERYONE heard you order B.

I'll help you out if you're polite. I'll happily get you the thing you requested if you're polite. Had two people yesterday politely ask for ketchup in a 2 oz cup. I obliged both of them! Because they were polite! And used the golden words of PLEASE and THANK YOU. There's a regular who bitches about her arthritis all the time and complains about how she needs a 2 oz cup of ketchup and I hate getting it for her! Because she's rude! She doesn't even say thanks!

We deal with so much shit for not enough money. Make it easy on us and be polite. Tell us you need ketchup, mustard, and a cup of water all at once, not one thing at a time. We read back your order to make sure it's correct - if you said it's right, it's sent through. Don't change your fucking meal that's already been sent through because I have to void the thing, re-ring it, and tell the line not to make a second one.

Please, we're so tired.

Sincerely, a tired fast food employee.

[robotbean]

So I know @catarsisol-reblogs and can confirm that everything he's saying is true. I'm also a victim of the person this post is about.

So to give my story I have to go back to the start, I had messaged her ( Snow, Logan, G, Skull Boss, whatever the hell they go by) on Flist to just talk and be friendly since I know approaching a mod or room owner can be intimidating to many people, not me. So we talked here and there and we started finding interests and becoming friends, everything was fine, until I was added to their personal discord server and everything went to hell.

So in this discord server there were a few people aside from them and myself. All those people don't really matter except the one that's one of their many Ex Boyfriends but I'll get to that later. So stuff started out ok, I'd sometimes join the voice calls, hop in to play Town of Salem with them here and there and things were like how a normal friend group would act. Be friendly, have fun, sometimes be asses to each other (mutual asshatrery) and the like.

However the longer I stayed in this group the more their true colors came to light. We had to do everything THEY wanted, it was never about what I or another person wanted to play. We also couldn't start a game without them being present, we would have to WAIT. We played many games, Town of Salem, Tera(a mmo), Dead by Daylight and some others. But we weren't allowed to start rounds, que up for matches or enter dungeons without waiting for them. Keep in mind this would be anywhere from a few minutes to over half an hour for them to finish whatever it was they were doing. Which could range from anywhere to doing something actually important (which was almost never) or getting in RP posts and talking to people that would essentially become or already were their boy/fuck toys.

Time continued to pass and they would slowly become more and more hostile towards me. Cracking "jokes" about the way I talked, yelling at me for "being impatient" and just saying nasty or disgusting things like jokingly calling me a 'faggot' even when I told them I didn't find it funny and would want them to stop. This carried on for a few months and all the while they would complain that nobody speaks to them or wants to spend time with them when in reality I and MANY others would try to message them but would get no response. They would claim it's an insecuritie of theirs but it clearly wasn't, they either wanted to talk to you since they find you attractive or appealing in some way or not at all. No in between.

Things escalted one night during a Dead By Daylight match. It was me, them a pal of theirs and their Ex boyfriend in the voice call as survivors. They were playing a female character and in the spur of the moment I accidentally slipped and used the word "she". It was an honest mistake and rather than breaking down into an apology I just carried on and corrected myself. But that wasn't enough. They yelled at me and practically made us stop the game. Telling all sorts of disgusting things at me and saying "it's no excuse" when I had told them when we met that having a Trans Individual in my life was a new thing for me as I had never had anyone who was Trans in my life prior to a year ago ( back in 2016 was the first year ). Kinda funny that they yelled at me, caused me to almost break down and cry and they even went onto Flist and changed their status to "It's no excuse" practically calling me out.

It doesn't stop there. As time passed on more shit went down , escalating again at what @catarsisol-reblogs said in their post. I was always a blunt person in the group and would call it how I see it and call them out on their BS which would piss them off. It got to the point that their 'White Knight' ex boyfriend messaged me one night, saying I should leave the group, I wasn't wanted/welcome in there and even saying I should kill myself. I tried to confront G,Snow, whatever the fuck their actual name is about this and they completely dismissed it.

Since then I slowly grew distant from the group for my own wellbeing and to avoid the toxity of the group, occasionally hopping in to hearing the fakest "where have you been?!?" "Are you doing ok?" "Why don't we talk" type BS you hear from high school classmates (you know the fake attitude people you don't like try and use on you in HS)

Overall Snow, G, Skull Boss, etc. Their a toxic person who does not but hold him, her, whatever their identity is , holds themself up on a pedestal above others that easily beat them. They boast of talents they don't have and act like their role play skills are all that. Spoiler, their not, lackluster at best. For anyone who ever comes across this person, just do yourself a favor and don't. Avoid all the manipulation, all the abuse and the countless hours of your depression flaring up because of this fake, lying, two faced asshole.

Catfish

mr33cm.tumblr.com is a catfish so you know. “He’s” not who “he” says he is. Logan Williams is a woman (not even trans) who is only 24. She has been lying and conning people for years for free stuff and attention for her ego. She is a highly abusive being who verbally degrades people and physically beat someone multiple times. This person was forced into silence and made to lie on her behalf just to keep a roof over his head. She doesn’t video or voice chat so she isn’t caught. She has been messing with peoples lives for year and destroyed 7 years of someone who means something to me by abusing him so. Please, get the word out so that people know that they have been played