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You men are truly demonic creatures!
“Anyway women invented misogyny in order to control and keep in line women so they couldn't threaten their own power, that being matriarchs of their home, husbands, and families.”
bahahhahahahahah under misogynistic ruling no woman has power. What power does a woman under Taliban gain then ? the evilness of men has no bound ! Not only do they commit worse acts onto women, they do mental gymnastics and use most illogical reasoning to blame women for it. Under misogyny matriarch doesn’t exist.
“They looked at men and their sexual dimorphism, and came to the conclusion that in order to rule, they didn't need to rule mines, fields, slaves, kingdoms, and armies. They didn't need to. They only needed to rule the men who ruled these things.” Men projecting their mindset and desires onto women. Men truly acting as if women desire being treated as second class, as personal slaves for men. I am sure you think the wives of the Taliban rules are benefiting and the true mastermind behind the group too. Anything is possible for you demonic creatures. Men prevent women from having basic rights let alone any power. Look at how raging men get whenever women gain power. It is women that support other women to gain education and power! Notice how safest place for women is with other women. Notice how women on women violence is lowest compared to men on men or men on women violence! Men are violent demons, they are self destructive and destructive to others. They bring chaos , wickedness and war to the world. Men hate peace, peace confuses them.
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So women created misogyny and demanded as they do all things that men bring this into the world, so just as they conquer men who threaten their women and all she holds, he will conquer women, so that none can rival the power she holds.
She demands women dress plainly and cover themselves in shame. She demands women do not go out with men. That women can not be won by love but by the social bonds. This is the power of the haves after all.”
women are not the ones that stole basic rights from other women. It is men that demand women be covered from head to toe! It is men that shame, dehumanize, rape and abuse women into submission! It is men that created the rules that women can not leave the house without male family members! It is men that chained women to their homes. It is men that honor kill women after raping them. Men are incapable of love! Men love to drag women though hell in the name of love. Men love to pin women against eachother! Notice how men shame older women that try to warn younger women of how danger and abusive these men are! Men like you love to create division between women bc that is how y’all are able to gain control of women. By making women focus on eachother, y’all are able to get away with abusing and committing most evil acts into women.
”What do men hope to gain from power over women? Nothing they couldn't take. Nothing they couldn't hold, nothing that if refused could be stripped from them if men are the monsters you depict them as. Worse still if they aren't,”
men gain personal slave that cooks, cleans and act like sex toy. Notice how when men describe what they want in wife, it sounds exactly like slave. Men do take and strip from women. You act as if we don’t see it in the Middle East. What do the men in afghan gain from doing that to women and girls ? Yet they do it will no remorse.
“what would a good man seek from an unwilling partner who may kill him as he sleeps?””
if that was the case, no woman would be raped, no woman would be forced into marriage. Of course you gonna deny women being forced married and act as if these women actually enjoy being treated like objects. I am sure you think women desire being raped and it is actually other women that benefit from women being raped. Bc that is how you then truly think. Men will rape child and blame the child for asking for it. men in the past and present are the enemy of women and girls. The only good man is dead one. Every time a man dies, that is one less Pedo and rapists we deal with.
“Thus traditionalism gender oppression can only make sense if women created, maintained, and sustained misogyny as a means of maintaining their own power.”
it only makes sense when you point fingers and blame women for being oppressed. Thanks for reminding me why I hate men. Thanks for giving me insight how fucked up the male mindset is. the only reason why I work at underpaid mental health clinic is to see men finally get their karma. Every time a man with no hope comes to our clinic, it warms my heart to see him finally suffer as he had caused many women in his life to suffer. I will work hard to make sure the men around me suffer. Thank you.
May men self deleting rates skyrocket ! May you men truly suffer and experience the worse in life. May you burn in hell.
why do women always have to be the bigger person? why don’t men just stop “joking” abt raping us?
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day 21 of @hprecfest — a fic rated M | previous recs
author rec! more importantly: tacky rec! evocative, poignant & mature (heh), @tackytigerfic's works are charmed slices of aching life. tacky has a gift for making a meal out of the mundane: their style is imbued with the hush of a glade, something quiet that burrows under your skin and expands there. writing about magic lends itself to the excitement of outlandish predicaments— fuck or die marriage bonds, werewolves, time travel— but i love how tacky takes these improbabilities as opportunities to explore the vulnerable and common humanity that fuels love, friendship, desire, grief. i'd take a chance on tacky's spin on every ship, every trope & every circumstance, purely because i'm convinced they'd take as good care of me as a reader as they do their brilliant, complicated, messy characters.
i chose tacky's M-rated works because i think they best demonstrate how narrative pleasure can, and often does, lie outside the graphic. for an action-oriented, fast-paced reader like me, fics that hold my attention through careful tension & hard-earned payoff are especially enthralling. everything tacky writes, regardless of rating, is glorious & an instant recommendation, but when i think of especially fascinating work with a rating that doesn't usually hold space in my preferences, it's these:
between the power lines (M, 3.2k)
For Harry Potter, all roads eventually lead to Draco Malfoy.
an elaboration & attestation to my personal maxim: to fall in or out of love with someone, take a trip with them. glory be that these two do, glory be that it's the former. this fic stretches and softens with every word, like resin in the sun.
the long fall (M, 3.6k)
It's supposed to be a simple house renovation, and maybe it's just the paint fumes, but Harry is feeling dizzy around Draco Malfoy. And what's the real meaning of family, anyway?
vignettes from a life & love that glow hotter with every change. every word exchanged carries the weight of so much history, care & consideration. the dynamic is sweet & achy, a take on new parenthood that leans entirely into the uncertainty & joy of changing realities.
last offices (M, 6.7k) (mcd)
It didn't seem fair that Malfoy was dead, and Harry was supposed to just keep on living without him.
i reread everything before reccing, but i couldn't bring myself to reread this one because of the sharp, acute devastation of it. pain, regret, grief, dialled up to the extreme and done shatteringly well. the non-linearity of this fic is especially cruel; the heartbreak is never allowed to settle. 100% recommended!
our little life (M, 7.2k)
Sometimes Harry dreams. Only they're not really dreams at all, and Malfoy is always in them. It's time travel, but not as we know it, and Harry just needs a good night's sleep.
entire lives woven into snippets of togetherness, the call of something distant yet inevitable. harry dreams of universes with draco, which is to say, harry dreams of universes where he's loved. also includes the absolutely stellar line: Harry wondered if there was any possible universe in which Malfoy wasn’t an absolute dick about his dad.
take the moon (M, 15k)
Harry Potter has always wanted a family of his own, and when a deadly blood curse forces him into a marriage bond with his best friend Draco Malfoy, it looks like he might just have found one. This isn't the story of the marriage. This is the story of two hurt and damaged men who learned how hard they could work for the sake of love.
two men who don't quite know how to allow what they want fully into their lives, a slow crunch of yearning, the even heat of a dynamic that holds itself away from the brink, brilliantly satisfying when they give into the fall.
in conclusion: a stellar author with a flair for the understated whose works call to be savoured. as always, if you love them (it's tacky, who doesn't?), let me know!
#drarry#drarry recs#drarry fanfic#tackytiger#geets recs#geets does hprecfest#there is a lot i have to say about tacky's works that didn't fit into this#the pattern of tacky always placing these characters in some kind of#alternate setting/reality/circumstance#there's smth abt how they work with the concept of change that's absolutely masterful#i'm reserving this commentary for when i read the WIP & inevitably want to yap abt it#they're also#incredibly funny#so many of these themes can be heavy or angsty but tacky will always fit in a voice that sparks amusement#a line here a situation there an expression elsewhere#you'll grin about it#anyway tacky if ur reading this i love u and everything u do thanku for being such a force in fandom
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___ is really just proudly admitting to sexually harassing intersex people now. (None of the people she harassed are "AFAB trans women" anyway, that's just what she assumes any intersex person is if they won't tell her what's in their pants)
I promise you that if I talk about her she's just going to jerk off about it, she has no audience relative to major TRFs like apricot-aligator, the best thing to do is block and try to forget her.
TRFs really do an AMAZING job of proving that radfem bullshit and manosphere bullshit are basically exactly the same worldview taken to SLIGHTLY different conclusions Like it's always been like that but when you get people unironically saying shit like "women are allowed to wear pants now so TEE EMM EEs aren't oppressed at all anymore but maybe they should be because of all the power that being able to give birth inherently gives them, cisfeminism has gone too far smh, femoids AFABs don't deserve rights actually" and "oh so you're saying I can just exist without either hurting women or becoming their loyal knight? That women can speak for themselves without me!? That I could even be HURT by a pathetic, weak, delicate little WOMAN!? You're saying I'm not a real man!? How DARE!! Get behind me, milady, I'll protect you from this foul ruffian who would speak such cruel blasphemy!" and calling these super progressive intersectional transfeminist things to say it really does make it all that much more obvious
it's really funny they have a new hobby calling transandrophobia Nazism "reactionary" ain't it
TRF transmascs after headcanoning the flavour of the month as transfem and putting TME in their bios: Alright that’s enough activism for now 👍
I owe them so much.
>see someone post a funny joke including trans men >check the comments >people somehow instantly joking about how transandophobia isn’t real and is made up by delusional women Why. It literally wasn’t even related I’m gonna scream
I'm sorry anon. <3
I'm so incredibly frustrated about the whole "transandrophobia isn't real" stuff because I can literally be like "A lot of trans and queer spaces, especially with younger people, see masculinity as inherently bad an actively discourage it and that's bad for trans men since masculinity is what most are transitioning towards" and get the answer of "so you hate trans women" if I use the words transandrophobia or anti-transmasculinity
So you hate trans women?
“No one is immune to being reactionary or insecure. If you have a reactionary gut response to what is to you a new form of progressive politics, that’s something to meditate on and unpack on your own terms.” Sometimes people disagree after thinking about it. This is not a difficult concept to understand.
No, it's transmisogynistic to breathe without a trans woman's permission, actually.
wild how a lot of the "trans-androphibia isnt real" boils down to "in My experience You haven't had this happen to you
lmao fr
I think it’s so funny when TRF people think being socialized into a gender is passively just looking at one of your parents and how they do the gender and if you happen to be looking at the parent who’s the opposite gender, you’re gonna be picking up that gender and be forever trans. When in actuality, both parents are going to be socializing you by showing how both genders act and literally TELLING you how both genders act. My mother told me men don’t cry, my father told me girls are more smarter. My mother told me girls are more sensitive, my father told me men must never show weakness. Socialization can be passive but unless your parents were neglecting you, it’s not ONLY passive and it’s never ONLY one gender. And sometimes, the socialization doesn’t even work.
Yeah TRFs are very confused by the concept of socialization because they heard how TERFs use it and just fully noped out of the entire concept because they're not clever enough to understand that TERFs wildly distort things to be worse than they are. It's amazing TERFs haven't convinced them to detransition because they seem to believe nearly everything they say.
The person who initially did the bomb threat against transmascs being a tankie is hilarious. Somehow idolizing powerful cis men who caused millions of deaths are a-okay but trans men? Yeah, die.
they just don't like trans men and kulaks ig
you're marked red on shinigami-eyes this extension really fell off the more people started using it fbjhgffd
moderation is also actively shit lol
‘it is bad to hate someone for an aspect of their identity they cannot control’ does not stop being true when the person is a cis man. what in the fucking world is happening. systemic oppression aside it is still fucking mean to hate someone for something they cannot control
eyyyup
saw a post about how hating trans men makes you transphobic and immediately saw someone in the notes saying its not transphobic when *i* do it because i have a fear of men and that includes trans men. hello?
(post about hating trans men being transphobic pt2) the direct quote from it is actually worse holy shit "the only reason im not considered transphobic is because i actually have a minor fear of men and that includes trans men. any other reason for hating trans men that isnt trauma or phobias is transphobia!!" this makes me feel really good about being a trans man and i feel very validated because people being afraid of me means im a real boy /sar
they should go hide in a hole somewhere while the rest of us get this activism thing done
in what capacity did jkr turn to terfism about trans men first? what do you mean by that?
the first thing that ever triggered her was trans men getting SRS, hating trans women came after
LBR the "only trans women get predatorjacketed and have spurious harassment campaigns against them" crowd has only ever been fucking disingenious b/c when predatorjacketing and harassment was happening primarily towards (mostly neurodivergent) cis women and transmascs online, they all said we were "too online" and "cared too much about fandom drama". I haven't trusted a single one of these motherfuckers since 2018 when they aggressively whitewashed the harassment me and my friends got from anti-shippers because "why are you arguing about cartoons with children online". And they do it to this day! Literally any time anyone goes "we tried telling you when antis were using all these strategies against us" they go "how dare you compare MY LIVED EXPERIENCE to FANDOM INFIGHTING" like people weren't getting spammed with accusations of being child molesters for years.
Yeah, all of that sucks too, and I'm so sorry.
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hi. im relatively new to the life series fandom and wanted to say that you're the first person ive seen actually criticize life series scott, which is actually really nice. i keep getting weird, slightly-icky vibes from him in a lot of interactions, but nothing concrete enough to give me a real actual valid reason to dislike him. i kinda thought i was just being a hater... so it's nice to know im not the only person who doesnt like. worship the ground he walks on.
I actually really like Scott's character, and although I'm not particularly fond of him outside of that within the Life series, like you, I don't think it's anything to warrant genuine dislike, rather it's just things about his editing and playstyle that peeve me personally. And at some point the deeply interesting way in which he skews people's perspectives stops being so interesting and more frustrating the more he keeps harping on Pearl being an "unreliable narrator" and referencing flower husbands for the 12th time this week and claiming himself to have the power to sway a "canon event" (he said he interrupted a canon event by discouraging Scar and Jimmy from teaming up in Secret Life, and when they did in Wild Life, he framed it as if HE let that happen instead of interrupting it again. That is a bit delusional lol) and telling Joel "you deserve it" as he kills him for the 5th time when Joel hasn't really done anything to him. however
Neg CC Scott talk
I do however not like CC Scott because of him threatening to drop a slur once on several people's streams and defending his ability to do so and to say "I hate gay people" whilst one of the other people there tried to rightfully reason with him that that would be very um unwise, lol. And the way he talks about women. Every woman is either mommy or queen to him, there is no other option. He's done the "mommy? Sorry, mommy? Sorry" joke like at least 5 times like by god someone help this guy find other ways to appreciate people. And I can never get over him making that "appreciating my female friends" thread in which his praise for Lizzie is for being an "unproblematic queen". Ok man whatever. The fandom also doesn't help me like him any more because of their very prominent gay bias. Scott gets away with so much like the aforementioned slur threat because he's gay. That was genuinely so hard to watch but what did the chat members on his and Jimmy's stream say? "iconic" and "slayyy". It irks me so much
Sucks to try and engage with a fandom that calls you homophobic for holding Scott the tiniest bit accountable or interpreting his character as having done anything wrong in a death game scenario where everyone has wronged someone anyway. And I know from experience that there is a significant portion of people who hold these similar sentiments, they just don't want to speak up in fear of being crucified in the name of toxic positivity, so it's no surprise that you haven't seen anyone doing so lol. People who do, like myself, also refrain from maintagging this stuff even if a lot of other people refuse to even when their posts are just bashing other people within the fandom for having opinions that they personally disagree with, because there is no discussion or nuance to be had about someone who's canonically gay I guess
There is also the incident he had with an nsfw artist who debatably ended up getting doxxed and presumably attempted the deed at least partially because of Scott's engagement with them because it allowed the larger fandom to also see their nsfw work, but that is a long complicated story that you'd really have to come to your own conclusions to as to whether or not Scott is to blame or to what degree
#blabber#i never got a neg tag for the blue guy because I've kind of always been vocal about these thoughts to my following#but maybe I should get one..
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If you have to change the hypothetical I defined to argue your point you are really not engaging with me but instead speaking past me.
It takes time to put a tantrum throwing child into a car and safely buckle them in, so obviously the intervener has time to make the attempt to confirm, but by their own negligence, does not. This may not have been clearly stated at the beginning but that doesn't matter anyway because once you start arguing a hypothetical you have to leave said hypothetical untouched or you are not arguing the same point that the other person is.
You can't say "If I add new facts to your hypothetical and change it completely it makes your conclusions wrong!" and then pat yourself on the back for being right.
That's silly behavior.
hey guys in a moral conundrum in dnd and want your thoughts (moral relativists don’t bother answering as i won’t really consider your perspective). Scenario is a little girl wants to escape into another dimension because her friend died and she’s alive there. But of course this world is the only real one (It Is Known) (because i said so) so in reality she’s really just KYSing.
Is it moral to stop her by force? I imagine so but can’t exactly wrap my head around it. perhaps i could bring her back by powerful magic eventually, but who knows.
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I'm seeing a psychiatrist on Monday, I only have 15 minutes with them because those people love to slack off work, how do I manage to convince them that my attention deficit problems (and the stress they bring) are a real issue that has hugely hindered the later part of my education as well as all my work life (yes, I got good grades until I was 16, so what? What about everything after?) and that they literally disable me in my day to day life and make things infinitely harder for me and that I'm not making it all up and that I don't care if this is ADHD or social media or ADHD made worse by social media, the symptoms are the fucking same and I need help and some actual tests and yes, medicine?
#liveblogging my life#psychiatrists in this country are sociopaths#you have to pour your heart out to them in 10 minutes so that they decide if you're worthy of therapy and meds or not#and then they make their own conclusions anyway#thing is i booked this appt last month bc I'm starting a PhD#looking for a job and starting a new master i need help to cope with it all#but since then i have fallen into yet another depressive episode#so i will be tempted to talk about that but I can't#i need to focus on the attention issues#else he will not listen to me and just prescribe me anti depressants
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DAY 71: shy
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#isabeau isat#isat spoilers#i'll never get over loop being described as 'shy'. what a wonderful image#top one casual remarks from isabeau that cleaves loop's facade#like loop's personality is just a targeted missile to piss siffrin off. they're not at all confident and snarky#they're doing like the physical manifestation of winning an argument against yourself in the shower#second they see the party though Oopsies we're in scary territory. That's your family and they dont know it's you Oops#ok anyways ever since i saw that post i was like damn. this is just how i view loop in party postcanon#for as much as I think they SHOULD go explore around and be their own person for a while i think realistically they would not do that.#theyre going to go be a weird freak hovering around the party and refusing to socialize with anyone but siffrin and theyre gonna feel awful#(read: they're going to antagonize siffrin and it fails tremendously bc now The Rumor Come Out and siffrin knows what loop is doing.)#like loop as much as they can barely stand to even look at isabeau (for instance) i think their claws are sunk far too deep in.#onehats maybe the circumstances are different because there is a gap in understanding. there's no point forcing siffrin to confront the#obvious conclusion that loop is them (and thus siffrin's happy ending nails loop's coffin)#(THIS IS IGNORING TWOHATS PREREQS GOTTEN ONEHATS. BC THATS ITS OWN CAN OF WORMS)#but twohats. idk. for as much as it lets loop release some of their rage and process their feelings a bit. i think it might also be the pus#that makes loop consider their own existence as a person a bit more. theyre not a sponsor->corpse theyre just loop#theyre just somebody who wants desperately. they want to stay with them#theyre still siffrin. if also loop.#i think loop would force themself to reconnect with the party in the same vein as siffrin forcing himself to communicate more.#but of course having conviction and living an experience are not the same thing. so siffrin's going to flounder the emotional honesty thing#tremendously and loop's going to be. blair witching it in the corner.#hey i might have forgotten which post i was writing the tags under. oopsies#idk if these tags are comprehensible at all. i just really want to see loop fail upwards into friendship with everyone
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yuusha didn’t have anything else to wear so💥
#girl stop looking at me like that#the way i draw yuusha’s braid so inconsistently#anyways uhhhhh#unintentional sequel to my jamil art this morning???#or honestly this can be considered a totally separate incident#make up your own conclusions i guess because i dont know myself 😔#i just wanted to draw her in jamil’s sweater 😔💪#[—✦-#-✧ my art#twst art#twisted wonderland#twst#twst yuu#twst yuusona#(💜) yuusha#-✦—]#also-#it’s daylight savings here#which means our clock went back one hour#im eepy but cant eep#but also it may be because i steeped my tea for longer than i shouldve#my heart is. palpitating#(and the coffee this morning prob also contributed uhhhhh)#this is all jade’s fault#i’m FINE yall can ignore this fjdndjsj#lil lore update by me
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“Well, when y’put it like that…” Butch blinks once or twice before taking on somewhat of a sheepish smile, watching the other man’s face. “I think y’might be ont’ somethin’.” He chuckles, considering that perspective for a moment. He leans both elbows against the counter now, fingers clasped as he rests his chin upon the top of his intertwined fingers.
Sure, it was easy to feel out of place in his position but… perhaps it was a good thing afterall. This man had just met him and already he seems to know all the right things to say. If Butch was a little more perceptive, he might have been lead to believe that Blondie’s views on everything they had spoken about thus far were based on experience.
At Blondie’s bittersweet admission, he can’t help but feel a little bad to hear it was possible for someone to be put off of music of all things. He couldn’t imagine going even a day without playing or listening to something. It was an escape and it was a crime for that enjoyment to have been taken away from him at some point. All the same, it makes him warm inside to hear that his music, his personal creations, were powerful enough to make someone like music again after what he can only assume had to be some kind of traumatic experience. That’s the only possible explanation, right?
“Well, er—eheh. m’flattered…i ah, means s’lot that I could do that fer you. I couldn’t ‘magine losin’ my love fer music. It takes me somewhere else, y’know? …Musta been awful.” He ends softly with a sympathetic but appreciative smile; he wants to ask why but also, it’s really none of his business. He has to wonder why he’s so curious anyway…maybe it’s the fact that he’s not an open book that has all of Butch’s intrigue. That makes him want to know more.
Blondie holds out his hand and that lovely smile returns, as does Butch’s own smile the moment he shares his name. His chin remains resting upon a fist of his while the other hand reaches out to give the other a light shake, letting his hand linger there for a moment. It’s weird because he’s used to giving firm bone crushing hand shakes but something about this fella was just so… delicate. He was a very good listener, with more assuring words than any bartender he had ever known! And he hadn’t jumped to conclusions about him even though his manager had attempted to backhandedly embarrass him moments ago. He might have let it get to him if Artair hadn’t been so hilariously cold. Because he felt the other was on his side to some degree, he didn’t feel the need to leave an assertive impression with a rough handshake. Plus, he was gorgeous and he wouldn’t want to see that pretty face crinkle in pain.
“Well! S’nice t’finally meet’cha, Artair,” His accent doesn’t allow him to pronounce his name quite right, not that he himself notices. “That’s… hm—prob’ly jus’ ‘bout th’ most interestin’ name I ever heard! Yer parents must’a had that one picked out from an ol’ story book, huh? Sounds like… a neat wizard’re somethin.” He muses, unable to help but laugh at the nickname Artair gives him. His thumb brushing against the back of the others hand before he releases it. “Th’ pleasure’s all mine. Really.”
He lays his arm upon the counter, an index pushing his empty glass the blonde man’s way. His smile widens somewhat, “Hey, Angel Face—what d’ya say we ditch early?” He suggests suddenly with a mischievous glint in those blue eyes. They dart around briefly before he gives Artair a smug lidded stare. “Fuck these guys, right?“ he already has a few places in mind (including the bar) they could visit if they manage to successfully slip away.
"It mighta done a little impressin'." Artair hums, leaning back on the counter with an elbow, head propped. He's smiling at Butch a little more now. It does make him feel special, even if that might be the line for all the fans. He doesn't know, but when he winks at him, he curls a strand of hair around his finger, looking aside.
The gravitas returns though, and his face slips back to somethign neutral. Artair watches him drink through the corner of his eye, and listens attentively while trying to appear busy. "I.... admit t' not just sayin' it fer yerself. But I can understand a complicated situation when I see one." He leans closer on the bar. "I won't keep harpin'. But I will say most I don't think're thinkin' they belong, neither. "Y'got t'skills, Butch. Take it from a neutral third party. I've listened t'ya play."
He thinks for a long moment. "Think... y'otta be more worried if y'start feelin' at home in a pit'f vipers like that." He reaches a finger out, tracing the rim of Butch's glass. "I can say..... somethin' made me hate listenin' t'music fer a long time. But listenin' t'yers..... it's special." He keeps his eyes away. "So don't sell yerself too short. Y'might be a farmboy, but y'know how to shred on that guitar o' yers, and y'reach people."
He holds out his hand and a slight smile curls his lips. "So.... T'name's Artair. It's pleasure t'meet ya. And I think yer here because y'belong well enough, Farmboy."
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Imagine if you were a gay or bi man who tried a certain firefighter show because of all the attention it was getting for one of its mains having a later in life bi awakening.....and between seasons you ventured into its fandom in search of material to tide you over til the next one. And you're greeted by a deluge of posts and fics that are just cheerfully homophobic towards one half of the newly out bi character's canon relationship on the basis of 'well he's not the RIGHT gay guy' and pushing the idea that actually its fine to cheat on him because Reasons and he's sexually predacious based on......behind the scenes implications people have divined like they're reading fucking tea leaves.
But don't get it twisted....this fandom, like all fandoms, really cares about representation!
Sorry not sorry, but we really need to kill this idea that fandoms are welcoming and inviting and inherently progressive when they're frequently insular and reductive as fuck. Every single fandom I've been in has had major trends of people doubling down on their own headcanons and fanon interpretations of the characters and willfully enacting trends aimed at running off people who like the 'wrong' characters (usually characters marginalized along one or multiple axes), like the characters in the 'wrong ways' or other bullshit.
Scott is a Bad Friend fics overtaking Teen Wolf fandom was not incidental, it was a FEATURE of the fandom, because the vast majority of that fandom did not want to share its space with anyone who had the nerve to like its main character. Survivors complaining about or criticizing the prevalance of rape fics in a certain fandom has in my experience always led to a reactionary UPTICK in those fics, with gems like 'this character can, will, must be raped' in the tags making it crystal clear that some of these fics exist because how fucking DARE anyone try and push forth a narrative not agreed upon by Fandom Main.
I could cite examples for so many other fandoms, with the commonalities always being that vast majorities in these fandoms are explicitly reacting defensively to being asked to be more mindful of fandom trends revolving around or exacerbating racism, homophobia, transphobia, rape or abuse apologia, ableism, etc....
With the most prolific fucking rallying cry across countless fandoms being "No the fuck we will NOT be doing that," because lolololol.....
Fandom is an inherently progressive space, didn't you hear?
#anyway this has been on my mind in general for a few weeks now#and its more about fandoms just being fandoms#and like....what if they werent though#these patterns migrate from one to another as fans migrate from fandom to fandom bringing their bullshit with them#like do people never get tired of just trying to call DIBS and claim fandoms for themselves while shutting out anyone else#who might have a lot to fucking offer if you werent being so gd intent on staking a claim instead of sharing perspectives#and exploring new possibilities?#and I know not everyone links certain problems with racist homophobic and other behaviors to my own issues with dark fic and rape and#abuse apologia but I do inherently see it as sharing large portions of venn diagrams even though I do not consider being a survivor to be#something that demarcates privilege in the way that axes of identity do#as its situationally based rather than inherently identity based#but the way it can affect and shape large parts of peoples' identities begets commonalities#but my point is just.....a big part of why I so often lump it in is specifically because of how people react to these things or#defend against criticism across the board#like most people know my stance on censorship and how my blood boils when its people who are throwing accusations of#censorship at those raising criticisms....#but the point is just.....think about what censorship actually IS in all practical senses of the word#its about shutting down conversations. limiting the flow of information the sharing of perspectives and experiences#THATS WHAT MAKES IT BAD#now......what about criticism inherently lends itself to any of those things if you DONT accept as a foregone conclusion that criticism#is only ever offered up in bad faith and meant as a silencing tactic#instead of just a request or offered avenue of ways for things to be done better rather than not at all?#who is ACTUALLY out here trying to shut down convos and limit possibilities?#is it really the people being critical of fandom behaviors and trends?#or the ones doubling down at the first hint of any criticism and aggressively ramping up how frequently and visibly they engage in#the criticized behaviors in efforts to drive people away or as a silencing tactic of their own?#just saying
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okay none of this is coherent bc i'm on the verge of sleep at 9pm rn but that right hand man as dog post literally has my gears turning bc that's mitch fucking marner bro. that's mitch and there are so many levels to it. mitch who has made his whole career being the assist guy... takes pride in the fact that he can help the team even if that results in his point accumulation seeming lesser bc they're not goals. taking advantage of the skills and iq he possesses to try to make the people around him better and literally set them up for success...always the first one there to congratulate them on it too.... literally naming his whole foundation the marner assist foundation bc he embraces that role on a team with a generational goal scorer who's made it clear he wants to play with MITCH and appreciates mitch's talent and communication. like. actually his right winger... his right hand man. okay and even happy with being the second best, as he's been for large portions of his life w an older bro who's good at everything right on into a stacked draft class.
and mitch personality wise gets the dog description sometimes too. loyal, happy go lucky, wants to be around his guys all the time, and it's where he's the happiest and thrives the most. he's energetic, he's buzzin, he's willing to entertain, he's the life and love in that room in so many ways that are loud.... that bark but don't necessarily bite (THOUGH THEY CAN BITE. criticism can be doled out and taken as long as it's from the right places with him) but like. especially when he was younger too, he was literally the team emotional support puppy who loved cuddles and attention and with age comes protection from the outside a little bit..,. dialing back what he's willing to show or admit to people on the outside but it's still there and what keeps the camaraderie alive despite an ever rotating roster. and i kNOW. i know. so much dog imagery and symbolism has to do with being protective and fierce, and in hockey for mitch that doesn't necessarily translate on the ice the same way bc he's not big and rough and physically forward the way some people wish he was, but he probably would take a bullet for most of those guys. and in ways, he has taken on the shield or become the punching bag... he was with babcock, he's taken on the scapegoat with media so a lot of critique is thrown squarely at him for group failure. he's the martyr even if that's not exactly what he signed up for.
he's grown more guarded but he's LITERALLY. literally. a dog. a dawg. auston's dawg.... their dawg. the epitome of lots of good things about hockey culture (and i'm sure some bad too), but he embodies so much of the loyalty.. the side kick.. the best friend energy in some ways.... it makes me emo. and....... and to think of him with his own dog trying to recreate unbridled joy from his childhood (cut to those pics of him as a kid w his chocolate lab vs him now w zeus).... like he's desperate for love and recognition of his loyalty and companionship. he's gotten used to being second fiddle, not necessarily in any resentful way but like. these past few weeks he's kind of gotten to step up and be the guy™. he's the heartbeat...... the dog's not usually meant to be the main character but maybe he is worthy of it.
#mitch marner#all of that to say: good boy#anyway none of this means anything im just rambling n sentimental and pmsing an d images arre flashing in my head rrn like#theres web weaving nonsense in there somewhere but idk if therres a tight enough conclusion to draw to make it so but.#also lead me to violent imageyr but ill save that in my brain but im just saying#martyrdom is real sometimes.#klfdsjklfsjkdl#he will NOT be the sacrifice on this fucking team orr ill burn that city to the ground no problem lol#this is a semi oversimplification of some parts of his personality but obviously. we do not know him.#BUT HIS JOURNEY. IS THE JOURNEY OF THE SECOND BEST WHO TAKES A LOT OF HEAT. AND A LOT OF BLAME. in the shadow of the person he loves#its main charracter enerrgy even if the dog rarely is#i feel like therre was a pivot in media for a while w a shift to charracters that were morre like. Side role archetypes like#anyway.#help is this nonsense everryone look away#m like that lisa meme#tumblr is my own private journal where i put together the least academic thoughts imaginable soryr abt that
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we would sell anything just to buy who we're not // we kill our way to heaven
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#tew#art#art:nathan#nuclearocs#nuclearart#ok so 1st of all: i'm sorry. no i'm not. yes i am. no#2nd of all: do not look at ruvik's scarring for too long i got lazy somewhere along the way#3rd of all: this piece takes place YEARS after the conclusion of both games. i have my own imaginary tew3 AND tew4. don't worry about it#4th of all: the way i see it is that eventually ruben's own appearance starts overwriting leslie's so he looks mostly like himself again#(just with hair and eyebrows and eyelashes. thanks leslie)#5th of all: yes i gave him a hearing aid the boy has survived a barn fire and part of his ear got burned away. it makes sense. to me#6th of all: yes i gave him pretty princess eyelashes and beautiful brown doe eyes and a nose bump. i will die on this hill#7th of all: when i designed nathan all those years back i did not even think about the color symbolism going on with his hair#which is now enhanced by the white patches in his eyebrow and eyelashes too. but yeah that's there now. much to think about!#and in this piece it's also in the clothing i gave them. didn't think about that either that just kinda happened. anyway#thank you for tuning in today i know i'm insane about these guys but like what can you do. sorry. bye#no wait hold on one more thing i made ruben taller than canon so he can hover over nathan like some victorian era skinny twinkish ghoul#not that nathan isn't a ghoul but. actually nathan is more ghoulish his base skin color is paler than ruben's. ok bye for real now#if you read all of that we will have a soft and bright late spring wedding with easily digestible food
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my favourite writing device is having an un-Rei-liable narrator
#rei#volo#cheren#// tikposting#// character meta#the crowd booes me off the stage#forgive the pun XDDD his name is too easy to pun on#the way i write it it's not a conscious choice. it's just how the pov character (rei) experiences and contextualises the world#revealing backstory and personality and mindset through narration !!!!#not necessarily out of malice it's just. how he views things#interpreting new and foreign experiences through the lens of what came before...#conversations which read differently to different people.#in the context of rei that's stuff like unease around authority figures#always choosing his words carefully to project an image of competence (he has to be needed)#distrust and not taking things at face value but also paradoxically a fragile and nurtured sense of almost blind optimism#when it comes to friendships. like volo. (everyone turned on me when the sky turned red but it all resolved itself in the end didn't it?)#(what makes this different? / a lot of things. / i choose to believe)#volo [directly]: “i won't be stopped from my goal” rei thoughts: we can work with this!!!!#and everything with Arceus too and his divine blessings and a plan that will work out in the end#if Rei can just... figure out what part he's meant to play. interpreting events as a narrative hurtling towards some unknown conclusion#i am talking about rei here specifically but this writing device is so good in general#would be fun to try get inside volo's head. there's so much going on there i don't understand yet#quite fond of that one analysis post about how volo lacks emotional intelligence and sees relationships as transactions#not necessarily out of malice it's just how he views things. whether because of past experience or brain chemistry#also need to give a shout to cheren my guy who is an outsider pov who projects his own experiences onto new things so that he Understands#(an outsider to Hilbert and N's clash of truth and ideals. life changing experience and knowledge but felt just a little off to the left)#(the narrative repeated again with new heroes. all he can do is help them but it falls on their shoulders in the end)#(no wonder he tries to insert himself into Situations)#anyway tag ramble over feel free to also ramble to me about your takes XD#rei pokemon
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this whole fear of repressed memories regarding sexual abuse has been following me around for years, probably since I became aware of memory loss/repressed trauma in the first place, but idk why it's been so intense this summer and it's really really frustrating how every time I think I've worked through it and gotten over it, I see a picture or someone says something and I'm all "I'M SCARED THAT THIS FAMILY MEMBER RAPED ME AS A KID AND I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER IT" and like. it's so frustrating because it's literally a symptom of OCD or whatever that I can't stop going over and over and over this, and it's driving me nuts that I can't seem to trust my own mind
#probably because I came up with a scenario in which it's plausible and then let my imagination get the better of me#and the imaginary scene clip I imagined felt real enough and the anxiety is so intense that I am now questioning everything#I see pictures of a person and it makes me anxious again even though I saw said person a couple years ago and wasn't scared at all#literally my whole issue and part of why my anxiety gets so bad is because I don't trust myself#like I don't trust my memories or my perception of reality or whatever#so I get this sense that when I'm like “no I don't believe that happened it doesn't make sense and also is very much not the kind of person#this relative is'' I'm just lying to myself. because I don't trust my own conclusions basically ever#like... how do you build trust with yourself. that's my question#anyway pray for me again thanks :(#Lu rambles#tw rape#not really but the discussion of it
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#hello don't mind me I just wanted to try out making my own animated gifs :D conclusion: I'm not skilled at it#but it's fun! :D#how do. I tag this....#let's pretend i can draw#original stuff#webtoon#my brother's not so secret boyfriend#mbnssb#hey may as well label with my own comic name lol!!!#anyway if you know the characters because you read my comic thank you please know I love you <3#posting this at midnight so no one will see it lmao#:P
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