#another one on the blocklist

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

going to check out the blog u see liking a lot of your posts and finding out they’re against an entire spiritual belief and don’t think trans men face oppression 😐

[hidingoutbackstage]

PLEASE DON'T TAG AS SELF HARM OR ANYTHING OF THE LIKE

block brooke2vallery (NOT @/brooke2valley) they're impersonating a real tumblr user to send real self harm images to people's inboxes

[pettytiredandjewish]

Not me being a petty little shit :)

Since I didn’t make the list I decided to reach out and put myself on that damn list… and for those curious this is what I said:

“Dang I’m kinda hurt that I didn’t make your *checks notes* Jew hating- oh I mean Zionist block list. Do I have to try harder cuz I can?”

[boneles-ss]

I loved the ending of the silt verses for so many reasons: because I’m a sucker for the smoking Chekov’s gun, a thematically rich tragedy, and the sickly sweet stench of a narrative that is ultimately and above all else, hopeful.

We were shown the dangers of hope, in the (in retrospect) most seemingly “out of place” episode in the entire series—the hope motel one with the doomed gay people. It was an amazing episode, do not get me wrong, but listening to it for me was like “okay, so based on this, when is hope going to, once again, bite us in the ass. Or literally bite us idk we had somewhat similar foreshadowing used with the sleep god thing from season 1.”

And of course it would be the finale. Of course it would be reading through the transcript, knowing that there’s a shadow of a chance that Carpenter lived to do all the things she was so ready to do, that she wasn’t giving up, or that she died in the water, on her feet, brought to a prophesied end in the god who could not seem to let her go, but that ultimately, she did NOT GO WILLINGLY.

Of course it would be the unknown of Paige and her caravan, trekking through the polluted lands in search of something kinder, something new, knowing that Paige would leave them behind one day—but that day is not today—and she would see them on. It’s hoping beyond hope that they all escape, that they can make something better out there, and that there are ways for people to follow out of this old world, if they choose to read the signs.

That’s what I think that episode was “for.” Obviously episodes like that don’t NEED to tie into the plot directly, and they’re sometimes narratively more satisfying if they’re left self-contained (the power plant ep was also brilliant in a very similar way (and I’m realizing now that that ep also mirrors Paige’s journey….that should be it’s own post)), but its about the theming, the framing of the tragedy, and the foreshadowing of it all. The motel was tragic and awful because it toyed with our hope—rending it functionally untrustworthy. But we choose to hope anyway (I’ve seen the polls lmao) and we make a good story on our own, in our own minds, out of that ambiguity. The ending to me is so good because WE can choose how it ends. We are given that agency, and I think it’s so satisfying either way! We KNOW the god in the motel was fucking with our hope and eating those who dared to try and we still said BUT WHAT IF-

so what’s the harm in hoping for the best for those whose stories continue after we stop consuming them? Hhhhhh this show and this ending are going to stick with me forever

[volfoss]

it is beyond infuriating how anne rice seems to insist on marius being a positive force in anyone's life ever. like she can't fully commit to exploring the fact he groomed armand and has repeatedly taken away his consent for what marius thinks is best (take the end of TVA as an example) and just kind of flatly puts it in the narrative. there's not really much interest in how these horrific events make marius come across as the worst because EVERYONE loves him. for gods sake, lestat learns from armand exactly what marius did to him in TVL and then proceeds to go find marius and be super friendly to him in the same fucking book. even armand and pandora, two of the people who have MORE than enough right to hate him, do not. it doesnt feel like shes trying to explore the toxicity of the abusive dynamic he traps them in, it just is there. and like yeah ofc the toxic vampire romance series but i think that this should be handled with more care. and it is not ever really framed in a way that she is interested in exploring how marius should easily be one of the most horrific characters in this series because it kind of feels like sa/rape/grooming/other things of that sort are just put there to further plot and not to really get the respect that they deserve in a medium.

[catboygirljoker]

Xig/Lux's whole persona is so fascinating to me like. To me it comes off as him emulating his old master, and thats so full of potential character payoff/pathos/whatever on its own already, just fun to consider thoughts about. Puts him in the microwave to watch him spin around in there

for sure!!! people have all these headcanons/theories about him being like, literally a past version of the MoM, or his son, or the MoM raised him from a child, etc, and i must admit i'm bored by that. in my head, Luxu is emulating the MoM in a much more basic mundane way. he's Been Through A Lot Of Shit and his strongest internal example of authority, confidence, intelligence, power, is the MoM. he finds himself talking like him, gesturing like him, not even on purpose most of the time.

there's so much in his relationship with the MoM that i find fascinating. Luxu's relationship with the MoM is unique, and i imagine he believes he was uniquely close to him, as well. Luxu is the one who's most comfortable actually questioning the MoM to his face...yet he's given one of the two most important roles, next to Ava, who is the foreteller least likely to question the MoM at all. no difference between the dog with a twenty foot leash and the dog with a two foot leash if they both stay at the master's heel. makes my mind swirl and spin

fuck i have so many thoughts about the master of masters, too. fucking stellar character. don't get me wrong—terrible, terrible person! but truly one of my favorite characters in the franchise. less in a blorbo skrunkly way and more in a "i find this character fascinating and well written" way. but admittedly in a little bit of a blorbo skrunkly way.

[wormtoxin]

famed zionist melancholic-pigeon has a new blog sanguine-pigeon btw

[ibuprfn]

Can y'all be normal on my posts

[soysaucevictim]

Hhhh- conscious again. My sleep habits are fucked again. Bleh.

Anyways.

[get-more-bald]

it's really really sad that looking up autoandrophilia on tumblr gives you a lot of forcemasc, kink and self worth improvement while autogynephilia just gives you terfs. more self love there please!!!!

[pettytiredandjewish]

Another one for the block list y’all

(I just blocked them- but this fucker thought it was appropriate to say this on a post I made that was for the 6 hostages that was murdered)

[sammygender]

Hey just letting u know that tumblr op of that female gothic narratives posts is a terf

ugh thank you. going to use that as an excuse to steal their photos and make my own post now <3

[mars-and-the-theoi]

Another one for the blocklist. Saw another blog mention that this person is a terf and a quick scroll through their blog not only proves that but they’re also very dangerously anti-psychiatry. So yeah, block them preemptively just to protect yourself.

[thedevotionaltour]

30 year olds online will really go i'm attracted to and in love with this fictional six year old and then manage to be shocked when people go that's fucking weird and gross to be honest. like what are you hoping for someone to say can i ask

[hilacopter]

@/archaeocommunologist posting on the leftist antisemitism tag only to be a leftist antisemite themself is really funny to me. honey, this is the tag we use to call out people like you. you're just doing the work for us.

[mrs-theirin]

seeing my mutuals rb that "you're someone's hated tumblr" post and all of them are talking about being on a dragon age blocklist. omg besties are we all on the same blocklist