#anyway that concludes my rant

[yourhighness6]

Can I Talk About How Much I Love Willow Park for a Moment?

I've talked before about how Hunter and Luz are my favorite characters in toh but she's probably my third favorite and sometimes I literally want to worship the ground her little animated boots walk on. For one, she's Asian-coded and plus-sized, which is rare enough (the only other example I can think of is Glimmer from She-ra, who I also love), but she's actually well-written and complex in the way a lot of diverse characters aren't. She's canonically pansexual, which is a community that gets so little representation its heartbreaking. On top of that, she's in a healthy relationship with someone of the opposite gender, which isn't often seen with bi and pan characters. She's an extremely powerful witch but she struggles with self-esteem issues. She's allowed to be stressed and exceed her limits and break down and have emotions. She's strong and independent without putting other people down. She's kind and compassionate without being a pushover. She's reliable and tough but has limits. She's cute and girly but also a little gremlin. She has an absolutely wonderful character arc and helps save the world. I love her so much I can't even express it.

[slytherinslut0]

since i have a lot of new followers from outside the fandom and this continues to be a constant topic of conversation i’d just like to remind everyone that im not writing about underage 16 year olds im writing about fully grown adult men who, in an alternate timeline (omg!), are college students.

(lorenzo zurzolo, benjamin wadsworth, christian coulson [who was literally 23 in COS might i add], louis partridge etc etc etc are all grown ass adults irl. that is how i see&write them.)

[blippin]

[pangolinsandnewts]

if we have headcanons of Morro having water related trauma then we should also have headcanons of Harumi having height/falling related trauma. Please and thank you.

[dummerjan]

i just came across ai covers on youtube and people are requesting songs in the comments instead of getting enraged and i am further losing hope in humanity and turning to misanthropy

[umemiyan]

i have semi-concluded that my hormones are probably fucking with me more than i thought lately nksdkdknd once again i envy everyone who has a normal reproductive system

[totalspiffage]

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[clochanamarc]

don't ask why i'm thinking abt this again bc it's like. an annual aggression, every twelve months i have to think abt this very specific thing that has overlapped between irish colloquialisms and spicy nicknames, so here we go!

i am once again thinking bitterly abt the term of endearment that is "pet", bc in ireland we say "pet" a lot?? we call young children pet?? we call upset friends "pet"??? we greet people cheerily by calling them "pet"??? and yet whenever i use the term "pet", the three occasions that i've done it, i've had people reply to the threads with their muses being either flirty, uncomfortable, or angry, understandably so if you only ever knew the word in THAT context, and like. i'm rambling--

it just completes aisling's character that she WOULD call people "pet", and in the context and scenarios that make it blindingly obvious that she's not dabbling in any kin.ky shenanigans, and it makes me v sad that i can't chance throwing it into a thread, bc i do understand why people would assume otherwise, but it's not a demeaning or condescending thing! in the irish culture, we just. my nana calls me "pet", my mam calls me "pet", i call my younger cousins "pet", like it's a soft and lovely thing and just. it's like "oh honey, did you hurt your knee?" or "honey, what's the matter!" except it's "pet", not "honey".

[many-gay-magpies]

the thing that always messes with me about villains whose entire motivation is "i wanna rule the universe and become a god" is that im just left wondering why? like if a character becomes a villain because theyve been hurt and want revenge or something i can get that but why would you even want to rule the world. whats the motivation behind that. it seems like it would be really stressful

[social-mockingbird]

It is late enough that I am willing to argue that when Oberon put the love potion on Titania’s eyes he turned her into a succubus no I will not explain myself

[strangenocturne]

people will see one post from you and assume they know the whole story about you, your character, and your stance on sensitive topics. just bc I don’t post every nuanced thought on my mind onto this hellscape of a social media network (not just tumblr), doesn’t mean you know me! friendly reminder ♥️

[probablyok1]

I think the lesson I've learned from this season of Big Brother is that I need to become a misandrist

[im-still-watching-anime]

holy fuck i can’t believe i got my last essay submitted in time i can’t even celebrate the end of finals because im still coming down from the anxiety induced adrenaline

[vulpixelates]

re: last rb i would also like to reinterate that when i'm talking about being pissed that people get called terfs for talking about feminism is not because i'm mad about being called a terf; i also know what i believe. it's because it gets in the way of our ability to talk about feminism in any meaningful way.

the idea of it has been so fucking watered down in the past decade that it barely has any meaning anymore; the only people who are freely able to shout about "feminism" are people who aren't actually feminists.

because yes. terfs are NOT feminists. they are vessels for patriarchal ideals. they're men's besties while talking about how trans women are dangerous and infantilizing trans men by thinking they can't make their own decisions about their identities. even the most left-leaning of them are still helping to uphold the patriarchy in their transphobic nonsense, which is always rooted in disgusting gatekeeping on what a woman is. they reduce womanhood to wombs and gametes. they are diluting the conversations around feminism so thoroughly at this point that actual feminists are now getting backlash for talking about topics that matter - that need to be spoken about if any tangible change is going to happen.

[moonage-nightterrors]

the evidence and analysis is there but so is my crippling doubt

Questions to ask if ever you have Byler doubt:

Do people seriously think that a SHOW that is centered on nerds and social outcasts...

... shows how awful the popular kids can be...

... sides against anti-gay bullies...

... sides against abusers...

... supports LGBT+ people...

... has interracial romance...

... says to embrace being different...

... turns an expected hetero romance into a beautiful platonic friendship...

... criticizes moral panic/evangelism...

... shows that love can overpower hate...

... and whose characters don't want to recreate the nuclear family...

... do we think that show will let Will's love for Mike be the device for a conventional white hetero couple to be the show's "main relationship"?

Has the show even set-up Mike and El, who met through trauma and circumstance while they were children and have repeatedly lied to each other, for a lifelong commitment?

Who's actually delusional?

And who sees this show for what it is? And what it's clearly setting up?

-teambyler

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

by the way when i say other cricketers i mostly mean the english players and no offence but i do not get what people see in them…like i know theres english people on here who obviously are gonna post about their own team but like i refuse to believe those players are that interesting