#are ignoring the grooming

[upwardsdescensum]

The Penguin 2024 is above all else about grooming.In this essay,I will-

[armandposting]

if you are caught up in what ships are "endgame" in the vampire chronicles or related media you are missing the whole point of anne rice vampires which is that they function like the worst most drama-filled queer community group you've ever heard of while being immortal and having unlimited resources. one of the last books in the series is about drama in lestats polycule because this guy that he pissed off ages ago kidnapped two of his boyfriends and his mom (who he is in love with as well don't worry about it) therefore provoking the ire of several of his other boyfriends because they were also dating those guys so they set aside their differences of opinion on whether or not they should farm the alien species that lives among them for easy blood in order to go steal back the cule members which lestat accomplishes by tearing the kidnapper's eyes out and eating them (which he didn't do before because the kidnapper was hot and so lestat was holding out hope that he would also join the polycule eventually). a side plot to this is lestat meeting a vampire he hasn't met before and bringing him home so the new guy and louis can read tolstoy together because as soon as lestat met this vampire he was like omg I need to bring this guy home for boyfriend enrichment. you cannot BEGIN to comprehend the complexity of vampire sucking and fucking in the anne rice universe

[evilkitten3]

i have a theory about shinji, gin, and aizen, but i'm not really sure how to word it.

we never really see shinji and gin interact all that much, which makes sense bc both of them have significantly more important relationships with aizen, but at the same time it's a little odd how much there isn't.

like. gin cut hiyori in half. shinji is understandably pissed about that, but he aims that anger at aizen - and this seems to be one of the very few things in the bleach world that honestly isn't on him bc he never told gin to do that, he never even implied it. hiyori was never a threat to him. hell, we don't even know if she was charging in the right direction; if anything, attacking her implies that she was which is a really stupid thing to do when you're surrounded by a bunch of people who super want you dead and would kill you if they could be sure you weren't tricking them into stabbing each other (ofc it could also be a fakeout but still)

but i don't remember shinji's beef ever really being with gin, even tho he didn't seem to anticipate that gin was working with aizen the whole time during tbtp. so like does he feel responsibility there? cuz gin went straight from academy to 3rd seat and shinji could plausibly feel like that sent him right to aizen bc he doesn't know that gin was always aiming for that. did he blame himself? does he feel like he should've seen it coming? does he still see him as some weird genius kid? does he just view gin as an extension of aizen, which is both dehumanizing to an extent but also entirely fair bc gin did that to himself?

the thing is, since we never really see them interact much, it's kind of only interesting on shinji's side of things, bc gin doesn't really care about much outside of whatever the fuck he thought he was doing and the version of rangiku that he has in his head who needs back something that the real one doesn't ever seem to have realized she lost to begin with. gin's so disconnected with basically everybody that most of the time you can usually assume his thoughts are just "lol. lmao" and there's no reason to think that doesn't extend to shinji as well (gin has deep thoughts on: aizen, ichigo, and matsumoto (massive asterisk on that one ofc) and i think everyone else is kinda set dressing to him lmao the guy is Fucked Up)

anyway i think it's interesting to toy around with that relationship as it was in reality as well as how it might've been perceived, but also in the sense of both of them being sort of opposite ends of the manchild spectrum - shinji leans into his childish side but still has a fairly adult worldview, and gin is able to pull off maturity to an extent but was never able to escape a deeply childish mindset

[a-heart-of-kyber]

I can only speak as a person raised Catholic (heh...), but let me present a wild scenario.

Could you imagine the actual Holy Spirit having a clear and direct sentient influence in your child's life?

With this connection to the Holy Spirit, he starts performing absolutely insane miracles that a Child shouldn't be capable of and by the age of 8 God's chosen priest shows up like "Hey kid, have you heard of our lord and savior Jesus Christ? In my day, he was super sexy. You’re special. I'm going to train you and later you should probably go to a religious school."

And then, by age 17ish, Jesus himself shows up like, "Yes, twas me the whole time. Let me train you one on one my child." And then a year later, your son tells you he's sleeping with Jesus?

Like...does this help anyone understand what happened to Gale better? Or does it help that the Mystra analog is depicted as a man? Do you need me to hold your hand and tell you that even if Gale showed interest, it was on Mystra, as the omniscient god with all the power in the relationship and Future sight?!, to not fucking sleep with the mortal who maybe became an adult 5 minutes ago?

[sukibenders]

Racism and misogynoir are so apparent in fandom, especially when it comes to shipping because why is it when a white male, sometimes female but I see it more with the former, character is on screen with a love interest, particularly woc, especially if they're black, and even with all the emotional scenes or just moments where they look at one another in ways different from the rest, it's met with "No, they aren't dating/the show is not going to put them together" but let the other love interest be white as well and suddenly it all makes sense? Heck, the examples I mentioned above don't even have to exist between the latter for some to STILL go and believe this rhetoric (eg. some Jace and Helaena shippers because, even if these two only interacted with a dance but yet we see Baela console Jace, after he seeks her out, apparently it's to far fetched to believe that Jacela could be a thing?!)

Sometimes it could be a headcanon that, largely, would make sense (and oftentimes was birth due to lack of respect that the poc characters could have been given by the writers *cough* TVD *cough*), and yet you'd still have people dismissing it left and right and spewing hate. At a HEADCANON! And I'm not saying that just because the other person in the ship is poc that you have to ship them, I'm not, but it's very apparent to many poc fans in fandom that unless the characters are swapping spit and doing the nasty, the possibility of them being viewed in any romantic lens feels too much of stretch even though their white counterparts don't have to jump through the same loops.

[calicocatwalk]

Pics of the calico critter wedding cake toppers in action!

[mainenorth]

I fucking hate how Getaway is so mischaracterized in the fandom. It’s so obvious that half of the people here only read MTMTE for the ships.

I’ve seen so many people say that Getaway is a pedophile. How? Tailgate isn’t a child, he’s a grown ass man. If Tailgate is a child, then wouldn’t Cyclonus also be a pedophile? He isn’t a child though, so it’s not a problem.

What is a problem is that the fandom takes all of his reasons for doing what he did and erasing them completely, only leaving the fact that Getaway is an evil child-lover.

Getaway is a bad person to everyone else, but to him, he is righteous, he had to do all of these things because Megatron—the one who started everything! The one who was always shown as evil!—was on the ship and was getting redemption.

Getaway’s first moment alive was getting dropped into a battle field, his first emotion was fear, the first thing he saw as he opened his optics was dead bodies. So, obviously he is going to want to get revenge.

He shouldn’t have groomed Tailgate, he shouldn’t have fed his crew to Sunder, he shouldn’t have made people who trusted him into spark-eaters, but he isn’t a pedophile.

In conclusion, Getaway isn’t a pedophile, he is a well made character with feelings and thoughts that are quite obvious throughout the comic.

[linalinsims]

love is in the air✨️💖

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[aronaax]

haven’t drawn ponies since i was like 10 but this trend is too cute i had to do it

[peantisdeliriouts]

I’m not gonna join the BlackGyphon hate train until actual proof of grooming or abuse comes forward. What exists currently is flimsy at best and people looking into Tweets and posts that were, at worst, odd or distasteful.

Like, of course someone is gonna make light of or joke about how their partner is “abusing them” if that’s all people are gonna make it out to be. Like ngl I would be doing the same shit if people accused someone I knew of grooming just because I knew them for a while as a teen before dating them.

Like, legit, it’s odd and potentially suspect that there is a big age gap and Gabe knew Claire when she was a teen, but besides that and them joking about how everyone sees their relationship as abusive, what proof do we have?

Digging into their personal lives like this like you’re some kinda savior isn’t helping anyone to NOT be groomed or abused…

[cowboykakashi]

bambini

[alvie-pines]

i kinda agree with you, but what if a person writes pedophilic/csa texts? i don't think it should be allowed. even if it's fictional it's still cp and it pisses me off so much when people say it's fictional so it's fine

sigh.

look dude, do you know the person? do you know why theyre writing it? do you know how they feel about it? do you know who they are outside of their writing?

no, you probably dont. you dont know if this is someone writing about their trauma, or sexualizing their trauma (which is a legitimate way to cope with it, dont argue with me just because you have icky feelings about it). you dont know the author's intent (and you cant ever know for sure). you dont know if someone is exploring their fear. there are a million and one reasons for someone to write a story about a dark topic.

furthermore, fiction doesnt inherently hurt anyone. it just doesnt. there is no moral value to writing a story where CSA occurs because none of those characters are real and not a single real-life person has been harmed.

can it be triggering? can you find it disgusting? can you avoid it like the plague? certainly. i do. its a trigger for me.

but my trigger is my responsibility. i dont read stories involving CSA in any way shape or form. i ask people to tag it. and i never have to see it. crazy how simple that is. thats not sarcastic, i actually love how simple it is.

[shadelorde]

the nanopocalypse tag was never fucking about AI.

[n4talia-chaparro]

BIG TW: grooming -- || just vent art ig

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Lmao ignore this crappy edgy vent LOOOL

Didn't mean to vent like a little bitch honestly, I had a terrible today and I can't sleep because I can't stop thinking of her and the trauma she caused me hip hip horray. ‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣‼️‼️😍😍

Fuck you M, really fuck you. Why are you still alive? I wish I could hug little me :(((

[neatfrog]

wait you’re telling me there’s people who groom dogs?? wow even our animals aren’t safe from those gross predators

[munecasolitaria]

Thinking about how Gibson Girl was a very relatable song to a younger version of myself. Pushing myself to be sexualized to the point of making myself feel disgusted but also felt this false sense of being and belonging thinking I owned my sexuality. In reality I truly hated being used and groomed