#art about rape

[washmouthing]

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[tubbytarchia]

So I think my perception of Grian's reasoning for enabling the horrible Jimmy ecosystem and also my perception of his character as a whole has been turned on its head completely and I feel really bad for him after watching Kingdom of Valor and it's like bad roleplay but it's. it's done things to me and I've never ever felt this much for Grian not even in my sadboy Grian Desert Duo phase. I don't know what to do about this

SA word under cut

Episodes 6 and 10 (like the entirety of it) for context. :( . :(. But like major warning if you watch those episodes, especially 10, because um they didn't use any disclaimers

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[scientistservant]

Ancient vulture-like alien creatures once benevolently ruled over mice elves until they drained the essence of one of them as an experiment. They sadly got obsessed with that essence and eventually started an entire genocide in order to increase their own lifespans out of their understandable fear of death, wiping out the mice elves they once cared for. THAT is complex. ValAngel isn't.

Actually begging Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss stans/Vivziepop defenders to start watching other shows and movies because holy shit, many of you have a disgusting view on SA and media literacy.

Speaking of which, watch The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix, it's a gorgeous show with elaborate puppets and set design. It's sadly cancelled, which the Jim Henson company didn't deserve at all, but I'm not losing hope for some kind of revival.

[elllteo]

gonna be real seeing you boil down someone else's concerns abt making light of a rapist in media as fandom drama really hurts as someone who's experienced that kind of violence first hand. the character is fictional and obviously doesnt exist. but rape victims do exist and we see when people sexualize or joke about predators. idk. i don't intend to tell you what to do, but i hope this helps maybe explain why someone else could've been startled or upset to see that on your blog. its your space you can do what you want with it. i think some media doesn't need to be fandomized or treated as yaoi fodder. maybe it can just be taken seriously and discussed with respect. i think its pretty reasonable for victims of particular types of violence to express discomfort or concern when people joke about or make light of those who perpetrate it.

I genuinely get where you are coming from, I do. But what that ask was getting at did not convey to me what you seem to have taken from it.

There's a difference between making light of/mocking/making jokes about sexual assault/rape vs drawing a character who does those things in a narrative in an unserious way. Likewise, I feel that boiling down the narrative to just be about that One Act in many, many ways does a disservice to the narrative and characters as a whole.

I'm also not understanding where exactly this is coming from, to be entirely honest.

A person can be fully capable of breaking down and analyzing Jimmy in a way that is entirely respectful while still, also, making light of other aspects or enjoying him removed from that context. Drawing a character in a goofy way doesn't mean the person is making light of Anya's SA, or even excusing it. You can ship two characters while still finding the canon actions of one absolutely despicable. These things are not mutually exclusive!

Just as you're not telling me what to do, I'm not saying you, or that other anon, or anyone else has to put up with seeing that character or engaging with media that portrays him that way, to be clear. I'm not trying to tell you that your feelings or hurt or experiences aren't valid, they clearly and very much are.

But it's not my job, or even obligation, to protect you from it. Or any other trigger, for that matter. I do what I can with tags, but that's a courtesy I try to apply when and where I can.

That's what I'm getting at here. I tagged for him and that ship so others could avoid it if they found it upsetting. The anon did not do that, so I explained my stance.

People will engage with media in ways that are upsetting to you, or ways that even disgust you. I can't stop them, I make no plans to, and if my opinions or behaviors around this are upsetting or disappointing to you, if I endanger you or anyone by behaving this way, it is in your best interest to block me and have a safer and less stressful experience online. Those tools are readily available for that very reason.

I know far too many others who have also experienced that kind of violence, family included. I know the frustration and hurt of making light of that kind of thing, and how it can and does impact others.

But this is not that.

If, however, you feel it is, that's your right! I can't tell you how to engage with anything, nor do I intend to. I cannot change my space to fit your needs, and I'm genuinely sorry if that makes you feel unsafe or upset. I'm not trying to make light SA or the victims thereof.

I'm trying to, as best as I can, explain that policing how others engage with a fandom and its characters simply does not and cannot work. That isn't "fandom drama" - it's the psychology of humans and the media they connect with. Humans are complicated creatures, and our needs and interests vary wildly.

There is no monolithic way to demand others engage with a source material, and attempting to do so does more harm to you than that effort is worth. I hope you and that other anon can have a less upsetting day/night/etc - again, I'm sorry if this is frustrating to hear, but I fear this is an impasse we simply won't agree on in this way.

[atthecenterofeverything]

DOLI INCAPAX (2025), A3 analog collage, mixed media

a villanelle about a day a long time ago in early winter, building stories, the rotting fiber of events that were not spun in time, the structure that is expected, and using various rapes for arguments.

text and image ID under the cut!

[image ID: three pictures of a collage of letters in shade of red and blue, and a screenshot of the text, which reads:

It’s not the rape, it’s what the story makes:

How you make it, remake it purposely.

Weaving, one by one, the year-long snowflakes.

Twisting yarn – carving stone – or driving stakes,

Trades lend themselves to metaphor nicely;

It’s not the rape, it’s what the story makes.

What was not written fell between the breaks,

Spilled through the strands, a gasp, a non-story.

Weaving, one by one, the year-long snowflakes.

Picture pastoral themes and urban lakes.

Teen tongue drumming a hotel rhapsody.

It’s not the rape, it’s what the story makes.

I had to weave it, see – through the headaches –

Unspun threads do not win any parley;

Weaving, one by one, the year-long snowflakes.

Spin it, re-spin it – o, make no mistakes,

The space beneath the cloth is now empty.

It’s not the rape, it’s what the story makes:

Weaving, one by one, the year-long snowflakes.]

[shreddeddescent]

uncensored dialogue. might shift the tone of this.

leo ends up regretting teaching raph cope jokes after he needs to draw a diagram of what the hell turtle penises look like to help him deal with the fact he had no idea what he was even dysphoric over. yeah he's 16 when he learns that.

the penis envy is a big thing for him. for obvious reasons.

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

So-called Christians still whining about the Olympic opening ceremony supposedly "insulting Christianity", but none of them gave a fuck about Israel bombing the oldest Church in Gaza months ago.

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

Look, this is not gonna be a discussion.

I don't care what you think of J. K. Rowling. I don't care if you think she's transphobic or not, if you support her or not, if you think Harry Potter is a good series or not. I conversely don't care what you think about Neil Gaiman, whether he's actually guilty of what he's been accused of, whether you've been a fan, whether you agree with his politics, whether you're left or right or progressive or conservative or whatever. This is not what's this is about.

What this is about is this take I saw on youtube today (and right under a thread full of I am assuming left-wing people congratulating themselves about how much they care for victims of SA and thus they are holding Neil Gaiman accountable for his alleged crimes, and his definite unethical behavior (even though the accountability, as with others, was some time in the coming), in contrast to their political opponents, and denigrating their ability to read anyways to bout.)

"I can't feel the same about Neil Gaiman and Rowling. He might have done bad things to people in private but at least he didn't spread hateful rhetoric."

.....

I'm gonna say what should not need to be said. There is no world and no moral code other than the most ridiculous and unacceptable on planet earth where words weigh heavier than actions. If you ever find yourself even approaching such a mindset, then stop, turn, and check yourself into the nearest psychiatric ward, go to a mirror, take a good hard look at yourself and wonder how you became intellectually and morally debased to such an extent.

Trigger warning because I'm gonna use a rape analogy to illustrate my point.

You are literally saying that you consider a person shouting vile rape threats to you in public worse than the person who will violently rape you in private while telling you how much they love and cherish you, and then will go out to bask in everyone considering them a good person for loving and cherishing you.

Just....stop. If your ideology is making you so vile, either examine th ideology, or examine yourself. If reading these people's fiction makes you so morally bankrupt, stop and go look at the clouds. If you are that way anyways, then God have mercy on you, but know that, for everything going wrong right now in the world, everything, you are a person who can and will only make it worse. Look at yourself, look around you, have some empathy, humility, do some self-reflection. Touch grass if you need to. And if you can't be decent, at least be silent.

[volfoss]

i think honestly what irritates me about yoshidas work SO much is that people will tell you that banana fish is THE gay manga (ignoring the many things that came before it and were more groundbreaking, ie MW literally having on screen (or like. on panel but still.) gay sex in it and that came out like a decade before BF did) when there really isn't barely any gay rep outside of the pedophiles and the one time ash drops the f slur. like im sorry but somehow yasha, a work she wrote in 1996, has more gay rep in it but also has the same issues.

i truly do not get how people can enjoy banana fish with the rampant racism every 2 pages or the rampant sexual assault plotlines (on women and ash bc he is just... written like how yoshida writes women lmao) that are handled IMPOSSIBLY bad and sincerely i hoped yasha would be better because it had been like a decade or so between works. and then it proceeds to continue with the heres our blonde genius protagonist who everyone is weird as fuck to and will sexually harrass and everyone finds it a VERY funny joke to point out how feminine he is when theres barely any women in the work (if you exclude the ones that are being raped/killed/creepy to minors. which to be fair yasha has toned down the sa a LOT) and that its funny that hes kind of gay except not really!! and its just absurd to me how it just persists in all of her stuff because she is not an author that handles gay stuff well. like the scene in banana fish where ash is completely ok getting gang raped and did it solely to get into the hospital when its been SHOWN that he has a lot of trauma with that. and then right after his friend makes a joke at ash's expense about that. like sincerely and genuinely is this what we are hyping up as the old retro gay manga. go read some tezuka and stop reading shit that the most the main characters do is share a kiss in a nonromantic sense and is obsessed w making every gay person be evil!!

[arttsuka]

Kinda lowkey highkey really bothers me when people tag things that aren't there when reblogging my posts

[tariah23]

Can they jump

[dyna-myght]

I’m disappointed but not surprised by how some of tumblr treats Mouthwashing (the game).

[lazaruspiss]

im gonna say it. normies are real and i Do Not trust them...

[cherrycokedup]

mouthwashing fandom they could never make me like you