#before the... unpleasantness

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[s4ndg3m]

second round of regretevator icons! i meant to make an infected and uhhhhhhhhh emerson one to upload with these but that was 2 months ago so. yes. smaller versions (aka more upload friendly) below cut

Free use, no credit needed! DO NOT REMOVE SIGNATURE

i like prototype's the most. like yeah ur staring or whatever. i might get the infected + emerson + maybe some other characters done at some point if i ever feel like it, but don't wait up. feel free to COMMISSION THESE. because i do make them custom. i HAVE made one custom. they're very fun.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Also, since we're being particularly self-indulgent tonight: I think Akutagawa would be very, uhm, not concerned about his appearance, at least for the time before they get together. You know the “omg there's a slim chance I meet my crush today so I need to fix up the best I can 🥰🥰”? Well, he's the exact opposite: “Falling for you is already the greatest disgrace crumpled on me and I hate you with all I have in my being because of it. I'm perfectly aware you will never love me back no matter what I do, so what would be the point of humiliating myself by adjusting my appearance to your tastes if that wouldn't change anything? And even in the wretched case of you requiting my cursed feelings; then you must own it to love me for my disgusting self, and not some miserable attempt to hide my corruption behind layers of pretending. It's a take-it-or-leave-it deal. Actually I'm going to be meaner to you, just in case.”

[rosesofenvy]

2m25s of Arthur Lester Falling (S3)

Tag your favorite fall! Mine is "a long, long fall (reprise)"

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[l3irdl3rain]

with that number of cats living together, is there something like a pecking order like with fowl and cows or do they just chill? also, how did your cousins visit with wee bug go?

I've had individual cats who considered themselves in charge, but I wouldn't really call it a pecking order. It's more like one individual cat thinks they're in charge and everyone else just lets it happen. Back when I had Chloe she was convinced she was the queen of the house. Everyone was a little leery of her but nobody cared enough to actually fight with her.

The group I have now just all get along. Every once in awhile Petunia will give someone (cough cough Bianca) a little hiss because they're annoying her. But nothing ever really escalates past that.

[munching-on-otome-isekais]

Normally I have a strong distaste for black-haired, socially awkward and overpowered MCs who achieve impossible feats.

But when said MCs are unreliable narrators? When they casually downplay or don't even think to mention some extremely important parts of their pasts, which start to seep through their narration and which makes you look at the story in slowly dawning horror? I eat that shit up.

[lerios]

why/why not? personally i'm too socially anxious for it to be beneficial overall 😅

[hexational]

freak vs creature who will win

also clarifying jeremy isnt trying to beat clover with plez he is trying to stop clover from mauling unpleasant (who has the reaction time of a brick wall)

[gotticalavera]

Ford: I can't believe you're with Fiddleford.

Stan: Yes, and?

Ford: You don't understand, Stanley! That man is dangerous and terribly jealous. He's uncontrollable!!!

Stan: Pfff! Anyway, he's better than most of my exes.

Ford:...

Stan:...

Ford: WHAT A HECK, STANLEY!?!?!

[slasherscrews]

im not supposed to be a regretevator only blog I need to chill

[pseudophan]

i know it would only be an unnecessary pain in the ass for him if i did but it does bother me not to respond like THANK YOU SO MUCH to my gp's messages to me through the healthcare online portal thing. he has a tendency to sit and answer messages and prescription refill requests late as hell in the evening because that's when he finally has the time and it feels so wrong to not reply even if it's entirely unnecessary and he neither expects nor wants that

[tj-crochets]

So on the plus side I apparently unexpectedly reached some threshold of stabilizing my mast cells and have had a few reactions with no migraine or nausea! I'm experiencing acute stress without having bad tachycardia or shaking or having a little bit of that whole "impending sense of doom!" On the minus side I seem to have gone back to hives????? I used to get hives from like 2015ish to like 2019ish, when I finally mostly got my allergies under control*, and then I mostly just stopped having hives. Like. At all. I might have contact dermatitis on like hands knees or elbows if I happened to touch pollen from the Mystery Plant I am allergic to** but I did not get the spontaneous hives on my joints all the time, and now I had one on my hip and I feel like my hand is trying to get one and maybe my knee????? This is definitely a huge step down in terms of severity, significantly less likely to have side effects that land me in the hospital, but I am so confused. Happy about it! Hope it lasts! But so confused. Also (and I do remember this from the few times I got hives once I started antihistamines), feeling a hive try to form while on high doses of antihistamines is so weird. I feel like if I get into too much detail it might squick y'all out but trust me it's a weird feeling. Each individual hive since I've been on daily antihistamines, with one notable exception, lasts less than an hour instead of 24+ hours. *read: four times the daily recommended dose of 24 hour antihistamines, as my allergist told me to do **was not able to narrow down what, exactly, it is, but it was seasonally limited and limited to a certain geographic area so like I think it was a plant? Forgot to mention: I had very little overlap between the "all hives all the time" era of my allergies and the "severe migraines leading to severe dehydration" era of my allergies. Like, very occasionally my hives reaction would get bad enough I'd get the migraine and nausea as well, but very, very rarely. They aren't mutually exclusive they just seem to be for me?

[kwillow]

regarding romance involving your characters, im aware you've talked about how you likely wont engage in making content surrounding that topic (WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FINE obviously), but do you mind if others do? i personally find a lot of enjoyment in those kinds of scenarios and itd be good to know if thats something you're fine with when it comes to your own creations. (im sure you get enough asks about romance already, apologies!!)

and related to this, are there any strict boundaries or hard lines youd prefer not to be crossed when it comes to fan content of them? even anything that just makes you uncomfortable; if youre alright with sharing, that is <:-} i would really like to know just to be certain

Hi there! This is a very kind and conscientious message; thank you for that. ^^

Short answer: sure, I don't mind if people want to make romantic-themed art or writing with my characters. It's flattering!

I don't really have much in the way of hard limits when it comes to depictions of my characters (not counting nsfw/kink art, where I'm also pretty permissive but want to be communicated with in advance), but here are some personal boundaries when it comes to how people treat me, the human:

My characters aren't able to be "claimed" by people for exclusive shipping purposes (either with other characters or for self-shipping). When people get jealous of either other people who want to ship themselves or their characters with mine, or jealous of the characters' in-story love interests, it creates a highly uncomfortable situation for me.

I'm happy for people to enjoy their romantic fantasies with my characters, but I am not included in that bargain. Liking my character does not mean one knows or is in any kind of relationship with me, platonic or otherwise (especially not otherwise).

Likewise, I probably won't reciprocate a lot of self-shipping or Your OCxMy OC type stuff. Of course I'll comment and appreciate the effort and the expression of being interested in my silly stories! But I won't necessarily make a lot of ship art in return or trade head-canons or what have you (again, I just am not super into shipping and I have my own story stuff I already don't have time to draw orz).

My characters aren't made to be boyfriend material. I also have not drawn/written/shown every part of their awful personalities or actions. In the future, I might reveal something about them that makes them unappealing or unsexy. People can ignore the unpleasant qualities I give my characters in their fantasies/fics, but I won't change how I write or draw the character to make them better suited to someone's tastes (yes this is something people have asked me to do).

I feel like stating some of these things makes me look a bit neurotic, like "oh come on, that's not going to happen," but unfortunately all of these things have happened to me before when people got, I guess, a liiiittle too romantically invested in my characters.

So really, I don't have many boundaries in the way of content. Go forth and write or draw or just imagine what pleases you (general you). Write them getting married, having unrequited crushes, being one of the last survivors of the Titanic and sacrificing themselves so that the other character can live her best life beyond their doomed romance, etcetera.

All I ask is that the appreciation is centered on the character as an imaginary being, and I, the real and very boring human woman, am largely ignored in the equation and not pulled in to do matchmaking, officiate any weddings, or act as a conduit to manifest a tulpa.

[teh-nos]

stopped reading a fic just there because it was insisting that thor & co went on many violent adventures pre-movies but of course left poor feeble loki behind cos he's a) feeble and b) blessed with a better understanding of imperialism than the rest, and there are a thousand other fics that also think this is obviously what happened but i think i may just have hit my limit on this one :\

[thealdersgateoffice]

Catherine ‘Passenger Princess’ Standish and her chauffeur Jackson Lamb.

Slow Horses | 1.04 | 2.02 | 3.06 | 4.05 🐌🐎

[askblueandviolet]

Hello 👋

It is I I have two questions! What's with the raccoons soul, thing? Two, do you prefer rainy weather or sunny weather and no, you can't just say you hate society and don't like going out macaque.

Oh I almost forgot * hands macaque a googily eyed rock* a gift 🎁 (　・`ω・´)

* A second later, the rock explodes, releasing a mix of purple and blue glitter with the song " Can't help falling in love with you,"which plays in the background*

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