#but i personally cannot abide

[menlove]

blorbo.... smol bean...... it has the same energy. i won't be expanding

[ongreenergrasses]

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I want all your unpopular opinions haha have fun

I think Finnick and Johanna do act very sexually forward, to a degree that it can make people very uncomfortable, and it seems like the fandom agrees on that but the why of it really gets lost. Trafficking survivors and survivors of sexual abuse sometimes do act extremely provocatively, especially when they want something or are in a situation where they feel unsafe, but also they’ll do that to get a reaction or redirect a difficult conversation. it’s a trauma response. it’s a defense mechanism and a way they’ve learned to navigate the world. it’s not some deep intrinsic part of their personalities and we see that both Finnick and Johanna will not and do not act like that if they don’t feel the need to. so seeing fics (in particular modern aus) where their experience of being trafficked is erased but they still act extremely seductive really rubs me the wrong way. it’s at that point such a deep misinterpretation of their characters that i won’t engage with it. if what you’re taking away from everything is that Finnick’s a womanizer and Johanna’s stripping in the elevator is meant to be sexy, i honestly don’t want to see whatever else you have to say.

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[manicpixiedreamedwins]

salt of the day

“He’s not a rapist” is a REALLY low bar for consent, just as an fyi. Coercion, harassment, and intimidation are absolutely not things that anyone in their right mind consents to. Please think before you post brain dead takes 🙃

[mantisgodsdomain]

On the rare occasions when we talk about the spectre of veganism you can probably physically tell the amount of psychic damage that we take from seeing people throw out any part of a carcass.

[ansburg]

i think more people should lean into the fact anders has eaten human flesh and likened the taste of blood to honeyed wine

[dimensionalspades]

Like for a starter (length will vary)! Specify who you want or I'll choose for you!

[airsignss]

Every time one of Those Men™️ finds out about my BoB podcast i am 🤏🏻 thaaaatt much closer to jumping off a fucking building, it simply Cannot Be

[joshuadunshua]

Hey there 25 year old queer folks.

You’re not a queer elder. You’re a queer adult. But you do have elders. They’re all around you! I recommend seeking them out! It sounds like you probably don’t know of very many, but I can assure you. You’re not a queer elder. At this point in time, it’s beginning to seriously erase the living people with lived experiences from the picture, and these are the elder queers we seriously need to listen to and learn from. Not only do their contributions go unheard, but we’re also sending a message to others and to them that they don’t even exist, that they all died. We cannot allow our queer elders to fade into nonexistence. It will kill us and it will kill them if we refuse to acknowledge and refuse to hear and learn from them.

Stop positioning yourself as a queer elder. Please. And go listen to the actual queer elders. We have so so many.

[ongreenergrasses]

saw people on the dash talking about this and man i just have so many problems with fic rec lists. I really do. they always end up becoming a popularity thing, if you like reading anything other than [insert extremely popular premise here] you won’t get anything out of it, and most importantly if you repeatedly don’t get rec’d (and this is coming from someone who afaik has never once been on a rec list) you end up feeling kind of meh about your writing sometimes!

it’s disheartening when it’s the same fics getting rec’d over and over and over because at the end of the day what it means is that the fandom is going to just read those things over and over and over and never explore the other fics out there and give love to the authors that aren’t BNFs (because a lot of the time surprise surprise, the authors getting rec’d are also BNFs) and in a pool of fic that is as relatively small as the stuff for odesta, I’m really not surprised that people feel nervous or intimidated to start writing. because the popular premises have been done a thousand times and the “gold standard” stuff was written 10+ years ago and it requires a big mindset shift to even feel like your work is worth posting. I speak from experience on this lmao

but all that to say it is worth posting, there’s reasons people read the same premises over and over and it’s because they’re interesting, and it won’t be the same anyway because it’s unique! it’s yours! it’ll be something new and exciting and that’s what fandom always needs.

[crossbackpoke-check]

in love with your novels in the tags, they're so much fun to read - @softvikings

thank you!!! i have so much fun writing them and i love hearing that they bring other people joy as well, these are Our Tag Novels now 🥹💕🥰

[bagheerita]

I just watched "In the Pale Moonlight" a few days ago so my brain is primed to make this connection but I was watching Operation Petticoat and

Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: The unfortunate thing about command, though, Mr. Holden, is that the responsibilities outweigh the privileges! Now if it were just myself I was concerned with, I'd tell you what to do with that list. But my responsibility is this boat! And to get her out of here, I'd even make a pact with the devil! Lt. Nicholas Holden: That's where I come in. Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: That's right.

It's the same story, just a comedy.

[krysmcscience]

At long last: either an alternate explanation for or continuation of my prior comic regarding how Bill was ABSOLUTELY naked in Ford's karaoke night drawing. (Because errors in art do not exist. Artists do not make mistakes. So if you see any in this comic, No You Do Not.)

I am so normal about these old dorks.

I'm not really clear on exactly when Bill started throwing his desperation book at Ford just like a needy ex do, but I find it extremely funny to imagine it happening literally the day of or after the makeshift funeral. Bill just gets this weird sense of 'Ford is taking steps to move on' and CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE.

I hope you enjoy all the goofy things I added to each page of Bill's sad spieling. (Everything SHOULD be readable so long as you view the full size, but I have added basically this whole little fanfic in the image descriptions, LMAO, which lays out all the little written notes and such.) Also don't ask how Bill managed to sneak that vampire pen in there. I have no idea, and honestly? I don't wanna know.

Oh, and a little bonus comic:

Of course Bill would take it as flirting. Because between the two of them, Bill is the bigger masochist By Far. :)

Also I have continued applying The Good Place logic to any of Bill's attempts to swear. Case in point, one last bonus image, this time with a motivational line from my slapdash Theraprism OC, EV-01:

Yes, its name is just 'love' backwards. No, I will not be taking any feedback on this. Yes, EV-01 was only ever assigned to Bill's case due to the Theraprism being desperate to make some progress in rehabilitating him. No, it did not work anywhere close to staff's expectations - Bill didn't even appreciate EV-01's matching fondness for bowties! (He claimed the fondness to be "cultural appropriation" and insisted he'd been traumatized by it.)

Anyway, if you like my stuff, reblogs are very much appreciated, and if you really really like it, perhaps consider my commissions or yeeting a teeny tiny tip my way? I am trying to recoup over 500 dollars in vet bills, ahaha... 🙃

In other news, I loved all the fun tags people added to the prior naked-karaoke comic (such as 'the hat and bow-tie stay ON during sex' and the classic '[insert keysmash here]', as well as the many amused/bewildered remarks about how I either made the bricks a piece of clothing or just straight up peeled Bill's skin off). However, I think my favorite thing by far was the several people losing their shit over the fact that I gave Bill toes. Like, excuse me? The magical talking triangle can have fingers but not toes??? Since when was that a rule????? 🤣 (Also the one person who reblogged with the cropped panel where Bill's fishnets pants are falling off to ask why Bill peed himself. Dude, I want to examine your brain...?)

Okie-dokie, I'm sick of looking at all of this stuff now and I'm off to go to work, after which I will either scribble some more goofy "Billford" comics or perhaps draw my lame human!Bill in Situations, idk yet. Maybe I'll even finally draw more than just a single other person's human!Bill...? Who knows, but I sure hope I can mix it up a little and not turn whatever I draw into a month-long fukken project. >:\

[mintyvoid]

another perspective that I have fallen into in the past is the ignorant and lack of emotional and mental intelligence side.

an argument ive seen is that "i struggle enough with my monog relationship, how can someone have one with multiple?"

when the actual problem is the general publics utter lack of being able to communicate and express. There are so many social stigmas and rules that stop people from communicating and to instead assume. There is a even more lack of constructiv communicaton and especially emotional intellience being taught.

'how can they have a happy and fulfiling life with multiple, when i struggle to have content relations with my singular partner? with my friends? with my parents?'

and it is a good thing to question, but it should lead to figuring out how to better your own relations, discover and explore boundries, learn how to communicate your own thoughts and feelings and in general learn how you feel and experience thoughts and emotions. But the easier route tends to always be to blame others, or its at least been the thing taught in society to NOT self reflect.

Anyone else feel like they missed a significant youth socialization thing that would make sense of the visceral hate for polys? Why does it incite actual anger? This is obviously more than meeting an annoying ex-theater kid poly dom once

[wilwheaton]

What we’re witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they’ve built. Rather than deal with the realities of a warming planet hurling once-in-a-generation storms at them every few weeks, they’d rather malign and threaten meteorologists, who, in their minds, are “nothing but a trained subversive liar programmed to spew stupid shit to support the global warming bullshit,” as one X user put it. It is a strategy designed to silence voices of reason, because those voices threaten to expose the cracks in their current worldview. But their efforts are doomed, futile. As one dispirited meteorologist wrote on X this week, “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes.” She followed with: “I can’t believe I just had to type that.” What is clear is that a new framework is needed to describe this fracturing. Misinformation is too technical, too freighted, and, after almost a decade of Trump, too political. Nor does it explain what is really happening, which is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality, as well as those who have financial and political interests in keeping up the charade.

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is - The Atlantic

[vulturvolanss]

i love having like the one non-incest/adult and child ship I’ve ever hated blacklisted bc it makes half of character tags just evaporate into thin air

(this was meant to be a joke post but then I started a fucking analysis in the tags that no one will read. my bad.)

[liquidstar]

look this site really is awful for ppl with OCD so i just wanna reassure anyone that you are not Tainted Forever for consuming a piece of media with questionable content. the fact that youre able to recognize it speaks to your critical thinking skills, which is good, certain depictions should be critiqued. but you dont need to ruminate on it to the point where you begin to feel guilty for simply witnessing gross or creepy writing choices. you dont have to vindicate yourself to the fictional tumblr discourser inside your head, saying that youre now a bad person bc you watched the wrong anime. your actual response to it still matters of course, but thats that and this is this. just seeing it is neutral, you didnt commit a thought crime. its literally fine.

IF YOU ARE USING THIS POST TO ONLY FURTHER YOUR STUPID PEDANTIC BLACK-AND-WHITE DISCOURSE TO GET A "GOCHA" OVER THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. DON'T USE OUR DISORDER TO VINDICATE YOUR BEHAVIOR. THOUGHT CRIMES ARENT REAL BUT ACTIONS STILL MATTER. PEOPLE WITH OCD ARE CAPABLE OF THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT OUR ACTIONS AND RESPONSES, EVEN WITH INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS AND RUMINATIONS. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT, ONLY TO FORCE US TO USE YOUR STRINGENT UNNUANCED DISCOURSE OPINIONS ABOUT "PURITY CULTURE" (TRIGGERING TO THOSE WITH OCD) AS THE ONLY REASONABLE GUIDE DOES MORE TO EXACERBATE OUR OBSESSIONS THAN HELP US. YOU ARE THE ISSUE AS WELL. YOU ARE ALSO THE TUMBLR DISCOURSER INSIDE OUR HEADS. DO NOT USE US FOR YOUR DISCOURSE. WE ARE PEOPLE, NOT HYPOTHETICALS TO USE TO EXPLAIN IF YOUR FROZEN INCEST FANFICTION IS OKAY OR NOT. TREATING US AS IF WE CANNOT AUTONOMOUSLY HAVE OUR OWN OPINIONS ON WHEN MEDIA IS TANGIBLY HARMFUL IS ABLEIST. FORCING US TO ABIDE BY YOUR IN-GROUP'S SET OF UNEQUIVOCAL MORALS IS ABLEIST. ACTING AS THOUGH THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR US IS MINDLESS MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN WHICH "EVERY DEPICTION OF XYZ, NO MATTER HOW POORLY DONE OR EXPLOITATIVE, IS ALWAYS OKAY AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOURE ACTUALLY AN EVIL 'ANTI'" IS ABLEIST. THOSE ARE THE SAME BLACK-AND-WHITE MORALS THAT SEND US INTO OBSESSIVE SPIKES, BUT FLIPPED. A SET OF MORALS IN WHICH QUESTIONING THE IMPACT OF A PIECE OF WORK MAKES YOU AN "EVIL CONSERVATIVE PURITAN "ANTI"" DOES NOT HELP MORAL OCD.

YOU ARE THE DAMN TUMBLR DISCOUERSERS MAKING THIS SHIT WORSE FOR US! YOURE THE EXACT SAME BUT WITH FLIPPED BUZZWORDS! YOU'RE MISSING THE WHOLE DAMN POINT!