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genuinely find it insufferable when ppl conflate any minority receiving the same dark attributes that any other dimensional character could get (god forbid any are written to be a villain or antagonist), especially when it is written as largely informed by their experiences in their society to highlight flaws in the dehumanization faced by these groups, with āthis is a stereotype!!ā and āwe are being told disabled ppl are evil bc they are disabled!ā i think u guys might just be uncomfortable with these underrepresented groups being written as human beings affected by their experiences and offered the same level of complexity and intrigue and diversity of roles that everybody else gets regularly
#anyways asoiaf they could never make me hate u#tyrion lannister especially u will always be everything#an actually good character is gonna be better rep than whatever moralizing bullshit u all keep implying u want#always grouping together trends instead of looking at what a story is doing lol
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I'm sick of dirlies on twitter constantly bullying Daniel and mocking him for not doing what they want. They constantly moan about him when they should just shut up and move on and not be fans of him anymore.
idk man sometimes i feel like i'm beating a dead fucking horse, but you do choose what u see on the internet. log off of twitter, unfollow people, block people, etc etc. i get it. i get both sides. i firmly sit on the daniel please make a phone call get in a car do something side. so firmly on that side. i miss that part of him. playing hide and seek of tryna find fan photos of him is fine for a month or two in winter break, but this permanently. can't and won't do it. i need those smile lines in HD. i need a shot of his beard so close up in 4k i'm analysing it for grey hairs. i simply do not think people are evil for wanting that back. i dont think people are wrong for expressing they want some semblance of racer daniel back. as for many people, that is who they fell in love with. its a weird time being a daniel fan, and i do think some people sit more firmly, and are more direct with how they feel than others. for me, daniel's never going to see what we all say lbr. he's drinking beers on his farm, eating brunch and riding dirtbikes. i'm pretty sure he doesn't run any of his own social media at the moment. he's not gunna see if anyones having a bitch really. i think if we get to the point where we're like "you can't say this, you can't say that blah blah blah etc etc." then we're just out here running a cult. i dont agree with everyone, i dont agree with all the opinions on daniel some people have, but i personally feel i try and act with empathy most of the time. he's an unemployed loser, but he's my unemployed loser ya know. i think a lot of people, myself included are struggling to define what they are a fan of now. made it pretty fucking clear over the years i dont love enchante, and a wine drop is great and fun and we'll get some nice pics from it, but that's nothing to be a "fan" of. if daniel doesn't do anyythingggg, whether that be sport related or commercial related, will i still be here in a few months time....i doubt it to be honest. because what is there to support? i get peoples confusion, i get peoples anger, that was me at one point, i was so fucking angry, somedays i still am but thankfully i've got wonderful friends who will let me right 10,000 essays in their messages of me ranting. i just dont think we get anywhere by being mean to people. idkidkidk
#also daniel please do something because i'm bored of having to have this convo every 3 weeks.#bored of people thinking they're better than one another. guys we're repping an unemployed loser. we got nothing to fight about#just shit to painfully laugh about#i think we all need to sit in a blank room and pass a red ball around severance style x#anon#asks
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it's always a little frustrating to me when aroallo people don't understand or care about asexuality
I know that aroallo-ness has it's own struggles, amatanormativity and heteronormativity hate us all in unique and intersecting ways and it definitely sucks for aroallo folk (especially with how I've seen plenty of people talk about how they get the least explicit canon rep in fiction out of all the aro/ace combos) ...but sometimes it feels like a lot of aroallo people start taking that frustration out on aroace/ace-ness, instead of amatanormativity/heteronormativity and the aphobic/uncaring allo folk who enforce it. Y'know, the people who actually dislike aromanticism and asexuality, and who really don't give a shit about nuanced and varied aro rep.
(presumably there's also alloace people out there who are the same about aromanticism too -- I'm just talking about aroallo people because that's what I have personally been seeing, and I don't want to just make shit up about the alloaces.)
#I just feel like I see more aroallo people complain about aroace headcanons taking away from their representation#than by alloallo headcanons even for the same characters#and that doesn't make sense to me??#either way it's equally not aroallo#why is seeing the aro vibes and also seeing ace-ness worse than not even acknowledging the aro vibes?#why is the allosexuality more important than the aromanticism?#at least it's aspec rep at all?#am I just to aroace to get it?#just me rambling#loki's aro/ace rants#<- just remembered I have that tag#anyways. I don't like posting negativity so here's a whole slew of tags for people to filter if they don't want to see it ->#just me complaining about stuff#complaining#mild discourse#discourse#queer discourse#aroace discourse#ace discourse#aro discourse#aspec discourse#salt#mild vent#acephobia mention#acephobia#aphobia mention#<- kinda. this is a post about implied/mildly acephobic aros#feel free to ask me to edit the tags for better filtering#I don't know that I'm in the right here so I want people to be able to block this out if it's a bad take y'know?#it may be something that annoys me but that doesn't mean I'm right
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PSA that people need to stop spelling Damianās name āDamien,ā especially if youāre up in arms about him being whitewashed
Now I will say that Iām not fluent by any means in Arabic, but I have begun studying it to bring myself closer to my culture, and am thus now very familiar with the alphabet. And by learning the alphabet, I have learned that there is no āehā sound in it, much less a vowel that directly translates to āeā when anglicized. The vowels in the Arabic alphabet are primarily āa,ā āo/u,ā and āi,ā so it needs to be spelled Damian to be an accurate translation
In Arabic, itās spelt ŲÆŲ§Ł
ŁŲ§Ł
That is to say: the letters d, aa, m, ii, aa, n
Hence, Damian
I would also like to ask that people please donāt equate being pale with whitewashing. Iām as Arab as Damian is but my family is on the paler side (edit: even with strong olive undertones and other ātraditionalā features). And weāre still Arab
#if anyone speaks arabic better than me disagrees then please by all means share#but anyone else? deal with it#this has been bothering me for ages#spelling Damianās name wrong and people saying he canāt be half Arab (but also half literally European!!) and also light skinned??#itās so frustrating to me#I for sure understand wanting more darker skinned characters as rep#but itās not okay to say that Damian is only valid if heās dark#especially with the super pale Bruce as his dad#damian wayne#batboys#damian al ghul#emerson rambles sometimes#talia al ghul#Bruce Wayne
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your attitude towards Black queer women is nasty and there's nothing stereotypical about a Black (possibly) lesbian character. on top of that, yall was on here the other day talm bout some "taking stuff from black men" but who woulda been seated for a yet another Black man chasing after a yt woman anyway and tryna use sex to control her??? franchaela are going to have a happy ending even if a little bit unconventional (we literally don't know how bridgerton's societal landscape will change by then) but what's the difference between them already living out quiet lives away from the ton and.....continuing to do that? it wouldn't be out of shame but out of what they want while it just so happens to protect them? what exactly would be different than what benophie woulda had to do??? who also had to go to the country to limit the risk of folks inquiring about sophie. it's the same thing and yet your issue seems to be that it's not a Black woman with a white man who harassed her to be his mistress and refused to see her as anything but that. i have no doubt the show will change that part of their dynamic but that seems to be something you want to stay in tact and you need to unpack that cause it's pathetic. you should want better.
They arenāt going to change shit because their MO isnāt to uplift Black women of any kind. So what you really want me to do is cheer on what will be a promiscuous Black woman chasing after or romancing a married white woman(her cousin-in-law) who will have to end up hiding out in the country for the rest of her life to escape persecution. You want me to pretend like itās somehow the same/a better story than a Black woman being chased after, who gets the marriage, the adoring spouse, the children, doesnāt have to live in hiding or else sheāll be jailed, etc.
You don't care that they also ruined a Black manās image too? Fine, but this isn't being done for us. We keep getting handed the āunconventionalā which is why our image is always a fucking mess in the media.
If you want to play stupid play stupid, but I'm not playing dumb with you.
Iām not happy that they made Marina half-Black when they know she has to die to give Eloise a happily ever after. Iām not happy that they had Lady Danbury get raped every five seconds in Queen Charlotte and tried to play it off for laughs. Or that she remained alone with her children hating her. I wont even mention Guinevere, who is only there either to be a sexual experimentation or a side kick to the non-Blacks. Not to mention she like Lady Danbury is just another iteration of the strong independent woman who doesnāt need a man.
Alice is another side character so I'm not happy that the best weāll get in terms of a Black-ish main character is Queen Charlotte who unlike the Bridgertons doesn't exactly have a fully functioning marriage. Lastly Iām not happy that they pulled this stunt after pulling the other fifty eleven stunts when it comes to their Blackish female characters. They do the bar minimum and give us the worst shit so no Iām not going to pretend like itās all hunky dory.
Iām absolutely disgusted by the treatment we have received by this show. Iām tired of the disrespect. Itās one thing to add drama itās another to add unnecessary trauma which is all they have given us.
Iām sorry, but it should tell you everything that they refuse to show a Black woman in a loving relationship with a man where shes desired and wanted. Every woman is afforded that but us? No maāam Iām not falling for this bs.
Sophie should've been Black and this character they've created shouldāve stayed in the rough drafts. No ifs ands or buts about it.
Actually read the books and pay attention to this show rather than listening to a bunch of psychotic racist ass non-Black women who are trying to sell you shit on a platter cause they donāt really give a damn since they have and will continue to get theirs.
#yes queer rep is important but this show isnāt going to deliver anything but pure garbage#black women deserved better than this and youāll never get me to agree that this is actually good rep or that it will be okay#if they were going to do this the show shouldāve made sophie black as well and set up that queer marriage wasnāt a problem back in s1#instead they are trying to give us scraps on all accounts cause they donāt give a damn about black women#Y'all arenāt going to bully me into accepting this shit#Find some simpleton who cant see the forest from the trees. Iām done#anti bridgerton#fandom misogynoir
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listen when we say we need aroace rep - we MEAN we need AROACE REP. becuze shock of all shocks, a character being just ACE is not aroace rep! same with a character being just aro is not aroace rep. not all aroace ppl see their aro and ace identities as separate.
I for one, find it difficult to separate my aro and ace identities from each other which is why i am AROACE and not aro and ace. A character being only ace is not representing me. I do not feel represented by only an ace character. they are not even half representing me because my asexuality goes hand in hand with my aromantisism. and Ace character is not half representing aroace people. I'm sorry but i do not relate to the alloace experience because i am not alloace. so a character being only ace is not relatable to me because they are not aroace. the same goes for if a character was only aro or aroallo.
Now before anyone decides to misinterpret this post to hell and back I'm not saying that aroallo or alloace rep is bad or shouldn't exist. I'm saying stop throwing aroace rep under the bus because "Actually we need more just aro/just ace rep" as if that somehow solves the issue of aroace rep being nonexistent.
#text#aro#aroace#ace#aromantic#asexual#aspec#also if i see someone be like 'ok but all ace rep is aroace they just call it ace' im going to strangle u#if they call it ace then it is ace!!!! it is not magically aroace because u decided thats what they REALLY meant#yeah society doesnt recognize aro as an identity but that doesnt mean that all ace characters are ACTUALLy aroace im going to explode u#im just tired of it being thought that aroace ppl have it so much better and dont need rep as much as just aro or just ace ppl#im tired of aroace ppl getting thrown under the bus because we are aro and ace and so obviiously we get double the rep or some bs#if you think this is about a post you are wrong it is about many posts all saying the same thing#because even in our own communities aroace ppl are the punching bags#because no matter where we go ppl are shit talking part of our identity or treating it as less than#i swear the communities focus on fully separating aro and aceness has been more detrimental than helpful#it's gotten to a point yall think there cant be any overlap ever and have sorta pushed aroace ppl out of both communities#because 'you cant bring ace experiences into aro spaces! not everyone who is aro is aroace!'#'you cant bring aro experiences into ace spaces because not all aces are aro! we can feel love and have relationships!!!'#basically ignoring the nuance and overlap our communities have in order to try to be seen as independent identities.#idk i miss when we would work together and understand each identity as different but also see that there was similarities and overlap
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can i be brave and say tmbw song ranking is insane. the top ten is exactly what you'd expect but their actual genuine masterpieces are at spots 100+
#i love flood but i would love to introduce the ppl who put half the album at the top to a second tmbg album#WEARING A RAINCOAT IS AT 271 IM SOBBING#ALSO before anyone says: yes i understand the concept of a ranking. there are hundreds of tmbg songs. not all of them will be high up#however consider: i can name several tmbg albums i like more than flood & i would kill to see better rep of them#ALSO ALSO not trying to start fights i just need more ppl to listen to the spine
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Why havent i seen anyone talk about how fucking bad the ADHD rep in pjo is
#actually adhd#adhd#adhd representation#bad representation#like im familiar with the phrase ābad rep is better than no rep at allā but honestly it wouldve been better if he just didnt give percy ADHD#pjo series#pjo#percy pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#mind you i only read 3 books and lost interest like a 4th of the way through the 4th book but ive seen enough#rick riordan
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No pun intended but what Ashton did is probably the hottest thing any of the cast has done all campaign.
Absolute punk 'fuck you DM I will put the other primordial shard inside of me' energy
ALSO THE KISS!? EXCUSE ME!?
#critical role#I am slightly bummed about the kiss bc Ashton was repping all us ace peeps out there#but I get it#you find something better than lonliness
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Rewatching JJK šāļø
#i talk#I'm watching JJK#Listen man I know I just roasted the hell out of it and I STAND BY THAT!#But I want to rewatch it with a more critical lens now#and also now I know who all the characters are#The moment [redacted] showed up though I was just like ''MAN.................''#Still incredibly unfair#The story is so interesting but now that I know where it goes I'm just like#*Putting my editor's cap on* THIS NEEDED ANOTHER ROUND OF EDITING#I've cooled off enough to say that it is actually a fun show ā but it's not a GREAT show#If I wasn't led to believe the women in the story were treated well then I wouldn't have felt so betrayed#As far as shonen as a genre goes its still good#and it does treat women better than most shonen. but it still doesn't do them justice#The bar re: good women rep is so low it's in hell#So saying ''this show is good because it doesn't objectify women and they're cool characters!'' isn't much of a compliment#That should be like. bare minimum. but alas#Anyways everyone should go read DGM
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#personal#internets#at this rate I've unfollowed both of the kinda.. 'controvercial' blogs I've been following#since there was a good chunk of actually good takes about how bad media is now and society and braindead internet 'activists' that-#-had it too good in their western countries and NEEDED to invent the reason to bully and excile people#could honestly resonate with it despite some other posts causing genuine pain. but mostly about terribly handled media#like you know that thing when corporations do terrible ass rep to pretend that they care for minorities#or artificially fabricate online backlash against their new actors to show investors that people show interest for their product because-#-of all the clicks on their article?#like discussion of this kind sorta keeps me sober#as a person with BPD I get contaminated by opinions VERY easily and as an autist I will believe everything if it is put together 'logically#that's why I HAVE to be exposed to every possible opinion so I am forced to make out my own rather than being swayed anywhere#but at this point those blog became kinda.. bad? like they don't just have 'opinions' but they hate just to hate#but now my dashboard and recs are full of exclusively things I can fully agree with and I am scared that it will rot my brain#like.. emotions are always the same. where is the 'wait WHAT' effect? where is anger? where is self-reflection?#but ALSO I realized that 'those' blogs are no better than those western 'warriors' I despise and they become narrow-minded too in the end#they advertise themselves as 'open to debate' only to always sway debate into trying to win and not into actually discovering the truth#I cannot trust any side because they're all narrow-minded and hostile but I cannot trust people without any side because-#-they're fence-sitters without morals that side with the winner#is there a secret third thing? like is there a way to not take a side but to still HAVE ideals and opinions?#my problem is that if I am not exposed to people that trash everything I value I forget why AM I valuing [a thing] to BEGIN with#and that won't do will it
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shoutouts to the psychedelic weapons bit from The Holy Mountain for basically already existing in a much less entergaging form

this is just 4 more crazy nights and a shamash away from being a menorah gun. we can get there. the shamash being the handle or trigger or hammer would also fuck severely on a symbolic & thematic level
#wish real life arms profiteers were impeccably dressed lesbians š„²#<- (dont watch the holy mountain for ālesbian repā or anything though. its worth a watch - heeding content warnings- but like.#she ends up drinking bull semen as part of some jungian revelry between the inner self & ones shadow. it might be a testosterone thing tho?)#also uh#the holy mountain spoilers#ALL IāM SAYING IS- ITS A MOVIE WHERE A MAN IS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SELL 3D PRINTS OF HIS NAKED ASS AS THE LORD AND SAVIOR#JESUS CHRIST - ITS NOT CONCERNED WITH TACT SOTOSPEAK#also a concerningly non-zero amount of child nudity there. isnāt really a way to whitewash that part#ā¦.its been a while since i watched it could be worse/better than i remember
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NO FREAKING WAY VIKTOR IS CONFIRMED ACE I CALLED THAT SHT IN 2021 !!!!!!!!!!!! WE STAY WINNING :D
#cherry thoughts#YAY PAST ME I KNEW WE WERENT INSANE#arcane#arcane spoilers#i guess? idk being safe#unfortunately i think the creator(s??) is using it to ādiscreditā fans shipping him and jayce which is. lame to say the least#shippers gonna ship. it is what it is#(i personally dont ship it but i understand the appeal -- as i do most ships lol)#n like ofc this will ignite āace characters can be romance/sex favorableā + āwhy are all fandom aces romance/sex favorableš¤Øā discussions#which is... :/#but still man idk#im just very happy to have any confirmed ace characters :D#esp when there are so few in basically any media. i take heavily implied/ace coded characters under my wing like little birds#and ik theyre going to inevitably get shipped regardless of whether theyre confirmed or not. but still#the absolute thrill of vindication is unmatched#like man i KNEW he had ace vibes. i could just feel it ugh im so happy <333#i guess i was wrong about jinx (depending on how you look at it ???????) but idc one is already way better than i ever thought id get :D#viktor the machine herald#asexuality stuff#also in case it wasnt clear PLEASE SHIP WHAT U WANT i truly couldnt care less !!!#i just love sitting in my corner celebrating w my scraps of ace rep. thats all :)
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