#but im being fucking infuriating

[devils-lawboy]

if i were kim kitsuragi i would have fucking snapped by now (12:54 on day 1)

[queenerdloser]

i just finished dark heir

[earlyzakariya]

It's really fucking annoying how people are denying the implications of Mizuki being referred to as a guy by BULLIES which are yknow ANTAGONISTS and there's still people going "Mizuki is a crossdresser!" Despite that being blatantly transphobic considering every other fucking story in game so far

It's infuriating seeing such a wonderfully done trans story be erased bc some people can't accept that it's a trans story and I could pull out literally ever other fucking focus event and it still wouldn't matter because if they cared they wouldn't be doing it. All of Mizuki's FRIENDS refer to her femininely and her BULLIES refer to her masculinely like how much more blatant does it need to get?!

I feel like I can't even point out that shit like this is a microaggression without being shut down and it's infuriating.

[whoviandoodler]

armand is incredibly powerful even amongst vampires, right? he's the oldest and for the duration of the status quo in paris the highest authority- he sets the rules, he upholds the rules, and if you break them, he's the one you answer to, if you're not otherwise set upon by the rest of the coven on his orders. and louis came in and saw that and decided that the only way to not get back into the same position he was in with lestat (a more powerful vampire using decades if not centuries of knowledge that louis doesn't possess, and has nigh nowhere to discover it outside said vampire, to control him) was to control armand before armand had a chance to control him. he used armand's desperation for connection and understanding and belonging (the autism in that man is a topic in and of itself) and his traumatic childhood/youth (something in all of us yearns to upkeep and/or return to the horrible status quo in the face of the horror of the unknown and the uncertain; he cannot understand belonging outside of possession) and manipulated the absolute fuck out of him in much a similar way that lestat did until his tenuous hold on his power and authority with the parisian coven snapped and shit started crashing down.

and louis doesn't really see what he did??? in that entire relationship louis is so hell bent on being the same kind of victim that he was with lestat (where he is not at fault because he never had a choice) that he will completely ignore how wildly the circumstances differ, and excuse everything he did to armand as self defense against the inevitable, so that when armand does manipulate him, he can be the completely innocent party and armand the monster to take all the flak. it's no longer 'we're both hurting each other', it's 'i'm hurting him so he doesn't theoretically hurt me, and when he does hurt me all the fucked up shit i did doesn't count actually'.

[what-do-bunyips-look-like]

This crab day thing has gotten so frustrating so fast. The person who suggested it is an anti-abortion anti-feminist right wing christian transphobe. Many of the people spreading additional posts and info are ALSO anti-abortion right wing christian transphobes. Seriously. Start clicking their blogs when you see these posts. Search "abortion" and "feminism" and "trans" and "gender" and "groomer." This is really easy to confirm. But people don't give a shit because "crabs fun." okay.

And its not like people aren't aware of it at this point. Search "crab day" on tumblr and a good chunk of the results are asks saying "hey btw crab day was started by a transphobe/right wing christian." and most of those people have responded with something along the lines of "Um okay but like its a good idea though??? You guys can't even collaborate with conservatives for like a second to achieve a political goal? UGH this is why nothing ever gets done 🙄." or "Um okay but like that post had nothing to do with their political beliefs. so like its fine lol. Crab fun." Or "oh no omg im so sorry thats so gross i deleted the post but im still gonna keep reblogging all the other posts by the conservative transphobic anti abortion right wing christians whos blogs i wont check because we need to save tumblr!!!!"

Let me make this really fucking clear for those who don't get it: it doesn't matter if the post is not about their political beliefs. You and all your mutuals are reblogging them. You are making it easier for them to network and find each other. You are bringing them new followers, a bigger audience, a bigger platform and a bigger pool of people who will spread their oh so relatable non-political posts. Which will bring in more followers. And some of those new followers are going to be young dumbasses who are going to see all their posts about "groomers" and "mutilation" and the evils of porn and the horrors of abortion and how feminism actually harms women and do i need to tell you how that story ends?

You are showing that "crab fun" is way more important to you than the safety of trans tumblr users. You are giving them a bigger platform and a wider net with which to potentially harm trans people. By saying that you're not going to let their political beliefs ruin your fun, you're making it very clear that trans people are less important than your fun. And you're making it VERY fucking clear that you'd RATHER tumblr become a safe and welcoming place for anti-feminist anti-abortion right wing transphobes than give up fun crab.

You are showing that your need to throw money at a corporation is more important to you than trans tumblr users. I get where you are coming from. I do. You want tumblr to keep existing. I want tumblr to keep existing. I also want the other trans people who use this fucking platform to keep existing because frankly, they are the only reason i'm here. and if they aren't safe here and if you will throw us away just to keep tumblr shambling along a little longer then I have no fucking interest in tumblr.

"Okay but we need to save tumblr uwu!!!!" Look I'm just some dumbass and I don't know shit (and to be PERFECTLY honest, so are you), but I think this is a little more complicated than "if we raise enough money we can save the school/family farm/community centre/(insert cozy heartwarming thing that needs to be saved)!" As other smarter people have said, tumblr is operating at a yearly $30 million deficit. Thats $30 million just to break even. For one year. not become profitable. Its not a bail them out once and its all good forever situation. Tumblr is not a small message board run by volunteers who actually use donations to stay afloat. They are not a non-profit. They are not running a pledge drive. Throwing money at a corporation does not a nonprofit make. It makes you a consumer.

Your response to "tumblr making bad changes" is "give them money for making the bad changes to show that we don't like bad changes!! A reverse boycott'll show 'em!!" You sure about that??? (And some of you are calling this """""unionizing?"""" Put that word back on the shelf.) You don't know what you're doing and you're not listening to the smarter people who have tried to explain it to you. And once again, you're showing that this half baked scheme is more important to you than trans tumblr users. because crab fun.

And @everyone whos clambering over each other to "collaborate with conservatives for a good cause," we already fucking know that you love to do this shit. You are the same people who will say "yeah but theres bad people on both sides!!!" and who wont give up your Harry Potter or your Chick-Fil-A. You will throw us under the bus the SECOND it gets you something you want. Even something as stupid and small as pickle brine or a shitty videogame or fucking "crab day." And guess what. The second all your "shared goals" are accomplished and the conservatives get what they want FROM YOU??? You're going straight under that bus too.

And also, isn't it maybe a little hmmmm. SUSPICIOUS that CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS want to throw money at the site that we've been bitching and screaming at for how unfairly it censors any display of queer sexuality????? They don't have the same problems with tumblr that you do. You think that collaborating with THEM is gonna stop that? Gonna get the porn ban reversed? Gonna turn tumblr into a co-op? Gonna "unionize this bitch?" Hello????

If you must. MUST participate in this because crab oh so fun and tumblr is oh so in need of saving then for the LOVE of FUCK make your OWN POST and STOP PLATFORMING THESE PEOPLE. i don't want to hear "Oh but its a good idea it doesn't matter if a bad person came up with it separate art from the artist lol" if you're not MAKING AN ACTUAL EFFORT TO EXCLUDE THEM FROM THIS. BLOCK THEM. CHECK THEIR BLOGS. BLACKLIST THEIR URLS. ITS EASY.

and then maybe go give your $3 to an actual non-profit. or to an actual leftist independent organization. Or wikipedia. Or inaturalist. Or to one of the many hyperspecific message boards out there who are struggling along on donations from like 5 people. Or maybe, maybe, give your fucking $3 to an abortion fund or to a trans person's go fund me so they can buy food. Or to a womens shelter or a fucking homeless person or to any of the other people who anti-abotion anti-feminist right wing christian transphobes want to stop existing.

My partner is afraid to leave the house alone because people with these exact same political beliefs are in power. People are getting their HRT ripped away from them because people with these exact same political beliefs are in power. People are being forced to give birth because people with these exact same political beliefs are in power. Every day I'm ready to get the news that the state my partner is in is no longer safe and we have to figure out an escape plan. These people do REAL HARM in the REAL WORLD and their beliefs are, tbh, way more fucking insidious and mainstream and tolerated than those of TERFs.

But fun crabs are more important. okay.

[jennrypan]

I need Gotham war to be done immediately and for Jason to shoot Bruce in his knees 🙏

If they cure Jason, if they get Bruce to thinking clearly. I don't want him to forgive Bruce's dusty, pretentious dirty white ASS.

Fuck him fr.

He's always failing Jason specifically (and Dick fr) and he doesn't get to just say "Oh i wasn't in my right mind" no, FUCK YOU!!

If you are so easy to manipulate and mind control, who's to say it can't happen again??

I want Jason to go back to being a full villain cuz Batman/Bruce has proven to be the worst hero in Gotham. I need him to be angry, I don't want him to forgive him!!! (Break the cycle of forgiving bitches that do you dirty. ESPECIALLY your parents.)

I want bad things for current Canon Bruce Wayne. Only bad things, he doesn't even deserve Selina either 😶

[ultimateinferno]

I think the big issue with Harris is that they used up any enthusiasm they had at the outset. When Biden dropped out and Harris stepped up, there was quite a bit of enthusiasm, maybe a hope that something would change. Then Walz was picked as VP, and once again, people were excited because Minnesota was seen as pretty progressive compared to the more institutional democrats. Then, as Novemeber approached, things started to fall apart. Harris started talking about being the most lethal military and securing borders. She got approval from Dick Cheney. And for the lot who were hoping to hear something in favor of brokering peace with Israel Palestine, there was a fake Biden Ultimatum against Netanyahu and nothing was done even while Trump bragged he was talking with Bibi and actively sabotaging Biden's brokering efforts.

I've seen people blame ID politics for their failure, but feminist and queer issues weren't unpopular, per se. Many states—even red states—passed abortion and queer marriage protections. A trans woman was sent to Congress, and this is the first time two black women are senators at the same time.

I think people are tiring of institutional Democrats. There's no excitement with the DNC. Their biggest selling point they keep giving is occupying seats to keep Republicans out of it. Anyone who may have an issue with institutional Democrats are told to fall into rank to keep Trump away. So, even if logically, Trump is a massive blow to a lot of these positions, people don't want to vote for "Not Trump^tm" for the third presidential election cycle in a row. They want and needed someone to get excited about.

I was a sophomore in high school during the 2016 election. By the time Trump leaves office, I will be approaching my 30s. I know there's a lot of finger-pointing right now about who dropped the ball on the presidential election, and we can blame any minor faction we want. "It's the Latinos! It's the progressives! It's the straight white men!"

Honestly, I don't think it's any of the major voting blocks, but, as I've said, the DNC as a whole. For their stuffy suits and constant attempts at reaching across the aisle with people who spit at their existence, demean their identities. When Harris called Republicans weird, people thought we were out of the woods with overly cordial negotiating and finally got someone who was willing to play ball.

I'm in progressive spaces, so it's certainly obvious that my observation that the DNC was too moderate is biased. That said, I think it was a one-two punch of being made to fall into line then losing because of a stark drop in turn out has lead to many believing someone else didn't do their part, almost a resentful "I had to give up my aspirations for the next administration to not be Trump, why couldn't you?"

[fester-jester]

Shut the fuck up

[rabbithaver]

every so often i will see a post from a leftist on this website that is so egregiously ableist that i remember that like. oh yeah the userbase of leftists on this website is violently anti-disabled people and will jump at any chance to demonize any of us for any reason. i just forget that fact because i'm extremely dedicated to curating my space

i'm paraphrasing here but i saw a post that said, "every time i see an American [disabled person] mention being scared about the election because they're afraid of losing their benefits i have to laugh. anybody who wants blood-soaked money from the US government deserves to starve" which. like. goodness that's a lot to unpack. i think we should burn the whole suitcase instead !

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't even like video games so why have i been playing Red Dead 2 for the past eight hours gay

[hecksupremechips]

Just the way Shin Tsukimi’s “mask off” moment is him becoming increasingly frustrated to the point of having a nervous breakdown where all he can do is laugh maniacally because he’s so done with everyone acting so incompetent and not seeing things “as they are” (aka how he sees them) is just. Mwah chefs kiss hes just like me fr 😰

[stingrayloveblog]

Nintendo thinks theyre soooo funny haha "what if we gave 9 gold scales if they hit 900 mil (almost a billion !!) golden eggs. Just 9. For all that work. Isnt that so hilarious and funny and awesome and cool. Theyll only get 7 if they only hit the given quota. So funny. So awesome. So hilarious. Not even 300 bronze scales to go with it. So amazing. So incredible. We're so hilarious" yeah uh huh sure whatever

[lixies-favorite-cookie]

i just love when my mother reminds me that I have mommy issues 🙄

like its truly a talent to be able to be so utterly manipulative and completely oblivious at the same time

thank you for my trauma mother i REALLY needed it for my art 🖕

[to-junipterandmars]

chase hugging house was so cute 🥺 actually the whole teams reaction to thinking house was dying was so sweet in any other show this would have been the 'whole gang joining forces and becoming a Family' but alas. House

[spitbruise]

can someone bomb the israel government i’m sick of this shit

[transzilla]

I dont know. I dont really understand this obsession with avoiding sexual or traumatic topics. Like people tend to have an idea of how conversations are supposed to go and you "ruin it" by changing the pace to something like that.

I always found weddings embarrassing for that reason because it seems the more entitled you feel to a good time and how everything "needs to be perfect" the more embarrassing it is and the more likely it is to go wrong. And the worse it is when it does go wrong. Like taking yourself that seriously always comes off as really stupid to me. People cry and cry about how they were gonna have such a GREAT time and how somebody RUINED it. They'll keep talking to abusive people and let people walk all over them without ever disrupting the good time and saying anything because they don't want to ruin something they think is good but really makes them miserable. Like I've never been in that situation, honestly. Let's be real, it's ruined the minute I show up. Watch me huff and puff and blow it all down.