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i feel like iāve reached a new level of degeneracy every time iām like āoh boy time to think about The Scenariosā and itās just me holding hands with a fictional guy
#i know this is a normal fandom experience#but it feels inherently sinful#my art#cherry rambles#this is about micah yujin and sundrop specifically btw
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iāve never been as angry on behalf of a character as i am for sam winchester
#currently thinking about season four and five. absolutely fuckibg mental#the world literally reshapes itself around him to prove him wrong#its all framed as God. Sam was so stupid and selfish and reckless for drinking demon blood. He just liked the power of it and he chose a#DEMON over DEAN.#but. thatās not the story they tell in s4.#like even aside from every single other complexity. Sam is literally right. he has ZERO WAY of knowing that killing lilith is the final seal#AND DEAN DOESNT KNOW TJAT EITHER. like sam is literally right he can kill lilith and he does kill lilith. dean wants lilith dead just as#much. samās cardinal sin is disobeying dean and then the world flips around on him and plot twist sam and dean were both wrong all along and#killing lilith is what will bring back lucifer :)#but. itās not framed like that either. itās framed like SAM BROUGHT BACK LUCIFER BY KILLING LILITH WHILE HIGH ON DEMON BLOOD#dean you wanted to kill lilith too?????????#but. doesnāt matter dean despite being mostly motivated by jealous anger is retroactively proven to be Right#and sam is retroactively proven to be Wrong. he is bad#i just. jesus. samās not evil ever. heās hardly even that fucking morally grey#and he still thinks thereās something wrong with him that heās a freak that heās inherently evil and needs to be purified#why?? cause of something fucked up that happened to him when he was a baby#and because heās disobeyed his father and his brother and been angry at awful things that have happened to him#makes me feel fucking insane actually#no wonder narrative frames sam as evil no wonder heās inherently marked as Bad by the forces in supernatural like even on a meta level#in supernatural gods just another shitty father. embodiment of the familial patriarch. and from samās very first moment on the show heās in#opposition to that heās ran away from john and he argues with dean. therefore he is evil#i donāt think my words r really making sense right now but. fucking hell#and sam is so swamped in guilt all of season five and he just fucking accepts that everything bad is his fault#and he gets tortured in the cage to save the fucking world and itās STILL not enough. not to appease his own guilt and not to appease deans#anger at him. dean is still throwing his perceived violations back at him in like season nine!!#and whenever he tries to get out itās treated as yet another Sin. narrative acts like sam thinking dean was dead and having a life outside#of hunting is The Worst Thing He Ever Did#worst sin sam ever commits in the eyes of the show is disobedience. Absolutely awful actually#spn#sam winchester
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I've been thinking about modesty from a specifically trans lense lately. I was taught that modesty indicates shame, that modesty means you're simultaneously ashamed of being human and having a human body, but also that you are "purer" because you adhere to a hegemonic idea of modesty. Frankly, I just don't agree with this, and it was very much steeped in the idea of specifically christian ideas of modesty.
Before I transitioned, I felt very unprotective of my body because it never felt like mine to begin with. I didn't really care what happened to it, and while I was modest by other people's standards, I certainly didn't feel it. Once I actually started transitioning (and especially on testosterone), I've found that I'm so much more "modest" because I've become protective of my body. There's this stereotype that trans people start "showing themselves off" after transitioning, but I honestly feel the opposite. I'm possessive over my body and exactly how it acts and appears because I actually like my body, and it finally feels like mine. I'm honestly kind of selfish about it, and I think I've earned the right to be.
I made this post because I think this is an interesting topic, and I think it's interesting the ways in which we internalize the influences that be. It's also a reminder that no matter how you feel about things like modesty, you should adhere to what makes the most sense to you and what you are most comfortable with. There are pressures to be modest in this way or that way, but what truly matters is what you decide with your body and yourself.
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#modesty#like i was looking into swim pants to wear under my swim trunks because i don't want people to be able to see my legs for example#like... they're MY legs not yours. get your own legs dammit š” (joking)#and i found i have no shame about myself since being more 'modest' because i do it out of self-admiration#and personally i have no ties to the hegemonic christian sense of modesty and what i was taught living in a *heavily* christian area#that's not to say i have an issue with christians and what they feel is modest but it's more specifically the shame surrounding modesty#the idea that being modest indicates that you're a 'better person' than those who sin (wearing short shorts or swearing)#that's not inherent to the religion from what i understand but i don't agree with it personally#and i do not believe that modesty (or lack thereof) is an indication of ANYTHING about a person#it doesn't tell you anything about their personality or their interests or what they think#it only tells you how they feel most comfortable existing or behaving and even then you often won't know the complexities of that comfort#i have an issue with the ideas about modesty but i use the word because it is easily understood and it is the language i have available#if there's a better term or word for sure let me know but i haven't been made aware of it š#ANYWAY. i just think it's interesting#and if you're experiences are different from mine i genuinely respect you for it and platonically love you#and i hope you feel beautiful/gorgeous/handsome/cool and i hope you are comfortable <3
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well as you can see besides being ugly as all fuck I'm also extremely bitter so that doesn't help at all in making me appealing. but it also comes with the territory you see, being treated as a hideous freak of nature for your whole life kind of does things to your psyche.
also going into shit in the tags as an extreeeemely jaded individual who's been on every side of the discourse and KNOWS it all VERY PERSONALLY so I know many people will find all sorts of different reasons to hate me (if they want ig) because I'm ~politically homeless~ at this point because I'm sick and tired of everything but whatever
(also fuck I ran out of space in the tags so another post maybe idk. )
#so. i get why people are against children transitioning i really do. and i have my own nuanced complicated feelings about it#but honestly. im beginning to believe id be more well-adjusted by now even if just a bit if i had started larping as male by 15.#would it fix all of my problems? no. but it would make a lot of things in my life much smoother and easier.#but i was sooo deep into raddie/gc shit that i had this fucking. complex about not wanting to troon because its ~cheating~#and 'omg all the butches are leaving!!1 butch flight i cant be one of them!!!1'#'i MUST be a good example for all the young girls!!!1' a weird sort of almost martyr-like complex if you will.#but as i get older im like... honestly man fuuuuccckkkkk this.#barely anybody expects straight or even bi women to abstain from dating men forever For the Good of Womankind#its not seen as Expected but rather Exceptional and Wow Amazing if you do.#and anyone who Expects it is seen as a ~crazy extremist~#meanwhile lesbians and especially HSTS are almost fucking Expected to sacrifice themselves for the ~greater good~#and ngl other lesbiams perpetuate this shit too.#oh you CANT transition even if you feel it'll make your life easier because because because#[arguments that would really only apply to OSA females transitioning]#[strawman] [misinterpreted stats] [unverified reddit posts]#and if all else fails 'think of how the very act of doing so will HURT ALL OF WOMANKIND'#no fucking wonder dysphoric lesbians develop an fucking insane martyr complex and start to treat hrt/transitioning like its fucking crack#'ill give into the temptation if i see a happy trans person ohh nooo so nobody should be allowed to troon'#like thats not fucking normal! you realize thats NOT FUCKING NORMAL right?#youre acting like a deranged christian who is so afraid of sinning by wrongthink#and disclaimer no. i dont inherently hate being female or a lesbian but with the way i am physically and mentally#i would have/have had a Much easier time integrating into society as a ~man~. just because of how i am physically and mentally.#now i wont say internalized homophobia/etc. NEVER has anything to do with transition or etc. but im gonna be real#for HSTS (which are extremely rare in the first place) thats often only a very small part of it at most.#its often more about making our lives easier and integrating better without having to completely remold our entire personalities.#thats the reality.#would we not transition if society have patriarchy/gender roles/sexism? perhaps. i wont deny that possibility.#the fact of the matter is however#that it wont be happening any time soon. so we just want our lives to be easier.#'oh but youre lying to yourself' not necessarily. i dont have a ~gender identity~ and im well aware of myself and my situation.
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#hmmm not liking how many people are saying side x in that poll it is making me very uncomfortable!!! that this many people#are saying that me literally just existing not doing anything is a sin! don't care for that!#is my nature inherently sinful#? sure yeah that's the point. but that's a different thing#perhaps I am feeling sick to my stomach about that!
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uh ohhhhhh getting all in my head again aha
#ok so even if im right what does that change#everything but ok ok. i can always just kms to atone for my sins <333#(<-normal coping mechanism with Not Being Able To Deal With The Kind Of Person You Are)#no no ok no kmsing but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh bruh i thunk my brain is like. not built right#like what if thats not actually bpd. what if it IS npd after all and ive just#manipulated her into giving me the More Easily Palatable Diagnosis that allows#me (and some goodwilling others) to view myself as a victim instead of just an unsalvageable fucking monster lol#this is NOT the kind of problems i imagined myself having in my 20s#dunno why im losing my mind about rn in the middle of all this silly tumblr shenanigans but#i think my therapist is wrong. she keeps talking shit about trauma and abuse but this isnot#not right. I HAVENT HAD any truly traumating experiences. like divorced parents are normal it doesn't usually do THAT to people. that is NOT#trauma lol SA ok ig but i dont even like. think about it at all and it wasn't even actua fucking rape so like. MAYBE i could blame some#some of myunhealthy#kinks on it but thats literallyit#like me being the way i am really doesnt stem from me being a victim of abuse or anything#like there's no one to blame except for myself there is just something in me thats inherently lacking and it's driving me crazy#it's like im in a constant battle against myself where im forcing myself to feel bad about it because if i allow myself to let go#it's over. for me and for everyone i've manipulated into caring about me#it's insane it's genuinely fucking crazy i really feel like im losing my mind Sometimes#and like the worst part is i can't be fucking bothered to even try to change lol cause it's uncomfortable and it puts responsibility on me#and icant deal with that cause im a pussy and a serial quitter lmao#thats not 'fear of abandonment'. that's just being. wrongly wired. inside.#ANYWAY. never fucking mind. normal again uwu
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scratches head i do think the way genshin approaches suicide/self sacrifice/martyrdom isnt super well integrated a lot of the time and it more often feels like a mechanic solely employed to make a character more sympathetic/likeable theres so much else you can do with it but (squints) idk i cant pinpoint it specifically but thr way genshin handles it feels tactless + dull + predictable at times
#i mean w furina/focalors im honestly not that bothered by it since she Is supposed to be a christ figure#and um martyrdom/suffering/dying for the sake of absolving the world's inherent sin is kind of christianitys#whole thing#but w others (notably wanderer........) it doesnt really. feel like its done tastefully kinda
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i feel like dark has the tendency to disappoint one mun's expectations after another bc yeah he looks the way he does but then he's like. he's easy to rile up but it's difficult to actually get him to fight (because of daisuke) and he's never killed anyone + he's chaotic good and not human and his entire basis of theft operates on that so his morality turns blue and orange to some people + he's a flirt but as soon as anybody actually starts showing signs of interest in him all of his internal sirens and warning bells start going off so he starts to avoid them and push them away + a very real part of his true, legitimate personality is tsundere and awkward as hell + he's cringe + despite it all, the power of love is very real to him
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ššššš. ā± ā¦ āŗ OUT.#wym the satan themed edgelord isnt an actual chaotic evil maniac who indulges in malice#<- its the poto wet cat patheticness#love for dark is everything and the fact he steals cannnnn be compared. in the very end#to his own divine will. it's above and beyond both the rules and a LOT of the understanding#of the ordinary human people he's stealing -from-#but he doesn't feel like explaining himself so he doesn't. it's true#he's a criminal. it's true. he's stealing everything. taking things for himself#that part of him won't change#but it's not entirely out of greed nor is it at all out of malice#neither the criminal. corrupt and sinful nor the selfless. guilty penance and inherent noble responsibility#of dark's actions can be ignored!!! and i think that's tough for some ppl when like.#chaotic evil anime villain of the week is easier to digest lkajlkjkfjk -shakes dark- and yet. i like him so much for it....#im rambling mb#i should eat but zzz maybe ill sleep soon instead i need 2 catch up on it
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I know that a lot of people are helped by someone saying something like "All humans deserve to make mistakes." or idk "You have a right to live, all humans do." but for me it just triggers my knee-jerk cult upbringing response and I go "Oh I'm not a human."
#like sorry it was just drilled into me that I'm inherently worse and alien and not a human being and that my existence is a burden#and a martyrium that will harm everybody including myself and help nobody and that my life has no chance of being happy ever#and that i bear all of mankind's sins and always will and as such I'm tainted.#so now i just do not see myself as a human at all. i used to be convinced that everybody could see that I'm not a human#but now i just have impostor syndrome. i feel like i have fooled everyone and must keep up the charade or it will get awkward
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due to. reasons. i am thinking about the logistics behind a vampire drinking a demon's or angel's blood
#the pleasure of the kiss is quite powerful. for many humans it can be the biggest pleasure they will ever feel in their entire lives#now does that applies to demons and angels? ghosts not included bc. how do you drink from someone without a tangible body#i would say it does. they both feel a lot of pleasure. for angels is a really stressful experience though; because they feel so good#it feels almost as if they were sinning. so you will have them feeling like crap and begging for forgiveness later lmao#meanwhile for a vampire drinking an angel's blood is also very pleasurable for them. it is quite the delicacy š#however when it comes to a demon's blood depends on a lot of factors. if you grab an unwilling demon that is also a stranger#it will feel like shit for the both of them. the blood tastes like crap for the vampire and the demon will actually feel pain instead#they're way stronger in that sense because their lord actually cares about them. so a lot of vampire tricks don't work on them#so it depends on how close the demon and vampire in question are and whether or not the demon is willing to give their blood#which--- good for the vampires; most of them are willing to. like they get it; they need to survive. they do what they gotta do.#and it makes it a little bit better for all parties involved. the closeness is another factor#the closest they are the more it feels good for them because they are more prone to falling to the pleasurable illusion vampires create#also the inherent intimacy of the kiss. it makes it better. specially if they go straight to the neck š#it can be a very pleasurable experience for them too depending on the factors at play#so anyway that's it#oc talk
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So now with a new Disney film coming out with a "first gay" character, those lists are doing the rounds again and it makes me so irritated seeing McGregor on there. Like yeah, in Beauty & the Beast or Cruella or Onward they were not fleahed out, throw away gay characters, but MacGregor is a Main Character! Who is fleshed out and fully part of the story and he and his relationship with Lily drives it in many parts, and his being gay is actually part of his character rather than just hinted at and argh! People keep writing him off as "ooh, another 1st gay!" But he actually was! And you bet its mostly people whove never seen the film just reacting to the bad faith takes some people put online
A large reason I ended up making this blog (aside from I was hype for the movie even just based on the trailer) is because I knew this would happen and I wanted to create a space where people who actually saw themselves in the character could express how the character and movie as a whole make them happy and they could find positive posts and not be constantly reminded of all the bad faith takes. I don't talk about these bad faith takes a lot for this reason (I have some posts tagged #representation compilation where I discuss all of this) but I whole-heartedly agree with you anon.
a lot of people, me included, were really touched by MacGregor's coming out, saw themselves in his struggles, appreciated what a well-rounded character he is, and I suspect many more people would feel the same if they gave the movie a chance. But unfortunately "disney's 200th first gay character" jokes get more likes so they overshadowed any good feeling anyone might have been having. and I got messages from people who were absolutely crushed by this too. it feels like people are mocking them for seeing themselves in it, shaming them for liking a gay character that was arbitrarily deemed bad by people who never even saw the movie. (there is also a larger conversation to be had about the sense of moral superiority derived from deeming certain portrayals of a minority "bad" and shaming others for enjoying them in an attempt to appear more enlightened when in reality none of this really matters and personal enjoyment of media is not indicative of someone's morality or ability to treat people well and respectfully irl, whereas publicly shaming and mocking people constantly is kinda indicative of a failure on both accounts)
the opinions "we shouldn't have to beg for representation from huge media companies that only care about us when they can profit off us and instead support struggling queer artists' work more" and "a gay character from a huge media company can be someone queer people see themselves in and like watching" can coexist. feeling the second doesn't automatically make someone a bootlicker and thinking the first doesn't mean enjoying an enjoyable thing once in a while makes you a hypocrite.
#jungle cruise#ask#anonymous#macgregor houghton#representation compilation#there is a lot of hypocrisy I see tho where the ppl who think themselves better activists or whatever the hell for shitting on macgregor#and parade the ''big company inherently evil'' argument#are the same who look at other disney properties and love them for various reasonsā sometimes even representation that isn't even there#and get pissy when people may point out negative aspects and say ppl should let others enjoy things#but they don't see how the same applies to what they're doing#and I'm not joking or exaggerating. it really is the same ppl who arbitrarily choose a disney property to use to show how woke they are#who also like and adore and defend other disney properties.#idk if their hate is a form of compensation for what they feel is some kind of sin committed by liking a disney thing#but either way they should look within themselves and whether this really is the path to queer liberation or just virtue signalling#also a tiny sidenote: the gay character in strange world is the first gay teenager in an animated disney movie#this is a factual statement#it explains in what way this is a different situation than for example gay characters in live action movies or animated tv shows#but people hate reading so they stop after ''first gay'' and think haha millionth first gay character joke
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ive been feeling Pretty Bad lately, and imo the worst part of it is that shannon is also Feeling Bad, so we can't really do much for each other. and that seems really unfair imo. at least ONE of us should be functional!!!
#anime life#and it should be me because it's illegal for me to feel bad when other people also do#sorry. its the law. everyone elses feelings are more justified and important and i have no excuse for not being able to pick up the slack#aside from my inherent sinful nature of course
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i hate this post wheneveri see it sorry lol i can smell the supersessionism.Ā āthereās an old jewish storyā yep because judaism is just a quirky abstract reminiscence to help u fix the brokenness of ur own religion and not like a completely different religion with its own theology and philosophy unrelated to urs. there are no people it belongs to or thinkers it produces there is simply anĀ āold storyā which you can now insert ur own very specific cultural understandings and theological baggage onto without wondering what the person who said that actually meant by it and if theywould enjoy u using it 2 talk about the guy who invented antisemitism n was forced down their throats for the next 2000 yearsĀ
#i dont even know which 'old jewish story' its referring to because#thats like a super common mystical idea#if anything it sounds like more at home in islamic mysticism but i guess#something something 'judeo christian' [starts coughing up blood]#im aware imbeing a hater its not that deep btu i feel like that was a final straw for me today#if nothing else in the world i want christians to know that when anyone from literally any other religion uses this word they are not#referring to the same thing you are. call it a semantic coincidence#i increasingly avoid using the word because its like it confuses more than it explains#its better that you approach other religions with a complete blank slate and assume ur learning abt different deities altogether than to#think u have any understanding of what another religious person means when they talk about their god/s#its like when a word meaning something as vague as to do wrong or to disobey etc#gets translated as sin and its like. sin connotes an inherently christian concept that no other religion shares#comparative religion stop ittttt fr just stop#im still laughing from when i was watching this video n it was like. comparative religion dramatic reenactment#andthen it was just the guy trying to shove a square block into a round hole like in one of those childrens toys..#anywya theres more context to this but its not really relevant when this is how its being shared n expressed whatever blows up
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am I asexual or is my dysphoria just so bad that I refuse to do anything sexual
#maybe both but i seriously feel like I'd be able to be intimate like that if I had a dick#i don't have enough for bottom surgery and the thought of them taking a huge ass chunk of my skin off my arm/thigh scares the shit outta me#hmm .. i wonder if growing up and being told that afab peoples bodies are inherently sinful and gross also has something to do with this ..
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all modern writing advice is optimized towards creating the most digestible and marketable mass-appeal piece possible, which everyone has decided is The Only Way To Do Art Right for some reason. i hate it, i fucking hate it so much, i had to stop listening to movie and art concrit videos because it became infuriatingly clear that literally no one has opinions of their own, they're just parroting from a list of How To Make The Most Marketable Thing that they heard from other criticisms, taken as gospel of The One And Only Way To Be Right, and have put no real actual thought into it themselves.
literally all of them now just boil down to "here's how this did/didn't follow the Standard Marketability Checklist to the exact letter. also at least a third of this essay is me randomly interjecting about how much i want to suck off puss in boots 2"
Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
#that damn movie makes my eyes hurt. i feel like the only person on earth that didn't like it#literally the most How To Do It Correct Tm With Absolutely No Fluff checklist movie i've ever seen. so damn boring.#like a case study in that thing someone said in a post somewhere i can't find right now about how modern storytelling i all like#āyou shouldn't have literally anything in it except for the absolute most required plot beatsā#āand they must perfectly match and exist only to serve The Structure and The Message and The Way The Trope Is Doneā#āif anything happens outside of the Structure or just becauseā#āor if your characters say a single word that's not core-plot-critical. it's wrong and filler and bad. :)ā#āalso there must always be A Message and that message must be Positive and assure the viewer that Humans are Superiorā#āif your story is not a morality parable that everything within exists exclusively to prop up then you're like. probably evil or somethingā#āalso worldbuilding is a sin. no one cares. if you think about any of it any deeper than the mc getting together it's loredumping :)ā#āno one likes explained magic sweaty :)ā#āstfu autist and give us our surface-level keyjangling children's play about generic anthropocentric positivity messaging :)ā#āalso never attempt to do anything science-based or Weird because that's also a sin and probably your fetish. ESPECIALLY specbioā#"people ONLY want to see stories about humans and functionally-humans therefore it is inherently incorrect and doing art wrong#to attempt to write anything at all that isn't about either humans or things that are direct stand-ins for humans#or at least metaphors about āthe human conditionā
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*grabbing young queer people by the shoulders* listen to me. radical feminism is inherently transphobic. you cannot rehabilitate it or reclaim it or make it trans inclusive, I don't care what the people on twitter who claim to be authorities on queerness say. the foundation of radical feminism is nothing but bio and gender essentialism and biphobia and aphobia and anti-kink rhetoric and intersexism and yes, misogyny. it does not offer a future, not for bi people, aroace people, sex workers, not for kinksters, or intersex people, cis women, or trans people regardless of gender and you should care about those people. it will never result in queer liberation because it is an ideology of exclusion and hatred. you gain nothing by buying into the idea that half the population is evil by birth or by transition. you gain nothing by acting like women are perpetual victims who can't think for themselves and are tainted by their association with men. being a man or being attracted to them is not a sin. if we truly want to stand a chance of dismantling the patriarchy we actually NEED men on our side especially marginalized men. they are our allies.
the problem with terfs is not just transphobia, it never was, the radical feminism is also so unbelievably harmful. you cannot save it and it will not save you, stop drawing lines between queer people and join hands with them instead. remove people who are actually harmful, not innocent people who happen to have the wrong sexuality or gender or job. we get there together or we don't get there at all. we need each other now more than ever. do not listen to those who seek to divide us even if they are queer. we all deserve so much better than the hell radical feminism pretends is a liberated future.
I do not blame anyone who fell prey to this rhetoric, I know it feels good to have a common enemy and lash out at those you think are siding with them however they do it, but men, especially marginalized men, are not your enemies. and it's never too late to realize that and change for the better.
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