#but no debating this clown

[siege-thewitch]

I will only be addressing this anon as to help other people identify when someone is posting inflammatory, transmisogynistic bullshit. Lets make it a little fun though, shall we?

I have a wonderful volunteer clown for today's lesson! They were so eager to wear a mask, I thought I'd give them something a bit more colorful.

Here we have a clear classification of Baitax Indo Silentium - Bait into Silence. A real and not at all humorous latin term that I just made up to illustrate a point. This asks serves to be Bait, Harassment to both me and Avery (though largely Avery), and to shut down my own voice on what happened to her. Here are the main elements to the clown's bait. 1 - Framing. This is more circumstantial, but the clown used whatever name would paint Avery in the worst light. Literally shortening her old blog title 'Predstrogen' to 'Pred' to make her sound. Well. More predatory. It immediately soured the taste of the seltzer this sad little comedian sprayed in my face.

2 - Misgendering. Plain and simple. Dehumanizing trans women is a common tactic for terfs and bigots everywhere. Our clown was not very subtle in hiding the true colors painted boldly on their tiny car.

3 - Callout Culture. Tries to make the conversation about a list of 'crimes' to accuse Avery of. This is a particularly popular tool in the ongoing harassment campaign against Avery and trans women online at large. 'She's a sexual deviant', the clown honks. This is made to put the targeted woman and anyone who stands with her on the defensive, and to isolate her by punishing anyone who would try to stand up for her.

If you see accusations like this and find yourself reflexively assuming guilt, or even that there is something to defend, that's the little clown in your ear whispering to you. Swat it off your shoulder. Callout culture has done so much to target and wipe trans women off the internet.

4 - Puritan Behavior. Not only is our beloved clown clumsy, unfunny, and tells some horribly bigoted jokes, they also want to add sex work to the callout post. I make this its own specific point because our fool clearly stole their material from terfs/swerfs. Demonizing Avery for her sex work is nothing new. It never has been- not for any woman.

5- Appeal to Authority. I am woefully underread on logical fallacies, but this one sticks out brighter than the fake flower on their suit. 'If she broke the TOS, she deserves whatever happens to her'.

Not only does this attempt to make okay the previous and ongoing sexual harassment Avery endured, it also tries to limit the conversation by what tumblr does or doesn't think is okay. Don't let people box you in like this! Especially not Mx. Banana Cream Pie over here.

That's about all I really feel I have to teach about our volunteer today. They are a terf and a swerf- if not in name then certainly in action. I doubt I will be answering or addressing any other hate mail I get.

[carby]

Not now kitten. Daddy is watching two old white guys in the throes of rigor mortis battle for the fate of our land

[raconteur-wanpi]

Collection of deeply unfunny Vinsmoke family memes to distract myself. I think I'm loosing my sense of sanity. Sorry.

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

[fullcustodyoftheautism]

Fucking rich bastards

[fearforthestorm]

breaking fucking news: misgendering real people is still bad even if you're doing it to cis people!

[spookieloverslittlemind]

loving slashers is the most extreme end of the asshole x sunshine trope and y/n syndrome. every slasher slut is of the view they would be the exception to said slasher’s victim pool, the one person that slasher doesn’t kill bc they’re nOt LiKe thE oTheR vIcTiMs.

“🥰 he wouldn’t kill me bc-“

girl yes he would. you would not last 4 seconds in a room w any slasher. they would gut you. and while spluttering blood you’d thank them.

[vee-lociraptor]

this is all i gathered of the presidential debate from hearing friends talk about it

[tumblingxelian]

Yang & Ruby's Childhood

Oh how I wish, I wish that people would stop ignoring canon and pretending Yang & Ruby had functional adults who were good parents in their lives after Summer died. 

Because the fact of the matter is that they did not and canon has spelled this out again and again for the audience with increasing clarity every single time.

In Volume 2, Yang overtly states that Tai shut down following Summer’s to the point where his neglect became so pronounced a 5 and 3 year old who were grieving were left alone for hours and could disappear into a Grimm inhabited island looking for a different parental figure. 

Its re-established again in volume Five when Yang spells out to Weiss in no uncertain terms that after Summer disappeared, Yang, a five year old, was the one who needed to keep the family together and the trauma this inflicted on her alone is obvious. Let alone Ruby, because she was both being neglected and being raised by someone only two years her senior. Something Ruby fully acknowledges was the cast. 

There’s a multitude of other things I feel Tai has done wrong as both a teacher and a parent, but these one’s are undeniable, openly stated facets of the household. 

And Qrow doesn’t get an out by being the uncle either, oh no. 

Ruby makes it expressly clearly despite how much she loves and admires her Uncle she is very much used to him dropping back into her life shit faced drunk and being carted home by a stranger and needing to be taken care of. 

Again, by children! 

He has his reasons and his problems, but amazingly that doesn’t stop this from being a shitty way to grow up. No matter how much Tai & Qrow might love these two, they were not ‘great parents’, I wouldn’t even call them good. 

These two adults were negligent and damaging to the children under their care despite how much they may have loved them, and the fact that is ignored really burns me up inside. 

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

Guys I have barely scratched the surface of Cross Guild, but since I even learned about its existence, I have loved it.

So much.

Because it's like.

Oda just said to himself

"Let's see here, who are the three most dramatic and volatile himbos I have written to date? Hmm. *checks notes* Yes, these three no not you Doflamingo get out. Let's lock them in a room together and see what happens!"

And that's it, that's Cross Guild.

And it's fucking BEAUTIFUL.

[arrapso]

Irene Adler: Masquerade Outfit / Casual Outfit

[carby]

sisters we are so cooked aren't we. like we're genuinely and rightly fucked up the shoot huh

[thatsbelievable]

[kindahoping4forever]

LukeHemmings: Literally falling apart... enjoy Close Enough To Feel You (sick version)

[roguetelemetry]

Meanwhile in Springfield