#cw: facism

[lonewolfinthetardis]

My experience reading Respawn of the Dead

So I decided to read a classic piece of TF2 fan fiction, Respawn of the Dead. It has glowing reviews and it seemed like an interesting idea for a fan fiction, albeit one I've read countless times. I enjoyed the first few chapters, until I came upon something that stayed with me the entire time I read the fic. The characterisation of the mercs.

Spoilers below the line

Yes I know that this fic was published only two years after the game came out, therefore we knew basically nothing about the backstories of our beloved mercenaries. But the way these characters were written rubbed me the wrong way. These were not the lovable characters that I've come to know and love (the exception being Pyro). These were characters that I had trouble visualising in my head, I could not see them as the beloved mercenaries of Team Fortress 2 (except Pyro again, and sometimes Heavy).

The author of course went down the route of "Medic and Heavy are German and Russian, let's make them an ex-nazi and a communist!", which is something that has me fuming. Of all the possible backstories for those two, the author had to choose that?! I honestly thought it was a joke at first, but nope, that was the backstories they chose for those two much loved characters.

Don't get me started on Soldier! This man is a raging homophobe and xenophobe (the fic's words, not mine). This fan fiction is also the only time I've read Soldier using racial slurs about Demo. There's other issues with Soldier, but I don't have time for that.

Other issues I found with this fic were the constant outdated terms, derogatory names, racisms, and homophobia. While I understand that this fan fiction was set in the 1960's, and those terms were common then, doesn't mean that readers had to go in without knowing what they were in for. Which brings me to my next point!

The tagging, or the non-existant tagging. This fic contains extremely confronting imagery, scenes, and language. You'd think that there would be at least some tags right? Wrong. The only tag is the Heavy/Medic ship tag. No warning of gore, violence, major character death, or implied non-con. No warnings about the racial slurs, bigotry, or just general tags telling the reader what the fic is about.

I genuinely don't know why no-one else has brought up the horrible mischaracterisation in this fic before (yes I know it's 15 years old), and I don't get why so many are praising how well it's written?! There are no paragraph breaks telling you where one scene ends and another begins, which left me confused until I came across context clues.

All in all, this fan fiction left me fuming. I understand not getting the characterisation right due to how new the game was, but a little imagination would've been nice.

The only good thing about this fic was Pyro. They were a lovely character, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about them. It was definitely a refreshing part of the reading journey.

Respawn of the Dead had an interesting idea, but was executed poorly in some places. While some may love this part of TF2 fan fiction history, I will gladly leave it in my "never read again pile".

[king-sappho]

It’s funny to me when people say “christofacists are taking over the US!” And although I agree that christofacism is on the rise it’s misleading to say they are “taking over” Like. Let’s be for real. America was founded on christofacism. Do you remember pledging your allegiance to America ~under god~ when you were 5 years old?? I was born in a Christian American cult. After escaping it I realized how much of the rest of America is not much different to that cult. Look at who our politicians are. They’ve been endorsing Christian ideology from day one. Yes, fascism is becoming more intense but don’t forget this is not a new issue in this country. It’s as old as when english colonizers used genocide to make this country “free” only for rich white christian men. Now days they are just trying to reinstate their power over us.

[bababooeyeternal]

all of these trans military bills are insane to me, because there are like 2.1 million or so service members, right? give or take a few thousand. how many trans people are in the military? I'm seeing like 10,800, ish as of 2016. the number of trans people in the military is less than the amount i rounded to get to 2.1 million, which was just under 21,000. insane that these bills are getting passed and it's just because 11,000 people want people to call them by their name.

[vixdesl]

we painted this today 💪

CW; art blood/gore

"The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi"

[fictionkinfessions]

@ 744442324213530624/new-kin-agony-when-people-take-the-gs-off-words

Hey! Lets not pretend that people kinning from "problematic media" automatically means they support it or its creators! Thats actually really fucking mean! Especially when your wording goes as far as to imply they are invalid as kins!!! Let people have critical thinking skills. And How many times does it have to be said that people do not choose their kins (or fictives, which are also applicable here even though you did not mention them) before people stop acting like this! Its ridiculous! It's annoying!

Your "positivity" toward Eridan is meaningless when Homestuck is ALSO deemed problematic media by many people (and agreed, certainly didnt age well in many aspects) while you condem anyone who touches a different one.

You can choose not to interact with people who kin from things like Hazbin, but I refuse to let you put my fellow kinfolk down because you think Eridan holds exclusive authority over "not using g", or that Eridan's source ISNT full of issues as well.

~An Eridan kin, who also happens to kin Husk. What a funny coincidence. (/s)

p.s. its also just weird to act like not using g in "ing" words is exclusive to only these two characters. My Quirk isnt being basterdized. Many people who dont even kin dont type a g all the fucking time what the fuck.

Anonymous asked:

Hi Im the Eridan that just sent in an ask response and I realized I should include a very clear obvious example of Homestuck also having flaws. Mpc Please add this onto the other ask.

I AM CANOTICALLY A FACIST. ANON. ANON DO YOU NOT HEAR YOURSELF.

I know fandom widley ignores that because really what the fuck was that, but LETS NOT PRETEND THAT ERIDAN IS A PURE CHARACTER COMPARED TO SOME POOR GUY WITH ALCOHOL AND GAMBLING ADDICTIONS.

NEITHER OF THESE SOURCES ARE PERFECT. BOTH ARE FLAWED. ONE IS JUST HATED MORE RIGHT NOW THAN THE OTHER.

Anonymous asked:

maybe... DON'T bully people for who they kin? we don't kin for fun, dude. most people can't control it. i hate hazbin hotel, too, but that isn't an excuse to say this shit. ESPECIALLY sending it into a blog where a bunch of hazbin kinfolk have been kinfessing, so you're clearly aware at least one husk kin is going to see it.

#sid🪞

party note if anyone wants to continue this converastion plase like reply or reblog this post. no further ask responses will be posted for it. thank you.

[autistic-katara]

goyim on this site rlly just say shit

[coulsonlives]

Dear antis/neo-puritans/book burners:

Defining people you disagree with, including people whose fictional (read: fictional!) stuff makes you uncomfortable, as subhumans who don't deserve basic rights, or human decency, or courtesy, is classic fascism.

UNLEARN THIS NOW.

Death threats and harassment don't make you woke. They make you a terrible person.

[futurebird]

How many different ways can one say "I'm a fascist." ?

NO.

Here is what we are going to do. It's just as reasonable and fair as the above "idea," but probably would have much better outcomes: If you have a kid your vote passes to someone age 14-30 with no kids (selected at random.)

First the father's vote goes, then, for a second kid, the mother's vote. (For couples that don't have exactly one man it's random.)

(Hilariously, when thinking about what might be 'wrong' with this idea, and many things are very wrong with it... I found myself much more concerned about a state-managed method of identifying parents becoming an invasion of privacy--- than I was about all the other things wrong with it. The second worst thing about it is it might discourage some people from having kids if they are obsessed with voting. So, it should be paired with robust financial support for people with kids, public health care, excellent public schooling, and extended paid leave for new parents.) It's still a terrible idea. It's still better than what the so-called "smartest guy in the room" is thinking about. Can you imagine how stagnant and paranoid a state where only people with kids could vote would be? Death to all human growth an innovation right there.

[sometimesraven]

had an idea. did the idea. will be available on redbubble as soon as they approve it (hopefully)

the symbol is one i've seen terfs using around

[leaslichoma]

Canadian parliament applauds nazi veteran

[coulsonlives]

For self-proclaimed leftists, some of y'all seem weirdly comfortable with telling people to kill themselves

[dannyvantass]

its actually frustratingly difficult to explain to someone who has "violence is never the answer" as a fundamental truth that punching a nazi is acceptable when it prevents someone who listens to the nazi from getting riled up and shooting a bunch of people later down the line. i literally said this and she literally replied "i'm not so sure about that.." and i said ok

[lime-peaches666]

Does anyone else wonder if Felix Cipher kins Fred Jones from Velma and Velma only?

[gibaraltar]

CW transphobia, facism, american politics --- so like just because they "cant do anything" (bullshit, but whatever), the federal dems are just gonna... what? Not even say shit about the open facism creeping through the states? Because it's happening primarily to/about trans people?

So far the only response I saw from Biden and Co to anything happening over the last few weeks was to fence-sit about trans athletes, which does nothing but kind of legitimize that fear to those feeling it, and meanwhile we're well past "a few states bullying like 12 constituents for the crime of--" (check notes) "--liking to play sport," and well into "not allowing an elected representative to speak on anything for the session because she was kind of passionate when advocating once while being trans". Reeks of a similar unpreparedness they also showed when roe was overturned, like when kamala was completely shocked she was even asked about it in an interview something like a week after the fact. Like you didnt prepare for that??????? you just thought noone would ask, about it at all? Let alone if you had some sort of plan, approach? You don't even have a gut response of "oh, yeah, its fucked up we want to do everything we can"? It is NOT that hard!? like you can't just let the opposition just say whatever they want to absolutely no argument from you. like it just looks like you agree but cant say it. Well... I mean. 👞 if the shoe fits. The trans shit does make repubs look crazy but... propaganda works, and for when it doesn't they're putting laws in place to make sure theres just generally less people around who disagree but who can still vote. Is,,, is that not problematic for the "just vote" party? But then again they've done little to nothing about the rampant gerrymandering, voter suppression.... I just feel like im going insane watching them silent on everything. Your strategy cannot still be "lol well they're clowns so they'll show their own ass!" after trump. apparently many people like that or at least don't actively like you enough to oppose it, certainly too many people sit it out for you to just risk it all by having no other proactive strategies. moreover it's just morally the right thing to do to say "hey this shit sucks"? fucking ghouls.

[caspianlira]

Cw antisemitism and nazism/facism

Does anyone here heard about this book about antisemitism? It had antisemitism as the tittle and i remember it started by naming every country that had more jewish people in, i think it started with brasil,then argentina etc. The book cover had the star of david on it and idk in which place it had the nazi symbol and other nazi symbols

[atmosphericradar]

Important tags by @balaclava-trismegistus

stupidest liberals on earth: "if we gave fascists psychedelic drugs, their bigotry would simply melt away!"

like 75% of acid/dmt users: "the illuminati reptoid jews are hiding the flat earth truth from us"