#discourse adjacent sorry

[mirefireflies]

i hate this account i’m sorry. duh he abused her so did louis so did armand and relationships can be complicated delainey herself said that claudia looked to lestat in this moment because he’s her father and she was scared.

[1997hondaaccord]

i dont caaaare if you dont like the word “queer.” thats your own personal thing. filter it if seeing it upsets you. but the MOMENT you tell me i cant call myself queer, the MOMENT you tell me i cannot call other queer people queer, you are out of line. if you dont use the label, i am not talking about you when i say “queer people”!!!!! you are not included in “queers” if you do not identify as queer!!!!! we will NOT be erasing the identity of myself and thousands of other people just because you dont like it.

[fourspiceblend]

Man I love Dimitri to death but it will always piss me off how he's allowed to heal during the actual story and become sympathetic to the audience once again while Rhea doesn't get the same privilege even though their stories are basically the same, everyone loves it when the young troubled man gets a redemption arc and gains back everything they lost but when it's an old hag whose trauma isn't easily digestible and who doesn't cry pathetically over being rejected by the player she doesn't get the same privilege and she either unceremoniously dies offscreen or her healing is relegated to an ending story blurb. I love how intsys treats women!!!

[lunaticamic]

“they clearly favour sainz” my man didn’t get the seat for 2025. why would they favour him??? “so he can go and have options for other top teams” (something i read with my fucking eyes on this hellsite) i don’t know how to explain it to you that ferrari doesn’t care😭 it’s not like they owe sainz something. he was faster and he went for the gap. y’all wouldn’t have survived f1 pre 2000

[dragonbornoflegend]

fuck everyone who says that halsin is a boring or underdeveloped character. the best interpretation of his tendency to only talk abt like 4 things and also be really sexy is that hes just dripping in autistic swag

[wreckedhoney]

cant fuck with fandom takes that defuck extremist characters. blorbo set fire to multiple buildings killed dozens and will do so again. every incident is accompanied by a rant about some warped issue or pathetic self perspective and a lot of bared teeth. then enough people who watched the same thing i watched will just.. not register that this is an angry personality. objectively bad and toxic. among other things. like suddenly seeing takes about this genuine asswipe being a normal chill person. where did u see this. what happened. where is my genuinely unwell off-putting blorbo. who the fuck is this

[roger-paladino]

[vitrines]

every day i thank god that i wasn't on here to be annoying back in 2021

[frogtrenchcoat]

i really cannot take seriously any argument along the lines of "transmascs have male privilege". like, okay, had you said trans men i would consider it quite the overgeneralization but it would be a thing that makes sense to say to an extent. but, transmascs? really? the group that extremely explicitly includes people that are not men? that extremely explicitly includes people that do not want to be seen as men? that extremely explicitly includes people that do not transition in ways that will make them be seen as men? really? we're being for real? we're having an honest discussion? we know what the words we're using mean?

[solidwater05]

Here's a link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFcyHDkW0AA_SFm?format=jpg&name=900x900

It's from NGL

Mandatory 'don't harass anyone in this story' disclaimer

[ID: An image with the header "send me anonymous messages!" and the text "do you know who this guy keter guy (@solidwater05) on Tumblr is? he's been shit talking you for some reason". /End ID]

Alright so. I talking about this with an acquaintance and she tracked down the tweet (link), so this is real

Now, I don't know this person, and I definitely didn't shit talk him or anyone else for that matter.

I have an idea of what's going on but I'm too tired to explain it. It's not really a big deal, just minor internet drama, so don't worry about it

[linuxbian]

The weird historical revisionism of framing the lesbian separation movement as being between lesbians and bi women instead of between the political "lesbians" and the weird dykes who actually wanted to have sex with women is well. Weird.

[rookflower]

alsooo on ivypool again, bc twitter is discoursing the "my child is deader than yours" line right now, I wanna clarify that that mindset is simultaneously an understandable and fairly realistic grief response adjacent to experiences that I'm sure a lot of real people have, while also being an objectively unfair and cruel thing to say to someone else. It's very in character and it's nuanced and I would love it for the drama if not for the fact that being unfair to dovewing is like, one of ivypool's biggest character traits and not one the series tends to keep her in check for literally ever. im seeing people say things like "logically here ivypool is totally correct though" or acting like this is some sort of epic own and im sorry im pretty sure you can acknowledge this one in-universe as a byproduct of grief that shouldn't be outright demonised and also as an interesting effect of what death and grief is like culturally within the warrior cats universe while also not actually defending it in any capacity or acting like dovewing deserves to just suck it up lol

[gallus-rising]

hey so an OTW (aka the org that runs Ao3) volunteer has been kicked for having the phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" in their Slack status [link 1] [link 2]

if i see a single person bring the Discourse™ into this (ie: oh so they let people post underage/r*pe/incest/etc but not this?) i will fucking turbo block you. idgaf what your stance is on Problematic fic is, if i see someone bring up that shit even in a jokey way you are gone. you are dead to me. this is not a gotcha moment. get off the internet for 2 seconds and realize that some things in life are more important than fanfic

message them [OTW contact form] [Ao3 feedback form] and do NOT bring up any fiction discourse or discourse adjacent bs. please stay focused on the actual problem at hand here

personally i'll be uploading my fics elsewhere until further notice (this includes new chapters to WiPs) and will keep up what i have up for the sake of people's bookmarks. EDIT: people have pointed out that choosing to not use Ao3 will likely not have an impact, they run off donations, not ads and user engagement. do not harasses anyone over whether or not they continue using the site, that's a personal choice. do message Ao3/OTW with your concerns, withdraw financial support and tell them why. do not just stop using the site and end things there. i made this post in a bit of a rage last night and overlooked those things, very sorry about that

i hate to beg like this, but i'd really appreciate rbs

(if you want to "debate" about Palestine with me, consider, instead of pissing both of us off, doing some basic researched)

[transmutationisms]

Would you be willing to talk a little more on what you mean about us society not really being an individualistic one, rather a massified one? I guess I interpreted that as being a comment on how people flippantly refer to a society such as the us as being individualistic but I guess greater scrutiny breaks that down when you realise the amount of struggle that comes from not meeting the status quo ideal (and being deemed useful), and that really the power of being an 'individual' is given only to a select few. But I find this interesting because a lot of my leftie friends (and I have also been guilty of this and not previously realised) will definitely be like oh the UK is a super individualistic society when we're maybe really trying to make a point about something else ... Anyway, am I barking up the right tree at all and do you have any wider thoughts on the difference between those two ideas (often conflated) you'd be happy to share? Is the idea of the individual still helpful in terms of understanding the mythos of the US and also the UK in using it as a powerful idea larping at meritocracy at least in contrast to actual senses of community...

oh this is just something that irritates me in a lot of left and left-adjacent discourse��the slippage from a correct observation that capitalism denies us a lot of social support and connection, to the unfounded and frankly reactionary assertion that it in some way values or respects individuality or individuals' autonomy. i think this plagues a lot of discussions of 'egotism' & so forth. in truth i don't think we're facing some kind of epidemic of self-centredness or 'narcissism' (lmao) or whatever—i think , again, it's an economic context that is structured around the construct of the individual, and that's alienating and harmful. but at the same time—and particularly since the increasing use of population management, social statistics, state medical authority &c from the 18th century onward—we are also in an economic context that treats the population as a mass to be controlled and surveilled (hence 'massifying'—sorry to borrow an ugly term from an ugly foucault translation) & it's unhelpful to characterise this as any kind of genuine attention to individuality or the autonomous ego. it is certainly true that esp neoliberal discourse relies on the invocation of the self-sufficient individual (talking esp here about the post reaganite/thatcherite US/UK) but it's overly credulous to extrapolate from this that like, austerity politics actually has any interest in protecting individual rights, desires, &c. actually the entire 'individual rights' paradigm is kind of irksome imo because it presents the 'right' as something calcified and possessed by the individual rather than a social relation arising from a social context—but even leaving this aside for a second, like, it is just not viable to argue that the US or UK (to take the obvious examples again) genuinely are protecting or valuing individuals in any way lmao. like, what part of cutting benefits, extending work hours, breaking labour power, &c does that? ultimately i don't usually find "individualism" a particularly helpful schema for political / economic analysis. i think it's often a confusion of a few different things: a purely rhetorical analysis of reactionary liberal claims; a response to alienation that should be analysed as materially grounded; an openly reactionary response to a perceived loss of power for social institutions like the church or the family, &c.

[the-firefly-jar-system]

hihi i have a question!! we have an alter that is a male but wants to be a girl (so they are pretty much trans) but the body is AFAB, so i guess i am just kind of confused? like is she able to be trans or is it something else? i cant get any straight answers but i trust uuuuu

hey sorry for the wait! this is sort of a loaded question which you will get a lot of different answers to. however, we are an openly trans system irl (transneumasc) and have been socially transitioning/transitioned for about 4 years now, so our opinions aren't just out of thin air lmao

we very much believe that afab systems can have transfem alters and amab systems can have transmasc alters. while an internal mtf identity may be different that someone who is amab mtf, i don't believe that being transgender should be or is based on bodily sex! (this is different with intersex, i think, since that is very much a body thing. we're not intersex, so feel free to correct me). some people might get pissy at you for having that alter identifying as transfem in an afab body, so it's up to you whether you'd want to specify that you're not "bodily" transfem or not. you're absolutely under no obligation to justify your identity to random people, though!

our sort of thought is that amab systems can have cis female alters and afab systems can have cis male alters- so deciding to gatekeep alter identities based on sex, *only* when talking about trans issues, feels hypocritical at best. if it feels uncomfortable for her (your headmate) to say she's transfem, she can always just say "system transfem" or something adjacent

if other people give your system shit for this, just know we think it's stupid discourse and you should do whatever you want forever (as long as you're not hurting anyone, which you're not lmao)

-valentine/val

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

I wish this was just mcyt in general because OH MY GOd YALL ARE INSANE <3 <3 <2 <3

Do you want to know a secret? I have not been fact checking to make sure that each blog that you all send me is in fact a trafficblr blogger.

I’m fine with people submitting hermitblr or empiresblr bloggers, too, since those are fairly closely related to trafficblr. There is currently a small collection of asks sent by one anon who all mention the recipients’ Xisuma designs—I’m not picky enough to delete hermitblr or empiresblr asks. Any current or former trafficblr or trafficblr-adjacent blogger is perfectly fine with me.

If you submit bloggers from any other mcyt sphere—DSMP, QSMP, singleplayer servers, speedrunners, Lifesteal, whatever else—I am not likely to notice unless you specifically mention it in the ask or mistype their URL and I have to look for them. If I do notice, I am not likely to call you on it, since sending other MCYT bloggers is a harmless “mistake” in the grand scheme of things. (I will, however, draw the line if you all start sending me bloggers from entirely different non-MCYT fandoms and I notice this. See if your other fandoms have these blogs and submit to them! Or send them an ask directly!)

If I am honest, the main reason I did not open this blog up to MCYT in general (besides the fact that I am only one person running this) is specifically because I do not really look closely at the accounts of people I have not heard of (except in the case of typos in URLs to try and find the right person). I used to be into DSMP before I was into the Traffic Life Series, and I am fairly aware of the state of many of the CCs right now being outed for abuse. I was somewhat worried about accidentally posting positivity for extant wilbur soot bloggers or something, which I did not want to do. Additionally, the amount of arguing and being mean to each other in DSMP fandom when I joined had me a little worried I would post a nice message about one blogger and receive a follow-up ask by someone who did not think that person should be posted because they disagreed with their opinions. I did not fancy the idea of accidentally becoming a discourse blogger.

These concerns were probably a little silly, but they did leave me to keeping my scope narrower. That said, if anyone would like to make their own blogs which are for other parts of mcyt fandom which are not trafficblr or trafficblr adjacent, such as QSMP or DSMP, I would be happy to post the URL here.

Sorry to derail your positivity post, Anon, but I wanted to make my, we shall call it, “slightly broader than advertised” stance clear!