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thinking about mizu from blue eye samurai. thinking. thinking so much. thinking about how mizu operates outside of gender. like we joke about her gender being revenge but straight up? it literally is. like she grew up as a boy and is most comfortable being a man, but behind that is the feeling of betraying himself because he isn't being honest about who he is and he lives in fear of being discovered. and when he lived as a woman, she found joy there as well. she fell in love, and though she wasn't good at it, she liked being a wife and enjoying a simple life. but in that life too, she isn't being honest about who she is. and when she reveals her true self, it's not a woman, she's a demon, a weapon. she's to masculine to be a woman, and too feminine to be a man. ultimately, mizu is most comfortable when they are being a murder machine. that's when they feel they are being the most true to themself. like a sword, they are neither man nor woman, but a blend of both, which makes them stronger.
#also there's a point to be made about how their identity as a mixed person plays a role in their gender#but i can't really speak on that#it's obvious tho#like that's what the show is about#like the reason mizu is perceived as masculine is because she's half white#honestly the racial thing is more important#which is why it's explicitly stated in the show#but im seeing a lot of discourse about mizu's gender#honestly a lot of mizu's relationship w gender is subtext#like good news tho!#mizu is a woman! but also a man!#it's both at the same time#anyway#ill shut up now#i just love her so much#not art#blue eye samurai#mizu#blue eye samurai mizu#bes mizu
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I keep seeing anti-Tommy people saying that his past as a bad person from the Begins episodes will be the hurdle he and Buck will face. That Buck will find out about what Tommy was like and be offended by it.
Except…Buck already knows about it? Tommy's pretty openly talked about not being a good person in the Gerrard era. Maybe he didn't tell Buck exactly what he said, but he probably doesn't remember because in-universe, that was fifteen to twenty years ago. He said the 118 was regressive, and that being under Gerrard did not make him a better person.
Hen and Chimney have also been pretty open about how shitty things were back then. Maybe they didn't name Tommy specifically, but Buck can make inferences based on them talking about how everyone was shitty and Tommy was part of everyone. This isn't some Deep Dark Secret Buck would be shocked by, it's information he had before meeting Tommy.
But okay, let's say somehow Buck had all three of the people who were there telling him Tommy was not a good person back then and somehow didn't realize what that meant. That doesn't change the fact that Tommy is clearly not that person anymore and that everyone's moved on from it. Chimney and Tommy are friends, and have been for close to two decades. Hen and Tommy don't seem to be super close, but they clearly have a level of professional respect for each other and she doesn't object to him hanging out with the group (Bobby Begins Again, the bachelor party.)
Like, if this is the big problem they face, what's supposed to happen? The story grinds to a halt while Tommy details every bad thing he's ever done and Buck processes it? Does Buck need to go see Hen and Chimney to get their blessing to date a guy they're both cool with and have been for years? Does Tommy need to do an apology tour to rehash everything and reopen all the old wounds for the benefit of the guy who wasn't involved in anything that happened back then? What purpose would that serve, either in the story or for the viewers? Honestly, if Buck made Tommy do that as a condition of continuing the relationship, I would not be rooting for Buck.
No, we didn't see Tommy give apologies in perfect therapy-speak or see the work he did on himself in the years between Begins episodes and the rest of the show. He's a minor supporting character who existed in Begins to show the growth and change of the LAFD as a whole, and who was bumped up to recurring minor character to be Buck's love interest. We're not going to spend entire episodes sitting in therapy with him, we're supposed to draw conclusions from the information given so the story can keep moving.
#911 discourse#bucktommy#and i know these people don't want tommy to become a better person#they just want him and buck to break up so their ship can happen#and i know this is the web site that can't handle the moral complexity of kids shows#so wanting them to be able to handle one made for grownups is a lot
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Full three minute-long clip of David on the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast talking about Pride Month and gay/trans rights. Truly heart-wrenching to hear him get so genuinely emotional/choke up as he keeps going. Notable moments:
David: "When I was at school, calling somebody gay was like the worst thing you could be called in the playground, and now we celebrate it...[choking up] and it makes me a little bit emotional. That it just gives people a chance to be seen and celebrated and to be just--combating some of that snide nastiness that is...when Target have to...[trying not to cry] when Target in America have to take down their displays because people are so intolerant, I think we all need to put up our rainbow flags and we need to march and shout and--[crying] I didn't expect this to get me this emotional, I'll be honest with you, but--you just want your children to grow up in a world that is kind, and you want your children to be kind and you want your children to be accepted for whoever they are. Whatever they want to be. They should be allowed to be whoever they want to be." David: "When you look at it--when you take a step back and see how far we've come, it does give you hope. Because sometimes when you're right in the middle of day-to-day you think, 'Where are we going guys, come on?' Ed Miliband: "We were in the era of Section 28 and all that stuff. But it has to be fought for." David: "Yes, we can't take our foot off the gas, that's the thing. And we can't expect that we will always travel in the right direction toward acceptance. We've got to--we've all got to be fighting that fight every day."
#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#reasons to be cheerful#podcast#this made me cry#because I don't think I've ever heard David cry before#the more i see him wearing that pin#the more convinced i am he isn't just wearing it for wilf#i hope david knows that he is lovely#and deserves good things#a talented actor and a wonderful human being#David and Michael are both tremendous LGBTQ+ allies#but i think they understand that pain on a personal level#happy pride month indeed#🌈👀#beautiful#discourse
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Just some things I wanna say:
You are always free to not like the work I do. You can hate the show’s characters, ships, and what nots. You can 100% disagree with the opinions I or other people have.
You are NOT allowed to send hate or send malicious intentions (such as being an asshole and spoiling me S2) on my inbox. Harassment is never okay.
To prevent more potential harassment, I’m just closing my inbox and replies indefinitely.
No, I will not post the users, since I think it’s just me that these people have been hating on.
I’ve blocked them, and they’ve blocked me (but for some reason, apparently, love to use my gifs lol) and if no more harassment happens, I’m all good.
No witch-hunting people. I don’t like seeing people fight over silly things. Again, harassment in any form is never okay. Blocking and moving on is the best option.
Thankful for supportive friends who have been with me the entire time. Ily guys <3
With that, I don’t wanna talk about this anymore. Just gonna focus on S2, which is coming next month 💙
#personal tag#lol me having a certain gif style or making meljay scenes or liking caitvi or making the#the kirramountains and other same ish content have apparently ticked some people and honestly you’re free to do that#just dont be an asshole lmao#wow i truly made it with this sideblog i have haters lmao#and you’d think this site is less toxic than the bird app nahhh fandom is and always will be toxic#i barely engage in discourse too lmao its crazy#moving on tho.... YOOOO arcane s2 in a month!!!!!!!!!
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personally i saw chim's comments to gerrard as him sticking up for the 118 past and present, including both buck and tommy as well as hen, but primarily for himself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#911 shit#shut up giallos#thank you for coming to my ted talk#chimney han#[britney voice] yeah#i did see some discourse that prompted this post#but mostly i made this post bc i didn't think 'he did it for tommy and/or bucktommy'#and 'he didn't do it for anyone but himself' really hit what i personally felt was the reason he did it#which was that he stood up to gerrard for the 118 as a whole‚ past and present (and future)#911 spoilers#text#exQUEUEse me
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A reminder that some of you guys only use LGBT activism to shit on religious people and do exactly no activism whatsoever if you can't use it to be anti-theist. Some of you will have no problems harassing and being racist and homophobic to queer people if they're religious.
#op is a bisexual aroacespec christian and will run you over with a fucking car if you clown in my notes#to the trans person who called me a nazi and said that i would get killed and raped the last time i made this post go fuck urself idgaf#queer discourse#lgbt discourse#theism#religion#religious#queer religion#queer christian#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbt religion#religious discourse#anti anti theism
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“it’s bucktommys who are the toxic ones and ruining the fandom”
is that so? oh look at these.
or maybe these on tiktok
or perhaps comments left under lou’s own posts?
oh maybe these comments under a completely non-911 related tweet from an account that just posts mlm gifs? (btw, they posted a bwdd!e gif right after...I wonder why)
if you want to try and turn the mass hate behavior onto us, at least bring receipts.
and btw, your lord and savior Oliver Stark does NOT fuck with you.
#fandom discourse#at least the bucktommy side keeps fucking receipts#I'm not the only person to make a post full of the insane behavior#im truly sick of the blame being shifted onto us somehow#for everyone 1 toxic bucktommy shipper there's 100 toxic bongos#and don't even try to fucking deny#if the official accounts are being made to filter out YOUR comments for spamming hate and not ours#fuck right off
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I would never delete my fics
I got linked to a reddit thread today where people were being advised to download my mortifying ordeals/Buddie fics, since apparently "now that I'm a BuckTommy shipper", I might be "petty" and delete all my Buddie fics.
So. I'll move past the complicated feelings it gives me to have people hoarding my fics while actively shitting on me as a person (and seemingly not even telling me that they enjoyed my work, although in fairness that could just be a difference in usernames.) That's the nature of fanfic, fandom, and putting things out there on the internet and I accept that.
But I do want to reassure people that I would never delete my fics. I still have the cringy-as-fuck Harry Potter fics I wrote in high school up; believe me those would be first on the chopping block if I was inclined to delete my work. And all of my 9-1-1 fics hold a special place in my heart, but none more than the mortifying ordeals series, which consumed basically a full year of my life and reminded me why I love writing. Hell, I got engaged while writing the final chapters of I once was lost. That fic is indelibly tied to my life now.
And look... I don't think it really matters, nor should I have to explain and justify what I do and don't enjoy about a show or fandom, but this whole experience has upset me more than it probably should have and I can't help but want to get it off my chest anyway.
My favourite thing about this show is the found family feels. I either love or am at least intrigued by every single character that has appeared. You'll notice that family is the central theme of every story I write, whether the story is Gen, Buddie, or BuckTommy.
Because yes, the idea of BuckTommy and how that plays into the family themes of the show has intrigued me and captured my muse.
I've also said before that I didn't think Season 7 left Buddie in a great place in terms of romantic relationship potential - in my opinion, the ghost of Shannon would be an absolutely massive barrier to them getting together right now. The post season 7 Buddie fics have also heavily featured character bashing, which isn't something I generally enjoy seeing, and infidelity, which I really don't like seeing romanticised especially since I've had a partner cheat on me.
So yes, I've distanced myself from the post-S7 Buddie fandom because I just don't enjoy the pervasive negativity I've seen and the way that cheating and violence is suddenly celebrated by a significant subset of the fandom.
That does not mean I've given up on Buddie altogether. I still have a whole list of pre-S7 buddie fics in my to-be-read list that I've been making my way through and 2 out of my 5 WIPs are Buddie fics (both in the mortifying ordeals 'verse, just to make it even clearer that I'm not at all interested in deleting that series.)
But two of those 5 are BuckTommy, because as I said above, their relationship was intriguing to me and it captured my muse.
I don't think those opinions make me some kind of betrayer, or that they inherently make me a "petty" person but I guess I just didn't realise that not-exclusively-shipping-Buddie was such a High Crime in this fandom.
#9-1-1#fandom discourse#writing#buddie#bucktommy#this is my first experience being this heavily embroiled in fandom drama#i cant say i like it#that thread legitimately made me so sad to read#i was so excited to work on the Daniel ghost fic and maybe start posting this weekend#and now i just feel so fucking flat#maybe ill delete this#or at least part of it because i do want people that they dont need to worry about losing my fics#im so immensely grateful to my readers I would never want to take away something that brought them joy#even if they apparently think im a terrible person#this got rambly#sorry
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I sometimes feel that this endless discussion about what is and what isn't 'good queer rep' is poisoning art. just let art breathe, let queer stories exist, even if you don't like them or they don’t represent you personally. queer media undergoes so much unnecessary scrutiny because there’s this distorted perception that every piece of queer fiction ever put into the world needs to represent every queer person. and that’s not only impossible, but also unfair to the creators and the story itself. it’s okay to just not vibe with a piece of queer media, but please consider that it may be a matter of personal taste and preference, rather than an objective flaw in the portrayal of the community
#the last of us#thoughts inspired by many things but right now mostly by the discourse surrounding the last episode of tlou#i liked the episode personally#i understand there were some changes made from the game and i can't speak for that because i've never played it#idk but that article calling it condescending bothered me a bit
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sometimes I think so much of "queer" discourse surrounds semantics and identity labels because people engaging in these spaces legitimately do not live life outside of the internet. I don't just mean they don't go outside or talk to real people, but the way they interact with real people is never truly free from the internet. I think this is just sort of how gen z are now unfortunately, so much of our lives are consumed by handheld devices and social media platforms, but I find it way more prevalent in artsy, liberal, tra-positive communities. (the amount of times I just hear people straight up quote popular tumblr posts or tiktok trends...)
and surrounding yourself in real life with people who frequent the same internet circles as you and thus hold the same beliefs is a great way to not end up experiencing anything actually real, and thus you never really learn anything from your life experiences or from other perspectives, much less experiences of relationships or sex or romance. leading to people caring way too much about words and perception with things like pronouns or microlabels or "validity." everything is about optics and holding the "correct" opinions because that's the state of the internet these days! of course they'd ignore the actual material aspects of oppression, what is the internet if not a breeding ground for consumerist distraction from dealing with the various staggering issues in society?
"touch grass" isn't even a good enough solution anymore. can you partake in any hobby without thinking of how other people would percieve it? can you have a conversation without parroting the words of a tiktok post? can you seek love and relationships without obscuring it in layers of branding? can you understand yourself, truly understand who you are, without obsessing over how it looks on a screen?
#we really went from a “the internet is a helpful tool that can enrich our lives” to “we should make real life more like the internet”#I struggle to write these in fear of coming off too much like “phone bad” since that's not what I believe but people could take it that way#but I think it's genuinely really damaging to young people to not acknowledge and criticize the way the internet changes us#also as always consider this a vague towards ace/aro discourse because that's sort of what made me think of this the most#but idk I think the general conceit of the internet as a corrupting force irl towards community can be seen in a lot of spaces#discourse#gender critical#myo is rambling.#kind of a personal reminder for myself too lol
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would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!
Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote
#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist
By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).
I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.
[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]
Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.
John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.
#on a more hashtag meta level#John is why I’m personally uneasy about any analysis of the series that tries to interpret TLT through racial allegory lenses#especially when it’s weaponised for discourse purposes#You can write meta about John’s war crimes without comparing him to white imperialism#Or you can go ahead and do that anyway but I highkey disagree that it’s a fitting metaphor or in any way deliberate on Tamsyn’s part#and I think the implications are unfortunate to say the least#That said I AM extremely interested in the ways John relates to the culture he left behind#and why he made the choices he did when it came the moment to reshape humanity’s cultural consciousness after the Resurrection#but that’s on a character level!#I don’t think we can apply twenty-first-century social / identity labels to the series as a whole#especially a series where the author says 'I imagine X character as Y but it doesn't raelly matter'#and it doesn't influence the canon directly in any way#SORRY THIS IS LONG!#anonymous#ask#ejg#tlt thoughts#elle tlt posting#tlt
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We actually are in the era where we're so offended by everything we're getting offended on other peoples' behalf and telling them that they're wrong if they're not personally offended by something.
#myfandomrealitea#sephiroth speaks#fandom#proship#reality#proshipping#not discourse#society#world issues#social issues#neurodivergent#never forgetting the person who sent me an essay rant about my post making fun of hollywood autism stereotypes#WHEN I AM AN AUTISTIC PERSON MYSELF ITS LITERALLY WHY I MADE THE POST#on god this website is what will kill me one day
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pls rb for a wider range of responses!! im curious to see the results.
#mick mack#addiction#actually addicted#addiction polls#addiction poll#polls on tumblr#tumblr polls#obligatory disclaimer - this was post made BY an addict. if you start bad fairh discourse im killing us both lmfao#personally i believe it is a Third Thing that presents with comorbid mental and physical effects that result in longterm changes to the#physiological and psychological makeup of the addict. studies have shown neuron damage and repathwaying and the physical affects with#addiction can be varied from addict to addict so its hard to properly classify it within current medical taxonomy#all thats to say Its Complicated but you could classify it as a disease if you wanted go#to*
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This (almost) week on "Raxis screencapping people who've blocked him who he says he totally wants nothing to with," here he is not only not censoring my name yet again, he has also left a completely unrelated other person's name uncensored.
(censoring done on my end)
Which, two things:
I was talking about the fandom, not the game, so nice going there with the media literacy you claim you have oodles of.
Is that a sockpuppet
Like that blue1lion6stan account. With the default pfp? That, after a bit of digging, has only been around since... May of this year? So, barely five months? And it has like.. two reblogs and four likes? In the span of, again, five months at the minimum?
Did like. Did Raxis accidentally out one of his sockpuppets
#edelgard discourse#just to be safe#there's no shot right???? because holy shit that'd be embarrassing#and it'd be outed because you just HAD to include a random person's reply in your Epic Pwn Takedown#about an essentially UNTAGGED POST. because that JeraIt in that post - and this one! - was spelled with an i not an L#SPECIFICALLY to keep it out his SEARCH#and holy shit he made this tweet EARLY he only waited a DAY to do this after i made my post#so he didn't ~stumble~ on my post he was HOVERING over my blog waiting for something to screencap like. dawg. go do your chores lol
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people out there are saying “oh nobody is willing to post fics anymore” etc etc while that is exactly because of some motherfuckers out there who deliberately take fandom stuff OUT OF fandom spaces and put it to fucking toxic cesspool twitter is. locking your fics doesn’t work since some registered users with zero fandom culture, zero basic understanding of how rpf works (an already precarious topic) and zero functioning brain cells make screenshots of fics off of AO3 and put them where everyone can see, especially people involved. all of this on top of AI scraping fics and people plagiarizing works left and right. yet those same motherfuckers ask for more content, mind you, since the same fic authors they put on a spot are just faceless content machines. apparently. absolutely sickening to see this happening more and more. you want to alienate fic authors you claim to love and cherish so much? keep up the good work, ignore people asking you to delete the fucking tweets. sure, that’ll make it all better. im so mad.
#I’m big mad#not even joking#I remember watching a video from SPN con from like 2014?#when someone handed J2 a fucking wincest fanfic and it made me feel mortified beyond imaginable#cannot stress enough that fics need to stay where they are and not put on display where people involved in them can see#and to the person who got their fic aired to Twitter like dirty laundry - I’m so sorry#discourse#idk how to tag this
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damn John de Lancie has a really fucking cool Discord statue
#is this one of the official ones or is this custom#who made this#I'm making a discord on the side blog I hope it turns out half this good#I don't wanna hear the discourse about this doc I don't care and I wasn't even watching it#and idc about JDL as a person I don't know him I just this this statue is neat
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