#don't interact if negative

[bixels]

The more I think about it, the more I question Arcane S2's politics and themes, which were so foundational to S1. Like, a tiny example [SPOILERS AHEAD]:

Singed wins. He gets exactly what he wants in the end. All his "efforts" are rewarded. What does that say about people who share his ideology of eugenics? He is the source of nearly every horrible thing and conflict that happened (Shimmer, the factory deaths, Jinx, Vander as Warwick, the corruption of Viktor), and he gets a happier ending than any other character. Not even a 'he got what he wanted but he has become completely unrecognizable/monstrous to his daughter' tag at the end. You can say they're setting him up and need to open his daughter to future shows, but the way you end a character's story says something about what you think about that character. What does it say when the eugenicist war criminal gets the happy ending he doesn't deserve?

[mumblingsage]

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Anyway, this is a recommendation if you have the time and means to stock up before the crud gets you, and because it was a nice surprise to find cold medicine that's not only quickly effective but also tastes fine.

[snekatieii]

Taco is so funny. Girl who is incapable of being normal at all when interacting with people. Girl who spent the first half of her existence acting like something she's not and the second half isolated from basically everybody. She's so mean. Nefarious plans is her default state. She introduced herself to mic by reading her diary pages and insulting her, and she met mepad by kidnapping him. Those are her only two friends. No wonder she doesn't know how to talk to people.

[meatballlady]

Every single fic after s1: "and then they went to Crowley's flat, and they confessed their eternal love, and they stared deeply into each other's eyes..."

Me, not realizing how bad it could be: "yeah, okay, love it, but some variety would be nice - "

Every fic after s2: "And then Aziraphale got to Heaven and immediately realized that he was a fucking idiot and wanted to turn around and grovel on his knees before Crowley but he couldn't because it was all a trap. Meanwhile, on earth, Crowley has been drinking for 84 years ... "

Me: *incoherent screaming*

[traumagenic-positivity]

I'm sort of disappointed by how much harassment is in the traumagenic tag. there's so much on both sides! traumagenic and endogenic. is it a hot take to not be okay with sending people death threats or misgendering them on purpose?

[forestgreenlesbian]

youre not allowed to b a freak loser loner anymore or at least youre not allowed to mention it lol. even like five years ago you could talk about being awkward and socially weird around meeting new people but now if you do that eveeryones like "ok edgelord you are deliberately cutting yourself off from community why are you so obsessed with being alone. you all need to go outside and make real friends you are too online." which like yes obviously but why is eveyrone acting like the only two options are you either a) have a load of friends or b) you don't want them??? it is so weird. to be seen trying & failing has become so taboo that people assume if you're alone it's because you want to be and youre trying to be cool & aloof or else you see things like small talk or reaching out to people as "emotional labour" and choose not to do them. like i am not fucking choosing not to do them i literally try to do them every day and find it very hard and then you tell me i can't even joke about that struggle or being a lonely friendless loser to maybe for one second make light of the bottomless pit of disconnect + loneliness i experience every day without someone blaming me for not putting myself out there. idk

[t-errifier]

feeling a little down about myself & my blog lately, i cannot lie.

[katyspersonal]

To be honest I don't really want mutuals who instantly assume I commented in bad faith to act "condescending" when I was nothing but light-hearted in disagreeing about a point in the post about one of the characters and agreed with everything else. 🤔 Especially not when I apparently pissed them off so much it made them post TWO (passive-aggressive) posts on the topic of disagreement afterwards instead of.... actual discussion? At least if I assume someone is being mean on purpose I ask them about it

[onesidedradiostatic]

Re: https://www.tumblr.com/onesidedradiostatic/768559046590627840/sp-sp-spades-i-didnt-take-the-diamonds-into

aroace comrade here, (everyone’s mileage varies, and I’m not a broad representative or anything) and I didn’t see anything that explicitly couldn’t be aroacey for Mammon in this ep? I put that down to having oblivious!aroace goggles permanently glued onto my face, so I’m open to being told otherwise! These are just my thoughts as dot points, I’m not poking at anyone specifically.

- Asking someone if they want to go out later or after something doesn’t always mean “on a date”, it can just mean like, hanging out, and it can also be as banal as walking vaguely next to each other, small talking about work or in awkward silence, buy lunch at the same cafe, walk back to work and then not even eat lunch together or see each other again that day because you’re coworkers and not actual friends

- ‘out on the town’ means getting pissed at multiple establishments, or even a shopping spree, being demanding nuisances. It evokes, like, a montage of over-indulgence, which checks out for Greed. You can go out on the town with anyone, relationship-irrelevant. I’m not sure if these mean something different in America?

- “fuck with” doesn’t always mean fuck with, it can mean “put up with”

- Mammon seemed unimpressed (in the australian sense of “pissed off”) when Bee told him to eat a dick, so maybe eating dick isn’t something he thinks “applies” to him. If Bee had used any other thing that can be eaten, he’d probably reply with “THANK YOU I WILL”. He looks even less impressed at being told to go fuck himself, so maybe that’s not something he’s into either. He seemed most pissed at being called a big asshole. XD ig he’s “I can excuse [everything harmful], but I draw the line at calling me fatass or implying I fuck” He dishes out sexual insults but he can’t take them.

- he ate the dick ice cream later without complaint because free ice cream is free ice cream: dick-shaped doesn’t really matter if it’s not actively being discussed. He’d probs eat it if it landed on the floor. (If I was offered free garlic bread but it was dick-shaped and no one was talking about sex in that moment, or telling me to go eat a dick, I’d probably definitely eat it, my 24/7 want for garlic bread outweighs my aversion to [sex-themed things + myself] “fuck it, it’s food”)

- It kinda came across to me that he was oblivious of how asking someone to go out with him while eating a dick shaped icecream would look to other people, which is funny to me. The unsynchronised blink says “head empty”

- This interaction could be interpreted as a crush, but I didn’t see it that way.(aroace goggles) I think he wants to be Wanted, like, in the only way he knows, which is materially. He has no positive connections with the other sins that we’ve seen so far, but Wants to be one of the cool kids, (the coolest kid, hog the attention etc) and Lev doesn’t actively shit on him like Ozzie and Bee, here. Lev’s indifference could seem like an allyship compared to Oz and Bee.

- He included Lev in his group of ‘like-minded superior elites’, considering himself better than/above fucking the lower class, maybe he thinks he’s above fucking at all? He could be the “[food] is better than sex” stereotype of ace.

It’s been interesting seeing what other people think!

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see I think there are a lot of ways to interpret anything, even characters intended to be allo and their actions, in an aro/ace manner

like yeah I still get being ace while talking about sexual stuff or sucking on dick shaped popsicles like I'd do that because I'm kind of an unserious person and find sex jokes funny even if I don't care to have sex with anyone!!! I can see characters doing that too!!

but like my thing is there is no reference to his asexuality through all of it, there are things that could be interpreted in an asexual way but there is nothing put into those scenes that the average viewer who doesn't know about the helluva pride art that mammon is saying all these asexually, it just looks like he's shaming oz and bee for fucking the lower class and not high class like "the rest of us", like of course maybe he fucks without/with little sexual attraction or maybe he was shaming them for fucking in general idk!

my thing isn't really that any of these disprove mammon being ace (because obviously regardless he is still canonically ace) but rather that I wish there was SOMETHING that called out to his asexuality, that even the average viewer could get, but like okay. the series isn't over yet of course so we could still get something in the future, I just wished his first appearance after the helluva pride art would allude to it in some way, but if they do allude to it in the future it'd be cool to have ace rep that's more favourable towards sex even if mammon isn't really uh the most positive portrayal of asexuality

(also having the "good" characters tell the ace character he's unfuckable and that he should keep fucking himself kindaaaaa doesn't sit right with me, I really don't want to read bad faith into mammon being made ace rep but it's but it gets kinda hard like this)

[thatnununguy]

more sapphics before bedtime

[zoekrystall]

Misc icons since I think I should occasionally share the ones I do for myself but I usually only do one so a set isn't happening (some older some newer).

Icon masks by revivalrequiem 🕸 💙, z0mb1tch, and from this rentry.

Some transparents by poketransparents.

Flags in order (minus rainbow and trans flag): fictive (left) fictionkin (right), yandereblood, bigender, rosboy, aroace, faggender, fag

[feline-evil]

I don't normally talk about his tan because it's all anyone talks about, which i get but it has been an integral part of the character for ages so i'm not surprised by it when i see it and therefore don't have much to add to the convo (i'm more surprised when i DON'T see it), but as much as i know that the show was disrupted by the blizzard and MJF was probably elsewhere/at home/not at the stadium and that's why there was some variance in appearance my little pattern seeking brain is like oooohhh...... hair slicked back straight and tanned vs no tan and curly hair, are these signifiers of the facade vs the real* MJF....And when it looks more hastily or heavily applied is that to show us how artificial the facade is........

*(Still in kayfabe)

Like obviously there's variance he's had his hair unstyled and had the tan at the same time but notably......that's how he looked when the mask slipped. And when the mask was off he had no tan and his curly hair in the mirror scene.... You have to imagine me standing in front of a pinboard Pepe Silvia style ok, that's how i am about this man. It could mean nothing, it could just be natural variation in a sport that requires traveling a lot and being in a lot of different places, if thats the case then RESPECT. But it could also mean everything. The tan IS deliberate it's a deliberate character choice regardless. It might not be as deep as i think it is though. But what if it is? But what if (i am dragged offstage by shepherds hooks)

[ogachukwu-the-freak]

Enjoying batfam content and being hit with anti sentiments on the mainstream then immediately checking out the batcest tags even though I'm barely more than a casual shipper like I'm detoxing after coming into contact with a radioactive substance

[zooblesbutchpuppygirl]

Sorry for not posting much!! I've been Really on edge for a few weeks now and I haven't had a lot of energy

[tubbytarchia]

at what point does sosig's "joking between friends" just turn into harassment bc its been getting way uncomfortable for me recently and you can even tell sometimes that the people he's making these jokes to are not comfortable with it.

also this new smp is my first ever time seeing cam's content/personality and he also seems to be exactly the same i cant stand it.

I hesitate to comment on this because I absolutely hate psycho-analysing CCs and usually write it off if I ever get the impression that anyone is uncomfortable at a time, because they are adults and they are hanging out for a reason and it's obviously not my business and they can sort it out if anything needs sorting and the only concern I should be having is my own personal opinion. In part because of that and in part because I don't ever want to risk becoming remotely like someone who white knights in the name of 30yo men. HOWEVER

Yes, it does come down to personal opinion, humor is incredibly subjective so I don't want to dismiss it in case anyone feels targeted for feeling differently. But maybe I'm crazy in that I have never been a fan of humor based in assault or harassment (not as bad the "haha gay sex" type humor but that's a low bar). I don't doubt there have been times where CCs have overstepped and then talked behind the scenes, but even so I don't want to point at specific instances in which I think anyone has been made uncomfortable. That said, there are plenty that have given me that impression and even if I'm wrong, it just makes everything that much more viscerally uncomfortable to me as a viewer and were it not for some of my favorite creators/characters being involved due to the nature of SMPs, I would really much prefer to avoid it

[forestofforever]

I'm not sure what the point of this blog even is anymore.