#even though im literally one of the least racist person i know

[snekdood]

worst thing is when a white person who 'grew up poor' and maybe lived in the city temporarily starts to insinuate they're from the hood or whatever shit lmao

[iayos]

𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 (𝐄𝐖𝐖) !

jjk boys and their icks… because no man is perfect…

jjk boys x implied fem!reader

cw : men being gross, slight nsfw in nanami’s part, very mild misogyny if you squint in megumi’s part, this post was literally just so i could rant kinda

a / n : long time no see… not much to say other than i’ve been busy !!! anyways hope you enjoy :)

yuji itadori - bad grammar

giving him the tamest one tbh because he’s such a sweetheart </3 idk why but i feel like he just has such shitty grammar… like he’s smart ! just not when it comes to grammar. for example, he mixes up his to, too, and two’s, his there’s, and don’t get me started on your vs you’re :/ again he’s the sweetest boy ever ! it’s just the fact he probably failed his lit classes…

megumi fushiguro - “females”…

i was so close to giving this to satoru but i didn’t cause he has shoko to hold him down, megumi on the other hand… look, i don’t think he’d say it in front of girls, but to other dudes, yk ? and i definitely don’t think it’s on purpose to try and be an asshole but it just happens. quickly unlearns it when he says it around maki though.

yuta okkotsu - referring to himself in third person

you guys know how elmo is like, “elmo wants to go to the park,” yeah… yuta does this. and no, it’s not ironically. he definitely thinks it’s cute too and sometimes it is ! but it’s to an extent. like it’s cute the first couple times where he is goes, “yuta loves you,” but then it gets weird and corny when he’s like, “yuta wants to get dinner,” like ermmmm ok…

toge inumaki - fish pics.

as someone who lives in those south i see these OFTEN. for those who don’t know, fish pics are basically when dudes hold up fish they caught while fishing and post pictures of them holding it… i think the main problem with this to me is that a lot of very weird and racist men do it, so that’s why i hate it. anyways i’m 90% sure he has an official art where he’s holding a fish ( i also didn’t know what ick to give him ).

satoru gojo - his height is his whole personality

this shit irks me so bad omg. as someone who’s short ( 5’0 ) and hates seeing other short people make their whole personality their height, it’s even worst when it’s a tall person. satoru is definitely the type to be like, “omg guysss i bumped my head otw hereeee i’m so tallll,” like no you’re just stupid ! he definitely has other icks but this was the main one i could think of… ik he gets on everyone’s nerves.

suguru geto - says “my bad” instead of “im sorry”

another personal one tbh. i hate hate hate when people do this especially if it’s something serious. i remember one time someone pushed me in the mud ( i didn’t fully go on, just my foot ) and i got mud all over my white shoes and they have the audacity to go, “my bad,” like yeah it is your bad lmao. anyways, suguru def does this often especially to shoko. i feel like he’s pretty clumsy and say if shoko’s studying and he knocks over a drink onto her books he’ll say “my bad” and not even attempt to help her clean it up. like dude at least say sorry or something idk ???

nanami kento - calls his dick anything but a dick

“my member” you are grown !!! say dick !!! he does it to be ‘classy’ but like, he is pushing 30 doing this, just say dick. i also think it’s a shame thing ? idk probably hanging out with stsg for most of his teen years rotted his brain so he hates hearing really nasty stuff but he won’t even say penis half the time. like it’s really not that serious nobody wants to call your dick a phallus ( it was also really hard to give him an ick ).

choso - using 🥺 / 🥹

oh BROTHERRRR this one pisses me off. i hate both of those emojis in general but especially when men do it, it’s cornball behavior. like aren’t you supposed to be fighting in wars ? stand up. but i don’t think he has any ill intentions at all, honestly just picks emojis that represent his mood often. however he definitely uses 😂 instead of 😭… sorry choso…

song : ick - lay bankz

[leohtttbriar]

Someone brought an overhated character poll to my dash about Kai Winn and im literally so sad about the responses. I knew there were people who hated her but it's really baffling to me how maybe 10 people tops acknowledge her past and the reasonings behind her choices, they just see a space Karen.

oh dude, i'm sorry that sucks. and "sad" really is a simple but fairly complete word when it comes to the character of winn adami, huh.

like. i think a lot about how she's the most normal-looking woman on the show. she is also, simply, normal. she is faithful and political and appears and acts in ways far more familiar to us than most characters. even the fact of her alien-faith hardly serves to alienate, given that she is faithful in the way we might be--without true expectation of ever meeting the divine in this life. while kira can seem more like a fictional character when she speaks of the prophets, due to her proximity to them, winn sounds like the person accosting you on a street corner to talk about the rapture.

that's the thing, though, isn't it. about the "karen" phenomenon in general. there is nothing uniquely bad about middle-aged white women--nothing that makes them uniquely ungovernable in social spheres in ways men aren't. in ways everyone isn't, in some way. (merely anecdotal evidence, but my own experience in the service industry made me far more wary of men in their 30s wearing patagonia vests over dress-shirts). winn adami is a normal sort of frustration to people. one they encounter in the day-to-day. the political conservative who stands outside of planned parenthood and tells girls not to throw away their everlasting souls. the pentecostal women speaking gibberish in church, gesturing to the heavens with their out-of-fashion french manicures, who brought a tater-tot hot dish with extra kraft cheese to the pot luck. the women with cross-walls. with like. so many crosses. the women with leathery tans on the aging skin of their arms and neck. the women who quietly walk into voting booths around the world and choose "safety" over anything else, whether or not that "safety" is real.

at least. that's who people think winn is. setting aside the fact that most people don't truly know the kinds of women listed above, that it's unlikely they've spared a single ounce of pity for women like that ever in their entire lives, winn is not exactly pitiable in this way. she is awash in power. she is intelligent. she thinks. she would stand in a voting booth and choose "safety" (whether or not it's real) but she's not the lady wearing a t-shirt that says trump could grab her pussy if he wanted. she's not one of the many blonde women on fox news. she's not even sandra day o'connor or any other female conservative intellectual. because she's a metaphor.

we don't know her real-world politics because she's a fictional character in a fictional universe leading a fictional world. we know she's a conservative because fights very very hard to maintain the status quo regarding her bajoran religion and its teachings. but we don't know how any of that can be truly allegorized to conservative policies in the real-world. the main tension being: conservatives in the real-world base a lot of truly evil policy on a made-up divine figure interpreted through thousands of made-up hermeneutics and it is materially all Not Real. in ds9, the prophets are actual beings who affect reality. winn's said and done things on the show that sound like something an annoying woman with a turquoise-cross around her neck would say at a utah city council meeting about creationism and "inappropriate books." she also says things that a woman would say at a protest against the racist and paternalistic policies of the british museum. all we know of her as a political figure is that she is conservative. and like, power-hungry and desperate, but those aren't essentially related. she wants to conserve. and that encompasses more than one thing.

which means that people, when they see her, simply aren't thinking. they react to a woman who looks as she does. who speaks like a politician. who makes decisions that are unfair. but, exactly as you said, the show grounds her. they give her a past. they richly flesh out so much about her. they have her acting too rationally sometimes for someone of her professed faith. they have her acting completely irrational as her gods reject her again and again. all while she clings to them with a faith that endured actual torture at the hands of violent imperialists who yet attack her planet and yet attack her and yet she has to speak with as the leader of bajor.

and it's hard to see (beyond the obvious) why this character receives so much vitriol when you have characters like garak and dukat and kira who all are considered charming and beloved in some way or another, while still being as complex as they are. (and i don't even think dukat is all that complex.) even sisko has some moments that, if i lived in his world, i would be somewhat repulsed by--like when jake begs him to let the prophets go and sisko embraces the cosmic over the request of his son. (again: the prophets are real though, so my "repulsion" is more a reaction against people i see as priests, who i find in the real world, as a rule, awful.)

so. it's definitely sad. because the level and kind of hate bestowed upon this character really does seem to be a symptom of a much larger issue: of course, misogyny.

also that people don't tend to think.

[thebadtimewolf]

give me onscreen fluff no matter the cost

i think rtd2 should kill off dimemsion cannon-toting rose marion tyler. hey. im not saying its not gonna highly anger me if they kill her off doing something ooc because it will if they go down that route. make it make sense based on the material that is given. because this aint early 2000s now. its original and new. and not predictable and yt.

im saying so we can have onscreen scenes of then kissing and holding baby mia because i'll be fucking damned if you gave that to racist joan redfern but NOT TO ROSE????

this is because if meta crisis ten/tentoo does come back, there needs to be a reason why he is there alone. we saw what he does when hes alone and only one person attempts to stop him: he starts blowing shit up. doctordonna AND jackie couldnt stop him from basically being a bomber the whole time.

it'll mull him, not harden him or make him go evil like every predictable fanfic whenever rose dies and hes evil and blah blah. it'll ground him. and i dont want it to be like: oh rose passed away! Any way lets- no.

I want it to where the Doctor doesn't realize something is wrong beyond just tentoo being back. It would be the last thing he would think, the one thing they would never come to the conclusion to. I mean, for us it was decade or so ago but for the doctor, that was essentially billions of years ago. That was just plucked stray eyelash from two years ago in comparison.

And tentoo is keeping up appearences. Even says present tense verbs "she is doing great, she is currently so and so doing whatnot" but then it starts being noticeable. Bit by bit. He used 'did' or 'used to' a few slips. Here and there. Something that can brushed off as parallel world: different rules.

But then, near the climax, a gutpunch - you know rtd love his gutpunches of heartbreak - rose died and tentoo blamed himself for it. [mind you, there is a flashback of rose, teen mia, and tentoo just to establish that a comic or audio isnt now canon.] and its something mundane though not how danny pink initially died. at least mundane enough for it to happen but not too mundane enough to be ANOTHER FRIDGING DEFAULT TROPE.

tentoo and pete was there (yes surprise guest star shaun dingwall) and the look of horror on their face when they both rush out only for it to be too late.

but it gets tentoo to stop being trigger-happy. Yes, he gets hurt, but the reason the reveal happens is him saying something along the lines of 'i can't make my daughter into an orphan'

because if moffat gets a hold of that, he's gonna make stone rose a reality in the most cruellest way of killing off rose. Not send her back in time, just turn her into an irreversible weeping angel with no trace of anything that she used to be except her face and hair. I don't need that NO ONE NEEDS THAT!!! but as far as killing of fan faves go: thats your real motherlode there.

it shows no one is safe. tegan and kate stewart almost proved it to be the case. but killing off rose? rose tyler? dame rose marion tyler of the powell estate? that? that's a huge move. a big move.

but it explains so much in retrospect for 50th in film and novelisation. why the moment expressions are the way they are. why literally 10 and 11 could never see her but war and 13 and superpower companion from brooklyn, ny, gabby gonzalez can. why be a ghost haunting them? why be present yet also not at all to them? why be the yellow wallpaper in a burning room of gold? anyway.

give us what we got in one comic as a wandavision esque for empress rose's perspective but onscreen with the main girl! and we all saw i hate suzie fear ep i cried when her character died. let me repeat myself: i cried when billie's suzie's character in a fictional show within i hate suzie, the zombie show that doesnt exist, died. let her cook! i want my heart feel like regina mills in one of her ✨️always serving evil queen regality✨️came into my house, punched through my chest, crunched my heart like it was a simple wine glass stem and then emotionally tossed my body around like she about to audition for making me a new kind of muppet.

make us fear for EVERY 2005 COMPANION RETURNING (except jack because hes still immortal) make us actually clutch pearls and the fabric covering our stomachs!

[this is the same disney+ that now has uncensored punisher and the last time we had rtd writing in america was miracle day and that was gruesome in itself so 👀😬 the whiplash of heartbreakingly devastating opportunities is right there. especiall since rose is canonically established to be part of pete's world torchwood not unit so. yeah be afraid.]

[hazardous-waste-containment]

Im thoroughly aware of "degenerate" being a fascist thing, but i didnt know that "decadent" was too. What up with that

AFAIK ‘degeneration’ as a concept grew out of Darwinism and the idea of (d)evolutionary backsliding down the rungs of a biological hierarchy (especially but not always bc of race-mixing), was closely identified with literal mental and physical illness, and became cemented in the European popular consciousness particularly by Max Nordau’s Entartung which psychiatrically pathologized basically all the artistic and cultural trends he personally found objectionable, and gave us the idea of ‘degenerate art’ (though tbc Nordau was Jewish and for his part thought antisemitism was a reflection of degeneration); whereas ‘decadence’ is the much broader idea, which need not have specifically biological/medical/racial connotations, of a society growing old, tired, decayed, losing its vigor etc.

The panic over decadence, that the West was vaguely on the decline and needed to culturally rejuvenate if it was to survive, was even more widespread and diffuse in late nineteenth-century Europe than the specific panic over degeneration and affected pretty much all the new philosophical, political, spiritual, etc developments of the era in a wave of civilizational soul-searching (the fin-de-siècle), from Nietzsche to Sorel to Blavatsky. The two concepts have definitely always been intertwined but at least from what I’ve seen of interwar fascist movements, which were obviously products of that fin-de-siècle cultural crisis, it was actually much more common for them to attribute the ills of liberal society in the 1920s–30s to decadence than to degeneration. Fascism in Italy (for example) wasn’t primarily racist at first (at least no more than most Europeans at the time) and saw Italy’s crisis mostly as one of materialism, rationalism, individualism, class conflict, a lack of moral values, a weak state, etc etc etc, all symptoms of a general cultural decadence but never of the sort of biological regression implied by degeneration. The Nazis made use of both concepts, probably more often of ‘degeneration’ for obvious reasons, which I guess is why we contemporarily associate it more strongly with fascism.

Tbh today you’re more likely to hear from fascists about ‘degeneracy’ (basically meaning anything I don’t like but with the particular connotation of sexual/gender deviance, also used this way by Christian rightists) and ‘subversion’ (generalized conspiratorial attacks against the nation/race).

[euphoricfilter]

me wondering why if anon has such a problem with kpop fans and Tumblr users they’re literally on Tumblr ranting on a kpop author’s blog 🧐 some people just have no sense but sending you lots of love!! I hope you do continue with the fic because it’s so important and validating for people who identify as gender-fluid/agender to see that kind of representation when most spaces in the world are not built to accommodate them💕

yeah i don’t exactly get it.. i think it all just escalated when they decided to bring race into the question and imply i was being racist?? and then saying a few things which definitely made me raise my eyebrows because it’s sort of an icky way of thinking and kinda hypocritical if we’re talking about damaging real people

the original first ask the anon made was saying if it was disrespectful on my part making jungkook use he/they pronouns, and why i didn’t make the reader nonbinary instead. and i felt like i was at least somewhat valid in my reply, im not here to invalidate any enby person hence why me making a totally fictional character the gender fluid one gives me the freedom to create a character and their opinions of their identity without forcing my own views of my gender onto the reader insert when i feel like being non binary is somewhat of a spectrum, it’s different for everyone

i think after that it completely just escalated with the race comments, assume my race and then calling it racist to change a man’s pronouns. i’m not a gender warrior, i’m not here to force a gay agenda onto any one of my followers or someone that stumbles across my page. it’s simply a safe space for lgbtq+ friends, and my bad that i wanted to represent a character through a member of bts. i know what’s real and what’s not, and i’m not coming online to say that jungkook doesn’t use he/him pronouns

the comments about the sexualisation of jungkook were kinda gross, kinda defeated their point they were trying to make. and yeah some points were valid about what happens online and how asian men are viewed or other POC within other communities. i’m not saying that’s wrong, i’m not oblivious or stupid or ignorant 😭 but this all started with a fictional character so i’m like ??? idk and then it all just went down hill so i don’t know anymore

the last few asks they sent felt like they’re were underlined with homophobia so i’m not gonna spend a lot of time arguing when whatever i say is just gonna be ignored or taken out of context to what i’ve been trying to say, even last night with my original answer to the ask. and i just felt sad reading it LMAO like idk what more i’m supposed to do, i’ve apologized if i’ve done anything wrong or anything i’ve said is damaging and i’ve tried to articulate my thoughts best i can but i can only type out so much, talking is so much easier 🚶‍♀️

anyways, what’s happened has happened and i’m tired 😭 and it was a total mood killer though

anyways i love all of you guys, and everyone that’s been nice today i’m extremely grateful!! 💕 so thank you for worrying! it’s very sweet

[alwek]

I always get a bit existential after doing my usual "bait terfs into fighting me" thing. Which is part of why I do it. It gets me thinking, am I right? Am i being the shit head here? But then someone calls me a rapist for saying people should be treated equally, and I know I'm not.

But that leads me to think, how the fuck did they end up like that? Who hurt them so much that they think saying "kill all men" makes you a good person? I used to think it was ironic but hearing it so much every time i do this, I don't think so. It's sad, really, that they could be tricked into hating half the world. I wish i could do more, i say knowing full well i will do this exact thing again. It's fun to make them look terrible. But still, a part of me always wants to DM at least one of them, and really try to talk about all that shit, get to the bottom of it. Only thing is every time i try to challenge them a bit I get blocked or it turns hostile. It's a shame, really, how little people believe they can change things these days. A permeating feeling of hopelessness surrounds the entire ideology. Hell, it surrounds most of them these days. I understand it. Watching your people get fucked over and killed for trying to live respectfully, it's enough to drive anyone to rage. And well, I do agree that some people need to be killed to fix things, but it's not anyone on this webbed site. That I know of, anyway. All the death threats both sides send while we fight the same fucking fight. It's like everyone became blind that we're all of the same ilk. I blame capitalism pushing us to seperate ourselves endlessly. The more groups we have, the more money can be made. Keep them apart the money keeps going.

But yeah,

All people should be equal, and those who currently aren't, need to fight to be, and those that are need to fight to get them there. We all live in society, and therefore it can't be changed by only half of it. Teamwork, fuck.

You say we don't believe the same thing? The root of BOTH our sides is "women are oppressed and it needs to stop." And yet even when I say that terfs will still find a way to make me the bad guy for saying that. My new example from this? "That's not real feminism". It's like saying the queer movement never happened. You twisted and mutilated what it was into a hate filled unrecognizable shell of its former glory and stand.

We should all be equal. "I want liberation!" You realize that being equal means you'll be liberated right? You say it's not fair men get all the stuff then complain to people when they say you'll get that stuff once equality is had, like, come on, how do you not hear yourself? I keep saying "hey, idiot, we want literally the same thing, why are you attacking me?" It doesn't make sense. I want it to. That's me though.

But yeah, everyone should be equal. When you show me an article about a person that got away with rape and ask me "what's the rapists gender?" Do you really expect me to just ignore that you said a rapist got away with rape? Who fucking cares about the gender, that's fucked up they got away with it!

You cone at me with childish insults about genitalia then when I lean into it im the pervert after you were the one going off about a penis you never have or will see? Why are y'all so focused on genitals? I just want to be able to piss somewhere where I don't have to be afraid of being followed into THE CORRECT bathroom by some fucking asshat that doesn't like how I present.

I want to be able to go out in public wearing clothes i feel happy in, presenting in a way that doesn't make me feel like I'm holding everything i am back for the sake of eyes i don't give a shit about. Shame those eyes would kill me if given the opportunity.

It always comes back to "but you white man" as if I'm both white and a man. You're jumping to racist sexist stereotypes to try and justify your attacking of someone who hasn't bothered a soul. I'm a non binary indigenous person and yet every time I do this, I get accused of being a white man, and you think that's not racist? You're assuming the race of someone because you disagree with them. That's racist. You're telling me I'm worthless because of how I was born. That's sexist. It's sad.

But yeah, we should all be equal. We should all be able to feel some sense of safety where we live. We should all have food in our bellies, water in our cups, roofs over our heads. We have everything we need for people to be happy and comfortable and thrive, but SOMETHING tricked everyone into fighting each other over the cause. Personally i think it's patriarchal based capitalism that's fucked everything. It successfully made us think that being different makes us bad. Being different is what makes us good.

Everyone should be treated equally. Everyone should get kindness first, and treated as they continue to treat others. The individual who commits atrocities should be punished not all that take part in the same group. We are individuals. We are all the same because of it. We are all equal because of it.

Everyone should be treated equally. Gender isn't real. Genitals don't matter. Do what you want if you ain't hurting anyone that don't want it. Be kind. Treat others as they continue to treat you.

Power in anger. Victory in wisdom.

All are equal. We are all but earthlings. Human, suffering together. Why should we continue to suffer? Let's work together about it

[cometchasr]

the tldr is that we ridicule amercia for a variety of reasons.

first, the whole race thing. this is something i need to reflect more on, both on the relationship between singapore's racial harmony and our perception of america's race relations, and also how fucking laissez-faire my peers are with the n-word but also how we see white america as essentially barbarian murderers who will kill all nonwhites in 10 seconds (yes, this was a thing someone legitimately said, related to point 2. it was a joke but the fact that it was said is ridiculous enough). most of us have a very bad understanding of the whole race thing, and our view essentially boils down to "poc oppressed, white people will kill them, we get to say the n-word".

then there's the thing where they say amercia is where all the gay people and furries are. i know this isn't true, but remember that singapore has literally zero queer representation. ZERO. all the queer content they see comes from amercia and they associate being gay or furry with amercia (not me associating it with china). i had one guy say that another guy should be deported to amercia because he was gay (im pretty sure he isn't. we hurl accusations), and then came in yet another guy, saying "he'll probably die in 10 seconds because the KKK will kill him because he's not white". which is the statement from point 1.

plottwist time, im the other other person. it's like im another fucking person in school, someone who isnt gay at all and ridicules amercia in the tangible way the rest of them do. it's scary. the other person agreed with me, which is also quite baffling.

this entire exchange definitely had a measure of joke behind it. it definitely wasn't entirely serious. but to me the fact that it happened is just weird. the way this contradicts the usual viewing of the US as a great nation or amercia's cultural dominance is stark. somehow, we manage to both insult white people on a regular basis and oh my fucking god you idiots stop it with the fucking slavery jokes. yep. so i have like at least 3 chinese guys who simultaneously laugh at white people for being dumb and stupid or whatever while also calling themselves white so they can call some other guy their slave.

we clearly have zero fucking knowledge on anything going on over there, and it shows extremely clearly. the problem is that amercia's cultural dominance still has an effect even though we didn't fall to it, so instead of worshipping the west we insult it and make jokes with zero knowledge of the situation and which are extremely disrespectful. we tend to associate hollywood and amercian media as just "media" with zero connection to amercia and all the things like school shootings and BLM and police brutality with amercia. in our minds, nothing is amercian except these fucked up things which happen over there. we see these things as impossible to happen in singapore and then see amercia as a backward barbarian land where these things do happen. they havent made the jump to saying its the gays who do it yet, but im sure someone will get that point before im off to china for study.

so yeah i think complicated may be a bit flat. more just fucking weird and extremely unknowledgeable and disrespectful and defintively racist, towards both sides, if you can fucking believe it

hm, i just remembered i wanted to make a post about how my fellow teenagers in this school (at least the boys, who are definitely more political) view the US. not the west in general (i think most of them usually forget europe exists), just amercia. it's very strange

[just-dva-mainthings]

I'm in a fairly bad mood.

I'm not your mom, I don't own any of you. However if I see ANY of my active followers making rude posts or are generally bad people I will not hesitate to block you.

I have a VERY open mind, I'm always trying to take a second to walk around in others shoes to see what's caused them to be the way they are. If you give me a bad vibe, I don't like you. Simple as that.

Now this isn't directed to ANYONE for the time being, but think of this as a warning.

I want good people here, I want people who I could practically be friends with. Because afterall we are all human, and we all have feelings. I see TOO much hate in the real world. This is my escape and I'm sure its an escape for others as well.

I want to stay as hate free as possible. If I post something that upsets you, message me, explain to me why it upsets you and chances are that I'll take it down. Although I run this blog, it is not my personal blog, it is meant for YOU! All of you. However sending hate through anon... Don't even get me started on how low that is. If I get ANY anon hate from here on out I WILL turn off anons. I might even do that after this post, who knows. Because if you are not willing to send hate to me showing who you are then that's kind of sad, right?

Now I haven't gotten hate recently at all, I have in the past but it didn't bother me.

But let's leave the upsetti spaghetti at the door and just talk about Overwatch, DISCUSS to me about the news. Dont try to start a war with me about the changes, or the skins. I'm done with the negativity from now on.

Let's treat each other as friends.

[thebluespirit83]

debunking pro-snape/anti-james arguments and putting it on the internet because clearly i hate myself. buckle up. this is gonna be a VERY long post. im ready for the amount of hate i will get; im willing to take one for the team. 

1. james forced lily into dating/marrying/etc him 

this literally never happened? because its almost as if lily is her own person who is able to stand up for herself-

“I wouldn’t go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid,” said Lily.

“LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Lily shouted. She had her own wand out now. James and Sirius eyed it warily.

She turned on her heel and hurried away [from james]. 

-and so she would not allow someone to walk all over her. its almost as if james (canonically) matured as a person, and she appreciated this, realised he was a good person and got feelings for him? because james’ only negative traits were that he was conceited and a show off. people are able to mature and grow from these things! james did this! he did not ‘force’ lily to go out with him!

2. james and the other marauders bullied snape

you know what, i cant even disagree with this one. you’re right - they did bully him. but lets look a little bit at the context. 

sirius and james were both upper class, naive white rich boys. they are idiots. they were both stupid smart teenagers!! they were popular! and while this does not excuse the gross bullying snape was subject to-

Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape’s mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, choking him

Several people watching laughed; Snape was clearly unpopular ... Snape was trying to get up, but the jinx was still operating on him; he was struggling, as though bound by invisible ropes.

-it (unfortunately) makes sense with context. james and sirius also stopped bullying people, and even expressed discomfort/regret with the way they acted-

“I’m not proud of it,” said Sirius quickly.

“Of course he was a bit of an idiot!” said Sirius bracingly, “we were all idiots!

[sirius talking to remus] you made us feel ashamed of ourselves sometimes

A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it.

-when they were younger! i’d also like to point out these little lines i noticed when i was finding quotes for my argument which snape stans like to ignore:

James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other

I mean, he [snape] never lost an opportunity to curse James

there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of James’s face, spattering his robes with blood

wow, look at that. the hate they felt for each other was mutual! snape also jinxed james! but oh wait - james was the one who matured! snape was the one who bullied his son twenty years later because he looked like james! 

3. snape didnt abuse the kids at hogwarts 

here’s a real argument i saw when looking through some pro-snape posts: ‘snape wasn’t an abuser, because abusers don’t let their victims retaliate, but snape did let the kids talk back to him’

what. the. fuck?! 

this is the dictionary.com definition of abuse: ‘to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way’ or ‘to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about’. i’m pretty sure snape did both of these things-

“I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!”

“So,” said Snape, gripping Harry’s arm so tightly Harry’s hand was starting to feel numb.

Snape threw Harry from him with all his might.

[hermione’s teeth]  "I see no difference."

‘Idiot boy!’ snarled Snape [at neville]

-on multiple occasions. i’d also like to remind you guys that neville’s worst fear is SNAPE?! his TEACHER, a figure that is supposed to be there for emotional and educational support is his worst fear in this entire world?! above the woman who drove his parents to insanity? over failure, over his abusive grandmother, over everything? his teacher? and for the pro-snaper that used this quote-

Nearly everyone laughed. Even Neville grinned apologetically.

-to claim that it was a joke, it isn’t a joke. because when snape came out of that cupboard, he was terrified. yes, it’s an embarrassing thing to have as your boggart, but the point is is that it is. he is terrified of that man. 

4. james only joined the order because his wife was a muggleborn and he ‘had to’

this is just factually incorrect. james had been sticking up for muggleborn rights since he was in school, far before he started dating or even became friends with lily: 

“Apologize to Evans!” James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.

“I’d NEVER call you a - you-know-what!”

so this is literally not true!! plus, at least he did join the order, whatever his reasons where (which were canonically good). snape didnt join the order. snape was friends with someone who suffered discrimination in society, and instead of using his privilege to help her and support her, he joined a group that was set on murdering people like her. when james had a friend who underwent oppression (remus/lycanthropy) you know what he did? he illegally became an animagus. 

5. snape had to be a death eater to survive at hogwarts as he roomed with blood supremacists

this is the shittiest excuse i have ever seen in my entire life. as a poc, this comment really reminds me of the argument ‘i was raised in a racist white household! i cant control my beliefs!’

you can always control your beliefs. i understand not going on big rants about blood inequality in front of a bunch of supremacists, and i understand wanting to blend and fit in (especially because he was unpopular and needed the support the slytherin boys provided), but i will never understand then becoming an active member of the group yourself. he got the dark mark. he helped voldemort. he was a death eater, and a proud one at that! no-one forced him to join. this argument literally makes my blood boil. 

6. snape had a lot of trauma from being raised in an abusive household

okay? so did sirius. so did neville. luna was bullied at school, just like snape. harry lived in an abusive household. did any of those people bully children? did any of those people join a blood supremacist group? and dont get me wrong, im not calling any of these people perfect - they all had a lot of flaws - but none of them hurt another people to the extreme that snape did. 

7. snape saved the trio’s lives many times

this is the absolute bare minimum. ‘oh wow, he didnt let harry die!! what a king! he should be respected and praised! we should excuse all of his other actions because he didnt let people die <3′ 

8. snape is not a perfect person, he also did good that many people overlook

you’re right, snape did do some good things in his life. but unfortunately, for me and many others, doing a couple of good things doesnt excuse all of the shitty, abusive things he did too. we’re not ignoring them - we just dont think they’re good enough reasons to forgive him. 

‘but james and sirius hurt others! you ignore all the bad things they did in favour of the good!’ you do the same thing with snape, first of all. second, they did a lot of good stuff. james’ and sirius’ only crimes were being annoying. for being a bit of a dick, conceited, knew they were hot and were a bit entitled. while these things are annoying as fuck, they were also stupid teens that eventually grew out of their behaviour and became better people. not perfect! better. while snape just stayed bitter at the marauders, long after their deaths, and even took his anger out on an innocent child. 

9. people only hate snape because he was poc and queer coded

as a poc and queer person, please stop. this is a very bad excuse. being poc and queer (which im pretty sure he isnt, but anyway) doesnt excuse you from your actions. plus, a huge amount of harry potter readers are poc and lgbtq. why would they hate snape for those reasons?! 

so thats all i got for today. im not gonna go into a deep snily/jily thing because i literally cannot be bothered. anyway im done. i need to go revise, i’ve already spent long enough on this. 

[our-tired-eyes]

do you ever feel like you're the worst person in the world even though the only examples you can think of to support that current point is shit that almost everyone else has done at least once

as in my brain says i'm a bad person, i wonder why, and rather than thinking of any of the truly bad things i've done/do, my brain thinks i'm a bad person for not saying excuse me after i burped that one time in 2012.

[karzietomato]

I’m sorry, I love the show, but the heavily white-straight-male point of view story telling is killing me. It’s just too much now. Completely botched character development for Criston, Alicent and Daemon (I broke it down in the Reddit post below). Of course cishet dudes won’t find it bizarre that a grown ass knight just miraculously fell madly in “love” with the younger princess, and felt entitled enough to ask her to leave her inheritance to the 6 kingdoms and everything else behind just to be owned by him, and when refused felt justified enough to completely betray her and brutally murder a gay man because his feel feels are hurt. Of course they will also feel that Alicent’s character arch so far makes perfect sense, because of course when your first love and best friend withheld details of her sex life to you to protect herself, that only means “she will kill your children when she’s Queen”, and of course the only normal reaction of a young woman struggling with the great burden of womanhood in this situation is to turn into a power player for her son to be king, fight to the death of her best friend if she must. And of course, why wouldn’t the charming Rogue Prince just kill a woman for fun? I mean they don’t even know each other, and she’s from one of the most powerful noble houses that could threaten the crown’s peace, and she literally is a HUMAN BEING that had done nothing to wrong him ever, and in the original stories Daemon wasn’t even in the Vale when she died. But nahhh forget all that, us men just get to kill some bitches cos she annoying and I want a new wife. The mensies have already starting to call her “the bronze bitch” unironically lmfaooo oh so funny.

And of course, the one non-white woman, the only major Black woman character who only idk trained and rides the oldest largest dragon’s scenes got cut the most. Laena Velaryon doesn’t even have like 30 mins of screen time put together throughout this show. The actors got all the hate from the racists, but the show and white dude show runners get all the credit for “dIvEsItY cAsTiNg”, and if we dare say anything about it all the racists and sexists will scream “WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT!????” And last not least of course, the one freaking legitimate non-male heir to the throne has to be twisted and turned and demonized into a hysterical “not skinny” mess and eaten alive by a dragon, just to prove once again that no woman can ever hold the highest power in even a fictional world, No no no don’t you know women are all crazy or will all go crazy 100% of the time?

Sorry for the rant. Im so sick and tired of it. Yes I do enjoy the show and love the dragons and all that, and yes I realize stories like this in 2022 are significantly better from the ones we get before, and yes I get progress take time and blah blah blah. I’m just a little traumatized having witness all of this, and how much such methods of storytelling with these white patriarchal values appeased to the cishet men. I’m just sick of it, that’s all. Great banquet scene though. Us gays live for the dresses, the decor and the elaborate dances.

Just once I wish there could be a gay person, brutally killing a straight male person for the hell of it and walk away. You know.

[azumasoroshi]

DGS 2 London Side DLC

just started watching like. the one video translating these and OH MY GOD IS SHOLMES GONNA BE THE DEFENSE LAWYER FOR IRIS AGAINST BAROK????? WHAT???????????

and ryuunosuke gets to be the competent judicial assistant this time i'm assuming

this is gonna be great i can feel it

omg iris gets her own hold it?? or at least i assume it's a hold it since it's not iyai

OH NOOOOOO WE DONT GET SHOLMES' PERSPECTIVE goddammit

ryuunosuke i love you but PLEASE i need to know what's going on in sholmes' head

i guess they don't want to reveal that he's actually a genius or show his real thought process to keep the mystery of whether he's really smart or a fucking idiot but i was excited for that :( oh well

"What on earth are you doing here, amateur detective?"

"Whatever do you mean? ...Reapy."

im telling you there is SOMETHING up with the way they talk to each other it's the exes energy i swear to god

oh my god it definitely wasnt a murder trial was it ahskdgJHDJHGSD sholmes is giving off real phoenix wright energy right now

"For the [impropriety?] of reaching for the Lord's chalice after failing to find another outlet for my anger...I beg for your indulgence."

ahh so that's the more direct translation of "forgive the discourtesy of filling my hallowed chalice"

we are 3 minutes into trial and this man is already done six ways from sunday

not ryuunosuke telling sholmes to look at the court record when we're not even in control of him asdkhgKJDHGSDKJKHJHJDS

OHH yeah i guess he's saying it to sholmes but hes really saying it to us cuz we have to look at evidence n stuff

omg the notes on each evidence are in sholmes' perspective too

why is the pocketwatch in the evidence lmfao i dont think ryuunosuke gave that to you sholmes

watch him just grab it from ryuunosuke's pocket when it's needed

oh barok's name is translated as baroque that's kind of interesting

oh something was stolen from van zieks office?? if it was wine im gonna laugh so hard why would you convict a ten year old of stealing wine

LMFAOOOOOOOOO sholmes' perception of the world is so fucked

"terrifying" help oh my god

I CHOKED he knows barok fucking hates him

aww the person playing said this is basically all we get of hurley's perspective that's so sad ugh

"The only suitable punishment for such an atrocity would be submersion in hellfire!" damn barok really said gay people belong in hell

racist and homophobic what's next capcom

"Looks like we were too late, Mr. Naruhodou. He already threw his first chalice." like 7 minutes into trial dawgggg this is the worst day of barok's life second only to The Incident while Sholmes is having a fucking blast

"[Iris' charge] was...um. Serial murder!"

"It sounds as though you've got yourself a rather thrilling roommate, great detective." are they ever going to refer to each other by their names or what

i love how herlock is like "i look forward to hearing what weird thing you'll say next" if you get the answer wrong bkjDGKSJDGhsd literally encouraging you to make the wrong choices we stan a good dad

"Honestly, what must [Iris'] parents be like if this is how she turned out?" BAROK........BUDDY.............….thats such rich kid dialogue he’s such a rich kid

"[Reapy], I really don't think you should say such things so lightly." SEE EVEN HERLOCK OBJECTED TO THAT AHSUDGKSDJH barok come on man

is he taking personal offense to that as Iris' basically-dad or is he taking offense on iris’s parents’ behalf

"The item that was stolen was incredibly special to me." i have a feeling it's related to Him but for now im still sticking to it being wine

imagine if it was a black pocketwatch the chaos that would go down

Barok: "[The girl I saw] was, without a doubt, Iris Wilson."

Sholmes: "Are you sure about that? She doesn't have many distinguishing features, after all."

bro have you seen your daughter

oh it was his chalice :sob: yeah that's basically his wine

barok maybe you just tossed more than one chalice into the fire than you recall maybe that's it

oh it was his FIRST court chalice i seeeee baby's first time being drunk on the job

"I guess there can only be two types of memories associated with [your chalices]. "Should I throw it", or "Should I crush it"?"

[Barok throws his chalice right after crushing his last one two animations ago]

"I can't anticipate what the truth will be at this point in time. But we musn't allow that ruddy criminal to get away with this!"

was it sholmes. did he steal the chalice

that line sounds kind of sus ngllllllllll

"Sholmes-san sounds pretty confused..." homie doesnt even know what a cross examination is oh god

(source: x)

[fandomshatewomen]

thanks for the explanation i truly appreciate it

i think what's made us have diverging opinions on this matter is the fact that i didn't know paper girls is an adaptation of a comic book. i don't even watch the show. i sent the original ask because i looked at images of tiffany on google and have watched stranger things (erica is one of my favorite characters, the other one being argyle) and agreed with the op instead of your reply.

im also of the opinion that people will always look like other people, there's no getting around that. we have a limited gene pool and there's only so many variations you can make by mixing and matching that incredibly unique faces are really really rare (i'd say steve buscemi has the only unique face in hollywood - at least off the top of my head).

im not upset at people in my hometown mistaking me for my mother since we look really similar (we sound similar too, everyone double checks if it's her or me picking up a phone). im also not upset at people constantly mistaking me for a different girl when i moved to my uni town because we looked very similar. never met the girl before then, we're 100% not related in any way.

so when i see people look like other people, that's all that it is to me. an example of how despite 8 billion people on this planet (im ahead by a few days with this number lol) we're still all the same. but i do appreciate the explanation that it's not the case for everyone and sometimes it goes far deeper than what i perceive it as. so thank you!

you're this anon

so story time. like ok even though I grew up with a very racially diverse family ppl used to insist I had a doppelganger and it used to mess with my head because the girl (although I'm p sure she was half mexican versus my full mexican from both sides) they thought looked like me was just fat and had frizzy hair like me. which like ok?? my lips are bigger my nose is bigger we had different interests. and more importantly I got the feeling when we were in college that people used to tell her the same thing. Like I'm fairly lightskinned.

which is literally a screengrab from my channel https://www.youtube.com/user/AliciaThePhoenix

Like I have a lot of privilege in terms of colorism and I hated being compared to another person constantly throughout middleschool high school and my first few years of college. but the thing is this experience is not unique to me and I can prove it. my mom who's seventy now constantly compares all black men to my 2 black uncles that married into the family despite significant differences in height, weight, features, and hair. I've tried telling both my mom and dad (he does some similar stuff) about anti blackness they obviously have. and like I know they passed it on to me and my sister. but like its frustrating because they're so old now its just an uphill battle.

so like while I don't constantly have to deal with people mistaking me for other ppl as much now I do remember how shitty it feels to constantly be compared to others just because ppl can't be bothered to get to know me for who I am.

one more story before I let this go. when I was in college I actually had a work friend that I started bringing around to my friends gatherings. mind you my friends and I all went to high school and middle school together. I had history with them. but this work friend was also an alicia. instead of calling me alicia #1 (because I was previously the only Alicia they knew) or her blonde alicia they started calling me Mexican Alicia. Mind you this went on for years and it got to the point that I had to cut ties with the majority of them because I was really feeling tokenized and belittled. before I cut ties with them I tried to get them to call me Ali instead but still some of them insisted on calling me Mexican Alicia.

this is very painful for me to talk about but like there's a reason that "faceblindness" and racism go hand in hand. if you live in a white majority country you're trained to think of whites as the norm and everyone else is othered.

tldr: In all these situations it's shitty to assume that constant comparisons with other people is really so innocent. despite my lightskinned privilege I've learned and witnessed that dark skinned Black people have it even worse than I do. and like that just breaks my heart.

mod ali

[shellstropout]

THE "LEAH-ANNABETH" DEBACLE

PART (ONE/?)

First off please read this the whole way through. The things to be established are

1. Leah IS Annabeth whether or not you like it.

2. Rick was right to defend are and was quite raw as hell while he was doing it.

3. I hope all the racists who bullied her either have terrible lives or like rick said 'manage to evolve and recognize their prejudice.' Like she's twelve - go yell at birds if you're that miserable and hateful.

4. That being said there are aspects to this casting having to do with race that yes - can be discussed in a civilized manner that respects the actors, fans, and author.

It matters to say that I am an intelligent, lovely, and confident black woman. I am literally the demographic that this casting is supposed to represent. TRUST MEH when I say I have dealt with the feelings of ugliness, adultification, and erasure shown towards women who are my color in TV, books, movies, and just LIFE. But even I had mixed feelings from this casting that after 2 months of reflection - I would like to speak on if you'll allow me the chance.

For one, Leah though beautiful and smart (I loved her in Empire) IS NOT 'EXACTLY' how Rick imagined her as he emphasized. If you are telling me Rick wrote a girl who aside from being white is a Virginian,, with a college professor for a father, who came to inherit her family mansion in MCGA - if you are telling me he always imagined a black girl in this role when minority-schools in Baltimore have literal brown water and crappy moldy ceilings then he is either lying or he doesn't understand this demographic.

It would have been better to say that this is the way he 'reimagined' Annabeth bc race literally changes everything. It is not some interchangeable flippantly thing you can apply as wanted. Being black changes the way you move through the world - and no I don't mean the over-the-top ebonics and slang directors and writers force black actors to use. I mean I am always conscious of my blackness - in beauty stores, in restaurants, in class, when I am at a non-black friend's house and I have to use the bathroom [im serious] THIS IS AMERICA AND IT AFFECTS ME EVERYWHERE. In effect, this creates a 'new' Annabeth - one we know the essentials of but have not met, or actually read about. I hope the show does take this opportunity to add tidbits of black culture from hair to race dynamics within youth, the whole shabang. I also hope that her being black isn't made her whole personality as many other shows do.

Fandom, we just have to accept that this is the new Annabeth, at least the one that will be on TV, and that we might just love her as much as book annabeth. And for those of you too happy and elated for Leah to even allow thoughtful discussion to the point you are gaslighting even those that support this decision: your behavior is toxic and destructive - the only people you should be attacking are the ones literally hating on this poor girl for existing and are spiteful towards her success. Or else you're just a bully and Annabeth hates those.

[professionallydeadinside]

Wanna preface this with 1) Bioshock spoilers big time!!! And 2) Booker and his story/game is actually the one I know the least of. I should have the major parts of his story mainly down, but the details should be taken with a grain of salt at times, so just beware of that

OKAY SO BASICALLY BOOKER IS A GUY WHO HAS A DAUGHTER, HER NAME IS ANNE OR ANN OR WHATEVER BUT ITS LIKE ANNE. HE GETS FOUND GUILTY OF A CRIME. HE SERVES TIME FOR A WHILE BEFORE EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASED. HE GETS RELEASED INTO THIS FLOATING CITY WHICH IM PRETTY SURE IS CALLED COLUMBIA OR EDEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I THINK ITS EDEN BUT IVE ALSO HEARD COLUMBIA SO JUST ILL USE THEM INTERCHANGEABLY. EDEN COLUMBIA IS RAN BY THIS RELIGIOUS NUT NAMED COMSTOCK

THE CITY BOOKER IS IN IS VERY RACIST AND NOT GOOD, COMSTOCK IS THE BAD KIND OF RELIGIOUS NUT. HE BELIEVES IN CHRISTIANITY BUT LIKE THE NOT GOOD KIND YKNOW THE ONE THAT SAYS GAYS ARENT HUMAN AND POC ARENT HUMAN AND JUST. THE SHITTY BIBLE BASICALLY. THERES A GROUP CALLED THE VOX POPULI THATS MADE UP OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE AND THEYRE LIKE A REBELLION BASICALLY. BOOKER/THE PLAYER HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH VOX POPULI AND THATS WHERE THE GAME GETS A BIT WEIRD LIKE IT STARTS TO TACKLE RACE BUT ITS TRYING TO ALSO NOT SCARE OFF RACISTS AND BAD NUTTY CHRISTIANS SO BASICALLY ITS JUST A MESS AND IM NOT GONNA GET INTO IT

BOOKER FINDS HIS DAUGHTER BUT DISCOVERS SHES NOW NAMED ELIZABETH AND I THINK WAS RAISED BY COMSTOCK HIMSELF IDK. SHE HAS THIS THING KNOWN AS THE SONGBIRD WHICH IS LITERALLY JUST A HUGE FUCKING MECHANICAL BIRD THATS MADE TO KEEP BOOKER AWAY FROM ELIZABETH. THERES A THING WHERE COMSTOCK DOESNT WANT BOOKER TO FIND ELIZABETH/ANNE FOR REASONS I HAVE NO IDEA, I ACTUALLY KNOW THE LEAST ABOUT BIOSHOCK INFINITE, THIS GAME, OUT OF ALL OF THEM SO TAKE BITS OF THIS INFO WITH GRAINS OF SALT. MOSTLY THE SPECIFICS SO THE BROAD STORY SHOULD BE MOSTLY CORRECT THOUGH

BUT SO THE SONGBIRD KEEPS KICKING BOOKERS ASS AND EVENTUALLY HE DROWNS IT I THINK??? EITHER WAY IT DIES AND YAY DAUGHTER GIRL!!! AND DAUGHTER GIRL IS LIKE YAY DAD MAN!!! AND THEY BEAT UP OLD MAN COMSTOCK.

ALSO ELIZABETH CAN OPEN PORTALS INTO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS AND UNIVERSES THUS MAKING THE MULTIVERSE CANON IN BIOSHOCK

AND SHE MAYBE KINDA WANTS TO FUCK THE PROTAGONIST OF THE FIRST GAME JACK WHO IS LIKE THE ONLY ONE THAT I KNOW FOR CERTAIN CAN GET A HAPPY ENDING SO YKNOW

I DUNNO ABOUT SHIPS FOR BOOKER MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE IS A CRACKSHIP WITH HIM AND A CHARACTER FROM BIOSHOCK TWO NAMED STANLEY POOLE WHO IS BIG STINKY BASTARD MAN PERFECT FOR THE BIG STINKY BASTARD MAN THAT IS BOOKER

I CAN GO MORE IN DEPTH ON CERTAIN THINGS I DIDNT SAY HERE, LIKE HANDYMEN (LIL MINI BOSS TYPE GUYS THROUGHOUT THE GAME) OR LIKE TENEBAUM, A VERY IMPORTANT LADY IN THE OTHER TWO GAMES BUT IDK ABOUT BIOSHOCK INFINITE. BUT IF YOURE CURIOUS ABOUT THE ITHER GAMES I SCREAM ABOUT THEM TOO IF YOU WANT. I PERSONALLY RECOMMEND FRANK FONTAINE FOR YOU CONSIDERING YOU SEEM TO ENJOY LITERALLY THE WORST CHARACTERS AND THATS WHAT OLD FRANKY IS. THE FUCKING WORST. ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY LIKE HOW STANLEY IS THE WORST BUT IN A JOKEY WAY. FRANK JUST GENUINELY FUCKING SUCKS AND I WANNA WRING HIS NECK

BUT ANYWAY YEAH DENIM ON DENIM MAN

IM INTRIGUED????? I THINK BOOKER AND ETHAN SHOULD MAKE A CLUB OF "OP DAUGHTERS" AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I LOVE ELIZABETH ALREADY,,,,,