#fuck. this is so aggravating

[confetti-critter]

Yesterday a coworker was coughing all over everything and another said "should you be here? Shouldn't you be wearing a mask?" And she looked taken aback but like. GIRL.

My throat is feeling a bit weird and I swear. To. Fucking. God. If I got sick from coworkers again.

[bipolargreen]

Our boy looks so done here 😂

[serpentface]

This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[twopoppies]

I swear, if I see one more TikTok from some person who was in middle school when 1D started and they “shipped Larry” but they haven’t been involved in fandom for the last eight years yet they somehow feel knowledgeable enough to make pronouncements about how Larry broke up in 2012… I’m going to rip my hair out.

Just shut up.

I just saw someone go on a whole tangent about how “it’s 2024 and they would just be out if they were gay” 💀💀💀

It’s amazing that people feel so confident talking about shit they don’t know anything about.

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

tidbit tuesday tidbit tuesday tidbit tuesday!! this is actually more like TEASER tuesday bc I will be finishin' this one SOON! also this was a prompt @trevination GRACIOUSLY let me steal so rest comin' post haste!!! TY AGAIN LOVE!!!

"Ponyboy Michael. How many times have I told you not to draw on yourself? Or to let anyone else use you like a canvas? I swear to god, kid, one day you're gonna get ink poisonin' 'n you better not come runnin' to me." He sighs, twists Pony's arm gently to make sure there aren't any more doodles dottin' his body.

"Sorry, Dar. It won't happen again." Pony tries to jerk out of Darry's grip 'n doesn't manage to gain even an inch. Darry raises an eyebrow 'n Pony shoots him a big, innocent grin. From the corner of his eye he can see Dallas tense slightly.

"Well, at least let me help you clean this up."

"No, I got it really-" Darry runs a thumb over the drawin' 'n it doesn't budge. But Pony flinches. Hard.

Oh Glory God.

"Ponyboy Michael Curtis." Pony squeezes his face up 'n hisses like he'd been branded. Darry's voice is dangerously calm. "Is this a goddamn tattoo?"

[ricky-mortis]

S1 Pulp Musicals Gang my beloved

[walnutsupreme]

ohhh i’m so scareds to start college i don’t even wanna sleep

[separatist-apologist]

This is all I'm going to say about this- if you follow me and you think I'm making a call to arms for you to harass people on my behalf, DO NOT. I am NEVER asking for that- EVER. I don't appreciate it, I don't condone it, and if I find out who you are, I'll block you.

[menlove]

I think as a historian the thing that annoys me about biographies is that they don't have to cite shit. if I ever wrote a biography I'd be footnoting every single paragraph like what the helllllll

[fllagellant]

Hey baldur’ s gate three fans suddenly interested in poc characters in the game ( to ignore the black companion ) what is your opinion on rromani people and can you identify antirroma stereotypes in the game . Quickly . Same with indigenous people . I expect an essay with the same energy as the gortash defence posts . Can you name what characters fall under these umbrellas and how DND upholds these stereotypes ? Since now anyone who dislikes gortash is actually racist , let’ s talk about it .

But this isn’ t about representation , is it ? This isn’ t about a fandom ignoring rep and silencing people who “ speak the truth “ . This isn’ t about acknowledging poc in the game and discussing how fantasy ( both games and fandoms ) treat those characters + their identities .

This is about excusing racism . This is about making antiblackness about yourself . This is about supporting a company’s racist actions by upholding the character who is a slaver and a tyrant and saying that , actually , Larian cannot be racist ! Gortash is brown ! And the reasoning for why is … up in the air . Left unexplained . Nevermind what that actually means and implies .

Don’ t think we don’ t notice when you decide to pull out this ‘ gotcha ‘ card . When the patch that gave Gortash ( a side character ) unneeded romance lines while Wyll is left unfinished , in both romance and main story . This sudden , vocal demand is not lost on us . We are not stupid .

This is a refusal to accept that Larian is racist . This is the choice to silent poc voices , specifically black voices . This is childish , this is racist and this is extremely pathetic .

[phvnthom]

[rhaenin-time]

No, House Targaryen is not inherently "doomed" by the very same flaws (and themes) that doomed the civilization that they left.

No, they're not fated to succumb to the Doom that they survived specifically because of the foresight that set them apart from everyone else who perished. Not only would it be terrible, simplistic writing, it would also endorse a terrible, simplistic worldview.

People choosing to make House Targaryen a representation of and thematic successor to not just the civilization that they differentiated themselves from, but the power structure that they chose to leave, literally divested from, and actively worked to prevent from rising again in another form... really rubs me the wrong way.

Why isn't this projection and generalization done for any of the families that come from the cultures that are not coded as other? Why is it only the family that's been separated from their cultural context? Why do the other families each get to be unique, complex manifestations not just of different aspects of their cultures, but of their own specific histories?

Why is the foreign degenerate family both a representation of everything wrong with the culture they come from, and a scapegoat for everything wrong with the system they assimilated into? How is it they represent everything bad about what they left behind, and also everything bad about the land they came to? Even though all those flaws are not only shared by the system as a whole, but are flaws that predate their arrival, that they were punished for resisting, and that they are demonstrated to be incompatible with. Why is it always both?

It just rings so familiar to the way so many people view the other in real life. Because the Targaryens are overtly, and intentionally written as the other. It's the reason so many people identify with them, and it's the very same reason that other people vilify them. They're not just the in-universe other to the 'default' culture established in the text, but they're also given characteristics that we, the reader and audience, can recognize as other and even sometimes anathema to Western Christian culture.

Perhaps the old tales were true, and Dragonstone was built with the stones of hell

A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III

I want you to ask yourself: Why is the idea of "fire and brimstone" evil?

To paraphrase the annoying people that love to cite Ramsay when they feel like it: If you look at a morally complex family surrounded by other morally complex families in a morally complex world in a story that's famed for seeking to challenge your underlying assumptions, and think that their association with fire and brimstone is meant to signify their singular satanic evilness, rather than say... challenge that very Eurocentric assumption, you haven't been paying attention.

This vilification mindset where the Targaryens are the singular evil of Westeros is so common to people who seem to want to consume ASoIaF without engaging with the criticisms of the Eurocentric worldview of history at the heart of it. And they end up using the convenient “others” to project all the wrongs of that world onto so they don't need to examine it any deeper.

This is the part where I so often get crucified!

This is the take that so often gets me crucified for "trivializing real world bigotry" in an attempt to "moralize interpretations of fiction" by an onslaught of people with troubling ideologies who then ironically steer the onslaught to moralizing their interpretations of fiction in a way that seeks to either mask or justify their troubling ideologies.

The worldbuilding of ASoIaF is an almost unparalleled projection of the Eurocentric worldview. That's what makes the world feel so rich. That's why GRRM and even the readers and audience are able to craft so many details that feel intuitive. But that also means that how you choose to interpret that world is often driven by underlying biases and ideologies that relate to that worldview — especially if you're not willing to challenge them the way George RR Martin does and encourages you to do.

It means that certain potential biases and ideologies people might balk at outwardly expressing in the real world are recontextualized in a way that feels more comfortable to indulge in.

There are countless examples from countless parts of the narrative. Honestly, you could fill books on the matter. But the one I'll point to right now is how the vilification I pointed out earlier is so emblematic of how the Eurocentric worldview often seeks to project their own flaws onto the other or choose scapegoats for systemic issues.

It comes from the same place with how someone pointed out that the baffling bastardphobia that would have medieval peasants giving the side eye is so often people jumping at the chance to “cosplay” as bigots who base their arguments in misogyny and bio-essentialism. Because it's an acceptable channel to indulge in that mindset in a way that they'd often otherwise question, or at least hold back from expressing out of caution.

And there I go again. "Moralizing fandom" for pointing out that fandom is so often used as a 'safe space' to build communities that share and spread troubling ideologies that you're not allowed to criticize because those ideologies have been 'appropriately' decontextualized from their real-world parallels, even though those parallels are still very much there.

But the problem is that it's impossible to simply 'channel' bigotry and leave it in an 'acceptable' space, because bigotry doesn't work like that. It's not a static object you can carry around in your pocket to play with when you think it's safe to do so. It's a blight. A living poison that feeds and grows and spreads. And if you give it a 'safe space' and continue to feed it with 'acceptable' fuel, it will always find its way out.

[celtrist]

Why does Vassago already have merch, we haven't even met him yet

[not-a-heretic]

tried to render this but i genuinely cannot figure out how shading side profiles is supposed to work so i’m just gonna give you all the sketch and then scrap it

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

Pony, Steve, 'n Soda all use bitchin' REGULARLY

[polydamnory]

For those of you who don’t have Patreon, alongside the EA (which is gonna be really early for an early access considering he can’t post to YouTube for a week) Erik said that YouTube got back to him and rejected his appeal.

So yeah

I don’t know what there is to do to help this so I guess I’m just going to be angry