#got wank for ts

[cascigarette]

imagine thinking sam "I felt like a freak my whole life amongst my family and my peers and society as a whole" winchester isn't queer coded

[queermania]

"relax it was just a joke" okay then why are you so upset someone responded in kind????

[lesbianclaryfray]

i will never understand why we’re always on the first batgirl. or why babs always has to be batgirl because she’s the most “well-known” (which i’ve seen cited as a reason for babsgirl’s return in n52). dick grayson is the first and most well-known robin but he gets to grow the fuck up and move on. jason gets to be red hood. even tim sometimes gets to grow up to make room for dami!robin. but babs can never be oracle and cass/steph can never be the only/main batgirl because…? because having disabled superheroes is too far? because having more than 1-2 women in the batfamily is too much work? it’s such bullshit i can’t believe dc keeps getting away with it and people keep defending it

[kedreeva]

did you read the CNBC article "Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm griup claims it's a 'collusive scheme' by suppliers"? Given how knowledgeable you are about your own birds, I'm interested to hear your thoughts! I particularly found it weird in the inflation numbers comparison where eggs went up by 59.9% in December while the "poultry" category only went up by 12.2%. Doesn't that seem counter-intuitive since it takes much longer to raise meat vs eggs even with the flu? I'm not trying to grill you at all I just like your blog and would like to see your thoughts on it :)

I have no idea why you think eggs take a shorter time, but meat birds are ready for butcher at 6-8 weeks old, and egg birds are a minimum of like 4 months, if not 6-10 depending on breed.

Don't listen to people (general) on farm groups. I'm in several, and day in and day out I see some real hot takes on stuff and a lot of people who either don't know what they're doing or are doing stuff that's like, actively harmful. The people that know what they're talking about burn out trying to argue with the people that are Very Convinced that they're right as they say the most wrong things. I'm locked in combat to the death in one group over the people there using the phrase "fertile but not fertilized" to describe an infertile/unfertilized egg. There's literally no such thing as "fertile but unfertilized." An egg is infertile or fertile, or it's unfertilized or fertilized. But by golly you cannot convince them this is the case, even directing them to google to check for themselves. I've seen med recs for overdoses and underdoses. I had one lady tell me she poured some injectable meds under her bird's wing, and flat out refuse to give more via injection or buy the pour-on version because didn't "want to overdose him." MA'AM you didn't DOSE him!!! What you did was the equivalent of pouring cough syrup on your hand. I chased my own tail for WEEKS with a lady that INSISTED 12 accidental fires in a single year, across all the farms in the US (you know, the 2.5 million farms in the US), meant that there was a government conspiracy to cause a food shortage, and that's why she kept chickens. You might be able to find A Person on those groups that knows anything correct, but the groups at large are often not great for anything other than sharing cute pics and finding homes for excess birds.

Now don't get me wrong, if a company CAN charge a little more for something and get away with it, they're probably gonna try, and I'm sure that some of that is involved, in some places more heavily than others. But also we lost almost 58 MILLION chickens, a lot of them egg layers, to HPAI last year, from around march to june (like, for reference, the US has about 300 million egg-type production birds, across ages). There's also a higher cost in fuel, and likely an unwillingness to hire people who have standards about how they're treated factoring in. Given the processing/shipping/distribution time and the requirements (including the cost of materials, testing, cleaning, disposal etc) of sanitizing land and having to let it sit for a period before being able to resume production, that lag and then sept-dec 2022 zone was exactly where I expected the price rise to happen, and at least from what I've seen, it's already coming back down (from $6 to $4 around me anyway) as those lost facilities have reached laying ages. I expect it will keep going down, provided HPAI doesn't devastate the industry again this year.

If you want a visual representation of what the fuck happened last year, here's from the USDA:

So no, I don't think it's weird and also I don't think it's a conspiracy. Shit just happens sometimes, and instead of taking the hit to their profit, they took it out of egg prices because they had an excuse to raise them to cover costs and possibly make extra while people were tolerant. That's not really a conspiracy in my book, it's just capitalizing on a thing that happened. you know. like capitalists.

[thewingedwolf]

someone compared rhaenicent with swan queen and everything clicked into place re: why ali grates on me and why i have a hard time getting behind that ship lol

[hussyknee]

Hi, hello! What do you know about Colleen Hoover? Seeing a lot but not getting a lot about her. Are her books harmfull or is it just dark fiction, does she put trigger warnings or not?? Genuinely just curious what you happen to know, if you're up to sharing.

Colleen Ballinger the YouTube star not Colleen Hoover the author! Colleen Ballinger is a musician who used to produce "satirical" music videos under the name Miranda Sings (apparently, I've never heard of this woman before this week), and has been accused of grooming her underage fans and a fuckload of inappropriate behaviour with minors (cw: child sexual predation).

She responded to the allegations by, uh, playing a passaggro non-apology song on a ukulele*. The internet reacted predictably, which is how people like me, who haven't been following anything on YouTube in years, got to know about any of this.

(Someone made a Tumblr post saying T*ylor Sw*ft's music all sound like the sad ukulele song to them, but some people thought OP was comparing TS to a groomer so that created some wank on here too.)

The scandal also brought to light some horrifically racist videos of Ballinger's (there's also one where she seems to be doing blackface but it's currently in dispute. Fwiw I think it's blackface). What really sticks in my teeth is that one of the most popular characters she played in her videos was a caricature of an intellectually disabled person based on her own cousin?? Those weren't buried unlike the racist videos, but didn't seem to have merited any backlash until now??

I just did a twitter search to link some of them and the results are somehow even worse today. Also there's one of her confessing to killing her dog which is triggering as all fuck. So, uh I'm not linking anything but be careful if you look this shit up yourself. I know most of us were pretty gross and ignorant in 2014 ourselves but this is BEYOND.

Frankly, I'm only following this vaguely because I'm a pathological rubber-necker and weak for internet drama. 😂 But the overt nature of the racism and ableism, and the fact that accusations of mistreatment and exploitation by other underage fans and Black and Asian employees had all been dismissed for years until now, while not surprising, is still pissing me off.

P.S: Anyone armchair diagnosing Ballinger with narcissistic personality disorder or BPD or whatever is an ableist stigmatizing neurodivergent conditions. Just make up a neurodivergent character for laughs like she does and be done with it. Thanks.

*I've linked to a tweet that has her "apology" video embedded, instead of to the YT video itself. Please don't give these people's pages themselves more traffic.

[dyed-red]

Not to be self-satisfied dick but this review of episode 2 of TW feels like a lot of vindication for issues I have with the prequel and what its missing:

And not to double down and be a total bitch but the way the writer keeps pointing out weird character retcons and calling the gang the Scooby hunters or the Scoobies is giving me life

[homemadesterekpie]

The fucking nerve of the tw tumblr account I-

AHAHAHAH I KNOW RIGHT

[prince-of-elsinore]

I find it so funny when hellers call it "gatekeeping" to insist you have to watch the first three seasons of the show to get it, as if it's the same as saying "you're not a real fan if you can't name X writer or director or character" I mean it's not like this is Grey's Anatomy or NCIS, folks, it's not some procedural drama, it is a show with a plot and season arcs, and the first five seasons are actually all one long arc, so yeah, coming in at season 4 is like showing up to Hamlet in Act IV, can you imagine having the audacity to claim your criticism and interpretation are just as valid as those who actually arrived on time and saw the whole dang thing? No one's forcing you to watch s1-3, but pretending that it's gatekeeping when people who did watch the whole five season arc suggest your opinions don't have a firm basis in the text? It's laughable

[him-e]

The center of alt-right and radical right-wing ideology in Star Wars fandom is on YouTube, a favorable (and profitable) home for indignation against non-white and non-cis male individuals built up on 4chan during Gamergate. It isn’t difficult to find videos of mostly white men belaboring their strongly held belief that women and minorities are ruining video games, comic books, and Star Wars. [...] Whether they realize it or not, they are diligently carrying forward Steve Bannon’s master plan to change culture in order to change politics. And there is no better target for such an agenda than a franchise considered to be a cultural touchpoint of modern Western myth. The shared narrative across this group’s thousands of videos is simple: First, Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars by allowing women to work in too many creative jobs at LucasFilm. Then, Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars by emasculating Luke Skywalker, creating the character of Rose Tico, and letting Rey win a lightsaber fight before going through an extensive training montage. And before all of that, Disney ruined Star Wars by hiring both Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson. For anybody not radicalized enough to believe this narrative, these types of videos with outrageous headlines written in all caps and memes do look, well, silly. It’s simple to look at these people, have a laugh, and walk away. But we do unfortunately have to pay attention to what these angry (mostly) white men in front of a web camera have to say because [...] the systems of power leveraging this kind of enmity online are organized, ruthless and tied back to some of the most hateful people in the United States.

In Plain Sight: How White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Hate Targeted the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Won by Rewriting Ripley

[kedreeva]

getting real tired of people who think the only way to talk nice about characters they like is to put down characters they don't. it's not cool, it's just mean and petty.

[amorremanet]

i enjoy the way complaining in the tags still feels like muttering to myself

[venturoushearta]

Do you ever think about how Clara was labelled a control freak because she watched her friend die and change into a completely different person and received absolutely zero emotional support for it because yeah

[kendalroys]

i’m gonna get this off my chest...

so upon seeing a random weird of Booker hate coming in all the sudden the past few days, I saw one thing in particular that made me roll my eyes but kinda upset. along the lines of “Booker acting like the rest of the team never went through any kind of pain or loss or trauma or etc...” and im ???? 

because never once in the movie is it said or even implied that Booker thinks that way. all he says is that Joe and Nicky always had each other while he and Andy had to face the weight of the world and pain alone. its never once said or implied that he doesn't think Joe or Nicky or Andy dealt with pain or loss or whatever. not ONCE. and the thing that gets me is its so fucking clear and explicitly spelt out in the movie I don’t even know how people jumped to that conclusion at all ??? like. i swear I see some takes that try to legit villainize Booker and i don’t think these people have watched the same movie as others did. 

what Booker did was fucked up. he fucked up (as did Copley but this is about Booker) and there’s no denying that. He wasn’t thinking at all and it had consequences against the team. his family.

but its driving me lowkey insane that people are sitting here like “uwuwu Booker doesn’t care about what they went through and doesnt think anyone but he suffered” when that is literally not what he said or thought. at all. 

[userachilles]

(TFATWS spoilers) I love how Marvel tried to no homo Bucky right off the bat by setting him up on a date with a woman in the first episode, yet the date wasn't even his idea and he looked uncomfortable the entire time. It really gave off "closeted gay guy being forced into performing heterosexuality" vibes to me lol

uh exactly!!! I saw this post that was like the waitress had lesbian vibes and she was just being sweet and asked about his dating history in a gender neutral way (I’d have to watch again to confirm that)....mlm and wlw solidarity <33 honestly idk why it even had to be a date I would’ve loved to see the two of them just hanging out!! ....we all know he could use positive interactions and more friends!!!!!

[venusdebotticelli]

Anyway, in light of That Bullshit™, here’s a show recommendation for everyone here who enjoyed the Destiel meta for years: 

Watch The Untamed!!!!!!!!!!

It is based on a canonically queer book where the main couple get married and have a kid and everything.

It is a Chinese show, so the censorship doesn’t actually let them show it as such. 

What did they do about it¿? 

They turned it into one of the sweetest and most loving and most fucking blatant queer love stories I’ve ever seen, even within the constraints of actual fucking homophobic state censorship. 

The censors wouldn’t let them kiss on camera, so they made up for it by pumping up the romance from the book even more, to the point where their relationship is actually slightly healthier and more thoroughly built up and more supportive than in the book it’s based on, and it breathes and soars beautifully throughout the show. 

This is a show that was made by a cast and crew that OBVIOUSLY carried this love story in their hearts and actually put their best work forward to portray it with all the love and respect it deserved. Again, whilst working against honest-to-god censorship!!! (unlike certain other shows... ¬_¬)

The same style of subtext analysis that has been used on Destiel for years works really well here, because it is also a blatantly queer story that’s superficially mislabeled as something else, but unlike with fucking Destiel you actually get a fucking satisfying resolution that sticks the landing beautifully!

And that’s another great thing about it!!! The show’s finished!!! No nasty surprises!!! The ending is good and happy!!! 

It also has lots of angst and drama, but it pays off!!! *insert the noise of popping open a can of fizzy* 👏 Sa 👏 Tis 👏 Fy 👏 Ing 👏 !!!!!! 👏

This ACTUALLY CENSORED show does a better fucking job of handling their queer love story than fucking supernatural, because unlike fucking supernatural, they are utterly unapologetic and unashamed about the story they’re telling! (and oh, supernatural *was* telling that story, even if they took that insultingly cowardly approach and exit.)

It’s also slightly campy fantasy with creepy supernatural stuff and great character relationships with lots of heart and complexity. The main mytharc plot is a bit weakly developped at times and the cgi was obviously made with a toaster oven from 1987, but honestly, if you enjoyed supernatural at any point I don’t think you have any particular issue with that :P

And yeah, I’m fucking angry and bitter at supernatural right now, after so long of my life invested in a show that in the end did not fucking deserve it. 

But one thing I will always cherish about this fandom is the incredible critical analysis it’s always engaged on, and everything it personally taught me about how stories are built, and all the richness you can imbue into them with even the smallest of details. It taught me to pay attention to each and every single element of a story, no matter how small or inconsequential it might seem at first glance, and to find greater meaning within it. And even if supernatural’s ending is a Betrayal against good storytelling and everything their characters ever stood for, I am telling you, The Untamed is a show where those skills are put to good use. Where it is actually rewarding and fulfilling to engage on that level!!! 

I’m making this post because as angry as I am, I know it would’ve hit me even harder just last year, or a couple of years ago, when I hadn’t been into any other fandoms that let me hyperfixate as deeply and intensely as this one does, and if it helps anyone move on, please take it! It’s also extremely popular at the moment, so there’s no shortage of good content to explore!!! And yeah, we fucking deserve better than supernatural. THIS IS BETTER, censorship and all, because it feels intrinsically queer in the way the story’s been told, even with all its constraints.