#he/they/she general white i think.

[clonerightsagenda]

think I need to go over my boss's head bc she had another category 5 nextdoor poster moment today

[mabaris]

another thing that i just noticed is that the dwarves have now had done to them by the elves what we’d thought the elves had done to them by humans, at least before inquisition. cut down in their peak and permanently ruined, left to scrabble for the broken pieces of their history

not to say it’s an inherently bad choice because oppression isn’t that straightforward, but it sure was an interesting choice to shift the “they destroyed our way of life and fractured our society and we ARE allowing ourselves to feel angry about it and reclaim our history and maybe use that to rebuild what we once had” narrative from the elves to the dwarves. like if that’s the story you really wanted to tell, you could have also given it to like. bellara

[lizzies]

[everybody-hit-the-pyro-cue]

Volunteered today and this grandma was talking to me as we bagged vegetables and she like squinted at me and was like. "So. What's your background" and perhaps upon seeing the lost look on my face she clarified with "Your ethnicity I mean. Because you're obviously not whole caucasian"

I'm not obviously not whole caucasian I pass for white pretty easily but thank you random grandmother for reaffirming I have a whole half of my dna from a southern chinese person lmao

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinkinggg about. race in adventure time

[starheirxero]

guys I've been making this tsams au for months now and a crucial part of Eclipse's character development is that he gets rlly attatched to this cat, but I have just been referring to this cat as "the cat" so,

[ribbonknot]

sometimes i feel like rn it's really understated just how bad things could be if trump wins. like, actually. i feel like it's being forgotten that despite how bad things are right now, they would surely get WORSE.

[happyk44]

It's kinda funny because w/ my Zeus kid OC (who I've been thinking about renaming as Araceli, 'cause it means altar of the sky, apparently, which I like 'cause sky-themed-ish but also like. A little bit I wanted something that meant cloud the way Coral's name means... Coral) the implication is that she takes after her father to an almost mirroring degree because I developed her and my other PJO OCs (who also all got retconned into an OG work) at the same time I was playing around with my ideas on the Big Six, and the gist at the time was supposed to show how the Big Six could've turned out if they weren't so weird.

So the dynamics of the friendship was supposed to be very similar to the dynamics of Big Six's relationship to each other (e.g. Mary having a major crush on Hera's "representative" but also being attracted to literally every other person that walked by, Nico being the soberminded big brother figure, etc). It's also one of the reasons Mary would get angry whenever someone would compare to her dad, because similarly I think Zeus would get angry if someone compared him to his dad.

And then eventually as I got older and the daydream moved around with whatever obsession I had at the time, the characters and general storyline began to change away from that in some ways but core features sort of stayed and so I ended up with a version of Zeus that ignores his daughter's pleas for help because he loves her but her pain hurts him because he can't do anything about it and it's his fault she's suffering.

She got this intensity from him, it's ingrained into the way it's ingrained in him. But he was able to rebuild the world according to his own needs and wants and beliefs. And she can't really do that. So he doesn't have any advice he can give her when she's on her knees begging for help with all the noise and pain in her head. He doesn't know what to do! It's like he can just go and rip it out of her.

But she's suffering because she's different and she's weird and she knows it and she knows it's his fault which is why she's asking but he just doesn't know and he can't handle watching her suffering and listening to her cry when there is no helpful answer to give her because "I don't know" isn't going to fix it.

He's supposed to fix things, he's supposed to have the answers. He's king of the world, by damn! He's a problem solver. He supposed to have a solution, and a million backup solutions. But he doesn't! There's nothing he can do to make the noise stop because truth be told, the noise never really stopped for him! It just got easier and quieter. So he turns away from her because he loves her and he's failing her and he can't handle that.

But also in the same breath, I think he recognizes similar aspects of himself in Jason, who isn't even asking for help, and fucking despises him for it, lol.

✨ Girl Dad ✨

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[unforth]

I'm an OTW member again!

THANK YOU @petralemaitre !

If y'all want to get a membership scholarship before June 30th so you can register and be able to vote in the next OTW election, get all the deets here:

(the post is worth reading even if you don't want the scholarship; it's about End OTW Racism and it's such an accurate write-up of my own thoughts on why I'm involved too, I was like, "wow sharing a brain with a total stranger is so heckin' weird")

Very much lookin' forward to exercising my right to vote! Let's dooooo this!

[bmpmp3]

when i was a kid i was really REALLY into fantasy books and comics but interestingly ive noticed as an adult im like. too picky about it? i still read and love a lot of fantasy fiction but while when i was a kid i loved it because of the fantasy worldbuilding but as an adult, 99% i like it Despite it all LOL like ive noticed i prefer most fantasy stories to not dwell too much on magic systems or whatever because i just dont care EXCEPT

except. recently i have discovered that actually i do really like fantasy, low or high, soft or hard, but you need one thing. you need your main character to really REALLY care about some hyperspecific aspect of your fantasy worldbuilding and make it the foundation of the story's scenarios:

either make them autistic and really into monsters or magic or whatever (a certain tasty dungeoning manga that i have been reading recently has taught me this) OR

make them a fucking business major and do real life financial stock market bullshit but like. in fantasy medieval times with wolf goddesses (spice and wolf <3)

[briankang]

idk the response to seeing how honest taylor was about the entire situation in the album and seeing people still pushback bc of their own personal feelings about matty and claim that she's awful...i feel bad for your irl friends who experience things in similar veins if this is the amount of grace that you show them, if you even have them at all bc i cannot fathom holding something like those months of taylor's life against her forever knowing what we know now about the inside of her brain

[bumblingbabooshka]

tags from @twlvie : EXAAAAAAACTLY. People need to move beyond writing/portraying Tuvok as just 'Stock Vulcan' or 'Janeway's Long Suffering Friend' because he actually has several things deeply wrong with him that perfectly compliment the several things deeply wrong with her and analyzing their relationship is very fun. Alot of the time I see him portrayed as just 'Vulcan Who is Wise'/'Janeway's Long Suffering Friend' in fandom but his actual personality means so much to me because Janeway DOES like him very much and he DOES return those feelings to the point that he calls her his friend several times [despite claiming that Vulcans don't have friends], calls her 'irreplaceable', allows her to touch him but rarely touches her back. Janeway says she's never minded the distance between her and her crew before the delta quadrant. All of these things are interesting. They have such a strange and specific combination of intimacy and distance in their relationship due to their near consummate professionalism and commitment to rules, regulations, what they should and should not do interpersonally which they both stick to like a code of honor regardless of their own personal desires. Tuvok must behave a certain way as he is Vulcan and Janeway must behave a certain way as she is Captain. They're both sort of looking to one another for reassurance but that gaze has become corrupted wherein Tuvok agrees with her because she's the captain [this comforts him, if it's an order from the captain it's 'right' to carry it out] and Janeway takes his agreement as a moral thumbs up [this comforts her, if the approval comes from Tuvok it must be the right thing to do] even though he's stated and demonstrated to others that he'd follow her orders regardless. Tuvok never thinks of himself as suffering beside a silly reckless human - it's implied that this may have been the case when they first met but they are decades past that point now. Now they are going to kill that goddamn whale together if it's the last thing they do. "If it's you, I can do anything" they think, looking at each other, and a finger on the monkey's paw begins to curl.

People honestly portray Tuvok as far too "rolling his eyes, reluctantly going along with Janeway's silly little shenanigans" - he's literally so serious about being right there with her on every decision she makes. Janeway's like "I'm going to stay behind if the ship blows up" and Tuvok's like "I'm staying with you." Janeway's like "I'm going to deliver every member of the Equinox crew into the jaws of death via an alien revenge massacre" and Tuvok protests a grand total of one time before being fully on the bridge assisting her. He was the only one with her when she made the decision to honor the caretaker's wishes and save the Ocampa, dooming them all. He was willing to get court marshalled in order to fulfill a wish she couldn't grant by her own hand: Get them home [no matter what happens to me] <- wherein 'me' is Tuvok. This was the same wish that spurred him forward when he had to leave her on that planet and everyone left thought him cold for trying to fulfill it without her when in his mind it was akin to a dying wish, the last thing she'd ever express to him: Get them home [no matter what happens to me.] <- wherein 'me' is Janeway. He told Seven that the golden rule to follow is that the captain is "ALWAYS RIGHT" <- (His ACTUAL words) and when Seven asks if the captain should be followed even if someone KNOWS she's wrong he says "Perhaps." This man is perhaps the most ride or die dude in the universe about Janeway. Despite her labeling him her 'moral compass' he is by NO means impartial or unbiased. He'd defend her to his last breath. He canonically makes detailed psychological observations about her and has for years. He accounts for her luck when calculating the success of certain plans. It's implied in 'Twisted' that Janeway typically listens to Tuvok's suggestions and follows them nearly without fail - to the point that he's surprised and obviously irritated when Chakotay doesn't. Despite this they've been inside one another's quarters so infrequently that Tuvok can remember each instance. They call each other "Captain" and "Mr. Tuvok" even though they've known each other for twenty years. There's something wrong with them.

[arolesbianism]

Y'know I generally like all the sephirah core suppressions but Man I wish Binah didn't have the no pause mechanic. She was going to get it anyways later, why did she need it right next to the guy who's main meltdown mechanic involves limiting your ability to pause.

I also just feel like the fight is actually genuinely pretty fun in the way it pushes your micromanagement skills to their limits, and I feel like removing the ability to pause just makes the fight go from a fun management challenge to just kind of stupid. Maybe that's just a skill issue on my part, but still I think her suppression would be a lot less stupidly hard for no good reason and more of a fun challenge if they just removed the no pause part

[hislittleraincloud]

could tell you’re white by the way you talk about black men; so gross lol

...???????????????????

Where have I talked at any length about Black men?

Also, I can tell that you're very, very new here.

First, how did you get white from any of those recent weird AI pics I made where I used my own photo

I think this is another one of me and Tyler LOL

I am Latino (Mexican) and Hispanic (primary/direct from Spain w/in the last 150 years) on my father's side. I have plenty of brown in me — I'm half Southeast Asian, we're generally darker than most API except maybe Indonesians — and am most certainly not white.

I have made mention numerous times when yapping about Ortega that she is my peoples/we are of the same Mexican ancestry. (I don't have Puerto Rican in me, and AFIAK she doesn't have SEA/API in her, so it's about an even trade.) Is this not a person with color or

I looked just like this about 20 years ago. I'm a little older but the AI program likes to smooth out whatever lines I do have (I have some, but not many, and they're not deep...so the AI would put out something like this regardless of my lines, take a look back at the Donovan/Jamie McShane ones this app did). I also still only have a countable number of gray hairs... it's still black with the umber undertones...much like you know who's hair when she doesn't dye it all black 💀 ETA: I just noticed that the AI gave me a Hunter Doohan forehead. I did not and never had that type of forehead, though now at 50 the hair is receding like my father's. The top of my head is more like my father's (getting a little thin) while the back is like my mother's with the same thickness. But I'm 50, not 30 like Hunter LMAOOOO 👴🏽🦅

Ah wait, I did mention Black men in one recent post about the men that the Wenclair fucks do not even dare attack at all for making out with Ortega onscreen.

🙄

That's fucking stupid. You've all shown your hate for the other non-POC men she kisses or has shown any type of interest in. Why you holding back? Why be so selective? There should be no exceptions if you're gonna commit to harassing the guys she tongues onscreen.

We fucking know why, and it's because y'all white savior-type* Wenclairs don't want to be seen as racist or anything. Gonna cry about Toby Wallace or PHW, screaming that she belongs to the girls? Where were the "EW, STOP KISSING MASON GOODING!!!" comments amongst them all? Yes, it IS all or nothing here, otherwise you're just admitting your own inability to treat everyone who goes against your insistent beliefs equally.

Fucking hypocrites. Own your hypocrisy and GTFOGFY

[grison-in-space]

I would be so much more excited by Athena plotlines if we ever used her canonical tendencies to get caught up in the moment's drama and go so far over the top that the bottom is no longer visible for, like. Comedy. This is a middle aged woman, intensely conscious of her own sense of dignity, who routinely gets sucked into Drama with teenagers. Not even just her own teenagers! Any random teenagers that sass her!

I think the most fascinating and endearing parts of Athena are her total lack of self awareness and her tendencies to go absolutely over the top the moment she isn't focusing on what people might think. These are the same traits that make her, frankly, kind of an awful cop—she's a take on the Dirty Harry-style cop at odds with the law that inverts the usual race and gender markers of the archetype—but also a rather endearing person when she's not, say, trying to actually destroy someone. Let Athena be dramatic and ridiculous when the stakes are moderately low! Convince her to get excited about something with Bobby! Let Athena get a hobby!

Also, I really miss Michael's ability to gently puncture Athena's ego and shore up Bobby's confidence at the same time. I get why he got put on a bus but I miss him! Give Bobby friends again!

Enough police brutality Athena plotlines. I want an Athena plotline based on her canonical activity on stan twitter where one of her oomfs goes silent on twitter the day of the series finale after weeks of weird cryptic tweets and Athena has to go around convincing people that they have to look for oomfie and outing herself as being on stan twitter in the process.