#hey guys im a new discourse blog

[antebellumite]

tumblr fake posts but it's exclusively the US congress 1830s-50s. this will probably not make sense to anyone. it barely makes sense to me: [this is a long post. press j to skip]:

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forthurricane

guys help three senators from my party are outside my door and its a sunday and im scared i think they want something.

forthurricane

they want me to blackmail the president.

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henrywisingitup Follow

ohhhh goddddd ok so the coworker that called me a slur at work a few days ago IN PUBLIC just got a duel challenge from a friend of mine aslkdf. istg i hate him so much he's so annoying and he needs to resign or kill himself immediately. i hope he accepts the challenge fucking dies or gets shot up. good RIDDENCE fucking turd pile of trash empty bladder dung beetle puppy bastard LIAR. welliamgravely Follow

what'd he call you?

henrywisingitup Follow

an aboliti*nist.

congressionalglobe

Congblr Heritage Post. #congblr heritage post #senblr heritage post #houseblr heritage post #lmao remember when abolitionist was a slur guys #thank u pierceuinfiftytwo #i hate this post #and i think u do too #mod greeley

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Anonymous asked hi i'm sorry if i'm bothering you with this ask but i'm kinda new to this whole politics thing ( was just recently elected by my constituents so this is my first term ) and i would like to know how to get started on congblr? i've been recently appt to the house and i'd love to engage more with the community. do u have any blogs you'd suggest to me? bunnybrownfrench

hi anon!!!! i'm so glad you're here and in the house too ! ( it's where i am- frankly the Better House of Congress too while we're at it ). sadly i don't know what politics or party u have and i mostly scurry round the democrat side of the aisle more than anything, so i might not be able to help u that much, but i can try to give you some good ones!

@/gowestyoungman is a good source for news, and i'm personally a fan of @/mattbradydaggeurotype but @/geopeteralexhealy has some great portraits! obviously anyone has to follow @/oldhickory if they're a dem ( or even a whig ) they have great posts, lots of drama and thought provoking articles. a vv funny scroll. @/greatcompromiser is on the opposite side as a whig, but always sophisticated in their arguments, with nice shitposts in between to lighten the mood if you're uneasy about the american system.

@/jquincy and @/oldbullion are mostly serious blogs and if you're a westward expansion fellow, they're top blogs for u to follow. a bit hard at times, but personally i think they have great humor to make up for it ( unlike @/castironman though if you're here for what he posts all the more strength to u i suppose). @/redfoxkinderhook is also a good blog but they rarely post ( and never anything personal). @/godlikedan is my personal favorite blog. they have everything on there- drama, shitposts, detailed analysis, longposts, important info, aesthetics, etc.

for the rest tho anon, i'll leave it up to you! go out and explore! find the blogs u like; i wish u the best of luck!

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greatcompromiser hey guys, look at this BEAUTIFUL new commission i just got from @/mattbradydaggeurotype! it was wonderful to work with you, matt! <333

oldbullion

every day i wake up.

#body horror

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gallerywatcher Follow

why he kinda......

robrhett Follow

this bitch thirsting over baldy mcuseless LMAO

gallerywatcher Follow

hearing strong words from a guy whos blog is devoted to john c calhoun

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jrandolphofroanoke

i have herpes. greatcompromiser

yeah? and????? we know.

jrandolphofroanoke

IN MY EYES. IN MY EYES.

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bunnybrownfrench asked: orgies in hell over secession!! dailyaskstotheussenate

i forgot i asked for poem recommendations for a moment.

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#ask #bunnybrownfrench

castironman follow It is with great misfortune that I continue the discourse of the past week, but due to recent actions by certain other accounts, I have to re-engage with this conflict. Again, I would like to say that I stand firm in by belief that the 2BUS should not be re-instated, and that I resent the idea that I have somehow 'flip-flopped' or 'betrayed' my past ideals or other people in regards to what I believe to only be my own rational decisions, all logical as I will prove. read more

greatcompromiser

oh you've got to be kidding me.

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#fucking fuck offfff JOHN #dumbass ungrateful bitch #subtreasury discource #castironman #i shouldve let oldhickory hang you

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theliberator

Hello, all. The Liberator is proud to announce a new mod today to assist in spreading the antislavery message. Presenting: @/frederickdouglass! We're very glad to have a new member to the abolitionist movement, and even more so to have a new mod with us today! We're sure they'll do great work, and we hope you share our excitement as well!

-Mod Garrison and The Liberator Team

theliberator

Hello, all. Disregard this post, since we cannot delete it. Frederick Douglass has been removed from the mod team.

#info #state of the blog #mod update #mod garrison

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dailyaskstotheussenate

to the anon who asked us when the gag rule is going to be repealed.

the day that john quincy adams finally snaps and decides to murder the rest of his colleagues on the floor.

or never.

#misc

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thenorthstar

Hello all, Frederick Douglass here. As you might be aware by now, The Liberator and I have since parted. The reason for this is due to several irreconcilable differences, some political, some personal. The drama has since cooled down, but due to the blowout from our conflict, William Lloyd Garrison and I have agreed to since part ways. I am currently running @/thenorthstar on multiple platforms available in my bio.

Garrison and I are still part of the abolitionist movement together, so if you're worried about the harm this might cause to our end goal of emancipation for enslaved people in the United States and the complete destruction of the slave system as it stands today, do not worry. I will be reposting a catalogue of my speeches and writings here that were originally in The Liberator- which you may feel free to mute as you wish. My advocacy for human rights will proceed as normal.

Please do not contact me to ask about just what occurred between The Liberator and I, however, as that is something that I both do not want to discuss, and feel it is unnecessary considering this blog's true content matter.

#info #blog #the liberator #please direct any and all comments about wlg to mr smith from now on

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higherlawseward Follow

Let's settle this once and for all.

littlegiantofillinois

/lmao.

#bro's getting ratioed so hard i almost cant watch. #SEWARD #delete this sewage boy

brecknridge Follow

fellas is it gay to bring a flower to your senate colleague as your first act in congress to express your admiration for him (also from your state)( literally the most famous senator of your era)(you plucked this flower straight from your home state and tenderly carried it all the way to washington dc to hand to him)(kinda cute too)(this is the first time you've met him)(whig party, you're a democrat)(70 yrs old)???

brecknridge Follow

fellas is it gay to bring a flower to your senate colleague who's dying in a washington dc hotel room and sit by him for hours on end talking about politics and personal life before he finally expires his last breath and you tenderly are the last person to gently readjust his pillow as he falls asleep in your arms...

oldbuck Follow

No.

brecknridge Follow

oh ok

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godlikedan

A gift from a friend. ;) ;) ;)

godlikedan

Wait.

godlikedan

Everyone stop reblogging this. This was supposed to go to my other blog.

godlikedan

PLEASE.

#lmao get wrecked. #always knew you had a porn blog danny

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oldbullion

real talk everyone in this senate needs to stop having drama.

#@/castironman @/greatcompromiser... looking at you both #stop it

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roberthayne

menstruation sounds so cool....but why doesnt it ever happen to men???

godlikedan

remind me how you got elected again.

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oldbullion

going to @/oldhickory's inaugeral party. I expect a solemn affair.

oldbullion

F U CK they broug ht t cheeessseeee....

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jgiddyings

back to work in the senate :D~~~!

dawson Follow

tf i thought we censured you??

jgiddyings

i got reelected :) :) :)!~

#take that mofos #no blocking or muting can remove me NOW #suck my dick

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memberofthehouse

OH MY GOD I HATE this house chamber so much the acoustics are horrible and its so crowded istg I am blaming Thomas Jefferson for all of this. the room was clearly already too crowded in the 1790s and then the louisiana purchase just comes by and Fucks! Shit! UP???? by doubling the amount of people who have to be stuffed in here??? and everyone keeps on smoking and spitting tobacco everywhere and its too hot??? i think the lead is killing me. i think the air is killing me. i think my colleagues are going to kill me. I DEFINATLY THINK HENRY WISE AND HIS COMPANY IS TRYING TO KILL ME???

Kill me.

henrywisingitup

get used to it buddy.

rogertaney

we're making court decisions in the goddarn congress basement if that helps.

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littlegiantofillinois

so horny for her

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chucksumner

just saw william seward and jefferson davis taking a carriage together. i don't get it. am i the only one who thinks that as antislavery advocates we in the senate Shouldn't be playing nice with slaveholders??

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forthurricane Follow

breakfast is very fufilling i say as a person who's morning meal consists entirely of a carton of milk and one (1) expired bread loaf garrison Follow

everyone please stop reblogging op is literally jefferson davis.

#dni

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goldtippedguttapercha-deactiv

Not to be mean but this coworker of mine needs to get caned. 23,233 notes

senatorero hangman foote threatened to kill me again today. can someone please tell me if this means im part of the antislavery club.

vivelasboston Follow

are you a republican? because otherwise i think it's appropriation.

senatorero

oh for christs sake

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littlegiantofillinois

such a cruel world... so many good laps to sit on and no one to let me do so.

#SO MANY SOFT LONG CONGRESSIONAL LEGGGGS #THEY ALL LOOK SO COMFFYYYYY #ah well #no comfort or joy in life i suppose #time to bully president pierce into expanding popular sovreignty into kansas nebraska!!! :)))))) #this won't cause any issues

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[longdeadking]

dashboard simulator

👯 crows-on-a-log

guys im literally undergoing a crisis right now can anyone hear me

#my dad goin craaaaazy #he stole the lightbulbs out of my ezbake oven for the fifth time :( #vent post #delete later

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☠️ williamaftonshugepersonality 🔁

😶‍🌫️ boypenis Follow

MEDIA DASHBOARD SIMULATOR

😃 blogname-here

did yall see the new episode......... glopp sploinky was sooooooooooooo

#im normal about him! #<- blatant lies #media liveblog

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😼 discourse-haver Follow

i just dont see why we have to portray every male character in Media as female....... cant we just leave them male, as the creators intended? lol

🪴 rational-thinker

what world do you live in that people are being forced to hc male characters as female????

😼 discourse-haver Follow

youd understand if you were a fandom elder like me.......

🪴 rational-thinker

your blog is a month old

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😚 trustedmutual 🔁

👙 cup-size-tournament Follow

glopp sploinky propaganda:

he's literally just a cisgender man with 5 minutes of screentime

Woman McAwesome propaganda:

she has a canonical rack, she's a lead character, she's super buff and could crush you, she has an interesting arc and her emotional narrative factors into the main plot in impactful ways

#vote glopp sploinky!!!! #GLOPP SPLOINKY SWEEEEEP!!!!! #thats my husband! fuck woman mcawesome lol

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🖌 supercoolartist 🔁

🖌 supercoolartist

made a little doodle <3

if you dont reblog my art ill kill you btw <3

#self rb for the morning crowd #glopp sploinky x blorbo C #gloc fanart

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Based on your Likes!

😈 guy-you-have-blocked Follow

hey anyone want to hear the worst take of all time as shown through a low-effort meme that i stole from reddit?

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😚 trustedmutual 🔁

💝 fandomroyalty Follow

i would let woman mcawesome step on my face

💝 fandomroyalty Follow 🔁

10k woman mcawesome hornyposting

#happy woman mcawesome hornyposting wednesday

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#long post #dashboard simulator

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🍊 the-real-onceler

all im saying is that homestuck is actually a modern epic poem a la gilgamesh the oddesey the journey to the west etc. essay below the cut if you want me to cite my sources

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#onceler essays #i literally wrote my thesis on this

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🤡 puns-are-for-losers

goncharov ebby deepy glup shitto blorbo old man yaoi vanilla extract post simulators tournaments tumblr live homestuck 2 barbenheimer. we didnt start the fire

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🦋 axels-random-blog 🔁

🌹 girluterus Follow

what if weevils had tumblr

👤 burrowing-for-goodies-deactivated-2024

guyssss i just found the juiciest tomato to chow down on.... hmu for my location in the garden

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🐛 evil-weevil

attention garden dwellers!! do not eat the fresh produce in the southwest corner of the garden!! the humans just sprayed insecticide on them, so if you eat them you will die!!!!

🪲 carapace-is-popping

wtf this is blatant misinfo..... my buddy @burrowing-for-goodies just ate some tomatoes from the southwest corner and hes fine. youre just hoarding bro its so obvious

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🪲 carapace-is-popping

hey ummm has anybody seen @burrowing-for-goodies recently? hes not responding to dms. im going to go look for him

🍃 random-bugg

op is your friend ok? what happened?

🪲 carapace-is-popping

hopital

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🔴 girluterus

what was that

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🔮 the-wizard-hatter

she fireball on my small enclosed space til i TPK

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💀 longdeadking

do you guys think post simulators have gone too far

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[theoreticaltranstherian]

Making a new intro post!

Hey wsp :>

I am mentally ill, both self diagnosed (with extensive research and careful consideration, not tiktok-diagnosed) and officially diagnosed, queer, and generally just a funky person, AS WELL AS A MINOR. If that bothers you, just don't talk to me !!

Name: Panboo

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them, Xe/Xim

Identities: Transmasc, Panromantic, Demiromantic, Aegosexual, Therian, Otherkin

Kintypes: Red Fox, Corvid, Venezuelan Poodle Moth, Fae

Fucked up brain shit: ADHD, Autism, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, DID

System is traumagenic, polyconscious, and not very clear as to who is who, but is slightly more defined here:

Long-Term Interests: Hermitcraft, Traffic series, Indie Gaming, Drawing, Poetry/Writing, Video Games

Other things: I'm a furry, I have EDS

DNI: Anti-alterhuman. Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Radqueer, Anti-Self Diagnosing, Assholes, NSFW blogs, 18+ in DMs,any sort of discourse or debate or conflict-centered blogs

Im just sorta chilling, just a little guy :3 if I say anything that comes across as rude, offensive, or generally negative, 9 times out of 10 I did not mean it to come across like that. Assume anything I say is meant to be genuine and positive, unless specifically stated otherwise.

[gnzma]

6, 7, and 8 !!

also 21 and 22

[ gio spills the tea ; ACCEPTING ]

6. dash commentary ; also asked by @battlesfought

[ another dashcomm thing, if i see the height discourse again i think i will blow up fr

also i'm so glad we moved past the soup discourse. i know i'm treating with the devil over here by bringing it up but im SO glad ]

7. excessive ooc

[ okay, i think i have to make a distinction here. like for me "excessive ooc", as in writing ooc posts? that's more than fine, we all need to write things down, vent, or even just write a lot of updates or talking about stuff we enjoy!!

my big problem with excessive ooc comes when someone uses their rp blog exactly as a personal. like of course anyone can use their blogs as they please, but i remember years ago i ended up unfollowing a good friend (we're still friends now btw!!) because they really kept reblogging shitposts, memes and IRL news and posted, like. one thread every 10 posts that have nothing to do with their muse ]

8. DNIs in rules

[ eeeeeeeeh okay uh let's say i have my beef with this because. other than the usual "hey don't interact if you follow idk aku or smth", most of the times i had to deal with DNIs were from people who were like. Really Not Good? at all?

like im talking transphobes starting obviously fake shit with my friend group because we called em out for that transphobia, or people who ended up being much worse than the people in their DNIs. of course, if it helps someone feel safer, i see no problem with that!! i just wish said rule had a link to. idk proper sources or something, because all i can think of is "hey remember that one terf who tried to say we were sexist for not shipping with them?" ]

21. violent threads

[ GRABS i love violent threads so much i love blood and gore and. wheres that one tiktok where that guy goes YESSS WE'RE DRAWINGGG TWO MEN AND THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL EACHOTHER AND THE WRATH OF GOD AND THE WIND ARE MAKING THEM BLEED??? bc thats me fr ]

22. your current RPC; also asked by @battlesfought

[ WELL i talked about the pokemon RPC time to be. both positive and negative, i guess? about the SCP one!!!

because the few people who rp para are incredible. we're like, seven, eight at best? and they're hilarious we can manage to go from shenanigans to horror to angst to. fucking. mass panic at a containment breach and even if none of us is super active it's always a delight to see one pop up and quickly followed by literally everyone else

on the other. it unfortunately suffers of the "famous internet fandom" RPC disease where a lot of people play... i wouldn't say "badly", that's rude, but in a way i can't vibe with at all. most of the RP blog are actually IC blog that occasionally (which means. 20% of the time) end up having in character dialogues that fill the dash and 0 respect for rules and general RP etiquette like reblogging from source and whatnot, and once again since i'm here playing the arguably "fandom favorite" researcher i'm!already!!so tired of the people who come to me expecting to immediately play their husband!!!

so idk. i'll be in my corner with my cLiQuE being silly and cry because i just want a 076 to bully is it too much to ASK ]

[2-curious-cups]

29th of October, 2023

Hey av,

I’ll just start calling you like that since you „signed“ your last text here like that. I wondered already for a longer time if you actually want me to call you with a nick name, but somehow im uneasy with applying nicknames when i hear them from friends (like ale from zoi) bc then I always feel like im stealing something, life if it were somehow awkward to use it as well. Now I got an invitation to use it which makes it feel right.

When you sended me this blog the other day I was feeling quite overwhelmed. I couldn’t really tell what I think about it and what it means. So I decided to sit with it until I feel like I’ve made my mind up. Day by day that passed I felt like saying sorry for not being able to respond yet, and day by day I told myself, that this reaction would play into the tennis match that you want to avoid. So I’m not saying sorry. But thank you for that super cool medium!!! I actually love the idea of having somehow an online diary that we share with each other. Where can just narrate on our own, remember on our own, associate on our own, but also can of course respond to each other. I think it’s fun, it’s a new experience, it’s playful and a vivid archiv to look back on you and me and the world. On the other hand, I’m also afraid of what this shared medium that I don’t have with anybody else could create as meaning for our bonding. 

These days feel somehow pale. Uni started again and as always I’m a bit too absorbed by my feelings of not belonging. Not belonging to that sphere of academia but also to that group of people. I’m dreaming again about people from uni letting me now that im stupid and pathetic (the other day it was the german guy stefan, if you remember him lel). Some days like today, I feel the fear very intensely in my body. I’m longing to run away from social interactions, my body and my mind freezes. Yet, generally on most days I feel like I’m better than usual to convince myself of the fact that it’s just a matter of time, until I’ll feel like I’ve arrived here again after the summer pause and that we all know and share feelings like that. 

And then there is the war. As u can imagine the intensity of the discourse about it is also represented in uni. People with palestinian and arabic background position themselves quite openly and clear. Words like genozid are being dropped in combination of german responsibility. It has not been taking much time quantity wise, but If it comes up it’s quite intense. Of course. I feel like we are laking a space where we can together discuss about it as the main topic and not relating to it and then dropping very emotionalized comments. But of course it’s emotionalized how could it not. I’m rambling and I feel lost with my emotions of being overwhelmed and immensely sad, not sad enough and not helping, not knowing if I want to go to a demonstration for the palestinians, how much that would hurt my israelian friends, how much information my opinion is lacking, to what extend we all need to get rid of the dimensions good and bad, right and wrong, how my mind should be able to explain happenings by history but not justifying at the same time (I feel like thats a rethorical figure that is almost impossible: how can you try to understand in what circumstances people think and feel and desire without inherently being a justicifation?). What does it mean for my active behavior to not stand finally with one or the other side, but stand for peace and not answering violence with violence? I feel lost and i feel I’m lacking ability rn to talk about it in a way that gives me comfort. But on the other hand, we all need to sit in discomfort with it. 

The last week I was hosting Mira which was very nice. I started a pole dance class. I love the idea of jumping and flying around the pole, even though I look like a clumsy monkey still. It will eventually get better - looking forward to the day when my body learned the new movements and it actually feels like dancing. The other day Lotti folded her hand into my hand when I left her and I felt very moved by that, I really wonder how that relationship will develop. I need to leave now for uni. And then the weekend is calling and I’ll be occupied by a party here a party there and uni in between. I’m already looking forward to be a bit tipsy and having fun while smoking :p

Kisses, Aline

[addiscorse]

trans tea:

you need to stop wishing to be cis. you were born as you are, and unfortunately that can’t change. instead, you need to celebrate and love yourself for who you are, not mourn what is impossible. i get it, i really do, if i was a cis girl or boy life would be So much easier, but unfortunately, i’m not. and if you’re trans, you aren’t either. don’t treat being trans as if it’s a horrible illness though, you’ve been blessed with an experience to help and change the world so others like you can live their life. you’re wonderful, you’re transgender, you are you and that is a wonderful thing to be. dysphoria sucks so much and if i could switch into a cis body i would, but until that is possible i’m going to do my best to work on loving myself and the body that i’m in.

[quackityposting]

attention to the new ccs joining tumblr:

click the read more to find out more!

chronic vod watcher

hey im lindsay and i like streamers/youtubers 👍 this is a side blog so i like/follow from my main @lip-scrub

i got sick of the community on twitter so i moved here and its much better yall are so much nicer (ive been on and off tumblr since like 2012)

i do have words muted but if u post a lot about shipping (especially irl ppl) i wont fb. and ill block if u post nsfw abt them 👍. as always ill block u if ur an asshole.

i dont like irl shippers but if u behave normally u can stay ig.

IF YOU ARE IN THOSE FREAK SUB CATEGORIES OF THE FANDOM YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

look guys i will block u if u dont have a layout/dont have any posts No hard feelings

i dont tag discourse, but i dont talk about it a lot

ppl i blog about:

jacksepticeye | crankgameplays | markiplier | dream smp ppl ( i dont post about dream/dt anymore) | qsmp | ted nivison | jschlatt | kurtis conner | danny gonzalez | drew gooden| +many more!

anyway hope yall enjoy the blog 🙏 ps pls like this if u have read it thank you <3

[hajimine]

LEX’S 2020 APPRECIATION POST !

— first and foremost, happy new year’s eve everyone! 2020 hasn’t been the best year for most of us, but uh,, 2021 will be better (it better be, bc i’m so goddamn tired smh) anyways, here’s me being sappy

— to: my followers, my anons, and my mutuals (to my moots who aren’t tagged here, your letters are on a separate post)

LORD JESUS HOPEFULLY I DIDNT FORGET ANYONE BC IM GONNA CRY IF I DID HELP

💌 to all of my followers: whether you came from my old blog or if you’re a newcomer, thank you so much for being here. i appreciate all of you so so much, because your interactions & kindness help me keep on going when i don’t have the motivation to post. thanks for sticking with me even though i talk more than i write <//3 and i’m sorry if u had to see my various discourses on my prev. blog :,) i love u all!!

💌 to my anons who have decided to follow me on this blog as well:

— 🌠 anon: hi bby!! tysm for sliding into my inbox that day, and thank u for always checking up on me and talking to me even though i reply hours late huhu i’m sorry :,) your asks always make me smile because of how cute you are, lex sayang kamu mwah <33

— 🌚 anon: hi hottie >:) thanks for always making me laugh with your random life updates, pls keep em going i love it so much lmaoo. ilysm you’re so funny and have fun being the y/n all the writers write about (jkjk hehe) kith kith <3

— 🦦 anon: ihy bye JSBDHSJ IM JK pls take your iron pills when you need em and dont stay up too late smh. ilysm but you know that already, i appreciate u so so much, and airing all our dirty laundry for everyone to see was very fun, i gotta admit :,)

💌 to my mutuals, there’s a lil emoji next to your url which leads to a little note for you guys, please read it hehe <33 thank u issy for letting me steal your idea mwah 😖😖

first of all idk how so many of u cool ppl follow me smh i feel honored 😩‼️

in no particular order:

| @sunseteyes 🥂 | @tsukkis-crybaby 🍻 | @1iva 🍻 |@ichorizaki 🥂 | @introloves 🥃 | @sunakissses 🍻 | @h4nabi 🥂 | @cryoqi 🍸 | @mehreya 🍻 | @volexis 🍸 | @shittykawaa 🍸 | @kurooskult 🍸 | @al3x1ss 🍸 | @cutiekawa 🥂 | @atsumvs 🍸 | @miitsurii 🥃 |

| @s4ijoh 🥃 | @u-make-my-heart-tsumtsum 🍸 | @beabetriz 🥂 | @datecho 🥃 | @ush7jima 🍸 | @skateme2yokohama 🥃 |@seijohlogy 🍻 | @avis-writeshq 🍸 | @oikawasbliss 🥂 | @prettysetterbaby 🥃 | @kagsbitch 🍸 | @lexysclubhouse 🍸 | @1tooru 🍸 | @velvesagi 🥃 | @luvromis 🍻 | @a8mine 🍻 |

| @tetsurolls 🥃 | @wakatshi 🍻 | @cafemiya 🥃 | @kouffee-ink 🍸 | @cavalree 🍻 | @kuro0luvr 🍸 | @keisurin 🍸 | @zumisace 🍻 | @ahkaahshi 🍸 | @neoheros 🥃 | @shoyosun 🍸 | @heyhinata 🍻 | @tsumue 🥃 | @simpforsawamura 🥂 | @haikyunicorn 🥂|

> LEGEND:

��� — hi lovelies!! even though we don’t interact very often, please know that i appreciate u a lot! my inbox is open for you if you wanna talk, i’m here for you! i’m sorry we didn’t get the chance to interact as often as i’d like, but it’s a new year, hopefully 2021 can bring us closer together! <33

🥂 — my beautiful babies!! thank u so so much for being so sweet and friendly to me, ily all so so much and urghh you’ve been so incredibly kind to me. thanks for coming by my asks and please know that i appreciate u so so much. you’re such a genuine person and i wish you all the best. kisses u on the forehead

🍻 — hey hotties!! thank you for being so fun to talk to and for brightening up everyone’s day. please keep doing what you’re doing because even your existence alone gives me a lil serotonin boost, yall are amazing. stop being so sexy smh or else i’m gonna have to kiss u (with consent ofc)

🥃 — hi omg you’re so cool and i wanna interact with you more but your whole persona just screams hot person energy and i feel like a baby next to you :,) you guys are so sexy and i hope we can talk more in 2021 hehe <33 all the best for you guys!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

love, lex

[andyboosack-a]

hey, sorry if u don't want this question nor is there any pressure to answer. but what did rikr/gif do? ive checked the tags and can't find anything. again sorry if this question isn't something u wanna deal with

another anon asked: hey! about rikr i don’t know them but can i ask why? are they doing something awful?

hi guys it's totally okay to ask! @/rikrgif is a tumbr user known as nessie who has been blatantly racist and outright a bully... to me personally lmao too. im sure someone else has receipts of the problematic behavior elsewhere, but they also just randomly posted anon hate about me and my oc before which was? so unnecessary lmao. and on top of that were racist, engaged in discourse against me where i specifically said that refusing to use diverse fcs is contributing to the erasure of poc. i believe nessie pulled some other bullshit but i had them blocked for a long time before that so im not super up to date on what all happened more recently before she jumped ship and renamed with a new blog

[queerlyhalloween]

Not to sound like the joker™️ but i hate western society. I know that hair and clothes aren't gendered, so do most of my mates, ive been working hard at unlearning the internalized transphobia that's just a part of being trans in the UK and actually ALLOWING myself to think about going on hormones and dressing in ways other than "ambigious as possible" despite the fact im non-binary

i grew myself a little mullet because ive not been working in the pub and wanted solid snake hair, ive allowed myself to look at my face and the long hair around it and not despair because i know that longer hair doesn't make me a woman, but the moment you go into a shop, or get takeaway or pass by people in the street its all "move out the way of this lady!" and "thank you, ma'am"

i dont want the gender option of 'other' on my ID i want to know 1 good reason why gender should be listed on an ID in the 1st place

ive just come back from the range and i had my hair up like some e-thot fuckboy, i had to go BACK to the range because they got my click and collect order wrong so ive got two members of staff looking over my order, im dressed in black jeans and a black masc-looking ripped shirt, mask covering half my face and as the manager's showing the kid who served me the receipt they go "oh I served that guy earlier" and the manager corrects them "its a lady". I say "im niether" and they both just stare at me like im a toddler. Im already panicking because the air feels the same way it did when some cunt came after me in the pub toliets. "dont worry about it :)" i say, they both turn back to the tills and completely ignore me.

Anyway, micro-aggressions, ive experienced a lot of them for many reasons over the course of my life and today ive decided to snap.

Not at the people in the range like, just in general.

I will never pass. That's just an element of trans euphoria i will never get to experience. Not right off the bat, anyway. Not where i live, and most likely not in my lifetime. Maybe for kids in LA or Brighton, and hey power to you guys man im happy for you, but people assume or guess m/f when they look at me and they will never get it right.

So when i see people on this site try and twitter etc rank "who's the most oppressed"™️ like a godamn smash bros tier list it blows my mind because of all the things you could spend your days doing thats what youre expending energy on?!

You could be the exact same age, race, sex, gender, sexuality, you could have the exact same disabilities, mental health conditions and money in your bank as another person on this site and you'd still never understand what they've been through. Our experiences, our families, our morals and lives are always gonna be different and the moment you try to write definitive rules on whose got it worse you've already lost and you're already wrong. Oppressed classes are not a fucking hivemind and pretending they are is only going to cause you more problems. I get the strong sense that some of you looked at the word intersectionality, went "ah yeah, i know what that means" having never read up on the matter, then proceeded to play the pain olympics.

And its creating a culture where kids feel the need to spills their souls online to justify living their lives!

You've not listed your disabilites in your bio so you're able-bodied. You're Irish but haven't listed your race so you're white. You're cis man so you've never played with gender and suffered as a result. You're asexual so clearly you're a cringeworthy baby who's never experienced a wrong-doing in their life.

The reverse is true too, if you list every aspect of yourself then you're automatically honest. The more opressed you are the less likely you are of causing harm to others. Psht, don't have a carrd in this day and age? What are you, a fraud? cishet white man playing make believe? Post a selfie or face the wrath of ozymandaus. What's privacy? It takes me 3 minutes to read the bio on this discourse side-blog so clearly they're an angel.

my mam abused me for years, she did the same to my brother when i left home at 18 and my dad drank himself to death. My nan, his mother, never believed me because my mam's a disabled woman with a lot of trauma, and at 14 how do you explain to the woman who takes you to the beach that it's WORSE because as she's beckoning you to the side of her bed so she can scream point blank in your face, or hit you, you're never truely sure, you're thinking about running away because of course she physically can't chase you but she can throw. And then where would you go if you did buggar off?

"You have to sleep sometimes" she used to say to me when I'd piss her off. Other days she told me horror stories about kids in care, and disabled people having their kids taken away, made me promise that I'd always love her and always be her baby, and I'd do that for her because she's my mam, she'd be satisfied then ignore me for a while. I grew up thinking that was entirely normal until i'd tell funny family stories at school and nobody would laugh. The closest I got to truely running away was when I changed my name and pronouns and her rejection, turned to vitriol one night and I so, so, nearly held a knife to my throat and simply fell forwards in the uni showers. Obviously I didn't do that.

But she's had a shitter life than me thus far so she's in the right, as the online black/white dichotomy states. I keep her at arm's length but I'm unable to cut her away without losing the rest of my family because I dared defy the role of eldest child and care for her as I've done my whole life, as is expected.

we need to take things on a case by case basis, and learn when stuff is none of our business.

"Hey! :) I see you've reclaimed (X) slur, without submitting the proper paperwork. Real quick tell me every trauma you've ever experienced or I'll write a callout post :) delete this anonymous message (as is your right) and i'll assume you as sus ❤"

you can only call yourself a dyke if on your 13th birthday, the moon's tender rays struck you through your bedroom window and gave you your first wet dream about girls.

Great, cool. I have no interest in calling myself a dyke, i cant call myself a lesbian because it makes me dysphoric, thats why im queer, but i can assure you that when 3 kids from catholic school pinned me under the bridge and threatened to cut me open for being a "dirty dyke tramp" they didn't play 20Qs with me first to check that i was actually a lesbian.

if your first thought is "well thats just misdirected homophobia, so youre not ACTUALLY a victim" log the fuck off and consider what's wrong with you. Because all our oppressors care about is sniffing out the wrong on you and beating it out, they dont care what breed of wrong it is.

so you're going to spend your day, the enlightened adult that you are, frothing at the mouth because some 15yr old dared call themselves butch despite them being OnLY a BiSexUAl? You're gonna say that trans woman deserves to be suicidal because yes she may be trans BUT she's from the UK, so clearly she loves her horrid country and government. You're gonna say that black lad deserves racial abuse because he's trying to focus on his studies rather than go to protests. That 19yr old who's living in poverty deserves it because they work for Amazon. Texans deserve to freeze to death because there are republicans in Texas.

You're going to harass a complete stranger coming to terms with the parts of themselves society has taught them are worthless at best because they're not doing it the way YOU think is right.

This post has not ended where I started it but I really dont care:

Some of you are so fucking desperate to be the bullies you never got to be in secondary school and it shows. But you're cowards. You can't just admit you want to divide and concur so you do it in a new woke way and when your time on this earth is done, you'll have commited the same pain that's been dealt to you and wonder why you died miserable in a world thats more or less the same.

okay to reblog but dont @ me for a debate because i have, like, real problems and will just block you

[savnofilter]

hey guys, i just wanted to speak up about something because i have been getting questions if i was well and stuff and im not really sure these days. mainly because i have become uncomfortable on this blog.

and i beg that people who dont like me, please do not spread things about me please or this because i thought i owe this to my followers.

the reason as to why i feel uncomfortable is because it really dawned upon me that being here doesnt make me happy anymore. and you could see in how flat my writing has become, or how my behavior often changes from happy to sad/low in a quick second.

and since after the summer, being on here has been almost terrible for me. like i use to have many friends, many people i talked to or felt like i created a bond with a lifetime, just kind of up and left me in the dust. while i finally took the time to focus on me for once, they used it against me, they got mad at me and its just hard to keep quiet about since it has always been my goal to talk about my feelings and now i dont think i can anymore, as to why im writing this to you guys tonight..

i will not get into depth (or specific) about it because i feel like the more i try to explain myself, the more twisted it becomes. and instead of helping me, it hurts me.

over the few months, i found when i was taking breaks to be happier. 

and its not the thought of you guys, it was more of like the lingering feeling of the way i was treated by people lingering on my blog. and im afraid if i feel like this still holds truth, i will be leaving this blog sooner or later.

in truth, i feel like ive been mistreated or even to the point where my feelings were so construed that it felt like i have been gaslighted over and over and over again. and honestly i am not as mentally or emotionally mature as many people on here, and some of them know that but it was never regarded.

im sad that this experience has come to this, because i really loved interacting, interacting with everyone and sharing my stories, but with the bad experiences on here has even turned my love/passion for writing down -- and even watching anime. i feel reminded every time i see certain blogs all over my feed, or like “hey im safe with these group of people” then they would pop up again. i felt like im some sort of villain or like an unintelligent-idiot who cant think for themselves. and while people who brainlessly follow those people can blindly hate me is fine, because i will never change who i am for anyone. ever. and i hate having to make posts like these because i feel bad for being so angsty and not being the sav that you guys know because while the brand “savnofilter” or “sav” is an extension of me, i sometimes feel so detached because of how shut out ive fell in this fandom for like 5 months now.

and i sincerely apologize to any new followers, i use to not be this down all the time but it really has been brought to my attention that the only social media that has heightened my anxiety, my depression, and even a part of illnesses i thought went away has resurfaced all because of what has happened associated to this blog.

whether it be being shut out and begging for help from the people i thought would be friends, or that i was kicked to the curve simply because i was not in the right state of mind and basically told me it was my fault for being that way.

and when it was fun, when i had friends it never felt like a chore for me on here. but as i lose support like that, it just hurts even though i have someone who stays beside me all the time. once you lose that, that, ground you start to compare yourself, like normal human nature i think. i started too look at my blog and be like “why arent i getting as much as before, what am i doing wrong, what is so bad about my stuff thats good with theres”. and part of the factor was that its odd, because it wasnt even a place of jealousy. it was one of, how did i fall to be so unimportant? so... immaterial. and it was like, each writer i fell out with, everyone just followed them and im left here trying my best to fill in their spots because i missed having that friend group, or friends with me. the only who really cared for me even with the biggest arguments and hoenstly it was because they were the only the one that cared for me. and i am not trying to cause discourse so please do not contact other people about this.

and as much as i stay at this point to irk the people who want me gone, i feel like the subtle unintentional (or intentional) bad vibes being brought to me is choking me up. and its doing well.

it just, it was so odd being treated like actual shit. like dog dooky shit. like if i was the poop on the sidewalk that you walk around and wonder who fucking took that massive shit, shit. and i was afraid to speak up about it because i was afraid of the backlash id get for having fucking feelings. 

from someone who went through some shit when i was younger, and built this barrier, to being repeatedly told over and over again that my feelings are invalid, to have people to tell me “i wont do that too you” and then do it to me just made me grow as a person. or die as a person. im not sure yet.

not only was it a mixture of people leaving me for shitty reasons, it was how stupid this fandom got. yeah, stupid. completely idiotic. of course there are people who sense-ful(?) and i love you a lot for it. but like ive said before, its unfair, there is no love like there use to be. people arent how they use to be. people put on a show, but once behind close doors its completely different. and if youre thinking of anyone in specific, youve got some shit to reevaluate. 

i was so scared to talk about it before because i was so scared at the backlash id get because i was so tired for being the hurt one and being called the bad guy. and im not blind to me being a bitch, but when i feel like ive done something im upfront about it. im rambling but this happens when i finally let my thoughts out.

and if ive been truthful, ive fallen out of my routine with meeting up with my therapist which may one of the reasons i let it run on this long without really getting a clear conscience. and like ive said before, i had thought it had to do with my life but honestly the only grief i get is being on here. 

to be honest, i have projects and requests i really want to complete before i even leave. so maybe its a while before i leave, maybe if it gets too much i’ll just go. i do not know. but 2020 is the year i finally want to take my own health over everyone else before i did before. and even with how hurt i am, i still hold so much love for these people. so much. but ive always been too loyal.

i am sorry for this sorrowful note, but i do not know how much longer i will stay. i love you all, have a blessed night.

[lolbiit]

can you offer any evidence that @hoarder-of-stories is a child predator? that's a very serious accusation

Of course I can! :)

I have a full folder.

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/180786915315/hey-i-saw-your-post-saying-hoarder-encouraged

Proof of Hoarder encouraging underaged people to send nudes and discussing said topic in a pedophile server}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/180680828805/this-was-originally-just-hoarder-but-im-going-to

Original post of hoarder following sketchy and illegal things on twitter}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/180885647190/lolbiit-claims-that-they-will-write-a-longer

Hoarder and their friends continuously harassed me asking to show them screenshots of the child porn, despite this being illegal}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/180894665395/hey-just-so-you-guys-know-what-kind-of-person

My friend, Olli, sent triggering things to Hoarder. It was't right and he apologized. He tried to right his wrongs, but hoarder and friends continuously posted about him and the situation, found his new accounts, tagged him, and basically stalked him for a while- to the point of where he had to leave discourse altogether. Keep in mind these were admitted pedophiles, and hoarder, attacking someone under the age of 16.}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/180978035710/you-know-elise-right-please-for-the-love-of-god

Here is when Hoarder started triggering someone- proof of this is coming, this is just for context.}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181014879800/hoarder-of-friendship

Explanation}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181030389775/block-them-if-they-make-you-uncomfortable-they

Proof the child in question was still seeing Hoarder's posts, even when they were blocked- we informed hoarder of this and they continued spamming the tags with pro-rape things}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181097838740/can-everyone-please-fuck-off-about-the-kid

hoarder's friends began claiming the child wasn't real and asking for proof/to interact with them to prove they were real, even though they were doing horribly mentally. This post shows Hoarder did know this, given we reblogged their posts saying it and many people sent asks about it. They never told their friends to stop asking about them or to stop seeking them out.}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181283069660/warning-for-map-discourse-and-mentions-of

Hoarder's post saying they would stop posting in anti map tags and stop with ex-offender stuff, whilst tagging the post as anti map, and never stopping tagging it or ex offenders}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181335274520/theres-a-screenshot-saying-knight-watched-cp-i

Hoarder defending someone who admitted to having and watching cp}

{https://lolbiit.tumblr.com/post/181977921520/hoarder-never-learns-ig-cause-theyre-following

Most recent callout of sketchy and illegal followings}

And here’s multiple pictures that back up some of the links, show hoarder posting pro-rape statements (ex-offender is someone who has molested/raped a child), possible admittance to being a pedophile, and proof of sim cp existing on their blog (it’s partially cut out)

[academla]

Am I back?

Hey guys! I have no idea how many “academlets” might yet be out there, but I think I might return a little bit to Tumblr. I distanced myself for quite some time because it was so toxic, and honestly haven’t looked back since leaving literally all social media.

I’m flirting with the idea of returning, however, but with a few changes. I took some time to reflect on some of the catalysts for why Tumblr became so toxic for me and have come up with some changes I’d like to make in my blogging, which might help make it a healthier experience for all.

(You can feel free to shoot me a message to chat about this if you’d like)

I’m going to blog more. I’m going to blog more, and not obsess over notes or how many people read or how many replies I get. I’m going to blog because I love to write and try to help others. I didn’t really post OC before so this isn’t super new but yeah, I’m going to focus the most on blogging.

I’m going to keep my personal / social life to myself. I will discuss my mental health struggles openly with trigger warnings as appropriate, as well as school, but when it comes to family, friends, love life, etc. I’m going to make sure I don’t discuss those things. It’s not so much that I got unsolicited criticism (though I did) but more that my Tumblr became inherently tied to me and my identity. By creating a separation in that I have my real-life life more private from the internet, I hope to minimize that feeling of basically living on Tumblr.

I’m also going to keep my political / religious views to myself. Again, this was not necessarily an issue before; anyone who knows me will know that I’m very pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-choice, etc. so this is not because I’ve become a neo-Nazi, and also I’m atheist/agnostic so this is not because I want to preach my religion to you. However, it takes about 0.2 seconds for a post to get misconstrued, discourse to happen, and then the entire internet blows up.

I’m not going to be as active as I once was. This is for a few reasons. One, I have to focus on school. Two, I’m dealing with a LOT right now. Three, I don’t want to become addicted (see reasons for number 1). Four, I know my boundaries, and I’m still sensitive enough that if I see a post that upsets me, I’m not going to handle it well. So, I’m not going to spend too much time on my dashboard. But I will try to set up a queue.

I’m not going to actively pursue becoming “big” or “Tumblr-famous”. When I focused on wanting to get my name out there, I was so obsessed with numbers and I allowed that to constantly bring me down. I obsessed over being popular, having the most messages, the most followers, and so on. Perhaps this was more of an internal behavior that doesn’t apply to anyone actually reading my blog, but there you go.

I’m going to choose a project and COMMIT. I have a lot of half-baked ideas that kind of crashed and burned because, you know, they’re half-baked. I want to be committed to my blog now. When I choose a project, it’s going to be a project that I’m going to go through with. Famous last words, probably. But I swear I’m going to try.

I’m going to (try) not to discuss money too much beyond budgeting, etc. Yes, I am still struggling with money. No, I am not begging for it. I don’t even know if I have links up still to donate or whatever, but whenever I advertised that, even though everyone was super super nice and understanding, I just felt icky.

I’m not going to interact one-on-one as much. I do not mean I’m going to be cold and heartless. I mean that I’ll happily and definitely want to answer individual asks (or may ask people to send IMs via my inbox instead so I can post answers publicly), but I’m not here to make friends per se. Okay, that makes me sound even more horrible. Hopefully you know what I mean. The internet is incredible and I have made some wonderful, long-lasting, meaningful friendships over the year, but I also want to focus on having a social life beyond the internet. And I’m super extra and black and white, so I don’t think I can really manage anything without taking it to the extreme.

I will not! Respond! To hate! It’s extremely satisfying for me to send snarky, I-don’t-give-a-crap replies, but I’m not even going to bother anymore. 

These ramblings are so rambly and mostly stream of consciousness (if you saw my stats professor’s PowerPoints, though, this would be nothing in comparison). If you read all the way, tell me what your favorite class this year is! Feel free to like/reply if you approve of my potential comeback and would like to see me blog again.

[jinjojess]

hey jess. again i agree with all your points over categate, i just wanted to point out something which is highlighted in an article on the mary sue (don't think i can send links in asks?). to sum it up, the point made is why is cate choosing the "straight actors can play lgb characters" hill to die upon as opposed to the "other issues that lgbt actors face in hollywood" hill? while i actually don't disagree with her, im just surprised by how adamant she is over that rather than other issues.

Anonymous said:excerpt from aforementioned article: “There aren’t even that many major films and television series that will include non-stereotyped, well-written LGBTQ+ characters to begin with, so we’re taking an already small crop of roles and then only considering straight actors? That’s not fair. This is not to say that straight actors should never, ever play LGBTQ+ roles for the rest of time, but it’s a little silly to feel the need to defend it with the statistics so far out of balance.”

I think that there’s nothing wrong with picking up the conversation from here and saying “Well, if anyone can play any role, then why don’t we have more major films that have queer characters in them?” but that quote from the MS isn’t exactly fair or even necessarily true.

Nowhere in the pieces of interview that I read did Cate Blanchett say anything to the effect of “only straight actors should be considered for LGBT+ roles”–if there was a part where she did say or imply that, then I stand corrected, but to my understanding, what was actually said was “this recent trend of thinking that an x role can ONLY be played by a real-life x is kind of ridiculous and goes against what acting is supposed to be at its core.”

That is way, way different than the snippet that’s getting passed around on social media by click-hungry websites.

And she’s right, it is a hotly debated issue right now! Even in fandom, there’s all this stupid discourse lately about who is “allowed” to write fanfiction about queer characters hooking up and all these weirdly prescriptive rules about how to go about it (particularly about m/m stuff), and I don’t see why we as a community are so jazzed about wanting to gatekeep like that. It discourages writers from wanting to talk about anyone besides themselves, which means we all get less of what we want. I want to read more stories about wlw, and I couldn’t give a fuck about the author’s identity so long as they write well enough.

So for me, it’s a similar concept here. If the straight actors were playing these gay roles in a way that was stereotypical and/or offensive, then I could see the outrage, but if the portrayal of the queer character is good and makes the average Hetero Harry and Cis Sally more comfortable and open to watching queer content, then how is that an objectively bad thing?

Yes, there are a lot of out-of-work queer actors. Yes, there are not nearly as many queer roles as straight ones. However, part of the issue with Hollywood is that it perpetuates “movie star culture” where the actors themselves become part of the product just as important as (and often more than) the content of the film itself. Hollywood is all about keeping a contained stable of household-name actors to sell products to the public. What’s the first thing advertised about a new movie coming out? The cast. How often do people go see a film knowing very little about it besides who the lead actors are? Why are they called “Steven Seagal movies” instead of “martial arts cop thrillers”?

There’s a very telling quote in the interview about how it was difficult to get Carol off the ground as a project, even though well-known actors were involved with it. It’s a thing you take for granted with Hollywood–if nobody famous is in the film, then who’s going to go see it? How the heck do you market that to the general public? Especially if it’s focusing on subject matter that isn’t as well-established in pop culture, like queer content, stories about racial minorities, etc.

So in a way you could see Cate Blanchett’s quote as an endorsement for straight actors to not get all “ew, no homo” and throw their weight behind projects like this so it’s easier to get more of that content made. Her statement to me sounds way more like “I am totally secure in myself and I don’t mind a future landscape where every other love story is queer, because I don’t have to be identical to someone else to empathize with them and be able to play their roles.”

Basically I don’t agree with the assessment that she’s dying on any hill here. I don’t think she exclusively cares about straight actors being allowed to play queer parts and nothing else. I think that it was a response to an interview question about something she feels passionately about–if you want to know what she thinks should be done about dismantling the clique-ish nature of Hollywood casting, then…ask? Like people irl generally aren’t spouting off their political stances every second of their lives, guys. 

If someone asks me “Do you think that anyone should be allowed to write queer stories?” I’m going to answer with a resounding yes, and say that I think the current gatekeeping sentiments are misguided and ultimately counterproductive. I’m probably not going to then spiral off and discuss how publishers need to be more accessible to LGBT+ writers, because at that moment in time, I might consider it obvious, or not entirely relevant to the question that was asked. Meanwhile, the headline the next day becomes “Tumblr User JinjoJess Passionate That Only Straight People Should Tell Queer Stories” (I am well-acquainted with this phenomenon, given that people take what I say on this blog out of context all the goddamn time, usually because I didn’t specifically reassure them that what they care about is important too).

So tl;dr, I feel like a lot of this is projection–I don’t think that this single response to a question that was asked during an interview encompasses the entirety of Cate Blanchett’s feelings on Hollywood and Representation. I also suspect that people reporting on this have an agenda to push, hence taking the quote out of context and twisting the words to make her look bad, and for many of them, that agenda is “get more clicks”, which has been proven to be easier to accomplish by pissing people off.

[actualbird]

yo you totally made me think about low empathy michael and it like totally makes sense and i think about it a lot when i listen to two player game bc ye like he OBVIOUSLY cares a lot about jeremy and he loves him and like jeremy's stating his problem and michael keeps saying the same solution cause like "that's the answer bro, don't be down" bc he cant wrap his head around the emotions and connect w them that well so in his mind he's just saying this completely fool proof solution i love this hc

yo i got this ask while balls deep in three books of discourse analysis i could only understand by like 10% but because of that was in the mood to just. keep thinking my brain in circles.

so heres a stupidly long answer cataloging canon instances of michael being low empathy af/exhibiting other traits related to this. along with like, characterization to extrapolate from that (at least by my own personal interpretation. obligatory disclaimer that how i see characters is not law, this is just My Take). 

but before that, im gonna define some terms outright so we’re all on the same page. empathy is a person’s capability to understand and feel what others are feeling. basically how well you can put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. this shouldnt be confused with sympathy, which is feeling compassion, pity, sorrow etc. for another. empathy is recognition/replication while sympathy is more on the caring about it. here i focus on empathy and the lack of it. 

im not an expert on Anything but speaking from experience as somebody who has very low empathy, this causes some complications. when you dont feel what others are feeling, sometimes you dont notice other people’s feelings at all. this results in stuff like bluntness, trouble reading social cues, insensitivity, etc. all things that 1) may happen unintentionally, 2) can be worked through via healthy communication, 3) are not inherently bad, just a result of how one reacts to external emotions and 4) things i totally think michael exhibits because hes a low empathy goblin i love with my whole heart. 

let’s get right into it. in more than survive, right after jeremy and michael discover their boyf riend backpacks, this exchange occurs

this seems pretty normal at first glance but it is the first instance of what seems to be michael’s go-to pattern for when he notices his best friend is feeling down, which, at least, kudos to michael, he very obviously noticed jeremy’s feelings. hurrah! so his process for how to fix this goes a little like “step 1: notice jeremy is upset. step 2: cheer jeremy up! step 3: unknowingly kinda mess up step 2“

jeremy is upset about the backpacks but then jeremy provides an out with something supposedly positive. michael latches on to it. it turns out to be negative. michael tries to salvage the situation by cheering jeremy up! by giving him a cool science fact! hell yeah! except it’s a shaky save at best because he does call the both of them losers but in an “it’s okay :D” way. 

all in all this is nothing really, just some friendly fast paced banter between best friends. whats important here is the 3 step pattern aforementioned because it 1) shows that michael Cares about his best friend and tries to make things better and 2) is BASICALLY the entirety of two player game

TWO PLAYER GAME is such a BOP and, at its core, is a song about how michael has got jeremy’s back and vice versa. but tpg is also textbook the 3 step pattern with added sprinkle of unintended invalidation. ive briefly spoken about tpg before so this might look a lil familiar but at its gist:

like you said anon, in tpg jeremy tells michael a problem he has, and throughout the course of the song, he continually makes it known that hes upset and has a lot of issues. step 1 has been achieved: michael knows jeremy is not doing too hot. time to do step 2: cheer him up!! and what better way to do that than to think positive with his trademark line “guys like us are cool in college” like, over and over again. because….it makes sense for michael. things might suck now, but just keep swimming yeah? it’ll be better later.

but it’s not better now and thats what jeremy actually needed validation on. michael thinks the solution is to look to the future but jeremy has his problems bothering him in the present. for all that michael says this is a two player game, he’s unintentionally dismissive because he doesnt understand that this isnt something that can be fixed with a simple “look forward to two years from now” mentality. neither of them are in the wrong, really. theyre just not on the same page.

onwards we go to something else entirely. the chili fries

this is a RIDICULOUSLY SMALL MOMENT but it stuck out to me because imo it is pretty obvious that jeremy says “leave me alone” because hes bummed and is being dramatic, but michael takes it literally and uses the opportunity to skedaddle and get his sweet sweet discontinued soda. im aware michael had to be gone for plot reasons and also the discontinued soda is foreshadowing for the mtn dew red, but taken at face value, this is something that happens a lot w/ low empathy: things are taken literally. 

jeremy is upset. jeremy said to give him some space. thats cool, i’ll go for a bit and come back with something neat that might cheer him up—hey, where’d he go?

and now let’s jump to something everybody and their dog knows about. michael in the bathroom. except not really. because mitb isnt what interests me so much as what happens before.

pre mitb is very, very interesting. before i say anything i’ll be clear in saying that literally nobody had even remotely a nice halloween night, it’s a disaster for everybody involved, but keep in mind that jeremy goes into the pre mitb scene immediately after the clusterfuck that is do you wanna hang and also getting chased down by a sloshed but aggressive jake. many people have said this before me but i’ll say it again: jeremy was not doing well. at all. 

and this is where michael fails step 1 of his pattern. he doesnt pick up on this at all. michael is kinda stuck in his own head right now. hes pissed. hes confused. hes betrayed. he cant understand other people’s feelings and now he has to deal with his own too. his head is a melting pot of AGH and he takes it out on jeremy. yeah, he tries to help jeremy, but he doesnt do it very well. it’s all very accusatory, and jeremy just had a terrible night, so jeremy lashes out.

teenagers are bad at emotions but theyre not bad people for it.  //cue mitb notes, we know the drill

to the play!!! 

recap for maximum contextualization: jeremy realizes the squip is bad fucking news and wants it gone. michael makes an entrance with the one thing that can kill it. and then this happens

AIGHT okay so the whole “i need an apology” scene is obviously played for comedy, and it does a good job at suddenly diffusing the end of the world stakes with some more down to earth teen friend drama but that aside, this scene is a good candidate to be listed under the definition of the phrase “bad timing” because michael, holy shit. BAD TIMING. like great timing for humor but bad timing as a human being. 

here we have jeremy clearly in possessed distress and michael has the antidote but he only wants to give it on a condition. it is absolutely a dick move. yeah, michael is is valid for wanting an apology, but not at this moment with the current stakes. this is michael thinking pretty selfishly. hes stuck in his own head and his own thoughts. he cares about jeremy and wants to help but…this apology important to him. it’s easy to get stuck on things like this when you cant empathize with others. the low empathy means that the only feelings you really get to really interact with are your own, so theres a tendency to focus on them. sometimes even at inopportune moments.

unintentional asshole-ery behold. in fact, this can be pushed even harder by this snippet in the score of be more chill that had some lines from an earlier draft. 

the fetus version of michael makes an entrance is hilariously low empathy, oh my god. this happens while jeremy is rolling around on the floor fighting an invisible-to-everybody-else squip and this is the first thing michael says. it’s positively dickish. 

SO with that done, a little bit can be extrapolated in terms of characterization. i think michael is low empathy so the dominos fall. michael is terrible at feelings. hes got a tendency to get stuck in his own head and not see what others are going through. his emotional periphery is abysmal, hes like a horse with those things that stop horses from looking to the side. in spite of all this, he still has a lot of love and good in his heart and he tries his best to show that in the ways that make sense to him. post-canon, the rift between his brain and jeremy’s brain can only be bridged by a big healthy heap of communication where michael learns that what makes sense to him isnt always what makes sense to other people. hes a good kid. he can do it. 

of course this is, again, all my take. the fun thing about transformative work and fandom is that all interpretations are valid and there will always be somebody out there who agrees. or disagrees. but on this blog, this is my michael. or at least one aspect of my michael. //shrug

ANYWAY im glad you like the hc anon!! ive obviously got a lot of feelings about it since i used your ask as an excuse to aimlessly ramble for, holy shit, 1.6 k words lmao. i hope you have a good day!!!

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