#i couldve gone on a whole extra rant about

[w4yn31ngm00n]

Long sorta rant post abt the irene dimension stuff, sorry :3

i think that the irene dimension's whole "one year=one minute" concept is so cool sometimes, because its not like jess forgot about leap years or anything, she actually calculated that shit ! one second in the irene dimension = ~6.08737 days in the overworld [365.2422 days divided by the 60 seconds it takes for a year to pass], the max amount of leap years possible in the 15 years that everyone was gone wouldve been what, 4, if the year they went in was a leap year ? [meaning that it wouldve had to be before february 29th that they went in if we want it to be 4 extra leap year days. this is also omitting the whole "its not a leap year if its divisible by 100, but it is if its divisible by 400" idea that apparently exists, so lets just pretend this all definitely happened in the odd middle of a century]. thats an extra 3 days if you suppose that the year they went in wasn't a leap year, so supposedly they couldve been in the irene dimension for ~5,478.633 days total, aka EXACTLY 15 years. so if we consider the day they went into the irene dimension as being exactly 15 years in the past from the day they emerged, i think that puts us on a timeline where the day of the war between phoenix drop and scaleswind had to have been [at the earliest] march 1st of a year divisible by 4 ? idk i think its funny if it was exactly 15 years of a gap, like imagine the remaining villagers commemorating the day 15 years ago that their lord and several others disappeared, ONLY FOR HER TO SHOW UP THE EXACT SAME AS SHE WAS THEN. obviously it doesnt have to be exact, just a thought that kinda gives a base for a day of the years that the war and return were on, or at least it could eliminate january and february from the timeline.

separate thought, but not really:

how long was zoey in the irene dimension ??? like she only left once laurance and aphmau left. the time difference between when she appeared and when they left during the episode was about 43 seconds total, so considering each second in the irene dimension being around 6.08737 days long, she could've been in there for at least 261.75691 DAYS. A LITTLE MORE THAN 8 AND A HALF MONTHS. THATS SO LONG ??? LIKE DID DANTE AND THE OTHERS EVER QUESTION HOW LONG SHE WAS GONE ??? like imagine the absolute TERROR from malachi and levin once they realize that their only mother figure left has been gone for that long ?? obviously its not probably exactly that long that she was gone, but still, its a long time for those 2 to be left alone with no parental figure [besides maybe dante] to guide them through leading a dying village. if we think that the return date of aph and the others was on march 1st, the [probably] earliest possible anniversary of their disappearance and the war on phoenix drop, that means zoey probably disappeared to the irene dimension sometime in mid-late june of the year before.

also. that means that since aph said a few days before garroth's return that it had only been a few months since they got out of the irene dimension, zoey was honestly probably in there longer than the extended time that garroth was alone with zane [depending on your definition of "a few"]. damn.

ANYWAYS SORRY THAT WAS LONG BUT I THINK THE LITTLE DETAILS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE IRENE DIMENSION'S TIME DIFFERENCE IS REALLY INTERESTING also it raises a lot of questions for me abt the nether's sense of time. but thats a whole different thing to get into ==|:-3

[tyrannuspitch]

okay. so. this is... something i’ve been meaning to say for a while. this isn’t about anyone in particular, it’s a consistent trend i’ve noticed over years and... i think a lot of ppl probably need to hear it.

some of the common jokes / memes on this website are actually... very homophobic. going to mostly avoid specifics because i don’t like naming them or thinking about them, but i think the most extreme form of it i’ve seen... has to be The J*hn Green Post. yes, that j*hn green post, that this website seems to have accepted as an iconic piece of its history or whatever. it’s deeply homophobic.

a lot of people defend these jokes as them being “just sex jokes” or “just shock value” or “just funny because they’re so explicit”. but sex jokes are rarely funny just because they’re shocking. they’re also wordplay or absurdism or physical comedy or... something.

and if it is “just” shock value... shock and taboo come from somewhere. very often from prejudice and stigma. “breaking taboos” is very often punching down, and things have baggage. jokes about gay sex will always be received differently from those about straight sex, whether that’s your intention or not. 

as for being explicit... the more explicit you make the joke, the more it seems like your intention is humiliation, violation, etc. the more it seems like it is the act itself that’s the joke, and again, if we’re talking about gay sex... that’s feeding into existing stigma and violence.

with some of these jokes - the j*hn green post especially - if you spoke to someone that way irl, it would be harassment. and therefore illegal. doing it online doesn’t make it better - it just gives it a wider audience.

and, you know, in general, presenting gay sex as hilarious or humiliating or disgusting and harassing people on the basis of that, asking them invasive questions or making violating comments about them... is a huge part of homophobia? that i’m not sure how anyone overlooks?

honestly, as a gay man, my reaction to ppl i’m meant to be able to trust making explicit jokes mocking gay sex is as visceral as if they were spitting slurs at someone. those jokes make me feel incredibly unsafe and i highly doubt i’m alone in that.

and on top of all that... tumblr - or at least the circles i’ve always been in - is a heavily female dominant space. fandom spaces are even more so. and the fact is... queer women and queer men use some of the same language, but our lives are very different. homophobia-against-mlm isn’t just homophobia-against-wlw minus the misogyny, it’s a separate (but related) phenomenon. queer women do not automatically understand queer men’s experiences. and the lack of mlm voices is... incredibly clear when things like this go unchallenged for years.

please just try and think beyond your own experiences. and like... if a joke sounds like something your bigoted uncle would say to ruin christmas. maybe don’t laugh at it

(ok to rb but if you defend that post you’re getting blocked)