#i genuinely don't understand y'all sometimes lmfao

[theyluvlyss]

𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭, 𝐬𝐨...

anyways😃...

slight disclaimer of sorts, I'm not at all trying to play the "I'm better than you" comparison game, nor am I trying to come off as a bitch lmao I just have thoughts all of the time and this blog is damn near my only outlet. not to mention, this blog barely receives, like 5% of them anyways (so count yourselves lucky🤨🫵🏽).

do y'all ever just think about the fact that - in whatever fandoms you're in - you're probably one of a group of, maybe even in just a handful,, or possibly part of just a couple,,, maybe the one and only,,,, shifter in that fandom?

and if so, does it ever come to mind that because you are a shifter and because you're probably shifting for whatever "character" you're shifting for, that you love them infinitely more than the average person indulging in that fandom you're in?

'cause I think about that all of the time. like... all of the time.

like, what do you mean no one will ever never ever possibly love *insert one of my s/o's and/or best friends* more than me? it's a bittersweet feeling, too, because I feel all alone in my love for that significant other/best friend/comfort person. but at the same time, maybe that's for the best because idk if I'm the jealous type or not, and I'd hate to become a person who can't indulge in content of the comfort person I love bc my jealousy is holding me back.

but anyways, not the point, I just...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I LOVE *insert my comfort people here* INFINITELY MORE THAN THE OTHERS THAT CLAIM TO LOVE THEM all because of the simple fact that I shift for that person and they don't? again, not saying it's a bad thing or that I'm sitting here trying to one-up somebody or play the comparison game, I'm just genuinely baffled because listen...

I bet there's someone right now going on tiktok or insta or even on here rn being all, "oh I love this "character" so much and I just wish I could be with them, but all I can do is post my edits and my fanfics and my hdcns, oh, woe is me, pouty-pout-pout🥺" and it's like biTCHYOUCAN, YOU LITERALLY C A N BUT THE CHANCES OF YOU BELIEVING ME ABOUT SHIFTING ARE SO SLIM SO WHAT'S EVEN THE POINT👹⁉️

I just gotta sit here like, "I know something you don't😗 ... I know something you will never knowww😙."

AND THEN (this is where the asshole in me jumps out a lil' bit) WHETHER OR NOT YOU DO TELL THEM DON'T EVEN MATTER, at least not to me, because I'ma still just sit there and be like, "I actually love them more than you, though, because I've been LITERALLY shifting my awareness/consciousness for them for like, five years now, so🙂." like I promise you, that's like ... the ultimate form of loving a "character". to not only see them past being a fictional thing, but to see them as a person, a REAL person, and just because they aren't real here doesn't mean shit bc I love them in EVERY reality I'm in and that they're in, real or not.

can you even say the same🤨?

you can post fanedits of them all day and change your user to "so-and-so's wife" all you want, but I'm the one that's hopping realities and putting a ring on that finger💀💅🏽.

😀 ... sorry, sorry, I literally said I wasn't gonna do that and act a fool lmfao I just get cocky sometimes, but Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I MEAN/AM TRYNA GET AT, like-

or shit, maybe you don't, but if not, then ig this post isn't for you lmao, because I totally understand that not everyone loves the same way as one another and/or as I do. like, my love has never once been a "casual" thing. if I love someone or something, it's intense, and ig to others, can come off as obsessive *not in a unhealthy way dw lol*, whereas others, they say "oh I really love this thing✨️." and that's it, no underlying feralness or passion to it, so...yah, idrk or rmbr where I was going with this, I just have a constant stream of thoughts and rambles so...

lol bye, more fics comin' soon♡.

[runthepockets]

"Duhhh Jared why are you singling out white trans women"

1) because you all have the biggest platform of any demographic in the trans community. This doesn't discount your marginalization, nor is it exclusive to trans women, but understand how much dumb, narcissistic, white woman bullshit I have to see from y'all on a daily basis as a black trans dude because of this.

2) I genuinely think a lot of you transition and think that's the end of it. Because you guys are women now, you think you can never do anything wrong, and anyone who disagrees is a transmisogynist or something. You all sound like the white cis women I dated as a teenager who insisted they were big strong tough girls until I told them to stop being dicks to me and take accountability, to which they immediately ran to cry "misogyny misogyny, I'm just a poor widdle baby girl, you have to treat me like a special princess or I'll shit." and I don't talk to those girls anymore for the same reasons. I don't want to put you all down and avoid you, I don't want to generalize other trans people, but y'all sure as shit are not making it easy.

3) Cis women this too, but again, I'm not in community with them as often, and I've already aired enough greivances with them to last me a lifetime: white women play just as big of a role in upholding white supremacy as white men, idc what anyone says. Those tears and that fragility I mentioned above? That shit gets people killed. It's a weapon. You need to watch your fucking ass and think about who the fuck you're talking to sometimes, idc how traumatic your childhood was or how much you got bullied in school, we're all transgender here, get it together bitch.

4) If you talk the leftist talk I expect you to walk the walk, too. Odds are you're going to meet a lot of nonwhite trans people who won't hesitate to knock you on your ass when y'all say and do the stupid shit y'all do, especially other, nonwhite trans women, who arguably have to take more of your shit than I do on top of everything else going on. Again, I'm trying to do y'all a favor, not be hostile for no reason. Lmfao.

5) I'm sorry but I'm tired of people acting like (white) trans people are an untouchable demographic to criticize. It's not me who's rolling back your rights to HRT or kicking y'all out of your houses or calling y'all slurs in the streets, so I really don't see how me criticizing y'all's entitlement and fragility is "transphobic" in any capacity. It's my community too, I deserve to have space and not be treated like shit for it. A lot of you (rightfully) call out trans men for ignoring your needs as women and how a lot of them make you uncomfortable with their blantant transmisogyny, but a lot of you don't even have the balls or the know how to grow the fuck up when a trans person of color tells you to acknowledge your privilege. Again, typical white girl shit, but ig cus a lot of you are trans you think you don't benefit from the intersections of whiteness and womanhood, which is crazy and just plain stupid.

There's a post on Twitter that says something along the lines of "if a black person tells you you're being racist, that means they're trying to preserve the friendship." I wish I could screw this into the head of every white trans chick who hasn't reckoned with her white fragility yet.

[firelxdykatara]

Fans seem to forget that up until like as far as I 'member the very last battle against Ozai, Katara & Zuko weren’t even friends! Katara literally hated him and even when all of her friends forgave him she still didn’t. & not in a cutesy love/hate tsundere way either. & the best friends to lovers trope just doesn’t have the same angst, even tho is healthier and sweeter to watch. They talk about Kataang being stereotypical because “hero gets the girl” but Zutara is an overdone trope in all media.

No, we don’t?

Literally, where are you getting this. No one ‘forgets’ that Zuko and Katara were not friends until the end of The Southern Raiders, but fans like you seem to forget that episode didn’t happen in a vacuum! The Southern Raiders was the culmination of a relationship arc which spanned the entire series. It didn’t just come out of nowhere, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the episodes that had come before it, especially the Cave of Destiny where Katara showed Zuko compassion and trust and he, in her eyes, threw that back in her face and betrayed her and his own uncle.

Which, likewise, hadn’t happened in a vacuum! It was no accident that Zuko and Katara were paired up in every season finale, that their narrative journey parallels the story of the Cave of Two Lovers, that Katara first tried to show compassion to Zuko and his uncle by offering to heal the latter only to be driven away by Zuko’s own pain and anger. Then, when they were trapped together in the crystal caverns beneath Ba Sing Se, they had a moment of understanding and true empathy, which wouldn’t have been possible without the narrative beats their relationship arc had already hit to that point.

Katara didn’t forgive Zuko until The Southern Raiders, but after that, they were friends with a deep bond--which, sure, you can interpret however you like, but the fact remains that Zuko sacrificing his life for Katara was written, storyboarded, and animated in the most romantic possible light. (Just like Katara touching Zuko’s scars in the caverns was animated with greater intimacy than any canon romantic kiss on the show, with the way the screen held there for a solid minute, slowly panning in as romantic music played, Zuko closing his eyes and standing still, letting Katara touch his scar (something he’d actively prevented a girl from doing earlier in the season), and expressing true trust and vulnerability to someone other than his uncle for the first time in the entire series.) The fact also remains that it is Katara who Zuko chose to go with him--and Katara who accepted without reservation, despite the boy we’re supposed to believe she was already in love with, and even her own brother, were headed off to very different locations, with no guarantee that any of them would see each other again.

It’s Zuko with whom she chose to spend what may well have been her last day on Earth. It’s Zuko who saved her life, making the easiest decision he made in the entire series, and whose life she saved in turn. It’s Zuko with whom she spent the climax of the entire series. And you want to pretend that the alleged ‘best friends to lovers’ ship was somehow ‘healthier and sweeter to watch’, even though that’s the ship which involved more than one kiss without consent, an assumption of Katara’s feelings, and absolutely no agency for her in her own romantic narrative (because there was nothing to bridge the gap between ‘you kissed me and I explicitly did not like it and got angry’ and ‘we’re gonna make out now’)??? Really???

Ok, anon, you do you, but I’d much rather have the ‘overdone trope’ of Fire and Water and enemies-to-friends-lovers with the full and mutual relationship arc which spanned all three seasons of the show, rather than my favorite character sacrificing her agency on the altar of the ‘hero gets the girl’ trope without so much as being allowed the dignity of voicing her own feelings.

[hazbincalifornia]

Blitz of course for the character questions

favorite thing about them

I feel like saying how interesting/layered he is is a cop-out, so I'm gonna go with god damn are his lines and their delivery good. This is mostly on the funny end, as some of them that I've heard about a thousand times now still kill me, but the slight tremor in his voice with 'you make that really clear all the time' kills me in a different way.

least favorite thing about them

I mean, he is still very much a total asshole, but that sleaziness is kinda part of the charm for me. Love to see him, hate to be around him irl, you know?

favorite line

This is like choosing a favorite child but A NEW HOLE, SCATTER gets me every time. Randomly saying 'wait until her dad tries to diddle your holes’ to the mascot suit guy is great too though.

brOTP

I love his relationship with Millie so much. Highly underrated.

OTP

Do you even have to ask lmao, we love bird around these parts.

nOTP

I made one of those shipping charts that was going around twitter the other day just for my own sake and the only black line was between Blitzo and Striker with 'might have liked it but y'all fucked it up'.

random headcanon

He makes fun of Moxxie's cooking sometimes, but genuinely wishes he had someone to make food for/with him.

unpopular opinion

Uhhhh just about every opinion on this guy has been had from a decent chunk of the fandom, but he's not just a victim in all of this. Although there is certainly a power imbalance, it seems like he was the one who seduced Stolas, and he is still responsible for his actions when they hurt other people, even though they're self-sabotaging. IDK, it's difficult to write him and hit that balance between 'he acts like this because he's hurt, and that's understandable' and 'but that doesn't give him an excuse to hurt others'. To be fair, this mostly frustrates me when it comes from people who don't like Stolas, and they reduce Blitzo's agency to make Stolas look worse.

song i associate with them

I have many, but the current one is Freak Show by Set It Off, partially because of Circus AU. Whenever it comes on the radio, though, Leave Before You Love Me by the Jonas Brothers makes me think of him.

favorite picture of them

This was my icon for a reason.

Also this one has been my twitter header for almost the whole time I had that account lmfao