#i should do ANYTHING else. what is my fucking PROBLEM.

[genderqueerdykes]

Thank you for apologizing for misunderstanding my ask that was really kind of you. A lot of people on this site would probably just ignore it or delete it with no apology but you were good enough to apologize and I really appreciate it. I love your blog, keep doing what you’re doing <3

no worries, thank you SO much for coming back!

i've been having some issues parsing text recently due to dealing with a bit more psychosis than normal. sometimes i am dealing with my paranoid thinking than i realize. even though it's due to mental health symptoms, i'm not just gonna pretend it didn't happen. i felt like such an ass the second it hit me. paranoid schizophrenia sucks, but i still have to own up to being a dick,

i apologize for that, it was super uncalled for.

to everyone else: if i ever misinterpret an ask, please feel free to come tell me. it generally is not done in bad faith, it's likely due to me having a completely inaccurate perspective on it due to how my brain is parsing information at the moment. doesn't mean it's right for me to treat you wrong, though. i'm capable of making mistakes but i'm not afraid of making things right! i do care about y'all

someone else helped me parse your original ask. i agree, it's fucked that people really only start caring about something when it starts affecting women (trans and otherwise tbh). like people wait until it's a problem that begins affecting women, or start hearing from the women it has affected from the start and THEN start caring. but if we try to have the conversation about how it's hurting trans & other queer men that you should care about, it's crickets. so many people do not let the conversations exist simultaneously

people honest to god think that transmascs and trans men don't feel pain or suffer. like let's be real here. people do the most heinous mental gynmastics when it comes to transmasculinity. people will force toxic masculinity on us to downplay our issues, as if somehow that helps anything, and then when we speak up about how something shitty affects us, they just straight up don't listen or tell us we're talking over someone. it's a no win situation and it's designed to be that way on purpose. it's so fucked up

take care of yourself anon! i appreciate your feedback!

[goblinwithartsupplies]

Ok you are absolutely right about everything you wrote but there’s one thing that I think is important to the series you left out.

The gods were in America. They had been moving with the “flame of the west”. Which was Rick’s excuse to set the story in a place he knew. And in the books it’s acknowledged that the gods adapted to the American view of both themselves and their domains. Most of this is noticeable if you live in North America and knew a decent amount of Greek mythology.

Easy examples: Dionysus being a mean drunk instead of a fun drunk because of the association with alcoholism (plus he has to watch a lot of demigods die knowing that he was once like them) and Aphrodite being more vain and less about all forms of love is a prime example. (I wish we saw the Erotes so bad)

Strap in you hit one of my hyper fixations.

Zeus is seen as an asshole because people think of him as a misogynist cheater. Which he was in the myths but he also had other traits that got ignored. But his actions were normalized in Ancient Greece. He is also the “king of the gods” who are viewed as powerful. It’s understandable he’d be paranoid about his kids usurping him like he did to Kronos and Kronos did to Uranus. I think the situation with Beryl is complicated, she was an attention seeker and I think American Zeus liked that. I can see him thinking everything is fine (ie: she keeps the alcoholism to when he’s not around) but I’m not surprised American Zeus who is under threat of Hera (remember two kids with the same mortal) and the prophecy and broken oath tried to ignore the problem.

Ares is the most noticeable difference along side Artemis. I’ll start with Ares. War has grown to be less honorable and more gruesome. This isn’t swords and shields anymore this is machine guns, mines, and fucking napalm. The American version of Zeus is also more aligned American Ares because war and power are associated to each other. Also as someone whose parents were both in the military the amount of abusive parenting in military families is definitely higher than average and I wouldn’t be surprised if that subconsciously affected Rick’s writing.

Artemis I’ll agree is a pretty big character assassination. But I’m not surprise stopped allowing men into the hunt after what happened with Orion and Hippolytos respectively. Personally I think she recognized Bianca as a potential prophecy child and was trying to keep her out of it. But Bianca was a parentafide child who was looking for a place where she wasn’t defined by being an older sister.

Apollo was for lack of better terms yassified and Flanderized by western society. Also with America Zeus being thought of as a power hungry dictator Apollo fits into the favorite child of an abusive parents needing to be perfect to gain that favor.

Although I think Athena is the favored child who is the “Golden Child” can do no wrong. Yeah the brain thought child thing is weird. Rick could have had the same effect by her blessing random mortal children without their parents consent and making them effectively demigods with all the problems and powers and the story would be relatively the same.

Hades having kids was definitely a plot device more than anything else. Rick wanted every big three god to have a potential prophecy kid. I think he should done something so that the kid is technically Persephone’s as she is a life bringer in certain aspects but Hades blesses the kids he likes (or the potential of him being also involved with said mortal parent) making them his honorary kids and the fates seeing them as his kids.

I have more to say as this is one of my favorite topics about the series. This just my headcanon explanation to work around Rick’s shitty writing.

Percy Jackson's foundation is problematic

Ok, so, the OG PJO series is amazing for a lot of people. I mean, it's almost as famous as Harry Potter for a reason. It has an immersive world which is escapism which is really nice for a lot of people including me..........

But the series could definitely have been rewritten to be better. Such as not making Annabeth hit Percy so often (only playful hits, no so hard) making Ares love his children, making Artemis NOT SO PREDATORY-

But the thing is, even if the series was rewritten to exclude these.........

The very foundation of the Percy Jackson series is problematic.

The foundation of the Percy Jackson series is about overthrowing an abusive system and making the abusers pay attention and listen, and I'm not saying that that's a bad concept. It's actually one of the best concepts, but-

But it's what Rick Riordan used as an abusive system that's really wrong.

He used the Greek gods as abusive parents when in the myths they were the furthest things from it.

Excuse me. Zeus was not an abusive father to Apollo. He genuinely loved him. He only punished him when Apollo needed to be punished and deserved it. Zeus was a loving father to Artemis as well. He gave her what she requested and let her live in the wild as she pleased. Zeus also stopped Athena from practicing divination at Apollo's request. Zeus would not leave two children with an abusive alcholic mother.

Poseidon was not abusive and neglectful. In the myths, he punished Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemus. And he let Sciron do as he pleased in the ocean, though Sciron was a terrible person.

Aphrodite frequently came to her son Aeneas' aid on the battlefield of Troy. She loved him very much and even told him to give up LOVE to fulfil his own destiny of becoming a king.

And it also depicts Athena and Hades as having demigod children, when in the myths, Athena has no children at all and Hades is faithful to his wife Persephone, only cheating on her with TWO people in only a few variations of the myths, while other myths have Hades loving Leuce and Minthe before Persephone.

It's problematic for Athena to have demigod children, even brain children, because she was a virgin goddess who had no children in the myths. Ancient Greece associated marriage and having children with losing your virginity.

It was symbolic, so Athena having children, even brain children, makes her lose her virginity.

And about Hades being faithful-he's stated to have had multiple children with women when Persephone goes to her mother, which is why she's so unhappy.

This is incorrect and terribly wrong.

But if Athena and Hades didn't have children, and if the Greek Gods weren't abusive parents, then this series wouldn't exist. These problematic themes are essential to the story, which is why PJO is so problematic itself.

So even if Percy Jackson could be rewritten, it'll always be problematic in one way or another.

[moe-broey]

Every day I wake up, I'm full of inspiration and ambition, I lollygag a bit, I kinda skirt around it, I actively avoid The Thing I WANT to do. Then I just kinda give up and do something else.

[carnivalls]

good morning. thinking again of juve and her dog

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[altruistic-meme]

sigh.

[phagodyke]

kind of annoys me sometimes how I can happily listen to my roommate explain the entire plot of whatever she's currently into but when it comes to my interests she can only listen for a few mins before wordlessly walking out of the room

[ankhisms]

can i be emotionally vulnerable with you all in the torture dungeon

[twipsai]

thinking more,,

[coridallasmultipass]

I am once again begging online shop payment processing companies to allow me to enter a separate name for shipping and separate name for billing!!

It's the same address, I'm just trans and have not legally changed my personal name, but I still prefer to receive mail as my preferred name! Like it's literally my professional name, I do business as my preferred name.

Annoying as fuck, and I don't want to chance my bank rejecting the payment (though I'm sure someone at my bank has put a note to allow it on my account by now, since I've contacted them a couple times before when I realized too late that the billing section didn't let me input another "address/name" section, and they said the payment was fine in those cases.)

Anyway, legal name changes should be free and non-advertised for everyone. Tbh, you should get a free name change every time you file your taxes on time as an incentive for good citizen behaviour. Once I am elected pres-

[girlcockholmes]

now that my PI is like hey you should actually be sitting in the lab to write instead of doing it at home im shooting one million lasers at his head in my mind. fuck off

[girlpetrarca]

What do you mean you're going to belittle my entire university experience after I've been downplaying this thing for months?

[fragglerockopinions]

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[moe-broey]

Man..

[anaalnathrakhs]

"i thought you said you'd make an effort" MOTHERFUCKER THIS IS ONLY COMPLAINT #1 OUT OF A VERY LONG LIST JUST BE GRATEFUL I CAN WAIT UNTIL THE GUESTS ARE GONE TO SNAP

[bittwitchy]

see the reality is i post on my rps usually when nobodys been there a bit and nobody is probably online, but the mental illness in me keeps saying its bc everyone secretly hates me and i dont deserve love, and when i tell a gov doctor that, they basically just say ‘take your antidepressant’s and shut up’ which is also funny when said gov doctor wont refill my fucking antidepressants in the first place