#is this discourse?

[dredgen-dumbass]

mildly unpopular drifter opinion that nobody asked for: he hasn't been "defanged" he's grown closer to the guardian + most of the characters we see him interact with in lore, and dropped enough of his act to resign to his usual bullshit without the exaggeration he's shown to use to keep people at bay. I definitely enjoy unhinged drifter but I enjoy character development more. send post

[xanderscollection]

"Growing up is realising a (random ship) you loved is actually weird and bad"

Yeah? Is it? Great, I love it even more. The worse it is the Better.

[luckthebard]

It's actually weird to me that Orym's very valid point of "there are some bad people but you wouldn't advocate wiping out all people just cause some of them were shitty to you" wasn't more conversation stopping

[madamcottons]

i genuinely don't know how you can sit down and call someone out for making a homophobic joke but then actively be homophobic yourself

because, y'know, "implying" that someone you don't know is "pretending" to be bicurious so they can say slurs and profit of their queer fans and friends is, in fact, homophobic

[taylersketches]

Can we please stop supporting accounts that repost other artists' work for quick fame? They don't help the actual artist because 1) nobody's going to search for that same piece of art and share it twice, and 2) most are going to gloss over the unlinked name of the credited artist and never look them up. These accounts are only created to bring traction to their own page.

If you really want to support the artwork you see, follow and share from the artist who made it ♡

[castleofravens]

a lot of people in fandom spaces will hate/demonize female characters for the same reasons they love/romanticize male characters and sometimes it’s not holding male villains/anti heroes accountable for their actions the way that female villains/anti heroes are and sometimes it’s hating female heroes/anti heroes for their personalities/flaws/attributes/trauma responses whilst romanticizing male characters for having the same or very similar characterization?? like hi why so many double standards??

ALSO some of these characters are teenagers??teenagers are really fucking messy, like they’re not gonna make perfect decisions all the time and they might seem unlikeable at times bc they’re … still children …??

[optimizim]

discourse about what jhonen did or didn't declare as canon means absolutely nothing to me, considering jhonen has made such outrageous claims as "zim's favorite chipmunks movie is road chip"

[thecrimsonrainthatseekstheflower]

Lately there's been this discussion going around about Beefleaf shippers dismissing He Xuan's fiancée, and this argument just...confuses me?

People can fall in love more than once. He Xuan might have been in love with other people before he proposed to his fiancée, we can't know. Him growing fond of Shi Qingxuan doesn't mean he's forgetting about her. 

Yes, avenging her and his blood family is his reason for not moving on. No, Beefleaf isn't canon. But after He Xuan has fulfilled that revenge, it's very obvious that Shi Qingxuan becomes his new reason for lingering. Whether that has romantic or platonic connotations is up to the reader, but either way it can't be denied that He Xuan cares about Shi Qingxuan a great deal. That does NOT mean he stopped caring about his fiancée, and I think assuming that shipping Beefleaf disregards her is doing shippers a great disservice, not to mention how it takes away depth from He Xuan as a character.

[lord-save-me]

To me it’s

If you’re speaking about The Doctor or The Master in general: they/them

If you’re talking about specifically a male incarnation: he/him

If you’re talking about specifically a female incarnation: she/her

[tobi-smp]

Context: [Link]

I don't want to call out any responses in particular, so I won't. but on the subject of exile textually taking place for several months (as stated by the characters in roleplay) I just !

find it Extremely Strange that the constant reaction to that is that tommy's perception of time is unreliable and therefore we should work off of the assumption that it's wrong.

like don't get me wrong, that could Absolutely be an intentional aspect of a story about mental health and trauma. loss of time is a really common symptom, for instance. I struggle with the passage of time a lot when my mental health gets bad in a certain way.

but it's strange to me because the fandom Only does this with tommy.

wilbur says that he spent 9 years in superhell and this is taken unquestionably at face value, even as the fandom refuses to age him up to reflect this. the entire Idea of what limbo is and what it does to people was changed to accommodate wilbur's description of it. and it's just taken for granted that wilbur's perception of his time there is completely 100% correct.

and I'm not saying that we Should start questioning it, but being in an infinite void with absolutely no contact with the outside world that never changes seems far more disorienting time-wise than like. living on a beach where you can see the sun rise and fall every day.

but it's Assumed that wilbur must know while it's insisted over and over again that tommy's own perception cannot be trusted.

and this is all Especially weird because ! tommy Wasn't the only person who referenced the amount of time that passed. dream was very much so Also there. when tommy commented on going without a visitor for days at a time (outside of dream himself) dream would agree. when tommy referenced weeks dream would agree.

and yes, dream put the Gaslight in girlboss. he very much so Wants tommy to be out of touch with reality and unsteady on his feet. but you'd think pointing Out that discrepancy would Be The Point.

when tommy hallucinated tubbo dream was there to tell him that his perception of reality was wrong. that tommy should stop listening to his own mind and start listening to dream instead. that when dream tells him that something happened one way then it Did regardless of what he thinks he remembers.

so if tommy really Was wrong, if his perception of time in exile was off by Literal Months. you'd think dream would've taken Advantage of that instead of just. letting it slide.

it's just Strange that this appears to be a double standard. people don't even argue that Fundy's perception of time is wrong when he insists that he's been on vacation for a full year after like, a month long break from streaming.

[valrnyx]

After the disaster that was Bads last try at a rp romanctic relationship, I don’t think he’ll try again. As much as I would love him to (I’m very partial to ayhalo), I don’t think he will. Bad was branching out and trying something new with the last one I think, and it was something that took a lot of time for him to get used to the thought and be comfortable with it. He eventually was very comfortable with it and enjoyed himself rp-ing it. Then everything crashed and burned and I think he locked everything back up again. This is just my thoughts and I could be completely wrong. 100% not pushing anything on Bad or trying to speak for him. This is kinda what I observed and some 3am ramblings

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Reckless Love is not heretical you people just don't know how to read

[plutoloulou]

Don't take journalists words as gospel or fact

They are not the writers of the show and their work can be biased

Trust the direct quotes from the actors and writers, don't fall into a journalist's trap and then get mad at the people who actually make the show!

[molliehaswords]

i don't think he's a good man anymore

Not sure who you’re referring to, since I’ve reblogged a lot of men things today. But I suspect you mean Orym (based on a piece of art I reblogged calling him a good man) and, if you do, you and I are just going to disagree because he is still absolutely a good man. A person infiltrated his friend group with intent to kill him and his friends, ended up almost killing a completely innocent bystander, and was associated with the group that not only killed two hugely important members of Orym’s family, but also killed Orym.

Bor’dor became a danger and Orym is a protector. Orym didn’t even make any actual antagonistic moves toward Bor’dor. His main action in the combat was to protect and revive Prism. That’s pretty “good” to me.

[caprine-bees]

one thing I hate about the dungeon meshi chillchuck discourse is the making him look more "mature" with body hair and facial hair or a more square face.

Men don't have to have those things to be respected as men jfc he's a middle aged man who acts like a middle aged man honestly. It's not an uwu 7000 year old elf loli. you'd don't have to "age" him "properly". My real life human father is 64 years old and has been as smooth as a babies bottom for as long as I can remember. I barely have leg hair. My brother has three (3) chest hairs. Chillchuck doesnt look/act/sound like a child in any way. He seems like he'd ask me for a cig. you don't have to fix his manliness weirdos