#is this disk horse ..

[gyaru-tau]

[trans-ballister-blackheart]

Nimona the Movie: queer love is beautiful and powerful and restorative! the question of how to defeat an authoritarian state is not gonna be addressed in our 90 minutes of runtime. We're keeping it PG today. 😉

Nimona the Comic: queer love is beautiful and powerful and restorative! jsyk you cannot defeat an authoritarian state through the power of love alone, you are also going to need the power of incredible violence 😃

[jaguarys]

I find it fascinating (derogatory) how the general fandom conversation has shifted from "this woman is getting in the way of our gay ship and she's USELESS and ANNOYING and WE DON'T LIKE HER!" to this weird "no actually she's just not involved in her own relationships because she's too cool and special and awesome and a girlboss". But the problem is that there's not actually a veritable difference there. People still aren't engaging with her as a fully-fledged character. Like sure man calling her a girlboss is fine it's whatever but let that lead somewhere else. Engage with her. Can you actually name any of her character traits or are you just blindly praising her so that you can focus on shipping the guys in the background without feeling bad about it

[euniexenoblade]

I don't wanna be that person but this isn't what being trans means. Being trans means you aren't your assigned gender/sex. It's very interesting to me how the people who think transandrophobia exists, think "afab trans women" exist, often intentionally misgender transfems they don't like, think men can't oppress women, and have a terf infestation have a completely different definition of what "trans" is than the rest of the world. Like, "a subversion of what gender is expected of you" is so vague. What value could these transmisogynistic bigots have in redefining what being trans is? (Rhetorical)

[kinardsboy]

I’m gonna say something kinda controversial but whatever lol

I am not a fan of the way Buck reacted to the Abby of it all. For him to call Tommy cruel and say that he just can’t understand how he could lie to her like that while being someone who cheated on his girlfriend and then asked her to move in with him out of guilt instead of just being fucking honest and not trapping her without a place to go when she did find out..

Like both situations are objectively shitty, Buck and Tommy both made mistakes but Tommy’s are much more explainable and understandable. Tommy was a closeted gay man with a shit load of trauma, server under DADT and had a homophobic dad and captain. Yes, it wasnt nice what he did but I can understand and sympathize with his situation and his side of things.

I dont get why Buck is so fucking shocked over the idea of queer people being in straight relationships previously, especially long term ones. Like look at Athena and Micheal, Buck has never said a cruel word about him.

There was no reason for Buck to get that upset over it and also just?? Not talk to Tommy about it?? Like for him to react negatively and hide his feelings about it from Tommy and then at the end of the episode ask him to move in and talk about marriage and kids?? Dude??

I hate this fucking episode so much it destroyed so many characters, made a mockery of Eddies grief and overall felt like tiktoks stitched together.

[magnetothemagnificent]

How I'm feeling right now.

[id in alt text]

[drakesvalley]

The wildest part about being a system and having known you are a system for a while (6+ years for us) HAS to be seeing people who are just figuring it out fall into holes that you've long left behind.

Like. Yeah. We also thought we needed to keep tabs on everyone to increase communication. In the end it became too unwieldy. Especially since DID evolves with what you experience all the time.

Microlabels are cool and I fully support anyone who uses them, but figuring out what to call every single structure in your system isn't for us anymore.

Another thing we notice is people who try their best to know who is fronting at all given times. A lot of that comes naturally to us nowadays, but it's also... OK not to know. Especially if you're not focusing on anything system related at the time.

I guess a lot of this boils down to, it's okay not to care. It's okay to go with the flow of things and figure out at your own pace. Identity is fluid, especially if you have a dissociative disorder. You don't HAVE to have everything figured out 100% of the time.

It's okay to take it slow. It's okay to not know. It's okay to just exist for a bit. It's okay to live and experience things beyond being a system.

To all the people who are just starting to comprehend this. You do not need to know and label exactly what is happening in your head all the time. Fuck, we sure don't. And we're happier for it.

It's okay to just be you.

[chryza]

It’s been like two years since Carmine pointed out to me that people blatantly mischaracterization G’raha every day and the more I’ve grown to like him the more mad it makes me. I’m going to start getting mean about it. I will flat out say that if you are creating a G’raha Tia and his primary character trait is not sheer cunning you are doing it wrong. Reconsider. He has adorable nerd out moments, but they are NOT entirely WoL-centric and are vastly outweighed by the times he is sly, manipulative, scheming, and plotting, and the only reason he is not a villain is because he does all this to further the good of the populace rather than his own ends.

[v88sy]

Beeeeeeeeeecause believing that two canon queer characters who were actually in a relationship might get back together after they had an open ended and very fixable breakup where they both clearly still wanted to be together, is way more ridiculous than believing one of them will suddenly fall for his aggressively straight best friend after 6 years??

[nowoyas]

Trying to make sense of the Nanowrimo statement to the best of my abilities and fuck, man. It's hard.

It's hard because it seems to me that, first and foremost, the organization itself has forgotten the fucking point.

Nanowrimo was never about the words themselves. It was never about having fifty thousand marketable words to sell to publishing companies and then to the masses. It was a challenge, and it was hard, and it is hard, and it's supposed to be. The point is that it's hard. It's hard to sit down and carve out time and create a world and create characters and turn these things into a coherent plot with themes and emotional impact and an ending that's satisfying. It's hard to go back and make changes and edit those into something likable, something that feels worth reading. It's hard to find a beautifully-written scene in your document and have to make the decision that it's beautiful but it doesn't work in the broader context. It's fucking hard.

Writing and editing are skills. You build them and you hone them. Writing the way the challenge initially encouraged--don't listen to that voice in your head that's nitpicking every word on the page, put off the criticism for a later date, for now just let go and get your thoughts out--is even a different skill from writing in general. Some people don't particularly care about refining that skill to some end goal or another, and simply want to play. Some people sit down and try to improve and improve and improve because that is meaningful to them. Some are in a weird in-between where they don't really know what they want, and some have always liked the idea of writing and wanted a place to start. The challenge was a good place for this--sit down, put your butt in a chair, open a blank document, and by the end of the month, try to put fifty thousand words in that document.

How does it make you feel to try? Your wrists ache and you don't feel like any of the words were any good, but didn't you learn something about the process? Re-reading it, don't you think it sounds better if you swap these two sentences, if you replace this word, if you take out this comma? Maybe you didn't hit 50k words. Maybe you only wrote 10k. But isn't it cool, that you wrote ten thousand words? Doesn't it feel nice that you did something? We can try again. We can keep getting better, or just throwing ourselves into it for fun or whatever, and we can do it again and again.

I guess I don't completely know where I'm going with this post. If you've followed me or many tumblr users for any amount of time, you've probably already heard a thousand times about how generative AI hurts the environment so many of us have been so desperately trying to save, about how generative AI is again and again used to exploit big authors, little authors, up-and-coming authors, first time authors, people posting on Ao3 as a hobby, people self-publishing e-books on Amazon, traditionally published authors, and everyone in between. You've probably seen the statements from developers of these "tools", things like how being required to obtain permission for everything in the database used to train the language model would destroy the tool entirely. You've seen posts about new AI tools scraping Ao3 so they can make money off someone else's hobby and putting the legality of the site itself at risk. For an organization that used to dedicate itself to making writing more accessible for people and for creating a community of writers, Nanowrimo has spent the past several years systematically cracking that community to bits, and now, it's made an official statement claiming that the exploitation of writers in its community is okay, because otherwise, someone might find it too hard to complete a challenge that's meant to be hard to begin with.

I couldn't thank Nanowrimo enough for what it did for me when I started out. I don't know how to find community in the same way. But you can bet that I've deleted my account, and I'll be finding my own path forward without it. Thanks for the fucking memories, I guess.

[what-have-i-unleashed]

we need some prettier and more fun ship names in the fandom for real. i cannot say driller (dream x killer) or kist (killer x dust) with a straight face.

[viiridiangreen]

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[badasscoffeemug]

time to put these words away until you understand what they mean and how to use them. like what are you even trying to say here.

[bucksboobs]

Tim himself admits to not having planned more than 3 episodes ahead at any given time why would anyone act like Lou is lying about not knowing if Tommy is coming back or not knowing about the breakup until the day it was filmed?

[kinardsboy]

Its so so funny to me when buddie shippers say “Buddie is a gay ship for gay people! BuckTommy is a gay ship for straight people!”

Like. You guys pearl clutched over a daddy kink joke. If you met a real life gay man, especially an older one, your head would explode.

[mayaoftheflowers]

I JUST GOT THE MOST FUCKED POST ON MY DASH???

It was a (self-proclaimed) antizionist Jew basically fantasizing about Israelis being expelled but like in a woke way? Like "we have to prepare to welcome our formerly Israeli siblings in our Radical Diasporist communities uwu"???😭😭

And like. Idk. Something about fantasizing about Am Yisrael once again being ruptured from Eretz Yisrael feels. Extremely against the spirit of Judaism imo. My jaw DROPPED😭