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thatiranianphantom · 2 years ago
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unpopular opinion - I really like her but, IMO LR is simply not good at interviews (don’t shoot me) IDK if she’s too insecure, defensive or simply not eloquent enough but she constantly manages to be too blunt and brash with her own fanbase. (Constantly telling people not to watch or f*** off when they comment negatively, telling people they’re watching for the wrong reasons… sorry but that is patronizing…) Also, I find it quite weird how she’s been hyping up Betty’s arc of lusting after the other characters and getting to make out with half the cast. But that might also be due to the weird questions by male "reporters" 🤷‍♀️👀
I'm mostly with you, anon. Most people here know my "I don't pedestal celebrities" mindset. I can appreciate their talent, and understand them wanting to leave this show, but it also doesn't absolve them from all critique.
Now straight up, I am not shocked and understand that she's promoting the show. She HAS to. Her talking the show up is not a shock to me, and she's more than likely been giving talking points. The way the show is going is not on her. That's not her fault, that's her job. So her talking up Betty lusting after literally everyone, that's just something she's been given to say, and it's not like she can say "yeah, I hate this show, it sucks and my plotline is shit." She HAS to find a way to make it seem good, and I don't begrudge her that.
But has she been now and in the past a bit condescending and dismissive? Well, it's not a statement I'd disagree with. It's absolutely possible to talk in a positive light about the show and NOT say "well you just don't UNDERSTAND _____" or "hater needs to run along now" or something. Or to insinuate that the fans are the problem. A bold stance to take for a show that got her to this place, yes. It's not random haters that are commenting on how bad the show has gotten. It's the fans that have gotten them to here.
So yeah, anon. I can see both sides, and I think both can exist at the same time.
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kenapiece-main · 6 months ago
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Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job
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ganymedesclock · 6 months ago
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I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.
My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.
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oidheadh-con-culainn · 1 year ago
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i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"
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maidenvault · 6 months ago
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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”
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hot-mess-stress-express · 6 months ago
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princesskuragina · 7 months ago
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My last post was being snarky but here's my genuine pronoun etiquette opinion in case you actually want to know: it's pretty much never a good idea to directly ask someone their pronouns in front of a group of people, especially if you're in a position of authority, i.e. a teacher. The stakes of this question are very high for some people and you are putting them on the spot to decide what they want to share and what is safe to share. If you have decided you want to ask for pronouns at all, you can introduce yourself with your own to remind people that they can share theirs if they want to. And for the love of god whatever you do please do not just single out the most gender non-conforming or "trans looking" (to you) person and ask only them and no one else
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nthecaptin · 30 days ago
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this is probably above my pay grade but regarding neil gaiman it's so starkly clear how much class-based absue is entwined in this horrid situation. his victims were financially dependent on him, unable to even admit to themselves that what was happening was abuse because they had, in some cases, literally nowhere else to go. amanda palmer, self-proclaimed feminist, was complicit in a truly fucked mistreatment of a woman because she wanted to keep the babysitter that she didn't have to pay. gaiman was quoted literally saying that he's very wealthy to one of his victims. even the little mention of gaiman making decisions in his and palmer's marriage bc he's the one with the money is just. so telling when you know what to look for. they both took advantage of their social and financial priviledge over their victims and used it to abuse, manipulate, put down, and in the end try to silence them.
(terfs DO NOT touch this)
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rohirric-hunter · 5 months ago
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One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.
The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to
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wishfulsketching · 2 months ago
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Some not so serious doodles about the idea where Silco survived and Warwrick!Vander found him. I did these as fanservice for ME! Especially the clothes thing
(have fun trying to figure out the reading order of the third sketch dump)
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mysterycitrus · 6 months ago
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bring back the creatures
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very-straight-blog · 3 months ago
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So Silco, Vander and Felicia were friends. The relationship between Silco and Vander crumbled after Felicia's death on the bridge (s1 ep1), but at this point the girls are already quite grown up. Could it be that Silco and Vander have been involved in their upbringing all these years? That's why they approach Vander so calmly on the bridge - they know him. Could Powder have thrown herself into Silco's arms in ep3 because she somehow remembered him and by that time he was the only member of her family?
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theanticool · 6 months ago
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One takeaway I have from all this noise around Imane Khelif is that a lot of grifters and TERFs had to make up a trans person to be mad at, which is really sad and funny. I feel awful for her.
My second takeaway is people think sports are about fairness? What? Since when?
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geezmarty · 2 months ago
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(bellara/taash) nerd/jocks lovers rise up
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youarentreadingthis · 2 months ago
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