#its true! it needs to be said

[1eos]

Some bitch on here made a post the other day about how the way lesbians "center their sexuality on hating men instead of loving women" AKA Lesbians making jokes about men like "men dumb" is terf rethoric and like, if you see a lesbian or any woman make a post about hating men and your immediate response is to call it terfy without any kind of proof the person is a radfem then your are the transmisogynist, also you know they actually don't care about trans women when they say hating men is terf rethoric because when they see actual terfs hate on "men" they absolutely believe these terfs are hating on men when the reality is that when a terf talks about "men" they mean trans women but somehow people can't accept this fact and instead center non trans women when it comes to it, I think the dumbest one is when people think that a terf going "i hate men" is about trans men when it's literally a fact that terfs see trans men as tools to harm trans women first and as victims of said trans women second, is disgusting how people are unable to center trans women even when talking about a movement that is all about hating them and wanting them dead

its truly so insidious. like we don't have to guesstimate on what's terf rhetoric we know what it fucking is. its clear that when terfs say men they aren't fucking talking abt men!!!!!! like any time i do a terf blocking spree they are obsessed w ugly white men they do not hate men they hate trans women like that is quite literally the only connecting ideology. the ONLY ONE. and lesbians being seen as the only demographic that's transmisogynistic is insane like transmisogyny is a problem in every goddamn community but as usual bc lesbians don't want men in a romantic/sexual capacity then they must be punished. but i can get over that what i can't get over is ppl trying to champion themselves as pro trans women while actively speaking over them (there are SO many resources and posts and personal testimonies from trans women abt how transmisogyny is being presented in this day and time like there is NO EXCUSE currently) AND doing it in defense of the demographic most likely to abuse and MURDER them. abuse and murder all women!!!!!! like none of this makes sense! and it would be one thing if ppl were trying to talk abt how all gender identities can perpetrate transmisogyny but no its literally 'dont shit on men 🥺 not committing femicide hurts them too 🥺🥺🥺 its the evil man hating lesbians that are the problem! and im not gonna ever actually advocate for trans women 🥰just gonna use them as a gotcha!' i need code lyoko to be real so i can hop into the computer and knock ppls teeth out

[hinamie]

binding vow

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[citrusai]

taash said "they were doing it" and people ran with the interpretation of an npc that doesn't know solas or the history of the elvhenan even when bellara interjected and said, no, that's not right. that's not how it was for the elvhenan. they formed bonds before they had physical bodies. and people ran to doompost or create weird anti-solavellan shit even though mythal & solas refer to each other as old friends and when she releases him there is no tenderness or love in it. it is the act of unchaining a dog from his post, the stepping down of a general. but to each their own ig.

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

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[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[dxxtruction]

"Louis acting like a pimp to Armand" And what is a pimp exactly? Quickly. And, oh so sexual trauma survivors can't engage in kink now without it being all about that? Pet names? They can't be submissive anymore? Consensually? Sexually healthy? Be serious. I'd hardly say there's much power difference between them during all this anyway, except that Louis is freer than Armand and it's been putting a strain on their relationship. Louis wants more from Armand, and less of this 'being his past' for them both, and so helping Armand with this could fix that. It's healthy to want to help your partners get out of a rough patch?

I mean, the whole exchange was very clearly set up as a "I want to help you" after such a great moment of vulnerability Louis feels just how much Armand is desperate for it. Louis called Armand so they could work out a plan together.

And the bit with the umbrella was Louis' way of asking 'are you willing to listen to me?' and Armand said yes by unfolding it. Louis goes on and explains, Armand is allowed to argue against it, but Louis makes his point. And then he gives Armand a way to make his own choice in it too. Armand's already decided 'I want you, more than anything else in the world', but Louis still asks after if he's sure of his choice, and with a name, Arun, that is the one of his fullest agency, running the point home. Honoring the situation Armand calls Louis Maitre - as a way of being like 'I'll do as you've said then'. To make this work he's going to have to give Louis some of the control, yes. But it's the first time such a role is ever established, and it was his choice to do it. So so what if they do it in a very suggestive way? They can't like doing that? I think it's them having fun.

I struggle to find how Louis is being overly domineering here when really he's giving and offering Armand the most agency he's ever had. Same with finding it manipulative. The manipulation was more earlier in the episode I think, when he was stringing him along, giving mixed signals. He's no longer toying with him like that. Louis might be pushing Armand, leading him on to make a decision, but he doesn't mean bad by it.

But back to this pimp thing. I find it frankly offensive that this is where people are going with this. I get it, but to run with it being the case is, on many levels, wrong.

Louis told us episode 1 this was the only sustainable line of work to support his family and keep their standing, at the time. It was never his choice to be doing this either but his blackness allowed no other options. He did what he did so his family could stay in that house and maintain all their same comforts. It gave him privileges most black men didn't have at the time that he wanted to maintain and even have more of. Anyway, it doesn't and had never defined him the way 'being good at running things' had. And in that case he just likes having that kind of control where he can get it, which makes sense.

The world is what placed that kind of role onto him of what he was allowed to be able to run, not himself. And on that he actually treated the sex workers he employed well and respected them enough to give them more opportunity.** He recognizes they don't have much in the way of options either.

Louis employed sex workers, yes, but he didn't subject them to abuse, (like how Armand was)*. He didn't oversee things in a way that would go against their consent (see; episode 1 again)**. Sometimes a job is just a job. And Sex work is work.

Armand's particular past with sexual abuses may strike a particular cord with Louis, given all that, but the very last thing either is thinking is that Louis' pimping Armand out here. This is merely their decision as companions, and had nothing to do with adding another line in a laundry list of selling Armands body out to people at the command of someone else. Armand rescinds some of his control to Louis' wishes, because he wants him, and he trusts him, that's all.

If you aren't allowing Armand that choice, and are doubtful it's fully his, you're putting him right back in the box of being defined by his abuses. Putting him back into that space where he isn't given any agency over what he does. (Which is exactly opposite of what the intent of this scene is for)*.

*: (edit) added for clarity.

**: (strike through) numerous people are saying I'm misremembering these points so disregard it. (Thought he was siding with Bricks, it was the other way around). (Technically one aspect of those opportunities were for getting around the law). I don't have a perfect memory, it happens. Let's not get mad about it. Doesn't change much of the point which is that Louis, now, Louis then, was always considering more about the running things and for stated purposes. So I guess I'd say he may only have respected the SWers enough sometimes for what allowed him to do that, and there are moments he certainly expressed remorse over the fact, but he has a great deal higher respect for Armand that is genuine. It's incomparable. Please read my added notes in the tags, it should address most other concerns.

[youmakethelight]

Not to be a downer, but the spin-off era has been so weird.

I waited since season 1 of twd to know where these helicopters were coming from, and then they make TOWL "an epic love story". .. why? Nothing against rick and michonne being in love, but.. I didn't need that. It just seems like such a weird decision.

And then dead city.. idk, again, just.. why? I'm so through watching maggie be miserable bc negan is in her breathing space. It's actually boring. Slow-burn will-they-won't-they, but it's about whether she'll forgive a man for gleefully murdering her husband with a baseball bat? Ok. I'm just not invested, sorry, lol.

And then they turn the Carol and Daryl spin-off into.. solo superhero man dresses like a European apocalypse model and everyone loves him.

What is going on.

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[kstarlitchaotics]

I find it always odd to me when people (especially atheists) would think or say that the reason why they don't understand Christians is because we think ourselves as beyond perfect beings and honestly being a sinner myself I can say that is the farthest from the truth

HA it's cute that people think of us those who are following the Christ thinking we are up higher class for worshiping a person who thinks we are perfect no actually it's the opposite that is only coming from propaganda and entertainment industry because most Christians I've come across are always saying of the things that made them into the sinner beings they are and how Jesus saved them from the darkness and nothing at all of them bragging about how perfect we are to other people or religion of faith really if the only one who is being next to almost perfect is Jesus himself

[cali]

darkraiiiiii

[dayurno]

basically

[lemongogo]

[landomeowrris]

you say "i hate lando because he's arrogant, bratty and thinks he's better than everyone else", i hear "i hate lando because i believe everything i read on the internet".

[p1x1x]

[urfavwelshie]

allison is welsh 🗯🗣