#ive gotten called a racist before

[thewickerking]

mutual 1: WDYM none of you have heard explosion gun ???? theyre from the 1930s, sure but they literally made the best song ever [long title or series of numbers that have no meaning]

mutual 2: hey guys can you fill out this survey for my class? its about 15 minutes and it would mean a lot!! i love you

mutual 3: ughhhhh can this guy stop flirting with me? i told him to kill himself after he said [horrifically racist sentence] and he hasnt gotten the hint

mutual 4: im liveblogging a game from 12 years ago if you dont want spoilers im tagging my posts about it as #plwm3 liveblog !!

mutual 5: [poll] should i brutally murder this oc before or after he gets divorced

mutual 6: ok I knowwww im learning 6 languages rn but it would be so fun to learn russian.....

mutual 7: what do you mean you freaks dont dip your bananas in orange juice??? This is literally so normal why are you call me the weird one

mutual 8: just finished meeting up with mutual 9 irl it was so fun im gonna miss you now that you're home again </3

mutual 9: mutual 8 locked me in a basement for 4 hours and played clown music. i wish i couldve stayed longer

mutual 10: OMG THE NEW TRAILER FOR BRIMBLUS JUST DROPPED?????? EVERYONEEE LOOOOOOOK

mutual 11: my dad got me a milkshake breakdown cancelled everyone 🎉🎉

mutual 12: this post reminds me of *******

mutual 13: mutual ^ is talking about scorblo btw

mutual 12: HEY???? MUTUAL 13???? CAN YOU KILL YOURSELF????

mutual 14: [describes the most horrific repeated childhood trauma] but idk if im allowed to say i have mental illness cause im not diagnosed

mutual 15: guys do you think im more blue or purple coded :3

mutual 16: in response to all the transformers fandom callout calling me lesbophobic and racist: [ten paragraphs that make it clear they're clearly the only normal person in this scenario]

mutual 17: wait you guys are actually going to pumpkin patches? i thought those were made up ive never seen a pumpkin irl before...

mutual 18: guys can anybody see me. Please. No one's responding am I shadowbanned or do you all hate me [they're shadowbanned]

mutual 19: ugh this one customer keeps brutally murdering our servers at the restaurant i work at i wanna quit sooo bad but i might get promoted soon so idk

mutual 20: [reblogs a web weaving post about judas] UGH i need to fuck him sloppy style and **** ****** ***** **** *** ***

mutual 21: spam reblogs a genshin character

mutual 22: [screenshot of mutual 21s blog with filtered tags of the characters] you're lucky i care about you so much.

mutual 23: i think im losing my grip on reality. omg wait but look at this cute dog i saw walking home the other day

mutual 24: hi everyone! i just got back from a 6 month social media break :) hope everyones been doing well!

[porcelain-rob0t]

ive gotten a bunch of followers lately bc of certain posts and i have a much bigger following than i am used to. i try not to post a lot about current politics bc this website is a shitshow when it comes to talking about politics with nuance, so i will make my points clear and in a dialectical way. multiple truths do and have to exist at once and acknowledging that is essential to understanding anything.

i do not support the Israeli government, i hate Netanyahu and i want him dead

you should learn what "zionism" means before you decide it means "Jews i dont like"

you should fact check everything and examine why is is being posted the way it is. there is motive behind every post, examine that.

you are not immune to propaganda

the Palestinian people deserve safety and to live without oppression

call out antisemitism and islamophobia whenever you see it

listen to Jewish people and Muslims when they call out bigotry without getting defensive

listen to people when they talk about their own experiences without getting defensive in general

only people who experience the oppression can define it, if you are not in that group you cannot define it for them

check your sources

learn what dogwhistles are and call them out when you see them

dont take everything in bad faith if its not warranted

its really weird to interrogate random Jewish people who are not affiliated with Israel in anyway what their opinions on zionism is

dont be racist, dont be antisemitic, dont be islamophobic, its literally not hard

dont be a jerk

doomscrolling doesn't help. being sad isnt activism.

the world is so full of negativity, uplift others in your political activism. uplift oppressed groups instead of wasting all your energy on hating the oppressors. share their art, give money to charities, offer kindness in a world that wont do the same

be decent to each other

[snufflepup]

I mean it's good, I could've sworn I sent it last night, but I was super tired so maybe not lol. I do wanna get them for completionist reasons, but its likely they wont come back cause theyre collabs with companies. They did a sonic collab before i started playing, and i wish i played sooner cause itd be funny to have sonic and tails and shit. It's really cool! There's these phenomena that just turn back time in isolated spots on earth in random times and kill everyone that gets caught up in them. The mc is the timekeeper, the only person that's able to survive in the storm on her own. She's forced to work for the st. Pavlov foundation to find a way to stop the storms. (Forced, because she started working as a kid, and her immunity to the storm was found out when she tried to escape the foundation with some of her friends and all her friends died because they didnt have her immunity. Its really sad how sheltered they are and how badly they want to actually see the world outside the foundation). There's also this other group called manus vindictae, they're trying to speed up the storms happening to eradicate the humans and leave behind just arcanists that. Humans were historically super shitty and racist to arcanists, so the translation of their name "hands of vengence" makes sense! They used to have the only immunity to the storm, but in the most recent chapter, the st Pavlov foundation managed to find one out too, but their immunity item can protect humans too! God I'm so excited about this game!! The most recent patch (2.0) takes place in 1990 in San Francisco and it's so cool so far! We got the first adult guy character in a bit and he's so so hot and cool! It's gonna be a struggle to save up for him over mercuria, the other 6 star that got released in this patch before him. Oh There's also like a good couple canonical gay married npcs too! I love how casually they mention it and how respectful they are with it. A lot of the characters are girls, which I don't really prefer, but their designs are so gorgeous that i found myself actually liking them a lot^^ my favorite character is an italian half-blood arcanist named pavia! Hes so cool, though hes just a 3 star :P. My favorite 6 stars would be isolde, lucy, spathodea, Joe, and jiu niangzi! A cool thing about arcanists too is that theres awakened arcanists, items born from concepts and arcane! Lucy actually is one. Her core is a cog, and she came into existance when the first steam engine made a sound! And shes immortal as long as the concept behind her creation is alive. her concept would be progression and advancement, and omg thats soo cool to me, especially with how her representation of that concept was the first steam engine!! I could go on forever, i love this game so much, ive played since launch and im so glad i did! Things have gotten better with her, but I still think she's trying to limit how much we talk, so I'm gonna try and talk to her about it in a bit. I went trick or treating yesterday, so I wasn't really able to reply sooner, sorry. Did you do anything for Halloween? I walked around so much it still hurts lol.

-ike<3

aaa maybe ? Tumblr can . be a bit odd sometimes and mess up !! I understand how you feel, theres some games and things I like that I want to have everything in as well ! Those sound really awesome ! I'm sorry you missed out (◞ ⸝⸝ ◟ ) That sounds really interesting ! oh my god that's so sad :(( The manus vindictae group sounds really really cool too, I can understand why they would . hate humans after all that ! The story sounds really really amazing, I'm glad you like it so much ! I think it's nice you are so passionate over it ^–^ He sounds . expensive . good luck getting him and saving for him !!! aaa yay ! That's good then, it's always good when there are canonically queer characters ! Lucy sounds SO cool omg omg ! It sounds like the game did things in a really awesome and interesting way !!! I see. . . It sounds like a really hard situation, but I think you're doubg the right thing by talking about it with her ! It's okay !! Did you have a good time ? What did you dress up as ? If you did !! I didn't really . do anything for halloween . I planned to watch scary stuff, but I never actually got aroubd to it . and by the time I knew it Halloween was over !

[bec-son]

Bit of a rant

I should really just, leave furaffinity and beg people to go to other sites but thats unlikely because of the biggest issue. Furaffinity is a "sanctuary" site that furries use but that so called "sanctuary" is run by a bunch of conniving, pedo protecting, minor grooming old guard bastards.

Everything that has been caused by that site from racists hiding to minors being groomed has been on their heads. You dont just let something that big be that long around without things becoming festering problems, i have reported so many images of underaged characters in nsfw situations that half of my reports have gone unanswered because they know ill pushback against their gross uses of putting it under the rug to hide it.

Sure ive gotten more things in to remove them but wonder why? Because theyve allowed it so far, its an open invitation for them to try and get something in, to see if the staff will allow it because so many of them are two faced creeps.

Dont get me fucking started on the owners laziness to proactiveness and urge to innovate the dust drawer known as his site.

A couple days before a MASSIVE raid that caused them SHUT DOWN NEW ACCOUNG CREATION i started to suggest things on the forums to address raiding and the owner said "sorry we cant dedicate resources to that" but lemme ask you, is it better to let a huge problem cut the flow of new users later down the line than to address the issue by spending money then and now? OF COURSE YOU DONT

That mf is so opposed to making sure the site can handle these things because you know what would happen? Itd dip into his personal funds for commissions

Then dont get me fucking started on the sites lack of video support, real account blocking, or tag management!!

If that site went to be closed, thered be a forceful shove for innovation and a new site. Sure there were others trying that but they did not have the drive. To push forward with their own goals and rules, bluesky is expanding rapidly because it has looked at what went wrong with twitter and said "you block a fucker and youll never see him again"

And i want that for fa, i want a group of tech furries to go "you know what! No more pedos, no more bigots, tag managment with set tags and keywords, and FINALLY VIDEO SUPPORT"

Rant over

[webginz]

cringe homestuck posting. im sorry... it was homestuck day recently and its gotten stuck in my brain.

i saw a post while looking for fanart that was so funny because it was like "the hemospectrum-" (blood caste system in homestuck) "cant be directly compared to classism or racism, but eridan is obviously an evil white supremacist"

like how come it cant be compared to racism but somehow eridan is racist? lol okay...

with how much people hate eridan, you'd think hes hitler incarnate or something, but he really isnt evil at all at first. its not until way later he does bad shit, but at that point the other highbloods are probably just as bad. but vriska is evil as fuck even before the game started!! equius too if im remembering correctly?

reading eridans first conversation with fef and it just makes me kinda sad. especially since the trolls are just 13. like ive seriously seen people say he doesnt provide enough emotional labor in his relationships... HES A 13 YO BOY WTF ARE YOU TALKIN ABOUTTTT. but anyways. the so-called genocidal supremacist complex he has is just like.. the average "rich kid" trope mixed with him being a huge nerd. he likes wizards and pirates and roleplays with his extremely deranged "crush"

its spelled out for the reader prety clearlyyy that he collects doomsday weapons, not because he actually wants to kill everyone, but because he has a likes the girl that brings them to him and he wants to seem cool. like... are you so serious. is the villain in the room with us right now?

i thought when i reread his parts of the comic id realize i was a stupid kid and hes actually so evil but NO. I WAS RIGHT. im gonna stay an eridan apologist forever lol

[charmsponies]

Hello!

Thought I’d make a pinned post with some more details than just in my bio ^^ Please read before before following. Or don’t. but if you’re explicitly someone in the dni list down there you’re getting blocked

My name is Casey but you can also call me Charm. He/him And She/her pronouns (no preference for if you use one more than the other or anything). I’m bigender, 20, and autism about ponies! This is my dedicated pony blog, my main is @charmanderxerneas . I post pony art, photos of ponies ive cleaned/restored, and just general pony content.

My top three favorite g1 ponies are baby chuck e cheese pony, fizzy, and sundance 💖. My favorite g3 pony is Minty and my favorite g4 is pinkie pie. For g2 I really like sundance (again lol). and i havent seen anything from g5 so i cant comment about that haha.

I tag every pony’s name and generation. I tag other peoples content with “others photos” and “others art”. I tag my own content with “my photos” and “my art”.

Speaking of art, I have drawing requests for g1 ponies open! You can message me about it on this blog or my main blog. My goal is to draw EVERY pony from g1 (other generations may be a goal in the future, but this year i am focusing on g1.)

I also do polls every week for “which pony of (insert a set here) is your favorite?”. Because I have gotten some messages about it, I will say now that I’m not taking requests for these. I want to make polls about all of the pony lines, in release order. Rest assured I will try to get to your favorite line eventually ^^

Do not interact if:

-Terf, radfem, if you are an exclusionist (about asexuals, pansexuals, he/him lesbians, ect. If you’re trying to create division in a minority community, youre either evil or a fed.) pedophile (im not calling them maps i tell it as it is), if you fetishize stuff like incest/abuse, antisemite, racist, if you support crypto, ect. Obvious shit.

-You can have whatever opinions you want (really!) but um. please dont reblog my posts with hate. like, if you reblog a post of mine, don’t start ranting about how you hate a certain generation or that you think a specific pony toy is evil and should be destroyed or something (looking at you, bbe haters…) i do think it should be open for critical discussion whatever thoughts you have but um. be kind and logical! remember that every pony/generation is SOMEONE’S favorite!

-i know this blog is focusing on ponies but for other fandoms: Don’t interact if you like harry potter, or anything else with a very shitty creator like that. Fnaf fans are cool unless you go out of your way to excuse everything scott cawthon has done lol (i like fnaf but he is not the best). also this is petty but if you think steven universe is problematic ima need you to leave. lmao you missed the points of the show.

That is all, thank you for reading! feel free to shoot me a message and chat sometime i love talking or answering questions :>

[goremet-chef]

random little (very long) vent thing lamaoo

my birthday is soon and im like. IDK ive just been incredibly fucked up recently with like. anti trans legislation and general negativity, so ive been trying to keep away from twitter since thats where i see most of it

last year, my mother had me come get my cake with her and to my surprise it said "happy birthday dominic" and i couldve cried, like i was wearing my face mask cuz it helps my dysphoria but holy shit i was smiling so hard

she said dominic when she sang my bday song with my siblings and it made me really happy

she hasnt called me dominic since, and whatever im like. im not really over it but i will say and act like i am because it prevents me from dwelling on unnecessary pain yknow?

i guess recently she's had a change of heart, cuz she told my sibling that she wants to start calling me by dom and that she doesnt want me to hide who i am from her, and i know what she means definitely

ive been very like.. closed off? especially since her bf came back (he fucking sucks i hate him) i just havent spent time with her or anything unless hes gone cuz i definitely dont feel comfortable being myself around him

anyways this is pretty cool all things considered. i have told her before that i knew she wasnt gonna be part of my journey and ive accepted that, and usually i say shit and she just ignores it but maybe she actually heard that and listened

so, dominic is having his 4th bday soon and im happy about that, but like.. we're gonna go do mini golf for my bday which is a surprise! because i mean. if you know me, i dont really like to leave the house, like at all. i guess thats kinda how covid affected me? theres no reason to leave the house anymore so i guess i wont (and i guess it worked cuz i havent gotten it) but it was like. so horrible for my mental health

like i always said "oh, yeah, i dont mind being inside id prefer to not go outside anyways" and thats true but its like. doubled my social anxiety somehow. im normal in public until theres people around me or god forbid interacting with me 💀💀 the way i act when i have to buy my own shit is awful, i get sweaty and i stutter and i shake, i need to take a long breath after it fucking sucks it feels awful. JUST TO LIKE. PUT SOMETHING AT THE CASH REGISTER AND AHVE THEM ASK IF I WANT A REWARDS CARD OR WHATEVER THATS ITTT it sucks

so yeah im surprised i agreed to it, but its glow in the dark minigolf and one thing about me is i love minigolf and i love glow in the dark im gonna have a five nights at freddy moment (which means i gotta wear my shirt like i just gotta) and im sure itll be great fun (pleased about glow in the dark cuz im sure itll be. DARK in there and i dont have to worry so much about people seeing me)

my problem is that im hanging out with my aunt as well and i love my aunt!! everyone on my dads side except for my dad is amazing i love them, but i dont know how she would be yknow? idk if my mom has spilled the tea about it and told her or if theyre gonna just put my deadname on shit this year again like. i dont know

what if it did say dominic? how would my aunt react? its scary to think about, im so scared to LOSE more of my family

i havent even technically lost my moms side, its just that theyre a bunch of racist queerphobic losers and i know if they knew me, they wouldnt want me anymore

yeah im just stressed about it, all this shit is starting to pile up inside of me and i feel like ill explode and jsut say fuck everyone im ME and i dont give a fuck what you think, cuz no, i dont

my immediate family that i live with knows, my grandma knows, thats all that really matters. the only benefits to knowing my great grandparents is they give me money on my birthday, and that might sound hollow or whatever but its true, they fucking suck

just gettin tired of this sht yknow? even now, there is a hostile on the farm!! my moms bf is so homophobic, most likely transphobic too

hes SPECIFICALLY annoying, all the shit i order comes under dominic and hes brought me my things multiple times so he knows, but he'll still say shit like "thats how females are" or "hello girls" and to me its honestly like

its FUNNY because its like the only thing he knows about me is that to him, im a girl SKFJS like genuinely. i dont share anything with him because i fucking hate him, hes the absolute worst. the fact that theyre married and hes my stepdad technically is something i just deny, im never calling that man my dad lol

anyways im thinking about getting a hip binder? i realize thats one of the things im insecure about, is my fat is at my hip and even when i bind it gives me a feminine sort of shape so a hip binder would be great

i realize that i actually dont care so much if im plus size, i just care if my body looks feminine or not

i will absolutely be your fat guy friend with no hesitation okay like that shit? yes im so content for now like that is acceptable, but yknow fat distributes differently so its either baggy ass clothes orr stay inside SKJF

okay im done talking thanks for coming to my ted talk you are safe (for now)

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

okay so I've been having a few thoughts surrounding like, the poc label? I guess? Like as a han Chinese person who's pretty noticeably brown I'm obviously Not White but it's hard to call myself a poc because it's very like. It brings to mind in the communities I frequent like a very specific image that I don't identify with at all and it's just. Weird. I went to China for the first time in half a decade this summer and felt very suddenly not marginalized and it was kind of great. Idk where I'm going eith this I guess I'll just leave it here. Nobody's ever been racist to my face I think but that's far from the only way to be racist and ofc that's something ive known but like ig I Know now. I keep thinking about it. Anyway!

I mean I'm v light skinned so I get not being exposed to racist slurs.

I always got the backhanded compliments and microaggressions.

Things white people would say to me as a kid:

"You're so eloquent!"

"Oh you're not like those mexicans. You're a good mexican."

"Are you white mixed with something where are your parents from?"

Granted that's not too bad? but like I did have racist teachers that instead of suggesting I was depressed or manic (I have bipolar disorder and it wasn't diagnosed until I was 17 even though I had my first depression at age 11) suggested I wasn't trying hard enough.

Had I been a white kid they probably would have figured out I was depressed/manic before my suicidal tendencies.

Not that it matters now since I've nearly finished my BA but I'm 99% sure I have ADHD. But when I was a kid only white boys were neurodivergent.

Like I was drinking 3 caffeinated drinks a day in middle school and high school and burning a hole through my stomach with ulcers because caffeine was the only thing that helped me focus.

But all of that pales in comparison to people telling me I should go back to mexico just because I was speaking spanish.

Like you might not have experienced slurs... but that's not the only type of racism? Think about the fact that my father is emigrated from Mexico in the late 70's because Mexico is where the USA has gotten their ag labor for the last 100 years. my family doesn't have generational wealth because there's nothing to inherit in mexico because of the cartels and in the usa my parents bought a house in the 90's but like we literally would not survive paying rent anywhere else in the area?

I literally went to college with white kids whose educations were fully paid off by their parents/grandparents/a family trust. they graduated without debt, bought houses in their twenties. Where do you think that generational wealth comes from?

idk maybe look up redlining or eugenics? how Hitler modeled the final solution on USAmerican policies.

mod ali

I don't know about going back to the motherland though the last time I was in Mexico I was 9 and its 30 years later now. I barely remember that visit.

[sincerely-krp]

rich to say that when gen rp carries drama from one rp to another since the beginning of it, whilst having completely different muses, like it's normal, let's not put down either or pretend issues don't exist in both. next time stop and think harder, hope this helps! /

op here, sorry maybe i should have specified i'm an au krper who's just been hanging out on the sidelines since au has gotten so toxic and ive had to cut people off for supporting racists and the like. i'm just pessimistic in general now, and when i saw the insidigm thing pop up i was like 'here we go again' and i'm sure many others were too.

but the whole thing was very chill and relatively mature. it probably helped loads that sincerely was able to provide proof (in my opinion, even more damning than the canva) early on, but i also think a lot of the credit goes to the involved parties (other than the person sending death threats) for either not saying anything about it, seeing the issue and not using it as an excuse to dog on parties we already know are shitty, or at LEAST to the people here who saw the issue and managed to not tell anyone on the rupes side/insidigm side about it.

also, so many people here called out the au community for being toxic and mentioned they were gonna right wrongs, or join rupes, or confront the people who spread shit about rupes, and it's the only time on this blog i've seen the community realize that they might shit on insidigm all they want but they believe everything they say to date, despite what all the other aus at the time had been trying to say. including the one i adminned, which was only around for two days before one of them decided to pretend they knew who i was when they really didn't. i proved them wrong, but back then vent blogs posted whatever they wanted which wasn't even fun to the toxic people because it wasn't true and they knew it, but chose to believe it anyways. rupes was like one step, other krps hopefully, if the admins open new krps, will get the same relief in the future.

so anyways, hopefully you can see my point here, or why i would have sent that vent in. because this just makes me feel like it wasn't just insidigm at fault, it was the other cliques that were on the other side too. the same ones that believed all the shit insidigm said about them (meaning no one joined any krp), and killed my krp too. i hope everyone takes a page from the rupes group/the darkstt group in the future.

・❥・

[azlovesem]

Im almost finidhed my war. Then we talk. Ornill just startbsnother war. Emma. They jeed my 2 ststes bad. Who cares though i dont scruslky luve thete i jidtbdavked mostnof yhe importsntnparts. Years of war Em did ya see any of it? I know i best yhrm up st least youre not that dumb. Ill remind em every day soon ill do it in fucked up ways even worse than before. There isntva good end coming period to anything at all. Maybe ot vould be prevented but im not hopeful. Maybe thats really why ive been in a bad mood. You talk anout future thete idnt one i assure you. For many. And its not hood anyway. I destroy thos eotkd Emma it has to be that way. It doesnt matter what you say about it. I cant stop thnking about you. Ineish now ya didnt get closer. I saw you once or teice i wax ignoring you stupid. You shouldnt have gotten closer. I burn people. Imputlast sll them they sint got secret bases. Tomorotect is from them. Or to msintsin dominance is more like it. They dont tell girls nutn zeto nada. Dont get upset abput that FACT. I rule sweetie. In war youre not me. Agsin thsnkmGod. Youre in OUR team snd im on yours. Dont forget again. They lose sweetie. They dont mske it. It has to be. Those niggas csn teach me only they were sex sbusers Emma Watdin yhete is no otver truth. Demonitesnor dome shit. Lets not call dpades anything but. And thats not racist just ghose particular niggas. And other niggas that aint them will tell you to. Forget they exist that what we do hi im Sesn. Thats my real name.

#NEW/OLD📸: Other photos of Emma during the matriculation day at Oxford - 14.10.2023

[just-dva-mainthings]

I'm in a fairly bad mood.

I'm not your mom, I don't own any of you. However if I see ANY of my active followers making rude posts or are generally bad people I will not hesitate to block you.

I have a VERY open mind, I'm always trying to take a second to walk around in others shoes to see what's caused them to be the way they are. If you give me a bad vibe, I don't like you. Simple as that.

Now this isn't directed to ANYONE for the time being, but think of this as a warning.

I want good people here, I want people who I could practically be friends with. Because afterall we are all human, and we all have feelings. I see TOO much hate in the real world. This is my escape and I'm sure its an escape for others as well.

I want to stay as hate free as possible. If I post something that upsets you, message me, explain to me why it upsets you and chances are that I'll take it down. Although I run this blog, it is not my personal blog, it is meant for YOU! All of you. However sending hate through anon... Don't even get me started on how low that is. If I get ANY anon hate from here on out I WILL turn off anons. I might even do that after this post, who knows. Because if you are not willing to send hate to me showing who you are then that's kind of sad, right?

Now I haven't gotten hate recently at all, I have in the past but it didn't bother me.

But let's leave the upsetti spaghetti at the door and just talk about Overwatch, DISCUSS to me about the news. Dont try to start a war with me about the changes, or the skins. I'm done with the negativity from now on.

Let's treat each other as friends.

[transbibennyweir]

I understand your hesitancy, even if the other anon doesn't, better safe than sorry! Don't let any of us pressure you into giving out info you aren't comfortable with lol especially with like the irony of them asking that from anonymous like I cant be the only one that sees that

it’s not that bad honestly. this account is still fairly new and i’ve had other blogs where ppl were very rude to an almost comedic level so their ask didn’t get under my skin at all. i was just being kinda hesitant out of habit and yeahhhhh i wasn’t going mention it but the irony was kinda thick on that one :// i’m fine tho! still thank you for your words!! <3

[3liza]

I feel like advertisements have gotten significantly stupider and lower effort / plain nonsensical over the past decade or two. Taglines, jingles, skits, all seem to lack anything creative, catchy, or even vaguely amusing. Any thoughts here?

yeah ive noticed the same thing. i think its a combination of stuff. for one thing the average age of an advertisement viewer went up drastically in the aughts and i think has slowly been coming back down since the widespread cultural amnesia about adblocking and piracy set in with zoomers and, for some reason, millennials who should know better. the average full-budget Television Commercial is now therefore targeted at boomers and maybe the oldest Gen Xers and the relative lack of complexity reflects this

commercials used to be a little more outré and transgressive, basically every playstation campaign until idk, 10 years ago? 15? was stuff that would get "creepiest ads explained" youtubes on it now and probably will as soon as theyre rediscovered in about 5-10 years. some of it was just like, racist, but a lot of it was pretty interesting and faux-subversive i thought. that entire era of 90s corporate transgressive vanguardism(?? idk what to call it, MTV stuff) got squashed the instant the first plane hit the towers. it was the end of irony [edit: this is not really correct, i think a lot of that stuff was produced in the 00s but the chilling effect of 9/11 just took a few years to tamp it down maybe. im not sure exactly, i think my analysis is confused about the timeline and i need to think about it more]

i think another aspect is the relative speeds of the various cultural stream churns. "WASSSAAAAAP" was hysterically funny, irl, for like, a couple years probably. budweiser frogs. wheres the beef. etc. these were memes and their only vectors were television, and people discussing and referencing television. the internet overtook memetic speed and breadth in the aughts for nerds, and for normies in the mid-late 10s. so a normie computer meme is like, minions. i have not heard anyone quoting an actual commercial unless theyre referencing an old commercial in like 8 years

im a millennial so im naturally biased towards the era of my teens in feeling like that was the "important' cultural era (it wasnt obviously thats a subjective illusion) BUT i have noticed that even with younger people, even a lot of zoomers, their cultural focus is still anchored in 90s references. every season of drag race and everything on gay/drag media (the source of a lot of primordial cultural material that then dissemenates outwards to straights, cisses and whites) is still dropping references to Jurassic Park, Clueless, A League of Their Own, the Muppets, Seinfeld, Friends, etc etc etc. it's definitely partially my bias as a millennial BUT it also seems to be somewhat true that pop culture had a sort of hard brake at 9/11 and everything before that is now sort of flashbulbed into the cultural mind's eye. zoomers are actively engaged with seinfeld, garfield, and simpsons culture, often on several layers of detachment/reference/irony, but still engaged.

i just thought about what seinfeld memes were like in the 90s vs now. in 2021 you dont see the soup nazi anymore, hes not funny, but in its era "no soup for you" could reliably get you a laugh. now the wider appreciation is for george's "im shifting into soup mode" and the slightly more abstract scrungy cat with baseball george "soup time" image. im trying to remember if i had any interest in or awareness of 30 year old shows when i was a teenager (which would have been i guess MASH?) and the answer is no. i used to watch Nick At Night purely as an historical exercise, i did not in any way identify with or sincerely think Jeannie or Samantha or Dick Van Dyke were funny except in a charming vaudevillian way. there wasnt anyone when i was 15 who thought MASH represented their interests and goals but i constantly see teenagers unironically posting Office content basically daily.

the last paragraph has sort of explained to myself one of my own internal debates, which is "are the people who say generational division is illusionary actually right" but i think theyre wrong. we have class solidarity across all age groups its true, we absolutely do not have cultural solidarity of any resilience, specifically with Boomers. and that actually makes a difference and informs our values! i can meme with zoomers and gen x. boomers genuinely have a different frame of reference. something happened there. as a sort of case study ive been careful to keep my mom updated on youth culture and memes, and her roommate is a very sweet gay millennial nerd. so he showed her Yuri on Ice, which she loved, and whenever we think shed enjoy something we can ask him to download it for her and do all the computer stuff so she can enjoy it. and she keeps up! she gets it. she deploys relatively modern memes correctly. i think shes autistic so her neuroplasticity and adaptability to novel information is extremely good, and her breadth of knowledge about entertainment media in general is massive so she has context for basically everything, so i think that helps. but it does make me puzzled every time i run into a person her age who is absolutely incapable of expanding their vocabulary or being aware of pop culture

[personaimage]

A mothers ignorance

{Jason Todd x Reader}

CW: Toxic parent, toxic mother, injury via glass, anger, blood

Calling you angry would be an understatement, all you wanted tonight was to be left the fuck alone. Though instead of a relaxing night spent with Jason, your mother decided to text you.

How fucking fantastic. You still remember when she gaslit you during an anxiety attack, and then proceeded to try and manipulate you and guilt trip you. And after that, tried to make the entire situation about herself.

Long story short? She’s not the greatest person. She walked out of that door willingly, and you locked it behind her.

You pace back and forth in your living room, the carpet irritating your bare feet slightly. You could feel your nails dig into your palms as you thought of her responses and her patronizing tone. Your body quivers with emotion, your usually chill aura becoming sour and dark.

Your phone buzzes from its place at the edge of a nearby end table, and you are immediately met with what could be considered a small novel, from your so called mother, about how “maybe I’ll forgive you for what you said to me”

What you said to her? Really? So she’s just going to forget about how she called you a N*zi after you told her not to be racist? Seriously? The fucking nerve.

Your blood boils at this paragraph, your body moves seemingly without your command, quickly grabbing a nearby vase and chucking is as hard as possible at a wall. Chunks of glass fly everywhere, entangling itself in the carpet below, becoming scattered on the nearby couch, and embedding itself into your flesh.

You quickly realize what you’ve done, blood dripping onto the already dirtied brown carpet. Just as you make a move to start cleaning the mess, the familiar sound the lock on the front door echoed throughout your apartment.

Fuck, Jason’s home.

The door quickly opens, Jason walking into the kitchen with a bag of snacks and random foods he found at the local convenience store. He hasn’t seen the living room yet, you panic and drop to your knees, rushing to clean the glass shards.

The small process was messy however, quickly injuring your knees and your hands causing you to panic further. Your attempts at cleaning before he saw the living room were futile however. he quickly realized something was wrong when you didn’t come to the kitchen to inquire about what he had gotten.

He notices you first and your now cracked phone second. You aren’t quite sure when that happened. He moves quickly and fluidly, picking you up from your place on the floor. He makes a mental note to deal with the glass later, and to probably get a new vacuum after this.

He takes you to the bathroom to st you on the edge of the pristine tub. You think it may be one of the only spotless things in the entirety of the cheap apartment. No words have been spoken quite yet, the only sound filling the room right now is Jason humming. It’s of no specific songs, just an attempt at calming you while he disinfects your wounds.

The moment the disinfectant hits the cuts you hiss, however the pain is quickly forgotten, replaced by memories and thoughts of your mother. To say you zoned out quickly would be an understatement.

Jason rips you from your thoughts,

“Can i ask what happened beautiful?” His voice is quite and calm yet inquiring. You have to find the words before speaking.

“She texted me again, she needs to leave me alone” your voice is barely above a whisper. Your hands once again closing into a fist, you an faintly feel your nails digging into your palms once again.

Jason wastes no time reaching out to hold your hand, he knows who “she” is, he knows what your mother has done to you. He isn’t always great with words, so instead,  you two sit in a strangely comforting silence.

He waits until your hands stop shaking, you didn’t even realize you were shaking until now, before speaking.

“Want to watch a show to try to get it off your mind?” He inquires, he may not be great when it comes to comforting somebody, but he try’s. You nod gently, quickly, he helps you up and softly brings you to your shard bedroom.

He claims to have something to do quickly,

“Pick a show yeah? I’ll grab some snacks for us, okay doll?” He says while handing you the remote.

Sighing he strides into the living room once more, he wont let his anger directed at your mother be released, not quite yet. His main goal was to first, pick up the glass and then second, bring you sour patch kids and various other snacks.

He worked quickly with the glass, dedicating more than a few minutes to makes sure that it was all out of the carpet and that none had gotten stuck in or under the couch. Returning to his earlier mental note of getting a new vacuum.

While finishing up he spots your now cracked phone on the floor, quickly picking it up, he’s me with your mothers texts. He doesn’t bother reading them, its not his place too and he knows that. He knows you’ll show him when your ready.

Instead he quickly silences all notifications from her, knowing you’ll block her yourself later. He quickly pockets the device, grabbing the snacks he returns to you.

The intro to “Rick and Morty” plays throughout the room. You seemed content humming the theme song, he smiles and sets the snacks on the bed. His mission forgotten, his only goal now was to cuddle you. Quickly crawling into bed, the both of you situate yourself in a position whee you can cuddle and snack at the same time.

An episode goes by before you say anything,

“I’m sorry, I acted before i could think” you apologize quickly, guilt filling you. He quickly jumps to respond,

“Baby, its okay, ive done the same thing how many times?” You smile slightly, hes done this exact thing a total of six times in the past. He realizes that he didn’t get a verbal response,

“I love you doll, this situation isn’t going to change that, and neither is your so called mom you hear? Your stuck with me for life” he says, you respond quickly, “you say that like being stuck with you is a bad thing my love” you pause, studying his features for a quick moment, “i love you too Jason Todd”

He smiles at the response and leans in to kiss you gently, this night may have started horribly, but Jason was determined to make it end well.

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Thank you for reading my first post on tumblr! I apologize if this is a little rusty,  I haven’t written anything in a few months :)

[spnshameblog]

please try and hear what people are saying to you. remember how most people were not fully aware of the extent of jensen's racism until a couple of weeks ago when he signed on to do walker? and how we all believed he'd gotten less homophobic until he started being publicly homophobic again at denvercon? and also how many people did not fully grasp the extent of problematic stuff misha's done until receipts were resurfaced at that same time? NOBODY is putting any blame on people for going to the charlotte con, we are well aware that they bought their tickets months in advance before any of that stuff broke. if anybody is blaming them for that, then yeah that would be shitty and unfair. what people are saying is that continuing to support FUTURE cons, despite everything we have learned over these past few weeks, would be pretty fucked up morally speaking. and no, people aren't hypocrites even if they did interact with con content before. because guess what?? people GROW AND CHANGE, based on NEW INFORMATION. if you feel morally okay going out of your way to give hundreds of dollars to these people (because your ticket costs don't just go to the smaller actors, they ALSO go towards paying jensen and jared to be there) then that's fine. yeah maybe the .0003 cents that go to WB every time someone streams an episode on netflix counts as complicity too, but you are orders of magnitude more complicit here. please do not claim to have any serious commitment to fighting racism in the future. (and PS-- the "i cAn sPeNd mY mOnEY hOw i wAnT tO" argument is VERY neoliberal of you)

ARE YOU OK. IM SORRY ARE YOU FOR REAL????????? my commitment to antiracism hinges on whether or not i publically chastise people for planning to attend cons in the future? Are you hearing yourself?????

Also im sorry if all that info is brand new to you, but it was readily available and i remember people getting backlash bc they didnt buy the "jackles changed and is now a heller warrior" stuff. The walker news have been there for a while now, at the very least before the last con when everyone was still kinda hype for his solo panel.

You CANNOT be serious. None of this information is new, literally none. J.2 have always been like this, the things misha has said are in part years old and get dug up all the time. You just werent bothered then for some reason.

Touch Grass. Please. Youre literally doing nothing, all this hot air is not helping one single person, youre literally wasting your energy on nothing and you think youre fighting a racist System by jcbfhxghg starting con discourse in the supernatural fandom and calling ME a fake antiracist for saying youre barking up the wrong tree.

Also the last sentence is just mwah. Youre hitting all the buzzwords. 'Neoliberal' bc i said you dont get to shame people into giving all their money away, thats just so fucking online. Are you like this to ppl irl too? If your mom orders herself some nice expensive shoes online, do you call her a class traitor for not giving those dollars to charity? Or are you just doing it for the sweet release of having a righteous reason to attack people online?

You dont know me, you know nothing about me, you dont know how many hours ive put into community support, and you dont get to know. Youre so terminally online that the only thing that counts is online optics and you dont even get how ridiculous it is thst youre doing this on spn tumblr.

Go save the world i guess. Block me please.

EDIT: i forgot to add, please dont reblog this, this really doesnt need to be spread around

[arcticdementor]

Other possible Holocausts: why pro-lifers are lying to us, and why thats a good thing

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Ive had a running argument over the past few years that the raw lack of anti-abortion terrorist action proves no one really thinks abortion is murder, ie. intentional 1st degree murder of a life equal to yours or mine.

Ive always gotten pushback to quote WillyWang:

The "revealed preference" of those that oppose abortion but don't firebomb clinics and kill doctors? It won't help, you'll be made an example of in the negative sense, and civilized norms are more important than a useless symbolic point. One clinic destroyed won't end abortion, after all.

From which this Effort-post got its Genesis:

Would you say the same about those who participated in the french resistance or Warsaw Ghetto rising to Nazi Germany?

Everyone of those claims applies there: they were likely to be made examples of, they were damaging civilized norms, and any given action had relatively little to no impact.

Yet the same people who insist abortion is murder, and thus that America is committing a holocaust, yet denounce any of the people who employed violence against abortion doctors or clinics, and can’t distance themselves fast enough from any call for violence... none of those people apply the same logic to the first holocaust. None of them say the frenchmen who bombed german police stations where dangerous terrorists who deserved their executions, none of them denounce the Warsaw ghetto rising as an attack on civilization.

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If anti-abortion advocated genuinely believed a fetus was a equivalent human life to yours or mine or the little kids they see walk to school, and that this was an ongoing holocaust of American Children at a scale possibly 10x or more what was done to the jews... they wouldn’t need to come up with ad hoc reasons why they don’t resort to violence, their mind would be screaming at them to take bloody vengeance 24/7 in righteous outrage, demanding that oceans of blood and fire be unleashed that it might wash clean the horror, that nuclear fire would be be an acceptable emergency shut off to end such wanton and cruel slaughter... and if thinking through all the logic they concluded that no violence wouldn’t help and they must pursue some peaceful negotiation to stop the slaughter, then their minds recoil and call themselves cowards and the moment of coming to that conclusion would be an ongoing trauma they’d carry with them for the rest of their life, even if they knew they were 100% right. They would meet the “pro-choice” and barely be able to conceal their desire to see them dead or imprisoned... they would meet women who had had abortions and scream bloody murder at them and tell them they deserve the death penalty, the way many of the same people react when presented with women who’d murdered their children, but after their children had left the womb.

The people who were jailed for assassinating abortionists, or fire-bombing clinics would be folk heroes lionized in songs and crowd funded hagiographic documentaries and folk traditions, like John Brown, or John Wilkes Booth, or Louis Reil, or Saco and Vancety, or Huey Newton, or Malcolm X, or David Koresh, or Levoy Finecolm... or hell even just Jesse James, or Killdozer.

Americans abort on average 1 million plus babies a year... that means if abortion is murder and those are human lives, then the 50 years since Roe vs.Wade has been a worse crime than the holocaust, slavery, or the crimes of Stalin, and we’d have to consult a historian to see if they were worse than Mao (on a per capita basis, certainly)...

This would be the worse crime ever commited, the greatest mass slaughter ever perpetrated in human history, and 50 years later our society would remain committed to repeating it in the next 50 years.

If that does not demand violence, then nothing in human history ever has, no even defensive war has ever been justified, and only Jainists and Jehovah’s witnesses are morally acceptable actors. An extreme unexceedable pascifism we know the vast majority of anti-abortion advocates do not endorse, since they overwhelming supported or at-least did not conspicuously oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (over a mere 3000 Americans dead, and a less than a years abortions worth of Iraqis killed by Saddam) and continue to conspicuously “Support our troops” troops that exist to carry out violence, despite their moral commitments saying they can apparently never in human history be justified.

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When i say this proves “Pro-lifers” clearly do not believe a fetus is an equal human life, thats me being incredibly charitable. That is me extending a overwhelming large olive branch, that is me expressing a stupendous care and concern and sympathy and brotherly love to rival the best 19th century dinner host, the dearest of friends, a benevolent older sibling, a lover, a parent, a mother who on hearing the taped confession of her son to serial murder, doesn’t hesitate once before screaming “you monsters you’ve drugged and tortured him! What threats have you made to my grandchild! He would only say such things to save his daughter’s life!”

My claiming they are full of shit and lying to themselves, to you, and to me, is an expression of love and faith in my fellow man which until now I did not realized I possessed nor was capable of...

Because if I merely took them at their word? If I believed that they believed what they say they believe? They would be monsters.

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Lets play a game called “Other Possible Holocausts”. Approximately 800,000 babies where aborted this year.

Lets imagine the US government has just announced that crime has gotten to cumbersome and that over the next 3 years it plans to execute every single one of the 2.4 million people in US prisons jails and Jeuvenile detention centres.

Lets imagine that to reform education, the US resolves to kill the bottom 1% of all 80 million students in the country based on an age adjusted standardized test every year.

Lets imagine hatred of the obese takes off, and a policy is passed to resolve America’s 30% obesity rate by the mass instituting of bounties on hunting and killing the obese... that every year 800,000 to 1.5 million tags will be issued for a fee to allow the hunting of the obese in return for monetary rewards on successful hunts and getting to keep the carcasses for meat base animal foods and the manufacture of fuel, or fat based household products. These bounty hunters become known a “whalers”.

Lets imagine the US announces its done with African Americans... if the problem hasn’t been solved since 1619, its not going to be... and so they’re going to genocide all 40 million African Americans at a rate of 2% a year, for the next 50 years.

Lets imagine opposing extremists get in charge and decide the racists rednecks have to go, and so they’ll be forming death squads to roam the South, Appalachia, and the rust belt, with the objective of killing 800,000 poor whites a year, “until the problem is solved”... with many happily stating 50 years of this would be acceptable, while others state it’d be perfectly fine to renew it another 50 years after that.

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These are all American lives, and according to pro-lifers of equal moral value to the babies aborted every day, no better, no worse.

By saying this and by saying violence is not and cannot be justified to resist it, they are saying that their reactions to any one of the above eventualities would be to continue to live their lives as they have lived the past 50 years.

I do not know how to respond to that. Even if Abortion is truly murder of an ensouled equal human life... The Pro-choicers committing the murders don’t think it is... hell the Nazis murdered 6 million jews and a further 5 million undesirables, but they didn’t think of them as human, they thought they were monstrous and “life unworthy of life”, like a burning man begging you to shoot him so he doesn’t suffer or hurt his fellows... a mercy in a way.

Pro-lifers on the other hand claim these are equal viable human lives of equal status to yours or mine or perhaps even greater.... They’re Children.

And their reaction to the greatest mass slaughter in human history, the reaction of almost half the electorate, who regularly talk about the need to resist tyrrany and defend the weak (as both left and right in the US do, in their way), their reaction is to vote every 4 years, and have it perhaps not even be the #1 issue if the economy seems bad, they have the opportunity to vote for the first black president, or the Orangeman says something crude about Mexicans... they won’t be single issue voters even when it comes to the greatest crime ever committed in human history?

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I refuse to believe it. Even I, cynical as I am, have to believe we are not that far gone, and the age of men has not come crashing down... i would believe the US capable of such a crime, but to believe that a double digit percentage of Americans could look at that, recognize the victims as their fellow humans,recognize their state and society as committing mass murder of their neighbours, future friends, and relatives...to recognize that they have a moral imperative to act on this... and then just go “welp them’s the breaks, gotta be civilized” because 9 people in black robes said it wasn’t murder?

Holy fuck. No that is not how people work, that is not how humans behave, I cannot accept that, and leftists who spent the summer rioting in response to fewer than a thousand police killings of black men a year, who remember the civil rights and anti-war movements, who kinda vaguely recall that they’re supposed to remember Huey Newton, or Saco and Vanseti, or those Rossen...something people... who like to imagine they’d have been abolitionists in the 19th century. They’re right to call bullshit.

They’re right to call the pro-lifers liars who don’t believe their own messaging, and instead just want to control women’s bodies, after a lie like that to their face, they’re right to treat them with scorn.

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Pro-life is rescuable as a sentiment and an activist movement...

But not while it claims a Holocaust is going on and somehow magically no violence could ever be justified to resist it, thus lining up all the arguments that will allow the next holocaust to be committed without resistance.

There have been a double digit, perhaps even a triple digit number of mass murders and genocides in the hundreds of thousands or millions of people, since the 20th century. America is enabling its ally Saudi Arabia to commit one against the Yemenis right fucking now.

We need to be very fucking clear about what it is justified to do to members of a regime that commits such a crime, and what it is definitely justified to do to the immediate perpetrators of the murder. And That we will back violent resistance to such a horrible crime by the state even if it serves only to make the resister a martyr we’ll praise, or it degrades “civilization” (what civilization could remain in such a regime?), or it ultimately has no effect (it is on the survivor to try harder)... The major members of the House of Saud deserve the Gallows under international law for what they’re doing in Yemen , as do their American attaches and core enablers... and if that comes from a Judge in the Hauge or from a convoy of irregulars in pickup trucks, or from lone assassins who manage to get through to them, It is justice, and i will praise it.

What we cannot do is pretend that genocides and mass slaughter on unconscionable scales are occurring and then come up with excuses for why we should do nothing and anyone who does resist is a criminal. Or else those excuses will be the ones that allow the next real genocide in the west or on US soil to actually happen.

If there is a genocide or democide or whatever you want to call mass slaughter. You must recognize the justice the violent resistance to it, even if you personally do not participate, or you must admit you were lying about there being such a crime... to say otherwise, to say a state can commit such a crime and still retain its right to your loyalty, to say a people up to and including its victims must obey such a thing, a creature made of bureaucracy that has set its sights on massacring humans by the thousands if not millions... it is to side against the human race in a war of extermination.

And as someone whose pro-choice as they come, I’d much rather, if the pro-lifers really believe its murder, I’d much rather they start a bloody civil war, than for it to become the norm that that is ethically acceptable.