#jerking it as we speak

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

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[ironworked]

TLDR: what if fandom's debating Tommy's racism and misogyny in the Begins episodes, but the writers intended for him to 'just' come off as a jerk (and that's how the GA took it)?

I'm not saying I'm representative of the GA, but I did start watching the show before getting into fandom and I didn't interpret Tommy's worst transgressions the way fandom has, which got me wondering whether this could be one of those cases where fandom is looking more closely than the show expects (and more than the GA does).

**Obligatory disclaimer: this would not absolve Tommy of his part in perpetuating the toxic environment during Gerrard's first captaincy of the 118, because icing people out and such behaviors are still not okay.**

The scenes:

1.- "Hey, Eli. You forget to tip the delivery guy?" -> I thought that was 'just' a dismissive comment, certainly more pointed and mean-spirited than the 'prank' they pulled on Buck when he arrived (pretending they didn't know who Cpt. Nash was), but in that vein. I only learned of the racist implications through fans who pointed out the food they were eating.

2.- NY bitchiness:

Chim: Seriously? I would have bet money that you were from the East Coast. You just kind of have that vibe. Hen: Thank you for the compliment? Tommy: New York bitchiness is a compliment? Chim: Whoa, nobody said anything like that, come on.

This one, I was convinced it was a West Coast vs East Coast (maybe even blue collar vs white collar) thing! I didn't even register 'bitchiness' as gender-related. Like before, I am NOT saying I was right, just that I'm used to that... rivalry being A Thing and that's how I took it. Like in Europe, if you are comparing someone to Parisians it's... not often a compliment 😬.

It's Tommy who Chim chooses to approach, which could be pure chance (he caught him alone) but still, when trying to ingratiate yourself into a group that hasn't been welcoming so far, you don't start with the worst ones do you?

Right after being rudely denied by Tommy, he finds Eli. Eli, whose only role in 9-1-1 will be 'Good Guy, Gives Good Advice', doesn't commiserate or warn Chim against Tommy (or anyone else). He takes Chim on calls, and back at the station says:

Eli: It's not personal, you know. Look, in this job, friends die and funerals are held. They're not gonna just give you their friendship until you earn their respect. They're not just protecting you, they're protecting themselves. You don't name a puppy until you know it's gonna pull through.

My point is that while those comments can be read as racist/misogynistic and I'm not telling anyone not to, I'm unsure if that was the intention (or if regardless of intent, if it was the GA's takeaway from those scenes).

You know, because there's a chance it's not that deep and the writers totally missed the implications. They did parallel Mara's storyline to that call about a dog...

[seakicker]

who remembers my enstars days because i have the most intense urge to write another rinne fic but the ideas are all sitting on the tip of my tongue... (the tip of my brain?) like there's the inspiration to make rinne nsfw again but no specific ideas... hmmm... .

[grimxark]

cannot get over how absurd Sunstreaker’s and Sideswipe’s relationship is in IDW. Sunstreaker’s like. this is my brother. I love him very much. I do love showing off and being a menace but I always try to include my brother in my stunts and i dont see anything patronizing about what im doing, im just trying to be supportive and nice. I am now currently being tortured through means beyond your understanding because I decided to be cocky and then I got kidnapped and now im here. I need you to kill me. I need to be killed. The pain is unbearable. I can’t stand closing my eyes. I do not feel comfortable in my own body, because it feels alien, it does not feel like mine, not anymore. I miss my friends. I want help. Please kill me. and while all this is happening Sideswipe is like i fucking HATE my brother. I want him DEAD. i hope hes DEAD. hes such a fucking show off and he loves doing better than me on PURPOSE. He includes me in his stunts and tries to get me to do things instead of him bc he loves throwing it in my face how much better than me he is. He says he loves me but i KNOW hes lying and doing it to seem cool and like a good person. I dont even actually want to LOOK for him. Im just looking for him because then i can prove im better than him. I just want to be the one to rescue him so i can throw it in his face. Then when hes rescued ill be mean and when were separated ill send him videos and voice mails of my mission.

Sideswipe was filled with so much hate and envy towards Sunstreaker while streaker was literally just chilling out and being himself he literally didnt even seem all that much of a show off. he was doing the same thing everyone else was doing and sideswipe hated him for it. but they were still brothers. do you guys think about how they were brothers and streaker left in the lost light to heal from the war and then when he came to Earth for his brother he found a broken and battered corpse that resembled a compacted soda can. Do you think about the simple difference of Sideswipe not so much as blinking when they find Sunstreaker as nothing but a head and nerves vs Sunstreaker yelling we cant leave my brother hes in there! and Sideswipe! what did they DO to you?!

[elwolfen]

God... Steven Universe is so good

[bunnyburrowsys]

all the taco hate for the new episode is making me so sad like...

guys, can't you just accept that she's going to have a redemtion arc? hate her all you want, but some o' ya'll are treating taco's redemption like its ruining the show imo..... ':{

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

A month ago I had the passing thought that I didn't like Taylor Swift when I was younger because I was behind her eras and it was a really casual observation then but every day I find new ways it's true

[sciderman]

I would say you’re more of a Mr peanut butter type yeah

doggy doggy what now?

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶

[lesbianraskolnikov]

I am kind of glad the route to make rodya and sonya more explicitly romantic and have "couples quarrels" for lack of better words was cut out. I think...it works better

[yarrowleef]

mmm somethings been rattling around inside my brain about queerness in xenofiction (warrior cats centric cause that's obviously mostly what people are talking about in my internet circles) and I know around here I am preaching to the choir but w/e. I feel like i may have made this post before but i’ll do it again until i feel like i’ve crafted all of my thoughts correctly

everyone knows there’s always like. some shmuck on twitter or youtube comment sections, complaining about how gay cats just don’t make sense ~realistically~

and the common argument back is always something along the lines of “these cats have complex society and religion and talk to ghosts and sometimes have magic powers, and being gay is where you draw the line? it doesn’t have to be realistic”

and something just rubs me the wrong way about that argument, not that it’s WRONG, it’s not wrong, xenofiction by definition is all super super unrealistic. I think it’s more like, it oversimplifies it. because honestly when I make critiques about the warriors world building not making sense, I don’t tend to like the argument beginning and ending at “well it doesn’t have to be realistic” because no it doesn’t but it’s still supposed to feel believable.

i think i don’t like that the argument seems to imply that gay animal characters are at all on par with other fantasy things like talking to ghosts and having powers or complex religion. I also don’t like it when people who are being fake-supportive can condescendingly say “well the gay couple may be completely absurd and unrealistic but I guess it’s ok because its just a silly fantasy :) ” cause like. Like its not unrealistic tho. i don’t like the implication that it’s uniquely unrealistic, if this was a grounded story with no magic or religion and the cat social groups were more inspired by real feral cats, it would still be illogical for some queer cats not to exist.

 I feel like it is a more effective argument to point out that straight cats are just as unrealistic, in fact more unrealistic and silly

“cats lovingly and monogamously married-for-life and raising kids together” is the absurdity it should be compared to, rather then the magic elements. Because then the complainers have to contend with the fact that they aren’t bothered by unrealistic relationships between cat characters, they are just uniquely bothered by gay ones. 

I mean...not to get tmi but it seems obvious to me this knee jerk reaction people have to rolling their eyes and scoffing when “gay” and “animal character” are placed in the same sentence is based on their insistence on equating the breeding behavior of animals to the romantic relationships of humans. Y'know, they're assuming that when people talk about romantic couples between anthro characters, that that is the sort of thing they are drawing from. When, certainly when it comes to cats, that is a very very poor equivalent. Cat mating behaviors are not affectionate or long lasting--they actually seem quite stressful, and then the father runs off to find more girls and probably never calls his one-night-stand again.  

this is why I am really not fond of “mate” being used at the go-to replacement for husband/wife in xenofiction. Consider just coming up with a brand new word for your animal character’s version of romance! maybe they have types of relationships and words for them that humans don’t even have! but “mate” feels like. an action, nothing more. It doesn’t inherently imply love. frankly I think more people should be anthropomorphizing mates as simply Business Partnerships where the business is in desiring offspring, as opposed to husband/wife.

Just like....ok if you’re going to use the real behavior of animals as at least the loose inspiration for your anthropomorphic character’s behavior, surely pair bonding would be a smoother translation to what we view as a romantic couple?? not mating?? because pair bonded animals are the ones having consistent pleasant interactions, and being physically affectionate, and working together in life, sometimes even raising each others kids together.  

And keeping that in mind, frankly you could argue that gay-coded cats should be the norm. (not that I think pair bonded creatures should always be interpreted as a romantic coded relationship, you could interpret some as platonic or familial or simply allies needing to survive. The point is no matter what route you go, you are projecting some human experience onto animals who’s minds and feelings we cannot ever actually understand. So to make it coded as a gay romance is just as reasonable as making it an adopted found-family sort of affection. You can go any route and be the same amount of unrealistic.)

If these losers actually want reasonable cat fiction, no one should have romantic affection for anyone! and if two cats have kittens together, it should be treated more like a short-lived antagonistic business partnership where you part ways immediately after. If you only criticize one type of romance for being “unbelievable and silly because these are CATS for crying out loud 🙄” but you don't feel “distracted” or “taken out of the story” about the other type of romance, then this aint about realism my guy, sounds like you just have some baggage to unpack.

I am beating people over the head with a very big sign that reads “Whether you’re writing about cats or birds or aliens or fantasy people or whatever, you cannot grant any creature the ability to love without all the variety and complexity that **naturally** goes hand in hand with those messy emotions. If the creatures can fall in love at all, then there must exist the possibility for some of them to be queer about it. And if you view queerness as unnatural, then we don’t have a writing disagreement, we have a fundamental moral disagreement about life. And I can’t help you there, that’s your problem! But I refuse to let people benignly hide behind a “simple desire for more realistic-feeling fiction uwu” as a defense!! (gay people are real. It’s true! I checked!!)”

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

oohhh royal knight in training subaru and prince hokke oohhghh

[natasha-in-space]

Just woke up and I already get a makeout session from a cute guy. Neat. What's funny is that I remember this being a quick peck, but no. He went all for it.

Listen if I wake up with amnesia and a cute guy walks in and makes out with me, I'm not complaining. Orion does not approve though

[euclydya]

Something else about this is that it doesn't seem to currently effect the body much at all; the first time it was noticed, a few days ago, the body was extremely emotional, but now as it lingers it looks like emotions and corruption aren't connected. Hmmmmm.

[sssssaarn]

Cringe culture really did kill a lot more of the otherkin community than I think some people might think... KFF definitely played a huge role in the downward spiral, but I don't see people also point out how damaging cringe culture was to otherkins specifically. And that even if KFF never came around, there may still be beings who remain silent or quiet about being otherkin for fear of 'cringe'.

[fantasticalleigh]

*whispering* i'm still new to the WWE and its lore but i'm already so dead tired of the Bloodline story/faction. Also I like the Usos a lot but let them have their own thing that isn't betraying each other every other week because it's already so old.