#just wanted to get that off my chest tbh

[dadbots]

Been feelin kinda productive lowkey?

[gloom-metal]

This is the most basic bitch, surface level analysis possible, but I've been thinking about this since the beginning of the Chainsaw Man Church arc and people's reactions to chapter 171. I think the Chainsaw Man Church, and this particular leg of Part 2, is a meta commentary about fans of the Chainsaw Man manga.

I've been thinking about the main complaints about Part 2 I have seen online; the lack of action, the lack of fights, the lack of Chainsaw Man in, well, Chainsaw Man. And while some of those complaints are not unfounded (i do think Part 2 has pacing problems tbh) let's contrast that to the Chainsaw Man Church.

The main goal of the Church is to see their beloved hero fight again, and their most fanatical member, Barem, is willing to kill and burn any semblance of normalcy Denji has in order to see him be Chainsaw Man full time. There is no concern about Denji as a person, or what he wants, only that he pulls that cord and becomes Chainsaw Man. While this was present in Part 1 with Makima, I think this part really emphasizes how little others (minus a select few) care about Denji as a person. They only care about Chainsaw Man.

And sure enough, come Chapter 171, Pochita, in his Hero of Hell form, makes a big return in the worst possible circumstances: after Denji's will to live is completely and thoroughly crushed. And the reactions online were what i was expecting: hype, excitement over the coming fights, claims that Fujimoto's cooking and back in the saddle.

I guess in the end, the Church and the fans got exactly what they wanted.

[midnightmah07]

I actually love having brainrot over twst and I love making content for my oc x canon in twst but I do miss being obsessed with One Piece too :((

For some reason I can't like focus on more than one thing at once, like if I like something too much I literally will just draw/write for that, which explains why I only drew/wrote for One Piece before twst... But now that I got this new interest that I love just as much as One Piece it's like I'm leaving One Piece and replacing it with twst... Which is far from what I wanna do, like I ain't even following the manga anymore that's how much I stopped focusing on One Piece

I know it's not like an actual serious issue like it literally ✨does not matter✨ but I miss freaking out over Law, lunami and drawing my One Piece oc x canon 😭😭💔💔

[tvuniverse]

Listen i just want to preface this by saying I don't even personally hate Tommy, but that's not really the point i want to make so here goes nothing.

The way a lot of people act as if it's impossible to dislike him because the characters have moved on so so should we, right? and that's the thing right here, as poc we're always being told to move on. We can't express our feelings, we can't hold grudges, we can't complain about issues without making it something more than it is, we always have to just... move on.

I know people are going to say it's just a show, it's not that serious, but the issues it touches on and the way fandom speaks on those issues are.

I've seen a lot of comparisons between Tommy and other mains, how each of them are flawed and have screwed up one way or another, and you're right, but it's still unfair to compare him to them. We've seen each of the main characters experience guilt, or be ashamed of their action, we've seen them apologise, put in the work to actually grow, and they have. There's not enough time in an episode for us to see that for side characters. In this case, Tommy didn't do any of the above and that's normal, he was a plot device to show some very real societal issues, and especially what people of colour/women might go through in the workplace, and once he served his purpose he didn't get much more beyond a few scenes where it seemed like everything was fine between him and chim/hen. It would be more appropriate to compare him to the buckley parents, (who appeared in more or less the same amount of episodes) like if people suddendly started saying no one is allowed to hate them because they got their redemption, their kids more or less forgave them, they more or less tried to be better parents. And yet it's still not enough for a lot of people, because how they treated their children, the shit they've said to them, hits a little too close to home for a lot of people and so no matter what the show says or does, they'll still be mostly hated by the audience, and that's more than okay. But if margaret buckley is your favourite character than by all means be my guest. And listen, i love this show, it's all about hope, and it means everyone gets a redemption arc, as short as it is (sometimes even just a sentence lol), but we won't always be satisfied with these arcs, especially if they don't feel proportional to the hurt the characters may have caused to our mains, so we'll all have different reactions to them.

I swear liking a morally ambiguous/grey character says absolutely nothing about you, but making excuses for them, antagonising people who might dislike them (for good reasons) or acting like suddenly triggers don't exist for people, does say something about you. One of my favourite characters is literally the worst person ever, an actual bigot, but i won't ever write essays about why people are not allowed to dislike him actually because he's my babygirl.. i very much understand why people would.

All of this to say, everyone will have different opinions about Tommy. Some might love him, some will be completely neutral or at worst slightly uncomfortable/bothered by him, and some will straight up hate him, and all of these are fine. Live and let live, love whoever you want to love, and hate whoever you want to hate, but please stop trying to dictate how others should feel, i'm begging. And this really does go both ways.

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

i posted that stupid shit on my instagram i might just kill myself fr

now im afraid i wont sleep for another 24 hours damn 😭😭

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[lacomandante]

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[tvrningout-a]

so!! a little housekeeping is in order!!

i'm gonna be here kinda off and on bc i'm going to work on school stuff! and bc my inspiration's been decent, i might reblog a lil spicy meme over on @tvrningon and something fluffy here, though ofc you're free to send in any meme i've reblogged in the past <3 i also have an inbox call that i'll probably work on sometime later today!

and just to kinda share where my head's at, my muse for kny hasn't been very high lately, so i'm thinking of changing my muse list in a way that reflects that. i just!! haven't figured out how exactly. i might categorize the lists by fandom and then by primary, secondary, and tertiary/request. i just want to show that my focus is on chiyo/modern muses, fantasy, and even s.piderverse stuff atm but without shoving all my other muses off the list or into the request category. i can definitely still write everybody!! the muse just isn't there like it used to be.

this doesn't affect many people here, but i may also edit chiyo's bio to make her fandomless again; i just don't interact with hq!! muses very often anymore, and her story isn't one that necessarily needs to be connected to hq!! to work.

i apologize if any of this disappoints anybody btw! i know this blog used to be very kny-centered, and a lot of people followed me for that originally. but i need to do what's going to make being here fun for me, which means changing things. if you need to soft/hardblock me, there's no hard feelings, and i wish you the best <3

[kkeke99]

Enough time has passed now, so I can finally say with certainty that the only good MLs of the Jewelpet Series are Akira Nanase and Retsu Akagi 👍🏻

[krynutsreal]

alright guys ramble time but about one of my classes I have ok (boo tomato tomato)

I've been thinking about this for so long at this point but it's crazy how there can be a whole room of people who you are comfortable being with at first right until they start talking about their opinions towards queer people/trans people

Like . Even if they aren't hateful towards them, but yet just "don't agree with their beliefs" or just don't. Understand much about it. And aren't really willing to learn more I guess?

I have a 7:30 am class, in which it's basically career exploration and helping you figure out what career you want, etc etc whatever

One class period we were supposed to be researching for scholarships, but due to it being like. What, middle almost the end of the semester nothing much would show up (to me at least). Which is fine, the class always ends up getting derailed somehow.

This time a classmate of mine brought up how this one classmate in her psychology class pissed her off bc he was the kind to openly speak up and oppose to whatever discussion there'd be, and that he always somehow manages to victimize himself I guess (saying this from memory so obviously it's not like. Exactly what she said to the class). By victimizing I mean that he either gets offended by a lot of the topics they discuss or just in general speaks up about the topics their class discusses. While I do not know much about him, I got the general idea that he is a white trans man who feels that his transness makes him oppressed like the other marginalized people (which is not wrong, just the way that the girl worded it made it seem like he would use this fact to "victimize" himself. Whatever that means)

That this one time she had saw him drop his pencil and she had told the teacher (when being questioned as to what happened I think) "she dropped her pencil" and he (her classmate) had gotten angry, because she misgendered him on accident.

And she kinda explains that how was she supposed to know what his pronouns were if she hasn't ever really talked to him at all? All while still like, using she/her pronouns.

It kinda just dove into the conversation of trans people in general, and how some people's beliefs don't agree with the concept in general. Some guy said that while he can kinda understand going ftm transition that he couldn't accept it the other way around, because of how he was raised and about how he felt towards his own manhood. His pride in being a man.

The same was discussed between the girls in my class, with the girl who started the conversation saying that her womanhood means a lot to her. That "those types of people like the concept of becoming a girl up until they have to get their period ....etc etc"

And at that moment it just kinda. Sunk deep in my stomach that oh yikes. wow I would never come out to any of you. I'd rather not explain my feelings of my own gender, hell one of them didn't even know what non-binary was!!!! And so I explained to the guy who didn't know that, and corrected him that what he thought was non-binary was actually called being gender fluid. Which well. ya know.

They weren't being mean about the discussion at all, at least not from what I remember it. They were open minded and calm, but the thing is that they were with people who thought the same as them (or well, I guess presumed to think the same, some of us just stayed silent for most of the discussion)

Would it have been different if someone, who was actually trans, sat with them? Would it have been different if I came out to a random group of strangers I don't know that well?

It stuck out to me that the conclusion everyone had come up with was to bring someone in who was trans, to ask them questions and "pick apart their brain" (as one guy put it) and they had suggested to bring the guy my classmate had talked about in the beginning.

My friend (or acquaintance, not sure tbh), who is in the same class as me had said that she knew someone who was ftm, someone who was way older and had raised his kid after transitioning

Some suggested to bring both of them in, to see their differing views on their transness and experiences, and I agreed on this too because I thought it'd be interesting to see and talk to other trans/queer people

It's just, I don't know why this has stuck to me. It's been weeks since I had that discussion. I'm sure that it's because I have my own conflicting and confusing thoughts on gender, and that the way some of them just. Worded or talked about trans people almost made me want to tear up? It's hard to explain the feeling I got, to hear someone bring up a point where i shit you not was "oh yea i remember hearing that theres a statistic saying that trans people are usually connected to being mental ill/autistic"

Like .blinks slowly. Do you think that being autistic just . automatically makes you trans? I've seen autistic people who are not, and I've seen trans people who are not autistic. The only reason why hearing statistics like that is possible is because people want to say that being trans makes them mentally ill.

Which is not even the case most of the time because it's really the way that people treat trans people !!! That makes them feel that way. The way they are treated are what makes them unhappy, what makes some not even want to come out.

It's just. I don't know man, would they have the same thoughts on seeing a drag queen/king? Would they think that's the same as being trans or what's up. If anything I'd want to pick their brains. To see what is it about transness that they don't understand. If I can help them become more understanding so that things like accidentally misgendering someone wouldn't become such a frustrating process to them.

Hell, even with me being confused and closeted I just. I don't know. I wish I spoke up more during that conversation. But the fear of giving myself away would eat me alive as it always does. I keep thinking, well what would their reactions have been if I did come out? They obviously wouldn't see me the same, hell I don't even think I'm trans but surely since they just. Their opinions on trans people would surely make them change their view on someone who they see as "normal" . It makes me want to rip my hair out because of it

I literally thought about this while working on Friday and I don't even have a specific thought or point to bring out, so I apologize deeply for that. Thanknuou for coming to my Ted talk auuuuahhhg

[coolspacequips]

My unpopular opinion abt the new Castlevania series ig is that I just don't have any care or sympathy for these little church goons that they were trying to humanize this time around... Like Olrox revenge kill go off, I watch u kill that boys mom minute 1 but I'm still in ur corner bbygirl! I see ur thru line.

But then his little shitty church bf sanctioning and standing by all the actions of the church and also we don't talk about the homophobia he's supporting while also being gay and also sleeping w a man his church would have (and did) sanctioned the genocide of several times over... I'm supposed to think the way he shut Olrox down was anything worth feeling bad for, I just rolled my eyes at his self righteousness. Walk away from that man, Olrox!! We saw where this manic Christian love leads, and it's what ur Abbott did (who I also don't give 1 fuck about him or his white xtian guilt especially after That LOL)

I guess I can tentatively respect that the church guard's storyline is gonna potentially be about deprogramming him, but I hate that they seemed to be posing him as correct in accusing Olrox of having no soul, when we as the viewer know it was an act of love that he didn't think he was capable anymore, after what was done to him at the hands of ppl that the church guard. To me all i felt was the heartache from his POV so common in these communities where u thought you have a Good Christian that saw you, but he still sees you as the monolith of his imaginary enemy the second push comes to shove, even though your actions have shown again and again that there's nuance to be had

[heyitslapis]

Ok

[enamouredless]

Does anyone know why changing the color of the accents on your profile to dark red wont work?? It immediately changes it to white and is been annoying me for months

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[ayyponine]

girl help im going back n forth on whether or not i should send an email to thank the beautiful man fr letting me join the drawing session last week (more info on that entire situation here and here) and letting him know i probably wont be back but appreciate having had the experience either way. great or horrible idea leave a comment or DM to lmk.

[evanbibuckley]

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