#knives has opinions

[careful-knives]

Ok, so. I don't know what I'm feeling. It's a mixture of irl stuff (mostly worries) and hope.

Here's what I'm going to do:

filling the Netflix request form

sometimes talk to customers service on Netflix to keep asking for ofmd

keep recommending the show and asking people to ask Netflix for it

observe how wbd and Zaslav are doing

keep boosting all the tags on twitter

If anyone has additional ideas I'm open to include them.

[careful-knives]

Knives lore:

my first fictional crush/favorite character was Skeletor from He Man franchise when I was around 5 years old. One day in kindergarten teacher asked us to draw a fictional character we'd like to befriend and guess who I draw. Or tried to. I only managed to outline the skull and add a little blue around it when the allotted time ended. The teacher was concerned but my mom recognized the character and pinned the drawing on the fridge, with all the others. I also drew a lot of colorful ponies, so there was quite a selection.

somehow I always have the best connection/be fast friends with people who live quite far away from me. Which on one hand is amazing, the world seems like a better place when you think it's full of awesome people around the planet. Unfortunately I can't travel far or often, so internet is a blessing.

I don't experience friendship decay. I have been lucky to have people in my life who understand that, but when I was younger that was really troublesome.

sometimes I have very realistic dreams of other places and people or my loved ones and friends living in some beautiful place in happiness, and upon waking up I feel like I lost something important. I guess I'm so very much into escapism that I do it even subconsciously.

So that's that. If this crosses your dash and you feel like sharing your lore, consider yourself tagged.

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[careful-knives]

Yeah might be too early to say this, but my fever is too high to care.

I'm taking this "babe" event as a sign to clown harder.

We deserve that Jenkins Cut

So I'll be honking even more.

[careful-knives]

@googoogojob tagged me (thank you 💜💜💜), I did this quiz and it appears my super power is...

It seems I'm that little girl from Spy x Family then xD

I'm tagging (no pressure, only if you want to): @starlithumanity @the-names-salomea @death-by-cuddles @venusdebotticelli @follows-the-bees @chocolatepot @veeagainsttheday @anacrowley @ofmd-ann @jadedaceofspades @peacesmovingcabaret and anyone else who wants to 💜

[careful-knives]

@googoogojob tagged me 💜

Make a poll with 5 of your all time favorite characters and then tag 5 people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

@celluloidbroomcloset @scarrletmoon @ofmd-ann @starlithumanity @krakenteacups @asneakyfox @iamadequate1 @anacrowley @death-by-cuddles and by this point you all realize I'm terrible at math and cannot count so consider yourself tagged as well 😅

[careful-knives]

What you actually have to be 'careful' about is how you treat real people over fiction: creators, actors, animators, writers, fellow fans, fans you disagree with etc.

Because that will definitely show your character.

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[careful-knives]

It's always funny when in my fandoms a huge chunk of people insist that the equivalent of Caroline Bingley from Pride and Prejudice is the main character 🤣

[careful-knives]

Christian Gray is Dorian's Gray boring heterosexual cousin.

[careful-knives]

There's no good way to start this, so...

One of the first things they teach you (or should teach you) when you're studying information is asking yourself few important questions:

who is giving it to you

what kind of reaction is expected from the receiver

how can you verify the information

is there a bigger context

who benefits from the way this information was presented

Keeping that in mind will, I think, will help us all combat the rampant rise of fake news and callouts designed to ruin people's lives.

I just thought I might share this with you all, because it seems so obvious, right? But in practice? It's really, really not.

You have to train yourself to remember those questions and fight your instincts that tell you to be outraged.

And it takes time and practice. Even journalists who do this every day for a living for 40 years can and will forget.

So treat yourself gently but also apply this wisdom before following your outrage.

[careful-knives]

I recognize that this unfortunate phenomenon exists partially because phrases like "kill yourself" etc are used for online harassment and that it's supposed to be a tool designed to minimize cyberbullying.

But it just doesn't work, because a) it forbids people from talking about parts of life that are important to discuss and b) just makes cyberbullies more creative. Algorithm won't automatically ban someone from sayings stuff like "once I find you I'll be removing your bones one by one" but will ban a material detailing how to cope with the absence of a beloved person or pet.

In short, there's a world of difference between talking about the end of the life cycle and wishing death upon someone for having a different opinion. Context and intentions matter, and we can't just overall censor everything and call it done.

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

[careful-knives]

Ngl, but watching western side of all fandoms always latching onto a side character with some unpleasant aspects of personality and building a cult like circles around that character, insisting they're the most important one is always very frightening but at the same time kinda fascinating.

And it's never in a honest way like "this character is a little gremlin but I love them", no. It's always people insisting they're right about their interpretation and getting angry at anyone who can produce evidence that the beloved gremlin isn't actually the most important/main character and they're ready to use real violence over it. From slurs and "kys" to doxxing, cyberbullying and stalking, harassment campaign etc. All of this in the name of forcing people to accept someone's headcanon over the actual thing.

I think that mindset is the biggest problem we currently have in fandom spaces, because everything else is kind of tied to it - we allow real people to get hurt over fictional shit.

I don't really have a solution here, I'm just venting/nightblogging. I guess people just need to be more kind to fellow fans and strive to be less controlling but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

[sunlitsorrows]

Finally got to see Knives Out so I could finally see Glass Onion and just…

I think my favorite thing about them were how DIFFERENT they were. I LOVED that Knives Out was about… your choice to be a good person is what won the day.

But I also loved that Glass Onion went the opposite direction—girl you are the consequences and they got it comin’. *chicago music plays in the background*

Potential Spoilers Under the Cut

I will quite likely literally die on the hill that Good and Bad are not abstract subjectives we get to determine for ourselves, but situations and circumstances vary wildly, and a lot of mystery series back themselves into a corner trying to reinforce that law is good and necessary only to have to undermine its own message when the heros are finally in too tight a spot to win through lawful means (though humans being confronted with their own inability to render actual justice is also a *chef’s kiss* trope I do love very much please don’t mistake me) and I loved that Blanc, at the end, says I can’t help you burn this guy’s house down, but here’s a box of matches, girl, go nuts—and doesn’t spend a second being conflicted about it.

Because here’s the thing—he has every reason to be confident she’s not going to actually harm anyone. She hasn’t expressed a desire for revenge, only to find the murderer so they can be held accountable. And he’s seen the fire suppression system, and he’s heard how the fuel system works. The only person who is any real danger at this point is her, and she’s not, actually, in that much danger, because the murderer is an Idiot, and too big of an idiot to understand what she’s about to do, but not a big enough idiot to actually kill her in front of a room full of people.

I think I liked Knives Out better than the Glass Onion, but Glass Onion was beautifully balanced, and a nice counterpoint to the usual… Action Movie Revenge Fantasy. Call it “an empty tantrum” all y’all like, but I loved that the hero didn’t have to sink to the villain’s level to get revenge.

And the best part? He still has to answer for murdering her sister! Not Justice OR Revenge, but both.

[careful-knives]

I've never followed John Green when he was on tumblr, but the waves of the abuse he endured reached even to my 'living under the rock' place/blog. And in a broader sense, social media has a huge problem with cyberbullying to the point that some people are known not for what they achieved but by the suffering they were subjected to.

The second part of the problem is that people are weirdly proud of abuse they dealt online. I've seen, for example, people reminisced fondly about bullying asexual community. Or people gleefully making "critical" blogs as excuse to justify their hateful behavior. And so on, there's many ways people can use to justify being abusers.

So, with that in mind, I implore you to think twice about every 'callout post', 'critical review' or similar calls for action. You never know who's making them and with what goal in mind. You may think you're participating in a just cause or doing something good like 'protecting minors' or 'keeping invaders out of our community', but in reality you've just helped an abuser.

pls

[thedemon-crowley]

I’m going to say it.

Benoit Blanc is hot.

[careful-knives]

I'm thinking about ofmd being canceled and those posts about the distinct lack of Rainbow Capitalism this year during Pride...

The signs were there all along, no?

[jemichiart]

Late night doodle 👀

I like people with onions. @re-l certainly has some. Especially when it comes to Knives. So these onions are for you. With Knives as a bonus. 😁

(be careful though, onions and knives have a reputation of being a combination that makes people cry 😜)