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scarlet6rose · 6 months

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🎤 hello people of the internet ✦

I’m Scarlet Rose,

I’m a writer (somewhat) and (mostly) digital artist that has been drawing since I held an apsara pencil 💀.

You can see me as any gender you like and use any pronouns, I really couldn’t care less, I’m just here to have a little fun 👁👄👁

I am in a lot of fandoms (some breakups were there 😃)

Just to give a lil idea:

✦ Good omens (literally binge watched like yesterday 💀) (novel and tv show)

✦ Omniscient reader’s viewpoint (joined late 2022 and early 2023 I think 🤔) (novel and Webtoon)

✦ Undertale (since the beginning tbh but it’s a bit off rn lol 🙃) (Game)

✦ The Stanley parable (joined around the middle of 2023) (Game)

✦ Five nights at Freddy’s ( 💀 I’m a very loyal viewer of the game theorist… I don’t need to say more. Other then the fact that I’m not that active anymore) (Game, books, and movie)

✦ Heavens official blessing (joined around the middle of 2022 I think 👁👄👁) (novel, webtoon, and donghua)

✦ Not so Shoujo love (start of 2021, lmao much gayness 🫦) (Webtoon)

✦ Heartstopper (middle of 2022, so much fucking gayness 🤌) (Novel and webtoon)

✦ Uzumaki (I’m still reading this lmaoo, I think I started to read junji ito’s works around late 2018-19(?)) (manga)

✦ Hellstar Remina (🙂 it was funny as fuck, totally recommend) (manga)

✦ trash of counts family (around the time i started orv) (webnovel and manhwa)

✦ hazbin hotel/helluva boss (again, around the beginning. I dont really have an opinion on them.) (indie animated series on Yt and Amazon Prime)

There are many more but I literally can’t remember ‘cause I’m not actively active in them ig 😶‍🌫️

Anyway as you can see, I’m fine with literally any kind genre as long as the story is (mostly) interesting for my shit attention span.

Some bondaries (will be updated as I go on):

✦ No NSFW / no sexual themes

‣ I’m fine with jokes and shit, like have fun and all, but no sexualisation of me or my ocs. I’m fine with horror/ angst art (as long as it isn’t taken too far).

✦ Minors and majors/adults

‣ Please no pedophila. I do not want to be in any romantic relationships online (learn from my past one mistake of being fucking delusional)

‣ I do wish to be ageless online for now, so yeah…

✦ No weird dms

‣ I’ll fucking ban you and probably make fun of you publicly.

‣ Weird dms include (but aren’t limited to): asking sexual stuff, death threats, obsessive behaviour etc.

✦ Personal issues

‣ Don’t come at me with your severely personal issues, such as family issues, life issues or whatever. Just cause I’m fine with taking ‘bout mental health and its severities doesn’t mean I’m responsible of your mental health in any way. Don’t talk to me or anyone online, talk to someone you trust irl and take therapy.

✦ Stalking/ doxxing

‣ Doesn’t matter if it’s me or not, you need grass for doing some chronically online bullshit. Go outside man or ma’am or neuter.

✦ Parasocial

‣ No, just no.

‣ I’m fine with the buddy buddy shit but please refrain from thinking that I’m important in your life. I’m just here to have fun and cook bullshit. Nothing more.

✦ Shipping

‣ Don’t ship me with other creators or yourself (please).

‣ Don’t ship my ocs with yours.

‣ I’m fine with people shipping my ocs with eachother.

‣ I don’t mind fan fiction (I write most of my characters fan fiction anyways 💀) (you’re free to do whatever but please have some kind of common sense).

‣ Don’t fucking art police or ship police (?) people if non of my characters are being shipped in a borderline pedophilic or incest ships.

✦ Hating

‣ I don’t mind if you dislike or even hate me, you’re allowed to do whatever, but keep in mind that this is the internet and you hate me on the internet. Don’t take internet matters irl or attack anyone I know in real life.

‣ No racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, sexism, extremely offensive jokes (that actually harm people) etc. will be tolerated.

Ik that I am not that big at all, but better safe than sorry lol

#blog intro #blog introduction #meet the artist #multifandom artist #boundaries #artists on tumblr #help 💀

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lady-griffin · 2 years

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I’m honestly a bit amazed with Rowling.

In the sense that people have said that her “trolls” need to stop bringing up the “trans issue thing” when it comes to everything Rowling does and how that’s unfair of them, and that one “opinion” of hers doesn’t capture everything about her or what she’s all about.

But yet, Rowling is the one who brings it up every time she can.

According to this Rolling Stone article, in her most recent book, The Ink Black Heart -

She has a character who is a popular YouTube creator whose fans have turn against her and have accused her of racism, ableism, and the dreaded so-called transphobia. The creator is doxxed, subjected to rape and death threats, all for ‘just having an opinion.’

According to this article, they think this book clearly has a specific aim against Social Justice Warrior and it even suggests the character was a victim of a masterfully plotted, politically fueled hate campaign unfairly against her.

I just…

if you don’t want people to focus on the whole “trans thing,” why do you keep bringing it up? Why do you keeping doing shit like this?

I’m not saying, if she never talks about it ever again, people are just going to forget about it (though honestly a lot probably would).

But Rowling seems to be incapable of not talking about it. Of not being enraged by her fans for “turning against her.” Of not being upset about no longer being seen as a progressive woman and beloved author who fights against the tyranny of others. Of not feeling like she’s the victim of all this.

And don’t get me wrong -- being doxxed, receiving rape and death threats is no joke. That is awful. That isn’t okay. That isn’t. Don’t fucking do it.

I just; even when someone is being hateful or bad, and you believe the “deserve it” - In my own personal view, that’s a slippering slope. Yes, things don’t just equate each other and there is nuance and differences in certain areas of life (most of it); but also you’re creating the argument that sometimes it’s okay for this kind of behavior, which might feel ridiculous, but it doesn’t take that many steps of “therefore it’s never a bad thing” or “well, I hate this person and their views, so it’s okay when I do it, but bad when someone does it to someone I think doesn’t deserve it.

Maybe people just don’t deserve to be doxxed, or be sent death or rape threats.

And I don’t know.

Look, I’ll admit it’s hard for me to be sympathetic at the supreme court or Marjorie Taylor-Green for getting doxxed, but I just…

Maybe it’s not about what kind of people that are and what kind of person I want to be or think a good person is.

Just because someone is a bad person doesn’t mean something bad happening to them is justice. I don’t know fucking know. I have mixed feeling about some of this shit, because I don’t think you get to impact real people and their lives with actual laws and public presses and your huge platforms – but then call foul, of your own personal and “real” life being negatively impacted.

But also, don’t send people death or rape threats. What the fuck. Don’t do that. Please don’t do that.

Why do I have to even say this. Please don’t fucking do it.

However, not to undercut myself and that last point – which I cannot stress enough is very important and should be yielded to --

Classifying all of this as you being hated and attacked for just having a different opinion…lessens what you’re doing or your own hateful views. Which makes sense, in the fact that you don’t view your own views as hateful or wrong.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t.

But it doesn’t look great for Rowling that, that’s the same argument the alt-right and racist, antisemitic, and overall hateful and prejudiced people make all the time – when there are consequences for their actions.

It’s the idea of -

“How dare people judge me for having the simple harmless opinion that certain people are simply lesser than and therefore don’t deserve the same rights as myself or others. How dare YOU make me seem like a hateful person, when I express my hateful views. You’re the intolerant, hateful person for not tolerating my intolerant hatred of a group that is subjected to large amounts of violence and harm.”

Also, and this is really the thing that just leaves me totally flabbergasted. I don’t think I would gone into this nonsensical rant, if not for this.

Apparently, Rowling is claiming that this is not at all, in any shape or form, in response to her own experience nor meant to be seen like that.

Because she wrote and finished the book long before certain things happened online.

She even says she told her husband, that she was worried people were going to see this as a response to what happened to her, even though it absolutely, totally isn’t. Not even slightly.

So, clearly, we know she’s telling the truth - because she’s now currently saying she was a bit worried that, people would get the wrong idea, months and months ago. She just said it privately to her own husband and did nothing to change the plot of her book - despite the fact that I find it hard to believe that the big, famous author JK Rowling wouldn’t have the power to do so.

And it’s like really? Really Rowling?

I mean come on.

Sure, sometimes in life things happen in a way where it looks bad or that two things that are legit unrelated looked to be connected or caused by one another. And that’s simply not the case.

Sometimes, it is all just a bad coincidence or awkward timing; but I can’t believe that’s the case here.

I just can’t.

I mean come on, Rowling.

I mean seriously…

How stupid do you think people are?

I just…

I don’t understand the logic behind that.

A part of me feels or questions how someone could write a character like that and then say it has nothing to do with what they’ve gone through, despite it literally being more or less your own story, but framed with how view the situations and tweaked so the self-insert character is made to be the clear victim.

I can’t help but think, maybe that means she isn’t lying. Because surely, she wouldn’t think people are that stupid. Surely not.

But, honestly nowadays people do lie nonstop about things we know to be lies.

They can just claim it’s “fake news” or haters being haters and their fans and defenders will stand by them. Because it’s not about what they say or are doing, it’s about defending them (and to be fair, for some, it’s also just about attacking).

I mean -

A couple who are currently defending themselves against being called racist or having racist views, had a press conference where they stated they are absolutely not racist and would never be racist, and have never held such beliefs and to call them racist, is the other person, trying to obscure the real issue at hand or whatever.

But in that exact same press conference, the wife admitted to having a secret, racist twitter account. But that doesn’t mean she’s racist or anything, because all she wanted to do was explore the freedom of being someone she’s not.

She’s totally not racist person, she just wanted to be able to be a racist person online, but that doesn’t mean she has ever held racist views....

(my head hurts)

Blake Masters in Arizona is claiming he’s never had strong, hateful views on abortion and you can check his website if you want to. As though his campaign didn’t change it. As though there aren’t interviews or recordings of him saying all that hateful awful shit.

In the end

I think Rowling wants attention, the publicity, and for the people who still defend her, to have something else to defend her on.

Or maybe, just maybe, no one would have cared about her new book, if not for this controversy, that is just oh so inconvenient for her.

I mean truly it’s so inconvenient that there are now a bunch of articles about her new book. I mean, I now know she has a new book out and even the name of it, despite not knowing that two days ago. And look, now you do to because of this post.

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s also because a lot of these books haven’t been all that well-received or reviewed.

There has been a lot of good things said about them. But also, when it was actually not known she was the author of the books, for those first few months (I might be wrong about that) - only 1500 copies were sold.

Which I don’t know if that’s good or bad for a brand-new spanking author who is coming out with their debut novel/series; but I do know that’s bad for someone like JK Rowling, even if she’s not going by her own name.

And isn’t it so interesting and such a true shame, that an anonymous tip let it out that she was the author.

That, Times arts editor Richard Brook, who decided to investigate this mysterious author, because he just had to know who they were really were and whether or not it was JK Rowling or not, apparently, he himself said

‘Nobody who was in the Army and now works in civilian security could write a book as good as this,’”

Isn’t that such a great review for a book series you’ve never heard of, that doesn’t sound like a review or a promotion. Just an honest to god opinion.

And look maybe he did really say or think that - and if he wasn’t part of this whole thing (I don’t know if he was and I’m too lazy to look it up), let’s be real he wanted to investigate because it was JK Rowling who was said to be the author. Not because the book series was so amazing, he just had to know who it was.

Because her name has clout. Because her name is a brand at this point.

That even when she says she didn’t want these books of hers to be part of that brand, that brand also gives her a lot of benefit of the doubt and high-praiseful reviews.

And look, I loved the Harry Potter books growing up. I adored this series, for so many years. I reread the fourth book so many goddamn times, my parents had to take it away from me so I would do my actual homework.

And look JK Rowling built that brand up, with no name recognition beforehand.

So, I’m not going to say she’s not a good author or I don’t think she’s not capable of writing good stories.

But, also - maybe she thought she would get that same recognition for her writing alone with her name unattached to it and when it didn’t happen, or in the short time she thought it would, she let it spill she was the author.

And look this is all coming from a Vox article I just read from 2018 (x).

They themselves admit they didn’t like JK Rowling’s first adventures into mature, adult writing. But they felt the same passion and love for this new series as they did feel for Harry Potter from Rowling.

Which doesn’t really tell me if the series is good or not. But I don’t think this person in 2018, hated the series like they did for first mature-adult book she had out in 2015; but I also don’t know if they truly think the series is that amazing on its own.

And this again, is all back in 2018.

All of this stuff really started to happen or honestly blew up in 2020.

2020 is when she started to get a lot of criticisms for these new books.

Part of it, probably was because some people feel like it’s okay to critique the great JK Rowling and they won’t receive backlash for doing such a thing, or some people never liked her so they were more than happy to jump on the train that is finally (from their POV) starting after they’ve waited for years for others to catch on, and some just want to hate her to hate her.

And some probably didn’t like the series, because they didn’t like it or think it was good.

Maybe, just maybe because this book hasn’t been well reviewed and because people are rolling their eyes at this self-insert character and it’s part of their bad reviews –

JK Rowling wants to be able to say her haters are making it look like she wrote a bad book, because they don’t agree with her on this minor issue and how it’s unfair, she’s being judged nonstop for this one-opinion.

And it’s just oh so unfair that people keep bringing this whole “trans issue,” even when it has nothing to do with the current subject at hand – like her most recent book, where she literally has a self-insert character (or one that absolutely looks like that), who is unfairly and brutally murdered after they’ve gone through a massive hate campaign where they were accused of racist, ableist, and transphobic views.

I just...

I don’t even know what to tag this and I’m too tired to review or grammar check this.

Basically, I think JK Rowling has put herself in a corner, where she can’t get out of it. Or at least not without seriously reflecting on her own actions and facing the reality of the situation and her own hateful view.

Because the tactic of not talking about this stuff didn’t help (which she did for like a hot second) And I have to imagine she did feel trapped and cornered, so she dug in her heels and started to fight back. She didn’t like being called bigoted so she fought against that, because that’s easier than actually wondering or even admitting you have bigoted views.

I think it would be hard for someone who has been so widely adored and praised like she has - to genuinely adjust to such a large backlash.

I do think JK Rowling believe she is standing up for women’s rights. The real ones, not those men pretending to be women (as she would say)

And is surprised to find, that people find that to be insulting or not the current way people feel about it. Because what was once progressive 20 years ago, isn’t considered progressive nowadays.

For instance, saying gay people should be allowed to marry the person they love, even if they are of the same gender or sex - isn’t the radical position anymore. It’s really the normal one.

And that’s good. Right? I feel like that’s good.

We want, what once were thought to be radical opinions, such bold and progressive ideas, and to look back and be like...why the fuck was that radical? Why was this ever an issue?

And yes, there can be a problem with not knowing your history.

The best example because of how recent it is in the grand scheme things of things and shows how quickly people forget. Is that we shouldn’t be mad at The Legend of Korra for ending way it did and try to say it was only putting the airs of being progressive without being progressive. And instead keep in mind, that was progressive. That was amazing for so many people.

That’s how bad things were. Two female characters and their relationship being only confirmed by what feels like nothing by today’s standards - was radical and amazing for so many people, because they’ve never seen that on screen before. They never felt seen before.

And because of that, other shows were able to build on top of that more and more.

Basically...

I think JK Rowling has reacted in a very reactionary way and just keeps digging a hole for herself.

I don’t think this is easy thing to do; but I always imagined if I did ever publish any of my stories and they became as big as hers. And then people pointed out problems, I hope that I will be able to be like - I thought of the problems I was aware of at the time and I’m glad you found fault in ways I never considered before. I hope you can still appreciate my work, but when you write your own story - do better than me.

Take what you saw as a problem and address it and make it so it doesn’t exist for the next great series.

I don’t think that’s an easy thing to do, especially if you feel like you’re being unfairly attacked (not saying she was or wasn’t), but I can see why she would feel like that.

I don’t know.

Will and Grace can feel very reductive nowadays, but it was such a big and radical thing at the time. Showing gay people as people. As main characters. Yes, there are a lot of jokes with Jack and how he acts, but also - him being gay, is and isn’t the joke.

Because Will being gay or being attracted to men, is no more the joke then when Grace is attracted to a guy and wants to date one.

The creator of the show has talked about how one of the ways they got the show to be aired and so well-liked, was because, despite Will being gay, there was a desire for many, for him and Grace to end up together.

the man basically straight-baited people before queer-baiting became a popular term. Kudos to him.

But that’s what he had to do, to get a tv show where they had the radical opinion that gay people were people, and worthy of being the main character and not the butt of the joke or the story for the straight person to learn about themselves.

At the end of the day, it’s basic human nature to want to protect yourself. See yourself as the hero or victim, never the villain.

I think it’s an admirable skill to be able look at oneself and seriously ask - am I in the wrong? Am I the one with the hateful view?

And look, I don’t think people ever think of themselves as the one who has the hateful or wrong view even when they know it is a hateful thing.

In a weird and very fucked up way and I shouldn’t write this, kudos (But not actually) to the people who are openly hateful instead of pretending they’re not. I guess?

Am I praising outright bigoted people, for just being honest about being bigoted?

Is that where this post landed. That can’t be right.

Don’t be bigoted.

You’re not a good person because you’re honest about being a hateful person; but at the very fucking least (and I’m scrapping the bottom of the barrel here, for like an ounce of gunk that can be seen as a good thing) at the very fucking least - you are self-aware enough to be open about that.

Why am do I keep praising people for being openly bigoted and not lying about it?

Why is that where I keep ending up.

I have a headache, I’ve barely eaten today, I’ve spent 5 hours actually getting real writing done and this was supposed to be a quick rant and I’m tired.

I seriously have lost my point. I’m not going to edit this or read it through.

I just… I don’t fucking know.

If you’ve read up this point, why? jesus christ why? I’m writing this am aware of what a mess this is at the moment I’m writing it.

My point is.

It’s not easy for anyone to admit when they’re wrong. Especially not to such a huge public audience and to be fair, to JK Rowling even if she had seriously admitted she was wrong and reflected on her actions - I don’t doubt that some people wouldn’t care. It wouldn’t have been enough for them.

However, just because some may have reacted like that, is not an excuse.

I think what JK Rowling is doing is very human, but that doesn’t mean it’s good in the slightest. basically, she’s digging in her heels and refusing to admit she’s wrong and the more she fights this, that harder it will be for her to admit she was wrong and the less likely she ever will.

The more we commit and fight back, the harder it is to stop and breathe and actually think let alone finally admit, we were the asshole, or the villain.

So, she’s going with it at this point. I don’t know how much of that is a choice, as in how much she’s aware that’s even what she’s doing. But the amount of disconnect she would have to have to apparently write the character that exists in her new novel which I have not read so I can’t say how much of a self-insert it really is and not what she’s done, is honestly frightening.

Look people can make mistakes and people can unfairly pile onto someone - look at how with think of Monica Lewinsky today.

I just...

It’s not easy to look at yourself and admit your wrong, but if being a good person was just about doing the easy thing of not doing bad or hurtful things, we would all be good people.

And JK Rowling isn’t even doing that. She isn’t even doing the bare minimum of not being an asshole.

I don’t know I’m disappointed. All my feelings for her, I feel disappointed in the end. I want to scream and shout, because I know JK Rowling is capable of looking at something and saying this isn’t right and we need to and can do fucking better.

But she refuses to do that anymore, because well - I don’t know, maybe just a certain amount of wealth, fame and praise fucks with your brain. You’re still you and you still think you’re a good person, and you thought yourself a good person when you were doing good things and so what has changed.

Have you changed?

Are you no longer a good person, or is the world wrong?

Sure, I wish she never had certain views in the first place.

But I honestly wish, she had stopped and thought - maybe I’m the one in the wrong. Maybe what I once thought of being radical or progressive things, aren’t anymore and while I shouldn’t get hated for having what were once considered radical or very progressive views for the time – or that I wasn’t even aware of problems being problems, because they were talked about in the sphere I existed in –

the fact that I still think that’s where the bar is, instead of realizing that’s become the norm - is a reflection on myself and how I need to grow and change.

Okay I’m going to cry, this was supposed to be a page and it’s …a million.

And I have such a headache and this was suppose to be like an obnoxiously long paragraph not this.

#JK Rowling #Anti Jk Rowling #long post #rant #Maybe not Anti JK Rowling for the sake of being anti JK ROWLING #just anti whatever the fuck this is #confused by whatever the fuck this #tired of whatever this is

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transkholins · 2 years

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re: that last reblog, there is a broader discussion to be had about the disco elysium “fandom” as a whole just woobifying the shit out of the source material. defanging it until it’s no longer recognizable.

because, like it or not, the game has some pretty clear things to say about the world the characters occupy, AND, by proxy, our real actual world that we live in. we can wax poetic all day about how disco elysium is a game about communism and revolution, about being a better person and creating a better world, and it is about those things, but a lot of how it does what it does is by showing you the most cruel and heartless and miserable people imaginable.

like, there is a pretty clear message in the game about how cops are terrible people who have dedicated their lives to downright fucking evil institutions that preserve the status quo and brutalize the most vulnerable people in their communities. like, one of the more glaring examples is that you as the player can threaten to shoot a child -- it’s not even a failed check, you can just do that. you play as a bastard cop who spends much of his time with other bastard cops. you as the player have to sit with that. sit with the fact that being a cop impacts your character and all of the relationships he has with the people around him. sit with the fact that not going back to being a cop is a “bad” ending.

but one thing i see in a lot of spaces is a complete unwillingness to engage with the hard parts of the game, the uncomfortable parts of the game, the ugly parts of the game. and, to an extent, i get it. it is hard and uncomfortable and ugly. i don’t like talking about it or acknowledging it, because, like many people, i’d rather we lived in a world where everything was good and happy all the time. but we live in a complex world with everpresent issues. and it’s necessary to think about these things and take them into account, because if you don’t, then what we get is apologia (for cops, for racism, for misogyny, for ableism, et cetera) at best.

this is more a personal and artistic gripe than anything, but the most interesting fanworks i’ve ever seen (not just for disco elysium) are the ones that actively engage with the text and what it’s trying to say -- the ones that don’t shy away from depth and complexity for the sake of making something comfortable and appetizing.

i’m not saying that every fic or fanart has to come with a five-part disclaimer about how these characters suck. i’m not saying that fans should only produce gritty thinkpieces about how the characters suck. i am certainly not saying that we should only engage with works that are beyond reproach. what i am��saying is that the characters are terrible, the systems that they’re part of are terrible, the game makes that super fucking clear, and ignoring that does a disservice to everyone.

#this is probably mostly word salad lmao #but ive been thinking a lot about it lately #please please please engage with the text it is right there and remarkably transparent #de #matt speaks #child abuse mention #ask to tag

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transfemoliorionsound · 8 months

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Headcanon anon here and I was just reading through the blog and I started to feel bad.

Like legitimately bad.

I am a full blown Inniter. And I am a HUGE c!Tommy fan.

Is Cc!Tommy “a freak who likes to Roleplay mental disorders he doesn’t have”? Am I ablest? I have autism but internalized ableism is a thing.

oh that sucks i’m really sorry :( i found it funny cause i don’t give a shit about her opinions but i completely understand how her posts can be like that

it is very much not ableist to be a c!tommy enjoyer i promise and from my perspective at least i don’t see anything wrong with cc!tommy wanting to do the exile arc for his character or any of the ccs “roleplaying disorders they don’t have.” like obviously cc!bbh has never been possessed by some weird ass egg but that doesn’t make the entire egg arc morally wrong, and obviously that’s different from actual child abuse but you get the idea. a lot of the dsmp characters went through incredibly real mental health experiences that they most likely have never experienced irl but it’s fiction. it’s a fictional roleplay series it’s not real they put their characters in situations. cc!aimsey is not a real life disabled cane user but that doesn’t mean c!aimsey being one is ableist, in fact it makes me really happy as a disabled person to get that representation. cc!wilbur obviously did not commit suicide but that doesn’t mean his characters mental health spiral and suicide was a bad thing for him to do. they’re literally just putting their minecraft ocs in situations, that’s the entire point of fiction and fictional characters. there’s plenty of stories in various forms of media about certain experiences that have been made by people who did not go through those experiences but (provided it’s handled respectfully) it’s still good and fine representation and fine to make.

this got really long but yeah, you’re not ableist for being an inniter c! or cc!, and as a matter of fact that person is very blatantly ableist in multiple posts and just overall an asshole

#in the wise words of conarcoin minecraft is not real life #10piecetalks #tw suicide ment #ask to tag #feel free to add on/correct me on anything

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ship-ghxxx · 29 days

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was reading some interesting meta-y MDZS posts and it got me thinking

this is not especially coherent y’all just unedited word vomit rambles abt shit that gets me annoyed. not looking for a debate! discussion is fine though.

i really wish fandom could acknowledge and have good discussions about how our own experiences influence how we view characters and also stop trying to justify characters actions just because they like them (but this one requires people to not be puritans and actually develop their own morality so god knows that won’t happen)

like, you don’t have to support everything ur favorite character does! that’s actually not an especially healthy way to approach things!!! you can like characters that do fucked up shit!!! embrace it!

for example:

i love YZY as a character. i also despise JFM. this has a lot to do with my personal experiences. however, i do not excuse YZY’s treatment of WWX. me liking her and me acknowledging that she did horrible things are not mutually exclusive.

i also have some deep gripes about JGY in this vein - and don’t take this as me attacking his fans, bc i’m sure most are normal, i’ve just seen some shitty ones - i enjoy JGY as a character! he’s not a favorite persay, but he��s immensely interesting and i will certainly read JGY-centric fics if they’re intriguing. however, as a disabled person, the whole issue with JRS hits me in the wrong way - and some people, in their quest to validate everything their fav does, accepting the premise that he did actually orchestrate JRS’s death, veer EXCEEDINGLY CLOSE to eugenics and ableism trying to defend or downplay those actions in a way that is very much Not Okay. like, IDK how to tell you that murdering your child because he might be disabled is morally bad, but the fact that i have to explain that to you in the first place makes me want to jettison the both of us into the sun.

i don’t know where i’m going with this - just, why is it that people will throw all morals out of the window and justify anything bc it’s their blorbo??? why does your blorbo have to be morally justified??? your blorbo isn’t real, they can be evil. i promise. liking a fake fucked up lil dude is infinitely less concerning than throwing your morals out the window for a fictional character.

#i speak

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I like Hawkeye, a lot, I picked my name after him. He’s my favorite boy and his fuckin plot line should be that he’s just a little too arrogant to give up the title, and that he cares about Kate enough to share it. Plus how his depression, lack of self confidence, internalized ableism, and workoholicism makes his relationships fail, and the work he does to get through that.

(Tw for some ableism, sexism and suicide)

His wife and kids are literally not even characters. They have no likes or dislikes other than standard shit and it makes me so angry that I want to hunt down the Director, who made that choice. When I found out that he was gonna be more featured in the second avengers, I was so excited. I had read every single comic that I could find on Hawkeye, I got a MarvelUnlimited subscription, and then I was so deeply disappointed that I read, probably thousands of pages of fanfiction where they had him portrayed accurately, and not having Kate or doing what they did with her by making her that much younger than him fucks up parts of the plots of the comics and disregards her character a little bit and it’s very frustrating. And then they completely remove his brother (a third of what makes him an interesting character by the way) and his disability, and the fact that he knows sign, and the fact that he is divorced, and they kill his best friend.… i’m sorry the hawkeye that I know would never ever let Natasha think so low of herself as to let her kill herself to make up for a crime that she has already made up for in thousands of ways. Especially because she was brainwashed. Why does Bucky get forgiveness that she doesn’t? She’s too logical to just do that, but they’ve been messing with her character in all the ways that they messed with his (plus added misogyny just for fun) since the second avengers. I disavow the fucking marvel franchise.

TLDR fuck marvel, You literally don’t have to answer this. I just saw that you agreed and I wanted to go on a tangent.

I welcome your tangent so much. You are so right and these types of decisions from Marvel are exactly why I lost so much interest in watching their stuff.

It’s like they just wanted to use them to make the other Avengers jealous since he had this American Dream that not even Captain America had. And then using these wife and kids to only then not give them any sort of character really disrespects his character, there were so many other things they could’ve done to fill that role in the story.

Instead of making him accurate and the Clint Barton that the fans know, they turned him into what seems to be the average straight cis able bodied man’s self insert. There are so many jokes about Hawkeye being forgettable because the directors made him that way.

It’s incredibly clear that none of the directors respect the character cause clearly what they really wanted was an agent who could shoot a bow and nothing else just so they could use him to fill a power fantasy

It’s extra disappointing considering how well they handled Tony Starks ptsd, it’s like they stopped caring about their content

#everyone is welcome to send me rants #actually please do I love it #hawkeye #mcu #marvel #I have many opinions about recent marvel movies

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fuckenvampirism · 2 years

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hate the genre of Content Creator who does the bare minimum of Not Being a Hateful Person and makes bland videos mocking pickup artists or incels and turns their brand into exploiting bigotry for views and is like “look at these crazy funky guys aren’t they so insane?? hating women is not good!” and people fawn over them for being slightly normal and you get women saying “i’d trust him with my drink at a party (i’m saying i dont think he'd try to rape me. this guys awesome!)” but it’s so obvious the CC are stiffly saying this supportive shit and it’s not necessarily that they don’t believe people deserve basic rights, but they’re not suited to be An Activist and they’re being pushed to be more enthusiastic about it than they really are since they don’t want any pushback but people are pretending these folks are in fact activists because they also dont want to be invested in real, meaningful, impactful political things so they’ll continue to viciously support the people who are like “hey. trans people exist. if i see you being transphobic, your pronouns are going to be was/were!!!!!!” but also they’ll slip in ableism and be able to get away with it because nobody cares about us and all their abled followers will be like “we forgive you!! you obviously are so great and perfect and Unproblematic that you could never even accidentally do anything unsavoury”, completely ignoring how it was obviously a conscious choice to do the ableist thing and they have no right to forgive someone for that type of thing and these internet personalities all flock together and live in this vague super liberal realm of being the most empty bland people who aggressively tweet like “whoaa Fascism is bad, look at that!! i used the F word! i also don’t think biden is doing enough OHH isn’t that so radical and leftist of me to say!?” and fans whose political views aren't yet fully developed because theyre so young or are just as blandly liberal think these are the greatest Left Wingers to ever grace the universe and that nobody else could be so bold as to not actively wish for genocide and it really fucking waters down what actual “leftist” beliefs are supposed to be about and they never even state hard opinions or views like theyre some kind of christian public figure who doesnt want to announce their denomination in order to avoid controversy or division and you get people excitedly calling them “““breadtube”””-adjacent because ohh isnt it so exciting that a common funnyguy can be the leader of the revolution because they watch videos on stream and mock transphobic political figures by calling them gay lovers (its okay because they are taking an anti-transphobic stance and have “bisexual energy”) and dont even directly criticise whats being said (politicial streamers won't accomplish anything anyway, but nobody here cares) but oh my god this is so important, nobody else has ever said Villain McBadman says bad things but also the online figures have edgy friends who have a history of shit like blackface and using slurs and being shitty to people but ohh oh its okay theyre a Rehabilitated Bigot, theyre totally fine now, i love them dearly so you cant criticise them, you trust my judgement you believe everything i say because im an unproblematic king, an honorary lesbian you might say, ignore how hostile they are to people who take issue with the offensive gross things they still say, which people purposely misconstrue as benign and merely Slightly Overstepping so they can collectively gaslight each other into remaining comfortable with the people theyre aware are shitty but ultimately dont care to give real consequences to and then everything makes sense when the mostly female audience is also cishet and white and abled and fully capable of producing a shitty environment where people aren't allowed to bring up real problems because ughhh youre talking about this still? that was like two months ago. stop trying to cancel people for petty reasons and stop trying to talk about issues that affect real peoples lives because this inconveniences me and now i have to find another carbon copy of this guy so i can performatively be uncomfortable with bigots and feel like i’ve accomplished a lot of morally profound things.....

i just fucking hate when people who are of marginalised groups that these youtubers, streamers, etc often defend in the most simple way aren't used to seeing people be okay with them and instead of watching videos by and supporting people who share the same marginalised experience, they want some kind of approval and the comfort of a privileged person saying “i think people like you should not be killed merely for your divergence from the established norm” and so fiercely defend them and weep all over anyone who doesnt think this is a good step toward actual support for marginalised people.

and i hate when people act like it takes a huge amount of effort or education to know what the right thing to say is, or know what nonbinary people are or know that lgbtq charities exist or say Cops Aren’t The Greatest and not fear social exclusion for being too much of a Crazy Hardcore Liberal. people can profit off of this and exploit the way people have become accustomed to others being so outwardly hateful and garner an audience theyre comfortable performing for and catering to, even if they dont feel that way in their every day life.

i hate how clearly disingenuous and forced it is when they try to appear radically inclusive and yet people are longing so strongly for acceptance that they are just okay with it and think it’s the greatest thing.

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//CW: swearing, ableism and sanism, long post

I am once again shaking the writers by their shirt collars and demanding they stop attempting to portray mental illnesses in their books well-known for unrealistic (for cats or humans), ableist, shitty portrayals of disabilities.

If they’re not actually going to attempt to portray it realistically, in a educational, non-stereotypical, non-flanderized manner, they should not try at all. You already have a series that treats their “physically disabled” (I use that term loosely bc it’s hard to distinguish mental vs physical disability when mental is physical in the brain) like anywhere from average to completely useless, pathetic individuals who live short, sorry lives and are better off dead, apparently. Reminder there’s real fucking people who read these books. I was and still am by no means okay with the misogyny, racism, and again, ableism that already exists in this series, but as a mentally ill person, any more sanism will tip me over the edge.

Mapleshade is every “driven mad with grief to the point of hallucinating and wanting to murder” stereotype there is, even after they debunked her being schizophrenic (because that is the no. 1 schizophrenia stereotype); Bluestar’s depression and supposed dementia (bc she acts nothing like a person or cat with the condition would behave and seems like the term as been used to more so describe her senile state) seem like as an excuse or a pretence of her becoming ableist and abusive to Brightpaw, neglectful of her entire Clan, and her sudden mistrust of everyone despite the fact she is the only significant character to be driven mad after a betrayal and not only was she not that close to Tigerclaw in the first place, but should not have been so surprised by the outcome (I’m not saying you can’t suddenly shutdown and mistrust people after a trauma, or that Bluestar’s life was anything but traumatic, but this is way overblown and has someone with actual serious distrust bc of trauma and shit, I very much don’t appreciate it); Moth Flight’s ADHD is the reason she is exiled by her own mother and this condition is rarely if at all otherwise addressed, validated, or given help for, and feels mostly like something put in after the fact without much knowledge or concern for what ADHD is; Palebird is portrayed as an apathetic, scornful mother to Tallstar throughout his life, not only completely bare bones of what Postpartum depression is, but heavily stereotyped and demonised; and Sparkpelt is going down a similar route.

Additionally, Alderheart being anxiety disorder coded, with him with him being portrayed as an incompetent warrior bc of his anxiety, being looked down on by his Clanmates, and even showed aside by his own disappointed father bc he thinks poorly of his own son, is really uncool. And the rumours are true for Bramblestar, he also behaves little to nothing like someone would dementia would, and, to be at least, feels like the Erins scrambling for reasons to defend or cover up his previous shitty actions. I know that sounds like a stretch but at this point, with all the shit the writers have done and said so far, is it that far of a stretch? They tried to silence their own fans after the Frecklewish incident after all.

If they start going down this route like it feels they are, I’m gonna get pretty pissed off. They aren’t even attempting genuine representation or trying to make up for their previous, massive fuck-ups when portraying other disabilities in the past. There is no reason for them to do this. I genuinely think should just cut it out from here on out and never look back to “representation” ever again, unless Harper Collins if gonna let them make a cat officially gay, i.e. (officially and intentionally) queer code a character, particularly one that isn’t a cis MLM that actually plays a part in the plot (sorry to anyone who thought Mousefur was “canonically” asexual or that one woman calling another “beautiful” counts as intentional or explicit coding, bc bi Leafpool is more than likely an accident and I don’t even think they noticed afterwards).

I still fully believe aroace mousefur is canon even if that isn’t the words the Erins would use themselves (I doubt they actually know what aromantic or asexual mean) - she is said to have never had any kind interest in taking a mate after all

But yeah the Erins need to do much better. They’re going to keep queer characters out of the books as long as it keeps China and Russia happy, and judging by just how recently they’ve been explicitly ableist *cough* what sandstorm said about Briarlight in Squirrelflight’s Hope *cough* I doubt their ableism is going to change much soon. Although I do have hope for Sparkpelt’s arc, but given the Erins’ track record I feel like my hope may be misplaced.

#dogroseberry #ableism tw #homophobia tw #asc spoilers #a starless clan spoilers #river spoilers #warrior cats spoilers

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silverechosandblankmasks · 3 years

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So iv been seeing quite a bit of claims of c!Dream sympathizers claiming hating/not liking c!Dream or hell, just pointing out his actions, is ableism, and just a general bring of of people talking about his supposed neurodiversity/mental illness, and just general stuff about him, and also c!Wilbur and c!Quackity, and well I wanted to bring some things up for people and analyze the characters a bit!

First things first; Mental illness doesn't excuse the fact they abused and/or hurt people. If your in a mental breakdown and you lash out (either verbally or physically) you still have to apologies for those you hurt, even if its understandable why you lashed out or broke down.

Wilbur spiraled becuase of the world and actions of people around him, and his own bad mental health and yeah, he’s not fully at fault but it doesn't excuse the fact he hurt people, and nobody has to forgive him or accept his apologies. I feel sorry for him because he’s shown he not only regrets it, but doesn't know how to go about making amends and even then he’s still struggling with mental health. And despite all that when characters or even people this fandom have, or if they do in the future, refuse to forgive him? I totally support that 100% because of what he did or is doing. Understanding his struggle and he needs help doesn't equal support or forgiveness.

Quackity as well! His actions can be explained with what he went through as, but it doesn't excuse the fact he’s manipulating and abusing people, regardless of who they are. Granted I'm more sympathetic to the poor souls he dragged into Las Nevadas in his bid for power then Dream, but he’s still torturing the dude and that's highly fucked up. He also is suffering from mental health and past abuse, but again doesn't excuse his actions towards others.

Dream, who has shown no real canon reason for his actions other then a reach for control and getting upset when he didn't get it, has also done 10x worse then what Wilbur did, did it multiple times, and has never showed remorse other when he was trying to save himself from being murdered or hurt, and after he was ‘safe’, continued to taunt those around him. If he has some sort of mental illness or disability, which again we have no proof of btw, it doesn't excuse the fact he literally abused and manipulated most people on the server, including some of his closest friends as well as Tommy mainly, with no remorse.

The difference is we see Wilbur struggle with his choices and his spiraling, and him trying to make amends and fix things, but with Dream? Dream hasn't showed any sign of remorse outside of when he was trying to manipulate people or get them to stop hurting him. Maybe he has some sort of inward struggle like Wilbur did, who knows! But we haven't seen it so trying to speculate on something that we literally haven't seen is impossible.

Do I think he deserves to be locked up in Pandora's vault? Yes, but that's becuase he’s not a real person and as a fan that's hard to gauge. In universe its pretty inhumane of other characters but also remember, after everything he’s done, its not hard to believe that nobody on that god forsaken server wants to help him! After all, he built that to throw someone else into, so can you tell me that him being put there and suffering at his own hands isn’t a bit deserved? Plus we all know the moment he got put in there, it was merely a matter of when he’d get out again lets be real.

Now, do I think he deserved to be tortured? Not really, as I think Pandora’s vault is enough tbh, but its also more about why and who is doing it tbh, rather then the torture itself. Can anyone really be surprised nobody wants to help him after all he did? None of the people in universe are professionals and he’s hurt most of them, so obvi their biased. Plus, not everybody knows what's going on!

So TLDR; Dream, Quackity, and Wilbur are excellent cases of people who have done things for many reasons, some more explained then others, but whatever their reasons are, and excusing their actions becuase of mental illness or neurodivergence doesn't excuse the people they hurt as well. Also we have no actual evidence on why Dream did what he did, let alone supposed neurodivergent or mental illness claims when there’s no proof and even then it wouldn't excuse him.

Get out of here with your ‘your being ableist UwU’ or ‘bla bla bla c!Dream isnt as bad bla he was just trying to make it better before tommy came along’ shit when it comes to c!Dream, he tortured and abused someone until they wanted to die, and they fact it was an already traumatized minor makes it even worse, if that's somehow possible. Nothing excuses that! Not even if you didn't like Tommy, nothing excuses what Dream did!!! He was also trying to find a way to have total control over everybody else on the server too by manipulating them, if you have forgot that. That's also manipulative and controlling, ie abusive, behavior.

#dream smp #all rp!#discourse #c!character discourse #critical #c!dream critical #c!wilbur critical #c!quackity critical #wilbur soot #quackity #dreamwastaken #tommyinnit #tw suicide #tw suicide mention #i was gonna add Techno and Phil #and their lack of remorse as well #but im tired lol #character analysis #kinda character study

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I’m just gonna say it. Philly Twitter is a toxic dumpster fire and what I have learned in the last year is that Nolan Patrick lives rent free in the heads of every straight white man from Philadelphia. I’m not saying that dude doesn’t have flaws (see: disgusting opinions about sexual assault!) but like...accusing him of trying to tear down the Flyers via accusations of years of medical abuse because he sucks at hockey and they traded him? Bit of a stretch.

And OH MY GOD the Philly press are the worst of the lot. Honestly, I already couldn’t stand basically all of them - excepting Jamey and Charlie - but this shit is Extra. These men - and a few women running podcasts alongside those men! - need to get over the fact that a player hated them so much that he refused to give them any good sound bites for their blogs, and grow the fuck up. Like first of all, why are you wasting energy hating a kid? And secondly, he’s not even THERE anymore! MOVE. ON.

Then there’s the MISOGYNY. Oh, man says that he had a head injury and was illegally prescribed highly addictive opioids by his team while they his team brushed the whole thing under the rug and blamed him by saying it was a childhood migraine disorder and then is fucking trashed by said team and the entire press for a season before begging to be traded away and seemingly doing much better with another team? What a “pussy”. What a “whiny bitch”. What a “teenaged girl”. Jesus christ.

But don’t forget the ableism and complete disregard for people struggling with mental health. Not only was Patrick’s TBI “just headaches” and his struggle to recover and come back to the league an apparently personal failure of someone who is just “injury prone” and therefore somehow useless ... Oh, no! Let’s just fucking throw Robin Lehner under the bus and accuse him of lying by explaining away his behaviour as a manic episode or attention-seeking or a drug binge or an alcoholic rant. Let’s just ignore his own admitted history of opioid addiction - AS A RESULT OF LITERALLY THE VERY THING HE’S CALLING OUT - except for in the ways it benefits us: to call him a druggie that shouldn’t be allowed in the league! “Oh, poor Vegas. They’ll regret trading Flower now!” Disgusting disgusting disgusting.

I honestly don’t understand fanbases who double down on defending GIANT CORPORATIONS in the face of MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE over the very young adults they steal away and lock into ridiculous contracts that literally have them basically selling their bodies away to a profit-driven business that doesn’t give a single fuck about them as people.

Arizona.

Chicago.

Montreal.

Philadelphia.

[Insert next team here.]

Get these old money-grubbing men with their toxic masculinity out of the fucking league and protect the next generations of kids that end up on their rosters.

Wayne Simmonds was right. In the face of *gestures expansively* ALL. THIS. BULLSHIT. who would want their kid playing hockey?

ETA: I have struck out the part about NP being given drugs as it has been confirmed that journalist was basically lying for clicks and clout. However, the rest still stands. We DO have mountains of evidence of abuse and shady behaviour by these teams, even without Lehner saying anything. He could be lying through his teeth about everything and all the other examples would still continue to exist, as would the toxic mentality of the fan bases.

#robin lehner #nolan patrick #nhl #vegas golden knights #philadephia flyers #hockey #hockey twitter #hockey news #tw abuse #tw opioids #ableism in hockey #misogyny in hockey #ymmv

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Do you know when the racism and ableism accusations against Nora started? Because back when I was active in 2016/2017 and don't think they were a thing, or were very low-key. Was it something she said or are people just basing it off the things she wrote in the books?

From what I remember, the first time I heard the blanket statement of “Nora is racist/fetishizes gay men” blanket statement was early fall 2019 (which is so ironic for the fandom to say on so many levels lmao). There wasn’t a catalyst or anything, just she went offline 2016 and no new content was coming out and the aftg fandom is such an echo chamber that… an accidental smear campaign happened.

Before then, I would see occasional “Nora used ableist slur” which… is funny (not that ableism isn’t serious) to me people care more about that than Seth saying the f-slur. IMO this is because with Seth, it clearly shows the character thinking it and not the author who is writing about what will be an end game mlm relationship.

But anyways! Long story short, it's the fact that she’s an ace/aro woman who wrote a mlm book, and based off of the events in canon. There is no “Nora called me/someone else a slur” it’s “Nora wrote a book where slur(s) are used” and “the Moriyama’s are Japanese.”

Below I put my own opinion on these claims and go into more detail:

CW for discussions of: racism, ableism, mlm fetishization

Fetishization: (and mentions of sexism at the end)

To one question in the EC about her inspo for aftg she jokingly responded how she wanted to write about gay athletes. On other parts of your blog you could see she was a hockey fan and an overall sports fan (anime or otherwise) but I've seen this statement taken out of context and framed as “she's one of those BOYXBOY” shippers. Considering how… well-developed both Andrew and Neil’s relationship is, and it takes them until like the 3rd book and there is a whole complex ass plot going on around, you can see how that's just. Not really true. And considering the fandom is like… 85% women (queer women but still women) and I've gotten into a discussion with someone who is a woman and called Nora a fetishizer and was ignoring my opinions as a mlm, and I really just wanted to say “well what does that make you?” it's a very ironic high horse. She didn’t write 3 all 3 books to put Neil in lingerie pwp or crop-top fem-fatal fashion show, fandom did.

Also, I talked to an ace/aro friend about this, and she talked to me about how AFTG spoke to her very much so as an ace/aro story. Neil is demisexual, Nora didn’t know of the word at the time of reading it, but she did get an anon asking if Neil was demi after, and she said “had to look it up, and yep, but he doesn't really think about it” (paraphrased). Obviously it would have been cool if andreil were canonly written as wlw by Nora instead, (which would have increased the amount of wlw rep and demi rep) but tbh I don’t think tumblr would have cared about it nearly as much and everyone would just call Neil a cold bitch–like people do with Nora’s other published book with a main character who's a woman. Plus they're her OC’s, not mine.

The fact is that 50% of all LGBT+ rep in literature is mlm, mostly white mlm, and not written by mlm. I’m not going to hold her to a higher standard than everyone else, she already broke a shit ton of barriers in topics she discusses that otherwise get ignored. I’m grateful to these books for existing even if it's a mlm story written by a woman. I still will prioritize reading mlm written by mlm–and vice versa with wlw– in the way I prioritize reading stories about POC written by POC. But credit where credit is due, this is a very good story, and a very good demi story.

Ableism:

To me, AFTG is a story about ableism and how we perceive some trauma survivors more worthy than others. Neil and the foxes using ableist language shows how people actually talk. Neil thinks shitty things about Andrew, like the others do too, and thinks he's “psycho”. The story ultimately deconstructs this idea and these perceptions of people. Wymack, someone who says the r-slur (which is still not known by the general population as a slur even in 2021 much less the early 2000s when the book was beginning to be written and what the timeline is based off of) is a character who understands Andrew better than most of the others do, and gives him the most sympathy and understanding despite using words like the m-slur and r-slur. Using these words isn't good, but it is how people talk, and this character talks. Wymack is a playful “name caller” especially when he’s mad, the foxes think Andrew is “crazy” and incapable of humanity and love because of it. They call his meds “antipsychotics” as an assumption and insult in a derogatory way, when really antipsychotics are a very helpful drug for some people who need them. Even Neil thinks these things about Andrew until he learns to care about him. All the foxes are hypocritical to am extent, as people in real life tend to be. Nora herself doesn’t use these or tweet them or something, her characters do to show aspects of their personality and opinions and how they change over time.

Racism:

As for the racism, I've seen people talk about how racial minorities being antagonists is inherently bad, which I think lacks nuance but overall isn't a harmful statement or belief. However, Nora herself said she wrote in the yakuza instead of another gang or mob because she was inspired for AFTG by sports anime, (which often queer-bait for a variety of reasons). I haven’t seen a textual analysis acknowledging the racist undertones surrounding the Moriyama’s as the few characters of color who are also major antagonists, but instead just “Nora is racist”. Wymack having shitty flame tribal tattoo’s is just… a huge 90’s thing and a part of his character design. Her having a character with bad taste in tattoo trends doesn’t mean she's racist. There is the whole how Nicky is handled thing, but that's a whole thing on it’s own. The fandom… really will write Nicky being all “ai ai muy spicy, jaja imma hit on my white–not annoying like me–boyfriend in Spanish. With my booty hole out and open for him ofc.” and as a Mexican mlm I’m like … damn alright.

I think there is merit to the fact that she writes white as the default* and unless otherwise stated a POC a character was written with the intent to be white is another valid criticism, as well as the fact that the cast is largely white, but everything Nora is accused of I've seen the fandom do worse. That goes to the debate of, is actively writing stereotypes for POC more harmful than no representation at all? And personally I prefer the lack of established race line that lets me ignore Nora’s canon intent of characters to be white and come up with my own HC’s over the fandoms depictions of “zen monk Renee with dark past” “black best friend Matt who got over drugs but is a puppy dog” “ex stripper black Dan who dates Matt” vague tokenism. I HC many of the upperclassmen as POC and do my best to actively give thought behind it and have their own arcs that also avoids the fandom colorism spectrum of “darkest characters we HC go to the back and fandom favorites are in the front and are the lightest.”

*I however won't criticize her harsher or more than… everyone else who still largely does this in fanfiction regarding AFTG as well as literature in general. This isn't a Nora thing, it's a societal thing, and considering the books came out in like 2014 I'm not gonna hold her to a higher standard than the rest of the world. She's just someone who wrote her personal OC’s and self-published expecting no following. I don’t know her race and I’m not gonna hold her to a higher standard than everyone else just because.

The criticisms I've seen have always been… ironic IMO, and clearly I have a lot of thoughts on it. I think most people say those things about Nora because they heard them, and it's the woke thing to say and do and don’t critically analyze their actions or anything, but just accept them.

#ask #aftg discorse #fandom culture #fandom politics #fandom psychology #mailob #damn cant wait for my words to be twisted lmao #sorry the ableism one is the shortest I wrote that one first actually

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comedicreliefonlyworkswhenfunny · 3 years

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I am against the "Americanization" of fandoms.

What this applies to

Holding non American characters (and sometimes even fans) to an American moral standard. This includes

Refusing to take into account that, first things first, America is NOT the target audience, so certain tropes that would or would not pass in the west are different in Japan.

Like seriously, quite a few of the jokes are just not going to pass or hit, because they require background information that is not universal.

Assuming all American experience is standard. (This could mean watering down just how much pressure is placed on Japanese youth irl by saying that sort of thing is universal (while it is, to a degree, Japanese suicide rates are pretty fucking high because of how fast paced and work heavy some of their loads tend to be), and it's really annoying and rude when someone is trying to speak out about how heavy and harsh the standards are placed on them to succeed just for some American whose mom occasionally yells at them to do their homework dropping by to say "it's like that everywhere")

Demonizing (or wubbifying) a character using American morals, including and up to harassing fans over their interpretations or gatekeeping whether or not a character "should" get development (while you shouldn't do that fucking period, it's rude and annoying- this is specifically for the people who use American standards without acknowledging the cultural gap between them and, you know, the fucking target audience) ((Like seriously, saying "It's different in Japan" is not the end all be all excusing someone's actions, but sometimes the author didn't immediately think that maybe (insert vaguely universal thing) was that bad or that heavy of a topic before they put it into their media. If you don't want to see things like that? Pick a different series and stop harassing the fans))

Getting mad at or making fun of Japan's attempts to satirize their own culture. (A good example is Ace Attorney! To most of us, it's just a funny laugh can you imagine if courts were actually like that- guess what? Japan's are! (Not that America's are actually that much better, they just look good on paper))

Making America/American issues the center of your fan spaces

(Usually without sharing or bringing light to the issues that other countries are going through)

Your

Experiences

Are

Not

Univseral!

Seriously, very few things across America, even, are universal. Texas things the hundreds are nothing while Minnesota's like "oh it's only thirty degrees below zero"- so for fucks sake, stop assuming that all other countries work in ways similar to America.

It's good and important to share Ameican issues with your American followers, but guess what? America isn't the only country out there, and it's certainly not the only one going through bullshit. Don't pull shit like "why's no one reblogging this?" or "why should I care about what's happening in (X country)?"

Don't assume everyone lives in America.

Stop assuming everyone lives in America.

America is not and has never been the target audience for anime, and it's certainly not the only country outside of Japan that enjoys it.

Like I said above, sometimes Japan attempts to satirize its own culture. We can't tell what is and isn't meant as satire, because it's not our culture.

Social media activism can be tiring and maybe you don't have the energy to focus on things that are out of your control, but, if someone tells you about the shit they're going through, don't bring American politics up.

For the neurodivergent crowd out there thinking, "But why?" it's because a lot of social media, especially, is very heavily Americanized- sometimes to the point where people assume that everyone is American. Not to mention, it's disheartening. I'm sorry to say, but you're not actually relating to the conversation, you're often diverting the focus away from the topic at hand. Even if you mean well, America is heavily pedestaled and talked about frequently, and people from other countries are tired of America taking precedent over their own issues.

Don't divert non-American issues into American ones. Seriously. It's not your place. Please just support the original issue or move on.

Racist Bullshit

This especially goes for islanders and South Asian characters, as well as poc characters (because, yes, Japan DOES have black people)

Making "funny" racist headcanons. Not fucking cool.

Changing the canon interpretation of an explicit character of color in order to fit racist stereotypes.

Whitewashing or color draining characters. Different artistic skill sets can be hard, yes, but are you seriously going to look at someone and say "I don't feel like accurately portraying you or people that look like you, because it's difficult for me." If someone tries to correct you on your cultural depiction of a character and/or their life style, don't be an ass. (If possible, it would be nice for those that do the corrections to be polite as well, but it does get really frustrating).

Seriously, no offense guys, but, if you want to persue art, you're going to need to learn to depict different body types, skin colors, and/or ethnic features.

On that note, purposefully, willingly, or consistently inaccurately portraying people or characters of color (especially if someone in the fandom has "called you out" or specifically told you that what you're doing comes across as racist and you continue to do it). If you need help or suck at looking things up, there are references for you! Ask your followers if they have tutorials on poc (issue that you're having), whether it be bodily portrayal, facial proportions, or coloring and shading. Art is so much more fun when you can depict a wider variety, and guess what? Before you drew the same skinny, basic, white character over and over, you couldn't even draw that!

Attempting or claiming to DEPECT CULTURAL ACCURACY within a work or meta, while being completely fucking wrong. ESPECIALLY and specifically if someone calls you out, and you refuse to fix, correct, or change anything.

*little side note that the discussion revolving art is a very multilayered conversation, and it has quite a few technical potholes, which I'll bring up again farther into this post.

Fucking history

Stop demonizing or for absolute fucks sake wubbifying Japanese history because UwU Japan ♡0♡ or bringing up shit like "you know they sided with Nazis, right?" It's good to recognize poor past decisions, but literally it's not your country keep your nose out of it. And? A lot of decisions made by countries were not made by their general peoples. Even those that were, often involved heavy propaganda that made them think what they were doing was right.

Seriously, it's not your country, not your history. Unless you have some sort of higher education (but honestly even then a lot of those contain heavy bias), just don't butt in.

^^^ this also goes to all countries that are NOT Japan (specifically when people from non American countries talk about their history while in fandoms and someone wants to Amerisplain to them why "well, actually-"). When we said, "question your sources," we didn't mean "question the people who know better than you, while blindly accepting the (more than likely biased) education you were given in the past."

What this does NOT include:

Fanfiction

FANfiction

FanFICTION

FANFICTION.

Seriously, fanfiction is literally UNPAID WORK from RANDOM FANS- a lot of which who are or have started as kids. ((No, I'm not trying to excuse racist depictions of people just because they're free, please see above where I talk about learning to grow a skill and how it's possible tone bad and get good, on top of the fact that some inaccuracies are not just willful ignorance))

"Looking it up" doesn't work

"Looking it up" almost never works

Please, for fucks sake, you know that most all online search engines are heavily biased, right? Not to mention, not everything is universal across the entirety of Japan. You want to look up how the school system works in Hokkaido? Well it's different from the ones in Osaka!

Most fanfiction is meant to be an idealized version of the world. Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, and racism are very prevalent and heavy topics that some fan authors would prefer to avoid. (Keep in mind, this is also used by some people in those minorities often because thinking about how relevant those kinds of things are is to them every day).

A lot of shit that happens in writing is purely because it's an ideal setting. I've seen a few arguments recently about how fan authors portray Japanese schools wrong- listen, I can't tell you how many random school systems I have pulled from my ass purely because (I need them to interact at these points, in these ways). Sometimes the only compliment I can think of is 'I like your shirt' or sometimes I need character A to realize that character B likes the same thing as they do, so I might ignore the fact that most all Japanese schools require uniforms, so that I can put my character in a shirt that will get someone else's attention.

Sometimes it's difficult to find information on different types of systems, and sometimes when you DO know those things, they directly rule out a plot point that needs to happen (like back on the topic of schools (from what I've seen/heard/read- which guess what? Despite being from multiple sources, might still be inaccurate!) Japanese schools don't have mandatory elective classes (outside of like gym and most of them usually learn English or another language- I've seen stuff about art classes? But the information across the board varies.), but, if I need my character to walk in and see someone completely in their element, I'm probably not going to try and gun for accuracy or make up a million and two reasons as to why this (non elective) person would possibly need something from (elective teacher) after school of all things.)

Some experiences ARE universal- or at least overlap American and Japanese norms! Like friends going to fast food places after school doesn't /sound Japanese/ or whatever, but it's not like a horrible inaccuracy to say that your characters ate at McDonald's because they were hungry. Especially when you consider that the Japanese idolization of American "culture" is also a thing.

Also I saw someone complaining about how, in December, a lot of (usually westerners) write Christmas fics! Well, not only are quite a few of those often gift fics, with it being the season if giving and all, but Japanese people do celebrate Christmas! Not as "the birth of Christ," but rather as a popularized holiday about gift giving (also pst: America isn't the only place that celebrates Christmas)

But, on that note, sometimes things like Holidays are "willfully ignorant" of what actually happens (I've made this point several times, but (also this does by no means excuse actual racism)), because, again: plot convenience! Hey what IF they celebrated Halloween by Trick or Treating? What if Easter was a thing and they got to watch their kids or younger siblings crawl around on the ground looking for tiny plastic eggs?

Fanfiction authors can put in hours of work for one or two thousand words- let alone ten thousand words, fifty thousand words, a hundred thousand words. And all of these are free. There is absolutely no (legal) way to make money off of their fanworks, but they spent hours, days, weeks, months- sometimes even years- writing. It is so unnecessary to EXPECT or REQUIRE them to spend even more hours looking up shit that, no offense, almost no one is going to notice. No one is going go care that all of my combini prices are accurate or that I wrote a fic with a Japanese map of a train station that I had to backwards search three times to find an English version that I could read.

Not everyone has the attention span or ability to spend hours of research before writing a single word. Neurodivergent people are literally a thing yall. Instead of producing the perfectly pretty accurate version of Japan that people want to happen, what ACTUALLY happens is that the writer reads and reads and reads and either never finds the information they need or they lose the motivation to write.

^^^ (This does NOT apply to indigenous or native peoples, like Pacific Islanders or tribes that exist in real life. Please make sure that you portray tribal minorities accurately. If you can't find the information you need (assuming that the content of the series is not specifically about a tribe), please just make one up (and for fucks sake, recognize that a lot of what you've been taught about tribal practices, such as shit like human sacrifices or godly worship, is actually just propaganda.)

Not to mention, it often puts a wall in front of readers who would then need to pull up their OWN information (that may or may not be biased) just in order to interact with the fic ((okay, this one has a little bit of arguability when it comes to things like measurements and currency, because Americans don't know what a meter is and no one else knows what a foot is- either way, one of yall is going to have to look up measurements if they want to get a better understanding of the fic)). However, a lot of Americans who do write using 'feet, Fahrenheit, dollars,' also write for their American followers or friends (which really could go both ways).

On a less easily arguable side, most fic readers aren't going to open up a new tab just to search everything that the author has written (re the whole deep topics, not everyone wants to read about those sorts of things, either). Not only are you making it more difficult on the writer, but you're also making it more difficult for the reader who's now wondering why you decided to add in Grandma's Katsudon recipe, and whether or not the details you have added are accurate.

Some series, themselves, ignore Japanese norms! Piercings, hair dye, and incorrectly wearing ones uniform are frowns upon in Japanese schools- sometimes up to inflicting punishment on those students because of it. However, some anime characters still have naturally or dyed blond hair some of them still have piercings or wear their uniforms wrong. Some series aren't set specifically in Japan, but rather in a vague based-off-real-life Japan that's just slightly different (like Haikyuu and all of its different prefectures). Sometimes they're based on real places, but real places that have gone through major changes (like the Hero Academia series with its quirks and shit).

Fandom is not a full time job. Please stop treating it like it is one. Most people in fandoms have to engage in other things like school or work that most definitely take precident over frantically Googling the cultural implications of dying your hair pink in Japan.

Art is also meant to be a creative freedom and is almost always a hobby, so there are a few cracks that tend to spark debate. Like I said, it is still a hobby, something that's meant to be fun (on this note!)

If trying new things and expanding your portfolio is genuinely making you upset, it's okay to take a break from it. You're not going to get it right on the first try and please, please to everyone out there critiquing artists' works, please take this into account before you post things.

I'm sorry to say, but, while it gets frustrating to see the same things done wrong over and over again, some people are genuinely trying. If it matters enough for you to point out, please offer solutions or resources that would possibly help the artist do better (honestly this could be said about a lot of online activism). I get that they should "want" to do better (and maybe they don't and your annoyance towards them is completely justified- again, as I said, if this becomes a repeated offense and they don't listen to or care about the people trying to help them, yeah you can be a bitch if it helps you feel better- just please don't assume that everyone is willfully ignorant of how hurtful/upsetting/annoying a certain way of portraying things is), but also WANTING to do better and ACTUALLY doing better are two different things.

Maybe they didn't realize what they were doing was inaccurate. Maybe they didn't have the right tutorials. Maybe they tried to look it up, but that failed them. Either way, to some- especially neurodivergent artists- just being told that their work is bad or racist or awful isn't going to make them want to search for better resources in order to be more accurate, it's just going to make them give up.

Also! In fic and in writing, no one is going to get it right on the first try. Especially at the stage where we creators ARE merely in fan spaces is a great time to "fuck around and find out", before we bring our willfully or accidentally racist shit into monetized media. Absolutely hold your fan creators to higher standards, but literally fan work has so little actual impact on popular media (and this goes for just about every debate about fan spaces), and constructive criticism as well as routine practice can mean worlds for representation in future media. NOT allowing for mistakes in micro spaces like fandoms is how you get genuinely harmful or just... bad... portrayals of minorities in popularized media that DOES have an impact on the greater public. OR you get a bunch of creators who are too afraid to walk out of their own little bubbles, because what if they get it wrong and everyone turns against them. It's better to just "stick with what they know" (hobbies are something that you are meant to get better at, even if that is a slow road- for all of my writers and artists out there, it does take time, but you will get it. To everyone else, please do speak up about things that are wrong, but don't make it all about what's wrong and please don't be rude. It's frustrating on both ends, so, if you can, please try not to escalate the situation more.)

Anyways, I'm tired of everyone holding fictional characters to American Puritanical standards, but I'm also tired of seeing every "stop Americanizing fandom" somehow loop into fanfiction and how all authors who don't make their fics as accurate as possible are actually just racist and perpetuating or enabling America's take over of the world or some shit.

Fan interpretation of published media is different than fan creation of mon monetized media. Americans dominating or monopolizing spaces meant for all fans (especially in a fandom that was never meant for them to begin with) is annoying and can be harmful sometimes. Americans writing out their own personal experience using random fictional characters (more often than not) isn't.

#just google it #better represent real life #if you tell a fic reader to ngl you're being pretty ableist and don't really have a good idea of how search engines work #also when people DO try to make culturally accurate fics often times at least one or two people will pop in and say 'actually that's wrong'#not to mention sometimes they might not even be right to begin with...#and okay once or twice it is what it is #but seriously if this keeps happening over and over most people are just going to stop writing or caring #fanfiction #fanfiction is literally free #fanfiction is free labor #adding layers upon layers of research and knowledge needed- on top of how difficult it can be to portray human emotion #it's not going to it's just going to make once starry eyed writers loss their ability to enjoy their work #and guess what #some ACTUALLY racist (or homophobic or transphobic or misogynistic) writer is going to swoop in not giving two fucks #and they're going to go on and get their work published because they don't care about accuracy

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So you headcanon Loki as being autistic? I'm not autistic but that's the most pure hearted headcanon I've ever seen. As someone with mental disabilities, I relate to Loki like no one else and really adored one of your rants about how ableist the fandom is. So many Loki fans have trauma/mental health issues/ struggles/ect and Loki's so important to us. I'd rather see him like he is now instead of dead and it's heartbreaking when I see those who wish him dead. It's ok to prefer Loki from a different era but wishing him death is just really hard to see. Bless those who have different opinions but don't bully others who don't share them. Thank you for all ur words. I was curious if you'd give my insight to your headcanons of Loki being autistic? 🥺

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. The thing is, I've been raised in a very conservative area and I recently came to realise that I've been masking for too long and have been a victim of ableism from both my school and my family. So, I really just use Loki to cope and heal and I'm glad it helps others as well.

Loki and Thor are Autistic, actually. They just have different traits

Thor's autism is a type more tolerable on Asgard, a thing based on Odin's favouritism that also harms Thor since he doesn't get help when he needs it

Loki's autism, however, is not as acceptable.

He has had to deal with isolation and ableism from a young age, which didn't help at all

They were considered weak and unable to fight because of their traits, Frigga decided to help them even it out with magic

Magic became Loki's special interest and his passion with it only made him stronger and a better user, until he reached the title of master at the youngest age anyone has.

They have very sensitive senses, so they cover with layers to avoid being touched and cast spells to tone down sensory input all the time

He has used illusions to appear at a social event without being there so he can avoid a shutdown and not be absent. Multiple times, in fact

Loki hasn't been able to understand social norms but they have studied it the same way someone studies history and know how to act. It often appears fake and lacking emotions, since Loki doesn't get the meaning behind the norms enough to mimick that as well, which only makes the liar and manipulator label more clear

Loki still masks because he will get it worse when not masking, even though this makes him exhausted and usually leaves him burned out for hours or days. His recharging periods only make him appear antisocial.

After the battle of New York and while imprisoned, Loki was on a constant shutdown, trying to recover from all the events back to knowing they're adopted. It was one of the worst periods of their life.

Just after he recovered, Thor took him on Earth.

At first, it was a torture

Everything was too loud, too bright, too crowded, and Loki's mask was rusted and failing. They quickly retreated to their room.

Probably because of the adjustment and the stress, shutdowns were even more frequent, and Loki had to hide away and suffer in silence. Until Tony saw him during one.

After it was over, these two had a very long chat (Loki was mostly typing since their voice was gone) about Loki's needs.

It was really the first time Loki spoke about them and didn't get mocked. Tony was just asking and suggesting solutions and things he could do to make the tower accessible.

He did it the very next day

Soon enough, Loki started interacting with the others without the mask. They barely even recognised this newer and more authentic Loki.

The exception was Thor, he recognised easily that Loki, remembered him from when they were little.

Loki's social stamina got better, to the point where they would spend the day in common rooms and hide only on particularity bad days.

The shutdowns grew less frequent, he would speak more, show expression when he felt like it, move his hands around while speaking. He just looked much more alive than in centuries

Then, Peter came

At first, their interactions were okay. Then Peter saw Loki do a small spell

And asked how magic works

I shit you not, Loki's eyes became so anime like and they fucking glowed.

Loki proceeded to talk about magic for hours, and Peter was growing more and more interested by the second

They soon became best friends

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