#mostly just venting

[box-in-a-cage]

maybe this is just me but. i have blocked many many leftists this year for behavior i consider unacceptable and they are not often "normal people with normal blogs". they are usually feverishly devoted to the USSR, or general violence, or spreading propaganda and misinformation, or reducing all the complexity out of world events while talking like F-nal F-ntasy villains.

Leftists who are normal people with normal blogs are often great. Sadly, in my experience, they are a minority on this site compared to genuine violent extremists (or at least people who revere violent extremism) who have no other hobbies.

A lot of times they are marginalized people who victimize other marginalized people in their own communities rather than building stronger communities and working together towards any ends.

I fear [Screencapped User] is letting tumblr and other leftist internet communities warp their sense of what a normal person looks like. And considering the nonsense rest of the post I cropped out, yeah i definitely believe they've lost traction with what normalcy is.

[daenerys-targaryen]

daenerys is a cultural icon but she is most certainly one of the most misunderstood characters which is so crazy to me considering she’s such an easy character to understand. she’s the only character whose motives are questions and twisted 24/7 when it’s clear she’s a selfless young girl who tries to see the best in others and make the best of the horrible awful shitty situations she’s in. she’s the only character whose abuse and rape is either mocked or severely downplayed, some even say she benefited from it. shes the only character who is going to ‘go mad’, when the other two targaryen contenders (both men, mind you) will not go mad, kill her, get her dragons and titles and rule instead of her. she’s the only character not allowed to get angry or have sexual autonomy. she’s the only character who is vilified for watching her long time abuser die. she’s the only character who’s abuse at the hands of her brother is completely disregarded. shes the only character not allowed to kill those who hurt her / those she loves. she’s the only character not allowed to retaliate against her baby being murdered. she’s the only character who’s entire childhood is downplayed and ignored. shes the only character who’s special connection to magic and dragons is so incredibly overlooked and downplayed and vilified. she’s the only character who must die in the end to ‘pay for her ancestors crimes’, when no other main character is (as if the work she’s doing isn’t actively going against her ancestors?) it’s all so fucking infuriating and this isn’t even all of it.

[beedok]

Thinking about how, in my 31 years of life, the Democrats in the US have won the popular vote in all but one election. And yet the US is teetering on the edge of fascism that can apparently be defeated by just ‘voting blue’.

[coockie8]

Antis wish to sanitise the internet is not only insane, it literally will never work. People making the "PrObLeMaTiC" content they claim to hate so much aren't going to stop making and posting that content. They're just gonna stop tagging it, which ultimately means antis will see more of it, not less.

Like it's so counterproductive and they somehow don't see it. It's baffling. This exact fucking thing happened when FF.net tried to remove mature content from the site. News flash; it's still there, you're just 100% more likely to accidentally stumble upon something absolutely disgusting with no warnings.

The only "logical" (and I use "logical" very loosely here) reasons for doing this are

A: They are just ignoring history and are pretending that the exact same thing, somehow, won't happen this time. Or

B: They want people to stop tagging their taboo content so antis will be free to look at it without having to actively search for it and, therefore, risk getting dogpiled by their puritan friends.

And judging by the sheer amount of antis that either have secret proship side accounts, or who's twitter likes are filled to the brim with lolisho and incest porn, I'm gonna go with B.

[darkmagicmirror]

Arguments about disability in TDP are always so stressful because like. Idk everyone experiences disability differently and that's fine, people are going to disagree on what they think is good disability rep, and that's fine. But usually I just have so much more to say that I will never have the energy for because hey, I'm disabled, I'm using all of my energy to live rn. But there's always more to say and I'm just too tired and it sucks.

EDIT: nevermind some people are also just assholes and not worth debating with anyway.

[a-method-in-it]

You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

[cosmicseafoam]

ok

I don’t like… WANT to hurt myself as some sort of punishment or whatever but I do just have the intense need to shed my own blood even if it’s just a little bit

[clairdecalluna]

Does anyone wanna buy me calzones yesterday? I’m pretty I promise

[bookpillows]

I had a phone screen yesterday but the guy wasn’t able to speak to me and the receptionist told me he would call me back that afternoon. When he didn’t call I called back and asked if he had to reschedule and I was told they’d get back to me. He didn’t end up calling me until the evening when I was busy with plans I had held off for this call and he left a message apologizing and saying I could call him this morning to TRY catch him and I’m lowkey annoyed because he reached out to me but I’m the one who has to chase him in hopes of possibly catching him. This isn’t a very good sign on the firm’s part so idk

[almondpiglet]

detach deflect distract dependent

[comatosebunny09]

Don’t know why, but I feel like fighting.

Imagine being so mad you take on an entire gang just to vent. And when you wander back to Sylus’ base, knuckles bruised and split, lips and nose bleeding, cuts littering your face, and drenched in sweat, he’s mortified.

He treats your wounds and tenderly wraps your hands, wanting to ask what the hell happened to you but not knowing how. You’re uncharacteristically quiet; he can feel the ire drifting off you in waves. After you shower, he tucks you into bed. You still have yet to say a single word.

Later on, he finds out from Mephisto that you wiped out a rival faction just because it was a Monday.

[radiocmyk]

“It’s obviously valid to be bugkin but you also can’t just expect people to get over it when they have a genuine fear!”

I’m afraid of dogs.

Dogs put me extremely on edge. I avoid them while outside and if one’s in a room with me I’ll try to leave or else start to panic. Especially medium-sized and larger breeds. Mere images of dogs may not give me a panic attack, I will admit that, it's not a phobia. But if you want to talk hypocrisy, if you're opening up that discussion:

Hey dog therians, dog otherhearted folks and clinical cynanthropes, what if everywhere you went, the unspoken attitude of the alterhuman community was—

Don’t post dog photos or talk about being a dog in the main alterhuman tags. Don’t talk about your shifts, your instincts, or your kind in the main tags. If you’re a CZ, don’t talk so openly about your biological reality. It’s extremely triggering for people with cynophobia. The idea of physically being or becoming a dog grosses them out to briefly think about, so try not to discuss your literal existence. If you must, at least trigger tag yourself with #tw dogs or #tw dog mention so people can stay safe by censoring things that will hurt their mental health. It’s okay if you’re dogkin but in my DNI I'm going to write something like, don’t follow me if your blog hosts too many graphic close-up images of dogs doing dog things, even if you censor them. Don’t add dog photos to open posts in the alterhuman tags, you have no idea who might be sent into a panic attack by images of yourself so you should play it safe and only put them on your own posts. And stop being so offended by people who comment on posts about pet dogs or dog facts saying they want to bleach their eyes or kill it with fire, they can’t help having a phobia.

Not great, is it? Fortunately, and I do genuinely mean that, this is a sentiment you will only see once, on this post, completely satirically. Except it’s just a real sentiment for bug therians/hearted and other invertebrate alterhumans. Of course what I said was satire. But if it pissed you off when you thought it might not be, please, contemplate on that reaction, really spend some time on it.

Also, if you're wondering what I mean by "other invertebrate alterhumans", (and I'm sorry for how heated I got when I was writing this part last night even after editing it down)

You know I’m a bug zoanthrope too, not just a bird? And see above if you're wondering why I never said shit about it, just said I was a centipede therian and even then said I was just questioning and didn't really talk much about it. Am I allowed to talk about it without tagging it #tw body horror, even though I obviously don’t fucking find my own body to be horror? Can I talk about it without tagging it #tw bugs like just the very thing that I am needs to be censored for people's well-being? I'm sorry if I come across judgmental. Offline I constantly interact with people saying they’re a nature lover but centipedes are the only thing on Earth that they still hate. And I have to come online knowing that any of those people could be bloggers in the alterhuman tags and it’s my responsibility to tiptoe around them. “Because centipedes are scary and disgusting.” Because I’m scary and disgusting. My brain is not capable of hearing a difference and I can’t change that. It is so much my reality that it's the same emotional mix of anger and anxiety and hurt that would be (has been, lol) triggered by someone ranting about how much they hate Jews or trans people to me.

[civetside]

me and my endless lesbian yearning

[zoneofsmites]

Still laughing about how they didn't want to "invalidate" anyone's worldstate. But that is exactly what they did.

Morrigan is the most obvious, I really cannot believe that a Morrigan who was a mother would have so willingly taken into her something like Mythal if she was a mother - of at this point - a 10 year old Kieran. Maybe she would, but it would be for different reasons.

Isabela is the most annoying to me. She's talking about how "Kirkwall taught her about family." as if she couldn't have been given up by Hawke to the Arishok. As if she couldn't have ran away from Kirkwall and never looked back. If I had met an Isabela from a world state like that, she would never have said that.

Harding talking about the Inquisition also feels like it misses some... extra flavour here and there based on actual choices. Like my Inquisitor didn't do well with Blackwall, and he didn't survive to see the end of the game. But Lace speaks about him fondly and in such a way that I don't think she should if the Inquisitor never 'redeemed' him.

Zevran is never mentioned by name, but what if a warden outright killed the assassin hunting them. Or he turned on them in Denerim and died later? Then explain to me that entire banter Lucanis has with Harding about why House Arainai messed up so bad they went trough several Talons about it. And now the Crows don't take contracts in Ferelden anymore.

At that point the reason that was given to us for the lack of worldbuild choices to prevent 'invalidating everyone's worldstate' feels null and void. Because you have. You have invalidated many worldstates already by bringing back these character or have people talk around them in such a way that doesn't make sense.

[candyheartedchy]

When you both work for rival restaurants and fall in love.

[al-luviec]

vito