#new tag for me ranting

[aemiron-main]

ahahah noo em don’t talk about the prevalence of “enlightened centrism” in the byler tag lately and the rise of it within online communities as a whole over the past few years and how enlightened centrism is awful and is defined as instead of thinking “both sides have good and bad,” enlightened centrism focuses on “both sides are bad and I am morally superior for thinking so OR taking sides is morally bad/I am morally superior for being neutral” and how the issue with enlightened centrism isn’t even the cowardice of neutrality when it comes to certain topics/when neutrality becomes too prevalent and stunts your ability to create firm arguments and cope with disagreement (which that is an issue but not the main issue), but rather, the way that enlightened centrism frames that neutrality as an inherent moral good/form of morally superior thinking.

and how THAT moral framework & the way that morality is part of enlightened centrism ties into the way that people take personal discomfort and shift it into being framed as/presented as Moral Wrongdoing/Outrage (ie how people will see something that makes them Personally Uncomfortable and try and justify turning it into a Moral Issue and try to make that thing/the existence of it out to be Morally Bad, especially when they also then try and position themselves as a Moral Good)

and how all of THAT ties into a fundamental lack of understanding of boundaries and what boundaries actually are and how that fundamental lack of understanding of what boundaries are, their purpose, and how they actually function is something that goes right back to the boomers generation & the generation raised by boomers & that generation after & how THAT is tied to the high rates of neglectful and abusive parenting amongst boomers & also genuinely tied to things like leaded gas and lead paint exposure.

and how all of that ties into why I was previously surprised that we had a huge terf in the byler tag but now am not surprised at all because even though I’m NOT saying that the majority of byers are terfs because that is inaccurate, I AM saying that centrism, especially enlightened centrism, by its very nature creates a breeding ground for fostering rightwing ideology like terfism and how it’s very much a fact that right wingers and bigots rely heavily on centrism as a shield to hide behind & how a centrist (again especially an enlightened centrist) is a rightwingers biggest unintentional (and sometimes intentional but that’s a whole other topic) ally and the whole concept of how staying neutral in times of oppression means you have automatically taken the side of the oppressor and how byler tag disagreements are far from oppression but the centrist rhetoric is the same at its core and is taking the byler tag and many other parts of the internet down a dangerous slope that unintentionally fosters terfism and rightwing bs because of how it frames all ideas as equally valid/equally supported even when not directly addressing terfism/rightwing ideology and even when the person posting that centrist stuff that fosters rightwing bs doesn’t consider themselves a terf/right winger and is in fact often the exact opposite of those but is still spouting a rhetoric that allows that shit to grow because of the fundamental flaws and moralizing involved in enlightened centrist rhetoric.

and how the “taking sides and being passionate and having a firm opinion is Bad and Hurtful and Morally or Intellectually (not always both but sometimes both) Inferior” centrist/enlightened centrist rhetoric is identical to the rhetoric that was used to demonize leftists and paint “SJWS” and marginalized people as being morally and often intellectually inferior due to them having a firm, passionate standpoint and how it promotes the removal of emotion from argument which in turn promotes the same sort of distance/emotional disconnect that allows someone to remove themselves from the concept of others’ suffering and therefore allows them to justify to themselves supporting hateful rhetoric/legislation that actively causes that suffering while STILL feeling like they are the morally superior individual. and how being marginalized yourself does not stop you from spreading rhetoric (specifically centrist/enlightened centrist rhetoric) that allows for that hateful viewpoint to fester and grow even if you yourself aren’t actively hateful/are marginalized and how it’s actually often marginalized people themselves who end up spreading that centrist/enlightened centrist rhetoric esp in online spaces and how it’s gotten worse as the state of the world has gotten worse lately & how especially with the pandemic, people feel out of control in their lives and so they seek to control others’ actions and behaviour under the guise of falsely moralizing their feelings of of personal discomfort and how that desire to control others ties into what I want to talk abt in a big post on this topic one day about what boundaries actually are and how they actually work and how boundaries do not function for you to control others but rather are about you controlling your own response, communicating what that response will be to others and allowing them to make their own choice because trying to control others by saying “you can’t do that” is basically impossible and is not effective boundary setting. (Ie me telling a client “you can’t email me on the weekends” is not setting a boundary. Me telling a client “if you email me on weekends, I will not respond” IS setting a boundary, and yes you can take other steps to prevent the person from emailing you such as blocking their address but that’s still controlling things on YOUR end rather than trying to control things on THEIR end)

ahaha nooo Em don’t let ur political science/history side and dedicated lifelong diy therapist/diy psychiatrist eldest child side jump out ahaha nooooo

(I will make my post about this one day bc I have a lot of thoughts. might even make it later today based on how much time I have today.)

But like seriously. I am Dead Serious when I say that even setting Byler Drama TM aside for a second, some of you need to think very long and hard about the type of enlightened centrist “all things are equal and thinking otherwise is Morally Bad” rhetoric you are pushing because while this is a small case of it, that rhetoric as a whole has absolutely crushing effects on the world in general and allows for bigotry and rightwing ideology to flourish- you may not be the rightwing bigot, but that rhetoric at its core is the same rhetoric that not only provides a shield for those rightwing bigots to hide behind but also actively creates a breeding ground of false moralization and neutrality and demonizing of strong beliefs that helps those bigots cultivate and grow and spread their bigotry. you (you as in people pushing enlightened centrist rhetoric) are not the farmer planting the seeds of bigotry. you are not the bigoted weed spreading its roots but you ARE the the soil in which it grows. And again, I know this sounds rather dramatic for the byler tag which is why I’ve already said that the byler tag is a small version of it/has smaller consequences but at its core is identical to that big rhetoric that has big consequences.

[queerdraws]

projecting on luffy again. get bited.

[stealingyourbones]

Never will I stop with the steadfast notion that folks in the DPXDC fandom should interact with at least some form of canon DC media.

There are comics, tv shows, radio dramas both old and new, podcasts, movies, magazines, so much shit that intentionally avoiding the media is simply preventing yourself from spawning new ideas and gaining a new appreciation for a fandom that you’re already in.

The Superman Radio Show has episodes 11 minutes long. A lot of the TV shows don’t have episodes that surpass 30 minutes and most are nearly fully clipped on the official DC YouTube channel. The amount of fan made motion comics is astounding. The amount of fanmade animations is equally as incredible.

[nonbinary-vents]

This has been an absolutely horrible couple weeks for the Jewish and Israeli community, so I want to throw in at least a tiny bit of hope in here. Amina Hassouna, the Bedouin girl who was severely hurt in Iran’s missile attacks, has been recovering well and seems to be in good condition! She is described as being ‘fully conscious’ and ‘communicating and smiling’. Two bomb shelters have been placed in Al-Fura, the town that she and her family are from, as well.

[finalgirlwillbyers]

The lack of maturity in this fandom has truly shined over the last several months. I've expected this from the younger folks. However, some of the nastiest behavior is from the adults.

Tell me why, when you have a job, personal life, and hobbies, that you spend your time online spreading malicious rumors about an actor you don't like? Instead of focusing on your life, you post about someone else's life.

Some of you don't care about details. Quite frankly, some of you don't even care about facts. You care about appearing right, even though it may be wrong (see specious). At the end of the day, it's about internet clout.

While how you interact with fictional characters isn't one-to-one with your real life ethics and morals, how you treat real people and their lives are. There are real people behind each account, and there are real people behind each character.

Ya'll are too comfortable peddling misinformation and encouraging harassment under the guise of a "good cause". So much so that it ultimately highlights how it was never about the cause, and all about tearing down a specific person. Your self-righteousness is apparent, just like your lack of integrity.

Combating rumors of two friends grabbing food by spreading rumors that imply the one friend you don't like is a predator is on the absurd-to-diabolical spectrum of parasocial behavior.

Why do you care about two people acting like friends? Why did you choose to dispel the rumor this way? And, why do you think your behavior is okay when you don't like the same behavior in others?

Some food for thought, because self-awareness is an untapped skill in this fandom.

[juustozzi]

you might've seen this in an ask already, but decided to post here too; a collection of Tenmas from Yara's fics, since I love the differences that thrown into different timelines and happenings give him!

[jash-updates]

Most normal energy drink consumer

[gwekkuu]

No new autumn piece this year 😔

So let me share some old ones I still like :0

[time-looper]

punching the wall im thinking abt isat. grgrgrggrgrg ARRAAAAAAGHHGHGHHGHGHGHHGHHHGHHGHHGGHH

thinking abt loop and siffrin, how they r both each other and not. how they are each the others' sole confidants about the loops. how nobody else but each other will truly understand. about siffrin clinging to the happiest time in his life he can rememeber and how he is so terrified to let it go. about how siffrin literally lost everything.

about mira and her imposter syndrome, her being chosen by chance and not by her god, about how despite her being anxiety ridden the narrative takes her seriously shes a SWORD FIGHTER

[peachyfnaf]

haven't exactly watched the show in over a month but hearing what's going on. It's like everyone in it wants to ignore moon's health, plus fans just acting like he should die because of this.

he needs help first and foremost. not like a second death

FOR REAL- THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT'S HAPPENING. EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG AND NOT IN A FUN WAY, NOT ANYMORE. Not to mention that ever since his hallucination of Solar, Moon has been acting so incredibly out of character it's legit frustrating me. Hell, everyone's been out of character. He would not fucking say that. She would not fucking say that. None of them would fucking say that.

Imma use this ask as an excuse to rant about things that are making me Peeved now lmao.

First off, HERE'S THE THING, some people want this version of Moon to die rn? That, I get. I understand. Because this Moon fucking sucks. This Moon is so out of character compared to the one from like a month ago. He's acting like a villain about to twirl his damn oily mustache all like "I need to kill Ruin and Bloodmoon muahaha!1!". WHICH I COULD JUSTIFY IF HE WAS DOING IT FOR THE SAKE OF HIS FAMILY/DUE TO SHITTY MENTAL HEALTH. BUT NO. HE'S DOING IT OUT OF PRIDE AND THE SELFISH WANT FOR DEATH. HE'S NOT EVEN DOING IT FOR SOLAR ANYMORE.

And that just makes NO FUCKING SENSE because not only was New Moon's whole thing that he was going to be better, literally THE ONLY THING OLD MOON WANTED HIM TO DO WAS TO KEEP THE FAMILY SAFE AND HAPPY. AND NEW MOON IS DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THAT. I'm so upset rn jdkfhdsf

And then not to mention the way the other's are treating him- Sun is off my shitlist as of today due to the crisis he's having because, for some reason, the choice to whether or not we're killing New Moon is solely in his hands??? Wack. But. Earth and Lunar. Earth and Lunar. I'm not favorable to them right now at all. Earth, according to her, is supposed to be good at reading/understanding people, if not a "therapist". She should understand that Moon said what he said out of a place of fear, anger, ect. Not from his heart. She has every right for it to have hurt her, but for her to basically disown him? Also wack. The only thing I like about her rn is how she seemingly crushed Bm like a bug lmao. And Lunar? God, Lunar was just so unnecessarily bitchy to Moon in that one ""heart to heart"" episode. That "Fuck him!" pissed me off so very much. Dude, that is your brother who is going into a mental spiral over the death of someone he loved. That is your brother. Wack as hell.

AND not to MENTION everything going on w/ Monty- I literally love them 90% of the time but them deciding to NOT LISTEN TO PUPPET when she told them to NOT RESCUE EARTH ALONE literally made me sigh in frustration/disappointment. That is the one thing, the ONE THING she told them not to do. And Monty did it anyways. And Puppet is a MULTIDIMENSIONAL BEING WITH POWERS/ABILITIES/MAGIC FAR BEYOND ANYTHING MONTY COULD UNDERSTAND, AND THE ONLY THING SHE ASKED FOR MONTY TO DO, WAS FOR MONTY TO TRUST HER. And they Didn't. They didn't trust her, and they went alone, and now they're paying the price. Sighs.

No one is talking to each other. There's too much happening at once, aka the story is so bloated. This arc simultaneously feels too rushed and too slow. I'm so fucking salty. And now I'm gonna go eat food and draw sdkfjhds

[lobotomy-lady]

I wrote out an entire dissertation length rant but I'm actually deleting it & just leaving a gif that captures the energy of my current predicament in far less words

[icantdothistodaybruh]

just watched the first episode what the fuck I have so many questions

If you liked the episode pls don't read underline I don't want to ruin your day with my negativity

why the hell ending looks better then the rest of the episode??? I love it and all, they floating in the sky romantically and it's cute blablabla but why here they look decent and the whole ass episode they look like yassified versions of themselves who decided on that😭😭😭😭 the lashes are killing me the most I think I cannot look at them in close ups for the life of me they remind me of a fucking metalic shifer roofs

the opening I don't even want to talk about bro just wtf happend when they were making it. did ten different people with no idea of what kuro is about were pushed in a room and each made a part for a youtube mep? who was supervising stylistic choices?? was they ever even there????

I can tell that money was not the problem, in a sense that nothing about the episode looks cheap, there were no problems with the budget... so where so many poor artistic choices came from? There is nothing dark, gothic, mysterious or victorian left. And looking back at the opening for all I know I could be just watching some fantasy avatar anime with no clear identety. One episode is not much to judge by, but still is it even black butler anymore??

thank you for coming to my ted talk, that's all for now, I'll be crying and rewatching first seasons if you need me

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[the-nation-of-today]

And in the end we found our stage We gave these words of strength

[cinnanamii]

I do nothing but cry playing this shit ass game I need an apology with tears

[lotus-lamps]

im not late YOU'RE late (man whats with me and niko related celebration art and being late with it)

this did not turn out the way i wanted to but. oh well.

HOWEVER. I GOT A NEW APPLE PEN FOR CHRISTMAS. SO. INCREASED ART MOTIVATION AND ART CAPABILITIES LETS GOOOOOOOOO

also yes i AM obnoxious enough to put my watermark in the middle of the drawing. yes new watermark. old one was boring lol. plus i rarely go by cozm now

okay bye bye enjoy your break!