#not looking to start any discourse

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I just watched a documentary called "The Rachel Divide" about Rachel Dolezal and the aftermath of her being "outed" as white and it was, uh.

Interesting?

Overall, as a documentary I'm not sure I would have gone the route the filmmaker(s) took. There were some aspects I think could have been explored more, and while they did give black activists room to speak, I think they should have been given more screentime.

Literally no one has asked me, but I have a knack for reading into things that weren't meant to be read into, so here are some thoughts.

One thing that stood out to me, good or bad (bad, in my opinion, but hey), is that she was utterly unapologetic. She listened to people tell her how they felt about her deception and the problems with her self-coined identity, but she didn't hear them. You could literally see her shut down when anybody spoke against her. While it was almost certainly also a coping mechanism in the face of conflict, any true resolution would have had to come from a place of open and honest vulnerability on her part, which was visibly not a place she was at during any of the panels/interviews they featured.

It turns out she actually wrote a book about herself, which I did not know. But I did notice that she chose a white man as her co-writer. If I was her, and if I was trying to actually be heard and accepted by the black community, the most sensible thing to do would be to find a black voice to join mine, for better or worse. That would just be common sense. Then again, maybe she did try to find one and just no one wanted to do it. But I do think it's telling that it was a white man. Privilege compounding privilege right there.

Furthermore, as the documentary progresses, I could see how progressively uncomfortable her kids were about the whole situation. Her kids are black, and from the beginning they were seemingly both honest about the effect the debacle has had on them, but also very careful in how they phrased any answer regarding their opinion on what their mom has done. They were defensive of their mom, but they chose their words very carefully to avoid actually having an opinion. By the end of the documentary, and this could be entirely wrong, but I got the sense that they were pulling away from it-- and her-- entirely.

But really the icing on the cake was that apparently one of her paintings that was featured in the documentary (she's actually a fairly gifted artist, to my untrained eye), was actually an unacknowledged replica of an existing piece of art. They put that little revelation a few tiles into the end credits.

I also noticed a typo in the credits, so there's that.

[bixels]

In case anyone who’s not on Twitter is wondering what it’s like now, I just got punched in the throat by four random consecutive discourse posts on my timeline as follows:

>bojack horseman is pathetic and anyone who likes “cartoons for adults” should have their harddrives checked for cp.

>anime is/isn’t carried by black culture, citing dandadan referencing a rihanna dance in its intro (it was a qrt exchange so both sides were present).

>angel dust is good sa victim representation and the person who made that video essay about them needs to be cyberbullied (or the inverse).

>this random stranger online made a post about how they’re bisexual and a trans ally but aren’t interested in trans people romantically or sexually, let’s make assumptions about their failure as a queer person and also dox them.

So that’s what you’re missing out on.

[lenichque]

bottom charles or bottom erik?

only bottom charles for me, sorry folks

[stardestroyer81]

It's true— she told me herself! 💞

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[osamucide]

if this bothers anyone they can kindly feel free to leave or ignore it or whatever but can we stop flooding the x reader tags with half-baked thinkpieces on why people should or shouldn’t do whatever with their writing. every other post is “you shouldn’t romanticize [x]” “you’re problematic if you do [x]” “stop writing about [x]” “[x] is gross and if you write about it kill yourself” how about if you don’t like certain content you heed the content warnings, block the tags, don’t interact with it, so on and so forth. of course part of our responsibility as writers, especially ones dealing with sensitive topics, is to label and tag our works appropriately but let’s be real—i hardly see any writers (at least within the bsd fandom) who don’t make it abundantly clear what they do/do not write about, interact with, or tolerate. wait until you find out how much fucked up shit happens in real life and how much some person on the internet coping with their trauma by writing self insert fanfiction about a cartoon character doesn’t fucking correlate to the perpetuation of that fucked up shit at all. it doesn’t even have to be that serious. people are going to write and read the content they want and they’re allowed to and you spilling your complaints all over the x reader tags “to boost attention” isn’t gonna change that. if you don’t like something ignore, unfollow, block, mind your own business. it’s actually super easy

[ocpdzim]

star trek prodigy fans how old do we think zero is., we’re trying to figure out if they’re the one adult supervising all these kids or if they’re another kid bc those are two pretty different reads on their character

[smolstarthief]

Hmm... I kinda want to mention/discuss how Husk and Alastor have more in common than the fandom thinks and can even be interesting foils to each other but idk if you all ready for that tea yet... 👀

[lycanr0t]

i feel very frustrated about the trend of giving chil body hair bc if it was any other anime twink i would be thrilled its just that it seems to only be because people are SO afraid of him looking young they have to make him hairy to justify liking him in ships.

meanwhile it does directly go against canon (he literally is supposed to look like a child. this is integral to both his character and his race's lore as a whole and it makes no damn sense that he would be mistaken for a child if he has body hair i mean. cmon.)

and it's like. some men are hairless. some men look young. when youre a trans man in your 20s-30s its especially common to be mistaken for a teenager, even more so if you're not on t. and short. these traits do not make you less of a man or an adult. :/

[flyingbuddiies]

the day osc tumblr stops fighting over tacomic is the day we all heal [adding my personal opinion in the tags]

[sofastuffing]

i have a headache

[capcavan]

i wanted to reblog this post because this is how i feel about mary's and neil's reltionship but in the end i don't think this ended up related enough

half way related but feel free to ignore having abusive parent who is not intentionally abusive is specific experience and does happen, either due to persons mental health or the way they were brought up themselves It's okay to acknowledge that the parent loved a child and tried to do the best for the child while also acknowledge that their actions hurt the child it's okay to love and hate someone at the same time, it allows a person to be able to heal- understand that they were abused , while not having to discredit the love they received from said person or i guess i should say there is a range to abuse and the boundary to what point one wants to still be able to love person who abused them is personal choice, and people who chose to still love their parents are not bad or broken I don't really think Neil loves his mother though, I think he is tired and glad to be free and just happy to let her rest.

[padfootastic]

hi! i've no idea how i came to your page but i realised i'd read two of your one-shots in ao3 before and had adored them (you'll probably get comments from me in future, btw) and i just wanted to say thank you for your writing and thank you for your prongsfoot<3

i've been very critical of this sort of new, cool and aloof and martyred version of remus lupin for quite a while now (honestly, where did all those traits come from?!) and gosh, you're so eloquent when talking about him!!!

i was wondering what your thoughts were on regulus black? because i think he's getting the same sort of royalty treatment as remus does by making him sort of-- er, perfect? i mean. i've seen so much recently of him basically saving the world single-handedly and i-- ugh. and james is always just there, like a useless idiot? it makes me irrationally angry, and this is coming from someone who enjoys jegulus quite a bit. my problem is that i don't know if this rejection i feel against those two comes from a place of genuine dislike of them or from a place of wishing sirius and james were not done so dirty.

anyway, again, thank you for your writing. it's truly beautiful. hope you have a great day!

omg hello 🥺 i’ve periodically opened tumblr, giggling like a loon, and logging off multiple times just to see this ask,,,,thank u sm , ur way too kind <3 and ur comment on ao3!!! i was just,,,,yeah,,,no words. thank u.

ooooooh i remember being asked something similar a while ago and i took the safe route and basically went ‘remus lupin-ification of regulus’ iirc. that still stands. but but. i’ve also got another answer here! all hail tumblr’s search system today!

i still basically stand by all of it, but adding onto the jegulus + sirius bits of it:

annoys tf outta me when regulus is turned into a victim and like sirius damned him to hell when he left . i have thoughts about the way both of them were treated (which,,,another time,,,this post is already getting too long lol) but i imagine the day sirius left to be a Good One for reg bc he thinks he’ll have his parents undivided attention now. i also think regulus is severely defanged in a lot of characterisations, as if he wasn’t a baby DE, as if he wasn’t a slytherin from the house of black, as if he wasn’t walmart sirius black. like man i’m almost offended on his behalf. i’m sure his shaking his lil fist up at us from wherever he is.

with jegulus…okay, i’ve only read a couple oneshots but that doesn’t mean i haven’t tried. i genuinely went thru so many fics trying to get something, anything to stick and i think the problem is me. fully. completely. without doubt. i just can’t deal with a situation where j&s aren’t each others no.1, or at the very least, equivalent to that. that’s where my issues w wolfstar started, same w this. jegulus also has the added horror of ‘james and reg sneaking behind sirius’ back’ which is just,,,,gosh,,,,i have So Many Thoughts ab that. all personal opinions, but still. they’re strong. it fucks me up just thinking about it. i also think the ship tries wayyyy too hard to fit the ‘best friend’s brother’ trope and ends up sacrificing characterisation for it. which,,,again,,,that’s fine but it’s all the ‘oh this is how it was!’ that gets to me. and then james :/// he gives off such weird energy lol. jegulus gives me drarry vibes, and james is treated almost exactly as harry is in a lot of those. reg also gets the saviour treatment, like draco, and both of their fuckery is toned down until they’re almost normal, like they never did any reprehensible shit. j&r, and d&h are placed on the same moral equivalence and it’s just a bit. hmm. okay. (my issue with this is how it leaks into the writing and suddenly i’m made to sympathise with draco bc harry slashed him w sectumsempra, but we conveniently forget he was gonna use an unforgivable, ykno?) so overall it just feels…pushing reg up and pulling james down to get them on equal footing. very similar to wolfstar lbr.

anyway. that’s a ramble and a half lmao.

also!! ‘a place of genuine dislike of them or from a place of wishing sirius and james were not done so dirty’ in my mind, both of these occupy a similar plane of existence. so very valid. for me, personally, hating remrem started as the latter and i eventually realised it’s also the former lol i was just mad a how sirius is bastardised to justify his ~deification and it eventually moved on to ‘wow i just. do not like him’. damn.

[flashhwing]

I’m here to say that you may absolutely express negativity about veilguard to me as long as it’s not stupid. hate on it for real reasons, of which there are plenty, most of which I’m ignoring because of the hype but would be glad to discuss in a civilized manner. no forced positivity in this zone this is a safe space. unless your criticism is dumb as fuck then I will point and laugh

[mothmx]

*sticks one toe into HH fandom* *sees a cosplayer making thirst traps in Alastor cosplay while also joking about a fanfic where Charlie gets SA’d???*

*closes that tab*

[wren-kitchens]

this is probably the extent of what i’ll say about this topic but i’ve noticed a huge similarity between the people who consider every single aspect of mcyt Problematic or Bad Media and the people who bullied me when I was 14 in that, they don’t really care about mcyt all that much, they just don’t want to be associated with the weird kids and so make a huge fuss about how it’s bad so they don’t get kicked out the Popular Group

[my-current-obsession]

Most people's reactions to the new RF: Oh thank god all the likely love interests thus far actually look like adults!!!

Me: Please god let them be hyping up the "town building" addition more than necessary. I DO NOT want to actually make and shape the town. Please.