#op also had reblogged my analysis. i checked.

[originalaccountname]

This is a sensibilization post, not a callout post, so this is intentionally very vague.

A month ago, I made a bsd character analysis post.

Yesterday, I saw another bsd character analysis post on the same subject.

If you read them back to back, you would notice my arguments, structure, pacing and screenshots were reused a LOT. Entire sentences were barely rephrased, the same comments were left on the screenshots (which were directly copied from my own post), and even the title of the post was barely rephrased from my opening line. It's literally "copied your homework but changed it enough as to not raise suspicion" (I still noticed)

Which makes me really sad, because OP had interesting things to add! Sandwiched in the middle, things that were not from me are expanded upon, many of which I agree with! I would have loved reblogging their own arguments and observations!

But because they plagiarized my own analysis, I am both hurt and wary. If half of this analysis is plagiarized from me, who's to say the other half isn't plagiarized from someone else? I have no faith in any of their thoughts now, it's over.

I worked hard on that analysis! Reread some manga and light novel sections, structured my essay, edited it over a few days, found relevant and interesting manga panels and light novel sections to include! I had fun doing it!

So seeing my hard work half-chewed and spit back out going around without any mention of me is disheartening.

I don't know what kind of reach I can have like this, but this is a message to both the OP and everyone else: don't do this. We're supposed to be a community. You can build upon someone else's thoughts, use the reblog button or cite them in your own original post. It's very simple.

I didn't link the post because I don't want OP put on blast, but I needed this issue adressed, because if it happened once, it can can or could have happened twice. This is a learning opportunity: plagiarism feels real bad. I don't want this for anyone else.

Have a good one all of you 💖

[anghraine]

[This is eventually about P&P, but takes awhile to get there]

My best friend and I had a debate about whether there's an ethical component to being wrong about something when you are perfectly capable of being right. That is, we were discussing circumstances when you are equipped (through ability and/or access to information) to reach a legitimate conclusion and simply don't. Is this morally wrong?

We weren't talking about fandom stuff, originally, but about politics and how misinformation spreads less through an abundance of bad actors than through maybe one or a few bad actors, plus a ton of people who simply don't check (or sometimes even care) that X thing fitting their worldview is true.

We've all done this, I'm sure, but the first example that came to mind for me was a viral post that went around back when the US Republican Party had a majority in the House of Representatives. The post in question was started by a popular more-leftist-than-thou blog, and was about how the latest Republican evildoing had garnered some Democratic votes, too, and thus Democrats should not be seen as all that different, blah blah. I knew people who approvingly reblogged it! Meanwhile in reality, not a single Democrat had voted for the thing, and the OP was either lying or (more likely) made an assumption without checking that it was true.

So we were talking about whether that mistaken assumption (supposing it was a mistake for the purposes of discussion) had a moral dimension—is it morally wrong to make a mistake of that kind? Is it morally wrong when it's so easy to check if a major Congressional vote is party-line or not, but okay when it's not so much an objective fact that it's easy to get reliable information about? What about the people who uncritically reblogged the post, who might also have checked? Some are people I otherwise respect, so ...?

Nevertheless, my friend is much more inclined to be forgiving about this kind of thing, and we did end up talking about how it applies to less momentous matters. John Wiltshire, for instance, wrote a passage (and later an essay) about Darcy's smile and how some critics have flat-out rejected Elizabeth's memory of him smiling at her, even though it's explicitly mentioned multiple times by Austen. Sure, a formal critical analysis that argues that Elizabeth is retroactively manufacturing the existence of those smiles is fundamentally mistaken and (however unintentionally) misrepresenting what happens in the novel. That's irritating to be sure, but is it wrong?

Even I wouldn't argue that every statement that turns out to be mistaken is a moral misdeed. But I do feel that there is a moral component to understanding the world around us as well as we are truly capable of doing.

And then I reblogged that earlier post about how Elizabeth's judgmental wit is glamorized and idealized, but leads her to make serious mistakes of judgment, though the consequences of those mistakes are mainly felt by Elizabeth herself, and to some extent by Darcy (whose shitty proposal makes it difficult to feel that badly about Elizabeth's excoriating refusal, even where she's partly or wholly wrong about him).

Darcy repeatedly dismisses Elizabeth's misjudgment as not really that big of a deal and certainly not a moral failure. Elizabeth does see it as a moral issue, though. This is in part because her misjudgment led her to actually do something (throw Wickham's lies in Darcy's face as part of her rejection, which could have made it very easy for Darcy to reject the whole). But it's also because she personally had solid evidence of Wickham's duplicity and inconsistency, and the abilities she prides herself on could have led her to see through him, she just ... didn't, due to her vanity and prejudices.

This colors the entire rejection for Elizabeth; she regards her actions as despicable and, in retrospect, humiliating, despite Darcy taking pains to excuse and forgive her misjudgment at the end of the letter. Even months later, she thinks of her refusal as wrongly petulant and acrimonious. Despite Darcy's own mistakes, Elizabeth is grateful that he values her judgment enough to forgive the manner of the refusal and the objective mistakes within it, and to identify where her criticisms are legitimate and then act on them. When he's blaming himself after her engagement, she's the one who points out that her behavior that day at Hunsford also merits reproach, which Darcy denies.

Undoubtedly this is partly because he loves her and is inclined to forgive anything she says or does. But there is that question of whether she actually was wrong—not just mistaken, but failing ethically—to believe Wickham. I've noticed that fandom (and even more, pop culture takes) tend to shrug off her role in the Wickham subplot and to elide her worst accusations in order to represent her rejection as purely righteous and accurate. I find it annoying both as a Darcy fan and as someone who really likes Elizabeth's overall character arc in the novel and sees it as the heart of the book.

But so much of her mistake with Wickham is a mistake in personal judgment. She's wrong about pretty much his entire character, and also wrong about Darcy in some pretty damn significant ways. And it occurred to me that maybe some people feel more like Darcy in this respect—a private error in judgment, however severe, is not a moral misstep, it's just a mistake and everyone makes mistakes.

But one of the things I like about Elizabeth, and have for a long time, is that when she's confronted with her mistakes, she's willing to turn the harshness of her judgment on herself as much as on others. She can be an ethically demanding person but not hypocritically so. Even when she's no longer angsting over her mistakes, she doesn't forget that she made them or cease to regard them as failings on her part. She doesn't sentimentalize her conduct or motives when they are not truly sentimental, but based more on pride and vanity.

I respect that a lot—I don't think most people, then or now, are willing to face themselves the way Elizabeth does, refuse to soften their culpability, and still come out with a sense of dignity, humor, and entitlement to respect. And I feel like treating this as ... you know, Elizabeth is just so great that she treats an understandable mistake as a moral misstep, etc, undercuts the psychological journey/arc of her character.

But I'm biased, because I do tend to judge willful ignorance and willful mistakes more harshly than many people do. So maybe part of the reason that Elizabeth's mistakes in judgment seem very significant to me, on a par with Darcy's failings, and also why I respect how she handles those mistakes once she's aware of them and see it as essential to the novel, is because my own philosophy can be pretty harsh on this point.

It does make this a very rewarding novel for me, though!

[aiartshaming]

what's this blog for?

I got tired of seeing ai art on my dash, or art that looked ai-generated and meant I had to go fact-check the thing. And mostly it was being shared by people who wouldn't share it if they knew it was ai! So i made this blog to have popular ai images in one place and clearly identified so people would know what to avoid reblogging.

what do you want people to do about it?

Don't share ai art, unless it's to warn people and it's clearly labeled. Let people know when you see them sharing ai art that what they're sharing is ai-generated. Often, the op will be an unsourced/stolen content blog, and in that case blocking them is always a good idea to help keep that content from spreading. Beyond that? Support non-ai artists! share/buy/back their work instead of ai.

who runs this blog?

My name is Mel (30s, any pronouns). My main is legacysam, but I also have a more anonymous art blog I sometimes use. Art isn't my career, but I've been on tumblr for many years and I know what it's been like for artists to try to get traction on here even before ai.

can I send you ai art posts?

Please do! Especially if you've got one that's been identified as ai art with analysis. There are a lot of people posting great explanations of how they recognize ai, which is definitely something I want on this blog.

[abla-soso]

Hello, for starter very sorry for this weird ask. I am kinda new on mha fandom (also tumblr overall) and someone recently made a, in my opinion, very bizarre analysis about Hawks. Using my new second account I reblogged with my rebuttal, imo non-offensively (cmiiw), but my reblog won't show on the OP's notes. I started to think if I offend the OP and they have me blocked or my reblog were erased or something. So I wonder if you can tell me whether you can see my reblog or not, since I kinda don't want to bother my mutuals on main account. This is the rebuttal that I've made (https://www.tumblr.com/cooners/723249544535605248/youve-written-about-overhaul-in-the-past-any?source=share). Truly hope you don't mind to help me on this, because it's kinda disheartening to be blocked or my argument were erased without any proper feedback, but I still wanna know.

Btw I love your analysis about Hawks and I have fun marathoning on them rn. Hawks is a truly great character and has been my absolute fav on MHA ever since I saw him in the anime so kinda surprised that so many people misinterpret him.

Ah... I really liked what you wrote about Hawks, but even without checking the notes; I knew you were blocked just by looking at the OP's name.

How can I say this? Um... let's say you had the misfortune of approaching one of the most delusional and closed-minded villains stan on this site. Seriously, her takes - on Hawks especially - are SO batshit insane that they're kinda infamous. It's the kind of takes that makes you question the writer's sanity. Like did they hallucinate an entirely different manga and mistook it for Hori's manga? And I'm not even exaggerating or being petty here, it's honestly that insane.

I'm so sorry that this is one of your first experiences with the Tumblr side of Bnha's fandom. You can dramatically improve your experience by blocking the OP and her friends. You'd block out half of the fandom's most toxic and delusional stans this way. Best of luck <3

[ladyluscinia]

Ok, several helpful people in my replies and one very helpful link later, I at least know what people were talking about.

For anyone else confused, curious, and too checked out of Twitter (or just bored of fandom drama) to look into it...

Here's the tweet at the center of it all:

The opening definitely has all the pieces needed to make a bad first impression: "The Rat Man", "everyone loves to hate him", "want him to suffer horribly", cutting off just after the "racism, colonialism, classism" but before actually saying what the essay is about (thankfully not any of that). Let's sum it up with I'm not surprised that fans saw this tweet and were immediately under the impression that their fanzine was going to have an Izzy discourse essay in it breaking down how he sucks.

People are not exactly known for going to check the full article before responding to the headline and excerpt, especially when you only (maybe, if it had shipped) had the full thing to consult if you paid for it. This apparently went over predictably poorly as soon as people started asking questions.

The essay itself is here (also viewable in this (more Izzy critical) post which has a link to the original tweet as well):

EDIT: apparently the op of that post decided that two Izzy fans defending the essay and saying both sides needed to calm down was unacceptable and turned off reblogs, so glad I put a copy here too

I think it's fairly shallow and makes a number of interpretive assumptions that it doesn't acknowledge or defend, but both of these things are more artifacts of brevity than anything else. For a meta arguing Izzy's role and POV across the entirety of Season 1 it's only 11 paragraphs long (not counting intro lines or odd formatting breaks), while my meta probably most comparable in scope is my main Edward one at closer to 40 paragraphs + 5 direct quotes, and that one still doesn't fully back up its points because it leans on another 14 (?) linked posts in the body of the text.

I'm on the wordy side, but I feel like you could have covered just 1x10 in this word count and not hit everything, so not surprising that condensing to just broad strokes had people going "Wait where's the counterargument???" Like, the meta itself is not particularly hostile or offensive. Mildly annoying if you disagree with it, and with an intro / title that maybe should have been revisited, but not an act of staunch anti-Izzy warfare.

The core of the complaint from the Izzy side, btw, seems to just be that there wasn't any other argument. There wasn't any other meta submitted at all, actually, which does seem like an oversight on the mods' part. No other views on Izzy, and no risk whatsoever of someone having to read a show analysis they didn't like about Edward / Stede / Jim / etc. Everything else is just fun fanart or fanfic. Which still mostly seems like a "get a bit annoyed" problem and not a "how could you let them publish this and I would never have given you money if I knew" problem, but what is fandom without overblown situations?

On the anti Izzy side (which I'll admit I've seen very little of because of my Izzy liking crimes 😔) I've seen a few mentions of harassment of the mods and author because of this, which it is Twitter so I wouldn't doubt it. I do avoid the cesspool for a reason. There are a lot of replies just mentioning and / or being dramatic about their arguably legit annoyance, and in terms of numbers I don't exactly use Twitter but it doesn't look like the post was that big...

...so I'm feeling like the "oh look how many whiny Izzy fans it caused to have a meltdown" and the "huge unjustified backlash by Izzy stans" mentions are also being overblown. This seems like more of a "got annoyed with fans I don't like already" thing, too.

My final conclusion:

Twitter kind of sucks, a bunch of people got annoyed, the fanzine maybe should not have published just one meta in the first place, and they definitely should have realized that their tweet excerpt looked like the opening to 50% of the "Izzy is pure evil and fans who like him are suspicious as fuck" essays and changed it.

Also the meta itself is a pretty meh overview and not an anti Izzy manifesto, the idea that the author should have been censored because their meta counts as some kind of attack is absurd, and, again, Twitter sucks.

Has anyone actually broken down what all this "anti Izzy meta in a zine" drama was off Twitter? Or at least in one place that can be linked and viewed without a Twitter account?

I keep seeing references to it, but they are all so disparate that if I wasn't fairly confident there was only one recent zine drama...

[bookofmirth]

Hi

I'm not up to date with all the drama in this fandom bc i tend to scroll past it. But being a reader of the books before I landed in these fandoms, I'm utterly shocked about how people treat eachother.

I'm very neutral on this stupid ship war going on. I tend to fall more for Elriel. But I understand everyone's opinion. I used to read all the book analysis, but now it just seems so exhausting. I get that people love books and ship different people. That's normal, everyone has different taste etc i'm just here trying to understand why we need to bring other human beings down in order to push our own narrative.

Since when is it okay to do that???? Can't we have a normal conversation without sending death treats?

I normally don't really respond to anything that involves drama. But these last couples of months have gotten me to dislike the books more and more solely because of these, may I call them blandly, horrible people.

And i'm very sad to have to admit that i'm also getting sick of the art of the multiple ships. Which that's horrible because I love what all these amazing artists create. But the hate they receive and the comments just make me hate it all more,this whole fandom with all these toxic people ruining it for me personally.

Can't we all just agree that we like these books, and respect eachother as human beings, no matter what everyone else thinks? And maybe wait and see what the author writes? In the end it are still her books and she will have the final say in everything.

I wish SJM would release the next book sooner so all this hate would stop, then again i don't know if it will stop. They will likely continue and probably bother SJM too...

Thank you for listening to me ranting, you always seem very nice to people with different opinions, so I thought i might as well rant a bit too.

Have a lovely day!!

Hello! Thank you for this message! I think it's really helpful for people to see because they can see the impact of the things they are doing and saying in the fandom. There are a lot of people who feel comfortable being vocal in the fandom, but I gotta say, if I were just joining now, I'm not sure that would be me. I wonder how many people walk in, take a look around, and walk the fuck back out. I probably would.

I got on my soap box a little bit because I was thinking about some of the things you've said!

I was just talking with some friends, some of whom I've been in the fandom with since 2017, some who are newer. And we all 1000% agree with you. It's so, so frustrating that the fandom has gotten so nasty to the point where we've become so separated from each other that we can't have a single civil conversation. Where people of color don't feel safe, and where a lot of the fandom doesn't even seem to care about that.

When I first joined the fandom, there were definitely people who shipped one way and people who shipped another, but we were still able to have conversations with each other. There would be these really, really long posts that were chains of people commenting on posts and reblogging, then someone adding on their thoughts, then op would respond, etc. Yeah, the posts were super long to scroll through, but there was so much engagement, ya know? And it was genuine, too. We could disagree or say "hey OP I like this point, but have you thought of X?" And it was great! (I even have a tag for it, #long post tag, because I once got an anon who was annoyed at how long my conversations with people would be 💀so I made that tag for people who wanted to block those posts.)

I'm not going to pretend it was perfect - there were definitely people I didn't get along with. But that wasn't a fandom thing, that was just a personality thing. And I never in a million years expected those people to fly off the handle and start attacking me anon, or to ss my posts to make fun of elsewhere. Now, that's a constant fear hanging over everyone's heads.

It has created an extreme echo chamber. I would genuinely like having those old fandom discussions where people would comment - in the open, on reblogs - and then we could all engage in that discussion in public. Now, all of that discussion happens in private, in groupchats and Discord. And don't get me wrong, Discord is super fun. But it also means that 1) people who aren't in those groups have no idea wtf is going on when we vague, although I try not to do that anyway, and 2) when people are in those groups they egg each other on to be worse and worse. Worse than they would have been if they were on their own and didn't feel like they had a group of people there to support their asshole behavior. tbh, I have to check myself sometimes and think, "would I do this if I hadn't just gotten into a rant conversation with friends on Discord?"

And what you said about fan art, it's so frustrating!!! Since when did fan art become a battle ground??? Since when did the appearance of fan art = a win for one ship or the other?? Why can't the comments of those arts ever just be nice and appreciative of the work someone has put into it? Honestly, it makes me paranoid to write fanfic, too! I mean, is that next???

I totally agree with you that we should be able to respect each other as people. We used to be able to do that. I hate to admit it, but I have so many people blocked now because I just don't trust them. I don't trust them to be civil, I don't trust them to be able to see my posts, I don't trust them to even read what I've written without misconstruing everything I've said.

I'm not sure if people realize that there is a big difference between this:

I don't like X ship

And this:

People who like X ship are delusional

The first one is okay! It's normal! Like you said, we all have feelings and interpretations and stuff we would prefer to see or not see!

The second one, not okay! Stop insulting people, people!!!!

The idea of engaging in a normal, healthy debate with a huge portion of the fandom is such a foreign concept to me at this point, and it never used to be. There could be a lot of reasons for this. And I always try to avoid pointing fingers because I know that not everyone is like that, though I'm sure I have slipped into that from time to time.

I think it would help if we stop seeing each other as a gwynriel or an elucien or an elriel, and start seeing each other as individuals. When acosf first came out, I started noticing a trend where people would send me asks and write them as if they were writing to every single person who ships elucien, or as if they were writing to every single person who holds a certain opinion about Azriel. It was really confusing at first, and I'm gonna request that the fandom stop doing that altogether, to everyone. If you want to engage with someone, engage with that person, not your idea of who they are and what they think.

I'm down for conversations where we talk about the series and what might come next as possibilities, because that's all this is, so far. Anyone who says that "X thing will never happen" is making some bold claims, and it's really off-putting to people who know that that's not why we are here. It's not a contest where we "win" canon. It's fandom, where we talk about what we like and what we don't like and what we want and cross our fingers and hope.

EDIT I wanted to add on one thing - a lot of this behavior is incredibly shocking and disgusting and I think that we, as a fandom, need to be better at 1) calling it out, and 2) not assuming that whoever did X horrible thing represents all people from that corner of the fandom.

I hope that you have a lovely day as well! And that the fandom doesn't get you too down. @heleencollier

[the-ghost-king]

There was a post I wanted to reblog and respond to, but I'm not sure how op would have liked that so here's my in depth character analysis on Will and Nico (it's not actually that in depth):

It depends on how you headcanon the characters outside of that aspect as well though...

For example I do headcanon them with a decent height difference but if I'm extremely extremely oversimplifying my thoughts on them, Nico is the protector.

Will being so large gives him depth- he's going to be scared of being too strong and of breaking the things he loves. (Kind of like Frank?)

He's always been extremely kind, and not exactly the most masculine- he likes flowers, and cries when birds fall out of trees, those silly childhood "dog's life's" movies never failed to make him cry, he's canonically a worrier, he just wants to help people and save lives- he's the type of person who sometimes cries himself to sleep because the world is so twisted and cruel and he doesn't understand why people just can't be kind. Will "see's the world for what it could be rather than what it is" (if you want me to compare him to another YA character I would give you Dante Quintana)

Nico on the other hand, he was never allowed to cry or to show emotion- stiff that lip, don't let the tears fall- he was trained for war from the day he was born, his emotions can be shut off from the trauma of his life. He picks up that fallen bird and buries it out of a sense of duty and respect, but he doesn't cry any tears or think too hard about it. He doesn't spend much time thinking about "what ifs" unless they're necessary, he's worried about making sure everyone is safe and cared for rather than why people are cruel- he's accepted that people are generally cruel. Nico see's the world through tinted glasses, everything is a little messed up and he's got to fight so he doesn't end up messed up too.

Nico never had anyone to look out for him, and he was always perceived as small and weak- an easy defenseless target- he had to learn how to fight and how to fight good.

Will tries not to cry over little kids skinning their knee, and he grows angry when he hears about injustice across the globe, cries for all the poor children who will suffer and tries to give up his whole paycheck. His sole purpose in life is to build and repair, he couldn't destroy anything if he tried. Nico picks that little kid up, brushes off their knee and sends them off with a bandaid if they need one, he has to keep Will from spending his whole check and remind him that they'll be in a bad situation and won't have food for themselves if they give away their money- Nico is constantly shocked at how much Will tries to help others, because Nico accepted suffering as something that just happened.

In the face of adversity Will constantly rises to the struggle, and tries to just be good and kind (a real Patroclus type). Nico makes the right choice too, but he takes a more logical and calculating approach- Nico likes the element of suprise ("let's turn this tide!") he keeps his cards close to his chest so nobody knows what he's doing until the last minute. Will being tall is the perfect ploy in their relationship. People will expect Will to be dominat and commanding (he isn't at all unless someone is in danger), so when they see Nico they still don't expect anything- Will isn't paying attention and they think "huh- easy target?" only for Nico to swoop in at the last minute and save Will.

Nico is the one who has to wipe up Will's tears and wrap him in a weighted blanket because Will's worried about climate change, and that bill proposed by Congress, and how they're upping the price of insulin again- Will's lost everything and everyone and worries about it happening again. Nico doesn't worry about insulin prices or the famine in the same way Will does, he gives them money sure- he's got it and they need it- but that emotional connection never existed.. Nico lost everyone and when he thinks about loosing more people he does worry about it and it hurts, but he thinks "I've lived through worse"

They're too perfectly opposing ends of the same bridge- you can divide them any way and see equal parts similarities and differences. Their life experiences have led them to the same morals, same goals, and same wants- but the adversity in their life's have changed them to polar opposites in how they reach these conclusions and why.

Will is kind simply because he doesn't have a mean bone in his body, Nico is kind because he wants to be better than everyone who came before and said he couldn't. Both of them are the same level of kind but Nico had to learn that kindness because to him it wasn't a given, Nico had to choose to be the person nobody ever was for him. Will was kind the day he was born, and he works on the idea of self improvement- if he has a bad thought he analyzes it (and over analyzes it) until it is corrected and he knows the right and kind solution. Nico doesn't have to do this he just chooses the opposite of what people would expect a son of Hades to do, Nico chooses to be the person he wishes he would have had looking out for himself.

None of this means Will can't handle himself though- he lost two brothers and became cabin counselor and is still that kind when he got screwed over just as much as Luke- Will is strong too- just in a different way.

So yes, headcanoning one character as very tall and another as very small can bring up those concepts of "uwu protect me" but that's not everyone's interpretation of why two characters are the way they are- and that's not everyone's only understanding of a relationship model, and some people quite literally turn that concept on its head when they see two characters.

I get it, it was a vent post- that's why I'm not adding to it- because you deserve a space to vent, but you also can't sum up what someone thinks of a specific relationship dynamic just based on how vastly different they make character's heights.

If you want my other reason why Will is tall it's because he's closer to the sun, like Timothy Green or whatever the kids name was and I think it's a funny concept.

... Anyhow, I feel like this is written really poorly but I'm sure some people will enjoy this so I'm posting it anyhow lmao

[limit-list]

ellie’s master taglist

sooo i’ve always used a bunch of tags, and it recently occurred to me that i should explain my basic tagging system! so here we go, i tend to generally rant in the tags of course, but i have some common ones that i use for organization. tags will be split up by me-specific tags, general atla tags, character tags, tags for stuff in real life, fandom tags that aren’t specifically atla, and my person specific tags

Me-Specific Tags

me tho: anything that relates to me

ellie posts: posts that i’ve made

ellie writes: my writing, these are my concepts and my actual writing

working title: wow he’s hot: this is my ficblogging for “pull my world apart”

concept: my fic concepts that i need other people to write

ellie answers: these are my answers to any asks i get

ellie’s thoughts: my thoughts on random shit

not ellie being sappy: contrary to the title, this is my sappy tag

ellie draws: any art i do goes here, there’s like two posts so far haha

ficblogging: snippets of my fics before they’re posted

im an art nerd: my art nerdiness

ask games :): whenever i do ask games i use this tag

thanks for the ask!!: i’m not consistent with this tag lmao but i use it sometimes

im in this post and i dont like it: exactly what it says on the tin

personal: personal stuff, don’t use this much anymore i dont think

okay im ranting in the tags: not a consistent tag, sometimes i’ll put this in

never have i ever had this many followers on tumblr: i use this tag every time i hit another milestone on here!

General Atla Tags

atla: just anything atla related

atla analysis: includes meta and any speculation or analysis of the atla universe or characters

momo and appa discourse: my fear the lemurs stuff. not a complete list, just everything i reblogged

atla fanart/op is talentbending/everyone say thank you op: atla fanart in general. op is talentbending is my tag for amazing work in general, and everyone say thank you op is my tag for my favorite fan works

atla fic recs: fics i love and want other people to love as well

atla blog recs: blogs that i think everyone should follow

atla aus: general aus

atla headcanons: headcanons

incorrect atla: incorrect atla quotes, funniest things

atla discourse: i keep forgetting to use this tag, but ideally its for general discourse in the fandom. of which there is lots, as you all know hahah

cabbage man conspiracy: my headcanon about the cabbage men, it’d take forever to explain, just check out the tag

long post: long posts of all kinds

Character Specific Tags

zuko bby: zuko

i fuckin love sokka: sokka

zukka: self explanatory

bakoda: self explanatory

uncle of the fire nation: uncle iroh

toph the hbic: toph

aang is a precious bean: aang

fuckin jet: jet

sunflower come get your mans: also a jet tag, but used less frequently as fuckin jet

his royal majestiy sir momo: momo

hakoda(d): hakoda

someone let me punch ozai: ozai

queen suki/suki: suki

fire lord zuko: specifically relating to fire lord zuko

ambassador sokka: specifically relating to ambassador sokka

yo motherofturtleducks: one of my turtleduck tags

katara, yue, gaang, appa, turtleducks, bato, other various characters might just be their names

Real Life Tags

real life: anything that isn’t fandom stuff

lgbtq+: lgbtq+ issues or awareness or anything specific

happy pride!!!!: all pride posts

activism: activism

human rights: general awareness posts or anything with human rights

advice: general advice

reminder: reminders that i sometimes need about life

politics: anything political

shit do i have adhd: things about adhd

Fandom Tags

not atla: anything that isn’t related to atla

writing: writing tips and stuff calling writers out

fic culture: anything relating to fanfic in general

hp: harry potter

httyd: how to train your dragon

kingsman: anything about kingsman. i also have character specific tags, but seeing as i don’t post much about kingsman anymore i don’t think they’re relevant

marvel: anything marvel. i also have character, actor, and pairing specific tags, but seeing as i don’t post much about marvel anymore i don’t think they’re relevant

doctor who: doctor who, not much here cause im a closet stan but it’ll happen

Person/Blog Specific Tags

just me stanning visit ba sing se

hiya vbss :)

hot leaf juice is precious

uncle of the blogsquad

birthdaytoast is my fav

blogsquad antics/extremely fuckin atla: these are both tags for blogsquad stuff. extremely fuckin atla was my blogsquad tag before the blogsquad was founded, and post founding i use blogsquad antics

heyo smartass anon

we love motherofturtleducks in this household

thank ya sifu

it really do be zukka time

hey sunflower :)

momo ily bud

uh... that was really long but i think that’s most of them? i’m likely forgetting something, but this is so long that i’ll just hope i covered everything haha. time to go link them in somehow when i figure out how tumblr works

[asknightqueendany]

Just because a post is longish doesn't mean it's a meta. Meta is how the story is being told another way too via subtext, costumes, foils, parallels etc. You should be able to speculate and theorize a lot of plots not just endgame by analyzing the background elements. Checking out those links on your other blog. Looking for endgame meta's as well. Skipped the book meta's because I haven't read the books. Book and show are suppose to end the same. So same Jonerys ending wtv that might be. (1)

So reading the show "metas" should suffice.  Especially since they are so far ahead of the books.  Key plots including the ending should remain.  Why the Jonerys endgame metas are so hard to find is because there is none. Those "metas" linked are basically scene analysis and interpretation from s7 when they finally interacted. Makes you wonder why there are no true endgame metas.  Maybe because they aren't endgame?  We get clues/foreshadowing they will meet and vague questionable prophecies. (2)   

Okay 1 - you sent this to the wrong person because I linked no metas on what I’m assuming is about THIS ask and reblog. I was merely mentioned by OP and thanked her for the mention and also mentioned another meta writer I enjoy reading about.

2) Also, I am not @rainhadaenerys - she linked a bunch of metas. I did not. We are not the same person. WTF would someone make two different accounts to literally talk about the same things? Get a clue anon.

3) You say you want detailed metas that go into subtext but you also spit on metas that talk about scene analysis??? THEY’RE THE SAME FUCKING THING YOU GRUMPY LITTLE PERSON!

But you want “endgame” “metas” based on “subtext” such as “costumes”, “foils”, and “parallels” huh????

A) Please see @got-addict‘s epic post with additional epic reblogs and notes HERE on parallels. I’m not reinventing the fucking wheel for you. You’re lucky I was kind enough to link it for you. You could have easily searched #jonerys #parallels yourself - this is literally the first post that shows up. SMDH.

B) “Skipped the book meta's because I haven't read the books.  Book and show are suppose to end the same” - NO SHIT YOU IGNORANT PEST!! That’s why many metas use BOTH book and show evidence so if you’re ignoring the books, THAT’S NOT OUR PROBLEM! The books go into WAY more detail than the show so OF COURSE we talk about them in our metas!!! 

C) There is plenty of subtext and clues throughout season 7 that Jon and Dany will get together and more parallels and such throughout the entire series. We all have noticed them so have you ever considered that maybe you’re just blatantly ignoring them because you don’t want to see them???

Here, want specifics? Okay - costumes. How about this? Jon shows up to Dragonstone with his Stark armor on and Dany, likewise has on Targaryen adornments:

Yet when Jon goes to her door on the ship and she lets him in, right before they make love, neither of them have on anything that symbolizes their Houses:

Now, if Political!Jon were true, at the very least, Jon’s pre-boatsex attire would include the Stark gorget as he’s known to wear because it would communicate to the audience that he’s still a Stark, he hasn’t forgotten his family and the North, he’s still only loyal to the Starks, he’s playing Dany, the Starks and the North are all he cares about.

BUT he’s not wearing the Stark gorget. He’s not wearing anything that show’s he’s a Stark and likewise, Dany isn’t wearing anything that shows she’s a Targaryen. They’re just two people who fell in love and are finally acting on it.

Political!Jon = debunked by this one simple screenshot ALONE.

So far as “endgame” specifically - Dany’s supposed infertility was mentioned officially three times but she and Jon spoke about children (or it was mentioned to them) a total of five times in this one season. And then they had sex. That’s not scene analysis. That’s your “subtext” for you. Chekhov’s gun. If it’s mentioned, it must contribute to the story and is essential. If Dany were just going to remain infertile and never have a child, why mention it SO many times??

And if you’re a firm “not book reader” why would you even think Dany is infertile anyway as you never saw Mirri Maz Durr (MMD) from Season 1 say that Dany could never have a child? That was dialogue from the BOOKS ONLY.

But even if you believe Dany is infertile, MMD also said in both books and show that “only death can pay for life” - In S1, Dany’s son died, Drogo died, and MMD died at Dany’s hands. Then she birthed three dragons (three deaths for three lives). In S7, Viserion died. So in S8, Dany should be able to birth (1) child (unless more dragons die, then possibly more children).

More subtext for endgame: Jon said Theon was both a Greyjoy and a Stark - heavy foreshadowing someone (possibly Dany) will say to him he’s both a Stark and Targaryen once he finds out about his parentage.

Going along with that, when Jon entered Dany’s cabin on the boat, we see the Targaryen sigil on the door and Jon closes that door, therefore locking them both inside.

Both of them, inside a cabin marked with a Targaryen sigil. Highly “subtextual” - Jon will embrace his Targaryen heritage and Jon and Dany will bring back House Targaryen together. Also, that JON is the one who closes the door, not Dany is another hint that Jon will be very much for this. It will be his choice, no one will force it upon him. He will gladly embrace being part Targaryen and having Targaryen children with Dany.

And again, that word: TOGETHER - a word that was REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN throughout Season 7.

Ohhhh, and the BIGGEST piece of subtext this season: BRAN’S VOICE OVER “HE LOVED HER AND SHE LOVED HIM” OVER THE SHOTS OF JON AND DAENERYS. THAT’S SUBTEXT YOU WILLFULLY BLIND SHIPPER.

Jonerys/Daenerys stans don’t owe you shit anon. We’ve been writing for years (I’ve only been on the site for a year but other meta writers have been in this fandom since before the show even came out). It’s not OUR job to direct you to posts that prove YOUR shipping preferences wrong. They’re all here on all our blogs. Go scroll through them. I’ve got 1100+ posts on here. Others likely have many more. Be my guest. I’m not doing your work for you.

[guardevoir]

So this is mostly directed at the Hornblower folks, because every few weeks somebody still reblogs the absolute crap out of my Hornblower posts (and it makes my day every time), even though I’m a lazy fuck who hasn’t done much for the fandom in ages.

(it’s because I should be doing gifsets for the analysis, ughhhhh)

TL;DR - Back up your favorite tumblr shit, ideally soon.

I’ve spent the last few years digging through the deepest corners of the internet to find old Hornblower fics and meta discussions. None of it would’ve been possible without the wayback machine. I’d have found nothing, had the good fandom folks of the past not archived their shit like the precious human beings they were, and hopefully still are. 

I’m not saying I expect tumblr to vanish without a trace over the next few days, but I am saying this is the point where we start archiving things like there’s no tomorrow, because for some content, there may not be a tomorrow.

Some fandoms are already losing gifsets over the whole thing (notably the Man From UNCLE 60′s TV show, which, by the way, is about PG as it gets, because it’s mainstream 60′s television), because OPs are either not interested in appealing unjustly flagged images and delete them instead, or are simply inactive. 

So if there’s content on here you don’t want to lose, back that shit up. 

I’m not really daring to put links to anything in here due to the issues of posts with links not always showing up in tags and searches, but there’s a post with backup options floating around, which I also reblogged.

My own stuff is backed up already, but you’re very welcome to personally archive my Hornblower things in particular if there’s anything you really don’t want to lose. Also, you can re-upload and generally just use my Hornblower gifs and screencaps wherever you want, even without credit, and you’re also welcome to copy-paste or screencap my Hornblower text posts and link lists, though I’d prefer if you’d keep my name (as in, “Guardy”) attached to it somehow.

Also, dreamwidth still has some age-of-sail communities you could check out (as does LJ, but LJ FUCKED UP BADLY before, so thanks no thanks); I also plan to eventually cross-post much of my Hornblower stuff to there, and if I ever finish that damned analysis, it’ll probably also end up on there. My DW username is, as always, “guardy”.

[tumblunni]

Ok what fuckin sucks even more than that is seeing people give tumblr user ihatecispeople shit JUST for his name being ihatecispeople. Despite the fact his entire blog is full of actual good analysis of transphobic shit cis people have sent him so its pretty clear WHY he's saying "i hate cis people" and he means these ones doing these shit. Its like how literally any damn minority cant say "ugh i hate [majority]" withput clarifying that they menat"i hate the members of this majority that are hurting me and do not hate everyone in the majority because i believe the category they were born as is biologiclly inferior". Even though its CLEARLY APPARANT thats what they goddamn mean, when they say "i hate cis people" DIRECTLY AFTER getting hate mail from a transphobic cis person. Its nuts how cis people (oh im sorry SPECIFICALLY ONLY CERTAIN CIS PEOPLE) will bend over backwards to say that a single trans person stating an unsatisfactarily specific statement equals cisphobia is real. Because that totally equals being hate crimed and societally oppressed by trans people!! Like do they really fuckin think that the only crime transphobes commit is posting privately on a blog somewhere the single sentence "i hate trans people". Which, by the way, is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to saying "i hate cis people" cos they fuckin said it first!! Like i already said, trans people are just saying they hate cis people WHO ARE BEING TRANSPHOBIC TOWARDS THEM AND THREATENING THEIR GODDAMN LIVES while transphobes have no goddamn reason provoking them to hate trans people except, yknow, ACTUALLY HATING US ALL AS A CLASS AND BELIEVIBG WE'RE BIOLOGICALLY WRONG. Retorting to a goddamn thing doesnt make you 'just as bad' and somehow thinking the same thing in reverse. It just means youre pissed off at being treated like shit and not everyone can expend so much effort to constantly check themselves to make all their vent posts Perfectly Correct And Clarified, while theyre fuckin crying and fearing for their safety. Especially when the goddamn thibg IS perfectly clear and its just transphobes purposely playing dumb to try and paint us as Just As Bad to sway people on the fence over to their side...

Also fuckin hell people reblog shit from blogs called stuff like griffinmcelroy'spisskink and all sorts of other stupid names without going 'oh op is automatically invalid cos they really believe and support that thing...' And there's sooooo many blogs with names including the F and D slurs yet its only the Q one thats treated like its so unreclaimable that someone merely having it in their blog header makes them automatically wrong on everything...

Gahhh its just so frustrating having to be held to a super high standard and be super patient over-explaining everything without ever getting mad yet at the same time a cis person saying actual transphobic shit gets the benefit of the doubt cos oh hey we can reinterpret that to maybe not be bad. Like they dont even need to spend all the time we do clarifying our every move, they just get it taken on good faith that it was all a misunderstanding no matter wjat! And again trans people havw to write fuckin huge detailed essays explaining every damn aspect of why the thibg was bigoted in order to get it recognised. And even then tehyre more likely to get hate than get an apology! Its just like no matter what you fuckin do, transphobes are gonna be all "uhhhh i cant be bpthered to do the research/listen to you/remember what you said last time/use basic reading comprehension skills/give you the basic benefit of the doubt as a human being/put in ANY EFFORT AT ALL INTO THIS CONVERSATION", and so many "on the fence" people will just be like "yes this is perfectly okay" while at the same time supporting those transphobes grilling trans people over every damn sentence they ever say.

God its just so fuckin tiring. And thats the point. Its playing dumb to make you too tired to fight back, so you just shut up and let people treat you like shit. My abusive father used to do the same thing, pretending like he ~just didnt know~ that what he was doing was abuse and you had to explain it to him. Over and over in exactly the same way every time. Its clear he never really was "just innocent of why you were upset", he was only faking it to find a way to keep doing it while also getting everybody's sympathy as if he was the one being wronged...

God man im just so fuckin tired. I hope this LONG AND VERY WELL EXPLAINED POST can be the last time i have to say this damn thing again, but i doubt it...

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Alright, I'm on my lunch break right now and only have so much time to make this post, but it's important so hopefully it comes out okay. Here's what happened last night, as honestly and clearly as I can put it. In the span of an hour or two, I ran across at least a dozen dogwhistle LGBT conversation/positivity posts being put on my dash by good people who I know would not appreciate the shit OP was implying with their rhetoric. In the past I've tried to message my Mughals privately and directly to deal with this, but a dozen in a couple hours is way too goddamn many to do that with and I was exhausted and fucked up and had been for weeks and so I thought "you know what? The next one I see, I'm gonna check the source, see if there's a pattern to the posts on the blog, and if so, I'm going to reblog it with some commentary explaining exactly what the ideological origins of the dogwhistle red flags are so that maybe instead of me having to expend ridiculous amounts of energy trying to keep my dash safe or unfollowing good people who I like, my mutuals will slowly start to learn what to look for themselves and some of the burden of avoiding that shit will shift off me". I also decided I would immediately block the OP of whatever post this was because a) my purpose was education (exclusively of my followers, not the OP), not a fight, and b) I have enough bad history with this rhetoric that people who are willing to espouse it are not people I want to be around anyway. Unfortunately for everyone, the next post that came up on my dash was the latinx//junkrat post and it turned out really badly. I immediately failed in my goal to restrict myself to education by speculating about OP's beliefs based on their close ties to the community who espouse's them, which was a huge mistake and something I should never have done. This, I think, is my biggest regret out of the whole event and I'm sorry it happened. I do not stand by this action. However everything I said about the rhetoric being used in the post remains true, and I ~do~ stand by my analysis of the ideological origins of the examples, buzz-phrases, and perspectives being centralized in that post. What happened is that, whatever the OP's actual beliefs may be, in the time I spent on their blog prior to writing my response to their post, I came across dozens of urls and hundreds of posts, all recent, whose OP's WERE, in fact, central and primary members of the anti-ace-inclusion movement and who I know for a fact believe all of the things I made the mistake of assuming LR did. Many of them are people I have watched lead harassment and abuse campaigns, and many of them were specifically blogs made exclusively to talk, in violent terms, about the anti-ace-inclusion beliefs. LR's use of that rhetoric in their own post may honestly come solely from the fact that English is not their first language and their massive exposure to the ideologies that spawned the rhetoric. It may or may not reflect any actual opinions on the question of ace-inclusion. However, if that is the case, it's a perfect example of why dogwhistle rhetoric is so dangerous. People completely removed from the actual problem still become active in perpetuating and spreading the harm done by the original creators. And of course, I immediately got flooded with hate mail (plus one supportive post that still made me uncomfortable), not to mention alerts that LP had taken to screenshotting my blog in order to belittle and insult me in order to get around the fact that I had blocked them. This is something they never apologized for, privately or publicly, instead choosing to simply delete the posts a few hours later while making excuses to me about why they had every right to make them. This response was wildly inappropriate and unsafe and indicative of the behavior connected to the group that spawned this rhetoric in the first place. LR will remain blocked because of their behavior ~after my post, as will all of the people in their circle who sent me hatemail. This whole thing became all manner of fucked up and emblematic of a lot of things I fucking hate and want to stop being subjected to/forcibly involved in. I'm not going to try to hide the parts of this where I fucked up, but I also want to make it clear that reblogging from/using the rhetoric of people whose sole goal is to demonized a group of people is still dangerous and upsetting and damaging. I will still be making a point to identify the ideological origins of any such posts that end up on my dash, but I will make sure to never again allow my commentary to have anything to do with the person, only the language used. I will continue to block people who I do not feel comfortable allowing to interact with me. And I will continue to tell people not to treat me or my posts like "callouts" or "take downs" because THEY ARE NOT and should not be and anyone who uses my words as a way to look down on/abuse/harass people is also going to get blocked and reported because that is still wildly inappropriate and I will do everything in my power to prevent it. I have only gotten more tired and irritable as this continues and I am HARDCORE done with a lot of things that are happening.

[youichi21]

Hey there!! I hope you’re having an amazing day!! :) I just wanted to say thank you for having an absolute treasure trove of Eyeshield 21 material on your blog!! The fandom is so tiny that it’s very heartening just to see someone else like the series too. And I’ve missed my baby boy Hiruma so much 😭❤️ And I especially appreciate that you reblog Ahiru stuff!! It’s absolutely impossible to find stuff for my OTP, and you have oodles and oodles of it on your blog!! It’s fantastic!!

OMGgg thank u so much 😍😍💕😭

I'm really glad that someone love eyeshield (and ahiru stuff) as much as I in their time

Also I also feel honored that you have checked my blog I have been a fan of you since you did chapter analysis when we barely knew about corazon and law I was very touched by your thoughts thanks! 😭😭 it makes me happy in that time

Sadly i was (still i am) very shy and i never spoke even with online people

All this stuff is because when i joined to the eyeshield 21 fandom it was so tiny and my otp it was super unpopular tumblr had nothing of ahiru 😭😭😭 so i search and search until gathered what I shared in my blog lol

although I had never met someone on tumblr who loved my otp only a few on facebook but we disappeared and then I found one piece at that time lol (and doflaw DOFLAw ANd CORALAW )

Maaan i really shipped these two too hard 7 years ago OMG (still love them tho but not so hard like old times lol)

Now kinda i'm in mp100 fandom 10000% and somehow in the op fandom but i kinda dislike law's treatment in dressrosa arc and now in wano... I'm kinda losing interest 😖😖 bae didn'd deserve this

Thanks for the message I really aprecciate 💕💕😄😄