#or they lack critical thinking skills

[trashogram]

I just wanna know why ppl seem to think Stolas is a good parent, just because he's "not as bad" as Stella

Like, they're both emotionally neglecting her, and Stolas always chooses Blitz over her. Like, he's such a fucking shitty dad but because Stolas is the main character, his neglect, for some reason, isn't "as bad"

Like can people please stop treating Octavia as the bad guy or as being an asshole for being upset that her deadbeat dad continues to be a deadbeat?

I didn't even hate Stolas till now, I was fairly neutral, but god damn the new episode is pushing it

Mɪsᴏɢʏɴʏ.

[unicoo]

Viserys neglecting his children is OKAY, but Aegon & Alicent doing it ISNT OKAY?…

Rhaenyra sleeping with a man who isn’t her husband AND having said man’s children is OKAY, but Alicent sleeping with Criston AFTER Viserys DIES ISNT OKAY?….

Rhaenyra & Daemon hooking up at Laena’s funeral is OKAY, but Aemond claiming Vhagar at Laena’s funeral ISNT OKAY?…..

Jace possibly cheating on Baela with Sara or Cregan is OKAY, but Aegon stepping out on Helaena ISNT OKAY?……

Daemon planning & plotting against literally ANYONE is OKAY, but Alicent, Criston, Otto, & Aemond plotting & planning ISNT OKAY?…….

Rhaenyra defending her sons & demanding Aemond be sharply questioned is OKAY, but Alicent wanting Justice for her son & an eye for an eye ISNT OKAY?……..

Baela & Rhaena being passed over for their BIRTHRIGHT is OKAY, but when it’s Rhaenyra who’s cheated out of her “birthright” it ISNT OKAY?………

Rhaenyra acts entitled & spoiled it’s OKAY, but let the Green kids act entitled & spoiled it ISNT OKAY?……….

Daemon pays to take young girls maidenhoods (most of them brothel workers who were TEENAGERS) it’s OKAY, but Aegon does it and it ISNT OKAY?………..

Daemon orders the death of a child & it’s OKAY, it’s JUSTIFIED, but Aemond takes RIGHTFUL REVENGE against a boy OLD ENOUGH TO FIGHT BACK and it ISNT OKAY?…………(idgaf what you say if someone bullied you then jumped you then took your eye & got away with it YOU’D BE PISSEED TO LIE & SAY YOU WOULDNT 😐)

Rhaenyra having “bastards” is OKAY, but Aegon & Aemond having bastards ISNT OKAY?………….

Daemon can allow for women & children to be hurt in all ways imaginable that’s OKAY, but Aemond taking ONE woman as a spoiled of war ISNT OKAY?……….…. (If Alys wanted to she could’ve ended up in various different positions yk being a WITCH & all)

Rhaenyra can lose nearly all her children & get compassion that’s OKAY, but giving Aegon & Helaena compassion over their son dying when he literally DIDNT DO SHIT ISNT OKAY??…………...

Visenya dies, being sad about that is OKAY, but being sad about Jaehaera’s death ISNT OKAY?………….…

Rhaenyra being a shit to children is OKAY, but Alicent being a shit to children ISNT OKAY?……….…….

Luke & Jace bullying Aemond is OKAY because they were younger, but AEGON bullying Aemond ISNT OKAY, because…?………………………….…

Because y’all are hypocrites! The whole point of this post is to showcase just how hypocritical the toxic fans (mostly team black) are. Rhaenyra & her side do it, all is fine & it doesn’t matter. Aegon & his side do it and there’s an uproar, they’re evil & deserve horribleness. Give me a fucking break honestly 🙄

If you see this tragedy and decide to make it worse by picking sides or not giving empathy, sympathy, & understanding to both sides then you need to grow tf up, mature A LOT, then look at the media again because somewhere along the way you missed the importance of this story and OUR WORLD is shitter for that!

[sammywilson]

Once again, we get Sam being turned into the villain. Because the word Avengers means something to him. :) How dare Sam, Steve, and Nat spend years isolated, being on the run, and still saving people on their own terms, being Avengers despite everything? How dare he hold on to that? How dare he try to honor that? How dare he feel some type of way about all antiheroes calling themselves the Avengers? Esp. a man who as an adult trafficked young girls into forced abuse and sterilization? Are we forgetting Alexei is a CHILD TRAFFICKER? On his own free will?? He's an Avenger? Don't get me wrong, he's likeable now. He's great now. But it doesn't erase...... anything? Y'all blaming and villainizing Sam really need to actually understand the context. The "New" Avengers are being run by Val. Yelena might've said 'we own you' but that doesn't matter. She's Val. She manipulated them throughout the whole movie. Bucky had one goal to get her impeached. And he magically forgot. She's funding them. The govt is running them. This would make Steve Rogers roll over in his grave. It's spitting on his legacy. And excuse the hell out of Sam for caring about that man.

[constantlytired101]

Can people please stop saying that “ Vi is an enforcer in the game” “ of course she’s going to end up as an enforcer “ “it’s an origin story” ?!!!!

It’s soo dumb like genuinely it’s a nonsensical argument and statement.

Yeah cause in the game jinx adopts a child , cuts her hair and dies!

And Caitlyn loses her eye in the final war !.

And Viktor becomes the magic Jesus then magical villain, also he and Jayce vanish into the arcane and turn to pixie dust!.

Yup this how they all are in the game! That’s why they end up like this , like their LOL characters!.

[jbmar]

twitter is crazy because somebody like sunday can say plain as day “i hate the idea of ‘survival of the fittest’ because i view myself as weak and understand how other fellow weak people feel, so i want to make a paradise where the weak and strong are equal and everybody can be protected under my watchful gaze” with very clear connotations towards catholicism/orthodoxy, the sacrifice of christ, and ‘the ones who walk away from omelas’ by ursula le guin (a story about a perfect utopian world that only remains such at the expense of a small child below the surface that is left alone to suffer) and be equated to that of a fascist ableist in support of real world eugenics that wants to kill minorities to create a perfect paradise.

tldr; learn to read before you make your ‘informative threads.’

[extremely-judgemental]

Nesta is groomed to be a lady all her life. She has the emotional range to keep up with Elain and make friends with the townspeople. She charms a grown man into asking her hand in marriage purely out of spite. She convinces a bunch of highly volatile fae into helping humans they don't give a shit about. She makes friends where none of the IC ever made. But Nesta is the one with poor social skills whom people run away from because of her harsh tongue.

Feyre can't have a decent conversation with her family. She doesn't have friends in the town because she looked down on them. The only person she talks to is the one she uses for sex. She spends her time on nothing but painting and hunting. But she is an absolute doll who charms fae men left and right? Feyre should be awkward af since she's emotionally stunted and has zero skills with people. She should be picking fights with HLs because of the bullshit that comes out of her mouth. She should be struggling to find the right words since she's never empathised with anyone and drowning in trauma. Rhysand's first lesson shouldn't be on reading and writing. It should be on how to talk to people. He should be handling the diplomatic situations while Feyre is the rabid beast foaming at the mouth he has on a leash(not that she isn't right now but it should be more obvious).

[monsteradarling]

okay, let me understand this. According to you guys sexuality is only based on biological sex. Following that logic, lesbians can only date/love/fuck biological woman and anyone who likes both males and females is bisexual. Using YOUR logic on what qualifies as the real definition of sexuality that would mean a lesbian can still date/love/fuck a fully transitioned transman and still be considered a lesbian. If she's not a lesbian then why? She's dating a member of female sex no matter how masculine looking that transman is.

Listen, I'm just asking a basic question because the criteria you guys give is kind of hard to follow. I know this situation is least likely to happen but if you're part of a group that likes to preach about reality and actual science then you kind of need to have answers to this hypothetical question..

I find it really funny how you accused me of hiding some kind of fetish behind my ask. And how you accused me of being lesbophobic because I......used lesbians as my example in a hypothetical situation....could have I used other groups? Maybe, but during that ask I was thinking about lesbians (why do I have a feeling you'll accuse me of sexualizing lesbians now?) Could have I worded my ask a little bit better? Maybe but English isn't my first language so I did my best at trying to articulate myself. And I don't think it's right for you to accuse someone of trying to be perverted or hiding some fetish behind their intention.

I get angry about these kinds of deliberately baiting questions for three reasons.

The premise is rooted in TRA-branded misogyny.

That particular set of questions from you is lesbophobic.

Bisexuals such as myself end up being dragged into the conversation like we deserve to be thrown at TRAs as toys for them to abuse so that straight and lesbian women don't have to deal with you.

This isn't difficult. Why do you think it's called sexuality in the first place?

Lesbian women are only attracted to other females.

Straight women are only attracted to males.

Bisexual women are attracted to both females and males.

In your obsessive hypothetical, a lesbian in a relationship with a TIF is still a lesbian. She will always be a lesbian. If said TIF has had surgery to try and give herself the nearest possible approximate that attempts to be as phallus-like as possible, then it's still not an actual penis - and if, in some magical world that said hypothetical TIF managed to find a unicorn of a lesbian that would still want to be with her after all that surgery and self-hatred and desperation to not even be seen as the woman she is, then it's not difficult to remember that different people have a wide variety of sex drives, and if that hypothetical lesbian is in love with that hypothetical TIF, that does not mean that sex has to be automatic between them, or if it is, that it would involve that fake attempt at a phallus at all. (As an aside, as a bisexual woman, I would be repulsed by that, and I'm the one that has enjoyed PIV sex before, unlike, you know, actual lesbians.)

None of this is difficult to understand or even shocking or surprising news. There is never, in any case, a TIF who is actually a man, and a lesbian in love with another actual woman can never suddenly become bisexual.

It frustrates me in particular because you are desperate to try and push lesbian boundaries. You want someone to say, "In X case, then a lesbian into a specific TIF isn't a lesbian anymore" and "In Y case, a woman who is into other women and also a TIM is a lesbian" but neither of those sentences will ever be true.

It's not rocket science, it's gaslighting, and it's also one of the reasons that bisexuals - especially bisexual women and girls - have been manipulated into calling themselves "straight" or "lesbian," all to validate narcissistic TIMs and TIFs. The only reason that you find this difficult to understand is because you don't believe that sexuality is to do with biological sex. That's all.

I also don't believe that English not being your first language would have you apologise for an ask being "sexual" when you only mentioned "dating." I won't ever look down on someone writing in their second language, because that's an incredible skill, but I also won't be gaslighted into giving you extra inches by you clearly being expert enough to read through radfem theory and defending TRA positions, yet have now decided to pretend that you didn't know what the word "sexual" meant. Be serious, now.

[submissivefeminist]

How men got to rule the world I’ll never understand. 🙄

[thatswhatsushesaid]

there are of course certain posts circulating here that do indeed display the grim state of critical reading and thinking skills on this website. (i'm thinking specifically about the "taylor swift isn't bisexual" "don't worry, op isn't actually saying that taylor swift isn't actually bisexual" post that has been making the rounds for years. op of that reblog chain is probably still fighting for their life, thoughts and prayers, etc.)

then there are posts where there are, in fact, very reasonable and plausible explanations for why a large number of people on the 'neurodivergent with diagnosed and undiagnosed disabilities' website might struggle to understand what they're looking at right away. logic puzzles, jokes that rely on solving math problems in your head to unearth the joke, unreality bits, etc.

and i think it is actually very important to be able to distinguish between these two different types of non-comprehension before deciding to have a go at people for not understanding what they're looking at.

[chicago-geniza]

the problem is that in a climate of "rampant misinformation" (the term 'misinformation' carries with it a host of implications, political and otherwise, that are baked into its intellectual history and as is often the case, relate to the cold war, so i don't generally like it). BUT. in such a climate you need to be able to independently evaluate information and "truth-claims" for veracity (not the same as legitimacy, which in my understanding is a function of source evaluation, not content evaluation--and as institutions become less reliable, the authority conferred on individuals by institutional credentials/credential-conferring systems in and of themselves come into doubt, as merritt noted MDs post junk science under their professional accounts etc., as others have said papers of record deny genocide or "just ask questions" in plainly spurious ways that undermine their journalistic integrity, etc.)--BUT. you need to be able to independently evaluate information and i CAN'T because i am STUPID in certain, specific ways. i need some types of information to be interpreted for me--e.g., statistics!--or i will come to incorrect conclusions, because i lack both the knowledge and the cognitive capacity (i have particular developmental + learning disabilities re: math and abstract reasoning that impair me here, more than the average non-specialist). this is the gap into which a lot of people who "do their own research" fall, and i am sympathetic, because like--if you can't trust the papal authorities, so to speak, to interpret the texts for you, then surely one's own take on the scriptures must be sufficient for daily life. but it isn't a lot of the time. because you can't be Protestant about public health data, or about the nuts and bolts of the global economy, or the law, or a bunch of other things. idk where i am going with this, briar was thinking along similar lines with genAI the other day too, i am just rambling. OGRE CANNOT EVALUATE INFORMATION. OGRE ONLY PICK UP SURFACE-LEVEL THEMES

[oucchhoucchh]

maybe i’m too much of a radical but like… she’s lowkey misogynistic ?

[rueclfer]

yall missed the ENTIRE meaning behind poemeater' post. they aren't saying that people wanting another part is a bad thing, they're talking about how people are lacking manners when it comes to writers.

the first thing people do is demand a part two, they do not ask. they tell writers "part 2!" which cna be frustrating because they don't bother yo add anything else. also, just to add on, majority of the people who do want a part 2 don't even bother to reblog the post. they don't bother to share it. (not all of them, but 3/4th of the time that is the situation).

like it feels like they dint care about what they have, all they want is more more more, yk?

YYUUUPPP^^^^^

[lambilegs]

i am the anon who accused you of bullying smaller creator and i just want to lyk that it was NOT me who apologised to you

sending hate from poland 🇵🇱

LMFAO???? 💀 PLEASEEEE I'M SO FLABBERGASTED BUT I'M LAUGHING

[simplepotatofarmer]

you ever think how people swore up and down that the syndicate weren't actually friends and then the syndicate were the only ones to survive the nuke blast and they did it on the power of friendship.

[swordscleric]

I think as a result of their indecision, general dithering on every possible decision and inability to provide a single sliver of rationale behind the actions they have taken, I personally don't think we can judge Bell's Hells on whether or not their decisions are moral or not. Have they wishy-washily and passively avoided every hard question that could have been asked of them? Yes; but that speaks to a lack of interesting ideas and a lack of curiosity on their collective behalf in dealing with the scenarios set before them. I think if we judge them on anything it is the consequences of their actions (or inaction). Realistically, I reckon (depending on how releasing Predathos goes) they will be treated in a similar way to how someone like Vespin Chloras was treated by history - a damned fool whose actions lead to the annihilation of civilisations, the destruction of millions of lives and as such has been (rightfully!) condemned by Exandrian history as one of its greatest villains. Our softening of our view as a fandom on Vespin comes from his editing of Zerxus' pact to save the world from the rage of the Primordials. I think his actions, typical of the Age of Arcanum, echo Ludinus' fatal ideological folly in assuming that they would lead to prosperity due to a change in the divine structures of Exandria; Bell's Hells, having followed Ludinus' plan to the letter, now risk becoming as big of villains as Vespin Chloras for even worse reasons - a total lack of imagination and a deep unwillingness to engage with any hard question that would force them to face their lack of interiority as a party.

[arson-09]

What if i learned how to make tiktoks and instagram reels purely to spread the pro tamlin agenda?? like i dont need another activity BUT-