#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!

[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).

[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.

[eldest-of-katts]

okay because people have shown up in my dms talking smack I'm going to make one blanket statement on the 1000 year loli chilchuck thing.

yes, there has been a problem with young girls being put in suggestive positions in anime with the "uhmmm she's actually a bajillion years old" excuse. yes, other characters don't treat chilchuck like an adult. yes, he is short with big eyes.

However, chilchuck consistently acts like a grown man. he- in both the manga and the anime- straight up just is an adult. He looks like an adult when he is any other race during the swaps in the manga. When the other characters get turned into half-foots they look similar to chilchuck. He is explicitly stated to have more dungeon and general life experience than laios, and he acts like it.

The 1000 year loli trope explicitly functions as an excuse to prey on people who are inexperienced and unable to advocate for themselves. Chilchuck is a parent, is a union organizer, has explicit boundaries that he enforces rigidly, and he is treated as an adult man by everyone who doesn't have a fantasy racism-focused character arc/issue.

I can see how if you haven't read the manga and seen that he has an established life that he later reveals (and haven't paid attention to him in the anime lol) you could get a mistaken impression about him. Marcielle does too in the source material! It's part of her character at the start of her arc that she has issues with longevity!

The thing that irks me a little about this interpretation is that it leans into the child-coded discourse that was prominent a while ago (she's short!!!!! but has boob???? ILLEGAL!!1!) and it does a disservice to the themes of infantilization as a policy maneuver hurting the working class.

I saw chilchuck and his labor advocacy for half-foots both as a metaphor for racism (obvious take ik) and for ageism.

The working gen z as a cohort are being infantilized and pushed out of job markets due to infantilization, similar to half-foots in the show. gen z is being maliciously portrayed as too young to vote, enter office, know themselves, know their rights, and take advantage of their resources. Simultaneously, child labor protections and protections against workplace abuse are being rolled back in the US. In Japan, young people are being worked to the bone for nothing and are becoming disenfranchised as a generation while simultaneously expected to be the labor faction that supports the postwar generations in their old age.

Chilchuck's being treated poorly I saw as a clever commentary on the ways infantilization allows for protections to be stripped away under the guise that "oh it's just a job for teenagers- they don't need more than minimum wage" or "let the kids rescue the economy! they're always complaining about that job market!" while simultaneously stripping away rights under the guise of protection- "We can't have that on the internet! think of the children!" "to protect these young people we must raise the age of medical consent for hormones/reproductive health decisions!"

Kui's work with this series spoke to me on many levels, and specifically, the infantilization issue touched me in a way that few other pieces of media have. The struggle to be taken seriously in a stem field as someone young, as someone female, and as someone who had a high-pitched voice to the point I did years of voice training to be taken seriously, chilchuck's character resonated. I (kinda) understand your instinct to think "SHORT! CHILD! RALLY THE MASSES AND KILL THE PEDOS!!1!" but in this case, it's misdirected- mostly because the author was trying to use this misdirection to prove something to you, the reader.

Kui consistently makes cutting commentary on modern issues, the show's take on food neutrality as its headliner, but also the author's takes on cultural issues and the environment (with a focus on our place in the food web as animals). I feel that reducing chilchuck's very conscious position as a tradesman and an activist discounted due to his apparent age down to "1000 year loli ewwww let's send this random tumblr user suicide bait" just displays a lack of critical analysis of the show and a level of disrespect towards Kui and the work as a whole.

TL:DR- stop sending me kys messages I'm fucking that old man

[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.

[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-

[usertoxicyaoi]

"How could you lie like that? Did you not consider my feelings?"

THE NOVELIST (2018). EPISODE FIVE.

[banrionceallach]

Father of nonbinary child: gives into long frustration and says he wishes a transphophic government official actively making life harder for his kid didn't exist.

Transphobic official: *happens to be a black woman*

People refusing to use their brains : This is an attack on all women!!! And racist!!

Me: hmm for some reason the words Margaret Thatcher and Girl Power are coming to mind. I wonder why...

[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.

[apollo-justice-irl]

I don't know if we need a full season for senior year. I love the bad kids dearly (riz literally helped me realize I'm on the aromantic spectrum ) and I would LOVE another season, but I also want the intrepid heros to get new characters. Emily did want to roll a new character after all. I think if we do get a senior year, it should be either a really short season (like a side quest but with the IH) or it should be a oneshot/liveshow. the bad kids deserve to get their happy endings and finally graduate aguefort, but i don't want that to come at the expense of the IH having to play characters they don't want to anymore.

[monards]

sorry I still think it’s insane half of the genshin fandom was soooo quick to jump on the “yeah the character(s) who had their country obliterated in an incredibly horrific & inhumane manner, and who watched all their friends family and acquaintances be turned into ‘monsters’ made to suffer a fate worse than death, (not to mention those monsters being the same ones who are actively just killed and looted by people in teyvat,) and who are repeatedly implied and explicitly shown to be victims of propagandized characterizations of themselves to the common people of teyvat, and by extension us, as many of the references we use to refer to their horrible deeds are incredibly biased and lacking nuance & depth? Those guys are DEFINITELY the wholly evil villains in the story, and deserve to be demonized by the fandom and completely ridden of their complex nuance & greyness.”

[redtail-lol]

Sorry for hellaverse posting but I hate this fandom.

Fans with no media literacy: "GOD I hate Octavia. She's such a selfish and shitty character! How dare she feel hurt when Stolas has been making her feel like an afterthought since he's met Blitzø. Stolas should never be made to feel sad!!"

"Crits"/Antis with a little more media literacy: "GOD Stolas is NOT A FUCKING VICTIM AT ALL! How dare he be upset that he lost his daughter! Him crying can't possibly be an indication that he feels guilty! And the illiterate fan reactions is proof VIVZIEPOP HERSELF WAS TRYING TO DEMONIZE VIA AND EXCUSE STOLAS'S ACTIONS!"

[themultifanshipper]

I've never blocked anyone on tumblr for any reason, I've never seen the point of it bc if you don't like someone's opinion, just scroll...

But these Anti Lando people are coming out with some BULLSHIT and it's not even funny anymore

[wyn-n-tonic]

Also, I don't wanna hear shit from white women being like, "Oh, Black women got this one for us." Black women have continuously been showing up for everybody and doing their best to protect everybody while nobody shows up for them. White women (myself included) who want to see this woman take office need to be showing up with just as much fucking gusto as Black women have always been showing up for us despite the fact that we don't fucking deserve it. Collect your mamas who voted third party in 2016. Collect the 53% of white women who voted for that fucking traffic cone in 2016 because, "I want to see a woman president, just not THAT woman." This is their chance to see a woman president and I don't give a fuck if they like this one, I don't care what their reasoning is (because it's probably racist af). Have the uncomfortable conversations. Sit in that discomfort. Learn something from it. Election day is 104 days away and early voting starts in September, we don't have time to do anything but focus on this. We can bully her after she takes office.