#pathetic. i'm disgusted

[derangedfujoshi]

Stalking is a crime, yes that includes your yandere boyfriend

Assault is a crime, yes that includes your whumper/whumpee scenarios

Being part of a mob is a crime, yes that includes your sexy son of a mafia boss

Killing is a crime, yes that includes your blorbo

Zoophilia is a crime, yes that includes you liking Nick Wilde

All your "exceptions" from what is and isn't condemnable in fiction are, in real life, a crime as well. Every dark trope falls in the "it would be a crime to commit this irl" category, it's not just the big age gaps with adult/minor ships and the incest, it's ALL of them. All of them are crimes in the real world, by law. The sentence may vary but you'd still be sent to prison. "But I only like it in fiction!"

So do we.

So do we, so can you get off your high horse and just admit that liking dark themes in fiction, ANY dark theme, does not reflect your moral compass in real life and for the love of everything STOP pretending fake murder is better than fake incest? You sound preposterous.

[aqours]

i love how they both addressed that abuse tends to circulate as this fucking evil awful horrible cycle that only ends when people chose to break the train while also making it clear airi was a fucking revolting disgusting person who tries to justify what she does instead of breaking that cycle who can only whine and cry when a kid who isn't even 14 calls her out on it

[galedekarios]

the plagiarist posting an "apology" to creators, including myself, who he has ripped for months on end despite us asking him not to while he still has us all blocked is... a choice

[pastelaspirations]

I m a g i n e. Picture it.

You're a gunslinger. Have been for a long time. Your reputation proceeds you. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Other times, it's your worst enemy. People either sing your praises and cheer as you walk down the street, or you are constantly looking over your shoulder for the malevolent gazes watching you from the dark. There's no in between. One day, you find yourself at a bar. A rundown bar within a dusty town that seems presumably empty, but you can feel the hostility oozing from every dark corner like a bad omen. You try to ignore it, settling down and ordering a shot of your favorite whiskey. You tell yourself to keep your cool, to act as unsuspecting as possible... but to keep a hand poised near your gun at all times. The bar's swing doors slam open. You glance over your shoulder, raising an eyebrow from under the brow of your dark hat. There stands a red panda; so small, it seems like a bad joke. She is wearing clothes reminiscent to yours, but they're too big for her. It's like she borrowed an older sibling's clothes and then strolled out into town, intent on playing with the big kids.

You don't move, just silently watch this red panda clomp into the bar, heading directly toward you. You don't have anything to say; although, at this point, you questioned if you could even come up with something to say.

The red panda struggles and climbs up the stool, excessively grunting and taking far longer than was comfortable to achieve the action. Once she was finally done, she turns to you, slapping an arm on the bar and asks with the most strained, unhinged laughter you have ever heard in your 45 years of life,

"So. Mouthwashing, am I right-?"

I'm s o r r y. This is all my long, unhinged way to say "I wrote a Mouthwashing fix-it fic in the span of a day and half and wanted to tell you guys, but in the most cursed way possible"

Why did I write this cursed lil ramble to say something which could have easily been said in one sentence??

I don't know.

I'm just showing you guys my weird, niche ability to write really cursed stuff but with such misleading language, you can be tricked into thinking I'm n o t writing an elaborate shit post.

I am obsessed with Mouthwashing, man. I relate to Curly so much, so I wrote a one shot where he actually got it right-

Fun fact; writing this fic, I discovered something about myself.

I really like sort of pathetic, blond himbo men who make mistakes, but ultimately mean well and have a heart of gold.

First, it was Asgore, my beloved. <3 Now, Curly has joined him. Something is wrong with me.

W A I T, C R A P. I JUST REALIZED. IN STARDEW, THE PERSON I LATCH ONTO THE MOST IS SAM. HE'S NOT A MIDDLE-AGED, SCRUNKLY MAN LIKE ASGORE OR CURLY YET, BUT HE'S LIKE. THE BABY VERSION. GOD, HELP ME, I AM REALIZING TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT MYSELF-

[hyperlexichypatia]

Obligatory Disclaimer #1: Yes, there is a lot of misogyny in the way people talk about the "likability" of female characters. Women in stories can and should be complex, flawed, nuanced, and human, not (just) "likable" (or "sexy" or "mother" or whatever other one-dimensional trope).

Obligatory Disclaimer #2: Yes, I know that an opinion expressed by a character in a story is not necessarily being supported by the narrative itself, or the author, and that people with piss-on-the-poor reading comprehension get this wrong. Good reading comprehension means being able to tell the difference.

Now that we've got that out of the way.

Doesn't it seem like "Female characters don't have to be LIKABLE, you illiterate misogynist!" is often a Privileged Feminist way to silence criticism of... very mainstream bigoted attitudes being presented uncritically in the narrative by being put in the voices of designated "unlikable female characters"?

I love a complex, nuanced, flawed female character. I love an outright villainous female character. I love a character whose flaws and prejudices are slowly picked apart by the narrative. I do not love having the classism, sizeism, and ableism I deal with every day served back to me in Feminist Fiction.

I do not love trying to point out "Hey, this award-winning book you all love, I don't actually like the way the protagonist talks about the working-class fat man. Or the younger woman with anxiety. Or the acquaintance with a disabled child and, like, linoleum floors or something." (Why do I just have all those examples at the ready?)

And being met with "Female characters don't have to be LIKABLE, you illiterate misogynist. Try reading some Serious Literature instead of your fanfic romance YA smut beach reads!"

"Uh, okay, well, it's not so much about the character being likeable as about the way the narrative doesn't seem to challenge the character's, I must reiterate, very widely held prejudices, that makes it seem less like a depiction of a flawed character and more like an uncritical replication of those very widely held prejudices --"

"It's a LITERARY PERSPECTIVE, GOD, didn't you go to SCHOOL? Do you think Lolita is a love story? Do you think Fight Club is about how awesome fighting is?"

"Well, no, but, for example, the way the character was so emotionally abusive to her fat daughter and her neurodivergent son --"

"Uggggh, you don't understand ANYTHING, women don't have to be PERFECT MOTHERS, she's supposed to represent HOW REAL WOMEN FEEL in the face of UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS OF PERFECT MOTHERHOOD!"

"So... the unquestioned-by-the-narrative elitism, classism, sizeism, ableism, and ageism are supposed to be... going against societal expectations?"

"OBVIOUSLY! That's how REAL WOMEN REALLY FEEL!"

"I'm a real woman, and I don't feel that way."

"UGGGGGH, YOU ILLITERATE MISOGYNIST, FEMALE CHARACTERS DON'T HAVE TO BE RELATABLE!"

[nightmare8-420]

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i dont have a point to living anymore

im just an annoyance to my friends.

hell thats if they could even call me that

they hate me.

they hate me they hate me they hate me they hate me they hate me they hate me they hate m they hate me.

i dont know what to do about it anymlre

they hate me.

its justified

but i cant change it

everything is only getting worse

everything is only going to get worse

why am i so stupid

why would i ever think they loved me

why would i ever think they liked me

why am i such an awful person

why dont they just tell me to fucking kill myself already

why am i waiting

why

why.

[wayward-travelers]

Well, after several days playing other games, I'm glad to see the virtue signaling is still as strong as ever in the FFXIV fandom.

[u-friend-or-ufo]

I nearly did something silly...Well I did do something silly but I stopped before it got...Worse...

I feel disgusted with myself...

[the-lark-ascending69]

I think people in the HOTD fandom forget Aegon is a r4pist

[lemonduckisnowawake]

To be honest, horror stuff always gets cheapened and cringe when they add Christianity into it. Like, my man, you do not need to give me some idiotic afterlife theology loosely based in Christian mythos and ruin the decent scares you had going there.

[deadrlngers]

writers stop using fat characters as a mean to express depression and neglect challenge

[medium-sized-hope]

me when I realize we are out of milk!

[cryingyetcourageous]

my shy, anonymous hot take of the evening (which u don't necessarily Need to publish, i dont want to kick off a Discussion i just want you specifically to know) is that rpers who are close to canon are actually so refreshing and i prefer it tbh. bless u and all u do

[[Okay no - this means a LOT and gives me chance to rant <3 To this day, and probably for the rest of my life, I still remember that the VERY first anon I got on my previous Raivis blog in 2011/2012ish was someone insisting that I play him wrong because "Latvia shouldn't be a coward. It's insulting." I didn't have the words to argue back when I was 15/16. I gave some half-assed response, but it didn't get the crux of the issue. Fandom often boils characters down into two types: stoic, deadpanned ones who are unwavering in the face of danger, who carefully control each reaction to only show what they wish to be shown. . . and shitlords who are chaotic and quirky, and who will quip out one-liners in the face of danger, but never show deeper emotional experiences beyond what is needed for plot or memes. Being scared is inherently viewed as weak. Raivis is not weak. Raivis is terrified, overwhelmed, anxious, ruminating, and easily spooked, but he is not weak. There is strength in kindness. To see some of the worst the world has to offer, to be broken down over and over through multiple empires hellbent on exploiting land and people they refuse to respect, to be trapped in a physical form much smaller and more feeble than those around him, to have all that and still choose kindness: That is strength. To look at the pain one has gone through and stubbornly refuse to let it harden one's heart, to reach out to those even more vulnerable than one's own self, to hold true to one's morals even when no one would blame him for faltering or being selfish: That is strength. Looking at an uncaring world and daring to care anyways: That is strength.

This isn't even going into his being a literal genius, "an astounding guy," capable of "doing incredible things." Canon quotes. However, these details are tossed aside because he's also a crybaby, unassertive, and reactive. Time and time again, anxiety is only treated as an interesting character trait if it's the quiet, creeping dread that isn't too obtrusive to other characters or the readers. The moment it becomes a problem for those around them, it's an annoying character, never mind that high reactivity is common in PTSD-related anxiety, never mind that mental health struggles are, in fact, often fucking intrusive.

Struggling is not weak. Crying and fearing and worrying are not weak. Vulnerability is not weak. Emotions are not weak. Canon Raivis is not weak and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Ingun Blackbriar from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim-Lesbian

Status: Alive (Dependant on player actions)

[the-cinnamon-snail]

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[multishipper001]

When I'm cooking for the fandom (me and the five other bitches in the entire Internet who got plagued by the same specific brainrot)