#people need to distinguish between

[m-jay-gee]

it's always the bitches that just show their friends memes in real life that are CONVINCED they're the funniest in a group

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

wait everyone leave for a minute i need to talk with the andalusian tumblrinas.

i just listened to this song and i know the granaíno accent is particularly strong (my grandpa has it) but i want to know. are there like different stereotypes for different andalusian accents / dialects ??? is there like a hierarchy?? like would someone from jaén would make fun of someone from granada for their accent??? would someone from huelva have to camouflage their accent in córdoba??? i need to know the internal politics

[uncanny-tranny]

If I am honest with myself, I think one of my biggest sources of internalized transphobia is based on my desire for a "typical" bottom surgery, something along the lines of phallo, even.

I think I truly only wanted a "simpler" bottom surgery because I was inundated with comments for six years straight about how disgusting phallo is, how it is "barbaric," and no trans person should ever want it, and the desire for a phalloplasty is shameful. Those things burrowed its way into my mind because it wasn't just dyed-in-the-wool transphobes saying that it was also other trans people. It was other trans guys and transmasculine people saying those things.

The point of this post is that when you are talking about transitioning, surgeries, or hormones and such, you aren't talking about ideas or nebulous concepts. You are talking about real people and their real in-the-flesh bodies. Be careful that you aren't carrying water for people who want to see them dead.

[scratxhed-cd]

I’m gonna be pathetic real quick,

[sskk-manifesto]

Osamu Dazai and the Depressing Era

[comradecowplant]

I don't follow blogs ran by people being racist about rap so I'm only witnessing the secondhand responses to the recent "discourse" and sadly 'tumblrinas being racist about their bad taste in music & low lyrical literacy' is exactly what I'd put on my 2024 bingo card for this steadily declining shithole....

[beevean]

What bothers me about how forceful/unbased some neurodivergency/LGBT+ headcanons are is how they give off the vibe only neurodivergent or queer characters are allowed to have anything going for them. Not even anything special! Let's take TMOSTH: Tails feels empathy for many things? Autistic! Espio speedread a book to spoil the ending for Knuckles? Autistic! Or what you pointed out in Archie, with Shadow stating he likes his motorcycle? Autistic! As someone who only recently found out they might not be entirely neurotypical, I recall quite disliking and feeling somewhat hurt that every single thing a character did immediately gets spun around to fit the OP's projecting, with the attached "fuck the straights and the neurotypicals only gay people would ever do this" that tends to come along with it (where the thing "only gay people do" 99% of the time is the most basic thing in the world). It's almost like people don't want to consider that the most normal, down-to-earth, "boring" (used in the way such OPs tend to use it: as an easy jab) neurotypical cishet person can feel empathy for many things, speedread, or like a motorcycle. I feel like there is more behind that due to the state of the world at large, but it's annoying to see have to come across it in fandom all the time, and then have the "proof" be complete nonsense or entirely taken out of context to "support" the statement. Not to mention the "joking" accusations of bigotry if you do not share such headcanons that occasionally get added as well.

Another example I thought of the moment I hit the "ask" button: Surge getting revealed as Sonic's "clone" and the ENTIRETY OF TUMBLR immediately deciding this meant Sonic was trans. The fact they aren't even the same species nor look alike in the slightest and the fact I thus promptly got very worried about the biology knowledge of the entirety of Tumblr aside, thank god that shit died down when it got revealed Surge legit was just some rando Starline plucked from the streets with no relation to Sonic.

You hit the nail on the head.

When autistic headcanons are created from the basis of "X has a passion for Y!", I'm here like... do you think autistic people are the only ones who can feel any sort of love or attachment over something? Do you think neurotypical people can only blandly tolerate things? Isn't hyperfixation something much, much more intense than a passion? Isn't autism much more than "being shy and with something they love", and isn't ADHD much more than being excitable? This shit makes legit harder for people to realize if they're neurodivergent or not because I swear that literal human nature is deemed to be "divergent". If "neurotypicalness" is associated with being an emotionless, insensitive asshole, no wonder no one would want to identify as, or call their favorite character, neurotypical!

Don't get me started on how for some people "straight" is a synonym for boring and "gay" is a synonim for fun and quirky. Shocker: love and fun are not limited to non-cishet people. It's not a "weird", exceptional state of humanity. Cishet people can have a personality too.

lmaooooo I remember that headcanon, good times. Speaking of which, while the headcanon "Sonic is trans because he doesn't have chest fur" is... something, I side-eye people who headcanon Surge as trans. Oh, you think that the nasty, aggressively masculine bully is trans? It doesn't look good in either direction :) (same for the people who headcanon her as a lesbian, despite her having 0 meaningful interactions with female characters, solely because she's "butch". I wouldn't want to do that, but I may be biased lmao)

[carnographix]

The one good thing to come out of me being in guro spaces a bit too young is that all my takes on fiction are incredibly real and based

[antirepurp]

scavio hack/mod that makes one of the koraidon/miraidon you get a shiny one. please.

[pissfizz]

On one hand toya tenma hc is one of my favorite things ever and it’s very important to me but on the other part of me is coming to hate it bc fans are so insufferable about it

[lindwurmkai]

something about the conflation of "having a special interest" and "being in a fandom"

(having essentially picked up the word "fandom" through osmosis, i literally kind of thought that was what it meant at first)

the way people are always so quick to emphasise it's actually about community stings a little because i never managed to become part of that

i tried again and again but aside from that one time that felt more like being at war than being part of a community, i never got very far

this is also why we jokingly refer to "the knitting fandom" and such, right? because communities centered around a hobby are similar regardless of whether that hobby involves any fiction. (i never managed to become part of a community centered around any of my hobbies either)

there's some kind of observation brewing in the back of my mind that's about the broader topic rather than my own specific issues, but i can't quite put my finger on it yet. something is not matching up

[likecastle]

Is it a hidden clue in the text, or are the writers just not that deep?

[onewomancitadel]

What I don't like about the use of 'pretentious' is that there are two senses of the word. One is the sense of pretense, which is false and/or not true to your actual character or identity of the thing being discussed; airs. The other is 'requires more thought than a passing glance or Tweet' and/or generally having a sense of individual personality. The latter is very sad and annoying, but the former is too.

But it's especially insulting to be called pretentious and to think, oh shit, what am I doing that comes off as fraudulent and try-hard? When that is so totally counter to everything I value and the thought of it makes me cry? Then I realise that's not necessarily the sense it's being used in. Lol

[shivasdarknight]

Wild concept: the more important skill to have than accepting that depiction=/=glorification is the ability to distinguish between the two. Acknowledging that there's a difference is doesn't go far enough, you need to be able to recognize the difference through context to actively avoid instances of genuine glorification (eg. something where antisemitism exists to tackle it or relay someone's experience vs shit like AoT's antisemitic rhetoric).

You can't just sit there and either say that all depiction is glorification, or that depiction is not glorification and stop there. Glorification of (insert heinous thing) exists because there are sick fucks in the world and they try to pass it off as just depiction when that's far from the case (theres an entire Nazi subgenre of western romance novels and fkn yaoi doujin where the nazism is Absolutely romanticized, and I'm not remotely joking), and you need to be able to discern the difference between the two. Because again, there's a huge fkn difference between shit like nazi chic (nazis as protags, likable villains, or even just idk Fucking Hetalia and how it's the byproduct of nazi yaoi - see that fucker Baron Zemo in the mcu, Germany Hetalia, Rudol von Stroheim in JJBA, or Schrodinger in Hellsing) versus something like the comic Maus, or even stuff that does have a greater focus on nazis but for the express purpose of tearing into their ideology (Schindler's List technically counts here, but that's a beyond messy example that I'm not qualified to talk about).

I'm just using this as one example because I'm more familiar with how that's depicted in media and where the line between depiction and glorification is drawn. It's something that you have to be conscious of when it concerns media consumption. It's not a matter of whether or not inclusion is glorification: both exist. And you need to be able to tell the difference because glorification is often weaponized (eg. the rampant use of sexual assault in horror for the hell of it even though it does nothing for the plot; how different filmmakers handle stuff like rape and how the camera is used to either depict it as it should be (deemphasis of the sexual aspect, treating it as serious, etc), or to glorify it for the sake of sexualizing someone's assault (goblin slayer ep1 comes to mind, and how that opening scene turned so many people off of that show for how it handled it). I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is one example of rape being used as a catalyst but is the furthest from glorifying it; Princess Weekes has a video on it and Promising Young Women doing a juxtaposition of realism and catharsis when it concerns rape revenge movies, which does somewhat go into the whole thing about the issues of glorification vs depiction, because in I Spit On Your Grave's case, depiction is used to facilitate catharsis rather than glorifying the assault).

depiction is not the same as glorification and I need people to get that 

[set-underwear-to-no]

Ive GOT to get more insane about media