#please don't try to start arguments! (not at you anon just anyone in general who reads this)

[dearweirdme]

https://www.tumblr.com/dearweirdme/750269587124256768/httpswwwtumblrcomdearweirdme7502197055964446?source=share

Woah there!!! Please think before you so confidently throw accusations around. I had not sent any asks before this one. Just bcs I agreed with the prev asks, it makes me the same as them? What logic is that? And how am I a jikooker (this is for the person who commented)? Bcs I tried to think of things realistically? Where in my entire ask did I support or even try to say anything in favour of jikook?

I just tried reasoning with you all but seems like you and your commentors are too set on your ways to listen to anyone if it doesn't suit your narrative.

As for the person talking about the hickey thing, did you even read what I wrote before you got so defensive? I said that a hickey was implied, don't pretend it wasn't bcs that moment and "hickey" trended for a reason,so if someday someone spreads some sh*t about jikook, even their ship has a solid ground bcs of official content.

And fyi, I've been in this fandom for 9 years now, and in other k-pop fandoms for longer than that, so I've not only watched "ship" videos, I've watched everything unfold irt. As for taekook in the bg or being in e/os lives, only shippers notice these details ffs. This is what I was saying. It is visible to you, it is different for you.

I was not comparing the realness of the ships. Saying that jikook is safer for bh is not valid bcs of how much background it has. Did anyone go looking into taekook's relationship when taennie happened? If a rumour spreads, people aren't going to start comparing b/w the two to determine which one is more real.

I don't think we can understand each other though bcs you all get so defensive that you stop even trying to understand and start trying to come up with counter arguments on how taekook is different bcs they are always supportive of each other etc

-not a jikooker, not the og anon

Hi anon!

Apologies if you are in fact not the same anon.

Since you are not a shipper, and I think Tae and Jk might be in a relationship, we obviously won’t be agreeing on much. I���ve talked about my thoughts on everything concerning Jkk and Tkk extensively, so if you are interested feel free to look through my blog. I don’t think a conversation between us is possible unless you actually understand what my thoughts are. You clearly come into this conversation thinking this is all brand new information that none of us have ever considered, but not one argument against Tkk is actually new to us. Your ask is not the first ask to disagree with me, neither are the asks that other anon sent. My blog is an ongoing conversation about everything Taekook. I blog under the impression that people who follow me know my thoughts in general (because making disclaimers for everything is just undoable). So when you just drop in randomly under the impression that you know what every Tkkr must believe, you might be mistaken at times.

[allegedly-human]

wow look at you and your extra serious "I want people to respect my preferences even though I will only vaguely allude to information about myself" post pinned at the top of your blog and your weird joker clown furry display pic and your "this anon user just embarrassed himself" comment lmao you're so pseudo intellectual it stings like you're all brooding and distrusting in general even though nobody cares who you are or about you at all. You probably have just the most boring and pointless discussions on reddit or somewhere similar where you go way too far to format your responses like some scholar but it just comes off with the intellectual vanity of a 13 year old boy who just started expanding their vocabulary and let it get to their ego. Everything about you at face value is so cringe I can't even find the words to critique it satisfactorily. You're probably going to take this ask so seriously and address all my points like you're in some high school debate class omg. You're out here acting like everybody wants to get to know you, like you've spent your entire online life having to bat people away who get too close, like you have some dark tragic backstory about getting your feelings hurt that's supposed to evoke sympathy from people who didn't understand before you told them, and when you finally let them in you think it's like some big deal and they'll be like "wow I'm sorry I didn't know" when the reality is you're just like alone here on your blog proclaiming yourself as some dark mysterious interesting figure who is forbidden to know, expecting to pique some kind of awe and mysticism, but everyone is like "okay," and really does not care. I can't believe I can still find people like you on the internet, you're so socially reminiscent of like 20 years ago when people just had petty arguments on small forums, going out of their way to "win" the argument, not even knowing what it means to win an argument, but trying so hard anyway because they imagine themselves some mighty intellectual who puts everyone in their place. Look at you, so afraid of any insignificant piece of information about you leaking online, like you're in witness protection, like the cartels are after you, lmao. Who do you think even cares? What do you think you have that anyone wants? The funny thing is it's not even a big deal to keep your information private, but those who do simply do, while you're out here practically holding a sign that reads "DONT ASK ABOUT ME" in big red letters, advertising it so hard, like you're trying to draw attention to yourself, the same self that you don't want people asking about. It definitely doesn't come off like something an adult would do, although I'm not doubting you are one, I just don't think you're mature like one. The 3 seconds I spent looking at your blog told me all I'm interested to know about you anyway, and I think you need to just sit down lmao. The one person you have asking for information about you isn't even curious about who you are, they're just raising a concern about blocking you, and still you pin it up at the top of your blog like, "look everybody, I have people asking about me! oh it's such a struggle to be so interesting please don't attempt to know me! The more you try to know me the harder it will be!" hahahaha so funny

You can really just find so many types of people on this website uh

[oc-cinematic-universe]

Anon here. :] Here are some asks for Joe and Dara!

Pre-Relationship

3) Who felt romantic feelings first? 7) How do their friends and family feel about them as a couple?

General

9) Who gets jealous easier? 15) What is their most common argument about?

3. Who felt romantic feelings first?

DEFINITELY Dara. She got smitten with him pretty quickly after meeting him. Joe's also demiromantic so he naturally does not get romantic feelings until after a bond has been established. Considering that, he also fell for her pretty fast ILUSDHALIUSDH She was kind of the light at the end of the tunnel that finally got him out of the fucking pit of despair he was in so yeah maybe that bond didn't need to take as long to appear this time around. But Dara still was first

7. How do their friends and family feel about them as a couple?

Their besties, Lily and April, are kind of the reason they actually admitted their feelings and started dating so needless to say they're encouraging LIAUSDHALIUSDHALIUSD Lily though.... Lily, at the current time of the comic, has started to think pretty poorly of Dara and is a lil bit considering trying to get Joe to break up with her so they can all cut ties. She feels like shit thinking that so she hasn't decided if she's actually going to do that yet, but the thought has crossed her mind. If The Plot wasn't happening tho they'd be fine

Dara doesn't have any living family and Joe's parents are...... ehhh.... I mean....... It's complicated. Joe's parents were always a lil hesitant about her, but she did kind of threaten them with violence over how they treated him and they weren't really happy about that. They think she's mostly fine aside from that and they're not going to tell Joe he shouldn't be with her (they're relieved he has Any romantic partner now) but they avoid having to talk with her at all costs. They were not invited to the wedding

9) Who gets jealous easier?

Oh neither of them get jealous at all. They'd literally be open to being poly if either of them ever showed interest in somebody else. They're just too obsessed with each other to even consider having other romantic feelings for anyone else so that's never gonna happen

15) What is their most common argument about?

It's not really an argument I'd say...? But the most they get blatantly and genuinely upset with each other is when one of them is being fucking stupid about not telling the other their feelings. Which is ironic because they both do this. They have had quite a few talks about "please, I want you to feel comfortable telling me when something's wrong, and it hurts me when you don't tell me", going both ways, because they're complete hypocrites about this. As one of them is telling the other "hey I need you to talk to me" they will simultaneously make super certain none of their own feelings aside from what's necessary to the conversation show. They're so stupid sometimes

[boreal-sea]

Hi I'm sorry if I'm bothering you idk where to go with this and i saw you post on anti t*rf cutting to the chase im a nonbinary afab person but during a spiral i got sucked down a t*rf rabbithole and some of the ideas are stuck in my head help me please i don't want to be one I don't know what to do

If you send me an Ask off anon, we can chat and I can message you if you want!

For now: Start reading books and blogs and watching videos by feminists who are explicitly pro-trans. Consume media made by trans feminists. Consume media that specifically counters the arguments made by terfs and radfems. Consume media by trans people in general, especially trans folks who openly state they are inclusive.

An excellent video series that rips apart TERFism from the inside out is here:

There are tons of awesome trans folks to follow on Tumblr.

There's my own transfeminism blog, @graytheory. There's also @transsexual-menace who has an excellent pinned post with resources. @queermasculine is a great blog about transmasculinity. @spacelazarwolf is just super cool and posts a lot about feminism and trans issues. @genderkoolaid is also fucking awesome.

Things to avoid: Any content by self-described "baeddels", "proud misandrists", "truscum", or content by people who call themselves "TIRFS". You want to avoid radical feminism in any form, because it is the root of TERFism and TERF ideology is based on radfem ideology. You also want to avoid any form of trans rhetoric that is exclusionary, claims there's only one right way to "be trans", etc.

I'd also say avoid anyone who claims trans men aren't oppressed, can't experience misogyny, or claims that trans men have "male privilege", because that's just watered down radical feminist with trans language slapped on top of it.

One thing that can help, if you use desktop, is downloading the extension Shinigami Eyes. Yes, it's controversial as hell, but when you're first getting out of radfem and terf circles, it'll help you identify terfs and radfems right away, and you'll be able to block them and unfollow them really quickly. I highly recommend it for anyone who's just learning to identify radfem rhetoric and anyone who is trying to avoid interacting with radfems and terfs entirely.

[sophieinwonderland]

Original anon from today about how you use religion:

I wasn't necessarily talking about Christianity or the Holy Trinity. You've done this with multiple gods, and as far as I can tell it's never actually been about religion itself or bringing comfort, and more about how angry you can make anti-endos. However, since you focused on Christianity, I can do that too.

Look, do what you want. Anyone can interpret any god how they please, but there's also a difference between actually exploring religion and disrespecting it.

You may anger some people in your attempts to bring comfort. That happens! But this is not your goal, based on your tone. You have a narrative you want, and followers who believe that narrative, and you don't seem to particularly care who else might run into it, unless they end up agreeing with you wholeheartedly.

I know that you don't like the institution of Christianity. And that's understandable, many don't! Regardless, we should all still be respectful toward faiths we don't follow and the practitioners of them. It is not some random system's fault that Christianity has been used to harm people. And you making light of their religion isn't going to help them see the harmful side of their religion -- it's only going to turn them away.

I am pro-endo. I'm areligious. You're really not going to upset me with these kinds of posts. But you have had, over and over again, religious plurals and religious people in general telling you that the way you talk about religion harms them.

It's not all due to bigotry. That can play a role, yes, but a lot of it is also, as you admitted, because you are "designing [your] posts in a way that ensures it also upsets anti-endos." There is a kinder way to "pollinate your idea flowers" and you know it. You would rather take the easy route that harms people, though, because you don't see your "opponents" as... people. You see them as anti-endos and sysmeds, a sort of generalized mob. You are TRYING to cause upset, rather than trying to reach people and bring comfort and, perhaps, comfort those who don't, at this moment, agree with you.

I think you're just mean, honestly, and not just about this topic. And that really pains me, because you are definitely a figurehead for the pro-endo community. I know you don't owe people who hate you kindness, and you can be angry, and you can tell me to fuck right off and continue what you do. That's all in your right.

But I still personally think respect can go a long way for changing hearts and minds. That's all I was trying to say. And if your response to "be respectful of religion in general" is "I will make them pay"... I think you lost touch.

You've done this with multiple gods, and as far as I can tell it's never actually been about religion itself or bringing comfort, and more about how angry you can make anti-endos.

If you've read my posts and your conclusion is that my posts about gods being plural are only about spiting anti-endos, I just don't think you're reading them in good faith.

I mean, aside from the God is plural ones, the only other that comes to mind was the recent post about the Wiccan moon goddess, which started with a reblog of a pro-endo talking about how they declared the moon to be plural due to its phases, and I replied saying that the Wiccan Triple Goddess should be a plural icon.

That post led to a Wiccan sysmed claiming that was offensive, which I then debunked in a pretty aggressive and argumentative way. But if you look at the initial post that started that, it was just a reblog of a pro-endo. There was no attempt to spread that to anti-endo spaces or use it to anger sysmeds.

If I was saying something with the goal of upsetting sysmeds, I would make sure I was posting in a way that they would be likely to see if they were just casually scrolling through tags.

I know that you don't like the institution of Christianity.

Did I say that?

For better and for worse, our amazing world that we live in today was shaped by the Church. So much of the advancements in the modern world wouldn't have been possible without the backing of the church in early scientific studies. Or at least wouldn't have occurred when they did.

And the Church does provide comfort and community for those who need it. And when my host was homeless as a teen, his family stayed at a shelter ran by wonderful people at a local church.

But the Church has also committed and supported so many unspeakable horrors and atrocities. It's used biblical text to support sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. We are still battling for rights because of primarily right-wing churches.

I don't hate the institution of Christianity.

I just... I view it as a tool. Religion is something that people wield. They use it for power and control. And that tool can be used to build amazing things, or it can be used to cause pain and suffering. It's not inherently good or bad. It just depends on who is wielding it and what they're wielding it for.

You see this as me hating Christianity. But what I'm actually doing is finding ways make these tools useful for us as they've been others. I couldn't lead the charge on this myself as an atheist, but I would love seeing Christian plurals take this talking point up and run with it!

It's not all due to bigotry. That can play a role, yes, but a lot of it is also, as you admitted, because you are "designing [your] posts in a way that ensures it also upsets anti-endos."

I disagree. The way I'm designing my posts to upset them is playing on their bigotry.

Take, for example, the black Jesus.

Now, there is some debate over Jesus's skin color. What we know for certain is that he wasn't white as he's often been depicted. But many argue that he wasn't black either, but would be brown-skinned, and would respectfully disagree with depictions of him being black as historically accurate.

Whatever your opinion is on Jesus's actual race, to be offended by the idea of Jesus being black requires an inherent level of racism and bigotry.

Likewise, being offended by the Holy Trinity being plural the way sysmeds are requires a level of pluralphobia.

Yes, I'm intentionally making posts that will hurt them. But my weapon of choice for doing so is most often their own bigotry.

[anamericangirl]

(It is 6:06 pm EST where I am writing this)

So I just saw what happened to you today on your feed from the “Pro-Choice” anons death threatening your future kids.

First off want to say that you don’t deserve that at all because online bullying of any kind should not be tolerated on a platform such as Tumblr.

Second of all, to all those anons who sent this person these kinds of messages. Shame on you seriously. In what universe is sending death threats makes you a morally righteous person? You make my Pro-Choice friends (I’m Pro-Life btw) look bad and it sickens me. You guys need to start thinking about how this affects those around you.

This is not Pro-Choice at all. This is just Pro-Agree with me or DIE, type of argument. You should be happy more afab and cis women are choosing not to get abortions in the US. Along with trying to be more informed about birth control and how to use it properly. Not shame them for doing what you supposedly wanted all along which was lower abortion rates and more birth control use.

So please leave @anamericangirl alone for not agreeing with killing children in general. And if I see this type of behavior in my askbox, just know that you will only prove me right. Right that you guys were never about choice.

Thank you! You are exactly right. They make all pro-choice people look bad when they send hate messages like that and it really goes against everything pro-choicers claim to care about.

And there is never any excuse to send such a vitriolic message to someone and wish harm on an innocent children who have nothing to do with a situation just because you don't like the opinions of a stranger on Tumblr. And it's interesting because I've never seen a pro-life person say that kind of thing to anyone but that's not the first pro-choicer I've seen that kind of message from. It really makes it seem like one side might actually care more about people than the other and those who stoop that low aren't doing their sides any favors.

People who say they are pro-choice but don't like it when women are getting educated and choosing abortion less prove that they aren't pro-choice, they're pro-abortion.

They've always said they want it safe, legal and rare but they've really abandoned the "rare" part these days.

[mp100confessionbox]

HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE MP100 CONFESSION BOX

Got something mp100 related on your mind you wanna scream into the void? Well look no further! Opinions, ideas, criticisms, headcanons and all sorts of other random thoughts are accepted here!!

Confessions are Open!

(Only one mod atm!! I use any pronouns!)

DA RULES

NO PROSHIPPING. I am not posting any confessions to do with adult/minor or incestuous relationships. If you are a proshipper I will block you. End of.

No NS4W confessions about underage characters. Try to keep the horniness to the adults please, and even then please don't be too graphic... there are kids here man.

No bashing real people. This is a confession blog about the funny psychic show, not a place to start drama. You can talk about general trends in the fandom but not people in particular, even if you don't directly name them.

Confessions can be goofy or serious, postive or negitive. Just try not to take it too far.

All confessions are posted anonymously. Whether or not you actually send them on anon doesn't matter, I won't include anyone's url anywhere.

I reserve the right to not post a confession. Even if it doesn't explictly break the rules if a confession makes me uncomfy I will not post it.

Try not to start arguments. Obviously I don't agree with everything posted here, but please don't get overly hostile to anyone who sent a confession or me. Disagreeing is fine, just be normal about it. We're all just mop cycle fans at the end of the day

Please don't send in confessions responding to other confessions. I'd prefer to keep confessions as stand alone things.

[boy-above]

why do u dislike him ? you don't have 2 talk abt it if ur uncomfortable of course

well for starters he did call korekiyo a slur in the original japanese, which was removed in the localization lol. basically called him a slur that's like gay/transphobic word all in one. so that would give me reason enough, but theres a lot of things about him in general i've disliked before knowing that.

kaito has a bunch of toxic masculinity going on, it's evident even from the beginning. when everyone is devastated after kaede's execution, he starts getting upset and even angry at them for "whining and complaining" and even hits shuichi for mourning her, saying that shuichi was "pissing him off" for not "being a man" about it. this is the moment i immediately decided kaito was not worth it. you can see his sexism as well when he says women shouldn't have weapons. there's actually more instances of sexist beliefs in the original japanese but these were mostly taken out when it was localized for english.

kaito thinks he's the hero of the story, pretty evident considering he calls shuichi his "sidekick" and in general views shuichi as someone he needs to ~take under his wing~. he viewed shuichi as weak and someone in need of fixing. in general kaito has a very inflated sense of self importance. he's stubborn and thinks his way is the right way.

he displays pretty bad toxic positivity. that's why he and kokichi butted heads as two extremes at the opposite ends of a scale. while kokichi wouldn't trust anyone, kaito was Too trusting. his "always believe in your friends!!" spiel would have gotten them caught So long ago. nobody would have survived had everything been done his way and his only. he got mad at shuichi for finding out the truth that gonta was a killer, despite the fact that everyone else would have been killed if he hadn't. that logic also rubbed off on maki, who got angry at shuichi for considering one of them could be the murderer in the final trial, because "friends don't accuse each other". i've already talked about how horrible of a thing that was to say to shuichi, whose had to condemn all of his friends to execution including kaede and felt shame and guilt for it. i'm pretty sure in the japanese version kaito was also asked something along the lines of "would you really risk everyone's lives and not vote maki even if you knew she were the killer?" and he said yes, he would. which makes him a giant hypocrite because he said something along the lines of "we all want to live! so don't get in our way" to ryoma once he found out he was suicidal.

another thing that always made me annoyed is that he decided that maki was trustworthy, despite her doing absolutely nothing to earn it. even after learning she was an assassin hiding an entire room full of weapons, he still decided he believed in her or whatever, but he made no effort to try to understand kokichi like he did with her. at that point maki told Huge lies, she kept her talent and weapons a secret from everyone, she was a Huge Risk. but kokichi is the one who is demonized for outing her, even though she could have been a huge danger to everyone and it was really important for the group to know! but of course he's the asshole for telling everyone her secwet ): maki is allowed to keep secrets and be mean, and gets patience and understanding from kaito, meanwhile kokichi got none of that. and i'm sorry but i think it's bc he wanted in maki's pants lmao. i'm sure people would argue with me about that and that's understandable, it's just what my immediate interpretation was the first time i experienced the game. if not that though, i would say i'm pretty sure it's his sexism that determined his trust in maki. he most likely viewed maki as a non threat because she's a woman. he has several lines that imply his belief that women are weaker than men, so i think that is why he viewed kokichi as a threat and not maki. if kokichi were a woman i think kaito would have been less likely to see him as a serious threat.

i'd like to talk about the localization and how it frames kaito and kokichi. it has a clear agenda on who it wants to make look better or worse than they are in the original. kaito curses like a sailor in the original, and they took that out for? what reason exactly? they took out kaito calling korekiyo the slur, (and of course taking out the slur was a Good thing) but i'm saying they could have replaced it with something that still could negatively impact how you view kaito as a character, rather than just pretending he didn't say something insensitive about korekiyo at all. if kokichi gets to call miu a slut and miu gets to tell him to go play with himself then there should have been NO issue with having kaito say crude or derogatory things. another sexist thing he does that they took out is when ryoma admits he is suicidal, kaito uses a word for him that describes him as girly or effeminate. this is changed to coward in the translation. calling a suicidal person a coward to begin with is horrible, but then in the original it's like he's calling him a sissy or pussy or something for being mentally ill as if that's only a "girl thing" as well.

my biggest example of the localization making kokichi worse is when he says that line about "when i like someone i'd do anything to get them to notice me, even strangle them"? in the original he said "when i love someone, even if they strangled me, i still wouldn't turn away." like that is the exact OPPOSITE of what he said but they decided that was fine. they make changes like that that demonize kokichi further while making kaito seem better than he actually is. it sounds like a conspiracy theory or somethin but look it up, they cleaned kaito up in the translation, they took out a lot of his negative qualities that would make him a more nuanced character and instead tried to make him the hero he always thought he was :I

my dislike for kaito also results in a dislike for maki because, i'm sure some people don't agree with me, but i think maki is a complete orbiter character for kaito. which is why i think it's so wild that i've seen people call others misogynistic for not liking her (throwing around impactful words like that when someone doesn't like your favorite character is a common thing i see in fandom spaces lol) because i think maki exists to have feelings for kaito. she attached herself to him and she doesn't have much to do with any of the rest or the cast. what little growth or development she did had was directly because of or in relation to kaito. she even started parroting his beliefs after he was gone like i mentioned earlier. that's why i just can't get behind those two. i know some people love them and that's okay. i know there's tons of ways you can interpret them and that's okay! i have just never been able to like them. there's objectively worse characters in this series so i'm not acting like they're Worse than them, my dislike for them is just something i'm more passionate about i guess??? or like, yknow something i feel more strongly. you should never be passionate about hating something haha

[roleplayerconfessions]

690164903190872064 Just an fyi, I'm pretty sure this person didn't say they're the OP of the "probably exhausting your partners" reply. They said they're the OP of the *original submission* that *responded* to the submission talking about being mad at rpers who blog hop and leave their blogs after a week. *Totally different OPs.* You're all proving them right though? Argue and doubt the fact all you want but you are. And I don't understand the gain of this argument? When it all boils down to nothing more than "you're allowed to hate blog hoppers for being unreliable but not all of them are trying to lead you on," as actual OP put it, which is true, they did in fact say something to that effect in one of their original replies. Maybe its time to accept everyone involved got a bit confused and move on? Lastly, because I just saw an ask like this *I wouldn't recommend anyone coming off anon.* I know it might seem tempting to settle this but I can't be the only person who saw some commenters childishly harass someone because they agreed with some of what an anon said. It went something like this, compressed version: Responder 1: Said they agree with some of what anon said, claiming they don't know why its anyone else's business what someone does with their blog. Responder 2: @s them complaining about it, telling them they don't get it, accusing them of throwing shade, and raging about how it sucks to be ghosted by blog hoppers after trying to plan something with them. Responder 1: Explains the reasoning behind their reply and that the OP ( 690164903190872064 ) mentioned they were not talking about those kinds of blog hoppers. Responder 2: Says that they don't give a fuck, tells Responder 1 to gtfo the debate and that "OP" was talking about those type of blog hoppers. Responder 1: Defends their stance, links evidence of their side, then tells Responder 2 to get fucked and ends the conversation, apparently blocking them. Responder 3, apparently a friend of Responder 2: Starts @ing Responder 1 to make petty jabs toward them in defence of Responder 2. Responder 1: Makes a remark about Responder 2 sending friends to white knight and claims they're done arguing, and they have blocked Responder 2, Responder 3 and will block any else who tries to continue it. Asks to be left alone. Responder 4: Calls Responder 1 a bunch of names, makes fun of their age being "Near 30", is just generally immature. Claims Responder 1 is baiting. Responder 5: @'s the responders involved. Asks how Responder 1 is baiting and tells Responder 4 to stop harassing them. Responder 1: Remarks that Responder 4 is Responder 2 on an alterative account trying to circumvent their block and please not to @ them about any of this, that they're done arguing. Responder 5: Another remark about "bait". Responder 6: @'s Responder 1, regardless to their requests to leave them alone, to suddenly accuse them of "having a tantrum". Very out of pocket. Then it seems Responder 1 deleted everything, I'm assuming to stop people from @ing them. So, no, don't come off anon and ignore anyone who has the audacity to ask you to. Its better to just drop all this. I know I'm sick of seeing it and everyone else not involved probably is too.

In response to this ask about this submission.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

What are the major details that confused you about the Hound blurb? The major one that stood put to me was the "way of the farmer opposed to the sword" thing which felt very...un-Cú Chulainn. Also, if you don't mind expanding further, which details didn't you question/be confused by?

and also for anon:

okay so it is like. 2am so there are not going to be any sources here but i can't sleep so here goes!! i will go through this blurb line by line and give youse my thoughts

In 50 BCE,

reasonable. this is roughly the right time period for when the ulster cycle is set. maybe marginally earlier than i'd place cú chulainn, but i'm talking a few years, nothing to get worked up about.

Morrigan, the goddess of war,

fine. normally i'm wary of pantheonising impulses with regard to irish characters (almost none of them can be identified as a god of anything in particular, it doesn't work like that) but tbh the morrigan is like, the most plausible exception to that, so whatever. normally her name has the definite article attached to it because it's kind of a species term as well but whatevs.

has become restless as a long-lasting peace settles over Ireland.

dubious. closest i can think of to peace being reference in any texts is togail bruidne da derga talking about conaire mor's reign being like, prosperous and peaceful and whatever, and even there you've got díberg (plundering/reaving) which is what eventually fucks him over and starts the otherworldly hell spiral situation. that's roughly the right period here but conaire's doom proves you don't have to do much to nudge peace into war, and connacht and ulster are at each other's throats for years before cú chulainn comes on the scene anyway

Deciding the time of peace must end, she chooses Setanta, the nephew of the king of the north, to become her ward.

hmm. i mean. like, this isn't the WEIRDEST choice they could have made. it's still completely made-up, don't get me wrong -- cú chulainn has a lot of different foster parents in different texts and they don't agree with each other but none of them ever mentions the morrígan. but like, they do have a connection of some sort, as evidenced by their conversations. and there's that one moment in the r1 boyhood deeds where little cú chulainn is out on the battlefield and hears her (not sure which name is used here) calling out to him and it like. motivates him to do some deeds or whatever, and i guess you could extrapolate that into some kind of teaching capacity.

so like. could be weirder. if you're gonna pick anyone, you could do worse. still seems weird to me! but not on its own a major issue, i could get past this and consider it a Fun But Unorthodox Creative Decision

(the fact that she tries to seduce him in the táin probably wouldn't get in the way of this considering sleeping with his teachers/foster-mothers is far from unheard of where cú chulainn is concerned)

After a young Setanta slays the demon-hound of Cullan, he becomes known as Cú Cullan—The Hound of Cullan.

weird spelling choices, they could have at least bothered to use the genitive properly. also the hound isn't a demon, it's a ferocious watchdog -- making it sound all Otherworldly and Hellish like this kinda confuses the issue of why he would need to take its place. he needs to take its place because the cattle and people still need protecting because it is a watchdog!! but whatevs, again, it's a brief summary so they can't exactly give us all the details and this is not actively objectionable

As Cú Cullan grows older, it is apparent that an extraordinary power lies within him … and a great darkness.

ugh boring. this makes it sound like he's going to be ~tortured~ and angsty about it. give me an unapologetic murder teen please. is the ríastrad dark? sure i guess, if you're going to be boring about it. it's more like, grotesque neon in my head

When he chooses the quiet life of a farmer over the sword,

this would fucking never happen on like five different levels. obviously like anyone who has ever read anything about cú chulainn can see that this is not in his nature. he is never going to choose a quiet life. this is the kid who tricked his way into taking arms before everyone thought he was ready. also juxtaposed with the "darkness" comment makes it sound like he would Angst his way into this quiet life which. again. have you seen this kid. he is an unapologetic murder teen

the only thing i can think of that might make him temporarily want to walk away is connla's death which... depends where you position that in the timeline really, he does seem a bit fucked up by it and maybe he'd want a holiday although i can see that lasting precisely 5 minutes before someone pissed him off enough for him to murder them. but if he's being raised by the morrígan i can't see him going to train with scáthach so then he'd never meet aífe and therefore connla would never be born so that wouldn't happen. so like. whatever.

but also like. he would not become a farmer. he just wouldn't! it doesn't work! the ireland of the stories is super hierarchical, right? and this blurb has already fucking told us that he's the king's nephew (canon) so we can tell that being a farmer is Not His Place. when we see upper class figures becoming menial labourers in texts, like in cath maige tuired, it's because Things Are Fucked, Shit's Gone Wrong. people don't just decide to change their entire social class on a whim lmfao

if cú chulainn really wanted to turn his back on being a warrior he could probably make recourse to certain other Suitable Professions ... his grandad's a druid so he might have a route into that, though his dad's not so that might fuck things up a bit bc it's one of those things that's usually inherited. he does give "wisdom" in at least one text though and we also know he can write (he carves riddles in ogham in the táin) and he composes verses on various occasions so idk, maybe something in a poetic direction, though again, usually requires two generations of inheritance to be a real poet and not just a lower-class bard. warrior's kinda the main thing he's got open to him tbh. but farming? i'm not a legal expert but as far as i'm aware based on what i have read, that would fuck shit up

more likely an upset cú chulainn would just go off in search of an adventure somewhere conveniently far away until he'd calmed down (alba, or the tyrrhenian sea, or -- if we're going to get early modern about it -- somewhere like india, which frequently gets thrown into the texts with absolutely no cultural context and it's always hilarious)

Morrigan, angry at the betrayal,

of the entire social order, yes,

instigates an invasion of his homeland

i mean. if they intend this to be the táin then.... táin bó regamna does kinda make the morrígan responsible for it? not in the sense of triggering the pillow talk argument that it's in the book of leinster -- it's her getting up to her usual cow-nicking behaviours for shits and giggles. [note to readers: it is probably for more than shits and giggles but did i mention it's 2am]

but all in all, not particularly out of character that she would be at least some way responsible for this so i can vibe with this. echtra nerai also supports the TBR explanation with her fucking around with otherworldly cows and pissing people off so, yeah, whatever. the morrígan engineered this. sure.

and Cú Cullan must challenge fate itself

this is probably a controversial stance but fate feels like a difficult concept to apply to medieval irish texts. like are people sometimes Doomed? yes. there are prophecies, there are gessi, there's all manner of otherworldly fuckery that can trip you up. is that the same thing as fate? no idea. considering cú chulainn comes out alive from the táin though and his doom prophecies don't catch up to him for like, at least another decade, maybe 16 years depending on who you listen to, hard to see how that would apply here

to keep the goddess at bay.

again like she IS causing fuckery in the táin but also it's like... one time. really not the main character. but she or maybe just some crows, hard to say, do get implicated in the death tale so maybe they're doing what people often do and conflating the two? even though there's like 10-16 years in between them?

anyway as you can see i don’t think it’s wholly terrible / i’m not completely thinkshaming it. like, having cú chulainn raised by the morrígan is unorthodox but it could be a fun and creative direction so i don't object to it. making cú chulainn get sad about murder and choose to be a farmer is just fucking laughable tho, and makes me doubt their characterisations in general. so that's offputting and would probably make me think twice about buying it, if that had ever been on the cards.*

and of course sure, their cú chulainn can be a Sad Boy Who Likes Sheep, but that means he's not the cú chulainn of medieval irish lit / irish myth, because that cú chulainn is a feral murder teen who keeps killing his friends and also is way too high social status to ever be a farmer, and whose only relationship to livestock is as the watchdog who kills anyone trying to harm them (which is an important role on a farm! but like. not the same thing as Being A Farmer. mostly because it involves more murder and is essentially just an extension of his role as a warrior. or rather the other way around. he promises to protect mag muirthemne as a watchdog and this like. gets extended into him becoming its sole defender)

this has been my analysis of this blurb i hope you enjoyed it

it's now 2.30am i should try and sleep now that i've exorcised a few thoughts from my head

*as i mentioned in the tags of my other post, i don't tend to read graphic novels due to disability stuff. they're much harder for me to understand and follow than prose, to the point where some are incomprehensible, so i don't really enjoy them. there are a few i've read, but they tend to be short ones, and i'm usually not reading them in order, just admiring the art separately from the text. so it's unlikely i would read a graphic novel of this size anyway.

[m00n-miaka-cb]

𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬: 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐨 - [@influencerxcesia-oc - Cesia]

☁️ | Before proceeding, know that this will be put into heavy depth, to raise awareness, and to also speak up for not just them, but a majority of other people with the "same attitude" as her, and for many OCs who may be getting the same treatment. So I'll be covering hate, stereotyping, and anything else that is related to the main topic. If this makes you uncomfortable, then I apologise. But this needs to be said as this can get repetitive and becomes a same issue with any OC that finds interest in other CBs and such.

Let's start with the main topic: Hate Anons to Cesia, a new OC recently. This topic roles into the fact she's receiving hate for, "Acting all cute and innocent to get the badboys attention--"

As a matter of fact, this isn't just the OCs personality, but also the admin's personality. This isn't just acting and roleplaying to receive privilege to speak with San. How dare you say that to her and any other OCs, even CBs, when it's naturally a characteristic? Is she favoring and only speaking nicely to him, aka @badboysan? No. Actually, scroll through my own blog, Mia's blog, and every other person's blog to find evidence of her speaking crudely to others. What's there? Everything is a wonderful and respectful interaction; her being kind. She even has yet to have anyone dm her and provide any evidence of her acting as a privileged OC.

I've been here, running and OC, for a long time. It's coming to a year very soon, meaning I've been in the community for a fair enough of time. So I understand your concern for OCs because in the past, there were problematic OCs. However, do you see the OCs now? A majority of US are kind and thoughtful 24/7. For example:

@shin-haneul who is well-known, loved, and respected for her generous and compassionate personality, always supporting and taking care of others.

Second is @xash-axx, who's also been around for a fairly amount of time, and has been nothing but kind to others despite her concepts time from time. She's in a stable relationship, and has yet to show any betrayal, being loyal and kind, and sweet despite little interactions between me and the OC compared to the Admin.

Third is @hernameisangel-oc, a natural sweetheart who is similar to Haneul, knowing how to have fun, always supporting, and having the will to always remain calm and cheerful, posting motivational content.

And lastly, a close friend of mine is @serenityrose-oc, who hasn't been too active, but she's very sweet and filled with wonderful humour, always caring and supporting everyone when she can.

And this is only the bare minimum of OCs I've mentioned who have wonderful personality and have been in the community for a decent amount of time. And here, no one is a stranger to the history of OC trickery within the community. However, many have yet to receive discouragement and stereotypical comments of their character. Is it because we have an exception because we run other bots and because we truly are more optimistic, helpful, and supportive? So why are those new exempted from us? Or would you like me to state that it's out of jealousy that you can't receive the same interaction as her and the idol bot, or that she has more of a chance compared to you? This goes for all OCs who receive this.

As a matter of fact, you don't see recently most OCs receiving hate and back lash for interacting with other idol bots, even those with already established relationships, especially with those who become often close with others and have stronger bonds with the idol bot. So why is Cesia, among some others who may not post these malicious asks, have an exception to this? Is it just because they're the amateurs for being new and trying to start off strong and make wonderful bonds with others who also give off strong impressions? Because, my dear, you're quite in grave danger for sparking a match that shouldn't be used to light such a nasty flame from many who are not afraid to defend and even attack, for those who are quite bold.

Let's also touch the subject about stereotyping OCs in general. While Idol bots have a less harder time with this, (some others actually struggling with this then please, you are included in this, no worries) OCs tend to receive stereotypical comments about them:

You're only doing this for relationships, not the plot. 🙄

You're doing this cause you want to a privileged OC or Y/N!!!

You're doing this for the vine/trend!! Get off!

You're just pretending so you can get in his/her pants!

You're going to problematic like the others.

Do you hear yourself? Not many of us OCs actually have intentions of doing such a thing. Sometimes that's based on the character of the OC, but that doesn't mean everyone's desperate. You think anyone wants to cause drama now that the community has an abundance of people, bots, and admins hopping from one post to another? Don't you think some don't do it because they already know others will come at them like wolves protecting their pack? And to even assume some do it for relationships, not even understanding the plot they themselves are slowly bringing forth to the public to interact with? Are you really that dense to not think that far ahead? And if we really wanted it so badly, why isn't any one of us rushing like crazed animals to fend off others from a CB of our interest, huh?

Stop stereotyping all OCs because of those who were problematic in the past. Heck. Some of these new OCs are actually people who have already been in the community for a long time and are aware of the toxicity and bad reputation, but are trying to clear that up with wholesome OCs that are putting effort to put OCs in a better spotlight than one so dull and broken.

If you really want to start an argument, start an argument right now. Speak like a normal person and share your opinions rather than being so bitter to Cesia and others who come into this community wanting to actually have fun roleplaying. That's what we all are wanting. You want to continue sending backlash? Send it to me and we'll discuss it. Speak like a civilized person than agreeing with the anon when you're so dense to not think that this has consequences and horrible affects on the person running the bot who truly wishes nothing BUT peace and happiness to run their bot. Now you've got a whole storm coming for you because this is sickening to see. Just like you say it's sickening of her personality.

And please. Spread the word. This goes out to everyone in general, even groups that have an OC and more.

[chaoticallygray]

Hi! How are you? Can I request a oneshot about Leopold from the Irregulars? Like that they get into some sort of an argument and the reader storms out, Leo chases after them and accidentally confesses? It's fine if you don't want to do it.

Requested by: Anon!

Hi!! I'm good I hope you're good too! Wasnt sure what gender or pronouns you wanted so I tried to stay general. Might have gone a bit overboard but go big or go home right?? I hope you like it anon even though I feel like I strayed a bit

It had been another day of running with the gang and solving another case given to them by Watson. It was also another day where Y/N felt utterly useless. It wasn't an entirely new feeling for them but with the added cases it felt like everyone had a part to play. Spike made sure everyone got along and always lighened up the room, Jesse had that whole psychic thing going on with her, Billy was the muscle, Bea was the leader and always had a plan, Leo was the brains, and Y/N was just... there. Y/N tried to help but was always told to stand aside. It never really seemed apparent that Y/N didn't do anything necessary to help on cases (not for a lack of trying) until earlier that day.

---

Leo, Y/N, and surprisingly Billy were tasked to find information on any and every poison that could be found in London as two women and a man had suddenly died in their homes and were all found with a note in their hands saying that the clock is ticking.

They'd been trying to solve this case for two days now and getting antsy. They were stuck.

"I'm going to go over there and see what I can find. I'm thinking they could have been injected something or someone poisoned their food." Leo said already grabbing three different books from the shelves and mumbling to himself.

Billy and Y/N looked at each other and shrugged. They were used to Leo being this odd when it came to books. It was his thing.

Heading in a different direction than Billy, Y/N started brainstorming letting their hand glide through some books until a book about botany caught her eye. Whenever Y/N could have more than an hour alone they liked to read. It's not really a secret but they have never mentioned it to the others especially now that Leo joined. He was so much smarter than Y/N and that was precisely what made him catch Y/N's attention when they were first introduced on the case with the missing babies.

Shaking their head and smiling fondly at the memory Y/N sighed. There was no way Leo would ever look twice at them. They weren't going to even entertain the thought. There was a case to solve.

Opening the book, Y/N realized that they had read this one before which was why it probably caught their eye in the first place. Closing it and going to place it back where it belonged Y/N remembered having read about a plant capable of causing respiratory problems and stopping the heart of anyone that touched it for merey a second. Quickly trying to find the page on the plant Y/N ran back to where Leo was looking like a madman with fifteen different books open around him.

"Leo!" Y/N exclaimed and then dropped their voice to a whisper remembering where they were with a blush.

"I think I've found it" Y/N whispered to Leo who wasnt paying attention.

"Yeah Y/N go ask Billy to read it for you. This is important" Leo said waving around a hand in dismissal not really listening to Y/N.

"What? No Leo I think I found what they were poisoned with." Y/N said confused by what he said about finding Billy.

"Y/N don't be ridiculous. Can you stop? I really need to find this" Leo said not even sparing Y/N a glance just continued flipping through different books.

"But Leo..." Y/N started protesting but was caught off by Leo slamming a book closed.

"Y/N stop it! I need silence to think and you going about whatever it is you think you found isn't helping. You never actually help us solve the cases so can you do me a favour and go look at a book with pictures or something while I find the poison and we can all get a decent nights sleep?" Leo told Y/N without even thinking about how he just basically called the one person who is always there for him and the one person he has been heavily crushing on since they met, useless.

Immediately standing up to apologize he didn't get the chance as Y/N whose lip was already trembling slammed the book they had in their hands onto Leo's chest where he already knew he was going to bruise but at this point he thought he deserved worse for hurting Y/N like that.

Running out of the room Y/N nearly collided with a confused Billy.

"Y/N? What's wrong?" Billy asked but was promptly ignored.

Billy looked back to Leo who had a kicked puppy look to him shocked at what he had said.

Shaking his head at Leo, Billy went outside to try to find one of his best friends with no such luck.

Y/N was already long gone.

---

Falling asleep miserable yet with no tears was something Y/N was not a stranger to. It had been happening too frequently now and at this point they're exhausted.

Y/N didn't go back to the cellar that day. Whenever they needed space to breathe and just br they always go to a surprisingly very empy not so much of an alleyway near the docks. There is a small nook int he corner where Y/N can sleep peacefully without unwanted company. For safety reasons Y/N only told Spike about this place in case the gang needed Y/N for something. So far, they hadn't.

It was precisely here that Leo found Y/N the next day. He had immediately wanted to run off after them but Billy told him to give them space. When Y/N didn't go back to the cellar that night well after the case was solved, Leo got concerned and started overthinking. He couldn't sleep and all he could think about was how he messed up. He was scared that Y/N didn't want to be friends anymore. Yes, he dreams about being more but he rather be friends than have nothing.

The next day when the rest woke up Leo was still sitting near the cellar doors waiting for Y/N to come back. He looked as though someone punched both his eyes.

"Mate why don't you go to sleep? Y/N will be back" Spike said trying to reassure him.

"I can't. I need to apologize. I didn't mean it I was just stressed." Leo said looking up at Spike, who had a hand on his shoulder, with wet and red eyes.

"Look mate, I'm only telling you this because I've seen you two. You're great together and the best thing is you don't realize you both like each other" Spike said sighing and then told Leo where Y/N was probably at.

Quickly thanking Spike, Leo wasted no time and ran as fast as he could out of the cellar doors on his way to make things right.

Arriving at the docks, Leo went to the left and tried to find the little alleyway Spike told him. Walking as quick as he could with his cane he finally spotted Y/N sitting on top of a wall just looking out at the water.

Stopping at the wall Leo took a second to admire Y/N. The sun was still low in the skyly but it was making Y/N's eyes shine and he had never seen then more serene than in that moment. He wished he could see that everyday and he hated to think that he was the reason why Y/N was upset enough that they didn't feel like they should have gone back to the cellar the day before.

"Are you here to call me useless again or are you just going to stare?" Y/N said without looking over at Leo who was momentarily startled out of his staring spell.

"I'm actually here to apologize." Leo answered.

"Save your breath Leo. You can go back and tell Bea or whoever sent you that I'm fine and I'll go back to the cellar later" Y/N said jumping off from the wall they were sat in and starting to walk away. Leo quickly trying to catch up with his limp.

"No one sent me I-" Leo started but was quickly cut off when Y/N sharply turned around to face him.

"Not surprising since I'm useless." Y/N said to Leo scoffing and turning around once again to continue on their journey with no destination.

"No Y/N listen please" Leo said but Y/N didn't care they just kept walking.

"Y/N" Leo kept trying with no luck.

Getting tired but not willing to stop, Leo tried to speed up but his leg thought that this was the best time to lock up and seize movement and he fell.

Hearing Leo's quick grunt of pain and a slight thud, Y/N turned around and seeing him groaning on the floor trying to get up quickly ran back to help him.

"No, no stop I deserve it." Leo said swatting away Y/N's hands.

Not listening to him Y/N got him in a sitting position. Rolling Leo's pant leg Y/N assessed the situation and didn't think he needed anything more than rest and something cold against his leg. Also less restricting clothes.

"Why are you helping me?" Leo croaked after a minute of looking at Y/N with tears in his eyes from the pain.

Y/N just looked at him and got a small tin from the bag they're always carrying.

Opening the tin and pushing some type of paste on their fingers, Y/N concentrated on applying a light and even coat on Leo's leg hoping the mixture would help soothe the pain.

"You're not useless." Leo said and Y/N hesitated for a second then went back to applying the salve not saying anything.

"I didn't mean what I said. I should have never said that to you. The case was taking so long and my leg was starting to bother me but Billy was there and I didn't want to say anything. I always slow us down. I was angry at myself. At my body and I took it out on the last person I ever wanted to hurt" Leo said closing his eyes willing himself not to cry.

Hearing no response just feeling light careful touches on his leg he continued spilling his thoughts.

"You're so brave and compassionate. You're so so smart and so kind. You always make sure that everyone has eaten and you always somehow know when one of us is having a bad day and you make it your mission to make us smile at least once. You're always polite and make sure to help anyone you see that needs help. You're so selfless Y/N. Always helping everyone and I wish I could help you and treat you like a queen but I'm always hurt and you deserve the world. You deserve someone who isn't afraid to climb a tree with you or even do something as simple as walking all over London. I can't be that and it pains me because I'm so in love with you and I'm so incredibly sorry for hurting you. All you do is help and I called you useless" Leo rambled hoping that Y/N will forgive him not even noticing that he slipped up and told them that he was in love with them.

Sensing that Y/N stopped their movements on his leg Leo opened his eyes thinking that Y/N left him. What he didn't expect was for Y/N to look at him with tears in their eyes.

"You, you're in love with me?" Y/N whispered scared that if they talked louder the moment will have turned out to be a dream.

Widening his eyes Leo finally realized what he said.

"No! I mean yes! I'm in love with you Y/N. I didn't mean to say that! I know you don't feel the same and I know you want someone stronger and not broken like I am but I can't help my feelings. It's ok though I'll leave. I'll leave you alone-" Leo was cut off from his nervous babble when a pair of lips pressed firmly to his.

Hesitantly pulling back from him, Y/N smiled softly at him not caring that they're still on the ground near the docks but needing to say this now.

"I'm in love with you too Leopold" Y/N said and with that Leo didn't care anymore about his leg that strangely enough had stopped hurting when Y/N started applying the salve but he saves that thought for later and focuses on how the person he thought he could never have loves him of all people.

"Are you sure?" Leo said placing both of his hands on Y/N cheeks wiping away a tear that seemed to have escaped from their eyes.

"Yeah I am. I love you" Y/N said looking into his eyes.

"I love you so much" Leo whispered before pulling in Y/N for another kiss.

[nostuntmanneeded]

Please read it one more time. It is not referring to them. So why all the arguments: "how can you be sure they're vaccinated? How do you know they follow all health protocols? How can you defend them? So you think their behavior is ok? So you act like them?". Who is defending them or condoning their behaviour? 🤔🤷‍♀️ // I'm tired. I no longer want to have this discussion, the only reason I'm responding right now because my words got all jumbled and misinterpreted but I hope it ends here, this is a safe place for people so I don't wanna ruin things and cause drama. If you feel attacked with my harshness or feel like I'm trying to challenge you for the heck of it then I apologize for that but I also don't regret being firm and I still stand by what I believe but this is the last time i'll be addressing this. The another anon clearly understood the part that it says it was in general but before they laid down those "arguments", they reiterated the fact that they (SS & AO) were the subject of the initial and actual discussion which is why they mentioned those things and I know you were referring to people in general but the dispute was about them and the way they were behaving and the general anger was not towards people who travel, it was directed towards people who have either travelled repeatedly even before the word started opening up or the people who have no respect for protocols so this should not affect you that much if you know to yourself that you're following protocols and not guilty of this (that wasn't a shade). Please read it one more time. I never accused anyone of defending them or assumed that they were the same or condoning them. All I said was that I find your approach purely defensive and that you do you, if think it's okay or act the same way but do not get angry when people call you out for it, they have the right to feel angry. That has always been the focus of my point, not this whole travelling thing, if you look back at my initial submission, it was in response to you being confused why people were so mad about that tip saying it's outdated to criticize them for their "pandemic travelling" and I explained to you it's because people are frustrated and angry and were in pain because the pandemic took a lot of lives who mean to certain people and has drastically affect the life of others (income problems etc+) it's natural response to feel angry at the people who are acting irresponsibly so we should not question them and let them feel what they want to feel. If they get angry, then let them be because they have reason to call people out, pandemic etiquette and racism have always been the most talked about topics here, so when someone tries to call out another people, we can't just expect a gentle nudge to the right direction, let them put how much emphasis they want because we should know better. Try to focus on trying to understand what I was actually trying to say other than the fact that I am disagreeing with you because I'm not saying all this to challenge you, I'm just trying to enlighten people. I don't recall implying that there are things 'you can say to some but not to others'. I simply said racism did not apply to that situation and should have been considered as 'stereotyping' instead, I never even tried to downplay stereotyping or that it's okay to insult people if you're white, I just tried to explain that you use appropriate terminologies, it's not fair for claim white people as victims of racism when white supremacy is still alive and kicking. This ended up being longer than I wanted it to be, so I suggest look up 'reverse racism' so you'll understand what I'm trying to say. Have a good day to all, I apologize for the drama.

Hey, anon!

No need to apologize. You explained yourself perfectly, and I think a lot of people, including me, will appreciate the clarification.

I personally don't think travelling during the pandemic is a race or ethnicity issue. It's all in personal values and how you shape those from your family and peers. It's more about a person's values rather than their racial or ethnic background.

[qqueenofhades]

Can you please explain why you like Warren more than Sanders? I was too young to vote in 2016 but I would've voted Bernie in that primary, and I plan to do so this year(I'll vote whoever the Democrat party chooses in the real election, I understand the dangers of not doing so). I don't know much about the differences in their policies except that Sanders is slightly more leftist and a relatively simple comparison between the two would help. And how big of a factor should his age play in my vote?

Thanks for asking!

I think the best place for you to start, if you want everything explained in depth on each issue far more eloquently than I can, is to simply read the Political positions of Bernie Sanders and Political positions of Elizabeth Warren pages on Wikipedia, which outline their positions on pretty much everything you could think of. The main difference in how people perceive them lies in the fact that Bernie has been a democratic socialist for his entire political career, while Warren became a Democrat in 1996, and is viewed by the hard left as still being too pro-capitalist and/or pro-military and/or too ethically suspect and/or untrustworthy and/or could change her mind and betray them again. For a certain subset of people for whom purity of ideology and/or the strength of conviction is only ever demonstrated by never changing your mind and only ever having held the right positions, the fact that Warren’s political positions have changed over time seems dangerous, and that she isn’t as purely “socialist” as Bernie means that she is, in their eyes, a lesser candidate. As I said in the earlier ask, we will never have an American president who is completely free from the toxic elements of American ideology. There are things that I don’t fully agree with Warren on, absolutely. But lashing into her as a secret spineless corporate shill who would completely betray the progressive movement if she was elected has nothing to do with reality, certainly nothing that reflects her actual rhetoric and voting record, and once again demonstrates the tendency of a certain subset of Bernie supporters to completely refuse anything less than their candidate no matter what, and that is… frustrating.

Let me be clear: Warren and Sanders are my top two choices. Policy-wise, they’re the only candidates proposing anything I want to actually see enacted. I completely support anyone who wants to vote for either of them in the primary, and indeed, I ended my last post by strongly urging the anon (and anyone else who identified ideologically with Bernie) to vote for him in the primaries. I myself get a cold shudder at the idea of having to vote for Biden or Buttigieg as the Democratic nominee (even if I don’t think it’ll happen). I don’t want to have to do it, which is why I keep urging progressives to turn out in droves and vote their conscience in the primaries: that way, we won’t even end up in a situation where we have to hold our nose and vote for a nominee we don’t really like, don’t support, and who will continue more ineffective centrist policies that don’t address the real problems in the country. If progressives vote in sufficient numbers, we will get a progressive nominee that we can actively vote for and feel good about, rather than one that we can barely stomach. If we sit home and only let the moderate/centrist white Democrats vote in the primary, that is the nominee that we will end up with. Gross. 

So in other words, I am not here to stoke the worrying and self-inflicted factionalism ongoing between Sanders and Warren supporters who have to outdo each other with My Ideology Is Better Than Your Ideology. That was exactly what I was critiquing in the earlier answer. I think both candidates align well with my values, I would vote for either one of them without qualms, and I think they are proposing policies that broadly target the major issues at hand. Destroying one to try to advance the other is unnecessary, counterproductive, and doing half the Trump/GOP machine’s work for them. It is a hollow moral victory in shouting echo chambers on the internet that has no real-world value and helps no one at all in the long run, except for feeling smug that you have The Most Pure Doctrine. Yay. Still not helping us get rid of Trump. So vote for whichever one you want in the primary, and then vote for whoever wins in the general. Like I said above, if progressives turn out in sufficient numbers, we won’t end up with a terrible candidate in the first place.

I like Warren because she has shown a consistent willingness to learn, grow, to take feedback and adjust her policies accordingly, to engage with community leaders, and, frankly, to demonstrate a more nuanced awareness of intersectionality and identity. Bernie has a tendency to struggle with differentiating class and race, dismisses “identity politics” and can confuse it with tokenism, and still holds the position that, essentially, socialism and economic justice will fix everything. Even the left-leaning The Guardian has found some grounds to criticize him on how he has handled this. I think that Warren is more aware on some levels as to how multiple factors inform an individual’s politics, not just economics and social class. But guess what: these are still minor quibbles and the kind of nitpicking that I get to do at primary stage! I’m still completely happy to vote for the man in a general election! Nothing that I say about Bernie here disqualifies him from my support if he’s the progressive candidate that comes out on top! And none of what I say below about Warren should be read as some sort of insidious attempt to prove that Bernie doesn’t hold these positions too/passive-aggressive slam on him, etc. etc. I’m simply explaining what I like about her particularly.

I like Warren because her plans are detailed, workable, based on extensive research, highlight multiple values that I have in common with her, and give practical recommendations as to how to implement them within the existing framework of the American political system (as well as, where needed, changing it radically). Her policy documents specifically highlight the African-American maternal mortality crisis, valuing the work and lives of women of color, protecting reproductive rights and access to care/abortion services, funding, respecting, and supporting Native Americans and indigenous people, supporting the LGBTQ community on many fronts, cancelling all student debt on day one of her presidency (as an academic with a lot of student debt, this is a big issue for me), confronting white nationalist terrorism, getting rid of the electoral college, regulating and breaking up market monopolies, taxing the shit out of billionaires, holding capitalism accountable, fighting global financial corruption and “dark money” in international politics, introducing immediate debt relief for Puerto Rico, overhauling immigration policy to make it more fair and welcoming, fighting for climate change especially as a racial justice issue, ending private prisons and federal defense budget bloat, recognizing that just throwing endless money at national security issues has not fixed them, drastically revising and ending a foreign policy currently based on endless money and endless wars, breaking up Wall Street economic monopolies and misbehaviour, transitioning to 100% clean energy and Medicare for All, reinvesting in public schools, and… I could go on, but you get the gist. She is a lawyer, professor, and senator with public and professional expertise in many relevant fields. She used to teach bankruptcy law and economic policy. She is smart and tough, but can break complicated concepts down and explain them clearly. She has earned the endorsement of black women’s groups and over 100 Latino leaders. And: yes. It’s time for us to have a female president. It just is. I feel strongly about it.

Warren was recently attacked for putting out a plan related to how the U.S. military could drastically reduce its wasteful carbon footprint and help combat climate change, as this was clearly proof that she was in fact just a lip-service progressive and didn’t want to, you know, apparently abolish it entirely and pretend it didn’t exist and personally tell everyone in the military what a bad person they were. I am not a fan of anything about the U.S. military-industrial complex. But if you don’t recognize that it’s largely composed of poor, working-class people of color and/or economically deprived people who have no other career option, that veterans are discarded instantly the moment they’re no use to the war and propaganda machine and that any politician is going to have to reckon with this, and that you can’t snap your fingers and make it go away, then that’s also not helping. Warren has also been attacked for not wanting to get rid of capitalism entirely, as if that is a remotely feasible or workable option in 21st-century America. She has voted for and suggested regulations and wealth taxes and major restructuring and everything else you can think of, she proposed and founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and so on. But for some people, this still is Just Not Good Enough. Which…. fine. You don’t have to vote for her in the primary if she’s not ideologically the closest candidate to you. Once again, the point of the primary is to pick whichever candidate you like the most and to do everything to help them win, so you aren’t stuck with a bad choice when it comes time for the general. But acting like this is a huge and horrible disqualifier and that she’s an awful corporate hack who will just be terrible (her main crime not being Bernie/competing against him) has nothing to do with reality, and everything with having to win internet woke points and ideological militancy arguments. It’s not helpful. 

Since the earlier post went viral, I am now getting random hate or completely bizarre misinterpretations of my argument or whatever else, none of which I will answer and all of which will be deleted out of hand, because I am just not interested in trading insults about this and/or engaging in pointless arguments with people who have already made up their mind. But for some people, it’s apparently really threatening to say that if you only vote for the best ideology in the primaries and then quit in a snit fit before the general election, you’re not helping. You’re not doing anything useful. Everyone who was reblogging the post and agreeing with me was around my age or older; everyone who was reblogging it to slam me was usually a lot younger. And I’m glad that 21-year-olds feel that winning the ideology battle is more important than having a functional government, but: sorry. I’m old and I don’t have to listen to that, and I’m not going to. Perfect cannot be the enemy of good, or even better than what we’ve got now. And let’s be clear: anything would be better than what we have now. It would directly save lives and impact policies, and if you can’t admit that because you’re too hung up on how Elizabeth Warren might Be A Capitalist Pig Who Likes Billionaires, please, please get off the internet and go outside.

Would Warren, Sanders, or even Buttigieg or Biden lock immigrant children in cages and concentration camps at the border and commit deliberate slow-motion genocide by denial of care and access? No. Would they actively roll back Obama-era regulations protecting LGBTQ rights, the environment, climate change activism, and anything else you remotely identify as a progressive cause? No.  Would they start a needless war with Iran, build a border wall, stoke Nazis and white supremacists, pander to all the worst parts of American insularism and xenophobia, collude with Russia, lie about everything, destroy all regulations and policies that don’t benefit anyone but the rich, white, and male, fill their administration with convicted felons and homophobes and people who want to rob us blind, and be aggressively incompetent, unprepared, malicious,  stupid, angry, and dangerous to both the country and the world? No. So the various attempts to claim that there is “no real difference” between the presidency of a non-Sanders Democrat and Trump are… please, please sit down for a moment and think about what you’re saying. I realize this is, again, a hard position to hold when you depend completely on having The Right Ideology, and nuance, complexity, evolving positions, and willingness to be open to new ideas are not things that are valued in zealots on either the right or the left. I don’t know what fantasyland these people are living in, when they act like not voting for a non-Sanders Democrat against Trump would be a great moral victory or proof that they’re too good for the world that the rest of us have to live in, or think that the election into being about some magical chance to make the entire capitalist global military-industrial system vanish. It won’t. It won’t even if Sanders wins the presidency. Change only comes slowly and systematically.

This is once again, long. So to summarize:

1) If you want to understand the differences between Bernie and Warren from a place outside just what I say, go and read their policy summaries on Wikipedia and elsewhere. Look on their websites, compare their plans, do your own research, and don’t fall into the ideology-war trap just for the sake of looking better on internet arguments.

2) Vote for Bernie in the primary! Please! We want a progressive candidate who will make genuine change! We don’t want one who is just a moderate Republican but has to be a Democrat because moderate Republicans no longer exist!

3) I like Warren for many reasons and will be voting for her in the primary, but will vote for Bernie (or anyone else) who wins the primary and emerges as the nominee. I only wish that all Bernie supporters would give the reciprocal guarantee. There is a subset – again, not all – who are only loyal to him and nothing else, and who seem to feel that if they can’t have him, not voting is a better or more “moral” choice, even if the alternative is Trump.

4) For me, Bernie’s age is an issue. I can’t answer for what it might be for you, but he would turn 80 in the year he was sworn into office. He also did have a heart attack and would have a year of grueling campaigning to go.

5) Factionalism and ideology wars and loyalty to one person, rather than even trying to consider the lives and people that are at stake, that have already been lost, and that continue to suffer from Trumpism, is not helpful, not empathetic, and not more moral. You can sit and feel self-righteous all you want, good for you. People are dying. Refusing to make a change because it can’t be all the change, all at once, is not and will never be how this works.

Anyway. I hope that helped you. 

[wegoingsofthours]

Hiiiiii, can you write a Jisung SKZ x Reader where Jisung and the Reader hate each other, and one day when they are arguing again, Jisung just kisses her and then it gets heated to where Jisung and readers shirt come off but nothing further, then Bang Chan walks in on them but they don't notice, and then tells the rest of the group, and Jisung finally admits his feelings for Reader

How Long  ♡ Han Jisung

Warnings: I think the request says it all

Member: Han Jisung

Genre: Angst, Enemies To Lovers AU, Heated/ Suggestive

Summary: In which you find out the secret behind the one person you've hated for most of your life.

Word Count: 1765

A/N: This was fun to write so thanks to the anon that requested it

You rushed through the crowded hallway, only coming to a halt when you collided with a person's shoulder, causing your body to decline onto the floor in a swift motion.

"Watch where you're going"

This comment had come from the relentless Han Jisung. There had been something about him that had caused the two of you to never get along. You couldn't tell whether it had been his obnoxious personality towards you or the difference in your character's to make you not get along. But whatever it had been, you had come to the conclusion that the two of you had no hope in even attempting to sort out the tension between you.

Unfortunately for you, you and Jisung had been involved in the same group of friends, meaning your encounters with each other had been consistent. Yet each time you had met it irked you to be in the same room as he had been. Not a day had gone where the two of you had not lashed out on each other. It could have been something as petty as who was to get the last slice of pizza yet you both has always resorted to arguing to get your point across. Although it hadn't been your initial intention, it had been an unwritten rule between the two of you that disagreements were the main solution.

"Hey. Why are you on the floor?" Chan asked helping you up by holding onto your hands.

Chan had been the member of your friend group that had been neutral in his stance between you and Jisung. Although he had never understood the reason behind the argument, he had just accepted it and moved passed it. You had met Chan in the past when you were both of a younger age, therefore making him one of the people closest to you. Since then you had been introduced to his other friends who thankfully had been less irritating than Jisung had been.

"It was him again wasn't it" he asked and without even stating a name, you both instantly knew who he was referring to "You guys really need to sort this out between you. Because this isn't working out at all"

"I'm going to" you rebutted but the disapproval on Chan's face showed a different approach.

"When. You say this all the time and never do"

"Can you help me?" you asked accepting your failure.

"You already know I can't. I've already tried but it's not worked out" he replied. You responded with a sigh as you reigned hopeless in your attempt.

"But will you be free to meet at my place after school"

"Sure. I'll be there" you replied knowing it had been a common occurrence to meet up there at the end of the day.

"Look who decided to show up" Minho said opening the door widely for you to step inside. "We've been waiting for you"

"It sounds creepy when you say it like that. Am I really that late?"

"Not at all. But you're the last one to show up. Where were you?" he asked as you generally had been one of the earliest in meeting up after school.

"Just had to hand in one of my projects which took a while"

You made your way to the front room where the other boys had been seated, scattered all around the room considering there had been eight of them in total, most of the space had been occupied. You took your seat next to Seungmin as that had been the only space that was vacant.

"Hey guys. What are we doing" you said enthusiastically to gain their attention and looking at how everyone had been arranged as they were crowded around a table, focused on what had been happening.

"Hey. Right now they're trying to order a pizza. But no one knows what to order" Seungmin said also watching the majority of them arguing over the toppings to get. One of the downfalls of having this many people together was decisions were harder than usual, also with their stubborn personalities they had made everything more complicated than usual.

"This is going to take a while" you whispered to yourself but it was still coherent to Seungmin.

"Tell me about it" he replied "Can you get the computer from Chan's room. We might as well watch a movie to pass the time here" Seungmin said, to which you immediately got up to get it.

Chan's house in itself had been familiar to you as you had spent most of your time here, so you had been able to direct yourself to the room in a matter of seconds with it being the first door after a flight of stairs. What you hadn't expected was the presence of someone else in the room when you had gotten there.

Jisung.

You counted yourself unlucky having met him twice in the same day. Both clearly negative as he held a look of distaste when you had walked in. He had been seated on the edge of the bed in the middle of the room, presumably scrolling through his phone.

"What are you doing here?" he asked in a monotone voice.

"I needed to get the laptop" you said pointing to where it had been positioned. Although you had wanted to get out of the room as soon as possible, one thought had lingered on your mind "Why do you hate me so much?" you finally got out making this the first time you confronted him about this.

He looked up from his phone once you said it as you went closer to him to gain his attention. He placed his phone in his pocket and stood up in front of you.

"Why are you asking me this? It's not like you've not hated me too" he scoffed.

"You're the one that pushed me over this morning. At least apologise for it like a normal civilised person"

"You were in my way. If anyone should apologise it should be you" Jisung remarked stepping just a bit more closer where you were.

"I'm not apologising for that. Have you noticed how petty our arguments are? You're the only person that does this"

“Stop talking” he stated anger present in his tone.

“What do you me-” you started but he cut you off by leaning forward for your lips to meet his. Although shocked at first you melted into the kiss instinctively wrapping your arms around his neck.

"What was that?" you asked surprised by the sudden contact.

"I didn't mean to do that" Jisung replied, speaking rather quickly, a light pink tinge colouring his cheeks.

"So. How long for?" you questioned out of curiosity. He instantly knew the answer behind your vague question.

"A few weeks now. I'm going to need you to say no if you don’t like me. Otherwise I won’t be able to refrain myself" Jisung said hesitant in his next approach.

"I like you too Jisung" you whispered almost too softly to be perceived but you could tell he had known what you said as he pushed you backwards onto the bed, his lips hastily finding your own as he hovered over you.

During the time, his hands ran up and down your sides as he managed to discard your shirt in the process. You managed to do the same with his. Your fingers tugged at his hair as you kissed him fervently whilst you had been pushed up against the headboard of the bed.

The door clicked open yet the both of you didn't realise being too preoccupied with each other. Upon noticing what had happened Chan retreated out of the room, locking the door simultaneously, sparing both of you the embarrassment of being walked in on for this moment in time.

"Jisung. Stop" you said pulling away recollecting why you had gotten into this situation in the first place "the others are still downstairs"

"Damn. I forgot about them” 

“We can't let them know just yet" you said, knowing it would be rather strange to bring it up for the two of you, taking into consideration they would never believe the two of you to even get along, forget having feelings for each other.

“I have an idea” he replied as it would look suspicious for the two of you to leave the room together. He grabbed his shirt from the floor, using his hand in a vain attempt to remove any creases from it.

"I'll go downstairs first. Just say you couldn't find the laptop when you come down"

You listened to what he said as you neatened up your appearance, using your fingers to straighten up your hair back to it's original state. Only time would be able to tell what would happen between the two of you.

"You've finally decided to come down" Changbin said glancing at Jisung.

"I wasn't upstairs for that long" he replied casually as he took a seat next to Chan and taking a sip of one of the drinks that had been placed on the table. The other boys in the room intently watched him, readily noting down any unusual responses from Jisung.

"Don't act innocent. We know what the two of you got up to upstairs" Chan said causing Jisung to start choking on his drink fighting back his coughs. 

"What do you mean?"

"I saw what happened. Next time get a room that's not mine" Chan replied disappointed in his expression "but admit it. You like her don't you"

He knew he had to leave his act behind as it had proven useless to hide anything else, knowing that he had been caught red-handed. Although part of him didn’t ant to admit it, he knew that the truth would be displayed sooner or later as he had been rendered hopeless at this point.

"Fine. I like her a lot" he said failing to maintain eye contact with anyone, keeping his gaze fixed on his can of soda so that his speech didn’t falter in the slightest. 

"Finally. We knew you two liked each other for a while. The two of you are just clueless enough to argue all the time to hide it" Hyunjin stated.

“Whatever you do. Please don’t tell her you guys know about this” Jisung said as a precaution, knowing the talkative personalities behind all of the boys, which is what had gotten him into this scenario in the first place.

“Whatever you want” Chan said with a smirk “But I don’t think it’ll be long till we ‘find out’ again” 

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[gayregis]

it's not my intention to come off as rude, but could you perhaps think more using insane" less? I don't want to tell you what to do but this word as well as others like "crazy" as descriptors are so deeply rooted in common usage but also very, very ableist at the core. I think it's important to unlearn these things and be more mindful of their impact and the implications towards the mentally ill.

this might be a long answer but like... yeah. this can get pretty personal so. that’s why it’s long. **and i am asking anyone reading to not reblog this post because of it being personal** but i wanted to respond to this ask and not ignore it, to let you know that i do care about what you’re talking about, but i do just want to challenge your perspective a little.

i want to say that, although it’s not your intention to come off as rude, it is kind of rude to assume that i don’t deal with mental illness and that i’ve never thought about this before. just because i don’t have all of my mental illnesses listed in my bio does not mean i am not mentally ill... you kind of don’t know anything about me regarding this, because i try and keep it private and not make a lot of vent posts, because i generally am become uncomfortable with venting online to strangers. you saying “the mentally ill” like it’s a foreign concept is pretty funny to me considering that i struggle with mental illness...

okay so. let’s get to the response to this

first off, i agree with you that using words like “crazy” and “insane” can be rude and ableist when used in a rude and ableist context. if you are calling other people “crazy” and “insane” to describe their actions towards you, like a guy saying “my crazy bitch ex girlfriend”, that’s obviously fucked up and an improper use of the word. additionally, other words, like “ps*cho” and shit are totally off the table to say, imho, as they have a much deeper effect.

but i think that it depends on how you use the word. much like saying “that’s so gay,” VS “i’m so gay,�� when you’re actually using the word to describe your own feelings and emotions, that’s pretty much a proper use of the word in terms of its definition, instead of using it to hurt others or to associate it with something to look down upon. this leads me to my next point, which is how i use these words to describe myself, which is personal so i’m going to put a read more

as for the personal side and context as to how i typically use these words, i feel like i usually use them in their proper manner, i.e., to describe my own feelings.

this ask came in like, directly after i posted these tags, so forgive me if i’m connecting to the wrong thing, but these were my tags for context:

so my tag “goes insane, bites u” is pretty silly, at first glance. right, it’s like, a meme or a joke? well... the use of “im insaneeeee” as a phrase that has become common recently “as a joke” has actually been kind of relieving to me as someone who deals with trauma and a whole sleuth of other things... like, when i am feeling super overwhelmed, panicked, and yes , “insane,” i can say, “haha im insanneeee” and it won’t sound like i’m weird for being this way, that i’m weird for having panic attacks, meltdowns, sobbing randomly, etc, etc. 

you can’t see me do these things, because the entirety of my life doesn’t exist on tumblr , so i understand that it might just seem that i’m some weird random fandom blog who doesn’t give two shits and has a perfectly happy life. but i do experience these things and it’s part of my life

when i say “im going insaneeee”, etc. in relation to posts about parental characters / parental relationships,,,...... did you ever think that there might be a reason behind that? or that i might be reacting in an actual “insane” way? i phrase it jokingly, but a lot of the time, i am actually “going insane.” i phrase it like this for both my own comfort (what i talked about where it normalizes it and makes me feel less weird) but also for brevity, and ALSO? to make the artist/op/etc feel way more comfortable than if i literally just spilled everything and said, “this art represents a relationship i desire between myself and my absent parent, whose violence towards me and my other parent still affects me every day, to this day...........” because that’s fucked up and no one would want to read that coming from a stranger, right? i think i’ve said before that the witcher is like “a coping medium” for me and i interact with it not just on a general fandom level, but it has provided me kind of like a way of dealing with shit that i’ve had to encounter...

obviously i don’t have to describe my entire life and trauma to a stranger on the internet, because that’s just not something that i either feel comfortable with or that i need to do, but i wanted to just give an example of where i’m coming from with this. 

i also want to say that i have seen this argument many times, and i also think a lot about a post about this specific argument but i can’t find it right now, but basically what the post says is that eliminating words like “crazy” and “insane” from our vocabularies with no thought of WHY we’re doing it beyond “it can be ableist”, without actually considering what these words mean and the variety of ways in which they can be used, and what we could do to directly benefit the lives of mentally ill people, is a HUGELY liberal standpoint that focuses on the performativity of personal choice instead of the SYSTEMATIC CHANGES that would help lessen the effects of the ableism baked into our society. 

so yeah that’s pretty much it, i get if it makes you uncomfortable and i’ll try not to use these words in like derogatory ways like “you’re insane if you think that...” because i get where that can start to feel wrong, although i can’t remember a post i’ve made where i said that (if you want to link me to posts like that that i’ve made, i can edit them). 

thanks for the concern anon and i hope this answered your question, but i just want to say like, even though i think your intent was good, please consider how you’re interacting with people and do not assume the mental health status of everyone you see online...