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btw what theon went through is what thousands upon thousands upon thousands of slaves still go through in essos. so, do you still feel pity for the slavers that were crucified? do you still pity the slavers killed when daenerys freed the unsullied?
i ask these questions, and yet i know that there are still many people who believe that the violence against the slavers wasn’t justified, or believe that it was simply “too much” or “not fair.” truly… what an insane hill to die on.
maybe these people should spare more empathy for the formerly enslaved instead of wasting time making up excuses (that are not supported by the text) for why the slave masters' deaths were somehow not justified 🫶
#you guys will not believe how many people try to argue in favor of the slave masters#and the other side almost always ends up saying something along the lines of:#‘what if the slavers were just secretly good and were trying to end slavery? dany never gave them a fair trial 😡’#like w h a t tf#it’s always annoying when people make up bs excuses to hate on dany by MAKING UP things that are NOT in the text !!#honestly how am i supposed to argue against what ifs#actually i can do it too: what if all the slavers were actually all psychopaths who enjoyed brutally destroying other human beings?#my ‘what if’ at least has some textual support#i honestly do not know why these people are reading the books if they just wish to change one of the most important characters storyline#asoiaf fandom critical#daenerys targaryen#daenerys appreciation#pro daenerys#anti sansa stans#cause it’s always them at the scene of the crime 😭#poor sansa you’d hate ur stans they’re nasty manipulative liars (not all just to be clear)#formally enslaved includes dany btw#i honestly think that there is something wrong with people who make excuses for fictional slave masters
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I think about sjm trying to say this was about rhysand in acomaf. like did she read her own writing?? god it pisses me off so much😭 Feyre hadnt even met rhysand at this point im pretty sure plus the suriel directly implicates that it means tamlin “high lords manor” like goddamn feysanders rlly hunting for scraps to justify their shitty little retcon ship.
#acotar#tamlin#a court of thorns and roses#pro tamlin#sarah j maas#rhysand#anti rhysand#feyre#sjm#sjm critical#feysand#anti feysand#it takes a lot to annoy me with writing in books and sjm does it so effortlessly#I like the first acotar book but acomaf can die in a whole#everytime ppl say the suriel meant rhysand a fairy dies#i HATE rhysand so much#he’s genuinely a horrible person but some of yall collapse the second a hot male character is a ‘feminist’#rhysand is a performative feminist#at least tamlin actually cares about humans and y’know slavery#mr i cant enforce the ban rhysand can go DIE#he shoulve stayed dead in acowar
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Literally just block me if you don't wanna see my content 😂😂😂 it's literally that simple 😂😂 anti harassment my ass 😂😂😂😂 stay in your own communities if you don't wanna be part of ours 😂
#pro endo#endo friendly#plurality#plural#plural community#pluralgang#actually plural#anti radqueer#anti rq#ur fav is not#your fav is not#not a request#mod ore#And yeah I'm not afraid to use the block button either#Curate your online experience like a grown human instead of wasting your energy on something so ridiculous#Just made my first block on this blog! Feeling incredible <3
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does anyone else have entire concepts in their system, like alters with no physical form, theyre just an aesthetic or like something like kenopsia or space. but they still exist.
#we have the entire aesthetic of yamikawaii as an alter#we dont even like yamikawaii!!!#and figure started as an introject but then kinda became the concept of void/apathy/nothingness. a physical form was literally lost#also Barbiel. though he makes more sense as angels also have no physical form. not one human-bodied minds can comprehend at least.#he's literally just the dark angelcore aesthetic. angelgore???#system stuff#system#plural system#sysblr#median#median system#endo safe#pro endo#plural stuff#plural community#plural#plurality#actually plural#pluralgang
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So like... I don't have it in me to do IDs rn
It is almost 1am
And I have no mental energy. I will try to get to it later but . Aaa
REQUESTED BY: ANON!!
Left: werewolf4vampire / wwolf4vamp
Middle: vampire4werewolf / vamp4wwolf
Right: a general flag for werewolves/vampires who prefer to, or exclusively, date vampires/werewolves.
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Left: werewolf4werewolf / wwolf4wwolf
Right: wwolf4wwolf/vamp, for werewolves who prefer to, or exclusively, date vampires and other werewolves. (OR alternatively– vamp4wwolf/vamp, for vampires who prefer to, or exclusively, date werewolves and other vampires.)
#@ 🏳️🌈🎀 | FEEDING MY FLAGS TO SATAN!! ⚠️#@ 🏳️🌈🎀 | THEY SAY I'M NOTORIOUS (REQUESTED)!! ⚠️#x4x#mogai friendly#liom friendly#mogai safe#liom safe#lgbtq friendly#lgbtq safe#non-human#alterhumanity#transspecies#otherkin#nonhuman alters#vampirekin#werewolfkin#flags#mogai pride#liom#lgbtq#liom community#liom pride#actually liom#pro liom#liomogai#mogailiom#nonhuman#liom flag#lgbtq community
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I need a big pile of shiny objects to hoard and lie down on and guard. I need coins, jewelry, and all kinds of little treasures. I need a proper NEST damn it!!!
*sharp inhale*
How am I supposed to dragon in this economy?!?
#dragonkin#draconic#actually draconic#otherkin#alterhuman#not human#mythkin#endo safe#pro endo#sysmeds dni#antikin dni#dragonposting
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#conservative#libertarian#leftism is a mental illness#meme#accurate#nobody is going to take “human rights”#sadly there will be no nationwide abortion ban#stop being hysterical#trump actually prevents wars contrary to democrats#pro trump#republican#patriotism#Europeans for Trump#red wave#pro life#pro second amendment#pro health#god bless america
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Everytime I see someone in the PJO fandom make one of these lists where they count all of Luke's supposed "war crimes" I get the subtle urge to say fuck it and pull my constitution to apply to the gods. Because honestly? As someone who has read that thing in its entirety? The gods can't even survive the first page without breaking some pretty significant laws and rules in there. If we're doing unreasonable and bad faith lists of "crimes" for characters let's keep the energy up everyone!
#the constitution in questions is the german one btw#the Grundgesetz BABY#it's actually quite horrifying when you realize that the first section of laws in there all all about human rights tbh#also why the gods give me an ick#like fml I don't expect them to be squaky clean but don't go breaking base human rights my guys!#pjo#luke castellan#percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#luke castellan apologist#pro luke castellan#pjo fandom#german pjo fandom#grundgesetz
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Want to join a server that’s for nonhumans and respectful humans? I got the perfect server for you! 🐾Nonhuman Paradise🌺 is a server with fun QOTDs, a place to talk about your experiences as a nonhuman, talk about your ships, an adult only section, your own ramble channel and so much more!!
The server is for all ages, profic, paraphilia friendly, endo neutral, trans species are welcome,anti transID and anti radqueer. Pro/neutral contact on paraphilias that would be harmful to act on are not allowed
#non human#nonhuman#nonhuman community#nonhuman please interact#nonhuman safe#actually nonhuman#alterhuman#otherkin#therian#paraphile community#physical nonhuman#physical nonhumanity#physically nonhuman#physical shifter#paraphiles please interact#paraphilia#proship#profic#pro fiction#paraphile safe#proshippers please interact#anti contact paraphile#pro para#pro paraphile#anti radqueer#anti transid#anti trace#endo neutral#alterhumanity#trans species
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Was the Darkling that much of a liar as the fandom makes him to be?
Because it's literally one thing for a character to truly lie every other page and another for the reader to have been tricked by the narrative that he's a compulsive liar.
If we thoroughly search and find his lying moments in the Grisha trilogy then it would be these:
“I don’t want to answer you.”
“Oh.”
Then he sighed and said, “One hundred and twenty. Give or take.”
After a moment, the Darkling said, “My great-great-great-grandfather was the Black Heretic, the Darkling who created the Shadow Fold.”
“How?” I pleaded. “How am I supposed to do that?”
“By helping me destroy the Shadow Fold.”
“What’s Baghra’s power, anyway?”
“I’m not sure,” he said. “I think she was a Tidemaker.”
“Because every day we don’t find the sea whip, I’ll peel away a piece of her skin. Slowly. Then Ivan will heal her, and the next day, we’ll do it all over again.”
“Where are they? ” I screamed.
“They are safe. For now. They will be on my skiff when I enter the Fold again.”
“As hostages,” I said dully.
He nodded.
So in the whole trilogy the Darkling lied six times. Four if you count the scenes before he was revealed as the "evil guy".
His first real conversation with Alina is considered both by the protagonist and the fandom as manipulative and shady. He lied about his identity, age and true goal. Now let's take it from the beginning.
The fact that he lied about his age and identity wasn't something personal against Alina. This is the exact same lie he had been telling the world for four hundred years as a means of survival and staying as head of the Grisha. Also, did we really expect him to say "Yeah, I was the one who created the Fold. Hehe what can you do?☺️". We would be lying too if we were in his place.
Another thing that needs to be understood here is that the Darkling was testing her. He was trying to see what her personality is like, how does she feel about her newfound powers and, most importantly, what has she heard and how does she feel about him. I'm pretty sure that he was kinda sure that Alina would have been influenced by the people's views about him. And he was right. Alina was afraid of him thanks to the rumors and superstitions that surround him. If she also knew who he truly was then she would run from that barn ASAP.
Now let's see the next lie that the Darkling spat out. The one where he told her that he needs her to destroy the Fold. This was another test. Trying to see how she would react if she knew her true purpose as the Sun Summoner that everybody expected.
Apparently she failed that test as well:
Alina panicked when she heard that the realm's future lies on her shoulders, when she understood that she would be the one to destroy the Shadow Fold. Imagine how she would react if the Darkling said "Okay look. I need you so I can use the Fold against some nations, not destroy it". Yup, she would scream and run.
There's no way the Darkling would say the truth to her, especially since he saw how frightened and prejudiced she was about him and how clueless she was about the whole economical and political situation Ravka was at this point.
He was waiting for the Sun Summoner to be born and emerge for centuries. He would never risk losing her now because of her narrow views and some brutal truths. It was a matter of life and death for him in order to protect his country. And this girl was too young, too naive to understand.
So no. He didn't do it because he had something personal against her or to seduce her. He did it for the good of his country so this girl would stay no matter what.
Sadly, it's evident that in the end the Darkling's suspicions proved to be right. She run away. And when he found her he chastised her about her selfishness and her inability to see the bigger picture.
“Did you deserve my trust? Baghra whispers a few accusations in your ear, and off you go. Did you ever stop to think of what it would mean for me, for all of Ravka, if you just disappeared?”
“You didn’t give me much choice.”
“Of course you had a choice. And you chose to turn your back on your country, on everything that you are.”
“That isn’t fair.”
“Fairness!” he laughed. “Still she talks of fairness. What does fairness have to do with any of this? The people curse my name and pray for you, but you’re the one who was ready to abandon them. I’m the one who will give them power over their enemies. I’m the one who will free them from the tyranny of the King.”
The Darkling was right, she did have a choice. I once heard a line from a show that said "In life we always have a choice. But sometimes it's easier to think that you don't" and it applies to Alina here perfectly. She had a choice but she said to herself that she didn't. And by doing so, she only proved Aleksander right. She can't handle the truth.
Now the next lie is when he lied about his mother's powers. Don't have to dwell here because it's the same thing as before. It's the same lie he tells everyone "I don't know. I'm not sure". The Darkling (publicly) has distanced himself from his mother and keeps that relationship a secret. It's just part of his persona (just like his age, his identity etc.). Again nothing personal against Alina.
The next one is just some clever emotional manipulation. When he made clear to Mal that he would curve Alina's skin he knew that the threat was just enough. He has seen them act all cutie-cutie and being sacrificial for the sake of each other to a disgusting point so he took advantage of that (I say good for him).
And the last one is just my personal favourite if you ask me. That strategy he displayed there was my most favourite that he ever showed. Since he knew again how the threat would be enough for Alina to come to him like fish on a bait. He embraced his villainous persona and pretended that he would hurt those children if she didn't surrender to him. But he knew better. Mindless heroism would just bring her right into his net and again he was proved right until everything fucked up and died.
In his own words:
“I know what you thought, what you’ve always thought of me. It’s so much easier that way, isn’t it? To puff yourself up with your own righteousness.”
Just some delicious shit actually.
So, in conclusion, no. He wasn't a compulsive liar. But when he needed to lie he did and only for (as he saw it) selfless reasons. In fact, he mostly either evaded the truth or spoke truth. So misinformation just spilled that man's reputation lmao.
#i just wanted to clear some things and wipe my boy's reputation clean#because apparently people shit on the Darkling who *stayed* for his people but glorify Alina who abandoned everyone#priorities show a lot my loves#and I love Alina but the fandom generally forgets that she was a human with many flaws (one of the reasons that I like her actually)#the darkling#the darkling meta#meta#shadow and bone meta#grishaverse meta#shadow and bone#ruin and rising#siege and storm#pro darkling#aleksander morozova#pro aleksander morozova#grishaverse#grishaverse trilogy#alina starkov#anti mal oretsev#anti mal#anti malina#baghra morozova
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aaa, so many terms along the lines of being non human or feeling non human are made by pro endos and I feel so uncomfortable
I know some anti endos coin terms, but for me when the original term was coined by a pro endo I cannot separate it from that
#I just found a term for non human attraction#Made by pro endo#Now I want to cry because I was so excited over it#Am I being over dramatic?#Probably#- maxie & James#anti endo#did#did system#endos dni#plural#actually did#alters#system#endos fuck off#did osdd#Personal vent
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Getting REAL sick and tired of how omori TikTok views sunny.
Like, they view any scene of him being emotionally vulnerable, affectionate, or even just making an expression outside of just being completely neutral as “mischaracterised”. He’s not some cool, stoic, unwavering badass, he is a traumatised teenager. Don’t cry whenever he dares to give his friend a hug or (god forbid) be SAD about something??? Isn’t like. Part of the point of his development about him allowing himself to break down the repressive walls he built when he shut himself in? And being able to rely on his real friends instead of imaginary versions? And isn’t the game like. Meant to SHOW that he still cares about them despite isolating himself?
It’s really stupid to get mad at a character like that showing emotion or affection personally, especially since he’s not used to expressing it properly after so long. But that’s just me
#this isn’t even solely about the manga though it inspired me to make this post#any piece of official art in which sunny dares to show an emotion is shunned as ooc and I’m sick of it#he only appears ‘neutral’ throughout the GAME’s narrative because he HAS NO FACE SPRITES#because he’s the protagonist and has no actual dialogue#therefore he only makes a few expressions the entire game#obviously manga sunny is a good bit more expressive than canon sunny but#it’s REALLY not as bad as TikTok is making it out to be#I’m so TIRED of this character being viewed as nothing but a rock that ONLY has personality before and the game’s events#not allows to emote at all because ‘he didn’t do that in the game!!’#because he is restricted to ONE face sprite the entire time outside of the battles#omori is a DIFFERENT case and I can admit that manga omori is a good bit more expressive than he should be but#he’s still VERY stoic especially compared to sunny#which is what is should be#sunny should be quite closed off but in contrast to omori so much more human#that’s like. a massive part of their dynamic I feel#anyway this is such a long rant but god im so angry#I’ve seen one too many people cry ‘mischaracterised’ at a teenager expressing feelings#PLEASE stop it#also this is not to say you can’t critique manga sunny’s portrayal#because there are a few issues I believe#which are honestly really hard to dance around considering the factors I mentioned before#about having one expression most of the game and two lines of dialogue the entire time#and honestly? I think they did a pretty okay job!#he’s still a silent protagonist but seeing him emote so often helps us see into his mind and know how he’s thinking much easier#both portrayals have their pros and cons and ultimately I prefer the game’s portrayal#but that’s not to say this version of sunny is terrible and ooc like people have been saying#and that’s definitely not to say that any moment of emotional vulnerability he has is terrible and inaccurate#because that’s. just terrible and untrue#omori#omori sunny
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People who are convinced I treat sysmeds as if they aren't human don't get it at all...
It's the humanity of anti-endos that I have a problem with.
Oh, the anti-endos are humans too? Yeah. So are the innocent people they attack!
They're trauma victims? Really seems like they should know better than to bully innocent people then!
Many of them are transgender and other types of queer? Yeah, then they definitely should know better than to parrot transmed and TERF talking points!
They have friends who care about them? Yeah, so do many endogenic systems. But anti-endos spread rhetoric that tries to stigmatize our existence and would threaten our own relationships and ability to be treated with basic respect.
They're part of the same fandoms we're in? That just means that we can't feel completely safe in those spaces while being out as endogenic systems.
The repeated appeals to humanity as if that will make me more sympathetic are misguided.
Everything we have in common is another thing anti-endos will make just a little bit more unsafe for ourselves and other pro-endos.
Everything they've suffered is just another reason they should know better than to cause the same harm to others.
I don't despise diseases for infecting people. I don't despise tornados and other forces of nature for the destruction they cause. I don't despise predatory animals for killing to survive. I won't despise something for acting upon its nature.
I don't believe sysmeds are naturally bad people though. I don't think hate is a fundamental part of their nature. They are human and as such, can choose to be better. But they don't. They choose to be hateful. They choose actions that harm other marginalized people. They choose to ignore facts and reality because they're committed to their hate and can't stand anything that would get in the way of that.
Every appeal to their humanity is just another reminder that their humanity has afforded them the freedom of choice, and that they've chosen to spread hate against people like me for our existence.
A bigot is not like an animal or a disease or a natural disaster. All of these things are better than a bigot to me because none of them chose to cause pain. None are really capable of understanding when they're harming an innocent person. But bigots are capable of understanding and refuse to, and that makes them far worse in my eyes.
#syscourse#pro endogenic#pro endo#systempunk#syspunk#sysblr#multiplicity#humanity#actually plural#actually a system
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not gonna lie.. people that say mdp's responses are an ai bot give me "learn to speak english if you're going to live in america" vibes, especially since there's evidence english may not be his first language.
but i think i'll get crucified on the spot if i told people that, so i'm just going to point it out to my little corner of the internet over here.
#tails.txt#max design pro#i'm main tagging this already knowing i'm likely going to get flamed for this but i don't care#i may be biased but mdp's responses don't sound ai generated and moreso english is a second language#and even if they are? i'm still annoyed that people are jumping to that conclusion#who actually cares if someone's response doesn't sound 'human enough' to you? people legitimately struggle with that stuff#case in point zephyr is semiverbal. and while he can hide it mostly he still struggles to put his thoughts into words to put it lightly#i can imagine the difficulty those who do not speak english fluently must face on the internet where it seems to be expected#if mdp's messages aren't ai? you're all insensitive for assuming. if they are? you're still insensitive for jumping to that#it makes other people even more self conscious of their vocabulary and it's just gross#sorry for the rant. my cohost struggles with speech so you can see i'm passionate about this topic in particular..
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The people taking this dialogue as a legitimate “character flaw” or literally just at face value at all and not as a continuation of the blatant disrespect the writers have not just towards Rhaenyra as the heir of twenty years, but towards anything that could even vaguely be construed as “women’s work”, is the most perfect encapsulation of just how entrenched misogyny is into the very heart of our pop culture and how the popularization of fantasy has managed to worsen our societal view of soft power by painting it as not only weak, but frivolously feminine, unimportant, and a waste of time.
Since the beginning of the show the writers have almost exclusively portrayed Rhaenyra as disinterested if not opposed to her role as heir, as a politician, and a woman in power broadly all against the original canon and all glaringly, not to make her look worse or better or likable or incompetent (they do all those things, almost every episode, with however they need her to affect the plot in that given moment because they’re incapable of having the characters drive it organically) because it’s not truly about her at all. It’s simply because they cannot fathom a story where a woman is politically adept and as a result either 1. evil or 2. boring, and that is fundamentally because once again they are so biased and against portraying anything that could even vaguely be construed as women’s work or at all “feminine-coded” in an even neutral-but-interesting way they do for (stereotypically) masculine-coded activities like sword fighting, horse back riding, dragon riding, hunting, archery, not to mention just the concept of the political conversations that drive these stories, let alone an actually positive way.
They have taken a story that at its core was always an indictment of structural misogyny and how it will literally cause societies to tear themselves apart over nothing. But because they decided at the outset they wouldn’t and couldn’t portray the structural part of said misogyny without scaring away their intended audience, and decided instead to base this all around ultimately meaningless ~team discourse~ (because literally everyone meeting their downfall as a result of the consequences of systemic misogyny is the point) their alternate path has been to over-exaggerate and ultimately turn to spectacle every single woman involved’s individual suffering at the expense of everything else about their characters. It doesn’t matter if that was the intent or not the principle result of this adaptation has been the continual disempowerment and degradation of women and their agency combined with an almost impressively voyeuristic portrayal of their suffering.
The women in this show are not allowed to have interests or hobbies unless it’s to serve to make them seem “bad” in someway, whether that be the discomfort around Helaena’s bugs, the total lack of any positive representation of Alicent’s religiosity, or how the women dragon riders are broadly painted as aggressive, violent, and unnatural. I don’t even have specific examples to list from the other “team” because in order to be portrayed as “likable” to the general audience the women of Team Black are barely allowed to have personalities, let alone distinguishing interests or characterizing hobbies. The agency and autonomy they have been stripped of, collectively, from both historical precedent and actual ASoIaF, is almost entirely in their refusal to allow women’s work to be portrayed positively. There are no balls, no sewing circles, no garden parties, no trappings of power and contests of will in the jewels and gowns Rhaenyra must now loathe to be (their deeply narrow and biased view of) “likable”, there are no female mentorships, and no female friendships, and at every chance they have had to portray these things at both a societal and personal level they have chosen to veer away and instead reinforce their suffering. They have removed women’s avenues and halls of power from this story, while making it very clear there are no others that exist in this world, and they cannot participate in the men’s; if they could this story wouldn’t exist. So we are left with a group of people who are supposedly driving this story, who this story is supposedly about, but they are internally and externally isolated, largely removed from the public eye, angry or distressed to be there on the rare occasions they’re present, disempowered, stripped of personal agency and will, and we’re still told they have power. But if we search for it the only logical conclusion is that any power which does not center on how much suffering they have been through, or how much more they may be dealt, is not only gone, it was never there in the first place.
I don’t enjoy Rhaenyra’s quasi domestic abuse any more than Alicent’s visceral sexual shame and I don’t enjoy the infantilization of Helaena’s character any more than the erasure of Rhaena’s and it is deeply concerning how many people look at these decisions, and nod their heads and say “yes, this is realistic, and not only is it realistic it’s, GOOD, because without horrific psychological and physical abuse and ultimately a complete reduction to every female character as peace loving victims of powerful men’s cruel machinations we could never even SEE how misogyny is so damaging.” And the mindset that drives people to claim that those of us who call out how this is, the definition of benevolent misogyny and say we’re crazy, that we can’t see the complexity, that actually we’re the ones somehow falling back into sexist tropes, or asking for a black and white story when instead the black and white has simply become an insultingly reductive view of evil men versus helpless women and when all else fails, accusing us of wanting a boring story because it’s either not focused on gratuitous individual female suffering, or is focused on the kind of political power every single featured female character on both sides of this conflict wielded in the original book instead of evil man conversations and eviler man dragon-battles, is at its heart why we have come to a place in pop culture where one of its most marquee properties displays and embodies these problems so glaringly in the fucking first place.
#asoiaf#HotD#a song of ice and fire#house of the dragon#anti HotD#anti house of the dragon#HotD critical#anti ryan condal#anti sara hess#misogyny#“this fandom hates feminine women NO the creators hate feminine women#don’t you all love how they said they were avoiding misogynistic tropes#and then made their antagonist vs protagonist the inoffensively pretty tomboy vs hyperfeminine hypocrite#aka the oldest female-rivalry dynamic pretty much ever#their hatred of femininity is deafening#but their hatred of women *as people* will always be double#it’s about not viewing women as having or capable of the same level of humanity as men#idk how much more simply to explain it#guess what ANY interest or activity or framing can be exciting if you put in the effort#and the horrific misogyny they’ve engaged in just to avoid being branded chic tv is actually disgusting#women are only interesting or valuable in the plot in so far as how much suffering they can provide#hilarious that in a post-GoT post-Bridgerton world balls and dresses are still considered worse than violent misogyny actually#I knew this show wouldn’t be pro-women the second they decided to have it run by two men#but it’s still astounding sometimes *just how far* they’ve managed to go with it
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Part of why I hate this fandom's take on Autobots vs Decepticons is ppl (mainly 'con fans honestly) who can't have any nuance of the situation whatsoever and love to write plots like "oh the humans are racist and abusive towards Cybertronians so this is how Megatron is right" no actually I don't think colonialism/imperialism and racism are justified so long as you can point the finger and say "they were the aggressors first" or "their hands are no cleaner than ours bc their society sucks too" sorry. Please come up with better sociopolitical narratives in your war story.
#squiggposting#i'm too tired to like actually care about this any more#and ppl's fandom takes don't necessarily represent their IRL views#but i'm just like. oh so i see that you want to write mature stories with politics and dealing with bigotry. that's cool!#now do it in a way that actually refutes bigotry and makes some sort of attempt at resolution#bc 'oh humans are just as bad and evil so it's fine if we colonize them' isn't the pro-con take ppl think it is lkdsfjlsdkfs#honestly this is what john barber got right in his story even tho the politics in his became overbearing#at least he's like the one dude who rightfullly pointed out 'uhhh organics have history with cybertronians that makes them very justified#'in not trusting them'#but my mistake is expecting the average 'con fan to disengage from the 'revolution' part to talk about the racism and imperialism lmao#if ppl weren't cowards they would be able to write characters as problematic and bigots and imperialists#but still show their humanity and point out how the cycle of retribution needs to end at some point#and how killing everyone who ever did anything bad (esp for a race as long lived as theirs) isnt a sustainable model of society#that's my PROBLEM man like stop being COWARDS acknowledge that your heroes can be shitty ppl#instead of framing things as good guys vs bad guys and then framing absolution as being only for the good guys#what if good and bad didn't exist and we were all shitty in some way and none of us inherently deserve forgiveness. what then#what if you wrote a story where you had to deal with the reality of rehabilitating ppl who have genuinely done horrible things#what if you wanted to rehabilitate society but realized the majority of ppl in it are monsters. what then?#do you only extend forgiveness and peace to the ppl who got thru with no moral compromises?#do you want to kick the majority/almost all of your race to the curb and give them no mercy/second chances?#what if ppl wrote stories where sociopolitical issues had no good/bad guys and no easy solutions#what if ppl had the courage and ethical fortitude to say 'everyone here sucks actually'#anyways sorry for the rant
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