#rape for ts

[nancylou444]

Minions/hellers, once again failing Reading Comprehension

The post in question:

(x)

Notice the disclaimer and the tags.

And it's not even my original post they are bitching about, but @walker-girl reblog (x).

Idiot #1:

This idiot has NO posts and NO likes. They are following 4 blogs, none of which are me or walker-girl, so HOW did they stumble across the reblog?

Needless to say, defnezaman is now blocked.

Idiot #2:

Oh yes, hiding behind anon makes one big and brave, asswipe.

Idiots #3:

If I'M a disgusting vile creature, than what the fuck is Idiot #2?

[whisperthatruns]

                   Fall

    To the underworld I went with the god. I was gullible.     Promising. He promised me a replica of the world

    where nothing died because everything---the orchard,     the apples, the pomegranates--- was already dead.

    At the center of my new life there was a bed. A bell     I rang when I was hungry for his attention. I felt alive

    for the first time, in love though what we made, what he made     my body do with his body, day and night, night and day, wasn’t love.

    If being his meant being mine then I chose what wasn’t a choice:     I swallowed his seed. I stayed to stay alive. Never mind

    the details I missed--- smell of witchgrass, chatter of people     living for the first and only time--- except that I missed being missed.

Paul Tran, from “Year of the Monkey,” All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books, 2022)

[landunderthewave]

Woah, Danny Masterson (Steven Hyde in that '70s Show) was apparently convicted for rape and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Scientology declared his accusers as Fair Game and started an extensive harassment campaign against them. Then letters from Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher surfaced in support of Masterson.

Shit people hu

[ladyloveandjustice]

I have to say, "Athena cursed Medusa and her sisters because she's an mean lesbian who's afraid of Zeus's homophobia, so she punishes her gf for being raped by making it so she turns men to stone, classic manhating lesbian move" sure is a way to add extra layers of ick to Ovid's version of the Medusa myth, and i didn't know it was even possible to make that worse! I have no idea why you'd want to do that, though. That's a DNF

[hellsbellschime]

I need to say this and you're really only one of my mutuals who I feel kinda safe saying this to, but as a pro Palestine supporter I'm horrified by the way some Pro Palestine supporters (not on here) approach the issue of sexual assault on October 7th which I've been forced to accept happened. From these people I get the undeniable sense that they actually think that if they address it, even show sympathy for any victims, they're endorsing Israel or their IOF or the lives of Palestinian people that were tragically lost in the months after October 7th which is just wild to me. Even if no sexual assault occurred on October 7th it's the way these people were so ready to believe that it didn't because they thought it would invalidate the Palestianian cause when the Palestianian cause is (tm) is about justice, and no context will ever justify or excuse sexual violence. These two issues should be able to co exist, and somehow it fucking doesn't for these people!

I just have immense sympathy for Jewish people particularly women who are feeling alienated/betrayed thanks to this whole matter because I hear genuine nonsense like "Oh you're weaponing SA" if you want to acknowledge what occurred on October 7th. It bothers me to put it lightly that some people are willing to take what was more than likely the worst thing that happened to these people and just basically not hold the perpetrators accountable because these people belong to a cause they support.... that's really fucking dangerous!

Its even more unforgivable when some victims involved were apparently minors and still these people are silent because their too much of a coward to speak about it because they don't see Israelis as human. You're justified in hating Israel but you're not justified in just.... avoiding the horror of what was done to Israelis because it makes YOU uncomfortable, because you're afraid, because whatever. This feels even more urgent to me given its Women's History month but some of the worst perpetrators of this whole issue have been women themselves which makes it even worse.

The whole denialism also reeks of antisemitism from some corners.

Um yeah, I have a lot of feelings about this, one of the biggest of which is that it's beyond disturbing that you feel unsafe saying this publicly, because it is so obviously and undeniably wrong. I understand that people just want there to be an easy villain and hero, but sexual assault and rape are such a telling and important war crime because there is no utility in it. You can make an argument that almost every crime you can imagine, theft, destruction of property, even murder can be "useful" in war, but sexual violence has no purpose or utility beyond humiliation and trauma. It is cruelty for the sake of it, and you can't even create the illusion of some kind of justification.

But the denialism is antisemitic, and not just partially or in some corners. Horrifically, rape of women (and men and children too) has pretty much always been seen as "the spoils of war," so these rapes and sexual abuses are unfortunately not unique in that sense. But denying their existence is antisemitic because A. once again, 10/7 was not some rebellion or resistance against Israel, it was a terrorist attack on civilians that was perpetrated by a directly stated antisemitic terrorist group, and B. because rape has been used as a weapon against Jewish people for millennia as a specific and targeted form of terrorism and abuse. I mean, one of the prevailing theories about why Judaism is matrilineal is because rape of Jewish women was just that common. So to have absolute proof that these things have happened and either act as if it's justified or literally deny the reality right in front of their faces is antisemitic, across the board, zero exceptions.

And I hate to speculate because god knows what will happen, but it's extremely likely that things are going to get worse before they get better. There are still a lot of hostages that haven't been returned or even seen in weeks or months, and Hamas has repeatedly turned down deals to exchange hostages for a ceasefire. There are only a few things that this can mean. One of the most absurd but still likely options is that they just don't know where the hostages are anymore, which also almost certainly doesn't mean anything good anyway. It's highly unlikely that all of these people vanished into thin air and are coincidentally being treated well. And another obvious possibility is that whatever has been done to them is so horrific and/or so undeniable that Hamas doesn't want them to be released, because as of now they're winning the PR war and are literally getting people to agree that either the sexual violence didn't happen or it was somehow deserved.

Clearly I can't know that this is the case and there are other possibilities to explain why Hamas has repeatedly passed on a ceasefire, but there's no benefit to not even showing proof of life for these hostages unless something REAL fucked up happened or is happening to them. But regardless, I feel it really bears repeating, an organization with the stated intention of destroying all Jews then raping and sexually abusing a bunch of Jewish people is SO absurdly antisemitic that it's like the kind of comically outsized example you would try to make to explain bigotry to someone who heard the word for the first time two minutes ago, so the people who are still denying this reality are neo-Nazis in SJW clothing.

[chiistarri]

i actually highkey hate him now

[queermania]

Dean's just a little rapey is all

canonically only one of the brothers is a rapist and it's not dean so

[favroitecrime]

this whole situation just highlights how so many of you are so okay with dating horrible people and excusing their harmful actions and believe you're not horrible for excusing it. like be so serious acting like her excusing his actions, even as a fling, even as PR, isn't absolutely horrible is insane. working with someone he was racist to? jfc. her making the song before dating him (which i don't even believe cause let's be real) is even WORSE because she knew her, worked with her, and then hung out with someone who was downright racist and horrible about her.

[neednothavehappenedtobetrue]

okay!

you currently feel like a trapped animal ready to chew your own hand off at the wrist to get free.

but that's not real. it's just a feeling.

(Big Anger and the prospect of estrangement under the cut, metions of rape and suicidality).

on Monday, HR is going to fix your paycheck. if they refuse to make it retroactive, you can loop in L, M, and N and see who they can escalate to. they owe you (redacted) dollars and they will pay you (redacted) dollars or you will quit your job.

if you have to shelve querying for a little while so you can look for a better job, you will not die it will hurt, but it will not kill you.

tomorrow, text Z and get some time on her calendar for Budgeting Round One.

your brain is generating worst-case scenarios and then looping on them for hours at a time. please try to stop doing that.

you will make a budget.if you have to, you will get a new job. this is BIG SCARY but less big scary than just Doing This Forever.

and then you will invite your parents to go to family therapy. if that doesn't work, you will write them a letter. you will say the stuff you need to say so it does not rot inside of your body and make you so sick you die. they will react how they do. maybe you will need to stop talking to them for a week or two. maybe you will have to stop talking to them forever.

your brain is creating an itemized list of scary escalations they could do if you tried to set a boundary with them (driving to your apartment, forcing you to go back to PA with them, etc.) your brain is spending a lot of itself on making disaster plans for emergencies that are, at worst, a year out and, at best, never going to happen.

your brain is scripting what you will tell your brother, your pastor, your aunts and cousins. you do not need to know those things yet.

please get your brain to stop looping and go to sleep.

you are doing this because you are scared. I think you are a little bit scared that the next time your dad snaps at you on the phone, instead of bursting into tears and folding yourself up like an origami swan, you will instead go YOU DON'T GET TO MAKE ME FEEL UNLOVEABLE ANYMORE FUCK YOU FOREVER NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN and you know you can't do that until you can pay your own rent.

I think for part of your brain it would be a relief if they did something totally out of pocket, something you could say to people and they would go 'oh, that's why you don't talk to them anymore, that tracks"

maybe take a break from trying to be grateful it's not worse, grateful that you get to do this on your own timeline, grateful that you can't imagine them doing anything dangerous (apart from the dangerous things they have already done, but those things were neglect-dangerous not abuse-dangerous)

you know, even typing this, that the best-case scenario is to get to a place where you have a sustainable relationship with them. you only want to nuke them from orbit because you feel so trapped and scared.

but maybe just take a little hiatus from gratitude that they didn't/aren't hurting you worse. stop imagining your calmest and most reasonable communication of boundaries in the face of the scariest thing you can imagine them doing. they probably will not do that thing and also there is no legal mandate that you have to be as calm and rational as possible in your maladaptive emergency planning/daydreams.

imagine how it would feel to go "no, fuck you, the ketamine is keeping me from literally dying, I will not stop taking it because I do not wish to literally die. you have done zero things ever to help me in pursuit of not becoming a suicide statistic, even when i was a child and you had an obligation."

imagine how it would feel to go "no, fuck you, I am as loveable as any person who can use a knife properly and I always have been. fuck you for spoon-feeding that garbage to me when I was too young to know better."

"fuck you for preferring shaved leegs with self-harm bandages on them to unshaven legs. your priorities are broken."

"fuck you for every single thing you have ever said about my body and the way I feed it."

"fuck you for every nasty, belittling little remark I am supposed to swallow"

"fuck you for telling me it wasn't rape! you are not the arbiter of that! fuck you for telling me "don't call it that" like my language was the priority when I came to you in pain. your priorities are broken"

"fuck you for brushing me off the first time I tried to tell you I had anxiety. fuck you for convincing me I was lying about having migraines."

"you guys are mean and your priorities are wrong and you did not try very hard to keep me from dying between the ages of 12-18 and you did not have my back when a boy gave me PTSD. you praised that boy for taking such good care of me and you told me "oh, you'll get over it," when I told you he had raped and terrorized me. and you fed me poison that made me grateful for him for a long time before I left."

you might love me, but you sure do treat me like I am hard to love. you do not respect me even a little bit. you are not reliably kind. you do not see me. you refuse to engage with the lived realities of my life. you do not love me in a way that feels like love, now that I have been loved by people who do not prefer a version of me that doesn't exist.

come correct or spend the rest of your life telling people that your daughter was a crazy person who cut you off for no reason. I'm prepared to spend the holidays alone, are you?

you will be able to tell them a version of this in three to eighteen months, depending on how the budgeting and a possible subsequent job hunt go. it will be scary but you will no longer feel like chewing off your own hand every night.

[whisperthatruns]

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: Oil on Canvas: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: 1560

[cw: rape, incest]

Given that the door had to be opened and closed, the jeans unbuttoned and unzipped, the right hand placed over my mouth while the left hand held me, held me

there, held me down, I can’t help but think, again then, then and again, that suffering, its human position, isn’t entirely random

because someone has to decide, at some point, with purpose or not, that they’re going to get what they want or what they tell themselves they want

in order to get what they really want even if it means hurting another, even if it means hurting them both, even if they can’t discern what they really want

or that they’re hurting, yet, until the hurt and the want, lacking explanation, or eluding it, become indiscernible

from the rest of their suffering, confused for and eclipsing that suffering, the way the story of sunlight melting wax wings is confused for the story of hubris and eclipses the story of the child

following the father, as the child was instructed to, from one dungeon to another of sky, and given that, given all that followed

when I followed my father from our dungeon to one of men not unlike my father and me, I could’ve blamed him

for the him who followed, could’ve maintained the story that it was neither sunlight nor hubris that defeated me but descent

while bystanders stood by, and I could’ve reframed the defeat as the defect of my wings, my descent as my dissent to flight, and though I did, though I did whenever and however

to suit my schemes, my shifting schema, I accept, for now, just now, that in the story it was me, and only me, falling from the sky

to the sea, that as I struggled against my end I struggled, too, against the fact, falling and falling, that the end would end, and as I fell

from one blue dungeon to another, I saw as I fell closer and closer to the end, the instant preceding the end

when everything could still be changed, in the infinite blue of the water the infinite blue of the sky and my face, my father’s face and his, looking back.

Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books, 2022)

[swordofthesanguine]

[porchtart]

May I humbly ask who Nikolae and Katya are? (I assume they're your ocs??)

I've seen you tag half the stuff you've rbed from me with them and they sound p interesting ngl 👀

AHHHH omg of course! So sorry, they're all I think about these days so I'm sure most of my blog at this point is tagged with them haha! Nikolae is my OC, and Katya is my friend @angeyrot's OC! We are writing a long rp with them right now that we're going to turn into a more readable book series when we're done. We've written something like 300k words in the last 3 months alone, so there will be plenty to work with when the time comes to make it available for public consumption.

Nikolae is a very old, very violent and fucked up vampire that lives in a cursed living castle that is slowly dying. He's a very unpleasant, miserable person that I often describe as more animalistic than human, kind of like a maneating tiger that eats people that wander into his territory.

Katya is a vampire slayer that tracks Nikolae down with the intent of slaying him as revenge for the fact that he killed her mother. She's a very clever and cunning girl, but is not very wise. She's also extremely brutal and good at killing, like him.

Katya ends up being imprisoned by Nikolae in his castle, and their relationship develops from there. It's very Beauty and the Beast in a lot of ways, but like.... if they were both deeply traumatized and kind of horrible. She goes from actively trying to kill him to trying to learn more about him in order to hurt him very badly before killing him, and they end up sexually and romantically entangled. In the story we deal with a lot of themes of queerness and shame, and cycles of abuse and trauma.

Here's a post of angeyrot and I talking about the Themes and Vibes.

These two OC asks here and here have a little more info about Nikolae.

Tags: #katya tag/#yekaterina muzafarova, #nikolae tag/#nikolae horvatinčić, #nikkat tag, #slayerverse

Some more recent drawings of them:

Aaaaaaaand for posterity, a couple of old doodles with their old designs before Nikolae became bigger and more unkempt <3

[hellsbellschime]

So Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis both wrote character letters for Danny Masterson, and while there is a lot for me to absorb here, the fact that Ashton Kutcher thought to mention that Danny was always on time to work is just flummoxing me. I know that you don't need to be smart to be an actor, or be a good writer to be an actor, but I just can't grasp how this man wrote a letter defending a serial rapist that he almost certainly knew would become public and actually thought "please factor in his punctuality when you sentence him for multiple violent rapes."

[orionsangel86]

Something I don't think has been mentioned before about Dream and Nada. So at the end of Season of Mists, Dream offers to Nada to stay in the dreaming. She refuses, but she asks him if he wants to come live with her in the waking world. Of course, Dream being Dream, refuses. So they part ways and all that. The thing is, if Dream had raped her, I really don't think she would have suggested that. She's being given the opportunity to live a life without Dream and she still suggests that maybe he could put his mantle aside and live as a human with her. She did that of her own free will. If the relationship had been entirely unconsentual, I don't think she would have done that. So I'd say there's textual evidence for Dream having been good to Nada at some point, despite how the story in Tales in the Sand may appear.

Another thing about Tales in the Sand is that it's probably worth looking at the purpose of the story in the culture it was told in with regards to men and women having two different interpretations. It's just an assumption that the women's version would depict worse actions on Dream's part, it's an assumption that the comics seem to want you to make, but it's still an assumption. I feel like the version we see seems to be more along the lines of "seeking out a god will end in disaster" more than anything else. It's a story about disaster so of course it focuses on the disaster. We don't know what kind of story the women's version is. Idk, I feel like we just might be wrongly equating the men's version of the story to Dream's perspective and the women's to Nada's. They could just be two versions of the same events teaching different lessons

Idk if anything I've said makes sense, but do you see my train of thought?

I think you have hit the nail on the head with this actually and I agree completely. I totally forgot about that moment in Season of Mists which is annoying because I only listened to it very recently on Audible.

Nada does indeed ask Dream if he would put aside his duty and his role as Dream of the Endless and come live as a human with her. It's actually a pretty significant moment because it at least floats the idea as a potential option that is available to Dream. He absolutely could just put aside his role, pass it on to someone else, and go live whatever life he chooses. Destruction mentions it as an option as well, though he left without passing the role on, and Death also mentions it to him at the very end, to which he states he could not have done it. I actually don't think this is discussed as much as it should be in fandom especially since there are so many fanfics coming out now that explore the idea of a retired human Morpheus living a life on Earth after Daniel assumes the role of Dream of the Endless.

I also agree with your thoughts on Tales in the Sand. The moral of the tale is not to seek the love of a God, for it will bring only death and destruction and pain to all involved. Both versions of the tale should have that same message at the core, because that is the part of the tale we know is fact. But yeah you have a point that the womens tale could be far worse, and paint a worse picture of Dream. But at the end of the day, Nada still loves him, 10,000 years later and even after she yelled at him and slapped him, she still kisses him and asks him to live with her. So whatever else he may have done, he couldn't have abused her.

I kinda really hope that when the show adapts Tales in the Sand, it tells the womens story. I just think it will be really awesome to get that perspective in the show to compare to the mens tale in the comic, and to see how they differ, though as I have said many times already, I am almost 100% certain that the show will attempt to paint Dream in a much more sympathetic light than the comic does.

[finnickodaiir]

The notes on that poll...

[ladyloveandjustice]

(CW for real life murder and domestic violence in this vid btw)

So the Thanfiction story is one I have the tiniest bit of involvement in--I'm no longer into HP fandom for The Obvious Reason but I did spork Andy's DAYD fic back in the day for this HP community (it's what we used to call it when you went through someone's fic and made fun of it MST3K style.) Only did this because I knew Andy was a POS so I wasn't worried about hurting his feelings. Andy even emailed me telling me he didn't mind did I want to talk etc. and I emailed him back saying he needed to stop hurting people. No response.

It's NOT a good fic, prose very purple and the plot and characterization was bad, here are some highlights of the wild shit:

-Managed to be possibly even worse on race than the actual HP books which is a feat. Suddenly every character of color was whatever their racial stereotype was. The Patil twins were really into yoga and had yoga and snake based magic! Li Su mentions that she totally gets their yoga and tea stuff because "the mountains between India and China are not so vast" (what??? WHAT??).

This also extended to national stereotypes- with Scottish Ernie suddenly being a very violent angry person who drank a lot with a ridic over the top accent that would even put Rowling to shame despite being a pompous drip in the source material, and Irish Seamus of course getting drunk all the time and sleeping around. (He was also very clearly Thanfiction's Favorite Self-Insert along with Neville).

-Extremely misogynistic which should surprise no one. Girls were constantly described as "fragile" and "dainty", (even those who were jocks in the source material) and a lot of emphasis was put on how manly the guys were. All the girls suddenly had the same personality, mildly sassy but swooning constantly over the boys and also literally cleaning up after them and making them shower

-There was a plotline where Lavender Brown got raped by Crabbe and Goyle, and of course it was entirely focused on the boys reaction to this and their hardcore vengeance crusade, with no exploration of her feelings. They just ended up breaking their fingers and vaguely threatening them so it wasn't even cool revenge. She also magically recovered from her PTSD as soon as they got revenge and hopped into bed with Seamus.

Lavender is then graphically killed at the end of the fic (the movies later killed her off too but the books weren't clear either way).

-Hannah, Neville's gf in the fic, is described as chubby in the actual books. Of course Thanfiction had it turn out that it was her robes that were making her (and no one else?) look fat and she had a supermodel's body. Nevile, also chubby, is now super jacked with chiseled abs and is so embarrassed he used to be fat. It's very funny that he scorns girls for their Mary Sues while using the exact same tropes, also that he was angling to live up to Rowling's fatphobia.

-He had these two boys who were obsessed with each other and wore each other's clothes and had MATCHING TATTOOS and did everything together, clearly bait for the M/M shippers but he acted FURIOUS when those "empty headed" girls shipped them, forbade people from using "his" characters in fics, calling it plagiarism (the hypocrisy is incredible), and said they didn't understand how deep and special male friendship was! The bond between men in the military is like the specialest thing to ever exist but NOT dirty and gay. This deep bond of brotherhood could never measure up to relationships stupid women have.

-The gays did NOT kiss in actual DAYD, sorry Strange, that is not true, maybe in the sequels or a side story though. What did happen was he decided Dean Thomas was gay and tragically in love with to his straight bff Seamus, he tells Seamus this and Seamus responds by calling him a bunch of homophobic slurs, and then Dean dies in the Battle of Hogwarts and Seamus gets to tragically angst about it. Recall that Dean is one of the few Black characters in HP too.

( I think he later walked this back and had Seamus like, also have buried gay feelings for Dean he just wasn't aware of or something, likely in response to people criticizing this plotline)

-There was a plotline where they included Slytherins in the DA and just forgave them constantly calling all the Muggleborn students HP's made-up slurs, Neville literally tells the targets of the slurs to calm down when they get mad about it. This is pretty OOC because the HP books, for all their flaws, always had everyone go ballistic on Malfoy and beat the shit out of him for doing that, so. uh. i guess that was Thanfiction's addition.

-Snape for some reason was constantly trying to murder Neville and other students despite the fact he was supposed to be secretly on their side, it made no sense. Snape sucks but the podcaster was right, his actions were inexplicable just because Thanfiction needed a Voldemort like antagonist.

-For the record, there weren't a lot of traditional OCs, he just took minor characters who were only mentioned once or twice and made them his own. and by his own I mean bad.

-In the sequel, Hermione is raped in front of Ron, then dies while having a demon baby. yeah. Actually now that I think of it did he steal that plot point from Berserk?? Oh my god he did.

-he named his serial killer character the same as my user name at the time, which was a coincidence because he did it slightly before I started sporking but it's still funny.

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