#regression shows

[babeykitty]

Bingo! 🧡🌟🍊

[babyhunnybear]

shows of childhood 🌈💫

[sarasade]

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

[stickersheetbunny]

me in minecraft :D

[soupforsoup]

Bring back my wife (Eliot's glasses) from the war (tv continuity erasure)

[lemonys-place]

sfw interaction only

[agerekitty]

₊ ︵ ♫

─ comfort themed pingu stimboard !

i love how much they show pingu being emotional in this show and it not being a burden and him getting the comfort he needs, as a emotional kid it hits so close to home <3

x x x | x x x | x x x

☆; SFW interactions only !

★; DNI IF : kink , ddlg + variants , abdl + variants , proship / profiction , anything problematic / not kid friendly

☆; not respecting my DNI will result in an instant block !

[deathfaeriex]

I wanted to be them SOO bad when I was little

[babiebrain]

in a muffin mood

[qiu-yan]

lbr if fanon portrayals differing wildly from canon characterization is enough to warrant the existence of a "canon [character]" tag, then we desperately need a "canon wei wuxian" tag.

[softpawpup]

— sherri sheep jellycat outfit board !!

outfit board time !!! i love jellycats and i wanna start collecting them so bad... in the meantime however i will make moodboards and outfitboards based on them !!

[cams-cozy-corner]

Normal media engagement vs inner child media engagement

[sleepy-harper]

this is how it feels when ur in a fandom that's relatively big and has been around for a while but there's barely any agere content

[little-pup-pip]

Max and Ruby!!

[lemonys-place]

honk !

sfw interaction only

[bunnelbaby]

growing up with unsupervised television/internet access to finding comfort in the same media you consumed then when regressed pipeline