#shanespeare

[slayyyter]

Btw a bunch of really talented YouTubers are raising 1 million doll hairs for PCRF, link here♥️ reblog, don't like!!!

[faeleviathan]

https://youtu.be/XMm-OlsAbx8?si=Naj0P6rJl2mFivBR

[superkitten-poison]

Hi, know that I am platonically in love with you about your posts about Vel's internalized misogyny and homophobia and you love a villain in a way chronically missing from this fandom and I'm hanging every one of your 15 notes rambling paragraph on my fridge.

If you ever feel like your just screaming into the void know I am in a bush respectfully nodding along to your opinions

Vel fans are invited to the Eve-Lilith fans' Coalition against fandom misogyny, even tho she would not want to be there, just drag her along it's fine

THANK YOU…….. pls know that ive. showed this ask to all my friends who’re in fandom it is sooo sweet it is soo nice and know that i Do notice that you rb my lil ramblings and it makes me happy to have u around…

i<3villains and cannot be fazed by fictional morality discourse. you tell me a characters reprehensible actions with the intent of getting me to drop them and it just makes them even more present in my brain. literally of the like four things total we know about velvette, learning that her Love Potion ads in the background are for a roofie drug that is used on screen?? HER OWN BRAND OF ROOFIES?? made me go OHHH (*grinning wildly*) THAT IS BADD (*already writing a meta post*) THAT IS SOO BADD

because literally case in point abt her internalized misogyny! one of the few things we can confidently infer abt velvette is that if women are a class! velvette is a class traitor! and me being someone who’s fascinated by the topic of women’s role in upholding patriarchy and supporting movements that seem to so clearly want the worst for them (everyone should watch every video shanspeare’s ever made btw) that as a character trait is so so compelling to me and i will not spend my time on this earth being coy abt it on tumblr of all places

velvette will join the coalition exclusively for womens month and do loads of #girlboss #girlpower PR while contribuiting nothing and talking shit about the other women behind their backs<333 but i as a vel fan will be there all year wholeheartedly o777

[weaselbeaselpants]

Making my own post and not linking OP because, genuinely I don't want them to get harassment for this

It's to the person who made this post

Full disclosure, for the UMPEENTH time: I don't give a rats ass about what Lily thinks about fictional characters. I used to. Then I met/knew/still know genuinely nice and critical people who hold the opinions Lily has but aren't Lily. I have friends who hate Steven Universe for justifiable reasons, same with SPOP. I personally dislike a lot of Friendship is Magic decisions and so do my mutuals like me. That's not the problem. Perhaps the reason people know OF Lily Orchard is through her -bad- media analysis, but it's not why people come away hating her, and it's DEFINITELY not the reason people are listening to the testimony of her victims and being rightfully horrified.

People talked of and about Lily Orchard for the same reason sane people clown on Mr. Enter; she's toxic and abusive. She's a bully and her 'idgaf' attitude is bad for fandoming and for critical culture. There's 'problematic' like critikal or breadtubers and then there is "lol fuck the haters who all want to r@pe me anyway, they're all n*zis anyway including the bipoc folks who I'm sure aren't real bipoc anyway. Now I'm going to police how other people take back slurs and how 'queer' is inherently offensive. I'm the REAL VOICE OF JUSTICE."

I called Lily the worst of "anti" fandom rhetoric because I mean it. She is a 'social-justice warrior' in the meanest ugliest sense of that word -ugly enough that basically everyone who's been called that by actual chuds will describe her as one. She talks over other people doing social justice, polices how other people use it, and only really cares about how it affects her. Frequently when people leave her fandom it's because Lily and her crew very cruelly shooed them away for not fitting Lily's exact interests and opinions 100%. Frankly I kind of hate that her attitude is labeled as 'radical' or 'anarchonistic' because she's 'unapologetic'. No. Real anarchists are people like decolonizetheleft or heritageposts --those two are both very blunt and quick to bite back if you throw them bullshit, but they also are not vitriolic and know that people are complex even when they post stuff other people wouldn't. Lily's not even a good call-out machine. She's nothing on HBomberGuy or D'Angelo Wallace or Shanespear. I'm still mad at her, not for SU, but how she responded to other critics of SU who told her not to joke about Rebecca Sugar being a fascist. She told them, some of them Jewish people, that they're just butthurt at her ripping and not her trying to talk over other people. I'm still mad at her for siding with a n*zi until she realized that looked bad for her and her cruelty towards other lgbtq people over how they use the word "queer".

She's been doing this for YEARS. She dropped in on old brony discourse this exact same way and it fucking sucked because, you know, people in fandom or the show itself DID do shitty things. We needed genuine help weeding out the bad actors around us; it sucked that one of said bad actors was trying to speak for us. Now imagine this but amplified to a woman with some native heritage trying to talk down how other people see and talk about THEIR cultures. It's always been a massive headache.

Britt has also been around for years though and so has all the evidence and trails left of Stockholm before Lily decided to redact it completely. Lily absolutely wrote that. She absolutely wrote cp. I was there for back when she still proudly referenced it.

"Why don't you move on and stop obsessing?"

Believe me I'd LIKE to. It's that extra element of worrying behavior that goes beyond annoyance with a youtuber like Lindsay Ellis or Quinton Reviews that has kept me always watching from the sidelines. If I be an "anti" (frankly, every proshipper I've ever met who's seen the receipts from Stockholm has the same take as me, so idk) for having 0 tolerance fictional material of children than it would be hypocritical not to hold 'one of my own' up to those standards especially when she DOESN'T own up to writing it when I know for a fact she did.

Fuck lousy chudheads and Vaushsluts and general KFcreeps who think any of this is funny and 'just lolcow behavior' and misgender Lily while they do it. Fuck transphobes.

Transphobes, chuds and ''stalkers'' are not the people ILoveKimPossibleALot brought into her video. Op, I genuinely hope you get away from Lily's influence. You deserve better. For now though I'm putting you and anyone else who unironically stans Lily on block. I am done hearing anymore excuses for this woman's character. I can't hear that anymore than I can't hear actual bigots use Lily to besmerch others -other trans folks, other liberals, other disabled people like me. I'm done.

[owo-writing-man]

Chat I'm bored. Give me video essay recommendations.

Also before someone recommends me: Shanespeare, lily Simpsons, wendigoon, art at midnight,Alexander Avila, Jenny Nicholson, hbomberguy or defunctland; I already watched all their videos.

P good stuff they got. Specifically lily Simpsons. Love her content. Shout out to her. Everyone should watch all her videos immediately

[lelouch]

ACCIDENTAL MANA CAMEO ON A SHANESPEARE VIDEO

[soliusss]

Cleaned out my YouTube subscription box and I need more YouTubers to try out. I like indie horror lets players (current favorite is John wolfe) and video essayers (Mina le, shanespeare, ro ramdin) the best. If anyone has recommendations let me know

[buttercuparry]

YouTube essayist Shanespeare always hits the mark.

[hoewrld33]

also shanespeare said fem feels pain, pain gets ignored, fem gets angry and like real again

like I've been so fucking angry lately bc the men in my life keep hurting me and then r like ur crazy when I'm angry at them

I'm just pearl

[daz4i]

shanespeare's production value is insane they are so underrated. if you like videos abt like, criticism or examination of pop culture or other cultural phenomena you gotta check them out 🫡

[gemsofthegalaxy]

Shanespeare's recent video on Tiktok and Art.... very interesting

I know we are all complaining about booktok and music being impacted by tiktok, and i Am interested in this and how much the claims are actually, significantly true.

(On an aside, The idea of tiktok impacting fast fashion to me is the most worrisome just because of how harmful fast fashion is not only to the planet but the people who make it)

But it's also funny because i. hadnt heard of Colleen Hoover until like a week or two ago.

And the "romanticizing abusive narratives is causing issues and setting us back" like. I agree with Shan here, its not "setting us back" because... these things never went away in the first place. Did we forget twilight?? Harley Quinn x Joker?? Whatever happens in wuthering heights, i havent read it, etc.

These tropes are not new and whether they are genuinely harmful is..... a discussion that er can and will continue to have. But it's also not a one-to-one "book depicts romantisized abuse, and then the reader will be abused but think it's romantic". Like, it's more complex than that

I find it GENUINELY fascinating that so many people, especially women, are drawn to the 50 Shades of Greys, the dangerous bad boys, the "I was sold to One Direction" narratives, like.... we can make fun of them all we want but,

The fact that people are drawn to darkness in sex and relationships, at least in fiction, is really neat and I think entering the space with Judgements and Prejudice is not exactly doing it justice. Like, if youre already judging and weirded out by it then will you be able to understand the reason of why people are interested in that? there must be something to all of it, like people also adore watching TV shows about crime, people like horror movies, people like lots of wild things.

And- we are always talking about people who "make <blank thing> their personality" but once again, i believe we should try to remember... every single person has a complex inner world that WE do not have access to. People posting about something a lot does not mean it is their whole personality, it means you only know this side of them.

All that to be said, i am not actually on tiktok. So maybe it is That Bad. And i do think there are critiques to be had, but a lot of the ones i see come across as reductive and very... holier-than-thou, in a way that reduces the fans of these things to mindless blobs rather than individuals with unique motivations for being Into certain tropes or styles of writing..... idk. Lots to think about

[dawndaintyy]

I agree with this, its no love story, as Shanespeare said,

"its a controversial novel. When it wss finally published in America in August of 1950, it planted a seed of discourse that would last generations."

"So, when we talk about Lolita, we inevitably talk about polarity. Depending on who you ask, it's a brilliant book captivating protagonist, that is, Dolores Haze. Or it's a disgusting book with an irredeemable monster, that is Humbert Humbert. It's s both and it's nothing. It's complex and it's simple. It's political and entirely apolitical to its core. Lolita is herculean. So much so that no matter what side we look at it from, pop culture just doesn't get it."

Shanespeare's summary went like; "Evil man humbert obsessed with children marries a woman in order to get closer to her prepubescent daughter Dolores. Literal war crimes ensue"

"When we think about Lolita today, we think about the aesthetics of the subculture which is bolstered by studios, replicated by social media, and absorbed by so-called romantic literature. But these vibes aren't actually congruent with the novel."

I would like YOU who reads this now to go watch Shanespeare's video called

Lolita: The Most Misunderstood Novel

(a reminder)

[always-sober-botts]

This video is extremely important 🙏🇵🇸

Please, everyone who has a shred of empathy for the people of Palestine, please share, comment, and like this video by Shanespeare and donate to Ahmed and his family (the link to his go fund me is in the video's description).

[weaselbeaselpants]

I feel gross even having to type this out, but it wasn't until Shanespear's recent video that it became disturbingly clear and a thing that needs repeating:

G Rose Blanchard is not an e-celeb or influencer or #girlboss.

She is a traumatized victim of horrific abuse that literally took up her entire childhood to the point that she conspired with and allowed someone to murder her abuser- who was her own mother. She says to this day she regrets doing it even if absolutely everyone understands why she went down this dark path. Her story is horrific. I thought there being a fictional retelling of it like two or three years after Deedee's murder was disrespecting enough as is. I could barely comprehend the shit I've seen people say about this living breathing abuse survivor and murderer. Stop expecting this woman of all victims to be a 'perfect victim' or for her to revel in or want to even talk too much about what she did.

You're all sick.

[theonpilled]

nah I know that video essayist post is directed to my bestie shanespeare and that's bullshit

[buttercuparry]

Shanespeare and NurJahan Boulden are killing it on YouTube.