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I left social media/ QSMP for a few weeks... and I come back and just- wtf happened. Could I please ask for UNBIASED information on what is going on for the past month? Idk what's going on and I just see people being mad at each other without context, and looking for it myself is just fucking miserable and I just wanna leave again. But I still haven't learned a thing about the problem...
#qsmp#qsmp discourse#qadmin situation#qsmp help#I just want some unbiased understanding on what happened-#I barely#if ever#share my opinion on discourse here#so this will probably be the only time I mention this#if something catches my eye I MAY say something but that's it
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Wow people make Käärijä a villain in the story that is actually so much bigger than our fandom or the history we’ve lived. It’s so unfair to him. I’m scared actually and hope he will be safe <3
I think he'll be mostly fine though admittedly I'm only tuned in here on tumblr. I have definitely seen some people being incredibly harsh on here as well though and I have heard that the reaction on Twitter has been way worse. (I heard people sent kä death threats, which if true is just like really??? over this?) It's just such a strange hill to die on to me.
I see it as reflective of the more recent phenomenon of people snapping at others online for what are ultimately little mistakes or just opinions that don't fit a specific mold. I've seen literally anyone being attacked just for not holding the most extreme version of a belief.
I don't think there's much cause for concern this time. Most of what I'm seeing here on tumblr is just people wanting a better apology or explanation anyway <3
#Hope you weren't referring to some of my previous tags cause in hindsight I realize I might've come off a litte aggressive at first#I suck at properly conveying tone over text lol#even worse because I was emotional#I know people are bound to be fired up because of the genocide in Gaza#but i can't honestly say I believe that video implies he sides with Israel#also just like... priorities y'know#bigger fish to fry out there than this discourse#I think the lessons here are twitter sucks especially for discourse#and we should all probably let ourselves think before we post#käärijä#only thing I love more than sharing my opinions is sharing my opinions when someone gives me a starting point so I appreciate the ask <3
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"It's not the game. That's not what we're arguing about. It is all about an inherent thing we do of social sorting. The reason we socially sort is because we want to put ourselves into a group that gives us a sense of belonging, a sense of friendship, love, whatever you want to call it, and creating a sense of identity through which you can express yourself. These are very important things to people. [...] That is what people are really fighting over. It's masked under all these arguments over these merits about the game, but that's not actually what people are fighting about. They are fighting to defend their sense of identity and belonging from those who they believe are attacking that with their opinions about the game. [...] "What you can do is at least be aware of what's really going on inside of you when you get these strong feelings -- when you see these opposing views to what you believe. [...] Realize what's happening -- realize what's really happening. Take a step back from that. You have this cognizant higher thinking part of your brain right here behind your freaking forehead that you can use to go, 'Hold on a second, emotional part back there. This actually isn't all that serious.' [...] "Because it's going to happen. You're going to have a feeling that comes up. You're going to see somebody who says something and you're just going to feel annoyed. You're going to feel angry. You're going to feel all those feelings. You don't have a choice in that, by the way. That's just going to happen to you. That's the part we're saying you can't control about your human nature. But you can control -- being aware of where that's really coming from -- how you go about responding to that. [...] "We have to wrestle with this. We have to wrestle with how we respond to this. Because [...] we have tools at our disposal that put us into contact with people who, it feels like, are threatening us all the time when they're not. They're not. They're not threatening you. It feels like they are -- it really feels like it. Trust me, I know exactly what you're feeling. [...] I could not control myself. I literally couldn't for a while. If I saw somebody say something like that, I felt the need to validate my position, clarify, tell this guy or girl or whoever was saying it why they're wrong. It's in me, too. [...] "And, I feel like, just in the past couple weeks, I had a little bit of a breakthrough, where I was looking through some comments and I saw something, and I just kind of laughed at it instead of getting angry. I laughed at it because it was wrong; I didn't get angry because it was wrong. Like, my brain -- the prefrontal cortex finally broke through and convinced the amygdala that: 'You can laugh at that; it's okay. You're not threatened. Just laugh it off and walk away. You don't have to fight this person. You don't have to engage. You don't have to prove that they didn't understand what you really meant. You don't have to do that. It's just a video game.'"
-- Mike from Resonant Arc, talking about video game discourse and shipping wars
#just listened to this podcast and thought it was really fascinating#this was something they wanted to get out ahead of rebirth's release#because mike got introduced to FF7's ship wars with the release of remake#after he got pulled into the fandom discourse following remake's release#because he had become public enemy no1 for a while for his opinions#and realized that the fandom infighting is so much worse than just people dogging on him because he didn't like the game#anyway i wanted to share this#i think the whole podcast is worth listening to#since this blog has been a target for harassment and a lot of my followers have admitted to feeling stuck in their frustration#and that last paragraph in particular is the place that i've been at for a long time#and i'd like you guys to come join me here lmao
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#i have had the same reaction to the discourse around how gendered words like guys are in the english language for as long as i can remember#yeah sure cool if it's offensive to you to use it as a gender neutral phrase i won't do that around you#but i will also likely gradually start to avoid you because i am already hypervigilent about my speech to a degree i can barely tolerate#so if you're going to add to that process for me i have to actually enjoy our friendship enough to keep being that retraumatizing to myself#and for whatever reason that usually doesn't end up being true with people i know who find the word guys to be misgendering#i don't have a point or an opinion here just an observation that when we ask others to remove triggers on our behalf#it may take the work of managing those triggers off our shoulders#but it doesn't go away#it just gets moved#and you need to keep track of how many triggers you're asking another person to manage on your behalf or you risk#overextending your friends' love and care for you in relation to their ability to love and care for themselves#so maybe try to share the weight when you can rather than handing it off.
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I’m having a lot of opinions today so if you see a lot of tags please ignore me or feel free to read them ig but I’m having views and that’s something ig
#feel like everyone has opinions on here#idk how many people actually read everything#I mean it’s tumblr it’s usually a lot of arguing and discourse#which I try and stay away from bc I’m not going to make my silly little personal blog wholly political all the time#sometimes sure bc I do have views and don’t want to be complicit and not share things when I vehemently believe in them#but I’m not going to not interrupt that with a cute bug picture here and there or some of my nerd shit#so that’s cool ig#see this is what I mean about having a lot to say#textpost#dear kitty
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I have recently come across multiple posts talking about people using AI programs to finish other people’s fanfics without their permission. In the comments and reblogs, a debate started about whether this was ethical or not.
It is taking someone else’s creative work, which they have spent hours working on as a gift to themselves and other fans, and creating an ending outside the author’s vision because the reader wants a story and for whatever reason the author hasn’t completed it yet. They may have left it unfinished for a reason, or it could be still in progress but taking longer than the reader wants because fanfic writing is an unpaid passion project on these sites.
Fanfic writers shared that they were considering taking down their stories to prevent this, while some fans defended the practice saying they would use AI to compete unfinished works for personal reading but wouldn’t post the AI story. Even if the fic isn’t being posted, the act of putting the fic into the AI as a prompt is still using the writer’s work without their permission.
As you search Tumblr and Ao3, there are dozens of ‘original’ fics being posted with AI credited as having written them. As this practice has become more common, writers are sharing their discomfort with these fics being written by AI using their works as training material.
Fanfiction is an art form, and not a commodity which writers owe to readers. It is a place where fans can come together to discuss and expand upon their favourite fandoms and works, and brings community and a shared appreciation for books, tv shows, movies and other creative mediums. Some of the best fanfics out there were written over the course of multiple years, and in the writing, authors notes and comments, you can see friendships grow between fans.
There is a related discussion in this community of fic writers about the influx of bots scraping existing fanfic. Bots are going through the Ao3 site, and leaving generic comments on fics to make their activity look more natural. In the weeks since I first saw posts about this, fic writers are locking their fics to users with accounts or taking their fics down entirely.
There is talk of moving back to techniques used before the advent of sites like Ao3 and FanFiction.net, such as creating groups of fans where you can share amongst yourselves or the use of email chains created by writers to distribute their works.
This is the resilience of fandom, but is a sad move which could cause fandom to become more isolated and harder to break into for new people.
Here are the posts that sparked this…
#this is a little opinion piece I wrote for a uni club I’m part of#the club is about how we can responsibly create AI#and I was going to put it on our Facebook where we frequently share articles and information#but my other committee members decided that we shouldn’t be posting an opinion (which could be controversial) in a club or age#which fair enough but also they want to post information about how AI is threatening safety and humanity Ty#and I think that the more pressing threat is culture#because I doubt AI is gonna get up and fight tomorrow#but I don’t feel like arguing so I’ll post here instead so enjoy!#ai discourse#ai safety#ai is scary#fandom#fanfiction#also just because this is about Fanfiction and fandom not real world scary science? not sure their exact thought process
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I've had some time to collect my thoughts after a couple of days so here they are even though nobody asked.
I really loved the finale. It was devestating, no doubt, but I think this is their best one yet and I absolutely loved how they handled it. There was so much grieving in this episode, not just from Carlos, but from Owen and Judd as well. But despite everything they chose happiness and the wedding ending up being beautiful and bittersweet and joyful all at once.
There has been the question of deleted scenes but there's really only one we've seen so far that I would have loved to see in the episode. Other than that, I'm just glad we get to have them all as extras. I don't think the wedding needed them though.
Another thing I'd like to add is that yes, sometimes storylines can feel rushed in shows where you have a lot of characters and especially if there are clear favorites within a fandom. There was a lot going on, but that doesn't necessarily mean any one character's storyline is less valuable than another's. I guess I'm speaking as less of a fandom member and just more as an enjoyer of the show if that makes any sense. I love all of the characters in this show, and while I would be lying if I said I liked every single storyline, that doesn't mean I wish they didn't happen. In this case, however, I loved all of the storylines and I think they all made sense together given the theme of this episode. I personally don't think any of them shouldn't have been there in favor of getting more wedding content.
Honestly, my only regret is not getting off of tumblr as soon as the final bts stuff started coming out. I'm pretty bad when it comes to guessing things so if I hadn't been aware of the theories I literally would have had no idea and it would have hit me so much harder. It still got me pretty good though.
Again these are just my opinions so feel free to ignore everything I say if you didn't feel the same. I'm happy though, and I'm going to continue being incredibly annoying about this show. ♡
#I'll just touch on this in the tags cayse more people have put this a lot more eloquently than I could#but in terms of the decision to kill of gabriel I know a lot of people feared two things#1) it was too close to the wedding 2) potential future storylines would take a hit#and if it had happened any other way I would have agreed with the second one#but the fact that we got that scene between him and carlos was really important#and they way it happened really opens the door for revisting this in the future#I would honestly be really surprised if they don't come back to this mystery because there's a lot of potential there#and speaking of potential I think we reallly started to see so much more of carlos and a side of his character that we've never seen before#him dealing with his grief and in the end chosing to allow himself to have his wedding#that moment between him and owen#I loved all of it and I know in shows like this it can feel like characters start to get stagnant but this is definitely not the case here#not just carlos but everyone else had moments this season that just showed us so much more of them#and it makes me excited for their character development and what future storylines will hold#anyway I think those are all of my thoughts#if you're going to say anything please be nice I don't really do well with negativity#I usually stay out of fandoms for actively airing shows because discourse isn't great for my mental health#but since y'all are like 90% lost shameless mutuals and 10% bots I feel safe enough to share my opinions publicly lmao#har rambles#911 lone star#weewoo rambles
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Someone on my dash posted a god awful take this morning. It made me angry. They were very wrong and very offensive about it.
So I unfollowed them.
That’s it. No anon message telling them that they should be ashamed. No reblogging with a rant about how wrong they were. No direct messages telling them how out of line they were.
They make me upset. So I walked away.
#thought I'd share#they were very very offensive with some brainrotted discourse#the terf adjacent kind#but I walked away#I took care of me#I'm not in charge of them#they are entitled to their opinion#not my attention#no fights#just me exiting their space#the mature thing here#and what they were NOT doing btw#*cough cough*#Leave people alone if you don't like them#that's all
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#lee talks#lord of the flies#sure yeah Ill tag it. yall are going through something huh 😦#anyways I would share my opinion about it but this isnt a lotf blog so I wont get into discourse here#unless someone asks hastag attention seeker /j#okay thats kinda a lie I think my original post shows my opinion enough 😭 william golding tried to rape a teenager idk if his perception on#on whats okay to say about children is 100% normal#tw rape mention
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ok this seems to be a hot take for f1blr but i don’t think the drive to survive episode titles are disrespectful sorry
#like the whole show is just about the drama in the sport so ofc they’re going to have clickbaity titles#and they weren’t mean with their portrayals of mick and daniel imo#idk im just a casual fan though so what do i know ig#ik the show is behated by a lot of real fans but i have fun watching it#dts#f1#also ik this discourse already happened but feel free to share your opinions here or in my inbox or smth
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Maybe someone already said this in the reblogs, but I also believe this "self-insert" mentality in first person is another reason why so many FMCs get hated for simply... being a character and doing things, especially when they're not 100% good or have a personality (the biggest sin of all—I say this with sarcasm) or aren't what the reader deems as "correct" in their eyes.
So, when an author writes a morally grey woman, and the reader uses their personal compass to guide themselves through the story, and suddenly this character that they're projecting onto does a bad thing they wouldn't do, they're like "nope, this is not me therefore this is a BAD book and whoever likes it is a bad person."
Not only is that a terrible take to have on a piece of fiction, but it also shows a lack of compassion and media literacy on the reader's part.
I say compassion because, in my opinion, part of engaging with any sort of art is to ask questions while trying to find the answers within ourselves. Why did this character do this thing? What led them here? Was there another option for them? Can I empathise with them for making this choice or not?
Also, art doesn't have to be questioned to be understood, and not every book is made to be analysed, which is more than fine (all books are valid and I will not tolerate people criticising romance as a genre because some of you think it's not "intellectual" enough. This is not about you, either).
And I say media literacy because characters are not—and I can't stress this enough—people!! So using your moral compass to judge a character will not work because, once again, they're characters. They'll always be constricted by the rules of plot and not the rules of reality/real world (even when these characters live in our world).
And like, there's nothing wrong with wanting to find characters that you can relate to, especially when they're the main characters! That's why representation is so important—sometimes we need to see some sort of "us" in the media/art we engage with so we can find value and understanding in who we are as individuals. But you're not the main character of the books you're reading.
And if you want to be the main character of a book, maybe write an autobiography, I don't know.
wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???
Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.
First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.
#on writing#writing discourse#i hope it's okay i added this!!#also when i say 'you' i'm not referring to op#and this is not all of my thoughts but i'm not going to say much else here#and maybe 'compassion' isn't the word i was looking for but idk what other word to use tbh#so excuse me#i usually don't post my opinion on things because i don't like to have opinions on the internet#which is in itself an opinion i know#but still#i don't like being perceived most of the time#which is why i keep my thoughts to myself#but i'm sharing these
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the current trend of "tumblr users embarrassing themselves by proudly announcing why they don't listen to any music made by black people" is really astounding.
i cannot help but think this is a direct result of liberal White Guilt and how people have interpreted "anti-racism" as form of cultural self-segregation - the kind of person who thinks trying to cook chicken curry is cultural appropriation, or sends white people anon hate for wearing a kimono (yes, this kind of discourse happened). like, "oh, no, i could never participate in this culture, i'd get my evil white hands all over it! it would be more Progressive if I only did White things."
if you're a poc you've seen this, i'm sure - this deer-in-the-headlights stare you can get from white people when you play music / show art / share a story / anything that is Racially Coded, this total refusal to actually engage with it out of fear that it is in some way Wrong for them to have any opinion on it. because they read somewhere that it's bad to use AAVE but the only lesson they actually learned from that is "gotcha, white people are not allowed to interact with other cultures as punishment for my White Crimes. this helps to fill up the gaping pit of my white guilt and makes me one of the Good People." this transforms their discomfort around non-white cultures (black culture, especially, i should add) into a kind of virtue
anyway if you are white and reading this. go listen to some fucking haliu mergia. ethiopian jazz. will knock your dick right off. go listen to rap or reggae or bollywood and have a genuine reaction to it - like, an actual, from-the-heart reaction. you are allowed to not like some of it. but you will definitely like at least a little. yes, you can compare it to lemon demon (or whatever) if that helps you get into it and that's your only point of reference. maybe don't say that part out loud. but don't, like, separate yourself from it, like you are seeing it in a museum and the only polite thing to do is go "ahh, huh, very interesting, so much culture here."
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#ignore this lol#i just have some thoughts and no where to articulate it#this is about fandom culture#the way i approach fandom is that it's supposed to be fun#so i've always been mindful of curating my own experience in fandom#i don't engage with what i don't like#i unfollow and block people who make the experience negative#and i'm here for a good time#so shipping wars? i don't get it#i'm a multishipper#so i'll read any pairing if they're written well#i've just been seeing a lot of anger and resentment towards certain characters and pairings because of the ship wars#and like?#is it that deep?#is it not enough to let others ship what they want?#and disengage with those who create content for ships you dislike?#the block button is right there#you don't have to start beefing with someone because of a difference of opinion#especially when you start nitpicking and overanalyzing the characters to find every percieved flaw#which in turn leads down a path of reinforcing harmful stereotypes and hateful rhetoric#you have the right to your own opinion#but your character is drawn into question when you let your opinion drive hateful rhetoric#i know the characters are fictional#but the people who share identities with these characters aren't#all in all#don't yuck someone's yum#stay unbothered#and let's keep it fun#this is about 911#911 discourse
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#i want to talk and share my thoughts and feelings and opinions with the world i want to dialogue and have discourse and learn and grow#i want to be surrounded by community#why do other people hurt so bad#i don’t wanna be locked inside#why don’t i belong here
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Anon hate (but on this blog)
Defensive response (but on this blog)
#thanks anon i needed this here#seriously tho it goes to show if ur big enough ull get anon hate regardless of what u say bc my side blog is a fandom blog where i dont#share much about my personal opinions#meanwhile im over here reblogging the most radical left shit#anon#anonymous#asks#answers#tumblr really is like we dont care if ur an anarchist tranny but we draw the line at mollymauk tealeaf pronoun discourse
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we (transfems) deserve to have spaces online where we can feel safe and where we can thrive.
there's been plenty of discourse recently alleging that we are trying to separate ourselves from the rest of the community by talking abt transmisogyny. but, we're not trying to separate, we are being separated. we are being pushed out of public spaces, and even the spaces where other queer folks are allowed to exist without fear.
and this has an effect on our ability to advocate for ourselves and share our perspectives. it also suppresses our art and the records of our lives, our existence. i'm an artist and aspiring entertainer. I would like to be able to bring a larger audience to my work, i want my work to be able to find folks who can connect with it. how can i do that effectively if so many social media sites are not safe for me? what happens if i get banned, and my profile scrubbed of all content?
i already have a decent following on here, and i feel like the bigger i get on here, the more likely i am to be stripped of everything i have on this site by displeasing the wrong people. my presence online should not be contingent on being a good little tranny with no controversial opinions, who is quiet about my weird kinks. we shouldn't have to be pallettable sterile objects for your consumption just to exist in public spaces, online and offline.
#trans#transfem#transmisogyny#tumblr#queer#late night scout#social media#trans women#trans woman#trans girl#t slur cw#of this is the post that gets me banned i'll find photographic matthew and feed him his own shit
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