#shit sometimes is black and white
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sometimes characters and their motives aren't complex and are in fact just as dumb as they appear. also in this vein expecting rational and logical actions and thoughts from established irrational/unstable characters is just asking for a headache
#Jason Todd during his utrh arc#expecially. dear lord I’ve seen so many ‘he was under duress […] etc etc’#broski is the villain in under the red hood#dc didn’t foresee him becoming an antihero and being redeemed to the point he is in modern comics.#so the writers decisions of having him kill those drug leaders & out their decapitated heads in a duffel bag#doesn’t have that complicated of a meaning other than ‘we’re trying to establish that the Red Hood is a bad guy’ and it’s still kicking dcs#ass to this day#I’ve seen So Many ‘Jason wasn’t in his right mind bc pit rage’ as well when that’s deadass not a thing for that comic.#it’s a narrative. he’s the bad guy. it’s not that complicated my dudes. i get that ppl are overthinking bad stuff jason has done to redeem#him in their minds. but like- guys. come on.#any other comic than under the red hood can help your argument. the one where he’s purposefully written as The Villain#when trying to prove your ‘Bruce viscously hates Jason’ theory doesn’t apply when Batman is the hero#taking down a rampaging serial killer.#>>#this be going for the majority of villains tbh#<< additionally. this.#shit sometimes is black and white#we can analyze relationships all we want but there comes a point to where you gotta understand you’re reading so far into it where you’re#ignoring the fact that comics are a narrative intending to tell a story and characters will fall into certain narrative troupes#when necessary#my b for ranting in the tags. i read a horrifically bad take on Jason a few days ago and had to rant about it.#you can defend Jason in other comics he’s in. just dear god why would you pick the one where he’s literally The Antagonist#to try to prove he’s your eepy little blorbo that’s done no wrong? don’t do the one where he’s The Bad Guy.#there’s other issues with Jason’s character and how dc writes him. let’s focus on those bc those make way more sense#bones writes in the tags#bones rambles in the tags
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You can spend a lot of time trying to justify everything a character has done, and it’s great to look at the reasoning behind their actions that people might not understand.
But you can also sometimes say yea it’s understandable why they did it but it was still a shitty thing to do, and that’s okay. Humans make mistakes, your favourite characters will too. It’s ok. It doesn’t make them bad people.
#not all explanations are excuses#shameless#ian gallagher#gallavich#mickey milkovich#this applies to every character#was it understandable why Ian bad mouthed Mickey in s6? yea absolutely#does that automatically make it ok? not imo tbh#doesn’t make him bad#just is what it is#we’ve all shit talked an ex#we’re human#but#it’s ok to look back and say ah I probably shouldn’t have said that#was it understandable why Mickey was upset in s10 after the marriage cert fight?#yea absolutely#did that give him the right to punch him? no not at all#he had the right to be angry but not to hit him#there is a lack of empathy & understanding in the fandom for Mickey in that storyline where people over hate him & over excuse Ian#but then also that’s about the rest of the storyline he still shouldn’t have hit him#it’s understandable why Ian shit talked Mickey but that doesn’t make what he said ok#they’re not perfect people you don’t need to try to make them out to be#none of these things are black and white#it’s either over hate or over excuse with shameless fans sometimes#there are a million things I could talk about where people over excuse characters actions#at the same time there’s so many where people over villainise them and don’t look at the nuances#like. WHEN will shameless fans realise it’s possible to do both#they are good people who’ve done bad things#they’ve been a toxic mess sometimes#AND THATS OK
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(ch 86, 74, 1, 3)
it took a long time for the manga to finally tell the full story of what happened to chises family, and i think it will take a while longer until we learn the full story of how seth met chise, and what led her to attempt suicide
i wont be "disappointed," per se, if we never see it, because it could come down to yamazaki feeling that the implication is enough, and maybe she just doesnt want to portray it explicitly for any number of reasons. but i think its important that we see her grapple with the memory of it, for the same reasons i rambled on about the dragon curse yesterday
chise is still unwilling to interrogate who she is as a person, for fear that she might not like the answer (see: "i think what i did was cruel, i wonder if im treating these people any differently than i would sheep?") its significant that when we learn of her past, we watch it as a passive observer - her memories are literally presented to her in the form of a tv with a vhs. shes able to watch without participating or being able to change anything. and thats all to be expected - she was a child without autonomy, completely beholden to the actions of adults. but when it comes to her attempt to "fly" - this is something still in fairly recent memory, and a choice she had the means to take. i believe we wont see the immediate events that led to her trafficking until chise reaches a point where she is able to wrestle with her identity and how its been informed by her ptsd. its probably why we also havent seen elias follow up on the above question from 74. if he asks her now, she wont be at a point where shes ready to answer
i think about seth and chises meeting a lot. do you think he followed her for a while before he decided to approach her? what was their brief time together like? its all very compelling to me
#original#chise#this is also why i say that tamb gives so much grace to its characters#because yes seth is a piece of shit trafficker. BUUUUUUT.....!!!! im compelled!!!! i cant say im not!!!!#tamb is fairly unwilling to paint people as inherently good or evil. who out there is doing it like yamazaki? i ask the congregation#i have a much more black and white view of the world sometimes so i admire how nuanced tamb is idk#like i think chise should explode people with lasers but i understand and respect why she doesnt#the ancient magus bride
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hey psst c'mere... no a little closer... a little closer- there we go
Loop lips are part of a racist caricature of Black people. Stop drawing Black characters with loop lips. I don't care how they look in canon, it's racist.
okay that's all you can go
#one piece#usopp#goes for other black characters too but this is the one that comes to mind rn.#not gonna get into other shit like 'lightening their skin to make them look prettier teehee'#or 'but they look better with wavy/straight hair!¡!!' or any of the number of other stuff ive seen#bc like. im not even sure folks can handle this one simple thing lmao#many people are great about this but theres still quite a few who are ass#'um! well the creator did it this way and i like him! and he did it on his white characters too!' dont give a shit.#stop drawing racist caricatures. i like op too but im not riding that guy's dick and twisting myaelf in knots trying to justify all his BS#we can agree he's bad at drawing women and he fumbles how he handles queer characters (sometimes. this is mostly referring to momoiro)#but you can't listen to folks who are constantly saying 'hey this is a racist depiction of black people. please dont draw like that'#like???#im gonna keep it 100 with you guys. i love one piece. its got me through some dark times. ive loved it for a long long time#i dont expect the creator to ever give me the time of day#but english fandom? english fandom i can change. and english fandom i can hold to a BARE MINIMUM standard of 'dont be racist'#and yet i still get disappointed. far more often than i should.#ignorance is one thing but the people who DOUBLE DOWN are the worst#thanks for telling me you prioritize your comfort over not being wildly offensive to me and people like me#idfk where i was going with this im just so goddamn tired#if u wanna know more about what im talking about in the post just look up the wiki for minstrel shows & jim crow
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I've seen many people say Alicent walking away from Aegon, as well as other scenes of her failing to comfort her kids is her "lacking empathy" or something along those lines
I've seen a lot of people say that empathy is a basic human trait, and that "anyone" would've gone to him and provided some form of comfort (e.g hugging, apologising, etc.)
NEED people to recognise that not everyone shows empathy the same way. That not everyone recieves empathy in the same way. There are many reasons to as why Alicent walked away, 1. Maybe she was worried she would only make things worse. 2. maybe she thought he preferred to be left alone.
We can see very clearly the emotions of pain on her face. She wants to help but doesn't know how, she's not really close with her children. So she doesn't know if her providing him comfort by hugging/her presence in the room with him would make things better or worse. E.g, myself- I love my friends and family dearly but sometimes when I'm grieving I need to be left alone and someone coming to talk/hug/be with me, regardless if their intention is to help, will honestly make things worse than better.
There is no one way to show empathy nor one way to receive empathy. I don't think it's fair for people to say this about Alicent when we don't know at all if it would've helped. In my opinion it's a very black and white view of something that is an extremely complex thing.
Grief isn't the same for everyone. Comfort from others isn't always the answer to grief. Grief can be shown in many forms.
It reminds me of how Helaena got a lot of hate after the b&c scene, and people saying she had no empathy/care for her children due to her reaction. Not everyone reacts the same to these things. If you would kick and scream that's valid, but people, like Helaena who would dissociate from shock and trauma are valid as well.
We're all completely different individuals, billions of us. We all experience things and show things different. Just because we may experience things differently, doesn't mean we are lacking of empathy.
In my opinion, the only people who fail to have empathy are the ones who cannot comprehend this.
#hotd#alicent hightower#house of the dragon#helaena targaryen#aegon targaryen#aegon the second#hotd s2#hotd alicent#hotd fandom critical#there's no black and white when it comes to grief and these things#people think providing someone comfort will always make them feel better#yes empathy is a basic trait#but again#Alicent is not close with her children she doesn't know if it would help she wants to but again she doesnt know how or if it would help#I don't think its her lacking empathy when you can clearly see the pain on her face#I have a strained relationship with one of my parents if I was in great grief and they tried to help it would become awkward and worse#I think alicent understands that#I mean shit even with my closest parent sometimes i just need to be left alone#so don't expect comforting by hugging/presence will always be the answer to things#empathy#true empathy is recognising these things aren't as easy as you think#and not shaming people and saying they lack empathy just because they reacted in a way you didn't comprehend
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eepiest little man in the building
#HIS EARS ARE SO BIG HELP#so ive heard type shit#he has a habit of tilting his head back when he’s being petted like he fucking CONKS it back its so funny#we visited a cat cafe today I wanna go back again… there are so many of them#the room was really well maintained like we wore shoe covers and everything. and there’s a back room for the cats to go if they wanna#tap out so thats nice. BUT THIS LIL GUY. OHHHHH LIL MAN#he looks almost completely black but he seems to have these slightly darker stripes which are hard to see..??#THERES ALSO AN ENORMOUS MAINE COON NICKNAMED THE KING OF THE ROOM? HES HUGE JESUS CHRIST#made friends with a curious white and orange one who looked like he was thinking of pouncing down on me#and a very VERY pretty white and silver point with blue eyes who was happy to greet everyone#my brother was stuck on the floor bc a Persian that snubbed everyone else looked at him like ‘you. your lap is MINE’#and kept him there for 20 minutes. another cat wanted a turn but the Persian claimed him ;w;#my brother was popular with the cats bc they could probably sense he’s the calmest person in the room LOL#diary#yapping#cats#I wanna go back again sometime…
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i think light yagami is "socially adept" in terms of being able to reason out relatively well what to say and do to come off as a harmless and good and polite young man who is likeable to be around. however i do not think "socially adept" (or "neurotypical") typically comes with having to preface every other normal-passing action and statement with a minor crisis of "ah shit. quick, what would i say/do in response to this if i was light yagami, a normal and nice and respectable young man?"
everyone likes to talk about him talking about kira in third person but can we acknowledge that he also talks about LIGHT in third person. i'm not adding manga panels at 3:57am but y'all know exactly which ones i mean
#light is decent at masking but he is NOT coming off as perfect to anyone who looks at him with a critical eye. like L or near#it's just that a lot of people take him at face value#he's handsome he gets top grades his dad is the police chief his family adores him girls like him etc#and he gets to skate off of that a lot until someone comes around and questions the mask#he unravels so fast once he gets closer to L. he fucks up the misa thing so badly even HE has to admit to L's face#that kira probably didn't think things through with the second kira and kind of panicked#ughhhhhhhhhhh i have so many thoughts about him. he works very hard to come off as socially competent. it's a learned skill not innate#i firmly believe there is some shit going on w light in terms of mental conditions. HOWEVER#i also believe he was relatively 'normal' up until the death note sent a lot of that shit spiralling#lots of mentally ill people live pretty normal lives it turns out! a lot of us can get by and sort of manage!#even if it means masking and coping as needed#i don't think you have to be mentally ill to react to the death note the way light did#i do think it oiled some clockwork that was already ticking though#anyway. light is socially competent to some degree because he tries to be. sometimes it backfires. sometimes he misses. normal stuff#trying to say he is objectively socially adept or inept is futile though#but ig what is death note without black and white thinking and what is the dn fandom without diving into the nuances under the surface layer
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community college is so funny because half of the teachers are like "For this class you need to use lockdown browser for all quizzes and tests. You need to buy this 70 dollar textbook, and all papers turned in must be in APA format with a title page even if they're only 500 words long. I will not accept late assignments. Also you have a minimum of 4 assignments a week." and the other half are like "you don't need proctoring for the final exam I trust you. here's a download link to a pirated copy of the textbook. as long as your writing is coherent and demonstrates an understanding of the material I literally could not care less what format you use. I can't figure out how canvas works so I'm not giving you due dates, just make sure it's turned in before the grading period ends. your only weekly assignment is a forum post with a minimum of 100 words."
#my favorite teacher so far is still the film history professor I had in my first semester.#he was very old and didn't understand how canvas worked at all and sometimes had trouble opening a video file#but simultaneously he was tech literate enough to recommend we use firefox with an ad blocker#because whenever someone missed class and was like 'where do i go to find the movie' he'd be like 'use an ad blocker and google it'#he said the school made him stop emailing links to free movie sites because people would open them on chrome with no ad block#and there'd be borderline malware on them. like this guy gave me the impression he was like. a veteran movie pirate lol.#that class had barely any assignments. like there wasn't a final exam or anything.#he just wanted us to write a paragraph or so answering a few questions about the movies we watched. it was chill.#and i also learned a lot actually. like i didn't know what a nickelodeon was before then. or the Hays Code.#the movies were genuinely good. i never thought Id be that into old black and white movies or westerns for example but they actually slapped#some of them had really mature themes and i definitely started to understand the people on this website who are like#'if the only media you consume is children's media you should maybe branch out instead of calling steven universe problematic'#because a lot of the movies we watched depicted very 'problematic' things and were able to directly address them because they are for adults#(to clarify I didn't just like kids media before then. i just mean that it introduced me to some older stuff i didn't think I'd like)#(but i ended up liking a lot. it also made me realize that movies made today are kind of shit. which i also already knew)#(but it put it more into perspective because I have more to compare it to)#im rambling now. community college is pretty swag i enjoy it. and i do get along with the teachers who have crazy requirements too lol.
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Idk if anyone talked about it but like on an impulse's stream a few days ago I guess ppl were pointing out how light skinned bdubs' character was on that graffiti and scar was confused by that, and on impulse's stream he actually mentioned it to him bc bdubs himself didn't actually think about it. Obvious from a viewer pov we notice the difference between him model skin versus that graffiti, it's obviously different. But from the irl perspective, and someone I wondered about myself, is that bdubs' was like. "idk if I'm white" lol. And it's a valid thing to question tbh and I hope some fans here heard that. He knows he has middle eastern descent and he recognizes that but it seems he never thought about whether or not he considers himself white or not, especially in the context of not thinking twice about the block color on the wall. I'm not saying this to make any kinda point I'm just mentioning it bc I found it interesting hear him actually kinda address that fact
#it doesnt change the fact we see a color difference regardless#in things like the mc marketplace especially#and that art was also just plain bad lol#but from like. idk the word not 'political' you know#perspective to hear it from his end just. means more than fan assumptions ya know#thats the thing too when yoire not black i hear a lot of people wkth slightly dark skin who sometimes say they dont know#if they consider themselves white. not regarding priviledges of skin color#its kinda... up to the person to see if they think theyre in that category#and i hope people dont try to 'decide' for him bc thats not the way#and i also hope people dont get mad or some shit
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I've been complaining a lot lately about people not having enough media literacy but seeing some of ya'll's takes on this banger new season of Black Mirror has me wondering if you guys have... too much media literacy.
#it goes full circle lol#if i see one more it was boring and predictable post#i saw someone say true crime junkies will love loch henry#oh the episode?? criticizing true crime as a concept??#will they love it film bro steven??#film bro jonathan?#film bro chad?#what episodes of black mirror dO you all like#is it just white christmas#they really upped the game from last season this shit was good!#every single episode was good#aLSO MY GOD WITH THE THERE WAS NO TECH THING#each episode involved tech it just wasn't always new#sometimes it was our tech today creating a scary concept#is that not worse somehow?#i think it's worse i like it#i also think i'm gonna fight tooth and nail for the werewolf as a metaphor in mazey day#i love the supernatural as a metaphor and i think this take was super interesting#i would've loved more hints beforehand tho#black mirror#black mirror spoilers#melissa og#melissa on black mirror
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as the masculine woman who wasn't allowed to use the girl's bathroom in school and to this day have straight women prefer to stand than sit next to me at the bus or question if it's "appropriate" to have me in school staff teaching teenagers. the only "gaslighting" in this is the pretense that it is either a new phenomena or increasing because of The Trans Question being divisive in current gringo politics. when it's classic lesbophobia that always existed and honestly if you ask me things have been improving. but then I do feel like transphobia itself is a restriction of homo/lesbophobia against the mostly visibly gender non conforming of us.
#straight women hate lesbians and bisexual women#sometimes straight women who are a bit of tomboys are also targeted by it#poor women are typically more likely to be masculinized in these manners because we are already seen as dangerous and capable of doing hard#work or taking abuse. sometimes this class aspect gets conflated with specific racial and ethnic groups#to the point where honestly I call most of the mistrust other women have against me 'lesbophobia' but it is likely some comes from me still#having a clearly class marked accent and fashion sense. and the fact I call myself a white mestiza but everyone can tell I have black blood#and that's a problem in itself#like this is all such basic lessons on the world and oppression I learnt this shit at 6 when I first got beat up for being too masculine#why are we pretending it's 'complicated'?#your privilege makes you biased against minority women. I don't know if based on class race or sexuality but fix your shit#women bring scared of me never made me a man#but this is also why I do have a lot of sympathy for trans men and can understand and accept if that's the path they choose#for me it was always straight women who were traitors...#.txt
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"....When did we get to the point where natural hair is no longer associated with ...Black People? Black Women?"
Non blacks pls dni.
Have to amplify this woman's valid and articulate short on the relevance of this topic bc, whew smh, I have discussed the same thing here — and am both just as disturbed (and honestly? a little let down?) by Black Women letting go the equity we had in natural hair. Esp just to pick harmful maintenance/norms right back up. I do understand that we, as a race of women all by ourselves, have sooooooo many odds stacked against us regarding what we do with our hair and how we take care of it, but I cannot for the life of me understand what the purpose or benefit is supposed to be in returning to things that actually harm us disproportionately.
For good measure, she also spoke more directly and at length about this issue, it's toxically influential spaces and platforms — as well as the colorism, texturism and misogynoir in general at it's core. So glad I'm not the only Black Woman being transparent about how backwards the nhc/nhm is going.
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#the nhm was not an All Women movement idc idc idc#it was for black women#not black-identifying women#not mixed women#not nbwoc#not white women#it was literally for black women#wtf happened fr?#there is NO presence now for type 4 hair in anything even parodized as nAtUrAl HaIr#it is so depressing sometimes#seeing how prevalently we're still wasting time money & energy on the same ol shit#genuinely want fucking better for us#came so far for what? to reach for the poison in the future anyhow?#like you have no idea how badly it makes me wanna grab & shake the living shit out of some of yall#& tell you how fucking beautiful you are#how beautiful your natural hair is. how valid you are regardless of what you do with it#like omfg im so tired of the stigmas about us#so tired of the stereotypes#so tired of the misogynoir ass preconceived notions about our hair that a lof of bw BEEN disproved#going back to perms isn't helping that cause tho#it's not helping little black girls feel esteemed about their appearance or hair texture#it's not helping us at all idgaf stop justifying this#black hair#natural hair#black women#black tumblr#black twitter#textured hair#misogynoir#non blacks dni
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maybe i’m just easily annoyed (and the news is depressing), but i feel like people on here (or the internet in general lbr) are more willing to criticize/dismiss (even label unrelated things as) “white feminism” (even if it’s bringing up important/relevant issues) than talk about feminism at all. sexism exists in every community you can think of, within every race, ethnicity, social class, religion, nationality, sexuality, what-have-you. it’s easier and more entertaining ig to point out how feminism is lacking or who’s doing feminism “wrong” then attempt to bridge/fill the gaps and actually, Seriously Talk about sexism in detail (and not like it’s some sort of 2nd tier, we’ll circle back to this much later, type of oppression which i Really get the impression of, even within supposedly-progressive spheres) on the regular and not as a series of gotcha posts that get enthusiastically reblogged for a blip in time and then. crickets. like as far as the patriarchy’s concerned (like if i’m looking at this from their perspective), this nitpicking appears very divide-and-conquer. nothing goes anywhere. and things just keep slipping backwards. maybe i’m crazy (maybe i’m way off base), but isn’t feminism meant to help All women, even the ones you dislike? even the ones you hate? like what’s going on here? am i missing something?
#like i definitely was one of those people who dismissed certain issues as 'white feminist' but honestly#i feel like in the long run that's done a lot more harm than good#opening up different websites gives me whiplash sometimes like. oh you HATE women here. ok.#and then watching the news like. oh so EVERYONE hates women. that's crazy!#or maybe i'm just a debbie downer#i'm black btw if it needs to be said. like this isn't me necessarily defending white feminism but honestly#even the most privileged silver spoon conventionally attractive white bread women deal with horrific sexism#we saw that with amber heard (for a very recent example)#just bc 'white feminism' has a lot of blind spots doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about feminism at all#and at least on tumblr that's what it feels like has happened. i could be living in a bubble tho. we all have our blind spots#rambles#feminism#this is very stream of consciousness i just had shit to say.
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white queer people genuinely cannot find the time to self reflect on their behavior without saying that black queer people speaking about behaviors within queer spaces that are usually very specific to white people are hiding their misogyny or transphobia or transandrophobia (???) or transmisogyny or homophobia or bigotry behind the word "white". Yall genuinely cant do anything but not misinterpret black people's words to create new problems with speaking about white peers in their communities and use them for white people (you) to deflect criticism. yall cant try to understand a black person's perspective on performing certain behaviors without screaming how they're being "blatant bigots" hiding behind the word "white". Yall cant do anything but deflect and demonize us when we acknowledge yall whiteness and how it affects your perspective on performing behaviors that are tied to structures by (cishet) white people that are meant to harm marginalized people
#i dont think queer people want to acknowledge that white people have the power to use their marginalized status against black people#because of mainly how whiteness and victimhood are connected to justify demonizing (and dehumanizing) poc esp black people#im sorry that sometimes we black people are not fucking gentle and are vocal about social dynamics and social context and idk. Shit???
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#random thoughts#i still wish my skin were darker or lighter sometimes so i could be “normal”.#and that doesn't even make any sense.#because most of the time i'm the “white one”. significantly more white-passing (or adjacent) in comparison to my brother.#it's always “if your brother is black then why are you white?” “holy shit you're such a basic white girl.” “so you want to be a white male?#okay then. go be a white man.”#and so it's always white white white until ha ha racism is funny now!!#and they all go “ha ha look the spanish word for black is negro!! that's you that's you look isn't that so funny!!”#and “woah your skin is so dark!! i bet you like watermelon and chicken!!”#and “you're such a fucking monkey i hate your kind!!”#yeah you're so fucking funny racism is so hilarious!!!!!!!#(sorry about sharing this i just have. opinions. sometimes being biracial is. a lot to think about.)
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wish real life came with sims-style relationship status bars so i could know what people really thought of me
#its weenie-ish and desperate to ask people if they like you and want you around#(apparently. anyway.)#and also sometimes they take offense to the notion. if yourse like#'nobody likes me or wants me around'#'everyone hates me'#so it'd be nice if i could have somwthing to look at and know im not hated#its all well and good for people to come in with assurances that people think well of me#even if i cant twll#tell*#but like. tell that to my social anxiety lmfao#i quite like clear cut evidence of positive regard of me#because it look at this shit v black and white you see and if they dont obviously like me#then they must secretly hate me#much more likely im disliked than liked anyway#considering what a nothingburger of a person i am#oh well#to the void with love
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