#shit sometimes is black and white

[bonebrokebuddy]

bone

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

[nox-in-a-box]

alone

21.01.2025

[meaningtotellyou]

young black girls in suburbia with no other black friends in a group of nonblack (white) girls i see you and i love you

[wasabikitcat]

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."

[eyebulb]

Helluva fandom rant incoming!

I have mostly been hanging in the Stolitz tag for my daily dose of helluva until now... cus they're my main focus atm and makes me happy. Now during con times I've been on the Helluva Boss tag instead and my god... that's not at all a fun place to be. What's with haters insisting on still using the normal tag?.. It's not for you, go somewhere else. I've been in a lot of fandoms over the years.. I'm 30 years old and started using the internet early.. I've seen a lot of anti's over the years. But.. I can't remember one this intense... At least not one that you saw everywhere you go.. And not on this kind of morality police cruise they're on. Like sure, Undertale got a lot of hate when it got popular but it was mostly just about the cringe factor and how overrated it was (Which I don't agree with, still love that shit) But it's just.. these people refuse to accept that their view of the show is not universal.. They accuse the show of glorifying rape and abuse and whatever and try to gaslight anyone who disagrees into thinking that it's OBVIOUSLY the case you're just too stupid to see it.. or whatever.. It's like they believe that we who love the show have been brainwashed into it or something.. instead of accepting that maybe.. you're just reading too much into it and projecting your own version onto the show? I've seen so many excuses about how "If Viv didn't want us to think that, why did she write it like that?" and it's just... not a true statement.. cus a LOT of people didn't at all see what you see. a LOT of people actually got the same impression that Viv and the crew has stated they wanted to show. YOU and a group of people insist that it's Viv's fault that you think the way you do but it's not even close to a universal take so how does that make sense? I'm sorry, but you're on your own.. it's your own mind making those decisions and that's fine, whatever.. but leave the rest of us alone. Trying to make everyone hate the show isn't gonna do shit for morality as a whole. Just leave it the fuck alone. And I'm so fucking glad that Viv actually don't take those criticisms to heart cus imagine her changing the show based on what those who HATE it feels? Way to make us who love it also hate it. If you hate it, your opinion means nothing and you should seek some therapy to find out why you care so much and why you want to ruin other people's fun... Or if you wanna continue to hate and rant.. do it with the rest of the anti's.. stop using the tags shared by those who love the show and just want to share their appreciation with people.

[tigwalen]

another niche discussion that I would wish happen is - white natives stop over explaining why you are white.

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

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.

[clumsypuppy]

eepiest little man in the building

[cassmouse]

Okay so I think I've finally finished having my long think about teen Shauna lmao

I really really love her arc and I think her whole journey so far is one of the best in the series (probably alongside Nat who also has incredible character progression) and USUALLY I'm all over deranged characters (Villanelle, Rhiannon Lewis, Alice Morgan, Emma Grossman... The list goes on)

HOWEVER

I think the reason I'm not perceiving Shauna in the same way as this long parade of other absolutely deranged female characters is because you're not MEANT to. The show is raw and dark and mildly upsetting with her on PURPOSE and I think I'm picking up what they're putting down- her portrayal, like most of the other characters, isn't MEANT to be black and white- in the context of the show, there isn't really a definite you should or shouldn't fully like her at any given point (ESPECIALLY not now with it getting particularly complicated)

She's an excellent character and I understand her motivations and actions and that's the important thing- however unfortunately I still can't get behind them in the latter half of the season 😭 girl I get it but watching all the actual damage she's doing to the others DOES invoke similar feelings that I have for Aemond in HotD and that's not a good thing

[single-malt-scotch]

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

[xmads-omensx]

Hey!

So sorry about this again lmao, but I have finally managed to make the taglist form multi-choice, so if you would like to be more specific about what taglists you are on, feel free to fill it out again!

I have also added Ricky 'Horror' Olson from Motionless In White to my taglist too, so if you are interested in that, you are more than welcome to fill out the form just to select that option, if you are already on other taglists.

Updated Taglist form

Thanks so much!

-Madsy xoxoxo

(the link to the form is also on my masterlist if anyone is looking for it at a later date!)

[dominote]

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

[quicquam-dot-com]

Y'all I've figured out how to bring back american manufacturing

Someone needs to make muscle cars and those 50s cars with the chrome fins and those really pretty bubbly trucks and put the bass boat sparkles back in car paint and make the cars colorful again

Also make colorful vintage looking appliances again even if you don't put in the reliability of old appliances you'll still have a market

it's time to make america look cool again

(and if anyone says "well who has the money to buy a new car",first of all, valid, but THE INITIAL DEMOGRAPHIC IS PEOPLE WHO WERE ALIVE FOR THOSE THE FIRST TIME AROUND!! THEY HAVE MONEY, PLAY TO THEIR NOSTALGIA!!)

[kouhai-deactivated]

"....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.

[nero-neptune]

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?

[supahstarrr]

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