#sick of these gay people honestly

[wishchip106]

i wonder if you put some cherik dialogue into a romance movie format would it still sound the same

“theres so much more to you than you know. not just pain and anger, theres good too i felt it”

“no helmet, i couldn’t disobey you even if i wanted 😏”

“YOU ABANDONED ME!!”

etc. etc.

they put rom-com characters in the wrong movie!! 😧😧😧

[zoluulife]

Imma say it, it’s so funny seeing zosan Stan’s saying that thriller bark is a zosan moment. Like is the zosan moment in the room with us..? I think personally the reason zoro didn’t let sanji take the pain instead of him was because of the duty he felt as a first mate. He felt obliged to be the sacrifice, he knew he had to be. But also because I mean come on it’s Luffy zoro will do anything for Luffy including giving his life for him. He values and respects Luffy the most out of anyone.

He didn’t not let sanji do it bc he was in love with him or something that’s just stupid, and honestly something zosan shippers say bc they are desperate for something. The whole zoro giving his life for Luffy vs sanji saying he should instead moment if you look at the two manga panels you will see an difference. Even though zoro says it for the crew it’s clear that his actual main reason for doing it was for Luffy while with sanji when he said he should be the one to do it it’s clearly shown he was talking about the crew in a whole.

The two panels are so different thriller bark IS zolu angst arc cry if you think otherwise bc that little “hand holding “ thing sanji did when he fainted was NOT a zosan moment

[3-2-1-annihilation-station]

"Phoenix and Edgeworth are just friends!"

Ah, yes. Dedicating your entire life and career in hopes of just meeting the one guy who defended you once in fourth grade is just something friends do.

So is doing it again just because he asks you to even though the process to get it back is extremely difficult, the job has gotten you routinely injured, and you've been out of it for seven years.

Having a scrapbook entirely dedicated to him too is also something friends just do along with calling him Daddy while you're both at work in what is supposed to be an extremely professional setting. Same with the guy also inexplicably having a picture of you wet and shirtless just lying around.

That's totally just friend stuff, yeah. Ain't nothing to see here.

**Edit:**Some people are taking this post as an attack on ace people, people who just believe they’re friends, or is saying that Phoenix’s behavior is fine and normal if it’s romantic but suddenly not if it's just purely platonic.

Spoiler alert: it’s doing none of those things.

This post is simply pointing out the sheer insanity of Phoenix’s behavior and how what he does is not by any stretch what friends typically do for each other and nor is it healthy, regardless of the circumstances. It is just saying that while it would still be incredibly unhealthy, it being romance based would have it make a lot more sense.

[winepresswrath]

beloved nemesises.

[illogicalghost]

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[justaz]

sick and tired of the needing to know every aspect and technicality of a ship’s domestic life. “theyre two boys, how will they have kids” idk thru the power of homosexuals?? stop asking me, why does it matter???

[redheadedfailgirl]

No actually. Fuck this. This fucking blows. Trans people don't need Jesus or God's mercy or whatever other fucking fantasy y'all have decided you need to be complete.

The reason trans people don't join christian churches is because they are a 'community' that fundamentally excludes difference. No matter how many new interpretations of the Bible you make, you cannot erase the history of violence, colonialism, and exclusion done in the name of this God. Trans people are not participating now, and likely will not ever, for good reason.

There is no 'true message of Jesus,' there is only this history, this violence created by Christians, with the very intention of creating a world where trans people cannot live. When people try to find the 'true message,' or show the 'correct' interpretation of the Bible, they are trying to erase this history. They are asking you to be complacent, even while Christianity is being used as a cudgel to exclude, erase, deny, and kill trans people.

You don't need Christianity for community. Trans people are forming that well enough. You don't need it to reject cruel hierarchies or fight oppression. Those things are good on their own and should be done on their own merit. Folks like this are trying to hijack something good for their own ends and skip something cruel into what would otherwise be a beautiful thing.

[nilovalentine]

you guys ever think about how many of the 'straight women fetishizing gay men' from 5 years ago are now gay trans men. Isn't that kinda funny

[givemedamage]

Hi! Sorry if this sounds weird but seeing you post so much art of your sona and Eliyah has genuinely given me the like, confidence to draw my own sona and oc's interacting :). So thank you for that! Unrelated to that but how do you draw poses and expressions for your characters is just really good, I love it. I hope you have a great day!

oh my goshing goodness it doesn’t sound weird at all and even if it did it would be Good Weird (like the kind of Good Weird drawing ur sona interacting w ur ocs is) this makes me so :))))) and :333333 thank YOU seriously Heart Hands

[seilon]

pro: ran into a coworker at a bar last night who I don’t really talk to usually (he works upstairs, I work downstairs) and we talked and im pretty sure we were highkey flirting and he bought me a drink and the bar merch shirt i was interested in and thanks to the power of alcohol i guess i asked for his number and he gladly gave it to me and. yeah

con: i have the second worst hangover i have ever had and have been fighting for my fucking life just to eat saltines

[highfantasy-soul]

So I'm going to poke my toe into BookTok drama for a second here, so if you're not interested in a bunch of queer people denying queer book bans, ignorance of screen readers for blind people, and assuming that a queer author saying he's experiencing the effects of homophobia as he's trying to sell his books is actually just lying for publicity....keep scrolling

This issue is layered, so I'll go through some of them.

Pretty much, a blind, gay TikToker got a pretty big following by posting videos of his husband doing harmless pranks on him due to his blindness (think 'how long will it take my husband to notice I'm surrounding him with stuffed penguins', 'how long will it take my husband to notice we're wearing the same outfit', stuff like that). It's super wholesome and shows that partners can still prank and joke with one another - including a disability - rather than having to tip toe around it and pretend the disability is so awful, horrible, they'll never be happy again if they remember they're blind.

The blind partner has a degenerative eye condition where he started out being able to see, but his vision is slowly going completely, but he had a love for art and drew a bunch, so his goal became to 1) find accessibility tools to help him draw (he found iPads with their brightness turned to max and zooming in to work on a tiny square at a time worked well for him), and 2) to publish picture books before he fully lost all vision.

The incident I'm talking about isn't the first time he's spoken out about being treated poorly due to his minority status - usually over his guide dog not being allowed in businesses or people being rude/inconsiderate about his dog. He's even been on the news about such incidents trying to raise awareness, for example, so people know that some blind people do still have enough vision to be able to look at you when you're talking to them but it doesn't mean they're safe to walk about a busy street without a guide dog.

Recently, he's been posting more content about the books that he's published - very cute children's books about a gay penguin couple helping out all their animal friends.

The incident in question was a video he posted where he was devastated because a bookstore bought 100 copies of his book, but then returned them saying 'the content isn't something that aligns with what we want in our bookstore'. He had his screen reader read out the email and only gave the first name of the sender - not naming the bookstore or the manager's full name (the same thing he did with the restaurant who kicked him out because he had his guide dog with him - his reason being that he wasn't looking to shame or punish, but rather bring awareness and hopefully the chance to learn and grow from the event).

He said it was heartbreaking that he lost that sale due to what he believes was homophobia and it's crazy that his book had been banned.

This, of course, started some discourse.

Many started making videos about this claiming that he was lying for attention and publicity (as many people obviously started ordering his book due to that video) and that his story didn't line up with 'how the industry works'. Not to mention the slew of abelist remarks about how the 'voicemail' sounded AI generated even though it's clear in the original video it's his screen reader reading off an email. And who can forget the rows of commenters under those videos claiming 'something always felt off about them', 'I always did get a bad feeling about them', 'the book isn't even that good anyways!' when the 'call out' had no proof, only a bunch of assumptions that they THOUGHT the author was lying.

So I'm seeing a few things that stand out: many indie authors have been coming out 'debunking' the 100 copy order claiming that never in the history of the world has a bookstore ever ordered 100 copies of a book, not even from a well known author. To that point, the OG poster made a follow up video explaining more about the situation in that that order was for a signing on-location. One of the bookstore employees had made the arrangements, ordered the books for the signing, but then someone higher up decided to cancel the event due to 'the content of the books'. As many others in the comments pointed out, it's normal for signing events to have 100 copies of a book purchased, especially a short children's book.

To me, this argument that 'he's lying because bookstores don't buy that many books' is a massive assumption and kinda reeks of jealousy that THEIR debut book didn't do that! No mention of the fact that this guy has a huge TikTok following or that he's been on the news several times for non-book related things. That type of exposure does lead to more people knowing your name and being more likely to put in orders.

Another claim was that 'stores wouldn't order books they hadn't personally read, especially not 100 copies/set up a signing'. This comment tells me they have never worked for a shitty boss before. Shitty bosses delegate - they make their employees do EVERYTHING and rarely look it over until the last minute because they couldn't be bothered. The author's follow-up video also said that he was informed the employee that set up the event was no longer working at the company - no detail about that situation, but a reasonable assumption would be that they were fired due to ordering 100 books about a gay penguin when the store owner was conservative and didn't want to stock gay books. Of course, the only reason for return given was 'the content of your book does not align with what we want on our shelves' so, you do the math.

I think what gets me most are gay people coming after the author claiming 'stop saying your book is banned! That's not how that works!! That's not what that word means! Stop watering it down!'

To me, this reads as so many people thinking 'book bans' are only some nebulous concept - not tangible things that can happen in every-day life. Book bans are only big, scary, Supreme Court cases where every single store in the country will no longer be allowed to carry any queer books at all. So when it happens small scale, a store telling an author they won't stock their book because it 'doesn't align with the content they want to promote', that's not actually banning - that's just a business doing what they are legally allowed to do! (Yes, a queer author literally said a bookstore refusing to shelve a queer book wasn't banning it, it was just the bookstore making a reasonable business decision).

Book bans are whenever an entity - public or private - refuse to shelve a book because it has content they disagree with. That's literally it. No laws required, no big movement by Mom's for Liberty, just a single store owner refusing to carry a product for the express reason they don't want a gay book on their shelves.

Concepts don't stop being real when they become...real. Why scream and cry all day about the US banning queer books, but then when an author comes out and says 'my book was sent back because the bookstore found out it was queer', the immediate response is 'Thatls not how book bans work!! You must be lying for attention!!'. Are book bans really a thing we need to be worried about or not? Sounds like those 'queer authors' don't actually think it could happen to them...it's only the nebulous concept they're worried about, not the every-day reality of discrimination.

Another massive thing I think has come of this discourse is leftist's purity politics. As long as you're quietly weeping in your poorly-lit apartment with shitty video quality and only 50 followers, you're telling the truth, you're down for the cause, you're really facing discrimination. The MOMENT you don't look like you're struggling anymore financially, the MOMENT you get publicity beyond TikTok, you must be lying. You magically no longer are able to be discriminated against, you must just be lying for more attention.

A queer Latino author actually said 'he's weaponizing white twink tears to sell his book' - claiming that the whole thing was just made up for publicity (with no proof). Is there a huge issue with white privilege in society and in the queer community? Yeah. But that doesn't mean that they suddenly don't also face homophobia.

It's like the left HATES when anyone succeeds at anything. Be an aspiring author, be an aspiring content creator, but the MOMENT you gain any level of success, SCREW YOU, YOU'RE A SELLOUT, YOU'RE A SHILL, YOU LIE ABOUT YOUR MINORITY STATUS FOR ATTENTION!!! Do some people lie about that stuff to get ahead, sure! But you better have proof that's what they're doing, or else you're just making being public about your minority status a minefield for EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO'S A MINORITY!! You are HURTING gay people when you dismiss their stories of experiencing homophobia - just because they have a level of success you don't!

This is a rambling rant that I don't blame no one for reading. But I just had to get it out of my system after seeing so many responses to the author's initial post where there were no facts, no evidence that the guy was lying - it was all assumptions about how the person THOUGHT the bookstore business worked, and everyone in the comments ate it up like it was fact and have started turning on this blind, gay author just trying to sell his children's books about gay penguins.

The og author doesn't need to provide 'receipts' naming the bookstore. He's worked through stuff like this privately with the offending business in order to rectify the situation without blowing up the person's life (they aren't the ones with the platform, he is, and if it's a private business, he's stated he's not interested in sending angry mobs their way, he just wants the situation to be known so others can do better).

In today's age of 'gotta show receipts so I can go mob the offending party and feel good about myself', withholding that info can look like you're just making stuff up for 'clout' or whatever - but another idea is that whipping up targeted hate isn't going to solve the underlying issue - talking about it broadly might (so if the individual business gets negative reviewed to oblivion and closes down, people don't dust their hands off and think 'well done, we did it' and walk away and ignore the numerous other businesses doing the exact same thing).

Ironically, those demanding receipts offer none of their own, only baseless assumptions of how they THINK things work and how 'well if it hasn't happened to me, it must mean it never happens!', whipping up their own angry mobs who are too eager to tear down a queer disabled author because he's gotten a level of success.

[girlkomaeda]

thinking about replaying all the danganronpa games and reading more of the novels and spin offs n stuff…

[dykepaldi]

feels massively delusional at this point to think any other doctors are gonna be in the 60th but i’m happy to be surprised

[sunsoak]

Everyone’s all “nonbinary is included in every sexuality” until a nonbinary person who is on hormones prefers men who like men and women who like women and all of a sudden I’m being problematic and offensive to…….. well everyone I guess

[dumbdomb]

i immediately block r/196, refugees from twitter/x and reddit, and other platforms

[knxfesck]

Called my grandma today and she used the words "woke mob" unironically I'm going to fucking shank the new dickhead fascist white priest at her church