#sorry for the rant i just genuinely hate how ppl act like their experience of disability means ppl cant hate their own

[235uranium]

"you wouldn't be disabled if the world was built to accommodate mobility differences!" and here I thought it was being in pain + having a chronic illness that can cause just about every symptom!

[jayflrt]

ew wtf why would anyone think it’s appropriate to post that in the first place 💀 a lot of engenes seem to have a problem with sexualizing the maknae line and i honestly don’t understand how hard it can be to just not do it 😭 like srsly nothing is forcing you to be like this,, and the worst part is a lot of them are minors like sure maybe in theory, depending on the person, you might be okay if someone treated you the same way, but would you really?? 🥲 i really hate saying the whole treat others the way you want to be treated thing but why can’t we 😭 also minors who actively read works that aren’t meant for them kind of piss me off,, i’m a minor and when i was in 6th grade, during p.e., a girl literally tried to show me austin and ally smut and she told me it was vore and then tried to explain to me what that was 🤕💀 i really didn’t need to know and i honestly don’t think she even knew what it was but i’d rather not look it up 🤧 i’m okay with not knowing ,,, but honestly i think among children themselves, people feel a little better and proud knowing that they know more than others and are more mature bc of it, which isn’t always the case … i didn’t even know what sex was in elementary school, yet in 4th grade, i accidentally stumbled across full fledged smut for the lunar chronicles while searching for trivia and fan theories 😭 i literally had no idea what happened and then as time went on, i finally realized i had read smtg that i probably shouldn’t have 🤧 helppp i’m sorry for the rant but i’ve had like so many traumatic fanfic related experiences in school 🤕

i’m genuinely curious as well !! (or not bc i don’t think i wanna know) 😭😭 i wish i could tell you but some people have some sick fantasies :// im not sure why it’s so hard not to treat them like normal ppl like 😭 ppl either infantilize them or sexualize them like pls .. yeah they’re children but they’re like 17-19, they’re not sucking pacifiers or drinking out of baby bottles. and most of the time it’s engenes younger than them who are treating them like babies or saying they’re gonna “act up” bc of them 💀 i think ppl have forgotten that that phrase implies smthn sexual…….

AUSTIN AND ALLY SMUT PLS WHATTT okay i never thought vore was sexual i thought it was just swallowing someone whole until now 😭😭 i think stan twt twisted the term into smthn very casual unfortunately but i remember it was huge in 2019-2020 twt

and yeah !! reading smut doesn’t make you any more or less innocent 😭 this stuff happening irl is wayyy different than the fluffed up version you read on a screen 🗿 but i notice many minors read smut to prove that they can “handle” it ?? and that they’re “dirty minded” like it’s a flex or smthn LOL but you have to respect adult boundaries just like adults have to respect minor’s boundaries 😭 i’m sorry you experienced that and that it made you uncomfortable tho anon :((

[sapphicwhxre]

tiny pansy rant, cut short so it’s *hopefully* not too long:

i. wanted. to. see. her. change! and in my opinion the reason she never got the chance was because jkr used her character to make fun of people she disliked :/

pretty much all the other noteable slytherins had some sort of redemption arc,, and yeah they’re still mostly problematic people but they got chances: snape, draco, narcissa, regulus, slughorn, leta and technically andromeda? you get the point i just—

like miss ma’am decided to make pansy,, the like slytherin stereotype? and have her want to betray harry? she was seventeen ffs, not bellatrix lestrange. she was in the middle of a war? in my personal opinion i don’t think that she wanted to hand harry over out of cruelty like. it’s possible? but maybe she was just scared? also don’t we know that pansy was terrified at the thought of like. voldemort coming to hogwarts? again: everyone expects all of the children in harry potter to be these selfless brave individuals,, they’re kids :( yes ik it’s ya fantasy but cmon. they were supposed to be stressed about the N.E.W.T exams not the upheaval of their society?

and don’t get me wrong i know that she was. not a good person. she was a bitchy teenage bully who was taught hateful views. but i wanted to see her change even a little– even draco marries someone who presumably teaches him how to treat people equally? like. there was so much room for change: she was a prefect, she was capable of some kindness seeing as she liked draco, or alternatively, we could’ve seen her break away from draco and potentially stop hating harry/all his friends quite so much or develop her own opinions. or maybe her group of friends that she used for validation throughout her school years was uprooted during the war and she had to learn that independency? or her pointing out harry could’ve been turned into trying to be selfless, like she thought they’d be safe that way, or she returned later fighting with reinforcements to show she was on Hogwarts’ side. jkr is always like "well they technically came back to fight, if you squint » but that’s not enough. also? let’s say we did get a glimpse of her during the actual battle: there could’ve been anything, the smallest scene, that showed some sort of support or reconciliation or something between her and hermione, considering how hermione was often pansy’s target. everybody wants to see forgiveness between draco and harry because of minor events/details (i dislike drarry but that’s besides the point), but imagine what could’ve changed with some semblance of apology or assistance from pansy to hermione. there were so many chances for r*wling to give her a smallest redemption

but instead we got her characterized as evil and a stupid, cowardly traitor. she the only person we ever see her care for marries her friends younger sister. she’s the written depiction of jkr’s bitterness and her arc is jkr’s vengeance.

also, another reason that i’m so mad she got nothing is because of the whole slytherin=evil thing. she’s made into a stereotype of a “slytherin”— cruel, selfish, shallow, ugly, and asinine. (also i could rant about slytherin forever, but can we just mention that jkr consistently refers to slytherins as physically ugly and just how fucked up that is? i– wtf). but anyway: to give pansy a chance to change is to give the slytherin house a chance to change its reputation. trying to justify that the slytherin house got its redemption because of the actions of ppl like snape or regulus, etc isn’t possible. because all of those “slytherin heroes” were described again and again as being “different from all the other slytherins”. they set themselves apart by being decent. they weren’t normal slytherins, no, they were set apart, they were brave and smart and kind— not evil. there’s no redemption to be found there. i wish jkr would just fucking say that being sorted into slytherin was being made into a villain. she dodged around it with rhetorical questions and pointing out how not All of them are bad,, and then will go on to mock the other slytherins and talk about how the heroes were Not Like The Other Snakes... again: there’s no redemption of slytherin as a house, as a quality, as a concept there. it’s just the redemption of an individual.

in pansy, however, we could’ve found so much more. like i said, she’s The Average Slytherin: not a hero, not a villain like voldemort. she’s made out to be a depiction of the typical slytherin student, one without a “destiny”, so to speak. and so to give her the chance, to see her change, to have her redefine herself? that would be a starting point for restoring slytherin as a whole (obviously not the best way, and the real best thing to do would be not to make an entire house be the bad guys in the first place, but–) to have someone who’s the figurehead of slytherin (like actually a figurehead,, girl is a even a prefect) show remorse and growth gives the entire house the seed of redemption. it would mean that after over a thousand years there could be peace between the houses. obviously not the only factor in reconciliation but still so important.

and not to just continue to heap on my own issues with it, but look. i know that there are so many other ways to introduce “mundane” antagonists without making them a symbol of anything. pansy could’ve been a bitch without representing slytherin. also pansy doesn’t have to break character and become kind for amends to be made. they don’t even have to be fully made, just started. but jkr chose to:

a.) go with bullying as a minor antagonistic element

b.) create and develop a character around that theme

c.) make this character only based on her own negative personal experiences

d.) turn that character into a representation of a much larger group of people

e.) deny that character any final moment that could begin to make amends for her actions and instead, chooses to make her “defining” moment an act of evil and cowardice

f.) either neglects the character or chooses plot points that would humiliate the character in all the glimpses of the future we are shown (ex. how dracos marriage is)

g.) openly mocks and insults the character repeatedly and never directly comes out and proves she didn’t write slytherins as evil

h.) to the best of my knowledge, ignores that pansy personifing slytherin, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and then characterizing both as “bad” and not giving them a chance to grow, is a summary of her thoughts on slytherin ls and is a possible interpretation of the text (i mean her opinions are already TRASH)

i. ignores the consequences of this or the possible effect it has on her entire fanbase and doesn’t seek to remedy it

but yeah, jkr, it was such a good idea to base a character off of your loathesone memories, take your anger out on her, and that choose to have that character partially represent a large percentage of your fanbase. thank you sooooo much. i really appreciate it!

summary:

I. Pansy— deserved an opportunity to have some character development. everyone else’s mistakes get overlooked to some degree save hers. had so many places to draw inspiration/opportunity from. could’ve progressed other ideas in the book and the analysis of her house while still remaining a “dislikable” character

II. Writing— from a “technical?” aspect, Pansy is underdeveloped and stagnant, used for personal reasons instead of as a plot device. perpetuates the slytherin=bad idea via a sloppy and repetitive characterization and emblem. there are ways around this that weren’t used.

III. I have no qualifications to be saying any of this lmao. Am I reading to much into it, knowing that Rowling tends to be shitty with writing details? Am I being dramatic and repetitive? probably!

IV. Fuck JKR (for everything. she’s an awful person)

anyways this has been: my mini-rant on pansy and her analysis,,, and i am terribly sorry,, i offer my apologies in advance for randomly dumping this into your inbox. it’s long and opinionated and there’s no real reason behind it! i just thought of it and then thought about it some more and then. here we are

ilysm mwah <3 should’ve definitely done something more productive but shh😭 rat brain hours

this is everything, you're completely right. i don't have much to add but i agree all the way. and people give pansy so much shit for the harry thing but she seemed genuinely scared of voldemort coming back and i really think that she believed he would leave them alone if they gave him up. from her perspective, it's either her and the people she cares about get to live or this guy that she not only isn't close to but probably sees as the bad guy considering she dated/was best friends with draco and witnessed their rivalry from his side. did she make the best decisions? no, not at all but i see her reasons and i don't think it makes her this antichrist that jkr makes her out to be. she pulled the “he's just a boy” with draco and had people sympathise with him when he did so so much worse than pansy did so why doesn't that apply to her? she's a kid. they all are. i love harry, ron, and hermione SO MUCH but jkr really said fuck everyone who isn't them ─ especially any girl who isn't her precious hermione. she projected her own pettiness onto fictional characters who are CHILDREN and proceeded to get upset when people connected to and loved other people that she herself made. creating such an underdeveloped character and expecting people to hate her just because she imagined her as her bully is beyond immature and ridiculous. anyways. jkr take a fucking chill pill and leave my girl alone.

[tonyglowheart]

This entire thing is a rant, feel free to ignore it, but I saw your post about how destiel fans can’t win in this context, and yeah. So have some rambles.

I’ve been thinking about the fact we (current spn/destiel fans) can’t win all night... I’ve seen so many people talking about how homophobic it is - and while I would very much like to argue, as every point I’ve seen made by a non-spn fan has been wrong so far, if I did everyone inside the fandom would agree and everyone outside would either call me straight or pity me for believing it’s okay.

(Cas wasn’t even sent to hell lmao. He was sent to angel death (the empty), a place he has escaped in the past. Other points, like that meta about spn has been predicting exactly this for months, that Dean ended up sobbing on the floor because he was so upset, like that death means next to nothing on spn, like that there is two episodes left, etc etc. you feel me right? I just don’t want to post wank to other spn blogs atm, we’re getting enough frustration as it is, no need to add to it.

It’s also worth pointing out that the bar is very, very low. Spn is a prominent TV show - not a Netflix show, or indie, or whatever - and it just said “main character in gay love saved the world”. [insert gif of ghostfacers dude saying that gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day here]

I just saw someone saying that spn having Naomi try to brainwash Cas out of loving dean makes spn homophobic (it is a conversion therapy parallel). My first response to that is that Naomi was the villain lmao? I guess we can’t write villains doing anything homophobic because having villains do homophobic things makes, uh - checks notes - villains look homophobic, and clearly we can’t have that.

There certainly are legitimate things to criticise spn about, but this isn’t it lol.

Also now some people are unironically trying to cancel Jensen because “his acting was homophobic, and so he’s clearly homophobic”, nevermind that he’s an actor and his character struggles with understanding his emotions (which I think he played excellently, myself. That scene had a very Dean delayed emotional response), nevermind the support he’s given to us queers in the past. Like. Idek man.

We would have been laughed at if we got no destiel, too.

It would have been worse, had the writers pulled a dumbledore. At this point I also trust the writers not to pull a GoT - they have explicitly criticised that ending in spn’s canon.

Spn’s writers did that by making the main villain of this season, Chuck / God, say GoT had a good ending. To reiterate a previous point I had: villains do bad things because they’re bad. And the bad things they do make them bad. For the people out there not still following, if someone does something in a story and it makes them a villain, that is explicitly telling you the story (and probably the writers) thinks that thing is bad. In this case, Chuck likes to write things for him, and we the audience have been shown and told that is bad.

Apparently thinking a gay confession is good in 2020 makes me straight. Seems unlikely, but whatever. Sorry for the length, I guess I went overboard, I’ve been holding it in lol. Anyway, DESTIEL IS CANON 💚💙 hope you have a good night

Helloo supernatural anon I hope you are living your best life right now. Yeah I’m like..... skeptical and leery myself but having lived through some absolute garbage discourse that is general purity wank, as well as the C/QL greater fandom here and on Twitter I find myself... much more wanting to question the “general wisdom” of things esp in terms of negativity, bc a lot of the time I find.... it’s wrong? Like so wrong. Or at least presents such an incomplete picture of the whole situation and also presents it in such a removed context that words that have meaning and are operationalized in a certain way for a reason, no longer have meaningful usage.

Anyway I don’t... know too much about the specifics of Spn but someone I follow is into it and talks a lot about the Gnostic stuff and that all was very fascinating to me, and I also have been grappling a lot with cultural Christianity bc of cmedia and the way ppl just *clenches fist* unthinkingly or uncritically slap some Christian norms on it and call it a day 😩 help I’m Tired. My thing here being... I actually got tired of the uncritical “superhell”s at some pt bc I am, in fact, incredibly exhausted with cultural Christianity, and because it does seem like, even possibly(?) without the Gnostic stuff it’s different from a “hell” or other Protestant-derived afterlife concept, and also yeah that it wasn’t seeded out of nowhere, it was set up to happen, which then... lends credence to the idea that whatever the current era of Spn is doing, the current showrunners are doing it with purpose.

And idk I just... refuse to believe the concept that ALL of the fans of Spn - esp the ones who have been following it still, or got back into it and are following it currently, are acting under delusion or are fooling themselves into liking it or thinking it’s good or whatever. I personally find that kinda infantilizing and patronizing and playing into issues of dismissing things women and/or other marginalized identities like.

Plus I find the concept that (from what I think I’ve been seeing Spn fans say) that the current era of the show is quite actively grappling with itself, its past, its legacy. to be very interesting and compelling; it hearkens back to like an old lore kind of feeling, of a thing that has grown into a nigh undefeatable monster and realizing that, also realizing that the only way to defeat itself is through grappling with its own nature and transforming and transmuting itself into something else. I personally find that more plausible and compelling than “Supernatural has been actively and continuously queerbaiting for 15 homophobic homophobic years., so right now we’re all very sorry for you because this maybe is no longer queerbaiting but it’s still homophobic and it can never be anything different ever.” I’ve been sort of tangentially aware of Spn thru the years and didn’t we agree, around the time of that in-universe play about Spn and with the lil Destiel shoutout, that Spn has come a ways as far as coming to terms with its fandom and working to treat its fans better? Why the sudden regression into “oh no, Supernatural is and forever will be homophobic and a hate crime”? 🤔 

The rest under a cut bc the ask is already long and then my rambling will get longer-

But yeah I mean..... I get that the legacy of Supernatural has been certifiably Rough, but I think people also forget how different of a time 2005 was? Hell, how different of a time 2015 was, even, prior to, say, Obergefell v. Hodges. Now I’m not saying that to blanket-excuse Supernatural, but like, you look at mainstream shows from the era and... there’s a lot of shit lmao. The fact that Supernatural has existed this long seems to me like.... maybe we CAN look at how it’s developed through the years vs just insisting it is what it was 15, 10, hell, 5 years ago. Especially since, to my knowledge, there’s been showrunner changes? Which seems to me like it would... affect things? I mean honestly, I remember back when I got into Spn for a hot second because of Castiel, I remember watching panel, Q&A, etc vids thru the years, and like... I thought we agreed that... it was the fans who were going a bit far pushing the shipping question like literally ALL the time to the actors, who are not in control of the show and.... like at the time.... that could have had personal implications for them? And yes homophobia bad, and people can still be allies despite that, but again like.... I do feel like - from what I’ve seen - that these guys were NOT ready to deal with a lot of that but they’ve (okay Jensen I’m talking about Jensen here) genuinely grown and learned? Also how many years ago was the essay autograph thing that people keep trotting out, like what year was it in and what year of spn was it, and what were the prevailing opinions on LGBT issues and bisexuality then.

I’ve been seeing some murmurings of identity politicsing surrounding ppl who enjoy Supernatural, and I’m sorry that that’s happening to you, it really fucking sucks and it’s also the dumbest way to “make” or “win” an argument because it shouldn’t ever be a final determiner, just factors to consider when considering what life experiences might have informed someone else’s PoV and views as well as maybe how you can better communicate with them. Instead of it being a “weapon” or “tool” to either dismiss someone or de facto validate an argument.

Also yeah I get it that you don’t want to send discourse to spn blogs bc I imagine you guys ARE actively grappling with all the bs rn and it’s a lot. Even just from like, the stuff I see around, I’m like tired of it. I’m genuinely having more fun with ppl who are having a good time with Supernatural than the ppl who are hating on it, even in this sort of backhanded “oh we’re not clowning YOU we’re clowning the writers and showrunners who think you should be satisfied with this,” when... yeah? the people who HAVE been watching the show and therefore... know what’s up.. DO seem to be? And all this based on *fake gasp* context. And that’s where the backhandedness becomes kind of poisonous to me, because it implies that it IS bad, and that you SHOULDN’T be satisfied, but poor little you are but don’t worry, we’re not making fun of YOU for liking garbage, you’re just the hapless victim who is consuming the garbage bc... idk, whatever reasons ppl are coming up with ig.

idk man it’s 2020. Fandom isn’t activism, performative or otherwise, it’s okay to let people enjoy things even if you think they’re “objectively” bad, and like... I don’t know if people can call something bad when they’re not even working with the whole context and instead are dealing with rumor and reputation. 

[supersunshine10]

Unpopular Opinion: Cletus and Keenie weren’t that bad

I’m not sure if this is even that much of an unpopular opinion, but but at least online every time I see fans discuss episode 4 they always go on about how selfish and terrible Cletus + Keenie were, about how they were “such self righteous jerks” who deserved what they got at the end or that "Collin was the only good Cherub!", stuff like that.

But is it just me, or whenever I saw that episode I never really saw it that way?

(Sorry for insanly long rambling below lol)

People always call Cletus and Keenie selfish jerks for not genuinely wanting to save/help the old man in the episode, but honestly… he was a rich asshole who experimented on the poor, hated orphans, and he went straight to hell anyways?

Obviously they wouldn’t want to save a guy like that, it’s just like Collin said, they were just doing the job assigned to them? I don’t know why people act like they went out of there way to do this, as the CHERUB commercial literally says it’s just like IMP where clients go to them for it, they get assigned missions, where they want to or not? (I'm not too sure, but I think Deerie might be overseeing them always too?) its almost like the reversal of Moxxie in ep 1

It's possible that whoever was their cilent for him didn't tell the full story to them or was biased since they wanted him to be saved after all.

And yeah they were putting on a cheery/holy face when they really didn't believe he was good (but if it's their job, kinda not too different from just pretending to not hate everyone at a sucky retail job just to get the job done lol), but really when you watch the ep all they were doing was just going to him showing him great things to enjoy in life, only snapped at the end when IMP kept ruining their missions each time trying to get him to kill himself (While also acting like jerks lol).

I’ve also seen people online seriously claim that the two “abused” Collin more than once (I even think the Tv Tropes page said something like that?). They really think this bc they overworked Collin/left him to the wolves in the ad, and Keenie slapped him at the end…

…Even though in the EXACT SAME EPISODE Loona literally did the exact same “Calm down pull yourself together slap joke” to Moxxie?? (Which is also in like a million TV shows)

But obviously nobody is saying they were “abusive” to Moxxie in this episode, bc this episode was obviously way more comedic than other episodes and they were just jokes? If anything it was probably done to make similarities with Moxxie, bc in-general both can be the butt-monkeys lol

The only reason I could understand would be when Keenie lost it at the end and ranted abt imps. But honestly WE the audience know that Viv’s version of hell has good hell creatures like Moxxie or Charlie, and some sinners there genuinely want to be reformed from there. But most in-universe wouldn’t know that, they would assume that hell there only has the absolute worst of humanity, so it kinda makes sense.

Plus I think in-universe Cherubs are supposed to be the Heaven equivent to imps, who are at the bottom of the social class, so they are just as at the bottom as imps are. With all of the colorful insulting towards everyone in this show most of the time, its really not that hard of a stretch to assume IMP feels the exact same way to Cherubs, or Heaven stuff in-general.

We also barely know abt Heaven in this universe, maybe like some higher class angel ppl might spreading all that stuff abt imps to them? Idk whatever happens in Hazbin Hotel will give us more info abt all this lol

Don’t get me wrong, I never loved episode 4 tbh, and Cletus and Keenie were never really my favorites, but I always thought the people were kinda reaching about these two tbh. Am I the only one who thinks this?

[jayflrt]

akka i hope u don't mind me ranting but i live in the south (tx) and its literally like white supremacy / anti maskers / gun freaks everywhere (not saying everyone is like that) but fuck i literally hate living here, esp since cases are rising, i usually wear a mask everywhere but i get so many glares and it's so frightening to me... like i want to be safe but i also always feel like im at risk of getting hate crimed :( esp since im brown... (1/2)

(cont.) not to mention that when i was 12, this old white dude got mad at my mom for taking his parking spot (how would we know that he had his eye on it like wtf) so he started calling us the nword and telling us to go back to our country (no one in the parking lot paid us any mind, just walked past him yelling) and then he tried apparently tried to like attack my older bro in an aisle so the staff told us to leave for our own safety... and he came to the other store we went to too (acc 2/3 sorry) (3/3) so i needed to look for gifts for a friend & he saw me in an aisle and kept circling the aisle as i was looking ... i realized it was him a little while later and told my mom... and we got a staff who distracted him and we just left the store and immediately went home... it was so scary & im always scared what could've happened there.. the worst part was he was so 2 faced.. he didnt immediately recognize me and acted all nice at first and then only started following me when he did realize

hi love! omg i don’t mind at all and i’m so sorry for the late response :(( oh gosh living in the south in this political climate must be so difficult so my heart goes out to you 😔 and i get it — ofc not everyone’s like that, but it’s enough for you to be worried. it’s a genuine concern and i’d be scared as well :// and ppl glare at you for wanting to be safe and taking precautions?? that’s so messed up 😭 i don’t understand why they’re so against people wanting to protect themselves. (also btw you don’t have to apologize for more parts to your asks!!) also that is so terrifying omg i’m so glad you’re okay :( all that over a parking spot?? people are actually insane oh my god. and the fact that he followed you around too…. and it’s so disappointing that no one said or did anything to help you guys, like you were just told to leave when he should be the one leaving?? i’m so sorry you had that experience tho love and it really shows how some people in this country are so incredibly racist and downright evil. i hope you never have to go through something like that again :(