#stop editing someone you think is racist and abusive

[myvaginacalledmehomo-blog]

Is it just me or does anyone else find it inappropriate, insensitive and uncomfortable to use the word 'NAZIS' for FUCKING FICTIONAL PEOPLE.

i agree they're bad. Use the terms bigot, fascist, racist. But i find it problematic that people have the actual audacity to use the name of an actual violent evil group that killed millions..

To hate on characters that are barely there in canon. And that they are hc'd by fanon as poc/trans/queer/disabled/abused. Says a lot on whom you're hating :)

(i don't want antis interacting with me this post is for the people who think like me. antis you are not wanted)

Edit: guys stop sending death threats to anyone, me or the people who had replied under the post. we all are humans, not your punching bag. Even if someone doesn't share your opinions, death threats are NOT the right way to voice yourself.

[inu-jiru]

Jazz's "Apology Tour" ramble

Episode was trash, let's go.

First off, the whole "Fuck Blitzo" party is so stupid to me, like you're telling me this 30-something year old man had intimate relationships with ALL these demons and HE was the sole thing that ruined ALL of them?

And how did Verosika even find out about Stolas? Like I know Ozzie's happened, but how'd she hear about their "breakup" (they weren't together but whatever, show)?

Why the FUCK does Verosika care about Stolas being an uwu sad victim of mean old Blitzo aside from everyone being written to want to huff Stolas' sad boi farts?

Why is no one trying to kill Stolas like in Loo Loo Land, like suddenly we're just cool with the oppressive racist now (who am I kidding, the rank system doesn't exist anymore unless the "meanie supremacist" characters bring it up I guess)?

Don't think I'm trying to be "Blitzo's#1Bitch69" or anything, but Season 2 is just so gross in how they've written him. Either he's the big bully meanie for hating his abuser, or they've had him commit the most out of pocket atrocities (like possibly SAing Stolas since he was technically drunk or the circus incident or the shit he pulled with Verosika because what the fuck kinda trauma makes you steal someone credit card for horse riding lessons???) that they just gloss over because fuck having Blitzo actually progress normally or Stolas taking actual responsibility for his own actions, let's just speed through everything so it's back to Stolitz City, don't think about the implications. I just can't stand itttt, I still like and pity Blitz to an extent but his writing is killing meeee

Stolas, stop whimpering about being wanted YOU HAVE A KID WHO HAS STILL NOT APPEARED SINCE SEEING STARS WHERE IS SHE?

Am I really hearing that people are hating the dude flirting with Stolas like come on yall STOLITZ IS NOT OFFICIAL YET CHILL

I've honestly started skipping through episodes, like I can't fucking listen to "WAHHHHH BLITZO I WANT YOU TO WANT ME" for the millionth time, I wish this episode could've just been Blitzo and Verosika facing their issues or something I just don't wanna see this owl loser act like a victim anymoreeee

Man really said "when have I ever been condescending?" SEASON ONE???? How about every time you grab his face and call him out of his name and watch him be shot at while demanding he come over one a month? Oh, but when Blitz starts doing it back it's "Oh I'm uncomfortable ooOoOoo stop it Blitz hnnghhh I don't like it :C :C :C", like whatever man.

The Striker comment was dumb and wrong but that's because Stolas is dumb and wrong

Honestly I feel like I'm repeating the same points I and others have made in the past so all imma say is, I hope Octavia and Stella are enjoying their off-screen and better written adventures together. I'm gonna draw some AU stuff now to give my eyes something better to look at.

OH I forgot to talk about Verosika, uh, she was there? I honestly think she should just get over herself at this point, idk when she and Blitz broke up but what the fuck is it about this clown that she was so enamored over where she's this hurt? I can get being mad about her credit card and Blitz being a lazy partner but if that's the case, I fail to see how they got to a point where she got his name tatted on her arm. Idk it's weird

The Mayweather shit or whatever her name is was pointless and made no sense, like "I want you to kill this woman who made me attempt to kill her and myself but now we're dating" like? Hey Vivzie if yall can callback to that why can't yall call back to Stolas being a creep huh?

EDIT: They really made that fuckass "it's hell" excuse canon, huh? Like, it doesn't even make sense in the context of Blitz saying that, like people say "it's hell" because Biblically speaking, it's where those who truly oppose God in order to live a life of wickedness go as just punishment. Blitz the equivalent of a regular guy in Hell unlike the Hazbin characters, he shouldn't understand that there's a better alternative to Hell because he's not human and never had any opportunity to learn about Heaven or God (unless it's just in their DNA or something idk who knows with this show)

[jillvalentine]

re: my relationship with my abuser, currently @/gwendaria (part one?)

[edit: new usernames + accounts since this post has been made: scarymovies, walkingdeads, samcarpenters, the-mummy]

My abusive ex has unfortunately been going full-on with the latest DARVO / smear campaign, and this time it seems to have reached a few people. These callouts are made-up, and they've been popping up continuously in different forms since early 2021 in an attempt to silence or smear me, regardless of their inconsistencies. One second I'm an emotionally abusive gaslighter who they've finally been freed from. The next, I'm someone they don't even know about. The next... I'm a renown stalker. The next... I'm a random girl who got romantically obsessed with them and turned into a terf when I got rejected. The neeeext... I'm a terf stalker racist? Okay! I don't even know anymore. There's definitely more.

I mostly want to focus on the facts. The facts are that I've shared about my experiences enough that I shouldn't have to entertain stupid shit anymore. There will always be the next narrative, more scandalous than the last. Going forward, I just want to make the evidence more accessible so that anyone can find it.

I still have all of our texts, discord logs, whatsapp logs, voicemails, facebook messages, hundreds of screenshots from me and from others (onlookers & other people who have been harmed), and I've become friends with people who have also been friends with or intimate with this person and came out from the other side (some are public and others aren't, because, hey! Look what happened to me after I came out. I have been stalked almost on the hourly for about 4 years now, and I know it won't stop, because I know exactly who my abuser is.)

About 3 years have passed now, so a lot of the 'big' conversations or screenshots I shared earlier on when I spoke out about what had happened to me have been buried in time. (but they are, still there.)

Screenshots where they ragged on and on about my friends, about me being naïve and that I'd know better when I was "a real adult" like them, telling me to drop dead, telling me about slitting their wrists, telling me that someone was messaging them about 'cumming on my face' after I posted (1) selfie. Blocking me everywhere for a bit over that selfie. Unblocking me. Yelling at me. Blocking and unblocking me again because I said something about how they were being awful to me. Rinse and repeat with the next insane shit.

This was during covid lockdown, and it was 24/7. I couldn't fucking breathe. I got questioned about going to the supermarket with my mom. I got mindfucked for not explicitly saying I was back home when I said I was getting the mail, under the guise of caring so much about me, of course.

One time, I sent a snap of these leggings I liked online. Because the photo sent as a file instead of a normal-full-screen-just-taken snap, it became a whole argument of "Did you share this with anyone else?" and I would be like... what would be wrong if I did? Why is it wrong for me to send a photo of some leggings I think look good to a friend to get her opinion? A lot of conflict happened this way. They were incredibly controlling and suffocating, all under the claims of past trauma, undiagnosed mental illness, and most of all - flowery apologies or proclamations.

I used to think I was able to push through anything that happened because they would apologize to me, and it made it okay again. I genuinely thought they just needed someone to give them a chance to heal and get better, or get back to how they used to be early on in the relationship. I wanted to be that someone, I wanted to be strong enough to take all of it and be okay at the end. It gradually got worse, and I found myself trapped in the relationship. Anytime I was close to getting away, I would get drawn back with push-and-pull manipulation tactics. If I had pulled away to recover from their mistreatment, I was then the one apologizing for having had to pull away, and how bad that pulling away had affected them. How awful I was and how much I regretted being affected by anything. I would blame anything else (it wasn't you, it was my own anxiety) to make things calm down.

I didn't see any of this coming from the start. It was a gradual process. Near the end, I was googling things about how to fix toxic relationships (it didn't work because the relationship wasn't a two-way street, it was abusive), trying to think for 5 different people to avoid outbursts, trying to explain away how someone might gaslight and manipulate others without it being fully conscious and intended. I found out it was 100% intentional when I got out. They were telling others that I was doing to them what they were doing to me, along with a bunch of other bullshit to pre-emptively plant seeds.

Gwen frequently tries to use the worst buzz words to create stories and alienate people from one another. She doesn't care about any social issues. What she likes or dislikes is entirely based on what she needs to get out of a situation. If someone she's fixating on positively likes xyz thing, she likes it too. If someone she's fixating on negatively likes or dislikes something, she'll do the opposite. She constantly invented stories and tried to frame people I'd known for years, or anyone who dared to interact with my posts anywhere. She literally impersonated people and had accounts hacked. All she does is obsess over people. She constantly monitored me and created conflict over anything, real or made up. She especially liked to create conflict when it was late, or when I was otherwise not-fully-there, like when I was drugged following a surgery. I was so out-of-it that at that point I didn't want to fight for myself or others anymore.

Near the end of the relationship, I had a private account that I would hide on because social media, and really anything social, had become a minefield. Multiple people had witnessed the change from before the relationship, the start of it, up to the end. I deactivated my main twitter for a period of time (although I was careful enough to reactivate it once every 30 days so it wouldn't be permanently lost) and had to ignore people, stop myself from posting or liking things, and plead with people not to mention anything about me because I would have to answer for it. Multiple people remember me asking them to delete certain posts, or just be careful not to give out that I was doing anything with them. I was abnormal and an immature adult for wanting to spend a bit of time with or buy a gift for my friend on their birthday. We had an age gap, and at first, it was all "you're probably more mature than me :)" - until it turned to Real Adults Don't Spend Time With Friends, lol. Real adults are 100% focused on their partner. Real adults aren't on social media, and other thinly-veiled degradation + mindfuckery. Funny how my age became a bad thing, but they were the experienced 29-year-old who knowingly pursued the inexperienced 23-year-old.

Near the end of the relationship, I was starting to hide away to spend more time with people who treated me well, and it helped me get out. I saw that the way I felt every day wasn't normal. It reminded me of what good relationships are like and what they feel like. My friends tried their best to be supportive, but it was very difficult because my partner was trying very hard to isolate me from them through threats, aggression and manipulation. I'm incredibly lucky that they stayed by my side and told me that what was happening wasn't normal.

Getting out was hard. Staying out was hard. Even after everything that happened, following the split, I told my friends I didn't know what I would do if they tried to get me back again. SO fucking glad that's over.

[oneshortdamnfuse]

Hello, you don't know me but this will sit with me if I don't say something.

I had a conversation with you a long while ago about Billy Hargrove and the racism he perpetuated and you continued to sweep it under the rug because he's an abuse survivor.

I'm extremely sensitive to that, I am; but the way you continued to down play the hurt that I, a black person, felt from his actions truly hurt and and really made me re-examine the Stranger Things fandom.

I've moved on and healed, but I just hope that you've taken the time to learn that someone's trauma doesn't negate the trauma they can inflict on someone else. I was personally a Billy Hargrove apologist myself but when I stepped away from the fandom, I stepped away from him to.

You don't need to respond, I'm not expecting you to; I just hope that you've been able to learn, and if not, I hope this can get you to consider it.

You claim I don't know you, so how could I have ever had a conversation with you about Billy Hargrove's racism?

I did have a conversation with someone in my messages about Billy Hargrove, and I'd be happy to share any of those messages with anyone as I don't feel that at any point I defended his racist behavior. If you're that person, then there's no way that I don't know you, and if you're that person then you are being purposefully disingenuous in this ask.

You approached me. You were disturbed because I was talking about a character you don't like. I was talking about that character as an abuse survivor who watched a fandom say vile things about them as an abuse victim. I'm extremely sensitive to the way people accuse an abuse victim of things that they didn't canonically do and/or make it seem like a teenager who said and did bad things is beyond the ability of redemption or saving. Yet. You don't care about that, do you? Do I go into your ask box and say, "Gee, I wish you would give more of a shit about the horrible things people say about him day in and day out"?

No, because I don't think about you. At all.

If you don't care about him as a survivor, then there's no convincing you. All I wanted at the time was for people to stop saying and doing things within that fandom space that were harmful and triggering to survivors. Survivors and victims of abuse don't have to be "good" people or "earn" basic human decency when people talk about them as survivors. You can feel however you want about them. You can hate them as people. I don't give a shit. Clearly, because I'm not in your ask box obsessing over things you said to me in messages last year.

I think it's very entitled and obsessive of you to continually approach me about this if you are indeed the person I talked to. I am not the one responsible for your feelings and it's not my job to hate what characters you want me to hate or provide an exhaustive list of disclaimers whenever discussing a "problematic" character. These are fictional characters. People are allowed to have complex feelings about them and you need to get it through your head that treating a character as complex does not mean condoning their behavior.

You know that I don't think that a person's trauma negates what they've done wrong because I told you that, if we in fact had a conversation about him. I don't think you were ever a "billy apologist" if you are that person, and if you are that person then you were more upset I didn't talk about how much of a "terrible" person he was to his sister. If you are not that person, then we never had a conversation about him.

Either way, you are lying and disturbing my day for no reason.

Edit:

If this is you, then I'll be happy to post any part of our conversation publicly. I've said my piece to you, though, and I have no interest in continuing our conversation.

If it's not you, then why are you claiming we had a conversation but that I "don't know you"?

[thatiranianphantom]

On Ch*ni And How This Version is NOT An Ode To LGBT Representation.

Oh, folks. We've hit that time. We've hit the time where I have to say something aloud, aware as I am that it's RD and criticizing it for being tone deaf and offensive is somewhat pointless.

I have edited the name so that this hopefully doesn't show up in the tag, trying to respect keeping that tag a positive place here. But I gotta say something. And for once, it's not on Madelaine and Vanessa, it's on the writers.

The way that they are portraying Ch*ni is anything but positive LGBT representation.

It's been canonically established that Toni and Cheryl do not know each other in the 50s' verse. Like Toni had never spoken to Cheryl before 701.

And yet somehow, Toni has decided that she knows Cheryl, a stranger's, sexuality. Not only did she decide that, she has decided Cheryl needs to be open about that and come out. Here's a few issues with that, in the form of some lists.

Here are things Cheryl has never done in this verse, up to the end of the current episode:

Confided in Toni that she was struggling with her sexuality

Asked Toni for her advice

Asked Toni what sexuality she'd identify Cheryl with

Requested Toni help her come out

Sought Toni's opinion on her life and her relationships

Told Toni that she was a lesbian.

Here are the things Cheryl did do:

Told Toni more than once that she did not know the inner details of Cheryl's life and explicitly said Toni should stop acting like she knew Cheryl

Made it very clear that she was uncomfortable with Toni's advances.

Show us, the audience, that her family is abusive and unsafe.

And yet, Toni feels it is her personal responsibility to remove Cheryl from the closet, and "play the long game", implying she plans on being with Cheryl once Cheryl has come out. This is....not good. Disclosure of one's sexuality is an incredibly personal process, and one that can only be done by the person themselves. As a bisexual person, I would be incredibly not okay with someone outlining the steps they feel I should take in my own sexuality. That's to say nothing of the fact that it may actually be unsafe for Cheryl to come out.

In the last episode, Toni stated "I was you." She indeed was not, given the fact that she and Cheryl have had maybe three conversations and again, Cheryl has never expressed to Toni that she is requesting her help to come out. The 704 content was, at best, none of Toni's business. Nor was it her place to overtly make Cheryl uncomfortable with her advances. And I am super not okay with the last CH scene given how Toni had been acting thus far, and the show portraying it as empowering or feminist.

The thing is, while I don't think the show has ever been good about LGBT representation, their s2 plot wasn't like this. It never felt like Toni was trying to pressure Cheryl into anything. You could say a lot of things about them as a couple but it didn't feel like Toni decided Cheryl's sexuality and took on the role of the sexuality police.

Anyway. Let me know y'all's opinion. Looking forward to anons calling me a homophobe. Or a racist. Or oftentimes, both!

[styxisms]

☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you?

♥ What's the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?

❀ What has made you completely lose your chill?

✿ What do you think about public call out posts?

♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in?

the salty af munday meme / @deathsmaidens

☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you?

Aside from the obvious stuff like being toxic or bigoted, it's usually them just hating on something I like lol.

♥ What's the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?

Hm. I have had my fair share of awful things. MOST of them happened before I ever came to tumblr. I think the worst was me being bullied as a teenager in the fb rp scene into having such a bad panic attack that I actually fainted lmao. I was in an rp group and they expected me to be available 24/7. They would harass me when I was doing school work or doing anything irl. And I had worked really hard to get into this group and was super socially isolated irl due to being home schooled so it was my first real intro to interacting with other teenagers in a big social media setting like that. they went from saying i was lying about my mental health issues to telling me i needed to be put in a home lmao. it was WILD. in the same community i had a dude pretend to kill himself because he was trying to get with a bunch of girls and these people treated shipping like dating irl. it was legit so yikes. this dude pretended one account was his brother and kept this lie that he ended his own life because these online girls rejected him for a good 6 months. Anyway, once i discovered tumblr i got tf away from that shit for good lol

❀ What has made you completely lose your chill?

I am very very difficult to make lose my chill. The biggest thing is when someone is treating my friends poorly. I have had to see a lot of my closest friends and rp partners get gaslit and manipulated by toxic rp partners and really have to hold myself back from going apeshit on them. I had one specific person that I legit had to BLOCK because i knew I was going to explode on them. and that was sorta recent.

✿ What do you think about public call out posts?

I know why they are needed sometimes. The person that hurt me the worst had one, and i trusted him when he told me it was all bullshit. Big fucking mistake. Granted the callout didn't touch on the specific stuff he apparently does to everyone and focused on other things that were easy for him to lie about. and then after our falling out, he tried to make a callout about me until i posted the screencaps (he edited the ones he posted) and everyone knew he was full of shit. So on one hand, they are important for some things. On another, they are easy to not help for a skilled manipulator. And at the worst point, they can be used to harass someone with half truths and edited screenshots. HOWEVER, I think if someone is truly harmful then it makes sense. I really wish I had the courage to REALLY warn people about some of the toxic people I knew. But I also know that those people are the people that could manipulate their way out of it. So I think they were good for like... pedo shit and all of that. someone being an awful person with receipts. But a lot of it is interpersonal drama. And even if the person IS abusive, they will probably convince their victims that YOU were the bad one. Still, I do think that warning people about abusive people is an okay thing to do. I think that there is a place for it, but more often than not they tend to be petty. There are a few I have seen that have been HUGE AND AWFUL and some of those even didn't seem to stop the person. So who knows. I see the value but they can also be very harmful. I typically keep anything that isn't actually like illegal (or borderline illegal) and racist/lgbt+phobic/ect private and reach out to people one on one solely because... IDK.

♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in?

I am mostly in xiv and persona right now. xiv is my longest single community on here. I have been around in this rpc since november 2019 so i have seen a lot of ups and downs. mostly ups. but DEF some downs too. As for Persona, it's a lovely little space aside from some cliques.

[rjalker]

Interacting with The Murderbot Diaries fandom moodboard

[Plain text: "Interacting with The Murderbot Diaries fandom moodboard". End plain text.]

[ID: Sixteen memes, described in order from left to right and top to bottom:

First: The Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo meme, now edited to say, " I wish people who misgender Murderbot a very shut the fuck up forever.

Second: A screenshot from the show Mako Mermaids, showing David grinning adoringly towards Nixie with his face propped up on his hands. David is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom", and Nixie is labeled "Exorsexism, transmisia, athiktomisia, ableism, racism, whitewashing, aroacemisia, abuse apologism,"

Third: A stick figure drawing of a werewolf with red eyes and sharp bloody teeth, sanding over a pool of blood labeled, "people who misgender Murderbot".

Fourth: A screenshot from the show iCarly, showing Gibby, labeled "Me", about to hit Spencer, labeled, "people who misgender Murderbot" over the head with a stop sigh.

Fifth: The "is this a pigeon?" meme, edited so the person is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom", saying, "Are we a safe and welcoming space for nonbinary people, touch averse people, nonpartnering aroace people, and people of color?" While pointing at, "The most oppressively exorsexist, ableist, amisic, and racist fandom I've ever had the misfortune of being in".

Sixth: The meme of an anime character saying, "oh so it was a joke", now edited so they are saying, "Oh, so you're purposefully and knowingly misgendering Murderbot because you think people who use it/its pronouns don't deserve to respect", followed by a closeup of their hand holding a rock, captioned, "Saying this, it aggressively picked up a large rock with killing intent written in its every movement."

Seventh: A Screenshot from the Beauty and the Beast show from 1987, showing someone holding a newspaper whose headline now reads, "Local nonbinary werewolf loses its shit, mauls five exorsexists", with smaller text beneath continuing, "Strange Mauling in the Park Puzzle Police".

Eighth: A digital drawing of Murderbot, edited so it is holding a gun pointed at the camera, now with glowing red eyes from under its helmet, and a filter of red noise and static, reading in all caps, "use it/its pronouns for me or stop pretending you care about me".

Ninth: Two screnshots from The Good Place, showing Shawn now saying, "I have heard no statements nor seen any evidence to suggets…oh misgenders Murderbot? Yeah, they all definitely belong in the Bad Place.".

Tenth: Three screenshots from The Good Place, showing Eleanor and Chidi talking. Eleanor says, "I'm proud to misgender Murderbot because I refuse to respect people's pronouns if they use it/its." Chidi responds, "Okay, but that's blatant exorsexism. Tell me you understand how exorsexist you are being."

Eleventh: A screenshot from the 1974 short film, "A Political Cartoon", showing Peter President standing at the podium, now edited so he is holding a baseball bat, captioned, "[violence against exorsexists commences]".

Twelfth: A screenshot from the show Farscape, showing John Crichton sitting on the floor, holding a blue mask in one hand, staring towards the camera, looking distressed. Text above and below reads, "When The Murderbot Diaries fandom promises they respect and love nonbinary people…while they're right in the middle of misgendering Murderbot and demanding that no one is allowed to be upset with them for this.".

Thirteenth: The meme of an uno card, then someone holding a massive handful of cards. The card now reads "Don't misgender Murderbor or draw 25". The person who has drawn 25 cards is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom".

Fourteenth: A screenshot from the Muppets, showing one of the characters speaking, edited to now say, "Insult of your choice, we all know that Murderbot is not a human. Your pathetic attempts to justify your transmisia and exorsexism in misgendering it by claiming it/its pronouns are 'dehumanizing' shows you do not actually give a single shit about Murderbot, or real people who use it/its pronouns, and furthermore that you have literally zero understanding of this character or the themes of this series even though it's not fucking subtle. Shut the fuck up or just admit you hate nonbinary people. Literally everyone can already tell.".

Fifteenth: A photo of a prop for a movie of a quadrupedal werewolf snarling with its mouth wide open, labeled, "Me @ people who misgender Murderbot".

Sixteenth: A digital drawing of Murderbot against a pale blue background, that reads, "Murderbot would hate every single one of you fucking bigots".

End ID.]

No, there is literally zero excuse for you to call Murderbot anything other than it/its pronouns. There are no excuses. There is no justification.

Any fucking argument you try to use to justify misgendering Murderbot is an argument that has been used to justify misgendering me.

If you think you're literally incapable of calling someone by it/its pronouns even when those are literally the person's pronouns, leave this fucking fandom and don't come back until you can treat nonbinary people with the bare minimum of respect.

If you are so distressed by people going by it/its pronouns, you have no fucking buisness being in a fandom for books where the protagonist and many other character use it/its pronouns.

There is no fucking excuse for misgender Murderbot or any other person who uses it/its pronouns. Murderbot is a fictional character, but you are perpetuating real bigotry when you misgender it.

[Plain text: "There is no fucking excuse for misgender Murderbot or any other person who uses it/its pronouns. Murderbot is a fictional character, but you are perpetuating real bigotry when you misgender it." End plain text.]

[fanatics4l]

"NOT a billy stan i just like dacre" "not a billy account! dacre only" "i do NOT like billy hes racist and abusive but dacre is hot" y'all do know that dacre has played other characters right? you say all this but your entire tiktok is billy edits... stop living in denial be fr oh my god

[dovesndecay]

If your criticisms of media aimed at people under the age of 21 consists primarily of "it's baby media for babies, wah" (kindly infer the whiny voice I'm saying this in) then your opinions mean nothing to me because you're not approaching the content with any level of nuance or even the basic common decency to acknowledge that something doesn't have to be for you to have value for someone else.

The number of y'all that I see out here watching these popular middle grade range of cartoons and absolutely ripping them to pieces is honestly baffling to me -- if you're not enjoying it, why are you watching it?

Like, don't get me wrong -- there are plenty of criticisms that are legitimate and should be talked about by some groups of people.

But y'all are out here accusing Queer Jewish creators of fascist apologism, ignoring the contributions of Black creators (if not outright saying that their work is racist) [please go read Ian Jones-Quartey's commentary about the Pizza family on Steven Universe, where he talks about how they were directly inspired by and designed to reflect his Nigerian [edit] Ghanian immigrant family], or accusing those same Black creators of being predators for not being upset over NSFW fanart (like, WOW y'all gotta stop), and a wide variety of other utterly unhinged hot takes that I cannot even begin to list here.

If you think that it would have been better for Steven Universe to depict the SIXTEEN YEAR OLD (as of SU:F) sentencing the Diamonds to be shattered (essentially and literally executed), congrats, you missed the entire point of the show.

It's not about fascism.

It's about intergenerational trauma.

As someone who has suffered the effects of multi-generational abuse and toxicity, I wish I could sit my grandmother down and point out the ways she hurt my mother and help her find a way to be better. I don't want to hurt her; I want her to heal. (I have not always felt this way; my own self-healing journey has led me to this point.)

It's not wrong to want zero contact with people that have hurt you, or have been the catalyst for hurt you've experienced.

But it's also not wrong to want to help them heal.

People process things differently, make different decisions, and shows like Steven Universe, and She-Ra, etc, they show that healing is not a zero sum game; the healing process is not one-size-fits-all, but also, no one is beyond helping.

You don't have to be the one to help them, but you don't get to tell anyone else that they aren't allowed to.

Anyway, if y'all don't even like kids' cartoons, don't fucking watch them.

[go ahead, clown in my notes; i'm just gonna block ya, bud]

[fiercynn]

huh, so franzeska (olderthannetfic), the person who wrote a widely-panned 16,000 racist screed posted on ao3 seven years ago - the content of which she has still never apologized for - thinks that “moderating ao3″ would be bad. color me shocked

also this is so fucking disingenous because

a) ao3 is already moderated - try linking a kofi in your notes, or including the lyrics of the song you’ve made a fanvid/edit to in your post, and you will find that out VERY quickly. but only very selectively - if someone doxxes you in the tags of their work, or gifts a racist fic to a fan of color to directly harass them, ao3 can apparently do nothing for you

b) ao3 does also have content rules already in place - the mandatory archive warnings ("graphic depictions of violence", "major character death", "no archive warnings apply", "rape/non-con", "underage", "no archive warnings apply", or "choose not to use archive warnings") are a form of moderation. they do not prohibit you from posting that content, but they do require you to tag it correctly. content moderation is not all prohibitive!

c) franzeska knows all of this, because she USED TO BE HEAD OF AO3′S ABUSE COMMITTEE, and, i understand, was a large part of creating that committee’s practices and processes, so is partially responsible for how dysfunctional that committee continues to be to this day in terms of actually helping people who face harassment etc

stop believing people like franzeska just because they play into your narrative of wanting to maintain the status quo of otw/ao3. there ARE changes that ao3 needs to introduce to end harassment and racism on the archive. and no, that doesn’t automatically mean censorship. but it does getting the facts right about what ao3 already does and doesn’t do

Just a question, if ao3 ever gets moderated somehow, would it be a good thing?

--

No, of course not.

[idleinteen]

in defense of marinette dupain-cheng:

marinette is a girl who has always suffered from bullying by chloe, she also encouraged more people to bully marinette, most of marinette’s friends helped chloe before alya was in school (max, alix, sabrina, kim, etc).

it has been implied in the series, that made her have a super low self-esteem, and she was someone with very few friends, you will say that her parents are super loving, which yes, they’re, but they also ignored that marinette was a victim of bullying, and the bullying she was getting from chloe/sabrina was massive.

chloe made marinette a very insecure girl, shown in season 1 in the "origins" chapters. she had a very pessimistic perspective, and she was not sure of being ladybug since she thought she ruined everything, thanks to the fact that she began to hang out with people like her and being ladybug helped her a lot, she saw how people appreciated her for the first time, that's why she finally raised her voice to chloe.

those problems that she had in the first season returned in season 3 and 4 (specifically in 4), she has mental breakdowns, when she was marinette but also when she was ladybug. she was no longer as sure of herself as before, she no longer believed in herself.

marinette has become a girl who does not trust people much, chloe sided with hawk moth and gave the box of miraculous to him, it took a lot of work to tell someone that she is ladybug, she witnessed chat blanc, she got sexually assaulted by felix (and by chat noir/adrien too), lila has gotten her into a lot of trouble, which has caused her to be almost expelled from school, i don't understand how people say that lila's lies are not offensive ... marinette's antis pretend as if all that didn't cause trauma.

edit 1: also, the season 4 finale? that just made everything worst for marinette.

edit 2: and the season 5 finale too.. please give this girl a break!

she is also a person who has a lot of stress and has showed symptoms of anxiety:

1. inability to stop thinking about current worry.

2. increased heart rate / slurred speech / hyperventilation.

3. anxious obsessions / hyper fixation.

4. feeling nervous, restless, or tense.

i understand why fans believe marinette is a mary sue, but let's remember something:

- chloe is popular being rude, not even fake like lila

- adrien has many occupations but has many time to be chat noir

- hawk moth is a criminal, why don't the police investigate him?

and much more ... it's sad how marinette, gets more criticized while felix, a sex offender, or chloe, an abusive, racist bully are excessively romanticized and justified.

[shirophantomvox]

Analyzing Killua Zoldyck's Character

Illumi Analysis| Hisoka Analysis| Chrollo Anaysis|

What’s up y’all?! I’ve had at least 2 cups of coffee this morning and I am ready to write my butt off! This post will be about Killua Zoldyck, my second favorite character and you will know why by the end. If you’d like me to write about your favorite character, Be sure to send me a message and I will get on it ASAP.

Here we go!

I saw Killua for the first time on Tumblr. Someone created various icons for several anime characters and edited them. They were all aesthetically pleasing but for some reason, his picture stood out. Now that I look harder, it is because he was holding a Pepsi can instead of the off-brand one they drew for him in the cartoon. I noticed everyone on TikTok and Twitter had the very same icon as their profile picture (usually those that like to troll and say racist things to others). Once I started watching Hunter x Hunter, I realized the character immediately. Thank you for your edits!

Killua Zoldyck is the youngest child in the family and is the only child that developed a mind for his own.

Instead of taking the pleasure of killing, he runs/avoids and achieves this by becoming friends with Gon. It’s interesting to think that no one in the Zoldyck family wants to kill for fun except for Illumi.

I remember Zeno telling Chrollo: “Do you think I enjoy killing?”.

This makes me think that the family’s job is to destroy enemies that are a threat to society. Are the Zoldyck’s taking on the role of cops or an extension of such? If that statement is true why does Illumi take pleasure in abusing his power when his own grandfather only does it when criminals are involved? Granted, Silva and Zeno’s reasoning for brutally fighting criminals isn’t legal, and (to me) are considered to be vigilantes, at least they don’t go around doing the horrible things like how Illumi and Hisoka do.

This very reason why Killua ran away from home. He decided to rebel against his mother and implied: “Fuck you. I’m going to do what I want.” Killua and his siblings are victims of child abuse and show that they deal with that abuse in different ways. Killua masks his abilities in public and tries to keep them under control, Kalluto seems to be very quiet and obedient, Milluki is just as abusive as Illumi, and we already know about Illumi. Milluki is physically abusive; this can be seen when he is whipping Killua for running away and threatens to destroy Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio while Illumi plays mind games on Killua and uses his Nen to do the trick.

Killua’s character is very special and in a way takes the lead as the main character instead of Gon. I don’t know if that was intentional or not. Killua is a 12-year-old boy who leaves home to escape his abusive home and see the world for his own. During phase 1 of Hunter’s Exam, he instantly clicks with Gon; probably because he’s the only 12-year-old there. They constantly challenge each other to see who will win and who will buy dinner or some other reward. Because of his abusive home, Killua often masks his feelings. This is noticeable every time Gon talks about him being his best friend and he always reacts as if he’s embarrassed by it.

Gon is his shield from going bat-shit crazy like his family. They both have faced opponents (like Hisoka and others) where Killua could have unleashed his assassin abilities but didn’t. Yes, some of the opponents are stronger than him, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.

Killua is the best friend Gon could ever have. Since he knows about aura and any supernatural abilities, this is why he stops Gon and even insults him for pushing himself too far. Killua stopped Gon from using too much aura in the past especially once Kite’s arm was cut off by Pitou. Because Killua wasn’t there to stop him when fighting Pitou, this resulted in Gon’s downfall. Did Killua believe it was his fault that Gon almost died? He isn’t responsible for Gon’s actions but he focused so much on running away from his “demons” and masking his temper by maintaining his friendship that he wasn’t paying attention to Gon’s noticeable and developing temper.

Killua Zoldyck is a child that suffered from abuse and to escape that reality, he runs away, takes Hunter’s Exam only to match with his brother, chooses defeat, and then kills an opponent, not of his own free will.

But wait, there’s more.

After being rescued from his prison of a home, he goes to Heaven’s Arena, met Zushi and his teacher, develop Nen, follows the Phantom Troupe around and somehow managed to survive that, meet Bisky, join a game to get closer to Ging, witnesses Gon disappearing, trying to form a relationship with Alluka, and then tries to heal Gon with a quickness.

Whew, chile!

At the beginning of the show, it appeared as if Killua was taking on too much and only did so to keep his mind off what he escaped from.

One thing to point out is Killua’s motivation to heal Gon no matter what. It is implied that he doesn’t care what will happen to him or anyone else as long as Gon can live again.

Wait.

Isn’t that along the lines of what Gon said about getting revenge for Kite? He didn’t care about what happened to him? Hmmmm. I guess they’re very similar after all!

Killua and Gon are BFFs and will do anything for each other. Friendships in real life should be this way; let’s follow his fictional example.

Face

Killua’s face is the typical shape for someone his age. His eyes are wide, as blue as the morning sky, and honestly, I wish he’d smile more. Even though he is 12 years old, he still has a babyface.

Hair

Killua’s hair color is very similar to Princess Allura’s and Lotor’s. According to verywellmind.com, the color white represents innocence and purity. Ironically, Lotor and Killua are the opposite of that while Allura has maintained her innocence. Killua’s unique hair color and hairstyle are amazing! I love how it stays in shape while he is fighting or running.

Clothes

Regarding clothes, he is JUST like his brother. Again, Illumi irks me, but they both have a great taste in fashion. Through the show, Killua changes his clothes more than Gon, which is funny. I guess if Gon changed his clothes too much it would take away from his character. Killua’s default style contains a sleeveless white shirt with a purple one underneath, basketball shorts, and gym shoes. Just look at these outfit changes! This is why Killua is my 2nd favorite character in this show.

Behavior

As stated before, Killua cares more about others. This is ironic because the Zoldyck family only cares about themselves or their family while Killua feels the complete opposite. It’s almost as if he trusts strangers more than his own family. A common phrase: “She/He turned to the streets” that I’ve heard in my hometown can be applied here. Killua probably hates his family and turned to strangers to find love and comfort since they neglected that. He is also the only one that tries to develop a relationship with Alluka. At first, I thought “Wow he’s only developing a relationship with her to heal Gon” but then I realized it was bigger than that. Alluka has been separated from her family because of her dangerous abilities. She will demand something and if that person doesn’t fulfill her demands, they will suffer horribly. Killua learns that Alluka has a healing ability and while Illumi complains that Killua was hiding rules from him, he never took the chance to talk to him about it and continued to threaten Alluka. The family “banished” her to a confined room for who knows how long because, apparently, she had been possessed by a demon from the Dark Continent and they do not know when it happened. Despite knowing that Killua could parish with the rest, he still develops a relationship with her. He is the true example of excepting someone for who they are. As far as I’m concerned, running away was the best decision he made. It saved his life and in return, he’s going to save another. I do find it ironic that something considered to be so dark has the power to bring something back to life when usually it’s something bright like a light...interesting. You all know what I’m saying. Most television shows only portray angles to heal others while demons only seek to destroy. The Zoldyck family is wrong for pushing Alluka away. How could you do that to your own kid? Shit, you should be blaming yourself for not watching her and allowing the demon to posses her.

In conclusion, Killua is my second favorite character. He is bold, loves his friends, and isn’t afraid (anymore) to step up to people he may not win against. His character has blossomed from a young boy afraid to step up to his brother to a boy who isn’t afraid to do so. He has learned about Nen and has gone through many trials and tribulations just to say he is much stronger than before. What characters would you like to hear about next? Send me a DM!

Fin.

[i-watch-too-many-movies]

5 Favorite First Viewings of July 2021

Quick note: Hi everyone, I'm back, things have honestly been getting better for me, and I'm glad to be on this site full of cinephiles, people that are too horny, and cinephiles that are too horny. I'll be more active on here. But anyway, let's talk about some movies.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) (dir. Russ Meyer)

CW: Abortion mention

What a picture. What a gorgeous, sexy, horrifying slice of what Hollywood and star life can do to a bunch of bright-eyed young people looking for success. Also is a critique of how macho nature can ruin friendships and romantic relationships with total ease. I was obsessed with the scene transitions, like Pet pouring pancake mix onto a plate after the abortion scene, or Kelly singing after someone screams before their murder in the opening scene.

Great, campy flick with exceptional music too.

Deep Cover (1992) (dir. Bill Duke)

Laurence Fishburne plays Russell Stevens, a Cincinnati police officer who hopes to do well by the community, to make a difference. He’s traumatized by the death of his substance-abusing father, and wants to make sure that he can help the people of his own town. He goes undercover on assignment as a drug dealer, where his boss orders him to take down the kingpin. Stevens realizes the police’s own failings while on assignment. The racist abuse he takes from Agent Carver, and the realization that the police department is protecting drug kingpins like Gallegos and Barbossa. Giving drugs to Black kids and Latinx kids so there will be less of them. The cops are no different than the drug kingpins looking to make filthy amounts of money.

Fishburne’s performance is excellent, as Stevens feels he has to maintain a stone face so he doesn’t get caught by Jason or Barbossa or any of his cronies, but also he maintains a stone face to try and hide his emotion, his trauma. But when he gets pissed, Fishburne acts it beautifully, as is when he has to deliver a funny quip to counter Jason’s douchebaggery. And the production design, holy fuck, the sets and the lighting.

A perfect neo-noir for the HW Bush years, arguably one of the most timeless commentaries on the era, as well as the police as a whole.

Fast Five (2011) (dir. Justin Lin)

I was torn between including this or Furious 7, but I ultimately went with Fast Five because it felt like an important turning point in the series, it's a great heist film, and it reached the same chaotic highs and genuinely excellent filmmaking that I had been waiting for since 2 Fast and Tokyo Drift.

Fast Five opens where Fast & 4ious left off. Dom is hauled away to prison on a bus. Mia and Brian drive in their high-tech cars and knock the bus over, helping Dom escape. The title drops. Fast Five. It’s such an intense yet short action scene, and dropping the title immediately after it lets the viewer know that this movie is not fucking around. It’s arguably gonna be more intense and insane than the previous one.

And it is. The filmmakers made the decision to use a lot more practical stunt work for the film, and as a result, it leads to, so far, the best action in the entire series, since 2 Fast and Tokyo Drift. It’s not just how it’s shot or edited, it’s the geography of the locations, the rooftop chase echoes the rooftop chase of Jackie Chan’s masterwork Police Story, particularly the way each character bounces from top to top.

And of course, there’s the silliest moment in the movie, the one that matches the intensity and kineticism of a film like 2 Fast, which is driving the Reyes’ bank vault throughout the street, getting chased by corrupt cops.

I know we make fun of Vin Diesel for saying “family” all the time in these films, but there’s a reason we remember him saying all of these impassioned monologues. Because he’s unbelievably sincere, and has so much love in his heart for every single person in the room. Anytime he delivers a speech to any of them, it’s genuinely heartwarming.

This is the film that finally shows La Familia in their best environment, which is working together, in a movie genre that allows them to work together, which is a heist film. And a great one at that.

Last Days (2005) (dir. Gus Van Sant)

CW: Mention of suicide

Several films have been made about legendary rock artist Kurt Cobain, and for good reason. He is one of the most tragic figures in rock and roll. A tortured genius who has written and performed classic song after classic song with his band Nirvana. He was called the voice of a generation, and helped change the face of mainstream alternative rock music as we know it. But with that fame, and all of those expectations came a worsening depression and further drug abuse, and his eventual death. But most of the films about Kurt Cobain ask one question which gets under my skin way too much:

“Who REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY killed Kurt Cobain?”

It was him. He did. And it’s okay, I’m sad too. Thinking that Kurt Cobain was murdered is completely ignoring the depression that he faced. And despite Last Days being more inspired by the death of Cobain rather than actually about it, it feels much more honest than the conspiracy documentaries on his death, wanting to leech off of his dead body.

This is the last installment of Gus Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy”, the previous two installments being Gerry (2001), and Elephant (2003). While I have not seen Gerry, I have seen Elephant though, and love that film for its minimalist, raw nature, and its boldness for not romanticizing the school shooter or the lives they had taken. Last Days falls into that trap once, as I don’t agree with the shot of Blake’s soul climbing up a ladder, that always struck me as cheesy in a film that is anything but.

Last Days is similar to Elephant in terms of the way it is filmed. Its usage of long takes, and still shots of characters doing various things, such as Blake playing his guitar behind a drum set. The way these moments are shot is similar to a Chantal Akerman film, particularly Jeanne Dielman. Where the acts of the mundane are the stars of the film. Blake wanders around an empty house, and the viewer can feel the pain, not just through Michael Pitt’s acting, but from the house itself. Its decay, its paint peeling from the walls, from the soft glow of the lamp that lights his face.

I say this is the most honest film about Kurt Cobain, because, despite the characters technically being fictional (the main character who looks, walks, and acts like Cobain is named Blake), this film focuses on the mental state of a person before they eventually take their own life. They’re still working, still making music, still trying to talk to friends and bandmates, but the depression lingers on. Not once does this film try to make you believe that someone else killed him, because you can see the signs of his own suicide taking place just through the film’s excellent cinematography by Harris Savides, showing his mental state only growing worse through the production design.

And it’s empathetic with him. There’s no judgement for leaving rehab, there’s no finger-wagging at him or the people he was with, there’s just a silent prayer at the end of the film, hoping that he is in a better place than he was.

Sometimes you don’t need to show every event that led you to where you are, all you can show is the moment, which also makes this better than most biopics as well, as it never feels messy or muddled, just showing one moment of Blake/Kurt’s life.

I really loved this film, and I’ll be writing about it in full soon.

The Village (2004) (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

The Cracked.com/Channel Awesome audience stuck in 2012 will tell you that this was the beginning of the end for Shyamalan. That this was when people stopped taking him seriously, that this was when he became more of a punchline because of his twist endings.

But why?

The Village was released in 2004, deep in the Bush administration, during the early stages of the Iraq War. The leaders of the time were talking about imaginary boogeymen, terrorists that would attack the civilians if they could. Because of 9/11, politicians could get away with these false ideas with the majority of Americans fully believing them. The boogeymen in The Village are “The People We Don’t Speak Of”, monsters attracted by the color red. Yet we find out that they are all costumes made by the Elders of the land, designed to prevent people from going outside the land. They rule by fear disguised as love. They’ve gone through their own traumas through the deaths of their family members, but they’ve decided to completely abandon the lives that they’ve had and have their children living lies.

9/11 impacted American life by teaching citizens to live primarily by fear, to not trust anyone but their own people. And yet, post-9/11, all that increased was not “coming together”, but hate crimes against South Asian people. The rage white Americans had felt led to conservative politicians pushing fear-mongering agendas, and said white Americans blindly accepted. The outside world was progressing, but too many people were fine with living with further conservative politics only regressing American life further and further back, all for the illusion of safety. Meanwhile, the only threats to them were not the brown citizens outside of America they were so afraid of, but the white elders, the white politicians.

The Village explores these fears so eloquently, all while having a terrifying atmosphere, an enchanting score, and brilliant sound design. I enjoyed this movie very much.

Other viewings I enjoyed:

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) (dir. Mike Judge) (re-watch)

Blow Out (1981) (dir. Brian de Palma) (re-watch)

Clueless (1995) (dir. Amy Heckerling) (re-watch)

Furious 7 (2015) (dir. James Wan)

The Long Goodbye (1973) (dir. Robert Altman)

Lupin III: The First (2019) (dir. Takashi Yamazaki)

Unbreakable (2000) (dir. M. Night Shyamalan) (re-watch)

Velvet Goldmine (1998) (dir. Todd Haynes)

The Visit (2015) (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

[buuuuuuuu3]

Also it sounds a little bit insane to me that it doesn’t come into consideration the fact that Aang is literally head over heels for this girl since almost the moment he meet her and was living with her while they were going through awful hardships with as little judgement (if any) from them both and he still took into consideration her thoughts, opinions and took her seriously as a teacher and someone that he could look up to and who he could ask for help while also treating her like another normal child (because they’re still both minors in the series and I do feel that we sometimes forget that) and like his equal even though he’s the literal avatar. I don’t know how that kind of healthy relationship where a boy truly cares and loves a girl this deeply, while still showing us how they’re both inmature humans and make rash decisions and mistakes while the other is either supportive, patiently waits for them to understand their mistake and make their own decisions about it, understands why they might have lashed out or even something as simple as to apologize for the wrong doing they committed.

Somehow all of that might not be appealing to specifically women of color and queer people? A love that is soft, understanding, patient, healthy, non judgmental, easy, where you don’t have to doubt yourself, where the love isn’t put into question, where they see all of you even though some of it is your trauma and they still want to be with you and love you for you as a whole, where they’re no doubts. You’re telling me that it doesn’t sound fucking appealing? Do we not deserve a love that is not complicated? Or where we don’t have to put into question if we’re truly loved? Or where our families weren’t massacred by your daddies troupes (I’m sorry Zutara shippers but it’s true)? What wouldn’t be appealing about that?

I don’t know if it’s the “struggle love” storyline that has been given to a lot of characters of color and queer ones as well in the past (which I do think have been changing for the better) where we aren’t able to be with the person, we are not valued at first, they don’t treat us right, literally full stop they start as abusive, family doesn’t accept the relationship, they change us for the white/straight counter part, we’re literally a secret to be kept, the romantic interest is literally behind bars or the romantic interest was somehow racist/homophobic and had to overcome that to be with the character of color or queer character to simbolice their own character arc? I truly don’t know if that has any influence on this but I felt that it could be mentioned because sometimes love doesn’t have to be hard for us, mind you this kids are in a fucking war and still find the way to be kind to each other, why wouldn’t Katara want to be with someone that she obviously loves and that love it’s reciprocated constantly?

(im sorry I went on a rant, I didn’t have a good day today 😔, also so many edits to this because I can’t write in English properly I guess)

i've discussed this topic before, but so many kataang shippers are people of color, particularly women of color. while many of us are adults who grew up with the original series, there's also many teenagers who recently joined the fandom once the show came to netflix. i'd even go as far to say that the bulk of the ship's defense that i've seen in recent months are from teenage girls and young women aged 17-20, many of whom identify as sapphic.

this insistence by kataang antis that kataang is a heterosexual white male fantasy, that no teenage girl would ever support kataang, has no actual basis or credibility among the data that we see in fandom settings.

[deacons-wig]

Listen, this has been stressing me out because I'm just getting back into Fallout and it's been really nice and it's probably going to be not so nice soon. I know I don't have the biggest platform so this is specifically for followers so y'all know where I'm at and if you should stick around, unfollow, or hit that block button. Stay with me here. Take a deep breath, check your emotions until the end and listen to what I have to say as a human person who wants the best for my communities. Which include you. Unless you're making racist content.

So. Don't harass people. Okay good.

Don't support racists. On board?

What if I told you that calling out racism wasn't harassment? It's not even harassment when people aren't nice about it.

Telling someone who makes racist art and fiction and does nothing to clean up their act to get the fuck out of fandom is not harassment. It's called de-platforming and it is vital to the safety of marginalized people in online communities. Keeping others in the loop is also not harassment. Block lists are community service.

Fallout source material already has enough anti-indigeneity. The most egregious example is the New Vegas Honest Hearts DLC. I will never shut up when I see it or other material used as a sandbox for racist power fantasy. It's not welcome. If that means being mean and loud and making people uncomfortable, good! Get uncomfortable. 

I was on a break from Tumblr and fandom the last time this y/j/j drama came around but I've done my research, independently of anyone involved bending my ear. I've read the callout posts before making up my mind, I've dug in the tags, seen the art, seen some of the heinous anons that were sent to people doing the calling out about racism SPECIFICALLY. Many of whom where not white. I encourage you to do your own. Remove the / from y/j/j. Read the tags, anons, callout posts. It’s a hot fucking mess. 

The y/j/j situation is not just about racism but it seems to be the one issue that their defenders avoid? Why? Because it's indefensible. There is no nuance or room for interpretation. No "I'm an abuse survivor so it's okay." I have my opinions on rape in fiction I can talk about some other time. I can share my professional knowledge about what censorship looks like in fandom and social media spaces. I will pull the librarian card (haha), also called a diploma. Literally have degree in it. I might at some point, unrelated to y/j/j.

Racism is the one issue I will address directly among the many, so mutuals know where I stand, and why, and if they want to follow me or not. I don't condone harassment or doxxing?? I believe the situation was handled with varying degrees if appropriateness. I also don't want racists to have a platform.

I'm not getting into anti/anti-anti debate because the critical thinking required is so beyond the nuance of Tumblr discourse and the number of people I trust to earnestly engage on the subject from either camp is extremely small.

Do with this what you will. I can't stop you, but please don't reblog. This is for my followers so we can sort out who wants me around and who I want around.

EDIT: You know what, fuck it, reblog this bc I think what I said about Honest Hearts and power fantasy is important. I also want to say it’s been said by Indigenous people in the Fallout fandom and even by fallout creators before me, just to be clear.

[starwolf-has-moved]

Please read before you follow!

^^ mainly just read the dni if the posts too long

Info/bio

They/them, please! She/her or he/him if we're friends.

Cisn't

Minor!!

Adults CAN follow!

On that point, nsfw blogs if i think youre a porn bot you'll probably be blocked.... Sorry

You can call me Star or Starwolf :)

Im almost always on mobile so formatting on things might be weird

I love getting interaction! Tag me in stuff, send me asks, whatever! I dont mind like spam!

Mutuals can dm me for my discord info :)

Asexual biromantic, male preference? (Am I using this right)

If you see someone called 'spacewolftc' watching your twitch stream its probably me :)

Likely ADHD

Current fandoms include: Danganronpa, Demon Slayer, RWBY, FMA:B, Haikyuu, Blue Exorcist, Jujutsu Kaisen, Black Clover, Genshin Impact, and more!

My blog content includes: art, world events, donation posts, positivity, pride, life tips, art tips, and more.

If, for whatever reason, you ever want to unfollow, feel free. Dont like my vibes? Dont like what i post? I really dont mind if you unfollow. Dont stay because you feel 'obligated' or anything, its your internet experience and you should curate it how you like.

DNI:

Map/NOmap/pedophile

Transphobes/TERFs/gender-critical, etc.

Pan/biphobes

Anti-mogai/anti-neopronouns

Acephobic/arophobic/aphobic

Pedophilia/incest shipper

Ship adopted siblings (yes that counts as incest, no i dont take criticism)

Antisemitic/Islamophobic

Racist

Anti-BLM/"All lives matter"

Anti stop Asian hate

Trump supporter

Sexist/misogynistic, etc.

Unironically make "all men are trash" jokes, etc.

Fatphobic

Ableist

Anti self diagnosis

Anti-vaxx/anti-mask

Are part of the following fandoms without at least acknowledging their or the creators problems:

Hetalia

Attack on titan

Dream/dreamsmp

Im aware that DNIs dont really work, mostly I just have one so people know where I stand on things. Please send me an ask or dm if you think i should add something to the info/dni! Also let me know if i ever follow or reblog from someone in my dni.

If you ever need me to tag something, send me an ask or dm and i will gladly do it. Anon is on!

Other info/navigation

I mostly reblog posts, but my oc posts are tagged #not a reblog. Posts where I talk are tagged with #star talks, and posts where I talk in the tags are tagged #tag talks. Asks are tagged #got an ask. Posts that are not queued are tagged #not q. I also tag any art that is reblogged on main with #art. On the rare occasion i post or reblog something about/featuring a ship, its tagged #not to be shippy on main but. All of my posts are fine to reblog unless i tag them with #dont reblog.

Other things i try to tag: anything that tells you ar asks you to reblog a post (even posts that are like "reblog to give the person you reblogged from [x]" as: #reblog bait, #rb bait, #reblog bait tw, #rb bait tw. Long posts: #long post, #long post tw, and occasionally #long post cw, hospital and medical imagery as: #hospital imagery tw, #medical imagery tw, death mentions, animal death mentions, graphic gore or graphic descriptions of violence etc., eyestrain and flashing gifs, graphic or semi-graphic depictuons of abuse, animal harm, severe racism and transphobia etc.

**that list is not extensive and sometimes I forget to tag stuff.

@starwolfreblogsart is my sideblog where I reblog art and stuff

I have other sideblogs but they're not listed cause I'm never active on any of em anymore lmao

This post will be edited as the dni changes/new info is added