#tagging bc lol people will complain

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[carygrantsbeard]

It’ll always piss me off to see people say they can’t relate to a character bc it’s set in certain time periods or bc of their outside characteristics. One of the best things about of fiction to me is that you get to realize that certain things transcend those « barriers ». Don Draper has touched me the most out of any tv character ever and I’m a black gen z Muslim French girl lol just bc it looks like it won’t be relatable to you does mean it’s not something worth discovering and watching. And even if you can’t relate to something that does not mean the humanity and soul behind the creation isn’t worth the try. Always Looking for something you relate to is a boring way to experience media and will only reduce your horizons

[lavenderjewels]

why are kenjaku and takaba kind of hitting it off right now? “handsome guy with fair and delicate features” 🫣

[hurglewurm]

me: keeps drawing random one-off fanarts from things that aren't currently big at all

also me: why no notes on my arte

[tyrannuspitch]

is no-one around here having ANY fun

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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[milfbrainrot]

Sorry for being a tar pit lately I'm aware I'm insane I just can't make the life changes needed to fix that so I obsess too much on the tumblr hell social scape bc it's one of the few things I've got ✌

[bat-the-misfit]

i literally saw an ad written "white man in his 50s looking for a thin, black woman in her 40s" and i'm shocket

[daz4i]

how and why is there discourse about whether or not certain queer identities exist/if people should be allowed(???) to use them. why is "people know their own identity better than you ever could, and they're the only one who get a say on what they are" such a tough concept to grasp

i think if you find yourself offended by the label someone uses (especially if they're a stranger) or think it invalidates your own, it's a good idea to look inside yourself and question why that may be. more often than not, it's a result of insecurity or uncertainty of your own identity (or many other things, but i won't make a whole list here). whatever reason it is, until you resolve it, you shouldn't take it out on people for having an identity you don't understand

many have said it before but it's worth saying over and over. infighting only helps our oppressors. conservatives don't care if you're a cis gay or a xenogender aegosexual aplatonic lesbian, they hate all of us either way. trying to fit in by going for people who are easier targets for them isn't gonna help you, it'll just alienate you from your own community, and you're never gonna please them. the momentary rush you get from hearing you're not like "one of /those/ gay people" is not worth it and is gonna do more harm in the long run, i assure you

also, it is important to me to say this, but having some less than nice kneejerk reaction caused by confusion about an identity you don't understand doesn't mean you're a bad person or anything. as long as you aren't mean to that person, and you take a second to think smth along the lines of "wait a minute, this isn't any of my business" after having said reaction, you're good 👍 a lot of reflexive reactions we have to things are ingrained into us simply by. well. living in a society 🤡 and you're not terrible for having those thoughts. it's your actions that matter, and your second thought (the "wait, why did i just think that?") is more defining of your actual character and morals than your reflex. i know that having thoughts like this, even tho they're unwanted, can very easily make one spiral, so it's important to me that whoever needs to hear this knows this doesn't make you a bad person 🙏 you're good, keep taking actions to be good, accept other people even if you don't understand them, and you're on the right track :)

[lgbtlunaverse]

Most attempts at framing shipping wars as a moral endeavor fall flat by default but there's a particularly funny variant where fans will go "the writers were clearly backwards redpilled misogynists because they made [usually white heterosexual ship] canon instead of [different usually white heterosexual ship]."

Bonus points if they frame the latter as empowering for [female character who's in both these ships] because they personally find the guy in the second ship hot, while the first must clearly be a wish-fullfillment fantasy for loner incels projecting on the guy in THAT ship because they find him less hot.

It's like holding up two generic-brand vanilla ice cream tubs and declaring that eating one will make you a socialist feminist and the other is for fascists.

[arcane--knowledge]

every time i see one of those 'lets see if this site really is "only" 1/4 queer' polls by someone who doesnt understand stats i pick 'not queer' out of spite despite having identified as queer for 10+ years

[orcelito]

Surprisingly not that into the "uncanny Vash" trend. Bc like while I am an unrepentant monsterfucker & I LOVE when he gets super inhuman in appearance. A lot of these "uncanny vash" things just... don't feel like him. It feels like knock-off horror portrayals slapped onto his face.

For the ones that actually work with what he is, I LOVE it. But the ones that r just trying to make him some unrelated horror caricature... I'm just not into it.

[sunjoys]

i hate customers i need to gnaw their arms off pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls

[daandori]

i honestly wonder about the kind of person i would be if loneliness didnt permeate my entire existence lmao

[randomborednessidunno]

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[badolmen]

‘ummm you shouldn’t tag your writing of a character with [x] as #[x] you’re clogging the community tag :/’

beloved a) if it contains [x] and someone wants to find/block a post with [x], and my post is tagged #[x], it’s a very reasonable and TOS abiding thing to do and

b) do you think the #actually[x] tag is just for quirky points? that tag originated bc autism moms wouldn’t shut up or get out of the autism tag. hence #actuallyautistic was born, which spread to things like BPD or disability or chronic illness. THAT is you community tag, because it’s used by people who are #actually[x]. if someone without [X] writes a character/headcanon/meta about a story with [x] they are within their rights to tag it as [x] but not actually[X] because they are not actually[X].

how is this controversial.