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@miltonka:
Why do fans of two characters who love each other more than anything in the world fight so hard? You can love them both. Try to understand them both. They both made mistakes, but they are both just people. Each can identify more with the other, understandably. But you have to try to understand them both.
I know this is the way Tumblr used to work, but it feels weird to start a convo on someone else's post by replying in a thread. So I am just going to keep doing it this way to sequester my uninvited replies to my page, to be ignored or responded to as the feed feels fit!
I do think that this comment was saying "let's just all be friends because we love the same show," but I do want to address the sort of consistent false equivalence that is constantly brought up when people say "you can love them both equally." I do believe this is true, you can love both Sam and Dean equally, but we cannot reduce them to the lowest common denominator and pretend they are the same person.
I think the reason Sam fans and Dean fans fight is because some people find it hard to hold criticism and love for a character at the same time and become defensive. Do the boys both make mistakes because they are both human? Of course they do. But they don't make the same mistakes nor do they make the same amount of mistakes, and eventually we have to admit that when criticism of one character outweighs the amount of criticism for the other, maybe the reason is that one character deserves more criticism because of the patterns of behavior they have established.
This doesn't have to mean you don't love that one character as much as the other. It can just mean you see him for how he truly is and demand better. This is how I feel about Dean.
My criticism of Dean doesn't mean I don't love him. It just means I'm not going to ignore his flaws in favor of some ill-fated effort to treat the boys "equally" by pretending that means they are the exact same person. Treating them equally would be holding them to the SAME STANDARD and going from there.
I think this is why Dean fans find criticism from Sam fans tough to take, because they demand that people who claim to love them both to discuss them equally negatively/positively, period. I would do that if the dynamic between the boys was as equal as the fandom demands we treat the boys, and warranted that, but it doesn't. Pretending otherwise to change the standard to cut Dean some slack wouldn't be fair to Sam.
What is fair is seeing things as they are, then being able to hold loving a character while also accurately identify when the character deserves criticism at the same time. Criticism does not equal hate, it is just part of fandom discussions and analysis.
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My Pokemon Teams Thru the Years
RED Charizard Ninetales Flareon Moltres Nidoqueen Nidoking
BLUE Blastoise Persian Vaporeon Articuno Kingler Sandslash
YELLOW Pikachu Jolteon Persian Charizard Blastoise Venusaur
SILVER Typhlosion Persian Pidgeot (I think) Umbreon Espeon Suicune
gen3 skipped
PLATINUM Luxray Flareon Lucario Kadabra Floatzel Drifblim
gen5 unfinished
X Delphox Aegislash Sylveon Simipour Noivern Venusaur
SUN Incineroar Purugly Mimikyu Leafeon Luxray (shiny) Kommo-o
SHIELD Cinderace Liepard Perrserker Dracozolt Golurk Glaceon
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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this
#and by 'everyone' i mean me. im just hoping other people relate lmao#someone asks me about a thing i like and im just like h..................#been thinking about The Character for a solid 6 months+ and let me tell you. expldoeing soon#this is about ffxv btw . how am i supposed to say how much it lives in my brain . i cant think#text#1k#5k#10k#15k#20k#great googly moogly#30k#40k#50k#60k#boooy what da heeel#70k#80k#90k#will this be my first ever post to hit 100k... it remains to be seen#good lord. we did it#100k
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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.
#textpost#text post#neurodivergent#actually autistic#autism#autistic things#autistic experiences#neurodiversity#why is there a hyperbole in the statement talking about people taking hyperboles literally
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I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm
if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"
I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix
(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)
this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.
in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.
but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.
one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.
and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.
my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.
yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.
#long post#long text#disability#chronically ill#chronic pain#cripple punk#cripplepunk#chronic illness#disability activism#trans#transgender#queer theory#queer punk
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diet culture people make me feel like i’m going crazy. you want me to take an experimental pill that destroys my appetite?? you want me to remove part of my stomach??? you want me to stop eating bread and rice, two of the staple foods most inherent to humanity????? why exactly? because my stomach is big? because you don’t like the way i look, and you think it’s reasonable to tell me to carve pieces off of myself and try random drugs and ruin my own life so i can look more visually pleasing to you? and you somehow don’t see how absurdly cruel and selfish that is to ask of somebody???? while pretending you care about their HEALTH????????????????? FUCK YOU!!!!
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Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments
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what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy
#spilled thoughts#spilled words#spilled ink#spilled writing#lesbian#spilled feelings#wlw longing#sapphic love#spilled poetry#wlw post#words on tumblr#bpd meme#text post#light academia#lit#literature#femme lesbian#sa survivor#sad writing#poetic#word post#relationship quotes#writers on tumblr#poets on tumblr#queer#autistic lesbian#actually autistic#neurospicy#audhd#autistic trauma
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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.
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why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording
#they're transparent and i'll post them when I am finished.#I won't even tag them because everyone should have them#boop#text
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So I just realized that on Serializd you can rate and review every single episode of Supernatural, and since I have been trying to get my bf to watch s1-3 for the last year AND I have tons of live blogs I wrote and perfectly tagged BY EPISODE NUMBER (through 11.08 bc that’s when I quit) at my fingertips, I could ABSOLUTELY do that this year.
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So I think I might.
If I endeavor to do this ENORMOUS task, I will share here as I go. ALSO, I will live blog the new episodes I watch that I’ve never seen before (11.09ish to whatever the episode is before the series finale).
WOW this is a lot but I am EXCITE. (Also I used to write and engage with SO much Spn meta, find that here.)
This used to be a Spn blog, did you know? 😂
#that's a text post#audree watches spn#bittersamgirlclub#does anyone even still do shit on tumblr?#it was a fun time when people did tho#hi people who may see this!#serialized#audree tries to review every ep of spn
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They’ll never do a Hitman level set in a Furry Convention because gamers would absolutely ruin it but imagine. like the target isn’t a furry he just owns a hotel that happens to have one every year but you can disguise yourself in a fursuit and some guy will ask you “what species is your sona” and 47 would be like “a wolf. i always felt a connection with…hunters.” and then diana would be like “let’s see if you can sniff out some information, furrty-seven” and then he comes to my house and kills me for writing this
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maybe i shouldn’t respond to wrong number texts any more
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hold on. Was suck him good and hard through his jorts supposed to conjour the image of someone who has an unzipped fly because this entire time I've been imagining someone slurping on wet denim
#This thought came to me out of nowhere I sat bold upright in bed#And realised I'm maybe stupid?#Text post#Jorts
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