#the bigots are another reason (there's somehow a lot of them now??)

[werehounded]

someone asked in a duty earlier why my 'female' model viera has a 'male' name

my friend have you heard of our lords and ladies and saviours TRANS PEOPLE

[lala056]

Exhausting

I have no respect for billford shippers that look down on stancest shippers.

Oh what, you’d have me believe a genetic tie to a partner is somehow worse than being with someone that stabs through your hands, forces you to swallow live spiders, and also SA’s you by having yourself forcibly strip down in public and swing your clothes over your head like a helicopter? (sorry but anyone that forcibly removes your clothes and exposes your body, even if you’re a guy/lacking breasts and it’s just your chest, is committing SA against you. They’re exposing your body against your will plain and simple. Try to write that off how you like but that’s the facts)

The logic behind this baffles me honestly.

There’s a reason Alex titled that kissing drawing as "the worst drawing in the world" and then linked to an amazon BIBLE page (yeah I know that was part of a joke well guess what he frequently uses the bible joke for shipping in general so yeah).

Because he knows it’s BAD, TOXIC, PROBLEMATIC AS YOU GUYS LIKE TO LABEL THINGS. What I see people incorrectly accuse PROSHIPPERS to REPRESENT rather than the actual representation of the LIVE AND LET LIVE CREDO OF SHIPPING.

Ever stop to consider that maybe Alex didn’t do stancest or art involving Wendy/Dipper because he simply a) didn’t like those ships, which is valid since everyone has their own tastes, and he did base some of these characters on his own family so it’s close to home for him, or b) knows how toxic and chronically online a lot of haters are? That he wanted to avoid drama for this stream that he’s trying to milk every cent out of for CHARITY? (It's ridiculous how many times he felt obligated to say "REMEMBER IT'S FOR CHARITY" when shipping came up just to try and prevent any meltdowns from uptight fans and viewers. And even then he still didn't do some because he knew the fact of it being for charity still wouldn't fly for some- because a lot of people would rather watch REAL PEOPLE SUFFER to preserve their fictional sensitivities)

Not to mention he still works with Disney (chibiverse hello), any backlash (the form of false pedo accusations or incest apologist accusations being what happens to be thrown around all willy nilly nowadays over fictional bullshit) could get him blocked not only from working with the company ever again, but lose any input he might have over his beloved passion project and baby Gravity Falls itself?

This is a man who has said COUNTLESSLY that he doesn’t care about ships, has even encouraged people to "be weirder" and made omelet hypotheticals for how much HE DOESN’T CARE BECAUSE FICTIONAL SHIPS DON’T MATTER.

Alex Hirsch is a KING.

And it’s sad to see that so many of his loyal subjets are so bigoted and blind to ignore his own feelings in order to justify their own, or to somehow perform the mental gymnastics in order to absolve themselves of "thought crimes" so that they can feel like they aren’t bad people under the imposition of conservative purity culture.

The terms "cest" and "age" are trigger words now. If those show up in any form, pitchforks come out and roofs get burned. Companies overreact and overcompensate. He said Disney people were watching, so of course he’s gonna say and act in what is deemed an appropriate manner because even companies apparently prefer abusive relationships to ones that have a blood tie even if blood ties are wholesomely depicted.

The age old double standards.

And don’t get me started on bringing up Dipper Goes To Taco Bell. Alex and cast know of that story, they’ve made references to it in a video game and such, immortalized it. They engage with all corners of their fandom, also shown by Jason’s "saving the town" reference on stream.

Another thing, anyone notice how they laughed off the Dipper and Wendy suggestion Jason made, rather than exploded? BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE IT'S NOT THAT SERIOUS - and most likely turned them down because they know there's more drama about characters being aged up and crap so it wouldn't have mattered if they're adults now, there are people who will always see them as "kids".

Point is - If there was such a strong hate on Alex’s part about the darker side of fiction or taboos he’d do all in his power to make sure they were never mentioned again and be active against them. 

He’s a kind, caring man that obviously likes to just get along with people, but he does put his foot down when he feels something is awful. He’s made political posts about presidents he feels are corrupt and spoken out against social injustice. You honestly think he wouldn’t speak out about those taboo ships in frank language if he thought that they shouldn’t exist and that the people who create for them are awful?

Newsflash, he would. Yes, he’d isolate a sadly small part of his fanbase, but he’s shown time and again he doesn’t care about being liked. He cares about what’s right.

And abusing others over which made up character kisses who, isn’t.

If you’re someone that mislabels proshippers too, to mean "problematic shippers", then as a billford shipper you’re one by definition. And yes, I'm including you AU billford shippers too because there is always some degree of toxicity.

Knock the hate and abuse off. People that go off about why their ship is justified and another isn't are the reason people leave fandoms and leave amazing works often unfinished, even Gen writers and artists.

[eatanorange]

marauders do the candy trauma salad trend since I JUST saw a fantastic one for pjo (highly encourage y'all to add your versions/to this pls I don't have solid hcs of everyone) (evan's is fully me projecting btw)(a lot of them are me projecting <3).

Upon completion I want to add up here n not just the tags that these do reference various traumas/bigotry so be careful and mind what headspace ur in n all that pls take care of urselves k thanks love u.

Sirius: Hi I'm sirius and every time my mother considered something I did 'impure', like experience joy or get sorted in to gryffindor, she took my mouth away! *momentary zone out from the horrors* I brought milk duds!

Barty: bazooka bubblegum. *vid cuts* I'm barty and I hate my dad for all of the reasons you can imagine and I think it would be fun if he blew up. good?

Lily: Hi I'm Lily and after I got sent to magic school, all emotional ties with my muggle sister, who regards me as a freak, and my mother, who was more sensitive to her side, were severed. They didn't tell me when my dad died. I brought 3 musketeers.

Remus: Hi I'm remus and I got bit by a werewolf when I was 5, then my dad offed himself because of it. I brought moon pies.

James: Hi I'm James and I fell into limerence with someone and incessantly pursued them for over a year in ways that were detrimental to both of our mental states. I was so public about it I don't even need to say who it was. My mother sat me down one day and said "was it something your father and I did, something we said, that convinced you you need to beg someone to love you? to let you show them love?" and that broke something in me. We're chill now though, and I have coping techniques that work for me while still allowing me to be my expressive self, so I brought mr. goodbars.

Peter: Hi I'm peter and my animagus is literally a rat. I brought sour patch kids.

Dorcas: Hi I'm dorcas and my pureblood parents will never say it to my face but they wanted me to be a boy. To compensate I was sure to always get top marks, be well liked, and experience gender dysphoria. I burnt out before our 5th year, and learning radical acceptance in the place of trying to guess unspoken rules saved my life. I brought smarties.

Regulus: Hi I'm regulus and in order to be sure my mother didn't assassinate my brother for running away, I stayed behind in the abusive household and eventually became a deatheater to keep my cover, hunting down one bald headed bitch's horcruxes until it literally almost killed me. I think it did kill me in some lives. and I brought the starburst.

Mary: Hi I'm Mary and due to blood supremacist bigots, I have to go to school with people who want me to die just for having the audacity to exist. The muggle world is also like this. The school I go to does not matter in this scenario. I brought mentos for the salad and a bottle of soda for the show.

Evan: Hi I'm evan and my ex went on holiday to another country for 3 months, told me we could write to stay connected, they didn't, broke up with me via owl while still on said vacation, and then came to talk to me in person about that, denied that it was an active choice to disconnect from me, then tried to put the onus of any friendship to follow on just me. We haven't spoken since. Also I'm a sex positive, but also trauma affected ace, it was an open relationship, and they somehow still managed to be shady/inconsiderate about hooking up with someone on the vacation. I brought blow pops.

Pandora: Hi I'm pandora and sometimes I get prophetic dreams so vivid I can't tell when I wake up. Sometimes, though the future is not stagnant, I see my friends die :) I brought airheads.

Marlene: Hi I'm marlene and I have 5 brothers. 3 of them accept my nonbinary identity. The rest, and my parents, blatantly ignore that I use they/them pronouns. Then they told me if I don't have children as an adult I won't be worth visiting because it's my job as a pureblood to produce an heir. So I went to St. Mungos and got sterilized. I brought baby ruth candy.

Hope you enjoy! and thanks if you read them all! This was fun for me.

[eccentricphilosoph]

How can anyone see this and say it’s ok to let people get transition surgery without thorough assessment, mental health care, and therapy over at least a year?

We are told over and over people who don’t transition will kill themselves. yet, what about the people who can’t reverse their surgeries who sincerely thought they were trans when they weren’t who now want to kill themselves? Im now beginning to see one reason why self-ID and self-diagnosis is dangerous. This is why this is an understandably debatable situation.

Unless we make the trans space a cosmetic space instead of a mental health/medical space, there has to be better safekeeping.

Otherwise, if you want no safekeeping then you have to admit it as a cosmetic procedure and not a medical one and take it out of the medical space.

There are many trans people concerned with the lack of safekeeping into transition because then it'll mean less available healthcare necessities for people who actually need the care. Imo, if you don't think gatekeeping is necessary, then I get the feeling you clearly don't need it yourself! Hypocrite.

The system used to be different so this kind of situation wouldn’t happen, but now there’s little to no gatekeeping and severely mentally unstable people who need help are being harmed unnecessarily.

****NO I'm not saying "get rid of trans healthcare" I'm saying, make it safer and help people get through their other mental blocks instead of affirming them only. It's clearly not working for the 1000s of people now regretting or suing because they feel like these men do. ****

I've known 3 DETRANSITIONERS personally who did so not because they have internal transphobia, not because of lack of support, not because of bigotry, but because they're not trans. Guess what? They're not statistics because they didn't tell any surveys or their clinic that they're detransitioning. There are many like them that never go back nor report it. I'm sure there will be many more who will come to the realization their lives permanently changed for the worse (this isn't just a mere "knee surgery" this is literal castration of straight men at worse). Knowing 3 detransitioners in 5 years is a lot... That's at the rate of one per 1.5 years. There are about 20+ people I knew personally at one point or another who transitioned. That's 15% of all the people I knew who detransitioned and I'd be willing to venture at least one more will detransition, leaving us at ~20% of people I've known detransitioning. If detransition is only less than 1%, then what are the odds I'd know 3 people who did since, at most, I should only personally know 1 detransitioner. It's wrong to turn a blind eye and write this post off as "transphobic". Perhaps it's you who are the bigoted one to not listening to reasonable rhetoric. Noting that some people are suffering due to the lack of gatekeeping doesn't somehow negate some people having the opposite thing happen to them.

Citing that there are "statistics" does no good unless you can find me a new study that shows me, for at least a decade, with a substantial amount of people because this is a relatively new phenomenon to make this healthcare known in the mainstream consciousness. Also, as I said, my 3 friends aren't in surveys or the system as "detrans". If anything, they're probably still written down as a transitioner happy with their transition... because how do you know someone isn't happy unless they tell you? Instead of looking at common sense of what I'm saying, I get berated and belittled. You do nothing to help the cause of trans people when you do this. Do you really want people to slip through the cracks as collateral? Do you really, in the name of "inclusivity" want to limit the resources for those who really NEED it? How extremely heartless can you be?

Again, "no safekeeping= cosmetic procedure". "Safekeeping=medical" space. You can't have "no safekeeping=medical space" as there are mentally ill people getting improper treatment, suffering, and then taking away the resources for those who actually medically need it.

[thewoollyviking]

There’s something that’s been bothering me about discussing the finale to SU (the finale to the main series that is, not future) that I hear often.

Namely, that Steven’s success in getting the Diamonds, especially White, to change their ways is meant to be a sort of escapist fantasy where you can somehow reach out to your bigoted, hyper conservative family and get them to change their mind.

For a while I was sympathetic to that. I understand that in the last few years a lot of people, especially anybody living in the US, have had to cut ties with their family for one reason or another, and that this ending can be comforting. Perhaps even enough to inspire hope that maybe one day, they themselves could do the same with their friends or family.

But in the last few years I just feel like this need to cling to that fantasy has aged poorly and might even be more harmful than hopeful.

I wonder how many people watched the show and thought that if they just said the right thing or had the right argument, they could reach out to that person they had to ghost for a while and pull them out of that rabbit hole.

But whenever I do hear about or talk to people who have tried to do that, who try to talk them out and change their mind, all I hear about is how emotionally draining it is. How much that person just hurts them bu basically spitting in their face. Ever since 2020 these people have just become impossible to talk to because they aren’t interested in having their mind changed.

If you have a friend or family member that traded their principles for a red hat, they’re not going to care about your arguments.

The people who stay and try to get those people to change just keep hurting themselves. And the people they’re trying to reach out to are either too lost in the sauce to see how they’re hurting them, or they do know and revel in it.

It’s why I can’t help but feel like Steven was kind of coddled by the narrative and given an easy out (most likely because CN was threatening to pull the plug after the Garnet Wedding) to make for a nicer ending to the story.

But in a way it cheapens other elements of the story. Are we to assume then that Rose could have reasoned with White and simply didn’t try as hard as Steven had? Did Steven just come off as more convincing and charismatic than Rose? Is the nonstop demonization of Rose after season 5 suggesting that Rose should never have ran away and instead should have stayed to suffer under the Diamonds abuse in the slim hope that she could get them to understand her?

What was so special about Steven that Rose lacked in getting them to finally change?

I don’t like the idea of this element of the story, the confrontation with the apathetic, abusive family of the protagonist’s mother, feeling like it has to end on such a perfect fairy tale ending when so much they had been everything but that.

We kept all that emotional ugliness and drama when it came to Rose and how losing her affected Steven’s family. Why choose to have the Diamonds walk away thinking they can be a happy family now with Steven, and why is Steven coddling them by letting them think they can have him be their stand-in for Rose without having to accept that she’s gone because of them?

Why not keep it here? Why not show that people like Rose and Steven don’t need to always change the minds of or gain the approval of people like White. That sometimes the best we can do is just to try and get away, cut ties, and strike out on your own for your own sake because they will never. stop. hurting you.

But if you can, the best you can do is try to take away whatever power that abuser is using over others. Not necessarily by killing them, but at least by making it so that they could never hurt somebody ever again.

That should have been how Steven dealt with White. Having to bitterly accept that she’d be a hateful, abusive piece of shit no matter what he said. But at least Yellow and Blue, two of Rose’s family who had thousands of years of grief to process before getting called out for their role in Rose’s abuse, would want to help in making things right.

It would not be a perfect fairy tale ending, but that would have at least been one that better handled the Diamonds as villains.

Because they are. And that’s something this fandom seems to have forgotten and instead in a confused stupor seemed to have slapped onto Rose.

[copiasthighhighs]

Anyone else so sick and tired of tourists/bigots within the DA community? Especially on twt and reddit?

Spoilers beneath the cut!

Yes, I am well aware they are going to be part of any other community that exists. I’m mainly talking about the people who are saying that Taash should’ve been replaced by Shathann as a companion or that they’re incredibly annoying due to them being non-binary, ie: calling them the “pronouns character”. Or people only “tolerating” Davrin because he has Assan. Calling him a “stereotypical jock/bro”.

Like, as a trans person, I will say that sure, some things with Taash could’ve been written better, but I’m also taking into account that Trick Weekes wrote them based off of their own experiences, if I remember correctly. (If I am wrong, please do correct me).

And for that, I completely understand. People are blaming them not liking Taash on Trick and it’s like… Hello?? I’m not out here blaming them for also writing Solas because I don’t really like him? They also wrote my favorite character in the series as well (Bull), and did a fantastic job with writing Krem as well. Me personally, I heavily relate to Taash’s story as I too had an argument with my mother about my identity, and before I could apologize, she died. Taash as a whole means a whole lot to me tbh.

The amount of people genuinely hating Davrin is actually insane. They legit only “like” him because of Assan. I wish that with certain parts, Assan wasn’t attached and that we could focus on Davrin as his own character. But I am also taking into account that Emmrich almost never goes places without Manfred as well (except the two outings he goes on with Harding and Strife), but even then, Davrin doesn’t get that chance either.

There is NO way Davrin could be a “stereotypical jock/bro” are you kidding me? The man who canonically sang to Halla while living in his clan? Who now sings to Assan to sleep? The very same one who is willing to lay down his life for any one of the last 13 Griffons in Thedas? The one who carves little wooden figures of his friends? I am also in no way capable of talking about the specifics in depth, because I myself, am not black. But I’m pretty damn sure another reason people don’t like Davrin is because he is a black man.

Not to mention that stupid ass “ily message” twt thread that somehow mischaracterized EVERY CHARACTER, but I’m not gonna talk about that today.

[james-stark-the-writer]

alright, now that i've finally done the homework of the 4 90s-Batman movies, let's actually pick back up with the DCEU watch and get seated for Andy Muschietti's The Flash.

what i know about this is that it brings back Michael Keaton, that Christina Hodson wrote it (which is the only reason i'm even mildly excited to see this movie, because she also wrote the best DC movie which has a practically perfect screenplay), that there was some bullshit face transplant of dead people — i think one of them was Christopher Reeves, i am not watching those Superman movies for this (haven't seen any of them, might watch them after i'm done with the DCEU), i don't even have access to them, i'm not doing that shit for a cameo anyway, and fuck DC for that, obviously, but i'm going to try to give the movie the best shot i can.

i've heard mixed things about this one as well, i know a few people who really liked it, and a lot of people who really fucking hated it, it's been called every fucking insult i can think of, so i'm not optimistic but Christina Hodson wrote it so it can't be terribly written at least. it may look like shit (from the two clips i've seen: microwave baby, and the shot of Flash and Supergirl zooming into frame, oh that's another thing i know, new Supergirl is in this) but at least hopefully it's well written. and he cannot have fucked up Christina's script that bad.

i'm just hoping that if this is bad, it's at least fun. and that it's not soul-crushing like The Rise of Shitwalker. i know the people at Disney are fucked up, i also know the people at WB are even more depraved somehow, if their track record in these last 4 years haven't shown you that already, but i hope this is as free from their shitty tendencies as possible. i can't do another TROS.

also, have to do the disclaimer: fuck Ezra Miller, i hope their victims get the justice they deserve. don't fucking misgender Ezra, they won't fucking care because they are a celebrity, other non-binary people like myself will. if you say you're an ally and your allyship is conditional, you are just a fucking bigot too <3

for the purposes of this watch we're gonna try to pretend Ezra aren't who they are, bc otherwise i'm gonna be here all night and it's already almost 1 am and this movie is 2 and a half hours long.

ANYWAY, let's get into the fucking movie already.

[gryficowa]

I just found out that some pro-Palestine people are turning on the fandom mode (In short, the worst sides, i.e. doxing, rape threats, etc.), I'm begging you people, let's not behave this way, because it doesn't help, but harms, we are fighting for the lives of children, women and other people who are victims of Israel, not to go crazy, people from the UK, people from the USA and Jews from outside Israel are not guilty of anything, I'm not perfect, but it's one thing to write something under the influence of emotions, and another thing is to do it just to feed your ego (I communicate the same tone and this type of things, unless, like I use Google translator, which kills the message and then they want to eat you for it that Google translator couldn't capture what it was supposed to translate, threatening others with rape or death probably won't achieve much)

And no, pro-Israel is not better either, he calls everyone anti-Semites, or says that all Israel's crimes are "Anti-Semitic propaganda", and if you live in Poland, he may accuse you that your family is responsible for sending Jews to concentration camps , even if it's a lie (Now imagine, that someone is a generation of people who saved Jews and other people, and now they get such crap from a pro-Israel person, it's just disgusting)

In addition, many pro-Israel people prefer to deny the fact that Jews were not the only victims of this crazy man, or they cannot stand the thought that if Muslims lived in Europe, this man would probably not be very friendly to them (Hello, Roma too were victims, connect the facts), argument, just because one Islamist liked Hitler (to put it mildly) does not mean that all Islamists were for him (Hello, many Germans were not for him, so that shows how the world is more complicated)

And let me remind you, Disney was friends with a woman who loved the Third Reich, but somehow people keep silent about it, because apparently there is nothing wrong with friendship with people with "different" views (Tia… I will never understand these people, I will not let advice on being friends with someone who is right-wing and not because I am left-wing, but because that a lot of fucking right-wingers are bigots)

Pro-Israel pisses me off for pretending that there is no genocide, or for calling everyone "Anti-Semites" (And, as I have said many times, they kill the seriousness of the word), that's why I can't look at Pro-Israel the way I look at fandoms, for example other productions, because it's one thing to like a different production than others, and the second is to be in favor of a country that murders children and innocent civilians, yes, the context is more important

So yes, some pro-Palestine people, get a grip of yourself, and those Pro-Israel people, think about your values, because if you defend genocide, it's probably not a reason to be proud

[ladyhindsight]

I’m still in sort of disbelief how Clare thought the canoodling part of the ending scene of this chapter was structured well or even well motivated. How it plays out just paints a pretty clear picture of Clare’s priorities and intentions as a story-teller.

Sometimes some things, especially ill-fitting and ill-timed almost-sex scenes just don’t need to happen, you know.

The chapter opens up with Team Good making their way to Luke’s farm upstate to summon Raziel. They get to talking about Alec’s sexuality and how the Lightwoods are taking it because of a joke Isabelle makes.

This message about Robert is rather relevant here. Because, like R points out, the narrative surrounding Robert is incohesive at best, and his characterization fluctuates wherever the writing needs to without much consistency. There's a lot of fun discussion points about Robert (and Maryse) under his tag on the blog.

Yes, Robert escaped to Idris to get away from his gay son that he loved, not to run for the position of the Inquisitor.

→ No phones in Idris, how would've Robert asked about the trip anyway?

→ Jocelyn doesn’t like Jace (for her own reasons), so she never asks about Jace (Clary complains about this in City of Fallen Angels). → Robert doesn’t care about Magnus (for his own reasons which are a bit complicated and related to the Circle), so he never asks about Magnus.

→ Like the eye color is even guaranteed? Of course this highlights the idiotic opinions of bigoted people, but at the same time, that’s the best you managed to concoct? THE EYES. Though it goes with the little paper cuts for sure.

They are almost at the farm, and we cut to Team Evil. Clary has been sleeping but wakes up when she hears The Boys talking. Jace has been somewhere but would like to see Clary now. Something is off about their exchange and we learn why once Jace goes to see Clary.

We learn that Lilith’s rune on Jace’s chest has been damaged and that he’s momentarily himself again.

The pugio was a dagger used by Roman soldiers as a sidearm. I don’t understand why Jace calls it that here when he later talks about an aegis with which Magdalena stabs him and how the aegis burned Lilith’s Mark.

↓

Again with the em dashes. “She staggered back and grabbed for her worktable, she threw it at me.” I can’t.

→ She staggered back and gabbed for her worktable. There was powdered adamas on it—she threw it at me.

Also “I cried out as she drove it towards my chest”? Awfully poetic retelling of the events that were basically I just kinda shouted when she tried to stab me in the chest.

This is, if I may say, a preposterous claim. He really isn’t or wasn’t. See, Alec, for one. Let’s not rewrite history.

This scene started out nice, the way Clary tries to comfort Jace. As if there could be this lovely and nice intimacy between them that doesn’t need the constant fervor.

…Aaand it’s ruined because everything has to get hot and heavy and passionate between them.

It’s funny how intentionally hilarious this whole conversation of it’s me, that is not me, it’s the other me, the not me me, this you, no the other you, the other me is. Such a mess.

Oh hey, you remembered.

Jace then finally gets to the actual point of what happened when he was away. He also finally reveals what Sebastian’s actual plans are, which, you’d think, would take precedence over wondering whether this is the time to have sex for the first time. But what do I know.

Obviously they can’t have the make-out/almost-sex scene once Jace reveals he took the cup from Magdalena and murdered her so all of the physicality needs to happen before that. What I am saying is, it didn’t need to happen at all because the timing was inappropriate considering the following revelations. Intimacy between characters isn’t always being incredibly horny, especially when just comforting one another.

So far Clary and Not-Jace have been doing this every given opportunity, and I understand that it’s somehow different with Actual-Jace, though writing-wise not at all.

So great that Jace finally got to the point. We almost lost this information because they wanted to bang. Anyway. Now that’s done with. Jace decides he needs to give the cup and himself up to the Clave before he returns to his controlled state, and that’s the end of that bullshit.

[essentialthyme]

Interestingly! Even if we do take Caitlyn's excellent sniper skills into play, she actually did miss her shot with Jinx. Vi doesn't move to deflect Caitlyn's shot in episode 3, her hand just happened to be in the way and ended up hitting her gauntlet and not Jinx--who Caitlyn had in the scope. So it's entirely possible that Cait would have messed up some how. It reminds me of the Chem Baron's son being killed by Jayce last season. He was so blinded by anger and the need for revenge that he murdered a child, which Caitlyn could have done as well. And Piltover dehumanizes Zaunites so much that they wouldn't even have thought about punishing Caitlyn for killing a kid.

The reason Caitlyn doesn't have Jayce's moment of clarity is due to a lot of external factors but possibly most importantly was that she didn't kill a kid. Even Vi barley reacted when the kid in S1 died, she just saw it as another Piltover killing another kid from Zaun, happens every day. That's the type of violence Vi and the Zaunites had to become used to, because they knew Piltover doesn't see them as humans, just animals.

Also the language Caitlyn uses with Vi in Act 1 is clearly a reflection of Piltover's bigoted thinking and that the ideology of bigotry is so pervasive that it seeps into everyone. Even the most progressive of Piltover's citizens is likely to fall prey to the idea that Zaunites are somehow subhuman and are deserving of their hate. Caitlyn accuses Vi if being "one of them". She's no longer "one of the good ones" once she starts going against her wishes.

GOSH Caitlyn I love you, you're such a cop this season I hate it but please let me receive your hextech strap PLEEEEASE

That Kiramman coat she was wearing at the end of episode 3 was so sexy she's like if a vampire was a lesbian

Caitlyn is an EXCELLENT shot. She doesn't miss, so she has no reason to believe to she would miss this time. She WOULDN'T miss... right? Well, that what she believes, but in trying to stay strong in the aftermath of her kidnapping, followed closely by her mother's death, and trying to step up to take responsibilities she isn't ready for she is completely blinded to how she is completely freaking out, having almost full blown panic attacks at the mere possibility of facing Jinx. She is so lucky Vi was there to stop her.

She isn't thinking rationally, and she has a tendency to do that: be guided by her emotions. Think back to her handing over her gun for shimmer to save Vi, trusting a stranger completely and being vulnerable with him in gratitude only to have him betray her not long after. Naive, sure, but it was a mostly good thing when the emotion taking the wheels was sympathy. Now the she is being reigned by a mix of anger, grief and fear? All the while trying to put on a facade of strength? Babygirl is done for. She is primed to fall back to harmful beliefs, and she has no one to stand up and confront her unraveling thoughts: her mother is dead, Vi feels too guilty to properly confront her and then gets hurt by her, Jayce is... I don't even know, to be honest, and people in general are too intimidated by her name and her money. The only person willing to do something about it is Ambessa, which... doesn't bode well for Caitlyn, at all.

I believe she will recover, though lol we're getting her back, she's hopping on that butch strap, we shan't despair😌🙏🏼

[jewishbarbies]

If we’re having a discussion about Swifties and anti-semitism, I want to I bring up how anti-Semitic a lot of the gaylor/kaylor discourse is. This is specific to the Kaylor theories. I want to preface this by saying that I don’t like Karlie Kloss or the Kushners, nor do I think they are good people and this opinion has nothing to do with Taylor Swift or the fact that they are Jewish and everything to do with the Trump association. That being said, it’s always made me really uncomfortable how so many gaylor/kaylors have created this narrative that Karlie Kloss was somehow forced to marry Josh Kushner as a beard. And the reason that Karlie and Taylor can’t be together is because the Kushners and Scooter Braun “conspired” to trap Karlie and keep them apart. This narrative claims that Scooter was holding Karlie hostage via her contract and has been forcing her to do things, like marry Josh, and Taylor tried and failed to “rescue” Karlie.

Almost the entire Kaylor narrative and rationale for why Taylor and Karlie aren’t publicly out right now rests on the idea that these awful Jewish men have conspired to trap this blonde haired Aryan woman and are tormenting another blonde haired Aryan woman. It’s absolutely disgusting and plays on so many anti-Semitic tropes. It’s always bothered me. And that’s before you even start poking holes and realizing none of this makes any sense. Karlie CHOSE to marry Josh and chose to convert to Judaism and raise her children in the Jewish faith.

This theory robs Karlie Kloss of her agency and portrays Taylor Swift as a victim and once again scapegoats Jewish people. Very few Swifties, even those that claim to be anti-gaylor, talk about this. It’s maddening and really disturbing.

I wanna make a note up front that it’s antisemitism, not anti-semitism, and it’s an important distinction. no harm done here or anything, I just want to let everyone know the proper spelling bc I see the hyphened version too much.

I’ve seen so much racism and antisemitism from kaylors. it’s truly a problem with them. supposedly the kushner karlie married isn’t closely associated with his family because he’s not republican and instead more liberal, but the running idea was that taylor stopped being friends with karlie because a lot of people would assume he was a Kushner and it would make Taylor look bad. however, if that’s true…i wanna know why taylor has no problem associating with and sleeping with horrible men. more misogyny I’m guessing. but I definitely agree with what you’ve said here. it’s despicable the way her fans talk about jewish people at all in her sphere and I’m getting tired of their ignorance. idk why but kaylors are particularly bigoted, which is weird considering they’re obsessed with making everyone gay.

[vtori73]

You know... a lot of people who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community seem to have this problem of repeating cycles of being bigots to another group and not recognizing it at all because they write it off as being "progressive to do so," like... no, y'all just found someone you can easily bully because no really cares so you won't face repercussions.

I mean... it was the same with Asexuals/Aromantics but everyone (or more people) seem to agree they are part of the community yet a decade or less ago you would see all these so called "progressive" LGBTQIA+ people arguing and saying asexuals/a romantics were privileged, basically straight, faced no oppression, etc. Then we had Bi lesbians which plenty of "progressive" people still hate but for diff reasons (a mix of continued lesbian separatism + gold star mentality, biphobia +victim blaming rhetoric, ahistorical revisionism). Now a more recent contender being transmasc people and nitpicking anything they do and making it progressive to lump them in with cis men & implying they are privileged in any way for SPECIALLY being trans men (yeah... that doesn't make any sense).

Like, yes, some trans people in GENERAL are privileged but that has to do with OTHER FACTORS, like race, being able-bodied, being skinny, Christian, etc not because being somehow a man benefits you regardless of if you're a cis one or not. Like... this argument HEAVILY relies on not taking intersection into account because what about non-white trans men? What about them? What specifically about Black trans men? For any of you who are actually (or claim to be) anti racist would know that cis Black men don't benefit from being men the same way white cis men do so it would stand to reason that trans Black men wouldn't as well (*psst* thats because the patriarchy is VERY intertwined with white privilege/white supremacy/colonialism, sure the patriarchy has existed forever basically BUT in a lot of places nowadays the two very much go hand in hand & can't really be seperated). So the argument that trans men are just automatically privileged falls flat if you actually just take a second to think further on what you're actually saying.

And if that's not enough what about all the non-passing trans men? What about intersex trans mascs/men? Or nonbinary trans mascs/men? Or what about butches? What about butch woman or trans masc butches who might possibly pass as men but aren't? Are you saying they have cis men privilege? And YES, I'm calling it cis men privilege because THATS WHAT IT IS, that is what y'all are claiming trans men and trans masc people have and yes when you write it down like that it makes no sense at ALL and honestly a lot of the rhetoric around it just sounds like what y'all said about asexual/aromantic people, y'all just found a new acceptable target and honestly its just sad that the community is SO much quicker to engage in infighting then supporting one another and we are just doing the bigots jobs for them.

[leprosycock]

jrma's fanbase somehow gets more annoying than usual whenever lud even breathes in his general direction. they're always so defensive over who is allowed to be near him but they're extra weird with lud specifically. (i saw no jrma fans complain about poke collabing yesterday, despite poke actually being a known evil psychopathic manipulator that harasses people.) 2 years ago when jrma took the crypto sponsor, a lot of them blamed lud even tho jrma has always been a crypto fan. lud is not a good person but he's nowhere near the level of gross as other people jrma associates with. do you have any theories why they hate lud yet defend jrma's behaviour?

it's really odd because this has been a steady and constant reaction from his fanbase for the past two years and it hasn't once let up. at first i theorized that it was genuinely because of jIud and how aggressively people despise it, but not all of them are clued in on that drama, especially not now after the uproar over it has died down. i think still assuming that is pretty presumptuous and isn't accurate, so i'll go ahead and play armchair psychologist instead.

i think that jrma fans dislike lud because lud is a powerhouse personality and is desperate to be the center of attention even in jrma projects. and by god, he earns it. he almost always outshines jrma in one way or another whenever they're interacting with each other. he's loud, he's obnoxious, he's brash, he fakes confidence to an incredible degree, he's manipulative, he's needy. and jrma will more than willingly allow him the space to perform. i don't think that jrma fans like that lud forcibly takes the spotlight away from their stweamer. a common criticism from them is that lud seems spoiled and he's a huge brat, which is true (and sexy!), but i believe they find that so offensive because they're not used to it compared to the constant, mind-numbing self-pity that's always spilling out of jrma's mouth.

it might also be because they feel less.. "safe" around him and his presence? the reason why so many insecure kids flock to jrma is because he makes the most passive attempts at telling people that being gay and trans is fine or whatever and he never tries to do anything remotely edgy or push any kind of boundaries and his community fosters, again, this self-pitying mindset where no one is allowed to hurt you or make fun of you for anything ever because they're just mean stupid bigoted cyberbullies. it's positivity!!! it's always positive no meanies here!!!!!! positive jrma community!!!!!!! but lud doesn't really give a fuck about any of that. he's here to make money and make content, and so is jrma, but jrma has managed to trick his fans into thinking that it's about the love. it's about the people. he's so good and humble and kind. he's a good person look he didn't say the fag word isn't he a good person???? look how good of an ally he is!!!!!!!

i think the gist of it is that even tho lud is a much more normie cc, he's still too much for jrma's soft-hearted brain-bleeding baby lamb fans because he's meaner and sharper and colder and he's a superstar that shows jrma up on a regular basis. and jIud as a concept probably does definitely still play a role to some people. i feel like the exact answer is on the tip of my tongue, but this is the best i've got

[tossball-stick]

its crazy how many of my previous interests have just been enveloped by cowboys. it feels like every game i was into, besides like valve, rdr2 overshadows in every way.

overwatch? i mostly liked it because the characters were generic archetypes i could project onto and make my own. rdr has that but with more depth. theres still more meat to chew on but theres also still plenty of space for you to write in your own details. its honestly apalling. cole cassidy vs arthur morgan is just hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby and somehow coughing baby is coming out on top. spit on that man arthur give him tb make him feel like a reeeeal cowboy

borderlands? at least 90% of my interest in borderlands was because of jack and i wont even kid you it all stems from him. but now ive got an even more interesting lying backstabber whos abusive to his kids. dutch is literally just better to me in every possible way. i still think jack is fun but dutch is just....... better. it feels like literally everyones relationship with dutch is on the level of complexity of jack and tim or jack and angel. hell id argue some of them are even more complex than the most interesting one in borderlands, whatever you think that may be. rdr2 is also somehow more anticapitalist and antifascist haha

every time i wanna play a bethesda rpg its just in my head how racist it is. how it coos at you if you wanna side with fascism and racism, tells you that "mm well. this isnt _good_ but you should have the freedom of choice!!" like. sorry i cant play skyrim anymore i start thinking about how this series jerks off genocide at every turn and hollowly says we dont think its bad. but youre never allowed to see the oppressed's perspective. even if you choose to play as an argonian or khajiit you dont even experience fuckin racism man. at least in rdr2 i can look at the pepple who idolize micah n dutch and go "are you stupid?" because the game literally in no uncertain terms tells you these are bad bad bad people. the game tells you time and time again that everything, war, death, colonization, illness, starvation, is awful. it constantly points at all of this, it HAS to show you just how awful the victorian united states were because it was BAD. and it doesnt shy away from this. and then you have skyrim where every great historical figure in it is constantly jerked off for genociding millions of elves or beast races. there are so many stories about religious oppression but how am i supppsed to care when literally everyone is fine with wiping out entire races of people. the elder scrolls isnt nearly as humanizing as rdr2. in rdr2 you can really feel for some of the characters who have shitty biases and awful morals because one of the core messages of rdr2 is how everyone is human. everyone is a living human person with relationships and feelings and thoughts and death is bad. death is really really bad it fucks you up!!! so you can see these characters and sympathize with them, to a degree. even with the ones you actively want dead, it feels. human. the hatred of micah in me is so vitriolic because of how much death hes caused. i only value his life so little because of how little he values life as a whole, his own and other peoples. you want to kill the bigots because they hurt people. meanwhile in skyrim youre told to kill the bandits and youre not allowed to even think about what their lives couldve been like. theyre just bad guys. no other reason. and when there is another reason it doesnt matter. you slaughter them all the same. UGH sorry mgmmhkgkfngndn ive really stopped liking tes recently. cicero is still my babygirl but like. im prolly just gonna steal the dark brotherhood at this point and stick them in something else i cant do this. a lot of this applies to most fallout games too btw. new vegas excluded sorry that im basic but its made me actually feel things for the characters i talk to. its great at humanizing people. oh also rdr2s open world is infinitely better than anything bethesdas put out ever. im sorry its just literally flat out better

idk im trying to think of other games i used to like but theres not a lot others i can directly look at in comparison to rdr2 and say "well. the cowboys game provides everything i like from this one and more. theres no point anymore"

[letrune]

"1 like = 1 dead X! Jussajoek funi"

I seen a lot of "let's kill (insert group here)" and I wish to ask:

If it is "just a joke", what is the joke?

If not, why are your first idea to kill anyone in a group?

Let's test this idea, grab your favourite "kill all X" line and replace the X with a group. Now another. Now a group you hate. And now with a group you love. One you are a part of. Yourself.

Is it still "funny"? Can you tell me where the joke is?

If it is not a joke, why do you go for killing as a first instance?

I got a guess why these "kill all X" things popped up a lot. Social desperation, things are hard, and extremism is on the rise, the zeitgeist is "we got nothing else but big guns, time to murder!" From the desperate and- oh wait, hold up, do you hear this? Here comes the historical cycle sign!

Way back, in 1913 for instance, the idea ofentire groups being killed was a disturbing idea that some people clapped for, citing all sorts of reasons - kill all tyrants/rich/authorities/guys one doesn't like/foreigners/monarchs/poor people/minorities/people who question why we must kill entire populations for flimsy reasons, and suddenly, Utopia. Somehow. Don't question it, the guys saying it surely know. /sarcasm

Then World War 1 happened. Everyone could see images of the war. A deadly disease started killing people by the millions. The economy was collapsing, then completely collapsed. By the early 1930s, the people who were kids in 1913 saw that the entire world went from "normal" to some weird place. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer, but names changed; the oppressed were more oppressed, except when actual liberation efforts gone forth, like women's liberation or the dissolution of serfdom; and many Powers That Be got replaced by a brand new set of Powers That Be, most often not changing anything, but SOMETIMES changing for the better.

But who remembers the good times? It was "all better before the Great War". It was "not normal any more". This was when bigots and extremists popped their heads up. "Heeey, buddy! You are disillusioned and angry and sad and desperate, let me tell youbabout this great idea: just kill all the bad guys! Suddenly, everything will be Utopia, trust me!". Because that was the "normal" before all the changes, the middle-aged people who were kids during the Great War felt nostalgia. The kids of that time were enamoured by the lofty ideas and Utopia, compared to their lot.

These extreme ideologies popped up from the fertile soil of desperation, anger and sadness, and got cultivated by these weeds of hatred.

Oh and it did not stopped after the fascism empires crumbled to dust. In 1945, people looked around, and saw that things did not improved at all! Not for them! I mean, the average person was not oppressed by threat of extermination or being kept as serfs, they "only" had debts and brutal police forces and taxes to pay. US ultras had gone the same way, but theirbidea was "kill all commies, bam, Utopia!".

The normalisation of murder, however, was shaken in that generation. They saw images and film reels. They saw one, maybe even TWO wars completely upending everything in society. They may even remembered that most who were on top slowly had to give up group for civil rights movements and equity.

But they still seen no issues in hating a specific group. That was the normal. A slow march reformed what "normal" is in society, giving more room for equality. By the 1980s, we seen slow progress in the way society seen and treated women, queer people and people of colour, the ones who had nothing a hundred years ago.

But the same "if we kill all X, all problems get fixed too! Suddely, Utopia!" thinking got stuck in the extremist groups. Their hatred just solidified. People are too rich? Women and minorities got too uppity? The workers want more safety and pay? Those foreigners abroad seem happy? People calling out extremists? Why, "just kill them all and we have Utopia!".

"1 like = 1 dead X" is the newest iteration, and the excuse is the same. "It is just a joke" when someone calls it out, because you can't have these pesky members of X group call you out on planning a genocide. Schrödinger's douchebag will describe in detail how they want gulags and death camps, then go "just a prank bro!"...

Like all the extremists before. Then peoplelaugh and dismiss it and then wonder why we got nazies again. The method of "killing X group, suddenly, Utopia" is still normalised, but we have some who will remember the ten steps of genocide and realise what is haplening.

But then, many people got radicalised to the point where their first, last and only response is murder. Mass murder, genocide, total destruction. To repeat the past, because NOW it will be different, never mind that all these radicalised ideas were tried and failed before.

So, let me circle back. When you see "1 like = 1 dead furry", or "1 dead trans woman" or such, where is the joke? Because I only see another radicalisation attempt by a douchebag, and we got plenty in high places already.

[ottogatto]

I made a whole post about it once. Here's a copy-paste of it:

Professor Snape saved Lupin's life by revealing his secret...

...whether willingly or not.

There's a big debate on Snape's supposed evilness for "outing" Lupin at the end of HP3. Unsympathetic interpretations assume that Snape was just an anti-werewolf bigot who somehow waited nearly 20 years before revealing Lupin's secret out of petty hatred, while more sympathetic views argue that Snape told his Slytherins because he wanted to protect them from someone who'd proven he couldn't be trusted with the lives of children, notably after the fiasco at the Shack. In many ways, Lupin has failed his duties as a Defense teacher, and he didn't deserve to remain on the post anymore (more on that later).

Thing is, well, we don't really know what pushed Snape to reveal Lupin's secret (if we assume it wasn't an accident). All we got is Lupin’s word on it, but as PoA, OotP and DH proved, Lupin can’t be trusted, especially when it regards Snape: he’ll always find a way to slander him (there’s a reason Lupin is a Marauder).

So based on canon, we actually can't know if what Snape did was ill- or good-intentioned.

But what we can know is whether or not it was fundamentally evil to reveal Lupin's secret lycanthropy. And for me, the answer is no, not at all. Here's why.

Lupin was a Defense teacher. Given Voldemort cursed the position, we know he was going to suffer the price of the Defense jinx at the end of the year—one way or another. Professor Snape has been a teacher for 12 years at this point, so he’s seen at the very least 12 teachers suffer the consequences of the jinx. If we count his years as a student, he's seen 19 of them leaving in various states of distress and injury. In particular, Lupin’s most recent predecessors met a very gruesome fate: one was possessed and tortured by Voldemort until he died by Harry’s hand (Quirell), the other was dumped in St Mungo’s with extensive, incurable amnesia (Lockhart). So we know Lupin was doomed to suffer… potentially, a lot.

It’s by revealing Lupin’s secret lycanthropy that Snape channeled the curse of the Defense post in the safest way possible.

As Lupin says in HBP, it does not make a big difference that people know he’s a werewolf… as the news would have gotten out anyway. Many students before Harry have already learned how to recognize a werewolf. I’m sure many already knew Lupin’s secret, but just ignored it. In fact, we know Hermione knew he was a werewolf, and yet… nothing happened to Lupin. Just because people could suspect he was one, does not mean he was bound to be yeeted out the doors.

Being able to leave Hogwarts unscathed after all his failures and wrongdoings under the role of Defense teacher? That’s a miracle.

Now, we could argue that it might not have been Snape’s intention to save Lupin from an especially gruesome consequence of the Defense curse. Nevertheless, how can you explain otherwise that he never revealed Lupin’s true, darkest secrets to the public?

Indeed, Snape learned that:

\- Lupin used to roam Hogsmeade and the Hogwarts grounds as a werewolf for the last three years of his education, every month, having many near misses (= nearly killing/infecting people) just because he wanted to have fun + he hid this from Dumbledore out of selfishness and cowardice

\- he withheld capital information that could have saved us lots of trouble for a year; even though, as he admits, he *wholeheartedly* believed Sirius to be James and Lily’s murderer and got evidence of his dangerosity (slashing the portrait of the Fat Lady, tearing Ron’s curtains apart and standing over him with a twelve-inches long knife, etc), and convinced himself Sirius was using Dark Arts so strong they could break Hogwarts' security wards at any moment, Lupin never told Dumbledore that Sirius was a dog Animagus, or that he knew all the secret passages to Hogwarts, or even about the Marauder’s Map, all because of moral weakness (he didn’t want to admit a schoolboy mistake and wanted to look good in front of Dumbledore)

\- he cancelled the homework on werewolves just to avoid getting spotted even though it could save kids from people like Greyback or Lupin himself in case forgot his Wolfsbane (+ it would have been an opportunity for Lupin to break down lycanthrophobic ideas by adressing them instead of perpetuating ignorance, fear, and as such, prejudices on werewolves)

\- his negligence over his lycanthropy management (not drinking Wolfsbane even though he had a whole week for that, not remaining in the Shack for his transformation) nearly had Harry, Hermione, Ron and Severus (three students and a Hogwarts professor) either mauled, infected or killed. Imagine the parents ever learned that Lupin the werewolf nearly killed the Boy Who Lived?

Now, those are valid reasons to fire Lupin, or at least force him to resign. Snape totally had the capacity to tell the parents about it. Only, Lupin would probably have to worry far more than for a few angry owls.

The fact that Severus did not tell the parents the whole truth and effectively protected Lupin by keeping his darkest secrets show that Snape is far more than a solely petty character.

When you couple that with the fact Snape basically allowed Lupin to escape the Defense curse as safe and sound as possible… you realize that Snape "outing" Lupin was a blessing in disguise.

The craziest thing is that there’s evidence of Snape’s willingness to protect Lupin. In DH, even though Dumbledore has just told Snape “play your part well”, Snape risks his DE spy cover just to save Remus Lupin from a Death Eater’s wand during the Battle of the 7 Potters, even though Lupin would kill him on sight if he could. Granted, Snape misses and hits George’s ear instead (whoops), but that’s the true Snape there. Stupid, but incredibly brave, including for his personal enemies.

Who knows, perhaps Lupin knew what he was signing up for when he took the Defense job. I wouldn't be surprised if Snape revealing Lupin's secret had been arranged from the beginning so that Lupin could leave safely. But in this case, then it truly wasn't an act of bigotry or evilness... but a secretly heroic one.

TL:DR: Severus “outing” Lupin as a werewolf is an act of mercy and saved his life.

I would probably have formulated this another, better way, but yeah, I do enjoy believing that Snape did this to save Lupin's ass -- with Dumbledore backing him up. And who knows, maybe Dumbledore is behind this. The Headmaster does not seem saddened at all at Lupin's hastened departure...

If Snape wanted revenge on Lupin, he should either have tried harder, or let Lupin on the post to see what the curse had to offer that year...

Do you think Snape outed Lupin as a werewolf to save him from some worse fate that the DADA curse might have inflicted? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?