#the ethics of shipping

[dapper-lil-arts]

You either think about it a lot, or not at all

[lucabyte]

isat doodles in the form of a silly-serious-silly sandwich

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[r-2-peepoo]

I just saw a really stupid take from a Star Wars fan (I know, absolutely unheard of! (heavy sarcasm)) so here is a reminder:

People who ship clones with Jedi are more than aware of the power dynamic. That’s a huge part of what makes them interesting. If we were to to ship Cody with basically anyone else other than Obi Wan, it probably wouldn’t work as well because Obi Wan is precisely the last person who would ever want to pressure him or cross his boundaries.

The Jedi were totally screwed over and backed into a war that goes against so much of what they stand for and on top of that, now they have an entire army of brand new humans to lead. All of those brand new humans are totally unique and just experiencing the world for the first time, even though they’re all mature adults too. It’s a totally screwed up situation which puts so much added pressure onto the Order, so we throw romantic feelings on top of that and we’re not supposed to find that absurdly compelling?

Obi Wan is literally defined by his empathy and his kindness. The reason shipping him with Cody works so well is because there is no one who represents what the Jedi are meant to be better than him. Goodness is at the core of his character. There would never be a day that he didn’t value Cody’s wellbeing over his own feelings. Not to mention that they’re both so dedicated to their beliefs and responsibilities that a relationship is never even realistically an option while the war is going on.

Codywan is about the yearning. It’s about them both knowing they have feelings for each other and not being able to do anything about it because they are fighting for something much bigger than themselves. It’s about the infamous “after the war” conversation that they never got to have. It’s about them meeting again on Tatooine years later, finally on equal footing and completely alone in the galaxy, bonded together by their grief.

That’s why people love Codywan. The suggestion of anything otherwise is just an insult to the hard work all the artists and writers have put into making some of the most incredible fanfiction and fanart and fanon lore I’ve ever seen in any fandom ever.

P.S.— the portrayal of something in a piece of media doesn’t equal the condoning or promoting of that sort of behaviour. I thought we’d long since established that. Let’s use our brains here.

[orbch]

selfcest yaoi for the soul

[starless-gaze]

seeing anti jeggy posts on my feed is wild bc the argument is always that it's ooc for james

like how do you know james wouldn't be into regulus??? did he tell you that????

[mxtxfanatic]

The way that fanon can affect how people view canon, going so far as to warp the source material to fit their fake opinions is a double-edged sword. It can be something as funny and harmless as curly-haired Luo Binghe or blond Yang Qizhan or something as terrible as some of the biggest and most wide-spread translators of mdzs all deciding to translate “gui dao” as “mo dao” despite those being different words in English, different characters in Mandarin, completely different meanings, and the whole point of the novel being that these are two separate things whose differences must be hammered home multiple times in the story. That so many people independently (I hope) got together to mistranslate that one phrase built entirely on a misconception meant to be debunked in the story means that so many people miss this major deconstruction because “well, if the people who know the og language all say it’s this, who am I, a reader ignorant to said language, to challenge them?”

[the-bar-sinister]

I want more non-porn fics where most of the cast is known to be having or have had casual sex with one another and it's not a big deal.

*writes a bunch of these fics myself*

[cringefailvox]

au where rosie takes vaggie in after her fall instead of charlie, because not many would be willing to endanger themselves to save a cannibal child and rosie respects a woman willing to suffer for her principles, especially when she suffers so beautifully. vaggie is obedient, driven to a fault, loyal and dogmatic but also, desperately, kind and compassionate despite what she's been through, and so willing to throw herself on a sword for rosie's sake after being taken in and cared for—well, rosie just has to keep her. (and the novelty of having an angel in her pocket! why, she hasn't had an ace up her sleeve like this in ages! you can hardly blame a gal for taking advantage.) just vaggie living in cannibal town as rosie's guard dog <3

[mayakern]

rodeo has cast a spell on the shop and now there's free shipping on all US domestic orders now through october 26th!! 😱

be sure to take advantage of this while you have the chance and grab a few skirts or shirts to add to your collection!

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[prince-liest]

I was outlining the next radiostatic fic when I got distracted by the fact that someone needs to put Lucifer into their lap and tell him he's a good boy, and now I'm 6.2k words deep into something that's turned out way more emotional than I thought it would.

[houseswife]

find it sooo funny that foreman is cuddy now and chase is house because although cuddy was an enabler she at least had some semblance of what you’re meant to do as a doctor. so she could hold up the facade a tiny bit. chase is gonna walk in like “I need approval to amputate this guy’s perfectly working legs and then re-attach them using dental floss. without anaesthesia btw. and we’re gonna hypnotise his medical proxy to get consent. we think he has a mild mint allergy and I need the answer” and foreman isn’t even gonna look up from his paperwork before responding “k lol”

[nathaniacolver]

i feel like tumblr NEEDS to know about Dr. Ally Louks, and the term "Olfactory Ethics"

(long post incoming)

storytime/timeline:

on november 27, 2024, an excited English Literature PhD recipient posted a picture of herself with her thesis, titled:

"Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose"

as you can see (on the bottom row, above), the tweet has been viewed over 119 MILLION times, and has received over 250k likes. unfortunately, within days (most of the replies dating december 1st), she had garnered what seems like every possible insecure man with a twitter account to post their vitriol and rage concerning the fact that a woman is clearly more well-researched than them. regardless, she tanked it ALL with kindness and with a smile:

AND I MEAN VITRIOL (queen of making boundaries clear):

(inserting reading break for the timeline's space's sake):

here's her abstract:

and in case the abstract wasn't clear, she has since (date: december 16th) taken the time to re-summarize her thesis for the layman (yes that is a link! click it! 3min read!)

she has repeatedly shown just the perfect amount of kindness and understanding for those who are simply Not Comprehending (mostly december 1st):

(the chatGPT hate in the next one is my favorite:)

has upheld an incredibly high moral standard of how she interacts with the situation (december 2nd):

ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS: regardless of this crap, she made it clear that as a professor, her FIRST priority at the end of the semester would be taking care of them (december 3rd)

(CAN SHE GET MORE BASEDDDDDDDDDD)

she stays both 1) educating the masses, and 2) engaging with pop culture as much as a normal person would (december 9th-17th):

she also supports a free palestine (WHO IS SURPRISED. NOT ME.) ((december 15th))

here's the BEST FREAKING THING ABOUT THIS. since this all has happened, RANDOM TWITTER USERS, UNKNOWINGLY, have REPEATEDLY proven her thesis to be true,

again,

and again,

AND AGAIN.

EVEN CARDI B DO YOU HEAR MEEEEEEEE

COMBATING MISOGYNOIR WITH HER OWN BARE HANDSSSSS

oh she knows she's mother

here's some more she never saw/commented on (INCLUDING SOME FROM TODAY. IT IS STILL GOING ON. EVERY SINGLE DAY LIKE CLOCKWORK SOMEONE POSTS SOMETHING THAT PROVES HER POINTS ABOUT OLFACTORY ETHICS):

THE WICKED MOVIE REFERENCE HELLO

apparently, OTHER academics are mad at her for being so famous and influential, but she stays unbothered (december 16th, and TODAY, december 19th):

and she's partially getting her post-doc on how people's sense of smell has been altered (december 1st):

and the best part is!

all of these screenshots i've collected are only a SAMPLE, illustrating dr. louks' indomitably kind and ethical character.

anyway. i want ALL of y'all to start saying, out loud, "olfactory ethics", or even better, "dr. louks was RIGHT" (something something women's names are erased something) every time you see something that plays into her thesis. never let her influence die. THINK THROUGH what you're REALLY saying when you comment on the smell of something, or how your perception has been shaped by society. USE THIS PHOTO IF YOU HAVE TO:

follow her on twitter (@DrAllyLouks) or bluesky (idk her handle, if someone tells me i'll edit it in)

AND SAY HER NAME!! DR. ALLY LOUKS

[joanna-fake-name]

Was it casual when you held my hand for the last 15 minutes of the car ride and then you let me go inside with you?

[paradoxsun]

Regarding the Dadadan fanart controversy-

I didn't see half this energy when that one crazy guy was making the "Asian", "Black" or "Indian" versions of real people, which was just horrifycally stereotypical and malintended. But so many people came to attack a young artist for drawing characters that they loved in a way they could better resonate with it.

Joke being that Okarun and Momo would be honoured to be drawn as black people. Okarun especially would be so touched that someone liked him enough to draw him. Ayase is a gyaru- an aesthetic and culture that is heavily based on Afro American culture. I recently heard that the dance in the opening was inspired by a famous hip-hop step, but I won't speak on it, because I can't find many references for it and I'm not very well educated on hip hop or dance.

Also, where the hell is this energy when people white wash all the One Piece characters or when Mirko loses Melanin with every episode? Where is this fear of "race swapping" in anime when the MC is blonde and blue eyed? Nobody minded Brazilian or Indian Miku? So what exactly is the issue here?

I wish people would stop bitching. It's embarrassing to watch what you speak up for.