#they literally will defend that man for anything

[quixoticalpostsager]

Guy as a term specifically comes from “Guy Fawkes” more specifically from people referring to the straw effigies of him that get burned as “guys”

It later became a term for men who are the lowest of the low and eventually the terms bad connotations loosened up, but regardless it’s still a gendered term originating for a nickname for bad men, from effigies of a man that get burned, from a dude who tried to tried to blow up parliament and more specifically the king

Also guy is a masculine French name

So regardless of how neutral it is now in English, it still has origins that are pretty much dudes all the way down

So you can’t really defend it by saying “oh I always use it in a gender neutral way”

Because either way

The person doesn’t want you to call them that, so you shouldn’t, and your unwillingness to adjust your behaviour even slightly to accommodate someone else’s preferences is not a good look

You can make mistakes, but you need to learn from them

Alternatives to guys: everybody, Y’all, everyone, people in the general vicinity, friends, pals, literally anything, widen your vocabulary and don’t demand people tolerate your unwillingness to change your behaviour even slightly

[literallyapieceoftrash]

The way yall characterize Radzig in this fandom is insane and since ive gotten so fed up here’s a bitchy rant. (I’ve only played the first game in full, not done with the second yet fyi)

“Radzig could’ve married Henry’s mother!”

No. He fucking couldn’t. He legit fucking couldn’t. Even if he figured out some way to make it work what life would that subject Henry and his mother to? The commoner who birthed a noble’s bastard out of wedlock? Yeah, that’d go over smoothly.

“They could’ve run away and married”

Sure they could’ve, but there’s the means of finding work, surviving the journey, making sure Henry’s mother had the right people around to help with the birth. Etc etc. Not a good idea methinks.

“Radzig doesn’t care about Henry! He only sees him as a useful tool!”

Ex-fucking-cuse me? Are we playing the same game here? The man who looked distressed when watching Henry run away from the castle, didn’t care about Henry? The man who quite literally loudly expressed his relief when hearing about Henry’s survival in Talmberg? Naaah doesn’t mean anything. The man who took Henry into his service the moment he walked into Rattay, gave him all the means to defend himself and more training to boot? Nope he don’t care. The man who, yes sent him on dangerous missions, but always with the advice of caution, of not taking unnecessary risks, flat out stating that he didn’t want to lose him, and not only that always telling him what a good job he’s doing and that he’s PROUD of him when he returns? NAAAH doesn’t care.

The man who was AGAINST Henry going to Vranik because it was too dangerous, and only allowed it at Hanush and Henry’s request.

Radzig proves a million times over that he cares. Shut up with this “useful tool” bullshit.

“Radzig didn’t explain himself at all”

This might just be me, but I didn’t particularly want the details of what happened between Henry’s mother and Radzig. Especially since if Henry is 18-19 in KCD that would put Radzig in his TEENS when he had Henry.

For me “We were young and it happened” was enough. Besides, he explained the most important part.

That Martin knew, and that Radzig never forgot about him.

Henry wasn’t just “an accident” to Radzig, no shut up, he wasn’t.

If Radzig truly thought that, he wouldn’t have kept an eye on Henry, he wouldn’t have taken the time to make sure him and his mother were taken care of. This man may not be world’s best dad, but ffs you can tell that he TRIES.

TLDR: Sir Dadzig cares, pass it on.

[moodstabilizr]

ive realized fighting with trump supporters is pointless so ive just started saying “she just servesssss cuntttt” when they ask me why im voting for harris

[egophiliac]

2025 is the year of the DRAGON SLIPPERS

[mxtxfanatic]

One day this fandom will have a reckoning on how it likes to blame Jin Zixuan's death on Wei Wuxian—whether by maliciousness or a "loss of control"—while ignoring the fact that Jin Zixuan died because he lunged at Wei Wuxian with a drawn sword because he was angry that Wei Wuxian told him that he doesn't trust him after he refused to tell Wei Wuxian whether or not he was a part of the ambush his cousin set up after Wei Wuxian told him to keep his distance from him after he told Wei Wuxian to stop defending himself against an ambush that he showed up to and was plainly told was put together to kill Wei Wuxian after he had already been bodily pushing Wei Wuxian around to protect his cousin. But all of that is supposed to be forgiven and forgotten because the reason he wanted Wei Wuxian to ignore all logic and put his life in danger was for Jiang Yanli's temporary happiness? Lol. Lmao even.

[theballadofmars]

Reading again the last book of svsss (not counting the extras) because it finally released in my country and bingqiu hold hands a lot. Like, a lot lot.

And 75% of the time sqq is the one who initiates the hand holding. While still thinking that he's heterosexual. I can't stand this clown.

[dekusleftsock]

I think that there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly is…happening with Izuku’s character. Specifically in regards to chapter 425.

I’m glad that a lot more people generally recognize that Izuku is not a character that can be read at a surface level, given that he’s both a repressed person with built up emotion of basically everything and also a very glaringly HUGELY unreliable narrator, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with the ways I’ve seen this most recent chapter spoken about.

I see posts, comments, etc with ideas like “Izuku don’t suppress your emotions! Open up with people! It’ll be okay I promise!” When that’s fundamentally not what is happening here.

There’s always always ALWAYS been a distinct difference in character throughout horikoshi’s writing when he is showing that a character is:

A—Avoiding emotions, thoughts, ideas less than ideal for them. Not opening up when they probably should about their problems given that they’ve been handed the space to do so. Just genuinely not acknowledging, feeling, or expressing emotions that they don’t want.

B—Reflecting on the ways they feel about the world, themselves, or other people given their new perspective on a situation. Not outright reaching out to others to talk about these problems/feelings, but instead waiting until the moment they feel they have the most confidence to do so with their new outlook on their own life.

And genuinely, guys, to grab your BkDk attention rn, this is the exact reason why Ochako’s reflection on her feelings for Izuku and thereafter decision to pull away from them WAS NEVER GOING TO END IN OCHAKO EXPLODING WITH HER LOVE FOR HIM.

This was another common interpretation I saw of Ochako and Izuocha for a long time. That because she pushed these feelings away, they were somehow going to explode in this unbelievable way and she would “get the boy” because of it. That her arc would surround accepting her romantic feelings and that she can’t just push away how she feels for a career.

But yk. That didn’t happen. At all. Nowhere close even.

The same kind of goes for Katsuki, allmight, etc. They all had moments in their arc where it was spent genuinely reflecting, and the only reason we as the audience never connected it in the same ways we do ochako or Izuku was ALWAYS BECAUSE the narrative showed their inner thoughts while doing so (mostly because Allmight’s arc after losing OFA and Katsuki’s arc on what it means to be a hero were so intrinsically tied, both starting at the same time and ending at the same time during the final war. And because they were so tied this caused their own reflections, development, and thought process to be broadcasted to us frequently throughout their arcs… to each other. They also somewhat shared aspects with Izuku, but these were cherry picked more often than not, like dvk2 for example).

To us Katsuki never seemed to be.. idk, suppressing his anger in any way because we were always told what he was doing and why (side note: this is why I’ve always thought arguments against Katsuki were so weird, bc unlike characters like endeavor or Ochako he wasn’t like… hiding who he was and how he was changing. Ever. Like the audience knows at all times past basically season 3 what Katsuki is thinking and doing. Like how do you watch this happen, stare me dead in the eye, and tell me how much of a terrible and awful teenage boy he is. Like damn I didn’t think we were this dumb. This is also my theory as to why he’s most popular, his arc is very… in your face if that makes sense). Katsuki’s entire mini arc on reflecting his mistakes and his childhood and his future is spent TELLING YOU that it’s what he’s doing. (I’m referring mostly to the endeavor internship arc, the provisional license exam makeup, and basically everything in the war arc related to him leading up to bakugou Katsuki rising here)

And see, Horikoshi will stare you dead in the eye, tell you “this girl has taken into consideration that she doesn’t want to waste her time training her career focusing on a boy because he kinda caught her fancy”, and y’all will still say that this will explode in her face.

Y’all this is a series about learning how to manage emotions, maturity in relationship to one’s emotions, how to feel an emotion, but in a way that is helpful. Horikoshi isn’t telling you “go buck wild, feel everything all the time and always express it”, in fact he explores why you DONT do that! Through Toga or Shigaraki, they show how grief and anger can genuinely consume you. But he also shows why you shouldn’t just put everything in a box to never look at or acknowledge, or why you shouldn’t just let your grief destroy the world around you, or pretending that some emotions simply don’t exist.

I can’t say this enough, so let me say it now, mha is about the extremes of your psyche. That you should control something, but not too much. Everything can be harmful. Everything can be good.

Izuku is not controlling too much, he’s expressing just enough.

I LOVE shaming this dickhead at all times in all my posts. I love saying he’s an ignorant dipshit with a weird amount of distaste for a girl who just confessed to him. I’ve joked that chapter 348 is basically an entire chapter spent on Izuku calling Himiko a mean dyke. And yet I also believe he’s doing nothing WRONG here.

In fact, I’ll even say that this moment right here?

ISNT EVEN IZUKU DOING THE SOCIALLY APPROPRIATE THING ABOUT IT! But he’s still TRYING to reach out to someone he thinks MIGHT be able to understand. (And frankly, this moment is far deeper than what it’s being made out to be, to me it reads more like an unrequited friendship that Izuku both desires and has thought of them to have, while simultaneously showing the distance Ochako has successfully wedged between them for her own sake. Maybe it was always there though, maybe in weird, miscommunicated Horikoshi fashion, this is a representation of how Ochako always read all those “fun friend hangouts” as a little more than that, and without those feelings the friendship never really held any substance to her in the first place. Where Izuku saw his first real friend at UA, she saw little more than acquaintance)

Simultaneously, Izuku is genuinely reflecting on what it means for the world to change, to be a hero, to live after loss—and trying and failing to gain the connection he desires from individuals who can not and will not afford him that.

Izuku is ready for the world to change, a few select characters are also ready for the world to change (mirio, for example), but not nearly enough are. So maybe I’ll have to take this back if I’m proven wrong and I accidentally looked into this far past what everyone else did for no reason, but I genuinely believe with moments like this

And this

Aand this

That Izuku has come forward with that aspect of his character development. He’s reflecting on his new beliefs, not repressing his emotions for them.

[lilithofpenandbook]

Literally how do you even respond to that?

[figofswords]

i know ive made myself the #1 izutsumi stan in the eyes of all of my friends and probably some of you online people but what if i became a mithrun stan. there is something about him that compels me. i just want to *clenches fist* put him on the drying rack. lovingly stick him into a tupperware for later. make him into. a broth of some sort. do you understand

[nenoname]

seeing a post complaining that "oh the show never showed the trauma that ford got from bill!!!!" and it's just ???????? that's literally the majority of his character????

[licorishh]

I'm sorry but the complete and utter lack of appreciation on the internet for the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is just absurd. WHERE IS YOUR ENTHUSIASM. WHERE IS YOUR APPRECIATION FOR SUPERBLY-CRAFTED MEDIA. Sure, the 2005 one is fine. Whatever. But the 1995 one??? HELLO???

'95 Mr. Darcy is the biggest simp on the face of the Earth and I will hear no objection to the contrary. My guy spent the first three episodes doing nothing but whining about how dumb and lame everybody was except for him 20% of the time and just staring at Lizzy like a big stupid idiot the other 80% of the time. My guy invented yearning.

My guy yearned so bad he finally bothered to do the self-reflection he'd never cared to do before when she eviscerated him to such a degree because she wouldn't stoop to marrying someone for whom she had not a shred of respect. My guy yearned so bad he was willing to risk his station in life, his livelihood, literally everything just to save her family from ruin, something he would never have dreamed of doing in the beginning of the show. My guy yearned so bad he recognized his deepest flaws and put in the work to change them and become a better person not so that she'd give him what he wanted, but because he realized she was right and that he was in the wrong and needed to make those changes literally just in order to actually have a happy and fulfilling life.

My guy literally created "I love my wife so bad I'm gonna explode and she could kill me on the spot and I'd thank her for the opportunity to be involved"-ism and you people ought to show more gratitude for him singlehandedly altering fandom culture.

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Sorry to be posting twice in one day but now I wanna talk about Sybil's last line of dialogue at the end of Wallaru. Bro says "The Spiral will always need its Scion." In terms of new villains always arising, new worlds to explore, etc.

Now of course in the real world this means something totally different than in narrative; for us it means yay Wizard101 will continue and it's not ending and shit and thats good!!! But in universe, I believe that fact would have brought different feelings. Like sadness. Or anger. Or maybe just numbness.

Like if you think about it. The implications. The Wizard will never, CAN never rest. It's an ongoing, neverending thing of always being needed. It's You and ONLY You. There will never NOT be evil. If not GF Spider, then the Schism. If not the Schism, then the Old One. If not the Old One, then someone else. Someone or Something will always come up as a Threat that only the Scion (for some reason. Gods exists here) is expected and able to defeat. When Sybil said that I was legit terrified because gotdamn I can't retire???? I will Always be The Legend who Always saves the day???

Like even setting aside the social consequences of this (the whole people suspecting us/fearing us Thing) imagine what that does to your emotional and mental health. Fuck even physical health. Going through all that strenuous trauma and exercise and magical ordeals and shit???? The pressure of knowing it's the universe at stake, not just you or the world? I actually would have died just in arc 2 personally how the fuck are we supposed to carry this. For the REST. OF OUR LIVES. FOR HOWEVER LONG WE LIVE

✨ Anyways here's hoping the Schism Soldier is arc 5's new big baddie haha #enemiestolovers101 😘✌️💕💕💕

[amandabe11man]

fellow members of the neil howie defense squad, MAKE SOME NOISE

[loveyouhomex]

it's so funny to see how the comments on Ralf Schumacher's coming out prove that hetero cis-men only (pretend to) care about women when there's a gay man who could've "kept them in the dark and lied to them for their whole lives" (without having any info on that of course)

[quillkiller]

can’t relate my canon regulus is so scared of being abusive and of children that he swerves all the way in the opposite direction and becomes avoidant and non confrontational maybe like orion until he learns better. he’s my fave so he’ll never be a child abuser but i do acknowledge that sometimes people repeat the cycle of abuse unfortunately unintentionally. ❤️

well that’s good for you, but i’m not dabbling in your canon readings, aus or character studies + you can post about it on your own tumblr

[petpetpinixy]

i keep trying to post my thoughts about princess bubblegum imprisoning flame princess but it keeps devolving into a multi paragraph stream of consciousness mess fucking GOD