#they’re not mutually exclusive

[creativity-deficient]

“You can’t think Tweek is cute!! He has a serious mental disorder!!”

SHUT UP AND LOOK AT HIM!!!

[murdrdocs]

ppl these days fail to realize that i can hate coryo and want to fuck him at the same time

[moncharrow]

i think a lot of baby gays’ first experience with the lgbt community was on 2020 tiktok during the peak of “lesbian soft cottagecore running in the grass and holding pinkies”, which for some reason has led to a weird fear of “sexualizing” women? it’s perfectly okay to feel sexual feelings towards a girl, there’s no shame it in. you don’t have to police your thoughts, you’re not evil or broken for a very human emotion

[dovedrangeas]

never going to lose my anger about rick riordan saying his characters are “too strong” to have ptsd. it makes me so mad

[venusofvolterra]

Also there’s nothing anyone can do to convince me that Demetri isn’t autistic.

His tracking sense just reads as a special interest. One that could very easily lead to multiple hyper-fixations.

His good communication skills are one of the first things Bella notes about him.

Having lived and trained with Amun and now with the Volturi — it seems like he really needs to feel validated, to feel useful.

[bioswear]

No I’m sorry but the CGI looks so bad in the nier anime. I literally have two degrees in digital arts/animation and game art and like, anyone with working eyes and a brain can tell it’s shitty, choppy animation 🥴

[wetchickenbreast]

saw people on the internet arguing about whether clawdeen was supposed to be latina or black and like girl she can be both ❤️

[kit3ling]

I once had someone yell at me for asking what I could do to help them because, quote, “you should care enough about me to already know that.”

Bitch idk how to take care of MYSELF. I cant even figure out me and I AM ME. How tf am I supposed to figure out an entire other complex human being.

Please. Just TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED

I hate that thing some people do where it's like. "I left my wallet on the table to see if you'd say anything" or "I wanted to see if you'd wash the car if I stopped doing it"

Cause like

I dont know about anyone else

But I am perpetually hovering three inches above the strong subconscious belief that everyone knows what they're doing at all times except me, so if you change your normal patterns and I notice, then I will assume it is an intentional choice with a thought-out plan behind it and I will avoid interfering

And if I don't notice, because I won't, because why would I, because not much bothers me and if you don't say anything to indicate you are bothered then how would I KNOW

[olive2read]

people using yin & yang as shorthand for “total opposites in a mutually exclusive binary” will be my villain origin story 🥲

[boneless-mika]

“People are lazy” is not the main problem with reaction content that doesn’t have reactions just like it isn’t the main problem with society at large

[ilostyou]

i was literally about to meltdown bc : overwhelmed and i had to go ask my supervisor a question and he was like 🤨 everything okay what’s up 🤨 and then pulled me into an impromptu debrief slash distract meeting and. i’m very grateful

[housederiva]

[thot-son-of-odin]

Lol sorry for rbing on this v old post but I don’t think your language here is correct,,,,,like topping and bottoming is strictly a position you can take during penetrative anal sex, not a dynamic. That’s why you can have power bottoming and service top

I think the word you’re looking for here is submissive??? The specific dom/sub dynamic is where the “who is in control, who is running the fuck” comes into play. Bottoming is strictly a position, and I think the blurring of this definition is where people start getting weird and fetishy about people who prefer to bottom vs people who prefer to top. Not that I’m accusing you of that, ofc, I just think it’s a specific blend of misogyny and mlm fetishization that leads to the whole “only manly men top and only feminine men bottom”

Like I think I might need to clarify:

What I mean when I say "Loki is a bottom" is not a matter of penetration. It's just that loki, in his sexual relationship with Thor, wants Thor to take control of his body. He wants Thor to run their fucks, so to speak.

Penetration is a completely separate negotiation and not a fucking requisite to sex

[kuroananosanji]

Thriller bark discourse is funny coz people act like Zoro can’t be devoted to Luffy’s dream AND want to protect the crew. It’s clear that Sanji wanted to sacrifice himself for Zoro’s dream, Zoro refused to let his friend die, so he sacrificed himself for both Luffy and Sanji in the very end? Do people really think Zoro knocked Sanji out because Sanji was “getting in the way of him sacrificing for Luffy”? It always feels weird when some people frame Zoro and Sanji as two harem waifus competing for Luffy’s attention when they just love their crew very much and would do anything for them.

[saetoru]

“it’s no longer 1937 and we wrote a snow white that’s not gonna be saved by the prince”

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

I think fans want Jason to be a good person or be becoming one. To have a character that is well meaning and compassionate but decided murder is ok and to stand against main heroes who’s beliefs and actions go against the people he cares about and wants in his life. It’s confusing for people. People want their fav characters to be happy. But Jason can’t have his family’s support and follow his moral code. He’s cares about people and Gotham, and he’s an asshole who kills. It’s messy. It’s not black and white. I don’t even think Jason cares about being a good person or in the right anymore. I think he cares about what will save the most people instead.

Oh my goodness gracious I’ve been bamboozled

Batman’s definition of Good is not synonymous with absolute good/right no matter how much dc insists it is. Torture, battery/assault, surveillance, those are all condemnable actions too. I won’t get into the exhausting and frankly dumb debate of comic book morality wrt killing because I’ve already reblogged plenty of posts from other people who explained my thoughts on the matter far better than I ever have the patience to sit down and articulate. I also just think the notion that there’s something to be done about fictional characters who kill nazis and senseless murderers is stupid. Jason’s point is that the “main” heroes’ sanitized definition of right has its unaddressed holes and flaws which ultimately result in more preventable fatalities, and that he’ll work to correct those missing spots.

He doesn’t not care about doing what’s right. What he doesn’t care about (at least during his Winick characterization) is whether Batman thinks he’s right or wrong, because he sees the flaws in Batman’s methodology (and since he has a mind of his own). Batman’s methods alone cannot address Arkham’s revolving door and the rogues that come and go through those doors who have no intention (or capability from the doylist pov) of ever changing or undergoing redemption. Jason knows that he’s minimizing the number of preventable deaths by killing his targets, typically Characters Who Simply Do Fucked Up Shit Just Because, Why The Fuck Not?

Secondly, Jason is compassionate … to a fault. That was his fatal flaw. If he wasn’t so hell-bent on saving his potential birth mother he just met from that bomb despite everything she did to him prior, he could have protected himself instead, however slim his odds of survival were. What about his relationship with his other parents? He was a caregiver during his early childhood years for Catherine, until her death. Even mature adults who are financially stable find being a caregiver to a dying parent to be extremely burdensome on their bodies and minds, but he never complained about it or resented Catherine for being unable to care for him. Despite how none of his parents have really been what he needed them to be, he doesn’t blame them for their failings, and even continues to think highly of them (Bruce included).

And post-death? Enter Lost Days. Despite being dead set on plotting his revenge on Bruce, he constantly sidelines this in order to save other victims who are helpless like he once was. His own anger, trauma, and mission don’t remain his priority. (Sound familiar? Something something my own trauma above my son’s, mission above all else, etc.). Why would he waste precious time and risk his own life to do this if he wasn’t empathetic towards these victims or didn’t care about doing the right thing. He is simultaneously horribly traumatized and full of rage, and also incapable of ignoring what’s happening to victims around him (even as he claims that it’s indeed not his priority). And in that same vein, the entire premise of his rebirth outlaws run was that he doesn’t care if the public views him as a villain, an outlaw, so long as he can protect Gotham. And anyway where is this portrayal of him not caring about being in the right anymore. Almost every modern Jason story is about him grappling with where he stands with Bruce/Batman. During the early 2000s was probably the last time he did not care (hello, tentatodd??).

Jason has very evidently been portrayed as a kind and compassionate character. He is also simultaneously a calculated killer who doesn’t hesitate to kill when he deems necessary, and does so without remorse. It’s called being a Complex Character With An Edge™ that as you said, people so often claim to love. However when he fulfills that latter part, that seems to upset people because “killing bad”, and they then try to shave off and round out all his edges and claim he shouldn’t be that angry. In that case I guess you should just stick to liking traditional one-dimensional characters instead of claiming to like Jason but then encouraging his character assassination attempt by dc. Lol.

Lastly, who said anything about the batfam making Jason happy? Just because he’s written nowadays to want acceptance from Bruce (a shoddy attempt at forcing a non-existent nuclear batfamily), doesn’t mean that it’s a sound decision or that it does his character justice. I certainly don’t empathize with the idea that Jason needs the family’s approval or acceptance to be happy. (And anyway he has enough outlets for angst and pain aside from the batfam hello explore his other sources of trauma and do more deep dives into how he thinks when he’s alone). I don’t want them to magically make up and become one big happy family. This is not disney Lol. Besides, there are plenty of stories from dc that have that type of “wholesome” (hate that word utilization) characterization for Jason (Li’l Gotham, Tiny Titans, wfa, and even new stuff like the brave and the bold mini) and that is sufficient imo. Jason fans who are invested in the character deserve accurate, nuanced characterization and well-written stories, whether they be from his robin days (e.g., Batman: The Cult) or as red hood.