#this is a strawman argument

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Genuinely would love to meet the "purely positive" dog trainers that aversive/balanced trainers keep talking about. You know, the ones that are so against using force that they just let their dogs walk into traffic.

Boy, they sure must lose a lot of dogs every year and honestly I'm amazed they're still alive themselves if they're getting dragged in front of a semi trailer every time they go out for a walk...

[t1sunfortunate]

I truly do think one of the largest pitfalls among the "media consumption is my passion" crowd is the tendency to treat characters as human beings with agency rather than narrative tools manipulated by the author

[pricklypear1997]

You do realize that our ancestors moved from Asia to Europe too right? Idk what kind of Balkan you are, but I’m Bulgarian, and the bulgars were a semi nomadic Eastern iranic group that settled in the Balkans and mixed with the thracians and Slavs. The Slavs also migrated from the north to that region as well… even Serbs moved around before arriving in the Balkans as well… I’m well aware that our people were enslaved by ottomans 👀 don’t need to tell me twice. I never once said that the Targaryens are EXACTLY like the ottomans, but partially um yeah. There’s definitely some similarities. For starters, they were literally foreigners who force their way in to rule a continent that doesn’t belong to them lol. The Baratheons mixed with the targs because that’s what royals do. The people of Westeros had settled into Westeros long before the Targaryens showed up. Just because they too were once foreigners, doesn’t give the Targaryens the right to just show up out of nowhere and force their rule upon the people. Yeah, the people supported the rule after 300 long years because they were weakened. How else do you think that happened? The Targaryens LITERALLY had DRAGONS lmao. Robert took back the throne and many supported him, including the Starks who were always semi independent for starters.

I really hope that the racist pattern of depicting Arya and Jon as unspecified POC while Arya's full-blooded siblings are the whitest white that has ever whited doesn't become the new "Dornish are POC". I wish this series had racial diversity as well and it's fun to racebend the characters. But there is a clear pattern of only making certain characters POC while characters they share the same ethnicity couldn’t be paler. And this better not start being treated as a faux social issue where people start demanding that Arya, Jon, and Ned can ONLY be fancasted as random POC while the other Starks MUST be FCed with white actors.

With the unfortunate trend toward racism blended with faux wokeness ramping up, that's the likely direction that crowd is going to push for soon.

[jack-of-aces]

I know this is nobody’s argument but the idea gripped me and would not leave my head.

[2-braincells]

one complaint abt vaggie's character is that she doesnt have much going on outside of being Charlie's Girlfriend. it could just be bad character writing, but it's also an interesting character trait. she was an angel exterminator, totally devoted to adam, doing whatever he says. once she gets kicked out, shed find something else to channel that devotion to. charlie's the perfect choice. it'd be fun to explore what vaggie would do if charlie left. she could have a whole character arc about finding who she is separate from charlie

[viewpointb]

listen. harry brewis isn't exempt to criticism. however I think it's very ironic and telling how much people have been missing the very point of his video on plagiarism and turned his name on a new topic to exploit as of late. when i was trying to look up clips of harry's older videos this came up, and the contents were about the creator clearly being disapointed her line of work (drama youtube) was disregarded as sloppy and something with no effort put into it.

while I do understand her hurt, the thumbnail and title is inherently clickbaiting potential viewers, and her point comes off as a nitpick of a segment harry made out of his own frustration with content mills and how much situations on or between content creators can be so throughly exploited for "commentary" when people don't end up saying anything at all. I think that this is a prime example of the things harry deemed important to criticise. someone who clearly had a point to make about harry's video felt the need to make sure they could milk the shit out of it.

[bookwyrminspiration]

“But sometimes it feels like you don’t realize that it’s only a matter of time before something you do gets someone killed.” (Stellarlune 425-26)

“she couldn’t believe that Fitz had accused her of trying to get someone killed.” (428)

going to fist fight Sophie’s unreliable strawman narrator ass that’s not what he said at ALL

[mapswithoutwyoming]

I think a lot of tumblr leftists don't realize "military propaganda is a thing that exists" and "every soldier of an imperialist regime is wholly culpable for all of the atrocities that regime perpetrates" aren't actually beliefs that can coexist. it's like nuance is something that only applies when the stakes are low, and for the most important issues everything's black and white.

[mercurialmalcontent]

I keep thinking about a nasty argument I had a few days ago with a friend (or 'friend' at this point) where they got really upset at me for a conversation about alt text I reblogged and then made my own posts about on Bluesky. The conversation made me feel like I was having a stroke, and it took me a few days to process exactly why--

Nothing I said seemed to matter, nothing I explained seemed to matter, it was all met with "No it isn't difficult to add ever" or "yes it is ableist not to add alt text, no matter your circumstances" with no unpacking, no explaining their position (and many of their responses were just "No it isn't" or "Oh, but it is"). They approached me with an attitude of "You're wrong and have to agree with me" and dug in their heels about it, with some manipulative "I don't know if we can be friends if you hold this position [that's a distortion of what you actually said]" statements in there for flavor.

How do you have any sort of conversation with someone who comes in assuming the worst of you and whose arguments are largely "Nuh-UH"??

Well, you don't, really. Eventually after a few rounds of going around in increasingly stupid circles with me not being able to keep up to their five or more messages to my every one and having longer and longer stretches of silence because I was kind of freaked out they calmed down enough, I guess, to read some of what I was actually writing and figure out that I didn't post those things into the void to Attack Them Personally*. (That the void suddenly paid a bit of attention to my posts was surprise.) It's like it didn't occur to them I was seeing alt text discourse from anyone other than them until that point. SUDDENLY, they were all "well maybe we can agree to disagree :)" and sweetness and light.

Seriously???

The rest of the conversation was light and surface level and if we have any conversations in the future, that's how it's going to stay. This was already a sometimes friend, but now they're an at-arm's-length friend now that I know they employ Twitter asshole argument tactics even against ostensible friends.

* (I find their posts about alt text have become increasingly scolding and condescending, but they're far from those of the most obnoxious people on Bsky, who I've seen say shit like anyone who doesn't use alt text always should be driven off the site. Only one kind of accessibility is important!!)

[gnomewithalaptop]

"Everyone is expected to be in a relationship that's amawhatever" newsflash but when society expects people to fall in love, get married, have kids they are not lumping gay and trans people in there lol, cishetero society doesn't want LGBTQ people to get married much less have sex and have kids, cishetero society doesn't even want LGBTQ people alive AT ALL lol, you think gay and trans people that experience romantic and sexual attraction have some sort of privilege over people who don't because of "amatonormativity"? Lmao gay and trans people get killed for having sex still and in some places in the world people get killed for it LEGALLY

Normal people: hey man how's it going

[stormsbourne]

someone on this webbed site will make a completely valid observation about how we are in the throes of a puritan fash cultural panic complete with demonization of sexuality, eroticism, and anything counter culture (especially if it involves lgbtq people) and then will get flooded by people claiming they're a fed, or a Nazi who wants to retvrn to tradition (yeah nazis looooooved eroticism), or that they're just not looking for it and need to go to a gay bar, or that anything in the past they're talking about was tied to abuse so they must support rape. as though their point wasn't about the demonization of this in the mainstream to the point that people don't even recognize when they're repeating the puritan propaganda

[viasdreams]

MAKING A NIGHTWALKER CHENJI SIDE CHAPTER MUHAHAHAHAHAAH

“oh via maybe actually write for the main plot” HUSH ITS MY STORY AND I WILL DO WHAT I WANT

ik half of nightwalker readers are here for chenji n e ways 🙄

[fideidefenswhore]

in the AB tag like:

[rookflower]

i don't manually clear out my followers on this account so just a note that if you are a self proclaimed proshipper i don't want you here and will most likely just immediately block you if i see you

[horrorsequel]

i dont understand most of the things said on this website because i am completrly missing context for (fandom) Drama and Discourse possibly because i come on here to look at fanart for shows no one watches and images that originated before 2005, preferably of computers

[yuridovewing]

actually uhhhh its stupid to look into bojack horseman and its themes about alcoholism and rehabilitation and trying to become a better person when youre constantly enabled as a celebrity because horses don’t actually do all that irl? “bojack tried to sleep with his friend’s teenage daughter and nearly killed his girlfriend” lol do you wanna kick a horse irl? god bjhm fans are sooooooooo weird. you hate this thing??? this thing that looks exactly like the character? ha ha youre so weird XD

(i dont trust this sites reading comprehension, this post is satire)