#trying to have a moral high ground

[deathbirby]

Not dolphin calling me an incel and misogynist and blocking me because I didn't like Dorothea LMAOO.

What is it with Dorothea fans and misusing the term, "misogynist".

On twitter, I posted about Fire Emblem's history with "benevolent sexism" and tendency to take away the agency of female antagonists, usually via old men brainwashing, as well as the vilification of transwomen like Excellus.

I got a DM and rant from a user called "Dorovaingrid" or "Malka", calling me a "semi intellectual Misogynist", whom had me blocked.

As apparently speaking out against the misogyny and transphobia from a bunch of old and male writers with very conservative beliefs makes you a misogynist.

Dorovaingrid used to be very popular on twitter and was also an Edelstan, but thankfully the fandom eventually cancelled her sorry ass once she started making tweets about how Aromantic Men were just faking it so they could sexually prey on women.

I feel like a newcomer who is getting fed all of the crazy fandom lore. They did what???

They generally go for personal attacks to invalidate your arguments. You don't like Dorothea because of a valid reason? No, you must be a misogynist so your reason is actually just you being sexist.

[snailgirl07]

all these mfs being like "i dont condone violence" well i do. knock off another one

[zaunbinary]

there’s been a rise of “was silco a bad dad” discourse on tiktok and i’ve seen too much of it against my will but by far the craziest thing i saw was someone saying one of silcos faults with jinx was “pumping her full of shimmer” op purposely left out the context of why he did that and when someone in the comments was like hey she was literally dying! op said silco should’ve… just let her die. there’s so much to unpack here

the wording “pumping her full of shimmer” is purposefully done to frame his action as worse. we see how silco treats people with shimmer. he dangles it in front of them, taunting them, before throwing it to them like he’s giving a dog a treat. he can watch the effects the drug has on them like it’s nothing. with jinx he carried her in his arms, gave her a lil kiss on the forehead, and had to be knocked out before her procedure began because he wouldn’t have been able to handle seeing jinx go through it. he wasn’t feeding jinx shimmer her whole life, it was a desperate last resort he went to in order to save her life.

saying he should’ve just let her die is. fucking WILD. if he let her die they’d hate him for that too! if you hate this character just hate them as is! you don’t need to make his misdeeds even more awful he’s done enough for you to reasonably dislike him. whether you like it or not, silco was her father. jinx was his daughter. whatever view you have on silco, those two facts will always be true. of course he’d do literally anything to keep her alive. if vander did this, would you have the same reaction? would you say vander should’ve just let his daughter die? or would you call it sweet and say he was so caring and such a good father for saving his child’s life?

again you can hate silco but hate with reason. he’s a complex character in the terms that he is a complicated man in the universe. he’s not complex in the way that it’s hard to understand his actions. it’s actually really easy to figure out his motives, especially for something so clear as his daughters life literally being on the line. people are purposefully being ignorant of his nuances to feel justified in disliking him and im so fucking tired!!!!

[medinaquirin]

The utter blind hypocrisy of people criticizing Dems for trying to court too far Right while gleefully upholding the Right's obsession with moral purity and making the "right" people suffer.

[hacash]

once again I’m struck by how ‘I don’t care if Trump gets in, I don’t care about allowing matters to get worse - both for America and vulnerable countries around the world - as long as I personally feel morally comfortable at the end of the election’ is a statement that people are actually saying with a straight face and meaning it

[good-to-drive]

"Yoko wasn't a nice person" neither were the beatles....

[tearlessrain]

jesus christ deviantart is an absolute cesspit of low effort AI cash grabbing now. made the mistake of going there to see if I could find a pose ref. I did not.

really glad I left when I did.

[ladyloveandjustice]

Look I'm not anti-pirating (especially when big corporations keep erasing shows from streaming and it's impossible to buy them and piracy is the only way they're preserved, and so on)

but i fuckin' hate how a lot of people in the pro piracy discussion have no fucking respect for artists and think they don't deserve to profit off of what they poured sweat and blood into.

"pirating is rejecting an idea someone owns a work of art"

uh yeah. people do own works of art??? They do own the art they make??? They do deserve respect and to have their labor recognized??? what the fuck are you talking about. If someone makes something, you don't own it. They deserve to get paid for it. Are you saying is someone spends years of their life crafting a beautiful chandelier or piece of jewelry or something like that they don't own it, their work doesn't matter, they shouldn't get anything for that, it's yours now. We don't live in a socialist paradise. People need compensation for labor.

If I made a book, it's mine, and I would like you to buy it or get it from the library, because I need money to survive. Most authors are living hand to mouth. Most are working multiple jobs and barely have time to write. If you steal from them, you're taking any chance they might be able to keep creating. We're losing authors to exploitative corporations, and we'll keep losing more if y'all continue to act like their work has no value. They won't be able to keep creating.

And look, I'm not innocent. I obviously use scans and that's often a single creator.. But I can own that I'm not morally justified in doing it. I'm wronging the artist. I'm not doing it out of some selfless commitment to socialism or whatever, I'm doing it because it's convenient and scanning every page from a book I own would be hard. I would never justify it by saying the author's work is meaningless and you can't own the stuff you poured your sweat and tears into, because that's ridiculous. Sure, I'm poor, you're poor... and so is the artist usually.

Whenever I'm able to buy someone's work digitally, physically, or at least check it out from the library, I do. Especially if I've relied on scans in the past. I know that's the respectful thing to do.

Nobody can stop you from pirating from small creators, but it's obnoxious to act like the artist doesn't matter and you're a hero. You take from artists and say they don't matter, no one will want to be an artist. It's as simple as that.

[sir-adamus]

the old Sharlayan position of moral cowardice, i see

[douglasfeiffel]

i am really enjoying impact winter but yet I find myself wondering the same thing I wonder when consuming most vampire media: if the vampires can control how much they drink from someone, why don't they? It's hard to see the vampires we're supposed to see as good people as good people when they're murdering non-vampires left and right when they could. according to the story itself. just not do that

[horrorscoupes]

theyre virtue signaling in the caelum tag again lol. you guys have got to get jobs and find your inner peace or something this is so fucking ANNOYING. this is getting pathological. you all need to breathe and grasp that these characters arent real and the impact they have on your lives should not be this serious. go for a walk and touch some grass

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

This is a genuine innocent ask

Since ofmd is officially over, where does all the money donated go? This is not just a question for the fandom bit in general when ur raising money for a renewal but it fails.

so i mean, in general when a renewal campaign "fails" we dont usually get the showrunner saying outright "yeah the show isnt getting picked up, im sorry guys." like im pretty sure that most of the time, money that's raised for a campaign like this just gets collected and spent without there ever being an official announcement from the showrunners that fans should stop campaigning.

as far as the money that was raised for the first billboard back in january, all the money that was collected is long gone now bc it was spent on the billboard, the truck, the plane flyover, and the charity donations. and like, everyone who donated to that campaign knew that's where the money was going, and they knew there was a chance that the renewal campaign wouldn't work. so even tho the money they raised is gone, the ppl who donated technically got what they paid for.

when it comes to the second billboard, i have no idea what the plan is there. as far as im aware that fundraising effort is (was??) still ongoing, so djenks saying it's over kinda throws a wrench in that process. im not actually associated w the ppl collecting money for the second billboard, nor have i personally contributed to that campaign (or to the first campaign either, ftr), so i have no input or insight as to what's gonna happen w that money going forward. if u want more concrete info abt what's going on with that money you'd wanna ask @saveofmdcrewmates

from what i can tell tho, there are a few options as to what they could do with the money: they could ignore david's message and run the billboard as planned, they could forget the billboard and donate the money to charity, or they could run the billboard but change the messaging to something else. they might even be able to give some of the money back to the people who contributed?? that might be hard tho, idk what platform they were using to collect the money and i have no idea if they're even able to like, refund people. idk if the people who donated would even want their money back, or if they would rather the money still be used for the billboard, or be repurposed for something else. like i said, i didnt donate and i have nothing to do with the ppl raising the money so it rlly doesn't matter to me at all what happens.

[thebumblingbee]

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[killuazedykeremade]

there being a tag on this site under “me too unless your a jew” being used by people who only take a little arguing that they think brown people deserve to be raped and brutalized and actually they deserve the land over those “greedy” arabs

[sweetblossoms]

medium-warm take: genuinely concerned by all of you who didn't see anything hostile about mother goose's interaction with rapunzel (in particular the hug) from what i was watching, rapunzel was hostile from the moment tim was found alone in the kitchen, before tim even spoke. yes it was with sweet smiley words of course, but brennan was playing her as a masterful manipulator who uses charm and socializing as their weapon, something that explicitly told a couple of times leading up to this episode as rapunzel's whole schtick. tim could have found his way out of the hostility if he played his cards right, but the words weren't chosen correctly enough from the jump on ally's part watching ally fall for it in real time (with the whole 'oh she must not be a part of the plan bc of her answer to the metaphor question' 'oh i genuinely want to give her a hug' to then nobody figuring out she took the book in the hug), watching my own d20 viewing friend in real time going "aw i love rapunzel, she's just socially awkward from isolation!! why dont you trust her?", to now seeing all these posts and tags of "woahhh i wouldnt have expected rapunzel to have taken the book, i didnt think anything of that hug!!" genuinely concerns me on like, a psychological level this is how manipulators/emotionally abusive people act and speak. in our real life. this is how they take advantage of others, mentally, to get their way for their own schemes. there's many people like rapunzel and many conversations like the one she had with tim out there in our daily lives. very troubled and concerned seeing just how many people fell for it and thought nothing malicious of it

[carnage-cathedral]

funny that there's this bitch who fakeclaimed us and tried to talk shit about us behind our back but she's literally a right wing extremist in poland who celebrated trump's reelection and says that whitewashing isn't real and also I'm pretty sure the only reason why she hates us at all is that we're prettier than her even now that we're not dangerously underweight so get fucked idk