#tw: mentioned homophobia and mistreatment

[ninjastormhawkkat]

When Best Friends Meet - Part 1

8 year old Rebecca Fuller pouted angrily as she sat on a chair outside the principal's office. "It wasn't my fault that stupid brat got her nose broken. She shouldn't have been so mean in the first place." Rebecca grumbled under her breath. She knew she would get some trouble with her parents for breaking a kid's nose and nearly exposing her powers, but they wouldn't be as mad when they learned why their daughter did it. "Rebecca honey, people only get respect from you when they give it. There are times when violence is about the only solution you can give." Rebecca smiled at what her mother always told her. She was a good kind hearted woman but knew how to dish out a mean left hook herself when defending herself or others. Rebecca was brought out of her thoughts when she saw a boy with a bloody mouth walk to the chair next to her and sat down with it. He had a paper towel in his hand that was already becoming covered with blood as well. Rebecca winced in sympathy. 'Poor kid probably fell or got pummeled by a bully.' She usually didn't judge people by their appearances, but this kid was the definition of scrawny. He didn't' have any muscles and was only a few inches taller than Rebecca. He was wear brown shorts and a button up blue shirt coupled with a bow tie. This kid didn't look intimidating at all and couldn't even hurt a fly. Rebecca noticed to her surprise the boy wasn't crying or had any other bruises on his face nor arms. He was just sitting their patiently, minding his own business as he stared at his shoes. Rebecca's curiosity soon got the better of her so she decided to talk to the kid. "So did you already go to the nurse's office yet?" Rebecca asked. The boy seemed startled by Rebecca's voice and turned to face his seatmate with a confused expression. "What?" The boy asked. "I said, did you already go to the nurse's office before you came here?" Rebecca asked again. The boy just blinked at her, still looking confused. "I never went to the nurse's office. I'm not sick or hurt." The boy explained. This time it was Rebecca's turn to be confused. "Huh? The how did you get all that blood on your mouth?" Rebecca inquired. The boy seemed to hesitate before he responded. "I bit a kid's finger off and their blood squirted on my mouth." The kid explained in a low tone. Rebecca's eyes widened. "What? There is no way you were able to bite kid's finger off." Rebecca exclaimed, very doubtful of what she was hearing. Before the boy could respond, he began to cough violently. Rebecca began to panic as the boy seemed to be trying to hack something up, as if he was choking on something. Quickly, Rebecca hit the boy on his back not too hard, but hard enough to help him spit out whatever he was choking on. It worked as the boy spit something out mid-cough which landed on the floor near their feet. Rebecca's eyes now became wide as saucers as she saw a severed finger covered with saliva lying flat on the ground. The boy turned to look at Rebecca with an unbothered expression. He shrugged as if saying "I told you." There was a tense moment of silence before Rebecca found her voice. "Holy cow you really bit off someone's finger!" She whispered in stunned amazement. The boy just gave a slight nod. "Yep." He casually replied. Rebecca looked at the boy with a determined expression. "How in the world did you bite someone's finger off?" She demanded wanting answers. The boy fidgeted a bit, he had a slight stormy look as he recalled the incident. "I didn't mean to bite the kid's finger off. They were being a bully, making fun of my appearance. I tried ignoring them. They then called me a bad word. They said I was this bad word because I had two dads. That their own parents said my dads and I were this bad word as well as disgusting. I got so angry I bit there finger. I think I bit too hard." The boy grumbled with an angry expression. "I only bite people that make me mad and that kid really made mad. The teacher didn't see what happened just heard the kid screaming his head off." @melodythebunny @erraticeris

[transenbyconfessions]

TW: mentions of transphobia, sexism, racism, homophobia

you know what no one ever talks about? how transphobia isn’t taken as seriously as racism, sexism, even homophobia sometimes. you make a racist joke? hey, that’s not ok! you make a sexist joke? that’s not funny. that’s not ok. you make a transphobic joke? hahaha hilarious! so true!

they teach about racism in school. they read books about slavery, memoirs about people struggling with racism. they teach about sexism too. people stand up against sexist school dress codes, but not teachers/students misgendering/deadnaming trans students, not the miseducation about trans people, not the lack of awareness about transphobia.

i’m not saying racism and sexism and any other kind of hate isn’t as bad as transphobia, but at least there’s awareness. we need awareness about transphobia too. teach it in schools. stop tolerating transphobic jokes and misgendering/deadnaming. stop tolerating uneducated cis people. stop tolerating the mistreatment of trans people.

stop tolerating transphobia.

i’m tired of experiencing hate that no one notices or cares about.

Submitted April 6, 2023

[butchbarbieagainstterfs]

ok, here we go: Breakfast Anons Experience in Radfem/Terf tumblr (long post) (tw terf/radfem ideology, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, mentions of rape/SA)

so, earlier this year, i got pulled into the terf/radfem side of tumblr and was active in it, on and off, for about 3-4 months. i dont remember how i got in but it was lilwly something inoffensive that most would agree is a fundamentally good and important perspective to have, like how damaging the porn industry can be, female genital mutilation and abortion rights. looking back, i think it was that unrestrained defense for women that made me start going through their blogs because of course i dont think women should be mistreated or abused simply because they are women. i was never able to be pretty and easily feminine like the girls i grew up around so seeing that comradery around women who felt like i did made me feel seen.

unknowingly, that arguement for women spiralled into men being the sole problem, then men being useless scum that only perpetuate the patriarchy and then it was "all men are monstrous, porn-addicted, misogynistic, rapists in waiting who will do whatever they can to belittle, abuse, use and destroy women whatever chance they get so they should be eradicated for the greater good".

the radfems, the small circlejerk group that they are, would all reblog from and follow one another, and when i eventually got convinced to join the circle by making a seperate account for my own blog (yeah it was that bad) i found myself seeing the same posts over and over from the same 30/40-odd blogs that all agreed with each other and said the same things. that blatant and unquestioned hatred for men is extremely central to their beliefs, which i understood because, even besides the radfem mindset, im generally uncomfortable around men too, and they gave tangible reasons why i should be.

near all of them are lesbians or febfems (female exclusive bisexual females) and being a lesbian myself, the idea of being with a man romantically or sexually repulsed me like it did them so i felt accepted, finally, for who i was. theyd post and repost articles upon articles of "men pretending to be women" who had been charged with assault or rape of children and women and female prison inmates; they'd post and repost pdfs of famed radfem theory by Adrienne Rich (?) and books like The Scum Manifesto which is essentially their "bible"; theyd explain and reexplain society, the patriarchy and the world according to their logic, and because of that, I didnt question their calls for womens seperatism, for women to only be in relationships with other women (romantically/sexually or platonically), for male babies to be aborted without second thought and for all men to be wiped out from existence entirely. and of course THAT spiralled into trans women also being a big problem.

they preached that men are rapists and abusers who get off to it, and trans women are also rapists and abusers who get off to it so much they need to "pretend to be women" or, even worse, "pretend to be lesbians" to force "actual lesbians who dont like dick" to sleep with them. but at the same time, they kept preaching that trans men and afab nonbinary people are lost, innocent, manipulated, self hating lesbian girls/women who couldnt deal with the internalised homophobia and internalised misogyny so mutilated themselves to pretend to be men. and the trans men who "called themselves gay" are homophobic straight girls who have an addiction to gay porn and want to force "actual gay men who dont like vaginas" to sleep with them. there were even some "tehms" or "trans exclusionary homosexual males" in the group but they were few and far between.

the ideology is a self consuming and never ending spiral of despair, hate and misery. and one thing i learned from it is it is so, so easy to hate.

while in it, as much as part of me felt understood and finally seen by other women who experienced certain things and had some of the same thoughta as i did, i also felt so grimy from all the hate and bitterness and cruelty i was reposting and eventually posting myself towards trans and nonbinary people. i would log out and go back to my normal inclusive blog and feel so much guilt and disgust, partly for thw reasons i mentioned but also because i knew i was attracted to trans women and nonbinary people (not that i ever made that clear), both things of which the terfs claimed made me actually bisexual "because trans women are actually men" when i know for a fact im not. im gay through and through.

i knew it was all wrong but they explained awat my guilt too, one of them told me the guilt was because id been brainwashed to blindly support "trans activism" so it will feel incongruent but what im doing is in fact the right thing. so i couldnt or didnt do anything. i felt part of a community that was actually fighting for something tangible, something rooted in apparent reality. i felt like what i was doing was important for society. i was speaking out for the rights of women. how could that bw wrong? it's wrong, but doing so at the expense of others is wrong

eventually, the guilt got to me more than that self-appointed importance did and i ended up deleting the account after it spiked my depression. i couldnt believe what id done, couldn't comprehend the hate id perpetuated and the people i may have hurt. i felt horrible being part of a movement that attacked innocent people who just wanted to live for the sole reason that the way they wanted to live was different from the assumed norm.

and then, by some magical move by Fate, i came across a recently published horror novel by a trans woman named Gretchen Felker-Martin called Manhunt, which is the story of two trans women, an indigenous trans man, nonbinary people, a black female doctor, and a terf who all have to live, fight and survive through a biological apocalypse where men and anyone with high testosterone become cannibalising monsters. and it literally changed and saved my life. i mean that with all seriousness.

now my favourite book of all time, it opened my eyes to so much internalised transphobia i didnt know i had, gave me actual pride about my gender and sexuality and, despite how brutal and painful the novel is (while i highly recommend the book SERIOUS tw for rape, intense transphobia and general crimes against trans people and people of colour), it gave me hope beyond anything id ever felt. i felt truly seen, understood, and loved as a trans and queer person, and a person of colour (i am black), by that novel and it was the key to me finally leaving the radfem/terf mindset and ideology behind. and while im still on a journey towards healing, i am now of a mindset and belief that is inclusive, kind, loving, exalting and full of love for the ENTIRE intersectionl lgbtqia+ community.

and, scene.

Thank you so much for sharing! I’m glad you were able to get out of that space ❤️

I feel you on the guilt element as well. I wasn’t ever a full blown TERF, always respected trans folk for who they are, but I was an ace exclusionist and a “queer is a slur!” person - both of which terfs are often involved in - for a while up until I saw the damage that was going on, stopped and reanalysed. Now I’m way happier and a better, more inclusive person ❤️

Thanks for the book rec as well! I’ll deffo have to look into that ❤️

[nicanario]

this post is a product of its time

tw: discussion of racism, homophobia, misogyny and a short mention of sexual abuse.

ok, this is basically gonna be a very long rambling post about my not fully developed thoughts on the justification many people give to bigotry when talking about the past: "it was a product of its time"

it would be fair to say, with me being a raging SJW socialist scumbag, that I don't think this is a very good argument and is most of the time actually an excuse to not think about the problems inherent to our society, historical or not, and, by extension, the problems with ourselves. but I do think that sometimes, just sometimes, this can be a valid point, or at least one that raises some interesting questions.

I'm going to cite examples from several pieces of media, but fear not, I'll try to make this as accesible as I can.

so, let's take Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) as our first case study. this show has, correctly, been called progressive by everyone except for clueless people who don't know much about Star Trek's history, Star Trek's crew, Star Trek's cast, or, frankly, Star Trek. because if you ignore the clear, sometimes in-your-face political history and present of the franchise, I don't think you know much about it at all. I do think you can call yourself a fan if you like it, you may have watched every single episode for all I know. but lots of mental gymnastics are needed to ignore the political progressiveness Star Trek has had since its very beginning.

episodes like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield are obviously anti-racist, at least in their intention. but the episode in question really is "a product of its time," and at the very end fails to uphold its ideals. the episode ends with the two aliens (who are LITERALLY. BLACK ON ONE SIDE. AND WHITE ON THE OTHER. BUT IN THE OPPOSITE SIDES.) fighting each other on their devastated planet, and the crew is like, "oh yeah if they both would give up on their hatred that they both share both of them equally" when it has been firmly established that one is the oppressor and the other one is the oppressed.

and that's a lot of Star Trek, not just TOS. even Discovery, one of the most recent series, has done Bury Your Gays (and Trans) TWICE (though both times literally rectified it, which is cool). there are episodes of the franchise that are overtly racist, or misogynistic, etc. TOS is lauded, mostly justifiably, as very progressive, especially for the standards of the time. they put a woman of colour as one of the senior staff, for fuck's sake. of course, when you analyse that same character, as with most of their intentions at being progressive, you'll see that she was relegated and sometimes even outright mistreated when she had the potential to be much more. but, at that time, it was a lot.

I had a friend (emphasis on "had") who, after I told him about TOS's both progressiveness and constant misogyny, told me something like "imagine feminists trying to complain about a show from the 60s." so, with unearned spite, he was, in some way, trying to make the argument that it was a product of its time.

you could say Star Trek, all of Star Trek, is "a product of its time" in the sense that it's not always perfect. uh, yes, I would agree. but that doesn't mean people have to accept it. well, I mean, the show is kinda over, you have to accept it's that way. but you don't have to accept that it's not wrong just because it was a product of its time.

H. P. Lovecraft, as another example, was a greatly influential writer whose works still shape a lot of people's ideas to this day. I have only ever read like one of his stories, so don't expect me to have an opinion on his works. but I can have an opinion on what I know about him as a person (he did have a life outside his writing, after all). and, yeah, he was a huge asshole. if you want to know more in depth about the subject, please watch Hbomberguy's video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI

but basically, he was incredibly racist & homophobic. some people might even say, "he was a product of his time." well, there are two possible rebuttals to that. the surface level one, and the one that examines why that argument is wrong to the core.

The Surface Level Response to "it was a product of its time": um, no it wasn't. Lovecraft was more racist than a lot of people even in his time. he wasn't just a guy who carried the racist beliefs of his society like everyone else, he was a reactionary who actively thought and discussed how racist he was, and how right he was for being that way. but that's only applicable to Lovecraft. one can't argue the same for Star Trek: TOS, because TOS did try to be more progressive and more anti-racist than the rest of its society. that leads us to the next response.

The Response that Actually Deals with the Fact that No Matter How Progressive You're Trying to Be, Your Failings Can Still be Criticized: the thing is, trying to excuse Lovecraft's or Star Trek's bigotry because they were "products of their times" misses the fact that racism is still wrong, and some people knew that in those times as well. people from these times weren't all naive or stupid or whatever. they had the capacity for rational thinking. they could stop and think, "hey, maybe what we're doing is wrong." and the fact is, some people did. not perfectly, not to our standars, but they did. everyone could have stopped and think. but most of them didn't, and we can criticize them for it. racism, homophobia, sexism, etc. HURT PEOPLE. horribly. massively.

also, even if you agree with the "it's a product of its time" argument, some people aren't criticising people's or work's bigotry: they're explaining why they don't want to experience it.

The Talons of Weng-Chiang is a 1977 Doctor Who serial, and it's one of the show's more racist stories. almost all the villains are Chinese, every single Chinese person is a villain. there's yellowface, slurs, stereotypes, the Doctor speaking nonsense words instead of actual Chinese, and a general belittling of Chinese culture.

note that I'm neither Chinese nor of Chinese descent. I have been searching for hours for a few posts I've read a while ago (some by people who are of Asian descent) about this episode and I can't find them. sorry.

suffice it to say, even though I love Jago & Litefoot (the audio series and the characters), it's not an acceptable episode at all. but it's also important to remark that, because of it, some people aren't going to want to watch it. sometimes, people aren't saying "the episode shouldn't be this way," which causes others to answer that it was "a product of its time." sometimes, people are just saying, "this is an episode that attacks real people. I don't want to see it. I don't care if it was common in that era to be racist, i don't want to experience it."

however, there is an interesting point to the "it's a product of its time" argument. after all, everything is influenced by its society, for better or worse. and we can't change it anymore. TOS sometimes didn't quite understand the political themes it wanted to explore. Lovecraft was a horrible bigot. Talons was racist towards Chinese folks. and that's that. I don't think we should change the episodes/stories or anything. edit them in any way. that would be, in a sense, changing history. and we wouldn't learn anything from it, about how we can do better.

I think there are two solutions to this:

1. warnings before starting the text: this was done with The Talons of Weng-Chiang. on Britbox, where you can watch Classic Who, this serial has a content warning before the start. that's good.

2. the removal as a whole of the text from some places: I think before applying this one, there should be a lot of thought put into each case. I don't think removing a whole serial of Doctor Who or Lovecraft's stories from anything would be, well, fair. especially on tv episodes a lot more people worked on those, not just the writers and the directors. Lovecraft's writing influenced thousands. we shouldn't erase them or anything. but sometimes, for some cases, we should.

those in the US might seen a Confederate statue being taken down. that is, in a way, a form of removal of a piece of history.

but that is a good removal. statues glorify. one sees a statue and probably thinks "this was a person worthy of admiration." they should be taken down, maybe even with a permanent mark of why this was done (a plaque that reads "a statue of X was here, but he didn't deserve it because of Y" could be put in place of the statues, for example).

another example is the removal from DVDs of the short episode A Fix with Sontarans, a Sixth Doctor minisode that featured Jimmy Savile, a presenter who was later found out to be sexually abusing children.

the removal of that minisode is good, actually. it's not a full episode (it's not even Doctor Who). some might say that's "erasing history" but, like, you can still find it online or information about it if you want. this minisode deserves removal from DVDs and Blu-Rays and whatever more than content warnings. it's not an important part of the show and it prominently features a horrible person who did horrible things during that time.

so, after all that, I have explained why I don't like the "it's a product of its time" argument. it is an interesting point that deserves to be examined, but it's not very good.

I have had this in Drafts for so long I've probably forgot some of the points I was going to make, but eh, what can you do? hope you enjoyed reading this.

bye

[thespoonisvictory]

hey i'm sorry i know you're talking about mcc stuff but I just wanted to quickly ask if you would recommend "anne with an e" on netflix? i remember you mentioned it in a post awhile back

Yes! So much! One of my fav shows ever; absolutely gorgeous cinematography, acting, theming, social commentary

It is a period drama in Canada, so tw for general bigotry (sexism, homophobia, racism) and mistreatment of children, but if you've watched the dsmp, you should be fine

[aravenwhumper]

Whumptober 2020 Masterpost

Hello! Whumptober has been a very busy but productive month and I decided to make a masterpost in order to organise everything a little bit. There were some days in which I forgot to post links and so this just makes everything a little easier. Please enjoy!

THE OLD GUARD

BURIED ALIVE (NICKY)

Joe has never been more afraid than he is right at this moment, as he sprints through a cemetery in the dead of night searching for the grave of the man he loves.

CARRYING (NICKY)

After a mission gone wrong, Nicky is left trapped after an explosion and dying over and over, unable to do anything but wait for his rescue.

TW: temporary suicide, minor emetophobia

NIGHTMARES (ALT) (ANDY, BOOKER)

Booker suffers with nightmares in the aftermath of his exile. Joe may be mad at him, but he won’t let his closest friend suffer.

TW: medical trauma, minor gore

SHOT (ALT) & STRUGGLING (NICKY)

There’s a gun in his mouth and Nicky can’t breathe.

TW: mentions of non-con

OXYGEN MASK (NICKY)

Nicky has a nightmare he’s back in the lab with Dr Kozak. Joe reminds him that he’s safe.

WRONGFULLY ACCUSED (NICKY)

“How long have you been panic attacks?” Nile asks Nicky one day, and the answer is a lot more distressing than he expects.

TW: historical mistreatment of people with mental illnesses

PANIC ATTACKS (ANDY)

Andy has a panic attack following a nightmare and Nile can’t help but expect Nicky to be the one who knows how to help. But it’s never that easy, and having panic attacks isn’t quite the same as helping someone else through one.

TW: panic attack

SURVIVOR’S GUILT (JOE)

“Why us?” Yusuf asks. It’s a question he and Nicolo have asked before, and they’re not sure that they will ever find an answer.

FIELD MEDICINE (ANDY)

Andy’s not ok the first time she’s hurt after losing her immortality. None of them are.

DRUGGED (NICKY)

Mortal AU. Joe finds himself protecting a beautiful blue-eyed stranger when something is slipped into his drink.

TW: non-con drugging, mentions of rape/non-con

FORCED MUTISM & DISORIENTATION (NICKY)

After having his throat cut, Nicky finds himself unable to speak. He’s not a loud man, but the forced silence is more than a little bit frightening.

EXTREME WEATHER (JOE, NICKY)

After rescuing a group of women and children from bandits, Yusuf and Nicolo push themselves to the limit in the scorching heat to ensure that they are safe. They don’t expect this kindness to be repaid.

TW: mentions of rape/non-con, child abuse

COMFORT (ALT) (NICKY)

Nicky hasn’t slept in three days. He can’t - the little voice in his head won’t shut up long enough for him to even nap on the sofa. Every time there’s a single moment of quiet it’s all he can hear; these negative little thoughts about every single time he’s ever been less than perfect. And in 900 years, that’s a lot of screw ups.

TW: intrusive thoughts

IGNORING AN INJURY (NICKY)

Mortal AU. Nicky doesn’t have time to think before he’s pushing Joe out of the path of a speeding bullet.

THE WITCHER (TV)

HANGING (JASKIER)

Geralt arrives in the village of Ulga just in time to witness an execution.

TW: homophobia

COLLARS, MANHANDLED & RESCUE (JASKIER)

In which Jaskier’s father takes back his son and Geralt is having none of it.

POSSESSION (JASKIER)

Jaskier is possessed by a demon and the only way to get it out is by torturing it until it leaves.

TW: electrocution

HALLUCINATIONS & SLEEP DEPRIVATION

During a long hunt, Jaskier finds himself struggling with the side effects of too many nights without sleep.

HYPOTHERMIA (JASKIER)

It’s minus five degrees celsius and Jaskier has regrets. He regrets deciding to walk to Geralt’s instead of spending money on a bus or taxi. He regrets not wearing a thicker jacket and forgetting his gloves on the train the other day. And he regrets not actually owning a jacket thicker than a hoodie.

HUNTING SEASON (JASKIER)

Jaskier is on the run from a dangerous hunter and his cruel games. All he can do is hide and hope that Geralt will find him in time.

WHIPPED (GERALT)

Somehow, even shackled and beaten, Geralt still manages to be the most intimidating figure in the room.

TW: torture

HAWAII FIVE-O

“STOP, PLEASE.” (DANNY)

Danny has never been a fan of heavy metal music. It’s nothing personal, but he likes to listen to music that’s quiet and calm, music that will help him to wind down after a hectic and stressful day. But now...now he hates it, and he’s not sure he’ll ever be able to hear an electric guitar or bass drum without dropping to the floor, clutching his ears and sobbing.

TW: psychological torture, minor self harm

BROKEN BONES (DANNY)

Danny is hit by a car and breaks his arm. Steve doesn’t immediately realise how bad it is.

CRITICAL ROLE

ISOLATION (CALEB)

Modern AU. In the early days of the virus, Caleb finds himself all alone at home and struggling to cope. Set during the early days of the Covid-19 lockdowns.

TW: pandemic-related anxiety

PRODIGAL SON

HEAT EXHAUSTION (MALCOLM)

Malcolm wakes up in the middle of nowhere with his hands tied behind his back and the sun beating down on him. It’s not long before the heat starts to take effect.

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN

CONCUSSION (GAVIN)

Gavin has a concussion. Connor and Nines have to deal with him while they wait for an ambulance.

TW: emetophobia

[reddieao3feed]

Battle of the Exes

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/34kcqtd

by Lynn1998

Eddie and his boyfriend break-up, and Richie has best friend duty of helping Eddie recover. It’s kinda hard to watch the love of your life be mistreated, so it wasn’t hard for Richie to step in.

Words: 3244, Chapters: 1/9, Language: English

Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Original Characters, Beverly Marsh, Stanley Uris, Ben Hanscom, Bill Denbrough, Mike Hanlon, Connor Bowers

Relationships: Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak & Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak/Original Male Character(s), Richie Tozier/Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Very brief mention of Richie Tozier/Connor Bowers, Original Character(s), original characters with no other intention but to make you mad oof, Friends to Lovers, Eddie Kaspbrak & Richie Tozier Are Best Friends, Childhood Friends, Richie Tozier's Internalized Homophobia, Richie Tozier Loves Eddie Kaspbrak, Eddie Kaspbrak Loves Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak is a Tease, Richie Tozier is a Good Friend, Eddie has a scary amount of gay feral horny energy and his POV does not hold back, Richie is soft and sad and doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that he’s in love with Eddie, lots of drama with exes and miscommunications, they are both gay disasters, connor is there to cry over the one time Richie hooked up with him and be a little bitch, Mutual Pining, Richie Tozier is Whipped, richie gets over protective and Eddie gets easily jealous, Eddie’s ex boyfriend is manipulative and emotionally abusive, TW verbal and emotional abuse, TW mentions of threats of violence

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/34kcqtd

[weedle-testaburger]

what is channel awesome?

Long story short, it's a company co-owned by the guy who makes Nostalgia Critic which used to host a whole bunch of other content creators, several of whom are still pretty big now like Lindsay Ellis, Angry Joe, Linkara and Todd in the Shadows. Around March-April of last year it came out that unfortunately, the most senior people at the company had regularly mistreated and even harassed employees at the company during the time they'd been there, which led to almost everyone leaving the site once these allegations came out.

If you're curious about the details you can read the Not So Awesome document or watch this documentary, which sum it up pretty well, but I should give a TW for sexual abuse, rape mentions and homophobia.

[lesbianightwing]

punskeepmealive replied to your post “jk rowling and cassandra clare are the embodiment of “should’ve quit...”

@lesbianightwing why is cassandra trash?? i never heard anything about her

@punskeepmealive

i’m so glad you asked

ok so obviously i don’t have all the deets and hashtag receipts because i don’t reaaally go here but uh here’s a summary (TW: mentions of incest, sexual assault, racism, and homophobia/biphobia):

plagiarism lawsuit (though someone told me it was dropped? so take it with a grain of salt i guess) and bullying

insults the showrunners for no reason but then acts like they’re attacking her or something when they’re just being decent human beings lmao

called one of the show characters a rapist just because someone liked him better than his book counterpart; used her personal trauma to justify her comment instead of apologizing when she got called out on it by sexual assault survivors and lgbt people

(side note on that one: the tv show acknowledged that lack of verbal consent in that scene made people uncomfortable so they apologized and fixed it...someone should learn something...)

(side note number 2: i’m pretty surE SHE SAID SHE HADN’T EVEN SEEN THAT EPISODE LMFAO)

she gets a lot of praise for her rep but it’s meh in my opinion. other people (who have read more than 2 of her books lmao) have written about her mistreatment of characters of colour, lgbtq characters (including only using malec for the $$$), and autistic characters but i don’t really read her books so idk

most recently (that i can remember) (twitter stans make some noise if u remember this one!) (it’s a little weird and convoluted and i honestly still can’t believe it happened but just bear with me here): she quoted a tweet from a show fan that didn’t mention her AT ALL with a rude reply, deleted it immediately (probably not before her rude ass fans started sending hate though but i can’t say for sure) and posted an “apology” where she played the victim while throwing irrelevant and completely unfounded accusations around

but hey, when she got called out for it, she apologized and moved on, right? WRONG. this bitch really went on a rant about how people only hate her because she’s ~a woman and how rick riordan gets to say he didn’t like the pjo movies so she’s allowed to be a dick to teenagers on the internet or it’s SEXISM!!!1

^ people bought that. well-respected authors bought that. i still can’t wrap my head around this.

(ps here’s my own twitter thread about this mess because i love attention uwu)

......she wrote a whole ass series about underage siblings wanting to fuck each other and aimed it at young girls....she literally conditioned a whole generation of teenagers into thinking incest was sexy and scandalous....HOW is she still allowed to write young adult?????????

i was really hoping this tweet was fake but nope. it’s real.

same with this one. this woman just loves incest! doesn’t she!

this doesn’t really make her problematique but...all her stories have carbon copies of the same 4 characters with varying degrees of incest she’s so overrated lol

TL;DR: she’s a bully who always finds a way to play the victim, possibly/probably a plagiarist, an incest fetishizer, an overrated author, and overall not a good person

sorry this got so long but i hope it helped! feel free to discuss this with me more & also check out the anti cc and anti cassandra clare tags for posts made by more coherent people

[yungjean]

The North Water episode 2, tw for sexual assault and animal cruelty

“Water, water,” past-Sumner whimpers over a shot of the boat surrounded by the beautiful roiling ocean.

That poor boy. Everyone, including Drax, knows his family. The less said about this whole situation the better.

“We should have witnesses.” This episode plays out like a trial. I had jury duty this week and was in the pool for an animal cruelty case. The state prosecutor told us they mostly did CSA cases and said not to be afraid of being a juror for this case if we loved animals, because “if everyone who loves kids wasn’t allowed on the jury for a CSA case, we wouldn’t have any jurors”. The defense attorney said that our panel had more outcry and debate than the panels from their CSA cases. If it had been a CSA case, I’m sure I would’ve been in the same hysterics as the other people in the pool asking not to be there. But I had little interest sending someone to jail for animal cruelty, and thankfully I wasn’t picked. The whole thing reminded me that many people care about animals more than other humans. It made me sad. If you wouldn’t lock up animals in overcrowded cages making them vulnerable to pandemics, why would you do that to a person, and why would it make them less likely to mistreat animals afterwards?

Drax, mean of you to menace and question Sumner while he’s stoned out of his mind. The poor guy doesn’t even realize what you’re doing, or that he’s treating a fresh cut which is likely a defensive wound.

Speaking of caring about animals more than children, Drax’s spearing of the whale is intimate, a little sexual. As gracious as he probably knows how to be. 

The homophobia is as upsetting to watch as the earlier part of the episode. It would be more unpleasant if it had any sort of nuance, but the homophobia is so ham-fisted, it’s just annoying. See, Sumner can’t be homophobic because he’s a man of logic and science. Making homophobic assumptions isn’t logical or scientific, whereas the other men on this ship are all brainless heathens. As we all know, homophobia doesn’t work like that. 

“A cannibal!” Drax screams hysterically. White people often accused indigenous cultures of cannibalism to justify the violence towards uncivilized savages, especially during the slave trade. In fact, there were many cases of white slavers and slaveowners eating black people. A post I recently reblogged claimed that the Dutch ate a Bushman because they thought he was an orangutan. The circumstances of Drax’s cannibalism aren’t mentioned, but the link to race doesn’t go unnoticed. 

Wreck the boat already! Despite being the antagonist and the obvious culprit, Drax still hardly has anything to do. 

[multiple-ideas]

Journal 000-21-03-21 TW/ Abuse, Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Mentions of Dark Humor/Dark Jokes , Panic Attacks, Sexual Harassment, Undiagnosed/Self-diagnosed Depression, Undiagnosed/Self-diagnosed Anxiety, Mentions of Suicide, Mentions of Death, Trauma (Past Trauma), Mentions of Helicopter Parenting, Self-Harming (not cutting) CW/ Running Away From Home, Deafness, Blindness, Repetition, Fidgeting, Stuttering, Financial Problems, Insomnia, Intrusive thoughts, Not Sharing Anything To Anyone, Religion, Dismissive Attitude, Nonchalant Attitude to Stressful Situations, Bad Coping Mechanisms

BEFORE ANYTHING

Im not sure if I missed a tag, so any other topic relating to those up top, will be discussed, so please PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND THESE IN MIND!

Thank you! Stay safe, and look out for help if you need any while reading these!

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Have I told you that I'm literally breaking? That I've been breaking since the 8th grade or probably even before then when my father told me not to tell you that he beat me up in the car parked in-front of our church in grade school?

Have I told you that my back cracks because I slouch a lot to help me curl up into myself and feel safe? Or how I move my leg a lot because if I don't it would feel like tons of needles are pricking it and either way I get tired?

Have I told you how my panic attacks are silent? And that they last for days and days on end but I can't do anything about it because everyone at home calls me and I feel really bad about snobbing whenever I get asked to do something when I'm in that state?

Have I talked about how my brain comes up with the most intrusive thoughts that I couldn't easily comprehend so many things around me? Why I end up staring at something without moving because my body decides to stop everything and stare at literally nothing?

Have I talked about how I couldn't get a lot of your jokes because I genuinely struggle understanding when people tell jokes or not if I haven't heard them before? Because I have an internalized fear that if I'm diagnosed with a mental illness that it'll be twice the struggle you already have with my brother?

Have I told you that I've thought about running away from the house and bringing my brother with me because I couldn't tolerate him being mistreated and beaten up at home all because he couldn't communicate well or he did something because he couldn't tell us what it was? How everything at home seems to be against him? How I took up this course solely for him and no one else, not even my parents?

Have I mentioned how I couldn't think well most of the time? How everything at home confuses me because one minute there'd be shouting and I want to run away with my brother, but the next it'd be safe and sound and everyone's laughing and I don't know whether to label our family as ok because other families fight too, or if there's genuinely something wrong and I have helicopter parents?

Have I talked about how I was gay and not a female? When I was screamed at on the phone in 11th grade by my father who said that I was off with guys around me, who were my close friends that were protective mind you, dating them? How my father told me that maybe I should go home with a boy instead? And that I'd get pregnant at such a young age?

Have you noticed how I didn't rebut saying "IM GAY! WHY WOULD I BOTHER?" because I knew my family was heavily homophobic and religious? How I can't tell them I'm nonbinary or that I'm asexual, or that I'm in the aromantic-spectrum because they wouldn't even bat an eye to listen to me explain how I could like girls more than the 0% of romantic interest I could get from guys?

Have you noticed that I have internalized homophobia? Because even if I was as gay as I come, I still held the strongest to my religion and I feel very dirty and in pain every time I see someone or my brain would link it up to being wrong even if I told someone God Loves All? Because I never truly went by all the things I told someone to comfort them? (Truly, a hypocrite, in the worst way possible) Because I look at my chest or my bottom and I think I deserve to live in whatever I got because of the way everything works around me?

Have I mentioned how I ask for fidget spinners, fidget cubes, rubber bands, lots of pens, lots of rings, earrings and bracelets, because these genuinely help me fidget and calm down to think about something, ONE THING, for that moment? How I don't understand why a lot of my things disappear, even if I know I probably left it somewhere and genuinely forgot I did something?

Have I talked about how I know my sleeping schedule is trash, and that I have a sick sense of humor? That my body is deteriorating and how I can't even hear or see well anymore to the point that I learned sign language (both american and british) because I fear that one day I might need it? And how I used to, and still sort of do, close my eyes walking around home and feeling the walls or the floor to practice if I went somewhat blind?

Have you heard how loudly I laugh when you're at home, or when I think someone is outside of my room (a skill I learned when I was a kid about if my dad was around the house), and you ask why I laugh so loudly, but in reality I'm usually so quiet on my own? How I think about how I want to live alone in a dorm/apartment but even Jillian knows that if I did, I'd starve myself unintentionally & intentionally, and that I'd refuse to talk to anyone or laugh because days like these drag on, but I act like they don't?

Have I mentioned that I talked to my best friend about how I have one twitter account extremely hidden with no followings or anything linked to my others because it's the most hidden and deep account that spills my most traumatizing-centered thoughts and has all my passwords and accounts there too because I fear if I die no one would know why or what I was? That they'd think I was such a loving straight female who didn't even talk to her sibling much or cook?

Have I said that I genuinely do want to learn how to cook, ride a bicycle, learn multiple instruments, get to have pets, know how to clean my laundry, but because of you guys telling me to get away from the kitchen or the laundry place at home when I was younger and until high school, I grew afraid of even cleaning at home, even if cleaning is one of my most favourite things to do at school, at home, or anywhere? How organizing and cleaning is a comfort for me? And that I can't do any of those because I genuinely fear so many things linked to our household?

Have you noticed how I make fun of myself a lot because I never knew how to talk about it before until I saw other people make fun of themselves too? I keep saying I'm not real, or that I'm going to die, did you notice those? How I couldn't remember something and I'd say I have the worst memory ever then proceed to laugh? How I'd stutter like hell doesn't know me and proceed to stop abruptly only to say I have a stupid stutter every time? That I joke around about how I know nothing about household things and I'd be a useless partner?

Have I talked about how I have tried multiple times before to tell someone my problem, but if they talk about it lightly, dismiss it, react softly, don't react much at all, or something, I feel offended, but then put it off as if nothing about it mattered? How I impulsively make everything come off so nonchalantly and it's fine with me, but if I bring that habit up, someone starts to worry about a lot of the things I say?

Have you seen the way I couldn't get close to most people? How I shiver internally whenever someone bothers to hug me if they're not batch 2920 or Tanya, Florence, Mave, Alweya, Farhana, or Salwa? That I can't stand the thought of being kissed anywhere (unless it's Jillian, for personal reasons) that I would literally shiver and freeze at the slightest touch anyone does (especially family members like my Mother or Grandmother who are very touchy) yet I won't explain why?

Have you noticed that I can't stand guys? For if you knew, then you'd know I was sexually harassed and I didn't like how those THS students looked at me, how I didn't like when they surrounded my computer used in the computer laboratory in 10th grade, or how they catcalled me whenever I used to pass by their hallway to pass something to a teacher, did you? How I, even when my clothes are the closes to masculine over feminine, were still being catcalled and looked at like I was an object? How I learned to hate people looking at me and glare back but was also just annoyed that I stopped looking at people in general unless I glare?

Have you noticed how I started to show my love for girls more these years? How I couldn't at all look at romance kissing scenes without going to look away with a face of disgust because truly, I couldn't understand how that works for me? How if I tell someone I like them, I don't genuinely think they would ever like me back and if they do, I don't know what to do and I think I lose my way and lowkey hope they didn't like me too? But feel hurt that they like me back and I should have seen that because now I'm responsible for their emotions too and if they get hurt because of me, it's better that way than getting hurt because of themselves for now knowing I was like this?

Have you seen how I couldn't say my words properly? How I genuinely can't get my thoughts across without blabbering for so long? Or that I've wanted help with my brain's thoughts and my antics, but I didn't want to spend my family's money on something that's so small (I think)? How I didn't want my family to worry about me at all so I don't tell them about these?

Have you noticed how I don't like buying things for myself unless it's for school? How I literally keep my money in the wallets you give me and I put my money only in the slingbag because the wallets are full and I don't know when to bring it up to you that I have money saved for you to use? That I told you "thank you" every time you gave me something but I was so hesitant to receive it every time because, why would you spend money on someone like me?

Have you noticed how I was so confused on my 18th birthday when my Grandfather said "We wish to be like her (me)" because I genuinely didn't know and still don't know what you guys see from me? What do you see? What part of me seems like I could be a good role model?

Have you seen the way I comfort other people? How I can't last any second seeing someone sad, hence why I can't take jokes easily because I worry that they're genuinely sad or in need of help? That I'm open-minded and understanding to a lot of things because my family members weren't? Because I grew up reading and being alone even with a barrage of people surrounding me as friends in grade school, I couldn't recall anything about myself from then unless told about?

How I thought about my undiagnosed depression, anxiety, and other things I still refuse to mention in fear that I might be making all of this up? How in 9th grade I walked around the science laboratory room banging my head on the wall and ending up curled up under the main desk trying to silence myself while 3 other classmates were there, who then proceeded to call my best friend for help? How the 9th to 11th grades were me in my deepest eras that I couldn't walk at school for hours and days and how Jillian had to help me walk around to get used to it before I got to go home and act like it never happened?

Have you seen how I keep sleeping on days I get silent? Because though sleep is hard for me, I force myself to sleep and hate myself through my thoughts for more reason to avoid being awake and drift into a space where I can't recall what happened when I wake up?

How I keep typing all of these, over and over and over again, yet I could never get over the past? How all of these are things that happened before that I drag on until today because I couldn't see them leave my life at all?

How these keep piling up and crawl up my back like the simplest air dust speck flowing through the wind to bother me? But I act like it's not there and keep living on my days?

It's... a lot. And if you reached this point, I'm sorry that you did.

It's a whole lot-

Why are you reading this

I should be studying for my 2020-2021 2nd semester midterms... I really should... but I want to sleep... I probably will... Maybe...

'Till then. This is log 000-21-03-21

I know there's a lot more I wish to add, but for now. This is it.

[myaltao3feed]

by Lynn1998

Eddie and his boyfriend break-up, and Richie has best friend duty of helping Eddie recover. It’s kinda hard to watch the love of your life be mistreated, so it wasn’t hard for Richie to step in.

Words: 3244, Chapters: 1/9, Language: English

Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Original Characters, Beverly Marsh, Stanley Uris, Ben Hanscom, Bill Denbrough, Mike Hanlon, Connor Bowers

Relationships: Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak & Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak/Original Male Character(s), Richie Tozier/Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Very brief mention of Richie Tozier/Connor Bowers, Original Character(s), original characters with no other intention but to make you mad oof, Friends to Lovers, Eddie Kaspbrak & Richie Tozier Are Best Friends, Childhood Friends, Richie Tozier's Internalized Homophobia, Richie Tozier Loves Eddie Kaspbrak, Eddie Kaspbrak Loves Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak is a Tease, Richie Tozier is a Good Friend, Eddie has a scary amount of gay feral horny energy and his POV does not hold back, Richie is soft and sad and doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that he’s in love with Eddie, lots of drama with exes and miscommunications, they are both gay disasters, connor is there to cry over the one time Richie hooked up with him and be a little bitch, Mutual Pining, Richie Tozier is Whipped, richie gets over protective and Eddie gets easily jealous, Eddie’s ex boyfriend is manipulative and emotionally abusive, TW verbal and emotional abuse, TW mentions of threats of violence