#under the bus

[yourlatesttrik]

It's Wednesday! Take one...

[kstarlitchaotics]

I love this series

[mightyflamethrower]

How can they take him off the ticket without admitting he was the worst thing to happen to America since Pearl Harbor

[loki-zen]

I don't know how to explain to you that associating poor fandom behaviour with struggling with an unrelated activity is straightforwardly ableist

I can't tell if ppl feel licensed to bitch about chappell because she's queer or if she legitimately could use a PR person

I think a lot of it is just that people are very parasocial about her. Part of that is her being queer but part of it is just how massive her fanbase is now.

[taliabhattwrites]

[chloesimaginationthings]

NEVER ask FNAF Vanny about her past…

[redysetdare]

The response to "ace people are just virgins who can't get laid!" Shouldn't be "ace people can still have sex!" but instead " being a virgin isn't a bad thing."

The response to "aro people are just heartless freaks!" Shouldn't be "aro people can still feel love!" And instead be "not feeling love or other emotions doesn't make you a bad person."

Instead of pushing the idea that aspec people can be "normal like allos" we should instead be trying to normalize aspec experiences. Yes aspec people can be normal because aspec identities are normal. Some aros fall in love. some aces have sex. but they should not be the only valid aspec experiences. We should not use these experiences to make the aspec identity more palatable to amatonormativity and allos.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Of all the takes on this site this is certainly one of them

[lus-sav]

Something for my favorite trope: Foggy Nelson as an unwilling and inadvertent vigilante magnet.

Bonus spideypool, my favorite ship.

[wheelchairtetris]

Begging on my hands and knees for ambulatory wheelchair users to change the narrative from "not all wheelchair users are paralyzed" to "disability is a spectrum and not everyone uses a wheelchair for the same reasons"

[wilkoakdraws]

Hyperfyxation going strong so here's some memorable quotes of the jarchivist and mr. m.k. blackwood + my thru-seasons design chart

[contagious-watermelon]

Why do I keep seeing transmascs and trans men insisting or implying that all trans men are "female socialized," or "understand the female experience," or "navigated the world as a woman." Because yeah, sure, that can be true for some people. especially if you weren't gnc at all as a kid and didn't crack your egg until well into adulthood, it makes sense.

But they don't stop at saying they had that experience. It always comes with an addendum that trans men, as a group, all can relate to this experience. I don't know about the entirety of my demographic, but I never got even a little bit of what some of them talk about. I didn't even believe that women were scared of going out at night until I kept consistently seeing them say it, online or wherever, for years. I never realized catcalling was a thing until I saw some women complaining about it on reddit.

But they posit it as some sort of, you're safer than cis men, right? You know what it's like? Which, on top of being patently, demonstrably false in the case of myself and many other trans men, holds some unpleasant and often outright hostile implications about trans women. And they always deny it, but if you can't even conceptualize someone like me who grew up gnc, and never got the bulk (or any?) of whatever we consider to be 'female socialization,' what does that say about what you think trans girls went through, growing up? I don't want to speak for them, as I've never experienced that firsthand, but I can guarantee that (if you're even a little bit obviously trans) people don't treat you like a cis kid of the opposite gender. By and large, they don't get treated like cis boys.

It just makes me mad that we're taking this inaccurate framework that (ever so conveniently) puts trans people into the box of our assumed birth gender, and trying to fancy it up and use it with a faux-progressive veneer; never mind the way that transphobes use it to bar trans women from being athletes, or using the bathroom, or having access to any gendered resources they need. It would be bad enough to try and dust it off and use it even if it were largely accurate, due to the aforementioned connections to outright transphobia, but it literally is patently false. Not in all cases, obviously, but why are we trying to revamp this untrue, inaccurate generalization and pretend that we can make it 'trans-inclusive?'

[satyrradio]

wtf is 'poly discourse' like just say you're mad someone's getting double the amount of bitches you do

[k4pp4-8]

The spectrum of pirates under cover

[gwenllian-in-the-abbey]

I feel like it shouldn't need to be said, but a relatively faithful adaptation of the source material is actually a very normal and reasonable thing for both an author and that author's fanbase to want. People can sneer about book purists all they want but it's the rare adaptation that surpasses the original, and HotD does not even come close.

[theseusgodkid]

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