#what kind of culture allows it

[fandomsandfeminism]

On Saturday, in New York, a group of friends pulled into a strangers driveway to turn their car around. The homeowner came outside, shot at them, and killed one of the 20 year old women in the car.

Last Thursday, in Kansas City, a 16 year old boy ended up at the wrong address by mistake trying to pick up his younger siblings. He rang the doorbell. The homeowner shot him in the head. He is, miraculously, alive and recovering.

Yesterday, in Texas, a group of high school cheerleaders stopped at a grocery store on their way home. One of them opened the door to the wrong car by mistake, realized her mistake, and quickly retreated and found her friends car nearby. The man in the car followed her and shot at the group. 2 were shot. One remains hospitalized.

In less than a week- 3 people, doing normal, nonmalicious, nonthreatening, everyday things. Turning around in a driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, going up to the wrong car by mistake. And with no escalation, no warning, it turns to gun fire.

It's a terrible intersection of easy access to firearms and an entitlement to use violence against others. All 3 of these recent incidents were so unprovoked and unjustifiable, and the core thread remains the same.

A man who felt entitled to use violence and had the means to do so with a firearm.

I don't even know what to say.

[biohazard-inevitable]

It fucks me up so supremely that Astarion’s name means “little star” and its his child name- HE NEVER GOT TO CHOOSE HIS ADULT NAME AND IT FUCKS ME UP SO HARD-

[fvckw4d]

The concept of queerbaiting annoys me. I was told that it refers to a work of fiction pretending to cater to a queer audience but then pulling back from it to avoid alienating homophobes, which is an incredibly specific thing. But a lot of people seem to think that it instead means "any time there's any gay subtex, metaphor, or ambiguity" or "whenever something from 1995-2012 was being a normal amount of homophobic for the era."

[no-empathy-culture-is]

Low empathy culture is looking at the "no Endo" syscourse bullshit on here and being enough of an adult to point out that you're faking your disorder and don't deal with low empathy, you just want attention. Please give this blog to someone who it's relevant to rather than having it run by a shitty neurotypical who doesn't understand what it's like to have a real diagnosis.

You don't get to just decide you want to be mentally ill and diagnose yourself while faking symptoms. Fuck you, you don't deserve this page.

nonny what on earth makes you think i'm not diagnosed lmao

[bonni]

another interesting thing is that fascism warping perceptions of artistic beauty in the regions where it flourished was and still is a very real phenomenon, but if you think that fascist art was just soooo good intrinsically and that that made it useful for indoctrinating people you've very much got it backwards (as op of that post pointed out). read Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco for free online

[tommyssupercoolblog]

hey how much is sapnap and matpat in the new tommyinnit video, i want to watch but i don't really want to see them

Matpat isn't in it. Sapnap is but it's just Tommy seeing him coming out of a store, asking if he's fucked up mentally, sapnap says no and Tommy is like "nice seeing you" very dryly and sarcasticly, and leaves. A lot of people say Tommy was being a bitch to him on purpose but he has autism and I ALSO have autism so....idfk

[tariah23]

Now he’s trying to lie when he literally tagged Princeton like 5 fucking time. White people are so evil, bro. They always know what they’re doing when they do shit like that. With the attempt to bring harm to Black people who they want to “get out of the way,” because they don’t think that we belong in the same spaces as them while at the same time, believing they should be allowed INTO our spaces and afforded hospitality and a whole red carpet rolled out. The sad thing is, she has connections to the industry because of her uncle and name so what if this was just a random Black woman who worked for Princeton without this kind of protection at all…?

[rubberbandballqueen]

also today in queer history class discussion i pitched the question "how has your race impacted your experiences as a queer person" and so one of my classmates talked abt how she was usually the only black person in queer spaces (or if not, then the only dark skinned black person) and talked a lot abt the isolation of it all

which was cool to hear, but not quite what i was looking for, so at the end i was like, "follow-up question: how has your blackness influenced your queerness?"

and after class she told me no one had ever asked her that before and so she'd never had to consider it, but now she was excited to just throw that at every other queer person of color in her life because it's like, "huh. what kind of homoeroticisms DO i experience as a result of my culture? how CAN i express my queerness in a way that also feels at home with my culture, instead of just picking an expression that is one or the other?" and i think that's beautiful. i hope she figures out how she wants to be queer in her own uniquely black way

[pink-elefantz]

speaking as someone who grew up in a very nutritionally focused family (at least half of us have ocd) the whole ''heres this weeks findings on what foods are going to slowly kill u'' industry is infinitely more deadly than any food could ever be

[mydr3aminvi0let]

i wear a lot of skirts and pink and whatnot as my style has developed with me & my personality but when one of those age regression girlies latch onto me....i do not like that

[el3ctraaa]

One thing about me is that I genuinely want to get married one day because I love love love the idea of someone committing themselves to ONLY me forever and ever and ever and ever.

[count-asscrackula]

..breh

[merlinenilrem]

alright guys if i were to change my icon which one should it be to. ignore the different sizes & stuff i'm just asking about the style

[scourgethewhorehog]

tbh too many of you hashtag actually autistic bitches sound like dr aspergers favorite patients when you talk about other autistic ppl except instead of just calling "less functional" autistic ppl the r slur you call them lazy abnormal weird freaky etc and accuse them of insane shit bc they cant keep up w whatever innane social expectations that only exist on the internet even if theyre NOT HURTING ANYONE or being unkind to you or they struggle to get a job / self care / etc and you Swear it totally cant be related to autism because they seem Fine enough to execute it on here because of course how someone acts sitting at their computer in a controlled enviornment where you arent as likely to be overstimulated in predictable areas of the internet is indicative of how they must respond to situations in the real real life. please be kinder to people you dont exist day to day with and cant possibly understand the struggles of good lord.

[tetradic-echinoidea]

I've been contemplating a lot about why I don't enjoy fanfic or fandom much anymore, and the closest thing to an answer I've come up with is that most of the time it just doesn't have anything interesting to say about the source material. The reason I would go search for fic is because I crave more of what I just watched/read(that I thought had something interesting in it), or I crave somebody to tackle something that was hinted at in the subtext, or someone who has an unique point of view to the story. Someone who looked at it and thought: now this I have something to say about.

I don't bother reading fic for media I don't care for intensely, so a lot of the "fuck canon" kinda fic just feels very boring and run-of-the-mill stuff copy pasted from one fandom to another to me. There's no moral judgement in that, it's just that most of the people who write that kind of fic clearly write if for different reasons than why I want to write or read fic, and that happens to be the dominant current in fandom at the moment.

I love character focused stories, I love eroticism, I love stories written from a marginalized perspective or bringing that perspective into an existing story. I think a lot of people in fandom spaces agree with me. But I would argue that as much as fandom claims to be transformative, most of the actual content within it is not. Even if the act of creating something just out of your love for it is transformative, the "product" at the end might not be. It's quite common for fics to regurgitate the same tired tropes, the same bland descriptions of sex and character dynamics and kinks without really delving deeper than the surface of those things. Even within fandom people bringing in new ideas and challenging the set ways of tropes or opening discussion about it are very often shot down, people resisting change and deeper analysis of what they create, wanting to shut down their ears and yell that what they are doing is transformative, and therefore the mere idea of change is bad.

[surpriserose]

Finished the dark beyond the stars 🫡🫡🫡 get ready for the next book poll maybe with actual titles this time 😳