#women: please uwu we want you

[chiyana]

don't ask how I got here but I've found myself playing a harem dating sim game, and I've come to realize I am. perhaps not playing these games as intended.

because there's a garden you can fix up and grow things in, and you can sell stuff to make money, but I've reached a point where I don't need to worry about that so I'm just kind of... doing it. because it's there and what if I inexplicably need 60 boxes of potatoes for a quest.

but you also need to tend to it and water your plants daily or they'll die. tending your garden doesn't progress time, but events and other things do, and there are three 'time slots' where you can move around and access your garden: morning, noon, and evening. so you can wake up, go down to the garden, tend to it, and go about your day.

except sometimes (often) leaving your room can trigger automatic events, which progress time whether you like it or not, and sometimes (OFTEN) you can get a few automatic events in a row and there goes your whole day

so I've been finding myself with increasing frequency crawling through multiple automatic events in a row trying to get to my garden like "please... my plants are dying... I just want to water my potatoes...."

like yes great fine beautiful women are throwing themselves at me and fighting over me PLEASE LET ME TEND TO MY CABBAGES BEFORE THE BUGS EAT THEM

[agenderakali]

It really gets me upset when the trans man lesbian crowd spreads these soft positivity posts like “trans men have always had a place in the lesbian community uwu” with not a degree of awareness. It’s been shown statistically, that a majority of cis lesbians will proudly state they would prefer to date trans men over trans women. It’s been shown how trans men are accepted by cis lesbians and welcomed in lesbian spaces over trans women. And it isn’t because of beautiful beautiful solidarity, its because they see them as women and they see trans women as men. Trans men have been equated with masc lesbians for decades and continue to this day, especially by terfs who use butch lesbian and trans man as interchangeable words.  The absolute tone deafness I’ve seen in these discussions boggles the mind, like saying trans men grew up identifying as lesbians, being treated as women, being “socialized” as women, so they have a ‘right’ to lesbian spaces. As if it doesn’t subtlety imply that transfems have less of a right to be there then they do, as if it isn’t regurgitated terf “male/female socialization” rhetoric. And when I point out these problematic elements I often get the trans men who argue for this stuff lecturing me about denying their agency and how they choose to be with lesbians. If yall want to date lesbians that’s fine, I literally cant stop you nor care to. It’s worth noting though, that there have been plenty of instances of trans men voluntarily dating straight men, yet we dont have this community push to validate straight men chasers and their trans boyfriends. For good reason, too.  I am not saying trans men need to be “kicked out” of lesbian spaces, I understand the solidarity between our communities. That solidarity will always exist. (And again I want to point out for the most part they are NOT being kicked out or excluded. Trans fems are) And I understand that “man” doesnt always mean man in a binary sense, some people are nonbinary men and women and things aren't always as clear cut. As a transmasc, nonbinary lesbian I understand that. This does not apply to you. I just want people to please take note of the transphobic, specifically transmisogynistic overtones that accompany a widespread push to have trans men as a group be considered as exceptions to lesbian attraction. 

[kiruliom]

can we stop the belief that terfs hate transfems exclusively or like more than they hate cisgender men or transmascs and pretending it's just the trans women's battle against them and you're allies for them or whatever. this literally undermines how much harm theyre doing both to the trans community as a whole and even to the people (cis women) they claim to be protecting. terfs hate trans men just as much as trans women, transmascs arent safe because terfs view them as "uwu confused girlies trying to escape oppression", that is a very narrow worldview and inherently transphobic itself (it excludes butches, transmascs who's medically transitioned, intersex people, etc. etc.) transfems arent more oppressed by terfs than any other people theyre oppressing, please understand this. Im so sick and tired of people undermining my transmasc siblings when it comes to harassment from terfs because "well you arent a target to them", why are they harassing them then????

I just geniuenly dont like how the queer community can claim to be transmasc friendly and then view transmascs the same way transphobes view them (again, uwu girlies who are tricked into ruining their feminine beauty, they dont know anything and how lucky they are). feels both andromisic and misogynistic at the same time on top of transmisic idk how the fuck you manage to fuck up that badly

tldr: stop pretending transmascs arent affected by terfs nearly as much as transfems

anyone can reblog, except terfs of course they can fuck off

transfem is used as a way to refer to "TMA"/"AMAB" trans people transmasc is used as a way to refer to "TME"/"AFAB" trans people I know the definition is a bit more fluid now so I just wanted to note that

[tim-moments]

is it just me, but when TiMs refer to ewphoria i can only think of ‘male feminists’ who actually do not give one solitary shit about feminism lol. like

oh don’t worry i love big girls!!! thicc thighs save lives!!! you can sleep with me i promise i won’t be #toxic or #ghost you haha!!! you’ll never need to check my phone but please fuck me you beautiful specimen please have sex with me PLEASE HAVE SEX WITH ME !!!!

ohhh i got called a bitch and groped while i was out and about… sucks for the c1s women creatures it’s just so bad isn’t it… but uwu makes me feewl so GWIRLY!!!!~~~ nya desuuu~~~ ☺️ i just wanted him to fuck me and plway with my puppygirldick and POUND MY TIGHT SISSYPUSSY RIGHT THERE UWAHHH!! but like ew right? so horrible..

feels very similar for some reason… maybe because they are playing this part purely for sexual reasons… hmm

LITERALLY. I could post the ewphoria subreddit all day, but it’s just so disgusting that I can hardly look. These weirdos get turned on by being treated like a woman, and that includes the vile misogyny we face that is accidentally directed towards them by people who think they’re an actual woman and not a man playing dress up. Its definitely a fetish for most.

[exhelluvafan]

The thing that irritates me the most about Helluva Boss is the adamant need to waste any potential for depth in every character. The thing that stops me from abandoning this train wreck of a show and feeling total apathy for it is its wasted potential.

TOO MUCH FUCKING WASTED POTENTIAL.

And obviously, the elephant in the room, aka the blatant misogyny and double standards because viv is writing yaoi so the fans could consume the emotional uwu moments and porn. SO MUCH PORN DAMN IT.

And the thing that eats away at me is the characters such as stolas and stella had such an easy chance to be morphed into something so deep that the show could be a soap opera about their drama alone.

In my humble opinion, the Goetia demons shouldn't have been in this show at all. They belong in a show like Hazbin that's showcasing the upper echelon of hell. This should've been about IMP, but I'm not ripping that one bandaid off because the wound under it is a biohazard. Anyway, I wanted to offer a rewrite for the 😍 lovely poor uwu baby Stolas and his DEMON, BITCH OF A WIFE, Stella. (Yeah, the sarcasm's strong with this one)

First of all I love how her name means star 🌟. It ties in together nicely with the whole astrology aesthetic of the family. We're gonna ignore the born-to-be-a-bitch personality the show presented her as having and focus on what caused her issues.

First of all, she probably knew from a young age that she was going to be wed off into an arranged marriage (just like stolas), and she knew she had the responsibility of birthing an heir. That's going to affect how she views love and marriage in general. She'd see it as a transaction, that she can offer an heir and her body, and receive what she wants. I have no problem with her being a spoiled brat, a mean girl. In fact, take it up a notch. She can be both of that! She was probably given every materialistic thing she wanted since the day she was born other than love and affection. That probably made her narcissistic and selfish, with the "I get everything that I want and you can't stop me" attitude.

She's a party girl, and we stand for that. She seems to be very extroverted and outgoing, and that clashes with stolas' more subdued and introverted personality.

I see her as being EXTREMELY paranoid about appealing to the high society that she's a part of and keeping herself at the top of the food chain amongst other aristocrats, unlike stolas who only does it to keep face or avoid getting too much attention, she wants to be noticed ans seen. Her gossipy, high society friends also reinforce the fact that she never had normal friends who cared about her, and she never grew out of her mean girl phase.

I see her as someone with so much passion in her heart, and sadly, we had to see all that turned into rage. She has trouble controlling her temper and the constant rage that boils inside her, and she explodes and lashes out on people, especially stolas.

I see her going into a marriage with stolas with the same "I'll get what I want" attitude. He has power, money, and legions to his name, and he isn't necessarily bad looking. So stella is like, "Eh, might as well..."

He isn't her dream partner, but she goes into the marriage thinking she can mould him into her dream man. Or thinking he's meek enough to leave her on her own, or she could even manipulate him to do as she pleases. None of those go as planned, though.

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I can lowky see her dragging him around as she shops and him just wanting to die inside, lol

Oh my, Anon, this quite a lot of words, but I actually really love your rewrite, I can see Stella actually watching Mean Girls while Stolas dies inside and just stares at the infinite lmao

But sadly, this is a Viv show, and you know that women in these kinds of shows aren't allowed to have any nuance beyond a one-note use or personality trait, unless they're stepping stools for the male cast, which in that case, they're allowed to have a bit more of depth, but not too much.

And yeah, actually, now that you mention it, the Goetia demons shouldn't have been in Helluva, if anything, they should've been shown on Hazbin, like you said, because we are following along a protagonist that was born in royalty (Charlie) and it would make a lot of sense to see the Goetia demons there, since it would be a royal meetup or something like that.

And lastly, about the porn... I can corroborate this since a lot of the designs made by Viv or by her team look... conventionally attractive, so conventional that's artificial and try hard at times, and also, pretty safe but sometimes pushing the limits a bit to pander to gay people (Vortex, Asmodeus and Satan, to name a few muscular characters that are quite popular, but also Moxxie, Chaz and Striker, also popular in the gay side of the fandom) but it always boils down to the same purpose: to get people horny, and this is exemplified so painfully clear when Loona shook her ass towards the camera in one of the episodes, turning out to be shameless furry bait, and when I say that these shows are gooning and softcore porn shows, it's because of deliberate shit like this.

But alas, thanks for your input, Anon, it's greatly appreciated and it's quite the palette cleanser to see someone competent pick up Viv's mess and restructure it into something actually compelling and nuanced.

[genderqueerdykes]

Not expecting a reply but wished to express (as a transfeminine person) thanks for your post regarding transandrophobia, had been seeing a large amount of my trans mutuals on this site begin to buy into a perception of transmasculine people which was an identical duplicate of those held by members of the TERF movement here in the UK, that they are entitled, immature, incapable of self determination and unneeding of liberation. Despite awareness that any individual can adopt cruel beliefs and that it might be comforting to do so (and despite awareness of this sites history of bullying campaigns targeting highly specific marginalised groups) I was confused as to why so many people found that perception in any way legitimate, especially during a time in which trans people of any assigned sex are so conspicuously in peril.

i wanted to thank you for taking the time to send this, i really appreciate you!

honestly, having so many transfeminine people step forward and say that this is making them uncomfortable has been amazing. it really is the minority of people behaving this way. most transfeminine people do not want to see someone else being hated for their gender or assigned sex- i mean, why would we want that...? that's what people do to us, why would we ever benefit from doing it to someone else?

a large amount of my trans mutuals on this site begin to buy into a perception of transmasculine people which was an identical duplicate of those held by members of the TERF movement here in the UK, that they are entitled, immature, incapable of self determination and unneeding of liberation.

dead on the money, i could not have articulated it better if tried. beautifully worded. people, whether or not they realize this, are 100% parroting terf rhetoric when they treat trans men this way. this behavior was born in terf circles, and now it's spreading to other people. people are not realizing that they're being radicalized in a way that harms other people. terfs hate trans women, of course, we know this, but they hate trans men and mascs as well, and that's not a good thing. i have no clue why people look at terfs and rad fems and go. they're evil for hating trans women/transfems. but they're BASED AS FUCK for hating trans men and mascs. like HELLO?

i have no idea why people look at rad fems and go "wow they're actually so based for hating men that is so awesome they're right all men are evil girlboss gatekeep gaslight fuck men uwu but i promise i don't hate trans women!!! i'm not a terf i don't hate trans women! terfs hate trans women and i'm not like that! i can't be a terf if i don't hate trans women hating trans men is good because all men are bad!!!!!!!!" why are you agreeing with ANY of their politics? they hate ALL trans people: that is a bad thing! hating any group of trans people is a bad thing! that is transphobia!!! people seem to think that terfs only hate trans women which is so far from the truth. why do people think it's okay to condemn part of their beliefs but not all?

like y'all wake the FUCK UP rad feminism is not progressive! you do not look cool for saying you hate trans men and transmascs! you are not pushing queer rights forward. you are not lobbying for trans women if you throw trans men under the bus.

I was confused as to why so many people found that perception in any way legitimate, especially during a time in which trans people of any assigned sex are so conspicuously in peril.

this is exactly what i don't understand. i do not understand why people think that attacking a group of trans people will somehow lessen our suffering. as if splitting up and fighting with each other will somehow bring down cisheteronormative patriarchy.

how does any of this help anyone? like seriously. how? please explain to me how this helps anyone. how does this help trans women get access to gender affirming care? how does this help trans women who are single mothers? how does this help trans women of color who are dealing with racism on top of transmisogyny? how does this help trans women who need medical care? how does this help trans women find jobs that won't turn them away for being trans? how does this help trans women who are scared about coming out as trans? how does this help trans women who live in transphobic towns and countries? how does this help trans women find community support? how does this help homeless trans women? how does this help trans women who need help with addiction? how does this help trans women escape domestic violence? how does this help trans women who are too poor to stay afloat?

thanks for stopping by, i really appreciate this message, and it does a lot of people good to hear other transfems who are not okay with this. your message will do a lot of good, so i think it's very important to publish. :) take care of yourself, thank you so much for being a compassionate person! this was a very insightful ask, thank you!

[l1v1ngd3dgrrl]

Ease [Anya x Reader]

AN: I apologize in advance if this is a little robotic! While I am bisexual, I don't have a whole lot of experience with with women. This was an anon request! I'm a proud Lesbian Anya truther.

Word Count: 1,343

MNDI banner: cafekitsune

CW(S): established relationship, oral sex (Anya receiving), Fingering, Anya is the bottom here but not in an 'uwu she's so shy' way, it's in a 'she's stressed tf out so she needs to lay back and relax' kind of way. Anya MIGHT be ooc?

All was quiet in your apartment. Anya, had tucked herself away in the spare bedroom to study. If it weren't for the frustrated groans and the sound of paper being crumpled you would have thought she wasn't there.

For the past week or so it was just you in your shared bedroom, Anya spent nearly all night prepping for whatever upcoming exam she had. You knew how much getting her nursing degree meant to her so you didn't say anything, but you didn't like how she was starting to ignore her needs. The bags under her eyes made your heart hurt every time you saw them.

Not wanting your girlfriend to starve, you placed a delivery order for some Chinese take-out. Not the healthiest option but it was one of Anya's favorites. The food usually got there within 25 minutes so you had plenty of time to coax her away from her books to take a breather.

Anya was in the same spot you usually saw her in, Sat at the folding table that served as a makeshift desk with various papers and notebooks scattered about. She was resting her head on one of her hands, scowling furiously at the notes she had written.

"Hey love?" you called pulling her out of her trance.

"Hm-Oh, hey." She sat up and gave you a weak smile. "Did you need something?" You walk up and wrap your arms around her shoulders, swaying her back and forth slightly. "I don't need anything, but I ordered us some take out," you press a kiss to her cheek. "You need to take a break." She groans and closes her notebook. "I just need another thirty minutes to study-"

"Anya." You say sternly. "You need a break, it'll do you some good." She sighed and rubbed her hand over your arm. "I guess you're right."

"That's my girl."

While the two of you ate, Anya had put on some cheesy reality T.V. show, this one was about making various contestants look 'hotter.'

In-between bites of her food she would comment about how they basically just sucked all the individuality out of people and sent them on their way. It was funny honestly, watching her scold the hosts of the show as if they could hear her through your T.V. screen. Seeing her far more relaxed than she was about 30 minutes ago made you feel better.

"I should probably get back to studying now." Anya commented after both of you finished eating. Just as she was getting up to shut herself in the room again you grabbed her hand and pulled her back down towards the couch. "Baby, You need to rest." You pleaded. "One night away from the books isn't gonna hurt."

"But what if I miss something important?"

"You've been studying for weeks now, I'm sure that you've covered all the bases at least three times now." You gave her hand a firm squeeze. "Please just-just relax for a bit? I don't like seeing you so stressed out." Her gaze softens. "I'm sorry."

You shake your head and rub a hand over her cheek. "No don't be sorry," you give her a weak smile. "I'm just worried about you." She caresses your hand on her cheek and nods. "I suppose one night couldn't hurt."

You pull her in for a hug and caress her hair. "If you want me to do something for you, anything at all just say the word and I'll do it." She hums, soaking up the feeling of your fingers combing through her hair.

She pulls away from you and gazes lovingly at you, pink dusting her cheeks. "There is one thing," She begins. "We haven't had sex in a while."

"You've been so busy and I didn't want to disturb you." You say.

"Could you go down on me please?"

Your face flushes and an eager grin creeps onto your face. "Yeah totally!" She giggles and pulls you back in for a kiss.

One kiss turns into five, and five turns into you straddling her hips and running your hands under her shirt. The kisses were an intense needy mess.

Anya is the first to pull away, her pupils blown out with lust. She's huffing slightly, trying to catch her breath. You take this moment to tug on the hem of her shirt, wordlessly asking permission to get the ball rolling.

She nods and that's your cue to move. You gently tug her shirt over her head, tossing it to the opposite side of the couch. You get off her lap and sit down on the floor.

Anya is quick to grab one of the pillows from the couch and hand it to you. "Bad for your knees, use this."

You tuck the pillow under your knees with a quiet thank you and resume the task at hand.

Anya tugs down her pajama bottoms, growing slightly impatient. You help her tug them the rest of the way down, discarding them beside you. Her panties follow suite in a similar fashion.

Now here she was with her legs spread and her pussy on display. She was nearly dripping with arousal.

Her breath hitched as you began trailing wet kisses from her thigh towards her center, the warmth of your breath had her on the edge with anticipation. Usually you liked to tease so she silently prayed that you wouldn't be so hard on her tonight. When your mouth finally made contact she let out a soft sigh that trailed off into a moan.

You worked your tongue slowly at first, teasing her clit with figure 8 motions. Anya closed her eyes, and spread her legs just a bit wider allowing you as much room as you needed. With a hum your hands slide up her legs and grip her thighs as you begin to get more deliberate with your actions.

"Oh god-" Anya moaned breathlessly.

You glance up at her from your position, your movements not faltering once. Her face was flushed a deep shade of pink, eyes half lidded. Moans spilled from her dusty rose colored lips. A beautiful scene. The wetness in your own panties was starting to become evident.

You move on of your hands into your own pajama bottoms, pushing your panties to the side and insert two fingers into yourself. Your movements pick up pace and your rock your fingers in time to your tongue, chasing your own arousal on top of pleasing your girlfriend.

If you stayed down here forever you wouldn't complain. Going down on Anya was something you loved doing, partially because you thought she tasted good and partially because she looked so god damn beautiful when she was getting close to an orgasm.

Her thighs suddenly clamped around your head, and one of her hands coming down to push your hair back slightly. She was close, that was evident by the way her thighs were starting to tremble.

You continued working, eyes coming up to meet hers. Her breath was starting to become erratic, gasping as she grew closer and closer to the edge.

After a final harsh flick of your tongue she came undone, High pitched moans and a gasps of your name rolling off her tongue like a prayer.

You pulled away as the last bits of her orgasm faded. Your face glistened with a mix of her arousal and your saliva. She sat back on the couch trying to steady her breathing. Getting up off the floor you sat next to her, wiping your mouth on your sleeve.

"How are you feeling love?" You ask quietly.

"So good, so so so good." She says with a giggle. She captures your lips in a kiss, humming when she tastes herself. "That was just what I needed thank you."

"You're welcome, It was fun for me too." You snort.

"Did you get off?" she asks softly

"Almost." you admit, thighs squeezing together slightly.

"Then it's my turn." she coos.

Taking one night away from the books was the best idea ever.

[thegeminisage]

i hope everyone who voted third party is really happy :) i hope they're all really pleased today and really felt like they made their voices heard and that electing trump was worth saving their precious little feelings :) i'm really glad they didn't have to be adults long enough to hold their noses and vote because feeling good is way more important than doing good :) i hope they got what they wanted :)

actually i hope they all die, as a direct result of his presidency, so that we don't have to pander to them next election cycle, if there IS a next election cycle. "but you can't just say you hope people die!" sure i can! third party voters obviously want me and my disabled mom to die. they want gay and trans people to die. they want women and immigrants and palestinians and people of color to die. what's the problem? i'd say i hope they die in the big glorious revolution they promised but if they can't put up and shut up long enough to get their asses to a ballot box there's no way we're gonna see them firebombing the government or attending a protest. they'll just sit at home and wait for somebody else to do it, the same way they sat at home and waited for somebody else to elect harris. and i hope nobody suffers more in the next four or more years than them. but why worry, right? both candidates are the same! i'm sure they'll be fine!

also lmao at everyone like "uwu ok guys take a deep breath have a calming cup of tea and do some self care tell people you love them" self care and loving people isn't going to keep him out of office. we had our chance to do that and we blew it because leftists want to feel righteous and pure. like definitely don't kill yourself or anything (unless you're a third party voter, in which case the sooner the better) but don't fucking dress it up. all you're doing is checking out. and who can blame you! sounds like the only solid plan tbh.

[flower-boi16]

Someone called me a hypocrite just because I want Stella to be an actual character and not a cheap excuse to justify Stolas cheating on her/make him look better as well as resenting the toxic behavior of how some insane fans in the fandom are way too defensive of Stolas then aggressively dumping and shitting on Stella/Blizt. They accused me of favoring Stella/want her redeemed by thinking that way, just because I didn't call her out enough like I did toStolas…

Look I agree Stella sucks too, I KNOW that, but why I'm more willing to call that damn owl out than her? Stella in the show is so cartoonishly evil that I can't take her seriously, her “evil”is intentionally designed that way in order to become a plot device that viv only uses to justify Stolas's BS and viv really wants us viewers to hate on Stella and blame her for everything but I'm not going to fall into that trap so easily.

I don't really know what is it with this fandom and having an intense amount of venom when it comes to people who just. Want Stella to be better written. The reason why people want Stella to have actual character depth is not only because it's more interesting than her just being a one-dimensional bitch, it's also because Stella being one-dimensional contributes to the issue of Viv demonizing any character that Stolas has hurt as a cheap way to downplay his actions and make HIM look sympathetic.

Stella was an evil bitch, so therefore Stolas cheating on her was justified, which is an awful writting decision because it removes what made Stolas interesting in Season 1. Season 1 Stolas was a man who sacraficed EVERYTHING he had just so he could satisfy his own sense of pleasure - not taking into account how it may have ended up hurting others. That was made Stolas interesting to me in the first sesaon, but then Season 2 came along and said "Oh no Stella was actually an abusive bitch so Stolas was right to cheat on her!" and then the rest of the first episode went out of it's way to remove everything Season 1 established so it can morph Stolas into a completely different character.

Stolas and Stella's conflict could have been very interesting and had many shades of grey thrown into it - but the show chose to go with the "evil women and UwU soft boy" route which is SO much less interesting than what Season 1 gave us. Obviously you can write a compelling story of an abusive victim breaking from their abuser but there are a million other stories out there that do this exact concept so much better.

Season 1 hinted at a completely different character yet Season 2 decided to change it out of nowhere, and turning Stella one-dimensional was one of the ways the season tried to turn Stolas into a "sympathetic" character when that was never going to work.

Just...what happened to Season 1 Stolas? What happened to him? Can we have him back please? Because he's a much more interesting character than whatever this is.

[weaselbeaselpants]

Lindsay Ellis plagiarized a ndn author

This post isn't a callout and it's only my own post because the OP source I just learned it from, @neechees, doesn't allow rbgs at a certain point on that post.

After Hmbomberguy's expose on Illuminaughtii and James Somerton some people are giving a well deserved eye back to the leftube sphere that was kind of schism-d and held under scrutiny in what I feel was, a lot of the time, misinformed hate campaigns in response to genuine criticism; especially towards Lindsay Ellis who up left after she was canceled and hasn't returned to continuous video making publicly even after people have mostly agreed the hatedom directed for her Raya and the Last Dragon takes was stupid and was erasing actual SEA people's discussions of the culture. To hear and see a decent breakdown of that film's representation problems BEYOND the Ellis-parts because it's worth your wild regardless of if you've seen the movie, please watch the three part video series hosted by Xiran Jay Zhao.

To tl;dr the 2021 drama: people have held an ire towards Ellis for a long time feeling like her and her white-woman base talk over, steal, or just straight up don't apologize for their own racism towards women and ppl of color, and after Lindsay did a problematic by pointing out that Raya and the Last Dragon was like ATLA, people jumped on her.

Being both a longtime fan of Ellis and white as fucc, I personally feel like Lindsay kind of forgave herself and threw out the actual criticisms held against her every bit as much as people just kind of treated her like a punching bag. Or, to paraphrase @padawan-historian's old takes from then, they treated Lindsay like she was trying to be the ENTIRE conversation, not the start of one, and like every possible outcome that could happen over her videos was her fault personally. Some of Lindsay's loudest and nastiest 'critics' were, in fact, other white people or just people who have no good faith in addressing her fuck ups, like Lily Orchard, fe.

One 'Lindsay did a racism'point tho that I felt wasn't truly addressed in full though were claims by indigenous people that she was anti-native, especially in her videos about Twilight and Pocahontas, which yeah at the time I was very passive of you can 100% find post abt that. But then Neechees linked me to an article I, and I think a lot of other video essay-fans had never seen before. This article accused Lindsay of stealing half of her talking points on Disney's Pocahontas from theirs.

When people on the breadtube spectrum talk of Lindsay, even people who criticized her at the time. all kind of agree that the intensity of the backlash was uncalled for and, while not everyone agrees if her public silence is a 'canceling' or not, agree with her need to just take care of herself these days. For those curious, this is the article making this claim:

I am not saying you need to all unfollow and hate everything Lindsay ever touched, mkay? But I also genuinely hope that Lindsay addresses this+comes clean because holy fuck. Unlike Somerton, all I can tell you is I don't just 'believe Windsey wouldn't hurt nobody uwu~'. I am pretty certain that Lindsay care about the topics she covers, for whatever that's worth to say as another whiteperson. It's just that, like Contrapoints, I ALSO think she has a tendency to deflect criticism within that sphere and lump all her negative bagage together. This really sucks cuz not all of us are Lily Orchards or Vaush clones.

Most of us are/were casual watchers of Lindsay like we are Hbomber, Contra, Lady Emily, Folding Ideas, and ToddintheShadows (does he count as leftube idk?) and we really, genuinely don't want to believe that Lindsay stole from + refuses to listen to women of color when they call her out.

Where I like almost everyone in the leftoob analyst sphere that's ever growing and hopefully now weeding out Illumanaughtii-s and Sommerton-s of the world, there ARE controversies within the space that I don't agree with creators on. Some are dumb things like the exact takes Lindsay has about movies n shows that I just up and disagree with her on, Princess Weekes' proshipping apologia that I have LOTS of thoughts on. However, some matters are clearly personal and about maters that just don't involve me. Earlier this year, Folding Ideas and Lady Emily ctrl+alt+deleted some replies they made to Quinton Reviews, making clear that they very much still dislike him based on something that happened between Quinton, Lindsay and I think SarahZ. And by "dislike", I mean also still believeing his former editor over him on who was boundary pushing about who in their relationship. On the offchance any of those creators or their stans somehow see this, know that I'm not going to tell any of you guys how to feel about whatever Quinton did in private I'm not aware of; it's just that I also happen to believe Quinton on this issue and I don't like the guiltybyassociation mantra.

>>>>side note: I hate that every time someone says "I believe so and so after hearing their side now" ppl jump on the "you were just a stan from the beginning and never actually able to listen"-bs. Yeah, being more familiar with one creator over the other means there's bias, sure, but I kinda hate that that once held bias means you can't be held as any kind of source or form your own opinions. <<<

Big introvert vibes ahead: the thing about any big social circle of better-spoken people than you is they ALL seem like a scary meangirl's table from outside looking in. The kind that'll send goons after you with passive-aggressive "this is slander against me and I have the right to be upset abt it sorry if the stans eat you alive". They can also be made out by their fans to be harmless internet nobody's who YOU are at fault for getting mad and staying mad at cuz it's not like it matters on the internet and are clearly just out for drama and 'twofaced' yourself. I think the reality is the same thing that drives every community forward as well as drives them apart: these people are legitimate friends. They stick up for each other the same way we stick up for our personal internet friends whenever there's shit coming their way. The breadtube circle, whoever that is at this point, clearly know some shit we don't about themselves as much as they don't know shit about us and our true intentions. One of them has a platform and responsibility, where the other has power in masses and following them or not. We gotta all make the choices best for us.

Anyway. I guess, if any of the stuff about Lindsay ripping off that writer IS true, I really hope that she admits and apologizes for it. That's not cool to do to her indigenous audience, or even me, one of her white fans who expects actually allyship.

[moodymisty]

Anon that talked about Fulgrim here. The same thing is happening to Yvraine. Also this a rant sorry

She's such a cool character. I'll say that I haven't read any books on her, I only watched some yt videos and read her wiki page. But from what I gathered, she's a total badass who'll do anything for her people. Then why she's just left as "Guilliman's eldar gf"? Because the people who say those sorts of things don't know how to see female characters. The elf being paired with the humans is essentially an ancient thing now and it also comes from this. But, at it's core (and in the case of Warhammer), it's fetishization.

Let's take a closer look at this: Guilliman is, obviously, the golden boy of the Imperium. He's an hard-working and logical man, in many of the main he is the main character or an incredibly important character. Of course, somebody will relate to him, they'll say: "he's just like me". Then comes Yvraine. She's from a different cultures, she looks much different and she, and her kind, are considered barbarians. She and Guilliman develop an "partnership" on a bases of a treaty but they still hate eachother. They tolerate one another for the good of their people. These people, who previously related to Guilliman, will toy with plot so Guilliman, basically them in this context, will get the xeno big titty gf and live happily ever after. They do this because they fetishize how different Yvraine is. They want the main lead to get the girl, essentially.

I've seen on Reddit (god forbid) people actually ask if this relationship is canon. They depict Yvraine as an hungry whore for the human dick. This went to the other Primarchs too. They make a list of which xeno races would be most compatible with each primach. Fir example, I've seen a lot of art showing the Khan and Lelith Hesperax together. My brother in Christ, that woman hates with all her heart pregnancy and pregnant women. I seriously think she's a lesbian (if it isn't canon already). Poor Khan is stuck in the Warp, probably wanting to go back to his sons. He'll not look at an Drukhari and say: "I'll smash that" 💀. Lelith won't fall at her knees begging for his cock, she'll already either have fought him or is fighting him.

Sexualization is completely fine. Hell, I fantasize about the Primarchs or other characters from any piece of fiction all day long. But when this fanon headcanons become canon to some people, I think we should tone it down. I laughed at the Guilliman x Yvraine jokes in the beginning, but these jokes should just stop, they're unfunny now 😕

The Yvraine x Guilliman is totally canon guys posts are always so insane to me because, they've literally spoken twice. Shortly after guilliman woke up, and before Yvraine left. And Guilliman was very firm in saying 'thanks for bringing me back, but that's it. please leave.'

Like there was no UWU THANK YOU YVRAINE~ and no OOOOO~ MON'KEIGH ~

Like i don't mind the shitposting to be clear. If people want to ship it or meme about it thats fine i don't fucking care, what's frustrating is now that it's been a few years since that event happened, people are coming into the fandom thinking that this stuff is like, actually real. And they have some political secret romance going on and Yvraine is going around getting that primarch dick on the reg. And yeah the fact that she's one of the few female characters i'm sure doesn't help matters.

I just wish the memeing wouldn't blend into people's actual interpretation of the lore, like it has with a lot of fans. Brain melting literally.

[brynnsasha191]

“just another mean and bossy man trying to tell Rhaenyra what to do”

This show is so stupid because they write these scenes with the intention of us siding with Rhaenyra or Alicent over the mean men but the exact opposite keeps happening! 😂

The reason it’s not working is because neither woman has actually done anything remotely useful or politically sound the whole season.

Even after they gave Jace’s dragonseed idea to Rhaenyra they still managed to make him look more rational by showing concern about how this will affect his legitimacy. All the whilst his mother’s basically saying “thoughts and prayers 👍🏽”. Do you have any idea how incompetent you have to make your leading lady that fans are looking at her 16 year old son and concluding he’s more suited for the job???

As for Alicent, can someone please tell me one useful thing she has done this entire season? She mopes around, takes baths, fucks Criston, then lets Rhaenyra Targaryen go even though all she needed to do was shout and the war would’ve ended right there. So when the Green Council refused to make her regent I don’t know a single person whose instant reaction was “these men are being sexist to poor Alicent”, the audience saw it for what it was: Aemond has proven to be 100x more competent than his useless mother so it makes sense why he’s Prince Regent. Doesn’t help her cause that she was so mad she didn’t get to be regent she threw a tantrum and sold her family to the enemy. Again, this is just proving the patriarchy right: women are too emotional to rule 🤷🏽‍♀️.

This is so true. They were so desperate to be feminist that they went in the exact wrong direction and proved the wrong point. Neither Rhaenyra nor Alicent can make a single decision without spending two episodes thinking and biting fingernails about it. They are in the middle of a civil war and neither of them can bring themselves to do anything about it other than crying over their friendship that has been over for two decades. It gets across the completely untrue point that women can't rule on their own. And that Rhaenyra needs Jace and Daemon to do it for her. And Alicent can't rule because if she does, she sleeps with her kings guard.

You're so right. They keep making scene that they think will make us side with them because of the patriarchy but they're both written so stupidly that the men are actually much more competent than them so we end of side with Jace, aka a man, aka the 'patriarchy'.

I think they also wanted to make us think Rhaenyra and Alicent are amazing, wise, and gentle queens (aka uwu babies) by making both of them dislike the idea of actually going to war and chasing 'peace' until the very last episode. But this did not make us see Ali and Rhae in a positive light, it just made them hella annoying. Show!Rhaenyra wants to stop war, book!Rhaenyra was running to war. Boycott this show, I'm not even joking. The sexism is actually out of control. My final straw was when they turned Alyssa Targaryen, a strong and amazing female character into a sexual object in order to portray A MAN in a certain light.

I think it's time that everyone, team black AND team green put our feet down and tell Ryan and Sara "No more". This is trash.

[flashyflashes]

Its wild how easy it is to forget how strong Nezha really is.

Like personally I struggle with imagining his personality because in the first book he is like:

"I will fucking kill you" spoiled brat who is a combat prodigy,can and will seriously injure you, egoistic somewhat racist and sexist(that scene in the 1st book when they are in a classroom and he basically said "women can't rule") person

And then later cause rin becomes so much worse than him, our perception of him becomes:

I am crying cause I had a dream you died,please dont leave me,I just want all of us to be together,neglected and truamatised son of the dragon lord,scared to call gods uwu babygirl

Like dont get me wrong it makes sense cause obviously we get more background on him and his character develops it's just It becomes so much easier to forget just how strong and scary he is.

[jakgasoul]

Serious question: is it difficult to survive without watching and supporting Smosh?

I find it very hard to believe in a middle ground (that being supporting the "good side" of Smosh and actively boycotting them) when the issue at hand is the complete annihilation and genocide of Palestinian people. It is absolutely disgusting that a company who relies on uwu friendship dynamics continues to house a man whose family has contributed to the founding of Israel. Of course, Noah is not his family, but he has made it clear where he stands. He's a piece of shit who supports the genocide of Palestine, so where do we go from there?

It makes you wonder what people consider as good. At this point, what is “good”? Is “good” continuing to watch Smosh content? Is “good” moaning on twt and Tumblr that Noah is in another video so you don't watch it, but you turn on another Smosh video anyway? Is “good” contributing to the likes and views knowing full well you are lining the pockets of people who are either in support of the death of Palestinians or choose to not speak up about it?

I don't want to make anyone feel like utter shit because Smosh means so much to so many people on here. Smosh means a lot to me, too. it's hard to let go of something that has given you endless comfort. But this should not be comfortable for you in the first place. Palestine is facing a genocide. They are being wiped out in their own country. You will live without watching a cast of mostly cis white male members do dumb shit on camera. You will live without shipping real people and writing fanfic for them. You will live without supporting a channel whose company has lost several women of color in quick succession, and two of them due to shady business practices. But Palestinians will continue dying. Smosh is an absolute beast of a YouTube channel, they have great influence over this side of the internet. Having a voice, the ability to influence millions of people, and still refusing to use it? Disgusting.

Please for the love of god, be uncomfortable for once. If you are guilty, if you feel absolutely horrible that this is happening, please use that discomfort to boycott. Hold them accountable but don't baby them. Let them go. They're all grown adults who know what they're doing.

[amypihcs]

Hello my friends! Today's Wake Watson Up day! Our dear doctor might be a bit grumpy!

Well, i'd be grumpy too if my partner woke me up at ass o'clock in a freezing morning. Holmes, i hope you kissed him good morning at the very least.

Poor Watson, cold, knocked out of bed early, no breakfast, even! Holmes, treat your darling a bit better, please!

Oh, apparently the note is from Hopkins calling them for a case! Here's why Holmes is happy and excited

AND STILL SHOULD STOP INSULTING WATSON'S WRITING. Good man Watson replying that way. Oh well, during the beeretirement WATSON will have occasion to criticize HOLMES' writing instead uwu. But back to their case, it's not a moment for bickering, now.

murder.

Uuuh! And an IMPORTANT one! And now that he warmed up with deducing the way Watson shaved with his eyes closed and being an ass to our good doctor, Holmes starts the deductions. Watson would just like to catch some sleep in the train. Can't fault him, toh.

Oh here's Hopkins! Nuu, no more care? You deny Holmes cases? No more case for Holmes? Oh! OH! Ja- No wait. Let's see anyway.

Watson...

this is right on the bistinguished path. Also ouchie, poor girl.

Abused i see. Holmes sees too but lets the topic drop. Not the time, but his spidey senses are tingling.

Holmes, muttering: don't you say Watson is stomping on his foot.

Poor girl again. She's so right. Also thanks acd for having denounced the way it was impossible or very difficult at the time for women to obtain a divorce in England.

Well, yeah, accounts of the mess follows and then a quick question to Theresa, the maid

WHOOOO has balls of steel. And tells our boys to be off. Well, to the dining room.

Poor Holmes. He wanted a nice CASE.

OOOH but he's interested! Well, for starters there's Pavarotti (thank @mostvaliantandmostpround for this) a body on the floor

Ouchie. Well, we can agree he's dead-dead.

And much better like this. An abuser. Great. Holmes' senses were right to tingle.

And Holmes isn't swallowing the burglars explanation.

weeeeird. Did they know someone?

MORE weird. Took few things. And seems UNLIKELY. And ooh? Three glasses? HALLOA!

He's INTERESTED. Very interested. Watson stop staring at him in that way, please, those are the original heart eyes™.

And a little deduction to raise the morning's morale, just to say!

But he's still Sad about the lack of interesting case for now... Poor Holmes, well, Hopkins is a nice man and knows how to do his job! Why shouldn't Holmes give him credit?

And now sorry... Watson has something to do

Like a detective to convince it's time for lunch (sent the letter around midday). He'll tell the rest of the story in another letter.

[risingshards]

Blegh okay I thought about it and after rewatching some eps and reading this again, I kinda like my rambling thoughts on acolyte ep 6 so here goes

Preface: I'm a very very VERY easy to please sw fan and I don't like ragging on shows or movies or whatever this way much these days if I can avoid it with how internet fandom is, like especially with this show with all the hatred and vitriol it's gotten from the incels.

And I've been enjoying the show a ton so far, and ep 6 wasn't bad...just. blech. I have critiques.

TLDR: I was excited for a big thriller mystery in the High Republic era told with a queer lens, and instead I feel like I'm getting a Goodreads review of a scrubbed Reylo fic listing the tropes.

spoilers and me bitching after cut lol

I'm just like why is it reylo now????????

I figured with the mentor swap we'd be heading to Osha turning to the dark side and maybe Mae to the light, but the way it's being put out there feels lacking. Osha is turning so quickly that it felt like i was reading some enemies to lovers romantasy for my book club (at least it hasn't been as awful as the colonizer romance they had me read but that is a LOW bar to clear....). Like a lot of the romantasy books I've read, it feels like setup and taking time to build meaningful connections between characters is ignored for like "oh wow he took his shirt off...he's so jacked....what was i talking about again..." I saw a video with the audio descriptions for the ep and it literally sounded like a romantasy audiobook.

And to note: if you love the enemies to lovers romantasy booktok books, like more power to ya! For me it's like when you stare at one of those magic pictures and you can't get your eyes to cross to see the picture, like "I do NOT understand what I'm supposed to see here."

Str8 enemies to lovers just kind of blech me out, where the evil one commits various atrocities that make me want to see them get what's coming to them, and then minutes later the good one is like "whoa he's hot maybe he's not so bad..."

Osha being so Jedi-like in personality only to immediately falter at a hot naked dude just feels gross. Like can't we have any other reasons for women in Star Wars to get tempted to the dark side than a shirtless man gaslighting them? Probably unsurprisingly but I REALLY did not like Reylo (I was in a very bad relationship and I kinda put the headcanon onto TLJ about it being an escape from an abuser because it came out right after I got away from that, so that going any other way did not vibe right with me) so maybe it's just residual feelings from that.

Again more power to you if this is your thing I'm not coming at anyone for enjoying it!

I think another thing that's making me uncomfortable is seeing interviews with Hedlund about Qimir about his desire for freedom against those who want him gone being relatable in a queer sense, and like I get that, I feel that. But if that's the character with the metaphorical queer experience why are we doing mega straight reylo 2 with him? And that guy brutally kills one of the queer girls and calls her it immediately after??? It doesn't help that the show started off feeling really queer, and now like 80% of the queer characters are dead and we're doing reylo 2. The "oh fuck yeah REYLOOOO" interviews I've read this week are NOT reassuring in this regard.

There's just something my pea brain doesn't get when it comes to stories with more shades of gray in series that are typically pretty black and white with morality. When a character crosses that threshold so far into villainy, I want to see them face some blow back for it, not immediately start going all "uwu they're torn and hurt aren't they?" about it. In Star Wars generally speaking I want the antagonist to BE the antagonist, not get thrown into this space between protagonist and antagonist that just has me all crossed up. I know there are plenty of redemptions in Star Wars for the villains, but I like it better when it's more mythical about the hardships of trying to save a villain's soul like Luke and Vader than "the lightsaber represents kylo's dick" reylo stuff.

I get that like the morality is probably supposed to be muddled in this show, and we're not supposed to feel good about Osha and Qimir getting closer smash cutting to Jecki's fresh corpse, but again, the execution feels messy when you have the gleeful "OH YEAH WE'RE DOING ENEMIES TO LOVERS BABY REYLO SLAYYYYYYY" interviews. Again I'm a VERY easy to please sw fan, and I've been really enjoying seeing the High Republic era in live action, seeing cortosis and wild lightsaber duels, all the expanded universe pulls, it feels really fresh in that regard. And all the performances are stellar, and having such a diverse cast is incredible.

If we had more than thirty minutes and more than 8 episodes to build to all this it'd feel a lot better. The character development feels like it's on roller coaster speed, but with Knife to Throat and other tropey scenes also seen in a bajillion enemies to lovers romance books nowadays thrown our way to fill the gaps. These scripts feel like they needed an editor to really go over the scene to scene motivations and logic and character work and dialogue, instead of mashing booktok trope buttons, which is also how I feel about most romantasy books I read...

Counterpoint to myself is that Star Wars is built on tropes and archetypes so this is like taking some tropes and archetypes of the current day's fiction and playing with them.

But idk.

Like am I really supposed to care about any of what I'm seeing or is it just gonna be booktok and fanfic tropes thrown my way now to a bunch of characters with muddled personalities and motivations clashing? We don't necessarily need someone to root for, and I'm probably being unfair to a lot of this, but after how thrilling Ep 5 felt, 6 has me wondering what the bigger picture of this show is, because it went from feeling like a fascinating if a bit messy story to one that might just be "Look here's enemies to lovers, knife to throat, corruption, oh and here's one bed!" without as much under the surface of that character and plot wise as I would have hoped.