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haapyyybuiirtesgdayyy

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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imagine being forced to do all of the courting in your relationships. now imagine having gendered expectations around doing that courting. now imagine having dysphoria that is triggered by those gendered expectations but still being put in a position where if you do not do the courting you will not have a dating life. text that trans gal first.

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birthday!

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“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever

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the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

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we at least need to give the developers credit for fixing this shit

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reblog to stir prev occasionally

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hey. heeeeyyyy. tugs on your shirt. hey. pet me. now

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reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

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let’s be real the best tumblr has EVER looked was the short span of time where you could slap code into posts and we had classics like these

tumblr has never been closer to the core aesthetic and sense of humor of its userbase 

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Hi! The "always chaotic evil" trope is often fraught with unfortunate implications because of the history of treating certain groups of people as inherently bad, and what happens when society acts on the belief that some people are born bad because of their race.

However, do you think the trope could actually work with the right writing? In the anime "Frieren", demons are a humanoid monster race that are good at mimicking human emotions which they use to manipulate, yet don't really feel them which makes them incompatible with human morality.

One demon was obsessed with understanding humanity and befriended a human village, acting as its protector for some centuries, then turned all the inhabitants into gold just to check if he would feel anything, but didn't to his great disappointment.

In this setting the concept of an inherent "evil" race is used to explore tragedy by having some demons have enough free will to desire human connection, but too alien to have it, rather than just being there for the heroes to kill without remorse.

Speaking personally as both a consumer and writer of stories, no, I don't think the Always Chaotic Evil trope can ever be done well - at least, not by my subjective standards of what makes a good story. There is not a single story I've seen that employs it that I don't think would be better by being more nuanced. Even ones that are meant to be simple so children can understand them - in fact, especially the ones that are meant to be simple so children can understand them.

If we get out of my personal subjective opinion, one could argue that Always Chaotic Evil works very well as a trope, in that there are SO many stories that employ it which resonated with audiences and are fondly remembered. I would personally argue that at best those stories resonate in spite of using it, and at worst they resonant with audiences for all the reasons I would NOT want a story to resonant with them, i.e. by appealing to the most selfish and cruel parts of human nature, but that is just my opinion.

I have no interest in rehabilitating/fixing the Always Chaotic Evil trope. I would much prefer to take it behind the woodshed, blow its brains out, throw its corpse in a deep pit, and fill that pit with concrete so no one can find the body.

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Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

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im reading about cowboy phrases and sayings and like 95% of them are just solid life advice

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New Minecraft trailer

WHAT?!?!

!?!!?!!?

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