#already on some buLLSHIT

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[crimson-constellations]

atla modern au where suki & zuko are life guards for the summer and sokka just keeps drowning

#i have the feeling sm already though of this bfr but i just had this idea & i LOVEIT #atla #zuko #sokka #suki #zukki #sukka #zukka #zuki #sm PLS write that im begging and crying #i just love the idea of these 3 being so fucking stupid #sokka faking the hell out of it and zuko is almost tired of his bullshit #keyword almost #sukis just having fun with all this #at some point theyll start taking turns to save him

[lelelego]

hook, line, and sinker

(tav/astarion)

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tav #tav x astarion #astarion x tav #oc: casrius #doodly thingy #bg3 tag #i think a lot about astarion manipulating tav into a relationship in act 1 :^) the way he thinks that's the only way he'll be 'safe'. augh #and tbh it's. pretty true for casrius. because initially he only teams up with everyone cuz he thinks they're useful and that's it. #he was already on his way to ditch astarion because of how they met (iykyk) #casrius knows astarion is up to some bullshit but falls for it anyway because he is not immune to twink ass #he tells himself again and again it's JUST physical and then oops! all berries

[egophiliac]

(it probably wasn't actually Idia's fault)

(or was it)

some quick initial reactions to celebrate Diasomnia Day One! it felt like a bit of a short intro, but oh, what a tasting menu of things to come.

#art #long post #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #it's been thirty seconds and already #lilia is sending himself to a farm upstate where he'll have lots of rabbits to chase #malleus does a whole flashback to his most embarrassing childhood memory #ponytail lilia CONFIRMED we have a CONFIRMED SIGHTING everybody #idia does a surprisingly good crowley impression. this is not important to the plot but it's important to me personally. #also silver is probably a cursed prince or something WHO CARES look at these COOL ACORNS #the mental image of silver and lilia having that little heart-to-heart about the ring #while sebek is five feet away sorting laundry #absolutely incredible #meanwhile yuu continues to just have no survival instinct whatsoever #if a horned man approaches you at midnight and goes 'wouldn't it be nice if we never had to say goodbye to anyone ever?' DO NOT SAY YES #also if he starts bragging to you about his sorcerer ancestress DO NOT be like 'yeah but...did she maybe kind of suck' #'was she just super unlikeable personally speaking' #we are so lucky that for some reason malleus is really into all of our weird bullshit #okay shutting up now i promise #i just have so much to say and so few tags to do it in

[booksandmore]

“deku should have been a villain” did u watch the show. the show about being the greatest hero. the show about the protagonist breaking every bone in his body to save people and become a hero. the show about the kid working himself to the bone and risking his life to save his friends, innocent people, villains and people who would rather he die rather than be allowed to rest. did you wantch the show? the show that we’re talking about? the show about being a hero and saving lives? the show called my hero academia? that show? did u watch that show? is that the show u watched?

#if u want some dark ass morally grey bullshit watch smthing else?? #i think deku would literally rather die and that is a threat #have u seen what this kid is willing to just to save someone? he will self destruct if he has to. HE ALREADY HAS #midoriya izuku #deku #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #bnha #mha #GET BEHIND ME DEKU I’LL DEFEND UR MORAL PHILOSOPHY #givibg me aan g flashbacks bsuajkakakala STOPP #its giving batman should have killed the joker like what part?? of a charchters narrative purpose?? is so hard to understand??? #i am sooo sensitive to this bullshit i am too sensitive to this bullshit i cant hold it in anymore #my boy deku is soo fucked up rn and u want him to get even more fucked up. why.

[spooksicl-e]

“a proper, manly embrace.”

edit:

#sherlock hlv shooting script i hate you #‘a proper manly embrace’ moftiss i am outside of your houses and i am angry. #like the tarmac scene was already unbearable #and then i find out they were supposed to HUG #and THEN they follow the hug with some bullshit clarification like THAT #anyway i’ve been angry about it for a solid month now and decided they should hug #so this is them #hugging #yeah #my art #no @ because i’m lazy #so just please don’t use or steal lol #sherlock #sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #benedict cumberbatch #john watson #martin freeman #fanart #fanartist #johnlock #could also be gen obviously #point is they should hug whatever the relationship status is

[mistergreatbones]

“Stalker Tim” this, “conspiracy theorist Bernard” that. Why don’t I ever see them working together?

#Tim’s stuck on a case so Bernard spews some bullshit and Tim’s like ‘babe that made no sense but did remind me of something useful’ #leo says shit #timber #timbern #tim drake #bernard dowd #Bernard: i think Elon musk is an android but i don’t have any hard evidence #tim: *already planning a B&E*don’t worry bear I’ll get it for you

[featherlouise]

Girlypop with weirdly angled horns

#i'd already drawn her hair and was in a cba mood shxhxjxk #my art #hollow knight #hollow knight gijinka #we're back on the HK bullshit boys #got some stuff I'm cooking up hold on to ur hats #hk hornet #silksong #gijinka #hk fanart

[doodleodds]

Me? Uploading a Halloween comic on November 18th, almost four whole-ass weeks late???? Yeah that’s uh. yup. yeah

Thanks for reading! :) <3

#persona 5 #p5 #akira kurusu #OUGH OH MY GOD ITS FINALLY. DONE. I AM LOSING MY MIND #if you've been following me for long enough: yes! this IS in fact the comic i mentioned that i was making last year. #Fun fact! This is also! The Third Draft of said comic!!! i have redrawn this thing THREE FUCKING TIMES #as a result you may notice that i uh. a) gave up on coloring this thing. no way in HELL am i coloring 30 pages. im not...strong enough #you will settle for simply having monochrome colored panels and you will LIKE IT!!!!! >:OOOOO #and b) gave up on backgrounds! yeah fuck that lmao. i am never drawing people in the monabus again and mementos can kiss my ass!!!!! #i just want to draw my silly little characters & not their environments #and you may also say: sophia. by halloween they are already in Sae's palace. why isn't goro with them and where's haru? #and to that i say shhhh suspend your disbelief. akechi is in mementos carving pumpkins to avoid trick or treaters. #and also haru isn't there because i cannot draw 6+ people in a cramped space yet!!! my art skills are Just Not There Quite Yet :( #so she's staying home and handing out fullsized candy bars to kids. that's where she is while this is all going down #'does akira know it's akechi down there?' :) that's up to you! but i WILL say that I was thinking about Akeshu when i wrote this so. :)))) #ANYWAY if you read this far in the tags im so sorry lmao. thanks for sticking around! Hope you had a happy halloween :) #hopefully i won't disappear for long this time. idk im just gonna start uploading other bullshit art in the interim between comics i guess #probably some fire emblem shit. we'll see. we'll see. anyway bye!! till next time!

[antianakin]

If anyone is interested in an animated Star Wars show that knows who the bad guys are and WON'T sit there berating the Jedi and blaming them for their own genocide, PLEASE go watch Visions!

I just finished rewatching season one and literally every episode has something so wonderful about it! They ALL really love the Jedi and emphasize how kind and selfless and compassionate and brave the Jedi are, how heroic the Jedi are, how those who choose to become Jedi are called to it by a desire to HELP people even in the face of terrible odds. There is probably no show as pro Jedi as Visions is, the commitment is incredibly minimal since every episode is a new short story that's less than 20 minutes long and none of them are required to be within the greater continuity of Star Wars.

If you have an appreciation for short films, for animation, for good writing, and for the Jedi, I cannot recommend Visions enough!

#star wars #star wars visions #jedi #pro jedi #anti tote #don't watch the dumb bullshit that is felony's shitty work #just go watch visions instead #if you've seen it already then watch it again #it'll reignite the passion you have for star wars if you're starting to feel like star wars is going down a pit right now #star wars has the potential for some really beautiful and meaningful stories #it truly does! #and visions proves it!

[mieczyhale]

LET'S GO, CROWS

#trying to avoid spiraling about my own bullshit #so HERE'S SOME OTHER BULLSHIT #the petty cancelation is the bullshit part #the petition is good and important #so please sign if you haven't #even if you don't watch it please sign #netflix canceled it bc they were big mad. the show was one of their most popular #if you've already signed PLEASE REBLOG #ANNOY ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY #shadow and bone #six of crows #fuck netflix #six of crows spinoff #mygvposts

[void-bitten-ghost]

Okay but what if I believed in 'Angel-hasn't-actually-come-in-years' supremacy?? Huh???? What then???

I'll tell you what then. It means when he admits that to Husk, the cat makes a bet with Angel that he can change that

#huskerdust #angelhusk #angel dust #look okay he's a really REALLY good actor #its just second nature #but. as we know. husk sees right through that kinda bullshit #and it's not an easy task okay. between the drugs the desensitisation and the dissociation Husky boy's got some work to do #and i believe he'd be more than happy to do it #if this or anything like this already exists as a fic P L E A S E send it my way I Beg

[soullessjack]

this isnt rlly a serious post more so than a thought I need to verbalize but like. there’s an INSANE difference between the fandom being like “hey what if jack was actually his age and got to be a little normal” vs y’all treating a grown ass man like he has to cover his ears when someone swears or sleep with a nightlight on because he’s afraid of the dark, and throwing the P word around to anyone who thinks he’s attractive. one of these things is not like the other.

#there’s a layer here about giving jack the childhood he specifically chose not to have #and ignoring his other choices because that’s just. idk a running theme with any character who struggles to have autonomy #but whatever idk #genuinely i think the past year or so that I’ve spent talking about this has burnt me out #either that or I’m just too fixated on VB to really care too much #like obviously I still care about it and wish more was done to help but it’s not really a warpath for me to walk currently #just. #I’m just tired dawg #it’s like talking to a deaf brick wall #please just do some research into infantilization I cannot keep having a one sided conversation with people who don’t care #spn #jack kline #baby jack #spn fandom #fandom critical #fandom ableism #tfw2.0 #not even just ableism it’s the whole mischaracterization woobified bullshit all over again #and the using baby jack as a prop for everyone else but I digress #jack: *chose not to be a child and hates being seen as one and is more than willing to get violent if he thinks he has to* #y’all for some fucking reason: he’s just a widdle baby he can’t handle the scary movie he needs his daddies to take care of him #I’ve already said all these things before #i am tired. so tired

[ohayopoko]

plssss tell me match is still ongoing i loooved that story girl😫

#So yk Eren already about to be on some bullshit LMFAO #girl TRUST match isn’t over #Match 7 #Ohayopoko #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #eren jaeger #eren yeager #eren x black reader #erenxblackfem #eren x reader #eren jaeger x black reader #eren yeager x black reader #eren x black girl #eren jaeger x black girl

[blubujollyrancher]

that relatable moment when you assumed the girl you used to care for perished in a tragic lab ablaze incident and only realized she still lived when you stumble upon her years later after you've erased yourself from everyone's memories and now she no longer remembers you

#collei #scaramouche #wanderer #genshin impact #art #ougggggh. oughghhhhhh #okay so my throught process here was that they met when collei was still in the lab #and overtime he begrudgingly came to care for her despite his inner matra of “dont get attached dont get attached” #(he got attached) #and when the lab went vwoosh he assumed she died along with everyone else #and it made him even WORSE #so when he erases himself from irminsul he assumes everyone he once cared for and cared for him are dead or gone #and sometime after he becomes wanderer nahida sends him to ghandharva ville for some bullshit idk #secretly she knew collei was still alive but was like. how do i tell him this. okay ill just let him find out #so he arrives and the first person to greet him is this little girl with the same eyes and hair and scars of the girl he used to care for #and while hes already REELING shes just goes #“hi! im trainee forest ranger collei! master tighnari sent me to collect you. follow me please!!” #and hes just standing there bc. its her #and she doesnt remember him #SCREAMING CRYING IM MAKING MYSELF SAD

[fujii-draws]

drawing a comic in which Dusknoir is having the worst time of his fucking life

#ALTHOUGH. THE COMIC HAS ALREADY EXCEEDED LIKE. 10 PANELS. #SO I GOTTA SPLIT THEM. MAYBE 3 PART COMIC??? #WHO KNOWS >:] #(I’m ngl though some panels may come off as me going ‘he had no choice’ but. I’m aware of the canon. He did.) #(and that he was a coward in more ways than 1) (unable to defy dialga and delaying his mission) #(I will forever be on my sympathetic Dusknoir agenda/bullshit. do not test me.) #BUT YEAH >:333 I’m having fun #(also an explanation as to why I haven’t posted in the last week HELP)