#can you guess what the arguments are

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

#feminism #dysphoria tw #your body doesn't need to have an Intrinsic Worthwhile Purpose so that you can live without fear #and it is fine if people say this to criticize the way breasts are overly sexualized and fetishized or what have you... #...but i encourage people to not see this as an end-all-be-all argument #because this opens discussions about how we politicize bodies and how we interpret them #i see overlap between this and the way trans bodies are politicized and policed honestly #and i guess personally i'm just so tired of the idea that to be safe your body Must Have A Good Reason To Be #and i fear this may reinforce the idea that we Must Serve Purposes and Be Useful and Used #ask to tag (genuine) #and what would this say for childless people? or people who cannot bear children? if they have breasts are they 'useless bodies' #because i have seen the ways some people's bodies are treated when they do not 'work PROPERLY' and that scares me #it scares me to potentially start treating people with different bodies as Defective and Unworthy and Unproductive #and i don't always trust when people latch onto purpose-driven arguments for human bodies that it stops at that y'know #have seen some discussion amd whatnot so 👍 #is it now time to clock put and be a silly goose yet?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jiang fengmian #yu ziyuan #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #Almost axed this comic but then I remembered I cut the previous argument between them and I guess they can have this. #and by 'this' I mean their toxic arranged marriage verbal battles. #As I previously mentioned in a comic I have chosen to see them as mlm and wlw in an unfulfilled relationship. #The yearning is for companionship. I think they do care for each other it's just something deeply complicated. And bitter. #I truly feel for JC and WWX in this scene because while it's implied YZY really pushes the limit...it's apparent this isn't new. #And it's so petty! Anyone who lived through a parent pitting you against a sibling can tell you that this stuff messed them up #regardless of what side you were on (the golden one or the fuck up). #It doesn't matter what is said. It matters that it was said at all. That you can't shake the concept once it was spoken. #The Jiang household is so much more miserable the deeper you examine what's going on and how they cope with it. #Knowing that a parent does not like you is just awful. I wish everyone who's been through it all the best. You didn't deserve that. #Next update is back to the jokes! Remember jokes? It jingled merrily...How I miss the sound of those bells...

[frankiebirds]

this scene makes me need to lay down. goddddd.

sometimes i get the sense that reid is more attached to gideon than gideon is to reid. obviously they both serve as surrogates for the family member each is estranged from (gideon is estranged from his son and reid is estranged from his dad) but.

you know. reid clings to gideon, not physically but emotionally, and i think a lot of his wellbeing at the start of the series relies on gideon's presence. gideon almost certainly knows the most about reid out of anyone on the team—i don't think canon ever says that reid has told gideon about diana, but i would imagine he has—and i think reid feels understood by him in a way he doesn't by other people, even compared to the rest of the team who (mostly) try their best. i think he also tends to try to be as good and deserving as possible of gideon's presence, since he definitely at least partially feels like his father left because he wasn't good enough.

on the flipside, while gideon definitely sees reid as a son, he's...not the best dad. i think we see him repeating a lot of the mistakes that drove a wedge between him and stephen with reid, and i think that had mandy patinkin stayed on, we would have gotten a larger parallel there. he holds him at arms length, trying not to get too close, although he definitely cares about him more than he lets on and the mask slips sometimes, like this moment and on the plane after ldsk.

#not fic #criminal minds #criminal minds rewatch #criminal minds s01e12 #what fresh hell #spencer reid #jason gideon #spencer reid & jason gideon #character analysis #scene analysis #i guess #theres a darker argument that gideon lets himself show these moments of affection to keep reid attached to him #and i can see that and on some level i agree but i dont think its intentional #while reid tries to make himself good enough for gideon to stick around #gideon naturally tends towards distance and being quite aloof but #knowing that that's part of what drove stephen away #he lets these small moments happen in hopes that reid will stick around in the hope of more #they are mirrors #do you see the vision #fucked up old man who needs therapy + fucked up young man who needs therapy = ideal father/son relationship #a decent amount of this is extrapolation and personal feelings abt the characters #hopefully its not too out there #gideon & reid #favourites

[girlwiththegreenhat]

Why the fuck are people on Twitter upset about nonbinary robots. Transformers are aliens, why would they follow another species gender binary based on reproduction when they don't even reproduce sexually. If anything, ALL the robots should use they/them.

#liz blogs #transformers #i need to finish earthspark #conservatives won't survive when aliens come to earth #imagine going to another planet and trying to translate pronouns #but either theres more than two or theyre not based on reproduction #how do you figure out if youre a glerp or a blongo or a dee when you dont even have a yundle #and guess what else. if the robots all have one gender. and they use different Earth Pronouns #that dont line up with - in conservative terms - the pronouns they Should have #guess what. all the robots are trans now. #this is probably fucking incoherent i just woke up but man i hate when people think the universe revolves around humans #smash the gender binary to pieces #i write this from an angle to shit on their stupid argument i know nonbinary people can use gendered pronouns as well #the point is its hard to translate. frankly we also deserve big macho bots picking she her because it sounds nice #and little femmebots picking he him because it sounds cool and they want to seem Tough in earth terms #hasbro hire me i love robots and I'll write a transformers show so good it'll make conservatives literally explode

[compacflt]

Okay maybe I totally missed it in the story, but I’ve gotta ask: how did Jake find out about Ice and Mav?? I know there was a line about “figuring out who Bradley’s dads were” in Debriefing, and it seems like Jake definitely knows by the carrier for the mission, given how he reacts when Bradley says he’s gay and that they “hate him for not being able to hide it like them”, but when was the discussion about exactly what Ice and Mav are to each other? At what point did Bradley tell him, and how long did Jake spend staring at a wall and saying “huh” in a dazed sort of way???

i admit i made it confusing on purpose and i admit there isn’t much of jakes reaction but yes

it’s the third “he was my dad.” specifically about ice. whereas the other two are about goose & mav. because, you know, there are three of them. dads, that is. ice just happens to be the third

Jake canonically doesn’t know what’s up with the holy dad trinity because he doesn’t even react to seeing goose btwn ice (fucking cdr of the pacflt) and mav (his fucking CO) in that old top gun photo —only cares about goose. clueless-ass mf. and the homosexual little “what is with these two!” during the first practice dogfight.

but i bet there were clues. a lot of little things that eventually came together.

a.) scrolling through the navy times on his laptop in bed cause he’s bored one night, tilting it over so bradley can see the screen and read the headline, ‘RADM tom Kazansky named pacific fleet commander,’ just randomly asking “whaddaya make of this guy?” and next to him bradley freezes and almost refuses to speak and then snipishly says, “he’s gay.” / “what?” what a wild thing to say! / “i just know it. he’s gay. look at him. hiding it like that.” / “what a weird fucking thing to say about a guy you’ve never met, bradshaw!” / and bradley going all silent and sullen the way he does sometimes and saying “well i don’t think anything of him. whatever.” / and then both of them put it from their minds and never talk about it again.

B.) all the quiet little dad-related breakdowns over the years. Father’s Day is never happy when bradley’s around. jake made the mistake of asking him why, once. he said something to the effect of “well with three of them you’d think id be statistically likely to get a dad who wasn’t unbelievably fucked-up or dead but nope! it’s three times as bad as usual!” and refused to elaborate. bradley is often annoying this way.

c.) the fact that capt mitchell, maverick, who looks like a gracefully-aging movie star, is by all accounts nice and charming and mostly-ish respected, and yet apparently chronically single, a confirmed bachelor for as long as most officers can remember. hondo knows something, clearly, but he’s being very cagey about it, apparently out of loyalty to maverick. even on day ONE of the special training detachment at Top Gun, there are rumors. Some more mean-spirited than others (looking at you, harvard) which Jake tries to shut down, because he remembers being on the receiving end of mean-spirited rumors like that, and rumors about a guy like maverick probably aren’t true. ‘I’ve heard about him. Whispers. Watch him the next time we hit the Hard Deck. He’ll flirt with Penny the bartender, and she’ll flirt back, but he sure as hell won’t take her home. You know what I mean.’ Yeah right. dangerous to make comments about a man like maverick. jake keeps his mouth shut.

d.) but then there’s the way bradley acts around him. They’ve met before and they know each other and there is not only bad blood between them, it’s blood that’s been simmering for a while and just now boiling over. Three dads. the maverick-related rumors. hmm…

e.) that picture of goose and mav and ice. OKAY. Now we’re getting somewhere. Bradley’s dad… LTJG nick bradshaw… FLEW with maverick. Looks up the obituary online and reads the news reports he can find in the archives. Maverick was behind the stick when goose ate it. Okay. Two out of three dads found and accounted for. (Because they’re broken up, and because jakes still heartbroken, this fact will be used as ammunition. “Or that maverick was flying when his—“ “YOU SON OF A BITCH!” et cetera et cetera.)

f.) on the flight deck shaking hands with the commanding officer of every commanding officer jake has ever dad—admiral tom kazansky, come to wish the aviators good luck, and to sanction their attack. this is, like, a big deal. like a really big deal. like, makes you wanna stop and ask him for a selfie to post on your LinkedIn to advance your career kind of big deal. but out of the corner of his eye… jake’s noticing Bradley on the verge of a dad-related breakdown. bradley doesn’t seem to care how much of a big deal it is to have the privilege to shake the hand of the commander of the pacific fleet. isn’t even looking. something big and hateful between them. something like bad blood. oh oh oh. wait. It’s coming together.

g.) poking fun at him. psyching him out. what’s a little pre-suicide-mission hazing between exes? what is with you, bradshaw? you’re, like, freaking out over here..! —and Bradley, looking for someone—anyone!—to trust, tugging him into his cabin on the aircraft carrier and bursting into tears and crashing down onto the linoleum into jake’s arms and saying “he was my dad…!”

h.) bingo.

#time to go be a conscientious boyfriend! #reactions can wait till later! #and oh boy there will be some reactions. YOU NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME YOUR DAD WAS THE COMMANDER OF TJE PACIFIC FLEET #YOU NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME YOUR DAD WAS A TOP GUN INSTRUCTOR??????? #OH MY GOD the CDR OF THE PACFLT IS GAY WHAT???? #there are a loooot of fights and arguments and makeup sex post mission before they get good again #& then jakes like yeah ill marry this guy i guess #a good strategy to marry into a wildly successful family #jake hangman seresin #bradley rooster bradshaw #hangster #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun maverick #asks #once again an apology that my fics are 99% icecentric #i just think he’s neat #moving into my dorm tmr so might be MIA for a minute

[maddy-ferguson]

it kind of sends me that even though they've been the main enemy on tumblr for like 10 years now people on here seem to have no idea what terfs actually believe????

#and like i say: brf slt #the other day i reblogged a post and someone in the tags said something like you guys think anything feminist is terf ideology when terfs' #beliefs are very specific and rely on like beauty standards and stuff. and i'm sorry but that's literally the opposite of what terfs as in #radical feminists who are ''''gender critical'''' think? people call ANYONE who's transphobic a terf i think that's why people don't #actually know what they think lmao #like the beauty standards thing? you're thinking of conservatives? and transvestigators i guess lmao #radfem or terf ideology: anyone can dress/act however they want if you're amab (male) you're a man if you're afab (female) you're a woman #and you can't identify out of that thinking that you're not a woman because you're not stereotypically feminine #(i'm not saying that's how trans men/afab nonbinary people know they're not women i'm repeating their arguments) #or that you're a woman because you're feminine is regressive and akin to 50s gender roles #gender: sexist stereotypes that everyone should ignore that should be abolished sex is an immutable biological reality #conservative transphobes are like: sex is an immutable biological reality and if you're a female and not feminine you're not a good woman #if you're a male and not masculine you're not worthy of being called a man. and you're probably gay and that's bad. gender comformity is #a must gender roles 4eva #like what they have in common is transphobia at the end of the day obviously but it's a different way of getting there lmao and i don't #think its productive to act like theyre the same? like know thy enemy idk do you want people to be able to identify 'terf rethoric' or not😭 #terf rhetoric in quotes because people call anything terf rhetoric!!!!! and i don't think that's productive at all it's actually very #antifeminist and annoying as hell lmao #calling every feminist argument terf rhetoric is very alienating to anyone who cares about women......calling every transphobe a terf is #just kinda stupid? people call far-right politicians terfs like be serious they despise cis women too😭 #also if you argue with a terf (radfem) and say like why do you think women have to wear makeup or they're not real women!!! they're gonna #be like i literally don't believe that. round one and already tapped #anyway

[bookwyrminspiration]

this is a fitz loving blog btw. 100%. you can have your own opinions about him but this space is one supportive of his rights and wrongs. you will not find a face friendly to your bashing here. leave in peace or leave in shame I don't care which, stay in respectful silence if you like. just know I will not apologize for and don't need to justify to you the complete adoration I hold for fitzroy avery vacker <3

#kotlc #fitz vacker defense squad #thinking about some of the responses to the stellarlune survey... #you can have your opinions I just think you're wrong #yeah it's subjective but i don't care #you're allowed to have your own opinions but guess what! that also means I'm allowed mine! #i haven't heard a new argument against him in years so I've pretty much stopped listening #even with new canon it's the same critiques and like. we've been over this before I don't care #you can hate him. you're allowed that #but i'm also allowed to love him. and I will. and I do. #fitz <3

[derpinette]

i hated airpods & phones with those big fugly cameras in the back when they were announced as a concept & i hate them even more each time i see that hideousness in person

#i remember when i was 11 ( sorry for being a zoomer ) getting into an argument with an online acquaintance #over airpods because i thought they were retarded but she thought they were cool as if bluetooth ear pieces were a new invention #remember how the world used to make fun of them not even that many years prior. she was like nooobut you can hide them for cheating #& against thievery ( OK the only fair point I GUESS ) but they are just so ugly to me & stupid not practical too easily lost & damaged #especially with that pricetag like they could have made something COOL or Kawaii but of course sleek Nothing design is “in” #still after a decade now ♯MAKEITSTOP #honestly only like bluetooth for file sharing when necessary anything else is devilwork #as for the new giant multiple cameras design i mean use your eyes has there ever been an uglier decision #even if i had money i could never own a touch screen phone without a middle button & a normal camera lense in the back #like just looking at them makes me angry BUT mostly apple products i think android ones are less hives inducing #but TBH i have no headphone jack so... on my old broken phone i did but not this one -_- where are my principles...... #well i will wear this one down until it dies i already have a cracked arse screen so until it breaks i will downgrade #also remember how cute silicone phone cases were in the early to mid 2010s ♯BringThatBack #honestly can you even i think phones today are just too damn big Not mine Doe 🦌 mine is almost perfectly sized for my hands (iphone7) #at least people have more charms than ever in my city at least i see people with cute lanyards & zoomer style JesusBeaters so great ^_^ #sorry for complaining all the time but also if you are not here for my Kvetching then what else could you be here for... #*jumps into a well from shame*

[mynonsenseistingling]

One of the things in life that drive me nuts is seeing some gormless fuck using an angle grinder without the guard on it. Cutting discs can and will explode. That's not to say there aren't other ways that can wreck your life without a guard.

I know I'm preaching to the wrong audience here, but if you ever see someone use one of these

Without one of these on them

Please tell them that I think they are a Stupid Fucking Idiot!

I mean do it from a safe distance because they are, after all, a stupid fucking idiot willing to get eviscerated by shards traveling at over 200mph.

#can you guess what argument I had with someone today #to be fair I didn't call him a stupid fucking idiot #I used louder more expressive terms

[ghirasdagger]

zeldatwt is a cesspool of calling any completely fictional ship predatory the second they don’t like it, like sure if you hc two characters a certain way and the ship clashes with that, that’s fine but your hc is not the be all end all of how those characters are

#you’ll never guess what ship this is about #take a wild guess #it’s ghiralink ofc #fuck twitter man #ofc he’s gonna be more mature personality wise bc he’s an ageless sword spirit that’s existed for a long time #it literally says in hyrule historia that ghirahim is meant to be around Link’s age #the argument about him being the leader of demise’s army is stupid too bc okay then why is the LITERAL GODDESS REBORN a 17-18 year old then #can you tell i was frustrated i had like 8 spelling mistakes

[doodle17]

I didn't know that someone saying "Grim Grinning Ghosts" and The Tiki Room aren't some of the best Disney songs ever" would unlock such a primal rage I never felt before. I was READY to throw a desk at my teacher

No body slanders the Tiki Room in this house....

#Oh! But guess what! #THEY NEVER EVEN BEEN TO THE TIKI ROOM FOR FUCKS SAKE #YOU HAVE N O PLACE TO SAY WHETEHR ITS GOOD ENOUGH IF YOUVE NEVER EVEN B E E N TO IT #I'm of the firm belief ypu can't even call yourself a Disney music fan if you havent at least gone to the tiki room once #This argument DOES NOT CONCERN YOU ANYMORE ALL YOURE OPINIONS ARE INVALID NOW GO TO CALIFORNIA AND REPENT #I'm very passionate can you tell #doodles rants #Walt Disney #Disney

[autisticlancemcclain]

I love you Jackie but Applebee's? Applebee's of all places? One or both of those teenage boys are getting food poisoning.

okay confession i have never been to applebee’s bc there are like 2 in canada and i’m not seeking them out. i imagine they’re like the america equivalent to kelsey’s, in which case i KNOW that’s the important part. they are YOUNG KIDS with NO MONEY who care more about the GESTURE than the ACTUAL VENUE. it’s not about the applebee’s or about how shitty it is. it’s about them being quietly and newly in love and learning how to navigate that relationship in the spaces they have available to them

#AND GUESS WHAT ONE OF THOSE SPACES IS. #THE SHITTY APPLEBEES WHERE THEY CAN USE SHIROS EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT. #i had this argument the first time i posted in this universe too 😭😭 #it’s not about the location it’s about the type #it’s about a first date at a sit down restaurant because that’s what you’ve heard happens on a first date. #even if that doesn’t make a ton of sense #bc you don’t need to get to know each other. #it’s about how keith is determined to show lance that he wants to change theyre relationship concretely and doing it the best way he knows #how. #it’s about lance showing his understanding by agreeing and showing up and changing the relationship too. #it’s about clumsy love when you’re young and you’re still learning it. #GOD isn’t it ENDEARING to you people!!!!! #klance #applebees universe #oh god that’s going to make me cry again. #the fucking applebees universe. the learning universe #actively crying rn #ask #my writing

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

oohhh royal knight in training subaru and prince hokke oohhghh

#they have been in my mind can you guess #but like listen #mr akehoshi died in a war led by seiya(king) 10 years ago and now subaru is following the steps of his father #so seiya has a soft spot for him although subaru hates the monarchy for that and onlydoes that bc its the best high income job he can do to #support his mother #also hokke just despises his monarchy duties and one day he is going out of the castle by himself and subaru is like what is this idiot doin #and subaru is like 'Hey you dumbass! where are you going on your own?' and hokke is like 'dont you know who i am? learn some manners before #speaking to me!!' and subaru is like 'of course i know who you are! you are stealing my horse where the hell are you going you clown of a #prince!!!!!! #and hokke ignores him but he actually doesnt know what he is doing so subaru just runs behind him #and after a while hokke gives up and explains that he doesn't want to be a prince so he decided to escape and subaru is like ?? this guy?? #and concludes it must be a rebellious phase because he was borned with a silver spoon and just wants to create problems for himself #so he tells him that the life outside the palace is horrible and hokke should appreaciate his life more. everyone would want to be the princ #hokke thinks for a moment and concludes that no. subaru is wrong. and subaru is starting to get annoyed so he sends hokke to the palace #(but in their argument he acutally stole some jewelry of hokke so he sells those to help shinonon the poor guy selling milk and newspaper #and the next day hokke goes to him like 'you stole from me give them back' and subaru is like 'i thought you wouldnt notice. you dont need #them anyway' #and they start arguing again. #chiaki (subaru's knight trainer) sees them and later says to subaru that they seem close #and subaru is like 'no we dont!! he is a selfish jerk who only thinks of himself!' and chiaki thinks he is the only person subaru has gotten #close to #bc hokke doesn't like interacting with guards or maids or anything that has to do with the castle either #so chiaki is like me thinks #so they keep doing sbhk shenanigans and they mutually warm up to each other #at one point hokke brings jewels to subaru personally so he can sell them in the city and sometimes subaru bri #subaru brings hokke to the city in some of their getaways. normal citicens dont know he is the prince just some noble bc of his clothes and #good manners. which subaru doesnt have. #at some point hokke is impressed by subaru's knowledge and he confesses that his father used to steal books from the royal library and then #thought him and his mother and it makes hokke think that they are quite similar #mr hidaka seiya is pretty glad hokke is getting along with subaru since he appreciated mr akehoshi a lot

[thisultraviolet]

Respectfully I’ve already seen y’all try to claim Hits Different and Maroon and I need you to be SO serious rn

#Joe Alwyn is not an argumentative antithetical dreamgirl and she did not sing Maroon on his birthday #I obviously do NOT fuck with K anymore since her views on Palestein came to light but come ON #my post #you can accuse me of projecting but guess what y’all are also doing rn agdjga #gaylor

[merrymorningofmay]

saw a XXk notes post about how hard it is for people in peaceful countries to keep up with their daily life while there's genocide happening elsewhere and got unsurprisingly salty because wow, poor you, now imagine how it is to do dishes/go to school/work while there's genocide happening in YOUR country to YOUR relatives, friends, coworkers etc as opposed to Some Guys on The Internet

then thought "no, i'm being uncharitable, op probably didn't expect their post to go beyond their bubble which likely doesn't include any palestinians, armenians, ukrainians etc, otherwise they wouldn't have made this tone deaf post"

then realised that it would actually be really sad if that's the case because if you care about another group's suffering why wouldn't it result in your including people from said group in your media/info bubble, why wouldn't you make their voices present in your life and ensure your perspective reflects that

#i mean i can guess why. i'm just pretending i'm asking gentle well-meaning questions and not old-man-yells-at-cloud-ing #i also feel funny whenever they do the 'biden evil!' 'he made the temp ceasefire happen' 'well that doesn't count!' bit #like. did the gazans tell you it didn't help them or is it just not good enough *for you* who has no real stake in this #i won't pretend i know though. it might well be the former! but that's not what people talk about when they make that argument #mari rambles

[code-dy]

Not fandom-specific but I find it absolutely bonkers whenever I read an AU where two (either college or just graduated) people move in together and they have their own rooms. Like?? How can you afford it?? Where are you renting?? How the hell?? I have a full time job with relatively high pay and I still room with my sister in a studio because it keeps our living expenses down! How do you have a 2 bedroom apartment with a full kitchen and living room WHILE BROKE? What do you mean each room has their own ensuite bathroom??

#seriously tho #give me the number of your landlord i wanna move in #i guess thats why it’s called fiction? #On the other hand you’re missing out on broke studio apartment shenanigans #//my sister and i argues about how long we can keep the extra cooler on. she backs her arguments with a spreadsheet calculation while #i base mine on /yeah but it’s hot sooo/ #my sister: do you think i should buy this gaming chair? #me: and where will you put it? on the nonexistent space under your bed??? #my sister: why did you buy more clothes? you dont even like going out! #me: yeah but when i do i wanna look amazing so #me (waking up for my evening shift): what ‘cha got there #my sister (coming home from her morning shift and carrying a cat): a smoothie