#isn't inherently bad

[aemoonie]

the day kpoppies learn that more energetic ≠ better dancer is the day the world knows peace

#look this is a topic i can speak on bc i danced for years #but some idol dancers are insanely overhyped imo #energy control is actually so important in dancing and some just lack it #which isn't inherently bad but then again it is obvious when somebody else in the same group does have good energy control #a good example is lino & hyunjin #both are very good but lino said himself that he knows when to blend in with the group #and when to stand out and hyunjin has a tendency to put in too much energy #which AGAIN #isn't inherently bad #but i'm just saying #the day kpoppies will stop speaking on matters that they have no knowledge of is the day the world starts to heal #i feel like today everyone is complaining on the dash so i wanted to join hehe #( 💭 ) !

[gay-otlc]

Sure you hate nazis but do you, like, actually respect Jews?

#me @ internet progressives #'fuck nazis! anyway all jews are personally responsible for the actions of the israeli government' #or 'fuck nazis! anyway religion is inherently bad and the world would be a better place with no religious people' #hating nazis isn't enough you also have to not be a dick to jews #jew crew #antisemitism

[uncanny-tranny]

There's a stereotype that trans people are so insecure in our genders that we require a ton of affirmation in who we are, but as I transition more and more, what I found is this:

While this is a stereotype, trans people aren't unique in this. Cis people also do the same, and many cis people do want affirmation in their genders by others, and by themselves. Us trans people are simply put under the spotlight for a variety of reasons, which means that our actions are under scrutiny. Cis people, you aren't immune from wanting to be affirmed for who you are, and it's not an indication that somebody isn't the gender they say they are because they want affirmation.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #ally advice #cis people are just as weird with gender as trans people can be and that's OK <3 #it's actually fucking GOOD #but cis people... it isn't a bad thing to WANT affirmation in the forst place #and trans people aren't inherently bad or faking or creepy for wanting affirmation <3

[ellipsiseffervescent]

The Evangelion wiki is screaming crying throwing up in order to convince me that Kaworu and Shinji aren't in love and it's not working.

#neon genesis evangelion #nge #evangelion #kawoshin #shinji ikari #kaworu nagisa #I know that going to a bathhouse isn't inherently gay but holding hands while making blushing eye contact certainly is #They want shinji to be straight so bad but that kid is a pansexual egg

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

This is about comics, but the way people act about book adaptations literally drives me insane

#it drives me nuts that there is this idea that if an adaptation isn't beat for beat exactly like the book it's a bad adaptation #or that ant possible changes they make to the source material are inherently bad #when that's not how adaptations work! #i saw this sentiment a lot with both the wot and percy jackson fandoms regarding their perspective shows #wheel of time #percy jackson #adaptations

[gooperts-gunk]

im so crazy over the tragedy of everything q!bbh does being under a demon pretense even though he's a fallen angel.

do u think he just accepts the demon label because it's easier. do u think he believes it too, and catches himself in his thoughts with "oh, right. im not exactly that". and maybe he believes that he did this to himself? do u think what he did was to protect himself or someone? no matter the fall, he still has so much kindness to give and his brain just isn't wired the way a natural-born demon would be, he can't hold back instincts when time demands it, maybe that's why he fell in the first place.

and when he's finally bad, not good, it's treated like the end of the world, without empathy on why he would act out. do you think this keeps happening? the same scenario, multiple times, every timeline? he has to be used to it. so he has to take it in stride. he's good until he lashes out under extreme pressure, and suddenly he's called demon. and once again he's what heaven made him out to be. what he made himself to be, his brain would ruthlessly provide...

i don't think he wants to be that, though he hides secrets behind secrets of which neither identity is a home... but i don't think he wants to have to change, either. and i don't think that's wrong of him.

...you collapse atlantis ONE TIME and all of a sudden YOU'RE the bad guy and SURE it was FUN but REALLY now,--

#lots of expansion on this in tags beware #this is a draft from 2:40AM the day before i just felt something within me and i needed to write about fallen angel q!bbh angst NOW #this post is brought to you by q!bbh in purgatory and post-purgatory i will never forgive you purgatory 1 #no one can bear to have a healthy conversation about q!bbh's behaviors let alone TO q!bbh. BUT IF Q!BAGHERA WASN'T STUCK ON THE ISLAND... #i miss u bbh + baghera interactions let me see u soon pls #he isn't impossible to communicate with ur just not jiving with his autism right u can get through to him i swear BUT TOO LATE he DIED #now he doesn't remember!!! (unless that part of the library is recovered) u lost ur shot!!! (ur issues with him will rise again) #now every time bagi goes “'cause he's a demon” with bbh i go OH MAN SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S MORE... it hurts how flippant it is sometimes #because WE KNOW OH MAN WE KNOW IT'S MORE and this concept of him being fallen adds SO MUCH CONNOTATION to EVERYTHING he does #it isn't just DEMON THINGS it's GOD MADE ME THIS THINGS and i just can't wait to know WHY what did you DO!!! #your instincts are to be nice though cautiously detached when your life restarts so WHAT DID YOU DO IF YOU ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD??? #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[arill-b-r]

I need some of you to understand that sex positivity isn't inherently anti-asexual and that asexual pride isn't inherently sex negative

There are a lot of nuances with what being asexual actually means but please remember that sex positivity can very much cohexist with the fact that not everyone likes or is interested in sex

#arill b talks #asexual #allos need to stop taking ace pride as a personal attack #but also need people to understand that as sex repulsed as you might be sex isn't inherently bad on a general scale

[nakanotamu]

I was gonna make a joke about how it's weird that wrestlers and pornstars can both make careers out of gay sex but it's weird that people aren't constantly assuming the pornstars aren't gay and then I remembered that they literally are people do that all the fucking time constantly like

Yui Hatano and Hibiki Otsuki are two of the most prolific successful JAV stars of all time and it takes like 4 seconds looking at either of their social medias to find out they spend like 5 days a week together minimum and go on all of their vacations together and like there's documented video evidence of them having insane crazy gay sex with each other across literally dozens if not hundreds of titles. And people will be like "they're best friends :)" Like if one of them was a man people would just call them married, it's fucking insane. Yui Nagase and Ichika Matsumoto, same boat, when Yui retired Ichika produced or directed all like 10 of her retirement road releases and fucked her in half of them and people will be like "so cute that they're besties, they even have a youtube channel together ^-^" I just. Like okay yeah nvm I guess I'm not surprised people assume all wrestlers are straight when the sex is only communicated through violence. That's a whole extra step most people ig aren't even close to ready for

#yeah this can go on main idc any more #it just drives me crazy. Assume more people are gay. The closet is not a privilege or a matter of privacy it is coercive #Consider that maybe the reason someone being outed is negative is not bc being gay is inherently bad but bc of society's reaction to it #and anyway pointing out someone's work is consistently queer isn't even outing them #idk who I'm even getting mad at rn but I'm MAD about it I need to go have a juicebox

[forestofsprites]

to attempt to categorize aziraphale & crowley's actions into the simple dichotomies of 'correct' and 'wrong' or 'good' and 'bad' is to employ the exact same fallacy that the show warns of. throughout season two we see aziraphale struggle with morals and their ambiguity, no matter crowley's assertion (and demonstration) that there is no true 'good', no true 'evil'- that the lines are not only blurred but frankly non-existent- aziraphale can't move past the principles he was raised on. good actions are good (inherent to angels, inherent to heaven), evil actions are evil (inherent to demons, inherent to hell). aziraphale's decision to try to 'fix' heaven is the perfect representation of the reality of the universe. he believes it to be a simply good decision, something angels do and heaven is all about (he'll get heaven back to normal! back to being good!) but the reality of his decision is so much murkier than that. it isn't that aziraphale did something bad or evil, nor is it that he did something correct or good, he did something that, like many things in the universe, embodies both.

#i haven't done meta in a year guys i am so sad and rusty #i just mean that #you can't define the show that seeks to reject the good/evil fallacy by employing that fallacy to denote their actions #i mean absolutely aziraphale thinks he is being good. he made that choice in the faith that it was a good one. something inherent to him #as an angel #but that decision was never so clear cut. there was no right or wrong within it. he was given a choice and he chose it #it's not going to achieve what he thinks it will. it isn't the path to his happiness #and i definitely think crowley is closer to that path in terms of understanding the reality of heaven and hell- good vs evil #but neither are simply right or wrong #neither is a simply good or simply bad option #the whole point is an 'us' #a middle ground #an understanding that choices and actions are not good or bad or wrong or right. they're just choices. they're inherently made with a bit #of both #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season two #good omens spoilers #rambling #that tag hasn't been used in sooo long #good omens meta #good omens rambling

[comradekatara]

You've mentioned Zuko's "inability to kill" before, so could I ask you to elaborate on that?

sure. zuko is banished for, essentially, committing treason. he says to ozai that he was banished for "speaking out of turn," but simply speaking out of turn is not actually why ozai banished him. zuko said that people shoudn't have to die for the sake of further empowering the fire nation, and that goes against their nation's entire ethos. zuko lacks, as azula puts it, that "killer instinct that is just so fire nation."

while zuko does set fire to suki's village in his quest to capture aang, and you could argue that he may have committed other such acts offscreen, we never actually see him outright kill anyone. unlike zhao, who kills the moon, and azula, who kills aang in a manner that would have ended the entire avatar line had katara not revived him, zuko threatens and intimidates and harms, but when it comes down to it, he does not actually kill, because he simply cannot.

he threatens to kill zhao, and if he had killed zhao, no one in the audience would fault him for it. zuko does not even burn him upon winning their agni kai, going against custom; zhao calls him a coward for it. zhao tries to kill zuko on multiple occasions, including when he blows up zuko's entire ship. but, when the ocean spirit is dragging zhao under, zuko still extends his hand in a futile attempt to save zhao. contrast this scene with sokka arguing to leave zuko for dead in the same episode. he legitimately does not have a problem with letting zuko die, because, as he says, zuko would do the same thing to them (at least, sokka seems to think so).

sokka kills combustion man, toph kills yu and xin fu, and neither of them have any regrets. conversely, katara cannot kill yon rha, and aang cannot kill ozai. like sokka and toph, they are justified in killing these men, perhaps even more so (since yin and xin fu did not actually attempt to kill toph, "only" kidnap her), but they ultimately choose mercy. like zuko on kyoshi island, aang and katara's actions, such as blowing up the factory in jang hui, may have had indirect casualties (i don't count aang being merged with the ocean spirit because he was not truly in control), but they are never able to kill directly, because when faced with another human being, regardless of how much they may hate them, their pathos prevents them from delivering that killing blow.

zuko, as a foil to aang and katara and the deuteragonist of the narrative, is also someone whose instincts prevent him from being the cold-blooded killer his nation expects of him. it is why, unlike the rest of his family (including iroh), he is unable to produce lightning; he is too sensitive to become the perfect weapon his father wants him to be, which is why azula's reveal is so thrilling and terrifying to the audience, because she is what ozai wants in a protege, unlike zuko, who try as he might, fails at embodying the fire nation values of ruthlessness and power at any cost.

#some caveats before anyone misinterprets me: #1) zuko has still done awful things. i am not saying that he is 'inherently good' or that because he has 'good inside him' that makes it ok #just as i am not saying that azula is 'inherently evil' for having that killer instinct. morality is far more complicated than that #this isn't a 'zuko smol bean uwu' post. i'm just stating facts from the show #just because he never directly killed anyone and just because he was abused into believing he was doing the right thing #does not mean that he did not do bad things (burning suki's village being the most tangible harm we see him cause iirc) #he just cannot kill people directly which is crucial to understanding his character esp as he relates to aang and katara #2) i am not faulting sokka and toph for killing people! and anyone who thinks that i am saying that is a dumbass. ok bye #asks #zuzuthelord #analysis #zuko #not tagging everyone else

[taz-writes]

here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

#taz talks #writing #actually i WILL explain but i'll do it in the tags #these each serve the same function within their respective appropriate genres #each one is a kind of revelation #they heighten the connection between 2+ characters and highlight relationships and feelings and needs #they are out of place in genres where they do not belong and/or as curveballs when the narrative did not provoke them from the start #but they have the same sort of emotional/dramatic build-up #talk -> sing -> dance (talk -> yell -> stab) ((talk -> flirt -> You Know)) #and they are all expressions of intense physicality and intimacy through physical gesture and interaction #they are fundamentally empty and boring if there is not a deeper purpose or drive behind them #although they can still occasionally be entertaining on their own if your audience is specifically seeking that experience out #people who do not like them will be very unhappy to encounter one where it isn't supposed to be #it is very easy to ruin the mood with poor word choice #many people have an inherent sense for terrible ones but it's often difficult or complicated to explain precisely why a bad one fails #when executed properly they are a very raw and intimate expression of a character's most fundamental needs and desires #the fluff is stripped away and there is nothing left but a series of needs. conflicting or cooperating. #and even when you're lying during one it's still a form of truth #none of these things are remotely necessary to tell a powerful or compelling story but if you're going to use them you need to do it right #also all 3 of these things are difficult if not impossible to write if you are not both interested in them and personally invested #this post brought to you by me trying to write smut about my dnd characters and failing because i generally hate /reading/ smut #so i have none of the vocabulary or instinct for it that i do for. say. graphic violence (or lyrical poetry)

[angelsdean]

me, dean, and everyone else watching: ok sure, sammy

#vics spn rewatch #spn 1x10 #the apology is made worse by j*red's inability to actually sound sincere #he's doing his fake sympathy voice and it is so. grating #adds a fascinating unintentional layer to sam as we've talked abt before #and it's like not necessarily a Bad thing to perform rather than feel sympathy #but like. this is very much a non-apology and dean knows it and we all know it #sam DID mean those things on some level. maybe not as harshly as he said them bc his anger WAS being heightened by the ghost #but those feelings were real #and sam is allowed to feel them. but they are in many ways. a projection and also unfounded #sam literally could leave at any time and dean would let him go (as we'll see in thee very next episode!!) #just bc he feels those feelings doesn't mean they're inherently true #dean isn't keeping him trapped. dean isn't just blindly following orders. dean Does have a mind of his own #and in fact dean isn't being all that great of a dutiful son bc he actively is not all that interested in finding john!! not the way sam is #and you'd think for dean being the one to initially show up and ask sam's help that he'd be more invested in finding john #and making sure he's actually alive instead of following random coordinates to a case. and taking on every other case they find too #anyways. sam's feelings of anger are real bc he feels them and it's okay to feel things #but he's massively misinterpreting and projecting things onto dean #and then he feels guilty (like post-possession) and tries to swipe it all under the rug and claim he didn't mean any of it #but he Does. and dean knows it. everyone knows it. #his perceptions do not align w/ what's really happening. bc he doesn't have the full context. #bc he doesn't know just how complicated dean's relationship to john really is. bc he was sheltered from a lot of that. #he sees dean desperate for approval and a good little soldier #when in reality dean was playing peacekeeper and mediator and punching bag most of their childhood. #and rn dean doesn't really care that much abt finding john. he just wants to hang out with his brother #not samcr*t btw. we love all this abt him it's spicy it's crunchy it's tasty

[goulloynes]

girl help

#i'll never forgive the cunts who harassed about the anime pacing palette and direction en masse #dudebros when the anime is an ADAPTATION of the manga and therefore has to be changed to fit the change of medium #and that change isn't also inherently bad #chainsaw man #star.txt

[princess-viola]

as far as i'm concerned the statements 'autism is a disability and that results in struggles and difficulties in life' and 'autism is a part of what makes me me and i find there are many positives that have come from being autistic' can both be true and coexist

#text post #autism #actually autistic #of course i don't want to speak for like all autistics here #but i'm speaking as far as i view it #autism as far as i'm concerned isn't inherently good or bad #it just is #some struggle more and some struggle less

[uncanny-tranny]

Stealth doesn’t help the trans community. I'm not saying we have to be an activist, wear a t-shirt announcing our trans status, but we have an obligation to help advance the human rights of the trans community we belong to

These viewpoints, while I can appreciate them, tend not to recognize the full scope of why people are stealth in the first place.

If stealth is not right for you, don't be stealth. However, not recognizing the nuances of stealth doesn't help trans people either. You can be an advocate for trans people without being out because you don't need to be out to help the trans community. Additionally, nobody is obligated to know one's trans status. I'm pretty stealth in my real life because I owe nobody that information about my identity. And I do my best to make trans folks one of my primary interests in my life. These two things coexist in my life, and that's why these viewpoints are generally confusing to me. You don't need to be out - or let anybody know about your transness - in order to advance trans rights. Hell, you don't even need to be trans to do that.

Nobody should ever be obligated to be stealth. The expectation that trans people fade away in society is wholly asinine. However, that doesn't mean that stealth inherently is problematic. Stealth is not inherently adverse to trans rights.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i bring up myself because i think it's a relevant example #because i just happen to be stealth. it's pretty nuanced as to why i am but i am also a severely private person #and i don't share my personal information. but i will do my best to advocate for trans people in my real life #i have conversations with cis people all the time about transness for instance #that's what i mean #i can appreciate moving away from stealth as a requirement to living a trans life #i think it's incredibly reductionist to EXPECT that from us #but i also think it's reductionist to say that stealth is inherently bad #some of us (like myself) don't think anybody will be entitled to that part of us #it feels like people think 'if you're stealth you don't WANT us to have rights' and maybe that isn't what anon is saying... #...but people really lose the nuance into stealth and what it is and why people are stealth so that it's easier to sort you feel? #like people assume why we're stealth when it's like... the assumptions are either wrong or sorely lacking as to the reason #i really don't know why this is being asked of me though #i think this is the third or fourth ask about this topic with the same(ish) responses to the whole Stealth Thing #so i'm trying not to assume what anon is trying to say but i also want to recognize that i really don't agree #like what do you propose to somebody like me who already does work with trans rights and who is stealth irl? #do i just come out even though NOBODY in my life needs (or even deserves) to know? #that's what i'm talking about with this topic

[ljf613]

I need y'all to understand that underdogs aren't always right.

#real life #fandom critical #thoughts #this is not about any one topic in particular #but people seem to have an unfortunate habit of assuming that the weaker party in a conflict is automatically correct #we as a society have (at least on the surface) moved beyond 'might makes right' #but weakness doesn't make right either #sometimes the stronger side IS actually the right one #winning and being better or stronger than an opponent isn't inherently a bad thing #everyone loves an underdog #but think critically about whether you actually support what said underdog is fighting FOR