#why is that?

[thehollowprince]

I didn't even open it, because it's Screenrant, but I'd just like to say the Jedi Council didn't need to be redeemed because they didn't do anything wrong. Thank you and good day.

#why don't we ever see any articles about redeeming the senate or the bad batch? #why is that? #the jedi did nothing wrong #in defense of the jedi

[adventure-waffles]

Mornings in Paradise Manor

#tgcf #mxtx #heaven official's blessing #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #so much art from me lately #why is that? #because I'm avoiding doing taxes

[thecoffeelorian]

...This was supposed to be Crosshair's big return to the squad, but it just feels so...well, empty.

For one thing, they were still 200% fine with leaving him alone with Hemlock.

Bad personal history behind the scenes or not; discovered knowledge of all the evils he was slowly enacting upon other Troopers or not...keeping Crosshair in the one place where torture and human experimentation reigned supreme was seemingly, according to Hunter, ten times better than getting him the kriff out of there, while only Omega "deserved" rescue.

This might have never been discussed out loud, but sadly, the bad vibes are still there.

Why is that?

Secondly, that big heart-to-heart talk that was supposed to have happened a few episodes ago...curiously sounded a bit more like generalized statements that offered exactly zero closure at the least; at the most, a huge cop-out from Crosshair and Hunter both.

In other words, nothing specific was said regarding the situations with Cid, Saw Gerrera, Rampart, Nolan, or the Commanders Cody and Mayday...and absolutely nothing about the Mindflaying Machine fron the pilot episode.

Again, everyone...why is that??

Why is it so difficult, let alone impossible, to discuss anything that's happened in the last year in canon, or else the last three years in real time? Does Hunter truly never wonder what happened to Crosshair on Kamino, Barton-4, or Tantiss?

Moreover, does Wrecker truly have so little to say to the one sibling who also went through the horror of the inhibitor chip activation, other than two whole soundbites revolving around the mission of the day and nothing else?

Inversely, does Crosshair have no questions whatsoever of just who his squad members were working for, let alone what they had to do for a handful of credits altogether, and all the while receiving a few surprise attacks by people who literally wished to rip Omega away from the only family she's ever known?

Or...could my suspicions about this entire series be correct, and these stubborn Fett men won't say a word about themselves or each other unless their 13-year-old sister/daughter handles it instead?

Final Analysis--If they're really just going to be silent about everything that took place before this season...then whoever said on Twitter that this should be turned into a book/novel is absolutely right, because a lot more would have been added here and there wouldn't be even more questions added to my "Unsolved Mysteries List". There might also be a little less leaning on Omega as the emotional translator, too, which would be great considering these adult figures kinda should be doing this themselves. Anyways, thank you for your time.

#star wars #the bad batch #unanswered questions #character analysis #tbb crosshair #tbb hunter #tbb spoilers #tbb wrecker #ciddarin scaleback #saw gerrera #commander cody #commander mayday #the failed narrative #this story wants to go into the negative places... #...but pulls away at the last minute #why is that?

[the-horny-vault]

I never feel cuter than when I'm a little too stoned

#why is that? #like why are pink eyes so cute #intox kink

[tirfpikachu]

damn son I'm literally a transandrophobia poster and I routinely rail against TIRFism and even I think your takes are wack. "AMAB privilege" GTFO with that man. we can lift up transmasc voices and promote trans unity and talk about radfem ingression into trans spaces without making this another AMAB/AFAB oppression olympics thing - that was the whole problem, we should be doing the opposite. stop taking words like TIRF and pretending to be against radfems when you're eating their talking points for breakfast

tirf means trans inclusive radfem, so tirfs actually are radfems! i am one myself. terfs aren't actually a thing - there are definitely transphobic radfems, but radfeminism includes ALL afab people, transmascs included. i'm still veryyy critical of how many handle trans issues. i reblog as much material as i can for my book, which very often includes not-so-kind terms/phrasing, but i do try to use language as respectful as i can in my own posts so i can have actual conversations with trans folks and trans activists, including saying amab/afab and agab instead of male/female.

i do believe that transfem people face unique oppression on the complicated axis of what ppl call transmisogyny. which imo is mostly a mix of sexism and homophobia if someone knows that person's sex/agab, mixed with conditional misogyny if they pass and live their life as afab. if they're outed as amab, they're seen as a gnc man again and with all the violent sexism that comes with that. it's a very complex form of oppression. i know they go through a lot of unique trauma, i'm not denying it.

but i also believe that afab people are uniquely oppressed as well.

if not, then what do you call this if not unique oppression? forced impregnation, abortion/pregnancy issues, period tax, lack of menstruation/uterus research & resources, afab bodies being under-represented in medicine which causes horrific things to happen, afab babies being aborted or killed at birth for being born with a vagina (afab) bc they're seen as lesser, afab upbringing coming with very unique experiences that amab ppl for better or worse will never understand (it is NOT a fucking privilege fuck you), being born with a body type that is very obviously vulnerable against people with penises sexually due to people with bio dicks feeling genital pleasure when they stick it in something, and god knows they will not give a shit about the person below them (look at fucking nature documentaries!!!). they will take off the condom. they will pressure ppl to do anal or give painful blowjobs. they will be creeps or jerks about pregnancy. they will generally put penises above vaginas and amab rights over afab rights, and this shit is DEEPLY ingrained in society. transfems being able to transition is very new, meaning that although they had many struggles before, they were not treated as female and had that (perhaps painful) privilege for MOST of human history. this meant being allowed to open a bank, go places without a husband, not being forced to be impregnated like cattle, not being forced to be a mother stuck in a kitchen, and having SOOO much more generational wealth at their disposal. afab ppl reading abt historical afab oppression is upsetting in a way that transfems will never fully be able to relate to. afab people have a deep, rich, unique culture and faced trauma for thousands of years and us being afab is not a privilege!! we have the privilege of not understanding transfem issues, sure, like a woman not being a lesbian won't face lesbophobia. but then again male-attracted women face violence from men in a unique way!! it's complex af when you're already marginalized

most ppl have an agab-based sexuality too, cis men included, meaning afab ppl are the ONLY *INTENDED* target of cis men's lust and sexual violence and whatever misogynistic bs they say about women, since most cis men are heterosexual. amab ppl face it, and it fucking sucks for them too, but they also only face it conditionally - the very second the cis guy realizes the person is amab, the usual trope is them throwing up thinking back on how they kissed and wanting to punch the "crossdressing pervert" EVEN if the transfem had every surgery possible and looked totally afab. they lose attraction, usually anyway, and physical violence linked to homophobia and gncphobia is the danger transfems then risk. which ofc is absolutely horrible, it can be life-ruining. but not an afabmisogyny experience. they aren't unconditionally sexualized. they are mistaken for afab due to all the surgeries and hormones they took. it's misdirected afabmisogyny due to ppl assuming they were born with a vagina and went thru afab puberty. and then harming them bc they see afab ppl as sex objects and dumb bitches, they see us being born and raised afab as a weakness. they hate us and want us for our sex/agab. most misogyny is about specifically afab people! and yes transmisogyny sucks, it should be called out too for sure. but when fem transmascs pass as transfem post-transition they always are open about experiencing misdirected transmisogyny and talking abt transfem rights etc etc. why can't transfems do the same with cis women and transmascs?? why can't they talk abt how transmisogyny & misogyny against cis women are both bad in different ways? it's always them being victims vs those evil privileged bitches!!

and not just quickly mention it but ACTUALLY speak up about it, uplift afab voices, and be genuinely good afab allies? where are the posts from transfems calling out transfems' afabmisogyny? why can't transmascs or cis women write posts abt it without being met by death threats and terf accusations? i know you think you can only further transandrophobia discussions by tiptoing around the existence of afab-exclusive misogyny. i know talking abt transmasc-unique issues already leads to insane amounts of bullying from afab & transfem folks. but i'm tired of transfems getting away with shitty behavior. i'm tired of cis women being only seen as oppressors against transfems. something needs to change. i truly believe that radfeminism isn't a lost cause, and in fact there are more and more transmasc radfems, and even transfems who are strong radfem allies. people are finally waking up to the realities of afab oppression!! they're finally embracing nuance!

misogynistic behavior from transfems gets brushed under the rug and them being amab is seen as completely irrelevant, anyone bringing it up is a bigot, while afab folks are more than open to their agab being a factor in conflict... it's unfair. as you've shown, transfems and the ppl speaking for them refuse to have nuanced talks abt afab oppression, they view it as "omg we're all oppressed!! shut the fuck up theyfab go bootlick those privileged cis cunts! no one wants to hear about your issues for longer than a minute, only listen to MINE!! being afab is a PRIVILEGE i didn't get to grow up afab stop rubbing it in my face!!!" what sucks is that transfems and transfem allies used to be soooo much more respectful of cis women and transmasc people's rights too. literally NO ONE used to say that being afab genuinely meant you got benefits in society. no one. like holy fucking shit. the past 20 years has been a fever dream!!!

i'm 100% for transfems living their best lives, transition included, and i've heard many horror stories of transfem-specific experiences i'll never truly understand. but it's not a strict oppressor/oppressed dynamic all the time. just because you're not oppressed on every axis of oppression ever doesn't mean you have no struggles. it's fucking insane that i keep needing to explain that to people, like oh my god do y'all not understand that someone can be both privileged and disprivileged in society in different ways, and might need to both have their voices boosted sometimes and ALSO need to take a back seat other times??? this ain't us cis radfems OR transandrophobia activists just playing oppression olympics. this is an oppressed group talking abt their unique struggles and being mocked to hell and back. and it's sad that it's seen as catty and selfish and bitchy. but as an afab woman i'm not surprised lmao.

and yeah you might speak on transmasc issues, but do you speak on afab rights? do you call out misogynistic bullshit that transfems say about cis women too? do you speak on cis women's oppression as well, about how they're oppressed by amab people too and are oppressed in a different way than transmasc or transfem folks, for being afab and ALSO identifying as women? do you mention how afab people are a uniquely oppressed class of people, or are you too scared of stepping on transfem toes bc they're seen as the top of the oppression pyramid and will harass you off the site?? why is saying that amab people as a class have privilege over afab folks on an oppression axis controversial? what about that feels like an attack?

if you're transfem or otherwise are amab and live perceived as afab, and you aren't afraid to recognize that afab oppression is its own thing and deserves its own voice and its own movement, ily bestie. i see you. i see more and more of you lately and it warms my heart. we aren't enemies, we can learn from eachother. thank you for working thru that initial knee-jerk reaction and learning to be a good ally to afab folks. i wish you the best <3 and if you're transmasc you DESERVE to have your voice heard too. you deserve to speak on afab rights and for transfems to want to be good allies to you too!! ALL afab people have unique voices that need to be heard for once!

#asks #this was long af sorry i went off lol #i understand your pov anon bc i had it even just a few years ago i was overprotective of transfems #i acted like afab ppl had talked enough and should stfu like they were the lowest bar of oppressed in society #that transfems had it worse by default and any talk of afab rights would make them dysphoric esp if transfems weren't centered #but EVEN THEN even when transfems are mentioned in afab-specific issues they STILL get mad #it isn't an amab/afab oppression olympics thing #and it's so childish of you to draw that conclusion #but it makes sense bc it's the current sentiment in trans spaces. any talk of afab-only issues makes ppl uncomfortable #any talk of transfems not only being the oppressed but also the oppressor class on a different axis makes ppl foam at the mouth #meanwhile afab ppl in general are more than happy to recognize they're privileged on another axis of oppression generally #why is that? #i'm tempted to say amab upbringing (and afab upbringing making ppl want to shield others at all costs esp amab ppl) #but i know now that i said it ppl will be even MORE pissed off #idk. i'm so glad i started recognizing my own afab oppression as mattering too. that thing where women are seen as talking so much more #than men even though if they talked the same amount? yeah. that still impacts things like this lol. identity doesn't change that #idk. respect one another and give equal space to all marginalized folks. simple easy and free!! and yet!!! #lay text #my words #radblr

[natsmagi]

anon acting as if ur drawings have to pass a “good rep” test as if ur not drawing girl versions of already stick thin anime boys. like ?

RIGHT??????? ITS INSANE!!!!!!!!!! and like i dont wanna be too mean bc genuinely i do understand the desire for more diversity. ive looked at the enstars cast countless times and gone "wow. they should really add some flavor here" but like. at the same time this is an idol game. based on far east asian idols and their beauty standards. Which tend to only really include 1 body type. if u want diversity ur not gonna find it here unfortunately. So, instead of complaining to strangers on the internet, why not simply praise those who do give you the diversity you want? praise those who see and share your vision? and if there is none, then why not simply create it yourself? we're all only here to have fun. and if youre going to be disrespectful towards me and my peers you obviously arent our target demographic and theres no reason for us to cater to you. criticism is fine, and im very open to it! but i think we all know that anon didnt exactly send it in good faith

the enstars fandom feels so entitled to the artists that provide food (FOR FREE) that they never stop to see the bigger picture. the issues youre complaining about are in the game itself. you are barking up the wrong tree here

#also sometimes when people add diversity it ends up........ so stereotypical???? which feels counterproductive............ #characters like hiyori and tsukasa are canonically said to have a little more fat to them #yet its never pushed for these characters to be portrayed with these bodies more #tsukasa sometimes. but NEVER hiyori #why is that? #why cant hiyori be chubby? #why dont we push for that? #it would literally be so wonderful to see this girly girl whos self-assured and confident #dressing looking and acting however she wants without a care in the world #and also be on the bigger side #why do i only ever see people push for bigger sizes on characters like makoto niki and tsumugi? #am i the only person that finds it weird? #and i wanna emphasize I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH VIEWING MAKOTO NIKI OR MUGI AS BIGGER!!! I THINK THEY LOOK LOVELY!! #but when its /only/ them? #thats when i raise an eyebrow #good diversity comes from having a variety IN said diverse group #or else itll feel either stereotypical or dehumanizing #why are we only pushing for the nerdy people or those who love food to be a bigger size?????? #push for MORE!!!!!!!! HAVE MORE BE A SIZE BIGGER!!!!!!!!!!!! #GET CREATIVE WITH IT!!!!!!! #DONT JUST LISTEN TO YOUR GUT BECAUSE YOUR GUT COULD BE PERPETUATING STEREOTYPES THAT HARM THE COMMUNITIES YOU TRY TO INCLUDE #ask

[luciferspit]

I immediately dismiss any post that include every companion except Wyll.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #like... you have 5 out of 6 #why is that? #'oh but it's just my personal preference 🥰' SURE it is love #gross that this happens so often

[transgender-catboy]

I want to compliment people but I fear I am too much, that it might be overwhelming

#haaa i get sad thinking about it #reminds me of that time in middle school when i was walking home for lunch #i complimented a guy on his shirt as i walked by #...had a breakdown the rest of the walk #i fear being kind almost as much as i fear being mean #why is that? #vent

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

#why is that?

[strangeracrossthestreet]

Blindfolds.

The simplest, simplest and easiest red flag of it all that haunts me the most is the fact that the IOF always blindfolds its kidnapped Palestinian detainees.

It's such a simple thing but as a writer who kind of has to put myself in the shoes of the people I write, I can't help but feel this instinctive seize in myself when I imagine myself being surrounded by an aggressive military that I know hates me, that I know wants to kill me.

They manhandle you with cruel hands and even crueler words. You know they are mocking you, jeering at you, laughing at you even if you perhaps don't fully understand what they are saying. Hatred has no need for language.

And you know what they have done to your fellow Palestinians, and it doesn't matter how brave you are because it is still fear, primal fear, when darkness envelopes your vision. A darkness that makes your heart race because these people that hate you have guns, and really they can shoot you whenever they want because they have already deemed you a "terrorist".

It's awful, it's psychological, it's humiliating. You don't know where you are going, you trip on loose rocks and pavement as they shove you forward without regard for your injuries. Logically, you know you are going to prison but on a primal level, you DON'T know if they are not just taking you somewhere just to shoot you dead because you can't see what they are doing. Are they toying with their guns? Are their trigger fingers itching? Are they grinning cruel smiles at you? Where are they taking you, really; as each bump on the road jostles you? You don't know. You don't know.

There is so much in the simple act of depriving someone of vision and nothing else. Depriving them of knowing.

I think it's a very cruel act.

#palestine #you can tell me “oh they're doing it so they don't know where they are going” #but are prisons not public knowledge? #and IF wherever they are being taken to IS somehow a hidden location #why is that?

[salted-pop]

Ramona and Matthew

(eng: All, we're breaking up)

#scott pilgrim #matthew patel #ramona flowers #diary #why is that?

[sasster]

there is something to be said of the uncanny, abjection, and entropy

but i’m not quite learned enough to say it

#humans are unnerved by the disordered #regardless of the words you use to refer to it #the boundary is sacred #lines should remain unblurred #and when the line is violated #we scramble to compensate #why is that?

[leham-n-daavocado]

While I think it's really great that Red Bull has really honed in on what to do to help Daniel extract the best performance out of his car and that Daniel is doing great because of it, I can't help but wonder if they had given the same help to others. Can we say for certain this is how they're helping Checo? Are they doing the same for Yuki? Did they do this for Nyck, Alex, Pierre or Daniil?

There is something to be said that maybe Daniel had earned that with his previous performance and wins, but is it truly about that or do they just favour him? Are they showing him this care because of Daniel's personality and ability to bring people to his side? There is definitely something to be said about the power of the relationships you have. However, if RB showed this same level of care to other drivers, would they perform the same? Or is this treatment only reserved for Seb, Max and Daniel?

#daniel ricciardo #f1 #like I'm happy for Daniel #I'm glad that he's doing well #but why are there performance cliffs with drivers? #it's interesting how do many drivers leave RB and change the narrative of their performance #this is the first driver rehab rb have done #why is that? #rbr

[eroticcannibal]

I get what the other anon is saying/frustrated about, but I can't help but get REAL suspicious when the only two countries people get mad about for currently committing genocide are Russia - which obviously did something in front of the entire world incredibly recently and people essentially started using their hatred of the country to virtue signal - and Israel, the one Jewish country in the entire goddamn world and afaik the only country where the Indigenous people evicted from it have managed to return and gain full independence.

Like, I do not think it is a conscious thing at all in most people's minds, but if the only two genocides someone regularly gets angry about are The Latest Big One and The One Jews Can Be Blamed For it does not come across great. At All. At best, it sounds like they only bother learning about the ones everyone around them is talking about. At worst... Even with the best of intentions, no one is immune to propaganda.

Also agree with this, I've always found it very suspicious that eurovision fans on the whole (im not saying prev anon specifically I mean as a group) only really care about Israel competing and have only cared about Russia competing since last year like. Come on ppl. Its Europe. Its the continent of evil colonial powers. Everyone here dabbles in a bit of genocide and occupying territory. Let's be consistent here. Let's stop singling out just the majority Jewish country and the one country everyone is still frothing over because communists even tho its not the ussr anymore. its glaringly obvious whats going on here. Eurovision *could* be a great platform for bringing attention to such issues against *all* countries involved but the fans is cowards and far too comfortable with what the countries they like are doing

(And *personally* the majority of anti-israel-in-eurovision sentiment I've seen is more on the side of antisemitism than pro-palestinian sentiment)

#also see previous post i reblogged about sweden/finland #like that gets zero attention #why is that?

[autisticlegolas]

isn’t it funny how middle earth/lotr is my biggest special interest and no one ever think about getting me something related to that as a present

#everything that i have around it is because i bought it myself #it would be nice one not to be the one buy one of tolkien’s book or something #like people bought me stuff related to hyperfixations but not my special interest #i was obsessed with gone girl a couple of years ago 2 people bought me the book #i got obsessed with taskmaster last year and my sister bought me the book #yet i’ve been obsessed with lotr/tolkien’s work since 2016 and no one bought me anything related to it yet #and i do talk about it a lot #why is that?

[isekyaaa]

It's come to my attention that it's way easier to write a character pov-reader-insert fic than a reader-pov reader-insert fic....

#rambles #WHAT DOES THIS MEAN????? #my character-pov fics are rarely rarely strictly planned out #usually write them off the top of my head #theyre more poetic and flow better #typically more angsty too #why is that? #like????? #what does this mean omg #reader-pov fics are more clunky l #idk man idk