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"For the internet, it’s been an astonishing period of gargantuan tea-spilling. For Drake to attempt to peel back Kendrick Lamar’s reputation is one thing; for Kendrick – a Pulitzer winning aesthete – to virtually cripple the Canadian is another.

Amid the jousting, however, one thing is being lost. Women’s pain and trauma isn’t some bartering chip that can be used to take down the reputation of another artist – in turn, bolstering your own. Drake has little right to act as a defender of women – he showed public support for Tory Lanez, long after the full details of his appalling crimes against Megan Thee Stallion had been verified. Kendrick Lamar isn’t completely clean, either – when Spotify revealed it was considering removing the material of convicted abuser R Kelly, Kendrick Lamar controversially stood against this. Equally, if K Dot is concerned with Drake protecting or platforming abusers, why did he include a feature from Kodak Black on ‘Mr Morales & The Big Steppers’?

For all the drama, gravitas, and – yes – entertainment offered by this battle, there is also a darker stain. The songwriter Kara Jackson comments on Twitter/x: “It’s very disheartening that at the center of this ‘beef’ is real women and girls trauma and lives. Like at the end of the day our pain is always the punchline.”

She continues: “Y’all do not give a fuck about victims. these are real peoples lives and stories and y’all sitting over here acting like it’s entertainment for you. Think about the real girls whose stories these are.”

Nitty Scott adds: “One day we’ll talk about how the suffering of women is reduced to punchlines and clapback material, and how we catch the majority of strays in rap beef.”

Honing down on the pair’s hypocrisy, she adds: “Most of these rappers only care about who’s being ‘problematic’ when it’s time to trade insults. never see ‘em in the field with those same communities they use to virtue signal, usually ‘cause they’re busy somewhere being a part of the problem.”

The war between Kendrick Lamar and Drake isn’t over – at the time of writing, fresh material is being speculated upon, with new releases widely expected. It’s not without cost, however – and it’s predominantly women paying the price."

#yeah I’ve seen people memeing and calling this entertainment #and it’s just depressing

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If irony poisoning is the problem in-universe, does it still count as irony poison?

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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

#i'm really hoping i don't come off like this in #cursed monster girls #like they complain in-universe the curse makes no sense #but in fairness they're meant to be cynical assholes so?

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"Louis’ been seeing Lestat almost constantly since he died. He’s been there in his conscience." - Jacob Anderson "Lestat's a vision that only Louis sees. He can't get him out of his head." - Sam Reid.

Exclusive Special Preview of Season 2 Interview with the Vampire - Premieres May 12th on AMC+

#oh this is going to rock #iwtv

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The article I’m reading: The Antigone Complex is an essay explaining how the Oedipus complex would have been called the former of people had any interest in female sexuality.

Me: need!!!

Internet: sorry, costs 60 at minimum.

Me: 😭😭😭

#I have enough articles for 3k I just want more 🥺

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#well succession went away and i need my incestuous absurdist tragedy #iasip

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The Dogs, Noah Ross

#@aya

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TFW you see a reel on Kate Bush, click in excitement and the first comment is “Stranger Things made Kate Bush, nobody cares about her”.

#what’s that glee meme?

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On the one hand Moffat coming back makes sense in the same way rtd and tennant returning does because getting back old shit is always good for publicity. On the other hand. The reason chibnall took the job was to diversify the production and allow people who historically didn't get a chance to write for dr who very often (women, people of colour, women of colour) to write, direct, etc their version of the show, and apparently spent a lot of time creating the writers room process which wasn't really a thing in the UK before. Rtd taking a step back from that by hiring all his cis white men from pre 2018 Who (or at least, hiring back this very notorious cis white man from pre 2018 Who) feels like a step in the other direction from that. Moffat's been writing televised Doctor Who since 1999. We can give other people a go now.

#do i love moff!who? yes! #do i want him back? no! #dw is meant to be about change! #doctor who

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Figures I would start writing a sex scene and then go off on a tangent about rot and corpses.

#cursed monster girls

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

So, @lucayathegood sent me a link to the following video:

It’s behind-the-scenes filming of The Nightman Cometh episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. As my fellow Dennis/Dee fans will know, Dennis and Dee play romantically opposite each other in the play, and have a duet - Little Baby Boy. Apparently there are some wildly different endings for this song. In the actual episode there is a “sexually-charged embrace”. But in The Nightman Cometh: Live, Dennis tries to lay his head on Dee’s chest. 

But the best ending of all is in the above BTS video. Glenn and Kaitlin are rehearsing, and basically Dee is so caught up in the moment that she moves in to kiss Dennis. It’s around 1:15. 

#oh you two #deedennis

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stop detoxifying that ship. no softness and making love they fuck like animals and draw blood when they bite

#sunny gang

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It's always crazy when white tumblrinas see a character or situation they can personally relate to (i.e. someone thinking you're annoying, being mad at your dad) and fight tooth and fucking nail for the annoying guy with the absent father or whatever To the point of bigotry against other characters ????? for any perceived meanness to their blorbo Whether or not the character they hate with the passion of a thousand suns actually did anything That Bad

#@mashblr

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#i *try* to do my duvet or sheet once a week #but it's painful and exhausting #tumblr try to not be ableist challenge

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drawing a frame from every episode of it’s always sunny season 1 episode 3: underaged drinking: a national concern

#this episode fascinates me #because there’s so much that will be important later #but dennis is the token good teammate (but still a predator) #iasip

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everybody says "yay toxic yaoi" until the yaoi is actually toxic

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The thing about the wild replies to posts that go around talking about fandom misogyny is that, at least for me, I did have to make an active choice to care about female characters.

There's less of them and they are often written with a lot less to work with and it's easier to focus on dude characters. But I had to look at myself and wonder why I was willing to read pages and pages of meta and fic and headcanons for Julian Bashir when I wasn't interested in the same for Jadzia Dax when they have a similar amount of screentime. Why I wasn't interested in Captain Janeway when she's the lead of her show. Yes, writers are often sexist, but the writers were ableist and homophobic and so on with a million male characters, but I was willing to put the work in to love them. At some point, the viewer/reader/listener's own sexism plays a part in their willingness to engage with a character.

So I had to actively choose to seek out those meta and fic and headcanons for female characters. And it is significantly harder to find than it is for male characters, because most of fandom hadn't questioned their own sexism. But what little of it there is out there is often just as high quality and interesting as the stuff I was already looking at, if not more so because there's the added dimension of fighting against the writers' misogyny, which often requires even more engagement and creativity.

It was, for me, a process that I had to continually work on to care about women characters as much as I did guy ones. But it got easier the more effort I put in. And now those posts about how no one cares about female characters are very relatable to me.

But the way people respond to those posts, it's always "I can't change the fact that the writers are sexist! It's an immutable fact that female characters are less interesting! You're attacking me personally over something that I can't change! And actually, you're the sexist for not realizing how terrible these female characters are and how you're victimizing me asking me to care about them!"

Besties, I promise it is something you can change. You just have to put the work in

#and so often the female characters in show are amazing (kim dee etc) but fandom fandomify her anyway when they don’t completely ignore her