Kyri / 30s / MA ☆ artist / writer / creator ☆ just trying to find their place in the world ☆ witchboy (they/he) ☆ Gemini sun, Scorpio moon, Capricorn rising ☆ pagan, kitchen witch, and spiritualist ☆ Spoonie/cripplepunk (fibromyalgia, hypermobile eds, & c-ptsd) ☆ if “Fandom Anti” could reasonably describe you, just scroll past me (๑❛ᴗ❛๑)♡
Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?
Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:
“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”
I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.
Okay, story time, I was added to this discord by a dear friend of mine who I’ve been friends with for like a decade at that point. It was her IRL college friend group I’m pretty sure?
Anyway, I get there and this person is just being the absolutely most obnoxious person about Jared Leto being god on earth or whatever. Me, being autistic and shameless and well-meaning, was like, “Hey, idk if you know this but he has dozens of credible accusations of assault among other things that make him a huge creep, it is maybe not the nicest thing to talk about him like this in a public space” and they were like “i don’t care what he’s done he’s my personal savior and I’ve already heard all those accusations and frankly do not care” and I was like “well. That’s kind of a shitty way to live your life.”
And they had a full public meltdown about it and left the discord. I’d been there maybe 15 minutes.
Cue everyone coming out a la munchkins singing The Witch Is Dead, because apparently this person has been uncomfortable and sometimes outright triggering on purpose and nobody had ever managed to get them to change their behavior or had the gumption to tell them to get lost. But here I came in and managed to cluelessly take out the trash as my first interaction.
Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?