#AND CALLING THEMSELVES TEENAGERS!

[930am]

this is making me sick how can people who were literally kindergarteners when bad blood came out be old enough to know how to read

#AND CALLING THEMSELVES TEENAGERS! #im so old now

[sideprince]

People will hate on Snape for being mean and sarcastic with children but he was mean and sarcastic with everyone. He was just treating his students with the same respect he gave everyone else, if you think about it.

#tbh I'm really tired of Americans projecting their “anyone under 18 is a baby and must be infantilized” attitude onto nonAmerican characters #British teachers treat students like tiny adults #you can take issue with that but it's a cultural thing not something unique to a character you speficially don't like #British teachers also call students “Mr./Ms. ____” because again they treat children like tiny adults in a lot of ways #and tbh I think some of it reasonable. teenagers are still developing but treating them as people with responsibility for themselves #is a form of respecting their autonomy

[proudfreakmetarusonniku]

like i see people say stuff like “rei is a deconstruction of the idea of like the perfect girl in a male gaze-y way” and and i'm ready to agree until they go “it’s because she’s creepy and weird and bad!” like no. rei's a deconstruction of misogynistic ideas of womanhood because they’re ideals forced upon her that damage her, not because she’s in any way “creepy”. like, the fact she’s a fourteen year old girl who was basically used as a substitute wife by her father bc she looked like his own dead wife is not something that is meant to make rei look bad like holy shit.

like both rei and asuka are very obviously like. showing fantasised and misogynistic ideas of an idealised woman don’t work irl yeah. shinji's misogynistic view of them is wrong. but that’s not because rei and asuka are bad people it’s because like. “fourteen year old who's flirty and seductive” and “fourteen year old who's a quiet obedient object” are major signs of abuse and trauma and anyone actually acting in those ways at that age clearly isn’t normal. asuka is desperate for attention in any way she can get it, even unhealthy and dangerous ways. rei is at the very least I has a weird pseudo-incestous enmeshment filled abusive relationship with her father, even if she's not actively being sexually abused. asuka is seeking support, rei is a grooming victim. these are not things that are flaws in their character the entire point of subverting the expectations is to show how those expectations are unhealthy to rei and asuka like. god.

#like. negative fucking media literacy. #like. rei and asuka show signs of abuse in ways very normal for teenagers #every one of the Children in Evangelion is a victim and they react in messy ways #the point of that isn’t to show that they themselves are bad. it’s to show how trauma fucks you up #like none of them are bad people! they do fucked up shit bc it’s normalised to them! #people will just centre rei and asuka’s trauma around shinji and then call the show misogynistic for that like. #woah pal. there’s issues in the show yeah but i think that’s more an issue on your end buckaroo. #like their trauma interacts with him. and his trauma interacts with them. bc the show is literally about human's influences on each other #like the human instrumentality project isn’t there to just be funny it’s a thematic conclusion??? #and also like. it’s comparing and contrasting all threes trauma to understand exactly how they got shaped the way they are. #just. think about the show you’re watching. please. #rei isn’t creepy she’s a schizophrenic abuse victim who's probably done the least screwed up shit out of the main cast #shinji isn’t a loser he's a heavily mentally ill young boy cracking under the pressure of toxic masculinity and having his boundaries erode #until he's unable to even respect the boundaries of others and recreates his trauma for a desperate attempt at control #asuka isn’t like. okay i mean she IS a bitch but literally so is every thirteen year old ok. #and it’s bc she fucking despises the vulnerability being kind shows. she despises herself and is overcompensating bc she’s scared and 13 #like. god.

[thehealingsystem]

another day another reminder that twitter still very much actively hates queer people with unconventional identities

#can y'all like leave us the hell alone for TWO SECONDS #idk much about what regretevator even is but yes this is about that #banning mentions of us in your discord spreading hate against us then later deleting it because you're a coward about it #I think it'll be a long while till I go back to using sites like twitter and discord and engaging with fandom communities #because you people do shit like this #I literally felt constantly unsafe trying to just have fun with people who share my interests #and I thought we were finally starting to get better about this #nope still mass bullying towards fucking. teenage trans people calling themselves lesboys or some shit #get a grip #regretevator #tw queerphobia #tw exclusionism #lesboy

[guideaus]

Only sane hgsn fan rn

#personal #i was gonna mock what ppl have been saying but i realized a lot of them are teenagers on twitter and tik tok so. #but i did have to block the person that made insta stories documenting how the creator queerbaited #thats some... rude bad faithed hysterical panicking to ppl that dont investigate themselves and cant define queerbait #an incredibly strange thing to do. esp to an indie creator NOT done yet!! #ig if hgsn never had the bl tag there wouldnt be weird fans. again ik a lot of them are young but 😭😭 #twitter fans are nuts. why call smth bad w/o evsn knowing what someone said. #*idk this person too btw. i just searched hgsn djdhdjsk

[parasitoidism]

Kind of surprising they didn’t get beat up at least once down there

#ur clocking in for another shift in hell when a group of teenagers calling themselves samurai start talking about how weird you sound #right in front of you as if you aren’t there

[magioffire]

cant believe we are still having debates about whether or not nonbinary people are trans and if we belong in the trans community at all....

listen guys im gonna make this REAL simple

transgender = when you do not identify as the gender you were assigned at birth cisgender = when you do identify as the gender you were assigned at birth

as far as i know, people generally are not assigned ‘nonbinary’ or ‘genderfluid’ or ‘agender’ or literally anything besides ‘male’ or ‘female’ at birth.  therefore all nonbinary identities are by default under the trans umbrella

people need to stop  mudding the waters, gatekeepng shit, and complicating stuff that doesnt need to be complicated it by creating all this discourse. pls stop complicating the definitions of transgender and nonbinary by claiming suddenly its *only* binary and/or full transitioning trans people who are the *real* trans people, and everyone else is a poser whom is....trying to get popular and positve attention by....identifying as one of the most misunderstood, marginalized, targeted minority group in the world??? yeah im sure everyone would just love to jump on the trans band wagon for funsies and shits and giggles in a world where people want to fucking KILL US.

 not only have concepts of androgyny and gender-noncomformity been around since humans had gender roles to subvert, but modern terms for nonbinary identities (lke genderqueer and genderfluid) are also a lot older than the 2010s. we’ve been here with the lgbt community since the beginning. we aint new. its like asking “do the people with gender fuckery belong in the gender fuckery club????” (spoiler, they do)

remember kids: throwing some of the most vulnerable, mischaracterized, least accepted members of your already marginalized community under the bus may get you brownie points in the short term with the party of leopards eating bad!!! evi!!! groomer!! trans people’ s faces, but once all the so called ‘degenerate’ trans people, gender-nonconforming cis people, and questioning people either have their faces eaten off or have to go so far back the closet just to avoid getting their faces eaten off, the party of leopards eating (actually every single) trans people’s faces will turn and eat your face too.

#tired of all the infighting and splittng hairs on people's identities #and people acting like they are some kind of authority on another person's subjective experience esp something as subjective as gender lolol #like who cares #really how miserable do you have to be to sit there and gatekeep how other people live their lives like omfg #also when a trans person completes their transition they dont just stop being trans #so stop acting like that is the ONE defining trait a trans person can have #and stop making up stupid ass insults for people who dont want to ruthlessly bully any trans person who doesnt fit into a box #stop fucking calling us stupid shit like 'tucute' and 'transtrenders' and 'theyfabs' and just say what you really fucking mean: #which we all know is 'f*ggot #'tranny' #'degenerate' #'sexual deviant' #'p*dophile' #like stop pussy footing around and pretending like you aint doing the far right's dirty work #and OWN YOUR DAMN BIGOTRY AND INTERNALIZED TRANSPHOBIA :) #tired of terfs and exclusionists doing the far right's dirty work of driving a wedge in the lgbt community and ruthlessly bullying #other trans people and any teenager who DARES to question their gender for a goddamn second #and then they have the gall to call themselves feminists or fighting for trans acceptance #or that they just are ~worried~ about the children or they are just ~concerned~ about detransitioners #ugh gag me with a spoon 97.5 percent of transgender teens who identified as trans 10 years ago stll identify as trans today #but shhh dont talk about that #cuz that destroys the narrative of: #'those evil groomer tr*nnies are brainwashng our poor little girls into hating womanhood and becoming evil stinky sex fiend men!' #or 'those evil p*do trans women are going through years and years of transition so they can corner ME SPECICICALLY in the women's bathroom. #'and as a white cis transphobic woman i am always the victim' (cuz lets be real its often those waspy types) #like transphobes get over yourselves #particularly if youre a transphobic trans person #sadly they exist :\ #so much self hatred being projected onto innocent people #cuz its somehow impossible to understand everyone has their own experiences that dont require YOUR validation to make them legit

[malyen0retsev]

i feel like gen z need to be sat down and explicitly told it is ABSOLUTELY OK to say the wrong thing and do the wrong thing sometimes. growing up actually means fucking up, and if you spend your whole life paranoid of being ‘problematic’ then you are legitimately going to drive yourself into an anxiety induced meltdown. watching or reading ‘problematic’ media does not make you a bad person, and tbfh sometimes watching or reading said media (provided you keep your analytical brain switched on) is a good thing to do. because just as we learn by seeing what’s right to do, we also learn by seeing what’s not right to do. 

and without wishing to sound horrendously horrendously ‘i am in my mid twenties’, you don’t need to let the entire world know what you’re watching and reading. you actually don’t need to let the entire world know a damn thing about you, and i feel like a lot of the anxiety i see from gen-z online is this terror of being called problematic precisely because the boundaries for oversharing are next to non-existent. growing and changing and learning are a fundamental part of being a teenager, and you will say and do ‘problematic’ shit which will make you cringe in your twenties, and that’s absolutely ok because you will have learned from it. 

#and on a serious note too for the love of god stop digging up peoples tweets from a decade ago. that adds to this toxic cycle #i was an absolute moron in my teens idk how many times i have to say it #i grew up in a conservative area and went to christian camps do i need to Spell Out the sort of nonsense i believed as a teen #and would u look at me now. age 26 and queer and very open about the nonsense i used to say #and nobody judges me even slightly for it. because the consensus is just 'you were a teenager. you learned. you don't believe that anymore' #HOW SHOCKING THAT THE WORLD KEEPS TURNING #anyway that's admittedly my somewhat extreme experience lmao #but seeing younger teens rip themselves apart online for OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I WATCHED THIS PROBLEMATIC TV SHOW #like my dudes when we were teens we used to look up clips from Saw on youtube FOR FUN #it's ok to make mistakes it's ok to be an idiot #what you've gotta be aware of is to stop documenting every single thing you have ever done online #because i swear it adds to the anxiety of 'what if someone calls me out on this' #just live and let live and don't actively be a prat and you'll be all good #ANYWAY #saw several posts about this this morning hence The Rant #sarah rambles #gen z #i guess??? #important

[abby420]

it’s honestly pissing me off how much o and otis call themselves (and other people call them) sex therapists in sex education

#sorry maybe it’s just the psych major in me but every time they call themselves a therapist i just want to scream “YOU DONT EVEN HAVE A #FUCKING DEGREE LET ALONE A LICENSE’ #idk it’s just incredibly frustrating #esp with how the adults accept and call them that too? #and the school is just letting them run a ‘therapy clinic’ ??? #like what the actual fuck #if i was the school psych contracted with this school i’d be losing my mind #i just wish they’d let go of calling themselves therapists #like maybe call it a peer support group or something #but you are not a fucking therapist #you are a teenager #even otis’s mom who is a licensed psychologist doesn’t correct them?? #idk i’m mad i can rant about this for awhile #sex education #s*x education #this season is pissing me off

[sweetbabyrayray]

okay what is with the people accusing/believing mob voters of rigging the vote ._.

did yall not notice how donnie was winning by a smaller and smaller margin for the first three hours and then the mob fandom came online, noticed this happening, and began fighting for a victory…? discussing the poll on twitter, circulating the poll on their blogs, making loving art and writing long essays about why mob deserved to win?

the main argument seems to be that because papyrus vs shadow has much fewer votes, bots are being used, when like… its easy to see that that showdown has less votes (AND NOTES) because people are less interested in the outcome and/or the respective fandoms arent active enough to vote on it…

this is a no-consequence poll thats supposed to be all in good fun guys……

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #autismsummitswag #sorry your fun autism poll got swept up in discourse autism swag blog #i have a feeling its just a lot of children who really love donnie but still #just. please act respectfully everyone #i’m not even going to go into the anount of turtle fans who have mentioned offing themselves in donnie loses #or the fans who call mob ugly/bug-eyed/dumb/etc #mob fans have done that a bit too toward donnie but jesus theres just a lot of it for some reason

[hella1975]

hella idk what to send to you for aftg im either bored or annoyed and I don't wanna just say bad things about it 😭 like that's just rude and yall obviously like it I DONT WANNA BE SOME DEBBY DOWNER MDMWKEM

I looked at the anti aftg tag too to see if I could intermingle there and last I checked it was a mix of fans obsessed with the series and haters being just a tad harsh imo, so i couldn't even do that RIP. I'm so lonesome in what is maybe a whole group of people gaslighting me 😔👊

honestly ive said this before and i always have to tread a very fine line with it because this isn't me saying it's OKAY or like. promotable. but i do think to an extent that aftg's problematicness is actually an aspect of what draws people in a lot. like the characters and their reactions to things feel real for who they are, what they've been through and the environments they were raised in if that makes sense? and then you go in the anti-aftg tag and it's just again and again 'they said THIS thing and acted THIS way in response to THIS scenario and it was PROBLEMATIC' and like. yeah. outside of the internet bubble you're in people do actually do that. like that behaviour exists. it IS problematic, well done. you pointed at a wall and called it a wall. but like? in real life people - PARTICULARLY deprived, traumatised people that typically don't ever get therapy or community or someone telling them why something is bad - DO act this way. ive said half of my love for andrew is literally just because he took an awful backstory and let it make him a complete cunt and ive NEVER seen a character do it as shamelessly as him before. and yeah there's the argument for how it's never resolved in the book where nora ties it with a bow and points at the bad behaviour so the readers can go 'see, this is wrong' and we all clap, but idk it just for me feels that when people point at the aftg characters and go problematic! problematic! problematic! it's like they're missing the point a bit.

the point being? that we need to be putting WAY more heat on the author. i really dislike her and a lot of her writing choices and her insistance of using slurs that aren't hers to reclaim and just because it happened to make the characters feel just that bit more authentic i can still acknowledge that she CLEARLY wrote it without characterisation in mind and just added all that problematic shit anyway. like i never get why there's so little focus on nora's writing decisions and thousands of posts just fucking CRUCIFYING the characters themselves and 'let's explain in detail why this behaviour is Morally Reprehensible and they should be Locked Up Forever'. like if u want to focus on the characters so bad and pretend they're the sole reason why aftg is Problematic and Bad then why is it so hard to acknowledge that someone raised the way they were might have some misinformed, ignorant beliefs. idk lol

#but i do also think im prone to viewing these characters as TOO real and i understand there's a line to be drawn between media and reality #like at what point does 'life imitates art' become just a genuinely shit piece of media #and at the end of the day im fully aware which end of the spectrum aftg is on LMAO but this is my 2 cents #like ive met so many people that have said absolutely heinous things that the internet would eat them alive for #like homophobic sexist shit you name it they've said it and it IS problematic and uncomfortable to listen to #but i also know that while teenagers online that would call them problematic were busy claiming some new fucking buzz word to throw around #those people were actively just fucking trying to survive. like they weren't learning about why misogyny is bad #because they were fucking addicted to drugs or living through poverty or some shit like they had BIGGER PROBLEMS #like not everyone got the education or life experiences you got and while it's valid to assume someone saying horrible things #is horrible themselves there's also the times it's just genuinely a misinformed ignorant person #like they'll say 'problematic' things and i'll point out why it's bad and they'll literally go 'oh i never thought of that.' that's it!!! #like i have this childhood friend whose life has been an absolute circus start to finish like COMPLETE instability i wont even get into it #low and behold she had NO ONE educating her about things and one time i had to explain to her why having abortion rights was important #bc she just out of nowhere said she was against abortions. and i initially was outraged and disappointed that this came from her #but i didn't patronise her or shout i just explained my angle on why i think they're good and she was on side immediately #cause she always had bigger problems than researching ethics and no one to guide her so she just absorbed the first opinion she came across #and in a small town from a working class family that opinion is typically not the nice woke answer the internet demands #and with aftg particularly andrew bc he's the one who gets a lot of slack for being violent and generally unreasonable #you have someone who has literally not had someone treat him kindly a single time in his life and each new person is a genuine safety threa #like the average person just does not have to deal with that! ofc they have more time to decide their political and moral compass! #and that's so relevant to real life! popularity for the monarchy is highest amongst the working class! the people voted for brexit! trump! #the lower classes and marginalised simply do not have the resources that higher classes do #and someone fighting for survival is not going to be reading twitter threads on cancel culture in their spare time #so many issues in the world can be eased so much quicker by kindness and patient non-patronising education #than just. pointing and calling 'problematic' at anything remotely uncomfortable #idk where this came from its 2am i should go to bed and instead im ranting not even about aftg anmore this is completely it's own thing now #i feel like i worded this badly too im gonna wake up to anons in the morning accusing me of like. condoning spiking #also gloomy i am SO sorry you are the true victim of this i went ENTIRELY off piste on this one please ignore this 😭 #ask

[sunsetschloe]

to the church, and to my parents:

Please stop forcing me to love out of pure terror that my soul will be in eternal agony. I truly don't think humans are that evil and terrible that a person had to die for us to even get a chance to not rot in the fires of hell. If we are to be judged because of something an ancestor did thousands of years ago, then what is life, except trying to atone for the sin of an ancestor that made one wrong decision? Isn't god's love towards us toxic, because only if we worship him will he accept us into his realm?

Religion has always been about power and oppression, and it simply isn't applicable to the modern world. You can't just take the same standards set for people thousands of years ago and force it upon people today. Yes, the bible preached kindness and love to all, but it also provided the foundation for a deeply sexist society that people today still suffer from. Not all the sexism and racism and xenophobia are directly due to religion, but large aspects can be attributed to it.

I love church, i truly do. I love the discussions, the songs, the prayers we did for each other, but I'm starting to realize how messed up everything is. To be saved means to pray everyday, to go to church and sing about how terrible humans are and how kind god was to kill his son so we could live and how lucky we are for this chance for salvation. I'm tired of thinking that I'm worthless if I don't do all this, and I'm tired of believing that it's only if I love god that I can have peace. Isn't this what we all deserve? Even if christianity was real and proven, I would rather live believing we all deserved peace and joy and love without having to worship a god that deemed us worthless if we didn't worship him everyday. I want to believe that all of us are deserving of love.

#my parents still fully believe my uncle got cancer because he wasn't christian #its toxic how much hate they have towards people of lgbtq+ #i'm personally don't support the idea of being trans #but they still deserve love and joy and peace #because they're HUMAN #we need to stop #judging everyone around us #its so ironic how they call themselves christian #and then go against things like respect and love and acceptance #that are preached in the bible #idk im just a teenage girl being roped into all this #and im confused #christianity #toxic parents #toxic love #religion #catholiscism #protestant #confused #parents #religious trauma #teenager #bible #salvation #jesus christ #jesus #christ #god #thoughts

[ihavemanyhusbands]

No i dont think i can ever understand or relate when someone says they miss highschool lol

#my mind has blanked out most of it for a reason <33 #or calling themselves teenagers well into their 20s…. whats the obsession

[ratboy]

cis ppl get so mad at t4t relationships bc they couldn't fathom wanting to date a clocky trans person. they want someone who fits neatly into Woman or Man and that's the end of it. but that isn't what being trans is about for a lot of us. it's about the fuzzy edges and not existing within either and also both categories. it's about learning to love that ambiguity and embracing it and finding other trans people who embrace it within themselves and you rather than try and smooth out all the wrinkles and edges.

#im just really tired of hating my own body and feeling like everyone wants to be an ally but no one wants to put in the work #like if you want to date a trans person youre gonna have to learn to love stubble on people not just transfems but also transmascs #and even fuckin intersex ppl who may or may not consider themselves trans #you cant just hang that chevron flag and go to pride every year and call it a night #you have to engage with the trans people who arent put together and picture perfect and rough and tired and just people and not an aesthetic #idk man im just #being a 20smth trans is hard bc i feel like im a kid and a teenager and a young adult and an old man at the same time #im trying to just do what makes me happy and its hard bc i cant help but compare myself to all these young hot trans ppl who are also my age #and also like put on so much effort to how they look and they all look so pretty and attractive i just fucking cant be fucked #and i feel less than bc of that like thats my problem is that im not putting enough effort in and if i just looked prettier or tried harder #id make friends easier but like #i just cant be fucked #caws #vent post

[smalls2233]

the way that some people in fandom talk abt newer fandom terms vs older fandom terms feels so "old man screams at cloud"

sorry that terminology changes and evolves over time. just bc that's what it was called when you were 16 doesn't mean that's the end all be all term that should be used forever

#I have seen that “why can't we just call it fandom wank anymore” post too many times #sorry grandpa but get with the times and stop complaining that things are worse now #they're both stupid terms #you just like the older one bc that's what you grew up with #people who call themselves fandom elders or fandom old are almost always the most annoying ones #like yea teenagers are fucking annoying but that's bc they're 16 #what's your excuse??? #personal

[smarterthantheaverageloser]

Reading up on the current Dream drama like a suburban mother listening to her kids explain the lore of the game they've been playing in the woods for a month

#'he's a dranti and I'm a mangoball so we're enemies and we're gonna fight to the death' 'oh that's nice dear' #I have the tags blocked because I genuinely cannot stand minecraft smp youtubers or whatever they call themselves nowadays #but god do I love peeling back the hermetic seal from time to time to watch some good old fashioned stupid discourse #sipping coffee. reading through the tags. reliving the days of being 13 and arguing over teenage mutant ninja turtles w internet strangers #knowing they will all pretend this didn't happen in five years #it has all the trappings of good ol' tumblr discourse tm #drama. bloodshed. doxxing threats. twitter hysteria. random slang terms for positions on the issue that I have no hope of keeping up with #from the outside #ah yes. a 13 year old calling another 13 year old a predator. exquisite. therapy for one million years #oho! a 27 year old defending some random internet man to the death! telling middle schoolers to kill themselves! #unmatched. what is wrong with them? the world may never know #'drantis dni' I like your funny words magic man #no idea what a dranti is #sounds like a low level dnd monster #johnsense #love minecraft. no idea why it drives people insane #watch me not tag this and still get death threats