#Also it feels like a cop-out for people

[9ofspades]

One of these days I’m actually going to go on my soapbox about how calling the wizard books “mediocre” is ignoring the point and doing more harm than good, the same way that if you called Chik-fil-A sandwiches “generic cardboard crap”, it doesn’t help solve the actual issue.

#basically it’s about how regardless of your personal opinions on the literary merits of the books #doing that is basically saying ‘you should give this up because it’s problematic AND it’s mediocre’ #As opposed to ‘even if it’s good it’s still supporting bad people and causes’ #The former lets people who like the thing immediately discount your opinion #‘Oh you think the chicken sandwich tastes bad? #Then clearly you’re wrong about it and just don’t appreciate how hard it is to give up’ #Also it feels like a cop-out for people #Like ‘you could keep paying for merch if it was actually GOOD; just not if it’s mediocre’ #No actually even if it was the best thing ever made #the point about money going to anti-LGBT organizations still stands. #Maybe everyone needs to focus on that instead of trying to act superior or sour grapesy like ‘yeah it wasn’t that good anyway’ #‘I can easily stop buying it because it’s a low-quality product as well as problematic’ #Discourse #unpleasantness #vent

[tesco-finest-aromantics]

i feel like the queer community lost when we started policing labels and making sure everyone used the Correct™ labels instead of letting a person decide what feels right for them

#caique posts #inspired by a post a trans guy made asking if it was okay for him to keep identifying as a lesbian even though he’s now a man #and all the comments telling him no because lesbians can’t be men #and also all the other posts of people asking if they’re ''allowed'' to use certain labels #why do you need permission? #who are you even asking permission from? #we’re not cops #do whatever you want forvever #also inspired by an article in a zine in the 80s/90s of two FtMs in a T4T relationship #one of them described the relationship as being between a butch and his sissy boy #i cannot ever imagine anyone calling themselves that nowadays #because of ''only lesbians can be butches'' and ''sissy is offensive'' discourse #i’m sure there are people out there who would want to describe their relationship like that but don’t feel they’re ''allowed'' to #anyway lots of baby queers are tying themselves in knots trying to figure themselves out #and they’re more concerned with using the Correct™ label instead of the one they feel most comfortable with #yeah i just don’t like it #knowing you’re queer should be a liberating feeling #instead of something anxiety-inducing because you’re worried if you’re using labels wrong

[mishapen-dear]

thinking about the elections tonight... bad, cellbit, baghera, and forever are four candidates who are devoted to the island- more specifically, to the residents of the island. They care for the eggs, and they care for each other, and the way they exhibit that care through their primary presidential strategies is fucking fascinating.

Bad is who I watch the most, so I know him best. He's a classic mother hen. He doesn't like to take risks with the eggs, and he likes to prepare. If there's any sort of variable that could hurt an egg then he wants to control it. They have a stable relationship with the federation right now- it's not great, but they know the parameters. Don't trust cucurucho. don't follow cucurucho. send the eggs to NINHO every time there's a threat. the time of day changing means you need to run. Other than that they're p okay and roughly safe. But adding a president could potentially change everything. What if the president makes a rule that makes it easier to kill the eggs? And what about the way a president could cause tensions between the players to rise even higher? The dynamics of the island could change drastically. It's safer to neutralize that threat before it ever becomes a threat. It's easier to stop a war before it can start.

Baghera's primary concern is the way the election is designed to pit the residents against each other. All of them know that the Federation is a threat and she, like Bad, is focused on not letting them hurt more people. But, unlike Bad, she's less resistant to change. If the power is spread to multiple players rather than just one, it will be harder for the Federation to corrupt any one of them. Each time before the Federation has gotten to someone it's done so by isolating them. Felps, Cellbit, Jaiden- they've all spent a lot of alone time with Cucurucho. A council isn't just to consolidate the ideals of the island; a council would protect the players themselves. Sure, there might be disagreements and arguments, but they've had those before (and they're having them now!) and there's no reason to think they wouldn't be able to get through them again.

I hit a bit of a wall with Forever and Cellbit's pov here. Everything I know about their plans are from the debates and paraphrased discussions that have been translated here on tumblr, I'm going to talk less about their explicit plan and more about what the result will entail- a single president who takes responsibility for the island. It seems to me like they've recognized the presidential seat as the powerful opportunity that it is, and they want to take advantage of it. Here's some extra personal speculation but, adding rules, adding or removing mods, proposing public works, enforcing laws- those are just the abilities that are listed. Those are incredible opportunities to make the Federation take action, which is more than they've had before. We've seen before that the Federation isn't perfect; the Federation makes mistakes.

By working with the Federation, by making them take action (in a semi-controlled, semi-predictable way) you open them up to more opportunities for them to fuck up (while benefiting you). And, maybe, one of those fuck ups will be the key to taking them down. Maybe they could reopen ender chests. Maybe they could open the nether. Maybe they could learn why the Federation is holding an election in the first place. It's possible to do all these things with Baghera's plan, sure, but that's not a guarantee and, if someone like Bad is on the council, there's absolutely no way to be sure it would get done. And, if there's a council, then that opens up everyone on the council to the Federation's wiles. If there's just one president, then that's where the Federation's focus will be. By using a single person to build a relationship with the Federation, they only risk that single person. By electing ministers instead of a council, they can ensure that the island residents' needs are being heard while placing the federation's focus on that one person. A point can be made that they've done that before- with varying results. like kidnapping. selling your soul. etc. But! overall, I think they've gained more than they've lost by singling out one person. Because of them, we know that Cucurucho can't be trusted. We know that the Federation has a series of tunnels underneath the island. We know that the Federation not only has some sort of cryo technology, but had some unknown reason to use it. We know that there was another person working with Cellbit to take care of Felps (theorized to be ElQuackity), so we know there's at least one more Fed that isn't Cucurucho + blank-faced workers. There's been risk, but there's absolutely been rewards. This is just a very long meandering way to say that their plan to sacrifice Forever to the presidential seat reminds me very much of Cellbit's plan to sacrifice himself to the federation. They're saving their friends by potentially damning themselves and I, for one, think that is cool as hell.

they all care about each other so much. bad's plan means taking on no more risk. baghera's plan means spreading that risk evenly to stand strong together. and cellbit and forever's plan means taking the risk onto themselves so they can reap the rewards for others. am i reading too much into things? no this is tumblr and this smp is about LOVE and i really genuinely think that their election plans are a fantastic example of just how much they love each other

#qsmp elections #qsmp #qsmp analysis #again i haven't been following cellbit and forever's exact plan too closely but i've gotten the sense that their pushing of public works is #just to get people to vote for them and the true reason they want forever to be president is to infiltrate the federation #if that's not it tho feel free to let me know i'd love to know these cubitos reasonings #but with my interpretation i like the silly little extra headcanon of mr cell “sold his soul to the cops” bit #subconsciously sacrificing forever to the feds and pushing him into corruption #which ALSO makes the forever-killing-cellbit-to-kick-him-out-of-the-running plan Even More Tasty #'what if i let you kill me. what if destroying me destroyed yourself. what if i have already destroyed you on purpose and you forgave me #now what if i dont mean it when i do it again' #if anyone wants to examine the other candidates (or these same ones) and figure out how their election strategy is an example of their love #please do #i don't know enoguh about the others #but i know that gegg is love-turned-grief burn-the-world-down #and foolish is love for Item. love for cloud. love for being a silly #i don't know etoiles' plan for if he gets elected but i know he also deeply loves the island and the residents #him and his security <3 and the care packages for new players <3 and the way he Craves Violence but absolutely refuses to hurt anyone who #doesn't deserve it. most guy of all time #personally i want foolish to win because i think it would be really fun #but i think that any of them (even the candidates i don't know) would be a Fantastic president #we're going to get some good roleplay any way it goes so ill be happy :3 #the only mechanic thing i want is for them to open the nether but that feels like a given for anyone so im not worried about it tbh #ty for coming to my tedtalk #hello if you're reading this tag. i see youre just as un-normal about these characters as i am. or you just like to read. respect either wa

[mikakuna]

no actually acab includes dick grayson, hope this helps <3

#i could care less about what kind of people fictional characters are #but batfam fans are genuinely so insufferable #be so fucking for real and admit to yourselves that jason is literally the least like a cop #he's so strongly ACAB in even his 80s robin run #also. poor people feel so much more strongly about how horrible cops are than rich people #we see the realness of these cops and see their cruelty in action #jason grew up poor and surrounded by poc #cops did not treat those people good #they DONT #dick is the actual cop in the story and i cant believe some of y'all need that spelled out #jason todd #red hood #batman #dc

[autisticcassandracain]

I dunno man I feel like most statements along the lines of ‘Batman isn’t REALLY x, he’s y’ don’t hold much water because usually, there’s a pretty good chance a number of writers over the years have written him as x, you just didn’t like it or think it doesn’t count for some reason.

For example ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a good parent, he’s actually a bad parent’, when Batman has been written as a good parent by a number of writers, and has, in addition, been written as realizing that he’s screwed up with his children and resolved to fix it by even more. At the same time, stating ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a bad parent, he’s actually a good parent’ is also incorrect, because Batman has been written as a bad parent by a number of writers, either intentionally or not; in addition, the pattern presented by the tug-of-war between writers who believe he should be a good parent and writers who don’t has, over the years, created an unintentional pattern that strongly resembles that of an abusive relationship. So, stating he is a good parent is inaccurate and dismisses a bunch of his canon writing, but stating he is a bad parent also dismisses a bunch of his canon writing and the intentions of the authors that wrote him.

The secret here is realizing that Batman has had so many writers over the years that it’s practically impossible to find a universal truth about him beyond the basic premise and maybe very, very basic characterization keystones. Writers with different beliefs about both the character and the world at large have written him in accordance to their worldview, and sometimes that worldview will align with yours, and sometimes it won’t.

Like, at this point, Batman is more an idea than he is a character. He is the bare-knuckled fight against injustice, but what ‘injustice’ is depends heavily on your worldview, as does what ‘bare-knuckled’ and ‘fight’ mean. Batman has been interpreted in dozens of different ways over the years, and singling out a few of those as the True Batman is largely arbitrary and dependent on your personal taste and belief in what the character should be. The only ‘objective’ measurement you could apply here are the old Golden Age comics, and I think most fans can agree that measuring modern Batman comics by how faithful they are to the Golden Age comics is, more often than not, a little ridiculous.

For the record, I do think that arguing about what Batman should be matters; if right-wing assholes use the character as a mouthpiece for their worldview we can and should critique that, but not because it’s ‘OOC’, but because the worldview espoused by those right-wing assholes is harmful and shitty. Batman should be a good parent, not because it’s ‘OOC’ for him to be a bad parent, but because having your paragon of justice be a child abuser is pretty shitty. Etc.

I don’t really have anywhere specific to go with this, I just think it’s a little strange when people try to view Batman as a character with a clear-cut characterization, rather than a concept that many people have approached in different ways over the years. Can that concept be mishandled? Sure. But it’s usually mishandled for reasons a bit more substantial than ‘a previous writer wrote it differently’.

#part of me feels like it's a cop-out to say #'batman isn't really a character so much as a concept and he can rarely ever be truly ooc' #'because he's been written by so many different people that practically any interpretation of him has canon back-up' #but at the same time. when you have a decades long history as one of the most well known pop culture icons of our time #i do think you kinda stop being a character and start being more of a concept #this post was inspired by a lot of stuff but the thing on my mind rn is conversations about why batman doesn't kill #and a lot of people being like 'saying batman doesn't kill because he thinks it'd turn him into an unstoppable killing monster is wrong!' #which. isn't true. that's a take many writers have on his character. #you may not like you or think it's stupid or whatever but. it's an interpretation of the no-kill rule with canon backing #and for that matter. even 'batman doesn't kill' is kind of up in the air with many writers taking a more relaxed stance on that #or even outright doing away with it. batman was also written before the concept of him not killing was added to his character #like. with a character with a history as long an profilic as batman. shit's complicated i feel #bruce wayne #my posts #infodumping

[vixscribs]

despite benrook being a decently popular ship I can't seem to get behind a lot of fan content I see. Those are coworkers. There's no way they're snuggling and shit that's highly unprofessional.

#maybe its my aroace ass not being able to fathom that stuff being enjoyable #but also the well mannered and space cop and the cocky 17 yo white boy superhero are not going to act like a normal couple #there is no way they properly address any feelings towards each other #theres no way rook would date his boss's grandson (the one he was directly assigned to by said grandfather) #also ben is a 17yo boy from 2015 gay marriage is just getting legalized #doubt the guy turning into/dealing with/dating aliens would be super opposed to gay people but he's also a public figure #then again hes shown that he can live without being idolized if he believes whats he doing or believes in is right #but again acting on those feelings with your cowoker/best friend so easily? eeehhhh #i will probably change my mind later #i want to see them struggle thats all #their misery and refrain brings me entertainment #benrook #ben 10 omniverse #rook blonko #ben tennyson #im over thinking this #unresolved homosexual tension...let that shit stew... #they've been tormenting me i want them out of my head #also i like the ship. if thats not clear.

[piningprecussionist]

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Im going to be completely frank with you all... and admit that I read these options and wasn't sure how to take this chart,,, so uh. Under the cut is Another Version. I'd apologize but I've given you the option to keep scrolling ¯\_(･･)_/¯

(If you notice characters missing on Kim's side, I probably figured she doesn't know who they are lol)

For the record,,, if they *wanted* me to pull their hair-- *is shot several times before I can continue*

Uhh Matthew is here because I have been converted fully on he/him or enby lesbian Matthew I think. He lives in my brain rent free now, very gender. I'd pull his hair but also I think he mostly just deserves to have it played with nicely.

And Scott's here because 1) I enjoy trans Scott, 2) Kim Pine Brain Rot possibly, 3) idk he's like,, the exception. God damnit, I've fallen for the inexplicable Scott Pilgrim Effect. What the fuck--

I did think about doing this chart like everyone was actually applicable to my tastes, but even if they were I think the ones I didn't put up would have to fall on the caress side bc I just don't feel that way abt them lol.

Again, not to say that's the case for the gals over on that side,,, I just think I would want to be gentle w them shxkdjsdhbd with the exception for Lynette who probably deserves to have her hair pulled, but again I fear she would Hurt Me,,, but maybe in a fun way,,,

Anyway No One Look At Me....

(,, also,,, Ramona is so far over bc I think she would enjoy it,, otherwise she'd be closer to Kim in that section. Same thing w Roxie)

If anyone actually looks at this version, I'm not opposed to doing a version like this for Kim btw! Just ask for it so I feel like I'm not just Dropping This and scurrying away

#sp comic #meme #kim pine #id tag more people but i Do Not Have The Strength.... #also i like Living and I think the idea of more people seeing the suggestively taken one makes me want to Die a little #(not to say you cant reblog this or whatever im just being dramatic shdjejsdhdhgdd I am generally a fairly Reserved person) #for the kim chart- i based my other scott placement on the interaction theyve had here! i think if they interacted for real or more often + #+ he'd end up definitively in the Pull Roughly suggestion with most people #ooc #he maybe if i finish edits for everyone i could try this w the au stuff. kit's thoughts might be different here... #hey* #also let me know if i forgot anyone??? i thought abt including the robots but. no hair. and gideon the cat has Fur so. on technicality- #but like barring parents and peter i think i got most people #i guess if lainey was here she'd go somewhere in the middle or right? w/out knowing what she'd be like #FUCK I DIDNT MEAN TO POST THIS. I MEAN IT'S HERE NOW SO IM NOT REMOVING IT BUT I AM S C R E A M I N G I WASNT READY #ah i forgot crash and the boys actually. thats why i wasnt supposed to post this yet #uhhhh Pull Roughly for like all of them. except trasha. trasha gets head pats and a juice box #except for on Kim's chart. on Kim's chart she's in the pull roughly section I can't lie to myself. she hates that kid 😭 also on that note + #+ knives should probably be in the middle section. like she wants to pull it for her having copped her style and being stupid abt scott. #but I didn't put her there bc I feel like even if she wants to she wouldn't ya know? knives is a Precious Angel after all

[kuuchuuburanko]

but if I say 'kaiser would rather continue the cycle of abuse than get therapy' I'd be jumped so I won't say that someone else said that not me tho

#linny talks #sometimes i forget how off the walk fucking bonkers blue lock is #*wall #then im reminded #like what do you mean kaiser beat up police officers in cuffs with a soccer ball #and the president of fifa showed up to recruit him while he was in jail? #also the cops had guns but didnt shoot? thats craaaaazyyyyy #had the power of ⚪️ on his side there #jokes aside tho def a pet peeve of mine that as soon as a shithead character revealed to have sad backstory #hes suddenly absolved of all wrong doing in the eyes of fandom #like he can still be bad while also having had bad stuff happen to him #in fact thats the case for a lot of bad people #i wrote a whole google doc trying to get my thots and feelings out on the matter #i dont participate in 'fandom' much at all ever #especially not popular stuff so its been a bizarre experience seeing how other people like... interpret things (delusional) #dont get me wrong i like kaiser and i figured his backstory was fucked #but ive seen a lot of people like allergic to admitting hes abusive its strange #youre allowed to like him still? #anyways lmao this manga is so over the top #hope gagamaru is doing well

[lucyvsky]

love hate relationship. with sociology. this quarter. on one hadn sociology. the subject. very cool very interesting. enjoying. on the other hand. my teacher is on some bullshit sometimes

#while she is generally well intentioned. with placing emphasis on corporate influence to our consumption of products. she then goes and puts #the pressure on individual people to reduce carbon footprints. which you can and should do but i feel like she does not address the scale #at which these actions are meaningless in the face of larger corporations. while we should all aspire to be better. about our consumption #it is not the individuals fault. unless you are a billionare. in my opinionnnnnn. #also shes lowkey fatphobic. ive been trying to figure out if this is a result of phd in sociology. or consuming fatphobic documentaries. or #personal bias. regardless it is weird and off putting and it makes me uncomfortable.......... and she also . not fully blames but does blam #people for being fat. which like. please youre literally a sociologist teaching about social problems. i feel like you have other prioritie #also the afformentioned. bothsidsing it of israel's genocide. most likely a result . of how proud she is that she does not consume american #news coverage. ONLY BRITISH. i feel as though this may be worse. that she only gets news from the bbc. famously. supporters of israel. #she has not explicitly talked about palestine in class but she did mention it basically exactly the same way as that question did. earlier #this quarter. which is such a bullshit cop out for talking about genocide. #sorry for conducting a profile of beliefs of my sociology teacher shes just been on my mind. need to explode her or something

[napping-sapphic]

yo how're you doing?

I just realized I never asked you your ideal date

Like, fancy or cozy? Outside or inside? City or seaside/mountains/lave/cliffs? Ushhh tell us !

Have the nicest of all days!!!

-✨

“Also, would you rather organize a date for your s.o. or having your s.o. organizing it for you?

Forgot to add this question to the date question”

Not to worry as i added it back for you haha😌

I’m doing okay! Not a lot going on lately tbh which is neither good nor bad i suppose! Thanks for asking and I hope you’re doing well too :)!!

This question actually kind of threw me off since I don’t think I’ve ever thought about what an ideal date would be honestly. If it’s an established relationship I’d probably prefer just to stay home and have a day in with them lol - to no one’s surprise.

But if it’s a first date we’d definitely have to go somewhere! It’s a little basic but I love bookstores so that would probably be the most fun place someone could take me though thinking on it I’m not sure how much conversation I’d give if I’m too busy looking at books🤔

Idk! I’m not a very exciting person so I don’t really have an interesting answer to this question lol, I like staying home and going to places in my orbit, I’ve never even been to the seaside/mountains/lava/cliffs lol

I don’t think I have a preference for who organizes it either! I love doing things for other people but I’m also usually the one who has to plan things with my friends so someone else doing it for me would be really nice I think :)

#asks #sorry i dont have anything super detailed for this! #perhaps it’s a cop out but i really think it all depends on the day and who the other person is! #but then again i’d never say no to a day in where we just sort of nap and relax all day so🤷‍♀️ #i also like cant swim and im scared of heights so all those exciting things you listed aren’t really my thing unfortunately #when i tell you guys i am THE most boring person on earth lmao #which i dont think is a bad thing! i enjoy being boring lol a lot of people just get surprised by it #because no i really don’t have many interesting interests or things going on lol #again i feel like my response is boring but i hope it was at least a little bit of what you were looking for haha #💫

[shadowkira]

After hearing Venture's voice, I'm even more confused about complaints. They sound.... Young. That's it.

I looked into Asra being nonbinary after seeing those tweets and the anon who pointed out he is nonbinary.

While I'm happy to hear that Asra is nonbinary, the way that it was done for him has had fans kind of underwhelmed. And I'm inclined to agree. It's such a minor detail of his character, which is why, after playing hours of the game, I had zero memory of it being canon. If it is discussed more outside of the game than in the game itself, I find it odd that he's used as an example of good rep while putting down another character? There were plenty of ways to show Asra was nonbinary. Having him in a dress one scene isn't a good proof of in game identity, especially when the person stating he's a good example said that "Venture's baggy clothes don't make them good rep when they sound like a girl."

Venture is cute. Their kit seems interesting, and I'll give Overwatch some credit for at least stating outright that they're nonbinary before release and stressing to fans what Venture's pronouns are.

I'm glad we're getting away from the days where nonbinary or otherwise genderfluid characters were robotic or nonhuman. I'm happy that people get to see themselves represented in media.

Shout out to Nazali of The Arcana, because I did remember them!

#I did like Xavin in the Runaways but also can recognize that they fall into the “inhuman character” rep that some people are underwhelmed by #Their interactions with Karolina and their plot provided a lot more depth to the situation but that's kind of what I'm saying I feel was- #lacking with Asra? Does that make sense? Like Xavin isn't great rep because they're a shape shifting alien. #Xavin is okay rep because their PLOT and how it was handled was interesting and thought out. but I understand the concept that it's somewha #-of a cop out to make a shape shifter your genderfluid character. Asra as a main character out of three original options could have been- #great rep but he's slid into the okay rep in my eyes because of how his plot was handled surrounding his identity. #Idk if I'm articulating myself correctly sorry. #I was also unaware that Anka drew Xavin hot af. You go you funky little alien. #Long Post

[ickypuppi3]

i’m confused because is that not literally how she’s written in the show- her storylines do revolve her love life 99% of the time

like as shitty as that is, it is canon & surely you can’t blame fans for how crap the shows writing is and how characters are depicted?

#i feel like the character they’re talking about is not one i’ve seen #i would get it if they said fanon but they’re talking about canon nancy here #fandom wank #like #is that not literally her in canon #blame the duffers blame the writers #not saying it’s good #but that’s how her story’s written #such a cop out to blame fans rather than the people who made her that way #pull the duffers and writers on it why do they get away with shitty storytelling why does it always get blamed on fans #also like #playing it a little too fast and loose with ‘complex’ i fear #oh wait my bad #they ‘empowered’ her #by [checks hand] giving her guns and [checks other hand] .. yeah i got nothing #idk why can no one ever hold the people in charge responsible for their own show #not to be controversial on this fine evening but #yeah #the duffers get off way too easy

[quaranmine]

why do people always try to blame hermit and traffic fandom discourse on new dsmp fans. bestie we have our own homegrown discourse to be responsible of, it isn't always someone else's fault

#i just feel like it's a cop out #oooh the dsmp fans caused people to break cc boundaries!! no they didnt and also the boundaries ur defending dont exist #oooh the dsmp fans made this place hostile!! nope the hermit fans did that perfectly well way before the dsmp even existed back in 2019! #like i am just saying. can we own up to our own mistakes in this fandom and stop pretending to be superior to other corners of mcytblr #and take this from me. someone who is painfully intimately aware of dsmp discourse and someone who loves hermitcraft and traffic series #discourse #also yall have been saying that the dsmp fandom people ruined things for like...over a year now probably. let it go. no they didnt. #like in isolation yes i am sure there were bad dsmp fans who crossed over and made trouble here to but like. #there are also plenty of bad hermit/traffic fans who do the same all on their own without ever being into dsmp #the issue isnt the fandoms themselves LOL and im so sick of people trying to be superior #lets focus on the issues at hand and stop trying to point fingers at innocent groups of people. #ur scaring potential fans off by being hostile. i've seen multiple people who said they didnt wanna watch hermitcraft at all #because they felt uncomfortable after seeing hermit fans drag down dsmp fans #lets all. be nice to each other. please and thank you have a nice day

[custer-mp3]

reacclimating to life in civilization remains arduous & it's weird what parts of Being Hunted For Sport mode have fallen off already & how much i'm already taking it for granted & how HORRIFICALLY BAD the parts that should be easy are going

#it's like. i'm not scared to leave the house but also i start going places & get SO SO SO SO scared #had a low grade freakout the whole way to the mall yesterday cuz conceptually. Going Places is scary. and then i got to Target and it upgra #ded to a Level 78 I Am Being Hunted For Sport Freakout cuz all the Targets here are the normal size Targets i went to exclusively like. #2009 - Nov 2019. but then 3.5 years of only having access to a microscopic one where i would routinely be attacked by people has given me #The Fear TM #so it's like. i'm in this area that's 3x too big; there's more than 12 people; THEY'RE ACTUALLY MAKING EYE CONTACT WITH ME & ACKNOWLEDGING #WHEN I SAY SOMETHING (i.e. try to get past them) and i don't know what to do cuz i've been conditioned that if somebody looks at me at all #in Target they are about to do some absolute fuckshit that will likely result in me being injured or stalked or both #and like. i don't go most places with fear in my heart anymore!!! like it's really wacky how quick that fell off!!!!!! it feels like it sho #uldn'tve like. it feels like almost too much of a cop-out that it fell off that quick & i can mostly conduct my business feeling safe/fine. #but then oop!!!! i'm in target & boy on all levels except reality am i being hunted for sport #shit just aint right man this is so super embarrassing lmfao

[the-busy-ghost]

Actually our dating conventions are entirely arbitrary and almost anybody’s concept of when the Middle Ages began or ended is justifiable and valid, in fact to some extent even the concept of the ‘Middle Ages’ is entirely arbitrary.

That being said it is hilarious to me that the English pick 1485 as the end of the Middle Ages, that’s so specific. Creates the wonderful idea that the minute Henry Tudor stepped onto a field in Leicestershire all the locals started updating their wardrobe like “Well guess we’re in the Early Modern Period now, better get rid of all this old stuff”

#I mean to be fair I can't really think of a better date for 'ending' the Middle Ages in England #And we do NEED dates #And in the absence of any major events like that in other countries it does get confusing- the unfortunate Scots are permanently confused #Like we're just not sure whether we're in the early modern period or not for basically the whole of the 16th century #But especially up to 1560 #Sometimes people play it safe and talk about 'Renaissance' Scotland but that's just a cop-out #And I say this as someone who freely uses the term herself #So it's definitely difficult to assign a specific event or set of events the importance of moving a country from one period to another #But on the other hand I don't really think anybody knew for sure that the Tudor dynasty would stick around #Or that the massive civil war the English had been indulging in for the past thirty years was definitely definitely over this time #And why couldn't the Middle Ages have ended in 1484 or 1486 instead #I mean did people in Kent or Derbyshire or Northumberland really feel all that different #Just one really pissed off guy down in Somerset in 1510 'What do you mean it's the early modern period now? Nobody tells me nothin!' #It's more odd though because on a popular level a lot of people don't really interrogate that date #Like academics and so on will obviously say 'Well we use 1485 but it's a more complex process than that' #But on a popular level you get people being like 'Well we English left the Middle Ages in 1485 but those other countries were so backward #They still were mediaeval in the 1490s can you believe it!' #But also as I say the concept of the Middle Ages is insane anyway #Roughly a thousand years squeezed under one heading #Historical categorisation is completely insane

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ok i dont want to be the language police or whatever and bitch is a really good curse in the right context but could we all remember that it is also a gendered insult and calling women "bitches" when theyre angry or when they get assertive in a way you dont like has some bad undertones.

#someone on reddit just called melanie king a bitch and i got so angry i threw up #slash exaggerated #but they were like oooh how DARE she not be thrilled to see the antichrist during the apocalypse. how dare she be concerned for her own #safety as well as the safety of everyone she holds dear. during the apocalypse. which was brought about by the guy she has mixed feelings #about hanging out with. shes such a bitch #and its like. have you considered you just hate women #also they were talking about how they hate how alll the mean women are mean to jon and its like. its not gendered thing #it just so happens that jon himself and his literal love interest make up 2/3s of the male protagonists #and the remaining 1/3 is also mean to him #and the whole. women hating jon thing is so. it completely ignores the nuances of his dynamics with the rest of the cast #which are all incredibly complex. and different. and they dont hate him besides #melanie and georgie just want to like. not be dragged into (or back into) a world of unimaginable horrors #daisy was a literal monster blinded by her bloodlust and incapable of seeing jon as a person until he rescued her from the buried #and after that they got along fine #and basira. well. shes just not really great at seeing anyone as people. cop mentality