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multi-lefaiye · 11 months

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well alright the people have spoken! time to bitch.

setting to do not reblog because i'd rather not deal with people being stupid in my notes if they feel the need to try their luck.

also under the cut. i'll be talking about discourse and misinformation around gender affirming surgeries. the original post is not that deep but i got angy anyway. (also talk of genitals down here. not in a sexual way but like mentioning them)

so i saw a writing advice post last night that was giving cis authors advice on writing trans characters. admittedly i skimmed it mostly, but it seemed to have pretty good advice overall. nothing too egregious.

but then i got to a note about bottom surgery and like... it wasn't *wrong*, but it was presented in a way i felt was misleading and didn't address the full story. and like yeah this is a writing post and not Discourse 101. but MMMMMM don't like that.

it was saying that there's nothing wrong with writing trans characters who don't want bottom surgery and are completely fine with their genitalia as is. which is true! nothing wrong there! but it then went on to cite a statistic about that, which said that 72% of transmascs report not wanting bottom surgery vs 14% of transfems. followed by a line about how "transmasc characters who like their pussies are fine, and in fact they are in the majority category here."

and.......... i don't like the way that statistic is being presented here, for a number of reasons.

first, presenting that statistic without elaboration on *why* someone might not want this surgery implies that the only reason is that they just don't want it. which, if that's the case, is valid, but then why is there such a huge discrepancy? are you implying that transmascs in general have less bottom dysphoria or less desire to correct that dysphoria with surgery? why do you single them out and not mention that a transfem who likes her cock is also perfectly fine?

literally there is nothing wrong with transmascs/trans folks in general who are perfectly comfortable with whatever genitalia they have and don't want any sort of surgery. but in an *advice post* for cis people writing trans characters, why is that the only thing you mention about bottom surgery? why no references or resources for those who *would* want bottom surgery?

(i also remember a line about like "don't mention surgery at all in the story because trans people don't like talking about that" and i agree don't shoehorn it in if it's irrelevant but lmao i don't think you know what you're talking about. i talk so much about my bottom surgery aspirations with certain people.)

and another thing, and maybe this is just me knowing a bit too much about a lot of the discourse surrounding bottom surgery, but ftm surgeries (grouping them together here for the sake of simplicity, but i do know that phallo and meta are very different) are the subject of *so much* misinformation and fearmongering about potential complications. now not to say mtf surgeries (once again grouping together for the sake of simplicity + because i am not as well-researched on that front) are never fearmongered about, but like.... idk i feel like i see nasty shit about phallo in particular all the time.

like huh! i think a reasonable assumption to make here is that at least some portion of those transmascs surveyed might want bottom surgery or experience bottom dysphoria that they would like to correct, but due to fearmongering and misinformation they either don't think it's possible, don't think it's worth it, or don't think it's safe. or maybe even all of the above! speaking from my own experience, i definitely fell into that category until very recently.

and now to be clear i don't think the writer of this post had bad intentions. i really don't know anything about them and couldn't make a determination one way or the other on that front. so i assume this is just... benign ignorance at the absolute worst, because the rest of the post had decent information and i don't want to throw accusations around willy nilly.

also like. yes trans people who are comfortable with their genitals already are so valid and deserve representation, but in an era where gender affirming care is under an increasing amount of scrutiny and misinfo spreading smear campaigns... the people who do seek these procedures out deserve representation as well. and i'm not saying anyone is obligated to write that, but why not provide some resources for research for *those* characters?

basically the post came off to me as probably well-intentioned but deeply misguided in this regard and written by someone who doesn't really get what they're getting into. and that's a generous interpretation because i don't want to assume bad faith without cause.

(also apologies i know that the way this is all phrased is a vast oversimplification, and even referring to these as "ftm" and "mtf" surgeries isn't really accurate and doesn't consider transneutral people or intersex people who may be interested in these procedures. just wanna make sure to call that out--apologies for the gendered language.)

tl;dr: if you're going to create a post offering advice for writing marginalized groups, take care that you're not feeding into misinformation about those groups or sweeping generalizations one way or the other.

edit: also there are a lot of other factors i didn't even go into here or consider, like pricing and insurance, but like. basically. bruh.

#multi makes text posts #idk how to tag this lmao #discourse cw #transphobia cw #i suppose?#negative cw

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ergativeabsolutive · 1 year

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no wait spill the calendar nerd discourse, I want to know how we know that it's really tuesday

Well, what is Tuesday? The easy answer is that Tuesday is kind of a social construct and it's only "Tuesday" relative to our specific calendar system, which is 100% a human invention, but that goes without saying. I don't even need to say that weekdays as a concept are far from unique to the now-dominant western calendar, but I don't think it's useful to equate different calendars with each other (and more importantly i'm way more knowledgeable about the system I actually use and the history surrounding it), so I'm going to limit this to the system where today is actually called tuesday.

The real answer is that our calendar isn't just some arbitrary thing that we're just "keeping track of", but a complicated mathematical system that has been kept under extreme scrutiny for generations by nerds and religious officials all over the world to ensure that it remains in sync with various astronomical features, the seasons, holidays, etc. In fact, it was designed that way intentionally, so that we wouldn't have to "keep track", as that post says.

The Roman calendar was originally a 355-day lunar calendar, and like other lunar calendars, it was supposed to have an additional intercalary month every few years, which in the case of the Roman calendar was traditionally between February and March. Unlike modern lunar calendars though, the way this was supposed to work wasn't really codified, and instead it was placed in the hands of the priests to "keep track of", which as you can imagine usually meant "manipulate for political purposes". For example, if someone you don't like is in elected office, maybe the year should be shorter so they have a shorter term... 😏

That also meant that if Rome's religious officials were ever, say, busy doing other shit, sometimes the calendar would just get neglected and be allowed to get out of sync. So when Julius Caesar was elected pontifex maximus, and then proceeded to spend over a decade at war, the calendar basically got an entire season out of sync, because he was too busy fighting to actually do his job effectively. That's why, after the civil war ended and his power was secure, one of the first things he did was solicit the help of Egyptian astronomers to invent the Julian calendar. It was intentionally designed to keep track of the seasons etc. without human intervention, because clearly "human intervention" wasn't working. And for what it's worth, the Gregorian calendar is basically only a relatively minor adjustment to that same system, which otherwise has worked pretty consistently ever since. In other words, that post is kind of talking about a problem that really did exist at one time, but was already identified and solved over 2000 years ago.

Of course, at the time, the Roman calendar didn't have a 7-day week at all, they used an 8 day week, which operated according to its own rules and I don't really know much about it tbh. But I go into all this because, as far as the Romans and the people who use their calendar are concerned, the transition to the 7 day week happened after the Julian reform, which means that this transition happened relatively recently, well within recorded history, grounded in a system we know was already internally consistent. And in fact the 7 day cycle that the Romans gradually began to adopt around this time came to them via Greek astrologers, who based their system on the traditions that had already existed in West Asia. When the Romans adopted the 7 day week, they named the days of the week after the classical planets, and by extension, the gods associated with them. So, Tuesday is called "Tuesday" (tīwesdæġ/Tīwas dag) because for astrological reasons they associated this particular day in the 7-day cycle with Mars, and the Romans equated their god of war Mars with the Germanic war god Tyr/Tiwaz, so it ended up getting called that in English/other Germanic languages. It's important to mention that early on, this astrology-based naming system could be interpreted differently depending on when one considered the day to begin in the first place. It's possible to imagine a timeline where today was actually named "Saturday" in our system instead, without actually being a different day. Regardless though, there is, at least, archaeological evidence of dates as we would expect them to be, knowing this, being recorded just under 2000 years ago. So yeah, today really is Tuesday (or Saturday ig). It's definitely not Wednesday or Sunday, at least.

Despite the pagan roots of the weekday names though, the actual transition to the 7 day week as the default, as you might expect, is associated with the rise of Christianity, and the system as we know it was eventually codified by Constantine. And of course, once you have a consistent pattern codified into both religious and secular law, it's kind of hard to screw up. And again, we haven't.

tldr "tuesday" as such is kind of an arbitrary concept, but we know that the underlying calendar system is consistent, and Tuesday itself came about through, to put things extremely simply, the interaction between astrology and something like at least half a dozen different cultural-religious traditions, such that it doesn't really make sense to think today is anything else while you're still adhering the Gregorian calendar at all. As far as I'm concerned, "is today really tuesday" is two separate questions: "Is our calendar system internally consistent or has there been a mistake in its reckoning of days since it was codified" (which this answer was about, and the answer is yes) and "has the 7 day week in general stayed consistent and been accurately reckoned for its entire history and was that accurately integrated into our system in the first place", but that's more of a historical and religious question, and as far as I'm concerned it doesn't really have to have anything to do with with "Tuesday" or secular dating.

#txt #rant #mail #bonni #int #long post -#sorry it took so long to answer this lmao i spent more time than was probably necessary to double check everything in this post lol

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cc-kirby · 7 months

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With the new fall season coming, my thoughts on the three Summer 2023 anime series I watched this year:

My Tiny Senpai: Loved loved loved this series. I came into it hoping to just get some lighthearted romantic fluff and came out of it getting even more than that even. Shiori was an angel and needs to be protected.

My two types of girls are tsunderes and fail girls and this series managed to give me two girls that are combinations of both in their own ways. Shinozaki's Sister and Hayakawa completely own my heart now.

The discourse surrounding the trailer was incredibly fucking stupid even when it was directly happening and as this series went along it really made it look even dumber in hindsight than it did before. If you don't like to watch move slowly this series will drive you nuts, and in episode 9 it makes a big decision that even had me raising an eyebrow and groaning a little bit before accepting that it wasn't going to be permanent (and I was right, thankfully). As someone who doesn't mind slow burn romance, especially when there's no love rival involved (the oldest of hats in any romantic comedy), I really enjoyed it. Lots of good, goofy comedy and two main protagonists you really do find yourself rooting for. Definitely worth a watch if you just want to see lighthearted office fluff.

The Dreaming Boy is a Realist: Man. I almost dropped this one. It really was getting there. This is one where it just doesn't just calm down. It throws like fifteen different characters at you and expects you to know and remember them right away and honestly the first few episodes of this show were insanely hard to follow, let alone the clunky, confusing script and dialogue.

The first few episodes were so overwhelming and the amount of times I had to pause to look up a character they'd mention by name that you only saw for a minute or two in a previous episode so you can be like "ah, that's who they're talking about. I remember them, I think? Maybe?" It kept getting worse and worse about this and I kept getting extremely close to dropping it before I'd give it one more chance mostly because some of the character designs are extremely cute. Even that wasn't saving the series though.

However, then it did something I completely wasn't expecting: it slowly got better. Slowly but surely, episode after episode, it started to breathe a little more and characters finally got fleshed out in the proper ways and you know what? I'm not going to say it became a good series, but it definitely very slowly improved and they even stuck the landing on the ending.

Was it too little too late? Maybe. It's such a bummer because by all accounts this seems like *such* a neat idea for a series (boy is so smothering to the girl that he likes (who doesn't like him back) that he finally has an epiphany that he's been stunting her and keeping her from making friends because they're all too weirded out by him hovering around her, and also realizing he'll never have a chance with her so he backs off (letting her finally grow and gain friends herself) and slowly gains major self-improvement to the point where he earns respect in places he'd have never expected and he becomes the person people come to for advice and he just becomes a better person overall while also slowly repairing his relationship with the girl) and from what I've heard the manga and the light novels are just so much better. They do an inner voice-monologue thing with the main boy that serves as him giving himself teaching lessons and advice that the anime FINALLY begins to explore near the end and if they had been doing that from the beginning they really would've had something.

Honestly the more I watched the more it made me want to read the light novel and manga because everyone swears up and down they're both miles better than the anime was. It just felt like the anime series didn't feel like it had enough time to properly convey all of the stories it wanted to share so they crammed a LOT into 12 episodes and gave nothing any room to breathe.

What this series has most going for it are some of the character designs. Rin is the exact type of girl, right down to personality, that I had a crush on all the time in high school, and Kei isn't too far behind. And of course Aika makes enough of those grumpy puffy tsundere faces that you understand why Wataru (WHY WAS HIS SISTER SO HOT THOUGH) had such a big crush on her, even if it led to him being so overbearing about it.

I would say you're probably fine passing on this one, but maybe give the light novel or manga a shot. I didn't hate it like I was expecting to but your mileage will vary. This one REALLY went out of its way to try and get better and it almost made it, to the point where I'm thumbs in the middle rather than down.

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses: I figured this was gonna be the one that I most loved from the getgo, and honestly? It's a tough tie between it and My Tiny Senpai, but this might have the edge because it's the only one whose sweetness got me tearing up on multiple occasions, especially in the final episode, and it's all because Mie is one of the cutest dorkiest sweetheart girls on the planet. This series was the one that I went out of my way to zoom to where the manga currently is so I could follow along.

The biggest complaint I heard about this series was how it felt like she was constantly losing her glasses. I felt like I was going crazy because I felt like I was the only one who understood what they were going for. They aren't going to do entire episodes where she doesn't forget her glasses. They even mention, multiple times in multiple different episode, how it's been awhile since she last lost them. The entire point of the series is how Komura is getting closer to closer to Mie from the time they spend together when he takes care of her after she forgets, or breaks, her glasses. At about the halfway point in the series they even show that so much time has passed that they're in a new semester. I dunno, I feel like they were telegraphing this to the point that it should've been obvious, especially for someone who can be legendarily oblivious like myself.

Coming of age romance stories are some of my favorites. Hi Score Girl is a series that I only finally watched in 2023 and it affected me so much that it leaped into one of my five favorite series that I've ever seen. So basically, I knew I was gonna love this one from the premise alone. I will admit the weird art direction, especially in that first episode, drove me absolutely insane, and I was VERY thankful that they mostly knock that shit off pretty quickly afterward, because that almost killed the entire show for me.

Another one where the romance is slow, but it definitely moves at a faster pace than in My Tiny Senpai, and the slow developments really do make you root for the both of them, especially when it finally becomes obvious to Mie that she has feelings for Komura too. Her selfishness about it is completely adorable, and the series ends on such a sweet, high note, leaving you hopeful that these two will finally be able to communicate how they feel for each other, and that a season two would be wonderful.

Also, we need a season two so we can get more of Azuma, who I know as the manga keeps going gets more attention and story. I like how in the series to Komura he is like a rival for Mie's love but then to everyone else it becomes readily apparent that he knows these two have feelings for each other and in his own little ways he tries getting them to spend more time with each other. Between him and Sudo in Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible, 2023 should be the year of the cool wingmen.

A definite, and obvious watch recommendation. This one was so sweet, like a much needed hug after a long day.

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theharlotofferelden · 10 months

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I think a lot of people are stuck in doom-thinking and that also muddles their ability to look at things objectively and at the facts. Kind of similar to how some people on here get offended when someone with depression says something along the lines of "going outside if possible helps sometimes and so does brushing your teeth". Crabs in a bucket thing and all that.

I agree. Personally, while I understand ppls grievances, a lot of what Biden is currently doing is stuff that I've, over the years, have made an effort to compartmentalize/lower my expectations on because stuff is ALWAYS happening and it can be incredibly overwhelming at times. Like, I used to read/watch the news every day, and while I was able to deal with 99% of the information I received, it gets exhausting after a while. It feels like the world keeps finding new and fucked up ways to keep disappointing you. I've been there, I get it, and it fucking sucks.

The way I see it, most of us aren't going to be able to directly affect what's happening outside of going outside to protest or getting involved in local politics or other community efforts. Yes, you can also vote, but from what I've seen, ppl tend to view that in a defeatist manner as well. The overall sentiment on this website during the 2020 election was that Biden wasn't an ideal/perfect candidate so why should anyone bother voting. And while I completely understand and empathize with that, the other side doesn't give a shit about whether Their Guy is perfect. They just care about getting Their Guy in office.

Which puts into perspective the whole "Biden sucks" discourse because if anyone on the other side has grievances about Trump (which they almost certainly do) they're still willing to vote for the fucker without acting like their arm is being twisted. Which is also why ppl tend to view all of discourse about Biden sucking as some kind of psyop.

It's one thing if you (gen) decide not to vote for him, but now you're on The Internet actively trying to discourage people (some of which are new voters) from voting, because while you harp on and on and on about how our current system sucks, you not only can't seem to accept it for what it is and try to work with it in some capacity ("wOrKiNG wiTHiN a fLAweD sYSteM dOEsN't wORk uwu") you're also a little bitch who won't do anything meaningful to actually try and change things. You can volunteer and get involved in community efforts or get involved in local elections. But no, instead you're in my fucking notifs trying to dunk on me because feeling morally superior over how much Biden sucks is really what matters to you.

And it's like. I fucking hate Biden as much as I hate Hillary. I still voted for both of them. Die mad about it.

Anyway, all of this crap to me is just focusing on what I can and can't control, tuning out the noise surrounding it all, and prioritizing what makes me happy. Which is how I tend to view most of the wank on here and other corners of the internet. If arguing about Biden sucking is how other ppl wanna spend their time, then they can have at it. Just leave me tf out of it, for fuck's sake. I'm not on tumblr to argue with ppl about this crap. It's not worth my time or energy. I only have a certain number of fucks spoons to spend throughout the day, and I'd rather spend them on something that makes >me< happy.

#personal: replies #personal: vent #tbd maybe #apologies for the length #i've been thinking about this off and on for months #thing is: tuning out this kind of noise isn't uncommon #but certain folks will look at this and go ''it's a point of privilege if u can compartmentalize what's going on uwu''#''i don't have the luxury to do so bc i've made complaining about these issues 24/7my entire personality uwu''#idk how to explain to these ppl that unplugging from shit is healthy and normal #tho i also don't understand why people want to do internet activism on tumblr (of all fucking places)#bc it's the worst place to talk about ANY nuanced subject #but whatever. anyways

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what-do-1000-swords-look-like · 2 years

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You know, I don't even care if people ship destiel or any other ship in SPN or not. If they saw any of it in the show or not. I'm totally cool with that. But man do I despise the whole 'wincest is canon' discourse.

These are the same people who literally say that destiel and other ships are "delusions" and that those who saw those ships "obviously weren't watching the same show" and that the show "wasn't about that", and yet continue to say how the show gave them their ship and "Dean only loved Sam". Like...?

You can't have it both ways. Either the show did contain romantic elements somewhere there in the story or it didn't.

Their whole argument stems on Dean waiting for Sam to get to Heaven as proof of wincest being endgame. That Dean drove in Heaven until Sam got there. That Dean died first because he couldn't live without Sam. That Sam lived a half-life because he couldn't live without Dean, because he missed the man he loved. That Dean and Sam ended up together in the end and would spend eternity together. And I just...how do you see that as proof of the show making wincest canon or endgame?

Bobby literally told Dean in the same breath that John and Mary lived in a house near the Roadhouse (the other two members of the OG Winchester family) and then told Dean that Sam would be along in time. Ofc he was going to wait for Sam, that was the last member of his family (not knowing about Dean 2.0's existence). It's not a declaration of romantic love or the two brothers being soulmates. It goes in line with what they showed for that particular ending to the brothers' story. It goes in line with what we saw being set up in 1x01. (since 15x20 nuked all character and story development and this essentially could have been 1x02 again)

And on another note, I will never understand why people ship these two characters together. They're brothers. It doesn't make sense to either of those characters to be sexually attracted to one another or to be in love with one another. Incest wasn't the game plan for SPN, in any shape or form. And this isn't a judgement, it's just facts.

And it's also deeply concerning seeing the things that these people celebrate about this fanon incestuous ship as earmarks of the supposed greatest romantic pairing of all time: codependency, their constant violation of each other's boundaries, the lack of boundaries they had when the show started, Dean's suicidal ideation and lack of self-worth when it came to Sam dying or being in danger, Sam's willingness to continuously sacrifice himself in order to get Dean back when Dean died, how their codependence formed thanks to the abuse they endured (as well as Dean's parentification and spousification), their constant gaslighting (aka emotional abuse) of one another when they would get really angry with one another, their constant isolation (until the found family was brought in starting with Bobby) and stunted emotional growth and development by not forming any relationships outside of each other (again, codependency rearing its ugly head), and their extremely unhealthy (and toxic) coping mechanisms (usually surrounding each other). You are not celebrating the chemistry between the actors or if both characters' personalities/stories complement one another in the story, or even the love they have for each other. You are celebrating ABUSE and TRAUMA.

(does anyone remember the conversation the scene below led to? where Dean tells Mary what happened when he and Sam tried to make this dish when they were younger and John's reaction when he came home during?)

Sam: "My entire life you've always protected me. From Dad..." (notice the defensiveness here in Dean's expression at the mention of John, typical response for Dean's complicated relationship with his bio dad whenever Sam has said something in the past)

Abuse. And. Trauma.

Because ultimately, that is the one of the main themes surrounding these brothers. Their mother was killed in a brutal way which traumatized John and thus traumatized Dean. Both boys losing their mother at such a young age is traumatizing in itself, especially for Dean who remembered her and knew what it was like to have a home and a mom and a semi-normal life before it was snatched away. These boys have never had a solid home after Mary's death (except for Sam's apartment in the beginning of the series) until the bunker. Before that, the only constant they had was Baby, hunting, and John. John who was hellbent on revenge and completely neglected his boys and even abused Dean (besides all the obvious hints the show gave, parentification and spousification are forms of abuse). The "drunken rages" that Toni mentioned to Mary. (and as shown above) "When Dad came home..." The story Dean tells Mary about when he and Sam made Winchester Surprise and then John came home. So the abuse and neglect was obviously traumatizing. Then think about everything Sam and Dean have gone through since the show started, do you really think all of that isn't trauma built upon trauma standing on top of trauma? Losing Jessica - trauma. Dealing with the monsters and dead bodies and losing people - trauma. Losing John - trauma. Losing Bobby - trauma. Losing Mary again - trauma. Losing Charlie - trauma. Losing Adam - trauma. Sam being tricked by Ruby to set Lucifer free - trauma. Dean going to Hell and being tortured and then torturing others in turn - trauma. Dean almost being possessed by Michael to fight Sam who was possessed by Lucifer - trauma. Sam sacrificing himself to trap Lucifer in the cage - trauma. Dean going to Purgatory - trauma. Sam being tortured by Lucifer in the cage - trauma. Dean having to kill Benny to send him back to Purgatory to save Sam - trauma. Sam being possessed by Gadreel and tricked by Dean - trauma. Dean bearing the MOC and eventually turning into a demon - trauma. Sam having to watch Dean die time and time again - trauma. Dean having to watch Sam die - trauma. Dean being possessed by Michael - trauma. Dean thinking he needed to go in a Ma'lak box for eternity to stop Michael - trauma. Losing Jack - trauma. Jack losing his soul - trauma. Losing Cas (all 3 times) - trauma. Losing each other (too many times to count) - trauma. That is literally one of the main staples of this show. As is loss, love (familial is the top one), horror (through the supernatural), and sacrifice.

Ship what you want to ship, but for the love of God, can you please stop celebrating the toxic components of what makes up this particular ship? You're not celebrating two brothers who love each other and would do anything for one another - you're celebrating all of the trauma and abuse they have endured. When you sit there and talk about how ships like destiel is gross and people are deluded to make it up in their heads but then talk about how wincest is amazing because Dean and Sam can't live without one another, you are literally propping up the codependency which is a byproduct of the abuse and trauma. It's one thing if you didn't realize it beforehand but these posts I keep seeing, these particular posters are aware and what's worse, they don't care. If that isn't concerning, I don't know what is.

And everyone else is deluded whether they ship destiel or chestervelle or beandenny or sam/amelia?

How about you people stop celebrating these negative and toxic elements to the boys' back story and propping up abuse and trauma as something to celebrate instead? Thanks.

#anti wincest #antiwincest #stop celebrating the abuse and trauma #spn #spnposts

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jacscorner · 3 years

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My Hero Academia Drama...is usually pretty funny.

Maybe it's just a byproduct of the digital era, since everyone with a smart fridge can spew their opinions for everyone to see, but it seems like every month, there's a new drama poking out of the ground.

I never talked about any of it before cause I felt it wasn't really worth talking about. And, honestly, if I got on my soap box to talk about every little piece of fandom discourse in the MHA fandom, this would become a MHA Blog. But this one is just so funny that I gotta talk about it.

Because it revolves around this fucker. XD

Spoilers ahead. I don't care, but you might.

Also, finally, discourse I, as a bi-man, can actually weigh in on. XD

For the uninitiated, here's a brief summary: Minoru Mineta, AKA the Fresh-Picked Hero: Grape Juice, is everyone's least favorite character. His primary personality is that he's a pervert. Hell, he wants to be a hero to get girls. He's the Class 1-A Joke Character, or at least, Horikoshi-Sama's favorite joke character with how much screen time he gets.

Personally, Mineta isn't anywhere close to my Top 10 Characters, but he has grown on me. I'm usually annoyed by him myself when he gets prominent time on screen and not, like, Sero or Kirashima, but I will admit that I've grown to enjoy his time on screen.

Especially when his perverted actions bite him in the ass. That's his purpose in this series: a concentration of perverted joke that, more often than not, gets his comeuppance. You don't gotta like the joke, and I wouldn't blame you for not liking it, but that's what it is.

Now fast forward to this panel from the latest chapter of the manga.

I don't got a lot of the context for whatever's going on, but basically, Deku's snapped and his classmates are trying to knock some sense into him...I think, I don't know, I'm not reading the manga. I'm busy reading Hajime no Ippo.

And this is the source of the drama. More specifically, the line "I fell for you when you were scared and sweating bullets..." Everyone is either calling Mineta gay or bi and are furious that this is the LGBT+ representative in this manga confirmed by Horikoshi, the character literally everyone hates but may very well be the mangaka's pet character.

Actually, I seem to see two kinds of people surrounding this drama: people who flip the script and are happy for Mineta coming out or people raging about how this is 'setting gay people back'.

Somehow, I feel these are the same people thinking Catradora didn't do that. You know, the couple that spent 4 seasons of one physically and mentally abusing the other and all we really got for it was an 11th hour kiss.

I mean, I guess first things first: Mineta is probably not gay. You know, cause his entire character is him being a lech. Sure, it's certainly plausible Mineta was overcompensating being straight to hide being gay, but somehow I doubt Mineta of all characters is going to get that kind of development.

Second, I doubt Mineta is even bisexual. Like I said, Mineta's a joke character. The joke is everything with him is sexual. Or did you not catch the name of his special move is 'Mineta Beads'. You know, like anal beads. Or that he calls his grapes his 'sticky balls'.

Do you need him to wear make-up and shoes? Mineta's a fucking clown!

Hell, I don't think it's too unreasonable to think that Horikoshi is fully aware of the shipping community and wrote this line deliberately to mess with them.

And, while actually writing this, some translators have thrown out that the original Japanese text implies that Mineta greatly admires and respects Deku, rather than just a full-on attraction.

But, you know, let's say that Mineta is bisexual, if not just straight out gay and has been deep in the closet and only came out for his crush's sake.

1. Jiro is right there.

2. Kirashima is over there.

But seriously, it's just kind of pathetic. If you like Mineta now because you can look at the text and say he's bisexual, then you're shallow. Cause you're not liking the character for who he is. You're liking him cause now he's "one of us", like this is some kind of cult and we have to all like each other.

And if you hate Mineta and don't want him as an icon of the community cause he's problematic, then you're seeing the forest for the rocks and not the damn trees. I'm saying that as someone who only mildly enjoys Mineta, but Mineta does have some good qualities. He's smart, resourceful, good with his Quirk even if it's not that strong of a Quirk, and he's honest with himself. He knows who he is, and he knows that he only wants to be a Hero for a very selfish desire; to pick up chicks! That is some mad chad energy!

Granted, it's coming from the least chad character in this series, but I digress.

I guess the TL;DR is: this entire drama is dumb and this fandom is so superficial. Hate him if you want, like him if you want, but this is just really freakin' silly all over something that's, at best, just a joke, and at worst, something that was unintended by Horikoshi

#JAC Chat #JAC Analysis #My Hero Academia #Bisexual

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lowkeysebastianstan · 5 years

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hey there. I totally get your frustration with endgame and the ending. I wasn't happy and I'm not happy how half the fandom tells me/us how we have to look at it. how we have to accept it. how the actors are happy with it and so should we. how the writers/producers - okay, I'm gonna leave them out of this seeing neither of them have any idea what they have done in the first place. after all they disagree on everything in every interview since the release. and isn't that funny? (1/?)

how even they are not on one side with the movie? what I despise most right now when it comes to this movie and this fandom is how we are treated. how we should tag our “hate” - which I think is funny since I didn’t hate the movie entirely. I hated pieces of it, like I did with past movies. I never liked doctor strange and even back then people were allowed to mention how casting cumberbatch for the part wasn’t the smartest idea they had. (2/?)

people want us to be happy with an ending that doesn’t make sense to us and they appreciate and are “allowed” to shove down our throats with their happy posts about a perfect ending. how is taking tony’s life after he finally married pepper and got a daughter is perfect? how is sending steve back to peggy after they did everything in their power to convince us he moved on from his past life…how is that perfect? (3/?)

you can probably tell I’m bitter. I really am. there’s not a day that goes by I’m not frustrated with what we got after ten years and 22 movies. however, I thought to myself what would it give me to cling on to this on my blog. would it change anything? I do know I’m not alone. I see so many people agreeing with this anger and it gives me some sort of peace. at the end of the day, though, it’s also important to see what it gives to you. (4/?)

talking to one of my closest friends about it and voicing my frustration with the end helps me more than keep posting about it. because in the end it won’t change a thing. the longer I surround myself with the frustration and anger and everything that comes with this not being what I had hoped for the more it pushes me from the fandom. of course everyone do as they please and I get people who want to get it out of their system. (5/?)

but maybe sitting down and look at what the constant repeating will give you in the end, realizing where it might end, could help finding some kind of peace for you. I’d hope for you to enjoy the parts of the fandom that still apply to you. I really like your blog and you as a person and I’d hate to see one of my fave people on this site to leave (I lost count, but this is the last)

whew! hi right back, that was quite something.

i feel ive answered this ask before, was that also you?

i mean, yeah. i know im not alone, i do. i see some of it on my dash, but not a lot, since ive had to block every marvel related tag just to keep from indulging in some light murder (just gentle ones, not to worry), and i really cannot fathom why ppl on the other side of the isle can’t do the same? or if you’re getting tired of the negativity? blacklist. or unfollow, block even.

as ive said a few times lately, ive been here 6 years. and this is the first time ive aired my frustration in any noticeable way. sure there’s been a few occasions where i got the salt shaker out, but that was in relation to much more limited subjects, and it was a post or two at the most.

ive been frustrated with previous movies too, but ive kept my trap shut, ive just gone on, kept my queue stocked, giffed the rare set and hid behind pretty solid content, no drama, not personality, no engagement.

and it’s not too bad, to just be anonymous, to look at the pretty, spread the pretty, do the occasional tag rant, and let that be it.

but.

when i came back after a long hiatus last autumn i started writing again. i posted a psa where i apologised for the fact that i would reblog my writing on this blog, i informed what tags i was gonna use, and for the first time i actually checked my follower count before and after. i lost 20 followers the first day. for posting writing. my writing. that was tagged to a ridiculous degree. and i saw a fair few more disappear before the exodus, and idk. i made me realise a thing or two.

one, people like my blog and the content i post

two, they’re only here for that content

three, to have a strictly themed blog will limit you horribly

four, my followers in general don’t give a shit about me, only about the content i post, which fair enough

five, i care about that, even if i don’t care about the follower count as such, i do care that the ones i have actually like me

six, which is completely absurd bc none of them knows me at all, i never show myself

but that was then. this is now. and the last weeks has made me realise the most important thing of all, i dont care any more. why the fuck should i? when my showing any kind of negativity about something that i did care a whole lot about but i no longer have?

endgame might have killed all my enthusiasm for the mcu, and it fucking hurts. it’s been a staple in my life for years, ive invested my time, my creativity, my love and my goddamn money, and ive got jack shit to show for it. i have a blog that i used to love, but is becoming alien to me, and that hurts too. ive invested a lot in this blog too, after i deleted a few of my other blogs a couple of years back, this is by far my biggest one. and im torn tbh.

do i want to leave it? no, i don’t. can i go back? honestly? i doubt it. if my love for the mcu is gone, well so is bucky. and lets be real, a sebastian stan blog with no bucky? i cannot really see it, can you?

but hey. ill make you a deal, all of you. ill ease up on the memes, i won’t stop bc i have a few scheduled, you guys blacklist or unfollow if you dont want to see them, and ill see about sprinkling in some sebastian content if i can find any i deem worth it.

also i don’t have any close irl friends to air my frustrations with, everyone here loved this crap, and that’s not really the discourse im looking for. but im happy for you, it sounds nice :)

hope you’re having a great day!

eta: i won’t leave btw. not unless the porn hub thing comes into fruition. just so you know, and if anyone cares. just sayin.

eta2: also? the fact that i, or we, are complaining and being pissed at the movie, but the opposition are attacking us for doing that? instead of, again, fucking blacklist and leave us the fuck alone? yeah, doesn’t help with the bitter. if y’all are so threatened by our arguments, maybe you should reevaluate your own, seems you’re trying a bit too hard there. i don’t want to take enjoyment from anyone, i envy you too much for that, but ffs, just leave me the fuck alone to deal with it. (that’s not @ you, that’s to them)

eta3: and thank you for saying im someone you like. but see? ive been trolling you all, im terrible. and i expect you don’t like me as much now anyways. but thank you, it was nice to hear nevertheless.

#anon #ask #answered #anti endgame #see? i still tag it ffs #long post #so so long #hey i get it #the positivity is killing me #i get where you're coming from #but it's getting a bit tiresome to have people just come in and tell me to get over it #no matter how well you mean it #im sorry that i cant just snap and make half my feelings go away #y'know bc that would take away any good ones too #good greif infinity war kinda sucks too doesn't it #wow

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dark-magical-ships · 2 years

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oh heck, I'm sorry. (DA anon here) - DA2 is my absolute favorite from the series too (the only one I'll actively replay heh) and I...too had to step away from the fandom and I actively avoid it. I'm sorry if I brought back any bad memories. I had some bad experiences too and a majority of people either have gross opinions on my fav or just straight hate them so it's really like...stressful??? to interact with those people. But I had DA2 for so long in my life - I'll be damned if I ever let some dumb strangers on the internet ruin what I love, the Kirkwall gang, and the character I love from DA2. but yeah! Just wanted to say, you're definitely not alone ^^

Hello again! No worries, friend. Fandom drama can be really bad, and some of the worst I've ever seen was from the DA fandom. While I can't claim that I wasn't directly targeted by a good amount of it (I was, as were many of my friends), the worst of it passed me by. I have bed memories associated with the fandom, but also some very good ones! Your message was definitely on the better side of that line. :)

(TW below the cut: anon hate mention, s*ic*de mention, general fandom toxicity mention, threats of violence mention, "The Mess" mention)

Idk if you were on Tumblr/in the fandom to witness The Mess firsthand, but there are still some blogs up to archive the events, and that was what finally forced me to drop the fandom—I was not part of the original callout post and played an extremely minor role in the ensuing chaos. But that role that I played was support. I wiped the tears and held the hands of friends who were directly targeted by The Mess and saw exactly what kind of damage that sort of behavior can do to people.

I had friends who were shamed publicly for things they never did, friends who received targeted hate campaigns directly into their inboxes, friends who were told over and over and over to kill themselves and that their lives were worthless. I have received threats personally and seen how it hurt my friends when they also received such threats. Some of this behavior has continued up until as recently as last month, with my closest friend in the world having received demands that she kill herself just a couple weeks ago. They tried, and very nearly succeeded in, doxxing her and calling for members of the fandom to find her IRL and do things that would harm her. A sideblog popped up like two weeks ago that was dedicated to threatening her and a couple of other people, and they even tried to bait me into getting involved so they could doxx me as well, simply because I'm associated with the people they were targeting and dared to still be on Tumblr—regardless of the fact that I left the fandom years ago.

All of this, over a callout post that never had any evidence to back it up to begin with.... which in turn was made because some content creators didn't like how some other creators interpreted or depicted their favs.

This experience is why you won't find me solidly on either side of the proship vs anti debate in the selfship community, or really engaging in Discourse almost at all.

Any discussion that can become so strongly polarizing that it can lead to behavior like I've seen from the DA fandom during The Mess, in my opinion, is far too messy to be worth getting involved in. Where my own beliefs fall on that scale aren't relevant, in my mind. What matters is that the conversations surrounding difficult topics don't harm actual living, breathing, feeling humans in the process.

Nobody deserves to live with that kind of abuse, harassment, and psychological torment that I've seen and experienced. It's even worse when people receive this kind of treatment from a place that used to be a place of safety and love for them.

#tw abuse #tw suicice mention #tw suicide #tw threats of violence #tw threats #tw discourse #tw fandom wank #tw fandom discourse #tw the mess #tw the mess 2.0 #tw the mess 2.5 #tw the mess 3.0 #tw anon hate #tw hate #tw doxxing #tw harrassment #tw the mess 2020 #the mess #dragon age fandom critical #fandom critical #fandom criticism #fandom wank #dragon age fandom #so yeah in case it wasn’t clear this blog is anti-harassment and doesn’t care who you are or why you’re doing it #trying to make people hate and/or harm themselves over Being Wrong On The Internet is bad mmmkay #thank you for reminding me that there are good people in the fandom still #I miss engaging with the nice ones like you :)#if someone reads this and wants to know what all exactly went down check out ‘the mess’ in the dragon age side of tumblr #visceralcoma I think is the only blog left that still has a full archive of what all went down #but there are others who can and will talk about it too in DMs or just in general

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