#and less diversity

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Peacock cancelled Rutherford Falls and I’m ANGRY ABOUT IT

#rutherford falls #HONESTLY HOW DARE THEY #we’re never going to see how Bobbie Yang is as mayor 😭😭 #i blame the Warner discovery merger #they want to court middle America #and less diversity #fuck em #and yes peacock is under that umbrella

[bisexualbailorgana]

#i wanted to include strawberry letter 22 but since it wasn’t an end credits song i figured it would be less memorable than the rest!! #i also didn’t include la vie en rose bc its a cover #but yeah #my fav is definitely perfect day bc its now one of my fav songs ever it gives me indescribable emotions #but ive been obsessed with seabird lately as well #the songs in ofmd are so good i think its got one of the best aoundtracks of any show ive watched #theres so much diversity in there and the way the songs also work despite it being a period drama is sooo good #ANYWAYS #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[sleepynegress]

CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE Yall... That's ANNETTE. That is a serious upgrade. She is now a magic wielder from the Caribbean. Yes, that's Thuso Mbedu from The Woman King and Barry Jenkins' Underground Railroad, voicing her.

#I told yall I will be back on my bullshit #castlevania: nocturne #thuso mbedu #annette #preparing the black girl main character defense league lol #bitch between this and iwtv my inner black girl goth vamp loving ass is eating good #castlevania #castlevania nocturne #before yall come in revealing ignorance of how diverse france was especially at this time...this is MORE accurate diversity-wise not less

[pomegranateandhoney]

words mean things

i got into an argument with someone today because they said not all jews are ethnically jewish, and i said -- yes we are, and they said well converts aren't ethnically jewish. and i said... all jews are ethnically jewish, but we're not all the same race. this person was like well i think of race as a social construct and ethnicity as something you can't change, and like. the definition of ethnicity:

the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

the definition of race:

any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

and these are dictionary definitions, not my personal ones. so yeah, man, all jews including converts? ethnically jewish. my rabbi makes a point of this, actually, when discussing conversion -- converts are the same as non converts according to jewish law. you convert into the religion and ethnicity. ethnicity is not about DNA.

i dunno, it bugged me.

#judaism #jews #converts are ethnically jewish #all jews are ethnically jewish #it's an ethno-religion #stop trying to make converts 'less' jewish thanks #jews are RACIALLY diverse

[butchmartyr]

sorry if i might be misinterpreting ur post but: so its Not just me that gets a little bothered by how suddenly hyped up strap/packing bulge is in lesbian spaces then??? like i swear i used to have to be hyper vigilant about if my dick was visible or not & had an irrational fear of being labelled a sex pest if i ever had like morning wood during a sleepover or something & now suddenly so many tme's are out openly thirsting over plastic dick prints??? like i Guess i'd prefer other dykes openly like a bulge than act the way my paranoia insists they would; but it all just feels a bit eyeroll inducing & irritates me a bit... idk...

as someone who’s had a cis ex eagerly refer to mine as a ‘bio strap’, i do get you (especially with the hypervigilance, mood), but my frustration was less with ppl being centered on ‘strap’ as uniquely lesbian compared to other phalluses and more with the growing comfortability non-transfems build for only addressing and recognizing trans women by their dicks while not working on their other internalized transmisogyny.

like i myself am someone who generally isn’t that bottom dysphoric but what that’s gotten me is great experiences from my love life such as getting chided for perceived male socialization before being made to top by a lesbian ex again (because why would someone like me want or have different sex), or the general fact that it wasn’t until like, last year that i got to experience some explicit compliments and touches for the first time on my breasts and my body that weren’t just about my dick or otherwise typically ‘masculine’ things like my muscles (especially silly given that im just skinny and barely have any musculature). and my partners were all lgbt, several of them trans in various ways! but this didn’t stop them from taking my general comfort with my body as an excuse to hone in on my dick without fear of repercussion.

i feel like a lot of people act like being gay or trans inherently makes you deconstruct/be better about gender, and they might be better about people similar to them, but often they still wind up treating trans women like ‘different’ men and carry matching expectations as such. sometimes it’s more subtle or sometimes it’s obvious like when lesbians will sometimes use us to experiment with bisexuality, but it still happens and people hate to talk about it lol. and we don’t have to get into the frustration i feel for people being like that re: strap ons while still being weird about other kinds of dicks, as if plenty of nb people and transmascs don’t see their strap ons as extensions of themselves and as their dicks through this way, but i do feel it, lol.

#the strap on thing is annoying though lol. lads are we successfully normalize diverse bodies and removing moral judgement from body parts b #refusing to call dicks dicks and acting like plastic ones are less ‘real’ and better by being so #long post #asks

[wyllsravengard]

i love and miss baldurs gate so much but every time i remember how the fandom and writing team treats wyll i simply dont want to think about it anymore. like i shouldnt be surprised because this is a dnd video game but it's crazy how far people are willing to go to pretend all of it is not racism. wyll is too boring and yet halsin (who is even more boring mind you) gets more attention then him in fan content, same with rolan and dammon and all other side characters in the game. he's never in anything promotional and it's pretty clear at this point the writers are Not Going to fix it. i love wyll so much i literally want to eat him alive but the wave of frustration i experience every Single Time i think of bg3 does not feel good

#like. rdr2 fandom is a rockstar game and certainly they are not absolved from racism #but because its been years since release the fandom is smaller and it is so far less common #but additionally the base game for the most part handles its racism very well #and this is me. Mean Hater Bitch. saying this and rockstar who focuses on satire #so many people are just so blatantly racist to wyll and they go so far as to HARASS people who talk about him #and this is not like esp shocking. anime fandom is also horrendous about this! #but in a game and in a fandom that CLAIMS to promote diversity as it has queer characters you would think there would be more. idk. #actual care and perception put into their one black lead. i know i talk about it Everyday but its like. so bad like worse than i have seen #in recent years for video game fandoms like. christ alive #z.gen #larian critical

[jennrypan]

Monster High Gen 3 can have diverse body types but the main black girl couldn't just remain black and not mixed :)))

Can have nonbinary representation and alla that good stuff but the one black girl doesn't even seem black any more cuz all her black qualities were watered down because????

Like they made her mixed for what??

It's stupid.

This show is fucking stupid and people eat it up for the bare minimum. Like YAAAAY body diversity, goody.

#j.p reblogs #they can make diverse body types but the main black girl cant remain just fucking black huh. #and bloodgood is black now but shes less accepting and annoying as hell with this hate against specific monster types #monster high #mh g 3 #stupid. #this show is so outrageously WHITE it makes me itch.

[smille-c]

i'm convinced body type diversity killed some people grandman when I see some people eggs lineup it's wild

#It's not aimed at anyone specificaly just a general feeling #Same with colorskins but it's less of an issue i've seen a lot more etnicity diversity #fandom critical #qsmp #smille mumble

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

#fun fact sometimes condensing meds just means poorer treatment of some conditions #this is a re-expansion + new thing #so that instead of poorly treating my mental health and using an unusually high dose SNRI for another (physical) condition #i will hopefully both be in less pain AND not depressed af AND also have an appetite again #i doubt i will be lucky and not have a fucked stomach due to meds but one can hope that an appetite will allow me to eat foods that upset #my stomach a lot less #my health is forever a massive balancing act #every time a medical thing is like 'so what meds do u take' i'm like here i wrote it down for u #and they're like 'oh. ooookay. let me just...' *five minutes of typing and clicking later* #'so! what did you come in for again? uhuh. you said you experience pain daily? with your chronic pain thing? hm. have you tried yoga?' #/gen #like. straight up every time i say 'i am in pain all the time due to fibromyalgia' they are like 'ooh studies say regular exercise helps' #and like. theoretically yes! but also. i would be lying if i said the fibromyalgia studies i've skimmed don't set off general 'bad science' #alarm bells in my brain #like... cool you performed a fibromyalgia study with... all male lab rats? mhmm? so are you aware fibromyalgia appears to occur #overwhelmingly in women? like. data seems to suggest between 70-85%? #(not that the data can't still indicate things but it certainly makes male rats a poor choice of model for tests on it) #also just... idk i've looked at some metaanalysis and been like 'okay cool theory and for all i know about human bio or bio in general that #sounds more or less correct BUT. you never discussed that one study on this subject that did NOT support your conclusion. #and that's 1) interesting when it was the most diverse group of subjects and the exceptions often teach just as much as the 'rule' #2) just shitty science. tell me how your theory is still credible when some evidence doesn't fit the model. #like... 'given that all other studies were primarily conducted on white american women in their 30s to 40s it is possible that this model #only explains (the early effects of fibro since that's a typical onset period) / (a possible genetic link primarily found in white women) / #(a possible sign of bias in diagnosis that demonstrates the possibility that there are different causes) / combinations of all of those #like... idk a paper that just throws out things that don't support it is a pretty big red flag #it doesn't mean the conclusion is entirely incorrect but it is often important to understand the context in which it applies #like... it's very easy to jump to an incorrect conclusion if you used something in the wrong context #ie: thumbs up is a good job / positive thing in a lot of western civilizations. teenage kee once went to china and discovered it to be #neutral to offensive in many areas outside of major tourist locations that were used to it #anyways i gotta sleep

[aquarterasian]

I really miss elena. Like she was such a big step for the franchise and it’s kinda disappointing that they haven’t branched out with more diverse characters since then. Her merchandise probably didn’t sell well enough for them to think it was worth doing again which is really sad. I hope they have someone like her again.

#precure #pretty cure #like it was crazy when starpre first leaked people thought those ones were fake bc no way would they have a character with dark skin #and it was so nice to see how happy it made people #like even if you don’t like starpre or even elena you have to realize how huge her inclusion was for the franchise #she was half-Mexican and she was PROUD of it and she was very popular in school #like idk I was thinking about this when I saw that they had made saki paler in her adult design #like I get the idea that she’s not playing sports so much anymore so she’d be less tan but #some people are just naturally darker and that’s beautiful too! #I just hope that if precure can introduce more diversity again the future :/

[bitsofsciencelife]

Asexuality and aromanticism show the radical notion that not all love is sexual or romantic. That platonic and familial love is just as important, and other types of love and emotions we have no name for. And that they're not mutually exclusive. Love isn't a zero-sum game! It can all coexist. Redefining love is what aspecs do.

And I think this romance-and-sex-obsessed society needs that.

#how can that not be queer? #ace aro people redefine love by simply existing #not to mention we also overlap with other queer identities #grey bisexuals like me #isn't diversity part of what lgbtqia represents? #love is human but it's also not just sex #it's mire than that and less than that #asexual #ace #aro #aromanticism #aromantic #lgbtqia #lgbtq+ #i hate when people remove the ia or + btw #queer #redefining and expanding what love means #that's what queer means right #or it should #love isn't a zero sum game either #you can have all types of love in your life #one form isn't more important or a replacement for another #and if you want to redefine love by getting rid of the tern itself #go for it #ofc love doesn't encompass the whole of human existence

[anotherpapercut]

if you think there should be an upper age limit for holding office your politics are based on finding the right people to discriminate against and you're annoying. there are other far better ways to determine if a person is competent enough to hold office

#lowkey weird as fuck how y'all are super cool discriminating against disabled people as long as theyre old #the mitch mcconnell thing is making people stupid. first of all that man was absolutely having a seizure or TIA or something #i mean fuck him and if he dies thats a ok with me but first of all thats kind of scary no matter who it is #and 2nd of all its absolutely not exclusive to old people #old people are also like human people with needs and interests to protect. less diversity is literally never the solution #what we need is more people of ALL ages not just no old people whatsoever lmao what the fuck is wrong with you people #youve seriously never met a mentally competent person over age 75?? i knew a guy who died at 94 #and couldve handle the presidency up until like age 92. dude was sharper than most 25 year olds #conversely i know 27 year olds who are less mentally and physically competent than mitch mcconnell :/ #to be clear tho i also think 18-35 year olds should be able to be president because fuck it am i right

[orange-coloredsky]

nick valentine entered that synth body, saw the half naked plastic man covered in face paint sitting across from him and instantly aged the silicone of his new face by like 40 years

#my art #fh #dima #valentine #inspiration for the little ponchos: concept art and also the idea that the institute slowly got less interesting over time #as they started seeing personhood as definable & replicable things like creative arts became increasingly smothered #clothes at the institute used to be way more diverse; still weird and cleanroom-y but you had more choices #it took a good couple hundred years for them to degrade into the lame ass mass produced jumpsuits #not because artistry or creativity had completely left the space but cuz it just stopped being encouraged #in the name of efficiency and productivity #:-)

[whitmore]

charlie slimecicle slash lore very clearly knows codeflippa isn’t juanaflippa somewhere inside of him. the specific avoidance of questions with codeflippa points us in that direction and is further confirmed by the direct questions he asked juanaflippa today during dia de los muertos— are you safe? are you in a happier place? he’s not in any level of denial barring performative, he’s just willing to settle for a codeflippa rather than no flippa at all, and that’s paraphrased but he’s said something very akin to it out loud. plus today he realized that if the missing eggs don’t have ofrendas they’re likely still alive, and i think to some end even after really processing that his current flippa isn’t the original juanaflippa, he’d still want her around emotionally to cope with the possibility of bearing witness to everybody else’s real egg reunifications. mariana isn’t around, his entire family was fundamentally gone at one point. he doesn’t want to have nothing again. and if codeflippa leaves, he’s left with nothing. again.

#eleanor.txt #qsmp #slimecicle #this is all paraphrased bc i’m not pulling up the stream for exact quotes rn #i think it’s possible that he believed codeflippa could have been some kind of codefied alteration of the original flippa #which was an arguably realistic theory before today tbh #juanaflippa’s ghost (and the rest of them tbh) clearly aren’t frozen at the time of their deaths otherwise they wouldn’t have cracks #for another post and time but interesting choice. it will have consequences i’m sure it means Something #but anyway it’s becoming clearer that codeflippa is less a diversion and version of juanaflippa and more an imitation #something designed to look like her and (attempt to) talk like her #all of this to say. he knows what he’s doing #tl;dr: the denial is shallow he knows what’s happening and he’s consciously letting it #it’s a choice he’s actively making #‘qslimecicle is in such deep denial’ NO he’s PRETENDING he is in deep denial and YOU are buying it. like everyone else on the island #where’s the i am human i have biases blinkie. imagine that’s here too

[archduke-enver-gortash]

me writing "bondage/restraining" on the gort 'kink' (whatever he really has going on is much more sinister) list as if i don't fully mean restraining someone (aka zeke) with multiple arrows. in a guillotine. on the goddamn crucifix.

#conquestsexual freakass #diversity loss! the megalomaniacal tyrant taking over baldur’s gate is aroace! #enver gortash #gortash #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #nsft #but also not technically at the same time? lol #since you it’s less sex and more just a fight/subjugation #gortash & zeke

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

#feel free to reblog but Im not gonna tag this its way too rambley at least for my taste to go in the main tags #ramblez #also man can I say I didnt want to make this post super long but theres so many other points I could make in poppys favor #the fact we got to see the hour of joy and it was terrifying we dont even know if joey actually killed anyone anymore #the gameplay itself is more diverse and fun then batim which is a walking simulator that pretends to have fighting n stealth mechanics #at least Poppy n Missys friendship gives u a reason to care for missys safety before shes put in danger #Missy can actually express unlike Boris who sits there looking cute with no proper expressions until he gets yoinked and ur supposed to car #bc he was uh adorable? And therefore you spend an entire chapter tryna get him and get an extremely bad boss fight in return- #also soundtrack wise I like poppys tracks more theyre unique and fun and you can tell which part of the game they come from #bendy has so many dramatic reveal stingers and tracks that are really hard to tell which part of the game they come from #bertrums boss fight has my favorite theme bc its so specifically crafted for him and unique and meanwhile Norman has one of the worst imo #a lot of Bendys soundtrack if I played it for you right now it would be hard to guess where its from bc it all kinda sounds the same #the reveal music for the machine for bendy land for heavenly toys for alices domain all sound the same x_x #its just so frustrating but yeah my point is can we all stop making up new reasons to shit on poppy playtime its just kinda dumb #it feels less like actual criticism and at this point just feels like elaborate justification for cringe culture which I hate #okay thats it bye sorry this is 10 pages long-