#and that's fair

[fubuwu]

Seeing people call jc an incel will always confuse me because like.... do they understand what being an incel means?

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Incels despise women because they think they owe them sex and consider themselves too ugly and inferior to be pursued by the opposite sex.

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Jc has never shown any desire to be with the opposite sex. He reads as being ace if anything. He's always been repulsed by the notion of love, romance and pdas and has never once proclaimed that women owe him sex. He doesn't seem interested in pursuing women at all, nor does he blame women for the worlds problems or treat them with disrespect. He blames most of the problems on wwx. He's wwx-ist if anything XD (jk).

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Honestly, I'd say he's voluntarily celibate. He could realistically get any girl he wants and knows it, but he simply doesn't choose to. I honestly don't think he has any interest in getting wed tbh.

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As for the marriage requirements, loads of men had those at that time and honestly, they weren't that unrealistic. Plus, I'm pretty sure they were never a main part of the text and just a joke mxtx came up with as to why he's still single. I find it infeasible that a handsome, powerful, rich man like him is single when arranged marriages exist in that universe, as seen with jfm and madame yu. A woman hating, incel would no doubt use that to their advantage and force marriage on any women they desire. Jc has the ability to do that giving his status and yet he doesn't. He doesn't even seek out comfort from women in brothels. Therefore, I can't see him having a hatred and disrespect for women when this notion also exists.

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Incels also have zero respect for women in general including the ones in their lives. Their hatred often starts with their own mothers in fact. Jc obviously doesn't hate his mother or his sister. He cares deeply for them, in fact. Why else would he mourn them and be willing to stick up for his sister whenever people bad mouth her if he was a vile woman hater?

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Idk I just think the incel claims are completely baseless. He is not angry and displeased because he is alone and single nor is he angry at women. His anger is all solely on wwx, the wens and dc in the book. It has never been towards women.

#canon jiang cheng #jiang cheng #mo dao zu shi #mxtx mdzs #Jc is not an incel #He can get it any time and he knows that #He's just obviously not interested #And that's fair #Respect to my ace King #This is my stance on it anyway #If you disagree just either block or ignore #I won't engage if you make rude or snide remarks as I've seen as of late #I've been polite and respectful in my counter posts and never use them to bring hate onto others #I expect the same from anyone with differing opinions

[cinamun]

A HOT MESS !! and a rolling stone at that. But I guess my question is did Jackson even really love Mercy ?

Not cause of Roberta but like was it even real... it feels conditional but not unconditional if that makes sense. I can Def be wrong though

Its messy alright but let me set the record straight:

Jackson was madly in love with Mercy. He loved her with his whole self. His love for her was a beautiful thing to witness and was very real.

.... or was it?

#just playin #lmfakdklfkdj #he loved her #I wouldn't be me if I didn't cast a little doubt tho #there are also people who will argue that you can't love someone you cheat on #and that's fair #but not realistic

[shadowsageingempress]

"I do not exist to be viewed, to be considered sexy, desirable. I am but a vessel for pasta. And that is valid."

-Sephiroth Crescent

#final fantasy vii #incorrect ff7 quotes #sephiroth #sephiroth crescent #friendly reminder that his favorite food is pasta #sex is overrated pasta is delicious #at least he thinks so #and that's fair #source: twitter

[pastafossa]

Hey Pasta! I loved your thoughts on the episode, spot on. But people are theorizing and or complaining that Matt and Jen are gonna be a couple and while not opposed ( and I kind of ship them) I don't feel like that's gonna happen. Because I think people are forgetting Matt is a SLUT period. They just gave me a one-time thing leading to friendship vibes. But we'll see, what are your thoughts on this?

Ok so MY THOUGHTS on this:

Do I ship them? Yes. I thought they had amazing chemistry, and were uniquely good for each other. Matt has a lot he can teach Jen about balancing these two lives, and Jen can help him stay light and not get too locked up in his own head. They understand all the lawyer-ly ins and outs the other might deal with. I loved them. I'll read 50k pounds of fanfic about them. I'll get a fucking ART PRINT, I love this ship.

BUT BUT BUT: do I see this as a permanent couple thing canonically? No. I don't see that happening. I'm with you, and I think they're heading towards friendship, potentially with a few more fuck-buddy moments until one of them ends up in a serious relationship with someone. Part of this is the Los Angeles - New York distance divide (they both need someone far more present), but I got the feeling with Matt's character, yeah, they're leaning into Matthew Manwhore Murdock, so he's going to roll on. They'll both have no hard feelings, and and maybe they'll wish it could be permanent (because dear god Jen needs a good guy like Matt, and Matt can at least SORT OF recognize what a healthy relationship might feel like), but I think this will indeed wind up a one-two-three-time thing.

I could be wrong, obviously! I love them as a ship, but I recognize canon goes its own way and I'm fairly c'est la vie about ships. I was happy to ship Matt and Jessica Jones too, and god knows that never went anywhere. 😅

#ask response #matt murdock #matt murdock x jennifer walters #jennifer walters #she hulk attorney at law #she hulk spoilers #look i LOVE them as a ship but also recognize that matt's gotta ho and they're leaning into it #and that's fair #would i scream if they became a ship yes #do i love the ship also yes #i love it SO FUCKING MUCH #but i don't see it lasting canonically #not for any bad reasons but just because of practicality mostly

[dykerory]

again. still on that coach ben is alive in the present day timeline train. i just think it'd be so funny for him to have gone through ALL that, made it back, probably blackmailed into silence forever about what he saw, and is just bitterly being gay and bitter in paris with a string of boytoys

#creo #yellowjackets #if he sees one of them. its on sight. #and that's fair

[dailydccomics]

half this series was just a thinly veiled excuse to put Harley in ridiculous outfits

Harley Quinn vol 3 #64

#harleen quinzel #dc comics #harley quinn #lex luthor #year of the villain #dc #HQ vol 3 #and that's fair

[paperstarwriters]

(you don't have to publish the ask but make sure it's anonymous) please please please don't worry about the anon I think it might be the same person who made a harrass discord group...of course it's good to acknowledge wrongdoings of creators but it doesn't make anyone obligated to stay away from fandom. If you don't support the racist mess that happened it's totally fine if you stay in arcana fandom. Don't worry.

of course, of course. I'm not feeling pressured to leave the fandom right now don't worry about that. I know seeing it can cause a bit of anxiety, and for a little while it did make me feel anxious, I recalled why I wanted to write a lot of the fanfics I make in the first place, I didn't like how they wrote Muriel's ending, and I didn't like how they represented him a lot, so I wanted to make something that fit the image I had of him instead.

Anyways, I was much more curious about the note they made about the problems with Julian being a bird or the various bird motifs and that being antisemitic. I was wondering how or why that was the case, as when I tried searching it up I wasn't really able to find any definite explanations, so I was wondering if they could point me to a resource or something on the topic. I've heard that a merge between an owl and a human can often be antisemitic especially when that owl is presented as an almost demon-like entity with feathers forming horns like that of a great horned owl, and their beak being presented as a large hooked nose. That much, I do understand, but I'm unclear if it applies to the wider range of birds as well, or not.

In my initial search I found a story called Jewbird written by Bernard Malamud, an American-jewish author, and while it serves as the allegory of antisemitism not only coming from outside but inside as well, the nature of the intelligent bird being representative of an older more traditional Jewish individual (according to another source who were likely more able to draw the parallel than I was), presents him as a human-merged with bird individual and the whole point of the text seems to present it as the pure opposite of being antisemitic.

Of course, I can see the possibility of it, that he was presented as a bird in order to subvert the initial expectations and stereotypes, in the same way that Maus by Art Spiegelman does, but I would still like to be better able to understand the bird-antisemitism connection. Does it apply to specific birds? What kind of bird-like representation causes issue? Would the image of birds flying freely over the sky be considered problematic imagery? Why and how? is it the caged bird that is problematic? Why and how? Is there any possible way that this birdlike imagery can spread into other spaces and cause issue? Should Julian never be given feathered wings, regardless if you're creating a bird image or not? is his bird familiar problematic as well??? this is like telling someone unfamiliar with racism against African-american individuals that cotton is not good to them without telling them about the whole history about slavery and cotton picking, leading them to believe that they just take issue with the material of shirts or something.

I know I probably sound kinda nit-pickey, but I am genuinely curious and would love to avoid making any antisemitic mistakes when including Julian and Portia in my works. I wish to avoid this all the time, of course, but most especially now, as discussion on Palestine has spurred a lot of antisemitism due to the cultural genocide from Israel. And while it's clear that what Israel is doing, it's also clear that not all Jewish individuals support that, even though some news groups or people talking about it frame it as if it is.

Of course I'm open and eager for discussion on the other LIs as well and the intricacies of their problematic representation and how that must be handled corrected or re-framed, especially since in the early more.... hostile days of this fandom, I tended to stick to Muriel's route since I hadn't played the other routes in a while/all the way through so I'm a little unaware of all the other characters' misrepresentations (so if you're mentioning Muriel I probably have heard about and considered that one before—this man does not leave my brain lmao)

I can see the possible issues on Nadia being constantly represented as domineering failing to recognize softness in her (which I belive, though correct me if I'm wroing, is about dark skinned women being seen as violent and tough instead of soft or kind), and Asra being represented through Orientalism (mystic, but lesser other with messy foreign traditionalistic magic that must be corrected through the western logic and science—this partly originated in ancient greece so not entirely western as in America)

But yeah, I'm just really curious about it, cause my initial search only brought up news articles about people apologizing for being antisemitic, or the history of antisemitism. Rather than some of the various possible forms of antisemitism or it's possible relation to birds.

#answering asks #the arcana #I put it in the tags on that one post sorry. You probably didn't see because you didn't want to scroll through the hate post #and that's fair #but yeah I'm here for research purposes & to remember and learn from the mistakes of the others in the past. #Anonymous #julian devorak #portia devorak #nadia satrinava #muriel #muriel the arcana #Muriel of the kokhuri #antisemitism #lit analysis

[that-starlight-prince]

Not all machines want to fuck me. A lot of them do though

#and that's fair

[thetaoofbetty]

i don't know how passive aggressive those robot vacuums are but mine just absolutely looked at my dog after he walked right in front of it with the weary energy of someone who's been doing customer service for too long before going back to its base and quitting

#its little face area legit followed my dog like wtf dude? #and now i guess its done #it said do this shit yourself lady #and that's fair

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

#i live in a military town #most people i know are either in the military or have family in the military #there are multiple military bases nearby #i am a five minute walk from military housing #and i gotta say #90% of the veterans i know have this above attitude #this is something that's always been weird to me #growing up on tv all i ever saw were veterans talking about how much the war traumatized them #and that's fair #i'm sure it was for a lot of people #but it was always a little confusing to me #because again most people i know who went overseas speak very fondly of their time there #a lot of them miss it and most conversations about it are them longing to go back #just an interesting disconnect i've always noticed #again to reiterate i know what is fucked and that some people are real fucked up by it #and i fully support helping them #i wish our gov did more to support them #but most veterans i know aren't like that is all i'm saying #honestly based on most conversations it seems like #most of the trauma came from having to deal with inept military leadership/bureaucracy #lmao that last part is a half-joke

[theinternetisfulloftrash]

Dylan "The Masturbator" O'Brien as well. 😏

I mean... Aren't we all?

anon is referencing my Dylan 'the gesticulator' O'Brien tag in THIS post, but LISTEN... no shame in getting down with your solo game ;)

#dylan #is one of us #and us do us #;) #ask #anon #anon ask #not main tagging this because... #the wider breadth of this platform doesn't need to see my bullshit all the time... I get that ;) #thirsty anons are thirsty #and are quenching that thirst thinking about dylan beating off #and that's fair #enjoy yourself anon #he is #heh heh

[inthememetime]

I have Chekov'd myself in the foot. I made a reference, just as a quick cameo, and I've got a bunch of comments now asking when we're getting characters from those other shows. 😅

Guess I'm gonna have to figure something out real quick, lol.

#inthememetime #i use Chekov's Gun so much #that everyone expects it of me #and that's fair #because 99% of the time #if I make a reference it will come back #but sometimes I just wanna make a cheeky reference guys #after all #i AM the Chekov's Gun and Body Horror person

[bumblebeebats]

Every time i purchase a moderately expensive item the Karl Marx on my shoulder is like "For shame... you purchase yet another pair of jeans when you have 5 already at home, you despicable commodity fetishist? In my time, a man with five outfits would consider himself blessed beyond measure, and yet you want for more, while there are children starving in the world??" to which the second Karl Marx on my other shoulder says "Objection! Those 5 pairs of jeans all wildly uncomfortable or have holes in the ass, due to the decline of clothing quality driven by the fast fashion industry, unfortunately making this purchase a necessity... Plus, by purchasing a slightly more expensive pair of jeans from an independent brand, seeking quality over 'brand recognition', they are deliberately trying to avoid engaging in conspicuous consumption!" to which the third Karl Marx clinging to my back like that beetle from Doctor Who says "Remember, my friend; the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt — your capital. Buy the jeans," to which I say "I don't know if any of you have actually read Karl Marx"

#My foremost Disco Elysium skills are KARL MARX‚ KARL MARX 2‚ YET ANOTHER KARL MARX‚ MARIE KONDO‚ SKIN-FLINTEDNESS‚ ADHD‚ and SAVOIR-FAIRE

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver

[batrachised]

on one hand I get why people talk about the vanity of the instagram age, but on the other one time St. Ignatius of Loyola got his leg shattered in battle and discovered upon recovery that he could no longer wear his favorite tight leather boots due to the way his leg had set and so decided to rebreak his leg without anesthesia because he was that determined to wear his fashionable boots again...what i'm trying to say is that this man might have existed before instagram, but at heart he was an influencer

#ofc to be fair this man had a Personality #and tbf instagram has unique issues characteristic of social media in general... #and yet #st ignatius going on live “so many of you have been asking for boots update...”

[butchpoet]

I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

#and then the fair lady has to be like 'i love pathetic butches ' #butch #lesbian #butch4femme #written by me