#basically no bigots

[luckthebard]

Genuinely confused as to how so much of the fandom watched the first 2 CR campaigns and Calamity and yet still ended up in a “Ludinus is right let’s kill all the gods” position. Like it’s baffling to me how much content/context people have just decided to completely forget? We had 2 full campaigns of very positive interactions with the gods and the moment there’s some hypothetical and interesting musing and speculation about their roles in the world from a more disconnected place we’re just throwing that out the window?*

Tbh the number of people who watched episode 4 of Calamity and still saw Asmodeus as sympathetic or having a legitimate point is unsettling to me, but while that’s a related issue it’s not quite the same conversation.

But like legitimately how did we so quickly make a hard turn from “The Stormlord teaches his barbarians to use the power of friendship, he’s a funny kindergarten teacher” memes to…this.

*(This is not, btw a comment on the characters having philosophical debates in-world because I think those are interesting and on-theme for the campaign and are also nearly always concluding with “our personal relationship to individual gods and feelings about them are irrelevant actually, the people trying to destroy them are doing wider harm and are in the wrong and must be stopped.” I’m actually loving the engagement with this by the characters in-universe but the fandom is exhausting me.)

#people stop engaging with all fantasy religion like it’s the same as bigoted evangelical American Christianity challenge #oh also the ‘the gods are colonial invaders’ take is also super weird to me because that’s applying recent human history to what is #basically standard like Greek or Roman creation myth? #like a ton of European pagan lore has a ‘the gods we worship came from afar and tamed the wilds of nature’ narrative #it is a metaphor #cr discourse #legit saw someone this morning confidently posting ‘well Ludinus just is right though!’ and I wanted to close down the whole internet #critical role

[foldingfittedsheets]

Someone started trying to guilt the person who blazed Rupert in the notes for not having spent their money better and suggested they should have spent it on humanitarian efforts.

If you come at someone to judge how they’re spending fun money, I am gonna block you. It was a sweet and joyful gesture, it made me so happy that more people would get to see this excited teens art project, and it made a ton of other people joyful that something wholesome and weird was put on their dash.

#ramblies #they compared giving money to tumblr to giving it to jkr and I recognize tumblr isn’t perfect but it’s not one horrible bigoted woman #it’s a whole ass community #don’t be a dick basically #I’m so delight Rupert rides again he’s gonna make so many people smile

[immediatebreakfast]

"Knowledge is power" you say and I believe it's becoming a big theme. Jonathan is sinking his nails into his sanity, vehemently refusing to lose it because losing himself (to insanity, to vampirism) is a horror greater than death to him. And his main weapon in this is to refuse to be in the dark. He must know the truth, instead of flee from it or deny it, gortesque even if it proves to be. The Castle is claiming his mind and his response is to explore every nook and cranny until he knows the enemy like he knows himself.

It's really a very noticeable theme, and it's one of the key parts that will help our characters against Dracula in the long run.

I have to make the comparison with another genre of book across the literary globe that have knowledge as a central theme.

The Lovecraft myths with their eldritch abominations also have the central theme of knowledge, but instead of presenting said knowledge as something hopeful to have (even if in the grand scheme of the universe is empty) knowledge is a curse. It's something that once the characters have, they wish to go back to their ignorance, all of the undescribed horrors that tell of incomprensible beings from beyond our stars open a new horrifying reality for these characters, one that they do not wish to understand.

Instead, here in Dracula, this novel regards knowledge as a precious weapon.

Jonathan understands that as a lawyer, and as a human being. Knowledge can help him understand, the written truth assures him that he is not imagining things. The broken door tells Jonathan, "Yes what happened was real, and you survived." And it gives him mental strenght to go another day.

Jonathan is feeling how his sanity is slipping from his fingers thanks to the castle, thanks to Dracula himself, so he must grab every piece of truth that he can find. Jonathan must know the Count's truth so he can act accordingly, he must know Dracula as if Dracula was him because it's the only way for him to know that he is still sane. That this knowledge can help whoever comes after him.

A really neat quote that I stumbled upon while searching for this really captured Jonathan's future, even if he might not be alive at the end of his journey.

"She will reenter the world carrying a heaviness she might never lay down, but also with something warm and steady burning in her, the knowledge of what she has survived, what she has become." - Chakraborty, A. (2021). Ode to the Gothic Heroine (A Selection).

Jonathan now carries the burden of knowledge regarding every oddity, and danger that Dracula presents from an outside perspective. Different, but not really from the ancient knowledge of the kind locals who tried to protect him from his fate, yet Jonathan doesn't shy away from that burden.

Knowledge is power, and power transforms the person into something not anticipated. It's the proof, and the reassurance of having something that can help, a little light in the middle of an endless cave. Jonathan is taking all of the information he can find, so that maybe he can transform the idea of escaping into something plausible.

Is Jonathan risking his own life by doing this? Of course he is! He is terrified of the outcome, of what the uncertain future holds for him! But, Jonathan is also gaining time. Moreover, with Dracula's new assigned "span of life", the Count has given Jonathan one of the most powerful weapons in the hands of a human, hope.

Now with the certain date of his possible, Jonathan can stop giving enough of a fuck about any pretenses of leaving the castle by the mercy of Dracula. Now Jonathan can hope to carve his escape with his own hands.

#Never NEVER has someone succesfully protected anyone by telling them nothing #If you want to understand if you want to prepare if you want to SURVIVE #YOU HAVE TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE EH YOU [Redacted for Dracula spoilers] #But yes basically knowledge is very important in this novel #Also can someone explain to me how the fuck Lovecraft managed to have those racist overtones that could put any bigoted writing to shame? #I was reading the fish people one and woah my dude relax for a fucking second (horrified) #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

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5. What's your controversial marine biology take? Oh, have I been talking about my controversial takes these past few days! Ocean sunfish.... beautiful, so silly but so beautiful.

To name another thing, perhaps this is moreso something that grinds my gears rather than a controversial take but I haaaaate when people say that male seahorses get pregnant. It's what it looks like but it's not the case!!! He just has a pouch where the egg are deposited for safekeeping, it's like mouthbrooding but with a designated pouch!! He does not produce the eggs and all the nutrition the eggs receive was never from him!!! Perhaps I get too hung up on these aquatic animal technicalities, but it still makes me needlessly annoyed whenever in fiction there's like, seahorses, and they imply that the process of seahorse baby development is the exact same as human baby development but.... backwards for sexes..?

#i ranted about this for like 10 minutes to my sister when we were playing monster prom the other day. #theres an interaction where they basically go “merfolk reproduce exactly like seahorses so they all do mpreg!” #the narrator finishes the interaction off with essentially “wait until bigots hear about male seahorses...” #the first offense was the seahorse pregnancy. the second offense was them blatantly ignoring the actual “trans” fish of the world! #trans in quotations because fish dont experience gender. but there are several species of fish that are born as female and become male or- #are born as male and become female! some fish carry both sets of reproductive organs their whole life and some are born as one sex and- #then become both as they age! theres so many hermaphroditic fish! and they went with seahorses.... #naturally though the game was not made with fish nerds going “UMMM ACTSHUALLY-!!” in mind but rather for an audience of all kinds of people #asks #toaster-os #marine biology ask game

[thingstrumperssay]

So JK Rowling is apparently trying to get arrested or something so she can be some martyr for bigots and the Scottish police are like "Shut the fuck up, Joanne. We're not arresting you over some Tweets" and other bigots are celebrating her not being arrested.

Edit: I just realize that she's trying to be Scotland's Jordan Peterson, meaning that she might go into some drug induced coma at some point and come back to yell at a puppet.

#i might have gotten some details wrong #but that's basically the gist of it #jk rowling #scotland #bigots

[booksandpaperss]

I love having a bunch of mutuals that probably have each other blocked and would definitely square up on sight. I sometimes get their conflicting posts back to back on the dash and laugh in hidden

#I just like seeing different perspectives #keeps me humble #I basically only block u if you’re like just genuinely a dick #if you’re a bigot #or if u just have rlly rlly bad takes #elli’s random thoughts

[lostryu]

im going to kill you with hammers

angy cause you don’t like being exposed for transmisogyny, huh?

#your understanding of trans struggles and basic feminism #doesn’t even meet the basic requirement #your understanding isn’t even surface level #and you take it out on me because you don’t wanna acknowledge that you’re deflecting #because the secret is that either you’re a bigot #or you don’t wanna put forth the effort of actually learning how trans women in particular are oppressed by the current system #and you’d rather virtue signal about wanting to fuck girl cock or something #lost.txt #ask #anon #die mad ig?

[captainshyguy]

i do wish that people hadnt been so rabidly critical and vicious towards steven universe back in the day, because now it feels like u cant discuss any parts of the show u didnt like without getting lumped in with those guys lol

#like idk man i liked the show a bunch #but i did also fall off becayse like. yeah i can see the tragjectory of the show now! #i can see that it was always gona be about this broken family of the diamonda and all that #but like. idk man. i tend to prefer when we focus on the little guys #and yeah we did do some of that. but that (planned) swerve near the end there really lost my interest #like i know rose being pink does make her infiitely more complex and its a fine choice to make but it still didnt do anythng for me #i still would have mich preferred to focus on the corrupted gems #on the people with no power in this struggle #its lik how i understand that the diamonds are basically a metaphor for someones like. bigoted aunt or something #but that still doent mean that i like that the people who razed dozens of planets to the ground were given time and priority #over the footsoldiers man!!! #like yes yes i get it its a metaphor its a escalation what else where they gonan do but like idk man i can still not like that turn!! #i can still wish they just....idk overthrew them or bubbled them or something. idk pull an anndrias from aphibia. community service lol #i can still wish that steven had healed the corrupted gems like it felt like it was foreshadowed #(since. yknw. rose can heal physical things- and stevne can a bit too but he can astral project into -peoples minds.) #and the corruption was an inury of the mind first and formost. #like. why would u set that up and not do that jgsnsgknkjdnjkgds #i can stil lthink the proportion inconsistenies were weird and too me out of the moment #eh idk its frustrating #like it feels like u say somehng like this and u have one guy going 'ikr the ahow SUCKED steven shoulda KLLED THEM' #and another going 'omg its a KIDS SHOW SHUT UP FORVER NO CRITICSM' #abd im sitting here in the middle like i tihnk theres some nuance here lads. i think we can habe a middle ground #luke rambles

[uncanny-tranny]

It's wild to me that the most I've seen cis people talk about trans people in a good while is in their response to Antisemitism: The Game

#antisemitism #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #antisemitism tw #its just crazy how jews and trans people saying 'hey please don't support the blood libel game' is what sparked so much 'own the libs' shit #anyway this is the only time i will dain to remember that jk or her wizarding world exists and i wanna keep it that way #jews and trans people matter more than a bigot's game basically

[ambrozians]

one of the many things i find compelling about jade is her understanding of justice and how it is reflected in the way she engages with it in her profession. to me, she's unique in how she chooses to enact justice. she is regularly hired by powerful people who are willing to pay a copious amount of money in exchange for her services. she does not pick and choose jobs based on her own beliefs, and will (and has) accepted missions from employers whose views she finds disgusting. but the second the check clears and the job is completed, she personally ensures that one way or another the person/organization/etc. will not escape unscathed, whatever that may entail. she has a keen sense of right and wrong and her own moral code that she adheres to, contradictory as it may seem.

#💭 #jade nguyen #basically if she finds someone to be downright heinous then #she will come to them as judge jury and possibly executioner #although it usually ends with the employer's imprisonment #let me be clear though this is not a reaction to any trivial things #she doesn't do it because someone said they didn't like her costume or they disagreed over something small and inconsequential #this is reserved for bigots and other truly terrible people only #she’s getting her lick back

[icarusisbabygirl]

Okay so obviously you Cannot go through a giant vetting process for everyone involved in a post before you reblog it, Every Time. But you can do bare minimum stuff.

You see the red highlight around OP? That’s from my browser extension Shinigami Eyes. That highlight means op is a terf, and that reblogging their stuff gives them notes and exposure. I didn’t have to vet them for that to find out because I have the extension.

You don’t have to expend a bunch of energy. Get shinigami eyes. Block tags like #terfsdointeract, #lizardpeople, etc. And then you can know immediately upon seeing a post that it’s shit.

You don’t need twelve step bg checks. You don’t have to memorize all the dogwhistles. But you Can take steps to stop yourself from accidentally reblogging beginner bigot beliefs and blogs very easily.

#basic courtesy #bigotry #antisemitism tw #terf tw #for the tag examples #also hm i wonder if op has a reason for not wanting people to check op for quality #this is how terfs and every other type of bigot work #by their own admission #it's the small stuff-easy to swallow first #men are worse because they're Socially Conditioned to be that way #it's not their fault but they also can't help it #to they're biologically worse #to all men are horrid #to 'do you ever stop being a man though?' #and boom now you hate trans women and nonbinary amab #but if you can catch them at the beginning by knowing their dogwhistles #or just blocking a terf tag that their community put on it #boom you have the warning and u don't get sucked into their shit #yeah u can't do a brain scan on everyone who walks by ur house #but u can set up a fence and metal detector before u allow them in

[silverjirachi]

SOME PEOPLES CARRDS ARE THE MOST INSANE THING IVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

#reminds me why i stay in here #dnis have been rendered absolutely meaningless #when you click to someones dni and it just says ‘basic dni’ #thats always my favorite #like 1. do you thing bigots are going to not only read your carrd #but then go ‘oh shit they said racist people dont belong here guess i gotta hit the bricks now huh’ #like #what?????? #what is the intended result of these?????????? #just block people smfh #2. WHAT IS A BASIC DNI AND DO YOU THINK ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE YOU LIST ARE GONNA KNOW CARE OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES PART OF IT

[roachemoji]

📌 Rat/Bo/Bowen ● They/Them ● 25 ● White ● Autistic

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#bo.txt #pinned #i dont have a dni on my carrd #but ya know basic shit #terfs and bigots fuck off ???