#because I understand the sentiment

[akayv]

Indigenous ppl can speak for their own nations/region but please don't speak for all

#trying to like. word this as well as i can. #because I understand the sentiment #but at the same time I saw that the term land back was used and like. #I could be wrong #but I've only ever known that as an indigenous American slogan so it feels like the post was a bit directed at that #but if you're not indigenous American - I don't really care for you to tell me how to handle land back #and I definitely don't want you telling me how to view settlers #when my family has been reduced ato grandchildren due to long-term effects of colonization #I am the second oldest in my family at 29 #there's also the fact that we are very aware that not everybody chose to be here or that they were escaping something lol #That's why many of us have criticisms about white people and their immigration ideas #so my issue is more with (what is my understanding) of somebody that is not us telling us how to process our own movement #and I want to be clear – that I'm not directing this at anybody specific because several people reblogged that post #and nor am I trying to be hostile

[otaku553]

The eventual kazuha and sanemi dynamic

#kny crossover #genshin impact #kaedehara kazuha #shinazugawa sanemi #one day I’ll finish writing the first chapter. one day #anyways I love thinking about these two #i think platonic relationships are so fascinating #like you could definitely construe so many different friendships as romantic ships but to me these two as friends has so much potential #sanemi canonically dislikes Giyuu because he gives off a ‘better than everyone else there’ vibe that is purely unintentional #and canonically is friends with Iguro for reasons I still cannot figure out #sanemi’s so interesting because it’s not like he’s a purely chaotic character despite what his first appearance would suggest #the manga and genya’s memories clearly show that he has a lot of respect for oyakata-sama because oyakata-sama is not high and mighty and- #does in fact understand every sacrifice that goes into the battles that they fight that he must sit on the back lines for #sanemi is a very loyal person I think once someone has earned his loyalty even though he owes about showing this in very aggressive ways #I think he goes off against genya especially because genya fighting as a demon slayer goes against everything that sanemi has fought for #since they lost their happy lives sanemi has been fighting for at least one of them to still be able to live normally and he probably thinks #that Genya spat on that sentiment by becoming a demon slayer anyways #anyways I think sanemi and kazuha would have such an interesting dynamic #sanemi has the authoritative upper hand as a pillar but kazuha isn’t even a demon slayer which means sanemi’s position doesn’t do much #beyond acting as an indicator that he is one of the strongest of the corps anyways. #they’ve both lost a lot but sanemi still has someone to fight for whereas kazuha is holding onto the last embers of a corpse’s wishes #and I think them having a talk about their motivations would be very good #because I don’t think at this point that kazuha has very much reason to live beyond carrying on Tomo’s wishes #if the swords are parallels to visions I think Kazuha’s turning point will be when he receives his own nichirin sword #sorry for the long tags lmao

[apinktrashcan]

Something something Prims baby clothes being kept long after she needed them but getting sold once Mr. Everdeen has died as a sign of lost hope… something something

Of all the things she could have chosen for katniss to desperately try and sell– which makes sense, not being able to sell baby clothes in a world where your children get reaped for a death game– WHY baby clothes. Maybe they couldn’t sell them just as katniss couldn’t, but it’s still fabric that might be utilized for something else. Mr. Everdeen is said to be a good negotiator.

Why keep them when there’s no one to wear them? Because there was a possibility. It doesn’t even have to be taken literally as “we might have another baby” it’s just… an end. To the warm family of her childhood, to safety, to full bellies and hope and being a child herself

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #thg #Mr. Everdeen #it’s a world where you get money where you can and I understand keeping things for sentimental value but… #hmm #suzanne collins you genius #edited a bit because I wrote this while squished in a truck cab

[weaponizedmoth]

The Venture Family Group Photo (Hank, Dean, Rusty, and Brock) 😁👏

Bonus with Mr. Reachy ;3;" (I have no idea for Adding this for the venture family photo ^^")

(I usually make these B&W but I wanted to go all out for this one).

#this one is based off of one I found on pinterest #one of those awkward family portraits #and the family is more faded in etc #and the description was “my grandmother does not understand why we find this portrait funny” #because it's supposed to be really sweet like the father always has the family in mind #but it's objectively funny and dramatic and great #and I think that people would laugh at this portrait and Doc would get like really sentimental and be like #“hey this is TASTEFUL” #and also this is like a copy of the portrait one of them has and the original stays in the living room #maybe Brock is the one who has it #or maybe Dean when he's goth cause he's sentimental for the innocence lost even though he burned stuff #I don't think Hank would have it #maybe Hatred does and he wishes he were Brock here but he can't convince the Doc to take another one #but it's probably either Brock or Dean in my head #anyway #wmp requests #art requests #the venture bros #venture bros #venture brothers #rusty venture #hank venture #doc venture #brock samson #dean venture #vbros #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr

[bonefall]

Two questions! What's Leopardstar doing after her death? She got dammed so hard that there was a comet in the sky iirc, and Starclan happily gave Mistystar her lives, so I imagine that Lep is PISSED that her murderer is being welcomed as a hero, while she's rotting in the DF. I would like to know how she feels about Tigerstar's plans, since BB Lep was an active supporter of his idealology

I thiiiink the fallen star thing was a joke, but it is a very funny image to think that any damned spirit becomes one tbh

But actually! Leopardstar and Mudclaw are both kind of ashamed of what they did. Leopardstar is more resigned to her fate, while Mudclaw eventually decides he wants to atone and gets involved with the StarClan bridge.

Being around Tigerstar and a bunch of the worst offenders of TigerClan has brought a lot of it back. Distance had made her begin to feel that there was no need to "throw the kitten out with the tonguewash." Tigerstar himself was bad, yes... but is it *really* so wrong to want a pure, strong Clan? What's wrong with putting RiverClan first?

But now she's back under his claw. Being spoken over, used as a pawn, just like old times. She hasn't confronted the CORE of how her ideology is bad, but she does remember know how humiliating this situation was, and how terrible Tigerstar really is.

But at the same time, she is proud. She cannot let Mistystar go unpunished. She wants "revenge," though, to her "revenge" is a rematch.

On the day she died, Mistystar attempted to poison Leopardstar's food, in a way unintentionally similar to how Leopardstar poisoned Crookedstar before them. So she recognized it right away. It struck her in that moment that she was sick of these dirty, dishonorable tactics.

So she pushed it aside, leapt to the top of the stump, and announced that she had learned of a pack of vicious rogues on the border. "Mistyfoot and myself will confront them. Alone. Don't follow."

Mistystar only won the fight through luck. There was a stone in the river where they fought, and she smashed Leopardstar's head on it until she stopped moving.

So, Leopardstar uses this in her death to hold a grudge. I think on some level she knows it's an excuse, or perhaps a quirk of her pride, that she feels her death was unfair. She believes she gave leadership to Mistystar by covering for her own murder-- and she WANTS that perfect fight.

But before the BOTTE, I plan for her to have a conversation with her apprentice. Hawkfrost's arc is to break free of his father and his legacy... and he needs to speak to his proud, strong leader, who he comes to realize is being used like a tool.

It's another step in his revelation about cycles. How he was used, how he's done the same thing to Ivypool, how people have been doing this to his loved ones long before he was born.

#Now and then I see a passing sentiment of frustration towards writers who write fic where black gets redeemed but leopard doesnt #But understand this; I LOVE Leopardstar. #And I thought a lot about the story I was gonna tell in my redux of TNP #And this story works better with her. Largely because of her supporting cast #Between Misty Sedge Hawk Moth and Storm #They all come together to tell this story much better than Black Russet and Tawny can #And on a less important note... I hate how much they tried to soften Leopard. With all of her supporting material #But ive gone off about her before and im sure I will again lmao #But shes MY spotted mean girlboss and you will pry her from my cold dead hands #LET GIRLS BE PROUD. LET GIRLS BE CONSUMED BY IT #Better bones au #BB!Leopardstar

[starflungwaddledee]

which ocs in the fandom do you find the most interesting? also, which ocs do you think have the most aesthetically pleasing designs? finally, which ocs have you only heard of but would like to know more about?

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooo ha haaa noooo i can't possibly answer this because it would be soooo unfair to have favourites wouldn't it's comet knight by @kittenvirus

#sorry it's the colour scheme and the glitter and the fluff. i'm unfortunately so so weak to all these things 😭 #even a little bit of pastel rainbow star theming specifically... comet really has everything i'm sorry to say #i think starstruck would faint immediately if she saw him. could they be friends?? i'm not sure i think she'd just be like this: 👁️👁️ #he is also one of (if not the very) first designs i saw when i started picking around the kirby community #so i'll always have a soft spot for him no matter who else i discover. #there are also a dozen other OCs that i love and adore but the more that i list the more folks will feel that i didn't list *them* #and i really really don't want to do that! my mutuals have some absolutely banging designs as do some folks who i don't follow! #there are also a lot of REALLY cool designs that are 'semi' oc but are more like redesigns? from folks AUs or comics or so on #many great morpho-esque redesigns out there too i'm always a fan of those!!! #please understand i'm listing only ONE design that hits all these prompts (bc i also don't know the creator well hence 'only heard of') #and one that always stands out to me personally because of the sentimentality i mentioned above #but i love MANY many many. if i started listing them i would never stop!! if you have an oc or a design i probably love them!! #i realise that is a bit of a dodge of the breadth of this question but i just... yknow? haha #i'd be happy to learn more about any ocs really!! i would actually love for starstruck to start having some relationships with others too? #if folks are interested in that!! she has relationships with the dream land four but not so much with ocs; and that might be fun too!! #others ocs #asks

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Cluster b culture is be gay do crime! Viva la revolution !!!

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#cluster b culture is #cluster b #npd #aspd #bpd #hpd #Mod Reef #anonymous #exactly #on a somewhat related note people who aestheticize 'be gay do crime' and don't believe in the actual sentiment my beloathed #it's be gay do CRIME for a reason. yes being gay was (and is in many places) a crime #but milquetoast white liberal gays whose activism is ''see straighties we're just like you!'' and say ''be gay do crime uwu'' #fundamentally just do not seem to understand that trying to make ourselves palatable to non-queer cishet society is never going to get us-- #--our rights #it's not 'do crime' in a quirky ''uwu being gay is illegal in so many places i'm literally illegal lol <2'' #it's 'do crime' in ''the only way we're going to get actual queer liberation is through meaningful revolution and overturning of the-- #--current society and if that means breaking a few bones and cracking a few skulls then so be it'' #most queer cluster b folks tend to understand this sentiment that ''i'm just like you'' limits queer expression and liberation more than it #-helps #i suspect it's because cluster b folks already understand the idea that making yourself seem palatable and similar to the oppressors-- #--just doesn't work #(see: (ASPD and NPD folk especially) only being seen as even MORE manipulative and bad when we try to conform to societal norms) #anyways this has been your reminder that Mod Reef is a communist (and not in the funny haha jokey way; it is a genuine communist) #and that these beliefs are most influenced by its queerness and its disabilities (both physical and mental)

[astraltrickster]

Kinda loving how much so many people hate the FOB cover of We Didn't Start The Fire because like. Yes! Yes it always was a disjointed mess of headlines! Headlines that the audience upon release was sick to death of hearing! Some of which were phrased or framed in a very immediately silly-sounding way! And yet it lived to a point where many of the people holding it up as "a classic" weren't actually firsthand familiar with those things or how they were appearing in the news cycle let alone public discussion...

So congratulations! Now that we're hearing it with "topical" celebrities and headlines we lived through, yeah we're hearing it the way our parents/aunts/uncles/(gender-neutral equivalent of aunt/uncle)s did! And holy fuck it's CHEESY in how relentlessly referential it is!

......it was always like this!! All along!

We need to do this like once a generation or so so that everyone can experience this. I genuinely think we do.

#tag later #i genuinely like it because holy fuck #i am feeling the ''oh this is about THINGS *I'M* SICK OF HEARING ABOUT'' #and feeling like i Understand on a whole new level #the sentiment of the song may be timeless #but the impact of all the news items is era-sensitive #and well--

[inexplicably-spookified]

diversity win! this witch is bi... lingual?

#anise #murasaki #my ocs #scribblins #because i feel like dumping some worldbuilding: #witches don't really 'do' sexuality the way humans do #because their cultural understanding of gender/presentation is a lot different #tldr ambiguity and neutrality is the default and the specifics of someone's gender are none of your business #unless your relationship with the person requires you to know or they trust you #to the point where even asking for someone's pronouns is considered rude (you're expected to use neutral terms by default) #and even past that they don't have a perception of binary male/female or cis vs trans #you are what you id as and whether or not that's your 'birth' sex is irrelevant (most witches are a little gender fluid anyway) #anyway all this to say is that for anise being bi (or at least the same sentiment) is like... the default in witch culture #but in human culture while it's accepted it's still not the norm #and she's aware of that but knows she doesn't quite understand the full extent of how it's viewed #(hence her anxiety at telling mura) #wow i think this is the most oc lore i've shared publicly for a long time huh #to clarify... this has nothing to do with cs it's original verse stuff #the lines between my fan ocs and my actual ocs are extremely blurred do not ask me how it works

[emeritus-fuckers]

Tobias Forge is one of the most beautiful and heartwarming people ever. I see his face and I immediately feel better. I always hope he's happy because he makes me and many other people happy. I love Tobias Forge. - Jez

#dunno why but I got sentimental #probably because i saw a tiktok where he talked about his insecurities #i hope he understands we love him #not just his characters #thank you for everything tobias #you have no idea just how many people you helped

[annamaryllis]

annabeth having a crush on luke is not problematic and something that needs to be "fixed" by the show. luke's creepy behavior towards annabeth is also not necessarily something that needs to be "fixed". luke is a villain, after all. what is problematic and what actually needs to be fixed, is that luke's "requited feelings" for her are not acknowledged as wrong by canon. not by her or percy or anyone. or seemingly even RR himself.

whenever it's brought up in late pjo and hoo, any romantic feelings on either end are treated the same as between the other teenage characters, and not between a 15/16 year old and a 22/23 year old. in pjo, it comes across like the improbability of "lukabeth🤢" happening is due to him being an enemy/annabeth falling in love with percy, and not their age difference/the fact that they're adult and child.

I've seen a lot of posts across multiple platforms of people saying that they didn't realize how problematic their age gap was when they first read the books as young children. that is terrible. it's made clear to the readers that luke hurt annabeth a lot and that her attachment to him is unhealthy, and that luke exploited this, but it is not made clear to the readers, many of who are/were children, that it was wrong for luke, an adult, to be attracted to annabeth, a child. I don't think I need to explain why this is so serious. if RR was going to write luke to have romantic feelings for annabeth, he needed to make it clear that it was wrong. in hoo, when everyone still thought that nico had a crush on annabeth, she remarks that nico would be way too young for her (which is true, @ percico freaks). there's no remark like this about luke and annabeth.

whether RR didn't see the problem with the age gap or forgot luke's age is unknown (which would be weird since he always remembers that annabeth was 7 and luke was 14 when they met). if he has acknowledged this, I haven't heard about it (I would be very shocked because we all know how he deals with criticism and taking responsibility...)

#obviously the easiest thing to do would be to remove the whole...luke returning her feelings thing #I just made this point because I've been seeing a lot of people with the right sentiments coming to the wrong conclusions #about what the real problem is #i think most of us can agree that we could have done without any entertainment of that #bc i think it made luke #who was intended to be a sympathetic character #really hard to sympathize with for a lot of more aware readers #which hinders their understanding of the story/themes #annabeth chase #luke castellan #pjo #hoo #✏️

[rhaenin-time]

Will never get over how weird it is that dragon show (but mostly society's reaction to it) of all things is what made it more clear than anything else that white womanhood was predated by, exists related to, and has so many origins in a patriarchal concept of good women vs. bad women dichotomy that goes deeper than the term Madonna Whore complex. I'm sure there must be a term and concept already established that I'm just missing.

What is it though???????????????

Sidenote: this is why I don't fuck with the "old boys club" circles of Indigenous activism that really think you can address race and colonialization without addressing patriarchy. They're just as bad in the long-run as the newer colonizer-approved "inclusive" movements that reek of white feminism-adjacent surface-level acknowledgement of the patriarchy and also really make me wish I knew if there's a term for "when it acts like white feminism even though it's in a different context."

What I'm saying is, someone please rec me some good intersectional books on patriarchy that actually go deep.

#yes i'm tagging #asoiaf #hotd #because it's the #hotd fandom #asoiaf fandom #that made it more clear than anything #and also made it clear that 'feminist' rhetoric has been so coopted people are flinging terms and concepts they don't understand or care a/ #left and right even though if this was the gamergate era they'd be expressing the same sentiments and stances it's just that they wouldn't #be using the language #I know there's a better term out there than #white feminism #and #Madonna-whore

[sskk-manifesto]

Atsushi's back in the game!!! ۶( ˆ o ˆ )

#And Kouyou!!!! #Also. I can say Steinbeck is kinda 👀👀👀 #King of the specific category of “I forget I like him until he's on screen” #I'm seriously unlocking memories with this rewatch. Like I haven't thought about it in two years– #but I just know when I was watching the anime for the first time I was being like #“Of COURSE the villains need to spend several minutes each episode explaining in detail how their own superpowers work so that the– #protagonists can get a perfect idea of how to best counter them. Why are villains made so freaking stupid in this show” aljhvwslchvqliyqwb #But. Eh. I guess that's just bsd to you. #Alsoooooo random thought of the day: I don't really favour how Tanizaki's ability was adapted in the anime. #I very well understand they were going for this green Matrix-like illusion effect‚ but every time someone says “... Snow?” #I'm like please explain where do you live that has snow glowing green. #Aamsjgvfaskjhfv sorry this is me being very. Cranky and nitpicky and having terrible audience etiquette in refusing to– #engage in suspension of disbelief. It just bugs me akvakcvqkyb I just feel like... Green is such a non-snow color– #that quite of completely disrupts the Light Snow / Sasame Yuki aesthetic. I would have liked it much better light blue or simply white. #What else. The way the Guild just goes on at stereotypes still troubles me a lot. The “usamericans can't be touched by laws– #because they use money to corrupt anyone” “foreign criminal organization come in our country to corrupt our pure and untouched soil” #Idk. Maybe all of it is true. Can it still be deemed a stereotype when it's objectively something that's happened before– #and will probably keep happening? #I suppose I'm just not a fan of the constant hostility against any foreigner. Idk. #This situation besides is extremely ironical. If you meet me irl it probably won't take long to see me being very outspoken about– #how much I despise usa cultural colonization of all other countries. It's something that really bothers me‚ how rooted and pervasive– #their influence is. So in a lot of ways I can relate to the author's sentiment #I just feel that. If you start treating them as stereotypes and ignore the complexity of a country and the wide spectrum of causes– #that contribute to its attitude in international relations. You end up practicing precisely what you're trying to criticize. #Okay this is the last time I'm getting into the politics of the Guild arc lol #random rambles #This time I took watching the episode slow I feel a little late

[aphverse-confessions]

i find people who include fantasy racism, sexism and homophobia in their rewrites for ‘added drama’ and ‘issues’ are extremely unoriginal and lacking creativity. if your go to conflict is always fascism just because you have no creativity to try and come up with anything else besides what you know and is obviously ingrained in your brain, you should sit down and think why your go to awnser is always fascism.

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#ooookay #so uh #I can understand this sentiment when directed at ppl who have no expierence being discriminated against in a particular way #and still write a story abt that discrimination #like a white person adding fantasy racism to their story #however #people often use fiction as a means of exploring or explaining our world in a way that can be more digestible to the viewer #and gay person creating a fantasy story thay focusses on a world with homophobia and how that impacts those living in it #is not adding it for 'drama' #they are commentating on the state of our world which has homophobia #maybe someone's first way to explore conflict in a story is via bigotry because they have expierenced bigotry so often in their life #they view it as one of the major driving forces in their circumstances or perspective #to belittle writing that depicts real world issues as 'adding drama' shows to me that there is a lack of reading comprehension on your part #if your first instinct when faced with a story that includes an oppressed class being oppressed is 'stop add drama' #I think you need to reevaluate some things #one the number one pieces of writing advice you hear is 'write what you know' #who are u to say someone should be more 'creative' than that #aphmau confessions #aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #fandom angies #angies #instead of being mad maybe consider WHY an author may choose to add those things to a story #maybe u want fiction for escapism and that's why it bothers you #but not everyone goes to fiction for that purpose #sometimes they want to vent issues via a story or explain to someone why smth is a problem while excluding as much bias as possible #hence the fantasy setting and depiction of oppression #🤭

[gemglyph]

I really, truly, think that some people really don’t understand how exhausting it is to be disabled

And hearing things like “Just get up and do it” and “Everyone has something” as lines from my teacher really doesn’t help any arguments otherwise

Yes, everyone has something. Everyone has something that gets in the way. Everyone has something bogging them down. Everyone has something and everyone is valid for having that something.

I am aware that making art and doing things is a commitment. I am committed. I can do whatever I put my mind to

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a price to pay. Because there is. There’s a price!

I pay that price a lot and it hurts.

I wake up in pain. I live my day in pain. And I lay in my bed trying to sleep while in pain. It’s like constantly taking at least -1hp of damage every time I breathe. Do you know how exhausting that is? For it to hurt to breathe?

I put my ribs back where they go. I pop my wrists and fingers back where they belong. I crunch my shoulder back in place. I pray my ankles, knees, and hips don’t give out when I’m standing and/or walking. I hope I don’t develop migraines in the middle of the day. I don’t scream when my joints crack so loud they can be heard in the other room, and when I have seen other people visibly CRINGE hearing it. I don’t cry when things hurt so bad I’m surprised I’m still conscious

I do just get up and fucking do it! I get up. I fall down. I claw my way up. Then I get up and do it. Again, again, and again.

I get up Every. Single. Day.

And it is exhausting.

Thanks.

#I understand the sentiment. Thanks for telling that to the guy with chronic health issues #I actually APOLOGIZE when my joints crack #Because I feel bad for whoever hears it #Anyway sorry everyone it’s almost 2am and I’ve been angrily rotating that stuff in my head

[goldiipond]

maybe this is me having too much faith in the people calling for the extermination of an entire ethnic group but idk. i feel like the fact that israel has the most powerful settler colony on the fucking planet bending over backwards to defend them from literally every other country should be enough to make at least some zionists realize that they are not the good guys

#skye's ramblings #i dont know man im just. so tired. im so fucking angry all the time. i want this to end #i dont understand how people dont see that this is literally just textbook colonialism. and how some do know and simply dont care #i dont have enough contact with the native side of my family to feel justified saying 'as a native person-' #and i certainly dont want to speak over palestinians but fuck man. this just cuts so deep. white people have been doing this for centuries #they dont care about the lives the history the rich beautiful culture they dont fucking care about anything that lacks 'pure western values #they dont fucking care all they fucking do is destroy and steal because everything belongs to them in their eyes #israel is an illegitimate state composed of europeans living on stolen land that they say is theirs bc they're 'gods chosen people' #the 'savages' are now 'terrorists' but the sentiment remains that they are a stain that must be erased to make way fr the good white people #your philosophy is a poorly disguised recreation of manifest destiny that uses judaism as a shield #as if your religion has any relevancy to the fact that people fucking hate you for gleefully slaughtering families and stealing their homes #i dont know. i grieve the lack of connection to that side of my culture and these people are having theirs ripped away from them as i speak #i dont know how people can support this. i dont know. i feel sick.