#but it's not my place to talk ab it

[littlemoondarling]

A critical review of a Wendigoon video, pls read it all if you're interested and pls be civil♡♡

Uhm so we all know wendigoon right? Beloved horror youtuber, for good reasons too, his videos have such a comforting vibe that I rewatch them whenever I'm feeling depressed, but recently I got to thinking about a couple of things and they are making me.... slightly uncomfortable with his videos.

The first and biggest thing comes from this video which is about the game "Faith: the Unholy Trinity" which is a game about demons, possession, baby sacrifice, exorcism, etc. All told from a very Christian pov (as most media tends to be) which is no problem, the problems start when we delve a little deeper into the uncomfortable implications about the main possessed girl Amy and her story.

Tldr, she started volunteering at a what is clearly supposed to be an abortion or neonatal care clinic where a demonic cult uses it as a front to sacrifice babies for the evil causes... which idk if you can start picking up on the very concerning implications of that.

Now Wendigoon spoke with the creator of the game who explained that the (what I will call) corruption route that the mc goes through is to make it clear that someone doesn't just get possessed by demons, that they have to go out of their way to get to that point.

And we know that Amy was a good girl before she volunteered in the abortion clinic, which when u visit it (starts in the video at about 2 hours 12 mins) it is made clear immediately that it is not... great.

You first see a letter from the owner who tells the who I assume is the secretary to notify him before returning any calls from the health department because they don't want another "surprise inspection" (the owner is revealed to be a demon and a cult leader btw :))

When you walk further into the clinic, you are met with a disturbing and grotesque demon (which is usual for a horror game but please try to see how the underlying message is clear) where a cop (who is 100% a good guy and hasn't been indoctrinated into the cult) helps you int defeating it. There are also stretchers covered in the blood of the sacrificed corpses under them. It is also made clear that they are injecting the women who seek treatment there with a substance to make them hallucinate and so they don't wake up during the "procedure".

And if you want to get a secret ending, you have to go back and fight a demonic lady who unleashes demonic babies at you who look a whole lot like fetuses but that is just my opinion.

The whole game revolves around a demon cult leader who made an abortion clinic to use the 'babies' as sacrifices and to experiment on the women. If that isn't the most right-wing reactionary Christian pro-life talking points, idk what is.

The issue is that Wendigoon doesn't address the blatant demonising of neonatal care/abortion clinics and the disgusting pro-life implications that are baked deep into the game's DNA, he just keeps praising it and it's creator without batting an eye at any of this. And the comments don't even acknowledge it!

This isn't to cancel wendigoon or anything, I've just been thinking about this specific video for a while and I want to get my thoughts somewhere bc I personally didn't see much talk ab this.

#youtube #youtube drama #wendigoon #faith: the unholy trinity #pro life #pro life rhetoric #ugh #there's also alot of us-centrisim in his videos but i don't expect anything more from youtubers tbh #calling other cultures' cryptids 'just another bigfoot/ lochness monster“ is a bit iffy #but it's not my place to talk ab it #im pro choice in case you were confused #oup i forgor to add tw #tw abortion #cw abortion #tw possession #cw possession

[zvezdacito]

Just saw a post where in response to being asked to mention the destruction and atrocities Israel is doing to Gaza Palestine rn, OP responded with "I've been avoiding it because scrolling and seeing dead kids and sadness is bad for my mental health as a depressed person and there's nothing I can do about it either way"

You dont even need to share live footage of graphic injury if it's understandably triggering but that is not something you even need to share in order to spread awareness to your large following about Palestine, nor what was being asked from you to begin with you just brought it up on ur own😭 Beyond the live footage there are text only information posts you can share. Israel's occupation of Palestine goes beyond the October 7th siege so the info you could share doesn't need to be about dead kids it could just be Palestinian literature or history for context. Even Jewish history actually. Even just a show of solidarity literally even the greatest thing u could do online would not be that hard or complicated😭

Especially when all the mainstream news outlets are spreading biased narratives and people getting derailed from the point because of the Hamas coverage and stuff, other figures that people listen to and believe in taking a firm stance with Palestine is helpful. I think justifying not even wanting to try in your own little way to begin with through this "there's nothing I can do" or "other ppl are better for this than me" is extremely disingenuous. (Besides the fact that Palestinians in Gaza that the best thing anyone can do is share about them on social media exactly for these reasons so this literally is what you can do even as just one person)

I'm not gonna make conclusions on what the moral character of OP is over one statement that may have just been poor wording. And forcing someone to share when they really don't want to is counterproductive. But idk how you can bring up the fact that there is live footage of bloody children having to bury their parents and siblings as the sole survivors of their families, and not realize how priveleged you are for your greatest exposure to that only being behind a screen, and your greatest concern from it only being your mental health💀 Especially if you're a white american

#dont rb just wanted to get it off my chest lol💀 #literally its natural to find genocide distressing because it is but at the same time you can easily search up a post on Palestinian- #-literature and whatnot and not be exposed to graphic footage. #The most prominent posts ive seen do not involve graphic imagery or footage so i literally do not get what the logic of avoiding talking ab #Palestine at all is here lmao #oomf who rbed that onto my timeline if you see this you know who you are. not mad or condemning you its probably not even my place but the- #-point being made was very stupid ans pretentious sorry

[stuckinapril]

Its crazy that the US healthcare system still continues in its current form

No it’s SO BROKEN… I have been behind the scenes several times and it’s like wow. The people running these places really do have the passion and enthusiasm of someone who’s been working an office job for 60 years. This genuinely keeps me up at night bc I’m scared that as I grow up / get closer to becoming a neurosurgeon, I’ll lose more and more of my humanity and just become another hospital drone who sees lives as a chore more than like??? Literally humans in need of immediate help???? I def wish things were different but I absolutely intend to be loud where healthcare advocacy is concerned bc I would not stand being complicit in such a dysfunctional system

#Saying this from a more reactive place but I think I’d have the same energy if I were in my right mind #The us healthcare system deserves to be bashed to filth #And that’s coming from a pre med who wants nothing more than to be a doctor one day #I even follow forums where residents talk ab their experiences and so many things could be better #Doctors really get beaten down on their journeys to seniority/their particular specialties #I wish things could be better :/ people don’t deserve this. And this dehumanizing system isn’t what I ever signed up for

[darcyolsson]

oh my god last night my friend drunkenly confessed to me that she had been feeling very lonely these past few months and i told her i'd been feeling the exact same and we were both kind of shocked bc we both felt like the other person was doing amazing (which also kept both of us from reaching out, bc the other person seemed busy and intimidatingly happy) and it was this really weird moment which felt like smth from a play or something. like real life dramatic irony. and the craziest part is that she literally lives a two minute walk away from me too so we were literally having our simultaneous lonely breakdowns across the street from each other. so i guess what im trying to say is check on your friends and dont believe social media

#personal #really weird thing to find out but im glad we talked ab it. we're going to hang out more now<3 #also when i told her i'd been miserable she immediately mentioned that she saw on my social media that id been partying #and i immediately knew which post she meant bc it was this august photo dump thing i posted which did have a lot of pics from this 1 party #but i specifically remember struggling to find enough pictures for that post bc i'd spent most of the month miserable at my parents' place #it was so ironic. the thing that for me really confirmed my loneliness on a personal level was what convinced her not to reach out #guess it did do its job of fooling everyone that i was doing great lmfao but At What Cost!

[lovedazai]

if uve ever sent me an ask on anon i love u w my whole heart

#im feeling kinda sappy tonight #i love having this little space for myself !! but its so so lonely on tumblr :< #but then i see all my nonnies n it makes my entire day #getting to read everyones super cute thoughts n scenarios !! its so much fun #n then when i get questions ab what i think ab something!!! ME !! #it makes me feel a little less annoying hehe !! #i feel rlly out of place on here sometimes ?? mayb someone else will know what i mean?? #ty for being here n always being so kind to me it means so so much to me #i just love that i have a place i can escape to like this n just talk ab whatever its so much fun #so THANK U 🫵🏻 if ur reading this!! #i love u lots & im sending u hugs & heart shaped sugar cookies rn!

[brookheimer]

okay. i need to rewatch the episode probably but i think my current feeling is that i like most of it a lot (rome, ken, the siblings not getting ceo, etc), think the tom ceo makes sense from a logical/character perspective but not sure how i feel about it from a broader more thematic lens (altho i'm leaning towards fine with it), and am very mixed on shiv's ending because i think it's well-conceived and meaningful from a broader thematic lens (shiv becomes her mother, the cycle always repeats, etc) but doesn't quite make sense to me from a logical/character one -- it could've worked, it could've worked brilliantly, but it was far too rushed and forced. it makes sense as an ending for shiv, but not her next step. i'm largely talking about her decision to return to tom, not her decision to vote against kendall (which i think should've been executed better and given more space but can understand given her character, mostly). i'm fine with it as an ending for shiv, but what i'm struggling to stomach is the way it played out -- it didn't feel like a choice the shiv we know would've made. it's an ending that makes sense thematically and for her character arc, but not a decision that makes sense for her character at present. that's kinda where i'm at right now

#long shiv post talking ab this upcoming lol #bc so far i haven't seen like any shiv takes i've actually agreed with #it's either entirely anti ending or pro ending #whereas like. to me the ending works as an ending for the character. it's tragic dark devastating but it works and works well #but shiv making that choice does not make sense for where she is right now. it was rushed writing that forced an ending on her #that would be a satisfying ending but not a satisfying character choice and thus NOT a super satisfying ending #could've been EXTREMELY satisfying. but shiv wasn't there yet. her fatal flaw is blowing up good situations when she feels she's being #disrespected -- she's respect > power when it comes down to it #even tho she thinks she wants power more she NEEDS respect and is unable to stay quiet or make the smart choice in the face of disrespect #or men thinking they're superior etcetcetc. so her making a choice that allots her power (wife of CEO) but is the singular least respecting #outcome imaginable (meekly returning to your husband who betrayed you and stole the job you've been fighting for your entire life right out #of your grasp alongside your closest ally/flirt guyfriend who tapped him to do it explicitly to fuck you over because you're a pregnant #woman and thus inferior to the man who inseminated you -- and EVERYONE KNOWS ALL OF THIS! everyone knows you're the daughter of #the previous CEO and on two separate instances were meant to be CEO and now the weak man you married publicly betrayed you TWICE #but you still meekly return to him and place your hand in his and have his baby like the good pawn you are...) #that does not make sense for shiv. if we saw some development on the power > respect front or had a few more scenes or episodes developing #shiv as someone who would choose to become her mother (powerful and rich yet a disrespected pawn) over literally anything else #given her fundamental fear of being disrespected than maybe this would've made sense. it could be a great meaningful devastating ending #but it's one that just does not track for shiv as we know her right now. #ok tags got long as always sorry LOL i'm gonna write a longer thing explaining my hashtag thoughts bc i haven't seen much i agreed w on thi #front yet oops. ok bye 4 now tee hee #succession #succession spoilers #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy

[mtt-burger-emporium]

thinking about chara and the implications of the line "chara hated humanity. why, they never said..." like ok i KNOW something was happening at home. chara baby you didn't deserve that shit i'm so glad you fell down a thousand feet in a cave hole and right into the arms of people who would keep you fed roof over your head and would never raise their hand against you. "eradicate humanity" you're 10 years old how about eradicating your shitfucked surface fam by calling cps first

#soda.txt #chara #(ok idk if this will work but LEEEENGTHY discussion of child abuse below) #ok listen hear me out on this- i know the initial interpretation is a sui attempt WHICH I ALSO AGREE WITH- BUT LISTEN #i believe there was something else going on leading to the whole ''eradicate humanity'' bit and the obvious answer is an unsafe homelife #well. at least for me. #being around people (or perhaps adults) who hurt you and make you feel unsafe in a place where you should be welcomed with open arms and- #a promise of care would probably make any child feel like all of humanity was (in simple terms) cruel and uncaring #so hearing about somewhere they could GET AWAY FROM THAT? of course they'd take that opportunity and run. #chara was just lucky enough to fall into a place that pulled them out of the ideology of ''all of humanity is cruel'' #because the dreemurrs were kind and patient enough to take them in and give them a new family #and wouldn't anyone want that? #for the part of The Plan (the buttercups) i think.. i think that one was formed by the idea that chara felt obligated to- #pay the dreemurrs back for their kindness. not that the dreemurrs would have made them. just by their own mental code. #what better way to pay a kind family back- one that took you in and cared for you like one of their own- then by forming a plan to- #set their people free? #they've been stuck down there for so long. they've wanted to feel the sun for SO LONG. why not give yourself up to grant that dream? #idk if these thoughts are coherent. LOL sorry i kinda just started saying words huh #but its ok. #feel free to ask me questions ab my interp of chara btw teehee ^_^ i love talking about chara they're my favorite theyre so silly #ok now for the proper tags on this bitch #chara undertale #chara dreemurr #child abuse mention #suicide mention #tw child abuse #safeutdr #OH ANALYSIS TAG UHHH UMM #🧪lab notes

[redr0sewrites]

i need to write more for switch eris this is not a drill

as usual im yapping in the tags 💀

#i am a firm switch!eris truther #i just KNOW hes a versatile switch #he could totalllyyyyyy be a mean rough dom #super controlling and kinky like we already KNOW he can conjure fire cuffs and hes deffff good at degrading- etc #but i also could see him as a service top or pleasure dom who can be a lot gentler and focus on praising you #or just pleasuring u in general #but i ALSO see him as like a BRATTY sub like this man is practically BEGGING to be put in his place #he teases and talks back like he's the shit but the next thing u know he's whining and bitching ab how u wont fuck him #BUT I ALSOO see him as like a very gentle or fragile sub when he's exhausted or just not feeling great #beron has pretty much ruined his self esteem and his self preservation in general and i think that deep down he'd thrive #if he was being pampered and praised #like he'd turn into the male version of a pillow princess (as a wlw person i am aware that that id a wlw term but idk how else to describe) #but like he'd gen just want u to take care of him yk? #anyways yea versatile switch eris my beloved #i could take him #(not in a fight) #rose rambling #anyways plsss send sub/switch/dom eris requests i am MORE than willing to oblige #(especially sub eris there is such a painful lack of that and ik he can be one bc he told me himself) #hehe #eris vanserra #eris vanserra x reader #eris vandaddy #eris headcanons #eris vanserra headcanon

[storm-of-feathers]

I love fairytopia so much. It meant the world to me as a child.

#ive talked ab this before but #fairytopia and rudolph hold such special places in my heart #idk being an autistic child who wasnt liked #i saw these stories of people being disabled and different #but ultimately being celebrated for those things #and it meant the world to me.

[pawzofchaos]

Hi who wants to listen to me talk about clone high ponies for almost 5 minutes

#this is probably cringe but idc #I hope my voice isn’t too awkward or weird I don’t usually use it for commentary #or talking- texting does wonders #this is kind of all over the place I’m sorry #paws draws #art #my art #fanart #ch #clone high #clone high reboot #clone high fandom #mlp #my little pony #mlp au #clone high au #topher bus #clone high abe #clone high gandhi #I have ideas 4 the others

[badnew2005]

i’m so serious i think only now dennis is Emotionally returning from north dakota. i’m SORRY i always say this HE JUST NEEDED TIME !!!!! give him a little bit of TIME to come home and be himself and be a person again

#like rcg storywriting wise obv rewatching the show helped SO much getting out of the rut but like #i’ve been saying. it’s frustrating as a fan watching for like three seasons over three years dennis being horrible and Not Himself Really #but. TIME !!!!! an amazing thing #this whole time sure he’s physically been back in philly back at paddys but he’s still in the mental state that made him RUN #and then ireland. them all running away together #the realisation. he doesn’t HAVE to run !!! #like i know i’ve personally been SCREAMING can we see the reprocussions of north dakota. can we Talk about it ….. WE ARE !!!!!!!!!! #i’m willing to place my bets we’re talking about it #i KNOW all i ever talk ab is dennis and north dakota and mac and just. I CANT STOP !!!! #north dakota

[b3achysurfur]

hate y’all cuz I hate shipping Tyler with everyone else but you guys keep putting Tyler/aiden in my head and it’s WORKINGGGG 🤒 they’re duo is actually too perfect

#Tyler and Aiden as best friends but they fit these memes a lil too well 😪 #propoganda #sometimes I be forgetting why I don’t like it in the first place BC NO ONE EVER TALKS AB IT #😓 #NO BUT AIDEN AND TYLER IS SO #UGHH #putting canon back into my head and going on with my day #I CANT DO ITTT #schoolbus graveyard (webtoon) #school bus graveyard (webtoon) #school bus graveyard webtoon #school bus graveyard #schoolbus graveyard #sbg #tyler hernandez

[emmaspolaroid]

the way i R A N to draw this ksdjkl (@sepiamestus ty for the idea 🫶)

#my THG obsession is simply a dormant volcano #they’re from dif districts obvi (idk which ones i didn’t think very hard ab this lol) #and probs like 15 and 16 here idk i guess that depends on what time of year the games take place but ANYWAY they are a *terrifying* team #now it’s psychological warfare #capitol takes them out with a ~natural disaster~ bc they’re embarrassing the wealthier districts and tanking ratings LOL #Nikki draws #Nikki talks about tpn #rayvio #vioray #Nikki vs shoes

[bayofwolves]

Hi rhae! how are you? I just wanted to ask if you ever posted the shaneke fic? I crave any spirit animals content and I'd really like to read it!

Thank you <3

HIII NEW MUTUAL! i'm doing well, hope you are too!

unfortunately i have not posted it yet 💔 it's still a work in progress!

i do, however, have Something completed that i was meaning to share before that. it's a rewritten chapter of one of the books that i am quite proud of! my goal is to rewrite the whole series eventually (a very daunting task but i believe in myself), so all the lore and changes i've made in my continuing fourth arc can be fully explained. so this is like an excerpt of the final project. the chapter i'll be posting is the last chapter from the return, when king reveals himself to be shane. it's one of the most memorable passages to me. i wanted to retell it from abeke's perspective bc i'm not sure why they gave such a chapter to rollan.

the reason i'll be posting this before the other thing i promised is because it comes first chronologically and in this case, that's important. the lil shaneke thing that i meant to post takes place in between the return and the burning tide, while they're heading to the place of desolation. it puts a focus on their... complex, repressed, but salvageable relationship. but i think it's important to see the events that kickstarted that :)

you can expect the revisited chapter to be posted today!

#sorry for the long ramble i got carried away #i will post my ao3 when i've actually got stuff on it #in the meantime this is the place you wanna be! #(until i set aside an actual spirit animals sideblog bc god knows i talk ab it too much) #thank you for the ask! #text #asks #spirit animals #spirit animals books #spirit animals series #shaneke

[brookheimer]

do i post my long explanation of empathy vs sympathy re: roman tonight or is that just excessive

#like warning it is Long. will cut it down some bc i wrote it in a mad frenzy at 3 am in my notes app last night but still #tl;dr: roman is intensely empathetic and entirely devoid of sympathy. the seemingly contradictory displays of compassion vs disregard/ #cruelty are not contradictory at all and make complete sense if you understand the actual definitions of empathy and sympathy. i’d argue #that while rome’s capacity for empathy stands out in a show a #of people who are not prone to empathy his complete and total void of sympathy is much more unique in terms of humanity at large. it’s just #a show filled w cruel people so it’s less noticeable that the forms of cruelty he displays are rooted in empathy/lack of sympathy rather #than sympathy/lack of empathy like kendall and shiv (and just most people more generally) #sympathy is predicated upon difference distance and logical dissection of emotion while empathy is rooted in identification intimacy and #visceral experiences of emotion #you guys just literally do not know what these words mean. but that’s fine ! most people do not ! they are frequently confused and conflated #! that just doesn’t mean they SHOULD be. so . maybe i can help w that #also for further reading edmund burke is an absolutely fascinating figure to read esp his writings on british imperialism #although the term he uses is sympathy mehta & other later thinkers who have talked ab him have concluded that his cosmopolitanism of #sentiments/sympathy is much more like the modern definition of empathy (the words have shifted meaning slightly over the course of history) #or rather that the sentiment is empathy but the push to action is sympathy and combining together u get the cosmo. of sentiments #but basically burke is the founder of modern conservative thought basically. he is also the only british thinker who at the time of british #occupation of india actually spoke out against imperialism. this is because he viewed others not from a lens of sympathy/pity (feeling bad #for their plight) but empathy (identifying with their circumstances and placing himself within them) #love burke bc i find it so fascinating how someone i disagree with so frequently also holds a mindset that i value greatly and is anti- #imperialism despite everything else about him #kind of like rome in that sense. except rome’s sense of empathy is slightly broken because a) he doesn’t have any sympathy to supplement it #with and b) his visceral/emotion/gut instinct leading way of viewing the world + the way obscene wealth makes the rest of reality feel #fungible = inability to feel anything towards that which he does not identify #and unlike burke rome is too skewed by wealth and his upbringing to see resemblance in the masses and empathize w them #the other sibs function using sympathy and feel bad for the poor without having to relate to or understand them #but roman doesn’t do sympathy. he doesn’t feel FOR people he feels what people are feeling instead #but only so long as they’re seen as people. sympathy requires hierarchy so not viewing others as ppl v much allows for sympathy. #empathy requires some level of perceived horizontality so rome cannot empathize w that which is not horizontal to him #me: should i post this long thing? also me: posts another long thing in the tags that’s a long short summary of the much longer actual post #anyways. ahem. back to work

[oofuri2003]

allow me to spin a little yarn here just for funsies. i just firmly believe that mihashi and tajima both are above average at roller skating/blading and ice skating and love to engage in this hobby and abe is objectively horrible at it. Like will fall on his face without assitance. Gripping the wall of the rink failure. The best skater (ice and rink) is of course kazutoshi oki

#i think sakaeguchi is a close second to oki!!! and then suyama mihashi and tajima are all above average #with hanai at a solid average and mad about it #nishihiro and izumi also average #mizutani failure. as always. and of course. last place. abe takaya #abe is bad and so so so angry about it he watches mihashi n tajima have fun and seethes #and then projects his annoyance as worrying abt mihashi breaking all of his bones on the ice #(or rink) #when he should really worry about his own god damn bones. as always. #anyway i think eventually mihashi takes pity on him and tries to help him but idk how successful theyd be #thank you for coming to my ted talk. sometimes i just like to spin a little yarn.