#but obviously thats untrue

[karmicpunishment]

when tachihara goes back to the port mafia after everything they should start putting him in (short-term) undercover missions I think that'd be fun

#looking at tachis pm persona he feels like the kinda guy who would be a shitty liar/actor #but obviously thats untrue #and i think it'd be fun seeing that in use in front of his coworkers in the mafia #(i type this out ignoring the unfinished wip I have abt this in my docs) #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #tachihara michizou #bsd tachihara

[creekfiend]

I think a lot of this 'religion is necessarily oppressive' stuff honestly is kind of like the confusion about ppl thinking that like, slavery and scientific racism and etc came about BECAUSE OF beliefs that Black people etc were not fully human rather than those beliefs -- those ARGUMENTS, really -- being JUSTIFICATIONS that were invented to allow white ppl to continue to engage in slavery which was at its core about economic exploitation. Like that most systemic bigotry serves a Useful Purpose to those in power and that's why it exists; the policies aren't put in place because of the beliefs. The cart isn't pulling the horse. Christian stuff was used to justify the same things that later, "scientific progress" was used to justify in the west (e.g. scientific racism, eugenics, etc. Very very very much rooted in the idea of certain beliefs and cultures as inherently more rational and forward thinking because BEING RATIONAL AND VALUING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS WERE CULTURAL VALUES AT THE TIME.) (This does not say anything about Science. It says things about Institutes and power and oppression.)

Similarly, you see a lot of people saying "well religion is used to justify oppression by the people in power" and its like yes. Religion is not unique. Beliefs about what is true about the world -- ideology -- can always be used to do this and frequently is.

When there are common beliefs held by a majority of people in a given culture those beliefs will be used by the people in power to explain and justify the things they do to maintain power and control in society.

This isn't a function of religion. It's a function of power.

When people say "well, this religious rhetoric is/was used to justify misogynistic legal standards in this society" the answer is yep. And if it wasn't that it would be something else because that society had an investment in that specific kind of oppression of women. We have seen this morph into 'rational' 'scientific' explanations for women's inferiority and justifications for making women second class citizens once the cultural values swing more towards rationality and science, as well. Thats... regular.

Like... love to have a good faith convo about this with someone who doesn't get weird and reactionary about "Religious People" but sure not seeing much of that going on. Weirdly.

Anyway.

#jewish #i think this can be a tough pill to swallow bc it necessarily involves #accepting that your secular ideology and philosophy can be exploited just as easily for violence and harm #as religious ideology can #because thats humans babey #fascinating also to me is the phenomenon of people believing that bc they do not subscribe to any beliefs that they see as #''religious'' or ''spiritual'' they are immune to magical thinking of any sort. #i promise you that is not true in the slightest. #and also the things that we each identify as SILLY AND OBVIOUSLY UNTRUE FAIRY TALE SHIT is... culturally determined hee hee #im sorry to tell u that no one is objective about reality. thats rough buddy!

[energysoda]

being goth and socially awkward can sometimes makes you respond with unintentional bangers when ppl try to spew bs, like, if I remember correctly, first day of junior year in highschool some boys at lunch asked me if I 'wanted to perform a ritual with them' and I just looked at them blankly for a moment and then asked 'what kind' in the most deadpan voice 💀💀

#at least thats what i think i remember saying #it was like #almost three years ago so #but yeah ppl be wilding and deadpan responses are always so funny #mine #memories fr #goth #actually goth #gothblr #highschool stories #actually autistic #socially awkward #look my type of sarcasm is trying to sound as genuine as possible while saying the most obviously untrue statement #but yeah they just laughed amongst themselves and then turned back around to their lunch so #guess they changed their minds

[valodia]

. (long tags)

#so like in the sequel of the story im currently saving my whole computer on a hard drive that my husband got me for my bday along w synth//v #in order to install windows 8 instead of 7 just so that i can in fact use said synth//v.. its a whole ordeal #so anyway while files are copying etc i stumbled upon some rlly old stuff from my old computer like some chat logs i had saved #when i was a teenager i had an obsessive personality so i saved certain logs of conversations with people that i cared about #like some w my evil ex when we were just friends n everything was still ok #so like i read like 2 conversations so far n its rlly somth wild. #ok so. #my evil ex did this thing especially when we started dating where he would tell me stuff thats obviously untrue about himself or the world #like just lies but told straight faced and seriously. and it wasnt just some little lies it was like obviously impossible stuff or misinfo #thats easy to fact check #at the start i humored him but the more he did this the more i saw he was serious and it didnt rlly matter to me that he was believing some #wild stuff (like he had powers or whatever) #but it was a problem when he would tell me while expecting me to believe it especially if its misinfo about the world or somth #or he made up incredibly wild excuses for his bad behavior #like i went missing for a week and didnt reply to you bc i was on a time travel mission or whatever. #i got rlly upset about it bc i couldnt reconcile that i thought he loved me but still told me untrue things that i thought he had to know #were wrong #i wasnt sure at the time bc trauma bonding etc but i started suspecting that he told me wilder and wilder stuff to see what he could get #away with to like trap me into a manipulation cycle. #so anyway the interesting thing is im reading these logs from a way earlier time when things were still good (just friends at that point) #and like?????? already he was telling me these fake things. but it was related to a media we both liked at the time #and it was just a thing me and my friends did. like we pretended some of us were married/dating characters or whatever and making things #up about our imaginary life w them or whatever. i was particularly into it and would write fanfic #or draw art about this etc #so it was on that note. but like i knew that this was fake? it was just a fun game for me like a coping mechanism but i still knew reality. #but rereading those logs now is chilling bc like the signs of him doing that were already there but somehow i never noticed??? #fdhjksfhdsjfhdsjkfhdjkshfdjksfgfgsdjfgdsjfyuertezutrhfdsjgdhsgfdsjgfdhsgfdhsjfgdhsjfhjghfdjfjdslfhdjsfdhlsfhjdyufhdsjfkhdskjfsd #its fucked up too but i cant help a feeling of euphoria rereading those logs i was always just so happy to talk to him at the time. #so. fun! things to tell my therapist #lodia sayings

[txttletale]

it is kind of disconcerting when self-proclaimed "leftists" adopt a fully liberal position on sex work where everyone is having the just-so fictional mutually beneficial transaction central to capitalist mythmaking. idk a lot of radfem propaganda is basically positioning themselves as the last bastion of real structural critique and i think you are just doing their work for them when your argument for why sex work should be legal is "well it's consensual because the sex worker is just choosing to have sex in exchange for money which is a win-win for everyone :)".

your defense of e.g. legal protections and destigmatization for sex workers (& your corollary critiques of legislation targeting them) needs to come from a position of demystification and desensationalizing sex-as-innately-different-to-all-other-forms-of-activity and treating them as what they are, which is workers who are being exploited and are in need of protections and safe working conditions. this is not incompatible & in fact should be perfectly compatible with recognizing simple marxist truths like that consenting to have sex when the alternative is starvation is inherently coercive--in the exact same way that all other wage labour is coercive.

acting like it is incompatible is literally just buying into the reactionary SWERF worldview that accepting that fact should lead you to support oppressive legislation and the intervention of the bourgeois state in ways that demonstrably impoverish, endanger, and immiserate sex workers & it is dismaying when people who self-identify with "the left" (whatever that means but thats a different conversation) cannot formulate a (vital & necessary!) defense of sex workers and their interests and safety without falling back on obviously untrue liberal truisms.

#tattletxt

[bigfatbimbo]

I have a post sex angst idea for you (with Vox ofc !)

Imagine after you’ve been particularly cruel to Vox you get up to get water or something but he stays right where he is, still crying.

You end up having to sit back down, reassuring him that you weren’t being serious and that you do love him.

Giving him all the praise and soft kisses he could ask for.

This might be stupid but due to his huge ego he probably would get a little touchy at being degraded after a while.

thanks for listening to my insane ramblings 🙏😭🫶

warnings —mentions of smut, dom reader implied, hurt/comfort, light angst, kinda just fluffy though

a/n — I’m loosing touch with these characters. I have like one fic left in me, at best.

summary — After being a little too mean to Vox after sex, and making him cry, you have to give him loads of comfort.

Usually, you waited a little longer before getting up and leaving him on the bed. But, tonight specifically, he looked so genuinely worn out you figured it was common curtsy to offer him a glass of water. Especially after how you treated him.

He’d look so pretty, tears still leaking out of his face as he sniffled and fought to calm down from his euphoric headspace. When you kissed him on the head and told him you’d be back, he didn’t really pay attention.

Instead, he lied there halfheartedly and thought about what you’d said just moments before. You were especially mean tonight. So mean thats he’d forgotten what the initial punishment was for in the first place. But now that the ecstasy wore off, he’d was simply left with all of your cruel words flooding through his brain.

It wasn’t fair, he thought. You’d been so mean, and you’d said so many untrue things! But despite Vox not fully believing your words, the idea that you believed them was far worse. The haunting thought that you hated him, that you pitied him and that’s why you’re still here. He couldn’t stand that.

Maybe it was the mildly incoherent mindset he currently had, or maybe he was overwhelmed, or, fuck, maybe he just missed your warmth. But, for whatever reason, more tears streamed down his screen as he sat there in defeat. 

When you arrived back in the room, you simply stared at Vox for a moment, taking in the view. He was still crying. You get during sex, but this long after? Something was wrong. 

“Sweetie, are you okay?” You ask gently, setting the water glass down and sitting on the bed, “Did I hurt you?”

It was true, you had been particularly rough with him, but he looked further hurt than a physical sense. 

He shook his head, “You, uhm,” he struggled to keep his voice steady, “Called me pathetic. And useless. You don’t really mean—“

He cuts himself off by a loud buffer and then an even louder sob. You don’t respond at first, just quietly tutting and pulling him into your chest.

“My baby,” you coo sadly, rubbing your hands up his shoulders comfortingly as he buries his screen in the space under your neck and clings onto your side, “My sweet boy, of course not. I didn’t mean any of that. You’re amazing.”

He sobbed harder at that, the shock of praise getting to him obviously. You continued to rub his aching body softly, pressing down on his tense shoulders and scratching his back. 

“You took it all so well, i’m so proud of you, Vox” You pressed your lips onto the top of his screen and he looked up at you, letting out a watery whimper. 

“You said you hated me,” Vox’s eyes darted down and his mouth curled back to let out another chocked sob. “You sounded like you meant it. You don’t hate me, right? Not like—“

Not like everyone else, he meant to say. Instead, he cut himself off and glanced up at you awaiting your reassurance.

Your hands fell on either side of his screen and you pressed your lips against his. “I love you more than anything in the world.” You moved to  kiss his cheek, and then his chin, and then his other cheek, purposely making the kisses as unbearably wet as possible.

He let out small giggles at the sensation, “Stop it, stop it!” He pulls his face away to hide it in your chest, his tears finally slowing down.

“Well, I mean it, sweetheart. I think you’re the prettiest, smartest, most amazing, beautiful, boy on the world. I love you,” You feel his screen heat up on your collarbone and you rub his back some more. 

“Thank you,” Vox spoke uncharacteristically soft, probably embarrassed from his outburst now that his mindset was clearer. 

“Of course, baby,” You said, noting to go easy on him the next time you fucked. Maybe you’d be more praising too. After all, it was true. You meant it. 

a/n — I think this is officially one of my last posts in this fandom. Or at least full drabbles.

I know that i’m still going to do a power bottom Velvette fic, but after that, I think i might be done!

#hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel x you #hazbin hotel smut #dom reader #inbox open #hazbin hotel vox #vox x reader #hazbin hotel fluff #vox smut #vox x you #sub vox

[manie-sans-delire-x]

One of the many issues with the whole "women arent oppressed for being female/their sex isnt the basis of their oppression, its their gender" idea is that its basically saying that women are responsible for their own oppression/choosing their own oppression, and could easily escape it by simply choosing to be a man, then. If its your gender thats oppressing you, right? Why not? Lets just all be men.

It is mindblowing to me, how such a ridiculous, so obviously untrue, so easily dismantled idea became so widespread over the past few years. I had never heard of such nonsense, and suddenly it was everywhere. Its genuinely scary, and makes you lose a lot of faith in the public and humans in general.

And not to be too dramatic, but like, I never understood before, how an entire country could fall to the obvious lies and evil tactics of say, Nazi propaganda, or the Red Scare in America, and be able to become utterly convinced that one population was The Enemy- the source of all their problems, pure evil, who hated them and wanted to harm and kill them, when it was the complete opposite, whether it be the Jews or communists. To convince others to not listen to a word they say, lest they realize the truth, and any word of defense or sympathy for that one population was to be met in harsh punishment, that the person was now just as bad as the hated group. Any prior agreement now to be immediately nulled as soon as the accusation is made. No further thought allowed, under threat of social persecution. Believe and condemn any other thought or else. Race traitor, communist, non-believer, witch.

I do now.

#op #gender critical

[majjiktricks]

Can you explain why you think Ocelot likes Kaz? I was always under the impression that they fought like cat and dog (sorry I couldn't resist).

this took a while to answer because i wanted to go back through some of the mgsv tapes with ocelot and kaz but. mainly, what you thought is entirely untrue. whatever antagonism exists in their relationship, it feels like the fandom has blown WAYYY out of proportion.

the ONLY point of contention i can think of off the top of my head is kaz being jealous of ocelot for knowing bb longer. in the tape where kaz is talking to zero about where bb is during his coma, zero mentions an agent who has known bb 10 years longer than kaz has, and kaz SCOFFS, like he cant believe someone would know bb better than him. but also, this tape is set almost immediately after ground zeroes, so who knows how his feelings might have changed over the years.

the only time ocelot seems to get genuinely angry at kaz is when hes accusing quiet of. well. anything he accuses her of. kaz tends to do so without any evidence, and he doesnt trust her (for justified reasons), but he also blames her for a lot of things. ocelot is the only person on mother base willing to defend her. and he never yells, he just logically rebukes and kaz is the one who fights back.

any time ocelot speaks about kaz without him present, he really only praises him. he obviously is impressed at what he and bb accomplished in founding MSF.

thats just what i can remember. going for evidence now, grabbed some of the tapes that have ocelot AND kaz in them:

Bionic arm tape Ocelot: "I couldn't get [a bionic arm] for you at the time, but y'know, now…" ocelot offers to get bionics for kaz, he wants to make kaz's life easier. kaz refuses i think out of a self-punishing sentiment, not out of resentment or denial of ocelot's help. that because all of his men died, hes not allowed to have it. and he gets heated and angry about it, nearly yelling. but then he apologizes, realizing he wasnt actually angry at ocelot, just venting.

Yellow cake and the Shinkolobe Mine tapes ocelot and kaz theorizing about why the shinkolobwe mine was reopened/being mined for uranium. the conversation honestly sounds like they could be on a lunch break just chilling.

The Children Escape tapes in [2] they disagree over who should interrogate eli. ocelot doesnt think kaz can responsibly question the kids, so he steps up to do it instead. kaz dismisses him and his expertise at interrogation because he thinks ocelot will enjoy it too much. ocelot is definitely offended, and they do argue here, but i think this is because of the topic at hand and not indicative of their other conversations.

Huey's Interrogation Tapes i think their good(ish) cop bad cop routine with huey is very funny. theyre working together to get as much information out of him as possible. and it works.

overall i think they actually work really well together. after all, they spent the time bb and v were unconscious recreating MSF from scratch. also, i think kaz trusts ocelot to some extent, going as far as to put his life on the line to distract from the hospital attack. he depended upon ocelot to get bb (venom. but. you know.) out of the hospital and to afghanistan in time to rescue him.

at the very least, they are working toward the same goals (during mgsv) and have no ideological reason to hate one another. when they DO work together, it gets results.

i cant imagine you can work with someone for years doing all that and still not have any positive association with them. kaz definitely is the type to hold a grudge, but if anything, i think thats a personal one. and im not even certain on whether or not he does hold anything against ocelot once they start working together (during mgsv at least. after the game. well. anything goes.)

was sent some additional thoughts that cover the cutscenes as well as the tapes: all good stuff here

#this is kind of a mess but. have my word vomit. #jazz noises #inbox #anonymous #revolver ocelot #kazuhira miller

[squipdop]

But doesn't he want to become a god specifically to be the one Actually Good God that doesn't turn people away and instead helps them? His intentions with godhood are much different than Astarion's with ascension.

GREAT question! lets see if i can answer in a way thats coherent (Challenge: Hard). first things first: this is obviously all influenced by how *i* read these characters, and how *i* think their stories would go given the circumstances (plus a bit of what id *like* to see because a) player choice has a lot of influence on character development and b) these guys are all dolls in my playhouse and i like to have fun)

so; i do believe gale truly consciously *wants* to be an Actually Good God. im not at all arguing against that - i simply believe he would not actually *be* one. for one because i dont think any God can actually be purely Good, not from the mortals point of view, and especially not a God of a domain such as *Magic*? and how long can you listen to and help your worshippers, how long can you be patient and a just teacher and ruler, when you are so much above them? when you have so much more power than them, so much more knowledge, so much more time. not to mention anyone contesting your power or domain, mortal or otherwise.

pair this with gale not always being quiet as Good as he likes to think of himself as - he does not disapprove of astarions plans of ascension, he can stay with you after the goblin raid, he is fully willing to sacrifice not *only himself, but also your entire party and everyone in the vicinity the size of a city* for mystras forgiveness "the greater good" (MINI philosophical ramblings here, because thats another intresting angle but this is already getting long enough: yes, even in the name of the greater good, he is in this moment making the decision of sacrifice not only for himself, but for a WHOLE bunch of people without their consent or consideration.) this perhaps is a personal gripe with this flavor of utilitarism, but just think how this would scale onto near limitless power.

another aspect i personally see in gales want for godhood is his desire to feel worthy. i mentioned this in my tags earlier already, but i read gale in the "gifted kid who knows hes smart but still never feels quite enough to be worth loving" way? and just constantly trying to prove that - without ever being able to attain it, and as a God, who would even be there to hand out this approval? "am i worth loving yet" is just a question you cannot recieve a satisfying affirmation to if you dont trust others to make the call

as for comparison with astarion... i think astarions base desire for ascension comes from a need to feel *safe*, which he believes he can only attain through power over others. this is where im drawing my comparisons: astarions desire for power => safety, and gales desire for power => worthiness; both think power (ascension, godhood) could give them what they want, when this is simply untrue - astarion will not ever feel truly safe if he does not let himself heal and move on, and gale will never truly feel worthy enough if he does not detach his self worth from others approval (and his use to others)

in my post i specifically mentioned them in a relationship bc i love me some unhealthy bloodweave, and i think this is one of the most toxic ways they could be together, especially if theyre both hopelessly devoted to each other... (dreamy sigh) but i think this answer is already long enough so ill cut it off here

TL;DR: i think gale *wants* to be an actually Good God. i just do not think him capable.

#anonymous #ask #blabbering #bg3 #bloodweave #gale dekarios

[dilucsfav]

could you maybe write some headcanons for Zhongli and an v anxious reader? your writing makes me so happy Ilysm!!! <333

HI MY SWEETHEART, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASK <3333.

I’D LOVE TO WRITE HIM FOR YOU, i haven’t written anything for zhongli in a long time so i think this will be fun!! (btw guys this person ^^^ is my partner im not tryna brag but you should go follow their blog💔💔)

Zhongli w/ an anxious reader hcs

warning(s): mentions of anxiety attacks, if that upsets you or a sensitive topic!!

if you’re particularly twitchy at times, bounce your leg, tap your fingers, twiddle your thumbs— whatever it may be, he’d hold your hand and RUB YOUR HAND WITH HIS THUMB. all. the. time. it’s how he shows he loves you and is there <3

^^^honestly he just loves holding your hands in general💔💔having that small physical connection also comforts him

idk why i’m getting so deep into this LMAO, but if you had that habit of bouncing your leg a lot, he’d hold your knee instead of your thigh

omg he’d absolutely calm you down with stories of his past of being an archon n shit. would like rub your hair, let you lay with him and all of that fun stuff

gentle reminders all the time. if you don’t have the motivation to do something, he’d do it for you (totally would brush your hair and kiss the top of your head)

on hard days, he’d boil water in order to make your favorite tea and then sit with you. whether you wanna talk with him, he’d listen— or if you don’t, he doesn’t mind waiting and holding you quietly whilst holding your tea for you

^^counter to this, he’d also just sit quietly with you if that’s what you need. hold your hand, brush your hair from your face, allow you to hold him if you want— anything to help you know that his presence is there!

^^zhongli has a big fucking mouth, never shuts up (he just like me fr) but he does enjoy quietness when necessary

FLOWER PICKING. HE’D PICK YOU SO SO MANY FLOWERS IDFC THATS CANON

if you’re also a big overthinker, he’d constantly assure you that he’s there for you and that everything will be ok. he loves you n doesn’t want to see you distressed <//3

omg i feel like he’d totally do breathing exercises w you?? like compared to other characters, he has so much patience and it’s never ever a bother to help you through small tasks

^^other characters like childe or some mf like him would be so fucking impatient😭 (childe would honestly help w your anxiety in other ways idk maybe i should write about all the characters)

speeaakkinggg of childe… zhongli would totally rob that fucker of his money to spoil you rotten. oh, you want that dress that is astronomically expensive that lady ningguang made HERSELF? done. you want those new shoes? done. you want that 30 dollar overpriced venti iced coffee? done.

(^^hahahahahahsh see what i did there? like venti as in large? but also venti? fucking laugh.)

zhongli is super wise n caring, but i feel like he wouldn’t be the biggest sweet talker

^^yes very genuine with advise n knowledge, though. he’d only give advise that would benefit you in the outcome; he doesn’t see the point in giving you untrue n unhelpful information if it won’t make the situation better

if you have anxiety attacks & he’s present at the time, he will literally hold you until you’re able to breathe and calm down. will remind you to take breaths and that he’s there

“Take a deep breath for me, now, (Y/N). There you are, good job. I’m here, it’s okay.”

obviously zhongli’s been through a lot so he knows how to help. making you feel calm n safe if you’re in tears & you’re anxious is his first priority. would do anything you ask him if it means making you feel better <33

#genshin impact #genshin x reader #genshin fluff #genshin fanfic #liyue harbor #liyue #zhongli hcs #zhongli x reader #zhongli #childe #tartaglia #genshin x you #genshin imagines #genshin headcanons #genshin hcs

[venjt]

A form of SH? (Self-harm?)

I wouldn't say it's a form of self-harm. Actually, the opposite! It's a form of self-care! From my experience and from friends' experiences, it's a coping mechanism that helps with our trauma. If antis, think we're making fun of the problematic themes that's far, far from truth, and a very harsh thing to think! If people make fun of problematic situations, then that's a problem, and I wouldn't want to associate myself with such a person.

I hope Antis knows that proships are against harassment in general and respect others with different opinions. (Or they should be. That's the definition, lol.) If a proshipper is threatening you, then they're just a shit person and don't belong in a no harassment zone while harassing. Yet somehow, I often see antis like to use their catchphrase "KYS" all the time. I find such attitude to be awful no matter proship/anti/neutral whatever. Harassment is bad. No one deserves to be called a "good person" if someone says awful things to other human beings.

But like I said, it's a selfcare kind of activity in fiction. It's a safe way to control or explore the dark themes in fiction. It's a healthy way to express the trauma without hurting oneself or others. Some antis don't know this, but when you've experienced trauma, it has to come out somehow one way or another. People don't necessarily HAVE to like dark themes to express or cope with their trauma. Everyone copes differently. Some happen to enjoy / cope with taboo subjects in the fictional space. Which there is no shame. Your fictional taste does not reflect your morals (obviously, lol).

This brings me to another topic, Antis, who believes that if a proship likes the taboo subjects in fiction (ex: incest, age gap, what else? Victim and murder? Lol, there's so much that antis doesn't like.), that it means they like it in real life. That's, again, untrue. Your fictional interest doesn't mean you like it in real life. So that brings the question, "Why do they like it in fiction then?". Well, like I said before, often, it's a coping mechanism. Other times, people just like it in the fictional world. Perhaps there's more or less to it, but it's not anyone's job to understand the why. And if you find it uncomfortable thats complety valid! There are some things I find uncomfortable. That's when we have the power to block and remove ourselves from looking and reading things that we are not okay with. LITERALLY. Like we don't have to intrude a "problematic" artists media if we KNOW what they draw! Or read something that says "non-con warning" or anything WITH a WARNING SIGN THATS THE POINT OF WARNING SIGNS AAAH ⚠️

My thing is, if you're a nice person who respects others and doesn't harm others, then you're good in my book lol I don't understand furries, but if they never hurt a person or never been disrespectful to your surroundings then you're gucci. I have some friends who I don't understand their fictional world, but they've been nothing but sweet to me. Who am I to judge their fictional interest if they as a person treat me better than many other actual human beings lol

Also

Proshippers are aware of what's right and what's wrong in real life. We don't like predators, or incest, or victim x murderers in real life. DUH! Antis, we're on the same page. We don't like those kinds of people! We keep telling them, but somehow, many of them can't differentiate reality and fiction, which to me I find that to be a very, VERY big problem in today's time. If the line of fiction and reality is blurred, then how can people express their creative freedom without having to take a chance of being a "problematic person" or getting accused of harsh things. Also HOW YA GONNA FACE REALITY WHEN RENT IS DUE NEXT WEEK?! If a person is a problem to another human being, then that's valid to stand up and speak out. Uh, with evidence ofc. Don't just spread around "so and so is a Predat0r because they like so and so ship." Fiction isn't evidence. People will look at you weird if you claim a person is a problem and provide a drawing of Plantcest LMAO. People are gonna be confused why you're showing a drawing to them.

Policing others on what's right and wrong in a FICTIONAL SPACE like that's a problem itself! They're fighting ghost problems and threatening REAL PEOPLE for their interests, and that doesn't sound like a healthy space for anyone. Activism is good, but to the fictional space where it doesn't affect people in their day to day life if very concerning. Hence, why people say "touch grass".

Not every proshippers are good people. Just like not every antis are good people. Every group have their problems. This whole black and white view is unrealistic. No one is perfect. No victim is perfect. No "unproblematic" person is perfect. The world is grey or as I like the world is rainbow.

This is very long lol

In conclusion, proshippers aren't self harming for indulging dark themes. It's a self-help (many therapists would recommend it). Self-harm is threatening others and policing others what YOU think is okay or not. Self harm is also avoiding your trauma and avoiding your fictional interest because others pressure you to think how they do. You're a person with your own mind. Allow yourself to express how you do and don't let others tell you how to think, feel, and tell you what to do. You're human. I'm human.

FICTION ≠ REALITY and be kind to each other! There's more to life than to get mad over what others like lol take a chill pill and think about what you want to make of this world!

Okay, have a great day, yall!

#ven talks #tw self h4rm #replies #asks #tw proship #proship #proshipper #anti

[adeptal]

SHE POSTED ABOUT YOU ON REDDIT?

YES IT WAS INSANE so after we cut her off across like. two friend circles she didnt block Everyone from her tiktok acc and posted a video where she was like "im better than ever!!!! i left a friend group over some disagreeing views" and. well come on. obviously like 8 or 10 of us commented on it being like "no you got kicked for being a racist pervert" and she deleted the video and went to R/STALKING where she was like "im being harassed with untrue claims and gang stalked" and someone from one of the disc servers commented so she deleted that then wrote (about me) saying i was a dropout with no job who loves harassing people and that im significantly older than her (i was 23 and she was 21) later thru insta one of my good friends confronted her and said like. "Hey thats like weird shit to lie about when you were being racist towards ntvs including him" and she was basically like "i know i just panicked. btw you were actually nice so i wont report this to my lawyer if it ends here" this all happened over the course of like 3 days or something

[phemiec]

While I understand your point about ai art, what are your thoughts on tricking people with it, either by making artists unwitting input for the ais (As is the case with dA, pixiv, and many other sites), or by giving paying users (Either patreon, comission, etc) ai outputs without their knowledge (As is the case with Shexyo, an many others)?

I think it's equivalent to copying someone else art style, or in the more egregious instances, just plain art theft for the first example, which is rude and bad but like, has always been a problem in the online art world, and even before. Forgery and art theft is, has been, and will probably always be a thing, AI or not.

For the second example.....maybe this is a spicy take but if you pay someone to provide you with an image, and they give you that image, and you're satisfied with that image, I'm not that fussed about it. I think people should disclose if they used ai to make their art, but the same way I think people should say if they've used photoshop to paint something instead of oil paint. Like if you take a picture of a car and then claim it's a 3D model, that's fuckin wierd and untrue, you still technically made art but it's just dishonest and strange and you're claiming to have a whole skilset you dont have which obviously people are gonna have issues with that.

But like, that guy who won a digital art contest using a an image he compiled from AI, it think thats fun, that made people mad, it made people talk, it challenged them to consider and expand their definitions and that's art in itself. I don't think thats "less art" than someone who painted something by hand, it's a different thing, and theres nothing to stop the person who actually learns art theory and spends 10000 hours doing figure studies from also using AI in their art, but the difference is they will also then have a leg up in knowing how to edit and improve and expand upon AI content, that's how we push our art forward. We need to support open source versions of this technology so its not locked behind paywalls, and then like.....its ours. It makes art, it is art, it's for artists. use it, expand on it, work with it, get wierd with it. I want to see what artists make when we take AI as a challenge to grow and not a threat.

#Ai art #Spicy art takesss #Asks

[chelswat27]

That shot in the dark research day? Nancy was jealous of Steve, not Robin.

Steve has clearly been in multiple dating scenarios with different women. Even at the basketball game he brought a girl with him. Do we really think detective Nancy hasn't noticed that?

So what would make someone so prickly if it isn't jealousy? Well she wasnt sure about her Creel theory, and already had her doubts. Perhaps she was defensive and didnt want to sound silly. But no one else was 100% sure what was going on in their theories either. However, people have pointed out that Jonathan didnt believe her theory the last time. So her confidence in her intuition was probably a little rocked.

So with Robin asking all these questions, albeit genuine, Nancy could've felt like she was being mocked. But if that was the reason for her attitude, why would the attitude only drop after Robin stated her and Steve were platonic?

What else can bring up someone's defenses? Being confronted by things you aren't ready to confront yet.

Nancy was clearly agitated by Robin, but only when they were alone. In the group setting at the trailer park she was fine with Robin, and Robin was sitting right next to her. But when you're unsure of your feelings, especially new ones for the same gender, the group setting is safe. Alone with them is not.

Imagine you're Nancy. The girl you've been thinking about (not sure if you're attracted to or whatever it is but it's something) has good rapport with your ex, suddenly volunteers to ride with you, it's just the two of you for almost two hours, and on top of that she starts questioning your theories. How are you supposed to feel? She even asks if she's offended you, but even you can't pinpoint what's bothering you.

Then she states she's not with Steve, and the agitation doesn't dissolve. It stays for a moment, because something in Nancy has been called out, but then it turns into a different tension.

Nancy doesn't even say "Robin I'm not worried about you and Steve. " Because she can't say that. Not only is it untrue, but if she did it would lead to follow up questions. Nancy is a journalist, she knows certain types of answers lead to more questions. Questions like "then what is it?" or "you say I haven't offended you but obviously I've done something". Keep your response short. An answer thats not really an answer. It's easier to let Robin think it's jealousy over Steve, instead of something else. Instead of jealousy OF Steve.

Robin, is Nancy's Tammy Thompson.

#ronance #robin x nancy #stranger things

[entropy-sea-system]

A lot of people online have been saying that narcs can and should recover. I know that that statement is ableist towards pwNPD, but I wanted to ask someone with the disorder why it’s untrue from personal experience.

(Sorry for bad wording, English is not my first language)

Well I would say recovery is not possible for everyone, if someone wants to recover from npd they can attempt it if therapy is accessible for them though, thats not really ableist. It is ableist to act like thats possible for everyone though, or to act like therapy is always accessible to everyone. This also overlaps with classism and other forms of bigotry because there are barriers to accessing therapy.

Also I do think it is kind of weird they refer to pwNPD as 'narcs' with that phrasing. Some of us do reclaim the term but if egotypicals just use it like that its a little weird and implies they see us as bad since they often use 'narc'/narcissist in a derogatory manner to refer to basically anyone they armchair diagnose as having NPD bc theyre an abuser or somehow just 'unlikeable'.

Even if people with npd do go to therapy, there are unfortunately many professionals who are very ableist towards people with npd and see us as a 'lost cause' or even believe that 'narc abuse' exists - more professionals in psychiatry and psychology should really learn to respect people with npd and should know how to work with us if we decide to go to therapy for it.

Some people with npd may want to recover if they dont feel able to function well at all and they arent able to cope well with their symptoms, and thats okay. Some people may just fundamentally want to be egotypical even if their NPD doesnt necessarily harm themself a lot. It shouldn't be something we are forced to do though, and we can obviously have npd while still respecting others. Some may also not get a choice as people are coerced into undergoing therapy or institutionalised, which is another problem.

One thing I dislike about the whole idea that we should go to therapy and that therapy will magically get rid of our NPD, is that egotypicals (people without npd) tend to ask that we do this for THEIR sake. They can't handle people with npd even existing and don't want to deal with us. They assume we are all doomed to be abusers. They don't seem to give a shit about how WE are negatively impacted by having npd when they say this. It sounds as if they just want npd to somehow be erased from the world.

Either way, peoples autonomy and rights should be respected regarding therapy, and one can go to therapy if they wish. But there is no guarantee therapy will get rid of a personality disorder, and one may need to see a few therapists or counsellors to find one that truly helps them, and there is a safety risk to seeking psychiatric care for many people.

Recovery is not impossible, but people should go about it at their own pace if they seek it and take precautions as professionals in mental health may harm them, and sometimes it means more that you learn ways of coping with your personality disorder (such as skills taught in Dialectical Behaviour therapy) than exactly that it will disappear entirely. We have not gone to any therapy that helped us so far, but if we do, when its safe to for us, we would be cautious about it and gather a lot of information on who we consider as potential therapists or counsellors.

NPD itself cannot exactly be prevented, on another note, some factors that can influence someone developing it, like genetics, environment one grows up in, and trauma, etc. just are not very preventable. Maybe if societal power structures such as the family unit were not given as much power, abuse rates would reduce and there would be less incidence of trauma, but this would not exactly prevent it entirely and would be difficult to actually enact. And Im not sure if the people who want to prevent it just want people with NPD gone in an ableist way, or if they actually give a fuck about our suffering.

I have known of other pwNPD who do go to a counsellor or therapist. I was in a space with other pwNPD and some of them were genuinely helped by therapy - but those people still had NPD, therapy just helped them cope with it. There are probably people who recovered from NPD after therapy, I havent personally met any such people, but I have seen one person claim they used to have NPD then just didn't anymore without even any therapy, not sure how exactly that worked but yeah.

Anyways, the point is, NPD or any other personality disorder is variable like this and it cannot be said for sure that therapy always exactly gets rid of the disorder entirely or is safe for us. And this is often applicable to other mental illnesses and neurodivergence too. Its not ableist to say people can pursue recovery if they want it, but enforcing it as mandatory can err towards ableism, especially if its along with false beliefs about what therapy can do.

#NPD #npd #actually npd #sysmeds dni #endo safe #actually narcissistic #narcissistic personality disorder #ableism #anti psych #sanism #psychiatric abuse #recovery #cluster b #cluster b safe #actually cluster b #npd safe #anti psychiatry

[miaclemeverett]

YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, I was wondering why I had such a huge issue with his rp this stream, and it's literally the chronic main character syndrome that hurt to witness. I'm sooo sorry, but you are not That Guy here. This is the Brazilians turf in terms of lore hard carrying and plot centrism, shoehorning yourself in that way just isn't possible at this point unless you're able to fully commit. I enjoyed the parts where he was just hanging out with everyone, but every time he tried doing lore or roleplay I just sighed really heavily.

ok sorry to the previous anon it continues

i want to point out that i was a big defender of wilbur during dsmp era where he got shit sometimes for centering himself too much (literally untrue he purposefully centered tommy about 90% of the time like im crying) before people get on me

i also want to point out that from what i know about qsmp, the other cc's and obviously tallulah and other eggs have really been doing a lot to keep him involved and remembered in the server, so he does still have a large role to play even with the limited time he'll have on the server

but yeah a lot of the lore elements i was just not into, i understand having to focus on tallulah being missing tho because thats basically his only role on the server

#ask