#but that doesn't automatically make it bad

[mzminola]

This is not a perfect analogy but I am making it anyway to try to convey what being online has been like for me lately.

Seeing people say "Oh, Jews are fine, I just hate zionists!" is like seeing "Oh, women are fine, I just hate feminists!"

Zionism and feminism are both very broad socio-political movements that have changed focus over time, that ostensibly have some very basic core tenets but you really need to ask the specific person you're talking to how they personally define it to be sure.

Both have been subject to legitimate criticism, and hostile reactionary bullshit. Had waves, sub-movements, splinters, people with damn near opposite views sharing the term and people with seemingly identical views rejecting it.

You can give working, broad definitions like these:

Feminism is the belief that all people should be treated equally regardless of gender, with a focus on women's rights due to systemic oppression.

Zionism is the belief that all peoples have the right to self determination and safety, with a focus on Jewish people finding it in Israel.

You can also give different definitions! Many people give different definitions! Many people also hold these beliefs but use different names for them for various reasons.

There are self-described zionists who are jingoistic, racist, etc, and who attribute those attitudes to their zionism. Just as there are feminists who are misandrist, bio-essentialist, transphobic, homophobic, and so on, who attribute those attitudes to their feminism.

There are also incredibly selfless, compassionate activists working for positive change in the world who consider themselves zionists and feminists.

It has been very jarring to see people, who I respect, uncritically reblogging posts or headlines that use "zionists" as a stand in for "bad people", just as jarring as it would be to see them sharing things that use "feminists" that way. Especially when those posts contain easily debunked conspiracy theories that I know you'd have seen right through if the OP said "Jews" but because they said "zionists" you swallowed it whole.

I am not asking anyone to stop sharing important information, petitions, news articles, resources, and so on. I am asking you to slow down and stop spreading inflammatory language that paints a broad socio-political movement for Jewish self-determination as inherently bad. The same way I would ask you not to spread inflammatory language that paints gender equality & women's liberation as inherently bad.

If the information is important, please look for other, more neutrally worded posts. Or verify the links yourself and make a fresh post! There is no situation online in which the only way to share information must be to spread such language.

#antisemitism #being critical of zionism is not automatically antisemitic #just as criticizing the feminist movement is not inherently misogynistic #but the way a LOT of people have been talking lately...it has been indistinguishable #please slow down #being Jewish in America #and online #I have so many filters and yet I cannot escape this even in fandom spaces #''Jews control the media'' repackaged as ''zionists'' or ''the Israeli government'' has been the one I've seen the most #but there's been some outright blood libel too #and of course the usual banking bullshit #when you accept a term like this as synonymous with ''bad people'' you swallow the lies more easily! you swallow the exaggerations! #you fact check less! you reblog from psyops and bigots who've found keywords! #and it doesn't have to be this way #please stop making it be this way #editing tags to add #zionism #I think I left it off originally to stay out of the tracked tags

[the-way-astray]

hate it more than anything when people are like "[character] doesn't deserve [person/thing] because they are/have [mental disability/symptoms of a mental disability]" like damn at least try to pretend you aren't ableist please and thank you.

#. . . obviously this is about fitz #but also about so many other characters too #kotlc #fitz vacker #kotlc fitz #somehow i ended up digging up the iconic “Just because your gay doesnt mean Sophie is!!!” post #besides the obvious cringe just. the way the anon talked about people with anger issues . . . #like wow let's tell all people with this one mental disability that they never deserve to have a partner because of their disability! #totally not ableist at all! #and he doesn't even canonically have anger issues i can only imagine how much worse this must be for characters that canonically do #villainizing a mental disability like that and making it out to be a sign that someone is automatically bad if they have it is just. #yikes

[transgender-chiroptera]

Can you share some of your favorite bat facts? I wanna add more to my lil arsenal of cool random facts. :]

Of course! Apologies for the late response, I saw this at like 1am four days ago, forgot everything I knew about bats, and then fell asleep and only remembered I even got this ask today. Anyways! Some bat facts :)

Common Vampire bats are some of my absolute favourites, mostly because of their ability to run on the ground! They can gallop with their forelimbs and take off from the ground by leaping into the air and catapulting themselves with their wings, which is speculated to be how Pterodactyls took off as well! Most bats cannot take off from the ground, and must be elevated to take flight, so this is pretty cool. Makes sense too, since they mostly feed from the ankles of large mammals and so need ground maneuverability!

Here's a video of a vamp taking off, and here's a video of one walking around! I think their skittery movements and lil' faces are just the CUTEST, but I know I'm probably in the minority there. Also there's a large dish of blood in the second video, so fair warning there!

All three true Vampire bats have evolved special grooves in their mouths in order to act as a gutter of sorts to funnel the blood into their mouths, but the exact arrangement differs between them. The Hairy-Legged Vampire bat has a groove along the roof of the mouth, whereas the White-Winged and Common Vampire bats have lingual grooves under the tounge! Speaking of White-Winged Vampire bats, they're the only bats in the world with 22 teeth, for some reason (likely no reason since the molars are vestigial), AND they have scent glands in their mouths that might be used to deter predators. Pretty cool stuff!

Finally, all three species of true Vampire Bats are cute as hell. Look at these lil' guys!!

(left to right- White-winged, Hairy-legged, and Common Vampire bats!)

#idk why the vampire theme these guys are just always on the brain. I love them so much #they aren't scary at all! being a hematophage doesn't automatically make a creature scary or bad in any way #No worse than being a carnivore. the blood to blood contact makes them vectors for disease but that's not their fault #besides so would being carnivorous if they didn't have to kill their prey most of the time lol #I love and appreciate these beasts. They have an important place in the ecosystem and should be respected. the best that can be done #to mitigate the diseases they are vectors for are vaccination efforts and improved accessibility to healthcare #but that's a wholee other discussion lol. hate that i feel the need to go on the defensive when saying i like an animal I'm passionate abou #ANYWAYS tag ramble over. thank you for the ask!!! always love an excuse to talk about bats haha #ask #raybytheway #bat #common vampire bat #white-winged vampire bat #hairy-legged vampire bat

[littlespoonevan]

the thing about romcoms is just- it's never meant to be 'is it believable?' but instead 'do you believe it?' do you believe these two characters are actually falling in love with each other??? do you believe their chemistry??? do you believe whatever obstacle is thrown in their way is legitimately something that might keep them apart for a time and not something that could be solved with one conversation?? do you believe that they believe they need to fake date for this very specific reason??? do you believe the reason why they're 'enemies' at the start, no matter how silly a misunderstanding it may be??? do you believe the grand romantic gesture fits the characters and is actually how one character would show their love to the other?? like!!!! it's about empathy and authenticity and feeling what the characters feel so strongly that even if it's a trope or a cliché it doesn't matter because you believe it

#this is what separates a good romcom from a bad romcom for me #if the conventions of the genre are used in a way that feels authentic to the characters then it'll never feel cheesy #one of my biggest pet peeves is some of the romcoms of the last decade who have this real 'we're not like other romcoms' energy #where they try to act like they're Different and move away from the usual tropes but it's shit bc that's not the point!!!! #those tropes and conventions are staples of the genre for a reason #it's how you utilise them and incorporate them that matters #like fuck me i hate action movies but i know if i go see one there's a 99% chance there'll be a car chase scene #bc that's usually a staple feature of an action movie and i mean idc but that's fine bc i know it has a function in the story to increase #the tension #and even at that someone who really loves action movies could probably tell me the difference between a good car chase scene & a subpar one #in the same way that just saying something is fake dating doesn't automatically make it good #but if i believe it and i'm in it with the characters? oh boy i'm about to feel so dELIGHTED for the next 90 minutes thank you so much #anyway i'm rewatching the lost city and every second of this movie is so silly in a fun way and fantastical but oH BOY DO I BELIEVE IT #mine

[ljf613]

I need y'all to understand that underdogs aren't always right.

#real life #fandom critical #thoughts #this is not about any one topic in particular #but people seem to have an unfortunate habit of assuming that the weaker party in a conflict is automatically correct #we as a society have (at least on the surface) moved beyond 'might makes right' #but weakness doesn't make right either #sometimes the stronger side IS actually the right one #winning and being better or stronger than an opponent isn't inherently a bad thing #everyone loves an underdog #but think critically about whether you actually support what said underdog is fighting FOR

[skunkes]

i know i also already said this but i keep having art ""'realizations""" that read exactly like this post

#did u guys know drawing realistic proportions doesnt automatically mean the style is Realistic. its something else entirely #talkys #<- obvious stuff like that that my brain cant grasp for my own stuff #like ive been struggling drawing faces bc i dont want to do proportions that are too realistic bc thats boring #so ive been fucking up with worse wonkier faces instead #when proportions arent automatically what makes a piece Realistic or Boring or even Bad etc #well except in the case of my stuff actually being bad and devolving constantly but #you know #i guess its more like >sees artist drawing with realistic facial proportions but the art doesn't look realistic it still looks #stylized and cartoony and not boring >jaw drop

[cursedvibes]

I've said this before, but it always makes me really uncomfortable when Sukuna fans and jjk fans in general talk about what "human" Sukuna would look like. Because the form we currently see couldn't possibly be how he originally looked. Clearly this is his curse appearance because it's so deformed and inhuman and a reflection what an evil person he is. No normal human could possibly look like this. Basically they are parroting the exact talking points that led to Sukuna being called an "unwanted child" 忌み子. Someone who looks like that can only be evil.

Nothing about his appearance is all that inhuman. The belly mouth is physically impossible, but the rest of his body is easily explained with him just being a conjoined twin/polymelia. And the mask-like growth on his face seems to have changed during his life, so it might just be a tumour or very extreme eczema. Point is, while there is surely some jujutsu stuff involved with it, the appearance of his body is natural and given what we know so far, I think it is likely that he always looked like this and only optimized some aspects of it as he got older and more focused on fighting and cursed energy. So saying the way he looks is evidence of him being a curse or having become a curse (like a punishment for becoming a bad person) instead of his actions speaking for itself regardless of his appearance and literally everyone who knows him personally saying he's human, is extremely ignorant.

#I'm sure Gege will expand on that in the future but I assume his appearance led to prejudice from people since birth #and this ostracism led to his disregard to others and later cruel and violent actions #nobody is born evil and being able-bodied doesn't automatically make you a good person or is a sign of purity #just how becoming disabled wouldn't be a sign of a bad character the murder and cannibalism is #which you can do perfectly well with only 2 arms and eyes as well #jujutsu kaisen #ryomen sukuna

[stevethehairington]

i am once again thinking of a good omens wicked au, but this time instead of the obvious crowley as elphaba and aziraphale and glinda, im thinking of the OPPOSITE.

im thinking of how AZIRAPHALE fits elphaba's character in that he is an outsider amongst his peers and he's a little bit awkward and he's got so much faith in the almighty/the wizard. he's got "parents" (read: god) who expect so much from him and siblings who are ashamed of him. and he's got dreams! he wants to do big things! he wants to work hand in hand with and make the almighty/the wizard proud!

and im thinking about how CROWLEY fits glindas character in the sense that he's suave and charming and people are drawn to him. he knows how to talk to them and how to get them to do what he wants, and he's the one that teaches aziraphale things about the world (a la popular, like tempting aziraphale into eating meat and drinking wine and all these very human things he never would have thought to do without crowleys influence).

im thinking of how the two of them start out absolutely loathing each other, as mortal enemies, one could say... but how over time and as they bond more and more, as they see different sides of one another, that loathing turns into something else. something just as strong, just as passionate, but softer. gentler. sweeter. it turns into love.

and of course everything gets shattered when upon meeting his idol, aziraphale learns that god isn't what he thought she was. it turns out god is just a pipe dream. all there is is a floating head, the metatron, posing as god. and not at all the great and powerful entity aziraphale believed. and the metatron CANT help aziraphale, can't fix him. and thus the downfall of aziraphale begins.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #wicked #go wicked au #i am ALWAYS thinking about a go wicked au #ALSO thinking about how in this version of the au muriel could be nessa #and honestly gabriel would make a decent fiyero but like if you took out the romance part LOL bc i cannot see CROWLEY esp falling for him #i can't see aziraphale either but like i could see him as more likely than crowley certainly #but anyways someone random as fiyero and then its like aziraphale thinks hes jealous bc he likes fiyero #but ACTUALLY its fiyero hes jealous OF bc fiyero is the one that has crowley fawning all over him #but then crowley doesn't ACTUALLY like fiyero like he thinks he does. hes just using him as a distraction from his REAL feelings #(cough aziraphale) #HONESTLY this all works BETTER for their characters imo than the og roles we automatically think for them #EXCEPT for the fact that like OBVIOUSLY the whole hell being the bad witch and heaven being the good witch makes more sense #PLUS if crowley was elphaba then when she goes Full Wicked Witch at the end that is very much The Fall coded #so like THAT works better that way #BUT you could always turn things on its head and make AZIRAPHALE fall in the end #idk theres a lot of logistics that would have to be worked out and some stuff that would have to be changed to fit these characters ofc #if an au were to be written anyways #BUT YEAH I AM THINKIN™️

[bitchthefuck1]

Not an "art with Bad Things in it is Bad" person or a "the more Bad Things a work has the better it is, actually" person, but a secret third thing (the quality of a work is determined not by what topics or ideas it contains but by whether/how it engages with and examines those ideas)

#i've been seeing a lot of 'trigger warnings are like glowing reviews to me' nonsense on here and i fear many of y'all have missed the whole #fucking point. truly the media illiteracy website. #esp since these are the kind of people to be like 'STOP defining things by TROPES' and then turn around and say 'this is good because #it has DARK STUFF' like ma'am that's the exact same mindset #don't make me tap the ursula k le guinn quote sign #a work being sad/dark/edgy doesn't automatically make it art. it might make you more likely to enjoy it if you like works that include #that subject matter but just having it doesn't say anything about the quality of the work itself. there is no single 'if it has X then it i #or isn't Y' formula for assessing a work of art. every single assessment is a case by case basis. there is no shortcut. #also i can't believe i have to say this but just because something made you cry or you personally related to it doesn't mean #it's good or well done and just because something didn't make you cry or you didn't relate to it doesn't mean it's bad or poorly done.

[synthaphone]

The Pokemon HOME app limiting random features and information to either the mobile or console versions is SO clunky and annoying.

My goal: to check which of my favorite Pokemon and shinies stored in HOME don't have the Paldea Champion Ribbon yet, so I can bring those into Scarlet and get it for them. But! You can only view what ribbons a Pokemon has on the mobile version of the software! And you can't move Pokemon to your switch games from mobile!!! So you have to:

quit out of the console app, if you opened it already because you thought this would be a relatively simple task

open the app on mobile

manually document which Pokemon don't have the ribbon- like, on a piece of paper or something

close the mobile app (you can't have both versions of the app open simultaneously)

open the app on console

move them from HOME into Scarlet, referring to aforementioned list

Now you might say "There is a custom tag feature in Pokemon HOME! You could apply a tag to the Pokemon you plan to move instead of making a physical note on a piece of paper!" But unfortunately, the only aspect of the tag you can see on the console version is the color- the name of the tag isn't visible. and I'm already using every color of tag available

(also: you can only make and apply tags on mobile. other mobile exclusive things: wonder trade and gts, viewing 90% of achievements, viewing models, switching between a pokemon's stats for different games it can go in without switching what game you're planning on moving things between)

#pokemon home #pokemon #i need a text post tag #i have more complaints too. i should make a comprehensive list. just for me #like: shinies don't have any symbol marking them as such on the GTS. so for the really subtle shinies? you just have to look REAL careful #whenever you import pokemon from Bank they automatically get tagged with a new tag with the name of the Box that they were imported from #which is maybe useful to somebody but its just super annoying for me to have to keep deleting the 'Kanto 1' tag from all of my Bank imports #the lighting in the model viewer is really fucking bad and makes the pokemon look flat and undefined #overlapping areas that are the same color blend together visually #for that matter; the HOME renders are really fucking ugly. compare them to the sugi art they're posed after sometime. terrakion. its WILD #the lag when moving between pages of boxes on the console version when you have a lot of pokemon stored in HOME is MISERABLE #the mobile app and console app have different sets of achievements that are only viewable on their respective apps???? its weird #can't reorder pokemon's box positions on mobile; you just get a big list that you can sort different ways #this doesn't affect their box placement at all #the tags seem really useful at first but if you're moving pokemon between HOME and games a lot? #you have to reapply the tags to those pokemon every time you put them back in HOME because that data is lost once they leave the app #they never fixed the Spinda problem with BDSP; they just made it so that you can't bring Spinda in or out of those games

[raayllum]

and y’know i don’t think too much on tumblr about gender bc 1) i’m agender and that’s kinda my whole thing and 2) tumblr general anonymity of gender is nice and lovely. however... thinking about the whole “this afab person doesn’t know what a foil, a staple in the high achieving degree they earned and now teach other people in for a living, is” does have misogynistic overtones if/when it comes from cis men, y’know?

#& the response to this will probably be 'i a cis man couldn't possibly be misogynistic. #u just lived 20+ years as a woman you can't possibly identify misogyny' #dragons gets salty #personal #like there are many ways to read foil relationships #and most foil relationships are unique about like. how they interplay #but to claim someone doesn't know what a foil is. when i wrote papers on the subject #is certainly a desperate reeking kind of reach instead of 'yeah i disagree about how this foil relationship is going to manifest' #like an adult with a job lmao #if u know u know #& to be clear with most of this stuff. bigoted behaviour doesn't automatically make someone a Bad person #it's only if you do it like. consistently and refuse to listen that i'm like. hmm alright i don't like you

[ms-nishakadam]

People really love taking that whole "doing all the work" line that Nisha says to Jack in the Claptastic Voyage DLC seriously don't they? LoL

Also Anthony Burch when asked this:

#borderlands #handsome jack #nisha the lawbringer #jackisha #y'all know what banter is right?? #if it was that bad they wouldn't have been together for 5 years #just because one person is not doing as much work in the bedroom doesn't automatically make you shit at sex #it was just a lighthearted joke and it's hilarious how seriously some users have taken that joke over the years #y'all know how sex works right?? #especially in the beginning of a relationship #i know they're fictional but i just find it hilarious i have to point this out to some people #jacknisha

[club-penguin-artistry]

Login page, pre-Cardjitsu Party, 2011

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#club penguin #club penguin artistry #decompiled from swf #club penguin login screens #1. I have figured out how to decompile animated scenes. you will be seeing those whenever I have the time #2. I learned how to use javascript and ran ffmpeg from console for this because the decompiler doesn't do this automatically #3. apologies for the lack of uncropped gif for reference; the compression on tumblr plus the tiny size I'd need it to be just makes it ugly #this has actually converted me to wanting to use webm and webp because gif compression sucks so bad #the original webm was only 1mb but the gif turned into FORTY FIVE

[violentvioletsky]

He speaks the truth. It astounds me how many people forget how popular certain bands were in their heyday. Bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Cult were all topping the charts by the time the mid to late 80s swung around. The Cult even went on tour with Guns and Roses and Metallica!

#gothgoth #daniel graves #aesthetic perfection #the truth will set you free #just because something is pop doesn't automatically make it bad #the cure #depeche mode #the cult #80s pop #goth subculture #goth music #gothic #new wave #siouxsie and the banshees

[inkedmyths]

Today on Internet Takes of All Time

#ink thinks #before you ask. it's about disney's wish #DISNEY. #the style of it looks bad. the pacing was bad. it could have been so much better #and just bc someone spent time and passion on it doesn't automatically make it good

[smalltimidbean]

actually the idea of fiend being pretty polite and not swearing sounds kinda nice and ironic lol

Maybe I do not understand the concept of 'irony', but I don't think Fiend not swearing is ironic...?

Like, do you expect clones to swear? Pep doesn't swear, is that irony?

I am just very confused about all this, I feel like I am missing something, and I do not know why this is the topic of the day

#bean talks too much #also like not swearing doesn't automatically make someone polite #you can still be rude and not use curse words kjgdk #and if someone does swear it doesn't make them a bad person #not saying you or anyone has been implying that just putting it out there