#but that's kind of off topic

[lepitorus]

Does William support gay rights?

He thinks it's outrageous that he, specifically, can't do whatever he wants, and some of what he wants but can't do is gay, so I guess in a sense he does. I don't think he cares much about other people, though.

#unless they're inconveniencing him in some way. in which case he doesn't support any of their rights #I think he's too jaded to be able to imagine a future where being gay is socially accepted because he's kind of. living in 70s-80s utah #so i do think he has a bit of a Moment as glitchtrap when vanessa like. kisses a woman in public and is like ?oh yeah it's no big deal now #but that's kind of off topic #...Henry supports gay rights:) #old man yaoi lore #thank you so much for asking!!!!! #alternate answer: he only supports gay wrongs #ask #.txt

[cycle-hit]

to see a milgram character as a "good person" or "bad person" is a failure of media literacy for milgram. the entire lesson of the milgram project is that thinking in such black and whites, to deem someone as "good - innocent/forgiven" and "bad - guilty/guilty" only causes damage. the prisoners voted forgiven are not helped. the prisoners voted guilty aren't either. the lesson is that such a mindset will never help you- that it will harm whatever youre touching with it.

we cannot stop this, either- we have to keep choosing one or the other, because an abstained vote is impossible. we just have to keep choosing to shock them, over and over, no matter how much they beg us to stop because there is no other choice. you as an individual can refuse to vote, but someone else will always choose to. it is better to put in a vote, in that scenario, than to have it be uncounted entirely.

stop shoving characters in such black and white boxes. this is a story about nuance. they are not only "good", they are not only "bad". acknowledge that they are both. acknowledge that these characters are deeper than that. this is, quite literally, the "look deeper" media, you're supposed to be analysing. you're supposed to be theorising and looking at evidence under a microscope.

you're supposed to be acknowledging nuance, because anything could be true and anything could be incorrect. even a theory you prize could be completely wrong, or a theory you hate could be completely right. theorising about a character is not to "excuse" their actions or make them more "sympathetic", but rather to explain their actions. to flesh them out.

plus, as a bit of rant, you've all gotta stop dismissing people's theories completely just because you believe your own is oh-so above it. acknowledge a theory's evidence, acknowledge a theory's points, acknowledge why it could and could not be true. don't become obsessed with the black and white "I Choose To Only See The Worst Of This Character And Nothing Else Because That's My Preference!!! I'm Just Critical!!!" or "I Choose To Only See The Good Of This Character And Nothing Else Because That's My Preference!!! I'm A Moral Paragon!!!". jesus fucking christ.

i sincerely hope this doesnt make you believe that i think im above this same mindset either- i'm very much not. i can be guilty of it as well. but the important thing about analysing media is the ability to acknowledge every possibility, every point of view, anything that's possible. to discard any bias you may have in order to figure out what's going on in a clear and succinct manner that is closest to the truth. please remember this!

#interestingly most if not all of the prisoners also seem to have a very black and white belief of “good” and “bad” people as well #a bit of rant but i hope my point gets across! i fear i mightve gotten a bit off topic #milgram #haruka sakurai #yuno kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #muu kusunoki #shidou kirisaki #mahiru shiina #kazui mukuhara #amane momose #mikoto kayano #kotoko yuzuriha #milgram analysis #i hope. this reaches the people i intended to. but this post is also kind of swinging a baseball bat at everyone/a lot of posting i see #(not exclusive to tumblr)

[multiversemittens]

I have incredibly mixed feelings about The Owl House finale.

On one hand, I'm excited to see how the story ends and I hope they all live happily ever after.

On the other, it's a reminder that it's the last episode ever and we could have had so much more if it weren't for a few Disney execs.

#the owl house #watching and dreaming #disney #fuck disney #off topic #kind of a rant

[uncanny-tranny]

The idea that children are inherently duplicitous, manipulative liars is genuinely doing harm to children and further obfuscates when genuine harm/abuse is occurring because, "what can the adults do, children are demons!"

The idea that children have divine knowledge that transcends adults' own knowledge and they use that knowledge for personal gain is, simply-put, abuse apologism. You are aiding and abetting abusive behaviour from adults, parents/guardians, medical professionals, whomever it might be.

#youth liberation #abuse #abuse tw #abuse apologia #sorry if i talked about this before - if i had then i simply forgor #again i just fucking despise how people talk about children *and* childhood abuse #like how was i manipulating people who were like 30+ at... ages three to thirteen #like it's infantilizing the adults in somebody's life while simultaneously blaming abuse survivors because they did something to deserve it #post that's kind of piggybacking off the last one but also just... #...man i hate in-depth and nuanced topics when many people have them

[canisalbus]

I had a scrap piece of paper and drew the little freakish dog 👍 I have been silently enjoying your art for like a couple months now? I found it randomly on uploaded Pinterest and was like “oh huh that’s rad” and yeah he’s such a lovely sad little beast

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#oooh another tiny machete sighting! #I don't know but I find it just so endearing that people are out there doodling his weird little face #on post it notes corners of scrap paper and at work #I do that too but then again I'm rotating him in my head at least fifteen times a day so I kind of have to #the WHISKERS ah #scruffy little animal #putting him in my pocket and taking him to the grocery shop as we speak #thank you! and I'm glad you've been enjoying my art! #I've always had a little difficult relationship with pinterest because a lot of art gets uploaded there without proper sources or credit #and whenever a piece of yours gets reposted sourcelessly often enough you kind of end up losing ownership to it which isn't fun #it gets used without artist's consent as bootleg prints and shirts and tattoos and such #but lately a lot of people have come to me saying they discovered my stuff through pinterest #or had seen my character there and recognized it later when they came across one of my own posts #and it's always very nice to hear that I'm glad you've found me here #but I'm getting very off topic didn't mean to ramble like that #gift art #answered #wwildcatt #own characters #Machete

[theyshapedlikefriends]

every time I see an isopod going around doing isopod things when I go for walks etc I just go "omg real life hjbuh"

I would too

#ask #AWWW THE HJBUH #HJBUH #off topic #kind off #but still

[hamletthedane]

My neighbor just leaned across the 50ft-drop gap between our apartment balconies to hand me a 6-pack of Shiner as a bribe to finish watching Red White & Royal Blue with him and his British boyfriend (“you don’t understand - it’s ABOUT THE TWO OF US!!”), and I think snapshots of time like this are probably the meaning of life

#his mom is a big Texas politician he’s from Austin and his boyfriend has some kind of noble title in Britain so he’s not WRONG #but the question is: will I allow my favorite drink to be a bribe to watch fanfic in movie form at my neighbor’s house #or rather finish watching bc I fell asleep around the 90th sex scene last time lmao #and woke up only in time to angrily text DJ about the fact that the characters somehow BIKE from DOWNTOWN AUSTIN to the SUBURBS #shut up e #random #off topic blogging #red white and royal blue #cw alcohol

[nicollekidman]

if psychoanalyzing fictional characters to a degree their writers never dreamed of were a profession

#employee of the month every month baby #any writers room on any show ive ever talked about: girl you just made that up #kind of off topic but i hope you know it means a lot that i know so many of you never know What im talking about but hang around #bc of How im saying it #that is baffling to me but mwah

[yesloulou]

I'm sorry but can we compare him in Ad22 with him in Hungary from Iguessricciardo's GIFs?

The roundness of his cheeks? the light in his eyes? The big goofy smile? I'm going to burn McLaren to the ground and Michael with them

https://www.tumblr.com/iguessricciardo/723659318690447360/post-race-interview-hungary-gp-2023?source=share

do not arson obviously

anon did this to you not me. im so sorry

(left: post-race at ad 22 | right: post-quali at hungarian gp 23)

#HATE U 😭 #I DID NOT NEED TO LOOK AT THIS #kinda off topic but i kinda get why he's so keen on chopping off his curls this year. maybe it's a new hair new me kind of thing #also i used my gif bc i have them on hand and its p much the same thing <3 #daniel ricciardo #asks #*

[oobbbear]

Eclipse is still so fusion to me

#the #Steven universe kind #bearz rambling tag #off topic but I need to draw sun with sally #our dearly beloved sunshine ppl #whom the fandom interpreted very different before their later voice lines come out #oh those two sassy theater kids #i bet they would hate each other

[tangledinink]

Would you ever make a non-graphic comic on Donnie laying the eggs?

I mean, I'm not opposed to exploring such concepts, generally speaking, (as I've repeatedly showcased lol), I just don't really know what a comic like that would really entail. I don't have a good story in my mind atm about this, so I don't have any plans r/n. 🤷🏻‍♂️ If y'all have specific questions about his experience and such, then maybe I'd get an idea for something, but right now I have no plans for it.

#i mean it's basically birth just to the left #i figure most of y'all (dear god plz) understand what that experience is like generally speaking #obviously every person and their experience is different but. you know. same basic steps for most people? #there's just a million different ways to do it and a million different ways to get through to the same end goal (more or less) #but r/n off the top of my head it would just be a lot of donnie swearing and crying and swearing and pacing and swearing etc etc etc #i guess it also depends on whether or not theres like? genuinely any interest for that type of comic #coz we've established im v down to make content abt '''taboo''' topics but i still often feel like im toeing the line lol. #so i kind of. gauge a lot of these things off of y'all. #gemini au asks #asks #anon #tw birth #cw birth #birth #kinda sorta #tw childbirth #cw childbirth #childbirth #sorta kinda #man whenever i tag these things one of the things that pops up under “popular” tabs is always like #things like b1rth k!nk and im like #nO #im trying to tag this for people who wanna blacklist it i dont wanna accidentally put it in the Pornography Bin #and there's nothing wrong with that like power to the ppl go off live ur life but like #A) thats not why im making this stuff and i dont rlly want it to be viewed that way #B) you know what im sure this isnt what the k!nk ppl are looking for anyway i dont wanna clog up their tags with off topic content--

[clown-eating-pig]

trying to make a bit of a list of the people that seem to have prompted the supernatural events within each episode. I hope that kind of makes sense? Essentially, almost each story that happens seems to be preceded by some mildly mysterious person. This is what I have so far:

First Shift: The consultant that guided harriet to the graveyard (checking in)/the anonymous DMer that was sending threats to RedCanary (red canary) (I am also curious about the site creator(?), Devan, who originally marked the magnus institute as cleared and no longer seems to be around)

Making Adjustments: Ink5oul

Putting Down Roots: this one is not particularly clear to me, but my best guess for now would be harriot manning (the grief counselor), gerald, or (a stretch) the person who owns the church that houses the garden

Taking Notes: the stranger that gifts the narrator his violin

Personal Screening: the unnamed person who originally suggested "voyeur" to tomsterrors, or cinephobia2220 who found the "voyeur" website.

There's not necessarily a conclusion to be drawn from these yet, and this could be a pattern that I am inventing in my own mind, but I do think that it's interesting that a lot of these people were clearly guided or goaded into doing whatever it was that killed/traumatized them.

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp theory #Tmagp thoughts #Again there isn't much to this #And not having a set inciting person with putting down roots #Probably kind of kills this #But eh #That episode was confusing #Forgive me #I definitely am all for the obsession thing tho #Off topic but I'm just trying to set everything out in my own mind lol #Also I definitely don't trust technology rn (in universe) but that's a me problem lol

[carlyraejepsans]

i was thinking about that ask i received the other day and how uncharacteristically upset the topic had made me when i usually just think "mh. gross!" and move on, and after mulling it over a while i realized it wasn't about the topic at all, it was the ask itself that freaked me out. i've mentioned sporadically before (for obvious reasons lol) that i used to be involved in fandom discourse when i was younger and that!! fucked me up quite a lot. between exacerbating my ocd and straight up getting cyber stalked (i almost feel guilty using that word, like i don't deserve it but. yeah that is 100% what happened to me), the topic is something I have very complex and personal opinions on but that i hate talking about in public because it still sets off my fight or flight response.

i know some people in the fandom are like "let me know if i ever rb someone who wrote/drew gross stuff" and that's entirely their choice and i respect it. but for the record, i am not one of these people. please, for the love of god, i am asking this genuinely do NOT come into my DMs about this, I don't want to know. assume I'm either living in blissful ignorance or my blacklist already covers me quite nicely & i wanna keep it that way. i vastly prefer the discomfort of stumbling into something unprepared and deciding what to do about it on my own, to the utter pit of dread i get whenever i open a message that starts with "hey just so you know-". i have blocked multiple people in the past over it. i WILL block more. be warned.

[note. this doesn't apply to people who have either hurt or behaved inappropriately with other members of the fandom, or spread bigotry and discrimination like racists and transphobes. please do let me know in those cases]

does this make sense? idk I'm kinda feverish you guys figure it out. I'm going to sleep.

#word from the wise for anyone peering into the jaws of discourse. there are only 2 types of people you can trust on their opinions on it #they are 1) people who have never heard of ship discourse like. at all. and 2) people who know too much about it #and with that i mean people who started off at one end of the discourse ricochetted to the other side and then came out #objectively refusing to associate with any of it. because they Know. that whatever issue lies at the heart of it is never gonna get resolve #with the way that discourse is conducted. and that the problems will never truly be fixed. and even then #you should take three or four of them at once from different starting and ending points and let them talk it out together first #because they all came from different point of views the others could've missed #i cannot WARN YOU ENOUGH. you do not want to be the second type. don't fall in #block who you wanna block and be kind any time you can. most people aren't inherently evil & that's a weird thing to assume about someone #and for the love if god stop fucking beefing with teenagers online #that is all you need to know about this. go have fun #i haveee so many fucking. thoughts about this topic i genuinely think i could have (and have had! seriously!) constructive discussions on i #about what would be helpful and what needs to be changed and what people get wrong. but it's always in private. because of the horrors #anyway shipping wars veteran discounts when

[apotelesmaa]

I think tsukasa is a normie sorry. He does not know memes or internet trends he’s too busy scouring the internet for bootleg theatre productions and practicing facial expressions in the mirror. Guy who could tell you everything you need to know about some obscure actor/play from 100 years ago but does not know a single modern celebrity if they’re not involved in acting. He’s adding new poses to his vast repertoire he is not making banger posts online. “Based? Based on what?” Type of guy.

#nene is the most internet poisoned wxs member and she is not sharing that info with tsukasa #rui is also somewhat online but I feel like he’d mostly be on Wikipedia clicking all the links on an article for a soup #<- also the kind of guy to be watching videos on the most obscure topics just for fun #emu is untainted by the sins of modern internet she is just watching funny pet videos online #i do however think rui would teach tsukasa memes so that tsukasa can misuse them on purpose to annoy nene #sliding scale of nene in middleschool getting into heated online discourse vs tsukasa going ‘that’s boring I’m logging off’ #would like to amend that actually I think tsukasa would see a bad take on one of his favorite actors and get into a 5 day long argument #online on some random barely used Internet forum until the mods were like ok we’re locking this thread every1 shut up #mine #project sekai

[kicktwine]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

#say one thing wrong to me and you will have a wonderful few days with the rock #if angry silly girls have 100 fans etc if they have 0 fans i have died #sorry i saw a YouTube meme i vehemently disliked on principle and got mad at the only child behavior- #kipspeak #she is just short tempered and uses anger to mask other more ‘shameful’ emotions!!! alphy did the same thing with just deciding not #to express them. which is still not good and I think why he breaks and ends up teary so often now #this shortness does not translate to actually being mean to people. she only uses being mean as a shield for herself and being snarky #Is just fun for her. it’s fun for Me. you have to inconsequentually tease people or they’ll never learn to laugh at themselves #the twins and thancred 🫵 do this thing where they have big emotions but they don’t want anyone to SEE they have big weird emotions #so alphy pretends he doesn’t have them under a veneer of dignity and alisaie pretends the emotions are Something Else. thancred is #just so emotionally constipated he has trouble expressing anything. he’s got enough baggage for a flatbed #anyways. alisaie is such a compassionate and kind girl and she learned how to make snarky jokes and went ham. and she hates appearing sad o #weak or vulnerable so she blocks it off with an unapproachable emotion so no one pities her and they maybe get on with the plot #it is in fact also great at getting ppl to move away from the sad or embarrassing topic. even if the tradeoff is being more offputting #she would never (grabs youtube meme) she would never seriously bully her brother. this is sibling ribbing only. Cain instinct #just leave her be she is learning how to snark humor and she loves it she loves being sharp. alphy has wit he just keeps it close #my brother didn’t learn how to tell or receive a joke until he was 14 he took everything so seriously. he can do it now though and he’s #HILARIOUS. Don’t tell him I said that. my man knows exactly where the funny points are even if he hasn’t learned when to stop yet #too many tags. Whatever. jokey snark alisaie who sometimes compliments is happy alisaie grouchy snappy angry alisaie is way too stressed #very easy way to tell between the two. even alphy can tell between the two I believe! He tends to rib back in protest if they’re having fun #and try to stop her if they’re not having fun. case in point ‘what is that supposed to mean?!’ vs ‘alisaie ryne was only trying to help.’ #I know they’re twins but that’s such an intensely older sibling thing to do that it reels me #LONG TAGS AND THREE EDITS TO ADD ON SHORT I resent this stereotype taken too far into ooc behavior. it happened with nya #It will happen again and as a postscript let me regale you with Things U Can Notice About Character Motivation and Actions— #I’m not done let me s #she and raha are friends now I decree. ‘haha you like me’ SPUTTERING PROTEST FROM BOTH

[itsbasil]

"what if tumblr was more like reddit" what if I shot beams at you

#are you FUCKING kidding me dog #like okay this sounds kind of nice on paper #but like. as a way to make tag searching better #or searching better in general #maybe categorizing posts better site-wide #but just. straight-up adding subreddits to tumblr sounds really fucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #with moderators?? members??? #isn't part of the appeal of this god-forsaken pit that everyone is on equal footing? #there are no internet community rent-a-cops to delete your post for being kind of off-topic????? #whatever man #tumblr #tumblr labs