#complete critical control

[percyperplexed]

hello everyone. This is mae summers shes 29 years old, has autism, and has been treated as an outcast her entire life because of her obsession with her special interest (the weather & climate sciences). She lived a pretty normal life and was raised very well. she used to work as a meteorologist until she found herself in the wrong place, and her gayass blue hair and pronouned coworker accidentally ruined her life, because he was evil. So. now shes roommates with a bunch of people who have never been a 'Normal' person a day in their lives - making her the most average person there.

#percyperp #art #anime campaign #epithet erased #epithet erased oc #anime campaign oc #complete critical control #oc artwork #oc art #oc artist

[jewishjon]

Look, I love Jon as much as the next person but I think some of you have gone so far along the ‘Jon is a sad little man who did nothing wrong’ route that you’ve genuinely forgotten all the times he held power in a situation or like. Made a decision that hurt people

#yes Jon was in a terrible situation where he was manipulated and was often powerless and blamed for things he had no control over #yes there have been times where the fandom has been overly critical of Jon and it’s ok to try to combat that #but that does not mean Jon is completely powerless and ‘stupid’ and did nothing wrong!!!! #the entire Point of tma is that the morality of your actions and their results cannot be simply defined as good or bad #Jon was just a person who tried and sometimes failed #also it was a pretty big part of s5 that Jon was the most powerful person in the world. like. did we forget about the murders or #AND the stalking AND him being a totally arse to Martin in s1 #anyway I understand where the poor little meow meow characterisation comes from but to me it’s just doing a disservice to Jon #ugh I can’t believe I’m kinda engaging in discourse #gonna be brave and maintag this: #tma #the magnus archives #Jon sims #be nice to me pls

[autismserenity]

pretty please, my fellow progressives

Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?

And most of all, that it is false??

No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?

No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?

No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.

It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.

We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."

Doesn't work.

Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.

We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.

Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.

#antisemitism #anti-semitic #yes this is about how gentiles use zionism #yes this is about how fast it went from 'this isn't NECESSARILY antisemitic' to 'this ISN'T antisemitic' #yes this is about claiming that we claim antisemitism to deflect valid criticism #yes this is part of a larger pattern of violating every progressive standard but only for jews #none of us would ever say 'people are just claiming misogyny to deflect valid criticism' #we would never claim that trans people secretly control or “influence” the government #we would never treat Ukrainians like “'noble savages” who need us to speak for them #but we treat Palestinians like “noble savages” who need us to speak for them #we know to center the people affected and uplift their voices in every other situation #but in this situation we ignore the fact that we're supporting palestinians by talking ABOUT them #we swallow far-right Palestinian propaganda channeled through diaspora organizations #while Palestinians in Gaza demand completely different solutions and support #zionists echo Palestinian solutions and experiences because we know people in Israel and Palestine #and we get told we love genocide or just blocked #this is how Hamas propaganda is designed to work. Hamas has systematically silenced Palestinians for 18 years and now it's all you know #it is genuinely terrifying to see the entire progressive community sound exactly like the alt-right while it absolutely insists it's not #we also know to center marginalized people's voices about what harms them -- except the Jews? #honestly I think that progressives listened before Oct 7 and that the “no we just mean ZIONISTS are evil” has done wonders to reverse that #let's be real the zionists-not-jews trope comes from Hamas too #all it had to do was claim it definitely meant Zionists not Jews and that it was the Palestinian resistance and progressives flocked to it #its fighters were calling home from the massacre to boast about how many Jews they had killed. it has not changed. #i suppose that the zionists-not-jews thing gave freedom to unexamined antisemitism that people felt guilty about #but oh my god it caught on like absolute wildfire #wall of words

[bookwyrminspiration]

when you make a point and then someone goes "yeah! I agree that *a completely different misinterpretation of your point that they missed entirely*" like. dude. that wasn't at all what I said where did you even get that

#shitpost #wow tags look weird now why do they keep changing things #anyway i said I didn't like ai art because it steals from artists #and my teacher was like yeah you have a good point art might be devalued if its oversaturated in the market #like??? that's a completely different and also wrong point! #human art will always be more valuable and meaningful than ai #i was talking about the copyright and control artists should have over their art being disrespected and discarded #how did you even get to an oversaturated market like. my guy #he repeated it in front of the CLASS that wasn't what I SAID #at least i'd said my point out loud so anyone with critical thinking skills knows he said my point wrong #but like. dude #-_-

[goldenpinof]

genuine question, what is the issue with betterhelp?

bad therapists who do more harm than good (literally), bad treatment of therapists by the company regarding payment, and betterhelp is a zionist company.

the most recent video (i advise watching it, it's not very long but it recaps a lot of old problems people forgot about and mentions new ones):

#Dan as someone who knows how important therapy is should never let this company get into their sponsors list #even if 1 betterhelp therapist can say that someone should choose either their family or being gay. then fuck betterhelp #if they can't control who they work with. stop promoting them until they do. and until they stop taking down criticism #and the pro-israel staff is a completely different issue #answered #betterhelp #sponsors

[densitywell]

even beyond not wanting any of the Hells to die, i think Orym getting his deal with Morri voided would be by far the least interesting way to resolve that storyline

#which is not to say i want him to be trapped serving Morri forever I just want this deal to have the impact on Orym it deserves to #far too good a character move to dissipate into thin air bc of things completely out of his control. deal with the quencies boy #critical role #orym of the air ashari #bells hells #i suspect - given the nightly d100 roll of it all - that beyond the Fey Touched feat Morri might also provide like #a one time Get Out of Death Free Card or something. bc Morri would want this deal upheld as well! #crposting

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

we're back with another c//a post! drumroll please...

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you sure those scars were from chipped catra and not...?

or are we still deluding ourselves into thinking catra has only hurt adora when she was being controlled by prime? oh, we are? okay.

#even if it was the scars from chipped catra #i just„ don't get the point of this post #it's just another addition to the collection of scars she was recieved from catra #mostly from when catra was completely conscious and in control of herself #also i saw a comment that said “shera can heal people so this means that she kept the scars because they were from catra” #??? #c//a stans stop romanticizing abuse challenge #spop critical #spop #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #she ra #anti catradora #anti catra #anti spop #anti c//a #antic//a #anticatra #anticatradora

[eemoo1o]

I “love” how in the aftermath of the pilot we were led to believe that Valentino was controlling and abusive (the Addict MV basically proved this), even calculated, and yet in the first minute of him actually being on screen he’s actually portrayed as whiny, thoughtless and petulant, to the point where he has to have Vox (who, by the way, was stated by Vivzie herself to have had several of his screens smashed by him) tell him what to do and actually be the one to act dominant and suggestively abusive towards him, and then be subdued by Vox lighting his goddamn cigarette.

Who the fuck even is this character anymore?

#hazbin hotel #he acts more like a petty child than a controlling abuser/pimp. honestly helluva boss should have been a premonition for how this show too #is going down the shitter. valentino’s been given the stella treatment and it sucks ass. indie projects going corporate always will suck ass #keith david should never have been cast as husk it doesn’t go well with the ‘rick sanchez’ voice ref (not completely abiding by being how #mick got the role to begin with) and instead have been cast as val. keith would have made an amazing val. #more people need to realise how the quality of hh and hb has dropped instead of praising it just for being ‘independent animation’. #please just take the indie blinders off for a minute and just think critically for a moment.

[septembermonologues]

i miss the brjeaus so much

#fjord's commitment to trying to keep up or outpace someone who's whole goal is complete control of their body is great #and this is me saying im officially rewatching the aeor arc instead of finishing the last ep of calamity or watching vox machina #k watches mighty nein #c2e115 #brjeaus #fjord stone #beauregard lionett #critical role

[fernsnouveau]

What if we suggested that if you can't defend the Miraculous S5 ending without sounding like Mother Gothel, don't do it at all?

#of course the other option of just making completely baseless claims isn't that great either #ml s5 criticism #ml writing salt #ml writing criticism #ml critical #(I don't like that tag but whatever) #ml s5 finale #abuse #abuse apologism #whatever the writers may have intended. the thing that they actually produced #turned out abuse apologia and a power fantasy for abusive parents with a god/martyr complex #and a justification for why child abuse victims are just too emotionally immature and volatile to deserve control of their lives #'but Gabriel loved Adrien!!!' okay do you have any idea how many abusers use that to justify violating their victims? #it's sincerely jarring how comfortable the fandom has become with abuse apologia ever since the s5 finale. #it makes the fandom kinda unsafe to navigate for abuse victims who might not wanna keep running into people #repeating the same justifications ad nauseaum that irl abusers use.

[bluastro-yellow]

get it Kim has a lot to unpack do you get it

it's imperfect I'll never polish it just take it as it is

#I don't know how the hell to draw kim #PLEASE gib me feedback #pretend the dialogue is better this is all I can do lol. but you get the gist of it #aaa give me constructive criticism. the other post about kim secretly being a loser made me think about what his apartment would look like #and this popped in my head I had to draw it #is this in character? #there's no eyebrow battle because in my head this happens some time in the future where kim opens up a little more easily #at this point he trust him with his secrets more (but not completely. harry's not touching the blue box today) #but it's a mixture of ''maybe if I tell x he will stop asking for more'' and real trust #but like do you see that happen #it's a secret because he doesn't want other people to learn that insisting can work #like I said in the tags of the other post I think he never lets anyone in to the point of avoiding calling the plumber even if the sink #has been broken for months #addition: fuck I should have putted more machines in there. I couldn't think of anything else other than radio controlled airplane #and a sewing machine. he must have more stuff like the camera. #he'd have some dangerous thing to warm the room #and nerd stuff. I'm not sure if he'd display it or keep it boxed somewhere #disco elysium #that's a convertible couch-bed if you can't tell. half covered with the Pile #pointless microblogging #it's so hard to draw them right they look different in every official thing #believe me I have tried #idk how to put more of the skills here :/ #I have achieved peak kimharry brainrot I can't go back

[percyperplexed]

it's my epithet erased OCs birthday tomorrow, but im posting today because that's homestuck day

her name is vee bea leventree, and her epithet is string!! she's the most proficient player character in the entire campaign at like 96 proficiency. shes turning 21!

#anime campaign #epithet erased #art #character art #character design #epithet erased oc #complete critical control #anime campaign character #anime campaign oc #vee bea leventree #artwork #artists on tumblr #percyperp

[bisamwilson]

why do none of the rebels characters or ahsoka have actual personalities anymore,,,,,

#ahsoka is witty!!! she’s a spit fire!!!! not just in clone wars but in rebels too!!!! #in this show she’s a stoic master jedi who makes like no jokes ever!!! who is that!!! #hera’s also a spitfire!!!! and so is sabine!!!! #also there’s no fuckin world where sabine doesn’t have the desert house she lives alone in booby trapped with explosives she controls #much less completely abandoning her armor #she’s a mandalorian!!!!!!!!!! there’s a whole bit in rebels about why her armor is so important to her!!!!! #none of them even really get mad at each other!!! just lightly snippy!!! even with all the supposed history they have!!!! #literally none of them feel like real people with real and big emotions even though we’ve seen them all have them and frequently #especially with something this important #they all feel sanitized and i hate it #stop making characters that were never Perfect Jedi (ahsoka and luke cough) into Perfect Stoic Jedi challenge #disney will always fail this apparently #anyways when will andor return from the war where we get characters who feel like they have real motivations that aren’t just the plot says #that i gotta care about this and do this right now this way #even the new nightsister is boring!!! where’s her flair!!!! why isn’t she terrifying!!!! #star wars #star wars critical #ahsoka critical

[quietwingsinthesky]

like. okay. i have no real horse in the race of “which brother is the secret bad abuser” because the show does not actually care about that or think that either of them is actually treating each other that badly (except for when sam get manipulated, which is always his own fault and he should suffer for it /s)

but what i will say is that the way dean is written sometimes manages to make me more uncomfortable than any of the villains on this show. dean scares me. completely unintentionally, they did write a guy who only gets Worse over time, and it’s compelling, and it’s upsetting for me to watch.

#I don’t really mean this as a criticism because To Me it is just like. a part of the show. #it’s a feature. perhaps a Bethesda’s bug of a feature but. it’s a feature. #dean’s change in character feels natural. watching him get worse feels like the logical conclusion of where he’s going. #(the logical conclusion could also have been ‘dean makes an effort to not be so controlling’ but they didn’t do that. they leaned into it.) #so it isn’t much like. say. Lucifer. Lucifer is a character who just flips. motivations and character completely changed. #so disregarding his later appearances just? makes sense? to me anyway. that’s Not My Wife #but Dean’s character degradation is completely different in that it builds on what’s already there. #and whenever I write him I feel the need to. idk. grapple with that. with that potential to become Worse. #he is controlling! he doesn’t ever really trust sam that much post-s5! he does treat Cas his best friend like he doesn’t matter unless #he’s acting more human! these are just facts about him that show up long before the later seasons and idk! Dean is! he’s a lot! #he and Lucifer have a lot alike in the way that they’re driven mostly by love. and that love can easily go rotten. and it’s terrifying. #spn #dean winchester #sry watching s6 makes me think about. things. #actually no. not sorry. I’m going to get worse about this if I keep watching so stay tuned.

[b0dyhorrors]

hot take but both the bastardization of and widespread belief in "death of the author" has been absolutely disastrous for media literacy and i'm not even remotely kidding

#media literacy #death of the author #media criticism #juice.txt #as someone with many WIP writing projects with A Whole Lot of intent behind them this is a major reason as to why they stay WIPs #it's just... esp. in fandom spaces people will completely and utterly flatten a work until it's the creative equivalent of empty calories #and as someone who desperately wants to trust a potential audience to pick up what i'm putting down that scares the living shit out of me #i know that i can't control what someone comes away from my work thinking. but all i want to ask of them is that they think at all

[thisismycorneroftheinternet]

I realize that to others, having recurrent suicidal thoughts and other violent intrusive thoughts, having several coping mechanisms that are in some way or another self-harm and dangerous habits, having difficult to control memory flashbacks out of the blue that ruin your entire mood and bring you down, and having a generally almost constant level of demotivation and negativeness, derealization and depersonalization, and sheer panicked internal anxiety and paranoia that can go overboard at any second, are not normal. But like, that's been most of my life since I was 13ish, very few times I have not felt this way. I've just learned to carry on and not talk too much about it, because it scandalizes people to hear that sort of stuff, and that means they turn against you and abandon you, because they think I am either too much to handle or am acting out too much.

#personal #mental health #tw: suicide talk #tw: self-harm talk #tbh I have not been able to even bring it up completely to the therapists and psychologists because also I don't want to end up in the #mental hospital and cause a whole ass upheaval in my life and bring unnecessary attention and criticism from family and others #I don't want to be deemed ''crazy'' and thus have my personal freedom and self-determination taken away mainly by my parents #they both will demean and attack me for being this way despite the fact it is very much their fault and will try to take over control of my #life and never let me ever leave them like I want to #if it gets to that point I am fucking killing myself because fuck that #so ofc I just try to carry on life and try to act normal at least on the outside so people don't fuck me over #I did mention the ressurgence of my suicidal thoughts to the psychologists on the health clinic (with a lot of ''but I'd never act on it'') #ressurances so they don't fuck me over and that was the first time I've talked about it honestly but like.... IDEK what to even say to them #I guess I'll just wait until the turn of the month so I will go back to therapy (I finally gathered up some money for that) and talk about #it to my therapist but yeah that'll be fun