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michaelmyersdefensesquad · 4 years

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About

DNI if you are:

-terf

-truscrum/transmed

-exclusionist

-racist/sexist/homophobic/etc

-map

-anti-mogai

-anti-queer

-anti-kin

-anti-ship/fanpol

DNI if any of these groups are in your dni:

-pro-shippers (I’m one of those. If you don’t want me interacting with you, you shouldn’t be interacting with me either!)

-mogai

-people who call themselves queer

-non-bi mspecs (pan, ply, omni)

DNI if you follow (without the slashes):

-horr/ordi/rtbag (is against alternate character interpretations of Michael Myers)

-h/ack/sl/ash (is against alternate character interpretations of Michael Myers)

-xmi/chael/mye/rs (thinks that slashers loving anyone other than a cis woman is ooc, fangirls over actual real school shooters, and erases Jason’s disabilities)

Other Important Information:

-My name is Corey

-I am 24

-My main is cursed--alien

-I am nonbinary, and consider myself trans

-I am queer. I enjoy identifying with that term. I know it means odd, but I am odd. Currently, I consider myself asexual panromantic and diamoric.

-I am neurodivergent in multiple ways. I am autistic. I have ADHD (the inattentive type). I have severe generalized anxiety disorder that I’m in therapy and take meds for, and it’s also the reason I have most of my baggage, since my anxiety attacks present themselves in a way that freaks people out.

-Some more disabilities I have that I think are neurological in nature, but don’t normally fall under the neurodivergent umbrella as far as I know: Dysgraphia (handwriting is difficult to the point of sometimes being painful). Prosopagnosia (face blindness) (I can’t recognize people by their faces, but I do know a face when I see one).

-Reframing Michael Myers’s narrative is comforting to me as a neurodivergent person who often is misunderstood by neurotypicals.

-If anyone ever needs me to tag anything, just let me know and I’ll be right on it!

Ask Etiquette:

-Anonymous mode is for shy people, people asking from sideblogs, and people without tumblr accounts. It is not for cowards to send hate and feel safe behind a lack of a username.

-Anyone can ask anything, so long as it isn’t personal. Have a question about one of my aus, fanfics, or headcanons? Feel free to ask as much as you want! Just no questions about my personal life, especially if we’re not mutuals.

Michael Myers Headcanons

- I headcanon Michael Myers as a bisexual trans man

- I also see him as a person with deep-seated issues, but ultimately still very much human and not a being of pure evil

- The idea of Michael being a dad gives me unbelievable amounts of serotonin

- Michael is kinda like a cat: quiet, often aloof, but affectionate when he wants to be

- I don't see Michael as having much in the way of impulse control; he does what he wants when he wants, consequences be damned

AUs

- Monster Breeder AU: Based on the Monster Breeder browser game, basically an excuse for me to make myerhees babies

- Malpractice-verse: Dead dove do not eat. Basically, what if the abuse that Michael had suffered in the hospital had escalated beyond just psychological.

- Halloween 420: Michael Gets Blazed: The title is kinda self-explanatory, but. Basically, Michael doesn’t kill any of Laurie’s friends because he stole some of her weed and kinda mellowed out for a while. Laurie hides Michael in her basement and he’s part of the friend group/high circle now.

- Brambles: Michael has a child with his cult/fanclub so they don’t touch Jamie.

- Michaelings: Michael has a bunch of kids from one-night stands.

- Invisible Ink: Myerhees soulmate au (to be fair, I consider them soulmates anyway, but this is an au where they’re *soulmate au* soulmates, if that makes any sense)

- Murder Siblings: Michael and Laurie bond as siblings by hunting abusive pieces of shit for sport

- Childhood Friends AU: Michael and Jason, who are the same age in this au, were friends as young children during the summer of 1963. I want that summer to be a main focus of this au, as well as their reunion in 1979.

- Catboy Mikey AU: Neko-style animal-people (aka not quite furry, more human than furry) au that also has plain humans in it. Michael is obviously a catboy, Laurie is a catgirl, and Jason is a deerboy. Catboy!Michael has some adorable kittens.

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gravitasfalls · 4 years

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A rant on fandom etiquette, the GF fandom, and what they did 4 years ago (and now)

By now, my “bullshit” tag has refuted most of the ridiculous hot takes, fun policing, and harassment that fans of Stanford Pines have had to face from the wider Gravity Falls fandom. But these rebuttals fall short of naming the real problem with anti-Ford wank: we never should have seen it in the first place.

People might have genuinely forgotten this, but fandom used to have etiquette against character hate. We called it “wank” and “bashing” instead of dignifying it as “discourse”. As late as 2014, fandoms on this very site had “X hate” or “anti-X” tagging systems for blacklisting, as courtesy to people who liked X thing...

...a far cry from GF fans of 2015 demonizing Ford in the most inexplicable ways, making every post a platform for that, siccing their followers on anyone fully positive about him, then pretending that never happened post-finale as they continue the bashing more insidiously to this day.

Like, what even was that? There’s a lot to unpack in those people’s arguments but let’s just throw out the whole suitcase.

(Under the cut: Snapshots of discourse I shouldn’t have had to put up with over the years, and snark-based coping with that. It gets ugly, you’ve been warned.)

Ford is irredeemable/deserves to suffer, why he didn’t even thank Stan!!1

Thanks I hate it! “It” being your apparent decision that, because you can’t make the fictional character suffer, real people who like him are the next best thing.

Ford is egotistical! Have I mentioned on literally every post I think his only trait is “egotistical”?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. But while that is just, like, your opinion man, you’re entitled to it on your own posts; you’re falsely entitled about it by forcing it on dissenters’ posts and inboxes.

*dumps negativity into inboxes anyway*

Your Hot Takes have disturbed and insulted me. You fools are unworthy of my great knowledge. The era of human enlightenment shall never come to pass.

You really think Ford is some kind of hero?

Only after you told me I wasn’t Allowed to see him as one and I Examined My Desires™ like you demanded! Funny how critical thinking ≠ agreeing with you.

Ford is your favorite? WHY DO YOU HATE MABEL.

Better question, why are you copying “WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA” logic? 9/11 did fan drama I swear

Ford is NOT PURE OF HEEEAAART, so you have to Constantly Explicitly Acknowledge his Sins and interrogate what relating to him says about you.

I got no friends ‘cause they read the papers. It’s funny, actually, projecting onto him got me dangerously close to processing some negative experiences from my past... good thing I have you here to shut those thoughts down <3 Thanks for saving me from myself uwu

If you just want to project onto a comfort character in peace, Stan is right there! His lack of fantasy elements makes him more relatable anyway!

Ford brought Bill’s manipulation on himself!

Damn fandom, back at it again with the GROSS VICTIM BLAMING

FFS why is this take as prominent now as ever??? at least the outlandish criticisms were funny, this one just makes me want to be dead.

Ford is abusive/manipulative because he doesn’t make fun of Dipper/ made a case for his apprenticeship/ called Mabel good/ complimented her personality!

(Yes, people did these mental gymnastics; yes, my soul left my body instantly.)

STOP trying to justify Ford’s actio-ma’am this is an Arby’s. also:

Ford is the Epitome of Toxic Masculinity, if you defend him either he’s your Male Power Fantasy or you’re a ditzy fangirl broad with ovaries for brains!

Ah yes, the two genders. Pack it in, everyone, we’ve reached peak feminism and patriarchy is over.

Someone negativity-tagged my Ford post, WTF?! I’m not “anti-Ford”, I’m “pro Ford-learning-a-lesson”!

And pro his-fans-never-having-a-moment-of-peace, apparently! Sorry I assumed you were a hater by your complete lack of positive things to say about him tho

Ford is a sociopath/deserves death for having no empathy!

"Tumblr is as ableist as any majority-conservative site," I say into the mic. The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room. "You’re right," they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 3rd row stands: tumblr.

*Dozens of 10000+ note posts calling Ford stupid, manipulative, solely at fault for everything that went wrong, other inanities*

(This is the fandom that made me get Xkit. I’m sure hundreds of my 1000+ blocked posts are theirs.)

If you like Ford on any terms but ours then I’m sorry, but Gravity Falls just isn’t for you, k?

I don’t have a flippant response to this one. Just... stop. No one has to agree with you about this character; no, nor with me. No one even has to engage with fandom moralistically; I promise it wouldn’t hurt anyone if I were to watch this show without having to Interrogate its Morality. It wouldn’t even hurt if people voiced character hate within reasonable bounds of tagging, as I’ve said. But instead they spread it like the plague in the name of Purity and insinuated (using ages-old “ur a fake fan!!1″ no less) that we don’t get to have outlets. I’m tired.

Look at my hilarious/satisfying art of Ford saying OOC strawman things, Stan beating him up, the kids turning their backs on him! (Srsly look at it I’ve put it in all the tags)

You’re madness, Gravity Falls fandom. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you.

This is only a fraction of shit we’ve had to wade through, practically every day while the show was running. You couldn’t avoid it if you followed popular blogs. I saw the best meta writers of my fandom dogpiled by BNFs, dragging themselves through the blue hellsite at dawn looking for a fix-it fix. And people now expect me to believe it was “just Discourse” or that anything equivalent happened “in reverse” toward Stan. If I didn’t know better that they don’t know better, I’d call gaslighting.

I don’t expect to change anything. In fact, until this blog’s next go-around I don’t intend on seeking out new content anymore. I can’t keep looking at a fandom where the consensus on a canonically abused character’s victimization is that it was stupid, funny, a moral failing, or deserved, and expect anything to improve.

But to anyone else these people hurt: your anger or upset is valid, and I’m sorry. None of us deserved this. And I’m not letting it follow me into the next decade and make me forget why I liked this show in the first place, even if the only way to do that right now is cut off from the fandom a bit. I’m telling you, it never should have come to that. I don’t know if negativity-tagging can ever catch on here, considering tumblr has no boundaries by design and fandom no boundaries by choice... but for the sake of everyone who comes next, Gravity Falls fandom, make an effort.

#gravity falls #fandom discourse #purity culture #Filthy Ford Apologist Squad #thoughts on The Bullshit #(putting the Drama Tags on this post to practice what I preach... so please no one start any more on this post)

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cafeleningrad · 5 years

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al-cantrez

a réagi à votre billet

“˜•ï¸ American-centrism on tumblr.hell”

immediately rejecting a Moroccan for saying smth that goes against my values and letting them explain instead. And then they say shit like ‘don’t associate with Moroccans who are homophobic’ without understanding a single thing about Morocco as a country like I’m sorry but 30% of Moroccans cant read, the unemployment rate is like 12% or smth and 40% of the population have no health insurance. Almost everyone under 35 wants to leave the country forever.

Sure there are issues surrounding certain social groups and I firmly believe that Morocco will tackle them one day and that change will come from within but first people need to be able to survive at all....

(To be fair, I once considered trolling but then decided better blocking someone here who was way too much into the ever same nationalistic gossip about “oh, Motherland”, and “Gulag’s are just Western propaganda” despite me knowing that the country engages a strong pro-authoritarian, ot historically reflective narrative in every possible news outlet.) Perhaps that’s patronizing, and not engaging but I judging by that person’s blog content I seriously doubt a reasonable, not nationalistically tinted engagement would have been possible. Perhaps that plas in my general opinion about online etiquette that I rather refrain from engagement if something is making me uncomfortable.

To say, on tumblr engagement is optonal but in real life in other countries, engagement, and argumentation can’t be avoided. We don’t necesarily need to agree, or to delude ourself in the Habermas-ideal that every exchange debated for long enough will change the other’s mind (which I find a bit arrogant position of his).

Arguing in a certain frame only makes sense if all partners in the conversations are within the frame. By example, if I want to argue that more apple trees should be planted instead of pear trees, it only makes sense to make that argument in an area where apples actually grow. What tumblr does is taking for granted that apples and pears grow everywhere.

I think many of us grow up with a certain default set of values we have a hard time shedding away. Not that we should reject these when we realize that other cultures have completely different views of them, but understanding that our set of values should not be taken as granted as we think it is. So, we can generally say that in the Western hemisphere LGBTQA rights are relatively secured, and cared for. Behind that set of rules is an entire history of oppression, civil rights movements, and protest, until we got here. Of course we can argue how media makes representation mistakes, how stereotypes still exist but many countries allow same sex marriage, being assualted for holding hands with out partner is legally persecuted, and above all, we have members who aren’t only publically visible but even celebrated by the wide public. (Not everything is great, no doubt but I try to make a point.) This is the relaity, time, and standart we grew up with. Seeing Olivia Jones standing next to Merkel, Westerwelle having been a publically open gay men as German minister of forgeign affairs became at some point so mundane, a coming out of a friend is in most circles (not all, most) not a turn of circumstances anymore that it’s easy to forget how the inclusion happened. Out living standart only has this quality because people before us worked hard for that mundanity. By a lot of campaigning, by a lot of communication, and work.

And, as you perfectly explained already, the circumstances in Morocco are vastly different. The groundwork isn’t the same as it is by example in Germany. In Germany all living areas are relatively safe, that protesters can be assured to eorcise their free opinion, to not be left alone by the government if their sexuality seems unfitting. Further, I think many others aren’t aware that governmental system which aren’t democracies are still quiet common governental models around the world. Or how oppressive social standarts can be in countries, or entire cultural areas in which the very Western enlightment-era idea of the pronounced individualism are reigning. Or how strong theological influences can grow, even into theocratic ones. Let alone how differne history shapes different societies, some people grow up with teachings that can be radically different from ours.

Like you said, the priorities in a society can strongly differ given the life circumstances. when the worries wor in terms of “the next day”, “getting this day”, long term planning isn’t really on the radar. You see the fragmentation in the West as well: Do we care about the planet first, or for worker’s rights? Do I care about LGBTQA-rights, or do I press harder for minorit-inclusive history lessons? All good casuses although no activist has that much time on their hands to care for all at the same time. And now you’ve a country in which the majority of the day is filled with other worries, and work to solve these first. Adding to it a life long common agreement that certain issues aren’t even a social problem in the first place.

We don’t need to accept all the output of it, we have values we hold dear not only out of stubbornness but because they benefit a society around me, and simultaneously includes me. Still, understanding that people think differently, and that the reason for that isn’t a vile incentive to provoque but because there’s an entire cultural history behind that opinion. Then we can debate instead of dismissing an opinion as utterly rubbish - as long as the other side is willing to engage.

#al-cantrez #Lewis babbling

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