#do we really care either way?

[dirtytransmasc]

atwow hot take:

if jake had said his "son for a son" shit out loud and spider had heard him, he would have been so beyond pissed, he would be seeing red.

spider loved his little siblings so much, neteyam included, even after they grew apart. he loved them like they were his own blood and protected them like they were too (we see a lot more of them together in the comics, where spider is the big brother without a doubt). neteyam's death most certainly rocked him hard, even if he hasn't really been able to show it (how could he? he's already going through all the shit with his dad and the RDA and their nonsense, he can't grieve around neytiri, he's just so tired after it all. he doesn't have the room or the energy to grieve yet)

so if jake had the audacity to say that to/around spider not even a few hours after he watched his little brother get shot after coming to save him, after he stared at the bullet hole in his back, after he watched him take his last breaths, after he watched the light leave his eyes, after he watched his little brother die for him; if he said that while his little brother's body lay in a pool of his own blood not even ten feet away, not even cold yet, blood still clinging to his chest, the scent of it still filling the air: he would have lost his shit.

because the disrespect for his brother is wild.

jake was an active player in spider's neglect and abuse for the last 16 years, he let it happen, he helped it happen. he tried to send spider with the humans, tried to take him away from his siblings, from the forests, from eywa to live with his foster family that didn't love him (not to mention Nash was an asswipe of epic proportions) and the RDA of all people. he had referred to spider as a stray animal since he was little. he was the reason spiders life was hell.

and after all that, years and years of putting him in shit positions and allowing him to suffer the fate of being forever unloved and uncared for (by an adult authority figure, cause I love the kids, but they don't make up for the gap left by a parent), this is what it took for jake to care about him? his little brother had to die in front of him first? he had to be traded out to fill the space of a corpse, to fill in the gap left by his little brother's death?

in canon, spider was in deep in shock with nothing to break him from it, he wasn't in the place to really think about any of it, and I'm sure we're gonna see this anger in the coming movies, but if jake had said it out loud, that would have been enough to snap spider right out of it, and he would have given jake a piece of his mind, I just know it.

#he loves neteyam too much to let jake do that. to say that. he'd never allow it. #spider is such a good big brother. he loves his siblings too much. #if jake had said that to his face there would have been hell to pay. regardless of how out of it spider was with shock/grief/pure exhaustio #spider doesn't even care about the disrespect being done to him by that statement. he just cares about neteyam. #cause how could a father say that? how could he just move on. fill the gap with a “stray” as he puts it. take him in after all he'd done to #him? it wasn't fair #it wasn't fair to him and it most certainly wasn't fair to neteyam #I love spider. he deserves a family that loves him and wants him. he wants it. but this is not what either of us asked for. #that line has always rubbed me wrong. and it would have rubbed spi wrong too. I just know it. #I really hope we see spider express his rightful anger/disgust to this whole thing next movie #though I worry he will be too busy feeling guilty over everything and feeling like he just has to be grateful. but one can hope. #he deserves to be angry #and his dynamic with neteyam deserves to be explored. cause its a crime that it was ignored in the movie. #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #spider socorro #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #neteyam #neteyam sully #neteyam te suli tsyeyk'itan #jake sully #I wanna punch that man so hard istg. I can't with him. I won't say I hate him. but lord have mercy I can't with him. #my baby boys deserved better #spider was neteyam's big brother. that's my agenda #we need to talk about them more

[azure-clockwork]

I love three houses discourse because I'm pretty sure everyone just picks their route based on which house leader they're the most gay for and then tries to defend their pick by pointing out the other sides's war crimes via twitter memes. Reader, all four of them do substantial quantities of war crimes. So many. We're just here because the woman with Issues and a big fuck-off axe said so, and then we gotta justify everything she did in the name of dismantling the class system. I mean, I'm here for that, but you could also try justifying Charm Man uses poison and perfidy to try to stop racism, A Sad Little Meow Meow gives no quarter instead of doing therapy, or the Thicc Pope tries to bring back her mom via human experimentation, depending on your tastes

#This is 100% swinging at a hell of a hornet's nest #Do I tag it? #Yeah fuck it we ball #fe3h #fe16 #edelgard von hresvelg #claude von riegan #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #rhea fire emblem #I should probably clarify that I love all of these characters quite dearly #Well except Rhea #I think she's a good character but I'm not feral about her like Edelgard or charmed by her like Claude or desperate to save her like Dimitr #discourse #edelgard discourse #Edit: I actually don’t care about 3H discourse either way lol #there’s plenty of interesting shit to talk about in this game #also I get that the people who say “x did war crimes” actually don’t mean “this was bad because it violated the Geneva Convention” #but any time I see something about how many war crimes someone did (usually Edelgard or Dimitri) I just think: #“Hah it’s a war crime to deploy Cyril to rescue Flayn because he’s still 14 then” #also I got into this game because someone told me ‘so there’s a gal with an axe and trauma’ and I booted it up #and I have a friend who likes Rhea despite his moral reservations solely because ‘she’s hot tho’ #and that’s also really funny #point is I don’t really wanna participate in most fe3h discourse cuz I have shit to do but this post isn’t meant to be a dunk on anyone #I’m not upset when I see it; it’s either funny or fine or sometimes right #I’m just gay for Edelgard and amused by the idea of applying the Geneva Convention to a world where it Clearly Isn’t A Thing

[scintillyyy]

honestly, though. sometimes when the drakes are discussed it does seem a little "oh, they never would never do <insert terrible fanon trait here>, they just <insert a different trait they....also never really did and is actually kind of contradicted by canon? here>"

#honestly i'm usually fairly forgiving about the second because i'm sure i'm guilty of it too lmao #and it's also like. that's usually more of personal intepretation/reading thing which should have different viewpoints #variety is the spice of life and all #& i like defending the drakes AND talking about how they failed #but sometimes the thing that is confidently stated they do instead is something canon directly contradicts. #they never would force feed him something he's allergic to #they would just have super strict expectations of his behavior & not be affectionate #meanwhile the expectations are limited to don't wear a t-shirt to a wedding rehearsal and jack is shown hugging tim like every 5 issues #(and janet is dead and can have no expectations but the only time we see her she's like “you can be whatever you want to be sweetie :)”) #and they are shown having a very iconic outing with him and they treat him nice & want him to have a good time & are very loving #i too want to swing the pendulum the other way but that second one does apply to both good and bad traits lmao #“jack was just trying to get close to his son” well. no he really wasn't. #or “jack never cared about his son & never tried to listen to him” well that's not exactly true either #god i love them. my polarizing flawed family.

[piosplayhouse]

(This isn't bait, and you don't need to answer it if you don't want to). What's your beef with heartstopper?

The author and I have the same favorite mangaka but they tried to claim her as a "one of the good ones defying all problematic elements (of the gross bl genre of course)" without knowing that . One of the only other scanlated works from same mangaka is a psychological horror incest BL with every trigger warning under the sun

Also I hate white British people but that's on me #listening and learning

#a lot of people got on her ass about sharing an illegal scanlation sc as well but honestly like ehh i have a little more lenience ig #since the authors work IS obscure and there isnt an english translation and i dont expect someone who allegedly is not a frequent reader #to know all the nuances of scanlation etiquette or whatever. but its also because the author is obscure that im laughing at this point #because she only has like . 4 what i would call main works and one of them is definitely problematic as hell #and another one features some consent issues and they bang as teens which is fairly industry standard but #honestly i dont really care either way like im very neutral and the books probably cute i spose its just the constant trend you see over and #over again with these white queer authors where they have to talk about how their work is so much different from the obviously inferior #asian queer art like we werent doing it centuries before you guys and have such a strong queer history thats so often disregarded in favor #of starting the discussion in the us . or something whatever its midnight and i havent finished my work prep

[flythesail]

Over a month after Nancy Drew s4 I'd say my opinion is still largely the same. Not my favorite season, but I enjoyed most of it. Like I wish they did something different with the black door and the sin Nancy erased, but I can also see why they wanted to go that route and how it lines up with the show's themes. Is it effective? Eh, I think the payoff could have been better. The unfortunate thing is that regardless of whether or not it was the final season, trying to fit that into a handful of episodes would always be hard. But at least if it wasn't the final season, they could have addressed it more going forward rather than wrap it up all at once. Plus, it's just never going to sit well with me introducing Alice to kill her. There's just better ways they could have gone about that mystery. All this is going on as Bess is committed to proving the good and necessity of the supernatural too. I can do my own analysis there. Yet if they had more episodes, maybe these two storylines could have intersected on screen.

Overall though, what I have to keep coming back to is how different it would feel if this was just another chapter in the story rather than the ending. I wanted more nace and I wanted more scenes with the drew crew this season. Ace missing out on the cake fight is ESPECIALLY disappointing because I'm always going to want the characters over plot. That's not what happened. Yet if there were two or three or even one more season to come, there would still be time to fill in the gaps that s4 left.

#all things considered too.. they did a fantastic job *ending* the show with the late notice they got #i mean ive seen my fair share of writers who dont deserve to be defended in the slightest lol #but one thing i can for sure say about the nd writers is they cared #in terms of enjoyment it really helps me to break the season down too #like even if i wish some things were different overall.. i got so many new favorite scenes and epispdes #one of my biggest takeaways from the strikes as well is how complex tv is #there's so many factors that go into why something we watch is the way it is #sometimes the factor is bad writing but circumstances are not always in their favor to begin with either #saying that more generally too.. not just about nd #but also writers are human too #you dont magically become a perfect writer because you do it professionally #anywayyy talking about it here because people are talking about it on twitter again and twitter makes me nervous fksldowl #flythepost

[obessivedork]

Fallout 4's biggest crime is that I & 99% of the OCs I'm interested in creating and playing would never in a MILLION years agree to name a kid Shawn. I don't have anything against the name or people with it, but it is very much not one I would ever pick or say yes to when there are other names to pick from unless my partner had a REALLY strong sentimental reason. Even THEN I would negotiate and see if we can't have it as a middle name rather than a first name.

#side note I care so little about this kid that I spelled it Sean instead of Shawn in this post originally lmfao #This is exaggeration obviously its biggest crime imo is that the story MAKES you a parent to begin with #I think slaughtering an entire vault of people you KNOW would be sufficient enough motivation to go seek revenge #Like BITCH YOU DEFROSTED MY FRIENDS IN A WAY THAT KILLED THEM!!!! #If we REALLY need family involved give the player some very kind elderly parents/grandparents! #don't get me wrong I'd burn the fucking world down for my niece but I don't really want that experience in a video game #& I'd pick Philip or Sylvia so like. I'm not immune to 'names other people would probably not pick for their kids' either but Shawn? 😭 #not much to report with Michael right now I'm doing more sidequesting with Hancock- took out covenant or whatever it's called #still having fun dungeon crawling! Going to hunt down the Railroad so I can join it next! #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #kat plays fo4

[babacontainsmultitudes]

[just venting a bit into the void you understand you understand 😌] Lately I've been feeling very caught between "I have a lot of thoughts on Sparrow and Normal and all that with the ending and teen talk and feel like I need to get them out and voice them for my own piece of mind and resolution" and "I am lacking the strength and energy to actually sit down and write it all out and kind of really just want to fully move on to other things (AUs, fics, anything else)" but my brain can't seem to commit to either and that's quite frustrating cause it's just left me very restless. *Sigh*. Idk! Just needed to complain about that a bit ig, it's silly but this is what has been ailing me as of late.

#Then there's also a part of me that's like “does anyone even care at this point? haven't I already talked about them too much?” #but I have seen many a take that irk me... #and perhaps at the center of it all nagging at me is that persistent conflation of love and pride #Less about that in Normal's mind so much as in Will's and the fandom's 🤔 #Also that reoccurring issue of the fandom going ''Normal thinks this therefore it is The Truth'' though I believe I've discussed this befor #And... Hooks Will could have grabbed onto but didn't... Quite a few of those... #And the double standard/negativity bias in fandom of ignoring that Sparrow says both that he loves and likes Normal while doodlerized #But not treating those with the same legitimacy we do the pride thing. And ignoring Sparrow's demonstrations of love and change... #And what the love wolf scene actually implies about Sparrow (as I see it) with his own explanation of the pride thing in mind #But also!!! Also on Norm's epilogue and how despite everything taken at face value (i.e. no teen talk influence) I don't actually hate it #and I think it's plenty salvageable #And gah also that like *regardless* of how things turn out with Normal and his dad- #Well I haven't listened to much of the teen talk just the directly Sparrow-relevant clips #so I don't know quite how cynical Will is or isn't about Normal's future #But like. UGH. What I'm trying to say is even if things didn't find resolution vis-a-vis his dad #(which tbh I could go either way on- it's the meta misinterpretations of Sparrow that Bother me not so much Normal's) #(Well that's complicated. Again it comes back to the love vs. pride thing gosh this is so vague of me lol) #With all the positive influences in his life (and just the fact that life is long? and therapy is a thing?) I just don't see Normal- #being Miserable for the rest of his life. Like. I mean I won't elaborate here really but damn it no he can absolutely turn out alright stil #blugh #BUT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF AND THAT'S ONLY VAGUE RAMBLINGS ABOUT *SOME* OF IT #Like I'm proud of a lot of my essay posts (which I'm hoping to eventually compile in a masterpost eventually actually) but they take a whil #And if my heart wants to do other things... Ah idk... #ANYWAYS a vent to vent a vent to vent

[thefirstknife]

The destiny reddit is an absolute warzone right now. Do yourself a favor and avoid it like the plague

Oh no. I saw a lot of negative comments overall and while I understand where they're coming from, I think at some point, some people should calm down.

I mentioned some of the issues I had with the campaign and I stand by them, I think some of this stuff definitely felt rushed and that we're sorely lacking basic information to understand the plot. But I can get over that if it's fairly reasonable to believe we'll find out eventually (and it is) and if the rest is solid. And to me, the rest is solid.

I know people have issues with strand taking too much time from the campaign, and I get it. But also to me, strand being such a huge part of the story made the campaign feel more personal and invested for US, the Guardian. To me, that was the point. I do wish the campaign was a bit more expansive, perhaps another mission or two would've been perfect imo. An extra mission could've delved into the history of the Veil and what it means. It's a legitimate complaint that I share, but also some people online have been expressing it... rather explosively.

I'd also add a counter to my own complaint; when it comes to the plot about the Veil and the Witness and the Traveler, it's clear that this isn't the end; it's a setup. Everything that happened here we can learn about retroactively in a month or six months or a year. It may suck because it's content for THIS expansion so we want to know now, but it CAN be explained later.

But strand? Strand can't. We have to learn it NOW. We can't get strand and then have a really cool personal discovery quest about mastering it in a month or six or a year. So if they didn't have time to fit another two missions into the campaign, it's fairly obvious what is being cut.

Is it clumsy? Yeah, definitely. I definitely feel like some crucial information has been deliberately cut away and removed, possibly waiting to be delivered during the year to prepare us for The Final Shape. I'm not a fan of that method, I would prefer a solid chunk of lore about the current story to be delivered in the current story. If anything, then for clarity. Especially because the majority of the players will not be waiting around to read 15 lore tabs during the year to figure out what's the Veil. A major expansion should be self-contained.

But for the love of god, some of what I've seen online is basically some players acting like we have E.T. (1982) on our hands. Like, I agree that there's issues and I've spoken about them and I can do it again at any point, but at the end of the day, I had fun and the good stuff was good. Literally my only true complaint is that it feels like a mission or two are missing. Pretty much every problem I have would've been solved with that. But that's an unknown amount of extra time of work so I cannot make a comment whether they could've done that or not. I will assume they couldn't so they didn't. Generally don't like assuming that they did it maliciously because then we go into dev harrassment territory.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #lightfall #lightfall spoilers #ask #i've seen some really bad outrage out there and i just don't get it #it's fine. there's some disappointment but also a lot of really cool stuff #listen. i was on the front line during ME3 ending apocalypse and I equally did not understand it then either #it was a slightly disappointing ending (last 5 minutes more or less) but not worth the massive outrage #and if people genuinely just. do not enjoy ANYTHING about it i personally think that's a sign they no longer like the game #just speaking from my personal experience because i went through that myself #when i found myself scoffing and huffing and getting angry at every new bit of info about changes in forsaken i figured. hey. #i don't like this game right now. bye. #sat out an entire year and came back to check shadowkeep because the game moved to steam #like i genuinely do not mean this in any negative way but some people just do not like destiny anymore and should probably take a break #not talking about anyone specific on tumblr. i know some people are disappointed including some friends #and i understand their complaints. but usually most of them also have something they liked so it's not all horror and doom #and even if they didn't. who cares. if you don't like it hit da bricks #we have limited time on this earth please do something you enjoy

[1eos]

What’s your take on Taek always posing with Starbucks lately? I’ve been so conflicted. Many people have tried to educate him but he hasn’t stopped

hmhmmmm. what im abt to say isnt exclusive to him this is just my general stance when it comes to ppl w privilege being out of touch but its one of those things where im not gonna defend it. obviously. if anyone criticizes him (or anyone else i like) im not gonna fight them or try to make excuses but im also not gonna fall into the trap of centering all talks of palestine around a celebrity!

i purposefully havent been talking abt who has and hasnt been boycotting starbucks since november bc i saw someone point out that if you searched palestine on twitter the results were literally clogged with shit abt idols and that's not productive esp bc a lot of ppl have not spoken a word abt palestine until a famous person was caught w starbucks and suddenly theyre mobilizing to get them to stop posting their drinks but will never mobilize IN GENERAL

and this isnt just about kpop i remember being skeeved out by the beyhive for palestine stuff bc theyre STILL focusing *beyonce* when she's a millionaire! she's not starving! and she said nothing when break my soul became a fucking war song for isnt real which is way worse than starbucks i can admit that. and i remember during the big wave of black lives matter how frustrated i was that everyone just wanted to make it all about what this celebrity donated or how this celebrity was forced to post abt blm and to make ethnic cleansing abt idols is just a million times more fucked up.

i say all this to say that in general. me, personally, im always gonna try to put more effort in actually centering palestinian issues. i do feel guilty bc as much as i would love to be immune to the celebrity machine im not 😭 and i have the privilege of escapism when millions don't. like i slipped up and thoroughly enjoyed ushers half time show without even thinking and woke up the next morning and saw all the zionist shit he had posted months earlier. BUT instead of letting that guilt propel me to try to push a celeb to boycott to make myself feel better im gonna use my energy and privilege to send money every paycheck, boycott myself and spread awareness and talk to the ppl i *can* influence :')

and i hope this doesnt sound like one big cope 😭😭😭😭 ive been disappointed in a lot of ppl including really close friends who hate isnt real and are sympathetic to palestine but aren't consciously boycotting and resolving myself to do more and focusing on the ppl who *are* doing what needs to be done has been better than worrying abt how *i* feel when in the end of the day im (relatively) safe

#asks #🧎🏾‍♀️i talk way too much #some ppl just dont care enough to boycott and its hella disappointing i talked w some irls #and we had a great convo abt how fucked zionism is and then they said they werent going out of their way to boycott #well how tf do u expect anything to change? #which is why i wont jump and say anyone who doesnt boycott is automatically zionist but they arent anti-zionists either #and all i said above ive perpetrated too like looking back ive def given more heat to a celeb #than given more care to the actual issue and ive really been reflecting on it 😭 #like can i have a redo of 2019-2021

[taffingspy]

#as much as i love azzanadra and enjoy making my wg somewhat friends with him#imagine having to actually answer to azzanadra as your boss or higher up#he has the potential to be fucking horrifyingly unhinged even though hes like rational most of the time#i should make a bigger post abt this but i love it omg hes fucking scary

IKR??? admittedly im not exploring that side of him in Friends; the comic is based on the city of senntisten quest, and focuses more on how weak azzy can be when left to his own devices (+ how in totg nabor didnt seem too bothered about being sealed up at first, so the initial event probably wasnt so bad). he's way more naïve than we give him credit for and i feel like a good part of that is because he is, without a doubt, the strongest of the mahjarrat. so... he doesnt really need to be as cunning. and when he is, lbr, he's kinda not that good at it (azzy's quest)

on the flipside, earlier depictions of azzy definitely have him a lot more uuuuuuuh i do have a different theory based around Azzanadra's memory from the mahjarrat memories miniquest, wherein Nabor figured out what was going on in the memory, tried calling Azzy out on it, and was eventually sealed for that the drawback with that theory is that, while it was probably plausible at the time, RS has at least tried to do a bit better in terms of approaches to mental health, and this theory can really fall down in that regard

but yeah! there's definitely at least two different approaches to azzy that's happened over the years, and it's really neat to dissect them both

#spy's talky things #latter quests really soften him up #which i genuinely dont mind given that we dont really see softer mahjarrat very often #but like. he's still a formidable threat. he's not soft in the way kharshai is #he's soft in the way a dumbass (affectionate) is #and i love that #mahjarrat are usually so strong they dont need to stop and think about their actions #so while we have a few who have (kharshai & wahi especially) #azzy stands out as one who really hasnt at all (while also not being explicitly malicious about it compared to say zemo) #so he kinda flounders without zaros explictly telling him what to do #he's not stupid. just naive #speaking of horrifying bosses one of these days i'll finally get around to drawing the nabor short comic wherein he is. terrifying. #azzanadra can be terrifying but it's clear from the letter nabor sends to him. nabbie either doesnt know or doesnt care #he's fairly candid (which admittedly means nothing because he's also candid towards /sliske/)

[avisisisis]

Every time I fall in love with something that was inspired by a religion, mythology, etc and I get invested in the religion/mythology/idk only to realize that the OG version is nothing like the version I saw first, I die a little on the inside

#i always end up being like “what the fuck is up w this. the og would never do that” #or like “hey no they changed this part i really like!! :(” #w lmk i'm like “GOD why the FUCK did he loose to the JADE EMPEROR he DID NOT DO THAT IN JTTW UGGH” #like i get it. it's an adaptation. it's not going to be like the og BUT IT STILL HURTS ME #there's also the fear that they'll mess up tripitaka's character during s5 #because in s4 we see him put on the circlet himself. n unless it was like in jttw #where guanyin gave it to him. then it'd fucking suck to put smth on a living being KNOWING WHAT IT DOES #tripitaka i won't be able to defend you if you do this </3 #also w pjo. rick i love you but that is NOT ares #the pjo fandom infuriates me too. the way they demonize the gods and refuse to see them as actual CHARACTERS #they're not the little devil of the story who don't care at all they're more complicated than that #BUT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THIS BC THEY EITHER DIDN'T READ TOA OR DON'T GET TOA #avis talks

[lovelyrotter]

yknow i think a lot of the really far-gone transfemme vs transmasc people who still play by the 6th grade milquetoast "trans women are targeted way more than trans men cause femininity is bad and masculinity is good In Our Society, so trans men get free acceptability passes" feminism forget that trans men/transmascs started life. as. little girls. we were mistaken, from birth, for baby girls. and we were raised by our parents to believe that we were little girls.

a lot of trans men and transmascs then grew up to be teenaged girls

a lot of trans men and transmascs were adult women too

and for a while we *believed* we were girls and women. some of us even WISHED we were girls and women (points at myself). and much more importantly, we were continually seen as girls and women. a lot of the time, we are STILL seen as girls and women, even with full fuckin beards and baritone voices. especially if we need to go to any kind of medical professional. this is what our free acceptability pass looks like?

its just so much more nuanced than these 'boys vs girls' people ever seem to care to think about. even binary trans folks dont have the same sense of cisgendered binary that cis people do. we literally cross from one fake end of the fake-binary to the other. thats where the trans in transgender comes from. i dont know how some other trans folks seem to forget that?? i don't know how, somewhere along the line, we forgot that trans men and transmascs also directly suffer under misogyny?

#my t #sorry for more gender based griping i saw smth on twitter that reminded me of this. #the bright spots of Little Girl euphoria i had in my childhood were rare and beautiful. i refuse to forget them. #my perception of myself i had as a child is important to me. #possibly in a different way to others because. yknow. i am plural. #and plural folks have a different brain and sense of understanding of themselves that singlets wont have. its just a neurological differenc #but my little girl self is an important part of my present day adult man self. #and looking at the adult trans men in my system who are still under my care today- #the little girls they were - however fucking briefly - are still important to me and to them too. #and i fully understand that a lot of other trans folks cannot think of themselves this way #but trans mens experiences of being mistaken for little girls are as important as trans womens experiences being mistaken for little boys #we are all trapped in the same systemic cycle of gender-based abusive conditioning. #really we just have to do away with assigning gender to baby bits completely. its weird. #trans men are either eternally confused women or just invisible #and crushed under the weight of maintaining a cis-man image. #i mean for fucks sake #my partner system and us have been talking about having a kid for ages #if i were to get pregnant i'd just have to accept the fact that i have to masquerade around as a woman for 9 months. #because there is NOTHING for pregnant transmascs. #nothing. #there aren't even a lot of gender neutral options for maternity clothing. #even the term 'maternity' denotes femininity and motherhood. #paternity clothing isn't a thing that exists for me for look forward to or even mildly worry about. #and i'm just talking about a *planned* pregnancy involving a trans man. what do yall think happens to transmascs with unwanted pregnancies. #what a privileged life i lead as a no-op no-hrt trans man. big cishet loves me because i am obviously exactly like a cis man now #just want people to stop infighting and being stupid tbh. #breaking: bro strider fictive gets really fuckin pressed about gender and systemic abuse again!

[countess-of-edessa]

nepo babies =/= person from a rich family i always thought?

#i thought a nepo baby was specifically someone whose parents/relatives are in the entertainment/arts industries #like taylor swift isnt a nepo baby she just had rich parents?? they bought her way into a music career but with their money not any #connections they had in the music industry previously. #whereas like…Ben Platt would be a nepo baby because he is a stage and film actor and his father is a film producer and produced films #that star him. #that’s not really to say that one is better or worse than the other and i don’t really care about the discourse either way #(people being upset their fave don’t have an organic by-merits-alone rise to fame story kind of confuse me because it seems like a very #modern and out of reality way of thinking) #like i get that people are getting undeserved opportunities through (1) money (2) connections and then putting out subpar art which sucks #but i do kind of think that ultimately you can’t trick people THAT MUCH. kim kardashian threw a bunch of money at a music career and it #never went anywhere because she simply was not good and no one liked it. #billie elish has rich parents but no matter your personal taste you can’t deny she's found success because she has an audience for whom her #music resonates. idk if she would be as successful if her parents didn’t have money and she didn’t have the opportunities that gave her #and certainly there are millions of people as good or better than her at music (if you can even quantify it in that simplistic of a way) wh #will never get the opportunities she has had that gave her success but i also don’t think she would be as successful as she is if she was #less talented. #also this is literally the worst time in history to be worried about nepo babies lol not saying that no one should complain about nepotism #casting but like we are in the golden age of people achieving artistic success through grassroots means thanks to the internet #getting an audience for work that resonates with people without the machine of the entertainment industry backing you is more possible than #ever before #also and i only have to say this in this exactly corner of the internet #if you are a monarchist you can’t use the term nepo baby #sorry you just can’t

[stairset]

Love the idea here that the other rebels' problem with Saw is just that he blows shit up and not the whole "torturing prisoners and endangering civilians" thing

#the death stars were both military targets the only people killed in those explosions were military personnel #whereas saw and the partisans have demonstrated multiple times that they have zero regard for civilian life #they got a bunch of civilians at a festival killed on inusagi just to kill one imperial governor and put civilians in danger on jedha #he interrogates people with a telepathic squid monster that mind rapes you and leaves you insane #either that or he electrocutes you and threatens to shoot the queen egg that can save your nearly extinct species #and for every time he gets results there's also an instance of him accomplishing absolutely nothing #he bombs tarkin's base on eriadu and doesn't even succeed in killing him or any of the other officers #he just killed a bunch of easily-replaceable stormtroopers #and if tech really is dead then the only actually noteworthy person he got killed that day was someone that was technically on his side #even if he did kill tarkin or krennic or hemlock they can also be replaced cause everyone in the empire is expendable except palpatine #the empire has no shortage of other officers like them that could continue their work #saw just wants to hurt the empire right here right now and doesn't care about the consequences #he says sacrifice is required for the greater good which isn't wrong but doesn't care who makes those sacrifices for his cause #and no i'm not saying he's some evil monster with no redeeming qualities #we know his backstory we know why he is the way he is and i do think he's sympathetic #but i also think the whole mentality that he was Always Right Actually and the other rebels are hypocrites for no approving of his methods #is really fucking stupid #of course this all stems from tumblr logic that you can't have any characters who fit the ''well-intentioned extremist'' trope #cause if you have a character who has good intentions but goes about the wrong way #then according to tumblr that automatically means you're Demonizing Violent Resistance #even though the characters who disapprove of those extreme methods are in fact ALSO violently resisting #they're just not committing war crimes while they do it #i didn't think these tags were gonna be as long as they were but yeah #bad batch spoilers #in the tags #shut up tristan

[switchinstraps]

not aimed at anyone but like, I think as a community we gotta remember that butches/doms deserve to feel wanted for who they are and not just for the sex or fantasies they can bring to the table. if you’re looking for a partner just so you can feel like you’re not “missing out” in the community or so you can have fun without responsibilities, then either you gotta take a step back for awhile and work on yourself, or realize that dom/sub stuff just isn’t healthy for you. and that’s ok!! there’s nothing wrong with that!! but I guarantee that butches and doms are just as anxious about being used as a fill in or piece of meat as any femme or sub is. it sucks to be in a position where you feel like you’re replaceable and only worth what fantasies you can give to them as a placeholder. anyway. yeah. treat butches better please.

#rebloggable #just smth I’ve been thinking about the past couple days #kind of hit me when sparkly checked in on me after admitting I’d had dom drop #that like ?? I’ve never actually expected that before #or I guess hoped for it either?? #what I’m trying to say here is that the community views sub care and caring for subs (2 different things) as mandatory #and dom care and caring for doms as optional #sometimes even excessive and unnecessary #I’m really rambling but the point of the post is: #treat your doms and butches well #be considerate #bc we really do deserve more than to feel used #and not used in the sexy way

[eremin0109]

As fitting as the ending was, I think I would've loved an alternate scenario where instead of loading the entire pistol into him, Dong soo would've been successful in putting Do young behind the bars again, for life this time, giving us a full circle moment of Do young ending up right where he was at the start of the drama.

#i just think that would've been neat #but like what we got was pretty fucking poetic so im not complaining #do young got what was coming for him #dong soo girlbossed his way to the top (and lost everything that actually mattered in the process) #the ending clearly spelled it out for us that choices have consequences you can't just be a terrible person and get away with it #and it was so tastefully done despite the lack of more runtime they absolutely nailed it #another feather in the cap for Shin ha kyun. take a bow sir! #idk about kyk's previous work (and i really don't care for it either) but his acting was absolutely phenomenal in this #do young's imposing figure slutty smiles and his slow seductive drawl will remain with me for the forseeable future #he's such a well done villian that the show doesn't let your sympathy for him doesn't overshadow the cruelness of his atrocities #*chef's kiss* writing #evilive #evilive kdrama