#even when they're in problematic media

[idlesuperstar]

Joseph Quinn as Billy Knight: Strike // Lethal White

#joseph quinn #strike #lethal white #ok so I have not giffed any strike for the last two series because I really have struggled with the ethics of it #even though I don't pay anything to watch it #is it ok to gif faces of actors I love and say look I love these people #even when they're in problematic media #ugh I just DON'T KNOW especially as ok I have giffed media by problem people probably all my gif life #but also a lot of those people are now dead and not wielding power in the current world #what I do know is this is the only series where I am not just looking at TOM BURKE'S FACE all the time #because joseph is FUCKING AMAZING in it and even on a third watch he's magnetic and it's so hard to watch #because billy is so fucked up and damaged and traumatised yet soft and sweet and man that is just joseph's forte isn't it #and I just want to look at his face all the time these days #my wee gifs

[anti-ao3]

antis are always the ones told to go outside and touch grass, but proshits love comparing real life oppression to the fact their taste in ships and fiction is frowned upon

#lotus.txt #they see stuff like the holocaust or police brutality #and think 'how do i make this about me a grown white person who likes pedo/incest/racist shit' #besides they're ready to throw marginalized ppl under the bus #the moment they say 'this piece of media is problematic' #proshits will even act like smartasses when they say they won't support palestinians or black ppl etc

[musical-chick-13]

"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"

I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.

#I have no patience for 'there is exactly one woman in the main/supporting cast' anymore #unless the writing is INCREDIBLE and the themes are explored with a type of depth and nuance I can't get anywhere else (like shiki) #(daily media plug for shiki) #then I just. probably will not vibe with it. if there are no women. (also shiki DOES have interesting female characters in it) #and this isn't to say that like. things involving men or talking about men or that have a male protagonist are Not Worth #My Time that is NOT what I'm saying at all. I just want like. several women. who show up and affect the story. like LITERALLY that is all I #am asking for. I feel like that's just. the bare minimum. but alas. #mel screams about fictional ladies again #there are plenty of things that are male-character-focused that I enjoy and even genuinely think are good! but I do want people to #ask themselves why they aren't willing to go to bat for media that DOES have more women in the cast than men. #(I mean. the answer is misogyny. but I want people to be. aware of that. and evaluate accordingly) #(evaluate meaning 'acknowledge I have some biases I need to continue deconstructing' not 'drop interest in everything tumblr #user musical-chick-13 personally doesn't like') #I feel like so many times we get trapped in this space between overcorrection via 'don't like ANYTHING that's pRoBLeMaTiC in ANY way' #and people taking the 'it's fiction it's not that deep' to the conclusion of 'because I cannot actually hurt fictional characters because #they're not real that means I am incapable of hurting irl people when they talk about those characters' #like there is. nuance here. there is a middle ground. and most people have NO interest in finding it lmao #and like...if you carry your biases from irl (which EVERYONE HAS. INCLUDING ME. COURTESY OF LIVING IN A PREJUDICED SOCIETY.) into a #direct and one-to-one evaluation of stories or characters that allow you to exercise those biased ideas. then that reinforces those biases #like. no hating...for example every anime lady isn't the same as structural misogyny like the pay gap or anti-women violence #but if you automatically associate the idea of 'female character' with 'lesser-than' it strengthens the already-present societal idea that #women are not as important or dynamic or worthy of support and attention as their male peers. if you are willing to see every (white) #fictional man as having interiority and depth but struggle to see that in any fictional woman then it adds to the things society is already #telling us about women. it creates an association of 'women' with 'inferiority' and uh. that's what misogyny is. #it is not the same as misogynistic crimes against irl women but it IS a reflection of the rhetoric and societal impulses that lead to them #and even if it's a reflection and not the actual thing. it's still important to break down and examine and reevaluate because #if we don't examine our OWN biases. then even if we tear down the greater oppressive structure we'll just end up building it back up again #no your thousands of words of m/m fanfiction or liking late 2000s shonen anime isn't responsible for misogyny nor are these things #inherently misogynistic. I just want like. some acknowledgement that something being 'for fun' doesn't automatically mean that bias/ #prejudice is nowhere to be found

[detritivoresquad]

Ik the new show is laughably bad but and so scooby doo is on everyones minds but im going to start throwing shit if I have to hear tumblr user #258 talking about how THEY would make an adult scooby doo. Not everyones ideas are bad this website is just too predictable and annoying sometimes

#{ds;purplespinel} #this is like the least sm feeling social media site idk where else to go but like #when you dislike a thing that this site has decided to be obsessed with its very annoying #before someone comes at me im not saying i dislike scooby doo. i love scooby doo. #i liked it as a kid I watch it as an adult and i read fanfic sometimes. #but I often dislike like the kinds of 'adaptations' and 'rewrites' that get lots of reblogs here #like everyone writing them as adults is either writing them as college age or in their 50s. which is fine like its not problematic #i just think its boring #or like they're arguing over what to do w fred. or what velmas backstory would be. and most of the ideas tossed around disinterest me #does that make sense. #like aughhh daphne is a popular girl NO daphne is a loser who hangs out w outcasts #NO shes a lovable autistic NO she's the party bard NO shes the muscle of the group #like idk guys it sounds like you just wanna get the Coolest Most Creative Interpretation Award #why are we even arguing like... idk i think the characters have a decently well defined base! #and every interpretation is a little different and equally valid! so! nobody can really Win here

[mothmanchronicler]

was thinking abt sweet pea's government name, blinked, and now i'm researching ny state reservations and the demographics of early colonizers and oh how far away from nyc that i think riverdale would be and i can pull up a map and compare the reservations that exist near the radius that i've deemed a likely distance from the city and then i can read about those tribes and note the surnames of the tribal leaders and make note of which ones start with M and i can look up the origins of those surnames and then ill look up popular baby names from 1999-2001 that start with N but that feels incomplete so i'll look into-

#aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! #all this ignoring that uktena is a cherokee word #and the cherokee historically lived in the southeast united states #and the rvd writers probably just googled native american snake legend #and are sp's initials even NM? i don't remember where that came from #ignore me because i'm losing my damn mind !!!! #is this problematic i'm still confused about the race relations within the serpents #why is white man FP serpent king #i have a lot of questions #i mean the show certainly made the serpents a mode of tribal survival and pride #so what happened ? #idk i just went back and looked at exactly what toni's grandfather said about the creation of the serpents #and i actually have some more questions okay #i dislike when media flippantly adds indigenous things and doesn't bother to understand or explore the cultural depth of what they're using #(but what should i expect given hollywood's treatment of native americans) #i don't understand why writers wouldn't want to know every single thing abt an interesting subject #and also i don't understand why people are racism and reduce native americans to tropes and shallow characitures #these are very introspective tags #say hello to the inside of my brain i guess #anyway i decided on norman as a first name for a million different silly reasons

[iholli]

antis be like weh how dare you do this thing !! so obnoxiously now that I never see the content they're so pressed about and I only know about this "problematic" stuff because antis won't shut up about it. bitch now I am going to disagree with you out of spite !! go outside !!

#WHY ARE THEY SO. PROMINENT. #it's always like the same five people making 753686865774 posts but they're fucking LOUD #bitch dime of us just want to consume media with funky animation and good character development !! #why don't u go eat some grass !! get off pearl clutcher facebook or twit or w/e for two minutes !! #when are we going to start telling antis they sound like cultic religious fanatics bc they fucking do #i am tired #'dime' istg i meant some but i ain't fixing it #ratkingdiscourse #anti anti #AND I DON'T EVEN CARE FOR THE 'PROBLEMATIC' STUFF MYSELF BUT Y'ALL SHIT 🙄🙄 #ik talking about it myself doesn't help matters but we all need to vent abt it yk

[homoquartz]

this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings

mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.

the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social hierarchy system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.

the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.

then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.

then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.

i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.

the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.

they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.

the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.

#mean girls #huge unhinged rant sorry #misogyny

[inazuma-fulgur]

Bigger, longer videos and essays are something we see disappearing and becoming unpopular more and more with "technological advances" of social media or just about anything.

Fast consumption without thinking, before you even get the chance to log off the next think gets shoved into your face

And like without thinking is something I wanna get at. If everything around you is short and flat and mostly self contained, impossible to compare to other things, impossible to utilize in other contexts and to compare other things amongst each other with. Basically if no nuanced, bigger picture thought and appropriate analytical skill get shown and taught to anyone anymore we will become unable or maybe just too distracted to critique anything in a meaningful way.

If nothing is connected anymore and everything becomes a unique completely individual occurrence there are no trends to criticize.

Even if things aren't unique that doesn't matter much if that is the only way someone can judge and understand the world, so they're unable to find trends and systematic issues. Because those concepts don't exist on short form content platforms.

#content #do I have to say vine was problematic #vine ig itself wasn't problematic but it opened the door for a lot of bad #the ''good'' thing about yt or smth in comparison is that even if encouraged to make content of some length #it isn't impossible to go into depth. and arguably the demand is there. i remember being stuck with 10 min #videos once that was good for the algorithm. or when it was the longer the better #rn we have a focus on feels like both 10 min for midroll adds and 20-25 min for being a good length #but generally all sorts of lengths are searched for among users. but YouTube like everyone else is captivated #by tiktok and saw other social media sites copy them. so now shorts have been doing the best for channels for a few years now #really. if you wanna get big on YouTube upload shorts. they will recommend anything as long as it is a short #as a glitch hunter and speedrun collaborater I've uploaded some weird and context less vids. #for honestly no reason that to share most of them unlisted. but the few that are listed the shorts ones always do better. #even if they're so abstract as to be useless to anyone not hardcore into golden sun 3. while most of the less cryptic videos don't #get any attention #because shorts are about looking weird enough to be interesting for long enough to count as a view #not about creating anything #basically if something only gets views as a short it means it's shit or YouTube hates what content type you do #the first you should feel personally insulted by and start doing other creative work instead of producing #the second you should also feel personally offended by and burn down youtube headquarters* as a result #*in minecraft

[sitronsangbody]

Once again I'm thinking about the many, many similarities and crossovers between fatphobia, transphobia and ableism (and yes, I know many experience two or all three, which is all the more reason to talk about this).

- The basic stance that "you have a body the wrong way"

- Acceptance is frequently conditional. You have to prove that you've been suffering over this and you have to at least TRY to conform. Don't you dare ask for any accomodations, and also don't you dare just be happy. Tell us your sob story!

- If children see you they'll think it's ok to be that way and that's bad.

- Getting desexualised publicly and deeply fetishised in private or online. And "how do you even have sex? How does it work?"

- The systemic exclusion from public life because they'd rather you just didn't exist

- Difficulty finding clothes that fit both your body and your expression

- Healthcare providers frequently don't believe what you tell them, and don't know enough about your needs

- People around you want to find a cure

- People act like equal rights for you is actually special treatment. If you wanted human rights you should have been more normal

- People suck at just listening to you when you tell them what words to use about you

- People get super uncomfortable with the idea of you being seen as beautiful

- Media representation is scarce and often problematic. Very often, people like you are portrayed by cis/thin/abled actors in costume and they're called "brave" and "inspirational" for it

- accusations of being a drain on the healthcare system

- I'm SURE there's more

#musings #fat liberation #fatphobia #transphobia #ableism

[seekingserenity333]

Astrology Observations - 1

Thank you everyone for the love on my first post! Please do let me know if things resonate with you, sending love! I'm still an amateur, so take what I say with a grain of salt. +18 parts are in red, you can ignore if you like!

(+18) 1- Venus in Scorpio natives might feel that love is like a slow burn poison, loving too much hurts as much. They are very intense when it comes to intimate relationships and even though they might try and satiate their sexual thirst with one night stands, they will try and find someone they can regularly see and form even a slight connection. They are also lucky in the genitals part- although they're prone to STDs and might feel a scare at some point, they should be careful.

(+18) 2- Uranus in the 1st house/Aquarius ascendants might be from a young age tech savvy, their parents might even ask for help figuring out new appliances. If Venus and Uranus make aspects, they might experience a long distance relationship with someone from a different culture. They might also like sexting/cyber sex

3- Sun in 12th House and/or Saturn in the 1st house might indicate an absent father. The natives might have to discipline themselves or they might have the other parent step up for them. This may also indicate their personality blooming late

4- Mercury sextile Venus might indicate a way with words, interest in literature and being a great communicator. They can calm down a heating argument just with their words, making both parties laugh even

5- Lilith in the 2nd house might indicate being underweight and problematic relationship with food. They might skip meals without even noticing and don't have much attachment to tasty food at all

6- Mars in Scorpio natives might feel a big rush of energy when they feel threatened, as if they can take down tens of people. If Mars aspects the ascendant or planets in the first house, it can give the native a strong build no matter the size/weight. They might gain muscles without noticing and have a triangle shaped body. (Though this depends a lot on other placements too)

7- Gemini placements can be chaotic and unstable. They might have different personalities with different people, and can feel strong mood shifts. In personal planets, the native might want to constantly keep themselves busy with all kinds of media like series, anime, books, manga, music etc. and they can't quite get enough. After being done with something, they'll go through social media and forums on the subject and engage in conversations until they find their next craving

#astrology observations #astroblr #astro observations #astro notes #birth chart #astro community #astro posts #astro placements

[petitprincess1]

Hey, I'm really sorry for asking this, but do you and how do you deal with any guilt for liking Hazbin Hotel? I think the controversies and antis have got to me because I can't watch it or any content without thinking about those.

I love the songs (both the show's and PARANOID DJ's because they're bangers) but I also can't help but think "am I a terrible person with bad taste for liking this?"

Parts of this show also just make me happy, especially Angel Dust. He became such a comfort to me after I went through a similar situation. Not as extreme, but it messed me up. And Alastor is just the best character to ever be created. He sings and dances and kills and eats people, what more could you want in a man? But yeah, I just want to enjoy the silly demon show without feeling gross afterward and I don't know how to shake that feeling off.

First of all, I don't have any guilt watching anything I enjoy.

Second of all, neither should you. And this is the problem with antis and "critics". No one should EVER be made to feel bad about liking anything. Hell, I'll even extend that thought to those who like Velma. I'll never understand it, but I can't hate you for liking something.

I know Vivzie is tied to a lot of controversies, but so what? More than half of them have been debunked or shown to have changed as she grew older. Even if you still feel iffy, Hazbin is more than just Vivzie. There's an entire crew attached to this show and they should not suffer bc of one person.

I mean, you've most likely played a game or watched a movie that has had a problematic person connected to it. Yeah, that person is scummy, but you can still enjoy the content that has them featured or they created bc...that doesn't define you as a person. What you like in fiction does not translate to real life.

It's different when it comes to someone like Onision, who's content is nothing but his life and about him. I'd be more disgusted if you liked him vs you liking Hopper from A Bug's life, despite him being played by Kevin Spacey. Awful person, but Hopper is disconnected from Spacey other than voice. Or liking a song by a problematic artist. You like the song, not the person.

Once again, YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL GUILTY FOR ENJOYING SOMETHING! NO ONE SHOULD EVER FEEL GUILTY FOR ENJOYING MEDIA THAT'S MEANT TO BE ENJOYED! VIVZIE MADE THE SHOW BUT SHE IS NOT THE SHOW!

Anyone who dares to feel self-righteous over a cartoon needs to get that tree branch out of their ass.

#hazbin hotel #long post #important #ask answered #ok to rb

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

I just wanna say that I've seen some people talk about pro vs anti stuff recently on my dash and I want to say this: proship is only a thing because antis shifted the Overton Window online and began harassing people for fiction they interacted with. Most of the people that say they're proship now are just. Older people that minded their own business back in old fandom days. Proship honestly is a misnomer because shipping is such a small part of it. It's just lowhanging fruit that antis get worked up about the most. Because it's easier to attack kids that are interested in that sort of thing than the adults who don't give a shit what some dork on the internet thinks is problematic.

Proship does NOT mean

That we think works or artists should not be criticized ever.

That we shouldn't adapt particular lenses when viewing certain kinds of works

That all works are "good."

Proship DOES mean

Artists should not be harassed for what they create. They especially should not be doxxed and sent death threats.

Works, on their own, do not cause people to commit bad actions. How works are presented and distributed and who consumes them matters. (IE tag your fanfiction! This also includes viewer discretion notices and ratings in conventional media. This allows adults to avoid content that upsets them, and for parents to be mindful of their children.)

Works shouldn't be purged or erased. Even highly problematic works are worthy of archiving, especially so we can study them. (Mein Kampf and Birth of a Nation are good examples of this. If we lost these works we would lose access to studying them and the ability to contextualize parts of history we shouldn't forget and are still affecting us today.)

Shipping isn't activism. Fandom isn't activism. It's a hobby. You should care more about the tangible things you can do for your community more than the fact some teenage girl thinks the boys from Killing Stalking are hot or wants the Fnaf robots to kiss.

#proship

[jokin-around]

I made a Twitter thread about this, but I've been reading early issues of Batman lately and something I've noticed is how differently the contrast between Batman and "Bruce Wayne" is depicted

obviously, in many things today, "Bruce" (ESPECIALLY in fandom) is often depicted as a happy-go-lucky himbo in order to draw contrast with a grim and "tortured" batman

so how does this hold up when you look at older depictions? the answer: it doesn't. in fact it was almost the opposite.

way back in the very first issues of the official Batman title, Bruce Wayne, no matter WHAT he's doing, isn't the one who laughs and smiles, Batman is.

and these are comics that were published BEFORE the comics code authority caused a dramatic shift in tone

Bruce Wayne (or least the cardboard cutout refered to as Bruce Wayne) isn't nessecarily described as grim, but he isn't a very happy person either, he's still a rich airhead, but not so much a "himbo" or even a dedicated businessman, he's depicted as a BORED, uninterested, aristocrat:

this Bruce seems to spend of his time smoking a pipe at home or mingling with other upperclass individuals, that in-between we tend to see MUCH more often in modern comics doesn't seem to exist yet (in part because the batcave Is non-existent which I suspect has given him a bit more privacy as a character)

MEANWHILE Batman, who's investigates murders every other night almost seems to be having the time of his life:

the early comics seem to routinely depict the burgoise as cold, snobbish & bored, in contrast to batman who seems particularly expressive and joyful, for all we know Batman may partially exist as some millionaires weird passtime, but of course Bruce Wayne (the real guy, not the facade) is written as someone who genuinely seems to care due to his own past experiences:

but , with all of that layed out, one can conclude that when ppl say Batman is the "true persona" ect. originally, it wasn't (just) because of his coping or whatever it was because when he wasn't Batman he was forced to live life as a cold, "useless" millionaire:

"what if a rich a guy gave a fuck?" is still very much the base concept here, but what's surprising is how much BITE there is to it

the concept wasn't being proposed because it's like… a plausible thing to happen or attainable on a personal level, but because the rich reliably and consitently do not care

the rich ppl in this book, "Bruce Wayne" included, are not written to be envied as people. they're written to be insufferable. ppl with endless resources who are still somehow unsatisfied with life and choose to do nothing useful or direct with the amount wealth they've accumulated

but ofc it shouldn't be ALL THAT surprising, Batman debuted in Detective Comics in 1939…. ONE year after the great depression, Bob and Bill had more than a good reason to feel a bit bitter

but rolling back to the point of this analysis, whenever I say "let batman be happy" I mean "let Batman enjoy his job" despite the pain, despite the death, despite the murder, despite the hypocritical nature of it all and how problematic it may be because it's a life he also chooses, not just out of compulsion, but because it's hands on, direct & purposeful. it gives him something to do & it gives him a chance to punch a problem in the face (which may be good or bad depending on what that problem is, but still)

that kind of depiction is what set up the groundwork for nearly every deconstruction that's come since but it's so buried in time at this point that lines from characters claiming bruce "loves being batman" seem to ring completely hollow

tbh, I think the old way of depicting Batman can be ( and as been in some media) woven into the way he's depicted today, in the past Batman was an outlet for every emotion Bruce Wayne had to hide elsewhere, a symbol of empathy, fury and passion, for modern Batman, I imagine those three things still hold true, layered on top of an alter ego that allows a modern Bruce Wayne to be weird and damaged and dark.

so uh, ln conclusion, I think batman enjoying what he does to a certain extent is a crucial aspect of his character that's been lost and withered and forgotten about, let him a have a little fun, we can discuss the ramifications of all that when discussion seems necessary

#batman #Bruce Wayne #DC comics

[olderthannetfic]

I have really mixed feelings about the small proportion of F/F fiction (original or fanfic), because yeah sure, people have their desires, they should write what they want, I get it. It all works out when I hear it from person to person. But somehow the logic only ever applies in one direction? "There are more male protagonists because men only care about male characters! Women also mostly care about male characters, because that's the majority of characters they get!" And then somehow we also yet kvetch when men write female characters (because it's incorrectly or something, nevermind if women are writing male characters correctly). Why don't we expect gay men to feel compelled only by femslash for the same reasons (but gender swapped) as the lesbian slashers/fujoshi? All of those very rational justifications are applied selectively, "for me for not for thee," and it all only leads to "idk I just don't wanna write femslash", for Reasons. Do we get to call them microaggressions yet?

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No, you don't get to call other people's fantasy life a microaggression.

That is indeed "for me but not for thee" in the sense that you get to want what you want but other people aren't supposed to follow their id.

Do you also police gay men who spend too much time on drag and obsessing over female divas? That's an actual real world behavior that's somewhat equivalent. It frequently goes unchallenged, at least by progressives, because men are allowed to do whatever they want with chick stuff, while women are "stealing" if they dare to stray into dude stuff.

(God, I've seen so much more policing of drag kings being ~problematic~ for acting out stereotypical gender than policing of drag queens for the same. It's nuts!)

Fujoshi are often queer, but it's absurd to think we're mostly lesbians. We tend to be bi or asexual women with gender stuff going on, though there is a mix of everybody, including lesbians. There are also a lot of AFAB non-women who get lumped in with us. On the rare occasions I find a man willing to admit to being a similar demographic, he usually does like gender play in his hobbies and entertainment. It's just that men face even more pressure than women do to fit into tidy categories. Bi women get told we're whores. Bi men are told they don't exist.

Yes, I know plenty of lesbians who write more m/m than f/f, but in the big picture of all of AO3 or all of fanfic or all of media, they aren't the demographic driving these numbers. They're vastly outnumbered by the bi women, the asexual women, and the straight and gnc women.

The men we should be looking at as an equivalent aren't cis gay men but bicurious soy boys and the like.

Do most of us fujoshi object to equivalent men doing an equivalent thing? I've seen it sometimes, and I agree it's hypocritical. I'd like us to afford men the same ability to play and take on identities in their art. I remember enjoying Ranma fandom back in the day and reading quite a lot of f/f that was probably by men. It had some of that same sense of distance and fantasy that I so enjoy in m/m aimed at fujoshi. (I do consume some by-cis-gay, for-cis-gay content, both m/m and f/f, but it's often too literal and too bound up in specific named identities for my taste.)

On average, the people I see complaining most about men producing f/f material are the same people who think that because I have a clit, I should center my life around women exclusively. In other words, people spouting radfem ideology, perhaps on purpose or perhaps without realizing.

I do agree that some of the ways of expressing a lack of desire to write femslash can get pretty douchey. I want us to move away from some of the less accurate ones like "There are no compelling female characters" because of this.

But the reason for all these jerkass explanations is that women and people perceived as women who like m/m are constantly asked to explain ourselves. These aren't usually microaggressions: they're openly hostile. People get defensive and try to answer with important-sounding reasons about identity and pain because society at large won't accept "I like this" as the true explanation.

Pleasure is never enough of a reason for a woman to do something.

[iloveyouemanuelmarco]

I don't understand how Vivziepop still has a fanbase anymore that unironically still supports her after all the scenarios of controversy where she brushes it off as petty internet drama from "petty envious antis" atleast before she runs off into her crowd of chronically online and discourse obsessed problematic adults on any social media platform(Mostly Twitter to be specific but still)who are just a group of yes-men for her to use to attack not even only children on the interwebs who just happen to be uncomfortable with the fandom she's cultivated over her career of a wannabe artist and animator, but other adults too who by the way are somewhat consisting of survivors of abuse, rape, are LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, neurodivergent/disabled and possibly more. It honestly makes me sad as it does angry because the concept of the show isn't that crazily impossible in my opinion atleast and it could of had so much potential to do way better if not only the obvious subject matters were treated with much more care in an attempt to rework the scripts but also if Viv didn't do half of the stuff she did just a bad person in general. Like...is that really the best you can do for your fanbase???You cannot be not-joking atleast a little bit when you're telling me that apparently not only are children not being stopped from engaging with an 18+ rated show(even though the amount of vulgar language is done so poorly that it could pass of as your average failed Newgrounds animation), but that they're literally being encouraged to interact with the fandom???Are you out of your mind???Don't even get me started on the other stuff that you all probably already know about such as the blatant mockery of S.A., abusive relationship dynamics, hypersexuality in victims of said scenarios that happen irl, having other such "jokes" including some sort of rapey scene at all and having someone who actively and openly supports "non-con" fiction???!!!! What is wrong with you people??And apparently I have to share the home of the beautiful planet Earth with these idiots choosing to have the cognitive dissonance and brain function of an almost-empty and dusty old peanut...Along with the fact that the woman herself treats her animators at Spindlehorse Productions(her studio I suppose)like utter dog-dung, she has proven to drag anyone who defies her problematic and dare I say dangerous behavior through the mud and gets away with it all because of her stans/fans making her the "face of independent animation/indie animators". I honestly feel so awful for those who may have genuinely looked up to her at one point, atleast not knowing how much of a horrible person she was behind the scenes of the computer screen but its whatever anyways I guess. If any aspiring makers of cartoons or comics(LGBTQIA+/BIPOC/Disabled preferred) would like to promote the stuff they male down below in my comments section than feel free☆. It's the least anyone can do under the storm that's being made and has happened for such a long time ughh. The project should have been attempted a little more to be prevented from the confines of those echo-chambery and gross parts of fandom-centric social media communities and It's so discouraging how long this has been going on too, but hey. She's the lady that unironically made a literal pedo character that she attempted to present as a villain while just having the original character end up as a sort of "cool af bad-girl aesthetic uwu" character. Oh my fucking God please stop at once I swear to the highest Heavens and the deepest, most darkest depths of Hell(Ironic).

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@wanderingcritter

Sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to be Big Brother and check every single kid's private social media experience, to make SURE they're not interacting with X or Y content that they shouldn't.

In fact, I think you didn't even understand my post at all.

These days, people treat even the most innocent sexuality exploration, two year age gaps and most random ships as "problematic". What I'm SAD about is that kids end up having to partake in these discussions over things that shouldn't even be deemed problematic from the get-go! I know for a fact I had a much healthier fandom experience when I was a kid, and no one was there trying to tell me what to do or how to think, or made me feel like I had to constantly defend and explain myself online. Doesn't that seem abusive to you, at all?

But if a teen still chooses to interact with problematic content out of their own volition, it's not up to me, an adult who's not their guardian or responsible for them, to go out of my way to interrogate my followers and kick them in the gut if they turn out to be a lying minor.

Do I think kids should be exposed to hardcore kink and porn and problematic content on the daily? No.

Do I want to police a kid's experiences, and potentially risk them turning against me and doing something real that might harm them in real life, instead of safely exploring a fantasy in a fictional world? No!

Let's face it: We all as teens at some point did watch a +17 movie, or sought porn out of curiosity, or talked to a highschool friend about sex or stuff we shouldn't because we were kids. We felt curious and we wanted to learn about that kind of stuff in a way that appealed to us. Ban the entire FNAF community if you want, but that won't stop kids from liking horror games and exposing themselves to problematic content.

There's a myriad of reasons why someone young might be interacting with discourse. The fact y'all think it's solely "sickos" and "creeps" who want to have freedom of expression is ignorant at best, and sickeningly controlling at worst.

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