#he thinks i think he is a predator. no!!!! i dont think that!!!! im just hurt by weird things he has done

[dyketubbo]

i remember seeing someone call tubbo a fully grown adult at 19 (obvs before he turned 20) and i gotta say. i think maybe some people have a really skewed idea of what constitutes as "fully grown". and also what constitutes as properly mature. thinking that at 18/19 (or hell even at 20/21) people are now fully grown and mature is insane to me like yall thats how you get people thinking their life is over at like 23 and that 30 year olds are senior citizens 😭😭 be fr

#this is a problem no matter where you look but i think a lot of ppl in the mcyt fandom esp seem to think once youre- #-considered an adult at all that it automatically means youre fully grown and mature and thats just nooottt really true for most ppl #which i think can lead people down to sort of dangerous paths especially because 'adult' is often defined by age of consent #and theres also some slight cultural differences like even just between the us and the uk where due to 18yr olds being able to drink in- #-the uk (and other places) i think it genuinely causes some dissonance #where i see often in the us that when youre 18/19 youre still treated (id say rightfully) as being rather young and not Truly a grown adult #hence. yk. the term Young Adult #but i think in places where the drinking age is younger it starts causing people to see younger people as more mature #which is also why a lot of predators like to push for the age of consent to be at a younger age like 15 or 16 #and why many lolicons try to point at japans age of consent (which for the record is complicated and not as simple as just 'age of consent- #-is 13') as a defense for how they act #because these sorts of milestones (having sex and drinking) are seen as marks of a true adult. which gets into a whole lot of other #complicated things #and often dangerous things and ways of thinking #ANYWAYS . basically 18/19 isnt fully grown 20 is also hardly fully grown itself #and theres ways to combat people infantilizing tubbo and other creators his age without acting like hes actually #fully grown and mature lol. i promise you humans are not fully grown at 20 years old are you kidding me 😭😭😭😭 #if youre in your 20s you still have a lot of time and space to grow i promise. do not fall for the idea that your life is done by like 23 #idk. im only 18 myself but it just feels insane to me that if i were a creator people would be calling me a fully grown adult #not that im not an adult but i dont think im mature enough to be seen as fully grown and i guess itssss. sad? #to see other people my age think that turning 18 means youre fully grown. just really not true #theres a lot of 30 year olds who still see early 20yr olds as being practically babies we have Not made it to full maturity yet i prommy #mask mews

[pinkeoni]

Will Byers, Coming of Age, Transformations, Predators, Queerness & Teen Wolf

There’s one part of the “leaks” that sappicjopper put out that really caught my attention—

And as to not look naïve, yes I am highly aware that these “leaks” are likely fake. However, disregarding the legitimacy of this as a “leak,” it is in itself a compelling idea that does have some legs to stand on as a theory.

So awhile ago I made a post about Will’s coming of age story and how that fits into the horror genre, and how exploring coming of age and sexual awakening through the supernatural is a popular trope.

I wanna point out three films I use in my analysis, Ginger Snaps, Jennifer’s Body, and Black Swan. These films have a lot of things in common, but one aspect I want to point out is there use of physical transformation.

These transformations covers an umbrella of different themes depending on the character, but something that all three of them have in common is sexuality. As all of these women become more sexually liberated, and thereby seen as dangerous by those around them, they fall deeper into these physical transformations. (IE Jennifer and Ginger both eating men after they have sex with them)

In my original post I also discuss how this fear of sexuality, or view of sexuality as something monstrous and predatory, is related to queerness. Both Jennifer Check and Nina Sayers are visibly queer characters in both their respective films.

So what? All of this is very speculative, how do I know that Will is going to go through a similar arc, just because I can relate him to a few movies that I like personally? How do I know that the Duffer’s are going to do something similar? Is there reference to a movie within in the show, that features transformation as an allegory for coming of age and queerness?

Actually, there is.

All credits goes to @chirpsythismorning for their deep dive post into the shows use of the film Teen Wolf, which appears in the show as one of Rick Conroy’s recent rentals as well as the poster in the background of a few shots.

(screenshot credits to @chirpsythismorning)

The Freddy Krueger standee, the character who kills people in their dreams whose actor makes a cameo in the show, positioned right over Max’s shoulder should be enough to say that the film references in the background are a lot more than just meaningless references.

Teen Wolf is a 1985 supernatural coming of age movie about a teen named Scott who learns that he is a werewolf.

Within s4 we actually get some parallels between the film and Lucas’ arc— Scott is a basketball player who seeks popularity before embracing who he is and what he really wants. However, I think it’s possible that the film could also be a piece of foreshadowing for Will’s arc in s5.

While Scott is not an explicitly queer character, there is some coding within the film that correlates his lycanthropy with queerness. Remember this is a mainstream teen movie from the 1980’s, if there’s going to be any queerness it’s gonna have to come from subtext, although it is pretty unsubtle.

There’s this very heavy handed scene where Scott confesses to Stiles that he’s a werewolf, and Stiles believes that Scott is coming out to him initially.

There’s also this conversation Scott has with his father that can be read as queer coded.

Or essentially saying, being queer isn’t easy, but it’s not bad either. And then Scott equating his queerness with being a predator, and expects to be hunted as such.

When Scott goes through his first full transformation, it’s right after he played a game of two minutes in heaven with his childhood friend Boof, equating sexuality with his beastlihood.

In s4, there’s a big emphasis on the word predator.

Will’s queerness is an open secret in a town that believed he was “killed by some other queer” and that a group of satanic sodomizers are responsible for murder. I’m willing to bet that that predator label is going to be put onto Will, especially as he begins to come more into his own sexuality.

What would be a literal way to portray this predator title? By having him transform into a predatory creature, just as everyone sees him.

Am I saying Will is going to become a werewolf? Well no, that wouldn’t really make sense with the show. But there is something that may have even been foreshadowed in the show.

How would this transformation even happen? Well, as our “leaker,” or rather, enthusiastic theorist suggests, it has something to do with his connection to the Upside Down, which is progressively leaking more and more into Hawkins. So not a literal zombie, but maybe a zombie like creature that could survive in the Upside Down.

When Vecna was sent through the gate to the UD we saw him go through a physical transformation as he adapted to his environment. This would he a like a speedrun version of that amplified by Will’s own personal connection to the UD (which I believe predates his kidnapping)

It would also serve as a way to highlight the parallels between Vecna and Will, what by having Will physically become similar to him. What better way to show the Vecna/Will mirrors by having Will look in the mirror and see the spitting image of Vecna staring back at him.

Bonus: Scott in Teen Wolf in played by Michael J. Fox, and which character was dressed similarly to a popular Michael J. Fox character in season one?

#will byers #byler #<- target audience #stranger things #will byers has powers #i left out the cannabalism bit because thats more of wishful thinking on my part #…but it does conveniently tie in with the idea of being a predator #and is common with these transformation trope films #maybe he should eat people!! #tw cannibalism #just for those tags lol #also just so i dont get accused #im not trying to steal aspects of lucas’ story just to slap onto will #just saying that the teen wolf parallels can apply to both characters #lucas has more of his overall arc and will has the transformation queer allegory arc #stranger things theory #my theory

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Like the way Astarion lights up at the prospect of killing the Githyanki patrol and his excitement when Ethel runs and he's all "now it's a hunt !!"

Heroic Astarion who still fucking FROTHS at the mouth at a good chase because anything worth eating is a little dangerous. He's still sweet and emotionally available, but he also still needs to hunt to eat and that prey drive gnaws at him regardless of if he hunts innocents or bandits. He might as well try to enjoy himself (and he does. Without guilt. Durge is actually quite into it)

#bat rambles #astarion #im sorry i am not ok about this vampire twink #durge who also still has some prey drive instincts bc theyre still made from the body of bhaal #i promise im trying to be normal #bg3 #astarion is durge's princess and durge throws their body across running water for astarion to step on so he dont get hurt #he's still pathetic but he is also a predator #i also like the idea of that being part of the me vs them dynamic he constantly has to work through #cus can you imagine? e #everyone you meet is a propsective meal and he just got out of his “arrangement” where that was part of the deal #he HAS to see himself as better than the cattle and Cazador kinda #reinforces that kind of thinking #but redeemed durge or a good tav helping guide him away from thinking like that #i think hed still have those moments of #awe is the snack trying to fight back #and be intense abt his bloodlust and hunger #but he'd move away from being like GNOMES DONT COUNT AS PEOPLE BUT POULTRY RIGHT

[abstract-hellbender]

quick af btw >> you can hate dutch van der linde without calling him an evil snake who eats people..,,,, genuine serious if you think hes a cannibal GET OUT OF HERE

#yall the anti semitism in this room is CRAZYYYY #i see so many people boil his character down to >> greedy selfish money hungry manipulator who feels nothing narcissist #and then i heard there was a CANNIBAL THEORY GUYS PLEASW #points to him.... he has black hair and facial hair thats often shown in jewish charicatures AND a hooked nose.. #im not gonna say any of it was exactly intentional or anything im just saying some of yall need to take a step back and think about where #some of these theories are coming from yknow #also cause the cannibal theory holds no ground. his tall trees camp LITERALLY HAS CHICKENS N SHIT RUNNING AROUND AND FUCKING PREDATORS #THAT KILL YOU MID MISSIOON I GOT EATEN BY LIKE 2 BEARS GUYS. PLEASE. HE CAN FUCKING HUNT. #also cause the first character who mentions being eaten by dutchs gang (which are mostly native americans btw) is the hyper racist professo #who only says it CUASE HES RACIST ASF guys please. please. idgaf theres bones under a chair theyre ANIMAL BONES he has DEER AND ELK SKULLS #EVERYWHERE GUYS. there are cannibals in rdr1 they established using an arm model for them. BUT ANYWAY im getting off track #you can hate him idgaf #this is a reminder that you dont even need a reason to hate a character you can just hate them #dutch van der linde #i will tag him idgaf i think its important enough

[orkidays]

the expensive ass burger ended up being really good :)

#no almost throwing up this time! #im a lot more calm now #i dont think george is some irredeemable predator and i dont think he did it maliciously #but the best case scenario is that he genuinely apologizes and works on himself out of the public eye #in that case i can see myself consuming their content casually sometime in the future #but for now i prefer to just distance myself #hope for the beat prepare fpr rhe worst #love u guys 🫂❤️ #days.txt

[yooniesim]

I don't know who to believe anymore, both of you have been making wild assumptions, and you've taken it the farthest. Please sit and think about if this is worth the time and energy.

Don't worry anon- fortunately, facts speak for themselves! Won't be any wild assumptions or claims, just their own words/posts. I won't ask you to believe anything I say at face value. Cos anyone can lie on the internet, right? I'm not gonna do that. I'll just lay it out, all the screenshots- just as he did- and people can come to their own conclusions about what they think about it. I think that's about fair, right? That's exactly what he did, after all.

(Also, the fact that he said myself and the others triggered by his actions "claim" to be victims, and mocked me being in mourning for my father that died 8 days ago while comparing it to his eviction took out the last tiny bit of sympathy I had. Sorry! Here's an example of a screenshot of something actually fucking disgusting for you.)

#asks #anonymous #ceci speaks #i mean #since they posted their own receipts #isnt it only fair that i post mine? #or am i supposed to be the bigger person after they mocked me for being in mourning and constantly posted about me for over a week? #and called me all the worst kinda shit and laughed in the face of all the people they triggered and called them crybabies? #and kept going and going all day today calling me all kinds of shit #nah i dont think so #ive taken it the farthest? oh baby #you havent seen nothin yet #for the record tho i never said lil bro was a predator and i dont consider him one #but since hes so irresponsible and seems to have no idea that the issue is not what he ships but how and where he posts it #and has continuously drug out this issue for days on end without having one single bit of remorse until he started getting backlash #theres enough red flags to be extremely concerning to not only me but several other survivors #NO i wouldnt trust my younger family members or minor friends around someone that consumes that content irresponsibly #and has no sense of self awareness or empathy at all #if hes hurt by that well that sucks for him #i dont buy the 'woe is me im just a poor widdle victim dat did nuffin wrong but get bullied' act #you had giant balls the entire last week and now suddenly i answered you youre crying and triggered #if i were meaner id call you a crybaby like you called the people you triggered #but instead i'll just call you a pathetic little worm #grow up #negative #tw csa mention

[oscill4te]

damn the family event i was supposed to go to today was canceled and it is bittersweet. Like I really didn't wanna go bc i am still not over everything, and seeing them always sets me back really bad. but damn, this family is so dysfunctional. everyone single family member just bailed or ghosted for different reasons. its kinda sad. I always feel as if I am the person who broke the family facade too. I bailed the last 2 years on this event too. so it is double ouch.

#gonna go uh. process things I guess. #like ;-; i was kinda hoping to see my sisters and aunt. moms okay. i mostly just didnt want to see my dad... #i scare my dad. he is scared of me. he turns all red and avoidant. i dont know why. #okay i do know why but its so complicated. he read through my diary when i was at work once #i fucking hate him for being such a control freak but i am just like him i guess #and lets just say; what he read probably has changed his view of me forever #i should be allowed to uncover repressed memories in privacy without family members reading it... #and i am allowed to have whatever pain i have about those things that happened... #i hate him for reading through my things #i am allowed to stumble and make mistakes and it was confirmed by my sister that it did happen so... #i am allowed to have feelings about it even if it is over reacting in others eyes and express it privately in my diary #i dont remember what i said in the note bc he took it. he wildly misinterpreted it too #he thinks i think he is a predator. no!!!! i dont think that!!!! im just hurt by weird things he has done #this stupid entry i wrote ruined our relationship but he shouldn't have read it #that note was only for me and potentially my therapist #and he never even talked to me about it. thats the worst thing. he sent my mom to talk to me about it #and he misinterpreted it so badly. bc theh both speak different languages and #the things my mom was telling me.. i was like.. i did not say those things... wtf #horrible game of telephone #txt

[shopcat]

i still can't get over ppl thinking 32 and 47 is too much of an age gap or like that person who said patrick stewart (?) should die for marrying his wife who is an adult woman it's all just like... do you people not live on earth i am as mean abt weird age gaps as the next guy probably even more to be honest but come ON do you not have parents... are your friends all orphans please my mom and dad had an 11 year age gap it's just so not that serious

#🐾 #first is taika and his wife who i know nothing about tbf but the way people talk about it is so fucking weird 😭 #and to be honest i do just think they're kind of probably racist or something bc they really try and make him out to be a predator ... #for marrying an adult woman ... #they'll be like yeah and they MET when she was insert age here as if that means he wasn't also the same age distance 😭 #like he does not stay 47 HUH 😭 or 8 or whatever i acruallg dont rememebe how old he is #i feel like this is indicative of something but i don't know what. probably just people's desperate STUPIDITY #they saw age gaps and predatory situations and went this applies to everything ever now #like you have the base of a technically really kind empathetic stance for something and yet you don't realise why people even think it #bc then you would use your big beauoful brain and realise it's about power dynamics 😭😭 and stages of life 😭😭 #like once you get past a certain age it just truly doesn't matter didnt we all used to do that thing when we were kids with celeb crushes #ohhh i know it's weird now but when im 33 he'll be 50 so it'll be fine like. cmon

[hashtag-xolo]

Well I found one big reason why so many R+ fear free trainers are rampantly quoting that prey drive isn't a thing. There's an article that Simone Mueller translated on her Predation Substitute Training website in which the author states that he doesn't think that predation is a drive. He articulates what he believes a drive is and why predation doesn't meet this criteria for him. So this being posted by such an authority on the topic, even if it isn't their own original work, is definitely fuel for their fodder in "proving" that dogs don't have a prey drive.

#its 4:30 am and im waiting with my fiance at the er because she fell out of bed and cut her face so hopefully my words make sense #im just annoyed because the article isnt saying doga dont want to hunt but they think it isnt a drive for reasons they outline #i dont agree with the article #but i understand why he defines it as not a drive #but even then he isnt saying that a dog doesn't enjoy hunting he is saying that he defines a drive as an innate need like eating #and he thinks that predation is more of a triggered instinct #in any case its not aaying predation isnt relevant to dogs #dogblr

[devils-lawboy]

gomens hot take of the morning: “neither of those actually,” to me, was less a correction of misgendering and more about being neither “good” (demon) nor a “lad” (he is old as fuck)

#this isnt to say he isnt nonbinary btw #this is just to say i dont think he has EVER thought abt it before and that i dont think he would comment on his own gender like that #like why would he bother to unpack his gender identity when he predates the concept of gender lmao #gomens #maybe im just grumpy but i dont need gaiman to tell me that demons got a cool gender

[wolf-2099]

so anyways Geto is a Ventrue and Gojo is a Toreador, both of which are anarch/independant aligned not Camarilla, and Ferris is a Ragabash Fianna Garou <3

#dragon's ramblings #if these words mean Nothing to you then dont worry this post is for me!!!! /lh #however if you even understand like. 2 words. im going to explain my choices #geto being a ventrue i think is like. the easiest lowest hanging fruit KLFSDHJKG #hes an osiris predator type which again is so on the nose its so easy KLFDSJGHFJ #gojo being a toreador is mostly because he was embraced not because his personality aligned with the clan #but moreso they wanted him in the clan #which is why he is an anarchist toreador which is. A fun thing to say KDHGLJDFG #and dont even worry abt the words i said for ferris just know that he is a werewolf JDHGJDS

[poorlittlevampire]

i just don’t understand why the try guys stuff needs a deeper reaction than ahh that was shitty! glad he was fired! why are people doing deep dives into past content to try and find “incriminating” things

#i saw a tiktok that literally started with ‘hey guys wanted to show this old clip i just found where ned let his mask slip’ #like....... girl he cheated NFKSJSJS #its really not that deep #saw another that was like a three paragraph long letter to his wife????? expressing sympathy and pain?????????? #like im sorry thats so weird #i get feeling hurt/betrayed by him bc i have had my fair share of youtubers get exposed for being creeps and predators #but like. he cheated. idk its just so weird #when ryan h*aywood was getting exposed and it originally just started asa cheating scandal like. it sucked to hear abt and was weird but #it didnt become a real issue to me until it was exposed for what it really was #which was MUCH more than cheating #i dont think im explaining myself well so goodbye post over

[alter-koker]

im very particular about romance movies actually thats not true ill watch something but i find very little to actually be romantic... some movies i consider romantic: the ghost and mrs muir, my man godfrey (when carole lombard is chasing william powell around), roman holiday (the futility of it, hepburn's short hair..)

#mostly 40s movies... noel coward and lean knew what was up bc brief encounter too #can i also say alien vs predator #and maybeee the pirate. but idk if that just bc garland and gene kelly just . both looked so good and excellent costumes #u know what i forgot moonstruck #and maybe the end of pygmalion? when they were really mad at each othet and chasing each other around- im sensing a pattern perhaps #the part in laura when the detective wants to buy the portrait of the dead person hes investigating yes im still obsessed w that #idk we dont live very long so it makes sense to be in love with someone who's already slipped away u know i guess im very into that concept #never realized it until now #i think im also gonna say ninotchka is romantic

[cruelsister-moved2]

ive bitched about it 1000 times but it always annoys me how little energy people have to care about the behaviour of the classic musicians they will literally idolise like so many of these guys are literally serial predators and your response is well but the music is good 🥺 ok doesnt explain why youre calling david bowie a gay icon when he raped at least one child and said he believed very strongly in fascism (on like SEVERAL occasions....) and called adolf hitler a rock star. listen to ur songs if u want idgaf but watching people talk about these cunts like theyre superior humans is nauseating makes me want to crawl into a hole and never come out

#csa tw #antisemitism #tags are all for blacklist sorry im so inconsistent w including tw or not #its just some stuff it feels super weird to write without tw after you know #dont try and justify this to me i dont care if it was edgy i dont care if it was ironic i dont care if he was on cocaine i dont care #i think in most cases its like a personal decision if u listen to sm1s music like esp when theyre dead #but how u act abt them as a person? #also i have to say personally its been less of a choice and more that like #if i try and listen to the music of someone after finding ou t #they were like some kind of horrible predator it just kind of makes it not that enjoyable for me #so its not like a moral choice its just like wow i feel gross now #but thats me so

[deranged-for-aliens]

Uhh yeah so I haven't posted any art of my yautja ocs--or really anything--here yet! Largely because I'm still in the process of figuring out designs for them! Even this one isn't decided on yet...

But yeah here's my oc Mem'ka! They're really into anthropology (including the Yautja equivalent of it!)

#yautja tag #art tag #yautja oc #predator oc #this was a funny doodle i did bc i was thinking abt this tablet.... #if you know you know #mem'ka #HHHH POSTING IS NERVE WRACKING #i really wanna introduce my ocs but drawing is so hard;;; and i havent designed them yet so thats an issue!!! arrghh #OH Mem'ka is nonbinary. they/he pronouns #art is hard also. this doodle.... i dont like it #alas phone art is hard!! man.... i just wanna make my ocs look COOL and they end up looking.............. well. #siiigghhhhhhhhh i really dont like this one but;;; im tired of having none of my art on my blog!!!!!! graaaaaa

[neonsbian]

watched ep 10 of 10yt, all i have to say is that post abt fictional women not getting an abortion

#10 years ticket #actually i have more to say #basically none of this would've happened if luk got an abortion #or alternatively....she couldve just not been in a relationship w a teenager that was also her student just a thought #i do rlly like this show but i dont like how theyre portraying this relationship #like the only person that verbally disapproves the relationship is sai but shes more focused on how it'll look to the community #than psychological impact it could have on mai #also idk their exact age gap but every time i see their scenes im like girl be serious for one second -_- #and this show kinda portrays their relationship as some tragic romance #and like yeah ig it is tragic bc mai feels like he has absolutely no one to rely on besides luk #and idk luks deal but she isnt consciously being a predator and i do think thats possible #and i think the show could do something rlly interesting w this relationship if it acknowledged it is flawed #but it wont since it also had no problem w plu hitting on kongkwan #ig its tryna use the they all grew up together excuse but like idk growing up together doesnt remove the power dynamics #but whatever lets see how this shit goes #vinnie talks