#i am not the fucking shipping police

[dirt-str1der]

That fanart of kiryu getting fingerblasted and he’s wearing nothing but his watch always makes me so fucking horny i was to explode

#Yakuza loveblog #his pussy !!! his pussy !!!!!! #his pussy .... he was also sitting with his legs spread like how bears do. which is also how i imagine saejima sitting when hes getting #eaten out. but also like his pussy .... and his boxers hanging off one ankle im going to faint #sorry i am not entirely coherent today ive been sleeping so damn much basically i am fucked #what the fuck we’re fucked. ive also been watching horror games and i want to put him into another saw trap ... #what shall i make him cut off this time .... god i wish i could make him become the squirrel stapler but kiryu is such a city boy its not #even funny like he talks about wanting a house on the beach but if you look at him hes in town buying groceries and getting into street #brawls this is why nightmare forest was just a dream its because he would never be caught im a forest he should be on the streets kiryu #will never go camping even if he gets locked out of his house he will fall asleep sitting on the stairwell or a park bench #anyway i self ship with him in the way that im the flayed corpse he has chsined to the wall of his bedroom and hes the guy slowly going craz #as hes forced to breathe in the scent of my rot until he gets crazy enough to start stapling mice and rats on my flesh #rat stapler au but instead of meeting god kriyu kills himself by jaywalking while drunk looking for rats amd the police never find my body

[knowlesian]

okay: i’ve done the toe scene from several thematic angles already, but i think a more granular text read is worth doing, because there are some very understandable misinterpretations of this scene floating about that rely on personal feelings and real world standards vs what the text gives us.

now, to be clear about something that feels... sort of obvious, but i will say anyway: when viewed in real life terms, the toe scene is very different. it’s bad to sneak up on people and cut off their toe in the night and make them eat said toe.

like, super really bad. for many reasons. we should not do such things, i do not endorse them. that’s legally and morally wrong and also, gross. yucky disgusting, in point of fact. 

but you have to meet fiction where it’s at to analyze it from a ‘what’s the text trying to convey, what’s going on in-world’ level. 

and in ofmd’s world, stede wasn’t super phased about ed’s face/off plan, lucius whacked jim in the head with a big branch trying to run away and then didn’t really bat an eyelash at jim stuffing him in a box and planning to murder him, etc. this is a world of outsized comical things happening, some of them violent. it’s like gonzo getting stretched on the rack in muppet treasure island— if we take that as the real world equivalent and go ‘gonzo is secretly traumatized, even if he’s grinning and yelling POOOOODLEY POODLEY POODLEY!!!’, it’s missing the specific rules the story is playing by.

we have to hold the standards of the text in place when it’s not the ‘i know this isn’t canon’s take, but this is how i want to play with the paper dolls anyway as is my right’ headcanon lane. which is not to devalue said lane— love me some of that lane, but it is a different lane.

now, all that said: within canon, we are not meant to be like ‘yay ed! good job! this is a thing we should root for and a good choice! do it more, this is actually good for anybody involved!’ it’s a choice ed makes in full possession of his faculties, and it is a bad one.

however: the toe scene doesn’t come out of nowhere, and the text does not set it up as a method of real punishment or act of singular brutality.

in e9, ed says he’s tired of “making some poor bloke eat his own toes as a laugh.” and drinking all day. and biting the heads off turtles. you know! just normal stuff. (he also says he wants to be just edward, which implies those activities are not what he considers just being himself which is sort of beside the point here, but a very deft piece of writing that i love and wanted to shout out.)

this show is very, very careful with wording in important moments, even while they allowed for an amazing amount of very cool improv to breathe in between those moments. arguing for a lack of intentionality in random areas seems to be a little bit of an odd stance— we all seem to agree they were very careful and thoughtful in general.

so ed tells us there: cutting off multiple toes and making somebody eat them was something that happened enough he brought it up alongside something as commonplace as drinking all day/turtle head mastication, and it was considered ‘a laugh’.

now, i’m with stede (and the overall narrative) when i say where’s the laugh in that? once again: i do not endorse the cutting off of toes. only you can prevent weird toe crimes, by not fucking doing them.

but e9 contextualizes this within the world of ofmd for us. when ed was hiding in plain sight under the mantle and then the legend of blackbeard, he cut off toes for a laugh. it seems like he never actually liked it that much via ‘poor bloke’, but either way the text has told us: blackbeard cut off toes and made people eat them, casual-like and often enough it’s mentioned in the same breath as going on a bender. the text reaffirms this in specific through ed in e9 and in general in e8 through jack.

so, that leads me to izzy. who has lived with and served under blackbeard for years, and who tells us he was initially attracted to that legend when he mentions becoming ed’s first mate in e4. 

izzy says he was “honored to work for the legendary blackbeard. the most brilliant sailor i had ever met.”

again, the wording is precise: izzy just told us he first met blackbeard. the legendary blackbeard, to be exact, and the most brilliant sailor izzy had ever met. 

so when they met ed was already a brilliant sailor. a legend with a name already made and established, one izzy was attracted to and wanted to work for.

izzy is not so hot at defining his subjective emotional realities or those of the people around him (or... noticing them happening at all) but we see no evidence he is incapable of recalling general timeline of empirical events— in fact, he accurately assesses the passage of literal time as a plot point but misreads the emotional room over and over as well in the same function, so the show is careful with this as they are careful with just about everything.

so izzy wanted to work for a legend. the text tells us so, and i want to be understanding about missing that subtlety in wording and wanting to create a backstory where ed and izzy built blackbeard together. in a vacuum, there’s nothing wrong with that! however, we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a society (tm), and giving izzy credit for ed’s past and his history and efforts unfortunately ends up unconsciously echoing some of the very same patterns the show is deconstructing by purposefully having izzy do that very thing.

because why would we think ed needed izzy to build blackbeard? on this show, of all shows, why would the text be implicitly arguing that ed needed a white man to help create his legend? that he was not smart and careful and talented enough to become the legendary blackbeard on his own, without izzy to guide his steps and keep him safe?

to be honest, on a less careful show, one that emulates old patterns instead of examining and then breaking them, aka ...most shows? i think that would be the story.

ofmd is much more self-aware, as far as i can tell. izzy tells us he wanted to work for a legend and a brilliant sailor; why would we not just believe the characters when they say ed became all that on his own, and izzy was drawn to the legend because ed is just that skilled despite any given limitation the world/his own mind or body puts on him?

that’s not a question i’m asking facetiously. there’s a reason ancient aliens-type shows and theories exist and those kind of people are very rarely like ‘i bet these ancient white people had no fucking idea what they were doing and needed aliens to teach them how to build their massive and technologically advanced civilizations’. sometimes they do argue that! i don't want to argue in bad faith, myself. it does happen on occasion that the accidental condescension gets spread around— but if you look at the bigger picture, there’s a clear pattern in which groups people find it hard to believe did anything impressive all on their own.

and again: i get missing the subtlety here, just like i get missing that fang’s izzy spewing out both ends anecdote is a set-up for a montezuma’s revenge/overall izzy is a metaphor colonizer stuff. i actually missed the montezuma joke myself on first watch, so i’m not out to scold anybody or to be like ‘fuck you for not knowing any of this already’; i’m just trying to point out the fly in the ointment, and hope people think deeper about this stuff before firing off a take that echoes these patterns on accident.

okay, all that said: back to the text and the toe itself.

it's very understandable to process the toe scene as a punishment. ed says threaten me again and more toes WILL BE TAKEN as he does it, which when removed from the larger context of eating toes tuesday being a regular thing in ed and thus also izzy’s old life, seems much more intense. 

not to mention that’s how any normal human would react to what the fuck happens there. i myself would be HORRIFIED, once again i do not endorse non-consensual toe cannibalism and have no comment on any consensual versions other than ‘yeah, i read that hannibal fic too, and it was weird then hate to kink shame but i do not wish to have my toe cut off so i may consume it. please stop asking me about toe cannibalism as anything but thematic meat. this is a strange place to find myself in.’

but izzy is not us, the audience. izzy is a daddy moaning little nightmare. he wants to touch fire: he is the least healthy masochist on gay god’s green earth and the deep blue sea. he is weeeeeird about this shit and has never even heard of the acronym ss&c, let alone rack. 

he is the sort of man who is like ED. BE A TOE CUTTING LEATHER DADDY. THAT IS WHAT IS COOL AND FUN FOR ALL OF US, NOBODY LOSES HERE. LOL EXCEPT ME! I LOSE A TOE, AND I MAKE IT EVEN WEIRDER WHEN I REFUSE TO BE ANYTHING BUT THRILLED ABOUT IT.

within the world ofmd created, they made sure to set up that Ye Olde Blackbearde cut off toes for a laugh. and one episode after they carefully gave us that precedent, izzy thrust a monstrous caricature of ed in his face and said: this is blackbeard. by no logical leap could izzy possibly be ignorant of the forced toe-eating, regularly done as just a fun little game to play at sea, just like drinking all day, or biting the heads off turtles. not if he’s known ed for years and was attracted to the legend of a man who did shit like that.

so izzy is saying to ed: be this guy again. the narrative made sure we know part of that is being the guy who casually cuts off toes for a laugh.

so when izzy smiles that big ridden hard and put away wet smile and proclaims hey la, hey la my boyfriend’s back? he's being sincere. he wanted ed to be the guy who cuts off toes like it’s not a thing again, and edward did that for him. he’s been reassured that the old blackbeard is himself again, and that’s why he says so. 

(and that’s why canon set it up so that we would know: this toe thing is an old, established bit, which was not done as anything but a fun little prank.)

now, if anybody wants to write fic in the real world logic applies au, i will not poop upon that party. that’s not my issue, in part because i also think there’s utility to saying yeah but counterpoint, canon: i do what i want. 

my angle is that if we talk textual analysis and actual canon, we have to meet stories and characters on their level and look at the world from their perspective. 

ed and izzy (and jack, which is a lot of his narrative utility in e8 beyond just throwing a wrench in the works and setting up the arc with the navy and thus endgame, fuuuuuck me running these writers are just ridiculously good) both reaffirm this, in their separate ways.

textually, the person who most hates the toe scene is ed. izzy said be the guy cut toes off again; ed said he doesn’t want to do that. that’s the text itself, no extrapolation.

now, having said all that: i hope and assume izzy will come to realize this shit is very weird and bad behavior, knock it off and then course correct. 

to own my personal bias, my activist fantasy is not that men like izzy— or my personal izzys, for values of people who actively hurt me in specific— suffer or that they feel exactly what they made me feel. my fantasy is they wake up one morning, look at me, and go well fuck. i’ve been kinda shitting the bed here, huh? i’m gonna fight for my natural allies now, not against them. solidarity!!!! then i am validated, they can become happier people, and there’s one more of Us and one less of Them. the better world i’m fighting for ultimately wins, in that fantasy.

i’m not saying that’s where anyone else has to be, to be clear; it’s just where i’m at.

so when i try to read the tea leaves on the potential of that being what happens with izzy, i could 100000000% be reading in what i would like to see and not what is there. that’s always a thing that could happen, on any given prediction, and to say otherwise would be silly.

however: when it comes to the toe and its precedent and context, that’s not attempting to suss out future movement. that’s reading the text with my own biases acknowledged and set to the side as much as possible, and trying to see what the characters of this world, with this world’s rules feel about what happened vs what i would feel, in my world with my rules.

because, i must reiterate to close: oh GOD, i do not endorse the nonconsensual cutting off of toes. just don’t do it.

tldr: it’s important to recognize the tropes we might be reinforcing on accident, and though the toe scene is horrifying real world terms in terms of how izzy the character in the text’s world processes it, the toe is ed coming through for him and being the blackbeard of the old days— who we were purposefully told used to regularly cut off toes and feed them to people as a laugh.

...and just. because i think i might have to, just one final time for good measure: please don’t cut off people’s toes. nothing in this piece is an endorsement of doing that in our real world. it's bad.

#our flag means death #like: look. please do not cut off toes i am begging people not to misunderstand me #in the real world none of this is okay #but in the world of the show (which is the world i am analyzing) and not of headcanon #they gave us all this context and setup for a reason #also: i know nobody is consciously being all ancient aliens about ed and izzy #and yet... it is happening #everybody's gotta do their own thing! i am not fun police here #but the pattern exists and it is what it is #and if your fun means ignoring why exactly people like me hate ancient aliens #then i think that's an indication to consider: why is my fun not fun if i'm honest about history at the same time #and does that mean anything else? #anyway yes now back to lucius and pete and how stede has filled the ship with chintz #but to keep it real they fuck on the floor #my ofmd meta

[boringsideeffect]

the levels of delusional you must be to think you’re fandom police. “i don’t like what i think this person might be shipping therefore they’re evil!”

read that again.

like. what the fuck.

#if you want to make fandom space unnecessarily miserable for yourself by thought policing go off #but leave other people out of it #y’all can’t get the concept of live and let live through y’all’s thick fucking skulls #i am so tired. #pro-shipping or as i call it the adult and mature way to exist in adult fandom spaces #i’ve had it with fandom atm this is why i’m just shouting thoughts into the void not even interacting with people anymore

[angelicxi]

also not to to make vague and whining posts...but to make vague and whining posts, since I am actively sick and so dizzy I can barely stand upright for five minutes at a time, ergo sorely lack the required brainpower needed to express this w any of like, grace and precision, much less eloquence.

man oh man I am so fucking done with the way people approach art and media. how all of it is now perceived as "content" and the only metric by which they judge whether or not it is good is how hashtag relatable it is to the consumer, how the point of it is, or should be, as far as these people are concerned, to be Nice and Inoffensive and Digestible and About Me, The Specialest And Most Importantest Little Princeling, actually. how they perceive themselves as a customer, essentially. shopper weighing you, the artist / creative, like a product in his hands and tutting. and more than anything I loathe the incredibly dangerous entitlement bred by this attitude.

also, people have gotten waaaaayyyyyy too comfortable with just wandering into the DMs / inboxes of strangers they encounter at random on the internet with increasingly bizarre grievances. main character syndrome is sosososo real, deranged and common. I want to scream!! I AM screaming!!!!

#thinking again about that anon i got last night on ragewrites. genuinely found it so upsetting. #and genuinely so upset Once Again about hjghj just. god. yeah. it's one of those fucking days where i am tempted to just delete the blog #i love writing i truly do and of course i want people to read it but this is not that. taking a poem abt god and grief #and tagging it for your little fucking bg3 ships in a romantic sense...when i am talking about the way god took my brother and aunt from me #just fully having a fucking convo w your friend On The Post. not as a reply but On The Actual Post. as reblog comments. about how this #soooo fits your little ttrpg campaign...which like all fine really #if a poem makes u think about your ship wtv. but do you have to be weird about it where i the author fucking See It. #same w the little chat like...tumblr has an IM function. please use it. #and then that anon... #just so so so SO strange #i am not your fucking therapist and i am not your friend and i am also not some hollywood celebrity with a massive following #that you genuinely think you have the right to come to me and police my speech regardless of how nicely u word it #or how well-meaning your intentions were... #just. god

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

fucking hilarious to me that Hayward has now been a part of creating not one but TWO separate gods and he did not think to mention his previous experience even once to his comrades-in-arms the second time around. head empty. literally just carnival music playing in there are all times.

#based solely on vibes it's probably Nirvana #Hayward is a Nirvana fan truth 2k22 #he WANTS to be a boomer but he's a sad Gen X little man #Carpenter is actually everything Hayward thinks he is and wants to be #Paige is too actually #which is why he's a little bit obsessed with both of them #(psychosexually) #(not that either of them would ever desire him carnally and also he'd probably be too afraid to ever make a move so that's a nonstarter) #(but the fact remains that I am *positive* he thinks about them driving away together in a squad car #and leaving him chained to the doors of the police station during an environmental catastrophe #and thinks 'it's weird that I liked that right? I probably shouldn't have been into that? #shouting about how I'd hunt them to the ends of the earth was probably like... tipping my hand a little? I should have played it cool. #dammit Hayward you always do this.' <-- content of Hayward's inner monologue livestreamed directly into my brain) #fuck I don't even have to write fic anymore I can just post the most deranged kink takes about TSV characters into the notes of siltposts #this is not a headcanon btw this is me seeing and perceiving the truth #there is just SO MUCH psychosexual weirdness to how both Paige and Carpenter interact with Hayward and I for one love it #Paige never explaining to her dad that Hayward is NOT her boyfriend lmfao #taking him to her farmhouse where she used to bring her exes #'i made you eggs' #people are not going to like this because no one wants shipping in this fandom and quite frankly it is great that we don't have that here #but you cannot erase the fact that Hayward's sole mode of interaction with other human beings seems to be: #'please bully me in a slightly kinky way' and nearly every character is just like 'ok can do <3' #Paige doesn't flirt-bully anybody else! Carpenter only does it to Hayward and Paige! the other people she bullies is totally platonic #Carpenter clearly bullies Faulkner with purely platonic affection and now even that is basically just for show #but I'm sure if she was in a room with Paige and Hayward she'd be flirt-bullying the absolute SHIT out of Hayward to impress Paige lol #fellas is it homoerotic to handcuff a guy and drive away together into the sunset #siltposting: after hours #siltposting #tsv spoilers #the silt verses spoilers

[zukoromantic]

Challenge: you're trying to find narcistoru fanart without running into ship art with him and amane

Difficulty: impossible

#i am so. fucking. tired you guys. #just don't ship them. please #i don't police ships obviously. but he is so clearly an adult and i am so tired of this. #ask to tag

[singsweetmelodies]

Why are you posting Carlando and even Piarlos content if you don't like Carlos? Math ain't mathing...

well, firstly, anon, this is tumblr dot com, not maths class. i've said repeatedly, and i will say it again, that i reserve the right to be as hypocritical and insane as i want here. after all, it's tumblr - if i can't be insane and hypocritical here, then where can i?

example: anyone who watches my blog at all during a race week will know that i am NO max fan. not in the slightest. and yet i will occasionally reblog maxiel fic recs. why? well, because they're quite often quite well-written. at the end of the day, i'm a fangirl and also a bisexual disaster, so if there's a well-written gay fanfic, the chances are relatively high that i will read and enjoy it. also: i think there's quite a significant difference between fic!max (who i occasionally enjoy) and driver!max (who i despise quite passionately.) fic!max has a lot of background and nuance that can make for fascinating characterisation, and as a writer, i just enjoy that.

now for carlos specifically: please let it be known that i do not hate him the way i hate max. not even close. i am, however, a dedicated chirlie (charles girlie) and anyone who gets in the way of charles doing well is automatically in my bad books. i do try to be at least a little reasonable about it, though, and yes i absolutely do realise that a lot of major fuck-ups this season were ferrari's, not carlos' (see: silverstone 2022.) but yeah, unfortunately the way carlos has handled a lot of interviews this year really rubbed me up the wrong way, and i read one too many comparisons of carlos girlies calling him more talented than charles as well. which.... babe, no.

like i said at the start, i am fully aware that i'm a hypocrite lmao. but i'm not HERE to be unbiased. we are watching a sport - everyone is biased towards their favourites, and i'm not going to apologise for that.

and as for carlando and piarlos - i treat them the same way as i would maxiel. carlos might not be on my favourites list as a driver, but he's an interesting character to explore in fic. i am at the end of the day a writer, and i like interesting characters to explore, so yes, i am quite happy to post carlando or piarlos or very very occasionally even charlos content (because akira is the best and might convert me one day. we'll see.)

anyway! the last thing i wanted to say to you, anon, is just a gentle reminder again of the PURPOSE of fandom. it is an escape from real life, somewhere where we can come to have fun. the same rules and restrictions and - dare i say it - morals that we use irl do not apply here. they just don't! fandom should be about what makes one happy, and nobody really has the right to police that, i don't think.

so tl;dr - anon, i am here to do whatever it is that makes me happy in that moment. if that's carlando and/or piarlos, then that's what i'll do. if you have a problem with that, then i'm happy to point you in the direction of the Unfollow button, lmao - curate your experience! see what you want to see. have fun!

x

#asks & answers #anon #honestly this one made me 🤨🤨🤨 so much this morning #i have tried not to be too sharp and sarcastic in my answer but good lord #i have never had much patience for hate anons; mild or otherwise #because like. this is FANDOM for god's sake. we are here to have fun; not be policed #respectfully... fuck off #'but katie you're going to lose followers!' #literally who cares lmao #i'm not particularly here to be popular; i am here to enjoy myself and ship my little gay ships and have fun with my friends #if any anon wants to tell me how i should or shouldn't do that; then well #you may as well go find yourself another blog to bully because i will not give you the time of day lmao #have we all collectively just forgotten about 'ship and let ship' btw?? 🤨 #it doesn't MATTER what someone else enjoys. it doesn't need to make sense to you #as long as they're enjoying themselves then that's all that matters; no? #ugh. yeah. well sorrynotsorry for going off in the tags #but honestly... the anon situation is getting a little out of hand in this fandom; i feel #calm it down people. cool it. #go read a good gay fic for your pairing instead of upsetting someone else's day; why don't you?

[szivtalan]

thank u tumblr for putting antis on my feed in a recommended post. free blocks <3

#if you didn't realize it by now from my questionable taste in fiction: i am against censorship and policing fandom spaces #unfollow and block me if you will i will still enjoy my little problematic ships because guess what #they are not an indicator of my own person or morality at all #i am a good person who likes to unwind by reading dark fics or shipping fucked up people at the end of the day #idc and if it makes you uncomfortable you can unfollow me any day

[zuzusexytiems]

my patience for fandom is wearing so thin I want SO BADLY to be nice but some of y'all rly pushing my buttons today

#can't post art without ppl policing me #literally I am on day 2 of shipping eddissy howtf are y'all this QUICK #get a fucking life #God im sorry I'm not usually like this or I try not to be but I'm just so???? pissed?????

[thefirstlie]

yeah posting this on the secret blog bc i don't feel like getting sniped but anyways if you are attacking aspec people for headcanoning characters as aspec well then i think you need to take a step back and think about what you're saying for a second

#yes this is about the ace dustin discourse #if you are telling me. an ace spec person. that i can't headcanon him as ace spec because it's ableist... #that i can't ship h*nderhop bc it's ableist... #while i do understand WHERE this is coming from like. that isn't why i hc him as ace spec or ship him with el???? #like. no. i was looking at EVIDENCE IN THE FUCKING SHOW that made me think that he might be ace spec #and it's like. im not going to throw a fit about it right. it's A Headcanon and i like h*nderhop only in Fanon #im perfectly fine w d*zie but yall cant blame me for not being its #number one supporter considering that they haven't even interacted face to face onscreen + h*nderhop have and their interactions have been #adorable!! #so bottom line: stop fucking policing ace people who are headcanoning characters as ace. no i am not being ableist for trying to see myself #in the characters onscreen. jesus fucking christ. #(and full disclosure: it isnt just dustin who i hc as ace spec it's lucas and will and nancy sometimes and a bunch of others so don't tell #me im only targeting him.)

[skyguyed]

do you know what's stupid is how much of han's bullshit would work on me to this day because I Know How He Truly Is so i would handwave the predatory shit if i were leia??? like is that because i was raised to believe his moves are romantic or is it because of something else idk food for therapy

#should i tag this as like han critical or something? #like i love him but he sucks at romance honestly in a harmful way!!!!! #anti han leia #??? #i guess #me: getting drunk and watching star wars expecting to have a good time #me: getting mildly triggered lmfao #GAWD #i truly am the star wars shipping police lol fuck

[oimoi-op]

Love seeing posts by online fandom bitches that just really set off the lingering effects of childhood religious trauma

#personal #like i mean i wouldn't interact with social media if i couldn't handle shit #but like. there are reasons why certain terms mean certain things. purity culture has a definition and isn't some label to be slapped onto #anything or anyone against a show or ship you like #fr do these people know it felt like. what it still feels like. do i have dysphoria bc i'm not a cis woman or bc i waised to unconsciously #despise and ridicule and demonize women #am i really asexual or did something break out of fear and self-hatred #like sorry but what we went through—what too many are still going through—is *actual* purity culture and targeted abuse toward afab folks #and you cannot compare that to ''fandom police'' sorry but like being told that the god who made everything and loves you which makes you #special and important and loved actually thinks you're dirty and fornicating and *bad* UNLESS you listen to these old men—you CAN'T compare #that to fandom police. it is not the same. fandom is not religion fandom blogs aren't gods or those ordained to speak for gods the power #dynamic isn't there and the sheer scope of its influence over the past thousand years doesn't exist so like. stfu lol #may not seem like a big deal to you but to a lot of us survivors it fucking hurts so badly to see our trauma compared to ship wars

[assignmentimprobable]

I could preface this by saying I hate drama, or I usually keep my mouth shut but like. Nah. I just want to say that y’all need to stop plucking people’s posts out of their very limited and isolated contexts to make rallying cries. Some people are dead serious about their takes of questionable nature, and other people are likely posting it with the intent to joke around. Just because you’re annoyed by it doesn’t entitle you to air people out who are otherwise minding their business and doing their own thing.

#burn book drama #I am here for the shitposts and meta- not a full timer by any means #but like this habit of policing other people’s little fun interactions for the sake of having something to put them on blast? #that’s annoying behavior. now YOU are annoying #the queerplatonic GooseMav thing is likely just a placeholder for male friendships with an intense intimate component #that doesn’t cross into romance but many ppl would take as shipping fodder #I’m like 99% sure that’s what people are referencing when they post that #Yes. it’s just friendship. it’s under the umbrella. *Here* #but outside in the grass and cars and buildings or whatever. straight people do not include these in their definitions #and those definitions touch us by default whether we like it or not #this isn’t actually that deep but I kind of just feel like all of this is a bigger issue with fandom practice in general #this is the ‘let’s experiment with ideas and formats’ box #why are you complaining when people do that!!! #is it annoying and formulaic when you see a trope repeat itself outside of the established characters bounds? yes #but like barring people perpetuating heinous shit like the racist practices that permeate all fandoms #or people being plain disgusting (like genuinely gross) and bad faith in their engagement #what the fuck have you got to complain about on some large platform? #it’s funny and maybe even affirming for some people to say what’s really on their minds #but you’re recreating the echo chambers and flame wars you complain about #why is this in the tags. why am I bad at stringing this into a post.

[rat-rosemary]

Idk why I'm thinking so much about it but you know what? It's actually kinda stupid how much I'm holding myself back and stopping myself from enjoying shit just because of a dumb duck

Isn't being in fandom about indulgence?? Yeah sure what Quackity did was a huge dick move and I'm not about to go watch him again after it, but why should I stop doing fandom stuff I like?

He's not getting a cent from me making silly aus with any ships I want,actually that fucker owns me 917 reais! why should I stop having fun because of him??

#i should go back to making poly dtqk aus #they were mostly based on canon anyway #this is so stupid why did do this to myself #what am I a fucking cop? #i should just go be stupid about my favorite ships again #idk. IDK! #fuck #so yeah. that might return #cant belive I was being my own fun police #if anyone is wondering if ill start spamming about it. i wont dont worry #im just thinking about it #poly dtkq #anyway. bye #*explodes* #from the pit in the backyard #the mad ramblings #quackity neg #THIS IS A QUACKITY NEG POST I STILL THINK HES A DICK

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iconic introduction shot, they’re so beautiful

lit from above and below, plus he’s on a higher step to emphasize their already delicious height difference

“saw isn’t a romance ffs”  to you, maybe

“agent strahm is married”  yeah i saw the wedding band and i know the actor wasn’t married at the time so it was a deliberate costume choice but also: lol he is not married.  if he is then he’s a really shit husband since he was in the hospital and never asks whether anyone called his wife.  no, he is a widower, and he’s probably in love with his much younger partner but he feels too protective of her day in and day out to put her in that position, he already makes her life a little worse every day just by being in it and he knows that, unfortunately he has that much self-awareness, etc.

anyway, enough about the tragic hets

GORE CONTENT WARNING under the cut but perez is making the funniest expression at the crime scene

#i am forcing myself to enjoy something today #amber personal #police cw #i swear i'm not a bootlicker i just have a lot of fucking basic ass het ships featuring law enforcement #i don't know either okay #have spent more time the last year thinking about leos banging than i have any other segment of my fandom pie chart

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Stop misappropriating the abuse and trauma cults use through purity culture for your stupid fucking shipping discourse? Holy fuck no wonder everyone hates this whole discourse.

Since when is "priests getting shuffled around after raping kids and kids being told they're sinful because they had bodily reactions to being SAd" comparable to "Bobo the clown said my ship was cringe"

I'm not gonna answer this with The Aristocrats, as a I threatened, because I want to make a very serious point to this anon:

Purity culture isn't just religious abuse. It is most widely connected to religious abuse. Including actions in the Catholic Church and all fundamentalist Christianity. It's entire existence is about terrifying and indoctrinating people into being fearful of their own actions and bodies so that they feel certain that moving out from the "umbrella of safety" (to use a fundamentalist term) will result in them being harmed in ways they can't imagine. This is generally happening at the same time as they are being harmed by those who are supposed to be keeping them safe from all those terrible, worldly evils. Like speaking up when you're being abused. Believing you are not responsible for the actions of a rapist, and many, many other things that any person with an ounce of self-worth and good sense (two things not allowed in fundamentalist circles) knows are true in abuse situations.

But the point of the purity culture as identity in the above-mentioned circles is to teach people from birth that they aren't to have their own feelings, ideas, or instincts. They are only to follow the feelings, ideas, and instincts on the approved list in order to stay within the structures they know and feel safe in even as they feel very unsafe.

That being said:

Purity culture can also exist WITHOUT a religious structure while still being about controlling the thoughts, feelings, and actions of everyone within it. In terms of fandom, purity culture is groups of people stating that if you write something uncomfortable or gross or immoral, then YOU must be uncomfortable or gross or immoral and therefore, not worthy of the safety and moral superiority of the group.

Purity culture without religion teaches black and white thinking, encourages thought policing, and shames anyone who steps outside of a very narrow definition of good and bad by turning an entire group of people against them for being "bad".

Just like in religious circles.

Just like in the cult of fundamentalism.

Purity culture is a term taken by fundamentalists and turned into a whole way of life because the goal of fundamentalism is to make people too scared to leave. Purity culture in fandom does the same thing. It uses fear and threats of abandonment/harassment to control the way people act because a group of people decided they didn't like something, so they must try and wipe it out rather than simply ignore it.

I am not mis-using the term because "Bobo the clown said my ship was cringe." My use of the term is intentional and precise because what is happening in fandom spaces now is non-religious purity culture cult thinking. My use of the term does not invalidate or water down the use of it in conversations about religious abuse and trauma. With or without religion, purity culture is a dangerous cult of "us vs them" that is built to demoralize and eradicate those deemed unworthy.

#purity culture #purity wank #religious trauma #religious abuse #it's all the same shit #just wearing slightly different hats #ask #anon #answer