#if anyone clowns on this post you will be fucking blocked

[yikesharringrove]

Au idea I’ve been thinking about for weeks but don’t have the juice to write:

Trans girl Stevie moves to Hawkins in sophomore year. She’s moved with her family so she can be stealth throughout high school.

And everything’s cool for awhile. She’s a cheerleader, she has friends, she’s popular, the guys are always asking her out.

But then she gets outed.

And Hawkins turns on her, because these people are narrow minded fuckheads that can’t stand anyone out of their idea of what’s “normal”.

But you know who isn’t normal? Who’s never been fucking normal a day in his life?

Eddie.

Eddie decides to be her friend. Bc clearly she needs one, and he couldn’t give less of a fuck abt something like gender, not when there’s campaigns to be written and guitar riffs to be played.

And he introduces her to the guys in his band and the guys in his party, and he uses his freak wild card status to stand up for her. To stare at the people that are threatening her and threaten them right back.

They’re close. They’re best friends.

And Eddie has a HUGE crush on her.

(Who wouldn’t?)

So it’s fucking devastating when Billy comes to town.

Eddie is with Stevie when she first spots him. And his stomach sinks when her eyes flick over his body, just like all the other girls at Hawkins High.

And Eddie likes himself. He’s not all that bright, but he’s a good person, and he’s fun to be around, and he’s pretty good lookin’ too.

But Billy is clearly hot. Way hotter than Eddie can even be.

But he and Stevie dismiss Billy because he’s the type of person they don’t hang around.

He’s the type of normal that thinks they’re disgusting.

So Eddie isn’t seething with too much jealousy when Billy hits on Stevie, loudly, and in front of everyone.

He’s more worried about Tommy H. and the particularly hurtful slur he yelled at Stevie while explaining to Billy why he shouldn’t ask her out.

And he holds Stevie’s hand while she fights back tears because why can’t I have anything? One guy hits on me and Tommy has to ruin it all.

So Billy isn’t really a blip on Eddie’s radar.

Not until he and Stevie are hanging out at Eddie’s after school. Passing a joint back and forth in front of his shitty trailer, sitting in rickety camp chairs.

He doesn’t know where Billy comes from, just realizes that all of a sudden he’s in front of them, hands in his pockets, face unguarded as he looks at Stevie.

And he’s apologizing to her.

Apologizing for what Tommy said about her, spurred into by his flirting.

Says that was fucked up of Tommy to say, and that he thinks it’s fucked up that Tommy was spreading her business around, and that it’s fucked up that Tommy treats her that way.

And Stevie looks as stunned as Eddie feels, and barely gets out that she’s used to it, most people think she’s a freak.

And Billy says ‘I don’t’ and the Eddie is truly truly full of rage bc Stevie fucking blushes, and giggles, and tucks her hair behind her ear like she’s in a fucking romantic comedy.

#cue Stevie not knowing which weird metal head to choose #and you know what??? she deserves both #yikes writes #billy hargrove #eddie munson #stevie harrington #trans steve harrington #steve harrington #mtf Steve Harrington #harringrove #steddie #harringroveson #if anyone clowns on this post you will be fucking blocked

[monsterqueers]

Im just really annoyed about how people just fucking hate it when the kids they were jealous of and hated in school for not also getting bad grades also report being fucking traumatized by the school system.

Yeah sorry school traumatizes everyone, even the 'ex-gifted kids' you fucking hate because god forbid someone wasnt exploited and overworked the same way you were.

Sorry a group of predominately neurodiverse people experiencing burnout and how their upbringing of being only valued for their academic performance totally fucked their ability to function in the real world dare talk about this pain where you can see.

Its not being privileged and ~humblebragging~ to report emotional neglect from your parents centered around you having to get perfect grades to receive any scrap of love.

Wishing violence on them for talking about it and finding each other isn't cute either.

And because these people need it stated extra clear

This post is NOT saying other groups of people 'had it less bad'. This is about a specific phenomenon of vitriol towards a oft neurodiverse group of people commiserating about how they were screwed over by the system under the label 'gifted kid' NOT whatever else you are imagining im saying. <3

#clown on this post and get blocked #dismissing abuse reports because you think the people being screwed over by the system differently threaten you somehow is wrong sorry <3 #rebloggable but if it breaches containment too hard I might lock it to avoid the piss on the poor crowd #these ppl do not realize part of the point of 'ex gifted kid' is the fact that the label WAS bunk & was just used as an excuse to abuse us! #thats literally half of the talk & theory! We were just normal kids!!! Thats the fucking point!! Its not being elitist its the opposite!! #blocked and unfollowed 3 different people for threats of violence towards anyone who identifies with 'ex gifted kid' which inspired this

[trek-tracks]

Star Trek, "The Mark of Gideon."

Airdate: January 17, 1969.

Sigh.

#star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #the mark of gideon #hodin #captain kirk #image source: trekcore #transcript source: chakoteya #i can't believe the us is going fucking backwards on this #i'm okay in canada but as a us citizen it's killing me #star trek has always been political #between the episode about antimaskers and this one the third season should not be this goddamn painfully relevant #anyone who wants to clown on this post: just don't #you will be instantly blocked

[storytellering]

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#Can't believe I even have to say this but unfriendly reminder! #if you reblog my shit just to be rude in the tags expect to be blocked! #like literally i dont give a shit about trolls antis whatever. online people will be online ppl whatever #but people being needlessly rude about strangers' art boils my blood #whether its my own or anyone else's #you do know that artists see your tags when you reblog our posts right? #you're not yelling in an echo chamber with your buddies. #if you wanna make fun of my art in private with your friends i literally don't care nor can i stop you #but for god's sake learn some basic fucking decency #signed: an artist very tired of seeing how needlessly rude and cruel younger people are about art in this day and age #it's not fucking cool to clown on someone's art/style to their faces and if you think it is you need to be taught a harsh lesson #also social media is way more public than you think it is #learn to use fucking gc's and dm's people #don't you have friends you can yap to

[thechangeling]

Sure fine, I guess it's bitching about lesbian loneliness time.

Like the worst part for me I think is not just the loneliness and alienation itself, but the way non lesbians, even those who are queer will insist it doesn't exist or it's something "we all go through."

But the fact of the matter is that when you exist in a patriarchal world that centers men, anyone who doesn't do that, women and those of us who are percieved as such by society who aren't interested in men in any way shape or form are demonized and pushed aside by said society. And it isn't just men who do this. (It's also worth mentioning that this happens to aroace women and some nonbinary people as well.)

Yes we are also demonized and oppressed for liking women, but the reason I get so pissed when people (non lesbians) will say things like "why are you trying to center your sexuality around who you don't like?" is because in this world, in this society you have to. Otherwise people will always assume that men are still an option for you. And then sometimes even when you do make it explicitly, clear people still won't accept it.

I can't tell you how many times I had "friends" who would constantly say things like "oh I totally forgot you were a lesbian whoops!" or "if you had to pick a guy then who would you pick?" Or my personal favourite, "everyone has their one exception. No one's 100% straight or gay."

Which conveniently only ever seems to be said to gay people in my experience.

It creates this very specific feeling of alienation and hurt, like you're being exiled from girlhood and from society as a whole because you can't do the thing you're supposed to do. Be with men.

And this lesbophobia in society is so pervasive and so innate in so many people that they don't even question things like why the word lesbian makes them uncomfortable or why lesbians saying we aren't interested in men makes them angry and automatically assume we hate all men.

They don't try to understand why a lot of us don't want to participate in their conversations about male celebrities or boy bands, and they see no issue with constantly shoving pictures of men in our faces asking if we think they're hot.

And when you try to bring up why this hurts everyone tries to gaslight you into thinking you're overreacting.

So yeah, being a lesbian is lonely sometimes.

#fae vents #i swear if i get anyone clowning on this post ill just block you #lesbian #it's sad fae hours #cw lesbophobia #terfs do not fucking interact

[ask-artsy-oncie]

I gotta outline the problems I have with terminally online people being so damn adamant about putting terms like “TME” or “transmisogyny exempt” in their bios, because as much as I just wanna yell “fuck off with that shit” at the people who insist on making this a thing, I haven’t really found a post wrapping up all the problems with this in an easy to understand way. And that’s a problem of its own, because people are so fucking afraid and otherwise discouraged from questioning any new “progressive” online discourse stance that gains traction and risk getting ostracized from the communities they’ve come to depend on.

For those people, have some food for thought.

Firstly, aside from like some people of color denoting that they’re white-passing (which is an entirely different bag of worms), the vast majority of abouts, bios, what have yous that denote your identity Do Not contain a disclaimer list of your privileges. Saying shit like “transmasc, TME” is about as “redundant” (I’ll get to that) as saying “able-bodied, able-minded, ableism exempt” and therefore unnecessary. Except it’s not just unnecessary - and this is likely why some people so deep into discourse culture insist on using it - it serves to downplay your experiences as a trans person and feeds directly into oppression olympics politics.

If your marginalized identity has to constantly be paired with “I don’t actually have it as bad as these other marginalized people though”, you’re creating an unconscious divider between yourself and people who are actually in a decently similar boat that you are, as well as creating a reminder of “I don’t actually have it that bad” which very quickly evolves into “my experiences as a marginalized individual aren’t valid enough” and that can lead to “so it’s okay if I start getting excluded from communities I thought I was supposed to belong in”. It’s a divisionist, exclusionist method of thinking and serves to weaken our community, whether the people participating in this practice aim to do so or not.

And even if all that wasn’t an issue, the practice shouldn’t even have legs to stand on because no the fuck you’re not exempt from transmisogyny because that’s not how bigotry actually works. Bigotry, in real life, does not attack based on how you identify, for the most part, it attacks based on how you are perceived. Believe it or not, cishet and straight trans people are not exempt from being affected by homophobia. Cishet and cis gay people are not exempt from being affected by transphobia. There are many more examples I could give but I’d start derailing. Point is, marginalized people, ESPECIALLY queer people, have SO many overlapping experiences based on how they’re perceived by their oppressors - and it’s why dividing up the community so staunchly is a bad thing.

If you’re transmasc and visibly aren’t performing your gender properly (which HEAVILY varies from bigot to bigot so don’t even bring passing privilege into this) and are attacked for it, you don’t actually know if it was transmisandry or transmisogyny at play just because YOU know how YOU identify. And your online discourse buddies don’t know, either, no matter what they try to tell you. That’s just the reality of how marginalization works.

Please, just stop drinking this koolaid. For the sake of yourself and others. For the sake of being real about how the world works. Just label yourself as transmasc and literally anyone who is capable of critical thought can then go “hm, it’s probable that they don’t have the exact 1:1 life experiences a trans woman does” if that thought’s even applicable. I’m begging yalls to give this one some more thought before digging your heels in.

#lgbt #transgender #transmasc #transmisogyny #tme #I'm debating on whether or not I want this to be rebloggable #Like fine but also I'm blocking anyone who tries to clown on this post or debate me in my askbox #also do not fucking tag this as 'q slur'. blacklist the actual word 'queer' if you don't like it asshole.

[jules-hoard-of-stuff]

god forbid transmascs post anything

#vent #keep seeing people clowning on transmasc posts #like just shut up and maybe let us have our moment of being upset and saying that a thing sucks for us instead of IMMEDIATELY trying to go #oh but THESE people have it WORSE therefore you're a LIAR and a CHEAT #just shut up shut up shut up shut the fuck up #we are allowed to be upset and angry without you fuckers immediately getting on the terf rhetoric #"transmascs have it easy' NO WE FUCKING DONT #anyone who clowns on this shit will be blocked #feeling the need to stealth completely to feel safe is not easy #it's not a privilege #some people like stealthing and thats fine and good and i appreciate those people #but those of us who feel a need to present stealth so no one literally kills us is not privilege its assimilation #anyways fuck off let transmascs be upset for once

[radioactivedelorean]

decided I'm going to ban everyone else from using the gym at my accommodation if I'm using it

#delorean talks #for legal reasons this is a joke #i put on like 70lbs since i started my job 4 1/2 years ago and that isn't even an exaggeration its accurate #and now that im trying to improve i cant even use the gym if anyone else is in there #and ofc my fat ass going in there when theres two fit skinny girls in there using all the fucking equipment I want to use #its a small gym so theres only one or two of everything but fuck off!!!!! #this isnt even just about physical fitness i genuinely need to fucking lose weight #like its a concern #im way less physically healthy than i was 5yrs ago #idc if some of it is muscle im a fat bitch!!!!! #dont clown on my vent post with 'oh you just have internalised fatphobia' i will block u i am not in the mood

[constantvariations]

Someone on their personal blog: I love the word queer ^w^

The notes: the Q SLUR - because it is a slur, did you know it's a slur? because it's a slur - KILLED my grandma and ATE my dog so if you want to reclaim it that's FINE but if you use it for me I will KILL YOU

#yall are so fucking annoying #also @ anyone who weaponizes their trauma against queer: touching grass isnt enough you need to be buried for a few hours #you never see this shit when it comes to faggot or dyke #for whatever reason when it comes to queer people forget that it doesn't apply to them if they don't want it to #not every post is for you dipshit. scroll past or block the damn word #quit spewing your bile on every damn post #at this point its block on sight bc i am so sick of these clowns #venting into the void

[corvusthecryptid]

y'know what? fuck it! shout out to all my fellow "stereotypes!"

shoutout to my fellow autists who do feel like a kid in an adult’s body because their mind works differently. shoutout to my fellow systems who have alters that lash out, and/or alters of fictives from popular media. shoutout to my fellow bpd folks who get clingy and have abandonment issues. shoutout to the autists who act "robotic" and love trains or dinosaurs. shoutout to the people with OCD/OCPD who do get obsessions with cleanliness and orderliness, who do wash their hands over and over, who do lock and unlock the doors a specific number of times. shoutout to the people struggling with intrusive thoughts that do get the violent ones and the sexual ones, not just the self-injurious ones.

shoutout to my fellow flamboyant gays. shoutout to the lesbians who wear flannel and have buzzcuts. shoutout to the aces who like space and cake and dragons. shoutout to the aces who are stoic and don't have an interest in bonding with people even non-romantically. shoutout to the nbs with neopronouns and names like "star." shoutout to the queers(or otherwise lgbt+ folk if you don't use that term for yourself) who have dyed and cut hair, wear a shitload of pronoun pins, wear a rainbow binder that can be seen, and love talking about how much they love being part of the community.

shoutout to my fellow activists who yell and get mad. shoutout to my fellow activists who bring up the problems in things, even if it means "always making it political." shoutout to the feminists who don't wear bras or shave, and don't get along with men.

shoutout to the men who struggle with emotions. shoutout to the men who love blue and camo and trucks and fixing things and sports and hunting. shoutout to the women who cry easily. shoutout to the women who take hours getting ready. shoutout to the women who love pink and shopping and shoes and cooking and taking care of kids and cleaning.

i'm very white so i'll summarize the next one: shoutout to all the BIPOC fitting into "stereotypes" as well. if anyone who is BIPOC wants to give specific shout outs, go for it!

to anyone who fits these or any other "stereotypes":

You are not a stereotype. You are a person with traits and qualities. You are not doing anything wrong by being true to yourself, whether that means fitting expectations or not.

Anyone who hates whatever group you are in for these "stereotypes" would hate your group regardless; anyone who accuses you of "giving your group a bad name" is deflecting the hate onto you because it's easier to pretend that it's nothing they are doing that gets that hatred; the truth is, bigots are bigots and they will always find a "reason" to be hateful. You trying to avoid "stereotypes" will never change that.

(do not fucking clown on this post. you will not get a debate from me, you will get blocked.)

#long post #important #autism #systems #did #osdd #bpd #borderline personality disorder #ocd #ocpd #gay #lesbian #ace #asexual #nonbinary #neopronouns #queer #lbgt #feminism #activism #anti transmed #stereotypes

[keiipopped]

My First Scandal🤭

Okay so i wasn’t gonna address this because frankly it’s irrelevant to me but since bitches wanna get on here and post shit and so called ‘call me out’ so fuck it, I’m bored and have time tonight. If youre on enha writing tumblr then you may have seen posts from or about @dramaticalerror who i cant tag cause the bitch blocked me anyway LMAOO. So let me start by saying that if there’s typos its cause i just did my nails and am trying to type fast lmao and haven’t had nails in a hot minute. Anyway. The whole situation is genuinely irrelevant to me but bc people that have never interacted w me a day in their lives have shit to say. Ill say this, First of all, yes i told the bitch to off herself and yes I said I’d whoop her ass if this was irl (CAUSE I WOULD💀) however, this was after so long of conversation and them being rude initially. People I’ve interacted with on multiple platforms including this one as well as in real life can testify to the fact that i am genuinely a sweet person, but i will fight if needed. Last night i was on tumblr and this person came up on the regular enhypen tag which i follow and they were posting to tell people what they were gonna be writing and i ignored it. Then i realized what kind of content they were actually writing and i wanted them to disappear. Anyway i messaged them politely asking that they blocked me so it would basically be like they never existed and they proceeded to respond rudely but this part was not showed in their responses. They later told me i didnt “deserve” it and then that the more i insulted them the more they’d write Niki smuts and tag me in them. Which i stupidly enough earlier deleted the whole chat thread cause i said i was done w the whole thing. but i do have those. Anyway they later posted the chats but only the parts where i got out of hand AND then blocked me ANYWAY like a fucking clown. They also told me I’d eventually write smut which.. i wont? Like. Y’all i swear it was literally like talking to a 8 year old wall.

It’s just funny cause its so easy to tell how immature this person is because of the tags they use like #controversy. Are you serious 💀

Anyways there was so much more that went down in the chat but this is the only important(not) part. Bottom line is the shit they write is disgusting and anyone that disagrees and plans on writing that shit in the future just go ahead and block me.

AND lastly miss me with that “Jungwon and Sunoo didnt get the same defense” because i was fighting bitches when someone literally wrote smut for him the day after his 18th birthday and i wasn’t here when sunoo turned 18. and if you think people waited for Jungwon to turn 19 youre wrong too.

I would tag the mf also but they like i said blocked me anyway. So 🤷🏽‍♀️

#enhypen #enhypen smut #niki smut #enhypen writer #enhypen hard hours #enhypen thoughts #uNfAiR

[fearforthestorm]

as a friendly reminder this blog is enthusiastically and emphatically supportive of all good-faith identities; if you're anti endo systems, anti mspec gays/lesbians, anti xenogenders, or anti ANYTHING that's literally just people existing and not hurting anyone, you're not welcome here <3 this shouldn't be a radical fucking standpoint to take but I think people deserve to not have their existence questioned and belittled, and they know themselves better than anyone else ever can, so like. just be nice. k thx bye

(ok to rb but if you clown it's an instant block)

edit: okay jesus christ just bc I said okay to reblog doesn't mean I wanted fifty people reblogging this, locking rbs just because I don't want to deal with the inevitable people being shitty on this if I leave it, if you want to express this sentiment make your own post it means more that way anyway than just going "yeah what they said".

#.lyr

[animentality]

Astarion hyperfans are moderately insufferable, and I say that with only mild disdain, because there are people who are harmlessly obsessed with the gay vampire, and I don't mind them, even if they completely overpower the entire fandom and have reduced BG3 to being just about romance and the gay vampire.

But then there are the essayists, who insist that only they "truly" understand Astarion.

And they'll write a 4000 word treatise about how they're the only people who love him right and they'll attack people who make jokes about him, and don't treat him like the most tragic and layered fictional character in history.

They're also the ones who'll make any post about Shadowheart or Gale or Wyll or Halsin about Astarion for absolutely no reason.

You could say I'm so in love with Wyll and they'll say but what about Astarion?

You could say I really enjoy bg 3, and not just for the romance, and they'll say oh baldur's gate 3 is an Astarion dating sim for me.

Like alright. Cool. This is the internet and it's not illegal to be obnoxious.

But holy fuck is it obnoxious.

I get that Astarion is popular and I do like him myself. I get the appeal.

But it's irking me.

It's irking me on Tumblr and on TikTok, where it's gay vampire this, gay vampire that.

Every damn post in the tag is just him, and every tiktok is straight girls thirsting over his booktok like romance novel demeanor.

If you're an Astarion hyperfan who's reading this and gets annoyed and replies with what's wrong with people enjoying the game the way they want to, the answer is nothing.

I just personally find it boring and tiring and the majority of the fandom seems to only want to talk about this one specific character and no one else.

And that's like, whatever to me personally.

It gets old and I wish I could just ignore the fandom and be happy with the game but it's kind of hard when you're obsessed with this game and want to see more fan works about it, but every single person only gushes about one person.

I have never seen anyone on Tumblr or TikTok talking about how absolutely devastating the other characters' backstories are, even though they all have tragic stories and they all have kind of tragic endings, even if you do the right thing.

And it's a bummer.

And I'm blocking anyone who clowns around on this post, for not getting the point. This isn't about people just liking a character, or the majority of a fandom being in love with just one person.

It's mostly about my own personal preference, and if you're an Astarion fan who only ever wants to see/think about Astarion content, then keep scrolling and mind your business, as I mind mine.

#baldurs gate 3

[isa-ghost]

What does tea blogs mean?

I'm gonna assume you're in the Jacksepticeye fandom since you're asking that so if I say something under the assumption you understand it, reply to this with further questions. I saw tea blogs for Markiplier & a couple of their other friends but generally speaking afaik, it was mainly a JSE thing.

Anyway

"Tea blogs" were hate blogs back in 2019-2021 that would claim they were posting constructive criticism or "hot takes" about Sean, his community, his friends, etc. but really it was nothing but anonymous hate, straight up rumors, and other vile shit about both Sean AND members of jseblr.

The ringleader of it all stalked my blog for a long time because I was so outspoken about hating the blogs. I made a block list of blog urls for people and everything. They retaliated by making a side blog stealing my pfp at the time, which was my friends art, putting clown shit over it, and doing other stupid shit to harass me. And anyone else who spoke against them for that matter. Blogs I once admired turned into these repulsive asshole people spewing the most untrue, disrespectful bullshit I've ever seen.

It got so bad that throughout the time the blogs were a trend, jseblr genuinely fucking died. And in my opinion, never really fully recovered. People left Tumblr for Twitter or elsewhere. Or left the community altogether, be it because they fell for the lies being spread by the blogs, or out of fear of being harassed by them and their supporters. My dash got so quiet I eventually went radio silent on here through a lot of that time span too. There was no use in fighting the blogs so I just went silent so they'd go away. Blocked any new ones I found and moved on.

When the tea blog trend blew over, a few of my really close friends came back, but the community still isn't the same these days. Whether people found other interests to focus on, just didn't come back to the fandom, didn't come back to Tumblr, or something else, jseblr is still a ghost town more or less. At the very least, in my corner (which mind you I follow/am mutuals with a lot of "big popular blogs" in the fandom, this shouldn't be this way) it's quiet.

Between being stalked, harassed and witnessing the genuine, long-lasting damage the blogs inflicted on the community, I will NEVER forgive anyone who ran a tea blog, sent asks to them, or participated in their bullshit in any other way. I hope they're all absolutely miserable, because what they've done to the fandom was and still is devastating.

I fucking miss my friends and favorite blogs that aren't active here anymore.

[colorisbyshe]

Hey. Who has it been for the last century fighting for women’s, gay, and black civil rights? Palestinians? Arabs? No, it has been the Jews.

If only there were a simple solution, like giving the hostages back and turning Hamas over for war crimes trials. … Nah. Too simple.

Never start a war based on ancient hatred instead of tactics and logistics.

First off, followers, block this clown.

Secondly, conflating Israel with Judaism, when Israel so often hates and/or hurts Jewish people (See: Its anti-Yiddish sentiments, its sterilization of Ethiopian Jewish women, its claims that Jewish people of color are "less Jewish," its allyship with christian evangelicals who are rabidly antisemitic) is offensive.

So, no one here is downplaying Jewish allyship/involvement in liberation movements when we criticize Israel.

Thirdly, you're a dumb, ignorant cunt. Who lacks the capacity to do a single google search to see Palestinian outreach and activism when it comes to many causes.

Literally less than 20 seconds of googling got me this. Listening to Palestinians, which does actually take longer, has let me know that... gasp... there are black Palestinians, Palestinian women, and LGBT Palestinians (and more broadly Arabs) who... want their own rights. Like... they're not even allies, they are the people you are supposedly fighting for as a Pro-Israel (Pro-genocide, Pro-ethnic cleaning for an Ethnostate) asshole.

Israel has been subjugating Palestinians (and thus... gay people, women, bblack people) for 75 years. There is no "simple" solution to an occupation outside of ending the fucking occupation. The blood is on Israel's hands for a. killing all those people and b. not expecting retaliation and c. killing more people after retaliation.

Thus, the blood is on your hands.

The only real hatred here is coming from you.

You hate Palestinians. You do not think they deserve their homes, their lives.

You saw my post about Bisan fearing for her life and came here to mock Palestinians, imply they deserve their gory deaths.

You are hateful.

You are a bigot. You are a warmonger. You do not belong before me or anyone else until you learn to harness an ounce of humanity and use it for good.

How dare you invoke fights for human survival in the defense of genocide.

[cock-holliday]

Getting notes again on my anti-TLOU2 posts and just kinda laughing to myself reminiscing about how that game came out in summer 2020 during a peak in the pandemic, the height of the George Floyd Uprisings, a spike in nazi rallies to combat, and was right before another wave of demonstrations for Palestine in response to Israel’s annexation plans.

It’s the only game I ever pre-ordered (cause even games I desperately want aren’t worth $60), and it arrived on Juneteenth, one of the only days all summer (and then all fall) we didn’t have a march or cop fight cause it was a block party/community fundraiser and temporary pause in the brutality we were facing. (Not that cops didn’t show up trying to intimidate everyone.)

To download the game while I was out and come back to play that cruel cynical shitfest over the weekend was just…funny.

I was so mad, and I’m still mad 4 years later but fuck it was so tone deaf about everything it’s almost hilarious.

The lawlessness of a plague permitting people to give in to their evilness during a time where being abandoned by the government showed how many orgs and communities stepped up to protect and feed and clothe each other was funny, how strangers didn’t turn on each other, and how any additional cruelty was only amplified where it already was—among the privileged—was funny. State violence and rebel violence being equally bad while cops were brutalizing us and our neighbors was funny. A message of hope being naive and the reality is grim and dark is soooo funny like Druckmann doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about at all.

Over my near-30 years I’ve seen a lot of violence, a lot of horrible things, I’ve been brutalized, I’ve come extremely close to death a few times, and thought I was going to die a few more. I’ve been in the thick of things and seen unimaginable cruelty and neglect directed at myself and especially at those I’ve worked with/for, and the childish perception of evil never reflects reality.

In prisons, the biggest evil is the prison staff. A cop calmly dragging someone away is so much more evil than the person wriggling in cuffs. A politician signing a piece of paper will kill more than any dipshit stockpiling guns. Real evil isn’t a result of ‘human nature’ it is the result of systems of control and oppression. It is the result of systemic brainwashing of 1. those with legitimate grievances 2. those who are groomed to feel entitled/superior.

Reducing this story to baby’s first moral quandry is so bizarre.

The fact that people think part 2 was some highbrow thinkpiece because it’s depressing are such clowns! Humanity is evil, resisting state violence is evil and naive, all violence is equally bad regardless of motivation, anyone who does violence actually needs punished, redemption and recovery isn’t possible because human nature—like do you have any more tween genius insight for us?

Israeli propaganda really liquifies your brain I swear