#important text posts

[veliseraptor]

have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate

#important text posts #about me #vegaspete and xuexiao in particular come to mind #it's the 'how unhinged does this look from the outside' question maybe #if it just looks like two people hitting it off and being cute together right away then eh not my thing #if it looks like two people who have suddenly zeroed in on each other in a way that makes others go 'oh that doesn't seem good' #i'm there baby

[veliseraptor]

i’m team “not all transformative works are fanfiction, fanfiction is a specific modern phenomenon founded on a specific relationship between reader and text that doesn’t require historical proofs to be a legitimate form” up until people start being snotty and obnoxious about it and then i am there going "hamlet is gesta danorum fanfiction”

#lise's aggressively bitchy opinions about irrelevant and unimportant matters #important text posts

[veliseraptor]

once again petitioning for at least the temporary retirement of the word "problematic" in order to encourage more specific and precise language and force people to actually say what the issue is

"[x] is problematic because it depicts homophobia" okay but that doesn't actually tell me anything at all, try "[x] includes outdated stereotypes about gay people that go unquestioned/unchallenged by the narrative", more specific, more informative, less fucking obnoxious for me personally to read

#important text posts #lise's aggressively bitchy opinions about irrelevant and unimportant matters

[veliseraptor]

sometimes I think people think "narrative parallels" means "exactly the same" and like...that's not the point, actually, the point with narrative parallels is that they're variations on a theme that are meant to illuminate something about each variation. a narrative parallel that is just a precise reiteration of another thing isn't saying anything. it's just redundant.

#important text posts #actual english major lise #this one really grinds my gears actually #'it can't be parallel because they're not the same' no...no that's not what that means i don't think #lise's aggressively bitchy opinions about irrelevant and unimportant matters #mildly! but i'm still feeling bitchy so it gets the tag

[veliseraptor]

accidentally referred to an "svsss" file type in a meeting today. thankfully nobody noticed

#important text posts #*spss. was what i meant

[veliseraptor]

this morning I am thinking about this little gem

and specifically about the feeling I've been turning over in my head for...a while, I think, about the way that there's this ambient assumption on Tumblr (and quite possibly elsewhere, this is just where I am) of...sub/masochist-as-normal-state, or at least sub/masochist-as-fine-but-not-questionable state, and it feels like that, on the flip side, ends up incidentally or purposefully constructing doms/sadists as the deviants, as inherently "sus."

and it lines up to a certain extent with the way that the conversations I see on this website about kink/BDSM often come from a sort of "presumed sub" perspective that leaves very little room for the thoughts and feelings of doms as valuable or important, and thoughts about an essay I read a while back that talked about the comparable societal acceptability of "fantasizing about being hurt" vs. "fantasizing about hurting people," and how "sadist" is a dirty word in a particular way that "masochist" isn't

it feels like sometimes there's this sense that (a) it's normal to have a little bit of sub/masochist tendencies, that's fine but (b) the only acceptable way to be a dom/sadist is if you feel bad about it. the ideal is to feel vaguely guilty, and mostly do it for the sake of somebody else's pleasure rather than your own.

I made a post a while ago that I can't find right now but it was, if I recall, "nails sign to tumblr door that says "doms have feelings too"" and I was joking but also I'm not.

#idk. getting kind of in my feelings #this has been something i've been thinking about more over the last couple years #and also kind of trying to be more open about? #because i think it would've helped me when i was younger #important text posts #lise has opinions #i guess is maybe the tag for this #anyway. i'm going back to work/whumpuary fic

[veliseraptor]

I just have to say that. it would be amazing to me if every translation I read was extensively footnoted by the translator. I know this is not how everyone wants to experience a translation but I would like it and isn’t that what’s important

#cnovels translated classics anything #i can't learn every language so i need to know about what the language is DOING #tell me the choices you made! tell me why! tell me the context i'm missing! #anyway. #important text posts

[veliseraptor]

i still love the fact that xiao xingchen literally stabs xue yang but that wasn't the thing that broke their relationship. xue yang's reaction to being stabbed by xiao xingchen is basically "i see you are upset but we can definitely sort this out"

love that for him. such optimism. completely unearned but what's a little stabbing between friends eh

#important text posts #and also something about how physical damage is tolerable but emotional damage is too much #my feelings about xue yang's relationship to his body! again! #anyway #xuexiao #xue yang #xiao xingchen #the sad queer cultivators show #i've been so on task this week so far and apparently i reached my limit this morning

[veliseraptor]

something vaguely in my head about the idea that a class of people can be "undeserving" of the right to strike because they make relatively more money than another class of people

and I don't know how to articulate it exactly except that perhaps the idea that there's some level of salary at which a person ceases to have the right to good working conditions is, mm, suspect, and that such a narrative ultimately just serves employers who don't want to put the resources into improving

anyway. just thinking i guess

#important text posts

[veliseraptor]

sometimes i manage to be like "i need to rest in order to restore myself so that i can continue to create" and then i inevitably end up going "okay!!! rest faster! restore faster! chop chop!" about it which probably defeats the purpose

#important text posts #liseproblems

[veliseraptor]

a thing that will never cease to make me emotional is how, in a world where we know swords can seal themselves from use by random people, xue yang was able to wield shuanghua apparently without issue.

#i have Thoughts about this but this is not the post for them i don't think #sure maybe this is just a “you're thinking about this too much” thing #but what do I do if not think too much about my problematic faves #and yes lwj was able to take it away but. up to that point. #xue yang #xuexiao #(because i can!!!) #important text posts #the sad queer cultivators show

[veliseraptor]

out with redemption arcs, in with rehabilitation arcs

#important text posts #i might write something longer/more cogent about this at some point #but i also might be too lazy to do that #fuck the villain police #(adjacent) #anyway i just saw something that annoyed me on the internet so i'm getting off tumblr and going to do something else* #*yet to be determined

[veliseraptor]

actually I am over "all that pain and misery and loneliness and it just made him(/her/them) kind" characters. if it didn't make them mean and awful to be around I'm not interested

#where's that lymond quote when you need it #important text posts #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[veliseraptor]

i think i should be legally allowed to bite people who post things that annoy me in character tags

#important text posts #lise's aggressively bitchy opinions about irrelevant and unimportant matters

[veliseraptor]

going through and clearing out pornbot followers like

#important text posts #i'm about done with today #(today is not yet done with me)

[veliseraptor]

re: that post about someone mistaking adrenaline for love though, I really do love that xue yang's experience is the precise opposite. he's over here like "it makes me feel good being around xiao xingchen, I get excited about spending time with him, his presence makes me all fluttery inside, must be about how much I hate him and want him to suffer"

he is good and correct about understanding feelings

#important text posts #xue yang #xuexiao #i love him so much you guys #if you were wondering #the sad queer cultivators show