#let women enjoy things

[the-white-snake]

You can run, but you can't hide I'm going to make you mine Out of my head, of my heart and my mind ⸺ I can feel how your flesh now is crying out for more ♪

#ffxiv oc #ffxiv gpose #gposers #elezen #lia amelune #let women enjoy things #she can be evil #as a treat #who did that skull belong to? #probably her ex husband

[faggnolia]

can magnolia eat someone for the love of god

#you keep saying she’ll eat someone and then she doesn’t #sick of this #let women enjoy things

[straightfromthetorturedpoetsdept]

i actually love john green and always have

#he's such a light in my life #i love his books idgaf what yall say #let women enjoy things

[youngharleezyxo]

people saying Jack bringing the City Girls on tour is calculated…can y’all please shut up like what

the hate train has been ridiculous that man does nothing but mind his business make music and give back to his friends and community like please go find an actual problematic celebrity to harass

#jack harlow #like leave him tf alone #y’all not tired ??? #there are actual celebrities causing problems #but y’all on his ass for what ??? #LET WOMEN ENJOY THINGS #ESPECIALLY BLACK WOMEN

[d4rl1ngpuppy]

I see a lot of hate towards women on the side of writing Tumblr I've found myself on..

I don't care if you hc a character as gay/mlm or not, you can let people enjoy things....

The point of fanfic is that it's an enjoyable experience for everyone

Authors who primarily write for fem/gn readers are getting a lot of hate recently.

STOP TRYING TO BULLY PEOPLE OUT OF HOBBIES

You're ruining the experience for everyone. Not every fic has to be catered to your preferences and headcannons.

Let people have fun

#☆..puppy rambles !! #makes my blood boil #let women enjoy things

[woman-eternal]

I’m almost glad that pumpkin spice lattes are demonized because now I can effectively communicate all at once that I want a lovely seasonal treat and don’t care what men think about me

#pumpkin spice #just like #let women enjoy things

[lolexjpg]

if you don't like taylor swift that's fine, but at what point does actively shitting on women harmlessly enjoying her in ways you don't understand just become ~misogyny~

#she speaks #a woman being white is not a get out of misogyny free card #let women enjoy things

[inkskinned]

"it's so embarrassing you like that popular thing" "oh ew that geeky/strange thing is so cringe lol" "oh it's kind of weird you get excited about that harmless shit"

dude i love how ironic and jaded you are and that's so cool and sexy of you. and i am so so glad to tell you - you won!! we all had a meeting and we decided that you won, and we are writing your name on the inside of a burger king crown. the marker smeared, sorry, but we knew any form of real effort is ugly to you. but anyway. congrats! you are officially the coolest, most ironic, most jaded person in-the-world-right-now. we would throw you a party but you would think it was totally boring - and besides, we're weird so we wouldn't have been coming. we would have brought our love of beetles and of baking and of little canapes. we would have brought our artsy videogames and pages of writing. we would have written a poem with you, our hands covered in ink, and spread out a canvas to dance on, the night so lurid and pink.

but do not worry. we will not throw the party. we will just get you a ringlight and that crown i mentioned. it is a nice crown, except for where one of us dropped it.

the vote was a really hard one because we had so many cool ironic people to pick off the shelves. all of you have hands that rot fruit, how strange is that - you can't look at something without destroying it for other people. you like it when you can squeeze a person into a pinpoint - all us small ones scampering our little feet around our ugly joys. the vote was also a hard one because we kept our voices down because you don't like it when we talk too loud. you were on your phone at the time, talking to people other than us. you are a ghoul of every moment - half in, half out, you resent us for being here without shame or embarrassment.

so good news! we have invented an island for people like you. you get to go there and speak into the air things like if you still like watching harmless twitch streamers in 2023 you're fucking boring. you will say things like liveplay podcasts are fucking ugly and it's kind of awkward they try to make everything gay. on the island we made you, all of your words will have weight. they will form in the air like icicles, large white behemoth letters that will crumple in anvils around your feet. maybe we will send someone there once in a while to sweep, but honestly you might be there for a while, alone, waiting. we are busy being outside looking for mushrooms and flapping our hands and humming. we are busy kicking our little heels while we watch cringey tv. we are busy - sorry! as an apology, we have pre-filled the island with every bland, mediocre, unscented thing we could find. the island has the texture of american cheese. the island has an ocean that never gets angry. the island is perfect for you, trust me. you will be so happy there - as happy as you can be, ironically.

we want to say we are sorry for doing harmless things that you find annoying, childish, or unappealing - but we are not sorry. we thought we could help you, because we don't mind laughing at ourselves, but it turns out you are allergic to color and noise and atmosphere, so this is the best that we can do for now. we are all making a big shirt that says i voted in the ironic monarchy. we got you one that is just a fast fashion buttondown. i am so excited for you and this island and the big life you have won. you have a cool jaded grey life and miles of irony to roam. i love you! be well.

now leave us alone.

#spilled ink #writeblr #slam poetry #i started this as a joke and ended up taking after #the poem about all the women in the world meeting in the bathroom #i can't find it to link it directly i've been googling for like 15 minutes if someone can remember #turns out frantically googling the only lines like ''women meeting in the bathroom'' #''secret womens meeting you always believed happened" is not useful for . to search??? help :( #also the reason this says harmless so many times is bc like #this is 100% about like #yeah man when ppl are mean about ppl enjoying things like. fuckin lady gaga #like this is so obviously about ppl who steal ur joy for no reason (i WILL steal ur joy if ur a bigot btw) #also yes it's bc someone was like ''liking the mcelroys in 2023 is cringe'' #and im like. dude what the fuck literally just let people like things it's LITERALLY not that deep. #like i dont like centipedes theyre one of like the 2 bugs im squicked out by ... but like. #if u really like centipedes. im like so happy for you. i hope you can put socks on ur centipedes #so they can speedclean ur floors. that would be fun and cool!!! #i love u i hope all of you have a weird passion i love you i hope that passion fills your life like soap bubbles

[songleap]

hey gang i think we can talk about the misogyny in warrior cats without defending a character whos ONLY personality trait is "abuses disabled children"

#i feel like comparing her to most antagonists that people enjoy is a false equivalence because like #they do other things #literally the only thing rainflower does is abuse her disabled child #like if the ONLY thing hawkfrost did was abuse mothwing liking him would be sus as fuck #but uh. he was a major villain for like 3 arcs. #its more comparable to like. liking stormtail #when all he does is neglect his children and be predatory towards younger women #but i have never seen anyone stanning him?!? #if you want a mother with a complex relationship with her disabled child lets talk about millie #wc #warrior cats #rainflower

[arohuacheng]

also hiiiiiii while i'm on the subject of "pei ming respects women actually" (<— that man provides for all his lovers when he's not there and is altogether very normal about things, just isn't interested in romantic relationships) can we talk about the whole "pei ming likes women who are softspoken and docile" thing. cause i know the narrative says it several times. but the most significant relationship that the narrative shows pei ming having in canon. is him and another fucking general in the middle of a war. somehow i don't associate xuan ji with words like softspoken or docile or even easygoing. and yet pei ming seems to have no problem hanging out with her... and very actively prefers her as a strong opponent rather than someone who gives up her own agency for his sake... my point here is that the narrative loves to just straight up fucking lie about pei ming. we're ostensibly in xie lian's head and i don't think he actually understands what's going on with pei ming sfjkgdf

#pei ming will find the strongest fucking personalities possible to hang out with and the narrative will go 'actually he likes soft girls...' #i mean yeah ostensibly. every time the narrative says like 'you're not his type cause you're too self-assured and outspoken' though #that's. just a lie. have you seen him and shi wudu. that man is not always going for the softspoken and demure girlies #his wiki says he doesn't reciprocate xuan ji's feelings cause he doesn't like hotheaded women like her. like wow that's crazy... #so is she his type or isn't she... #so many things become so clear about pei ming once you consider him as aroallo. so many things #'he doesn't like hotheaded women' i just don't think he's interested in romance actually. #and that guy certainly enjoys sex with combative personalities let's be so fucking real here #talking #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #pei ming

[whaleofatjme1920]

Seeing some people cry abt the sexualization of COD characters is so funny when I know damn well it’s been happening in anime spaces since FOREVER. Some people just get offended when a largely female audience finds something that’s belonged to men hot and audibly says something abt it.

Nothing women do is without blame.

#fish out of water convos #that switch up was FAST #‘they don’t even care abt the story it’s just ghost and König sandwich!!’ YEAH AND? #why do women need to say ghost’s dead nephew’s blood type in order to like him?? #hate trend hoppers all you want but in fandom spaces that’s just how it is #sometimes you need to let people enjoy things even if it’s outside of your norm and preferred 💀

[deafeninggardenerpanda]

sparks flying

#kirby #susie haltmann #francisca #fransoos #fransusie #< yea this is a ship piece LISTEN #i've been getting so into fransoos recently #RIVALS!!! THEY'RE RIVALS TO LOVERS!!!!! #DECENDENTS OF ENEMY CLANS #FOLLOWING IN THEIR ANCESTORS FOOTSTEPS WITH THEIR FIGHTING #BUT GETTING CLOSER AS THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY WORK TO LET GO OF THEIR TOXIC PAST LIVES??? #its like a metaphor thing but im not good with wording that kinda stuff LMAO #anyways Women hours continue on this blog #hope yall are enjoying apparently the entire past month of that #my art

[jacksprostate]

Howdy jacksprostate can you give us some thoughts on the narrators father/upbringing? Im curious on how you interpret what the book/movie gave us in terms of his absent dad

Also i love ur posts btw and thank you for replying to like all of my fight club art 😭 It genuinely pushes me to make more for the community so i thank you

Howdy :)

The narrator's father is an important, ever present, and completely lacking figure in the book and movie. (Obligatory disclaimer I mostly focus on the book) Here's some things I've been thinking about:

The chapter detailing fight club, its start, its rules, is intertwined with fatherhood. As the narrator explains his first punch with Tyler, as he looks upon his new disciples, as Tyler reads out the rules:

"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. 

Tyler never knew his father. 

Maybe self-destruction is the answer."

"Me, I knew my dad for about six years, but I don't remember anything. My dad, he starts a new family in a new town about every six years. This isn't so much like a family as it's like he sets up a franchise. 

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women."

You have the lines, Tyler’s in the movie, the narrator’s in the book, you have:

"My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. 

After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? 

My dad didn't know. 

When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. 

I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need."

You have:

"Tyler was fighting his father. 

Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves. There's nothing personal about who you fight in fight club." 

And you have his boss; his boss he blows up, Tyler constantly tells the narrator how he could do it, Tyler’s words come out against his boss about how he could shoot up the office, begging to be punished, using the copy machines, begging for more than nothingness; you have:

“The problem is, I sort of liked my boss.

If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Except Tyler didn’t like my boss.”

You have: 

“I am Joe’s Broken Heart because Tyler’s dumped me. Because my father dumped me. Oh, I could go on and on.”

You have, Tyler’s words in the mechanic’s mouth:

“"Your father was your model for God.

…

If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

…

What you end up doing … is you spend your life searching for a father and God.

What you have to consider … is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen."

How Tyler saw it was that getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God’s hate was better than His indifference.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. 

Unless we get God’s attention, we have no hope of damnation or Redemption. 

Which is worse, hell or nothing?

Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved.”

And we have Tyler using paraffin, so the narrator can be in Heaven, chided by God.

So like, what does it all mean?

A generation of men raised by women. His dad franchises, he’s not sure if another woman is really what we need. Men with no male models. Men with shit fucking fathers who are fighting them with impersonal proxies. Men who know they're destroying themselves because they have no constructive examples to follow because every single man just fails every son.

And that IS important. It's important to note there is misogyny in the fact that men demand male idols and refuse to even borrow women, but can I condemn them for the same thing I know matters to myself? Can I condemn them for wanting to see men who aren't shit, when I want to see women who aren't shit, when I want to see both not fucking failing their children? Shit fathers fuck over everyone, I don't think it's wrong to see that problem. It's classic male to say it by implying women are lesser, so fucking classic, but it IS true — they're in large part like this because men fucking fail everyone including each other and themselves. There is a gaping, wide fucking asshole where decent men should be, and they’re throwing fits about it rather than stepping up, but I think it’s notable that the narrator DID break the cycle. He’s not franchising. 

And man, the Christian thing. Your father is your model for God because that is the point. Patriarchal religion serves a damn purpose. The father anoints himself as God, tells his children to have unbreakable faith, then disappears. What a shit fucking father. Isn’t disillusionment inevitable? When you can’t find him in his petty figures, not in your father, not in your boss?

Truth is, he says it twice. He likes his boss. As a person maybe. He’s around. But he’s absent too. He doesn’t give a shit. Just like his fucking father, he’s putting him in shit situations, telling him that’s just how it is, and expecting him to, what, be happy with it?

He likes his boss, but a part of him really wants to kill him. He likes his boss, but he begs his boss to do something, anything other than indifference. And he doesn’t. So the narrator invents his own boss, his own father, his own God, and he kills his boss, and he’d kill God and his father if they weren’t already practically dead and gone. 

Dead and gone, even if they're there, he could beg them to care and they wouldn't. Society is set up for them to be the ultimate judgement, the hallmark by which you can measure yourself, the ruler for your fucking life, especially as a guy. And you get nothing. Indifference at best. Be the best son, disciple, worker you can, your boss God father doesn't give a shit. Self improvement isn't the answer. Wouldn't it be better, to know God, your father, your boss cared enough even if it's just to hate you?

Wouldn't it be great to track him down, tell God, "I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility."

He externalizes all that violence, it’s always Tyler who wants to kill his boss, who says he wants to be God’s enemy. And Tyler is his stand in boss father God, so just like the others, he leaves him. Even his fantasies can’t imagine better. 

And honestly, yeah. Myself, I’ve got a pretty good dad. He loves me. He’s been around. I still hate his guts. He abuses my mom and I hate his fucking guts for it. If you asked my brothers, maybe they wouldn’t have that “but”. What he does to my mom is so baked into society that he may as well be a five star father. He’s not beating us. He’s still here. Can it really get better? I have friends that love their dads. But I don’t have any friends that love their dads that don’t have shit moms. When it’s not the choice between bad and worse. The bar is so low. What does that mean for us?

It’s so easy to point at all this and be disturbed and angry about this pathetic fucking white man letting his daddy issues result in terrorism, and like, yeah. But god, fucking everyone has daddy issues, and we shouldn’t. He’s right that it’s a problem. What to fucking do.

Fight Club sits as a “how to NOT deal with several major crippling problems in society,” obviously. But what are we doing to do? It’s not up to me, obviously. I’m not a man, father, not even someone who could raise her standards for the man she partners with, because I don’t do that shit. And hell, you raise your standards and men say you’re killing them and shoot up all the women in an engineering class because jobs are making them too uppity. So. It’s up to them, whether they decide that the fallout of having such a shit father means they should, I don’t know, change something. But as it is, father as God, boss as father is baked into society, the paternalism is extensive and everywhere. It’s baked in.

The narrator is a product of so many issues. A little clown car of a vehicle for them. I don’t really need to consciously think about what his upbringing and absent dad was like, because really, as he accurately assesses, “if his parents weren’t divorced, his father was never home, and here he’s looking at me with half my face clean shaved and half a leering bruise hidden in the dark. Blood shining on my lips. And maybe Walter’s thinking about a meatless, painfree potluck he went to last weekend or the ozone or the Earth’s desperate need to stop cruel product testing on animals, but he’s probably not.” 

Most people, on an overwhelming scale, due to how the world is damn designed, do not need to consciously think about what his upbringing and absent dad was like, because damn if it’s not relevant even if your dad was home.

#asks #fight club #i ended up letting the quotes speak for themselves a lot because I think once you put them side by side like this there's a lot you can #connect on your own #tried to ramble a little about it though yeah #also again i'm so glad you enjoy my comments and i'm glad it encourages you :) #tl;dr fight club does great at pointing out that the whole “women have daddy issues” thing is soooooo much projection #like yeah we do. everyone does. but oh my fucking god men live and die by how crippled they feel by their fathers

[mangora]

Who cares about ship and character discourse. Frolic. Be free. Valid criticism is important but also don’t be afraid to look on the bright side for once. Think about Svetlana ‼️

#alex’s td rambles #some people get so like weirdly passive aggressive over shipping and like #with the exception of actual grooming or shipping Raj & Bowie with women. doesn’t fucking matter honestly #like aside from that be free and just share your ships. trade them on the playground like silly bands #also shipping doesn’t need to be your focus? characters are important too? you can just like characters?? #even if they’re ‘bad people’ like you can still get a lot out of them #and this is ignoring how you can enjoy themes settings mood tone animation designs audio and so on #guys td has bad elements but also. sometimes we can be nice #hold my hand. lets take ibuprofen together #like criticism is important td has a lot of problems both technically and in terms of like offensive content #but also. if you only focus on negative critique it’s going to rot your brain. try both. try finding things to improve & enjoy at once #it will make you happier in fandom trust me #going outside is also an option

[connoisseur-of-love]

I don’t care if you prefer the platonic m/f relationship in canon (and acting like it’s so “wonderful” to see m/f friendship in media, as if there an extreme rarity) To me, their fucking, and in a ROMANTIC relationship cause I wanna. Stop bitching that I like something you don’t and move ON

#proshipping #proship #anti anti #anti censorship #anti harassment #antis dni #If your able to do it with same sex friendships in fiction #Then gosh darn #I can to with m/f friendships #And this is coming from a women kisser #Shipping is not activism #Let ppl enjoy things in fiction

[borderlinebelle]

Tonight I finally broke into the top 20 in the streaming contest on tumblr live for top gifted streamer for the first time!! … that may mean little to you but it means a great deal to me.

thank you to the mutuals 🔪👹🥹♥️🤭🫡🎃😮‍💨

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#manic pixie dream girl #actually borderline #recovery #personal growth #tumblr live #black content creator #black coquette #emocore #girl blogger #girl blogging #support women #support creators #live streaming #blackgirlmagic #tumblrina #let people enjoy things #let people live #let people be happy #let people have fun #shameless self promo