#statements of support

[scullymurphy]

Policy Updates for my Work

Hey all -- there’s been a lot of discussion in our fandom lately around some creative ways folks have been profiting off fanworks (NOT. OK. Read your fandom history!) and even though I am not a big enough fish to be part of these specific circumstances, I just wanted to speak up and throw my official policies out there preemptively. I’ve also updated my bio on AO3 to reflect these.  

Thank you to my dear readers and all the creatives who have taken inspiration from my works to make AMAZING THINGS for nothing but love and the desire to spread joy. 

xoxo ~SM

PERMISSIONS AND POLICIES

- I welcome all translations of my works. I just ask for a heads up that you are doing it, credit on the translated work and that you link back to the original version on AO3. I also love to see translations once they're in process/done, so please send me a link! I can be most easily reached via Tumblr DMs.

- I give permission for my work to be typeset and/or bound for non-profit use (and also love to see pictures of any bindings!). Do not reproduce my works in whole or part for commercial gain, including posting reproductions on paid membership platforms.

- If you feel like doing art of my work, GO OFF! I love it so much. Please send it my way and I'll put it up on tumblr and in my Discord server.

- Trans rights are human rights. Gender diversity is fucking beautiful. Queerness is sacred. If you don't understand that, please don't read my stuff or interact with me in any way. You won't like it or me anyway.

#permissions and policies #translations #bindings #fanart #statements of support #fandom is free

[gascreates]

when teenaged rebellion goes too far

#iroh has no idea where he went wrong #zuko drinking coffee as a statement #no he doesnt want any fucking TEA #and iroh trying to support the one thing his nephew has expressed any interest in in the past 3 years that isnt the avatar #but fuck he hates that damn bean water #atla #zuko #iroh

[mayasaura]

It really dawned on me watching episode 17, just how important this sequence of events is to Kabru and Laios' relationship, and how. Well. That's for a different post. I want to keep this one free of spoilers. (Certified Safe For Anime Only™)(There are spoilers for episode 17, tho. Obviously.)

Kabru's main concern has been, at least in part, revealed. He wants to figure out if Laios is capable of defeating the dungeon, and, if so, if Laios can be trusted with the power that might confer. The answer to his first question is simple. Yes. If anyone can defeat the dungeon, it's Laios.

The second question is where things get interesting. Can Laios be trusted with power?

In the aftermath of Laios' first fight with Toshiro, Kabru learns that while Laios has no particular respect for the law or conventional wisdom, he does have the humility to consider that his judgment might be flawed if he encounters conflict with someone he respects.

That is the face of a man taking notes, and I think he's making a cautious mark in Laios' favor. Laios doesn't really understand Toshiro's opinion, but he's listening.

Then, in the fight with the Falin-Dragon chimera, Kabru voices dissent—disgust, even—with Laios and Marcille's priorities.

You can practically see the Dragon Age style approval rating drop. Kabru disapproves. Minus fifteen hearts. If it had ended like this, I think Kabru would have lost all interest in Laios. Someone who would sacrifice a dozen lives out of sentiment can't be trusted.

Laios' response, and the way it builds on Kabru's earlier observation, is crucial.

He listened. And even better, he didn't listen blindly. He applied critical thought to Kabru's argument. What Kabru hears from him isn't just "I'm sorry, you were right," but also, "I understand and respect your position and priorities, and here's a very good argument for why killing what I still consider to be my sister is not in our best interest."

He processed Kabru's criticism and came to his own conclusions, and he did it fast. Not only that, but he's right. Kabru hadn't considered the potential consequences of killing the chimera.

Laios proved in this one exchange that he 1) isn't blinded by either his pride or his prejudice, 2) has the strength of character to not just fall back and surrender to someone else's judgment when he's uncertain, and 3) is smart enough to tactically outhink Kabru.

This is why Kabru is so invested in Laios liking him that he forces himself to eat the harpy omlette. This is why Kabru takes Laios' hand and makes sure he knows he wants to see him again. He doesn't understand Laios, and he still has strong reservations about him. Laios' interest in monsters scares him. But Laios has proved to Kabru that he might be capable of being the person Kabru needs him to be.

Top Ten Pictures Of The Moment He Won You Over (Taken Just Before Disaster).

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi spoilers #kabru of utaya #laios touden #we get a LOT of information to process in episode 17 #but Kabru's motivations as I present them here are supported by both his statements in the sea serpent episode and his thoughts in this one #I don't want the post to get any longer so I'm just gonna trust you all to either trust me on that or go back yourselves to verify #delicious in dungeon #labru #sort of

[feluka]

in all honesty i feel there shouldn't be any christmas celebrations at all until palestine is free

#and i don't mean until ceasfire. i mean until it's free. #pope shenouda was 100% right when he banned his coptic people from going on pilgrimage to jerusalem so long as it's occupied by israel #because he said 1- we shouldn't be able to go there while palestinian christians and muslims are banned from going to their holy sites #and 2- while jerusalem is occupied all ''tourism money'' it gets goes to israel which pours into the zionist war machine #he was absolutely right to ban the pilgrimages and to establish strong coptic/palestinian solidarity #and i can't help but feel like tawadros is falling short of the bar that shenouda set #he made a statement on behalf of copts denouncing israel and supporting palestine which is. nice. but he can do more. #i sincerely hope he imposes a ban on celebrations at least this year. at least.

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

#and also. not the direct focus. but love doesn't make things good. you can be in love and do terrible terrible things. #people do bad things in the name of love and in despite of love all the time. #but!! imagine a world where people could exist as people and not be demonized. #sex positivity means being cool about All sex. reexamine your internal systems of moral judgement. #this goes for sex workers. for aroallo people. especially aroallo men. for aro people in general who might enjoy sex. #and frankly i think it can easily bleed into discussions about mental health disorders around 'not feeling' certain things #especially demonizing ppl who don't feel as much empathy. i think there's definitely a correlation between that and the emphasis on love. #our support needs to go out to Everybody and i think these things are all structured together in one way or another!! #it might not be immediately obvious but when i tell you it all leads back to amatonormativity..... little bit wild.... large bit wild.... #anyway. horror movie psychopath 'oh he can't feel emotions or love' damn alright. well. let's take a closer look at that. #silly that there's an association between lack of love and Murdering. feel like that might affect some stuff. #love is just an emotion/a feeling it doesn't mean anything about you one way or another #same with empathy. you can feel it all you want but it doesn't inherently change the actions you choose to take #anyway. thesis statement. there is a socially constructed link between love and morality. unlearn that. #kiss kiss (<— lovelessly) #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #talking #aroace #aspec #sex positivity

[holyvirgilscriptures]

When a person belonging to a minority group says or does something bad, you are, of course, free to criticize them. But it still does not give you the right to be a bigot. Noah Schnapp sharing stupid, careless, and uninformed geopolitical opinions deserves to be called out, but it does not mean that you suddenly get to tell him that he should have been gassed by Hitler or killed by anti-Jewish hate groups or terrorists — both things I've read on Twitter and on Tumblr. It does not justify you calling him homophobic or antisemitic slurs.

"But he deserves it!" you argue. First of all, why do you think so? What makes it okay for any person to be given the green signal to get called slurs, or have people advocate for them to get hatecrimed? And more importantly, you are only signaling to your Jewish friends that you are actually capable of antisemitism. Same thing goes with your queer friends, or any friends belonging to a minority group. When you justify one form of bigotry, even to just one person — you justify all forms of bigotry.

So if you find yourself doing any of these, ask yourself why it's so easy to slip into bigoted rhetoric instead of simply focusing your criticism on what a person did/said.

#here's another example: a couple years back many chinese idols made statements supporting the ccp #despite the fact that the ccp was comitting genocide on its muslim population #it was awful and i have stopped supporting any of these idols #but that doesn't mean i could call these idols sinophobic slurs #and when anti-chinese hate crimes because of covid were spiking it didn't mean i could say that these chinese idols deserved to get beat up #because that is a horrible fucking thing to say #noah schnapp #antisemitism #this is probably the last thing i talk about noah bc again people care too much about him #i'm aware i hold a shockingly unpopular opinion lol #a person from x minority doing something disagreeable is not and will never be grounds for you to act bigoted

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Bruce: So, when you and Jason eventually get married-

Roy: We’re not dating?

Bruce:

Bruce: When the two of you get married, how likely do you think it is that you will change your last name to Wayne?

Roy: Jay doesn’t even use Wayne.

Bruce: *prolonged sigh*

Bruce: Yes, but have you considered how much it will annoy Ollie?

Roy:

Roy: Go on…

#what do you mean dc doesn’t stand for disregard canon #jayroy #roy harper #jason todd #bruce wayne #annoying bruce is the only valid pastime #scratch that #annoying OLIVER is the only valid pastime #Bruce and Roy fully support this statement

[chaoticwhoknows]

do you guys ever think about jamie tartt and sam obisanya bc i do. constantly. they take up so much room in my brain. going from “no one in my entire career had made me feel worse about myself than jamie did” to sam and jamie being comfortable enough to constantly tease each other like siblings and swarm each other during goal celebrations and SAM being one of the first people (along with roy) who we see being concerned about jamie in mom city. JAMIE WEARING SAM’S NUMBER WHEN HE PLAYED FOR ENGLAND. season 3 jamie and sam are so… just so… they’re soooooooo!!! and season 2 jamie and sam are like hey what if i reached out to you through a series of seemingly small gestures in very vulnerable moments of yours bc i don’t know how to properly show that i care about you given the history between us until eventually we were just completely in sync with each other? what then?

and don’t even get me started on the parallels between them. ladies and gentlemen THE PARALLELS. the JUXTAPOSITIONS. the OTHER WORDS. their relationships with their fathers alone is so much to unpack. them cutting to JAMIE’S reaction when ola walked in and hugged sam in the locker room separately from the reaction of the rest of the team. the creators knew what they were doing with that

#i think about sam holding back another player (i think dixon?) during The Hug at Wembley so much #bc that’s sam saying ‘jamie needs roy and not me or you so we need to give jamie space’ #AND him saying ‘idk what jamie needs rn bc we aren’t There yet but ik he doesn’t need This’ #like there’s care in there and there’s an inability to express it #and jamie with the dubai air protest don’t get me STARTED. #like he doesn’t make a gracious statement he’s just like ‘hey pass the tape we all need to wear the same kit’ #like ‘i don’t understand what exactly you’re going through but i care about u and want to support you’ #when i write the sam-jamie scene to the addressing jamie’s dad fic… #i think then i will heal of all that ails me truly #microdosing on writing the sam jamie fic by writing this #jamie tartt #sam obisanya #i need to rewatch s2 just to pick them apart #ted lasso

[blairpfaff]

Agree to Disagree: I would rather live without music than movies

#andrew giving a full on thesis statement in support of his answer #andrew scott #paul mescal #edits

[raceweek]

#OP IF U SEE THIS I SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR STATEMENT X #i just chuckled #alex albon #george russell #qatar 2023

[cloudy-dayys]

because of alex's response, followed by 'victims' taking back their initial call out, doxxing her and harassing voice actors, deleting important context and info, and ven's new response (which he is deleting his account and any statements he made previously for whatever reason), i am repealing my judgement of alex herself.

all n all, the entire situation shouldve kept behind closed doors. alex is not a groomer, pedo, or whatever else ven said before and was not using her gender against anyone. ven was actively transphobic to alex, and other alleged victims were too. a lot of information and evidence was out of context, fake, etc.

this entire situation was deeply rooted in anger of an ex partner (ven). ven held the threat of ruining alex's career over her head for a long time now after they broke up, knowing she was deeply paranoid with her mental illness.

none of this should've been public. alex's career has been shot in the trash, most actors abandoned the series and other analogue horror creators such as martin and chezz are still actively against alex due to misinformation.

i apologize for any misinformation i may have perpetuated as well. people who made callouts against alex need to take a break from the internet, and so does she due to the harassment of every corner of her life now.

#tanner talks #alex kister #mandela catalogue #i take back my statement of leaving the series as well. i will continue to make art of characters there and supporting mandela artists and- #future actors/artists.

[ace-of-dragons-art]

I got so lucky picking mid-September this year to dedicate everything that I am to The Magnus Archives. holding my breath for the next week while I wait for Eldritch Horrors 2: Electric Boogaloo

#the statement remains #on life support while i wait for the 30th #been trying to make everyone i know listen to it #im being super normal about it #the magnus archives meme #the magnus archives #tma #tma memes #meme #magnus archives #the magnus institute #magnuspod

[deathsweetblossoms]

I’m sorry but this is the fandom response to a stag being the wrong color? To Manon not looking how everyone imagined?

Okay now think about what’s going to happen when the next book is announced and it’s not an individuals preferred ship? Or when it’s a character they hate as the MC?

End of the day, this is not normal. Fandom is usually a crazy space but this is unprecedented and you really have to wonder why.

#SORRY but im always going to argue that BB and SJM should have more communication and presence #and it doesn’t need to be SJM herself #everyone knows celebrities hire SM managers to do that #this isn’t even ABOUT THE SHIP WAR #ITS ABOUT TOG #HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING THEY SUPPORT ARTISTS #ESPECIALLY WHEN THEYVE BEEN PROFITING OFF THEM FOR YEARS IN LIEU OF OFFICIAL ADVERTISING

[petit-papillion]

#mine is #i don't run a red light #i can't believe how many people i saw today just not even slowing down #and blatantly running the light #I've been a witness to a really bad accident of a red light runner before #and had the car that was hit been a motorcyclist #they would've been killed #anyway also fully support charles's statement #buckle up people #charles leclerc #un road safety campaign #jean todt

[jay-wasreblogging]

Why is Watson walking around wet with his nipples visible? Put on a bra you whore.

#/sarcasm - we support both men and women being braless on this blog #walking around wet? love the fashion statement like go off 👑 #sherlock & co #sherlock and co #sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #goalhanger podcasts

[lasbiarez]

I find it very interesting that Tsukasa has all the potential to be the "main character" of wansho but he's just... never framed as such. I'd argue that title goes to Emu with how she's the one to start wansho and ends the arc with her dreams being reached.

Tsukasa is the leader of wansho and—compared to the other leaders, aside from Kanade—takes on that role more literally than the others. This is not to say that Minori, Ichika, and Kohane doesn't deserve that title because I won't deny that they're the catalyst of each group's creation, but compared to the three Tsukasa is in charge of the group itself and has been acknowledged to be the leader of wansho multiple times by other characters.

Tsukasa's biggest title or dream is being a star; the centre of attention and basically what would be associated to being a 'main character'. He's the sole creator of wansho's SEKAI and song to access it before deciding to share it with wansho at the end of the main story. He's loud and all encompassing, Kaito has specifically mentioned that people simply gravitate towards him. This all leads to the potential of wansho's storyline to surround him and his dreams.

And yet, and yet, and yet.

Tsukasa has always been framed as having a supporting role. The only reason he stayed at Wonder Stage is because of Emu's dream of saving Pheniland, and to reach that dream he needs to bring wansho together and lead them, advancing his skills was just another way to support that dream.

His first focus event wasn't even about himself but about how he helped wansho and the staff of Phoeniland orcestrate Project Wonder, how important his leadership is to rally people for a cause. In the the Scramble Fan Fes event Tsukasa's card isn't about him performing or anything of the sorts, but he's encouraging Minori and guiding her through her stage fright before her performance. His entire dream of becoming a star is spurred on by his desire to bring smiles to Saki and supoort her through her hardships, later Toya too, and then that desire spreads even more to everyone.

Tenma Tsukasa is defined by the people around him, by how much he's able to bring joy to his family and his friends and in turn their happiness becomes his happiness.

And he's so natural at in the way that Emu recognises it the first time she sees him and asks him to join Wonder Stage, in the way that Rui is allowed to change because of the chance Tsukasa gave him, in the way that Nene feels inspired by his exponential growth that she pushes herself forward too. Tsukasa is so important to Toya and Saki for the same reason, Rui asked him to record lines to cheer up Mizuki for the same reason, Shizuku recognises how kind of a person he is for the same reason.

TLDR; Tsukasa loves and cares for his friends and family and his character is defined by his ability to make them happy and support them despite how main character worthy he is

#also yes I know prsk has no MCs but like we can argue Mafuyu is the vocal point of niigos and Emu's dream is wanshos #idk about the other groups I'm not as well versed in them #also thinking about it the statement of being kind and taking on a supporting role is true for a lot of characters in prsk #I can think of Rui Kanade Honami and Minori at the top of my head #ofc they all do it in different ways #but hey this is MY post and I get to decide what I put in it and I love Tenma Tsukasa HA HA HA #project sekai #prsk #tenma tsukasa #tsukasa tenma #lasposts #thought moment