#stop forcing people out of work

[anneapocalypse]

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

#yes i'm just going to come out and say it i'm talking about sera #not exclusively but i am talking about her #'but her writer actually iS A--' you don't know that! it doesn't matter! and i don't care! #just say that you do not like the character. #people will reblog posts about the latest actor or YA author or whatever getting forced out of the closet and be like #'wow. :( that's terrible.' #and then GO RIGHT BACK TO DOING IT #when are we going to learn #when are we going to stop doing this BEFORE somebody is forcibly outed #because in practical terms #that means you have to be okay with queer characters being written by straight people. #you have to stop weaponizing that against writers you don't like. #you have to be willing to critique the writing on its own merits #without using the writer's (assumed) identity to prop up your arguments #that's how it works #but who wants to actually change the way they talk about media #when tearing apart people's identities for clout is far more entertaining. #gwaren exports #fandom problems #fandom critical

[shivunin]

Because I have just seen this specific thing for the second time, I would like to say:

If I reblog your art, I do not expect you to reblog (or share!) my fic in return

If I comment on your fic, I do not expect you to comment on (or read!) mine in return

My enjoyment of anyone's work does not come with strings or expectations

My friendship is not a bill that you will have to pay later

That's it!

#the fucking obsession with fandom becoming ~content creation~ has got to stop. this is not a business. #i don't like it when someone acts like i owe them because they complimented my work #and i will never do that to someone else #kindness has to be freely given or it isn't kindness; it's manipulation #this just. makes me feel super gross and it upsets me that it's happened twice #and that both people explicitly stated in their profiles that this is an expectation they have of fandom #you can't form a community by force. that's not how it works. #anyways. rant over. i just want it to be known that i'm not expecting anything from anyone lol #if i talk to you or hang out it's because i want to. i don't want anything from you except you know #kindness and companionship or w/e #bleargh. gonna go play a game or something. #dixeram

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

#red rambles #viva palestina #antizionism #i haven't actually seen a lot of antisemitism personally. not recently anyway. but that's more a feature of me not following antisemites #i DO however see a lot of people talking about the people they're seeing throw their support behind antisemites using palestine #as an excuse to conflate all jews with israel #and i cannot stress enough that that is literally what israel and zionist forces abroad WANT. #i am jewish. my entire family is jewish. i want to see palestine free. and i have SEEN how the jewish community gets conflated with israel #both from the inside and out #and i am dead serious when i say that every time someone is antisemitic it strengthens the conviction from people abroad #that it's a terrible sad situation but there's 'no other choice' #if you're being antisemitic you are doing the enemy's work for them. Stop it. #like... look. i am putting this in the tags bc im talking in the tags but i mean this. I do not give a single flying fuck if you personally #are a giant raging antisemite at the moment. Your personal beliefs are your problem and not mine. I do not fucking care. But if you are #being openly and loudly antisemitic *in your support of palestine* you are absolutely not fucking helping. I am so dead serious right now #if you want to raise awareness and you're being antisemitic because of deep held beliefs or whatever i want you to look around and read the #fucking room. Do you understand how much of Israel's international support comes from the idea that they are the only country where jews ar #safe from antisemitism? do you see how every time palestine comes up people point at incidences of antisemitism in anti-genocide actions to #discredit the entire movement? do you not understand how your actions are cutting the movement down at the knees? #i'm jewish and proud of it. i don't like antisemitism. but there's a genocide on and i'd rather work against it than quibble over who i #work alongside. i dont fucking care. you can be as antisemitic as you like in private. stop fucking the movement up. #there are bigger things to worry about here. if i can put aside my own concerns as to who i'm talking to you can hold your tongue #and fight the good fight instead of handing weapons to the people who are trying to fucking flatten gaza.

[snickerdoodlles]

its so weird seeing posts that mock uncle jim for worrying about li ming's queerness as though his dead boyfriend's parents (legally) stealing his entire life savings and leaving him to manage a restaurant business specifically because gay couples aren't legally recognized as couples wasn't what put him in a cycle of crushing debt and endless poverty in the first place

#yeah hi CONTEXT MATTERS #can western fandom pls stop ignoring this shows biting social commentary on queer people not being legally recognized #also heart is the darling of all time BUT his careless lie literally forced li ming to work off a debt that was never his #and wouldve seriously impacted jim's business and financial state had wen not offered to work free #which was a boon but having to live on someone elses generosity like that is still a stress #because people (understandably!!!!) can and do get tired of giving away a lot of time and energy for nothing #wen is uncommonly generous and luckily its not too long before other circumstances help lift jim to safer footing #but none of that was SECURE getting to that point #jim is right to worry! it comes out badly and li ming's queerness is not the actual issue but jims reasoning is EXTREMELY UNDERSTANDABLE #sighs #moonlight chicken

[iamsonormalaboutninjago]

Oh wow look at that it’s like my petition hasn’t been taken down cause yk it isn’t hateful and doesn’t demand for the writers to be at the whims of some idiots who think Kai should’ve been the green ninja

My petition tho is still gonna remain up- so if you wanna support it go sign to make Cole to first canon gay main character in Ninjago! :D

#makecolegay

#also I realize that making Cole not gay and making him canonically gay are both in the vein of forcing the writers to chose for Cole #yet multiple writers and people working on ninjago have came out to say that they support Lostshipping #as well in the show they basically act like a couple already #just not in name #the purpose behind my petition is to show the writers that we want for them to state they’re gay #instead of just implying it #it’s more powerful when presented that way #and I wanna show them that they shouldn’t have to be worried about what people will think of them making that choice #if it gets to a point where it feels like I’m forcing the writers to do something I’ll stop the petition #I don’t ever wanna force them to do something they don’t want to #that’s not cool #savemyboycole #ninjago #lego ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising s2 #ninjago dragons rising #cole x geo #geodeshipping #makecolegay #ninjago cole #cole brookstone

[youwillfindilluminating]

I get why critical role wanted to delete all the content that had brian w foster in it but at the same time the digital archivist in me is like... you can’t...just DO that...?

#critical role #talks machina #brian w foster #I get it but...... I wish people would stop censoring history #idk maybe it would do certain people some good to know that not all abusers are obviously abusers from the start #nobody's being forced to watch those videos so please let's not delete them from existance #there is so much cast history and friendship etc in those videos let's not let him ruin it #whatever #sometimes I get sad about all the data in the world that will never be archived #like they should have put out a statement and then left the videos up in a Let's Learn From Our Mistakes moment but they chose this instead #people are saying the Wayback Machine is working but I'm too lazy to test it

[strawbubbysugar]

Ough as the end draws near I’m seeing more and more comments that are making me nervous that the ending won’t live up to all the hype & expectations aaaa aa

#ask #for example #there’s a few notes I’ve forgotten about that we’re gonna be important but now make no sense in the story #so I’ve gotta figure out how to work them in #without it feeling forced #and at the same time #continuing with the idea I’ve been married to for a few weeks about what the ending is gonna be #but now I’m so nervous that people won’t like the ending #and I’ll have ruined this fic #sobs #ik most of you will hopefully enjoy it!! but even seeing a few be like ‘aw :( I hoped something else would happen’ is gonna be ROUGH #but honestly #thank you all for the amazing experience you’ve given me writing this #I never realized just how much I enjoy writing until I started writing this fic #and all the love has been so sos o life changing #so thank you all <3 #one person specifically said I was ‘stalling’ but like :( I’m drawing out the tension. if I do things too quickly it won’t have any umph. #I just haven’t been able to stop thinking abt that comment sigh #personal

[otaku553]

Oc aged up? Redesign? Doodle

#goal was to make him 2x as unlikeable than before lmao #I think story bits are putting themselves together #older cot is now in a position of leadership #Vv left the team or retired for reasons after a big fight #during which xieran lost an eye and all of them got traumatized #cot grapples with the feeling of betrayal from Vv leaving them but also understanding of their reasons and cot’s own desire to retire #cot doesn’t like playing by the rule book anymore and actively goes out of their way to make things difficult for everyone besides xieran #ie getting paperwork done on time and then hiding it so the people who need it can’t find it or have to go to extreme lengths to find it #stops caring altogether for the organization which they work for #maybe even has several contingencies or leverage to bring the organization down to its knees #and instead of using it just dangles it over their head for the amusement of their grappling and vulnerability #their own petty revenge for what he perceives as the organization forcing his closest friend to break under pressure and leave #he also knows fully well that bringing down the organization would be forcing the several hundreds under their employment into poverty #which he doesn’t do mostly because xieran still exists as a voice of reason for them #probably feels some amount of guilt for being the only unharmed out of the battle that injured xieran and pushed Vv to retirement #after all their role is never at the front line. at the best they are a distance attacker #because they insist on bringing a gun to a sword fight

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.

#sorry but it doesn’t work like that! #you can’t decry humans rights violations of a group that doesn’t even represent a majority of innocent people (by the way)… #…if you are actively carrying out a genocide under the thinly veiled guise of going after that group #Genocide which is y’know one of the greatest violations of human rights since it seeks to completely eradicate one group of people. #like there are innocent people being caught in the crosshairs on both sides #not everyone living in Israel or who is Jewish supports the Israel government’s bombings of Gaza #not every Palestinian supports Hamas or condones their brutal attacks on innocent civilians #but to try and conflate the actions of a militant group to represent the thinking of all of the citizens and be an excuse to destroy them… #…isn’t right and deserves to be held accountable #also stop acting like there is not a massive power imbalance present #Israel has the Iron Dome and their own military forces and funding from the U.S. #Hamas has missels and stock piled resources from funding from Iran #Israel controls the food water fuel and medicine access to those that have been forced to live in Gaza #they are not in any way shape or form on equal footing which doesn’t make this a ‘war’ #I can’t wrap my head around the fact that one of the groups persecuted in one of the most horrifying genocides is currently conducting… #…a genocide on another group of people #the rhetoric of gov’t officials from Israel dehumanizing innocent civilians points to the fact that this isn’t about retribution #but to conduct a genocide #if you don’t think that the current actions of the Israeli government aren’t wrong and are supporting it you can unfollow and block me! #like it’s not black and white but the actions that are currently happening are not acceptable

[geometricalien]

I'm so fine <- the words of a liar after finding out one of her favorite fanfics has been deleted

#ao3 #destiel #supernatural #i. remember. it. so. vividly. too. #royalty au. age difference. castiel being gifted from his tribe to a kingdom as a warrior. expecting to be put in their military- #nope hes on babysitting duty. #the prejudice the young boy princes have for him not helped by their maid spreading false rumors and hatred!! dean trying to protect sam and #'fighting' castiel! #cas being their bodyguard! being put in a room seperated by a wall! him stopping a kiddnapping/murders! a door connecting said rooms being #installed! them slowly aging up! looking at cas with stars in their eyes! dean entering puberty and realizing his feelings for cas are Not #Platonic! cas noticing dean distancing himself! he's no longer the cute little kid who at picnics begs to sit in his lap and hear stories! #dean being forced to marry and have an heir TM #their falling out where cas ends up leaving for months? years? he learns that he was given to the kingdom Because The Elders Were Threatened #by his strength! #and eventually cas comes back and everything worked out #i wanna reread it #its like- raising a king? something like that #god i hope it wasn’t removed bc of fandom moralists in comments or bc people were selling copies of it

[gilbirda]

watching house md in one go really makes you see when the writing went nosediving huh

#season 5 first episode ?????????? #whats going on? #i really hate when they try to prove a stupid point that serves no purpose #just to brush it away for the over arching plot of house being gay with wilson #hur dur house is mean #thats it??????????????????????? #like im sorry they are trying to force the narrative to make house the villain but tbh he's right??? #'he's so insensitive' ok stop projecting your fears and limitations on others and maybe he'll stop shutting you down #also the hospital drama is getting out of hand for no reason #i dont know man there's this 'house is so mean and destroys everything he touches' forced view #when is people not know how to self regulate #it's not house's problem that some people can't separate their self with their work #sure it's house's MO to take everything personal but he always has this moment when he's like 'game's over. this is real life now' #other dont have this ability and after berating house for 4 seasons for taking things personally then make the biggest fucks up and then cr #anyway i have opinions about house #he's blorbo #he's my little mew mew

[thedreadvampy]

Yes people are fucking dying and no I don't ever feel like. Great about people being killed in missile strikes.

But I also don't feel great about decades of civilians, including over 2,100 children in the last 20 years, being killed both by missile strikes and by being shot or beaten to death in the street.

250 people were killed in the Hamas rocket attacks on Saturday, which is around the same as the number of Palestinian people the Israeli security forces had murdered this year before Saturday, and significantly less than they've killed since Saturday.

look the people are not the state and despite Israel being an apartheid colony, being an Israeli citizen doesn't necessarily imply 100% agreement. It's been 70 years and 3 generations since Israel was established as a state and the majority of Israeli civilians now didn't choose to come, they're living in the country they were born (although the same is not so much true for people living in Gaza who have recently occupied the stolen homes of Palestinians). Israelis are human people with lives and hopes and passions and deaths of any person are tragic.

BUT.

Palestinians are human people with lives and hopes and passions and their lives matter just as much and are snuffed out without the international community batting an eye - I remind you again. 212 Palestinians including 38 children were murdered this year before this weekend's missile strikes and if you didn't give a shit until Hamas killed the same number of Israelis at which point everyone went OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY HOW COULD PALESTINIANS DO THIS (while Israel killed 300+ more Palestinians in under 24 hours) that's bc uhhhh you're fucking racist and don't think Palestinian lives are as important as Israeli ones

so like. sure we can acknowledge that 250 Israeli civilians' deaths are a tragedy, if we can also agree that the 300+ Palestinian civilians killed in retaliatory strikes are a tragedy and most importantly if we can agree that the 200+ Palestinians killed in 2023 before the Hamas strikes this weekend are not just a tragedy but a deliberate atrocity.

in January the Israeli government made it vocally clear before the UN than not only do they consider the occupation of Palestine permanent, they are explicitly focused on taking over as much Palestinian land as possible in perpetuity. Since then this whole year there have been a total of only FOUR (nonconsecutive) FULL WEEKS in which NO Palestines were killed by Israel (compared to only 8 weeks in which Israelis WERE killed, of which 2 incidents were friendly fire from another IDF member)

It's legitimately tragic when people are killed. And Israel has been systematically killing Palestinians to the degree there are Palestinian casualties recorded about 3 days in every 5 this year, usually multiple, with displacements, demolitions, injuries, arrests and beatings recorded almost every single day. I do not know how LITERALLY anyone can look at the numbers from this year, let alone the last 75, and conclude that Israel is the victim of unprovoked violence.

#red said #i note again. ISRAEL THE STATE provoked the violence which ISRAELI PEOPLE face regardless of their political beliefs #Israel's government does not represent the beliefs of all Israelis. no state does. #Israelis live on stolen land in an apartheid state. some of them chose to do so and to enthusiastically participate and some don't. #the Israeli people en masse are as responsible for the Israeli state as the American people are for the American state #or the British people for the British state #which is to say they run the gamut from thinking the government doesn't go far enough to protesting constantly #Israeli doesn't mean evil. Israeli people are people like anyone else. and resisting apartheid from within an apartheid state #isn't easy and a lot of Israelis do. and even if they don't they're still human people. #Israel as a state like most colonial states puts work into propaganda fear and dehumanisation of the other. #people are responsible for breaking out of that but they're not personally culpable for the crimes of their country #it fucking sucks. that Israeli civilians are killed indiscriminately as part of this conflict. #IT JUST ALSO FUCKING SUCKS THAT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS ARE KILLED DISPLACED AND IMPRISONED #WHETHER OR NOT THE NATIONS ARE INVOLVED IN DIRECT VIOLENT CONFLICT #Israeli civilians are collateral casualties in violence which is happening bc Palestinians would like to stop being killed almost daily #and that sucks. it isn't a good thing and i don't delight in their deaths. the people are not the state. #but it also sucks that Palestinian people are killed at a rate of 15-60 every month regardless of what if anything happens to Israeli people #prior to this week the highest monthly conflict-related death toll for Israel was 7. the lowest for Palestine was 12. #and btw at least 3 Israeli deaths recorded were cases of one IDF member accidentally shooting another while trying to kill a Palestinian #in September 0 Israelis were killed by Palestinians and yet 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. #that's not to pretend it's good for Israelis to die. it's to point out that the violence of Palestinians against Israelis is in desperation #while the violence of Israelis against Palestinians is of opportunity. #where Israeli noncombatants are killed by Palestinian forces it's almost always collateral damage. and to be clear that is still a tragedy. #Palestinian noncombatants are regularly collateral damage but they're ALSO singled out and shot dead in the street #and that's a much more deliberate act. #if a 13yo is killed in a missile strike. if a 13yo is hit by a car. if a 13yo is shot by a gunman. all those are tragedies. #for the victim. they're dead however they die. for their families it's the same level of grief. #but there is a DIFFERENCE. between knowing your actions may kill children. and putting a child in your sights and shooting them dead. #that kind of targeted violence against specific individual civilians is something Israeli forces do to Palestinians. #it isn't something that is on record as happening the other way around

[quietwingsinthesky]

anyway. low empathy sam in general is real To Me, that's not just a soulless sam thing. being soulless just meant that he stopped giving a shit about masking.

#sam winchester #spn #he puts a lot of work into making people comfortable around him! he has to work to care about things a lot of the time! #but he does put in the work. he does figure out the script and how to make other people feel better. that matters to him. #hmmmm in love with the idea of low empathy sam/hyper empathy lucifer. they both have so much autisms they are bouncing off each other #sam winchester who saved the world through the power of love. lucifer who forced himself to be able to stop caring about michael to kill hi #you see the vision here yes? #also like. lucifer has been in his head... he gets it... sam 'i've been wrong from birth' winchester has got to have some fucked up feeling #about the fact that he can't feel for people easily as say. dean can. #but lucifer's been in there. he Gets it. there's nothing wrong with sam. #autistic!sam

[melhekhelmurkun]

What is the point of fanfiction if not to manipulate canon to your will like an evil little guy spinning a web of lies

#this is MY world now Jirt #you can’t do shit #(I say this with utmost respect for the brilliant mind that made this universe) #but also YOU CANT DO SHIT JIRT #none of these characters will ever know what is going on #one moment they’re in their world living out an au where everyone lives #the next they’re in the modern world in which I pretend all of their names are completely normal for where they’re living #I change their backgrounds like I change my phone wallpaper (wildly and with little concern of how it looks to other people) #basically this is all a commentary on how I find my own writing to be hilarious #especially considering I change my mind like the days change weather #which is why I actually (fun fact) have only fully completed one work ever #and I had to force myself to do it #I just keep writing until I can’t think of anything else and then I switch to another one and do the same thing #it’s a big cycle #and that’s how I ended up with nearly 300 WIPs for LOTR just sitting in my notes app #:) #for reference I first started writing fanfiction for the MCU yeaaaaars ago and only have 73 works for that one #I cannot stop myself with LOTR #I cannot #it’s my Roman Empire fr

[renegadeshroom]

thus far, my impression is that lucy has an better time empathising with other girls when theyre dead, which, dont get me wrong, is sad! but is also kind of hilarious actually. i guess its just easier to relate to someone when they cant really talk and say something that pisses you off lmaooo

#fungus ramblings #lockwood & co // #that said while lucy noted that she wanted to throttle the sensitive where lockwood was kind to her #and she says thats probably why she doesnt have any female friends... i do think theres truth to that #but also she just doesnt really have friends full stop. she has colleagues and people she knows through work #so im forced to wonder how it would go if she had a female colleague she regularly interacted with #maybe the contest with kipps' team could be an opportunity to see that? but i get the impression that theyll be trying to mostly stay out o #each others way rather than interacting so im doubtful. we'll see!

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

lies on the floor and has just So Many Feelings about all the ways in which pericles and cassidy are foils, one of them being the comparison between how they use constant, vocal, unabashed affirmation of the qualities they value about themselves to cope with rock bottom self-esteem.

there's so much to be said here about how pericles' 'positive' self-talk is ultimately destructive to himself and everyone around him, whereas cassidy's has both been healing for her and held her back from processing her self-loathing in other ways, and so much of that has to do with her experiencing firsthand the results of pericles' shit handling of his poor self-esteem and desperately not wanting to be anything like him. fuck me up man

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #cassidy williams #professor pericles #SDMItag #there's SO much here god #the older i get the more i understand cassidy and *ow* #which like god the 'desperately does not want to be another pericles' is a whole can of worms of its own #cassidy: it's important to internalize that you're allowed to like and be proud of things about yourself without having to Pass Peer Review #not just as a matter of principle but because your brain needs to hear it reinforced to do so; especially when there's already damage #in the same way that someone tearing you down over and over and over will beat the idea into your head over time #no matter how Flat Out Wrong you believe they are on a logical level; and no matter how viscerally you believed that at the start #be the opposite of that for yourself #pericles: my entire personhood hinges on one (1) Good Quality(tm) #without it i am utterly worthless and deserve everything that has ever happened to me. everyone i refused to believe about myself was right #the only valid measure of whether i am a person and have worth is whether the One Good Quality demonstrably *works* in practice #and other people are forced to believe it is real and matters because it directly affects them; usually to their detriment #and the only reason people try to stop me from succeeding or give me consequences for my actions is because they don't see me as a person #'locking me up like a common beast' isn't wrong because he's inherently a person; it's wrong because *he's Smart and that makes him one* #and it does not cross his mind at all that 'seems to have murdered a bunch of children' *might in fact be a reason they'd lock up a person* #so fuck em he'll hurt anyone and everyone in order to prove his One Good Quality; and make *absolutely sure* they know it's being proved #there has to be someone else to witness and validate that proof; because to him his own judgment does not count #cassidy after having her life destroyed by the results: Hm! no thanks #dyn: so nice to meet you; angel