#then i noticed a pattern

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[beachsideufo]

a strange internet phenomenon 2

#guy mcweirdson #doodles #go figure its the other one #again as said before #not dissing it #just observed a pattern i've noticed. #tbh i loved when people on twitter were showing their “I DO THIS!!!” art thats so sweet. hell yea man #furrify that guy

[linkeduniverse]

September Art

#linkeduniverse #creator content #artworks #haha! i just noticed Time's eye #even his markings #my bad #horizontal flip disorientation #same with sky and 4's tunic patterns #i was too worried about fitting them all in #I forgot the details #do you know how hard it is to get a family photo!? #hyruel's bow and war's face were battling for space for the longest time

[noodles-and-tea]

👀

#oh donkey Arthur your 10 seconds of screen time will forever live in my heart #a small throw away joke to make Arthur look stupid? #no sir what you’re looking at is something so special and important to me #I’ve noticed that there’s a pattern for the episodes that’s like it goes a serieous episode followed by a silly filler episode #so actually it goes plot then filler I’m realising I just hadn’t used proper terms for it cause I’m stupid #but after the last episodes of s2 and then the two at the beginning of s3 #I was waiting for my silly episode reward #and boy howdy that was a silly episode #(im sick atm please just polite laugh and nod and be on your way) #my art #Merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon

[murderspice]

aaa games: we have some of the most CUTTING EDGE character customization options for you!! you can't make them fat tho, only cause we'd have to design more clothing models and adjust the animation for them and we just don't have the resources for that haha you understand right. that's totally the only reason we don't let you do that. anyways which of these 6 cocks would you like your character to have

#im noticing a pattern sfdjkfsdjkl #this isn't about just one game in particular but i did just start bg3 so that one's fresh in my mind #cyberpunk2077 also did it #please don't start a debate on this silly vent post im begging you im just a lil guy #fatphobia #aaa games #aaa game industry #getting to choose the genitals is all well and good but like. priorities maybe? #anyway this has been my ted talk. back to playing abs mcgee we go

[99thpercentile]

places where the audio distorts

image ids under the cut

tmagp 4:

tmagp 5:

tmagp 7:

tmagp 8:

the audio distorts when people lie.

I imagine this knowledge will come in handy later.

[id: ALICE: This is not something you go poking around in. Not if you want to keep your job… or your neck. SAM: (a little amused) Okay, okay! I get it. Consider me scared straight. "Consider me scared straight" is highlighted. end id]

[id: LENA: Now, while I understand your concerns, you need to understand that Colin has held the IT Manager position for some time without incident, and although he is somewhat… frustrated with his current assignment, he can request help from the central IT team at any time. I am certain that should he find his responsibilities unmanageable, he will request assistance. Or resign, of course. Either way, the problem will resolve itself. "Or resign, of course" is highlighted. end id]

[id: CELIA: Is there any way to look up specific files? ALICE: Like what? CELIA: Oh, I don’t know. Every case about… being buried alive, or meat, or… whatever. ALICE: Well, there’s a search bar, but it doesn’t actually do anything. You’d have to dig through them all manually. (suspicious) – Why do you ask? CELIA: Just figuring it all out. Ah well, I guess I’ll need to find Bigfoot on my own time. "Just figuring it all out" is highlighted. end id]

[id: GERTRUDE: I see. Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t think Gerry can help you – GERRY: (casually) Yeah, I barely remember any of it. "I don’t think Gerry can help you" is highlighted. end id]

[id: GERRY: Oh yeah, but I was pretty young. I remember filling in a bunch of forms and questionnaires, then some old men asking me questions about what books I liked to read, who did I look up to, that kind of thing. And then I left. SAM: (disappointed) That’s all? GERRY: Yeah, afraid so. Other than just sitting around with a bunch of other kids in a room that smelled like old books. "Yeah, afraid so" is highlighted. end id]

[id: CELIA: I’m trying to look into… Weird physics stuff: time travel, other dimensions, teleportation, all that good stuff. Freddy doesn’t really do searches, so you could keep an eye out and let me know if any come up in your cases? SAM: Uh, sounds a bit sci-fi compared to our usuals. What’s this for? (amused breath) You’re not doing research for that podcast you were on, are you? CELIA: (surprised) You know about that? SAM: I might have given you a quick Google. CELIA: Then… yeah. I’m doing a favor for Georgie. "yeah. I’m doing a favor for Georgie" is highlighted. end id]

#tmagp #The Magnus Protocol #tmagp theories #tmagp spoilers #original #most of these are relatively easy to clock as lies regardless #which makes sense. they need to be for us to notice the pattern and apply it later #but it does tell us for sure that Colin can't quit #or maybe he can but he won't be able to work anywhere else like Teddy? #in any case he (and possibly the rest?) can't quit in a meaningful way #if you find any I missed please let me know!! #why is this happening? who knows! Beholding thing maybe?

[54625]

Okay I'm curious. Since the MCYT fan space has a tendency to unanimously agree on certain headcanons and make a lot of things widespread fanon, are there any popular headcanons, interpretations, or portrayals of characters that you really don't like? I genuinely wanna know. Any popular ships you dislike? Any creaturifications that you dislike? Or even just the way people talk about a character?

#qsmp #trafficblr #hermitcraft #hermitblr #a couple of my own are #qpr Tazercraft. not a lot to say about i just prefer them as regular ol' best mates #and trans qPac. just because a man is Short* and Nice* doesn't mean he has to be trans #*i say this because i have noticed a pattern. male characters who are short have a large overlap with characters seen as trans #oh you're a dude?? and you're under 6ft??? you couldn't possibly have a penis #mcyt

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Eowyn's blue golden mourning dress in 4k

#lotr #eowyn #lord of the rings #lotredit #perioddramaedit #costume design #miranda otto #ngila dickson #4k #this dress is so beautiful #for years i didnt notice the pattern on it #and i always thought its black #and her jewelry is so beautiful too #sadly there is no full body shoot of this #like so many other costumes in lotr #because pj loves headshoots

[bagelb0nes]

#fanart #my art #illustration #digital art #stardew shane #stardew valley #stardew fanart #sdv fanart #im falling back into the loop #im starting to see a pattern for my taste in men #i dont wanna fix him #i want farmer to give him a little push wich will make him finally go into rehab and then when he is stable enought develop a friendship to #lovers #in which is slow #akward #cringe and comforting #also if shane had been a woman i would have defenetly let her wreck me #idc that i have enought illnes for a entire family #ill let female shane destroy me #i dont have a healthy relashionship with female romance if yall havent noticed #toxic yuri forever💪

[pinkiepig]

Non human characters am I right

#I’ve noticed a pattern in characters I seem to hyperfix on #the lamb? #sun moon? #bendy ???? #I’ve figured out why I don’t get as attached to my human ocs #piggy oinks #(poppy and beanie and dearly are the only exception ) #to be fair their not human just humanoid

[queermasculine]

genuinely despise the way straight writers write about butch suffering. it's always some tired dogshit like "she was hurt by a man so now she's cold and bitter and mannish, if only she'd heal, then she'd become her natural feminine self again!" which sucks because i absolutely would love to watch a relatable butch character go through something harrowing and emerge victorious, just not if it was written by someone who seems to have misunderstood the basic nature of my existence

#and btw when i talk about butch suffering i'm talking about the patterns that emerge when you look at all female characters who are #noticeably more masculine or tomboyish than other women in that story or in that time period #whether they ''count'' as truly butch is secondary – they're all relevant when examining female masculinity in media #anyway i'm off to beat my butch OCs with hammers since nobody in hollywood knows how to do it right

[chrollohearttags]

me looking at y’all send every black aot writer on this platform the same recycled ask in a different font but then saying you’re tired of the same plots from us + that we all perpetuate toxicity with blk women when we actually answer 🌚

#like eye can NOT be the only one who’s noticed #‘reader acting out’ ‘eren or Connie put her in her place 🤪’ #no shade to anybody that writes them but I def peeped #it just seems a lil weird to me idk #cherry chats 🍒 #‘can we get ony correcting reader’s attitude’ 😭 like #give me a mf break dawg #if y’all wasn’t running on anon to send them and then hopping back on main to be messy it wouldn’t be so bad but #it’s a pattern fr

[demiboy-dean-winchester]

captain james t kirk whenever he encounters a misbehaving computer

#star trek #star trek tos #i know this has probably been made a billion times already but i just watched The Ultimate Computer and im noticing a Pattern™️

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i made a mistake of thinking about animatics and rapidly had like 6 songs/scenarios stuck in my head for these two

naturally instead of actually making any animatic i poured all efforts into making mock covers lol

songs/youtube links (for anyone interested):

Jack

Neoni - Loser

Phineas & Ferb (Carl) - I'm evil for extra credit

Imagine Dragons - Enemy (But also for Jack I kinda prefer Annapantsu cover if only for the 'rap' part xD it fits him better imho)

Wuya

K/DA (Evelynn) - Villain

Wander Over Yonder (Dominator) - I'm the bad guy

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H.

#xiaolin showdown #jack spicer #wuya #xs wuya #ngl the ones from cartoon are the easiest to do because the og template is already there so i might end up doing them because #i keep giggling when i imagine scenarios and its just very funny #the others are much harder because i have SUCH imagery in my head... and exactly ZERO skills to make it lol #i dont know how to do video effects TT_TT #ive been drawin these for a month!i wish i could pour even half the effort i gave for mock covers into actually making those animatics #noticing the pattern of having angsty songs for jack and underlining lesbian energy songs for wuya

[we-out-here-simping]

every Steve Harrington fic must have a obligatory segment that just fawns over the boy's freckles and moles tyvm

#i just noticed a pattern in my fics #where the r just dissociates staring at him cuz same #this BOY #i need him so bad #I've never needed a guy this much this BOY #tara talks #steve harrington #steve harrington x reader

[will-pilled]

Why is Angel's SA literally the only one taken "seriously" (if you can even call it that.) Every other one is either made into a joke or punchline (Pent or Mox) or completely ignored and they pretend it isn't happening (Blitz) Why is Angel's the only one that matters???

#Weird pattern I noticed #also Angel seems to be given a free pass to sexually harass Husk #bc he's a victim #like no???? #And then HUSK is blamed when he lashes out #Even though it's a very VERY valid reaction. #hazbin critical #hazbin hotel critical #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #helluva critical #spindlehorse critical #stolas critical #vivziepop critical #vivziepop criticism #hazbin critique #hazbin criticism