#to claim it. idk it seems so pointless but also insidious to me. i hate all of this

[vampire3mpire]

everything about nft art makes me feel so like. fucking hopeless. lol

#like the amount of people willing to do such an insane amount of damage to the environment for a quick buck #and even if it wasnt harmful to the environment the whole concept is just stupid and harmful #like its just a new kind of art elitism and its sooooo fucking pointless #and the whole way its literally just a pyramid scheme to inflate the value of cryptocurrency.... #and how only people who are already well established artists/are wealthy will be able to make any significant money w it..... #and now the whole thing with people like. tokenizing (?) random art that isnt even theirs #so that they can own it and sell it and the original artist might not even be aware that thats happening....... #and you cant even fight this the way that people fought those t shirt bots on twitter last year with disney art #bc if you made a bunch of nfts of disney art yeah that would probably get disney involved and hopefully shut it down but it would be at the #cost of an inhumane amount of energy. so like how do you fight it #idk i hope this dies out soon but if nfts are here to stay i feel like its going to completely decimate online art communities #why even post art online if any random asshole can take it and kind of own it and sell it using an insane amount of pollution #also the concept of like tokenizing things online in general is so fucked up to me #if someone can do it w your art they could do it with like. a picture of your face. or a nude. #like if someone tokenizes something random you post even if they dont make money off of it theyre still like. digitally pissing on it #to claim it. idk it seems so pointless but also insidious to me. i hate all of this #ANYWAYS maybe its just a fad and will be over in a month. i really hope so

[dotthings]

The discourse (I am using that term generously, since the posts on the subect I have seen all seem to be transparent in a self serving clumsy wank agenda) from the bibro/brosonly lanes that virtue signals over Sam and Dean’s sibling bond being “progressive” is one of the more insidious and toxic things that lane has done in 15 years.

First of all: yes, it’s true romances on tv are dime-a-dozen—m/f romances. What are not dime-a-dozen is a queer slow burn love story like Dean and Cas getting its consummation after 12 seasons of immense emotional story arcing. Fans are rightfully criticizing the way 15.20 dropped that relationship off a cliff leaving it with nothing but an infodump to leave the lantern on in the window after the actually progressive 15.18.

The anti-romance rhetoric that cloaks hatred aimed at an actually progressive queer ship isn’t nearly the clever serve the bibro/brosonly lane seems to think it is. You don’t dig romance? Good for you. Quit acting like Destiel is the same as heteronormative defaults.

Secondly: PLATONIC MALE BONDING IS NOT RARE AND UNDER-REPRESENTED IN THE MEDIA. PERIOD. AT NO TIME IN MEDIA HISTORY HAS THIS BEEN NEGLECTED.

What is neglected is m/m romance, especially one as intricate and emotionally intimate and complicated as Dean and Cas’s love story, which went through not only different phases of their relationship, but different stages of how it was handled on the production end of things, with shifting attitudes by the creative team and in the real world. I’ve never seen anything like this. And in-story, few relationships, period, either romantic or platonic, have gotten to me the way Dean and Cas have, and I have shipped some delightful openly canon ships and I adore platonic bonding and team building and guess what I don’t watch ANYTHING for ships. I just don’t. They happen to me, but at no point do I ever see any piece of media I consume as all about just one relationship or just about my favorite ship. Just FYI. Destiel happened to me, and it’s not just the romantic aspect, it’s the emotional one.

As things are, as screwed up as things are, Destiel is a unique depiction in media and I’m sick and tired of seeing that being erased. Theres been so much bullshit falsely depicting what exactly Destiel fandom predominantly was responding to I am ready to scream. Watch the damn canon and actuallly pay attention to Dean and Cas and maybe this won’t be such a ~mystery.

Thirdly: a lot of the pointless, endless grudgewanking from the bibro/brosonly lane right now can be summed up as “the problem with this fandom is that people dared to care about Dean and Cas’s 12 year long immense emotional story with each other, how dare people not pay enough attention to only the brothers in a way that I dictate, how dare they not pay attention to the canon” when Destiel shippers are responding to CANON. But I guess canon isn’t canon any more, canon is “only that stuff I am obsessed with and that queer ship that I irrationally keep hating on isn’t canon because I said so.” And then they tantrum because Destiel shippers won’t comply and have the “right” priorities.

That is gatekeeping 101 and a pitiful effort at that. Come on.

Fourthly: yes Sam and Dean and their bond overturn quite a few toxic masculinity tropes and that is one of the things I have always appreciated about the characters and the show.

*rings bell* guess what, so do Dean and Cas. The relationship is a challenge to toxic masculinity. Each of them is a challenge to toxic masculiniity.

It is also the very definition of toxic masculinity how and why Destiel was silenced for 15.20.

Male siblings openly showing affection is common and non-threatening in media.

Dean and Cas getting to hold each other beyond a “omg thank goodness you aren’t dead!!” hug or “omg pls don’t die” furtive and frantic touch and finally remove the last barriers of misunderstanding and heaven forbid, idk, get to fully consummate their love story in some kind of fashion after 12 seasons of misunderstandings and yearning and love and losing and finding each other again and again, that must stay hidden out of sight.

People need to stop claiming progressiveness as they gloat about that erasure and while they appropriate “ace rep” and “queerplatonic” for a sibling bond. They’re...siblings.

The creative team on the show did their outright best to get the Destiel story told, to make it so it wasn’t silenced. I appreciate that. And I will always always love Dean and Cas’s story and always love this ship. If you’ve decided that love “ruins” the fandom I think you’re a shitty person and I don’t have any interest in sharing a fandom with you nor do I care about impressing some mythical “s*n f*m*ly” ideal about can’t we all just get along. I no longer care.

#mildew #why are people like this why are they always like this!!!