#ummm my opinion on these.

[birdricks]

#rick and morty #the morty one is a joke but also might end up being an actual copium take #also uou alresdy know mine. bitchhhh #im tryyyyyying my best to keep my expectations lol. failing #ooooooh s7 finale give us Anything #ummm my opinion on these. #i actually kidna dont want prime back. i think it wld detract from ricks arc unless they did it some special way #BIRDRICKKKKK. i dont thinkit will happen 💔💔💔 but if it cld at least get mentioned in passing i cld die happy for now #also not a huge believer of swap theory… ive seen like one or two moments where it works well but idk #i dont quite understand what the point of that wld be …..? but who knows maybe #diane… i wlddd like to see her but only in a flashback or smth. and give her some personality #i think theres been enough reminders of her recently …. like her ghost u know. lets get smth Real #altho a possibilty to undo the omega device wld be interesting. but unrealistic i feel #um. yeah. i actually just really want morty to get to Do smth this season #like u know i love rick lore. but we are in DESPERATE need of a morty arc #rnm spoilers

[leensor]

#another one :D #ummm the. in my opinion the pyramid of needs is just one thing and its hand in hair. hair scratches. and thats just the facts #and crowley is a snake so she enjoys sitting in horrible poses. #enjoy <3 #digitalart #painting #digital painting #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens fanart

[rongzhi]

Hi Wawa! I'm curious about a trend in some of the douyins you've posted. It seems like the "punchline" of a lot of them is boys being romantic with each other (like ending up accidentally holding hands or staring into each other's eyes). Sometimes it seems like the script is supposed to be explicitly queer (like that series with the boss and his employee who have the silent conversations). I'm queer and I really like these douyins because I think they're funny and they don't come off as mean-spirited, but I was curious about the cultural context considering China's legal stance on lgbtq+ stuff. Thank you in advance if you can provide some insight!

Well first of all, you have to remember

the internet is more queer friendly than real life

the douyins you see are going to contain a bias from me, the person who is choosing them/reposting them with translations. I am not going to post douyins where being queer is the punchline because that would be absurd and hurtful. I'm only going to post douyins where the queer plot point is unrelated to the actual punchline. For example, in the 双面笑笑 douyins you mentioned, the joke there is supposed to be that workplace dynamic is inappropriate and exploitative, and the 'romance' always has to do with the boss trying to get the employee to work more (which the employee gets suckered into doing).

I answered a similar ask once before, and I stand by what I said there, with the additional emphasis on the fact that there is only so much cultural context I can offer considering I don't live in China.

To add onto it, I would be to stress that it's really a complex and multi-faceted issue on the ground/beyond just government policies or whatever. There is a diverse IRL queer experience in China, just as there is, for example, in the U.S. Depending on where you live and your socioeconomic status, you are going to be more or less burdened by your identity, and it seems (to me, as an observer who doesn’t live in China) that there’s sort of that simultaneous thing of there being continued prejudice at the same time that there is a sense of liberation due to the prevalence of LGBT rep globally/abroad.

↳ For example, I see an argument being made a lot of against gay men marrying/having children with straight women; online, straight and queer people alike will condemn this due to the fact that it is, objectively, unfair to straight women. What I find a bit mysterious is the argument that the gay men feeling pressured into the marriage/family pipeline are doing so out of pure selfishness, and that they should just 'be themselves', as if there isn't HUGE societal pressure in China to get married and have children. Similarly, there seems to be much derision amongst lesbians toward Ts (butch lesbians, approximately) who marry straight men and have children, I'm guessing because they're "visibly queer", although this gets iffy because not all tomboys/masc girls are Ts (i.e, lesbians), but lesbians will naturally feel tricked/betrayed when a masc girl 'profits' (directly/by creating lesbian aesthetics or through being ambiguous/private about their real sexuality) off being appealing to lesbians because she looks like a T, and then turns around and gets married to a guy (and of course, now we get into the subject of bisexuality/bi-erasure/biphobia :S). But I seriously digress.

As for douyin and depicting the queer, there is also some level of what I can best describe as shipping/fujoshi/skinship culture at play? I know tumblr likes to look down on that sort of thing, either as cringe or problematic, but it's quite normal for douyin users to ship IRL douyin users, no matter if m/m, f/f, m/f, etc. (The distinction to note here I guess is that it's quite lighthearted shipping. Sort of like spectating, I guess? Typically people don't read that deeply into it, they just will comment that they ship something if they think there's chemistry there or it'd be cute. There's also a pretty normal phenomenon of fans commenting 'can I ship this?' toward accounts, who generally agree/don't care/reply ambiguously, which is seen as passive approval).

The rise of danmei has helped promote queerness and legitimise/normalise it, but it has also aestheticised it to some degree. It's a similar phenomenon that you see in Western media representation, I feel like. Anecdotally, I've read many a douyin comment section of queer people lamenting that there are straight people using queerness and queer stories and aesthetic to profit, giving nothing back to the actual queer community or to the advancement of queer liberation; again, this is similar to what you can find in the west.

CONCLUSION:

I think I'm starting to lose the plot on this answer a little, so I'll just stop here. Just know that the landscape of queer content on douyin/the Chinese internet is vast and multifaceted, and the queer Chinese community/culture is not going to directly translate to western LGBT™ school of thought/discourse/expectations, though the nature of globalisation is that western discourse has naturally dictated a good portion of LGBT understanding worldwide.

With regards to douyin/Chinese internet depiction of queer "rep", some of it is mean-spirited or at very least, not intentionally mean but still off-putting, either by my personal standards and/or by western (popular discourse?) standards. I just don't post that content because I don't find it worth sharing.

#text #answered ask #long post #will i try to answer the question? yes. will i ramble about other things and potentially forget what i'm supposed to be addressing? yes. #ummm also others feels free to agree or disagree here since i'm literally just talking out my ass. these are just my opinions&observations

[sonknuxadow]

shadow wouldn't be homophobic or transphobic obviously but he was also born on a space station completely separated from earth society and then was asleep for 50 years so i dont think he would be super knowledgeable on lgbt stuff either. i think he would have to have the concept of transgenderism explained to him even though he himself is trans and already transitioned a long time ago

#i imagine sonic or rouge would casually mention being trans and shadow would be like. Wtf is that. #so they explain it to him and then hes like Ohhhh im trans too btw. #he would also have to have the concept of being gay explained to him even though hes literally gay #my opinion on shadow's gender is that gerald originally intended for shadow to be a girl #but as soon as he was introduced to the concept of gender he was like Ummm im a boy actually #so they let him transition but he also didnt know what trans meant he just did it unprompted #and once he started living on earth he would learn what nonbinary means and decide he is also nonbinary #maria is still the one who named him btw. normally i would say all the sonic characters chose their own names #but i am obsessed with that one sonic channel comic that said maria was the one who named shadow while he was still in the tube

[ritsukaaoyagi]

#loveless #agatsuma soubi #aoyagi ritsuka #yun kouga #ummm so... this is from a doujinshi by yun that's otherwise not at all interesting besides this one panel. IN MY OPINION #he's just sad because he had a nightmare that there were 40 ritsukas and one of them died or something

[gildedmuse]

Ahh, what a cute scene in the middle of so much violence and drama. I wonder what these little sweeties wished for.

["What did you wish for this year, darling?" / " For life to stop sucking. Why? What did you wish for? Magic fairy dust? Don't be an idiot, we all know this place is deep in the shit."]

I mean, I DEFINITELY know what hers was. I mean just look at that sweet, innocent face.

[Let the fire consume. Let it make ash of the immoral, the unkind and sunder their souls to the ever burning planes. Rebirth is on its way but first we must make a blood sacrifice to the eternal flame.]

.... She's not wrong.

#flower Capital #it can be a place of harsh truths #not like the fire #the fire is the only true truth #Ummm hon.... #hey did the fire ask your opinion #plebs #I have never seen a child so enchanted by fire and my next door neighbor once burn down a construction site #he was like 8 so it was an accident #hers is definitely not. #one piece #shimotsuki toko #can't figure out if I'm misremembering or spelling them it wrong #one piece otoko #where is her tag!? #she probably burned it in the spreading blaze actually #look at her face #that checks out #wano arc #reaction post #queue it up

[enigmaticemperor]

Headcanon that Ginny was Head Girl in the year after the war as she understands (and lived) what the students went through the past year and she could help them cope with it. Ginny is a leader of the DA (and a natural leader who people choose to listen to) and is known to give amazing advice. Ginny was one of the people the students looked to and looked up to during that period. Also, she bounced back from a traumatic experience with the diary. She knows how to deal with situations like this and would make a wonderful Head Girl, as Hogwarts begins its recovery.

#ginny weasley #ginny potter #ginevra molly weasley #ginevra weasley #ginny as head girl #she'd be the best Head Girl ever #hinny #HeadGirl! Ginny #Dont forget that she's a quidditch captain too #haters can hate all they want #but ginny is perfect for that role in my eyes #post DH #pre epilogue #headcanon #harry potter headcanon #ummm.....unpopular opinion?

[bulletsgirl]

ppl straight up invent things to argue about online its insane

#the way ppl are making posts about what is the wrong or right way to talk about gerards gender is ummm. weird? #as long as ppl arent saying theyre cis. i literally do not think it matters #bc theyve described themselves as extremely distant/unrelated to masculinity #they have gender dysphoria #they said they heavily identify with the female gender for christs sake. Please stop acting like ppl are 'wrong' for calling them trans #i dont think they wouldve said all these things if they didnt want to be associated with transgenderism and gendernonconformity in general #i just find it really weird and suspicious when ppl are very insistent that someone isnt called trans. and in this case wayyy more so. #whatever gerard is feeling or identifies as . almost all of these words and terms are probably synonymous or directly related to it #i dont like that its this big huge weird 'labeling' discourse. touch grass #anyway. just my transgender/gnc opinion. #saw one too many posts about it and its starting to really tick me off #describing something as trans joy isnt a crime.

[misterradio]

i dont remember much of the star wars movies even tho i watched the original 3 like 2 years ago. but i just remember there was a scene where luke and vader r walking down a hallway side by side and it made me feel shrimp emotions

#they were father and son btw. <- i know every1 and fheir dog knows this but watching it feels so different #original nonsense #personal #i kind of wish i had an opinion on these movies but they were kind of just okay. they were fun. whatever. #ummm i remember watching part of the 5th or 6th movie recently and it was like dammmmn this sucks so bad lol #aaaand i remember i was little i liked darth maul cuz i thought he was cool and scary. but i dont think i watched any #movie with him in it EXCEPT the scene where like. his limbs are cut off? and he dies? and i was like wow that's f--ked. #so i guess my star wars opinion is that its overrated BUT i wouldve liked to see more weird father son dynamic of vader and luke. #I have no idea why im thinking of this at all. btw.

[bluebeetle]

even after years continuing my trend of most people on here only ever talking to me to correct me on stuff -_-

#txt #wouldnt be so annoyed if it iddnt happen multiple times today... i know they dont mean anything by t usually it just gets frustrating yknow #when 90% of messages or @'s i get are 'ur wrong'.... and its not like i go out o my way to talk authoritatively on stuff... #barely even feel like sharing my opinion on stuff half the time bc then i always get someone being like ummm ur wrong actually #or talking about symbolism or history or something in a piece of media.... #sighs.

[panvani]

No one's talked about that before

#logxx #I love posts that are like Ummm why isn't anyone talking about [literally least controversial most agreed upon opinion on piece of media] #That post about staring at a painting and going Why isn't anyone talking about how they used paint for this #Also Yearnt... #My beautiful son Yearnt... #This is me being a needless hater tho Mostly I just love the word Yearnt...

[rainworld-enot]

Since you replied, I'll elaborate (jk, I was gonna do that anyways) enot's funky little trait is spawning those singularity eggs every cycle, so if enot was engineered by an iterator, it's obviously meant to be ascendy. but the egg doesn't actually permakill or ascend anyone, so it's a failure. But it does succeed in a different way. It warps reality! this is best showed in the dating sim thing, as every time the egg is used, or cracked, it causes some pretty weird reality-bending (in one case, just making a whole new universe) in the standard game it just acts like a regular singularity bomb, but you could also interpret that the weirdness of the Enot campaign is due to the egg's influence. Enot on their own is (mostly) like a regular slugcat. It's when they bring along the egg that things get all funky and, of course, the dating sim setting itself! you unlock it by ascending as Enot, which implies that rather than truly ascending, they ended up resetting the cycles in a new alternate universe or timeline, and the routes where they end up using the egg causes further weirdness... and most notably, Saint knows about this and has tried to break the cycles using it! it's implied it just resets the cycle instead, though. So, thanks to enot your au could technically be cannon! (Thx to bluenightold for putting this in my brain. And sorry that this is excessively long :( )

You're good with having it really long- I like reading people's rambles as a whole!

Void in general causes reality warping properties, we can see this in general with echos, singularity bombs, and karma flowers which all have void fluid in them from what we can see of the effects.

Even Rubicon has this odd effect of changing properties of things, and is probably closer to the void freaking the fuck out from Saint... Saint-ness. We can see the creatures with void in them as a whole tend to have a lot more energy and movement. given the destruction too it's likely that void has a stupid amount of energy but also highly corrosive by all means.

It's very interesting as a whole, given the fact this means there's an unnatural vs natural power sources issue within the game and likely has been in affect in the past given that the emergency power batteries (known as Rarefaction cells)! which act nearly exactly like singularity cells if destroyed via a leviathan if not a bit worse. probably a bit more of the aftershock (best word to use I suppose) is affected and twisted much worse to the point where artificer can not survive the aftershocks... but given it's literally warping everything with the amount of energy produced, it's like a much worse version of breaking the wind barrier in a way. Probably a very painful death given everything.

Saint is definitely fucked up! and I love it. it's very fun to imagine the relationship of em in my own hc and aus of these lil guys :)!!

#ooc #I FORGOT ABOUT THIS IN THE ASK BOX I APOLOGIZE SKAHJDHDS but!! #Enot is technically NOT canon at all but like... #I like Enot. Enot is fun <3 #I typically don't ramble as much because low energy + most of the time it's literal nonsense to others #also adhd is a hell and makes my brain full of words faster than it can process in a sensible way #I probably COULD say things about my thoughts on SOS but uhhh ummm hmmm hmmrrrghh I do not think... I should given something I'm doing #If you're not one of the 3 players you shouldn't worry about it... <3 #I don't think they all follow this blog anyways lmao but not taking chances. but vague words about it is enough to be said #literally my thoughts on rw's whole cycling thing is sooo fun tho. it's like when you disable a stupid ass system issue and eventually #have to deal with it again... every time. ... *looks to intel graphics on like my normal tablet...* #but yeah anyways literally everyone ever is allowed to send me rambles and stuff I do enjoy reading others people stuff a LOT #shout out to me wanting to kill... maybe even maim vegas a bit for making it a PAIN in my opinion as a whole when I animated that lil saint #thing that oddly blew up for what it was but that's on me and anyways it was a test animation as a whole but man.. that's on me a bit huh. #Enot takes place between Arti and Hunter #I should state that!!! I feel like it's a bit weird to bring it up but like... it's a fun fact imo.

[violetshine-appreciation]

"violetshine is boring/poorly written bc xyz" actually ur wrong. u dont Get her like i do. u dont Understand. u will NEVER be her (unlike me)

#mod meows #violetshine #i will concede that hollyleaf is very poorly written even tho i love her to pieces and kin her #but the fact that ppl think violet is poorly written just. ASTOUNDS me #like ofc ur allowed to have opinions. but ummm all of my violetshine opinions r automatically correct soooo

[nemofil]

besties i’m back. resurrected as super danganronpa another 2 trash more bullshit under the cut 

#COME ON I WAS SO PROUD FOR NOT GETTING INTO IT anyways #sdra2 #super danganronpa another 2 #nikei yomiuri #My comfort character! He literally ruined several lives because of his thirst for power and validation! #controversial opinion but he is a very acquired taste. It took me until the end of sdra2 to like him #and its only because he was emotionally unavailable and afraid of failure lol #also setsunikei is fucking adorable #i'd make setsunikei content but ummm I fell off #i feel bad for everyone who followed me for hollow knight content #but also Haha . Watch my ffffartganronpa

[trentskis]

im a big fan of making your own post

[chalkeater]

Im soo happy i made the art of the height comparisons thing but oh my god some people are just So Wrong about the canon heights or are completely misunderstanding the SIMPLE point/joke/au/headcanon whatever- i was TRYING to make. Like on one hand i totally agree that yeah youre right Noelle isnt THAT SHORT im 6’2 and she’s 6’0. Monsters are just tall in my source but if people are gonna agree with me they should at least not be wrong about it .. how many times do i have to read “good headcanon but its not canon” girl its my little personal joke and indulgent thing “um Noelle is actually taller than susie anyway” no Count the pixels?? “youre wrong noelle is canonically shorter-“ im not stupid im just suggesting people consider a little fun idea that isn’t canon on purpose

#REMEMBER HOW I MAKE ART FOR FREE i think twitter users should pay me $5 per random opinion they out on my art #at least on tumblr everyone seems to be understanding that its a fun idea and not me TRYING TO SAY #‘ummm guys i think Tobey fox means that Noelle is taller’ im not BLIND i know how to compare sprites #ok ill be normal and CALM #i know this is probably bad timing bc i noticed i got an influx of followers on this blog JUST now bc i linked to my post #but like guys i promise im not dumb … orz . #i love getting comments from twitter its really fun but this is one of the only pieces of art i made where its been a little annoying #seeing people ASSUME what i think CANON genuinely is or misinform canon and theyre literally wrong #talking #feel free to ignroe me #im still really appreciative about everything its just like.. #also the urge to correct people has been so strong #like i said Noelle is taller/im shorter #i didnt say im SHORT PER SAY im stil 6’2 #but yeah ik twitter doesnt know that #guys im this close to making a ‘my canon height chart so you all stop pointing at me’ drawing #im GOOD btw i dont hate anyone #i just like. ive been thinking about this for 2 days straight and i needed to yell about it Somewhere #this is why my twitter notifs arent always on #fandom artist but at What Cost really #and people telling me im Wrong when i was just being Silly