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lord-squiggletits · 20 days

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Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).

And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.

IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.

So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.

Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....

There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).

It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.

I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.

At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care

TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence

#squiggposting #idw op love #like honestly just admit that you havent actually read his parts of the story #or that in a continuity of moral grayness you insist OP must be the one person who's perfectly good #bc idk Optimus is supposed to be good and perfect bc nostalgia/marketing/mythology says he should be #also i feel like theres evidence here of a very juvenile mindset of like #to be good a person has to have all the right beliefs and say it in all the right ways #which is the mindset only extremely insular or inexperienced ppl could possibly have lmao #heartbreaking i know but IRL there are very few people who are and always have been progressive and perfect #there are ppl within progressive mvmts that have unaddressed harmful beliefs outside of their Chosen Issue #there are people who wouldnt ID as progressive at all but are still good ppl who act well towards others #like if youve actually interacted with ppl IRL you understand that if you reject everyone who isnt Perfectly Progressive #youll have few if any allies and possibly alienate ppl who would help/ARE HELPING #like idk do you know how many ppl i personally know who i think have some bigoted/problematic beliefs #but im still friends or collaborators w them bc i understand that theyre still good ppl learning and growing #like. learn to understand that 'goodness' doesnt always look like a walking leftist textbook please i'm begging #and in fact sometimes stories. esp adult and mature ones. will present you w problematic ppl #and you have to like. grapple with their flaws and explore the tension between intention and consequences #a bit of a philosophy tangent rather than anything TF related which is why i kept it to the tags

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filthforfriends · 4 months

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I know that we mustn't judge people by the meme pages they follow but couldn't help feel a little weird about damiano following a meme page making misogynistic and fatphobic jokes some of them even homophobic... I usually dont go through anyone's following list but i was trying to find the page of a Japanese artist that Damiano used to share posts onto his story from, a few years ago. I stumbled upon this meme page instead.

No, no. In this house we absolutely judge people by the meme pages they follow. Especially on their public, professionally curated, extremely popular insta.

Anon, I was fully ready to go spelunking for you. I scrolled to the very bottom to see what garbage he liked at age 16 which was totally unnecessary. Because he just recently followed ravidememe! Who posts some stuff like this:

But a whole lot of mainstream misogynistic, toxic, and woefully unoriginal shit like this:

And occasionally something truly abhorrent like a Napalm joke.

Apologies for the google translate. The page is Italian so I’m sure I’m missing a lot of problematic cultural references too. But this one I got:

“Milanese women” = women from Milan. Damiano’s ex of 6 years is from Milan and moved to Rome to be with him.

P.S. I will only respond to claims that this is solely the translations fault if you can give me a thorough explanation for each instance.

#📩 Maybe he didn’t see the “Milanese” post.#🙎🏻‍♀️ Maybe. But he saw the other ones which is why he followed.#📩 Maybe he only saw the political posts.#🙎🏻‍♀️ lol #📩 Relax! He’s just following an Italian meme page it’s not that deep.#🙎🏻‍♀️ He followed ravidememe bcus he enjoyed/identified w the humor enough to compromise his meticulously curated public image.#📩 They’re probably irl friends and that’s why he’s following.#🙎🏻‍♀️ That’s worse.#📩 Let it go this isn’t hurting anyone.#🙎🏻‍♀️ Him following this page gives these attitudes credibility & all kinds of visibility.#(cont.) Impressionable fans are gonna see these posts & internalize + accept this treatment.#📩 Literally why are you so mad?#🙎🏻‍♀️ Finding this stuff funny indicates that beneath his seemingly evolved values Damiano is just as bigoted as your average dude.#(cont.) = aspects of his allyship performative for marketability = profit. Made $ caring more than he actually does.#📩Woah! Just because someone finds something funny doesn’t mean they AGREE with it!#🙎🏻‍♀️ Possibly. But it means he isn’t meaningfully offended when he damn well should be.#📩 Gen Z are just offended by everything! Get a life!#🙎🏻‍♀️ This post is literally about a Gen Z-er making offensive jokes. Try again next time.#📩 It’s cultural! These comments aren’t offensive in Italy!#🙎🏻‍♀️ I am going to enjoy watching your compatriots come for your throat #that should just about cover it

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bellamysgriffin · 5 months

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since today seems to be the day for tswift hot takes MY taylor swift hot take is that i really don’t think celebrities/pop stars need to be politically active or outspoken beyond using their platforms responsibly. it’s great if they choose to, but it is by no means a profession i would expect to have any authority on political issues and the growing demand for this change in the last decade is to me a bit silly because why are we going to actors from CW shows for updates on geopolitics?

that said! when taylor swift decided to release an entire documentary about her decision to use her voice for political change and titled it MISS AMERICANA of all things, she set a different standard for herself that she clearly wasn’t ready to meet. it’s very fair to expect taylor to make posts on issues like black lives matter and the like (i mention blm specifically bc her silence during the 2020 protests was particularly noticeable), when she frames herself as a committed agent of change.

now, i don’t think she’s a malicious person, but she seems to lack a certain self awareness, particularly when it comes to political issues. because i think her decision to tell people to vote blue was — to her — a monumental one. i am sure it felt huge. but when it’s less than what most celebrities do at a bare minimum, to portray that decision as her entry into activism only to remain largely as apolitical as she has been before opened her up to a lot of well-deserved criticism.

and that brings me to my final point in that i think taylor swift, as someone who is politically unsavvy, has trouble understanding issues in ways that don’t affect her directly. in her song about gay rights, you need to calm down, she spends the first half of the song talking about haters coming at her on the internet, and then later compares that to rampant homophobia. tswift is someone who has very clearly faced a lot of misogynistic narratives throughout her career, but even the misogyny tswift experiences is very different than the misogyny ur average white woman in america experiences, and you can tell when she talks about it. her critiques of sexism almost entirely have to do with reputation, media commentary, and slut-shaming. non-famous women experience that, of course, but things like workplace discrimination, sexual harassment culture, the wage gap, etc. are not things she talks about. she notices how she herself is treated, but struggles pivoting that perspective to the average woman.

tldr: i think a lack of self awareness truly makes tswift oblivious to where this criticism about her apolitical behavior is coming from, and that’s why her documentary was, in many ways, a tone deaf, foolish move.

#dana rants #i also think her political unsavviness explains the m*tty h*aley sitch #we all are familiar with super bigoted guys in leftist spaces #but frankly he’s far more politically outspoken on liberal topics than her #so im sure she was surprised/confused that people called her out for dating him despite his bigotry #bc she went well he’s a liberal should be safe and didn’t pay attention beyond that #taylor swift

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diluc33rpm · 3 months

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the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

#i love gale he doesn't deserve (most of) the incel slander #but it's painfully such a good riff because it really really does feel like that #the player choices being a b/w alternation between 'hey there' and 'YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!' normally is already comical as is #the fact that it carries over into interactions with the party members who you're presumably trying to be close with is... something else #and what makes it worse is it ISN'T jokey hyperbole. anyone remember 'send a mental image of you kissing him or HIS HEAD ON A PIKE.' c'mon #trying to chat and vibe at the refugee camp celebration and the sum of conversation i get is one (1) line asking how they're doing #because going any further than that elicits marking you down for the path of boning take it or leave it #it's genuinely so hard to get to feel like you can deepen a relationship with the characters in ways that aren't trying to pursue them #yes! halsin! i really want to know you better! i just don't want the ass!! why is trying to hit the only option other than up and leaving!!#99% of the time i expect nothing from media creators in terms of writing interactive relationships #larian are beyond parody in that they've somehow managed to do worse than the already suboptimal majority #we're just going to impose the roadblock of do you want to fuck y/n right off the bat. good luck finding a way to talk around that if not #the obscuration surrounding where exactly the checks are really does not help at all either #when the shit's got even the allos complaining about it you know it's BAD #shame because i was excited for character scenes given that's a lot of what's hyped up about the game #but no it's all just the romances. 'what if i'd like to breathe in someone's general direction-' well now have you heard of our romances?#fish fear them party members fear them and tav is going to have to walk alone on this sinful earth #conservative bigoted relative at the family reunion withers era was a fucking time before they tweaked that line speaking of #just so crazy they can get away with this shit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 liveblog

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bossbabykinnie · 12 days

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Genuinely cannot tell if I'm just being overly sensitive here but I feel as though wayyyy too many people (esp. on the hbh subreddit) are too comfortable being saneist towards Rowan... it's like an "are we watching the same show!?" moment

#heartbreak high spoilers #rowan callaghan #im not even saying they cant dislike him. i said thats fair bcs hes not the most well written imo #i just said they should refrain from calling him a 'psycho'; 'insane'; or other iterations derogatorily #watching a show about understanding and acceptance only to then turn around and be a bigot is soooo funny LOL

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ashleyetc · 1 month

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hey has robin williams been dead long enough that we can acknowledge that he fucking loved punching down at trans women like, way past just mrs doubtfire? its like every fucking thing that asshole ever touched has to have some ad libbed jab at us its fucking jarring to be watching like dead poets or good will hunting and he still fucking squeezes it in. profoundly hateful man but against a demographic nobody sees as like people worthy of respect so he gets lauded as a wonderful treasure instead of some guy who told jokes that were often quite pointedly cruel

#mutual of mine (well. former for obvious reasons) posted a photoset of him in a cheerleading uniform and its like gee i wonder what the joke #may be meant to be. i wonder if perhaps this isnt the bold gnc man rep you are pretending it is and in fact might be profoundly hateful #straight up i am glad he killed himself i love when bigots self remove and if you think i should feel bad about that join him

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threewaysdivided · 2 years

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At the heart of it, something - maybe the thing - that really hurts me about what became of the animated Young Justice show is the way later seasons are contemptuously cynical-bordering-on-hateful towards the ideals of heroism set out by its own first season.

In Season 1, Superman states that the Justice League of Earth-16 upholds the ideals of Truth, Liberty and Justice. And yet, the thing the characters from Season 2 onwards can be most reliably expected to do is lie.

They lie constantly, for ill-justified, often-selfish reasons, with the intent to control and manipulate their peers (and civilians), in ways that betray and endanger people who trust them. And when confronted they refuse to hold themselves accountable, at best giving lip-service apologies that are rendered meaningless by them continuing the same behaviours in later episodes/ seasons.

That is mind-numbingly awful. The S2+ iterations of these characters have not only failed to embody their own series’ stated ideals of heroism, but have so consistently acted antithetically to them that, if placed into almost any other hero story (or even their own first season), they would at best be tragic dire-warning fallen heroes, and at worst be insidious Justice Lord-style villains.

Not only that but later seasons seem almost personally vindictive towards the specific ideals and aspirations of the individual characters:

The Dick Grayson of Season 1 was openly afraid to become someone who would sacrifice others for the sake of the mission. And yet the Nightwing of S2 onwards is forcibly re-written as a compulsively dishonest manipulator who pointlessly conceals information and concocts callous sacrifice-plans by default. (‘Dick Grayson is a pathological liar’ becoming a fandom meme.)

The Bruce Wayne of Season 1 openly admitted that he didn’t want Dick to become too like him, and was invested in the emotional wellbeing of the proteges. And yet the Batman of S2 onwards is rewritten to actively enable Nightwing becoming exactly that; an approving co-conspirator who praises him for the ‘respect’ he now commands.

The Kaldur’ahm of Season 1 was concerned that he behaved too much like a soldier to be an effective leader, while worrying about the possible damage he might do by forcing that mantle onto Robin too soon. And yet the Kaldur of S2 onwards is rewritten to be unfit for every leadership position the show arbitrarily hands him, specifically because he consistently enables Nightwing to use him as a soldier in plans that go against every principle the Team once stood for.

The M’gann M’orzz of Season 1 was terrified of creating a situation where her powers would hurt the people she cares about. And yet the Miss Martian of S2 onwards is re-written to intentionally misuse and abuse her powers; violating Conner’s boundaries, manipulating him, Garfield, Artemis and others, and destroying the minds of people she has decided are her enemies.

The Conner Kent of Season 1 wanted to know what it meant to be Superman while not wanting to be treated as a weapon. And yet the Superboy of S2 onwards is never given a meaningful personal or professional relationship with Superman on screen, while being used as a pawn and a tool by teammates who constantly lie to him, with the writing putting the burden on him to accept and forgive this mistreatment. (The show itself being unable to fully pretend that his and Miss Martian’s rewritten relationship isn’t abusive).

The Artemis Crock of Season 1 was desperate to become her own hero and define herself by something other than her criminal family. And yet the Tigress of S2 onwards is forcibly narratively separated from her ‘new family’ and defined primarily by her relationship to her biological family and brother-in-law, while being narratively punished for and written to regret every show of agency that doesn’t involve retiring from heroism to become a subservient trad-wife to either Wally or Red Arrow (because Greg Weisman is a misogynist).

The Wally West of Season 1 was a character who questioned the objectivity of others and learned to appreciate that the value of heroism was helping people. And yet the Kid Flash of S2 onwards is rewritten to be a jaded cynic who decides heroism isn’t worth it (in order to remove him from the narrative), is rudely dismissed by Nightwing when he attempts to question the plan, has his cynicism validated when he is killed in a twist to hurt the audience, and after which is only grieved in superficial ways as the others use his death to justify actions he would never have stood for.

The Zatanna Zatara of Season 1 was insecure about living up to her father’s legacy, especially after losing him to the Helmet of Fate. And yet the Zatanna of S2 onwards is never allowed to heal from that loss or grow into a magician in her own right, instead being relegated to a support character who is arbitrarily handed whatever magical abilities are needed to solve plot problems, uses her powers to manipulate others, and is primarily defined as either Nightwing’s ex-lover or by her Father (because, again, misogynist).

The Roy Harper of Season 1 was a proud character driven to prove his worthiness for League membership, only to be shaken by the reveal that he was a Cadmus sleeper agent. And yet, the Red Arrow of S2 onwards is never allowed a satisfying on-screen arc about identity or self; instead being used first as a prop to introduce Arsenal and then as a surrogate-Wally for Nightwing and strong-male-provider for Tigress to fall into the arms of (oh right, the misogyny).

Even the Team as a unit, the bonds between them, the themes of trust and communication, and everything they worked to achieve in Season 1 is systematically torn apart and undone across Invasion and Outsiders in a way that feels almost intentionally cruel.

I’ve heard people compare Young Justice to Dreamwork’s Voltron, and while that is a fair comparison, I think Young Justice is actually worse. Voltron managed to sustain itself for 3 seasons before gradually falling apart over another 4, and - while it was tragic in the loss of its theme, abandoning of stakes, failure to conclude character arcs and weakening of cast bonds - it never felt like the Paladins were intentionally hypocritical to the point of being toxic for one another, or like they were a threat to the fundamental ideals of the Lion corps.

Meanwhile the core cast of Young Justice have been so consistently re-written to betray each other’s trust and their own explicitly stated values while never taking ownership of or changing their behaviour (no matter how many times they are confronted over it or see it hurt others) that eventually you stop wanting them to succeed and start wanting them to fail just for there to be some accountability. And when that doesn’t happen (because the showrunners and executives don’t see a problem with selfish, dishonest, unjust behaviour) you almost start wanting them to die, if only because death would be a kinder fate than being forced to exist as a corrupted parody of everything they never wanted to become.

And if Earth-16 is a world where fundamental heroic ideals like compassion, honesty, respect and accountability are sneered at as childish things that cannot survive into adulthood? If this is their reimagining of Dick Grayson - a character who in many stories is so meant to embody the ideals of heroism that any world in which he is a good person is worth saving? Then, frankly, Darkseid can have this one and good riddance.

This is what I mean when I say that Young Justice only truly has one season. Season 1 is a very distinctive and separate product to the rest: a sum total of its entire production and executive team. To me, it was the last breath of a golden age of DC TV-animation, with heavy creative input from DC/Cartoon Network old-guard members like Jay Oliva and Michael Chang (a pair of directors who were prominently involved in the Teen Titans animated series, and who together directed over 75% of YJS1 - each individually handling more episodes than any of the writers, including Greg Weisman).

And then a change came and we see those old-guard creatives disappear from the credits of S2 onwards.

It feels like the new production/executive teams hated what Young Justice Season 1 was. It’s kind of an open secret that multiple Cartoon Network shows were cancelled around that time due to a combination of poor toy sales (partially resulting from the low quality/ limited variety of official merchandise) and for having too much ‘four quadrants appeal’, especially when it came to drawing in unexpected numbers of older female viewers. (There’s this deeply stupid marketing idea that shows which attract an audience outside of their intended demographic are “internally competing” with and drawing profit/ sales away from shows aimed at those other demographics). That might also explain why Oliva, Chang and other old-guard members dropped from the production, since Teen Titans seems to have been one of the other shows under fire. This is just speculation but it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Young Justice Season 1 was up for cancellation and - instead of just dropping the show and launching a new one - the decision was made to cancel it in all but name; gutting everything that actually made it what it was and repurposing the brand identity and visual aesthetic to take advantage of an established audience.

We never really got a genuine narrative continuation of Season 1. What we got was a series of In Name Only sequels, designed to sell merchandise, subscriptions and comics, by new production/executive teams that wanted the show to be anything other than itself. And, in repurposing the title to sell a set of antithetical stories as sequels, those later seasons destroyed any future possibility to actually see that original story continued or concluded.

This is why I haven’t watched Season 4, why I won’t be using any of it in my own fandom stuff (and why I’m low-key kind of offended by its premise). It’s existence is creatively bankrupt; I’ve talked about it here but the showrunners and production/executive teams have so thoroughly dissembled every piece of narrative mechanics that there simply isn’t a story or stakes to carry it. And the claims that Phantoms was going to return to the original team or that ‘this has always been their story’ are blatantly exploitative. This is a show that has had nothing but condescending cynicism-bordering-on-hatred for its own starting point. Its second and third season have done everything they could to deny these characters their arcs, undercut their values and walk back everything they once worked to achieve. If the showrunners and new production teams had ever sincerely cared about this story, its themes or its stated ideals of heroism then they would never have re-written them in such a fundamentally contemptuous way. We would never have been given Invasion and we certainly wouldn’t have been given Outsiders. So for Phantoms to try to crawl back; to make one final grasp at profit by pretending to care about characters and a season it has done nothing but cynically undermine and misrepresent… it’s emblematic of the kind of bald-faced dishonesty and manipulativeness that has destroyed this show from the inside out.

From a narrative perspective, Young Justice only has one season: the original Oliva-Chang directed season, by a production/executive team that genuinely seemed to care about who its heroes were, understood the ideals they stood for, and made a sincere effort to tell a good story.

But it has been followed by a corrupted, soulless parody of everything it never wanted to become: full of hypocritical, unjust strangers-wearing-familiar-faces, written to unapologetically do things that they know to be wrong in service of a product which is contemptuously cynical-bordering-on-hateful towards the ideals of truth, liberty and justice.

A show that now hates everything it used to stand for.

And it just about makes you want to cry.

#Young Justice #Young Justice Revival #Young Justice Critical #young justice salt #YJ essays collection #3WD #Once again back on my bullsh*t (hate that for me) but at least I have articulated Thee Problem #To the anon who was asking whether I was going to use any of the S4 Martian Stuff in my meta or fanfic #I couldn’t find a concise/direct way to answer you but this will hopefully explain why not #This series makes me so sad - it is actively hateful to all the parts of itself that I love #And it is SO nakedly exploitative and dishonest #This condescending hatefulness towards both the idea of heroism and fans who loved it is what made me drop DC #The worst part of Young Justice is that it honestly feels like the OG Season 1 Team might rather have died than become what they did #YJS2+ comes across as uncomfortably right-wing/ republican #In the way it normalises/ valorises abuses of power and presumes that people are selfish/ toxic/ exploitative by default #And some of that is that Grimdark (S2+) often resonates with the right-wing where Hopepunk (S1) resonates with the left-wing #But it is also very consistent with unpleasant patterns in Greg Weisman’s recent works and professional conduct #If you’re wondering why the characters do things they should know to be wrong while refusing to apologise or change the behaviour #Well… it’s very similar to Weisman’s own professional M.O.#He has been criticised for conservative/ overtly bigoted writing across several IPs at this point #and has generally responded to those criticisms in a very disingenuous and bad-faith way #that tries to downplay/ miscontextualise/ blame-shift/ paint himself as victimised #even as he performs faux-progressive social media allyship for publicity #It reminds me a lot of JK Rowling and Butch Hartman prior to their twitter-meltdowns so watch for that as his star falls #Also I hate how Weisman and Cartoon Network seemingly killed YJ by design #Cartoon Network/ WB by not investing in better quality merchandise that would attract more sales #And Weisman as part of a seemingly recurring strategy #Where he carves huge gaps in his narratives in order to create demand for separate purchase side-content promising to fill those gaps #(content for which he would likely be entitled to a larger split of profits as head writer on a smaller team. Absolute grifter behaviour)#Anyway to me the Oliva-Chang productions team’s canon is the only canon There Is No War In Ba Sing Se

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eggsnatcheskneecaps · 1 year

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#everyone in the fam except my father has been 0 contact with the grandparents (father's parents) for a long time #they are shitty people. bigoted. abusive. among other things #he's still been going to see them at the village and on his last trip (just yesterday or two days ago)#my sibling sent him a text with a list of things they've done towards him #well. my father confronted them about the list and they denied everything and hsd a fight #so he left. and today we've been called up and asked to go out for quality time. a restaurant. a park. something #this is the most he's ever done to stand up for us... idk. it's bittersweet.#it's progress. should have been earlier. but better than never.#egg.txt #vent #???#discusses heavy topics tho

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piplupod · 9 months

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racist homophobic misogynist uncle and boomer granddad are going to be here again this evening -_-

#also we're going to the lake today which is ... exciting idk fdsjkl #i am bringing sketchbook and podcasts bc i did not sleep well so idk if i want to spend much time in the water sdfjkl #trying to brace myself for tonight but i really just cannot fsdjkl it was SO BAD LAST TIME Y'ALL #he was saying shit about how white privilege is a load of woke bullshit and that homosexuals shouldnt exist #AND I KNOW THATS LIKE. 101 BIGOT TERRITORY. BUT GODDD my fragile constitution cannot handle it rn honestly #plus theres some personal hurt of like. my mother just expects us to all smile and nod and she will just keep conversing w him #and not attempt to chnage the subject even ??? so this is like ''this is okay and acceptable that he thinks you shouldn't exist :)''#coward behaviour on her part. with a mix of her own bigotry lol bc she has essentially told me i shouldnt exist before so 👍👍👍#idk i just feel so weak and stupid for not being able to grin and bear it easily like i am just so weak idk. other ppl have it so much wors #this shouldnt be so hard to handle fdsjkl i should be able to be around this for a couple nights and not tear my hair out #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

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kyuala · 2 years

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HE TOLD US HE'D BE BACK!! YOU CAN'T BURY THE LEFT WING IN THIS COUNTRY

#you guys brazil's history in the last 10 or so years have been so fucking insane #what started as a general discontentment over a rise in the public transport fare prices somehow turned into #an unprecedented reactionary extremist right-wing wave that only got worse and worse through the years #our first and only woman president suffered a literal coup and in the 2 years we were governed by the mild right #a politician who did nothing - and i do not say this lightly - literally NOTHING in like 20 years as a deputy gained so much popularity and #social media attention using nothing but hate speech fake news and the instrumentalization of the Christian faith and masses #somehow won over the public opinion - thru dishonesty n prejudice that's how - and was elected president. that's bols*naro #his mandate was marked by lies prejudice incompetence and negligence. thousands of ppl were literally dying in brazil everyday bc of covid #and u know what he did? mocked them. said he wasn't an undertaker so it wasn't his problem. mocked ppl's difficulty to breathe. caused a #animosity in the population against SCIENCE and health organizations. schemed to overprice when buying vaccines when companies were willing #to give them to us literally for free so the government could cash in. not to mention he dismantled federal operations against crime just #bc they were the left-wing govt's legacy he messed with the legitimacy of the federal police when it went after his sons he created a #scheme to divert public money into politician's pockets instead of employing the resources in u know. the public collective well-being #his govt created a law to protect said politicians and hide the money for 100 FUCKING YEARS from public records #the lost money already amounts to over 65 billion reais. that's roughly 12 billion dollars in taxpayers money. all lost #and he and his supporters have the NERVE to say he's an honest man. that he's a Christian. that he represents goodness.#when he did nothing but spew lies and prejudice and kill us and fuck us over the past 4 years.#his government is the definition of fear politics and necropolitics. it's a stain in the fabric of our country's history. it's never been #anything but a threat to our democracy. our senate n house of deputies r filled with bigoted extremist right-wingers now. but we have hope #now we can have hope! lula has been dishonest and corrupt in the past. he should pay for what he's done like almost every single high #ranking politician in this country should. but not like it was done! after they staged a coup against his ally they unjustly arrested and #convicted him SPECIFICALLY so he couldn't run for president. they KNEW our country would choose him. if he was free bols*naro would've #NEVER won. he's wrong and corrupt and now a convicted criminal turned free man but he represents our country and our democracy!#he's always been our only hope! he's not the right choice but the only choice. and that's how now we have - for the 1st time in history #- not only a president serving a historical THIRD mandate but a president who was arrested and freed between mandates #which is. fucking insane if u ask me #also blsnr is the first president ever in the history of brazil to not be able to be reelected lmfao fucking loser #what's also historical is our divide. lula won by 1.8% can u IMAGINE how split the public opinion is rn #but we won! and we're free of this vermin and on our way to rebuild our country. and i couldn't be happier or feel lighter #and not to mention they tried to stage another covert coup literally during the voting process today 😶‍🌫️ but anyways

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theghostofashton · 2 years

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#a part of me feels like a lot of terminally online stuff these days is really out of touch #and like yeah the arguments people get into online are so stupid in the grand scheme of things #but i keep seeing people act like homophobia isn't a big deal for mlm anymore like we've moved past it #one of the contestants on jeopardy rn was a man that brought up his husband in that lil 'learn about the contestants' thing they do #and my dad made some shitty comment which i'm honestly not even bothered by like i know what he's like #this man was literally minding his business just speaking about his marriage to his husband the same way he would if he married a woman #but the idea of him marrying a man was seen as gross to my dad lol #and so many other people in this world like so many people still live their lives thinking two men being together is gross #and that's why coming on here and seeing people act like queer men aren't oppressed is just so #well first it's incredibly untrue given all the homophobic legislation republicans are trying to pass #and secondly it's like. i think a lot of people overestimate what people actually believe in their every day lives due to media #queer men are not suddenly like. treated the best and facing no issues whatsoever #there are ways to talk about the different types of bigotry other identities face without throwing them under the bus #bc all that does is further divide people and hurt feelings and cause conflict where there really should not be #(this is not me saying don't call queer men out when they're being bigots or terrible that should absolutely happen)#just.....none of this is black and white and i wish people would treat things w more nuance lol #idk if i made sense i just needed to talk this through w myself lol #delete later

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timeisacephalopod · 2 months

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Lmao so apparently my idiot sibling who I will not be able to cut off as thoroughly as I'd like thanks to my mom being too nice and loving her stupid waste of life ass said, in response to me pointing out how insanely sexist she is, no. I'm the sexist one and that's hilarious for a billion reasons, but mostly because ain't no sexist going to spend four years getting an I Hate Sexism Degree. No, obviously having a gender studies degree does not mean a person isn't sexist automatically (the rancid politics of anti porn and anti sex work feminism of the 70's showed how awful feminists can be to women, let alone the long history of racism and anti queerness), but I do think having a gender studies degree probably means you're less likely to be sexist.

But sure, person who doesn't listen or respect SHIT unless it's got a penis attached, I'M the sexist one. Dumb fuck probably doesn't even know what sexism is.

#winters ramblings #my mom told me that amd i jad a good laugh and was like WHAT lmao is she actually THAT fucking stupid?#of course the answer is yes but of all my flaws- of which there are many- sexism doesnt and in fact has NEVER hit the list #because ive been a VICTIM of sexism my whole assed life im not going to buy into it and assume that if no penis is involved #the person is a lying rancid harpy looking to destroy me at all costs like my idiot sibling. ANYTHING a man says is GOSPEL #but anything a woman says needs to be under such a heavy cloud of suspicion she wont ever believe you no matter HOW true #whatever you said was. but if i were a MAN oh id get WORSHIPED at the alter #fuckin im sexist ok ask men who have run into me if THEY think that because it takes 2 seconds fora sexist to make themselves #known and it takes just as short of a time for me to react in a way that suggests i dont agree #and i have NEVER nor WOULD i ever worship a man like hes more impressive than the idea of GOD #in fact in general i go out of my way to ensure men in my life are WELL aware of where i think ALL our places are #and generally thats an equal footing. but yeah im not shocked the dumb fuck who will do ANYTHING for men who BEAT her kids #calls ME sexist for pointing out shes never ONCE treated a woman with a SPECK of respect and in fact thinks her CHILDREN #acting like dicks is THE SAME as GROWN MEN being abusive tyrants because to her girls and grown men are THE SAME #except that grown men get to do whatever while girls are expected to be perfect Or Else because they dont have the Penis of Freedom #but sure im sexist for pointing out treating CHILDREN like they should have more accountability and responsibility than #GROWN MEN is disgusting and CLEARLY bigoted. silly me children SHOULD be held to a higher standard of behavior than grown men!

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just-an-enby-lemon · 4 months

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The upside of having catholic christian trauma instead of protestant christian trauma is that my trauma is waaay more aesthetic.

Like you get all the guilty and the bigotry but you get it at a boring room by a man in a suit and there is no chance of getting playfully bitch slaped by an old man wearing a pointy hat on confirmation.

#also i think personally that the percentage lf guilty and bigotry is different #modern catholicism has less bigotry #they are still bigots but tend to be less #but also modern catholicism has way more guilty #also like catholicism still inspires self harm #i never heard a protestant defend you should physically or mentally harm yourself to save the souls of the sinners #but i heard it a significant amount in my catholic upbringing #like my mom tried to make me join a christian young group that made the teens sleep on the floor in the side of their bed #in the name of saving the souls of dead sinners trapped in purgatory #i said nope and after I told her the truthfull fact they encoraged us to bail school and go to church instead she agreed with me #she wanted me on school more than on church thankfully #christianity cw #catholic guilt #catholicism tw #protestantism cw #oh and yeah i did get playfully bitch slapped my ex ciggregation bishop at 15 during confirmation #it was his last year as bishop as well cause he was hella old and needed to resing for medical reasons

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naptimeclown · 1 year

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Watching the greatest showman for the second time ever just so I can make myself mad enough to motivate me to clean

#i have a big love/hate relationship with this movie #the music is so good but the actual movie is ass in terms of historical accuracy which im not expecting out of it #but i cant help thinking about it while watching it and it makes me so mad i could chew through a leather boot #pt barnumb was an asshole and a bigot and a terrible human being i dont need this movie presenting him as a misguided but good father and #proprietor of arts like 'oh yeah i hired the 'freaks' and paraded them around in bad faith but i realized this and now im sowwy'#man was a shithead through and through not to mention the lack if mention of how animals were trained back them #also how the circus would basically BUY the 'freaks' from their families in some cases and they were basically stuck with the circus till #they died and the only reason the sideshow was discontined with ringlings (which was in 1950s-60s i dont remember specifically) was to cut #costs when irvin feld bought RB&B in 1967 (he was also the first person not associated with any of the namesakes familes to own the circus)#i mention all this as a lover of circus history and a clown but i cant stand this movie #i do love watching the scene where the performers beat the shit out of those racists though even if it is pandering and glosses over it in #kinda self congradulatory way that also makes me mad but basically this wholeovie can be summed up with #they gloss over the actual shitty happenings of the circus in that time to present you with this fantastical timeline where everythig works #out in the end and everyone has cotton candy and peanuts #which honestly sums up the circus very well too #i should start making posts about circus history that makes me angry but i dint want someone taking it wrong which ik is inevitable on here #ramblings

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daytaker · 4 months

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The Gang React to You Petting Their Hair

Lucifer

"I am only going to say this once: stop."

You get one warning. One. If you do not cease and desist, he is throwing you out of his study, so help him Diavolo's Dad. No, he does not like it. No, not even a little bit. You really aren't going to stop? You're just a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

....You're very lucky he's too busy to hurl you bodily from this room. He'll just endure it for now.

Mammon

"Hah?! What's the big idea?! This is the revered hair of THE Great Mammon, I'll have you know. So that'll be 100 Grimm a touch, thanks! ....Hey, no, wait, why'd you stop?"

Once he's done turning bright red and clearing his throat, he'll try to capitalize on this whim of yours by offering you a discount on hair touches. A very poorly-planned scheme, because you're not going to pay to do something he'll start begging you to keep up as soon as you stop.

Oh, so Mammon is willing to let you touch his high-value hair for free? You're so honored. What a good boy you are, Mammon. (You can expect a bit more sputtering and some denials that he is anything like a good boy, but bro's into it big time. If he had a tail, it would be wagging.)

Leviathan

*shrieks in confused, touch-starved otaku*

Wait, no, he didn't say to stop! What's with these mixed signals? Petting his hair then stopping just because he shrieks a little bit? Did you want to touch his hair or not? Is it greasy? Oh god, when did he last bathe? ...It was only the other day. You have no reason to be disgusted. You're just a bigoted normie who assumes all otaku are crusty and gross!

Ahhhh?!?!?!?! Again?! Fine! Just don't change your mind again, because that's super confusing! And yeah, obviously he's blushing, you're petting his head and it feels nice and kind of tickles! ....Mm.... You know, once he's settled into it, it's really relaxing, actually...

Fast forward an hour or two and he's probably conked out with his head in your lap, drunk on affection and mostly asleep.

Satan

"What exactly do you think you're doing?"

It feels weird. Why are you doing that? Wait, you're petting him? Like he's....a cat? Hmm. Interesting. He'll allow it. But you should do it properly. None of this mussing his hair around with wild abandon. You have to be gentle and use small movements. Maybe use your knuckles? Gently though. There, that's it.

So this is what it feels like. Admittedly, he probably wouldn't take kindly to this if anybody else was doing it, no matter how well they imitated proper cat-petting technique. But you're a special exception, so in the future, if you feel the need to do this, just let him know. And for the love of all things unholy, don't breathe a word about this to his brothers.

Asmodeus

"Oh, you like my hair? Isn't it soft? I'll show you the conditioner I use."

Asmo loves having his hair played with! Or brushed, or combed, or tugged (just not too hard, please!) His hair is silky smooth thanks to a mixture of his natural good looks and his shampoo/conditioner combination. He'll let you borrow them if you're interested. Your hair will look amazing! And it'll feel even better!

This is cozy. He'll just settle in and let you do this as long as you want. Careful you don't get too handsy; he knows how irresistible he is.

...Well, maybe if you're a little handsy he'll let it slide, but just because it's you.

Beelzebub

"Are you....petting me?"

Kind of weird, but it feels nice, so he isn't complaining. It's a little bit embarrassing, just because it makes him feel a little bit like a puppy, but then again, who doesn't like puppies? He'll be able to continue to go about his day not minding you petting his hair now and again. The only awkward part is how damn tall he is. You might need to keep a step stool handy.

Belphegor

"Nnngh, knock it off...! ... ... ...I changed my mind, do it again."

His initial reaction to being woken up to you stroking his head is annoyance, because dammit, he was sleeping. But once he shakes the cobwebs out of his brain, he'll realize that it actually felt really good and he could absolutely fall asleep under these circumstances.

He'll wait a little while, hoping you'll give it another try of your own accord, but if you don't, he'll eventually cave and grumpily ask you to do it again.

Diavolo

"Hahaha... That's enough, now."

He isn't actually a fan. Maybe it's the fact that he's a prince and has been acting as an autocrat more or less for centuries, but being stroked like an adored pet feels really degrading. Of course, he won't hold it against you, but seriously, stop.

Barbatos

"Are you finished playing around quite yet?"

Another one who isn't into this at all. He's more than happy to spend his free time petting you, if that's what you're interested in, but he is a petter, not a pettee. Read into this what you will.

Solomon

"You're so forward!"

Solomon likes it very much. Too much, possibly. Are you flirting with him? There's something incredibly intimate about touching someone's hair, don't you think? No, please, continue.

Simeon

"Um, what are you doing? ...As long as you're enjoying yourself, I guess!"

Simeon is more bewildered by this than most. Like, are you trying to scratch an itch for him? Is this one of those "viral memes" he's heard so much about? Well, it feels nice, and it isn't as if it's hurting anybody. He'll indulge you for now.

A little to your left, please. Ahhhh, that's the spot...

Luke

"Hehe, that tickles... Hey! Is this a Chihuahua joke?!"

It feels kind of nice, but as soon as he takes a second to think about it, he realizes that you're treating him at best like a little kid, and at worst, like a dog, and he isn't having any of that. He'll scold you for treating a Celestial being so casually, remind you that he's actually a lot older than you, technically, so who's the real baby, and secretly pine for more pets for the rest of his life.

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