#who can define popularity

[chuunamu]

saw this tweet and immediately thought of them:

title: love on hold (mallinflower)

set in a college, the mc and ml have known each other since high school. and even though the ml is known as the popular, nice guy who’s friends with everyone, the mc has never been able to have an amicable relationship with him… that is until……..

read it to find out ofc — trying not spoil it LOL but it’s kinda funny

title: between the lines (hodot)

so the mc, he’s a bl writer, and he comes across the ml (popular nice guy) who turns out to be perfect reference material for his bl stories.. and he gets a little obsessive about him.

i’m absolutely obsessed with this story… also it’s uncensored…… 🫠

this one’s is a little different but in the same vein:

title: who can define popularity (tak bon)

really loved this manhwa. so the mc (the popular nice guy in this) worked hard on levelling himself up and basically thought he was the hottest shit on campus: until he met the ml who (literally) outshined him in every regard.

this story is so feel good!!! and seriously funny.

#need more bls with this trope #bl manhwa #bl webtoon #yaoi #bl manga #yaoi recommendation #bl recommendation #yaoi couple #yaoi bl #manga panel #fudanshi #yaoi bara #fujoshi #fujoposting #yaoi smut #yaoi love #yaoi manhwa #between the lines #don’t mix business with pleasure #love on hold #who can define popularity #manga yaoi #yaoi comic #yaoi manga

[blmpff]

18.03.24

#there will never be another blueming #but im open to their interpretation and execution #who can define popularity #adaptation #vs twitter #blmpff

[impromptu-sketches]

#who can define popularity #bl manhwa #loving this side couple!! #~childhood friends time skip to lovers~

[ahxiang]

si won: *quietly seething with loathsome rage*

da un: oh my god, he's in love with me

#rereading the manhwa to prepare for a rewatch and it's just so fucking funny #tea talks #who can define popularity #wcdp?

[uncanny-tranny]

Many people have been wondering about what the difference is between transgender and transsexual, and in my viewpoint, the difference comes down to what you're comfortable with claiming.

I personally think that the difference can come down to the perspective you have about your transness. For me, I claim transsexual for myself because I view my sex as changing, not my gender. It doesn't have anything to do with what I've done to transition, and honestly, that's nobody's business but my own. I think the same goes for every trans person.

The way you define your transness can look radically different, and that's okay. What matters to me isn't if you're doing things "right" and get approval from every living being on earth to use the label you use. What matters is that you find language that describes you best.

#trans #transgender #transsexual #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #inspired by the last post #transsexual has a history of medicalization and i think we can reclaim that #i think a transsexual is anybody who describes themselves as such #like i've seen so many arguments about who's ~allowed~ to claim what label and it's like... #...how privileged are you if a person's identity is that huge a deal to you y'know? #i've made a post about this before and why i claim transsexual and i still more or less think the same #i think your labels are as much about how you define them as it is about the conventional idea of what that label is if that makes sense #i think we can evolve the language we use and the ways we define them #i know i sometimes have ~radical~ opinions compared to others - i know the way i define things isn't the popular opinion #so much for the unquestionable dogma of the trans cult /s #also transgender doesn't necessarily mean your gender is changing but i find that's how *some* people take it to mean... #...and i like that transsexual offers some clarity (at least for me)

[sugar--pain]

Kinda tempted to go back to identifying as aromantic but from the perspective of "I have chosen to love everyone that I have dated. I can choose to stop." but I don't know how well that would go over.

#I mean easily parts of us can identify as such just not collectively #so i guess that's why I'm saying it here #like. it's not wrong #some part of my brain has always decided that for whatever reason loving someone was in my best interest. #and only then did I develop interest Like That. #Usually we would like someone and want their attention want to be their friend and they'd develop interest #and we'd adjust to match their energy because they wanted that from us #for a while we argued amongst each other #that it wasn't valid if we didn't agree. pondering if this is ever valid #i saw people say it was popular to say that we don't choose to love #but i just don't relate to that #i know exactly how my brain works. and i can successfully convince it to love someone. and i can successfully convince it to stop. #i don't think being calculative is wrong #and honestly i think our feeling these things aren't genuine just because we can control it. it doesn't seem fair. #i'm fully capable of love. and there's nothing wrong with me deciding to love because it seems like it'd benefit us both. #and if we're already feeding each other anyway i just don't see anything wrong with accepting what's happening. #i don't like the expectations that get pulled with it. #i want to be able to independently decide what and when i want. i don't like labels. #i like that we're an anarchist but not everyone can even be on the same page about what that means #i know we left the aromantic community because they got too specific and a lot of ideas became too stiff and twisted in to reactionary #misunderstandings but how long can we keep leaving communities and cutting ourself off in to something nebulous #because of a problem that'll folllow us no matter where we go? #i think we can define ourselves any number of ways #i don't think any of them are wrong #bigger fools than i have claimed identities that were more maligned than my own #and when it's inevitable who's to say it's wrong #we're all who we are at the end of the day. these words can't contain or quantify us #they can be shortcuts but they can't define us #this is just how i live. it's about give and take #vv

[detritivoresquad]

Ik the new show is laughably bad but and so scooby doo is on everyones minds but im going to start throwing shit if I have to hear tumblr user #258 talking about how THEY would make an adult scooby doo. Not everyones ideas are bad this website is just too predictable and annoying sometimes

#{ds;purplespinel} #this is like the least sm feeling social media site idk where else to go but like #when you dislike a thing that this site has decided to be obsessed with its very annoying #before someone comes at me im not saying i dislike scooby doo. i love scooby doo. #i liked it as a kid I watch it as an adult and i read fanfic sometimes. #but I often dislike like the kinds of 'adaptations' and 'rewrites' that get lots of reblogs here #like everyone writing them as adults is either writing them as college age or in their 50s. which is fine like its not problematic #i just think its boring #or like they're arguing over what to do w fred. or what velmas backstory would be. and most of the ideas tossed around disinterest me #does that make sense. #like aughhh daphne is a popular girl NO daphne is a loser who hangs out w outcasts #NO shes a lovable autistic NO she's the party bard NO shes the muscle of the group #like idk guys it sounds like you just wanna get the Coolest Most Creative Interpretation Award #why are we even arguing like... idk i think the characters have a decently well defined base! #and every interpretation is a little different and equally valid! so! nobody can really Win here

[seokmatthewz]

enticing myself to read all 121 pages of readings assigned to me by allowing myself to read a chapter of a webtoon i like every 10 pages fjfkfnfn

#ill endure american politics for who can define popularity HDJDJD #this textbook is MIND NUMBING i hate quizzes ive read this before but dont know it well enough to be confident hhh #iri.txt

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

thinking abt my "culture" as a concept is super... strange. as a white north american. and i dont know how to articulate this beyond "its so big it's nothing" and im aware it's so so so incredibly privileged to have a big disconnect from "my culture" because it's everywhere as opposed to because people tried to stamp it out! I know. i'm just thinking out loud about how it is strange.

[on "no reblogs" just bc i dont know if im articulating this exactly as what i mean and im mostly thinking out loud in the tags]

#hello bat if you see this youve actually sparked thinkingthoughts bc of that oc question on nicola-writes skdhfksdf #anyway. #i dont know the actual CULTURAL origin of the food i eat or the clothes i wear or the music i listen to or w/e #i know its. european. presumably. and i know it's canadian/american clusterfuck. and i also know it is influenced by other cultures #on some level ! like i dont live in a bubble with NO other cultures in it but i dont rlly think anyone does lol #but like..... all the influence i can NAME is ONLY influence from /other/ cultures. not mine #i can recognize when something *isnt* part of my culture but i also dont rlly know how to define what my *culture* is beyond... #idk ! a big ol slab of White #the hallmarks of my culture are like. whiteness. overarching influence. white christianity. having everything made for ''wide audiences'' #usually just made w/people like me in mind (most popular clothes most common food most tv characters etc) #and again thats SUPER privileged. obviously. im not complaining about anything (though ofc i dont think it /should/ be like this). #this isnt a ''poor white ppl :( no culture :('' thing this is more... wow we really did just destroy our own individuality for the sake of #white supremacy didnt we. #i dont know many people around here who can name parts of French or English or German or Irish or w/e culture SPECIFICALLY #even if thats what they are. #i read somethign once written by a woman of colour talking about how she noticed that white ppl seem to sacrifice actual individual culture #for the culture of Whiteness and White Supremacy (she capitalized it like that specifically. dont remember why) #especially white north americans (its less common in other places) #which CREATES this phenomenon where we genuinely just don't participate with culture on a conscious level very often #because. its everywhere. it's the ''default assumption'' of north american society. POC & their cultures are ignored in favor of us #and we really only notice when something is *not* our culture but not when something *is* our culture bc we never have to look for it #we participate with culture. obviously. its impossible not to. but we often dont do it on purpose. #idk. thoughts!! thought times. sometimes i have a single thought in my brain #and i am aware this is like 1 perspective and also the least important perspective on race & culture ever kdjhksdjf #i am just thinking.

[jrwiyuri]

oHHHHH I can’t say things it will make the boobers mad but I sometimes want to kill people maybe

#stupid snake talk #AUGHHHHHHHHH *kills self* #I don’t want them enough to know their personal take on it #and tbf this isnt ONLY a problem with their fans this can be said with anyone who was ong he d5mp #but it always makes me so mad and sad and frustrated when people are like mad that idk they became very famous and popular from that #IDK maybe I’m biased idk idk #It just makes me upset :( #I love the d5mp to this day and it’s so.. it feels MEAN to be so dismissive to it #it unironically impacted many peoples lives #like i mean yeah ofc dont be defined by it that’s fine #but people can like it man

[impromptu-sketches]

#who can define popularity? #who can define popularity manhwa #bl manhwa #shounen ai #funny how this manhwa's synopsis describes them as two narcissistic boys #who are obsessed with popularity and looks #and sure they are a little bit #but they're way more obsessed with each other

[comicdissectionpod]

I need more of them please.

#who can define popularity? #side character love #i mean come on

[rush-mp3]

the artist of WCDP talking about their mother going through chemotherapy and passing away and them feeling guilty about frequent breaks when making the series............crying,,,,,

#jk.txt #jk.w #who can define popularity?

[capaldiera]

just remembered the time i saw someone draw quark and odo as elphaba and glinda. respectively. still genuinely mystified and a little alarmed by that.. you think QUARK is the elphaba of those two?????

#like come on quark might not be the most popular girl in school but which of them can you see defining themself by their weirdo outsider #no one likes me status but then secretly being sad about it #oh hang on odo did that.. #also who would do something like giggle and toss their hair off their shoulder in a way that's ridiculous but confident and somehow works #on some people #and which would awkwardly and autistically try and fail to imitate it #me.txt

[psychoticallytrans]

I do wish that "oppositional sexism" was a more commonly known term. It was coined as part of transmisogyny theory, and is defined as the belief that men and women, are distinct, non-overlapping categories that do not share any traits. If gender was a venn diagram, people who believe in oppositional sexism think that "men" and "women" are separate circles that never touch.

The reason I think that it's a useful term is that it helps a lot with articulating exactly why a lot of transphobic people will call a cis man a girl for wearing nail polish, then turn around and call a trans woman a man. Both of those are enforcement of man and woman as non-overlapping social categories. It's also a huge part of homophobia, with many homophobes considering gay people to no longer really belong to their gender because they aren't performing it to their satisfaction.

It's a large part of the reason behind arguments that men and women can't understand each other or be friends, and/or that either men or women are monoliths. If men and women have nothing in common at all, it would be difficult for them to understand each other, and if all men are alike or all women are alike, then it makes sense to treat them all the same. Enforcing this rift is particularly miserable for women and men in close relationships with each other, but is often continued on the basis that "If I'm not a real man/woman, they won't love me anymore."

One common "progressive" form of oppositional sexism is an idea often put as the "divine feminine", that women are special in a way that men will never understand. It's meant to uplift women, but does so in ways that reinforce the idea that men and women are fundamentally different in ways that can never be reconciled or transcended. There's a reason this rhetoric is hugely popular among both tradwifes and radical feminists. It argues that there is something about women that men will never have or know, which is appealing when you are trying to define womanhood in a way that means no man is or ever has been a part of it.

You'll notice that nonbinary people are sharply excluded from the definition. This doesn't mean it doesn't apply to them, it means that oppositional sexism doesn't believe nonbinary people of any kind exist. It's especially rough on multigender people who are both men and women, because the whole idea of it is that men and women are two circles that don't overlap. The idea of them overlapping in one person is fundamentally rejected.

I think it's a very useful term for talking about a lot of the problems that a lot of queer people face when it comes to trying to carve out a place for ourselves in a society that views any deviation from rigid, binary categories as a failure to perform them correctly.

[gael-garcia]

Leila Khaled: Hijacker (2006, Lina Makboul)

-Could you be described as a terrorist? -Our enemies say so. Our enemies call any form of popular resistance terrorism. Who decides and defines what terrorism is? As far as l'm concerned, occupation is terrorism. My people and l have a right to fight it. l don't care what others call it. People have a right to fight those who occupy their country by all means possible, including weapons. That's what it says in the UN declaration. But Leila, if you look up ''terrorist'' in a dictionary?

You, the whole of Sweden and Europe and the USA can travel to Haifa. But l can't, I'm not allowed to. Not just me. 5 million Palestinians can't see Palestine. lsrael doesn't care about international law. Why should we accept that?

#directr is liberal af though so you will spend half the time being annoyed at her #subtitles on opensubs! #leila khaled #leila khaled hijacker #documentary #free palestine #post #screencaps #dailyworldcinema #text under the cut