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[the-dog-empress]

Stolen from @tinysweetvoid but i wanted to make it a bit more descriptive

[itsapmseymour]

What’s an evergreen tumblr post for you?

This

[standwithdaanes]

as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.

like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?

[standwithdaanes]

#I'm a pacifist so I don't necessarily believe every word of this post but it actually makes an amazing point#everyone take a moment to think about this /light-hearted

on the subject of pacifism, if you are interested: i consider myself what i would call a preferential pacifist. i think we should always hold peace and non-violence as a moral preference, meaning we should always choose it when it viably leads to a better world, or the least-violent choice that is viable, and when we do choose violence we must make further decisions that allow us to eventually choose peace again.

i think sometimes violence is necessary to uphold greater moral values, including peace, but ultimately it should be something we are forced to do to some extent, and we should only do it while actively looking for other options.

[rocketbirdie]

guys. Guys please you're allowed to say big boy words. please we cannot keep just rolling with the sanitization of every space on the internet ok. you're allowed to say suicide. you're allowed to say porn. they're not bad words, they're just words.

also by ''censoring'' the words with silly spellings you're actually making it much harder for people to filter out. please just say Sex you don't have to call it woohoo like it's the fucking sims. i promise the Word Police aren't going to arrest you

[joey-wheeler-official]

gettin real tired of people pretending that the writers not explaining every little thing in detail is the same thing as a plothole tbh

[joey-wheeler-official]

has to think once while watching something whoa this is bad writing

[pressxtodavid]

The Cinema Sins effect

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about "no one is talking about this!" posts is that at best they are weird guilt trips trying to make you feel personally responsible for the fact that you haven't heard about one specific thing happening that no one has mentioned to you. at worst they are just wrong because the op turns out to have no idea what people are talking about because they've never listened to another person in their life. either way I am not reblogging that

[writeouswriter]

Characters will make a very nuanced choice that makes sense for their story arc and internal conflict, and audience members will be like "is anyone else going to misconstrue this in the most black and white, bad faith manner possible?"

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[redstarfish-art]

Oh yeay someone finally said it.

Actually, I'm adding to it:

Word of God is the author's explicitly stated intention with canon and/or the author's interpretation of canon. e.g. Author says "Merlin tries to poison Morgana because he thinks her staying alive is too dangerous and had nothing to do with misplaced self-hatred."

Death of the Author is the concept that a reader's personal interpretation is more important than an author's intention and therefore Word of God is not canon. e.g. The author intended for Merlin to express his fear of Morgana by having him try to poison her but most readers interpreted it as misplaced self-hatred.

Queer coding is giving characters stereotypical queer traits to imply a character is queer without explicitly stating it so it can adhere to censorship requirements.

Queerbaiting is giving characters stereotypical queer traits or hinting at queer relationships with the explicit intention of attracting and exploiting queer fans without upsetting homophobic fans.

Explicit means fully expressed with no ambiguity.

Imply means to express indirectly and ambiguously.

Gay panic disorder is a now defunct categorisation of psychological disorder in which a person experiences intense anxiety due to experiencing gay attraction.

Gay panic defence is a homophobic legal tactic in which a perpetrator defends their violent crimes by claiming they were provoked by unwanted sexual advances that made them react in self-defence or temporary insanity.

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[bethanydelleman]

Also, for an interpretation to be valid it needs to be based on the text. It cannot just be a vibe. One can disagree on readings of the text, but if someone comes with quotes and/or historical context and you just have vibes, then sorry, your interpretation is inferior and may in fact just be a headcanon.

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[ihurtlucymaclean]

Sometimes I hear "if its your headcanon, then it's canon!" that is not what those words mean together lol it drives me up a wall. like no, only CANON is canon. Like people shouldn't be getting their fifis hurt because something does or doesn't happen in canon lol

[neverending-symphonia]

if i see another person basically go "but what if this character who is explicitly neutral nonbinary is actually just a binary trans egg because nonbinary people arent REALLY as trans as binary trans people im so woke actually" i will start killing people

[b-side-takes]

i feel the need to reiterate this

the study that concluded trans women on average make less than trans men only took into account full-time jobs, meaning it ignored data from trans people in part time jobs. trans men are more than *twice* as likely as trans women to have part-time jobs, which basically by definition pay less than full-time jobs. from this study (sample size 27,000+ usamerican transgender people) which does include part-time jobs, trans men [in the united states on average] make about 30% less than trans women, which is a PRETTY BIG NUMBER to fuck up on a reporting decision don'tcha think

[cheerfulomelette]

Peer reviewed tags:

data from larger studies consistently show trans women make more than trans men on average which doesn't have to mean anything no one has to have male privilege that's just being so locked in cisnormative thinking you can't imagine anything else “which one has male privilege?” it's like asking a lesbian couple which one is the man

[b-side-takes]

you (and prev) are both entirely correct, the main point of this post is to debunk those fuckass posts about how trans men "Aren't seen as faggots in the eyes of the state" because one study with whack data collection says we make 10 cents more, not to say that transfems have secret evil male privilege (because they don't)

[forgivenessissupposedtobeearned]

"ugh trans men really are the men of the community" so why do you only call them tmes. or transandrobros. or transandrocunts. or whiny bitches. or the occasional theyfab. or little boys. or ftms. you can't have your cake and eat it too, call them men, or admit you don't actually see them as men and your logic is fueled by bigotry

[artificer4396]

How did we reach a point where claiming that folks have “AFAB privilege” is treated as anything other than the 4chan bullshit it is

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[rlyehtaxidermist]

essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read

[artificer4396]

It feels like a lot of folks genuinely forget that stories are often written *before* they’re published, regardless of the medium

[artificer4396]

Scratch that - it seems some of y’all forgot what a story is to begin with and just treat everything as consumable content instead, and/or as some personal challenge to outsmart

[artificer4396]

It feels like a lot of folks genuinely forget that stories are often written *before* they’re published, regardless of the medium