whenever i fear death i think of that which i would fear much more
never dying, is that what you all are striving for?
hello hello! thank you for coming to ✨ ze blog ✨
please be nice to everyone on my blog btw... i hate it when people cuss each other out and then get surprised when people call them an asshole easily. we can be civil!!
about moi:
my cis ass uses she/her! (other sexualities/identities under cut)
you can call me ria! mostly i post about my life, and my interests are under the cut :D
current hyperfixation: minecraft!! picked up genshin again a couple days ago lol
(also my frien mist made my banner isn’t it awesome!!) (no is not an applicable answer <3)
tags: #ria thoughts, #ria’s asks <3, #ria’s friendos, #ria does art? (including writing in that haha) , #the asteroid system, #clara thoughts in order of usage!
bye! <3!!
i leave a stream of greenery in every path i walk
i am a minor, so keep that in mind when you interact with me, thanks! i don’t have a DNI because i do have a block button. my DMs and ask boxes are open for debates of any kind! if i’ve offended you please do not hesitate to tell me what for and i’ll elaborate on why i said what i said <3
oh, also: i don't reblog "reblog if you support __" posts, or really any kind of rb bait? doesn't mean i don't support them tho!!
im a writer and i have a few longer stories that i ADORE yammering about. the current wip is #and the universe said or "universe". past ones include:
#silver lining [original]
#the real traitors (are the ones who let us live like this) or TRH [original/darker canon rewrite/reinterpretation]
#rising star [original]
#ghosts and ink [original]
#the library of aleph or TLOA [genshin impact]
#out of the darkness [hadestown]
#so you knew her (i saw through her) or so you knew her (SYKH)
my sexual orientation is aroace lesbian, and my microlabels aren’t that important, but i am:
i'm an endo median system! i love talking about my headmates if you want to ask about them or how our system works
^ recently discovered this goes much further than i thought, which probably affects my aroflux identity haha. what you need to know is you're probably friends with ria, but clara also posts sometimes!
i love love love askbox spamming so if you want piles and piles of silly asks i’d be happy to deliver <3
fandoms: secret shanghai, any romantasy really, greek mythology in general (i have read the original myths), [insert the hyperfixation from above]
past fandoms i still vaguely like: hamilton, the hunger games, EPIC the musical, wings of fire
past fandoms i dislike: harry potter, KOTLC, PJO
the world's the world and i'm a person in a tiny body
i vow to live, i won't let fear be anything that stops me
Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”
IMO, blurring the lines between “I’m defending them because they’re right” and “I’m defending them because you’re taking this too far” is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracy–even in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic.
Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and it’s also extremely dangerous. Mobs don’t think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they can’t be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isn’t someone defending the ~problematic party~ It’s time we re-learn that.
can white trans women stop using the term lynched. Yall do not know the history behind that word. It is not transmisogynstic to call that out. Thank you.
I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice
Whenever you see someone being like "we don't mind when women enjoy or even create m/m content, we just hate fujoshis" you are being racist. If you mean "I hate the way some female fans treat gay men like fetish objects" then say that, and we can have a conversation based on that, but "fujoshi" is, I cannot stress this enough, just a word for any woman who likes M/M content, for better or worse. It may have started out as a reclaimed insult (by the way, the insult was based on "liking gay shit makes you perverted and sinful," not "please respect the humanity of gay men") but it does not make a distinction between The Good Ones and The Bad Ones. You just decided to No True Scotsman it and that the English word for that should describe The Good Ones and the Japanese word for it should describe The Bad Ones
Same goes for the people I saw just the other day whose discord server explicitly disallowed "Yaoi" but said that M/M content was allowed. What they meant was "M/M content is allowed as long as it isn't pornographic and fetishistic." What they actually said was "M/M content is allowed, but M/M content is strictly forbidden," and expected you to understand that the Japan-Adjacent term has porn/fetish connotations while the English-language term for THE SAME THING refers to the "normal, non-perverted" version.
It'd be like if you used the word "cartoons" to refer to all Family-Friendly animation, regardless of style or country of origin, whether it's Japanese or American or French or whatever, and used the term "anime" to refer to all animated pornography regardless of style or country of origin. There's plenty of animated pornography that isn't Japanese! There's plenty of anime that's not pornographic! But this is the sort of thing you do when you say shit like "obviously women can read stories about gay men, but NO FUJOSHIS"
OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!
Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot
brief unfriendly reminder that contemporary cc-boundaries discourse more or less started because someone we now know to be a literal predator got really mad about a teenager writing a danganronpa crossover and decided to put said teenager on blast in front of his very large audience.
it has not improved since then and we are frankly disappointed to see anyone participate in dogpiling on someone just because they suggested that there happen to be (and there are) fandom-first spaces where properly tagging things is a far better method of curation than worrying obsessively over the letter of the law of someone who you are not creating art for, just about.
we're tired, y'all. mcyt fandom has this inane debate every 2-4 years or so, someone gets harassed for saying "maybe we shouldn't hold ourselves to insanely strict creator-centric standards in fan-only/fan-centric spaces" and/or making something that maybe possibly technically is outside of what's "acceptable" by broader fandom, rinse and repeat. doing it one more time is not the way to Get It Right This Time. that will never happen. it is an ouroboros of pain.
it's like -- okay. speaking as someone who time and again has been misinterpreted, just, in general, the nature of being a public-facing presence on the internet is that at some point in time people are going to assume things of you that you are uncomfortable with. at some point in time, someone somewhere is going to say or do something about you or your characters, kayfabe or otherwise, that makes you unhappy.
if you directly confront people, you are bringing your audience to them. if you insist on attempting to enforce rules in spaces not built for you, at best people are going to think you're an ass and keep more of their creations (including things you'd otherwise be fine with!) to themselves. at worst, you might be actively inciting a witch-hunt for next to no reason.
in other words: boundaries are supposed to be "do not show me this/make sure you tag this properly so that i can ignore that it exists/do not put this directly in the spaces i oversee myself". they materially cannot be "do not do this, ever". even on a practical level, "do not do this ever" is not going to stop someone acting in bad faith from making those things; it will only ever stop people who would have been more than willing to be polite and reasonable about where they put what they make.
If I were to make one small change to the musical adaptation of Les Miserables, it would be changing the last two lyrics of “I Dreamed a Dream” to be about Fantine’s love for Cosette, not Tholomyes.
In the book, Fantine’s “heart grows cold” towards Tholomyes after he abandons her, and from that point on Cosette is the center of her life. Her greatest dream is that the two of them will be reunited and she will have enough money for them to live together happily. Her story is not about the tragedy of “unrequited love” for Tholomyes, a bigoted middle aged rich man who manipulated and then abandoned her when she was barely out of her teenage years. it’s about the tragedy of poverty separating Fantine from her daughter, her only family.
I think the verse where Fantine sings about Tholomyes “filling her days with endless wonder” — which he didn’t, really— would be much more compelling if it were reimagined to be about the brief years she got to live with Cosette. “And still I dream she’ll come to me, and we will live the years together” is both a much better adaptation of Fantine’s character in the novel, and also a more compelling and well-written tragedy.
Fantine isn’t a woman who died of unrequited love. She’s a woman who was separated from her daughter by poverty and intense societal bigotry, and then never got to see her daughter again before those forces killed her.
I Dreamed a Dream— like On My Own— takes a character whose plotline in the novel revolved around financial/social pressures destroying their lives, and warps them into more “””universally relatable”””” ballads about unrequited love. But I don’t think they had to! because I think the reason the novel is still so beloved is because these things are still relevant, and relatable, and constant; these characters describe feelings that still exist. Financial pressures destroying your relationships, lacking the money to be seen as a human being or to take care of your family, being treated as inherently subhuman for reasons beyond your control, are all deeply universal kinds of pain!
And I think with a few small changes to the lyrics, I Dreamed a Dream— and Fantine’s character in the musical as a whole— could be much more complex and compelling than it is.
alright this is going to be an entirely subjective rant but. to you, people who don't care, don't respect, and/or are outright hostile to chinese diaspora in your western c-media fandoms: where do you expect us to go?
go to chinese fandom spaces, where you think we 'actually' belong? ("go back to your country" in a different package?) sure, i can do that, actually. some of us can. some of us prefer it over there, and we have the language proficiency thanks to our heritage or from classes to survive in those fandoms. but guess what? a lot of us don't.
as diaspora, almost all of us grew up speaking or at least listening to some variant of chinese, thanks to our families. some of us can speak fairly well, in fact, or at least have decent receptive listening skills. but a lot of us don't have perfect proficiency, and more than that, interacting with chinese online spaces requires being able to read and write. to all those of you who complain about learning chinese characters when it's not your native language? that's the reality for a lot of us, too, although some diaspora still retain some of their literacy from before they immigrated to the west.
i live in a metropolitan area that's a chinese diaspora stronghold. guess how many overseas-born chinese (never immigrated; born and raised here) i know who've managed to attain enough reading proficiency to get by in chinese fandoms.
aside from me, no one. and in my case it's only because i had access to multiple years of intensive language classes at university.
so a lot of diaspora who like c-media are also locked out of chinese fandom spaces, except we also are faced with the shame of not being as proficient in our heritage language(s) as others (oftentimes even our own family members) expect us to be. not only that, but chinese fandom culture is different; not everyone feels comfortable navigating places so different from western fandom spaces, in which they've already spent years of their time. but you dislike or refuse to let us exist in peace in those western c-media fandoms, sometimes the only places some of us have to engage with their heritage in a way that can feel meaningful, balanced with fandom etiquette and connections that are already familiar.
alright this is going to be an entirely subjective rant but. to you, people who don't care, don't respect, and/or are outright hostile to chinese diaspora in your western c-media fandoms: where do you expect us to go?
go to chinese fandom spaces, where you think we 'actually' belong? ("go back to your country" in a different package?) sure, i can do that, actually. some of us can. some of us prefer it over there, and we have the language proficiency thanks to our heritage or from classes to survive in those fandoms. but guess what? a lot of us don't.
as diaspora, almost all of us grew up speaking or at least listening to some variant of chinese, thanks to our families. some of us can speak fairly well, in fact, or at least have decent receptive listening skills. but a lot of us don't have perfect proficiency, and more than that, interacting with chinese online spaces requires being able to read and write. to all those of you who complain about learning chinese characters when it's not your native language? that's the reality for a lot of us, too, although some diaspora still retain some of their literacy from before they immigrated to the west.
i live in a metropolitan area that's a chinese diaspora stronghold. guess how many overseas-born chinese (never immigrated; born and raised here) i know who've managed to attain enough reading proficiency to get by in chinese fandoms.
aside from me, no one. and in my case it's only because i had access to multiple years of intensive language classes at university.
so a lot of diaspora who like c-media are also locked out of chinese fandom spaces, except we also are faced with the shame of not being as proficient in our heritage language(s) as others (oftentimes even our own family members) expect us to be. not only that, but chinese fandom culture is different; not everyone feels comfortable navigating places so different from western fandom spaces, in which they've already spent years of their time. but you dislike or refuse to let us exist in peace in those western c-media fandoms, sometimes the only places some of us have to engage with their heritage in a way that can feel meaningful, balanced with fandom etiquette and connections that are already familiar.
Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.
He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.
"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?
This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.
eating rice, there's definitely an upper limit to how much you can eat, but thinking about it in abstract? when filling a plate? it's hard to conceive of it. that's what makes it so dangerous
i was reading a paper about hadestown and it was talking about how the train, combined with the commentary on the "American Dream", felt like Hadestown references the movement west by white settlers, and consequently the forced indigenous migration
and like. think about it. eurydice can be read as being "on the run" at the beginning and then hades convinces her to get on the train to a place where eurydice, and people like her, suffer and suffer all for hades' greed (who is definitely a white man in this metaphor but is also clearly written as a white man)
and then i watched a video, noticed eurydice's feather and i was like, is this actually intended??
I AM NOT INDIGENOUS IF THIS IS WRONG/RACIST/PROMOTING STEREOTYPES PLEASE TELL ME AND I WILL TAKE THE POST DOWN
