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@chalk-baphomet
long absence check in
Hey friends, i know it's been a while. I'm doing fine - school is kicking my butt and I'm kicking it's butt. I'm not sure yet whether I'll be fully active on tumblr again but i logged in for the first time in a long time today.
All is well with me. I got married - surprising everyone including me - and i live with a few friends and dogs. I hope everyone is well! It's been weird being gone, but things have just been such a whirlwind.
trillgutterbug replied to your post: “my mom tried to tell me flint from black sails isn’t queer, he’s just…”:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fwiw i told a friend my mum said this by saying my mum said a canon bisexual wasn’t bi, just “untrustworthy” and she went “oh is this ur pirate show” with like zero context SO HE’S PRETTY FUCKIN QUEER VJFDFUCK
i mean????????? in a show where literally everything is a great big question mark the one thing that is completely canonically undisputable is flint’s queerness. what is wrooooooooong w cishets i don’t understand??
I DON’T EVEN KNOW i tried to like talk to her about it??? but she was so convinced of this thing “you just never know what he’ll do~~~” nah fam u just u just don’t know WHO he’ll do or rather you can’t rule out 50% of the population
trillgutterbug replied to your post: “my mom tried to tell me flint from black sails isn’t queer, he’s just...”:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fwiw i told a friend my mum said this by saying my mum said a canon bisexual wasn’t bi, just “untrustworthy” and she went “oh is this ur pirate show” with like zero context SO HE’S PRETTY FUCKIN QUEER VJFDFUCK
my mom tried to tell me flint from black sails isn’t queer, he’s just untrustworthy and i have literally never squawked louder in my life
I KNOW HOW MY FILTHY MUTANT ABILITIES UPSET YOU, SCHMIDT. DON’T WORRY–
–YOU WILL DIE PURE. NO MAGNETISM
JUST FISTS.
reblog Magneto punching a Nazi
you won’t get anything for it, except for a kickass photoset of Magneto punching a Nazi on your blog
“The good guys are boring”
There’s this odd purity culture emerging on tumblr, where you cannot like a villain unless you constantly point out their badness. Where you can’t say that you find villains more interesting or compelling than the good guys without that meaning you think the villains’ actions are right.
Even when I love the good guys, I always find myself more drawn to the villains. And I was thinking, I could sum it up by saying, “The good guys are boring.” But that’s not it, not really. When I engage with a work of fiction, what I want is to understand the characters. I want to get into their heads, understand their motives, their relationships, their way of thinking. I want to completely deconstruct them.
And the thing is, I already understand the good guys. I think like them. Deconstructing them isn’t as interesting to me because I already get it.
I’m going to use Star Wars: TFA as my example, since I am kinda in love with Kylo Ren right now, so it feels relevant.
I absolutely and utterly adore Rey, Finn, and Poe. I can look at Rey and imagine growing up alone and lost, wishing desperately for your family to return. I can imagine finally finding belonging, and having that belonging threatened by people who think blowing up 5 planets is an okay thing to do. I can understand fighting against that, fighting for your new family, fighting to keep the galaxy safe from the people who threaten its freedom.
I relate to Rey as a person who’s grown up lonely, longing for companionship that was out of my reach.
I can understand Finn, seeing the senseless cruelty of the First Order and defecting, and running into the Resistance despite his fear, knowing he has to stop them. I understand him, like Rey, fighting to protect his new family from the horrors he knows the First Order can inflict.
Like Finn, I grew up feeling like (and still feeling like) I don’t belong in the society around me.
I can understand Poe, willing to do what needs to be done to help his cause, to stop the rise of a second Empire, to find Leia’s brother, to keep his comrades safe. Because I want to keep my family and friends safe, too.
I already get them. I’d be on their side. Given the choice, I’d choose the Resistance every time.
So, as I’m sure is now obvious, I don’t get the First Order. I don’t understand General Hux, a man who thinks it’s okay to rip children from their families and force them into combat training, giving them serial numbers instead of names, teaching them that they are not people but weapons. I don’t understand Kylo Ren, a man who chooses Darkness over Light, who could kill his own father in his search for the Dark, even as the Light is screaming his name.
And that fascinates me. I want to understand them. I want to know why they think the way they do. What motivates them. What set them on this course in their lives. And I have my own theories and have written out my own interpretations, which I won’t get into here, but. That’s why I love villains. Because the way they think and exist is so different from my own way of existing, that I want to know why. I want to understand them.
And then I want to wonder, “What if things had gone differently?” And that’s how I can take those characters and put them in a scenario where, say, Kylo wasn’t groomed from infancy by an evil psychic space wizard, or Hux wasn’t born into a family of space fascists and raised from birth to bring the Empire back. I can think, “If I strip away the context of their upbringings, what would their personalities be?” and that, that is utterly fascinating to me.
And in doing this, I can find the humanity of these characters. And I’ve done that, especially with Kylo Ren. I’m autistic and I have a whole bunch of other neurodivergencies. I grew up with well-meaning parents who were utter shit at supporting me emotionally (and still kinda are, sorry guys). I grew up being bullied, my only friends being controlling and manipulative. I was alone and afraid and disgusted with myself. I remember being 7-years-old and hating myself, wishing I could disappear. And I see that in Kylo Ren. And I think, if I’d had someone like Snoke telling me that they understood me, that the things that made me different and frightening were good, and that they could help me control and use those things… It’s not hard to imagine a lonely, frightened child letting someone like that in.
I’m not saying I condone any of Kylo’s life choices! Understanding is not the same as condoning. Understanding why someone might take a certain path doesn’t mean you think it’s a good idea. But. I want to understand the world around me. I want to extend understanding to other people in the way it’s never been extended to me. And that means understanding villains. That means looking into the dark places, and clearing away the shadows so you can understand.
The beauty of a good villain, to me, is that they are not a monster; they are human. And that is all the more terrifying, and all the more compelling, because really, any of us could become a villain too, depending on the choices we make and the influences in our lives. And we’d probably think that what we were doing was right.
And that’s why I like villains. Because it lets me explore and understand parts of humanity that are mysterious to me. Because it lets me explore parts of myself that are dark and scary and hard to understand.
Because, I think, it makes me a better person to understand how someone could lose themselves in the dark.
no offense bt why is magneto , a jewish man , listed as being in the crowd here
I agree… He wouldn’t be there to support him…
(He might be there to burn shit down tho).
Wait Magneto is Jewish?
Yep. Google it.
I’m pretty sure he’s there to take down the stadium. He’s waiting for the opportune moment is all.
Also the Joker has fought Red Skull, a Nazi. He would not be there not next to Red Skull or with Trump. The Joker may be terrible but he’s an AMERICAN villain.
I don’t think Hannibal Lecter would be there either. His sister was murdered and eaten by Nazi’s, and he often targeted people like Trump as his victims. If you read the books, he hates and targets people he thinks of as morally pugnacious. He also targeted people with bad manners.
i think that’s exactly why dr. lecter is there
Tfw fiction villains have more standards then the president-elect
Half of these villains, their worst crime is being a buncha megalomaniacs. They might be power hungry, but are otherwise equal-opportunity employers.
Which automatically makes them morally superior to Trump, who is a megalomaniac AND racist/sexist/elitist bastard, among other things.
Also Darth Vader was literally born a slave why is he there?
It is hilarious b/c this is basically the conversation abt this that happened on Twitter.
I may or may not have declared MAGNETO WOULD NEVER. multiple times.
Instead of saying [common, perfectly serviceable word] when you write, why not try one of the following synonyms?
[wildly differing connotation]
[five syllables where one will do]
[tonally dissonant formalism]
[misunderstood medical term]
[word that hasn’t been in regular use since the 1700s]
[actual typo]
fun fact: The last supper would have been more like this, according to tradition:
so casual i love it
a sleepover with jc and the boys
Paul: Judas truth or dare??
Judas: dare
Paul: okay lmao I dare u to kiss JC
more like
judas: haha wow you guys i can’t believe you dared me to kiss jesus
peter: literally no one dared you to–
judas: lmfao u guys are crazy okay here goes
#john the disciple who jesus loved: bitch you what#idk how to tag this.................. tag it blasphemy u heathen
Today’s #look. Totally feelin myself ❤ Can’t wait for it to be warm enough to actually wear this without adding on a million layers before leaving the house. 💀💋💣🔮 #face #witchyvibes #ootd #skull #girlswithtattoos #girlswithmods
tfw when a friend who you LIVED WITH in a DIFFERENT CITY crosses your dash via a friend from a whole other country it is the TINIEST WORLD i am so glad to have reconnected though, this is insane!
i have written A Thing (paging @fahre)
title: the naked now
pairing: graves/credence
rating: xxxplicit
wordcount: 4.8k
warnings/selling points: crossdressing, feminisation, dirty talk, mildish daddy kink, dub-con/generally coercive relationship, post-canon au, pwp
summary: “These are ladies things,” Credence gasps. He wants to look over both shoulders to make sure no one is spying, that no one has seen him touch something so inappropriate and private, but the expression on Graves’ face catches his eye and won’t let go. It’s a narrow, focused look, a hungry calculation that Credence’s body has learned to respond fiercely to.
trill wrote a thing, and it’s friggin’ delicious. the notes of trash are somehow subtle and sharp all at once. it has a fine bouquet, if you will.
“Search him.”
The second time I watched tfa, this scene made me ask: does Poe know who Kylo Ren is? Does everyone in the Resistance know who he is? Is that what this is? like ‘I know your mom, I’m not afraid of you’? Because that’s exactly how I’d talk to this punk ass kid if that was the case.
I’m imagining members of the Resistance being captured by the First Order, and for months after Ben became Kylo Ren, they prefaced every interrogation/conversation with “CALL YOUR MOTHER, YOU PIECE SHIT,” or just heckling.
“Lightsabres aren’t supposed to sizzle like that! What a novice!”
“Oh my god, did you put two tiny sabres on either side of your actual lightsabre. Way to go, Captain Edgelord.”
“You don’t even need a respiratory mask, you hipster dumpster fire.”
“I didn’t realize we were in the presence of Darth Vader 2. Man, sequels are never as good as the original.”
“Nice cape, who picked that out for you, your mom? NO, SHE DIDN’T, BECAUSE I, POE DAMERON, AM HER SON NOW. BB-8 IS HER GRANDCHILD, AND YOU HAVE STUPID HAIR.”
“ezra miller is going to be the first lgbt+ person to play a superhero!!”
i mean yes he’s going to be the first to get a solo movie but
oh, and:
all im getting from this post are that the x-men are really gay
The X-Men are really gay.
fahre is a menace: a warning
@fahre is a horrible influence now i’m listening to trap/80s stuff/lil jon and looking at colin farrell it’s all fahre’s fault
I GET BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING. YOU’RE THE ONE WHO WAS FEEDING ME CLIPS AND SONGS AND… *borrows crou’s 100% reliable fahre control device* I AM IN HELL, CHALK.
HOW DARE U I AM A PURE SMOL
fahre is a menace: a warning
@fahre is a horrible influence now i’m listening to trap/80s stuff/lil jon and looking at colin farrell it’s all fahre’s fault
hallo fandom friends i am still Not Dead
things i am up to this holiday season while on break from classes: - celebrating a 90% average! - drinking - lbr mostly celebrating BY drinking - editing a 73 year old’s autobiography - reading books i haven’t got to through the school semester - catching up on netflix - beginning a news blog (the amorphous form of which is yet taking hold) - hopefully catching up on some good fic on that last note, if there’s anything i MUST read before school resumes, please let me know! happy holidays to all yall, i love you dearly
ok so, surely we all know by now that wanting your partner to be a specific race at the exclusion of others is fetishization and racist and gross, right?
so i have to ask: honestly, why is it ok to want your partner to be a specific gender at the exclusion of others? like, how is monosexuality not totally gross fetishization in an exact parallel to the race issue?
it seems to me like either you’re attracted to people (bi/pan) or you aren’t (ace), and we’re all good! that is all of the information i require to understand you! you are a sensible individual.
but this whole concept of being attracted to only one gender just feels absurd to me - just as absurd as being attracted to only one race… ???
it’s time for me to lay my body and soul to rest
*white voice* being gay is like being racist… being bi is unproblematic and good and pure
where the hell is that “I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony” pic when I need it
You know I had never seen one of these posts before and I thought they were a myth but here it is, homophobia disguised as like bisexual pride or something???
This is a Bad Post and i can’t believe I had to see it with my own two eyes
Aro/ace Tumblr is trying SO HARD to use the bi/pan community to give itself legitimacy.
The worst part?
So many bi/pan people buy into it.
Oooh MAN Holy Freakin FUCK
Me, a lesbian xicana: is attracted exclusively to women and would strongly prefer to date another xicana
Op, a white preschooler: *grabs my hand and starts hitting me in the face with it* stop oppressing yourself stop oppressing yourself
just a reminder that we can call out the bad discourse in this post - which is definitely bad, no two ways about it - without throwing the entire ace community under the bus by saying ace folks aren’t “legitimate”
