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Here, have a Janus in a suit vest

#it was vaguely inspired by the ninjas’ gis in Skybound #from ninjago I mean #janus lopez #my art

weirdbees

SCP: Tumblr dni that is always an unnervingly specific description of whoever is reading it

bingo!

Check off how many times over you cannot interact, mine is 7

chaotic-bastard-demon

10!

b4bysitter-deactivated20210208

shout out to ace and aro kids who are constantly bombarded with the opinion that sex and romantic love are directly connected to living a happy life.

b4bysitter-deactivated20210208

Y’all are just reblogging this at the speed of sound tonight

beaniebaneenie

Since it’s almost valentines day, and this message is about to get hammered in even more, reblogging this again.

birdofprey1234

🌈Some ~princely~ outfits👑

*Please reblog, instead of reposting my art*

inqilabi

All mothers I’ve ever known were effectively single mothers, even when they had a husband.

maverick2095

tchaikovskaya

a LOT of women agree with this but men like….. universally object its hilarious

inqilabi

case in point. And it’s actually the mom on a call and not the dad.

addictedtocaring

Tbh I predict a lot of post covid divorces. This is a very common story.

nge-deactivated20220127

hey yall! (if youre not southern you probably cant read this)

that-house

jokes on you fool i’m bi! I read this just fine

mexicantransguy

Ok but as a dysphoric trans man the whole ‘you need dysphoria to be trans’ actually baffles me because even tho I’ve always has crippling dysphoria, it didn’t actually help me figure out my gender at all. I usually dismissed my dysphoria as ‘internalized misogyny’ or just not being feminine enough, which actually just caused me worse dysphoria.

You know what made me figure out that I’m trans though? Gender euphoria. The minute I got called a ‘sir’ is the moment that I realized, “shit this feels right.” And at that point I realized that I could no longer deny the fact that I’m not a woman and that I couldn’t keep living as one.

Here’s a hot take: maybe being trans isn’t so much about how uncomfortable you can be in your AGAB, but rather how much more comfortable you can be.

mu1edeer

furryverse

mu1edeer

look i can’t draw spiderhams humansona. i just cant

a-foolish-jester

Don’t worry, I got you!

leviathan-supersystem

some day “milf is a slur” discourse will break out and there will be no survivors

crtter

xekstrin

good news OP, quite a few people were upset that we called our yuri milf game a milf game, and were even further scandalized to learn it was for a “yuri” game jam because yuri is a bad word also now, too, for some reason

vanquishedvaliant

!!! @xekstrin you can’t just mention a yuri milf game and not gives us links to plug it!! I want to know!! I want to know about the yuri milfs!!!

xekstrin

It’s called Love On The Peacock Express you play as a cocky detective on a train full of milfs who have mysteries to solve

the-bright-path-deactivated2021

I didn’t know @tealesbian was a game developer

thecybersmith

I was onboard for that until I learned that the game was funding baby-murder :(

g0dtier

this post really has everything huh

mr-elementle

The notes on this post are like the elephants foot

crtter

anarchistmemedistro

valtsv

*sprinkling a little gender enrichment in my cis friends' enclosures by encouraging them to wear tacky mismatched earrings and nail polish and more gnc fashion and listen to music that isn't the radio top 40*

valtsv

not anymore <3

bushel-and-peck

[ID: tumblr tags that read “you have cis friends???” /end ID]

thememedaddy

me_irl

charlesoberonn

Writers: Bad people are still people with their own problems and emotions, even when they cause problems and distress and hurt other people.

Tumblr Gremlins: Problematic. Blocked.

against-anti-antis-deactivated2

If you portray bad people as good people, then you’re normalizing abuse. Of course that’s fucking problematic.

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alarajrogers

Newsflash: people and good people are not synonymous.

If you portray a villain, that villain has thoughts, emotions, desires. Maybe even loved ones. They have things they want. They have reasons for what they do. And none of this excuses their villainous acts.

If you portray a good person, all of the same things apply. Thoughts, emotions, desires, loved ones, things they want, reasons, etc. And when you look at the acts they commit, you think to yourself, “That is a good person. I consider this person heroic, someone worth emulating.” Whereas when you see what the villain does, you think, “Man, that is fucked up.”

The entire difference between a good person and a bad person is not whether or not they are people, but whether the things they do and their reasons for doing them are good or bad. So you can portray a bad person, who abuses people, as having emotions, and desires, and thoughts, and they can still be a bad person.

So yeah. The OP says “bad people should be written as if they are people.” This is true. “Normalizing abuse” is what happens when you write bad people as if they are incomprehensible evil monsters with no common humanity with the rest of us, because this tells abuse victims, most of whom love their abusers, “You’re not really being abused because the person you love is not a bad person! Bad people are 100% evil monsters and the person who is hurting you obviously has feelings!” No. Bad people are people. When you write an abuser, write them as a person, with thoughts and feelings, because real abuse victims know that their abusers are people, and you don’t want to convince them that their abusers can’t be abusers because only monsters are abusers. You want them to understand that abusers are human too, because they already know the person abusing them is human. What they don’t know is whether or not they can consider what’s happening to them to be abuse.

lines-and-edges

^^^

golbatgender

Antis: “Only good people are actually fully human beings! This totally isn’t fascist or anything!”

wetwareproblem

“If you write well-rounded, deep, believable characters you’re a fucking abuse apologist!”

junemondegreen

This is way too similar to that god damn “if you write characters being traumatized/in traumatizing situations then you are fetishizing abuse and you’re bad!” Like stories need conflict and sometimes being involved in conflict can be traumatizing, do you really want to consume only media that is entirely Good People Doing Good Things, Everyone Is Happy And Nothing Bad Ever Happens?? Because that’s sounds like a whole lot of boring to me

wetwareproblem

Given the alternative that we’ve had forever now, where characters go through intensely traumatic shit but have absolutely no trauma whatsoever - thus conveying the message that the problem is YOU, YOU’RE the only one who breaks like that - I’m gonna have to say I’ll take the realistic portrayals of trauma.

hazel2468

There is something, I think, to us as a whole, as humans, that is INSANELY disturbing and difficult about viewing irredeemable, evil people as PEOPLE. Like, we cannot accept that people who do things like commit genocide or murder people or abuse people are, in a lot of ways, just like us. That they have families and feelings and complex inner lives. And my gf just summed up why the portrayal of evil people as something apart from human is such a problem:

Because it keeps us from confronting evil when it DOES actually show up. It keeps us from confronting other people, who we know, who espouse hatred. Because how can this person, whom we know , who maybe we are even friends or family with, be an empty evil husk? It’s what keeps us from addressing things like racism, fascism, white supremacy- you name it.

When we dress up evil people as something apart from us, when we act like humans are inherently better than the evil people we see in media, it means that come being faced with a person who is doing abhorrent things, we are unable to process that. Because we feel like humanity and evil are incompatible.

theassholeantiarchive

You know it’s funny but we really need more bad people depicted as real people because it’s meant to be a warning to what you can become if you aren’t careful. Antis are good examples of that because they genuinely don’t realize how evil their behavior is because they think they are doing it for the greater good or with the best intentions justifies it. People are always the hero of their own story and if you can’t recognize that you are capable of being a monster then you will become a monster because you see everything that you do as good. It takes any complex thinking about morals out of the picture because you aren’t a laughing disney villain so why should you be concerned if your decisions hurt people if it wasn’t apart of the big picture or plan you have.

Think the Original The Lorax where the bad guy was viewed as complex and had good points even though he still was the bad guy. He was complicated and Kids could understand it through Seuss’s writing that he was just a person. Then look at say Ursula or Makeficent who had the complexity of a wet napkin and few kids could imagine themselves becoming. Obviously some kids can imagine themselves as them but which story really teaches you that good people do bad things or bad people don’t always realize they are bad.

It’s not some evil pro villain thing to make bad guys real. It’s a warning that you need to be careful because you could easily become the bad guy even if you have the best intentions.