[whitmanic]

comics fans really are like.  i love this character they’re my favorite but i hate every single appearance they’ve ever been in. no this isn’t contradictory.

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[salemoleander]

Step 1: Cultivate an audience of people compelled by your complex & subtle portrayal of being both a victim and perpetrator of sexual assault and coercion through the lens of vampirism

Step 2: Announce your intent to utilize a network of fandom secret police to tattle to you when people tell stories you don't like (such as ones that engage materially with the story YOU told) so they can be harassed until they stop creating

Step 3: ?????

To be crystal clear on why the reaction to these 'boundaries' is so strong:

Other people caring enough about the art you make to make more things inspired by it is one of the highest honors that can be awarded & most beautiful things about creation and generally being a person.

Trying to control what people make from that inspiration, or making the asinine assumption that the things they make are owed to you, are things you have control over or ownership of, is entitled and offensive– but a common enough mistake.

Threatening to send (and, from what I've heard, actively sending) your mods and adjacent fans out to police and harass people who don't bow to your claims of control—within less than 24 hours of stating your new rules & after claiming you aren't upset with anyone who made shipping content 'when it was allowed'—is actively dangerous.

[powerburial]

my apologies, madam. if i knew you were a weird and strange woman i would have followed immediately

[reinapepiada]

shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics

[lorefulgood]

dare I say that the concept of “boundaries” as it’s used in mcyt spaces is indicative of the poor understanding of consent many of these ccs have or are we going to keep pretending it’s acceptable to outright threaten your audience with targeted harassment if they don’t conform to your rules

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[fox-with-ferns]

Waiting

[dogpuppy]

[nomadthingsunderscore]

She was brighter than any star

[residentwordsofaffirmationdealer]

"how can one truly be "free" when outside forces place constraints on the choices we have at our disposal? do we have any choice at all?" // "guess i was destined to be a superhero." secret origins 80-page giant (1998) #1 // batman (1940) #634 // batgirl (2000) #53 // batman (2025) #10 // batgirl (2009) #1 // secret origins 80-page giant (1998) #1

[miseria-fortes-viros]

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

[paper-wounds]

[missmirrorselfie01]

[galacticdummy]

[gingertea116]

Multiverse of doomed yaoi

[thegremlininyourcloset]

do you ever think about how apo disappeared at the end of vsmp, never to be seen again by the eyes of the Oakhurst survivors, and yet every single one of them, living and dead, will haunt Apo till the end of her life? Apo and her trail of ghosts she can’t shake, Apo who is a ghost to those that knew her before. Gone in the blink of an eye to the eternity of vampires, haunted and dead but alive, alive, alive. Lover girl, soldier girl, graveyard grieving girl.

[thegremlininyourcloset]

#goodbye lucy gray. we hardly knew you#vampires smp#apo is not a lucy gray as she was in life (-4 charisma) but she DOES have that haunt factor#so I think the quote fits

apo has the personality of katniss everdeen and the presence of lucy gray baird