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You can talk to people on the internet for saying things you don’t agree with, without being an asshole. Some people should try it some time

#that’s that on that

theladyigraine

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Hi all long time no see I’m here what’s up what have I missed (don’t actually answer that I don’t need to know lmao)

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teex

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missabigailtaylor

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brandon-crawford

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kendallroy-deactivated20210425

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

themself

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

westenra

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

lunaescribe

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.

weird-barbie

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS INTO WORDS.

jhscdood

YUP. Plus like. Let’s all remember (in the US) we’re dealing with the impact of compulsory cultural xtianity. Which holds to the belief that a person not only can, but WILL be “corrupted” by any thought, idea, concept, theory, artwork, book, movie, or person that is not Morally Pure. If you engage with it AT ALL, it leaves a stain. The result of this believe system is that no one is able to perform critical analysis, because even the act of analysis is considered coming too close to avoid being corrupted.

Thst is why so many people are ready to cancel books, actors, and ideas the moment there’s the merest mention of immorality. To continue engaging with the piece is to be corrupted. To investigate the truth of the claims of immorality is to be corrupted. To even have engaged with the piece in the past when it was considered “pure” is to be retroactively corrupted. And if you’ve been corrupted, the belief is, then you must be wholly rejected by those who know you so that THEY are not corrupted.

It’s not that people are unable to perform critical analysis anymore. The critical analysis isn’t the point. The point is, “I was told 1984 contains rape apologism and if i do anything except utterly denounce the book, my community will reject me for being corrupted.”

This is religious extremist, cult-like behavior that has entered the secular world (in the US) over the past 20 years or so, and it’s really, really hinky.

#someone finally put this into words #purity culture #purity in fandom

puckthisshift-archive

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Title: it’s the first kiss, it’s flawless

Summary: TK’s a good friend. Patty’s best friend. He can totally help him come out to the team. Kissing a guy is the best option, clearly. And it’s not like TK would let some stranger be that guy. Besides, he’s straight, so it doesn’t really matter. Or does it? And is he?

AN: for @homerofthebraves who is a delight and had a birthday recently. This means that there has to be birthday fic, even if the birthday has passed. So, here’s 7k of TK and Patty being Flyers and being idiots. Because I reject reality and substitute my own.

#best birthday present ever #thank youuuuuuu