Too Nasty About Characters

there's only two men I trust, one of them is me, and the other is not you

[houseofpurplestars]

[houseofpurplestars]

"Seeing people pushing back brings me out of the paralyzing horror. It challenges me to have a fraction of their courage."

[crewdlydrawn]

Remember always that you are beautiful 🌹

[houseofpurplestars]

Prince Zaeth and his loving coterie that always reminds him that he's beautiful

[proship-froggo]

Fandoms have a serious problem with how creators are being treated these days.

Fandom creators spend hours of their free time to create something to make fandom thrive...for free and for the love of the game.

And what do they get? A wholeass heap of fuck all. No reblogs, no comments, no nothing. And people are surprised that creators are dropping out left, right, and centre??

"Why is there no long fic anymore?" "Why did my favourite writer stop?" "Why is my favourite artist not posting anymore?"

I implore you to ask yourself: "What's the last thing I did to support my fandom? Does my favourite creator know they are my favourite? When was the last time I left a comment under something?"

[jackabbot]

i know i say this often but i cannot say it loud enough: people who comment on fics, people who reblog posts and engage with fanworks are the people who generate community and without them fandom would be nowhere, so truly thank you for your presence, you make the world go 'round <3

[ao3-anonymous]

I just saw an anon come into a gif-maker’s ask box and start with the phrase: “I’m trying not to spam your inbox with reblogs, but” and then go on to say how much they love the gifs.

But I’m still stuck on that opening phrase because…what? I am so confused by how people view interactions on tumblr & AO3 these days. Let me make it very clear for anyone who is unsure:

CREATORS WANT YOU TO INTERACT WITH THEIR WORK.

The limit does not exist on how many of their works you can interact with in a certain period.

If you like every fic they’ve ever written? Then feel free to give them all kudos and even leave a comment on every single one if you feel inclined! If you’re going through someone’s blog and you vibe with every post, like/reblog to your heart’s content!

As long as you’re not expecting something back from them or adding a ton of irrelevant comments, it’s not spam! It’s what this is all about!! I’m not even much of a creator and I still feel a huge sense of pride when I see a ton of notifications in a row from a person, as it clearly shows they thought my blog was worth spending time on.

And if for some reason a creator is annoyed by this (unlikely), they can manage their own experience (turn off notifs, not look at their notes, delete the fic, etc) -- so don’t deprive the majority of creators because of some imagined annoyed person. Fandom is a collaborative effort and we all must participate!

[creatingblackcharacters]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ trust me, if white people know you aren't safe to be racist around, we'll notice! Your ACTIONS will speak for you!

[patrochillesvibes]

[souplover13]

image one: tweet.

stop worrying about whether black people know you're a safe white person to be around & start making sure white people know you are not a safe person to be racist around.

image two: tweet.

If there are Nazis at your event and you don't condone it, ask "what have I done to attract Nazis?" And follow that up with "how do I immediately and without question alienate and offend all the Nazis currently comfortable with me" and then do it. Stop being strategically naive.

first tweet is by alexismvoss and second tweet is by Raccoon Jen. end image descriptions.

[johnnysilverhandssuitcasenuke]

[thenightgaunt]

No they aren't. They are full of non-flammable electronics. Anyone trying to burn one down is likely to do minimal damage before a fire suppression system kicked on, and before they got caught and arrested.

Remember kids, research and proper planning are the cornerstones of any successful endeavor.

[assortedinsanities]

Data centers are mostly metal with some water cooling and most likely a nitrogen/argon/CO2 based fire suppression system. They are not even a little bit flammable and if you make the error of being inside one when a fire breaks out, you will likely be suffocated by their fire suppression system.

Possible dangers to data centers include corrosives entering their cooling water supply, a strong electromagnetic pulse or a cyber attack, so make sure to keep those away from your favourite data centers.

[mycotoxin]

Shout out to mediocre black people actually. Shout out to black people who are bad at shit. You don’t need to be the best for your life to matter.

[pricklypaws]

It’s Disability Pride Month!!

A simple thing with big impact you can do is continuing to mask in public spaces.

Help reduce the spread of airborne pathogens and keep each other safe!

Covid was AND STILL IS a mass disabling event.

Causing cardiac and cognitive function decline. And it IS STILL circulating. People are still dying. The vax reduces severity of infection but cannot prevent Long Covid!!

There are still disabled and vulnerable people who are essentially forced to stay in their homes since masking was dropped. Who cannot safely shop for food, or access doctors appts bc of the lack of masking, and deserve to be a part of society.

Please keep masking!

[edoro]

helpful addition that i personally use: if you're not sure where to even begin with finding masks from trustworthy vendors, try Project N95! they don't sell masks currently but they link directly to manufacturers for a huge variety of shapes, sizes, forms, etc, so you can find something that fits your budget and your personal head without worrying about getting fraudulent bullshit from Amazon or whatever.

[pricklypaws]

You can also see if you have a mask bloc in your area!

and breatheteq is where I usually get mine from.

[sonnyanglz]

i freaking love moon knight so freaking much.

[mohdayesh]

I don't want to talk about the 1000 days because I died a thousand times over during those days. They ripped my soul from me, took my sanity, and killed everything beautiful I saw. It's just a number the world talks about today and forgets tomorrow, even though tomorrow will be worse because it's 1001, meaning tomorrow there will be death, hunger, fear, poverty, and oppression. Nothing will change except that we keep getting worse and worse and worse. The whole world is showing sympathy today, but tomorrow they'll forget, even as our extermination and killing continue.

[el-shab-hussein]

Please help my friend Mohammed Ayesh. Without his help vetting fundraisers, hundreds of families would not have gotten the support and backing they needed. And now, he and his family are in need of help too.

His pregnant wife still has bullets lodged in her body and needs surgeries to have them removed. Please help them if you can.

Pay Mohammed Ayesh using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/MAyesh674 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Donate to Support Ayesh’s family for a better life, organized by Shelley Gordon

My name is Mohammed ayesh from Gaza Recently, I started a new chapter in my li… Shelley Gordon needs your support for Support Ayesh’s family

[houseofpurplestars]

@wilwheaton

[houseofpurplestars]

My brain:

My hand:

[waterlilyworld]

i was recently reminded of this woman i saw on tiktok sometime in this last year or so who was talking about how she had heard from other trans women how wonderful it is to date trans men, she goes on to express her upset because we’re never interested in her, and she asks where are the trans men who want to date the dolls. her comments were flooded with hundreds of trans men talking about how much they adore trans women and love to date trans women. she makes a follow up video. she says you misunderstand me, i am looking for a real man. all of you are nice but you’re all too feminine. where are the trans men who look like real men. 

and yet she wonders why we have no interest in her, it must be because trans men don’t want to date trans women, the fault must be with us. the concept that it could be because of her doesn’t even cross her mind.

she was not asking for trans men who love trans women, she was asking for a completely cis passing, patriarchal man, who happened to share transsexuality with her.

and this thought has bumped into another thought in my head, about these trans women who say they are simply women asking for support from the men in their community. a deeply understandable request that i see trans men meet with joy on the regular, gusto even. and yet, they look around and go, no trans man is supporting us, no trans man is supporting me. and i’ve stopped in my tracks in this moment because, support isn’t whats being asked, is it. that’s why the support given is dismissed entirely. what’s being really asked for is worship. it’s servitude. and anything less is seen as a failure at our social duties of chivalry. a failure of our manhood. a failure to uphold our side of the patriarchal bargain it has been implicitly assumed we must have agreed to in the first place.

a third thought has been bumped into. the few trans men these women do surround themselves with, are without a doubt, in every instance i have seen, viscously misogynistic towards other trans men and transmasculine people, and deeply benevolently sexist towards trans women. that is what is given the seal of approval. that is what is required. anything less than looking up, anything less than that high pedestal that unconditional worship guarantees will never crack and fall, anything less than feet kissed and sexual favors freely given, anything less than a doormat, a punching bag, a sex toy, is akin to community abandonment to them.

these are not feminists. these are patriarchal trans people who believe that their transsexuality inherently makes the misogynistic structures they partake in progressive and radical. but they are nothing more than dime store lackeys to the patriarchy, and frankly, should be dismissed accordingly.

[houseofpurplestars]

I need yall to show up for Maya the way you showed up for Comfrey.

[lover-of-allarts-likeme]

Idk why you all are hating on Maya. Yeah, shes a little hard on them but that’s understandable, they ARE vampires. And what do Vampires do in new town? Take over the power and make the whole city a free blood drink.

lets think a little from Mayas perspective, she doesn’t know them.

[transand]

X “trans men MUST have male privilege because cis men have male privilege. If you say trans men DON’T have male privilege then you must not see trans men as real men!”

-defines manhood through a cissexist framework and tries to force trans men’s experiences to fit within that framework. denies the manhood of any trans man whose experiences cannot be easily mapped onto cis men.

✓ “trans men ARE real men, but they are not granted systemic access to male privilege, and whatever benefits individual trans men ARE able to access are limited and highly conditional. We should expand our understanding of men/masculinity to better account for their unique experiences.”

-acknowledges trans men as men first and foremost. accounts for the material reality of trans men’s experiences and expands our understanding of manhood accordingly.

[houseofpurplestars]

Nine DBINGO buses sitting unused in the coop parking lot Maya is RIGHT to have trust issues. This is the first person who cares enough about this town to say "what are your intentions?" And they're just giving her the same old sales pitches and ai slop. And then they have the audacity to talk about "loyalty tests" oh my god.