V1P3R @k1ng-snak3 - Tumblr Blog

BLOG INTRO !!

(Disclaimer: This blog is PLASTERED with witch hat atelier manga spoilers. Also tadc posts are tagged tadc for easy filtering for black people who desire to stay out of that)

Also inbox is ALWAYS open. no matter what. (unless the world explodes around me for some reason)

Basics

◇ Name: Viper / King

◇ Pronouns: Mismatched all pronouns (she/he/they) + my neos

◇ Content: This blog is for both personal and fandom content but in reality its Mostly Reblogs.

◇ Fandoms: Witch Hat Atelier (current fav), Bungo Stray Dogs, Hermitcraft/Life Series, Project Sekai, The Magnus Archives

◇ Alt blogs: @k1ngsnak3 (MCYT/Life series blog)

◇ Also I've very open to moots! But I might accidently interact slowly or weirdly as I suffer from multiple diseases by the names of Social Ineptitude, Schoolwork, and Distraction TM.

Extra:

◇ My main fandoms rn are BSD and Life Series/Hermitcraft (other fandoms are in tags!)

◇ My music taste is basically alternative, a lot of kinds of rock, and indie. Some artists I like are Will Wood, WWATW, Penelope Scott, The Crane Wives, Cage the Elephant, Los Campesinos, and MCR

◇ Likes: Media analysis, biology, animals, art (especially character design and comics), AUs, writing, psychology, aesthetic things (especially academia aesthetics)

◇ Dislikes: People who don't even try to think deeply about things and ignorant people (and bigots of course)

◇ I have a password protected writing blog, anyone can dm for handle and password

Tag info

◇ #vip draws: Everything that contains art that I make myself

◇ #vip yaps: Usually my thoughts on stuff or exposition on stuff I did myself; prepare yourself for paragraphs

◇ #vip originals: Any content centering/involving characters that I made up (excluding AU characters those go in AU tags)

AU tags (there are all dead unless otherwise specified):

◇ #bsd magical girl au:

◇ #bsd musician au:

Extra:

◇ #musicspeak

◇ #qifreyposting

#artists on tumblr #blog intro #blog info #introductory post #writers on tumblr

tboy-trash

straight men enduring 24/7 sexual assault each other in order to not be labeled faggots is honestly the best example of how masculinity operates. the other day before work a coworker fr shoved a finger in another coworker's ass (above pants) as one of their little "ha ha you're gay" jokes. fuck is wrong with them. equal parts disgusted and fascinated by their behaviour.

guerrillatech

Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

jingerpi

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME. POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE. ASK YOURSELF, WHAT KINDS OF A WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS? IT'S A WORLD WERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, A WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SAT- ISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.

THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR G6OVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PR0FITS, THE WORK WON'T GET DONE.

maramagnus

That's not "transphobia" that's not "transandrophobia" that's just how people treat men. If I was a man I'd say "welcome to manhood!"

It suck but it's how men are treated. That's not transphobia, it's not "transandrophobia" that's just men and masculinity and patriarchy.

Of course, the other part of this is that TRANSANDROPHOBIA ISN'T FUCKING REAL. You are experiencing patriarchal masculinity and transphobia.

#LITERALLY #kept getting recommended that fuckass post and had to clench my brain every time #that didn't come out right but I feel like you get the sentiment

molabuddy

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

molabuddy

btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating

other-orchid

this post has genuinely helped me so i used it as inspiration for today’s hand lettering practice

colonthreedotexe

if you’re a certain level of tall as a trans woman people will start acting like they genuinely believe it’s ok to treat you like transmisogynistic futa porn is real life and you’re the futa

colonthreedotexe

this sounds like an exaggeration but literally i will mention that i'm 10cm taller than someone as a joke about how i can reach a taller shelf at the grocery store or something and the immediate response will almost always be "omg you're tall can you step on me" and i'm being fully serious. i hate it. believe it or not those extra 10cm don't make me want to have sex with every person who is shorter than me and also they don't make me a dom or a top.

has anyone considered that maybe this is sexual harassment? has anyone considered that maybe being taller than you doesn't mean i'm going to act like a futa from porn? has anyone considered that the trans woman might have some dysphoria surrounding height or pressure to be sexually dominant?

#has anyone noticed that ppl only see women as dommy mommy or sex object and that this is the former #<<< prev I hate to break it ro you but dommy mommy is also a sex object

colonthreedotexe

if you’re a certain level of tall as a trans woman people will start acting like they genuinely believe it’s ok to treat you like transmisogynistic futa porn is real life and you’re the futa

#tall transfems get behind me!#you are short(er) in spirit #fujo chasers BEGONE

cloudabserk

“fujoshis are harmful to gay men” not this gay man.

cloudabserk

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

cloudabserk

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

girlfailure-poetics

“transandrophobia affected/exempt” is like the kind of cartoonish buffoonery i’d make up in a joke post as a hyperbolic example of misogynists stealing the intellectual labor of women rather than expend thought and effort on doing their own analyses and yet it’s real

pixeljade

the problem is that if these folks actually did REAL analysis theyd come to the inevitable conclusion that "transandrophobia" isnt real, because it doesnt hold up to any critical thought. So they reject any actual theory or evidence, instead relying on weak shit like anecdotal evidence, a handful of misunderstood statistics, and stolen ideas.

eraserheadadult

can i be real with you i'm gonna start biting people

hometoursandotherstuff

Maybe b/c it would scare the children? (I was taken aback.)

breathing-tutors

My biggest hugs for indonesian transfems who are affected the most by the rising anti-lgbt sentiment, of course, the one thats obviously fostered by the state to distract the fact that they cant govern for shit. Literally yesterday 15 women in Bogor got hatecrimed for being visibly queer. We are fortunate that the fundraiser for them has reached its goal very quickly, but while money helps the recovery process, its still wouldn't erase trauma. I really hope y'all are taking care of yourself

chemsexholmes

Unfortunately you will talk like a tumblr user for your entire life. Sorry.

scribblyspaceskeleton

warriorsmurf

Unfortunately your kids might also talk like Tumblr users. My daughter said "Get cherished, idiot" to her cat yesterday.

theunvanquishedzims

Children usually do pick up their parents' native languages, yes

communistkenobi

I had a lot of/still have some vestigial arrogance about quantitative methods over qualitative ones, probably in a combination of scientific misogyny + STEMlord superiority. But doing regression analysis and quant-heavy data analysis makes me realise more and more that you can justify basically any claim with numbers, and that you can construct your research in such a way as to output the numbers you want. which does not mean that all data are made up or that quantitative knowledge is all false. I think stories about scientists straight up inventing numbers or fudging experiments on purpose prove that there is a real difference between fraudulent and non-fraudulent research. but those data must always be narrativised & are always already narrativised. The act of presenting numbers itself is doing some of that narration because you’re already arguing that these numbers are worth presenting

communistkenobi

People in the notes are rightfully pointing out common issues with data manipulation and pre-loaded conclusions in scientific research (i.e., the academic version of asking "so, how often do you beat your wife?" and so on), but I should have clarified that I'm not really talking about that. I'm talking about completely legitimate, above-board scientific research.

For example, I've had students ask me (in good faith) how it was possible for international medical bodies to report different counts of COVID-19 cases during the early years of the pandemic. And one of the answers is that you need to first define what you mean by a "COVID-19 case." Do you include self-reported incidences? Waste water data? Geo-fenced social media posts about people complaining about their coronavirus symptoms? Federal estimates? Hospital data? How do you compare countries/territories/substate entities with mandatory reporting mechanisms vs countries/territories/substate entities that rely only on voluntary self-reported cases? And what combination of these do you use? How you construct what you mean by "case" is going to impact the outcomes you report. These different counts of COVID-19 cases can all be true simultaneously, not because numbers are made up, but because they all come out of different methodologies that can be equally valid.

And this is true across all science, not just social science. Bill Clinton said it best lol: "it depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." This feels obvious when you look at scientific research that uses "skull measurements" as their object of analysis - the concept itself is white supremacist, regardless of how "sound" the research is. But even something as apparently self-evident as a COVID-19 case still requires a definition, and how you define your variables is necessarily going to impact how the research goes and what conclusions are drawn.

These definitions are always embedded in political & social assumptions. And again, this does not mean that science is all made up or nonsense or whatever. There is a widespread fetishism of "objective knowledge" that is itself ideological - the idea that knowledge can be divorced from all historical and political contexts, that you can scrub bias from research and simply report the facts. Valuable, well-supported, well-constructed scientific research is always embedded in these contexts. Not just as a result of researcher assumptions, but of the material context it exists in - what research resources are available, how & what research gets funded, the academy's relationship to the state & non-government bodies that both provide data and use that research to inform policy, the historical relationships universities often have with settler-colonialism and imperialism that give them access to "foreign" research subjects, etc etc etc.

So my overall point (which I didn't communicate well) is that data can always say what you want to some extent, for good and for ill. And research results (at least in my experience) tend to surprise you in ways that require explanations, which themselves can be fully justified, but again, exist within many different contexts that influence how you interpret them - and not just the results themselves, but your own surprise at your results

decompose1

girls i know accusations of racism can occasionally be falsely leveraged against trans women in order to discredit them and this Is Bad but this does notttt actually mean that you can just ignore the racism in the community like it doesn't exist. because racism exists in all communities and lately it is Nightmarish to be a nonwhite doll. i have experienced really glaring racism in several transfem spaces and there's been this really kind of awful attitude or like idea enforced that i shouldn't talk about it because speaking up could socially murder another tgirl. and that's really bad. that's really really bad. like it's really bad that i'm hesitant to even post this because of the scrutiny we're under. and yes the fact that it is so dangerous to speak up is because of the massive amounts of surveillance & transmisogyny we're facing but that just CAN'T mean racism gets a pass, okay? BIPOC girls are not expendable and you can't keep throwing us under the bus.

but i know calls to action without any kind of instruction aren't very helpful so here are some tips that i think you can easily do yourself with your own circles:

1) Staring off simple: Look around. Are there any BIPOC girls in your friend group, or are all of you white? Why? Do you often joke about everyone in your friend group being white? Why is that funny?

What to do: Examine why there are no people of color in your group. Examine why people of color may not be comfortable enough to hang out with you & your friends. Correct these, where possible. Do some reading on anti-racism. Talk to more people.

2) Examine how you talk about people of color & racism. Are you downplaying racism in your community? Are you treating women of color as dramatic or unreasonable for bringing it up? Do you find yourself only defending white dolls, always defending them from claims of racism, but never defending BIPOC dolls? Why?

What to do: Think about why you care more about accusations of racism than protecting the women of color in your community. Make sure you're making your space safe for BIPOC girls. Speak openly and loudly about anti-racism. Hold your sisters accountable- they should be apologizing when they say or do something wrong.

3) This one might sound silly, but as we often meet each other over fandom and roleplay- how are nonwhite characters treated in your circle? Are they always aggressive, angry, or antagonistic? Do you find yourself putting nonwhite characters in more roles like cops, dictators, sex pests, etc?

Additionally: If your circle shares sexual content, is there a lot of art where there's a pale/blonde character on the bottom, and a darker character on top? Are you and your friends always drawing darker characters as more dominant, more sexually aggressive, or promiscuous, while the white/pale characters are more innocent, submissive, modest, or clueless?

What to do: Examine how the way your group approaches fandom & art with nonwhite characters in it may make people of color uncomfortable. Examine why your art may make people of color feel unsafe or awkward hanging out with you. It's not wrong to have the occasional character of color be more antagonistic or dominant, but it's a problem when this is a pattern. If it's happening All The Time, question why!

4) Be honest with yourself: Did this post make you feel defensive? Does it make you feel defensive when people say something you did was racist? Why?

If a person of color tells you your actions were racist, they trust you to improve. I don't tell people they're being racist if i think they're going to hurt me for bringing it up. I know many like me. Don't prove us wrong- take these criticisms into account and work on it. You aren't cursed to be some kind of terrible bigot forever because you messed up- panicking without action is useless. Just be sure you examine the behavior in question and work to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. Okay?

I believe all these things are easy enough to check with yourself & your friends. Please work on making yourself & your group safe for girls who aren't white.