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hello! this is an introduction post because after a while here i am FINALLY doing things that aren't just reblogging. however the vast majority of what is On This Blog are reblogs. i don't talk a lot on here
anyways,
tags i use: #silver talks for once for my original posts, #silver writes for, well. my writing
my ao3 -> typeset
no idea if i'll move off of tumblr but if i do, i'll throw my cohost or something onto here probably?
further tags under these two categories with a bunch of posts + a bit more Stuff:
#fairytale fic - an in-progress fic, centered around edgejeanist from mha/bnha in an original world of mine. all lore is handmade by me (DISCONTINUED)
#tragedy fic - an in-progress fic, on ao3 (link here) also centered around edgejeanist. inspired by the concept of the not-them and the stranger from tma (ON HIATUS)
i forgot the tags for my other old edgejeanist stuff, but shoot me an ask and i'll see what i can do if you're interested!
#anon asketh - anon asks. i have not gotten an ask thats not on anon but if i do they'll be tagged with this too. (i have gotten many asks that are not on anon now!)
#not-anon asketh asks that... aren't on anon. yeah
smut/not sfw content will be tagged appropriately (usually with #smut/nsft and under the mature tag tumblr added. often, they [meaning the whole thing] will be put on ao3 and not tumblr)
#silver's polls - polls yeah. nods wisely
#oc: NAME HERE - my oc tag. currently i think lin anping might be the only one?
i usually dont tag reblogs so good luck finding those buddy. exceptions for random posts i tag #CHARACTERNAMEHERE with. i should start doing this more
i love asks. send me asks. they are so fun to answer in all types and kinds!!!
also: as you might be able to tell, i am currently fixating on edgejeanist and most original content will probably be for them! | it's now svsss. hello liu qingge. i didn't expect you. jeanist and shinya will always have a place within my heart. make way kids you've got a new roommate | i didn't expect star wars niche character #1293820302 but what can i say!! the heart wants what it wants
How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.
As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.
The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.
He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.
He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.
Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
Iām willing to entertain that he did it. But it doesnāt matter because the cops were incredibly sloppy in evidence gathering and/or are very sloppily framing him and manufacturing evidence.
The right is losing their minds that evidence keeps getting thrown out pre-trial, but thatās why.
The thing is, this is literally what the presumption of innocence is about.
Like. Let's say that the cops frame someone who happens to have done the crime that they were independently framed for. If we bring them to trial with nothing but fake evidence, then a jury should in fact find them to be innocent, even if they coincidentally actually did it. Fake evidence doesn't magically turn into real evidence just because you faked it against someone who's guilty! "But does it really matter if it's obvious that they did it?" Yes, it does, because if it truly is obvious that they did it, then there would be real evidence... and if there isn't any, then it's actually not obvious that they did it, and you're just convicting people based on vibes.
I'd genuinely like to know whether or not he did it, but at this point the case has been botched so completely that I suspect that all we'll ever know is that there was an active effort to frame him, which there clearly was. Maybe he did it, and maybe he didn't, but either way, he should be found innocent unless there is sufficient evidence that wasn't tainted by a provable frame job. Literally everyone should be found innocent of any crime unless there is sufficient evidence that wasn't tainted by a provable frame job. That's baseline, and I'm horrified by how many people are acting like it's not.
Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.
Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.
And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:
They all fall to their deaths.
Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.
It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.
Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.
Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.
It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.
There are other ways to remove a person's ability to wield political and social power to commit genocide than dropping them off the side of a burning building that are all just as effective.
I'd also like to point out that the idea that you can prevent a wholesale genocide by like, killing the RIGHT individual, is a rather...simplistic understanding of what causes genocide.
Frollo, to use him as the example, is a priest (in the book), and a judge (in the Disney movie.) He's not just a bad guy. He's an extention of the Catholic Church/The State (depending on which version you want to lean on here.) His power to do harm comes from his position within those institutions and the power of those institutions themselves. The persecution of the Roma people within France isn't because there was a bad guy, but because of those systems of power being used to kill the people that the church and the government wanted dead. Frollo getting dropped off a building wouldn't stop the persecution of the Roma in any world that isn't, maybe, a Disney film.
In the real world, it's very easy to hold up Hitler as the boogeyman. But if Hitler had died, but the war machine of Third Reich Germany hadn't lost the Battle of Berlin/the War as a whole, the Holocaust wouldn't have magically stopped just because 1 guy died.
Look. I'm not saying that there's never been a situation in the world where killing 1 guy wasn't the objectively best option in a high stakes, immediately dangerous situation. The world is full of Trolley problems and self defense situations and nuance and context.
But this post is about Restorative vs Punitive Justice *systems*, and about how many people, in general, start and end their analysis of Justice with "did the bad guy get killed?"
I would even argue that this mentality, where as long as you are sure in your heart that it will SAVE LIVES, killing people is just and good and shouldn't be questioned because some people are just bad- that mentality? Forms the core of Police killings in our culture. Justifies shooting first and asking questions never. Because once you decide that someone has done harm, they need to die for there to be Justice?
I dunno. I just think maybe as a society, we should be open to...other ideas on the matter.
1. The specificity of it being a death by falling isn't meant to be super literal. My point is more broadly about Disney villains getting deaths that leave the main hero essentially blameless for their deaths, while still feeling like justice was done because the bad guy dies.
Many Disney villain deaths ARE specifically by falling ( Gaston and Frollo are the most obvious examples, but theres more- Snow Whites Queen, Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detective, etc), or falling with a twist (Gothel from Tangled and Clayton from Tarzan come to mind). But sometimes it's a little more abstract- still a death that leaves the hero blameless, but not specifically a fall (Hades, Dr. Falcifer) Technically, it's not falling that kills them, but it fulfills the same trope.
2.
Scar absolutely fits category 2. He very dramatically falls off a cliff, in a parallel to Mufasa, and THEN gets eaten by hyenas. The fall is absolutely part of it.
The fact that *so many people* felt like this comment was the most interesting or relevant comment they could add to this discussion is....a little tiring.
An unenforceable ban (which this is, because it's not possible to 100% correctly identify every AI fic and only AI fics) is just license to do witch-hunts. Like autistic people and people writing in their second language and people with weirdly large vocabularies don't get enough 'you sound like a robot!' already.
AI fics, which I hate with every fibre of my being, should be allowed, because banning them just encourages them to hide. I want them allowed - as with every other kind of fic I hate - and I want them tagged so I can avoid them.
Girl, just do it fat. Donāt wait until youāve lost enough weight. Youāre worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Donāt wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isnāt tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. Youāre allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Donāt let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. Thereās no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that youāre not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.
sometimes I have to stop myself from posting shit like "who made replacing a bike chain so erotic" because I remember the number of people who see my posts and I have to take a step back and reconsider my choices. sometimes I have to hide my true and sincere thoughts in a post about how I'm not posting them because it is funnier this way
whatever. it's just reaching between all its delicate parts to wrench out its guts with lots of sweating and straining. while it's upside down and immobilised. and then it's just taking the slick and shiny new chain and feeding it gently through gears and between metal before pulling it taut until the derailleur is extended and the chain clicks into place and can no longer be removed. I; think I'm bicycle. I mean bisexual
It is wild talking to people online where you'll be like "Hey, you're kind of being an ass," and they'll rant about how as a member of a marginalized community... oppression and violence... societal forces... lack of opportunity... and it's like "Ok, people who share some demographic with you are pushed into homelessness and sex work but they are not being assholes online. You are a grad student at Reed who works part-time as a paralegal and you are a real dick."
