Maolong

I swear I'll post something original eventually.

[tpwrtrmnky]

A lot of young fandomites are having a formative "this show ended in a way that was incomprehensible at my current level of media literacy, what the fuck?" moment this week and I think that's great

[utaheldritchteapot]

i think my dissertation is the first one in history to cite loner dog snuff puppy carnage society as a source.

[togekk0]

Let's grab some noodles

[parisetya]

shark seg

[contemptible-scoundrel]

my cursed sword doesn't even tell me to kill people anymore it keeps begging me to put on a skirt and tights

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I already know I'm a girl dickhead I just like wearing pants

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[taliabhattwrites]

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[lowpawly]

the authors open fetish that complements the themes of their work

[apathy-tied-in-knots]

important plot device thats also just authors fetish. call that a jackoffs gun

[codename-lyka]

Ugh, see, I really do love the mechslpo genre but I just can’t get into the idea of being fully broken- because all of my enjoyment comes from the attempts to break me.

I just live to be as insolent as possible towards a handler, repeatedly and constantly defying every order they give me and laughing as I get punished for it. I need someone to see the insanity in my eyes as I turn the tables on them, dare them to put a revolver to my head and watch the sparkle in my eyes as I hear it click through empty cylinders, because they wouldn’t waste such a promising hound, no matter how mouthy she is.

I want to piss handlers off with how insufferably aware I am in the face of orders, make them realize I only obey orders because it gives me a sick sense of joy to toy with them, make them think that they were the one to finally tame such a defiant pilot before I turn around and laugh maniacally as they press their boot against my ribcage for mouthing off.

Because I’m not here to be someone’s broken little pet, I’m here to be someone’s problem.

[subspaceskater]

hadiya comm for tagg

[b0tster]

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

[bwuego]

sinner angela design by Charcoyours on twitter!!

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[demilypyro]

I think what sets of the Devil apart from any other thing for me, is that it's the only story I know that would ask you to care about Morgan. in any other story, she'd unequivocally be a villain. in fact, in many of its inspirations, similar characters serve as the irredeemable evil to be destroyed. but of the Devil refuses to discard Morgan over her many faults and dysfunctions.

even when she actively and maliciously hurts and kills people, the narrative still makes an effort to consider her emotions, her viewpoints, her experience. no matter how disconnected and evil and inhuman she feels, it shows you that she's a person, and it highlights those few people who are positively impacted by her existence. it shows you how hard she works to help the ones she loves, even if she has to hide it under a layer of irony and ulterior motives. and it shows you all the ways Morgan is loved. all the ways her existence still has value, no matter how many people she's hurt, or how she personally feels about herself.

as someone who's often hurt others, who has a very easy time hating herself, and who feels that same disconnect with humanity... it means a lot to me that a story like of the Devil exists. I think any proper analysis of it requires that your heart is open to loving someone like Morgan.

I don't know how of the Devil will end, and my final opinion of it will be heavily impacted by the way it chooses to end. but given what we have, I have to believe it will find an ending that doesn't just discard Morgan like an evil thing. she can't just be a cautionary tale, some example of how not to be, like so many before. I have to believe it'll be better than that.

[mollyjames]

[yellow-kudzu]

I'm going to be honest. I thought Ranked Competitive Breast Growth was real. I thought cis men were taking estrogen and growing breasts competitively for money. I've thought this for months.

Months.

Didn't question it or research it further. Just saw it pop up on my dash every so often and thought "wild, but I get it".

This is how bad the economy feels to me right now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The part that's missing from a lot of tumblr-centric discourse on transmisogyny is really that stuff like "medical transition is conformist" didn't come from here, it's all runoffs from weird cis people in academia imagining a version of transness to get mad at.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The archetypal "transandrobro" is literally just saying shit transmisogynists in queer theory have been saying for decades but dressing it up in more fandom-digestible language. It's not new. They're not innovating.

[tpwrtrmnky]

It happens occasionally that some major trans public figure will hear about the Tumblr manifestation of this issue and say something like "this seems unimportant," causing a lot of controversy.

A lot of people will rightly argue that these attitudes don't just show up online, that transmisogyny in queer spaces is a real issue.

The public figure has accurately pointed out that the random transmisogynists on tumblr are not a priority target for real heavy-hitters to take on, because they are not the source of these ideas, and not the ones empowered to make an impact with these ideas. They are downstream of bigger, more important targets.

Transfeminism defined in opposition to a specific, niche manifestation of transmisogyny will inevitably end up ineffective, because it expends a lot of effort fighting a symptom rather than the disease itself.