Penutbutter's Vans

|| Penutbutter or PB || ||20-something, They/Them || || Multi-Fandom enthusiast || || I reblog silly stuff and fanfiction || || Minors, please don't interact ||

[cherubg1rl]

[keplercryptids]

I need non-lesbian authors to STOP writing sapphic books like this!!

[image description copied from alt text: text from a book. Highlighted: "Her vagina opening like it was gulping, latching on like a clingfish." A sad face and exclamation points are doodled over the text.]

[image description copied from alt text: text from a book reading, "Heloise's hand is on the back of her head, pushing her, and her face is against warmth and fungus and soaking and heat and slime and sticky and clam and buttered tortellini and slug trail and meat and ylang ylang and pulse and wet and squashed jasmine flowers, and she is licking and sucking." Many adjectives are highlighted and "noooo!" with a frowny face are doodled at the bottom.]

(the book is worry doll by laura mcpherson-brown and it's going directly onto my list of "lesbian books for straight people." also it's just not a very good book lol)

[mintmatcha]

this cannot be real

[mandi-bul]

Pretty day

[ferrethaver]

women should get even more childless

[kuuura]

[shittttyproblems]

not today...

[thecollectibles]

I’m listening by Yun Huai Huang

[pangur-and-grim]

always doing something annoying

[pangur-and-grim]

can I be honest? I was so pissed off by friends and family criticizing my soap choice that, for half a year, I did an experiment where I washed one hand with Palmolive and one with handsoap, to prove that it didn't make your skin any rougher. and do you know what the result is? it does make your skin rougher. and now I'm even more pissed off.

[sexybritishllama]

just found out that this yu-gi-oh card exists and also that it's basically worthless and that's how you know trading card collectors know absolutely nothing about anything

[striders]

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.

[saleensundria9]

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.

[a-polite-melody]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.

On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.

That's what kid fiction is for.

[saetiate]

the princess demands you jack off in front of her. no she does not care if you feel shy. yes right now

[petemcvries23]

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

[modern-politics111]

[disregardandfelicity]

sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.

they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.

10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too

Prologue - This American Life

Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme

[evolutionsbedingt]

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642

Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[petewentzisblack1312]

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

[mononijikayu]

theres something so atrocious about ryan condal also making rhaenyra mean to her black stepdaughters, when they have had a solid relationship in the books and she trusted them too much. she even kept baela close. so to see the teaser where rhaenyra is being the stepmother she never was, book alicent's role being given to rhaenyra, rather than book rhaenyra in this part of the story, where rhaenyra was paranoid and isolationist and kept to herself,,,,,yeah, they should stop giving ryan condal jobs. this man has never done anything right to my favorite book series.

[yearningfailchild]

@mononijikayu His mistreatment of Black characters needs to be studied. He needs to take notes from shows like Bridgerton in terms of how to handle Black characters, despite what happened with Marina Thompson. He didn't even bother giving us "Laenyra" when Rhaenyra and Alicent fell out in Season 1, Episode 2.

Rhaenyra loved Laena and mourned her alongside Daemon, yet the showrunner had Daemon mistreat Laena and Baela, even though they are his family and he was even shown hugging his daughters in a deleted scene. I can't wait for my spring interdisciplinary art classes because I want to give Black characters the spotlight they deserve. Characters of color are constantly done dirty, and it isn't fair in terms of representation.

Now that it's Pride Month, Laenyra appreciation should be at an all-time high because LGBTQIA+ relationships need to be portrayed properly instead of giving us half-assed tropes.

Also, if heterosexual relationships can be portrayed as hot, steamy, toxic, sexual, and overly passionate, so should all LGBTQIA+ relationships. The mistreatment of LGBTQIA+ characters gives homophobic propaganda in media more leverage.

[mononijikayu]

100 percent. it's why it has always bothered me. i have been reading these books for nearly half of my life, so the issue to me has and always been the fact that we cannot even call out these things. i mean for example, that creator jj is going on a tirade on twitter about people horrified that rhaenyra is being portrayed to be in an argument with baela and pulling at her chin, when that shouldn't have been happening. people are kissing ass about how this is not only happening to lgbtqia+ characters from the books but also to the poc and black characters in the show. it genuinely frustrates me because, the book in itself was already filled with lgbtqia+ characters, it was already so full of diverse peoples. and yet, it has to be changed to be "inclusive" when it was only being harmful. i do not understand why people are eager to defend this show when the LITERAL AUTHOR OF SAID BOOKS backed away from the project because the showrunner he hired went rogue and changed the entire story and made it horrible.

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs