Of The Demons That Here Dream

Ask me anything! Mixed fandom blog with a few random things. Fandoms found here include Blue Exorcist, Berserk , Naruto, a bit of Yu Yu Hakusho, and several others intermittently. name on Ao3 is same as my blog name. History, folklore and biology are my forte.

[sundae0922]

[androgynousblackbox]

It's always "why do women love M/M romance" and "it's actually selective homophobia why women read M/M romance instead of F/F romance" and "it's actually misogyny" and never, ever, does anyone even think, why are we always even asking why women read or not read queer romance and why are we always painting it as a negative thing that reflects badly on their personalities. That is the question I actually want answers to. Nobody ever questions why men read the things they do. The closest that we ever came to that was with that whole "performative male reader" thing from some time ago and, even then, every left leaning person I could see were pretty fucking quick to call that out as toxic masculinity, homophobia and misogyny, so it got dropped relatively quickly. But this bullshit? This big why oh why aren't more women reading F/F, and instead prefer to be "male centered" and continue to read M/M, nooooo, you all are just incapable of dropping that shit. We have to endlessly debate and ask and prode and question, because it's such a "mystery" that women want to read about those icky, icky men instead of the pure and perfect and so much better F/F romance, which would cleanse them from all their homophobia (because F/F readers can ever EVER be homophobic about anything ever, yes, yes), all their misogyny (because clearly women who are misogynistic are not a thing!) and improve everything for everyone everywhere, of course. So the only reason why women (and again, it's always women or "female readers") don't go and do that means that they don't care about improving shit for anyone and are actually the problem. Yes, yes, no doubt this is it. And we are going to keep making videos and articles and threds and whatever the fuck reaching this same conclusion, over and over and over again, because women CLEARLY haven't been questioned enough! Aren't judged enough! Don't have their interest and hobbies under enough scrutiny! And men? Oh, they are a lost cause so why bother? They don't read as much as women (and there is no point to even question why that is, clearly!), so they aren't worth adressing. If they even touch F/F romance it will only be to sexualized it (because sexualization is ALWAYS bad and never an honest artistic expression of anything) and be lesbophobic about it, so why even talk about that when we already know that men are just that gross and disgusting from the start? Men don't even touch M/M romance either because that is too gay and if they are gay, don't touch it anyway because it's all full of "female" writers whose actual genders nobody bother to google for and, truly, when you think about it, only women are responsible for this too. Why won't women stop writing M/M romance so only the gay men can write it. Because surely that is how it works, right? Why do they have to be so fetishistic about it when gay men, as we all know, are famously completely devoid of sexual desires and sexual drive.

Damn, women do really ruin everything, don't they? Those stupid silly women who don't even know why they read the things they do and that is why they keep needing an outsider, someone who has never even talked with those communities, what is up and call them out in all the bad things they are and should change immediately. To go read F/F instead, because obviously that would solve everything.

[philosophicalparadox]

Toxic misandry really does hit every single rung on the way down the ladder. And frequently is just internalized misogyny turned outward. They are not inherently separate concepts, so go figure, but it never fails to feel like I’m watching a circus that not only has no monkeys, but pretends like the dying fish they’re torturing into performing on dry land are perfectly happy to be there and couldn’t possibly belong in a different act than the one they’re pedaling

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

"children need more safe space online" children have always had more than enough safe space online. what you're seeing is children deliberately coming into online space that is meant specifically for adults. and I am not saying they are not welcome by the way, as long as adult space is what they CHOOSE to be in and as long as they keep themselves safe (however, it is not an adult's job or responsibility to look after a random kid or what content they consume on the internet).

but YOU. you see children deliberately choosing to consume adult contents and say "oh no we need more children's space, and in doing so, we must ban and censor adult contents FROM ADULTS' SPACE that children deliberately choose to be in.”

and you know what else I know? you don't actually care about children by demanding more children's space online, you are just hiding behind the "we are protecting children" claim while actively trying to control people what they can or can't create/consume in their own adult space. you are just trying to push for censorship, the fascist tool that you love so much.

[lostxanadu]

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

chat reminder to just write whatever the fuck you want. write that overused trope. write that obscure shit that no one will have heard of. just. do it. your writing is yours stop depriving it of that.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that a

[arsonist-arcade]

Its okay, take your time

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

constellation prize

[omarapetirun]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in my defense they did not specify the order in which i was allowed to take my time!

[sentimental-androids]

Dear God these tags are immaculate….

[chidorinnegan]

taking a jab at naruto characters pt.2

ft. kisame, orochimaru, suigetsu, karin, zetsu, madara, hashirama, tobirama

pt.1

Madara's gopnik speak is a Russian dub of a scene in Blood & Concrete: A Love Story. This is the original English transcript: "You motherfucker! C'mon you little ass. Fuck with me, eh? You fucking little asshole, dickhead, cocksucker. You fucking— come on! Come fuck with me!"

It's a trashy meme. English swears are like kitten fur tickles in comparison to Russian ones lmao.

[soft-princesa]

me???? tired???? sleepy??? yes constantly

[byjove]

Sherlock Holmes is a perfectly normal autistic guy with a roommate who is deeply perplexed by him.

[absolutejamer]

Sherlock Holmes demonstrates a remarkably sophisticated understanding of stimulant usage in neurodivergent individuals

[acethembo]

Something a lot of people forget about Holmes is that, because ACD was Like That, his 'relatable audience insert' Watson is actually a lot weirder than Holmes is

[byjove]

That is something that is so fun about reading the books, Watson being the narrator adds so much because you slowly realize how bizarre his perspective is and how strangely grounded a lot of Holmes’s ‘strange’ behavior is. There was something so fascinatingly wrong with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and he passed it on to his self insert.

[loveridden1999]

person (non-practicing)

[doomtemparts]

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.

[philosophicalparadox]

The good news: you’re going to be really happy and excited about going, and you’re gonna feel like your life has been changed by the time you’re done!

The bad news: it’s probably not going to be a…uh, happy sort of change. At the very least you are for sure going to suffer.

(Ten of swords is BAD when it’s upright)

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[xx-fck]

heavy flirting with someone you cant actually fuck is both the best and the worst

[tyrantisterror]

One of the reasons I'll always stand by the 2013 Carrie remake is how it perfectly understands the psychology of a bully in the way few pieces of media do. The bullies in the original Carrie film adaptation, the one everyone praises, are cartoonish caricatures rather than real people, the all the interiority of Snidely Whiplash.

But in the 2013 movie you get to the scene where Chris Hargensen, the leader of the bullies, is brought into the principal's office and told that she'll not only be suspended, but banned from going to prom for how she and her pals bullied Carrie at the beginning of the movie, and the actress who plays her does this phenomenal job of conveying how, in Chris's mind, she's the victim. There's no cartoonish ranting or villainous monologuing, but rather a genuine outrage at a situation that she truly believes is unjust.

The actress and the movie both understand that in Chris's mind, she is entitled to torment Carrie - that her tormenting Carrie isn't just enjoyable, but a right that she has, a just and good thing for her to do because it the world is structured for her to do so, and that denying her that right is an injustice. The warped logic of the bully isn't "Haha I love being mean and evil," but rather, "When I hurt people, they deserve it and I deserve to enjoy doing it, because that is good and just."

And I think that's important because, like, we all have our Chris Hargensen moments. Every one of us has had a time where we felt entitled to be cruel, and recognizing that is important to being a better person. You can't let yourself fall into the trap of believing that your cruelty is always justified, or else Carrie is going to throw your car into a brick wall with you inside it.

[kingdeath000]

day 1 oc creation: bad childhood, homosexuality

day 15: oral fixation

day 35: favorite color is blue

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[bitcoitus]

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson