i am singing now while rome burns

julia - 28 - she/her - dyke - australian - terfs + zionists fuck off

[poetrylesbian]

my other blogs

@shanebug

Heated Rivalry sideblog :)

@2manypdfs

snippets from what im currently reading... haven't used this in years but im trying to read more this year! it's aspirational...

mutuals can ask for my private/backup blog :)

[snototter]

Wildflowers bloom at the site of a forest fire in Los Olivos, California, USA

by Lisa Roeder

[dykonicdiva]

i am at my clits end

[gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain]

[hateusandseeifwemind]

I cant wait to marry one of my mutuals im just not sure who its going to be yet...nervous

[taumoeba]

sir please thats my emotional support song that i first heard on a 8tracks playlist in 2014

[80slesbiab]

Hello, I need some help again this month. I'm short $200 for medical and essential expenses, and any support would mean so much to me. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate it more than you know.

[poetrylesbian]

so woolies says that their budget meals on their website are $5 or less per serving but the majority show up as more? even brand new recipes? Ugh

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 3

Ada Wong (Resident Evil) vs. Yuna Hollander (Heated Rivalry)

Ada Wong

Yuna Hollander

Remaining time: 2 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Ada Wong:

Deemed toxic, manipulative and the worst when there are characters regardless of gender who canonically did worse things. Also this stems how close her plotlines are aligned with Leon Kennedy and I guess you can’t be a complicated woman near a popular and hot male character who’s a grown man and can make his own decisions :/

She’s into everyone's business as a side quest and somehow gets the job done. She deserves better because she’s so goddamn cool and hot and funny and so deadpan about her job as a corporate spy/mercenary

She lied to a man ONE time because that is literally a part of her job, and now being a male-manipulator is supposedly her only personality trait. Granted, the games are also guilty for this, but her entire character getting reduced down to her relationships with men (and more specifically, with Leon) will never fail to frustrate me. Folks love to ignore all the times she has made decisions that work against her best/personal interests in order to reduce her down to a selfish witch whose entire life supposedly revolves around being sexy/kinda mean towards Leon's general direction.

She is morally complex, WAY more emotionally intelligent than people like to give her credit for, and she can roundhouse a zombie while wearing 6-inch heels like its nothing. Let's be real, she deserves her own game.

Yuna Hollander:

I hate how she has been slotted into a lazy 'tiger mom's stereotyped and even seen as an abusive mum just for having a complicated but ultimately loving relationship with her son!!

She deserves to run the NHL.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 5

Braeden (Teen Wolf) vs. Susie (Undertale / Deltarune)

Braeden

Susie

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Braeden:

Fandom hates on her for being Derek's love interest and reads her actions in bad faith and as if she is evil. There is an extra layer of antiblackness and misogynoir as she is a black woman.

Branden has a super cool werewolf scar on her throat and drives a badass motorcycle. She is playfully mean to Derek and is unafraid of Peter. She helps out Scott and his pack a lot even though she claims to be a mercenary who doesn't care about them either way.

Susie:

Semi-canon f/f ship being passed in amount of fics on ao3 by a m/m ship between characters who haven't even met on screen (and existed for four years less!) is abysmal. Spamtenna shippers when I get you-

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 6

Yukari Takeba (Persona 3) vs. Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets)

Yukari Takeba

Taissa Turner

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Yukari Takeba:

Hated for being sometimes abrasive towards the protagonist (due to trauma) and later hated for handling grief poorly in the Answer DLC (because god forbid a teenage girl not handle the sacrificial death of a close friend/potential love interest well)

Yukari had a wonderful arc about finding the truth about her dad's death and fighting for a better world alongside her friends. Her dynamic with Mitsuru is also very sweet seeing her go from un-trusting towards to finding common ground leading to the two becoming close friends (and also they should kiss WHO SAID THAT)

Taissa Turner:

taissa is not necessarily hated but more ignored. as the only Black main character, she tends to get way less attention than the others. if she does get attention, it's mostly about her relationship with her (white) girlfriend van without any serious exploration of her character. though there are some works including her on ao3, it's mostly her and her gf being a background couple without any further thought to it. if you look through the top posts on the yellowjackets fanart tag, it takes forever until sth about her pops up (mostly her and her gf again). i actually really like her relationship, but it feels like people only care about taissa in that setting. and again, she is a main character with tons of interesting scenes and a lot of complexity that rarely gets discussed. she also has a lot of very interesting dynamics with the other characters and even though the yellowjackets fandom is big on multishipping (and shipping in general) taissa is rarely included in that. she and her canon gf also get way less attention than many of the other pairings (even though they are THE canon lesbians of the show). later on taissa has a wife who is Black btw and pretty much completely ignored by the fandom.. the show is definitely partly to blame for that, since her wife kinda falls into the disposable Black gf trope and the writers generally fumbled tai's story in parts. however, she's still a very intriguing character and other characters with potentially worse writing still get a lot of love. (there are also some instances of her being described as bitchy, too mean or egocentrical when that's literally not true at all. but i can't speak to much on that bc i prefer not to engage with this and i also think it's not a major part of the fandom that sees her that way.)

tai is the heart of the show!! she takes initiative, she moves the plot forward and she gets the job done (the giver was literally written about her… like she is doing the shit the other characters don't want to do, she's a literal self described handy lesbian!! also imo a character that truely understands the relevance of community, always sticking up for others when necessary regardless of sympathy etc)

she cares so deeply about the people around her and goes to great lengths to support them

some examples:

1. offered to give another character an abortion, so she doesn't have to do it on her own (mind you, they weren't even close or anything atp)

2. lead a mission to get rescue to get her help (they're stranded in the wilderness) for which she literally risked her own life

3. supported said character through the entirety of an incredibly traumatic birth

4. paid for another characters rehab several times without telling anyone or expecting anything in return

5. killed a wolf for her gf

6. joined a cult for her gf

yellowjackets is also a show that heavily plays with the question of "is the supernatural real or is there are psychological explanation for all that?" and tai is one of two characters who are really at the center of this question due to her having some form of alternate personality which is super interesting imo

like this other personality stems from her being deeply repressed and never allowing herself to be truely seen. she constantly puts on a mask and she kinda doesn't deal with her problems at all. like she's carrying complex religious trauma from her childhood into her adulthood plus all the surival horror trauma she never deals with… idk i love her so much, i think she's deeply interesting and i wish people would talk about her more

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 7

Noelle Holiday (Undertale / Deltarune) vs. Malia Tate (Teen Wolf)

Noelle Holiday

Malia Tate

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Noelle Holiday:

Semi-canon f/f ship being passed in amount of fics on ao3 by a m/m ship between characters who haven't even met on screen (and existed for four years less!) is abysmal. Spamtenna shippers when I get you-

Malia Tate:

Fandom hates on her for being Stiles's love interest. I have seen fans argue that she is "mentally a child" because she was a coyote for many years (she is a werecoyote), or, alternatively, that she is a predator for dating Stiles because she is "45 in coyote years."

Malia is very loyal and sharp-witted and thinks she should be allowed to kill people which of course she should.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 7

Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Kira Yukimura (Teen Wolf)

Rose Tico

Kira Yukimura

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

Kira Yukimura:

Some fans hated her for replacing Allison (white) as Scott's love interest when she is Asian. Other fans reduce her to a cheerleader for their m/m fics.

Kira is so sweet and starts out feeling awkward and out of place but grows in confidence as the show goes on. But she also struggles with her inner kitsune and its violence. She left the show too soon!

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 7

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Tabitha Tate (Riverdale)

Princess Bubblegum

Tabitha Tate

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Princess Bubblegum:

people GENUINELY hate her because she's a dictator who created all the citizens in her kingdom and feels entitled to using them as she pleases. it's not like she doesn't have good reason.. she's permanent. most everything else is temporary. she's not allowed to get silly with it just cause it's "unethical" ?

Fans act like she is the evilest character on the planet for stuff they would praise Tony Stark for. Fans also act like she led Finn on as if she was magically supposed to know he had legitimate feelings for her when even Jake treated his crush like a joke.

Bonnie is a morally ambiguous millennia old lesbian dictator genius mad scientist made of candy who will do anything to keep her kingdom safe. But she is also capable of learning and growing as she proves in the finale. Put some respect on her name!!!

Tabitha Tate:

Classic example of people hating a Black woman for "getting in the way" of a more popular ship. Has been called abusive for fairly banal mistakes so as to make other love interests appear morally superior. Often has her struggles swept to the side in favor of having her emotionally support other (often male) characters.

She is the best character on the show. She is a time traveling angel who saved the multiverse. She fed the tears the virgin Mary shed at the crucifixion to the devil. She's a union woman. She's kept a maple preserved corpse in her back room for days. She' seen the man she loves die at least 1,384 times. She's so so awesome guys. Best character of all time.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

[phleb0tomist]

reminder to all disabled people that you’re allowed to tell people “i can’t do that” about stuff you can ‘technically’ do but which harms you or requires a period of recovery or preparatory rest etc. you don’t have to explain the complex nuances of your condition to anybody who demands it. i’ve found it’s honestly better to give the least amount of info about your symptoms unless you trust a person a lot. you hold the power over your health information. you choose whether or not to share the details of your condition with people who might not understand.

[kcrabb88]

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.