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what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.
Go!!
Shrek? I think. That or Finding Nemo.
Omg, no. It was Titanic, when I was... 6? I'm still traumatised. I hate the music even if I objectively know it's good.
My favorite episode of Miraculous Ladybug is Party Crasher, but only because of how hilariously absurd it is for Gabriel to get stuck in an elevator due to a power outage, transform into Hawk Moth so he can kick out the glass door, and then be like "I gotta use my evil super power to akumatize someone... so they can turn the power back on for me"
And then the icing on the cake is that one scene where he's like "ok time to akumatize someone to turn the power back on.. But wait, theres no negative emotions? Only.. JOY? IN MY HOUSE? IMPOSSIBLE, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE??"
I have to watch the last season already.
I LOVE space and I LOVE space exploration. What I do not love is gilded plutocrats rocketing off into space just for kicks and clout. It’s a grotesque display of inequality. A space race between billionaires is morally unjustifiable in the face of a suffering planet.
If space tourism becomes a thing the amount of fuel used can become another danger for the planet's environment.
Found that How To Disappear Online post again, linking it here for anyone who might need it or know someone who needs it. This is very good information for people trying to escape abusers or stalkers, or who simply do not want to be found.
i needed it!
I'm going to keep this in mind in case I ever want to
It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".
TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.
Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.
I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.
If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.
As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.
When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.
what is some TERF ideology we should be on the look out for?
This isn't comprehensive, but I'll do my best.
TERFs are, first and foremost, radical feminists. Radical feminism is essentially second-wave feminism without the intersectionality brought in by third-wave feminism. It believes that patriarchy is at fault for the oppression of women, but sees this in a very strict, binary way: women are the oppressed, and men are the oppressors.
TERFs use this to justify their specific brand of transphobia. This idea, among others, is essential in supporting that transphobia.
I'll try to outline some of those ideas, and some of the logical thruoughlines they use:
Women are uniquely oppressed, and always in danger. Womanhood- or the experience of being a woman- is defined by oppression, misogyny, and Being In Danger.
Women are particularly in danger in the presence of, and in relationships with, men. Spaces that exclude men are essential to preserving the safety of women.
Socialization: men are raised to support patriarchy, while women are raised to be subjugated by it. Men have no motive to unlearn these lessons, so all men are inherently more corrupted by these lessons than women.
Relationships with men are therefore inherently (more likely to be) abusive, and relationships with women are inherently safe(er).
Sex, in particular, is more often exploitative than not. Only some kinds of sex are not exploitative. Many kinds of sex that we think are consensual, or that people say are consensual, are either rape or proto-rape.
Exchanging money for sex is inherently rape/exploitation/non-consensual in some way.
As women who deny men access to them, lesbians are The Most Oppressed and also The Most Endangered. They must be protected at all costs.
Because so many women have been raped by men with penises, both men and penises are inherently traumatic to A Lot Of Women.
Many lesbians will naturally have an aversion to relationships with trans women because of this. Trans women who argue against this "genital preference" are potential rapists trying to infiltrate lesbian spaces to hurt and take advantage of women.
Men will always try to invade "women's spaces" to take advantage of women, endanger them, and strip away their resources both for personal gain/pleasure, and in service of upholding the patriarchy.
If we allow men to say they are women, they will invade those spaces and hurt "real" women. Men who say they are women are dangerous, and must be excluded and punished.
Men may try to obfuscate labels and terminology to "define women out of existence" or otherwise cause confusion, which they can manipulate to further their infiltration.
Women are all miserable with their bodies, cursed with the pressure to reproduce and have sex with men.
Women are all miserable with their genders, forced as they are to ensure the overwhelming and constant suffering that is patriarchy.
Women will attempt to escape this misery and pressure by "becoming men". This is cowardly, but understandable; a tragic but inevitable result of patriarchy. These women must be saved.
Some women who try to escape patriarchy are doing it out of self-interest; they are betraying women by becoming men, and contributing to their oppression. These women must be punished.
Bio-essentialism: women are oppressed specifically because of their bodies and ability to reproduce. This is an inherent and defining part of womanhood. Nobody can claim womanhood without this experience, everyone who has had this experience is a woman.
Women's bodies are all beautiful and perfect because they are women's bodies. If the womanliness of them is tampered with, they become less valuable. Men's bodies are gross and undesirable symbols of patriarchy.
Testosterone makes people violent, aggressive, irrational, and angry. Estrogen makes people calm, kind, and happy.
Men can never understand women's bodies as well as other women do.
People can be attracted to other people on the basis of "sex" alone. This is inherent, immutable, and unquestionable.
Men are sexual animals who inherently and unavoidably find lots of bad things sexually arousing. Because "youth" is attractive, many men find young girls and children attractive, and will try to take advantage of them. Misogynistic control/power over women, hurting women, and even rape are also inherently sexually appealing to men.
"Gender" is meaningless; it's founded in misogynistic stereotypes about men and women, and when you remove the stereotypes, there's nothing left at all. Only binary "sex" is real, because that's what patriarchy (and biology) is based on.
Manhood is itself a toxic, oppressive, inherently corrupting concept. Anyone who participates in manhood is corrupt and immoral; who would choose to be the oppressor?
Masculinity is defined only by hating women, having power, and being aggressive, violent, and controlling (etc.)
Patriarchy doesn't just target women, but femininity as a whole, for its association with women.
Patriarchy doesn't just reward men, but masculinity, as it rejects femininity. People who reject femininity and embrace masculinity are rewarded by the patriarchy.
Some of these ideas are contradictory, but they lead to the same conclusions. Some of them lead to similar conclusions, many of which take very little further nudging to push into more dogmatic ideas.
This is exactly why we need to understand all of these paths into TERF ideology- and more.
In fact, the vast majority of the points on this list- particularly the beginnings of their logic- can be very easily swallowed while still holding that trans women are women, and trans men are men.
That's what TIRFs (trans-inclusive radical feminists) are, and they're still incredibly dangerous. TIRF ideology normalizes these points, making it far easier for TERFs to recruit; even if TIRFs themselves try to be aggressively anti-TERF.
Again, this isn't comprehensive, and it would take a long time and a lot of words to cover every flaw and danger in every line of reasoning here.
But remember how these things work; even if some of them begin with a grain of truth, even if some of them are true- especially if you define the words they contain differently- be wary of them.
It's important to note how sex-negative they can be, and how in some circles this leads to a belief that being a lesbian is the only way one can liberate oneself from the abuse of men. They see sexual orientation as a choice to be made for one's safety, or a political act--not something based on genuine attraction. They also sometimes push the idea of the "gold-star lesbian"--that is, a lesbian who's never been with a man--as the ideal. If you're a bisexual? Disgusting, don't interact.
It's... sadly common to see on dating sites.
radical feminism is almost indistinguishable from evangelical conservatism. both camps believe that heterosexual sex is a violent consumption (and an immoral corruption) of women’s pure bodies. they believe that womanhood is inextricably centered around the uterus. they believe that men are basically ravenous violent sex-obsessed beasts who need to be restrained by the morality of good women. they believe that your sex at birth defines your character for the rest of your life, and that male and female are completely different, oppositional states of being. they believe that limiting young people’s access to information will keep them safer than giving them a full education and letting them make their own fully informed choices. they believe it’s better--safer and more virtuous--to be an innocent victim than an active agent. they both believe that suffering through all of this sanctifies women and proves that they’re more noble and virtuous than men. and, of course, the more suffering a woman endures, the more noble it must have made her.
the only difference is that radical feminists express their anger over these terrible beliefs and evangelical conservatives repress it.
and lot of these beliefs are familiar, and comfortable, to a lot of people who aren’t even radfems or conservatives. they pervade western thought already. it’s a framework of understanding sexism that resonates with a lot of our lived experiences. and going from acceptance of a terrible system to righteous anger at that terrible system can be an important and cathartic stage for victims of that system! but the next step is to reject the validity of that system, which radfems do not.
It’s implied but not explicitly stated above that BDSM--all BDSM no matter how well negotiated--counts as “rape” in this type of ideology.
Other highlights: All rape fantasies are inherently sick and dangerous. Pornography is inherently unhealthy and people who say they can separate porn from real life are suspect. "Informed consent” is fake: people are inherently harmed by BDSM/weird fantasies/porn/whatever, and saying yes to those things is just a sign that the person is damaged, not a valid conscious choice.
In a fandom context, the above stuff looks like this:
AFABs who write m/m instead of focusing on female characters are self-hating women who are betraying their sisters.
It is the duty of AFABs to write f/f in particular.
Being into m/m if you aren’t a cis man is “fetishization”.
Everyone could just choose to write f/f if they were being politically good. Saying you’re “just not into” something is an excuse rather than a valid description of how desire and inspiration work.
“Because it makes me horny” is never a valid reason for fic.
F/F is purer and better and softer than any other content.
All kinky fic is furthering rape culture.
Kinky f/f is especially heinous and must be stamped out.
The fact that you have to click on “gross” AO3 works to see them doesn’t matter because their very existence is damaging to people.
If you disagree, it’s because you're a broken, deluded victim engaging in self harm.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
A lot of fandom wank is explicitly and overtly pushing radfem garbage and calling that progressive. Yes, you, trans teenagers of tumblr. No matter how many times you reaffirm that you hate TERFs.
When you say “X is bad except for cope-shipping”...
When you demand that hobbyist women write about female characters...
When you say that people are clearly predators or going to become predators because of their Bad fic content...
You are helping TERFs.
And, as always, with this ideology asexuality doesn't exist and if man says he is asexual it is a lie to infiltrate.
TERFs are textbook radicals; unrevised ideas that discredits anyone outside and several contradictions to cover new TERFs that may still have some scruples left.
what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.
Go!!
Shrek? I think. That or Finding Nemo.
He has not only two hands but two daggers 😭💔
And this solves the conflict nicely. Also, cute.
Hey everybody.
We need to talk.
For real. This can't keep happening. It can't. I've seen it in every fandom I've been in. It's this war of words where no one ever, ever wins. So just...just stop. Please.
Everyone has their opinion. Everyone is valid. Okay?
I know how you feel. I feel it too. This is our Void. Our voice. This is where we go to just scream into the dark, desperate for once to be heard by someone. Anyone.
And these lifeless echoes are the worst you can imagine.
Fiction matters. It matters to all of us. That's why it's come to this. To be like this. Because we all care. Perhaps too much.
We want it so badly we just...become something we're not.
We have to let go.
We want a canon gay ship because we want to be heard. We want to feel like we exist. We want to be validated. But clinging to it so much has made us into something we're not.
Fiction matters. We just want to feel seen. To be allowed to speak. To exist. To be happy. That is what a canon gay ship means to us. And that is what we've been fighting so hard for. But this has gone too far.
You feel hated. Lost. Alone. I know. I do too. Because we just keep screaming until our voices break and then...no one listens. The silence is deafening.
So it is time. To listen.
You get to see yourself in the characters. You should. You must. But you don't get to tear each other and the creators down because of it.
We've just been screaming at each other in the dark. It needs to end. We need to listen to each other. We need to believe in each other. We need to be honest with each other.
Because the reason we, at least I, really didn't ship Sylki at first, was because we were threatened by it. We wanted Lokius. Because we're tired of empty promises. We're tired of silence. We want to be heard. And having a gay couple in the franchise, while still another small step, would mean we were seen.
Fiction matters.
But so does real life.
We can't let these fictional wars break what's real. Or the alternative. Because they're interdependent. They are. Fiction matters. Fiction is that voice in the dark and fiction is being heard in turn. That's fiction. Fiction is freedom. It's pushing society forward through this magical thing we all adore...it matters. It has always mattered.
But so does reality. We can't hurt real people over fiction because we are hurt by fiction. It's an endless, senseless cycle, and it needs to stop.
We need. To respect each other.
Fiction matters, and reality matters.
They must. Coexist.
It's not a weapon we get to use against each other to tear each other down...it's an essence. Art is the very soul of humanity, and bearing your soul to the rest of the world is the hardest thing you can do. And having it invalidated is one of the worst things that can happen to you.
So everyone. Everyone. Just grow the fuck up. Because I'm sick of it. Okay?
I am sick of being invalidated because I've been upset by something in fiction. I am sick of hearing "it's just fiction." I am sick of seeing fiction abused as a means to push people's personal prejudices. But that's also why it matters. Fiction is everything we are terrified to tell the world. It's everything we need from the world too. Because fiction is not just fiction. Because someone. Cares. Someone has always cared. And we need to care. We need to see ourselves free in fiction so we can realize that we. deserve. to be happy in reality. We need to put ourselves into fiction to make sense of reality. We need it. We need both. So we need to speak, and create, and really, really listen to each other. Just stop. Screaming. Please.
Wanting Lokius to be canon is valid. Wanting Sylki to be canon is valid. But we need to stop screaming at each other. Because our words matter. They've always mattered. And when we think that they don't, we say things we regret.
It hurts, because we're scared. We're scared we've reached the end. And we're pissed this is as far as we've gotten. But there are always more stories to be told. Maybe one of them will be yours. You put yourself into this one because you're scared it's your last chance to be seen. But this is not the end. It's never the end. We need to keep moving forward. But we need to grow from this. We need to keep going. We need to keep calling out into the dark, because maybe, eventually, someone will hear. But we need to understand that this. is not. the end.
We deserve to be represented. We deserve our voices to be heard. But we need to think about what our words will be doing when they are heard. We need to make sure that while we're putting ourselves into fiction, we aren't losing ourselves in lies. Lies like it doesn't matter. Lies like none of it matters. Lies like you don't matter. Because you do. We all do. We all have a story to tell. And those stories will always matter. Always. Always. Always. Always. So make sure that it's the story you want. Sing the song. But do not lose yourself in the sound. Speak up for yourself. But do not speak over others. Because someone out there cares. Someone out there is listening. Even if you think they're not. Even if you think what you say doesn't matter, it does. And it always has. It always has. So speak up for yourself. But do it. Respectfully. Respect others' boundaries. Respect other's feelings. Respect other's fear, and sadness, and anger, as long as they aren't hurting others with it. But if they are. Tell them so.
I could go in circles all day. But at the end of the day, it's the same message.
You matter. They matter. Fiction matters. Reality matters. Everything matters.
Just say what you need to say. What you burn to say. But listen too. Because everything matters. But the most important thing is love.
All of this to say...
The only way forward lies in listening, in being honest, in being respectful, and in love. All of this hate, toward creators, toward fellow fans, it's all a guise because we're just scared that no one is listening. But the scariest thing of all is that someone is. And you've been screaming so much that you don't know how much of your voice even remains, how much you have left to go on with. How much of yourself is left. How much is left to give to someone else when someone else finally wants it. But I'm telling you, there's an endless supply. You. Are boundless. You are only empty because you have ignored yourself so long, been ignored so long, internalized ignoring everything, that when someone finally notices, you can't believe that, and you're not ready. So listen to them. Listen to yourself. Listen to love. And fuck hate. Because it's just someone else feeling hurt and lashing out out of fear. And that's their problem to solve. No one can be saved until they're willing to save themselves.
So at the end of the day. Choose love. Between fear and frustration, between loneliness and longing, between hate and love, always choose love. Because love is much stronger than you think it is. It will grow back. If you both allow it. It must be nourished. It must be loved. In order to bloom, it must be fed. It must be cared for. Patiently. Tenderly. Even when you think it will never happen. The only possible way it will, is if you believe, if you listen, if you never, ever stop growing yourself.
So choose love. It's the only thing that lasts.
Dividing up eras of tumblr
It just occurred to me that I kind of arbitrarily started referring to “first age” “second age” and “third age” tumblr one day because I realized during a discord conversation that it really can be divided up very effectively between a couple major events that changed the fabric of the site’s culture almost overnight, but nobody but me ever refers to them that way, so by way of explanation:
First Age: everything before Dashcon. Art communities were still largely thriving on the internet and social media still mostly existed out from under corporate monopolies, and people were just wildly guessing about how to use it. We were in the last hurrah of the internet wild west and lolcats were still a thing. Tumblr was just a fun and quirky place, we were blissfully writing unironic posts about tumblr university and fandom vs hipster and the “I like your shoelaces” thing, Hank Green wrote a goddamn song about tumblr, we were all like Adam and Eve dwelling in Eden unaware of their sin. Potterheads grab your wands.
Second Age: post-Dashcon, but pre-Purge. We have all eaten the fruit of knowledge and there is no going back. There are no more secret code or tumblr university posts because everyone knows firsthand how badly that would go. Fandom culture is forever changed. We are now aware that we live in a hellish cringetopia but have absolutely no plans to leave, because by now a combination of monopolies and a sneaky rise in purity culture has the internet by the throat (but not in a kinky way, that would scare off advertisers) so there aren’t a lot of better options, and at least our relatives can’t find us here. A lot of artists now have their primary presence on tumblr. The lax policies regarding nsfw and controversial content mean it’s a good space for queer creators and sex workers despite the many shortcomings we’re now aware of. The porn bot plague really kicks into full gear to the point that every time our follower counts go up we’re ready with the block/spam button like the uncles from Secondhand Lions picking off traveling salesmen. The drama starts to get really fucking weird, with classics such as the human pet guy and the bone-stealing witch.
Third Age: post-Purge. After changing corporate hands a few times, the drive to make the internet safe for our Good Christian Advertisers and hypothetical children has finally reached us, and brings with it TERFs, purity culture, and the Porn Ban, which was allegedly a solution to the porn bots except that it clearly wasn’t at all. The large community of sex workers and artists that was keeping tumblr afloat as anything resembling a viable social media site have made a mass exodus and a lot of the rest of the userbase followed them, mostly to twitter or a few doomed attempts at tumblr copycats. Tumblr is now a mad max clown car full of people too stubborn to pack up and leave for a functional website. It’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland whose only remaining merit is that even without the ability to post porn we’ve managed to make ourselves such a complete anathema to advertisers that we’re mostly just left alone. We’re all just tired. Some people still run art blogs but nobody outside of tumblr ever sees them. Literally all we have going for us is that we’re not twitter and we have +5 resistance to capitalism. And Xkit.
Tag yourself. At which era did you enter this hellsite?
Second age
Third Age
Unfortunately, I was here for the First Age.
I lurked during the middle of second age and entered near the end of it.
After the ban I changed from looking for art (even good non-nsfw art has become scarce) to checking for memes and well-written posts, and changed my username with it.
yelena belova is asexual, pass it on
seriously pass it on
she's canonically ace in the comics and one of like 2 ace comic characters
Who has the best facial hair amongst the avengers? #avengersrealityshow
I don't know... Nat's eyebrows are a work of art.
I’m sure who needs to hear this but “selfcest” is not a thing that is comparable in any way to any real life crime or wrongdoing and is therefore not setting a bad example about anything and is therefore not a problematic component that needs to be called out. Anyone can like or not like a pairing, but this is like the pinnacle of reaching to explain why the pairing someone doesn’t like is also “inappropriate” or “toxic.” Falling for (if you take the framing and Mobius’s words at face value) an alternate timeline version of yourself is not a thing anyone will have an opportunity to do nor is it likely that any impressionable mind is going to watch this show and then feel like falling in romantic love with oneself is the move.
If you are going the genetic route with this, the sci-fi on this is so vague that it’s not even concrete that they are biologically family even if they share some cosmic Loki oneness. Just the fact that Sylvie established she was born as the Goddess of Mischief and one Loki is Black makes their physical “sameness” a question mark that will probably never be answered (and yes, people of different races/sexes/genders can be related to each other before someone points out the obvious. That’s not the point I’m making here 😂) and really doesn’t need to be answered because it’s not pivotal to the story nor is it an action anyone can repeat in real life.
… Also apparently one of them is a fucking alligator or something, though I will wait and see if that is its natural form. If it is, they are definitely not biological fam.
Like or don’t like them, whatever, but do we need to construct completely made up “problems”? Some of y’all are saying “we don’t support selfcest” like it’s an epidemic that the show is now normalizing. There’s only one physical real life act you even could compare it to, and if you are reading this, chances are you do it to yourself. … If you are here on a regular basis, chances are you do it to yourself more often than the average person in lieu of someone to do it for you, and that is okay too.
Love yourself… like Loki.
I'm not exactly a fan of Loki/Sylvie, but it's nice that they can relate with each other, that they have a confidant.
If I ship them it is as platonic partners. And it's great.
Disney 1994: Tries to copyright the phrase Hakuna Matata. The Swahili rightfully calls them out.
Disney 2017: Tries to copyright Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican religious holiday. They get called out on their bullshit pretty damn fast and cease on their attempt.
Disney 2021: They now want to copyright an ancient Norse pagan deity. (READ BELOW)
EDIT: Apparently the Norse deity thing was misinformation: Thankfully it seems they are only trademarking the fictional Marvel versions of them. The other shit they did is still real, though. Don’t ever forget they tried to do that.
Ok, guess it's false alarm for now.
I overworked
I didn't stop
But my teacher
Wanted me at the top.
Good night
if any asshole tries to be racist to my beloved Wilson siblings they will be talking my knife and sword collection, I won't hesitate to absolutely cut a bitch with it
sam and sarah are just *chefs kiss* they deserve the world and all the love in it
I will join you with my stepfather's machete
Mmmmm... I guess I could use my grandparents' hoe (I mean the field tool, not a person guys). It's a bit beaten up, but it'll work in a pinch.
Commissioned @viria on Twitter! A very self indulgent piece of Tattoo Artist Haru/Florist Kyoko (they are gfs)
This is beautiful!
Wasting time.
Aka. I just wanted to draw kitty cat.
#pascalcampion
