Friendly reminder to not let people gaslight you into doing things you're uncomfortable with! Allowed myself to be convinced to watch something I was really quite uncomfortable with, and now I'm unable to sleep the night before a party because it's causing me sleep anxiety and more frequent hallucinations. Do not compromise your comfort and health for anyone, you're worth more than that.
this post is a year and a half old and i STILL get notes on it. i don't even go here anymore and etho piss post haunts me like a dead lover. at least once a week etho piss post appears in my notes like a goddamn curse. im going to be 30 years old one day and STILL BE HAUNTED BY THIS POST.
nirvana is nice i quite like it :) i really like 'something in the way'. i used to carpool and the kid i carpooled with only played nirvana, so i got a bit over it. but its nice to listen to occasionally. kurt cobain was a really funny guy ive seen videos of concerts and interviews, hes got a good sense of humor.
i have favourite artists but this is band, so eyedress :)
@angelsdocry @i-ate-the-sun7 @agathokakolog1cal @s1l4s-w0rsh1ps-t0m4t03s @eddiecorn + open tags :) /nf
@thatcringegirly @li11ied @honee-bea @sage-way @chaos-gremlin @raeprise @t0by-h @the-vibe-is-strange uhhh i'm too tired to think of any other cool peopllleeee
I had to look up sheppard, apparently I do know some of their songs, I really quite like them!
I really don't know much about one direction o.0 I know they made "what makes you beautiful" which is a pretty good song! Otherwise I'm clueless sorry
My favourite band is The Crane Wives <3 they are awesome, pretty sure a song of theirs called "The Moon Will Sing" was popular on tiktok a few months ago!
Tag time !! @remyisme @bamblesthewisetomato @stoneskippings @communistcatboi @wimblton475 @loafofryebread @ivys-garden @gayhenrycreel @jeena-says-hi @miloisnice @gaynpc03
It is so funny to me that cc!Tommyinnit, a cis straight man who did not know what homophobia was until he was 15, managed to make such a gender queer character. C!Tommy's story involves being constantly shoved into roles he doesn't fit into by those surrounding him. C!Tommy's story involves an antagonist with a desire to 'fix' him in a process which deprives him of happiness and drags him farther away from his normal self than he's ever been. C!Tommy vocally despises 'men', which is very easily interpenetratable as hatred for the masculine role he's meant to fit into. Despite being very loud and (usually) jokingly violent and making a deluge of jokes about getting women and other things that are a very exaggerated display of 'manliness', most of his skills/hobbies are traditionally seen as more feminine (sewing, animal care, etc), he is greatly disturbed whenever he actually moves to violence, and the aspects of his personality that he doesn't let on immediately are those of compassion and forgiveness.
More thoughts because people seemed to like this one:
C!Schlatt being Tommy's idol. Schlatt, who from a distance seemed to perform stereotypical masculinity so well. The suit, the facial hair, the drinks, the business, the cadence, he had it all down. This was a facade, of course. Schlatt was a heavily implied gay man who was at his happiest living with a man who kept him grounded in a place where his exploits didn't seriously hurt anyone (SMPLive). But by the time of Manberg he is pretty much lost in this facade. He's violent to those below him, succumbing to addictions, clinging to power, angry, and scared. The persona that he puts on doesn't translate to real skill, he can't run a business, much less a country, and the insecurity of this combined with the lack of his previous support structure sends him mentally spiraling. On his first day, Tommy was in awe of Schlatt. In a genderqueer reading, this awe and desire to be like him is very easily readable as a desire to fit into the stereotypical masculinity he represents. On his last day, Tommy watched Schlatt die alone in the ruins of the country Tommy had helped create, insisting that he was the only thing holding Manberg together, verbally berating his former friends on their appearance and their ability "to be a man" in a last attempt to feel superiority when he knew he was going to die.
This is the main reason I think the post-Manberg era would be the most interesting time for Tommy to have a gender crisis, he basically watches his previously idea of what he was supposed to look up to torn down and shattered. More specifically I think it could begin after he leaves Techno. In New L'Manberg, Tommy is kind of directionless. He recognized that he wouldn't serve as a good president, both because he had unfinished business with Dream and because he never wanted the title, but then the country blew up and Wilbur died. He can't leave NLM because he cares about it and needs to see it fixed, and he can't go after Dream because Dream is pressing his newfound power as the only politically/physically powerful person in the central server. He is very intentionally boxed into this role by Dream, a role where he needs to be polite, quiet, and non threatening or risk the fate of his entire country. And he hates it, he can't do it because it's not who he is. It's not Tommy's nature to not burn down George's house, it's in Tommy's nature to try and prank George, accidentally set his house on fire, and then do his best to fix it, because he's belligerent and impulsive and also compassionate. But it was always a trap, all the demands that came after the house, so Tommy would slip up and Dream could cart him off to Exile to actually make a concerted effort to change him.
This is unarguably Tommy's lowest point. He gets Jack killed for a laugh and doesn't move to help him until it's too late, he thinks's he's hallucinating, he has nothing to his name, and he's suicidal. This all comes from Dream's slow process of 'fixing' him, trying to make him an ideal version of Tommy he has in his head. I won't go into the characterizations of Dream (for that you should go to @/proudfreakmetarusonniku) but even when he has a larger plan, some aspect of it is always focused on Tommy. In the L'Manberg War he sacrificed total victory for Tommy's discs, and here he is putting a majority of his free time towards molding Tommy into a version of himself who won't fight Dream, who won't fight anyone. He wants a version of Tommy that can't fend for himself, who won't even try to, who sees Dream as his only friend, his only anyone. Dream's expectations are basically the inverse of the perception of Tommy by everyone else that he's fed into: a violent, arrogant, 'hero' who wants more than he deserves versus a polite helpless friend that will take the scraps Dream throws to him gratefully. Dream clearly doesn't want Tommy dead, pulling him from danger or possible suicides several times, but instilling the idea that someone is both worthless and pointless does not help. Tommy fully embraces Dream's expectations of him, he fits into what he wants him to be almost exactly, and he hates it and it makes him suicidal. And what drives him over the edge is the knowledge that Dream did not find it good enough, that he was still not able to perform correctly. What pulls him back is the realization that Dream was not his friend, that Dream's sole purpose was to watch him and break him. What pulls him back is deciding that Dream does not and will not have his best interests at heart, and that he does not want to become the version of himself Dream wants.
I won't get too deep into the Technoblade stuff because this post is getting rambly, but I think it's important to consider that when Tommy rejoins New L'Manberg it is the first decision he is making entirely independently and in unyielding contrast of people's expectations of him. He followed Wilbur to the very end, through L'Manberg and Pogtopia, he only left NLM because he was forced out, running from Exile came with recognizing that Dream was always his enemy, but Technoblade was a man he still cared about, respected, and considered a friend. Technoblade was also a man who viewed Tommy as Theseus, a boy seeking heroism, shunned by his people, coming back with a vengeance. And Tommy recognized that that wasn't who he was, that he forgave Tubbo, that he didn't want anyone dead. This is the first time Tommy goes against someone he trusts and respects and does not back down about who he is as a person.
This era forward is where I can most easily envision an outwardly genderqueer Tommy because this all sticks. When he's trapped in the prison with Dream he doesn't cave, he does his best to explain why their relationship is terrible. When Wilbur comes back he still follows him, but it's with the recognition that Wilbur is unwell and that he won't always lead them in the best direction. He still has a lot of issues, but he mostly understands who he wants to be as a person.
Yeah sorry your boyfriend is dead. Yeah there was nothing we could d- wait what are you doing put the DNA copying powers down. Don’t look at him in the eyes desperately and copy his DNA. NO. BAD. THIS IS NOT HOW YOU COPE WITH LOSS. GO TO THERAPY DO NOT INVENT A NEW STAGE OF GRIEF. Why do I even bother.
mcyt fans in 2021: i love this FICTIONAL MINECRAFT ROLEPLAY CHARACTER (PLATONIC) its a character NOT the creator make sure to ask their boundaries i'm not a parasocial freak i just think theyre very gender (their CHARACTER) not the cc dont call me weird.
mcyt fans in 2024: so how do you think ethoslab deals with his period pains.