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@chocolatechipscones

His character designs (particularly his martyn design) are so perfect in capturing everyone’s personality- I need to squish them as stress balls

@chocolatechipscones !!!

[daily-martyn-itlw]

Hi! Something for the guest art! :D

Day 383: aro dogwarts flag! How cuteee!!

[wayneradiotv]

Just wanna check, what's your pronouns? :-) thank

he/ham

[cardassiangoodreads]

what fictional characters aren't real people should mean: It's okay to like characters who have done bad stuff, you can use them as tools to explore dark themes, they can be interpreted in multiple ways and everyone can be right, etc. what weirdos tm think it means: the content I create and enjoy has 0 effect on the real world and real people who these characters are parallels to and is never indicative of my own beliefs no matter what

To be clear, I am with the “this doesn’t (really) affect the real world” people when we are talking about fanfiction. People need to have a sense of scale when talking about media analysis too, especially if they’re going to name/confront the creator about it. The impact of an individual fanfiction work on “the real world” is negligible and at most, just reflects preexisting things in the broader culture (and so your energy is better directed at those things), and attacking fanfiction writers for writing non-con or underage or w/e is effectively just beating up on marginalized people with no power for no reason. I’m wholly against “anti” culture, which should be strongly condemned wherever it crops up because ironically, it collectively has in fact had a much bigger impact on the real world in that the weird homophobic and misogynistic language it uses has trickled up into mainstream publishing/media discourse and from there into the slurs that right-wing politicians and activists use to attack gay and trans rights and to ban books in schools.

But… yeah, my eternal beef with fandom has been that people don’t recognize that these terms and concepts exist outside of how they’re misused by fandom bullies. If the only time you’ve heard “objectify” is in fandom arguments then you live in a bubble, and you need to puncture that bubble and look into how these concepts are used outside of it, before you similarly side with the powerful over the powerless by throwing out all of feminist (and antiracist and queer etc.) media criticism, just because a teenager misused that idea to condemn your whump fic.

I think the times when criticism of fan content is legitimate, it is focused on its impact on other fans (plural, not just one person) and their experience in fandom, and that also needs an awareness of those bigger conversations because the stuff that is truly impactful in that way is that which reflects broader patterns both in and especially outside of fandom. For instance: there’s a big difference between beating up on an individual well-tagged tentacle rape fic that no one is going to click on unless they’re into that — there’s no reason to get mad there except pearl-clutching — and discussing how racist patterns in fic and headcanons make fandom less fun for POC and how people regurgitating those patterns often don’t realize they’re racist. Even so, most of the time I think it’s more effective to focus on patterns rather than individual works.

[mayakern]

why are people so afraid of the word fat? smh

YEAH.... i’ve literally had to have this conversation on two platforms two days in a row.... y’all i’m TIRED. i’ve got so much bigger shit going on, don’t make me also have to educate you about the reclamation of fat as a value neutral word. 😭

[rabdoidal]

okay if that is a hot chip that implied that there are cold chips. the idea that you have to make a distinction between hot and cold french fries is wild because I would simply assume all frenched fries/chips are hot. Who is the person who orders cold chips???

well its not Cold Chips VS Hot Chips, its that Potato Chips are packaged and Hot Chips are cooked, and it isnt a distinction between hot and cold french fries, but its a linguistic differentiation depending on the context, ie. if you ask someone if they want to get chips, its useful to distinguish if you mean potato chips or hot chips, but if you’re in the takeout store you just order Chips

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Poor Brett seems to be a victim of Bidoof's law...

Wow! i didn't even think to check. thank you for making this sacrifice in order to find that info,

[supercantaloupe]

how dare you say Iga would put sour cream on latkes. She has enough self respect for apple sauce but I think she's actually a horse radish person. I will fight you behind a Denny's about this /lh

listen i am team applesauce all the way myself but i only speak the truth here about iga. i can see horseradish i guess but it’s sour cream above all else in the lisowski household