#discourse tag

[photonic-blast]

Sometimes I see posts by Tumblr marxists-communists and 90% of the time it's clear that none of them had ever even read Marx, and if they had it was only some extracts. We are in a dire need of having people actually read the sources of the thoughts they're parroting online

[tumblezwei]

My opinion on Berdly is that he's a funny character with a nice and tidy little arc in chapter 2 who otherwise has no place in the grander plot and was correctly moved to the side after his usefulness was expended.

To me it's always been incredibly obvious that he was never meant to be more than an accessory to Noelle's character arc and I never once entertained the idea of him entering another Dark World. Him and Jevil exist on the same plane of "they had a set purpose within the story that is now done" that the Deltarune fandom refuses to acknowledge and it's kind of pissing me off.

"Why didn't Susie think of including Berdly? He's way stronger than Noelle!" Because Susie doesn't fucking like him and he's an idiot. He was able to "tank" the Fun Gang in the same way literally every other miniboss can. Why doesn't Susie ask fucking Rouxls Kaard to join them since apparently the ability to last more than 2 rounds of combat is the best powerscaling criteria this fandom has to offer?

Like can you imagine? Out of all the characters that Susie could possibly think of to help them in their quest to defeat the Knight and save Undyne and Asgore, she calls on fucking Berdly. The guy who's whole existence post-chapter 2 is to either be the world's most awkward (yet supportive) fourth wheel or be dead. Like yeah man, that's our fucking guy. That's who we want for Knight Fight part 2: fucking Berdly.

Christ.

[wolfmaggot]

I feel a little bad for reblogging discourse half of the time, then i remember this is the blog i can use to get all the thoughts i cant get out on my main on here

[eddheads-anonymous]

I'm lowkey tired of Edd and Matt fans acting like their favs are ignored and hated all the time when that's literally not the case

You guys get a LOT of content for the mane 4 both fanon and canon while those who's favs are background characters have to make like 90% of their favs content because they barely get anything, be grateful 💔

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[eddheads-anonymous]

putting aside what JSL did (which is another whole can of worms) i also just don't like the voice direction because why did he have a russian accent like what he was norwegian what......... i really hope beyond fixes that tbh like legacy tord feels like an imposter wearing tords skin in a lot of other ways (which is why the clone theory exists ig but i think it's just bad direction)

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[imqueerandadeer]

Yeah I'll be honest I don't love that vibes of that sign like yeah the tour is about facism but idk seems in very bad taste to me

[literallys-illiteracy]

You know the biggest problem I have with the term Transmisandry isn't because of misandry not being a systemic force (which doesn't matter in this case, bigotry is not inherently systemic and arguing this case means one must argue that fundamentally misandry cannot exist or be a belief held by people) but rather it's that it reflects the same problem as Transmisogyny as a term.

Transmisogyny is, at least in the manner that it is used, the unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by transgender women.

The problem is, transgender men too suffer a unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny, because misogyny and the patriarchy does not have a blanket nor net positive effect for all men. Please return to the more foundational side of feminist theory and re learn the fact that feminism is not only for the benefit of women. Please understand that intersectionality as a framework model is applicable to more than the one kind of social oppression AND privilege, and that being in a privileged class does not prevent one from using said model.

The tool is descriptive, not prescriptive.

Trans men suffer from misogyny, but the way that people use the word transmisogyny prevents them from falling under its definition. Yes, historically speaking transgender women are seen as more violent and dangerous or perverse persons than transgender men, but that does not mean that they did not suffer in their own unique way; Transgender men are, have been for the longest time, seen as confused and unwell women, people who are being mislead and who are naive to what they actual want. Do you know historically what happens to women seen as unstable or self-destructive? They were lobotomised and institutionalised. For decades.

Transmisogyny should be for all intents and purposes, a word that applies to both groups. Medically, both in history and in practice, both groups are seen as unwell, unstable and self destructive or confused. Socially, transgender people of either side suffer from misogyny and heteronormativity. I would think that people like myself, who grew up in the social environment of being "boys" or at least seen as them would realise the fact that being a man, or being perceived as one, does not exempt you by any means from suffering under misogyny.

And misogyny is something to be unlearned no matter who you are, even if you are a woman, if you're a man or anything else, you are not absolved by way of your existence.

Any definition which excludes or disregards the breadth of human experience is a bad definition; any definition which insists that reality must accommodate it, rather than the definition serving to reflect reality is a bad definition; any system, any definition, which acts to separate humanity into two strict and delineated categories, one which refuses the possibility of overlap or nuance, is a harmful, terrible definition.

Before I end: Not a counterargument but let me clarify myself and my stance:

Transmisogyny is terrible in all forms and is something that every person should be aware of their perpetuation of and their effect on.

I am a trans woman who has a background in psychology and sociology

Yes I have read Whipping Girl.

The existence of people who claim that there is no unique discrimination against transmasculine people are not only willfully ignorant of its existence but are too self fulfilling the existence of transmasculine people being silenced and targeted

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

If people don't stop treating Bolaire like an NPC, I'm going to start throwing rocks.

He does not exist solely for the development of other characters. His job is not to give the information people want and then shut up.

That he wasn't willing to talk about the details of something that caused him obvious distress in front of almost a dozen skeptical people, some of whom he barely knew, was in fact, incredibly reasonable. I think most people who are otherwise having good days would clam up about shit that's a lot less fraught.

Bolaire was, notably, having a pretty shitty fucking day.

This was a perfectly reasonable, in-character moment. Anybody who believes otherwise has suspect judgement, imo.

(But also like. On a personal note. Thank FUCK Taliesin didn't describe any details right before the show went into a break. The people who keep crawling out of the woodwork anytime someone suggests that maybe a certain dead orc might possibly have sometimes done things that weren't always maybe the most moral would be going fucking feral justifying it. They'd be saying absolutely the most heinous shit imaginable. Fuck.)