#getting accused of stealing a meme... a meme...

[firstsnowofwinter]

I'm really sad that I couldn't celebrate the anniversary yesterday coz I felt so down. I couldn't even muster any energy to make a gif set because my hands were shaking so badly. Thank you so much for attacking me on their anniversary just because of a meme.

[trashangel-dee]

New meme game just dropped:

[dykesymmetry]

djdjjd who posted my meme on reddit

[inchidentofftrack]

i'm sorry, emailgate and the WHAT rumours???? do you have a bit more info about that, i've never heard of this? thank you!

*sigh* well there was a time back in 2024. the news about lewis hamilton leaving for ferrari had just hit the f1 fandom and it was obviously the biggest newscycle since the conception of pineapple pizza. for context, the previous year's mercedes car was so terrible and the backlash from specifically teamlh was so intense, that mercedes had to release an open letter addressed to the fans ensuring them they were working on the car. and in their defence, lewis' performance did improve as the season progressed and mercedes ended the season with lewis in p3 and george in p8 (don't even talk about that actually, gr's season was abysmal).

so when the f1 returned in 2024, with the biggest bombshell driver contract news since nico rosberg invented the genre, it became consistently clear that george was now, rather mysteriously according to some fans, outperforming lewis. by june 2024, lewis had been out-qualified by teammate george russell at eight of the nine races that had happened until that point.

in june 2024, an anonymous email was sent to senior f1 personnel and media members alleging that mercedes was systematically sabotaging hamilton's car because he was leaving for ferrari. it also went on to claim that toto, george, and the team were actively mistreating lewis and putting his life in danger.

now it's well known within the paddock and the fandom that george and toto's relationship is not built on the usual boss-employee professionalism — which let's be honest, none of them are. all the team bosses know these drivers since they were kids, they are hardly going to have the same 9-to-5 corporate cube job professional boundaries we are used to seeing. george is an even more of an outlier since the way he got signed to the mercedes junior program was unconventional, but still toto wolff is infamous for weird inter-personal relations with his drivers.

not too long ago, the day before the ferrari news went public, lewis went to toto wolff’s house for breakfast to break the news in person. in subsequent interviews explaining how the whole ordeal went down, it was casually revealed that george russell had been staying over at toto's house the night before.

naturally, the fandom reaction to this information was to start making jokes about how george was sleeping with toto. to be clear, the favouritism rumours had existed since george joined mercedes and won a race in 2022, while lewis didn't — all in the season he was supposed to get his vengeance after ad21. the "sleeping with Toto" joke began months before the anonymous sabotage email, yet this revelation later paired with the sabotage allegation claimed the entire fandom like a forest fire.

the "meme" morphed into a situation that caused a police investigation and required intervention from lewis himself. toxic corners of the fandom took the narrative seriously. there were genuine accusations against george russell of using a personal relationship with wolff to push lewis hamilton out of the team and steal his car parts. this resulted in an onslaught of online hate directed at george. the abuse escalated to the point where george received explicit death threats publically.

another relevant thing to mention here is that george's perception in the fandom and media wasn't exactly positive even then. he cried when he scored his first points for williams, cried when mercedes fucked up his first race with them in sakhir and cried on the podium for his first ever win. and god forbid a man has any display of emotion, because the internet weaponized this "softness," using it to paint him as someone who would use charm, compliance, and favoritism rather than raw, aggressive masculinity to get what he wants from his boss. he would rather apologise when he goes wrong than swear aggressively or act aloof and cocky. his specific public image, coded as traditionally feminine or "submissive", acted as a major catalyst for these specific rumors.

so yeah, it might sound insane but there was a moment in time where every single comment on george's social media was some variation of calling him "toto fucker".

[silvermoon424]

you can ignore this ask if you want but I’ve occasionally seen you post about it before so im genuinely wondering…was the ace discourse THAT bad…? I wasn’t on the site until like a few years ago and missed the ace discourse and the way I’ve seen people talk about it it seems like it really went beyond just normal annoying tumblr discourse.

Yeah, it was really bad. I was in a phase where I didn't use Tumblr very often so I was spared the brunt of it, but a LOTTTT of shit went down. I found some retrospective posts about it that might be helpful for you:

First and best post with tons of receipts

Second

Third

Fourth

Some examples of bad behavior during the ace discourse era were:

Spamming the asexual tag with porn and/or gore, forcing aces to have to make up new tags (that were also spammed if they got popular enough).

Being outraged by the Trevor Project accepting ace callers, leading some people to claim that "ace people are stealing resources from REAL queer people" (this was an accusation that was constantly repeated whenever ace people were acknowledged by queer organizations btw).

Claiming that asexuality is a physical and/or mental illness that needs to be "fixed" via medical intervention and/or therapy.

Claiming that corrective rape is never used against asexuals.

Aphobic exlusionists made blogs pretending to be ace people in order to post embarrassing and cringey takes that were then attributed to the ace community at large. The biggest one was named crazy-acey-in-spacey, and despite being proven to be a "satire" blog, screenshots of their posts still make the rounds to this day as genuine (I literally just saw one of their posts in r/196 this week).

Mocking aces in general by saying that we're just ugly virgins who can't get laid. In more recent years aces have been called "incels" and accused of propagating incel and purity culture.

Erasure of aces of color, ESPECIALLY black aces, by claiming that "only whites" are aro and/or ace and generally being awful to aces of color.

Downplaying and excusing the bigotry ace people face for being ace on top of claiming ace people are "privileged."

Claiming that ace people were "grooming" teenagers into being ace and burying their "real" sexuality (aka homosexual) when in reality ace spaces were just welcoming teens who were questioning their identities.

Stating that ace people who have allosexual partners are "abusive" for not having sex with them.

Making fun of aro/ace symbols and memes and mocking people who use them.

The general rhetoric of "if you hate sex that also means you hate GAY sex which means you hate gay people"

Mocking demisexuals and claiming that they don't exist.

CONSTANT exclusionism and claims that ace and/or aro people are not queer, do not belong in the queer community, and should be driven out.

There's so much more I can go into but I'll stop here. I think you get the point. The aro/ace community on Tumblr was devastated and stayed pretty much dead for years. Thankfully there's been a rebound in recent years, but the damage was done in a lot of ways.

And to be clear: yes, there were and still are aces who said homophobic, slut-shaming shit and helped stir the pot. However, this is held up as "proof" that the asexual community as a whole deserved what we got.

The worst part is that the Ace Discourse era is largely looked back on with humor by the people who participated in it. They say they wouldn't do it again, but they downplay it as an "embarrassing phase" and not the harassment campaign it was.

Unfortunately, nobody learned anything, because queer infighting is STILL a gigantic problem and groups are still facing exclusion and harassment for not being pure queer enough.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that if a lot of this stuff seems similar to transphobic rhetoric, that's because it is. TONS of TERFs have openly acknowledged that Ace Discourse turned them onto Trans Discourse.

[prettiest-thing-in-the-morgue]

ᴼᴺᴱ ᴼᶠ ᵀᴴᴱ ᴳᴵᴿᴸˢ

✐ an au where the reader is the favorite person in batfam because THEY DESERVE TO BE THE FAVORITE

one of the girls

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- reader is an average person - literally, they're not a vigilante by choice, of course, though even though they don't take part in the vigilante life, it doesn't mean they don't help.

- reader is such a life saviour, especially after a particularly grueling patrol always coming in clutch with hot chocolate they made for everyone in cute matching hello kitty cups because they're girlie pop .

- reader always helps patches everyone up - giving everyone deserved head pats, especially to poor dick because he always goes too hard on himself .

- despite not being a vigilante - reader knows about who they are and what they do - kinda hard not too when Jason is crashing in the loving room couch with a black eye.

- despite having not being as tech savvy as Barbra and Tim , the reader always sits with them - always engaging them in the latest gossip, which helps time pass by faster !

-every morning, Cas and readers literally does hot girl yoga sessions in Cas' rooms because why not ? And of course, they're both giggling about how last night on patrol Damian totally didn't slip and fall when he grappled onto a rooftop.

- every morning before they get ready for school , all the girls are huddled in Stephanie's room, and they're all picking out what matching sweaters they're all repping to school and they're doing each other's eyeliner while Chappel Ronan is blasting in the background <3.

- During lunch , Tim and the reader and a couple of other friends are gathered around a lunch table playing uno - Tim literally always changing up the rules when he's losing which earns a playful smack from reader lol.

- after school , Damian and the reader both at the park playing with Titus in the park and feeding the nearby ducks in the pond . One time Reader fell in the pond and Damian couldn't stop laughing at them for a whole week.

- Jason and reader are always trying to one up each other on who can run up the stairs faster ( fun fact it's neither of them it's actually Alfred ) and they're both always grumpy when he beats them both because wdym an old man is faster than them -.

- reader and Duke always do homework together every night - both literally confused - literally the blind leading the blind because neither of them understands what their homework requires of them.

- dick and reader ends off the night by watching a random series like love island together and both gets way too political on who should end up with who and if either watches an episode without the other ITS BETRAYAL .

- reader and Bruce unironically text and communicate with each other in cringey memes, which only they find funny at this point -

- reader who helps Alfred with menial chores because they wanna spend time with him and plus Alfred is always spilling tea about his missions back in the day like wdym Alfred flirted with the Queen of England once -

- so all in all, despite not being a vigilante , reader is integrated in batfam's life so much so their literally dubbed the favorite sibling .

- like the one day reader spent the day with a friend's, Damian, Duke, Cas and Tim showed up and crashed it because they missed them so much . Reader had 12 missed calls from Bruce , 50+ messages rom Dick accusing them of not loving him because they abandoned him , a video sent from Jason of him eating reader's hidden stash of sweets and a message from steph saying she's stealing reader's hair curler .

- Alfred literally brags about reader like their the only grandchild he has 😭😭.

Overall, chaotic family shenanigans and overall batfam loves reader too much .

[batsandbirdbrains]

oooh ok but kryptonian Dick AU within the new Superman would be sooo coool especially if Dick keeps spoiling Luthor’s plans bc he’s a feral kid.

Spoilers Ahead:

Like I imagine the message of their parents addressed both of them. But Dick got stuck in the phantom zone and technically a kid/teenager while Clark is an adult. Maybe Dick lives with/visits Clark regularly cuz Ma and Pa are getting older and it’s harder for them to take care of such a rambunctious kid all the time. Dick debuts as Superboy maybe like 4 minutes after Clark debuts as Superman. The become the dynamic duo but Superboy usually only helps with smaller matters (like rescuing cats from trees and stuff) cuz the Kents are more responsible caretakers than Bruce and don’t think letting a kid fight crime 24/7 is a good idea.

Anyways despite them teaming up from time to time, Superman is more widely known and people tend to forget about Superboy. This is where Lex makes his mistake. He accounts for most of the obstacles he might face, except Superboy. The public knows that Superboy and Superman are twins despite their obvious age difference, so when Lex leaks the video of their parents, it works on turning public opinion right up until people remember Superboy exists. How can someone accuse that little boy of having a harem? Of doing evil? He was literally just spotted helping a kitten get out of tree. It turns into a meme.

When Lex steals Krypto? Instead of Clark bursting into his office in fury, it’s Dick who is solemnly weeping and sobbing as he asks if Lex killed his doggy. He’s screeching about how Krypto has a special diet and he could die, and would Mr. Lex really kill his doggy for no reason? Mr. Lex do you hate doggies?

Lex is twitching and demanding the footage be erased only to realize it was a livestream. It goes even more viral. Public opinion is swiftly shifting, but Lex still tries to work the “dangerous aliens” angle. It almost works up until Lois Lane does a live interview with Superboy, in which he tells them that the video was mistranslated, and Mommy and Daddy would never say such bad things, and why does everyone hate us, we’re only trying to help, and I don’t care if you guys are mean, I still love you.

Clark still ends up in the pocket universe somehow, but this time Dick goes with Lois and Mr. Terrific to save them. Dick sings along to the song playing in the background as Mr. Terrific absolutely annihilates everyone. He even gets to bite somebody! They make it out of the pocket universe, and Clark leaves Dick with Ma and Pa while the big battle is going down. When Dick sees that Clark basically won, he rushes to him and gets to bite Lex alongside Krypto. Dick also repeatedly insults him about being bald and stupid and evil and a dognapper, and Lex is crying even harder than he was before.

BONUS:

Guy Gardner is poking Dick with a stick (made from the green lantern thingy) from a distance, asking if the kid really does have a harem. Mr. Terrific sighs exasperatedly. Dick just stares him down and begins to grin ferally.

I love this. I love all of this so so much. But one image I can’t get out of my head is the following:

Lex Luthor, talking about how the Kryptonians must both have harems, then everyone swiveling their heads towards Superboy!Dick who’s maybe all of ten years old. And he’s just floating there. Confused. Tilting his head.

“What’s a harem?”

And it’s all over the internet in minutes.

Especially because Superman is so frazzled and he’s practically vibrating as he says in a voice much closer to how he speaks as Clark than as Superman, “Shush! Don’t talk about stuff like that! You’re too young to be talking about stuff like that!”

“But what is it! What’s a harem! KAL TELL ME WHAT A HAREM IS! WHY IS LEX SAYING WE HAVE ONE? KAAAAAAAAL!”

They’re both somehow chasing each other. In the air.

“You’re too little! You’re a little boy! You most certainly do not have a harem!”

“Well do you have one? Why did Lex say you have one?”

“I DO NOT HAVE A HAREM!” he screeches, his voice going up an octave. “And you’re not allowed to know what one is until you’re thirty!”

“THAT’S NOT FAIR, KAL! WE’RE THE SAME AGE!”

“We are not on this planet and you know that! We are not discussing this anymore!”

“HAREM HAREM HAREM HAREM HAREM-”

Clark finally catches him and slaps a hand over his mouth.

Dick licks his hand in retaliation.

Clark shrieks and gags and then gives him a wet Willy. Dick tries to wriggle away but Clark keeps a tight hold on him until they’re inside the building where Guy and the others find them.

When Guy pokes at Dick with a stick made from his ring, Dick pretends to bite at it. It makes Guy shriek. Dick is a cackling like the brat he is.

[biceratops7]

tbh i just think goose isn't stupid and would've had the same good sense as dana terrace to confirm jax was a man if that was the case. she's ALSO seen how bad it can go if things get to this point, and i just don't think she'd go the way of knowingly queerbaiting, particularly while *only* calling the transmasc headcanon out as having cruel implications. (which... yeah ngl i would find a "stealth trans man is hiding his inner True self's Femininity, secretly likes being feminine and girly, and wants feminizing hormones. he WILL be tortured until he relents and tells everyone" narrative incredibly cruel and offensive)

So many people missed the point of the trans Jax fandom meme I posted. Whoever’s headcannon makes more sense is a moot point. I don’t care whether or not one or the other is more “valid”, for the record I personally agree that trans fem Jax is the more likely conclusion if either is gonna win out. The point is why the fuck are people taking deep personal offense by other trans people wanting to feel seen by the media they consume?? Why the actual hell is the fandom blatantly dismissing transmasc erasure by having this “can’t transfems just have ONE thing?” energy, as if ftm fans are greedily stealing Jax away for their growing pile? People are accusing transmasc fans of transmisogyny for not agreeing that a fictional character is transfem in what is currently FANON, in the same breath as genuinely transphobic shit like acting like an authority on our specific experiences, and calling trans guys illiterate idiots for daring to think a male presenting character crashing out over wearing a dress MIGHT be for them.

This next bit is hard because anon didn’t disclose whether or not they were transmasc like me, so just know I’m not trying to talk down to them. We have a complicated relationship with expressing femininity because of the infantilization we experience specifically surrounding transition. We usually have to choose between staying in a very restrictive box with self expression, or be forever treated like poor, stupid little girls who don’t really want to be “real men” and are getting masterminded by the evil queers. To me at least, the concept you described could be refreshingly nuanced. Another common talking point is “there’s NO way Jax would have the self awareness to have already transitioned.” …Y’all idk how to tell you this but we are 3D people with a full spectrum of emotional dumpster fires that don’t magically poof away when we come out.

And then as a quick aside, while I’m a big believer of Occam’s razor and therefore believe the progesterone drawing points towards transfem Jax, many trans men DO in fact take it. It stops our periods if T doesn’t do the trick. If ftm Jax was insecure about his masculinity, he would 100% be self conscious and make excuses about having to take a hormone that’s “for girls”.

In summary: A cgi purple rabbit is being more respected and protected than the actual human transmascs in this shared fandom space, and it’s embarrassing.