#mild discourse

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

it's always a little frustrating to me when aroallo people don't understand or care about asexuality

I know that aroallo-ness has it's own struggles, amatanormativity and heteronormativity hate us all in unique and intersecting ways and it definitely sucks for aroallo folk (especially with how I've seen plenty of people talk about how they get the least explicit canon rep in fiction out of all the aro/ace combos) ...but sometimes it feels like a lot of aroallo people start taking that frustration out on aroace/ace-ness, instead of amatanormativity/heteronormativity and the aphobic/uncaring allo folk who enforce it. Y'know, the people who actually dislike aromanticism and asexuality, and who really don't give a shit about nuanced and varied aro rep.

(presumably there's also alloace people out there who are the same about aromanticism too -- I'm just talking about aroallo people because that's what I have personally been seeing, and I don't want to just make shit up about the alloaces.)

[forcearama]

Would you actually like an answer as to why someone (like myself) didn't want Vader in the show? Or were you just venting/joking? I'm genuinely asking not trying to start an argument. Because I sort of understood the 'Vader must be in it' people after hearing people like you and gffa talking about it, I figured I could return the favor?

Oh, I'm mostly just being silly, as is my way. 😄 I will say the hand-wringing about the series was a major thief of my joy before the show came out, though. Years spent begging for it to happen and then pretty much everyone started talking about how sure they were that it was going to be bad? That kinda sucked, I'm not gonna lie.

I get it: people were worried it would just be Vader Being a Badass or that they were going to try to, I dunno, appease dudebros by making half the show about Vader killing people? Or that it could break continuity? Or that these people were really being literal when we all joked (I thought) for years about just wanting 6 hours of Obi-Wan crying alone? (Which, while we all know I'd watch it, is, in fact, not a story.)

I guess I sort of know why there were concerns. I just eyerolled SO MUCH when so many people flipped out about Kathy Kennedy saying something like it'd be "the rematch of the century" or whatever, like, the fuck else WOULD she say? "It's gonna be subdued and boring"? "We're bringing Vader in for no reason"? Of course she's gonna say something like that. Hyping Star Wars is literally part of her JOB. The whole thing just struck me as over the top. We wouldn't know what we were gonna see until we saw it, and I guess when it comes to Star Wars I just don't like to preemptively feel angst about it.

For the record, I never thought Vader HAD to be in the show. I just didn't see it as this universe-ending problem given absolutely no other information to go off of, and I could see how it could make for a good story.

[steelmogairun]

On account with the whole thing going on with the MOGAI/Ezgender Miraheze/Wiki thing, I just want to make this public. I take back my previous statement, and I in turn do not wish my terms to be posted to any wiki. Period. Reblogs are fine (and preferred!). Tumblr posts about them are fine. Reddit posts about them are fine. (All with credit) Just no wikis. Personally the way I view the situation is that if you're going to break someone's consent on not posting to your wiki, isn't that just as bad as breaking someone's DNI? If I said that I don't want NSFW blogs interacting with my content and one reblogs my content, that is ignoring my dissent for NSFW blogs to interact with me. In turn, if someone said they didn't want their terms on a wiki blog, how is that any different from ignoring their dissent by posting it on a wiki blog? That isn't to say that I don't agree with the concept of wiki's like the MOGAI Miraheze wiki. They want to host a place for folks to find terms on a relatively easy to use website. It's organized, it's simple. But if they're going to break basic consent, that's not a place I want to be on. And all around with it, I don't want my terms to be on any wiki. I'm in the MOGAI Miraheze discord (I will not be giving out my nickname/username for personal reasons, if you do know who I am on there, please do not DM me about this.) I know many great folks on there, and I do enjoy the server. In fact, for a wiki server, it is the most active wiki server I've ever been on. I don't want to lose acquaintances, or a place to discuss gender, and to find more pronouns. This whole situation is just stressing me out, and as a Neurodivergent person, I do think it makes it partially arguably worse for me. I just don't know how to treat everything. I want to take part in the conversation, but I respond poorly to discussions like this, and always feel as if I'm being yelled at. I don't want my words to be taken the wrong way either. I care and can understand both sides, however I just... I am not, and possibly will not be for a while, in a correct emotional or mental state to have these kinds of discussions. It stresses me out too much. I always feel too stupid, and partially disconnected from myself. I don't want to piss anyone off, but as has been noted in the server, it's impossible to leave everyone happy, and to be honest, that's what i'm always trying to strive for, so for me right now, there is a lot of conflict. Basically the TL;DR of this is that I just don't want my terms posted on any wiki for the time being, because this whole thing is just too stressful for me to think clearly on. I hope everyone can understand and respect my choice. This is a choice that has been made by me, Mod Johnny alone. I cannot speak for Mod Gyro, however as he is my best friend, I'm sure he'd feel very similar to how I do. Gyro is just not here right now, and thus I cannot ask him. I'll attempt to ask him next time he is here. I'm going to be turning off comments on this post, as I just cannot handle discourse. It makes me anxious, it makes me nervous. Please, if any reblogs occur, don't fight. It's not good for me mentally or emotionally. /srs

[foriamproud]

Small rant but:

I'm starting to find this whole continuation of the "is Agents of Shield canon or not anymore?" argument on online journalism/blog sites hilarious.

Who cares? It legitimately sounds like a game of telephone where people are trying to stir up discourse just for the sake of debate. I understand it's a job to discuss such things, but there's way more interesting fictional topics to talk about, especially in the MCU right now.

Writers of the show and even Clark Gregg during his time as a producer have discussed that they stuck true to canon in the first half or their series' run and veered off to follow other lesser-known comic stories. And that some

It's okay to be both canon and non-canon because that can be how fiction works. No shame in that. Canon isn't better than non-canon and vis-versa. The arguably most important thing is that people can enjoy both, however that may be.

Personally, I still believe Agents of Shield is canon because of a few of the show's own nods to the comics (for example, when the Darkhold is first introduced in Season Four, it's regarded as an object that can take different appearances, just as how it looks different in WandaVision) as well as some nods in the Disney Plus shows.

Also, really, it's all fiction. The comics, original television series, and the MCU properties all mix and match with each other as best as they can, so who cares if things aren't fully canon or morph into something that is considered less canonical?

It's fiction, which people enjoy for the characters and stories because that--in my humble opinion--is more valuable than how accurately things fit into category/timeline/whatever.

On the off-chance that happens, no spiteful comments please. Fictional work isn't anything worth an argument over, especially something as mundane as this opinion of mine.

[decayedvignettes]

breaking theme to say:

please tag your posts correctly

put tw tags for common triggers.

as someone who deals with creepy and weird shit, is it so important to tag your stuff correctly! i have seen stuff that has sent me into full on mental spirals because they didn’t have a tw tag.

Mention of potentially triggering topics below

if you’re going to go any warning tags, atleast do the basics. things like su*cide s*lf-h*rm, r*pe.

Please just tag your stuff correctly. I really don’t want to see anyone get hurt because they saw something they didn’t want to see

[cookidemon]

Oi shippers!

Apperently tumblr is being stupid and not actually filtering hermitship for some folk we gotta stop tagging posts in hermitcraft's tags

Thank you.

[ephemeral-afterlight]

hey

telling people that they're villainizing or bullying so-and-so because they either don't like or have criticisms for that character's behaviour is immature, annoying, and hella disrespectful. just because you like that character, it doesn't mean everyone else does too, and you have no right to tell someone that their valid concerns and criticisms or their dislike of that character is petty or "bullying". they may be your comfort character, but that same character could make other people uncomfortable or be very triggering, and calling that "villainizing" just because you don't like that their opinion is different than yours is a shitty thing to do. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[cactilads]

T*ler is really milking that old photo of dan in his video. He put him in the thumbnail, reblogged a gif set with the picture, and just tagged him in a tweet to spon the video

i mean is it sad? probably

is it a good way to attract audience? definitely lmao

i mean i don’t want to jump to conclusions or start discourse or smth, which is why i feel dumb saying this but after BIG, the phandom is def (in my opinion) larger now... and clinging onto a slight mention of dan, so ya it’s not cute i agree with you