#tortalks

[the-harleyism]

Ngl if you're gonna selfship with AZ, you absolutely need to acknowledge the Floette in the room in some way. That is a husband that got so distraught over the loss of his wife that he let his own country burn just to see her again, and even if their relationship isn't as acceptable in modern times (which itself is debatable in canon), he's not gonna divorce her for you.

Tldr, either accept that you're sharing him or commit to the bit.

[justmeandmythoughtson]

So I just saw an absolute GALAXY brain take from an anti recently (and I paraphrase, because the screenshot has the blogname and i can’t edit on my crappy phone)

And said take was: “It makes me uncomfortable when people write/make character angst of X character I identify with, like what are you even thinking about when a REAL PERSON tells you they have trauma?”

And...If you feel THAT strongly about fictional characters, if you can’t differentiate an emotional response for them from an emotional response for a real person - you MAY want to try stepping back? If you’re so deeply invested in the ‘wellbeing’ of a make-believe person that seeing other people NOT feel the same way towards them is upsetting to you, then maybe you’re a little too emotionally caught up in fandom?

Fandom is *going* to disappoint sometimes. Everyone has different opinions and most people aren’t going to change their minds over some stranger complaining to them on the internet. But ASSUMING people aren’t capable of basic compassion to other human beings *Just* because they sometimes like to play with puppets is. Wow. Are you really that self-centered.

Characters are puppets. They’re dolls. I can do whatever I want to them, because they’re play-pretend caricatures. I don’t care about them like I care about a living, breathing person. They’re fun to play with. They’re make-believe. They’re not real, and they don’t have feelings or bodies to be hurt. But real people? Those deserve respect, compassion, or at least civility, if you can’t bring yourself to muster up the first two. You don’t treat a person like a toy. You don’t treat a real person like a puppet.

This is not a difficult distinction to make. If a building is burning, and I can only save one person - I save the fucking HUMAN. Not the dolly I can easily replace, not the beloved toy. One is a person, and the other is pretend.

This concept doesn’t change just because I’m suddenly creating a fic or fanart or original storyline or etc. I still am constantly making that distinction. I’m ALWAYS making that distinction in fandom, because I value actual human beings above ANY make-believe character.

(Wow, so difficult to conceptualize, right?)

[j-hopeyouwreckme]

Tbh every time you rb off something I rb I'm like OMG SHE FOLLOWS MY TUMBLR ASDFGHJKL and I fangirl bc YOURE rly cool and talented

OMG well HELLO 😂 I have just been so mothrrfucking busy that my time on tumblr is so limited 🤦🏼‍♀️

but thank you so much for loving my work and thinking it talented 💕

[the-harleyism]

I hate that any time I see a post with great points about trans women and transfems being targeted with bullshit conservative laws and transmisogyny online that I have to check their blogs to see if they're normal about transmascs, intersex, nonbinary, etc people talking about their own oppression and 9 times out of 10 they're not. And it's within two seconds of scrolling their blogs.

[the-harleyism]

DMC fans when they're looking for any iota of Dante/Vergil/Nero lore scraps from niche voice lines and taunts and side material even though we have plenty out in the open:

DMC fans when it comes to doing the same for Kyrie who's character is mostly shown through actions rather than words:

[the-harleyism]

I want that yellow fuckboy put into a hydraulic press.

[the-harleyism]

What do you mean 100+ weapons, customization for everything, a shit ton of replayability and base content, for only 50 dollar.

[the-harleyism]

Everyone who defended *sff when *sff was messaging minors on a nsfw blog, didn't stop when asked, and sheltered known sexual offenders is being oddly quiet about th*s-is-tr*nsandrophobia ACTUALLY being pedojacketed for correcting someone on terminology regarding drawings not being actual csam and blocking someone for being an ass about it.