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@the-fancy-cookie
It is funny with bigotry where people unaffected by it act like that somehow disproves it. At an old job, talked to HR about a co-worker who kept calling me a faggot, and the HR person was like "Are you sure? He's never said anything like that to me."
Gee, Hetero Jessica, he's never called you a faggot? Then I must have misheard him!
Trend i’m noticing looking for books with my little sister
Cannot forget my absolute favorite category of book
It;s important that he’s a little scary
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
what was yesterday, cat?
I’m not missing it this year.
I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???
AO3 authors in the lab creating ships purely for research purposes:
Creating ships for the tax write-off
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ok but like. there are two different types of privilege. there's type a "everybody should have this, but some people don't" and type b "nobody should have this, but some people do"
there's having parents who can pay for your application to any college, and then there's having parents who can bribe your way into any college. there's owning your own home, and then there's owning 50 houses and getting rich off hoarding a vital resource. there's not fearing for your life whenever cops are around, and then there's being the cop and being allowed to murder anyone at any time.
idk i just feel like that's an important distinction to make.
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All computer safety(?) since like 2020: "it's imperative we make every 8 year old scan a passport before letting them use their LeapFrog™️. Always-on connectivity required."
@vermocci + previous post
I've been observing that recently a lot of fans tend to say that shipping Karkat with quadrants in mind is going against his character cause the way he feels romantic emotions are much more human. I wanna explain why it bothers a bit:
I disagree A LOT with the "human" part because emotions and relationships in GENERAL is already very human (with that argument, this can apply to ALL the trolls to me, if it's about the monogamy what does that say about folks who are polyamorous? Idk it just feels like a really bad explanation). There's just a cultural difference that I feel like majority of the fandom doesn't really want to explore and when it comes to homestuck and the fact that they're aliens kind of makes this feel "ridiculous" to me (I feel that sounds a bit mean so I apologize). People also say things like "Why would you WANT them to do quadrants, its a result of an oppressive society." if you try to argue against this concept but like,,, so is marriage and just generally how relationships are pushed onto society is already a VERY similar concept. A lot of this fandom forgets human society is very oppressive already, not just class wise but also in many other ways (ableism, racism, sexism & classism /and many other -isms/ are historically intertwined and you cant really talk about classism as a whole without talking about the many other things that WILL affect your class because of the society we ALREADY live in).
I feel that people tend to ignore a lot of the toxic traits that Karkat has because the fandom has basically woobified him to the point they view these traits as cute quirks. One of those traits are his controlling and somewhat obsessive feelings for Terezi. They view his feelings of "wanting Terezi in every quadrant" as him being explicitely more human than the other trolls. I actually don't MIND the concept but the way I've seen the majority go about it feels like an over simplification of Karkat's emotions and a glorification of human society, i guess that in itself bothers me.
A lot of those aspects regarding Terezi are INCREDIBLY toxic too. Karkat, throughout that whole arc, was basically objectifying Terezi. He tried to get Dave to "share" Terezi with him and even tried to make a chart (This is where the dick ouija happened. Karkat was body slammed right after because he started throwing a tantrum and got tangled in Dave's cape lol)
I also keep in mind that Karkat's 13-15 during these times but even than. If you saw a 13-15 year old boy getting on the way Karkat was in real life, i feel that would be a very scary and weird experience especially for the person that being pined for.
Now that I think about it, I feel like if it was any other character doing this, the fandom would def call them an incel 😭
To me, Karkat's love for her was very much glorified infatuation with obsessive attributes. It doesn't help that the comic only writes it all as a joke so I don't think the fandom really can see past all the barriers that the comic gives you. Especially with it uplifting his good attributes. (And not taking the bad ones seriously.)
I do think Karkat is a very genuine and observant individual but he's also incredibly selfish in a lot of bad ways and I think the fandom really tries to look past that. Karkat saw so much of Terezi's good qualities and put her on such a high pedestal he was only seeing a version of Terezi that was only just good, which just isn't true to her character. (I love Terezi but just like most of the characters she isn't perfect.)
I DO think Karkat does feel love in non-traditional ways but that can easily be seen as him being a hopeless romantic (He's obsessed with romcoms and I feel like some of us MUST have known SOMEBODY who was such a hopeless romantic that their beliefs about relationships were honestly incredibly unrealistic and possibly delusional and I feel like we can easily see that Karkat is just a troll equivalent to that to some degree). I don't think Karkat SPECIFICALLY is delusional but his expectations are very unrealistic, especially for Terezi. He also just.... loves quads, he loves analyzing and talking about them AND labeling certain behaviors as something that could be quad pining. So that also makes the whole "Karkat wouldn't do quads." kind of ridiculous to me. (I say this as someone who's aromantic but LOVES analyzing, writing, and exploring romantic relationships and feelings. I'm DEFINITELY not saying Karkat CAN'T realize quads aren't for him and adopt a more human way of going about relationships and still be into quads. It just feels a bit ridiculous to say "you don't get his character if you think he would do quads").
I also feel that a lot of the things people point out as "more human" can also be the already known taboos in troll culture. Quadrant Vacilliation is already a known taboo that's even written in books and movies that Karkat is obsessed with. Karkat being polyquad/polyamorous is also something that seems possible (like, having more than one person in one quad. I feel like that can also easily make sense). There's a lot of ways to view Karkat's romantic orientation and I don't think there's "one right way" to view it. So I am a bit bothered by the "Karkat wouldn't do quads, his emotions are way more human for that oppressive relationship system formed by troll society." It feels disingenuous, especially when they're saying it's the only right way to see him.
Emotions are complicated so when analyzing them you're not going to get just one result.
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Also, hopefully this didn't come off as too condescending or judgemental. I DO think understanding Karkat's journey with his romantic orientation CAN be about moving towards monogamy and it's a COMPLETELY valid understanding of his character. I just don't like the points that are made in the majority of the explanations given or how folks treat it like the only good truthful way to look at that aspect of Karkat's character cause they generally feel they lack a lot of nuance or they just feel disingenuous/go about it very obtusely. It doesn't help that a lot of the things just don't ring true to life in my eyes.
I mostly added images and gifs because blocks of just text gets really hard to read for so I like putting pictures for convenience for not only me but others. So some of them don't necessarily align with the paragraph before or after but I tried to at least make it seem that way 🙏🏾
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Also thank you! Are you talking about the Revolutionary Girl Utena AU or The Egg Route?
throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!
WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's
and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.
we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.
all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?
it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!
Clowns as a whole aren't racist and did not come from racism but minstrel America heavily inspired the current look. Clownery is an art form BUT we have to remember that clownery was always a place of objectification and bigotry, not necessarily racism.
In official settings clowns were usually chosen because they look "unique" whether that be race or disability.
So yes, a lot of clown styles, even the ones before minstrel shows, ARE racist, ableist, or even xenophobic. Because they would use features that would be aligned with marginalized groups of the time to make themselves into caricatures to be laughed at. Some may have not have been purposely offensive, but most of it comes from somewhere.
A lot of clown fans don't want to accept that because they want to enjoy their clown characters and junk without guilt when there's nothing to feel guilty about. We just shouldn't be saying they're not racist at all because a lot of them definitely are. People say "this came from this country." And it's like, ok? Racism was there too, they literally have black face festivals there.
Just because clownery is a beautiful art form doesn't mean it doesn't have any sort of correlation to bigotry. The problem has always been the denial and the willful ignorance, not that people enjoy them at all.
It's always white clowns spreading this very watered down understanding of "clowns aren't racist" and try to only pin racism to Americans when literally the whole world has a racism problem 💀 it gets agitating very quickly for me. And everyone agrees that it's all just a TikTok thing (what is with people calling anything aligned with black people a TikTok thing???) to get views cause that makes them more comfortable and urges them to not look even deeper.
Hell.... This is shit that they actually TALK about in CLOWN SCHOOL. So hearing a bunch of people go "Well ACTUALLY it's not racist, that's more aligned with American clowns." And "This gets debunked every year 🙄"
When it's not even debunked, people are just seeing a post saying "Clowns aren't racist!" And agreeing with it without doing any deep digging like what they're accusing the "clowns are racist!" Group of doing.
Who else feels a little hurt when you see newer homestuck fans go "Finally! Someone draws the hs characters black/dark-skinned" cause you've been trying and doing it since you were in your teens 😭😭😭
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