peanutsisthefifthhorseman

I will talk about any fandoms I am in but mostly I will talk about starcanwrecked BLINKY DEVOTEE

[pikkumyyblog]

I know Spies are forever -show was made in 2016 but it feels like it's about Gen AI.

"It's hopeless, one box can do a work of a man in seconds" (paraphrasing)

Something something computers are trying to replace human spies/artists but we should push against that and blow them up while we're at it I mean what cause spies/artists are forever. It's not something you can just get rid off. It's part of your soul and who you are.

[fairy-type-pokemon]

assign prev one

vampire

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werewolf

unicorn

wizard

fairy

selkie

demon

jackalope

angel

ghost

elf

Voting ended onAug 10

[themaxxawesome]

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

it's always "oh the kids were stupid for playing a tape of a scholar reciting a demonic text" and never "hey that professor was a real idiot for recording himself reciting a demonic text"

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[quu]

i fully get that spuffys don’t vibe with spike getting his soul back because the soul lore is just so damn irritating and it reflects the show’s very juvinile and boring black and white morality but i’m sorry i love that shit so much that’s peakkkkk romance to me. spike loved buffy so much he killed himself/the worst parts of himself for her. and then he actively hid this information from her cause he didn’t want her to feel like she owed him anything and he just wanted to be there for her in any way she needed. buffy’s first relationship seeded the belief that loving her and being loved by her changes that person for the worst and every following relationship reinforced that belief. now she’s face to face with in the flesh proof that she doesn’t ruin people, that someone’s love for her would motivate them to change for the better in a way that no one even considered possible. many have said this but no one is doing it like spuffy.

[allsadnshit]

I need a "girl who's gonna be okay" moment bad

[vampir4te]

actually im not done buffy is transgender for real. she's a girl, but she's something else too that the other girls at school aren't, and she knows that that identity automatically makes her an outsider from all the other girls at school. she likes who she is, but sometimes watching Cordelia, she can't help but long for the ease of being "normal". her friends love and support her, but they aren't like her, and she knows that means there are some parts of her life that they'll just never understand. she wants to be homecoming queen so badly, if only to prove to herself that she can be this other thing and also a regular high school girl at the same time. how she tries to hide her identity from her mother for as long as she can. how when she finally tells joyce, they get in a huge argument because joyce is so afraid of what this means for buffy's safety that she tries to stop her from being herself. the fact that buffy, arguing with her mother about her own identity, says "You think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is? How dangerous?" The fact that a stranger tells her "But you're just a girl." and she says "That's what I keep saying."

[xinakwans]

a one season television show is also a dead wife if you think about it

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[nerdamongnerds]

He deserves our respect (and jealousy)

(original art by @serenity-fails on tumblr)

[seasonofhorror]

TWIN PEAKS: PILOT

1990, dir. David Lynch

[petewentz-]

It's fun being queer and weird and unconventional until you remember you live in a society

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[qqchurch]

[little-audrey-horne]

Fear of the woods versus fear of the house. Fear of the house in the woods. Fear of the woods in the house. Laura running through the woods at night. Laura trapped in her house.

Shelly cannot leave the house because Leo is out there. She drove him out there. He is in the woods, trapping her in the house he built around her. He hurts her, abducts her, inside the house. At night.

If Audrey had escaped One-Eyed Jack's without being caught, how would she have gotten away? The boats are owned by the people she fears. Through the woods, at night. Audrey is caught and bound to the bower of her bed. The house, at night.

Be afraid of strangers. Don't walk alone. To be alone, outside, at night, a girl, is to be begging for trouble. The most danger you could put yourself in. Come home. Stay home. It's safe at home. There's something out there. There's a darkness in these woods. The house in the woods. The house.

[mistystormrunner]

Next person to call Miss Holloway a mary sue is getting sent to Clivesdale