The Ramblings of a Madman

Just a personal tumblr blog where I mostly reblog stuff.

[six-demon-bag]

STING (2024) dir. Kiah Roache-Turner

[nicoyarobin]

[tylrgalpins]

DERRY GIRLS | 2.02 - Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague

[fell-hound]

The Rose of Versailles

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[admiralclover]

It wouldn't surprise me if this all came down to just one manager who's a transphobe and everyone else just cowardly following along because they like having an income

[gremlingirlsmell]

instead of "manager" try CEO. matt mullenweg had been openly participating in a harassment campaign against a transfem user and after terminating her tumblr, even chased her over to twitter to harass her a bit more there. that was 2 years ago.

since then mass termination and nuking* of transfems' blogs have picked up a lot, and haven't ever stopped. every week there is a mass-banwave, usually hitting transfems for being victims of mass harassment campaigns. some transfems get terminated even more frequently, like every few days to even down to every few hours on some days. the blogs up there in the reblog chain from puppet were all made and terminated within hours of each other.

the transmisogyny comes from the top down AND from the userbase

*nuking here refers to the "higher tier" of termination that retroactively deletes all images and reblogs from that blog off of other people's accounts. amd this one cannot be appealed either

[unknownzerofive]

[danzigmcfly]

[progressivemillennial]

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

[antiquedeuce]

Sacred touch

[jayykesley]

my brain, stomping it’s feet: i wanna use one inconsequential negative experience to spiral into an echo-chamber of self hatred!!!

me, stirring my tea with my little plastic knife: no, we don’t do that anymore

[guihenris]

Mandalorian & Grogu 👽💫💚

[cottoncandylesbo]

the excitable hog

[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.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[fruitgummmmy]

It's 5 am and I'm thinking about asa and mineyama and how diametrically opposed they are in their upbringings...

Asa, who's never been able to lead a normal life from the very start and has been stuck in a cage and on the run for her whole life; she savors any moment of normalcy she can get. compared to Mineyama, who leads the exact life asa wants, but she actively participates in the chaos of the kagemori/higashi/nishino conflict despite not really having any sort of personal connection to any of it. We don't know much about nishino crew yet but for higashi + kagemori, pretty much every person is tied to their respective groups through family (whether it be by blood or not) and they can't exactly turn away from it all. so it's strange that she's just There

Honestly I am just just excited to learn more about Mineyama. She is such an intriguing character I want to know so badly what her deal is. in the same chapter where we delve deeper into her character, she reveals that her daemons have been planted with parasites and that she needs to watch what she says. so how truthful is she being in this scene??

i do believe that what she says in ch 35 are mostly true: she is a student leading a mundane life and has normal friends, and she is probably taking on the job for the money ; but how exactly did she meet her deamons, and how was she recruited by ivan? her moral compass isn't exactly the greatest either, she doesn't care much for being the one to clean up dead bodies as long as she gets paid for it

Anywayyuy I'm a fan I hope she gets to interact more with the twins especially since it doesn't seem like she has much loyalty to the rest of the nishino crew. I know they met briefly in ch 51 or something but that was hardly anything!!!!!

[zegalba]

[iamoutofideas]

shoes

[maxxipad]

shoes

[swarnpert]

shoes

[iamoutofideas]

they sell tripp pants that look like this now

[beardedmrbean]

[melonteee]

BOOK CLUB IS BAAAAACK!