Sideblog. I just like a lot of stuff. And I write fanfiction sometimes (as thespectaclesofthor and not_poignant at AO3). And ramble about shit. This blog is fandom-centric, and has NSFW content.
any time i hear the insufferable transphobic athlete arguments i think of that one time in middle school when my boys lacrosse team did a full-contact scrimmage against the girls team (who typically play with limited contact) and i, a six-foot, 180lb defender, got utterly laid-out by this 5-foot-nothing girl experiencing the newly-unleashed animosity accompanied by violent sport and as i looked up at my assailant from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality and fell wildly in love and then had to be taken to the ER because i had a concussion
it's been years and it's still genuinely crazy to me that the first two seasons of stranger things had this throughline where all the bad things that were happening in hawkins were directly caused by the us government and that they were excusing the awful things they were doing to their own citizens (children!) through cold war/red scare reactionism. and then in season three there was a secret russian base under the town mall.
unpopular opinion that might get me jfk killed but i see the rise of aphobia/acephobia/arophobia on tumblr as a sign that the forgotten exclusionists are leaving twitter/x and coming back here, and that's bad for the tumblr environment, damn
gotta be real serious here, promoting media literacy is kind of The Goal as far as trying to get people to stop needlessly absorbing shitty ideas from media. purity culture stuff like judging and shaming them isn't just unhelpful in that it tends to shut people off from becoming more progressive, it's actively harmful because it promotes a LACK of media literacy. the goal shifts from trying to interface with the media and interpret what it's saying and means to just trying to consume the "good" media and only absorb "good" ideas.
id much rather have a friend who's really into cop shows but understands the harm they do than someone who only reads anti-racist literature but absorbs none of it