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queer people who have done zero self reflection when they see someone who doesn't look fem in their space

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trans whitebeard with post op titty decorative scars like how they do with illustrations and he deliberately made it like that cuz its cool

#Whitebeard #One Piece #YES TRANS WHITEBEARD #genuinely not into the crocomom theory I'm gonna be honest #trans whitebeard though... good

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The older you get the funnier anon hate gets. Like I do not have time for this I have to figure out what a 1099-K form is.

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#with my whole chest #PEANUT BUTTER

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#this is true for your friends and family too btw #it’s true for you as well #we are all. to a man. dumb as shit

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yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

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i hate when ppl act like the only reason to not like a "sad" ending is because you can't take it or whatever. personally as a tragedy enjoyer, i hate a poorly written ending. i hate an ending that is just kind of a bummer. i hate an ending that feels mean-spirited to the audience. i hate an ending that's redundant. i love a sad ending that is thematically consistent, poignant, and bespoke to the rest of its narrative.

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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

#current one piece hyperfixation #Robin is the weird girl rep we deserve and I love her so much #MDZS sucked at women but I did love Wen Qing #she's so mean... #Shadows House has so many good ladies so I'm gonna say Rosemary and Maryrose #Emma Promised Neverland is maybe a cop out but listen. I love her.

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Character: is a white man. That’s it.

Fandom: how dare you dislike this femme-coded female-coded gay-coded disabled-coded mentally ill-coded icon

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Saw an op-ed that was on the surface a complaint about kids not wanting to take on family heirlooms but read like an elegy to dying traditions. The hardest part was the anxiety without recognizing that they didn’t pave the way for the decisions they assumed their kids would make.

(This is written entirely within the dominant white/western culture - about traditions that have neglectful stewardship rather than those actively suppressed)

The anxiety makes sense. You’re seeing, too late to do anything about it, that there’s no foundation - no space - for the traditions you expected to pass on. Your kids _can’t_ take your mom’s fine china. So now instead of enjoying what you have you worry about its future.

I see a pattern in these op-eds though - a pattern in what’s left unsaid. There were responsibilities tied to these traditions. You collectively assumed they _would_ be passed along. So collectively, what did you do to ensure those traditions _could_ be passed along?

Op-eds never speak for everyone, but it’s worth acknowledging the pattern in what speech is deemed worth sharing widely.  And in this particular pattern, there’s an answer: that answer looks like “nothing.”

You want the china passed down but your kids have no room in their rentals. You want grandkids but your kids don’t have the financial stability. You want that cross-country RV neverending road trip but you’ve had decades of wanting lower taxes more than you wanted infrastructure.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I kinda think that world-defining assumptions are always gonna break without maintenance. So rather than getting mad at whoever’s next for not carrying on the norms we didn’t do upkeep on, when it’s my turn, I hope I’m introspective enough to help instead of externalize & blame.

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Me, rattling my tin cup: Dark!Strawhat fics? Any Dark!Strawhat fics? Could you spare even a crumb of evil or morally ambiguous or actually pirate-y Strawhat fics? Oh, could you offer a humble begger just a single fic about the Strawhats being kind of evil?

#one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #cat burglar nami #usopp #blackleg sanji #tony tony chopper #nico robin #cyborg franky #jimbei #straw hat pirates #I’m not even picky about how you define dark or evil #I’ll take overprotective! I’ll take pushed to their limit! #I just need them all kinda fucked up please. #I’m on my knees. I’m begging.

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I need a way to say this character makes me feel insane amounts of lust but not in a sexual or romantic way

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What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

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i think it's so so so great that beating someone up can actually injure and scar you. like from a symbolic perspective. every act of violence leaves a mark on you, chipping away at you with each blow until you're nothing but hard muscle and sharp edges. the hurt you visit on others shapes you in its image.

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this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

#prev I am giving you an obsidian mirror #because I figure either it’s for scrying #(always a handy skill to have) #or it’s horrifically cursed #and you get to be the main character! #you might not want that. but main characters rarely do.

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idk. i think fandom could use a lot less of “every person’s interpretation of a text is valid and true!” and more of “reading a text means taking all parts of it into account, including the bits you don’t like or the pairings you don’t ship, to consider what the full picture is and what the larger themes are.”

projecting your fantasies onto a text, hyperfocusing on the characters you think are hot/shippable and building entire theories based on micro interactions that don’t take other competing dynamics and plotlines into account isn’t “analysis” it’s projection and fantasy. which is fine, but take responsibility for your desires and your fantasies instead of making fandom inhospitable for everyone. some readings of a text are plain wrong, others miss or willfully erase vital context just to rationalize romantic pairings. these are not accurate readings of the text. doesn’t mean they should be attacked or shamed, but neither can you expect people to validate every single headcanon and shipper fantasy as a legitimate “reading” of the text either.