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saw someone on tiktok say that lesbians cant say faggot because theyre ‘not gay’ and i also saw another person say that the only slur lesbians are allowed to say is lesbos. what is this world coming to.

#queer #slur discourse #tiktok #faggot #lesbo #lesbos #lesbian #gay

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I immediately don’t trust anyone who says they don’t like Usopp cause wdym you watched all of Water 7 and all of Enies Lobby and all you got out of it was that Usopp is ‘weak’ and ‘annoying’ ?!?!??

#DONT DO MY BOY DIRTY LIKE THAT #IM READY TO FIGHT FOR USOPP #guess who just finished enies lobby btw #well. most of it anyway #when the Going Merry fucking SAVED THEM i was THIS CLOSE to bawling my eyes out bro #the way she spoke to Usopp before anyone else!! #(or he was the first one to hear her idk) #GOD and the parallels between usopps fight against franky and when luffy almost was defeated by lucci?? #i was losing it man #SOOO GOOD #when he took of his Sogeking mask and luffy turned to face him!!!! #oh my god!! #one piece #usopp #god usopp #one piece usopp #usopp one piece #op usopp #op anime #water 7 #enies lobby

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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

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me: why are you destroying earth!!!

aliens: because theres people who think that english is the only language they need to speak

me: thats fair i understand

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To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

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good morning everyone!!! Guess what day it is

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reading the manga is fucking awesome actually bc i catch so many more little details than i would have otherwise. looking back and knowing more about her character, robin is genuinely DELIGHTED with luffy. i took this screenshot awhile ago so i don’t remember if this is the first time we see her genuinely laugh or not, but her smile here is a lot different than her other smiles in alabasta. she isn’t laughing to mock him.

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The fact that staff refuses to do something about the bots in the #asexual tag who literally do nothing else (some of them only have one tag and that’s asexual) that we had to make a new tag (#acespec mafia) is honestly insane

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thinking yet again about Saiki‘s’s final choice in the series being “I’d rather live with my powers than die without them” bc that is seriously the single best ending of a disability narrative I’ve seen. Fuck.

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Tried to draw them from memory

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Loof’s favorite meal

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Edit: IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF IGNORANCE

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You guys really need to stop and consider the ways you're talking about Kabru I am dead fucking serious. Like I know that flattening characters is just what fandom does to a certain extent, but Kabru's actual personality is getting lost to the fandom hivemind insisting that he's aggressive/cruel/sociopathic/hateful, and these are particularly concerning takes to see leveled at the only brown character in the main cast day after day. "My poor sweet golden child Laios needs to be protected from this scary brown man" is not a good look! Like, it's very telling that the bulk of the hate and bad faith readings are reserved for Toshiro and Kabru. Everyone else's flaws get to be discussed and validated and forgiven (or erased), meanwhile people are straight making up things to be mad about with Toshiro and Kabru but patting themselves on the back for being smart.

The worst part is how undeserved it all is. I'm trying to lay off anime-onlys because we're still kind of in the red herring stage of getting to know Kabru, but I would still like to gently suggest that even if you think Kabru is up to something, you don't gave to get in the tags of every fan creator's post and bring up how you hate him or You Can Tell he's totally evil. Sometimes I think Kabru's blue eyes give people license to say things about his appearance that they know would sound completely racist otherwise, but referring to his blue eyes acts as a get-out-of-racism free card. The jokes about the dog with brown contacts are getting old, by the way.

For people who have read the manga, it's disappointing. Kabru is one of the most complex and important characters in the story, and if you base your interpretation of him and all your fandom interactions on shallow first impressions you are completely missing out.

I know part of this is because Dungeon Meshi is a comedy, but the story also wants to be taken seriously. For example, it's admittedly really funny when Chilchuck calls Laios "sick in the head", but that doesn't change the fact that the way Chilchuck casually belittles Laios caused him to hide the fact that he was "hallucinating" from his friends for weeks. Those feelings matter.

Like, this

is funny.

But this?

Is not. This is just a very clear example of a brown boy with PTSD. As someone else with PTSD, just looking at this fucking sucks, man.

The only reason why Kabru thinks about killing Laios is because he is in the middle of a flashback. He's struggling through a panic attack. If he truly wanted to kill Laios because he's violent or because he finds Laios inherently annoying, he wouldn't otherwise talk with Laios normally. Notice how he doesn't act this way at any other point in the story- it's just because he's triggered by monsters. Even when he's thinking about his plans to "deal with" Laios later, he's reluctant to actually kill him and only considers it to prevent another tragedy. Despite his deadly skills, Kabru relies far more on "soft" power- insight, persuasion, diplomacy. He's a rare example of a character who absolutely is, or at least can be, manipulative, but seems to use his abilities for good. He's not a pathological liar, he isn't looking down on everyone behind a smile. He's someone who is extremely emotionally intelligent, and he's willing to put aside all his own basic wants and needs to stop the cycle of dungeons devouring humans.

I'm going to cut a potential thesis on his character short and just give some examples of things that fandom should consider about his personality more:

Racism in fandom isn't just about whitewashing in fan art, or using racial slurs. The insidiousness of bad faith readings, reductions to racist tropes, lack of fan content for characters of color, and dismissal of a character's complexity are far more common. You can believe yourself to be completely neutral or even positive about a character and still churn out low-grade bile about them into fandom's collective unconscious. Fandom reflects real life.

And I have been around fandom long enough to see how these behaviors (mostly from my fellow white fans) affect fans of color, how it makes a fandom feel hostile and unwelcome to them. It's fun to make jokes and memes, I'm absolutely not saying that everything needs to be a deeply nuanced take, but we need to be careful that it doesn't veer into toxicity. Please think about how our contributions to fandom come across, and what sort of vibes they cultivate in this communal space.