i think its weird that i have to make this disclaimer but the internet is crazy so wtvr,, anyway,,
if i say i dont like something, that doesnt mean "that thing is bad and nobody should post it.."
i swear literally every time i even mention that i dislike something, people will go "wow does that mean u fucking hate me cuz i post that thing? ur a fucking stupid bitch and all ur opinions r wrong" LIKE ?? er.. no. just because i say i dont like certain characterizations of certain characters (the saiki k fandom is CRAZY about this cuz i can state an opinion on literally any character and a group of people will still go 'well only we're allowed to post our opinions about them because we're always right!1!1!'), or certain ship tropes (mentioned my hatred of toxic yaoi maybe once or twice on here months ago and people STILL get mad at me as if i said toxic yaoi lovers r evil or something), or certain ships, or WHATEVER, does not mean that i HATE the people who are posting them or that i think they shouldnt post them at all, NO, im just posting about my personal tastes on my personal blog and it would be extremely weird and hypocritical if i decided that i was the ONLY person that was allowed to do that,,
i think the only reason people assume that is because there are a lot of other people on here who ARE like that, and a lot of people toe the line between posting that they dont like something and posting that they think everyone who likes that thing is stupid, annoying, and wrong,, so i guess all i can say is, sorry for whatever made you make these assumptions but they arent true about me so plz leave me alone ʘ‿ʘ ur doing the same thing to me that ur accusing me of but i didnt do it in the first place so ur just actively being a dick for no reason
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Been awhile, havent seen ya since my father died!
For the Incredibles AU, please tell me "Malon speaking whale" became canon XD
Hey there, it has been a while! I’m so sorry to hear your father died, I hope you’ve been okay :(
Ehhh sort of? I decided her powers are basically “animal communication, but she has an especially close bond with equines and the like” so while she can kiiiind of understand whales, I don’t know that she can totally speak whale. So sort of. Kinda.
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hi!! pride post, coming to you from your weird professional activist neighbor who never shuts up about their experiences
this year, i want to specifically highlight what everybody can do to make this pride special: examine and criticize whatever organization runs your local pride event. search their social media--find out who it is run by and where it is through, because chances are, you may not like what you find out.
allow me to take you on a little journey: my city (a major city in the Northeast US) had been run by a pride organization for quite a while. i had actually worked with them in my earlier years, organizing high school volunteering events, gone to meetings, spoken to their leaders. i had small doubts--seeds of curiosity that had tickled me, but i was young. 15 when i first started joining them, and didn't think i had the voice to speak with.
then, as time went on, i became more cautious. kept up appearances, but started talking to other people. local people, queer businesses and artists who tried to work with them. found out they overcharged for displays, yet openly supported the local police department for tabling. gave those police extra help, and headlined them. come to find out one of their head members supported tr*mp. the majority of leaders lived in a different state, and didn't actually know, nor represented, the lives of people in my city. fishy, and confusing. i stopped volunteering when i left for college in a different city.
it stayed in my mind. they used keith haring art for promos, touting that they held the licensing for it. i ended up emailing the haring estate--they did not. kept the hushed whispers around the city, asking questions
then--the big bad. the big bad that shouldn't have had to happen. they made a pride post about stonewall's anniversary, misgendering the individuals there. spending most of the post praising the police officers there that night, calling them "brave". stonewall.
was i shocked? no. but i was kicking myself. i'd seen the signs half a decade before. i'd met with the group and been uncomfortable with how white the leaders were, not representing the identity of our city. the city--our city--was the one that released the more colors more pride flag, yet the largest pride group was uplifting the police, was lying, was actively harming the individuals from the city in order to promote more and more force and rainbow capitalism.
we joke a lot about pride being overrun by rainbow capitalism--but what hides underneath is more egregious. it may not be on the surface of discomfort, but by fuck is it there right below the skin.
they disbanded. local run events started cropping up more prominently. it isn't fully what it should be, right now, but it's starting to get there. it took longer than i think any of us wanted, sadly, but it's happening
i implore you to peel back that layer. look, just a little deeper. find the roots and pull them up. i don't want it to come to hateful media presentations to have to take down the elements--maybe just as simple as choosing to find a different road. a different event. see who is actually representing our community as a whole, not trying to sift through to find their own powers. it's not a big action as an individual, but as more people come together, they break down the walls built around our frustrations. the dam has to break some day, hasn't it?
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