#bad taste in the mouth for sure

[adjectiveadjectiveadjective]

frank herbet had a nun fetish. my proof?

- the bene geserit's whole deal is that they're nuns who have a sexy voice so powerful they can make you do whatever they want and the only people who can resist are basically just more powerful nuns. or paul i guess idk fuck that guy. they're the archetypical dommy mommies

- duncan idaho's (frank's favorite character) final form is a guy who is designed to get women addicted to having sex with him (literally a hentai plot). the bene geserit made him Like That because they couldnt use spice so they just decided to fuck everyone into submission instead

i swear to got frank was fully yankin' it while writing by the end of the series bro is 100% cum brained

#i literally dont need to say anything else #the way duncan ends up really just proves my point #dune #spoilers #i guess? #i honestly would not be surprised if duncan was a bit of a self insert but that's speculation at that point #unrelated but dune 2 knocked it out of the ball park when it came to making the fremen likeable Human Beings with Thoughts and Opinions #stellar stuff #the other adaptations did a shit job at that so the bar was in hell but like really above and beyond #really made it super clear who is the bad guy #just a great example of building off the source material and fixing issues #granted ofc its not perfect but ill be damned if it isnt really good #i still think mini series baron harkonen was the best bc they made him a human threat #like not the butt of the joke for being fat or disabled. like they actually made him elegant and brutal without resorting to using his #fatness and disability as the means to that #straight up a great baron #the new one? not so much. i think they rely too much of the fatness and disability for my liking. at least he isnt comical but still. #bad taste in the mouth for sure #feyd was handled excellent they made him perfectly scary. rabban couldve used more but idk hes ultimately not important #but yeah the baron's been handled better. #the second season of the miniseries did delve a bit into early 2000's insanity but thats par for the course #the first season was pretty fire #but overall i still think the most recent iteration's been the best #even with the baron being made monstrous rather than human

[irawhiti]

i saw a post that was talking about how ancient cultures consider trees a life and not an object to cut down and while i fully agree with it i won't lie i feel a bit weird about that being labelled as ancient cultures. like genuinely, no hate to the OP of that post, they're right! but like... it's not just an ancient culture thing that died out. frankly it's still an extremely normal viewpoint in anywhere but the minds of western white people

honestly i really don't like the term "ancient cultures" because it doesn't even specify if said cultures are still alive and thriving and, if anything, implies that those cultures have long died out, like, asking and thanking the spirit of the tree for its life to build with its body is an extremely common viewpoint. it's not just something that ancient cultures did, it's something that still happens constantly to this day

again, truly no hate is intended to the OP of that post, their message is something i fully agree with, but it feels extremely weird to imply that this mindset is just a bunch of "ancient cultures" and not something that lives solidly to this day while the culture of seeing plants and trees as objects to be cut down is frankly by far the minority opinion in the world

#i dunno. i just feel weird about that post #their point isn't wrong at all but their usage of the term 'ancient cultures' leaves a bad taste in my mouth #as someone whose culture goes through a metric fucktonne of rituals and making sure the tree is okay with the sacrifice

[swordsonnet]

maybe i'm missing something here, but it always confuses me when i see things like "some autistic people are disabled by their autism and some aren't" or "not everyone sees their autism as a disability". because... autism very much is a disability?! if you're autistic, then your symptoms must be present in a way that is disabling to you in your everyday life. it's literally in the diagnostic criteria. of course the extent to and areas in which you're disabled can vary greatly depending on the individual, but disability is part of the basic definition of autism, regardless of your personal feelings on the matter.

don't get me wrong, it's still much better than "autism is only a disability because of capitalism" because at least it doesn't make sweeping generalisations that aren't even remotely accurate to the lived reality of most autistic people. but it still perpetuates incorrect assumptions under the guise of personal choice, and honestly feels like an attempt to distance autism from disability in general. being disabled is nothing to be ashamed of, and i wish people wouldn't twist the meaning of autism to remove disability from it.

(and yes, that goes for level 1/low support needs autistics as well. i would be considered level 1 (though i wasn't diagnosed that way) and i'm still disabled by my autism! not to the same extent as many other people, sure, but i'm still disabled. if i wasn't, i wouldn't be autistic.)

#autism #actually autistic #actuallyautistic #what the hell. i'll put this in the main tags #i just don't understand what personal feelings have to do with this. autism literally *is* a disability thats a fact #(okay obviously the diagnostic criteria were created by humans and humans are fallible etc. #but if we extend the definition of autism so far beyond its original meaning then would autism even be a useful term anymore?) #stuff like this always leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it reeks of internalised ableism #i dont want to tell anyone how to identify. but if youre insisting that your autism isnt a disability even though by its very definition #it is - idk ive been in a similar position in my teens and finally acknowledging that i'm disabled and that doesnt make me any less worthy #as a person has made me more compassionate towards myself and others #it just worries me how autistic people on here are trying to pass off their autism as 'just quirky' or whatever #like if you genuinely are just quirky then thats fine! but if you arent disabled by it then i'm sorry but its not autism #i guess its kinda similar to how i dont *dislike* the word neurodivergent per se. but it sure feels like at least some people are using it #so they dont have to say mentally disabled #disability is not a dirty word

[sendmyresignation]

something I've been thinking about lately. i do think it's incredibly telling that almost 80 percent of the conversations around 'gatekeeping' and 'posers' and shit end up just becoming vitriolic hatred of 'alt girls' like i hate shit spotify playlists and dollskill fake leather edge and tiktok recommendations as much as the next person but this is a very big attitude coming from a website full of people who spent their formative middle school years shopping at hot topic for multi-colored skinny jeans while listening to like. falling in reverse or 21p unironically (this is a self-own btw). first of all teenagers having shit taste isn't killing punk music. but also why is the object of your hatred always boil down to a woman faking it? as if it isn't the single oldest stereotype in heavy music? like am i insane for thinking this is an issue

#like theres another dimensionality for sure about how some women do position themselves as like 'weird' when they split-dye their hair #and wear black. and are in actuality conventionally attractive and posturing #like as a dyke metalhead that can be legitimately frustrating but also i dont think this is an issue of poserism #a lot of those women do for real listen to heavy music. #its very similar to like. those metal frontwomen who do like mag calender photoshoots for 'sexiest ladies in rock' #like theyre very much not the issue and its weird to shift the blame onto them for playing the game #and its even more fucked imo to question their allegiance to 'the scene' because it just warps into #every misogynist talking point about how women are 'too pretty'to play guitar or get sweaty in the pit or whatever #ANYWAY there is literally never this much attention given to like rym poser dudes with no brain that theyve become their own #evil subcategory of 'fake alt girl' when men are selling out to make much worse shit pop punk all the time lmaooooo #been thinking about this since i read laina dawes memoir which whil on one hand v good is so inredibly peoccupied #with other women in metal spaces. implying that those who dress sexy to go to shows do it entirely for the attention of men and are #'bad role models' left a bad taste in my mouth #my posts

[yuridovewing]

does leafstar have fans? bc im sorry but shes been incredibly unlikable these past few books

#im sure its just the new team not actually knowing who anyone in skyclan is but shes so nasty in these books #like. this has a narrative purpose. shes kicking sleek and yarrow out to sow more divide between the shadowclan cats #and theres an interesting discussion about forgiveness and how darktails victims are treated #but like man she just full on victim blames the two of them and berates them over info they didnt even know #after the bonus scene this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. why do we keep victim blaming darktails victims #when we've established that hes extremely manipulative?? that hes a charming guy apparently? #avos liveread

[dayurno]

#i will warn you only once: tsc spoilers #literally just finished it as i am drafting this its 5am where i live #so you may be subjected to some nonsense #that all being said i have thoughts.and feelings #the kevin was lovely and tasted delicious! jean defending him at every turn even when he swears to hell and back he'll kick his ass #the kevjean was surprising i was only half expecting that #the dog metaphors i have to say i need this one cashed in. nora run me my check #im joking of course dont quote me on it #jean taking kevins promise to the end and living on it is seriously so. well. #'be careful with him' 'take kevin's name out of your ignorant mouth' 'you promised me' #also kevin getting called the court's queen had me tender and on my back oml #jean's relationship with the trojans is sweet and he is very interesting and complicated #a character with many moving parts im sure #there were a few things i did not care for #namely jeremy and the trojans felt remarkably flat to me bar lucas (by far the most interesting) and catalina on occasion #i didnt quite enjoy jeremy's pov and felt like he spent perhaps way too much time worrying over jean? if that makes sense #i wish he had some more complexity to him or really anything to catch a hook on #all we know is hes attractive and smiley and gets along terribly with his family #so much of his character is sucked out by jean he didnt feel like much more than a plot device to me #which i wouldnt mind if jeremy wasnt the literal main character alongside jean #i was living for everything jean thought but had to drag myself through jeremy's pov if im honest #uuuuh what else. neil! funny. deranged. i have to love him #andrew couldnt give less of a fuck about jean which is funny as all fuck #two bugs placed in the same habitat ignoring each other #the thing with elodie i thought was complicated. i wish we knew some more about her or that shed been mentioned a little earlier #but im assuming thats a topic to be revisited #uuuuuuuh yeah so thats most of it. i think my first thought and the one that sticked out the most to me is that the book felt remarkably #pedestrian #not necessarily in a bad way #it lacked to me one of the main appeals of aftg which were the numerous interesting side characters

[pandoraheadcanons]

James... do we really need to see "bad Na'vi" in avatar 3? Do we?

#represented by fire no less.... #mr Cameron I am begging you to think critically about your aliens who are very much modeled on irl people of color #ofc there can be villains but like. making an entire 'bad clan' is like 'evil races' in dnd #it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth #also please make sure your second movie succeeds before you talk about the third #na'vi

[quietwingsinthesky]

actually funny story regarding prev post but when my friend forced my to watch Red White and Royal Blue, at one point I said something along the lines of “They’re probably going to break up in a few years anyway, despite all this fuss.” and she accused me of trying to ruin the movie for her. And then I did not say the next thing I thought because she was already annoyed at me, which was “Why does them breaking up in the future matter if the story is about them being in love now?”

#I mean actually I think about that a lot. I got in an argument with someone once because I didn’t understand why they were so insistent #that love had to be a forever thing. that if someone didn’t love you forever than the fact that they loved you now didn’t mean as much. #I don’t know. I don’t think I like that. #because you meet a lot of people in your life. most of them you aren’t going to love forever. or at least - you will not love them in the #same way that you started. it will change. #and the idea that somehow that makes those loves less important? less meaningful? it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. #because I think every love - however brief - is important. so what if you break up in a year. so what if you divorce in ten. so what if you #grow old together and decide eh. that’s enough. let’s try something new. #because you loved each other once. you love each other now. that relationship will always have an impact on you. #and I’m not sure the point I’m trying to make here. except that focusing on forever always seemed silly to me. no one has forever. #no one knows who they will be in one five ten fifteen fifty years. #idk. these conversations stuck with me. #idk something something bojack horseman finale quote right? #‘I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being. and you can be grateful for them. #even if they were never meant to be in your life forever.’

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?) #Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it. #obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!” #is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying. #Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..) #ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians) #Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties? #why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism') #after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

[binch-i-might-be]

I am once again asking the good people writing mpreg to not refer to the birth father as any variation of "mother". thanks

#i just don't understand why you would even do that. like just write a genderbent au or whatever at that point #it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth #pretty sure it's because it feels transphobic on some level. yeah this is fiction where a cis man had the ability to get pregnant #but referring to him as a mother while the other parent gets to be father feels. Bad. like in the minds of these people the ability #of pregnancy is so deeply linked with feminity that they couldn't fathom calling a pregnant man a father #even though that's what he is #sorry it's two am and i am having deep thoughts about mpreg fic #rayrambles

[aeternallis]

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#btw sorry not sorry if you're only following me for kinnporsche / kimchay #lol #I still love them very much #and i still have a fic or two in the works #but let's be real #kimchay fandom at least on here kinda hate me #and are toxic af for what they did to me and Vena #you know who you are ya brats XD #not sure i'm all comfy seeing a bunch of white problematic westerners continue to talk over POCs in a fandom for an Asian show #it be leaving a bad taste in my mouth #in which case #time for me to head towards greener pastures anyway #and enjoy kimchay away from here #but ya #feel free to unfollow~

[notyuta]

i'm gonna be honest i don't know if i fully buy that every innuendo etc was censored in both the anime and comic

#overall i never wish to engage with anything about it though so im not willing to check for myself nor i will ever be #so i accept that my judgement can be based only on others' (whom i do not know personally) opinions (so i can't have judge their opinions) #so it can never be fully formed in the end #for sure the whole debacle left a bad taste in my mouth

[godofsmallthings]

thinking about how the shake it off x wcs remix that went viral on tiktok a little bit ago is so deeply indicative of the way the app rewards stripping art of all meaning and context

#like i'm sure a cursed remix like that could've come about in a pre-tiktok world #but it would've been a think where ppl in the youtube comments would've been like woah this is so sad but funny/cursed #and it wouldn't become the background of people's random videos about their life/swiftieism #and i know that this is one of those things that really doesn't matter unless you choose to make it mattee #*matter #but i've decided that this is a hill i am willing to die on #it just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth #both in this specific scenario #but also because it's such a microcosm of the entire tiktok experience #dhskbdnsnsndjd but then again taylor is the one who is capitalizing off her own trauma first and foremost so #okay i need to go to bed before i continue down the rabbit hole of being upset at the way capitalism treats art #vi is typing...

[keeps-ache]

ohh crisis galore

#just me hi #was washing dishes earlier and Auhghuhuhuhghghg #yea sure let's speedrun the weekend ruminating!! i love convenience #//anyway i doodled a bunch of stuff about me and my head people and i want to show them cuz they're kinda silly #but i don't have a camera. ohhhhh the tragedy!!! #i tried explaining how this thing worked and my sibling was like 'oh so they should date!!' put that back in your mOUTH #puts a bad taste in My mouth lolll #//anyway i should put myself in a hole somewhere and just let some flowers grow over me or something #not for ruminating obviously. but because it would probably be more healthy than ruminating hhvhsfvh

[chalkeater]

Im thinking about how some people (ive seen) have this mild hint of Snobbiness when it comes to whether or not you save each song individually like The Old Days (I used to do that) . You download the song + edit the artist name + add a song image… but have you considered that. If you have any form of disability with your hands that its time conuming epecially if you’re just starting and have 500+ songs of backlog? Also even if youre able bodied its just so time consuming and i cant squeeze in the time to download and sort 500+ music if i have more important things to do

#so I DONT have disability in my hands but my partner does my baby girl alright #and like idk im just thinking #like IDC what anyone does yknow? i dont give a shit #but if you start acting snobby i will literally start coming for your throat #i think we need to kill ceos and destroy captialism instead of judge whos better at storing music #its not FAIR that spotify doesnt pay their artists properly #but i get a bad taste in my mouth when i see people being RUDE to others who use streaming #does that make sense? is this a bad take? #like for example even if i could do this personally its so time consuming and we dont have TIME to move 500+ songs around anymore #maybe if we started it sure but like #as in started doing this a lkong time ago but its not a LONG TIME AGO anymore #idk. maybe this is a bad take #talking #am i making sense?? im just pissed off because i know that if someone told this to my girlfriend ‘hey you should delete spotify and #download all your songs and change the artist icons etc’ #ill start grabbing a shovel because i know she wont have the time or spoons to do that #anyway…

[muu-kun]

"Oh.. Well, actually, ah.. I was going to ask the Calyx if the reason he won't say sorry for hurting my feelings is because he would describe me as naughty. I did forget that I am the sort of person that is considered being a lot. They probably make pills be for that, right?"

#muu be knowing he can't protest against the narrative that he's the type of person that is A Lot more consistently than not #it is like when you are aware that you are sensitive type of person but not really sure what to make of it you know #like where you witness other people being sensitive but in a Different way so you become unsure what to make of your own #like you'd hate to call it bad but to call it a wonderful concept within yourself also leaves a bad taste in the mouth #that is something to be worked upon but not in this is an inherently shameful trait sort of way #even if it takes overlooking the hurdle of resentment towards those who's sensitive sides are regarded as inspiring