#bigotry has got to go

[iloveyoutoinfinity]

To all my LGBTQ brothers, sisters, theys, celebrate who you are, but please be safe this month. I know you’re facing indescribable prejudice and violence against you from lawmakers and far right groups who claim to know Me, know the Father and the Spirit. Know that I see you, I can relate to you, and I love you so much. I will protect you from those who wish you harm. Again, please be safe and celebrate who you are. I will celebrate with you.

Yeshua

Will do, Yeshua. I’ll celebrate in a safer place. I thought about going to a Pride parade but it’s not safe with those far right bigots out there threatening us. 💖🏳️‍🌈

#yeshua #yeshua rp #yeshua gifs #jesus #jesus rp #jesus gifs #the miracle maker the story of jesus #the miracle maker #my gifs #gifset #pride month #celebrate but please stay safe #yeshua is worried #bigotry has got to go #pride month 2023

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

#writeblr #warm up #ps edited so it is more clear where “half” of men is coming from: #15% literally don't even touch water #an ADDITIONAL 35% ''wash'' by just running their hands under water WITHOUT SOAP #15+35 =50% #like that is not washing ur hands. go back and use soap #btw the numbers for women are 4% never washing and 15% ''just water'' #which is still gross but like. sooo much better yikes #ps i know we're all gay on this site but watching ppl ''correct'' my math on this has been wild #i have a learning disability im genuinely bad at math so i check EVERY time someone corrects me #but no they're just confidently wrong..... #182 hours is a week babes. 182/24 (number of hours in a day) is ~7.6 #that's where i got that number from. also from rent we know there's 168 hours in a week. #ALSO btw if u read this and ur response is ''men are also struggling rn tho'' like babe you missed the point of it tho #this doesn't even make fun of men it's legit just pointing out that bigotry against women isn't founded #in anything men actually CARE about . like they don't actually CARE about ''being clean'' when they make fun of armpit hair #or they would be WASHING THEIR HANDS. #men pretend to be rollin' in cash and Apex Predators and instead they are trained to be lazy and unwilling to act in emergencies #i have never and will never make fun of men for asking for more support on important topics like DV and mental health. #this is so clearly not about men; it's about how common just being plainly misogynistic has become. #like they don't try to hide it anymore.

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

It's so so disingenuous to claim that Dany should have taken the time to separate xyz privileged persons in Meereen because "not everyone sanctioned the murder of those 163 children 😞". Oh ok. So that very wealthy, very influential man did not personally give the order. Maybe he doesn't even have slaves. But riddle me this: Where did their wealth come from? What are the historical foundations of their political power? In a society that continues to practice oppression (and a society where wealth and status is defined by it), how is it that they continue to hold as much influence and social capital as the "direct evil"? None of this is happening in a vacuum. And like....this is a society where the dehumanization of slaves is systemic. It runs policy and economics. And the people in power obviously know each other and support each other (considering the fact that they can keep wealth and influence!!!). So does it matter if xzy didn't give the order? Does it matter if they were not the ones nailing those kids to the posts? What matters is that they saw oppression, did absolutely nothing in the face of it, and continued to benefit from it. They are not innocent. Evil isn't just related to the guy pulling the trigger. The devil is also the one who's standing in the back, watching, and counting his coffers. And it terrifies me to think about what some of you would be saying in the real world, in the face of oppression. "I cannot be held accountable because I wasn't the one who pulled the trigger"....but you continued to benefit from the privilege afforded to you by the oppressive system AND DID/SAID NOTHING. By turning a blind eye, you have taken the side of the oppressor. So I'm sorry sweetie but you 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem 👏 big time!

#saw something and got terribly triggered by it - like I had a whole awoop jumpscare! moment #can't believe this has to be spelled out lmao but everyday I'm reminded why I dread going into 90% of the discussion regarding dany #it's so so tiring #oops hot take -> #IF ONE CONTINUES TO KNOWINGLY AND WILLINGLY BENFIT FROM PRIVILEGE THAT IS BORN OUT OF AND THRIVES IN AN OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM #THEN THEY ARE AN OPPRESSOR #and yeah I have a very emotional reaction to slaver's bay because well *gestures vaguely* I'm bla- #we have these discussions all the time in the real world whether it's about capitalism racism other forms of bigotry etc #it's not even about being a slave master apologist but trying to say that those who knowingly and willing benefit from oppressive systems #shouldn't be held accountable - this is so strange to me and so disheartening #how people talk about slaver's bay is a good litmus test me thinks 🙃 #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #my stuff #ramblings and rants #le sigh

[welcometogrouchland]

Also what if I said the show taking time to show that Luz and Hunter aren't unhealthily dependent on one another post time skip the way they were in thanks to them (but still close seen in Luz's patches on her clothes or Hunter taking time off work to go to Luz's bday) actually plays in to the cycle of sibling betrayal motif w/ the Clawthornes and Wittebanes????

#ramblings of a lunatic #the owl house #toh #luz noceda #hunter toh #bc like. both of the previous generations of siblings had incredibly small/non-existant support networks outside of each other #the wittebanes were orphans and bc Caleb was philips caretaker as well as his brother #(and also just kinda. a pattern with philip) #he loves caleb on the condition that he agrees with and stays with philip. and when Caleb stops meeting these conditions love is revoked #in the form of. yknow. murder and cloning and then murdering the clones #bc again it's less about the ambiguous abandonment and more about the 'living a life i don't agree with and therefore can't be part of- #-due to my own selfishness and bigotry' thing philips got going on #a mindset that would be understandable for a powerless child but is ridiculous coming from a 400 year old god king #Lilith is ALSO in a state of preoccupation and arrested development when we meet her! #the thing that drove a wedge between the Clawthorne sisters was the fact that they were no longer each others codependent supports #Eda had Raine and is clearly closer/at least gets more undivided attention from their parents #not that eda's life is all rainbows and sunshine- she's still an outcast. but she has people other than Lilith #everything we see from the gallery nucleus art to edas old photos portrays the hagsquad as eda's friendgroup. not Lilith's #and years later in s1 even when Lilith is at the top of the boiling isles social latter she's still hung up on Eda #both bc of her guilt but bc she seemingly has no friends who are also her equals #she wants her codependent support system back no matter the damage it'll cause to Eda #bc much like philip she's sort of in a state of arrested development #it's a theme with toh antagonists #the difference being Lilith tried to grow up too fast and was never able to move beyond her teenage conceptualisation of maturity #so she's good at pretending to be mature when really she's not #all this to say that Luz and Hunter don't have this problem outside of thanks to them when they're at their self-hate peak #luz has her mom her owl fam Amity Willow Gus. Hunter now has Camila Gus and Willow and eventually Darius #they don't NEED to be the only one the other can count on and bc of that they're not gonna lose their shit when the other does something- #-they feel they can't/don't want to be a part of #anyway I'm out of tags but. this was a good move writing wise actually even if i love their dynamic. we got a whole special abt them

[sureuncertainty]

at least now i've gone through an important tumblr rite of passage, watching a longtime mutual become a radfem :/

#the thing that really got me was that they were talking about their morality ocd triggering them about it #bc of the way tumblr and the internet in general has this black and white approach to things #and one of those i guess was 'transphobes = bad' which like. is not what i'm ever talking about when i say that things have more nuance #that said i DO think that the way this website prioritizing hating terfs over supporting trans people is kinda gross #but anyway this person was so anxious about it and it just was depressing bc i related to that #they were SO afraid of losing friends or being cancelled over it and i was just like damn i wonder if all terfs are that miserable #but they acted like they just had no choice but to believe this 'thing' that they constantly alluded to but never talked outright about #which i am pretty sure now is just that they're a radfem or at least believe in a lot of radfem ideologies #and honestly? i go back and forth between genuinely feeling so bad for them and being like well that's what you fucking get #i wish i'd had the courage to talk to them about it but whenever i thought about it i got immeasurable anxiety #sorry for the very long tag ramble i just haven't been able to talk about this and it's been eating ME up too for a long time #i just feel horrible. i know in the past they've mentioned too how they want people to tell them why if they unfollow/block them #but i can't. i cannot. and then i'm afraid of just feeding into their victim complex by doing this #i just can't win. and it's like. i'm trans i am literally affected by their bigotry that they're acting like is just not even a choice #ALSO I REMEMBER HOW THEY MADE A POST ONCE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE IRL DON'T TALK ABOUT TRANS STUFF #LIEK IDK WHAT PLANET YOU ARE LIVING ON MY DUDE BUT I HAVE LIKE 5 TRANS COWORKERS AND EVERYONE IS VERY NORMAL ABOUT THEM #like maybe YOU live in a bad area #but you're just a really loud minority #anyway. yeah. just. oof. #still feeling some kind of anxiety about it #win rambles

[snailcubezz]

so like. we know that sasha ran from home at a Very young age, and assumedly raz was the only exception to the intern program age limit (not to mention sasha had No reason to know about the psychonauts that soon even if raz wasn't the only exception). so what the fuck was he doing in that span of time between leaving home and joining the agency ??? was he safe ???? did he have anywhere else to go or stay??????? we have nothing from canon alone and i think about this so much

#meeple.txt #AND ON TOP OF THAT. #NEED I REMIND EVERYONE THAT HE GREW UP IN A SIMILAR ERA AS LOBOTO DID WHERE PSYCHIC BIGOTRY WAS ESPECIALLY BAD AND LOBOTOMIES WERE OK. #LIKE. we know absolutely nothing about sashas childhood except for his parental issues #and while Yes parent death and running away at that age can definitely fuck someone up #i do think there has to be more than that to make him so. gestures vaguely Like That #that level of unhealthy repression of literally everything doesnt come from nowhere #shaking double fine. Was He Okay. Was He Safe after leaving his dad. Where Did He Go. #again im probably looking way too hard into this but gawd damn #psychonauts #sasha nein #not to mention again. the rant he has in pnror about how willing he is to get himself killed if it helps scientific progress #like ? u good? got something u wanna talk about there?

[dirt-grub]

If you fuckheads are still trying to justify this garbage game for garbage fascists, here’s a comprehensive fuck you to the defenders of it, or just the people who claim its “not that bad” to support. your allyship is literally nothing if its so flimsy that a shitty video game is too hard to boycott.

#jk rowling #fuck terfs #hogwarts legacy #harry potter #swinging a bat at a bees nest with this but im fed up with fascists #also yes. it is that serious. she has political influence. she sides with right wingers that also hate the quote 'real' women #yall seem to think you're defending by stanning her #theres going to be a bill introduced in the US if trump wins again that outlaws being transgender pretty much straight up #so fuck you absolute invertebrates who can't commit to caring about people because of a video game you'd otherwise forget about in a month #gonna receive nasty shit in my inbox #it only fuels me you fucks #cant wait for the false equivalences too. 'you said i was a fuckhead and thats mean. you're as bad as me advocating for fascism and bigotry' #also thank you james stephanie sterling the queen #they do not MISS! #which ive recommended their channel before bc their career got fucked when they came out as trans #but even more so now!

[despairforme]

I feel like he would like trans guys, guys who were born as women and said fuck that noise, imma man now

Oh, he had learned about these types of people. It still did not make any sense to him. If you were born female, you'd die female. Sure, he could understand the WISH to be something you were not ( of course he of all people would understand that ), but he didn't believe in the reality of it. You could WANT to be something - that did not make you into that thing. Trans men, from what he'd understood, were women who thought they were men. If they looked like guys, then he wouldn't mind referring to them as such. But they were not REAL men. There would always be a difference between them and him. That was not necessarily a bad thing. He just really disliked the thought of women thinking they could ' become ' men, just because they said so. Women should fucking stay in their lane.

He actually KNEW a couple of trans guys, and since they appeared, to him, like any other guy ( though weak ), he didn't think of them any differently than he would any other weak man. The only setting in which he'd actually see them as women, would be if he was going to sleep with them. Nnoitra was not picky about his partners, but he didn't have much wish to sleep with a trans man. What was the point of doing a woman with no tits? Then he might as well be with an actual man.

❝ Nah, I don't like 'em. Don't mind 'em either. If they look like dudes, then sure, I can treat 'em that way. But they ain't never gonna be 'da same as me. ❞ There was an off-putting sort of arrogance about the concept of being trans. It left a bad taste in his mind. ' I am what I say I am and you have to accept it '. It was fine when THEY did it, but when Nnoitra proclaimed himself to be the strongest, then nobody wanted to go along with it. It was annoying, so no - he did not like them.

#[ OOOOF this is always a trigger topic to write about ] #[ nnoitra is VERY transphobic ] #[ tho he has actually come around after being educated ] #[ of course he's still got a LONG way to go ] #[ but at least now he treats trans men like men ] #[ and he doesn't misgender them ] #[ it's been great to make this progress with him ] #[ STILL HE NEEDS A LOT MORE WORK ] #[ --- this is in canon verse ] #[ in main verse he's MUCH worse unfortunately ] #[ thank you for the ask anon! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #transphobia // #bigotry // #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[elsaqueenofstress]

riff's THIRD line in west side story is him calling bernardo a slur so im genuinely confused as to what movie everyone else on tumblr watched to cause them to ship him with bernardo, anita, latina OCs, etc. please consider woobifying a different, non-racist mike faist character if you find him that hot and ceasing creation of posts/fic that portray puerto rican characters as either brutally violent or passive to xenophobia <3

#west side story #will continue to terrorize this tag with my takes ! #did everyone get a screener that removed all the bigotry that fueled the literal plot of the story and replaced it all w– #–softboy versions of the jets? bc that's all im seeing here #bigotry and carelessness are central to riff's character idg why people think he would want to redeem himself #if you want to redeem a character from wss.....chino is right there and he's perfect (except for the m*rder) #if you want to ship two hot people from wss.......bernardo and anita are right there and they're perfect (i have no caveats to this) #that fuckign fic that got posted earlier today......... #the author being like 'hehe originally i was going to make bernardo ABUSIVE but changed it!! now he just beats riff nearly to death' #the entire concept of riff/anita is so fucking funny to me anyway. like sure it makes sense if you pretend anita has no personality– #–and substitute her existing character with your own desire to softboyify riff! #by which i mean: it makes no sense and happens at the expense of the most compelling character in the film #reminds me of that thread where someone called bernardo sexist (the evidence...?) and said bc of that it was hard for them to root for– #–ANY of the sharks and made the jets more sympathetic by default. babe that's your own bias speaking methinks #notes

[caruliaa]

hey ik tht obviously christianty has like. generally been a much worse force in the world but like when ppl use the blaze feature to also push islam onto people were also gonna call it out bc pushing ppls religions on other for no reason is wrong regardless right ? right guys ?

#im not lying bte i just got tihs on my dash idk what it was just some phrase from the quran i think ? but still like. dude it is Bad to do #tht #also just wanna say kinda related tht like. #white ppl wanna say islam is an uwu oure never harmful religon just bc its an easy way to say 'im not racist !!!' #w out acutally having to put an effort into being an actual ally to ppl of colour #but when u treat islam like its fully pure never harmfull religon tht shld never be cituqued #not only do u imply tht like. islamaphobia is bad bc the religon is 'pure' nd not bc musilms r ppl tht dont deserve bigotry #ur also ignoring tht most of the ppl harmed by islam are ppl of colour #and like. idk what to tell u if ur response to a white persons religous trauma at the hand of christianity is to go #'okay so it is important to talk about how cristianity has been used to harm people and justify bigorty and i will treat ur trauma like it #is vaild and real bc it is' #and ur response to a brown persons religous trauma at the hands of islam is to go #'....... UM ANYWAYYY isnt is soo cool how islam is such a pure uwu religon thts never been used ot hurt anyone !!!' #then sorry to hurt ur white person ego but tht is actually like. pretty racist actually !!! #also ik ofc christinaty and islam are very different and im not comparing them directly #im just saying can u stop invlaidating the trauma of ppl of colour for two seconds #even it it means u have to let go of ur performtive ideas u spout to seem not racist #okay ill get of my soapbox now #flappy rambles #ask to tag #also im kinda talking out my ass rn the situation has more nuance than this this is more me venting frustrations than anything etc etc etc

[bukuoshin]

Okay, it's. It's probably safe to say I'm autistic, lol

#rae rants #i took the autism test twice before and. both said 'yeah autism' but i was like. well it's just one test and maybe it's coincidence. #the r one. anyways. yesterday. i found a site that was like a megapost of autism tests and i took... i think 6 tests from established #like. medical journals and psychology sites. and they all were just like 'yeah you have autism' so. #i mean I'm not gonna get a diagnosis but when i was going thru the questions i was like. 'doesn't everyone do that? no one does that!' #when it was decidedly not the case. and then idr how but i got on quora for a related but different topic and got to some #question by someone who is highly suspecting being autistic but didn't understand one of the questions. and before ppl even got to their #explanations (which i always inherently understood) they'd be like 'sorry for the block of text for smth that could use a 2-3 word answer. #that's a symptom of autism.' and when i told my mom abt that she was like. yeah. thats you. #also. i think this is funny. 3/5 of my family has gone 'am i autistic?' and told that to each other. #and we went to watch my brother the other day do a presentation thing for the career he's going into. and we could recognize him (aside from #his unique clothing set-up-- he was rhe only one w a black coat and tan pants) we could identify him cuz he'd be a loner or he'd like. #waddle a little bit while walking. and i know i have a bit of a bob to my step and my mom waddles too (but thats a medical thing). #and after i finished the test i was like. oh yeah isnt 'strange gait' a symptom of autism. #and when i told my mom she was like 'yeah i think we're all autistic. but we're not getting diagnosed bc let's avoid bigotry.' and. yeah. #i mean. obvs its not just cuz i too a handful of online tests. ive been exhibiting symptoms my friend. like ones i should have seen and gone #'well duh' like im selectively mute. always have been. and when i read 'mostly autistic ppl are selectively mute' i was like. #'but im the specialest little exception in the whole wide world :3c' #as well as other related shit. ya know. #knowing my history tho i haven't been officially diagnosed with anything but it's all in my notes. like my medical chart. #so with my weird good-bad luck I could straight up be like 'i have exhibited signs of autism since early childhood' and they'd write #that word for word in my chart. which avoids the oppression of a diagnosis but also doesn't help me much besides that ya know? #if we're mutuals you might have seen me be like 'do i have autism? no i don't have autism but this post is so relatable.' #whilst exhibiting symptoms. #... is 'exhibiting symptoms' offensive to say? it's one of those phrases I've been stuck on lately cuz it's real short hand for #'i recognize this bc i am familiar with it due to my experiences with mental health' but idk if it's taken that way :\

[jytan2018]

I read the comic in one sitting less than an hour after finishing the movie, and wow I have many Thoughts™.

- It's very obvious the two versions were meant to cater to different audiences AND tell different messages. I don't get why people are going "But the comic was better! It had more nuance!" just because Nimona was easier to root for in the movie.

- The comic was written back when ND Stevenson was still trying to process a lot of stuff, so all the characters are morally grey/straight up evil and the climactic battle is between a Ballister who regrets turning against Nimona, even if it was to save others vs. a Nimona who's too hurt to care if her lashing out was going to hurt innocent people.

- By the time Nimona got a movie adaptation, ND was a lot more secure in his sexuality, so the climactic battle was Nimona vs. the Director, the symbol of religious oppression and bigotry. It's not just about your friends turning on you because you're "too much" for them anymore, it's also about a society that would rather bring itself to the brink of ruin than coexist with you.

- (I totally get why people were upset about Ballister's surname change, though. Like come on, the media dubbing him Blackheart just to be mean was RIGHT THERE).

- Nimona's metaphor for not shifting is such a neurodivergent thing. Even in the comic, Nimona's parents insisting she's a monster who replaced their daughter is reminiscent of the changeling myth, which is what many parents thought their neurodivergent kids were—changelings who replaced their "real" children.

- Ambrosius being trained to cut off HIS BOYFRIEND'S WHOLE FUCKING ARM instead of merely disarming him is a very cop thing to do. As much as cops claim they're trained to de-escalate situations, their training still teaches them to treat everyone as a potential threat, and that level of constant vigilance can turn anyone into a trigger-happy/arm-choppy bastard. Even the Director, who can use a sword but probably hasn't actually fought someone in ages, STILL can't see Ballister reaching for the squire's phone without assuming he has a weapon.

- And on that note, the Queen getting killed simply because she was trying to reform the Institution and allow commoners to become knights? That's the best "no such thing as a good cop" metaphor I've seen. Because even if there ARE good cops and they ARE in leadership positions, the system will crush them before they make any meaningful change. It's not a good institution that turned rotten, it's an institution that only exists to spread its rot and refuses to be good.

- That's why Ballister's characterisation is so different in the movie vs. the comic. Comic Ballister had 15 years to come to terms with his trauma and the Institution's evildoing, while Movie Ballister is still freshly traumatised and hasn't found a way to define himself beyond the role he was assigned by the Institution.

- Not to mention Comic Ambrosius was not very noble to begin with and genuinely believed Ballister was better suited to villainy than heroism, while Movie Ambrosius never wanted the glory that came with his lineage in the first place and only antagonised Ballister because of indoctrination he needed to unlearn (which he did, all by himself, after witnessing the lengths the Director will go to just to kill Nimona).

- It really shows how important it is to surround yourself with loved ones who are open to change. Comic Ambrosius can love Ballister all he wants, but he'll still blast his arm off because he thinks Ballister deserved it anyway. Movie Ambrosius will stop to question what "the right thing" even means, even if he didn't love Ballister enough to defend him unconditionally.

I have so many more thoughts bubbling beneath the surface, but I'll probably address them some other day. In conclusion:

[ID: A pink-haired Nimona grinning evilly while holding up a knife.]

Watch Nimona. This is not a request.

Edit: Added more thoughts!

#nimona #nimona meta #nimona comic #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin

[worldsofdreamers]

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#tw mentions of homophobic behavior directed towards me /suicidal thoughts in the story in these tags #I’m going to say the vulnerable thing now because I’ve slept and i need it out of my body #it’s been something I’ve been grappling with since we learned 1989 is next #missing someone you know you shouldn’t and hurt you deeply has got to be the worst feeling in the world #and if not the worst than one of them #i want nothing more than to call her and share this moment with her but I refuse to open myself up again to the transphobia and homophobia #that kept me so closeted and miserable for years #because it’s not healthy for me to even unblock that number #no matter how much time has passed I can’t forget how much she hated me when I finally spoke about everything I had boxed up so tight #the excuses she made for her lack of compassion as i poured my heart out #the way it drove me nearly to the edge. #i wish I could’ve been the person that made her re-examine her bigotry because we were best friends for a decade #and no matter how much I poured love into her I wasn’t going to get it back when I needed it #it’s better she’s gone from my life but I wish things could have been different #but when people show you their true colors believe them #and she did #every awful thing you could say to a person coming out to you and so desperate to be understood and accepted she said to me. it’s etched on #mind in permanent marker. #but I refuse to make this about her and I’m going to try to reclaim it for myself and for the me who heard it and knew who they were in that #moment in screaming color when the record ended. #the slightly wreckless. messy. unapologetic lover. the 19 year old kid in the closet who for one of the first time realized that you could #want who you want. #no matter how much that album is linked to her in my mind I’m not gonna let her ruin the beauty of this album i love dearly #the songs that build me up in the bad. #I’ve always loved that the re-records are about reclaiming T’s story and work.so I’m going to lean into that here and do the same for myself #to love the work without that baggage of my ironclad closet #or a ex-friend who nearly drove me to ruin #I’m surprised i could type this all out without crying #but I’m glad it’s out of my system at least a little

[thesoftboiledegg]

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

#anti harry potter #anti jkr #anti jk rowling #harry potter critical #anti hp #text #jk rowling

[deadsetobsessions]

AU List

Hello! Welcome! This is my attempt at keeping the AU's boiuncing around in my head in order. They should be mostly in chronological order.

Some of them are getting turned into full length fics! The list (and it's open to suggestions) can be found here: Fic List

A couple of things:

Please feel free to write your own fics based on any of these! No need to ask, simply link it so I can also read it <3

If you have any specific scenarios you have an idea for and would like me to write- my asks/prompts are always open! I can't guarantee quality as I do most of my writing at like, 3 AM but I'll try my best!

I don't condone racism, bigotry, homophobia, etc.. I do not welcome it here. I acknowledge that I have biases that I've yet to unlearn. If there's something that makes you feel unwelcome in the things I write, please let me know and I will fix it ASAP.

I write these mostly on little to no sleep (that’s when I get creative I guess?) so good luck.

Squatter! Danny Raises Tim AU:

[Here] In which Tim finds a squatter (Danny) in his house and gets a brother.

[Here] AU of Squatter!Danny where Tim finds Danny squatting in the Nest as Red Robin and thinks he's a coffee-fueled hallucination.

[Here] Tim and Danny stalks the Dynamic Duo and freaks them out.

[Here] Tim and Danny goes shopping, Jazz Fenton casually suggests murder as a means of sibling adoption.

[Here] Tim meets Jason! Robin and fanboys his way into thinking he could become Robin. Danny tries to temper Tim’s stalking habits.

[Here] Family Bonding

Ghost King and the Justice League:

[Here] The JLA summons Danny and Constantine regrets his poor life decisions.

[Here] Writing Prompt: Ghost King!Danny can hear the screams of the Joker's victims.

[Here] Batman tells Hal Jordan to babysit the unconscious Ghost King because Hal’s neon green.

[Here] Zatanna helps the dying ghost boy by repairing his grave and hunting down the GIW

[Here] Zatanna retrieves the gravestones of Phantom's subjects and gives him a safe space to grieve.

[Here] Ghost King!Danny babysits Wonder Woman at the behest of the Goddess Hera.

[Here] Ghost King!Danny munches on some demons.

[Here] Local space ghost scolds superhero club because they littered in space.

[Here] The OG Young Justice team summons Danny in a private school bathroom

[Here] The JLA failed to prevent cultists from summoning the ghost king. Luckily, they get Danny instead, who seems to be the king's assistant.

Alcoholic! Danny Adopts Jason Todd AU: (Fic)

[Here] Alcoholic!Danny saves Jason Todd from a mugger and gives up alcohol to be a big brother.

[Here] Alcoholic! Danny confronts his stalker, buys chili dogs for his new little brother, and kills a pedo in that order.

[Here] Going Sober!Danny meets Batman, and then gives his new little brother an apartment and tells him he can go to school.

[Here] Going Sober! Danny takes his little brother back to school shopping

Spider in Gotham AU: (Fic)

[Here] In which Peter Parker gets isekai'd and shrunk, commits crime, and adopts a Gothamite street kid for a brother.

[Here] In which Peter Parker’s alternate memories haunt him in the form of nightmares, his identity gets made by his roommate, and he talks to a concerned vigilante with poor sleeping habits about his own poor sleeping habits.

Gotham! Danny and His Bats:

[Here] Writing Prompt: Cryptid Danny predates the Bats.

[Here] In which Danny is both Tim Drake and Gotham's City Spirit.

[Here] Writing Prompt: Danny and Gotham’s Bay that’s full of dead bodies, ghosts, and a very alive Red Hood

[Here] Gotham Spirit Phantom has a moment of introspection and would like people to stop blowing parts of the city up

[Here] AU of Gotham Spirit Phantom where Danny has no idea what universe he got reborn in and proceeds to have a bad time and decides to DIY mental health.

[Here] AU of Gotham Spirit Phantom where Danny has no idea what universe he got reborn in, pt. 2: Danny bullies Bruce into self care.

[Here] Writing Prompt: Shade! Jason stumbles across a ghost Danny, adopts him, gets turned into a full-fledged ghost, eats cookies, and gets pulled back into his human body.

Danny in Gotham:

[Here] Accidental Crime Lord! Danny Phantom and his takeover ft. a gaggle of orphans and a stressed Batman

[Here] Writing Prompt Lawyer!Danny Fenton and heroism within the confines of the law.

[Here] Lawyer! Danny prompt fulfillment

[Here] Coffee Shop Owner! Danny enforces the shop's neutrality by beating up the Joker with a chair and accidentally seduces the Red Hood.

[Here] New to the City! Danny dropkicks Red Hood in his stupid red helmet

[Here] Danny vs. Mr. Muffins

[Here] In which Bruce, Alfred, and Dick grieves while Danny wonders why they were grieving on an empty grave.

[Here] In which Danny did not get the memo about Gotham's pharmaceutical companies

Sea Cryptic! Danny AU:

[Here] Sea Cryptic! Danny cleans up beach after local vigilante explodes his plane over the ocean.

[Here] Sea Cryptic! Danny cleans the Gotham bay and does broke college student things.

[Here] Sea Cryptic! Danny extorts money from Batman for blankets.

[Here] Sea Cryptic! Danny makes a friend and calls Red Robin broke.

[Here] Sea Cryptic! Danny makes Batman a debtor and makes friends with the best vigilante recyclers in Gotham.

[Here] Tim asks Danny to introduce Tim to Danny, Jason has a post-zombie crisis.

[Here] Batman tries to adopt another kid, Danny gets Vlad flashbacks, and the Bats finds out that Jason is stinky.

Danny Gets Yeeted (Yoted?) Into Gotham AU:

[Here] Danny gets dropped on the Batmobile and acquires minions

[Here] IOU One (1) Big (Harvey) Dent

[Here] Danny trolls the Waynes by telling them he's died before (and pretending he doesn't know they're vigilantes).

[Here] Tim makes bad excuses for vigilante injuries and Danny forgets about the knife embedded in his stomach.

[Here] Sleepy, assassin-trained Damian accidentally stabs civilian Danny and feels bad about it.

[Here] Danny's Knife Collection (but not just knives).

[Here] Ghostbusters but they don't actually catch the ghost (Danny)

[Here] Danny’s in the goddamn walls!

[Here] Danny's first family game night: trauma, eating paint, and aiming the Bat cannon at the GCPD and firing feral vigilantes out of it.

[Here] Cassandra Cain (former Feral Child) reassures Danny (who is Ghost Feral) that they're siblings.

[Here] Danny gets ice-cream with Duke, Bruce vs. (corrupt) CPS

[Here] Danny does gardening with Alfred

Danielle "Dani"/"Ellie" Phantom:

[Here] "Ellie" visits Gotham and encounters a Stinky Red Hood.

[Here] "Dani" trades "removing corrupted ectoplasm" for "a meeting with Batman about the GIW" ft. Stinky Red Hood and a confused Nightwing.

[Here] A paralegal gets reincarnated/isekai’ed as Danielle “Nellie” Phantom, Prompt

Gremlin Genius! Timothy Drake:

[Here] Toddler! Tim is irritated at his heroes for showing up late at their own Gala.

[Here] Tower Scene AU

Reincarnated as Gamer! Timmy Drake (fem Tim): (Fic)

[Here] The Dissociative Experience™️ of realizing your afterlife is a cosmic oopsie (and that you’re now playing a game as a female Tim Drake).

[Here] Art for the fic

New Tim-line, Who Dis? AU:

[Here] Time Traveling! Tim has a crisis on a plane and hires Deathstroke to off the Joker.

[Here] Time Traveling! Tim takes over Bludhaven's underground at nine years old by terrorizing them and takes out his big brother's enemies via blackmail and Amanda Waller.

[Here] Tim Drake Vs. The Education System round 2

[Here] Dick Grayson remembering his dumbass, self-sacrificing little brother from a different Tim-line.

Prompts Found:

[Here] Tim is a sleeping cat and the law is: you can't move.

[Here] Heartbroken Danny leaves Dick Grayson with a table full of cold anniversary dinner.

[Here] Tim beefs with Superman.

[Here] Triplet Tim

[Here] Triplet Tim Pt. 2

[Here] Triplet Tim Pt. 3

[Here] Triplet Tim Pt. 4

[Here] Triplet Tim Pt. 4.5

[Here] The Trio escapes Amity via train

[Here] Dick Grayson plays dumb... a bit too dumb

[Here] Reverse Trope Prompt- Too many beds (dcxdp)

[Here] Reverse Trope Prompt- accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss (dcxdp)

Thoughts about DC/DP:

[Here] Richard Grayson's successful image change

[Here] DC vs. The Fan Ability of Saying "No"

[Here] Jason's Pit Madness

[Here] Gotham's City Planners

[Here] Jason and Cass discusses their kill/no kill policies and comes to an understanding about each other.

[Here] Danny can be a twink OR he could be buff as hell.

[Here] DC Canon is soup.

[Here] Damian's relationship with art throughout his short life.

[Here] Ra’s could have revolutionized the medical field but decided to be a creep and clone a minor

[Here] Tim Drake is that troll from Trolls the movies, Branch

[Here] Butter Sock

[Here] Gotham city’s unanimous agreement not to fish dead bodies out of the bay

[Here] Danny in Hogwarts.

[Here] Reincarnation Manhwa + the Bats

[Here] The Bats, Supernatural AU

[Here] Jason's sick fic

[Here] Damian is lost in Amity Park

[Here] Tim, Danny, and floating down a river in a wine barrel

[Here] Reincarnated into Damian Wayne's older sister.

#AU list #masterlist #pls read #I apparently have too many brain worms #tbh I didn't think it was this bad #dcxdp #tim drake #jason todd #batman #batfam #alfred pennyworth #dick grayson #nightwing #batfamily #red robin #damian wayne #red hood #danny phantom #phantom #danielle phantom