#but it's very indictive I think

[anti-subtle-b]

“Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.”

-Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells

I think about this line a lot.  The Murderbot Diaries series leans well into critiques of Ableism, and I think about the books in reference to disability a lot.

Ableism hands out the ‘baby’ and ‘dangerous’ labels left and right. I think about the perception of things like DID, amputations, anxiety, and depression. Sometimes both blankets get laid on at once. The idea of ‘depressed school shooters’ on one hand the ‘how to care for a sad person’ comic. It’s embedded in the culture (at least in the USA).

{Image ID: comic with multiple panels, how to care for a sad person, 2. pick sad person up 3. lay on blanket 4. rol them like a sushi 5. place sad roll on bed/couch/comfy place 6. hug roll close 7. put on rols favorite movies 8. feed roll snacks 9. make sure roll is well hydrated. Tears make roll dehydrated 10. happy lil sushi roll. End ID}

I have spent just the smallest amount of time talking with diagnosed autistics (and with self dxed and un-dxed folks) and seen their critiques on media about autism they make this really hit home. It’s PERVASIVE.

In the hated film Mus1c by S1A there is a throughline of her main character, Music, being childlike, but when she has meltdowns she’s dangerous. This same rhetoric is used by Autism Spe@ks, that autism will destroy marriages and peace and is actively trying to get you, that autistic people are missing something that needs to be found so they can be whole. When I tell you I WANTED to like Love on the Spectrum-- but it played deeply into ‘autistics are missing something, they need help, they’re childlike’ and it infantilized it’s cast-- I am saying it with desperation.

It is so cathartic for me to see this put so plainly into words by a character that is approachable to people who both are and aren’t autistic. These SHOULDN’T be the only perceptions of disabled folks! Because we are people-- multifaced, individual, just as dangerous and childlike as the rest of the population.

Some of us need more support. Some of us need more care. But we are all individuals, and these blankets are smothering.

#spoilers #autism #murderbot #martha wells #I don't hate the sushi roll sad person comic #I think it's cute #but it's very indictive I think #possible triggers #trigger warning #SIA #Meltdowns #depression #school shooters #shootings

[fae-morrigan]

Okay, I wasn't going to say anything about it, but y'all are just being ridiculous now, so I have to say it.

A common criticism of Jay Nakamura is the idea that he only got romantically involved with Jon to get Jon to help him with what he was doing. And this is meant to be like, an indictment of Jay, that he somehow manipulated Jon into helping him out and that's bad, but like... lets pretend that's true for a second, okay?

The explicit text of Son of Kal El is that Jay is a displaced indigenous refugee who is trying to liberate his country and his people from a western-sponsored dictator (and the literal slavery he has imposed upon them).

So according to this take, Jay had to romantically manipulate Jon into... helping him take a stand against colonialism. He had to trick Superman into helping him do something i hope we all agree is objectively correct. Specifically by bribing him with romantic affection.

I just wanna know: In what universe is that an indictment of Jay and not Jon?

Like, that's a world where Jon had to get something out of the arrangement to consider doing the objectively right thing. That's fucked up! Extremely fucked up! And I would never villify Jay, who again I remind you escaped actual enslavement, for needing to do that to get help for himself and his people! Why would you?

#meta #dc meta #jon kent #jay nakamura #Me personally I think if a man of color has to 'manipulate' a white man into standing against racism & colonialism #by pretending to like him and kiss his ass and take care of him #that could never be anything but a scathing indictment of the white man whos inaction without personal benefit is the real problem #When you try and cast Jay as the villain in the context of SOKE you tell me you think his goals are unreasonable #WHICH IS A FUCKING TAKE FOR SURE. #and I am very glad it is Objectively not what the text says #The text tells us Jon was totally willing to help Jay before their relationship began #and that the romance comes as a result of them getting to know each other as people #hence why we see Jon looking at Jay differently starting in issue 3 after Jay embarasses himself in front of Lois

[vamptastic]

jeez i knew oppenheimer probably wouldn't be a very balanced image of the dropping of the atomic bomb but I didn't think they'd just straight up not show a single japanese person the entire film

#idk if that was purposefully meant to be an indictment of the american people or not. kinda doubt it. #i think its a good movie when it comes to oppenheimer as a man. but man it leaves out a lot about the manhattan project #like just completely overlooks the american perception of japan that led to it including propaganda efforts #from both japan and the us #also the way american media reacted to the bomb #before fullscale erasure attempts really took hold #i mean for fucks sake the maidens of hiroshima were on a game show #youd think thatd be worth mentioning #but i guess ultimately bc its a biopic its about One Guy not the overall ideology that leads to war crimes #certainly not the worst thing the US could've put out about the atomic bomb but ultimately of less substance that id hoped i guess #i would've liked to see more of the courtroom drama side of things OR a very abstracted view of atomic theory too #just not... both at once. clashed a little for me #idk. godzilla was way better than this

[rosaacicularis]

which was more culturally significant, the renaissance or hermitgang

#it all started when grian touched my redstone he played himself like a xylophone set on automatic doc monster is a savage with technical #skills and crazy vocal acrobatics i’m a legend of the nho with etho beef and double o docmc is coming for you seven fold i got rendog and #other firemen to douce the flames that you shoot at this leviathan iskall can try again you think i’m in hiding i’m just biding my time #putting pen to paper coming up with rhymes were the star studded group got together just to crush you once we start something you know were #going to see it through i’m the knight the soldier who brings the fight at first light y’all had to incite so now i gotta indict you’re #guilty of getting murdered with words y’all are outgunned go home nerds hermitgangx16 if you think you can stop the symmetry that’s false #gteam is dialling for help but i’m in ignoring their calls and when their bodies dissolve you know that false’s on a killing spree try to #stop my pvp and perish painfully i’m the queen of hearts heads and body parts your diamond armour can’t compare to my martial arts i’ll #send a poison dart to make you breath your final breath gteams name will be the only thing left caffeinated animated redstone innovator my #behaviour’s crazy can’t phase me impulse is never lazy tango why would you betray now my scope is aiming better run from cover from all the #ghast balls that i be taming without a sound without no hesitation my creations are amazing better watch your step or the gteam will end up #blazing whos the better team there is no controversy but before it’s said and done y’all be begging us for mercy hermitgangx16 x gone give #it to ya i’m gone give it to ya x gone give it to ya what lyrical boxing dropping blows on all my foes and the gteam they’re looking #unclean needing some sunscreen burnt by words this herd of nerds it’s ubsurd how my rhymes got them injured danger danger i got lasers to #cut them up like razors it’s flexing season and i got flavour their weak defenses like trenches and fences that these dense heads are #presenting they’re presenting them alright they’re not very good i could walk over them i could jump over them i could use an ender pearl i #could use my elytra come one gteam geez hermitgangx16 now i’m back and i got some things i wanna say what’s the letter that starts the #alphabet a ladies get it line the diggity be on the way cleo don’t know who she freaking with all the signs say to notify her next of kin #this digitty dog be dropping bombs nothing but hits spit that line again brrr cause the message is i could mumble rap and still be the best #there is hermitgangx16 oh you wanted me to do a verse i’ll have to check with gteam i mean i’ll have to check my schedule to see if i can #see if i’m able to do that sort of thing busy guy lots of things to do oh do averse bananas do a verse bananas i just don’t know if it’s a #good idea for me to a part of this song really #i just typed all of that out from memory im a little bit insane i think

[afieldinengland]

i've said this before but in the end if malcolm tucker went on trial for perjury would they have called ollie reeder to testify

#i am trying to read up on how perjury indictments work because i like to be informed but it's hard to parse the legalese #and not that i believe he went to prison or anything. i imagine he kept some very good lawyers to heel #i think i just want to see ollie on the stand as gelled-hair brutus fully realised after he shook and giggled his way through the goolding #inquiry. more to the point it wouldn't be relevant but it'd be a place to raise the delicate issue of Did mr tucker fuck you or not #would he be able to bite the bullet and send malcolm to prison after he'd already assassinated him? maybe. #maybe it's easier once they're dead. staring at him across the courtroom and making him miss the parasite #the thick of it

[suncaptor]

I already feel like I have so many btvs opinions that no one would want.

#examples: 1.) fixated on Xander. my little guy with his little outfits and hes been through so much 2.) hate buffy/angel with the so much #energy and therefore can't stand angel too. besides getting into how it is a realistic portrayal of an older man preying on a teenager #it also is just literally illegal. anyways 3.) after watching the scene where faith sexually assaults & tries to kill xander and everything #else she does following i like. do NOT know if I will succeed at feeling much other than rage at her #she seems compelling and like a character i could like but the problem is the narrative cares more about her spiralling than xander so 😬😬 #also I find willow boring so far which isnt an indictment against her but that anti lust spell she was going to cast #on xander without his knowledge 😬😬 also idk if ill ever forgive giles for drugging Buffy #also buffy is a sweetheart but it frustrates me nearly always her emotions are the only ones that get weight #also i think that spn .uh may jabe had it right with make every monster a guy #ALSO the bigotry within the show and fundamental flaws are very similar to spn levels (though I know someone who agrees there ckskkz) #also i do think this show would hit different if you watched it as a teenager. THEN id be an angel guy THROUGH AND THROUGH #tortured poor little meow meow AND an IRISH vampire? #and faith was made for young me. for id have been obsessed. #but now i just look at them like ☠️☠️ stop please #incoherents #btvs #buffy #s.a

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

13. Sajini Shinde Ke Viral Video (2023)

#sajini shinde ke viral video #sajini shinde ke viral video (2023) #2024filmgifs #my gifs #that made me so angry #but that was the point #i wanted to beat the shit out of every man in that film #with the slight exception of the cop and the brother #so the identity of the actual culprit was quite clever #but everyone was indicted and rightly so #i think i'm in love with Nimrat Kaur #i love everything about her onscreen #it would be so great to have her and Vidya face off #in some super complicated super feminist story #which could totally happen #hopefully soon #Maddock still making very relevant uncomfortably challenging movies #good for them

[princesssarcastia]

i think the fundamental thing people forget about star wars, which would clear up some things for many people, is that luke skywalker is the hero of the story

#it's all about Him in the end #why the fuck do we care about anakin skywalker's journey in the prequels? #because That's Luke's Dad!!! #and also because he and palpatine fundamentally broke the republic #in a way that luke and leia (and the rebellion) then eventually fix #but it is....in the end....all about our very special farmboy #the sequels much less so #although there's an argument to be made even there #it also means that when luke throws away his lightsaber #and THEN says 'no. i am a jedi. like my father before me' #it is in fact an indictment of 'this weapon is your life. don't lose it' #idk #husborth is making me think about star wars #luke skywalker #listen i love my other star wars characters #i love them to bits #but i also know they are not Thee character #that has ALWAYS been george lucas' self-insert specialist little boy

[stardustedknuckles]

Idk I didn't see dogboy Bor'dor theories as reductive or a punchline. I just thought it made a lot of sense and liked feeling in on the joke Utkarsh is setting up if that's the case because I'm not usually someone who gets the joke (certainly not early) and it's just fun. I think it's a great character concept. I don't need the story to be about that. It's just not that deep I guess.

#It's really trendy right now to make fun of people who are going along with the idea #Which I know is targeted at people who refuse to take a story at face value and who very often do this with multiple characters #Like they refuse to engage with what's in front of them and make up something new and I get that can be frustrating to watch #But idk man I saw the theory and it held water for me and I liked feeling like I picked up something before 92 episodes had passed #It's really hard for me to get a 3d view of characters for like a really long time if I ever do #Spotting a possible concept felt like a shortcut and made me feel a bit less slow #Kind of sucks that the (admittedly understandable) response is just 'oh you're all being stupid' #Maybe he's not a dog #In which case I'll be glad to go along with the story presented #It'll be good either way #And I know that making fun of people who do this as a trend isn't the same as making fun of me #But my fyp and such feels kinda mean about it #I think the important distinction is the willingness to be just as content if a thing isn't true #But in the meantime it's just fun #Not an indictment of how 'boring' it would be otherwise

[chronomally]

Something about Airplane and Cucumber having more sympathy for the characters and the life-or-death situations that crop up now that those characters are, like, real people and those situations are life-or-death for THEM as well

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading SVSSS #It's played for laughs on occasion but also for character development #Shang Qinghua complains that no one appreciates just how complicated it is handling logistics all the time (very true) #Shen Qingqiu frequently leaps to defend nameless characters from demonic attacks #+ god knows the trouble he's gotten himself into stepping between Luo Binghe and a sword even though he knows LBH literally CAN'T BE KILLED #This isn't like a character commentary or an indictment like I think it's very natural lol #It mostly just reminds me of like thinkpieces on consuming stories as a form of voyeurism etc. #On an unrelated note I just realized both their handles are like dick jokes lol

[woulddieforloki]

She-Hulk is Ragnaroking my Bruce :/

#no i will not elaborate those that get it get it <3 #(disclaimer that i hate professor hulk tho so i am very biased) #i miss u bruce 🥺 #negativity #mcu negativity #she hulk negativity #marvel negativity #this isnt an indictment of the show btw i think the show is fantastic and i cant wait for the next episode

[gideonisms]

I guess also just having seen the interaction between an author and an overly invested fanbase go sour multiple times it's like. Yes I want ianthe to raw me but like there are boundaries

#like. (redacted) had to delete her tumblr even muir had to drastically step back #i think with women who write about intense queer people it's like. well ur fanbase is very passionate people who maybe haven't had the best #experiences in their social groups and haven't like. been able to establish boundaries for themselves much less for interacting with others #it's not an indictment of u know being a young queer person who just hasn't had a ton of positive social modeling like #i've been there we've all been there but #to me it's like if i don't know someone or i'm not sure i can communicate clearly i definitely have my guard up #just bc. i'm aware i'm not going to naturally get social cues and don't want to weird other people out #it takes a while to get to know me and i still fuck up sometimes overshare something by accident not realizing it's too much #roll with things i think are weird bc who knows they might be normal i can never be sure #so these days i definitely try to avoid interaction with people who have made something really important to me #bc like? i will never be normal about this but that's also not anyone else's problem #same principle as keeping ur stuff out of the main tag if u think the opinion is controversial or even if u just don't want to annoy anyone #idk #there are better ways to make sure you're acting appropriately for the setting probably but the only reliable way i've found is to just #initially be more reserved than i think is necessary #coping with the (redacted) (undiagnosed) (never going to be diagnosed) (who could say) one weird girl moment at a time ❤️

[midrashic]

the thing about anakin skywalker is that i think his character is one that actively eschews nuance, and i don't mean that in a bad way, and inasmuch as i think any kind of character interpretation is better than another, i actually encourage people to view him without nuance (which is why i heartily disagree with lucas's and stover's characterizations of him of "he makes bad decisions, as any of us could, but he's not a bad person; his fall is his fault but not the result of any innate evil"). partly because star wars deals with archetypes and not characters, partly because this is actually an extremely rare situation for a character to be in, it makes sense for people to be doing anakin wrong, but the usual call for nuance just does not work. the atrocities anakin commits are so out there that you can can either believe that his fall was not his fault or you can believe he's evil. what nuance calls for--holding both in your mind simultaneously--would and does work for the vast majority of villains, yes, & would and does work for villains who commit one crime equivalent to anakin's worst moments. but not for anakin.

#no actually even if pushed to our limits all of our morally neutral masses wouldn't massacre children #and the canon DOES encourage both readings but i think it only makes analytical sense to choose one to endorse in a fannish context #my general attitude 'anakin did not fall because he was a predominantly selfish insecure person' #is one which chooses to focus on his slave background and narrative redemption and is incompatible with other parts of canon #and i do want to stress that this is i believe a role for a very specific fannish context for which the kind of story star wars is is key #yes backgrounds of dehumanization realistically encourage traits like selfishness and insecurity. #but that's a stance that works with a narrative that indicts a system of slavery which star wars is patently not #yes in real life it may not make sense to deal in registers of 'fault' and 'being a good/bad person' #but that's a stance that works with a story of psychological realism which star wars is patently not #for the average fan-- #the people engaged in a meta war about attachment and how much it's appropriate to defend anakin in a tumblr post etc etc-- #i think it's not. useful. #to honestly even make these posts or have these conversations #here's where the nuance comes in; you're both right depending on which reading of anakin you embrace and they're incompatible. #any attempt to reach a consensus based on a 'nuanced' understanding of anakin is going to fail because. anakin's not nuanced #any reading of him as such (IN THIS CONTEXT) is incoherent #filed under: nota bene #midrashic: meta #hyperfixation: blog blog wank wank #fandom: opening crawl goes here #ch: fulcrum of the force

[avelera]

PSA: You should question news articles that make you not want to vote

Hey Tumblr friends, but especially young Americans in this, the year of our Lord 2024.

Unfortunately, it is an election year.

Unfortunately, a US election year becomes everyone's problem, and yes everyone else, we are very very sorry that you have to deal with our nonsense.

But in all seriousness, the level of propaganda that's going to be flung around on all sides is going to reach peak levels this year for the English-speaking internet in particular. There's going to be a lot of influence operations, on all sides, and yes including on sides you agree with but they are still influence operations.

Source: I am speaking as a cybersecurity professional who also did a great deal of work in election security.

So, here's what I am going to ask you to do. What I am going to beg you to do: be careful of any article that makes you think there's no point in voting.

That's it. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, or how to think, or that you should trust or distrust every article out there. I don't care about that. I care about whether or not it makes you think you shouldn't vote.

A lot of influence operations are about making you feel like there's no point. That both sides are just as bad as the other. The the election is falsified. That you can "protest" by not voting (false: you will simply not be counted and your voice will be ignored). All sorts of reasons not to vote.

No matter what you do, what you believe, or who you trust, you really really have to vote this year, and every year, and you need to not listen to articles that say there's no point because among those articles are in fact active foreign influence campaigns trying to promote one side or the other for their own reasons, I am deadly serious right now.

(More context, sources, and examples sources below the cut.)

In 2016, Russian influence operations were focused on tearing down Hillary in order to specifically depress voter turnout among young men of color in the belief that this would help Trump get elected.

From the article: "“Buried literally in the middle of the indictment is a paragraph that should jar every American committed to the long fight for voting rights,” Anders wrote in a statement. “The Russians allegedly masqueraded as African-American and American Muslim activists to urge minority voters to abstain from voting in the 2016 election or to vote for a third-party candidate.”

This is the flavor of influence campaign that has been proven, that does exist, and is the sort of thing that does numbers here on Tumblr.

Things like the situation in Gaza, for example, are incredibly fraught situations. Articles don't even need to lie about facts on the ground there to make people feel hopeless and angry. Again, I am not telling you who to trust or not trust when it comes to news sources. But if an article about this event, for examples, makes you think or even outright tells you, "There's no point to voting, both sides are awful, I just shouldn't bother." You need to pause and at least consider that this might be an influence operation. You need to think critically. You need to check sources. You need to think about the world you want to live in, to vote for, and who might not want that world to happen for any variety of reasons.

Protesting by failing to vote isn't a real thing.

Old politicians ignoring young voters because they famously do not bother to vote is absolutely 100% a real thing. It is why so many policies that are popular with young people are low priority for politicians: they are not afraid of losing the young vote because no one plans on having it in the first place when it's never there in big enough numbers to matter.

So please, please, read what you want. Believe what you want. Follow your heart and your brain and whatever other organ you want to think with. I'm not here to tell you who is right, wrong, trustworthy, good, or bad. I'm just here to tell you that despite all of that, whatever you read, you must vote in your elections, no matter where you are in the world and you must not listen to voices that tell you not to as a protest.

#politics #us politics #maybe I'll regret this maybe no one will read it idk

[underthestarlitsky]

the interesting thing to me about barbie (2023) is that while it is very pink and girly and Feminine with a capital F it doesn’t seem to be an indictment of the aesthetic as either Good or Bad…like i remember seeing posts on here about how barbie was going to make being a “girly girl” (read -> tiktok tradwife divine feminine bs) cool again, and like collectively bring down advanced gender-neutral type feminism ideas, but the pinkness and sparkles of barbie do not speak to Being a Woman circa 1950s USAmerican gender roles but to the idea of individuality and freedom of expression. like little girls as they grow up are so often taught that they’re not gonna be taken seriously unless they force themselves to look and act Serious. the pink is a metaphor for being bold the sparkles are a metaphor for being brave!!! for having the confidence to be the person You Want To Be and i think that’s really beautiful

#barbie 2023 #barbie #stuff

[butchsophiewalten]

I've said this to a couple people already, but I'm actually really interested by Felix's crash alibi. The description of Lacrimosa tells us what he told to the police the morning after the crash:

And I'm assuming his story here is that he was driving drunk, got into a wreck, and after he came back to consciousness he spent the whole night and morning looking for Edd & Molly in the woods, and when he couldn't find them he went to the police. Which is actually a really strong alibi to explain his behavior and the huge gap of time where he was unaccounted for. Like, it's suspicious, but short of uncovering buried remains that the police don't know exist, there's really nothing that can disprove it. It's very difficult to say that isn't what happened.

Which I really like, because I think it lays the groundwork to explain why Felix has gotten away with so much for so long. A really common complaint I hear about The Walten Files is that people don't find it believable that all this could happen, all these missing people and mysterious circumstances, and seemingly no one in Brighton cared, and Felix was never indicted. But as I suspected, the series is already starting to put forward explanations that are believable and that can facilitate the future circumstances we've already gotten a taste of.

#the walten files #twf spoilers #chirps