#he can be really racist too

[satorus-leftarm]

does anyone else have an arch nemesis?? or is it just me??

#istg he’s so sexist and SUCH a homophobe!! #he can be really racist too #i hate him with my whole heart #and forever will #tate’s bs

[bancaishi]

didn't want to put this rant in the tags of that last post but honestly i feel like a lot of people hate toshiro disproportionately compared to what he actually did in-story. and if we're being real it's most likely because of racism

#xyx.txt #because so much of his misunderstanding of laios comes from a cultural angle #and because his mannerisms are strongly coded as japanese especially relative to the other characters in the story #i think a lot of people's implicit biases have them reading this as an inherent and unchangeable aspect of his being #rather than being just one aspect of him that originates from a particular context and is fully changeable #like any other trait on anyone else. #part of this is just because of the fact that the story is told from laios and his party's perspective #but i think a lot of people's perspectives on him are probably informed by racism #not all east asians are quiet and polite. i know this myself as a kind of loud and awkward and easily excited east asian person myself #but generally cultural mannerisms from east asia tend to be more subdued overall than western ones #so it's. not uncommon. for western people to read east asians as being rude or cold or aloof just for behaving like this #the 'oriental inscrutability' moment... #like he doesn't need to 'get rid of the stick up his ass'. he just needs to not put such heavy expectations on other people #but yeah i think a lot of people are way more unsympathetic to him than they would have been if he were not so distinctly asian-coded #which is ironic! a lot of people being really mad at him for ableism specifically in the social expectations he holds of others #while applying the same kind of judgment to him but through the perspective of race instead of neurodivergence. suspicious. #blah blah blah it's because he's 'neurotypical' or whatever #predicting how some of you people would behave toward neurodivergent asian people and the outlook isn't good #also if we're on the subject of microaggressions. #laios repeatedly and insistently calling him 'shuro' to the point that everyone else calls him that too #that's not 'funny autism bad with names' moment that's a racist microaggression #someone misnaming me because of my distinctly ethnic/foreign-sounding name doesn't automatically become funny and relatable #just because you're neurodivergent lol #can we maybe have more empathy toward characters and people of color in fandom #instead of always using them as punching bag side character trope #thanks.

[intermundia]

i enjoy the hero's journey as much as the next person, but i think it's always relevant to mention joseph campbell's biases. i just came across in a book where in a workshop hosted by campbell, therapist maureen murdok tried to map out a hero's journey from a feminine perspective, and suggested that a woman's experience does not necessarily mirror the classical arc of campbell's hero's journey. in response, campbell said that women don't need to make the journey at all: "all she needs to do is realize that she's the place that people are trying to get to."

unpacking that is important, as it reflects a fundamental dehumanization of woman, aka they're not 'people' but rather 'places.' in this perspective, women are tools and rewards, not human beings with their own stories. even if, as murdok ultimately suggested, a heroine's journey is one of introspection and exploration of one's soul (learning 'how to be'), rather than going outward into the world like a hero (learning 'how to do'), she still gives them the full weight of humanity and an interior life. they are not just campbell's inferior, passive, dependent seductresses who exist in the periphery of the hero's quest.

#campbell was really a piece of work #a lot of his study of mythologies is deeply racist #but he had some good ideas too that can be lifted out like diamonds in the muck #idk how to tag this #gender talk

[kagoutiss]

if im honest, it was thanks to the TotK interpretation of ganondorf what made want to look into him... and despite me liking how ganondorf looks in that game, im just obsessed with the way he acts in OoT and TP, even WW! All im saying, is that i came for the looks, stayed for the cool character!

that’s totally fine!! i feel like a rly common experience for newer people getting into the series is finding a character they like in botw/totk and then getting to delve into previous characterizations of them and figuring out what other parts of the series they’re most interested in :-] even if totk isn’t my favorite of his appearances, there are still a lot of things i like about it, and i’m glad there are new people getting interested in some of the older mainline titles now and getting to find out how sillygoofy tragic funny compelling gutwrenching his character/story is that might not have been explored very well in the newest game lol

#ask #i know i and a lot of other ppl can probably come across as very unfriendly to people New To Zelda but like #there’s really no right or wrong way to get into a series that’s 30 years old #i mean i don’t like when people take ganon’s character and just reduce him to. Buff Racist Sex Symbol. which unfortunately happens. often #but playing totk and thinking he looks cool and getting interested that way is literally fine lol #he’s a rly fun character and there’s no shortage of material to work with and i’m still learning new things all the time too so

[bluastro-yellow]

Harry and Kim are like Annette and Plaisance, like Cuno and Cunoesse, like René/Gaston and Gaston/René, like Steban and Ulixes, like Fuck the World and Pissf%%t, like-

#when you keep thinking about [thing] but have nothing coherent to say pt. 2 #there. maybe it will leave my mind now #or at least harry sees parts of himself on one side and parts of his relationship with kim on the other #everything is filtered trough the du bois lense #because he sees himself in the corpse (and lely) too and there's no kim in there (right?) #disco elysium #Annette's nose and cheecks are red from the cold......... #and she should be back in school like our ex gym teacher :'( #pointless microblogging #I keep making random connections and have no concrete way to back them up. welp #still haven't decided who's rene and whos gaston bc the uptight asshole who's inexplicably on the side of people who are racist against him #should be kim but harry can [spoiler for fascist run?] wear his clothes! and turn into a (crypto)fascist prick #(and I can see a better future kim write articles for some left wing thing. man he'll never do that will he) #(but that's just Vibes so I could be completely wrong) #last time my friend played I noticed it and also noticed that plaisance's sprite colors are similar to kim's (not the same tho) #queueue #my ''canon'' harry has incredible mirror neurons and is thinking about this too. harry's just like me fr moments #(but unlike Plaisance Kim is actually good for Harry!!! not saying that! #he just needs to realise that police work completely fucked over both of them) #(and isn't really helping anyone else)

[munamania]

to have just seen a post by chance that was like wow i was actually vibing with a muna song then i realized it’s cause it was a copy of a 1975 song but worse. like wow i can’t believe how badly you should *** sorry what i didn’t say that that’s mean.

#do you really think he’s all that. be serious. #what is it with people either being like Wow muna is so hot too bad their music is … #or just generally making these odd comparative or just mean statements. can you not just like not like them #wow you’re so edgy for not liking this not that huge lesbian band you’re really crazy for that #oh you’re gonna compare them to a violent racist and say the violent racist has better music. that’s so crazy. 😐 #damn girl imagine if i could just scroll and not get upset. #abby talks #sorry they’re not the bedroom pop or indie lesbian artists that won’t say lesbian that we’re comfortable with. whatever

[stellarsightz]

What is the flavor of fear?

Sublime, my Brother.

(Alternate version under the cut)

#murder cult almost got wiped out. but we stay silly :3 #no hes not bald. yes he has hair. i was just too lazy to draw it #anyways. new art experiment featuring my altmeri listener called lynwalynn from my second skyrim playthrough #(no i havent finished playing it lol) #he and his twin sister used to be part of dark brotherhood in cyrodiil before the unrest. fled the country. got separated #lynn did some crazy sidequesting and became the archmage of winterhold. got bored so he joined the thieves guild. became a nigthingale #banged brynjolf. got into an argument w him and had a messy breakup. left the guild bc things got really awkward w bryn #eventually re-joined the dark brotherhood and became the listener. and now hes just chilling and doing illegal shit w cicero by his side :) #he and his sister (named baltana; my first skyrim babygirl) accidentally reunite and catch up. he discovers that his sister also #did some crazy sidequesting on her own and that shes the dragonborn the vampireslayer of dawnguard and used to be the harbinger #of companions (but left bc she fucking hated their racist nordic supremacy bullshit) #yes he is fucked up yes hes almost like any other listener you can find on ao3 i dont care #i made a self-sacrificing almighty hero on my first playthrough and thought it was bland as fuck so i just said #yknow what. how about i made the wettest most pathetic nasty fucked up guy instead. AND they split the titles bc theres no way only #one person can do all of those things. like i get it but i think its just. boring if you're the all-powerful big strong good guy #skyrim tes #the elder scrolls #dark brotherhood #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #long tags #oc: lynwallyn

[yuridovewing]

Feel like one of the best ways you can convince someone that no, villains with compelling motives that have sad backstories are not terrible writing compared to straight up born evil villains who just want to kill everyone and be done with it, is to tell them that Warrior Cats writes born evil villains constantly while literally preaching “That’s how evil works, you can’t CHANGE, you’re either touched by demons at birth or you aren’t!” and it blows chunks

#brokenstar tigerstar hawkfrost darktail one eye etc etc would all be so much more interesting if they werent so one note #and just had ‘’born evil’’ slapped on as their explanation for being evil #‘’ew why are you woobifying tigerstar’’ because i think a villain who feels emotion besides ‘’evil’’ and ‘’angry’’ and actually does care #about his clanmates but is also a bigot that deserves to be beaten down is more interesting than canon #to get like real world political here… abusive people and bigots like. are not one note born evil demons #they have loved ones and reasons for turning out the way they did. and im not saying that to go ‘’so you need to give them grace!’’ #im saying that because the line of thinking that every bad person is a super obvious mustache twirling villain with no soul #makes it so that people justify abuse and crimes from REAL people. like ‘’oh my friend says some racist things but he isnt BAD! he loves me! #would an abusive person be nice to his wife in public? of course not!’’ #and its rhetoric like that that lets abuse and bigotry thrive. if you put the world in categories of born evil and born good #then you will dismiss all the ‘’good’’ people in your life who have done horrible things with ‘’but she donated to charity once’’ #i mean. hell this LITERALLY happens in wc where the ‘’born good’’ characters are abusive and murderously xenophobic #where characters like clear sky and blackstar just get a sticker like ‘’oh you cant be TOO mad at them! theyre good at heart!’’ #‘’ignore all the times they killed vulnerable people for the crime of being born somewhere they didnt like! they were nice to a kid once!’’ #the message there is literally ‘’bad people cant REALLY be bad if theyre nice to people sometimes’’ #like. im not even mad at clear sky being motivated by witnessing his loved ones starve to death for why hes such an abusive control freak #thats an interesting reason to become a villain especially since the change happened when he was put in a position of power #the problem is not him having a sad backstory. the problem is the erins think his sad backstory means he was never that bad #and anyone who’s upset at him can go eat shit and die cause he looked sad #like. i get this line of thinking often comes from writers doing this for abuse apologism and just wanting to see abusers be held accountabl #accountable #but how exactly does it help victims of abuse to portray abusers and bigots in a christian ‘’touched by the devil’’ light

[vexx-the-egg]

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#genuin question and im really sorry if i sound dumb #but where did the Laios was being racist to Toshiro thing come from? #i dont think i can read it that way #its an intesting thought for sure but it felt like it was more a show of oblivious boundary crossing then racism #laios didnt know anything about toshiros culture and tbh was treating toshiro as if he was any other close freind #and toshiro wasnt complaining about laios calling him slurs or making stereotypes of him #he was complaining about him being to forward and not reading the room #im japanese. im a minority who has lived in America my whole life so ive experienced a lot of micro aggression #including ones like- having someone call me annoying or a push over because i was 'Too polite' bec they didnt understand what a soft No was #but thats not whats happening here? #laios isnt talking down to shiro for his more reserved demeaner #laios was man bec toshiro didnt explain it better yeah but only because he thought they were genuinely good freinds #not bec he thought toshiros culture was bad #idk maybe im missing something?

[kusanalimains]

//Golden Slumber spoilers

Congrats to Tirzard for being Genshin's first open racist.

#genshin impact #genshin #sumeru #tirzad #i was fucking pissed at him #hes so annoying #and racist too?! #that line about #'can you really trust people from the desert' #if i was jeht and/or jabrael #i would have left him behind #and aether and paimon im disappointed in you two #golden slumber #golden slumber spoilers #world quest spoilers

[piosplayhouse]

Just came across the first unironic scum villain hate I've seen in months wow my blocking system is good. How do you , as a tgcf stan, say that mdzs has "some bad parts but is still ok to publish" but that scum villain "needs to be burned"

#i dont think reading anything automatically makes you a bad person because im not a 12 yr old on tiktok but lol imagine picking that #as your moral hill to die on #i still go with my argument that sqq is the most morally white of all the protags and this applies to his narration too-- he subverts age #diff kink so hard that he explicitly critiques sj for allegedly hitting on nyy and the old guy n die er #if we're going purely off real life problematic impact umm tgcf is literally racist lol . im not bringing this up as a gotcha or like stop #liking tgcf thing because i do think you can still like it while acknowledging its flaws but the way #'problematic' is measured for completely fictional characters instead of on real people who are hurt every day by stereotypes #really shows where modern fandom's priorities lie doesn't it #ahh just writing this stream of consciousness so if i said anything wrong mb also dont find this person and harass them or we they didnt #use the main tags i just found them off a stroke of bad luck

[robotpussy]

everyday I am reminded of why I stopped getting into fandoms

#i always knew the stranger things fandom was being RACIST towards calen but i never really knew why #but today he spoke about his trauma and i am so angry and i was told before a really racist character has a fanbase #but they all hate caleb because he was 'mean to eleven in season 1' 😐 but you lot are fanning over a literal racist? #but im not surprised just angry because why are you attacking a child over a character he didnt write? all he did was act in the show? #but for alot of black actors this is the reality. fandoms will attack the black actors for literally doing their jobs #and i know they do this shit (redeeming villianous white characters and demonizing black characters) because they already hate black ppl #and poc so they just look for any excuse they can find to hate that character without ever having to say they don't like a character cause #they aren't white. that is literally how covert racism works. and ik im talking about fandom but this reflects on irl too #white people think they have a right to be racist towards black ppl and poc when we aren't 'nice' to them like we need to earn sympathy #there are so many instances i could bring up about white ppl not listening to black ppl and poc but im tired #ill touch on this later

[bluastro-yellow]

there's only one end-of-the-day debrief :'( ?!?

#looked like a recurring event #I hope I'm getting a good grade in Kim #pointless microblogging #disco elysium #disco elysco #<- why does this tag keep coming up #what is it #some thoughts: #I'm a cop second and a disco lover first. hope those kids don't make drugs in the church after all #I'm helping them #do I need to tell the hardie boys or whatever to do their job of helping citizens?!? come on guys #you should already have helped that pigs woman #we definitely weren't trained for that lol. cops badly handling interactions with distressed mentally ill people. too realistic #thank GOD I didn't hit on that woman at the start of the game. would have made everything more awkward #but I did tell her I don't remember jack shit. whoops #I really like how there's multiple solutions for problems. probably normal for games like this but I appreciate it #I can actually become racist if I listen to Titus?? I thought I'd be faking it. I pulled out #*meathead or something. the big racist guy who guards the port #I wonder what happens if I do. Kim still would have to be my partner #does that union guy really want to help or does he want to turn the place into his playground. make the fishing village better #instead of destroying it! he's really good at sounding innocent tho

[thatlittledandere]

I love learning about regional differences within countries or even regions. It's an American internet so even I know that New Yorkers are on a whole 'nother level of exceptionalism and being from Brooklyn specifically Means Something. Tell me, how does the rest of Brazil feel about people from Rio? What sets the Quebecuois apart, aside from speaking French? Does South Africa have stereotypes about people speaking all the different languages they have? Does being closer to North or South America mean something in Mexico? Italy hasn't been one cohesive country for very long, how shattered is it still? Etc etc etc tell me about regional stereotypes in your dear homeland Ethiopia make it a fight if you have to. I want to HEAR

#venlapost #like try not to be outright racist (not that I'm an expert on that) but aside from that #the innocuous things #this was spurred by the differences between east and west in Finland #I've tried to be vague about where i live but it's probably not TOO distinguishing to say i grew up in the west and now live in the east #and it's a common idea that people from savolax and karelia (east) are friendlier and more sociable than ostrobothnia (west) #(there are three ostrobothnias. you still know nothing about me. moving on) #and now that I'm closer to the eastern border I've also been made aware of the differences between north and south karelia #and how strong confirmation bias ban be lol #like. if someone happens to come by when we're on a break we invite them to join #and to me that's like 'oh how nice the eastern Finland hospitality in action :)' #while. i mean. if that happened in my hometown. would they really NOT do that #it is easier to imagine someone getting up and taking them to another room to talk so the rest can finish their coffee in peace #but isn't that more about the personalities of the people present? #in high school i had a substitute teacher from savolax #(who decided to translate it into savolax in English anyway. why are there three extra letters) #and he said that when you invite someone over to your house where he's from you'll prepare a whole meal to eat together #while over here you take guests to the living room for an hour before giving them a cup of coffee #and MAYBE some dry leftover... sweet buns idk how to translate it #he thought we were SO inhospitable #and i thought 'that's not true my mom always bakes like three different things to offer evening guests :(' #before remembering. my parents moved to my hometown as adults. my mom is karelian #and her behavior in general is. VERY in line with the stereotypes lol #and how in some ways i feel some details about daily life suit me better here where i live now #i may have grown up in ostrobothnia but my roots are in the east and most of my extended family live all around savolax #so. maybe topelius was right and we DO have different tribes here #this got. longer than intended. finnish portion over go argue about YOUR east/west dichotomy

[jensensitive]

the idea of a kripke spn continuation manages to give me anxiety every day, i wish i was normal

#it just feels so inevitable 😭 #let the hellers make it or i swear to god 😭 #i can only hope that he doesn't want to #otherwise it's going to happen 😭 #I'm sad #i can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want this #given what he did with Frenchie and Kimiko and the way he talks about dean #and said that he made soldier boy do things he always wanted to make dean do #is Dean smoking really that important to you as a viewer #that you would let his characterization be regressed to season five #and have him say gross sexist racist homophobic shit again #why would anyone want that #it haunts me every day #and i can only imagine Jensen is going to realize this too at some point #when he reads something kripke wrote and goes well fuck that's not dean #because he and dean both have grown past kripke's vision of who dean is #it is distressing #i know I'm being a baby about it but i need my dean and cas back :( #and he can't give me that #okay done worrying about this now it's not happening until it's happening 😌

[arolesbianism]

So. Sit with me everyone. We agree that we need to stop worshipping a person or media on the sole grounds of being gay right. Can we finally agree that it's not homophobic to criticize gay ppl with large platforms. Can we finally actually learn to think critically abt how these ppl talk abt ppl outside of their immediate identities and to recognize that just because they say they aren't bigoted doesn't mean they aren't. Please.

#rat rambles #like seeing ppl dunk on james is vibdicating and all but also. yall do realize that even without the plagerism hed still be a piece of shit #and that another white man shouldnt have to spell out to you what misogyny is #<- directed at ppl who watched mr misogyny before hand #Im not saying anyone is a bad person for not realizing. Im just saying to be more careful and attentive in the future #dont be scared to criticize the ppl you watch even if you dont think theyre a bad person #hell Ive been watching hbomberguy for years and he is certainly not perfect #like in a lot of his old videos you can rly see some unconcious ableism #and I could go on and on with nitpicks and gripes Ive had with him over the past several years but thats not the point of this post #the point is that you need to get yourself comfortable with digging deeper into the things you consume #a lot of ppl will say things like 'oh this person gave me a bad vibe but I didnt think it was this bad' #and I want to just say if you get that sort of bad vibe then fucking dig deeper!! interrogate that feeling and where its coming from! #this also applies to situations where you might dislike someone for bigoted reasons of your own #I think ppl try way too hard to train themselves to not interrogate their discomfort and it's so not good for your critical thinking skills #and in fact interrogate your comforts too #just in general thinking abt why certain things make you feel certain ways is good practice and will help you see red flags sooner #is this gay guy focusing more on gay men than gay women? why might this be? is it really the topic like he says it is? #if you think well Im also more interested in gay men that gay women in history so hes not doing anything bad #then question why you think that. idc how uncomfortable it makes you to question your views on minorities fucking do it #cause imagining you arent misogynist or racist or whatever the fuck doesnt make you less bigoted #if you want to be the ally you think you are you need to suck it up theres not rly a kinder way I can manage to put it