#just. this is a lot but it's not untrue

[slutdge]

hard to cope with the pain of having an addiction and knowing youre doing irreperable damage to your body combined with the fear that maybe one day things will get better and you can get clean/sober and not need to self medicate the pain anymore but itll be too late because you already fucked your body up beyond repair. i need to go lay face down in the snow.

#the misconception that all addicts enjoy being addicts is untrue. a lot of us hate it. #not to be dramatic or anything but please god i need to get out of here its killing me lmao #to be able to feel your cognitive ability and see your face slowly deteriorate in real time is horrific in a way i cant describe #anyways sorry ive been on like a 2 day streak of vent posting ive just been in the gutter worse than usual. believe me im sick of it too. #addiction

[rohirric-hunter]

Big Fat Green Snake Arm Puppet

Package includes: ● Brilliant green snake over 10 ft long!

Lovable snake face (can there be such a thing?) insert your arm like a puppet to move the head & mouth or wrap it around you as a prop.

One size squeezes all.

Wrap yourself up with a moving snake!

Perfect prop for children's theater Adam & Eve jungle explorers reality show exterminators Jungle Janes snake charmers snake handlers witch doctors zoo keepers anything to do with a swamp & worried rats.

#lot to unpack here but lets just throw out the whole suitcase #tag urself im worried rats #also it is patently not over 10 feet long its about 6 feet long #thats just straight up untrue

[variksel]

if i had a nickel every time i hyperfixated on a fiction podcast where the main characters started an apocalypse rife with insanity and fear and eldrich horrors described in the most disgusting interesting way id have two nickels which isnt a lot but its weird that its happened twice

#the magnus archives #dungeons and daddies #two shows. two vibes. two eldrich horror fear apocalypses #the doodler is what wouldve happened if the spirals fear apocalypse had happened #youll never change my mind on thar #or the end perhaps. maychance #gonna start kinassigning the dndads s2 kids as tma characters #normal is martin kin and open about it #taylor just thinks tim is cool #links favourite character is basira but he doesnt kin anyone really #scary says she doesnt kin anyone cause haha lame #she says daisy would be her favourite if she wasnt a dirty fuckin cop #she says if she had to pick shed relate most to melanie #which isnt untrue she does relate a lot to mel #but secretly she relates like a looot to martin too #this is getting out of control #dndads #dungeondads #taylor swift #normal oak #scary marlow #scary marlowe #lincoln wilson #jon sims #jonmartin #martin blackwood #dungeons and daddies spoilers #dndads spoilers #dungeons and daddies s2

[trans-xianxian]

I think we gotta start recognizing that "things accepted online/in leftist spaces" and "things accepted by the general public in the real world" are two very different things. like no actually gnc men are Not suddenly seen as okay because there are drag queens on tiktok. men are still beaten and harassed and ostracized and Killed for being feminine. in the us. in my very liberal city full of ppl with blue hair and pronouns I am made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome for being a gnc guy. the tiktok comments on videos of men wearing make up are not indicative of the beliefs of most people

#idk its just very weird to see ppl imply that gnc men are accepted actually #like what world are you living in that thats true #strangers make weird comments to me all the time and I see a noticable difference between how I am treated and how gc ppl are treated #I am misgendered on purpose All The Time by randos #like absolutely point out that gnc women are treated worse/have not been accepted in spaces where gnc men have/etc #but you cannot be saying that being a feminine man is now seen as okay that is so wildly untrue in like the real actual world #this goes for a lot of other things as well #like when a woman is a creep and ppl are like 'well if the roles were reversed yall would say its bad' #and its like yeah maybe online or in your liberal friend group #ppl who call men out for things don't call out women for the same stuff #and that should be discussed #but for most of the public no one is calling out men for creepy behavior #like notoriously #also even online ppl are very hateful??? like all the time #the top 5 comments on a video of a man wearing a dress may be telling him that he hashtag slays #put I promise you for every compliment there are dozens of people calling him slurs #anyway please please please touch some grass engage in social issues outside of instagram I'm begging #ghost posts #text

[hella1975]

your sokka is SO sokka and i say this as someone who holds him so dear ur writing of him is amazing. tbh im sooo fussy with his portrayal but its pretty nailed. like so many fics (esp zukka and zuko centric and ESPECIALLY ones where hakoda like adopts zuko) he's constantly pushed to the side in favour of zukos issues and zukos problems when in reality sokka is very hurt himself and has suffered a lot. man i GET taob sokka i really do bc people seem to think he was a lil mean but nobody seems to realise when you're in sokkas position it would've read like everyone was against you. all the swt men, including his dad who snapped at him, and even katara and aang and suki tell him to give zuko a chance and the fact that they were trusting someone who had hurt all of them so much- because yes WE know zuko wouldn't have killed them, but the gaang didn't. not when they were being chased and terrorised, and when sokka had his trust betrayed in the prison, he had absolutely every right to hate zuko, esp when it felt like everyone who he thought would understand his feelings, including his own dad who had been hiding his relationship with zuko from him, seems against him. his conversation with hakoda was probably my favourite scene in taob just bc he was allowed to feel like that without being treated by the narrative as someone just being mean to poor little zuko. he gets to be a sourpuss and angry and jealous at zuko for feeling like hed been replaced by his own dad. all of the water tribe men get this treatment like they're not written as bad people for being wary or disliking zuko initially (even chena despite being enemy no.1 at the start). his convo with hakoda was so important bc it stressed the detail that yes zuko has suffered and deserves to be cared for but SOKKA is his son, his actual child who is so hard on himself for things out of his control and who has hurt so much and deserves just as much as zuko does. sokka is just a baby my boy. he's not the main character but he's just as complex and intricate as zuko, not just in taob but also for the times we have seen him in tams there's been keen detail to his emotion and how he's feeling pointed out

me rn

#BESTIEEEEEEEEE YOU GET IT <333 #like ik the atla fandom including unfortunately some taob locals are generally AWFUL with sokka when zuko is involved #but it really was only a handful of taob readers esp in the grand scheme and i do want to clarify that #but now we're on the same page. OH MY GOD WHEN I SAY I WANTED TO PHYSICALLY FIGHT SOME PEOPLE #JUST THE SHAMELESS FAVOURITISM??? THE EXPECTATION THAT I TREAT A CHARACTER AS SOMETHING NOT-HUMAN BC THEY HAPPEN TO BE MEAN TO THEIR FAVE?? #like idc if zuko means a lot to you!! idc if it's sad seeing people be mean to him bc you relate to him so much!! #id be a terrible writer if i treated the other characters as planets in zuko's orbit. THEY dont know they're in his story #and sokka is a fucking sixteen year old. like come on i get mad when people do the same with chena being a dick to zuko #but at least he's a grown man. sokka is a TEENAGER. even if he was being irrational that would be completely fair #bc teenagers ARE FAMOUSLOY IRRATIONAL!?!?!?! GO OUTSIDE??!?!?!!? #anyway. im so normal about this topic and hold noooo grudges not any haha #remembering when someone commeted saying me personally as a real life person i was insidious and evil for insinuating #that adopted children arent worth as much as biological children and i should NEVER adopt bc im clearly the Worst #when that is not only an insane thing to say to a stranger on the internet but also. not what happened #hakoda never adopted zuko. that's a joke made in fandom. jokes are when people say untrue things for comedic affect #adoption is an actual official process of willingly and actively bringing a child into your family #NOT taking some teenage symbol of your culture's oppression as a prisoner and unwillingly growing attached #and now he's someone you're fond of and feel protective over as is natural of an adult towards a hurting child #but your actual son feels replaced and it's especially cutting bc of aforementioned symbol of your culture's oppression #and also this specific kid was a dick to him. like as a pretty notable part of his character he was a dick to him #so you reassure him bc that is your actual real life son. yeah? #are we on the same page? are we good? please i dont know how much more i can take- #taob asks #ask

[margindoodles2407]

HEY

YOU

YEAH YOU. WITH THE TUMBLR ADDICTION.

This is your daily reminder that. If you see something that upsets you. And I'm talking something that really grinds your gears. You can just take a deep breath and react to the situation calmly.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything about it, just that perhaps it's better to consider your options with a clear head.

#yeah i had to make this mostly for myself because some people just have awful takes #and yes admittedly it was about something that in the grand scheme of things is inconsequential #but i love my stories about my silly little space monks and sometimes someone says something bad about my silly little space monks #and the things they say are entirely untrue and just. i don't know it makes me sad #especially since a lot of anti-jedi arguments are almost word-for-word anti-catholic arguments except catholic is replaced with jedi #and so on and so forth #a little bit of a vent post #but you know. such is life

[thyandrawrites]

Reo's jerseys reading just "Reo" is such a Choice because I think he's the only one aside from Rin and Sae who goes by his first name. But at least in the brothers' case it makes sense to distinguish them since they have the same last name. Reo doesn't have that issue, but he did get into blue lock specifically to achieve something for himself that isn't tied to the Mikage empire, by his own merit. Between that and the fact that when he appears on screen in the various charts he's sometimes reffered to as "Mikage" and sometimes as "Reo", I like to think he chose to have his jerseys show just his first name as a bet with himself. You know, to show the world that on the field he's not The Prized Mikage Heir, but just himself. And his achievements are his own

#Correct me if I'm wrong but I think irl athletes do get a say in what name shows up on the jersey #I remember an olimpic volleyball player going by a nickname that was a play on his real last name #Anyway I just love reo a lot #People often call out how sheltered he is as a way to shit on him #But he's self aware of his privilege and doesn't lord it over other people #And most importantly he's the first who doesn't want to be recognized as a mikage #If he was as sheltered as ppl think he would've given up when nagi left him the second time #From then on it's on him and him alone to work hard to grasp his dream and he does #He's not the spoiled rich brat trope. In fact I'd say he kind of flips that idea bc he's more the type to spoil others instead #He's more the let's get our hands dirty without delegating type #And by this I don't wanna say he never had advantages bc he's well off #Obviously that's untrue. He founded his own soccer team and had TRAINING FACILITIES for himself and nagi lmao #But in blue lock all of that ends and he barely bats an eye #The first thing he does in team V is rebuilding everything from scratch with pure hard work and skill #Blue lock #Mikage reo #Bllk thoughts

[boy-above]

i really do get tired of the widespread "xiao is zhongli's kid" notion because while jokes abt it are fine i rly don't like the ppl who genuinely apply "found family" to their dynamic because a lot of times it rly mischaracterizes them and their interactions, especially when it comes to infantilizing xiao. people Love treating xiao like a fucking baby for some reason despite the fact that he's thousands of years old and a hardened war general. and i don't like applying a parent/child lense to their relationship that's basically one step away from indentured servitude. zhongli freed an enslaved xiao from his previous master yes, but he went from slavery to being contractually obligated to give away his whole life to war and strife and pain. xiao insists that morax saved him, and he has a great respect for him, but xiao is still not free. and it's made clear that deep down he doesn't feel free by his quiet longing for a normal life (implied by his namecard, among other things.)

#there's also the weird subset of people who genuinely believe zhongli found him when he was a baby for some reason and genuinely raised him #and that is so untrue the man was already being forced to kill people when he was a slave he was not a child hello 😭😭😭 #like please stop making up things to fit ur narrative that xiao is a baby child just because he's short #this is the same reason i don't ship them together romantically either btw #yea zhongli has changed quite a lot in the last few thousand years but it doesn't change their history #also i view modern aus where zhongli is his dad more favorably since there's no like. slavery aspect #i'm just talking abt canon-compliant / canon-adjacent things #don't come for me if you disagree this is just how i interpret them #marshal has opinions

[godofsmallthings]

i would truly like to thank my brain for latching onto miss katya because it has inspired so many more familial convos and interest than taylor ever has. and i think that's beautiful (not to pit two successful women against each other but)

#made one (1) drag queen joke at thanksgiving and got like 20mins of lore about the prev generation's gay cousin :') #i literally think about him all the time. i wish i could've met him so bad. anyway apparently he was rlly good at sewing and made clothes #for all his drag queen friends which is so :')))))))))) #however on the flip my dad watched an ep of drag race with me and his favorite queen was DETOX????? which is insane behavior #sorry if your favorite queen is detox she is objectively very cool just not for me. so now i have to live with that knowledge forever ig #anyway it is so weird to be seen as like The First Gay cousin on both sides of my family #bc it's untrue but also true in a way. and weirdly isolating although i think a lot of that is self-imposed #ig it's oversharing on tumblr friday ur welcome <3 #vi is typing...

[henrysglock]

I, Tonya (2017) vs Stranger Things 4, Ep7-8 (2022)

Something something...one timeline with a missing gate...

Consistently inconsistent killing methods...

Something something...Tonya Harding knowing about the plan with Nancy Kerrigan and not doing anything to stop it, but being punished/vilified/deemed guilty for all of it even though there was never any concrete proof that she played a part in it.

Something something...a murderous plan by Brenner using 002...the tunnel escape...the sheer amount of fuckery surrounding the massacre...

#this isn't to say Henry/Edward is innocent in *every* timeline because that's just. blatantly untrue. he clearly fucked up. #however people are very unwilling to even entertain the idea that he wasn't evil in the first place/there are other forces at work #and a lot of people are also unwilling to consider a timeline where henry/edward *actually* didn't anything wrong #also...neither Henry/Edward nor Tonya can escape that damn green lighting huh? #henry creel #edward creel #timeline theory #i tonya #stranger things

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Supernatural (2005 - 2020)

Oh dear. Here we go. Happy (belated) November 5th everyone!

(The infamous love confession that has become a meme used to talk about important news by having Dean reply with what happened. Put on a white background to avoid jumpscaring people.)

Supernatural is an US American TV show that aired on the network CW from 2005 to 2020. The story, originally spanning five seasons, tells the story of two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, whose single father specialized in hunting supernatural beings after their mother was killed in a mysterious incident. After the disappearance of their father, Sam and Dean take over the “family business”, and get quickly dragged into the beginnings of the Apocalypse.

Things… Got somewhat out of hand after this.

The first thing worth mentioning: Supernatural has always been rather meta. During those early seasons, there were episodes between the ones very important to the plot where the show just would poke fun of different aspects of the horror genre. In season 4, they revealed that the story of the show exists in-universe as a book series, with its own fandom. In the last few seasons, they leaned even more into the meta, by having the characters fight the author of said books, who turned out to be also God, for their right of self-determination.

Fandoms being fandoms, and Supernatural, due to its focus being on two brothers traveling from place to place lacking female characters, the main ship for the first few seasons was the one where people were shipping Sam and Dean together, a thing the show itself comments on with the in-universe book fandom. This changed when season 4 introduced a new character, the angel Castiel (nicknamed “Cas”), who quickly became an ally of the brothers and formed an especially deep connection with Dean. The Dean/Castiel ship, or “Destiel” quickly became very popular with the fans.

In the late 2000’s and the early 2010’s, queer representation was still rather rare, and much of it was happening in subtext. Many people latched on to Supernatural, as the shipping aspect was compelling and it actually did feature some queer side characters in more or less important roles. The Supernatural fandom became very prominent on, among other early social media platforms, Tumblr, where people for a while enjoyed themselves imagining a crossover AU between Supernatural, Doctor Who and BBC’s Sherlock - the infamous SuperWhoLock that said people remember with a very vivid mix of emotions.

Due to its popularity, Supernatural kept getting renewed. The writers therefore had to keep coming up with new plots, and so they expanded the Heaven and Hell aspect of their world with, among others, Purgatory, power struggles within both Heaven and Hell, a special place where angels go after their death named “The Empty”, and finally having everyone fight God. While the core of the story remained the same - two brothers travelling through the US and fighting demons - other side characters were added from time to time, and usually killed off eventually. Many of them were, in one way or another, queer. But what really kept the fans engaged was the dynamic between Dean and Cas. It didn’t really go anywhere, making Supernatural in the eyes of many a posterchild of queerbaiting (pretending to include queer content for the sake of attracting audiences, with no intention of following through).

The show ended in 2020 after 15 seasons. The third-to-last episode ends with Castiel confessing his love for Dean and being taken to the Empty as a direct consequence. He is not seen and barely mentioned after that, and Dean is so shocked that he doesn’t get to properly react.

This resulted in mass hysteria among fans, former fans, and people who had been exposed to Supernatural and Destiel by proxy. Tumblr crashed. The episode got mixed together with the other trending topic of the ongoing US elections. Supernatural trended higher than the elections. People were making memes about it, and started to call the Empty “gay super hell”. The emotion of it is difficult to describe to those who haven’t witnessed it with the context of many years of Dean and Cas being firmly kept subtext. This event in fandom history has become known simply as “Nov 5th”. We still celebrate its anniversary on Tumblr. Destiel became firmly linked to current events, and people started to edit the love confession in a way that Cas says “I love you” and Dean replies with the current news. 

An imperfect rendition, but YouTuber ColeyDoesThings’ video might give you an idea what the emotional turmoil was like after the love confession. If you want more about the mess around the finale and the things that came after, please go ask somebody else. It is a VERY long and complex story, and I’m neither able nor willing to try and sum it up coherently. If you want to know about the various spin-off series of Supernatural, this article will give you a place to start. I would also like to recommend Tumblr user @whyissupernaturaltrending who, every time that Supernatural trends, explains what TF happened this time.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

#if anyone wants to add on be my guest #I don't think I said anything that's wrong or untrue #but there is A LOT of ground to cover and I definitely left a lot out #this was ABSOLUTELY HARROWING to write #definitely the most difficult post in this series so far #the thing is this is not just #Queer media history #it is also #fandom history #and #tumblr culture #so it DID get a bit long but I'm also not going to cut anything #supernatural #supernatural fandom #November 5th #Nov 5th #Destiel #Queer Shows #Queer Media Monday #looking forward to being back to relatively unknown indie books and movies now

[ultra-violetra]

this qsmp purgatory event is actually the most fun i think i’ve ever had watching streams. it’s so fun to watch it come together, and it being a bunch of my favorite streamers makes it all the better!! i’m gonna be so sad when the event is over

#i know there are a decent amount of people in the fandom saying this event isnt for them which is like #okay don’t watch it then? #but i’ve also seen people claiming that everyone in the fandom is having a bad time watching which is just completely untrue #a lot of yall take things way too seriously i need to all to take a moment and realize that the event doesn’t actually have anything to do #with you personally so like why be upset about it #also i feel like so many people only watched a little bit and then just like Decided the event was Horrible Terrible #instead of actually taking the time to form a real opinion #no one should have to apologize because you Decided the event was bad before even giving it a chance #thats your own fault if you’re not enjoying it #qsmp

[aeide-thea]

i'm never knowingly going to reblog a post that includes the phrase 'touch grass,' and that's not because i don't think it can be psychologically beneficial to get in some outdoor time if possible—i went for a walk earlier! it was great!—or to take a break from conversations that are getting you wound up, but because i think that particular wording generally reveals two things:

first, that the writer is speaking not from a place of genuine concern and sympathy, but from judgmental impatience à la 'get therapy,' which—i too have felt judgmental and impatient in my time, god knows! but when i feel that way i try to go unpack those feelings in private with a thoughtful friend, instead of pretending they constitute a source of wisdom or a helpful sort of energy to direct at people, you know? and i'm definitely not particularly interested in boosting a ventpost from someone else—who pretty clearly hasn't bothered to take the breather they're urging on others, if they're making little digs like that—as if it were actually sincere, carefully-reasoned advice.

and second, that the writer's argument embraces some seriously sloppy assumptions, which pretty immediately undermines my trust in the rest of their analysis—i mean, there's absolutely no guarantee someone's local scene will be any less parochial, just because it's playing out irl! there's also not actually a clean divide between 'people who spend time in the Real World' and 'people who spend time on the internet, which is for porn losers,' as demonstrated by a number of phenomena including, again, the aforementioned grass-recommenders' own presence right here on tumblr…

anyway. obviously we all have our own particular lines we draw around particular rhetoric that bugs us! these are just some reasons why that particular phrasing bugs me.

#language #metatumbling #like. if what you mean is 'your stance would be totally incongruous outside the microcommunity you're speaking to'? #say that! #but also—it's fine to speak to the state of affairs in a microcommunity‚ actually #you just need to define your parameters #but like. so do people who are speaking to Broader Culture bc like. *which* broader culture. #even if you mean American Cishet Culture there are. so many kinds. new york ≠ nebraska. #but anyway it's just like. stop fucking making (and reblogging) these implicit ad hominem arguments #about how people who disagree with you must be idiots and losers because they don't get out enough #if they really are wrong you ought to be able to argue against them without resorting to digs any real leftist ought to be ashamed of #and if spending all one's time in the physically-embodied socially-embedded world really stopped people from being wrong… #well. pretty sure a lot fewer people would be wrong about things‚ if that were true. #anyway i left this to rot in drafts last week for prolixity reasons #and like. it remains guilty of those crimes but they don't render its fundamental assertion untrue. #anyway fundamentally this is the sort of thing you immediately sound like a 'terminally online' loser for protesting and i realize that #but like. if we refuse to open conversational doors because we're scared of the shame bucket someone juvenile balanced on top of them… #fuck that. i decline to live in fear of implicit rhetorical bully tactics.

[i-make-fun-of-spn-characters]

I can't believe Castiel babytrapped Dean twice! Twice! With Claire and jack on two occasions. He forced Dean to take care of both Jack and Claire despite Dean saying no repeatedly and shoving a big sandwich in his mouth to cope with very forceful parent Castiel

Do y'all not know where to find the Bitter Dean Girl [gn] blogs? Because they would tear into this ask like wolves after a wagyu steak if you just gave them the chance.

#idk i just don't have a lot to say about this besides that just the word 'babytrapping' for Cas in these contexts cracks me tf up #like it isn't untrue exactly but also it's sooo funny to me #when you take it beyond a funny haha thing I don't think it holds up genuinely but it's funny to think abt #let's not make it a crit thing that's no fun #cas like: 'but dean ur great with kids' #lmfao #being serious for 5 seconds #mail

[cowardlycowboys]

those "are you lgbtq+ polls" are so silly honestly because of course almost everyone is gonna vote yes.... that's the audience you've curated like and the chances of it "breaking containment" is unlikely even if you had all your followers reblog it because they probably also run in those same circles

#omg kiera no one cares #like i get why we're seeing so many and not just for fun #is because tumblr said only a quarter of its userbase is lgbtq and people think that's untrue #but you 100% do make your own circle and see no other outside that unless u choose too #like i saw someone say on that official tumblr post I've NEVER seen a cishet on tumblr #like buddy i know several cishet people on tumblr you just don't see them because that's the circle you run in #which is great that's how i like it !!! #i don't like how on twitter i can see anyones fucking ideas and opinions on things while here i have definitely curated my own space #that i feel safe and nice in minus a few times when people are weird #like i dunno i think it's just a bit silly and it's okay to do those polls for like fun but you're not gonna get any REAL proof I'm sorry #amyway i voted no on a recent one i saw even tho that is NOT TRUE because i needed to add realism #like one of the perks of this site IS you curate your own space!!! but i think a lot of people are forgetting that right now #for some reason

[caffeinatedopossum]

I just accidentally brought back a bunch of memories of stuff my mom used to say to me :')

#she said she wished id never been born. like girl that was on you not me #along with 'i could just get rid of you' as a threat multiple times #i thought she meant sending me to foster care but now... im not entirely sure she didnt mean unaliving me #she also used to threaten to cut off my thumb #i would say it was an empty threat but shed pull out the knives or scissors sooo maybe not #she would frequently ask what was wrong with me #call me ungrateful or a brat #remind me of all the things that she did for me and how much worse it could be #its hard to remember the stuff she said #idk it probably doesn't sound that bad but it seriously messed me up #she used to scream at me until i cried #shed call me a liar or satanic because i self harmed #god and im still not sure what rumors she spread about it but she definitely told people something #i would say she said something untrue but honestly idk. it could have been something i did actually do but phrased badly idk #i never got to find out #once the first person confronted me about it i had a mental breakdown because i didnt know what was going on and no one would explain #but clearly it was something bad because of how confrontational they were being #actually that wasnt even the first person kind to think of it #god im like shakinv just recalling it #she also called me selfish a lot #oh yeah she said she didnt care if i starved to death one time #which i mean. she clearly didnt care if i died but whatever #neither did I really #i want to remember everything but i can't :(