#like to make it clear where i stand

[toshikosatos]

There is more awful discourse on twitter today, so just a reminder that this blog trusts you to know yourself best when you say what your identity is. You're a bi lesbian? Cool, welcome! Not my ID but it has resonated with me to some degree over the years!

Less friendly reminder that if you've decided the hill you're dying on is discoursing about which sapphics are or aren't gay ENOUGH to say dyke or how people IDing as bi lesbians is personally destroying you or whatever, OR if you're obsessed with excluding aces from queer spaces for some reason, you should really just unfollow me now.

Also TERFs were never welcome here but I hope that was already obvious, lmao. Fun fact, they're REALLY into all of the above discourses! Really makes you think.

#shut up julia #sorry to bring the discourse here i just #like to make it clear where i stand #dont reblog please

[gammija]

he would not say that, podcast/book edition:

#thin martins.... #joos yaps #now that this post has a few reblogs: its fun to read the tags #most fun ones are where its clearly personal taste #ill add a few more petty ones of my own; #elias does not have eye earrings. he has eye cufflinks at best otherwise he dresses like the boring bureaucrat he is #used to be for emo/grungy jon but i was worn down and will now begrudgingly accept it as a phase in uni #(though he was Not In A Band. i stand by that) #for all of the latter ones i hope its clear i dont personally mind if people make fanworks which disagree. but they're wrong/j #thin martins are annoying on another level which ive gone into before and wont do now #oh right blond hair/blue eyed martin. no. #and any jon with a small anime nose isnt jon #again want to be clear: apart from thin martin this is all a matter of taste and in good fun plz keep drawing ostentatious eliasses

[arienai]

I actually hate the concept of death and dying. I want to live forever so I can keep learning and seeing things. But I never mention this because every time I do I get lectured by randos showing up to tell me I just need to accept the concept of death

bitch! I know i'm going to die I just don't have to be happy about it

#this type of talk is on my dash for some reason so I want to make it very clear where I stand #death is bullshit lmao #you should ofc be able to do it if you want to but like. #I hate it #my posts

[liquidstar]

and now for something stupid

#but really i also just wanted to play around w this sort of coloring style bc its been FOREVER since ive used it #and i think i can make it look better now #AND i think i can make more sillay stuff like this and not have it take as long w cleaning up lines #anyway now you all understand the terrible dynamic between these three #phobo's infodump text is just copypasted from the wikipedia page for knives. #julliet ALSO uses knives is the thing so hes actually mansplaining < JOKE #he just wants to share. even if it gives her a headache. but he wouldnt mansplain he doesnt have it in him. hes ok with felonies tho #but julis life hasnt known peace since she was told to take care of the newbies #and shes ALSO a newbie (just slightly less so) so really this is probably just tartarus hazing her #theyd take one look at the two disorganized unserious overeager newbies and think ''you know what would be fucking hilarious'' #and pass them onto the neurotic slightly-less-newbie who takes everything as seriously as possible. disaster combination. #i cannot stress enough that this is a group of bandits and murderers theyre NOT above hazing. #deimos actually is doing the best job at it since he is stealing as we speak #i mean hes not supposed to do it to his teammates but still. on the right track #as for the dynamic between deimos and phobos themselves its like. theyre just bros. theyre both pretty similar in personality #except deimos is kinda more mean and cynical while phobos can be kinda. dense and naive despite literally where hes at in life #but most of the time theyre basically beavis and butthead #i would also like to stress that juli is not being homophobic she just already cannot stand these guys and cant believe the audacity #but. complete misunderstanding. karma for stealing wallets ig #this will never be cleared up by anyone ever #but again thats not their dynamic they are just beavis and butthead. and i guess that makes juli daria LOL #finn's ocs #finn's art

[rebelpeas]

a few words from me real quick.

the last few days ive been trying to post and reblog support for shubble first and foremost. no fandom, no music, and no fictional comfort character or story is as important to me as supporting someone who was abused. that being said, i don’t think it’s wrong to be upset, questioning, and angry at wilbur right now. of course it’s not. it’s not wrong to post expressing it either. i personally have decided not to post anything about him, and to keep my processing private.

so in case that has caused any confusion on my stance: you will never see or hear about wilbur soot on my blog ever again. not his characters, not his content, not his name. this is the last time i will publicly mention him. i hope he fades into silent obscurity, and i’m going to do my part on bringing that about as quickly as possible.

the last few days, ive felt betrayed, angry, devastated, and most acutely, reminded of my own trauma and experiences. shelby talked about silence being peace for her, about her silence becoming his peace, and that resonated with me a lot. as an abuse survivor, one of the things that has brought me the most peace is silence regarding my abusers - to never speak of them, think of them, to live a life without any trace of them in it. for shelby to disrupt that kind of peace and bring this to light is an incredible act of bravery i can barely fathom, and i dearly hope she regains a peaceful life without mention of him again.

all my love to shelby. please continue to support her, and remember to show kindness and grace to one another as we all are still truly reeling from this. take care of yourselves.

#dee talks #abuse #i haven’t wanted to make ‘a statement’ because like. it’s not about me. it’s really not #but there are 1.5k of you here and i want to be so clear where i stand on the matter #im glad to have been part of this community. im glad we all met. but im never writing drawing or talking about him ever again

[lord-squiggletits]

Bolts upright from my bed

In an AU where Pharma lives the Adaptus thing and comes back on the Lost Light, wouldn't he find out that the crew had to deal with being cornered and nearly killed by the DJD and a bunch of other Decepticons?

And then Pharma could get to be like "oh I see :) you were under threat by the DJD :))) why didn't you just run? Oh you couldn't and had no means of escape? Funny :)))) didn't you call for help? Oh you did right??? And did anyone come???? :)))))) did anyone come in time to save you from the DJD????? DID THEY????? DID YOU JUST CALL FOR HELP AND RUN AWAY AND THE DJD JUST LET YOU GO????? :))))))))))) OH THE DJD BLOCKED COMMUNICATIONS AND HAD YOU SURROUNDED????? OH HOW TRAGIC I GUESS YOU COULDN'T ESCAPE AFTER ALL AND A LOT OF YOUR FRIENDS DIED :)))))))))))))))) AND THE ONLY REASON YOU WON WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD A LOT OF SUPERPOWERFUL FIGHTERS ON YOUR SIDE???? WOW IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT'VE HAPPENED IF YOU HAD NO FRIENDS AND BARELY ANY MILITARY SUPPORT AND THE DJD CAME HUH??? WOW WHAT A RELIEF THAT DIDNT HAPPEN"

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In other words, I'm pretty much convinced that the reason Pharma is remembered as "the evil cowardly doctor that murdered innocents to save his own skin" instead of "the Autobot that got mindbroken by Tarn into thinking that making a plague and killing everyone was his only way to escape" is because he got introduced before the DJD were established as a pants-shittingly evil and sadistic group of freaks, and unlike Rodimus' crew he didn't have the luxury of being a main character whose thoughts and experiences were shown on screen. Pretty much his reputation as "crazy token evil Autobot" was sealed from MTMTE #5 and by the time MTMTE #50-something brought Dying of the Light, Pharma was a footnote in the story and never got to have this new information about the terror of the DJD factored into his own character.

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i mean isnt there literally a scene in dying of the light where tarn talks about how drawing out his strike #makes the enemy suffer more from degradation and panic #and megatron says that he wrote the DJD manifesto to be about systematically isolating and tormenting targets b4 actually killing them #and when they send out an SOS its not received until literally weeks later #and pretty much the only reason most of them survived was bc of spark trauma magic #and having a mad scientist that could make super badass upgrades and weapons #but oh when PHARMA doesnt call for help and doesnt run away it's just bc hes evil and cowardly #i mean i know in the text he says that he just wanted to get away with his name cleared but like #how can you look at what the DJD did in future chapters and go oh yeah pharma did what he did #just because hes prideful and didnt want to ask for help or get caught for his misdeeds #like sure that's the only part the narrative shows but that's prolly bc pharma wasnt meant to be that deep #from a doylist view there wouldnt have been room in the story for this random side villain to get a sad backstory #anyways it just really. gets my goat lmao #the difference b/t pharma and the LL crew on necroworld in terms of audience sympathy #was basically just placement in the story and screentime #hence why pharma is just a crazy evil doctor who sucks at being an autobot #and the LL crew are brave heroes and friends making a last stand against evil #good for the LL crew that they could actually fight back but uh. pharma couldnt #abyways sorry for being weird about pharma on main it will happen again

[carapacian-swag]

Something Familiar

#homestuck #ms. paint #jade harley #ruby harlonde #Ms paint is so important to me sniffle. i think people #Forget about her and jade i mean it’s easy to but i hold that panel where she’s standing next to jade on the bridge close to my heart #I love making up parallels that aren’t there #as in i don’t think they did the Ruby and paint school thing intentionally. #it’s a one-off spoof gag :yeaj: #paint got a little bigger in the second drawing pretend she didn’t </3 #other notes uuuh paint is wearing a longer skirt #a homage to the pre proto and proto queen outfit #and it’s not a school for uuub what was it called I forgot(but it wouldn’t Be called that) but it’s just a community center she’s fixing up #hence her murals #Sorry thinks about hs^2 too hard #enough of that #i mean i don’t know if i can make it clear i Don’t like it(hs2/epilogues) #this was inspired by talk about it(ms paint school thing) i think it was a little ago i’ll try to find it #my art

[birdricks]

i realllyyyy love the interpretation of prime as being not much more than a reflection of who c-137 COULD have been. like in the sense that his motivations and backstory are really not all that important because his sole purpose in the story is to mirror c-137 and ricks as a whole

#like even in comics etc where prime has no involvemnt. rick still chooses to leave for whatever reason #you do it to yourself. [gripping] #rick and morty #just to be clear i do like prime being A Character too but i just think he works sooo well as a metaphor #for like. ricks guilt and anger and trauma #what with him being this looming presence over rick for his whole life and indirectly affecting every part of it #whats your life without me. etc #also i think it makes him stand out a little from emorty. who specifically IS his own character #he has a similar deal w mirroring morty but he makes it clear he wants nothing to do with that deal. he literally breaks free of #the narrative #mmmm.. just thoughts

[amanitapilz]

When asked what my fire emblem three houses otps were I answered with wlw and mlm solidarity

#fe3h #edeleth #ferdibert #fanart #artwork #the ship names are wrong to me btw #because fandom rules say that whoever is named first in mashup names is the top #but edie and ferdie are like 100% bottoms #sorry not sorry #they’re mega bottoms don’t even like topping #but they’ll do it if their girlfriend/boyfriend asks #they will pout and make it very clear how much they don’t want to tho #edie because she’s the emperor so her word should be final #and ferdie because he’s a brat #anyway I’m saying I accept these as the popular ship tags #but I had to make very clear where I stand!!! #edelgard von hresvelg #byleth eisner #ferdinand von aegir #hubert von vestra

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not really any manner of orator, and I average out at the amount of knowledge that passes my feed. I just... you know, recognize that. the US authorities and the bulk of celebrities who played into it to keep their job did those same things to us in the 60s and 70s. it's the same playbook, it's the same colonialism, it's the same human toll.

#idk. the news is fucking horrific. and then you go online and see the perpetrators act all uwu and lie to your face #it is. idk vietnam managed to exist as a country after 75. and I grew up thinking such level of cruelty is something of the past #if not because the forces behind it have grown kinder then because they've learned their lesson #they have. they've improved on their PR for a while. we just managed to outpace that machine for a moment #with handheld recording devices and the internet. #you know now where I stand if there were any chance it wasn't clear before. what the israeli defense force is doing is genocide. #given - once again - that I'm not any kind of speaker I have mostly just been moving resources around on here #but I still felt like I should at the very least make it very clear that no matter what we do live in that same world #and we should not fucking forget. because the ones who benefit from these conflicts would like for us to #they wanted badly for people in the US to forget vietnam. us living here fucking remember.

[quietwingsinthesky]

See, the thing about the Amy episode that makes Dean’s actions so reprehensible is not only the part where he doesn’t trust Sam and goes behind his back to kill Amy or even the hypocrisy of Dean ‘you can’t change what you are so you’re going to kill someone eventually’ Winchester sparing the kid right after stabbing his mom, it’s that Amy is very explicitly supposed to be a Sam parallel. There is no other way about it, from the they’re both freaks part of it to Dean dropping the line about ‘the other shoe’ right before he kills her, she is Sam, how Dean reacts to her is supposed to give us insight into how he feels about Sam. And Dean. kills her.

The not very subtle subtext being that Dean is ready to off Sam if he goes too far off the deep end? He’s aggressive and mistrustful of Sam at every turn in the episode, lays the feet of it all at Sam’s hallucinations maybe leading him astray, but end of the day, Sam’s crimes here are A) was tortured in Hell and B) is traumatized by that in a way that makes Dean’s life more difficult.

And it is hard to watch. To spend this whole episode with Sam being completely functional on his own, making a rational decision based on past experience and on all the information about Amy he has available, and for the episode to end with, ‘but yeah, if dean thinks sam goes too far, he’s probably gonna kill him. because sam can’t change or be fixed, so it’s for the good of everyone that he be put down.’

#and then of course there’s the issue of the subtext setting something up that gets no resolution like. there is no point where dean is ever #really going to be able to kill Sam. no matter how bad his hallucinations get. not even a mercy kill crosses his mind later that season #which means that the Amy episode gets rewritten later from ‘explicit Sam parallel’ to ‘well we can use this for Brother Drama™️’ #god. god. and really what gets me about the Amy episode in general. like Thee Horrifying Part to me. #most of their hunts are very life or death. that’s how we get around the morality of it. either they kill the monster or it kills them. #Amy’s. not that. Dean tracks her down while she’s running and kills her while she’s asking him not to. #like if she had attacked him the scene would be totally different. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t even fight back. and he kills her. #like she has a kid and Dean is an unfriendly hunter in her motel room. it wouldn’t be out of the question for her to try to kill him #to protect herself and her kid. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t. I don’t know what you can take away from that except that she was telling #sam the truth about not wanting to be a murderer. if she won’t even try to kill Dean to protect herself. #there is no way to look at this episode that makes Dean come out looking good unless you’re willing to claim everything Amy said was a lie #AND that Dean would be right to kill Sam for *checks notes* Being Visibly Mentally Ill #fucked up. why’d they do this. #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #amy pond #like to be clear if you’ve got a different view on this that’s. not the above thing I just said. please tell me. #because from where I’m standing Dean doesn’t come out of this clean in any way

[ride-a-dromedary]

If I'm anywhere, I'm back here defending Rath and Nettie and Apikusis

#BG3 Musing #they are very important to me #like if you say all the druids are assholes i am going to slap an asterisk next to that sentence #i saw a fic at one point refer to rath as 'spineless' and i was like ah yes spineless - the only man standing directly up to kagha #nettie tries to kill you if you aren't straight with her? as far as she knows you are one step away from turning into a mindflayer #and killing the lot of them - the option she offers you when you are reasonable is *logical* #and apikusus is openly refusing to help with kagha's regimen and sending birds to find halsin #there's the other druid in the enclave that is talking a big game of defense but not doing much else #than trying to calm down that racist elf #the shopkeeper is unfortunately very apathetic and defensive #the rest of them are varying levels of hostile #kagha herself is an interesting case because *again* she's a very clear example of what propaganda can do to people #who are already in positions where they can be taken advantage of - it's easy to argue that you would never fall victim to that #but don't make me tap the sign #she's *very* apologetic and begs for mercy if you *do* break her out of the shadow regimen #i'm not saying she was in the *right* - especially if arabella dies - but i am saying it's a really good narrative metaphor lesson

[lhrry]

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#aotv spoilers #ok you’re asking for my opinions let’s do it #i love louis!!!! im so proud of him and im so happy i got to watch him on his journey for so long and can’t wait for what’s to come for him #and i think my love for him and for his music and for my time in the fandím and for one d etc is what makes this a good watch and why i #liked it because otherwise i have my reservations to the movie and im not going to get into the babygate stuff #apart from the fact that louis trying to get freddie to hug him was extremely awkward and ive never seen less organic thing than the beach #scene and i find it funny they tried to push that as organic so hard #my issue is that it just had a potential to be a much better film is all sksmsk #it is good but it feels a bit rushed and kind of cheap in some ways and i get that’s the style of these biopics sometimes but #like it was such a shame the bg music was not really gold and was always exaggeratedly emotional because it made it cheesy and cheap and #kind of forced #i think it would have a great potential to get many people to say wow this is a strong talented guy and i think it is a great intro but i #think they undersold the movie so it’s not going to have a chance to reach an audience much wider than his current fanbase which is a shame #for his current fanbase it is a solidification and reiteration of his promo season and it is very clear where they want louis to stand and #what they want his image to be like and i think it’s absolutely amazing how they managed to show his growth as an artist and as a human and #and place him in a position where he’s now confident and secure and ready to embark on a new journey etc. although for the fans there’s #nothing new there and i think it’s worth considering how exactly they’re portraying and that they completely left out his relationships #aside from his family and the band #i think it’s important that it was noted he was undersestimated and pushed down and i think they made obvious how much he’s worked on #himself #i think it’s kinda clear they’re using it as a faith in the future promo with the new songs even though the doc ends with the end of the #tour #i think it’s interesting how many rainbow flags they chose to include without addressing the way his shows and fanbase look at all because #if i were from Gp id wonder what’s up with that esp when he only acknowledged the kmm project again #generally i think it’s a good watch that’s very transparent in what it’s trying to do for louis promo and image wise and it doesn’t tell #you anything new but it reminds you why you love this man so much while also leaving you a bit disappointed because this had a much #greater cinematic potential and a lot of it feels either rushed or underfinanced or forced and that’s a shame

[junkyardromeo]

I just saw an interview of a journalist calling the current period "a new American Civil War without gunshots" in the sense that it is like if there was two countries stuck together in the same governmental apparatus and that some states no longer want to live with the others. And that neither parties are helping it. I found it an interesting point of view and was wondering: Would you agree with his statement?

P.S. I translated it from French at the best of my knowledge, so I might have lost a bit of nuances, but the main ideas are there.

i agree n think that’s there’s gonna be gunshots soon. m a little drunk rn but they say booze brings out honesty so imma just be real. if they asked me to pick up a gun rn n fight for the south rn then i fuckin would. i ain’t in favor of neither political party n personally i find neither the democrats neither the republicans support what i support. if forced to back a party i’d back the right, but i don’t agree with neither of them. hell, we got a damn so called left wing president n he’s backin genocide. n i don’t fuck w that. but at my damn roots im a son of the south n id back the south in any damn war cuz you better fuckin believe i’d fight for dixie before id fight for anything else. i own a gun n while i’d use it if i have to, id rather not to, but i tell ya, if i thought dixie was in danger, i would. it ain’t no secret where my loyalties lie. there conspiracy theories sayin that we got a new civil war n florida’s gonna secede from the union. n if they did, i ain’t got no doubt that south carolina’d be next. we was first last time n aint got no doubt we’d do it again. hell, secession hall ain’t but half mile from where i am rn. n if it came to that, i’d back dixie. i got my reasons to not, but i weren’t raised to be no damn coward. if i was asked to raise a damn gun for dixie, i would. ain’t no different that 1860 whatever im too damn drunk to think of years rn im fuckin slumped over the curb rn but i know where my damn morals lie n my morals lie with dixie. if i was asked id raise a damn gun like it was the first civil war. i don’t stand for no hate or no racism but i stand for dixie. n thats til i fuckin die. sure, cali calls in the night but i belong to dixie n i will til the day i die. that say you can take the boy from the south but you can’t take the south from the boy n that’s damn true. i stand for dixie til the day i die. n if i start sayin i don’t, you can go ahead n bury me. the day i don’t stand for dixie is the day im dead. n back to your point, i do agree. dixie don’t necessarily wanna stand with the us of a because they ain’t holdin true the values we hold true. the south stands for freedom n honesty n a specific moral code that ain’t bein held up by the united states government right now. we’d rather hold our own than stand for whatever bullshit the us of a has come to stand for. this ain’t the america we know n it ain’t the america us southerners are gonna stand for. i ain’t gonna speak for no one else but i stand for the brand of new confederates that stand for freedom n life n tradition n the south. i ain’t gonna stand for no terrorism or my fuckin tax dollars goin to genocide or racism or classism or any of that shit. i stand for man as his own god n i stand for freedom n i stand for dixie. i stand for my home n i stand for this land n again, i stand for freedom n i stand for dont fuckin tread on me. amen.

#like i said #if asked id pick up my .38 for dixie. #let me make it fuckin clear where i stand #i stand for the fuckin south n thats that. i gotta fight to be what i am but i stlll stand for dixie i weren’t raised to be no damn yankee #n i weren’t raised to be no damn coward #n thats where n how i stand #if you got an issue take it up w me personally i ain’t fuckin scared #yeah ain’t all the damn shit in line with exactly what i believe but it’s the damn closest im gonna get in this world n that good enough #bet ain’t nobody gonna complain about how much of a man j am when they see how damn good of a shot i am #it is what it is n no matter what i stand for dixie til the day i die

[the-meme-monarch]

anyway i think it’d be funny in deltarune that the “the queen died” news happened and scc are like “QUEEN FUCKING DIED? ” and then they find out it was the queen of england and they’re already taking off their party hats

#in all honesty i think their feelings abt queen would be a little too complicated to be Just Positive to think she died #but then they just don’t give a shit abt the queen of england #idk how deltarune universes geography is but until then I’ll make jokes like it’s in Our World #anyway again fuck the queen of england 🦀🦀🦀 #just so we’re clear on where i stand #words from the monarch #deltarune

[liquidstar]

i saw a comment by you on an old post saying lesbians are bigots if they refuse to consent to sex with anyone amab. do you still feel that way (about homosexuality being bad) or have you changed your pov?

lol no, i didnt get stupider.

depending on how old the post was its possible i didnt phrase myself in the best way (ive been here since i was a young teenager after all), but youre also clearly prone to the worst possible bad faith interpretation of things so ill at least make this clear: i do believe that anyone has the right to refuse sex for whatever reason they want. whatever. thats fine.

but i dont think thats an excuse for transmisogyny. i dont think there have to be entire "movements" dedicated to this imaginary concept of trans women forcing cis lesbians to have sex with them. no, im not doubting that this situation has ever once happened on an individual level, but its not a systemic issue by any fucking means. people saying that trans women are women, and that having sex with them doesnt make you less of a lesbian, IS NOT the same thing as someone forcing you to have sex with them. no one is making anyone do anything beyond respect people's individual choices. your adverse reaction to this is whats bigoted.

again, i think anyone can refuse sex for whatever reason they want, but i also think that we live in a bigoted society where a lot of people dont want to unpack their biases or shallowness, especially when it comes to sex and romance. so i think that once you decide to base your personality around "EWW I WONT HAVE SEX WITH A PENIS HAVER!!! GROSS!!!" you are a bigot lol, its clearly about a lot more at that point. you are using it as an excuse for your bigotry, a way to recontexualize yourself as the victim in a pure hypothetical. but trans women have said it better than i ever could though, so i dont want to soapbox too much.

im still a dyke btw and homosexuality is awesome :thumbsup: and i think woman are more than just their vaginas, which is why i dont boil them down to the parts they have, even when it comes to sex. if you want to put me on somekind of blocklist for this go ahead, i dont want terfs interacting w me anyway. bye forever now

#transmisogny #i hope it doesnt seem like im speaking out my ass here as a tme person #but i didnt want to like link this person to a trans womans post or something #like that just feels irresponsible idk #and i dont wanna overstep either. but i do wanna make it clear where i stand to keep ppl like this away from me #and keep this blog a safe space in general #so i worded this as best as i can basically but im also sleep deprived rn so. lmk if i should fix anything ig? #sorry for all this to my trans girl followers though #reblogs off bc like i said trans women can say it better than me. i dont wanna soapbox i just wanna make where i stand clear