#no discourse in the replies

[samble-moved]

post itself

false flags

trans/adjacent tags

accessibility features

tumblr live post (thanks for the link, @problemnyatic)

flashing / strobing / lights

unblockable flashing ad

buying ad free

staff @/macmanx guilt trip

list of staff + more issues

#post nuked bc proshippers started insulting people who rbed this and implied partyjockers attempted to Kill staff? it was getting old so #archive links still under the cut if you want and you can rb this from others if you want the og #hint: if you dislike this post or want to debunk parts of it the way to go about it isn't to call people who've rbed it 'disgusting little #fuck ups' that are 'spreading anti shipper lies' #note: this post is and was Not about ship discourse jesus fucking christ proshippers get a grip #also ace discoursers are here too? this isn't about you either? #edit 2: if you send me an anon regarding this post about how im policing discussion or 'don't really want it' #but then stop replying when i answer your ask #maybe that's. not helping discussion? #i nuked this post as people started making up false accusations to smear people staff sniped. aka accusing someone of IRL ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

[weaver-z]

The "Zepotha" trend on tiktok makes me SICK as an indie slasher fan. Why did they choose the name "Zepotha?" Name one fucking indie slasher from the 80's that isn't called something like House of Guts. "Zepotha" would be the name of an arthouse horror from the 70's created by a giallo-obsessed Johnny-come-lately director from New Jersey. Zepotha would be brought up in every other "obscure horror recs" thread on reddit until it became a circlejerk meme to even mention it.

"Oh you sound so mad, you sound like you just want to gatekeep--" I DO! I'M GATEKEEPING! None of these people even like slashers! They can barely make it through Fear Street, and then they still make fun of effects that aren't Marvel-sweatshop-grade CGI! You expect them to be able to create a fictional slasher movie with the conviction that this site had when it created Goncharov? Get! Off! Of! My! Lawn!

#horror #goncharov #zepotha #if anyone replies to this post with that ''erm discourse shark fin!'' meme i will scream #type ''zepotha'' into the damn tumblr search bar

[soggystyrofoam]

#tlok #I just felt particularly moved by the third reply #if anyone starts actual asami war profiteer discourse on this somehow I’m blowing this whole building up

[dailyjermasparkle]

I've seen a lot of stuff going down on tumblr and I just wanted to let you all know that all aromantic, asexual, and aroace people are valid members of the LBGTQIA+ community. It doesn't matter if they are cishet or not.

#aromantic #asexual #aroace #not blog related #important #i'll have replies turned off because I don't need discourse on my blog #this post is for my aroace followers to know they are supported #this post is NOT for people trying to invalidate aroace experiences to spew nonsense #love y'all #enter the new year with love in your hearts #not hate #edit: I don't know how to turn replies off for a specific post #so i'll just delete any replies

[mayvette]

“bonnibel bubblegum” plot summary

#bonnibel bubblegum #princesss bubblegum #uncle gumbald #must i tag that stale piece of gum…i suppose… #this started age discourse on twitter i beg you not to do that in the replies here. she is simply 10 gum years old ok #atimers #mayvart

[etoilesbienne]

please remember wilbur isn't the representative of the mcyt community as a whole, and does not represent all cc. there's been a lot of doomspiraling over the past few days, and i understand the lashing out and feeling hurt or betrayed, it makes sense in scenarios like this.

but he is not the end all be all of mcyt content, if you look in his apology tweet right now, you can see dozens of other mcyt cc speaking out against him or standing up for his victim. or even the people in private she came forward to that supported her coming out. don't let a bad apple cause the efforts of the rest of this community go to waste.

#there's also other cc who definitely have circumstances of their own they're going thru rn so don't expect someone not replying = supporting #that's a dangerous mindset to get into. we don't know what everyone can be going through that they cannot comment at the moment. #just that the people speaking out deserve the credit for doing so #discourse #abuse cw

[pusangkambing]

Ive been seeing some posts on twt about how they dont like how etoiles plays and I need all of those people TO SHUT TF UP SHUT UP AND NEVER OPEN YOUR MOUTH AGAIN! IF YOU DONT LIKE HOW SOMEONE PLAYS ON THE QSMP THEN DONT WATCH! THE CCS DONT OWE YOU SHIT! STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE AND RUINING IT FOR THEM NAD EVERYONE ELSE JUST BECAUSE U DONT LIKE IT SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

#im scared that etoiles might even stop playing because people are being awful to him just because he's not integrating himself in the lore i #way they want him too #SHUT UP FOREVER AND EVER!!! #paimon!speaks! #qsmp #etoiles #discourse #thisbpost was made cause etoiles replied to someone who qrt his post of being on top of the mobs killed leaderboards saying that antoine- #did more lore than him

[ingravinoveritas]

Look at this. They make me sick 🥹😭.

Oh, this is just...perfection. I've had a few people send this to me and it looked like an edit, but I wanted to be sure before responding. From the source I've spoken with, it seems these were two pictures--one of David, and one of Michael--taken by the same photographer (who was at the performance tonight) and then that person edited the two pictures together.

In addition, according to the photographer, David and Michael were, in fact, looking into each other's eyes. I feel like we could see that from the original photo, but to have it confirmed by someone who was actually in the room leaves me breathless on multiple levels. Knowing that Michael and David are being so public and open about it, seemingly not caring who sees anymore, because they know they have each other. Gorgeous.

I have many other Asks that have come into my inbox tonight, so I am going to save my additional thoughts for those, but thank you so much for sharing this with me. I adore them so...

#falconxwinter #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #macbeth #donmar warehouse #the purest love and adoration in those expressions #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #an entire theatre full of people and it's like they're the only ones there #they are perfect together your honor #high profile friendship #low profile lovers #ineffable lovers #discourse

[macfrog]

hellooo. i try to keep my blog free from this kind of discussion for a multitude of reasons, but i am quickly finding myself unable to hold my tongue and recently, this has become impossible to ignore.

i am fully aware as a writer that i will unavoidably create characters, situations, and plots that not every reader will agree with or like all of the time. i love this part of it! i love to hear what you think, who you're vibing with, what you hope or even fear might happen. so long as we're respectful about it, open conversation (kindness and constructive criticism!) is one of my favorite parts of reading and writing.

but, please, let me make one thing very, very clear:

if your reaction to a decision that any of my characters make, is to comment telling me that you want to physically assault them over it - remove yourself from my blog. exit the fic, unfollow me, block me if you think it'll stop you from commenting something so repulsive and downright triggering.

i've deleted i think seven comments so far across both tumblr and ao3 which, at best, were plain rude, and at worst, were pretty fucking triggering to read. these comments were all, incidentally, directed at only the women in the fics. zero of my male characters have ever been attacked with such vitriol and hostility. i'm not cool with that. do not come on my blog with that attitude.

i have no problem with anyone disagreeing with something in my fic, but please remember that things like physical violence are not jokes, they're not quirky reactions to silly twists in stories, and they're not fucking welcome on my blog.

#please remember that this community exists to provide escapism and safety for people #and that anyone might read your ‘funny’ reply about wanting to slap women #this is a safe space. idk how many times i have to fucking say it #tw discourse #tw violence #tw dv #makes me ill that i even have to post something like this

[st-just]

Another problem with "bi means attracted to all women and a handful of men" is that it feeds into the cultural tropes of "women are objectively more sexually desirable than men" (which connects to some truly toxic ways our society treats women)

re:

Y'know there absolutely is a near-omnipresent cultural script where women are The Sexy Gender and being noticeably distracted/vocal about how sexy a guy is in public/mixed company is, like, Weird by comparison but also online this has definitely become a lot less salient to me since I started spending all my free time on the fujoshi and erotic cannibalism website.

#reply #who-canceled-roger-rabbit #Gender! at the discourse

[kinnbig]

in relation to this tweet from Jojo, which I love - I’m amazed by the number of posts I’ve seen suggesting that Nick is an innocent victim of manipulation from Boston. no one is saying Boston isn’t messy as fuck, but he’s been so clear about his feelings and what he is/isn’t looking for. he’s told Nick multiple times that while their relationship might develop in the future, he is only interested in casual sex for now - and Nick has willingly agreed to this kind of casual, non-exclusive relationship. Boston has absolutely no obligation to be ‘faithful’ to Nick, or to tell him which of his friends he’s attracted to. Nick wanting things to be different doesn’t make it so.

violating privacy and boundaries is clearly a theme with Nick - he expresses interest in Boston by leaving suggestive photos on Boston’s phone, having already gone through (and jerked off to) Boston’s personal pictures. bugging his car takes it a step further.

(I think there’s something to be said about the way Boston’s promiscuity and open sexuality seems to make his right to privacy seem trivial or less important than that of someone more reserved - it’s fine that Nick jerked off to Boston’s personal photos, because Boston slept with him after; Nick only secretly recoded Boston having sex because Boston led him on; Boston’s a whore, so it doesn’t matter, he was asking for it… but that’s a post for another day)

this isn’t to say that Boston is an innocent victim of Nick’s behaviour either - my point is that categorising them simply as Manipulator and Victim is reductive to the complexity of both characters. they’re both interesting, fucked up, flawed people, and that’s what makes them compelling as characters - and what makes it fun to watch as they make each other worse.

#i know i’m biased as a self confessed boston apologist #but when i say things like ‘bostons never done anything wrong in his life ever’ that’s a joke. it’s a bit. #i know he has done many many things wrong in his life ever #and i assumed. that when people said it about nick. it was also a bit #but then so many of the replies to this tweet were like ‘okay but he’s still a victim.. bostons still a manipulative predator…’ #like some of u are serious?! #anyway i said i was staying out of only friends meta/discourse but i guess i lied #only friends #only friends the series #jojo tichakorn #boston only friends #boston ofts #nick ofts #bostonnick #darcey.txt

[theharlotofferelden]

Gonna take the bigot’s advice and make my own post on this.

The problem I have with people having this “opinion” or “headcanon” that Astarion is gay (or that Karlach is a lesbian) is that it’s directly alienating to bi and pan folks within the community. Like, there’s bi and pan ppl in the community and you’re saying this shit on main like it’s just a cute lil opinion that’s free of consequences. It’s not ✨just an opinion✨. When you say shit like this, you’re stereotyping queer people and are invalidating that bi and pan ppl exist and are allowed to exist in ways that contradict your understanding of what it means to be queer.

Acting like there’s a difference between saying “I can’t imagine him with women” and saying you only see him as a gay man is being deliberately obtuse. We all know what you mean and the fact that you’d prefer to double down and act like a child in an adult fandom is honestly embarrassing.

On top of that, you have folks (like this person) claiming that because they’re queer themselves they are somehow incapable of perpetuating queer stereotypes and/or being bi/panphobic. I don’t know how to make you understand that it’s complacent to think your identity makes you immune to being a bigot. I rly don’t.

If you’re thoroughly invested in the idea that Astarion is gay and Karlach is a lesbian, please ask yourself why. Then ask yourself why you are easily ruffled when people try to tell you that your opinion is directly harmful to the community. Then ask yourself why it’s so important to cling onto this “headcanon” and what you’re really losing when you acknowledge that all of these characters are bi and pan.

But to the folks who are gearing up to chime in with “lol I’m not reading all of that”: I’m sorry I’m not fucking pithy enough to speak on a subject that gets rehashed every fucking decade. Peace and love ✌️

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #karlach #i don’t wade into discourse ever but I’m so fucking tired of this shit #‘go outside’ bitch I AM OUTSIDE #I’m literally at a drive thru rn waiting for the movie to start #sorry I’m capable of replying to your bullshit while I’m doing RL shit #eta adding tags for blacklist #fandom critical #discourse #bg3 discourse #bg3 fandom critical #biphobia #panphobia

[luciuscodedswedeboy]

imagine killing an old queer disabled man when he was finally breaking free from his 20+ year abusive relationship & finding his own identity outside of his partner and then making him:

1. die in the arms of his abuser while apologising to him for the state of their relationship

2. be buried like a pet on his abusive ex’s property while ignoring all seafaring traditions

He was never his own man, not even in death.

#do not start discourse in my comments or replies or you will be blocked #izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers

[qtubbo]

It’s kinda frustrating how everyone will say oh we want more egg drama, we want character conflict, we want more infighting, but when it makes their fav cubito look bad suddenly we’re taking everything too seriously and ruining the fun. It’s not just a block game to the characters, because they live there, so making critiques on behavior that is bad or toxic isn’t an attack it’s what happens when there is character conflict. Correcting, or discussing is perfectly normal, but you can’t say you want conflict and then turn it into something lighthearted because that means you didn’t actually want any conflict. You wanted conflict now here’s your conflict and sadly when there is conflict it will make characters look bad, it makes Tallulah, Leo, Foolish, Phil, and Tubbo all look bad it’s what happens.

You can’t tell people to stop making analysis or critiquing behavior because you’re viewing differently, or choosing to change the story to make it more lighthearted. Like I understand saying don’t cross in to reality people often do with ccs, but is anyone actually doing that with the admins?

#qsmp #Qsmp meta #qsmp fandom crit #crit #Anon seemed a bit ragey so I didn’t reply directly but this kinda answering that ask #Discourse #Also yes it makes Phil look bad outside of the museum scene he also made no genuine effort to correct Tallulahs behavior and instead #Encouraged it which was done with good intentions but still was something that can and will be critiqued

[lanaevyssmoved]

i wrote this in replies to a mutual but actually it deserves to be its own post that gets expanded on

gonna be real fandoms generalised interpretation of gale is ooc

lets be honest, hes the normal ass brown haired white guy that looks so like all the other brown haired white guys people (you know who) obsess over and they all do the same thing. lets turn him into generic very nice man who loves us muchly and will fall in line perfectly with our happily ever after headcanons. its not about /gale/, its about him aesthetically fitting the mold perfectly

lets ignore his flaws and his hubris and his mental illness and his chronic pain and how he gets pissed off at his students and how obsessive he is over his research and how his passions in life fall in line perfectly with 'hermit man that has no social circle and no children'

basically. woobified gale is real and i hate it

#fray.txt #discourse #feel free to reblog/add onto/rage about in replies

[prince-liest]

I’m a sex-repulsed ace, and reading the latest chapter of 666 (as well as your analysis here on Tumblr) made me realize that I have been subconsciously thinking about MY OWN sexuality from an allo perspective? And that it has kinda been messing me up?? Like, ever since I learned that sexual attraction was actually a Thing and that it’s Important To People, I had been carrying around a fear of being deficient in some way and not being able to love to the same extent as allos. (1)

Even though I know logically that’s complete garbage and totally untrue, I felt left out of the loop because people seemed to care strongly about this thing I couldn’t even imagine. Whenever it looked like a relationship might happen I panicked for a reason that I couldn’t understand. But now I’m starting to realize that it’s because I was subconsciously terrified of an ‘ulterior motive’ behind the other person’s reasons for wanting to be with me. (2) That part of the reason they even cared was because of something I don’t experience. So thank you, because this realization just clicked into place while reading your work. The thing is, this way of thinking was just internalized in such a way that I didn’t even realize it was there until literally this week. And I think you’re right; one of the main reasons behind that is because I’ve always consumed media written from an allo perspective. (3) If ace/aros are shown at all, they’re depicted as “lacking” and their character development usually revolves around being “fixed” by the story. When I was ~10 years old my mom sometimes let me watch the Big Bang Theory with her (looking back, maybe not the best decision). Anyways, there was one episode deep into the series where Sheldon (who for the past nineish seasons was probably the closest thing to mainstream ace rep) has sex with his girlfriend for the first time. (4) Afterwards, he says something along the lines of “that was better than I thought it would be”, and it’s presented as a Very Good Thing and a big step in their relationship. I think a lifetime of stuff like that makes it very easy to internalize aphobia and feel like the lesser part of the relationship. Or to feel like the other partner is making a huge sacrifice to be with you. That got wayy too long, sorry. All that was just a lot of words to say that I appreciate you. Take care of yourself!(5)

The portrayal of asexuality that you see in media being almost exclusively as you described is very tedious to me because it presumes that something is inherently lacking in aro/aceness rather than that feeling of "lacking" being something that is induced by societal norms. Actually, one of the things that I find additionally alienating is that fandom spaces specifically have been getting better and better about ace characters - but got damn does fandom not jive with aromanticism. Like, a character doesn't want to fuck? That's becoming a liiiittle more fine, it's 2024, we stan consent. But not shipping someone romantically?? Not so easy, now.

I'm glad that my work has been something that resonated with you in this respect! Alastor cares a lot about his reputation as a demon but is pretty blatantly a person who could not possibly give less of a shit about being "wrong" for not being experiencing romantic or sexual attraction. The explanation Viv gave at one point for his own understanding of himself (that he thinks he's just "waiting for the right woman") actually stuck out to me a lot because it's a very "well, nothing is wrong with me for not feeling anything, it's the world that's failed to produce a suitable person" perspective.

But having that kind of confident perspective of your own rightness in the world is really not often portrayed in media, or even in fandom, which even ten years ago was still in the throes of standardizing "Oh, no! Me, gay? These feelings are so wrong!" style m/m content and is honestly not that far off from essentially that for aro/ace characters.

Anyway, all of that is to say that there's not yet much out there that doesn't frame allo/amatonormative values as the default that "even aro/ace people can (and should want to) achieve," and that it's really fun to write a fic that is unequivocally from the perspective of a character who is aroace and doesn't see it as even remotely a fault in himself. Does he have moments where he's a little confused and trying to process how things fit for him? Absolutely. But he just doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who thinks he owes romance to Vox of all people, hahaha. I've written him trying to conform to allo/amatonormativity more with Mimzy, because I think the social standards of their time could push him into it, but Vox? Absolutely not, he does not respect Vox enough for it to even enter his mind.

And then, on the other hand, writing it from an aroace perspective centers the way that romantic and sexual interest can feel like a betrayal of a good thing. With a character like Alastor, it frames romantic and sexual attraction the same alien way that we usually see aromanticism and asexuality framed as.

In the end, this is just one of a plethora of different experiences that aro/ace people can have, but it's one that I really wanted to see represented more, so I'm very happy to write it. I'm glad that you're enjoying it!

#ask #personal #Anonymous #long post #t #aroace #ace #he cares about Vox at this point! #but that's. not really the same as respecting him. #anyway this next chapter is important to me because it's very #how do I put this #“this was okay at the moment but that doesn't mean he's okay with it overall and forever” #“and it does not mean that they've 'progressed' their relationship to the point where Alastor being aroace is a 'nonissue'” #“(feat. ofc the heavy implication that it was an issue in the first place)” #ANYWAY. SOMETIMES I HAVE A HARD TIME EXPRESSING THIS IN NON-FIC WORDS #SO HOPEFULLY THE FIC AS IT CONTINUES SPEAKS FOR ME. I AM GLAD THAT IT HAS SPOKEN TO YOU SO FAR <3 THANK YOU!! #sexuality #my writing #hazbin hotel #this is a hot button topic atm and it took me a minute to write a reply #that didn't seem like it invited discourse lmfao #actually I still feel weird posting my opinion this strongly oops OH WELL