#non-authoring shit

[whynotcherries]

i love college because one of the bathrooms downstairs in my dorm is super nice and has like good soap and regular lighting, and the other one has a hole in the wall instead of a toilet paper holder and a full length window with bent blinds.

(and also, when you shift your weight on the elevator, the entire thing moves.)

#non-authoring shit

[clotpolesonly]

trans!Declan hc that his "stomach pains" are cramps and Ronan's just a dumbass who forgot that Declan still has periods

his super secret stomach pills that he got from the aglionby nurse are just midol and they're only secret cuz he's stealth at school

#Ronan: “that guy isn't a real doctor he's not authorized to prescribe shit!!!” #Declan: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #popping his entirely OTC non-prescription super secret cramp-busting meds #wondering how he should feel that his brother seems to have genuinely forgotten that he's not a cis man lmao #Declan Lynch #trans!Declan #Ronan Lynch #TRC #tags by me

[screamingfromuz]

Ok, fine, let's talk about why sometimes I fucking hate identity politics. Your identity, your lived experience, does not make you automatically right about a subject that is not your personal experience.

your identity is important because it gives you a certain perspective that is unique to your lived experience, which can allow a more meaningful examination of subjects, it does not mean you are automatically right about something or have a higher moral standing grounds.

here is a timely example, I have been hearing a lot of "listen to the holocaust survivors! they have a higher moral ground! they know better then everyone what it looks like! their perspective must be better!" as if to say that because they survived the holocaust they must have a higher understanding of horrors. this is bullshit, and my timely example is Henry Kissinger (Oh yeah baby, we are going there). The guy fled the Nazis as a child, does it give him the moral high ground? does it means his understanding of abusive governments is the definitive authority? NO! that fucker was the living embodiment of the end justify the means and he was ready to sacrifice everyone and everything if it meant preserving what he decided is the USian interests. If I would have tried to give him the moral high ground just because he survived the Nazis people will justifiably call foul!

Being a victim or being from a victimized group does not makes you automatically right about everything! Abuse victims can still be toxic and abusive. I will give another example that is gonna piss some people off (GOOD):

being a woman does not give you a monopoly on defining what is and is not abuse and sexual harassment. Yes, women has more experience in the matter but for fuck sake I cannot even count how many times women I know refused to admit blatant abuse and sexual harassment. Or on the flip side, I saw women call innocent things abusive and sexual harassment! their womanhood did not gave them the definitive authority on the matter.

I know rape victims that advocates that all men are monsters and seek to abuse women. Will you say that they are more right than others because they were abused by a man? Does their experience give them the definitive authority on masculinity?

and you know what, in for a penny in for a pound. In Israel the families of the fallen get a kind of saintly position, where their word is given higher regards then other citizens, and let me tell you people, that is fucking bullshit. Having lost a family member in a war or a terrorist attack does not mean that you are automatically know better! I have heard so much bullshit from some of those families, and people don't call it out because it was a Shacol Family!

and this goes to everyone! if you lost a family member to a shitty situation you do not automatically know how to fix the broken system that killed them! Being right about the way to fix the system is what makes you right about it!

Grief does not makes you superior to others, or make you more right, it just makes your a grieving person.

don't get me wrong, your experiences and identity does give you important perspective and it should be taken in account when examining stuff, and can even help you develop a perspective for matters that can offer deeper understandings. you are always right about your own experiences.

still doesn't make you automatically right about all the other stuff, like the experiences of others. or how the world should work.

So the next person that tells me that someone is automatically right about everything based on their identity alone and not facts, can fuck off. Your identity and experiences does not means shit if you are fucking wrong.

#leftism #identity politics #surprise! #being the definitive authority for something that is not yourself requires more that just being alive! #this is so frustrating #there are people who think that because they identify as X or part of Y group they are morally superior #fuckers #non of us is superior to the other #we are in the gutters together #you are not special #you might always be right about your own experience #but fuck #if one more person tries to tell me that my understanding of MY experience is wrong and they know better because they are XYZ #I will scream #your experiences are a resource for expending your understanding of the world #not a get out of jail free card #this is so prevalent in leftist circles #you think being a leftists absolve you from your shit? #or being a minority gives you the the final say on what is discrimination #you are right about stuff when you are right about stuff #rant

[joshuaalbert]

listen I know the kira and dax arthurian legend holosuite dates are little more than a haha funny hats running joke and if you examine it any more than that you’re taking it too seriously but it really is such a throwaway representation of how infuriatingly earth- and english language canon-centric star trek tends to be. none of the characters involved in this are from earth. this is a trill showing a bajoran this fun program in a holosuite run by a ferengi. I don’t doubt that dax could have run across arthurian legends at some point over hundreds of years and maybe jadzia likes them but are you telling me that there are no trill Romantic Legends that she could introduce kira to, thereby bonding more by showing her (and us) this piece of her own culture? a centuries-old story from bajor that maybe kira didn’t even know about because that kind of thing stopped being passed down as much during the occupation but dax does from a previous host? a story from a third entirely unrelated culture that’s not earth that has some kind of personal connection? I mean, shit, even something from earth that’s not so deeply western?

and it would be a different kind of bad if they’d thought about it and went mm I think that kind of detail makes them a little Too close send in the het love interests but like. it does not feel like they thought about it hard enough for that it’s just a brief recurring gag about funny ooc outfits that unconsciously reinforces the idea of english canon as the default.

#the way trek always does this drives me a little insane #I like shakespeare believe me but why are those the grand quotes of humanity? #one of the few times i can remember where a non english or usamerican author is quoted it’s like. the art of war. #it’s not about the literary value #I get that they want it to be recognizable to their audience but god forbid the audience learn something about the other cultures #on their own planet while watching the space show #not that thousands of people haven’t talked about this before me I’m just thinkin about it #san rant #sorry for vanishing for two days and then coming out swinging about some random shit #I was busy setting up a five year plan to become a trophy spouse. slash j. unless?

[feminisedlad]

liked the people’s joker but to no one’s surprise i wish the depictions of trans masculinity were, um, more nuanced. but it’s still really fucking good and worth seeing. just don’t expect to see any fully developed trans masc characters who aren’t like, explicitly abusive shitheads or joke characters

8.5/10 movie, would be a 9.5 if they’d given the penguin mastectomy scars. if your only character with visible top surgery scars or visible transmasc traits is a fucking shithead, idk, i think that is sort of mean to the other type of trans person who is Not You

#if it hadn’t given me the jump scare of ‘T4T will work out’ then I prob wouldn’t be so butt hurt abt it #certain parts feel like the author rehashing Twitter arguments and i don’t love that #also the only non binary rep was a robot. would like if that trend could stop #that being said i went to see this with a trans man and he didn’t give a shit LOL #so i think i just see it as unfair in like a principles sense #but if other ppl aren’t bothered maybe i am just a kill joy

[heymrstargazer]

petition for a support group for everyone that's left the aftg fandom

#who let me be that person wtf #i can only laugh at yall interacting w nora bc yall really think you know more than the author. pls. #also i am not seeking that shit out it is on my dash non consensually

[mudefrau]

every time i find a (typically more recent) YA/fantasy series that turns out to have an abundant dedicated fandom writing long essays, fics and pumping out amazing fanart on the daily, with those posts averaging 200-400+ notes-1K+ for fanart, i get a bit sad and jealous that maguire isn't achieving this despite all the exposure (musical, upcoming movie, being based on the american cultural staple that is wizard of oz)

what went wrong with the wicked years? can't be only the feline sex parts 😩

#yes in plural #gregory maguire #i can elaborate. i didn't because biggass rants look ugly on my blog #basically i've gone to finding his writing chaotic to thinking he's on par with some lauded xix-xx c. “non-fandomable” authors #the amount of times i got told i write like him when i was just referencing turn of phrases and narrative pacing by said authors #(which wasn't a lot of times because i don't write for characters ppl read often. but in relative terms? a lot hehe) #and why? because modern ya/fantasy got linear character/action-centric stories infused with battle and romance #trust me i often try to read them but i end up bored like “this isn't for me lol” and go back to aforementioned classic authors #maguire is more world-centric and poetic which isn't necessarily worse. it's different. and when ur tired of the former it's better #insert here that iq bell curve where at the middle you're like “this is bad” but at the extremes you realize maguire is masterful #which means ur either very wise or very unwise (shit taste). maybe i just have shit taste. i ask myself that every day #considering even my faves in gm's work are unpopular #but can you really tell in a sample of what... <10 people #i think the movie HAD a chance of redeeming this but it won't #anyway i'll delete this sometime but while i don't feel free to debate

[whynotcherries]

if i had a nickle for every time a verizon employee verbally questioned whether i was old enough to drive a car, i would have two nickles. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

#this man goes 'honestly if you came into the store by yourself i would've asked to see your id because you don't look old enough' #sir i am an ADULT #i turn 19 in EIGHT DAYS #i am on the struggle bus today jfc #last time the guy goes 'oh... is she old enough to drive?' #YES I AM #I HAD BEEN FOR A YEAR AND THIS GUY GOES 'i thought you were 14' #bro #i am not complaining except for the part where i absolutely am #non-authoring shit

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is just having to think about the fact a majority of one of your fandom's fan-media is shipping with not much general 'characters vibing' media to balance it

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#sleepy--girl--101 #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #honestly i fucking adore fics from the POV of like #non-main characters living through the events of things #especially if it's a character that is canon and got fucked by the author or production or smth #like. brain foggy so please excuse the hp example: #my boi percy weasley deserved to get like #actual fucking acknowledgement for so much. yes he's kinda an asshole! #he's also a middle child who clearly is seeking to have any sense of control in his own life and struggles with perfectionism #and he tries pretty damn hard to do his best in ways that he absolutely shouldn't have had to #so like. fics exploring 'hey what if we got that boy some healthy relationships and/or therapy' or 'what if literally anyone gave a shit' #are really neat to me #in terms of like. fanfics overall i just really like when people do character studies or just... try to really flesh out characters who #were written in ways that reflected the author's prejudice / assumptions #and try to see what could be done from there #like... part of why i mention HP is that i specifically was trying to reference an old fanfic in a discussion recently #to discuss like... trends in tropes and the ways in which healing from trauma is treated by fandom #and i came across a fic that had a bigender cedric while trying to find that one #and honestly like. god. media - even fanfic - that has a bigender character? i never see it :/ #as in: i want to see more trans characters who aren't strictly one (1!) of binary trans or nonbinary #but they're so hard to find #like. sometimes i find genderfluidity in fics but 90% of the time it's like. 'hi this guy likes fashion so we stan a genderfluid queen' #and like! more genderfluidity in fics is great but please. can i have 1 representation #like just 1 character even whose genderfluidity is not just 'woman with she/her or man with he/him'

[nostalgia-tblr]

Never Have I Ever - Darkfic or Dub/Non-Con?

I have done those things! Most recently the 'dark lokius' fic, which is both of those things, though I am always less sure about when to label fics as 'dark' because it's sometimes a fairly subjective judgement, isn't it?

Speaking of, a thing I noticed a while ago is that in recent years people seem to label fic as dubcon more readily than they used to, which I think is good and shows that we've all got at least a bit more aware of the importance of informed consent and of the real and fictional factors that can compromise that consent. Good work, fandom!

(The people who deliberately write 'problematic' fic know what they've made and label it accordingly, as opposed to people who think they write lovely fluffy happy tales but there's some element of fucked up in there that they haven't spotted and so we as readers just get smacked in the face with it without any warning. So actually people who know they're fucking shit up are usually not the ones anyone needs to worry about as their stuff is easy to avoid.)

#replies #fic related #there was a popular sylki fic a while back with a VERY uncomfortable moment in a sex scene and no hint of a warning #i think it was the author briefly indulging a bit of a non-con kink for a few lines but they... didn't seem to realise it was tag-worthy? #so i just don't read that person's stuff now because either they don't tag properly or they don't even know their shit's f'ed up

[chrollohearttags]

remember when I said other writers can make pretty much anything, including some sick ass shit that should never have been constructed but y’all go out of your way to g-check black writers for EVERYTHING?…yeah lmao.

#cause why am I seeing in*est fics #and people writing r*pe like that shit is cool #cherry chats 🍒 #cherry rambles #nah I’m just irritated because why I never see no smoke for stuff like this? #and you can TELL when it’s a non-blk author bc I know we’re

[robinsnest2111]

12 year old me was so right. I need to be kidnapped by a dashing outlaw to escape this fucked up living situation once and for all.

#like back then i didnt have any authority or rights or knowledge so i had to daydream about someone swooping in to take me away #never happened tho. welp. #15 years later and i could in theory get myself out of here bUT MY NON-CONFRONTATIONAL NATURE MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE LMAO #which means DASHING OUTLAW COME KIDNAP ME PLS!!!!!!!! #if i just had a plausible reason for wanting to move far away from my parents then i could do it #but i CANNOT under any circumstances tell them i need to get out because they traumatised me #and that i always regress and feel like absolute dogshit sharing space with them #because i KNOW they repressed all they did to me over the years and think everything's sunshine and roses #and they wanna keep me close. idk why because they don't really give a shit about me #anyway. DASHING OUTLAW COME KIDNAP ME PLSSSSS

[searidings]

hi hello it's the end of june which means!!! half of the year is already gone!!! i love your book recs and was wondering if you have a list of everything you've read so far this year??? and your favourites. i need to buy some books!!! thanks <3333

thank you so much for the reminder that this year is half over <3 yes i have been reading A Lot to quiet the brain demons so here are my very long list & recs!!

italic = gay/queer

bold = so good. SO good

italic and bold = so good AND so gay

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JANUARY

middlesex - jeffrey eugenides

the mountains sing - nguyên phan qué mai

the vegetarian - han kang

the galaxy and the ground within - becky chambers

to be taught, if fortunate - becky chambers

when we were orphans - kazuo ishiguro

americanah - chimamanda ngozi adichie

h of h playbook - anne carson

klara and the sun - kazuo ishiguro

the space between worlds - micaiah johnson

FEBRUARY

normal people - sally rooney

circe - madeline miller

blood of elves - andrzej sapkowski

gideon the ninth - tamsyn muir

time of contempt - andrzej sapkowski

baptism of fire - andrzej sapkowski

MARCH

the tower of the swallow - andrzej sapkowski

lady of the lake - andrzej sapkowski

harrow the ninth - tamsyn muir

the last wish - andrzej sapkowski

we should all be feminists - chimamanda ngozi adichie

a memory called empire - arkady martine

burnt sugar - avni doshi

a psalm for the wild built - becky chambers

APRIL

the alchemist - paul coelho

sword of destiny - andrzej sapkowski

oranges are not the only fruit - jeanette winterson

the colour purple - alice walker

the midnight library - matt haig

where the crawdads sing - delia owens

10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world - elif shafak

the discomfort of evening - marieke lucas rijneveld

crying in h mart - michelle zauner

my year of rest and relaxation - ottessa moshfegh

the shadow king - maaza mengiste

the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides

sapiens - yuval noah harari

MAY

the manningtree witches - a. k. blakemore

parable of the sower - octavia butler

hot milk - deborah levy

an unkindness of ghosts - rivers solomon

the water dancer - ta-nehisi coates

pure colour - sheila heti

this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar & max gladstone

five little indians - michelle good

JUNE

indian horse - richard wagamese

ducks, newburyport - lucy ellmann

the vanishing half - brit bennett

medicine walk - richard wagamese

crier's war - nina varela

a quality of light - richard wagamese

after the quake - haruki murakami

death in her hands - ottessa moshfegh

the school for good mothers - jessamine chan

bluets - maggie nelson

of women and salt - gabriela garcia

lapvona - ottessa moshfegh

mcglue - ottessa moshfegh

songbirds - christy lefteri

to paradise - hanya yanagihara

sankofa - chibundu onuzo

#yes i DID read this is how you lose the time war again this year #and you know what? it still SLAPS #i'll never shut up about it. just as i'll never shut up about becky chambers or tamsyn muir for queer fiction #gideon & harrow new loves of my eternal life this year. i need the next book like i need air #also shoutout to huge rack winter for the rec of 'the space between worlds' which i LOVED #for non-gay recs the authors that can do no wrong in my eyes this year are ottessa moshfegh (holy SHIT); jeffrey eugenides; maggie nelson #those guys really Get It. and their use of language is just so incredibly delicious #reading their books is no longer enough i need to EAT THEM #hope u like my long list!! if u ever want to come chat to me about books i would love that #in this house we love to read so that we can't be thinking about anything else!!! #god bless books and the ability to escape from the world when it becomes too hellish #as always check content/warnings before reading!! some of these deal with some heavy stuff #but if you wanna chat about any of these hmu!! i love Books #hope you're having a great day & tysm for this lovely ask!! #asks #anonymous #book recs

[piratefalls]

y'all, if you don't even like the premise of a fic, never mind its content, and you possess the ability to scroll past it, you should probably just...do that. instead of putting authors on blast for writing a thing you don't agree with.

#like what is your life like if you get you so bent out of shape over something someone wrote about people who are...not real #i scroll past shit that i don't like/doesn't interest me/disagree with literally daily it's not that hard #the only time i've ever gotten this mad at a fic it was for untagged drugging and subsequent non-con #and even then i didn't put the author on blast i was just like - hey this thing exists heads up to anyone who may be triggered by it #you can be mad about things and disagree with things and not be an asshole about it it's really very simple #you're absolutely allowed to not like the content of a fic - be it characterization or plot points or whatever #what's not okay is being really fucking rude to the people who create the content you disagree with #am i just a crotchety fandom old at this point? who knows. i don't care. #also not allowing reblogs because i'm not interested in discourse. i'm airing a grievance and moving on.

[castielcommunism]

“It’s starting.” “Yeah, you think, genius?” “You don’t have to be mean.”

Dean is like generally an asshole and says rude things but nine times out of ten if someone is like uh dude you’re being a dick right now he immediately backs off. Like don’t get me wrong Dean can be a committed asshole when he wants to be but I feel like most of the time it’s not something he’s doing maliciously. Dean is an abrasive person but as long as he has someone who will gently and firmly tell him to cut his shit out when he crosses a line he’s fine

#dean.txt #spn lb #he literally just needs a non abusive authority figure to be like cut that shit out boy!!!

[canary-prince]

If you catch me posting Bible memes I'm not turning into a Christian or whatever the fuck I was before my intense spiritual crisis 2 years ago (or was it three)? I went to school for academic theological studies (analysis of religion from an exterior view point) and recent books have me nostalgic and hyperfixating.

#if anything grief turned me back into atheist #ive been a few things #my dad was raised catholic but is a staunch atheist #and mom was sort of Pentecostal and sort of methodist and is a like #soft atheist who definitely believes in ghosts and curses and shit #and i was an atheist for a long time but i felt drawn to Catholicism #it felt like a culture idk #and then it got more and more comforting to non commitally hover at its edges through witchcraft and loose modern spiritual stuff #and perform mental gymnastics about it and mostly believe large swaths of its mythology without thinking about the moral and human side and #also not converting because i couldn’t face my parents if i did and i also was already aware that i couldn’t #but i kept convincing myself that The Church as an institution could somehow be good despite how evil everyone running it is #and then my education finally got the upper hand over my weird desperate longing to fully believe in something beautiful and nearly ancient #and also my father had repeated lies he didn’t know enough to spot #my education finally made me understand that The Church was only >1000 years old #that the gnostics (originally a jewish tradition according to bart d erhman and he referenced this as being commonly accepted) #were the group which the supposed messiah belonged to and the patristic church (catholic church 1.0) had them all killed #unarmed ascetics starving in the desert the people who wrote the earliest gospels and the church killed them all #there is no textual basis for the authority of the pope #the devil was a comprise #the saints were a marketing tactic #correction: the church is sort over a thousand years old but it went through so many iterations and eras before we got here #to be exact #the church FATHERS aka the church that will become the patristic church in the wake of these dudes #and im fuzzy on if the orthodox church is a fully separate iteration or if it and the patristic are used interchangeably #Catholicism as like a term comes out of the scism with Protestantism i think