#okay caveat:

[the-hs-etaverse]

One thing that I’ve never seen mentioned, even in the Homestuck lesbian circles, that bears mentioning, is the relationship between Vriska and Terezi in the pre-retcon timeline.

Here’s the issue.

In the pre-retcon timeline, Vriska is a ghost, and as such is a perpetual 13-year-old. Terezi, on dying, is a perpetual 16-year-old. THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT AGE-GAP ISSUE.

Yes, it’s still an issue if they’re “only” moirails. Moirallegiance is a romantic relationship. It’s not just “mega best friends” or even just a QPP. It is one of the four quadrants of troll romance for a reason. 

And no, it doesn’t matter that they’re ghosts, that (Vriska)’s been dead for 3 years so that “technically” makes her 16. Age gap issues are about maturity, both physical and mental. (Vriska) still has the mind of a 13-year-old. She is not fully mature. She will NEVER be fully mature.

Another thing, regarding post-retcon and/or post-canon Vriska & Terezi. Time flows weirdly in the Furthest Ring. I implore you to, if you write fanfic or have a medium in which you can easily define this, make sure they end up within a reasonable age gap when it comes to shipping them.

#homestuck #vriska serket #terezi pyrope #(vriska serket) #queue #breaking: meow is taking moral stands for once in her life online. film at eleven #I really thought I would have seen a post like this by now seeing as I've been in this fandom for almost 3 years #welp be the change you wish to see in the world #okay caveat: #I know that not everyone abides by real-world standards for good relationships when it comes to fanon #which is just a complex way of saying 'proshippers' #I don't want to condemn you for shipping something 'problematic' #I rephrased much of this post after first writing to make it less a condemnation and more a warning #I dislike morally black ships and condemn people who deliberately partake in them in real life #but so long as you can tell fiction from reality #ship what you please #:3 #[I am going to end up on so many blacklists]

[chittychittyyangyang]

I wish people would stop adding qualifiers and caveats to why RWBY isn't perfect and just embrace it's a good show that deserves to be continued.

#ccyy talks #I'm sorry I am just frustrated by the constant need to give reasons why it's not good #IT IS #no show is perfect NONE #and that is truly okay #life is better when you enjoy things without the need to always have qualifiers and caveats #might delete cause this isn't my brand of complaining #just hate seeing something I love ALWAYS shit on from all sides

[livseses]

Had a conversation with my singlet girlfriend about system doubt. She was utterly baffled at the concept. I explained all the ways that doubt creeps in for us (she accepted thus was something she didn't get and was supportive). Me and my headmates joke with her sometimes because she's said stuff that gives us a plural vibe, and she's always like "no, I am the only one in here; the only one that can be in here." She has this certainty that's kinda baffling to us.

And we've talked to singlet friends about getting headmates. Like, if they wanted to, they could probably make headmates. And they always look at us with horror (like the kind a cis person has when you offer them hrt). They're quite content with being singular.

Idk where I'm going with this exactly, but it's stuff like this that makes me want to answer any questioning system that asks "am I plural" with "probably." Singlets don't really seem to ask themselves if they have others in their head I don't think.

So shoutout to anyone questioning your plurality. You're probably plural!

#hesitant to post this cause yes theres a ton of caveats and nuance im intentionally not watering this post down with #even if you identify something as plurality and its not that youre okay #identity is a fluid thing that changes and becomes more or less understood with time #plural positivity #endo friendly #questioning plural #faye post

[deadpanwalking]

hello!! do you have any recommendations for books or essays about becoming a better reader of poetry? I love the poems you post and esp love when your tags go into what you got out of it / understood from it, bc it’s always so much more than I was able to interpret on my own. and I want to become a better reader and learn how to really sit with a poem and get into all its layers but idk where to start.

I stand behind the recs in this post, but since you want to focus on poetry and poetics, in addition to William Empson's The Seven Types of Ambiguity and Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry, I'd also recommend Christopher Ricks' The Force of Poetry, I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism, and Jorge Luis Borges' The Craft of Verse. They are all beautifully written, by people whose love of the form transcends academia and becomes, at times, a kind of secular worship. I loved poetry before I fully understood language, back when it was just incomprehensible mouthwords my parents repeated to get me to sleep; I'd have loved poetry even if I never toiled a day in the hermeneutics mines, like my grandmother reciting Eugene Onegin after her dementia cleared everything else from the table—she wasn't sure what it meant, all she knew was that this was the nicest thing she had. Isn't that a kind of faith?

There are other good books about how to read poetry, but these were the ones that initiated me into a conspiracy of words, they taught me to be curious about why I liked a poem, how to take pleasure in its vivisection without worrying I'd kill that faith—like martyrs, good poems never fall apart when you open them up, they yield. If anything, the practice of explication has made me even more of a fanatic. I hope it does the same for you!

If there are poets you already like, I can get more specific about recs—I'm partial to modernist poetry, but that just means I like following breadcrumb trails of allusions to lots of different literary traditions and can tell you where the bodies, hatchets and/or treasures are buried.

#where's that bugs bunny meme that's like lord forgive me but it's time 2 go back to tha old me #but it's me about to reblog tha helen vendler emperor of ice cream explication #literary criticism #i read much of the night and go south in the winter #r-osehips #assbox #okay caveat the vendler and ricks books are definitely out of print but get them used—i promise they pay for themselves #in a hypothetical future where the economy crashes and poetry understanding becomes the most valuable form of currency

[lumiereandcogsworth]

shayne “i’ve never been flirted with before” topp my brother in christ i need you to look very closely at the shirt damien is wearing across from you

#caveat that we don’t know what goes on behind cameras!! maybe he knows and just doesn’t wanna discuss it outwardly!!!!!!!! #but i just have to say #IT IS SO FUNNY AT THIS POINT #like i’ve literally said that to my friends before. the AMOUNT of times that shayne says something and im like. babygirl. it’s giving tism #anyway that’s his life but it just cracks me up every time he says the most autistic shit ever and then is just like ‘crazy. anyway’ #and in this one even damien 🔥autism🔥 haas was like ‘yeah lol same’ like agjskfjd damien can you please peer review your bestie #BUT MAYBE HE HAS AND ITS ALL OFF CAMERA AND THATS OKAY!!!!!!! not trying to speculate at all. just saying i relate and it’s funny <3 #smosh #shayne topp #damien haas #lyd says things

[commsroom]

i love to think about the ways eiffel is willing/able to take up physical space for hera when she can’t. i think... with eiffel and hera and minkowski staying together post-canon, one thing that might start to really bother hera is that, like. she doesn’t have any stuff. she doesn’t even have herself to be there in the house, really, not physically. and unlike with the hephaestus, a house that is actually meant to be a home, a place that is designed for human life, is always full of reminders of the people who live there. so i want to think that she expresses this to eiffel and he starts picking up stuff he thinks she’ll like just to put it on the shelves and around the house, so it’s her house too. and she thinks it’s kind of silly at first because it’s not like she can really interact with most of it, but. then she sees all of her stuff mixed together with eiffel’s on the shelves and it’s like this constant reminder that she exists in the world, that she has an impact on it and a place in it. and that does make her feel a little better.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #hera wolf 359 #eiffera #when she finds some favorite albums he buys records #and she's like you know i can listen to this whenever i want to right you don't have to do that #but eiffel is an analog guy i think he's like. yeah well it sounds better on vinyl you'll see. er. hear. #and maybe she kinda agrees with him. a little bit #i think she'd like to have Stuff of her own even if she thinks the idea is a little silly at first #she likes used books specifically because she wants them to look worn and loved. it's not satisfying to have a brand new book #untouched on the shelf. #she likes sea shells and sand dollars and sea glass even though she knows it's just litter and various. maritime trinkets. #i want to say she likes kinda tacky painted statues you might find at a thrift shop because the idea is funny to me #like dragons and fairies and assorted mythical creatures #eiffel gets her flowers because well. no one's ever gotten her flowers before. #and okay. usual caveat that i'm not attaching all of my post-canon thoughts to this especially re: eiffel because that's for #a different type of post. #also yes minkowski would/could/should also get hera physical gifts. however #this is a post about eiffel and hera Having Their Stuff on a Shelf Together. okay? #... i promise i'm done talking about them. for now.

[un-pearable]

no offense but i think when critiquing jay’s (and let’s be real all of the OG four ninja’s) behavior in the pilots and early seasons, a lot of people ignore that the cultural context and attitude about misogyny and especially misogyny in children’s media is VERY different today than it was in the late 2000s/early 2010s

#not saying it’s great but lots of the shit early seasons jay gets flack for was standard for male protags. ESPECIALLY if part of the plot #was *them unlearning it*. yknow. what they were trying to show with the resolution of the sam x arc #i’m not saying they did it really well but the cultural attitudes in the US about gender have VASTLY changed since 2011 #like when the netflix show cut sokka’s misogynistic jokes everyone was upset that they were taking away a character growth moment . #not saying ninjago has equivalent writing quality *but* those storylines come from the same cultural narrative that was prevalent at the ti #time. guy character flirts with girl -> doubts her abilities -> doesn’t believe she is actually as skilled when she gets her overblown #Girlboss Moment -> awkward reconciliation bc all these plots were written by middle ages men who haven’t been teenagers since the 80s #text✨ #ninjago #ninjago was very firmly a boy’s show. it had consequences. and like… just in general you gotta take the context that story choices were #made in into account #okay thanks for reading the ramble 👍 jay rose early seasons enjoyer (with caveats) strikes again #i’m running on four hrs of sleep before a long work day gurantee i’ll reread this in 12 hrs and find seven mistakes

[wife-beam]

i think it’s cute how comfortable with kids sqq is and i like to think it’s related to how close he was with his little sister. you know in the dream realm when he, unknowingly, picks up sad baby binghe? he does so COMPLETELY without any doubts or hesitations, like of course he would pick up this sad little lost kid that’s just what u do

#sqq #svsss #thinking this scene is cute always comes with the caveat that okay yes he does toss that child the second he knows it’s lbh #but that’s DIFFERENT #it’s sweet #sy tell me about your family!!!!!! #holds him by the ankles and shakes him

[menlove]

every time i am around older queer people the more i am convinced i was meant to be an older queer person. not bc i have this fantasy of living in decades past that were much worse but bc i get along with and agree w them so much better. so much of modern queer discourse is painfully white, binary, and completely regressive while painting itself as revolutionary and i just want to crack jokes w some cool older butch lesbians every time i encounter discourse that makes me want to bash my head into the wall

#my professor in this one class is a lesbian in her 60s #and so many times she will say things that immediately either piss off or confuse the very lgbtqia+ alphabet mafia crowd in the class #while im sitting there like no no let her speak shes literally correct #and do not mistake me i am accepting of my lot in life as a 24 year old dyke okay i know the community i am going to be in and around #and love them all dearly and will stick up to their right to exist #but i will say. some of them annoy the living fuck out of me and we cannot have productive conversations #bc i always end up feeling like i need to take a walk to calm myself lmfaoooooo #AND ANOTHER CLARIFICATION BC WE NEED 20 CAVEATS ON TUMBLR.COM #this is not abt r//adical feminism im not talking abt transgender ppl existing as smth that annoys me abt the modern community #i just think older queer people actually have their heads screwed on and don't get as caught up in The Bullshit as we do #and i envy them for it

[klavierpanda]

There is a very simple solution to "is [insert combination of identities labels that you feel describes your experience] a thing?" and it is of course it's a thing because you're experiencing it. If you feel using a combination of labels, even if they're seemingly contradictory, is an apt way of describing your experience then it is more than okay to do so

#there are obvious caveats around words that can't be used by everyone for cultural reasons #or words that are just plain not okay and not in good faith. e.g. the appropriation of transrace #queer #lgbtq+ #inclusionism #panda's post

[appropriatelystupid]

9 and 18 for the choose violence ask game!

9. worst part of canon

writing kara as if she’s superman because that’s who they wanted instead of working to do her justice like she deserved

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

(since you also asked @sideguitars i’m just gonna tag you here)

KELLY

choose violence asks

#okay there are actually some caveats to 18 because tbh i actually don’t know the true extent of kelly’s rightful inclusion because i almost #only read fics with sc as the primary (it’s just what my brain is willing to focus on i’m sry) but i have a lot of opinions regardless #i won’t get into them because i’m not connected enough to alex as a character to make it a Thing i harp on #idk if any of that makes sense #choose violence asks #oreoambitions #(oh i just remembered i’ve got a new oreo flavor to try) #sideguitars #appropriatelyasked #stupidlyanswered

[istherewifiinhell]

character opinion bingo!! rottmnt donnie, draxum, and cassandra 🥺

BESTIEEEE HELL YEAHHHHHH. my writting gets worse in my excitement please persue the alt for clarity. OUR FIRST TRIPPPPLEEE BINGOOOOOOO

[ALT] DONIIIIIEEEEEEEE MY BOYYYYY my special special shaped boyyyyyy. everyone is wrong i THINK ive disscussed. his autism doesnt present like urs or some other guy just cause u realise hes autistic. HE LOVESSSS HIS FAMILY. he has VARIED interest in hugs and textures and flavours and cleanliness. the fandom meanness isnt actually that bad MORE. they looooove to hit him with the angst hammer. well. by all means. scraped s2 and 3 EPSIODESSSSSS GUH. hessss a botantist hessss going on a journey with his mystics hissss ARCSSSSS. WAH. best donnie design we all know this. u can like other ones (I DO!!) but we all know hes best. look at his eyebrows. groovying donnie still my discord icon <3. I WANT EP WERE HE PASS AWAY. the sacred text. IS LITERALLY ABOUT HIM. DID i cry at rise movie i think so. ALSO. famously. well i never know if any of u know. BUT bnf super popular au comic. I DEF CRIED.

HAVE I MENTIONED. how much of a perfect addition he was to turtles character villian/ally roster. HESSSS SOOOOO GOOD.

[ALT] HES THE HOT VILLAIN REDEEMED BABY TRAPPING GOAT MAN!!!!!!! he was evil and scary and evil and scary and used and then pathetic and wet and then running this lunch room like the navy and then PROTECTIVE COOL DAD. in a hot robe. actually maybe the au evil draxys have calmed down now. or i just check the tag less..... HE WAS. suppose to HELP HIS KIDS. with their MAGICS. there was an EP he was supposed to help RAPH they were supposed to BUILD UP as a FAMIBLY. CRIES FOREVER. hessss so silly hes such a perfect fun cartoon villian i have EVEN more opinions than previously about the laws of cartoon villians. which is that if their fun they can do whatever they want. this is not a contradiction. its the purpose of a cartoon. sorrrrrry sorrrry mr cena sorrrrry i really want to hear his villian song with the second va. think he woulda had the range. tho i dont know. silly bastard man.

(sung like sweeny todd joana) I SEEEE U, CASSANDRA.

[ALT] HER NAME IS CASEY JONES SHELL BUST UR BONES

broooooo. BROOOOOOOOOO. THEY MADE CASEY A CRAZYYYYYY 18 year old GIRL DUDEEEEEEEEEEE. and then REPLACED HER IN THE MOVIE. forrrr normiessss. WITH SORA???? shes a great turtles character fake out moment shes a great CHARACTER. its GREAT that she gets added to the group by being mentored by splints cause he sees a upset child hes like. well no thats not good. DO U KNOW? what ususally happens with caseys and aprils in TURTLES?? U GET ME??? crazy girl 4 crazy girl. she issss SO silly. shes drawn and written and VOICED soooo fucking spectacularly so perfectly executed. frankly. where the hell else are u getting a female cartoon character this buck wild. es arcee... maybe. kdjfgnjdf. WE SHOULDA GOTTEN MOREEEEE. she and raph were gonna be the best of fucking bros U_U. they would fucking BREAK. EVERYTHING <3. her fucking gay dads and their cupcake shop. etc

#some shit #turbles... #SO SO SO CRAZY FUN THANK UUUUUUUUUU #if it needs must be said i say got hcs and dont list em. these characters simply live in my mind and my head. i can picture them at any tim #and also on a different blog. lol #AND ALSO. thaat one time at work i was msg the other guy and we did en.canto au. with baby trapping drax im SURE lol. well hes just that #guy okay. end tag #OH ALSO. ig cause i shouted out casey va. i woulda caveated like wellll caseys ambiguously asian #and like so should zel.da williams have. but then SHES part filipino on her moms side SO thats a lvl of granularity that im just. presentin #the facts and im not gonna do anything else. lmao

[sassygwaine]

there is actually something wrong with me and that's also fine??

like when i was a kid/teenager with several health, mood, and developmental issues, it was years and years and years of being told "nothing's wrong with you, that's normal, everybody does that, you'll grow out of it, you're just a normal kid" and then look at that, i grew into an adult with several health, mood, and developmental issues

normal is fake, "normal" is a set of ever-moving goal posts set by any given person/group at any given moment to justify why they feel disgust or revulsion or pity or shame, normal isn't real

and also, there's shit that i actually legitimately struggle with that causes me a lot of stress and distress that are things innate within myself that will never change, some of which, in fact, will get worse as i age, and they're things that other people don't have to deal with

a lot of these things could have been mitigated when i was younger if somebody had just listened to me with the intent to help me instead of just to shut me up

no, it was always the insistence that i was normal, that nothing was wrong, then, further, that i was making it up, that i was just looking for attention

and maybe a lot of how i expressed myself was looking for attention, but when you're in pain all the time and feeling more like a gutted pig than a human and the people you're supposed to trust with your life tell you that nothing is wrong with you and go back to ignoring you, what else could you try to get but some fucking attention?

so anyway, there is something wrong with me, several somethings, and i'm unraveling a bit more each day (in some very good and cathartic ways, some very truthful, painful, and growing ways) and figuring out how to actually care for all of the little parts of me that are trying to get my attention, and i don't think any of that is a bad thing

#nothing wrong with normal #normal's great #“that's a normal emotional response to that kind of situation” = very validating to hear and often immediately reduces panic #okay caveats over #been feeling particularly crazy these days and i am tired of pretending that's a bad thing??? #i'm managed i'm healthy i'm talking to my therapist and taking care of myself #there's still shit that comes up that i truly cannot handle #anyway i'm less concerned about being normal and more concerned about being abnormal and treated with dignity

[dangerous-advantage]

finally caved and just bought all of the heaven official's blessing books. look out for the myriad of long-ass analysis posts that are sure to follow

#like i mean i could have done it before #(make analysis posts) #and i DID start on a couple about the thematic implications of their spiritual devices (everyone talks about e'ming but ruoye is SO #FUCKING INTERESTING OKAY huge w for mxtx on that one) #but i never ended up posting them bc like. i feel like i need to read the official translation too in order to pick up on all the #extra details? #so much (can) get lost in translation ESP if the author doesn't play a part in said translation bc like. things like foreshadowing? and eve #just the subjective nature OF art and creation and word play and etc etc #i know for my own writing if somebody was translating as i was putting it out the things being translated might miss or gloss over #specific details that wouldn't be noticeable until the second read #and mxtx's stuff is like that too! so i've been holding back on just the off-chance that there are certain details i would end up missing #just bc of the nature of the unofficial translations :P #anyway yeah. #oh yes also i SWEAR i have been and am working on writing something!!! i cannot say when/if it will come out or if it will be good #but i have not forgotten the requests and treasure them all deeply and etc etc #thanks for reading this long-ass caveat on a lowkey shitpost i will now obligatorily tag for the blog organization #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #literary analysis #literary criticism #media analysis #media criticism #(it's so much funner than you might think it is i promise i promise i promise)

[jinruihokankeikaku]

sorry for making a bunch of posts about this all of a sudden. one thing about me is i am simply not used to like. caring what people at school think of me. i dropped out of highschool after 2 years of being miserable and dysfunctional and scraping by with a C+/B- average by acing the tests and on rare occasion doing my homework if i could get myself out of bed in the afternoon. i dropped out of college the first time after developing several drug habits and compounding my depression with various additional neuroses. being a human in the world again is...hard.

#the last time i cared this much about a teacher's opinion of me was like okay. i got a little sad about... #...my latin teacher / academic advisor being rightfully disappointed in my burnout ways at the time. back in my first go at college #but a professor being this genuinely kind and encouraging and niceys w/o caveating it with 'but you need to get your shit together' is New

[fatherramiro]

posts that will make no sense to anyone else but ángel 1899 = astarion bg3 and in this essay i will

#okay its not a perfect parallel but apparently when i see well dressed guys who try to convince the world they are bastards who don't care #but who are really traumatized out of showing any vulnerability/humanity/empathy #and who - through human connection - find their way back to themselves and break the cycle #apparently i floor it #anyways caveat of their situations are highly different. however. back scars