#the puritans are at it again

[go-our-own-ways]

every time I see someone post something anti-ao3 I lose like 5 years off my life

#the puritans are at it again #does no one on the internet have the ability to do research and critical reading and critical thinking anymore #not saying I approve of the the statement perse but if you check her statements to the GOVERNMENT I think you'll understand #she's trying to find the balance where creators can exist without AI if they want to #and people who want to use AI can use it if they want to #aka like...do something about the scraping #which MAKES SENSE #also if you think about it there's really not a good way to identify AI-written stuff and the last thing we want is witch hunting #like “oh you must be AI-generated” when it turns out they just have shit writing

[worm-on-the-moss]

whoops sorry tamsyn muir

#did this last night and then chickened out of posting it #but i decided to do the horrifying thing so happy late spooky season to me #cw ianthe tridentarius #<-the funniest shit ever written #tw nudity #tw concealed nudity?? #sorry again to anyone who wanted full booba #i fear the puritans #and sorry once more to tamsyn muir but ma'am if i don't thirst over this greasy woman i will eat my own arm #and why should i when she could do it for me #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #the locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart #the locked tomb #tlt #she's HOT ok i keep seeing people saying she's not hot and like sorry. she is. to me.

[craycraybluejay]

Anti-intellectualism kills. If yall equate thoughts with abuse, then the only thing between you and seriously hurting someone is a particularly shitty day or a moment of rampant imagination.

#anti intellectualism #thought crime #puritan rhetoric #'your mind must be pure and free of sin' #now tell me again how you aren't an evangelical? #'oh its not the same because i go after actually bad people!' #did this supposed bad people actually DO something to anyone? do they even plan to? #you either do or don't believe in thought crime #if i can ignore the powerful urge to jump off a building you can also just Not Do bad things that so much as pop into your head

[bedazzlecunt]

I agree that nobody should be basing ideas around safe(r) kink from fantasy posts on tumblr, but I've come across plenty of educational posts on here that were genuinely helpful and enlightening. I don't think it's fair to suggest that they're all lying.

one of the most popular posts i ever used to see on here before i blocked OP was a guide for how to safely choke someone. not how to choke someone more safely, safer. how to do it SAFELY. this post, which continues to be extremely popular and has no doubt inspired a great deal of play, advises CUTTING OFF BLOOD TO THE BRAIN as a safe way to do choking!!!

obviously there are plenty of posts that are not out here insisting that actually there are 0 risks to choking your partner until they pass out, but there are a great number of posts that poke at that sort of thing. a huge number of posts that say "doms, we subs don't know how to communicate." a huge number of posts that posit and insist that there are actual 0 risks with biting your partner anywhere.

and — maybe this is worse! — i don't think the people making these posts are lying! i think they are uninformed and sometimes reacting with anger and defensiveness because someone somewhere told them that "hey this thing you like might not be safe" or even just "you have to be capable of communication and honesty to do kink safely." nobody's writing a post and twirling their mustache about how they're gonna ruin somebody's life by getting them to choke their partner, but a lot of people are spreading irresponsible shit anyway and i think it's healthy to approach every tumblr kink post with the mindset of "there is at least a 50% chance that this information is wrong"

#Anonymous #wren speaking! #listen im a ssc person personally but also rack is good #there are plenty of rly common kink situations that are extremely risky and thats okay! #i dont care if someone does the research and decides they still wanna get choked out #i care deeply that everyone knows the risks of how they're playing and can consent to those risks fully #that information is not getting spread on tumblr. a certain flavor of kinkster gets rly mad and defensive if u try #just recently i had to see a whole 'ppl are fearmongering about choking!' post again #abt how actually its rly low-risk and everyone who says otherwise is a puritanical sex-negative pussy

[echodrops]

I started the last post with "I'm so tired" too, but it just gets more true every day.

My last post was about how my real life sucks, but man, I can't even come to the internet as an escape from the intellectual collapse of academia anymore.

I'm just trying to browse in peace without being bombarded with people virtue signalling, advocating for media to be sanitized, and arguing over whether it's morally responsible to ship a character who is a literal murderer with someone that he said something mean to once.

Like, is this where we're at?

Is this really where we're at?

#IRL stuff #well #internet stuff #I went through a period of just trying to block anyone whose takes #were so utterly devoid of thought or nuance #that they actively gave me headaches #but I CAN ONLY BLOCK SO MANY PEOPLE #I can't block an entire generation's prevailing Puritan mindset #rant #someone save complex media #at this point although I hate to say it #I think we gotta start gatekeeping some stuff again #'Sorry but you have to demonstrate your critical thinking ability before we let you watch this show' #I'm sorry this is so mean sounding #but I am actually EXHAUSTED

[batwynn]

Remembering that time when I was five and didn’t even know filters existed—never mind knowing how to stop talking—and I was out with my grandmother (divorced from my grandfather) having a lovely day in a lovely little Maine town in the 90s.

The thing about Maine in the 90s was certain things like smoking weed was illegal across the country and generally frowned upon, but Mainers simply Did Not Care and more than happily grew and smoked pot anyway. The other thing about Maine is most of those Lovely Little Towns are constantly full of out of state tourists coming to buy kitch and eat lobster. These tourists tended to be from states that generally did not have the same attitude about pot as Mainers did. It was still considered a Very Bad Thing To Do.

So when my five year old self saw an older gentleman smoking a classic tobacco pipe amongst a crowd of tourists I remarked, on the top of my lungs, that my grandfather had a pipe too! Not that kind of pipe, though!

There was literally a beat of shocked silence before my grandmother laughed a little too loudly and said something about it being a different color or some nonsense. Of course no one, like, ratted out my five-year-old self and my grandfather out to the police for that. But there were definitely some shocked button-upped folks in that lovely little town that day.

Anyway, that was the one and only time I was a snitch.

#memories #snitches get stitches #maybe don’t reveal your deep drug secrets to a five year old with ADHD #lol #anyway #tw: drug use #tw: drugs #tw: pot #seriously though Maine is like mountain people brain #and yet we get the whitest puritan ass tourists sometimes #they didn’t mix very well #but oh the charming old fisher man #le te da #that man makes his own booze smokes weed chews tobacco and hates everyone #anyway again #it’s legal now in Maine #so all those old men in the woods are probably making something else now #oh wait they are it’s fucking fentanyl

[catboymoments]

do I think belos is queer? Yes. Do I think he knows that? No. Do I think he’s a good person? Also no

#diversity win! the horrible puritanical dictator who attempted genocide is queer! #peepaw yandere at it again

[amoritasart]

I have an irrational need to point out that Philip Wittebane died two days after Halloween on the Day of the Dead.

#Sorry for being Mexican #emperor belos #philip wittebane #toh #the owl house #I also think that is his birthday or close #which he doesn’t celebrate because Puritan #am I wrong?? #for the future takes place immediately and you see like the dawn #then watching and dreaming happens #and at the end you see the day starting anew again so like?? #I haven’t watched the episodes in a while #but I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit #I know this holds no significance since the show is gringo af but #he’s so Scorpio coded you can’t deny

[ultrvmonogamy]

i dunno who needs to hear this but maybe u should consider that in a v real sense u are ur own child n so might wanna start asking urself questions like: would i post this pic of or talk abt my daughter this way for an audience that is the entire world forever?

#in which i sound puritanical again #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #unsolicited #oc

[cto10121]

R&J Clown Takes Special Edition —Twitter English Teacher Spreads Romeo Hate Dumb

A wild deranged Twitter thread came from out of the blue to wreak havoc, oh heavy burden. Typical R&J clownery, but there was one thread that was really unhinged. Clownery is back on the menu, boys

“English Teacher Mode”

1) Yes, because Romeo isn’t really in love with Rosaline. That’s literally the point. It’s a point of contrast.

2) Romeo does not play it off his answer to Juliet as a joke. His answer to Juliet’s question is: “Th’exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” This is not a joke. How do you even construe this as a joke???? Romeo isn’t convinced Juliet will pursue a relationship with him—with good reason, since before that Juliet was vacillating something awful.

3) Because lack of sleep = horny. Because not wanting to sleep because you’re in love is not a thing that happens.

4) “Romeo talks about food, which makes us think he is some loathsome rich person” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I CAN’T (also!!!! all the characters except the Nurse and Friar all rich!!! they’re almost all nobles!!!! wtf!!!)

5) Juliet’s lack of agency is a key part of her tragedy…but so is Romeo’s. They are BOTH victimized and BOTH lack agency (age, patriarchy) and have agency at turns (as noble scions). Also, Romeo is literally exiled and wanted for murderer, so yeah.

6) Both of Juliet’s parents betray her, and her Nurse. It isn’t an all-male thing. The Friar helped however he could. And Romeo literally gave his life for her.

7) “Teacher mode off” Take his degree AWAY

Other Clownery

“Dumped” implies a prior relationship. Romeo never pursued Rosaline; it was all a one-sided crush on his part. Meanwhile he and Juliet literally get married.

Because EVERYONE that was at the CAPULET party is a CAPULET, it’s true!!!! Mercutio was a CAPULET, Benvolio was a CAPULET, Romeo was a CAPULET, their friends were CAPULETS, the people Capulet invited who were clearly not CAPULETS were CAPULETS. How could he have been shocked that Juliet was a CAPULET at a CAPULET party????

Romeo: I wish Juliet would cast off her veil of virginity, that’d be great ☺️

Juliet: I want him to [censored] on my [censored] and the force of my [censored] and his [censored] will turn day into night ☺️

Clowns: Romeo’s lust!!1!!1!1

#romeo and juliet #rj clownery #r&j clownery #romeo: *kills himself for juliet* #clowns: but was he in love with her tho or was he just trying to get laid #when you think about how r&j literally slept together… #which made them even MORE in love #like romeo sufferred a mental breakdown and everything #the neo puritans are at it again #romeo hate dumb

[missanthropicprinciple]

Mentioned the dangers of censorship (in reference to Gumroad) to my sainted mother and she first and foremost wanted to clarify why I would be looking at it. Like, let's put aside that I'm 37 and have been seeking out, consuming, and creating sexual content for the past two decades. Not the point. To save time I lied and said I wasn't looking at it (technically true as I just close my browser) and that the point was that censoring art is dangerous because it limits freedom of expression etc etc. I'm not eloquent at 2:34am but..ya know, fäscism.

#puritanical boomer strikes again #personal #pretty ironic given her history

[craycraybluejay]

I love how ppl want to comment on my inclusionary sexuality posts with exclusion. Like. "I agree except" "lost me at" "this except (group)" no. Fuck off. Crawl back into your echo chamber. Shoo

#pro para #thought crime #isn't real #leave me alone #puritans leave me alone challenge #difficulty: impossible #literally CANNOT just scroll past a kink positive post without derailing about their ableist thought crime rhetoric yet again #go away puritans #shoo. go. begone.

[kittenbradensgf]

sooo funny how a year or so ago i was fervently defending the darkling on here who is truly the staple of a YA villain where the villain isn’t even that wrong and now? well im just a full blown tommy shelby stan. it seems that fiction truly is fiction. evil men will stay evil idk. i still love them. morality is whatever. yes i will defend tommy too wdym he killed innocents and was the worst possible husband imaginable.

#still find darkling antis soooo funny #they’d combust if they knew the problematic behaviours i was defending and babygirlifying #people need to stop watching things made for teens i think is the moral #or at least stop taking them that seriously #have fun with it. have a favourite war criminal. a favourite weirdo murderer gang leader man idk #once again requesting all crows stans watch peaky blinders your curse of being obsessed with a terrible media shall be lifted #hmm lets tag this then #the darkling #aleksander morozova #shadow and bone #six of crows #peaky blinders #tommy shelby #tommy i hate you but i love you and i am SO glad that most of the fandom is the same and not strange and puritanical #im not sure if you can be puritanical in the PB fandom though when the source material is. Like That #pointedly ignoring the alpha male sode of it though it does make for a funny image #imagine if people made alpha male darkling edits

[sea-shelly]

No omegaverse month??? I'll just kill myself then shall I

#f1 kinkmeme #lord the weirdos you put on this earth to develop niche fandom interests are being puritans online again

[makeela]

yall gotta stop blaming tiktok for things that started on tumblr 10 years ago. the cringe is coming from inside the house

#“people on tiktok wont stop diagnosing themselves using criteria that everyone experiences” 2014 bpd tumblr. #[any intense fandom thing like kinning being weird at the actors etc] tumblr. still tumblr. did we forget voltron #“any iteration of kinning/shifting/whatever” tumblr 2013-today #“people on tiktok are so PURITANICAL” anti/proship discourse. once again did we forget voltron #any discourse that exists on tiktok that we are acting better than now existed on tumblr when we were the same age as these people #we are now just old #even shit like intrusive thought discourse wrt “omg guys the intrusive thoughts won!” like... we all remember that “intrusive thought to #pick up a crunchy leaf and eat it" post. it was contentious even then #the young gen z/older gen alpha on tiktok are not our enemies. they are us #we were worse even. #at least the people on tiktok don't call the guy who made it daddy

[gaylos-lobos]

Actually *vaguely gestures* about that post from like last night, I wonder if the thing that started their fight was Caleb revealing the doors existence to Philip.

Like, it’s been years since Caleb went missing, years since he’s been presumed dead or kidnapped, years of sorrow and hardship for Philip, years were his hatred for witches has grown even worse. And here and now he finds out that not just did his brother leave on purpose but that he had a way back the entire time. The fact that he could have told Philip that he wasn’t dead, could have returned to him the entire time. But chose not to. Chose to leave his little brother in the believe that something terrible had happened to him. Chose to never let him have closure, to leave him not even a corpse to bury.

Of course he killed him. After all, now he’ll finally have a corpse to bury with all his sorrows. After all, now he’ll finally have the closure denied to him all those years ago.

#this is actually more fucked up considering (early new england) puritans burial practices and views on mourning. #especially how excessive mourning was frowned upon. #(have not found anything about how they dealt when someone disappeared though and how long time between it and pronouncing some dead would #have been.) <- thats not the point of this post though. #like of course he makes the grimwalkers. of course he kills his brother over and over again. #that hatred and sorrow. that love. has to go somewhere. and what place could be better than to force it upon the person that caused it all? #who could be more ideal to receive it then Caleb? #who could be more useful in adding him to destroy the isles than the man that abandoned him for it? #philly cheese steak #toh #the owl house #wittebros #philip wittebane #emperor belos #caleb wittebane #meta tag