#woke points for reading him

[sweatermuppet]

it's repulsive the amount of criticism ive seen against young or new artists (particularly in the poetry community or in the country music genre) that's just "they're letting anyone call themselves an artist these days. they're not honoring traditions. they're ruining [art form]" & by "tradition" they 100% mean white supremacy, homophobia, ableism, ect. the mindset of "if everyone thinks they're special & worthy, it will dilute the value of art" is soooo often a thinly veiled way of expressing discomfort in seeing diverse voices finally being represented

#i see this directed at ocean vuong in particular. white critics against him don't break his poetry down with valid technique #& in tweets like this the replies are even more bold in straight up saying that vuong is only popular because publishers/readers want #woke points for reading him #& it's soooo infuriating #seen this happen to several trans fem models of color too. they get a big shoot or recognized #& the comments are so fucking vile #or white people applying to college saying that they're BOUND to lose out against a poc because their acceptance #is a threat to them?? #ask to tag

[sysig]

He’s my little meow meow, my darling, my bbygirl (Patreon)

#Doodles #Commander Peepers #I'm soooooo normal about him you guys <3 So normal! <3 <3 #*Looking back over the other Little Guys I've collected* Hmmmmmmm Evil Xisuma and Spamton and Sableye and Rick Diggins #I think there might be a theme here #Just casually making Venn Diagrams in my head - Evil X has the red/black - Spamton is trans - Sableye has Gremlin energy - Rick is too tired #And those are just the ones I can think of lol - if you look I did the same stretchy pose with EX when I was still drawing him lol #The Stretch Pose is how you can tell if I like a character lol - they stretchin'? I am infatuated <3 #I mean I'm normal I'm totally normal lol #Also had to give him a bbygrl pose - I for the life of me cannot find it again but the reference is very strong in my mind's eye! #Not that I couldn't go for another one at some point lol ♪ #Ugh the middle one lol - so that Word of God I mentioned in passing about female Watchdogs #I read it in passing as just a basic research of ''Oh here's what The Original Creator has to say alright neat'' #Except that it Immediately made me itchy and I was like ''What. What brain this is not that big of a deal what are you doing'' #And I was like ''No I'm being silly about this - just because I don't agree doesn't mean it's a big deal lol'' #Except then I had stress dreams and woke up Weird the next day and the last time that happened I left a fandom #And the time before that I wrote 4 consecutive pages of 20-something panels in like 18 hours of consciousness - I have normal reactions lol #But I opted instead to vent to smol about it and she agreed with me so basically I'm just saying I'm correct lol /s #Personally Peepers doesn't strike me as misogynistic - he's very much an Equal Opportunity villain in my eyes! #And yeah I considered a lot of different angles around it but like - based on the text of WOY I just don't buy it #If it's not in the show it doesn't count! For all we know there might not even be any female Watchdogs! Lol #Would also lead to the equally-to-Spamton interesting question of How Does Trans Work in that kind of situation #I've definitely not already put a lot of thought into it don't look at me lol #Don't ask me to write an essay about both of those things I'll do it and where will that leave us lol #ANYway lol ♪ He's still the absolute funnest to draw in distress and discomfort <3 And kneeling! He makes me want to practice :D #I always feel like I can try again and do better! >:3c

[sugaroto]

You know.

At school I had a game with my friend

I would write down names of characters from different media (TV shows, books etc) that she hadn't watched and she would match them

Usually I put the girls and the boys on each side of the page (non binary characters were either at the top or bottom)

And then she drew lines and made ships

Now the thing is. She hardly ever got canon ships right

Her worst cases were close to pedophilia and incest

So at some point she gave up trying to get them right and was more happy when she was creating monstrosities cause it was funny

And I think, the writers of Elite are playing the very same game

They started by making fun ships "hoho look at these characters they look good together" then they messed up "hehe these 2 are awful" and then they went bullshit and thought "YEAH MAKE THE MOM KISS HER SON MUAHAHA"

And yeah. I don't think you should make canon ships of the matching game me and my friend played in class yknow Mr elite writes

#the point of the game was to laugh at funny ships consider the interesting and freak at her monstrosities #and then when she watched/read the show/book we'd go back like hey look the shit you shipped #my fave was when we did it with aftg and i didn't remember Mary's name so i wrote her as mom #and she was in her evil era so she tried to find who was her kid #she didn't #but she matched 'mom' (aka Mary) with 'Andrew' And it was HILARIOUS cause andrew is LITERARY the most parentless person in the trilogy #and look i understand ivan and karmen were on drugs and ivan doesn't know karmen is his mom and cause shes on drugs she mistook him for his #dead dad but who thought that having them to make out was a good scene thank god she woke up and realized and fucking left soon enough #as if almost fucking his sister wasn't enough he gotta fuck his mom too. is that the only reason they keep him bisexual? to have him fuck #boys cause it sells and have this whole drama with his mom and sis??? #also like. literally 3 seconds ago she had the best chance to tell him i am your mother #he almost figured it out #and shes like haha no oh you want drugs yeah sure lets go #elite

[cinnabeat]

my favorite thing abt cale tcf is that if he really truly wanted to avoid the plot and live a peaceful life like he always says he couldve just completely avoided choi han and let him pass through or whatever but instead he personally invited him in and immediately started plans to prevent the horrors of the future war like yeah sure he was doing it to keep himself safe but he did it in THE MOST convoluted plot involving way possible like if he really TRULY wanted to stay safe and alone he couldve just not done Any of that. unfortunately for him he has a bleeding heart

#its been a while since i read tcf so excuse me if i got the beginning wrong but my point still stands #he couldve done literally anything but that you know #there was no reason #he woke up and was like huh im in the book series i was literally just reading and in the guy who gets beat up first thing #thats inconvenient #let me get the shield of vitality and avoid choi han like the plague #and in the process find more things to do to stay safe (read: prevent random strangers tragedies) and interact with choi han as much as huma #humanly possible #like hello #and then he just?? keeps doing it? #its like everytime he meets someone hes like do you have a problem? oh you do? sigh why does this always happen to me now i have to fix this #hes always like 'i didnt ask :/' when people tell him things buy then hes like #'but at leaat this conveniently fits into my ever expanding machinations' #mr 'im not a good person' my ASS #i really need to reread tcf its so funny #i miss my ultimate blorbo alberu #michi tag

[illputdownmyrootswhenimdead]

someone: jkr is horrible-

me: yeah, i completely agree with you there

someone: -which is why you should stan uncle rick rick riordan instead :)

me:

#rick riordan critical #PLEASE take your head out of your ass #rick riordan is not as bad as jkr but posing his books as the ‘more diverse’ and acting like he’s a great awesome ally to minorities #is just. incredibly naive #piper with feathers! unhealthy age gaps in relationships! the only gay character (at that point) suffering constantly and then being outed- #in front of a complete stranger! incredibly shallow and often misogynistic portrayal female characters! general insensitivity and ignorance #of other cultures! a transphobic portrayal of a genderfluid person who gets called a slur by one of the GOOD characters! shallow and ableist #portrayal of adhd! ableism in saying his characters don’t have push because they’re ‘too strong’! no physically disabled characters! #his incredibly lesbophobic response to people saying reyna reads as gay to them! #this is literally just the tip of the iceberg #rr is NOT some woke intelligent savour he’s a grown ass man who doesn’t have people of the cultures/groups he’s writing about to check if #it’s harmful or incorrect or stereotypical!! #he’s a rich cishet white man with a victim complex when people call him out on his shit. #rr stans don’t interact with me i do not want to hear it #tbh the only reason why he’s ‘better’ than jkr is because he doesn’t have her level of influence #god. shudder. i don’t want to think about that #dove talks #hi it’s 4pm and im so angry. #will admit that anyone saying percy jackson would beat harry potter in a fight is 100% #like we can agree on that one.

[themyscirah]

I'd like to state officially, for the record, that I think the Parallax retcon IS stupid as hell and if I worked for dc that garbage would be gone in an instant. Just like, FYI <3

#blah #just like... sooooooo stupid #just say you don't want characters to accept responsibility for their actions fir christs sake 🙄 #saying this bc i ran into it for the first time reading the nu52 johns GL and its just so dumb actually #they literally had sinestro become parallax??????? thats not how that works??????? like bro. cmon. #like parallax also doesnt literally make hal more interesting too like come onnnn guysssss #its just so deeply stupid to me. like im not so pissed abt it that its the end of the world or whatever bc im not a hal gurlie like its not #the end of the world for me but literally like. what is the whole point of doing that arc if you don’t get the full angst from that arc. #insane to me. #anyways it would be so easy to unexist that. just say like parallax was dormant or smth and only woke up when hal died or whatever. and #that part of parallax like read hals mind and so has some of his memories or smth and that's why its called parallax. or its just some #creature that wasnt even involved but just wanted to fuck with him #bc thats a retcon like motivationally but it doesn't cancel out any of the parallax appearances needed for plot reasons or whatevs #while keeping characterization intact. #i mean in still working my way thru the comics including that arc but like im sure theres a way to do it that functions as a perfect retcon #where all plot events still happened just not some poeplr are lying or whatevs #lanterns #green lanterns #dc comics #parallax #hal jordan #swishy liveblogs

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

A quick head cannon of modern au for Newsies

Albert and Finch love to read books!

Albert is a big comic book fan and thanks to @emmedoesntdomath she suggested that Albert would be the type of guy to get that one specific comic that's worth a good chunk of money and I soul hardly agree with that

Finch gives me poetry vibes but more than often he can read anything (not me self projecting) he also vibes with Edgar Poe

They have these nights on every Friday where Albert and Finch just sit and read. It's like their date nights but not at the same time

Sometimes they'll sit together or other times they'll be on opposite sides of the room. They'll have candles going to make it smell like fall and sometimes soft music will be playing

Then one night Race comes in, he totally forgot about their nights and he had a really bad day and nothing is going right. So he walks in already telling Albert about his day but freezes to see Finch with a book of Irish love poems and Albert with his new addition of Spider-Man.

Finch sits with his feet on the coffee table and Albert is leaning on him, they look at Race and Race looks back at them

He's already stuttering an apology but both of the two tell him it's alright. Albert then sets his latest addition down and comes over or give Race and hug because even he has his bad days.

Race goes to leave but Albert stops him asking if he would like to read with them. Race is just dumbfounded "Oh, I don't know Albert, it's your date night"

"Nonsense!" Albert then rushes back to their bookshelf and grab something he'll think Race will like. He comes back and hands Race "Zita The Spacegirl", "Reading always takes my mind off of things. So maybe it could help you!"

Finch laughs at Albert and pats the space next to him on his left and Race tries to leave again muttering some stupid and false excuse but Albert takes his hand and now he's on the couch. It's not like he couldn't read, it was just... hard for him. But he was gonna give it a try since he's here.

And oh boy did he love it.

How could this cute art style wrap around his mind, the story was amazing and the characters were something that Race didn't know he needed in his life.

So now every last Friday of every Month Race joins them. He goes through all of their graphic novels and now he even buys them to share with Albert. ( he now has his own space on the book shelf)

Albert also let's him read his comic books because he know he can trust Race and Finch has showed him Green Glass House and Race was already hooked on page one of this murder mystery.

Albert and Finch didn't mind that Race came bursting through the door that one day, they do enjoy the company and plus they still get their date nights so with another person added they all read together on every last Friday of the month.

#Alber really loves when it rains and Finch lets him open the windows somtimes #Finch and Albert somtimes read to each other #or share the plot #or really just talking about it #once they fell alseep and woke up to the sound of Finch's hardcover falling down by his feet #just thought i share #and i love this so much #i feel like albert would try to get everyone else to read #lowkey having bookclubs in a way #i could go on at this point but ill stop #albert dasilva #albert newsies #finch cortez #finch newsies #racetrack newsies #racetrack higgins #newsies #livesies #redfinch #newsies musical

[tariah23]

They’re calling my baby Gojo, Joseph Joestar now

#rambling #the diff is that Gojo did apologize after being called out and face to face with his racism whilst Joseph literally befriended nazi’s 😵‍💫 #and there was never any explanation from araki as to why he’d even wrote German soldiers in the shit in the first place like that was #absolutely jarring as hell to read for the very first time back when I’d gotten into jjba #well I watched it first but you know #like Joseph really thought fondly of Stroheim as this stand up guy even though he’s first of all #a Nazi #and second #the first scene that we were introduced to was of him sexually harassing a Woman #it’s……. 🗿 #still to this day I wonder if araki had ever addressed this because lord #Joseph was just happy to get the help I guess but that felt so ooc for him from what he’d seen 🗣️ #happily receiving the help of a Nazi and calling them a nice guy ahhh Joseph- #Gojo would never sjjsaj #my boo boo is a little prejudice but he’s working on it 🗣️ #I still think that gege was trying to have a ‘racism is bad’ moment but again #the execution was pretty awkward and it felt out of place considering what had been currently going down in the manga #like the Racism was pretty random but it was swiftly put to a stop which I can appreciate even if it shouldn’t have been a point of #conversation to begin with since why couldn’t Miguel just exist as a character instead of him being the now token negro #who everyone sees as instantly more frighteningly powerful than everyone else like this didn’t even need to be brought up wllssldk #idk gege was trying to be ‘woke’ 😭. sorry nbs and wp ruined the term for me but like basically lol #gojo’s pretty intelligent and extremely gifted but he’s never been perfect lol #it’s just that idk why gege chose to talk about antiblackness in Japan out of nowhere about the only black character on screen hehhhhhh #like gege tried but lmfao #this is so funny to me #at least it didn’t drag on putting Miguel in an even more awkward situation than he already was and it was nipped in the bud quickly #Gojo isn’t one to dwell on things but when he’s face with new information and is taught something he does try to reflect and do better and #I’m sure he probably started to become even more aware of what he’s saying especially when talking to Miguel in an honest way since that’s #always been the kind of character who he was despite the horrors #the only ppl who’ve been kinda annoying about this are nbs and white people as always 🗿

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Trying very very hard to remember that my cat (baby) (1 year old) (kitten) (chaotic) needs to run and play and he’s not trying to kill my other cat (9 year old) (perfect princess) (who purrs and cuddles) by pouncing on her repeatedly when she hisses at him and then he immediately does it again

#i did play with him after yelling at him as loud as i could. but i am very tired #if this is what having kids is like. i can’t do it #i woke up 15 minutes before leaving the house for work #and when i got home from 7 hours at work i just want to sit on the couch and read or play ridiculous phone games #and drink my coffee BY MYSELF and go to the bathroom without Anyone chewing on my earbuds #at this point i think my cat should get the ability to walk outside on a leash without running away forever or a job #personal

[michaeljoncarter]

Do you like Jason or no? Sorry if this sounds rude I just can't tell from your posts and am kinda curious haha

it doesn't sound rude! very valid question. and also a very loaded one

jason todd is simultaneously one of my favorite and least favorite characters of all time, and i’m going to take this opportunity to ramble aimlessly about my (mostly negative) feelings about him and how he’s written in modern comics because it haunts me every day <3

and knowing how fans of the bat people can be, this really feels like kicking a hornet's nest so quick disclaimer: THIS IS JUST MY OPINION! not a personal attack on people who like jason as he is now and oh my god i cannot stress to you enough how much i absolutely do not want to argue with people about this lol

jason when he was first introduced is honestly one of my all time favorite characters. he was solid and interesting and he had so much potential. imagine for a moment a world where everything didn’t suck and we got jason staying as a sometimes-ally-most-times-antagonist to the batfam instead of being shoehorned back into their ranks. (imagine. if dc allowed its characters to have complex personalities and relationships again. ever.)

instead of that, the second he was out of winick's hands, with few exceptions, other writers pretty much IMMEDIATELY started stripping him of everything that made him interesting and turned him into essentially just another stock villain running around doing shit that made no sense for his character when they needed someone to shove into the role of antagonist.

(and don’t get me wrong: he should be an antagonist 99% of the time imo, but... y’know. preferably in a way that like. makes sense for him. at all.)

then lobdell clowned his way onto the scene with the final nail for his coffin and now we have a jason todd who doesn't really ever use guns, doesn’t kill, doesn't seem to have any real problems with bruce or his code, and isn't even in gotham most of the time.

there's really no point to the modern iteration of jason. he's essentially just a worse version of dick. nobody has any idea what to do with him like he is now because there’s really not much there to... do anything with. he's a hollowed out shell of a character because we need him to fit nicely into the batfam, and all that pesky character motivation and drive gets in the way of that. god forbid a story have conflict beyond the occasional snarky one-liner

sometimes, other characters will say something about how crAaAaAzy jason is or how he’s the black sheep of the batfam or he’ll be referred to as an “anti-hero,” but he never... does anything? like he’s really no different than any of the other squeaky-clean bats at this point. just fully sanitized

the only thing even slightly setting him apart from everyone else is his murder, so they bring that up at every opportunity to give him some sort of defining feature, but they can't do it in any logical way because then they'd have to stray into anti-hero territory and put him at odds with the batfam, so it's only in the most ridiculously superficial ways possible.

it's just like... him bringing up his death constantly is funny until you realize the writers are doing it so often because it's pretty much the only character trait he has left lol

the only real constant with modern jason is that everybody who comes within 30ft of him starts acting stupid and wildly out of character because he may be the most badly written and nonsensically characterized bitch of all time, but he's got a big fanbase, so writers want him to be the best, most specialest boy in the world at all times to appease them, and the only way they seem to know how to do that is by bringing down the iq of everyone around him so he'll look good in comparison.

it's gotten to the point where seeing he's going to be in a book feels like a bad omen because 9 times out of 10, anything he's in has absolutely shit writing because he's just GOT to be the strongest, smartest person in the room even when the room is full of gods, superpeople, and heroes who've been doing this shit 10x as long as he has.

it was already annoying BEFORE he "reformed," when he actually arguably had the slightest bit of an edge by virtue of usually being more ruthless and willing to cross lines than the heroes he'd fight, but now he doesn't even have that.

there's just nothing special or interesting about him! he does nothing! he's boring! and for no good reason! there’s so much they could be doing with him, but instead he’s..... sitting there. in bruce's shadow. stagnating. it's so annoying. he's just... an amalgamation of pretty much everything wrong with modern comics for me

sooooo to answer the question: i liked him a lot, but as far as i'm concerned, bruce killed him with that batarang to the neck at the end of the under the red hood arc, and there's been some sort of shapeshifter/bizarro version of him running around ever since, and that character, i despise

#ask #anonymous #anti jason todd #like not really but i know some people blacklist stuff like this so?? #i feel the need to state i'm not like... a winick stan lol? like i have my issues with him #but for some reason nobody can get it together #so his is pretty much the only version of jason that's really felt like a solid character to me #everything i've read with him in it for the last few years is just like...... #so empty #there's no point #one liners are not a personality #they've got him fighting with a crowbar for fuck's sake #like that is so mindblowingly stupid i don't even have words strong enough to insult it #it's just incredible #i don't know if this even makes sense i just like blacked out and woke up to this wholeass thesis typed out #thank god it's over now hopefully i never have to talk about this man again lmao #formal apology to all of my followers for making four posts in a row about this bitch

[anthonycrowley]

fanfic stats don’t matter HOWEVER i think it’ll be very hot and sexy when steddie overtakes h*rringgrove as top st pairing on ao3

#we’re only down by 3k and the show’s only been out for like a month. with your help we can help me gain back faith in humanity #before you ask yes my behavior was all a psyop to get the st fandom to the point where i wouldn’t accidentally stumble across an untagged #fic that references That Pairing every time i want to read a nice little pic about my most specialist little boy babysitting #guys you don’t understand i hate b*lly so fucking much this is so fucking sexy people woke up and stopped blorbofying him #text #my post #mobi #show:stranger things

[albonium]

i'm having a day

#i went to bed feeling like shit i didn't even shower #so when i woke up i had to shower and wash my hair #i almost was late my hair was still wet #then my colleague didn't give me anything to do #i had to read bibliography..... #at one point i called the medical material place to tell them my grandma would like to keep renting the wheelchair she has #and that's when a colleague (that's kind of a managzr of somz stuff in a way) came in #i mumblrd something about my grandma but didn't clearly say what i was doing so now i fear he thinks im just on the phone whenever i want #then he gave me work and explained stuff to me that i already knew #but for some reason i couldn't voice it out and i looked stupid #then i went back to waiting bc we haven't recieved the samples yet #now it's supposed to be my lunch break but the colleague who has a microwave in his office was on the phone #so im waiting for him to be done to eat #the guy i share an office with hasn't even left the sem room to go eat in the cafeteria yet which means he'll have to come by #and i don't want him to see me eat #bc they guy did triathlons and is all about the grind and intermittent fasting etc etc i know he's judgy #tw food

[kil9]

taemin mind connection game is insane

#99.txt #i can predict when he will bubble lol #and i always wake up for it too #i woke up like 5 mins before and then am like ''hm he will bubble'' ....... *buzz* yeah i knew jt #definitely Something is insane. lmao. <- me #delusional fan but not in the ''hes for reals my boyfriend i know him personally'' way #just in the general ''i can read minds and predict the future'' way #i do also know him persoanlly but this is besides the point 🤨 <- joking

[derelictdumbass]

good morning all nice to torment u again this fine day have I mentioned how much I love the cult fam lately <3 bc I do <33

#nadine is typing... #woke up vindicated bc ppl like my James/Dean smut fic 😌 thank u ao3 maybe I will have confidence in my smut writing #maybe I will finally finish that Faith/Dean smut fic that has been holding me at gun point. and then the Jacob and John ones #and then I guess to make it complete i'll have to write a Joseph one you know 😳 #was going through ao3 reading my own writing as one does idk #the amount of errors u find month's after posting shit is painful but it's fine ansndndjsnd #also re-read my Darius fic and I want to write for that man again 😭 i'm going to look through my wips to see if I started ant others w him #and figure out if I posted that drawing of him or just showed Gael and told myself I showed y'all

[im-still-watching-anime]

i’ve been sleeping upstairs in a spare room while at my parents because my mom is using my old room for Dog Children™️ and i decided to brave sleeping in there one (1) time so that my dog could sleep with me and one of the children almost ESCAPED outside of their little prison and now i have to stay up to make sure no one else tries it smh

#this is horrible actually #i love sleeping #and im not even the one looking after these dog children #they’re my moms but i just wanted one night with my boy and figured id give her the night off at the same time #woke up at four am to a puppy in the middle of the floor outside of their little enclosure thing smh #kindness is a trap yall next time i miss my boy im just going to sleep on the couch #no point to this post really i just needed to express the panic i felt somewhere #mans was crying on the middle of the floor in front of the cold vent #shout out to my dog for noticing him because i thought it was just normal crying and wasn’t going to get up #my boy is a HERO #saved that baby #also to clarify the dog children are not my boys #my boy is very old and also fixed like all dogs should be😤 #he also does not have access to the dog children so don’t worry mom built a mini room around them with a raised entrance for their mom #so they’re SUPPOSED to be unable to escape but SOMEONE climbed his way to freedom smh #his mom was IN the little room didn’t even react to his crying smh #valid of her though tbh there are So Many of them and they make So many noises #also heyyy if you read all this👋 #i am so tired

[avian-hearts]

i wish i was an inanimate object that’s made out of fabric that you can hold,

#caw caw #01; pink microphone #scopo #scopophobia #SSSSYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO <//3333 #also. the one on the right (where he's holding a pillow) is from the official twt and it made me Tear Up #the fact that i saw it an hour after i woke up too......... OUGHHGHH #HE LOOKS SO COZYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HANDSOME AND WWWWWWASDGAGGHGHAAGGGDHSAGDHADKAGDHAGH #I WANT TO KISS HIM SO BAD #the event's not even out yet but i Swear if the card story has him talking in a low quiet voice; i will Die /lh #[an arrow points to me that reads ''Gay Idiot'']