#you can be disrespectful to a group of people without meaning to or realizing that's what you're doing

[lianobody]

Warnings: Worshipping behaviour, yandere platonic hashiras.

[Name] was a Goddess a very powerful one she cared for her people and gave them blessings her worshippers cared for her deeply but a certain group of 9 say they worship [Name] more then anyone or anything.

At night all the Hashira goes to an altar with your picture on it when they saw they picture all the Hashira smiled even Giyuu. with a lot of offerings on it. It can be roses or your favourite things. All the Hashira were very devoted to you and they all have there reasons for it. “Let’s pray for our loving Goddess!” Gyomei said all the Hashira nodded.

“Dear divine thank you for making us live another day. Without you we wouldn’t feel any emotion we hope we can forgive us for all the sins we did and if you can’t we promise we do anything for you to forgive us”

After the Hashira were done praying they got the gifts they got you and they placed it down on your altar. “I wish one day our divine one could come to Earth” Giyuu mumbled but yet all the Hashira could hear him. “I hate to agree with you but I want her to come down to Earth to” Sanemi said glaring at Giyuu rudely. They were about to go home until..

Someone dropped down from the building and fell face flat! It left a hole in the wall and the Hashira were mad and wanted to kill you for destroying your altar. The person taught they were a demon as they had black horns. “This demon destroyed our goddesses altar. We have to kill them brutally” Muichiro muttered madly. “I’ll make sure to torture them with a heavy poison!” Shinobu smiled in a menacing way. Obanai was about to stab you until you woke up. They looked at your appearance and you had star pupils? Only there divine one has star eyes! And you also have black horns? Do they think your there goddess? NOPE! They think your a copycat! “This copycat had the urge to copy our divine one appearance!“ Obanai madly said. “These are the people I helped when they were in a rough time. I remember but I don’t blame them for thinking I’m a identity fraud I wouldn’t believe myself either” you taught to yourself. “Wait I’m actually not a fraud!” You said! You were not scared as you were immortal. But not to your surpriseyou were “lying” that you were the God they worshipped. “You have guts to lie that your our divine one your nothing but a demon” Sanemi said smiling in a menacing way. You we’re going to defend yourself until Mitsuri’s blade scratched you. “That’s what you gets for disrespecting our God! >:(“. Gyomei about to finish the final blow until your Black blood was shown. All of them were thinking “Wait I taught demons had Red blood like us? Wait! That means!” They all went down all their knees immediately after they realized. “Please forgive us our divine one we were foolish and mistaken you for a demon and a fake” Gyomei said while crying. “It’s ok guys I forgive you all! You guys can stand” All the Hashira signed in relieved and they stood up. They wouldn’t know what to do if you didn’t forgive them they were grateful that your such a forgiving and nice God.

“Our divine one we are so grateful you ascended to earth!” Rengoku said coming one step closer to you. “I hope we will be of worth to you!” Tengen said. Meanwhile every Hashira was already thinking of a way to kidnap you. “Would you like to come with us. You don’t hav a place to stay..” Muichiro curiously said. “Oh don’t worry I’m good! I can just Uhm use magic to make a building” all the Hashira was mad at that! They needed there Goddess to stay with them! So Gyomei knocked you out and you were bleeding a little your very strong but physically weak. Sanemi went to go check on you “Lets hope she will still forgive us..” wiping your Black blood away.

Headcannons

Remember it’s platonic

• Some of the Hashira didn’t worship you in the beginning but after you went into there lives they couldn’t find a way for you to get back out.

• Sanemi didn’t worship you and often ignored the posters of you until after he killed his mom. While we was walking home still sad about his moms death he started to cry until he saw a poster of you. He felt happier? But why did he his mom died because of him. Until it clicked he felt happier because you felt pity and sadness for him you wanted to be his new mom. And he accepted that rather quickly. When he was still a kid and was killing demons by tying them up he said some lines such as “This is for [Name]” or “[Name] is proud of me” and after he kills the demon he says “I know your proud of me my divine one” or “My divine one are you proud of me? Why am I even saying this I know you are..right?” Sometime he kills people for sacrifices to you surely you enjoy the things he does for you?

• Even through he is colourblind he can see you in colour

• Tengen’s clan worshipped you so he was forced to worship you but he didn’t pray to you or participate in any religion related stuff since he didn’t participate in any religious stuff he taught you hated him. But after his clan died he felt lighter in his body and he felt Happier when it was raining he didn’t have an umbrella but an umbrella flew his way untouched and he taught you gave mercy on him. You still loved him you gave him a second chance he must make it up to you! He prays every night for forgiveness for 2 straight months. When he thinks he’s forgiven he does rituals. The rituals are that he kills people and puts their blood in a cup and prays hoping you will ascend to earth.

• Giyuu knew about you in the beginning but he really didn’t worship you he barley paid attention to you until his elder sister died he taught that was you punishing him for his ‘sins’ but he hated you he despised you after Sabito died he hated you more for not blessing him with luck until he ears a voice in his head saying “I’m sorry please forgive me” and he taught that was you. Why are you begging him to forgive you? Your the god not him but it doesn’t stop him from obsessing over you. Always praying to you and begs for blessings once in a while and you give them to him but not exactly.

• Giyuu is also the second one closest to you he taught you human things and took care of you. You see him as a dad. But he sees you as a fragile thing that needs to be protected.

• The day before Kanae died Shinobu saw Kanae having photos you everywhere the house and she was mad at her for this “Big sister! If [Name] was a really powerful god then why didn’t she save our family!” Kanae was smiling and just patted her head which made Shinobu rage intensify. After Kanae died Shinobu saw this as a warning to worship you and she did praying to every night but then she guilt tripped herself that you were her saviour and she convinced Kanao and Aoi to worship you to.

• Mitsuri didn’t worship you in the beginning as she didn’t know who you were but after her failed marriage courting she was walking and saw an altar she went in it and saw a picture of you. She saw how you were the most beautiful thing to exist she needed to worship you. She found out your name, your family member, your favorite things and your backstory she cries when she saw how you were so mistreated by your parents because you tried to go to Earth. she needed to protect you! And she did by killing people who spoke badly of you.

• Obanai was the first one to worship you while all the females in his family was worshiping the serpent demon he worshipped you. He had a dream of you and you were talking to him how he will escape one day. He woke up he didn’t want the dream to end. Before he met Mitsuri you were the only female he liked (Platonic) he kills people who dear disrespect the first women who helped him thru his trauma. He dreams of you 4 times a month and your the ones giving him dreams and you make sure to check on him daily.

• Muichiro didn’t really like you only because Yuichiro didn’t like you so he listened to Yuichiro but then after Yuichiro died he hated you more. Until he randomly started to forget things but why did he remember the hatred he has for you? Until it clicked. He only remembers you because you matter to him.. He’s happy he doesn’t forget you he prays to you daily and goes to your altar a lot.

• Muichiro clings onto you often when your in the basement no where to run.

• Gyomei Didn’t worship you as he worships Buddha but then one day we was walking past your altar he didn’t have any intentions to go in but he had a gut feeling to but then something unexpected happened. He acutally could see how you look like but he couldn’t see the people around him.. only your picture. This much be a sign he has to worship you! He worships you and prays to you daily. When he’s eating he always leaves a chair beside him as your sitting with him.

• Rengoku didn’t worship you in the beginning as he taught your the reason his mom died and his dad is an alcoholic until one day he saw senjuro praying to you. He didn’t like that one bit but he didn’t confront him but then the next day he saw Senjuro so much happier Rengoku knew it was your doing he decided to worship you. Whenever he’s in a conversation he always brings up you but if a person says anything rude about you ex: “She’s not the divine one” the only thing that will save them from death if there in another religion or they just say there joking and say compliments about you and Rengoku will join then into saying compliments.

After you ascended all the Hashira were so happy and they needed to kidnap you to make sure your ‘safe’ you can’t be rude to them its impossible for you to! You allow them to be clingy to you and kill people for you even though they disturb you. To make it even worse they are delusional to! They read all the scriptures about you they say no one can compare the worship we have to anyone else. They think you enjoy the things they are doing to you.

#demon slayer #yandere platonic demon slayer #yandere platonic #hashira #yandere demon slayer #worshippers #yandere worshipper #yandere platonic worshipper #yandere platonic demon slayer worshipper

[awritersstuff]

I saw that their wishes were clear and a wonderful wish came to my mind. If the sword leaders' girlfriends were found strange by people and called her crazy, because theire girlfriends are someone who dresses strangely and colorfully, and in a city like Sword, people find her strange because she is always positive and calm :) (For example, the, such as the reader wearing headphones and dancing in the streets This is the kind of thing that Japanese people would find strange)

Thanks for the request!

She is crazy but she is mine ❤

Cobra -

He wants to protect your happiness because if we think about mugen cobra he was the same always happy and positive. He loves your happy personality the way you bring colors into his day without even realizing. You are for sure the only person who can make him smile like an idiot. On your wedding day he confessed to you " thank you , for bringing meaning to my life "

Rocky-

You are his emotional support system and he treats you like his baby doll . You deserve all the happiness in this world and when someone says something rude to you about it , rocky will take no time in finding that person address and barging into there house to beat the shit out of them .

Murayama-

If he is with you no way In hell you are dancing on the streets alone , he is dancing with you . You both are moonlight x sunshine, both are bright but you are sunshine because you are full of hope . If someone tries to bully you or even try to be mean to you I believe that person must pray for there life's.

Hyuga-

At first he thought that you were kinda weird because how could someone be soo hopeful In This hopeless world. But he later understood that maybe we need hope to survive and yes you are his hope . One thing I can confirm you that daruma ikka loves you specially daruma babies and Kato. If someone tries to be mean to you then before hyuga daruma ikka will reach them . Don't even think about leaving him he NEEDS you , you are his oxygen.

Smoky-

Sunshine x Sunshine protector I said what I said . He literally thrives off your energy and hope . He is nither too energetic nor too tired he is just neutral but sometimes he is really tired so just let this boy cuddle close to you. Let's be honest everyone is a little weird in nameless town so you are no different. You x p x yuu , troublemakers of the group . Smoky tries to ignore fights as much he can but not when someone hurted his loved once he will very disrespectful beat the shit out of them , will not take rude boys with him because it is his personal matter.

That's it , thanks for reading and I hope you like it , love you 💜💜 byee

#high and low #high and low x yn #high and low fic #high and low smoky #high and low smoky x yn #high and low hyuga x yn #high and low murayama #high and low rocky x yn #high and low cobra

[usedpidemo]

so i went to my first ever concert and...(storytime!)

Generally speaking, I don't like the concept of concerts. For the longest time, I've never had any interest in attending one. I've been disillusioned by the idea of them as a whole, with no disrespect to people who attend them. Even before the global pandemic that shut down live events, ironically, despite being on my headphones/speakers 90% of the time, I don't like crowds and extremely loud audiences. It also doesn't help that many live artists nowadays are just not good stage performers or lipsync or in some cases, aren't as pleasing to hear as the studio mix that I could easily play on Spotify. My mantra, which has always been my mother's as well, was "Just listen to the CD." This also explains why I don't really buy CDs anymore and stick to streaming instead.

It's now 2023, and as the old adage goes, things change. I've become a K-pop fan, live events are back, and there's this push to have me leave my house a lot more than I should. I'm no recluse like Bruce Wayne, but I certainly don't like going out when I could be relaxing and playing video games in my spare time even as an adult. Growing up made me realize that there's plenty of things that I should do, even at least once. I'm nowhere close to dying—I think so at least—but I definitely felt the need add some spice into my life and have some fresh memories to keep now that the pandemic's over.

Anyway—I've never been to a concert, and my older sister's only concert experience was seeing Fall Out Boy when she was in her teens that she desperately begged mom to see, and she was all the way up into the nosebleeds. Now obviously I can't go and see IZ*ONE anymore (sadblob) and every big act carries extremely large demand for them. My sister failed to secure Blackpink tickets for their tour even with the membership presale, and the experience was so frustrating and damning that she stopped listening to the group for a while. There's so many things that can go wrong even as early as ticket sales, so I understood that any concert I wanted to go to should be absolutely worth it.

It was during our vacation back in February when IVE announced that they would be bringing their fan concert around Asia, with June as the set date. I can remember seeing it trend on Twitter while waiting in the car; the hype was fucking real. I knew I had to be there by any means necessary. The campaign began as soon as we got back to our hotel. They said yes.

One thing I want to say is: fuck online ticketing. It sucks, big time. Anything that can go wrong, can and will go wrong. Yet some part of me was so uncertain and wanted to test the murky waters again. I got in touch with a third party way before they announced the ticket selling date, and I was so fixated on the success rate of the seller, against the advice of my family. It wasn't until two days before ticket selling that I was given a proper talk, saying that it could be a potential scam and that I should camp out the night before to get the best chances. Ultimately, I gave in and settled at a hotel close to a hotel without many fans. They ended up being right. I ended up first in line and got the best package for a little over $200. It was so difficult to keep my composure the moment I got the tickets all the way till I got home.

Fast forward to a little over a month. The family also booked me a nice hotel close to the venue days before the show so we wouldn't have to face insufferable traffic. I couldn't sleep the night before the show—not because I was excited and all, but I was genuinely feeling restless. It ultimately didn't matter as my mood and overall energy never diminished once I woke up 2.5 hours after finally sleeping.

You just know it's gonna be a good day when the first sign is making new friends out of nowhere. At breakfast, I befriended two Japanese tourists for some reason. My smile was wider than it normally was. It's so weird greeting people with amped up optimism that at times, it felt like main character energy, which was typically uncharacteristic of me. Mind you, I only had 2.5 hours of sleep.

An hour later, venue time—at least close to it. The concert organizers and local fanclubs held a fanhub that was already filling up the floor with a line that stretched around in a loop. So I bailed and went to the cafe across the street from where the actual concert would happen to get free shit. Saved myself almost $25 dollars from buying the I'VE IVE album because of a cupsleeve event being organized by a remnant of WIZ*ONEs. A big W if you ask me.

I even met up with some of my readers too! Cray and Nomad, if you're reading this, it was great finally meeting you. It was awesome to fanboy and connect with guys I've been talking to online for the past two years in person.

Afterward, we went inside an hour before show start, and people were already screaming like they showed up and it was just staff bringing out towels and water bottles. Then the lights went out and holy shit, everyone lost their shit. It wasn't a sold-out show but the audience's energy made it feel otherwise. They were singing instead of following fan-chants.

It should surprise no one that everyone killed it. Yujin is the 4th gen ace and no one can tell me any different. Wonyoung was absolutely fantastic in crowd control and drawing the audience in and lived up to the center title. They added both title tracks from I'VE IVE and changed up two of the cover songs for the unit stages, otherwise the set remains mostly similar to the ones in Korea and Japan, the only difference being new outfits and alternate color ones.

I'm gonna dedicate this section specifically for Liz. Consider me bias wrecked. She was not only an elite vocalist but she performed like the rent was due, holy shit. Blue Blood (my favorite stage of the night) in particular really gripped me and never let go. I was genuinely shook at how terrific she showed out in the performances. If anything, she's the 2nd best performer of the group after watching the footage.

There was an emotional moment at the end as the show was winding down. The members were lined up for the group photo when a fan video played and half of the members cried. Leeseo, Rei, and Yujin all cried and it was a wholesome scene. Rei mentioned how this was one of their first performances as a full group following her health hiatus and she was moved by the overwhelming support of the fans. Wonyoung also promised they would return—hopefully later than sooner I'm not loaded at the moment—which invalidates the stupid argument international Dives were having on Twitter. The girls felt their support, cried their heart out, and that's all you need to know.

After the event, there was a hi-bye session for all VIP ticket holders. They sent everyone else out, so it started 20 minutes after the actual ending. They kept reminding us that we weren't allowed to record or take photos of the event, but apparently someone at Starship was filming the whole thing? So there's a possibility that I might end up on YouTube, heh. Since we were on the left side of the stage, we were among the last to go up and meet them.

Holy fuck dude. I wasn't nervous while watching everyone else go up and meet IVE, but once the staff told us to form a single line and we slowly made our way around the stage, my heart began to go buckwild. You just don't know what to say or do when that moment comes—like how do I make this memorable or at the very least, not cringe? One thing I do know was that we all agreed, as a section, to walk past them as slow as humanly possible; five seconds was not enough. I was so unsure of what to do as I slowly walked up the steps to the point I was practically mouthing 'Jesus take the wheel' or else I'd melt into a puddle, lose my shit, do something stupid, or maybe all of the above.

Jesus Christ. They looked so fucking flawless. You honestly couldn't tell they were sweaty and exhausted after performing for 2.5 hours.

From left to right, it was Rei, Gaeul, Wonyoung, Yujin, Leeseo, and Liz. Liz was the first member I met, and she completed my half-heart gesture. From there, my brain blanked for a good three seconds. My mouth was still uttering 'Kamsahamnida' but that scene seemed to stick long past that moment. I couldn't register Leeseo, Yujin, and Wonyoung's reactions—I knew they were smiling and waving—but then my brain suddenly went back up as I met Gaeul and Rei's eyes right as we made our way out. I went to the bathroom and uttered a relieved, awestruck 'Holy shit.'

God. I don't know if I will ever move on from such an experience. I'm still thinking about the interaction as I write this little thought diary, and my mind keeps replaying the interactions with Liz, Gaeul, and Rei. All of them had lovely smiles and were so happy even though they clearly were gassed out, and I was in utter shock trying to comprehend what had happened. Famous streamer IShowSpeed met his hero Ronaldo the same day as the concert and if you've seen his video, he practically plays out all the emotions I wanted to feel after meeting them. I've not played any K-pop after the concert aside from English versions of songs and most certainly I've avoided IVE songs aside from rewatching my concert fancams because I'll just melt into a giddy pile of goo watching it, telling myself 'I was there.'

My sister only listens to Blackpink. She agreed to take me to the venue provided I buy her tickets, so this was a consolation or redemption of sorts after failing to secure tickets for the Born Pink tour. She's a Dive now. She couldn't stop raving over Wonyoung's beauty but she eventually found all the members to be cute and beautiful. It feels great to finally share a sweet moment with my sister despite the turbulent relationship we have.

In an ideal world, I'll be watching Le sserafim and the other IZ*ONE members when they perform/arrive here. Of course, there's many obstacles in the way, and I'm not loaded with disposable income. Seriously, these tickets were more expensive than a veteran group and they're supposed to be rookies! But the entire experience—the energy, the performances, and the ending—made every coin I spent worth it. If this ends up becoming the only concert I attend in my entire life moving forward, I'm glad it was an unforgettable one.

Gaeul, Yujin, Rei, Wonyoung, Liz, and Leeseo, thank you for making my year and giving me a core memory I can fondly look back on. I fucking love you guys.

#update #storytime

[metalandmagi]

Hello....If you don't mind me asking, who are your favorite romantic relationship's couples in books/ manga/manhwa/ anime/movies/tv series (can be canon or non-canon)? Why you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before....

Hope you don't mind if the same person ask a different questions. Thank you so much @metalandmagi .....

Funny you should ask, because I was just listening to a podcast episode about favorite fandom ships, and I had actually started making my own list that I was going to post anyway! And I don’t mind you asking, since I don't really have people to talk to about this stuff. I like looking at your blog and seeing other people’s answers too!

Here's my top ten! These are going to be kind of repetitive because I’ve already talked about these fandoms so much, but these are my favorite CANON SHIPS, meaning they’re actually together or at least have kissed or something. I have a million non canon ships.

10. Jem, Will, and Tessa from The Infernal Devices- I wanted to keep myself to one ship per fandom, but I couldn’t help it, I just love this OT3 so much. I don’t care what anyone says, they are a poly relationship, not a love triangle (and I maintain that if Jem wasn’t already dying, he and Will would have realized they loved each other romantically, and their parabatai bond would have fucked them over eventually). They all have an equal amount of love and respect for each other, and they balance each other so well. And I appreciate that none of them are relegated to being “the overly jealous partner who ruins everything for the other two.” We get time with each of them and love them all equally.

9. Patroclus and Achilles from The Song of Achilles- Call me a basic bitch, but these two are unparalleled in terms of doomed romances. I love friends to lovers, and the story is so widely spanning that it gives their relationship such gravitas.

8. Yona and Hak from Akatsuki no Yona- Still haven’t finished the manga, but these two are god tier for fantasy romances. I love that they completely lose their minds over each other whenever they are not within arm’s reach, and they’re another great example of childhood friends to lovers. Hak’s “teasing” attitude in the beginning of the series wasn’t my favorite, but it’s funny to look back on it later, knowing that he’s so in love with Yona and would murder the first person to disrespect her. 

7. Shigure and Akito from Fruits Basket- Because why would I choose one of the normal, healthy relationships when I could go for one of the most fucked up romances in shoujo? These two…I don’t even know where to start. They’re the definition of toxic for most of the series, but by the end, you’re really rooting for them to be together with the Sohma family curse broken. Shigure is desperate for the curse to be broken so he can prove to Akito that he loves her without them being tied together by fate. Akito feels like she needs the curse because otherwise everyone will leave her forever. Akito sleeps with Kureno. Shigure sleeps with her mom. They’re “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” meets “mansplain, manipulate, man-whore.”

6. Sasaki and Miyano from Sasaki to Miyano- What can I say? They’re just so freaking cute! I think they represent the romance a lot of people in fandom want, because they bond over manga and slowly come to learn more about each other. Sasaki never pressures Miyano to return his feelings, and I appreciate the patience he has in waiting for Miyano to give him an honest answer to his confession.

5. Jesper and Wylan from Six of Crows- Another basic answer, but these two are so entertaining whenever they’re together. I love that Jesper starts out teasing Wylan relentlessly about looking like a pampered rich kid (despite the fact that Wylan also lives on the streets), but Wylan deadass saves the group time and time again, so Jesper comes to respect him more. This is how you do teasing in a relationship: they get under each other’s skin but aren’t complete dicks to each other. And I appreciate that the Shadow and Bone show changes their dynamic slightly while keeping the chaotic duo the same at their core. 

4. Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase from the various Percy Jackson series- The pinnacle of middle grade/YA romance. Nobody else is doing it like these two. What works about their relationship is that we truly believe their friendship as 12 year olds before they start to have feelings for each other. So many times, authors shove two characters together because they feel like they need a romance, but Percy/Annabeth progress so naturally. They tease each other, but they know they’re both capable individuals at the end of the day (and their wildly different brands of intelligence work so well), and as long as they’re together, they can get through anything.

3. Hua Cheng and Xie Lian from Heaven Official's Blessing- I’ve shipped these two for much less time than these other ships, but they have smashed their way to my top 3 ships of all time. How do you compete with a god who’s fallen from grace and his eternally devoted follower who would burn the world down to see them smile? How do you compete with Hua Cheng, who has stayed by Xie Lian’s side for hundreds of years out of pure devotion, but not in a creepy or weird stalkery way? I think the biggest thing this ship has going for it is its sincerity. Hua Cheng doesn’t stay with Xie Lian because he’s hoping Xie Lian will fall for him eventually. He doesn’t believe he’s even worthy of Xie Lian’s love. But he stays anyway, because that’s what unconditional love is like. You stay when the one you love is at their lowest and you can’t do anything to help. You stay when they’re fighting the heavenly emperor and kick ass alongside them. You hold an umbrella over their head when it's raining blood and carry them across the ground when it's littered with corpses.

2. Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from The Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunters- These two have destroyed me over the years. I think the best thing about this ship is how they bring out the best in each other and have changed each other’s lives for the better. Magnus is so outgoing and free spirited, but with Alec, he wants to “settle down” (lol) and raise a family. Alec started as the personification of the frowny face emoji, stuck in the closet with a stick up his ass, but now he’s basically running the shadowhunter world. They’re the perfect example of “opposites attract” who have changed their world simply by being in love.

1. Damen and Laurent from Captive Prince- Speaking of couples who change their world simply by being in love…I don’t know if any other ship will top them for me. All the other enemies to lovers ships can get the fuck out. They’re nothing compared to Damen and Laurent. So many times, people will write “enemies to lovers” or “hate to love” relationships that are just two characters snipping at each other or bullying each other for no reason. Get that shit out of here. These two start with the purest, most honest loathing possible. They hurt each other in countless ways, but they come to learn each other slowly. They have every reason to be enemies, but they come through each layer of trauma with love for each other. They’re the kings (pun intended) of this trope.

Honorable mentions: Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper- They’re just so wholesome and sweet. The progression of their relationship from like to love is so realistic, and they’re basically the live action/book version of Sasaki and Miyano.

Ronan and Adam from The Raven Cycle- (haven’t read the last book in the Dreamer trilogy, but I hope nothing bad happens). Their differing brands of chaotic energy compliment each other perfectly, and as a reader, the slow realization that Ronan is in love with Adam was so eye opening and satisfying in a way few other series have been able to capture.

Just for fun, here are some of my “less canon” ships too.

* Inej and Kaz (they're practically canon, but they never explicitly say they're together or in love...but we all know they are)

*Kylo Ren and Rey (also practically canonical since they've at least kissed)

* America and England from Hetalia (if I really want to go back to my fandom shipping roots. I read nothing but fics for them for like 2 years in high school 😅)

*Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima 

*Hinata and Kageyama

*Carole and Tuesday

*Link and Sidon

#captive prince #shadowhunters #sasaki to miyano #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #percy jackson #pjo #six of crows #fruits basket #akatsuki no yona #tid #tmi

[hypermascbishounen]

Interesting that you point out how babied Lenore was in S4, because

yes, she was. She was written like such an immature brat, making stupid jokes and constantly whining that she was so boooored and no one needed her anymore and oh no she's so scawed of mean cawmiwwa 🥺 and it feels disingenuous, no I'm sorry I get that the context is different but the Lenore who cries that Carmilla lied to her is not the Lenore who was able to gaslight Hector into believing that actually he was lucky that he was beaten and imprisoned.

this is yet another way her character got disrespected, if you care about her. Remember, the other council vampires clearly had a poor opinion of Lenore. Carmilla made fun of her for her tendency to take care of animals, Striga implied that she saw her as a hopeless romantic, Morana talked about her like a silly little girl living in her fantasies. And the most charitable explanation as to why Lenore snapped and beat Hector to an inch of his life when he threatened her is precisely that he, too, saw her as a young defenseless girl: to be fair, would he have thought to attack any of the other three? Probably not. And Lenore clearly resents this situation so much, which is why he beat him way past self defense, which is why she had fun dominating him, which is why she was eager to humiliating him in front of her sisters, who both admired her for her genius and were disgusted by her sexual comments (a way to keep the control of the conversation)

I like this idea. Both Hector and Lenore are the "weak link" of their group, looked down on for their apparent "softness", but while Hector apparently didn't know, didn't realize or didn't care (if the writing was good, I could say that it's because he lived a life of abuse so he doesn't realize his own worth), Lenore very much did, and she rebounded too far in the opposite direction. Her kindness can almost be seen as a subtle way to feel powerful, more subtle than simply beating people into submission: sure, taking care of someone is a nice act... but also, they depend on you, and they're more malleable to your wishes.

So yeah, from this perspective, her constant 🥺 face in S4 is infantilizing an abuser. Lenore did nothing wrong. She always wanted to protect Hector, really. He was having fun when she manipulated him into sex, so what's the big deal. They are such good friends who understand each other. Of course Hector would love her and protect her with barely a second thought. Who wouldn't? An evil person? But they're so cute together 🥺

(btw, I'm interested to know who is the other Beatrice you mentioned lol! As for the Sugarman one, she is such a fascinating character who is so, so pitiable for what happened to her, but still not woobiefied for the horrible way she took her misery on her innocent son)

(also sorry for the ask lol, I didn't want to make a long post longer than it already is)

(no worries, feel free to send asks or messages! I always have more to say than I know what yo do with lol)

The other Beatrice is from Umineko, a series of murder mystery visual novels in the wider When They Cry series. She's hard to describe without spoilers tbh, but relevant atm: she can be a real smug sadist while still containing genuine tragedy, and her relationships get to actually mean something. Here she is expressing true opinions about nfcv:

I feel like a Lenore whose loss of humanity was allowed to be explored as a legit Dracula parrelel, could have almost been interesting. Oh well.

The biggest issue imo, is that she can't really exist as a character without Hector, but the story itself feels threatened by Hector being a character compared to her. This means that no matter how much they try to build her up by contrast, she gets dragged down anyways. So now all they have is two ruined characters for the price of one.

Personally, I think maybe the catharsis granted from a character who does bad things, is only as good as the work lets you engage with them on that premise. If you keep dragging it back to how they're basically in the right anyways, it can lose the emotional opportunity for the audience to explore dark feelings. This doesn't mean you can't write them to be sympathetic ever, but it does mean they risk falling into a weakened power fantasy or cheap fanservice, if you effectively just preach to the audience about how cool they are, esp at the expense of other characters.

#anti netflixvania #Idk how well im articulating that last point #I may be tired lol

[eemcintyre]

I am getting real tired of the modern, technology-driven notion that everyone has to be constantly available to everyone in their life.

Like, if it's an emergency I will be there for you 100%, but I have now had multiple friendships/relation-ish-ships end (all with men btw- coincidence...?) because I didn't text them back right away, every day, multiple times a day.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is, at best, ridiculously needy, and at worst, ridiculously entitled behavior?? This level of clinginess and insecurity (that somehow is my responsibility to reassure???) is a huge turn-off.

Not only do I think it's important and healthy for everyone to be comfortable spending some amount of time alone with their own thoughts, but I *especially* have always needed a lot of solitude and independence (idk maybe it comes from how controlled I was as a child and how few friends I had, but that's a whole other tangent right there). I require room to do my own thing, and while I love my friends and they are important to me, I'm not totally dependent on them and every ounce of my happiness and self-worth doesn't hinge on them. Honestly, the more someone tries to cling to me and rein me in, the more I feel compelled to distance myself. I need to know that I am free.

Anyway, this seems to intimidate a lot of people who are immature and not secure in themselves and are still suffering from unresolved past trauma that they are projecting onto me. They find it intimidating that even though I can want someone in my life and like or love them, I don't need them in it to survive because I am ultimately comfortable with myself and know my value enough now to not compromise who I am just to keep them in my life. They find it scary and foreign that I don't need constant reassurance and don't have the energy or will to provide it; that I can be content doing my own thing. Aka me having my own separate life in addition to our relationship and enjoying alone time = I don't care about them at all.

I need someone with the maturity, emotional intelligence, and self-esteem to realize that not everything is about them- I have more than one person in my life, I have a job, I have hobbies, etc., and even just because I am not busy at a point in time doesn't mean that time is *free* time. That is recharge and contemplation time.

I have even, against my better judgment, tried compromising my own boundaries to accommodate these people's insecurities and needs, and it didn't work. It's never enough. Also why does it always have to be me who compromises and makes the changes, and not them? Why don't they have to try and work on themselves to become less dependent on others and more secure? Why is it me who always has to drain all of my energy with forced, ingenuine conversation and interaction and trying to heal the past issues of other grown adults that they are projecting onto me?

I'm sick of my boundaries being disrespected. You are valid if it mentally drains you to be in constant contact with other people, and you are no less of a kind, caring person and good friend or partner for being that way. Like, it has nothing to do with you; I just recharge from spending time alone where I can think and exist without being observed or obligated to entertain others; being able to do exactly what I feel like, analyze my thoughts, or enjoy the quiet. Honestly, most people who require more contact (to a reasonable and non-codependent degree) are valid too; I just think both groups need to either compromise equally in relationships or seek out people who are more like-minded rather than existing in constant strife trying to change and/or make each other understood.

I know that I am a good, kind, friendly, and generous lady who brings a lot to the table, and I am sick of trying to convince people of it. If they want to leave because they can't handle physical and mental personal space, then no hard feelings at the end of the day but they are absolutely welcome to. I'm tired of letting people guilt and disparage and try to change me when I'm not doing anything wrong.

#to clarify that last line #obviously I can do wrong but I am only speaking on the post topic #alone time #solitude #independence #independent woman #introvert #introversion #infj #infp #entitlement issues #boundaries #setting boundaries

[citrus-lamb]

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, can I request a poly sbg x fem gyaru reader who gets bullied by Barron and his friends? (Angst but a very fluffy ending) :3

a/n : yes ofc! i love the gyaru style and i used to be bullied a lot for what i wear so this was fun to write. it's not my best work but i did try! again, sorry if this is ooc, still trying to figure out the characters! I hope you enjoy!

song : kimagure mercy (hachioji p)

When the initial bullying came about, you toned down your look.

You didn’t remove it fully, as you really like the gyaru style and liked wearing it!

But you were also sick and tired of getting comments on your appearance.

It was making you hate yourself and what you liked.

However, the only comfort you found was this style.

It was an endless cycle.

Logan noticed first.

He had been bullied all his life, of course he noticed when you started looking in the mirror more, and hiding your face when taking photos.

He also noticed you shrunk when Barron came by or started talking.

He knew, and he asked you about it.

You brushed it off as nothing.

Soon after Ashlyn and Ben realized.

And then Taylor.

And then Tyler.

That’s when they confronted you about it.

Barron was pulling his usual shit again. He was making you feel terrible, making fun of your outfit, your makeup, all of it. It was subtle, so much so that the teacher didn’t notice. But you did, and so did the group. “Why are you letting him talk to you like that?” Tyler asked.

“What do you mean? It’s fine. I don’t care that much.” You said, brushing it off again.

This was the third time the group had tried to talk to you about it, but you said the same thing every time. “It’s not fine! It’s disrespectful and he needs to recognize it.”

“No, Tyler, it’s fine.” You said, trying to de-escalate the situation. “…Maybe there is something wrong with my style.”

“What? Don’t say that!” Other replies of disapproval came from the group.

“Yeah, your style is amazing!” Taylor said.

“I don’t know, I just…” You sighed, trying to collect your thoughts that had been running rampant for days now. It was like herding sheep without any proper tools. Eventually you got them all together, and started, “I feel like it doesn’t look good. Like, I love this style, I love wearing it and all that, but I don’t love it when people say that stuff, y’know?”

“But you like it.” Aiden said, very matter-a-fact, “So you should keep wearing it. Plus, it looks great on you!”

A light smile decorated your face. “I guess your right.”

“Of course I’m right. I’m always right.” He said proudly, hands on his hips. Ashlyn and Tyler snorted in unison at his comment, “Hey!”

After school you guys went to Ashlyn’s house and cuddled <3

#sbg #sbg x reader #school bus graveyard #school bus graveyard x reader

[90s-html-lesbians]

Wait, I just realized that Lil and especially Ava would have been alive during at least the Late New Kingdom period of Egypt and probably lived there at one or even multiple points in history. So they would have known people who later died and were mummified.

So later on when a bunch of freaks make it a trend to eat mummies, they would be so upset! Like oh my god, they're eating our buddy Ptahmose!!! Absolute chaos and misery, and they definitely hatched plans to reclaim and re-bury multiple mummies for as long as the practice went on for. Don't ever ask them about it unless you want to bear witness to an enraged rant that would frighten the most stalwart anger management counselor.

1) your ask initially showed up like this and it was ? for a couple of seconds lmao

2) yeah, and stuff like that is a good part of what causes ava & lilith’s gradual increasing disconnect from society over the millennia, aside from their pre existing trauma, and why supernatural beings are generally known of but without much being known about them in general

they are usually human and then turned supernatural, often through traumatic means -> a lot of times there’s no other supernatural beings in the vicinity, so there’s no one they can quite find solidarity with and have the “who what why when” etc questions answered, which is obviously frightening even if you have the most supportive community -> everytime they make new friends and family they have to face the fact that not only will they have to witness the loss of em, whether it be through conflicts, drifting apart, or death, it’s increased exponentially now that they’re supernatural -> they witness human cruelty by a lot more due to the longer life spans and have to see those friends and families being disrespected in and/or after their deaths, whether it be because they were too much of a nobody for anybody to give a shit, or because they were popular and so everyone felt entitled to em -> if they don’t go insane they usually go apathetic and secluded because of the aforementioned factors which feeds into the cycle more because there’s yet another generation of supernatural beings growing without much knowledge of supernatural beings because they’re secluded

not to mention the obvious of how while many supernatural beings have long ass lives, there’s very few that are immortal, which means they can often die from simple stuff like tripping down the stairs or something. and the lack of knowledge about supernatural beings is often deadly, because that stuff literally changes your biology and there’s been many cases of not getting enough food for your new supernatural appetite, vampires getting blood poisoning because they drank from the wrong person or animal, new allergies to things that were perfectly fine for them when they were human, getting misdiagnosis from doctors because no one knows you have a secret third thing of an organ or you grew more limbs etc

however throughout the millennia of millenia, there’s been more and more effort to rectify that, both by humans and supernatural beings. especially in beatrice’s time, there’s like a good few compilations of stuff on supernatural beings, even if they are still very limited, and there’s more and more stuff like supernatural being groups and meetups, etc

oh shit wait, maybe mary & the gang are part of a supernatural beings group and that’s how they all initially meet (mary and the gang - probably bea)

#asks #the-darkness-does-not-bargain #mootie tag #immortal roommates au #warrior nun

[alarrytale]

Why are queer people so insistent on only queer people playing queer roles? It is pigeonholing queer people in a way and assuming/forcing them into playing themselves when they might not want to. Another thing they don't understand is that big names pull in a big audience. If someone spends 100 mil on making and promoting a movie and they have to give a percentage of the profit to theaters/streaming services then what are the chances some unknown queer actor will draw a huge audience. Unlikely. At least big names are getting more queer representation on the screen. I'm asking this by the way because of the backlash against Harry doing MP. I saw an old IG post by gaytimes and the comments were all complaining about another 'straight' actor taking the role. Why don't queer people realize that closeted queer people exist? Especially in billion dollar industries. Just because they're 'out' doesn't mean that everyone is. I don't understand why closeted queer people or potentially closeted are treated with such disrespect and as if they don't exist. Queer people will be the first to throw tantrums when people assume they're straight but THEY assume that everyone is straight unless they've CO. They assume people are straight by default. So they're very hypocritical. Also why should actors have to CO to play a queer role? You don't do that in any other career. I just hate how they complain about people assuming sexualities when they do it themselves. It makes me feel really unsympathetic towards them but I hope you can change my mind

Hi, anon!

I'm not here to change your mind, but i'll explain some things to you to help you understand where people are coming from.

Queer people are a minority and historically suppressed group of people. They don't have the same rights as straight people. They are discriminated against and looked at as an abomination. Queer people want the same rights as straight people and to be accepted as they are. In order for that to happen straight people need to be exposed to queer people and learn that they're normal people and not to be treated as second class citizens. Being queer needs to be normalised. If straight people witness two guys holding hands in the street enough times, at a point they will stop turning their heads everytime. Exposure is so important for normalisation.

Since queer people are a minority and Hollywood traditionally heterosexually orientated (man and woman falls in love the end), it's hard for queer people to get noticed and get opportunities to get attention in the mainstream entertainment world. Out queer people playing straight is almost unheard of. So they're fighting to at least be able to play the queer ones. Without getting the opportunity to get attention, queer people won't be able to normalise being queer and they won't get representation.

It's also important for young closeted people to have out queer role models. It will validate them and aid their coming out. The more people who come out, the more straight people will be exposed to queerness and it will be normalised.

So when Hollywood makes movies, when Vogue wants to have a man in a dress on their cover or Hollywood makes a gay romcom, many queer people feel it's important to put queer people in these positions. For normalisation of queer people, to create queer role models and for queer progression. Casting a straight man to play a gay man is also seen as queer appropriation, like it's wrong to cast a white woman to play Pocahontas.

What complicates things even more is queer closeted people. They often seek out queer roles and enter queer spaces. The issue is that closeted queer people won't help normalise queerness, won't give closeted teenagers role models, won't give queer people representation and won't help with queer progression. Some queer people only want out queer people in queer roles or in mainstream media to represent them. Some go further and only want bisexuals to play bisexuals and gay people to play gay. Others recognise that closeted queer people are also queer people and should have the same opportunities as out queer people to take queer roles and enjoy queer culture.

If closeted queer people are suspected to be queer and have stereotypical queer looks and mannerisms, they are usually left alone and permitted to take on queer roles, enjoy queer culture and explore their queerness. However, if closeted queer people are straight passing and do not fit the queer stereotypes, heteronormativity will make even queer people believe they're straight. The irony here is that people won't automatically think people are straight by default if being queer is normalised.

Complicating matters further is straight people deliberately taking advantage of, appropriating and enjoying queer culture. They're not giving queers representation, but they want the queer dollar. It's counterproductive and hinders queer progression. Queerbaiting is very frowned upon, but it can be hard to distinguish between straight people appropriating queer culture and queer aesthetic and closeted queer people queercoding and being themselves.

None of this is easy, but i think it's important to listen to queer voices and understand queer people's wants and needs as a suppressed group. Queer people still struggle to get ahead, get the same respect as straight people and enjoy the same opportunities as straight people. In order for that to change they need to be given a platform.

#this got long #long post #queerbaiting #harry image #queercoding

[redheadbigshoes]

Not for nothing, I respect your blog a lot and your stances on things but even if someone says something you don't like I don't really understand nor respect wishing them literal physical harm?

This is pertaining to the person comparing biphobic with everything else or whatever.

I think a lot of lesbians who are not, in fact, masculine, don't understand how gross bisexual women tend to treat us. And before you think im myself biphobic, I was deeply in love with, had an open relationship with, and married a bisexual women, and she wasn't like that, but that doesn't mean I haven't had some seriously disturbing shit come out of bi women's mouths who have treated me like I was a hetero cisman. There's anger in that. Imo more lesbains need to realize that masc presenting people are constantly disrespected, and we have a right to be angry with the people who are repeatedly doing it. And if it is continuously done by the same type of people, then how is it biphobic to just want to stay away from that? And i equally don't deserve to be told something really bad should happen to me because of my anger of how I've been treated.

Good for all the feminine presenting wlw who don't get told to be abusive or aggressive to get attention. You are not a truly safe place if you continue not to understand this and bash other lesbians for feeling what they absolutely have a right to feel and labeling it as being biphobic. Being angry about how the same group of people treat you doesn't mean you're suddenly phobic about them.

You’re saying “even if someone says something you don’t like” as if it’s about someone simply not agreeing with me about like food taste. You don’t seem to understand (or at least seem to ignore) the fact that it’s about other people’s existence, that person didn’t simply not agree with me, they didn’t simply say something I don’t like, they compared bisexuality with straights and cis people as if bisexuals were the oppressors.

You don’t respect wishing someone harm but you don’t care about someone being openly biphobic?

Just because some bisexual women don’t respect you for being masculine doesn’t mean all of them do that. You’re generalizing a minority and that is pretty shitty. Imagine if it was a non-lesbian generalizing masculine lesbians? I bet you wouldn’t like it, but still you do the same.

“Before you say I’m biphobic” right after you generalized a whole sexuality lol and then you used as an excuse having had a relationship with someone who was bi… You know how that sounds? It sounds like homophobes trying to excuse their homophobia by saying “I’m not homophobic I even have gay friends”. That’s not an excuse.

Having had bad experiences with someone from a minority doesn’t excuse you to generalize them, even if you’re also part of a minority.

Being angry about people being shitty to you is not the same as being biphobic (or whatever other prejudice) to them. You can fully be angry with the people who harmed you without generalizing the whole group.

Me calling out biphobia doesn’t mean I don’t listen to masculine lesbians. Leave your victim complex and your biphobia out of my blog. You don’t make a difference.

#stephanie answers #anon #long post

[turing-tested]

i guess like id draw the comparison of religion and varying amounts of belief, i think that its fine if you are SUPER into your personal beliefs whatever they may be and you are within your rights to be respected as long as they respect others and you are taking care to be safe as well, but in the same way, its not within someone's rights to argue that less ardent believers of a personal philosophy are bad people or defacto disrespectful or hateful because they do not ascribe to the things you think with the same enthusiasm or that they must describe themselves in some other way in order for you to feel respected, and as well you have the right to not be persecuted or experience people being dickheads to you because you believe strange things. i guess the argument for me boils down to "you absolutely cannot require that everyone under an umbrella term describe themselves differently because they don't believe with the same passion you do and deriding those people for not experiencing the same issues you do is where that crosses into an incredibly dangerous "you must be suffering this much to ride" territory that is entirely too subjective and dangerous to comfortably argue for"

as for the whole "well, i cannot find people who will accept my stringent beliefs very well" aspect i get and am empathetic for and i have my own personal ways of seeking support for those things, i just think that its very much the same as if you tried to go to group therapy for people with anxiety and then you realized that you have issues that are a little out of the scope of the people there, it can be disheartening but it does not mean that you and them are not entitled to support, its just that you'll need to figure out what a community looks like that does support your specific needs for a panic disorder, and also not arguing "well, i hate that people who can leave their house without a panic attack say they have anxiety, i think that they're making a mockery of the struggles i go through"

[mamaangiwine]

What specifically is a closed practice? I’ve tried looking it up but I get very vague confusing answers.

Hello Anon,

I think you've actually touched on a larger issue people seem to have when discussing this topic. Most people want an "exact" definition of what a "closed practice" is, and seem to become frustrated when they realize that it is a more complex conversation.

Generally speaking? When a practice is "closed" that means that it is off limits to "outsiders". What constitutes an "outsider"? That definition also varies from tradition to tradition, and usually depends on the reason the practice is closed.

Often times a practice is closed because it belongs within the context of a larger culture that has experienced oppression for their beliefs. Simultaneously, those cultures may be dealing with the appropriation of their beliefs, which can further dislocate the practice from its original application and spiritual significance; this spreads misinformation, creates misconception, and can ultimately lead to demonization. All of which contribute to cultural colonization and genocide.

Sometimes it is this and more.

For some practices they are specific to a religion, and are completely closed to any outsiders that are not apart of it. For some it is because the practices themselves were born out of oppression, and are considered the spiritual inheritance of those who share in that struggle. For others still, it may simply be a question of proper initiation and to proceed without it is disrespectful of the educaton necessary to participate in the practice.

There can be any number of reasons to why a practice is "closed", many of which I haven't even listed.

The main thing I think everyone should keep in mind about "closed" practices is this:

When an oppressed cultural group, or people tell you their practice is closed the goal is not "exclusion". It is, in essence, a boundary based on complex historical, cultural and spiritual factors. To violate that boundary is to violate a community's autonomy.

This is partly why I say that studying is important. Vigilant study will allow you not only to understand the theory and philosophy behind a practice, or to know which practices are closed, but will also allow you to treat a spirituality with the reverence and respect it deserves.

Thanks for the question, hope this helped.

#magic #folk magic #spirituality #magic practitioners #witchblr #witchcraft #wizards #sorcerers #colonialism #racism #closed practices #appropriation

[stolenavalanche]

I remember losing my faith. It was little things that at the time didn’t seem to add up to much. But those little grew and festered in my mind. They tempted me to ask more questions, to do more research. 

My parents probably ask themselves every day where they went wrong. The answer is glaringly obvious, even if they don’t wish to admit it. They raised me to think for myself. All those years, they tried to shield my eyes from literature and media that was “ungodly.” They monitored my phone for years, trying to catch anything that might be too worldly. They were picky of who my friends were, scared I might be drug into hell due to the wrong people.

When you try to monitor a child as closely as they did, rebellion happens. How dare they try and tell me what to do and think and believe? It started off innocently enough. A random gay couple in a NCIS episode. One of my close friends coming out as a lesbian. Thomas Sanders being the gay icon that he is. Picking a library book prize titled Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. An lgbt+ fanfic. 

My parents were right in trying to control what I read. Books and literature in general is a gateway. But I couldn’t be the horse obsessed, mystery reader forever. SvTHSA, Bloom, and many other books, made me feel seen. Made me feel heard. Forever, I had felt guilty for the way I would look at girls and guys and everyone in-between.

“But who prays for Satan?” A Mark Twain quote that hit home everyday for years. I remember asking my father, “If the devil was to apologize to God and change and really mean it, would God forgive him?” My dad couldn’t answer that. Strike one.

I would lay in bed at night and sob, begging God to answer me. Those answers never came. It frustrated me to no end. So when I reached out to the universe, asking for signs from other pantheons and they answered within the week, it hurt. Strike two.

The breaking point was my gender. I realized I was trans. I hid it from my parents as long as I could, but they figured it out. It was one of the hardest conversations of my life. I got kicked out. I was told God doesn’t make mistakes. So why did I feel like one? Strike three.

I hated him. I still do. I try hard to not let that hate bleed into my interactions with his followers, but sometimes it’s hard. That bastard has allowed so much hate and filth into the world. Why should his followers, who primarily spread it, be cut any slack? 

“Not all Christians are like that.” Bullshit. Even the ones I think I can trust are hiding a knife in their sleeves. A sly comment from a coworker about supporting anti-trans laws. Blatant disrespect for pronouns disguised as “I’m trying, it’s hard.” It disgusts me and it’s so hard to understand. How can people be so awful? I recognize that I was raised to hate just like these people do. But somehow, I don’t feel hate towards the groups they tell me to. If I can change, why don’t they?

It’s because they choose not to. They enjoy hating others, they enjoy making people’s lives difficult. They are cruel and unkind and not what Jesus, the man they admire so much, told them to be. I make a better Christian than the majority of Christians out there. I wish I could cut all contact with them. The world would be so much better without their hate. But I can’t. 

Call it a hero complex, but I have siblings who still could be good. It’s my responsibility to help them see that the outside world isn’t full of evil. It’s my responsibility to try and guide them out of the hate they were raised in.  Maybe I can keep them safe, somehow. I care about them so much and only want to see them thrive. 

I don’t know how to end this. I never do. But I do know that this was a well needed vent. The world is cruel and unkind and that’s somewhat due to those trying to save it. I can’t change it, but I can hope. I can enjoy living whilst I have the chance. So I will. 

#christianity #faith #loss #lgbtq #transgender

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Hey sorry for the late, follow up, I've been busy and plus I have ADHD.

Rowling herself has never posted the words "F your pronouns" and besides ther eason people do that is'nt personal hate, it's about getting people to acknowledge objective reality. Here's an analogy: A blond, white skinned person saying "I REALLY AM a black person!" would be denying objective reality and offending actual black people. Furthermore, someone who hates trans people would never dare say this: "

I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they’re most likely to be killed by sexual partners. Trans women who work in the sex industry, particularly trans women of colour, are at particular risk. Like every other domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor I know, I feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been abused by men.

So I want trans women to be safe."

And furthermore, you use the term TERF the way most people use the term "Klansmen" or "Proud Boy", like it's some kind of malevolent genocidal hate group. But unlike The KKK or Proud Boys, TERFS are a legitimate group who are not malevolent or genocidal. Try reading feminsitcurrent's section on the trans movement sometime.

Rowling herself has never posted the words "F your pronouns"

But the openly supports them. If I proudly support a shop that sells "bring back segregation" merch, would you say that I'm racist? I mean, I never said those words. I just supported someone who did.

And those are personal hate things. Posting something that says "transition=conversion therapy" IS personal hate. Supporting someone that posts that IS personal hate.

She also proudly supported someone who disregarded gender laws and was found to be promoting hate by both her company and a court system. The woman she supported even said she knew her words were disrespectful and rude, but it was her own personal belief.

So, yes. She does support personal hateful behavior.

Here's an analogy: A blond, white skinned person saying "I REALLY AM a black person!"

You do realize there are tons of people who are blond and appear white skinned who ARE black people? Not only do black people experience albinism and still ARE black. But biracial people also exist and if biracial people regard themselves as white or black then that's their business and I don't think other people's opinion on that matters.

Also, if you're again bringing up a person who is white identifying as black. Again, these two things aren't comparable to one another. We currently have science that backs up being trans, science supports that some people are in fact transgender and should be treated as their gender.

This is like saying you don't believe humans have ever been to the moon because humans haven't gone to mars before. One is currently scientifically backed up and regarded as very, very possible.

Furthermore, someone who hates trans people would never dare say this

You realize there are varying degrees of transphobia, right? Just like there are varying degrees of every other type of bigotry.

And just because you say you support someone doesn't mean you actually do.

For instance, let's say someone opposes gay marriage. They think gay people shouldn't be allowed to be married. But they say they oppose violence against gay people. And they say even though they'll always believe that person's actually straight, they'll support gay people's right to believe they're gay.

Would you say this person supports gay people? Would you say other people are wrong for calling them homophobic?

So I want trans women to be safe.

Did you know people can say things without actually believing them?

You can SAY you want trans women to be safe all day, but if you're actively opposing them having access and resources where they're provenly safer....Do you really want them to be safe?

Trans women have had access to women's spaces for ages, believe it or not. Passing trans women have flown right under your radar and always gone into women's bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. Both pre op and post op.

And there has never been a significant number of attacks on cis women by trans women. There has never been a significant number of cis men pretending to be women to access women's spaces for nefarious purposes.

But do you know what there is a significant number of?

Trans women being assaulted in men's restrooms. Trans women being assaulted in men's locker rooms. Trans women being assaulted in women's restrooms because of transphobia. Trans women being assaulted in men's prisons. Trans women being in unsafe situations because they're barred from women's shelters and feel unsafe in men's shelters.

JKR does not want trans women to be safe because she fights to keep them from places to keep them safe. And for what? To keep a hypothetical she created in her own head from occurring. She's fighting to keep trans women in spaces where they're proven to be unsafe because of an issue she thinks might happen with proof saying it doesn't happen.

So, no. JKR does not want trans women to be safe because she fights to ban them from places that keep them safe. And for what? A hypothetical thing she's invented in her head, meanwhile the harm trans women experience is not hypothetical.

And furthermore, you use the term TERF the way most people use the term "Klansmen" or "Proud Boy", like it's some kind of malevolent genocidal hate group. But unlike The KKK or Proud Boys, TERFS are a legitimate group who are not malevolent or genocidal.

Again, varying degrees of bigotry.

If your beliefs are based on exclusion, you are in fact hateful. And TERFs beliefs (ie trans women are dangerous, trans women don't belong in women's spaces, trans women are just men playing dress up and shouldn't be regarded as women) do lead to harm against trans people.

Like I stated before, trans women are at very high risk of violence, especially when not regarded as women.

But also, these kinds of beliefs are the reason so many bills get passed that bar people from transitioning. And it's been proven not being able to transition leads to a high rate of trans suicide. Helping to bar people from life-saving medicine is malevolent. Spreading false information about a group is malevolent. Forcing a group into spaces where they're harmed and killed is malevolent.

If you can't understand or don't believe that, please refrain from sending more asks because your mind will not be changed. If science and statistics don't change your mind, I really can't help you.

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I feel like you're the only blog that wouldn't take this wrong way tbh, but the fandom is just ridiculously sensitive in the wrong ways.

1) bts cover missing you

straight up became racist as if they don't know the meaning of the song for black people or the message or even understand the meaning of rap. All I saw regardless of blocking people was people saying "how they're gonna bring hate, some stupid ass Instagram account called the shade room or whatever is gonna ruin them, they're gonna disrespect the song and dedicated it to army's" then them just cover it and it not being an issue at all???? They showed so many wrong colors then.

2) people getting worked up over using "spoiler" when talking about namjoons upcoming album. Got off of Twitter bc I kept getting recommended these convos, but people are mad at the fact tweets are saying "namjoon has been spoiling the album in last year" which isn't wrong or true. Full on saying "you're making namjoon look like a fool and not giving him his credit" that sounds like projection, knowing he has given hints of so many things of their work. By why whole threads about it, it's silly, and you're distracted over that....depressing.

3) Jungkook in qutar.

Basically, within the last decade, lots of south Asians had died, around 1,6k and probably more uncounted died from poor work conditions. They were immigrants as well. Some people were aware and didn't like the fact big hit & jungkook were promoting it bc of that. Right now people seem to not realize you can care about both sides without seeming like an insensitive asshole the bread makers of those who have now passed and to seem like a Jungkook anti. Like yes I'm happy jungkook can perform in such a stadium like that, however the lack of awareness of lives taken is sad. There's people being straight up being Islamophobic or just worried about jungkook being in the country knowing what's happening in surrounding or like countries being called "Islamophobic" or just throwing the word around.

4) Crush situation and people turning on hoseok. Straight up took some girls side, a girl who manipulated the situation to being artists down. Was proven in her tweets that she tried to take down multiple group and solo artists for "anti blackness" when they weren't doing anything wrong.

There's being protective and being an ass for no reason. Like the fandom is just so bad in this area,I mean weak as well. It's just blank fake support or care tbh, so many peoples colors have been shown ( both racist & human insensitive & anti ) I can't even say only a certain percentage, it is always all or none. I always appreciate it when they defend us, however, we need to take a few hits to change and better our fandom as it's just depressing at this point.

When actual issues come up, most all turn selfish and turn into hungry consumers and not the "we'll protect you bangtan, we care <3" ex June 14 2022 and the sale drop.

Thoughts? I'll be anon🎵🤟

1. Idk anything about that and can't comment.

2. Namjoon is a smart guy, I agree. He also has a team of other talents working with him to ensure that every "spoiler" is deliberate and received favorably by the fandom.

3. Jungkook is in Qatar to shoot his music video and perform at the world cup. It's completely unrelated.

4. I don't know about that situation either. Koreans can be pretty racist, but I think Hoseok isn't because of the collaboration and inspiration he draws from other diverse artists.

Yeh.

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Ayo, guess who finally decided to start posting again.

(Shock horror, it’s me.)

Among other things, a certain pirate show has shoved me back into the depths of this cursed website and made me realize how much absolute rubbish we’ve settled for in the past.

I know we’d all rather forget it, but this site is infamous for its obsession with Supernatural, Sherlock, Merlin, and other media which has taunted us with the illusion of representation. We have scraped the bottom of each barrel for a grimy, warped mirror in which we can see ourselves reflected.

I realized halfway through Our Flag Means Death that I was treating it in the same way I had done with these shows. I settled for a relationship between secondary characters, hoping for more but accepting that history would repeat itself and we would once again find solace in the depths of a03.

So many queer stories in media are written about us, but not for us. Love, Simon was the most representation I had seen at the age of 13, sitting in a theatre on my first ever date with my first ever girlfriend. The group of us who rewatched it like it was our lifeblood had finally found media for people like us- young and queer. Watching this movie again recently made me realize how many things we had been willing to overlook in order to enjoy this base level representation.

Inaccuracies are to be expected in any high-school rom-com—Martin’s homecoming shenanigans and a musical with seemingly only one show are perfect examples of standard departures from reality. When the author, director, and marketing team claim to tell a real-life queer story, other elements begin to stray from ‘expected’ to disrespectful. The way in which Simon’s best friends have seemingly no understanding for his situation, facing bullying and ostracization from Martin’s blackmail, and never once apologize for their actions makes it seem as though this is completely acceptable. The fact that Simon’s outing is downplayed to such an extent that even in Georgia, he faces one act of blatant homophobia and seems to be accepted without question by almost the entire school.

“I'm just like you. I have a totally, perfectly normal life. Except I have one huge-ass secret.”

Because, you know, no one watching a movie about a closeted gay teenager could possibly be queer in any way. That would just be ridiculous. It’s especially off-putting when the lead character is played by a straight man.

Anyway, I know this rant is very Love Simon-centric, but it’s honestly just because I watched it recently and was so annoyed that it hasn’t left my head since.

In the realm of things which haven’t left my thoughts since I watched them, I’m going to go back to the much more enjoyable topic of Our Flag Means Death. (Hopefully without giving away any spoilers because everyone needs to watch this show with as little previous information as possible.)

The impact this show has had on my life is absolutely insane. (Shoutout to my friend Damien for not shutting up until I watched the whole series.) In the five hours it took to watch the show, I saw more of myself than I have in the last eighteen years.

Queerbaiting has been so prevalent that I was afraid to watch the next episode at points, having seen such a gorgeous scene between characters that the thought of nothing coming from that interaction was almost too much. I was so afraid of letting my hopes rise that I broke my sacred rule of never looking up spoilers just to find out if something implied by one character was true. (It was. Almost cried. Thanks, Vico.)

The most beautiful part of this show is that it was written for queer people, but not written about being queer. It is, first and foremost, a show about a rich man who longed for the sea and has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. It’s a story of pirates, revenge, how awful the British are, and above all, it’s about creating your own family.

The queer relationships aren’t overly sexualized or infantilized as they so often are. The characters find their own ways to each other in a natural progression of events, and the camera lets them love one another in so many simple ways.

Whether intentional or not, (though I have to assume that it was,) OFMD tapped into the very things which we had all dreamed about since the first episode of Supernatural aired back in 2005. David Jenkins provided us with a story written purely for queer people, not just about us. The queer experience is shown beautifully even by characters which aren’t explicitly stated as such. Found family and self-acceptance are woven into a tale of betrayal and idiocy, all resulting in a beautiful realization of what love can be in its purest form.

(Also, it’s absolutely hilarious and features billowy shirts, a seagull named Karl, and Taika Waititi in a leather crop top with an openly shown mobility aid. Oh, and a soundtrack of absolute bangers.)

If I felt as though I could go into more detail without spoiling the show for those who haven’t seen it, I absolutely would. In a sentence, all I can say is that The Chain by Fleetwood Mac will always conjure the image of two men learning to love after half a lifetime of suppression, in one way or another.

(If HBO Max doesn’t renew OFMD for a second season I will riot. I can’t handle that kind of emotional whiplash without some kind of conclusion.)

#OFMD #our flag means death #queerbaiting #bones rambles #gay pirates #we’ve settled for so much shit #love simon #jim jimenez #Taika Waititi #david jenkins #no spoilers