#(parrot is exempt from that)

[aipurjopa]

uu trio always asking for shit on lifesteal im crying

[transfemme-shelterdog]

God Plaidos is a fucking tar pit. She genuinely thinks she the top of the world and everything she says is right, and if someone doesn’t agree they should jump off a bridge.

I’m sorry, it’s just I’m so tired of the way she acts, like genuinely middle school popular girl behaviour. And god is she parroting radfem shit.

https://www.tumblr.com/plaidos/784633872385294336/actually-yes-it-is-its-the-only-type-of-feminism?source=share

^like what the fuck is this??^

Even if misandry isn’t real it’s still just super fucking shitty to say this, considering she definitely also means this to trans men and transmasc people, WHO by her and so many others tell them to die horrifically just for existing (and not just trans woman, I am well aware of Terfs.). I know there genuinely wouldn’t be a point where she believes that people actually don’t like her bc she’s a racist, transphobic spouting shithead who thrives on putting people down and not because she’s a trans woman. like good for you, that doesn’t exempt you from being an asshole.

Sorry for this, I’m just so tired of people thinking that because they may be oppressed in some manner it makes them think that they can basically treat others like shit. It genuinely doesn’t hurt to take a moment and realise that just because you exist in this world it isn’t only for you and what you want. other people live and suffer in this world. Pushing for suffering only makes this shit worse, It doesn’t matter how you identify.

Once again I am so sorry Lilith, I just need to get this out somewhere. and I’m not in a position where I can say it publicly, because I know i’ll just get called a transmisogynist for this.

But I don’t hate Plaidos because she’s trans, I hate her because she spews hateful rhetoric.

I do hope this is anonymous.

Thank you, and I hope you and your husband are doing well

Trans rights are human rights, including trans men. Just because someone identifies as a man or masc in someway, doesn’t mean they’re suddenly exempt from the horrible transphobic actions of others.

Man hating is never quirky. Like, yeah, we get it, a lot of shitty people are men. That doesn't mean you should shit on all men. Talk to trans guys and cool cis guys and you'll see that they also realize that a lot of men are shit, and they don't want to be like them.

Attitudes like hers never fails to piss me off as a woman who knows mainly men, and is married to a man.

She's not cute, or quirky. This isn't 2010. Enough of this bullshit.

[peechglaze]

not even going to do this on anon, because i want to personally thank you for being such a light amidst all the negativity. thank you for engaging with the show in good faith. everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but its just very refreshing to see someone who loves the games as much as you do actually give the show grace and engage with the material with love and understanding instead of cynicism. i do not want to go too deep into it, but i think a lot of the criticism is just parroting narratives people have decided *must* exist (like the show sidelining ellie because of the criticism directed at bella - which has no factual proof as of now, etc.) instead of actually watching the show through the understanding that its a different medium and its going to translate differently. and mind you, its not like having criticisms and opinions is what’s wrong; i have my own criticisms, you have them also, but at some point the loudest voices feel a bit in bad faith imo. personally i was a fan of the games from years before the adaptation came out, and i have been quite satisfied with it overall considering everything. ellie is my favorite character, and i have liked this season. i love bella’s portrayal of her, and if anything i have an even deeper appreciation for the character now seeing a different take on her journey in live action. thinking that a lot of people would probably hate me for saying this is just very silly lol. i am so excited to see kaitlyn play abby, and very excited to see more of bella play ellie

but anyways! thank you for making the fandom space a bit more enjoyable to be in

🥺 stopppp I will get overly emotional about this!!

Thank you so much for this!! <3 I'm really glad that my rambling about the show has given people reprieve from all of the negativity. It's why I started posting about it in the first place, because I was finding it really difficult to find opinions like mine after the first two episodes came out.

Like you said, everything is worthy of criticism and this show is not exempt from that, and even though I really like it I have quite a few things I really didn't care for! But I do agree that a lot of the loudest voices are participating in the discussion in bad faith, and it sucks.

Conversation is wonderful and beautiful because nobody has the exact same thoughts as any other person. I love talking to my friends who don't have the same opinions as me because I get to see things from a perspective that I wouldn't have even thought of.

But it gets exhausting when the same three things are being regurgitated over and over again, and you can tell that the people saying them didn't even give the show a good old fashioned try. They didn't try to understand that this is a different medium, that it was never ever going to be a 1-for-1 remake of the game.

I obviously really enjoyed it, and it makes me really happy that I've curated such a nice little space for people to talk and rant and ramble about the thing we all love!

Thank you for your kind words, I really really appreciate them <3

[cantsayidont]

Honestly, my biggest objection to Hal Jordan becoming a supervillain in "Emerald Twilight" in the '90s was that it was accompanied by another of DC's periodic foolish attempts to eliminate the Green Lantern Corps and its attendant mythology in favor of a single solitary Green Lantern. They'd done that before, more or less, in 1988, when they blew up the Power Battery and de-powered most of the Corps except Hal so that he could become the flagship character of the terrible, short-lived ACTION COMICS WEEKLY anthology.

This didn't take for long — Guy Gardner and G'Nort (!) were exempted from the de-powering because of their popularity in JUSTICE LEAGUE, and Christopher Priest subsequently wrangled a pass for John Stewart (whom DC put through the wringer for no good reason). After ACTION COMICS WEEKLY collapsed, it wasn't that long before DC reversed course and restored the whole Corps.

With "Emerald Twilight," they went further, even de-powering Guy and John in a pointless effort to promote Kyle Rayner, and they stuck with it for longer — although even then, Judd "I Only Have a Career Because I Was on TV With a Poz Guy That One Time" Winick eventually found an excuse to give John Stewart his ring back. By 2002, they had again restored the Corps, which to me was much more significant than whether or not they brought back Hal.

The unavoidable fact is that the main thing, if not the ONLY thing, that makes the modern Green Lantern interesting is that it's a job rather than just a secret identity. Neither Hal Jordan nor Kyle Rayner nor any of the other flagship Green Lanterns have ever been terribly compelling individually. The coolest thing about Hal Jordan, by far, is that his first work friend was a humanoid parrot from another star system …

… and his other work colleagues include sentient geodes, rutabaga, and grasshoppers:

I mean …

[kaumedii]

Introduction.

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[doberbutts]

Something I was just thinking about... You know how we have both the terms homophobia and lesbophobia, acknowledging the ways in which homophobia manifests differently for lesbians? Some specific lesbophobic issues that are talked about are, for example, how the identity of lesbian is often not taken seriously (seen as a phase and/or something women do to turn on men), and how lesbians are often overlooked and erased in society at large, with the focus of more violent forms of homophobia being gay men.

(Not to say that lesbians are never violently targeted. Butch lesbians especially often are)

This reluctance to take lesbians seriously and their "invisibility" are acknowledged as problems. The fact it's a less violent (on average) type of oppression doesn't make it less worthy of being discussed, or to be named.

On the other hand, transmasc invisibility is, in a lot of circles, kind of seen as a superpower and a privilege? Of course I don't envy anyone who is a major target of violence (though, as trans people, we all are. None of us are exempt from it, despite what some people might think. Living as an out trans person is very liberating, and incredibly scary), but I do believe it's worth discussing the ways in which erasure and invisibility harms us without it being seen as controversial and... Kind of ungrateful? In the same way lesbians have been able to discuss similar issues without being shamed for it.

That being said I'm pretty sure I've seen similarly dismissive attitude towards lesbians discussing lesbophobia, but in my experience it was never this vitriolic and widely accepted/encouraged, and lesbophobia as a term was never so harshly rejected

I tend not to talk about lesbian issues because I'm not one and I think the lesbians should speak for themselves, but on the surface I would agree with this.

In my mind it's very similar to the discussion of the invisibility of black women's problems: the fact that many black women are also harmed by police violence, the sheer amount of black women dying in hospitals to medical malpractice, the erasure of black women's contributions to technology and science and history and society... these are problems discussed in the portions of the black community that I frequent, which are strongly activists anyway, but not really discussed or known at all by society as a whole and esp not the nonblack portions.

[Which is something else Crenshaw discusses which is why I keep telling folks to actually, like, read her works rather than parroting whatever incorrect definition of intersectionality they've decided they like]

Similarly, trans men are a relative unknown despite both being victims to horrific transphobic violence and also being major contributors to queer movements and even cishet society. And, similar to the above discussion, there's a lot of resistance from those outside of this conversation to accept that it's a discussion that needs to happen.

[jacquesthepigeon]

The writers NEVER want to acknowledge Anarka’s role raising Luka and Juleka and it makes me so mad. Luka should HATE Jagged’s guts, Juleka at least had her doubts (I recall?), but Luka. It’s like he got brainwashed.

This show has such a blatant rich successful dad favoritism it’s insane.

It’s part of why I hesitate when in comes to responding to messages I get wanting to discuss how Anarka “obviously” hasn’t provided a stable home to the siblings what with her lack of explicitly stated source of income and frequent confrontations with the authorities bc, while I don’t think one parent being worse than the other means the other should be exempt from criticism, I do think Anarka has enough plausible deniability to still be interpreted as providing sufficient support to her kids despite her eccentricities and sometimes chaotic behavior and I feel like going hard on her for not being a conventional mother without explicit evidence of how she’s “failing” her kids could lean into accidentally parroting talking points often used against single mothers and working mothers. People have used the fact that Luka has a part time job as indication that he needs to help the family make ends meet and I’m not opposed to that reading but treating it as undeniable cold hard proof of the Couffaines having a turbulent home feels like jumping the gun when the perfectly innocent possibility that he just wants extra pocket money is right there.

Anyway, I wouldn’t put it past the crew to adopt the “Anarka is an unfit mother and Jagged Stone is a million times better actually” mentality as the series goes on. They were so quick to have every character involved enthusiastically accept JS after the reveal to the point where they had Adrien assume Luka’s passion for music comes from his relation to JS rather than the also accomplished and passionate musician mother who singlehandedly raised him. It was so jarring. There’s also the fact that Marinette is the only friend of theirs to have gotten mad at JS in their stead and stand up for them because he was ignoring Juleka and she wound up getting shamed for it by JS and the narrative bc how dare she think a deadbeat might give his kids preferential treatment??? Silly and stupid Marinette! Rich white men are never wrong!

[fuck-hamas-go-israel]

Ok so I have watched multiple videos on the history of Israel - Palestine and honestly? Go Israel.

The only thing I am not able to understand is, why is the whole world in the support of Palestine? Even Tumblr? (Yes the death of innocent people is bad but it's happening on both sides, why are they pretending that everyone in Israel lives in idk, rocket-proof luxury rooms?)

And people are purchasing books on history of Israel - Palestine, and still violently supporting Palestine. And not even seeing a shread of "blame" on them? :(

This is just an observation, but wherever muslims are in majority, they won't let the minority in peace, no matter what — they're not the “peaceful” community the world tries to show them as.

There is whole history on how they are ruthless, tyrants, who can not accept let alone tolerate another religion in their proximity.

I JUST don't know what will it take for the world to see the actual history and stop viewing Israel like The Evil Nation.

That’s a good question, but a very difficult one to answer.

As you’ve said, the information is out there in the open, available to anyone willing to put in the time to read and understand.

However, it takes a lot of mental effort to wrap one’s mind around the historical and geopolitical nuances of this conflict. As a result, it’s definitely less of a mental burden to get information from reading headlines, reading tweets, and watching TikToks.

Of course the information isn’t always accurate, and if someone absorbs news from these sites that all have the same bias, they’ll be inclined to think a certain way. But even still, it’s digestible, and why put in the work to make informed opinions of the subject when these smaller, bite-sized pieces of info are being spoon-fed to you easily?

You can tell people to “educate themselves”until the cows come home, but the chances of them actually going to read up more are pretty slim. After all, it’s more comfortable and safe to maintain your opinion than actively seek out information that challenges your point of view.

That aside, I think the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular has elicited, or rather, uncovered a very worrying hypocrisy and double-standard, and caused a rise in antisemitism that’s alarmingly reminiscent of 1940s Europe.

Those who support Hamas claim to be on the side of “human rights” and “protecting the innocent”, yet turn a blind eye to or rejoice at the slaughter of innocent children.

They present this issue as intersectional with other liberalist movements such as feminism and LGBTQ+ rights, yet Hamas rapes and parades the naked bodies of women around to publicly humiliate them, and calls the LGBT community “sinners” that will be “punished by Allah”, and refuses to allow any LGBT person on Palestinian soil.

Yes, it is baffling to see people defend a terrorist group that has such fundamentally incompatible ideologies with them, and would kill them on sight. Normally I wouldn’t just tell them to go to Palestine if they like it so much, but if they can’t see the irrationality of their own beliefs themselves, if they can’t see that their parroted platitudes are of no use and don’t make them immune or exempt from the hate-filled violence of Hamas, then maybe going there to see for themselves is perhaps the only solution.

So maybe there isn’t anything that can be done, unfortunately. It’s very telling that many pro-Israel accounts are sent hate mail daily, and instead of being presented with the opportunity for discourse on the complicated subject, it’s just crusty anons calling for the end of Israel and telling them to kill themselves for supporting Israel.

If someone calls for your death, then there’s little to nothing that can be done anymore to have a rational discussion. All you can do is stay safe and stay informed, and don’t stoop to their level because they’ll use that as ammunition against you to justify calling for your death.

Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

[tagapagharaya]

I have not read To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, so I cannot speak about its contents.

I can, however, speak about the utterly vile way people are talking about Molly X. Chang, a Chinese woman.

Can someone explain to me why they think calling a Chinese woman a comfort woman as an insult makes them the morally upright party in this situation?

The way this person, and others who echo this line, is using the term comfort woman as if it means traitor — in particular, a woman who betrays her own people to demean herself for the pleasure of their colonizers — is abhorrent and ahistorical.

Let me set the record straight: A comfort woman is a woman (or a girl, some as young as twelve-years-old) forced or tricked into sexual enslavement by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories (e.g. China, Korea, Taiwan, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines), and even Japan itself, before and during World War II.

These women and girls were kept in "comfort stations" where they would be raped, physically abused and tortured by as many as 40 Imperial Japanese soldiers in a single night. Every night. For what reason? As "stress relief" for the soldiers.

In the mornings, they were forced to do backbreaking domestic labor for the Imperial Japanese garrisons, and at night they would be raped, beaten and tortured. They were given little food and kept in unsanitary conditions. Venereal disease was rampant. Many comfort women became infertile because of sexual violence and venereal diseases. Many women became pregnant during their enslavement, and were still not exempted from the nightly rapes. Many women miscarried and were not given medical attention.

I would remind you that the term comfort woman includes girls, some as young as twelve-years-old.

The level of dehumanization was so extreme that they were treated as inventory.

Comfort women are victims of colonial violence.

To this day, the Japanese government denies that the comfort women were sexually enslaved. Thousands of comfort women never received justice or reparations for the physical, psychological and emotional suffering they were subjected to.

The narrative that comfort women were volunteers or professionals, that they were treated well and compensated fairly, that they got rich from it, is historical revisionism peddled by the Japanese right-wing to deny its war crimes. This exact narrative is used to deny the victims of colonial violence justice.

So to see the term comfort woman used as an insult against a Chinese woman (of Manchu and Hui descent, no less) and to pretend it means she's "in love with her ancestors' colonizers and betrays her own people because of it (through her writing)" — an "Imperial Japan dickrider," if we're being crass — is vile and disgusting.

What do these people think they're accomplishing exactly? How are they criticizing an alleged "colonizer romance" novel by parroting the misogynist and racist historical revisionism of a real life former colonial power to demean a woman of color?

[transexualpirate]

Hi! Saw your post on redberryterf and racism.

I'm not PoC(nebulous USA spicy white but I come from immigrants) but I've been eyeing that user specifically for a fucking minute tbh. Her posts always seemed too edgy and evocative of the alt-right to me, in a way I couldn't quite describe much less prove something wrong with. Lo and behold LOL.

The truth is racism is everywhere there's white people and especially there's racism where there's Not Supposed To Be, like radical leftist organizing.

Queer AND radical feminist spaces host plenty of racism cloaked in whatever politically correct language, because both Queer and Radical Feminist discourse spaces on the English-speaking internet are predominantly white, western, upper middle class and college-educated.

I've seen some women on here try to claim Radical Feminism is *thee* feminism of the rest of the world, but I find that disingenuous. Most American and British radical feminists are nothing like Korean or Chinese radical feminists, and who knows what would happen if we were all in the same conference as those in Mexico, Romania, Greece. A responsible feminist would not try to separate herself from racism in her own movement by claiming The PoC Agree and would instead acknowledge and address it.

Climbed in your inbox because I think it will do us all a service to discuss how racism is enabled in leftist spaces regardless of the rest of our political alignments x have a good day.

hello!! i really appreciate this, so thank you. i agree with what you said wholeheartedly (ill have to look up the poc agree, though, not very familiar with that). i think people assume that just because a space is far left it is automatically exempt from racism, which is just. factually incorrect.

i mean, to begin with, there is no community in the whole world that is fully exempt from any sort of bigotry. that just doesn't happen. there is no community like that. not the trans community, not the queer community, not the radfem community, that's just not real. the thing is that bigots are everywhere. sometimes they do it out of malice, "infiltrating" those spaces aware that what they're parroting is harmful but uncaring, but more likely it's just ignorance, completely unaware that what they're saying is Actually Bad because they've been trained to not question their own thoughts ever.

so whether it's malice or ignorance, it is a lie to say that (x) community is completely free of all bigotry, which is a feeling that i have seen, whether implicitly or explicitly, in a lot of rad-whatever spaces. i mean, have you fucking browsed the "radqueer" tag over here on tumblr? that shit has more intolerance than fucking fox news and it's all completely masked under "radical acceptance", "positivity" and "equality". that is not what you'll find in their communities, though. and though not as extreme or as obvious, the radfem community is like that in many ways.

the fact that your community has a common goal of equality does not mean that your methods are sensible or justified, and it definitely doesn't mean the members of your community are somehow magically exempt from being the sort of people that actively goes against equality.

my problem with the radfem community specifically goes a bit further than just the general lack of awareness and accountability about and to the occasional bigot hiding in plain sight. i believe the entire community is built on a narrative that ends up being a type of "slippery slope" that very often leads to bigotry. so more than the occasional bigot, i think a lot of what is in the radfem community actively leads people to be less tolerant and accepting of others, in many ways.

one of them is the fact that a lot of classic and even some modern radfem writers and activists were and are incredibly racist (and sometimes homophobic as well), which is a fact that is rarely acknowledged in radfem spaces, if at all. and it shouldn't be just acknowledged, there should be some sort of active work to push the ideas influenced by that hate out of the community.

i also believe that when put in practice, a lot of radfem beliefs make people assume that women are the most oppressed group there is, automatically putting them as winners in the oppression olympics and completely disregarding how being negatively affected by one axis of oppression doesn't erase the fact that you can still be privileged in other ways. if women are the True Oppressed Class, then they can't oppress anyone else in any other way. maybe they can acknowledge that certain women can oppress other women, but anyone outside of their class? unfathomable. and this perpetuates many harmful rethorics.

another big problem i have is, naturally, the transphobia, leading radfems to more often than not become terfs. the unwillingness to accept that someone that wasn't Born A Woman(tm) can find genuine joy and comfort in womanhood - it must be a lie to hurt women, or a mental illness acquired through degeneracy, or a mockery, because women are the True Oppressed Class, after all, that's the opposite of joy and comfort. or the unwillingness to accept that someone that was Born A Woman(tm) might not find womanhood suit for them for many reasons, not all of them born from misogyny. but i know that we're talking specifically about the racism in that community and that is fine. im just making a link to how hate is often "intertwined", and one will feed the other.

regarding racism specifically, i do think the radfem community needs to do better in acknowledging and fighting it, more than most communities considering the aforementioned points. unfortunately, the only radfems ive seen on tumblr actively work for that were menalez and another one who's url i cant remember right now.

regarding bigotry in general, i think most radfems need to rethink a lot of stuff and see where their priorities lay. i think all communities would benefit from that, truly, specially left leaning and far left ones that believe themselves to be Truly Good And Pure (free from hate) - including the trans community, for the record.

and i think people of color aren't listened enough in society, which results in us being shut down when speaking about how that reflects in our respective communities, which results in people like redberryterf feeling comfortable enough to share her horribly racist opinions freely and without a care. i personally had already gotten into a debate with her before in which i told her she had to rethink some stuff but naturally i was ignored. which is why i referred to her as a well known person in the community: i don't interact that often but i had already stumbled across her posts multiple times and a lot of them have a LOT of likes. she isn't as big as menalez or that pineapple blog, but she was definitely influential in some way. and yet no one called her out on her bigotry until it was as obvious as it can be. i mean, it doesn't get any clearer than "i don't care that im being racist". she was spoonfed so much hatred that her perception of reality was altered to the point where being racist was probably a bad thing, but it was fine as long as it was towards men. then it's warranted. she's a woman, after all, the supreme oppressed class, she could never oppress anyone else.

anyways, this was a long fucking way of saying To Fight Bigotry You Have To Study Your Roots, Acknowledge Nuance And Different Points Of View, Listen To And Spread Awareness About Marginalized People and Never Ever Assume That You Are Exempt From Bigotry. That's A Sign That You Are Parroting Bigotry.

thank you for your ask. i think it's super important to find common ground with people you disagree with, and fighting racism is always important. im sorry for the long fucking reply, i hope it was at least a little bit coherent. sorry for occasional grammar mistakes or poor english in general, it isn't my first language. and have a good day!

[ablednt]

"You can't remove Jewish people from Israel because they're not safe anywhere else"

1. Returning sovereignty to Palestine does not equal expelling everyone else, they'd become citizens of Palestine. The idea that restoring sovereignty doesn't equal colonizing the colonizers is a basic concept of the Land Back movement please actually listen to people

2. You can say that being israeli and being Jewish are synonymous as long as you want but it won't erase antizionist Jews OR Palestinian Jews

3. Imagine thinking Israel is safe for Jewish people like. The whole reason y'all are so loud about october 7th is because it shattered the illusion that Israel is a safe place except instead of considering that a nation that actively and violently displaces people is generating that hostility itself you blame the evil brown people for wanting their homes back

4. Even if Israel was some magical perfect utopia free of antisemitism, if that comes at the cost of violent oppression of the native people then yeah I don't care the same way I don't care when people in the US are afraid of Land Back movements because "they'll do to us what we did to them". Get the fuck over it. Yk like you've been making them do for decades to centuries.

5. To reiterate here when you say that Israeli occupation must stay in power to protect Jewish people everywhere you are quite literally saying "my safety is more important than Palistinian's" and "my life is worth more than theirs" like it's not doing you any favors

Don't get me wrong the world is a terrifying place especially if you're marginalized, especially if you're Jewish, I am not going to deny that or to minimize the centuries of generational trauma and ongoing oppression that Jewish people face. I don't blame you for wanting to prioritize your own community's safety. I just don't think that your need for safety (especially everyone who's never even been to Israel but needs the Israeli state as a symbol of safety rather than a current reality of it) outweighs Palestinian's needs for safety.

"Being Jewish is traumatizing my friend has trauma over being bombed" that's really awful and I feel for them. I also feel for the thousands of children with amputated limbs because Israel is bombing them. Right now. As I type this.

"Jewish people have been displaced for generations we lost our homes" yes and that's extremely traumatizing, everyone deserves to have a home and to feel truly safe and like they belong there. Millions of Palestinian's who made new homes after their real ones were stollen are now living in tents that are still being bombed and shot at.

It's absolutely not that Jewish people's safety shouldn't be a priority or that it's at all okay to pretend that being Jewish is what gives any Israeli their privileges or to equivalate Jewishness to oppressiveness.

It's not even to say that Israel's existence as a colonial project is uniquely evil or that the US is exempt from that same scrutiny (like all the white americans parroting "the only good colonizer is a dead colonizer" without a hint of self awareness)

It's that a nation built on the blood of another's will never truly be stable or safe for anyone. You can stall the violence but it will return eventually and even the most oppressed people Will Fight Back.

I will add to this to any fellow goyim though that whilst you fight for Palestine you should also be fighting to create safe places and communities for Jewish people where you live. The only way to combat the rhetoric that only Israel is safe (when it never has been and never will be) is to prove that there's safety and community to be found elsewhere.

It's important to listen to Jewish people and to take their fears into genuine consideration and act on that. What is never okay is allowing their fears to thrive at the expense of Palestinian lives.

[pumpumdemsugah]

The non-Blacks are hiding behind Black men again to pretend what Black men experience isn't a product of white supremacy and some woman plot by waving around the vague flag of gender

Also a lot of trans masc ( like the idiot above ) and trans men love doing this shit instead of dealing with their own insecurities about their gender they say dumb shit about men and bring up the ethnics as a shield for whatever delusional hottake about downplaying misogyny. The most oppressed man and privileged women are the only way men and women exist. Woc who ? Privilege isn't an equation. Life is complicated. Bringing up moc doesn't mean shit

So many of you hate women so much you're pretending white supremacy isn't the reason Black men are treated like that

I find it so fascinating the lengths some of you go to to distance white supremacist violence as a reason and cause of anti-black racism because you must pretend manhood is oppressed. Racism impacts the way we see Black masculinity. The roles we play in society aren't separate from societal force. MOC aren't exempt

It's crazy seeing non-Black people parrot the same things Black patriarchs do you get Black women to stop talking about misogyny

Idk how you lot think you're not wildly an anti-Black racism when you want to distance white supremacy from the experience of violence against Black people because you keep shitting out the word gender.

[8-evil-annoying-catboys]

trying to separate the trans community into two categories will never fucking work. it’s not that simple. even if it seems like it should be that simple, there will be people you would sort into one category in theory who will fall into the other category, and people who do not fall into either category, and people who fall into both categories (either at the same time, or at different times or in different situations, depending, obviously, on the nature of the categories/dichotomy). this is especially true if you think of these categories, in your mind, as being based on coercively assigned birth sex, when by the actual definition you use they are not actually based on that, but based on, for example, perception by our oppressors, or self-identification, or individuals’ opinions, or anything else.

arguing about who goes where, and trying to exclude each other, and not listening to each other only hurts us. seeing each other as freaks (in a negative way), basing your activism exclusively on people who you see as being the same as you, refusing to acknowledge either systemic patterns OR individual lived experiences that defy the expectations set in place by systemic patterns, and ANY OTHER INFIGHTING only hurts us. if we’re going to survive the current political climate, it is of the utmost importance that we STOP FUCKING FIGHTING EACH OTHER and start fucking PROTECTING each other.

transunity is the only way we will make it out of this without being, at best, battered down and chased out of more and more and more places until there is nowhere left for us to feel safe, and at worst, fucking massacred. stop parroting gender essentialist AND bioessentialist rhetoric. stop beating up our own for slight missteps and misunderstandings.

and don’t you DARE read this and think that i’m not talking to you. i’m even talking to myself, partially, bc we all have biases to unlearn and i’m not exempt, bc literally no one fuckin is.

follow other trans people who have different opinions than you (but, like, not if they directly hate on people like you bc that’s bad for your mental health, i’m not saying that, i’m saying bridge the gap). follow intersex people, whether they are trans or not. follow multigender, genderqueer, agender, nonbinary people, and make a point to seek out those who were not coercively assigned the same sex at birth as you were, and those who are intersex especially if you’re perisex. follow binary trans people who are not the same gender as you. follow trans people who ARE the same gender as you but are intersex. widen your horizons and break out of your echo chamber. for the love of the entire community, PLEASE seek out bloggers who are vocal about transunity. if you safely can, then go to pride and other irl community events/spaces. seek out irl trans friends of as many different genders as you can possibly find.

just. god. please. stop fighting. we need to use that energy to protect our WHOLE community. we will have time to settle intracommunity disputes once it’s safer for us to exist in general. it sucks that we have these disputes in the first place, and i want to solve them as much as the next person, but they are not the same as the vitriol we are facing from all directions.

and maybe, just maybe, if we actually fight as siblings and protect each other, we can break down our own biases during that fight, and the intracommunity issues will be less intense by the end. it’s not guaranteed, and if it does happen, it won’t apply to every single person in the whole community, but… still… wouldn’t that be nice???? if we all gained a better understanding of people in our community who aren’t the same as us???? don’t you want that, too??

[exploring-the-cosmos]

oh Christ shut the fuck up with your holier than thou shit, pretending you're not just another toxic buddie shipper while parroting their favorite lies and bullshit at the same time. block shit you don't like and shut the FUCK up. y'all been showing your asses for literally years, being misogynistic and racist to every single female love interest that gets in your way and adding some violent homophobia for the actual queer rep, all because you fetishise straight men kissing. y'all are the ones posting child rape fics to the archive and to inboxes. y'all the ones harassing people because you're blocked. y'all the ones trying to dox people and fail because you're just that pathetic. I've been in this fandom from day one and there's a reason buddie shippers are infamous outside this fandom for toxic bigotry. shut the ENTIRE fuck up I'm so goddamn sick of y'all. I'm genuinely embarrassed to ever have BEEN one of you. entitled, pathetic, friendless trash, every single one of you.

Hey, so what is this supposed to accomplish?

To be clear, I DO block content I don't want to see. I DO filter for ships I don't usually want to regularly interact with. The point of the post I made was to address a pattern I was noticing with anti-Eddie and anti-Buddie sentiment that I had seen multiple BIPOC creators also talk about.

Now, to address some of your points because I feel like you are projecting SO MUCH onto me.

Misogyny. I never made a single comment on my feelings regarding any of the characters' canon past relationships, but since you seem so sure I hate them like every other Buddie shipper supposedly does, I will make my views of them quite clear. I like most of Eddie and Buck's previous girlfriends/wife. I really liked Shannon, Abby, Anna, and Taylor. The other past relationships that I don't actively like I'm pretty neutral about. There are various reasons why I didn't think those relationships would work out, and they didn't, but I don't hate any of their past partners. I think people are free to dislike their past relationships if they want, but misogyny directed towards them isn't okay.

Racism. Any and all racism targeted towards the characters and their actors is unacceptable, full stop. Any acts of racism that any of those actors themselves have engaged in or excused is also unacceptable, full stop. Both are true statements, and I find it really shitty that in response to a post where I was attempting to respectfully point out behaviors directed at a character, which I found may have had racial bias underpinning them, I got this kind of response. As a community, we should all be concerned about racism, queerphobia, ableism, etc. regardless of who it's coming from and regardless of who it's being done to.

Harassment/Threats/Innappropriate Behavior/Etc. To be very, very clear. None of the horrendous behaviors that you have described BuckTommy shippers receiving from Buddie shippers and/or anti-BuckTommy shippers is okay. I have never and will never defend anyone doing those things. Those are examples of behavior I was referring to when it comes to toxicity I would like to see weeded out of fandom spaces. From BOTH sides of the shipping discourse. I feel like I made that clear when I acknowledged that Buddie shippers can and do engage in toxicity and racism as well. Literally NO ONE is exempt from criticism.

Fetishization/Fetishizing Straight Men Kissing. Um. What. To be clear, I am queer. I read, write, listen to, and engage with content that is almost exclusively queer or made by someone who is. I am just as concerned and interested in queer rep as the next queer person. I also have just as much right as any other queer person to critique that rep if I am unsatisfied with it and think it could be improved upon. And you do, too. I am not saying there is NO issue of some folks fetishizing mlm relationships, but I do think this narrative is incredibly overblown and lacks nuance, but I digress. The specific comment about wanting two straight dudes to kiss is what I am particularly concerned about. Buck isn't straight. He was initially written and acted that way throughout the majority of the show, but he ISN'T. Plus, as someone who is themselves bisexual and relates a lot to his character, I always kinda headcanoned him to be as well. There is also no reason why we should assume Eddie can't be gay. Personally, I headcanon him as a repressed gay man. For many, many reasons. What I find very interesting is the way you throw that statement out there like that as if Tommy wasn't introduced into the show initially through "Hen Begins" as, presumably, a straight man. Of course, we learn later that he was repressing his feelings and had previously dated and been engaged to a woman before he accepted himself fully and started dating men. He is still a gay man despite his past experiences. And at the very beginning of the show, when we are introduced to Michael, we get the reveal that he is gay and had recently come out to his entire family, who he had hid this from for over a decade. The presumption of straightness/cisness until explicitly stated otherwise annoys me so much, so I wanted to address that point specifically.

I have absolutely no ill-will towards you, and I hope you receive this well. I am sorry it seems you have been on the receiving end of a lot of negativity in the fandom. I would like to encourage you to keep an open mind that not everyone online and in this space is a person that hates you or is acting in bad faith just because they diagree with you or have expressed a critical view about something you like. I wish you well.

[fiachrastudios]

By the horn of heroism, I have been summoned 😉 bwahaha! For the lovely Aelar,

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

And! He'lena 😊

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

💙

Thank you so much!

I’m gonna answer these slightly out of order for a reason you’ll see.

Aelar

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

Other drow. Okay, not like, every single drow - in my personal head canon, most of the “official” FR lore about drow being so vicious is just limited to the noble and merchant classes because there’s no way in hell a society that anti-social wouldn’t collapse immediately. But a super-violent ruling class that treats the rest of the populace like garbage is extremely believable, unfortunately.

Aelar grew up in one of those merchant families so he’s familiar with that kind of cruelty. He wasn’t completely exempt from partaking in it himself, either, in that way that kids will parrot their parents beliefs without really understanding what it means. He grew out of it, eventually - it helped that he tended to be on the receiving end of violence more often than not. His one friend, Jhulas, also opened his eyes up to the viciousness of drow culture. Eventually, when given the choice between attending the prestigious Arach-Tinilith academy and marrying into another merchant family to grow his parent’s enterprise, Aelar chose an engagement to Jhulas over becoming a cleric of Lolth - not out of any true romantic feelings he had for him, but because neither of them could really stand the idea of being with any other drow. Which led him to completely run away from the Underdark, in the end. He just felt like he couldn’t be a part of Drow society at all anymore.

So maybe it’s fairer to say he hates Lolth, though he does extend that hatred to the drow he meets in Faerun. Like I’ve mentioned before, (at the time of the game at least) he’s hostile towards followers of Eilistraee because he still believes some of the propaganda against her deep down - he figures if she’s somebody that Lolth fears, she must be really tyrannical. Mostly he treats them in the way I think most people would treat, like, Mormon missionaries knocking on doors, with awkward but polite smiles and nos. He obviously hates Lolth-sworn drow as well, but he didn’t really run into them that often in Waterdeep. Before he tried to live as peacefully as possible, but he still has military school training from when he was a kid that kicked in when was taken onto the nautiloid, and I say that now he would be much more willing to attack any Lolthites on sight. Probably followers of Eilistraee too, but only if they openly declare their allegiance to her. If they’re pledged to some non-drow god he would feel more comfortable around them.

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

His greatest fear is losing his soul. Not just in the magical sense (seeing as that’s entirely possible in the Forgotten Realms) but also in the more metaphorical “I don’t want to turn out like everyone else in my family” kind of way. It’s a fear that he’s had ever since running away from drow society, and one that never quite goes away when he still has to deal with other elements of the drow curse like sunlight sensitivity.

As for what they do when confronted with it…well you’ll just have to wait until my fan comic gets there : )

He’lena

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

(Major spoilers for Act 2 and 3!)

This is such an important one, so thank you for sending it! I haven’t gotten too far into her save yet (currently focusing on my Durge and multi-player runs and trying to avoid spoilers) so I’m really excited to be able to talk about her since I don’t get to play her right now.

She grew up in a community of far travelers, who are a group of nomadic githyanki who aren’t associated with Vlaakith’s cult. During her travels, she ran across the Sha’sal Khou, which is an organization dedicated to uniting the githyanki and githzerai and enemy to Vlaakith. She’s been a member for about a decade now, and she’s devoted to the cause strongly. If she were smarter, she would try to hide her alliance from Lae’zel, but she’s pretty headstrong and challenges her a lot in an attempt to convince her to join the cause. It’s gonna be real interesting once we get to the crèche : 3

As far as what she would do to fulfill it? I’ve already decided that she’s gonna become a mindflayer to save Orpheus and destroy the brain.

[sins-of-the-sea]

“Let’s see pirates sail from island to island looking for treasure right? They usually have pet parrots and the ship captain is almost always a big bearded guy who’s not always so nice to kids ah not that I think you’re mean at all Josep-San.” Kaban’s view of piracy is certainly limited to stereotypes you might find on a kids cartoon

Josep chuckles. "Well, as much as there are usually some sort of truth to the myths, in the case of pirates they're misunderstood or oversimplification of what was happening at the time.

"If one is to speak of the Golden Age of piracy.... well, for the most part, the exotic animal trade was surely a thing. To have a parrot would boast to anyone that this particular pirate would have been to the New World or some 'exotic' part of the Old World--hence, to have such a parrot would be a symbol of status. But as any parrot-keeper would tell you, they're not exactly high-maintenance, so you can't keep a parrot, or monkey, or some other exotic wild animal like one can keep a cat or a dog. And besides, you'll need to take into account feeding and cleaning up after them. So an everyday pirate who may have to rob others for food and soap would be highly unlikely to keep a parrot.

"As for beards, that depends on the time period and location. If we are speaking of the Caribbean and parts of Europe during the Golden Age of Piracy, the standard of fashion for men at the time in regards to beards is actually being clean-shaven. I don't recall if Edward Teach started his pirate career actually beardless before he would weaponize his eventual beard when going out in raids. Either way, from the 1600s-1700s, having large facial hair was falling out of fashion for men of the time, and any man with resources and self-respect would keep their face clean-shaven. Just as today where society would expect men to have their hair short and facial hair at least trimmed, the expectation back then was long but kept hair and a clean face. So you wouldn't come across too many pirates with beards. I don't keep a beard. I never liked having facial hair. So I would appear more typical of the time. Rashid is a notable exemption because he's an Arabian pirate, so the fashion of his time and place are different from those of European descent in the Caribbean.

"As for treasure hunting... it's not like what the books and movies make it out to be. Actual treasure hunting--as in going from island to island to search for lost goods--would look less like fancy-hatted adventurers with treasure maps and more like everyday chumps before the time of metal-detectors. In the Caribbean, if we did go actual treasure hunting, more than likely we'll go where we know a ship battle has taken place and search the general area for dropped goods, usually with a diving bell. I suppose it can be a career in itself, but it's not as fun or exciting as it sounds. It can get really tedious and exhausting. And not all ships that sink have something of value."