#Im sorry for this rant

[sylvieserene]

Something weird I have noticed in the CRK fandom when it comes to ships ESPECIALLY Purelily

I recently saw a tweet on twitter talking about Elderlily and ShadowVanilla on how people should give new ships a shot instead of shooting down them down instantly which IS a valid point BUT the problem starts when they assert the fact that these two ships hold more "merit" and "intimacy" than "other ships" (which in comment section they directly agree it's aimed at Purelily)

This is a HUGE problem I see both in the Elderlily fanbase + ShadowVanilla fanbase. The sheer hate for Purelily.

Like have a look:

Pure Hatred and unwillingness to accept that opinions can co-exist.

Unwilling to see reason when tried to be shown. Only answering in hatred.

Further more...

From starting with generalising Purelily shippers to accusing all Purelily shippers to misinterpret/misrepresent/mischaracterisation PV and WL to accusations of the entire fanbase being bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic or accusing the entire fanbase of being bad including whataboutism posts stating "oh yeah? I wonder which shipper base sent actual death threats and doxxed someone?"

For the record, Im gonna say yes, a few people from specifically the purelily base have done these BUT generalising the entire shipping community as bad and labelling them as problematic is NOT okay.

THE ACTIONS OF ONE HORRIBLE PERSON DOESN'T DEFINE THE ENTIRE FANBASE!

Misrepresentation/Mischaracterisation/Misinterpretation of characters have happened in ALL of CRK shipping communities. That very much includes ShadowVanilla and Elderlily.

So accusing one fanbase of doing those and pretending that it doesn't exist in your space is kinda hypocritical I believe?

No fanbase is exempt from controversy. Every shipping space has had atleast ONE problematic individual (Eg: N*zi ShadowVanilla controversy from Twitter) but now if I start saying "*gasp* I wonder which base drew those horrific things?" Would it make any sense? No. Cuz one person doesn't define an entire fanbase.

So let's make one thing clear, none of the shipping communities are "pure" or "innocent" of anything. All of them have problems and individuals with issues depending on how far you're willing to dig.

So accusing a single shipping community of being horrible while saying others are not is not okay.

Not all ShadowVanilla and Elderlily shippers are good people, same as Purelily shippers.

Which brings me to the point, "It's 2025, grow tf up and stop shipping purelily" mentality which also brings me to my original point lol

These were sent to a purelily artist on Twitter (redbeanyearnin).

Their crime? Shipping purelily.

Look at the civility, ladies and gentlemen! /s

This is also a side of shippers who actually aren't purelily shippers 😊 how naive and innocent messages 😍❤️ /j

But this is the great evidence on how all of these shippers aren't angels. They are the same people accusing Purelily shippers and the ship itself as being horrible.

Im not gonna comment more on this.

But this just proves my point on how no shipping base is angelic. All of them have screwed up individuals.

Anw...

What does year/time have anything to say about what you ship? I see this comment thrown across very frequently in the fandom which does confuse me quite a lot but seriously um why? Is there some sort of subscription that's getting over in these recent years which denies me the right to enjoy something niche? Or I MUST ship what the popular ship is atm?

Just why....? Where does this mentality come from?

More importantly, why does one ship has to be "superior" or have to had more "merit" than the other?

Just why?

Why can't we simply accept our differences in preferences and move on?

Like...I personally don't ship mutual ShadowVanilla, I find the one sided part more compelling but that doesn't mean I will say it's "better" than the mutual one. I can appreciate the mutual one too. Same for Elderlily. I see it as platonic, a familial sort of relationship between a Mentor and Mentee or yes I'm gonna say it Father Daughter.

Personally, I find their age difference extremely uncomfortable which is why the moment I learnt this guy was older than her ancestor's ancestors, I shipped it as platonic. Same for ShadowVanilla cuz age is a factor for me personally but I won't blame others who look past it cuz firstly these are fictional characters and secondly, all of them are immortals so I can understand it although I find it uncomfortable myself.

But even with that, I would NEVER say that Purelily is "superior", has "more merit", better "intimate writing" than said ships irrespective of if they are popular/canon or not.

If you ask for respect towards your shipping preferences, the least you can do is GIVE that respect to others as well. If you don't, then how come you keep the expectation that your opinion will get respected when you can't peacefully co-exist with another part of the fandom who may hold different views than you?

In simpler words, I kinda find it highly disrespectful and hypocritical that some people out here can't keep themselves from attacking others for shipping things differently than them? Like...why?

Why can't we all ship whatever we want instead of shooting down each other's ships and calling one more superior/inferior than the other?

Like for me as an example, I don't like a lot of ships but I either don't share my opinion on it or tend to ignore it instead of going "omg MY ship better! HUH HOW DARE YOU SAY MY SHIP IS BAD"

At the end, Shipping is subjective and we're all here to have fun so instead of playing the blame game on who is worse, who has done more horrible things, why can't we simply focus on the positives?

All ships have merits and demerits. All of them have issues. Heck, even the characters aren't perfect and they also have a plethora of issues.

WL isnt a perfect person, she's morally grey and a highly complex character. PV isn't a baby or a simp who gets jealous everytime someone breaths in WL's direction. EF isn't obsessed with WL as people in the fanbase make him to be. Just like PV, he chose his job over following WL and even when he knew he had a choice to revive her, He didn't instead he kept guarding the tree. SM isn't a good person and has caused several wars, genocides, torture and murder.

NONE of them are as perfect as people make them to be. NONE of the fanbases if considered in majority truly get them.

So it really makes zero sense when ppl say "PV should stay the hell away from WL", "WL is getting between them!"

People really need to stop objectifying these characters just cuz they don't fit their shipping preferences/agendas.

All of these characters and their ships have certain merits and demerits to them so why must we say that one is better than the other?

Why can't we all enjoy what we simply like?

Why can't we just agree to disagree instead of shitting on other's tastes?

Why must ONE particular shipping fandom get the brunt of it?

So tldr, I just wanna say, While it is true, people shouldn't shoot down new things without even giving it a shot but that doesn't mean the new thing is "superior" than the old thing suddenly just cuz one likes it more. If you find it great, that's fine but Idt anyone has the right to say that one thing is more inferior than the other.

Please give the respect to others that you expect. If you get insanely defensive about your own ship but shit on other's shipping preferences then expect to get that back.

You can't be like "Nooooooo don't say bad about my ship! You're a hater" and then be like "damn your taste in shipping SUCKS. This ship is so trash. MY ship is SOOOOO much better :)"

Sorry for this rant. I just find the entire situation of the fandom highly frustrating.

[redwolftakesthemoon]

//toh spoilers

"These out bursts are... Painful. And so is watching you fail." - Belos to Hunter

Can we please talk about this? This was so fake, and very obviously Belos trying to manipulate Hunter. But I want to talk about why he was saying it. He's trying to make Hunter think that the "curse" (Belos's ability to manipulate the palisman that he consumes) is not his fault. Like, that when he hits and attacks Hunter with this power, it's not actually Belos. He wants Hunter to think that the curse is making him have these outbursts, and it's working. Hunter really believes this ("Uncle, I want to help!" when talking about it-- He thinks his uncle is trying to fix the curse). It's so incredibly sad. I assume this manipulation is the main reason that Hunter still trusts Belos completely (before Hollow Mind), because he still fully believes that his Uncle isn't hurting him on purpose, and the loving part of Belos is the only part that matters because the pain he's inflicting isn't his fault.

In a lot of fanfictions, it's portrayed that Belos hit Hunter or disciplined him in other ways (and I'm not trying to hate, those are very good), but I imagine that he never did any or much of that, because Belos could have just used the "curse" to hurt him and discipline him, and he still needs Hunter to trust him. Hunter still acts scared of Belos, but it's when he's mad that the "curse" acts out, so he's not scared of Belos hurting him; he's scared that he's gonna anger the curse. Which, in turn, hurts Belos (or at least he says it does-- which is probably true but is another thing that Belos says to make Hunter not anger him or go against his word), and Hunter doesn't want his uncle in pain. So Belos probably just utilises the curse so that Hunter can still trust him and not think he's the one hurting him.

But this specific sentence really shows the whole thing: Belos reminds Hunter of the curse, how it hurts him, and then reminds him of how his failures affect Belos.

And then, in Hollow Mind--

"But without [the palismen], I wouldn't be able to do this!"

And he uses the same "curse" to destroy one of the palisman souls. He finally shows Hunter that it was him the whole time, controlling it. Hurting Hunter.

I don't know. I just think that's really sad.

tl;dr: Belos is a manipulative ass face and I'm glad he's dead

[mokeonn]

I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[bassguitarinablackt-shirt]

being a trans man is insane btw. youll grow up being outcasted and bullied by cis women for being different, for being a freak, for being a tranny, and even the nicer ones will often just assume that you have internalized misogyny and thats why you want to be a guy. and cis men will treat you even worse. because not only are you a "woman", youre a tranny. youre a stupid delusional little girl who she thinks a man and who needs to be fixed by an actual man. and yet people will still try to tell you you have male privilege. and youll be constantly talked over, erased, and excluded, but the moment you speak up, the moment you try to say that people need to include trans men in their trans activism, then youre a misogynist with a fragile ego who hates everything that isnt about him. its just. so fucking exhausting.

[cowgyaru]

wolverine sevika you are so special to me ….

[zorangezest]

Shockwave somewhere off in the corner with starscream watching this personality swap unfold that he caused somehow

HOLD ON. YOU’RE RIGJT. SHOCKWAVE DEFINITELY CAUSED ALL OF THIS

you inspired me to make this comic why is this becoming an actual au why does this stupid blucking au have lore I’m going to cry

[yhwcomeback]

They are so divorced it's crazy.

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[bluerasbunny]

Heheh hello um may i pet sun and if moons okay with it id like to pspsps at em and give him i lil hand made stuft animal sun gets one two :> and mayby if hes okay with it can i give moon a fist bump or just some kinnda contact ik hes shy i am too i dont wannna over whelm the funky fella :>>

not sure sun would be fond of being petted (something about being 'treated like an animal')... but moon seems to enjoy the pspsps-ing!!

[rawme-price]

Why dont you ever write handlers into ur hybrid posts??

Bc the concept that a hybrid would *need* a handler to control them based on the fact alone that they're a hybrid feels lowkey bioessentialist to me.

Sure, hybrids may have some unique instincts or needs, but they are still fully sapient people capable of making decisions. To reduce a character down to an human overwhelmed by animal instincts in everyday circumstances would be a disservice to the character 🤷‍♂️

Same reason I dont have omegas that go into heat and fall over for any alpha, even those they hate. Omegas in heat is like...the more fune version of ovulation. Thats it. They are the same person in heat as they are outside of it.

[theelmoarchive]

Hello tumblr it's been a bit 🔥🔥

I made this like a month ago when i was only halfway through PD season 2, but I actually just finished it completely so it's a little outdated-

Might update in the future who knows

They're all trans btw, if you cant tell 🫶

Ghostknife and William bonus

[ardeidae-e]

my piece for the skk anthology :3c

@skkanthology

cyberpunk au where chuu is a cyborg and dazai a mechanic and i love them so much i am exploding as we speak

i uh. there is a lot of lore. yes

[phleb0tomist]

i keep seeing this idea that Real wheelchair users all have custom active chairs, and that transport/standard chairs are just an embarrassing stereotype. “no one really uses those!” “stop drawing disabled characters in standard chairs!!”

well, plenty of us are a stereotype. sorry. custom chairs require MONEY and good medical support. meanwhile active chairs are unusable for some people. i used an uncomfy transport chair (the kind with tiny wheels and no way to self propel) for a year, and a standard chair for 7yrs. until i got my powerchair i was only ever pushed by a carer. a lot of disabled people will never use an active or custom chair. don’t pretend we don’t exist just because we don’t fit some cool independent ideal.

shoutout to people who use transport chairs and adaptive strollers and other chairs that need to be pushed by a carer

shoutout to people who use standard chairs that don’t fit their body

shoutout to people who use secondhand or makeshift wheelchairs

in my teens i literally felt invalid as a disabled person because i didnt have the ‘real actual’ type of wheelchair everyone talks about online. just my garbage transport chair that my mom had to push. ​but people with shitty wheelchairs exist and are extremely common actually

[spacexfucker]

Why is it whenever you bring up things like fatphobia or not wearing makeup or not shaving or anything else that society hates when people are or do, you ALWAYS have people talking about how they've had it hard bc they're skinny or they wear makeup to be empowered or they shave for themselves

Like why are you so uncomfortable to be put in a category of social acceptance? Why are you so uncomfortable being pegged as someone who conforms to conventional beauty standards? You're coming to people who get genuinely harassed and negatively effected by things like being fat or not wearing makeup or being hairy and telling us all that being thin and wearing makeup and shaving are all actually subversive and brave. And it's not? You're doing What is Expected of You. And if you stopped, many, many people - strangers even - would feel compelled to at the very least point it out derisively, and at the worst straight up deny you medical care or harass you in the street.

Tbh it doesn't matter if you're doing makeup for you. That's not how everyone else views that. They see makeup as expected. People who don't have lost job opportunities. People who don't have their abilities questioned because without makeup they "look unkempt". The only makeup that pushes the envelope is Indigenous makeup styles and things like intense goth makeup or "birthday makeup".

Shaving is expected! You are supposed to be near-hairless. Anyone who reads as femme is expected to be hairless. If you want to be femme, you have to shave. You can get harassed for being hairy in the wrong spaces. Being hairy can read as being unkempt or dirty by conventional society. A lot of racism plays into this.

Being fat in a world that constantly wants you to lose weight can straight up kill you! People don't get hired for being fat. People get harassment constantly for being fat. Fat queer and poc have some of the hardest times being fat in the world we are in. Bodies reduced to jokes by society. Living in a world quite literally not built for you in the slightest. Mocked constantly by strangers and left to languish in chronic illness until its too late to fix because a doctor would rather see you lose weight before ever trying to help you.

Being skinny, shaving, wearing makeup, are all expected of you and are often treated with praise and uplifted as desirable. So why do those people have to come onto every single post about people who fall outside social convention to talk about how they uniquely have it worse or just as bad for looking exactly how they're expected to.

This website can't even handle this shit. It's no wonder so many are struggling with not being intersexist as hell. We're stuck on Baby's First "Not Everything is About You"

[ender-of-the-sender]

YOU PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND-

HOUSE IS AUTISTIC.

They acknowledge it in S3 E4. Wilson heavily suggests to Cuddy that House has Asperger syndrome, but they decide that he can't possibly because he's just a jerk.

Let autistic people be jerks. Let autistic people be assholes WITHOUT USING AUTISM AS AN EXCUSE. IM AN ASSHOLE SOMETIMES. NOT BECAUSE IM AUTISTIC, IM JUST A PRICK. Yes I understand that one of the reasons for him being such a dickhead is because of his leg, he's in pain all the time. But thats even more of a reason to believe that it is a separate issue.

They say that he wants to relate to the kid because then he can get away with being a dick, but he does relate to the kid. He hates change, he thrives on consistency, he needs stimulation or he gets bored and frustrated, he isolates himself- and when he does have to interact, it's with the same people he sees everyday.

House can be autistic AND an asshole. Those two things do not cancel each other out.

(Edit: as a disabled autistic person, I see myself in House in ways that I never have in canonically autistic characters. I am aware it's never confirmed in the show. I am aware that not everyone agrees with this headcanon, and genuinely that is all it is, a headcanon. I'm not Hugh Laurie. This was just a rant about how House is treated while showing, what I and many other people, including characters inside the show, view as symptoms of ASD or other such disorders. I apologise if it came across as lying or spreading false information.)