#(no hate to OP)

[guthraiel]

well.

anyways vavra pre kcd1 release after being criticised for leaving out minorities (namely jewish people that there was historically a great number of)

vavra and his *love* for feminism (there are more but mostly in czech and my ass is not digging through and translating articles for this sorry x)

hm!

oh theres more. (gamergate)

hes still going

wow

[kingofdorkville]

every few weeks we get a "this community is so hostile" post. sorry but this community has its good spaces and its horrific spaces. you have to navigate that.

[bvckbiter]

drafts bc my ass is salty. like maybe this is my TA-biased ass talking, but in a lot of other fandoms these random side characters with 3 lines would be very popular

tbh probably the reason why my brain is so fixated on pjo is because both the source and its fandom have so much potential and yet massively fail to live up to it. so im like. I MUST FILL IN THE GAPS OR DIE TRYING

[uboatan]

thank you instagram for this reel recommendation. unfortunately i have no idea what any of this means.

[unsaltedtoast]

Just saw a tiktok of a straight girl complaining that she wasn’t turned on during saltburn and that it disappointed her? Why is media literacy dead on that app?

Rant incoming

IMO, part of the point of the bath scene (her main complaint) is that it’s supposed to make you a bit comfortable, it’s supposed to completely break a boundary.

Viewers are already on edge, given that Oliver watches Felix through a door, at an angle that appeared INCREDIBLY exposed, almost as if Felix could turn around at any second and catch Oliver. That scene gets you in a vulnerable position already (on edge) and then instead of doing the two expected things- moving on and getting Oliver to go to his own room, or Felix noticing and reacting to him- he isn’t caught.

He doesn’t go to bed.

He goes FURTHER. He pushes FURTHER.

So, it’s normal however you react. Thats the beauty of being human, some people like that stuff, but it’s just as normal to feel disgusted or strangely empty after that scene.

Now, I’m a lesbian, so I don’t take in media in the same way as she does, I imagine. From her perspective, I imagine she went in expecting two (or more) attractive men being seductive, and was disappointed by the fact that Oliver’s sexuality was very deranged and obsessive, that Felix’s sexuality was very much in the dark, given Oliver’s perspective of the women he slept with. I can imagine that it’s disappointing and I can’t fully understand that, but it’s unfair to judge the film on whether or not you find it personally hot.

I think people are forgetting the actual point of the film and are just seeing it as ‘I didn’t find it hot so bad rating’. I think the unconventional love, sexuality and attraction is the WHOLE POINT of the film. It makes it. I think you should find Oliver cringe, even if you like his character or plot etc. I think he kind of takes parts of people that are relatable or attractive and then twists it. So by completely disregarding the entire thing because you didn’t find it personally attractive, you miss out on the point.

Main point because I went off track a bit there…

Essentially, I think you’re supposed to be unsettled by the bath scene particularly, to some level.

The whole film follows Felix in tiny moments, washing six months of homoerotic friendship with a romantic filter, idealising his and Oliver’s relationship as the most important, beautiful thing to ever be born from Oxford.

And I think you forget for a minute that these moments are SMALL. In Oliver’s head, they’re not, so to us, they also appear big and cute, but they’re barely even present if you really think about it (in a romantic/sexual way, not platonic). Then suddenly Oliver is watching him masturbate, drinking the water, licking the drain. It’s all suddenly *too* much, overwhelmingly obsessive, completely reminding the viewers that Oliver is the narrator, the protagonist, the one painting this beautiful image. Reminding the audience that this relationship is nowhere near this point yet is the reason for that scene to some level; it physically forces you to reconsider who is the ‘good guy’, if Oliver should do this, if he is anywhere close to being able to get away with this. I think you suddenly look back and think ??? Felix would think this is crazy ???

It’s crazy, because I argue the bath scene isn’t even the moment this theme is introduced. The film sets this up SO EARLY. DID YOU MISS THE SCENE WHERE FELIX IS UNDRESSING WITH A GIRL AND OLIVER STANDS OUTSIDE OF HIS WINDOW WATCHING HIM??? That’s foreshadowing: he doesn’t understand the boundary here, he’s incredibly jealous of Felix’s sexual life without him so he places himself in his life, even if Felix doesn’t know. Thats the point. It’s just shoved in the middle of a montage of these perfect moments between the two so you see it and think OLIVER STOP BEING WEIRD!!!

Anyways. TikTok please engage in critical thinking before posting challenge xoxo

[sillyfriendssharingablog]

TW: S E X!!!!

found this under the psycho mantis tag...and uhm...

[quixtrix]

me when theres a dolph x reader but it erases his canonical homosexuality

[begrudginglydredgedgrudges]

ive said it once, ill say it again. WINGLESS PADS ARENT BAD YOURE JUST USING THEM WRONG. THEYRE MEANT FOR BOXER TYPE UNDERWEAR, OR ANY TYPE OF UNDERWEAR THAT HAS A LEG THAT WINGED PADS CANT WRAP AROUND!!! i will not be taking this wingless pag abuse any longer

WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl

[momosweetpeach]

I had thought about if Luffy had recruited the Strawhats in a different order and they got to see different crewmates origins/events leading up to becoming pirates, and well-

Zoro's whole first-meeting ordeal might have left a different first-impression with Sanji

[collegeshoto]

yknow what you didn't have to say it like that

[peach-moths]

listen when you lose an online art competition against your art rival sometimes you just gotta be mean about their art and not be judged for it and thats what big brothers are there for

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[valtsv]

[aropride]

i'm sort of a 0-trick pony

[shurohigi]

catching yourself thinking fondly of your mortal enemy core

[bataddictedloony]

My response to this is always along the lines of “ok, teach us then”.

It’s why I like the topic of small talk with fellow autistic people, because they’ll always give me good tips on safe topics for small talk, how to appear interested, tips that actually work, as opposed to the tips I get from allistic people which usually starts and ends with “just pay attention.” Y’all received a rule book on How To Talk To People at birth and mine never arrived.

Alternatively, teach allistic people to be more forgiving with small talk and also Say What They Actually Mean.

I'm trying to figure out a good way to say "you really should actually learn the basics of small talk" with sounding like I'm biased against autistic people.