#AUTOMATIC LABELLE

[sexhaver]

every time i forget to don my hazmat suit before tag-spelunking i regret it

[squidfreak]

Trans men who call themselves sapphic or lesbians aren't invalidating or misgendering or transphobic towards themselves, btw... no trans man is forcing lesbians to be with them. Literally no lesbian has to date a trans man if they don't want too plus vice versa... idk what's so hard to understand here 😭

[secretarysong]

read a really good nsr fanfic the other day and ive sort of been thinking bout aunty ever since

[hannah08]

The biphobia towards Billie is insane. Never did she say she was a lesbian. She said she was queer. Bi people never get treated seriously in lesbian/ gay spaces and I’m sick of it. Leave her alone. Leave bi people alone.

Leave biphobia in the past.

And yes bi and queer aren’t interchangeable but the reaction to Billie is biphobia.

[booksandabeer]

Ramblings on Fandom: Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers, Delusional Shippers, and Alleged Misogyny

So with the release of Season 2 of What If…? emotions are once again running high, the outrage is outraging, and people are up in arms about the whole Captain Carter situation. While I do think that some reactions are a little overblown, even needlessly aggressive in tone to the unfortunate detriment of their otherwise convincing arguments, I share the confusion and frustration about the sudden centering of a long-dead & never excessively popular character, the sidelining of the Steve-Bucky friendship, and the as-inexplicable-as-it-is-total exclusion of Sam Wilson as Captain America. However, I’m not here to talk about the show because (1) I haven’t watched this season and have no plans to (why waste time torturing myself with something I know I’ll hate?) and (2) other people have already written dozens of metas about it, so what could I possibly add at this point.

What I do want need to talk about (lest I explode) is something that has irritated me for a long time and that is now happening again: Every time someone even mildly criticizes Peggy Carter, expresses doubts about her suitability as a heroine, or even just questions her disproportionate importance to the franchise post-EG, inevitably a certain section of fans will come out of the woodwork to immediately throw around accusations of misogyny and yell about how we’re all just a bunch of delusional Stuckies who are mad that she got "in the way" of our ship. Sigh.

This is gonna be a long one, so I’ll put it under a cut. Rant incoming. You've been warned. If you don't want to read, simply keep scrolling.

First of all, let me state very clearly that I’m not debating the existence of misogyny and sexism in fandom spaces—or in the media from which these fandoms originate. At all. It exists, it’s a thing, I’m not denying that. Which is exactly why it frustrates me endlessly to see these accusations thrown around as a gotcha! argument to shut down any and all critical debate around a female character. All it does in the end is escalate rhetoric and radicalize attitudes.  

In the case of Peggy Carter, specifically her treatment by Stucky shippers, I’ve always found 'misogyny as a motive' to be a largely unsubstantiated accusation.¹ Now, I neither presume nor do I want to speak for the entirety of Stuckynation, so I will not claim that there aren't corners of the fandom where people discuss her in ways that I find off-putting and deeply unserious, but I will say this: If you genuinely believe that disliking one (1) fictional female character equals “hating all women” and wanting to suppress and marginalize their presence in fiction and real life alike—then I think we need to take that word away from you until you’ve learned its true meaning.

You might also want to ask yourself how exactly reducing a female character to a mute trophy wife or a heroine who has to act out her love interest’s recycled storylines helps your feminist fight.

As for the “getting in the way of your ship” part of the argument. Very simply put: No character can get in the way of something if there never ever was “a way” to that something to begin with. “Being mad” implies that there was a reasonable expectation that wasn’t met, a substantive hope that was crushed. Now, I’ve said this before and I’ll gladly say it again a million more times: No Stucky shipper in their right mind ever truly thought that there was even the slightest chance that Marvel Studios owned by the Walt Disney Company would allow Steve “Captain America” Rogers and Bucky “Winter Soldier” Barnes to be canonized as an explicitly romantic pairing in their billion dollar franchise. Be serious. That was never in the cards. I wish we all lived in a world where it was, but we don’t, and it wasn’t. The best we could ever hope for was for Steve and Bucky to get a good, satisfying, in-character ending. And if, in Steve’s case, that would’ve included hints (or more) about a possible rekindling of his, uh, aborted romance with Sharon—then so be it. But we never got any of that. The characters never got any of that. Instead they sent Steve into 1950s suburban hell, literally trapped him behind a white picket fence, and condemned him to a life of passivity and lies, all so he could be married to a woman he barely knew a long time ago in a completely different world; who built and ran a top-to-bottom Hydra-infested organization, but apparently never noticed that there was anything wrong with her life's work. For decades. Great. As for Bucky—well, we’ve all seen the devastatingly grim-faced, utterly lonely, and deeply sad version of him that was presented to us in TFATWS. Happy endings all around, I guess.

So. Am I mad that Steve didn’t get to ride into the rainbow-colored sunset with Bucky at the end of EG? No. Because that was never going to happen anyway. Would I have been mad had he ended up with Sharon or another female character in the 21st century? Also no. Granted, I wouldn’t have been ecstatic about it, but mad? No. But am I mad that Steve ended up with this specific female character under these specific circumstances as presented in canon? Fuck yeah, I am.

The thing is: I personally believe Steve and Peggy to be fundamentally incompatible when it comes to the way they view the world and their respective places in it; their morals and values; their capacity for compassion and empathy; their ability and willingness to compartmentalize, compromise, and collaborate with people and institutions whose ethics and/or politics do not align with their own. I have a real hard time believing that a relationship between these two (or worse, a hasty marriage) could be either happy or long-lasting.

I don’t believe Peggy to be inherently evil, I don’t hate her, I simply think she operates within a different moral framework than Steve (and even genuinely believes it to be a righteous one).² Your mileage may vary, but I personally happen to find that framework reprehensible, even indecent, and ultimately dangerous. After all, over the course of the 20th century, we have seen exactly where that kind of “the ends justify the means” brand of pragmatism leads—over and over again. Not to mention that the people who use this line of argument to defend characters like Peggy (or real-life politicians for that matter) never seem to want to look too closely at who gets to define what "the ends" are in the first place and who decides when they've finally been met.

(Never. The answer is never.)

And to be clear, there is absolutely nothing wrong with depicting, and even centering a narrative around a morally (dark)gray character—oftentimes it’s actually the more interesting option—but you cannot at the same time claim that they are purely good and should be only admired as such when their actions literally tell an entirely different story.

So, no. I will not accept Peggy Carter as the shining aspirational heroine that the MCU so badly wants to sell her to me as—while simultaneously continuing to reveal things that paint an increasingly darker picture of her character. And I will certainly not celebrate seeing one of my favorite characters of all time—whose defining trait was that he couldn't ignore "a situation pointed south"; who used to fight for the little guy and against the establishment; who once said about the very organization that Peggy Carter helped build that it was so corrupt, it all needed to go—rendered morally inert for some hollow happy ending that may as well be a conservative’s wet dream full of false nostalgia for an America that never really existed. I cannot find it in me to be anything less but mad about that.

But that does not make me a misogynist. It does not make me a delusional shipper. It makes me someone who looks at what the MCU has been telling me about Peggy Carter for years now—over and over again—and takes them at their own word.

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¹ If you’ve actually read a a fair number of Stucky(!) fanfics you will have noticed that the reverence afforded to and "page time" devoted to her character and her relationship with Steve is somewhat disproportionate to anything that's backed up by canon—well, up until EG, where she was suddenly reanimated as The Great Love of Steve’s Life—and in my experience, it's highly unusual for any fandom to put so much (mostly) positive attention on another character, let alone a potential love interest that is not part of the endgame ship.

² I also want to emphasize that if you love Peggy and she's your fave: good for you! I genuinely have no beef with you. People can agree to disagree. All I ask for is that we maybe stop willfully ignoring the less savory aspects of her character. You don't need to pretend she's perfect to justify your affection for her. I LOVE Steve, and yet I have no problem conceding that he is FAR from perfect.

[maxladcomics]

Undertale: 17 (Unreasonable version)

The Abandoned Quiche (QuicheGuilt) was going to use the unused Global.Flag 17

Gaster's theme is 17 seconds long

The intervals in Gaster's theme is 1 7 -7 -1 (From this video skip to 7 minutes)

Not using unreasonable math this round, it's only numbers.

Quicheguilt using global flag 17, Junk food that was previously thrown away heals 17, this is light justification for guessing that 17 = Abandoned/left behind/discarded

Q is the 17th letter of the Alphabet

When you QUIT the game, you're leaving your progress behind, you're leaving their world.

The one that left all of monsterkind behind was the QUEEN.

When you beat the game, there's no music in Papyrus's room, it's QUIET. (This one's a stretch for my obligatory Papyrus mention, also pretending everything else is not a stretch)

[wardensantoineandevka]

genuinely squinting in suspicion at the PRECIPITOUS increase in automatic mature content label false positives in the past week

[togaschako]

This is what pisses me off, but everyone wants to blame bakudeku and togachako shippers for being 'toxic'.

[onenotsubtle]

the mature content label thing is to the point where i've seen wrestling guys in long tights where the only skin showing is a chest getting mature labels. we aren't saying or implying deathmatch content shouldn't get mature labels. we're saying there's no fucking reason for a picture of a guy in pants in non sexual situations, not even actively wrestling situations, to get a mature label from tumblr! there's no reason for it!

[cognitohazardous]

i conjured the word gynophagia as a potential alternative word for pussy-eating and upon searching, learned a number of things in rapid succession

gynophagia is a fetish involving cooking and eating women

there is a decently sized community for it

androphagia exists as well, for eating men

gynophagia people are fixated on cooked breasts and pussies, while androphagia people seem to have a pronounced focus on cooked feet

ai art has really helped these communities flourish

there is a decently sized subreddit for cannibalism art

unsurprisingly, some of these are fairly racist in their depictions. surprisingly, they are outnumbered by people who like to post women with apples in their mouths or poorly photoshopped to be standing in abattoirs and industrial kitchens

also people photoshopped to have grill marks

do you think theres any overlap with the "cannibalism as a metaphor for love" community or is this a whole separate sphere

[ifanclover]

i am very sure no one here will understand but i have to get it out of my system one way or another

it’s funny because nath n cas are more nicomaki than cas n armin so armin’s gotta deal with them except he’s having the time of his life

“this is so kismesis!!!” shut up armin

he is in fact not helping and that’s okay (is it really though?)

do you think nathaniel could rock the leather bodysuit

meanwhile the other three are like having a garden tea party or something and it’s actually really nice and they get along well

they’d feed each other sweets and then get mistaken for a polycule maybe i dunno

they could also have baking sessions oh my god that’d be so cute

printemps isn’t shown here but if they were here uh

kentin could be hanayo but i’m blanking on the other two

[ourfag]

stede doing android ed the very intimate courtesy of gently cleaning some of the more fiddly bits of his guts by squirting puffs of air over his hardware to displace the dust. and then turning up the pressure on the nozzle to really get into the crevices while holding ed down (per request) to keep him from squirming (it tickles(?)) and all ed wants is for stede to put down the pump and do that thing he did one time before where he licked the supple pad of his human finger and stuck it in there and scrubbed

[terresdebrume]

Okay, Tumblr question: do blogs that have been flagged as potentially nsfw automatically get "Potentially mature" slapped on their posts or something? Because just this week I've seen it applied to

A gifset of food (just tag it)

Something about architecture for. (???)

A gifset of Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton that has nothing even vaguely sexual in it (unless it's there bc she's fat in which case OH BOY)

Like what the fuck IS happening here???

ETA: my mistake, the Penelope gifset has a gif where she's hiding her naked boobs with her hands, and you see her bare shoulders

Like yeah you can tell she's naked but it's nothing more than you'd see in a shower scene

[daeluin]

ok no, i try not to get annoyed by what others say but there is a difference between people bending reality to delule themselves into making a straight woman queer just because they can't deal with liking a straight artist versus pointing out a man who has always presented himself as queer

[mewos-laptop]

I am fucking begging y'all to let aromantic allosexuals have ONE FUCKING THING

Leave our terms ALONE.

Fucking christ alive.... you people are insufferable

[placeholder-mcd]

is hishakaku divorced?

hishakaku claims to be aro/ace on account of his violent allergy to intimacy. but that doesn't explain whatever's going on between him and Jerry in 8888.