#I mean i get WHY

[bungone]

Sometimes I find it difficult to explain to people that I like fucked up media because people usually fall into one of two categories;

either they'll assume that I endorse fucked up things like rape and murder and pedophillia and whatnot (which couldn't be further from the truth)

or it'll be the kind of person who does endorse those things and then I have an entirely different kind of problem? And I struggle with understanding why, also, so I'm split between wanting to ask them and probe their brain to see what in the everloving fuck made them like this, but also really, really, wanting to walk away and tell a trusted adult because oh my god, i am not associating with someone like that.

I wish more people had enough media literacy to understand that content like Happy Sugar Life and Needy Girl Overdose are meant to be critiques of behavior instead of glorifying or, god forbid, fetishizing it, and my first instinct is always to compare it to Lolita, because my brain is like "well they'll get it if I compare it to something that very clearly falls under the psychological horror category and is meant to be a breakdown of a multi dimensional, yet still irremediable psychopath", and then I remember how royally that book was fucked over, too.

anyways sorry about the short rant post but I just had an argument about it with someone and if I don't get it out of my system i will scream.

[radioactive-cloud]

i want to know if jan's the one who chooses which photos to share since he's kinda in charge of their ig and if so why the fuck would he choose that photo of nace

[eldragon-x]

I dont remember Equestria Girls well so correct me but its such a weird choice to isekai Twilight into a setting where everyone is in human high school. Twilight is like a tax paying adult in her universe.

[midnight-in-town]

Predicting Cordelia's last resolve

I wish I could write something more sensible and optimistic, but this chapter almost tore my heart out...

For obvious reasons, Gudrid has a lot of plot armor and so does Karli. It makes no sense, considering last month's chapter, to have Thorfinn losing them right now, so it seems the story is rather heading towards Cordelia finding the strength to protect them, no matter what.

After all, even if Thorfinn & Gudrid were the only ones who ever told her "it was okay not to fight", they are also the ones who welcomed her without fear and who worked things through with Halfdan so that Cordelia would finally know freedom.

Cordelia is a kind soul, someone who dislikes fighting and war, but she loves Thorfinn and his family way more. She definitely won't kill, but she will probably die to protect Gudrid, Karli and his newborn brother with that strength of hers.

TBH as much as I really really absolutely love her character, I unfortunately don't think Thorfinn, Hild & co will make it in time. T_T Not with them currently being chased too. Last hope I kinda have is Ivar and Styrk finally becoming useful and saving them (instead of, y'know, triggering more conflict)...

But unfortunately again, Cordelia dying might also be the only way, narratively speaking, for characters like Einar, Ivar, Hild and Styrk to realize that staying in Vinland will cost them everything they've achieved so far (and that Thorfinn is actually not such a bad leader).

If anything though, as a dim ray of light deep within the storm that war brings, this chapter proved Thorfinn was right.

Even amongst the Lnu themselves, "desiring swords" simply translates as a way to control others: they pretend to be righteous and to act as leaders, because "violence" is the most effective way for them to keep their power over others.

Honestly I'm devastated. ;_; It's not Cordelia's first death flag, Sensei left hints here and there that she would probably sacrifice herself to save the place in which "she finally could live as herself" but, after this chapter, I've next to no hope of seeing her survive. T_T

Please prove me wrong, Yukimura-sensei...!

[friendlyinsomniac]

Why do people describe writing a personal statement or cover letter as "selling yourself"?

I hate it sm

[sunlitmcgee]

guys be real with me did I come off too mean or accusatory here or was this. fair and honest

also the bit about it being okay to sexualize him being chubby refers to like. him being fat and Hot. like I'm trying to ask people not to be Weird about him being intersex while gently showing all the other things abt them that are hot and sexy and fun to talk about as such......idk I'm just worried I came off in a weird way here...

[huxandthehound]

Rewatched 2x2 last night and I can’t help but wonder if Daniel’s “Lestat, Lestat, Lestat” triggered Louis about San Fran in a way. Something a little too Armand-ish about how he said it, maybe. Because boy did he get angry.

[headedoutleft]

It’s wild how popular stretching ear piercings was when i was a teenager and how so few people still have them

[the-fatal-impact]

I just watched first episode of One Piece Live Action. Everyone lusting or simping over Zoro. Including all camera crew.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

I love how is fanfic writers can just TORTURE the characters we love and no one bats an eye.

But when the character gets a boo-boo everyone is screaming and wailing like mad.

It’s funny

[emberpears]

I love how often zombie media portrays an outbreak as like a Y2K all in one night type disaster and not like, an actual virus that would take months to spread around

[freebooter4ever]

"Tarasov won over the hearts and minds of players and coaches across America, often shouting in Russian—or at last resort, German—yet somehow conveying his point across the language barrier."

Amazing

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[bbeeew]

how come all the people on websites made for artists always have really good art that was (probably) done by someone over 25

Where are my 11 year olds that lie about their age and post poorly done stick figures

Where are they

I want them back

[officialspec]

can i say something. for years i thought the joke of the song short skirt/long jacket by cake was that he wanted a woman who was hung like a horse. like i thought when he says jacket it was a last-second fakeout because he very obviously meant to say cock. and the rest of the things in the song were just her personality and interests. which were secondary to her awesome penis