#and members of marginalized

[xyzzymancy]

can you at least TRY to be subtle

[legalandnotease]

Me: The whole "making amends" idea in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is incredibly stupid and smacks of victim-blaming because Bucky should not be forced to make amends for things he was *made* to do against his will.

Its literally like telling a SA victim to apologize to all the other people their attacker also hurt.

Also, don't tell trauma survivors to *get their shit togeher* its extremely insentistive and misinformed. Mentally ill people aren't just being annoying or mean on purpose.

Sam Stans and people in wider fandom:

*That's not victim blaming! Bucky was never a victim, it was doing it all willingly anyway and that's why Sam said to make amends!

Also Sam has PTSD too. He is the only person in history who ever suffered discrimination, so Bucky trauma doesn't count and if you keep mentioning it you are a big bad racist!!

Me: OK, that's messed up. Don't dismiss and invalidate people's trauma.

Also know its not just black people who are subject to discrimination? Lots of people suffer discrimination, including disabled people and mentally ill people and this applied historically as well.

Furthermore, having been subjected to racism doesn't give Sam or anybody else a free pass to mistreat others. What's wrong with just treating those around you with basic decency, sympathy and compassion?

That includes Bucky, who is also disabled BTW.

Sam fans and others in general fandom:

"Bucky is not disabled! I already told you HE IS NOT A VICTIM he never was! He is not marginalized! Stop babying him! He's an adult and he CHOSE to do all the things he did as the Winter Soldier!"

He's just being mean to Sam on purpose and being selfish. Sam doesn't have to be nice to him! That's so tone deaf and its racist!"

Seriously poeple: if Bucky had bought up how the disability jokes and blaming him for things that caused his PTSD made him uncomfortable IRL Sam would have been receptive and understood because he's actually a decent human who knows its wrong to mock people for things they can't help. Or blame them for things that they didn't choose.

It is a shame that the writers of FAtWS and a good number of Sam Stans can't seem to grasp this.

[biracy]

Definitely definitely definitely not a fan of this whole like "actually trans men and cis women are basically the same if you think about it, due to the sex-based afab womb oppression" thing but I'm ALSO not at all a fan of like Epic Clapbacks that basically just go "actually trans men and cis men are basically the same if you think about it." Like I inherently have a lived experience distinct from that of cisgender men of otherwise overlapping demographics (my age, Latino, bisexual, etc) and I think it's Very important to be able to talk about that. Like transphobia is actually a really really really big seal and if you're super duper clocky (as I am, for the record) and/or just Out to people in general, you are going to face a kind of transphobic harassment that just isn't experienced by cis men who are kind of short. Trans men are certainly the men of trans people but trans men are also the trans people of men

[rainbowpopeworld]

[starry-eyer]

some people in this fandom are going to be really disappointed when winds of winter comes out.

you guys. you cannot treat the POV characters as stepping stones for other characters/other POV characters.

the POV characters must have a fitting end according to their character arcs, themes, foreshadowing, etc.

to clarify, the POV characters chapters are about THEM. their storylines are about THEIR journey. you cannot use their hundreds of pages of character development as a brick to build the castle your fav will live in.

this is especially true for the key 5 and for the other younger POV characters. their endings have everything to do with them, they do not revolve around your fav.

us readers out-of-universe reasons for wanting x or y characters deaths does not matter. what actually matters is if you can support your theories with textual evidence from the chapters of the POV character that you want dead.

[mistbornbaby]

This blog has been dead for so long, I know, but I gotta hop in here and share because I’m so thrilled✨ I fell off reading the second Mistborn era, and then a friend recommended I hop into the Way of Kings before getting too far in that second era. So I’m in the middle of reading that, and just read Tress of the Emerald Sea, which was so cute!

But I’m rereading Mistborn from the beginning again because… my family is reading it!! I’ve got my brother, mom, and sister all reading it together, and more family members are wanting to join the “book club”! I’ve graduated from a Mistborn Baby into a Mistborn Dealer 😆 and I’m excited to see who gets addicted with me!

[hydrophobicmenace]

As someone who has been watching Naruto and One Piece for something like a year now, it's occurred to me that while both protagonists value their personal freedom, the messages conveyed in their respective stories fundamentally differ.

Where Naruto is about community and forgiving the people who've wronged you so that you can coexist again, albeit with a few structural changes (and even that is a stretch considering that nothing really changed in Boruto), One Piece is about leaving your past behind to build a home somewhere else with a ragtag team of social outcasts like you. There's an entire story arc where Luffy is able to break out of jail with the help of a group of queer freedom fighters who were cast away by the government. I remember someone saying that the way Oda viewed queer people was that they were freaks, but that he also thought freaks were really cool. It's the entire basis upon which Luffy has built his pirate crew: he literally asked Chopper to join him because he's a talking reindeer and he thought he was sooo weird.

Isn't it strange that all of the queer-coded characters (=the outcasts) in Naruto are the bad guys? They decided to walk down their own paths because they failed to fit in and the heroes punished them for it. Naruto's goal was to force Sasuke, the quintessential gay teen, back to Konoha when the corrupted elders were still in power. Sasuke had to get the job done himself with a group of rogue ninja like him and they were never credited for the (minor) changes that resulted. I still shudder when I recall the way Karin was received by the Leaf's military forces.

Orochimaru too is an incredibly queer-coded vilain, and he is also a groomer. Doesn't that sound like anti-queer propaganda to you? This is not to say that people like him do not exist, but the author did not pick those character traits at random. There are certain beliefs, certain ideologies, fuelling every author's decisions.

No matter how many times Naruto insists that he wants to do things "his own ninja way", the reason he is able to stay in the village and become Hokage in the end is because he learned to conform. The ninja world as a whole hasn't changed one bit since then.

(And don't even get me STARTED on the women. These girls deserve better than to be raised as future medics and support roles.)

This is what we mean when we say that the author's intent doesn't matter, but their worldviews do. They are the backdrop for their story. They are impossible to hide. You can't escape ideology.

[trans-soapberry]

i don't follow dungeon Meshi discussions closely and also haven't seen much in depth analysis of the marginalization of halflings specifically but I feel like the Infantilization aspect is focused on without acknowledging the ways they are often also Dehumanized (little weird considering the usage of "human" in the context of the story but I think it fits well enough). Like they are considered unskilled and immature due to their appearance + shorter relative lifespans, but also they are considered shady, used as literal bait (for sirens and succubi), and fucking disappeared when they come into contact with dangerous artifacts. Like both are significantly negative, but one is a bit more Obviously Violent in a way that I feel like is under discussed.

[freakinator]

probably shouldve known i would inevitably stop vibing with derap considering one of the main things he tells the fandom aside from the fact hes not gay is to stop obsessing over them so much meanwhile i actively encourage that kind of thing

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

interesting how somebody will make a positivity post about masculine trans men and then people will turn around and complain "we don't need to celebrate masculine men" like idk maybe you're just illiterate but it looks to me like you removed the important adjective just for the sake of being outraged 🙂

[shallow-between-stars]

Look, I'm not saying my vote went to Roger Cook -just- because he called JD Vance a knob...

...but -boy- did it help.

[purlty23]

Was it 'rude' when that person told you to knock off what you were doing... Or were you being hostile, acting out of turn, or spouting nonsense? Always ask yourself

Sometimes you are the problem. Its not rude for someone to turn you away

[subsequentibis]

it kills me stone dead when i think about how the main three in preacher are all like. stuck as kids in a way. tulip is always that girl being taken away from the last family she thought she'd ever have, jesse is always that boy watching his father die in front of him and knowing he prayed for it to happen, cassidy is literally Forever Nineteen and forever reliving that moment of letting someone who trusted him down in the most painful, fatal way. as much as they grow and learn and change, in moments of crisis and stress they revert back to being those scared children who have no control over anything. fucking kills me man.

[duskandcloudy]

Oh! Also, some recent discovery news..!

For context, a while ago we discovered that there were, in fact, many folks within this system who were formerly hidden from our view.

Whether that was a result of shrouding actions from another member, or if they were willingly hiding... unsure! (i mean like. a lot of thems like- probably the former lol . maybe both )

Curiously... the percieved "forms" we view of them within headspace coincidentally matches or is very similar to imagerys of old '''self feeling''' sketches that were drawn many years ago.

(ie, rough outlines of figures with vague hair shapes, absent facial features save for pupiless eyes. all individually expressing different feelings and emotions, typically intense varieties of the 'low' type.)

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

I always worry that posts like the previous one come off as me posturing about being an ally. I'm not trying to score points here. I feel strongly about this because I have trans loved ones who are important to me and also because I generally have like. a sense of right and wrong.

[meg-with-nuts]

It's so weird remembering I'm technically an autonomous being and fully capable of just like... doing things.

"I wonder if there's a story about a trans werewolf girl going through the double ostracization of being seen as a monster for two separate facts about her that people constantly lie and fearmonger about."

...

"Wait I can just write it myself-"