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[divinecreations]

✦ㅤ— closegenic !!

closegenic - an origin label for any plural/system (etc) who only disclose their origin to curious or close Friends (or Mutuals), and are Praesigenic[link] or adjacent to everybeing else

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⸺ The Divine will not participate in your discourse, and its terms should not be brought into it either.

TAGGING : @radiomogai @creaturesthathoard @plurchive @obscurian @pluralarchive to be removed

COPY ID : a seven stripe flag with various width strips. In order it is: Large orange, medium pale orange, thin warm white, larger yellow, thin warm white, medium pale orange, large orange. The largest yellow strip, which is outlined in orange, has a heart shape coming out of the middle where there is a warm white planet shape with an orange ring.

[matcha-omega]

EVIL TRANSMASC

A flag for when you're EVIL and transmasc

EVIL Color meanings:

Red: The BLOOD of transandrophobes. also for EVIL gnc transmascs yay yippee yay :3

Cyan: Our TWISTED agenda (supporting our fellow transmascs and the trans community as a whole)

Navy Blue: Our SCARY masculinity/manhood

Blueish Black: Our DARK brotherhood

[dathen]

I don’t have the patience or energy to engage with the “Murderbot isn’t actually aroace :) It doesn’t actually say it’s aroace using the word ‘aroace!’ :)” crowd getting noisier since the show started, but..

In the books, Murderbot references its confusion, repulsion, and deep disinterest re: sex/romance MUCH more than it does re: gender. Like I never got the same “I will throw myself out an airlock if you gender me” feeling from it, while “everything I’ve learned about sex and romance has been against my will” is brought up like a dozen times per book.

Yet the same people very protective of Murderbot being a nonbinary character will jump through a thousand hoops to insist aroace Murderbot is “just a headcanon” or “one of many possible readings.”

Both of these aspects of its identity are important, but how do people manage their cognitive dissonance between “guard the gender identity with your LIFE” and “um insisting it’s aroace is fandom policing :(( stop ruining other people’s fun”…?

[luckthebard]

Having sat on the last Keyleth and Vax scene more, I am getting less charitable to it by the minute and I’m starting to think it might actually have been so bad it retroactively ruined my favorite storyline from C1 which. Sucks.

[essektheylyss]

The indecision has been discussed repeatedly today but on a serious note, my issue really is summed up by the fact that even at the last moment, the Hells ask even Predathos to make the choice for them. "What do you want to do?" is an abdication. This might've been inevitable, but at this point it isn't even happening because it was inevitable, it's happening because even now they are not choosing to make the decision themselves.

[realfruittaste]

If we ever get spn s16 ngl I don’t want destiel “full penetration”, “balls deep” bc I feel strongly this fandom shouldn’t know who tops 🤡

[k3n-dyll]

They on tiktok calling "butch" a slur oh dear god

[simaraknows]

i see your "'does he want to lick my boots or chop off my hands' is a Nicki reference" and raise you "what if Armand's relationship with sex is so fucked that his two modi are total submission and 'don't touch me or I'll chop off your hands' and Louis is still clowning on his trauma" in this essay I will

[divinecreations]

" .. I've attitude to be a star, I'm destined towards greater fame " /lyr

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star cred : @/maniani0122 on twt

[leothil]

Well fuck it I guess I'm posting about it because this post I saw is simply so disingenuous that I'm too annoyed to ignore it.

First of all. Don't try to be all ~history~ about buddie in comparison to bucktommy. They do have more history. This is not debatable. This is a fact. They've been best friends on screen for six and a half seasons, have gone through hell together at least five separate times, and Buck is the legal guardian of Eddie's child in case of his death. Bucktommy had a season together, of which they didn't have scenes together in every episode. Even if those scenes had been super deep and worked on establishing the relationship (which they were mostly not), buddie would still have more history and depth to their relationship at this point in time.

Hell, even with the added scenes from 8x11, Taylor STILL has more screentime than Tommy has had. And both of them pale in comparison to the amount of buddie scenes. Check out @lover-of-mine's excellent compilation post of Buck's LI screentimes here!

Second of all. No, you are not. Nobody except stupid people are trying to keep you from enjoying a ship you like. But you are stupid and immature when you try to act like your ship is morally better because it's canon (a shockingly widespread take for a fandom), that your ship has more content in the actual show, and when you flat out lie about what happened in the actual episodes in order to further your own headcanons (SO many people that straight up ignore that Tommy called Eddie competition and only talk about "a miscommunication between BT" in the scene or whatever the current verbiage is). You could just enjoy the ship for what it is and write fics and headcanons surrounding that, but instead you try to insist that everyone else needs to see the greatness of bucktommy and take part in your headcanons about him and the relationship, and if we don't we're called homophobes. That is why people treat you with derision and don't take you seriously.

[luxiomahariel]

>misgendering me

>calling a trans man thats over the age of 21 a minor

>implying that i have ever liked harry potter

so much transphobia all at once? just for me? you shouldnt have! (/sarcasm)

[the-wandering-wayseeker]

I don't and never will mind posts that criticize the Jedi, their beliefs, etc etc. I myself have pointed out the fact that many other people in the Pro Jedi community do not acknowledge or "allow" others to point out that, yes, the Jedi did have flaws as an organization, and they definitely had some very flawed members. What I do mind is when those posts (and their points) are made with a complete lack of understanding of the material being talked about. You are not building a good argument on the Jedi being wrong about attachments if you do not understand that attachment and love are not the same thing. You can be attached/develop attachment to something you fucking hate. Even then, attachment in the Star Wars universe, as in Buddhism, is defined by feelings of clinging or an inability to let things go/allow change.

You are not building a good argument on the Jedi having a slave army if you are not willing to bring up how they were put into that position, how they themselves dealt with that situation, and make an argument for what they could have done differently that takes the complexities of the entire situation into account. You are not making a good argument about the Jedi being wrong to hold Anakin's fear against him if you cannot and/or will not acknowledge that Star Wars' entire power/magic system is based upon negative emotions and our reactions to them. I could go on and on and on, but I would be beating a dead tauntaun at that point. My point is, approach the media and your arguments in good faith, with clear knowledge on what it is you are talking about, and you'll find people more receptive to hearing you out. That goes for both "sides." Just be good to each other, always.

[adventureofthedancinggirl]

Ultra Age - voices of school graduates (Shouto's interview)

(translation below the cut)

入学当初は視野の狭い人間でした。 にゅうがくとうしょはしやのせまいにんげんでした。 nyuugakutousho wa shiyanosemai ningendeshita When I first entered (U.A.), I was a narrow-minded person. 

しかし、雄英で出逢った友人たちのおかげで「自分が本来なりたかったもの」を見つめ直す事ができました。 しかしゆうえいでであったゆうじんたちのおかげで「じぶんがほんらいなりたかったもの」をみつめなおすことができました。 shikashi, yuei de deatta yuujintachi no okagede ‘jibun ga honrai naritakattamono’ o mitsume naosukoto ga dekimashita. But thanks to my friends I met at UA, I was able to reexamine things and become ‘my true self’.

今の自分があるのは、彼らのおかげです。 いまのじぶんがあるのは、かれらのおかげです。 ima no jibun ga arunowa karera no okagedesu. It’s thanks to them that I am who I am today.

え？はい、爆豪ももちろん友人です。 え？はい、ばくごうももちろんゆうじんです。 E? Hai, Bakugou mo mochiron yuujindesu. Huh? Yes, of course Bakugou is also my friend.

この前、点かない電気スタンドをくれました。 このまえ、つかないでんきスタンドをくれました。 konomae, tsukanai denkisutando o kuremashita. The other day he gave me a desk lamp that doesn’t turn on.

粗大ゴミを出すのが面倒だったみたいです。 そだいゴミをだすのがめんどくだったみたいです。 sodaigomi o dasunoga mendoudatta mitaidesu Apparently it was troublesome to take out the bulky trash.

仲が良いです。 なかがいいです。 naka ga iidesu. We are good friends / we get along well.

[momentomori24]

[This has been sitting in my draft for a while lol]

When it comes to Curly's failings, I always see people bring up his obvious failure to protect Anya and him prioritising Jimmy, who was the rapist in that situation. Which is completely valid btw and we should rake him through the coals for that alone even more. But I also see too many people saying that Curly "didn't enable Jimmy" or playing softball for his actions. And I could maybe see where that comes from if that incident was the only thing we had to point to-- but that wasn't all he did, is it? Curly being indifferent or not taking Jimmy's mistreatment and belittlement of Anya seriously was hinted at so much earlier than that.

Namely, the very first time we play from Curly's point of view. Let's just skip the fact that Curly was putting everyone in danger by not taking his psych evals seriously and simply giving the same answers to pass them even tho he was shown literal minutes after this scene being clearly not-sane, and go straight to the point I actually wanna get into. Which is this:

These scenes in isolation wouldn't be that bad. From his pov, it's played off as comical and it is. Jimmy being a brony (not really lmao) and getting playfully dragged over it is funny. But unfortunately this is the first example out of many for Curly's complacency. Anya is complaining about Jimmy not taking his psych evals or her seriously, which is easy to believe considering how much he rags on her for "not being a good nurse" (she kept Curly alive on hopes and dreams how dare you). So he keeps making her do silly and inappropriate reports she clearly doesn't wanna do, which is kinda shitty (also borders on harassment). But rather than actually saying something about Jimmy's behaviour or even acknowledging how it sucks he says this:

Mate, that's not a good thing 💀 He's clearly aware that the problem is Jimmy's lack of respect for Anya specifically. He knows that if he, his friend and a man in power, were the one doing the evals Jimmy wouldn't try that disrespect. But it's Anya, a meek woman who ranks lower than him so he thinks he can get away with it (which he DOES), and Curly's shown as comfortable in knowing that. He doesn't chew Jimmy out for making Anya uncomfortable nor does he reassure her that he will do something about it. All he does is take it off her hands this once and helps Jimmy power through it to get a good diagnosis (even tho we know he's DEFINITELY not sane either). He doesn't even mention Anya's discomfort or confront him on his inappropriate behaviour, just teases Jimmy in good fun instead because he doesn't think of it as anything serious. It's subtle and pretty minor in comparison to everything else, but I think it's worth pointing out. Especially because this convo takes place after Jimmy had assaulted her, which makes this so much worse.

If you need any more evidence of Curly being an enabler you need not look further than Anya herself. And I'm not just talking about the way he failed her here-- I'm talking about Anya's own view of Curly and the way said view influences her actions.

Just look at her choice of wording. "What would you have done". This is in response to him saying that she could've come to him if she were feeling stressed, which she-- in his eyes-- didn't. The question itself implies that she had no faith in Curly to actually help despite his insistence that he would've, which I think is significant because it shows that she's very much aware of Curly's shortcomings when it comes to her situation AND it's one of the first (or the first time) she actually verbalised her lack of trust towards him or anyone directly. Prior to this scene she had told him about her rape and the rapist, presumably because she trusted him to handle it. And he dismissed her because the rapist was his best friend, and that evidently deeply scarred her. Enough so that she secretly took the gun and hid it someplace else and didn't even tell Curly were that was, because she knows that if Curly has access to it there's a so much greater chance Jimmy will have too, insinuated by the line "the least I can do is make sure he never gets it either". Speaking about the gun:

It sucks so bad that this perception of him isn't even inaccurate nor unjustified. That despite everything Jimmy had done to her and everything he could still do to her, he'd very likely still not allow her access to the gun for protection. Because that's exactly what he didn't do anyway. He didn't attempt to keep her safe from Jimmy, instead he just pretended that nothing was wrong and still let Jimmy's belittlement of her pass. He didn't give her the gun after the incident, because she wouldn't have hid the case if he had. Despite his desperate reassurance that he'd do anything, he did nothing but make it worse for her and she KNOWS that. It's so frustrating knowing he entrusted the axe to Swansea when he needed it but not the gun to Anya when she needed it too. Also this:

The fact that his knee-jerk reaction to her admitting that she's pregnant was "Who would you--" is so fucked, especially considering she's already told him what happened. "Who would you" what? Who would you fuck? Who would you have sex with? That choice of wording drives me up a wall-- SHE wouldn't and didn't do anything or anyone. That was JIMMY. The potential sentence implies that she had any choice or agency in her pregnancy. She didn't. And the fact that Curly had to ask "who" insinuates that he's been putting Jimmy's action out of sight and out of mind the whole time, choosing to not think about them or what happened to Anya at all. And considering he still made her do Jimmy's evaluations despite being able to do them himself and literally didn't even think of making sure she gets psych evals done too--especially AFTER getting sexually assaulted--that might actually be the case (I haven't seen anyone make a stink about that piece of info so I'm going to because what kinda colossal fuck up IS that??).

I vaguely had a post like this in mind but seeing so many people be like "well Anya did some wrong stuff too like leaving Curly alone with Jimmy but you don't get mad at HER for that so why is Curly not doing anything about Jimmy being alone with Anya so different??" actually makes me want to blow some people up. Jimmy's an abuser, sure, but Anya has no real reason to believe that he'd actually harm Curly. From her perspective, they were close, close enough that Curly would not only let Jimmy continuously disrespect her but also get away with assaulting her too. That, and she knows that Jimmy was closer to Curly than anyone and more likely to be civil around him than he ever was to her. She has barely any reasons to suspect Jimmy would harm Curly when they're alone. Curly, on the other hand, has every fucking reason on the planet to think Jimmy would harm her when they're alone. He knows he raped her (likely in her room at night too). He knows that he sexually harasses her. He knows that he doesn't respect her at all. And that was BEFORE the crash. Anya tried insisting on giving Curly his medicine, only for Jimmy to keep aggressively insisting that he'll take care of it despite her protests. Curly didn't try to keep them separate at all even though he was the Captain and had the power to do so. And this should go without saying, but leaving your rapist alone with his best friend that he was close to and enabled/protected him and leaving your friend alone with the woman he raped (and might have repeatedly assaulted given his free access to her) is NOT THE SAME and I'm going to start chucking some people down a waterfall because what the fuck is that argument 💀 Actually leave it to the fandom of the game where the rape of a woman is the catalyst for the events that unfold to use her trauma to defend the guy that enabled it in the first place. Bloody hell.

The reason why this whole Curly discourse pisses me off is because it-- from what I can see-- ONLY brings up his failures 1-0 days before the crash and the Dead Pixel scene (or all the discussion around other points are drowned out by those two). Those scenes, while important to talk about, are not the only things he's done, and focussing on those as the only things is a mistake that comes short of understanding the issue. When it comes to Curly the main defences I see for him are "he was trying not to escalate the situation" and "he was trying to keep things under control the best he can" and "he was waiting for the right time to help Anya", but those don't work when you look at the bigger picture of everything he's done.

He half-assed through his psych eval despite clearly not being sane (and KNOWING he's barely sane, he literally admits it to Jimmy's face). He still continued to task her with Jimmy's psych evals. He brushed over Jimmy's sexual harassment of her as a joke. He didn't think about making sure she got psych evals done herself after being raped. He gave Swansea the axe but didn't give Anya the gun despite it being for "unrest amongst the crew" (whatever the hell THAT means). He let her assault slip his mind that she had to remind him. He's literally a blond man. He took no action to hold Jimmy responsible for anything, and prioritised how his violation of Anya would affect him rather than her. He ignored her demands for him to get rid of Jimmy. He still allowed Jimmy free reign of the ship as co-pilot even after he was openly fantasising about killing everyone and had a major motive and the means to do just that. He was potentially thinking of making her miscarry to cover up what happened. He was so accustomed to her sucking up being disrespected and disturbed that he didn't even notice a difference in her behaviour until she hid the fucking gun. There's so much other shit he's done and hasn't done, and not talking about them or glossing over them makes it so easy for people to argue that he isn't actually an enabler or just minimise the severity of his neglect.

And while I'm already dragging Curly through the mud, I might as well just drag Swansea too. I've seen too many people being like "Anya should've told Swansea instead" and "Swansea was the one that actually took responsibility". Like, y'all realise he's not that much better than Curly, right? He already knew about what happened to Anya-- he admits it to Jimmy's face-- but he didn't do shit. He knew, but he still got completely shitfaced for months despite her earlier protestation to that (for very understandable reasons). He knew, but he still let Jimmy have the axe AND be alone with Anya while having it. He knew, but when Anya locked herself in the Medical and Daisuke and Jimmy asked for his help he didn't budge nor really showed any care. He knew, but the reason he finally decided to do something about Jimmy wasn't Anya, it was Daisuke. Her suffering and her eventual death weren't enough for him to take action either.

This game, on top of everything else, is a great depiction of rape culture. It doesn't just include the rapists, but the people (mostly men) that stay silent, do nothing, make excuses for and protect the perpetrator for whatever reason, and Swansea and Curly (Curly way more so than Swansea) are both active contributors to the environment that allowed for evil to flourish and continue unhindered until it destroyed them all. And while that arguably doesn't make them evil themselves or as bad as Jimmy, they are so much more a part of the bigger problem than the fandom likes to admit.

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[chamerionwrites]

Going to say something unpopular here but while I do earnestly like Andor (so please read this as the very gentlest of criticisms), I also think it is and always has been extremely clear who's writing it in that it is a show that's interested in systems, but which broadly has much sharper and more specific things to say about fascism than it does about imperialism

[abyssalbloom]

People trying to “expose” others for being a quote on quote proshipper are both funny and sad

Oh I shall now stop associating with this person because *checks notes* they believe in freedom of expression, that people’s morals aren’t defined by the fiction they consume and follow a “ship and let ship, your kink is not my kink” rule set in fandoms