#discourse watch

[qqchurch]

everytime i see someone complaining about works being overpopulated with female characters, i turn another one of my dwindling male OCs into women

[wikiangela]

athena bringing Bobby home to his children, when he always wanted to see them again and be with them again, was such a beautiful act of love and sacrifice. she can't even visit his grave and be close to him without flying to Minnesota, she loved him so much and she knew what he would want. it's such a devastating and heartbreaking choice and an act of love and im forever gonna cry about it.

bathena truly are (were 😭) the best couple ever, nothing will ever compare to their love 😭

[septembermonologues]

i love when i fall behind on bell's hells, see people being incredibly angry at orym with no context, and then when i catch up i find out it's over something like him (33 passive perception) overhearing a conversation that was happening out loud in the same room that he (33 passive perception) was in and him (33 passive perception) finding comfort in his friends (a normal thing for people to do) before he (33 passive perception) tuned out and away from them because he (33 passive perception) wasn't eavesdropping on purpose (he has a 33 passive perception and the conversation was happening in the same room)

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

The only people who are actually out here pushing their kinks onto other people are the trad wives and evangelical fundie Christians who are just constantly advocating for 24/7 lifestyle D/S kinkplay. Yeah girl we all want to hear about how much fulfillment you find in being a submissive helpmeet and washing your husband’s feet or whatever y’all are into.

[magicalgirlypop]

i'm so well fed with amazing female characters in magical girl anime that i forget there's people who only watch shonen and think that's a whole representation of female characters in anime. how sad. you need some sailor moon, precure, and cardcaptor sakura, in your life.

[burr-ell]

idk man i think it's telling that two months after the c3 finale, most fans who came in with c1 or c2 are, at their kindest, just enjoying the ride but still saying they hope c4 does [thing c1 and c2 did that c3 did not], and meanwhile fans who loudly defend c3 and bell's hells have been complaining about divergence and wildemount wildlings and ignoring everything else cr is doing because it's not a spigot producing their desired blorbo content

[badasscoffeemug]

"why do bucktommies insist on taking everything at face value" because i'm aware 9-1-1 is a procedural drama television series airing on abc network at 8/7c whose target audience is like, wine moms, early retirees, and people who like angela bassett. it's written by a writers’ room who are, showrunner admitted, laying down the track in front of the moving train half the time. it's not exactly prestige tv.

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[bisexualeddies]

what's important here isn't if eddie was actually going to punch buck or not, is that ryan was playing the scene intentionally violent. what matters here is the violent undertones in the scene are there and were 100% intentional from both the director and ryan guzman.

[antimony-medusa]

Honestly seeing how chat has responded to Phil saying he doesn't want to be called dadza, I'm never listening to people talk about how good they are at respecting boundaries ever again.

[qqchurch]

it's actually great that blocking people also blocks off QRTs in bluesky, even if you personally haven't blocked them, but man seeing the shape of the discourse even with that makes me just cringe

"it's cisnormative to depict trans women with pussies in fiction" is certainly the Take of the Week. makes me wonder if that person is high on the "binary trans woman" supply of transmisogyny shfiskfjdigjdnfjcjh

[gregoriahlover]

anti 1: look at that guy, shipping incest. isn’t that weird? i sure hope he doesn’t have a sibling at home 🤢

anti 2: yeah! i’m so relieved that you agree with me. it seems like everyone condones and glorifies incest these days

anti 1: awesome! i would never even think about participating in the glorification of illegal and immoral actions. ew!

anti 2: you’re cool. let’s go play military propaganda game where you shoot each other with heavy weapons and bombs. modern warfare or black ops?

anti 1: doesn’t matter to me either way! at least neither of them glorifies literal illegal activity which ruins lives and triggers traumatized people :p

[roystartt]

One last thing I want to make clear:

If that had been Tommy instead of Eddie in that scene; I would categorically NOT still ship Bucktommy. That would kill any desire for a romantic relationship to rekindle and I would want Tommy off my screen.

To be clear.

[theweeklydiscourse]

I’m sick of people passing off patronizing and condescending commentary about how naive and impressionable women are as useful and educational. These people will base their analysis of fiction on sexist notions about how easily women are “tempted “ by malevolent villains and then act as if that’s some revolutionary take. They’ll unironically construe the narrative in a way that takes away all agency from the female heroine and frame her decisions as entirely the result of the villain’s manipulation.

They wring their hands about how dangerous it is for women to be exposed to these stories and moan about how terrible it is that hot villains appeal to the “baser instincts” and tempt female viewers further (Yes, I actually saw someone make this argument) It’s truly bizarre to see people agreeing with such patronizingly sexist rhetoric and saying things like “I miss the days when villain romances were cautionary tales and not encouraged.” As if women thirsting after attractive fictional villains is some epidemic that threatens society.

It’s especially irritating when women are the ones saying these things. They want to believe that they are a rare exception that, unlike those other brainless girls, can understand that liking hot villains will threaten their morals and lead them astray…OH THE HORROR!! Please save your dramatic preaching for the next purity conference and stop pretending that your sanctimonious commentary has any substance whatsoever.

[nqueso-lies]

Petty reminder that 911 is NOT Supernatural. Bobby Nash will not be crawling out of his grave like Dean fucking Winchester.

My god.

[louferrignojrofficial]

i think 911 journalists should all turn on each other this week. i know there is some drama over there because they can’t keep their business to themselves, so i propose this: