#get fucking real

[courtrecord]

honestly i hate how that “maybe the curtains are just blue” post has become shorthand for anti-intellectualism and shit bc as someone who has an utter passion for media analysis now, I WAS THAT PERSON IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.

english class never taught me how to analyze stories, it taught me how to remember what things the teacher said were “symbolism” and how to take quizzes where we had to match a quote to the character who said it. i didn’t give a shit about any of it, bc literally why should i. it was bullshit.

there’s this idea online that people are forgetting or rejecting what they learned in english class when they’re bad at media analysis, and maybe that’s a little bit true, but i think the much bigger problem is they never learned it in the first place. cinemasins & “maybe the curtains are just blue” aren’t convincing people to abandon an intellectualism they already had, they’re filling a void.

when all you learn in high school is to write on the test “blue = depression”, why is it surprising that so many people don’t give a shit about the curtains.

[timelyenigma]

im all for artistic liberties or whatever, but i saw falin and marcille drawn rail thin and i almost puked

[dykecherry]

“a bastion of the internet has been lost” oh no the completely unmoderated conviction free pedophile hotspot went down whatever shall we do

[autosadist]

if people feel that comfortable expressing their hatred of trans women to you youve probably either done something to make them feel comfortable doing so, or are hanging out with very wrong people. that doesn't happen that often to other people that much lol

i did specify that this has been over the course of my life. when i was 16 my therapist, a cis lesbian, disclosed negative feelings about treating transfeminine clients to me. when i was 18, in college, i was surrounded by transmedicalist type trans dudes who left trans women in the dust in many ways, so i willingly opted to have a less robust social life by choosing smaller trans social groups across campus to avoid this issue. every so often someone within "The Queer Community" who isn't transfem will signal to me that they're not as accepting as they claim to be when they rescind use of a girl's pronouns/name behind her back within the community we share, hoping i will be okay with this. it's really easy to say "you're probably just hanging out with the wrong people"/shift the blame to me, really removes responsibility from everyone else to check their own behavior. fuck you

[byler-4-life]

Me when I see Billy stans in the Byler tag.

Worse if they put the thought in my head that Will, of all people could ever have a crush on Billy, the one character in the show that actually tried to commit a hate crime.

[goodtimeswithyourdad]

"i've never stepped away from learning and growing with time" my fucking ass dude

[laikuh]

in my book club we read does it hurt? or well they did, but I couldn’t get into it, but we had talked in advance about the ~infamous shark scene~ so much that one of the women in the group said today she was expecting the fmc to fuck the shark, not just get fucked by the dude while a shark circles them, and I was just like. These white women are wild. I didn’t even want to tell strangers on the internet who follow my incest blog that I think bestiality is interesting (and sexy shut the fuck up) and this mild mannered school teacher was more than ready to read a book she expected bestiality to be part of.

[kimikaami]

I think if you ever say "this is not a nuanced situation" irt any kind of war you should be legally required to log off for a month

[shivasdarknight]

tumblr staff doesn't give a flying fuck about whether or not you can fund your survival - and it's not like the users care either since there tends to be more traction on twitter than here. everyone's more willing to dump their money into tumblr (and lbfh otw) instead of actually helping people in need or holding staff accountable for their discriminatory practices.

also their proposed changes would directly impact and hurt people seeking mutual aid requests. you should not be encouraging staff's behavior through a fucking coordinated crab day because it's sending the message to them that you like the status quo.

tumblr is still corporate. your loyalty to them will not do you any good. this is the same company that was actively suppressing queer content and got fined over it.

there will always be other platforms. tumblr is frankly one of the worst for mutual aid and it's about to get worse with the proposed changes.

[soppingwetboyfriend]

scrolling through the 100 femslash poll scowling at you guys’ poor taste and the state of wlw media

[dteamain]

boomer throwing a hissy fit bc other members of the smp are out touching grass and too busy with actual cc work unlike him so they can’t stay home and play a block game with him… lowkey iconic.

[hugsandnoregrets]

not redditors thinking that Connor, the sex buying son of a billionaire, is being taken advantage of by Willa, the imonlyinitforthemoneyandupfrontaboutit escort who on some level cares for him but doesn’t love him

[nonbinary-red-supergiant]

as a catholic non-binary lesbian, I find it fucking hysterical how homophobic some religious people are.