#hook line and sinker......

[unforth]

Y'all have got to stop virulently hating men. Like, I'm sorry, I fucking hate the patriarchy too, but the patriarchy isn't just men and saying it is just exculpates complicit women. I am the mother of a young boy, and I look at this precious, empathetic 8 year old boy I'm raising and I don't know where online is safe for him. Places like this will say he's evil just for his gender, and other places will say "we'll be your friend if you hate with us," and still others will radicalize him in other ways. Where is he supposed to go? Why are we saying the radicalization is the fault of the kids just trying to find a place to hang?

Like this is seriously getting urgent. You have got to fucking stop conflating the patriarchy and men. 53% percent of white women voted for Trump. Men aren't the problem. White supremacy and Christian patriarchal structures are two examples of patriarchy-reinforcing structures that aren't solely couched in maleness. Men aren't the problem, and pretending they are drives more men into more welcoming extremist spaces and also ignores all the parts of this that are forwarded by people who aren't men.

What I see happening all over is scared, depressed, lonely people looking for someone they're allowed to hate automatically, unquestioningly - someone they're allowed to place all the blame on. Fascism says people of color, non-Christian people, queer people, etc., are the ones they're allowed to hate.

And way too many of yall answer that no, it's leftist to hate men instead. You are doing *the exact same thing they are.*

Fucking knock it off.

The answer is we're not supposed to hate anyone automatically based on their immutable personal characteristics. Hate the specific people who've hurt you. Hate the self-reinforcing systems that let them get away with hurting you. Hate the strangers who prop up those systems. Hate the fascists. Hell knows I hate Donald Trump, but it's not because he's a man, it's because he's a piece of shit.

Hate the pieces of shit, not the gender.

But don't hate men just because they're men. That's unhelpful, stupid, insane, and entirely counterproductive. Fucking. Stop.

[novaneondream]

@candle-scm you did this to me

[feketeribizli]

inspired by whatever sidequest 463 is having right now

[dannyslayeee]

DANNY KAYE as HUBERT HAWKINS in THE COURT JESTER (1955)

[brainrotheartrot]

Another commission I got from the lovely Ham! This one is to go with chapter 9 of Hook, Line, Sinker. My soul needed healing after S2, and Ham's art always provides🥹 She threw in a bonus tiny Jinx, too!

[bunny--pop]

can,, can u guys guess who I like a lot

[needyfreek2]

my favorite thing rn is an older sister who feels just oh so guilty about wanting her little sister. she knows it’s wrong and she thinks she deserves the worst possible punishment for it but she just can’t help it. no matter what she does to escape it, nobody makes her feel the way her little sister does. and it’s eating her up inside

and this is exactly why i’m OBSESSED WITH Hook, Line, Sinker!!! haven’t finished it yet cuz i’m a slow reader but AHHH

[milkhorns]

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[huginsmemory]

Another thing from rereading J3 is the fact that Jheselbraum (the Oracle. You know. Implying she can see a bit of the future. Like an oracle does) is that she looks at Ford and literally goes "you have the face of the man who is destined to destroy Bill" and then they party about it. In the two pages he writes on Jheselbraum he takes the time to mention this, because it matters so MUCH to Ford. He's going to be the one to take down Bill. Part of it is definitely the sudden certainty that yes, he will succeed. But it's also in a way a replica of his relationship with Bill, in being like I'm the chosen one, my mission is fated, once again I'm important, I'm special, the same way him making the portal under Bill's guidance was. And oh Ford you didn't change at all did you?

And then, of course. It's not Ford really who destroys Bill. It's Stan, who tricks Bill, allowing them to destroy Bill, and it's the twins together that destroys Bill (how's that for a show that emphasizes strength in community?). So. Yeah. Indeed, Ford, you've got "the face of the man who will destroy Bill", but you've got an identical twin (also like rule 101 of prophecies is never immediately assume things. The wording matters). And of course, unlike what Ford thought, it wasn't about him being the sole hero. It's about the both of them. Which, btw, them destroying Bill wouldn't have been possible if they didn't have the same face.

[rabiesgiver]

Poney Soriku !!

[bbbutterfingers]

hands all red

[mayasaura]

One of the biggest unanswered questions—to me—coming out of Nona the Ninth is..... Did Kiriona really think John would make her his cavalier if she opened the Tomb and dispatched Alecto?

It seems highly unlikely. I don't doubt she would want it, if she thought the offer was both genuine and possible to achieve, but those are some big ifs.

She was present for the fight that revealed Alecto as John's cavalier. She was there when John broke his amiable facade to say don't call her a monster. She knows first-hand what it is to share a part of your soul with someone. And we're meant to accept she believed John wanted Alecto dead? Doubt.jpg

But let's say she did believe that. John told a super convincing story, and she wanted so badly to believe someone loved her more than that slab of freezer meat. Whatever. The "possible to achieve" hurdle still looms large. Kiriona saw her father survive being reduced to atoms, she knows his cavalier is the source of that power, and she heard him say that what sleeps in the Tomb is "as dead as [he] could make her" and that she's "not the dying kind." And Kiriona was going to kill her with.... what? A rapier? Her knuckle knives? Because John said her blood was so super special, it would work just for her? Come on.

Kiriona—Gideon—is not that gullible. She grew up at war with Harrow. She grew up literally hunted for sport by the House Marshall. She considers angles, she tests motives, and she looks before she leaps. She expects to be betrayed, used, and discarded, and John made a hell of a first impression in the betrayal category. I believe she loves her father. I believe she'd do just about anything if she thought it would make her father love her. But blind trust? No way. She may or may not be a good judge of character, but she's definitely a skittish son of bitch.

And that's not even touching all the logical holes in her story—she stowed away to New Rho so she could open the Tomb? Girl what?—and the way she dropped the idea as soon as Ianthe pushed her to admit she was really there for Harrow.

Actually, you know what. I take it back. My biggest unanswered question isn't if Gideon believed any of it. There's no way. What I want to know now is whether John ever really asked her in the first place, or if it was all just a load of hot garbage she ad libbed to avoid mentioning Harrow to Ianthe. The implications either way are voluminous for the shape of the story to come, and I honestly can't rule either option out with the information we have.

[alexandraisyes]

Fishy eclipse

Version without watermarks + extra content on my Kofi and Patreon

[angeban]

scribbling...........I am not immune

[brainrotheartrot]

ViJinx Week, day 4: Tied Up

[hurlumerlu]

I'm sorry, but Bison didn't kiss Kant's ankle, didn't look up at him with soft seriousness - not his "petite adorable guy" face, just gentle intensity - and didn't tell him he loved every story on Kant's body for me to believe that he doesn't like-like the guy. And Kant didn't look like he was about to cry at that for me to think he hasn't caught feelings.