#in part bc of that rhetoric

[manhattan-gamestop]

I think tumblr is better at talking about the severity of Covid than a lot of platforms, but the posts I see on here do a terrible job at highlighting that you can do everything right and *still get it*. And I don't say that to be a pessimist, but because it can be incredibly invalidating for people who have been masking, up-to-date on boosters, etc. and got Covid bc even though we did everything we could, it still feels like our fault that we had it. So if that describes your experiences with Covid I just wanna say I see you, I feel you, and you are not alone

[cdroloisms]

Cdream be like: You can't put yourself in the Prison anymore bc of the woke >:(/lh

That man is a mess like it's facinating how messy his vision of reality is for others and himself

it is fascinating fr, and does remind me of how we'd talk a little bit about how his perspective may betray what kind of environment this guy might've been in pre-dsmp. the stick-up-his-ass about rules and rule-following, the neuroticism about conflict, and the ease with which he jumps to punishment as being the appropriate response to people who cause problems (a perspective that, quite evidently, to a certain extent, does apply to himself, doesn't it?) all seems quite indicative of someone who lived in an environment where punishment being the natural consequence of stepping outside the lines was generally something that went unquestioned. of course, this is speculative, and it's not that a #tragicbackstory is necessary to explain what the fuck is up with c!Dream, and it's hardly about justifying the choice to abuse a teenager into behaving, lmao. but while exile served his goals and exile was a lot of petty, spiteful cruelty for petty, spiteful reasons, i do think there's something to be said about how clearly c!Dream hadn't expected c!Tommy to respond quite so severely to exile and how he thought he would be "fine" with potatoes in the prison and the language he used both about exile and his own early prison stay about shit like "getting better" through punishment. of course, punitive justice as a norm is kind of ingrained in our own society (just look at the rhetoric around deserving in this fandom, lmao, which speaks more than well enough for itself) and of course that reflects onto the dream smp as well, considering how many of the characters talk quite freely about the idea of punishment/deserving/what have you, but few characters are quite as obviously a stickler for rule-following as c!dream and exile and then prison are uhhh definitely on the more extreme end of things. anyway. just some food for thought

[jackwritesfics]

ok yall the Ellie x reader first time fic is cooking, marinating if u will, but in the meantime how do we feel about a jealous!ellie overhearing reader w someone else fic....

[march32nd]

me when the girl i've been dating for two months tells me that she doesn't find me at all attractive and isn't attracted to me and doesn't know if she ever will be !!!!!

[engagemythrusters]

right ways to get mad at catholics: your institution and your practice of beliefs has irreperably harmed millions of people, end the lives of more, and brought struggle and strife to many cultures on a global scale

wrong ways to get mad at catholics: you believe in "sky daddy" so you are stupid as fuck

[sukibenders]

"Cannibalism as a metaphor for love is such an interesting narrative choice!" Until you add poc into the narrative and here come the millions of "think pieces" that either 1.) dehumanize them for the same thing their yte counterparts are praised and, sometimes, even...applauded for (eg. Yellowjackets and other supernatural media), 2.) or use it inappropriately to justify harm brought on to poc communities. But that's a conversation for another time.

(tw for some of the tags as well)

[zoobus]

You put a lot of effort into hating some shit you could've just blocked or not read (like how you didn't read the book)

Starting to wonder if you're someone who enjoys my essayposts and thinks stirring the pot might trigger me into writing more. Sorry, I've been essayed out as of late. I'll post reruns.

[ohsweetflips]

today has been so emotionally weird it’s like 6pm struck and pandora’s box 2 opened

[nemaliwrites]

mysterious mystery of the day: why do i have so many forks and spoons but only one knife????

[pikslasrce]

oh pirating websites are going to make me suicidal why cant a girl watch her 90s movie WITH subtitles like wtf is error code 102630

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

guess whos back, back again ♬ plebbi's back, tell a friend ♪

silly gooberishness aside, I am back with a question! And forgive me if this is a bit weird !! Its another sorta hypothetical lawl

But, if one of the less friendly clones were to, for whatever reason, approach someone, be they clone, human, or otherwise, with the intent to show affection, would this be significant? I get that it's likely a case-by-case basis, so maybe being a bit more specific would help?

so, i think it's agreeable of me to say that Cake handing someone else her baby is a very significant thing to her because there isnt anything she cares more about than her child, so her giving that baby to someone else shows that she trusts whoever she's handing her baby to a LOT. But, it's also unique to her because there are clones who probably aren't nearly as concerned with their kids' wellbeing as Cake is with hers. (sorry im sending a lot of asks about cake, its just she's the one i can illustrate this point with the best (⊼⌔⊼ ))

With that being said, would, let's say, BB actively approaching someone to give them a hug hold a significance alike to Cake letting someone hold her child? Would Eglantine allowing someone to pat her head mean something similar? That's what im wondering basically ＼(´ ∇`)ノ

again sorry if this was a weird thing to ask ! Hope I made sense !! Thanks again byeee !!!!

(Isn't it a significant thing for every creature, great or small, to open themselves up for affection? To be vulnerable with a being you have chosen to trust? To rely on them to show kindness, and not cruelty?

Weirdly poetic thing aside: Yes, it would be significant for any clone to both give and receive affection

With Cake letting someone hold Cupcake, or Eg allowing a pat might seem 'more significant', since they are standoffish and require a fuck-ton of trust, but I believe those are just as significant as BB giving someone a hug, even if he is friendly and trusts much faster

They're all just weird little touch-starved guys who didn't ask to be made, it is significant for all of them)

[aroceu]

this isn't aimed at anyone or any post in particular but i do think a lot of people (especially adults - i'll get to why in a second) who don't know a lot about the youtube content creator sphere know that the reason why mrbeast is even popular in the first place, and why the current controversy surrounding him is such a big deal, is because his audience is comprised primarily of children

teens, kids, whatever. the point is that his videos are specifically geared to people without enough life/world experience to recognize a scam or something fake just by instinct, people who are impressionable and have short attention spans and are easy to manipulate into trusting just by smacking "charity" in the title of a youtube video. i would bet that a vast majority of adults, especially left-leaning ones, have never seen a mrbeast video. i haven't either!

but that's not relevant in the controversy, because we were never really the audience in the first place. mrbeast does not care about some progressive adults patting themselves on the back for never being short sighted enough to have watched his videos. but it (the company) does care when swaths and swaths of kids are influenced to no longer be naive enough to take his videos seriously much less watch them, and no longer participate in his bullshit lotteries/gambling/whatever else thing he does as a rich person looking to exploit people for even more money.

i know it's easy to see mrbeast, the youtuber, as just some stupidly successful and financially backed youtuber that rubbed you the wrong way. believe me, i was there too before all this started. but after watching a lot of videos and doing a lot of digging, i feel like it's important to say (especially as an adult who watches a lot of youtube videos) that mrbeast is far more insidious than that. the entire brand is founded on "charity" displayed in a way to appeal to kids' attention spans. mrbeast's content is aimed at children.

and when you add the knowingly hiring pedophiles allegations (on TWO separate accounts!!!!!) not to mention abusive employee treatment not to mention abusive contestant treatment and not to mention just the exorbitant flaunting of wealth (if we want to be real for a second)........ this is not just about mrbeast as an empire falling. this is about exposing someone that children have been manipulated by - and still are! - as someone who is genuinely not good or charitable, no matter what his manipulation has told them. and i think that needs to be mentioned a lot more by us laymen when talking about his downfall.

[aeide-thea]

so i went to reblog some fanart earlier and started to tag it #oh this is. incredible actually, and then paused and thought, @‍self why the 'actually.' what is that adverb conveying. and i contemplated it for a bit, and finally concluded: well, shit. it's reflexive deprecation.

the thing is, deprecation is my starting position pretty much always, and that's a problem in itself, but mostly my problem; but when you're talking abt somebody else's work, and you start backing defensively away from imagined negativity before anyone's even actually voiced any? you may think you're playing bodyguard, but in reality you're the vanguard of the assault, opening a wedge for enemy forces to strike.

i was talking a couple of weeks ago abt seeing ppl tag that kristin sue lucas name-multiplied-by-one post with tags like 'this is art To Me' vel sim., and honestly i think it's a similar sort of reflex—i think exposure to the tumblr vernacular often leads people (very much including me!) to produce turns of phrase like this, that ultimately serve to convey roughly

'i, a clever girlblogger,¹ am, yeah, engaging with this frivolous hai pollai²-coded material; but my relationship to it, unlike that of most she-ple, is Intellectual and Analytical and Examined! and to make that clear, i'll be dropping in these little verbal particles from time to time, in order to distinguish my own, elevated examination of the subject from the state of risible naivete³ i'm implicitly ascribing to the other, more ordinary audience members i'm conjuring up only to instantly put down—but like, it's fine, i'm a free-and-easy girlblogger(TM), so you can't think i'd ever deliberately propagate establishmentarian prejudices! never mind the effect my rhetoric might subconsciously be having, on me or on anyone else…'

and i think this framing is worth squinting at, and worth attempting to excise from one's speech and from one's mindset, because when you get right down to it? it's just yet another insidious manifestation of respectability politics, that's gotten people to adopt it via the cuckoo-chick strategy of positioning itself as cutesy tumblr idiolect.

and like, circling back around to that fanart i mentioned at the outset: yeah, the tag did feel weirdly prosodically truncated to me without that 'actually'! but this way, if the artist ends up seeing my discussion of their work in their notes, they won't be getting slapped in the face with a wet dead fish first, so like. what's more important, you know?

⸻ ¹ ""(gender neutral)"" ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi in the feminine, if i haven't totally fumbled my declensions… ³ phrasing nicked from a comment of @‍proudheron's.

[steviescrystals]

i graduated high school 3 years ago and i’m still not over the fact that NO ONE TOLD ME the district would delete all of our school accounts like a month later and now every paper, presentation, project, etc. i made on that account from 5th-12th grade is just gone forever 🫠

[eosofspades]

Question for you, on the subject of SPOP ships: would you have been okay with Glitradora (essentially the poly trio) being a thing, had Nate Stevenson decided he wanted to go that direction? I'm just curious as someone who loved how the Catradora arc was done in the show.

(And for the record, I understand your indifference towards both Korrasami and CaitVi--the latter will need some more seasons in the oven to really flourish, while the former is severely hampered by the constant executive interference Nickelodeon pulled on LOK during its original run.)

if glitradora were made canon i would have eaten my own face (/pos) my god the CONCEPT,,, the DRAMA,,, the DYNAMICS,,,,, that would have been my roman empire actually

also agree w everything you say here indifference is a great word for it. caitvi i actually see the potential in them i don't dislike the pairing it just rlly isn't compelling to me. i actually felt a little,,, weird about it? it felt like it came out of nowhere to me?? which i know isn't true but something about it just strikes me as Rushed idk (vi is still one of my favorite characters though)

as for korrasami i lowkey feel bad hating on it bc i KNOW how much the network screwed over the writers about it, but like,,, man i don't even see the potential in this one ahgakjsdas. i will admit though a big part of this is just the general writing of tlok i felt wasn't great so the character dynamics seem sorta weak to me. i AM glad for what they did for representation in kids' cartoons though and i'm glad ppl are having a good time shipping them. the fanart is gorgeous also