#it's not directed to anyone specifically

[ikamigami]

I'm too scared and anxious to watch today's qna episode. Should a specific question come up, I don't want to hear Reed mocking us, the victims, for getting "too caught up in the family thing" again, as if this show never had a familial theme to begin with

There's nothing like that thankfully..

I think (and hope) that in that podcast with Solar it was the last time it was mentioned..

And yeah this show was always about family but some peeps just only think about one thing.. and it'd be fine if they weren't trying to argue about incest not being incest and actually make their ships in AUs - like that one person - and not act as if these ships were the most important thing in the show and as if they really wanted it to be if not canon then at least canon compliant..

And I think that this is ridiculous.. acting like that is childish and stupid.. and I wish that certain individuals wouldn't try to drag VAs to their circus..

And also they act like hypocrites.. and like they're holier than thou.. and they often times sound so patronizing..

But dear anon let's get back to your main concern.. you can watch today's episode cause there's nothing about ships and such ^^

[genlossranbooautism]

You use "arospec people can still date and feel romantic attraction " as an excuse to ship cannon aro characters , I use it as justification to headcannon characters who canonically feel romantic attraction as arospec , we are not the same

[nixisverytired]

I think we all need a reminder that the word “theyfab” was originally created to hurt nonbinary people, specifically nonbinary people who use they/them and were (assumed to be) AFAB.

The word “theyfab” is exorsexist, first and foremost. It can also be transandrophobic, because some nonbinary people are transmasculine and it does occasionally get used against trans men. However, if you claim theyfab was invented as a slur for trans men first and foremost, you are erasing the experiences of another invisible community.

Trans men are treated terribly on here. But please don't contribute to the erasure of nonbinary people when you're fighting against transandrophobia. We’re in this together, and we need to have each other's backs.

[infiniteorangethethird]

sure "romantic" isn't the only type of love but also "love" isn't the only type of positive feeling. So maybe stop insisting everyone needs love to be happy and accept that loveless ppl exist? Pretty please?

[walnutcookie]

to clarify i am aroace but make sure you're careful when calling aromantic people aroace!! Aroallos exist and are 100% valid - its harmful to equate aromanticism to being aroace. You can be aromantic without being asexual just as you can be asexual without being aromantic, dont assume every aromantic person is also ace 👍

[vintagerobin]

"Realistically an 8/9/10/whatever year old couldn't do that" yeah alright that's true but we're talking about Dick Grayson who is unrealistically hypercompetent full stop because he's a superhero comics character. Bruce Wayne is also extremely unrealistically hypercompetent at basically everything except his own close personal relationships. Superhero comics are unrealistic.

[lyculuscaelus]

So lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts asking people to stop trying to make Odysseus look nice in their works cuz he’s a “messed-up person in the mythology”. Your opinion is valid however I have but one thing to point out:

You want to know who started all this? Who started to “make Odysseus look nice” in the first place?

It’s Homer. It’s nobody else but Homer himself.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would try to murder people out of his own interests. He’d murder Palamedes without remorse (and we’d be cheering over this but it’s a murder after all), he’d attempt to murder Diomedes just to get the Palladium himself, he’d volunteer to kill Astyanax…meanwhile you wouldn’t find any mention of either Palamedes or Nauplius in Homer’s poems, neither did he mention anything abt the Palladium heist (and Diomedes necessity did not happen until Conon’s version), the death of Astyanax, the distribution of war prizes, etc. And all the details in the Odyssey seemed to deny the existence of Nauplius’s vengeance at all, so Odysseus would not take any of the blame.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be depicted as “cruel, treacherous”, meanwhile in book 10 of the Iliad Odysseus was not mentioned to have killed anyone during the marauding, neither did he promise Dolan anything at all. The negative interpretations are denied by these details subtly put by Homer.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be widely known as a “coward” for only shooting arrows from afar. But Homer gave him a spear and had him absolutely slaying in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. That part of Ajax’s speech was invalid already.

Most importantly—a non-Homeric Odysseus would be having kids everywhere else, and the loyalty to his own wife as seen in the Odyssey is no where to be found. Meanwhile his lineage was a single-son line made by Zeus in the Odyssey, and his love for Penelope was one of his main drives, especially seen in book 5 of the Odyssey. He loved his family as a loving parent—something you don’t get to see in most of the non-Homeric writings—for most of the time they followed a different tradition indeed, in which Odysseus wasn’t half as nice as in the Odyssey.

TL;DR: in case you haven’t noticed, the characterization of the Homeric Odysseus was quite different from a non-Homeric version of Odysseus. It’s not that Homer didn’t know of the existence of other versions—he knew them too well, which is why in his version of the story, you don’t get to see any mention of them.

[proshipwanderer]

“why do i see proship stuff on social media ALL THE TIME 😡😡” idk probably because you keep interacting with proship accounts + their posts and algorithms feed you the stuff you interact with?? and you refuse to block people for some reason? just a thought

[ella-ashmore]

you guys know that m/f pairings arent inherently straight right. right guys you know that Right

[plantingthepast]

chosen ones

[dukeofthomas]

"Jason just needs to see things from his family's perspective and understand how much they love him (despite them never actually communicating or showing him through their actions)" is out. "The batfamily putting a single bit of effort into understanding Jason and reconciling with him on his own terms" is in.

[saintbleeding]

it’s a horror tragedy. people are mean and uncharitable and impatient with him and don’t give him the benefit of the doubt because he is the protagonist of a horror tragedy. u are supposed to think it is tragic. dare i say u are supposed to be horrified.

[am-i-interrupting]

Guys, I say this as a disabled person who genuinely has a personality very similar to Viktor’s. Can we please stop with the Viktor x Caretaker stuff? Please. Some of its done good but a lot of it is done in a way that’s just really infantilizing.

The most, the most I do with my partner in terms of letting him take care of me is asking him if he will grab something for me (medicine, a drink, maybe food) he is not carrying me to bed and doing every little thing. And a lot of it’s done with this tone of “oh, he’s a poor baby boy” instead of something that is more so simply “he is a person who is sick.”

[sainteclectic]

and btw since I'm posting a lot of wholesoul content (intended as platonic but still), i do want to make it clear: my analysis of whole as a character is purely within the narrative of the story! while i am aware that behind the metaphors is whole is cj himself, that's never what i'm writing whole as in my work. basically I'm using the internal logic of the fiction (whole as viewed by the characters in the album) rather than the reason for the fiction existing (as a fictionalized version of chonny's mental state), just like i do with all the other characters. it's important to make that distinction when you're dealing with a piece of fiction so heavily based on the creator i think. I'll never use cj as a basis for how I write whole because I find that a little off putting tbh ^^;

basically I'm playing with touys. ok? play touys with me

[innocet]

beginning to think you guys dont know that screenwriting is a different skill than prose. yknow. because its a different form. kate orman is my favorite novelist full stop end of sentence but i think it is flat out Nonsense to believe that a novelist who has never written for television or as far as i can tell Any Visual Medium Whatsoever should be the Next Showrunner Of Dr Who. I don't think she knows how to do that

[lsunstreakerl]

hi lsunstreakerl can u say some mean stuff to me 😏🤤🤭 daddy needs another boost 💦

why do you only ever use the anon button for evil

however, since the opportunity is here: just a quick reminder to be considerate <3 every couple months I feel like I have to put out a little "hi! I am a person and not a content machine!" and I guess we have again reached that point so hiiiiiii I am a person and not a content machine. please remember that :) thanks :))