#margin with example

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

[cumulativechaos]

something about grace’s instinct being to get herself and her husband out of there at the first sign of trouble and leave everybody else there to deal with the unknown danger, and this being the thing that actually dooms her and by extension all the other characters too… she makes bo go outside to get the car which gets him killed, then remmick is able to use bo’s memories to manipulate grace into inviting the vampires in. something about the lack of solidarity being everyone’s downfall. is this anything.

[jesncin]

Look I'm gonna put my two cents in on the 'everyone knowing Clark is Superman' thing. Do I have anything new to add, don't know, but I understand passing so here are some things I know:

First of all, even if Clark was bad at hiding his alieness, people wouldn't know. Trust me, I have been mistaken for Christian (despite giving no evidence that I was) a lot, just because I'm not what people stereotypically expect look-wise from a person of my actual religion. It's not even that I'm so far from the expectation, but Christianity is the norm so what else could I be? I am Christian until proven otherwise, white until proven otherwise. And Clark is human until proven otherwise. People are constantly making assumptions, so unless Clark straight up flies into the Daily Planet building, no, no one is going to notice.

Second of all, Clark wouldn't be bad at hiding, he's been hiding his whole life. If people find out, it's not just Clark's family at risk, but his own life, and rights. So, yeah, I think him being an alien is important enough to keep under wraps.

I get why people like the trope, and to be honest, I hadn't thought of it much until these recent conversations. At the end of the day, people like to think they are smart enough to figure it out. And you feel special, knowing a big secret like that, you feel important. I think it's also part of it is this savior narrative that makes people feel good about themselves, like when people say they would've helped escaping black slaves or hid Jews during the Holocaust (by the way, some of these people are absolutely lying). Obviously those are much more extreme examples, but eh I'm tired. And keeping a secret is a much more accessible way (less bravery involved) to be a decent person.

Yuup I think people forget the context that when you're attempting to clock someone as "x identity" you're pulling from a well of biases that are probably pretty limited. I'm assumed several types of Asians before what I actually am, especially when I'm in America but certainly not limited to there. The "Clark is human until proven otherwise" part is on the money. It's why I can't stand MAWS!Jimmy apparently figuring out Clark is a super-powered alien from breaking things constantly. Regardless of how ridiculous that characterization is for Clark (he should've gotten his powers in control by that age), is concluding that he's an alien really the next logical step? How about "huh we live in an ass apartment if things keep breaking" or "your shoes broke again? you gotta stop buying cheap ones".

I've said it before but it bears repeating, these "Everyone Knows Clark is Superman/undocumented immigrant" hcs always de-center Clark's personal life for the sake of an allyship narrative. Clark has been hiding his alien side since childhood. There's no way he wouldn't be good at hiding it by adulthood, especially considering the very real risks that even his adoptive parents understood when they forged documents to keep him safe.

Yup to that last bit too. Similarly I think readers feel confident with their metatextual knowledge of knowing who Clark and Superman are so they feel it's obvious and are frustrated when characters in Superman's context don't. And they want to prove they could be better. It's the self gratification at the expense of a lot of Clark's characterization and basic logic.

[uncanny-tranny]

Going to be really honest, if you're disabled, you truly don't owe people - or the world - access to your diagnoses, symptoms, accessibility needs (and why you need them), mental health history, trauma, or anything like that.

The urge to force people to lay themselves out so they can be picked apart, consumed, and feasted upon by people who demand that their comfort outweigh that of a disabled person's is an ableist pipe dream. It is the urge to control that which you feel you have no control over, and it's your right to refuse to play that game, that role.

[shittyarcanetomes]

my favorite genre is the kind that makes me behave like this. the Layers. you know.

[margindoodles2407]

Obsessed with the fact that St Paul's name literally means "shorty"

[eggbagelz]

I havent spoken abt xmen in ages but i swear to god if i see one more post misinterpreting magneto as a character im going to start throwing bricks

[plasma-studios]

my hot take is that good representation means diverse representation. including rep that would be deemed shitty

[trans-soapberry]

i don't follow dungeon Meshi discussions closely and also haven't seen much in depth analysis of the marginalization of halflings specifically but I feel like the Infantilization aspect is focused on without acknowledging the ways they are often also Dehumanized (little weird considering the usage of "human" in the context of the story but I think it fits well enough). Like they are considered unskilled and immature due to their appearance + shorter relative lifespans, but also they are considered shady, used as literal bait (for sirens and succubi), and fucking disappeared when they come into contact with dangerous artifacts. Like both are significantly negative, but one is a bit more Obviously Violent in a way that I feel like is under discussed.

[ongreenergrasses]

I am genuinely asking this question and I do not in any way mean it as a “gotcha” or trying to discourage the way you or anyone views THG characters: why do you believe the Seam families are canonically people of color? I completely understand the headcanon and think it enriches the political world of THG but I just don’t give Suzanne that much credit and I think it’s even more obvious with the way she ran as far away from that interpretation as possible in Sotr while giving confirmation to literally every other headcanon the fans have come up with. again I’m not saying this in a “you should stop thinking this” kind of way I’m asking the opposite, what am I missing? because I’ve seen lots of people say Lionsgate white washed the Everdeens, Haymitch and Gale but were they ever actually not white? Suzanne is just way too much of a pussy for me to believe she’d take the risk of alienating her self insert white audience like that. If this question comes off in a condescending tone or an accusatory “they’re all white stop diversifying it tone” please just ignore it because it’d be a fault in my writing style not my genuine intentions but i wanted to ask you specifically because (well you’re a very articulate person and) i remember you saying that Suzanne shouldn’t have made Haymitch an alcoholic because of the negative stereotype already associated with Native American men (i hope i’m remembering that right) which would make complete sense if they’re confirmed to be Native but i don’t recall her ever admitting to that. I feel like fans (not you i’ve followed you long enough to know you know her better) really wanna see Suzanne as this revolutionary author who’s a political genius and stands for marginalized communities when she’s very much just writing a regular YA novels and put the blame of all white leads on outside sources rather than her

i can’t say this enough i’m not suggesting the characters should be white, I prefer the Native American interpretation of the Seam families, the Covey are clearly (it’s the one thing i will give SC credit for) Romani, and when you said Finnick was clearly a man of color because of the imbalanced rates of sex trafficking among races it made me feel like an idiot for not realizing it before! ugh i really really hope this question doesn’t sound cruel or condescending

I’ll be honest, my answer to this question would’ve been very different pre sotr…I think in the original trilogy they’re people of color. I think SC then retconned that because she wants to pander to as wide of an audience as possible and make as much money as she can, and she did that by erasing the racial and class tensions she alluded to in the original trilogy. I don’t subscribe to this bootlicking thing and I definitely don’t think she’s a political genius (you nailed me on that for sure lol), I actually think she’s quite spineless and only cares about marginalized communities in the laziest possible fashion and just so far as she can use their portrayals in her work to make more money. I do find it upsetting that she capitulated and backed away from something as basic as a physical description of Haymitch in sotr when those descriptions are so prominent in the original trilogy, just to better align with the movie casting.

personally, this is the evidence I use. the people from the Seam are physically described to have olive skin and black hair many times. yes, phenotypic variation, but District 12 is located in an area with a large indigenous population, and I think more tellingly Seam people are frequently contrasted with the Town people who have light hair, skin, and eyes. SC leans more heavily on class divides than racial divides in the world of thg, but I also think about the ostracization and what seemed to be the enormous shakeup that happened with Katniss’s parents when they were married. this could be because of class differences, but that type of backlash is seen much more frequently with interracial couples. it’s also undeniable that in the United States today, yeah, there’s class divides between different groups of white people, but structural racism and inequality has made it so that class divides between white people and people of color are generally very pronounced. The fact that people from Town are wealthier, more established with generational businesses, and light skinned, while people from the Seam are olive skinned, the ones who perform backbreaking physical labor, and very poor to me suggests a class divide that’s also along racial lines.

In addition, a lot of the struggles portrayed in the Seam echo a lot of the preexisting struggles and barriers that are found on reservations and in primarily native towns/villages today. Lack of access to food, enormous and disproportionate poverty, no or very limited healthcare, and substance abuse issues are all things that plague indigenous communities and are included as present issues with Seamfolk. I also think Katniss and Gale’s reliance on a subsistence lifestyle as a way to provide for their families is something she sort of threw in that codes them as native, which is. I have feelings about that but this response is already really long.

I also want to add the caveat to all this that a lot of what people read into as evidence of people from the Seam being indigenous is based on lazy and often racist stereotypes by SC, as this anon pointed out, and so it should be looked at critically with the eye that this is a very privileged author who couldn’t commit to making her characters people of color, decided to just allude to it for decades, and then completely backed away from it.

[butterflyinthewell]

A reminder:

Proship in fandom doesn’t mean liking all pairings or only liking really gross morally badwrong pairings. It means you don’t harass people for what they ship no matter how much you hate it.

It means you say “Ew” to yourself and block to avoid things you don’t want to see.

Someone ships a ship you think is disgusting? Fine! Block them! Now it’s gone. Buh-bye!

Yes, this applies to any pairings, don’t give me any “except for” or “unless it’s” crap. No excuses!

Proship has never meant condoning criminal acts or abuse irl.

If a proshipper sees a real life person in an abusive situation that matches to something they read or wrote in a fanfic, they won’t sit and think it’s sexy, they will be appalled and try to help the person escape.

The key here is proship means fiction is fiction and observing what someone engages with is not the only way to judge their moral character.

Because if that were true, why are fantis who engage with wholesome fandoms some of the most cruel, hateful people on the internet?

How come all their rage is towards sex and never looks twice at violence? They’re fine with violence until there’s sex involved, then all of a sudden it’s wrong. Fantis don’t speak on violence because they know they condone it and attacking it will rip apart all their baseless accusations and arguments.

Btw fanti arguments look identical to transphobic conservative arguments. Think about that. And I see so many of them do it with trans pride flags in their bios. 🙄

If a site gives you options to filter out content you don’t want to see and you won’t use them, and choose instead to harass people because you’re mad that your NOTP is everywhere, you’re nothing but a pathetic bully who brings nothing of value to fandom anywhere.

Btw, just an aside, I hate most of the same ships fantis hate and I don’t make that creators’ problems. I block and move on. I defend content I abhor in fiction because I know censorship will trash works by queer and marginalized people first.

Censorship is a steamroller, not scalpel.

Just look at what queerphobic conservatives are doing to queer content in schools and libraries. We don’t need that in fandom too. Get outta here with that.

[uncanny-tranny]

In political spheres, I so often want to ask, "is what you're doing 'punching up,' or are they just an easily-available, acceptable target?"

[yesterdayiwrote]

Step 1 of media literacy when it comes to Drive to Survive is understanding that the episode "filmed by the drivers" is comprised of about 90% footage filmed by the Netflix cameras.

[transrevolutions]

also if you want the satisfaction of punching up I can tell you from personal experience that it is much more satisfying to focus your energy on attacking those in the actual high positions in society as opposed to [other minority group that you believe has it slightly easier than your minority group]

[wonder-worker]

Seaxburh of Wessex [...] is the only woman to appear in an Anglo-Saxon regnal list. She was the wife of Cenwalh, king of the West Saxons, who had at one time been married to and repudiated the sister of Penda of Mercia, thereby provoking the latter’s ire [and leading to his own temporary exile, probably alongside his new queen]. Bede recorded that after Cenwalh’s death there was a troubled period during which sub-kings ‘took upon themselves the government of the kingdom, dividing it up and ruling for about ten years.’ The ASC, on the other hand, says that in 672, ‘Cenwalh died and his queen Seaxburh reigned one year after him.’

— Annie Whitestead, Women and Power in Anglo-Saxon England / Stefany Wragg, Early English Queens, 650-850

We cannot be fully certain of the background or circumstances that led to the reign of Seaxburh, but it seems quite apparent that she did rule as a widowed queen or queen dowager following the death of Cenwealh. Later medieval sources characterize her reign in different ways. William of Malmesbury praises her military and political accomplishments, doing all that was required of a king but also ruling ‘her subjects mercifully … [she] did everything, in short, in such a way that there was no difference to be seen, except her sex’. [In the thirteenth century, Roger of Wendover likewise claimed that Seaxburh ruled for one year in Cenwalh’s stead, 'but was expelled [from] the kingdom by the indignant nobles, who would not go to war under the conduct of a woman.']

[helianthus21]

the thing about sweet home for me is, too many ppl from s2 survived and not enough from s1