#not tagging this bc im a coward

[spiritualdeviance]

maybe i'm just too old for fandom but the ofmd girlies (gender neutral) expressing abject misery over the trajectory of season 2 is... weird to me?? it's a story in three acts, in a three act story the second act is traditionally bit where the going gets tough. it's a story about stories, there has to be conflict and drama otherwise there's no point to it, and the stories we tell ourselves and the narratives we choose to believe often bring us into conflict with ourselves and others, even those we love deeply. it's also a story about trauma and how the hurt we endure leads us to hurt others and ourselves even if we want the best for everybody, and how we figure out ways to minimise the trauma and help each other heal. the story has to go somewhere. this particular story has to go here. it's a very emotionally charged story and it's easy to get involved in the characters' feelings (which is good! that's a good thing!!) but. idk i see a post talking about switching off the episodes as soon as the credits roll bc ur so upset by the main characters breaking up for the 45th time and im like. respectfully wtf is wrong with u. if you got the story you wanted where everything is fine and the literally middle-aged but emotionally 14 y/o pirates got to together with no complications and were happy all the time you would be bored out of your goddamn mind. and it wouldn't get renewed for a third season

[crimson-rain-smoked-flower]

I’m not trying to attack you, but do you know that proshipper means someone who supports and romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and abuse? Your reblog on that post seems to read that you think antis just hate on people for having ships they don’t like. But it’s completely different than that. Just looking on the proshipper side of Tumblr and the internet and you can see people happily shipping children and adults and making nsfw content of such things.

i appreciate that you're not being outright hostile, but i have to say, that on its own put you above basically every anti i've interacted with.

i understand where antis are coming from, i really do. there are a lot of things on the internet that make me deeply uncomfortable, including the minor/adult ships that you mention. i don't want to anything to do with those kinds of ships and i would be happiest if i never saw them again. which is why i'm proship.

nine times out of ten, if i see that kind of ship brought up on my dash, it's because i was following an anti without realizing it, and they brought it up unprompted and untagged, to talk about how bad it is that they exist. they are the ones putting that kind of content in front of my face and making it harder to avoid.

the thing about people who ship those ships is that they're generally very aware that not everyone wants to see that kind of content, and so they tag it. they make sideblogs to talk about it. they don't go out of their way to shove it in people's faces. that means i, and everyone else who doesn't like it, can avoid it.

what antis want is for it to not exist at all. they want the tags to be purged and blocked, and for anyone who uses those tags to have their accounts deleted. and sure, that might get rid of some of it, but do you know what would happen to the rest? it would stop being tagged. people who don't want to see it wouldn't have the tools to avoid it. this isn't just a hypothetical, that's what's happened any time a fan space has tried to do that.

that's not even getting into the rabbit hole of what should be banned and what shouldn't. obviously any content that depicts real children or real life abuse shouldn't exist and shouldn't be allowed to be posted, but basically any platform that people use already enforces those policies, and there's not much of a slippery slope to go down there. if it involves real living breathing people being abused, it's bad. end of discussion.

but the same can't be said for fiction. ask ten antis for a specific list of all the content that should be banned, and you'll get ten different answers. what about kink? what about roleplay? what about horror and murder and anything that involves fictional characters being graphically tortured? what about people using art to process terrible things that have happened to them? what about art that uses dark themes as a horror element? if you just want to ban anything questionable to anyone, that's the line of thinking that gets any mention of lgbt existence banned. and again, this isn't just a hypothetical, this has happened before, and that's generally where it leads.

i know, from personal experience, that antis do, in fact, send harassment to people just for shipping things they don't like. i've gotten accused of absolutely vile shit for shipping two fictional characters who were both consenting adults. i've seen ship wars turn into moral battlegrounds, over ships that an average person wouldn't bat an eye at.

the thing about "romanticization" is a whole other can of worms. the anti logic goes like this: if someone sees something (even if it's very obviously fictional) in a positive light enough times, they will start thinking it's okay in real life, and go on to hurt real people. the problem with that is that it's just. blatantly untrue.

if it were true every horror movie fan would be a serial killer, every person that studies dark media would be an unhinged psychopath, and everyone who is into ddlg would be a pedophile. but they're not. they just aren't. people have directed movies just as fucked up as the darkest shit on ao3, and are still capable of being normal human beings who know right from wrong in real life.

even if someone is that impressionable, scrubbing away the existence of every piece of questionable content isn't going to solve their problem, because they're still going to be vulnerable to con men, scams, and cultists. the only thing that would actually materially help someone like that is developing their own morals and critical thinking.

children are also more impressionable, and there's a lot of content that's not suitable for them, but that doesn't mean that content shouldn't exist. it just means that they should stick to spaces designed for them (which most social media sites, tumblr included, are not) or, if they're old enough to be responsible for their experience online, they, or a trusted adult in their lives, should block and filter out things that they aren't comfortable with.

which is what everyone on the internet should be doing. it's what i do, and it's made the internet a much more pleasant place to be. and it's why i sometimes worry for antis mental health, especially teenagers, because they're being told it's right and moral to seek out content that makes them uncomfortable and to engage with the people making it. and that's just. really bad. it's not good for the creators that they're harassing obviously, but it's also really bad for them! it's not healthy to seek out things that make you feel bad, and it's a terrible internet safety lesson to teach minors that it's okay for them to seek out and engage with people making adult content.

individual harassment and crusading is never going to succeed at removing dark content from the internet. it just isn't. at best you might get a small percentage of people who create that content to stop sharing it, at worst you're just going to make people stop tagging it, and either way, you're exposing yourself to things that make you feel bad, when you don't have to.

if you want to materially change the type of content you see, you can. the block button is your friend, use it liberally. same with content filtering and tag blocking.

[unisongakikoeru]

imagine your f/o holding your hand, and thinking to themself, "their hands are so soft..."

proship/comship dni

[vexdraticc]

[Image ID: A digitally painted portrait of cubfan135’s character. He is pictured facing rightwards at a 3/4 portrait view, and has his head angled up in a way that allows him to look down on the viewer. He has a closed-lip smile made to look slightly creepy. He is wearing his typical white labcoat, blue button-up, and tie. He has dark hair, glasses, slightly pointed ears, and his fingers fade to black and sharpen into claws at the tips. Only his left hand is shown, and is in a relatively relaxed claw position near his face with his pointer finger slightly more extended than the rest. The entire piece is extremely dark, contrasted greatly by the bright blue vex magic being cast from the pointer finger of his hand. The magic itself looks like glowing lighting, and wraps itself around and behind his pointer finger before making it’s way all the way across the picture and off of the bottom left side of the piece. The same glow also makes up the entirety of his irises, and also emanates from his crystal earring. The entire piece is effected by the light of the magic, the glow being cast onto Cub and his clothes. The work is painted in such a way that the brushstrokes are still visible. The background is dark blue and fades to black at the top edges, then lighter blue towards the bottom. /. End ID]

come closer. he doesn't bite (much)

[randomminty]

A million ras sketches be upon ye

[sunandmoonshow-unofficial]

friends to lovers to are we lovers? what are we? to "best friends" to how could you do this to me? dont you know this is torture? I thought you understood to enemies to i hate that i miss you to rivals to i have nowhere else to go and you're still my safe place to not friends but can we call each other enemies anymore after today? to this feels so familiar. what are we? i missed this. to frenemies that will hold each other close when they need it to oh, is that what its called? we couldve saved ourselves so many miscommunications and fights if we had this word back then to queerplatonic partners

[brother-emperors]

DECIMATION ROW

Decimation: Myth, Discipline, and Death in the Roman Republic, Michael J. Taylor / Spartacus: War of the Damned, Decimation

[willfullwanderer]

the only thing ive ever done a crossover for and its the fucking ice skating anime

[maigetheplatypus57]

It's 1am and I need to be up in 4-5 hours but let me take part in the time honored mcyt tradition of making the messiest possible relationship chart on mspaint on my phone starring: the tommy-molly unethical polycule

[beautifel]

seems like my heart does nothing but break lately

[roachemoji]

gonna watch st today gonna try to put my I don't understand the *Mike isnt experiencing trauma from abuse/neglect discource* thoughts into words

[papus-clown-enclosure]

Ppl were cowards for not thirsting over Capaldi's doctor

Like move aside bitches im about to smash that old mans bussy

Y'all heard something, anyways 12 doc my beloved

[longelk]

as an incentive per the previous poll ill draw the winner very sexily

[dumbass-tm]

*looks at the yaoi off* ...anyways!

happy aro week :) a few months ago i read a fic or two where kdj and yjh were in a qpr and the idea has been stuck in my mind ever since. i need more qpr joongdok fics so bad. theyre rotting my brain.

i hit them with my aroace beam. sorry. it will happen again.

anyways i hope its not obvious i only half tried on this. sorry again. i have a version without the extra stuff and a silly thing under the cut :)

i think kim dokja is a little too ourple but thats ok he deserves some ourple. hes also ball shaped if i could play basketball id fuckin slam dunk him (with love)

i have been calling this yoo egghyuk in my head. i love both transmasc and transfem yoo joonghyuk!! either way i think theyre t4t.

[riacte]

Blue30 semi-serious analysis post (or something) yay~

I know what everyone’s thinking: “Omg the fusion of Blue9 and Aqua29”. Yeah, it does vibe like that. This team is undoubtedly strong, but the teams for MCC30 as a whole are ridiculously strong, so like MCC29, it’s difficult to predict and depends on game order + morale / performances of players on that day.

As we learned from Aqua29, overall team synergy/ performance can be more important than individual performances. That’s how Aqua29 pushed themselves up to 2nd despite no one in top 10.

MCC30 Blue Bats actually has pretty damn good chemistry?? I think everyone knows each other. And we’ve got three MCC winning duos: False + Fruit (9), Dave + False (29), Fruit + Shubble (26), so if they win again, their win count will be lowkey ridiculous lol. Dave and False can possibly get a DOUBLE back-to-back, which is amazing.

One major reason for my confidence in Aqua29 was the presence of HBomb. The H factor worked for both Blue9 and Aqua29, but in this case, Shelby is fantastic at team games. She’s a great communicator and boosts morale, plus she’s teamed with Fruit and Dave before. The only person she hasn’t teamed with is False, but they’ve got Empires so they’re friends. Once I saw Shubble in this team, I was like “ohhhhh Scott made an excellent choice here” :))) Shelby can definitely make up for the weaknesses of the two PvPers.

The question of leadership pops up again, and personally I’m leaning towards Dave, although I think the four of them can vibe and communicate at the same time (seeing as they know each other more than Aqua29/Blue9 knew each other at the time). One thing I’m excited to see is Dave-False again so soon, because False made amazing call-outs last time (I don’t think she’s ever spoken that much in a MCC). I think Dave misheard False’s comms in BB and apologised, so he might pay more attention to her comms this time lol. Also wdym Fruit and False’s last MCC was ALL STARS??? Anyways False also girlbossed her way through All Stars’ Grid Runners while the men were being himbos, so maybe they’ll listen to her this time fhejfjjdcjjd.

And because I’m biased, here’s a whole paragraph dedicated to False. Blue30 is False’s FIRST team without a hermit (!!! She’s graduated!!), but she’s with an Empires buddy and she knows everyone on the team (much like Ren’s first non-hermit team Yellow21, which also had Fruit plus Joel and Fwhip from Empires). I said pre and post 29 that False can be a good leader if she feels comfortable in a team, and she definitely felt comfortable with Aqua29 (possibly because it’s 3/4 of Yellow28, another MCC she spoke quite a lot in). Now, Blue30 can absolutely be such a team, especially after her recent win in 29 which can boost confidence. I don’t know much about False-Shubble being competitive together, but I watched the Minecraft Legends stream yesterday and everyone was vibing and communicating well (although everyone in that stream was from Traffichermitempires). Basically I think this could be another team in which False speaks up and offers valuable input (because sometimes people just forgor the border in SkB and take a lot of damage 💀)

I compared Aqua29 to a better Yellow20. I can see Blue30 following a Yellow21ish trajectory unfortunately because Yellow21 got third and I’m still sad. Blue30 will likely be good at SG (like Yellow21) and PvP in general. Hopefully they won’t do what Yellow21 did at BB lmao <3

This team is strong, well rounded, and has good chemistry. It’s just that other teams are also strong 💀 but if Aqua29 can get a legendary win, why not continue that legacy? ;)

[avatardoggo]

i held a man’s hand today