#salty on a sunday

[admirableadmiranda]

The fact that when I go to my canon jiang cheng tag, there are posts there that have my filtered tags (Xicheng, SangCheng, Zhancheng, Chengxian) on them so I can’t even see the post just tells me that it has nothing to do with what is actually canon or not.

They’re just super mad that I refuse to be bullied out of a tag because they want to control the fandom again. No, you still do not get to push me to anti jiang cheng because I have the temerity to talk about his actual character and at this point I consider the desire to ship a homophobe with every random man in the story despite him being clearly uncomfortable with the concept in any way, far more anti jiang cheng than my posts pointing out what he actually does.

At least my takes actually sound like the Jiang Cheng in the book.

[mikkeneko]

Don't want to put this on the post itself for risk of derailing it, but that post the other day about Terry Pratchett's early work really stuck in my mind. OP had sent in an ask saying that they heard some of Pratchett's earlier works had problematic elements (not unusual for a male english writer in the 80s) and they weren't sure whether to go ahead with reading the work anyway.

What I really want to ask that person, or indeed all persons who are hesitating over whether or not to read problematic works or works by imperfect authors:

What are you worried about happening, if you read a work with problematic elements?

I'm worried that if I read this art, I will run across hateful images or words that will shock or upset me

I'm worried that I will spend money on a work of art that then financially supports a bad person, and that thought makes me uncomfortable or upset

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and comment or react on them, and other people will see what I am reading and will think less of me because of it, or will assume that I hold the same bad beliefs as the author

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and I will enjoy them, and the author will find out about my enjoyment and feel emboldened to do bad things because of it

I'm worried that I will read works of art written by a bad person, and their badness will contaminate my way of thinking and make me a worse person in turn

Because these are all different answers and some of them are more actionable than others

[hatesaltrat]

Nothing quite like morning sun with my Princess on my own patio. Happy Saturday Friends

[saltynsassy31]

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Splatfest 17-02-2024

[Master Post - coming soon]

[daily-ron-fnf]

Day 155

[freneticfloetry]

The Thing continues. At a pace, I'll admit, that I haven't seen in some time. Frankly, as long as it goes up before this week's 9-1-1 ep, I'll be a happy camper.

Thanks to @heartstringsduet, @paperstorm, @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad, @strandnreyes, @three-drink-amy, @alrightbuckaroo, @lemonlyman-dotcom, and @liminalmemories21 (who is still utterly responsible for this, but has also already seen this snippet) for the tags. And look, this one's actually seven sentences for once!

TK steps through the front door to the sight of his husband standing at the stove and the smell of something heavenly wafting from the oven, and he doesn’t know which one seems more delicious. Then Carlos looks up and smiles and the customary Hey, babe that rolls off his tongue is nearly drowned out by the sound of an empty stomach growling, so TK supposes that’s answer enough. “Sorry,” he groans, “I’m starving.” Carlos’ snort is undercut by his smile as he lifts the lid of a pot on the back burner. “You don’t say.” “Shut up. You try surviving the twelve-hour shift from hell on two granola bars and girl dinner.”

@never-blooms, @ambiguouspenny, @orchidscript, @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut, @carlos-in-glasses, @whatsintheboxmh, @herefortarlos, @reyesstrand, @rmd-writes, @ladytessa74, and @welcometololaland, tag, you're it.

[theartistmakesart]

i wanted to experiment with coloring, so i drew some of the fnf girls to try it out!

[vesselvindicate]

im so behind on art posting here. have a woman

[myloh]

When the Sunday night is soft

[descendantofthesparrow]

when dad makes you dinner that sounds so good but you get home and eat it and it isnt

[imminent-danger-came]

it has been a joy to bring my friend through undertale and have them constantly question why sans was memed so hard

[admirableadmiranda]

Just thought I should share, the one person that argued with me came back to argue more. Their whole thing was that my point wasn't what you guys were actually saying, and that I was just back peddling more, blah blah blah. And then it just struck me. I'm using JC stan talking points of "ignore their words and actions, look at the deeper meaning behind it all" and they are using your guy's argument of "but that's not what the actual text that they wrote said." This is kinda a pot meets kettle situation, but overall I think it just goes to show that if JC was an actual person and not a purple fantasy man they would hate him since they don't actually seem to be able to practice what they preach in regards to looking for deeper meaning behind people's seemingly rude actions. As far as they're concerned I'm an anti instead of a neutral party that watched everything go down in real time. Doesn't matter how many times I repeat that literal book quotes got people hate messages, I'm just one of you guys that want to bash JC despite never posting anything before the tag was invaded. If I'm going to be lumped in with a group though at least it's the one that can see the humor in these kinds of parallels.

It is definitely an interesting and humorous level of irony that we are essentially having to use each other's arguments. And I am sorry that you got dragged into this when you really were a neutral party pointing out events that went down.

I went and looked at your debates with the person involved and I think that you were very reasonable despite them being jerks to you. I'm quite impressed with the points that you've made in fact, especially pointing out that them flooding the tag with ship content is also not canon, as it frequently involves Jiang Cheng being shipped with characters he has little to no interaction with. Is there no respect for him chasing the clan leader who's regard and alliance he most wants; Jin Guangshan? Where are the fics with those two?? /j

I admire your fortitude in dealing with people who refuse to ever consider that they are in the wrong despite all evidence to the contrary.

(also while I know the poster will never see it, as the "creator" of the tag, why does it matter to you so much what tag name I put it under? You and your ilk wouldn't let me use the appropriate tag despite the amount of fandoms that are completely cognizant that a character tag is not always positive when it comes to antagonists, so I made a tag that you could block and not have to deal with the fact that Jiang Cheng does in fact lead a siege to kill fifty innocent people up on a mountain who had never done anything to him, torture Wei Wuxian with his greatest fear, be homophobic and slut-shaming towards another person who has done nothing to him besides not like him, and other glorious things like strangling, torture and murder that even he is quite happy to point out that he's done in his own narrative scenes. This is my tag, I will continue to post my content in it, so make like your favorite character and grow the fuck up and move on.)

Seriously, Jiang Cheng is more mature than most of these people; he actually stopped fighting a losing battle and decided to move on with his life.

[mikkeneko]

If we're all pretty much on board by now with "media consumption is not activism," are we ready to move on yet to the necessary corollary of "failure to consume media is not failure of activism?"

[kairidaily]

Another thing that bugs me is Kairi may be fearful/wary of change, but what does she do when given the opportunity to do so? She shields a changed Sora. She reaches out to a changed Riku. She accepts the keyblade. She volunteers to train and fight in a war. She elects to continue to train in another world. She's never, on purpose, tried to hold her friends back from following their dreams even when it was dangerous. There was like one time she expressed doubt and she immediately took it back.

For someone who may hate change, she looks straight at it and does it anyway. That's true bravery to me. Wish certain people (not anyone I've liked/reblogged) would give her props for that at least.

[saltynsassy31]

My bar is so low right now that I'm legit just happy that frye got the most votes

It's still frustrating though, this just goes to show that the system is built against us

Highest votes? Loose

Lowest votes? Loose too

Shiver gets the highest votes and doesn't get mirror matches but when we were the least votes we constantly got them

It just feels on purpose now lol

[xxnuclearrainbowxx]

Fumking... Opheebop.