#they like to claim they hate each other

[dearabsolutelynoone]

Charlotte and George’s “hate” sex montage >>> the air in my lungs

[chrliekclly]

i lov shipping deetress its so funny like 'yes dee's leading a basically kidnapped waitress n w a bag over her head nd she also proceeds to rip th waitress' hair out of her skull to remove it then blames HER for it but look @ that full body contact arm over th shoulder walk look how th waitress leans nto her'

[woodenfawn]

He then proceeded to, among *many* other things, punch him in the face, literally bite his hand, and spit blood on his clothes

[tokyohobi]

i've recently started listening to IVE and the way people hate on wonyoung so much is so crazy to me. the damn girl won't even do nothing except sit there or can do something as simple as flipping her hair and someone is gonna be somewhere in the comments calling her a "pick me" or saying they don't like her. it doesn't matter how small it is and someone will find an issue. i can understand not liking a person but goodness i cannot imagine being bothered by them that much. its beyond me

[liam-summers]

Guys I am so sorry but I’m gonna have to come to sp*ffy’s defense one time, because how does anyone have the audacity to say that c*ngel has more chemistry than Buffy and Angel, the same amount as sp*ffy? Please be for fucking real. I am begging you. To even put Sp*ffy and C*ngel in the same category chemistry wise is SO insulting to Sp*ffy.

[hobartshobie]

i feel like there's a disconnect somewhere with comic readers. but in spider-punk (2022) hobie calls himself spider-punk, likes the name and has fun making spider-related puns (he did it to such an extent that it annoyed the shit out of karl and riri). he claimed spider-man in the beginning in tasm (2014) but also so did most of the variants in the early spider-verse.

tldr: canonically hobie doesn't actually hate being called/calling himself spider-punk

[constantvariations]

I remember someone saying "there's no such thing as a good racism allegory" and it's been bouncing around in my head for a while. I'm someone who typically thinks anything can work if given the right circumstances, but then I really started thinking about it and I believe they're right

Because if you want to talk about racism, you should just talk about racism

(This is unpolished and ramble-y, so strap yourselves in)

Racism is deeply ingrained into our society, no matter where you live. Imperialism and colonialism has ensured that no corner of Earth has been left untouched. Choices from hundreds of years ago are still being felt today. There's practically no end to the discussion of its effects on the world and its people

So, why should anyone feel the need to dress it up in cat ears?

I've consumed a lot of media where writers have consciously echoed in part some aspect of racism in their fantasy story: Bright 2017, Dragon Age, RWBY, the MCU, Harry Potter, Detroit: Become Human, etc. The biggest thing they have in common is that the narrative is told to side with the victims, but it somehow always ends up against them

It always sides with the status quo

It's confusing, maddening even, because the narrative oft goes out of its way to show how horrible the system is and how these folk don't deserve their treatment, so why are we going back to normal as if it's a good thing? Why are the people actively working to improve the system decried as annoying at best and monstrous at worst?

Then you look at the people who write these storylines. The beliefs they hold, the people they vote for, which charities and organizations they give to, and it all makes sense. Centrists (at best) trying to look progressive are the ones who need to dress racism up in cat ears and rainbow freckles. They set aside the long, brutal histories and crushing systemic realities to play pretend that racism is Not That Bad and is only done by Those Bad Individuals

That's why Velvet's ears are tugged instead of culled. That's why the Mantle drunkards say mean things to Blake instead of attempting to assault her. That's why everything surrounding the SDC's labor practices is so vague as to be useless while the biggest evidence of their malice is hand-waved away by a writer who says the victim "had it coming" as if someone can deserve being branded by being too much of a brat

These stories aren't meant to make the audience question why our society works off the bloodied backs of the exploited or demands we take good, hard looks at ourselves and how we've been duped into believing so much garbage about entire swathes of people. They're meant to satisfy the people who only feel bad that these things are happening because they (white folk) look like the bad guys. It's a self-congratulatory wank about how "I'm not like THOSE guys, therefore I'm a good person!"

And then there's the characters meant to convey this story in the first place: always inoffensive, mostly aimless, "not like the other girl" types that pander to that delicate palate. Blake - a conventionally attractive, pale skinned girl in fashionable clothes - used to be passionate about equality but only in the right way, and demonizes anyone who does not conform to this mindset despite having no reasoning to back it up while never once demanding better of the privileged people around her even when they do racially insensitive things

The biggest downfall of these racial allegories, be they about cat girls or orcs or elves or robots, is that they do something that marginalized folk have been forced to endure since the dawn of time: literal dehumanization. There are tangible differences between humans and whatever the allegory is, which undermines the very fundamental fact that black/asian/queer/neurodivergent/disabled/whatever folk are unapologetically, undeniably, exceedingly human. By dressing up their plights in cat ears or spottled blue skin, you're creating theater not for the people who actually live through these struggles as a means of connecting with them and providing them a safe outlet for their feelings, but giving the people who benefit from passively allowing the system to enforce said struggles a pat on the head for not being the grand wizard

I don't really know where I'm going or how to end this, so I'll just sign off with if you're going to talk about racism, just talk about racism

[helpimstuckinafandom]

JUSTICE FOR DAVINA CLAIRE I'M SO FUCKING SERIOUS FUCK OFF OH MY FUCKING GOD

[biancabelairs]

watched the video wwe put up of punk and orton watching their mania match and i'm crying at how it's part two old dudes talking about wrestling like you'd expect old dudes to and part couples therapy

[marsixm]

i know its the stereotype that as an autistic person i have poorer social intelligence but i think the truth is people are often intimidated or confused by how accurate my understanding of others can be. i’m not always 100% but i am pretty insightful

[barbieaiden]

it's kas's glowy-eyed friend

[arabian-batboy]

People do realize the Batfamily was “destroyed” because of Dan Didio hate boner towards the Batfamily?

Yeah, but I guess since Damian was created around that era then its easier for people to blame everything that happened since then on him, even though he literally had no connection to any of the bad things that happened to other characters around that time (not in-universe nor in real-life), he's basically these frustrated people's scapegoat.

[failbaby]

Shiv is unable to have normal, healthy relationships as an adult because of her hypersexuality and Roman is unable to have normal, healthy relationships as an adult because he’s sex-repulsed. They’re textbook adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse on opposite ends of the same spectrum. So much of the twin/mirror theory comes down to this

[coridallasmultipass]

Okay, so I opened a fic with Striders in it and randomly wanted to put on Borderlands 3 ambient music in the background (I'm having a depressed episode rn and wanted comfort.) And I thought Oh... There would be A War over who gets to be Zer0 in BL2. (Bc they won't do a double Zer0 run, let's face it, there can only be one.)

(( Shit fuck. Borderlands 1 happened in OCTOBER 2009. They never would've seen it in canon. Fuck it. Non-Sburb AU this mothafucka, they'll play all of 'em. #BLstuck ))

[aparticularbandit]

also i still can't stand hiyoko but also completely understand her feelings towards fuyuhiko because dude is literally the reason her singular best bestie got killed and it's admirable that she got to a point where she could accept him into the group at least until they got off the island, like yes! that's growth!

why do you have to turn around and call mikan pig barf, hiyoko

[tricoufamily]

thinking more about villareal family history so jacques’s mother dominique’s father’s side, which is french (mother’s side is spanish), pre-revolution were actually part of the french nobility before it was abolished (she still claims the title, even though it means nothing). so like the villareals totally have ancestors who got the guillotine