#this is ok to reblog but i really dont want discourse

[spectrearia]

hhh found some photos of old disney trips from several years back and it just made me really sad that the parks are nothing like what they were back then anymore. i still feel like it was probably best in the 90s and early 2000s (from what i've seen in videos documenting that time frame, and from the few trips my fam went on as well), but i ended up visiting more often in the 2010s and i still really enjoyed it;;

i miss walking around and just drinking in the atmosphere and theming honestly. sucks that its a mess now and you're paying so dang much for lackluster quality and there's no room for spontaneous flexibility within your visit because of the stupid genie+ app and insane wait times for Everything. the fact that there's no real "off season" anymore because it's Always Busy is a terrible reality as well. *sigh*

[britneyshakespeare]

ppl will just reblog posts w outright historical misinformation in them

[icallhimjoey]

I was wondering about what your feelings are on the discourse about likes vs reblogs for fics? You never really comment on how well your fics do, but you must run into the hardships of having something not do as well as you hoped it would like any other fic writer right? You also don't really reblog other writer's work. If you dont want to answer dont even worry about it, I really love your writing! 💕

oof

okay, i might... so, this might come off different to how i mean it. i want to preface this by saying that everyone is completely entitled to all of their feelings, all is valid, and all is fine

but i dont really care if you reblog my shit or not?

its so lovely if you do, and its so nice if you leave a comment, but a like? it means just as much to me. you pressing that little heart button "doesnt do anything" when talking about the way tumblr works, BUT, it does do something to me

its nice

i like it

makes me go :)

reblog if you want, like if you want, leave a comment if you want - all are equally lovely to me, dont feel pressured to reblog my things onto your blog if you dont want them there

i understand

because i dont want (many) reblogs on my blog either

i very seldom, if im like insanely into a fic, do reblog fics of others, but you're right, i used to do it more often than i do now

its bc im reading less on here and more over on ao3 + i want people to be able to scroll down my blog and find my content (its why i go in and delete so much random shit i post too, if i think something doesnt need to be there, has been there long enough for people to see, i'll easily get rid of it)

im also not reading any joe fics, at all. its just eddie, steve and steddie over here in this corner when it comes to reading. i only like my own way of writing joe, so... there's also that.

but i ALSO really understand that people really do want and push for people to reblog their writing, the feedback is really validating and motivates you to keep going

it's just that i feel weird enough about writing rpf as it is, i dont actually want that large of an audience (it's already too large, too many followers) (but the notes on fics dont mirror that so its ok)

[homosexualmorelikehomiesexual]

ok so...we all saw the flurry of Bandom Racism discussion happening. and i have...thoughts.

i know this is late, in theory because i wanted to get my thoughts together, but honestly mainly because i didnt know what to say, so part of me was annoyed that i felt obligated to say anything at all. bc im not nearly as active in bandom as my blog probably makes it look, i didnt learn 90% of the Lore until september and all of that i learned from mcrblr. im new! i dont know about any of this! much less about the racism. so...why am i expected to talk about it? what is there for me to say?

...and over the past few days, its slowly sunk in for me that thats exactly the point.

of COURSE i dont see the racism in the fandom, or know what to say about it. because either none of the other white liberal fans in my circle do, or we just... dont talk about it. and i think when we do know, we dont talk about it, because we feel like its not our place. we dont know what to say, and especially if we feel like we had any hand in it, we're... embarassed? i know i am. and like...i hesitate to list examples, because i dont want to come across as self flagellating. one, because its got to be annoying for people of color, and two, because...i dunno. i dont want to make other white people think thats whats required, to be anti racist? because i think thats one of the assumptions we're laboring under, like...we've created this environment of really aggressive Discourse, so when it comes to racism, and unpacking our own...we talk in really vague terms, we never get past the "UwU!!! Dont Be Racist!!!!" PSAs because naming our own transgressions means admitting to wrongdoing, which is embarassing at the best of times, but in the very spaces we've created, generally being found out as Doing Something Wrong means getting jumped on by other white people for the purpose of their own moral preening so no one will suspect them of the same. so...why willingly subject yourself to that? especially if whatever you have to say, whatever it is in your behaviour you want to discuss, may be triggering to people of color. simply not mentioning it feels like the better - and safer - option.

but...thats what leads to us not knowing enough about all this to feel confident talking about it in the first place.

i dunno. last week, im one of the people who looked right at that piece of art with franks rising sun tattoo, and went... "huh. hey, theres that tattoo he got covered up because it was offensive. i should look into that. ...anyway, cool art!" and hit reblog.

and like...once people started talking about it, (theres one specific post, forget who its by, someone talking about mcrs history with anti asian racism, great post thank you for making it) i felt...bad? but i also felt kinda defensive. in thinking back on it, i was like..."well, im glad to know that now. but dude im not familiar with his tattoos. i kind of assumed what i was looking at was the covered up version where its sort of peeking through. idk it was a watercolor it was kinda garbled. i wont blame myself for not thinking any harder than that."

and then i was like... okay but. if im honest with myself, thats still bad. because it doesnt matter, since i probably wouldve reblogged it anyway, just assuming it was for the sake of photo accuracy or what have you...because i still didnt fucking know or care what the rising sun flag was.

which was the whole point.

because if i HAD. if i HAD done my research when id first heard about it, months ago, i would have recognized that art for what it was and treated it with the wide berth it deserved and avoided it regardless of my knowledge of his stupid fucking tattoo. but i didnt, for a host of reasons. mainly executive dysfunction, general stress in my personal life (nunya bidness) and...if im being honest? i just didnt want to, because...i hate self teaching. i have adhd. i was homeschooled, it was really traumatic, i flunked all of highschool and had to get a GED. my reading comprehension and attention span are piss poor. so i didn't feel like looking into it. i didnt feel like giving myself a whole impromptu history lesson. i opened one wiki page and instantly got overwhelmed.

but thats also the point. because all those reasons for not doing my due diligence and reading up on why asian fans are so pressed about the rising sun tattoo? or why black fans want nothing to do with 21p? the same shit probably applies to them! they don't feel like doing it either, we just give them no choice until eventually they make giant ass posts, comprehensive, easy to digest, step by step posts, for the express purpose of doing what we all refuse to do.

and, again, theres that feeling of guilt. guilt and shame, because im admitting to this, and because i know how reading this is gonna make other white fans feel, because i just went through the exact same set of feelings, and its uncomfortable as hell. so i can only imagine how fans of color have felt.

im not making this to browbeat white fans, or to self flagellate to fans of color. this isnt a soap box or a confession booth. im just.. talking. so lets talk. im gonna be honest, i still havent done real research into the rising sun flag. im literally just now looking at the wikipedia page for imperial japan, which i just now opened, and i still feel just as overwhelmed. (does anyone have good material on learning about this? if i find any, ill post it in reblogs.)

but...yeah. this isnt an UwU!!! Dont Be Racist!!!! PSA. this is uhhhh...We're All A Little Racist, Lets Talk About It So We Wont Be. an open letter, i guess. cause we're doing and saying racist shit, intentionally or unintentionally, whether we realize it or admit it or not, and i think the majority of you who have read this far are, like me, mainly doing so through inaction. and i think the more we ignore that, the worse this feeling will get. so...lets stop ignoring it. i know we all just did exactly that, i saw it happen, i was part of it, i get the reasons why. but its delaying the inevitable, and more importantly, we're hurting other people because of it. so...lets just get it over with, it cant be any more embarassing than burying our heads in the sand.

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Welcome to my blog! My name is Wayward (not irl obviously. Though I wish) Just some basic information *ahem* I'm transmasc, androgenous (masc leaning), omniflux (but mostly mlm). Kinda complicated, yeah, but aren't we all. My pronouns are He/Him (main) Xe/Xir (trialing neos) They/Them (for my more 'who cares about gender' mood). I haven an extensive list here 👉: Pronoun card.

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[jatlokgwo]

(not tryin to discourse am just upset-rambling to myself but is fine to reblog this as whatever if you want)

a few days ago someone that was into hunger/feeding stuff (kink-not-kink) interacted with me they had a cool blog and i saw alot of 🤝 with the stuff that they liked and both of my eds so i sent them a projecty headcanon i have that childe has the same kind of eds and that he have tried to match how much zhongli ate to be polite without realizing that zhongli is a dragon and eventually li notices and helps him

a few hours later i got a dm explaining that my headcanon is cute but tgey wouldnt post my ask becuz it was ed-related and theg didnt want to fetishize eds (my hc is about childe having arfid/problems with texture and the weight of food i reworded itn to be more like the fanfic and prompts on that persons blog the only ed mention was a crossed out joke that i about about myself projecting)

witch is fine!!!! its there blog they dont have to post anything and they where really nice am trying to rewright it to be "without the ed" for them!!!

the thing that am upset about is that alot of stuff on there blog was litteraly eating disorder stuff but eithout warnings the community was fine with charaters fasting randomly for 2 days or being way to hungry for just forgetting lunch or stuff like that but when i try to go like !!!🤝!!! hi!!! heres a headcanon i have thats like this stuff!!!! :D i am treated like i dropped a live grenade for mentioning that the hc came from my mental health stuff instead of kink/kink but not in a kinky way

witch. :|

i get alot of comfort from reading stuff about my problems it would be nice to have more things to read and to know that the author isnt dying or suffering as they type and if the tummy stuff hunger/feeding community was more ok with themselves overlaping then things could be tagged properly for the people that dont want to see ed behaviour instead of ed-stuff-but-we-swear-its-normal-and-healthy-not-an-ed witch. um. SEEMS BAD?? we could have symbiosis

(and fetishizing is not a inherently bad thing especially wirh the logic that there using i am constantly being sexual and kinky-but-the-evilbad-word by existing and being mentally ill and relating especially to things as long as your not being toxic to real people its fine you want the syntoms but its against the rules to wonder how the syntoms got there)

[fagcrisis]

💀 ask game - i fucking hate tumblr user v/a/spi/der and ok let me be clear! this is a very 1 sided kind of parasocial beef! Its not even for their takes (tho i do think that they are guilty of being wrong a not insignificant amount) but every time someone says something mildly innocuous that doesnt 100% line up w their worldview they just kind of come out swinging at them 'defensively' and accuse them of being a bad person and just generally bringing douchebag-type 'righteous anger' posturing to every single conversation theyre ever involved in. it makes me want to die fr. Ive never interacted w them personally because i dont want to put myself through that but the terminal hate event that led me to develop a personal dislike 4 them was when an artist of a webcomic i like posted some personal post like "its actually really annoying when artists on here act like people who dont give them free publicity via reblogging everything theyve ever made is personally harming them in some way" and va/spi/der basically saw that post, reblogged it, and accused them of wanting artists and SWers to basically starve in poverty because they dont think they should get exposure and that they were a horrible person for personally hoping that no artist or SWer can ever make a living and like man. It was the stupidest bad faith discourse ever but they react to everyone like this all the time and CONSTANTLY pick fights with tumblr randos about the stupidest shit and act like they're the pinnacle of righteous moral anger and whoever theyre picking a fight with deserves to be told what a shit person they are and have the ode to how much they fuckinh suck be reblogged uncritically by their 2957374728574 followers and theyre literally just being a massive bad faith dick for no reason and pretending its really important social justice to dunk on some random person who is literally also very leftwing but has an opinion very slightly different to them in some completely inconsequential way. Also ive censored their username bc they pick fights abt everything with everyone constantly & i dont want this to show up in search in case u do post it but im not gonna lie ur probably better off not fucking posting this one for the. Reasons listed above. Im aware that this is the pettiest shit ever but the secondhand embarrassment i get from their terminally online fucking posturing makes me kind of want to shoot myself in the head im not gonna lie

nooooo ur so real theyre so annoying i used to follow them and their political takes r so reactionary and annoying. pathological need to be correct for real. i vaguely remember them being a freak about something which is why i blocked them in the first place but that was ages ago they mightve just been fucking annoying

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imma be fr i had no idea wtf to do with my username so i landed wit genderparfait bc it sounds cute LOL also my likes and replies come from my main blog, @idolautism

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I likely will say something like 'I hate white [x]' at least once. If that'll bother you, go somewhere else idk

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ok so I dont really have one.

My criteria for a block is really really low though.

If the only positive things you post about transmascs are the "pussy from a boy>>" type things or just...idk talking ab transmascs like we're sex objects that's an immediate block

yeah i honestly just block people if they piss me off 🤷🏾‍♂️ idk

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[jaed1nzmogies]

heyy long time no see! anyways rant post. its cool to skip this :)

cw for queer discourse. which i hate, and this will probably be the only time i ever discuss anything like this besides the occasional reblog

just a little rant about my thoughts recently. and please dont try to change my mind. im autistic and i have a large sense of justice so its almost impossible to change my mind about things im very stubborn

of course, my rant is about trans men trying to claim the lesbian label. i want to be specific when i say trans MEN, not trans masc people, not “masculine-aligned”, not gender fluid or anything else. trans men that identify as men. and THEN try to claim to be a lesbian. listen, i am in no way advocating for those types of lesbians. the really weird terfy ones are bad. so terfy lesbians or whatever youre calling yourself that hate trans women i do not like you.

Anyways, its infuriating. How are you not disgusted by using the term lesbian as a man? how are you, as a trans man, comfortable in any way shape or form. you work so hard to fit in as a man, right? if you are a man in your head, why do you think a lesbian would be attracted to you? surely you KNOW they are not thinking of you as a man. ever. And, how are you even comfortable using the term that women and other non men carved out for themselves? how do you feel like you have the right to trample over everything like that as a man?

I genuinely do not care if you identified as a lesbian before you transitioned. That does not give you the right to infringe on that label that is not for you. I don’t care if you “have such a deep connection to the label” you are creepy. Can you imagine a cis man doing that? why are you any different? and dont even get me started with “sexuality and gender are not rigid” then dont use the terms when you mean something else??? along with “contradicting terms is what being queer is about” what?? that is literally not even true 😭😭 identifying as things out of spite of your OWN community is crazy. these peoples logic is so crazy. i want to open their skull and examine their brain to see how it works.

Contradicting terms were more popular in the past, with things like boy dyke or other examples i cannot remember right now (im sorry if that wasnt even right but you know what im talking about right) The community has obviously changed. And it’s definitely for the better. As it stands, the community has plenty of fighting as it is. There is nothing you lose from just admitting something that everyone else knows; Youre just straight.

This is just another stupid issue that can so easily be solved. If you are a man, cis or trans, doesn’t matter. You cannot be a lesbian. You can have a connection to past experiences when you identified as a girl. You can recognize its part of your upbringing and effected you as a person. That does not give you the right to infringe on the label.

The community has demonized the label Straight so much that their own men have cowarded in fear of it.

You can use the word straight. you are not any less part of this community, i promise. theres more to life than existing out of spite of your own siblings.

Im going to be honest, if you identify as a lesbian, no one will see you as a man.

Honestly, why is it always lesbians getting the butt end of everything? wheres all the trans women claiming to be gay? yeah i wonder.

also, i want to make it clear im obviously a progressive. this is just where i draw the line morally. ok thanks

Anyways! i know this isnt the important issue right now but letting things off your chest is a good thing, right?

anyways love u guys hope ur doin well

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

man by the nature of the circles i follow i generally don't see a lot of takes from izzy stans, but both the notes of the post you reblogged and the original twitter thread just make them look like their izzy brainworms have destroyed their reading comprehension and situational awareness. 'hehe there's two ways u could take that' clearly only one was intended. 'ur so right izzy is fucking blackbeard and he can build a pillowfort' YOU'RE SO EMBARRASSING. the show's creator is annoyed enough to actually voice some push back against the racist idea that history's greatest tactician needs this wet purse dog of a man to do basic tasks. these people really said 'i'm gonna ignore the actual issue being pointed out here and make this about my blorbo and my ship instead' and i don't know how anyone like this is gonna get through season two when they find out izzy isn't the main character they think he is.

ok tbh as amused as i am at the interpretation of that tweet as david jenkins getting so annoyed abt people thinking ed is an incompetent imbecile and is tweeting “ed knows how to build a blanket for on his own for fuck’s sake” i dont actually know how much of The Discourse david’s seen or if he’s aware of how many ppl genuinely believe shit like “izzy is the brains behind blackbeard.” it’s possible he just logged onto twitter and saw that tweet at the top of his mentions or whatever (idk how twitter works) and was just casually like “wtf obviously ed can build a fort by himself” and it’s not meant as an @ at any particular fans. and quite frankly i wouldnt want it to BE an @ at any fans. as toxic as parts of this fandom are, if david or any other showrunners started directly @ing people like “hey your headcanon is racist” it would only make shit worse. if i was a writer for ofmd i frankly wouldve stopped looking at ofmd twitter after a month bc it got so choked with rampant racism and it would make me go insane. like i hope jenkins et al have some distance from the fandom discourse for their own sake.

BUT ANYWAY about the izzy fans. as much as i personally am an ed stan first and a human being second i DO understand why izzy fans would make the joke abt “oh so youre saying izzy is having sex with blackbeard AND he knows how to build a blanket fort?” and i also think the majority of izzy fans KNOW theyre making a silly joke. like they know what david is actually saying. as far as im aware Not All Izzy Fans are the type to believe the “izzy is the brains behind blackbeard” headcanon so im not gonna assume every fan making this joke are doing so to intentionally downplay/ignore ed’s intelligence. i think a lot of them are just making a joke abt their favorite blorbo and while yeah i think the main focus should be on MY blorbo and how smart he is, this joke is so low on the list of shitty things ive seen izzy fans do that im basically just like. eh. whatever. definitely SOME of the ppl making this joke are the type to think ed is stupid and who warp the whole show to focus on izzy but i have no idea who or many so im not gonna worry about it. the joke is kinda annoying to me but im ALSO kind of stretching the tweet jokingly to be like “David Jenkins HIMSELF said that izzy is a useless first mate” (which i DO believe, but im not gonna use this tweet as proof that dj himself confirmed it)

that being said i dont think it’s a funny joke bc izzy obviously has never gotten laid before in his life and also izzy’s never experienced any joy so he obviously DOESNT know how to build a fort. and also of course youre right that there are izzy fans who will not be able to cope with the next season of the show not treating izzy like a special little main character but again this tweet is a single line from david abt a silly headcanon im not gonna get mad at ppl for not using it as a talking point abt racist fandom discourse. idk if david meant that line to be lighthearted or not so im not gonna take it too seriously except to say that ed’s blanket fort had better structural engineering than half the boats he’s ever raided. if the Revenge came under attack or if a huge storm blew through, stede’s cabin would be a disaster but the blanket fort would be completely unharmed

[blood-and-poetry]

I dont at all think you intended it this way (and you don't at all need to publicly respond to this ask), but the post you recently reblogged from midnightssea contains a lot of gateway-TERF ideology (setting up men as inherently/naturally/biologically oppressors and women as a inherently/naturally/biologically oppressed class; drawing false equivalences; presenting this argument in hard absolutes with language like, "if you believe this, you're not really a feminist"). Often--not always! But often--this kind of mild, measured, not obviously TERF-y feminist discourse is used as a reasonable gateway to attract smart, compassionate, thoughtful people to agree with some base tenets of this ideology and ultimately encourage sympathy to more radical claims. Again, I'm not saying any of this to publicly call you out! That post just contains a few dog whistles and I want to make sure that you can hear them.

I’ve been scrolling through my blog for minutes to figure out which damn post you mean only to figure out that I reblogged that on my main @librinaut and not here. I feel kinda pressured to answer this, which is stupid in itself but I will post this to my feel-good blog even though I don’t like discourse here. This is meant in the kindest way possible, I am just not very good at not sounding passive aggressive. First of all, because it seems to be so important on tumblr to check every OP we reblog from lol, as you can see when you click on the original post, midnightssea specifially dislikes transphobia and tagged that post accordingly. Secondly, I have been following her for quite some time and she knows exactly what she is talking about when she is addressing feminist issues. I have a background in sociology and I have read my very fair share of theory so I might be in an ok position to judge that. I am not naive, I am educated in this matter and I know exactly what I am talking about or agreeing to. Nothing what she says has a hidden meaning and everything she says is correct. Now that’s out of the way: I think it’s incredibly heart breaking how basic feminist theory gets called a “dog whistle” or a “gateway” as if we are talking about a dangerous ideology here. Again, I am educated in those things and I hate how on tumblr or twitter terms like that are thrown around without any background or meaning. You seem to already have an issue with what OP directly said. Direct meaning isn’t a dogwhistle. I can guarantee you that OP dislikes transphobes, so there isn’t even a hidden meaning behind what you already disagree with. If neo-nazis (people who actually use dogwhistles especially in real life public settings) were using dogwhistles like that a lot of people in law enforcement etc would have much easier jobs. So no, dog whistles don’t work like that. In fact I have yet to see an actual dog whistle when tumblr calls one out. What OP talked about is basic knowledge, proven by statistics and historic records over and over again. If facts in regards to feminism are “problematic” then we are heading for some wild times the next decades. I also don’t quite grasp how what she wrote has anything to do with trans people. I heavily dislike how we are using terms such as “transphobia” “dog whistle” etc to describe the most basic grounds of feminism. Also painting it as if trans people are somehow all inherently opposed to feminism or the fight against patriachal structures. Which in turn at least my trans friends would find quite insulting. This is such a great example of how tumblr shoots itself in the seemingly progressive foot. In the sense of “Hitler was a vegetarian, let’s cancel animal activism” we are cancelling truly progressive, useful terminology and facts because some people who are deemed problematic are also using them alongside things we don’t like. Ultimately damaging progress in the name of owning whoever we want to own. I’m seeing this in a lot of instances, not just with this example. This is not meant in a mean or condescending way but seriously, without a personal moral compass all of us are in danger of falling for blind ideology and hollow buzzwords. I love when people disagree with me because it makes me question my own opinion and gives me an opportunity to expand or change it. But just talking about how something is problematic because it uses certain words isn’t an opinion I can argue against or expand my own knowledge with. It’s like a cardboard cut out of an opinion and I know I will only argue against buzzwords instead of against true arguments. If you are interested in discourse or theory or want to know where I come from: I base my current socipolitical ideological framework roughly around Engels “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”, which gives a great overview of material thinking in regards to class analysis even though I am not agreeing with him on everything. But it’s more about HOW to think and not WHAT to think. It gives some good food for thought regarding feminist class analysis in a capitalist framework though. For data and statistics I recommend “invisible women” by Caroline Criado-Perez and the Women’s Atlas (there are new ones every few year I think?). It’s mainly just numbers and you can form your own opinion based on that. A lot of times there are pdfs of these books floating around somewhere. And lastly: This and my main blog focus on feminist issues and just... on women and my attraction to women. Under “mp” on this blog (blood-and-poetry) you can find some of my posts about TV shows and characters that will paint a pretty clear picture on what my personal views are. If you feel uncomfortable with that (which is fair. I have some strong opinions) you can of course unfollow me. Again not meant in an “ugh go away stupid anon” way but in a “maybe we just don’t have anything valuable to contribute to each others life” way. Despite all of this I am thankful for your kind tone and your honest concern! In turn, I am showing some friendly concern and I hope you can read it as such. Take care anon

[grimmshood]

So your completely fine with ace but they decided that just because you were uncomfortable with a single headcanon that you’re all of a sudden this ace exclusion isn’t?!?

now to clarify i would be considered ace exclusionist. i will be honest with you because people are uncomfy with that! but i dont care about the situation enough to obsess over it. if i meet lgbt ppl irl them including aces has nothing to do with me and is fine. asexuals including themselves is fine. if you arent hurting anyone, i dont care if you call yourself lgbt no matter how much i dont agree with you. in the past ive been more of an ass about it but these days i really so not care unless you are using aphobia to spread harmful rhetoric, like saying that cishet aces aren't lgbt is terf rhetoric or things like that, because people do say that and im not ok with that! but otherwise if youre ace and call yourself lgbt FINE i do not want to argue with people over it bc its 2022 im about to be 21 i have so many bigger problems than worrying about ace discourse. because asexuals themselves inherently i have no problem with them!!!!!! if u are proud of being ace awesome good for you!!!!

the problem is being framed like a dangerous horrible individual for having genuine criticism towards headcanons that can be harmful! i think ace claudette is awesome even if i hc her differently, but as someone who's struggled with sexuality for a long time especially as an autistic person and with trauma, ntm being and percieved as a woc, knowing that autistic people are frequently infantilized abd desexualized, and that this is even worse towards black women, seeing a specific person make headcanons that imply white autistics are allowed to be sexual beings but a black autistic girl isn't made me EXTREMELY uncomfortable and felt racially charged at the time that i said that abt ace claudette. and thw response i got was GETTING YELLED AT BY A WHITE PERSON FOR REBLOGGING ART OF THE HEADCANON BY AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PERSON.

like if you dont like me because you think im aphobic for not thinking cishet aces are lgbt fine! whatever! your comfort is your own! but calling me aphobic bc i had genuine criticism about a headcanon being racially charged is not a good look especially not if youre a white person lecturing a person of color!!!!!!!!!

[omensgate]

Opinion Moon!

for THIS ask game

Sexuality Headcanon: oh .. it wouldnt be right for me to speculate .. that is her private life ! (i really dont know her well enough to tack anything down LOL i prefer lesbianism though. nonbinary robot lesbianism)

Gender Headcanon: (praying motion) Please keep my beloved robots from ever acknowledging gender

A ship I have with said character: i am slowly inching closer and closer to enjoying nsh x moon (lesbianism), i think nsh is just the right amount of silly -> malleable realism and its cute how he has saved her. (Though, i am not a big fan of nsh, but slowly becoming more endeared). I REALLY WANTED to draw 'whered you get this long bacon' 'long bacon store' meme with them but someone beat me to it with moon and SOS ARGEH!!! reblog that

A BROTP I have with said character: OBVS her literal bro five pebbles and their mutual friends!!!!!!! makes me smile big ASF!!!!

A NOTP I have with said character: im sorry ............................... i really hate seven red suns Period i dont want them near moon she deserves better . im sorry

A random headcanon: i copy n pasted fhis from when i answered for nightcat and straight up did not replace it. Uhm i have no ideas about her

General Opinion over said character: ok please poke me with a cattleprod for this one because it was a poor opinion no longer held but when i first got into rw i really did not care about her. i was pretty emotional and five pebbles is my favorite and my reaction to the five pebbles morality discourse was to have little care (THOUGH NOT HATRED! i just dgaf) towards moon. i have been enlightened since then. i love her! im sad when people water her down to being just sweet and pitiful which is really easy for a fandom (with a tendency to miss her assertive moments and scholarly pursuits). its really funny and lovely how kind of mean she can be (like if you run around too much near her or leave mid conversation). i need to see more of her and like as a person, not as a piece of cardboard with a kind words 'mom friend' soundboard installed. i think shes a beautiful piece of narrative too that shes decayed so much and still has the capacity for love even in the midst of so much loss and confusion

[pandatemper]

Ok I am hopefully going to became more active slowly so I thought I would make a post how I plan to run this specific blog and stuff.

1 . I will tag everything because I find it easier to find things and such. Its personal preference but that means it well take time for me to reblog. I find it draining to type a lot especially at the current point of time.

2. if I like it I well mostly reblog at some point. It well be slow but that's how i am currently. I also almost always put them in the queue

3. No fandom drama, discourse, or politics well be reblogged. I don't like it so I usually ignore it. I have very high anxiety and dont want to make people looking at the blog anxious as well.

4. Message away just know I am a introvert and anxious so I may take time to reply. I well be nervous at first.

5. If you make me uncomfortable with a topic I well tell you and ask you to stop but if you keep pushing that's your only warning.

6. Once I'm in a fandom I never really leave I just have current fixations.

7. If I make you uncomfortable or upset please tell me because I most likely won't realize because my social skills aren't the best.

Current fixation : Genshin impact and honkai star rail

[wendronwitch]

there’s always been this feeling amongst the fandom (that i’ve observed at least) that syrah deserved better. and i haven’t read the new short story that’s up, and i’m not sure i even will tbh, for the same reason i’m avoiding todhuntermoon - i don’t like the direction angie’s taking her characters in / can’t relate to them anymore (???) 

this is the year when i turn 21. 7 years ago, when i was 14, i finished reading the septimus heap series (it took that long because i was waiting for fyre to be available in my country.)  basically: i’m older now, and i’ve given this a LOT of thought.

most of you know i interact with angie a LOT on twitter (hell, she indirectly gave me song recs, and she liked a tweet i’d made about having had a crush on sep when i was a kid) and i find that experience truly magykal (hahaha) because !! this series that shaped my childhood in so many big & tangible ways and also, this series that brought us together, this series thru which i met so many wonderful people (some of whom are now like, my best friends ever) - this series that is so important to me in all the ways that matter - well ok lost my train of thought there but basically it’s a really special thing to be able to talk to the creator of the series and tag her in selfies and be like “hey angie i look like an eow apprentice today!!” and know she will see it and interact with it 

like that’s fun and that’s amazing 

but like. idk. at the same time obviously i don’t agree with her 100% all the time, there are things she’s written that i genuinely do not see as consistent or plausible (as somebody who GREW UP with these characters, as someone who saw these characters grow alongside me because i was literally reading the books when i was around the same age as them - i began reading them books when i was like, 8 or 9, and when fyre came out, i was 14)  given that, obviously, her characters exist super vividly to me outside of what angie says or how angie wants me to perceive them.

that’s why when some of you !!! at my fanfic it’s always the biggest compliment because these characters are always alive to me !!! i’m glad i was able to share them with you, too 

i don’t know. this was going to be a post about syrah. but i just.. want to say.. that ultimately, fandom and what we take from canon is exactly what we choose to make it. all of it is fiction, anyway. angie sage’s septimus heap isn’t alive in this world, but neither is my retelling of septimus. they’re all fictional, and they’re all magyk. and. i will post about syrah right after i hit post on this. just wanted to say

we can choose what we want to take. we can do whatever we want. 

don’t let a spinoff ruin the original magyk for you