#tts discourse

[brontes]

I had a thought today about all that vampires lose in the twilight lore. Sure sure they’re fast and strong and invulnerable BUT they lose the chance to earn things because of that. The Cullens are rich but like…that just happens when you invest for three centuries. They can lift incredible amounts of weight…but just by nature and not because they’ve built up to it. They build projects and make paintings and learn…but they will always lack the satisfaction that comes from managing those accomplishments amidst the regular demands of life. Edward was seventeen…he never got the chance to earn anything by the sweat of his brow or the burning of the midnight oil.

Beyond just the bloodlust, they miss out on the regular daily challenges that make our time and pleasure meaningful. Something that is easily overlooked by teenagers reading a love story but honestly something heartbreaking to contemplate.

[antiquepearlss]

I’m too tired to post an essay but my girl was just a victim of bad writing and a lack of critical thinking from the audience okay I love her.

[genuinely-bad-posts]

how do you go about finding genuinely bad posts?

I follow your blog

[system-of-a-feather]

I think there is a lot of an issue with gatekeeping and term policing around terms expressing an individual's ability to use certain words around verbality and a lot of implied hierarchy of speaking-issues needs within the CDD community particularly. I fully understand the issues with verbal and semi-verbal people taking up the space and making it hard to find resources for non-verbal people; but I do think rhetoric, method of discussion, discourse, and advocacy has more or less created this pressure of "are you speaking-impaired enough" and "my struggle is real and yours is 'just' a trauma side effect" sort of underlying subtext in how a lot of these discussions are handled.

I think the discussion on the usage of words like non-verbal and semi-verbal is incredibly important, especially for a community that is so frequently Literally Talked Over; but I also think we need to be mindful of not making this into something invalidating of systems and parts that have significant speaking issues.

Yes it is different to be a part that can not speak with parts that can speak than it is to be a person who can never speak no matter what.

Yes those experiences are absolutely different, but parts who can not speak in a system / whole that can still have significant struggles and experiences in life that can be shared with individuals with speaking issues / non-verbal and semi-verbal individuals.

Those parts are not immune from experiencing discrimination in a verbal and speaking world and treating parts that are not able to speak in a system that is like "verbal people choosing to be unable to speak" or "verbal people with no idea what it is like to have significant issues speaking" is both very invalidating and not productive to the discussion of challenges individual who are unreliably-speaking and have speaking issues face in a largely verbal society.

I personally don't care too much about the verbage itself nor do I really know my place in the discussion, particularly in the imposed hierarchy as a system with parts that can speak, but with a large majority of our parts that are unable to speak and/or have signficiant speaking issues + Language Processing Disorder + Autism.

I was just expressing the challenges I as a part have with being motivated to allow people to perceive me and for me, as a part, to attend therapy is the expectation to be verbal and the immediate judgement that people make and assume when I can't speak. Me and our side system's experience of navigating a world that expects us to speak is not the experiences of a fully verbal individual.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I think we should stop talking about verbality in relation to CDD systems as a "verbal vs not verbal" and more as a spectrum of individuals with speaking issues and I also think we should stop minimizing the struggles of individuals with selective mutism and/or treating those individuals like they are "basically verbal."

[stanlunter]

How many heart attacks you think Lunter antis will have if they ever join Aracne fandom?

I mean, if they call Lunter incest just bc Luz said Hunter was a family, completely ignoring the whole context, what are they gonna think about Jayvik being the second most popular ship (beating even canon Jaymel) while Jayce has quite literally said he sees Viktor as a brother? Same with them joining Tangled the series fandom btw

Yk, I personally wouldn't give a shit about it, I'm completely fine with these ships, but the way Lunter gets so much hate over nothing, while the ships that according to the "fandom standards" suppose to be even worse, get so much appreciation? These double standards aren't just ridiculous, they're insane

And I don't know if there are many people who are in both Arcane & Toh fandoms, but I have seen Lunter haters who ship Cassunzel and this hypocrisy actually makes me sick, what do you guys think about it tho?

[ahalliance]

you know how it would be fucking crazy to assume every american is white . can we stop assuming everyone of a european nationality is white as well . thanks that’d be awesome 👍

[acreaturecalledgreed]

"trans positive" cis ladies will push bioessentialism, insist on 'safe spaces' being based on gender identity instead of needs, call men Evil Rapists, and label any woman who doesnt agree with them a "gender traitor"

and then be confused and wonder why trans ppl dont feel safe around them

[eggmuffinwaffles]

shana tovah 💖

[starlingstalk]

I believe people hate llorumi because of how she manipulated him with the whole princess act, and how 'abusive' it looks like. Personally, I can't see them as a couple but cheers for whoever likes it

It is def an abusive relationship but I feel like there‘s always this misconception with any ship that the people shipping it are not aware of that. It is part of what makes this ship so complex and I do not believe that is smth inherently wrong? Also idk if everyone that likes their dynamic and would call themselves a shipper sees them as a couple? Like yea they wouldn‘t be a couple.

Obviously, those are all things that come down to preference and it is within everyone‘s right to be uncomfortable with that! But I always find that there is just an overall hypocrisy in the way we police shipping culture. The right to explore any dynamic in designated spaces should not be reserved to a few people deemed as worthy and especially not to only those who have the funds to make movies about them. This is way more broad than Lloyrumi. It‘s a question of empathy and respect.

The argument „Fiction affects reality“ is upside down. Reality affects fiction. And if a person isn‘t able to understand that exploring certain topics in fiction does not mean that person believes those things are right, then maybe they should think about whether they are able to separate fiction from reality.

Maybe to name another „ship“ that I do feel the same about. Vex and Zane. I know there was some discourse about it a while ago. And the one thing I kept wondering was just: Why does everyone assume that 1. shipping two characters means completely disregarding the complex lore behind these characters and dumbing them down to a functioning couple? And 2. how is taking the exposition about a relationship that is already depicted to be abusive in the show and further adding onto it synonymous to condoning it?

And then you will get heaps of very thoughtfully written out passages about how these two tie into Zane‘s past relationships, how toxic they are ect. Clearly it is an interesting dynamic. And I read all of them cause they were right! And these are reasons that make ships interesting?? Because they provide a basis to add on to. The focus is not on anyone being a couple esp not with a ship that‘d be classified as a darkship? If you were to write about them without that label; would it suddenly be okay?

I 100% get being uncomfortable with it! But I feel like the bare minimum when trying to have these conversations that genuinely are very complex (partially because people have completely different definitions of things) is that we‘re not taking to harass each other. I made a similar point about DNI‘s recently. I understand not wanting someone to interact with you but to then go out and just constantly throwing jabs at the people you want to avoid makes me question whether there is any intentionality behind that DNI except making people feel shit.

Thank you for explaining it to me btw! I was quite unsure if that was the reason or if it was about how the show writes their relationship (which is why I‘m kinda not the biggest of them past s10).

[gocelot]

Something about how Cassandra’s lady in waiting dress represents her being forced to suppress her genuine self and fit into preconceived ideas of femininity as well as class structure and how we’re shown how much more comfortable she is in her more masculine presenting clothing because she’s no longer defined as subservient to royalty (especially rapunzel) or to her role as a woman

And then this contrasted with certain corners of the fandom where she’s presented in that same dress in heterosexual bliss

[octombre]

Honestly I think the madeline pendleton/Kat Blaque situation is hella weird and based on he said she saids from both Madeline Pendleton and Kat Blaque that are getting flamed by each other respective followers in their comment sections and this has so many directions and layers of discourse that no one in their comment sections seem to be willing to engage with it outside of online discourse identity politics.

[never-quite-buried]

It’s genuinely depressing watching people rooting for the tiktok ban on tumblr. “Yes get rid of the misinformation pipeline!” as if I wasn’t lowkey tracking black salve facebook groups or the weird urine cults on Twitter 10 years ago. Misinformation and the algorithms that feed it to you were not invented by tiktok and they will not go away just because the gov has shut down a single app.

[clarabowmp3]

last night I watched like 60% of that kurtis conner video on a hallmark Christmas movie based off of taylor swift/travis kelce and not only did he do a fantastic job (as always) I think it shows the gross oversimplification and hence unhealthy romanticisation of their relationship. travis isn't just your average 'aw shucks' star athlete - he regularly socialises with problematic friends and family who he shows no interest in cutting off. taylor isn't just a sweet innocent popstar princess down on her luck (like any other person she's a complex human being and it is offensive how they reduced her fictional counterpart to that) - she's done some pretty questionable things like entertaining/socialising with travis' problematic circle, her handling of the ana benevides death etc.

but this movie shows how the public perceives/is meant to perceive their relationship, in a way that leaves out these ^^ important details

(also that plotline about 'bowen sykes' (aka taylor swift) having low sales for a Christmas album which she says she wrote 'for the fans, not the public' - lmao???? this makes it so blatantly obvious how you have to twist certain aspects of reality just to manufacture a feel good rom com!) (also SO ANNOYING to have a one dimensional damsel in distress plotline!!!! how boring and uncreative!!!!!!!!!! BOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[scarefox]

me whenever the tiktok algorithm starts to give me mainly just upsetting, discourse and opinion content because i got stuck on 1-2 for a minute too long

[babieken]

have you guys heard of this thing where they say that there are 5 types of men; eagle, fox, bear, dog, reptile? im tryin to categorize mx into this... what do yall think?

Kihyun is obv fox. like i think we can agree to that. shownu is bear too. but i feel like the rest aren’t as easy.... like i don’t think Minhyuk is dog... and obv there is no “cat” so where does that leave Changkyun? I think Jooheon is dog. Wonho... im stuck between bear and dog. hyungwon is reptile right?

[sculkcensor]

guys we simply HAVE to put the same energy towards AI art to AI voice use. idc if u want to hear ur fav streamer sing taylor swift or some actor tell u goodnight personally or whatever. using other ppls voice without permission is wrong and dangerous

how'd u feel if someone used ur voice to say whatever they want, even things you really don't agree with. it's especially bad when it's someone who's voice is their career (singers, voice actors etc) but its honestly so creepy and weird to do it to anyone. just stop using other ppls stuff (art, voice, anything) in AI shit. ur weird.