#tw sa ment

[pinkobjectmilkshake]

I see Knives is trending on Twitter, but I wouldn't say it's exactly flattering for the birthday boy

[real-total-drama-takes]

i’ll never understand what goes on in the heads of the writers at fresh tv bc why would they give a character so much narrative potential and then center her entire character around molesting twinks. who asked for that.

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[isleofdarkness]

What infuriates you most about Descendants? From the plots to characters (from the books and movies)

"You're telling me we're stuck like this until Lagoona fixes some freaky flaw? Which one?! She has so many!" - Toralei Stripe, Great Scarrier Reef

Now you might be wondering how a Monster High quote relates to my answer, but that's how I felt. How could I name only one thing that infuriates me? All of them infuriate me in equal amounts. That's why it took me a while to answer this, because I was debating. Until I realized that most of my grievences fell under one thing;

The lack of any genuine thought and effort being put in.

We have the lack of continuity, how the books struggle to match up with the movies while nothing from the books is ever mentioned in the movies. The really interesting characters from the books and/or the really interesting dynamics they could present, we see none of them.

We have the racism. Li Liang and Li Susu have a German and *supremely* disrespectful and unlucky name respectively. The misogynoir, how they treated Uma, Celia, Audrey, and Freddie. Celia wasn't even bad, she was mischievous bordering on a bit naughty, but they treated her like she was a Villain villain. Uma was right and I will die on this hill. Audrey was humiliated, cheated on, and spelled into doing something she didn't want to. Freddie was actually better behaved than Mal, like sheesh. Queen Leah being the "old, bitter bitch" when she was traumatized and had every right to react as she did in the first movie (while Aurora, the good one, was white with a black mom and biracial daughter.) Ursula being nasty. Cruella being "crazy." There are probably more but I've forgotten them. Carlos, moving off of misogynoir, was treated like a baby. Facilier and Coach were the only two genuinely okay black people in the movies, and they said maybe three lines each and got two seconds of screen time. An Indigenous actor playing an Arabian man. Evie being Latina never being discussed (aside from her possibly falling into the spicy Latina trope in the first movie and book.) It was just so racist, like wow. I could do better even without research, and I hope to do a lot better with a lot of research Disney should have done.

It's not realistic. Jafar tried to rape a fifteen-year-old girl, the same age as his son. Claude tried to rape a sixteen-year-old, who could be the same age as his daughter for all we know. There are children on an Isle of rapists and murderers and people who torture others just for the hell of it, but Disney does not acknowledge how the three of them probably encountered someone who went through it, if not them going through it (Jafar totally would, just saying,) once. No food insecurity, no PTSD (let alone C-PTSD,) no kleptophobia, nothing showing the trauma and constant state of survival they lived in for their entire lives.

The villains are not the Villains. They are cartoony even by Disney standards. Evil Queen would have tried to carve out Evie's heart at least once (she did in mine.) Hades would never cheat on his wife (I headcanon that Maleficent did a love spell.) Hell, most of them wouldn't have survived childhood because their parents are Villains.

How did the wild magic never leak onto the Isle?

Mal has a half-brother. Why was that never bought up?

Why is everyone speaking in such heavy Ebonics at times?

Why did Li Liang have cornrows in the second movie? Her hair doesn't need protective styles like that and she's probably damaging it, on top of it just being not good.

The fucking names. Hadie. Harriet and Harry. Jay and Jade. Claudine. LeFou Deux. The Gastons I give a pass for because Gaston would really be Like That. Yzla. Disney, c'mon.

I already touched on this but where did Mad Maddy and her crew go? Where's Anxelin? And Li Susu? Hadie? Jade and Diego? Freddie and CJ? Where did they go? What did you do to them, Mal?

Mal drugged her boyfriend and I'm one of those people who counts nonconsensual kissing as SA, so she SA'ed him. This is never bought up even though holy shit, that's problematic.

Uma, Audrey, and Maddy had every right to hate Mal. Celia had every right to drop the Ember into a bird bath.

Mal tried to hurt and kill Evie.

Jafar hit Jay at least once in the books. Maleficent ignored Mal until she wanted to exploit her. Evie was starved and forced to reduce herself to a walking cunt to please her mother. A slave in ancient Rome would have been on a pleasure cruise for what Carlos was going through. But they are all dying to see their parents. Make it make sense, Disney. I would kill the person who hurt me *once* if I had half the chance, so why are they sprinting down the bridge to see their parents?

Bringing the Barrier down was a shit idea and Auradon is doomed, Disney. Maleficent was ready to enslave everyone and now she's free? C'mon.

Kids died on the Isle. Unless the Barrier keeps the kids alive. Either way, should probably mention that because some of these people would kill their kids.

Honestly, to keep from ranting for five more pages, there would be so much fucked up shit going on on the Isle and Disney makes it seem like there was just a touch of mischief going on there.

Mal is not a good protag and should not have been marketed as such.

Snow White would never insult Evie's styles like that. Cinderella would never raise her son like that. Alice would never raise her daughter like that.

Beast was legit doing a quiet genocide on the Isle, at least on the children.

How's the Underworld running without Hades? Is Thanatos doing it? He get bumped from guy with one job to managing the hardest domain to manage? What about Persephone? What's she doing? Auradon seems to be in constant spring so it looks like she doesn't get to manage the Underworld.

Gods are inherently magical being and no Barrier, no one (possibly Hecate herself, but we never hear about her,) could stop them from doing magic.

Fae and djinni are inherently magic. Cecaelias (and I'm betting mermaids) need to be born underwater. Nothing can take the magic out of the ocean. How did they prevent that, Disney? Tell me.

And-

I think I've ranted for long enough. There's so many plot holes that I can't even strain pasta through it because the pasta would fall out. There's so much disrespect for other cultures that I can't even think of an analogy. There's so little creativity that I was writing better stories before I knew how to write. Descendants is a spite project made to put EAH out of business and sell dolls and it shows. Disney, do better.

"Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to canon. Sometimes it's ninety-five things canon has done wrong nailed to canon's door." And mine is definitely the latter.

[babydxhl]

the doctor was mean but you called him a dumbass / and waited there all night / and then you said sorry / and it wasn’t mine, right?

[userarmand]

All... fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel. My maker's purchase.

[exmotranny]

the green carpet scratches at your pink heels. bile rises in your throat.

they talk about womanhood- but it’s not quite right. there is the pink and compliments and talk of boys

i am a beloved daughter

but there is also something else. it digs at your flesh, it feasts on your skin. your mother motions at your chest, bigger than hers and you're not even done growing yet! how lucky.

of heavenly parents

you pray to a man every night, finish it in another’s name. on your knees. you were sent a shady link as a kid. the woman on her knees, tears streaming out of her eyes, i don't want this, she said

with a divine nature and eternal destiny

blood on the inside of your underwear. you were told this meant you were a woman now. you were ten years old. what the fuck did you know about being a woman? your mom said you weren’t allowed to touch between your legs, but it's normal to want to. you didn't know what that meant, either.

as a disciple of jesus christ,

you wanted to be desired. you daydreamed of being the trophy for boys around you, of claiming that role one day as a wife. you came from a long line of women married young. you don’t know their names, but you were taught about their husbands in church.

i strive to become like him.

pressing your breasts down as much as possible, trying to give the illusion of a flat chest. badly cropped jpgs of jesus photoshopped to have top surgery scars are the secret currency you pay to get past the hours of church. you hold them like diamonds.

i seek and act upon personal revelation

you thought god was talking to you. you almost threw away everything you owned. you thought you were a prophet. total fuckin’ ego death! holy shit! god speaks through me!

and minister to others in his holy name

and then the next morning. when your faith crashed, when moroni abandoned you, did it feel unreal to you too, joseph?

i will stand as a witness of god

oh god, no. please. i don’t know what’s real anymore.

at all times

leg hair peeking from under your pretty sunday dress. they all stare. you ignore them and open up to D&C 132.

and in all things

emma, did you love him to the end? i don’t think you wanted him. did you watch as he married a 14 year old? did you tell him you burned the commandment? did you cry when he died for the church that he loved more than he loved you?

and in all places.

blood on the floor of carthage jail. this martyr will be remembered forever. do they talk about you, emma? or are you just joseph’s wife?

as i strive to qualify for exaltation,

when i marry, my husband will be a god, and i shall cleave onto him. when i marry, i will go to his universe and bear more of his children.

i cherish the gift of repentance

heads bowed low as the sacrament is passed. my hands clutch onto the bottom of my skirt. pleasure outside celestial marriage is forbidden. i apologize for loving the wrong way.

and seek to improve each day

i tried to kill myself, last time i got home from girl’s camp. i got home and cried and found the pills and shoved them into my mouth until i cried more and more until i was gagging. i hunched over the toilet. my hands on the grimy floor.

with faith, i will

forced to sing in front of the congregation. my head spun from anxiety. my stomach turned with nausea.

strengthen my home and family,

loving wife beautiful kids loyal husband church once a week work weekdays weekend mom monthly round on the business end of his cock forever and the vomit threatens to make an appearance.

make and keep sacred covenants,

an old man is in a room alone with me. he asks me if i masturbate.

and receive the ordinances and blessings

i tell the man no. i receive a card so i can be ordained.

of the holy temple.

that's just how it goes, isn't it?

all around are paintings of god and jesus. we learned about heavenly mother. why don’t i see her in paintings? did god have plural marriages? did heavenly mother make us? why don’t we pray to her? did she watch god marry a 14 year old? did she cover her eyes? when she saw blood on her underwear, was she told she was a woman? did she touch between her legs? did she ever believe herself better than god? does she cry when she cant talk to us? why do i cry? was heavenly mother scared of singing in public and did she press her chest flat and did she cry when god forced himself into her mouth? did she burn his doctrine too?

i am given flowers on mother’s day. i will be one eventually, after all. and i vomit in the church bathroom quietly like the perfect woman i am supposed to be.

[theofficialdailyplanet]

dick is constantly made to be the prime example of how dc is shit when it comes to male rape survivors and continues to either make them the but of the joke or hypersexualise them

i've already talked about how hbo changed the name in a gag they made abt tarantula raping nightwing - making him out to be whiny and implying no one cared about what happened

and now theyre continuing to hypersexualise him apparently making it a "major plot point" in season 4

was a fan of this show for how they changed ivys character from the sexualised female rapist to a chill, clothed, eco-terrorist activist that isnt a rapist (honestly one of the only iterations i can stand watching her in as it isnt insanely triggering like most of the dcau versions)

but whats the point if they continue to maintain the narrative that male survivors are constantly a joke? that theyre weak, whiny, annoying? that no one cares? honestly shame on dc- again

[magpod-confessions]

I’m so sick of the whole attitude people in this fandom have of “If you think these female characters are pricks, why don’t you hate the male characters just as much? Obviously it’s just misogyny.” First off, quite often I DO also hate the male characters just as much as the female characters with similar behaviors. I hate both Melanie AND Tim. I think they’re both frustrating to listen to, because I don’t like people who make their anger everyone else’s problem, regardless of how justified that anger might be. I’m an equal opportunity hater, and it’s very irritating to me when people assume otherwise.

Plus a lot of the male characters started out tolerable and then became more blatantly dickish over time, whereas characters like Basira, Daisy, and Melanie showed a lot of their most hateable traits (like being a cop or being an asshole to everyone around them) in the beginning and then got better over time. And it can be a lot easier to hold a grudge than it is to grow to hate a character you already like. Especially for me personally, because I’m very loyal to those who I like, but I’m really not the forgiving sort.

((CW for mentions of police brutality and SA) Plus, sometimes it’s just that some of the characters have shitty behaviors that feel more grounded in reality than others. As a kid, I was never told to be careful not to cross paths with a scary Eye man who will force me to tell him all my secrets. Because that’s not something that happens irl. But when I was younger, I WAS told not to fight back if an on-duty cop tried to rape me, because if they arrested me for assaulting an officer, it would be my word against theirs. So emotionally, I have a much stronger reaction to, say, Daisy doing police brutality than I do to Jon doing spooky shit, and I think I’m perfectly justified in that reaction.)

Anyways, I just want to be a hater in peace without having to try to prove that I don’t hate my entire gender. 90% of my favorite fictional characters are women. I’m allowed to have 3 fictional women who I don’t like.

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[crookedlysonkblog]

so many shitty parents in oshi no ko but tbh no ones doing it like taiki. like wtf is this:

my guy is rolling straight ones!! someone help him!!

[joeyclaire]

black mirror sex is violence moments of all time

everything about the national anthem, the prime minister must fuck a pig or someone will die

the netflix ending of bandersnatch (therapist seemingly comes on to stefan and he reacts by initiating a fight)

davis (loch henry) getting a boner when talking about the violent way his father died + everything about his parents’ crimes

mia (crocodile) putting on porn to hide the murder she’s covering up

david (beyond the sea) fingering his wife immediately being juxtaposed with getting the same arm cut off

the military (men against fire) can only have violent or sexual dreams

lacie and the suit guy (nosedive) hurl insults at each other as a form of flirtation

these camera angles in suad (among others, but these are the most notable)

definitely more i’ll add onto this later

[isleofdarkness]

"You saved me," Ben pointed out, and ooh, Harriet was really starting to wish she'd let Maddy Mim kill him. "So you can't hate me that much."

"Wrong, kid," She snapped, spinning on her heel to glare and jab a finger into his chest. "I fucking hate you. I hate you, I hate your mom, I hate your dad, I hate everyone in your family back at least thirty generations. I hate everything about you. I hate how because of your daddy, I had to learn what sex was so my dad could tell me about rape and teach me to fight when I was three. I hate that Ginny's been dealing with the guilt of not being able to save people with shitty equipment ever since she was four. I hate that while you and yours can eat as much of anything as you want, Ginny had to send her baby away because she can't eat enough to feed her. I hate that you gave those six little kids hope, that you gave every little kid on the islands hope, just to kill them slowly by sending them back after they saved your. Dumb. Ass. I fucking hate you and if I had a week I still wouldn't get through all the reasons why I hate you and yours. I hate how I, Harriet Emmaline Fucking Hook, am a better person than you. You know why?

"As much as I hate you, I'm a good enough idiot to not let you suffer. You came to the Isle, the fucking Isle, with your blond hair and blue eyes and not one goddamn ounce of street sense, like an idiot. Do you know what happens to idiots on this Isle, King Benjamin Florian Lyon?" She snorted, towering over him. "I wouldn't even let that shit happen to Maddy Mim and she tried to kill my babies. I would never stand idly by drinking tea or whatever the fuck you drink over there while children get raped and babies get sold and someone loses their kid every day. I would never, never, stand by while innocent people suffered, not even if they were guilty of something. You did, you do. So I'm a better person than you, I'm sure as shit a better person than your mommy and daddy, and you know what? That's terrifying as fuck.

"Who's the villain here, Benny? Us, or you? Let me tell you, sweetheart, it wasn't Facilier or my dad or Hades or Cassim who let a bunch of innocent people, innocent children, suffer on an island of rapists and murderers. I didn't trick kids into thinking there was hope they wouldn't be left to suffer until they died at twenty. I didn't give empty promises. I've been here, giving out food and clothes, trying to do the shit for the hospital that only gets one bottle of expired medicine every few years, trying to save these kids. And yet I'm the villain. You force innocent people to suffer, you kill kids, you enslave babies, you hurt all of us, you destroy our hope. And yet you're the hero.

"I hate you. I hate you so much hate isn't even touching on it. But I'm going to protect you, I'm going to give you food and clothes until they come rescue you, and I'm going to make you know. You will go back to your palaces, and you will know that you owe your life at best and your innocence at worst to me. You will know that every bite you eat was stolen from the mouths of little kids here. You will know that my babies sleep in crates while you sleep in a cozy bed. And you will know that, despite everything, I, the villain, am a better person than you and your parents. I hate you enough to curse you with knowing. Now get the fuck out of my cabin. I have innocent people to save."

[oathofkaslana]

god it’s hard talking abt bronya’s origins.

[pinkobjectmilkshake]

hot take: Vash wouldn't consent to romantic/sexual favours from his brother??? He loves them platonically, like a brother?

Just look at all the SA metaphors thrown Vash's way throughout the canons. Also note that Knives is responsible for most of these, and Vash CLEARLY DOESN'T LIKE HIS BROTHER DOING THAT TO HIM?!

[devourcr]

episode thoughts + headcanons

CLAIRE DON'T READ YET. spoilers under the read more.

i'll say first, i'm so fucking happy that they gave us a piece of armand's backstory ( however condensed ) and to give us armand being raw and vulnerable, it's beautiful. and i'll never stop being amazed at just how well he's portrayed. the acting in this show honestly leaves me astounded every week.

are we a little conflicted?

also yes. there will be, without doubt, moments where i'm not sure about some of the decisions. bc it goes against canon that is either very important to me or headcanons that are just so much a part of my portrayal and perception of armand that i can't reconcile it. that's a part of adaptations! also, i'm aware that this is a super condensed version of his story and he admits that there are fragments so my own headcanons and pieces of canon from tva will still exist on this blog and shouldn't be an issue.

southern gothic horror should be uncomfortable and i recognize that and i'm also glad that the show isn't sanitizing armand's past.

but down to the episode and how my canon will deviate a little.

armand being sold by his parents.

armand's father was, no doubt, an abusive pos, who exploited his son. but he also tried to save him when he was taken. and lived the next several years in guilt for failing to keep him from being taken. << this means a lot to me.

my headcanon remains that armand was taken from his father by force. given that the narrative can easily be spun by others and armand's own fragmented memory may not be able to recall those details, it may be that's what he was told when he was taken. it could have been less of a "violent" abduction and more trickery.

armand's skill as a painter isn't mentioned.

i'm not going to assume that that means that he wasn't a talented painter or a child prodigy, but i'm going to continue to make that an important part of his backstory. for my portrayal, his father will still try to exploit his painting for money. i want to say that maybe the ship was supposed to take him to a "job." to paint a portrait of someone, but instead, it was much more nefarious and resulted in him being given to the captain of the ship and later sold to the venetian brothel.

but aside from that, the fact that armand is and was an artist is such an important part of him. armand's avoidance of painting is such a part of his trauma and i maintain that it would be so healing if he picked up the brush again.

tbh i'm not ready to talk about my headcanons and feelings (about the adaptation or otherwise) regarding m.arius on this blog. i'm iffy and processing my own thoughts and feelings.

[antiradqueer]

Prats made a borderline ripoff of kandiqueer (awooqueer) and,, it is vile and horrible, I cant even type it all out because it's disgusting, it supports "minors in kink" and fucking abolishing the age of consent

[pt: vile, abolishing the age of consent /end pt]

it is just a ripoff really, not even borderline, i only saw it today doing the carrd stuff

heres what i wrote for the carrd, its kinda a TL;DR on the label

Awooqueer, code : 🌈🐺🍼

"Biting those who say that they are getting groomed by radqueers"

RQ "Youth lib" centered, ProPara, Pro TransIDs, Pro Transramcoa or Transnazi.

Pro Incest, Pro MIK, Pro the abolition of the age of consent and age of majority, Pro MSM/MMP/CP, Pro "sexual education to being of any age.", Supports relationships between adults and minors, Pro conatct necro and zoo, Proship/Darkship, Pro cannibalism, "Intrage over chronoage", Pro "assisted suicide" and s/h, Anti Recovery, "Anti puritan"

and its very similar counterpart

Werequeer, code : 🌕🐺 / 🌌🐺

RQ "Youth lib", ProPara, Pro TransIDs, Pro Incest, Pro MIK, Pro the abolition of the age of consent and age of majority, Pro MSM/MMP/CP, Pro "sexual education to being of any age.", Pro Incest, Pro conatct necro and zoo, Proship, Pro cannibalism, "Intrage over chronoage", Pro "assisted suicide" and s/h, Anti Recovery, "Anti puritan"

[theofficialdailyplanet]

dc already makes fun of male rape survivors so often - ex. damien telling bruce he bad taste in women then saying this

and now, although they updated it in the show thank god, the hbo harley series making a joke out of dicks trauma with tarantula [short explanation tweet here]

even mentioning blockbuster SPECIFICALLY, they knew exactly what they were alluding to

its so fucking disappointing to see dc promote heros as inspirations then takes a very real and serious trauma men and boys who look up to them have - a real lived experience- and make it a fucking joke just mocking us

and the fandom is no better either making jokes about the assaults, blaming the victim characters for it, making excuses for the abuser characters, or jumping people who dont like the abusers like it genuinely makes me sick

tt sc's stolen from my mutual idk if theyd want me to put their @ or not