tiktok users are fucking killing me im sorry. just saw that one "if _ was a crime" trend with "if being gay was a crime"... you are aware that. it still is. a crime. in a lot of countries. people get the death penalty. you are aware of that right
and i'm sure that if i scrolled a couple of times after that video i would see some guy with one slightly feminine feature and the comments calling him "zesty" and asking him if "his gun is pink" as if that's normal and friendly behavior?? honestly it might be a reach but if someone shouted "gay!" at me in the street i would assume it wasn't an allyship moment, i would assume they meant it as something homophobic. you are ridiculing people for femininity and that's just not cool no matter how trendy the terms and copy-pasted comments are. sigh
[A video of a white person with long hair. Above their head are a bunch of screenshots of rude and homophobic comments.
They sadly say “Guys, these people said they didn’t like my gay pride patches”. In the background, the music is ramping up as they yell “So I bought seven more, bitch!” (laughing).
The video then shows him head banging and sewing the patches to the ceiling of the car where a bunch of punk, heavy metal band, and other assorted patches are already. End Description.]
[ID from alt: The first GIF shows a realistic eyeball cake being cut in half, the second GIF shows a jelly eyeball being squished, and the third GIF shows a realistic kidney cake being cut in half. End ID]
saw a tiktok about a schizophrenic man committing a violent hate crime and a lot of the comments were fearmongering about schizophrenic people in general, not the specific situation. and it just got me thinking about how schizophrenia is treated in media and the news, how you only hear about schizophrenic people when they’ve committed a violent crime, how society says these people need to be locked up in mental institutions for their own good, and like. i feel like people don’t understand that bodily autonomy applies to everybody. yes, even truly awful people. and truly awful people who happen to be mentally ill are not awful because of their mental illness, the two are totally unrelated. obviously, someone who’s committing violent hate crimes should not be allowed to continue to do those crimes. but just because a person poses a threat, the way to neutralize that threat is not involuntary commitment. because when you start to shove the “bad” crazy people in mental institutions against their will, that opens the gates for all mentally ill people to be institutionalized.
I swear, if I don’t stop seeing people talk about how they think the duffer brothers are gonna pull a supernatural and bury their gays or how they think Will deserves better than Mike... I am going to commit a federal offense. All the comments are “oh they're for sure going to going to kill Will” or “idc if Will doesn't want better. Mike won't make him happy in the long run”
TW: MARGOT AND WILL'S STOMACH SCARS MENTIONED AND IMAGES (underneith the cut)
HOLY SHIT YALL IM BACK WITH ANOTHER REALIZATION
so i just realized that wills "c section esque" scar he got from hannibal in mizumono might actually look that way for a reason
it could be symbolic to a hysterectomy because hannibal took their child away, and had to give Will scar somehow. And i mean, will technichally is the mother, he killed abigail's father placing her in his custody- hannibal only helped with it. Just how the criminals in season 1 (angelmaker, georgia madchen, abel gideon, etc) and their crime scenes were DIRECTLY paralleled to the progression of wills encephalitis and the state of his mental well being, Margot getting a hysterectomy from mason basically directly parallels will getting abigail taken from him.
Also, Margot choosing to have sex with Will specifically, and the child coming into their lives and then almost immediately being taken away (BY HANNIBALS DOING) forshadows abigail coming back and then almost immediately after, her death. Will empathized with margot (WHO HE KNEW WAS GAY, or at least hannibal did, it was stated in the script but was cut from the final product) about the lack of a child, which is literally the only reason had sex with her (he thought about the stag man the whole time anyway...)
This one specific conversation in the episode Tome-Wan is very important. Will says to hannibal, "you're fostering codependency. isn't that what you did to abigail? got her to take a life so she would owe you hers?" That's exactly what hannibal is doing to margot- trying to get her to kill mason so she would owe herself to hannibal. it also connects abigail and margot in a way.
continuing the conversation, will says "i bond with abigail, you take her away. i bond with barely more than the idea of a child, you take it away... you don't want me to have anything in my life that's not you." Hannibal, knowing very well the consequences, told mason about margot's plans and had the child taken forcibly away from her.
Hannibal also directly took abigail away from will, by cutting her throat in front of him. both of these things ended with a scar, margot's from the hysterectomy, will's from hannibal's knife, but it looks oddly familiar to margot's. Also remember, right before wills and margot got together, the two of them compared scars. (MORE ANALYSIS UNDER THE CUT)
Also i know this is kind of a strange comparison considering mason and his intentions, but in the episode Naka-Choko, this exchange happens:
margot is unable to kill mason because despite all the horrible things he does to her, deep down she still loves him and can't bring herself to do it. who does this sound like to you? yep- Hannibal and Will. Now bviously hannibal and will's love is very different from the verger's, but it's still a parallel
i can't believe i didn't realize it before but there's a LOT LOT LOT of parallels between hannigram and the vergers. one of them being they all were with alana (minus mason) 😭
thank you to a post by this user on tiktok for helping me realize this (idk why it won't let me link)
anyway, happy c2e2!! take cool pics w/ mads and hugh! i'll be watching the live stream of the panel tomorrow!
(i think thats everyone, just please dm or ask if i missed you. or if you wouldn't like to be tagged <3)
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i dont appreciate people being negative. like all the time. im extremely good at reading people, so if i feel like you are lying about your problems, i will block you. its happened too many times. my dms are open if you need to vent, but dont make it a regular thing. i have my own things to deal with, so i appreciate if you only vent a few times - make it occasional.
also please dont block me outta nowhere. i wanna know what i did, please.
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A question for Astarian stans and deep divers because its bugging me.
TLDR: Tiktok user claims PC is SA'ing Astarion in first half of his romance arc and I am asking if I am missing something.
TW: mentions of player character allegedly commiting SA against Astarion.
Deeper context under the cut.
A few days ago i saw a tiktok vid about Astarions romance route that bothered me.
In this tiktok the user claimed that she never wants to do Astarions romance route because, according to her, you have to SA him in order to do it.
She implies that the fact he believes that he has to sleep with the PC in order for them to help him means that going along with his "simple plan" whether or not the PC would realistcaly know that's what he is doing is SA'ing him.
To me this doesnt make sense in the slightest.
From what i have played of the romance in question, it is clear to me that Astarion amd Astarion alone is the one even pursuing the relationship in the first place.
He is the one who intiates the first flirty dialogue in the game.
He is the one who activly seduces the player with flowery words and naughty sugestions.
He is the one activly offering himself up and giving the PC the choice whether or not to reciprocate.
And if your approval isnt high enough, he is the one who rejects you at the tiefling party.
The PC only gets to pick whether or not they let him succeed with his "simple plan" or not.
Far as i understand, SA occurs only when the assualter who often knows exactly what they are doing, forces themselves on the victim bu either literall force, coercion, or taking advantage of the victums vulnerabilit, I.E. being a minor, being mentsally disabled, used a drug etc.
And from what i have played, thier is only one point in the game that the above can happen and it is an option the player has to activly choose after Astarion tells the PC he doesnt want to have sex again until he figures out what he wants.
So, I ask, is there ant evidence to the above claim or is this user seeing something that isnt there?