#very brave

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

i just want everyone to know i’m being very brave about something very difficult right now. (i’m complaining and i’m at work and it’s monday and it’s raining).

[angstics]

ive been thinking about how the last mcr was active, social media was barely a thing. they used twitter a little but most of their fan interactions and announcements and such were through their website (and email). which is absolutely a defunct thing nowadays. and with how they came back to mcr “on their own terms”, i wonder how much of the known “no press” terms also meant “no social media”, which is primary press for both growing an audience and maintaining relevancy nowadays

[honeyedlashton]

My job……it’s just Lashton

[iinryer]

i would also like to know more about the self indulgent boxing fic 😌 ty ty

my stupid little this-is-for-me fic…

WELL for those who do not know me, i go boxing once or twice a week and it is my favorite thing i do every week, and so of course I have to be extremely obnoxious to my friends and have opinions whenever any of the firefighters throw punches fhdhdhd anyways it led to me wanting eddie and maddie to train together so. here is the beginning of this thing lol

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It’s just after one in the afternoon when Eddie’s phone buzzes loudly against the hard wood of the dining room table across from where he’s folding laundry. He sighs and tosses the threadbare sleep shirt back into the basket so he can reach over the mountain of dryer-warm towels to grab it before the call rings out.

He feels his stomach drop and cold fear zip down his spine when he sees the name lighting up his screen.

Maddie Buckley calling…

Eddie almost drops the phone into the basket too when he scrambles to connect the call and bring it up to his ear. Without preamble, he blurts out, “Is he okay?”

There’s a inhale and a series of sounds of starting and bailing on words before surprised laughter fills Eddie’s ear. He deflates and lets out a mortifyingly relieved huff.

“Wow, okay,” Maddie says, a smile in her voice, “apparently we need to talk more if that was the only explanation you could conjure up for getting a call from me,”

“I guess so,” Eddie says sheepishly with an embarrassed laugh, rubbing at his jaw, “uh—hey. Hi. What’s up?”

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[wip game: ask me about my wips]

[lulujane]

ahem

Thank you for observing my awkward attempt to tumbl.

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[helloitshaley]

Its very brave of Taylor Swift to have FLORENCE FUCKING WELCH on her album

[funsimplethings]

[opia-jpg]

not exactly inktober but! i will try to draw a quick cat doodle every day of october..... i just think they're neat

[murochico]

very interesting that the beatles have an album where they're all fucking each other in the street

[suiheisen]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[gabbagepatch]

Listen guys, you don't need to look nice to go outside. Your health is more important than appearances.

I just went on a walk in my pajamas, greasy hair in a shitty bun, acne, and a pair of new balance sneakers. Cars passed by and I said hi to everyone who passed. Did I feel self-conscious? Of course, but it was worth it.

Now I feel a lot better, because I didn't A. Overextend by forcing myself to shower/get dressed/put on concealer beforehand or B. Avoid doing anything because I felt like a mess.

Go outside and be however you are. It's not your job to look good to random strangers, you deserve to go outside.

[utane]

Bravern and his anxious emotional support human Isami

He is wearing one of those harness' you get for a nervous dog 😂😂

[spidertams]

Felt like sharing my oc Mireia! She often glitches like a vhs and likes to play the bass

[sarasade]

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

[kikker-oma]

If sketch requests are still open, I wish to see Wind, Four, Hyrule, and Time playing Monopoly.

Four is a smart man who values his life😳