#we don’t judge

[backyard-birding]

Pov: I give you two tiny little wrens. What will you do now?

[afloralrib]

Castlevania: Nocturne s2 Spoilers

Maybe it’s just me (and the Olrox defender in me), but I don’t think the Olrox\Mizrak situation is as bad as some of you are making it out to be. Considering what we’ve seen, at least.

Was the whole situation ideal? No. Could it have been avoided? I guess. But, guys, what else was Olrox going to do? Let Mizrak die when he had a way to save him, especially after Mizrak had just told him he was afraid to die?

I don’t know, but that whole conversation really felt like an implicit request. Because Mizrak knows Olrox, knows what happened in his past, and was aware of what the risks of his situation were.

Of course, one could argue that Mizrak wasn’t entirely himself at the time, but would you risk that? Would you honestly be able to sit by the person you loved, watch him die, afraid, and do nothing?

I don’t think I would, tbh.

Regardless, it is true that the turning won’t be easy for Mizrak. He feels a very profound religious guilt, which won’t be easy to overcome. He will likely also blame Olrox at some point, and the issue will need to be resolved.

However, it’s nothing that can’t be dealt with and be developed—even if that development ends up being a tragic one. That doesn’t make Olrox—or even Mizrak—the villain of this story.

I seriously don’t even understand how the turning of Olrox’s past lover can be taken as anything more than a general parallel when we don’t know the whole story.

And, honestly, I do feel like Mizrak and Emmanuel’s last conversation—before Emmanuel died—foreshadowed Mizrak’s path a bit. Because, while being completely different, Mizrak eventually developed Emmanuel’s same fears about dying.

And that is part of what lead him to a new path.

[blueskyheadleft010]

When Warframe 1999 comes out, fully expect me to just vanish into a nostalgia cloud for like a week.

I have wanted nothing more than to sit in a desolate mall eating pizza and listening to evil Backstreet Boys sing their siren song of peace and love. I mean, there’s also a love quest and motorcycles, but honestly I’m just here for the grub…

[overratedandpathetic]

What's your family like? I mean, we know Adam, but what about the rest of 'em? Even your perspective on Adam would be interesting to see

Well, alright, you want my perspective on my family, including Adam? Alright, here we go.

Adam's my brother, and the person I care about most in this Hell of a life, and it's always been that way for me. All I want is for Adam to have everything he could ever want and to be okay, and it looks like he's already most of the way there. I'd talk to him more, but he doesn't need me, all I do is ruin things, he needs more than me. Mom and Dad just suck and there's not much else to say about them, they're nobodies who play favorites, try to get in my good graces while shitting on my brother, I won't let them in. I've never really talked to any of my aunts and uncles, one even died before I really got the chance, but I talk to most of my cousins, I mean, you've seen cousin four-eyes around here, right? Most of my cousins look up to me, I'm the oldest and I carry that burden on my shoulders. They're all cool, though, some might be a little dumb, a little bit of a loser, a little wild, or just plain odd, but I don't care, I like 'em anyways.

[trashogram]

What’s a canon Hazbin Hotel and/or Helluva Boss pairing you despise? For funsies :)

[fanficfox]

it’s called having a porn addiction, honey😭😭

yeah…. :(

[hispumpkinqueen24]

Every time I show a crack I’m the bad guy 😞 I’m tired of it.

[stexnem]

Max: actually teaches baby Oscar how to swim, holds him in the water and reassures that he won’t let go of him

Charles: threw him off his yacht into the sea with “He has my monegasque genes, he will survive”

[lilliejareau]

“we listen and we don’t judge.”

penelope: one time reid gave me a tiny potted plant but it turns out it was actually plastic and he didn’t know so i pretended to water it for three years.

bau: we listen and we don’t judge.

JJ: sometimes when Henry wakes me up by jumping on my back, I feel like throwing him across the room for a split second.

bau: we listen and we don’t judge.

emily: one time when I was mad at Morgan for not sticking up for me during a case, I dipped his travel toothbrush in the toilet and didn’t rinse it off after and he used it about an hour later.

morgan: bitch what?!?

emily: we listen and we don’t judge!

[dollishmehrayan]

WE LISTEN, WE DON’T JUDGE TREND ── .✦

A/n: so there’s this trend on TikTok where it’s like “we listen we don’t judge” and I couldn’t stop thinking about batboys doing this (here’s the trend -> trend) SO UM YEAH.

(tags: batboys we listen we don’t judge trend.)

All of them: we listen, we don’t judge.

jason: "I once stole the Batmobile because Bruce wouldn't let me drive it, then parked it in front of Crime Alley like it was a trophy."

Dick: "And you’re proud of that?"

Tim: "He said we don’t judge."

Damian: "But I am judging."

── .✦

All of them: “We listen. We don’t judge.”

Dick: "I once did an entire patrol in sequined tights because I forgot my suit, and honestly? Gotham didn’t notice."

Jason: "They definitely noticed, man."

Tim: "Still doesn’t top the mullet plus, discowing, plus-“ *cue dick shushing him with his finger aggressively*

Damian: "Disgraceful, I don’t associate with you imbeciles.”

── .✦

All of them: “We listen. We don’t judge.”

Tim: "I once fell asleep on a rooftop during patrol and woke up to pigeons sitting on me, back when I was robin I think.”

Jason: "Bro, how do you survive Gotham?"

Dick: "Better question—how did we not find you?"

Damian: "this is why I try to escape you guys.”

── .✦

All of them: “We listen. We don’t judge.”

Damian: "I once released a venomous snake in the Batcave to test Father’s reflexes."

Jason: "See? This is why nobody wants to come near you within a 6 mile radius."

Tim: "I still have nightmares from Bruce’s screams.”

Dick: "Bruce does too, I heard him screaming about snakes the other night, no wonder why.”

── .✦

All of them: “We listen. We don’t judge.”

Duke: "I once wore a full frankstein suit to school for spirit day... because I forgot it wasn’t Halloween and like mixed up Halloween and spirit day up.”

Jason: "I’m so proud of you."

Damian: "Jason can go dress up like frankstein because he doesn’t need to color the scars or stit-“ *cue jason leaping from his seat towards damian*

Dick: “WHAT THE FUCK-“

── .✦

*video ends with jason and Damian sitting on the couch in full body casts.*

[rcntlydcccased]

Ok guys…. Indulge me for a second……. @lullabyes22-blog fanfic has gotten me on the Melco train. This ship has grounds I PROMISE, go read this for real. And this. Just read all of it, actually. Good 😗👌 shit 😗👌

[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[effieotto]

we know so little about Effie’s personality out of her Escort persona and is so funny to me when i see someone saying that she and Haymitch could never work out because of their divergent personalities….

like, girl?? Which personality? we barely know her

I mean, Katniss had a clear beef with Effie during the whole book. She liked her well enough, but her Hype personality made her extremely uncomfortable, mainly because Katniss didn’t understand her -neither knew her. Peeta, in the other hand, had a deep, very sensitive relationship with Effie -he loved her…like he said himself, she was the best escort he could have asked for to support them through it all

So i think if… now that we know for a fact that Haymitch IS NOT canonically the same person as Katniss (deep inside, at least), but rather the lover boy -intelligent and funny like Peeta. Can we still support the idea that their personalities don’t match?

She was a hyper, she had absolutely no idea how to be thoughtful and she WAS brainwashed…but was she just that? If she got Peeta’s heart around her little finger in two years, can you imagine a decade?

[ocean-breeze-pier]

Trans guy talks about the issues with male hatred

It’s EXTREMELY frustrating the way that specifically cis women treat me as a trans guy. We are often acceptable targets for hatred against men because we don’t have the ability to oppress like a typical white cishet man (especially if you’re like me and don’t pass) so they can get away with it.

The more I think about why it’s so frustrating that the second a cis woman finds out I’m a man (after already misgendering me because I don’t pass), I get vilified and hit with sentiments that shitty men are hit with regardless of if it’s true or not.

It bothers me because a huge reason I didn’t come to terms with being a trans guy for awhile was because of my own feelings towards men. I’m a survivor of abuse from (mostly but not limited to) cishet men and I was so traumatized from those experiences that one of my initial trauma responses was a really intense hatred of men.

I didn’t know how to process what was done with me. Not only that, but I was in a vulnerable place with no support system and super lonely. I discovered this community online that made me feel less alone (radfems). They would validate my feelings about men which felt good at the time but in the long run, wasn’t healthy. I started to be even more fearful because of the lens I saw the world through. I was even more scared to be around men and struggled to interact with them.

At the time, I identified as nonbinary. If you know anything about radfems, they’re more often than not transphobic. So as a byproduct I did end up seeing that stuff from time to time despite my focus on during my time as a radfem being stuff concerning cishet men specifically. During this same time period it is no coincidence that I suppressed my gender feelings even more, presenting feminine despite it feeling hollow. I wanted to fit in. I felt like this is what I had to do. I felt like since men are evil (radfem rhetoric, not what I believe now), I cannot associate with masculinity. That if I relate to men in any way I’m a traitor and it’s an insult to me as a woman (bc ofc they saw me as a woman).

These circles are insanely predatory. It’s one big echo chamber. Even though at the time I was involved in that community, I still identified as nonbinary. That never stopped. But I was so self hating that I would let them all misgender me and refer to me with an emphasis on my agab. I tried to be lowkey about my identity. I knew if they found out, I would be ostracized as I had seen them do to others. They were either super pitiful towards trans men or they were very hostile towards them, viewing them as gender traitors who were just trying to escape oppression. Plus I was so ashamed of who I was and desperate to fit into a community where my trauma towards men was validated. This is why when radfems interact with me now in the present day, I am so over it. Like I was already fell for this shit once. I’m not going to again. Fuck yall from the bottom of my heart.

This combined with how my abusive exes would treat me led to me hardcore repressing my gender. The abuse I experienced was not solely about my gender, but it played a huge factor. These men would invalidate me so much that to this day, my internalized transphobia is horrific. They really tried to push me to be more feminine and would refer to me in invalidating terms. Telling me I would always be a woman and just needed to accept it. The constant misgendering. It really mirrored that of how the radfems treated me. Like who I was came down my genitals. Like I didn’t have a say in who I was. That they could tell me who I was.

So when I see cis women hit me with the same types of shit that radfems would say about men it takes me back. The fact I get treated similarly to the way abusive men get treated except simply on the basis of being a trans guy… I think it’s fucking capital W Whack.

I haven’t ever opened up about this on here because I’m ashamed of that time in my life. But I want any trans radfems to know it’s possible to get out of that. You can find community elsewhere. To them, you’re just a pawn in an argument. They will never see you for who you are.

And to the man hating radfems. I really do understand. Men have done fucking horrible things to me. But when I used to be stuck in that mindset, I was fucking miserable. Yes, sexism is a HUGE problem. But treating every single man like a threat is not going to solve anything, and by extension you’re vilifying marginalized men.

You can talk about sexism without acting like every single man is evil. The association between evil and masculinity prevents trans men from realizing who they are (which I’m sure you’re glad about) but it also sucks in general because if you hate how shitty men are, don’t you want a version of masculinity that’s not toxic? If you think men and evil are inherently linked, then what? No one can get better. I don’t want to live in a world where the only option is femininity like I used to believe. Femininity ≠ good and Masculinity ≠ bad

When you’ve experienced such toxicity, it takes awhile to untangle yourself from those harmful ways of thinking. For some people, all this shit is just discourse. For me, it shaped my life in ways I’m still suffering the effects of.

TLDR: Hatred of men + trauma played into me not accepting that I’m a trans guy

[kacievvbbbb]

I hate when people pretend like there’s not a whole world in between “a remake does not need to be and should not be a one to one remake of the original because then what even is the point” and “the changes that were made in this movie where made by someone that failed to grasp the charm or the spirit of the original and fail to understand what made people love the original in the first place”

It’s not being contradictory or obstinate it is literally just asking that these multi billion dollar corporations make an actually good movie instead of begging for pity points because look how we meticulously recreated this one scene while robbing all the charm and color from it while we burn the rest of the story around you.

God just make a good movie