#you’re all dismissed

[my-quirk-is-fred]

Hey y’all! Little unimportant announcement but I am making some one piece fics in a separate blog. Link will be here: https://www.tumblr.com/freds-one-piece-fics

That’s it. I’ll be back to drawing ✍️

[bestboy-huan]

The girlboss-ification of Galadriel bothers me so much. In the books, in Tolkien’s works, Galadriel is a powerful political leader, even by the second age. She is a princess of the Noldor, the daughter of Finarfin. She is proud and respected.

In the Rings of Power, she is nothing more than a bitter commander in Gil-Galad’s army. She can’t even control her own subordinates. (They call her “Commandeer Galadriel” not “Lady Galadriel”!) She is ignored by Gil-Galad and condescended to by Elrond, she is dismissed and rebuked. She has no influence and no status of her own. So far in the show, her motivation is just vengeance and her own trauma, there is no greater consideration of the fate of Middle-Earth, no political aspirations, no nothing. Her identity becomes one of being Finrod’s little sister, not a leader of her own.

In the Unfinished Tales, there are many inconsistencies in Galadriel’s history, but none of them suggest this powerlessness and this humiliation.

I don’t care if they make her out to be a warrior or not, I don’t care if she leads people into battle or not, I do care about her political power.

They say they are centering female characters, which would be great, except they are disempowering her. I would much rather see a woman in a position of influence and respect, than one who is good with a sword. This is Galadriel, who refused Feanor, one of the greatest elves of all time, when he asked for a strand of her hair, and in Rings of Power she becomes a cast-away who is thrown around, ignored, and manhandled by those around her.

I understand the need to have room for character development and growth, but this is not that. It’s such a performative attempt at feminism, she is a classic 2010 female protagonist. One who is good at fighting, who is the underdog, who doesn’t allow herself to be kind or gentle or have emotional vulnerability, because the writers forgot what female empowerment actually looks like. A woman with dignity and political power is so much more important than a woman who can carry a sword.

[jigokuhana]

ngl i think the most ignorant thing you can say about foreign music as an english speaker is that you ‘dont understand the lyrics’ as an excuse to not listen to it.

if you dont like the vocals, fine. if you dont like the instrumentals, fine. if you dont like the beat, fine. those are legit reasons based on your personal taste.

but saying you ‘dont understand the lyrics’ just tells people that you arent willing to expand your horizons beyond your immediate and base understanding.

do you understand every english speaking song? do you understand the meaning behind every english lyric & harmony choice? do you understand every double meaning of an english phrase?

unless you’re the composer, you will never fully ‘understand’ any song, english or not. to remain willfully ignorant of foreign music on that basis is to deprive yourself of the beauty and fun of other cultures, and to stay in your own little bubble where nothing can challenge you and what you ‘understand’.

…it also tells ppl that you’re a lazy fuck who can’t be bothered to do a simple google or youtube search for translated lyrics.

[carefulfears]

it’s actually all about the beginning of piper maru when skinner tells scully that the fbi is closing the investigation into her sister’s murder and she falls into that empty sad righteousness she so rarely openly expresses and she says

“You know, it's strange. Men can blow up buildings, and they can be nowhere near the crime scene but we can piece together the evidence and convict them beyond a doubt. Our labs here can recreate out of the most microscopic detail the motivation and circumstance to almost any murder, right down to a killer's attitude towards his mother and that he was a bed wetter. But in a case of a woman, my sister, who was gunned down in cold blood in a well-lit apartment building by a shooter who left the weapon at the crime scene, we can't even put together enough to keep anybody interested.”

and then she goes down to the basement, to a man who has looked for his dead sister in every room for 23 years, and he asks her what’s wrong then backs off when she signals him to, and tells her all about this resurfaced boat. latitude/longitude and russian subs and radiation burns and researching the wind patterns and nuclear tests sites before anyone else got there that morning. and she tells him that she is “constantly amazed” by him.

SCULLY: You're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions that any other agent would just throw away in the garbage.

MULDER: Well, that's why I'm in the basement, Scully.

SCULLY: You're in the basement because they're afraid of you. Of your relentlessness. And because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert, and tell you the truth is out there, and you would ask them for a shovel.

how much it means, in a world where so many things are ignored or dismissed, so many people are ignored or dismissed, to spend your life working next to someone who could be dropped anywhere and just ask for a shovel. who never stops looking, never stops caring, never stops wanting more for people, just because he believes they’re made for more.

[deityofhearts]

cheerleaders 🤝 equestrians (but specifically horse girls): your sport not being taken seriously by other people and being treated like a joke

[jewishbarbies]

it’s really fucking annoying when goyim come in halfway to a conversation between jews and start bitching about what we should be talking about instead. like, you’re seriously going to come on to a thread of jews talking about the antisemitism in the way people use Israel’s right of return policy to delegitimize Israelis’ indigeneity and all the other countries that do it but don’t get criticized despite their own histories of colonization, just to go “ummm acktually you should be talking about how the right of return is used to colonize palestine”. get out. get the fuck out. this is why jews don’t feel comfortable having conversations about these kinds of gray topics with goyim, because all you’ll do is intentionally misread the room and shout your moot point from the rooftops like you’re a hero and then whine and cry when it’s not taken well, not to mention you won’t even look into the people already participating and find out what they think BEFORE you assume everyone talking is just an evil zionist colonizer nazi. stay the fuck out of jewish conversations and unpack your fucking antisemitism.

[shitswiftiessay]

so the swifties are visiting my blog and they’re absolutely foaming at the mouth because i suggested that taylor isn’t radical or punk (god forbid). but they’re ignoring all the posts where i expose the rampant racism and misogyny in their fandom because they don’t give a shit about that. very telling and proving of my point about who they are as a fandom.

[novafire-is-thinking]

Brainstorm is that guy who would force his partner to take things like personality quizzes and attachment style tests.

Brainstorm: Hey Percy. Take this attachment style quiz. For science. :3

Perceptor’s result: Dismissive Avoidant

Brainstorm, an Anxious/Insecure: …I can still work with that.

[mabaris]

what gets me about the way the elven pantheon story has become “the gods are actually just very real, very powerful people” is that it’s now a criticism of power structures. when like, if you look to your right, you can see countries operating under feudalism

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

I always smh at people who dub Jason as “whiny” “and therefore ooc” in tt 29. If you died and all everyone did was taint your legacy, and not a single person remembered you fondly or deemed you worthy of commemoration after your death, wouldn’t you be a bit upset too?

[redheadbigshoes]

Have you ever noticed how a lot of people make LGBTQ+ issues revolve around lesbians somehow? I’m talking about intra community issues.

Like when lgbt people want to talk about biphobia or transphobia and they simply cannot talk about those two issues without blaming lesbians and generalizing lesbians.

Or when they want to talk about sexuality being fluid, that we know very well the target of that sentence is usually lesbians because people rarely tell gay men how they’re deep down bi or that their sexuality is fluid and that eventually they’ll find the right woman like people do with lesbians.

When us lesbians want like 2 seconds to talk about lesbophobia but we’re simply incapable of talking about it without being called [insert phobic], terf, radfem, or without being invalidated or silenced?

Or even when people want to talk specifically about terf and radfem ideology inside the community but they simply can’t do this without blaming lesbians and implying that ideology is only lesbians problem (as if people of other identities cannot also be involved with that kind of rhetoric).

It feels like at every chance of wanting to bring up issues inside the community a lot of lgbt people are incapable of not mentioning lesbians and blaming us over every single problem.

[altschmerzes]

getting real tired of people who are shitting on “found family” more generally as a narrative concept and specifically named familial dynamics in fan interpretation of characters in particular because it all seems to be getting painted with a really wide and really homogenous brush. “we need to take found family away from people because they think it all has to be In Nuclear Family Terms and do you know friendship exists and you don’t have to call these characters siblings to legitimize their relationship while making it clear you Don’t Ship Them Ew Gross and THEN you sneer at people who Do ship them” cool cool that is a lot of really intense characterization and assigning of motive to other people en bloc!

like sure there’s some meaningful critique to be found in a broad trend to label every single relationship directly and specifically with terms that have very specific contexts and roles but im waiting to be told when anyone IS by the standards of people making and reblogging these very sweepingly generalized posts allowed to call a relationship parental or whatever. is that Ever allowed. who is handing out the permits. sometimes a specific term for a relationship isn’t actually about wanting an excuse to sneer about your ship (and frankly there’s a lot of projection going on there imo from people who are actively sneering about other people’s interpretation of a relationship!) and it’s because there are very specific contexts and details about a dynamic that makes exploring it from the lens of siblings or whatever very rich and compelling and interesting because words mean things and assuming everyone is just being reductive and demanding conformity to a nuclear family is, ironically, really reductive.

so like. cool it. stop being really fucking mean about people having an interpretation of a dynamic you personally don’t like or makes you feel a little weird or uncomfy because you ship them.

[permanentreverie]

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[rosesradio]

it’s still wild to me how many people in fandom that will have that one ‘problematic’ ship, be it a slight age gap or a far-from-romantic canon character dynamic, and they’re just filled with this aching, exhausting guilt. they’re filled with this constant need to defend themselves with “i know it’s messed up but here look i changed this aspect please forgive me” and “i’m not like those nasty proshippers!!” like are you tired. don’t you want to lay in the grass on a nice autumn day, taking in the breeze and letting your mind wander without burden? the only reward for all this guilt is more guilt.

[butch4maryoliver]

the leftist sphere online and its insistence that nuance is critical while it completely waives it and transforms major issues into black-and-white is so….

[runninguplenorahills]

This is so random, but I’m studying for my linguistics midterm rn and I’ve arrived at the slides about Occam’s razor which has a follow up slide warning about oversimplification.

And it really made me think about some people on byler tumblr who basically just water down everything that is shown to us in the source material (not just about byler), sometimes even fully disregarding canon information, in the name of Occam’s razor.

It’s the same thing with people who state the exact opposite of what the creators say about the show and pretend like they’re in the right because they’re film students.

Yes, production errors happen and Occam’s razor is valid but if the source material and the people involved in making it directly state/show that they’re being incredibly precise to the point where it doesn’t make sense that very easily avoidable inconsistencies in costume design are just “production errors”, and that we have to look beneath the surface because the simplest explanation does not reflect the truth of what is happening, then maybe Occam’s razor and the fact that you learnt that production errors can occur just aren’t as relevant to this show as you think they are.