#your “acceptance” is just repackaged invalidation

[maerhiya]

"aros/aces can still date and/or have sex!" i think it's really fucking weird that you guys always jump to the possibility that an aro/ace can feel attraction and hardly focus on the parts that don't feel attraction (aka the parts that make an aro/ace, you know, ARO/ACE).

why must you always assume that wherever an aro/ace lands on the spectrum can fit your expectations???

[firelxdykatara]

gods, ok, apparently i’m not done.

atla fandom? we need to have a chat.

(....ok that made me sound pretentious as fuck. and maybe i am, but this needs to be said, cause i’m getting....real, real tired of a Certain Corner of this fandom and as a result, this is gonna be a discourse-heavy post so feel free to scroll past if that’s not your bag. as always, my salt posts all carry the catch-all #salt for ts tag, which you’re free to blacklist/filter at your leisure. i’m Very Annoyed at the moment, which will probably come through in the following post, so just. yknow. be prepared for that. or ignore it, that’s perfectly valid too.)

under a cut bc i do care for my followers and their sanity i swear lmao

there’s a real serious issue in this fandom with not understanding what queer terminology actually means or implies, especially when applied to a fictional narrative.

i’m specifically talking about ‘coding’, here. (if i were in a more meme-y mood, i might have said ‘the atla fandom found out about the term “gay-coding” and haven’t shut up since’.)

to the people who say ‘zuko is gay-coded’, i have this to say: you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means. because he isn’t. i’m sorry, but he’s not! and the fact that this is such a prevalent claim in this fandom is distressing, bc it says to me that none of y’all know what gay-coding is or when and how to apply it! please, i’m begging you, go and look up these terms and what they mean and when they should be used before actually trying to plug them into your critical analysis, because when you misuse them and then call other people delusional for disagreeing with you it casts a pall over the entire fandom and is, i think, the root of some of the worst toxicity this fandom has to offer.

and the thing is, there are cases where gay-coding would apply--for instance, a couple series that are famous for queerbaiting their audience by coding their main characters as being attracted to one another (sometimes even despite their openly stated sexualities) come to mind, but those shows bare no similarities at all to atla and how zuko was written and portrayed! (and it would be funny, if it weren’t so obnoxious and infuriatingly wide-spread throughout the fandom, because the only queer couple we actually seen on-screen in either show wasn’t even queer-coded in any respect, and they’re canonically bi! [yes, i’m shading korrasami, or more accurately i’m shading bryke for refusing to give ka the build-up and development they deserved].)

this absolutely isn’t to say that headcanoning zuko as gay is a bad thing or invalid in any respect. (although the tendency for zukka shippers to do this specifically to keep zuko away from katara and/or invalidate his canon relationship/attraction to girls is more than a little eyebrow raising. especially since sokka is usually allowed to be bi, bc fans have no problem letting sukka stay in the background bc it’s no real threat, while jetko shippers are happy to have both boys be bi. [possibly bc katara is less a threat to jetko bc jetkotara is every bit as valid as any single ship between the three, but zukka can’t exactly let katara join in, and if the potential exists for zuko to be attracted to her then canon giving them the far deeper emotional bond becomes a threat to zukka’s existence? idk for sure--you be the judge.]) i prefer to hc zuko as bi (and always have, long before the atla renaissance), bc i don’t think zuko being attracted to boys is outside the realm of possibility, and it isn’t a threat to my ship since zuko&katara had a deep and emotional bond in canon that is very easy to develop further into something that becomes explicitly romantic--but the headcanon itself isn’t really the problem (although what it’s often in service to can be).

it’s the strange insistence that this is the only way to read his character, bc he was coded that way and so anyone who doesn’t see it must be too straight to understand--and i really shouldn’t have to say why and how that is so incredibly fucking insulting. (the ‘hetero lenses’ comment wasn’t cute when it came from bryke six years ago, and the same sentiment being repackaged and delivered by zukka shippers ain’t cute now.)

calling zuko gay-coded not only demonstrates ignorance as to what the term actually means, and how to usefully apply it in critical analysis, but also validates the frankly bullshit insertion of institutionalized homophobia in the world of atla where it was neither needed, nor wanted, nor ever hinted at in canon. as a queer woman i’m still infuriated by one fucking comic panel shoving institutionalized and systemic homophobia into a world where it was entirely unnecessary (and doing this in the first installment of the franchise showcasing a queer relationship??? making korra and asami worried about ‘coming out’ when they could have just gone on to have cute adventures together and tell people ‘hey we’re dating’ and have everyone else be ‘that’s awesome =DDD’ [because it is, in fact, possible to just have a world without homophobia i promise!!!!!] double yikes, i’m still pissed at bryke about it), and i doubly hate that ‘zuko is gay coded’ has become so widespread that ‘ozai hates him bc he’s gay’ has become a staple in that part of the fandom.

not only does making zuko gay and implying (or outright stating) that ozai hated and abused him because of it completely undermine zuko’s character arc by making his abuse about his sexuality rather than ozai’s toxic pride and anger at seeing himself reflected in his ‘weak’ son, but it comes very close to outright stating that abuse and trauma are inherently gay experiences, and they aren’t!!! they really aren’t, i promise!!!

abuse and trauma narratives exist outside of ‘my dad hates me because i’m gay’. and, quite frankly, there are MORE THAN ENOUGH queer trauma narratives out in the world. we do not need to start trying to retroactively make them canon in a series where they didn’t exist! if you’re gay and see yourself in zuko and project your own experiences on him, that’s understandable and valid. that does not make zuko gay-coded. and honestly, the insistence that he is makes very little sense to me, because you’re essentially trying to give the show credit for work you put into interpreting the characters! why would you want to do that? why not own your own headcanons and take credit for them, rather than insisting they are canon and everyone else is wrong for not seeing them??? like, i’ve said before that i’ve always headcanoned zuko (and katara) as bi, and even support it with my interpretations of evidence from the show, but the difference between ‘i think zuko is bi’ and ‘zuko is definitely gay-coded’ is that i know that bi zuko is my interpretation of canon, and that it is work i’m putting into the show that wasn’t actually intended by the creators/writers, no matter how much sexual tension i read into the jetko swordfight.

and like, zuko’s character arc doesn’t actually parallel a queer one all that well to begin with. it’s easy enough to do the work and twist it sideways just enough to make the general points fit, but the fact is, zuko’s arc is not one of self-discovery. it’s not one of coming to understand something fundamental about himself that he can’t change, that he was hated for, and coming out to his father in a dramatic confrontation where he shows that he understands himself and doesn’t need his father’s acceptance to be fulfilled.

zuko’s arc is actually one of trauma and healing. and those can (and often are--like i said, there are more than enough queer trauma narratives in the world, atla really doesn’t need to be one of them) be part of queer narratives, for sure! but they aren’t uniquely queer. and zuko’s confrontation with ozai during the eclipse doesn’t read like a ‘coming out’ at all. (yes, i’ve seen that post. yes, i rolled my eyes and moved on, bc unlike some people, i’m capable of not clowning on correctly tagged posts i disagree with.) zuko is specifically confronting ozai over his abuse, because his arc wasn’t about discovering anything fundamental about himself (and therefore realizing that ozai was hating him for something he couldn’t change)--it was about realizing that he was not at fault for the way his father treated him. it was also about realizing that the fire nation was broken and corrupt at its core, and that his father was an aspect of that he needed to break away from so that he could help the world begin to heal.

he says it himself:

Zuko: No, I've learned everything! And I've had to learn it on my own! Growing up, we were taught that the Fire Nation was the greatest civilization in history. And somehow, the War was our way of sharing our greatness with the rest of the world. What an amazing lie that was. The people of the world are terrified by the Fire Nation. They don't see our greatness. They hate us! And we deserve it! We've created an era of fear in the world. And if we don't want the world to destroy itself, we need to replace it with an era of peace and kindness.

making this about zuko being gay and rejecting ozai’s homophobia, rather than zuko learning fundamental truths about the world and about his home and about how there was something deeply wrong with his nation that needed to be fixed in order for the world to heal (and, no, ‘homophobia’ is not the answer to ‘what is wrong with the fire nation’, i’m still fucking pissed at bryke about that), misses the entire point of his character arc. this is the culmination of zuko realizing that he should never have had to earn his father’s love, because that should have been unconditional from the start. this is zuko realizing that he was not at fault for his father’s abuse--that speaking out of turn in a war meeting in no way justified fighting a duel with a child.

is that first realization (that a parent’s love should be unconditional, and if it isn’t, then that is the parent’s fault and not the child’s) something that queer kids in homophobic households/families can relate to? of course it is. but it’s also something that every other abused kid, straight kids and even queer kids who were abused for other reasons before they even knew they were anything other than cishet, can relate to as well. in that respect, it is not a uniquely queer experience, nor is it a uniquely queer story, and zuko not being attracted to girls (which is what a lot of it seems to boil down to, at the end of the day--cutting down zuko’s potential ships so that only zukka and a few far more niche ships are left standing) is not necessary to his character arc. nor does it particularly make sense.

(and before anyone brings up his date with jin--a) he enjoyed it when she kissed him, and b) he was a traumatized, abused child going out on a first date. of course he was fucking awkward. have you ever met a teenage boy????)

anyway, uh, that was a lot of words, so have a tl;dr: zuko is not gay-coded. there is nothing uniquely gay (or even uniquely queer) about his character arc or characterization, and he was certainly not coded gay in an attempt to sneak a queer character past the censors. if anyone involved with atla was gonna try that, it would’ve been in lok, and as established, they didn’t even manage to queer-code the actual queer relationship before the last few minutes of the final episode. headcanoning zuko as gay is absolutely fine (though if it’s only done to keep him away from female characters he may otherwise be attracted to, that smells more like misogyny than anything else), but insisting that this reading is the only one that makes sense, and anyone who doesn’t agree must be straight (hello, queer woman here making this insanely long thinkpiece) is very much not.

ship what you like, but stop trying to invalidate other ships and other interpretations of characters just to make your ship seem more plausible. it’s really not a good look.

[leesh]

i agree with you tbh i know we use gay and queer as an umbrella term bcos we’ve accepted he’s lgbt but idk how comfy i am using those either bcos he’s said he doesn’t label himself and those are labels and i believe he’s also said he’s never felt a need to explain not to mention the inherent biphobia and misogyny that’s repackaged through the harry is queer gatekeepers and conveniently ignoring an attraction to women is very much part of his spectrum

i would definitely feel more comfortable (and have done so myself) to refer to him as gay in terms of an umbrella term because of the general connotations with the word queer for one. like, it’s a word that i wouldn’t call someone unless they themselves have labelled them as that? to me, it’s about reclaiming the slur, so unless someone has specifically said they’re queer i just wouldn’t use it to label them essentially if that makes sense? whereas gay is different. obviously it’s a lot more common and ~normal for one, but the fact that harry himself has said the words “we’re all a little bit gay” makes me think it’s okay to use it? because i don’t think he would make such a bold statement if he didn’t think of it that way, yknow? but obviously these are my takes on it and as always i welcome a further discussion!

but you’re absolutely right. obviously i am all here for harry being open and expressing who he really is and would love to see more of that side of him, whether he were to talk about it or be seen in public with a guy or whatever it may be (disclaimer: i’m not expecting anything, i just think one day it would be cool to see or hear), BUT we obviously cannot ignore the fact that he’s into women as well. it’s extremely biphobic to actively ignore it for your own personal and selfish reasons. i understand that people want to feel seen and represented in harry, like i totally get that, but it’s actually so harming to the bi community to see people say such biphobic things. it just feels so invalidating for bi fans

[dgcatanisiri]

I don’t like Joe Biden. I don’t want to vote for Joe Biden. In a just and fair world, he should never have ran in this campaign, or at least not been able to sustain it.

He’s still gonna be the nominee. Complain and hate it all you like (I know I am), but for all practical purposes, the primary is over and he wound up winning. For whatever reason - and I suspect it had more to do with various ideas about how certain voting blocks will vote against their interests if you put forward radical change or challenge the patriarchal status quo than a genuine belief in his platform - he is the last man standing.

Now, you can hope something takes him out, be it a medical issue or assault allegations or whatever, but... Don’t bet on it. Resign yourself to voting for him - because if you do not accept the poison, you’re getting the bullet. Not voting for Biden in November will be voting for Trump. Hammer that phrase into your mind.

And if we don’t make it a landslide for Biden, Trump will claim the election’s invalid, grasp on to his remaining power and try to stay where he is - FOR LIFE. Worse, if Trump wins, he’ll likely end up filling two more seats on the Supreme Court, curtailing abortion rights, queer rights, civil rights, rights for EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING for at least a generation.

Yeah, the struggle continues either way. But in a Biden administration, we get a breather. The fights go from nightmare difficulty down to just regular hard mode. We don’t have to be afraid of going to sleep each night because who knows what nation he’ll pick a fight with on Twitter while we’re asleep. And the more progressive a Congress we send into lower office than the presidency, the more progressive the bills he gets.

Do I want Biden to drop out? I mean, yeah, though then it becomes the DNC picking the nominee, and they’ll likely just give us Biden repackaged in a younger wrapping. MAYBE they’d look to Warren, but it’s not likely. But I don’t expect it to happen. Do I think that the allegations against him that have come out aren’t being accepted like they would be if he were not running or had dropped out months ago? Oh yeah, no question. I even believe there are women sitting on more stories.

But... There is no winning move in not playing. We MUST play the hand we have been dealt or we will lose for certain. At least there’s a chance our present hand will keep the game going until we can discard the bad cards for better ones.

Because the idea in mind is, unfortunately, triage. We are bleeding out on the operating table. The ONLY way to save the patient is a quick and dirty patch to stem the bleeding, something that, if this were any other circumstance would probably just be bad for the patient, but, right now, it keeps them alive and allows the chance for more time to solve the root problem.

Or, better medical metaphor, Biden is chemo. Under other circumstances, it could kill the patient, and better options did exist to excise the cancer, but we didn’t get to use them in time. Our options are chemo or death. We can recover from the chemo. The cancer WILL kill us.

Take the fucking chemo.

[maestro-derpicus-blog]

Bitcoin Transaction Malleability, Zero Switch Inputs a lot more It Can affect Bitcoin Geneva chamonix transfers

Transaction malleability is one more time affecting all the Bitcoin multilevel. Generally, the following causes a number of confusion above all else, and just brings into play seemingly reproduce transactions so that the next wedge is extracted. This can be known as the following:

Your individual original financial transaction never validating. Another exchange, with the similar amount of gold coins going to and also from the identical addresses, developing. This has a different sort of transaction NO .. Often , this specific different business deal ID could confirm, because certain mass explorers, an individual warnings around the original purchase being a 2x spend or in any manner being sick.

Ultimately however, just one financial transaction, with the suitable amount of Bitcoins being dispatched, should validate. If not any transactions affirm, or more in comparison with one ensure, then this perhaps isn't right linked to exchange malleability.

Nevertheless it was observed there were quite a few transactions provided that have never been mutated, and also will be failing to ensure. This is because these rely on an old input this also is not going to confirm.

Effectively, Bitcoin ventures involve expending inputs (which can be considered as Bitcoins "inside" a Bitcoin address) and getting some switch back. Such as, if I have a single feedback of 20 BTC along with wanted to post 1 BTC to another person, I would generate a transaction the examples below:

10 BTC ->   1 BTC (to the particular user) in addition to 9 BTC (back for you to myself)

Using this method, there is a like chain that is created for all of Bitcoins with the initial gold mining transaction.

As soon as Bitcoin center does a business deal like this, the item trusts that it could get the hunting for BTC alter back, but it will surely because it developed this purchase itself, or simply at the very least, the main transaction will not likely confirm nevertheless nothing is displaced. It can without delay send within this 9 BTC in a even more transaction while not waiting in this particular being proven because it realizes where the loose change are going to and this knows typically the transaction facts in the market.

However , this kind of assumption is usually wrong.

Should the transaction is definitely mutated, Bitcoin core may perhaps end up endeavoring to create a innovative transaction when using the 9 BTC change, although based on improper input information and facts. This is because the very transaction NAME and linked data has developed in the blockchain.

Hence, Bitcoin core your trust per se in this instance, and it should always delay on a seeking for transform before submitting on this adjust.

Bitcoin geneva chamonix transfers can change their key Bitcoin computer to not any longer allow switch, with 0 % confirmations, to generally be included in almost any Bitcoin financial transaction. This may be tweaked by running bitcoind with the -spendzeroconfchange=0 option.

It's not enough nevertheless, and this can cause a situation wheresoever transactions can't be sent since there are not enough plugs available with more than one confirmation to deliver a new exchange. Thus, most people also chance a process which in turn does the using:

Checks on the market, unspent nonetheless confirmed terme conseillé by labelling bitcoin-cli listunspent 1 . When there are less as compared with x plugs (currently twelve) then the actual following:

Work up what suggestions is for all over 10 BTC. Work out the right way to split that into many 1 BTC transactions as it can be, leaving adequate room for a rate on top. Name bitcoin-cli sendmany to send of which ~10 BTC input to 10 productivity addresses, most of owned because of the Bitcoin demand. This way, we will convert a person 10 BTC input towards approximately twenty 1 BTC inputs, which are often used for additionally transactions. Most people do this as "running low" on terme conseillé and now there twelve connected with less excess.

These guidelines ensure that heading to only previously send purchases with absolutely confirmed plugs.

One situation remains while - in advance of we put in place this alter, some deals got routed that depend mutated transform and will under no circumstances be examined.

At present, i will be researching the way to resend most of these transactions. Heading to probably whizz the orders at an off-peak time, however we want to itemise all the ventures we think need to be zapped prematurely, which will devote some time.

One simple technique of decrease the possibility of malleability for being an issue will be to have your individual Bitcoin computer to connect to help as many many other nodes as is feasible. That way, you'll be "shouting" a new transaction outside and getting them popular immediately, which will possible mean that any sort of mutated business deal will get drowned out plus rejected primary.

There are some clients out there that have already anti-mutation style in presently. These are qualified to detect mutated transactions and they only pass on often the validated purchase. It is beneficial to connect to honest nodes like that, and worth looking at implementing the following (which arrive with its private risks with course).

Every one of these malleability challenges will not be issues once the BIP 62 growth to Bitcoin is carried out, which will make malleability impossible. The following unfortunately can be some way out of and there is virtually no reference enactment at present, child a plan pertaining to migration to the new prohibit type.

However only limited thought has been created, it may be entirely possible that future models of Bitcoin software that will detect theirselves when malleability has occured on adjust inputs, and next do among the list of following:

Level this financial transaction as invalidated and do away with it from the jean pocket, as we know it will certainly never determine (potentially uncertain, especially if the good news is reorg). Maybe inform the exact node holder. Attempt to "repackage" the exchange, i. y. use the exact from and then to address ranges, but with the precise input info from the switch transaction like accepted during the block.