undergroundriotwriting - Tumblr blog

[undergroundriotwriting]

i have rule i semi-adhere to for media criticism which is to ideologically meet shit where it's at (or where it's presented to me). i like to call it the "i didn't make you market it that way" rule--like, if lancer's union was just presented as a sci-fi setting, that would be fine. i don't expect all sci-fi settings to be communist utopias! but when the creators of lancer use the word utopia like 20 times & bandy around words like 'mutual aid' and 'post-scarcity' and 'anticapitalist' when describing it, then to me that becomes absolutely fair game. similarly if someone says 'stardew valley is fun i like farming :)' then i'm not gonna reply with a long post about how it's ideologically petty-bourgeois--but if they say 'stardew valley is anticapitalist', then they've opened up that can of worms and it's fair for me to point out that the worms exist.

[undergroundriotwriting]

[undergroundriotwriting]

[undergroundriotwriting]

i realize im a huge pile of contradictions

i hate money and capitalism and yet my brain spends almost all day thinking about pop culture media i like

a lot of the music i listen to and things i am interested in make a lot of people rich. i realize this is a contradiction. 

i dont really have a point to make here… just that… i guess its important to realize that this is kind of just how things are in the world right now, and i think that art is worth consuming even if we live in capitalism. getting rid of capitalism would allow a lot of art to flourish even more, so liking it now isn’t a bad thing in my opinion.

but its not the art aspect that is a contradiction, its the marketing and the distribution and the profit and the way that the artists dont see very much of that profit and all these kinds of things

and i know, i know, i know. i know that i’m a leftist and this shit is infuriating. nevertheless, i am interested in this stuff anyway, and i’ve even been getting into some korean groups recently, despite everything i know about the kpop industry. this is a contradiction. and that’s just…. how i am. i dont have to rationalize everything about myself nor can i. nor can anyone. we all have contradictions and double standards and hypocritical opinions. nobody’s perfect, nobody’s got completely amazingly 100% ethical praxis, especially when it comes to the things they enjoy in their downtime. in an ideal world, the things we enjoy wouldnt be tied to these capitalist things we hate, but… in any case, i’m anti-capitalist and i will definitely buy the new pokemon game if and when i can. and i know these things are contradictory… but… that’s life, i guess. 

[undergroundriotwriting]

Warning for NSFW writers!

This was brought to our attention today. We would ALWAYS recommend keeping your writing in two places, for many reasons, but here is one more!

[undergroundriotwriting]

Why do so many of us nonbinary people say we relate to unknowable entities? I mean, it’s just a joke made by people whose sense of humor has been ruined by the internet (myself included), right?

Odd that so many enbies make the same joke, though. Do we really feel that eldritch? How strange your pronouns must feel after repeating them again and again, quietly enough to be glossed over. How many “I’m sorry, it’s just so hard for me”s does it take to become certain that no mind can comprehend you? When do the accusations of being delusional or attention-seeking, the snide jokes by people who don’t know you can hear convince you that you’re a monster? Why does going out in public feel like slipping on a human disguise that doesn’t fit?

After enough failed pleading and begging (though never pushing or shoving, lest your teeth frighten them) for a bathroom, a box to check, just enough space for a letter on a driver’s license, one can start to feel a little inhuman. We slip through the spaces between, invisible, shunned.

How afraid must someone be of the humans in power to find monsters a comfort?

I see you, little alien.

I know who you are.

Keep up the good fight.

[undergroundriotwriting]

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

[undergroundriotwriting]

so idk how mha is gonna end but obviously the moral of the story we’re going for here is that everyone deserves to be saved and heroism is about saving people no matter what. that’s great! i’m guessing some or all of the league is going to survive and be put into some kind of rehabilitation center (toga and spinner seem the most likely to me for now but who knows). and i’m fine with that i like the overall message of it.

but how are they going to deal with the fallout from the league’s victims? i get the feeling that they’re not, or it’ll be a one-off like “some ppl were upset we didn’t jail or kill the villains but the heroes calmed them down” or something like that. i mean. whoever in the LOV it is would have to show remorse eventually, for one thing, for them to be any different than the corrupt hero system. but even then, all the families of whoever machia trampled on during the war arc, are they just gonna be cool with this? mind you I don’t think that anyone in the LOV should be killed or jailed rather than rehabilitated, but i wonder if the show is going to bring up that anyone who dabi or toga killed won’t get a second chance. they won’t get rehabilitated, they’re just gone. how are their families and friends going to deal with what society deems as an appropriate punishment for them?

i think this message also could’ve been conveyed better if we had more prominent “corrupt” heroes aside from endeavor and hawks. the top ten minus them and the irrelevant guy who retired after the war arc are all portrayed narratively as good people. iida’s brother is attacked by stain for no real reason at all aside from not being all might. all might’s heroism ends up being bad for society overall yeah, but so much of that is because of who toshinori is as a person rather than hero society (which does play a part but if toshinori just hadn’t pushed himself to be the best and number one savior for everyone there wasn’t necessarily any society forcing him to until after he’d already showed them he could do it).

PLUS the existence of afo offsets this message. everyone can be saved…..besides the real super evil people?? if, and I’m not saying they do, shigaraki and afo had the same kill count, is the lack of a sad childhood the only thing that makes afo beyond redemption? i mean he might not be gone gone if he’s still inside shigaraki’s mind or whatever, but that doesn’t change the fact that the heroes were trying to kill him too. narratively, why was all might in the right for killing him all those years ago when hawks was in the wrong for killing twice? because twice was kinder? because twice was neurodivergent??

mha also a little bit contradicts itself because. hero society is exposed post war arc. civilians have every right to be mad that their current number one is an abuser and that the heroes failed and couldn’t protect them. but theeeen, we have ochako’s speech in which she yells at scared civilians that “the heroes are the ones who are getting dirty!” which is like. yeah. they are. but during and post the war arc civilians also very much died. i feel for izuku but at first glance if someone promised you a safe haven from being attacked and then said oh never mind we’re actually going to bring the one guy shigaraki can absolutely track and hunt down here because he’s tired of fighting, getting upset with that is not totally unreasonable.

and I get that civilians are supposed to get mad at heroes for being corrupt, but not for failing, because heroes should never have been put up on such a high pedestal. they should be seen as humans who are as fallible as everyone else. that doesn’t change the fact the average innocent person would be rightfully scared, because it’s not just the heroes who are getting dirty. people are getting attacked. the heroes are not saving everyone. they shouldn’t have to and there’s no way they realistically can, but picking and choosing which aspects of hero society people are allowed to criticize feels…meh. if there’s gonna be fallout, fallout that endeavor and hawks if not the rest deserve, there should be proper fallout.

i don’t think the UA kids should be treated as full-fledged heroes because they’re not, but their age should not be the one thing that makes them better than the current heroes. they’re liable to the same mistakes and the same fallings. or they would be had they not all been portrayed from the beginning as one big happy hopeful crowd who just wanna save the day! there was opportunity to show who was in it for the right and wrong reasons and somehow ochako who has been so poorly written for several seasons actually had the most relevant arc (besides bakugo) about being in the hero business for the right reasons. ochako should have interned with hawks ochako should have interned with hawks ochako should have interned with there should’ve been more students in it for the glory, for the money, for the fame, but even monoma from class b and mineta are apparently true heroes! is being a high schooler all it takes??

anyway this is all jumbled and a mess but mha should’ve made hero society far more corrupt to justify its dismantling is my point. right now we’re getting a vibe of “the heroes are just as bad as the villains if they don’t save them too” and that’s just like. objectively not true. if hawks was supposed to be an assassin for hire for the hero commission, we should’ve seen him kill people aside from the guy who could’ve turned the tides of the war, at the very least actually kill best jeanist to finish his mission. if toga wanted to preach about how the heroes are just as bad because they killed jin, it falls flat when she’s on machia’s back stomping on people and then killing an old lady to talk to ochako. the heroes should try to save everyone including the villains because that’s what heroism is, but they are not equally as bad as the villains for trying to stop the villains.

the hero commission in general is just like afo, a vague villain we can blame so that we don’t have to blame the underlings. if people discriminate against animal quirks we should’ve seen it way earlier with shoji and tsu and tokoyami, maybe really expanded on it once mirko and hawks and even the dog cop were introduced. if sooo many heroes were in this for the wrong reasons, where are they? the current “failings” of the hero system are all might, endeavor, hawks, lady nagant and bakugo. everyone else is fine! there was a chance to show that someone like mount lady isn’t a real hero because she only cares about fame. there was a chance to show that aizawa is a good hero compared to others because he doesn’t try and seek glory. but these points are only halfway done and then kinda left there.

[undergroundriotwriting]

i have rule i semi-adhere to for media criticism which is to ideologically meet shit where it's at (or where it's presented to me). i like to call it the "i didn't make you market it that way" rule--like, if lancer's union was just presented as a sci-fi setting, that would be fine. i don't expect all sci-fi settings to be communist utopias! but when the creators of lancer use the word utopia like 20 times & bandy around words like 'mutual aid' and 'post-scarcity' and 'anticapitalist' when describing it, then to me that becomes absolutely fair game. similarly if someone says 'stardew valley is fun i like farming :)' then i'm not gonna reply with a long post about how it's ideologically petty-bourgeois--but if they say 'stardew valley is anticapitalist', then they've opened up that can of worms and it's fair for me to point out that the worms exist.

[undergroundriotwriting]

cannibalism as a metaphor for love, especially queer love is the greatest thing i think that we as a collective community have ever done because as a society were so lonely so isolating that yes of course you want intimacy, you need it, but sex is banal and surprisingly cold and what do you mean i cant love you openly? i love you so deeply that nothing could ever measure up yet our love is a sin and i need you closer and closer still and if the only way i can truly know and love you is by intaking you so that we can never be apart then cannibalism is truly the peak of love and ajksdfjasdk just cannibalism! as a metaphor! for! love!

[undergroundriotwriting]

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, this needs to be dragged out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

Edit: Changed the wording of the post and decided to put in a reminder that this extends to refusing to believe in bogus call-out posts for frankly minuscule thinks such as being horny or kinky, especially if the target is presenting in an ‘unconventional’ manner, (therians, etc.) this double standard where it is seen as ‘degenerate’ for transfemmes to merely exist in certain spaces, yet everyone else is fine to do so is disgusting and part of the reason for the backlash.

PUTTING TERFS DNI IS NOT THE BE ALL AND END ALL, YOU GENUINELY HAVE TO PUT YOUR MORALS OF BEING RESPECTFUL INTO PRACTICE.

[undergroundriotwriting]

cannibalism in queer horror media

the consumption of the body is the consumption of the soul. as shame prohibits an open love, it festers in silence until it has infected every part of the body. it is a sickness that cannot be cured, terminal. it impairs the mind turning desire into visceral hunger, turning "love" into all-consuming mindbending insanity. driving a person to the only understanding they can impart to another, the only satisfaction and placation of their being they can receive is to consume the object that caused this steady decline into a maddening and cyclical pattern of hellish obsession.

in part it is a triumph, in part it is a devastating blow, in another it is just another thing to numb the soul.

[undergroundriotwriting]

when i say cannibalism as a form of love im talking about us both clawing each other apart and feasting on each other like starving wolves. im talking whoever survives kills themselfs afterwards because they simply can't live in a reality without the other. im talking soul binding. sealing your love with deaths kiss.

maybe im js silly tho who knowwss :P

[undergroundriotwriting]

i think that presenting cannibalism as a metaphor for intimacy was perhaps one of the greatest things we ever did as a society. Like you’re telling me you want to eat me, make me a part of you, consume me? that’s so romantic, tell me more, i love you

[undergroundriotwriting]

i've seen aus discuss izuna and tobirama also becoming friends at the riverbank, but always in the context of them doing it alongside their brothers or exactly the same as their brothers. i think it would be really interesting to explore it developing within their canonical roles at the riverbank- fully aware of who eachother are, with a lot less trust, but a mutual sort of respect.

they both show up to spy on their elder brothers at their father's behests. they lock eyes and share a commiserating sort of moment. i'll try to kill your brother if he tries anything, but i'll let it slide until he does because my brother deserves to be happy sort of thing.

they barely talk but they often signal each other. maybe even develop a shortened code for communication from their respective hiding spots. they have over seven signs that just mean "Stupid brother". at a certain point they start to play games, more cautious than their older brothers but still children comforted by familiarity enough to become friends

the inevitable fight still happens, but unlike hashirama and madara, they're experienced in subterfuge communication already. where their brothers had been developing open trust and communication, they'd been developing furtive secretive alliances.

anyways the comedic version of this is it doesn't come up until the village gets founded (izuna unharmed in the process) and their brothers try to give them a talk about the importance of not murdering new allies & both izuna and tobirama are just like. murder him??? we've been pen pals for 10 years im just glad we can talk new jutsu in the open

like hashi and mada had this intense insane breakup-makeup arc and meanwhile their little bros are just. fine.

[undergroundriotwriting]

the problem with being a tobirama fan for more than his face is that hes brutally misinterpreted by the fandom like bro pls spare my boy hes actually really compelling as a character and a few really butchered translations cast him as a single minded uchiha hater forever like hes so underrated and also nO HE WASNT RACIST

[undergroundriotwriting]

can i offer you some more pictures of my wife tonight