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Business is not really up to par, but manages smhh

Not now kitten. Daddy can't breathe, let him take his Claritin.

New poster for the Bambi horror movie dropped

The holy trinity

Docs, crocs and vans.

Apparently “this makes you the ultimate lesbian” so my coworker says

@sketiana

i found your post on pinterest!

Well, at least he’s not running for any offices.

consider: SBI as the four horsemen of the apocalypse Conquest - Wilbur War - Techno Famine - Tommy Death - Phil

THANK you I feel like every post I've seen is "nobody's perfect you just can't handle morally grey characters" but abusive behavior isn't "morally grey" it's wrong- people criticizing the villain fans who disapprove of cutie's behavior don't seem to realize that the unhealthy relationships with the villains we've had end with the other character being rescued or freed from that situation because the lack of consent and overstepped boundaries was/is heinous, why should it be different just because this time the one abusing their powers is a listener? I feel like people are so paranoid about these videos getting canceled they're jumping on any critique of cutie's behavior?

Also just everyone going "but in cutie's defense they act like this because of trauma!" and yeah probably there's some event in their past that they've internalized that makes them act like this but we don't actually know that? our only information about cutie's past is that they come from a family of magic users and they work for the department, it kinda annoys me that any criticism of cutie's actions is countered with a defense based on some assumed backstory?

Like maybe I'm oversensitive to this because I've been the geordi in a situation like this and it fucking sucked but it just annoys me that people are writing off abusive behaviors as "morally grey"- no I'm sure cutie isn't doing this to intentionally harm geordi or with malicious intent but it's still an abusive behavior and that's something that should be criticized

I dont think youre being oversensitive at all, anon, especially not when you have personal experience with something like this.

Yes! This listener's actions are not morally grey, they're wrong. And considering this is all we've had from this listener, they are just bad. Personally i dont think it matters if they intend harm or not, its still abuse.

I think a lot of people forget that the listener characters are no where near being as much of a character as the speakers, considering they're as blank as possible so that you can self-insert into them. Cutie has less personality that the fucking protagonist in Divergent. I would be genuinely surprised if we get an in depth backstory for them, because Redacted hasnt done that before and i think it should stay that way.

Also i genuinely don't understand how people still don't see the difference between the actions of villians, and the actions that listener characters have taken. I wasn't going to rant about it on this blog, but i will now. These actions are different in a few ways, mainly the relationships between listeners/speakers, the severity/mundanity of the actions, and the roles the listeners play in the story vs the speaker characters (who the actions are being done to).

(more under the cut because i got passionate about it aksdfsd)

Almost every single antagonists in the series that has harmed a listener character has just been some guy. The listener and the antagonist had no previous interpersonal relationship; Vega/Ivan and Baby didn’t really know eachother, Vega/Freelancer didn’t know eachother, Kody/Freelancer didn’t know eachother, Adam/Lovely didn’t know eachother, Regulus/Listener don’t know eachother. These are all practically strangers. Whereas Geordi/Cutie are in a relationship, Bright/Fred were good friends, and even other listener characters who have done Bad Things to the speakers were in a relationship (cough cough Angel/David in the shifting video cough cough).

The actions that these characters take are drastically different. The antagonists tend to take quite dramatic and large acts of violence/harm, while the listeners’ actions are far more mundane and, like ive said before, therefore more realistic. I am not saying that kidnappings and hostage situations dont happen in the real world, they unfortunately do, but they are far less mundane or common than the violations of boundaries and consent that the listener characters seem to always do. With Angel it was disregarding and pushing David’s boundaries and coercing him into something he didn’t want to do, with Bright it was disregarding Fred’s concern that ended in him getting very hurt, with Cutie it’s routine disregard of Geordi’s boundaries of consent and privacy. 

And also, for most people, we self-insert into these listener characters when we listen to Redacted’s videos. When it is an antagonist doing bad things, the bad things are being done to us. Where as when it is the listener characters doing bad things, it’s almost like we are the ones doing the actions (because of the whole self-inserting thing).

A lot of people are understandably very very uncomfortable with the idea of self-inserting into a character who is doing shitty abusive things to the people they care about. Everybody knows that kidnapping and stalking are very bad no-no things to do, but some of the actions of listener characters are often normalized. (invasion of privacy for example, think how common it is that couples just go through eachother’s phones without consent). A lot of people use media as escapism, even dark media, it’s almost a type of power fantasy really. Some people use media to face their fears, and the idea that someone who loves you (or even someone who doesnt know you at all) would save you in your darkest time of need is comforting for some people. Not many people have power fantasies of abusing people they love, so the idea of doing this even in a fantasy setting can be not comforting to say the least. 

So yeah, I think there really is a difference, and it is not bad to have nuanced opinions about some things. It’s okay to draw the line in the sand somewhere, even if other people draw their line somewhere different. People criticizing the actions of Cutie to get the point across that, no these things aren’t okay, is kinda expected. Some forms of abuse are very normalized, while things like kidnapping someone and holding them hostage for months on end isnt (and is in fact a social taboo in almost every culture, just like, say, murder). You should assume by default that people don’t support kidnapping even if they like characters who do that shit in media. If you don’t like characters who do these things in media, that is literally perfectly okay, but you shouldn’t judge people who separate fiction from reality to enjoy them. Unfortunately abuse and disregard for your privacy and consent is something that too many people have personal real life experience with, so media where they are the ones doing the bad thing is hard for a lot of people to consume. This is the down side of making videos that are both realistic and have the listeners doing these things.

Ive noticed that the same people who are bagging on others for liking Adam or Vega or whoever else are the same ones who are excusing Cutie’s actions as a result of trauma or saying theyre just “morally grey” instead of the deeply wrong and abusive they are. Ive even seen some people not just condone their actions, but openly say that they themselves would make these exact actions if given the chance, and i genuinely hope they are joking. There are very very few cases in which imma judge someone for just liking a fictional character, but if someone just straight up says “i would abuse my partner,” im judging them.

Idk i felt like i needed to put this all into words. Thank you for the ask and the chance to go on a rant avdbfkv

You know what they say John, Strong denial means it's truth

They also say ‘beer before wine, you’ll feel fine’, but that doesn’t make it true.

The Queen fucking died??? What the fuck?

Do you guys think that they froze her like they did with Walt Disney? That’d be funny

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

Pros of hyperfixiation:

Happy!

Art ideas

Life is good

Cons of hyperfixiation:

I am going to blow up

All my art is of the same guy

If I don't think about this 24/7 I get violent

ADHD pro tip: Use psychological warfare on yourself.

For example, in order to do long tasks, like folding laundry, I put on the Mario Hat:

The main feature of the Mario hat is that my headset does not fit over it, so when The Bees™ try to put me back in front of the screen, the headset issue forces me to remember why I put the Mario hat on, and back to the task I go

As a bonus, the Mario hat is also a very clear indicator to my housemates that business is getting done, and they have learned not to distract me when I'm wearing the "goofy-ass cosplay hat"

It's not stupid if it works.