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#Notes by Nikki#She's a cis lesbian in her late 50s#And living proof that solidarity exists#Lgbt#Lgbtq#Lgbtqia#Lgbt+#Lgbtq+#Lgbtqia+#intersex#intersex rights#intersexuality#intersectionality#intersectional feminism#gender fluidity#genderfluidity
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Sure maybe you wanna say that the "suck my dick and stop being a baeddel" copypasta anons were originally sent by a couple of trolls or whatever but the amount of people I see defending them is very clear fucking proof that the sentiment exists. There is a lot of preaching about trans unity right now, but as is often the case, if someone demands unity while refusing to do even the bare minimum for you (in this case disavowing the horrifyingly misogynistic posts and calling out some of the people who maintain such positions instead of defending them) and only call for unity when you speak out against their abuse, then they're not looking for unity. They want you to shut the fuck up. You never see these same people calling for unity when there's a harassment campaign against trans women. You don't see them defending trans women when our words are misinterpreted in as bad of a way as possible.
And before someone accuses me of being a baeddel terf or whatever: I am not saying we need some kind of transfem separatist movement or that trans unity is impossible or undesirable. I am not saying that transmascs are doomed to be violent misogynists. I do have some very nice transmasc mutuals (all of which uncoincidentally are communists lol) who I do appreciate and feel actual solidarity with because they aren't transmisogynists and because I can expect them to have the backs of the transfem community whe the newest transmisogynistic harassment campaign starts on this dogshit website.
A growing problem on here is the continuous dilution and rejection of feminism and even some of the most basic feminist positions in favour of positions that would be perfectly at home in a 2016 antifeminist mra youtuber's videos if it wasn't for the pseudo-progressive tone of the message. It is what has lead to "you should shut up about transmisogyny and suck my dick", a position championed by "genderpunks" and transandrophobia truthers. The drift from understanding the basic premise that we live in a patriarchal and misogynist society to "well, men have it bad too, so who's to say what the real gender dynamics are like" and even "men have it bad too, specifically because they are men" has erased a lot of progress on this website and allowed this kind of thing to happen.
The way to close the gap and achieve trans unity is not to ask for silence from trans women speaking against the abuse done to us or to pretend that gender dynamics do not exist politically, but to take steps towards solidarity with us and speak out against transmisogynists and to push back against antifeminist rhetoric.
This post, obviously is aimed at people who are genuinely interested in trans unity, not people who scold others about trans unity whenever trans women have a problem with the way we are treated.
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Pendejos todos.
The disproportionate way in which everyone – fans, detractors, and the press – have handled the issue of the Princess of Wales and her children's photo, along with her announced withdrawal from public life, is a disturbing reflection of the current state of social media and the disconnect that exists between these platforms, common sense, reality, and respect for privacy.
Since that January 17th, when Kensington Palace announced that the princess had undergone surgery that would keep her away from the public eye for a considerable time, a kind of collective frenzy was unleashed. It was as if permission had been granted to unleash the contained stupidity that had somehow been latent in society. Detractors rejoiced as if they had won the lottery, while some fans suddenly felt insecure about the uncertainty of the future. Meanwhile, the press, which had been holding back its claws, now seemed like a rabid animal eager to break free from its chains.
As the days passed, the madness took over social media even more. The most absurd theories found an echo online, demands for proof of life became louder and more absurd, and empathy for the right to privacy seemed to fade in the face of media exposure's voracity. Many completely forgot that behind the tiara, there was a woman with rights.
It's ironic that in an era where the fight for justice and gender equality has become so vocal on social media, we forget that Catherine, before being a princess, is a woman who deserves respect and protection. She's criticized for her apparent perfection, as if being flawless were a reason for reproach rather than admiration. Contemporary feminists seem to have lost sight of women who choose to keep their private lives out of the media frenzy, preferring instead those who constantly present themselves as victims, repeating the same victimizing discourse over and over again. It seems that only those who fit into that mold are worthy of protection and solidarity.
But then, the palace published a photo. And the little restraint that the press had, broke. Not to mention the fans. What may have been an attempt to appease the masses and counteract the absurd game of the press and the public, ended up fuelling the flames of controversy. It's true that the palace and the princess herself made mistakes, but the disproportionate reaction of the press was equally regrettable.
We live in a world where 95% of people on the internet edit the photos they upload. In this context, it's difficult to discern what is real and what is not. In the realm of celebrities, this practice is even more common. The difference is that they not only edit minor details, but also alter their faces and bodies, and this seems to be accepted without question. However, the same press that feeds on these images and agencies like Getty, AP, REUTERS, etc., decided to remember their lost ethics and set an example with the mistakes in photo of the Princess of Wales and her children, which is absurd.
They are talking about not being able to trust the palace anymore, they have accused Catherine of thousands of stupid things and the saddest thing of all is that they are doing it at a time when Catherine is recovering from something that was clearly serious. Does her mental health not matter? Do Catherine and her family really not deserve privacy? Is society really that rotten?
It's easy to think that they don't pay attention to social media, but at the same time, it would be naive to believe that they have no idea what is being said. How could they not when it's everywhere?
The question I have been asking myself for a few days now is, was all the uproar made by the press, the agencies necessary? Will ALL celebrities be treated the same way? Will ALL publications uphold this ethics from now on? Or will this special treatment only be given to William and Catherine?
The answer for me is obvious. I don't know about you.
The palace was clear from the beginning about when the princess would return to public life, how long she would be in the hospital, and requested, from the beginning, respect for her privacy. However, no one seemed to care. Now everything is out of control. Fans look for scapegoats when they are also part of the problem. The press pretends to be judge, victim, perpetrator, and defense at the same time, and the haters... well, they continue to be the same miserable ones as always.
The fans, or those who claim to be, have also lost control. Instead of keeping calm and simply waiting, they have become increasingly insecure. They discuss diagnoses, talk about conspiracy theories, and, basically, have become what they claim to hate. And they do it all at the same time. Sad reality.
Although I am a fan of William and Catherine, I recognize that their mistake was foolish and amateurish but at the same time, as a person with more than one neuron functioning in their head, understands that the reaction all this has generated has been disproportionate, absurd, and stupid.
There are things happening in the world millions of times more important and serious to be wasting time on such insignificant things like this.
It saddens me that Catherine's name has been mentioned so many times on the internet for the wrong reasons. It's sad that she and her family are the favourite punching bag of many.
The press finally found something to criticize the Waleses about, after more than 20 years.
It would be interesting to see the actions that Kensington Palace takes regarding its relationship with the press, particularly when it comes to personal and private matters. It will be interesting to see if they will release photos for Prince Louis' birthday and if the agencies that are now hitting their chest with morals and ethics will be allowed to use them.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Catherine eventually returns to public life.
The only thing that became clear to me a few days ago, is that the society we live in today is hypocritical and annoying. The press, despite pretending otherwise, has lost all semblance of impartiality and objectivity. Although it's hard to believe they ever knew what that was. And the fans... often end up being the worst enemies of their favourites.
#i really dont care if you dont think like me#the prince of wales#the princess of wales#all this is ABSURD#this is not a crisis#ans if you think it is you need to touch some grass
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Astoundingly flawed logic
So riddle me this, if Israel is committing genocide with the intent to kill all Palestinians
And has one of the best global militaries, with a budget surpassing Palestine's entire gdp
And even has nuclear weapons
Then how is Palestine still here, how is Gaza still here, how are millions of Palestinians in one of the most densely packed areas of the entire world, all still here. It literally does not fit the definition. There isn't intention to kill. It's the opposite, they've warned Gazans before bombing.
Whether in some cases they haven't warned, or if the civilians just lied, it's a war, they have no obligation to warn for bombing, the Brits and Americans sure as hell didn't warn Dresden, a bombing that killed 20,000 in a single strike, which is very close to the Palestinian civilian death toll, and yet Dresden wasn't a genocide too. Wanna know why? We didn't want to kill every single German. One interesting thing though, when Israel was founded and invaded by the Arab nations around it, what were their intentions? To block the existence of Israel.
Most likely by eradicating all Israeli civilians and soldiers in the area, to remove any possible claim Israel had over the area. Speaking of claims, Jewish people who founded Israel had lived in the area long before some of the Arab settlers had. Some of the Islamic Caliphates are regarded as the most successful settler colonial efforts in history, spreading to Spain, Morocco, the Turkic Steppes, and settling the region of Palestine too, and this all happened after the Jewish people who had founded the city of Jerusalem. There were I think around 400,000 Jews living there before Israel was created, maybe a bit less but around there. It's not a colonial state, in fact it was freed after being a British colony, no different to the way other British colonies were freed. South Africa used to include modern Namibia, but those two states separated, yet I don't hear anyone bickering about Namibia's right to exist. I know it goes vastly deeper than that comparison, but it still somewhat works.
Anyway, let's say you're living in modern Afghanistan as a woman, where your rights are being actively crushed by a group who used to be designated as a terror group before ruling the country. Are you going to try live your life peacefully and avoid being executed over the simplest things, or going into the streets, protesting, then getting beheaded. I think 99% of people would rather keep living to fight another day, than die a martyr. That's why they're Martyrs, they're the rare 1%, people like the ones who helped hide Anne Frank, or hid Jewish people in their homes. I strongly oppose Hamas, but you don't see me flying over to Palestine protesting against them, same way you don't go over to Israel to protest the Israeli government, or go live with Palestinians to show solidarity. Knowing something is evil and wanting it to end without knowing how, and acting against that evil, are both being against it, one is just activism, the other is opposition. Not many people wanna be activists when the crime is death. Is that enough proof for you?
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hiii i know that tumblr ate your the menu tags but if you need an excuse to type them all up again i would legitimately love to hear what you thought about the movie!!! i thought it was really great but its been a minute since ive seen it and id love to hear someone who isnt me talk about it a little bit
Okay you got me with this one
So I’ve seen people say that Margot in this scene is basically using fae rules to persuade Chef into letting her go, but I disagree. At this point in the movie, Chef is practically begging her to give him an excuse to let her go.
He doesn’t know what to do with her. He can’t figure her out: she’s not one of his hated customers or one of his devoted staff. His world has been boiled down to that dichotomy so much that he literally doesn’t know what she could be if not either of those. She doesn’t fit in his menu. He wants her to live because somewhere in the part of himself that still has a soul, he doesn’t want to kill the only person on this island who isn’t part of the hell that capitalism has made of his art, but his current worldview also doesn’t have room for someone like that to exist at all.
And then there’s the fact that her existence is proof that he doesn’t have to be here either. He’s complicit in this. He doesn’t have to be a head chef on this island making high art for people who consume him and his staff without enjoyment or care. He’s so lost in the sauce that he can’t even remember the simple joy of making good food to nourish the people around him. She has to go, partly so he can move on with his plan without having to reconcile that.
Margot represents the exact kind of person he once felt joy about making food for. She’s not one of these fucking rich people who demand his art and passion for status’ sake and don’t even appreciate it. She’s a working class woman. She’s exploited by these rich assholes just like he is, not because of her sex work exclusively, but because she’s a worker and they don’t give a shit about the value of her life. Chef making actual food for her is a return to the realness and joy of normal life that he has lost.
All of that is why her request works. It answers the question he has spent the whole movie trying to figure out. What is he supposed to do with her? The answer is: feed her. Send her home. The same thing a chef does for any customer.
So yes, she’s using the memory of his past joy to persuade him to let her go, but he wants to be persuaded. Margot isn’t someone Chef wants to kill. It’s not exactly working class solidarity, more like… the basic human connection that things like capitalism and class deprive us from.
#this obviously isn’t exactly what i wrote in the deleted tags#but i think i hit all the same points (and more lol)#i think margot’s status as a sex worker is so important to the class politics of the movie#and like. a really good mirror of how these rich assholes consume chef’s art without care for the man who made it#ask#anonymous#the menu#the menu (2022)#sepulchritudinous
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Zaheer stole the medallion of Guru Lahima or whatever his name was because he was looking for a proof of his suspicion that flying was a real possibility. Had he taken it for other reasons that would be an earthly possession. Since P‘li’s death (that he didn’t even mourn about) he was able to fly, indicating her being the last tether that kept Zaheer from „becoming wind“.
But does that mean he was unconvinced of what he was planing? This „mmmh as yea my thoughts make sense, let’s do it and see if it turns out correct“ has an immense casualty rate. And this requires being indifferent to guilt, doesn’t it? Because how can one be incorruptible, opening all Chakras, and still do these horrible things? Is it a higher form of morality that I don’t reach? One life in exchange for millions? Does it mean a sin is only one under the lens of subjectivity?
mf literally took the head dive, not knowing for sure if it would work…
Later:
Anyways,
It always irked me to see this incongruity. How should that be possible to become spiritual but commit homicide without lying to oneself and live in illusion?
So here’s my take:
Zaheer was completely disconnected which is really fascinating honestly in the context of higher spirituality. Well, he didn’t become enlightened but simply unlocked a rare and old form of bending then i guess? Maybe the ability to fly opens up to one when unaffected by fear. Zaheer‘s fears don’t concern his lover anymore, not possible death or the death of others, not his body. Because he disconnected from it.
I mean, the premise literally says „Empty. And become wind.“
The (what was it, fire?) Chakra Aang opened didn’t rid him of his fears, he just learned to let the fear flow through him.
Maybe that’s the difference… also, balance doesn’t mean sameness. Because that’s stagnant and subtends the flow of energy and natural cycles etc.
Zaheer thinks the existence of „power“ is inherently flawed, like a perversion of nature that he has to eradicate. So he deprived himself of the same. Forming no bonds, only expedients. Not seeing that having relationships with friends and family is the power that saves lives, Korra‘s life. Right?
To answer all that we’d have to define what „power“ really is I guess.
It can’t be the possession of a skill, an ability or even tool. Those things are all neutral. What isn’t neutral is the intent to use them -> so is power the autonomy to make decisions? That you can’t take away. Is it a devised concept with no real manifestations? But blackmail and oppression are real effects merely when one is in the possession of aforementioned mediums.
Where am I going with this?
In the end it comes down to exactly what Zaheer says - those instruments in the hold of a few is a problem when the power should be with all. So that holding needs to be gone. Now in order to achieve that you gotta be the one person that can overpower the powerful. That’s contradictory to his belief.
I end up where I started: Zaheer doesn’t know what he’s doing XD
But my dude does not cause revolution as he thinks, he forces evolution. Isn’t that the real perversion?
We all agree that changes are necessary in the political world of Avatar but one cannot destruct a system without offering a replacement or else the same corrupted system will rebuild itself, just worse.
I know the Red Lotus thought the natural order of things is disorder hence no system at all. But without any clean up effort the mindset taught under the old system won’t vanish into thin air. Criminals released from prison would be just as impulsive and scared and self-righteous. People need a little education which needs to be organised in some way. Or else every individual will take justice in their own hands. Zaheer even needs to educate his own team about which direction they want to go:
Does he think the solidarity will magically appear in the heads of people? Why should they react any differently from Ming-Hua? He can’t be the only one knowing shit.
I think his problem is that he let go of too much, sacrificing his sensitivity.
One who does not know fear forgets how the scared people think.
Zaheer is much like a monk: regulated. But there still is a distinction. The nomads do not abandon their human flaws, Aang could feel his excitement, Jinorah demanded recognition, Gyatso engaged in joy and Yangchen expressed her anger. Zaheer Never shows any of that.
He has an idea of how the world should operate but doesn’t know to get there because the driving factor for such a world are the simple people who grew up paranoid about making their living. Setting them free won’t gain them a sense of how to interact without paranoia.
I don’t know if any of that makes sense. I started typing without direction. Hope you had fun reading my cobbled together comprehension of Zaheer…
#zaheer#tlok#avatar: tlok#avatar#ming hua#red lotus#ramble#does this make any fucking sense#i am unconvinced of my own analysis I’m glad I’m not a graduate
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no one is alone
We’ve deluded our progress within the natural process of change. Nothing will be as it was. Reality isn’t local- it’s total & broken off from the corruption of a subjective view. What I give out to the world will never come back to me, & what is me will only be a reflection of what is the world.
It is here that I’m grateful. One will find peace in the infinite silence by surrendering to the ideas of an object consciousness. Here we are all protected & no one is alone. The universe is attention that will transcend your time. Everything is ephemeral inside infinity, but to be outside the infinite will only make you feel even smaller. How highly does man have to think of himself in order to believe that if he doesn’t witness a thing, then it never existed at all?
Man’s reinforcement of himself only drags the beauty of the world into a pit of nothing.
The world existed without you.
Even the idea of legacy is too fickle to survive this state.
Think about your Mother before falling for this narcissism. Does she only exist in front of your eyes & is subject to your attention? After all, she knows of a world where you don’t exist & knows as fact that you didn’t witness your own birth. You are, at most, the memory of your experiences and mean nothing in relation to yourself. Start believing in how much life happened before you lived. But please know that being here makes you objective to reality. However, consciousness isn’t concentrated & isn’t specific to your lived experience. Thank God for disagreements- a fine proof of this concept. Think about the world. We all disappear & life will be conscious without us but here there is great peace & solidarity in this disappearance.
I’m so grateful that no one is alone. Thinking about the idea of nothing makes it into something you can interactive with. Here is the magic. For when we die, life will be conscious that we no longer exist & so no one is ever alone.
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assa traoré lost her brother to police brutality and was arrested and sued (actually sued! had to show up in court a shitton of times and at one point was actually found guilty of libel bc she dared call her brother's murderers murderers!) and then continuously hounded by the french police and justice systems for daring to call her brother's murder a murder and for talking about systemic racism and how it got her brother killed. mainstream news either paid no attention to her or her brother's death, or actively participated in making her life utter hell. when she and the collective she founded declared their solidarity to black lives matters, politicians of all stripes declared that it was proof that any people of colour who dares talk about police brutality and racism in france are just brainwashed by usamerican intellectuals and influence, bc such a thing doesn't exist in france lol.
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Fine. it is Valentine’s day (not anymore for me actually but silence), I’ll create a NOT vaguepost. ? the Jekyllstein? u all know I managed to make it worse. read my post boy and bear witness to what my close friends have been needing to endure in DMs for an entire year now
I think the main thing I am trying to preach is that Jekyll and Victor are not opposites. If anything they complement one another, they move and work together in sync. It’s less of a “functional clash” and more of a rhythm.
Victor and Jekyll HAVE their opposites already. Utterson and Igor kept the two alive pretty much by force. Their respective friendships served as mediation; both of them were prodigies with great grades but otherwise rocky reputations socially. Igor and Utterson were almost requirements for their own safety: an immovable object to the unstoppable force. Platonic love is a powerful thing, and I think proof of that is very noticeable there. The thing about Jekyll and Victor’s romance is that, in reference to my previous statement, them keeping each other alive isn’t necessarily a rule they need to adapt to. It’s a natural progression.
They mirror each other in multiple ways. They’re obsessive and they’re impulsive. They drown themselves in what they do and risk their lives for their craft; Victor nearly lost his reanimating Liam, and Jekyll nearly lost his during the first transformation. They are self-destructive, their intensity is scary to those around them, though not to each other. They found a sense of solidarity that had never been there before, something shiny, new, and-- shockingly enough-- comforting. All of a sudden the one thing that made them unapproachable and pushed people away was pulling someone in to form something far more intimate.
They were both outcast by family, which is interestingly enough where their stories start to diverge. Victor willingly left, Jekyll was thrown out. Victor spent years running whereas Jekyll spent years unable to move. When their paths do finally cross, they exchange these things and turn it into a balance. Victor found a home in Jekyll, and Jekyll found the world in Victor. A comfort to finally settle down paired with the comfort to finally leave that suffocating bubble of security.
There’s also their shared uncanniness. Neither of them are really supposed to be there. In the context of Hyde, he’s a forced mutation; something manmade that bends the laws of nature using preexisting ones. Victor should be dead. His own theories had to be used in favour of continuing his existence, he was jolted back into the waking world after his time was supposed to be out. They both take up a space that isn’t intended to be theirs. They both, in a way, played God.
Illness also plays a big part in it, I think. They’re imperfect in many ways, broken shards of human beings being held together with glue that doesn’t tend to stick right. Victor is chronically ill. He’ll fall into severe fevers at random and be bedridden for weeks at a time before getting back up again and carrying on as if nothing had happened. Jekyll is bipolar. He’ll lose himself in unexpected manic episodes and cope by drinking until he’s blacked out. They care for each other, eye for an eye and leg for a leg. They’ve seen each other at their lowest and it only beckons the other in. They take those poorly glued pieces and offer an extra weight of support. They find those weak spots and tend to them with the upmost care. The more that’s surfaced, the more there is to love. There’s beauty found in the rubble, and they collect that beauty the way a magpie collects anything that shines.
They drive me fucking nuts. What they have is so raw. It’s so disgustingly touching. It’s so vulnerable and fresh and unconventional and charming. It’s so sweet that it’s rotten. They’d kill for each other and die for each other. They’re joint at the hip. This isn’t just a silly jekyllstein “what if” joke anymore, they indirectly saved each other and it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope they explode.
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If you believe in feminism and the equality of men and women, then you NEED to stand in solidarity with the trans community. Feminism at its core is a fight for equality, and the proof that women can do everything that a man can do, as well as he can do it, and sometimes even better. What is that but a breaking down of gender roles and the gender binary? And who can understand that better than the trans community? Transgender people are ESSENTIAL to feminism's fight for equality between the sexes and the breakdown of the gender binary because they are living proof that bioessentialism does not exist. Men can be born into women's bodies and vice versa, and there can be people who are neither men nor women, and people who are both on any given day! What is that but proof that men and women are not so different, that we are not defined by the body parts that we were born with, that men and women and everyone in between or outside the two are all equally capable of holding a job, doing manual labour, taking care of children, washing the dishes, etc, as well as proof that everybody can suck at those things regardless of gender! If we truly want equality between men and women, then we need to support and ally ourselves with the people who have broken down gender roles and said fuck you to them so much that they switch or even deny the gender binary all together! Support our trans community!
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Believe victims first ❤️❤️❤️ ty for that statement. She had acid thrown on her face and there is other women and comments coming out. As a woman of latin origin, I feel he was just a very good manipulator and charismatic (Jonathan Meyers has a similar Charisma), which are sadly something very usual. Men nowadays use being humanists or feminists to desguise their misogyny/power trips, self serving!! I'm trying my best nowadays to mostly support and follow fellow women of color, eg mabel cadena (lesbian afaik).
Oh boy this turned out to be a pretty long reply but I just had to clarify where and how I stand w this situation. Just note that the 'you' in this is mostly used in a general way not specifically addressing you anon :) so here's my reply:
You absolutely don't need to thank me for that! It is my personal belief that as women it is our duty to stand with other women. I believe in believing victims first bc it's not about BELIEVING them blindily without proof in the sense of trusting they're being truthful but what that sentence means (to me at least) is STANDING with women, forming a defensive line protecting these victims from hate and showing solidarity, it is about sending a message to the patriarchal/sexist/misogynist world that we live in and the people (mostly men) that actively try to uphold it that way, that there is an equal force that is RESISTING IT and pushing back the silencing they're trynna impose on victims bc we see that they're trying to silence women and trying to pretend that SA doesn't happen and portray EVERY SA victim as a liar for money/attention. it's about SHOWING UP with ur morals and showing you are aware of these existent, continuous and repeated issues and you are against them. It is showing up bc it is an opportunity to fight.
I've seen the response of people to this situation throughout social media and it's mostly men immediately jumping to say it's another Amber Heard situation as if it's not a MEN situation, as if it's not that men are notoriously known for being shitty times and times again as if this issue doesn't happen and ALOT. So naturally, I'll side w women first (even if they turn out actual liars later on, bc yk what? men side with other men UNAPOLOGETICALLY, REGARDLESS IF THE MAN TURNS OUT SHITTY, THEY FIND WAYS TO VICTIM BLAME) but also bc I can SADLY EAAAASILY believe it happened, since it HAPPENS ALOT!! and if she's lying I DO NOT CARE, that's on her!!! That makes HER a shitty person, it doesn't change my morals or the way i approach these issues bc if one woman lies there are thousands others sadly not lying. And they're all accused of lying, not believed, attacked and bullied into retaliation, into shutting up, into fear, into reverting back to not daring say there is a problem in the world we live in, just so the system continues working in favor of men abusing and controlling women without any change or resistance! That's what I mean by standing w her, not bc i personally know her or that im 100% certain or convinced she's telling the truth but bc she's a fellow woman, bc it's a very REAL SERIOUS women issue that any of us can find ourselves in one day, it can happen to me, to u, to my sis, friends... Etc. Again, if she's lying that's on her and we can rest assured she'll be punished for it, if not judicially, then publically, i mean victims get punished for simply speaking, and are threatened with death, so let alone if it turns out they lied, have we not seen what happened to amber heard? All that public ridicule ??
And this supposed worry for him that she's lying and might ruin his career sounds so fake and soo 'awww men are the real victims in this world' to me bc hello!?!? R we living in the same reality or are u actively trying to pretend we're not living in a world that is biased towards men and protects abusive men. Have we not seen ezra miller strolling freely in the premiere of the flash like he's done nothing??
Men don't need you to defend them bc they're disproportionately at more advantage than the woman. + Counting the fact that SA is hard to proof + the fact that the court could be biased towards men in these situations. All of these factors stand against the women. U don't need to worry abt men. They seldom suffer consequences for their actions especially if they're famous and rich and have teams.. And if he turns out innocent and his career is damaged u better believe I'll be here rooting for him again and supporting him it's that simple.
Idk, this is how I see things, to me this situation is a typical man vs woman situation. I don't see it as a 'tenoch my beloved whom I wanna stay in denial about him VS someone who might be taking advantage of him'
And i wanna clarify that me standing w her is not an act of betrayal towards my previous love for tenoch (like some are actively trying to guilt his fans into) + if he is truly innocent and truly a feminist he'd actually understand, he'd know the importance of believing victims. As long as I'm not ACTIVELY hating on him or bullying him or being racist like some ppl are (which is fucked up). For now, I'm just absolutely NEUTRAL ABOUT HIM. My love and simping for him is just on pause until it is confirmed that he's absolutely innocent.
So, tbh about the second part of ur message about him being manipulative and all, I don't wanna engage in that, or in deciphering his statement or picking out red flags etc.. Bc people can see whatever they wanna see when they wanna see a fault, flaw or red flag.. Etc. Bc one day everything will be clear and we'll find out. As I said, I'm very neutral abt him for now.
To conclude, i stand w women the same way men (most) openly and actively and shamelessly stand with horrible men even after they were proven to be shitty, ex: andrew tate's fans. There is such a double standard that exists for women that many aren't aware they're falling for; Men can be soooooo easily flexible with their morals and support abusers whereas women have to absolutely make the most perfect rational logical CORRECT DECISIONS at all and any time. I choose to believe her simply bc she's my gender (at least for now) and if I'm wrong im wrong and we as women are allowed to be wrong. Men stand w men all the time even after they learn they're shitty. So, sorry I'm not sorry that I show up to my own gender the same way men (again most) show up unapologetically to their own gender.
And it's not an act of hatred towards Tenoch it's an act of defiance to the patriarchy/sexism/misogyny... It just happened to be a situation that involves tenoch in the mix.. But just bc i loved him alot, won't make me go easy on him (equally doesn't mean imma start bullying him). Neutral.
Anyways, wish you and everyone else safety and support throughout ur lives. Trust me as a North African (Algerian), the situation and men of my country aren't any better so I understand..
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It’s really weird, being allowed back outside and remembering that the people I interact with generally tend to think I’m likable. Going from my only interactions being my parents (who don’t like me), my readers (who like my writing first and are biased in my favor), and friends (who were readers first, so same bias there) to...
The owner of the record store I now frequent who knows me by name, greets me when I walk in the door, and shows me shit that’s not even for sale just because he knows I’ll think it’s cool. (He hasn’t been wrong yet.)
The team lead where I work who judges me for my favorite Motley Crue album being Theatre of Pain (in a lighthearted, teasing way).
This lady who works at the gas station I get pizza from once a week who calls me an “old soul” and tells me about the celebrity crushes she had as a teenager in the ‘80s.
The guy who commiserated with me about growing up gay with a homophobic family for, like, thirty minutes once while I was working, then came back about a month later, recognized me immediately, and was relieved I was there when he needed to ask for something that might have been embarrassing otherwise.
The three trans coworkers I met at different points during my job I’ve developed solidarity with (there’s a fourth and she is very small and draws in silence in the break room--Namine vibes tbh--and she seems shy so I don’t want to scare her off, but I’m GONNA friend her at some point) as well as some Various Guys strewn about the store I always make sure to stop and say hi to when I see them (and they say hi back! often initiating! especially the guy in electronics!).
And I just... God, interactions like these are probably really fucking mundane to a lot of people. Like, “No shit, you’re friendly with your coworkers. Most people are.”
But...
When you have a family like mine who hates everything you are and thinks you should be an entirely different person because no one could possibly like you, each interaction with these people, learning about the Nikki Sixx poster someone used to have above their bed, having someone know more about you than the people you live with just because they paid attention to the formats of the albums you bought, listening to someone voluntarily open up about when they realized they had anger management problems and how they’re working on them now and most likely will for the rest of their life, being introduced to someone’s cat when you offer them a ride home, it just...
It’s proof that my parents were wrong. I’m not unlovable. I didn’t need to be fixed. I didn’t need to get the moles on my face removed, or get different hobbies, or wear more expensive clothes, or keep my queerness a secret. People like me, not in spite of being weird, but because of all the weird things that make me who I am. I was never the problem. They were. And keeping me hidden from the world, pointedly not introducing me to people or cutting me off before I could answer a simple “How are you?” because heaven fucking forbid I open my mouth and let the world know I’m not a voiceless doll? That was not the answer. That was not helpful. That was not raising your fucking kid.
I deserve to exist. I deserve to interact with humanity. I deserve to take up space in people’s lives.
I am a real fucking person.
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is there any actual evidence of the Bayonetta VA being a blue lives matter transphobe? I've been scrolling through her Twitter and there doesn't seem to be anything setting off warning alarms in my head? there doesn't seem to be any sources in the notes of that thread either, so.. I'm a little confused?
Yeah I haven't seen anything either. I mainly reblogged that for the other person's point being made of it doesn't matter if she is or isn't, you can't be selective about solidarity. If proof comes up I'll be disappointed in her but no less supportive of these companies need to start fucking treating voice actors like human beings already
This also applies to the fact Taylor's statements should be under scrutiny as well. I definitely think both sides are hiding something but the entire reason there's reason to doubt Taylor is because of things NDAs and muddying of the water done explicitly by the companies involved. If they weren't so cloak and dagger and hellbent on controlling narratives, then it wouldn't be so hard to figure out what's true. Always remember that NDAs and gag orders exist so that corporations can control the narrative as much as possible and make sure that none of their shady dealing get exposed in the process of dealing with something else, and Platinum in just 2 short years has amassed a long list of sleazy practices and scandals.
TLDR, it doesn't matter what's going on with Taylor because Platinum is already proven to be objectively in the wrong and the root cause of this issue is how THEY handled the casting. Even if Taylor lied Platinum should be scrutinized for why they didn't allow anyone to speak freely on the issue if they were truly so innocent. The only option is that 1. they are guilty, or 2. They aren't guilty of THAT but are trying to keep control of the narrative so that their other undesirable actions don't get exposed. (and Hale is also provably in the wrong for supporting Kamiya's thermonuclear meltdown)
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Not to mention, Billy has actively done more for Max than Steve ever has. Realistically, Steve hasn't done anything except disrupt a fight with Billy 9which Max had to finish) and kind of bumble around in her proximity without having much direct influence on her or what happens to her. Not in the way the likes of El, Lucas and even Dustin have.
Billy spent years bearing the brunt of Neil's wrath for her. Years taking the punishments for her actions, especially actions she knew would get Billy in trouble. Billy spent years ferrying her around like a cab service with nothing in return. Billy suffered his possession alone even though he had to have an inkling Max was involved in something weird. Billy only begged her for help when he was literally being cooked alive in a sauna.
Billy died for her. Died saving her and her friends when none of them did anything remotely close like that for him, even when they were basically confirming he was possessed. Nobody tried to save him then. They were only concerned with stopping him.
sorry anon im replying late lol. i believe this is a message in response to this post about people calling steve the brother max deserves.
UH i mean, i wouldnt understate what steve's done for her emotionally. like yeah she had to finish a fight steve technically started (which is a hilarious way to put it btw and totally true besides) but i think he was an "adult" figure that made her feel safe on a night that was scary af, and billy, for whatever reason, was definitely terrorizing her and her friends and making her feel unsafe at the start of s2.
as a kid who's just moved to a new town and found out monsters exist and almost got eaten by one in the bus before steve stepped in, he's definitely an important older brother figure for her. my argument is mostly that calling steve the brother max deserves is snubbing billy in a way i cant imagine anyone with siblings would ever do or say.
like yeah steve and max went through Some Stuff, but max and billy have also lived in the same house with neil and theyve seen each other at home, by virtue of the fact that theyre a family unit. they know stuff about each other, where they came from and who their parents are, that other people dont know and wont ever know in the same way because the knowledge they have is first-hand. their sibling relationship matters, even if it's clearly in a bad place in s2, and as someone with siblings, i could never imagine saying that someone else would be the sibling i deserved and disregarding the ones i have, even if they treat me badly. there's always going to be unspoken solidarity there.
i think that solidarity and the fact that billy and max were clearly on better terms at the start of s3 are why she tried so hard to save him, and grieved him so much that vecna targeted her. and yeah i do agree that no one tried to save him the way they tried to save will, which isnt fair to either billy or max.
(re: your other points, it's never confirmed in the show's canon how long they were siblings and exactly how much responsibility billy had over max, so as much as i hc those things and enjoy exploring them in fic, i try to keep it to canon to be as accurate as possible in the case of antis lol. all of that is just implied, and unfortunately implications arent enough proof for people approaching billy from a bad faith angle. alas.)
#billy hargrove#max mayfield#rei replies#stranger things#stranger things discourse#discourse#fandom wank#fandom discourse#long post
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this isn't a rq, just a question, is it valid to both ship with stacey and feel some sort of solidarity with him (me 🤝 himb: both have an absurdly fucked up/bloodthirsty? parent in our lives, even if his cumlord of a father at least Dies eventually + also Traumas may exist but like. not on the same page so much as the same bookshelf in this case asdjgkla) dip me into the trash this ask lowered in quality as i continued writing it
NONONONO BOO HONESTLY IT"S SUUUCH A MOOD
I kin Neon bc of our similarly controlling parents but I love her and I ship her with myself lol. Like there's nothing wrong with it. If anything, I see it as a proof of how much you love stacey~! Because honestly....mood.
#tale's talks#asks#YA DOING AMAZING OUT HERE BOO I PRUD OF U KEEP UP THE STACEY STANNING#*insert godai yusuke thumbs up*#but also like take care of yourself okay? ur loved and i dont know u yet but im sending ya hearts
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[Reading and Research]
Words I carry with me.
The ideas and research around the writing of my dissertation has continued to inspire me thought this term (and probably will for a long time)
The book which spoke to me the most was ‘Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard
•A house… allows the poet to inhabit the universe. The universe. His house. The universe comes to inhabit.
•Find the courage to pursue that private and very personal becoming no matter how strange and unfamiliar that outcome may prove.
•Transcending our memories of all the houses in which we have found shelter, above and beyond all the houses we have dreamed we lived in.
•For our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word.
•After we are in the new house, when memories of other places we have lived come back to us, we travel to the land of motionless childhood, motionless the way all immemorial things are.
•Thus, by approaching the house images with care, not to break up the solidarity of memory and imagination, we may hope to make others feel all the psychological elasticity of an image that moves us at an unimaginable depth. Through poems, perhaps more then through recollections, we touch the ultimate poetic depth of the space of the house.
•For the moment, I should like to point out the original fullness of the house’s being. Our day dreams carry us back to it. And the poem well knows that the house holds childhood motionless in it’s arms.
•House, patch of meadow, oh evening light suddenly you acquire an almost human face. You are very near us, embracing and embraced.
•We are unable to relive duration which has been destroyed. We can only think of it, in the line of abstract time that is deprived of all thickness.
•In memory recaptured through daydreams, it is hard to say through what syncretism the attic is at once small, warm, cool, always comforting.
•The normal unconscious knows how to make itself at home everywhere.
•A house constitutes a body of images that mankind proofs or illusions of stability.
•A house is imagined as a concentrated being. It appeals to our consciousness of centrality.
•But it is first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces, when we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.
•Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination, that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
•The corner is a sort of half-box, part walls, part door. It will serve as an illustration for the dialects of inside and outside.
•For to great dreamers of corners and holes nothing is ever empty.
•“All things that are far, far away, they no longer exist, they never did exist, the past has lost all recollection of them… look, seek, and wander, tremble… already yourself no longer have a past.”
•Space has always reduced me to silence.
•This nightmare is not visually frightening. The fear does not come from the outside. Nor is it composed of old memories. It has no past, no physiology, nothing in common, either, with having one’s breath taken away. Here fear is being itself. Where can one flee, where find refuge? Space is nothing but a “horrible outside-inside.”
•Phenomenology
•A house is imagined as a vertical being.
•It is not enough to consider the house as an ‘object’
The essay ‘Inside Fear: Secret Places and Hidden Spaces in Dwellings’ by Anne Troutman was also fascinating and relevant to my trail of thinking.
•I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of the wind under the tiles.
•Every object had a story, every story, a memory, and every memory, more objects
•There were many places to hide along the periphery, closets, halls, attics, window seats, drapes, back stairs, fire escapes, boiler rooms, basement, eaves, sheds, on the roof.
•There is no distinction between inward and outward.
•It is a collision of dream, nightmare and circumstance, a portrait of the inner life.
•In the middle of the middle of the middle of the night… in the middle of the middle of the middle of the room… in the middle of the middle of the middle of your mind.
•They are the night side of the house, in which the identify and security of domestic life is symbolically tested. Incorporated within the house, they form another realm where daily life is displaces, condensed, fragmented.
•Curious places become refuge and half-sized
•The empty shaft, dark and smelling of dust and rope, it is the locus of lost things never to be recovered.
•A parallel world inhabits the borders of my waking life.
•They are spaces behind, between and through
•Every night, these walls come alive with scratchings, rustlings, and strange twittering’s, charging the house with nocturnal life.
•The boundaries may be erased
•I may hesitate between worlds.
•For the door is an entire cosmos of half-open… at times, it is closed, bolted, padlocked. At others, it is open, that is to say, wide open.
•The hidden spaces, the dark spaces, spaces that feel terrifyingly empty or endless guard and contain our anxieties. These hidden spaces are assimilated into the visible house; they are the other side of existing walls, doors, stories e.c.t. accommodations of the unconscious.
•There will always be information somewhere in the house of a hidden nature that eludes consciousness.
•Is a monument to the energy of anxiety. Doors and cabinets open onto solid walls, stairways lead nowhere. Chimneys stop short of the roof. Miniature doors lead into large rooms. Doors open into rooms without floors.
•The buildings had one thing in common: a double life. Behind, within, around the side of and below the building’s lobby, public entrance, elevators, and private apartments are a web of service entries …
•Houses that I remember with texture and detail in their structure – window, floor, door, walls – feel safe to me; inhabited by smells, sounds, textures and detail, they mitigate the anxiety of the outside world and hone my focus and insight, giving me a sense of comfort.
•I am constructed of the various dwellings I have lived in over the years. – their interiors hold me and record different stages of my emergence as a person.
‘The Object Stares Back’ by James Elkins
is an interesting book I read during first year while I was making work around the concept of the uncanny valley
- I see a connectivity between the uncanny valley and anthropomorphism. (I’m this way, I feel my practice has come full circle, or in other words, developed in a beautifully straight timeline.)
•Unlike the stomach or the heart, eyes are our own to command; they obey every desire and thought.
•No matter how hard we look, we see very little of what we look at.
•There’s an uncanny feeling when a darkened doorway becomes a room full of eyes and every shadow seems to grow a face.
•Mirrors are like empty eyes, blind until I step in front of them – then they produce copies of my eyes, staring back at me.
•Objects have a certain presence.
•Every object sees us; there are eyes growing on everything.
•The world is filled with things we do not see, even though they are right in front of us.
•If we look at something genuinely confusing – an abstract painting, for example – we will see body metaphors and body echoes; uprightness, the breadth and height of a body, the symmetries of a face, the texture of skin, the warmth of an embrace, the position of one person near another… it is our inescapable, habitual way of coming to terms with things that are not bodies.
•When we do not have bodies in front of us, we hallucinate them, and when we do, we try to control them by covering them with language.
•There are things we do not see and things we cannot see and things we refuse to see, and there are things we can’t make out, puzzling things and sickening things that make us wince.
•Why do we continue to see so little even when we want to see so much?
•We also stare at artworks, and that’s one of the curious things about them, since it puts them in the same category as with faces, we spot in crowds, car engines, and mechanical pencils.
During second year, I wrote a mediascape essay exploring
Hito Steryl’s essay ‘In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective’
- I still carry the scientific and conceptual elements of this essay within my current research
•The present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.
•Intermittent state of free fall for subjects and objects alike.
•Linear perspective. Its stable and single point of view is being supplemented (and often replaced) by multiple perspectives, overlapping windows…
•Linear perspective not only transforms space, but also introduces the notion of a linear time, which allows mathematical prediction and, with it, linear progress.
•The vanishing point gives the observer a body and a position. But on the other hand, the spectator’s importance is also undermined by the assumption that vision follows scientific laws.
‘The haunting of hill house’
is a series (and a book I haven’t been able to get my hands on yet) which completely understands my fascination and grievement with space within houses
•The face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of flee in the eyebrow of a cornice.
•Time after time we choose the wrong doors, the room we want eludes us.
•Haven’t you noticed how nothing in this house seems to move, until you look away, and then you catch something out of the corner of your eye?
And… Fragments of writing I have collected over time
•Safe! Safe! Safe! The pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry, ‘Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.’ –
Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House
•A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. -
Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer
•I am alone in my room between two worlds. –
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
•I have searched for my mothers love in all the corners of the world. -
Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
•Time is the longest distance between two places. -
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
•I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say. -
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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