Quick reminder that being nonhuman does not exempt you from being able to perpetuate bigotry, nor does it relieve you of any privileges you may benefit from. You still grew up in the same bigoted society as everyone else, and a nonhuman identity will not prevent you from absorbing and having to unlearn prejudiced beliefs.

i’m so sick of writers who proudly proclaim that they don’t read and directors and actors and other filmmakers who smugly say that they rarely watch movies or any artist who acts like an audience is stupid for connecting with their work like what the fuck is wrong with you that you hold such contempt such derision for the art that you have chosen to make the art that so many people dream of the opportunity to make the art that brings meaning and connection to people’s lives it’s unbelievably disrespectful to both your audience and the art-form and if you can’t muster basic respect for either your art-form or your audience then kindly fuck off and do something else

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

A lot of people are completely disinterested in creating a safe space for all aros and aces because that would require letting go of being allowed to publicly shame things like sex and romance. There is a stark difference between repulsion/aversion and negativity, and that line stands where you treat those things as disgusting or as a personal fault/flaw. While I'm romance repulsed, I'm never going to go on my blog and call romance disgusting or gross, because it isn't; it's a feeling, neutral in morality, and a way to live your life if you so choose.

I don't think a lot of people get this or what the difference is. Anybody can be negative and anyone can have harmful ideas, favourable or repulsed. It's about how you treat it, how you express about it, and if you seek to demonise or make those things out to be disgusting, perverse, or deviant.

Even small things or "jokes" add up over time; put yourself in the shoes of someone who has to see those "jokes" made about their lifestyle and what's important to them every day, or even every hour. Would you still feel like they're lighthearted after even one day of reading over and over again?

[Not to say anyone who's done this in the past is a horrible, terrible person. You can change and grow as you take in info; that's just the life experience. But, to grow, you need to actively want to, and that means addressing biases and asking yourself "should I say this? Could this affect my peers?"]

Life got more interesting when I learned that everything is an argument, everything is political, and everything is deeper than it seems. Everything is the product of something, and it's up to us to figure out what that "something" is. We are interesting as fuck! We are deeper than you think!

It might seem really tedious, but recognizing this has made me so much less incurious. I now want to learn about us as people. Everything is deeper than it seems.

My fave 3 looks for no reason!! 1! 2! 3!

FL is basically like a ginger golden retriever, which means he. will. SHED.

His copper and lilac fuzz will get everywhere. In the corners. All in the carpet. Over ALL your clothes.

Give pets at your discretion. And have a lint roller on hand. AND be wary of wearing darker clothes during said moth cuddles.

hoho but you see, as someone who has a tabby cat AND wears dark clothing, i am used to having fur all over my clothes!!!!!

believe me when i say it gets worse in the winter and spring. winter because his fluff and hair become thicker due to the colder temperatures, and spring because he's shedding that warmer coat off! in the winter especially, he likes to curl up next to you and nestle his head into your lap, so your clothes are bound to be covered in fur by the end of it. but you don't mind, because getting to snuggle with Foul Legacy is completely worth getting some fluff on your clothes! you do have several lint rollers for when you leave the house, though- you like looking presentable!

Legacy, on the other hand, rather likes that his fur is everywhere. why? because it ensures that you smell like him, a scent too subtle for your human nose to pick up. he wants everyone to know that he's yours and you're his, since he fears that one day you'll realize that you deserve better than an Abyssal monster and leave him alone. he doesn't care that Zhongli often gives him amused glances or that monsters stray away from you- good! let them leave you to your peace! Legacy's there to protect you, but he'd prefer if neither of you had to fight. it can't always be avoided, of course, but for now he'll just cuddle closer to you, his claws laced delicately with your fingers as he lets out content purrs and trills at the feeling of you scritching behind his horns <3

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

The girlboss mockery (irl and in fiction) of the past few years, the rise of trad-caths/tiktok tradwives, the way it’s become supposedly progressive to make “white women” a bogeyman, along with the rise of ironic post-left misogyny have combined to create an environment where openly hating women is permissible, not to mention whacking the label “empowering” on any old random regressive decision and suddenly it’s somehow great for women. You can get away with the most vile and repugnant misogyny as long as you preface it with “girlboss”.

Genuinely we're living through one of the worst "feminist" waves in history. The most vile, violent misogynistic takes become acceptable as long as someone prefaces them with [insert faux-feminist take]. "Girlboss" is just one of the many, many covers people use to disguise their misogyny. We get viral misogynistic posts across all social media platforms daily. People have been able to build entire social platforms from their misogyny. It feels like these last few years have been a steep slide back into the 18th century with some of the takes I see from people. And what's even worse is that a lot of it is coming from other women! The whole trend of "tradwives" on TikTok, like you mentioned, makes me feel crazy whenever I see it. They genuinely want women to be "back in the kitchen" and fully dependent on men, as though that hasn't historically been a circumstance to further abuse women. The support for abusive men and the shaming of women also seems to be at an all-time high.

And it's not just talk; women's rights have been directly impacted by this entire shift in the perception and treatment of women. Sorry, but this kind of behavior is never inconsequential no matter how seemingly small, and being misogynistic for any reason is harmful. It's alarming how comfortable people have become with it.

I am an abolitionist I do think that the term "violent crime" as it is actually used is less than useless and that people convicted of so-called "violent offenses" should not be excluded from reform measures. I do believe in the actual total dismantling of the prison system. I do, actually, believe that the way that the label "sex offender" is applied and how the sex offender registry works in reality is a reflection of the injustices and inequities of our system. I don't think that formerly incarcerated people are disqualified for being advocates of their own cause by virtue of the nature of their crime. but there are limits. I don't think we should be overly permissive toward men with a history of rape and domestic violence nor that we should allow them to downplay what they actually did. and I think that abolitionist spaces have a rape and DV apologia problem. I think many activist spaces have long had a problem of protecting predatory men and downplaying violence against women in the movement(s). and I think liberals and moderates and conservatives jump on this to dismiss abolition as a political framework and movement despite the fact that their spaces have the exact same fucking problem. and I think that opponents of abolition are too comfortable with their indifference to the massive amount of sexual violence facilitated by the carceral state and systems of policing

Can't sleep again. Thinking about how I don't like knight/prince(ss) as a trope. Besides the fact that it's boring to me. This isn't "discourse" or a call out or anything it's just a personal interpretation and analysis

while yeah there's nothing wrong with that level of power imbalance in fiction, these tropes always act like that's a cute thing which I just find to be. 😬 y'know. Referring to a character as a "pet" for the royal one without understanding that that's. not a great dynamic to have. The "don't call them toxic or problematic!" When the relationship is inherently not equal and can never be without issues, but this can't possibly be discussed because then the person who ships it is a bad person 🙃

and for someee reason still bitching about the "more obvious" power imbalances like enemies, who most of the time end up being MORE equal because they're the same person same situation different fonts

It's fine to me when it's used as an insult (something something loyalty) and then there's discussion of "you know you mean so much more to me than that", or when there's a Very Obviously Fucked Up imbalance that is Very Obviously Not Normal and yet the one that gets the short end of the stick is like "fuck this I don't care that you think you're better than me. Your power only exists because I give you it, so be very careful how you use it" (and when they use it wrong there are consequences that don't get magically forgiven)

If the one with less control isn't very very aware of how much power the other has over them and could exert if they wanted to (but also the fact that the relationship and its genuineness hinges on their agreement) it gets a bit too concerning for me. If there isn't a certain level of meta intertextual analysis and understanding of the way the very much dominant/submissive dynamic works then it's just. Not interesting and often frustrating

Edit: this should have said intra-textual ("in the text itself", which I apparently not a word) not inter-textual (between texts)

I think I have maybe decided to tell someone I no longer want to be friends with them, but I'm wondering if I should give it a few more days before I commit to it

Mordecai probably lives in an apartment or something, but my first thought when you brought up the Caves on that post was that he won’t tell us because he’s been living in the Caves the Whole Time. Even tho he’d hate the slime mold.

yeah a Whole Damn House would be a bit much, and probably not as useful for the nightly bootlegging related goings on: see, freckle needing to stand around waiting for a ride before he can go shoot people. whereas mordecai can show up to the maribel hotel on foot, or at least have started out somewhere he could get a cab or whatever....and this is probably the closest to any relevant Living Situation Glimpses

someplace with a bed, and one with an art deco headboard....a modern style, so it's neither Antique nor unfancy enough to have less identifiable stylings at all. like just by guessing surely he lives in some apartment that's unassuming enough to live unassumingly in, with whatever alias, so something large & fancy would be unhelpful....plus if he's gonna be fairly rigorous in his domestic upkeep, it wouldn't really help to have a huge place, even if for the same reasons it wouldn't be too small (or old or otherwise unpleasant; hard no to slime mold, slime, or mold....) and like re: the rotating aliases, maybe he moves places fairly regularly for good measure, been at this like, a decade....tl;dr probably has some apartment/s that's roomy but not huge, nice but not Fancy fancy, at the nexus of practicality, resources, and preferences

but it's important to think about "what if mordecai's been living in the caves the whole time" b/c that's funny lmao

ok sorry for being annoying or whatever but like. if ofmd isnt to your taste thats obviously completely fine but im seeing way too many of yall celebrating the cancellation of a show that was very likely cancelled for being gay. just bc you think fandom shit is annoying or?? you dont have to like the show or even think it deserves another season but even so uhh celebrating homophobia just seems like poor taste to me!

< still mentally grappling with not only am i loved but people like. think about me when im not there (in a good way) whoa. like i know that but whoa.

i know it's going to anger a lot of people but i have to say it. separating the art from the artist, in the case of people like jk rowling, who are very much still kicking and actively hurting people, is quite simply impossible. investing your money and time in harry potter IS investing your money and time in jk rowling. as long as harry potter stays relevant she stays relevant, and can continue to influence politics. i know it's hard to give up something that for a lot of us was an integral part of our childhood and more (believe me, i was the biggest harry potter fan until not so long ago), but not giving it up is selfish. i'm sorry to say it but it's true. there are no neutral choices in politics--and this IS political. you either endorse her bullshit or you don't. you can't buy harry potter products and publicly engage with harry potter content and pretend like it doesn't have any repercussions. it does. it keeps her in power. and it sets a precedent, that we will let people say and do anything as long as they sell us shiny things to distract us.

i can't make any decisions for you, but i need you to be aware of what you're doing if you support jk rowling and anything she is associated with.

you are an active participant in a regime that seeks to eliminate trans people, and won't stop there, because the oppression of one marginalised group always leads to more. this is political. i won't allow you to cover your ears and pretend not to know it. you are making a political choice.