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oslo-in-the-summer-time · 10 months

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i don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're transgender or nonbinary and transitioning please do NOT claim to be intersex to avoid being misgendered. do NOT claim to have a hormone disorder and do NOT claim our experiences if you are not intersex. the recent influx of perisex / dyadic / endosex folks claiming to have hormone disorders or to be intersex to avoid uncomfortable situations and misgendering makes me feel sick. you cannot claim to be intersex as a safety blanket. we are real people who exist and face unique struggles, oppression, and violence, NOT your scapegoat.

#intersex #transgender #nonbinary #queer #genderqueer #dyadic / endosex / perisex people do NOT clown in the notes #free to rb. bit of an angry rant #anyone clowning will be blocked

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captainofthetidesbreath · 1 year

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WGA has called for a strike. Remember that the writers do not wish for a strike (as WGA East reminded everyone) and that this is a result of the AMPTP's insufficient responses to the proposals and requests from the WGA.

The WGA is fighting to ensure that writers receive fair compensation and to improve working conditions that have been eroded for the profit of streaming services. See these articles for a quick rundown of what has led to the strike and what the WGA is asking for: Variety, New York Times, WGA West linktree.

Commentary of "nobody in Hollywood writes anything good anyway" and "this isn't going to improve all the shit television" and "the writers always complain" is not only counterproductive but actively anti-union conversation in favor of the studios, so don't try it — especially not about a strike called on International Workers' Day.

#I will block anyone fucking clowning on this and even lock the post so do not

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monsterqueers · 5 months

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Im just really annoyed about how people just fucking hate it when the kids they were jealous of and hated in school for not also getting bad grades also report being fucking traumatized by the school system.

Yeah sorry school traumatizes everyone, even the 'ex-gifted kids' you fucking hate because god forbid someone wasnt exploited and overworked the same way you were.

Sorry a group of predominately neurodiverse people experiencing burnout and how their upbringing of being only valued for their academic performance totally fucked their ability to function in the real world dare talk about this pain where you can see.

Its not being privileged and ~humblebragging~ to report emotional neglect from your parents centered around you having to get perfect grades to receive any scrap of love.

Wishing violence on them for talking about it and finding each other isn't cute either.

And because these people need it stated extra clear

This post is NOT saying other groups of people 'had it less bad'. This is about a specific phenomenon of vitriol towards a oft neurodiverse group of people commiserating about how they were screwed over by the system under the label 'gifted kid' NOT whatever else you are imagining im saying. <3

#clown on this post and get blocked #dismissing abuse reports because you think the people being screwed over by the system differently threaten you somehow is wrong sorry <3 #rebloggable but if it breaches containment too hard I might lock it to avoid the piss on the poor crowd #these ppl do not realize part of the point of 'ex gifted kid' is the fact that the label WAS bunk & was just used as an excuse to abuse us!#thats literally half of the talk & theory! We were just normal kids!!! Thats the fucking point!! Its not being elitist its the opposite!!#blocked and unfollowed 3 different people for threats of violence towards anyone who identifies with 'ex gifted kid' which inspired this

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agrebel18 · 7 months

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HERE'S A RANDOM GUIDE TO SOME (NOT ALL) TONE INDICATORS IF YOU'RE CONFUSED ABOUT THEM

/j is joking or joke

/hj is half joking or half joke

/srs is serious

/s and /sar is sarcasm

/gen is genuine

/lh is light-hearted

/nm is not mad

/nbh is nobody here

/pos is positive

/neg is negative

there's more but i don't remember them all lmao, feel free to add so we can help each other out!

#if you clown on this you'll be automatically blocked </3 #tone indicators #tone tags #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autistic things #autistic spectrum #autism acceptance #autism #i'm tagging this with the autism tags because i think we're the ones who use them the most #but anyone can use them and want to know more about them #aggie posts #autistic

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bhaalble · 7 months

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This isn't a fully fleshed out thought yet but I do feel. Weird. About how Wyll's arc antagonist is handled compared to the others in the party. Like imagine if you just had Cazador or Viconia at camp hanging out three feet away from Shadowheart or Astarion's bed.

Like ok in the interest of absolute fairness: the closest in terms of scale to Mizora is Gortash. In that both have harmed their respective companion, taken advantage of their trust, and isolated them from their loved ones. However, in contrast to someone like Vlaakith or Mystra or Cazador, they don't wield intense physical and spiritual pull over their victim. Karlach and Wyll have a little more freedom to act against them even without player help than say, Shadowheart or Lae'zel. They also entered into their circumstances at least PARTLY by choice. Obviously this doesn't excuse anything that was done to them, they were both young and vulnerable and had that taken advantage of. Its just a little different than "literally owned me for two centuries" and "has been my goddess and my mentor since I was a child and later we developed increasing intimacy in even more personal ways".

And the game let's you go pretty far with siding with Gortash! Far more than it lets you do with Mizora even. But the thing is you can still. Kill Gortash. In like a half dozen different ways. And also! Again! Even if you maintain a positive relationship with Gortash until the end. He's not in camp at the foot of Karlach's bed. You can't hook up with him ten feet from Karlach and have her walk in on it.

This isn't even me saying it was bad to have either of these things. Not every abuse story has to end in "kill your abuser" there's room for a lot of good options. But as an extent of Wyll's quest overall feeling a little underdeveloped. Its weird to me that we generally don't get a lot of the catharsis and grief and intense emotions that we get from the other companions when they confront their abusers. There's not a lot of processing for Wyll about everything he went through! He gets a little "nyah nyah" moment if he saves his father from Mizora but even then. Whether he chose in the first place to save his father or himself wasn't even truly up to him! It was player choice in either direction with no option to even ask him what he actually preferred.

I do genuinely understand: Wyll is a character who doesn't seem to particularly enjoy self-pity. He's very consistent that he doesn't regret pacting with Mizora and that he wants to give his all to his father and the Sword Coast. He doesn't have to be Astarion 2 to be Good Character Writing. But the absence of those big cathartic character moments really do contribute to Wyll feeling like an afterthought character writing wise and make me wonder again what was initially planned in EA

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #wyll ravengard #if anyone clowns on this post they are getting blocked

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kienava · 1 year

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So someone asked me to make a post about Blake’s development so far in order to discuss the question of where Blake’s character can progress at this point in RWBY given that her arc with Adam wrapped up in V6 and she didn’t really carry a plot line in V7-8. I do media and story things for a living, but I’m also an intimate partner abuse survivor - needless to say, Blake’s story is important to me. Hopefully my perspective helps answer concerns about Blake’s story being “over,” because I think it’s very much the opposite.

(Continued below the cut because this turned into an entire essay.)

I want to preface this by saying I understand why it might be difficult to picture what Blake’s story looks like going forward. I largely credit this to the relative dearth of compassionate, healing-oriented narratives about abuse survivors in media. A lot of what we see is either revenge fantasies or stories about facing the abuser and arriving at a point of ultimate catharsis. In some sense, this is a broader fault in the standards of western storytelling, which is oriented around that singular, climactic catharsis, but that’s another essay. In truth, a mostly linear progression towards a pivotal point of recovery isn’t how healing from abuse works. It’s a messy process, and life is rarely as linear as in fiction. I think RWBY incorporates that nonlinearity into Blake’s arc very well.

Speaking of Blake’s arc, let’s look at that.

When we first meet her in volume 1, she’s introduced as an aloof, independent loner who’s very resistant to getting closer to people. Most of her classmates perceive her as mysterious and alluring at best, callous and cold at worst. Once we start to understand more of her history, it’s easier to see her attitude as the defense mechanism it is. She wants to keep people at arm’s length because she doesn’t trust them not to hurt her – but she also believes that she will harm people she gets close to just because of who she is. That whole Beauty and the Beast dichotomy, you know? Adam told her that she ruins things. It doesn’t help that he groomed her into a terrorist organization and thus her surrounding community has also labeled her a threat. She’s got a few overlapping layers of distorted thinking to work through when it comes to her image of herself and others. The way she perceives people is, at first, overwhelmingly informed by her traumatic experiences with Adam and the White Fang.

It’s pretty strongly implied that Blake bent the rules in the forest and intentionally selected Yang as her partner. When we first see Blake dashing around in the shadows, Yang is taking down a Grimm while sassing it to death. Blake talks later about how Adam’s charisma drew her to him initially, so it’s no surprise that when she was choosing her next partner, she gravitated to the same superficial qualities. During the first White Fang arc, after her self-destructive spiral, Blake starts to genuinely trust her teammates for the first time. That trust is tested when Yang fights Mercury. In this moment, Blake is confronted with the possibility that a pattern might be repeating itself: what if she was drawn to Yang for reasons beyond the superficial? What if Yang doesn’t just share Adam’s positive qualities, but his negative ones, too? The impulsiveness, the violence, the abuse – but Blake stops herself. She chooses to trust that Yang isn’t Adam, and she says as much. She’s accepting that Adam is in her past and electing to move forward. How perfectly, neatly linear.

Then the end of volume 3 happens.

For an abuse survivor, the idea that an abuser you’ve gotten away from might come crashing back into your life is possibly the scariest thing in the entire world. This is exactly what happens when Adam shows up, and Blake’s worst fears come true. He makes a point of hurting someone she cares about simply because he can to prove that he still has power over her. Blake runs because she thinks the only way she can protect the people she cares about is to be away from them. That paradoxical duality of (1) fearing harm will be done to her by others and (2) doing harm to others herself rears its head.

One specific question I was asked is why Blake talks about Yang so little in volumes 4 and 5. If Blake isn’t talking about the people she left behind, is she even thinking about them? I say, well of course she is. It’s coloring her entire attitude.

When Blake returns to Menagerie, she’s back in the place where she met her abuser. She’s at her parents’ house, a place that has been a symbol of everything she left behind when she ran away the first time. Now she’s run from another home. Menagerie is riddled with traumatic memories for her, both interpersonally and on a structural, systemic level. Everywhere she goes could be a place where Adam said something awful to her, made her obey him in some way, asserted control. She also has to confront him in person again, too.

With Adam around, of course she’s not going to risk mentioning Yang. He got one inkling that Blake cared about someone else and cut their fucking arm off. The one time Blake mentions Yang by name, her voice cracks so obviously it’s like she’s forcing herself to get the word out. Through both of these volumes, Blake has other external goals, but she’s still trying to protect someone she cares about. At this point, she’s constantly struggling with two motivations: hope and fear. She wants to make the world a better place, but she’s terrified of what she’ll have to confront in order to do it because of what she’s already lost. Her choice to reunite with her team and fight shows that ultimately hope wins out.

In Volume 6, Blake and Yang facing Adam is essentially the B plot of the whole volume. He appears in flashes before the major confrontation at the end, but the damage he’s done to both of them is intrinsically tied into Blake and Yang’s relationship throughout.

The end of this volume offers the climactic moment of confronting and overcoming the abuser. Afterwards, Blake collapses and cries. Catharsis! Yay! We’re done now, right? This may be why, to some people, defeating Adam is the obvious “end” of Blake’s character arc. Again, I’d argue that this perception comes from how abuse is often depicted in media, but there’s also a very intense pressure in the real world for survivors not to speak out and share their stories. Even people who are abuse survivors might not publicly claim that label for a multitude of reasons. Namely, it fucking hurts to think about it, and also sometimes people are real weird about it. I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t want to carry that weight around all the time. We can see some inklings of Blake dealing with this challenge over the course of the show, though they’re subtle. Early on, she explicitly avoids talking about Adam until she absolutely has to, and even when she does start to unpack what he did, she often talks about it with visible shame (averting her eyes, etc). Unfortunately, shame is a very common sentiment for abuse survivors to carry, and addressing it is a major part of Blake’s journey as she starts to heal in volume 6.

Another point of interest posed was to look at Blake’s role in volumes 7 and 8. There’s an argument that she doesn’t really do anything or that her role is as a somewhat generic support figure within the group. I wholeheartedly disagree.

While Blake doesn’t carry a plotline herself during the Atlas arc, she and Yang embody polarized attitudes towards the global conflict the group is facing, and that contrast serves the larger narrative very well. Because she was raised by activists in a context where she was constantly thinking about civil rights, Blake wants to address the broader ideological conflict at play. Yang, whose childhood consisted of raising her younger sister, wants to help people in a practical, immediate way. Blake is an abstract, big-picture thinker, and Yang is more focused on what’s right in front of her. This isn’t a dig at either of them; it’s just a difference in prioritites. At first, Yang worries that these differing priorities will be a source of tension between them, but when she and Blake talk things through they’re able to understand each other without judgment. Blake is learning to reconnect with the idealist she used to be in her early youth, someone who fought for a cause purely because she wanted to make the world a better place. She’s able to embrace that side of herself around Yang even though they have different priorities, and they’re still able to support each other’s goals.

Furthermore, on a purely interpersonal level in V7-8, Blake has interactions with other characters that speak specifically to the healing journey she’s been on. Yes, these are significantly quieter moments than a fight to the death on a bridge over a waterfall, but that doesn’t mean they should be written off. Quiet and peace are part of healing, and that doesn’t have to undermine the story’s integrity. Dramatic tension is still possible amidst this, as we saw in Blake’s talks with Yang where they discuss their team’s split strategic approaches. When Blake talks to Nora about the importance of not losing yourself in someone else, that’s her speaking from experience. She’s lost herself in a relationship before, and she knows how hard it is to come back from that, but she survived. She healed. The asserted importance of self-compassion in relationships has a unique gravity coming from Blake. She has a strongly developed ability to balance interpersonal empathy with community- and global-level stakes, which we’re already seeing glimmers of at the beginning of V9 as she steps up to come up with a plan on the island.

In summary, Blake’s arc isn’t just about that final showdown with Adam. She faces her abuser, runs away, faces him again, and again, finally evicts him from her life for good - and after that, her story continues.

She goes on to find ways to heal from her past. That process involves renewing compassion for her loved ones, her community, and the world as a whole; learning how to love without fear; and reconnecting with who she was before she was forced to become aloof and detached to protect herself. Although the circumstances of abuse convinced her that she was a coward, she is, and has always been, an incredibly brave character. She’s finally recognizing that at the current point in the story. Ultimately, I think this is the thing connects her to Yang and the rest of team RWBY so strongly: they’re brave enough to love and have hope even when forces of adversity tell them they shouldn’t dare to. Blake is a courageous idealist with a heart full of compassion, and ultimately not even Adam could destroy that about her.

My serious answer to the question of where Blake’s character will go now is that I think she’ll be a sort of de facto leader on the island as Ruby spirals into existential depression. Hopefully that arc resolves in a way that’s consistent with the show’s overall message about hope winning out, and past this volume Blake will still carry that optimistic but grounded revolutionary spirit and continue to be a center of compassion and hope.

My catharsis-oriented answer is this: aside from being trapped on a magical fairy tale island, Blake is free for the first time in a very long time, and she can go wherever the fuck she wants.

#it's time for KIE'S OPINION #blake belladonna #rwby v9 #rwby spoilers #cw: abuse #tw: abuse mention #i have a lot of thoughts about blake. if you couldn't tell.#i went full english lit minor #anyway if anyone starts clowning on this post i will not hesitate to block your ass

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cassowariess · 3 months

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Words I had to read with my own eyes today:

"Neil G*iman is complicit in multiple acts of genocide. "

Words used to mean things.

#lmao #go outside Jesus christ #asterix is there so idiots don't find this post #though anyone who clowns on it gets blocked lol #getting real sick of the word 'complicit' because it's lost all fucking meaning

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dathen · 1 year

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Hot take: The criticisms of Victor Frankenstein are all from the wrong angle. “He should have simply not had a mental breakdown” is a shallow take. “He should have been parenting instead of being too sick to write a letter” makes no sense.

Know what flaw should be focused on? Him translating his fear into “what I’m afraid of is evil.” It’s such a common human tendency, but it’s the flaw he actually had a choice in. He took his fear as proof that the Creature was a violent, evil being, instead of anything the Creature actually did by this point.

I’m pretty sure that this flaw is going to show up from other characters as well, and those characters are just as complicit in the mistreatment of the Creature as Victor is. And not only that, but it’s a much more poignant theme and social commentary than “how dare you have a mental breakdown.”

I don’t think this shift in mentality from Victor alone would have changed anything, necessarily—that’s not how right and wrong works, and he is not solely responsible for the Creature’s disillusionment.

#frankenstein weekly #oh I’m feelin spicy with this #gets the block mallet out for if anyone tries to clown on this post

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yikesharringrove · 2 years

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Au idea I’ve been thinking about for weeks but don’t have the juice to write:

Trans girl Stevie moves to Hawkins in sophomore year. She’s moved with her family so she can be stealth throughout high school.

And everything’s cool for awhile. She’s a cheerleader, she has friends, she’s popular, the guys are always asking her out.

But then she gets outed.

And Hawkins turns on her, because these people are narrow minded fuckheads that can’t stand anyone out of their idea of what’s “normal”.

But you know who isn’t normal? Who’s never been fucking normal a day in his life?

Eddie.

Eddie decides to be her friend. Bc clearly she needs one, and he couldn’t give less of a fuck abt something like gender, not when there’s campaigns to be written and guitar riffs to be played.

And he introduces her to the guys in his band and the guys in his party, and he uses his freak wild card status to stand up for her. To stare at the people that are threatening her and threaten them right back.

They’re close. They’re best friends.

And Eddie has a HUGE crush on her.

(Who wouldn’t?)

So it’s fucking devastating when Billy comes to town.

Eddie is with Stevie when she first spots him. And his stomach sinks when her eyes flick over his body, just like all the other girls at Hawkins High.

And Eddie likes himself. He’s not all that bright, but he’s a good person, and he’s fun to be around, and he’s pretty good lookin’ too.

But Billy is clearly hot. Way hotter than Eddie can even be.

But he and Stevie dismiss Billy because he’s the type of person they don’t hang around.

He’s the type of normal that thinks they’re disgusting.

So Eddie isn’t seething with too much jealousy when Billy hits on Stevie, loudly, and in front of everyone.

He’s more worried about Tommy H. and the particularly hurtful slur he yelled at Stevie while explaining to Billy why he shouldn’t ask her out.

And he holds Stevie’s hand while she fights back tears because why can’t I have anything? One guy hits on me and Tommy has to ruin it all.

So Billy isn’t really a blip on Eddie’s radar.

Not until he and Stevie are hanging out at Eddie’s after school. Passing a joint back and forth in front of his shitty trailer, sitting in rickety camp chairs.

He doesn’t know where Billy comes from, just realizes that all of a sudden he’s in front of them, hands in his pockets, face unguarded as he looks at Stevie.

And he’s apologizing to her.

Apologizing for what Tommy said about her, spurred into by his flirting.

Says that was fucked up of Tommy to say, and that he thinks it’s fucked up that Tommy was spreading her business around, and that it’s fucked up that Tommy treats her that way.

And Stevie looks as stunned as Eddie feels, and barely gets out that she’s used to it, most people think she’s a freak.

And Billy says ‘I don’t’ and the Eddie is truly truly full of rage bc Stevie fucking blushes, and giggles, and tucks her hair behind her ear like she’s in a fucking romantic comedy.

#cue Stevie not knowing which weird metal head to choose #and you know what??? she deserves both #yikes writes #billy hargrove #eddie munson #stevie harrington #trans steve harrington #steve harrington #mtf Steve Harrington #harringrove #steddie #harringroveson #if anyone clowns on this post you will be fucking blocked

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snovyda · 1 year

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Russians have worked long and hard, with precision and determination, to rid themselves of any shreds of humanity. And they have achieved it.

No, my dear sweet summer child foreigners, Ukrainians' comments and outrage online is not what is dehumanizing russians. Russians have dehumanized themselves. And are proudly boasting it. Murderers who are happily proud of their horrific crimes. Is all they are.

#russia must burn #anyone clowning on this post will be blocked jsyk #russian war crimes

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grilledcheeseandgravityfalls · 6 months

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yes, what noah schnapp is doing is fucked up, and yes, zionism is awful, but i think that perhaps sending a 19 year old death threats on twitter is not, in fact, a great way to convince him to change and grow as a person. additionally i think we should all remember that growing up as a jewish child in the hollywood zionist hell machine might, just possibly, have caused him to fall victim to pro-zionist propaganda, and screaming for his blood will not change this, nor will it actually help palestine. by all means, boycott stranger things 5, and demand accountability for noah’s actions, but also maybe call your reps and log off twitter for five minutes. fucking hell, yall

#stranger things #noah schnapp #i welcome genuine conversation but if anyone clowns on this post just to be shitty i’ll block you. this is exhausting #witnessed some of the shittiest takes i’ve seen in a WHILE today #call me crazy but advocating for the death of a teenager doesn’t put you on the moral high ground i think #touch grass.#and let me be clear: he needs to face consequences for his actions.#but reblogging posts begging for him to be jumped and beaten in the street will do precisely Nothing except make him dig his heels in #and also…. not fix anything. just boycott the show. demand that he be fired.#came back to the st fandom for approximately 5 minutes and this is what yall r doing. wonderful /s #how long before i’ve gotta mute this post do you think

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spacelazarwolf · 11 months

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“ummmmmmm ackshually it’s the (((zionists))) who are antisemitic for putting two and two together to deduce that i, someone who has been using the same antisemitic rhetoric and refusing to listen to jews since at least 2019, am antisemitic.

#antisemitism #jumblr #in case anyone on jumblr hasn’t blocked this clown yet #jewish

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