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“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.
#‘queer people were banned from and shamed for having sex and that’s where a lot of our activism stemmed from’ and#‘not liking or having sex is considered abnormal and a mental illness and also needs to be destigmatized’ are concepts that not only can but#often do coalign#it’s esp important to consider that a lot of lgbt ppl who have a tricky and strained relationship with sex are like that because of trauma#which is very common for queer folks#it’s really not an ace-only thing#like i am sex repulsed but it’s very hard to discern if it’s because i’m asexual or if it’s the trauma. either way i deserve to have those#feelings and be included in lgbt spaces and discussions about sex and treated as just another queer person with a different experience#instead of being alienated because my feelings about sex don’t directly line up with yours#im so sick of people in this community trying to pit us against each other. as an ace lesbian that shit is so toxic and harmful#my relationship with sex is fluid. im sex-positive always‚ but i often find myself sex repulsed. im otherwise neutral about it but im sick#of people acting like it’s either you enjoy sex and have it frequently or you hate it and you shame everyone who has it like youre a puritan#and it’s often aphobes who bought into that ‘aces are puritanical celibate straights who want ppl who have gay sex to die or think they’re#‘dirty’ or some shit. and it was literally 90% crypto-aphobes pretending to be aces to get people to adopt that into their belief system#the same way crypto-t/rfs pretend to be trans women who want to prey on the ‘innocent women’#and y’all will use those posts/screenshots as ‘evidence’ that whatever scapegoat you’ve selected is actually inherently bad/homophobic/#misogynistic/etc and not even#acknowledge the giant hole in your logic cuz you’re too busy trying to find a scapegoat#it’s the same tactics and y’all fall for it every time#text post#like. lesbians are CONSTANTLY getting hounded and told that we’re broken or mentally i’ll for not showing interest in (having sex with) men#for the same reason asexuality is considered bad or wrong or weird#not showing interest in heterosexual relationships or sex is why this is so important#anyone that falls outside the scope of heterosexuality is part of this community whether you like it or not
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Cause I've seen some people say it. Colin has zero reason to think that coming out to the team would be safe for him.
#there has been no indication that they're supportive of queer people#they're neutral towards queerness *at best*#i am barely holding back from making a very long post about that scene alone#and how straight vs queer people / the team vs colin perceive it#i have so many feelings about this i feel like i'm gonna combust#colin hughes#ted lasso#ted lasso spoilers#ted lasso s3#ted lasso season 3
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one thing i am finding so interesting about eight is that his desire not to alienate people by being deceitful and manipulative like seven means that in order to keep them around and not end up so lonely again he lies to them constantly and is in fact deceitful and manipulative
#dw#idk i get this is the feeling this is an unpopular interpretation#but i think not telling charley she technically died and ending the chimes of midnight refusing to talk about it#is like. not good behaviour#this isn’t critical by the way#i think he’s great and this is very fun#but it’s like he’s very invested in being this fun silly goofy guy who just loves humans and is a great best friend#who goes on loads of adventures and sees the world!#and this is all ultimately quite morally neutral thus far#he’s nonviolent as much as he can be he doesn’t like punching people he doesn’t enjoy guns#but he also doesn’t have the whole ‘i am the world’s BEST guy’ thing#it’s more about who he is just as a guy to know#but like he’s still the doctor. he’ll outlive charley regardless. and every other companion he could ever have#it’s like this fairytale desire to hide from that. it’s so crunchy
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SO... I was just thinking, let's say hypothetically.. mahiru guren & shinya weren't toxic ca16 was written by a less misogynist author then would you like mahigureshin as like poly ship? It just came in my head as much as I dislike how author wrote them esp mahirus character I still think in alternative setting it might work?? They are kind of catastrophic trio with very poetic themes & victim of fate kinda afterall.
honestly probably yeah. most powerful trio imagineable.
although i actually have no clue what mahiru's personality would be like were she not written by such an author. i think i've read some cool modern AUs in which i really liked her - kickass businesswoman that overworks herself trying to get her little sister out of a difficult situation while simulteanously juggling her relationship with her boyfriend and their shared trophy wife, i think that'd fit her well. "all you do is work :(" "you don't understand i'm doing this for us!!!111!1!1!!1!!!" type of stuff.
i will forever treasure that little snippet of her and shinya making fun of guren together, that was adorable. the way things should've been.
#don't cancel me for calling shinya a trophy wife it's funny ok#the girlboss‚ the babygirl‚ and the trophy wife. true romance.#i do wonder what mahiru's feelings regarding shinya are in vampire reign#like through catastrophe she felt mostly neutral or slightly disdainful towards him#but our guren-hating mika became yuu's demon and suddenly doesn't hate him at all anymore.#so maybe guren's thoughts rubbed off on her and she's fine with shinya now LMAO#but yeah those dynamics are very fun to think about#guren trying to comprehend how he pulled the two prettiest people alive (he didn't. they pulled him)#mahiru and shinya absolutely being in love but not romantically#i am forever a firm believer that women (guremahi) should give shinya little kisses on the forehead#they put him thru hell so now they're spoiling him#many tags. many tags#owari no seraph#seraph of the end#shinya hiiragi#guren ichinose#mahiru hiiragi#imagine seeing them out in public together i'd shit my pants#all hail the theoretical polyamorous catastrophic trio
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when homeboy G was making me he just hit copy and paste on my dad and slapped some tits on
#shitpost#every day I am faced with the fact I am SO my fathers daughter#(not a girl)#don’t think too much about the homeboy g thing I just thought I’d I only said god people would think I believed in a god#and i do not want that. that makes me feel very uncomfortable personally#that people would perceive me as such#but anyway! me and my dad are like if two sides of the same coin were one coin#we r so much alike it is. WOAG#he got home and was like hey quil check out this thing I learned in my class#and i went wow check out this thing I learned in MY class#and he went wow#because we have fucking. SO MANY of the same interests#also my not liking clothes thing comes from him#fun fact#this barely scratches the surface of how much I’m like my father btw#i could go on for HOURS#i mean this is in a neutral positive way btw#love my dad :)
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so, final verdict: I’m neutral on the Netflix live action avatar. It’s ok. It had some really effective scenes that made me super excited and cheering at my screen, and one particular scene that actually made me tear up, but also a lot of clunkiness and odd characterization and narrative choices that weakened the experience. Overall, it was decidedly average to me, but I’m really really hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. What a treat to see an entirely poc cast kicking ass on my screen. Now someone please give them a better script and dialogue for season 2.
#also if anyone is mean to cast I’m kicking you in the shins. they did great with what they had.#…what the hell did they do with yue though. what was that.#also I have. very mixed feelings on actively seeing the airbenders get killed.#idk. they could not keep a consistent tone for the first half of the show.#it definitely suffers from netflix-isms too. everyone is more serious/more ‘you’re not taking me seriously ughhh’#I also wasn’t perfectly happy with the depiction of the spirits but I may just be being nitpicky#storyrambles#I have a lot of thoughts actually#my mom really liked it though and if I’m too negative in front of her she’ll get annoyed with me. :/#but yeah. I am neutral about it. In the way that some things were awesome and some things irritate the hell out of me#also I wish I could go and tell script writers that it’s ok to show and not tell. I promise your audience is intelligent. Take my hand.
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(Okay, so I'm almost halfway through Translation State and I just... why do these three make me feel so much?! I need someone to talk to about this but no one in my life is reading it (yet), so, welp, here we go)
There is just something about the way Reet just lives his life feeling like there is something so deeply wrong with him & like he never fits in with anyone & how he admires Enae for hir social skills (we love a neurodivergent king)
While Enae (my child adult) - for whom it was a necessity to grow these antennae to feel out everyone's moods before they even enter the room and to act accordingly - is maybe just a little too good at keeping hir cards close to hir chest and fitting in and acting in precisely the way others expect of hir... (although sie's learning and growing and all that, but that's a whole different post)
But Enae doesn't seem to mind Reet's mannerisms and actually appreciates him being unable to do anything but speak his mind
and we don't get much of Reet's reaction here but just- my heart 😭😵💫😖💞 (screaming, crying, throwing up, etc)
[*insert "I've only had Enae, Reet and Qven for 1 week, but if anything happened to them I would kill everyone in this room and then myself" meme here* *side eyes AL who surely wouldn't dream of harming any of my children*]
#translation state#imperial radch#translation state spoilers#please just#someone talk to me about them i cant do this omg#and i need to finish this book so i can actually look at the tags properly#but its so good and it brings me so much joy so i started grieving it halfway through and like#i lowkey dont want to finish it???#ps my only complaint is the 'sie' pronoun because my native language is german and i feel like i am constantly misgendering enae in my head#but after this i might just start establishing gender neutral sie#we deserve it#also words like niblings and nuncles make up for it they hold a very special place in my heart
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There's something interesting to be said about the opinions of different fanbases based on culture and how it affects the votes but it's late and I can't write it out too much so only one example for today: amane
Down under the cut so if it gets too long it won't affect anyone's scrollin
Also warning the tags are long on this one
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Basically I think the jp/more asian parts of the fandom tend to lean towards greater good (amane guilty to protect shidou/mahiru/fuuta because if shidous incapacitated in any way someone's dying, mahiru is prone to dying any moment, fuuta is prone to cult mindset rn). Despite my non japanese speaking ass not being able to gather direct evidence for this, I use those surrounding me (asian in asian country) as evidence; namely, how they're mostly amane guilty voters
-Now I'm not saying my personal take but the reason given for guilting her is well. As much as it will cause her more woe it's one way of guaranteeing the safety of the prison. Shidou is the only medical professional after all, and she's "completely hostile" towards him, acc to jackalope. And she doesn't need to overpower him; shes smart, and could sabotage his equipment or just like. Go for his hands to incapacitate him. I doubt he'd fight back.
-Alternatively, it's because it would cause her to fall back on believing she's right. Telling her she's forgiven with how she's acting would cause her to believe her persistance and dedication to this (harmful) mindset is what got her forgiven in the first place
-Meanwhile more western? English fanbase ig I'm not too sure of demographic, but the English speaking side tends to focus on how it affects her. Because of the belief that another guilty verdict will cause more harm to her, an innocent verdict is the obvious solution. What I've seen is the greater focus on what caused the murder over the murder itself and the effects of an innocent verdict on others and then her beliefs. A focus on the past over what she's promised to do in the present and future perhaps. Idk.
-Another reason for the difference could. Possibly be how punishment is viewed? Western countries have much more stigma over any form of punishment but in Asian countries it's normal. Now while I'd say physical punishment isn't the way to go, the refusal of punishment shouldn't be rewarded (imo) but that's all I'll say on it.
-The English fanbase also focuses a lot on how young amane is and how her circumstances were terrible and all that. Those around me tend to focus more on her thoughts around the crime, what she believes the crime was for and how in the right she thinks she is. This may also be the cause of the moral grandstanding I see so often (ie. If you vote amane guilty you're a baaad person) (I don't agree with this btw. That's stupid this is fiction don't insult others over an opinion)
What I will say is the English speaking side is more sympathetic towards amane. They (y'all?) Take her situation into a lot of consideration, and focus on her age as a large factor. Whereas those around me and I assume might be close to the views of the japanese fanbase are more objective, looking at what harm she could cause and what's the greater of the two evils, as well as what she's going to do with the verdict (ie. Use the inno verdict as her doctrines are correct and very right).
There's slight thought given to her age and circumstance of course, by it that's not the main concern rn. Given the current situation, most of my milgram voting friends stay certain that an innocent verdict will not end well, hence the guilty vote. I mean I have a couple friends that feel bad for guiltying her because of her circumstance, but do it anyway cuz it's for the better. My opinion is that she should've been innocent trial one, since we wouldn't have known the concequences, but it's too late now and an innocent will cause more harm overall
tldr asian fanbase from experience focus on the crime itself + what they're gonna do with that experience whereas eng speaking fanbase focus on the circumstances surrounding the crime and on judging only the crime
In myyy opinion. Judging only the crime based on your interpretation isn't how the system should be working, it should take into consideration the prisoners' attitudes and how the prisoner perceives the crime as well.
I hope this was coherent I typed it out at 11pm and went to bed immediately after and I've barely edited anything cuz awake me is less coherent than half asleep me
Also hope this was an interesting post? This topic is interesting to me but I explain better in speaking over typing so it's probably hard to read but I hope this topic scritches y'all's brains like it does mine :)
#milgram#amane momose#inder the cut to save space kekw#sorry if this post feels like im calling yall lab rats cuz i kinda am#treating the milgram tag like a giant social studies exam (i have not passed social studies this year)#ive done my beat to compare bur i lost half my thoughts while typing this out last night whoops#ive also done my best to be comprehensible but i have too many thoughts at the same time for that#alsp for the record im an amane neutral voter (i dont vote)#j have another point on the age thing about how while eng side takes young age into consideration#it also overstates the maturity of our older prisoners (shidou namely#as ive seen people say that medical guilt theory doesnt work cuz of how extreme his guilt is#of which belongs to a different post but basically dude hes only 29 thats not that old. also to lose everything at any age is devastating#moral grandstanding point may be more indicative of internet culture overall btw but i cant get data on that for jp fans#sorry for being incomrpehensible i jusy talk like this#also very important no insulting anyone in rbs. even if its not me. thats rude#long post#i have a great disdain for people who claim amane guilty voters are evil btw. respect others online ffs#anyways next post will be about shidou and theories around him#specifically my hatred for the organ harvesting theory and my proposed alternate theories#but rhat will be the next time im tired and insane#im also posting this relatively unedited so i dont chicken out 💥 im trusting yall
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I knew there is something familiar about the healing. You are inspired by the best romance novel ever written, no wonder it scene in your fic is so amazing.
It is so nice, even though Wangxian and MDZS is nowhere near the galaxy level of Twilight Saga and Edward/Bella ethereal story when it comes to loves, devotion, sacrifice and well-written book with the best characters' development.
I wish MXTX will learn one or two things from Twilight Saga because her writing desperately needs some improvement. I read the second book of Heaven Official Blessing and cringed so bad at it I can't even finish it.
anon eye—
#asks#i read this and immediately choked on my water#i cannot fathom what to say to this so i shall simply say nothing at all#i have very neutral feelings about the twilight series (never having read it)#but my teenage self was made to watch bd part 1 in theaters#ENTIRELY against my will#and I'll have you know that the teenage stilton that still lives in my brain just had a heart attack#though she thought the vampire turning scene was pretty sick (in a good way)#anon I'm so glad you like twilight lol#but I am also so so glad that mxtx did not learn ANYTHING from it whatsoever#anyway#this is the most unique compliment for tmaaf I've ever gotten and I take it gratefully#because that was a damn fine bit of cinematography#i'm not entirely sure that it was anatomically correct#but what else is fanfic for?#😆
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anyway last time a guy put in any effort for me he basically just rejected me two weeks later so like. whatever!
#all this kelce talk got me thinking again SGYHJKFDLHGF#it was very green flag til it was beige neutral flag sjdhgfdkfjgk#no hard feelings just djhghdgshjsdghjdfgdfghjdfghdfgh whatever!!!! im fine about it . obviously#honestly really i am i just dont like Feeling rejected yknow#as is my right!#rambling
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Not cis, not trans, but a secret third thing
#(demigirl)#(cisn't)#gender is weird#does anyone feel me on this#imp tag#Like yeah I'm a girl#I'm not a 'woman' or a 'lady' though#However I am female#I am very much a girly#However I also really like the terms 'Sir' and 'Mr.' and calling myself a man in a gender neutral way (like I am a man of my word)#(Or I am a man of many ways) stuff like that#If you were to say something like 'king shit' about me I'd prefer king over queen I think#But I'm not he/him at all#And I love being femme but butch is super attractive to me#Seriously whenever I'm out with like my mom or something and we're referred to as 'ladies' I die a little#I don't know why#However if you were to call me like 'Lady Imp' I'd be down#Or 'Lord Imp'#Gender parkour but I only move on half the ring
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how do you choose the theme and compile the prompts for each months of LoPA?
Thanks for asking! For themes, I go with concepts that both intrigue me and are broad enough that I won't have trouble finding prompts and I feel give space for different interpretations and approaches. I also have a list of themes that I came up with a few years ago and add onto it whenever a theme comes to mind. I peruse that list if I'm not quite sure yet what the next round will be. If I get struck with sudden inspiration, though, I typically go with the theme that just came to me for the next month.
Seasonality frequently comes into play too. Certain times of the year I feel are ripe for contemplating certain ideas and being in certain moods, so you can see connections between some rounds across different years! This helps me figure out rounds ahead of time, though I almost always end up scrambling last minute each month despite that haha. I tend to get distracted by my prompt search.
Speaking of which, if I see something that would make a great prompt, I save it. I rummage through that collection every time I need to make a new round. That never gets old because even if I had a theme in mind for that prompt, while I sort through my likes and drafts, I may see that prompt in a different light because I realize it suits the round I'm hunting prompts for.
This is also why it takes me hours to put a list together even if I have that treasure box to sift through as well as things I come up with that I think will be good ideas to start a search. You'd think I'd learn by now to spread this process out throughout the month instead of scrambling last minute, but no. :') It's fun, though, because I not only revisit works that I've gone through, but I get to go down rabbit holes as well. I use the works as starting points and go down different branches, or I have keywords in mind that I use to see what turns up. I've been introduced to a handful of new writers, artists, musicians, and other creative individuals and thinkers and works that way, and my Steve/Tony and LoPA mind never shuts off entirely when I look at new things so when I'm experiencing something new, there are a lot of times when I think "THAT'S STEVE/TONY" or "how can this be Steve/Tony?" haha.
I love looking at a variety of sources for creative inspiration although weirdly enough, I tend not to draw on them while I write. I guess I just like looking at shiny baubles and the act of curating and sharing my finds! But the whole reasoning behind LoPA's existence and what inspired me to start it are a whole different story and this is about process so I'll stop here.
#lightsonparkave#answers#it occurred to me as I wrote that last paragraph that this mindset is suitable for web weaving#yet I've never made one before nor do I feel compelled to make one#I think I know why but this post isn't about me#this is a much more longwinded answer than you were probably expecting ev#oh and I put in a lot of things that I like but a good percentage of prompts are new discoveries#and some things are old favorites but others are works I may like enough but not love or am neutral about#because I'm viewing it a curative perspective rather than my perspective as just...me#and there are things that I like that I never used because they don't quite fit a round or even LoPA as an event#for whatever reason#but you can probably get a sense of what draws me in so LoPA is very personal to me that way
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ik Doing It Scared is a massive part of helping anxiety and just life in general but I'm still mad about it
#doing a conservation thing tomorrow with a new organisation and a new group if people#using my new name and being a dude for the first time with people i don't know and trust#so scared and not looking forward to the gonna puke feeling tomorrow#but i gotta remember that its some kind of miracle that i am just grumbly and vaguely apprehensive about it right now#instead of one giant anxiety spiral for two weeks straight beforehand#and i have some kind of grasp on the concept that anyone would be nervous with new people in a new place#and its fine to feel that and it doesn't say anything about how its gonna go or my ability to cope#and with the trans thing thousands upon thousands of trans people have been through the same thing#and it will get better and easier to be myself and assert myself the more i do it#and the more positive and neutral experiences i have#i have the right to exist!!#i have the right to exist as myself without question#and to be addressed and respected how i choose#n e way wish me luck lmao im just very rusty ín the field of Doing Things#bc of the hermit crab shell i had to retreat into to figured my shit out
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Every International Women's Day, you will find that progressive publications publish their manditory IWD article about how we should focus more on women in the global south and yet we can't because upper class white women have their pink cupcakes and their CEO jobs exploiting the working woman by being customers and crying about Barbie not getting an Oscar nomination. I always read it and think....I have really good news for you, journalist writing this, about what you could do with the article you're being paid to write!!
#IWD#honestly where is the sport in these tired rhetorical touchstones-pink cupcakes or pussy hats- it's tired#and fyi everyone i saw talking about the barbie movie oscars thing was clearly not being fully serious/serious at all#i am not clear how wealthy women in particular are exploiting people by being customers-#IWD isn't a public holiday that the low paid still have to work#anyway look class disparity is really important to talk about and CEOs as a concept are not value neutral#but women being CEOs not just men is value neutral- as in it's not worse when women do it#i just get tired of the same point being made every year and them never doing the thing they could be doing- spotlight global south women#i really feel strongly that people only like doing this if they can make snarky tweetable points- for it's own sake it's nothing to them#if you read the guardian's IWD article i'm sure my examples seem very familiar!#I recommend 'feminism and nationalism in the third world' by kumari jayawardena#it covers the history of activism thought and gendered struggle of women in specific asian and middle eastern countries#it's a dense and very factual read- definitely not a snarky tweets book#though my edition has a foreword addressed to western feminists that's the only area it even slightly overlaps with that kind of book#oh yeah forgot to say it only goes up to the 1980s (was originally published in '86)#but it's sooo interesting to see the tension between nationalism and anticolonialism and women's liberation laid out#and how the different classes of women experienced it differently
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sometimes I really feel like I'm broadcasting the message "but what about me, the person not involved in the situation at all? what about my struggles!"
#uuurrghhhhhhhhh mildly dreading March now#i will be playing minesweeper with conversation topics#because im very much neutral regarding my stance on the situation but i know that to her#neutrality will look like i am not on her side. when im on both sides 😔#hi lee hi mo yes this is about your ex sorry for vagueposting about her on tumblr#i do not feel comfortable venting about it in lads for uh. obvious reasons LMAO.#also hi catt i guess you also know what this is about fhdjdhdd
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i am in. so much pain
#libra.txt#excruciating pain all through my left shoulder blade and down my arm#no position is comfortable. my joints are swollen#what the hell did i do 😭😭😭#fortunately i am very used to pain so even though i feel like i am about to erupt into tears#my expression is staying very neutral so as to limit distress for my family 👍#yippee.
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