Unpopular Opinion: Batfam fics that treat Talia Al Ghul as a kind and motherly person to Damian are off putting and give readers the ick.

Controversial opinion, but Caiti hasn’t admitted enough responsibility for her actions in this. I’ve seen more blame levied at her friends for ‘allowing’ her to drink or ‘not protecting’ her, but her friends are not responsible for her behaviour. She is responsible for illegally underage drinking, for lying about her age with a 21 badge, for making the final decision to go to the party, to the hotel room, for choosing to stay when her friends left, for lying back down next to George multiple times, and for—yes, I’m going to say it—not giving George literally any indication of her unwillingness (if, indeed, she was ever actually unwilling in the moment). She actually had a lot of power in this situation and many, many opportunities for a decision that would not have put her in this situation.

This brings up an important difference between victim blaming and victim accountability:

Victim blaming is saying—she didn’t take precautions, and therefore she deserved to be hurt. <- (Obviously false and a very damaging mindset.)

Victim accountability is saying—she chose to not take precautions, and those decisions increased the danger of the situation and let it happen more than it would otherwise. I am sorry this meant she got hurt, and I don’t judge her for the stupid decisions. But we must acknowledge she did make those choices and she had the power not to.

Victim accountability thus actually gives her back her own power. It acknowledges that there were many things in the situation that were within her control, and it empowers her to know the many things she can do next time to more greatly control her situation. Conversely, I actually think her blaming this entire situation on George (or Dream, or her friends), is a disservice to herself, because then she sees him as all-powerful, and herself as totally powerless, which is not the case.

And reminder, we’re talking about a hand on a waist.

In real life, the traddest men I know: change diapers; do chores; are present and playful with their kids; take good care of their wives; work 50+ hours a week to provide for their families; literally never think about the 1950s.

every time a post/poll goes around about being aspec and fandom shipping enjoyment/engagement/whatever im like. NOW can we stop acting like being an aromantic person who enjoys shipping is some kind of Weird Outlier Situation? can we stop acting like this is an Unpopular Opinion or even Persecuted Outcast Take rather than idk, the default standard, just like everywhere else? idk romance repulsed aromantics Yes Including Fiction aren’t the default or even a significant majority and it really drives me nuts when people act like aros who enjoy shipping are somehow Not exactly that.

I wonder if Ayre ever looks up the AC Data, sees LOADER-4, and goes "Awww, do you have any other baby pictures?"

I would let Jack Russell sniff me

one of the lesser talked about fun things about intentionally reading more books is finding new stuff to be a bit of a hater about tbh

no search for a moment ive already had it!!!!

No offense but I feel like among IDW1 Megatron fans you can lowkey tell who's read multiple series of the comics (namely, phase 1 and early phase 2) and who's only read MTMTE by the way they talk about, headcanon, or write Megatron. And like it does genuinely make a huge difference because I feel like MTMTE Megatron in general is a different flavor of Megatron from the rest of the series..... not OOC, that's the wrong word, but like....... more as if JRO had a very specific vision of him and janked the reins of the series to drive Megatron down a specific interpretation of his character, which is still in-character but is very different from the way he was characterized early in the series.

But in terms of Megatron fans, you can really tell the difference between MTMTE-only readers and other-parts-of-IDW readers.

[ID: a wide panel from Trigun Maximum. In the foreground, Vash and Knives as children are facing away from the reader, so their expressions cannot be seen. In the middle of the panel is a bank of computer screens. In the background are three large glass tubes, which the boys are looking up at. The biggest and centremost tube contains a shadowed figure that might have once been a child. The legs are the thin legs of a humanoid child, but above that is a dark mass of bulging, torn, distorted flesh. a left hand is floating in the same tank, apparently torn off from the rest of the body. The right arm, with enough of the flesh gone to expose what may be the bones, is floating in one of the side tubes. The other side tube is mostly obscured by Vash's shoulder, but not enough to hide that it contains a brain, with the eyeballs still attached. The body in the centre tube does seem to still have a head, but so shadowed that what its face may look like, or even if it still has a face, is impossible to tell. End ID.]

There she is. Everything about this is so gross and horrifying. Even in death, her body was afforded no dignity, no personhood; Rem does her best to keep the place clean and leaves flowers, but Tessla's body is still floating in a test tube, preserved and exposed in all that was done to her. God I HOPE she was already dead when her arms started falling off. I SUPER HOPE that she was already dead when her brain and eyeballs were extracted; the optic nerves being fully connected, they may have cut off the entire top half of her head to get it out relatively intact. Int he manga, at least, there's no indication that she's anything but very, very dead, but I gotta give Stampede for finding the one way this could possibly be made any worse by flashing an "ALIVE" across the screen. In the manga, I genuinely hope her body was incinerated when the ship went down. I hope her body finally got the freedom of cremation or decomposition.

I saw some posts about people being angry that oceangate gets international effort for rescue, while migrants are left to drown because "they only care about the wealthy"

I think wealth has nothing to do with it here. The "international" research is actually done by the US, Canada and France. The US and Canada make sense, it's near their coasts. Why France then?

Because there is someone who has french nationality amongst the missing people.

It's not that they care only about wealthy people, it's that they would go to any length to save french people but wouldn't do the same for other nationalities (unless it's a political move). They do that all the time. And while it does make sense to uphold their responsability of protecting citizens, they really could use more empathy for others. They have the ressources to help. But chosing how much money to spend to help people who aren't from the country is very political and our current government will probably not do more than it already does.

It's not about wealth. It's about putting nationality before humanity. That's what I think we should be angry about

im attracted to abstract concepts found in morbidly perverted things

end of daylight saving time my beloved

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One day I will pick a faceclaim for Eden and when I do I will post all the silly one-liners / dialogue-only opens that I think look weird or too small without icons attached to them that have been hanging out in my drafts for 1000 years.

Chris Kent?

Lu <3 You always know the right characters to ask~

My beloved and special boy, my favorite little man, my precious <3

wasted potential: This is probably the most painful part of this particular prompt. Chris Kent, of all the characters I have loved over the years with wasted potential, has probably the largest amount of wasted potential. And I mean this specifically with his original context -- ever since DC Rebirth, and maybe even a little bit before but especially since then, stories featuring “Chris” (or, more accurately “Lor-Zod”) have reinvented a completely different character to tell stories about rather than talk about the stories left on the table for Chris. It’s been so discouraging especially since the original story he had was SO unique and SO powerful

they're deeper than they seem: Chris had so much going on that people don’t really see on their first introduction to him. Like ah yes, a Kryptonian child who is the child of super villains — which to be clear is the only part of him that modern writers seem interested in and is why we’re seeing such horrible versions of him lately. But the original Chris, the real Chris, was a look at children who rise above the abuse they endured in childhood. And it’s not because he’s inherently some saintly presence or knows what to do. He’s able to prove himself good and powerful because he was rescued and shown love and goodness from people who took him in. It’s a story about the importance of families who step up, who foster, who adopt. I just love it.

didn't get enough screen time: This is self-explanatory, but we were absolutely ROBBED of more time with Chris, more time with Lois and Clark as his parents, more time of the deconstruction of childhood trauma/abuse that had only just begun. There are more appearances than people think — I especially like the comics written by Kurt Busiek featuring Chris — but we really deserved more of Chris as he was. Not aged up, not completely transformed into mini-Zod. And ugh it kills me.

I want to carry them in a handbag like a tiny dog: Also extremely self-explanatory. Chris is a precious boy. I will carry him around forever.

they've never done anything wrong in their life <33: Again, throw out everything post-New52 and the TRUE Chris has never done a single wrong thing in his life. Never forget the story of a boy who knew nothing but the abusive life inflicted on him, was welcomed into the loving arms of his foster family, had his world opened up to the idea that he was worth more and that he could be more, and stood firm for his better reality. He is precious. His story is needed. And I love him so much.

do you have discord? i want to be friends ☹️

unfortunately no. i used to in 2021 but then again i was a very strange person back then