Do you think what Damon did to Caroline is the same as what Katherine did to Stefan? Cause I think it is and it pisses me off when I see people think daroline is the worst ship to ever exist but then proceed to ship steferine.

I love Damon and like Katherine way more than Stefan and Caroline, I prefer villains and anti-heroes way more than heroes, but I don’t understand how anyone can like either of these two ships.

Trigger Warning: Discussion of r*pe/SA

I agree, there is no difference in what Katherine did to Stefan and what Damon did to Caroline and Andie.

I'm going to start by saying I do not like either Katherine or Damon. Yes, I know it is a show about supernatural creatures and we have to suspend reality, but no matter what world/fandom we're in, there is still a moral code. If there wasn't, we wouldn't have "good" guys and "bad" guys.

I can overlook and move on from a lot of bad things because with most "bad" acts there are mitigating circumstances. I truly believe anyone can be pushed to commit a lot of the terrible acts on the show, like murder, given the right circumstances. Usually it'll take a lot more than what's on the show, but that's where we suspend reality a bit. However, rape and sexual assault, no. There is never mitigating circumstances. No tragic backstory is going to make me overlook this.

I do believe in rehabilitation, but because the writers refused to admit what they did, we never get that with either character. No matter how you see it, both Damon and Katherine compelled people's choose away and proceed to have sex with them. That is the definition of rape. I will not argue with anyone on this point. It doesn't matter what the person intended the second before. The moment Damon/Katherine took their ability to consent away, it was rape.

Personally, Damon is my least favorite character and Katherine is close by it. Yes, I enjoy some of their scenes and they are "iconic" at times, but I could just never get past those scenes. I dislike Damon more because he received no consequences. He got a happy ending while Katherine didn't, so I'm more at peace with that story arc for Katherine.

I want to put a caveat so everyone is clear: I am never going to tell people who they can like or not like or who they should ship. Everyone comes to the fandom with different life experiences and like different ships for different reasons. Fiction allows us to like our toxic ships or like our healthy ships, whatever helps us cope with reality. But I do think it is important to acknowledge the potential harm so that we can recognize it in real life. This blog is just my personal takes on the situations/characters.

If you want to like daroline or steferine, go for it. But, again, it's important to acknowledge the toxicity in both. We all love a good anti-hero and some people enjoy enemies to lovers (not my cup of tea), but be prepared for others to not like it. We could all use a deep breath and take a step back in this fandom when it comes to ships. A lot of them are really toxic and some are less so, but still probably toxic. But at the end of the day, being toxic online to real-life people will always be worse than liking a toxic fictional character. (this is not directed to anon, just a general note for the fandom because I've seen so many people get into such nasty fights over fictional ships)

Thanks for the ask! Sorry I went off on a side tangent there <33

btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

Literally love that tumblr has been very like anti revealing pics and implemented mature filters yet all of the little tumblr live pics makes it fucking impossible to even open the app without seeing mature or suggestive content @staff @support

862 this morning wheeeee

I've been p consistent w output actually, which is higher than I thought it would be, and a pace I'm a-ok w maintaining, keeps me to my 25k goal for the month, esp since I'm usually adding a bit in the evenings when I edit

hi kane and feels fans. anyone remember this post

well i do on occasion. and one of those occasions was yesterday after I'd been relistening and I thought huh! wonder if that's really accurate! so i did what any normal person would do with their friday night when confronted with such a question and spent 2 hours going through the season 1 transcripts with a spreadsheet on hand. tl;dr, the post above is not accurate. but i did find some other interesting features! results below cut :)

so here's the chart of every time kane says feels's name. internal monologue is in blue external in red, name is labeled along the x-axis. sorry for leaving off a title but this isn't science fair so it's whatever. now from this we can see that the above post is absolutely not true, kane actually refers to feels by his first name out loud most often and refers to him by last name more often internally. also notably, rarely uses his nickname.

now you may be thinking to yourself why is that graph so poorly fitted on the y-axis and that is because:

i also made a chart of every time feels says kane's name and BOY is there a discrepancy. over the course of the season feels says some form of kane's name over 1.5 times more (60:94) than vice versa. he also almost never refers to kane out loud by his first name in full, preferring his nickname, but internally prefers to refer to him by last name.

what does all this mean? idk. draw your own conclusions. but use accurate information to do it please 🙏 👍

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Friendly reminder that my chapter/fic warnings are at the top of the post before the “read more” button, and if you scroll past those warnings without looking, then that’s your problem and not mine, actually 💛

very important announcement: new @birdchildsnest fic!!!

hey @humans saw yall responded to a post making fun of you for updating the pixel alignment of a dash icon rather than fixing anything important saying "changes like this feel small but can make a big difference for some people" which is a bullshit cop out if ive ever heard one so im here to tell you directly in a way you cant wiggle out: you know what would actually make a big difference for a LOT of people? not being transphobic assholes

(cw reclaimed slur) may you please do a "girlboyboss" emoji? ^^

Yep! I should note that I’m making this in appreciation and solidarity with people who do reclaim that term, so if anyone’s uncomfortable with that, remember, it’s always your choice whether you follow me or not

[ID: the word “girlboyboss” written in purple bubble letters. /End ID]

Lmao ofc you're critical of pedro pascal yet you stan the most basic white men. Your yt faves can commit hate crimes and you'll defend them but pedro doesn't update his who he's following on social media oh noooooo

Baby who pissed in your cereal??

Do you need help reading?? Bc I can help you with reading comprehension, it's a tough thing to learn so it gets even the best of us, I would advise, you take care of that tho don't want you embarrassing yourself like this again

do people know what extension and what setting hides pinned blog posts lmao

njpw really got to do me dirty and have their video player skip while i'm giffing..... please what are your maintenance updates for if your site is outdated and your video player is one of the worst :' )

Hi, I wanted to let you know that tumblr's built in filtering option doesn't hide posts that are marked as "[word] spoiler" so some people like myself will still see the posts when we were trying to keep it a surprise...

Oh my god, did they break something? It used to work normally. I've been using the same spoiler tags always.

Is there a way to bypass it somehow? If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

I always keep seasonal content on spoilers with "destiny 2 spoilers" and "season of the [name] spoilers" for a few days each week as new content is being released. I'm not sure if there's anything else I can add or if the filtering is completely broken. Haven't had an issue with it before.