I was talking to a TIF friend the other day and she was telling me she uses all pronouns now because some days she feels like dressing up and wearing makeup and others she doesn’t feel like it and will just wear a baggy t-shirt and jeans and I was just like ??????? Do you not hear yourself????????? Repackaged misogyny!

crazy that my mother understands me being a transmasc butch but friends my age do not

the older i get the more i realize everything in this world fucking sucks ass

they are canceling me for the way i deal with grief. also, for the infinite number of destroyed universes

mature for your age to age regressor pipeline

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

Funky night at the mall! ⭐️🎱🎲🌙

What the fuck does "actual pedophile" mean to people who are accusing trans women on call out posts of it? Cause as far as I have been able to glean from the call out posts, it just meant that they maybe liked some anime art or did kink/rp with adults. Neither of which, to be clear, in no way qualifies someone as being an "actual pedophile." Nor does watching/reading certain media or books that may feature fictional characters that are depicted in these situations.

Like as soon as far right politicians and other pundits began more fervently calling trans women child predators and the like, people just immediately ate that up and rolled with it. And now we're several years into labeling every minor to mild infraction a trans woman commits as an act of child abuse and sexual deviancy and ruining the sanctity of masculinity and hey wait a minute, I've heard this before

like i remember the vitriol that came out when the mere PREMISE for ballad of songbirds and snakes came out bc it was “about the villain” and wasn’t instead a novella of one of the many cute likeable faves of the masses. i remember how fast people were to tear down the book before it even came out (and still do now). and it’s like look, i get it, suzanne created so many interesting characters that it would be incredible to learn more about and get more content for. but her choosing to write about snow for a prequel isn’t like Romanticizing The Villain or whatever bullshit y’all are claiming as hot takes on twitter -- ballad fits right into the common themes and tone of the series in that its not a romanticization but a reflection on how snow became what we know him as in the original series. both in how he already had some less than charming or healthy traits (just like katniss does -- suzanne is always clear that people are not inherently good nor evil and parallels were drawn between how snow and katniss view the world and think strategically, etc, from the second book), but also in how society and the choices of the greater community in panem created snow. like ballad is a really interesting piece of lore and history and worldbuilding for an already rich and elaborate setting that suzanne created, allowing us to see how that world even came to be and the kind of toxic impact it had on the people surviving in it while still pointing out that those people are human and that everyone has humanity and yet can still cause unfathomable harm to one another based on circumstance and need to survive and pressures of all kinds and like i have lost the plot here now but suzanne is one of the best authors of our time who actually gives a shit about creating layered, nuanced characters and worlds rather than black and white good and evil and unfortunately the hyperpolarization of our hot takes social media culture nowadays just can’t handle her anymore. suzanne im so sorry we don’t deserve your storytelling. anyway i’ll be seated for this movie y’all can skip and keep giving lukewarm takes on twitter to make urself seem so smart for hating a book you probably didnt even actually read

Amazing to me how many violence loving bigots are trying to act like their fetish for the brutalization of innocents is somehow progressive or in support of any cause.

Equating a brutal group of terrorists with all Palestinians is bigoted and untrue. Saying Hamas's tactics are acceptable since Palestinians just can't help committing war crimes because they are incapable of not brutalizing old women and children is bigoted and untrue. Saying it's ok to rape and torture people to death as long as they're Jews is bigoted and untrue.

Hamas stands for nothing. They are a hate group. Just like their supporters.

why are tom riddle’s only other alternatives to being a dark lord either a politician/minister or DADA professor 💀 like is that all that’s left for him to be?

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"girls support girls-" okay but are you normal about queer women? are you normal about BIWOC? are you normal about disabled women? are you normal about autistic women? are you normal about fat women? alternative women? unattractive women? are you normal about women who choose not to shave their legs and armpits and faces? are you normal about butches and tomboys and masculine women? are you normal about trans women? are you normal about trans men? are you normal about nonbinary folk and people who lie outside the gender binary or renounce gender all together? are you normal about women who absolutely despise and detest the latest trends? are you normal about weird women who unsettle you with their interests? are you normal about women who don't wear makeup, who will never wear makeup, who openly dislike makeup and the makeup industry?

if it's okay, can we maybe get a CG Glamrock Freddy mood board? if not it's totally fine!

-🌟

Sure!!

I'm here to discuss Bkg and bottle feeding his age regressed baby, telling you in his gruff voice when you start to whine in embarrassment, "Don't be fussy, just let Dada take care of you."

-Jasmina 🌸

maybe it’s the weekend exhaustion but i feel sleepy and so so warm just thinking about it. but this is def. smth we should talk about.

tw: heavy age play, sub space, age regression, diaper wearing, bottle feeding, f!reader

no matter how loud and angry he seemed to the outside world, when katsuki was at home with you in his arms like this, he was soft spoken and tender. you sat in his lap, face buried into his shoulder in embarrassment. there’s a warm bottle in his hand with a dynamight design that you were trying to avoid. a small whine left your throat in protest.

“but daddy…”

his brows furrowed into the pretty scowl you loved so much. “tch. don’t be so fussy, just let dada take care of you.” he set down the bottle.

katsuki’s large, rough hand rubbed and groped your padded bum, covered by a soft cotton onesie. your fingers curled tighter into his shirt as your cheeks flared with heat. the fuzziness at the edges of your mind sunk in deeper.

“dada….”

“that’s it, punkin,” he cooed. “you’re safe, just let go…. lay back for me a little…. that’s my girl….”

with your head supported by his arm and warm bottle back in his hand, he nudged it into your lips. “open up, angel.”

katsuki slipped the rubber tip into your mouth and watched as your eyes went hazy staring back at him. his chest swelled with warmth as his cheeks tinged pink, taken by the way you melted into his embrace.

@heartofjasmina @dcsiremc