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Thank you, i agree w your take on hp. I don't think these poeple know what they're doing when they try to argue in favor of cencorship
I think that is what it is. They genuinely don't understand that what they deem to be bad, irredeemable, and worthy of censorship is not going to be what the government deems to be bad, irredeemable, and worthy of censorship.
And even if someone's idea of what deserves to be censored does happen to line up with what the government has decided deserves to be censored, it is always just a matter of time before they come for what they do love.
The average citizen doesn't control what does and does not get censored, the government does, and I guarantee the government is going to come after gay and trans people long before it comes after bigots, if it ever even does at all.
#anti censorship#when you claim anything deserves to be censored#what you are saying is the government should be allowed to stick it's nose into every facet of it's citizens lives *just in case*#know what happens when the government is allowed to waive the right to privacy? People die#and not the bad awful people you think deserve it#but people you love people you cherish people you respect#your brothers and sisters#mothers and fathers#YOU#aunts uncles cousins#anyone who sets even a toe out of the line that is considered ''normal''
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Silver Lining 8
Warnings: non/dubcon, speech impediment, bullying and other dark elements. My username actually says you never asked for any of this.
Characters: silverfox!Bucky Barnes
Summary: You have an unpleasant encounter with an older man.
Part of the Silverfox AU
My warnings are not exhaustive but be aware this is a dark fic and may include potentially triggering topics. Please use your common sense when consuming content. I am not responsible for your decisions.
As usual, I would appreciate any and all feedback. I’m happy to once more go on this adventure with all of you! Thank you in advance for your comments and for reblogging.
You lose yourself in the trance of your work. Just like you used to in the office. You have a way of blocking out the entire world when it's just you and words. You have your fingers curled into your lower lip as you reread what you hope it the last version.
You have one leg crossed over the other, jittering as you scroll. A sudden squeeze on your shoulder makes you jump and you clap your hand over your mouth to catch your scream. You swivel in the chair to face the disturbance.
Bucky looks amused as he steps back, dragging his hand away, "sorry," his voice is low and gritty as he tries to upset the quiet, "I called your name."
"S-sorry," you nearly hiccup, "I was f-focused."
"Seems like it," he hugs an armful of books, "almost done?"
"Y-yeah, the doc-- sh-should be up-da-dated."
He dips his chin and his eyes narrow just a bit, "you alright?"
"Ye-yes, you d-don't ne-need to w-wor-r-ry," your voice cracks as you check that all the changes are saved and log out of your account.
"Just.... checking," he murmurs. "I just know..." he clears his throat and shifts the book in his arm, "when you're worked up, you tend to.... never mind."
"St-st-stutter," you click out of the session and the PC returns to the login page, "I kn-know."
"I wasn't meaning it as anything."
"It i-is what it i-is," you shrug and stand to pull on your coat then gather your purse and your zip up folder.
"I really hope you're not upset."
"D-do you?" You counter, "you d-don't have to p-pretend."
"I'm not," he frowns, "look, I know I was a bit of a prick before but I'm tryna make up for it."
"S-sure," you say dully, "i-it r-really is f-fine. Let's get th-this done."
He's silent as his nostrils flare. He looks around then looks at you, taking in your purse and your lilac leather folio.
"So... what happened to the computer?"
You look away, "y-yeah, it--it fell," you sniff, "I-I'll get s-something else."
"Explains a lot."
"Wh-what?"
"Why you're at the library. I get a very homebody type sense from you."
"Y-you d-do?"
"I'm the same way," he says, "I'm not a fan of the general public."
"F-figured," you agree.
He tilts his head, "I deserve that."
You don't reply. That's that. You're both socially inept.
"Ready to go? You wanna look around first?" He asks, sweeping back a grey swoop of hair as he it falls forward.
You shake your head. You're really not feeling well. You don't know if it's the lack of sleep or the dregs of your flashbacks, you just feel so off. Like something really bad is going to happen.
He gestures you ahead of him as he pivots on his heel. You take the lead and head for the front doors. He follows not far behind. He must've already checked out as the censors doing chime at his passing. Outside, you stop short, realising you don't know where you're headed next.
He collides with you from behind, grunting as his hand briefly clutches your side. He apologise and sidles away. The contact makes your face burn against the bitter chill.
"Parked over this way," He points ahead of himself.
You walk beside him and turn off into the lot. There aren't many cars and you wait for him to get in before you claim the passenger's side. He starts the motor and adjusts the heat, asking if you're cold but getting only a shrug in return. Your mind is far off and hard to rein in.
Before you know it, the car is moving. It isn't until the tires crunch of snow and he turns into a driveway that you fully process what's going on. You agreed to go to his place but why would you do that? Why didn't you ask yourself that earlier. Oh gosh, you need sleep. You need to get your head straight.
This is exactly why you're in therapy. It's why you're trying to change. You want to stop being that person who just lets things happen to them.
He turns off the engine and you just sit staring through the windshield. You want to go home but not really. Your family doesn't want you around to stain their perfect image. You're clearly better off with this man who can only tolerate you professionally.
“You okay?” He asks yet again.
“Yep, all g-good,” you shake it off. “Y-you said you h-had a re-re-recording set-up?”
“Sure, yeah, been working on it a while now but with the script coming together, I finally got my ass in gear and got the last few pieces,” he explains.
“Must h-have been ex-expensive.”
“Eh, I budgeted,” he pulls the handle on his door, “no use staying out in this cold.”
He gets out and you do the same. You trail him up the shoveled walk, glistening with a thin layer of sparse snow newly fallen. The house is pretty nice. It's not too dissimilar to your parents but there are no bright Christmas lights or ridiculous inflatable decorations on the lawn.
He unlocks the front door and holds it open, ushering you in first. You're mindful not to step off the mat as you bend to unlace your boots. He steps in close and slips out of his own bulky boots. He stands first as you balance your purse and folio in one arm.
“Want me to take all that?” He offers.
You shake your head and straight, “g-got it.”
“Right well, you want something to warm up first?” He unzips his jacket, “I have some tea or coffee.”
“No, th-thanks,” you unbutton your coat, shrugging off one sleeve at a time. He takes it from you and hangs it with his own.
“Okay, I suppose I should show you around,” he sighs, taking out his phone as a soft buzz vibrates the case. “Not this guy again.”
He ignores the call and slides his phone into his back pocket, “the studio is in the basement. Best place to soundproof–”
He stops as you hear a car outside. He brushes by you in the entryway and pulls back the curtain over the window set into the door. You huffs again.
“Can't take a hint.”
“I c-can g-go. C-come back later.”
“Nah, it's fine,” he dismisses you as he opens the door, “go home. I'm busy.”
“Ah, come on, Buck, you're gonna ditch me out in the cold,” the voice wafts back on the crisp air as treads mulch in the snow. The timbre makes your heart knot, you swear it's familiar.
“I can and I will,” Bucky avows as he starts to close the door.
“Wait, wait,” the footfalls pick up and a large hand catches the door, “I'm here on business–”
“I told you, Steve…”
The name plummets in your chest. No, no, it can't be. It can't be him. It's a coincidence. The peek of a rolex under his jacket sleeve is just a coincidence, the voice is not the same, just familiar.
“Just hear me out, okay? You're gonna love this project,” the man bulls his way through the door, getting a grunt from Bucky in return. “I'll even pay you this time–”
The man's voice halts as he senses your presence, your dumbfounded gaze, the whole word zeroing in as your ears ring. It is him. It can't be. This has to be a dream. He only comes in your nightmares.
He looks at you and you know. He's real.
#bucky barnes#dark bucky barnes#dark!bucky barnes#buxky barnes x reader#drabble#series#au#silverfox au#silver lining#mcu#marvel#winter soldier#captain america
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haiii i used to be einhornsocken !! (the anti that has THANKFULLY deactivated) i'm not really into discourse anymore (hence why i don't have my own blog anymore and am posting this on a headmate's blog lol) but this post made me mad so i had to say something
for context devilradz was an "undercover" anti "pretending" (for lack of better words) to be a radqueer. their intentions didn't seem to be bad, though. they weren't intentionally trying to hurt anybody as far as we know (and i'd bet no radqueer is even actually as affected by this as they claim to be)
the person in the screenshot had a fairly popular anti blog at one point (burningradqueers) and then right before new years deactivated and made a rq blog. they were never actually an anti though. i will call them O because they seem to throw tantrums if you even dare mention their name
afaik the anti behind devilradz themselves didn't have anything to do with people finding out about O's radqueer blog. i don't remember them being involved in whatever was going down at all. personally disliking antis in general doesn't make it okay to be an ass to one specific anti that didn't even do anything wrong
i am the anti they are talking about when they say they were named publicly by an anti. you wanna know what actually happened? shortly after O had deactivated their anti blog, i got an anon saying that O was actually radqueer despite saying they were still an anti. i didn't believe this at first, and then whaddaya know? i get sent O's radqueer blog.
this is where me "publicly naming" O comes in. i wanted to let the other antis know that O was, infact, a radqueer, and that the anon wasn't lying. so i made a post along the lines of "burningradqueers is actually a radqueer, anon wasn't lying" but did not post the name of their radqueer blog anywhere.
at this time, i was still using O's deadname (unknowingly) and so i get told "hey this is O's current name please don't deadname them" by an anon. i guess because i started referring to O as their current name, that caused other antis to be able to find O's radqueer blog easier. not once did i tell ANYONE their rq blog's name. i literally just stopped using their deadname. i'm such a horrible person for using O's name /sar
"antis were fine with that" haha. multiple antis were saying things like "don't jump to conclusions!!" about O despite knowing that O was/is dating a pro c transn@z1 (censored so this actually shows up in tags). if anything, the other antis were overly kind to O.
"you only deserve privacy if you're an anti /sar" lol. there have been several anti blocklists/report lists made by radqueers. love it when radqueers say our community sucks and then do the exact same things they're criticizing us for /s
crosstagging because you guys (radqueers) will accept any and all information you're spoonfed as long as it comes from another radqueer
#anti radqueer#anti transid#this blog isn't anti transid but i am so whatever#radqueer#rq 🌈🍓#rq 🍓🌈#🍓🌈#🌈🍓
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In 2021, there were roughly 2,717 antisemitic incidents reported across the United States. This was a 34% increase from the year prior. Thanks to the recent rise in neo-nazi rhetoric from political figures, celebrities, and online personalities, this number is expected to increase in 2022. I see a lot of people talking about avoiding obvious dog whistles, but very few explaining how to identify them. So, that’s what I hope to do today.
WHAT IS A DOGWHISTLE?
As defined by Oxford Languages, a Dog Whistle is a subtly aimed political message which is intended for, and can only be fully understood by, a particular group. Politicians will try to manipulate their audience by using alienating phrases, and in the process, dehumanizing those they’re speaking about while also having a margin of plausible deniability. For example, let’s take the term “illegal alien”. When we think of aliens, we think of little green dudes who suck us up in flying saucers to probe our anal glands. We think of xenomorphs and The Thing, creatures that are out to get us normal folks. However, “illegal alien” is meant to refer to immigrants who migrated here through unofficial channels. These are people. Saying “these human beings need to be deported” won’t drum up as much of a response as “these illegal aliens need to be deported”.
WHAT ARE COMMON DOG WHISTLES?
Blood Libel-
An ancient superstition that Jewish people will kill non-Jews, typically babies or young people, for the purpose of drinking their blood. This myth has inspired many vampire stories, most infamously Dracula and Nosferatu, and fuels a lot of modern day conspiracies. Ever hear “these celebrities are bathing in the blood of babies to stay young”? Well, this is where that comes from. It should be noted that Romani people are often the targets of similar rumors. This is obviously untrue.
Cabal-
Similar dogwhistles include but aren’t limited to the New World Order, The Elites, Globalism, Illuminati, and the Reptilians.
The term itself stems from the word Kabbalah, which was a Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. It is meant to describe a secret group of people, mainly Jews, that control the world’s governments, economies, and media. Not only is this blatantly stupid, as most of the people in power are wildly antisemitic themselves (just look at Elon Musk), but it’s also just ignoring the obvious and observable fact that corporations and money drive politics and not a secret shadowy government. We don’t need a shadow when we’re already shady.
(((echo)))-
Have you ever seen a person partially censor the name of a celebrity or a fandom they’re discussing to avoid fans coming onto the post and giving them shit for it? (For example, I’ve seen a couple people post things under tags like #lum*ty when they don’t like the ship) This is the same idea, except it’s almost exclusively used by neo-Nazis to talk about Jewish people. It saw a resurgence in popularity with the introduction of a chrome extension called the Coincidence Detector, which put these parentheses around the names of any of the over 8,000 Jewish people in their database. It was mainly used on Twitter.
Jews Killed Jesus/30 Pieces of Silver-
In the Bible, Judas, one of Jesus’ twelve disciples, was bribed by the Romans to turn in Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Many people use that as evidence to say jews killed Jesus. However, anyone who has read the Bible can tell you, Jesus was also Jewish. And so were the rest of his disciples. And his mother. If anything, Jews birthed Jesus and made him into the man he was. Y’all should be thankful.
Not The Real Jews-
This typically refers to the black Israelite theory, where the tribes of Israel relocated to Africa once the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed. They claim Ashkenazi Jews are imposters, and that black people are the real Jews. There are certainly black Jewish people out there, and they’re lovely af and deserve all the support in the world. However, the people espousing the black Israelite theory cannot be further from the truth. Judaism originated in what is now considered the Middle East with the prophet Abraham who settled in Canaan which is what we know now as Israel/Palestine. Around 722 BC, the Assyrians conquered the northern part of the territory and forced the 10 tribes of Israel to move further up north, and the Babylonians did the same to the Tribes of Judah a little later on. Not to mention when they were eventually overtaken by Alexander the Great. For the majority of history, Judaism was focused in the northern part of the Middle East and the southern part of Europe. To reflect that, Ashkenazi Jews share the most genetic similarity to the Greeks and Turkish folks. There is no evidence to suggest that Ashkenazi Jews are in any way fake. Again this does not mean there are no black Jews, there certainly are, but you don’t have to deny the validity of the ashkenazi to prove that. They are all Jewish. Not to mention, those who espouse the black Israelite theory rarely practice Judaism themselves.
14-
This refers to the 14 words, which are "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." It is typically placed in social media bios alongside 88, which stands for Heil Hitler.
SITES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO AVOID
BitChute-
An alternative to YouTube created in 2017 after the adpocolypse nuked many alt-right channels. You can find anything on here, from your average conspiracy videos titled “Why are some people seeing demonic entities after the vaccine?” with the Decorative font from MS word in the thumbnail, to ISIS beheadings and Atomwaffen recruitment videos. I am not kidding about any of those.
Daily Stormer-
A popular Neo-Nazi website and message board made by Andrew Anglin to spread antisemitic conspiracies and his weird 9/11 fanfics. It’s not used as much as it used to be, but this site played a large part in propping up figures like Milo Yianapolis who has been recently hanging out with Kanye. Which I find funny, as he admitted to wanting to fuck young boys on the Amazing Atheist’s podcast and that it was a totally normal thing. Even Ben Shapiro hated that guy from the beginning.
Parler-
Twitter but more racist.
Gab-
Twitter but more racist and more buggy.
Twitter-
This is mainly a joke but you should be very mindful that Twitter has always had a neo-Nazi problem, and it’s worse now than ever.
Twitter but owned by Elon Musk
InfoWars-
Owned and operated by Alex Jones, not only do they scam their viewers out of thousands of dollars, spread lies about mass shootings, harass innocent families who lost their loved ones in horrifying tragedies, play a key role in orchestrating the January 6th attack on the capital, but they also spread antisemitic conspiracies.
CONCLUSION
It’s important to acknowledge that absolutely anyone can fall for these dog whistles without even being aware of it. Recently, my brother started falling down this horrid rabbit hole thanks to Kanye’s rhetoric and despite everything I’ve tried to warn him about, he’s not listening. By posting this, I hope to stop at least one person from following that path. Now more than ever, we need to stand with the Jewish community and show our support. Stay safe out there.
#kanye west#antisemetism mention#antisemetism tw#jewish#hate speech#activism#ye#info wars#Twitter#elon twitter#Yeezy#alex jones
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I hope you don’t mind me asking, but I’m curious about what your take is on the claim that ao3 promotes/doesn’t properly regulate racist content. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, to start, the claim that ao3 promotes anything is false. There is no algorithm on ao3; everything is found and filtered by the users, not recommended or promoted. So I tend to see any claims about ao3 "promoting" fics as ignorant of the site's functions at best, deliberately misleading at worst.
In regards to regulation/moderation. . . who is the one deciding what fics are racist and should be removed?
Is it fics where a person of color is assaulted or killed in the story? What about ones that use racial slurs? Would a fic that plays into racist beliefs about a culture or ethnicity be removed and if not, why are those acceptable but other forms of racism aren't? Would fics about historical events be removed? What about general explorations of racism? Stories about racialized violence and hate crimes that are darker than other exploration fics? Where do depictions of racism in a fantasy or scifi setting fit into this?
Would the author be consulted for their opinion and the context over the accusations of racism? Would it make a difference if the author is a person of color? Would they have to prove that they're "allowed" to explore racism in their works?
And again, who is deciding this? Because people of color and other non-white people aren't a monolith and for every single person saying that a trope or story or whatever is racist, there's another person who thinks it's totally fine. People in the same cultures and communities can't even agree on what counts as appropriation when it comes to the use of our sacred cultural artifacts, why would I trust any tiny number of people to decide which fics deserve to exist and which don't? And that's not even getting into how there's so many kinds of racism and so many groups people can and are racist to, we would end up having to depend on people making decisions about what qualifies as racist for communities that they absolutely are not part of and have no authority over.
In terms of things like just adding an archive warnings tag for racism, the only actual purpose that would have is maybe making an author think about whether something in their fic qualifies as a depiction of racism. Otherwise, we have plenty of tags relating to racism that authors already use.
At the end of the day, racism is not going to be solved or curtailed by censoring fucking fanfiction. Racism on ao3 is a reflection of racism irl and the only way to combat it is by fighting racism in our everyday lives, including in fandoms. Fiction will continue to be racist as long as there's racism in society and fanfiction isn't the exception to that.
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The novel ending reeks of codependency. In CQL, we see that WWX needs time and space to process everything that’s happened to him! He needs an opportunity to just live and experience the world and become reacquainted with, after being gone for over decade. Once the mystery is resolved, he is vulnerable and without a strong sense of who he even is and how he fits into the world now. He has LWJ to go back to, but he can’t build his entire sense of identity around LWJ, and that relationship can’t be his only source of happiness and fulfillment. And he genuinely seems to like exploring and having new experiences and meeting new people! It’s a good way for him to get a sense of who he is now. It’s true that WWX has a lot of insecurity and neurosis re: feeling deserving of care and affection, and I’m not claiming that he’s completely resolved those issues (or any of his issues). But I think there’s a lot more trust between him and LWJ, and that he’s considerably more secure in that relationship, by the end of the show. Post-resurrection there are a lot of scenes where he’s a lot more mature in his interactions with LWJ, a lot more capable of grasping LWJ’s boundaries, and a lot better at tempering his teasing with sincerity. So I don’t take his self-discovery journey as the same sort of destructive impulse towards isolation that he displays after his stint in the Burial Mounds. I think it’s a demonstration, rather, of the trust he’s built in LWJ, and in the fact that he doesn’t need to constantly be demanding attention for LWJ to still wait for him and be there for him when he’s ready to come back. And it’s being able to clearly communicate his needs and intentions in a given moment, rather than just shutting the other person out. from LWJ’s perspective - it’s so important that he’s able to let WWX go! LWJ is also incredibly neurotic and also feels that he’s not deserving of love. And he grows up without any models of what healthy relationships look like - his parents’ relationship is the only framework he has, as evidenced by him taking inspiration from that in wanting to hide WWX at Cloud Recesses. But he quickly realizes that that’s not what he wants, and that he doesn’t want to force WWX to do anything. When WWX comes back to life, he takes care of him and gives him gifts not because he’s expecting anything in return, but because he loves him and wants to make him happy and show him kindness when so few people have. But it’s important, I think, for him to be able to spend time apart from WWX, to give him the space he needs, without seeing that as just another sacrifice that he’s making. When he sees WWX off on his self-discovery journey, he’s in a place where he can start to trust that WWX will come back, and that he has massive significance for WWX even when WWX doesn’t have to depend on him for emotional and material support. Being able to maintain distance from each other, and maintain their own separate identities and relationship, with each one still having confidence in the strong foundation they’ve built together, is very important.
Not only is it too long didn’t read, it’s too long most of your message doesn’t show up in the reply.
Anon, Wei Wuxian does not need to discover himself or reconnect with the world in order to be happy before he can do anything. He knows exactly what he wants, a husband.
Also, codependent? Really? Have you ever met a married couple? I’m a married woman and I can attest that they are fine. They have a honeymoon that’s just the two of them, that’s completely normal. They go out and do things together, but there’s also times when it’s just one of them going out.
Like CQL’s sad, censored ending all you like, where Wei Wuxian wanders off because Lan Wangji decides to take up politics over being with him, but I’m gonna take my novel ending and happy boys any day.
#mdzs#wangxian#anon#anon asks#asks#did you think I’d run out my salt earlier?#I’ve got a little dose just for you
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Also the fact that you can just lifetime ban someone including repeatedly deleting new accounts that have committed no further breaches of TOS is fucking insane. I’m not really concerned with whether it’s legally permissible or in the site guidelines or whatever because it’s a fucking scummy thing to do especially when accounts are deleted with no explanation so often. Not to mention someone like Avery who repeatedly tried harder and harder to keep within TOS clearly showing a desire to follow the rules as laid out. Her newest blog that exclusively contained a single post showing the communications she’d had with staff and claiming she wouldn’t be using the site anymore even got deleted, and you cannot convince me that blog did anything wrong except be owned by someone staff decided didn’t deserve to remain part of her community.
Like most of the rest of the situation I’m certain this isn’t a new issue, I imagine plenty of the trans women and black people and pro Palestine bloggers and more who have had blogs repeatedly censored and taken down are victims of this decision that if you cross a certain line you’re banned for life and don’t even get know why. But it’s all coalescing into a single uproar, all the shitty behaviors of staff hiding myriad bigotries behind terms of service that are vaguely worded, frequently subject to change and arbitrarily enforced.
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i'm not gonna reply directly to the post because i don't wanna get into a bunch of shit, but i was surprised to see a mutual i respect reblog it, so i'll say this much.
the reason people in bdsm didn't like 50 shades of grey was not as simple as "this is harmful". they didn't like it because it was an innaccurate portrayal of bdsm - or, more accurately, a portrayal of how bsdm can be used as an excuse to abuse - that was CLAIMING to be ACCURATE, GOOD BSDM. the problem wasn't the content itself, the problem was that anytime a criticism was brought up, you were accused of not being able to handle the spice, and the author was CONSTANTLY insisting that what her character did was totally fine and he definitely wasn't Like That.
yes, we SHOULD have bare minimum standards of kink, but that doesn't mean "fictional depictions of abuse as kink are automatically harmful". it's about the context and attitude you're entering with, just like any other media. what matters is the conversation around it, not the content itself. Let's all remember that Lolita's biggest problem was readers viewing it as a romance, when the author was certain any sane reader would know how awful the situation was.
and i've said it before but it bears repeating until this becomes common sense again: equating fictional abuse, even romanticized, to real abuse causes more harm than its existance does.
equating lolicon to actual fucking child molestation is a massive disservice to CSA victims. equating anime twincest to the actual real life abuse of incest lessens the impact the word has for real situations. and i REALLY shouldn't have to say this, but telling a black person that they can't partake in raceplay is SIGNIFICANTLY more racist than anything they're gonna be agreeing to.
and whenever someone tries to give praise to weird and problematic kinks, or talks about how fictional darkness can't hurt you any further than you can hurt yourself with it, or anything remotely related, somebody always comes in with "um okay i agree unless its pedo shit", and we KNOW you mean the fictional stuff. you ALWAYS mean the fictional stuff. and i'm sorry, but no. if nobody was harmed unconsentually in the making of this god damn fanfic then you can just walk away. any argument you try to make for why it's actually Too Harmful To Be Allowed is going to use the same logic that christian moms use to say that pokemon is DEFINITELY going to make your child a satanist.
yes, some people can use fiction to cause or perpetuate harm. authors can convince their fans that some fucked up shit is okay, abusers can use ANYTHING to build trust and convince their victims that what they're doing is fine, and people with little self-control can use things that trigger them to emotionally self-harm. all of this is true, and deserves to be talked about and considered.
but if you can handle the idea that the majority of people playing violent video games every day are not actually violent people and will react negatively to real world violence, and can enjoy the mayhem they cause in-game while also being aware of how bad it is in real life, and SOME people being inspired to violence does not mean we should ban those games entirely, you can apply the same to kink. even the shit you find abhorrent. to be very frank, we shouldn't HAVE to bring up the therapeutic benefits to victims of real crimes for you to be consistent in your beliefs on censorship.
edit: also pointed out to me and extremely important: "pedo shit" is EXACTLY how queer stuff is painted by conservative censors. it is one of the oldest arguments they have. so YES, the best way to immunize ourselves from allowing gays to be censored because too many people find them gross and immoral, is to get used to there being fictional csa depictions even if you find them gross and immoral. your disgust and fear that somebody MIGHT be hurt by it or MIGHT be taking it the wrong way is not, and has never been, a good reason to remove it. again: if no actual people have been harmed in its creation, then it should be allowed. we're obviously not defending actual CSEM here, that is irrefutable harm. we're defending the stupid fetishized anime shit that helps the people who went through that process and move forward.
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Thoughtcrimes DON'T exist. Having a paraphilic disorder (provided of course that you don't act on it or indulge it and that you seek treatment for it) doesn't mean that you deserve to be fucking murdered or experience violence.
Predators are terrible, irredeemable people but not everyone who is capable of becoming a predator will or wants to be one. And this 'guilty until I decide they're innocent' bullshit needs to end.
And if you mean fucking fiction then you should just give up now because fiction doesn't have a legitimate or proven one-to-one parallel with reality and if you equate what someone does or doesn't enjoy or create in fiction to real-life predatory behavior you're beyond help.
Censorship of media will only put control over how the media is viewed, discussed and talked about in the hands of people who are comfortable committing crimes and give any insistence that something be kept secret or quiet a sense of legitimacy. If you want to stop predators from using media to groom or abuse their victims (which isn't a thing that's actually happening very often anyway but I digress), the best and dare I say ONLY way to do that is by making the media they might use to do so accessible to people who will healthily analyze and deconstruct it so that they can identify its themes and messages and teach others how to do the same.
Not to mention censorship is inevitably wielded by the oppressors in a given society as a weapon against the oppressed. If you make it okay to censor 'pedophilic' material and punish its creators, all that'll happen is media that the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group of the society you institute this policy in will label anything they don't like or feel threatened by as 'pedophilic.'
Look at the USA, and how in Florida, Ron DeSantis wants to give pedophiles the death penalty, but also wants to legally designate all public expressions of queer identity as pedophilic and predatory behavior. Why, you may ask? So he can get queer people arrested and/or killed.
Censorship is a bad policy, thoughtcrime isn't real, and even if what you were describing WAS actual pedophilia, as long as it's no-contact it's not illegal and doesn't justify the reaction you had.
Pedophile in my ask box. One to one fiction to reality obviously doesn't exist (except to violent people or people who cannot properly distinguish the difference), but people suffering from an attraction to children shouldn't be continuing the systemic sexualization of children and their social positions.
They should not be harboring that fantasy. Additionally you say "csa in fiction isn't being used to groom that often"
Why in god's name would you come to somebody's blog who has described that exact grooming as part of their csa experience? If you scroll this or my vent blog Startsurvivorthoughts you will see that I was specifically groomed with loli/sho. Why the fuck would the infrequency of an event make it any less important to talk about.
I have also met other people online claiming something similar happened to them in fandom spaces online.
Additionally conservatives that hate gays will always paint with broad strokes and pedophiles will keep attempting to align themselves with LGBTQ people, since the days of NAMBLA and "chickenhawks". A predilection towards children has nothing to do with sexual orientation or gender, as that changes based on the predator.
If you actually gave af about CSA survivors, ask yourself why you need to so vehemently defend those who continue the cycle of sexualization instead of those who have been profoundly hurt by it.
I find it so funny that you think my true concern about these materials is being overshadowed by my vent posts of "kill pedophiles" I wonder if a pedophile like ... Hurt me or something 🤔 do you think it's possible that a csa survivor might be angry???? When I thought there was no such thing as thoughtcrimes?
Lastly "thoughtcrimes" lol. Pedophilia can be self-contained but making/consuming csem aren't impulses. They are actions.
Anyway MAP to the thought dungeon for internet crimes.
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A Serbian Film, is either pathetically ignorant, or brutally honest about the Entertainment Industry.
There will be no Gifs included with this post. I do not wish to feature this film anymore than necessary. I almost didn't write this review, but I needed to. I needed to get it out. This may be the most nuanced and fair review that the film will ever receive, and it really doesn't even deserve that. So here it goes:
I was unfazed by A Serbian Film.
Well, that's not to say that I wasn't upset after watching it. Just for different reasons than the average viewer, who would be reasonably appalled by the scene of an actor performing with a fake rubber baby. (it helps to remember that.) It harkens back to the Exorcist, when theaters had to play a short video for the audience, should the film cause them to panic, to just repeat "it's only a movie". And that is true here as well...Except that maybe Serbian Film doesn't really count as a movie, as much as a challenge. Can you stomach it? I imagine that the filmmakers were advised to not make the effects look TOO convincing, as it could have brought on criminal investigations, which might have happened anyway. Many would even argue that the film deserves to be censored, and I can't disagree. It should at least be a film that one would have to seek out and find, and certainly catch it on Tubi by mistake. I have never heard of a film before or since A Serbian Film that not only failed to be a remotely digestible picture, but also failed to be artistic, and failed to offer anything of value to anyone.
But, if I may play devil's advocate, I will attempt to be fair with the director, and assume his best intentions: which was to show us a world of unchecked indulgence. That a society can rot itself to the very core of the souls of its people, when it is built upon indulgence of the most disturbed of luxuries. Did you know, in ancient persian societies, that they had pornographic shows that would draw huge crowds and fill up stadiums, to see young slave girls marched out to on front of these huge crowds, and then starving lions would be released onto the slave girls to be torn apart? The audience would get a sadistic kick out of this too. Now I ask, would these shows have even happened if there were not a sizable audience for it? The director says, nothing has really changed about the entertainment industry. Public discourse and taste have changed...And I like to think that's because our morals have changed too, but A Serbian Film might be proof that that is just not true.
There are only two ways to really look at A Serbian Film. It could be a film that aims to shock you out of your desensitized stupor from the over consumption of media, and shows how the modern and the ancient persian entertainment industries are really no different, and only ever abide by what the audience will pay to see. And that is a statement worth making. That has value. It throws shade on the nature of our own sensibilities, and how entertainment has always been rooted in some form of human suffering.
But, that is just simply not the film we all saw. We saw a cheaply made film that's only claim to fame is that it gets to be the most disturbing film ever made...it is not. Maybe for you. I feel like that title should go to "Come And See" (A great film that takes anyone who dares to observe its true horrors, to the very bottom of the abyss.)
Frankly, if you read the synopsis before watching A Serbian Film, it won't be so shocking. In fact, the imagery that the wikipedia plot summary conjures up is far more traumatic than what the filmmakers were able to bring to the screen. If I tell someone exactly what happens in the film scene by scene, they would probably be more appalled by my telling, than they would be if they watched it. You see, the film only has shock value up its sleeves. Is it spoiling the film? How can you spoil a film that is already rotten to its very core?
On a technical level, it really isn't good. Any reviewer who claims that "it is at least well made," is full of shit. It might be well made considering the nature of the production, but then again I have heard things behind the scenes that suggest that it wasn't a very indie film at all. So it doesn't get to hide behind a low budget.
At its best, it's a film that sets out to remind us all of the horrible monster that is an unchecked entertainment industry, and how we as the audience dictate its mutations, good or bad. It's a hard pill to swallow, but we are all partially to blame for its very existence.
At its worst, it is a pretentious, gratuitous, ugly, mean spirited piece of shit that was a waste of time to make, a waste of time to watch, and only really succeeds in doing one thing: it takes the fun, and even the joy out of our truly brilliant instinct to Create and watch Movies.
I think the latter is most true.
And that is why I can't recommend this thing to even cold hard bastards like me. The film goes to the furthest lengths of its untalented production to depict its heinous imagery...but the power of suggestion would have been a far more effective means. Good filmmaking would have also made the story more effective maybe. The story feels like a series of gross and tasteless jokes that the filmmakers made up on the spot, and then spent the day filming just that. Nothing is really explored about these things, nor is anything really learned; Just exploited for cheap shocks. Bottom line being: this film is little more than a cheap trick.
Oh...and about why I was unfazed by the film's attempts to shock me...
Well, I have watched a lot of movies. And a lot of disturbing and dark films about real dark things that really happened, that were handled with great care and understanding of human tragedy, so as to elicit in us the audience, not a carnal satiation of sadism and torture, but pleading moments of empathy and self discovery of our own decency in the fleeting moments we get to beautify our own actualization in such a weary world.
I know bullshit when I see it. And Serbian film is bullshit. However, this film did manage to stir some of my shit up. And I can even say that it has given me something to talk to my therapist about. You see, the true horror for me in A Serbian Film, is the fact that it only thinks that it understands the snuff industry...It does not. You don't understand it until you've been truly horrified by the depths of human depravity at the age of 13...
and you begin to have nightmares about such horrible things. I have never sought, nor ever wanted to witness humans suffering in this way, or any other way. And I have learned to never trust the internet, as a truly safe place. I won't tell you what I saw back then...But it was on a legal adult site called RedTube, that is still around today and supposedly has better security measures to ensure that nothing else like that ever slips through the cracks again...all I will say, is that when even A Serbian Film doesn't faze me...you could probably imagine how truly abominable a "slip up" Redtube allowed to happen.
And are you not entertained?
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RPDR s15e04:
- well, the twins DID bomb entertainingly. Spice’s Miley would’ve been absurdist art if it’d come from someone else, someone more intentional. she was literally playing a cartoon character in live action. it was bad and stupid but it was at least, like, interestingly bad and stupid, which is more than i can say for some failed Snatch Games.
- as for Sugar, i’m too curmudgeonly for ~*~internet personalities~*~ so i only barely know who Trisha Paytas is, and what i DO know is consistent with Michelle’s critiques, but! i’d still say that was a better/more entertaining Snatch Game performance than [SOME OF THE SAFE QUEENS] giving us nothing. maybe they were better in the parts we didn’t see, because we didn’t see much from anybody but the twins, Mistress, and Loosey.
- i do think the twins would’ve benefited immensely from having someone coach them a little on what exactly is funny about Miley or Trisha. there’s ample material! both were incredibly strong picks for Snatch Game, but unfortunately, the twins are not...seasoned performers, we’ll very generously say.
- i don’t think influencers and such are inherently bad Snatch Game picks the way some people do, i just think there are good and bad examples and good and bad ways to play them. the real reason all the queens who attempt those kinds of characters fail is that they tend to be young, inexperienced, and lacking the broad cultural knowledge base that Snatch Game requires to be able to pull up witty answers on the fly.
- i love Mistress and i think she’s funny but i didn’t think she was AS funny as everyone else apparently did. was it the edit? it was probably the edit, right? this season is so badly edited.
- Loosey was great and deserved the win, and i also loved her runway the most. something made of those materials with a Jason Vorhees theme shouldn’t, in theory, be elegant, but it really was!
- i also loved Sasha’s runway but like, really, when has she ever not killed it on the runway. it almost goes without saying now. “i loved [name]’s runway look the most” means “besides Sasha’s.”
- <stan brained> Anetra is underrated as a comedic performer and i knew she’d do well here so CONGRATS GIRL, IN MY HEART YOU WERE TOP...FOUR, PROBABLY </stan brained>
- i can’t believe they censored “shite” ffs
- but if we’re honest with ourselves, at this point Anetra could say just about anything in a comedy challenge and i’d twirl my hair and giggle and go “omg she’s soooo funny, isn’t she soooo funny?”
- the same kind of goes for Sasha but i feel really cheated by not getting more of her Jan Crouch. she was great from what we got to see! on twitter she claimed it was the editing that made her look better but idk.
- the show has always manipulated situations (and editing) to support The Narrative™ but this season feels like the seams are showing more than usual. it’s the bad editing! who do i blame for this, MTV? that WeHo show? Ru? Viacom? Elon Musk, somehow? can we pin this on him in some butterfly effect thing?
- also, i mean, we all knew the twins were gonna be made to lip sync against each other, but this quickly? the show must have some other bullshit manufactured drama waiting in the wings then.
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Uncomfortable truth: just because something makes you feel bad personally doesn't mean that a person has to change anything about themselves to soothe your discomfort.
Just like it makes me uncomfortable to hear fat people say really stupid shit like "having a eating disorder is inherently fatphobic," yall are going to have to learn how to handle hearing a skinny person talk about about their eating disorder in an honest way without throwing a fit every time.
Some one stating that their eating disorder makes them feel bad and fat over the number on the scale is not inherently fatphobic and you betray your ignorance on eating disorders when you claim so. If I need to get over hearing fat people just make up bullshit to fit their narrative, yall need to get over an anorexic person say that they feel fat when they step on a scale.
Like, you feel bad? I don't really care because there is not a damn thing anyone can do for you besides censor their experience to make you more comfortable. That's why it also works both ways- I can't force fat people to listen to people who have eating disorders that are not centered around fatness and yall need to learn how to let people express their feelings without making it about you.
Things I hear fat people say "well if you feel that way about your body, how do you think of me" like bitch nobody is thinking about your body because someone of us don't assign value to anyone else's body but our own. Like were we talking about about your body? No, we were talking about MY feelings about MY body.
Why is that yall get it in regards to negative self talk about any other topic but not about this ? Is it because you're uncomfortable in your own body and you're projecting that onto how other people are judging your body? Like, nobody is thinking about your body when they're talking about their own bodies and I'm tired of people being oversensitive about discussing fatphobia honestly.
It just infuriates me because yall really have the dumbest takes alive and it's so obvious you have never struggled with an eating disorder nor do you know more than like 3 people with eating disorders because if you had experience with them, you'd know that eating disorders are about control and many people don't ever worry about getting fat while on them, nor do they even know they have an eating disorder precisely because they are not thinking about being fat.
God, people with eating disorders deserve better than you fucks.
#eating disorders#im so fucking pissed how did we circle.back to 2012 tumblr having an eating disorder makes you a bad person ?????#yall are stupid
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I am ranting again ignore this xo
I will never understand the mindset of “Yeah I started this altercation because I publicly talked shit about you on my public account BUT bc you have a lot of followers and are a legal adult (19) the way you talk to me has to reflect that power imbalance. Yes I made up rumors about you or at the very least didn’t look deeper into the accusations but uhhhh all your followers are quoting my public tweet and I’m 17 so you’re literally harassing a minor and should feel bad about not coming to me privately the way I did not do to you.”
Like. Sure. Older people in fandom bullying teenagers is not something I’m about especially the older I get. But 17 and 19 is Not 17 and 25 I feel like you can’t pull the minor card on someone just bc they’re a popular artist which you Knew when you reposted their art to shit on them.
Like I’d say this rant on Twitter but I’m not close to the artist and this is just me hating so much the way fandom has become this evil competition and how you can say awful shit about people as long as you have less followers or you’re younger. In this case No the “gap” in ages is not enough to justify feeling entitled. Like if you’re gonna shit on someone two years older than you who you Know has a lot of followers…. Like I wonder why they have you blocked if this is how you behave. No one deserves harassment regardless of how popular they are or how many ppl are in their corner. But if I openly talked shit and spread rumors about a popular artists and then people were calling me out in the quotes I wouldn’t turn around and say “
I’m in my twenties and you’re 33 why are you acting like this”
2024 stop bullying and seeing it as justified bc you dislike something that’s not hurting anyone. Stop being mean and rude and thinking it’s fun. Stop using age when you’re only two years apart to claim that there’s some big power imbalance when you are the one who starts the shit. Bc and I cannot state this enough. Being a Legal adult by one year is not the same as being thirty and willingly bullying teenagers. Someone who is 19 is not somehow more powerful than someone who is 17 online. Like ppl have different maturity levels but a bully is a bully and it’s very clear who did something they didn’t need to. In public without censoring the name on the art they reposted.
Like the disconnect between “why did you send your followers who are able to see my public tweet after me you are bullying me”. Like no. People can step out of line and That is not okay. Bc again that’s not cool. But. A public tweet. With art. That has their name in it. They didn’t need to send anyone after you they know who you’re talking about.
Like I’m saying all this as someone who’s been in fandom spaces for a good chunk. Not super long but long enough to see this shift where being openly rude is super normal and when the person who is being shit on claps back it’s always Um I’m younger or Um you have more followers. And sometimes it’s a valid point. Sometimes it’s two teenagers who use Being 18 as some kind of weapon as if the actual age means anything when it comes to Literally and Publicly Bullying a person. I hen I turned 18 I didn’t think or feel any different. Being able to vote or look at porn has no bearing on who it’s ok to harass especially when you’re still in the same age range. Like.
I’m just so tired and it makes me sad to see young people have this kind of mindset in fandom. There are times when things need to be taken seriously and discussed with maturity. But pulling out trump cards AS the bully has been one so normal and it’s like they don’t even care. Being Weird is bad enough to warrant bullying and if you try to combat it you better be the same age and have the same follower count I guess.
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A poem I wrote when I was feeling the most unheard in my life. Please speak up for yourself, you’re the only one that truly can.
This poem is titled “Is She Okay?’
"Are you okay?"
"Yes."
I lied. I'm lying to you. WARNING! CAUTION! STAY AWAY FROM HER SHE"S... toxic. My smile is as manipulative as the ones who have claimed to love me. My fake laugh perfected to the point of being contagious to others. I deserve a Grammy for how well I act as though I have everything together.
"Hey, look she's being an idiot"
"She's hilarious."
"I swear she never stops smiling"
"Do you even get sad?"
More than you would ever know. My chest is tight with the anxiety of seeing other people pity me. I can't handle the stares. The look in their eyes when they see how truly broken I am. The change in demeanor when they realize that my laughs are a form of muffled sobs that scream for someone to fix ME.
"Oh I didn't mean to offend you!"
"I'm so sorry I didn't mean it that way."
"Does this bother you?"
YES it FUCKING BOTHERS ME! But you wouldn't know because I don't want to tell you. For fear of being labeled "soft" or "fragile" or watching people censor themselves around me because "she can't take a joke.". But things that trigger me are NOT a joke. Things that UPSET me are not a JOKE. Words like "faggot" and "abomination" that make you laugh, jokes about rape and abuse and depression and suicide and anxiety are NOT A FUCKING JOKE. But I laugh... because that's the community that I live in. Because it's easier to feel the pain inside than argue back and forth with a narcissistic, inconsiderate, ignorant only to waste your breath because they were never listening to your side of the argument in the first place.
"I'm sorry"
DO NOT. TELL ME. YOU'RE SORRY. Specifically if you're not going to change the actions that upset me in the first place. I hear your apology. Loud and clear. But hearing and feeling that apology... that's the difference that people don't understand when they say "I'm sorry." If you're going to utter those words AT LEAST respect me enough to mean what you say rather than just saying them because you think that's going to make me feel better. NEWS FLASH: NOTHING is going to make me feel better, especially not your half-assed, hollow apology... that was a little harsh... I'm sorry.
"But you have to tell me why you're upset."
Why? What do you want me to say? Because the only straightforward answer I have to give you is "I. Don't. Know." You're only asking me why I'm upset because me being anything but bubbly makes you uncomfortable. You don't want me to tell you what's really bothering me, what goes bump in the endless nights in my room. You want the easy answer. The "I'm just having relationship problems" or the "I'm just stressed out with school and not getting enough sleep." The easy answer with the easy fix. Sorry to crush your impeccable citizenship with my self hatred and suicidal tendencies. Whoops.
"Trust me."
"I've got you"
You've definitely got me. Got me in my room micro analyzing the last conversation we had because when you speak to me it's as if every word is begging me to question it's existence. Begging me to ask you "What do you really want to say?" because this isn't it. How about you try trusting me. Trust that I can handle bad news. Put your trust in me because that would be way more effective than me continuing to place mine in you. Because contrary to your belief, what you have to say to me isn't half as bad as what I have made up in my head. Or even said to myself for that matter...
"Are you okay?"
"Ye-... No."
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Death to All Might, Rebirth to Yagi Toshinori
So about All Might. I’ve been extremely wary of talking about what could happen to him because straight up saying “I don’t think he’s gonna die” is asking the universe to spite me. Plus it also feels like a room full of people turning to stare at me as if I said the Sun isn’t a star. Man has death flags everywhere, I know.
But, okay, *Bill Nye voice* consider the following:
Mr. Yagi here, if he overheard everything, just received the final nail in the coffin on his career. His time as the symbol of peace is not only over, it was in fact partially responsible for the current state of things, since he once did so much on his own that his absence now makes heroes and civilians alike ill-prepared to cope. I think it was very apt for that one guy to be wearing an All Might shirt--he was acting as a mouthpiece for the latent societal problems embedded in All Might’s legacy.
We know already that he’s been feeling useless. I love this scene and although I’m not gonna talk about it right this second, remember what Aizawa says about just “being here” being enough:
And we know from conversations with Inko that Toshinori is also reframed his purpose around looking after Izuku. But in the end, Izuku rejected his help, and it was his classmates instead who were able to save him. Now the very progress of humanity is rejecting him too. You may me wondering how on Earth I don’t see the logical conclusion of all this being his death. Hold on. It actually has a lot to do with the fact that we’re all expecting it. Nighteye himself saw it, and despite any contrary convictions anyone might have, the plot doesn’t seem to be veering away from that end. All Might Is Gonna Die, says absolutely everything.
It’s occurring to me that I have previous experience with this kind of plotline that probably little to no one else in this fandom shares, being that I’ve read a certain book series in which the main character is told in no uncertain terms that he will die (no, I’m not talking about hp). The series in question is T*e Und*rland Chronicl*s (censoring so it doesn’t get put in their side of tumblr) and I’m sorry but I’m about to go on a shameless tangent about it and spoil the ending for you.
So in this series there is a prophecy in every book, each one having something to do with war and conflict, and so far all of them have been right. In the last book [mc] finds out that it’s prophesied that he will be killed. Lots of the things in the prophecies are convoluted and metaphorical, but no, this one literally says “when the [mc’s title] has been killed.” He spends the whole book coming to terms with this, and he gives into it, only to find himself waking up in the hospital instead. “Wow, plot twist. /s” you may be thinking, and yeah sure, the mc in a kids book survived, big shocker. But it doesn't end there. After the war, there are peace talks, but they escalate until the two sides are on the verge of declaring war again. And [mc], bless him, has just been caught in the middle of all of this the entire time. He’s sick as shit of fighting, of watching the suffering and death of people he cares about. He draws his sword against both of them angrily, gives a speech saying he won’t take a side, and then promptly breaks his sword across his knee: “There. [mc’s title in the prophecies] is dead. I killed him.” He’s giving a huge middle finger to everyone there, to the man who wrote the prophecies, to the entire fucked up culture of it all. And so something that was taken literally turns out to be metaphorical. That is, if you still believe in the prophecies at all.
Hopefully you’re catching my drift here. What I’m saying is, even though this other series has nothing to do with bnha, it goes to show sometimes it’s the most absolute certainties that are red herrings, and a “death” can consequently be a symbolic one. In All Might’s case, it could be the death of hero society and a rejection of his own past. In other words, character development for Toshinori himself that reflects on the way the world is changing, too. Also there’s the fact that the mc from that other series I’m trying not to name has an honorary title, and I’m imagining that role he occupied “dying” could correspond to something that amounts to, “All Might is dead. I (Yagi Toshinori) killed him.”
And here’s another thing: we also have to ask ourselves what good a dead Toshinori is to Izuku, narratively speaking. Yes, Izuku has spent his whole life idolizing even the more toxic parts of All Might, and his idealized vision of his hero does need to “die.” But how about Toshinori as a father figure? Izuku regretting that his last interaction with Toshinori was to reject his help may drive home the fact that he shouldn’t go off on his own, but at this point it’s kinda redundant. If anything it would negate some of the progress that was just made because it’d make him extra paranoid about losing other people too. To be honest, the whole “Uncle Ben” trope, the mentor/father figure who dies and gives the mc a reason to do better, is so tired. Experiencing the death of a loved one really doesn’t deserve to be romanticized like that. I might as well admit that I’m speaking from experience, and let me tell you, losing someone you love suddenly, when you weren’t around, and with unfinished business--it makes you paranoid as hell that it will happen again. It literally gives me nightmares. Y’all, I cannot stress enough that trauma does not equal character development. Granted, just because I know this doesn’t mean Horikoshi does, but in general he does seem to lead his characters toward healing.
Okay, back to the present. Toshinori is turning away from UA. He likely feels useless and rejected. We can infer that what happens next will involve Stain, and we have a couple of extra clues to go with it: Stain considers All Might a true hero, and has stated that he would let All Might kill him. And since Horikoshi loves his parallels, we also have this fight between Endeavor and this random villain who admires him so much that he wants to die by Endeavor’s hand:
This suggests a confrontation in which Stain challenges All Might to live up to himself as he once was, so that as a hero he can vanquish Stain and symbolically overcome society's perversion of that role. But based on what All Might has learned about the system he upheld, Stain is wrong. All Might is not a “true hero” in the sense that the societal issues Stain witnessed exist not in spite of All Might, but (in part) because of him, because he took too much of the responsibility for himself.
Stain probably had no idea about the personal cost of All Might’s lonely burden until after the fact. Maybe he’s seeing it now. So then perhaps the confrontation would be more about Stain claiming he’s just as fake as the rest. Either way, Toshinori has the opportunity to denounce himself and be rid of “All Might,” to stop living in his own shadow. Nighteye’s vision has been defied before, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the combination of society shifting + Toshinori’s own conviction is enough to do it again and work fate in his favor.
He is not All Might. He is Yagi Toshinori: quirkless, worn down, and directionless except for his dedication to Izuku. If he survives his interaction with Stain, he can resolve his imperfect mentorship by confessing about his shortcomings and simply supporting Izuku as a part of his family, not as his teacher (as Aizawa said, just “being there”). And that’s how you really get character development, for both of them. I mean, shit, imagine Toshinori straight up telling Izuku to stop calling him All Might.
#disclaimer: I have a lot of emotional investment in dadmight#so I am hella biased#but hopefully I also have some unique insight to share#all might#yagi toshinori#bnha#mha#bnha meta#bnha 325#bnha 326#lin speaks
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Jtbc, the studio which made Jisoo’s drama, also has some other issues. I don’t understand why it’s wrong for knetz to speak out against it? Distorting history of the Korean pro-democracy movements and NSA should be reason enough, so strange that a few uncaring hypocrites still want it to air, when in Korea it’s so sensitive. Are some democracies just “more equal” than others?
I will pretend it's not a wonderfully passive-aggressive ask and answer it properly since I appreciate people who send things non-anon.
1. Netizens (and anyone else) should, of course, be allowed to speak out about anything they want. That does not mean everyone else, Korean or otherwise, should automatically fall in line with what they say but are allowed to make their own judgment, since we are discussing democracies. I watched the first four episodes of this spectacularly pedestrian, boring drama and found both the government and the police and everyone associated with them portrayed as unmitigated evil, the former cartoonishly so. I have read specific incidents that raised netizens' ire and do not see what they see (the complaint female cop just left; I am sorry, even worse police forces do not 100% beat and torture everyone EVERY encounter, come on!)
2. I would like to point out that jTBC is also run and owned by Koreans, who are just as Korean as the netizen protesters against the show. So by saying the protesters have greater truth than the makers, you are picking which group in a deeply internal Korean dispute you want to side with and assigning a value authority to one group over another. That's totally fine but goes against all the non-Korean posters whose main ground for this seems to be "Korean people know better." Fine - but WHICH Korean people? The protesters? The makers? All the rest who don't seem to care one way or another?
3. "Are some democracies just “more equal” than others?" I am not sure how this relates to Snowdrop. Also, a pedantic person in me would like to point that a democracy is a purely political term and you can have a democratic society with a censorship office and censor group voted in and censorship laws supported by the public.
But I will use it in colloquial sense as intended and point out getting something yanked off air by the government for content is a quintessential non-democratic thing, take it from someone who grew up in a dictatorship with a literal censorship office. Getting something yanked off air because of public pressure is routine enough though; I do not like that on principle because I believe things, however problematic, should be allowed to exist and be accessible to people who want to consume them. (There is also the fact that I personally don't find Snowdrop problematic but this applies even if I did.)
4. I would have more faith in the netizens if they didn't also rise up against Joseon Exorcist and Mr. Queen, two purely fantasy shows, for ridiculous things (anyone complaining a show about a modern man transmigrating into a body of Joseon queen not being historically accurate has a whole toolkit's worth of screws loose, for example) or Snowdrop before a second of it aired. When you cry wolf often enough, people tune it out.
5. I am not sure how anyone wanting to continue this drama to air is an uncaring hypocrite. Wikipedia definition: "Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform." I am sure a lot of people enjoying it never called for any other media to be canceled or even if they did, genuinely believe this does not deserve the same fate. Unless the argument anyone supporting democracy is a hypocrite if he doesn't want this canceled which is a giant stretch to connect.
In conclusion, just FYI for anyone still reading this, this is the last Snowdrop controversy ask I am going to answer (and anyone sending unpleasant messages re same will get banned, off anon or on.) It's too much energy for me to spend related to a drama I genuinely find blah, where I am no particular fan of anyone in it and where I find the brouhaha around it the most interesting thing about it for that matter, just because I do not automatically fall in line with knetz opinion that it's satan and must be canceled asap. I barely post on this snorefest and haven't in a week, so anyone inclined to argue in my inbox, go pick a fight on twitter with someone who I am sure will oblige, block me if the thought of my sheer existence enrages you, and move on.
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