let's all move back to forums. i want a signature. if you want to interact with me you have to deal with a large glitter graphic of my fictional boyfriends every time i post
this is going to maybe make me sound like a nut but when people expand on a character's traumatic experiences that the original narrative kind of glosses over? when canon is like "yeah this terrible thing happened, it's ok" and writers are like "let me show you how much It Isn't"
@noslopdx
the malls and movie theaters where i live don't even let teenagers in after 6pm without a parent... so good luck if you want to hang out with friends after any sort of after school club or sport i guess
don't give a job 200%. no matter how passionate about it you are or how much you want to help your coworkers, it's a recipe for long term emotional and physical burn-out. don't let employers pressure you into doing the work of multiple ppl for the pay of one.
bsd fandom gave me SUCH a taste for this because i know the series will probably never explain why or entirely how dazai is the way he is (bad.) but i love seeing people's interpretations of that and their ideas of what it looks like when the masks finally drop
fandom in general - but idv fans in particular - falls into this trap so often of like, claiming moral superiority bc of which characters/ships they like and not bothering to examine how they treat other fans or creators
this is exactly the type of stuff that kept me from feeling comfortable thinking of myself as a lesbian. the whole "our attraction/love/etc is inherently purer and more meaningful" spiel.
not a bad customer, but something i'll never forget: the truck driver who asked us not to cut his sushi roll so he could eat it like a burrito as he drove
when a customer holds one of these up for .5 seconds and expects you to read and understand the whole thing in that time, leans over the handoff plane to stare at you the whole time, and then doesn't tip 😜😜😜
are we really at the point of begging for cis people's sympathies where our activists are phrasing things as "even if you hate trans people, how do you think cis [people] feel?" we can't even be centered in regards to the hatred of us lol
I don’t care for corporations’ marketing stunts but the
#BoycottCostaCoffee
campaign is a good example of how anti-trans ideology harms cis women. Even if you hate trans people, how do you think cis cancer survivors feel when you call their mastectomy scars “mutilation”?
i think more people should embrace the concept of Bitch Eating Crackers. not everything the person/media/etc you have an issue with does needs to be framed to be as problematic + evil as possible. sometimes you rly Are just going ugh, look at that bitch, eating their crackers.
modern fandom really feels like the "but that's not cAnOnNnNn" "give me proof they're gay/trans/etc" "can't men just be friends" bros of internet forums past with a layer of rainbow paint slapped over it
@imagnesnutter
like don't get me wrong i love people making them a silly dysfunctional criminal family but also is there one fucking structural relationship in there that isn't abusive as hell
@covetimp
BEST TROPE YEAH both of them keep telling themselves and each other it's Just This Once to get it out of their systems and then they can move on, but it kinda. stops being just this once when it's a whole string of once-es
i don't think you get to "well all my favs are female characters and i write wlw fanfiction" your way out of treating fellow queer people with respect in fandom spaces lmfao
@cherrysipps
wait this would be so funny. theyre both thinking oh well our first time since starting to properly date should be romantic and vanilla. rose petals and candles and rosy slow-mo filters and all of that. we'll work up to that first! unfortunately for those plans, they're THEM, so
@Alrightpunk
yeah how many apologies did he get that his dad never meant and never bothered to change his behavior abt. how many times did blitz and barbie apologize to their dad for things (and probably mostly not things they Should need to) and get told in reply that sorry isn't enough etc
the nurses gave me a flower!!!!! anyway. am home. am honestly kinda shocked at how smoothly everything went (literally the worst parts were that i felt rly sick when they were trying to put in my IV + moving between sitting/standing rn) but. tubes TIED cyst OUT i have a POPSICLE
half the people in these QRTs: "yeah, it's really upsetting to create something for someone's character for free and have them act ungrateful bc i couldn't see their m*ds"
the other half of the QRTs: "SO YOU'RE SAYING YOU HATE PEOPLE WHO USE M*DS?!"
A Little Life still the worst contemporary book I’ve read read by a mile. Comes off as story written by someone whose understanding of a gay relationship is exclusively derived from fan fiction and the amount of trauma it dumps on Jude is so comical it borders on slapstick
sooooo this is steve, he has one brain cell and a big block head made of rocks and likes to lay on the floor like a frog, and after a trial "sleepover" he's officially coming to live with us ;u; he's such a great fit with our other two dogs and hit it off with them IMMEDIATELY
so many posts about the lack of f/f content in fandom are great and insightful and then immediately lose me when they start going "and the m/m ships are BORING and BAD and for CUMBRAINED YAOI LOSERS" like you are. Not winning me over with "f/f is Good cause m/m is Bad"
"it's not okay to tell people not to play a video game! it is, however, morally correct to give money to the IP of a woman who's built her entire brand over the last decade on the targeted harassment of a minority group"
Shocking to me that people think the way to protest Hogwarts Legacy is to bully and harass those who are playing/streaming it
No one likes this
You're not helping anyone, you're just being a piece of shit.
realized last night while rewatching deadstream that my wife owns chrissy's shirt, they really rolled with it for their outfit today! hope they don't ask me to repeat any weird latin!
@vanessamwinter
@JosephWinterVHS
they should be okay, their BP seems to have gotten better with fluids, their test results all came back good, and they're sleeping off the nausea meds now. hopefully we should be able to go home once they're able to wake up a little more.
shit take
you need to vocally oppose transphobia because of the harm it does to trans people FULL STOP. who cares if it's a ~gateway issue~. we are not canaries in a goddamn coal mine for ~worse things to come~ we are human beings who deserve a world that respects our existence
you need to vocally oppose transphobia not just because of the harm it does to trans people, but because the right see demonising trans issues as a gateway to attack all manner of people they hate. they wouldn't stop with forcing one group back in the closet
hi guys i'm home. had to spend a few days in the hospital for brain problems(tm) but i'm back and safe and hopefully a lot more stable. missed y'all a lot.
i'm just... so happy to be just vibing in the chair next to ren... holding their gay little hand... i love them so much pls allow me my gay sappiness i missed them
i busted my ass at a level that just wasn't sustainable for ~2 years in my early twenties bc i genuinely thought i was helping the place i worked... it made no difference to the owners of the company and i ended up with permanent damage to my wrists/arms and back :-)
i'm so jealous of everyone whose lives have somehow been so miraculously unaffected by covid that they can go out to huge pride events and conventions and fun summer stuff and somehow not blink a fucking eye over it. wish i could give that few fucks. (not really. but.)
hello from me and my whale at the hospital, i am feeling much better than last night in the ER but it sounds like they're planning to keep me another night for observation, fortunately i've been able to sleep thru the vast majority of the experience :'D
today i stopped by panera and they asked me "do you want to donate for autism awareness" and me, not yet caffeinated, went "no, i already know about it"
still at hospital. despite all the tests and monitors being good, they can't stay awake for more than a few seconds and i have to jostle around their shoulder to get that much. doctors won't do anything because of the tests not showing issues. haven't tried any more meds/fluids.
much more awake this AM and dove was able to text me a little when i ran home to get all the animals set for the day. heading back soon and hopefully the doctors will have some news
@cressidasea
apologies to every bloodied up fictional man i've ever sexualized i forgot they didn't consent to getting the shit kicked out of them by other fictional characters my bad my bad
I PASSED HTE BACKGROUND CHECK THEY JUST NEED ME TO GIVE THEM A MOVE IN DATE!!!! ALL I HAVE TO DO IS MAIL MY SHIT DOWN AND BOOK A FLIGHT!!!!!! I MIGHT BE MOVING IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!!!!!!
after a lot of thought and worry i've decided i need to be on my own for a while. obviously there's no need to choose sides between luca and i; i don't think that's fair. if we're close you're welcome to dm me about the situation.
one of those build an outfit based on your big 3 zodiac placement threads based on Clothes I Think Are Cute! sorry if it takes me a while to post every sign!
how much of the "nb people with noun names" phenomena do you think is due to people being nicknamed a short version of their online handles long enough that they just decide to go by that permanently
@bizzaroren
it's so revealing of the way str8 people (especially men) view relationships tbh! like the idea that you can't simultaneously find someone hot and still be their friend and respect them even if they have no romantic/sexual interest in you