puts this in #msavetag and considers pinning it because honestly i just want to tattoo it on my fuckin forehead
but it is by no means an exclusive thing to fandom. so i am going to challenge you, reading this, to notice the next time you feel rage or disgust at someone for naming abuse and/or bigotry, and take some time to interrogate that feeling carefully. yes, even and especially if the accusation was BS.
July 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
puts this in #msavetag and considers pinning it because honestly i just want to tattoo it on my fuckin forehead
plonks this one in #msavetag
homelessness cw
puts this here bc it is one of my favorite posts, and the last addition is an interesting one i hadn't seen before. What Do People Get Out of Fiction, What are We Mythologizing and What Needs are We Meeting by Doing So in What Context is a fundamental burning curiosity for me
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puts this here bc it is one of my favorite posts, and the last addition is an interesting one i hadn't seen before. What Do People Get Out of Fiction, What are We Mythologizing and What Needs are We Meeting by Doing So in What Context is a fundamental burning curiosity for me
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June 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
plonks this one in #msavetag
puts this here and in #ffxivtag and #msavetag because i think about this a LOT and this is a hell of a lot more elegant summary of the issue than i could make
Robots being metaphors for oppressed classes of human beings? That's a concept that's only as old as, y'know, the word "robot"
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
puts an #msavetag on this so i can find it to follow up on later
vague thoughts about The Cozy Discourse(tm) and the interplay/distinction between framing vs modularity of Upsetting Content(tm), ugly laws and emotional security theater, good faith vs bad faith bodice rippers + content warnings, and so on. no idea if brain will Do Anything With It! but it's there
March 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
puts an #msavetag on this so i can find it to follow up on later
There seems to be this expectation that if you wrote horror or anything dark or "gross", it's normal for people to tell you to your face that they hate what you write, you can't join their critique group, etc, and you will take it with grace, because you chose to write those things so it's on you.
March 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
#msavetag
since this is a Big Subject that covers Many different things, and it'd be both unwieldy and bad for me to try to cram them all in one thread, i foresee returning to this one a lot.
today's dynamic: the idea that it's abusive to never be okay with someone 'taking time away to think.'
since this is a Big Subject that covers Many different things, and it'd be both unwieldy and bad for me to try to cram them all in one thread, i foresee returning to this one a lot.
today's dynamic: the idea that it's abusive to never be okay with someone 'taking time away to think.'
#msavetag
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
March 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#msavetag
since this is a Big Subject that covers Many different things, and it'd be both unwieldy and bad for me to try to cram them all in one thread, i foresee returning to this one a lot.
today's dynamic: the idea that it's abusive to never be okay with someone 'taking time away to think.'
since this is a Big Subject that covers Many different things, and it'd be both unwieldy and bad for me to try to cram them all in one thread, i foresee returning to this one a lot.
today's dynamic: the idea that it's abusive to never be okay with someone 'taking time away to think.'
#msavetag; misogyny, abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault
goes ahead and puts this here because it helps with establishing a LOT of ground for things that i talk about re: abuse and sexual violence in fiction, and also because pop culture detective's video essays on this subject are Fantastic
goes ahead and puts this here because it helps with establishing a LOT of ground for things that i talk about re: abuse and sexual violence in fiction, and also because pop culture detective's video essays on this subject are Fantastic
Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies
YouTube video by Pop Culture Detective
youtu.be
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#msavetag; misogyny, abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault
goes ahead and puts this here because it helps with establishing a LOT of ground for things that i talk about re: abuse and sexual violence in fiction, and also because pop culture detective's video essays on this subject are Fantastic
goes ahead and puts this here because it helps with establishing a LOT of ground for things that i talk about re: abuse and sexual violence in fiction, and also because pop culture detective's video essays on this subject are Fantastic
#msavetag
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#msavetag
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
thinking tiredly once again about how 'is this abuse' resources and conversations desperately need to be updated to accommodate for the fact that a not-remotely-insignificant number of the only markers that are ever listed can just as easily be describing abuse in the other direction
#msavetag
i think one of the worst i've seen gain steam in recent years is people getting midsommar syndrome over fictional societies that are blatant depictions of colonialism and white supremacy, intentional or otherwise, and claiming they're indigenous and that saying they're fucked up is racist
i think one of the worst i've seen gain steam in recent years is people getting midsommar syndrome over fictional societies that are blatant depictions of colonialism and white supremacy, intentional or otherwise, and claiming they're indigenous and that saying they're fucked up is racist
bad fandom takes hall of fame. show me the worst take you’ve ever seen 💀
March 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#msavetag
i think one of the worst i've seen gain steam in recent years is people getting midsommar syndrome over fictional societies that are blatant depictions of colonialism and white supremacy, intentional or otherwise, and claiming they're indigenous and that saying they're fucked up is racist
i think one of the worst i've seen gain steam in recent years is people getting midsommar syndrome over fictional societies that are blatant depictions of colonialism and white supremacy, intentional or otherwise, and claiming they're indigenous and that saying they're fucked up is racist
#msavetag #ffxivtag
also, i feel like i should clarify that by 'roll my eyes' at reading comprehension fails' i mean 'this person has genuinely and demonstrably shown that they do not understand the canon that they are basing their take on'; i feel strongly about Thinking It Through when someone
also, i feel like i should clarify that by 'roll my eyes' at reading comprehension fails' i mean 'this person has genuinely and demonstrably shown that they do not understand the canon that they are basing their take on'; i feel strongly about Thinking It Through when someone
like my fave is hermes, i love him dearly, and there are takes i think are valid but am not up to engaging w/ and takes i roll my eyes at bc comprehension fails, but holy GOD he has done some fuckshit and i would be an asshole for telling ppl they can't go 'yeah he reminds me of my abusive parent'
March 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
puts this one in #msavetag because it summarizes a LOT of my feelings and approach to this kind of thing, and #ffxivtag because it crops up a lot with this game specifically lmao
(i also think 'disliking a character' covers a huge, fluid, and fascinating spectrum of feelings + reactions to narrative and the contexts it happens in from person to person, and it's *so* cool to be able to examine + compare notes on that, and i wish fandom would normalize doing it in good faith)
#msavetag
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
March 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#ffxivtag #msavetag
above near all when it comes to stupid fandom BS that plagues my every step, this sums it up. ppl are too goddamn gullible when it comes to the Vibes they are (or parse as being) spoonfed by a narrative, and think it's bad reading comp to not blindly accept those vibes as truth.
above near all when it comes to stupid fandom BS that plagues my every step, this sums it up. ppl are too goddamn gullible when it comes to the Vibes they are (or parse as being) spoonfed by a narrative, and think it's bad reading comp to not blindly accept those vibes as truth.
(no shade to hythlo likers who aren't dickheads who get mad when you contradict their Solely Vibes-Based Interpretation of Canon, go in peace, but gooood LORD i am not looking forward to the almighty shitfit that'll happen the moment i start talking about it, esp when the text is already triggering)
February 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
putting this one in #msavetag because yeah lmfao
i think a lot of motivational advice out there isn't about helping people engage healthily with art, so much as not having learned to live with the discomfort of people making and sharing art you don't think is 'good' enough without reassuring yourself that it still needs a justification to exist.
February 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
putting this one in #msavetag because yeah lmfao
#msavetag because this one is going in the hall of shame lmao, holy shit
racism cw
best example i've seen of why 'i hope you get your family out of star wars' is one of the worst things to ever happen to anti-censorship rhetoric, and why liking an -ist char isn't the problem, it's parroting -ist ideology bc you're too immature to separate fiction from reality. the Fuck
best example i've seen of why 'i hope you get your family out of star wars' is one of the worst things to ever happen to anti-censorship rhetoric, and why liking an -ist char isn't the problem, it's parroting -ist ideology bc you're too immature to separate fiction from reality. the Fuck
February 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
#msavetag because this one is going in the hall of shame lmao, holy shit
puts this thread in #msavetag because it expresses A Great Many of My Feelings About This Kind of Thing, now time to (most likely) set it aside and go do something else for the night to wind down from Cranky. ugh
antisurvivorism cw
tiredly marks down 'it has been 0 days since our last rancid abuse apologia on my dash in the form of [FEMALE CHARACTER] ISN'T ABUSIVE/A PREDATOR, SHE'S JUST ~A FLAWED COMPLEX PERSON WITH NEEDS AND FEELINGS~ AND WE LOVE THAT FOR HER' on the whiteboard
tiredly marks down 'it has been 0 days since our last rancid abuse apologia on my dash in the form of [FEMALE CHARACTER] ISN'T ABUSIVE/A PREDATOR, SHE'S JUST ~A FLAWED COMPLEX PERSON WITH NEEDS AND FEELINGS~ AND WE LOVE THAT FOR HER' on the whiteboard
February 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
puts this thread in #msavetag because it expresses A Great Many of My Feelings About This Kind of Thing, now time to (most likely) set it aside and go do something else for the night to wind down from Cranky. ugh
started to expand on it further and almost infodump zipbombed myself lmao, it's 2am and my eyes are streaming from Allergies of Some Kind so i will continue it later in this or another thread. for now, #ffxivtag #msavetag
and vice versa! literally just being willing to look at the two elements and go 'these have been grafted together in ways that do not track with either metaphor they're invoking. that bit is the nazi bit, that bit is the rebellion bit' is the most incredibly basic place you have to start from here
January 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
it sucks heinously that 'being critical of your interests' a) was co-opted by pro-censorship to mean 'grovel about how much you hate your interests for being Problematic' b) thrown out w/the bathwater by pushback, bc what it *really* means is a fantastic tool for calm good-faith discussion of media.
January 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
slaps an #msavetag on this one as well
FOUND IT. cw for discussions and images of gore, body horror, brainwashing, nonconsensual body modification, and irl transphobia. this is Long so you'll want to set some time aside for it, but it is such such such a good read i will be linking it until the end of time
www.tumblr.com/wifelinkmtg/...
www.tumblr.com/wifelinkmtg/...
Transformation, Horror, Eros, Phyrexia
There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
- Lewis Carroll, “The Lobster Quadrille,”
ONE.
There is a moment early in H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth where the na…
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January 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
slaps an #msavetag on this one as well
#msavetag so i don't forget
i Need to find the posts about horse fantasy vs unicorn fantasy and diegetic vs nondiegetic kink, those are a fantastic starting point for the things i talk about and are also just good insights in general. i also need to link the phyrexia essays they are Incredible (and too long to screenshot lmao)
January 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#msavetag so i don't forget
#msavetag
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
sometimes hate reading is a powerful drug
January 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#msavetag
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
GENUINELY THOUGH this crossed my feed in an incredibly timely manner. it's important to learn your limits and the headspace it puts you in, and ideally have someone you trust to spot for you if you're getting into self-harm territory, but it can be so, so therapeutic if you're careful
current events, #msavetag bc i forgot to tag this one too and frankly i am considering pinning it. if you try to use what's going to happen to me as a way to shout me down from calling your spaces out for making me unwelcome and unsafe as someone affected by those things, kick rocks and break a toe.
don't be a bigoted fuck filling my spaces to unwind in with rhetoric about how i should die, and bully people out of addressing that behavior or pushing back against it, and i won't have a reason to talk about you. it's that simple. 🤷♂️
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
current events, #msavetag bc i forgot to tag this one too and frankly i am considering pinning it. if you try to use what's going to happen to me as a way to shout me down from calling your spaces out for making me unwelcome and unsafe as someone affected by those things, kick rocks and break a toe.
#msavetag, current events
for now, tl;dr: i may start a tag for it so it's easier for people who need to blacklist it for their sanity rn, but this is a complex and fascinating subject that *is* the corner of my hobby i have left to escape into when bigoted fucks invade it with irl -isms anyway.
for now, tl;dr: i may start a tag for it so it's easier for people who need to blacklist it for their sanity rn, but this is a complex and fascinating subject that *is* the corner of my hobby i have left to escape into when bigoted fucks invade it with irl -isms anyway.
January 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#msavetag, current events
for now, tl;dr: i may start a tag for it so it's easier for people who need to blacklist it for their sanity rn, but this is a complex and fascinating subject that *is* the corner of my hobby i have left to escape into when bigoted fucks invade it with irl -isms anyway.
for now, tl;dr: i may start a tag for it so it's easier for people who need to blacklist it for their sanity rn, but this is a complex and fascinating subject that *is* the corner of my hobby i have left to escape into when bigoted fucks invade it with irl -isms anyway.
#msavetag
i am tired and out of it and probably i'll have to pick this thread back up later, but i think about this post a lot. i've thought about it pretty much constantly in my dealings with fandom and media analysis ever since i read it, because it hits the target dead fucking on.
i am tired and out of it and probably i'll have to pick this thread back up later, but i think about this post a lot. i've thought about it pretty much constantly in my dealings with fandom and media analysis ever since i read it, because it hits the target dead fucking on.
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
#msavetag
i am tired and out of it and probably i'll have to pick this thread back up later, but i think about this post a lot. i've thought about it pretty much constantly in my dealings with fandom and media analysis ever since i read it, because it hits the target dead fucking on.
i am tired and out of it and probably i'll have to pick this thread back up later, but i think about this post a lot. i've thought about it pretty much constantly in my dealings with fandom and media analysis ever since i read it, because it hits the target dead fucking on.
puts this in #msavetag for later because it is a general fandom mood and was a Long Thread to Type Out that i will want access to in future lmao
#ffxivtag
i am Out of It and not v coherent today, but the more socmed becomes bent on dismantling literally any attempt at boundaries/separation btwn spaces, fandom has GOT to bring back norms to filter positive vs negative discussion of media w/o bullying people for criticizing something you like
i am Out of It and not v coherent today, but the more socmed becomes bent on dismantling literally any attempt at boundaries/separation btwn spaces, fandom has GOT to bring back norms to filter positive vs negative discussion of media w/o bullying people for criticizing something you like
January 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
puts this in #msavetag for later because it is a general fandom mood and was a Long Thread to Type Out that i will want access to in future lmao