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it's such a nightmare. our state has been completely bought out by corrupt mormon businessmen who don't care if us poors live or die

jesus christ that is a nightmare, i'm so so sorry 🫂 wishing you guys the best of luck

idk when i start thinking about this for any longer than 30 seconds at a time i feel like i'm falling into a black hole

maddy and i are very likely going to have to move out of utah sooner than expected. they're building a concentration camp and they just approved kevin o'leary's data center that'll literally make this state uninhabitable. so. just one more thing to have to save money for

Vacuuming the final brain cell

It also sets yourself up to feel like a victim whenever someone criticizes anything that you make

the idea that you are prohibited from taking a critical view of something unless the author is known despicable is deeply "go fuck yourself idiot"

I get it, we were all young once, but when considering the received narratives about work from 16 years ago, maybe ask yourself "am I the first to really critically engage with this work and everyone else is stupid, or have I just not read enough contemporaneous criticism?"

People have, in fact, written (www.firstpersonscholar.com/blasto-sacer/) this (futurismic.com/2010/03/03/m...) criticism (gamestudies.org/1803/article...)

you can just write your criticism! it doesn't need moral justification or a righteous cause!

Imagine being so unable to simply dislike something out of your own volition that you are wishing harm upon transgender people to justify your opinion

this is just fundamentally not someone with a critique but rather someone hoping to participate in a harassment campaign

Truly what am I supposed to do with this

Sometimes I remember that Endwalker gave Varis gender dysphoria and I black out

The building next to my Airbnb calls to me like a manatee to a sex starved sailor.

[ed wynn voice] I AM STIFLED BY THIS VESSEL OF FLESH *honk honk*

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genuinely, if he is capable of having a pre-existing, wholesome, shy-but-tender romance with a random bit part NPC in his world by the time the show starts, he is just flat out not the same character. you have scooped out A Fundamental Pillar of Being Cai/ne and it is not the same guy

annoying in a different way too in this case, bc the *point* of the dynamic is that the aggressor was *created* by the nonconsenting person, as an obvious expression of his own neuroses; he is afraid of sex and romance to the point of dissociation, and might be repulsed by them entirely. come on now

horrible inverse of 'isn't there someone you forgot to ask?' lol. and these are fictional characters who won't be hurt if you don't accurately assess whether they're being abused, yes, but if your brain is primed to make assumptions like this when you see nonconsent it's uh. worth deconstructing!

ship what you want, whatever, but i do find it incredibly fucking alarming how many people will look at a situation where *one* person enthusiastically wants it, and just. fill in the gaps to assume the other person must not only be fine with it but *love* it, instead of paying any attention at all

#tadctag it never fails to amaze and disturb me how consistently people will see a canon dynamic, no matter how intentional and explicit the intent, where character A is disgusted/scared/uncomfortable/etc with character B's aggressive flirting, and go 'wow what a cute wholesome mutual romance! ☺️'

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

(starb does have a canonical butch lesbian who will get no defense from me because she is a racist ex-cop with a whole arc where her girlfriend, the MC, lectures the ghost of a Black/indigenous woman, who she's assumed at the time to have murdered on the job, about how she's changed. The Game Ever)

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning." ("Watership Down") Richard Adams was born #otd 1920 🎨 Léa Chaillaud

maybe i sound like i'm being facetious when i say i want more representation of nonbinary people being targeted by obsessive creeps, but there is an extreme dearth of that outside hyper-niche creative spaces and as a nonbiney who has dealt with an obsessive creep or three i feel better when i see it

the fact that they spend half the series hiding from caine in random places around the circus, because they don't feel safe in their room anymore after he stood outside their door singing a song about being 'half crazy' with love while waiting for the answer to a marriage proposal. god.

zooble my love you may have the poob of names but you deserve the entire world

#tadctag the way zooble stands up for gangle hits a lot harder when you remember that they *also* know what it's like to be the pulling-pigtails 'favorite' of one of the circus' resident abusers, who they're constantly trying to hide from without being able to count on anyone to step in and help 🥲

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

like i am usually the first to cry foul if i feel like a piece of media is positioning a marginalized person as a villain to scapegoat them, so i really truly mean it when i say that yeah no holy fucking hell i have absolutely met that guy and his brand of psychological warfare many times over lmfao

which is a fundamentally abusive way to treat and think about other human beings, neurotype be damned! and actually caine is a dead-on depiction of the kind of ND person who treats their basic lack of respect for consent as a symptom of their neurotype because it's something people hate them for lol

what caine does is not that. what caine does is equivalent to 'i followed all the rules you're supposed to check off to get girls to fuck you on the first date, and she STILL didn't put out. what fucking gives >:( no more mister nice guy you ungrateful bitch, hope you're ready to get followed home'

i have known other ND people who've said very deeply hurtful things to me because they genuinely misunderstood what i *would* be hurt by, and who i would *trust with my life* because their response was to actually care about me being hurt and make a conscientious good-faith effort to understand

correct sequence of buttons to press to force them to think, feel, and do exactly what he wants--while, hypocritically, being dishonest with THEM about what he wants! and sabotaging all of their painstaking efforts to come to a workable solution *based on what he's told them his goal is* together!

#tadctag after turning it over in my head for a while, i feel like the distinction btwn caine's behavior and someone struggling to understand social cues due to neurodivergence boils down to this: caine isn't trying to clarify where other people are coming from. he's demanding people give him the

to be fair i have also known more than a few butch lesbians to bring this energy

in my defense that is a whole butch lesbian

#tadctag, #starbtag another extremely funny contrast between my adventures in starbposting and tadcposting is that one fave named cain i'm like yeah he's not perfect but he's a narrative scapegoat and i will die defending him, and the other fave named caine i'm like god no yeah he did all that shit

if papalymo was in shb he would have hit emet selch with a "young man" and emet selchs head would have exploded from rage

Come closer so I can sniff yah, let me get a big ol whiff

Taking your catgirl girlfriend on a zoo date be like

and again i'm sure you could find interesting shippy places to take that dynamic from there. but it'd be fundamentally different from her Keeping J in Line, bc C is simply missing the thing that makes her WANT to be friends with J. but sure i guess women feel interchangeably about all shitty men lol