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disgust is not a moral issue

@a8raxas

21 y/o, WOC, trans-femme.
They/them.

yes hello i would like to emphasize this

disgust is not a moral issue

i physically cannot read the second image. can someone transcribe it for me please?

[image id: #part of being in public is that youre gonna see some stuff that you might not want to see #otherwise youre gonna start policing relatively innocuous behaviors #and thats always gonna hit vulnerable groups first #sometimes you can just go i dont like that and move on #disgust is not a moral issue]

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Karkat Vantas is the most interesting straightman character I can think of because. He's really, really not. Not when you take him out of his original context. But Homestuck has so much fucked up shit going on at all times that he does kind of become the de facto straightman for the trolls. Hes the only one that's "just a normal guy". And like thats still true after including most of the humans, too. Somehow, Karkat, canonical second coming of troll Jesus, is the most normal guy of the group. The only one more normal than him is Jegbert and thats because Jegbert is the humans' straightman character and because troll society is inherently more what the fuck to us as an unknown, Jegbert was always going to be more "normal" than Karkat. But like. Karkat is still the responsible one most of the time. Karkat. I think about that sometimes.

knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then

some of you tumblr folks have become so obsessed with denouncing “abusive relationships” in fiction that you focused too much on the “abusive” part and forgot about the “relationship” bit.

an abusive relationship is a relationship in which one of the halves uses the feelings and/or the dependency of the other half as leverage to hurt and manipulate them. the very relationship between them is weaponized against the victim, hence “i’m only hurting you out of love” or “do as i say or you don’t actually love me”.

a dynamic in which two characters openly hate each other and charge against each other on a battlefield with swords or guns because they’re on opposite sides of some conflict that’s larger than either of them cannot be considered an abusive relationship because it lacks the “relationship” part. there’s no intimacy here. and their antagonism is often not entirely personal and largely attributed to what those characters stand for in the universe of the story, rather than who they are as people. one of the greatest appeals about enemies to lovers is the irony of two people who would be perfect for each other if only the circumstances around them did not propel them to clash, and the subsequent shedding of all of their outer layers of upbringing and prejudices until they reach the revelation that deep down they’re actually not that different after all. if those characters were ever to put down their differences and get into a relationship, and still treat each other like crap while in a relationship, *then* you would be able to call them an abusive ship, but the way they’re trying to disembowel each other with swords in a duel says very little about what kind of dynamic they’d have as a couple because, at the moment, they’re not a couple (or even friends for that matter). they’re as far from a romantic couple as two people can get, and the very first step for them to become romantically involved would be getting over the very thing that’s causing them to try and disembowel each other with swords in first place. you can’t just fucking… disregard context and circumstances here and simply hold the way two characters treat each other as enemies against a hypothetical romance those characters might have upon future character developments.

this is why people don’t understand when fans of edgy enemies-to-lovers pairings express distaste for when characters in a “soft” friends-to-lovers ship commit mild faults like negging one another or doing shit behind each others’ back, when their own ships have literally tried to murder each other, but it’s actually very simple: enemities are not supposed to be functional and healthy, but friendships, like romances, are. the crap two people pull to one another as friends is a bigger red flag for a bad relationship than the crap people pull towards one another as sworn enemies. with enemies you can make a case that, in different circumstances, those people could have a healthy and functional relationship had they decided to put their differences aside and pursue a friendship/romance, but you can’t say the same for characters who are canonically friends and canonically treat each other poorly as friends.

this is maybe gonna sound a bit hypocritical because I love a good bickery ship where both sides will snark at each other but also when it comes down to it they can put that aside, but I think expectations and framing are part of the deal too.

I expect enemies to try and hurt each other. And because they’re enemies, it’s usually framed as both intentional, and, you know, decidedly not a show of sincere caring or affection. I’m okay with my bickery ship because I expect it to be surface level only, and the ones I like are framed that way, with the respect also clearly there not so far underneath and neither of them actually taking it to heart.

Soft pastel uwu relationships, I don’t expect them to hurt each other. And because the framing is such that the harm is also part of the soft, romantic deal… the whole thing sets up uncomfortable vibes that hurting the people you love is fine and totally a cute, soft, romantic thing to do. It’s the dissonance that makes me uncomfortable, rather than the actions or the severity of them.

and this is why I say that romcoms and sitcoms have done a better job at normalizing toxic relationships than the brand of dark romance in genre fiction most of the purity police seem preoccupied with. dark romance is exactly what it says on the tin, it’s easy to identify it when it shows up and people don’t actually expect it to be a blueprint for their own love life. romcoms and sitcoms, on the other hand, present large doses of negging, gaslighting, open miscommunication, “white” lies, inappropriate behavior, and etc, properly coated in a cute comedic package and presented as fun quirks which are meant to be seen not only as endearing but also relatable. not to mention that, because dark romance is commonly seen in genre media, audiences are already predisposed to see it with a certain distance: most people are sensible enough to understand that a story about a dark elven prince abducting a peasant girl to make her his queen is not something that would translate well into their own lives, but Average New Yorker Andy lying about being a doctor to conquer Relatable Post Grad Sarah while subtly sabotaging her other dates in some random romantic comedy is much closer to the reality of the people watching that, which makes it more prone to be accepted in an unfiltered, more literal, way to their own lives. and yet, antis don’t seem that much concerned with such types of fictional unhealthy relationships, which I can only guess it’s because they are young and lack the subtlety to identify any unhealthy dynamic which is not explicitly and intentionally written as such.                 

Probably why they insist all abuse needs to be explicitly stated. They struggle to recognise it themselves (funny how abusers tend to have a difficulty with that 👀), and expect everyone else has equally as difficult a time.

You’d think they’d appreciate any efforts to educate and discuss what happens in abusive relationships then, but nope…

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i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they're allowed to go to extremes. they're allowed to put their love over the greater good. they're allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.

Yea, sure. Until YOU or people you love are among the victims for someone else’s love and the villains won’t care. Would also like to point out that some villians(Kuvira, for example) have been willing to sacrifice/throw away love interests for their own goals.

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idk about you but existing in the real world gives me and my loved ones immunity from the actions of fictional villains. hope you manage to get your family out of star wars.

my favourite thing is when enemies to lovers are getting heated…and their faces end up really close… and they’re making solid eye contact…and then one of them is just like… *gaze drops to lips*

Sometimes a fanon interpretation shared by so many people will gaslight you into thinking YOU're not smart enough to understand it when, in reality, no, the collective of a fandom can indeed just be misinterpreting a character beyond parody. It's not you, it's them

missed last year's Annual Doug Rattmann Portrait bc of art block from hell, had to make up for it 🥲

played around with CSP's shading assist tool for this, which was neat! I have a speedpaint video showing a little bit of it (except I started the recording after I'd already started painting, oops lol) over on my instagram!

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elusiveblogueuse

this video does more in 10 seconds than your fave’s entire filmography

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For everyone who’s confused

I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????

This is hella interesting.

btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)

The literally only impressive thing about SpaceX Starship test is that it shows how incredibly dumb the audience is at this point.

People keep comparing Starship to SaturnV, because tentatively, if it ever became a space worthy vessel and orbital delivery vehicle (it's not); it'd be the largest and most powerful one in history, with SaturnV its only near peer (sorry, N-1, you really didn't qualify).

And the first "integration test vehicle" (read: the actually whole complete thing, that's literally the point of that kind of test; it's meant to be all the pieces, already tested and proven on their own, finally assembled into the final thing to make sure everything plays nice when together)

So lets see how did Saturn family development go in comparison? How many "integration test vehicles" did the Saturn project obliterate in the process?

ZERO. They blew up ZERO Saturn first stages, ZERO Saturn second stages, and ZERO Saturn payloads.

It's not fucking normal to blow up rockets this size and complexity, because they're expensive and dangerous! You build SMALLER, SIMPLER prototypes, you test those, you do all the "risky" tests on your separate parts of the system, and test the integration at less ambitious scales and stress levels. That's how you do rocket science. Iteratively, yes! But the iterations must make sense!

And let me stress

They got Saturn to moon and back in the SIXTIES, when simulation was in diapers (partially, literally invented within projects like the Saturn series).

SpaceX exists at a time where they can (and should) do 90% of the raw, grueling development with lot of painful failures in digital simulations, or tests where you build a small, simple thing and enhance the simulation based on what you learned there.

And the worst of it all is that another thing that Elongated Muskrat has at this disposal is all of the Saturn research. It's been DONE.

Saturn and other projects paved the worst of this goddamn slog. They did all the dirty, awful work already. They literally gave us the textbooks that you study from if you actually get a science degree (Elon does not have one).

And again, the most embarrassing thing isn't Musk and his poor, toxic, overworked circus that's SpaceX. The most embarrassing thing is the "space science enthusiast" crowd that's cheering on this launch as some sort of tentative success.

The king is fucking ass goddamn naked, and you all yes-men are an embarrassment to this doomed goddamn species. You're not supporting the effort to give Humanity a "chance at survival", you're hooting and hollering around a basementman dumpster fire that's literally immolating what's left of the scraps of natural and human resources we have left.

i hate when theres a post where i agree w almost everything then theres a sentence i absolutely despise sneaked in the middle of it like. fuck you now i cant reblog any of that 😑

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EVERY fucking stupid liberals university in the star trek future their fucking student sketch comedy group OF COURSE has at least one Vulcan and it's like their thing where they're like "haha I bet you wouldn't expect a VULCAN in an IMPROV group!!!!!" as if this hasn't become such a fucking tired cliche like literally since 2063 every fucking comedy show has the token Vulcan to be the straight man. you're doing nothing. call me when you guys make an effort to actually include tellarites in the writing room instead of confining them to punch lines. and to be honest with you guys your Vulcan isn't even that good. his performance was highly derivative of T'min's work in the big bang theory 3 (the third big bang yheory. they make a lot of sitcom sequels in the future)

The last thing you said cannot be true because star trek is supposed to be a utopian future.

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star trek is very demonstrably not a utopian future it's a broken society playing at paradise. we see hints of this earlier in the post when I mention university improv comedy groups

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i am going to cause problems on purpose. which user on this site is Bizarro Tributary

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BRB, I’m going to make bizarrotributary, reblog every picture of a cat with “i would lawfully purchase a cat” and pretend to be a tankie.

You point to me one person with any level of influence at all who is demonizing just masculinity. Like just the concept of masculinity. Not demonizing black men, not demonizing gay men, just men in general. Find me one person with even a modicum of influence or power in the real world who is doing this. Because like, no, no one is “demonized” for being a man. They are demonized for being black, or being gay, or being trans, but always it is the addition of one of these aspects that leads to the discrimination. No one is meaningfully out there oppressing men on the basis of being men you are just repeating right wing talking points about how you can’t be a real man these days but dressing it up in the language of vague progressivism

even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about

imagine if your workplace cafeteria spent four years serving literal shit for lunch and then you and some of your colleagues push for the chef to be replaced so now the cafeteria serves pasta but every once in a while the pasta is served cold or badly seasoned and whenever you complain about it your other colleagues who prefer the former chef get all smug and be like 'that's what you get for choosing to eat pasta over literal shit' that's how conservatives sound