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still coming to terms with being a witch of hope

@sathona

she/it | EmmaIsBestGirlv3's dumpster fire | feral Bonesaw and Amy Dallon stan

unstoppable force vs immovable object is yuri. theyre both girls and theyre kissing

Thinking about how when Liam asked if Nott’s crush on Caleb was something Sam came up with pre-campaign, Sam responded “No, when I stared into your eyes during some of the scenes we had together, it was sort of a natural thing” like that isn’t some of the most romantic shit I’ve ever heard. ‘When I looked into your eyes I knew she was in love.’ Like fuck dude. It wasn’t part of the plan, but it happened anyways. How could it not? Falling in love with Caleb was simple, it was obvious, it was the most natural thing in the world.

"whats the point of transitioning if you aren't dysphoric” what’s the point of eating a burger if you’re not starving to death. it looks yummy bitch

'it looks yummy bitch' is the perfect reason to do anything ever

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interrupting my wormblogging to bring more attention to this.

*grabs megaphone* gender dysphoria is a symptom, not a qualifier

if you disagree, block me

Going forward I will no longer be illustrating sex scenes, nudity, or any kind of physical intimacy because I feel it is unnecessary in this space. Fidelity in my real-life relationships, especially with my partner @xbritomartx, is more important to me than big, dripping, musky dong

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in solidarity with cpericardium, I will no longer be writing any sex scenes, nudity, physical intimacy, or whatever freak shit amy gets up to. fidelity in my real-life relationships, especially with my partner @babagaja, is more important to me than shatterbird smut or kpop rpf.

In solidarity with famous writers cpericardium and henghost I will no longer be creating audio media with sex scenes, nudity, physical intimacy, or any disgusting behavior like it. Fidelity in my real-life relationships, especially with my partner K800, is more important to me than ashley stillons face sitting ASMR.

In solidarity with famous writers cpericardium and henghost and Chartic I will continue to not write any sex scenes, nudity, physical intimacy or any disgusting behavior like it. Fidelity in my real life relationships, especially with no one, is a given as I have none.

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In solidarity with famous writers cpericardium and henghost and Chartic and TheSleepingKnight I will continue to not write.

Genuine question, why would Eidolon as a character be improved by being a woman? It's been years since I read Worm, so I'm fuzzy on the details of his arc, but I don't remember it heavily involving gender or sexuality.

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Oh, no I just think in general most characters can be improved by being female. I think women can and should be forgiven for a lot more things than men.

Consider:

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She has starbucks for breakfast and door dash for dinner. Her hair is dry and has split ends. She's worn the same skinny jeans and hoodie three days in a row. She's had a bunch of messy relationships in her late 20s at the behest of her mother, back when she used to call. She doesn't date anymore. Mommy issues make her feel like she's never doing enough and what she does do isn't good. She has a problematic crush on Legend and Hero. The simurgh looks suspiciously like her ex.

When Scion used PtV to see what words would affect her most, he discovered that nothing would work because she's already internalized every negative thing that he could possibly say to her.

She's perfect.

Failing-to-go-to-sleep thought: A lot of the problems with Amelia Dallon would be solved if she had been Andrew Dallon. Andy wouldn't be a predatory lesbian or anything, he'd just be a dick.

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What a disgusting, homophobic, sexist take. So the issue with the lesbian is that she's a girl. Oh, if only she were a straight guy instead of gay. Maybe then she'd be normal. Maybe then her attraction to her sister wouldn't be as perverted. Maybe then she wouldn't have done evil things. Everyone knows that men are so much nicer. They're just mean sometimes.

Even giving you a massive benefit of the doubt and saying that this hypothetical Andy would be gay, this is still misogynistic as fuck, because it is still making Amy's womanhood the problem.

Think before you speak next time. If you're even capable of that.

That's not what I meant.

By "the problems with Amelia Dallon," I don't mean "the problems with Amelia Dallon as a person". Andrew Dallon being in love with his adopted sister would still be bad. Andy Dallon would still be as shitty of a person as Amy Dallon, despite being straight; Victoria would be right to write him off.

But Andrew Dallon as a character in a story would not be Problematic in the same way as Amelia Dallon, because a straight guy lusting after a girl is not replicating homophobic stereotypes about predatory lesbians, because Andrew is not a lesbian.

Much of the criticism around Amelia Dallon is that she is A. a predatory lesbian and B. by far the most prominent lesbian in the story. This criticism vanishes if Andrew Dallon is just some dick, because the ways that Andrew Dallon is a dick are not homophobic stereotypes if Andy is not homosexual.

I feel like I'm repeating myself at this point. Hopefully I made myself clear and don't need to make another late-night response post tomorrow night.

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Lots of people in the replies and reblogs leaping to this guy's defense, all saying the same thing that he is now saying. What a convenient avenue to backtrack on that horrible take. But nevermind that. So, what you really meant is that you want to perform literary lesbian erasure! Still homophobic. Congratulations, you put your foot directly in your mouth again.

Dude, there is no amount of reasoning that will make this take in any way not idiotic. The issue with Amy Dallon is not her gender or sexuality, the issue is Wildbow does not think of gay people as normal. You know how we know? Because we know his writing process. He looks at a character. He wants to make the character fucked up. "Oh, I know, the fact that they're gay is part of what's fucked up about them." Amy, March, Tristan. It's happened too many times to be a coincidence. In the same story, even! If you want to engage in Doylist Amy Dallon discourse, there's the real problem. The answer is not an inane genderbend. And here, I'll even plug a much longer post that goes into real detail about it.

So let me get this straight. You saw my post, leapt to the most insanely homophobic reading of it, and called it "giving it the benefit of the doubt".

Then when I clarified, you called the much more sensible reading of an admittedly sleep-addled post "a convenient avenue to backtrack on," said it was lesbian erasure to say "This wouldn't be homophobic if the character wasn't a lesbian," and going on a rant about Wildbow's mixed history writing queer characters.

Like, yeah, making Amelia a shitty straight dude wouldn't fix the broader issues with how he writes queer characters. But I didn't say it would. I said that making Amelia a guy would solve the problems with writing Amelia as a predatory lesbian.

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you ... said it  was lesbian erasure to say “This wouldn’t be homophobic if the character wasn’t a lesbian,” I said that making Amelia a guy would solve the problems with writing Amelia as a predatory lesbian.

How do you reconcile these two statements? You paint me as falsely accusing you of erasure and then in the very next paragraph, you confidently endorse said erasure! Do I need to explain the definition to you? The solution to problematic queer characters is not to simply make them straight. That’s just erasure. And, say it with me now, queer erasure is bad. There you go, good boy. Oh btw, editing sath here, the reason i went "on a rant" about wildbow was to um, provide context and support for my point? dunno if youve ever done that before though, the concept may be foreign to you since youre so obviously used to just spewing shit out of your mouth

Failing-to-go-to-sleep thought: A lot of the problems with Amelia Dallon would be solved if she had been Andrew Dallon. Andy wouldn't be a predatory lesbian or anything, he'd just be a dick.

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What a disgusting, homophobic, sexist take. So the issue with the lesbian is that she's a girl. Oh, if only she were a straight guy instead of gay. Maybe then she'd be normal. Maybe then her attraction to her sister wouldn't be as perverted. Maybe then she wouldn't have done evil things. Everyone knows that men are so much nicer. They're just mean sometimes.

Even giving you a massive benefit of the doubt and saying that this hypothetical Andy would be gay, this is still misogynistic as fuck, because it is still making Amy's womanhood the problem.

Think before you speak next time. If you're even capable of that.

That's not what I meant.

By "the problems with Amelia Dallon," I don't mean "the problems with Amelia Dallon as a person". Andrew Dallon being in love with his adopted sister would still be bad. Andy Dallon would still be as shitty of a person as Amy Dallon, despite being straight; Victoria would be right to write him off.

But Andrew Dallon as a character in a story would not be Problematic in the same way as Amelia Dallon, because a straight guy lusting after a girl is not replicating homophobic stereotypes about predatory lesbians, because Andrew is not a lesbian.

Much of the criticism around Amelia Dallon is that she is A. a predatory lesbian and B. by far the most prominent lesbian in the story. This criticism vanishes if Andrew Dallon is just some dick, because the ways that Andrew Dallon is a dick are not homophobic stereotypes if Andy is not homosexual.

I feel like I'm repeating myself at this point. Hopefully I made myself clear and don't need to make another late-night response post tomorrow night.

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Lots of people in the replies and reblogs leaping to this guy's defense, all saying the same thing that he is now saying. What a convenient avenue to backtrack on that horrible take. But nevermind that. So, what you really meant is that you want to perform literary lesbian erasure! Still homophobic. Congratulations, you put your foot directly in your mouth again.

Dude, there is no amount of reasoning that will make this take in any way not idiotic. The issue with Amy Dallon is not her gender or sexuality, the issue is Wildbow does not think of gay people as normal. You know how we know? Because we know his writing process. He looks at a character. He wants to make the character fucked up. "Oh, I know, the fact that they're gay is part of what's fucked up about them." Amy, March, Tristan. It's happened too many times to be a coincidence. In the same story, even! If you want to engage in Doylist Amy Dallon discourse, there's the real problem. The answer is not an inane genderbend. And here, I'll even plug a much longer post that goes into real detail about it.

Failing-to-go-to-sleep thought: A lot of the problems with Amelia Dallon would be solved if she had been Andrew Dallon. Andy wouldn't be a predatory lesbian or anything, he'd just be a dick.

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What a disgusting, homophobic, sexist take. So the issue with the lesbian is that she's a girl. Oh, if only she were a straight guy instead of gay. Maybe then she'd be normal. Maybe then her attraction to her sister wouldn't be as perverted. Maybe then she wouldn't have done evil things. Everyone knows that men are so much nicer. They're just mean sometimes.

Even giving you a massive benefit of the doubt and saying that this hypothetical Andy would be gay, this is still misogynistic as fuck, because it is still making Amy's womanhood the problem.

Think before you speak next time. If you're even capable of that.

Taylor Hebert: unicorn or earth pony?

earth pony. no way a unicorn could be that stubborn.

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@nihilistic-janitor im so sorry for pinging you in wormblr again but i NEED your thoughts on this

her alicorn appearance is almost changelinglike-- fur falling out, twisted, broken-- and goes along with a similar sickly and eerie eye-glow. its almost reminiscent of chrysalis striking down princess celestia-- scion, floating in the sky, the golden alicorn with his wings spread wide, and a changeling queen challenging the god for their throne. I think, in this, tay's power controls bugs not in the absolute physical control sense, but in the sense where the bugs have this power-enforced slavish devotion to her

and then panacea turns her into a changeling-alicorn, and suddenly everyone is on her side. its not absolute control like it was in canon-- its an almost parodic sort of rulership, where all the ponies of Equus are standing behind this horrifying figure, eyes glowing the same color, and shouting defiance in unison even as they feed taylor their magic

"So this... is what friendship... feels like..." Khepri thinks to herself as the power courses through her.

and for a moment, with all the ponies working in concert, all their magic and power flowing through her, her skin begins to crawl with flowing silver, and scion, the golden alicorn, simply watches

the bolt of unified magic lances out, a shockwave ripples across the battlefield...

and when the dust clears, all thats left are two utterly mundane statues. one made of gold, and one made of silver. a god and a mortal. and as the effects of khepri's power slip from everyone, and they stagger to their feet, horrified at how effortlessly she took their minds from them, an earth pony with a demon mask, unnoticed and unaffected by khepri's power, goes up to lay a trembling hand on the silver statue.

or something like that. idk. im not writing more wormfic

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thank you for indulging me again ki <3