When The Imposter Is Sus

not having a good day yall.

first I drink bad coffee creamer and pass out.

then I have to leave the house for a gas leak, turns out it was mushroom soup

then it turns out there IS a gas leak, just somewhere else and undetectable because of how small it was.

I think the big issue the fandom has with the tea theory is that they seem to jump to either extreme instead of simply accepting that Kris likes Ralsei… a normal amount? He scores slightly less than Noelle, whom Kris has known all their life but from a distance, and a lot less than Susie, who is obviously their favourite (best?) friend by Chapter 2. 

Kris likes Ralsei like a normal friend. But it just doesn’t fit the thoughts of the Ralsei-is-evil theorists, or the wishes of Kris x Ralsei shippers, so it seems like this plausible middle ground was just completely swept under the rug by the fandom.

As a reminder, Kris has known Susie and Noelle pretty much their entire life. Even if they weren’t friends before (for Susie), they’ve still grown up in the same town and gone to school together. Ralsei really stands out from that, as a Darkner they know really not much about and whom they literally met yesterday in-game. His score is really, really good considering it’s only 10 HP less than a lifelong friend.

i don’t understand how people can think chara is evil? chara is a child who was abused before running away to commit suicide which failed, and they’re adopted into a new kind and caring family. they didn’t hate their family they loved them very much. chara loved their family so much they were willing to sacrifice themselves so their family could be happy. yeah they hated humanity??? their only experience with humans was mostly likely cruelty. they wanted all of humanity dead???? no! oh but asriel says “they weren’t the best person”!! nobody is the best??? nobody is perfect?? asriel was telling frisk that chara had their flaws. chara calls themselves “the demon who comes when people call it’s name”!! asriel calls himself “the god of hyperdeath”! they’re a child! and don’t you dare use the no mercy run! chara is taught by the player that killing is the right thing to do. you teach them that it’s right. like- like noelle in snowgrave! nobody is blaming noelle for her actions in the snowgrave route! chara at the end of no mercy is like noelle in snowgrave. except you didn’t realize you were actively manipulating chara, and you are aware with noelle. and chara still gives you chances in the end of no mercy. chara isn’t evil they’re a child. chara is a victim. 

kys is used by idiot babies who aren’t emotionally mature enough for you to care about. sh*t yourself is a valid retort made by your peers.

 I am extremely bad at age of empires 4

actually the thing abt matt murdock is there's stories disney could maybe (maybe) tell with some competence, like there's stories that can almost survive that degree of mass-appeal pro-establishment toothless passionless bullshit, but. daredevil? matthew michael daredevil murdock? if you disneyify matt he isn't matt anymore. daredevil is about the kind of bone-deep inextinguishable rage that ableism sparks and kindles in you. the way someone gets violent when violence is done to them ad nauseam. all superhero stories shld be about stepping up because you can't stand not to, but daredevil is that dialled up as far as it'll go

like. matt's whole deal is he is much more viscerally aware of the terrible shit most of us ignore, and his worldview means ignoring it is allowing it, and he is so incredibly traumatised. if a daredevil story doesn't piss anyone off it's a bad daredevil story. daredevil shld look u dead in the eye & say 'what are you allowing? what could you change?' because yeah matt is an insane person going above and beyond but he's trying to singlehandedly fix a community cuz if he doesn't who will. daredevil shld say solidarity with its whole chest.

i don't usually make these kinds of posts but in the tags tell me what symbolic imagery you associate yourself with i'm curious. personally i associate myself with dogs, eyes, the color red, and wings.

Disabled Representation Has Come Farther Than You Think

You’ve Just Been Conditioned Not to See It.

I recently got into a huge fight with an abled friend about disabled representation, in which he was completely convinced that the stance he held was that of an ally. He’s a long time friend of mine and I know he really did think he was fighting for us and coming from a place of trying to help us.

And it really got me thinking about the way abled people perceive disabled people. And how that message is internalised and reinforced in so many ways.

My friend was trying to say that characters like Cyborg, Misty knight, Daredevil, Toph, Edward Elric, Bucky, Nebula, etc were not good representation. And he at first refused to listen to me (an actual disabled person) when I was like; no, we like that. we love that. we LOVE seeing badass and competent and sexy disabled people. It’s validating and empowering.

His argument was that it didn’t really count because nobody saw them as disabled and that it would be the same thing as saying Gamora is black representation.

While I understand where he was coming from, both of us also being black, it was hard to get him to understand how it wasn’t the same thing.

Gamora is a black actress painted green to portray a green-skinned alien. She has black features, yes, but within the narrative she very much is not a black woman. She’s an alien.

But a disabled character is always still a disabled character. Regardless of how high tech or SciFi or magical or fantastical the world or universe is; an amputee with a prosthesis is still an amputee. They are still disabled. Yes, even if their prosthesis shoots lasers.

And other characters, like Toph and Daredevil, who are both blind, have superpowers/superhuman abilities that allow them to overcome their disability. That does not make them less disabled.

Their blindness still impacts their everyday lives. They can’t read. They can’t draw. They don’t know what things or people look like, or what color things are. They can’t read someone’s facial expressions during a conversation. They can’t follow a map without assistance.

When I asked my friend for examples of what he considered good disabled representation he said Professor X, Oracle, and the Thinker. And that made me pause and I won’t lie, it upset me. It felt degrading. I got kind of angry at him and it got a little heated.

Because what he was saying is: the smart one in the wheelchair that never actually joins the battle because their body is too frail? Those are the only good disabled characters? The ones who still need to be protected and treated tenderly and are physically weaker?

Do we only exist when you can view us as some subhuman lesser other that you can take pity on?

But it’s not only my friend who thinks this way.

I’ve seen quite a few arguments online about people who don’t think Edward Elric is disabled, despite being an amputee.

Who don’t think Cyborg is disabled, despite the fact that his entire power set is due to a life support and mobility aid device.

And my friend was shocked that I, and many other disabled people, find these depictions of strong and confident and capable disabled people empowering. He fully expected that I would find those depictions offensive.

And that’s when it really hit me.

The issue is not that characters like Bucky or Toph or Daredevil are bad representations of disabled characters.

The issue is that people don’t perceive them as disabled. They’ve internalized this belief that disabled people have to be weak and delicate and fragile and in some way physically inferior.

They’re only considered disabled if they’re tragic and/or weak. Or ugly. People love to project a tragic subhuman otherness onto disabled people who are ugly.

If they’re cool and badass that confuses them. That doesn’t fit with the narrative that’s been built in their heads.

The idea of a competent, confidant, and strong disabled character, especially a cool disabled character is just so completely foreign to them that they don’t even consider it.

Now I’m not saying that depictions of disabled characters like Oracle or professor X are bad or harmful. We need representation of disabled people who aren’t strong and don’t have superpowers and maybe don’t feel particularly empowered. That’s a genuine representation of many disabled people.

It just isn’t the only one.

I think the issue with disabled representation is not that it doesn’t exist (as I’ve seen many abled people online claim in our defense) but that we need to shift the way we think of disabled people so we stop overlooking a lot of the really cool and badass and awesome disabled characters we do already have.

So if you read this far through this essay, please stop for a moment and consider the preconceptions you have about disabled people.

Have you ever overlooked a disabled character because they were strong, powerful, charismatic, or, (God forbid!) SEXY?

And if so, I’d ask you to take some time to examine in yourself why you don’t think of disabled people as being able to be those things.

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because she actively funds anti trans organizations????? that is transphobic behavior?????

she retroactively made characters have random things like being trans or having a 7-foot dong to fuck with people, not as a moral statement.

Love how Sonic 2 and everything everywhere all at once are the only things people are talking about but there’s a whole-ass harry potter movie out right now too.

the themes are formed halfway through from the hell i tripped and shoved my characters into

ok writeblr i have a question and it does not matter if you answer re fanfic or original work:

do you nerds know what themes you intend to tackle in longer works before you start, or are the themes a fun little surprise you don't uncover until the nth draft?