Things Lily Has Made Up About Steven Universe:

I have seen an uptick in posts from tumblr users in the vein of 'You shouldn't believe any accusations against transwomen!' since the Lily video was released, and on one hand I agree that , especially with transwomen, you should handle it with a grain of salt, but the black and white ideology of it going around has me thinking of victims like you, so I have to ask, as an outspoken victim of an abusive transwoman, what do you feel when you see posts like that? Do you feel unheard or erased when those posts go around?

I understand this is a tricky situation, especially with transwomen, but it genuinely feels like another situation of tumblr throwing away nuance in abusive situations on that basis of an abusers identity.

Tbh this is something that's been an issue the whole time in regards to Lily and a couple of other examples.

On the one hand, I get it. Innocent trans women get a ton of undeserved shit and wild accusations just because of who they are on a regular basis. I understand where the knee-jerk defensiveness and anger comes from.

On the other, when it gets to the point where you're not even willing to look at evidence presented by numerous people making similar allegations of abuse, manipulation, ect, that's a problem. Regardless of what demographic a person falls in, burying your head in the sand and refusing to get the other side of the story, or even worse completely dismissing evidence when you see it, is not protecting the community. On the contrary, it's doing even more harm. Not only does that behavior allow actual predators and abusive people continue to get away with their behavior and victimize more people within the community, to outsiders, they see "the rest" of the community willingly protecting dangerous individuals. Which in turn gives actual bigots ammo to point to and confirm their biases.

Yes, it's true that trans women get falsely accused of things a lot. That's a massive problem. But that doesn't mean all accusations are automatically false. Nobody is immune to being abusive and causing harm.

They want to use ai to deliver packages

No

No

NO

whatever else you have to say about katy perry i do have to say "do you ever feel like a plastic bag" is maybe one of the all time funniest ways to start a song

Dude it would be really funny if someone set their text notifications to “CHICKEN JOCKEY”

futurama season 4 operated on such a cosmic galaxy brain level that it low-key puts any other season of television to shame and the writers kinda fucked up putting their whole pussy into it bc they have yet to produce anything that is even half as solid and consistent. you want heart wrenching emotion that makes you cry but also makes you smile so big because you just love these characters so much? put on "leela's home world." you want heart breaking emotion that makes you cry and have to shut down from the world for a bit because you don't feel anyone loves you as much as seymour did fry but also that's the whole point of the episode so it makes you have an existential crisis? put on "jurassic park." you want Actually Good social commentary? pop in "crimes of the hot" or "a taste of freedom." you want to celebrate your fav found family? put on the comedic bangers that are "teenage mutant leela's hurdles" or "the farnsworth parabox." you want the best romantic payoff of any television series ever? watch "the why of fry." you want an episode that is utter cinematic perfection? "the sting" is right there. and the ultimate cosmic galaxy brain move of making the intended series finale a fucking musical? just absolute genius work. season 4 will never be topped and sometimes I wonder, why bother trying?

The final total we raised for the Transgender Law Center

Thank you all so much for everyone who donated, for everyone who showed up, for everyone who made it clear that there’s a place in the world for trans people, and for trans people for being you

Love Palestine more than you hate Israel. Love trans people more than you hate transphobia. Love the poor more than you hate the rich.

Always love who you fight for more than you hate those who you fight against. Otherwise when the Uniting Enemy is gone, you might start to hate as well.

Anger is part of revolution, but love is too.

I still foolishly dabble in Twitter to see what some of my fellow animation enthusiasts are saying, and one particular SpongeBob tweet annoyed me so much that I’m not even gonna talk about it on that app. It was quoting a segment of the Season 12 episode Shell Games, a fairly standard and innocuous episode, and saying that the plot is an insult to Stephen Hillenburg’s legacy. That was the final straw for me. I can no longer trust the people who aren’t diehard SpongeBob geniuses with Stephen Hillenburg’s name. Especially when they’re blue checkmarks who can benefit from the clout SpongeBob fans will give them.

What was so insulting about Shell Games? Them revealing Patrick’s rock was actually a turtle shell, for one episode, out of nearly 600. I swear, you have less of a reason to be upset over The Principal and the Pauper, and even that’s been an overreaction. I’m not gonna say Shell Games is one of my all time favourites, but I think it’s got enough character with the turtles to make it memorable.

But the gall of that user to transparently have no idea what the show is like now, and still feel the need to stuff the late creator’s name into their opinion to feel better about it. It isn’t 2019 anymore, when Kamp Koral had just been announced and no one had the concrete information on Stephen’s awareness of it. Even back then, my stance on post-Hillenburg SpongeBob stuff has always been “I may not like a lot of it, but I salute the people who he knew continuing to work on it.” How is that such a hard stance to take? Can’t these blue checkmark people have empathy for working class animation teams?

I miss 2015-2018 when the SpongeBob community was more stable. When a Post-Sequel episode aired that the fandom didn’t like, we didn’t jump to “Stephen didn’t want this! Legacy tarnished!”, we discussed what we didn’t like about it and hoped the next episode would be better. A lot of fans still do that, but certainly not the normal people who haven’t even watched the show since they were kids. Fair enough, but if that’s the case, don’t act like an expert out of nowhere. If you were a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, and every single thing made for the past 94 years has had people going “Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t want this! Legacy tarnished!”, you’d understand my antipathy.

Never mind the irony of all this - Stephen Hillenburg was alive when Shell Games was produced. It was the 4th-to-last episode to enter production before he stopped coming in to the studio. Community notes sorted that out quickly. And let me say, you don’t have to like every episode he personally contributed to or oversaw. But come on, why am I expecting nuanced thinking from someone giving Elon Musk their money?

Twitter’s never been a great website, but now, it feels like all the worst people have cracked the code. Only the loudest and angriest voices get the attention, which gets more dangerous the more sensitive the topic is. And then, even if you agree with the sentiment, you will despise the personalities of the very people you’re agreeing with. It’s a platform that encourages all the worst human behaviours. Whenever I so much as make a joke on there, I feel like I’m walking on eggshells. It’ll hurt to see less from accounts I really respect, but I’ll offload it for a little while, because it’s not been good for my mood.

And I’m really sorry that this is yet another long angsty blogpost so soon. It’s been those times for me, and I hope you got some sort of useful lesson from what I’ve typed out.

Hey, here is some new frustrating discourse.

I'm going to clear this up super duper quick.

And then we can move on and discuss more important things.

Okay?

Here goes...

Nicolas Cage is an incredible actor who is very bad with money so he has to act in terrible movies because otherwise they will repossess his dinosaur skull collection.

But even when he is in terrible movies with terrible writing he refuses to phone in his performances. And sometimes when you are acting your ass off while saying some of the dumbest dialogue ever conceived it can give the appearance the acting is the issue rather than the writing and story.

Hayden Christensen knows that feeling all too well.

So next time you see Nic Cage in a B movie acting a fool, just know he probably bought some new shrunken heads and forgot to pay the mortgage on his volcano island.