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If there's a homicidal, emotionally complex female character, I probably like her. Adlock is OTP. Cersei Lannister is best girl. Area woman cannot have a popular fandom opinion to save her life.
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Professional Cersei Lannister and River Song stan.

NOTE: I blog a fair amount about Jaime/Cersei in a romantic context because they are one of the biggest ships I have. THIS MEANS THERE WILL BE CANON FICTIONAL INCEST ON THIS BLOG. IF THAT IS GOING TO BOTHER YOU, THEN THIS IS NOT THE BLOG FOR YOU.

There are a lot of topics/fandoms on here, but the big mainstays are: Doctor Who (especially the Moffat and Chibnall eras), Game of Thrones, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, mental health activism, Shakespeare, music of all kinds (including musicals and opera), and whatever anime I've latched onto at the moment. I love messy, horrible women and unpopular characters. For a more comprehensive list of media and ships you'll find on this blog, feel free to check out my about page!

~THIS BLOG SUPPORTS TRANS PEOPLE AND DOES NOT SUPPORT T.E.R.F.S.~

Things I have written and/or made (minors do not interact with my mature and/or explicit fics!)

My Ao3

Sometimes, I sing things.

Also, stan Hot Milk

#pinned post#about me#I probably should have done this a while ago huh#sorry for screaming at the beginning. there are a lot of people who don't seem to realize that j/c content will be on this blog#and I wanted to make its presence abundantly clear to anyone interested in avoiding that#also making it abundantly clear that t__fs are not welcome here
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Saying that men are impacted equally or nearly as much as women by sexism or that it should be a goal of feminism to heal men’s wounded egos is so goddamn ridiculous. You can’t throw your hands in the air and say “can’t we all just get along?” as a response to thousands of years of systematic oppression. Not to mention the negative impacts of “masculinity” upon men are all brought on by sexism and homophobia. The fragile masculine ego is the result of men’s belief in their own inherent supremacy over women and if you think it’s a prerogative of feminism to comfort men about not always living up to their self-imposed expectation of being superior to women then you have a severe misunderstanding of what feminism is and you either need to re-evaluate that or be honest about the fact that you are not a feminist at all, but in fact opposed to any sort of recognition of or response to women’s oppression by men.

#GOD. THANK YOU.#every single day I feel like I am losing my mind#misogyny#feminism#the thing I always ask is. okay we're expected to 'uplift' and coddle men because the pressure of living up to a standard is overwhelming#but who uplifts and offers comfort to US???#who extends grace and encouragement and support to women!!#WE'RE told OUR emotions are 'hysterical' and 'bitchy' and meaningless.#and the standards we feel compelled to perform to...well I mean lots of people don't want to admit those standards are there in the#first place but you think meeting the standards placed on US isn't stressful????!!!#even if we MEET those standards we will still never be good enough. because we are less-than. however smart or kind or interesting#or talented or efficient or 'cool' or beautiful or palatable or 'drama-free' we are we cannot ever reach the '''''level''''' of a man.#we don't become equal. we become less-inferior with POSSIBLY some degree of conditional acceptance.#but we will never '''''deserve''''' the things that men do. you think we don't need support and attention for THAT!!!!!?!?!??!??!!!!??#do you know why the pressure to perform masculinity is there? because if you don't reach that standard YOU ARE SEEN AS 'MORE LIKE A WOMAN'
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I think lumping all concerns about plagiarism via generative AI into “you’re shilling for copyright law” is disingenuous at best. With respect to academic writing, someone using my ideas/words in their own work without citing me directly affects not only my career but the overall impact of my research on the field— and it does this despite the fact that I don’t own the work, because any research I do within the scope of my employment at a university is considered property of the university. Citations and recognition are often the only things people receive back from publishing papers, especially in certain subfields. Citations are also both a very tangible form of social currency and a way to track progressions of ideas within a field. If someone cites my work, not only will more people go back to that work and read it, but people will be able to track the evolution of research and knowledge in the field. If someone uses it without citing, the trail ends there— you can’t trace the research backwards, because you don’t know it’s derivative of someone else’s research at all. Not only that, but given the propensity of generative AI writing to make mistakes it is potentially a massive misrepresentation of the research done to date, which would have its own obviously deleterious effects.

#THANK YOU#GOD#some people really went 'the way copyright law is yielded can often be a way to exploit people ergo anything that even REMINDS me#of that situation [<-in this case people expressing concern about AI and plagiarism] should be CONDEMNED as EVIL'#just because copyright law can be and is misused does not mean that Plagiarism Is Good Actually
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not usually jealous of alloromantic people but the whole 'you have a guarenteed roommate for the rest of your life, who you presumably are pretty fond of being around' aspect of marriage DOES sound like a sweet deal. i'll give them that one. it seems useful.

#I am...I would say a 'romance un-favorable' alloromantic person#but thinking of this aspect. uhhh. yeah that. that could make me 'favorable'#it Gets To Me™ a LOT#'just find a platonic roommate' DID YOU MISS THE 'GUARANTEED' PART????#yeah okay you can live with someone. first you have to find them. (which usually means finding a single person because partnered people#live with their partners). then you have to make room for the expectation that unless this person is aromantic then if they find a#romantic partner they will eventually move in WITH THEIR PARTNER.#ERGO YOU HAVE NO MORE ROOMMATE.#like. for the overwhelming majority of non-romantic-roommate situations there's an expiration date
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I LOVE FRIENDSHIP. BEST INVENTION EVER. BEING WITH FRIENDS >>>>>>>> EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

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SHIP TAG GAME!!!

Thank you to @ichabodcranemills 💜

Rules: Without naming them, post a gif of ten of your favorite ships (any media), then tag people to do the same. I AM TAGGING EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS AND WANTS TO DO IT!!!

I just picked the first ten to come to mind, so don't take this as an Official List™ of any kind.

GIF by kitigai
GIF by joanna-lannister
GIF by therosecrest
GIF by cutterpillow92
GIF by shellybuttface
GIF by kurayamineko
GIF by forbescaroline
GIF by chrishemsworht
GIF by ingoodjesst
GIF by birdmans
#also me looking through gifs to reference in this post and going 'OMG LOOK IT'S CREATIONS BY MY FANDOM FRIENDS'#tw: smoking#the name of an ancient tag
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If I can be exceptionally petty for a second.

Very funny to look back at 2019 when season 8 was airing, during which you could find endless posts of "Suck it JC shippers, WE won, you're SHIT" only for 8x05 to come out like. A week or two later. And then. You know.

#I DON'T EVEN HATE THE OTHER SHIP#LIKE. TRUST ME I GET IT. I UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE IT. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST IT EXISTING.#EVEN IF I *DID* HATE IT THAT WOULDN'T MATTER BECAUSE THESE ARE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.#I'LL EVEN STAND BY THE DECISION TO HAVE SAID RIVAL SHIP GO THERE™ BRIEFLY FOR THE SAKE OF THE THEMES™ AND HIS CHARACTER ARC#AND HONESTLY FOR HER ARC TOO!!!!#I DON'T EVEN HATE THAT THAT HAPPENED#but. you know. I mention...not even SHIPPING the thing I ship. just like. wearing a t-shirt with an unrelated quote from my girl. or#mentioning 'hey I think this character is neat'. and then. okay let's take a tally.#1) got harassed by a merchandiser when I was trying to purchase a t-shirt 2) got asked by MULTIPLE PEOPLE if I 'supported incest irl'#3) was publicly hit on in a really creepy way at a con by a panel moderator 4) was randomly harassed by OTHER strangers at cons in the wild#5) got one of the only instances of repeated actual honest-to-god anon hate I've ever had 6) had a friend's ex-boyfriend make really gross#speculations about my sex life TO SAID FRIEND and 7) was made to sit through a guy who was ostensibly trying to date me go on a#whole tirade of every horrible thing he wanted to do to this character#like. I am NOT making things up when I say that people for real gave me unacceptable levels of shit over A FICTIONAL CHARACTER.#NOT EVEN JUST ONLINE!!! MOST OF THIS WAS *IN REAL LIFE*!!!!!!!!!#like. okay fine maybe no one gets hurt when you hate a fictional woman BUT I. A REAL WOMAN. GET HURT WHEN YOU HARASS ME#FOR NO FUCKING REASON!!!!!!!!#tw: harassment#tw: incest mention#obligatory 'not everyone is like this' like genuinely like what you like hate what you hate I do NOT care#just don't bring REAL LIFE PEOPLE into it
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My #1 recurring thing as an editor is to guide people away from writing shyly and defensively. If you preempt aggression and try defuse it in your writing itself, you are showing your belly. The audience wants blood.

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If you write with the expectation of being hated, you are writing for your haters. This is exactly what they want. So the more you do it, the more of your readers will be haters.

#!!!!!!!!!!#queue your courage to the sticking place
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Me re-reading this unrelated thing I started for procrastination for inspiration, and going, "Oh, this rocks, where do I find the rest of it." IN YOUR BRAIN, TUMBLR USER MUSICAL-CHICK-13. IT'S IN YOUR BRAIN. YOU HAVE TO WRITE IT DOWN.

#this is NOT the multichapter.#this is not even for this fandom nor is it for the event I am ostensibly doing several things for in THREE WEEKS#UGH okay I'm typing all this out and realizing yeah I have to actually go work on the thing I've been Avoiding Working On. FINE.#(also to anyone awaiting message or tag game responses I will get to them tomorrow. I ended up having Several Things™ to manage today.)
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Idk, I think ultimately the things that Bother Me™️ in fiction are different than the things that usually bother people.

#I mean. in real life too but. I'm thinking about fiction today#idk I don't think I could say 'when shows/books/etc treat [redacted topic] in [redacted way]' & have ANYONE go 'yeah that's fair I get that#I think the answer would be 'well that's a weird stupid thing to be affected by get over yourself'#I would occasionally like to think I am not forever doomed to be alone and misunderstood and unheard maybe#could be fun
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Thing is. Sometimes I'm relatively sure I won't like how a topic is handled in a work of fiction, based on what I've seen people say about said work or based on glimpses of the work itself. This makes me, of course, not want to watch/read/etc. the thing. But also. I know that my original assessment might be unfair because I haven't. Actually watched/read/etc. the story.

#and I don't even think I can like. Ask For Opinions or go on doesthedogdie because the things *I* consider 'handling a topic badly' do not#seem to be what other people generally consider 'handling a topic badly'#mainly I think what I want out of stories in general seems to be different than what a lot of other people want#which is fine. but it does make trying to find New Media a little more difficult than I'd like it to be
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Also, you cannot be a feminist and say that you think certain women "deserve" to be raped or abused. You also cannot be a feminist and say that Certain Groups Of Women "deserve" to have any accusations of assault or abuse they make immediately discarded.

Genuinely, with all of the disrespect I am capable of conveying in typed text, you give up all right to call yourself a feminist if you believe those things. You do not belong in this movement and you are not a safe person to be around.

THIS POST AND THIS BLOG SUPPORT TRANS WOMEN. THEY DO NOT SUPPORT T/RFS.

#tw: rape mention#tw: abuse mention#regrettably. I have to make these unrebloggable because whenever I don't Very Foolish People get a hold of them and I refuse#to let them do that. however I ALSO refuse to give up talking about misogyny and feminism
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I feel like one of the things I don't see get mentioned a whole lot in the discussions of r/df/ms and why their rhetoric is harmful is that...intentionally or not, it comes across that they just. Hate women.

In addition to "men aren't capable of being nice, the best we can do is separate completely" (unhelpful and cynical doomer-ism), and "women are inherently more [insert quality here] and are much more well-suited to [x role]" (unhelpful and gender essentialist), and the frequent purity politics they seem to embroil themselves in and how a lot of them make being transphobic the most visible part of their identity (<-which in and of itself necessitates an entirely separate post based on how widespread and insidious of an issue it is)...

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a self-labeled r/df/m call women married to men "handmaidens" (as if that's not a direct reference to a group of fictional women who were literally legally designated as "baby-makers with no personal identity"). Or suggest that bi women and straight women* are Inherently Tainted by their association with men (sometimes regardless of whether or not these women are even dating or have ever dated men in the first place???), which is. You know. Exactly what misogynistic sects of Christianity say about any woman who ever has sex. Or decry some random woman as "being available to men" (as if that's not exactly what entitled misogynistic men think about every woman). Or suggest that ONLY women like THEM are truly enlightened, every OTHER woman is STUPID and BRAINWASHED, she doesn't know what she wants she can't make any decisions for herself but *I* can because *I'm* not like THOSE women I'm NOT LIKE OTHER (frivolous, stupid, shallow, vapid, slutty) GIRLS.

Like this is literally just misogyny again.

PLEASE tell me you understand how this is just misogyny again.

*and it's absolutely not only lesbians who say this, plenty of women with other identities who identify as r/df/ms do this too--internalized prejudice is a very, very real thing

#if you want to know why I scream about this all the time it is because I REFUSE to let these groups of people have a monopoly#on conversations about women's rights and the prejudice that gets in the way of them#they do NOT get to be the only place left for people to go to discuss this. they do NOT get to Make Decisions about What Women Should Do#they do NOT get to call themselves the leaders here
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