Ese-reblog

yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

need more glasses wearers in fiction who actually deal with that lifestyle. where is the fogging of the lenses in sudden temperature changes. optometrist visits. wondering why ppl pay for gucci frames for children. your insurance only covering the ugliest frames youve ever seen. the headaches. the disdain for rimless glasses. hassle of 3d movies. seeing cute sunglasses in stores and not being able to wear them because they have no prescription. the headaches. the spares being an old prescription. that fuckass tortoiseshell pattern on every other pair. keeping them clean. the headaches.

Anti-intellectualism is so poisonous and the fact that people think their opinions are just as valid as real academic studies is toxic. There's no amount of arguing you can do to help sometimes, which also sucks.

I am going to make rant art about something I noticed and I need you all to engage with it in good faith or so fucking help me.

Did not realize that the background saved transparent. My bad for those who couldn’t see it.

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

Any time fans complain about a character of colour not getting the same attention as white characters there's always at least one jackass crawling out of the woodwork to say "The reason Cool Blackguy doesn't get as much attention as Medio Crewhite is because Cool Blackguy is just objectively less interesting. He just does not have the same narrative reach and complex inner life as Medio Crewhite. In fact, his purpose in the narrative is questionable to begin with. This makes him less appealing to the audience." And because they use the language of literary analysis they always fool people into thinking they're saying something other than 'this character is objectively worse than every single white character in the narrative'. Which is a racist as fuck thing to argue. Lmao.

unfortunately with a popular ship sometimes you can see the vision and understand perfectly why it’s popular and why people are passionate about it, but then the people who like it will make it annoying anyway

and the thing with unpopular ships is that no matter how bizarre they are they’re much less likely to be annoying. the freak who sits in the corner mashing together two side characters who never interact is fundamentally harmless, even charming at times. you might find them laughable but at least they are not choking the life out of all conversation about the story, and that’s commendable

Gunna start making an effort to say "That's life!" About nice things that happen as opposed to just shitty or annoying things. Sky looks pretty on your drive home from work? That's life. Cat falls asleep in your lap? That's life! Stranger compliments your outfit while walking down the street? That's life!! Beautiful trans woman flirts with you at the bar? THATS LIFE BAYYBEEEEE!!!!!

In general it's fucking insane that black characters and other characters of colour need to be twice as well-written to get half the attention from fans as a white guy. It's almost as if 'being twice as good to earn half as much respect' is a well-documented racist pattern indicative of the subconscious disregard white people have for people of colour.

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

"Believe women and the marginalized" does not replace the value of empirical data.

it's also just so shitty being a scientist right now and seeing people shit on research at a time when the federal US government is trying to starve and strangle American research. like. when you say "oh we knew this already, there's no point funding research to prove it" we hear that our work doesn't have value. and if you think scientists aren't hanging out here on tumblr in our free time, well, think again.