get fuckig melted you ceviche piece of shit

I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist

i don't even gaf about shipping discourse because i'm a big boy and a bad person for other worse reasons but if i can be real for a moment "proship DNI" in bio means nothing to me. if you want to keep me out you're going to need to line your blog with salt and iron or rat poison or something.

actually if i were to be less flippant and more brutally honest with you all my disdain for it stems from how much of it is just a thinly veiled excuse for people to fight about their fictional relationship preferences or simply for the sake of arguing without any investment in the reality of what they're claiming to represent and then take pride in their empty, performative activism. i still recommend the rat poison though.

girl help they are calling me a pedophile sympathiser in the notes for trying to point out that being disgusted by something is not the same as meaningfully working to prevent and safeguard against it by critically engaging with the complex reality of it. can i please just have the rat poison.

i'm very pro using fiction to explore and start conversations about sexual violence - because if we can't even get past that hurdle in hypothetical situations what hope is there - but i won't lie the fan response to mouthwashing does weigh on me like six feet of hard-packed dirt weighs on a grave

like i'll admit it's an understandable kneejerk reaction, but it does feel some kind of way to have indisputable evidence of the fact that if you confront people with something uncomfortable with no easy answers even in the realm of the purely hypothetical they will collectively do everything in their power to make it disappear as fast as possible

hmm, how to say this in a way that doesn't accidentally and incorrectly convey that I'm on any various Mad At Someone islands... it is completely #validandreal to be put off by and feel uncomfortable about discussions of sexual violence subtext in fiction, it takes no stretch of the imagination to figure out why it's not to everybody's taste, That's Fine, not everything is for everyone, I'm not making rounds on people's blogs to say Engage With This Abuse Allegory Or Perish. I also think it's completely fair to not want to engage with a lens because it paints a character you like and/or relate to as metaphorically sexually abusive and it doesn't feel good to contemplate that, you get to think about what ever you want in your own blessèd mind and you don't have to bring something into your sandbox if you don't find it fun to play with. what I think is a problem is having that subjective discomfort reaction to sexual violence subtext and then using that discomfort by itself to argue that the reading is invalid and that the people talking about it are just making craaaazy reaches. not enjoying a line of thought is fine, thinking that a particular vein of analysis doesn't hold up to strong counterarguments is fine, saying "I don't like thinking about this so it's wrong and everyone should stop talking about it" is a whole different thing and just further taboos and stigmatizes conversations about sexual violence even in fictional and abstract contexts.

and even beyond the "further stigmatizes talking about sexual violence" thing, it's also simply not good analytical practice. if your goal is fully considered litcrit rather than playing in a sandbox then you cannot dismiss something as invalid just because the vibes are off. usually if a take's vibes are off but you can't pinpoint any actual flaws in its argument then that's a flag that you should focus on that area and figure out what the text is doing to make you uncomfortable, the paper cuts are almost always markers of the really interesting stuff.

Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.

I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad. 

sorry i hope it is not too shocking and unforgivable that i want him bleeding and dying on it

meow

need to draw the bishops more. especially heket. for lesbian reasons