#dashingdiscourse

this comic by a queer artist from over a decade ago somehow got the most annoying people on bluesky to create discourse about it and it's fascinating, and while it annoyed me, after sleeping on it it I'm still mad

''what does asexual who may not appear ace mean' look up literally anything written by yasmin benoit, one of the most famous ace people atm who is a queer activist and black woman who has to constantly reaffirm her asexuality due to how she dresses

woman who lives in the second most populated city of a blue state ''i just don't think people in the closet have solidarity for pride', you're just celebrating remaining within the hierarchy and framework hegemony culture offer us'

but sure, the best way to encourage people to come out the closet, is affirming they they don't belong, and the best way to honor people who never could come out is to alienate them from their would-be peers

"erm, what does not liking labels mean? clearly the cross means the person in the photo is secretely a christofascist bigot" labels are a way to find commonality in the queer experience but no one is obligated to neatly define their queerness through one, and even if this person IS religious, you're literally just allowed to be religious and queer

just the most utter bad faith reading of a comic about showing support to people who aren't in the same place as you are, but oh, sorry it put a chip on your shoulder

Sorry, I woke up for something important that made me mildly upset, and got reminded of this, it's so fucking stupid, because it obfuscates any actual discussion of what "icky" is because if you don't know op's whole thing is just being "freaky incest girl" you get to have the moral high ground of the other obfuscation of "erm, being mean is bad ok", as if there aren't one hundred percent instances where the right thing to do IS to point out someone is a danger, post PROOF of them being a danger, and get them out of public spaces, like, oh, the obvious fucking example of racist and bigots who love the exact same stuff you do and DO get called out so they have less social power to continue spreading the harm they do, but oooooh because you're doing it in a "queer and kinky" way, you're suddenly "based" and "epic", here's your 4000 notes and vague posts and what have you because your "niche and transgressive" art is one of the most popular and conservative expressions of sexuality since the age of fucking pornhub categories

Every fucking post like this is always about being as vague as fucking possible until you actually press literally anyone who fucking posts about it and it always ends up stemming back to "erm, sweety, you need to accept my heckin chungus incest, lolicon rapeplay art as queer liberation, you're not a *real* trans woman if you don't enjoy me posting abotu my siscon fetish every five fucking seconds", and they cannot even FATHOM that maybe the stuff you posts makes people not want to fucking interact with you, and will have them talk to other people who ALSO don't want to fucking interact with you based on the same critiera, AND THAT THAT ISN'T FUCKING CENSORSHIP WHEN YOU ARE BEING OSTRACIZED BY YOUR PEERS

the whole point of the ancestors is that they're vagure reflections of the characters they are in the other universe while being an influence on their present counterpart

"why wasn't beforan aradia an archeologist" cause that's alternia's aradia's thing

you are just asking for aradia again

you hear about an artist who draws porn of a random teenage girl just because she has a viral tiktok, and said teenage girl even finds out about it and says how it negatively affected her, but if you say "hey, maybe we should call out this artist for drawing something messed up" some people legitimately think that makes you a fascist

and of course the black elephant in the room of raceplay that no one ever wants to bring up because almost every time no one's qualified due to almost every person in the conversation being white/non-black, or elements of how it feeds into racism are so miasmic that people don't even see it

There's a stark difference between "artistic andrea should be able to draw her weird albeit harmless big booby anime oc in peace" and "no rules, no laws, no decorum, if you think serial sexual harasser sasha is a danger to online circles, you're the same as an ICE agent/supporter"

Why it was so important to talk to the diamonds instead of just completely destroy or imprison them

the main focus also being the various types of grief the diamonds were going through and how the story was also about that

all the behind the scenes issues with steven universe not being allowed to last as long as it really wanted

but one video's a tiktok that's sort of taking a potshot, while the other is a 20 minute video bringing it up slightly, so you can't really expect these tangents to be all that in depth, but it still a little annoying

oh this is a good one

But because the *actual* thing the games are about is the struggles of a dysfunctional family and not the people they're in charge of or their history beyond that, those themes get brought up and juggled around but aren't really meant to be anything more than set dressing

Fundamentally, this is a story about "fixing a broken family" without really tackling *why* it's broken, *who* broke what, and also *who* is affected due to the fact this isn't just a random family but literal gods whose conflict lead to ruined cities and poisoned lands

The main person I'm watching play the game hasn't gotten to the "true ending" yet, so I'll see how it actually goes, but I can understand how the main complaint about the ending happened considering how it seems they're treating this "minor" part of the plot

This is why some people get hung up on moirals being "a type of romance" because "look, the text says it's a romance, let homies kiss homies" without reading further but also get super mad if you even hint that it could be platonic (or try to stress that everything in non-platonic relationships can be done platonically) even though the text literally says it's also platonic right afterwards