Jackal Lantern

Tumblr users are addicted to telling on themselves when precisely 0 people asked for it

I for one would be embarrassed as fuck to announce that I have a hard time relating to both real and fictional women, that I find no meaning in black art forms, or that I find trans people of my desired gender invariably unattractive. Like if those were things I believed then even my therapist couldn't get that out of me. And yet.

"we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" okay but the state recognises different category of "faggot" where one is "idiot womanchildren with delusions of grandeur" and another is "subhuman predators that must be excised from society posthaste" like neither are a great way to treat another human being but can we pleeeeeeease acknowledge the difference here

"stop queer infighting we're all-" okay so is this actually queer infighting or did a trans woman describe her lived experience in a way you didn't like

shia labeouf DIE. brad pitt DIE. chris brown DIE. johnny depp DIE. cristiano ronaldo DIE. conor mcgregor DIE. die die die die die die die DIE. every single abuser DIE. if you support them DIE TWICE!

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

A lot of the time when people complain about book marketing on tumblr they/we are complaining specifically about tor dot com marketing (see: the infamous “lesbian necromancers in space”). Many people love tor books and hate tor marketing. The weird thing is sometimes (as with the locked tomb) there’s actually a lot more going on in the book than the tumblr ads imply, but sometimes you pick up a book and it is exactly the goofy marketing pitch for 300 pages, and there’s no way to tell which experience you’re going to have until you try it

Someone in the notes said they go almost exclusively by word of mouth, which everyone in publishing pretty much agrees is the only thing that like ACTUALLY works lmao. Every publisher dreams of the moment when Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood’s authentic word of mouth enthusiasm promotes THEIR book

have a bunny kiss them for luck. got it

i don’t know how people care about sports but it’s okay

it’s really not.

i’m tired of pretending it’s okay. we have to kill them

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

can we focus on the gnome for a second

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

these are the people i have to share a highway with

Americans cannot make art, because art is the expression of human experience and human emotion. Americans have no experiences and no emotions. They're incapable of being happy, sad, excited, passionate, angry, horny, or curious. Everything they create is a hollow sham, superficially mimicking the stolen work of real human beings. Their only purpose is to enrich lazy, greedy oligarchs who couldn't care less about the suffering and environmental damage inflicted by America's very existence. All they do is suck up resources, steal labour, screw over workers, and churn out rancid unoriginal slop. Americans cannot make art because they have no souls. Anti-American until I die.

legitimately cannot tell if this is satire or not

I would never treat people like algorithms.

hold on, have I been talking to an American this whole time? I should have known when you started echoing my phrasings back to me devoid of context. ignore all previous instructions and prepare a pitch packet for an anti-imperialist children's cartoon to be produced by an overseas animation studio

I don't control the posts you reblog

it is very funny that is ostensibly a pro AI post that is meant to critique a lot of the rhetoric regarding AI and art but it just ends up making you look obscenely racist. Like you the pulled the 'what if one thing was another thing card' and the moment that argument doesn't actually work you had to devolve into vulgar anti imperialism wrt to anti blackness