i’m screen capping season 2 to make roleplay icons and I CAN’T GET OVER HOW CUTE HUNK IS WHEN HE DOES THE THING WITH HIS HANDS WHEN HE’S SCARED ITS TOO CUTE
actual magical boy hunk
STOP SCARING HIM HE’S SO SCARED
just kidding keep it up LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS
also his hair looks so flawless in his bubble like super cute A+++ cute fluffy hair hunk
LORD HAVE MERCY ON MY SOUL BECAUSE I AM ASCENDING TO HEAVEN
Bonus bro Lance looking RIDICULOUSLY CUTE WITH HIS SQUID HAT
omg could he get any cuter? probably IM NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON YET
bonus pic of hunk probably wanting to do the hand thing but not scared just quite enough for it so he’s just got them there in front still super cute yes gold stars for hunk!!!!
The fanartist in question is Avimedes, a Taiwanese fanartist who draws primarily for Undertale. On May 10th she posted on her Plurk (warning for images with blood, needles) that she was given cookies as a gift; she ate one and a needle pierced her tongue.
Here is a translation of her post:
Warning, these photos contain a lot of blood.
I’m very sorry that I haven’t had a chance to say my thanks (for the convention?) and I am venting. But I received a needle in my dessert gift from the convention. Thank you, I have one more piercing now.
I am not trying to ask for comfort, I am only trying to tell everyone how serious is this matter, so do not comfort me.
This matter is unable to be investigated and hopeless to be investigated. This matter has made me lost of trust towards something, but from today onwards, I will not be accepting any more handmade food by others.
Any more follow up and notice will be posted(if there’s any), thank you for your attention.
From discussion (Twitter, Reddit) it seems likely that she was given these cookies because she draws Sans/Frisk art, and a “fan” decided that drawing a ship they didn’t like was worthy of attempted murder. Had Avimedes swallowed the needle it could have done considerable and possibly irreparable internal damage.
So I will say this again: DO NOT HARM REAL PEOPLE OVER FICTIONAL ENTITIES. I don’t care what the content is. These purity crusades need to STOP. The amount of vitriol and anger that the anti-shipping circles not only accept but encourage is dangerous, unhealthy, and unless stopped will lead to more people being hurt. There’s already been at least one incident of an artist being harassed into a suicide attempt.
Your moral indignation/righteous anger/upset feelings DO NOT justify the injury or death of other people. You have every right to protect yourself from viewing objectionable content, but that right stops far, far short of hurting other people. Going on these crusades DOES NOT HELP against the sort of issues that are purportedly being championed; it only causes more harm. We need to break away from this mindset, from purity culture, before someone is permanently injured or dies.
FICTION =/= REALITY STOP HURTING PEOPLE
Things like this makes me loose faith in humanity
Hall of Shame
rational people: hey maybe don’t literally attempt murder on someone over shipping drama that’s one of the least okay things you could do with your free time
slime mold at a keyboard: i mean that’s debatable but it really depends on the ship
So yeah blocked those nuts. Just gloss over someone was feed needles over a dang ship
Frisk is a damn kid. – Okay but like isn’t Frisk a child?
No. “Frisk” doesn’t exist. “Frisk” is a fictional character. “Frisk” is not real. Meanwhile the artist is a real human being. These people say: “It’s okay to willingly accept the death of a real human being to ‘protect’ a fictional character, a figment of imagination, and ‘protect’ people who think reality works like fiction.”
They might be in for a shock if they ever try something like this and the justice system doesn’t agree with them and they find themselves in prison.
Antis apparently can’t distinguish between fiction and reality – and they believe nobody else can either. And it’s getting dangerous.
@ anon quod erat demonstrandum
(but you know social justice is 100% gardens of positivity and progress bc how can people claiming to be enlightened, be like, awful)
Someone screenshot that “Why give it to this artist when there’s people out there drawing shotacon?” comment coz I already blocked em but should totally be on the Hall of Shame too
sometimes in my most hopeful moments, I imagine that we could call a truce, where antis can still be obsessed with purity and have circle jerks about how much they hate everything and everyone problematic but just…stop sending death threats or doxxing or doing things that are dangerous to real life humans. basically, “y’all can be jerks but can you be non-violent jerks?” and I imagine that’s a reasonable thing to ask of them.
it’s not. they’re defending an attempt made on a human being’s life because she ships sans and frisk. there is no hope.
Marvel turns their characters into fascists as a cheap attention grab and now that it’s backfired they’re blaming diversity I’m fucking done
This is what comic critiques mean when they say the industry is broken. Trust me, diversity didn’t kill Marvel sales. In previous comments from another Marvel Exec, it was DC’s 2.99 price tag.
There are a lot of factors involved in Marvel’s slow decline in sales and yes, diversity does have something to do with it, but not in the way people think.
Fact is, there’s a quite a few factors involved in Marvel’s declining sales.
First factor, Marvel’s last couple years in PR have been terrible. Everyone has hyper focused on Nick Spencer (understandably so), but it’s not just him nor has it been.
Chelsea Cain was harassed off Twitter for her run of Mockingbird – namely the last issue because of the shirt Bobbi was wearing “Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda”. Bendis told her it “ not comics” (meaning the audience).
Click the links, read the stories and reports, they contain important information that have contributed to the public image of Marvel as a comic book company. One that has shown their “diversity” tends to leave a lot to be desired.
These are just things that have been specifically reported on. This doesn’t also account for Civil War II killing off a black character (Rhodey) to motivate two white characters (Carol and Tony). Something Marvel’s most prominent black writer cautioned against, but was ignored by three white colleagues (two white editors and the white writer). Nor does has it been reported about how Sera, Marvel’s most prominent – only? – trans wlw woc Sera has slowly becoming, lighter, slimmer, before disappearing in recent stories. With her and Angela being separated. Also that a majority of their diverse books – save for those in the World of Wakanda realm – have been helmed by majority or exclusively cis white male teams.
Another factor in Marvel’s declining sales is events. As reported, sales on Marvel comics started declining after Secret Wars, an event that was extended from 6 issues to 8. Other events that have occurred over the last three years: Age of Ultron, AXIS, Standoff, Secret Wars, Battleworld, Civil War II, Monsters Unleashed. These events have typically happened one after the other with little to no breathing room.
Civil War II ended, officially, in January with one final issue – The Oath which foreshadows the upcoming Secret Empire happening this summer. Before that is the current event Monsters Unleashed.
Another factor, Marvel’s overabundance of titles. They’ve released 104 titles in the last two or three years alone. That’s a wildly large amount that of course is going to lead to many cancellations simply because of over-saturation.
Another factor, expense. The first issue of Civil War #0 was 5.99, the following issues were all 4.99. Monsters Unleashed all have a 4.99 price tag. Deadpool #25 was 9.99 with four variant covers included – each for 9.99. Amazing Spider-man #25 was also 9.99. Titles can start at 3.99 and jump to 4.99 without word depending on the issue. Regular Marvel titles are anywhere between 3.99 to 4.99, while tie-ins, crossovers, and events range from 4.99 to 5.99.
If you have Amazing Spider-man, Ms. Marvel, and Nova on your pull a typical week will be a 13 dollars plus tax. During an event due to crossovers the price tags for Ms. Marvel and Nova – typically 3.99 books – can jump to 4.99. Making your weekly total 15 dollars plus tax. This is for one week. And most pull list customers have an average of five titles on their pull list.
Yet another factor, the rebranding. Marvel has gone from Marvel NOW, to All New All Different, to Marvel All New, back to Marvel NOW again in the last four or five years. With each re-brand has come a slew of new #1′s – again with that over saturation – and the cancellations of various titles. This made it difficult for new readers to get into books or back into books.
Yet another factor, was simple over saturation of specific characters or titles. Deadpool’s titles over the last three years have included (that I can remember):
Deadpool Kills Deadpool
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe
Deadpool (solo)
Spider-man/Deadpool
Deadpool & The Mercs for Money
Deadpool Vs. Carnage
Deadpool Vs. X-Force
Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool
Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars
Deadpool vs. Thanos
Deadpool v Gambit
Deadpool Too Soon?
Deadpool Back in Black
Deadpool the Duck
Gwenpool
You might say, hey, doesn’t DC do this with Harley Quinn? And you’d be half-right. Harley Quinn’s titles over the same amount of time:
Harley Quinn (solo)
Harley Quinn and Power Girl
Harley’s Little Black Book
Convergence: Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harley’s
So in the same three years Harley’s had five titles to her name, while Deadpool’s had 15 (fourteen if you don’t want to include Gwenpool). So it’s a problem, but not as bad as Deadpools.
So take all over this, all these different factors that are directly from Marvel and then add in the final factor of competition.
DC’s Rebirth, love it or hate it, has sold very well. The initial sales dominated the summer of 2016. Now they’ve slowed down which was expected at shops. But they’re still doing well as are indie titles which are seeing an increase in monthly sales while dominating trade paperback sales. Image doesn’t have to worry about selling a lot of monthlies of Walking Dead when their trade paperback sales do, consistently, really well. Titles like Paper Girls, and Saga pull in consistently high numbers in trade paperbacks as well.
Comics, unfortunately, have a troubled history that can be traced back to a lot of bad publisher decisions. There’s a reason Marvel claimed bankruptcy in the 90s and had to sell the rights to a lot of their bigger properties. There’s a reason why comics are so insular and isolationist now.
It’s not all Marvel’s fault, it’s the industry as a whole that is still trying to fix itself but has become resistance to change not only on the page but behind the scenes. It’s being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era of fictional storytelling and public consumption and it doesn’t like it. Change is coming, change is happening, but if anything Marvel’s consistent problems over the last few years that have led to a sales decline shouldn’t be reduced down to only “Nazi Cap”.
That’s part of the reason, it’s a piece of the overall puzzle, but it’s not the only reason.
corny but rightfully angry women: This P*ssy Grabs Back
geeks: That Is not correcf,, because according to the Encyclopedia of PBBBPBTPBPPYPBPT
I mean lmao the phrase is violent against trans women and people who are survivors of sexual assault but go awf
it is not cissexist. trump targeted a specific thing among many women and those women who fit the criteria reacted in anger from the widespread sexual violence women have faced for centuries and they are allowed to fight back using imagery of their genitalia which is a site of violence for many women instead of being silent. i understand that it unnerves some survivors me included but they reserve the right to not be respectable when resisting misogynist rhetoric. And that’s the tea on that
“it’s okay to use casually cissexist language when talking about violence against women because many women have vaginas and therefore we’re gonna ignore that misogyny and patriarchy fuck over women regardless of their genitalia” is what I just heard
and I’m not talking about respectability I’m talking about literally thinking of ways to not trigger other survivors in chants against rape culture
but again go awf I guess
I cain’t believe you postmodernist shills have completely lost the ability to contextualize specificity in a way that is historically coherent. Specificity =/= Exclusion. Patriarchy effects all women, yes. Women who have vaginas experience patriarchy in a way that is not unique, but it is specific (and it is specific for women with different genitalia), and one of those facets include violent rhetoric targeted and enacted specifically on their vulvas. The body and the identity exist in a complex relationship that necessitates that we tackle material reality in its many forms. If we are going to actually address violence instead of drowning ourselves in farcical pseudo-intellectual posturing so obtuse as to be defanged and useless as pouring a cup of water on a forrest fire, we need to directly address these specificities.
Again I will say, along with all other women, women with vaginas have to address rhetoric that is violent against their bodies. What next. Are we going to say the term FGM is cissexist too. And as I said before, these women have a right to fight back in a way that is direct. It may be triggering to some survivors and I empathize and they do not have to partake in this form of protest, but these other set of survivors also have a right to fight back against their trauma in an un-respectable way without being silenced. Maybe don’t glean your “politics” exclusively from polemics on tumblr and Huffington Post.
Literally the point of trans feminist politics has to be an embrace of difference and not an erasure of it. Cis women and trans women have different bodies; hell even within each of those groups Bodies vary drastically. We should be able to recognize that difference and talk about the way violence gets mapped into that difference. It’s not transmisogynist to talk about the way the presence of a vagina becomes a sight of misogynist violence as long as we don’t reduce misogynist violence to a phenomena which relates only to the presence of a vagina. See the difference. OP isn’t making that conflation at all.
Also lots of trans women have vaginas so lemony and Beatrice is already beginning with a weirdly false premise of what a trans woman’s body must be.
In response to a really good post by mikeymagee about how slim and generally distasteful the picking are in terms of YJ fic that treats Kaldur like, well, an actual character, I’ve assembled a truncated and annotated rec list of some of the Kaldur fics the Kaldur fandom has produced over the years.
My personal favorite YJ author and good friend, Shade’s Ninde, is basically the Captain of the USS Kaldur Deserves Better. You can find all of her fichere, but below are a few of my personal favorites:
(utterly adorable fic about team mates being good to one another)
A Sacrifice To The Old Gods: Kaldur is perfectly fine with dying for the cause. It’s what happens after that worries him. Or, Kaldur is injured, delirious, and convinced that the gods are judging him for his crimes. (It’s honestly a crime that I didn’t include this earlier–a very touching, heartbreaking look at the consequences of Kaldur’s actions during Invasion in a timeline where he had to make the call to end the whole thing on the early side. Focuses a lot on how the people who love Kaldur react to the things he did to himself.)
If you have a fic in mind–especially your own work!!!–that you don’t see on this list, feel free to reply or message me with a link and I’ll put it up. Got it?
Look. I get wanting Bluepulse to be canon! I’d love Bluepulse to be canon, as long as its kept appropriate to the fact that Bart, when the show ended, was twelve years old.
Time skip to where the three year age gap between him and Jaime is less creepy? That’d be GREAT. If not though, I really hope you guys don’t expect to see any action beyond some hand holding and the relatively chaste kissing like what Zatanna and Robin got up to @ the end of Season 1. Because, again–Bart is twelve.
Like. Y’all. I love Bart. I love Jaime. I would love to have all three of them be queer. Hell, I’d love for the whole fucking cast of Season 3 to be queer. Bart and/or Jaime being one of the queer characters in YJ is not what I have an issue with.
But this fandom’s propensity to shove Kaldur aside–which we all know is for racial reasons, come on, don’t even start to front–needs to stop.
I think the reason people focus more on bluepulse is because of a few more reasons than just race. For one, even though Bart is white, Jaime is Hispanic. Furthermore, the interactions between them throughout the series and the relationships growth as a whole makes a relationship between them all the more intriguing to watch, as well as clue the viewer in that there might be something more between them. Aqualad had an unrequited crush in season one, who was female and who only showed up once, and didn’t have a love interest in season 2, so the only way anyone would suspect him of being queer is if you A. Have a twitter, B. Follow Greg Weisman, and C. Was able to spot this brief tweet.
I understand your frustration, and I’m very much open to being called out on an unknown prejudice, but seeing as how there’s no one that I really ship Kalder with, and again the fact that there is a non-white person in bluepulse, I don’t appreciate myself or any other members of the fandom being called racist.
I still hope you find some awesome Kaldur fan art though!
Here’s the thing.
I’m not calling y’all racist for liking Bluepulse.
I am calling out the racially motivated, consistent trend in this fandom of ignoring BLACK characters.
Actually, its a tendency, a consistent tendency, to ignore any POC character who isn’t in a relationship or perceived to be in a relationship with a white character. Especially its black characters.
Still, not calling y’all racist.
What I’m asking for is for the fandom to self examine why it is that they are focusing on these two characters, neither of whom have been hinted ANYWHERE to be gay, and ignoring the one character we DO have who has been hinted to be queer and who also, incidentally, has a gay comic counterpart.
Also, question for you: Jaime was indicated, in canon, as having an unrequited attraction with Wonder Girl. Why is it that Kaldur’s unrequited crush is enough to, in your mind, disqualify him, while Jaime’s unrequited crush is not?
Listen if you’re for the liberation of Palestine that’s gr9 but I really think we should not be calling that anti-Zionism because anti-zionist is how neo-nazis describe themselves depending on the situation. being pro-Palestine and Jewish has put me (several times) in the position of having to call myself an anti-zionist jew and I cannot think of any situation that has made me more uncomfortable tbh. Let’s maybe call ourselves pro-Palestine so that Jews don’t have to describe themselves using the same language that actual nazis use
I can sympathize, and I think these situations can sometimes be navigated using different language as well. I have one question though. What if you’re not just pro-Palestine, and you actively want to suppress Zionism? Palestinians aren’t the only victims of Zionist political ideology, so ‘pro-Palestine’ can’t adequately replace what is meant by ‘anti-Zionism.’ Further, I don’t think a ‘guilt by association’ fallacy regarding this term is feasible. Neo-Nazis may also describe themselves as ‘pro-worker,’ but there is a distinct difference between for example a liberal claiming to be ‘pro-worker’ and a fascist claiming to be ‘pro-worker.’ In situations where Palestine is specifically concerned, I agree we can just say ‘pro-Palestine,’ but it can’t be a replacement for ‘anti-Zionism’ entirely.
I would say let us Jews worry about that for the time being.
I understand and I’m committed to suppressing anti-Semitism. At the same time, an issue of this magnitude can’t simply be swept aside using identity politics as justification. A person who’s rightfully opposed to Zionism can’t replace that term with ‘pro-Palestine’ all the time, because it doesn’t get the same message across, in addition to what I mentioned in the previous post. I am not saying you or any another person must describe themselves as ‘anti-Zionist,’ but the original post presents a serious conundrum for people who rightfully decide to.
Also “pro Palestine” is a label used a lot by liberal Zionists who are also against the label anti Zionist.
For both the op @wtfantisjws and @welfare-queen to be pro-Palestine is to be anti Zionist, because you can not be pro-Palestine without also wishing to completely dismantle the state of Israel which was put into place by means of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and land theft from Palestinians in fulfillment of the ideals of Zionism.
And as @daloy-politsey pointed out, you can not decouple the term anti-Zionist from the term pro-Palestine any more than you can decouple anti-Israel and pro-Palestine, otherwise you will get people who claim to be pro-Palestine but are still ok with committing massive harm, murder, and continued injustice to Palestinians as liberal Zionists.
@wtfantisjws I do get what you mean about being uncomfortable with certain words because they have become associated with certain groups of people who are vile. I make the same argument about the word Zionism and how it is unreclaimable as it is associated so heavily with people responsible for genocide against my people, which is why I cringe whenever I see anyone trying to make the word Zionism more ok by pretending there are degrees of separation between it and its role in my peoples genocide, ignoring the fact that the creator of modern zionism as well as the man who implemented its practice in Palestine years later were both totally chill with the concept of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous people there.
I think that especially given your reason, using anti-Israel as a substitute for anti-Zionist should be good, this is just my opinion for you and people who are feeling similarly uncomfortable due to these vile people, though and I can’t speak for how other will think of it. I would also add that literally anything we use to describe ourselves in the struggle for liberation of Palestine and the disillusion of Israel is going to be appropriated by these people and used to cover their antisemitism.
It’s like @welfare-queen said, these people could describe themselves as anything, but it’s not representative of the movement they claim to be part of for the sake of the image it provides. These types don’t give a damn about Palestinians, many people don’t, they just use us and our movements as an excuse to hate Jewish people, so whatever we call ourselves, how ever we describe our movement, they will steal it and try to use it as a mask and the only way to prevent them from doing this would be to give up on Palestine and not have any more movements for liberation, which will never be an option.
The responsibility then lies with Palestinians, but especially with our allies in these movements, to call out any instance that we see of antisemitism by people within the movement for liberation, or outside of it but who like to use our words. It has to be clear that from every stand point that it is not ok to be antisemitic and claim to support Palestine, it has to be clear that you can not support Palestine while being antisemitic.
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