People constantly misinterpreting my icon is not a problem with my icon. The problem is that there are too many dark-haired men. Those guys all need to get weirder.

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and he looked like a bootlicker doing it

#fma #omg I forgot about the firetruck he did do that. I need to rewatch fmab it's been a few years

Listen I like your spirit I like your vibe but there was no firetruck. I genuinely cannot overstate how much it very much was a literal ice cream truck

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It looked like this and it was full of 4 tons of military weaponry.

#wait he literally overthrew the government from that ice cream truck HOW does that make him look like a bootlicker bdjsbfjsbfbdnf #fma

because he looks the fuck like this

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appearance of a guy who'd swallow a boot whole if he could /affectionate /bullying /he's playing the long con /I'd push him down the stairs

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

yes that's how confirmation bias works

People get their panties up in a twist about astrology because they think it’s people shoving themselves into boxes that are not pre-existing.

Most people who like astrology like it because it reflects things about themselves that they relate to that they have difficulty vocalizing themselves. And things like doing a chart reading can allow you to gaze deeply into yourself

yes that's how confirmation bias works

#wait wasn't that also OP?#is this the third such post now?#we shouldn't be pissing on the poor at all#“ok so we should only piss on the poor a little when there's no toilets free”

It's more than three. I've lost count but this is at least the fourth.

#hi op of the Taylor Swift isn't bisexual there are many bisexual pop girlies post

OP what wizard did you cut off in traffic to get cursed like this

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

Prevsie I'm not gonna lie you might actually have a point with this. Give yourself some credit!

The premise of the post is flawed. Not only is it very difficult to prove such a statement, but what evidence there is suggests the OP is completely wrong.

Olderthannetfic and friends did some stat exploring and, yeah, no. If anything it looks like fics with graphic depictions of violence are taking up a higher proportion of fics than they used to.

There is a real trend towards fascist garbage in culture generally, but there isn't really any evidence for the claim made by op.

sorry to call you out but i think your tags are too important not to be seen as well

Saw this post and I had to go in the notes to see if anybody actually investigated.

what y'all are talking about in regards to pastoralism and coffee shop AUs is like. The broad concept of romanticizing things or of presenting an idealized version of them.

And like, yeah, fascists definitely romanticize some things, but when talking about fascism we gotta delve a little deeper than "this thing has a similar 'feeling' to this other thing, so therefore they must have similar underlying ideologies."

But more to the point, I don't know that there is a shift toward fluffy or escapist stories.

One comment on the linked post, though- the increase in Whump fics may be partially attributable to "whump" becoming a more common terminology for "characters get hurt" fic.

Back when I FIRST was active in fandom, people didn't really say "whump" and it was more common to say "hurt/comfort," which is a subgenre where the Character gets hurt and someone takes care of them or comforts them.

It seems like that designation has been mostly replaced by Whump, which denotes the "hurt" part without comment on whether comfort occurs or not.

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

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Did anyone tell Ford

#I refuse to believe dipper wouldn’t join in to rewatch lotr with Stanford without a compelling reason#unless that panel is Ford already rewatching tags by @allkindsoffandomshere

Don't worry Dipper's there! he was just getting them snacks <3 (He didn't have the heart to ask Ford to pause.)

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Dipper absolutely tries to do the obligatory 'he broke his toe here' bit. (Ford let's Dipper explain it on their rewatch. But first watch is for maximum focus)

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I fear I may be cooking here- Family Movie Night!

They join part way through the watch marathon but before long Stan has conked out. Mabel is more invested and a pro at grabbing new snacks

murray mag'nesson & azune nayar i love you. please never change💜

Y'all ever think about the way video game bosses are designed to lose? How the bombastic soundtracks, the impressive displays of villainy, the teeth-rattling power of their attacks, are at once engineered not just to sell you on how unfathomably strong and vile they are, but also to make the player's inevitable victory all the sweeter?

Viewed this way, a boss battle is more like a choreographed dance - they call, you respond and counter-call. The trick is to learn the steps - once you know where to move, when to strike, when to defend and how to best allocate your resources, victory is not just achievable but actually almost impossible to avoid. You cannot help but recite the winning plays, over and again, because that is what the dance demands of you both - and is there not a savage sort of beauty in such a thing?

Is it any wonder then that we look back on these bosses so fondly, almost as if they were old friends? We danced together once, and oh what fun we had while doing it!