9 times out of 10 when someone makes a ‘yall pray for every person’s downfall and want everything to be problematic’ type post it’s coming from someone who has literally no right to say such things. Speaking as a black woman, it’s so frustrating to hear crap like that cause believe me, I’d love to sit back and enjoy media/pop culture freely but nah, anti-blackness and misogynoir always has to randomly jump out lol. The exhaustion and pain that comes from every aspect of society continually shitting on you will never compare to your mild annoyance cause you have to scroll past some discourse posts. I have the right to protect myself. I have the right to speak on things that make me uncomfortable. I have every right to pass on the shit yall love gassing up at the expense of my identity. And yall will deal!
In all seriousness though, as an abuse survivor, I think it’s disgusting for internet Woke slacktivists to weaponize abuse and throw it around like that just for the sake of their fucking morally dogmatic fandom arguments. Abuse shouldn’t be taken lightly like this and it really pisses me off when people be like “oh if you like the show Hannibal you’re an abuse apologist” like come the fuck on you stupid bitches.
something i’ve been thinking about is how the older, more mature, and better adjusted a person is, the less likely they are to be on tumblr, especially the parts of tumblr that revolve around subcultural drama and “discourse.” obviously, there are exceptions to this. but the general trend stands. this applies to many offline scenes as well.
i don’t mean to attack these communities; i’m speaking from experience and in particular, i want to stress that a community in which most people are struggling or in crisis at any given time is not automatically a “bad” community, nor are its members at fault. it makes sense that many people would leave such a community once it is no longer filling a need for them.
this is just something to take into account. look around your scenes at times and notice whether the people you might need most as mentors or role models are being selected out. whether there are people around you who can give you a sense of perspective and a view of how someone like you might be happy and ok in the future. it may not be possible to change this, but at least you can be mindful of the ways in which your community may be showing you a limited range of experience, even when it can feel like the world.
I think this is definitely true for people who engage in discourse, it’s almost like interacting with the people who read and write comments sections of news articles. That type of environment attracts people who like picking fights and arguing. Not sure if this is true of tumblr at large. I think the reason why people are on tumblr has more to do with if they are in a socially isolating environment IRL instead of maturity. Thus, there’s a lot of socially anxious people and autistic people who don’t fit into RL social spaces easily, there’s a lot of people who are cut off from their RL environments due to, say, being in a conservative family or a small town and not being cishet, and there’s a lot of people who are in a stage of transition where they just aren’t socializing as much offline. I’ve noticed I use the site less when I’m in a more social environment compared to when I have, say, just moved to a new place or about to move to a new place. There’s a job I’m applying to in the middle of nowhere in Arizona and I think if I take that I will probably be on here a lot when I’m not camping out in the desert just because I don’t think I would fit in well with the RL environment there. I think if I got a job at another university or a large city instead, I would be on here less once I had found another peer group in addition to my online one.
You mean when you frame Space Nazis in your movies as cool and relatable you get a fan base full of people who harass minorities?
have you ever watched star wars in your life?
also blaming movies for the behavior of racists is ridiculous af.
The writer and director of The Last Jedi has said publicly that he thinks everyone can relate to his favorite Space Nazi (specifically being able to relate to being an angry and tumultuous young man?) but go off, I guess.
protip, @celeritaschronicles: the shitty racist fanboys don’t identify with Kylo Ren, they identify with Luke. they don’t see themselves as glamorous and tragic villains, they see themselves as beleaguered heroes fighting against an evil multicultural empire. They literally think that progressiveness and tolerance is the evil empire, and that they’re the rebels. They identify us SJWs as the evil space Nazis. If you seriously think that these blowhards see themselves as Kylo Ren with his doe eyes and windswept hair, you clearly don’t understand a single thing about how these people think. Go on their message boards. Read their posts. They do not think they’re the space Nazis.
Rian Johnson enjoying the craft of being a writer (yes, we writers enjoy writing villains, a good villain is a LOT of fun to write, that’s just facts) has not one goddamn thing to do with the shitty-ass fanboys who grew up thinking they were Luke (and who are sadly mistaken).
Stop victim blaming the creators and blame the deluded racists.
@bai-xue there were reactionary boycotts of Rogue One and TLJ because they hated that the rebellion was full of women/POC and thought the empire should’ve been the good guys.
@celeritaschronicles authors find writing their villains fun. That’s not unusual
But over the years, as a Black man, I have also discovered just how brazenly toxic some Star Wars fanatics can truly be. It was a sobering reality that once again reared its ugly head when Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran deleted all posts on her Instagram account after reportedly being bombarded for months by racist and misogynistic social media comments, often times targeting her Vietnamese-American heritage. The bubbly newcomer, who starred as the all-heart Rose Tico in 2017’s The Last Jedi, did however leave one telling message: “Afraid, but doing it anyway.”
The bold harassment has spilled over to Twitter. A troll calling himself Supreme Leader Jerry posted a Gif of a young Anakin Skywalker on his pod racer straight from the deservedly maligned Episode 1: The Phantom Menace mouthing the words, “It’s working, It’s working!”
When Last Jedi director Rian Johnson jumped in to take up for Tran (“You know the difference between not liking a movie and hatefully harassing a woman so bad she had to get off social media. And you know which of those two we’re talking about here”), the response from some Star Wars die hards was troubling. “Critique and showing dislike against something is ‘trolling’? Good tactic. Whatever makes you sleep at night,” responded a fan. Nice.
Rush's tumblr archive 