it takes more power to build than to burn

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

I’ve been spending so much time in fandom these past few years in large part to cope with having lost a lot of friends when I left an abusive relationship and people either ignored that that’s what had happened despite clear evidence right in front of them, didn’t believe me when I directly told them what happened, or actively supported my abuser despite being aware of lots of clear and painful evidence about which side of a harmful power dynamic they were on. Matthias Schoenaerts, some dude I don’t know but who plays a character who means a lot to me, liking one instagram post by somebody he’s apparently long-time friends with, who’s been known for decades to be a serial abuser, when the post is repeating things people in my real life have said to me about my abuser — this is, shall we say, not good for me.

I don’t need my fandom friends to stop making or interacting with content about him, but I do need y'all to respect that for my basic well-being I’m gonna have to do that, at very least for a good long while. I’d appreciate it so much if y'all would tag things you post about him so I don’t have to see it.

It’s so human to do something because you’re focused on supporting your friend that you’re not thinking about how that action could be harmful to other people. Maybe he’ll look back on this and regret it, maybe even publicly apologize and distance himself from this serial abuser he’s been friends with. A big part of why I let myself develop parasocial feelings about this person was how many of the women he’s worked with talk about him as a thoughtful and non-creepy coworker. But then again, like a week ago when I was projecting my transmasc feels onto this man, I had to caveat the post with a list of many times he’s played a rapist or other kind of abuser. Who the fuck knows. I don’t know why actors take particular roles and I’m not interested in psychoanalyzing a stranger. It would be very costly for me to give this stranger the benefit of the doubt about something that would’ve cost him so little to fucking think about the significance of and then choose not to do.

It just sucks that I can’t have fandom as an escape because we live in a rape culture. It sucks that this happened right before 2O2G filming starts and it’ll probably steal from me what could’ve been such a fun time of screaming and movie speculation. This is why I, a white person, will never stop talking about racism in fandom until racism in fandom stops being a thing. We ought to be able to find joy in our hobbies, for fuck’s sake, without getting randomly punched in the face by bullshit like this.

Pinned Post i'm so tired matthias schoenaerts rape culture pls don't rebagel
silentwalrus1
chimaerakitten

One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.

Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”

Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.

ocean-again

person who knows how logistical things works has picked up the cannon, hefted it thoughtfully, and put a single chalk mark precisely on the problem.

reporting for duty 🫡
cactusdragon517
teaboot

I genuinely believe that the new SW trilogy wouldn’t have flopped out into irrelevance like it did if they hadn’t dumped Finn on the side of the freeway like a new pet rabbit the week after easter

teaboot

Anyway in my heart Finn became a Jedi alongside Rey and inspired a Stormtrooper insurrection and Kyle Ron went back to his mom like he should have day fucking one and that angry redhead dude blew up with the star destroyer and Poe got to make it happen and at the end Rey doesn’t give a shit who her bitch ass non-palpatine parents might have been because she gets her new family like she needed and palpatine stays dead at the bottom of his musty hole like he should have and Finn and Poe give each other approximately 130% the amount of lingering meaningful looks and then one of their run-together-to-reunite moments results in a heat-of-the-moment make out like it should have and Luke and Leia meet in person a minimum of once so she can sibling slap him at least once for being a useless dramatic old hermit for a billion years and tell him to get the Chanel boots back on and stop being a sad hobo and then for no reason at all there is an ewok style moon of Endor forest party at the end like God intended

star wars
blackestglass
apolladay

Have you ever needed an interpreter?

Yes, as a worker (what's your job?)

Yes, I didn't speak the language

I am an interpreter (hi colleague)

bald/nuances/results/tags

once upon a time i got to work on a super cool bilingual grassroots lobbying campaign long ago when immigration reform was something we might have been able to pass through congress maybe someday we'll get back to that place of hope again anyway the project was so cool and i got to work with lots of monolingual spanish speakers despite my pathetic high school spanish