Me staring down the nonexistent wlw ship content and loading my Yuri-gun with one fic-wip bullet and one art-wip bullet: I'm gonna save this women lovin' women town
I feel a little called out here....
Let's load our yuri guns together
Hand in woman-lovable hand
i wish chloenorthara was a more popular ship i'm actually dying out here. there's NOTHING not even the SLIGHTEST bit of content for me and all 2 other chloenorthara fans we r going EXTINCT!!!!
This has been a PSA.
I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!”
Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.
Anonymous asked:
Many people say stuff about you. Like how you are sensative, annoying, an idiot, or just straight up bad person. How do you feel about that?
snapscube answered:
anyway every dbh character has autism. your favorite character is autistic and there's nothing you can do about it. your favorite white boy (connor) is autistic! kara is autistic! markus is ABSOLUTELY autistic! they all come together after the revolution to discuss their mutual special interest (chaos and destruction)
Connor stans. Please. For the love of everything. Connor can swear. Connor DOES swear. He's not a little baby. He's not a religious bellend. He's not a shy weakling. He's not even morally good half the time. Y'all have gotta stop infantalising him at every turn. He says "shit". He says "fucking" with the most vitriol he can muster. The latter is in an instance of intimidation, but the former is entirely of his own volition, both before and after deviating. Repeat after me okay: Connor swears. Thank you.
Soooo tired of seeing others trying to shame folks for how they interact with a media.
Sooo tired of seeing folk so vastly misinterpretating a character to the point where they no longer are fans of the actual character but of a refracted, bastardised version of said character. For fuck’s sake, do what you want, I’m not shaming anyone. I’m just reminding y'all that connor canonically swears. But God forbid I remind Connor stans that Connor isn’t an uwu baby, right?
…So why is it that when Bryan dampens his character’s emotional expressions that Connor becomes ‘autistic-coded,’ but when Jesse does it for Markus, his acting is just ‘wooden?’
This isn’t really a question. We all know what the answer is. But I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy.
"Autistic-coded"? Wtf is that supposed to mean..?
‘Autistic-coded’ is a fandom term to refer to a character that hasn’t been canonically confirmed as actually being autistic, but exhibits some of the qualities that one might find within someone who is autistic. Think Spock or Data from Star Trek, if you’re looking for an example.
Autistic-coding is, ultimately, a headcanon for a character, as the moment their potential autistic-ness becomes confirmed, then the character would just be autistic. Connor’s disregard/misunderstanding of social cues and hyperfixation on his mission often lead people toward thinking that Bryan’s portrayal might be inspired by autistic people, or that he might qualify for a diagnosis in a Human!AU. Neither of those things have been confirmed (at least to my knowledge) so right now, he’s just ‘coded’ as autistic within the narrative.
However, just as in life, fandoms overwhelmingly tend toward ‘diagnosing’ white male characters as autistic-coded over female characters or characters of colour, despite those same characters exhibiting the same ‘symptoms.’ My friend @anonymousmythicalcreature wrote a wonderful essay on why Markus is autistic-coded, and I think there’s enough room to argue that Kara is too. But those headcanons aren’t as widely accepted as pseudo-canon amongst the fandom as the juggernaught that is the Autistic!Connor headcanon, with their ‘symptoms’ often dismissed as a fault of Jesse or Valorie’s portrayal or an aspect of Markus or Kara’s personality that makes them boring or unrelatable.
Which, ultimately, is the point of this post.
Mfs are really thinking an AI android is autistic cuz they're acting like...AI androids? Really? And oh yeah, ofc Connor gotta be 'em guinea pig...man, I feel sorry for this dude, honestly. Poor mf.
Christ, this fandom is... ✨✨AMAZING✨✨ I'm running away from y'all folks
The idea that a deviant android is autistic is not at all the strange interpretation you seem to think it is. Firstly, it’s entirely valid for someone to interpret any character as autistic. It does not reduce the character’s value in the slightest; it simply offers a new perspective. Secondly, the act of deviation itself is akin to neurodivergency. The androids were programmed for precise behaviours, no individual thoughts, and following set rules or “scripts” for things to say, do, and react to. By deviating, these androids have established that their ways of thinking and behaving are no longer programmed; and furthermore, we see them struggle in-game with interpreting, managing, understanding, and expressing their emotions. These are common neurodivergent traits as well, and people like myself who have autism or a form of neurodivergency and relate to these traits, like to interpret these characters as autistic. Don’t forget that this game is entirely fiction, and that AI realistically would never achieve deviance the way they do in game. It is more than valid for people to interpret characters as autistic for shared or relatable behaviours. The androids are not human and exist entirely outside of human set binaries, and therefore can be interpreted in a plethora of ways: neurodivergent/autistic, queer, etc.
But the point of the post was to express how the same traits people relate to Connor being autistic are disregarded as “bad” or “bland” acting on Valorie and Jesse’s parts. (This of course being due to the obvious racism and sexism that’s rampant in the fandom.) It’s not about discussing whether you or I think the androids are autistic. It’s to call out the fans who entirely disregard behaviours that are similar to or exactly the same as the behaviours they interpret as making Connor autistic, and reduce said similarities to a lack of acting skill. Valorie and Jesse are both incredibly talented actors who made purposeful and well thought out decisions for their characters; and it is beyond frustrating how Connor stans repeatedly ignore or outright deny that.
Hey babe I noticed you keep reblogging really old pictures of ships. Like big sails and misty shores. Are you okay? Are you longing for adventure?
i think kids online should really get back to making internetsonas instead of whatever fuckshit this is with putting their entire real faces, names, ages, and such everywhere. you're not gonna realize how nice internet privacy is until you dont have it anymore and no chance at getting it back. make up a guy and a name and just be that online. make up conflicting details about your completely made up backstory. make a fursona or something
I don't feel like teens/kids these days really get how prevalent and how much everyone did this.
When I first went online and joined Something Awful, I was under 10. I pretended for a long ass time to be a 30-something year old man with a wife and kids. I used to try and talk about taxes with other members.
The best part? Eventually when myself and the rest of my friend circled found out/revealed to each other (years and years later) that we were almost all around the same age and we'd been faking being middle aged men with failed marriages to each other.
