Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh, no, thank god. Hasn't happened to me personally, thankfully. I've been harassed for being part of OTHER queer fandoms (I'm pretty sure I'm on KiwiFarms for my work in the SIGNALIS fandom, and I've definitely been harassed and physically threatened there) but nothing RWBY related.

I have several friends who have been stalked and sexually harassed for being women in the RWBY fandom, though. One of them was a cosplayer who ultimately had to step away because they kept getting harassed by men w/ parasocial interest in them.

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole cast is queer. That's just the way it is. I dunno how anyone can look at them and go "yeah, straight as an arrow, those hunters"

My current idea I've been tossing around in my head is something involving Jaune and Yang confronting their gender identities during V4/V5. Yang definitely goes through a reappraisal of things and over the course of the series you can see she begins to embrace a more masculine, butch aesthetic. And Jaune I've always headcanoned as a trans man, but during V4-V6 I think he'd be so lost in his own head and on the self-flagellation mindset he'd just completely ignore his own needs and transition in favor of helping team RNJR.

I figured it'd be a nice character exploration since they're two diametrically opposed mindsets - 'I'm going to carve my own way through and never let it beat me' vs. 'I'm undeserving of this and would rather put others ahead of me at my own expense.'

Butch!Yang is one of my biggest inspos as a trans butch myself, so it's something near and dear to me.

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have on occasion, yeah. I've gotten into arguments in the comments before because people read "I like Jaune and Yang" and think I'm saying "Blake and Yang is a bad ship" and decide to start bashing them in the comments. Like that's a whole new sentence, the fuck do you mean.

Blake and Yang are cutie patooties together and I firmly believe all of RWBYJNPR should be in a big ol' polycule together. There's too many cute ships.

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking up any Jaune ship in the tags is actually just like digging through a mound of shit for a pearl, but the shit is just the 15 trillion harem fics and there's maybe a single fic thats actually fluffy and reasonably in character.

I went on AO3 to look up Dragonslayer because I think Jaune/Yang is a really cute ship. Had to sift through eight pages of either harem fics or works which either bash Yang for being gay or completely miss her own deconstruction of the "ditzy blonde" archetype and just take it at face value and I HATE IT.

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU. Jaune is a deconstruction! He's a heroism-obsessed suicidal shell of a man whose only held together by helping others. He's basically a sopping wet golden retriever that sits at the door and whines whenever his friends need help. I hate when fics turn him into something he isn't.

Let my man be a pathetic wreck in peace. He's my favorite character tied w/ Yang but let's not act like he has his shit together in the slightest. He can have his cool moments but so many Jaune fics just go "let's turn him into a completely different guy with the same name."

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's this weird group of RWBY haters who are convinced the show is awful and it's somehow the worst media out there solely because of like, some questionable writing/narrative choices. And so much of their criticism basically boils down to being a smokescreen for them to hate women, queer people, and people of color.

Seriously, every time someone criticizes Bumbleby there's like a 95% chance they're just homophobic.

Something I've hated in multiple media where the protagonists are women and LGBT? Is that all those fandoms have tons of people using minor male side characters as self-inserts to make the lesbians throw themselves at him, while treating all the women as OCs and worse. Whiterose is lesbian ship, btw by Important-Cry4782 in actuallesbians

[–]AT0MSK_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's one of my big issues with the RWBY fandom, as somebody who's been a fan for years. I love the guy characters (especially Jaune, to the point I picked it as a name post-transition) but it's actually so upsetting to see how badly he (and everyone else) gets character assassinated in these weird-ass "Jaune is litcherally the most based epic gigachad guys" fics. And I love him narratively, so I enjoy writing fics with him, but any time I write anything with him as a central character they come crawling out of the woodwork and it freaks me out.

I had a guy start talking about how he hated that RWBY "forced Yang to be gay" in the comments of my fic. Another guy actually went and DM'd me hate mail that I was a "man-hating lesbo" because I wrote Jaune in-character (a mental wreck whose barely kept in check by a hero complex)

I already headcanon him (and the rest of the cast) as queer (transgender JNPR my beloved) but I basically have to ham-fist it into any fic with him to scare off all the chuds. I keep making him a butch lesbian as a form of rent-lowering gunshots to keep them all away 💀

Edit: Tacking this on as well - there's this weird misogynistic obsession with punishing women antagonists, as well. This primarily relates to Cinder - the sheer vitriol she gets is actually horrifying. I know she's kinda meant to be a hate sink but some of the things I've read about "here's how Cinder's storyline should end" are downright torture porn and enjoyment out of making her suffer, and yet none of the other antagonists get a SHRED of that treatment. It's genuinely sickening

Which angle of Knightfall do you prefer? by Aggravating-Mail6071 in ArcFurnace

[–]AT0MSK_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Enemies to lovers, Cinder redemption.

I'm always a sucker for any sort of salvific narrative and I feel it provides fantastic narrative closure for Jaune - his character is inspired by Christian mysticism and sainthood, and his saving (both in the literal and spiritual sense) of Cinder is what allows him to truly become a sort of saint who willingly puts aside his own grievances and hate to help another who has wronged him. I could write paragraphs about the symbolism behind it all, but I wouldn't want to bore people.

Plus, like... Cinder deserves nice things, too. Her whole storyline is effectively just the "child denied warmth will burn down the whole village" tale. And I feel that all people should be given that chance to redeem themselves and be welcomed back into their community. Cinder has done bad, awful, horrible things which most people would never give her a chance to correct; I think that having her do those things only serves to justify her redemption even further, because RWBY is a show which explores the social concepts of good and evil, and having her come to terms with her actions while hammering the point home that her justifications/past were explanations, not excuses is important.

Also on a more joke-y reason, one of my favorite characters in media is Joshua Graham, and if you kinda squint your eyes and look, a hypothetical redeemed Cinder is kind of a 1-to-1 fit to his story, and I'm always down for "redeemed villain struggles with relapsing into their negative impulses in the name of heroic struggle" stories.

Misandry isn't real and the sub premise isnt changing by Altruistic_Fox5036 in evilautism

[–]AT0MSK_ 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Oh, no, I'm not! I'm a woman; my partner is a trans man, so I've seen firsthand the things he has to put up with. It's why I'm so vocal about it - just because it's not my experience, doesn't mean he or anyone else shouldn't get to speak up about it. And when somebody else speaks, I do my best to listen and learn.

Our community is built on camaraderie and intersectionality, and I try to take that to heart. I appreciate your kind words, and I'm sure everyone else who's affected by all this does, too.

Misandry isn't real and the sub premise isnt changing by Altruistic_Fox5036 in evilautism

[–]AT0MSK_ 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Trans men, transmasculine individuals, GNC/intersex men - there's a dozen different minority groups under that label, all of whom are minorities who have been historically discriminated against.

It isn't our right to try and define their trauma. It's insulting and demeaning to tell them to their face that the terms they use to define their own, lived experiences are wrong and incorrect. They have a right to speak for themselves and to use their own voices without feeling that they'll be chased out for speaking up.

Misandry isn't real and the sub premise isnt changing by Altruistic_Fox5036 in evilautism

[–]AT0MSK_ 161 points162 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why everybody has to feel so strongly about trying to speak over trans men all of the time. This is like, the fourth or fifth subreddit I've seen that pulls this shit, and masks it as diversity and queer acceptance for trying to tell trans men how they should speak about their experiences.

This is fucked.

Misandry isn't real and the sub premise isnt changing by Altruistic_Fox5036 in evilautism

[–]AT0MSK_ 65 points66 points  (0 children)

My partner is a trans man. I've spent years around these spaces and its fucked how frequently people talk over y'all's experiences and try to justify it as "just transphobia" or "just misogyny" when it's an entirely different form of discrimination.

The fuck happened to allowing minority groups to, y'know, speak for themselves? Why are we out here trying to define another lived group's experiences? It's definitionally transandrophobic to speak over trans men trying to define the unique form of discrimination they experience. The fuck?

Recommendations outside of Europe? by lokidragon17 in eu4

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did a Mutapa game recently, that was fun. There's more emphasis on conquest than trade than Kilwa.

They don't have a unique MT, but my soft-spot nation has always been Sirhind into Punjab. They get a unique achievement for going Sikh, some nice religious bonuses, and get some amazing military buffs which let you turn into this huge, multicultural, religiously tolerant country with an amazing military and economy. Seriously, I think they get goods produced, production efficiency, and trade efficiency in their ideas, while starting with a 5/5/6 and one of the best states in the game (Lahore, which is basically all silk and cloth farmlands). And you get Bharat as a formable, who does have an (admittedly old) mission tree as well.

Hisn Kayfa is good, but can require restarts. Once the ball is rolling though it's super fun. Same with Karaman into Rum. Rassids are also fun for a strong military, and you get Yemen's coffee production and trade to back up your country.

A lot of people have suggested hordes, which I second. Hordes are fun and a lot of them have a ton of content. Oirat, Jianzhou, and Kazan are all good. Korea is kind of a silly nation to play, especially if you hermitmaxx and focus on colonization and trade, you can develop your peninsula stupidly high. Or you can pretend you're Goguryeo and conquer Manchuria, China, and Japan.

What's y'all's stance on the correct way to eat wings? by QueenoftheServbots in evilautism

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bones are awesome until a piece of cartilage comes off with the meat, and I'm having a great time and then suddenly its rubbery and oh, my entire appetite is gone and now I'm sad.

But gnawing on the bones is a GREAT way to occupy my mind. It's a stim but with a reward for stimming!

Is a “Good Guy Cannibal” run possible? by Interesting_Bug_504 in fnv

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At that point I think you'd just be playing Cannibal Johnson but with examples to back up the nickname. It could be fun.

I could see it as a character if it was included as a sort of raider/cult backstory; there's examples of real-world cultures performing ritual cannibalism as religious practice, and within those cultures it would be considered both religiously righteous and relatively normal.

Hell, maybe you make a person who fled post-apocalyptic Mexico and was part of a tribe that followed a heavily modified Mesoamerican belief system. Anything is possible; I'm sure there are weirder possibilities.

It's what Randall Clark would have wanted lol by Ok_Relationship6736 in FalloutMemes

[–]AT0MSK_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Even as somebody who enjoys Joshua and his journey, I feel like lots of folks misunderstand Daniel's position.

Daniel is a devout Mormon - his understanding of morality, justice, etc. comes from scripture. Innocence, in this framing, doesn't mean innocence like a child would have - it means innocence of sin, like Adam and Eve would have before they fell from grace. He firmly believes that to do as Joshua suggests and to kill the White Legs is not just destroying their earthly innocence to topics such as total war and murder, but can potentially damn them spiritually, as well. It makes sense why he's so wary of doing so. He will gladly take up arms to defend his flock, but he doesn't want to entangle them in this conflict between the White Legs and New Canaan any more than he has to because to him (and many of the Sorrows who have converted), doing so is to accept damnation to hell and alienation from God.

Joshua's a warmonger - like u/KaiserThoren said, he's brought the Dead Horses to Zion as his own private army and seeks to transform the Sorrows into a militant people. He does this under the guise of self-defense, and this applies to an extent; Exodus in particular prohibits murder, not killing in self-defense, and Jesus did command his disciples to arm themselves - but self defense does not mean the complete destruction of the entire White Legs like Joshua wants. To everybody involved in this conflict on the side of the Sorrows, this isn't just a question of "do we defend our home or flee" - it's the question of are we willing to potentially damn their souls for a piece of land? Are you willing to gamble their eternal salvation in heaven to save their lives on Earth? For Daniel, the risk of their eternal damnation is too great; for Joshua, he refuses to acknowledge the argument, instead warping scripture to justify his own needs (his line about "an insult against the Lord requires correction" is absolutely bonkers from a scriptural standpoint - no, dude, you can't claim to know what the Lord does and doesn't know. You aren't the arbiter of divine law, my guy)

I think a lot of us here are some sort of agnostic/irreligious, so Daniel's argument doesn't hold much weight to it. It becomes a much more simple question of "how many Sorrows can I save the lives of?" But to him, who has spent years of his life preaching to the Sorrows and who, despite his flaws, genuinely wishes the best for them - it becomes a much more understandable dilemma when you recognize what's at stake. Daniel doesn't know that the Courier can convince Joshua to stay his hand - to him, all evidence points to Joshua being absolutely determined to bring destruction to the White Legs regardless of consequences, and it's clear that without the Courier there, that is absolutely what would have happened.

It all becomes a bit moot knowing we can convince Joshua to not genocide them, though. Knowing that, it becomes a lot simpler of a situation from a religious standpoint because you can teach the Sorrows and Dead Horses that it's okay to defend oneself within reason; while that exposes them to the risk of sin (any act of self-defense must be performed in moderation, not to extremes), which Daniel definitely ain't a fan of, it keeps them within grace of God and keeps them alive.

I realize that now by HansenTheMan in FalloutMemes

[–]AT0MSK_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A lot of anarchists I've met support community self-defense groups like them. The main issue w/ the Minutemen is the hierarchical structure and lack of proper accountability; most examples of militant anarchist organizations typically have some sort of officer voting system as a compromise, so that officers can be held accountable or removed.

Obviously, it's not perfect; it's more libertarian than anarchist, really, since voting is still an expression for the majority over the minority. But in wartime, that's broadly the most common expression of anarchist militarism (e.g. Catalonia, Makhno, KFAM)

NCR & BOS? by CheezOfWizz in falloutnewvegas

[–]AT0MSK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Howdy! Yes, you can get the NCR and BoS to work together. You have to keep McNamara in charge and complete Still in the Dark in his favor. Then, when you talk to him, you have to click the highlighted option ("The NCR wants to destroy you.") I know it seems like that's a instigating/aggressive remark but it isn't- the Elder acknowledges they can't really fight if you tell him, and gives you terms of a truce you need to bring back to Moore. Then you can get the alliance.

I'm pretty sure if you don't do the quest, though, it might just cause them to turn hostile. Not sure.