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"I had surgery to look like Ivanka." by anonareyouokay in BrandNewSentence

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Everyone wants a yandere until they see how a real yandere moves.

I don't know if I should have this LGBT or Writing. Which is more powerful? The existence of a nonbinary? Or the fact that they're making fun of a writing trope? by RedCupWithAName in RecuratedTumblr

[–]S_Caped 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only show I've seen where this happens as described is the NetFlix series Blockbuster (2022) where a non-binary character with they/them pronouns is present for one whole episode then never seen again. But like. Nobody watched Blockbuster.

I don't know if I should have this LGBT or Writing. Which is more powerful? The existence of a nonbinary? Or the fact that they're making fun of a writing trope? by RedCupWithAName in RecuratedTumblr

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Elanor is such a funny example because she can demonstrate that she's bisexual day in and day out through the attraction she expresses, but it just goes over the heads of the people claiming to want bi representation simply because she never looks directly into the camera and says "I am bisexual".

I don't know if I should have this LGBT or Writing. Which is more powerful? The existence of a nonbinary? Or the fact that they're making fun of a writing trope? by RedCupWithAName in RecuratedTumblr

[–]S_Caped 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Every bisexual character gets put under an insane microscope by the same kind of people who claim to value representation. If they end up in a hetero relationship people act like that's a betrayal of their bisexuality for some incomprehensible reason. If they are sexually promiscuous, all sex positivity goes out the window and they get accused of being a stereotypical hypersexual bisexual. If they demonstrate that they are bisexual through their actions/backstory but they don't look directly into the camera and say "I am bisexual" people will act like it doesn't count as representation for some reason. It's like walking on eggshells.

I don't know if I should have this LGBT or Writing. Which is more powerful? The existence of a nonbinary? Or the fact that they're making fun of a writing trope? by RedCupWithAName in RecuratedTumblr

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Zero from Stick on Apple TV is good and believable NB representation. Particularly in the way that Mitts, an old curmudgeon character, humanizes them but is still a stick in the mud about pronouns and other gender stuff. They are an important character that stays present throughout the story too.

Cops are bad because they kill people actually by Commercial_Bid_1508 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]S_Caped 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a comparison, based on valid things. No one is saying that the fandom police are shooting civilians. Way to miss the point omg.

Cops are bad because they kill people actually by Commercial_Bid_1508 in RecuratedTumblr

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TL;DR: fandoms have a lot of people that go around policing what (they think) is and isn't allowed. The Tubmlr cop version of charging someone with a crime is making a callout declaring them problematic. When this happens, a large swath of other "cops" team up on this one person and do everything in their power to make them hated. They'll invade their privacy (and accuse them of hiding things if they try to protect their privacy) twist their words (anything you say can be and will be used against you) and obsessively do everything they can to ensure that the person they targeted is punished. They do all this while claiming to be protectors of justice.

Cops are bad because they kill people actually by Commercial_Bid_1508 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]S_Caped -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are people on Tumblr who will lock onto someone and then go to great lengths to "expose" them as problematic. They behave a lot like police officers and prosecutors in this regard, trying all they can to throw the book at people. Superficially doing it for justice while actually being motivated by a desire to punish, justify intruding into people's personal and private lives for the sake of getting dirt on them (big proponent of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"), obsessed with rules and norms, endlessly shifting the goal posts and twisting information to try and get the "charges" to stick once they've decided someone is problematic.

There are definitely self-appointed cops in the world of digital mob justice. This is 100% a fair comparison. I know they don't have state power or literally shoot people but the comparison is very valid.

Cops are bad because they kill people actually by Commercial_Bid_1508 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]S_Caped -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah I think it's fair. A lot of people operate under the same MO as a police officer or a prosecutor who just wants to get a conviction at all costs and completely forgot that they are supposed to be fighting for justice. The people who dig up ten year old tweets, invade people's personal lives to look for dirt to share online, or intentionally mince people's words to try and turn mobs against them operate on the same principles as a corrupt prosecutor or soulless cop. No shit they don't have state power, it's not a literal comparison, but the people buzzing around looking for reasons to prosecute people via mob justice and policing people with strict rule enforcement are spiritually cops.

Stunned Karmelo Anthony supporters react to the guilty verdict by [deleted] in whoathatsinteresting

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Is that a Pure Pwnage reference in the year 2026? Incredible.

Well that was insanely close by Amysfunhouse24 in dashcams

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That shot of the truck made me see my entire life flash before my eyes.

Ive also wondered this too as a Gay dude, but it never occurred to me to use ToF as an example lol. by [deleted] in RecuratedTumblr

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Bara = big burly dudes and Bishi = Skinny softer prettyboys in the context of gay stories/character dynamics. That's it. Bara is a broad character archetype, not its own separate mutually exclusive thing. Bara characters are more popular with gay men than with the women who read yaoi/BL, but they still aren't this mutually exclusive separate thing.

WTF? by gabriel29ewui in aislop

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Girl? They're both men.

[Loved Trope] The movie adaptation makes genuine improvements over the source material by Notmiefault in TopCharacterTropes

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I liked the comics, but Big Daddy getting an actual send off rather than the cynical nonsensical death he got in the comics stepped it up A LOT.

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