you can call me rae. 22. she/her. black. haitian-american. bi, queer, a-spec, cis. christian. intersectional feminist. if you’re not a woc i don’t give a fuck. terfs/radfems/maps DNI and die i’m fucking serious. follow my writeblr @mooncricket. protect woc in media.
I REALLY like watching Jasper William Cartwright play Thorn. I like watching him in generally, he’s an incredibly engaging player and this is my first time ever meeting him. I really really enjoy the vibe he brings to the table and he and Rashawn just play off of each other so well.
I love how on Tumblr, “media literacy” has become “Um, just because someone writes about this doesn’t mean they’re endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything.”
I’m sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they’re not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It’s not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.
Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you’re doing it as an author. All media isn’t horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it’s problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that’ll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they’re doing it and you’ll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.
Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you’re edgy, not that you’re media literate. You can’t use one rule to apply to all media. That’s not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.
It’s kind of tragic how homophobia affects insecure men.
Like sometimes they want to experiment with a bit of anal and instead of just buying a sex toy and some lube like a normal person, they instead shove random objects up their ass that inevitably get stuck and then they try to get them out by themselves which makes things worse and then they lie to doctors about it and like this all leads to all kinds of extra complications like internal damage, risk of infections, bleeding, the fall of Yugoslavia, etc.
Come on guys, just buy a dildo. It’s way safer and it leads to way fewer problems.
Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in
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