Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

and believe me when i say i am not interested in going the total opposite direction and saying you can only consume the most morally pure gruel. i'm a star wars fan for god's sake. if you go through the original trilogy and drink every time there's something problematic, you're gonna go to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.

however.

"it's just a story, stop saying it can affect people" is a bullshit line of reasoning.

mostly because what got my goat about the 'anti-anti' position as often espoused on tumblr was the inconsistency.

listen, if you're pushing for positive representation - that's great. but you're also acknowledging media affects people, that media reflects and affects society around it.

at that point you can't go "well it's just a story" when people raise objections about the type of affect a story is having and what agenda it is pushing.

so in the category of Things That Will Disappoint People, But I Feel Must Be Said

if you believe me to be a tumblr refugee because i am fleeing 'the wrath of the antis', and that i am proudly 'anti-anti', you're going to be disappointed.

my true horse in that race is "both sides are wrong in their own unique ways", but quite frankly i found myself arguing the 'anti' side more often when it actually came up lol.

(srsly tho apparently the more earnest i am the more i cuss and it's starting to be Difficult on facebook l m a o)

hey who made this fucken meme of me

tossing bombs in the last 5 sec of a #splatoon2 match while on 2000% drama: 𝔗𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱, ℑ 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔢; 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩'𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱, ℑ 𝔰𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔢 -

jjjjjjjjjjjust kidding that wave of not being exhausted lasted forrr (looks at watch) about 6 minutes, so

splatoon it is

and in this case (in chiss) means not actually in csilla, but a) very politely and with appreciation for meticulous consideration for detail and also art, b) while having no visible pupils

maybe even time to write a very self indulgent chapter of a very self indulgent already fanfiction that's basically just

au darth vader accidentally stumbles into some part of the afterlife to meet thrawn and cipher nine as they yell BOOOOOO! BOOOO BLONDIE YA AIN'T SHIIIIIIIIIT at him (in chiss)

i think....... it might be time to Write

(i still don't know what praxis is)

hand masks from lush are good praxis i mean good self-care because they are good for interrupting when you are getting mad on the internet. you have to go boil water, fix a bowl of stuff, wait for it to cool down, and then dunk your hands in it for 15 minutes. and when you're soaking your hands in something, you can't type to be angry on the internet.

and then you have soft hands!

win-win

ok after using the lush golden handshake (which the name makes me think mostly about dudes not washing their hands after they pee. but anyway) my hands do indeed seem Softe............

anyway don't worry timeline friends and neighbors, i have this lush hand mask setting up so i will soon quit my bullshit because i can't type if my hands are in a bowl

tldr if you treat your anti-religion sentiment as just another tool to "win" with, you are not actually correcting these abusive power structures

you just pulled out a cricket bat instead of a two-by-four to beat people with

how revolutionary. well done you.

i suppose i get so grumpy at this shit because so, so, so often it forms part of a one-two punch to belittle and exclude minorities from spaces that loudly proclaim tolerance. and it's far from just christianity that gets this treatment. "well, of course they're histrionic, and of course we had to stop allowing them to come here... what did you expect from people so silly that they think bacon is a sin?" (islamophobia or antisemitism or both - all very likely.)

ultimately, you must recognize that "L' état, c'est moi!", and "let the king beware, for His justice tears every tyrant from his throne" are two very fucking different philosophies and to treat them as the exact same religion, and all practitioners therein as the exact same, is a pretty fucking big disservice -

even if you DO dismiss the personal experiences and values in play and look at it ONLY as power plays AND NOTHING MORE.