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Arcturus, Comma, Taz, and Tree continue to submit the bracket to the madrigogs, taking on the troll-centric BLUE REGION.
[S] Cascade vs [S] Wake [S] Jade: Enter vs [S] Seer: Ascend [S] Terezi: Remem8er vs [S] Begin Intermission 2 [S] Make Her Pay vs [S] A6A6I5: Vriskagram
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Using highly scientific MARCH MADNESS-STYLE SEEDING TECHNOLOGY, the podcast will eventually whittle down the competition to determine that flash is the flashiest and the best of them all.
Our first match-ups: [S] Collide vs [S] John: Take bite of apple [S] Enter vs [S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter [S] JOHN. RISE UP. vs [S] Pipeorgankind [S] Descend vs [S] Credits
wait why do we say the Red Miles are a Blood power? are we saying DD is Blood?
I wouldn’t say DD is Blood.
I’d say the Ring is. Blood is about relationships, collectives, social cohesion and the sacrifices individuals make in order to enable it–a group united under a common banner/ideal/way of living. The queen’s ring is a centralized symbol for the power of her rule over the people of Derse/Prospit.
Contrast it’s power against Breath, to boot. The Red Miles are fearsome because of their inescapability…
And Breath allows John to escape anything. One is a power of bondage, the other of freedom.
Hey I’m gonna swallow my pride for a second and just remind y’all that I have a patreon over here, and it’s very helpful for paying bills and buying essentials. Especially since Gran just lost her office job, so I’ll be picking up more bills around the house now.
I think it’s not boastful or anything to say I am a very consistent content creator, I’ve started and completed multiple projects, and I have two novels, a fangame, and the usual fic content in the works. So, if you’re able, that would be appreciated. And if not, no one understands more than I do.
Mmmhm. Basically this @revolutionarygays . Like sorry but this shit is demonstrable and worth taking seriously whatever you think of the other lines of criticism he’s gotten.
im so very furious i havent been this furious in a long time. keegan is one of the nicest and most patient people i’ve ever met and he has some of the most insightful opinions on m/m relationship representation in media and its treatment in fandom that i’ve ever seen and the fact that people like fucking arc who is a cis ace person thinks that her kweer card entitles her to the same level of perspective that keegan, a gay trans man has, is so fucking unbelievable to me because it pretty much proves so many of the points keegan has so succinctly made over the years.
this completely ignores the lesbians and trans mlm who he’s labeled ‘cishet women’ yaoi fetishizers. oddly enough, when you mislabel people over and over again for having the gall to prefer a different ship than you, and then your followers send them hate over it, people don’t end up thinking of you as nice and patient…
but instead you managed to make this about aces not being queer
This is the last thing about this fucking asshole I’m gonna say. I got better shit to do.
But let me be profoundly clear: I am not a cis ace person. I am a queer woman.
And what’s hysterically funny is that when SW first came at me and tried to drag me for being “Fake Queer”, I sent them a long message explaining why, at the time, I had been using the “ace” label. It was a reaction to a deeply traumatic event that I still have not and will not speak about publicly (half because i can’t, half because it’s none of anyone’s business). I was very badly damaged by what happened– still am– and part of my reaction was IDing as “ace” for a while even though I am more accurately “theoretically bisexual, functionally lesbian.” I’ve since moved on and recovered enough to put that “ace” label away as things get a little easier. As the idea of being attracted to people stop filling me with anxious dread.
THE BEST PART IS I explained this to your precious little friend. I told him about my extremely personal trauma. I told him because I wanted to impress on him how he needed to stop assuming he knew people based on their fucking tumblr minibio.
I gave him a show of trust that he ignored because it didn’t fit his narrative.
Your nice and patient and insightful friend was an asshole to me and to a lot of other people. And the fact you still think I’m a dreaded fake gay ace woman who has no place in this discussion makes it clear he never fucking changed his tune, he never learned, and he’s literally the sort of anti scum everyone in fandom is fucking sick of. The kind that will happily perpetuate a lie because they want to continue shitting on people they don’t like.
And people like you fall for it every time.
I’m queer. Your buddy lied to you rather than risk losing face. End of discussion.
This is the last thing I’m saying on this subject because I have actually interesting shit to discuss, which swamp wizard is fucking not.
But I want to note that I got off EXTREMELY light in the grand scheme of harassment Swamp has incited, despite the fact that I was the initial point of contact–and conflict–that got him to start tracking women lgbt dirkjake fans and making vagueposts about them and w.e the fuck.
I still kind of hold myself personally responsible for bringing up the core disagreements that led Swamp into conflict with these women, so I feel pretty lousy about that.
The least I can do is point to the fact that I, a dude, got off pretty clean, while it was lgbt women who kept getting the worst of his vagueshit and presumptuous attitude, ideological superiority and lgbt gatekeeping.
I would love to know how. I hate when people say that he is an idiot who just goes with whatever anyone tells him. I haven’t heard this perspective before
I am completely fucking roadblocked on my royalty AU I’m writing, so sure. LET’S TALK ABOUT JAKE ENGLISH, because my god I love Jake. I love all the Alphas (far more than the betas, sorry betas) but Jake is one of the mega faves, and it really makes me sad how few peeps get how Jake English’s brain ticks.
Blah blah this is my interpretation of Jake, if you have another that’s great, blah blah, DISCLAIMER OVER LETS TALK ABOUT TEH ENGLISH SPEEPSTAKES AND HOW JAKE WON IT HIMSELF.
Every Alpha has a huge fucking tragic flaw or five to their name, and one of Jake’s biggest flaws is his purposeful obfuscating stupidity. Because despite what Jane thinks of him, Jake is not actually stupid. He’s an incredibly resourceful kid who routinely works with robotics and nuclear materials and survivalism. He’s a rubber fucker, you cannot keep the boy down.
What he isn’t is good at being forthright about his desires. It’s really the central issue in Jake’s character arc, that he doesn’t know how to assert himself. On the Quest Slab, talking to Roxy, he outright says that all the things he believed about himself were wrong, that he had tied himself to this biographical list of personality traits only to… grow out of them or to realize they were never true.
To me, a central part of reading Jake is to notice the times he hides behind that persona. There are times when Jake talks about himself as in his personal feelings, the “I feel” emotions, and there are times when he doesn’t. When instead of talking about what he would do, he talks about what a Dashed Rugged Adventurer would do. And it’s pretty fair to say that a lot of the time, that’s a tactic to put a cipher between himself and what he’s saying, to make his real emotions more obscure.
For example: The Pesterlog Where Jane Could Not Spit It The Fuck Out.
When Jake brings up his apparent attraction to Jane, it’s not couched in what he feels about her. It’s about what this Hypothetical Guy should feel about her. Because cripes, of course anyone in Jake’s shoes should be thrilled to get with Jane, right?
Right?
When the cards are on the table, Jake’s regret with Dirk is that it wasn’t the way he wanted it to be. (And, Jake, don’t worry, Dirk feels the same, lol what a fucking MESS.) When Jane presses Jake it’s not about how a Gentlemanly Adventurer would feel about Dirk, it’s about the ideas he’s been percolating over, it’s about how he feels it’s unfair to write Dirk off for not being a girl. The barrier is gone, and Jake’s being at least more honest about his attraction to Dirk than he is to Jane.
Jake spent the entire day desperately trying to get a hold of Dirk to talk to him, and is genuinely upset he never got the chance to.
Jake absolutely knew what was going on with Jane when they had their big conversation about their feelings. Not only does he imply it on the Quest Slab, but Brain Ghost Dirk gives him shit for it during their huge conversation. Jake is not stupid. He repeatedly picks up on people’s flirtatious remarks to him, onto Roxy’s implications that Jane likes him, and does some flirting in return.
(mostly to dirk but nevermind that)
So when Jane shoves her foot in her mouth and tries to backpedal, Jake stops her, thanks her for speaking her mind, and almost instantly reassures her that he’s glad and relieved that she’s not interested in him while Jane scrambles to fix her blunder. But he doesn’t let her get a word in edgewise and launches into a conversation revealing that he’s been considering dating Dirk for a long time.
Ergo Jake takes the out Jane accidentally gives him, and then underhandedly informs her that he was more interested in Dirk the whole time. After all, any gent worth his salt would date Jane! But… what about Jake English?
The problem is that Jake can only set things up this way. He is terrified of disappointing people. Everything he did in the Trickster Arc, how his shortcut to “happiness” was cheerfully becoming a doormat for everyone’s desires, expounds on the idea.
I believe down to the bottom of my heart that if Jane hadn’t messed up and had successfully asked Jake out, he would have said yes. Because he doesn’t know how to say no. Because at this point in the narrative, he’s hitching his entire modus operandi to this nebulous idea of what he’s supposed to be, and it clashes with what he actually wants. Not just in regards to Dirk, but in the wider scope of his character.
Jake’s convinced he’s a cheerful extrovert when really he’s an intense introvert, and it puts him in this position where the only way he can get what he wants from people is in this quiet, underhanded way.
Jake wanted to date Dirk. So he let Jane stumble and mess up asking him out so Dirk would be the one to ask him out instead.
So he created a situation where he didn’t have to say no and could live in plausible deniability.
And from there obviously shit got Complicated, but Jake was not a shrinking violet with no agency in the situation. He’s a clever thing, which Jane never truly realizes.
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