noted that Robin Wood is excused from the whole spike conversation because he's justified in literally everything he did. like even if you didn't pretend the show was being uniquely crazy racist by putting him in the position he was & how it is that he's the only black character here who just happens to be wrong about everything and unjustified in his anger and I could make a whole seperate post unpicking that but like. imagine your mom was killed by a tiger. and in this scenario we must also imagine that tigers are ontologically evil. imagine your mom was killed by an ontologically evil tiger and so you spent your life fighting tigers that kill people , and then you run into the Head Tiger Killer who's continuing your mom's legacy of Head Tiger Killer and she's hanging out with the tiger that killed your mom. and you must imagine in this bad metaphor that tigers are ontologically evil parasites that do nothing for the world but kill people so maybe it's more like the concept of a virus, but like, whatever. the virus tiger. covid tiger. and the head tiger killer is like don't worry the tiger that killed your mom doesn't kill people anymore he's good. and you're like, what? he's a tiger. that's not how it works. and she goes no I trust him 🥺. and you go are you in love with the tiger? and she goes no though she clearly is. and then you find out that the tiger that killed your mom who is supposedly a vegetarian tiger could accidentally snap and kill anyone at any moment. and you're like okay in this scenario our best course of action is to kill the tiger. we cant risk the tiger killing people in our house, you know like it killed my mom. and the head tiger killer is like but he's literally vegetarian now! and then the tiger tells you your mom never loved you

post for me to explain in the morning the thing ab buffy saying spike has a soul now to everything people say against him in season 7 is only like 40-70% justifying why he can't hurt people now and the other 60-30% justifying why he won't hurt buffy & friends specifically

I feel like there’s also a racialized element haunting the conversation around shaving that I haven’t yet seen anyone really address (at least on my dash, I’m sure people ARE talking about it in general because I cannot possibly be the first person this thought has occurred to). there’s like the very basic point that if you are someone who grows thicker, courser body hair then you will be more prone to painful ingrowns and shaving regularly will absolutely exacerbate this, it was a thing I dealt with for years when I was still shaving my body hair and having stopped doing that has been tremendously helpful for my bodily wellbeing. but also overall I do think racialized people (obviously especially racialized women) can be more heavily targeted by the pressure to shave. not even necessarily because of the claim that we are “naturally hairier” or whatever because that’s really not universally true and I don’t think it’s super helpful to parrot that. but in my experience our body hair, largely regardless of its appearance or quantity, is frequently treated as more unsightly and less acceptable than that of our white peers for any number of reasons. and I do think that should be part of the conversation around abolishing a culture of shaving. it was something that impacted my life from a very young age in a way that was markedly different from and often actively enforced by my white friends and classmates.

some of you think the bad terrible evil parts of the source material don't affect you because you only participate in fics and shared headcanons. and you're in for a nasty shock when you realize that mass headcanons with no basis in canon are often more stereotypical in a more racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, etc way than the source material ever could be.

an interest passing feels like being abandoned by the evil spirit that had taken possession of your body

any time i copy paste a message to send to 2 different chats i feel like such a fake ass bitch but im choosing to look at it as the digital equivalent of standing in a doorway hollering so people in both rooms can hear me

it's annoying but sometimes you have to be the gay person who says shit like "be straight with you? I've never been straight in my life!" just to keep your coworkers humble