Peter Parker From The Amazing Spider-man Is An Autistic Character

star wars i have been through this song and dance before and i grow weary of it

None of you will ever know true fear until you know the context behind this picture

Books you’ll probably read in high school

Basically what they are

Romeo & Juliet: for the love of GOD just COMMUNICATE

The Scarlet Letter: if you ignore the old English, it’s just the author making fun of puritans, Hester Prynn being a badass, and two men who literally drive each other crazy. Bravo

Julius Ceaser: tf Brutus. Shit bitch friend.

The Grapes of Wrath (by Steinbeck): wow this is depressing

Of Mice and Men (also by Steinbeck): wow this is super depressing

The Pearl (guess who): is John Steinbeck okay?

The Crucible: you can say that Abigail was the antagonist but fuck you. She’s the unsung hero. Like, 16 years old and gets taken advantage of by a grown ass, married man. I WISH I had the power to start the chaos that was the witch trials, basically rule the town, and then rob my uncle and run away to Boston. An icon. I stan.

Death of a Salesman: can we read something that doesn’t make me feel suicidal

The Great Gatsby: *sigh*

Macbeth: I’ll tolerate this because witches

Beowulf: is Beowulf a dick or do I just tend to hate these protagonists

Hamlet: the lion king was better

Lord of the Flies: also depressing BUT the author was a teacher at an all boys school and got sick of them and the sudden rise of the “British school children go on adventures” genre pissed him off so much that he wrote a book about them absolutely LOSING IT (“the degradation of society”) and EVERY CHARACTER IS BASED OFF A KID IN HIS CLASS AND IF THAT ISNT THE FUNNIEST SHIT YOUVE EVER HEARD THEN IDK WHAT IS

Pedro being cute on the TV Guide yacht at 2014 Comic Con. - (x)

thiam as some of my favorite ship tropes <3

I went to Amsterdam without you

And all I could do was think about you

And, oh, I should've known

I went to Tokyo to let it go

Drink after drink but I still felt alone

I should've known

I went to so many places

Looking for you in the faces

I could feel it

Oh, I could feel it

I'm wasting my time when it was always you, always you

Chasing the high but it was always you, always you

Should've never let you go, oh-oh

Should've never let you go, my baby

Go, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

I went from LAX to Heathrow

Walk through my door but it felt nothing like home

'Cause you're not home

Waiting to wrap your legs around me

And I know you hate to smoke without me and, oh

Now you know

I'm wasting my time when it was always you, always you

Chasing the high but it was always you, always you

Should've never let you go, oh-oh

Should've never let you go, my baby

Go, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Should've never let you go, oh-oh

Should've never let you go, my baby

Go, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

I went to so many places

Looking for you in the faces

I could feel it

Oh, I could feel it

Wasting my time when it was always you, always you

I was chasing the high but it was always you, always you

Should've never let you go, oh-oh

Should've never let you go, my baby

Go, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Should've never let you go, oh-oh

Should've never let you go, my baby

Go, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

My baby

Oh, my baby

Yeah reading’s hard sometimes lmao. Thanks for your understanding and being so chill.

I’m also glad we agree on the important bit <3

@confusledqueer apologizes for not responding sooner, it’s been a busy couple days and—honestly—I forgot for a bit.

Moving on-

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Me equating some of the things that anti-Jedi people say to antisemitism and, sometimes, outright Nazi-esque rhetoric is not “wild” or “a stretch,” as you’re implying.

Justification of their genocide, denial that it actually was a genocide, a belief that the genocided party “caused” their own genocide, and a belief that they genocided party were wrong or “led astray” while one person was sent to make things right- (via either making them change their ways or outright destroying them/their culture) -are all things I’ve seen people say about the Jedi…

…but they’re also things that people have actually said about Jews.

Take the example I put in the post of someone denying that the Jedi Purge was actually a genocide, and how—by changing “Jedi” to “Judaism” and “Force-religions” to “Abrahamic Faiths”—it sounds verbatim to Holocaust denial.

Or, as another example, people claiming that the Jedi “kidnapped kids to brainwash them”…don’t you see how that sounds like Blood Libel?

So me pointing out that a lot of stuff anti-Jedi people say sounds like antisemitic rhetoric isn’t a stretch, not when a lot of it sounds verbatim to what people are saying with the rise of antisemitism and stuff they have said in the past.

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Now, I’m not Jewish, but it’s not just me, your neighborhood White Girl™️, who’s pointing this stuff out.

Actual Jewish people have pointed out the alarming similarities between anti-Jedi rhetoric and straight up antisemitism. So, if you wanna argue about- “you shouldn’t compare real world discrimination to fictional stuff” -then you should probably take that into account.

Go ahead and try telling Jewish Star Wars fans to stop calling out antisemitic rhetoric in the fandom, I’m sure that’ll go down real well.

I also find it hilarious that you’re telling me to be careful about the rhetoric I use in a thread about how I shouldn’t point out that some of the rhetoric other people spout is basically antisemitism rebranded.

And my point in that post wasn’t- “since this is based off of a real world culture/religion, you can’t criticize it.”

My point was- “since this is based off of a real world culture/religion then you need to be careful about how you criticize it, otherwise you might unconsciously be spouting bigoted beliefs and antisemitic rhetoric because you don’t recognize that that’s what it is because you’re saying it about a fictional culture.”

By all means, I get that some people just don’t like the Jedi, that’s their prerogative and we all have our own tastes.

Criticize them, if you feel like it, but don’t go around spouting rebranded antisemitism to do it. I’m sure you can come up with plenty of things to complain about them for without doing so.

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Now, I can understand why you might be worried about the slippery slope from this to shit like actual censorship—which, I think we can all agree, is a bad thing. Or how you might think criticizing this could lead to the whole “fandom purity” debate.

My thing is, it all comes down to does it actually harm people?

Perpetuating harmful stereotypes via saying stuff like the Jewish based characters “steal children,” or “lost their way,” or “they caused/deserved their genocide”—that does cause actual harm.

Think about why the “angry black man” stereotype or the “cheating bisexual” stereotype are bad and people- (rightly) -push back against them. It’s the same thing here.

Shipping a problematic ship, calling a fictional serial killer “babygirl,” writing about dark topics*, headcanoning characters as gay or trans…none of that is actively harming people.

(*obviously when writing about dark topics you should tag appropriately so people can avoid triggers, but that’s another topic for another day)

That’s the difference.

And, for the record, I think letting people spout bigotry just because they’re saying it about something fictional is the more dangerous mindset than calling it out.

Somebody finally said it we all drew our suns in the corner

when i was younger, i used to draw the sun in the corner of the paper every time. 

Andrea & Leo spring 2020 collection