✦ New pinned post ✦

The old one got quite outdated, so it's about time I made a new one.

I have acquired: An Shiraishi colored Christmas decorations

I think... Sometimes... It's reasonable to say "hey this character is horrible/a villain/etc but their disability that they got during/after/before the story isn't their punishment so cut it off". But sometimes... Also... The writers clearly intended it to be read that way. The writers clearly wrote their disability... To be their punishment... And the narrative works to reinforce that position... Sometimes I think we just need to admit that the most ableist people in the fandom were the people who made the source media and the behaviour of the fandom is actually in line and what the writers would have wanted them to get out of the media so criticising the ableism in fandom of an inherently ableist piece of fiction is trying to catch smoke. But maybe that's just me.

Instead of trying to replace an ableist and incorrect usage of intensive though (e.g "the intrusive thoughts won tonight") to mean impulsive behaviour with the term "impulsive thoughts" (which is clunky because it obviously still draws from intrusive thoughts and is similar enough for people to not notice or know the difference, is still ableist as this is also a medical term, and self-contradictory, as any impulsive thoughts are not necessarily harmful in a way that works for the meme), I suggest we start referring to it as The Impulse. Capital letters and all.

Arguments:

- draws on the popular internet slang expression of The Horrors (unspecific but commonly experienced life struggles of both psychological and material original), and is therefore not connected to the ableist misuse of instructive thoughts;

- additionally, implies the existence of universal human experience with The Impulse, in a similar way humans universally can experience The Horrors, and therefore inclusive of all;

- also implies the existence of The Impulse entity which, according to individual interpret, can be anything yet immediately relatable to other people;

- is literally just funnier than both intrusive thoughts and impulsive thoughts in that context;

- sounds ominous enough to use in ominous situations.

Example of use:

"bro let The Impulse win 💀"

"The Impulse won tonight (dyed my hair at 3 am)"

"The Impulse telling me to call my ex [insert reaction picture]"

"can't let The Impulse win this one"

You can also smack at ™ there, implying that The Impulse™ is well known enough to be trademarked and widely recognisable, which I think is cool.

Sorry but the fact that Akian went further than Kanamafu in the ship color palette tournament is insane to me. /Neutral statement but the observation on point

I have to admit to something stupid when I saw all of VBS carrying sunflowers and then one glimpse of An looking surprised I for a moment thought they'd give her the flowers. Which obviously did not happen but I maintain that it would have been cool if they did