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I was thinking this morning why one of the two webcomic stories I love (unsounded) is the only one that has a sizeable fanbase on both 4chan and tumblr. (impossible, right?) natural opposites, those two, the anti-sjw's and the sjw's. /s

it's the condescension, in so many other stories these days, from ah, a certain social tribe.

it's that fuckin' knee-jerk (whether earnestly believed or fabricated) hand wave of "well of course ~they're~ bad, duh" with the "they" in scare chords, and clearly meant to be of a different tribe. and if there's one thing i've... known basically all of my life - people are smart!  the "deplorables", the religious, the ones privately on the fence and struggling, the ones that've defected from the left, the cynical types that are attracted to red pill thinking, the ones that have always been inherently apolitical in the social sense, etc --

-- all of us* smell that shit. the condescension to anyone not-of-that-thinking. and it ain't attractive. if anything I think the assumption that everyone's in lockstep has done a grievous harm in terms of how stories can, at their best, reach out across chasms of thought and experiences and emotions and touch others in a very dark place when absolutely nothing else can.

(*I say "us" because I don't consider myself a leftist; personally get wiggy about ideologies after being ex-fundie and seeing too many authoritarian patterns in too many places.) 

it's another reason of many I don't watch media after 2010, other than being very bored with the visual trends, and also not seeing myself even in the most faintest sense in the various themes. the types of stories these days would have honestly pushed me back into fundie thinking because there's no sense of ... it's not even intellectual curiosity, man. it's basic shit like respect for each other (even as characters), even when we can't stand abstractions of each other. it's real shades of grey that respects other mindsets to exist on a very basic level, to tie back into unsounded and how the creator elaborated here about that very intent. one has to entertain the thought of convincing differing opinions, and them existing, hands off, before one has a chance to engage in talking others away from it, you know?

this has been on my mind a lot lately.

hellsing headcanons

"Hellsing headcanons" - mucky

oh lord I have opinions! :D oh you meant headcanons, heh. It's in two parts: unpopular headcanons that I've thought about a lot, and an old copypasta'd list of sex headcanons from the defunct nsfw tumblr because they were funny and held up remarkably well, and I'd like to archive them.

the old tumblr list first:

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now the real meat:

• alucard privately and badly wants to die and in fact his happiest ending is allowing him to do so after integra's passed, and the next generation of hellsingers take over. (eg, seras & pip)

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• kink is religion to alucard / he's a power bottom god damn it! why y'all keep drawing him otherwise!

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• There's "lost episode" of hellsing in my head where the three of them (seras, integra, alucard) post-timeskip investigate an abandoned oil rig in the bermuda triangle and end up running into Cthulhu. the Major is in there somewhere. :D (Thinking as a deconstruction of the "Nazis flee to Argentina" trope, incidentally).

this one's way less personal / way lighter (lol) in comparison to the others but it was partially spawned off of a dream once, and the whole thing felt remarkably, mmm, faithful? to the tone of the series as a whole. I may devote some time to this later, may not.

Enjoy ~