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Quiet people are aware that they are quiet. You don’t need to remind them.

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“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

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I Felt Nothing While Watching Dom’s Apology. Only Matthew Seemed Sincere. 

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So I’m pretty fucking late to this but whatever.

Dominic Sherwood, you asshole.

What you did was way out of line, and fuck you. I don’t believe a single word that came out of your mouth during that apology video and neither should any other fan of the show, because as LGBTQ+ folk, we’ve seen it all before. The crocodile tears, the scripted “I know what I did was wrong/my behaviour is unacceptable/I won’t do this again” shit that you somehow think we’re fucking naïve enough to fall for. 

This wasn’t a one off, Dominic Sherwood, yet you apologised for it as though it were. You clearly feel comfortable enough throwing that disgusting bile around, and not only that, but to a co-worker and a friend who plays a gay character in the show ??? A guy who is adored by fans for being our Alec Lightwood, a guy who is a rock for thousands of young LGBTQ+ people around the world who watch Shadowhunters ??? Seriously, Dom? Fucking seriously? Is that how little respect you have for us, that you’d throw us under the bus with the utterance of a slur when you fucking know who we are????

You have stabbed us in the back, spat in our faces, violated us. You work on a show that celebrates and empowers us, yet it’s quite clear that you think nothing of us when the cameras have stopped rolling.

I don’t want you fired. I don’t particularly want the part of Jace to be recast. Because the condemnation and the judgement you’ll have to face from the fan-base from now on will be punishment enough. 

I expect @shadowhuntersseries to release an official statement. Do not let this slide with some half-assed apology. Acknowledge Dominic’s wrongdoing and let us know that he won’t be getting away from it just like that.

I am so incredibly angry and disgusted at Dominic Sherwood right now. This show is a beacon of light and love, and I’ll be fucking damned if I’m going to let that homophobic fucker ruin that for us. 

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amber is a liar why would you stand with her?

This blog has received about ten of these questions and this was the nicest of them.

First, I want to say that I thought something was up even before this story broke - I’m a long time Amber fan and something just seemed off to me.

I also want to state that I do not believe the granting of a restraining order alone is sufficient to assume guilt. What it does say to me is that a judge found reasonable grounds to assume Amber’s safety was at risk enough to provide extra protection until the allegations could be addressed in court. 

On to the question at hand, which is why do I support Amber….

Keep reading

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"before talking about egypt" post

because i’m really tired of rhetoric regarding egypt on this website, and because i’m tired of repeating the same things over and over, here’s a post of things every person who posts something about egypt should be aware of before opening their big fat mouths:

egyptians do not ascribe to western racial constructs. repeat this several times. egyptians aren’t white, or black, or white-passing, or brown until they’re forced to identify under these by westerners. like “poc” these terms are meaningless without something to compare it to. when you call people living in their own country “poc,” you sound like an idiot.

before mouthing off about “ancient/real egyptians” and “modern coloniser egyptians,” this is what egyptians look like:

but they also look like this:

and this:

none of these are considered “more egyptian” than the other, and if we don’t do it, frankly you shouldn’t. (i had to take some of these off a government propaganda video, i hope you’re happy. also watch it, it’s pretty catchy.)

here is egypt on a map:

(x) as you can see, egypt is located in northern africa. this makes egypt an african country. it is also usually included in the politically vague “middle east,” or more accurately the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. egypt is a culturally arab country. this makes it african and arab. egyptians identify as both without issue. it is not a big deal, nor is it up to you to tell us what to identify as. egypt has also had the same borders for around 5000 years, give or take, due to the nile being a major factor in where the concentration of populations are. therefore ancient egyptians were also north african, with close interactions with the kushite kingdom in the south, where Sudan is now. got it? ancient egypt, geographically = egypt + sudan. we know exactly where ancient egypt was located. they were nice enough to write everything down.

egyptians were never enslaved by americans or taken to america. while the egyptian diaspora is large, most egyptian immigrants are recent first or second generation. this means that egyptians have no claim to african american history, and vice versa.

nubian egyptians still exist. they are a minority in upper (southern) egypt that faces erasure, oppression and discrimination.

before deciding that ancient and modern egyptians are two separate species, please remember that egyptians still use the same farming tools, agricultural calendar, and even words as ancient egyptians. we even celebrate the the longest running holiday in history.

before blaming “arabs” for “changing egypt’s ethnicity”* please remember that by the time Muslim conquests arrived in Egypt, Egypt had already been occupied by the Greeks and Roman Byzantines for several hundred years, not to mention intermixing with Hyksos, Assyrians and Kushites since the Late Intermediate period. Egypt has always been diverse. despite that, even wikipedia will tell you that vast majority of egypt’s population is ethnically egyptian. and here’s another source. and another. shut up about this already.

the Egyptians have been in place since back in the Pleistocene and have been largely unaffected by either invasions or migrations. As others have noted, Egyptians are Egyptians, and they were so in the past as well. (x)

the purpose of this is not to deny that under US-centric classifications, most ancient egyptians would be considered black*, because they most certainly would and white-washing of ancient egypt is prevalent and harmful*, but to assert that modern egyptians are not a separate ethnicity from their ancestors and that separating “modern” and “ancient” egyptians is equally harmful, and denies egyptians a connection to their own heritage. here are some posts i’ve made to clarify how race works in egypt*

Arab is a cultural term, not an ethnic one. Identification as Arab is based on linguistic, political and cultural influences*, not ethnic ones. Egypt identifies as Arab today due to the arab nationalist movement in the 1950s, which was a response to British colonialism.*

you cannot appropriate ancient egyptian “culture”. stop telling white people they can’t wear cleopatra outfits. this is what our tourism industry is based on.*

appropriating our heritage, stealing our artefacts*, and claiming our history as your own does not fall under “cultural appropriation”* and it is really harmful and annoying.

for reference, this is what egyptian traditional dress looks like:

(not super accurate because it differs in different parts of egypt, but you get the idea. surprise, it’s not cleopatra outfits after all!)

here is a list of the absolute stupidest (and most popular) posts regarding egypt i’ve seen on my dash that you should absolutely 100% not reblog ever:

and my personal favorite:

(please do not reblog any of these they have caused more pain and grief to egyptians on this website than exodus ever will.)

so to sum up: don’t tell egyptians what to identify as, don’t tell egyptians what they’re supposed to look like, don’t force egyptians into stupid western racial classifications and don’t talk about egypt unless you have basic knowledge of egypt.

* links with (*) on them lead to posts on my own blog that clarify each point or explain it further, not outside sources. i only have basic knowledge of most issues from an egyptian point of view, but that’s still more than 99% of the people on this website so you might as well listen to me instead of giving the fucking indo-aryan post 75k notes.

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WAIT WHAT ANTHONY HEAD WAS THE VOICE OF RAZIEL?????!!!!!!

YOU MEAN I WATCHED THE FINALE AND DIDN’T EVEN FUCKING RECOGNISE THE VOICE OF A LIVING FANDOM LEGEND?????!!!!!!!!

YOU MEAN ANTHONY HEAD WAS IN OUR LITTLE SHOW AS THE FUCKING ANGEL RAZIEL HIMSELF??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

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So, 2x20 was titled “Beside Still Water”, right?

Remember the name on the vault that Sebastian takes the decoy Mirror from in 2x18? It was Stillwater... 

dUN DUN DUUNNNNNN

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I don’t feel like show!Jonathan deserves the fate he has in the books. Book!Jonathan, to me, was irredeemable; he was always an accomplice to his father (who raises him) and did what he did with absolute, calculated conviction so his death, whilst tragic, was appropriate. Show!Jonathan is a victim, shunned by his father for a part of him he cannot control, hated by his sister because of those same things and genuinely tormented by his inherent desire to kill, the neglect he received and the physical torture he endured in Edom. 

I don’t want Jonathan in Shadowhunters to die. He doesn’t deserve that.  

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A message to the producers of Shadowhunters:

When. Is. Lydia. Branwell. Coming. Back? 

I miss her. She hasn’t appeared in all of season 2B. I demand her return for season 3. 

Lydia Branwell deserves more!

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Sorry, this has been bugging me since I watched the episode, but how and when was Max moved from the office to Izzy’s bedroom?

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Literally fuck Netflix right now and its fucking show Atypical.

This show is not about autism or autistic people. It’s the same, regurgitated shit about an emotionally and sexually repressed white teenage boy trying to ‘fit in’ told through the lens of his non-autistic friends and family.

The trailer plays as nothing but a white adolescent het male trying to get laid, and using autism as a way to make that acceptable.

Fuck that.

Fuck Atypical.

Fuck Netflix.

Sincerely, a white autistic male.

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Today a 16 year old boy was brought into the clinic by his aunt to ‘have the talk’ because his school didn’t teach sex ED and his mother wouldn’t talk to him about sex.

She spent 40 bucks so he could get tested for the first time.

I spent an hour talking to this young boy about sex. I got to have the sex talk with him. I showed him how to properly use a condom and protect himself and his partners. We talked about STDs and pregnancy prevention. We even talked about pubic grooming and ways to avoid razor burn. This poor boy has never had someone talk to him about anything related to the changes his body is going through.

And then we spent 20 minutes talking about consent and how important it is.

Growing up I never, ever had someone talk to me about consent and its importance. I even had sex ED in school!

This shit is important ya’ll.

Planned Parenthood is important

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Wouldn’t trade these Luke & Simon moments for anything. 💙

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Because some people don’t seem to understand the legal premise of their right to free speech, here it is in its simplest definition:

Your speech is not prohibited by law, but it is not protected by it either.