#I don't wanna say 'imagine if there was a mass movement of people who said they hated gay men and homophobia wasn't real and they never

[bijoumikhawal]

also it really is shit how several popular bloggers were like. Horribly bigoted towards ace people when it was cool, but once it stopped being trendy they 1) deleted those posts so receipts couldn't be pulled 2) maybe put up claimed "redactions" or said "omg its been years if you really wanna know wether i still hate those people dm me" but never apologized for their behavior lmao. I don't think any of the people who did that actually changed, I just think they know it's not such an acceptable/fun target to bully anymore. It's really sick how that type of bullying was encouraged for years and how few people repented for their behavior.

[mlobsters]

RILEY

We can watch so many people just slip into these bottomless pits of… of awful and we can stand it. We can tolerate it because we can say things like, “God works in mysterious ways.” Like there’s a plan? Like something good’s gonna come out of it. Nothing good came out of my drinking. Nothing good came out of me killing that poor girl. Nothing good came out of Joe Collie’s drinking. Not a single good thing comes out of Leeza never being able to walk again. Nothing good came out of a metric ton of crude oil filling up the bay. And the only thing, the only fucking thing that lets people stand by, watching all this suffering, doing nothing, doing fucking nothing, is the idea that suffering can be a gift from God. What a monstrous idea, Father.

FATHER PAUL

Yeah. Look, there’s nothing in the scripture, or in the world for that matter, that suggests God negates personal accountability. There’s certainly nothing in the program to suggest that. Not at all, in fact. I believe God can take our work, even our awful works, and turn them into something else. I know He can find the good in them, and find the love in them, whether we see it or not. That I know… Riley Flynn. That I know.

RUE

You know, ’cause every time someone survives, like, a mass shooting or some terrible fucking earthquake, they always say, you know, “I survived for a reason. God saved me for a reason. I have a purpose.” And then I think to myself, like, okay, well, what you’re saying is that your life is more important than that six-year-old who died that day, or the newborn who died that day, or anybody fucking else who died that day. Your life has a purpose, right? Well, why does your life have a purpose, and my dad’s doesn’t? Because I could argue that my dad’s purpose was to raise me and my sister. To be there for my mom. That was his purpose, I think. But, you know. He’s dead. Ali, if you’re, if you’re about to tell me that he died for a reason, or you know, whatever, I will literally walk the fuck out.

He didn’t die to teach us a lesson. Okay? He didn’t die to, you know, have us all come together, or whatever the fuck people tell people when they don’t have anything to say. He died because he died. That’s it. Same stupid reason I came out of the womb with a couple wires crossed. Right? Just fucking luck. You said it. That’s it.

ALI

Listen, um... I don't know all the answers. And I'm not gonna pretend to. But I do know that at any given point that we're unable to see and comprehend the overall arc of human life. No person can see it. The whole chain reaction of how things come to be from beginning to end. It's a mystery, and will always remain a mystery. How, um, six-year- old Malcolm Little's daddy was killed in a streetcar accident. Rumor was it that the Black Legion did it. The KKK. How that little boy grew up believing that this.white world had no place for a Black man like him, so fuck it. He moves to Harlem, becomes a pimp. Becomes an addict. Starts robbing and stealing, till he gets locked up. Who discovers Islam. Who starts a movement.

Who scares the living shit out of white America so bad that white America was so afraid that they embraced another Negro, one who had a dream, not to cut the head off the snake, even if that's what they deserved, but to live in harmony. Next thing you know, Civil Rights Act. The first legislative steps granting you and I the right to sit in this motherfuckin' diner to have a conversation about whether or not you wanna stay clean from drugs. Drugs that were given to your ancestors to keep them inebriated, inoculated, enslaved. Drugs that stripped them of their ability to not just be free, but to imagine a.world in which they were free. So,.why is one person's purpose greater than another's? Why are some people struck down while others live? Why are you, Rue Bennett, sitting here when other 17-year-olds, 17-year-olds who are better, who are kinder, who are more respectful than you, aren't sitting here, I don't know. That's the mystery. But here we are. So what now?

--

Midnight Mass Book II: Psalms (2021) / Euphoria Special Episode Part 1: Rue (2020)

[bandzboy]

I feel very demoralized lately bc idk if the boycott is working :( a bts member recently released a new album and the lead single is literally top of global spotify charts rn and will likely rank on top ten of billboard with his new album so it seems like most people are still streaming and buying hybe projects idk

anon... even if things don't look in our favour we have to realize that boycotts take a lot of time to have some effect! and unfortunately there are many people especially outside of twt and tumblr that have no idea that it is happening! and trust me, i have a lot of times where i am demotivated and it sucks that there are a lot of people that know about it and still continue to stream and buy albums like nothing is happening but... there was something that happened recently with a friend that is on my txt boycotters gc that gave me a lot of hope! we were spreading info about samsung and how they are contributing to the congo genocide and also how they are gonna be the sponsor of the olympics and since we wanted to let people know about it (bc txt did a song for them) we tried our best to mobilize people and spread the word to through tags and etc! we called out people that weren't boycotting (bc that's also part of it) some people were very rude as you can imagine... in fact we got into fights bc we couldn't believe how so many people still don't care about congo or wanna get educated on it (someone straight up told one of my friends they don't care about conogolese people and they would be streaming the song anyways truly amazing people /sarcasm) but anyways! my friend posted about it and all of that and someone hours after said they started to boycott the song and joined the hybe boycott too because what of my friend's words and how it made them change their stance and did surprise us all and i think we all had that moment that we thought like hey... maybe what we are doing really matters and trust me it really does. all of this to say that i get how you are feeling... but i also want you to realize that our movement is changing every single day, a lot of people are joining every single day too and it's all due to the fact we keep talking about it in any way we can and i think it's important to keep doing it because i think that's one of the reasons why the movement grows! and i think sometimes we focus on the negatives a lot and trust me i do it a lot too and i have to deal with out of touch kpop stans every day that are constantly doubling down on their awful morals just to keep streaming and mass buying albums but we have achieved a lot in these past few months! a lot of media outlets are noticing our efforts, articles have been made, a lot of people who are very important prominent people in the palestinian movement have noticed it too and to me those are insane wins! i've been here for months, i try my best to spread the message from twt to tumblr in the best way i can because i want everyone to be informed and a lot of things have changed and i am just hoping the movement will grow and the tides will start finally changing... this is very long but you aren't the first person that has come to my inbox to say things like this and i just wanna encourage you to keep going! it's very hard and very challenging because new shit keeps getting in the way but at the end of the day you have to remind yourself why you are doing this and who you are doing this for. it's very important to keep that in mind so yeah i just wanted to leave with you with these words

[onmyyan]

Hi its me again. I love your writing and the fact that there isn't as much abuse like there is in others. It reminds me of old yandere stories were it was genuine lovesickness. Anyway, how do you think jjba yanderes would react to a darling that is taller and more muscular than them by quite a bit. You can do whoever you like I don't mind.

A/N: Omg ily🥺 it means a lot you said all that because I really love this genre it’s my comfort trope anyway thank you for the request n I hope ya like it!! Kira should be a trigger warning in an of itself but dw he’s just weird, not mean. Mentions of his past ‘girlfriends’, a curse word or two, lil suggestive in someplace’s Mista murks a few people, tw//gun violence

Characters: Pt2 Joseph, Josuke, Kira, Mista

Joseph was used to looking down on people, standing at a proud 6’5” he was literally and figuratively knocked on his ass when he’d first laid eyes on you, his immediate thought was you were a forgotten pillarman coming from nowhere to get revenge for your masters only to quickly realize you were just a stallion. You were strong enough to put him on his back after one too many cheeky comments. Unafraid to speak your mind and keep him in check, You would stare down at him with that mind melting smirk, all too aware of his frustrations, you assumed he was just being a man, ashamed to be outclassed by someone other than himself, oh honey how wrong you were. You enjoyed teasing the behemoth of a man as no one else really could, at least not as well as you did, throughout your little jabs and snark he always had a retort, a response on the tip of his tongue, eager to do this dance of yours until one of you broke, to you he was a way too cocky dangerously self assured pretty boy who was entertainingly easy to rile up, but to Joseph, you were his everything. Someone he could proudly take home to Granny Erina once he’d finally tamed you. He had a plan, a three step plan to steal your heart just as you’d done his, and this little game of who could annoy the other the most was just step 1. “It’s been fun JoJo but you’re gonna have to find someone else to bother.” You’d jokingly said one day out of the blue, an odd friendship had formed through the month you’d been in town and it felt wrong to leave without notice, an act of kindness you’d learn to regret. “Is this one of your famous jokes (Y/n)? Not so funny to play with a mans heart like that I nearly believed you.” He finished with a scoff, his signature smirk not reaching his eyes. “It’s true Joseph, my flight leaves tomorrow, I didn’t wanna leave without saying goodbye, because as much as we fuck around you’re pretty fun to hang out with.” Your sincerity almost made him feel bad about rushing the next few steps of his plan, he’d have to cram months of planning into a night but he’d accomplished more with less time on his side. He huffed, his grin stretched wide across his handsome features. “Then we outta make tonight count eh?” A thick arm was tossed around your neck, you had to bend awkwardly for this to be possible much to your amusement. “Okay you weirdo, whatever you say.” You let him lead you around town with a grin, unaware you’d be missing that plane, and any other one you tried to take without him.

Josuke watched you eat with the dopiest grin on his face, he’d spent an extra hour in the mirror this morning in preparation for your first official date! Well you didn’t exactly know it it was a date and Okayasu was eating rather messily beside you two but still! You’d actually agreed to come to Toni’s with him! You’d been an enigma since you transferred to the bizarre town, choosing to keep to yourself, and despite the intimidating height and mass you possessed, he saw through your act in seconds. There was a huge softie under all that muscle, he’d watched you enough to know this as a fact, you were a gem and he was intent on showing you his appreciation and adoration for the rest of his days, a vow he’d silently taken the day you’d stolen his heart, the moment was brief in reality but it lasted forever in his mind, you smiled at him in passing, he could feel time slow down, everyone around you faded in the background, a backdrop to the beginning of your story. He could imagine telling your kids how you’d met, something about the way you’d stare down at him, eyes sharp and attentive, like you truly listened when people spoke, your laugh was loud when it was real and every time he heard it he felt 10 years added to his lifespan. At the same time that icky feeling at another person making you laugh was conflicting, he’d never been in love before but he suddenly understood why his mom had never given up on his dad, love was weird but he wouldn’t give it up for anything. You’d accidentally snapped your chopsticks laughing too hard at a joke he’d tossed out, your face scrunched in embarrassment before chuckling at yourself and switching to a fork, his stand came out on its own, pocketing the shards to fix later, a new item for his ever growing collection, what a cute little memento from your first date! His thoughts swirled happily with the stories you’d be telling your kids. Thankfully neither of you noticed his little pickpocket moment, dangerous plans forming as he stared at you with those misleadingly soft puppy dog eyes.

Kira could die in this moment, happily I might add, as your firm but soft hand was wrapped oh so deliciously around his throat threatening to crush it with ease at the slightest movement. He’d been watching you for a while now, the longest he’d ever spent on someone he didn’t plan to kill, it become sort of hobby he’d picked up recently, the morally upsetting activity bringing peace to his day to day, usually he used his stand to carefully observe your routine, eager to learn all he could about his future spouses likes and desires, but he was getting greedy. Of course he could always introduce himself but he resisted, knowing there was a time and place to get exactly what he wanted. He liked to think he knew everything about you by now, your favorite color, how you liked your coffee, your love for cats, but he didn’t anticipate this. You were much more observant than he’d given you credit for, while you couldn’t see his stand you could sense yourself being watched, and seeing the large blonde lurking indiscriminately in the crowds throughout the day was enough to set you off. So you trailed off into the less crowded parts of town quickly entering an alleyway, he followed in pure confusion only to be roughly slammed into the wall, his stand came out on reflex but simply stared at his attacker, it seemed almost confused as what to do. “Why the hell are you following me pretty boy?” His eyes rolled to the back of his head at the feel of your fingers tightening, god he’d never felt this rush of exhilaration, none of his past ‘girlfriends’ could pull such an illicit reaction from him with a simple touch. When he didn’t answer you simply scoffed and tossed him aside like it was nothing. You left with a threat to stay out of your sight, yet all he could do was smile, the faint imprint of your fingers burned in his skin deliciously, how lucky could one man get?

Mista observed you with hungry eyes. His stare was unapologetically locked on your form. He made no intention to hide his attraction for you. The day you’d joined Buccarati’s crew was the day his world flipped. He assumed his new teammate would be no one to fuck with based on what Bruno told him about your stand, but when you walked in? Needing to bend down slightly just to enter the doorway had him sweating in his seat. He didn’t know what to say as he watched you happily interact with his fellow teammates, immediately you blended with the group, but all that was running through his mind were all the fun things you could do with those muscles. He usually stayed silent around you, not out of dislike as one would assume from his piercing gaze, but fear of accidentally voicing one of those nasty thoughts kept him quiet. You didn’t seem to mind though, always including him in the conversation, you even understood his very valid fear of that dreaded number! How could god plop such a perfect person in his lap and expect him to not do anything about it? Alas, Bruno had specifically told them not to make you uncomfortable with any flirting so he bit his tongue. Your aura was calming, a contrast to your powerful stand, speaking of, he couldn’t get his under control. Whenever they could Sex Pistols was out and all over you. They climbed and clamored for your attention, thankfully you didn’t seem to mind, always entertained their antics when you could, even giving each one a small peck when they wouldn’t let you leave for a mission without Mista, to say he was done for was an understatement, it took one mission going foul for his resistance to snap. His stand moved faster than it ever had, piercing the skulls of the idiots who brought you pain. He left the last one slowly bleeding out kneeling down to wipe the matted hair from your forehead, “You okay baby? Don’t worry honey I’ll make the bastard hurt.” He spoke not breaking eye contact, his hand pointed behind him, grip steady as he unloaded in the poor fool who thought it was a good idea to make you bleed, the wound was small, not even deep enough to trouble Giorno but that didn’t matter to Guido, any slight against you was disrespecting the future parent of his children, and what kind of man would he be if he didn’t defend your honor?

[shirokaneki]

Oh actually I can answer this. They disabled likes because in the past korra fans made movements to mass dislike the videos which resulted in the video getting removed from the YouTube algorithm which prevented anyone being able to see it, then they made a movement to wrongly mass flag it so it would get made private so only followers could see it (the video you see now is a reupload) they also all harassed, sent hate and death threats because you know how people get when you criticise cartoons. I think it was in the korra video description it says this?

However, the comments on the su and korra video aren't disabled so I'm not sure why you guys are saying that they are? I think not being able to accept criticism is only prelevent if comments are disabled (unless for harassment) because literally anyone can dislike without even having watched the video where as a comment you kinda need to have watched the video to not seem like a complete idiot who's gonna get their ass handed to them by someone who has a full argument thought out.

The only video I've ever seen of hers was the su one . I definitely don't agree with it all of it, especially the controversial stuff, but it was interesting watch. I'm not even an avid su fandom member, nevermind critical, (I actually think people who run whole critical blogs for cartoons is kinda pathetic), I just catch up with the show every now and again, but it did help me understand why I thought the show had dropped in quality so much during the homeworld arc, and get me to change my mind on a couple of things like racism and stuff.

Forgive me that this got a bit long I understand if you don't wanna read this, it's just all the posts I've seen about this from you seem to get the wrong impression about what people who think the talking problem is bad and spread misinformation about the video, so I hope you can read this as so I can clear what I hope people think as someone who actually watched the video. In no way is my tone meant to sound bad or argumentive so sorry if it does.

Regarding your other posts about teaching children to talk it out with their enemies - well for starters, Su isn't really a kids show. The vast majority of the audience is adults and the crew are well aware of this making it with adults in mind. That's why CN wants to kill the show and limits its airing time to sporadic bombs; the vast majority of cartoon profit comes from toys, and adults aren't so likely to buy toys (I don't even know if any su toys actually exist.) When I worked with kids, every single kid I asked about the show absolutely loathed it. That's why CN puts so much time into teen titans when su is clearly the better show because kids actually like TT and its about what kids want, not what adults want. Even so, being a kids show doesn't exempt it from criticism; if anything, we should be more critical of kids shows since they are teaching lessons to impressionable minds. If a children's show wants to deal with adult themes, then it should be criticised on how it deals with them.

Rebecca Sugar herself knows that talking won't solve all problems; in an interview where she was asked about this, her response was that if it was really such a bad thing to imagine a FICTIONAL world where talking could solve everything. She knows this isn't always viable irl, so I don't think that's the lesson su is teaching that everything should be solved by it. I definitely don't think they should be taught that violence is always the answer, or agree that Sugar is pushing a nazi sympathiser narrative, that's just ridiculous. (all though Lily clarified that she wasn't calling her a nazi multiple times so I know people who said that didn't watch the video) If you guys have a problem with children being taught that violence may sometimes be necessary when dealing with oppressive rule, ask yourself why you're supporting a show about a rebel faction at war with a government that wanted to kill off an entire planet. Again, I don't agree that the diamonds are supposed to be nazis and sugar is pushing a sympathetic narrative by having Steven win them over by talking. No one is out for blood and pushing for a violent narrative by saying they are unhappy with that. The reason some were unhappy with the diamonds coming to Stevens side isn't because he was able to talk them over to his side, but because they only ever listened to him because he was one of them, they probably would not listen to any human, and they've YET to show any repent for their actions. But if you think this show about war that deals with abuse and other mature themes is ENTIRELY for children, then I understand why some people think that the lesson that children don't always have to forgive oppressors who literally wanted them dead should be there and that not everyone can be won over with rationality and talking (like jasper) should be there with white diamond. However it should be there as a minor thing the show should keep its current message as the priority because its the right answer. The show doesn't have to even be violent and murder to do that - white diamond can be bubbled just like anyone else. Having one narrative like this almidst an entirely pacifist show does not teach children they should kill or attack anyone who disagrees with them and it's ridiculous to say it does. People want for steven to TRY and reason with white diamond, then fail to prove that some evil people just can't be reasoned with.

However, I think you guys should stop posting about the video. Because you guys haven't watched the full thing and every time it's brought up you spread misinformation because of that, and I just don't trust the antis that might be hate following this blog with the history this person gets for criticising cartoons. Besides, the diamonds being associated with facism was one single point in one ridiculously long video. There were plenty other points like racism in the show regarding black coded characters and the whole human zoo fiasco, and while I'm white (Idk about lily but I've seen the same point made by poc before so if she wasn't she got it from them) so I can't really have an opinion on it I think we should listen to poc if they tell us something is racist. Again I don't agree that the diamonds are meant to be nazis or sugar is pushing a facist sympathetic narrative, but I definitely don't think it's wrong to say the diamond have elements of facist rule coded within them.

It was also posted two weeks ago so I think it's time to let it go.

lily orchard has likes disabled in all her videos like. you're kinda looking like a fool rn

I assume that you’re saying she looks like a fool, and I agree. amazing how the person making two hour long criticism videos can’t take criticism themselves