#I needed to get this out of my chest

[sofigrace]

It's funny sad how some people, to fit their narrative that ashton (and by extension tal) is a selfish pos that only did this for power, seem to strip fearne (and by extension ashley) of all her agency

they claim to care about her "oh poor fearne, being manipulated by big evil ashton, i feel so bad for ashley, she was dragged into this" and blatantly ignore what was said on and off the campaign

they refuse to aknowledge that fearne didn't want the shard, that ashley believed it should go to ashton, that tal said they'd have to talk about options before the session, even that ashton was all for giving the shard to fearne until she said she didn't want it

and i don't mean it metaphorically, like, this were all things that were said textually, but they ignore it

just because they never had a good reason to dislike ashton, so now that they *reads notes* act human and make mistakes, they cling to that like a freaking life vest

[unluckyhoneybee]

I'm starting to realize that my migraines come as a response to overstimulation and that's why I have been having them so regularly since I started working (right before Christmas).

Funny thing is that I have also used headaches as a masc for any sign of overstimulation since I was very little.

The thing is that my family can't seem to understand (or don't want to because it would mean that they failed at noticing there was something wrong) that I don't work like them. Lights, noise, people and many other parts of my day are too much for me. I need my quiet moments, I need to stay alone at home, to have privacy so I can rest and get ready for the next day.

I love spending my free time at home, reading, researching for whatever topic is on my mind, crocheting, embroidering... I do all of this at home. My mum thinks that if I don't leave the house it's because I am depressed. Her only response is to attack me, to tell me to leave the house or she will take me to the psychologist.

This week had been too much. I'm barely managing to stay up without breaking down. I wear my earplugs or headphones (sometimes I need silence, others I need music to distract myself) so I can rest my mind, and still they come and talk to me and all of it. They can't read the signs but when I tell them that I need space, then I'm rude or overdramatic.

[moondogss]

barry's use of mexican actors for the bolivian gang is problematic

let me start by saying that i love bill hader and i completely understand from a logical point of view why he casted actors with mexican ancestry and/or central american ancestry, there's a lot more actors available to you in L.A. than if you were to be accurate with the ethinicity and cast bolivian actors; i also understand (but think its very ignorant) that for people in the u.s. latin america is sort of a big group of the same race that is sort of mix of indegenous and spanish, so i dont blame bill hader and alex berg for maybe thinking like that as well because its a cultural things; i should also say that my opinion should be taken with the consideration that i am a white argentinian woman (argentina being a country that is famously very racist towards bolivian people) and bolivian people probably and truly dont give a fuck about this show

but, and its a big but, bolivia is a special case in relation to demographics in latin america, bolivia tends to have in most reports the highest amount of 100% indegenous population, which in latin america where most of the population is mixed is quite rare (mostly because the spanish adopted a strategy where they wanted to whiten the indegenous population through the mix between white spaniards and ingenous women)

one of the biggest reason why so much of the indegenous population in bolivia survived the genocide on latinamerica is because of the altitude, the people there were incredibly used to being 3000 meters above sea level, while the spanish could barely breath (the bolivian football team routinely wins games against fucking messi when they play in la paz, largely because of the altitude)

in latin america having a population so large of mostly indegenous people is extremely rare, most people from latin america who are not white are extremely mixed by the design the spanish left behind; most mexicans are mixed for example

in the show barry you have mostly mixed actors playing people from a country which is mainly indigenous first of all

secondly and this is equally important but shorter to say because i think most of us were taught it in school, the aztecs and the incas were different empires, with different types of people that lived 5000km apart from each other, you cant just interchange them because its easier

tl;dr the tv show barry from hbo did a "memoirs of a geisha" but instead of chinese people playing japanese roles they did mexicans playing bolivians

[stargazinyx]

!!!

I understand how annoying it is to go to a concert wanting to have fun and live the moment, but having to deal with thousands of arms raised up holding their phones, I hate it too. I myself am someone who doesn't really like recording the concerts I go, except for some small moments to at least have something to watch and remember how good it was.

However not everyone have the opportunity to attend to a Ritual.

Talking about what I see in my country, Brazil, our fanbase is massive and last year Ghost only came here to do 2 solo concerts at a small venue after 7 whole years without coming here. We're grateful for it and we understand that maybe it isn't that lucrative to make a big concert in Brazil compared to USA or some European countries, idk, I'm not complaining that they made a Ritual here.

However, if they do come here again and repeat what they did last year the tickets will be expensive and only a small part of the fandom will be able to go, only the ones who have money and time to travel to another state (bc everything is so fcking expensive here) will experience it here, that's a fact.

Now, I'm talking about only one country that might be part of the tour, but imagine the other countries that won't even have a Ritual??? So what about the people that won't have the opportunity to see Ghost??? They won't even see any moments of any concert because we won't be using our phones. The band won't record every second and every angle of every single concert they make, y'know?

So, it's not just about "not using phones to enjoy the moment", it's about sharing the concert with the ones that couldn't go, which is most part of the fandom...

Honestly, it's frustrating how we are so forgotten, even though we love Ghost as much as everyone, just because we were born in a ""smaller"" country :(

i totally understand the disappointment of the yondr pouches at rituals, but situations like this aren't what rituals are about or make it fun for anyone--especially tobias. also security people probably dont want phones flashing at them the whole concert as people try to capture every moment.

tobias wants to perform for us, not to phone cameras and i think he has a good reason for it

gif by @demonlayercake

[miguelwantstofight]

Sometimes I get... really tired of people expecting me to always be the stable and reasonable one, sometimes I also want to get my turn at being irrational, unreasonable and egoistic like everybody else lmao.

[innerpeacellama]

I know I'm unhealed, but fuxk! It's so annoying. My mind tells me that my crush has feelings for his friend and I know if I say the truth to him, I will sound crazy and insecure but I know it's my intuition talking besides my insecurities. He definitely would choose his bestie if she liked him back. Fuck this. If I'm not prioritised I don't want it. And I'm not freaking prioritised.

I'm protected by spirits and angels and no one that means harm can do me any harm.

Feeling unwanted because he acts all nice at work but ghosts me in messages and stood me up on our date. Never responds to my invites, changes subject, and never has said that he likes me! So fuck this fr. I give up chasing. I deserve some one who at least likes me. When someone wants to see u they would do whatever to make time for quality time together to strengthen the bond. If work is the only place you're willing to spend time with them ( while you're being payed), then u are not really interested in them.

Everyone says he's shy thats why, but truthfully according to me it's giving ✨player✨playing with my feelings for some reason. He probably would have ended this long before, but my gifts are the ones that changed his mind.

I tried to make it work.

I know I'm not naturally pretty or super smart but I have a lot positive things to give and I'm so sweet despite my mental struggles.

I lack nothing. I'm my own muse.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[introspectivememories]

im sorry but i choose to believe that tim drake is the most insufferable "my man, my man, my man" girl about bear. he does not shut up about him. steph is cooking smth in the kitchen? oh my man can do that. bear cooks really well. dick triaging some poor victim on an emergency site? oh my man is really good at that. mhmm, bear is on his way to becoming a paramedic. damian building something? oh my man is really good with power tools. have you ever seen him build ikea? it takes him less than an hour. for our anniversary, he built me a coffee table. mhmm isn't he amazing? yeah my man did that. yeah my man, mhmm that's my ma-

[stil-lindigo]

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I can't properly put into words the amount of disgust that I feel seeing someone who looks like she could be my cousin fight for a genocidal occupational force like Israel but I will say this.

If you are Chinese, Korean, Japanese or any one of these Asian ethnicities that the West deem "acceptable" and you align yourselves with western-backed racial supremacy, you are making fools of yourselves. You have fallen prey to the myth of the "model minority" and you are suckers for it.

The premise of racial supremacy is based on exclusivity. And here's a dose of reality - the myth of the "model minority" is nothing but a tactic to placate you. To sow divide in the ranks of people of colour. To artificially manufacture another realm of racial supremacy in minorities so that you're distracted from how we all suffer under colonialism.

Did we all forget about the skyrocketing of sinophobia in the wake of the first COVID outbreak? The transformation of Chinese people into fiends with barbaric eating customs, poor hygiene, and mass conspiracy to infect the world with biological weapons?

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What about the hate-crimes? The attacks in the street against anyone visibly asian? The rampant discrimination and ostracisation from society?

In 2020, Donald Trump referred to COVID-19 as "The Chinese Virus", "Kung-flu" at a campaign rally to raucous applause, a chilling echo of the times where fears of the "Yellow Peril" had the western world in a stranglehold.

For all that Chinese people have been lauded as "prodigies" and "well-mannered workers", the moment our existence was incovenient, were were nothing more than another target. And although Chinese suffering then wasn't close to the scale of suffering that Palestinians now endure, we all received a reminder on what it was like to be in the world's crosshairs.

Now, in 2023, Biden dismisses death tolls as unreliable and remains proudly Zionist even after Netanyahu described the genocide Israel is inflicting upon Palestine as the "struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle." At the same time, Palestinians are being compared to fleeing rats in a gesture of dehumanisation that mirrors how the Nazis portrayed Jews during the Holocaust.

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And let's not think Abigail's Jewishness will save her, not when it's been proven that Israel has administered contraceptives to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants without their consent. Racial supremacy is an exclusive club that never stops getting smaller, and there is nothing that you, as a minority, will ever be able to do to fit in. One day, you too will be a target and there'll be nothing you can do but blame yourself. After all - it's already happened.

So shame on Abigail. Truly. With the memory of knowing what it's like to be targeted for factors out of your control fresh in her mind, she happily fights to do the same to others. And that says more about her than I ever will be able to.

[holystrongegg]

Twenty one pilots did it again, they got me out of my art block with this masterpiece of an album ❤️

And this...this is what I make with my newfound inspiration. Of course it's a meme redraw, and I spent way too long on it, enjoy lmao

Edit: this is what I'm referencing in the oldies station video lol forgot to add it

[medusas-daughter]

I had to block so many Alicent stans bulldozing my posts lately but I need to vent. Yes, Alicent is a product of her father, yes her marriage to Viserys was traumatic, yes the way her council and her own son are treating her is awful.

Here's why I don't have a shred of empathy for her: she chose, actively, of her own volition, not manipulated by her father or husband, not pushed to it by whatever trauma, to slutshame Rhaenyra over and over, and chose, actively, to raise her sons to believe they are better than women simply because they're men. That is a choice. Don't tell me she was protecting her children because Rhaenyra would have killed them when she became queen. Rhaenyra said in front of all of ther father's council that she wanted her son and Alicent's daughter to marry. She wanted to bind both families even more. Kinslaying is a curse that Rhaenyra would have no reason to invoke if they hadn't stolen her crown. All those arguments of Rhaenyra hating her brothers stem from nothing. She literally ignored them 99% of the time, they're the ones who were obsessed with her and her kids because of Alicent's poison. Rhaenyra just saw her brothers as kids. If she hated them she wouldn't have let her sons near them. Alicent chose to torment Rhaenyra to the point where her sons only call their sister "the whore of Dragonstone" and that is not something that was imposed on her by a flawed system, that was a choice on her part.

She also chose to abuse Rhaenyra's sons for their birth. Bigotry against bastards still exists to this day. There are countries where bastards weren't allowed a last name until the last couple decades, that's how recent it is, GRRM didn't invent that. And that's just the legal repercussions, the social ones are worse. I don't take that hate lightly. Alicent chose to remind the whole of the Red Keep over and over to keep calling those children bastards. She made them feel unsafe in their own home. She chose to make her sons hate their nephews and torment them for being bastards. That was a choice that wasn't pushed on her, she did that all on her own.

I have been slutshamed and abused by women like Alicent my whole life. And guess what, the patriarchy those women suffered under? We're all suffering under it. Some of us chose not to take it out on other women. And some of us chose to pander to the man and uphold the patriarchy like it's their life's purpose. Is Alicent a complex nuanced character? I would argue yes actually. She was a victim of certain circumstances and guilty of others. She's quite realistic. She's every right wing woman I've ever met. And no I don't have empathy. She made her bed. She can die in it for all I care.

Also, I don't hate her anymore than I hate the rest of the greens. I'm just angrier at her because a man calling his ex a whore is like a dime a dozen there's so many of them. A woman calling another woman a whore? That stings. That hurts a lot more than anything a man could say.

[buckleyreid]

The thing with buddie fans and the bisexual arc...

Sometimes I look at certain posts and I wonder what show people are watching.

I've always been a hyper realistic person, maybe that's my own flaw, but I genuinely don't understand how someone could watch Buck coming out to Eddie, and their main takeaways being that 1) Buck is disappointed when Eddie says nothing will change between them and 2) Eddie is upset that Buck went on a date with Tommy.

That scene is about so much more than Buddie as a romantic ship, and I guess people who haven't been in Buck's shoes won't understand how nerve-wracking it is to share a part of yourself you're still not 100% confident in with one of the people that matters most to you. It's so incredibly important to see two men who love each other so deeply be there for one another platonically. Seeing people twist and take things out of context just so they fit their own narrative, while ignoring the meaning of such an important storyline is a little disheartening to say the least. If down the line we see Eddie internally conflicted about seeing Buck and Tommy together, and if that leads him down his own journey that's great (I'm a buddie shipper too), but I think it's important to not lose sight of what the show is telling us in the present time.

Buck starts out episode 7x05 nervous, anxious even, about being on a date with a man. He's looking around, he doesn't want anyone to see him and Tommy together like that. Cut to the end of the episode, and he's setting up a date himself, he's smiling and putting his hand on top of Tommy's and he's grown sure enough of himself to ask him to be his date to his sister's wedding (where his parents will be, where his whole team will see them together). That's important, that's the character development we've been looking forward to and unfortunately I feel like I've seen more people focused on making cheating theories and taking Buck and Eddie's interactions out of context instead of celebrating that Evan Buckley, for the first time in a couple of seasons, actually has a decent (monumentally so) storyline. You don't have to ship Buck and Tommy together, but please don't disregard Buck's feelings for Tommy just because you wish Eddie was in his place instead.

TLDR: Buck's arc is his own, it doesn't and shouldn't revolve around anyone but himself, it doesn't revolve around Eddie or Buddie and it doesn't revolve around Tommy either. Bisexuality in media matters, it deserves time and it deserves to be treated with respect.

[zeynyukine3011]

Scrolling in the Ra's al Ghul tag is a jumpscare that you were expecting but still got jumpscared.

The amount of Tim related things I see.... I want to see just Ra's, Talia, Damian,Bruce and other Al Ghul members. I'm so sick of seeing "Ra's al Ghul cherishes Tim's spleen 🤗 and he wants Tim's babies 🤪 Tim knows everything about Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins 🥴"

Can Tim stans leave Ra's alone??? Let the man be the family guy he is. Let him love and care his daughter, son and grandson. Let him care for animals, plants, the whole planet! Stop making everything related to Ra's about Tim. Stop making him a creepy pedo.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

man it is so hard for me to get behind fanon nightmare at all “ooh he saved them he saved killer 🥹” no the fuck his ass did not. color did that stop lying on my man he put in all the hard work and time and effort and blood and sweat and tears

[crookedfivefingers]

[delileaf]

ok but why did rockstar give charles the slayest outfit ever for the saint denis robbery like that little bow around his neck actually keeps me awake at night