#It makes me so angry

[goldenboots1]

You know what pisses me off the most? The inconsistency and the hypocrisies….

A few years back a driver was pushed in the wall with 51g and the driver responsible got the time and chance to repair his car during the red flag he produced he got a 10 second penalty and won the race in the end. And everyone was happy with it because we don’t punish the outcome we punish the incident.

And now suddenly they punish the outcome?! The fuck! Just because he’s British? I hate it here!!!

[watermelonbugs]

I will forever be mad about the lack of scar rep in media. Where are my femme characters with scars?? Where are my clumsy characters with scars?? Where are my scars with funny backstories?? Where are my childhood scars that the character barely remembers getting (if they remember at all)?? Where are my acne scars?? Where are my non-facial scars?? Where are my burn scars?? Where are my superheroes with scars?? Where are my happy characters with scars?? Where are my characters that think their scars look cool?? Where are my characters that have difficult emotions about the LOOK of their scars rather than the origin?? WHERE ARE MY SCARS??

[animangalover-writes]

Yk it really bothers me when I see people talking about eurylochus and the crew like they were the problem. It just feels like everyone is just missing the point. Yes they stopped listening to ody, yes eurylochus opened the wind bag, but that's what makes them so human.

Picture this, you leave your home to fight in a war. It takes literal years for this war to be over. You've lost friends, you miss your family, you've been through hell. You're starving and your captain tells you they found food on this island.

And then the cyclops happens. More friends die, you barely escape with your life, and your captain gives his name to the creature that killed your friends.

And everything after that is a direct cause of that decision.

So you hesitate to trust him. Yes he's smart, he's capable, he always has a plan. But he would do anything to get home, and you know that. So when he comes back to the ship claiming to have a bag full of wind, and when he refuses to let anyone near, refuses to trust his own crew, you get suspicious.

Its been about a decade by this point, and your captain seems to get more and more desperate to get home. A god is after you. Odysseus is forcing himself to stay away, all to make sure nobody touches that bag.

Its human, it's realistic, it makes sense that someone would open the bag. Because odysseus stopped trusting you, and so you stop trusting him. So you open the bag.

I just find it frustrating that people look at the crew/eurylochus as bad guys because of this, as pawns for ody to get home and thats it. The point of the show is that ody has become a monster, has dealt with and left behind his humanity. We, as listeners, root for him. We give him grace because of his circumstances. Because he's the main character.

But for some reason, people don't give that same grace to the crew. They're human, their circumstances are awful too. They have no idea if they will get home, they aren't sure then can trust their captain anymore. They question things. They make mistakes. They cause the deaths of others. It's human, its that feeling you get when you think that maybe hope is lost after all, it's what this story is about. Mistakes and loss and blame.

People dislike Eurylochus because he opened the bag. But odysseus gave the cyclops his name. And polites trusted the lotus eaters. And Athena told odysseus to be cruel to a fault. Nobody here is innocent, not really. And none of them knew better either. They were working with what they had, with the terrible circumstances at hand. It's no wonder they made mistakes. It's no wonder people died.

Why are we ignoring the humanity of the crew? Why are we arguing that they, or that eurylochus, deserved it? If the story was about them, odysseus would be seen as the bad guy. But he's the main character, so the others are stupid and wrong, right? All that matters is that odysseus gets home, right? Even if it costs the lives of his crew. His crew who stopped trusting him when he stopped trusting them. His crew who he sacrificed to get home.

I think we're missing the point here. Odysseus did become a monster, and although we cheer for him getting home and Penelope and Telemachus forgive him, we have to acknowledge that he did do terrible things. Those men will never see their families again. Why are we erasing that humanity in them?

Humans do bad things for the sake of saving themselves or the ones they love. That includes Odysseus. That includes Eurylochus. That includes the crew. And that includes every other character in this musical.

[beaft]

the most fucked up thing about the insanely long waiting times for UK gender clinics is that the ultimate TERF bugaboo is the scary trans woman who has made "no effort" to medically transition. that's the argument they jump to every time - the "why should we treat this man like a woman when all he's done is put on a dress?" - and it's patently absurd because like, what the fuck do you expect her to do? become a shapeshifter? get a back-alley boob job? magic up the funds for private healthcare out of nowhere? it's so moronic

[unnoodles]

Sometimes I'm having a good day then I think about Netflix canceling Shadow & Bone.

And then my day is no longer good.

[guldaastan]

[eminentzayn]

ngl all this talk about a 1d reunion having been in the works prior to liam's passing is making me want to throw up. my heart does not want to believe that bc that would add another fucked up layer in whats been one of the worst periods of my life. losing liam in 2024 has eviscerated my heart. but the added thought that we might've gotten our 1d back in 2025 had things just gone to plan is breathtakingly devastating. it would quite fucking literally break me to the point of no return. the what ifs. i would probably never mend again. not that i feel like i ever would after oct 16 but this?? oh boy.

[hooked-on-elvis]

"Charro!"

National General, 1969.

Jess Wade taming a wild horse.

[feralboo-the-weirdo]

Mama, I'm trying to be brave

Mama, do you even remember the last time you saw me cry?

Mama, mama, I've been holding it together.

Mama, I wish you would notice.

Mama...

Mama please.

I want to die.

Would you stop it?

Mama... Mama why don't you care?

Papa, do you care?

Papa, help me, mama wont

Papa...

Papa.... Papa please

Papa, do you remember when you last saw me cry?

You would stop me.

...Wouldn't you?

Mama, papa, I know I've hidden it from you.

But do you care enough to look?

I carry it so well so you can help the others.

But it's heavy.

Help me.

Help me.

Why is the sky empty?

God. God. God.

Help me.

...

I don't think they care, child.

Oh.

[perfectlullabies]

stop with all the weight loss and grow some fat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crowned-clown-rising]

The most resentful Eldarya player and fanfic writer (me) replays episode 13 (I'm going to burn someone)

[sinfulsalutations]

BAD BATCH SEASON 3 SPOILERS!!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

i fucking love (hate) how project necromancer and that whole plotline is just due to filoni's scrambling to justify the absolute bullshit that is "somehow, palpatine returned"

[stopmyhearts]

The top thing to kill my suspension of disbelief is characters without body hair like she would not fucking shave her legs

[paxbe]

steven moffat has a lot to answer for in his poor writing of women but his worst crime is what he did to river song

he took a very cool and interesting woman with an unexplored plotline that had limitless potential and turned her into another of his two-dimensional sexy-woman-who-could-shoot-you archetypes. her plotline also falls victim one of his repeated attempts to craft an exciting mystery with a plot twist which ended up being needlessly convoluted and somehow condescending almost, by neglecting to give river her own meaningful journey and centring her existence around creating puzzles for the doctor to solve

[biblicalhorror]

Tw: suicide, gun violence, emotional abuse

My freshman year of college, a very close friend of mine was being emotionally abused by her high school boyfriend. He couldn't handle the fact that she had chosen to move away from their tiny hometown, and away from him, and he would call her every hour of the day to demand to know where she was, who she was with, why she hadn't texted him in the past hour, etc.

We all told her to break up with him, as she clearly wasn't happy. We figured, we're all 18 year olds, almost no one stays with their high school sweetheart forever. And eventually, when he started to also verbally abuse her, she did.

He didn't stop calling her, and it got worse. He started calling her late at night, drunk and wailing, wandering around their empty town and yelling at her for "abandoning" him. This became a near nightly occurrence, but my friend stood firm in her decision.

Then, one random Wednesday a couple of weeks later, she showed up at my dorm door sobbing. Her ex-boyfriend had stolen his father's gun, walked into her parents' backyard, and shot himself.

The entire town turned against my friend. She was berated and shunned by basically everyone she had grown up with, except her parents, directly blamed for "taking away" the future of a troubled young man who had repeatedly harmed her. She was called all sorts of vile things by her ex-boyfriends family, who decided she was the root of all of his troubles so that they wouldn't have to reflect on the environment they created and how it may have shaped this man's self image. No one even told her when they decided to have a funeral for him.

My friend is the sweetest, kindest person on the planet. She was beyond devastated. In order to paint her as an unfeeling monster, you would need to ignore how far she was pushed before she had the courage to break up with him. He was a troubled kid, but he knew what he was doing.

Grief is a complicated thing, especially grieving a human being because humans are complicated, and you can hold multiple perceptions of someone at the same time. But suicide is never, not EVER, anyone else's fault. Even if he had been the perfect boyfriend and she broke up with him for no reason, it still wouldn't have been her fault. If there is someone you're thinking about blaming, I would bet anything that they've already blamed themselves a million times over. There are so many ways that an abuser can ensure that they terrorize their victims for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, suicide is sometimes one of them. Have compassion for the people on the other side of this tragedy. You don't understand what they're going through and you hopefully never will.

[grimmsnarlll]

fathur when can i leave to be on my owwunnnnn i've gawt the whole worldussyyy