#NOT VAGUE POSTING ABOUT ANYONE BTW

[altschmerzes]

prayer circle for everyone whose dash is just full of destiel posts right now. my blacklists and filtering are robust but not robust enough to catch all of it. happy for you or sorry that happened but why am i involved in it 😭

[adiradirim]

Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki in their traditional costumes, in the city’s old cemetery, before the war // a contemporary photo that shows where the destroyed cemetery once was, which is now Greece's largest university, built partially on top of and with land and materials (particularly tombstones) stolen from the razed site.

Thessaloniki or Salonika, once referred to as “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” due to its Ladino-speaking Jewish majority, saw roughly 96% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust. This mass destruction extended to the city's Jewish cemetery, which had been the country's largest, established in the 15th century and housing hundreds of thousands of Jewish graves until its razing by city authorities who had long desired to repurpose the land and resented the inconvenience of Jewish presence. Despite its large-scale destruction during German occupation in 1942, which was initiated and carried out primarily by Thessaloniki authorities with Nazi consent and arrangement, some parts of the cemetery survived intact as late as 1947. Many tombstones were subsequently appropriated and used by city authorities and the Greek Orthodox Church. After the war, people were still carrying away Jewish gravestones each day and regularly looting the cemetery in search of valuables. The city's officials, led by their mayor, completed the cemetery's destruction and sold the tombstones to contractors for use as building materials in various projects; as such many were and are still found in various walls, roads, structures, and churches around the city. A 1992 commemorative book pictures Greek schoolgirls playing Hamlet with skulls and other bones they found in the cemetery.

“[T]he ‘rape’ of the cemetery escalated, marble flooded the market, and its price plummeted. Jewish tombstones were stacked up in mason’s yards and, with the permission of the director of antiquities of Macedonia and overseen by the metropolitan bishop and the municipality, used to pave roads, line latrines, and extend the sea walls; to construct pathways, patios, and walls in private and public spaces though out the city, in suburbs such as Panorama and Ampelokipi, and more than sixty kilometers away in beach towns in Halkidiki, where they decorated playgrounds, bars, and restaurants in hotels; to build a swimming pool – with Hebrew-letter inscription visible; to repair the St. Demetrius Church and other buildings...” Devin Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

Most of the efforts to return found tombstones throughout the city are led by Jews, particularly Jacky Benmayor, the curator of the Jewish Museum and last Ladino speaker in Greece, who has personally recovered hundreds of tombstones including his own family's. Surviving Greek Jews never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the destroyed cemetery, upon which now partially rests Greece's largest university, Aristotle University, which also used Jewish gravestones as building material for its long-coveted expansion finally made possible by the dispossession and annihilation of the city's Jews. In 2014, 72 years after the cemetery's destruction and appropriation, a small memorial was established on campus grounds to acknowledge the Jewish cemetery the school is built on and with; the ceremony just 10 years ago involved the first-ever acknowledgement of the atrocities and apology from a Thessaloniki mayor. The memorial has been vandalised multiple times since its establishment.

[picklesinabottle]

Getting a notification every time someone declares you as a nemesis would be great though. I want that man to fucking KNOW how much I hate his cracker ass

[strebcr]

Proship/anti discourse is discourse that rots the brain and takes all the nuance and shades of grey out of anything. It's why I hate both sides with a passion, black and white thinking does more harm then good!! But with that being said don't doxx minors. I don't care if they're 'proship' THEY'RE STILL MINORS! Don't claim you wanna 'protect kids' if you're actively willing to put them in harms way over terminally online fandom shipping discourse. Please go outside, touch grass, get bitches, find REAL problems!!

[trans-axolotl]

gifted kid discourse makes me insane why are people who are still calling themselves former gifted kids failing to recognize that the type of burnout they r describing is not exclusive to gifted programs and that in fact many neurodivergent children, diagnosed or not, spend their school education being told that they are stupid and that also fucks you up and leads to burnout. that’s not even getting into the ways gifted programs are used to enforce segregation and the huge amounts of racism in gifted programs. like gifted programs are structurally fucked up on so many levels but acting like burnout from being in gifted kids program was an experience that the poor “average” or “dumb” neurodivergent kids couldn’t possible understand is so completely fucked up and what a missed opportunity to build some meaningful solidarity in the way that the school system completes fucks over neurodivergent kids. like some of these people I’m seeing on Twitter need to understand that things like having crushing expectations and having emotional needs ignored and not having accommodations that help you set up for success in adult life are things that many, many neurodivergent children experience. some of us are just called stupid while all of this is happening, or get diagnosed with ODD and pushed into the school to prison pipeline, because we can’t fucking talk about gifted programs without talking about race and class and I am just so tired of seeing this discourse and seeing gifted kids deconstruct the idea that these programs are harmful, but not stop to consider that the existence of these programs is also harming the kids who aren’t in the programs AND that the school system in general is so fucked and that early diagnosis rarely leads to accommodations and support, and often times fucks you up as well.

okay off my soapbox goodnight

[peri]

weird uptick of posts about how the internet is "just for fun" and while i'd usually agree (in a way, ofc there's nuance), it's strange that they're popping up right as the violent rise of anti-palestine posts is happening and i feel like it's a way people are justifying not caring

[korrasamibottles]

-you can't tell somebody's sexual preferences by their appearance

-the way people present themselves in public is often very different from the way they act in private

-the way people interact with adversaries is often very different from the way they interact with romantic/sexual partners

-unless a character literally has sex on screen/page, any and all interpretations of their sexual preferences is considered fanon. Yes, even the ones we personally like.

-bottom does not necessarily mean passive and top does not necessarily mean aggressive

-if I had infinite time I'd go through all the M and E-rated fics on ao3 and see whether The Fandom really thinks this or that, because the cognitive dissonance is actually kind of annoying if I let myself think about it. Which I shouldn't. Because it really doesn't matter.

[batsplat]

qatar 2007 catalunya 2007 laguna 2008 prop on the latest paddock pass ep.... everyone picking casey/vale races as their 800cc picks iktr

[rotisseries]

glad to see we all like to have a normal one on byler tag dot tumblr dot com

[danrifics]

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[bhalspawn]

sometimes ppl on this site see a joke about two characters having a couple physical similarities and need to write 3 paragraphs about how stupid it is to compare them

[watchdogfanclub]

EWWW THE GUY WHO JOINED YOUR SERVER FOR GROSS R34 EUGH EUGH EW.

De..athst.ar shippers come in 2 flavors: the whump/abuse fanatics and the he-man womanlesbian-haters (/ref) chuds. I can never tell which is worse when they equally make me wanna yarf. I'm telling you, EVERY time I come across those guys SOMEONE IS POSTING CROPPED PORN. ALWAYS, ALWAYS WITH THE CROPPED PORN. This is a kids show for for flarf's sake it's just disgusting!! I know every fandom has its bad eggs but jfc!! ((Sorry to vent in your inbox but that rb brought up SO many annoying memories))

GOD! Tbh I'm sure there's a huge overlap between types. Apparently the stupid sexy "fanservice" in Dom's song worked because it drew in these disgusting weirdos in droves! If you look up WOY on any given website you’ll see at minimum a suggestive Dom pin-up!

It's not just the fandom having bad apples, it's them being drawn in and encouraged by the show. Sex sells. That's why the fandom exploded after My Fair Hatey came out and Dom's song went viral. Sure, there were others that saw the video and came too. But the massive influx of untagged porn was... hell.

And I'm still mad about how the crew's behavior (minus ND... he tried so hard and it's no coincidence that the episode he wrote is the only one where I liked Dom as a character...) lured these misogynist pervs in.

It was an incel storyline with the standard incel conclusion that she didn't love him because she was too evil to love. (Really hurt to see that as an aro who thought I was a girl...)

Then there's all these close-ups/emphasis on her boobs and butt, with expression and even anatomy sacrificed to make her look sexy... on a kid's show... Seriously, there was a revision where they had the pose redone because she didn't look attractive enough. Pissed me off to no end.

ND aside she didn't even get written as a character. Replace her with a sexy lamp and galaxy wide natural diaster and it'd be the same plot without the rampant misogyny. Still can't believe that the narrative taught Sylvia to follow Wander without question... Instead of her getting to sit him down and explain that he was being a heteronormative, sexist ass who only treated Dom as a prop to change Hater.

Hah. Yeah. As if Dom would charm him into being a good guy and live a happy, quiet domestic life when she wants to rip not only his spine out, but every spine in the galaxy.

Fun trivia! Once Craig said that C.Peeps banned women fron the army because Hater was nervous around them. Because they're (both) sexist. I find that hard to believe when he's the only man who respected Dom as a person (or at all) once her helmet came off.

Yeah. Not the all-loving do-gooder who was increasingly treated as an infinitely wise being. The guy who will shoot people for looking at him funny.

[dangerous-advantage]

i refuse to believe mxtx has not listened to at least one or both of the songs 'viva la vida' by coldplay, and 'pompeii' by bastille. i refuse

[fairysylveon]

rubbing my temples a little thinking about tim takes

[terminals3v3n]

can i just say that j3nnifer j3nkins and sky3 ev3rly are stronger than the marines and have suffered more than jesus christ and i fucking mean it 😭 they are stronger than i will ever be 🙏

[shuckstruck]

+5 million exp cause i’m not vague posting. even tho i rly rly want to