I saw you are Israeli with an asexual flag icon. I know you it's not your job to educate me and have no obligation, but if you don't mind, could I ask what your experience of views towards asexuality in Israel are? I'm an American asexual with Israeli family I'm just getting to know since we were in different countries and weren't really in contact until recently. I'm wondering how asexuality is viewed there and what to expect about social attitudes towards it?
honestly I got no clue, the only people who really know I'm ace are my queer friends (who are already educated from western media on what lgbtq is), and my mom.
my mom is all "don't label yourself because you're putting yourself in a box and blocking yourself to new experiences, you're you and that's what matters (also asexuality isn't a thing you're just childish)", I don't know if her views are an accurate example of what the average Israeli thinks, because I'm pretty sure she's somewhere under the NB and bi umbrellas and just doesn't feel the need to use labels, but she's the only "negative" experience I had with coming out as ace, other people probably wouldn't care about your lack of sex life.
also my dad is a whole other story but I gave up on explaining to him what queerness is, he tries to support at least, in a way of "I have no idea what this is and I don't really like it, but it's your life and I can't control what you do with it, I'm gonna give my opinion sometimes (aka scoff and say it's bullshit) but I'm not gonna force you to do anything". which is better than nothing! I can't force him to understand what non binary means or why I want top surgery (he's against all cosmetical surgeries not just gender), and he can't force me to be Normal™, win win ☺️.
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ok so this probably won't be too too soon bc i already have so many wips (i can't be chill abt things sorry guys) BUT. i think i wanna write more old west jjk in the vein of my outlaw geto fic, Lucky Shot. it would all be the same universe but with different reader characters (for the most part, i'm not totally set on anything). the thing is, idk what roles to put what characters in, so i am open to suggestions! characters i would potentially include would be:
gojo
nanami
choso
shoko
utahime
with cameos from other characters probably scattered throughout! anyways pls lmk what you guys think 💜
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New CTB Music (2024 Update)
It's that time of year where I share some of the tracks that I added to my personal CTB playlist that have not been mentioned before on this blog (view (2021, 2022, and 2023 updates as well).
Body to Flame - Lucy Dacus
Longing for your short hair to grow back to the way you like
Thank you for the gesture
I regret ever implying that you could be better
Didn't mean to empty your perfect body
And fill it with my passing will
Hate Me - Miley Cyrus
Go ahead, you can say that I've changed
Just say it to my face
One drink and I'm back to that place
The memories won't fade
Is It Over Now? - Taylor Swift
"Come here, " I whispered in your ear
In your dream as you passed out, baby
Was it over then?
And is it over now?
Halloween - Noah Kahan
But the wreckage of you, I no longer reside in
And the bridges have long since been burned
The ash of the home that I started the fire in
It starts to return to the Earth
I'm leavin' this town and I'm changin' my address
I know that you'll come if you want
It's not Halloween, but the ghost you're dressed up as
Sure knows how to haunt, yeah, she knows how to haunt
Growing Sideways - Noah Kahan
But I ignore things, and I move sideways
Until I forget what I felt in the first place
At the end of the day I know there are worse ways
To stay alive
'Cause everyone's growing and everyone's healthy
I'm terrified that I might never have met me
Orange Juice - Noah Kahan
You said my heart has changed and my soul has changed
And my heart, and my heart
That my life has changed, that this town had changed
And you had not
That the world has changed, don't you find it strange
That you just went ahead and carried on?
I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan
Strained words come on out
Of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke
Pictures and passin' time
You only smile like that when you're drinking
Figure 8 - Paramore
All for your sake
Became the very thing that I hate
I lost my way
Spinning in an endless figure eight
Let You Down - Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves
I'll let you down darlin', down babe
Just like I did before
You'll just keep on slammin' closed hollow unlocked doors
I'll let you down darlin', down babe
Just like times before
You'll just keep on crawin' back and beggin' me for more
No One Else to Blame - Madison Cunningham
For the burden and the stress
For the heartache and the mess you entertain
You put your money down on which part of you is next
To slip down the drain with nothing, nowhere and no one
No one else to blame
Golden Age - Ethel Cain
Do you just want my blood? Am I just that damn hard to love?
'Cause it feels like all I have is still just not enough
I guess that I'll just go outside and watch the fire
And fields of gold fly farther away from me
Dawns - Zach Bryan & Maggie Rogers
Give me my dawns back
Everything that dies makes its way back
I lost her last July in a heart attack
I need one small victory
Crave - Paramore
I romanticize even the worst of times
When all it took to make me cry was being alive
Look up and see a reflection
Of someone who never gave way to the pain
What if I told 'em that now that I'm older
There isn't a moment that I'd wanna change?
Your Hate Could Power a Train - Madison Cunningham
I'm not messin' around, not ready to laugh about it
I don't worship the ground that's holdin' you
I think it's wrong, the way you harm
But no one ever looks too hard at it
What does it say about you?
Your hate could power a train
Head In the Wall - Ethel Cain
Sometimes you make wanna put my fucking head through the wall
Sometimes I wonder if I even know you at all
thousand eyes - FKA Twigs
If I walk out the door, it starts our last goodbye
If you don't pull me back, it wakes a thousand eyes
teenage dream - Olivia Rodrigo
They all say that it gets better, it gets better the more you grow
Yeah, they all say that it gets better, it gets better, but what if I don't?
You First - Paramore
Everyone is a bad guy
And there's no way, no way to know
Who's the worst
Karma's gonna come for all of us
And I hope, well, I hope, I just hope
She comes, comes for you first, oh
Vampire Smile - Kyla La Grange
I want a scar that looks just like you,
'Til then I gotta learn to be a wiser fool.
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Another funny thing about weird Decepticon stans trying to pretend that the Autobots were just as bad as them is that, in IDW1, the Autobots literally did not exist until Orion Pax stormed the Senate and delivered a speech claiming "Autobot" as a new label to mean "autonomous." Whereas all of the colonization during the Golden Age happened during Nova Prime's time a couple million years prior.
And during the war, the Decepticons were literally cyberforming planets they killed and had established something called the Interstellar Constellate at some point. And Megatron said in Chaos Theory that his plan for his Decepticon empire if/when he defeated the Autobots was to rebuild and cyberform planets to create a Decepticon empire where mechanical beings reign supreme.
Like, the BEST ARGUMENT you can make is that since Optimus is a Prime, he technically inherits the problematic nature of the Primacy's history of colonization, but I think that even that argument is pretty thin considering that Optimus was always pro-organic to the point of valuing their lives equally to Cybertronians, which is something that even a lot of Autobots fail to do. Compared to other members of his species, Optimus is literally a radical in terms of his stance that organic life = Cybertronian life, but go off I guess lmao.
You can even see that during the time of Sentinel's Senate, there was an engraving on the wall that said "freedom is the right of all civilized beings", showing that Optimus at some point took that phrase and changed it to underline the fact that freedom is a universal right for ALL beings.
Also, again for IDW1 specifically, a lot of anti-Optimus people clearly don't even know the timeline of events in that story. OP spent a good chunk of the story working against the Senate with things like
Storming the Senate on Megatron's behalf to deliver an angry speech against government corruption
Working with Senator Shockwave undercover to investigate Proteus being suspicious, uncovering a conspiracy to frame the Decepticons for a terrorist attack, and risking his team to prevent it
Going on the run and doing secret operations like saving hotspots from being attacked by Sentinel's forces
(For bonus points, he even saved Drift from dying either by drug overdose or being beaten to death by some thugs and called an emergency transport for him to Ratchet's clinic)
The regime change happens because Sentinel Prime is killed BY MEGATRON who at that point had already become a gladiator criminal underworld. By the time Orion is back in Iacon acting as Zeta's head of security/general/etc, Megatron is already well on the path of corruption and senseless violence doing things like arranging illegal weapon trafficking (shown in Optimus Prime) and forcing Rumble and Frenzy to get frame reformats to fit Megatron's tactical needs (Megatron Origin). Apparently Optimus doesn't deserve to have facts about his backstory and difficult contexts around his decisions be observed by this fandom though lmao.
If you take IDW1 out of context and go "OP worked for the regime!" then yeah of course it looks bad, and yes he did do that. But a lot of people also neglect to mention 1. the anti-government actions he DID take 2. the fact that by the time OP started fighting against Megatron, he had already become super evil and 3. because Megatron was super evil, Orion couldn't just desert Zeta's government and be like, "oh yeah I'll totally be able to talk Megatron out of doing terrorism and violence just on my own" especially since in this continuity they barely fuckin' knew each other before OP became a Prime. There's so much shit around OP being a cop and the ways he did or didn't succeed in trying to change the planet for the better, but none of that is addressed when people just go "oh he's a cop and the Autobots are colonizers" like ????? Stop it.
Stop taking this shit out of context and stop cherrypicking evidence to make one side look good and the other side look bad lmao.
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song recs for @timetravellingkitty and you, dearest reader ♡
Disclaimer: none of these are indie and neither do I claim them to be, I just love them a lot, and if you haven’t heard them yet, I hope you’ll like them too :)
Strawberries by Caamp
Simulation Swarm by Big Thief
Magic Infused by Monita
The Gambler by Kenny Rogers (it’s country, forgive me 😔)
Bruno is Orange by Hop Along
Vienna by Billy Joel
Fade into you by Mazzy Star
True Blue by Boygenius
There’s A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
Other than these, you can follow my Hozier, Mitski, and mommy Lana playlists, apart from my calm, joy-ish, and the ultimate, ultimate playlist, which is my magnum opus of collecting music lol. Haffun ✨✨
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