#also yes this is happening on tiktok

[pinkysberg]

i love mary-beth, believe me i do. but im literally having a conniption over being told repeatedly that the reason a character like tilly probably receives less attention in comparison to a character like mary-beth is because tilly gets less screen time and is "underwritten". while she has more screen time and more pertinence to the narrative than mary-beth and im being serious. she is featured in more than one main mission, mary-beth is featured in two, one tilly is in and the other is a red herring for a mission ABOUT TILLY. again, i love mary-beth but it's so obvious why she is the fan favourite and it's because she's a meek, pretty white girl. the reason tilly receives less attention is absolutely not because of her being "underwritten" and "having less screen time" it's because she's a black woman. y'all do not pay attention to her, you do not listen to her, you do not care. it's clear! because if you DID you'd know that wasn't true! she is the only girl - save for the two that are more central to the plot - that gets a formal goodbye and send off with arthur, she's got an entire mission that centralizes around her, saves jack marston's literal life and dutch also taught the girl to read ffs. and NONE of this can be said for mary-beth, karen or molly. im tired of people ignoring her and then acting like it's for some extraneous reason outside of their control.

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

Me: *tries to see what the Queen fans on TikTok have to say*

*Jim hate*

*”facts” that may or not be actually true*

*”Freddie Mercury was bisexual-“*

*Using Barbara Valentin as evidence*

*thinking things that happened in the movie actually happened irl*

*general misinformation about everyone and everything*

Me: aaaaand back to Tumblr I go

(open tags at your own risk, there’s a whole essay in there)

[hella1975]

all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?

[carcarrot]

having another one of my job-related crises

[swarnpert]

i feel like since people have been using tiktok to let other people take a glance into their lives we've really shown just how out of touch rich people are from the rest of society. obviously we've known for thousands of years that the ruling class is insane but between "how i budget 15k a month at an ivy league school" and doing video tours of their 200 room mansions it's like every 5 seconds we get another "let them eat cake"

[technicalthinker]

august | sastiel (+destiel)

August sipped away like a bottle of wine, 'Cause you were never mine

[opqrstuv04]

Still thinking about Hozier and am currently feeling incredulous about the “fairy goblin gentle bog man” perception so many people have of him. WHERE did that all come from??? Solely from Wasteland, Baby???? Listening back to self titled is insane because nearly all of the songs are overtly or subtextually sexual or political, or both! Take Me to Church goes straight into Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene, there’s a brief upbeat interlude with Someone New but goes right back into it with To Be Alone. It Will Come Back. Foreigner’s God!! The “goblin”est songs off this album as far as I can pick are In a Week and Like Real People Do, and even those are so much richer than -core ing them enables them to be. For 2014 I’d say this is music that borders on gritty and morbid, it’s not designed to be palatable. AND YET!! The complexity of Hozier’s music being boiled down to an easily accessible aesthetic makes me want to 💥💥💥‼️

[toytulini]

hm. you know what. censorship culture bad, agree. but uh "if you say unalive in front of me im killing you with my bare hands" hinged response 👍 good job. thatll show em. be worse. while youre at it you should send some suicide baiting anons to them, another thing that only the most hinged, and reasonable, and cool people do

[screechingsandwichhologram]

my uninformed american opinion is that i will be calling it derry not londonderry because im american and therefore will always support ireland if its ireland vs the british.

(i wasn't even going to post this but i wrote a whole essay in the tags so i don't want to waste that)

[jrueships]

BTW this is not to anyone, it's just a general i wanna just say Thang, calling people BUT MEN ESPECIALLY 'mother' or like 'my wife' my girlfriend u know u know. im not sayin the spicier examples.

does NOT , listen, N O T A L W A Y S mean

THEY ARE A BOTTOM!!!!!!!!! (The kind of bottom I'm talking about is the simplified, singular watered down version usually straight (eerily) young people love to throw away as an 'insult'. Which just emphasizes what im intending here.)

that perpetuates an already problematic perpetuated mindset THAT CAN NOT JUST BE 'AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDED' just because IT ISN'T BEING USED IN THE CONTEXT IT ORIGINATED FROM. Serge ibaka is mother. DeMar is mother. But they also be bangin out bratty ass mfs on a daily basis like the shit is clockwork. Both can be done. that is all i wanted to get out there. ty. gootbye

[ragingtwilight]

BRUH

EVERYTIME I feel like im starting to feel better my body just turns around and flips me off

mf sends me off w a shove down the stairs, nausea, sweating/tremors, headache, confusion, dizziness, it pantsed me, it stole my lunch money, it gave me a swirlie, i cant fuckin win

[salemruinseverything]

when your card declines at therapy and they bring out the person you used to look up to because you felt like they were going through the same thing as you before you found out they were the exact type of power-hungry abusive dipshit you're terrified of becoming

[vvayne]

people (tiktokers lol) are throwing brittany broski under the bus for not "addressing" what's going on in palestine rn.......like what?!why are we asking this of influencers? why is it suddenly EVERYONES responsibility to *address* something? half the comments on a video she posted apologizing are like "well you should've said something anyway not everyone knows what's going on" WHY IS THAT A RANDOM INTERNET FUNNY PERSONS RESPONSIBILITY?!

[pechaberriesandsoju]

Not me finding out people are joining the military because of a shitty ass edit made by the military on tiktok.

If you join the army or military because of a tiktok edit, I hope you realize quickly how much your life is gonna fucking suck. It's not gonna be like your cute, sweet little fanfics. You fell for their propaganda, you dumbasses. I bet people like that would fall for any type of propaganda.

[mizu-melon]

If Herb Cookie was released in 2023, so many Kingdom-only players would be saying "erm... should've been a rare"

[bigcryptiddies]

Very good description of how it feels to discuss antiblackness in the current social climate