#and yet... )

[femmefaggot]

this episode made us physically ill

[jewreallythinkthat]

For those who missed it, a Jewish man was threatened with arrest in London this weekend for being "openly Jewish" (that's a quote form the policeman who stopped him) while being near a pro-palestinian protest. He was then abused and harassed by protestors. The policeman said that the man's presence could lead to a "breach of the peace"

The police proceeded to release the most victim blamey apology I've ever seen - one so bad that they then had to withdraw it and issue a second apology

The original apology talks about a "new trend of those opposed to the main protests appearing alongside the route to express their views", and "knowing their presence is provocative".

The guy the police stopped was literally walking in London post shul. Not on a counter demonstration, not on a free the hostages demo, or a pro Israel demo. He was just there, and wearing a kippah.

Like I'm sorry but saying Jews being obviously Jewish is causing a breach of the peace when near a pro-palestinian protest makes it very clear that the police know that these are not actually peaceful.

I'm sure a huge number of people on these demos are not actually antisemites and have no intention to harm Jews, however herd mentality can make even the most reasonable person into a bigot, and frankly if people are afraid to stand against the antisemites, it shows that they now how dangerous the people around them are - so WHY are they still there?

[bloodfreak-boyking]

why did we need sam's reaction to his brother kissing cassie? unless...🤔 no, i shan't say

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Dear Eclipse (me agen)

Just thinking back but isn't even safe to b asking questions?

Cause last time, an anony hit Moon on the head with a stick. & trapped in a jar

Sun nearly mauled someone.

& a whole bunch of us summoned yo- op.

Nvm that last one. =×="

"Muhahahaha!

Yes, yes! I do recall that~ All because Moony was left helpless and unable to fend for himself~

The feeling of my eldest brother's rage was like that of embers surging through my veins, I get gooseflesh thinking about it. Quite intriguing that he had been pushed that far~

Sunny always had commendable patience. But I will pass on a piece of advice:

You are all sorely mistaken if you think my anger is the one to fear~"

[doodleisdead]

ART BLOCK DEFEATED!!!!

↓↓↓↓Bubbleless below ↓↓↓↓

[diver5ion]

[f1-birb]

LN4 ~ GRWM: Race Day Edition ✋️

[catbirthdays]

they HAD to give Sidon a girlfriend because this is the gayest shit ive ever seen. bitch gets down on one knee, takes your hand, and gives you a ring with a VOW. like. HELLO.

[slavicafire]

Daguerreotype in an ornamental etui, dated 1850-1855. Portrait of Mikołaj and Julia Bakszewicz with Tekla Iwicka.

[cvntdracvla]

"do you wanna lick my boots? or chop my hands off? is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight?"

[trans-xianxian]

so many otherwise good wei wuxian posts ruined by op thinking that he thinks he's bad/struggles with his goodness

[bloodanna]

I think my favourite thing about the DJ Qualls/Ty Olsson engagement announcement/reactions is the way they have been obviously and openly in a relationship for years and yet I have literally never seen any of the tweets or interview answers all y'all are screencaping and posting until now. XD

[magentamoonbeam]

"I should have thought,” said Fanny, after a pause of recollection and exertion, “that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man’s not being approved, not being loved by some one of her sex at least, let him be ever so generally agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself."

Fanny Price, Mansfield Park

[croszukis]

juraj slafkovský on adapting to the physical play in the nhl — 04.02.24

Talking to guys like Arber, Andy—they’re doing it. And I have big body so, might as well. They gave me [some tips] that can help me. Just trying to do my thing out there at the end of the day, no one else is going to do it for me. ... I’ll be fighting until the ref jumps in. 

[leadandblood]

Half the terror ships I come across

[hauntedhotel]

Okay so in the immediate aftermath I was actually ready to start chewing my fingers off but with time to reflect - it very definitely feels like the start of the third act of a story, y'know? Like the part where it seems like everything at the lowest point and there's no way it's ever going to be okay, end of The Empire Strikes Back kind of situation, so I'm holding out hope for a season 3 with a happy ending.

In the meantime I'm jumping on the bandwagon of the coffee thing being suspicious. It was given an absurdly significant amount of attention and framing if it was just a meaningless gesture, and given how we saw what ingesting human poisons does to angels/demons (with Crowley and the laudanum) I think it's probably likely Aziraphale wasn't entirely himself when he left for Heaven.

However, I do think it's important to consider that from an audience bias perspective we're throwing things at Aziraphale cause we know Heaven is full of shit and we can see Crowley's heart breaking in real time, but it isn't that simple for Aziraphale. He's a guardian, a defender, he genuinely thinks being in a position of authority in Heaven is the best way to protect everything he loves - Earth, humanity and Crowley.

And Crowley, emotionally, is at a different point than Aziraphale (further along a journey, say, he goes too fast). He's already been kicked out of Heaven and made some level of peace with the idea that he doesn't belong in Hell - the idea of being unmoored from his "family" is old news to him. And Hell is awful, but they never pretend otherwise. Aziraphale is trying to leave a toxic family that's constantly telling him they're the good guys, that everything they do is for his own good, for the good of humanity. It's like a cult, almost, in that he can know logically everything they've done and everything he stands to lose by leaving Crowley behind, but that kind of guilt and brainwashing and fear and programming doesn't get washed away that easily.

It's frustrating, as being at the low point of a story often is, but I don't think it's OOC, I don't think it's bad storytelling and I definitely don't think it makes Aziraphale as a character unworthy of sympathy.