#because I’m irresponsible

[mothalas]

no matter what I do my father always manages to make me feel like I’m stupid.

[lycandrophile]

i typically don’t post “off topic” since this is a blog with a very specific focus, but i can’t just post on here business-as-usual as if i didn’t just spend a significant amount of my afternoon learning about and crying for the family of a palestinian girl who just learned that most of her loved ones are dead.

a common refrain on this blog has been “we are hurting, we are dying, please pay attention.” so i feel the need to stress now that if you’ve ever heard and listened to that sentiment coming from me about my community and the violence we’ve faced, i need you to hear it now and listen to it now when it comes a thousand times more desperately from the mouths of palestinians in the face of the atrocities that are taking their homes, communities, and lives away. i need to make it abundantly clear that if you see what i talk about here and agree and support it but you won’t extend that same solidarity to the palestinians who need it now, you’ve entirely missed the point.

i also want to stress that you cannot let yourself fall for the propaganda that tries to pit queer and trans people against palestinians. there are queer and trans palestinians and their lives are also being destroyed. they exist and they are part of this family and we need to show up for them and their families. so please keep in mind that every time someone says “if you were queer or trans in palestine you would be killed,” what you’re hearing is an attempt at distracting you from who’s actually killing the queer and trans people in palestine.

i’m one of many people who feel incredibly out of their depth thinking about all of this, and i know that even once i’m better educated, i’ll never stop feeling deeply unqualified to talk about it in depth. i get feeling like you don’t understand it, i get feeling like you can’t do anything about it.

but you don’t need to understand every nuance of the politics or know every bit of the history or feel like an expert in it to give a shit. you can and should(!!!!!!!) learn more and find ways that you can contribute, but in the meantime, the absolute least any of us can do is not look away from this. you don’t need to be an expert to see the tragedies unfolding in front of us and know that they are wrong.

i’ll never forget that girl’s family. i’ll never forget the beautiful babies in those pictures who never got to grow up, or the aunts and uncles and grandparents who were taken before their time. i never knew them, but i felt their loss and cried for them and i will never forget them. they and the countless others like them deserved so much better, and those who are still surviving deserve freedom.

so if you’ve ever fought for my community or any other community facing violence, i better fucking see you fighting for palestinians now.

[whoblewboobear]

I’m gonna take Kipperlilly from some of yall 👀 you can like a villain without trying to clear their name. She objectively is a murderer and a villain this season. It does not make you a “””””bad Person””””” if you like her. You do not have to try and age her down or make her out to be innocent or gentle or sweet or misunderstood. You do not get to use her mental health to excuse her actions either.

At this point, a lot of these post are getting into slippery slope territory, especially concerning mental health. You can be mentally ill and still understand right from wrong. Infantilizing people struggling with their mental health can cause harm. There are mentally ill people that can/will/do go their entire lives without blaming and trying to harm others because of what they’re going through.

Like I feel like we’ve officially hit Joaquin Phoenix Joker levels of ‘we live in a society’ discourse. Yes, there are things that suck and living with mental health issues and having that make your life harder sucks. But then funneling that feeling of unfairness and frustration into harming other people is not okay or justifiable. It’s a clear sign that someone went untreated or their mental health was not taken seriously enough soon enough.

There are a lot of young and impressionable people in the d20 community (a community that is overwhelmingly very supportive and cognizant of mental health) that will see the KLCK discourse and take some of these things to heart. Please be mindful in what you post. She is a fictional character and in context of the story, instead of getting further help or seeking better treatment for her mental health, she chose to harm people. Some responsibility does fall on her in that regard. Not all, but some. There is a point where things get very concerning when you become a danger to yourself or others, Kipperlilly is in that place to be very clear. She needs help.

Yes she is underage, and I do think Jawbone has a heavy responsibility to either reach out to her parents to report her behavior and figure out a treatment plan for her immediately. This never happened, even when she admitted to wanting to kill Kristen. She continued on, untreated and without her rage issues not being fully addressed. Then she murdered someone.

Infantilizing Kipperlilly to absolve her of her wrongdoing isn’t the convo we should be having. Figuring out where she falls on the morality scale does nothing, she’s one of the villains of the season, by that metric, she’s not a great person (not because of her rage disorder, because of her actions.) There are complexities to her. The conversation we should be having is why not a single faculty member or adult that interacted with her and witnessed this behavior didn’t say “woah hey, let’s pump the breaks and get you assessed for a few things and get to the root of what’s going wrong.”

When you see someone struggling, reach out, assess the situation. If you’re an adult and are in a position to help, don’t hesitate to do so or notify a parent or guardian in their life so they get them help. If you’re underage and see a peer struggling, check in and if something sticks out to you as concerning, reach out to an adult that can help or find someone to help. Don’t enable violent or harmful behavior. /Please/ that person can end up hurting themselves or someone else.

[puppyeared]

I made a lmk oc

[waterberry-strawmelon]

just gonna go ahead and say this in advance—

if Riz does indeed come out in junior year, and he says, “I’m ace” or “I’m asexual” when referring specifically to his lack of romantic attraction, aromantic people are allowed to be upset about it.

[hanzajesthanza]

allowed myself the time to spend to write a scene because the fancy took me, ended up destroying my sleep schedule to write it, woke up at 4 pm just to realize it’s not good and i would need to redo it

[streetfarterturdstrike]

Funny piece of lore mentioned in WT that I haven’t seen anyone bring up is that apparently Ken started mass selling out the ansatsuken arts in the main continuity the same way he did in Project X Zone

And it seems Ryu got just as pissed at him for it lol

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

If the landlord doesn’t want me fishing around in their shower vent and cold air returns, then they shouldn’t make them stink like rotting garbage. You painted over the screws so they’re hard to open? Cool. I’ll drill holes into them and get them out with a power tool because the town next to me is having a citywide garage sale and I’m sure there’s some Ryobi in there at a decent price. Your vents are coming off motherfucker, and if I find anything I swear to fucking god I am going to have both your vents and your bank account cleaned out.

[silvermoon424]

Was gonna post a whole rant but I’ll save myself some time and just say I fucking hate capitalism and all the bootlickers who simp for it. Capitalism simps are seriously some of the most morally deficient people out there.

[sapphicsnzs]

i just wanted to make sure this has been clearly said but i’ve been testing for covid everyday and im gonna keep testing as long as i feel sick. i think its just a really nasty cold made worse by getting no sleep (i really hope at least)

[godsperfectprincess]

today i am so tired that i cried real tears because i want a baby so bad

[princesssszzzz]

What if either Rhaena or Baela had been dreamers? What would Daemon had done?

I really don’t think he would give af tbh 😂😭 if your talking show wise. They’ve decided to make Daemon’s entire life revolve around Viserys and if he didn’t care about Viserys “dreaming” or whatever the show was trying to portray then I doubt he would suddenly care about anyone else doing it. Things that should interest Daemon, he hasn’t been shown interested in on screen. They can’t use “dreaming” to really help him or his cause in anyway and Daemon is focused on his personal ambitions and other family members.

I’ve seen a couple people who wanted Rhaena to be a dreamer but I don’t agree with that. It wasn’t adapted correctly to begin with and even Aegon’s dream and all that stuff in the show it’s just very cringe and forced. I don’t want that pushed onto Rhaena😂 because they wouldn’t do it correctly anyways. It doesn’t fit in HOTD but they’ve tried to insert it regardless. It would really be a hindrance on Rhaena’s characterization and everything surrounding book Rhaena. She’s a political and symbolic character more than anything. I understand because of the parallels with Daenerys and hatching Morning why people would think that but it does nothing to her character other than raise questions. It’s bad enough people say stupid shit like “why didn’t she claim a dragon!!!!!!?????” I don’t think adding to characters just to cause discourse is good writing. Actually if we go based off the Valyrians leaving before the doom, Morning’s birth and symbolism of false hope really ruins any “dreaming” plot I could see. Post dance, Baela and Rhaena are settling down thinking it’s a calm time for a new era and rebirth, but if one of them “dreams” the opposite and dragons dying off then that contradicts their post dance behavior. Basically they’re at the end of a Targaryen era and dreaming about dragons would insinuate they’re at the beginning like Daenerys. They can’t do anything about whatever dreams they have. Unless they would actually do something and have action that follows the dream, there’s no point and it ruins the purpose of Morning’s birth and death. As far as they’re concerned, the war ended and now it’s time go back to normal. Little did they know all the dragons are going to die and I really don’t think they’re supposed to see it coming in any way.

Daemon’s interest goes as far as how he could benefit from it. If Baela was a dreamer he might have some interest when it comes to Pentos era Daemon reading books about their ancestors but yeah after that it’s 🤷‍♀️ He spends little to no time with them and they would never get a chance to get Daemon x dreamer daughter interactions once the dance starts. If they wanted to make Baela a dreamer it could’ve potentially been interesting with the scene we got with him teaching her, but again once she’s older her actions would contradict her having any dreams. She’s act first, think later and it would make everyone question her behavior

Book Daemon I believe would be a little different though. Show Daemon just doesn’t care 😭😭

[bafflegab-z]

I really gotta start advocating for myself in regards to accesible events huh

[itsbeenclaireified]

So I was feeling run down yesterday and had had an itchy throat for the 2 prior days, and so I took a test basically because I had one on hand.

And it’s Covid. Booooooo.

Luckily my symptoms are mild. I have a slight headache and I’m congested. But the fatigue seems to have lifted and my throat is better (maybe because I’m congested??? Idk)

So I think I’m on the mend. But also I had to miss some fun events at work today. And I’m hoping to see my cousin for her grad party and my grandpa this weekend. But now maybe I’m gonna be…isolating?? Time will tell.

At least I get to enjoy Trixie while I “work” from home.

[whimsycore]

Not me realizing how desparately I need to move out after the night my mother asked someone how her adult freedoms where going and then asked me when I said “what freedoms” she made it about me driving and not her being a literal tyrant