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Funny how people will be so weird about fma 03's Scar design, citing him being younger/'bishie' compared to the manga and Brotherhood versions as a negative against the first anime adaptation because, let's be real here, a lot of people see this design decision as "feminizing", making him weaker or more palatable at the expense of the role he's meant to play.
Meanwhile 03 Scar, unlike the manga and Broho counterparts, not only is more staunchly anti-military and consistently uses violence and strategies against the system throughout his entire arc, he straight up has a kill count so massive it would make manga + Broho Scars blush (and manga + Broho Elrics have a full existential crisis).
My man never once becomes an Amestrian reformist, never once celebrates the militia (he would have laughed Miles right out of the room if he tried to guilt him for not licking military boots for a scrap of acceptance; in canon he fully declares he has zero pity for soldiers PERIOD) and goes down killing well over 7000+ soldiers and state alchemists in his entire run.
Need I remind everyone that he draws a city-spanning alchemic rune, by himself, with a boulder and a chain to drag it? And lures in the Amestrian invaders by dropping Kimbly's freshly murdered carcass (his doing of course) that he carried with his teeth to the top of a building, while armless and bleeding out? Drawing them further in while dodging gunfire on foot. Iconic. Awe-inspiring. Pure 100% platinum-grade badass.
03 Scar never loses sleep about killing the pigs of a fascist nation, never cedes any ideological or material ground to them, and he could never be shamed out of actively fighting back. Unfortunately we can't say the same for the defanged mangahood Scars. Because despite their more overtly gruff and 'tough' character designs, they're so thoroughly cowed by a small mob of Amestrians who use basic shaming tactics to stop them dead in their tracks and join their side, never to kill another jackbooted hog.
03 Scar clears manga and Brotherhood Scars, easy
#yes this post was inspired by numerous takes from various spheres of the fma fandom online#but it's esp spurred on by one particularly stupid & infamous tumblr post#(which i've only ever seen in screenshots outside of tumblr tbc)#that characterized 03 Scar as some weepy 'woman-like' twit who isn't a badass because he isn't built like a fridge unlike broho scar#examplary of your average broho-only fan i'm sorry#braindead-ass takes#second place goes to the cishet dudes who say shit like ''heh he looks like a member of a boy band 🤪'' like. your watching a show#starring a pretty longhaired braid-wearing teenage boy but apparently you get real uncomfortable with an attractive brown guy??#it's so fucking weird#fma#fma 03#fmab#(and yes i still love the manga & broho scars i just see them as poorly handled & done exceptionally dirty by the narrative & characters)#eta: but yeah the weird misogyny & low key racism regarding 03 Scar's design is embarrassing & tbf i have seen fma 03 fans say this shit to#scar fma
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I need people to understand how S&P (standards and practices) works in television and how much influence they have over what gets to stay IN an episode of a show and how the big time network execs are the ones holding the purse strings and making final decisions on a show's content, not the writers / showrunners / creatives involved.
So many creators have shared S&P notes over the years of the wild and nonsensical things networks wanted them to omit / change / forbid. Most famously on tumblr, I've seen it so many times, is the notes from Gravity Falls. But here's a post compiling a bunch of particularly bad ones from various networks too. Do you see the things they're asking to be changed / cut ?
Now imagine, anything you want to get into your show and actually air has to get through S&P and the network execs. A lot of creators have had to resort to underhanded methods. A lot of creators have had to relegate things to subtext and innuendo and scenes that are "open to interpretation" instead of explicit in meaning. Things have had to be coded and symbolized. And they're relying on their audience to be good readers, good at media literacy, to notice and get it. This stuff isn't the ramblings of conspiracy theorists, it's the true practices creatives have had to use to be able to tell diverse stories for ages. The Hays Code is pretty well known, it exists because of censorship. It was a way to symbolize certain things and get past censors.
Queercoding, in particular, has been used for ages in both visual media and literature do signal to queer audiences that yes, this character is one of us, but no, we can't be explicit about it because TPTB won't allow it. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge to those in the know. It's the deliberate use of certain queer imagery / clothing / mannerisms / phrases / references to other queer media / subtle glances and lingering touches. Things that offer plausible deniability and can be explained away or go unnoticed by straight audiences to get past those network censors. But that queer viewers WILL (hopefully) pick up on.
Because, unfortunately, still to this day, a lot of antiquated network execs don't think queer narratives are profitable. They don't think they'll appeal to general audiences, because that's what matters, whatever appeals to most of the audience demographic so they can keep watching and keep making the network more money. The networks don't care about telling good stories! Most of them are old white cishet business men, not creatives. They don't care about character arcs and what will make fans happy. They don't care about storytelling. What they care about is profit and they're basing their ideas of what's profitable on what they believe is the predominate target demographic, usually white cis heterosexual audiences.
So, imagine a show that started airing in the early 2000s. Imagine a show where the two main characters are based on two characters from a famous Beat Generation novel, where one of the characters is queer! based on a real like bisexual man! The creator is aware of this, most definitely. And sure, it's 2005, there's no way they were thinking of making that explicit about Dean in the text because it just wouldn't fly back then to have a main character be queer. But! it's made subtext. And there are nods to that queerness placed in the text. Things that are open to interpretation. Things that are drenched in metaphor (looking at you 1x06 Skin "I know I'm a freak" "maybe this thing was born human but was different...hated. Until he learned to become someone else.") Things that are blink-and-you-miss-it and left to plausible deniability (things like seemingly spending an hour in the men's bathroom, or always reacting a little vulnerable and awkward when you're clocked instead of laughing it off and making a homophobic joke abt it)
And then, years later there's a ship! It's popular and at first the writers aren't really seriously thinking about it but they'll throw the fans a bone here and there. Then, some writers do get on the destiel train and start actively writing scenes for them that are suggestive. And only a fraction of what they write actually makes it into the text. So many lines left on the cutting room floor: i love past you. i forgive you i love you. i lost cas and it damn near broke me. spread cas's ashes alone. of course i wanted you to stay. if cas were here. -- etc. Everything cut was not cut by the writers! Why would a writer write something to then sabotage their own story and cut it? No, these are things that didn't make it past the network. Somewhere a note was made maybe "too gay" or "don't feed the shippers" or simply "no destiel."
So, "no destiel." That's pretty clearly the message we got from the CW for years. "No destiel. Destiel will alienate our general audience. Two of our main characters being queer? And in a relationship? No way." So what can the pro-destiel creatives involved do, if the network is saying no? What can the writers do if most of their explicit destiel (or queer dean) lines / moments are getting cut? Relegate things to subtext. Make jokes that straight people can wave off but queer people can read into. Make costuming and set design choices that the hardcore fans who are already looking will notice while the general audience and the out-of-touch network execs won't blink and eye at (I'm looking at you Jerry and your lamps and disappearing second nightstands and your gay flamingo bar!)
And then, when the audience asks, "is destiel real? is this proof of destiel?" what can the creatives do but deny? Yes, it hurts, to be told "No no I don't know what you're talking about. There's no destiel in supernatural" a la "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" but! if the network said "no destiel!" and you and your creative team have been working to keep putting destiel in the subtext of the narrative in a way that will get past censors, you can't just go "Yes, actually, all that subtext and symbolism you're picking up, yea it's because destiel is actually in the narrative."
But, there's a BIG difference between actively putting queer themes and subtext into the narrative and then saying it's not there (but it is! and the audience sees it!) versus NOT putting any queer content into the text but SAYING it is there to entice queer fans to continue watching. The latter, is textbook queerbaiting. The former? Is not. The former is the tactics so many creatives have had to use for years, decades, centuries, to get past censorship and signal to those in the know that yea, characters like you are here, they exist in this story.
Were the spn writers perfect? No, absolutely not. And I don't think every instance of queer content was a secret signal. Some stuff, depending on the writer, might've been a period-typical gay joke. These writers are flawed. But it's no secret that there were pro-destiel writers in the writing room throughout the years, and that efforts were made to make it explicitly canon (the market research!)
So no, the writers weren't ever perfect or a homogeneous entity. But they definitely were fighting an uphill battle constantly for 15 yrs against S&P and network execs with antiquated ideas of what's profitable / appealing.
Spn even called out the networks before, on the show, using a silly example of complaints abt the lighting of the show and how dark the early seasons were. Brightening the later seasons wasn't a creative choice, but a network choice. And if the networks can complain abt and change something as trivial as the lighting of a show, they definitely are having a hand in influencing the content of the show, especially queer content.
Even in s15, (seasons fifteen!!!) Misha has said he worried Castiel's confession would not air. In 2020!!! And Jensen recorded that scene on his personal phone! Why? Sure, for the memories. But also, I do not doubt for a second that part of it was for insurance, should the scene mysteriously disappear completely. We've seen the finale script. We've seen the omitted omitted omitted scenes. We all saw how they hacked the confession scene to bits. The weird cuts and close-ups. That's not the writers doing. That's likely not even the editors (willingly). That's orders from on high. All of the fuckery we saw in s15 reeks of network interference. Writers are not trying to sabotage their own stories, believe me.
Anyways, TLDR: Networks have a lot more power than many think and they get final say in what makes it to air. And for years creative teams have had to find ways to get past network censorship if they want "banned" or "unapproved" "unprofitable" "unwanted" content to make it into the show. That means relying on techniques like symbolism, subtext, and queercoding, and then shutting up about it. Denying its there, saying it's all "open to interpretation" all while they continue to put that open to interpretation content into the show. And that's not queerbaiting, as frustrating as it might be for queer audiences to be told that what they're seeing isn't there, it's still not queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a marketing technique to draw in queer fans by baiting them with the promise of queer content and then having no queer content in said media. But if you are picking up on queer themes / subtext / symbolism / coding that is in front of your face IN the text, that's not queerbaiting. It's there, covertly, for you, because someone higher up didn't want it to be there explicitly or at all.
#long post#LONG-ass post#but it needed to be said!#i'm sorry if you think every creative involved with spn was a braindead asshole but the thing is.#even the most mediocre of writers understands a thing or two abt symbolism and writers working in TV are plagued by S&P#countless writers have talked abt the S&P bullshit and having to tweak and edit down their work to get past censors#it's a reality of writing for television#and the people who understand all this and understand the context of making TV in the early 2000s (to present tbh!) aren't 'delusional'#i'm sorry but it's naive to think that queer stories and queer characters are free to be told even nowadays. it's still a constant battle#times have changed but unfortunately not as much as you'd think#the confession !!!!! the confession still struggled to air and what we got was so obviously hacked down to bits!!!!!!#how can anyone think getting destiel content into the show was ever easy?#how can anyone think the pro-destiel writers weren't constantly having to be careful and underhanded in their writing?#there's a reason queercoding and subtext exist and it's this!!! it's censorship from TPTB#anyways. people much older than me have been talking abt this for ages. younger fans who are used to more open queer rep need to understand#it hasn't always been that easy and even nowadays SO many networks are still not willing to take a risk on queer stories#so creators do what they can#vic.txt
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being a chappell roan fan right now really is just
#this is specifically broader internet not necessarily tumblr#if i leave this site i see the most braindead takes imaginable#if i see one more ass backwards take on her or her music or her team i’m gonna give her AND me a bazooka#her having to say multiple times that she’s overwhelmed and stressed and people continue to break into her personal space and act entitled#i miss you chappell roan 150k instagram followers.#i miss you point in time where tiktok didn’t exist and people understood boundaries#(this is not me policing who can listen to her because i do not care. this is me saying stop getting in her face and acting like besties)#miles speaks
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my man
#🙂��️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️#i dont wanna get into it but. the stuff w njs has been pissing me off so much and im SOOO happy to see him say that#even happier to know for sure he wasnt hacked (assuming that news doesnt turn out to be fake 😭)#ppl thinking he was hacked bc its english is like. the most braindead ass take. hes not fluent but he knows at least that much man 😭#and ppl also thinking he was hacked cuz of the actual message. is also insane to me#NO WAY ur telling me njs biggest fan?? supports njs??#this guy who was once a vulnerable teen idol?? is concerned for these vulnerable teen idols?? ?? no way dude#fork fucking found in kitchen#i held a grain of salt bc of the unexpectedness and different from usual tone but. come ON#proud of him 🫡#~
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you go into the tags of this website for even 5 seconds and you will see the most absolutely unhinged shit
#recently#a crazy ass jeremy allen white thirst post gifs and 💦 emojis abound#the most unhinged braindead ass hotd takes (expected yet still unexpected)#and a few weeks ago the craziest tom holland and timmy ai art smoking shirtless in the back of a car#it had me screaming#i almost want to go find it i think i drafted it for the laugh
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#personal#internets#at this rate I've unfollowed both of the kinda.. 'controvercial' blogs I've been following#since there was a good chunk of actually good takes about how bad media is now and society and braindead internet 'activists' that-#-had it too good in their western countries and NEEDED to invent the reason to bully and excile people#could honestly resonate with it despite some other posts causing genuine pain. but mostly about terribly handled media#like you know that thing when corporations do terrible ass rep to pretend that they care for minorities#or artificially fabricate online backlash against their new actors to show investors that people show interest for their product because-#-of all the clicks on their article?#like discussion of this kind sorta keeps me sober#as a person with BPD I get contaminated by opinions VERY easily and as an autist I will believe everything if it is put together 'logically#that's why I HAVE to be exposed to every possible opinion so I am forced to make out my own rather than being swayed anywhere#but at this point those blog became kinda.. bad? like they don't just have 'opinions' but they hate just to hate#but now my dashboard and recs are full of exclusively things I can fully agree with and I am scared that it will rot my brain#like.. emotions are always the same. where is the 'wait WHAT' effect? where is anger? where is self-reflection?#but ALSO I realized that 'those' blogs are no better than those western 'warriors' I despise and they become narrow-minded too in the end#they advertise themselves as 'open to debate' only to always sway debate into trying to win and not into actually discovering the truth#I cannot trust any side because they're all narrow-minded and hostile but I cannot trust people without any side because-#-they're fence-sitters without morals that side with the winner#is there a secret third thing? like is there a way to not take a side but to still HAVE ideals and opinions?#my problem is that if I am not exposed to people that trash everything I value I forget why AM I valuing [a thing] to BEGIN with#and that won't do will it
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Don't do a thinkpiece on skypiea if you're going to completely ignore white christian settler colonization and indigenous genocide. Just don't talk about it.
#its so wild how smart ppl who watch one piece are#yall can write theories all day long and im like wow yall are so smart#but when it comes to skypiea you go braindead#i do not believe youre that stupid#that you dont recognize it#i genuinely just think youre anti indigenous#and dont want to recognize anything doing with indigenous genocide bc you benefit so much from it#ive been looking online for anything that has an intelligent take on skypiea and i havent found much#ppl comparing it to palestine#which is fair#but imo wano represents that situation a lot better#its pretty obvious skypiea is commentary on the indigenous genocide of north america#i think you guys forget that#by tens of millions#and hundreds of years#thats the biggest and longest lasting genocide in human history#nothing in history comes anywhere close to what was done to indignenous north americans#i know yall dont care and dont take it seriously#but odas not a fucking brain dead dumb ass bitch#obviously hed make one of the most important arcs in the series revolve around a significant real world event#its even the way that he went out of his way to show that the indigenous ppl are somewhat sovereign#but theyre STILL being targeted by the white ppl and controlled by white christian colonization
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Some think nuanced villains are overdone and have made people incredibly cycnical but i think the best villains are the ones who are so achingly human and they despise it. The ones who are given every chance to do the right thing but always chose the self serving, greedy, manipulative option while feeding and justifying their own god complex. But theyre not superior and theyre no better than the people who choose to be kind and generous, worse actually, so while they have statues errected in their honor in public, in private they hide from their own reflection. Not a victim of a horrific tragic backstory but a victim of free will, and there really is nothing more human than that. And here comes this good, kind hearted, complex hero who struggles protect the people they care about, to do the right thing, and they need to be eradicated because the worst thing you could do to this villain is remind them that everything they have done up until now was a choice they made.
#i eat this shit uppp#also the type of villain that gets the most braindead ass takes on them by fans#tag your villain bestie
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is the nina-fabian-joy love triangle my favorite part of season 2? in a manner of speaking yes. is it also my least favorite part? easily, yes. do i love talking about it? yes. do i hate talking about it? yes. am i petrified for if/when hoa breaks containment and people watch season 2 and start posting takes? yes
#writing so simultaneously braindead and complex that it needs to be treated like the radioactive sludge it is (affectionate??)#idk its definitely not going to be the source of the worst takes not by a COUNTRY MILE but i think its what will cause me the most damage#and fwiw i love that new people are watching the show i just remember The Trenches . and i have the most all-sides ass opinion on it#hoa#house of anubis
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thinking about the time i saw someone genuinely say you shouldn't block people on social media because it could be traumatic for them to not have access to someone's account and not know why. how about it's none of your business. do you cry about private accounts too.
#they said you should like soft block and then dm them why you did it or something idk it was the most braindead blocking take ive ever seen#i blocked them immediately btw. obviously.#the block button is my best friend idk if anyone has me blocked i dont care i'll never care.#anyway i just saw a poll asking if youve ever been blocked on tumblr and it reminded me but i didnt want to be an ass in the ops notes#they probably do cry about private accounts too. like qrts on private accounts i see people get mad about those a lot too lol.#the account is private for a reason it doesnt matter!!! i hardly use twitter.#ri.txt
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what part if my blog makes trans misogynists feel safe and comfortable following me. Quickly please! you know who you are! Unfollow me you fucking weird bitch acting like you have x ray vision beneath peoples clothes. Dont think youre immune to my eye beams because you make believe you have your own for weird perverted nefarious purposes. And then displace that anger at your perverseness towards transgender people. Lawwwwl.
#dont be fuckjng stupid in my space when im off my meds. thanks#save us both the humiliation#is it like hate following or are you really that fucking dumb and clueless and braindead#can people just like not be fucking insufferable all the time#like can people just get off the internet and get involved with real life human beings and at least TRY to ATTEMPT to make connections#you desperately need it#terfs are always so terminally online they cannot formulate real life relationships and theyre such miserable ass individuals#like MISERABLE and taking it out on trans people its an arbitrary and obessive explanation to their pain#but its just like damn. youre such an unsufferable person.#the way you post how do you like fucking act irl i know your dumb ass is stipid quiet
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//working on an Abt pin since i havent a clue on how to make links work on mobile
#//my ass is still w/o internet just want to keep up w yall cuz im lonelyyy lololo#//also uhh kinda have clars back story planned out#//not fully written cuz im too braindead to#//-to comprehensibly write it all out nor do i have the patience for it eother its bullet pointed and only has the tldr info in ordr??#//plots been revamped so many times so much has been take out due to it not making sense to the real world tho all crp doesnt make sense#//so w/e??? blehhHh#//id post it but im so blehh i dont want to get grilled for how wack it isss#//like im soo lame cuz trenders a huge part of it and low key zalgo is the antag along side clars dad its a shitshow tbhhhhh#//like only 3 people tops know clars backstory kinda (i revamped it smwht??) like isnt clar being a cute himbo enoughhh 😤#long tags#sorryy loololo l l#off but on topic need to draw clars mom being hot cuz this lovely lady bad asf#//like shes hot and she knows it
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Mmmmmk… then do something about it instead of complaining about it on the internet accomplishing nothing but making clickbait companies rich over it trending. I’m getting really tired of this Hamas/Palestine spam from pornbots. Stop getting rich off people’s suffering and donate every fucking penny of that to aid the refugees over there you scumbag fucks. The only thing worse than wars are the soulless money bags that brand #blueandyellow everywhere for a year then leave the Ukraine in the dust when they find a new cash cow to exploit. A place that has been in 7 wars since the Holocaust that will never cease to stop fighting over religious territory and revenue over a super natural being they can’t even prove exists that murders and rapes children with their cultish buildings all over the planet. How about you stop fighting over a God that doesn’t even exist. We’re all just scientific matter no one understands the origin of. But God sure as Hell wouldn’t let priests molest and bury 6,000 children alive along Canada’s border if he even existed so shut the fuck up and just start being decent human beings. Start with that. And fuck billionaires. You greedy motherfuckers suck up all the world’s economic systems and then wonder where all your consumers went when they die of financial constraint YOU created for the whole globe with your greed. We don’t need a pissing contest to a trillion dollars, we need affordable living and vacations with the money you’re ciphoning up by inflating cost of living higher than minimum wage increase so that it changes nothing but poor people’s financial leashes and not your continual profits. Ban increasing cost of living and that will solve like 80% of the world’s problems. The point of raising wages to create comfortable living for ordinary citizens. We don’t care if you can’t afford 15 exotic cars instead of 12 while the working class ends up on the street over one missed paycheck. Fuck off. 🖕🏽
"Murdering 14,000 children is not 'Self-Defense'"
Poster spotted in Boston, Massachusetts
#<mic drop>#buy a plane ticket to Hamas and go fight in the war as an ally or stop making Verizon and other cell phone companies rich.#you don’t even know what you’re talking about… buncha keyboard edgelords that stand for nothing#if you think sitting around on social media all day reblogging for notes likes retweets etc is gonna stop a genocide you’re braindead#go show your cellphone spam to a soldier in Hamas and get shot in the face we’ll turn it into a scene pn South Park and Stan Marsh will#just do a heavy sigh over how stupid you are#leave up to racist idiots to sit around being like oOoooOoOomgggg the genocidal number is getting bigger let’s physically do nothing about#it and profit off of the cell phone revenue while it turns into a sob story#anyone that didn’t thoroughly read this and is spamming hate mail fuck off and die with the TLDR nonsense#your useless cell phone apathy is exactly COVID got out of control for so long#spamming threads about COVID deaths doesn’t form a cure#whining about Hamas isn’t going to stop a war#fly there#get a gun#fight back and defend them#but you won’t because you don’t actually care#you’re all posers#oooOOOoooOoOoOOoo Stan Darsh got his feelings hurt on the internet no one gives a fuck#log off go outside and take actual action or stop spamming people’s threads#i’d LOVE to see you talk to someone like that in the street and get your ass kicked#we’re here for memes kittens landscapes and art not your edgelord tangents that get nothing done#i don’t even follow you and I’m from Boston so which ever algorithmic dweeb in Silicon Valley is putting this in my livefeed you’re fired#you piss off a masshole you get a nice little critique from Harvard#stop being soft and go fight in the war if you care so much about it#you sound like a paintballer COD player that’s like I’m gonna join the marines!!! and never does#i never said I don’t care about the war I said I don’t care about your obnoxious meaningless spam that doesn’t do anything#learn to read before you attack an article you braindead Neanderthal#if spamming doomscroll posts did anything we’d have moderna world peace and a cure for cancer in like 24 hours
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finally watched lisa frankenstein and now i CANNOT stop thinking abt braindead but the roles are reversed <3
#victorian musician zombie stu is taking my sappy ass out#theyre jst like us fr fr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#🩵💙braindead💙🩵#🐝.txt
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What’s rly crazy is how much I am loathing every one of these stupid fucking World Literature classes. Holy shit
#it’s like everything I can’t stand and it’s essentially functioning as an elective bc my advisors are fucking braindead#and I have to buy another fucking copy of yet another fucking book cool amazing#like this fucking phd asshole#it would be one thing if you were lecturing anything profoundly insightful#uugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!#and I bet I’m still gonna be forced to take that stupid ass principles of jazz class next year just watch#I’m sorry as much as I do enjoy jazz I do not need to be taking a whole class on it w my major I just don’t.#I’m screaming tearing my hair out internally but it’s cool.#no well just go over and over again all the misogynistic parts of the novels.#kill me puhlease.
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heartbreaking: clicked to show a post despite having one of my blacklisted tags because it was put on my dash by a beloved mutual and it was one of the reasons i had the tag blacklisted in the first place
#kirk out#three guesses what this is about#actually dont. save yourself.#braindead ass take with thousands of notes lmaooooooooooooooooooo
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