#but then you don't take us seriously

[ftdino]

i think it's a little odd that people of colour are consistently obligated to be patient and understanding when it comes to whitewashing. we are put in a position where we will be villainised if we don't react passively to this kind of harm. then, frequently, when we give people this patience and calmness while speaking to them, they don't take it seriously. they don't understand the extent to which it is harming us because we aren't allowed to show how much it affects us.

[uncanny-tranny]

Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.

[bluespiritshonour]

here's 18-19 year old aang sketches. been hearing aang is ugly discourse—no he ain't. he was just 12.

[kaiserouo]

how do you know i like excalibur

[sincerely-sofie]

Thinking about @gehtsis’s children and how terrifying it would be to get their team assigned to help you escape from a mystery dungeon.

If these are what my heroes look like I'm 99% certain I'd be screaming and running the other way. Menacing cryptid-looking grim reaper and cursed psychic clay doll. I love them.

[poppiesforthirteen]

key trait of every doctor who is that they're sopping wet in one way or another, the difference is how they handle it. 10 is sad wet and pathetic and left out in the rain yes but 13 is wet and pathetic like a cat that fell in the bathtub and is now running through the whole damn apartment getting water everywhere while you try to catch her and dry her off. 12 has his head under the faucet and is trying to drink from it but all the water is running down his face instead. there's no use trying to find the wettest doctor because they're all pathetic. idk

[ohnopeh]

my most unserious headcanon is ian being jealous about debbie and mickey’s friendship in s10/11

walk with me on this but debbie is just like ian in a way

- ginger

- gay (‘you’re not gay debs’)

- fell for a milkovich (so another homosexual milkovich/gallagher relationship)

- mickey likes debbie’s daughter and treats her well (ian wants a kid with mickey !!!!)

ian's basically one of those people who just found out they never had unique experiences in their life and can't stand that for a second (through tik tok vids yes)

debbie being just like a female version of ian and getting along with mickey?! not on his watch

also canon moments that have me giggling and kicking my feet like a teenage girl©

mickey marrying debbie

2. mickey having kids with debbie (because mickey's marrying her, not ian!!! can you feel the pettiness in the air?)

3. how dare mickey stand by debbie and NOT HIS HUSBAND WHO HE BANGED FOR 10 YEARS !! (technically ian... its not been ten years but who's counting)

and of course this.

[unforth]

We are one Iowa caucus into the absolute shitshow that is going to be the US 2024 elections, and I'm already sick of seeing takes downplaying the risk that Trump and his fascist followers represent.

Look. Around 1900, my mother's grandparents immigrated to the Lower East Side of New York City. They brought with them children born in Europe (Poland? Ukraine? which country they were in depends on what year we're talking about) - we're not 100% sure they were THEIR children, even, but there were three, and they were young, and they came. But my great-grandparents had siblings, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, huge families. And while my understanding is that an attempt was made to convince those folks to move to the US, none of them ultimately opted to.

They all kept in touch as they were able, exchanging letters and pictures, but through World War 1, through the 20s, through the Great Depression, through the worsening situation in Europe in the 1930s, my entire extended family who chose not to immigrate...continued to stay.

I think we all know how this story ends.

I have an entire family photo album of people whose names I will never know, because after every single one of them died in the Holocaust, my great-grandparents and grandparents couldn't bear to even label them. And they were PEOPLE, poor, vibrant, eager to maintain connections with their loved ones abroad. One was a Klezmer musician, and we have photos of him with all the different instruments he played. They're so real on the page, and they all ended in ashes.

And you know how that started? Fascism started with every inch allowed, with every well-intentioned moderate who tried to maintain a middle position even as the whole ground shifted right beneath their feet and even "middle" became extreme, every "no that change isn't coming fast enough, I want instant full improvement NOW" liberal who felt that doing nothing was better than accepting a slower improvement in the (truly awful!) post-World War 1 living situation in Germany.

Most of the members of my extended family also downplayed the risks. They never imagined that the worst could happen to them. They never fathomed how bad things could become.

And now I have their example always before me to know and to scream:

I KNOW HOW BAD THINGS CAN BECOME. I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FAMILY THEN.

I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN TO MY FAMILY NOW.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say I've got our passports ready (and have had since before the 2020 election).

Look. I don't know what will happen if Trump is elected, but there's a very real possibility he will, and he's been extremely clear about saying what he'll do. He did a lot of the things he said he'd do last time. I expect he'll continue to do the things he says he'll do. And the things he say he'll do will lead to the deaths of more people than we can imagine - in the US, in Palestine, throughout the world.

Don't tell me there's a middle ground here. Don't tell me I'm over-reacting. Don't tell me the worst won't happen. Don't tell me the risk is mild. Don't tell me we're safe.

We. Are. Not. Safe.

The lives of dozens, hundreds, of members of family were lost in the 1940s amid the horrifying statistic "6,000,000 dead Jews."

I will not let my life (as a Jew), my wife's life (as a disabled woman), my son's life (as a biracial boy), my daughter's life (as a biracial trans girl), be part of the statistics that come from our a second Trump presidency.

If you won't vote like YOUR life depends on it, vote like someone ELSE'S life depends on it, because IT DOES.

And if you can't even do that much, at least shut the fuck up and stop spreading your poison around. You're wrong. The danger is real. Downplaying it now won't make your conscience feel any clearer when it actually happens, and comforting everyone else downplaying it will just make you that much more complicit.

[cyanidecravings]

"it's okay. it's just work after all." "since it's just business you can accept kissing, right?"

[flame-shadow]

ugh i haaaate the fucking self-censoring that so many commentary youtubers do these days. it's been happening for a while, but lately ive been feeling more fed up with it than usual.

derp derp let's talk about this video game that covers really heavy topics and explores the horror of the themes! instead of matching the maturity that i expect my viewers to have about this game, i'm going to use terms like self-deletion and ....... "choice of pregnancy" instead of suicide and rape/abortion. this will not make me sound ridiculous at all 🙃

like. dude. seriously? respect your audience.

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's crazy how I've stayed on this website for thirteen months of the most batshit Nazi antisemitism I've ever seen in my life but that the thing that is probably going to drive me off is seeing 70% of the like 12 people I still follow start suddenly super aggressively posting "won't somebody please think of the men!!" shit in the wake of the US elections and then 2 days later posting "my god it's crazy how all these hysterical BITCHES get soooo hysterical and upset just because we told them they need to think about how men are feeling at the worst moment for women's rights in recent history!!!"

[dragongirltail]

Every time I'm reminded of Spotify I just wanna chew my table, how do you people still use that shit whyyyyy

Go torrent or stream via bandcamp or anything that's not the algorithm fed DRM machine where your money doesn't even support the artist

PLEASE

[greyedian]

MAN I'm seriously so sad about season 2. Bc I wish act 2 had the same emotional impact on me as it appears to have on so many others. But rn I'm just somewhere between unable to care and actively annoyed by some of those writing decisions. Seriously the more I think about it the less I like it.

[kirkwallguy]

if i wanted to start an argument i would say that calling lucanis a bisexual disaster is a product of the trivialisation / memeification of bisexual people that paints them as hypersexual or "attracted to everyone" in the exact same stereotype that has existed since the beginning of time. lucanis is literally just a guy who happens to be bisexual but because the current perception of bisexual men by cishets often includes being nonthreatening partners for straight women where attraction to men is less of a part of their identity and more of a "green flag" that makes them less likely to be misogynistic (untrue btw), his bisexuality was expected to give him specific characteristics (easily flustered, flirty, sexy.) emmrich and davrin didn't get this initial treatment because they dont fit into the idealised relationship mould these people would expect (davrin being black is a major factor given how people see queer people of colour and emmrich being Too Old To Be Bisexual) however when lucanis' romance had no sex and was. uh. boring. this demographic quickly pivoted to emmrich and acted like they were risqué for wanting to fuck a man in his 60s. but i don't want to argue so i'll just smile serenely and remember when the only bisexual man in dai had a bdsm sex tower.

[miodiodavinci]

im being so so brave but also i am gripping you by the shoulders and leaning in and letting you know i am so tired of being brave

[dazais-guardian-angel]

this torture we're going through with the anime must be divine karma for slandering Bones all this time...... they said "oh, you don't like how we adapt things? you say the manga does it better?? okay then, well now there is no more manga. it's Bones or bust, bitches."