#cali rants

[sapphicsparkles]

r u a pro shipper

deep sigh I know this is bait, with all the effort of not even typing out full words. But hey, here's my chance to rant about how stupid anti/purity culture is. As far as I understand it "proship" has two major slang definitions: 1) supporting romantically/sexually shipping fictional characters together in general 2) supporting romantically/sexually shipping "problematic" fictional characters together I take it this ask is about the 2nd definition. There is ofc the wave of "PROSHIP DNI" on social profiles, especially young queer folks on social media, which I find highly disappointing because here is the thing: what do you consider "problematic?" In what context? And why the hell are we applying these broadly to the exploration and experimentation of fictional space as a qualifier for someone's moral standing? Why are you so adherent to what is considered institutionally approved as safe, good, and squeaky clean. Especially as a queer person who exist outside and in contradiction to cishet heteropatriarchal standards. Oh and now we've come to it: the fear of queerness being associated with things like incest and age gaps and what have you--things people generally deem problematic in shipping. The desire for queerness to be clean and wholesome and fucking acceptable. Model minority thinking if you will. Let queerness in fiction and media be soft and wholesome and healing, let it be deplorable and unforgivable, let it be wretched, let it be mean, let it struggle and grow and evolve. Let it have the breadth and humanity that cishet characters and stories are readily given. Please stop shooting yourself in the foot with this "good representation" thing. No level of internet drama and ship warring will make them want to kill any of us any less. The line for what institutionally acceptable queerness is will always move, it will always constrain and choke and kill and put us back into little boxes fit for consumption by the power structure. On the one hand, if you have things that ick you and you don't want to see, curating your online space is a good thing. That's what muting and blocking and tagging is for. But to me the "prosoship dni"/anti that I've witnessed for the most part is either model minority thinking, a false association with fictional enjoyment as irl condoning and morality, moral grandstanding, or some sort of wack performative tribalism. (Don't even get me started on the purity culture social panopticon we're living in.) Or some combination of the above. This rise of anti sentiment and the fall of media literacy is a correlation that I fear cannot be a coincidence. You can enjoy things in media that you wouldn't actually condone or even enjoy in reality, you can consume and enjoy media while also actively being aware and critiquing it for its flaws, issues, and the context it was created in. Build your critical thinking skills folks. Sometimes it's even good to encounter things you don't like to understand the world and yourself better--to understand why you don't like it and what it is connected to. Build your self awareness folks. In summary: please chill the fuck out y'all and hold grace for others.

[apocalyptic-byler]

hmmmmmmm thinking many thoughts about this scene

also thinking many thoughts about this particular photo

anyway mike wheeler watch your back 👍🏾

[henrysglock]

El would have been better off going into 9th grade in Hawkins. She’d have the Party (minus Will, but that’s not really a loss anyway, tbqh) who have always had her back (see: she’s our friend and she’s crazy!!), and she’d be with Max, even if Max is struggling (it’s clear they miss each other dearly).

Guess “Nancy can be like your sister/my mom can take care of you” was the better option after all. Lord knows Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Max as a group wouldn’t put up with her getting her shit rocked by someone like Angela.

[imma-potatoo]

I've been thinking of the people saying the ineffable bureaucracy relationship timeline was too fast compared to ineffable husbands

But honestly I think a thing a lot of people are missing here is that relationships aren't really comparable and everyone as a different experience with them. Sometimes yeah, it all happens rather quickly (ex: high-school sweethearts that get married right after high school) and sometimes it's incredibly slow and takes more time than a fucking crockpot and a 450k slowburn.

Beelzebub and Gabriel haven't known eachother for as long as ineffable husbands has, doesn't mean their relationship isn't as valid and that they're immediately going to get sick of eachother the second the honeymoon phase wears off. Ineffable Bureaucracy might have happened rather quickly for celestials but.. as someone who's in a relationship with the love of my life

When you're with that person, it feels like time itself stops, that it's just you and them. While also feeling that there's not enough time in the world where you would be satisfied with their company.

I get people's frustration that ineffable bureaucracy worked out and ineffable husbands is still in that damn crockpot, but IB had always talked and communicated, Crowley and Aziraphale don't talk about anything. Even if IH would've gotten together in season 2, it would have resulted in nothing but heartbreak and things not working out because they never talk to eachother about how they're feeling. Neil recently confirmed that Aziraphale didn't know that Crowley was living in his car because Crowley didn't tell him. Aziraphale still thinks that Heaven is all sunshine and rainbows despite everything Crowley tries to say about it.

IH would be an absolute nightmare of a relationship at the moment, you'd have 2 people that won't communicate to literally save their lives. Nina and Maggie said it perfectly in the last episode, they never talk to eachother.

And I'm not saying that Gabriel and Beelzebub are perfect either, they both have their very fair share of flaws, Bee takes their anger out on the people around them, and Gabriel is a manipulative little shithead at times, but the reason they're the foil to Crowley and Aziraphale is because they're willing to work through it. At the end of the day they're side characters and not all their dates will be shown on screen. It would take a lot more than 6 episodes to show all of them; and just because we're only shown a small snippet doesn't mean that their relationship isn't valid or that they're undeserving of their happy ending

TLDR: Ineffable husbands aren't ready for a relationship mentally and lack the commutative skills for it, while Ineffable bureaucracy got together while being open and honest. IB is meant to be a foil and just because it was fast doesn't mean their relationship isn't valid or unfair

[caliswans]

he WILL be my boyfriend quote me on that (let's all gather around, hold hands and chant)

[jonahsimmsmybeloved]

cali pt. 2 is honestly so devastating because i cant even be mad at jonah or amy for what happened. They are both completely valid in their concerns

Amy feels like she could be rushing things the way she did with her previous marriage and that is completely understandable and makes total sense. of course if the last time you got married it ended badly you would feel like you could just be doing the whole thing over again. she's not a bad person for feeling this way and its just gutwrenching

and then jonah is uprooting his whole life to make this move, so obviously knowing that amy was getting cold feet would make him feel like hes not appreciated and hes doing this all for nothing, for someone who doesnt really care

and what makes it even worse is that they are both also coming from a place of deep love for each other.

Amy knows how unhappy her marriage was and how the divorce affected her, adam, and emma. of course she would never want that for jonah (and parker too). She loves him so much and is always seeing the good in him; her telling Jonah how she feels is an expression of that. She sees herself as the bad person in this situation for having second thoughts and stringing Jonah along(or at least thats probably how she feels). But the thing is shes not, and Jonah is in the same position as her.

Jonah loves Amy so, so much and he would never want her to feel stuck the way she was when she was with Adam. Knowing how Amy is feeling rushed, then Jonah feels like hes the bad person in this situation because hes holding her back.

it's just... they both love each other so much, which is partially why they even made the decisions they did. And the personal reasons they separate are completely valid and understandable, so its impossible to be truly mad at either one of them.

the hurt feelings on both sides of this situation and the incredibly strong underlying love is what makes the breakup so unbelievably devastating. both Jonah and Amy have undeniable concerns, and it just makes the whole situation feel so helpless, even though you know they love each other so much.

[t00high4this]

My brain is bad because when I was using heavier drugs I was way skinnier and sometimes I look at the pics and am like 👀👀 and I have to remind myself that was my lowest low point

[1000feetunder]

CA you're a marine biologist, I need to know your opinion on Sunfish

" Sunfish are the most USELESS fish in the ocean. They're jellyfish with bones. "

" They barely move, other than wiggling. They DON'T HAVE SWIM BLADERS! "

" They are 5,000 pounds of a useless dinner plate. "

" They are so useless they aren't even a common prey animal for carnivous marine life. Seals will just fuck around and maim them for fun and not even eat them. "

" Sunfish are so useless that don't even realize they shouldn't exist and is why they're still around. Their sheer uselessness and stupidity is what keeps them alive. "

" They live to spite whatever god may exist. "

[thomas-jefferson-miku-binder]

i’m reading this paper by a psychoanalyst on how certain philosophers viewed the state of being “out of mind” (as in madness) in a pre psychiatric time and the whiplash i just got lmao.

the writer spent five pages talking about hegel’s views on mental illness and how he not only believed there to be a cure to “out of mindness” but also that it is important to experience it so as to create an absolute spirit. cool, specially considering this was before the mental illness term even came to be.

the psychoanalyst follows that up with kant’s views on it. he spends as much as two paragraphs on it just to clarify kant believed out of mindness to be the worst mistake of reason and “it’s horrible and also im scared of catching the demencia”

of course you think that mr immanuel. i’ve read your stuff, i know where you stand

[jistagrams]

im just genuinely curious, which country r u living in??

i live in the us 😋

[me-and-your-husband]

okay so i have a really bad relationship with my dad (what a surprise), and he's trying to heal our relationship after my mom confronted him about it. he just spent an hour driving me around because my car battery is shit and it won't start. i'm seriously shitting tears right now

like i just wish he would've done things like this for me when i was younger??? when it mattered more??? when he was still raising me??? like i want to forgive him so bad but i still have so much resentment towards him 😕

anyways don't be surprised if yours truly and forever part 2 is full of unbridled angst cause that's what i'm in the mood for!

[caliswans]

add to my playlist! | rants! | whispers!

⇢ ˗ˏˋ i don't give a fuck cause i'm a millionaire!࿐ྂ

my name is cali (short for calico) !!

i like ranting and complaining about shit cause therapy is too expensive

sharing my controversial opinions because everyone around me has a stick up their ass!

send in asks for whatever yall want me to talk about!

[polluted-puddle]

i want to drop everything and go across the country to cali to go to disneyland

[bonivers]

counting on my fingers like hmm how will i get to the rihanna superbowl, bad bunny & frank ocean coachella, and concerts for beyoncé, sza, paramore, arctic monkeys, and the killers. frankly im at a loss. so is my bank account

[queencvbra]

Yes the dynamic between Tory and Kreese is incredibly complex and interesting and I adore it, but also I get uncomfortable every time I see people in this fandom act like Kreese is actually a good and healthy influence in Tory’s life and downplay the role he’s played in her downward spiral. You can care about somebody and still be toxic and exhibit abusive behaviors towards them. That shit’s not mutually exclusive, and “Kreese genuinely cares about Tory” and “Kreese exploited and manipulated Tory” are two statements that can simultaneously be true.

[xcziel]

if someone reading post gets interested in the origins, i also highly recommend flipping through these if you can find a copy

and yeah, it's rap - because hip-hop wasn't the term until later on

where it started

and how it's going, just because i love this book from last year:

As someone who grew up living under a rock in the early 2000s and was completely lost on what hip-hop and rap was good until earlier this year I would absolutely support a crash course playlist

Best listened to on shuffle. Very NSFW, including some lyrics from A Different Time. Tried to focus on the essentials and then a few noteworthy personal favorites. Look below the cut for some commentary on what’s what ⬇️

*this playlist is subject to change, and since it’s original posting has already been edited to add Beastie Boys, Salt N Pepa, and MF DOOM