#forced silence

[arlenelperez]

Silence is not Golden

Although silence may be golden

It's often a sign of the broken

A moment of silence

Lacks any guidance

If we have nothing nice to say,

Then silence should be the mainstay,

According to the boomer's way

They silenced voices they betrayed.

Do not let your voice be silenced

This is a form of violence

Scream from the mountaintops if you must

Let your voice be loud, proud, and just!

Copyright by Arlene L. Perez on May 7, 2024

[starkspi]

From "Unadulterated Loathing" in which Charlie chains these two idiots accidentally together by @otsmosis (who made this comment at the end of the last chapter and inspired me to do whatever this is above)

[empiireans]

two kids with scarves meet

i love that my current hyperfix collabed with my former hyperfixs

[qcomicsy]

If the batkids had a podcast. Part. Xll

Nightwing: "How does it feel to be Batman"- You know that meme "I have no mouth and I must scream"?

Redhood: Wow- That bad??

Nightwing: No-Not really- It's just- You have a very set of limited things you can do as batman.

Nightwing: The fear is great though– People look at you and run.

Redhood: (giggles) Uh-huh

Nightwing: But like- If /Nightwing. Go up to a Penguing gang meeting and shout "Well that's fishy" no one bats an eye.

Redhood: Because you're weird-

Nightwing: I'm not weird- Shut up-("you are" on the background) I'm not. If- If Robin says that-

Robin: I would never say that.

Red Robin: I would

Robin: Of course you wou-

Nightwing: Point is- If I say that, Or Robin say that or Red Robi- No one cares. You can do a double flip and call them a bitch, and that's it. Now if Batman say's that-

Red Robin: You have a problem.

Nightwing: You would have like seven drug dealers heavily armed staring at you horrofied in a empty parking lot.

Redhood: That Sounds awfully restricting.

Nightwing: Right? It was. But (pause) it was a kind of- I don't know. I kinda of a honor noneless. Would do the same again. If had to.

Nightwing:

Nightwing: And people would– People would tweet "why the fuck batman is smiling so much this is terrifying"- And I would be like "well that doesn't add to the pressure at all"- (nervous laugh) Like- I'm trying my best guys- Please.

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[furiousgoldfish]

When you grow up in abuse, first part of your life you have to pretend everything is fine and you're not in pain at all and this is normal and you're good, so your abusers can keep their secrets and not be outed as abusers (because your life is on the line and if you talk and they find out, consequences could be fatal). But then when you manage to get out of it and go out there and live in the world, you believe you'll finally get the chance to get the truth out there, to act true to your feelings and to say what you went through and for it to matter! You want a humanizing experience, you're no longer shackled by threats of abuse if you speak out and you want the truth to be out there, you want your experiences acknowledged!

And it turns out, nope, everyone still wants you to keep it down and act normal or you're not a part of society and you will still be ostracized if you say what happened because people prefer pretending it doesn't happen and they don't wanna hear about it.

First you have to act normal to protect yourself, then you have to act normal to protect everyone else. There is no way to live true to your feelings and experiences.

[arkiwii]

cuddles!!

[amyriver]

amy, rory and river deserved a full episode focused on their relationship & i’ll never be over it

[petitepatateuwu]

It's way too hot and I am way too tired to do any more efforts, so excuse the critical lack of quality here.

If you didn't know, Cole is my favourite Power Ranger :D

And while I was binge watching Ninjago I had the pleasant surprise to see him physically and mentally traumatized in season 5 😈

And since I'm a huge sucker for angst, my brain immediately thought of developing that idea in order to hurt my beautiful baby boy some more. That and also the fact that my brain immediately looks for logic in the laws of cartoon physics (I really shouldn't do that...)

So I bring you the "Cole is a Ghost Kind-of-Saga". I still have a few more ideas to exploit, notably adressing the ways the other ninjas will help him cope with his new condition :3

And maaaaybeeeee a small comic too 😇

Anyways, I will let my brain rest a bit for now and sleep.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

You know, considering Nahida's and Rukkhadevata's self-sacrificing tendencies (I'll just use my power and turn into a twig no problem) alongside Deshret's often insane and reckless ideas (who makes an agreement for an ancient dragon to consume you after your death????) it's honestly a miracle that Rukkhadevata wasn't just perpetually aranara-sized during her time ruling alongside Deshret and Nabu Malikata.

I can just see Nabu Malikata returning from a business trip to Liyue or something, only to find a panicked Deshret sitting next to a potted plant that looks like a mini Irminsul.

Turns out Deshret got a little bit too silly with his last search for forbidden knowledge and Rukkhadevata had to use almost all of her power to stop the potential crisis. Now he's trying to find out how to care for a plant that's literally Irminsul while waiting for the Aranara to arrive.

Another time, Deshret came back and found Nabu Malikata babysitting Rukkhadevata, who had turned into a child.

And, while both gods know that they should probably ask the rainforest dwellers for help, they kind of don't trust the sages. Especially when the Grand Sage at the time suggested keeping Rukkhadevata locked up in the Sanctuary of Surasthana until she regained her powers..... So now there's an unspoken agreement that only the desert and Vanarana are safe places for a weakened Dendro Archon.

I would also like to point out that the (former) Grand Sage barely escaped with his life.

After that initial scare, Deshret would probably come up with a way to transfer dendro or knowledge to Rukkhadevata so she'd get her powers back, but the funniest option would be both him and Nabu Malikata having to do the whole Aranyaka quest to host the Festival Utsava.

People wonder where the Sumeru God Kings are, turns out they're organizing a festival for the Aranara (Deshret and Nabu are doing the preparations, Rukkhadevata is currently a child and is just playing with the Aranara).

[hogans-heroes]

We see a lot of postwar fics with Bucky being the broken one since his breakdowns are so large and visible in the show, but we so need more content of Buck being the broken one, after the war is over. If we focus on him in the show he’s just as bad off as Bucky but he’s better at hiding it. Usually Bucky would be the one to really see through Gale and understand him but in the stalag his own pain blinds him and he can’t see. (Good way to explore someone else being the one who sees). But look at Gale’s eyes in this photo.

(And to those of you who are showing this side of Buck in your content, especially postwar, bless you and thank you so much 🥺)

[tsunael]

you look ridiculous

[mrmeepsmadmind]

soundwave having to be co leader of the decepticons with shockwave while megatron is fucking frozen somewhere & he's forced to keep giving out commands to crazy people he doesn't like bcs they aren't just his cassettes

oh he's so upset ...

[melonbite]

[mintyspacecadet]

I love her dearly

[watcher0033]

Almost 1AM and this exchange brought me to tears.

Hear here, we’ll never stop till the world listens. It’s not forever. It’s now.

[furiousgoldfish]

The rationalization of 'I had it worse' doesn't make sense.  If something bad happened to you, are you now allowed to do a version of that bad thing to someone else, and you're right to do it? In that case anyone in the world who's been trough something bad, would have the ultimate right to inflict that same, or similar thing to anyone else living on earth, yet they don't. Because they understand it's illegal and there would be consequences.

Instead, they do it to people in their family, their friends, their children, people who can't fight back, people who can't inflict consequences on them. Again, if something horrible happened to you, why would you wish a version of that on your family? If something traumatized you, why would you need it to traumatize your loved ones? If anything your focus should be on protecting the ones you love from ever being touched by it.

'I had it worse' told to someone you've just hurt, means that instead of this person being allowed to call you out, to get angry at you, to protest, to speak out their pain and their feelings about it, they now have to cease all that, in order to feel sorry for you. While they're being hurt by you, they're required to give you empathy, to think about how you were feeling however long ago when you were hurt.

But if that's what you wanted, you could have sat them down and said 'hey this thing happened to me a while ago, here's how it felt', that would have had the same effect! It would communicate your past pain and have them empathize, but this is not the goal you want. You're not seeking empathy, you're not seeking for someone to 'understand how you felt back then', you want to see them in pain. You want to see them hurt and then you want them to never be allowed to call it out, to protest or speak their mind. You want them hurt, and you want them silent. You like that more. You specifically picked out a person who wouldn't be able to fight back, and would instead get trapped in feeling bad for you, because most people in your life would not tolerate this, they would do it back to you instantly. You picked someone powerless to hurt and then shut them down by forcing them to feel bad for you instead.

You didn't do it because 'you had it worse'. You did it because you enjoy hurting them. You did it for your own sadistic desires. There was never any need to do it to anyone, except you wanted to, and found a way to get away with it. You wanted more people on earth to suffer and you made sure it happened by your hand.