#ginger problems

[radiofree-america]

meeks its gonna be so hot out today I'm gonna pass out

How do you think I feel?? If I walk outside at all, I’m gonna come back in looking like a lobster

@therealrichardcameron back me up on this

[socially-reluctant]

Hornet is pale but since he's Mediterranean he tends to tan

Mantis isnt so lucky 😭

Then Hornet has to spend the night slathering Mantis in aloe gel

[ladymisteria]

Here we go again with the idiotic speeches/unprovoked verbal assaults born of the prejudices typical of a mentality that has remained in the Middle Ages. But let's go in order...

This morning a neighbor of mine (70-80 years old, saw me growing up) approaches me and says: "Could you warn others that next week our street will be closed for tree cutting?" (I run an association, together with my sister and my mother, that is responsible for collecting reports about our neighborhood, and then making them available to our neighbors).

Obviously I accept, and as soon as I enter the house, I alert the neighborhood that Mrs. X has informed me that the street will be closed the coming week.

Well, less than an hour later, the same neighbor comes under my windows and starts calling me loudly, demanding to talk to me immediately (even though my sister tells her I am in the shower). Eventually, exasperated, my sister begs me to hear what the lady wants - since she doesn't seem intent on leaving - and I, quite annoyed, go to the window still half soapy and wrapped in my bathrobe.

And here the frenzy begins: the woman starts shouting that I had no right to mention her name (when I warned the neighborhood), that in doing so I violated her privacy, and that - hear hear - she has no intention of being associated in any way: "with someone like you."

Of course, I ask her what she means by saying such a thing, since I have never created any kind of problems (I am something of a hermit because my health has never been the best, since my birth, and the less I go out the better I am - especially when it is sunny and the temperatures touch 104° F like the last few weeks). Her response?

"Don't be a goody-goody! Those with that hair (I've been a redhead since birth) are all the same: lecherous, malicious and conflict creators! Just look at how you show up to talk to your neighbors! Shame on you! Now you call the others and say you made it all up; that I didn't tell you anything and above all, don't you ever dare to do such a thing again!".

And off she goes, leaving me in the midst of one of my PA/s crisis and forcing my sister to rushed me to the emergency room because - literally - I convulsed and stopped breathing.

Now I'm back home, pumped full of tranquilizers, wondering how the hell it is possible, in 2023, to still be so retrograde and so closed-minded...

UPDATE:

As I was writing, my neighbor (again her) came to talk to my sister, asking her if she could take my place in the association ("Your little sister clearly can't handle it anymore anyway").

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[doodles-and-hedgehog]

Got my first sunburn of the year.. remember to use your sunlotion everyone! Don't go challenging the sun..

[chibelial]

Undeniable proof my hair is stunning bees outside keep tangling themselves in it tryna pollinate my damn head

[ladymisteria]

(Not at all) funny thing: if things had been as you say (aliens being anti-redhead), the storyline would still have worked just fine, here in Italy.

Just consider that the amount of discrimination against people like me reached new heights just a couple of weeks ago, when one of the candidates currently running for a seat in the European Parliament publicly stated (and I quote): "People with red hair are abnormal; they are not part of the whole Italian population, so they cannot be absolutely considered part of it!".

My theory is that the early version of Dot and Bubble would have aliens that are anti-redhead and it would be Amy they were prejudiced against, not 11. But the thing is I don't think that that storyline would have translated well outside of the UK. It just would have been too absurd, even if it was inspired by* the "kick a ginger" and "kill a ginger" trends of the early 2000s.

*to be clear, this is my theory. I have no idea if Russell was even going to have the plot be prejudice against redheads

[witchesgetliches]

With all of the new customization options in scarlet/violet, you'd think there'd be at least one option for redheads. Pink-brown and scarlet ain't it.

[hoofpeet]

Cleanup <3

[clowncarstars]

Sketch dump of postal 1997 dude

[rocketqueen1989x]

their so fucking beautiful

[bibisparlkequeenfairybiboca]

rory gilmore is proud of me

[necronatural]

want to make rice congee -> no rice -> my life is fucking over

i dont actually have anything to put in the congee -> i can get some while im picking up rice -> life is beautiful

[sparring-spirals]

im still thinking about that moment last episode where they're planning how to approach dancer and we got:

Ashton: "yeah we should go in with a ginger approach, make sure she doesn't run"

Imogen with complete sincerity, immediately: "so should i just go and calm her emotions right away?"

Ashton with zero judgement or concern: "that, or i was going to pin her down, but that's cool too."

and then when FCG naturally panics over why are we attacking dancer they both turn in sync to be like! No!!! not attacking. restraining. 👍 :) like what. you're both. mildly messed up on exactly the same wavelength here. i love them both so much. what do you mean overkill. this IS my ginger approach. I'm Doing The Job By Whatever Means Necessary Why Are You Yelling.

Something something two people who have spent their lives learning to suppress their flinch/doubt reflex when in a crisis. Out of a horrible necessity. Those two Problem Solving together with a casual sort of callousness. and looking at each other like 👍? 👍 meanwhile FCG is in the background going "wait we're talking about attacking her???" "no of COURSE not, just restraining!" god i adore them.

[macabremarble]

KURO REAPER OC x GRELL

i’m 100% normal about grell and veronica and can be trusted with sharp objects

[shirleyjacksonism]

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[angel-blood-art]

what if she could have not only one ginger beer, but TWO ginger beers (she knows it's not good for her vocal cords but that's ok she just doesn't drink it before performances)