#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

[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

[unauthorized-author]

i think it'd be really cool if the Erins pulled a bristlefrost on moonpaw HEAR ME OUT okay so this is going to go along with the "ginger tabby is moonpaw's dead sibling" theory even if i don't 100% subscribe to it. BUT stay w/ me here the moonpool is threatened by twolegs, right? so, what if to save the moonpool, Moonpaw throws herself into the pool, which separates her from her sibling. her sibling is able to swim to the surface, but moonpaw drowns, thus taking her to StarClan it's already been shown StarClan can interact w/ the living world, like striking lighting and killing Mudclaw with a fucking tree, so what if Moonpaw goes to residents of StarClan, and convinces them to strike a tree into falling and blocking the twolegs path/crushing their equipment, thus saving the moonpool and her sibling meanwhile, is telling cats about this absurd plan and telling them to get the hell out of the way just in case it works. nobody wants to listen to them at first bc yk this tabby just appeared out of nowhere, but then Bay and Thift (sob) step forward like "Alderheart thought Thrift/I was pregnant with two, but she/I only gave birth to one." "yes mother and father it is i. your now dead daughter ate me in the womb" - something the Erins would do (see DOTC shenanigans) and they believe her because yeah, the Erins would do that. cats move out of the way, and BAM, the tree comes crashing down, saving the moonpool. maybe a leaf floats into the moonpool and the ginger sibling can see Moonpaw in the reflection, along with other ranks of StarClan, looking satisfied or something (this could possibly happen in the last book of changing skies)

since the ginger sibling was never really born, to celebrate, Bay and Thrift give them a warrior name. someone already had a kit named Sun- but we already have three -whisker names in ThunderClan throw a sun in there. "How do you like the name Sun?" "hell yeah" and Squilf gives them a warrior name because they've proven that they have what it takes or something. "From this day forward, you will be known as..." Name ideas: Sunsong - For being happy or something idk Suncloud - For rising through the clouds (coming back from the dead) like the sun Sunsky - Changing Skies? Hello?? The moon has sunk and in her place, the sun rose?? THE SKY LITERALLY CHANGING Sunwish - Tbh we just haven't really used this suffix a lot Sunflight - I just think it sounds neat... And they decide to give Moonpaw her warrior name too bc ofc she's worked hard throughout her apprenticeship and it all climatized in death + Bay and Thrift as loving doting parents get sad that the daughter they raised died Moonpeak - For PEAKING Moonstep - For walking among StarClan ig Moonshine - You're probably as tired as this suffix as I am, but maybe it's to always shine (like the moon) and guide the way Moonpuddle - A smaller version of the Moonpool. Kinda fucked though since she drowned Moonheart - The Erins LOVE the -heart suffix they'll find a way to shove it somewhere and obviously when i say "pull a bristlefrost" i don't mean to erase her as we know it, but yk, kill her. and her sibling comes back to life if we go along w/ this theory? a switcharoo?

OH, and I can't believe I nearly forgot, but the ginger tabby has kits and names the all-black kit after their sister because the Erins love their legacy names lately

[shirleyjacksonism]

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[hoofpeet]

Various experimental doodles paired with [part of] yesterday's journal entry 👍🐄