#ginger problems

[justanotheroutsidersblog]

Guys, being ginger just means I have better chances of being Ocean and Cherry so actually

[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..

[batfamhastwitter]

Part 44! Fun fact, I actually am a natural ginger, but I have been able to gaslight a specific few people into thinking that I'm blonde and just dye it. They've thought that for at least two years at this point. I want to see how long it can go lmao

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[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

[unofficials4t4n]

Stupid little man. Disaster twink. Boyfailure at its finest. Both dumb AND dumber. Pathetic little gay man. I love him.

[clowncarstars]

Sketch dump of postal 1997 dude

[rocketqueen1989x]

their so fucking beautiful

[stunningcurvess]

[carinnha]

OF: carinnhawhite 🩵

[fayblox]

the sillies . I'll b following these designs in root problem au yahoo

These redesigns / tweaked designs are all mostly traced from the images on the info cards in game and full icon arts! all of these can be found here -> weeeeeeee

[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

[hoofpeet]

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