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Do you think that Allen's wish was to die by his own terms
#dgm#dgm spoilers#he was a soldier fighting for a war that killed his comrades and himself#its war people die#but with the way war and politics works#soldiers are just pawns for higher authorities to use and dispose#Humans are greedy and selfish but that's makes them human#it doesn't necessarily mean it was ok#what more could he possibly want other than to die by his own choice?#allen who was always following#never quite being his own person#past allen#past!allen#past allen walker#dgm 252#dgm 253#d gray man#d.gray man#nea d campbell
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The thing is I am definitely not happy or chill in the Immediate Sense lately but I am, big picture, so fucking happy with the person I am.
It's like. My brain was made by and for consistent trauma and since that trauma stopped about 5-7 years ago, it is incredible what the amount of resilience and cleverness and flexibility and thoughtfulness I developed to survive can do when it's not being all spent on surviving. like I had a hundred ton weight on me so I had to get REALLY STRONG to stay in the same place and not get 100% crushed, and when that weight came off I found I can use the strength it used to take to stand up and I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I was talking to my mum the other day and she said, "you've got the 'fuck it' energy at 30 that most women don't find until their fifties at least" and I'm like yeah man. Imagine how unstoppable I'll be in 20 years.
#red said#i don't know that i can express this clearly but it's the most encouraging thing in my life#my mum's always been proud of me but just lately she seems to actually really admire me#like she's genuinely impressed. she thinks I've surpassed her. i don't necessarily agree but it's a really nice quiet joy.#anyway like this sounds super up myself and it kind of is.#but also it's part of realising just how heavy the weight I've been carrying around with me for 25 years was#like not to be ridiculous but i have realised again this week. that it isn't that everyone's been raped that much and doesn't talk about it#i just have been raped an Unusually Consistent Amount. i have spoken to a lot of people who have had much more horrifying things happen.#I'm not sure I've talked to more than a couple of people who've had a similar level of total consistency of abuse from all angles#and the one is not heavier or harder to bear that the other. but. i think i spent most of my life listening to people's awful experiences#and going ok well nothing i went through looked that bad so it's microtrauma#obviously microtraumas build up but still.#then the older i get and the more i have these conversations the more I notice that stuff which to me is a microtrauma#is a lot of people's defining trauma. and they're reacting appropriately which means i am SO SEVERELY UNDERREACTING#told my friend the other day about a time someone who i still like and respect was having sex with me when i paralocated my hip#and then just kept getting really annoyed with me for not being ready to have sex again while i was literally crying with pain#until i caved and just tried to find the last painful position#and my friend was like pal what the fuck that's horrific#and i was like i mean no that's normal I've had sex with like maybe 3 or 4 people in my life who i haven't had similar stuff with#like i am genuinely thrown when i am allowed to say no to sex and have it be the end of the conversation. and not end up having sex#out of guilt or out of physical coercion or through physical rape. and i have had sex with probably like 40 people at this stage?#and I'm not sure it's as many as 4 i haven't had that experience with tbh#so like. I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea#that i may have actually been doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting.#like i developed a sense of self that can survive being constantly crushed and at this stage is fucking diamond.
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maybe i’m just easily annoyed (and the news is depressing), but i feel like people on here (or the internet in general lbr) are more willing to criticize/dismiss (even label unrelated things as) “white feminism” (even if it’s bringing up important/relevant issues) than talk about feminism at all. sexism exists in every community you can think of, within every race, ethnicity, social class, religion, nationality, sexuality, what-have-you. it’s easier and more entertaining ig to point out how feminism is lacking or who’s doing feminism “wrong” then attempt to bridge/fill the gaps and actually, Seriously Talk about sexism in detail (and not like it’s some sort of 2nd tier, we’ll circle back to this much later, type of oppression which i Really get the impression of, even within supposedly-progressive spheres) on the regular and not as a series of gotcha posts that get enthusiastically reblogged for a blip in time and then. crickets. like as far as the patriarchy’s concerned (like if i’m looking at this from their perspective), this nitpicking appears very divide-and-conquer. nothing goes anywhere. and things just keep slipping backwards. maybe i’m crazy (maybe i’m way off base), but isn’t feminism meant to help All women, even the ones you dislike? even the ones you hate? like what’s going on here? am i missing something?
#like i definitely was one of those people who dismissed certain issues as 'white feminist' but honestly#i feel like in the long run that's done a lot more harm than good#opening up different websites gives me whiplash sometimes like. oh you HATE women here. ok.#and then watching the news like. oh so EVERYONE hates women. that's crazy!#or maybe i'm just a debbie downer#i'm black btw if it needs to be said. like this isn't me necessarily defending white feminism but honestly#even the most privileged silver spoon conventionally attractive white bread women deal with horrific sexism#we saw that with amber heard (for a very recent example)#just bc 'white feminism' has a lot of blind spots doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about feminism at all#and at least on tumblr that's what it feels like has happened. i could be living in a bubble tho. we all have our blind spots#rambles#feminism#this is very stream of consciousness i just had shit to say.
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"well every bi girl I've dated ended up being straight/going back to guys after >:(" omg really ☹️ does this indicate to you at all that maybe ... some self reflection is necessary? do we think that maybe this is a you problem ☹️ ? do we think that maybe this is telling us something not about bi women but... about ourselves ? :((
#like ok imagine telling on yourself like this. get a better strap game idk what to say#/hj cus like. a bi person dating the opposite sex doesn't necessarily mean anything lmao. theyre still bi.#like there doesn't necessarily have to be a reason ... you just dont see bisexuality as valid#so you assume that if a bi person dates the opposite sex it means they've 'given up on being gay'
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oh god okay i understand that maybe not everyone is as indecisive/comfortable with saying "it depends!" as me, but like, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, but i just can't take people who call izzy a villain seriously
#he's a little annoying dude. i swear to fuck#'the real villain in the show is the system and izzy is siding with the system' babygirl he's a pirate 😭 he really isn't 😭#he could NOT more clearly be -- he literally IS -- that kind of gay man who wears his leathers and anger as an armor because being scary ha#been his way of fighting The System => being consumed and destroyed by it; and who looks down and feels disgusted by flamboyant#and effeminate soft-handed gays because if they're this soft then they clearly haven't experienced this kind of abuse that would make them#harden up. ....you know what i mean.#like idk this show in general like... doesn't have a 'villain'? it's about stede (and ed's) journey and their development. not necessarily#about their Conflict With Someone/Something. i guess it might change in s2 but idk. there are just Situations in which they find themselves#and because of/md is a comedy no one really... holds things against other characters in a long-term way? izzy stabs stede and sells him#out to the english and ed punches him for the latter (which he says 'ok fair' about!!! like!!!) but does he go 'and for all the shit you've#done i'm Firing you as my first mate? no! he slams him against the wall and feeds him his toe but he's like. ok get up and back to work#and he doesn't seem particularly disgusted or upset with him in that final blackbeard's flag 2.0 moment. (nor manipulated; inb4)#like. it's a workplace romcom. the workplace is a pirate ship but it's a workplace and izzy is that annoying coworker who's a bitch and#often ruins everyone's fun but no one like... Seriously ostracizes him. more like applies some light bullying BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY.#COMEDY. do we remember that?#and like. it seems he's going to have a bit of a larger (?) role in s2... it really doesn't seem like the show sees him as a 'villain' or#even an active 'antagonist' either. like ok let's agree 2 disagree and may both sides block each others' asses into oblivion because god#knows both sides have some annoying people but mannnn sometimes... insisting that things Can be divided into Good and Bad... is worse?#shrimp thoughts#once again i wrote a tag novel about an incredibly silly thing. welcome to leatherbookmark
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do you guys want to see my p5 aroace opinions... (everyone says no) okay since you guys insist i'll show you :))
#squishy talks too much#squishy plays p5r#AS USUAL THESE ARE JUST MY HCS BC I AM WEIRD AND ILL SO LIKE DON'T GET MAD IF YOU DISAGREE IT IS OK#ALSO on the spectrum does not necessarily mean no attraction so please don't make that assumption!!#also yusuke to me is like. i'd need a whole five paragraph essay to explain properly#but the simplest way i can put it is that he's allo in the most aroace way possible#DOES THAT MAKE SENSE. (it doesn't)#i'm trying so hard to find better words that won't take too long to explain but it's like. HFSDJ#also sorry only girls are aroace to me they just gave the men in this game such severe allo energy#also also anyone who's not here i just don't have an opinion on. sorry
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Not dad trying to tell me about some big fallout news he heard about from some work colleague 😂 oh what the poor man just subjected himself too.
#it was about that leak from weeks ago. dad got quite the details about it. he walked right into that one.#and that dear sir is why we do not try to bring news about the hyperfixation. i will know about it and you will hear about it.#dude even got the history of fallout 3 as a bonus. since that was the one he mentioned 😂#he also got a very veeeery long version about why i would necessarily get so excited about the leaks.#you know age of the document. the whole company sale thing. how much the time line clearly has already gone to shit. etc etc etc.#yeah... yeah i think he really came to regret that one 😅#listen i have only slept 5 hours. am high on caffeine and painkillers- almost had a migraine ok.#which means i have like 0 filter rn and am quite brain tired. i will not realise how long i am going on for once i get started rn.#the info dump has started and it will end when i brain says so. i sure af won't notice I am doing it cause I'm just excited to share#not until i manage to like finish my long ass story do i realise i went on for like a good 20-30 minutes... oops.#and that may just be a generous estimate cause i got really going on the infodump ok. it was a blast. ngl.#i am very passionate about fallout ok. this is what happens when you fall asleep to fallout lore most days of the week.#yes i lost the plot ages ago about this hyperfixation. it makes me very happy. so i don't even care. i will keep doing it.#til the hyperfixation dies and bring great sadness to the lands... til we find something else. god knows when that is though.#i am very ok if fallout hyperfixation just... doesn't go away actually. i like hyperfixation. brings many a solution when upsetty.#.... i really need to stfu up now. hi. 👋 why are you still reading this??? these ramblings of a madman. 😂#ryder speaking#i got this far before i realised i did not in fact write wouldn't get excited... well i aint fixing it now 🙃
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Andrew Ryan is bisexual and deeply unaware of this, i know everything though
#textspeech#source: Ryan is OBSESSED with Bill in the novel. every action he takes he's twirling his hair and wistfully wondering what Bill will think#ok i'm exaggerating a little bit and it might be Misogyny™ but Ryan spends more time thinking about and hanging out with Bill than-#- either of the two women he's sleeping with. and also he doesn't respect either or those women as much as he respects Bill#the misogynistic reading is probably more correct/intentional but him being closeted is an interesting lense to view Andy Ryan from imho#idk idk i'm not making excuses for the dirtbag and i'm not necessarily saying Ryan is a queer icon by any means but sometimes.#sometimes you gotta get sillay and decide to willfully misinterpret things. introduce a new angle into reading. enrichment.#bioshock
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#wheucto#wheucto speaks#wheucto liveblogs#screenshot#ii spoilers#the 'good ol' days?' mephone? when was that? not with cobs. which leaves out the first two seasons and his time with cobs before those#unless this refers to a time between.#maybe he does just long for the simplicity of the past... nostalgia.#and his memories with spring guy man thing are one of the few positive things from that time?#springy's words do contradict themselves. his 'motto' about the past not mattering because it's not the present don't really go along. wait#let me keep watching i'll keep writing tags#oh ok that's way more distressing.#NEways. since if the past was great_ then. actually that doesn't necessarily mean it's contradictory?#though i was going to say that a motto like that can't really account for all the nuance so. who knows#though the past still could weigh you down if you're just focusing on how great it was
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watching a video while working again and the narrator mentioned that anasui's design changing in the manga was bc of editorial reasons over him being jolyne's designated love interest and heaven forbid that be a woman so whether this is the true reason behind it or it was just araki having fun messing with people im now obsessing over this and lowkey debating of incorporating this into something somehow
#soda offers you a can#i mean if the gender is the only thing that changes here it doesn't necessarily make anasui any better as a character#like their behavior is still creepy and weird and might play into the stereotype of predatory lesbians tbf#but i like queer stuff and i want to say that it would make things more interesting#especially if you wanna get nitpicky abt that comment jolyne made abt ff looking gay#like idk something abt jolyne overcoming internalized homophobia and actually falling for a woman who cares abt her???#i think i'd be more ok with that tbh#this all said ermes would 100% be a better love interest for jolyne don't get me wrong#like anasui's got some issues that the power of love cannot fix lmao#jjba
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So I just finished season 2 of Wondery's Suspect podcast, and if you enjoyed season 1's thoughtfulness and interrogation of the injustice and biases of the criminal legal system, ughhhhh....maybe skip season 2. I'm usually chill about subsequent seasons of podcasts departing pretty far from the original season's premise/presentation, but this was such a refutation of the original season that even though it was technically just (high production-value) true crime drek, I feel honestly betrayed and disguised at the end.
Season 1: educational, nuanced, thoughtful and thought-provoking; takes pains not to demonize anyone involved (even people that it presents as doing/having done incredibly harmful things) and to try to understand their motivations and pov; explores how past/other criminal (even unarguably atrocious) behavior is not sufficient evidence that someone committed a separate criminal offense (and how our human brains and biases will overweigh such "evidence"), and also how weird/unusual/bizarre behavior - behavior that seems bizarre or inexplicable to "normal" people - isn't sufficient either (and the dangers of how our human brains and biases might overweigh such "evidence"; presents contrasting juror viewpoints from a trial that highlights how hard "beyond a reasonable doubt" is to actually apply and what it looks like to wrestle with that standard, while also highlighting how real jurors absolutely do decide based on impermissible biases and assumptions; bluntly and explicitly refuses to provide (or even try to provide) an answer to the viewer about whodonit; and wrestles with how sometimes we can't actually know who committed a horrible offense and get justice for a victim (and their surviving friends and family)
Season 2: standard bog-issue true crime (just with a high-end production value and presentation); cops are great and let's not interrogate at all when we hear them explicitly lying to the Criminal, we've got real clear Good Guys and Bad Guys here; presents a narrative (and uncontested statements from speakers) suggesting that previous criminal/atrocious behavior is 100% evidence that a person probably also did the murder; weird/unusual/bizarre behavior is at minimum justifiably suspicious, and at maximum absolutely evidence that a person did Crime, and there is no need to interrogate our reactions and assumptions; interviews a single juror who (without any pushback or interrogation of her position) presents as unreasonable and unethical the juror who came in with a list of all his (reasonable) doubts and didn't think the prosecution presented a strong case - to the point of stating that he violated his oath/pretrial statements that he could convict based on circumstantial evidence (b/c he wasn't convinced by the particular circumstantial case presented) (meanwhile the interviewed juror was being 100% reasonable and Correct in being convinced he was guilty when she admittedly had no idea why he might have done it until she wrote a bunch of true crime fanfic "figured it out" after the trial); presents a narrative clearly intended to leave the listener with the impression that yay the cops clearly got the right guy, justice has been served, the gross/creepy/abusive dude really was the one who did it; and we all get to sleep at night with the certainty that the world makes narrative sense and justice can be wrapped up in a neat little bow and the only problem is how long it took the system to get there :)
Just, incredibly disappointing.
#the criminal injustice system#suspect podcast#just#fucking christ#like to be clear I'm not saying the guy that was convicted didn't necessarily do it#and they did a pretty good job convincing me that he was an abusive creepy and dangerous asshole who might have done it#(but also really failed to interrogate - for example - that just b/c a criminal team chooses not to formally present an insanity defense#that doesn't mean a defendant doesn't have have serious mental health issues that might explain some of their 'inexplicable' behavior)#in either the first or second episode there was an interview w/the mother of the victim's friend#where she was super suspicious of the behavior of the victim's dad and how how unusual and inexplicable and suspicious she found it#and that thread was just left dangling#and i was like#ok i see - the podcast is going to pick this back up later to discuss how her suspicion#while very reasonable from her perspective#was not actually evidence of anything#and the dad's reactions were also perfectly - from his perspective - reasonable#and it's going to tie into larger themes and discussions#lol#nope#it was just a red herring that was just supposed to make you think maybe the dad did it!
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Sometimes I say self loathing things to my therapist and he looks at me dead in the eyes before saying “You fucking moron.” and tbh same
#Jerome sounds amazing!#I don't have this relationship with mine because it's only been 7 sessions or something#but she's a clever girl#I know how she got me there but somehow made it my “own” realisation today#seriously even for short term#counselling/therapy is great#it's so helpful and everybody should do it some time#it's helped me realise it was as her thing not a me thing#and tbh that means I'm more able to put myself out there a bit more again and put aside the grief a bit#also it turns out I have a lot of cumulative grief going on#and there are now words for the things I've been feeling#that I was half way correct in naming but now I know the actual terminology#which is cool#and fuck that person#it's definitely you not me#just because they're unkind to you doesn't mean that you've necessarily done anything wrong#it's ok to be sad but actually it's also ok to realise that you weren't the reason they were so cruel to you#can you tell I had a really productive session today?
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GWEN BOUCHARD?????
#tmagp liveblog#not everyone listens to the credits but SOMETIMES IT PAYS OFF#i'd say it doesn't necessarily mean anything but NOTHING DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING#........and she... wants to run the department?#hm. ok
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feel mid abt that interview lol :|
#liike it's definitely my best interview performance#out of like the 2 i've had recently LMAO#but i can't tell how i did or how i am for the job ig#i feel like i'm mostly qualified but idk#idk i don't think i did badly tho onn the interview#it was ok#i had the quetions and was able to prepare answers which was the best lmfao#so ig im not confident in my answers LOL#AHHH idk#i would be . so happy if i get this job TT it kinda fits what i want to do w like data and social justice / nonprofit org kinda thing#and it's where i am i dont have to move :D so#pls#c':#the interviewer didn't rly say anything abt like we'll get back to u in this amount of time#which probaby doesn't necessarily mean anything but i do be thinkign abt that lol#ok whatever anyway . i will do research for the job i have rn for the rest of today lol#bro i booked a room for this interview and the room is SO FUCKING COLD LMFAO why do americans love air conditioning so much :|#it does not need to be this cold LOL#jeanne talks
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I mean sure, I can understand this perspective, but I'm not sure whether most people feel less shaken to be thrust into conversations about "self-unaliving" than conversations about "suicide"
and I for one as a survivor would much rather unexpectedly encounter somebody talking about "rape" than somebody talking about how funny it is to have sex with somebody when they don't want to, a normal thing that doesn't need to be named because it's So Normal.
which is to say. this is a post about words. the words are not the distressing thing about the discussion. the distressing thing is the distressing thing about the discussion. sugarcoating, dodging or renaming the distressing thing doesn't make it less distressing but it DOES often make it harder to have a frank discussion about it or address it in serious terms.
[pinch of salt: solid probability from their blog that this person is a Literal 14 Year Old and the perspective from 30 and 14 are very different. I do stand by all the points I'm making but I think this conversation lands a lot different for people at different life stages - there is something to be said for the general issue that the internet has flattened social groups to the degree that I as a 30 year old can make a post to my audience of largely adult millennials that immediately enters the same conversational space as people half my age and still in school. that seems. ungreat. as the primary way we engage in conversation. but I don't have solutions to offer.]
you gotta be able to say "die"
you gotta be able to say "suicide"
you gotta be able to talk about "sex"
they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE
because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.
even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"
like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.
#red said#i also wholeheartedly disagree with the rest of your post#all entertainment is political. all of it. because politics is the models we use to describe how we interact as a community#and art is inherently communal. so it's inherently political.#that doesn't mean all entertainment has to be a Pure Political Statement. some stuff is just dumb because dumb shit is fun.#but like it's not. detached from the world. and a lack of political intent doesn't mean it's utterly unchallenging.#ok for example. have you ever. enjoyed watching a cheesy 80s zombie movie and it is gory and stupid and great#but then there's a scene where maybe there's a really fucked-up implication about what we as an audience are meant to think#or a rape scene played for light laughs. or whatever your line is.#and they meant it to be fun. you watched it for fun. but you're not having fucking fun any more. there's a bad taste in your mouth.#contrast. sometimes i am reading a nonfiction article for work or something. it is miserable and grim it is about homelessness and dv#but the writer has put it together so well and made their point so clearly you're like YES! YES! THAT'S IT!!!!#and even beyond that like. i am a disabled multiple rape and abuse survivor. i have been through a non zero amount of The Shit.#and a lot of the stuff i find most entertaining and relaxing is stuff that acknowledges that as a Thing Which Happens#like I'm a nerd man. i like video essays about misogyny and fascism and reactionary homophobia.#i like films that make me cry bc they touch an emotional raw spot. i like tiktoks where people joke about their experiences of abuse#i like SFF stories about trauma and survival and sad robots#and yeah you know sometimes i want to watch a comedy panel show or a tiktok of bottles rolling down stairs#but effective entertainment is a conversation! comedy and chill vibes rest on like. deciding what to riff on#and who your anticipated audience is. and nah actually that's not apolitical and also#identifying common human experiences like death or trauma or marginalisation as inherently Political and therefore Unfun#misses the point that like. the question isn't what you acknowledge but how you acknowledge it.#as a rape survivor. for example. i don't necessarily want to open tiktok to a lecture on rape culture.#but i might well stick about for a standup routine about being a survivor of rape#and i will absolutely bounce from a vid where nobody mentions rape bc they think what they're talking about is fine when it's. rapey af.#anyway. this is a sidebar cause even if i agreed about entertainment v politics my main point would still stand#but i very much don't agree and i think you need to maybe look at how you approach entertainment media as neutral#but also i feel very strongly about this and not to harp on the like aS A sUrViVoR thing but#AS A SURVIVOR my fucking LIFE includes ''dark topics'' like suicide and rape. and i don't appreciate how often that's treated as#an unfair imposition to speak about or acknowledge. 'dark shit' is inescapably a major part of my life/self AND I'm funny + entertaining
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I should rewatch the first season of made for love probably
#screencaps everything#i should NOT apparently look at the tag cause everyone's a byron apologist :)))))#boohoo she did to him what he was gonna do to her even though he felt BAD about it#like do you seriously think he woulda let her go#this man drove the ex that got away into a permanent state of psychosis level paranoia where she can't leave the psych ward she lives in#cause everywhere else there is phones or other technology which means he could be watching#like i didn't necessarily like the ending either but the kinda person who doesn't think twice about wiping a person's mind#to make her what he wants her to be (in love w/ him n obedient) bc he 'loves' her#doesn't just suddenly start seein others as PEOPLE he literally only felt a slight bit of remorse cause he wasn't gettin what he wanted#like it's ok that you wanna fuck him! it's ok you think you coulda fixed him! but makin hazel out as worse or anywhere near as bad#cause she did what he was gonna do to him except for survival instead of cause she thinks she owns other people#is just fucking gross#'she coulda just left!!!' & spent the rest of her life wondering if anything she experiences is real or manufactured to get her to come bac#you really expect someone to be a moral beacon of righteousness after a decade of nonstop captivity & manipulation#but the person who did that to her looks a little bit upset n has a potentially fabricated sad backstory so he deserves a second chance#she tried leaving. that's literally the startin premise of the entire show.#n how'd that go for her huh??#ok rant over#spdrvent#*did what he was gonna do to her#i can't fucking do pronouns apparently
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