#it still is what it is

[doublejango]

What's some examples of the discrimination Blitzø has faced in his life? Or just in the earlier days when he first started I.M.P?

It's not always blatant like at the hospital when that woman said, We don't call them that to their faces.

It's not always slurs. It's not even always things Blitz can point a finger at and say, that's discrimination, but he knows it when he feels it.

Because that's the thing about hate, it isn't always obvious, but even then, it's not really as subtle as people think it is. Sometimes it's just there in the little pauses before someone nods their head, something in the way they look at you, or the silence before they answer your question. Sometimes it's more blatant, sure, but the quiet disdain... that's something else. He's ridiculously aware of it, and sometimes thinks he might be seeing it where it isn't intended, but he tries not to second-guess himself on that.

In the early days, he was laughed at--a lot--for saying he was going to start his own business, that no one was ever going to fucking own him again. People didn't take him seriously--and would say shit like, you're so smart for an imp, I'm sure you'll do just fine. He had a hell of a time getting the office lease, and had to go to so many different buildings to find a landlord who wasn't going to laugh him out the door--and probably slam said door on his tail. No matter how often he told people, No, nobody is backing me, I'm backing my own fucking self, people didn't tend to hear that. Or if they did, they didn't take him seriously. You know, he was being cute--or uppity.

He's furious about that, but what made him even angrier was how often it was other imps who behave as if he couldn't do it... imps are used so shamelessly in Hell, they're barely respected more than automatons or furniture half the time, so when they don't understand it? It infuriates him.

But on the flip side, there are imps who know about the 'killing business,' who know about him, and who actually care. Blitz hears from them every once in a while, or gets a little nod, or someone buys him a drink when he doesn't even know them. And although he doesn't really know how to articulate it? And probably will never communicate this to anyone--although it's likely abundantly clear to Lucifer, in the 'Helluva Fight Day' thread--it matters to Blitz. Knowing that he actually isn't a nobody to his own people is something he takes seriously. Sure, maybe he's just kind of considered a ho and a scumbag, and that's... fair. But he is tenacious. Resilient. Bring on the hate. Blitz isn't giving up.

[nb-marceline]

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[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[churroach]

Looking respectfully

(EDIT: fellas, it’s really not that deep. Anyone starting beef over this stupid drawing getting blocked, i dont care to argue with people who come and judge me (a stranger) in bad faith. A bit dissapointed that this joke post is what’s getting the most attention but alas that’s the internet for ya i guess.)

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[sage-nebula]

This is literally the funniest fucking thing Edgeworth has ever said

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[qrowpilled]

hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

[littlemut]

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[demaparbat-hp]

He's never happy

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[problemnyatic]

It's too late, I've already depicted you as the ugly pathetic "soy"jack (the soy is because soy has estrogen in it, this is bad because it makes you less masculine and more like the inferior female sex, because men should only be manly otherwise they're "failed" and thus lesser and deserving of ridicule) And me as the White Handsome Blue-Eyed Blond Man With Impressive Facial Hair Who's Memetic Association Is With Being Objectively Correct (This makes sense because he is the ideal Aryan specimen, all of these features obviously make him objectively superior to other people). This means I win and definitely look good here, you should really just pack it up. I'm a leftist btw

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Goncharov coming third in tumblr's top 100 movies of 2023 is so damn funny. Imagine being a film studio exec who spent millions making some of the other 97 movies listed below it only to be beaten by a film that cost exactly zero dollars to make and doesn't exist