Okay so I don’t feel the most qualified to talk about this, especially to make any value judgements on how any of this was handled, so I would love other people to add in if they feel like it, but this is eating my brain actually so.
Esther Finch is a funny villain. She’s a joy to watch on screen, even if part of that joy is in hating her. But there’s something that feels very deliberate in the fact that the only two girls (barring in the animated flashback) we see her target are black girls. Becky Aspen and Crystal. I don’t think we’re supposed to infer from this that she only ever targets black girls, but the casting of Becky feels deliberate. While there’s plenty of in universe explanation for why she wants to use Crystal to feed to her snake afterwards and doesn’t ever say, specifically target Niko, it’s still there. And though Niko was just hurt because she got in the way, she’s also another woman of colour we see Esther hurt.
And then at the end Crystal, who many have pointed out has been a voice for women throughout the whole season, stands in front of Lilith, the goddess of wronged women, and screams to her about who gets justice for all the little girls Esther hurt. And then Lilith, played by a black woman, is the one to drag Esther away.
Crystal says to Esther that she knows how anger can poison you. Esther says she learned to be predator instead of prey a long time ago. Do I think that the show literally wants us to think that Esther is a racist who deliberately targets black girls? No. Do I think the casting choices that they made bring up themes of the kind of people who, because they have been hurt or marginalized, want to push others down to have others that they can have power over instead? Whose problems with societal oppression is not that it exists, but that they aren’t the ones who get to benefit from it? I think so.
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i had like an idea about the eggs not being from like. a single dragon mother and being kind of like a conglomerate of a bunch of dragons and dragon hybrid dna. and then i remembered my qtubbo is a dragon hybrid and i thought 'what if fred had a part in this' because ive got permanent frubbo brain
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hii everyone! after an agonising amount of deliberation, i've decided that i'll start tracking #useryenas for joshua visual content!
anyone can use this tag (i.e. we don't have to be mutuals) but please follow the guidelines below:
visual content only - gifs, gfx, edits, fanart, moodboards etc.
please use the tag in the first 20 tags
general svt content is allowed but i'd prefer just for joshua!
i'll check the tag once a week and if your post has been liked, it's in my queue!
i won't rb any content that looks stolen, colour-washed or have things used without the owner's approval (fancams, etc.)
mutuals are allowed to use the tag for anything you want me to see! doesn't have to be visual or for seventeen, and ofc you're always, always welcome to spam the tag!!!
tagging a few moots and non moots to kindly ask to spread this if you can <3 :
@jeonwonwoo @irlvernon @seokmins @blue-jisungs @etherealyoungk @slytherinshua @wheeboo @ftdino @shuaberriez @gentlejoshua @y-ves @h-ao @itsyoonzino @woozi @ajusnice @kyeomyun @eternalgyu @soonhoonsol @weird-bookworm @rubywonu @wnjunhui @dalkyeom
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This is kinda how I feel abt talking in the dailies discord server or even here talking on tumblr to the other dailies (sry if you can't read my shitty ass handwriting)
(Ummm also that second little person I don't like actually think that, it's just really negative thoughts 🥲)
Anyways if anyone wants to talk & become friends, you can bcuz I have trouble reaching out o_o
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every time i see discourse about fundraisers go by on here im just fully struck with the realization that not a single one of you people have either taken a cybersecurity fraud prevention course or bothered to take one singular second to consider the website youre on. this is the broke bitches website. none of us can afford to fund our mutuals' grocery bills, much less entire evacuation funds, and CERTAINLY not FAKE evacuation funds taking advantage of genocide victims. all this shit abt how people are deliberately choosing not to fund every post that passes their dash because they hate palestinians literally just does the work of actual scammers for them by laying the high-pressure sales tactics groundwork, and the "do you guys have any idea how hard it is to keep coming up with new attention-grabbing fundraiser posts?" ones just ring EXTREMELY hollow because YEAH! YEAH I DO! and so does everyone i follow! and everyone they follow! because all of us are FUCKING BROKE and surviving on crumbs! i just saw one that said "i make sure to keep $40 in my wallet at all times so i can give $20 to any panhandlers i see, this is the same" and its like!! good for you, thats very nice, but like!!! you need need NEED to take a step back and realize that /being able to do that/ is a position of privilege, not the default setting to be a good person. i wont discount that some people do ignore fundraisers specifically because of racism because Of Course, but like. a) yelling at them isnt gonna make them stop, or more accurately yelling at /everyone else/ isnt gonna make those people stop, and b) trying to apply that as a blanket motivation for everyone just. realistically doesnt work. not donating is a nonaction, it is the literal default status, and while in specific situations you can use CONSISTENT absence of SPECIFIC actions to track a person's motivations SOMETIMES, broadly speaking that just. doesnt work.
there are 8 billion people on this planet. most of them will never know you exist. of the ones that do, most will not be able to help you. of the ones that can, most will not be on the broke bitches website passing the same communal $20 around. consider your audience and stop shitting on fellow poor people for having the gall to need to be careful with their money. and if you are genuinely only posting your fundraiser to tumblr, like. im sorry, but you need to anticipate not reaching your goal and prepare accordingly. theres a reason the last big scam scandal people talk about actually getting the money is like. all-or-nothing era, as a website none of us have the funds to make that kind of thing happen anymore or the security to risk it. a fundraiser not meeting its goal on here is not a personal sleight against whoever made it, its just how life goes sometimes. and it's unfair and it sucks and we should help however we can, but. sometimes you just arent able to help someone else, and continuing to feel responsible serves only to torture yourself. and blaming OTHERS serves only to move that guilt from yourself off onto another person. i imagine that has to be where a lot of the vitriol comes from, is people who cant afford to donate more getting pissed at people they see as having the funds but choosing not to share them, but again, sometimes you just are not able to achieve the goals you set out towards, through no fault of the specific parties involved.
people on tumblr choosing to buy groceries rather than potentially donate to a scam are not your enemy and are not the ones facilitating a genocide. we're all victims of the same horrific system, the question is just how that system manifests its influence on each of us. poverty kills just as thoroughly as a bomb. everyone is just doing their best to survive, and as much as we like to pretend that everyone should be a perfect selfless angel that puts others before themselves no matter what, humans are by default a selfish species, and it is a lot easier to say what youd do in theory than actually do it. and there's a reason you have to put on your own oxygen mask before helping the person beside you, youre of no help to anyone if youre too dead to do anything.
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like obv this is an unfortunate set of pics to compare as the "before" was taken with different intent and in bad lighting but
the lotion i've been using for years was discontinued and replaced with one that was just REALLY not working for me so i, instead of continuing to try new lotions, said FUCK IT and made skincare my new hobby and have gotten really into the entire korean glass skin routine and replaced ALL my products (is this an overreaction to ur lotion being discontinued? mayhap but fuck u anyway neutrogena, u don't get my money anymore)
anyway the best (worst?) thing is that... it kinda works y'all..... like i know it's probably hard for other ppl to tell esp bc i don't have any like, real skin problems that an outside observer can identify but i PROMISE there is a difference! TT A TT (it's been? one month? and a half? between these?)
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oc smash or pass ... part 2 ‼️
rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).
full name: eliza santiago. call them el
height: 5'8"/172cm
age: 26. but technically 236 after the great war.
gender: woman or smth of the sort
pronouns: she/they/whatever's funnier
sexuality: bisexual
pros:
actual milf.
very confident and outgoing. she knows what she wants and has no issue going for it, most of the time anyway. also very ambitious with a well established career and income.
tattoo artist. so if ur dating her, you might be privy to a free tattoo or two, or five. she's very artistic in general and loves to draw. has a keen eye for aesthetics.
pretty flexible in what they find fun. a night in can be just as entertaining to her than a night club-hopping in the city. that being said, she's not much of a homebody. they love to explore and find new, exciting things to do but is happy to do them on her own if that's not ur thing.
main love languages are quality time and physical touch. she doesn't have the most free time so she likes to spend what time she does have with her partner if feasible. also likes to have a hand on you to know you're there, loves hugs and kisses. does like to bite though, cuteness aggression and all that.
also she's gorgeous??? look at her
cons:
workaholic. not having free time is mainly by design. they like to bury themself in work to forget about anything that's bothering them. so if she's going through a hard time, you're not going to see her a lot.
playing into that, she can be quite avoidant. but also overly confrontational. she's multi-faceted 🫶. if it's a personal issue, they generally try to pretend that it's not happening. but if it's an issue with you, you're gonna hear about which can be a double-edged sword. she's not always the nicest about bringing up grievances and often assumes the worst.
will NOT admit when she's wrong, it's like pulling teeth. the most you'll get out of her is dropping the argument when she realizes she's not going to win.
extra:
very good with her hands if u catch my meaning... switch with a dom lean. she loves to have her partner be putty in her hands. biggest tease on planet earth.
can mother hen you with realizing it. did you eat something today? have you slept? you're about to (threat).
will "borrow" any clothing/jewelry you have that they like. you're probably never getting back.
she is sooooo fucking funny. effortlessly witty and always sarcastic. you'll laugh a lot with her :) she also cackles like a cartoon witch when she finds smth really funny.
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