#look around and see

[m-12-7-jo]

I haven't been out in public much due to taking a year off from school and not being able to work. I've been watching the news around the i/p conflict from indoors and have admittedly been reluctant to look at my states numbers.

So, i finally decided to take a look at the ADL's H.E.A.T. Map and uh...

Florida's had a huge rise in white supremacist propaganda and antisemetic hate crimes since the start of 2023. I figured there would be, since the backlash against the global jewry has been particularly volatile both on and offline. But i hadn't checked the local numbers until now.

We are one of the few states into the 100+ range and that's particularly horrifying. If we look into the specific numbers, we have:

123 antisemitic incidents, with a majority being vandalism and harassment. A number of these incidents occurred with white supremacist movement (propaganda being spread as well as gatherings).

I know everyone's probably exhausted. But i just want to point out some of the hotspots: Orlando (17 incidents), West Palm Beach (10), Boca Raton (7), Fort Lauderdale (4), and Miami (6).

Thankfully, my city has not had any, and I hope that remains.

I don't know enough about the conflict to say anything more than this: I want jews and palestanians to be safe. I want them to have an ability to govern themselves and not be infringed upon or attacked. I don't want more people to die, on either side.

And, it is not "decolonization" to suggest that an entire civilian population be destroyed for the wrongdoings of their government.

We can call for the dismantling of Israel's government all we want, but THIS here only proves what others have said: the diaspora is too unsafe. This is what is used to reinforce the notion that Israel is necessary at all costs.

We cannot call for deconstruction without being willing to address the rampant white supremacy and antisemitism throughout the US and most of Europe. We can't keep kicking jews out of their homes.

You can't support a free Palestine then use antisemitism as a bludgeon, and expect that to somehow save them.

Focus more on combating antisemitism in your area and generating support for Palestinian relief.

Check out: Palestine Red Crescent Society to support Gaza, especially in providing medical relief.

Learn about antisemitism: Antisemitism Uncovered to understand its forms and prevent an increase of it in the diaspora.

[fizzigigsimmer]

😡 Y’all need to stop before you hurt somebody with your garbage victim blamey nonsense. Your blind spot when it comes to sexual abuse and grooming when the proposed victim is a male is genuinely alarming.

There are no grey areas. There are not buts, no ands, and certainly no justifications. Karen Wheeler entertained sexual fantasies and engaged in an inappropriate flirtation with a teenager - full stop. The end. She memorized a teenagers schedule and showed up at their place of work in order to sexually entice said teenager for her own mental/emotional gratification, and then agreed to have a sexual encounter with that teen for further gratification. That's all there is to know and there is no qualifying data that releases her from responsibility from her own actions.

If your response to the Kareen Wheeler story line is not some version of WTF Duffers, please explain your gross mishandling and fetishy framing of this serious subject matter; and is instead some version of 'But Billy' or 'I'm just saying, Billy', then STOP. Review these cold hard facts:

Adults should not engage in inappropriate relationships with teenagers, and when they do, the adult is to blame and not the teenager.

An adult who forms an inappropriate relationship with a teenager is always taking advantage and it is always an abuse of power.

What a teenager wears or how they dress, speak etc. does not excuse an adult seeking an improper relationship with them.

A teenager giving their consent or offering sex to an adult does not relieve an adult of personal or moral responsibility to be the adult in the situation.

A teenager may act on inappropriate feelings, behave irresponsibly and erratically, and we should expect this. An 18-19 (which Billy is not, he's canonically 17-18 during this story line) is not fully developed and does not have the life experience of a middle aged adult, and it is blaming the victim to suggest "they knew what they were doing". Teenagers literally do not. No offense to teens.

A teenager is gonna think a lot of stupid shit and do a lot of stupid shit. The adult in the situation bears the responsibility to correct inappropriate behavior and make sure boundaries are set. When they do not because it tickles their genitalia and makes them feel special to have a child say and do inappropriate things with them, it is creepy and wrong.

A 17 year old is a child, and when a child flirts with an adult there is only one acceptable response.

An 18 year old is no more realistically an adult than a 17 year old, and counting down to the day a child turns 18 so that you can make your sexual fantasies a reality is predatory.

Arranging moments where you can show off your body and entice a teen into inappropriate feelings for you is also grooming and predatory.

Trauma manifests differently for everyone, and masking is learned in early childhood. Tears and wailing are not required for trauma to exist.

Just because a teenager does not act bothered by the flirtations and sexual advances of an adult doesn’t mean they aren’t in fact being bothered, or that they aren’t being traumatized by the event.

It is not a teenagers responsibility (or a moral requirement) to know that the things they are experiencing are creating trauma, or that their current behaviors are a result of previous trauma. They literally do not have enough life experience to be experts in recognizing and dealing with trauma.

It is an adults responsibility to recognize unhealthy situations, behaviors, etc. withdraw and set boundaries.

If the adults have decided that it is okay to sexually fantasize about a teenager and show up scantily clad to a teens place of work in the hopes of forming inappropriate relationships, and the culture cosigns this as just another Tuesday, then the teen cannot logically be the one at fault for their own skewed perceptions of sex and morality.

It is the responsibility of a sane adult to recognize when a teenager needs intervention and correction. Not a blowjob in a motel. Sorry Karen. Not sorry.

[missfliss88]

So easy these days to snap a photo using my phone. Who would have thought such a change might happen with photography.

I’m a huge sticky beak and when I walk I look in shops, over fences, in parks, up high and down low! There’s little surprises waiting everywhere to be discovered.

Found these on a recent trip to Hobart.

[m-12-7-jo]

It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

[hinamie]

oversaturate

[keferon]

Snow bots au anyone? :D

They're back together a year later because it's snowing again❄️

All right! For context: I imagine them hanging out every winter in some kind of resort (a resort that Blurr owns. Because his bar business has expanded that much over time.)

[egophiliac]

just kinda wanted to try something like this! not sure if I'm gonna do the rest of the guys too, but I figured I'd at least start with Riddle. 🌹

[m-12-7-jo]

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael and Vanny had wild teen years in FNAF

[m-12-7-jo]

I've been seeing a disturbing number of "queer safe spaces" describe themselves as things like "femme & them" and even worse "she+," conflating femininity & nonbinaryhood. cease this immediately. say it with me: nonbinary people are NOT women-lite and it is extremely violent and straight up incorrect to imply that all they/thems are fem adjacent. this is erasure and this verbiage does nothing but make gnc and nonbinary spaces unsafe for masc and male nonbinary people. nonbinary, genderqueer and other third gender people can be and are masculine and men, we can be hes as well as shes and theys, stop allowing yourself and your peers to view nonbinary as woman/femme-lite, signed a butch nonbinary person.

[skitskatdacat63]

2024 Belgian Grand Prix - Mark Webber clapping for his boy (FINALLY!)

[srapsodia]

they're so normal about each other 🧡

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[m-12-7-jo]

Listen man, you guys can't be like "you guys need to be normal about asexuality" and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn't have sex by choice. Like that's weird that some of you do that.

[carebeardean]

Charles whose dad smashed his cassette tape with a hammer learns to navigate the backpack cause, like, he needs to be useful, yeah?

and this way Charles has everything Edwin needs, and if Edwin gets sick of him he’ll just.. he doesn’t know what he’ll do.

but then Edwin gets the record player.

he suggests, tentatively, that Charles might play some of his “queen” if he liked. after all, if they are to haunt potential realtors away from their new office, they may as well entertain themselves.

so they take turns, switching out; edwin likes opera. he shows Charles how to waltz, chiding Charles to stop looking at his feet til they’re gliding, whirling around like they’re in the movies. Edwin’s smile is small and pleased and lovely. (Charles attempt to get Edwin to headbang along to queen results in a sort of awkward rhythmic nodding. Charles loves him so much he could die again.)

And, like. Edwin doesn’t like clutter. he doesn’t bother with the random tidbits ghosts give them for solving cases.

until now, apparently.

now he comes back from trading at the goblin market with little useless things—a cursed rubix cube, records from bands Charles mentioned years ago.

Charles is so busy trying to subtly read his book on Edwardian courting rituals (disguised by Nikos discreet manga covers) that he doesn’t realize what Edwin’s set down in front of him. he stares at Edwin’s spiky handwriting, the tidy numbered list.

“I thought, perhaps, that we might—start a new tradition.”

Charles blinks, eyes stinging. “Mate, did you.. make me a mixtape?”

“Crystal assisted me, and while she was absolutely insuffer—“ Edwin staggers, catching him with a surprised little noise.

“I love you so much,” Charles says, muffled into his throat. “You’re my favorite person. I love you so much it hurts, sometimes.”

“Yes,” Edwin says softly, hands curling around his waist. He takes Charles weight like it’s nothing. “I believe I know the feeling.”

this is a longer fic on ao3 now!

[gascreates]

a new star