#mean or whatever to be attractive

[sidesaddle-queen]

why do i always get hyperfixated on D-list celebrities that are barely googleable and you'll have seen everything that you can find on them online in an hour (including their personal facebook which they haven't updated since 2019)

[nonbinary-vents]

I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that ‘he’s a white coloniser!’ ‘he’s clearly European!’ and ‘how are we supposed to think he’s indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!’ They were screaming so much about he couldn’t possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact that… wait for it…

Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.

The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.

But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeans— I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the second’s remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean look— which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well

It’s not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that you’re claiming to be the defender of. Please. I’m so tired of this bullshit lol

*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and we’re not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe it’s a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what I’m trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please

**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone

[forcedhesitation]

huge ew at all the people who erase the bisexuality of the bg3 companions. they aren't "playersexual," they aren't "gay coded" or "lesbian coded," there are MANY instances of them expressing romantic and/or sexual interest in other characters of varying genders. and not just your tav. it's not a suggestion, it's part of who they are no matter who your tav is.

[ingydar-phan]

Sometimes i feel like some phannies have zero critical thinking. Shaking yall by the shoulders and saying. Dan is gay. Dan is gayyyy. Dan is GAY! Dan is a homosexual man!!!!!!!!!!

[fiendishartist2]

smth i think ppl get wrong when writing jon is that he has to be a bitch but he cant be cruel. if you take away his bitchyness its not jon anymore, he just becomes a fanon husk of himself. but if you make him too mean, then you're forgetting the awkward politeness and humanity of jonathan sims. remember: he may be a stubborn dickhead, but he let martin stay in the archives without having to be asked, even back in season 1

[normystical]

ATTENTION ALL ALASTOR SHIPPERS: 

uniromantic 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. PROCEED

[orcelito]

It's so fucked honestly that people genuinely believe that others Need to put effort into their appearances in order to be attractive. Like I dunno about you guys but I fucking love people's natural appearances, messiness and all. We are not the same.

[silvermoon424]

It fucking blows my mind how so many men will just see a picture of a woman and feel compelled to publicly announce whether he finds her fuckable or not. This happens on basically every social media site and also irl. Like, did you ever consider that maybe she's not desperate for the approval of random men and she doesn't care if you think that she's too fat or her nose is too big or whatever?

It just gets really disheartening running into this time and time again because it really hammers in the point that far too many men only value women for our looks. Like they have the capacity to comment literally anything and somehow it always comes back to whether a woman makes their peepee hard or not.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

People findinging out that antisemitism does, in fact, victimize people

[aroacewxs]

some things only make sense if you're actually aro. i could find myself giggling kicking my feet talking to someone head in the skies this is so much fun i wish i could talk to this person for so much longer i want to try all the things they like and have conversations about them i want to give them really big hugs for hours i want to practice the mundanities of life with them and if you told me that these were romantic feelings id look at you with such a grim face of disdain

[rouge-the-bat]

exclusionists really love to tell other queer people to die bc of [checks notes] they dont fact check and just believe that bi lesbian has been coined (it hasnt) and the coiner was a terf (it wasnt) just bc they heard it from other exclusionists. and for some fucking reason believe that bi lesbian is a terf term despite a ton of the other people telling me to kill myself over being a bi lesbian have also been terfs.

"who cares to hear out fellow queers who are just using an unconventional label. i overheard an Unsourced Bad Thing so they must all die, obviously."

[pennamepersona]

mr wines: [screaming and sobbing on the cricket pitch about how it used to be a king]

me, twirling my very short hair: you're REALLY tall.....

[fizzigigsimmer]

We will never meet preseason 1 Steve. But I say, let him be a bitch. Let him be mean. Fill in all those blank spaces the Duffers left in his past with parties, weed, and hookups with girls he can't remember the names of. Let him have scratched their names in bathroom stalls with disdain while skipping class. Let him have real shit to regret. Broken hearts and shattered dreams, and eyes that glare after him with real hatred that brand him: ASSHOLE. Let him deserve it. Let him disrupt the class! Let him terrorize teachers with a sharp tongue and shitty attitude. Let him be funny! Let him be cool! Let good girls like Nancy & Barb love to hate him and hate that they love him. Let him be savage! And let it all bore him to tears as he searches for something that means anything. Let him be lost so that it means something when he finds himself in our stories.

[jellybeanium124]

idk why this week has been healing weight gain tummy week but I'm fucking loving it y'all, let's keep this up. stede next. stede deserves it too. if the stummy has a thousand fans I am one, if the stummy has 10 fans I am one, if the stummy has no fans I am dead.

[sp4ceboo]

men who cry.

[radsplain]

people hate lesbians. PEOPLE HATE LESBIANS!!!