#might be controversial

[teatime6519]

Soft reminder when watching animes: Japanese humor is different as well as their censorship! One thing that might be seen as controversial where you are might not be in Japan. Their culture is different so their views on certain things are going to be different!

If you don't like something let's not send death threats to actual people. Why don't we just turn it off 🤔😦

[quiet-art-kid]

WARNING THIS POST IS NOT TRYING TO DIMINISH THE HORROR OF WW2 OR THE NATZIES. IT IS JUST A DREAM I HAD THAT GAVE ME SOME NEAT LITTLE MORALITY SHIT TO THINK ABOUT 

So back when I was 14 I think, I had a dream. It was the set in the 1940s and I saw some smoking wreckage near a river’s bank, behind the tall grass. I  got closer and found that it was a smashed up aircraft, complete shattered. Under it was a man, an unconscious soldier in his late teens or early twenties. I pulled him out of the reckage nervously I didn’t know what side he was on. My heart plumitedvas soon as I did. A swastica arm band. He was a german, natzi pilot who had somehow crashed into my little American  corner of the woods. 

He was unconscious and unarmed. My first thought was to kill him, likely fuled by society, especially the more left circles I tend to be in. Was this justified or an over reaction? Thats up to you, but I’m personally glad that my dream self didn’t. Even of he was a natzi, he was still a human, and I cant take a life. Besides, part of me clung onto hope that mabye he was forced into this position. 

A few days passed, I didnt have it in my heart to maime him but just letting him go scotch free felt wrong too. And since, like in childrens movies, the authorities don’t exist in my dream aparently (or was just too dumb to think of calling the cops) I decided to become THE MOST ANNOYING LITTLE SHIT POSSIBLE. I would throw paper, pincones, calling names, basicly everything i could without SERIOUSLY hurting him. 

Then one day it started to rain. I remember looking at him as he shivered and thinking, he doesnt have anywhere to weight out the rain. Has he even eaten the past few days? Still frustrated and upset with him, I told him to come with me to shelter. He clearly didnt trust me but agreed anyway because he didn’t really have a lot of good options. I snuck him into my treehouse (I dont really have a treahouse I wish I did) risking my own reputation to help a person I didn’t particularly like. 

When we were up i got us sandwiches, and lemonade. My thoughts were, he might be a natzi but he is a human and that means he still has to eat. After a little bit of silence I decided to ask the dreaded quetion on my mind “why did you join the army.” He looked a little guiltily. He told me his whole family joined because of the money. I don’t know how much it payed to be a ww2 german pilot, if at all, but since the 3rd reich  promised economic stability, it checks out hystorically. 

He told me, that he betrayed some jewish people in hiding for some wuick cash. This felt like a stab to the gut. (I would like to take this moment to remind you this is not a story. It might have been a dream but it was real to me. I sat in that treehouse. I stared into his eyes. I felt exactly like I was there physically) 

I have jewish family and this fact the dream kept consistent. I had great great aunts and uncles that died in the holocaust, depending on who you talk to I might be considered jewish as well (unbroken maternal liniage which makes me technically jewish in the eyes of jewish law, but since I was raised christian, never really participated in the community and am only 1/8 jewish I hesitate to claim that identity vocally. Though I have always been fascinated with that side of my family history.) Additionally being queer, neurodivergent/mentally ill, and slavic I was practically the poster child for everything the natzis hated. Everything they wanted to kill. 

The man who was eating cookies with me might not have hesitated to put a bullet through my head if situations were a bit differnt. I knew this, but he didn’t, becuase I just look like a regular blond hair, blue eyed, white girl. 

I remember telling him softy either something along the lines of i’m part jewish or I have jewish family. That sentence just hung in the air like it was trapped, not desolving but becoming more potent with the silence. I could see the exact moment on the mans face as he realised how badly he had fucked up. 

He stared in horror, not becuase I had told him my heritage but because he understood what it meant. He liked me. Even if I was  annoying and bitchy,  I was young, cute in a sisterly way, and genuinely kind to him when it really counted. The  people he betrayed could have been my family. Hell, if we were living in germany it could have been me. I felt like for a moment he wanted to call me “one of the good ones” before he realised how fucking stupid that sounds. And we just sat in silance heavier than lead, silence filled with regret and disappointment for the rest of the dream. 

Now the last reminder is that this is just a dream, this doesn’t mean my emotions weren’t real. Think of it as an alternate reality. This is NOT meant to say anything about HISTORY. Just about a particularly intense experience of mine that I need to get off my chest. I understand that this might be a bit controversial, but please just be nice I don’t mean anyone any harm.

[ilikepjo24]

"Cancelling each other's vote bc politics shouldn't end friendships 🤪" Absolutely yes they should.

I do not understand the people that are friends with people with not just different, but directly opposing political views. ESPECIALLY people that vote red and are friends with people that vote blue. I'm not even trying to be mean, I just genuinely do not understand how people can share clothes or go out for drinks of share their deep, intimate thoughts with somebody who can, would and DID throw them under the bus over cheap fucking eggs and milk.

I want friends that care about me, not friends that would trade me for a full tank of gas.

[hazelwongspullover]

still shocked that all romantic relationships (apart from lavinia and george) from dss are still together in tmua. no idea why but i just did not see that happening😭

[xoxojisu]

ok this might be VERY controversial and kinda triggering so read at ur own risk. its abt endeavor! (i havent read the manga tho so this is js based on anime)

ok listen. everyone like HATES endeavor with like every fiber of their being and honestly? i dont.

HEAR ME OUTTT. he was a terrible terrible TERRIBLE father and husband. i am not denying that AT ALL. i hated him too. i hate what he did to shoto and to touya and to rei and to his whole family. he was awful and abusive physically and mentally and im not denying that at all.

HOWEVER i feel like he made a genuine attempt to change? like hes decided to spend his entire life in repentance for his actions. he's making a real effort to apologize and make it up to his family. it doesn't excuse his actions in any way, shape, or form, but he seems genuinely apologetic and deeply remorseful of his actions, and not only that, is TAKING ACTION to repent and make it up.

idk i have a dad whos lowk abusive and he never apologized to me or rly made an effort to change so maybe im js projecting and like an unreliable narrator but you cant change the past, yk? and endeavor genuinely acknowledged he was terrible and said he was very sorry and is now repenting. idk maybe he does smth later in the manga that's like terribly unforgivable? but i feel like hes trying!! and thats important!

idk still dont love him but i appreciate his genuine remorsefulness and apologies + words r just words- he's taking ACTION to change and said he's spending his whole LIFE in repentance.

[spelldealer]

i’ve never had it but chicago style pizza looks so nasty 🤢

[tenubrium]

we sit in clara’s perspective for too long in the 8th season of doctor who

she doesn’t like the doctor enough for me to care about her love life

[mysteryyuck]

i feel like ramattra deserves not only more skins but better ones

all he really has is the poseidon one (which im ngl i dont really like :/ sorry poseidon ram likers ive let you down) and the caution one (which i actually like!) but i just wish he had more that arent just. basically recolors. i dont hate the wanderer ones but they just arent unique enough for me idk i like skins that pop and look very different

then again i just have some niche tastes 😢idk

[maxcatz]

i think alador blight should explode, not because i dont like him i just think it would be funny

[sleeping-anon]

I knowi know those is going to be a controversial take but I genuinely think a lot of people’s hatred of small talk stems from boredom and rigid thinking styles. Small talk is a key part of building connections and community but I see so many people stating “I hate it, it’s so boring” and just refuse to participate in small talk. Then these same people are confused why they feel lonely? You gotta put in the work, and if you think the normal small talk questions are boring make new ones! You don’t have to talk about the weather, you can as questions that interest you. But you can’t refuse to participate and then complain about the consequences of those actions bestie

[fridgecharming]

I don't know if this has already been said by better people but these are the same song.

[orviposition]

"Don't make yjh's character be only about kdj" I say into the mic.

Everything grows eerily quiet. The crowd stares at me with pity. I muster up the courage to look behind me only to find...

Yjh himself, his sword raised, ready to cut me down for spouting bullshit

[nutmeggery]

This might sound like a hot take but I think the resistance towards sex scenes in queer media these days in many cases comes from sex scenes being used as a replacement for scenes of emotional intimacy.

Basically, making it sexy instead of intimate. And when we consume narrativ media (stories) we crave emotional truth and emotional intimacy rather than soft core porn. Intimacy can be conveyed in sex scenes, yes, but sex scenes in and of themselves do not necessarily convey intimacy.

You can find deeply intimate relationships in stories without a single sex scene. But you can also find many, many stories with sex scenes and no feeling of intimacy.

It's a real art to make sex scenes that also feel deeply intimate, because it requires very thoughtful writing, cinematography and a narrative that backs it up.

You can also have sex scenes that are emotionally true in some way (awkward, funny, sweet, sad), but not sexy (as in male gaze soft core porn sexy), as that isn't the purpose.

Emotional intimacy can be experienced as sexy, but in a different way. And I think this is what most of us want when we do want sex scenes.

[yujateaandpi]

Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing. 

[stephexmachina]

dickie's ponytail era wasn't even that bad

[swankshrimp]

This came to me in a dream