#not a judgement just an observation

[tumbling-down-hills-and-stuff]

Does Louis IX of France’s statue at Saint Chapelle not look like lord Farquaad? The square jaw, the hair, the height, the raised eyebrow?

Photo credits to me for the statue photo.

[diamond-rings-and-gutter-bones]

people need to stop tagging every age gap post as hannigram tbh. their age gap is around ten years at most, probably closer to six years, and for two people in their mid to late 30s and 40s thats not that big of a deal. i promise there are more interesting age gaps out there <3

[catboynutsack]

i feel like terminally online ppl are gonna be like. the hippies of our generation. like yeah they had some pretty good ideas sometimes but most of the time they were just annoying as shit and no one from that time period fondly remembers them except themselves

[demonanata]

Lots of posts about footjobs on the dash tonight

[thatbitch151]

Ya know, everyone talks shit about Fairytail because it does rely heavily on “the power of friendship” and I get if that’s not your thing or feels too childish for you but

Can we acknowledge how dark it all is? Loke/Leo is suicidal in the beginning, Lucy comes from an abusive father and dead mother, Gray is an orphan And his step in mother figure died to save him after he made a bad choice, Erza was an orphan and a Literal Slave as a child with a bunch of other children and her childhood love got possessed and continued her abuser’s work. We all know the shit with Natsu and the dragon slayers.

That’s not even going into the Mirajane/Elfman/Lisanna backstory, or the story of any other characters like Juvia and Happy and Charla and Zeref and such. Like holy shit? This show is so so dark and everyone looks over all the trauma and dark themes because there’s the whole power of friendship thing, which was weaved into the show to actually mean something and not just there for shits and giggles.

All this to say, you can dislike the show, hate it even, but don’t just judge it for the light hearted outer shell it has, because inside is dark and dense and Meaningful

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[mrmeepsmadmind]

SOCIETY KEEPS KILLING ONE OF THEM BCS THEIR FRIENDSHIP WOULD BE INCAPABLE FOR GALAXIES TO HANDLE !!!!!

[cipher-the-sidhe]

Witnessing the half-life of so many people’s relationship with fandom nowadays is so…hmmm. It gives me this sort of pitying dread. You’re never obligated to stay in a fandom that no longer rings you joy, but the way I’ve seen several people now Announce their “retirement” from certain fandoms (and no, this isn’t just the dca fandom I’m seeing this in) when they no longer want to make a bunch of content is so symptomatic of this poisonous idea of the content creator vs the fan, and how you can’t really be considered part of a community if you’re not producing for that community all the time. Guys, this is NOT how fandom has always been. This is new and this is awful. Please kill the capitalist that lives in your brain and is trying to infect the fan in you and its relationship to fandom. Are people just uninterested in j retracting with things that don’t bring the same dopamine high as they did when they first encountered it and were newly obsessed? And how much does that speak to peoples’ wide relationship with media nowadays?

Nothing I’m saying here is new or original, i know. But I’m just sort of… shocked by the attitude I see a lot of people treating fandom and the media it spawns from with lately. It’s uncomfortably transactional.

[namtanlovesfilm]

as someone who's only moderately interested in joss, I went through his whole ridiculously long follow list on insta (more that 1250 accounts in total, that shit's crazy) as soon as these statements dropped and I can only say that what I saw isn't even remotely bad as people made it out to be. his problematic follows were less that 1% of the whole thing and the total list included liberals too, not only politicians but comedians that dunk on trump and maga and what not. the list looked like a bot randomly followed a little bit of everything from everywhere. I personally think it's a reach equalizing him with foei and others that actually shared their bigoted views or did something shtty, and I'm willing to give him a benefit of doubt because other than this he seems to be a solid person. a friend linked me some videos and interviews and he highkey sounded more mature and empathetic than most bl actors, just saying. dgmw, he deserves criticism for this but I'm willing to give him some grace too

so as I mentioned I have been a huge joss stan since 2019 so trust me, I AM giving him the benefit of the doubt. in fact I have been doing so since I saw with my own eyes that he followed andrew tate 2-3 years ago, and was willing the make excuses for him that maybe he followed him way prior to tate's turn into the manosphere from his days as a boxer. I was willing to cut him some slack bc I, too, believe joss to be mature & level-headed from his interviews, etc. however, I'll reiterate the same point I answered here to someone defending joss, which is that he NEEDS to address this. everyone at the moment is doubting his intentions bc of his lack of answers & clarity, despite the fact that there's no way he doesn't know people are aware of his following list. I'm not someone who thinks celebrities owe their fans anything, but in this case, by staying silent instead of either dispelling or confirming this issue, joss is creating problems for his own career & his fans. his fans (who are again 99% minorities like women, lgbtq+ & poc) are now feeling like they supported a guy that is actively against their rights & hates them. from that, joss is facing bad press & fan loss which is a problem for his career. frankly his lack of addressing it, as simple as saying "no I don't support trump & others" does make him look more guilty. once again, I've been a fucking fan of this dude for more than half a decade, trust me when I say that I'd take what explanation he'd give us sincerely. but there's no explanation yet, which only allows this problem to grow bigger & make us fans more conflicted.

xxx

[belovedgamers]

Empires s1 has been over for over a year but I’m still BAFFLED that Sausage/Jimmy or fWhip/Jimmy weren’t bigger ships

[kjzx]

It's funny how I survived being a teenage girl that's interested in feminism in Russia in VK without becoming a radfem just to go on and internalize a bunch of sex negative stuff and other dumb ideas these last one or two years by trying to find a lesbian community I fit into (just to accept that I'm not even a lesbian)

[hadesoftheladies]

so what i'm getting from a lot of this separatist discourse is half of us don't read theory, an eigth of us are homophobic, and a quarter of us are still trying to belittle the bits of feminism that make us uncomfortable or demand a bit more effort and self-reflection. what a week.

and it's only wednesday.

[hws-lceland]

Some of you guys make Norway way too normal

[mrsterlingeverything]

This is gross but i would bet money that elon and grimes did artificial insemination but they did it like ritualistically to make it sexual. There is no way they did that shit traditionally... look at everything else

[homosexuhauls]

gendercrits with no experience of trans/nonbinary identity, detransition/desistance etc, while perfectly able to make observations on misogyny, homophobia and racism in TQ+ circles...just inherently don't seem to "get" how differing trans and nonbinary communities view gender, and make a lot of damaging assumptions and judgement errors along the way

there's no way to stop this, everyone has their own opinions after all. but it's frustrating to see, as someone who has gone from being a "trans women are women" no-debate neoqueer to being a radfem. and no doubt it's much much worse for detransitioners, bearing the brunt of most of these presumptions

equally though, it's infuriating - as a former member of the queerios club - to see self-identified queers pulling the whole "that never happens" trick. don't bullshit me, kid, i was there, i witnessed it, i experienced it lol. guess the gays can just never win 🤷‍♀️

[oopsallsyscourse]

Weird thing I noticed from the new wave of anti endo syscoursers; they really focus in on DID. There's very little use of the term CDD. I haven't seen a single use of the combined OSDDID. I can count on one hand the mentions to OSDD specifically. Idk it's just weird.

[v171]

I was just about to make a post complaining about the music video for How Far Will We Take It by Orville Peck and Noah Cyrus where they're both like kissing on a boy because the boy is so clearly Not Into Guys and he looks so stilted and awkward in every clip where Orville is feeling him up. But then I looked him up and he's an out bisexual french canadian actor dating a man, so I guess that's just his energy. Anyway, find more hot guys that would ravenously make out with Orville Peck on camera like I would.