#pro empowerment

[underwaterspiderbird]

“plagueis saw qimir and osha so that means he’s gonna kill them!!1” first off, not all sith believe in or follow rule of two, just like not every witch believe in threefold law. second, out of any sith you could learn from, plagueis may be one of the most legitimately chill of them. he doesn’t care about galactic dominance or whatever, he just believes in sith beliefs & wants to exist his way and do his cool force experiments. nothing’s set in stone, stop acting like anybody who disagrees with the jedi is doomed for suffering for daring to not agree with the jedi’s holy worldview. it was old and tired then and it’s straight up mold now. just stop.

[jukeboxgirl]

The question to women that’s gone viral:

Would you rather be in the woods alone w a man or a bear?

Majority of women said bear.

Why? Because even if it did maul us, the following would happen-

1. We wouldn’t be blamed for the attack

2. We would be believed

3. People would hunt down that bear without giving it a second thought

[briaberri]

Lucien is a survivor abuse and assault, war, and torture. He's clinging to stability with a scarcity of options. He's trauma bonded with an unstable friend who went dark. We want characters who've had it hard to win their golden hour.

And.

None of that:

Requires Elain to accept something she does not want from someone she does not want. Understanding why a person is in pain, and recognizing the context for their struggles, is not a bargain to accept something against one's will.

Imagining Lucien, hundreds of years old, blame shifting responsibility to compensate for his years of hurt onto a 20something year old who didn't even want to be there with a "You owe me this because I'm due," is coldly nauseating. Elain is not his consolation prize, and thank the Mother she knows it; even if no one else does.

▪︎ Such rationale softens Tamlin's abuse of Feyre

▪︎ Such rationale extends that Morrigan owes Az (who is possibly her mate?)

Terrifying logic to follow through. Definitely not a storyline focused on empowerment and autonomy.

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Rhysand is a survivor of abuse, trauma, brutality, and loss. He clings to his loves like salvation from his crimes past, and wrestles complexly with deserving happiness, and protecting that which they have.

And.

None of that:

Means therefore, that Azriel is not worth the same hope for love against all odds. It can't be romantic for Rhys, but criminal for Az. None of it makes Rhys' manipulation and subjugation of Azriel and Elain alright.

▪︎ Call back to ACOFrost & Starlight when Rhys acknowledges that he and Az are more alike than is recognized.

Az is vulnerable to the accusations Rhys slanders him with in the study in the BC of SF, and his brother knows it.

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Nesta has survived starvation, tragedy, assault, terror, and suffering. Her self worth splintered to the bones following the war with Hybern, devastated and internally fleeing from her failing to try, not dissimilar from the way her father failed to try for them.

And.

None of that:

Requires that Elain accept mistreatment or cruelty from the sister she adores, when that sister is cutting down anyone in her path with her pain. It takes some real courage to release a trauma bond so that both parties are free to heal on their journeys.

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All to say:

° Our fears and hurts don't justify stomping on the agency and worth of others.

° You should not carry what someone won't let go of.

° Boundaries are excellent tools for healing.

° Elain is right to hold hers.

[queerism1969]

[littlebydigital]

🎤 

“God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”

To the absolute legend,

A woman whose brave prescience never wavered against abuse 

Hope you find all the peace that life stole from you.

Rest easy, Sinead O’Connor.

Shuhada Sadaqat, Inna Iillahi wa inna alayhi rajioon 🤲🏽

You will never ever be forgotten. 

[humnooshop]

No uterus, no opinion

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[isawthismeme]

[underwaterspiderbird]

anybody who calls the acolyte “canon breaking” or “lore breaking” clearly doesn’t know shit about star wars. the jedi were never inherently good, the sith were never inherently bad, they just have different points of view. and for fuck sake stop acting like the jedi know everything and are always right & nobody else can have their own point of view your sheltered church kid is showing sarah.

[jukeboxgirl]

Let’s take a look at some of Trumps actual stats from his time in office-

-The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. -The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 -The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.

-The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion. - -Home prices rose 27.5%

-illegal immigration increased

-Handgun production rose 12.5% compared with 2016, setting a new record.

-The murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997.

These are just a few stats AND they don’t include the mass amount of wreckage that he’s left a trail of throughout his life.

Someone explain to me WHY anyone would want him in charge? The only thing I can think of is he makes people feel comfortable HATING others. For some, that’s all they’ve ever wanted.

Stop the stupidity.

[rosalinesurvived]

Legitimately think that anti-Alicents wouldn’t empathise with irl children groomed/SA’ed by trusted adults and that is my toxic hotd opinion.

[ziggyart]

My Choice 🤍

My art is sponsored by my female rage 🫶🏻

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[thinkpink212]

I am pro-crying. Let it out baby girl, and then dry your tears and pick yourself up again - You are not done. Today was today, try again tomorrow and hold your head high. You are not weak for being human. Now go and remind yourself why AND how you made it this far.

[cheerfullycatholic]

Society continues pressuring women to end life by convincing them that they are not capable and that life is not worth the struggle they could face. Society is robbing women of the chance to show the world how resilient and capable they are. Women have the power to rise above and not allow circumstances to determine their fate. There is so much value in the lives they raise and those they pass their strength onto. It is time to rise up with women in unplanned pregnancies and say enough to pro-abortionists who attempt to hide their strength and extinguish their legacy. We can show them that their story can inspire life too.

[underwaterspiderbird]

nnnnno, the jedi just suck. their whole thing minus their self hype boils down to “be like me or else you’re a corrupted abomination & you deserve to either die or repent for existing”. if anything, ppl like qui gon, kanan, cal, etc either didn’t know any better & had no idea what they were being taught was unhealthy & bad weird,

or they knew and just continued to double down in their cope of “no the jedi MUST be right it’s everybody else that’s wrong” and were just as much accomplices in the jedi’s slaughter and genocide of nonbelievers as the rest of them. if anything, they were good little idiots who did whatever they were told as long as it carried the jedi’s hollow promise of goodness and justice. they drank the kool-aid.

if anything, we like anakin and ahsoka because they at least thought for themselves, even when they called themselves “jedi”, and eventually broke away from that cult to be their own people.

ain’ nobody forgetting the jedi’s puritan habit of throwing away and demonizing anybody, pupil or otherwise, that questions or even outright disagrees with the jedi notion of the force; suggests that maybe the jedi are wrong.

just take the L, you’re not fooling anybody. not even the mfs who pretend to believe you and back you up out of cope.

Anakin and Ahsoka are “pick-me’s.”

Don’t worry, I’ll elaborate.

Anti-Jedi folks will always, always, lift these two assholes up as “better than all the rest of the Jedi.”

They’ll say that they have “empathy,” and “compassion,” and that they “care about the little people and not just the politicians in the Senate”—or whatever the fuck else they wanna say—all because Ahsoka and Anakin “Aren’t Like Other Jedi™️”

Now, theoretically, you could say the same thing about Qui-Gon, Kanan, Cal, etc. except for the fact that they themselves don’t believe that.

They loved being Jedi, they viewed themselves as being Jedi, they loved their fellow Jedi and the Order. They didn’t betray their family, they didn’t blame their family for their own fucking genocide or basically call their practices stupid because “look how much better I am teehee.”

Qui-Gon, Kanan, Cal…they loved the Order and being Jedi in a way that Ahsoka and Anakin didn’t.

Ahsoka’s change is partly Anakin’s fault, since she only changed after being his padawan, but that doesn’t change the fact that now she’s so entrenched in her own ignorance that she truly believes that the Jedi brought on their own genocide because they didn’t train non-Force-sensitives.

So yeah, Anakin and Ahsoka are massive pick-me’s and y’all are too.

[jukeboxgirl]

When a woman speaks up for herself or for other women,

*it does not mean that she is a “man hater” and she is not being “aggressive”.

She is simply trying to tell you how she feels and talk about her daily struggles.

Before you get defensive- open your heart and listen. All she wants is understanding.

Until you are holding your keys as a weapon, every time you walk to your car alone, you won’t understand. The best you can do is listen.