#rant ////

[theemmetguy]

My grandmother was a victim to one of these despicable stores before they fired everyone with no more than 3 days' notice when they closed the location for shady reasons. Keep in mind that this is a woman who is always in pain, but apparently isn't considered disabled despite being incapacitated by her pain some days.

The store's name was Jembro (fuck that company so hard, they can burn for all I care). None of the employees were allowed to sit, and they were constantly run into the ground doing the stocking and other physical activities. My grandmother was in way too much pain due to that so she ended up going to urgent care and later on, the ER. Her pain was intensified by a huge amount because of this rule.

Don't let these fuckers cause you underlying injuries that can change your life. Quit on those pigs. They don't deserve a thriving business.

I know a company that does both these things and no surprise, when you shop there, the employees are always miserable and agitated.You should kill your managers in such situations imo. The only reason I receive treatment slightly above this is i'm lucky enough to have managers who are also bothered by these business practices. The water one is especially bad if you have heat intolerance, I was so sick regularly before I switched to a department with more leniency regarding water.

Depending on where you live these things may violate labor laws though so if you're in the same situation look into it. However in my experience any labor law violations happen without consequence regardless

[derpygirl-draws]

You know what? I will not be be quiet.

^(just an example of what I am talking about) I wish I could live everyday not having to worry and not having to listen to the people I love panicking or just saying “Welp guess we are fucked”. But because so many people believed in this asshole and voted for him, I have to fear for the lives of people, REAL PEOPLE, some of whom not so long ago did not have any rights or freedoms as much as the average American. THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE, PEOPLE’S LIVES ARE AT STAKE. Not just their mortality but their basic right to happiness. THEIR RIGHT AS PEOPLE TO LIVE HOW THEY PLEASE IN THE PUBLIC EYE AND TO FEEL PROUD OF WHO THEY ARE.

I’ve heard people call other’s dramatic.

Those who think the reaction of minorities is dramatic do not know the fear of being deemed less important to the world. I don’t even fully know what that’s like and I don’t want to know. I don’t want anyone to know what it’s like for the world to turn their back on them. It’s a very real feeling that I wouldn’t wish on anyone! I WANT TO SEE THE PEOPLE I LOVE BEING HAPPY. I WANT TO SEE THE WORLD HAPPY. But that’s too much to ask, isn’t it?

I may not fully understand the struggles of every minority. I’ve been fortunate enough to have lived a childhood where discrimination against any part of me has been minimal.

I am a person who was born as female and identifies as female. I am a person of color. I am queer. I am neurodivergent. The majority of my peers and friends are minorities. And I care very deeply about all of them. I don’t hate many things in the world. I believe hate only fosters bitterness. But I will not hide the fact that I HATE seeing the people I care about, no matter how little I know them or how distant the relationship, hurting. I HATE knowing that I can’t immediately take their pain away and tell them not to worry.

Cause who am I to say you or the people around you shouldn’t worry? Who am I to promise it’ll be okay? Who am I to wish for a better world when it feels like the cards are constantly stacked against us.

Who is anyone to call someone else dramatic for fearing the future? When this is the world we live in.

I want to say my peace on the matter cause I feel it would be doing my loved ones a disservice to keep my voice left unheard. To bottle up your thoughts is the give in to the fear.

TELL THE WORLD HOW YOU FEEL. TELL THE WORLD AND SOMEONE WILL COME TO LISTEN. You are not dramatic for being scared. But do not suffer alone. There is always someone who will listen. Always someone who feels the same. Always someone who will appreciate knowing they aren’t alone and that you are with them.

And for those who don’t care or don’t believe this is a big deal, I will not beg. I will not ask. I will tell you to educate yourself and learn about reality we’ve been thrusted into. And if anything, how this affects you too. Cause otherwise there is nothing I can do for you and nothing I will do because there are others I know who appreciate and acknowledge what I have to say. There are others who will stand with me. There are people I want to stand with because they are people that believe and care about me and the millions of people who will be affected by the choices and ignorance of others.

I stand with open arms to those who need it. Who needs support. I will not say please stand with me. I will say I am here and I will stay here and be here no matter what and if you choose to stand with me, that’s your choice.

I will not beg for the freedom to exist and neither should you.

[acoreu-alt]

I hate creepypasta voice claims for Masky and Hoodie because THEY HAVE CANNON VOICES. THEY HAVE ACTORS. I also hate name headcannons, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NAMES. PLEASE, CREEPYPASTA FANDOM, LOOK INTO THE SOURSE MATERIAL.

[dangerousartisanwerewolf]

Nothing says “Perfect peaceful country” like the whole word cowering in fear because you had, oh no… a routine election!!

[elrond-halfelven]

This quote came into my head when I saw the Rings of Power Galadriel being criticized for being too “angry”

“Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?” —Nitya Prakash

In Rings of Power Galadriel has so much anger. She has lost so much. She has to learn to deal with her anger. In order to become the wise Galadriel we know during the events of LotR she had to be angry first. So no, don’t criticize the Rings of Power portrayal of Galadriel being to “angry” she has every right to be.

[lastoneout]

Genuinely the blanket refusal for anyone to consider the existence to trans mascs/men, nonbinary people, and intersex people in the reproductive rights conversation is starting to piss me the fuck off. "Oh you never hear of a man going to the ER and people having to appeal to a council of men to save their life" just SAY you don't give a fuck about trans men, holy shit. They are seen as defective women by society and have to deal with misogyny AND transphobia when accessing reproductive healthcare, stop acting like they straight up don't even exist.

Also cis men DO have to deal with this shit. Disabled men have a history of facing eugenics and having their right to have kids stripped of them, and they ABSOLUTELY have to beg insurance and hospitals to save their lives. Did y'all forget about that disabled man who was left to die by a hospital during the start of the covid pandemic because his life "wasn't worth saving" like?? Disabled people legit had to constantly worry that if they got covid a hospital would just let them die, I was PETRIFIED of getting sick because of this. I remember spending hours reading the guidelines hospitals were following to decide who was worth saving and shaking and crying in fear because the system was straight up saying to my face that both I and people like me simply dont have lives that are worth saving. Right now disabled men in Canada are being forced to kill themselves because killing them is easier than helping them, y'all remember that?? You know fat men face systemic fatphobia that kills them when doctors refuse to treat them until they lose weight, yeah?? And we're well aware that black men die in ERs because doctors won't take them seriously, right? Right????

Jesus fucking christ y'all men are not the problem but so many of you are acting like they are to the point of erasing the very existence of marginalized men who are absolutely suffering and dying too because doctors don't give a shit about them. These men need support, just like women do, now more than ever. Stop fucking abandoning them because you think women are the only people who are going to suffer under Trump.

Woman good, man bad is a painfully reductive way of looking at the world and everyone perpetuating it needs to stop right fucking now. I'm not kidding, I am straight up running out of patience at the progressive left's willful refusal to recognized marginalized men as people who need help. Trump is going to hurt so many marginalized men too and idk how else to state that you should give a shit about them.

Like not to steal the Onion's words but I straight up don't know how else to explain that you should care about other people.

[mewtnaishi]

WHY?!

What is it with writers thinking it's a good idea to take a traumatised and obviously suicidal character and KILL them off?!

This character has been through so much shit and pain. They have managed to find joy in the people around them and have had SOME happy moments.

But they still have so much unresolved trauma. And they still carry so much pain inside.

And instead of giving them a well deserved happy ending that could bring some hope to the audience watching who might relate to said character… they thinks it's a good idea to KILL THE CHARACTER OFF?!

ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME?! WHY?!

[dangerousartisanwerewolf]

By the time trump finishes this term, if he even makes it that is, he will be 82. Y’all.

fuck y'all!!!!!

[kaz-curlymonster]

YOU. YOUNG WOMEN AND TEEN GIRLS SEEING THIS.

Boys are just as catty and dramatic as girls. It’s called being human. I had male friends years ago who stopped talking to each other for months and some friendships that ended over fucking. Minecraft.

MINECRAFT GRIEFING MADE THEM STOP BEING FRIENDS.

Look at the shit happening with Drake and a bunch of other male rappers. Eminem and MGK. Do not let these dipshit men and boys who make rape jokes about behind your back (yes, they do. I was considered “one of the boys” as a teen. I’ve heard them and I know you do too) tell you other women are the enemy.

Don’t let them convince you that their “jokes” are just that or that they are acceptable. Ask yourself why they never make rape jokes about males. Ask yourself why they even think rape is funny, especially when they never direct it towards males.

[dumb--bass]

I believe that situationships are for cowards . If you have feelings you have to say it out . When u don't make anything official, you can't hold anyone accountable .Everyone is allowed to do everything, it's a fucking free for all .Gen z is afraid of commitment and it shows

If it's not exclusive it's nothing. If you are not ready to sacrifice your "singlehood" it's nothing. If you aren't brave in love you are nothing

[average-hyperfixator]

This is probably the weirdest way to show that I'm in the Mouthwashing fandom, and like nobody is going to see this BUT

If I see ONE MORE person compare Ted to Jimmy I'm going to LOSE MY FUCKING MIND. Is this another testament to people not understanding Ted's overall role in the story and his character arc? YES, YES IT IS. RE READ THE BOOK. RE LISTEN TO THE RADIO DRAMA. GAME IS IT'S OWN CONVERSATION THAT WILL TAKE TOO LONG FOR ME TO DISECT + IT HAS IT'S OWN STORY AND THUS WILL NOT BE INCLUDED HERE.

Jimmy is a jealous man, who assaults (and unfortunately impregnates) Anya, and then tries to crash the ship so he doesn't have to deal with the consequences, and when everyone lives, they live in misery BECAUSE OF HIM. He is the co-pilot, he has more power and authority over the others, and he ACTIVELY makes things worse, and is at fault for the crash and the subsequent fallout. (this section is shorter, simply because I've been in the IHNMAIMS fandom much longer and have way more thoughts on Ted) Ted, on the other hand, is not at fault for the world ending. He is just as trapped as the other five, he's more prone to mental manipulation and THINKING he's better off, but he really isn't. He doesn't have more power of the others because he's also a victim. He is by no means a great guy, or even a good guy; They key difference is that at the end of his story, the book, he actually fucking HELPS. Rather than make his friends continue to live in misery, he puts them out of it, and rather than end his own suffering, he spends those precious few seconds he could be ramming an icicle into himself, comforting Ellen as she dies. It doesn't make up for what he's thought and said, BUT, it's something at least. It's remorse, it's letting her finally be content, it's trying to give her the empathy she showed him time and time again. And he gets turned into a horrid slug creature after, he actively suffers more than everyone else for the rest of time- he self sacrifices so his friends could be at peace. TLDR: Jimmy is objectively selfish and doesn't change much throughout the game, save for MAYBE the very end (ig putting Curly in the pod is one brownie point for him) however Ted actually shows growth by the end of the story, and makes a point to end the suffering of his friends, while ultimately sacrificing himself in the process. If I catch another person equating these two I'm just gonna start throwing hammers at them I DON'T CARE. I am THE Ted defender, and I WILL stand my ground that, while he is no where near perfect, he DOES become a better person by the end of the story and deserves to have that acknowledged. anyway this has been sick rants with me, feel free to add on in reblogs or perchance spark a FRIENDLY debate. I apologize if I come off rude here, Ted and IHNMAIMS have been a hyperfixation of mine for months and I am very easily riled up about the story and characters. adding new tag ; Jace rants 🗯️ ! For all my ranting escapades from now on.

[boopjuice]

I did an assignment about this once. The fighting feels a lot like other parts of the queer community, specifically anti-kink, turning on others within the same community. The aces that distance themselves from those of us who distinctly Do Not Want Sex are essentially pushing us under the bus for the sake of trying to appeal to aphobes so the leopards eat our faces first.

But what really gets me is that, for as much as those kinds of people try to assert that they're "not like the other aces" no aphobe is going to see them as valid either way. If you're sex repulsed you're sick and need help or you're just scared. If you're sex indifferent or sex favorable, are you really ace then? It seems like you're just lying to yourself to feel special.

Or maybe you have a hormone imbalance. Maybe you're sick. Maybe you're just scared to have sex and can't admit it.

Long story short, if you have to make yourself palatable to someone to earn their favor then it's not worth it. "But I'm one of the good ones," will only work until you're the only one left.

the asexual double edged sword is that a lot of people, particularly queer discoursers(tm) online, are really really rancid about ace people who have sex, I mean like stunningly awful, so naturally sex favorable/indifferent asexuals will be very keen on making sure that they aren't erased within their own community and that people at large know they exist. at the same time, people are also Very Bad about ace people who don't have sex, and sex averse/repulsed asexuals face a lot of pressure both on societal and interpersonal scales to submit to sex that they don't want, and so naturally it'll really rub them the wrong way to constantly have "but don't worry, ace people can still conform to the societal expectation!" appended to their PSAs about their experiences of asexuality. and so everyone's just kinda upset and annoyed all the time when instead it should be peace and love on planet ace.

[dr-spectre]

I will never understand Callie x Marie shippers because you have these fine beautiful women like Pearl, Marina, Frye, Shiver, etc., that aren't related by blood right there, and yet you pair the two cousins. It is the most basic bitch immoral, and in most places, illegal option to go down. If you're gonna do a ship with the Squid Sisters, at least be fucking normal and do Callie x Frye, Callie x Shiver, Marie x Frye and Marie x Shiver. Or if you wanna be spicey, you do Callie x Pearl or Marie x Marina.

I cant believe that there are people out there who look at these two and go "ZAMNNN I WANT THEM TO MAKE OUTTTT!!!!!!"

What is wrong with you people?

And it's even worse when you see an artist that produces amazing work... Yet they go down... THAT path... It's awful...

[quiescentem-puella]

among all the panels from the soul-crushing Till's comic, I think the one that gets me the most is this one

bc...we already knew that Till was the more sensitive and emotional of the cast, but this frame really puts in perspective how he was just a kid desperately craving affection. He knew what it was like to be loved and that's what he wanted. I think Mizi, with her innocence and her detachment from reality (she was the only one unaware of what being a participant of alien stage really meant), was the closest thing he had to the time when he also was like that. When he was with Io, he had no idea about the cruelty of the aliens... he was just happy to sing and have his mom smile at him. HE WAS LIKE MIZI TOO!!! but at some point, he was torn away from his home and his innocence.

Mizi... she is the "before". When he was warm and taken care of and loved and singing didn't mean dying. Imo Mizi is very similar to child Till and that's why he longs for her with such fierce passion.

(there's also much to say about how Till only knew that love was warm and kind, while the hateful aliens were harsh and cruel... and how Ivan, unable to express love in the way Till knew and understood, ended up behaving more like the aliens than anything else, at least in till's pov. how could Till ever begin to think Ivan loved him, when he was nothing like the love he knew?)

it isn't just that Till was loved. It's that he knew he was loved and basked in that. And that stayed with him until the very end, because even if the other kids in the anakt garden called him a friendless loser...

the love his mother had for him stayed with him. forever.

[translation by WhataFruit on twitter link here]

[redredpanda2]

I'm not suprised.

I'm not suprised that Lunar took Rez's dead at the end (or at least seemed to). Honestly he is absolutely the type to do that and I hope he faces horrible consequences for doing this to his family, and his partners. I honestly knew he was stupid enough to do that.