#they just like standing on their soapbox

[grace-williams-xo]

I need you all to understand what the ICJ (international court of justice) is. What it is not is the ICC (international criminal court).

The ICC has limited powers and ways to enforce law at the best of time. The ICJ is basically the equivalent of an international civil court, it has far less power. If you’ve ever had/known any civil court ruling, you know that enforcement can be hard.

I am not saying this ruling doesn’t matter, I hope it will further help shift attitudes in politics and ‘centred/neutral’ zionists, but please keep your expectations in reality. The ICJ can’t really do anything.

[jessaerys]

sun visits the moon at spk headquarters and gets so so so sleepy

[mamawasatesttube]

maybe its just my pedantic streak rearing its head again but really, truly. can i be honest? i dont get why people call yj/core four codependent. thats not what that word means. tim and cassie having a Bad Time with grief does not mean their relationships with kon and bart were unhealthy. grief is a whole other beast here. like do you guys know what the word "codependency" means because im getting the feeling that thats a no

[missszena]

Maybe this is my can't sleep tired brain going on tangents again but I'm gonna say it anyway

It always bugs me how people who ruthlessly bash the Emperor are always on about how its such a big manipulative liar at all times so none of what it shows you is genuine and it shouldnt be believed ever but the SECOND it shows anything negative suddenly its a 100% honest character who is telling the absolute truth and you should believe what it shows you at face value

Like which is it? Is it a liar or is it being honest? Or maybe some of yall are trying to make a big deal about morals (even though yall give Astarion a pass despite him doing shit like not approving of helping the Tieflings survive even though there are literal children in the refugee group) instead of just saying you personally didn't vibe with a character?

[mars-ipan]

so funny to me how ppl on tumblr will read a post that says, within the post, SEVERAL times, “hey this isn’t super well-thought out discussion and shouldn’t be treated as such i’m just sharing an individual opinion and my word should not be taken as fact” and then refuse to understand that whether they agree or disagree with the op

[serethereal]

if every text post on your blog is some soapbox ass post or fandom drama i’m just gonna assume you’re the problem. and also that you’re the most miserable type of person on earth. and that ur a virgin

[liquidstar]

i saw a comment by you on an old post saying lesbians are bigots if they refuse to consent to sex with anyone amab. do you still feel that way (about homosexuality being bad) or have you changed your pov?

lol no, i didnt get stupider.

depending on how old the post was its possible i didnt phrase myself in the best way (ive been here since i was a young teenager after all), but youre also clearly prone to the worst possible bad faith interpretation of things so ill at least make this clear: i do believe that anyone has the right to refuse sex for whatever reason they want. whatever. thats fine.

but i dont think thats an excuse for transmisogyny. i dont think there have to be entire "movements" dedicated to this imaginary concept of trans women forcing cis lesbians to have sex with them. no, im not doubting that this situation has ever once happened on an individual level, but its not a systemic issue by any fucking means. people saying that trans women are women, and that having sex with them doesnt make you less of a lesbian, IS NOT the same thing as someone forcing you to have sex with them. no one is making anyone do anything beyond respect people's individual choices. your adverse reaction to this is whats bigoted.

again, i think anyone can refuse sex for whatever reason they want, but i also think that we live in a bigoted society where a lot of people dont want to unpack their biases or shallowness, especially when it comes to sex and romance. so i think that once you decide to base your personality around "EWW I WONT HAVE SEX WITH A PENIS HAVER!!! GROSS!!!" you are a bigot lol, its clearly about a lot more at that point. you are using it as an excuse for your bigotry, a way to recontexualize yourself as the victim in a pure hypothetical. but trans women have said it better than i ever could though, so i dont want to soapbox too much.

im still a dyke btw and homosexuality is awesome :thumbsup: and i think woman are more than just their vaginas, which is why i dont boil them down to the parts they have, even when it comes to sex. if you want to put me on somekind of blocklist for this go ahead, i dont want terfs interacting w me anyway. bye forever now

[bullagit]

i AM fully team “donnie having some beef w leo and/or splinter on raph’s behalf for the bullshit moves” btw

raph and donnie have a lot of fun lil similarities. one is that they are subtle as a bag of sledgehammers, one is that they destruction of property kings, and the big one to this end is that they’re like. the Defense duo. (wouldnt u know... the most traditionally protective ones... w the powers of pixely mystic constructs...). the training, the protectiveness and taking hits, the security systems, the escape pods, the panic buttons, etc, they are very on that wavelength together

and i think to share that wavelength. to watch raph work so hard and so earnestly time after time to help people and keep his family safe and improve teamwork, to watch him doggedly get back up and find out how to do better every time he fumbled, to be the key that unlocked your whole-ass ninpo connection, do such a genuinely GREAT job getting everyone through stuff. 

to have that and then have splinter (who never interfered in team lineup EVER BEFORE? even during the eps where they did missions w him) unceremoniously rug-pull leadership from raph with no initial explanation, then to have leo just fully acting up and pressing raph’s buttons (skipping training for a pizza stack goof-off is one thing obv, but going all lone wolf and causing a mission that would’ve succeeded to fail is another)... like yeah man

donnie’s the brother most likely to call splinter out on a bad call and he was clearly getting annoyed w those leo stunts through the movie (before leo learned his Big Lesson and all). i wholeheartedly believe he’d be salty for raph. go no farther than a protective-of-large-brother donatello, i am sold

[shelbbot]

ok wait adding onto the last reblog bc im thinking about it. i dont want to start any Disc Horse but my experience is that theres a lot of unchecked misogyny in queer circles, in all different flavors. I used to see it a lot when i ID'd as trans masc, and i feel like a lot of it was trans dudes deflecting super hard about their insecurities. also cis gay dudes in general idk. being queer is super complicated and im not going to tell anyone how to feel about themselves or their identity but you cant let that get in the way with how you treat irl femme ppl. anyways fixating on weird femme characters once in a while is really good for baby gays who only ship m/m pairings like i mean that. its good for your development. eat your vegetables [loving women]

[lanibgoode]

only if they brought back frank and steve.

Reblog if, no matter the size of the role, you would agree to work with the Muppets if offered the chance to do so, no questions asked

[daisywords]

not saying you're wrong or that the point isn't appreciated but lactating wizard is definitely a possibility

Yeah I know I know throwing the fantasy option in there makes a realism complaint less of a thing (I was mostly thinking about historical fiction) but consider this, anon: if I didn't throw joke bait into my informative post, far fewer people would be spreading it around

[halfricanloveyou]

ok so i watched the new superman show. thought it was just okay romance wise, nothing very exceptional. the animation was weak in a few areas, i think they should have just gone all out and animated it like an anime, like in the myx episode. loved that battle sequence too!! the rest of the animations with the fight scenes were kind of clunky imo.

character wise i think they’re all pretty predictable and fall into the same boring stereotypes. tenacious and ambitious/spunky ‘tomboy,’ goofy comedic relief third wheel black friend, OP main character who’s main trait is being both responsible for all conflict and saving people from said conflict…yeah. it’s literally danny phantom but instead of being ‘sassy’ clark kent just has anxiety.

HOWEVER…taking into account the episode with the loving and kind gay gorilla and his robot-body-but-human-brain-scientist-husband, clark kent being quite possibly the most peggable fictional character to exist, casually depicting lesbian moms, and most importantly being very obviously and overtly anti US government means i objectively have to give it a 10/10 and say it’s the best tv show i’ve ever seen in my life.

also…it’s definitely a kids show (like probably ages 10+) and i can only assume it’s on adult swim because the people at cartoon network are fucking cowards. let cool stuff back on prime time air and stop shoving it all to after hours!!! sometimes midnight is too damn late!

[sureuncertainty]

“if you eat at chick fil a you’re the scum of the earth” posts always just make me wanna go get chick fil a out of spite

[blazinghotfoggynights]

Can Team Tuck and Team Buddie please agree that both can exist and serve as positive spaces for queer male representation?

I've been thinking. Let me run something by you.

Oliver says he has always felt Buck was a bi-coded character? Right?

Does that mean when TK thought Buck was hitting on him, he was?

If Buck was always bi, but just didn't know it, are we supposed to believe he never flirted with Eddie just because his first kiss was with Tommy?

Was Tommy his bi awakening or was Tommy the embodiment of the attractive traits he has seen in a man he's been falling for over five seasons?

You can like or even love multiple people. Even at the same time! 😮

Believing that Buddie is or should be the endgame does not negate or disrespect Buck's arc with Tommy in any way. I question if Tommy was just a convenient character. He's a safe guy to explore Buck's evolution with. He has a history with members of the 118, but he is not integral to the cast. If it doesn't work out, he is easily explained away. Remember Natalia?

I think it is possible to have a Buck and Tommy centered arc, focused on Buck becoming comfortable with his sexuality and exploring it in a healthy, positive way and still have Buck and Eddie eventually realize they have been each other's person for years. Having both doesn't make the other any less important. How many people have dated others when their eventual life partner was right there? They had no idea they saw that person in that way.

Now that we know Buck is bi, it could lead to different interpretations of scenes:

Buck is looking at Eddie. Tommy is not there and we don't know for sure who Eddie was speaking to.

2. Look at that smile and his eyes at the end. Buck positively beams and bats his eyes when he realizes Eddie is going to look at him. That's how platonic friends look at each other?

3. But we can take it all the way back if we have to. Look at Buck when Eddie compliments him.

3b. Do you know what that reminds me of?

4. If Buck has subconciously been into guys for a long time, then this scene takes on a whole new context.

Moving closer to the other man? Check.

Eye contact? Check?

Smile and shy head duck? Check.

*I'd like to state that I have no doubt Edmundo Diaz knew Buck was into him. Look at the reaction.

5. When I'm into someone, you know what I don't talk about? Someone else.

6. Wow. Look at how Buck looks at Tommy.

6b. We have never seen that before have we?

Buck x Tommy and Buck x Eddie can coexist in harmony. Life stories are long and have jumpscares, plot twists, plot holes, etc.

Buck being genuinely attracted to Tommy doesn't mean that all the scenes from the past five seasons that made us all side-eye Evan Buckley didn't happen.

If we never get Buddie, let's just take the win. ABC said, "There are queer men in the world who are masculine, hot, and relatively stable. Let's show that."

Do we really need to talk about how the LGBTQ community was represented on their former network? I could stand on that soapbox and go off for days. Let's just say I know others who also felt some way about it, whether they were straight, queer, or allies.

I am just going to enjoy what is shaping up to be an amazing season. Moving to ABC breathed new life into 911 and I am excited. (Season six? Can we just not talk about it?)

[dennisboobs]

not a dennis apologist but a ~dennis defender~ when i see everyone somehow missing the fact that mac is literally fucking stated to be the one pulling the strings from the shadows and has been for years while dennis, naïve, known idiot and chronic underestimater of his friends, is the one being played.

[andromeda3116]

i just

i just gotta get on my soapbox for a sec bc like

mai becoming fire lady is like. her worst ending. she's just being stuffed back into the box of nobility! the life that bored her so desperately that she was willing to go with azula just for a fucking change of pace

i will always think of the person on lj who described mai as "spoiled beyond feeling" bc she's been given everything she has ever needed or asked for... except freedom or love

my ending for mai is -- for one, her reply to azula is not "you miscalculated, i love zuko more than i fear you," it's "you miscalculated, i am not afraid of you" as she attacks azula and takes control of her own life

and in the epilogue, zuko actually goes to the boiling rock to free her, only to find a letter -- a letter! thematic consistency! -- from her explaining that she and ty lee are already free (either having escaped on their own or been released by her uncle) and have decided to break out of all their chains and see what the world has to offer (or be made to offer) two dangerous ladies who are stepping out of the gilded cage and coming into their own

so her happy ending is not going back into the nobility and continuing to be spoiled beyond feeling, but choosing to forego the spoiling to find feeling and meaning and freedom

it's also ty lee choosing to forego being part of a matched set or being under someone else's power or thumb and choosing to find out who she is on her own, not the sixth sister or the circus girl or azula's lackey, but ty lee, standing on her feet without any lines or nets to catch her nor any claws or flames to contain her, titling her chin up and capitulating to no one and deciding for herself who she wants to be

like holy shit, the canon endings for them suck so much they both deserve so much better and especially mai who i genuinely fucking love and think is such an interesting character whose endgame ship is just. it's so bad. it's a net-zero for her characterization, she just... goes back to exactly what she left before and... that's it

that's the ending

that's the ending?

mai deserved better

there, i'm saying it: mai deserved fucking better than that