#thoughts on the shitter

[beast-of-mosss]

Thinking of hands and how they tell a story. The shape of the hand, the palm versus the fingers. How they are shaped, how they hold and how they fit into another. Your hands can tell you a lot about your family and your ancestors. Worker hands versus slender hands.

The callous on your palms, the roughness of your skin, or maybe softness. Maybe writing calloused graced your fingers. Maybe scars from the past.

Hands can tell a story, and I think about that sometimes.

[rattfreakk]

Happy Birthday Tim!

[becauseplot]

The recent announcement of the qsmp election event and q!philza confirming in canon that he is an anarchist kinda rattled something that's always been sort of spinning around in my brain: the fact that both c!emerald-duo (from DSMP) and q!philza (from QSMP) have had their lore tied in with the lore of the Antarctic Empire on SMPEarth. The thing about c!emduo and q!philza is that they are (as mentioned earlier) full-blown anarchists who vehemently oppose government in all its forms, but ae!emduo were, in fact, the co-leaders of an empire.

Now I don't actually know an awful lot about what went down on SMPE (from what I understand, it just sort of...ended?), but like, bear with me here---imagine SMPE is a world of actual empires: citizens, kings, soldiers, armies. A world capable of full-scale war. ae!Phil and ae!Techno are the leaders of one of the most powerful empires in all the land. Then, flash forward some years (decades? centuries?) later, and they're both anarchists completely disillusioned with government as a whole and actively fight against it when they see fit.

What happened? What happened between the birth of the Antarctic Empire and the beginning of the DSMP/QSMP that made them completely give that up and start to oppose what they once supported? 

Was it something they witnessed? One too many peaceful villages burned, one too many mangled bodies found beneath the rubble, one too many of their own men imprisoned, tortured for information, then left for dead?

Was it something that someone did to them? A beloved friend caught in the crossfire of a war; an ally they thought they could trust sticking a knife in their backs in an attempt to seize the Empire for themself; a foe that was simply too strong, too ruthless, too power-hungry to be defeated, much less reasoned with?

Or was it something that they did? Something they did that, for the first time, made their own stomachs turn. Made them question if it was all worth it. Made them realize that it never was. Were they ever at odds? One person begging that they halt their progress immediately while the other doubled down, insisting their actions were justified. Did they fight about it? Threaten the other with arrest for treason? Threaten to leave the other and never, ever look back?

What was the final straw? What makes an emperor become an anarchist?

[shortnsweetbf]

please please please, sabrina carpenter

[birdy-bird-art]

Thank you so much for your service. Fat Narrator Supremacy

ive literally been holding onto this ask for months now and kept meaning to draw a thing for it and only just now managed to remember when i had the motivation to doodle lmao. anyways fat narrator supremacy ‼️

[bandsandwristbands]

Do you ever sleep? I feel like you don't sleep that much. Im always receiving notifications of you reposting stuff regardless of the time... I don't mean to be noisy or something like that im just genuinely interested in knowing

😅😅😅 I do sleep!! I just don't have a consistent schedule and I have my queue loaded up to post a lot and I don't bother tagging 🫠

I also compulsively check tumblr/discord like every 30min no matter what I'm doing (anxious and seeking validation lol) or when I wake up every two hours so I'll usually interact with whatever notifs i have then 💀💀 I do flip over and go right back to sleep tho

Sorry about all the notifications 🙏💕 my constant reblogs used to drive my best friend NUTS when I first got on here lolll

[shieldslinger]

what's your weird thing you always do in video games?

mine is looking for bathrooms

[checkthebox]

I'm happy abt this surge of Mighty Jill Off fanart I've been seeing recently but it always brings back a faint memory from 2-3 years ago that never fails to piss me off

[sharky857]

Hey, Shitter?

The fun part? my account is (was?) +10 years old, and this whole time it's been suspended a whoopin' amount of ZERO TIMES. 🪓😀

[ericeffiorg]

it’s taken me 3 seasons to realise this but the only people on ted lasso that are allowed genuinely complicated stories are the white characters and it’s been the case the whole time, this third season just kind of confirmed it.

as nice as sam’s story felt, it was really nothing more than surface level and just felt like a replica of what we’ve already seen in the media. portraying real stories is what can makes television really compelling, but when the televised story is basically a cut and paste of a news article or a documentary without giving the characters depth and long-term storytelling, then what is the point? it was a surface level story to get the clicks and the viral moments that can capture the heart of people who watch a random clip on tiktok or twitter and don’t need any more context, because there isn’t really much else needed. unlike the build up of jamie and roy’s hug, ted’s panic attack, keeley’s first kiss with a woman, or ted being betrayed by nate, sam’s story can literally be chopped up into a single clip at a time and no more context is needed to get what’s going on because it really wasn’t given any detailed aspects. and to be honest that’s what sam’s character has been this entire time.

the notion of the show is to fight evil with kindness and that works when your friend is being mean to you or your mentee betrays you like it is with ted’s stories. but it doesn’t work that way with someone like sam. his role in the show since the beginning has been “the good immigrant” that fights violence with kindness, despite being confronted with more violence than anyone on the show. he was told to stop speaking about his people by the prime minister and his restaurant was vandalised, yet it only made up to no more than a 1/3 of the episode. other much less important moments had more screentime in an episode that depicted a very real scenario that we literally saw happen a year ago. and even then, ted got to interrupt his moment with his dad and steal the shine, and then it was made about the entire team coming together rather than the deadly discrimination against immigrants and violent racism.

the people of colour on this show are only really used for quick gags and to show that men can be silly and goofy too and to have a big middle finger to toxic masculinity - which in turn is kind of just repeats the same toxic masculinity points because other than jamie and roy, the other men’s “anti toxic masculinity” messages are just covered in humour and never taken seriously. isaac’s journey to becoming the captain of richmond was all about roy and we never really saw his point of view other than a few scenes. and then it felt rushed. dani is just like sam, except the only time he ever speaks is to have a funny moment where his kindness is the butt of the joke. and even though he’s not a person of colour, colin’s coming out story has been so incredibly surface level that i don’t even know why they bothered to do it. nothing new was given, it was just a white man in the closet who has a boyfriend and gets caught. you can describe his story to a stranger and they could probably find it done on riverdale but with more screentime.

and nate’s redemption arc is about a white woman finally seeing him as a human despite the fact that he was never actually mean to her and just wanted to please his parents in a place he never really felt welcome. he was horrible to ted and richmond, but that jade lady was horrible to him from the get-go and we’re now supposed to see this as very sweet and sentimental.

the show is written for white audiences and doesn’t do anything daring, and i feel like it never actually did. maybe it was because it premiered during such a dark time and it was nice to see grown men in typically toxic environments be the opposite, but i don’t think the show is nearly as clever or as groundbreaking as it has gotten the credit for.

[longing-for-rain]

Why is it always

“Why are you dying on this hill?”

and not

“Why are you killing me on this hill?”

[nekhcore]

i fucking LOVE being TRANSGENDER!!!

i LOVE being AMERICAN!!

the credit bureaus keep FUCKING UP my name change despite me providing them all documentation

suddenly i NO LONGER have a fucking FICO score!!

i spent an HOUR on the phone yesterday trying to get someone at experian to fix my split credit report

instead of fixing it they REVERTED the NAME on my ACCOUNT back to my DEADNAME!!

and i STILL cannot see my credit score!!!

[twospiritstooprideful]

Can you tell I lost all hope, faith, and respect for the nation I live in?

Cuz I have

dear the fucking gods

[firebirdsdaughter]

Anyone who didn’t vote bc they thought this was a boycott?

You did this.

[maximum-arson]

hanging on

ft. fren

[burning-sol]

my ass wondering if im really traumatised when i think i just experienced a trauma dream. im. just gonna nap a little longer.