#worse than mine

[troyandabedsnewapartment]

(shaking my 14-year-old self) I was so mean to you but I love you, I love you, love you

[jamesmarriottistrilingual]

I bet you never had this happen to you

*Get told that you have foetal alchol spectrum disorder just because you have anger issues and autism*

[determinate-negation]

"even the nazis didnt..." - guy who doesnt know that much about the nazis

[levi-lev]

hi

[fridgrave2-0]

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

[trans-androgyne]

My whole stay in the hospital, after introducing myself with he/they and having he/him on my little wristband and charts and stuff, I only got called he without having to correct someone once out of the dozens of times I was gendered. Even by the other trans person there. They also marked me down as female even though my legal gender is X and everywhere they don’t have X it’s M. They did the same thing to the transfem I befriended, putting her down as M even though she’s legally F. But at least she got she/her’d most of the time despite not passing either :/

[pseudophan]

[smoosie]

The South Downs Cottage - part 1

[originalvisual]

xg: something ain't right

[beaulesbian]

THE TERROR (2018) S01E09 "The C, The C, The Open C"

If we are to deposit anything with a view to return at some later date, it will be things, not men. I'd rather we leave our tents behind and sleep two to a sack, like the orphans we are, than leave one man alone with last burdens. And I speak not only of James. I'll not leave any one of you alone either.

[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

when i'm in a Character Development Fumbling Competition and my opponent is whatever fucking writers handled earthspark starscream after season one

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ngl the "im white so i dont talk abt any characters' race ever bc im afraid of accidentally saying something racist" approach to fandom is like. very weak. imo.

like first of all: i get that "i dont incorporate race into my media analysis because i'm afraid of messing up" comes from a different place than "i don't incorporate race into my media analysis because I Don't See Race 😊 there is only The Human Race." but it has the same functional effect, right? that effect being that your analysis of [INSERT MEDIA HERE] ignores the very real way that race impacts people.

second of all: it feels kinda lazy! like ur saying "i dont know enough abt race to feel comfortable commenting on how race affects this show and i dont care enough to learn." the only way to become more comfortable discussing race is to actually practice discussing race. but when i see people saying this it feels like they're saying "i'm white, which means i don't know how to talk about race, and i don't have to know how to talk about race, and i don't ever have to know how to talk about race, so i'm choosing to never learn how to talk about race."

third of all: just because you don't openly talk about race doesn't mean you're any less likely to accidentally say or do something racist. implicit biases run deep, y'all. it's probably already there in your interpretation of the show. but the "i don't want to accidentally say something racist" implies that you are positive that your interpretation of the show isn't racist. and i'm not saying you're wrong. but i'm saying that if a person of color tells you that something you said about [INSERT MEDIA HERE] was racist, you better be prepared to actually listen and not just brush them off because "i can't be racist! i purposefully never talk about race just to make sure i'm not racist!"

which brings me to my final point: if you do accidentally say something racist... literally just apologize. if someone says you've been doing something racist, apologize and stop doing that thing. it's literally not that hard. i've done it. i've seen other people do it. "i'm scared of being called racist!" is such a weak excuse im tired of it. getting called racist is not the end of the fucking world. calm the fuck down and grow a spine. jesus.

[kooldewd123]

the depiction of the andalite military in book 18 is really clever, the more i think about it. obviously, the purpose of this book is to start shaking ax's trust in the military institutions that have been a core part of his character up to this point. but the interesting part of this is that it also serves the opposite purpose of showing the audience why he would have such respect for it in the first place. because let's face it, it's not like it's been shown in the most flattering light. the last time ax contacted his homeworld, he was ordered to take the fall for his brother's crimes and then told that his rescue was low priority. in the andalite chronicles, the main face of the military we spend time with is alloran-semitur-"i attempted genocide and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"-corass. and let's not forget that ax himself was pretty standoffish with the rest of the team in the early days of their relationship specifically as a result of his military upbringing.

compare that to what we see in book 18: the tactical officer is rude to our protagonists, but sacrifices his own life without hesitation, and his crew willingly follows him. the prince is remarkably respectful to the leerans and takes the humans in stride, a stark contrast to the usual arrogant xenophobia we've come to expect from andalites. even the captain is an immediately likable character, which makes his betrayal feel nearly as bad to the audience as it does to ax. the line "i'll believe elfangor broke the law. i'll never believe he did anything wrong" is one of my favorites in the entire series, and my brain desperately wants to forget that it comes from someone who tries to turn them over to the yeerks not long afterward - which, weirdly enough, puts me right in ax's shoes at that moment. hooves. whatever. point is, this book pulls off an amazing balancing act where you find yourself rooting for the military at the same time as the protagonist finds himself becoming disillusioned by it. and i find that pretty neat.

[vinsportgar]

memories of the star plasma vessel

[vispera-sabbath]

[mayasdeluca]

MAYA AND MASON STATION 19: 7x07 'Give It All'