#you have a choice

[murthingsblog]

Aroden/Arazni

Let me explain.

I love Arazni (my little girl deserves all the love in the world). I love Arazni's story. A deliciously painful rollercoaster of triumphs and horrific suffering. I will fight for Arazni and her comfort.

And I love Aroden. He's a jerk. I like it. And I like to think he wasn't always SUCH a jerk. Divinity and chosenness will corrupt anyone.

But what if back then, a thousand years before Absalom... There, in Arcadia, Aroden fell in love. Young, innocent, open to life Arazni, with whom they traveled and fought side by side... Yeah, I'm weak. I love the "divine being falls in love with a mortal" trope.

I like to think that many centuries ago, Aroden loved Arazni. The way he knew how to love.

Less than she loved him.

And I love the new layer that Arazni's death adds. Her death and imprisonment in Geb destroys me, But betrayal from the man she loved and who probably no longer loved her is the final nail in my coffin.

[defensive-tactics]

Choose to disengage

[random-xpressions]

They've created a system that has turned you into a consumer. All you've been taught and all you've been programmed is to ever be in a state of consumption because that's precisely what keeps their engines running. Systematically you've been made to forget that you could also produce - produce things that can't ever be bought or sold. The markets that have replicated almost every pristine human institution from education to religion to art to marriage to love to sex - everything has now become a commodity. A price is declared. These divine arrangements have entered into the commercial space. Human sacredness is blotted and we have been reduced to mere numbers and statistics. When election arrives, we are nothing more than a vote in the ballot box. What are we but a prey for the next advanced version of a gadget launch? What are we but taxpayers with which our hard-earned money is then used to fight wars that are totally unjust and uncalled for? What are we but samples on which the gigantic pharma industry is testing their useless vaccines? What are we but the target of every forced advertisements that we are compelled to watch? Consumers - that's what they have made out of us. The question is how much are you choosing to sink in this bottomless mud...

Random Xpressions

[imlivingmylife]

“Emotions aren’t rational. We can’t control having them, only what we do with them...But as long as I can acknowledge my feelings, my brain is not hijacked. I am not held hostage by my emotions.”

-mishele maron

“The Sun” magazine

[autemimperator]

"Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont: your insubordination knows no bounds. You are in violation of your contract. You will be destroyed."

- @jw-adjudicator

Dear Adjudicator

How pitiful, the Table needs to also realize that the Myrmidons are bossed around by me. Not them. They don’t take orders from the Table, because is it them supplying my little army with their fucking weapons? Bah, non. The forces of the Table are people too, it’s funny and amusing to see those numbers of agents dwindle.

— Thank you, Marquis de Gramont.

[seeking-phantoms]

If you are In a relationship that is toxic and the individual is a**sive in any way and you need out but don’t know what to do, read:

“How to do No Contact Like a Boss” by Kim Saeed

Download a sample first from Amazon to see if it will help you. And if that first paragraph resonates with you, buy the ebook to help you.

If you think you need out, most likely you do. I’m not a therapist but someone who is in the middle of the storm currently and finding the help that I need to make the best choice for me and my recovery and mental health.

Remember:

YOU ARE NOT AND NEVER ALONE.

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

I forgot how incredibly queer coded the conversation between Arthur and Merlin before Arthur ditches his own wedding was

Edit: THE WAY THE CAMERA PANS FROM ARTHUR TO GWEN TO MERLIN?! THE WAY MERLIN LOOKS HAPPIER THEN GWEN ABOUT THE WEDDING THAT WASN’T

[theramins]

Can you treat disabled adults like adults? Yes even if they have an intellectual disability? Can you not ask a disabled person you just met about their disabilities? Can you not just wait till they're out of earshot and then start asking their friends and family about them? Can you speak to disabled people directly and not through their carer? Especially if the disabled person is the one talking to you? Can you not give unsolicited medical advice to disabled people? Yes even if they haven't tried it? Yes even if YOU THINK it will help them? Can you ask a disabled person what accommodations they might need without sounding like you're bringing up a dead relative? Can you not ask disabled people about when they're going to get a job? Yes even if you think they could have one? Can you not assume you know anything about how or why a disabled person is disabled just by looking at them? Can you not assume you know what that disability aid is actually aiding? Can you not think that someone with a disability aid using it a bit differently is faking it? Can you handle it if a disabled person in a wheelchair stands up? Can you handle it if someone sits their cane down to go do something? Can you handle the fact that disabled people might be smelly, homeless, or an asshole because of their disability? Can you be normal about someone stimming? or having tics? Or being loud in public? Can you handle a blind person existing in public? Can you not distract working dogs that are helping disabled people?

No? Then fuck off, I have a limited amount of things I can do in a day and I'm not letting one of them be an argument with someone who thinks they know more about my body than me

Can you be normal about disabled people?

are you normal about disabled people. are you normal about visibly disabled people in public. are you normal about wheelchair users. can you treat them like people instead of obstacles. can you look them in the eye. can you say hi to a disabled person without making an awkward reference to their disability first thing. can you mention disabled people without acting like they're some rare endangered species. can you talk about disabled people without feeling pity, sadness, or grateful for your own life. can you open the door for a disabled person without making it a big deal. are you normal about disabled people

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[yeslordmyking]

Deuteronomy 11:8 — Today's Verse for Friday, November 8, 2024

[tache-noire]

im still fucking mad that Arallu are pro-genocide. they were such a good band.

[chimaeraonwards]

John Cusack, the voice actor for Dimitri in Anatasia (1997), shared his statement on Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

P.S. He has been a Palestinian supporter for years

[chloesimaginationthings]

William Afton winning that “idgaf” award in FNAF

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[imlivingmylife]

“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are? ‘Cause you get to choose. You do.”

Uncle Frank

“Uncle Frank”

[allysketches]

gets in charge of the bookshop for 1 (one) day: shows up in a cardigan vest and metal sleeve garters, keeps the shop CLOSED, avoids selling a single book... iconic, truly did THE MOST, 10/10 😩👌🏻

(also, the way he was this 🤏🏻 close to finally achieving the status of house husband he's been dreaming about for MILLENIA just to have the rug pulled out from under him last minute... truly DEVASTATING 😩 my girl really can't catch a break 🤧)