#and i'm here with receipts!

[thechosenanubis]

Eddie Miller and Steve Harrington are the same person in different fonts.

#house of anubis #eddie miller #why are you booing me? i’m right #i've been rewatching stranger things #and their parallels hit me like a truck #It's probably nothing but sometimes i go 🤨🤔😮🧐 #and i'm here with receipts! #steve (s1) 🤝 eddie (s2) -> saving the day in the finale even if they don't know what's going on #steve 🤝 eddie -> the protectors of their group of misfits #steve 🤝 eddie -> curating a fake persona ( king steve and Eddie's bad boy front) to protect themselves from society's expectations #I could keep going but this would get too long #This is my delusion talking BUT I'm more and more convinced that one of st writers watched/was influenced by Hoa/hha/dha... #or maybe the tropes are just that popular and cliche... oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[maxsix]

#park wonbin #riize #riize wonbin #okay so i don't want to hear it #i don't want receipts about how i wasn't going to pick up any other new kpop guys #i'm only here for the aesthetics #and this is very aesthetic #he kinda looks like a cross between baejin seonghwa and hyunjin

[musicalchaos07]

It's so cute how Nancy put up Jonathan's artwork in her room. You know like how Mike has Will's in his?

#we love a double Byler parallel #i don't think I've seen anyone point this out yet #also if you need proof of Nancy's my crazy ass has the receipts but you need to wait until I'm home #stranger things #jancy #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler #will byers #byler #mike wheeler #Wheeler siblings are out here simping for their art hoe boyfriend's

[purgetrooperfox]

how come you do post much about gaza?

assuming you meant don't*? because this makes no sense otherwise? anyway

that you don't see my activism doesn't mean it isn't happening. tumblr is a terrible platform for activism, so I don't use it for that

#i won't pull up donation receipts for a fuckign tumblr anon #i won't sit here and try to explain that tumblr activism is typically restrained to tumblr. people rb the posts and never do anything else #people here notoriously do not click on links #so what i do. what i donate. where i protest. my household's boycotting. i do it and i talk to people about it but i don't do it here #because it won't do jack shit here and i'm trying to connect with people who might actually participate. for tangible results #sorry if that sounds Angry. it's because it is. #if y'all want to free palestine then you have to participate more than just reblogging. boosting voices is good but it takes more than that #tumblr rbs don't put pressure on politicians. they don't fund relief efforts. they don't pay for esims. they don't demonstrate organized #support for palestine in a Visible Manner to your city or state or country #they aren't disruptive #that's why you don't see me post on here. i'm trying to concentrate my efforts where they might do something #NOW. before you come for my throat. obviously there is nothing wrong with circulating posts about aid and resources to help #but then you should really consider like. contributing to those resources. that's key. that's the point. and some people here do! great! #i just. am more likely to be able to find and reach people who do in other places #maybe i should've said all that in the post instead of the tags but i really don't want to bring a bunch of misunderstanding down on myself #asks answered #'i wont sit here and explain' and then i did. damn

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023: PNIN by Vladimir Nabokov.

#books #books of 2023 #pnin #vladimir nabokov #book photography #anyway the bookmark for this is also the receipt for this #which is dated 2018 #which. isn't AS bad as some of the books that have been languishing on my backlist #but also it's not great lol #i'm switching into nano prep mode by degrees over here #we are going for a Different Vibe than driscoll!! #nano2023

[musashi]

now that the dust has settled and i am fully confident i was not in the wrong i can say for certain the funniest thing anyone has ever spitefully said about me post-friendship-breakup is "you made the conversation feel like a cross-examination"

#wordy wendy #DONT CROSS VON KARMA. PERFECTION INCARNATE #ok well maybe if you dont want your LAWYER KINNIE FRIEND to ACT LIKE A LAWYER #you shouldnt COME INTO THEIR DMS GUNS ABLAZING #with a LITERAL ACCUSATION backed up by SHODDY EVIDENCE #i have severe and repetitive trauma RE: being falsley accused on on the internet #do you really think i'm not going to keep receipts #do you really think im not going to know exactly where to find the evidence to refute that #prosecutor miles fucking edgeworth? #it wasn't even a FUN cross examination. #literally just 'you did that' 'no i didn't. heres proof.' #cool life protip its a lot easier to collab with people and have conversations with them #if you dont make up a fanon version of them in your head and then write fic about them first #like perhaps next time just act normal. instead of like a freak #no greater joy than reading the comments on that thread and seeing so many people use the word 'deranged' #like oh thank fuck i wasn't alone in thinking it. that WAS deranged. you are deranged. #and your sweet little softboi schtick will only last so long. enjoy it while it does #once more people see what's beneath it they won't stick around <3 fix your heart or live with that

[batrachised]

i know this skips out on quite a few, but bear with me, i'm trying to stick to mostly interests of the main characters

#lm montgomery #anne of green gables #emily of new moon #the blue castle #i know who i'm voting for but i also know who is going to win #and ya'll are all WRONG #i nearly added the dad of jane of lantern hill and then was like hmmm idk if he counts here haha #also story girl was tricky bc i was like that has romance but not of the main characters?? #I also didn't know whether to include Jem and Walter so forth #Walter was a hard omission but also that man is gay #I have the evidence!! the RECEIPTS !!

[andsheoverthinks]

i am so tired of how easily people slip into anti-Blackness to defend their arguments

recently (always tbh but also recently) i've been seeing a lot of disdain circulating for African Americans, disappointedly but not surprisingly from a lot of non-white people as well.

[f appropriating other cultures is so repugnant to you... why do you have a kpop profile pic... but i digress]

specifically this is about the Cleopatra tv show? casting that people are discussing right now, it's really highlighted how Black people, especially African Americans, aren't allowed to do anything a little bit cringe without racist, violent blowback. Cleopatra has been played by many many actresses, most of whom aren't of Greek or Egyptian descent. So it's weird that people are acting like Black people are uniquely horrible and ignorant for the casting of a Black woman as Cleopatra, when many castings have not been historically accurate.

Liz Taylor was British-American, Vivien Leigh was British, Monica Bellucci and Sophia Italian... you get the point. and yet people aren't hurling racist slurs at white people (there are none) for casting Cleopatra as non-Greek/Egyptian all these years. if you're upset about this particular casting, you can at least be civil with your discussions. but, no, it's easiest to call us dirty, ignorant n******s because half the time people are just waiting for an excuse.

let me explain something to you, gently. a lot of people ask, well, African Americans and Caribbeans were sold from West African countries like Ghana and Nigeria, why don't they go appropriate those countries.

the answer's quite simple. we don't learn anything about West Africa in school.

laugh break, haha, dumb USAmericans.

okay, back to business. in the U.S., we learn a very short list of non-European civilizations: Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt. Maybe one line on Mali if you're lucky. the school system here is very sensitive to teaching anything that triggers 'white guilt' aka anything more than a cursory glance at anything concerning Black people and our history, which is deemed as unimportant. you can say we were obviously enslaved from West African countries so we should learn about those cultures, but... we don't speak our old languages, save for some loanwords like 'duppy' instead of 'ghost' in Caribbean vernacular and such, we don't eat our old foods, wear our traditional clothes... we don't even know what they were, what ethnic group(s) we would have belonged to. we're not immigrants in that sense that we have a home country, a definite place of origin. do you know what it's like to feel that so much of your identity is rootless? do you know how endless that emptiness is?

so when these three non-European civilizations were laid out before us, we latched onto the closest one, and ran a little too far with it.

in fact, my generation is less dependent on Egypt as a sort of crutch; this is more of an older people thing. we have healed enough to be able to look within.

this is not a sob story. this is just a story of how we got here, and how this construction of the world -- disregarding the effects of white supremacy and racial trauma while enacting racist behavior and showing incredible fluency with white supremacist imagery and rhetoric -- is fundamentally flawed.

this is just a sample of the racist tweets on the actress's twitter. i have chosen not to include the images that titilate these people but they are equally horrible, depicting violence against Black people.

in fact, i should stop calling this pathological behavior pattern 'white supremacy' at this point because a lot of people are actually getting off is to Arab slavery. the parallels between misogyny and anti-Blackness are so interesting -- misogynists are addicted to the ego boost of subjugating women, racists are addicted to the ego boost of subjugating Blacks. yes, your ancestors spearheaded an appallingly brutal slave trade of African people which lasted thirteen centuries and is continues to this day (yes, Black people are still being enslaved in your countries but you're butthurt over a tv show so it's time to go ballistic -- by the way white people were also kidnapped and sold but since the rise of European imperialism they'd been able to shed that 'shame'), even more evil than the triangular trade and there are fewer survivors because of the reproductive control methods (read, violent sterilization). source1 source2. you people spouting this nonsense because of a tv show are just as racist as the white people over here, possibly worse. do you feel edgy villain enough now? happy?!

and by the way, 'threatening' to cast white actors as Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King doesn't hurt us the way that Cleopatra not looking white enough seems to emotionally wound you, we are used to being minimized and erased for our contributions to society and are not thin-skinned like the losers complaining about this like it's the worst thing in their lives.

Is Afro-centerism inaccurate? Probably. Is it fearmongering to position it as equivalent to white supremacy? Absolutely.

[Pop quiz: Which ideology enslaved, tortured, raped, killed, and colonized across many centuries?]

Does calling us n******s and invoking 4chan 'we wuz kangz' (yes there was a we wuz kangz meme but i'm not reposting their childish shit on my blog) arguments make you sound like anything other than a whiny child? No. Just say you don't like the casting like a grown-up.

Why doesn't Hollywood produce West Africa period pieces in order to cast more Black actors instead? Now there's an actually productive question. Thank you. Actually, next they should do a long, high budget docudrama on the Arab slave trade so you can feel really uncomfortable.

#anti blackness #racism #poc racism #twitter users having a normal one #tw racism #tw antiblackness #here's the poc solidarity you ordered! #receipts #arab slave trade #'my ancestors were slavers' is not a flex #ur descended from sadists great i can tell #nothing hurts me at this point i'm numb #this is why i hate the proliferation of 'bipoc' and 'poc' especially #it's so white-centric #it groups us with slavers #actual current 21st century slavers #there is no fucking poc community

[lemondoddle]

Customers......

#lane speaks #jfc today #first someone being all pissy bc they Thought they purchased something for more than they actually did #'I'm not doing returns back here they never get it right' what. THE COMPUTER???? #THEN someone trying to return an item with a receipt from 2013. man. #and someone who couldn't for the life of them figure out what they wanted and caused so much back and forth #biting and killing and biting and biting and biting #gif

[punk-pandame]

fuck it. i'm in deep shit please send $$

so here's the rundown

started a new job in august. it's nice but i still haven't been paid and the bills are coming in hot

trying to get on my husband's health insurance but they're being absurdly slow. might not be covered until late october

which is well after my like, seven upcoming appts

can't cancel any of the appts cause my health is getting Worse at a Concerning Rate and i think my fuckwit rheumatologist misdiagnosed me so the "treatment" she prescribed may even be what's causing it but i won't know for sure unless i go to the appts-

also won't be able to get my other meds if i don't go and i need those if i don't wanna kill myself yknow

relatedly, i gotta go back to therapy so so bad

might get fired from my nice new job anyway if they run out of patience with me having to take so much time off, especially so early on

already over $4k in credit card debt just from trying to survive the last year or so- most of it from medical bills, medications, and the associated travel costs

been trying to keep the AC off and skip meals to save money but it's not nearly enough

im doing my best but idk how i'm gonna get out of this one besties. so if you can pls commission, or donate a couple bucks and i'll make you a little somethin somethin. original fiction/art and fandom stuff both encouraged. nsf uu is totally cool. it just might take me longer than those who have commissioned me before have come to expect but i promise i am working on them and i'm always happy to give updates/progress reports.

PATREON | BUYMEACOFFEE

#don't send money if you can't afford shit yourself i'm not out here to make other struggling peoples lives worse #i can also send receipts if ya'll want but i'm blocking out all my personal info #pls don't send pity tho this is embarrassing enough for me as it is #i hate asking for help but i'm like. once again at the end of my rope! so #textpost #notsns #notnaruto #punky draws #punky's fics #punky IRL #boost #commissions #help #money pls #food #food tw #suicideation tw #suicideation ment

[trapton]

someone who is actively stalking my girlfriend and i, and who has never written fnaf before, is now about to enter the fandom and i'm really really scared idk what to do. they've never mentioned it before and like, idk .. i don't want to have to leave this is my safe place. like they are genuinely harmful to people are harming people i know currently and i'm just... like years of this.

#ooc tbt. #i'm freaking out #i'm sorry idk what to do #like i decided to enter this fandom and make this blog to be safe and have a fandom on here i've not previously interacted with and loved #now i just feel... horrid #in light of this im.. gonna have to put this person on my dni .. #idk i didn't want to bc last time someone added them do their dni she attacked them but idk what else to do #i'm frightened #and this is not just fucking petty bullshit either #i have real receipts of shit

[histoireettralala]

"Sometimes, the king is extremely satisfied with me": Richelieu and Louis XIII

The complicated collaboration of king and cardinal was fortified by strong emotional bonding. The beginning, of course, was shaky. The royal master was suspicious of this suave and sophisticated appointee who had alarming elements of Luynes's winsomeness and La Vieuville's self-assurance. While Richelieu's bright, ingratiating manner had worked well with Concini, Marie, and Luynes, it was not foolproof in the presence of a sovereign opposed by nature to flattery and arrogance. As late as 1629, the cardinal-minister pleaded with the king to trust his advisors, to listen to them and not their detractors, to support them even when they were critical (in private) of royal conduct. He concluded wistfully, "Sometimes the king is extremely satisfied with me; sometimes he takes a dislike [to my service]."

Fortunately, the master and servitor were able to build on their common ground and mutual needs. Although beholden for his entry to the council in 1624 to the good offices of the queen mother, Richelieu made it plain in a private meeting with Louis that he would serve king and state exclusively. This solemn vow, repeated throughout their long association, was backed constantly by his encouragement that Louis be "a great king". Richelieu was equally adept at playing the humble servitor who merely carried out his master's commands and would gladly resign if his services were no longer helpful- an effective counter to Louis's past suspicions about the cardinal's overbearing manner.

The cardinal-minister's letters illustrate this ongoing campaign of mutual indoctrination. Shortly after Richelieu replaced La Vieuville as the king's major advisor, he thanked "the great king" for elevating "mediocrities," signing himself "the very humble and very obedient servitor, le Cardinal de Richelieu." Within a year this complimentary closing lengthened to "the very humble, very faithful, and very indebted subject and servitor." That same year, the servitor told his master he would "maintain with the little spirit and industry that God has given me a total fidelity with which I will be, right down to my last breath, [your very humble . . . ]." In 1626 during the crisis surrounding Gaston's marriage, which appeared to threaten the cardinal's life and his sovereign's throne, Richelieu obeyed Louis's command to come to his side with the statement, "Your Majesty is so prudent and so wise that he cannot fail in his councils." The closing to this letter was more grateful than ever: "the very humble, very obedient, very faithful and very indebted subject and servitor." Thereafter, the complimentary closings remained the same; pledges to lay down the servitor's life for his master continued; and allusions to "the best master in the world" appeared frequently.

Louis warmed to Richelieu's words and the success of his policy analyses. There is a world of difference between the royal letter of 1622 referring to the bishop of Luçon as being among those "who favor the prosperity of my affairs" and that of 1631 assuring the trusted servitor "that I hold to what I have promised you, right to the last breath of my life." Two years later, Louis wrote, "I will always be the best master who ever walked this earth."

The change was gradual, with some emotional high points. In 1626, when Richelieu feigned sickness and offered to resign if that would ease the political crisis, Louis fell all over himself trying to express his gratitude. He wanted his servitor's good health "more than you do," the ruler asserted, "provided you find it in the care and principal charge of my affairs." He noted his satisfaction that "everything, thanks to God, has succeeded since you have been here [in my council]." And he concluded, "I shall protect you against whomever it may be, and I will never abandon you. . . . Rest assured that I will never change and that whoever attacks you, you will have me as your second." In a society where dueling was still the highest form of self-protection and acting as "second" to one's dueling friend the greatest mark of devotion, there was no stronger way for Louis the Just, who expressed his feelings so awkwardly, to describe his relationship with Cardinal Richelieu.

Did Louis XIII really mean what he said? Of course he did. Had he really done away with backbiting? No, there were always times when his darker side surfaced. So Richelieu was wise in following the practice common to early-seventeenth-century royal favorites and ministers, from Luynes and Lerma to Buckingham and Olivares. A series of pro-Richelieu fellow ministers, royal confessors, king's favorites, and other officials marched in review before the king from 1624 until the cardinal's death in 1642, all with Louis's full knowledge —first on occasion, and then more regularly, until by 1635 the king was surrounded by his own chief servitor's own servitors and surrogates.

The system had its drawbacks, notably in the case of royal favorites. Richelieu knew he could never fill all of his master's emotional needs. Hence it was in his own interest to cultivate Louis's attachment to an innocuous young courtier whom the king liked. That courtier, however, once master of the king's heart, might try to poison his mind against the cardinal during a dark mood, just as Richelieu had done against La Vieuville. Richelieu would then have to wage a campaign against this former friend. It was not easy; as in other matters, he won his point only by playing on the king's political conscience. Even then, Louis had to see with his own eyes that his loved one was violating the vow he had made after Luynes's death never to let a favorite interfere with statecraft.

A. Lloyd Moote - Louis XIII the Just

#xvii #a.lloyd moote #louis xiii the just #louis xiii #cardinal de richelieu #marie de médicis #i'm sorry but their relationship is so entertaining in its complexity #richelieu: i am a miserable worm and the most worthless of creatures #louis: you're an overbearing tyrant and no mistake #richelieu: let me resign i'm sick and miserable uwu #louis: fuck no #richelieu: it's going to kill me isn't it #this whole permanent uncertainty #louis: i'm sure i don't know what you mean :^) #random favorite: it's just the right moment for more drama #richelieu: oh no you miserable little rat #louis: i want all the receipts #richelieu: here #louis: well great another one bites the dust #it's still you and me in the end

[its-leethee]

A couple weeks ago, I finished up a rewatch of Gargoyles the animated series on Disney plus. I was searching around for analyses/new stories and whoa! A youtuber I admire did an analysis video about one of my favorite scenes from Gargoyles. Of course, it's so good:

Demona is one of my all-time favorite characters. Her anger, prejudice and paranoia are completely understandable; it's how she's endured over a thousand years of pain and loneliness. "The access code is... alone" still moves me to tears.

If we ever get a Gargoyles reboot, I hope the problems with the protagonists' assimilationist ideology are addressed. I hope they'll give Demona the chance to have her anger validated.

Anyways. I wanted to share this incredible truth from the video:

"Being oppressed doesn't teach you how to be a good person; it teaches you how to be an oppressor."

#my recommendation #one villainous scene #princess weekes #gargoyles #demona #yeah. demona and magneto radicalized me too #i watched gargoyles when it originally aired and like. it changed me #forever raised the bar on the quality of storytelling i would watch #*looks at my current favorite shows* *nervous laugh* i guess i have a type huh #gargoyles... definitely a product of its time. but also ahead of its time. #ps disney still chickened out on 1x08 and cut part out. i learned how to program the vcr on this show i have the original receipts yo #& no i'm not sanctioning mass murder. just putting that out here now. demona still the villain bc #however justified and righteous her anger is. her actions were wrong

[hoshigray]

okay okay wifey, i changed my bio do we like it 🤕it clearly shows how much i love n appreciate u, my wife 100000% 😁💕 told u i love u. saurrr pls stop being butthurt kaaaay? mwah.

kidding kidding pls don’t hurt meee

It's crazy how fast someone can change when you're about to cut them out of your life 🤨🤨 but oh well, lol, i can't be mad at you forever, so I accept your bio change as an apology

And ofc I was butthurt hello?? Yesterday was a whole 2 v 1 I was not ready for, I was fighting for my life and was BULLIED left and right 💀💀💀 but that's all yesterday's news, let bygones be bygones, and the divorce papers will have to see another day 📃 🚫 glad to have you back, my lovely wife 😚💕

#galactic gal *ੈ✩‧₊˚ karma 💕 #can't say the same for zari tho 😒 give me a few more hours #and don't think i didn't see that thread btw the two of you earlier 🤭 my name being used when I'm not even present #anyways ily babes 💗 #but I'm keeping receipts on deck from here on out 🧾🧾🧾

[mccleans]

i hope granit xhaka knows i love him the most. i'm his best girl and he is mine. no one else involved

#i'm so serious too like you can check the receipts it's been ME here this whole time. this WHOLE time #this hole time ;) #sigh. sex jokes over time to cry

[jewishraypalmer]

Bro in all honesty the EPs can say whatever they want but as someone who actually is really picky about what I choose to read into and what I think is just wishful thinking or not I know in my heart what is true because I have eyes

#there are many popular non canon ships where I'm like I don't see this but ok #but this right here?? no i see it and it's not even delusional at this point there are so many receipts #so whatever they can say what they want #but death of the author BABY I know what is true #loki